This 1957 LP on Decca often fetches prices as high as $500 at online auctions. The record comprises a series of "dream monologues" - recordings of a New York man talking aloud in his sleep, telling bizarre, disjointed and disturbing stories. John Zorn's Tzadik label recently released some additional dream material too obscene to be included on the first LP, but the original has still not seen the light of day.
This 1957 LP on Decca often fetches prices as high as $500 at online auctions. The record comprises a series of "dream monologues" - recordings of a New York man talking aloud in his sleep, telling bizarre, disjointed and disturbing stories. John Zorn's Tzadik label recently released some additional dream material too obscene to be included on the first LP, but the original has still not seen the light of day.
album of the year
- Godspeed You Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
- Sigur Ros - ( )
- Low - Trust
- Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
- Notwist - Neon Golden
- Sonic Youth - Murray Street
- M? - Finally We Are No One
- Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
- El-P - Fantastic Damage
- Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
- Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- Do Make Say Think - &yet &yet
- Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
- Tom Waits - Alice
- Out Hud - Street Dad
- ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
- Books - Thought for Food
- Cornelius - Point
- RJD2 - Deadringer
- Nurse with Wound - Man with the Woman Face
- Deerhoof - Revilie
- Beck - Sea Change
- Antipop Consortium - Arrhythmia
- Black Dice - Beaches & Canyons
- Fennesz / O'Rourke / Rehberg - Return of Fenn O'Berg
- Legendary Pink Dots - All the King's Horses
- Tom Waits - Blood Money
- Liars - They threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top
- Clinic - Walking With Thee
- DJ Shadow - The Private Press
- Hrvatski - Swarm & Dither
- Isis - Oceanic
- Max Tundra - Mastered By The Guy At Exchange
- Ms. John Soda - No P or D
- Shalabi Effect- The Trial of St-Orange
- Biosphere - Shenzhou
- D?ek - From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots
- DJ /Rupture - Minesweeper Suite
- Legendary Pink Dots - All the King's Men
- Pan?American- The River Made No Sound
single or ep
- Wire - Read & Burn 01
- Wire - Read & Burn 02
- Autechre - Gantz Graf
- Coil - The Remote Viewer
- Yo La Tengo - Nuclear War
- Limp - Orion
- M? - green grass of tunnel
- Missy Elliot - Work it
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Dntel - (This is the dream of) Evan and Chan
- Kid 606 - Why I Love Life
- Savath and Savalas - Rolls and Waves
- Gold Chains - Straight From Your Radio
- I Am Spoonbender - Shown Actual Size
- Coil - Winter Solstoce Bonus CDR
best song
- M? - Green Grass of Tunnel
- Low - That's how you sing amazing grace
- Messy Elliot - Work It
- Sigur Ros - Nj?nav?in aka The Nothing Song
- Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher?
- Boards of Canada - 1969
- Interpol - NYC
- Legendary Pink Dots - The Unlikely Event
- Ms John Soda - Solid Ground
- Wire - 99.9
best various artist compilation
- Blue Skied an' Clear
- Brain in the Wire
- Urban Renewal Program
- Wire Tapper 09
- Seasonal Greetings
- 20 years of dischord
- Masonic
- 24 Hour Party People Soundtrack
- Disco Noveau
- In The Beginning There Was Rhythm
- Lost for Words
- Machinenfest 2002
- Rough Trade Shops: Electronic 01
- The Fire This Time
- 2 Many DJs - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt 2
- Acid Mothers Temple Family Compilation: Do Whatever You Want, Don't Do Whatever You Don't Want!!
- All Tomorrow's Parties v. 1.1
- Badorb.Com Bless You
- Bip Hop Generation volume 5
- Chamber A Cold Springs Records Sampler
best single artist compilation
- Fennesz - Field Recordings 1995 - 2002
- Windy & Carl - Introspection
- Microphones - Song Islands
- Bj?k - Greatest hits
- Farben - Texstar
- ISAN - Clockwark Menagerie
- Smog - Accumulation None
- Bj?k - Family Tree
- Cabaret Voltaire - The Original Sound of Sheffield '78/82. Best Of
- Coil - Moon's Milk (In Four Phases)
- The Fall - Totally Wired
- Hrvatski - Swarm and Dither
- Rocket From The Tombs - The Day The Earth Met...
- Lesser - lsrmp3cd
- Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays
best double or multi-lp/cd release
- Windy & Carl - Introspection
- Blue Skied An' Clear
- Brain In The Wire
- Legendary Pink Dots - Chemical Playschool 11,12,13
- Acid Mothers Temple Family Compilation 'Do Whatever You Want...'
- Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted - Luxe and Redux
- Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher?
- Paul Westerberg - Stereo/Mono
- Throbbing Gristle - 24 Hours
- Bj?k - Family Tree
coolest unusual packaging
- Brain in the Wire
- Venetian Snares - a giant alien force more violent and sick...
- Bj?k - Family Tree box
- Sigur Ros - ( ) (what the hell's so unusual about this one?)
