Chris Wilson

ALBUMS

* Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark - Volume 1
* Lonesome Organist - Cavalcade
* Davka - Judith
* Rachel's - Selenography
* Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
* Faultline - Closer Colder
* Luna - Days Of Our Nights
* Non - Receive The Flame
* Fall - The Marshall Suite
* Auteurs - How I Learned To Love The Bootboys

SINGLES

* Eminem - My Name Is
* Flaming Lips - Waiting For Superman
* Zan Lyons - Warring Factions
* Fall - F'Olding Money
* Fall - Touch Sensitive
* Pet Shop Boys - New York City Boy
* To Rococo Rot - Telema
* Bantha Trax - S/T
* Simon Joyner and The Fallen Men - One For The Catholic Girls
* Dump/Lambchop - Dive For Your Money/Up With People

GIGS

* Pet Shop Boys @ SECC
* Auteurs @ King Tut's
* Luna @ King Tut's
* Fall @ Queen's Hall (would have been vastly improved if Elastica had spontaneously combusted before playing)
* John Cale @ Queen's Hall
* Dorgon and Bill Wells @13th Note
* Michael Clark @ Festival Theatre
* Telstar Ponies/Appendix Out/Alan Roberts @ 13th Note
* Flaming Lips @ Potterrow (not for the quality of the gig but cos I had a damn fine time afterwards)
* Diskono DIY night @ 13th Note

TV

* Nick Broomfield's documentary"Fetishes" for presenting me with a whole new career choice
* Queer As Folk (the only series I watched all this year.)
* The Eclipse, if only for the perverted enjoyment of watching Michael Buerk et al having to make the prospect of some clouds getting dark for 5 minutes interesting. Also for Patrick Moore being the only one to admit that it was all a bit rubbish.
* Hearts v Hibs highlights watched in the pub on returning from Tynecastle. ha ha

BOOKS

* Jim Crace - Being Dead
Don't think I've been reading enough contemporary fiction. Oops. I've read lots of conspiracy theories about the Holy Grail though.

SOUP (supermarket)

* Covent Garden Bengal Lancer Lentil

COSMETIC

* L'Oreal 'Le Grand Curl' mascara (This may possibly be top thing of all categories.)

PREFERRED COLOUR OF i-MAC

* Limited edition silver

Andrew Tully

As I contemplate my navel I realise what a conservative, stuck in the Eighties, sad NME white-boy I am and always have been. So you'll have to forgive me for the safest list you'll see this side of my mother's weekly shopping.

ALBUMS

1. Luna - "The Days Of Our Nights" (Unspectacularly brilliant)
2. Tindersticks - "Simple Pleasures" (Funky melancholy)
3. Damien Jurado - "Rehearsals For Departure" (Melancholic melancholy)
4. Macy Gray - "On How LIfe Is" (not quite melancholic funk but you get the drift)
5. Low - "Christmas" (Spiritual melancholy)
6. Smog - "Knock Knock" (Contemporary with, but better than the Bonnie Prince album)
7. Foo Fighters - "There Is Nothing Left To Lose" (Rollicking, absolutely rollicking)
8. Dub Narcotic Sound System - "In A Dancehall Style" (The Blues Explosion fronted by Chorlton of The Wheelies)
9. Make-Up - "Save Yourself" (Sweet soul music and a great cover of Hey Joe)
10. Roland S. Howard - "Teenage Snuff Movie" (Well there wasn't a Nick Cave album out this year)

SINGLES

1. Badly Drawn Boy - "Once Around The Block"
2. Madonna - "Beautiful Stranger"
3. Foo Fighters - "Learn To Fly"
4. Sigur Ros - "Svefn G Englar"
5. Blur - "No Distance Left To Run"
6. Primal Scream - "Swastika Eyes"
7. Fall - "F-'oldin Money"
8. Fatboy Slim - "Praise You"
9. Beck - "Sexx Laws"
10. Ricky Martin - "Livin' La Vida Loca"

GIGS

1. Afghan Whigs (Glasgow Garage)
2. Beastie Boys (SECC)
3. Pulp (Queens Hall)
4. Morrissey (Barrowlands)
5. Luna (King Tuts)
6. Tindersticks (Queens Hall)
7. Snow Patrol (Attic)
8. Robert Forster/Grant Mclennan (Glasgow Venue)
9. Michael Clark (Festival Theatre)
10. Looper (Avalanche)

TV

1. Cops
2. Sopranos
3. England/Scotland (moral victory in a bar in the South of France)
4. Neighbours
5. European Cup Final (in a bar in San Francisco, globetrotting wanker!)

