Sinister: These are a few of my favourite things... and request for Michael Head album:):)

[Kin Woo]

Hello pop pals. Yes It's that time of year again where our beloved music 
press compile their year's best albums. Glad to see B&S so high on 
Select's list and I predict a similar pattern for NME, Melody Maker etc. 
More than makes up for the fact that "IYFS" was cruelly left out of most 
music press's Critic's Lists last year.  It is a most magnificent album. 
So in the spirit of these times, I have compiled a personal best list, 
and since Honey has stressed "no music lists", I'm gonna respect his 
wishes and just tell about why some albums have made it to my best list 
very, very briefly.
Unfortunately, my favourite album of the year has to be Black Box 
Recorder's "England Made Me". Not since Belly's debut "Star" has there 
been an album that has reached glorious new heights of perversity. It's 
very quietness adds to its power. It is very sinister and chilling 
indeed. And yes Philippe, Sarah Nixey is a most beautiful girl indeed 
and here voice is spine-tinglingly lovely, even if it is detailing 
morbid lyrics. It beat out "TBWTAS" mainly cos I'm just a sucker for the 
darker side of pop.
So there is no need to say how wonderful the B&S album is, cos we ALL 
know it. In third place is Air's "Moon Safari" because it's 
ground-breaking just like the One Dove, Bjork and DJ Shadow albums are, 
and also the unspeakably gorgeous Bacharach-ian influenced soundscapes.  
Fourth is Mercury Rev's "Deserters Songs" which is also another 
favourite of my fellow listees judging by a lot of posts about it. Fifth 
would probably be Tori Amos's "From The Choirgirl Hotel" cos she beats 
Courtney  Love hands down. Her album embraces techno very successfully 
and is a very intoxicating blend of her weird and wonderful voice and 
strange instrumentation.  And there are the songs of the Tori of old 
which are impossibly sad like "Playboy Mommy" and "Northern Lad". It's a 
massive improvement from "Boys For Pele".
So there you have it. Other albums that have made it for me include 
Catatonia's "International Velvet", Garbage's "Version 2.0", 
Spiritualized's "live from Royal Albert Hall", Sparklehorse's "Good 
Morning Spider", both Elliott Smith albums and the UNKLE album among 
many others, though I'm not gonna talk about 'em for fear of incurring 
Honey's wrath:)
Hmmm does anyone out there have the Michael Head album, "Introducing The 
Strands"??? I've been hearing the greatest things about them and was 
wondering if anyone can tell me more about them. It seems whenever I 
write, it's to ask whether my fellow listees have heard various albums. 
Oh well:) Could someone be so kind as to tape a copy of the album for 
me, if one has it. I have a LOT of rare, live and unreleased B&S stuff 
to trade (although that is a bit naughty to write on the list). I've got 
TONS of other stuff, maybe some you are interested in- I've got heaps of 
Tindersticks  (all the albums including "Donkeys", plus a tape of all 
their early vinyl recordings up to 1995), Belly (again, lots of rare 
stuff), and gazilions others including Sparklehorse, Air, Andrea Parker, 
Black Box Recorder, Kristin Hersh, Tanya Donelly, One Dove, Teenage 
Fanclub, Pulp, Beth Orton, Beck, Lush, Garbage, Throwing Muses, 
Spiritualized, Palace etc, etc. If you would want to trade, please 
contact me privately at my uni email addre
So yeah please contact me Michael Head fans and hope we can do a lovely 
trade:)
Seeya folks
Kin Woo
With A Star Upon Your Shoulder
Lighting Up The Path As You Walk
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