- Boards of Canada - Geodaddi (book style) (or this one?)
nicest cover design
- Godspeed You Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
- Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
- Low - Trust
- Sigur Ros - ( )
- Shalabi Effect - Trial of St Orange
- Boom Bip - Seed to the Sun
- Nurse With Wound - Man With The Woman Face
- Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
- M? - Finally We Are No One
- Return of Fenn O' Berg
best rerelease/repackage/reissue
- Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted - Luxe and Redux
- Boards of Canada - Twoism
- Stars of the Lid - Avec Laudenum
- Flaming Lips - Finally the Punk Rockers are Taking Acid and The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg
- 23 Skidoo - The Gospel Comes to New Guinea
- Fridge - Eph
- HNAS - Melchior
- Don Cherry - Orient
- Gary Wilson - You Think You Really Know Me
- Nurse With Wound - Automating Volume 2
worst album you bought
- Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi
- Current 93 & Nurse with Wound - Music for the Horse Hospital
- Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher
- Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- DJ Shadow - The Private Press
- Future Sound of London - The Isness
- Beth Gibbons & Rustin' Man - Out of Season
- Cex - Tall, Dark, and Handcuffed
- David Bowie - Heathen
- Download - Inception
most anticipated disappointment
- Godspeed You Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O. (you only waited two years? that's not much anticipation, come on)
- Sigur Ros - ( | )
- Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
- Future Sound of London - The Isness
- Audioslave
- Autechre - Gantz Graf
- Cex - Tall, Dark, and Handcuffed
- Destroyer - This Night
- Trans Am - TA
- Low - Trust
guiltiest pleasure
- Eminem - The Eminem Show
- Kylie Minogue - Fever
- Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
- Justin Timberlake - Justified (you wouldn't admit this if the poll wasn't anonymous)
- Andrew WK - I Get Wet
- Doves - The Last Broadcast
- Queen of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
- Belle and Sebestian - Storytelling
- Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season
- Missy Elliott - Under Construction
band of the year
- Sigur R?
- Low
- Interpol
- Acid Mothers Temple
- Coil
- Flaming Lips
- Legendary Pink Dots
- M?
- Wilco
- Wire
best solo musical artist
- Keith Fullerton Whitman
- Jim O' Rourke
- Tom Waits
- Jessica Bailiff
- Venetian Snares
- Beck
- DJ Shadow
- Fennesz
- El-P
- Cex
new act of the year (band or solo artist)
- Interpol
- Liars
- The Books
- Xiu Xiu
- DJ /Rupture
- Limp
- Christmas Decorations
- RJD2
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Devandra Bahnhart
- Ms. John Soda
- Out Hud
- Parlour
- Polmo Polpo
- Radio 4
best live show/concert experience
- Sigur R?
- Coil
- Godspeed You Black Emperor!
- Stars of the Lid
- Legendary Pink Dots
- Sonic Youth
- Low
- M?
- Cex
- Do Make Say Think
- Wire
- Jackie-o Motherfucker
- Explosions in the Sky
- ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
- Acid Mothers Temple
most overrated band/artist
- Interpol
- Sigur Ros
- Strokes
- Wilco
- Kid 606
- Radiohead
- White Stripes
- Vines
- ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
- The Streets
- Boards of Canada
- Eminem
- Sonic Youth
- Cex
- Godspeed You Black Emperor!
most irritating band/artist
- Eminem
- The Strokes
- Interpol
- The Vines
- Radiohead
- Avril Lavigne
- Kid 606
- Nickelback
- Ryan Adams
- Sigur Ros
lifetime achievement
- Sonic Youth
(only one band can win it per year)
Band/artist with most detestable audience/fans
- Godspeed You Black Emperor!
- Eminem
- Radiohead
- Interpol
- Phish (who could smell worse than godspeed fans but are agreeably far less pestering)
Most obligatory
- Low
- David Bowie
- Skinny Puppy / Kevin Key
- Autechre
- Boards Of Canada
- Coil
- Godspeed You Black Emperor
- Sonic Youth
- Squarepusher
- Current 93
Most annoying reissue
- Peaches - The Teaches of Peaches (stay tuned for next year's three-CD edition)
- Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
- Boards Of Canada - Twoism
- The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
- Incredible String Band reissues on Collector's Choice
Worst comeback
- Suicide
- Soft Cell
- Guns 'n Roses
- Future Sound of London
- Sex Pistols
- The Rolling Stones
- Boards Of Canada
- Beck
- Julee Cruise
- Al Gore
most prolific artist who really shouldn't be so prolific
- Merzbow
- Acid Mothers Temple
- Venetian Snares
- Legendary Pink Dots & every single one of those side projects
- Jim o'Rourke
- John Zorn
- Kid 606
- Mick Jaggar
- Robert Pollard
- Ryan Adams
biggest scam act
- Interpol
- DJ Shadow
- The Vines
- Fischerspooner
- Kid 606
- Acid Mother's Temple
- Current 93's limited editions
- Merzbow
- The Strokes
- Andrew WK
miss congeniality
- M?
- Cex
- Peaches
- Antony of the Johnsons
- Beth Orton
- Kylie
- Landing
- Low
- Matmos (who else asks you for a picture when you mail order a CD?)
- Missy Elliott (when has she been nice to you? when has she stuck around after a show to sign CDs??)
most overpriced release
- Bj?k - Family Tree
- TG24 Box Set
- Nurse With Wound / Current 93 - Horse Hospital
- Sigur Ros - ( )
- Coil Live set
most fetishable
- Peaches
- Avril Lavigne
- Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
- Bj?k
- Kylie Minogue
- Aphex Twin
- Cex
- Christina Aguilera
- Justin Timberlake
- Adam Forkner (Yume Bitsu)
most confessedly ignored by you
- 23 Skidoo (results may have been skewed by the description of this question, all apologies)
- Nurse With Wound
- Coil
- Acid Mothers Temple
- Flaming Lips
- Legendary Pink Dots
- Nirvana
- Pere Ubu
- Talk Talk
- The Fall
worst sellout
- Sigur Ros
- Ryan Adams
- Godspeed You Black Emperor
- Trans Am
- Moby
fave producer
- Steve ""I'm not a producer, I'm an engineer"" Albini
- El-P
- Jim O'Rourke
- Nigel Goodrich
- The Neptunes
- Timbaland
- Dr Dre
- John McEntire
- Phil Elvrum
- Colin Potter
who will break big next year?
