Music for the Masses 10 – 23 February 2000

By February 2000, it seems Bay Radio was actually starting to run pretty smoothly, and my show was starting to go pretty well. Although I was still having problems with timing…

Tracks played on the tenth show, Wed 23 Feb 2000, from 10.55am-1.00pm

Tracks taken from the playlist (Total 12 tracks). A indicates A-list (6 tracks); B indicates B-list (3 tracks) and C indicates C-list (2 tracks). S indicates the Single of the Week. R indicates tracks taken from my own collection (Total 9 tracks). L is the ones out of the drawer (Total 8 tracks).

• 1. Corrs “Radio” L
• [IRN 11.00 News]
• 2. Dead Prez “Hip Hop” B
• 3. REM “The Great Beyond” L
• 4. Muse “Sunburn” C

• 5. Kraftwerk “Expo 2000” R
• [Guild Election Advert – 1]
• 6. Sgt. Rock “Yeah Word Party” C

• 7. Jean Michel Jarre feat. Natacha Atlas “C’est la Vie” R
• 8. Air feat. George Tracks “Playground Love” L

• 9. Bluetones “Keep the Home Fires Burning” A
• 10. Henrees “Half Crescent” A

• 11. Everything But the Girl “Temperamental” R
• 12. York “The Awakening” L
• 13. Moby “Natural Blues” A

• 14. Bellatrix “The Girl with the Sparkling Eyes” A
• 15. Garbage “The World is Not Enough” L
• [IRN 12.00 News]
• 16. Enigma “Silence Must be Heard” R
• 17. All Seeing I “1st Man in Space” R
• 18. Wannadies “Yeah” S

• 19. White Town “Wanted” (Vince Clarke Remix 2) R

• 20. Andreas Johnson “Glorious” L

• 21. Dark Star “Graceadelica” L
• 22. Big Yoga Muffin “Is that How You?” A
• 23. Electronic “Get the Message” R

• 24. Coldplay “Shiver” B
• 25. Brassy “Work it Out” A

• 26. Groove Armada “At the River” R
• 27. Southern Fly “Maybe It’s the Right Time” B

• 28. Bob Marley vs. Funkstar de Luxe “Rainbow Country” L
• 29. New Order “Blue Monday 88” R

Producer: None.

Notes: Umm… I think fairly normal and uneventful except when I started cursing Indie Rock bands for making their tracks too short (before the 12.00 news – off air, naturally).

Music for the Masses 5 – 15 December 1999

The last show before Christmas 1999 was on Bay Radio on December 15th, and took an entirely non-festive turn. It continued after the New Year, so we’ll pick things up again in a few weeks’ time.

Tracks played on the fifth show, Wed 15 Dec 1999, from 11am-1pm

Tracks taken from the playlist (Total 12 tracks). A indicates A-list (7 tracks); B indicates B-list (3 tracks) and C indicates C-list (2 tracks). S indicates the Single of the Week. R indicates tracks taken from my own collection (Total 10 tracks). L is dem dere tracks out of the drawer (Total 4 tracks).

• 1. David Bowie “Thursday’s Child” L
• 2. Longpigs “The Frank Sonata” A
• 3. White Town “Your Woman” R
• 4. New Order “Ruined in a Day” (K-Klass Mix) R
• 5. Corrs “Radio” A

• 6. Lighthouse Family “High” L

• 7. Cuban Boys “Cognoscenti vs. Intelligentsia” A
• 8. Peach “On My Own” R
• 9. James “We’re Going To Miss You” S

• 10. Europe “The Final Countdown 2000” A
• 11. Erasure “Always” R
• 12. Bob Marley & Funkstar Deluxe “Rainbow Country” B

• 13. Beck “Sexxlaws” C
• 14. Nine Inch Nails “We’re in this Together” B
• 15. Stereophonics “Local Boy in the Photograph” L

