Hello everyone. It’s a Saturday afternoon. It’s that small period of time after I’ve got out of bed but before the football’s 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 everybody’s favourite trumpeter, Mick Cooke. He’s 28 today, y’know, according to various posts from a while back. It seems obligatory to cite an archive reference in posts these days, so for all B&S’s birthday’s, 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... ASM’S 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 – It’s 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, that’s the order, but it’s changed loads since I started making the list. At various points I’ve 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 haven’t stopped listening to it since. ...dream of all the bowling kids who hang around here... London Bowling Mummy, whoever you are (Ken?) – what’s 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 world’s 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+