- Cex
- Kinski
- Venetian Snares
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Black Dice
record label
- Kranky
- Morr Music
- Constellation
- Mego
- Def Jux
- Fat Cat
- Tigerbeat 6
- Temporary Residence
- Matador
- Ipecac
music video
(as seen on various web sites and CD-Rs in addition to non-music video channels, for those who think they're only seen on MTV)
- Autechre - Gantz Graf
- White Stripes - Fell in Love with a Girl
- Missy Eliot - Work it
- M? - Green Grass of Tunnel
- Clinic - Walking with Thee
- Interpol - PDA
- Notwist - Pick up the Phone
- ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Another Morning Stoner
- El-P - Deep Space 9mm
- Lightning Bolt - Power of Salad and Milkshakes
OTHER STUFF
movie of the year
- Bowling for Colombine
- Lord Of The Rings - The Two Towers
- Spirited Away
- Punch Drunk Love
- 24 Hour Party People
- Adaptation
- Mulholland Drive
- Crossroads
- Donnie Darko
- Secretary
- Heaven
- Lost in la Mancha
- Star Wars Episode II - Attack Of The Clones
- Talk to Her
- The Ring
tv show
- Simpsons
- 24
- Sopranos
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer
- South Park
- Futurama
- The Daily Show
- Alias
- Oz
- That '70s Show
magazine/newspaper
- The Wire
- The Onion
- Magnet
- Grooves
- Careless Talk Costs Lives
- Entertainment Weekly
- Found
- Giant Robot
- Guardian
- New Yorker
book of the year
- Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
- A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
- After the Quake: Stories by Haruki Murakami
- Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
- Love and Loud Colors by Edward Ka-Spel
fave actor
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Johnny Depp
- Adrien Brody
- Kevin Spacey
- Edward Norton
fave actress
- Julianne Moore
- Christina Ricci
- Nicole Kidman
- Winona Ryder
- Jodie Foster
fave director
- David ""I didn't direct anything this year, you clowns"" Lynch
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Micheal Moore
- Aki Kaourismaki
- Darren Aaronofsky
- David Fincher
- Martin Scorsese
- Peter Jackson
- Steven Soderbergh
- Todd Haynes
fave writer (book/tv/film/play,...)
- Chuck Palahniak
- Paul Auster
- Haruki Murakami
- Thomas Ligotti
- charlie kaufmann
best website
- Brainwashed / the Brain
- pitchforkmedia.com
- theonion.com
- homestarrunner.com
- allmusic.com
- Fakejazz.com
- Absorb.org
- aquariusrecords.org
- espn.com
- explodingdog.com
- four09.org
- kompaktkiste.de/
- news.bbc.co.uk
- projectbloodteam.com
- RecycleYourEars.com
most annoying trends
Gosh there's so many...
- Electroclash
- Republicanism / Right Wing Politics / Bush Support / New McCarthyism
- War Mongering
- Mall Rock masked as Commercial Alt. Rock
- 80s Retro / Revival (see: haircuts/nostalgia/cocaine)
- Garage Rock/Crock/House/Pop/Revival
- Emo
- Concert Crowd Conformity Code (see functionless thick-rimmed glasses, unshowered NYC indie film hair look, girls who look exactly alike)
- Reality TV (especially discount celebrities like Anna and Ozzy)
- Cell Phones (at least turn them off at the movies, assholes)
- Major Labels/RIAA bitching/DMCA Reaction/Copy-proof CDs
- Bands that start with ""The"" and end with a plural noun
- Designer Dirt (see: bleach stains on jeans)
- Economic Instability (the kind caused by rich, white corporate assholes bringing everything down)
- Glitch (isn't that 1999?)
- IDM
- Polls
- Recycled goth
- Blind Patriotism / Nationalism
- Blogs
- White Hip Hop (that sounds white)
- Leg Warmers
- MTV (note to future voters: this is a channel, not a trend)
- Really low jeans on chubby chicks / butt cleavage
- Talking loud at concerts
dumbest category on this poll
- Best band you lied to your friends about seeing live
- this one
- most fetishable (put a ball-gag in it)
- Miss Congeniality (obviously you don't care when a band writes you back)
- Band/artist with most detestable audience/fans(stop bitching you obnoxious twit)
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The major labels have gone too far again. I realize this message has been repeated ad nauseam but this week, two major events serve as evidence to reinforce the hatred against the shitheads. On Tuesday, under influence from the strongest major record corporations, the RIAA successfully halted AudioGalaxy's current means of operating. What irritates me most is not their moronic self-imposed right to own the control of intellectual property after they "release" it (unlike the book publishing world), but because their battle-losing streak is hurting the people they are pretending to protect. Fact of the matter is that once AudioGalaxy is down, there will be another 10 to spring up. At the end of the day, the only people benefitting are the high-priced Beverly Hills lawyers since the music industry can only keep losing the battle against the file-sharing public. The majors have indeed LOST, but they can't admit they're the big losers, so they ass rape their own artists by not giving health benefits and employees who rarely make a living wage in the most expensive cities in the world.
Once again, I clearly state that not all indies are good but all majors can at least AFFORD to give benefits. The major labels have got so much fucking money that they will unhesitatingly step up to the plate every time and pay for the finest lawyers to stomp out whoever's violating them any week. AOL Time Warner, for example, owns most of the internet providers AND a large chunk of the most popular cable channels to boot (and also pays their cable tv employees benefits) while Vivendi/Universal is viciously trying to creep up to their size with recent acquisitions of more cable TV networks, themselves.