• 16. Pet Shop Boys “You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk” R
• 17. Saint Etienne “I Was Born on Christmas Day” R

• 18. Mr. Hankey “The Christmas Poo” A
• 19. Human League “Stay With Me Tonight” R
• 20. Rhinocerose “La Guitaristic House Organisation” B

• 21. Tom Jones & Cerys “Baby it’s Cold Outside” A
• 22. Charlatans “My Beautiful Friend” A

• 23. Kraftwerk “The Model” R
• 24. O.M.D. “Enola Gay” R
• 25. William Orbit “Barber’s Adagio for Strings” L

• 26. Robbie Williams “She’s the One” C
• 27. Shamen “Ebeneezer Goode” R

Producer: None.

Notes: Not at all bad. Anyway, there’s definitely a conspiracy going on somewhere here, because it would appear that either I do a good show every other week, and alternate, doing a bad one every other other week, or I do my best shows in the face of adversity. Well, at any rate, that was probably my best yet, even though I had to set the studio up myself (which I almost managed too), meaning I didn’t start on time, and also my first link consisted of dead air, since the mic lead wasn’t working. Also, we would appear to have new equipment, just to make my life more complicated… aah well, ne’er mind, eh?

The Grammy Awards 2014

American pop and rock (OK, mainly country and hip hop) snorefest The Grammys took place a couple of weeks ago, but the list of awards is so long that it normally takes me a while to put together a response. So here, in the middle of Awards Week 2014, is my post about the Grammy Awards.

The ceremony took place in Los Angeles on January 26th, and it was definitely a night to remember. If you were crazy French robots Daft Punk, anyway, who carried away the Album of the Year and Best Dance / Electronica Album for Random Access Memories and the Record of the Year and the tenuous Best Pop Duo / Group Performance for Get Lucky with Pharrell Williams, as well as Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.

In the vaguely interesting dance categories, Best Dance / Electronica Album boasted four other disappointed nominees: Disclosure, Calvin Harris, Kaskade, and Pretty Lights. The Best Dance Recording award left Calvin Harris and Kaskade equally disappointed, as well as Duke Dumont and Armin van Buuren, while Zedd featuring Foxes went away happy (well, I assume they were happy with having won it).

The Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical (remember there are always so many great classical remixes that they get their own category) featured nominations for Delerium and Michael Logen‘s lovely Days Turn into Nights, remixed by Andy Caldwell, as well as remixes by Alesso, Sultan and Ned Shepard and Photek for OneRepublic, Bruno Mars, and Bob Marley and the Wailers respectively. The winner was Cedric Gervais‘s remix of Summertime Sadness by Lana del Rey.

In the Best New Age Album category, Brian Eno‘s Lux was fighting Peter Kater‘s Illumination, Kitaro‘s Final Call, and R. Carlos Nakai and Will Clipman‘s Awakening the Fire, but the final winner was Laura Sullivan, with Love’s River.

David Bowie was nominated for Best Rock Performance for The Stars (Are Out Tonight) and Best Rock Album for The Next Day but failed to win anything (that’s technically known as a “snub,” I believe).

Which is about all I can think of to say. In other news, the remaining half of The Beatles reunited because it’s fifty years since something relating to them and America happened, enabling them to receive one of seven Lifetime Achievement Awards. The others were nabbed by someone called Clifton Chenier, The Isley Brothers, Kraftwerk, Kris Kristofferson, Armando Manzanero, and Maud Powell. It would be a lot easier to get excited for Kraftwerk if they were in better company.

Thomas Newman‘s Skyfall soundtrack won the concisely named Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media and Best Song Written for Visual Media (for Adele‘s Skyfall). The ever-contemporary Herb Alpert grabbed the Best Pop Instrumental Album for Steppin’ Out, and Ziggy Marley beat Sly & Robbie to take the Best Reggae Album for Ziggy Marley in Concert.

The full list of nominees and winners is kindly provided by The Telegraph here.

