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The top of the heap, the cream of the
beat, the tip of the hip and the back of
the seat, this is the list of which you
should abide by, die by and buy by. This
ain't no Bruce list, this ain't no .38
Special-Jimmy Buffett-Hokus-Krokus-Give
yer dog a bone list. This ain't no
wimpy-ass, religious-Windham Hill-mellow-yellow,
marshmallow-music-muster,
hell, no! This is the list that
you can sell your little sister for.
Vsee, there's some people that got
good taste and other's that can just sit
on my . . . Cramps collection. There's
some people will never have it, no mat
ter how hard they try, and of course
there's those who just plain got it, get it
and can't go without it.
1. "License to 111," Beastie Boys
2. "Squirt it!" Big Hairy Mary
3. "Kiss the Brown Eye," Potters
Wheel
4. "Raising Hell," Run DMC
5. "Louder Than Hell," Sam Kinnison
6. "Just Got My Stitches Out," Dan
cin' Hooker Dancer
7. "Rules and Regulations," We've
Got a Fuzzbox and We're Going to Use
it.
8. The Essential Astrud Gilberto,"
Astrud Gilberto
9. "Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolu-tionary
America," Culturecide
10. "We Became Snakes," Saccha
rine Trust
Learn it, love it, live it, lick it, seal it
with a kiss, buy these discs for your
loved one, help cure their Christmas
bliss.
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This isn't the 10 best records of the year, it's
just my 10 favorites. I don't know what the lObest
records of the year are, but I do know that they
didn't go gold, didn't make the charts, and were
never played on a commercial radio station. REM
did a good record this year that made my list and
got on the radio sometimes, but I know there
were dozens of better records out there being
ignored.
Bob Dylan's "Biograph" and "Bruce Spring
steen Live and the E Street Band were probably
the two most important releases this year. I
didn't want to bump a good new album off my list
to make way for a retrospective.
O Beastie Boys, "License to 111." Illin', chil
lin', choice, prime and def. And these guys are all
white. I feel good about my race for the first time
in years.
O Beat Farmers, "Van Go." Tough, slick
cowpunk.
O Big Audio Dynamite, "No. 1 0 Upping St."
A near perfect blend of great dance music and
important messages.
O "Camper Van Beethoven ll&lll." The
West Coast's best band gives us more transcend
ent silliness with an amazing increase in musical
sophistication.
Cramps, "My Date With Elvis." Nowhere
near as great as their classics, but miles better
than 99.723 percent of everything else this year.
O Dead Milkmen, "Eat Your Paisley." The
punk equivalent of "Looney Tunes." Skads and
oodles of fun.
O Class Eye, "Huge." Darkly humorous,
surreal songs and the best use of electric key
boards since Morrison up and died on Manzarek.
O "Rainmakers." Politically incorrect but
energetic poprock. "Let My People Go-go" is a
great party anthem.
O Ramones, "Animal Boy." See "The
Cramps."
O REM, "Life's Rich Pageant." This album
disappointed a lot of people, but I think it's their
best effort ever. Of course, 1 never worshipped
this band like so many did.
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Best LPs:
1. Joe Jackson, "Big World." A total
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success in theme and style. Definitely
Jackson's best album. Yes, even better
than "Look Sharp."
2. Prince, "Parade, Under the Cherry
Moon Soundtrack." OK. It's a horrible
movie, but his Royal Shortness is still
five years ahead of everyone in R&B.
3. REM "Life's Rich Pageant."
Gorgeous music.
4. The Smiths, "The Queen is Dead."
Even The Smith's worst LP makes it to
No. 4 on my list.
5. Lonnie Mack, "Second Sight."
Fresh rock 'n' roll from a true master.
6. UB40, "Rat in The Kitchen." The
year's best reggae didn't come from
Jamaica this year. London's frest beats
everyone.
7. Get Smart, "Swimming With
Sharks." Progressive music that's truly
progressing.
8. The Robert Cray Band, "Strong
Persuader." It's everything the critics
have been raving about, and better.
9. The Violent Femmes, "The Blind
Leading the Naked." Powerful folk. Bit
ing lyrics.
10. Desmond Dekker and The Aces,
"Israelites." OK this album came out
in 1969, but I didn't hear it until this
year.
Top Three Disappointments
for 1986:
1. Jason and The Scorchers, "Still
Standing." What a blatant act of selling
out. Jason has turned country-punk to
the more commercial country-metal.
Maybe they should rename the band
Motley Jason and the Crew. They sure
can't call themselves scorchers anymore.
2. Loyd Cole and the Commotions,
Excellence Starts Here
"Easy Pieces." So over-produced that
hearing Cole's unique voice and vocals
is impossible.
