EDitorial ± 18-Dec-2000
Things You May Have Missed
One category that's always of interest to me is albums of the year. I've already bought Select and Q magazines for their choices. Q tends to sit on the fence a little by picking their 50 best albums but in no particular order, bar alphabetical. Among the chosen artists this time are Coldplay, Doves, Foo Fighters, Muse, Primal Scream and Radiohead. I can vouch for all of these, should my opinion count for anything.
Later this week sees the Christmas edition of the NME.
BTW, did you know that
the New Musical Express and Melody Maker are merging as from next year? Heard
that on the wireless the other day. Anyway, for the past few years I've gone
out and bought the NME album of the year (since I don't usually have it). From
memory, previous winners have included Sugar, Bjork, Spritualised, and Beck. So
there. Can't say I've been disappointed by any of of these.
That's enough about sound. Time for some moving pictures:
Saturday night at the moviesEven if Ben E. King wasn't too discriminating, I am. So yet another list I watch out for is Empire magazine's "Top Ten Movies Of The Year". And here they are:
Who cares what picture we see?
— The Drifters
- Magnolia
- American Beauty
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Toy Story 2
- Being John Malkovich
- The Insider
- Erin Brockovich
- Billy Elliot
- Three Kings
- Gladiator
I wish I say something about these, but (cue violin) I don't get out as much as I used to. I'll keep this list close by me for my occasional trips to Blockbuster during 2001.
If You Take Away With You Nothing Else
Total Film, Sight & Sound, Premiere:
- maybe Christmas doesn't come from a store,
- maybe it means a little bit more
- (with apologies to Dr Seuss)