From: jhart@ee.ic.ac.uk (Joanna Hart)
Subject: Best Albums of '92
Keywords: existentialism, cybernetics, UN politics
Organization: Elec. Eng. Dept., Imperial College London
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 17:35:58 GMT

Another top 10, I'll try to keep this brief:
1. PJ Harvey: 'Dry'
2. REM: 'Automatic for the People'
3. Shakespears Sister: 'Hormonally Yours'
4. Julian Cope: 'Jehovahkill'
5. Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy: 'Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury'
6. The Wedding Present: 'Hit Parade 1'
7. Morrissey: 'Your Arsenal'
8. Moonshake: 'Eva Luna'
9. The Cure: 'Wish'
10. Throwing Muses 'Red Heaven'
(Joint)10. The Lemonheads: 'Its a shame about Ray'

read on for (fairly brief) comments:
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1 PJ Harvey 'Dry'
	I had to stop it halfway thru the first track so as to write to the reco	rd co. asking for future tour dates (they haven't replied yet).
2 REM 'Automatic for the People'
	Classic. I though they'd abandoned us with OOT but this is immaculate.
3 Shakespears Sister 'Hormonally Yours'
	No surprise that 4 hit singles have been lifted off this. I like the ide	a of Siobhan flouncing about with Bananarama whilst really wanting to we	ar black and spearhead a goth revival (my trend prediction for next year	).
4 Julian Cope 'Jehovahkill'
	The mans a genius- and the CD is also a very nice shade of blue.
5 Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy 'Hypocrisy is the greatest Luxury'
	I'm not really into rap, but this is very accessible (and more important	ly, very good). The lyrics should be required reading in all schools. Ex	tra points for being good live.
6 The Wedding Present 'Hit Parade 1'
	They get brownie points for the singles scam, but lose most of them for 	releasing the album at all (I suppose it was a record co. thing)- still 	this stands up quite well and they're moving on. I think the one to get 	will be the ltd edition with all 12 A sides, although Hit Parade 2 will 	be on a par with Hit Parade 1 from what I've heard (depends what you thi	nk of the covers, really).
7 Morrissey 'Your Arsenal'
	To these ears it sounds as though he's beginning to enjoy his music more	 and its nice to see him toying with his image. Shame about the NF image	ry and the attitude problem and 'You're the One for me, fatty'. Lyrics a	re spot-on, if less introvert; if London is dead then what about Manches	ter.
8 Moonshake 'Eva Luna'
	I bought this on the strength of seeing them support the weddoes last we	ek, I've only had time to hear it once but it makes my top 10 on the ste	ngth of that. Does anyone know anything about them?
9 The Cure 'Wish'
	This is OK. Still, OK from The Cure is still pretty good.FIIL may be naf	f but it had us dancing round the living room and it was nice to see the	m riding the network charts. Extra points for being good live even at th	e end of a long world tour with a replacement bassist, I still prefer 'd	isintegration'
10 Throwing Muses 'Red Heaven'
	I wish I'd seen them on tour, this is terrific, v. intense.
(Joint)10 The Lemonheads 'Its a shame about Ray'
	I really like this but it slips down the charts as I'm a bit narked that 	I didn't wait and get the version with Mrs Robinson.

Near Misses
	The Family Cat 'Furthest from the sun', Carter '1992'

Possible contenders if...
	a) I'd bought it
		Orb, Pavement, Arrested Development, Tom Waits
		(if anyone has strong opinions on these I'd like to know)
	b) I'd included compilations
		Pop- the first 20 hits (Erasure)
		the Orange Juice compilation
		Floored Genius (Julian Cope)
		Ruby Trax
  	c) They'd got round to releasing it
		the new order album

Notable singles
	Electronic 'disappointed'
	Carter 'Only living boy...'
	Sonic Youth 'Youth against Fascism'
	Wedding Present -all singles, just for existing,except for 12 which wasn	't pressed very well so the 1st minute sounds crap- no change there
	Dr Spin 'Tetris'.. for the sheer cheek of it
	(another) mention for Julian Cope for the ads for 'Fear loves...', I bet	 that's the last time they let him write the copy!

	Merry Xmas or whatever,

	Jo
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Jo Hart	 (jhart@ee.ic.ac.uk)	| "Alas, for I have wasted time,
Imperial College, London	|  and now does time waste me..."
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