Was it Good fop You?

Rip It Up, Issue 222, 1 February 1996, Page 27

Was it Good fop You?

The 1995RipItUp Writers’Questionnaire

JOHN RUSSELL ALBUMS Killjoy, Shihad; Shagpile EP, Short; Garbage, Garbage; Red Medicine, Fugazi; Best 0f..., The Commodores; Sloth, Pumpkinhead; Movement in Demand, Upper Hutt Posse; The Master, Marvin Gaye; One Inch Punch EP, Joint Force; Vine Street Stories, Greg Johnson; Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette; Design of a Decade, Janet Jackson; Comeback Special EP, Garageland. SONGS ‘Next Time', Supergroove; 'Haunted', Shane MacGowan and Sinead O'Connor; 'lf I Swagger', Greg Johnson; 'Bygones', Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers; 'Holding on to You', Terence Trent D'Arby; 'Lunatic Fringe', Cane Slide; 'Easy' and 'Bush by Where You Live', Hello Sailor; 'Hyper Enough', Super Chunk; 'How Bizarre', OMC; 'I Love You (Nor Do I)', Nick Cave and Anita Lane; 'Alright', Supergrass; 'Big Me', Foo Fighters. MUSIC VIDEO 'Scream', Michael Jackson. LIVE Shihad, Supergroove at Mountain Rock, Pumpkinhead, Headless Chickens, George Benson, the Rolling Stones, Therapy?, Hello Sailor, the Pointer Sisters, Muckhole, Dead Flowers at BDO, UHP at Squid. DEBUT Social End Product FILM / Just Wasn't Made For These Times, Diehard With a Vengeance. TELLY The Princess Diana interview. MAGAZINE Anything that featured an interview with the wonderfully garrulous Rod Stewart, eg: "I was on the stage and I ran upstairs for a pee and I'm too late forthe bog so I'm peeing in a beer mug, and you know sometimes when you're peeing in a glass and it's filling up and you know you can't stop. Well, it's overflowing and it starts going all over the floor but I've got to get downstairs to finish the song. So, I get down there and it's dribbling through the ceiling — my own piss is coming down on my head!"; or: "The Faces would shag anything. Anything that hadn't been dead for more than 24 hours, we'd shag it. It's very important that whoever she was, she'd left before you woke up. If I woke up and found a right old shambles next to me, it was: 'Oh dear, Stewart! You and your knob!"' BOOKS Private Parts, Lost In Music, The Elvis Spotters Guide. SAD TO SEE THE BACK OF Kenny Everett.

BRONWYN TRUDGEON ALBUMS Maxinquaye, Tricky; To Bring You My Love, PJ Harvey; Radar, Earthling; Killjoy, Shihad; Boss Hog, Boss Hog; Washing Machine, Sonic Youth; Foo Fighters, Foo Fighters; Garbage, Garbage; Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Smashing Pumpkins; Clouds Taste Metallic, Flaming Lips; Wowee Zowee, Pavement; Special Downtime, the Nixons; The Sacrilicious Sounds 0f..., the Supersuckers.

SONGS There are far too many selections from the above albums to mention, so I'll just give special mention to the year’s singles from Radiohead, Supergrass and the Verve, as I've been too slack to score the albums yet. Superette's super sick and special 'Killer Clown' and Garageland's 'Comeback' and 'Fay Wray' did it for me too. MUSIC VIDEOS 'Karmacoma', 'Protection' and 'Sly', Massive Attack; 'Fake Plastic Trees', Radiohead; 'lO Storey Love Song', Stone Roses; 'Killer Clown', Superette.