On Saturday, the United States Copyright Office decided to charge web broadcasters $0.70 per song, but I don't see any provisions made in terms of public, non-profit, or educational broadcasters, who are exempt from royalty fees on conventional radio. Kudos, motherfuckers. Next time the college radio rep from the Island Def Jam group calls up the college radio station I DJ for asking me to play their records I'll find it amazingly hard to refuse to tell him to go fuck himself and his major label brown nose.
Bottom line is this: supporting major labels only feeds the highest priced lawyers and NOT the artists they're pretending to protect nor the employees who can't make enough money to live in the parts of the world with the highest rents imaginable. The difference between them and the minors is that on the whole, they CAN afford to act responsibly but time and time again they choose not to.
The Brainwashed Brain will proudly ignore major labels until they finally give in and admit they're rapists, liars, hypocrites and thieves and happily take the time out to say FUCK YOU to them. We encourage everybody to spend their money and time more wisely. I also personally call upon any writer of any music publication who features major label artists to stop and think about what you're doing, possibly even remotely consider spending an issue making a concerned effort to focus solely on independent artists and labels.
Album of the year
- Low - Things we lost in the fire
- Fennesz - Endless Summer
- Autechre - Confield
- Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of...
- Mogwai - Rock Action
- Cannibal Ox - A Cold Vein
- Fridge - Happiness
- Matmos - A chance to cut is a chance to cure
- Four Tet - Pause
- Aphex Twin - Drukqs
- Angels of Light - How I Loved You
- Tortiose - Standards
- Labradford - Fixed::Context
- Silver Mt. Zion - Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward
- Squarepusher - Go plastic
- Current 93/Nurse With Wound - Bright Yellow Moon
- Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
- M√∫m - Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK
- Nick Cave - No More Shall We Part
- Set Fire To Flames - Signs Reign Rebuilder
- Strokes - Is This It?
- Dntel - Life Is Full Of Possibilities
- Fugazi - The Argument
- Spiritualized - Let It Come Down
- Lali Puna - Scary World Theory
- Stereolab - Sound-Dust
- Hood - Cold House
- Microphones - The Glow Pt 2
- Mouse on Mars - Idiology
- Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
- white stripes - white blood cells
- Telefon Tel Aviv - Farenheit Fair Enough
- Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
- Bonnie Prince Bilie - Ease down the road
- Cex - Oops, I Did It Again
- clouddead - clouddead
- Cyclobe - The Visitors
- Fantomas - The Director's Cut
- Red House Painters - Old Ramon
- Skinny Puppy - Doomsday Back and Forth Vol. 5
- Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life
- Bardo Pond - Dilate
- Beta Band - Hot Shots II
- Calla - Scavengers
- Godflesh - Hymns
- Herbert - Bodily Functions
- Jan Jelinek - Loop Finding Jazz Records
- Plaid - Double Figure
- Thighpaulsandra - I, Thighpaulsandra
- Explosions In The Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth...
single or ep
- Mogwai - My Father My King
- Low & the Dirty Three - In the Fishtank
- Squarepusher - My Red Hot Car
- Thighpaulsandra - Michael Publicity Window
- Low - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
- Belle & Sebastian - Jonathan David
- Matmos - California Rhinoplasty
- Antony & the Johnsons - I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy
- Squarepusher - Untitled
- Autechre - Peel Sessions 2
- Fugazi - Furniture
- Hood - Home Is Where It Hurts
- V/A - 2 Remixes by AFX
- COH - Love Uncut
- Anti Pop Consortium - The Ends Against The Middle
- To Rococo Rot & I-Sound - Pantone
- Mouse On Mars - Actionist Respoke
- Calexico - Even My Sure Things Fall Through
- Tortoise - Gently Cuping the Chin of the Ape
- Stereolab - Captain Easychord
fave remix
- 808 State - Flow Coma - Remix by AFX
- Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed - Remix by Boards of Canada
- Missy Elliot - Get Yr Freak On - remix by Kid 606
- Depeche Mode - Dream On - remix by Kid 606
- Foetus - Cirrhosis of the Heart - remix by Amon Tobin
- Kings of Convenience - Weight of My Words - remix by Four Tet remix
- Matmos - Disco Hospital
- M√∫m - Please Smile My Spring Reverb AMX - remix by Uwe Zahn
- Slag Boom Van Loon - Fallen Angels Entering Pandemonium - remix by Coil
- Yann Tiersen - Lost - remix by Third Eye Foundation
best various artist compilation
- Tigerbeat 6 Inc.
- Clicks & Cuts 2
- All Tommorrow's Panties
- [O]acis.Box
- Bip Hop generation 4
- Emre - Dark Matter
- Snow Robots Vol. 1 & 2
- Braindance Coincidence
- House Of Distraction
- The Wire Tapper 7
- Warp - Routine
- electric ladyland 7: glitch-hop compilation 2CD
- Immediate Action
- Putting the Morr Back in Morrissey
- RKK 13 remix comp
best single artist compilation
- Einsturzende Neubauten- ""Strategies Against Architecture III""
- Coil - A Guide for Beginners
- Coil - A Guide for Finishers
- Coil - Moons Milk In four Phases
- Dead Can Dance - 1981-1998
- Godflesh - In All Languages
- Piano Magic - Seasonally Affective (1996-2000)
- pigface 'best of - preaching to the perverted'
- Cabaret Voltaire - Conform To Deform
- Third Eye Foundation - I Poo Poo On you Juju
best double or multi-lp/cd release
- Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
- Aphex Twin - Drukqs
- Thighpaulsandra - I, Thighpaulsandra
- Unwound: Leaves Turn Inside You
- Einsturzende Neubauten: Strategies Against Architecture III
- Clicks & Cuts 2
- Current 93 / Nurse With Wound - Bright Yellow Moon/Purtle
- Xhol Caravan - Motherfuckers Live
- Coil: Moon's Milk (in Four Phases)
- Orbital - The Altogether
- Cabaret Voltaire - Corform to Deform
- Low - Things We Lost in the Fire (2LP version)
- Miles Davis - In A Silent Way complete sessions
- Nuggets II
- Rewriting The Book
- Ride - Box Set
- Velvet Underground - The Quine Tapes
- Nart Nibbles
- Dead Can Dance box set
- Faust - The Wumme Years
coolest unusual packaging
- Aranos - magnificent! magnificent! no one knows the final word
- Set Fire To Flames - Signs Reign Rebuilder
- Silver Mt. Zion - Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward
- Aphex Twin - drukqs (vinyl version)
- Cyclo
- No-neck Blues Band - Sticks & Stones...
