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| From | BucholtzC@aol.com |
| Subject | Re: Audities poll |
| Date | Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:47:23 -0500 |
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Here's a list from a lurker/procrastinator...
1. Fountains of Wayne "Welcome Interstate Managers"
2. Minus 5 "Down With Wilco"
3. New Pornographers "Electric Version"
4. Matthew Sweet "Kimi Ga Suki * Raifu"
5. Guster "Keep It Together"
6. Yo La Tengo "Summer Sun"
7. Pernice Bros. "Yours Mine & Ours"
8. Bleu "Redhead"
9. Thorns "S/T"
10. Sloan "Action Pact"
11. Marshall Crenshaw "What's In the Bag?"
12. Jayhawks "Raint Day Music"
13. Grandaddy "Sumday"
14. Beulah "Yoko"
15. Walter Clevenger & the Dairy Kings "Full Tilt & Swing"
16. Bobby Sutliffe "Perfect Dream"
17. Go-Betweens "Bright Yellow, Bright Orange"
18. Robin Hitchcock "Luxor"
19. Splitsville "Incorporated"
20. The Effection "Soundtrack to a Moment"
Speaking of top ten lists... Back in 1994 and 1995 I was a columnist for BAM magazine in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I lost my column when the magazine gained a new publisher, changed its format, ripped off Raygun's graphic style (ick!) and, finally, fired its northern California editor and put Bill Holdship in L.A. in charge of both the NorCal and SoCal editions. It was a bloody "firing," too; I was informed of my release in the editor's letter of one edition! Anyhow, About eight months later, I get a letter from BAM asking me to contribute my top ten list for the annual critics' poll. The letter included a poll form with instructions to fax or mail the form back. However, the form was copied on what must have been the world's oldest photocopier, and there was no control number or indicator on it. In other words, it was a blank form.
I sent in my top ten, but not before photocopying the form and passing it around to several co-workers at Streetlight Records. We sent in several more top-ten lists consisting of
A) Bogus "credentials" ("Dan Electro, Reviews Editor, Involuntary Bodily Emissions Magazine")
B) Bogus top ten lists, as in ten entirely made-up bands and album names. The most ingenious of these was the list that was entirely made up of phony neo-punk bands, all on Epitaph Records.
Come the end of the year, every list we sent in was published in its entirety, much to our glee.
--Chris Bucholtz
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