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:
quoted 59 lines The June 1998 "Future Music" has a poll form to vote for your Top 10> 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
>
>