BOOK

1. "Careless Love" The Presley Biog. by Guralnick

Not the most exciting of lists I'm afraid. Am I just getting old? At least we have the Primals album to kickstart the new year. Till then adios!

Gerry

LP's

1. Smog - Knock Knock
2. East River Pipe - The Gasoline Age
3. Low - Secret Name
4. Wilco - Summerteeth
5. Leftfield - Rhythm + Stealth
6. Super Furry Animals - Guerilla
7. Death In Vegas - The Contino Sessions
8. Royal Trux - Veterans Of Disorder
9. Sly + Robbie - Stripped To The Bone
10.Radar Brothers - The Singing Hatchet

TUNES

1. Wilco - I'm Always In Love
2. Smog - Cold Bloodied Old Times
3. Leftfield - Dusted
4. Royal Trux - Stop
5. Low - Missouri
6. Radar Brothers - Find The Hour
7. Fridge - Ark
8. Mogwai - Year 2000
9. Stereolab - People Do It All The Time
10.Shack - Comedy

Gordon Legge

SINGLES

1. Pete Heller - Big Love (for about the fifth year running, pop/dance produces the best singles)
2. Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy, Hey Girl
3. Armand Van Helden - You Don't Know Me (most played record of the year)
4. The Fall - Touch Sensitive
5. Cevin Fisher - You Got Me Burning Up
6. TLC - No Scrubs (lyric of the year)
7. Mr Oizo - Flat Beat
8. Cassius - Feeling For You
9. Fatboy Slim - Praise You
10. Mogwai - Mogwai EP

ALBUMS

1. Macy Gray - Macy Gray On How Life Is (a thousand plays on, still sounds as fresh as my first McCoy)
2. Corey Harris - Greens For The Garden (at the start of the 80's he'd have been an NME cover star.)
3. Smog - Knock Knock (this year's Elliot Smith - surprised by how much I like it)
4. Tom Waits - Mule Variations (I wouldn't have bothered about the new TW if somebody hadn't gave me a tape. Like a lot of this stuff it comes recommended by a friend rather than a journo.)
5. Beck - Midnite Vultures (after a naff first track, it sores, climaxing in the near perfect Steely Dan meets Ohio Players genital genius of Debra)
6. The Chemical Brothers - Surrender (take away the celebrity skin and the hippy pish and you're left with 20 minutes as good as you'd get on any long player)
7. Fridge - EPH (another track of the year, the first one - the rest's not bad either)
8. The Fall - The Marshall Suite
9. Mouse on Mars - Niun Niggung (I'd probably have had this higher if they hadn't been so good live)
10. Prince - Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic (for Man 0' War, the hidden track and a few others. Honourable mention to the The Vaults as well.)

There's a few I've still to get, and a few I've probably forgot. As with...

GIGS

1. Mouse on Mars (just about perfect)
2. The Blackbyrds
3. Sons of Arqa (you probably had to be there - Oh God! My top three Chris wasn't at)
4. Mogwai (for that finale)
5. Vic Goddard (as a certain pretty boy would say - lovely)
6. Fridge (a star is born)
7. Skyray (very close to a top ten album of the year)
8. The Fall
9. Elastica
10. Royal Trux

Honourable mention to all the House of Dubois gigs. Every night out, a great one.

TELLY

1. European Cup Final
2. European Cup Semi Final
3. Steely Dan on Classic Albums
4. I wish I'd stuck with the Sopranos

BOOK

Laura Hird - Born Free

FILM

Blair Witch Project

I liked Tracey Emin's bed as well.

Stephen Cruickshanks

I have finished my annual reflections on what hasn't been a classic year and came up with the following:

LP's:
Midnite Vultures - Beck (I really like the first track! I always like a guid horn section).
Supergrass - Supergrass
100% Dynamite
200% Dynamite
300% Dynamite
Ramones Anthology
Wonderful - Madness
Rhythm & Stealth - Leftfield
(I didnae buy the Chemical Bros album 'cause I thought that apart from "Hey Boy, Hey Girl" the rest of it was shite. I don't reckon much to Macy Gray either....her voice sounds like Marge Simpson's).

SINGLES

Hardly bought any but......