LIVE Hole, The Big Day Out, The Nixons and Sci-Fi Starland, Squid; Shihad, Powerstation. DEBUT Foo Fighters, Garbage, Earthling, Supergrass, Garageland, Superette, Sci-Fi Starland, David 0 Russell. FILM Pulp Fiction, Spanking the Monkey. TELLY X-Files, The Tick. MAGAZINES Rollerderby, Bikini, Film Threat. BOOKS The Man Who Wasn't Feeling Himself, Chad Taylor. KOOL THING Isolation. GLAD TO SEETHE BACK 0F... Most people. SAD TO SEE THE BACK 0F... The Tick, the Verve. GEORGE KAY ALBUMS Wake Up!, 800 Radleys; Maxinquaye, Tricky; | Grand Prix, Teenage Fanclub; Outside, David ' Bowie; Brown Sugar, D'Angelo; Formanka, 18 | Wheeler; Mirror Ball, Neil Young; The Bends, i Radiohead. SONGS 'Vow', Garbage; 'Wake Up Boo', 800 Radleys; 'Girl From Mars', Ash; 'Lowdown', Electra Fixion; ■ 'A Girl Like You', Edwyn Collins; 'Brown Sugar', D'Angelo; ‘Some Might Say', Oasis; 'Digging The Grave', Faith No More. j MUSIC VIDEOS i 30 Years Of Maximum R 'n' B Live, the Who. LIVE Throwing Muses DEBUT Tricky FILM Braveheart, Heavenly Creatures. I TELLY X —Files, Beatles Anthology, Top of the Pops. MAGAZINES When Saturday Comes, The Blues Collection. BOOKS Football Against the Enemy, Simon Kupler; Revolution in the Head: The Beatles In The Sixties, lan MacDonald; Whats Wrong With America, Scott Bradfield. KOOL THING Kilmarnock putting five past Raith Rovers. 1 GLAD TO SEETHE BACK 0F... The promised retirement of Lockwood Smith SAD TO SEE THE BACK OF The Labour Party

JOHN TAITE ALBUMS Morning Glory, Oasis (I told ya so); The Great Escape, Blur; Whammo, Bailter Space; Mellon Collie, Pashing Munchkins; Great When You're Straight, Black Grape; Different Class, Pulp; Wowee Zowee, Pavement; I Should Coco, Supergrass; Olympian, Gene; Maxinquaye, Tricky. CATCHPHRASES "Wahey!" (a classic). "How's your mother for turf?" (don’t ask). "Slancher" (a misspelt gaelic toast) MUSIC VIDEOS All of the Massive Attack freak-outs. LIVE Rolling Stones — phew! DEBUT Timeless, Goldie (the imported double CD). FILM Pulp Fiction TELLY Mad About You, and Alan Partridge's Knowing me, Knowing you. CD ROM Command and Conquer, Cinemania. BOOKS Desperados, Joseph O'Conner; Private Parts, Howard Stern. KOOL THINGS Burger Fuel, gin and cider mixed, Zolo (a hallucinogenic Mr Potatohead game). GLAD TO SEETHE BACK 0F... My dear friend Melody. SAD TO SEE THE BACK 0F... Music Nation and Newsnight— they were betterthan nothing! x

MR J KING ALBUMS Intoxicated Man, Mick Harvey; Murder, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; Garbage, Garbage. MUSIC VIDEOS 'Where the Wild Roses Grow', Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue; 'Disappear', Second Child; 'Bitter', Shihad. LIVE Chris Isaak, Centra Hotel. DEBUT Garbage FILM Seven (1995), Touch of fv/7(1958), Out of the Past(WU). TELLY Efland Friends — yes; repeats — no. MAGAZINES Details, Filmmaker, Pavement. BOOKS Making a Good Script Great, Linda Segar. KOOL THING Fudge Hair Varnish (hold factor 4). GLAD TO SEE THE BACK 0F... TV, vodka. SAD TO SEE THE BACK 0F... Robertson Davies, vodka.

