The Brain
  the year in review
THE WINNERS!
Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's poll. There were a lot of entries, a lot of great choices, but we proudly give you here the highest ranking ones.

ALBUM
OF THE
YEAR

The top 10 notches...
  1. godspeed you black emperor!, "Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven"
  2. Coil, "Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2"
  3. Radiohead, "Kid A"
  4. Sigur Rós, "Ágćtis Byrjun" [despite the release being in 1999, the international distribution through Fat-Cat will qualify this release for 2000]
  5. Yo La Tengo, "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out"
  6. Current 93, "Sleep Has His House"
  7. two way tie:
    Broadcast, "The Noise Made By People"
    Legendary Pink Dots, "A Perfect Mystery"
  8. Antony & the Johnsons, "Antony & the Johnsons"
  9. two way tie:
    Amon Tobin, "Supermodified"
    Trans Am, "Red Line
  10. two way tie:
    Kid 606, "Down with the Scene"
    Primal Scam, "Xtrmntr"

BAND
OF THE
YEAR

  1. godspeed you black emperor!
  2. Coil
  3. Radiohead
  4. Sigur Rós
  5. Legendary Pink Dots
  6. Current 93
  7. Kid 606
  8. Low
  9. Yo La Tengo
  10. Antony & the Johnsons

SONG
OF THE
YEAR

  1. Coil, "Batwings (A Limnal Hymn)"
  2. Boards of Canada, "In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country"
  3. Radiohead, "Idioteque"
  4. Antony & the Johnsons, "Cripple and the Starfish"
  5. Current 93, "I Have a Special Plan for This World"

MUSIC
VIDEO
OF THE
YEAR

  1. Outkast, "B.O.B."
  2. MDMFK, "Missing Time"
  3. Add N to (X), "Plug Me In"
  4. Eminem, "Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up"
  5. Radiohead - all those little short video clips

NEW
BAND
OF THE
YEAR

  1. Antony & the Johnsons
  2. Goldfrapp
  3. A Silver Mt. Zion
  4. The Damage Manual
  5. Cex

    [note: Sigur Rós actually got the most votes but since their first album was released in 1988, they were disqualified. Their current album is their third album.]


CONCERT
EVENT

  1. Legendary Pink Dots/Dead Voices on Air
  2. godspeed you black emperor!
  3. Nine Inch Nails
  4. Coil at the Royal Festival Hall (2nd time)
  5. Wire

BEST
LABEL

  1. Kranky
  2. three-way tie:
    Constellation
    Thrill Jockey
    Warp
  3. World Serpent
  4. Soleilmoon
  5. two-way tie:
    Mille-Plateaux
    Ant-Zen

BEST
PRODUCER

  1. John McEntire & Jim O'Rourke
  2. Steve Albini
  3. Steven Stapleton
  4. Christoph Heemann
  5. Frank Verschuuren

WORST
BAND

  1. Limp Bizkit
  2. Creed
  3. Moby
  4. Radiohead
  5. U2

WORST
ALBUM
YOU
BOUGHT

  1. Radiohead, "Kid A"
  2. Download, "Effector"
  3. Coil, "Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil"
  4. Chicks on Speed, "Will Save Us All"
  5. Badly Drawn Boy, "The Hour of Bewilderbeast"

BEST
COMP

  1. Wild Planet
  2. OHM - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music
  3. Attitude
  4. Xen Cuts
  5. Chicago 2018

BEST
MOVIE

  1. Requiem for a Dream
  2. Dancer in the Dark
  3. Gladiator [??? don't our readers have any taste?]
  4. High Fidelity
  5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

BEST
TV SHOW

  1. The Simpsons
  2. South Park
  3. Futurama
  4. The Daily Show
  5. The Sopranos

BEST
BOOK

  1. Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon"
  2. "Apocalypse Culture 2"
  3. Dave Eggers, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"
  4. Naomi Klein, "No Logo"
  5. Bill Drummond, "45"

BEST
ACTOR

  1. Russel Crowe
  2. John Cusak
  3. Philip Seymour Hoffman
  4. Ed Norton
  5. Kevin Spacey

BEST
ACTRESS

  1. Bjück
  2. Ellen Burntsyn
  3. Christina Ricci
  4. Kate Hudson
  5. Angelina Jolie

BIGGEST
DISAP-
POINTMENT

  1. US Presidential Election
  2. Y2K and no armageddon
  3. lame year for films
  4. miserable lives of the readers who think their lives suck
  5. Dancer in the Dark

EVENT
  1. Endless US Presidential Election
  2. New Year's Day 2000
  3. Coil live

WEBSITE
  1. brainwashed
    yuck!
  2. theonion.com
  3. nosepilot.com
  4. amihotornot.com
  5. heavy.com

HERO
  1. Ralph Nader
  2. assholes who voted for themselves
  3. George W. Bush
  4. Jon Whitney
  5. Dan Rather

VILLAIN
  1. George W. Bush
  2. assholes who voted themselves
  3. RIAA
  4. Al Gore
  5. Jon Whitney

MOST
ANNOYING
TREND

  1. Scooters
  2. Rap Rock
  3. "Whassssup" greeting (shouting or text messaging)
  4. cell phones
  5. Who let the dogs out
We'll return next week with an all new issue of THE BRAIN.

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