- Shipping News ""Carrier""
nicest cover design
- Fridge - Happiness
- Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
- Tortoise - Standards
- Set Fire to Flames - Sings Reign Rebuilder
- Angels of Light - How I Loved You
- Björk - Vespertine
- Radiohead - Amnesiac
- thighpaulsandra - i, thighpaulsandra
- Silver Mt Zion - Born Into Trouble as Sparks Fly Upwards
- Current 93 / Nurse With Wound - Bright Yellow Moon
best rerelease/repackage/reissue
- Coil - Love's Secret Domain
- Neu! - Neu!
- Neu! 75
- Neu! 2
- Coil - Horse Rotorvator
- Coil - Scatology
- Nurse with Wound - Chance Meeting
- Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
- Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information
- Love - Forever Changes
- Nurse With Wound - Automating vol. 1
- 23 skidoo - 7 songs
- This Heat - Deceit
- Current 93 - Imperium
- Gescom - Keynell
most amusing song/album title
- Cex - Florida (Is Shaped Like A Big Droopy Dick For A Reason)
- Matmos - A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure
- Aphex Twin - Drukqs
- M√∫m - Please Smile My Noise Bleed
- Third Eye Foundation - I Poo Poo on your Ju Ju
- Cex - Oops! I did it again
- Current 93 - Cats Drunk on Copper
- Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
- Massimo - Hey babe, let me see your USB and I'll show you my FireWire
- Tenacious D - Fuck Her Gently
worst album you bought
- Aphex Twin - Suqks
- Radiohead - Amnesiacrap
- Autechre - Confield
- Depeche Mode - Exciter
- Death In June - All Pigs Must Diet
- Spiritualized - Let it Come Down
- Weezer - Weezer
- Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
- Squarepusher - Go Plastic
- Mogwai - Rock Action
most anticipated disappointment
- Aphex Twin - Drukqs
- Autechre - Confield
- Spiritualized - Let it come down
- Death In June - All Pigs Must Die
- Squarepusher - Go Plastic
- Tortoise - Standards
- Weezer - Weezer
- Air - 10,000 hz Legend
- Mogwai - Rock Action
- Current 93 - The Great in the Small
guiltiest pleasure
- Strokes - Is This It?
- Britney Spears - I'm a Slave 4 u
- Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out of my Head
- Madonna - Greatest Hits Vol. 2
- Missy Elliot - Miss e... so addictive
- Daft Punk - Discovery
- Depeche Mode - Exciter
- Destiny's Child - Bootylicious
- N'Sync - Pop
- Radiohead - Amnesiac
band of the year
- Coil
- Low
- Mogwai
- Sigur Ros
- Matmos
- Stars of the Lid
- Autechre
- Cannibal Ox
- Mouse on Mars
- Tortoise
best solo musical artist
- Jim O'Rourke
- Christian Fennesz
- Thighpaulsandra
- Jimmy Lavelle (Album Leaf)
- Tom Jenkinson
- Will Oldham
- cEvin key
- Kid 606
- Michael Gira
- Richard D. James
new act of the year (band or solo artist)
- Explosions In The Sky
- Cannibal Ox
- Set Fire To Flames
- Strokes
- M√∫m
- Avalanches
- Baby Dee
- Dntel
- Clinic
- Amenti Suncrown
best live show/concert experience
- Coil
- Radiohead
- Low
- godspeed you black emperor!
- Sigur Ros
- Mogwai
- Mouse on Mars
- Tortoise
- Björk/Matmos
- Autechre
sexiest musical artist
- Björk
- Kyle Mnouge
- Britney Spears
- Cex
- Peaches
- Hope Sandoval
- PJ Harvey
- Shakira
- Jennifer Lopez
- Alison Goldfrapp
most overrated band/artist
- The Strokes
- Radiohead
- White Stripes
- kid 606
- Aphex Twin
- Sigur Ros
- Björk
- Godspeed you black emporer
- Matmos
- Mogwai
most irritating band/artist
- Fred Durst/Limp Bizzkit
- The Strokes
- Creed
- Radiohead
- Kid 606
- Britney Spears
- Aphex Twin
- Destiny's Child
- V/Vm
- Ryan Adams
- p. diddy
- Björk
- White Stripes
- Vincent Gallo
- U2
lifetime achievement
- Coil
- Michael Gira
- John Fahey
- George Harrison
- sonic youth
- Radiohead
- Autechre
- David Tibet
- Johnny Cash
- Richard H Kirk
fave producer/engineer
- Steve Albini
- JIM O' ROURKE
- John McEntire
- Steven Stapleton
- Dave Fridman
- el p
- Timbaland
- Nigel Godrich
- Brian Eno
- Michael Gira
who will break big next year?