GREG FLEMING ALBUMS Cabretta/Return to Magenta/Le Chat Bleu boxed set, Mink de Ville; The Ghost of Tom Joad, Springsteen; Din ofEcstasty, Chris Whitley; Saxophone Collosus, Sonny Rollins. SONGS 'Pleasure and Overdose', Greg Johnson; 'Black Dreams', Hello Sailor; ‘Perfectly Good Pop Song', Ted Brown. ' % ' MUSIC VIDEOS The John Coltrane Quartet Live in Germany—thanks Wayne! ' LIVE ' . Willie Nelson at the Highwaymen. DEBUT Grace, Jeff Buckley. / FILM Stroszek, by Werner Herzog. . ~ / TELLY America's Most Wanted, Crimewatch. MAGAZINES Madison Smart Bell's book column in Spin. BOOKS J ' - Everything by Irvine Welsh, short stories by Madison Smart Bell. / KOOL THING Dave's shack and his all night parties. SAD TO SEETHE BACK 0F... Charlie Rich

KIRK GEE ALBUMS : And the Circus... Kyuss; AK79 re-release, Various Artists; Fast Stories, Truly; Red Medicine, Fugazi; Rhythms, Resolutions and Clusters, Tortoise. SONGS 'Born With a Tail', Supersuckers; 'I Walk Like. Jane Mansfield', 5,6,7,85; 'Guitar Wolf', Kung Fu Ramone. MUSIC VIDEOS .. .are a waste of my time. LIVE Fugazi, Shrine Auditorium; Boredoms, Palace; Monster Magnet, Palace. DEBUT Make-Up, Stinking Lizavetta. «•- FILM Heavenly Creatures. ‘ TELLY Shark Week on Discovery Channel, live hockey. MAGAZINES Hot Rod Mechanix, Surfing, Legshow, Gearhead. BOOKS Sailor Jerry Collins — American Tatooist, .' r Cormac McCarthy's stuff. KOOL THING Coming home for the first time in four years and discovering how good kumara and real fish and chips really are. GLAD TO SEETHE BACK 0F... The OJ Simpson trial. SAD TO SEETHE BACK 0F... John Gilmore (RIP), Kyuss (split up), Quebec Nordiques (moved to Colorado). WILLIAM DART ALBUMS Orange Crate Art, Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson (the times they are a-passin', and ele- : gantly lamented too); Abbasalutely, Various Artists (were the 70s ever as stylish as this?); Out on the Rolling Sea (inspired and inspirational tribute album to the great Bahamian musician Joseph Spence). SONGS The Brechtian thrust of Chris Knox's 'Female White Caucasian'; Fiona McDonald and Shayne Carter look at ABBA through a glass darkly in 'The Name of the Game'; Elvis Costello rediscovers Burt Bacharach with 'I Just Don't Know What to do With Myself’; Randy Newman's edge-of-the-genre parodies in Faust, the Nixons' 'Down With a D' (great with a G). MUSIC VIDEOS 'Like a Rolling Stone', Rolling Stones (every morning after rolled into one video). LIVE The Rolling Stones (the Roman circus comes to town); Michelle Shocked (white dress, guitar,.' and dozens of wonderful songs and stories); Victoria de los Angeles (50 years of artistry compressed into one evening), and the New Zealand Smokefree Composing Women's Festival (where else could you hear Jan Hellriegel and Dame Ethel Smyth's 'March of the Women' in one weekend). ' - - DEBUT Janet Roddick’s stunning new material at the Composing Women's Festival. . FILM I Just Wasn't Made for These Times (with the

1994 sessions of Brian Wilson and band looking like Avedon photos in motion); Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle leaves us with what is perhaps his finest film); Before Sunrise (a movie which puts its script where its heart is). TELLY The Commish (can't resist the cute Michael Chiklis dishing the chutzpah). MAGAZINES Film Commentlso, that's where George Axelrod was hiding). BOOKS Michael King's Frank Sargeson (an honest and perceptive look at one of our greatest writers); Roger Watkins' Hostage to the Beat (now, how do we hear all this wonderful music?). KOOL THING Watching the divine Mamie van Doren writhing her way through three songs in Untamed Youth — thankyou, Celluloid Rock Festival! WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE BACK 0F... Truly idiotic classical concert reviews in the dailies (although there will be some respite over summer); Mururoa testing. SAD TO SEE THE BACK 0F... Jerry Garcia