3. Fine Young Cannibals, "Fine Young
Cannibals." There are some great songs
on this LP, Cox, Steel and Gift have too
much talent to rip off Motown.
Top Three Singles of the Year:
1. "Mountains," Prince.
2. "Fall On Me," REM.
3. "Smoking Gun," The Robert Cray
Band.
Favorite Silly Pop Song of the
Year: "Crush On You," The Jets.
Best Video: "Sledgehammer," Peter
Gabriel.
Worst Videos: Everything else.
Worst Singles:
1. "Talk About It," Dweezil Zappa.
2. "Stuck on You," Huey Lewis and
The News. The Partridge Family
wouldn't have recorded crap this sappy.
3. "I Can't Wait," Nu Shooz. Disco
lives.
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Phew, what a year. MTV played 28 hours of
Madonna videos for "True Blue" ... in 28 consec
utive hours. The new fad of rockers wanting to
feed, clothe and house the world fizzled into a
fart of self-indulgence. Even Saint Bob Geldof
could bear it no longer and finally got on with his
solo career. Rap finally made it to the Midwest.
The Finnsters issued a new poster that made
them look like working-class heroes sleveless
T-shirt, faded jeans and bleak urban background
. . . "We want to make music with integrity."
The reunion tour was big. The Monkees, Her
mann's Hermits, the Grass Roots, Gary Puckett,
The Byrds, The Turtles, and the Mamas &cA the
Papas all had a contest to see who could equal
the self-parody of Elvis Presley's latter days, and
a whole slew of sotmdalikes sprang from the
sequined muse's head in case the oldies tours
didn't make it your way.
1. Peter Case, self titled
Ex-Plimsoul Peter Case makes John Cougar
Mellencamp look like a Bolshevik.
2. Throwing Muses, self titled
A sonic, folk hoedown with a iross between
Patti Smith and Melanie on vocals.
3. REM, "Life's Rich Pageant"
The most upbeat and lyrically profound REM
to date.
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4. Sonic Youth, "Evel"
The thin line between agony and ecsta.iy,
5. Beastie Boys, "License to III"
White-monster power chords, hip urban poetry
and a little Trevor Horn thrown in to boot. Def
6. T-Bone Burnette, "River of Love"
The most misunderstood, sadly ignored guita
rist and songwriter in America puts out a folk
album extraordinaire. Makes John Cougar Mel
lencamp look like Joe Stalin.
7. Lounge Lizards, "Big Heart Live in Tokyo"
With every album these New York No-wavers
led by John Lurie come closer to becoming the
respected peers of the free-form jazz masters they
set out to camp up and parody.
8. Paul Simon, "Graceland"
Paul Simon breaks cultural barriers and cul
tural sanctions and creates the most jubilant
album of the year. I can't understand why the
critics keep pummeling Simon about the lack of
critical politics on this LP. The day unbridled
hope isn't worth more in South Africa than
inflammatory rhetoric is the day change becomes
destructive and useless.
9. Run DMC, "Raising Hell"
Metal rap. Makes John Cougar Mellencamp
look like Perry Como.
10. The Feelies, "The Good Earth"
The Feelies take the most lyrical side of the
Velvet Underground, add a wall of fuzz in the
foreground and concoct a serene aural hallucin
ogen. Pearl S. Buck eat your heart out.
Honorable mention:
Thelonious Monster, "You're Bummin' My Life
out in a Supreme Fashion," Screaming Blue Mes
siahs, "Gun Shy."
Best Pop Song:
Eurythmics, "Missionary Man"
Best Major-Label Debut
Dwight Yoakam, "Guitars, Cadillacs, etc."
Worst Pop Song:
"Kyrie," Mister Mister: Classics professors and
Catholics around the world cringed. Well, pop
music is a dead language ....
Worst New Band:
Rainmakers. The lead vocalist has terminal hic
cups, they dress like kindly hobos dressed in '30s
movies, and they write songs as if they've
believed every Reagan anecdote they've ever
hear. Naive and unforgiveable.
Worst Old Band:
GTR, ELP, Monkees, Boston ....
Stupidest Album Title:
"Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine"
by Daryl Hall. In the AOR world titles like this
symbolize maturity. Last year's winner was
"Dream of the Blue Turtles." Almost poetry, ain't
it?
Most appropriate LP title:
Iggy Pop's lackluster Bowie outtake album,
"Blah, Blah, Blah."
Best Televised Rx k Performa nee:
V2 as the finale of the Amnesty International
Concert on MTV. Bono seemed possessed by the
spirit of Jim Morrison. The Edge seemed pos
sessed by llendrix. The crowd was possessed by
yuppie self-congratulation.
Worst Televised Live Performa nee:
Joan Baez performing Tears for Fears' "Shout"
at the Amnesty International Concert. Was that a
tear in her eye?
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