| BAMHWRK 2004 Best Of’s:
The Years best Pre-amble:
The audience is as much the source of good music as the artist.
Give a damn! Cause we’ve gotten back in kind with the
Yrs Best ‘s for 2004 programming year. These are the Best
records of 2004 for your music collections and my radio show...
Will miss ya in 2005:
Alan Wright, Greg Shaw, Alex Soria, John Peel, Connor...
Yr’s Best Audience’s:
The Weapons of Mass Seduction;
The Deadly Snakes;
The Smugglers;
The Midways;
Youngstumblefesters;
Yr’s Best Elvis Sighting:
Andrew Loomis (Dead Moon) searching for a pub on Elgin Street...Was
Pointed “in that direction...”.
Yr’s No-Sighting:
The Autoclub
Yr’s Loudest Show:
Can’t recall which band it was...Birdman Stage...BluesFest...thought
the sound system was going to blow up...or nearby city walls...
Yr’s Best T-Shirts:
CKCU’s “Tone-Arm in white and brown, for both kinds
of chests”
The Stumblers “Stickman w beer and guitar warning”
Yr’s Coolest T-Shirt Seller:
BBQ
Yr’s Best Poster:
Birman Sound Stage, Ottawa Bluesfest
Yr’s Best Colour Vinyl:
The Chains “Til You Come Back Home” 7” 45
on Screaming Apple
Yr Best Buttons:
Kathleen Edwards' “Stop Harper”
CKCU Fm’s “Crosshair on the Numbers”
The Acorn’s “Twig”
Singapore Sling’s “Stelpu Rokk”, which may
be old but had a long journey from Iceland to arrive in my collection
this year...
The Evaporators “I Gotta Rash” button is not new
for 2004, but I had to wait ‘til this year to get mine.
The
Smugglers presented the most butts on stage, which doesn’t
quite qualify for best button category, but is mentioned honorably.
Yr’s Best Music Artist (Radio) Documentary:
“Ray Condo”, produced for CBC by Matthew Crosier
Yr’s Favourite Radio Appearances:
Casey Comeau and Richard Jeffery, ckcufm Funding Drive Kick-start;
Hi-Lo Trons, 93.1’s Live Music Week; Weapons Of Mass Seduction,
Thanksgiving, on BAMHWRK, Fourngiver on Ottawa Live Music
Yr’s Favourite CKCU dj Debut:
Richard Parks, “Both Kinds of Music”;
Bijon, “just odd fill-ins for now”
Favourite Live Shows:
“Dead Moon” Bluesfest on the Birdman Stage;
“Holly Go Lightly/Asteroid Number Four/Monohum”
Barrymore’s;
“Nathaniel Mayer”, Early Sunday Morning, Bluesfest,
on the Birdman Stage.
“Orange Alabaster Mushroom” Irene’s Pub on
a Saturday night near Halloween;
“Golden Famile” (although I only got to see the
Pictures of it...) Bluesfest on the Birdman Stage;
“The Greenhornes” Bluesfest on the Birdman Stage;
“Reverend Glasseye”, at the Dominion Tavern;
Yr’s Coolest Venue:
The Aloha Room.
Yr’s WristWrenching Performance:
Jim v.s. Jon (not sure who the winner was...)
Yr’s Gut Wrenching Performance:
South of 78, one Sunday evening at the Manx.
Yr’s Guitar Wrenching Performance:
Jon Bartlett, on ckcufm live music week, during Up Yours Up
North, mangling his strings over a pre-release tune from Greenfield
Main’s “Barnburners & Heartchurners”,
on Kelp Records
Yr’s Drum-Kit Wrenching Performance:
The Dirtbombs, Birdman Stage at the Bluesfest
Yrs Best Duet:
Casey Comeau and Jon Bartlett, “I’ll Take A Chance...”
Yrs Best Debut Live Show: Fourngiver.
Yr’s Best Source of Incomprehensible Lyrics:
Ukrainia
Fourngiver
Yr’s Best Covers:
The Weapons of Mass Seduction “Greatest Lover in the World”,
orig. Bo Diddley;
The Glads “The Cat That’s Gone to the Dogs”,
orig. Deja Voodoo;
The Glads “Fashion Conscious”, orig. The Fresh Windows;
The Volebeats “not sure of the title”; orig. 13th
Floor Elevators;
The Greenhornes “at Bluesfest, caused Feck to go ballistic...”,
orig. The Yardbirds;
Dead Moon “You Must Be a Witch”, orig. The Lollipop
Shoppe;
Baby Woodrose “Dropout!”, Bad Afro Records.