- Cex
- Sigur Ros
- Explosions In The Sky
- Lali Puna
- The White Stripes
- M√∫m
- Clinic
- Fourtet
- Coil
- Calla
record label
- Kranky
- Warp
- Morr Music
- Constellation
- drag city
- Thrill Jockey
- Temporary Residence
- Matador
- Eskaton / Threshold House
- Young God
- World Serpent
- City Centre Offices
- Def Jux
- Domino
- Schematic
music video
- Sigur Ros - Vi√∞ar vel tl loft√°rasa
- Add N to (X) - Plug Me In
- Björk - Pagan Pottery
- Gorilaz - Clint Eastwood
- Björk - Hidden Place
- Coi Live in NY
- Mouse on Mars - Actionist Respoke
- Ohgr - Cracker
- Tortoise - Seneca
- Low - Dinosaur Act
OTHER STUFF
movie of the year
- Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amelie)
- Memento
- Mullholland Drive
- Lord of the Rings – Fellowship of the Rings
- Ghost World
- The Man Who Wasn't There
- Waking Life
- Royal Tenebaums
- Amores Perros
- Hedwig & The Angry Inch
- Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone
- Moulin Rouge
- Monsters Inc
- Sherk
- The Others
- A.I.
- Apocalypse Now Redux
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
- Blow
- Brother
- From Hell
- In the Mood for Love
- Oceans 11
- Battle Royale
- Odishon (Audition)
- Otanesek (Little Otik)
- State and Main
- The Anniversary Party
- Vanilla Sky
- L.I.E.
tv show
- Simpsons
- Daily Show
- Sopranos
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Futurama
- Family Guy
- The West Wing
- Absolutely Fabulous
- Invader Zim
- Malcom in the Middle
- That '70s Show
- South Park
- Will & Grace
- Brass Eye special (UK)
- 24
magazine/newspaper
- The Wire
- The Onion
- Magnet
- alternative press
- Chunklet
- Q
- grooves
- Tape Op
- XLR8R
- Devil in the Woods
- guardian (uk)
- urb
- uncut
- The Nation
- Mojo
book of the year
- Neil Gaman: American Gods
- No Logo by Naomi Klein
- Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
- Eric Schlosser - Fast Food Nation
- Haruki Murakami - Underground
- How to be Good - Nick Hornby
- our band could be your life-azerrad
- Salman Rushdie ""Fury""
- Alain de Botton ""The Consolations Of Philosophy""
- David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
fave actor
- Johnnny Depp
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Brad Pitt
- Billy Bob Thornton
- Guy Pearce
- Anthony Hopkins
- Benecio del Toro
- Christopher Walken
- Jack Black
- Jason Lee
fave actress
- Thora Birch
- Audrey Tautou
- Nicole Kidman
- Reese Witherspoon
- Carrie Anne Moss
- Julianna Moore
- Asia Argento
- Cate Blanchett
- Jennifer Connelly
- Gwyneth Paltrow
fave director
- David Lynch
- Peter Jackson
- Jean Pierre Jeunet
- Coen Bros
- Darren Aranofsky
- Wes Anderson
- andrei tarkovsky
- Christopher Nolan
- Guy Ritchie
- John Waters
fave writer (book/tv/film/play,...)
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Neil Gaiman
- Chuck Palahniuk
- David Foster Wallace
- David Lynch
- David Mamet
- Haruki Murakami
- nick hornby
- Thomas Ligotti
- Bret Easton Ellis
best website
- Brainwashed
- Pitchfork
- The Onion
- Threshold House
- Allmusic Guide
- Audiogalaxy
- eBay
- Warp Records
- Buddyhead
- Fake Jazz
most annoying trends
- Nouveaux Patriotism/American Flags on cars/Cheap Patriotism/Flag Waving/Cashing in on 9/11
- rap metal / rap rock / dysfunction rock / nu metal / sports rock
- misdirected patriotism / violent nationalism / rampant fervor
- Cell Phones / Everything becoming wireless
- Clicky glitch music
- corporate garage rock / the strokes / the white boy blues rock revival (again) / pop punk
- IDM
- war & terrorism / bioterrorism / fear
- Emo
- SUVs
- Scooters
- boy bands
- 1980s retro music/clothing
- Approval of George W. Bush
- Harry Potter
- Rock bands going electronic and being considered innovators
- Icelandic music obsession (Sigur Ros/Björk)
- Indie rock fashion fascist kinder-punks
- big pants
- Increased Commercials (everywhere, in movie theatres)
- Reality TV
- Benefit concerts
- Manufactured Bubble Gum Pop
- Stale electronic music
- Mods
dumbest category on this poll
- This one
- Sexiest
- Guiltiest Pleasure
- Who Will Break Big Next Year
- TV show
- Most Annoying Trends
- all of the them
- Fave Remix
- Music Video
- None of them
"
When I woke on September 11th, one of the World Trade Towers was on fire — nobody could confirm whether it was a bomb or fire. Minutes later, I, along with millions of others witnessed live an airplane crashing into the second tower, shortly thereafter a plane crashed into the Pentagon. What the fuck is going on in our world? What is next? Is this armageddon? It was the most terrifying day I have ever lived through. It didn't help that in these very tense hours, our selected leader was nowhere to be found, flying all over the country, in what seemed like a surreal chess game where the king is the most protected yet comparitively helpless piece.
