1998 Readers Poll - The Results
Album of the Year
1. Tortoise, "TNT"
2. Autechre, (self titled, LP5) tied with Meat Beat Manifesto, "Actual Sounds + Voices"
3. Legendary Pink Dots, "Nemesis Online"
4. Massive Attack, "Mezzanine"
5. Boards of Canada, "Music Has the Right to Children"
6. godspeed you black emperor!, "f# a# to infinity"
7. Coil, "Time Machines"
8. Coil, "Autumn Equinox" (it's really an ep) tied with Ritalin, "Bedside Toxicology"
9. Belle and Sebastian, "The Boy with the Arab Strap" tied with Current 93, "Soft Black Stars"
10. Sonic Youth, "A Thousand Leaves"
Band of the Year
1. Coil
2. Tortoise
3. Meat Beat Manifesto tied with Legendary Pink Dots
4. Autechre
5. Massive Attack
Song of the Year
1. Coil, "Amethyst Decievers"
2. Current 93, "A Gothic Love Song"
3. Meat Beat Manifesto "Acid Again" tied with Coil, "Moon's Milk"
Music Video of the Year
1. Aphex Twin, "Come To Daddy"
2. Squarepusher, "Come on My Selector
3. Beastie Boys, "Intergalactic
New Band of the Year
1. godspeed you black emperor!
2. Boards of Canada
3. Arab Strap tied with Ritalin
Concert Event
1. Legendary Pink Dots
2. Meat Beat Manifesto
3. Tortoise / Isotope 217
Favorite Label
1. Kranky
2. Thrill Jockey
3. Soleilmoon / Staalplaat
4. Warp
5. Nothing (for basically releasing Warp stuff most people said...)
Producer
1. John McEntire
2. Steve Albini
3. Jim O'Rourke
Worst Band
1. Marilyn Manson
2. Backstreet Boys
3. Matchbox 20
4. Rammstein
5. Barenaked Ladies
Worst Album You Bought
1. Marilyn Manson, "Mechanical Animals"
2. A four-way tie:
Meat Beat Manifesto, "Actual Sounds + Voices
Ritalin, "Bedside Toxicology"
Front 242, "Re Boot"
Tricky, "Angels with Dirty Faces
Best Compilation
1. Coil & Friends, "Foxtrot"
2. Pi Soundtrack
3. We Are Reasonable People
4. A Tribute to Spacemen 3
5. Remix Dystemper
Best Movie
1. Pi
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. The Trueman Show
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
5. The Big Lebowski
Best TV Show
1. The Simpsons
2. The X Files
3. South Park
4. Sifl & Olly
Best Book
1. "Smoke and Mirrors" by Neil Gaiman tied with "Lords of Chaos" by Michael Moynihan
2. "About a Boy" by Nick Hornby tied with "A Man in Full" by Tom Wolfe
well, they didn't get many votes, but there's hardly any book readers any more...
Best Actor
1. Bill Clinton tied with Johnny Depp
nobody could agree on the rest
Best Actress
1. Christina Ricci
2. Gilian Anderson
3. Parker Posey
Parker can do better next year, come on guys!
Biggest Disappointment
1. Titanic
2. Waking up
I'm losing faith in our readership
Event of the Year
1. Clinton Sex Scandal
2. LPD tour the USA
this category's answers aren't helping either
Web site of the year
1. brainwashed
2. The Onion
3. Warp Records tied with suck.com
flattery will get you nowhere
Hero
1. me (yes, everybody voted for themselves)
2. Edward Ka-Spel
Villan
1. Kenneth Star
2. A four-way tie:
me (yes, voting for themselves again)
Bill Gates
Marilyn Manson
my boss
Most Annoying Trend
1. Swing
2. Tommy Hilfiger
3. Body Piercing tied with "Any trend"
