Hello everyone. Its a Saturday afternoon. Its that small period of time after Ive got out of bed but before the footballs started, where the only thing to do is to write to Sinister. So here I am. First things first though, we must say happy birthday to everybodys favourite trumpeter, Mick Cooke. Hes 28 today, yknow, according to various posts from a while back. It seems obligatory to cite an archive reference in posts these days, so for all B&Ss birthdays, see here: http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200109/msg00016.html http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199807/msg00795.html http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199807/msg00794.html http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/199711/msg00035.html The NME published their list of Top 50 records of the year. Predictably, it was wrong, although not as wrong as it has been in previous years. So to set the record straight, introducing... ASMS TOP 10 (WELL, 11, BUT WHO GIVES A F...) ALBUMS THAT SAY © 2001 SOMEWHERE ON THE BACK OF THEM 1. Air 10,000 Hz Legend 2. Kings Of Convenience Quiet Is The New Loud 3. Pulp We Love Life 4. Spiritualized Let It Come Down 5. Sparklehorse Its A Wonderful Life 6. Mercury Rev All Is Dream 7. The Beta Band Hot Shots II 8. Radiohead Amnesiac 9. Alfie If You Happy With You Need Do Nothing 10. The Avalanches Since I Left You 11. The Strokes Is This It At the moment, thats the order, but its changed loads since I started making the list. At various points Ive been convinced that all of the top four should be number 1. I had something of an epiphany regarding Let It Come Down; I thought it was a big pile of wank until about two weeks ago, when I suddenly realised how fucking brilliant it was, and havent stopped listening to it since. ...dream of all the bowling kids who hang around here... London Bowling Mummy, whoever you are (Ken?) whats happening about that? Anyway... Festive love, Asm.x ================= "He's strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly has a good vocabulary" - Holden Caulfield _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+