 

Q Awards Winners 1990-2012 (Part One)

Having worked our way through the 1990s, it’s time to come straight up to speed with a look at all of the winners of the Q Awards. There are a lot of them, so I’ve split the list into two parts…

Best Single and Video Awards

After a decade or so of only caring about albums, Q Magazine finally took an interest in singles in 1998, with videos following a couple of years later. Unlike other award ceremonies, they still care.

Best Single / Best Track

• 1998 – Catatonia – Road Rage
• 1999 – Travis – Why Does it Always Rain on Me?
• 2000 – David Gray – Babylon
• 2001 – Ash – Burn Baby Burn
• 2002 – Sugababes – Freak Like Me
• 2003 – Christina Aguilera – Dirrty
• 2004 – Jamelia – See it in a Boy’s Eyes
• 2005 – KT Tunstall – Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
• 2006 – Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
• 2007 – Manic Street Preachers – Your Love Alone is Not Enough
• 2008 – Keane – Spiralling
• 2009 – Lily Allen – The Fear
• 2010 – Florence + The Machine – You’ve Got the Love
• 2011 – Adele – Rolling in the Deep
• 2012 – Plan B – Ill Manors

Q Classic Song

• 2005 – Ray Davies – Waterloo Sunset
• 2006 – Culture Club – Karma Chameleon
• 2007 – Stereophonics – Local Boy in the Photograph
• 2008 – Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell
• 2009 – Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Relax
• 2011 – Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars
• 2012 – Dionne Warwick – Walk on By

Best Video

• 2000 – Kelis – Caught Out There
• 2001 – Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood
• 2002 – Pink – Get the Party Started
• 2003 – Electric Six – Gay Bar
• 2004 – Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
• 2005 – Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc
• 2006 – The Killers – When You Were Young
• 2007 – Kaiser Chiefs – Ruby
• 2008 – Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
• 2009 – Lady Gaga – Just Dance
• 2010 – Chase & Status – End Credits
• 2011 – Jessie J – Do it Like a Dude
• 2012 – Keane – Disconnected

Best Album Awards

The Best Album award is one of the few original awards, and seems to tend to go to the top indie album every year…

Best Album

• 1990 – World Party – Goodbye Jumbo
• 1991 – R.E.M. – Out of Time
• 1992 – R.E.M. – Automatic for the People
• 1993 – Sting – Ten Summoner’s Tales
• 1994 – Blur – Parklife
• 1995 – Blur – The Great Escape
• 1996 – Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go
• 1997 – Radiohead – OK Computer
• 1998 – Massive Attack – Mezzanine
• 1999 – The Chemical Brothers – Surrender
• 2000 – Coldplay – Parachutes
• 2001 – Travis – The Invisible Band
• 2002 – Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
• 2003 – Blur – Think Tank
• 2004 – Keane – Hopes and Fears
• 2005 – Oasis – Don’t Believe the Truth
• 2006 – Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
• 2007 – Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
• 2008 – Coldplay – Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
• 2009 – Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
• 2010 – The National – High Violet
• 2011 – Bon Iver – Bon Iver
• 2012 – Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man in the Universe

Best Reissue / Compilation

• 1990 – Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
• 1992 – Bob Marley – Songs of Freedom
• 1993 – Beach Boys – Good Vibrations
• 1994 – Various Artists – Tougher Than Tough
• 1995 – Various Artists – Help
• 1996 – The Beatles – Anthology
• 1997 – Various Artists – The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers

classic album award

• 2007 – The Verve – Urban Hymns
• 2009 – U2 – The Unforgettable Fire
• 2010 – Wings – Band on the Run
• 2012 – Manic Street Preachers – Generation Terrorists

One-Off and Occasional Awards

Just in case there wasn’t a way to squeeze U2 into the standard award ceremony, Q have periodically added new ones especially for the Irish four-piece.