ANDY PICKERING (DJB) ALBUMS Boulevard, St Germain; Journeys by DJ — the Coldcut Edition; Throbbing Pouch, Wagon Christ; Tical, Method Man; Suspected, Foul Play. SONGS 'Higher State of Consciousness (Judge Jules Mix)', Josh Wink; 'Trickshot’, Ceasefire; 'The Phoenix', Hardkiss; 'I Seen a Man Die (4 Hero Mix)', Scarface; 'Dr Peter', Rejuvenation; 'Reopen Your Mind 95', Foul Play; 'Da Funk’, Daft Punk; anything by Alex Reece. LIVE Nathan Haines' drum 'n'bass set at the Powerstation; Baiter Cells drum 'n' bass sets at Bob. DEBUT The Deepest Cut, Omni Trio — as drum 'n' bass came of age, this was the first album; The Self ■ ■Evident Truth of an Intuitive Mind, T Power — drum 'n' bass takes a disturbingly psychedelic turn into the unknown and you'll never be the same again... FILM ; A Er, erm, gee, I dunno, Pulp Fiction, do ya think? TELLY -TJ Presently I am televisually challenged, but I do enjoy the odd X File... and would you laugh if I said My So-Called Life and Newsnightwere highlights in a ocean of mediocrity? Max is fun if

you watch it with the sound off and turn it up when something grabs ya, otherwise the stereo rules OK. MAGAZINES Urb, Muzik, Grand Royal and Pavement are all essential to my well-being and stability. KOOL THING The embracing of drum ’n' bass and the emergence of Metalheadz as the premier label, dishing out dripping slabs of futurism that effortlessly seduced your body, soothed your soul and slowly but surely fucked with your mind, questioning your very reason for existence and... oops, I've gotten carried away again, but much respect to Omni, Aaron, Riddle and Jay, the original breakbeat ambassadors. GLAD TO SEE THE BACK 0F... The financial (non-)reality of living on the dole. SAD TO SEE THE BACK 0F... The lifestyle (non-)reality of living on the dole. MITCHELL HAWKES ALBUMS Wake Up!, 800 Radleys; Different Class, Pulp; Maxinquaye, Tricky. SONGS 'My Sister', Tindersticks; 'Caught by the Fuzz', Supergrass. MUSIC VIDEOS 'Mis-shapes', Pulp; 'Fake Plastic Trees', Radiohead. LIVE The Big Day Out FILM Pulp Fiction, Die Hard 3, Spanking the Monkey, Letterman. TELLY Friends, Forgotten Silver, TOTP, worst telly — XFiles, only for Trekkies. MAGAZINES Sight and Sound, Modern /?ev7ew(RlP), NME. BOOKS Who reads books nowadays? KOOL THING Walk shorts and belonging to a gym. GLAD TO SEE THE BACK 0F... Poodle rockers that cut their hair, pierce their nose, and release the same old rock bollocks. NICK D'ANGELO ALBUM CrazySexyCool, TLC (mo' sexy and way cool). SONGS 'Be Alright', 3 the Hard Way (still awaiting release!). MUSIC VIDEOS I like all the saucy ones, but at the same time, I'm not sure they should be shown after school on Max TV. What are we telling 10-year-old girls (and boys!)? LIVE Nonoxynol 9 at The Sleaze Ball. DEBUT BBC World free on TV. FILM Toy Story— redefines computer animation in an otherwise mediocre year. TELLY Mad About You, Acapulco HEAT — actually, anything after midnight. MAGAZINES Pavement, Marquis, Beano, Fix. BOOKS The Happy Hooker — an absolute must for 70s retro fans KOOL THING The cross pollination in dance party culture. Let's not get too hung up on this week's latest trend.