Sexx Laws - Beck
Pumpin' on the Stereo - Supergrass
Hey Boy, Hey Girl - Chemical Bros
Swastica Eyes - Primal Scream
Concrete and Clay - Kevin Rowland (99p bargain bin purchase, worth it for the cover)

GIGS

It gets worse......I only went to one: Georgie Fame at the Jazz Cafe........smokin'

TELLY

Despite Gordon Legge trying to sabotage this category for me by looking at my telly until it blew up.....

The Sopranos
League of Gentlemen
Bob & Margaret
Ali G
Fast Show Repeats
Jeffrey Barnard is Unwell
Martial Law
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The Wife's vote, not mine)

BOOKS

Monkey Business - Simon Louvish
My Phantom Husband - Marie Darrieussecq
Sawdust Caesar - Howard Baker
A Fan's Notes - Frederick Exley (Reprint)
Feast of Snakes - Harry Crews (Reprint)
Mad Elaine - Helen Stevenson

(Noble mention to my letter/rant slagging off students in "Esquire" magazine)

FILMS

Happiness
The Matrix
American History X
Fight Club
Orphans
Dream Life of Angels
Perdita Durango

I fuckin' hated Blair Witch Project. My "worst film of the nineties" candidate!

(a) It was like "You've Been Framed" withoot any funny bits
(b) It seemed to rely on the premise that you'd be feart ay some twigs tied the gether
(c) If the "kids" had been from any council estate in Britain (instead of an American film school), they'd have been right oot the tent and sorted oot the bams making aw the noise first night they camped in the woods.

BEST FITBA' MOMENTS

Lubo Moravcic trapping the ball with his erse v Hearts - if you're going to take the piss, do it with panache.
Morten Wieghorst cross v Aberdeen - ditto
Marian Pahars goal v Man Utd.
Valencia v Huns (both legs)
Sunderland gubbing Newcastle.

There ye have it........

Mark Reed

ALBUMS (in no order)

'Mind Lagoons' - Skyray
'Apple Venus - Volume 1' - XTC
'Contino Sessions' - Death In Vegas
'Slow Riot for Wotsit' - God Speed You Black Emperor
'The Warp Trilogy'
'Vertigo' - Groove Armada (Best of the so-called "soundtracks to the summer" - cf. Chemicals, Basement Pants, etc. but that isn't saying much)
'E Luxo So' - Labradford
'Ep7' - Autechre
'Rest Proof Clockwork' - Plaid

SINGLES (in no order)

'Babylon' - the Black Dog
'Makes Me Love You' - Eclipse
'Big Love' - Pete Heller
'Keep on Moving' - Five
'You Get What You Give' - New Radicals
'Baby One More Time' - Britney Spears
'Out of Control (Sasha Remix) - Chemical Brothers
'Iambic 5 Poetry' - Squarepusher

STUFF THAT I BOUGHT IN 99, BUT DIDN'T FIRST APPEAR IN 99 (except for the Clash, sort of, but you know what I mean)

1 - Ramones Box Set
2 - 'From Here to Eternity' - the Clash
3 - 'Arkology' - Lee Perry (I know it's old but I only bought it this year!)

TV

1 - The Sopranos
2 - Buffy
3 - Dawsons Creek
4 - Clash documentary
5 - Louis Theroux

Bubbling under - Spaced. Oh and 'Friends' was quite good, in an annoying way. And, of course, Emmerdale.

BOOKS

'Mark Rothko - A Biography' - James Breslin
'Confusion Incorporated' - Stewart Home
'A Month in the Country' - J.L. Carr (again and again and again)
'Wreckers of Civilisation' - Simon Ford
'Round Ireland With a Fridge' - Tony Hawks
And any Ian Rankin novels I read this year.

COMICS

'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' - Alan Moore
'Preacher' - Garth Ennis

MAGAZINES

'Lobster' (twice a year ain't enough)
'Wire' - (for all the records that I've never heard of and will never hear, oh and for the Wire Sound System representative)
'Strange Magazine' - what FT used to be, and still should be

NUMBER OF NEW REASONS FOUND IN 1999 FOR HATING COURTNEY LOVE

6

GIGS 1 - The Bowlie ('cos it was the Bowlie, but special Big Up for Vic Goddard and God Speed)
2 - Durutti Column ('cos it was Vini)
3 - Zoviet France
4 - Ochre 5 (the venue, the organisation, the music - lovely (as Scoop would say) - shame the beer was crap)
5 - Morrissey (for the atmosphere - it was good to see naked love in full effect)

Honourable Big Respect to all the Flux events, Sons of Arqa, and, of course, all the Dubois nights.