Panic was taking over where shock was giving way. I tried to phone friends in NY and one in Washington who works for the government but all lines were overloaded, jammed. Soon, the towers crumbled, and the feeling of panic and everything just sunk into an indescribable feeling of void, sadness and emptiness. The pictures had clearly shown loads of rescue workers and volunteers scrambling to save thousands of people, many of them didn't have enough chance to make it out to safety. Towards the end of the day, contacts were made, all friends and family I knew who were in these places were safe. Contacts were made later with close friends and family just to say hi and how much we care for and love each other.
Over the next few days, the news reports were filled with much sadness and despair. The loss is catastrophic and the amount of love and support shown across the world was comforting in a time of great pain. (Heck, I even cried when the Brits played our national anthem.) However, tensions were high everywhere. From my own personal experience, many people on music-related electronic forums I either read or subscribe to engaged in heated arguments, finger pointing and name calling. If anything, these experiences have reinforced my feelings in the necessity for people to listen and try their hardest to exercise a bit of understanding. This goes for -ALL- sides: I'm hurt, sad and angry when I hear about people spouting their mouths off about killing people of various nations as well as when I hear people automatically assume my government is about to take part in the murder of innocent civilians. I have spoken my mind, but have been accused of being a bully, a stupid yank, intolerable, and siding with the opposing side of whoever I'm disagreeing with. All because I probably have not properly communicated that I wish people would try to be more understanding, considerate and less bigoted. Maybe Greater Than One were really profound when they wrote back in 1988, "Ignorance is the Agent of Fear"; "Fear is the Agent of Violence."
There comes a time where you feel that you can't take it any more. The TV shows you images nearly everybody has seen over and over and over again, the arguments get so fierce and personal that you begin to lose ability to focus properly on work, life, personal interactions, etc,... Now, more than ever, I'm finding how important music is in my life. To have the luxury of turning everything off for a bit of introspection, whether it be for the new Lali Puna, a comforting old Cocteau Twins, Beatles, Pixies, Nurse With Wound or Bjorn Again, is truly magical. Some may consider it escape, some may consider it solace, some may consider it spiritual or inspirational, but it is yours for consideration.
With that, I'm proud to have such a minimal part of "this industry" and an important role in a team who is helpful and sharing, caring and listening. We need this. We need to continue on. We need music and we need to continue sharing and listening.
First off I want to say how sick I am of being flooded with overused terminology and the majority of reasons for both justification or disapproval. People on one side use the term "closure" - which makes no sense to me as friends and family members have been removed permanently from the earth prematurely. On the other side, the argument "two wrongs don't make a right" is often spoken, but that's a pretty empty statement when just tossed around like the tired old proverb it is.
The death penalty is wrong: as we owe an intangible knowledge our families, our children and future generations, to closely examine people who have been produced by our own society. We need to be responsible for our own products, our own actions, our own people, and find out what needs to change in order to raise our children to benefit the world they are a part of. It's a shame sociologists, psychologists, biologists and other scientists will not have McVeigh as a specimen to poke, prod, pick at for years, use for research and learn from. The man was willing to die from the beginning, knowing full well what he was in for. He met the fate he chose six years ago this past Monday. He chose his destiny and they gave him what he wanted. He was not punished, we all were.
If elected
- I'd get a law in to have anyone who didn't have a hand in writing that song who described it as 'nausea' publicly flogged. Not whipped, you understand, but flogged to Collectors on Ebay...
- All daytime DJ's would be executed by guillotine and their heads displayed at branches of HMV which would then all be exploded with bombs made by Thorn EMI in an interactive Duchampian installation.
- Gilbert & Lewis would be given the sounds of the explosions to remix. The public would all be fed the results via Radio 1-4 for a week solid.
- They'd be quite free to call it 'boring' we can't be having fascism now can we not unless we lie like a Blair!
- Next I'd ban fox hunting and have all former hunters chased thru the hills by naked Asian youths from Oldham astride honking elephants, whilst tree huggers blast 'Dearth of the Cold' by Ocsid from ghetto blasters amongst the leaves. Once run to ground the red coat scum would be slowly eviscerated and left to rot, Brian Ferry especially. The government would make a coat from his pelt and present it to Eno with an MBE in loving respect of his devotion to lost cause moneyspinners like James & U2.
- Then I'd have a Dome installation at 'The Dome' and invite everyone from this list for free at the 'expense of the tax payer' (sic).
- MacDonalds would be forced to distribute lentils to the homeless, and all their shops would be converted to drop in centres for junkies and others in need of excess fat.
- Copies of the first Killing Joke album would be given to everyone in preparation for the coming apocalypse.
- Work would be abolished by automation, and a tape loop robot installed at 10 Downing Street.
We don't promise anything but the best!
"The best what?" said kids on TV.
The country went to the dogs.
They say history never repeats but almost unsurprisingly much of the 2000 Brainwashed Readers Poll looks closely identical to the first time we took the poll, 10 years ago. Thanks to everyone who participated in both rounds this year. Now it's time to go to your collections and dig out the music from 1999 for the nomination round (coming shortly)!
Album of the Year
1. godspeed you black emperor!, "Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven"
2. Coil, "Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2"
3. Radiohead, "Kid A"
4. Sigur Rós, "Ágætis Byrjun" [despite the release being in 1999, the international distribution through Fat-Cat will qualify this release for 2000]
5. Yo La Tengo, "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out"
6. Current 93, "Sleep Has His House"
7. two way tie:
Broadcast, "The Noise Made By People"
Legendary Pink Dots, "A Perfect Mystery"
8. Antony & the Johnsons, "Antony & the Johnsons"
9. two way tie:
Amon Tobin, "Supermodified"
Trans Am, "Red Line
10. two way tie:
Kid 606, "Down with the Scene"
Primal Scam, "Xtrmntr"
BAND
OF THE
YEAR
1. godspeed you black emperor!