GLAD TO SEE THE BACK OF.. Dickwits trying (and failing) to copy my parties. SAD TO SEETHE BACK 0F... Newsnight— kill the news and weather and just let Marcus do his thing for half an hour. KEVIN LIST ALBUMS Korn, Korn; The Bends, Radiohead; King fora..., Faith No More; Outcome the Wolves, Rancid; Nola, Down. * .. 7- • - SONGS ' 'Crumble', Second Child; 'Universal', Blur; Gamut cassingle of Wellington grunge/metal. , : < MUSIC VIDEOS 'Disappear', Second Child; any Blur video, . -.y. LIVE Faith No More, almost every Human gig I've seen this year. -.- v . ' . ; DEBUT Gamut (good rocking stuff!) r FILM Seven TELLY Ice TV, particularly My So-Called Life. MAGAZINES Spin, Viz. -\;j ■- BOOKS Ken Rutherford's looks a goody. KOOLTHING Chris Cairns GLAD TO SEETHE BACK 0F... I love everyone. SAD TO SEETHE BACK 0F... Ken Rutherford CHRIS BOURKE ALBUMS The Impossible Bird, Nick Lowe; Waymore’s Blues 11, Wayion Jennings; Walk On, John Hiatt; Weatherman, Barry Saunders; Finn, Finn; Gone, Dwight Yoakam; That's Me in the Bar, AJ Croce; Tulare Dust, Various Artists; Doc Pomus Tribute, Various Artists. SONGS 'Senorita', Wayne Mason; 'Nothing', Dwight . Yoakam; 'Tomorrow Robins Will Sing', Stevie Wonder; 'Days Like This', Van Morrison; 'Standing in the Hall of the Memphis King’, Al ’ Hunter/Arthur Baysting; 'Feels Like Home', Randy Newman. MUSIC VIDEOS The Coke ads. LIVE Alex Chilton, Guy Clark, Stones (second night), ALT, the Chieftains, Highwaymen. DEBUT Songs for the Daily Planet, Todd Snider. FILM Apollo 13, Crumb. TELLY The Wild West, Civilisation (on Horizon), .. "

Seinfeld. MAGAZINES The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, Mojo, Addicted to Noise (Internet). BOOKS It Came From Memphis, by Robert Gordon (Seeker & Warburg); Montana 1948, by Larry Watson (Pan); The Dustbin of History, by Greil Marcus (Harvard); High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby (Gollancz). KOOL THING Classic Top of the Pops (TV2 Sundays): polyester flares, bad, bad hair. SAD TO SEE THE BACK 0F... Charlie Rich, Eddie Hinton, Rory Gallagher. MARTIN BELL ALBUMS Garbage, Garbage; Foo Fighters, Foo Fighters; University, Throwing Muses; Vine Street Stories, Greg Johnson; Refried Ectoplasm, Stereolab; and for pure silliness. Made in USA, Pizzicato Five. SONGS 'lnbetweener', Sleeper; 'Supervixen', Garbage; 'Crumble', Second Child; 'The Motel', David Bowie. MUSIC VIDEOS Does anyone from Max want to gift me a new aerial so I can fill this category out next year? LIVE Grant Lee Buffalo, Powerstation. DEBUT Garbage FILM Before Sunrise — for the incurable romantic in all of us. TELLY A Mitsubishi 33" home theatre jobby with all the trimmings (I wish). MAGAZINES NZ Trucking — for the classified ad section. BOOKS Anything in A 4 format with lots of pictures. KOOL THING The Internet — also great time waster of 1995. GLAD TO SEE THE BACK 0F... Julie Delpy — hell, I'd be glad to see herfront as well. SAD TO SEE THE BACK 0F... American Music Club — watch for Mark Eitzel solo in 96.