THINK THAT HAPPENED IN 99 THAT I WOULD HAVE LAUGHED AT YOU THIS TIME LAST YEAR FOR SAYING MIGHT HAPPEN

Sitting upstairs at the Cafe Royal with Genesis P Orridge.

Stuart Reid

TOP 10 SINGLES

Placebo - "Without You I'm Nothing (Brothers in Rhythm Club Mix)"
Fat Boy Slim - "Right Here Right Now"
Chemical Brothers - " Out of Control"
Idlewild - "Shapes When I Argue"
Hefner - "Hymn for the Cigarettes"
Travis - "Turn"
REM - "At My Most Beautiful"
Texas - "Summer Sun"
Snow Patrol - "Starfighter Pilot"
Ultrasound - "Floodlit World"

TOP 10 ALBUMS

Hefner - "The Fidelity Wars"
Travis - "The Man Who"
Beth Orton - "Central Reservation"
Ben & Jason - "Hello"
The Flaming Lips - "The Soft Bulletin"
Chemical Brothers - "Surrender"
Mogwai - "Come on Die Young"
Gene - "Revelations"
Blur - "13"
Salako - "Musicality"

BEST GIG

Undoubtedly be "The Bowlie Weekender". I also enjoyed T in the Park, Dave Thomas, Astrid, Snow Patrol and the recent Travis gig at the Corn Exchange (good venue).

BEST BOOK (most enjoyable anyway)

"About a Boy" Nick Hornby. I read a lot by Christopher Brookmyre and also enjoyed "Maid of the Mist" by Colin Bateman.
I thought "Filth" was excellent. Enjoyed "Near Neighbours" particularly the very amusing last one about running through the woods screaming "Snake" or something.

BEST FILM

"Gregory's 2 Girls" (World Premiere showing !). Creditable mentions for The Matrix and Notting Hill.

BEST TV

The Simpsons.
I do enjoy Friends and obviously Sky Sports 1, 2, 3 & Extra.

Scott Logie

SINGLES

1. You Get What You Give - New Radicals
2. Northern Lites - Super Furry Animals
3. Svefn-g-englar - Sigur Ros
4. When I Argue I See Shapes - Idlewild
5. Coffee & TV - Blur
6. Out of Control - The Chemical Brothers
7. It Came From The Ground - Badly Drawn Boy
8. Drinking in LA - Bran Van 3000
9. Swastika Eyes - Primal Scream
10. Get Up - Sleater-Kinney

ALBUMS

1. Midnite Vultures - Beck
2. The Fidelity Wars - Hefner
3. The Contino Sessions - Death In Vegas
4. Surrender - The Chemical Brothers
5. The Man Who - Travis
6. Beaucoup Fish - Underworld
7. Liquid Skin - Gomez
8. Hope and Adams - Wheat
9. Up a Tree - Looper
10. 13 - Blur

FILMS

1. American History X
2. Best Laid Plans
3. American Beauty
4. Rushmore
5. Gregory's Two Girls

I NEVER WATCH TV BUT WHEN I DO MY TOP CHOICES IN '99 WERE: The Simpsons
South Park
Any footy, specially if Man U are losing!
Daria
Frasier

TOP 5 EVENTS OF '99

My 30th birthday party weekend in Barcelona
Bowlie
Airdrie beating Celtic in the Hokey-cokey cup
Nick Cave at the Gardens
Scotland beating England at Wembley although like a plonker I sold my ticket

ART

Special mention for the Dean gallery and it's eclectic art mixture so far.
Brilliant Gurzky and boring photographs of the old man. The emulsion paintings by the trendy guy whose name I've forgotten were interesting. And I nearly forgot - I saw Guernica. BOOKS

Round Ireland with a Fridge - Tony Hawks
Things Can Only Get Better - John O'Farrell
Armidillo - William Boyd
A widow for One Year - John Irving
Song of Stone - Iain Banks

1999 WAS A YEAR OF DISAPPOINTMENTS LIKE ANY OTHER:

Star Wars Part 1, Blair Witch Project, Orbital in the gardens (too sober), Scotland failing to qualify, Airdrie's first half to the new season, my disasterous love life, turning 30, the Scottish parliament, all comedy at this year's festival, Maid of the Mist, Charlotte Grey, albums by Leftfield, Suede, Supergrass, Ben Folds Five and The Auteurs - need I go on?