Special Award / Q Special Award

• 1997 – Phil Spector
• 2001 – Brian Eno
• 2003 – Scott Walker
• 2005 – John Lennon

Q People’s Choice Award

• 2001 – U2
• 2005 – Oasis
• 2006 – Arctic Monkeys

Q Unwanted

• 2002 – Simon Cowell

Q Birthday Honour

• 2005 – Michael Eavis

Q Outstanding Performance Award

• 2006 – Faithless

Q Award of Awards

• 2006 – U2

Q Groundbreaker Award

• 2006 – Primal Scream

Q Charity of the Year

• 2006 – War on Want

Q HERO

• 2007 – Anthony H. Wilson
• 2010 – The Chemical Brothers
• 2012 – Johnny Marr

Q’s Greatest Act of the Last 25 Years

• 2011 – U2

Q Spirit of Independence

• 2012 – The Cribs

More next week…

Q Awards 1990-1993

The first couple of years of the Q Awards seem to have been largely forgotten by the internet, falling into that early 90s gap before everything was reported and recorded. With this in mind, here’s everything I could find out about the first few years of the awards…

1990

The inaugural Q Awards were held in October 1990. This much is beyond dispute. Apart from that, though, it isn’t easy to find information about what actually happened.

Best Album

Winner: World Party for Goodbye Jumbo

Best Reissue / Compilation

Winner: Beach Boys for Pet Sounds

Best Live Act

Winner: Rolling Stones

Best Act in the World Today

Winner: U2

Best New Act

Winner: They Might Be Giants

Best Producer

Winner: Paul Oakenfold / Steve Osborne

Songwriter Award

Winner: Prince

Merit Award

Winner: Paul McCartney

1991

October 1991 saw the second ceremony, with the following winners:

Best album

Winner: R.E.M. for Out of Time

Best live act

Winner: Simple Minds

Best Act in the world today

Winner: R.E.M. / U2

Best new act

Winner: Seal

Best producer

Winner: Trevor Horn

Songwriter award

Winner: Richard Thompson

Merit award

Winner: Lou Reed

1992

In October 1992 the third awards ceremony took place. Here’s a picture of Brett Anderson out of Suede at the awards.

BEST ALBUM

Winner: R.E.M. for Automatic for the People

Best reissue / compilation

Winner: Bob Marley for Songs of Freedom

BEST LIVE ACT

Winner: Crowded House

BEST ACT IN THE WORLD TODAY

Winner: U2

BEST NEW ACT

Winner: Tori Amos

BEST PRODUCER

Winner: Daniel Lanois / Peter Gabriel / The Orb

SONGWRITER AWARD

Winner: Neil Finn

Q Inspiration award

Winner: B.B. King

MERIT AWARD

Winner: Led Zeppelin

1993

In October 1993 the fourth awards ceremony took place. Here’s a picture of Brett Anderson again, this time with Morrissey.

BEST ALBUM

Winner: Sting for Ten Summoner’s Tales

BEST REISSUE / COMPILATION

Winner: Beach Boys for Good Vibrations

BEST LIVE ACT

Winner: Neil Young

BEST ACT IN THE WORLD TODAY

Winner: U2

BEST NEW ACT

Winner: Suede

BEST PRODUCER

Winner: Flood / Brian Eno / The Edge

SONGWRITER AWARD

Winner: Neil Finn

Q INSPIRATION AWARD

Winner: Donald Fagen

MERIT AWARD

Winner: Elton John

Epilogue

It would probably help if I had a copy of Q Magazine to hand, so I could tell you a little more about what happened, but unfortunately all my back issues are stored away somewhere half way round the world. I’ll report back, some day in the future…

FURTHER INFORMATION

• Q Awards 1990 at MetroLyrics
• Q Awards 1991 at MetroLyrics
• Q Awards 1992 at MetroLyrics
• Q Awards 1993 at MetroLyrics
• Q Awards at EveryHit.com