(313) Re: (idm) Future Music Electronic Top 10 Reader's Poll

From Kent Williams
Sent Sat, Jun 27th 1998, 06:00

You need to know the history -- Andy Jones is a complete knob, who panned
both of Carl Craig's albums. I'm surprised Craig would even talk to them.

On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Greg Earle wrote:
> The June 1998 "Future Music" has a poll form to vote for your Top 10
> Electronic records (I guess that means "albums and singles and EPs").
> 
> 
> Carl Craig's All-Time Top Ten                Andy Jones' All-Time Top Ten
> -----------------------------                ----------------------------
>  1. Some Deaths Take Forever                 1. Metamatic
>     Bernard Szajner                            John Foxx
> 
>  2. Home Computer                         2. Travelogue
>     Kraftwerk                                    The Human League
> 
>  3. Firecracker                                 3. Sinking
>     Yellow Magic Orchestra                    The Aloof
> 
>  4. Can You Feel It?                         4. Black Celebration
>     Mr. Fingers                                    Depeche Mode
> 
>  5. Chari Vari                                 5. Architecture & Morality
>     A Number of Names                            Orchestral Manoevers In The Dark
> 
>  6. Fear Of A Black Planet                 6. Leftism
>     Public Enemy                            Leftfield
> 
>  7. Night Drive                                 7. Cars
>     Model 500                                    Gary Numan
> 
>  8. Liasons Dangereuses                         8. The Pearl
>     Liasons Dangereuses                            Harold Budd
> 
>  9. E2-E4                                 9. Selected Ambient Works 85-92
>     Manuel Gottsching [sic]                    The Aphex Twin
> 
> 10. Too High                                10. Oxygene
>     Stevie Wonder                            Jean Michel Jarre
> 
> [All spelling errors Future Music's  (-: ]
> 
> On the poll page, the backdrop is a collage of the covers of 53 albums (and
> a token photograph of Robert Moog - or is that an album cover?!?).  A couple
> of them I didn't recognize (most odd, since I own about 35 of the 53!).
> Feeling inadequate, I turn to the lists:
> 
> (1) Cover is mostly black with a purplish Kirlian photograph of a leaf on it
>     (between the William Orbit and St. Germain)
> 
> (2) "Our Love Has Just Begun" by ... "Oropa Lula" (?!?!? WTF) - the cover has
>     what looks like a black gloved hand in front of a tassled lampshade?
>     (between Heaven 17's "Penthouse and Pavement" & Carl Craig's "More Songs")
> 
> (3) All all-red cover with letters at the top that start "L A R ..." and the
>     word "Alien" in yellow down below (covered up in the photo)
>     (between the St. Germain and "Music Of My Mind")
> 
> Anyway, send in your own, poll closes July 31st.
> 
>         - Greg
> 
>