2. Coil
3. Radiohead
4. Sigur Rós
5. Legendary Pink Dots
6. Current 93
7. Kid 606
8. Low
9. Yo La Tengo
10. Antony & the Johnsons
SONG
OF THE
YEAR
1. Coil, "Batwings (A Limnal Hymn)"
2. Boards of Canada, "In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country"
3. Radiohead, "Idioteque"
4. Antony & the Johnsons, "Cripple and the Starfish"
5. Current 93, "I Have a Special Plan for This World"
MUSIC
VIDEO
OF THE
YEAR
1. Outkast, "B.O.B."
2. MDMFK, "Missing Time"
3. Add N to (X), "Plug Me In"
4. Eminem, "Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up"
5. Radiohead - all those little short video clips
NEW
BAND
OF THE
YEAR
1. Antony & the Johnsons
2. Goldfrapp
3. A Silver Mt. Zion
4. The Damage Manual
5. Cex
[note: Sigur Rós actually got the most votes but since their first album was released in 1988, they were disqualified. Their current album is their third album.]
CONCERT
EVENT
1. Legendary Pink Dots/Dead Voices on Air
2. godspeed you black emperor!
3. Nine Inch Nails
4. Coil at the Royal Festival Hall (2nd time)
5. Wire
BEST
LABEL
1. Kranky
2. three-way tie:
Constellation
Thrill Jockey
Warp
3. World Serpent
4. Soleilmoon
5. two-way tie:
Mille-Plateaux
Ant-Zen
BEST
PRODUCER
1. John McEntire & Jim O'Rourke
2. Steve Albini
3. Steven Stapleton
4. Christoph Heemann
5. Frank Verschuuren
WORST
BAND
1. Limp Bizkit
2. Creed
3. Moby
4. Radiohead
5. U2
WORST
ALBUM
YOU
BOUGHT
1. Radiohead, "Kid A"
2. Download, "Effector"
3. Coil, "Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil"
4. Chicks on Speed, "Will Save Us All"
5. Badly Drawn Boy, "The Hour of Bewilderbeast"
BEST
COMP
1. Wild Planet
2. OHM - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music
3. Attitude
4. Xen Cuts
5. Chicago 2018
BEST
MOVIE
1. Requiem for a Dream
2. Dancer in the Dark
3. Gladiator [??? don't our readers have any taste?]
4. High Fidelity
5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
BEST
TV SHOW
1. The Simpsons
2. South Park
3. Futurama
4. The Daily Show
5. The Sopranos
BEST
BOOK
1. Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon"
2. "Apocalypse Culture 2"
3. Dave Eggers, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"
4. Naomi Klein, "No Logo"
5. Bill Drummond, "45"
BEST
ACTOR
1. Russel Crowe
2. John Cusak
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman
4. Ed Norton
5. Kevin Spacey
BEST
ACTRESS
1. Bjück
2. Ellen Burntsyn
3. Christina Ricci
4. Kate Hudson
5. Angelina Jolie
BIGGEST
DISAP-
POINTMENT
1. US Presidential Election
2. Y2K and no armageddon
3. lame year for films
4. miserable lives of the readers who think their lives suck
5. Dancer in the Dark
EVENT
1. Endless US Presidential Election
2. New Year's Day 2000
3. Coil live
WEBSITE
1. brainwashed
yuck!
2. theonion.com
3. nosepilot.com
4. amihotornot.com
5. heavy.com
HERO
1. Ralph Nader
2. assholes who voted for themselves
3. George W. Bush
4. Jon Whitney
5. Dan Rather
VILLAIN
1. George W. Bush
2. assholes who voted themselves
3. RIAA
4. Al Gore
5. Jon Whitney
MOST
ANNOYING
TREND
1. Scooters
2. Rap Rock
3. "Whassssup" greeting (shouting or text messaging)
4. cell phones
5. Who let the dogs out
turbid \TER-bid\ (adjective)
- : thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment
- : characterized by or producing obscurity (as of mind or emotions) : confused, muddled*
-
According to one reviewer, Chauncey's first book was "the turbid and rambling product of an unclear mind."
-
"Turbid" and "turgid" (which means "swollen, distended"
or "overblown, pompous, or bombastic") are two words so
frequently mistaken for one another that they could have been
invented to keep dictionary makers in business. Not only do
these two words differ by only a letter, but, adding to the
confusion, they are often used in contexts where either word
might fit. For example, a flooded stream is often both
distended and muddy, and badly written prose is often both
obscure and grandiloquent. Nevertheless, the distinction between
these two words, however fine, is an important one for conveying
exact shades of meaning, so it's a good idea to keep them straight.
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Ingredients:
- 1 Gallon of Fresh Apple Cider (not that alcoholic processed garbage, but the real stuff you can find in your grocer's refridgerator)
- Cloves
- Cranberries
- 2 Oranges
- Orange Juice
- Cinnamon Sticks
- Ground Cinnamon
- Ground Nutmeg
- Brandy (Ginger Brandy recommended but not necessary)
- Dump approximately 1/2 gallon of cider in a
large pot, slice up two oranges and add them with a handful of
cranberries. Add only a small splash of orange juice. Add some cloves
but don't go overboard. Add the ground cinnamon and ground nutmeg to
your desire and let sit on a low heat for at least a half-hour. When
the oranges have sunk and look pretty drunk and the cranberries have
gone soft, it's time to enjoy! Ladel the cider into some thick mugs,
add the brandy and a cinnamon stick. Wander out to the livingroom and
gather around the stereophonic hi-fi for an evening of socializing
around some of the finest selections to suit your evening.