Jonathan Bunce's Chugchanga-L Poll 1999 Entry
- Prekop, Sam Sam Prekop (Thrill Jockey)
- O'Rourke, Jim Eureka (Drag City)
- O'Rourke, Jim Halfway to a Threeway (Drag City)
- Parts Unknown Airshow (Dot Dash)
- ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Madonna (Merge)
- Kool Keith Black Elvis / Lost In Space (Ruffhouse / Columbia / Sony)
- Dr. Dooom First Come, First Served (Funky Ass)
- Beauty Pageant Very Friendly (Users)
- Solvent Solvently One Listens (Suction)
- Appliance Manual (Mute)
- Labradford E Luxo So (Kranky)
- Rock, Chris Bigger and Blacker (Dreamworks)
[2 & 3 and 6 & 7 are ties --dougo]
- PARTS UNKNOWN -- an excellent Toronto band in the vein of Wire, The Fall, Joy
Division, etc., with some modern ambient/punk reference points as well.
Find 'em on the web at www.partsunknown.net
- BEAUTY PAGEANT -- extremely witty & catchy indie pop from Chicago. email 'em at
users@ripco.com
- SOLVENT -- tuneful techno from T.O., definitely the best "IDM" (ugh) release of
'99. web: www.suctionrecords.com
- APPLIANCE -- post-rock that rocks, from England; very laconic Television-y guitars
and vocals, sweet
- CHRIS ROCK -- "the trenchcoat mafia -- what the fuck was on they minds? Oh, they was
upset cuz people picked on 'em, we was the outcasts. There was six of
the motherfuckers! I didn't have six friends in high school. I don't
have six friends now!"
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!