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Best Single: Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
Best Album: Nerver Mind The Bollix – Sex Pistols (this was 2 hard to chose i have loads of top albums in mind for differnet types of music, but this Album was the start of something special IMO)
Best Band: Bob Marley & the Wailers
Best Solo Performer: Ian Brown
Best Gig: (another to hard to chose) The Wailers, Olympia Theatre Dublin
Lifetime Achievement Award: Bob Marley was more than just a singer
Tip For The Top in 2008: Although on thier 3rd Album The Music have a new album out and might finally make it "Big" this year as i hear it’s radio play on "Mainstream Stations"
Most Hated: Celine Dion
Best Single – Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros
Best Album – Meloncollie and The infinite Sadness by the smashing Pumpkins
Best Band – Snow Patrol – Could listen to them all day.
Best Solo Performer – Moby
Best Gig – Muse, Faithless or Kasabian (any)
Lifetime Achievement Award – Radiohead or Nirvana have probably done more to inspire modern musicians than anyone else going.
Tip For The Top in 2008 – Kasabian and Snow Patrol must be due new albums this year.
Most hated – anything to do with Cowell or Luis Walsh, but more so than that manufactured Brit-hop or Speed garage acts such as Mis-Teeq, Craig David, Blazing Squad. Its not hip hop, its not R+B its just crap pop in its very lowest form.
Best Gig – Muse, Faithless or Kasabian (any)
Tip For The Top in 2008 – Kasabian and Snow Patrol must be due new albums this year.
Bulwark, i have tickets for Muse & Kasabien in Agust at Marley park i would strongly suggest you get yourself over for that Gig!!!!
Where is Marley Park Batman?
Outskirts of Dublin, they have special Buses going from Dublin City that return after the gig so if you do go no problem getting to gig & comming back, it’s a short enough journey
Best Single – Strange Town by The Jam
Best Album – Pet Sounds – The Beach Boys
Best Band – The Beatles
Best Solo Performer – Steve Earle
Best Gig – The Clash live at the Capitol Theatre, Aberdeen, 1978
Lifetime Achievement Award – Brian Wilson
Person you’d recommend whom others may have yet to discover – Ron Sexsmith
I would be well up for going to the gig Batman but am back to northern Ireland for july and back to work in yorkshire for august, where no doubt they have me programmed in for allsorts.
That’ll be an awesome gig too.
A dogmatic ‘best’ is all but impossible but these remain as life-enhancing as ever
Single: California Sun – The Rivieras
Album: Forever Changes – Love
Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival
Solo Performer: male Tim Buckley, female Joan Baez
Best Gig: an impromptu appearance by Van Morrison in the lounge bar of Jury’s Hotel, Cork 1986?
Lifetime achievement award: Neil Young, consistently good over ~40 years
Most underrated: Nick Drake, at least when he was alive and composing
Most hated: A toss-up between The Rolling Stones post Exile On Main St., and the concept of AOR in either of its guises as Adult or Album Orientated Rock
Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival
Love "Bad Moon Rising" but havent heard anything else by them, what other tunes do you recommend drone?
Also for another category:
"Band that is much better than you’d expect Live and is quite cheap if they are ever playing in your area": Starsailor – saw them at the Birmingham academy for £8 and it was actually a pretty good gig.
A dogmatic ‘best’ is all but impossible but these remain as life-enhancing as ever
Album: Forever Changes – Love
A friend of mine has called one of his horses Forever Changes for that very reason.
Love “Bad Moon Rising” but havent heard anything else by them, what other tunes do you recommend drone?
Lodi, the original b-side of Bad Moon Rising is equally good. Other gems include Proud Mary, Born on the Bayou, Fortunate Son, Travellin’ Band, Lookin’ out my Backdoor, Sweet Hitchhiker. The album Green River is probably their best. I’m sure there are compilations still on release
For me they were the beau-ideal of the unadulterated American Rock foursome – lead, rhythm, bass, drums in perfect harmony, a great though very distinctive singer in John Fogerty, and well-crafted songs steeped in the Blues/Country/Cajun legacy of the South.
And they had the good sense to break-up after just four years or so, hence their now ‘legendary’ status in the rock pantheon
I can remember when Starsailor were going to be the next biggest band ever……
Did you know that they took their name from a Tim Buckley album of that title ?
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Person you’d recommend whom others may have yet to discover – Ron Sexsmith
Very good call.
Absolute misery on toast live, though.
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Absolute misery on toast live, though.
gc
Still, at least you’ve got toast; misery is worse on its own, which is probably it loves company, now that I think about it.
Most Hated: Manic Street Preachers (If you tolerate them, Simple Minds will be next)
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