Yr’s Best Cover Band:
The Itchies
Yr’s Best Originals:
I really can’t decide, this is an impossible category,
pick yer own and support the artists who come up with new idea’s
and/or rip off others in imaginitive ways...
Yr’s Best Guitar Playing:
Matthew Smith w Denise James, The Volebeats, & Outragous
Cherry. Just watch and listen...
Yr’s Best Guitar Playing:
Margaret Garrett of Mr. Airplane Man, Bluesfest on the Birdman
Stage.
Mr.Airplane Man also received the “most ignorant audience
member’s commentary”; and deserve to select 2004’s
recipient of “Order of Ottawa’s Most Despicable
& Miserly”
Yr’s Coolest Record Deal signings in Ottawa:
Million Dollar Marxists “Gearhead Records”
Asteroid Number Four “Music For Cats Records”
Yr’s Coolest Record Deal dropout in Ottawa:
Jim Bryson (See BAMWRKS 2003’s Favourite Colored Vinyl
SingerSongwriter Record Release. Damn Majors just don’t
get it...)
Yr’s Coolest Imminent Release Rumor:
The Beautiful Music Records forthcoming compilation tribute
to the Television Personalities.
Yr’s Coolest Sounding Recording Session:
Fortunate Sons, in Detroit Rock City, with Nathaniel Mayer.
Second Annual Outta-wais Surfers Award Presented to Ottawa’s
most excellent in surf music and/or furthest-out performance:
The Hi-Lo Trons in Berlin.
Yr’s Most Historic Release:
The Evaporators “Ripple Rock”, on Mint Records
Yr’s Worst Packidging & Most-Likely-to-Break Cd Case
in 2005 for a double CD 20th Anniversary release of “singles,
orphans, and other million-sellers”:
The A-Bones “Daddy Wants a Cold Beer”, on Norton
Records
Yr’s Best 7” Split Single:
The Glads/The Midways “” on Music For Cats &
Party Raid
Yr’s Best 45 RPM record & Yr’s Best Color Vinyl:
The Chains “Til You Come Back Home”, on Screaming
Apple Records
Yr’s Best Double 7” 45 RPM record:
Deadly Snakes “I Can’t Sleep At Night”; on
In The Red Records;
Yr’s Best Punk 12” & Best Punk side show at
the Tavern:
Slim Cessna “Truth & Peace, Bloody Tenant...”,
on Alternative Tentacles
Yr’s Best 12” Double LP Soundtrack re-ish, &
Damn Good Color Wax:
Naz Nomad & The Nightmares “Give Daddy the Knife,
Cindy...” on Dyonysus
Yrs Best 12” Double LP 6T’s instrumentalists re-ish,
after runoff vote:
First: Davie Allan & The Arrows “Devil’s Angels”
on Sundazed
Second: Link Wray & The Wraymen “Swan Singles”
on Sundazed
Yrs Best 12” Re-ish of still playing artist’s 1st
Release:
Nina Nastasia “Dogs”; Touch n Go Records, orig released
by Socialist, 2000
Yr’s Best 12” Vinyl Release by a Label better known
as a Fanzine:
The Misunderstood “Lost Acetates”, Ugly Things Records
Yrs Best 12” Vinyl Record Release:
Weapons of Mass Seduction “Thank-you for your Daughters”
on Music For Cats Records of Ottawa.
2005’s Watch Out For’s:
Flecton Bigsky;
Casey Comeau;
Fourngiver;
Feb 4th, 2005 King Kahn & BBQ;
Wannasee’s, Wannahave’s, and Gimme Gimme’s
for 2005:
The FiftyMen, Double Pumpers, Fourngiver, Outrageous Cherry,
Solar Flares, The Sights, The Buff Medway’s, The Thanes,
The Embrooks,, Jimmy Reed, Buddy Holly & The Crickets...
Leftovers for 2004 (includes Various releases, cdr takes, odd
radio interviews and performances, shows in extroidinarily small
venues, and barbeques):
Harshey, The Stumblers, Good-to-Go, Mercury Pick-Up, The Hiccups,
The Setbacks, The Astrobillies, Werbo, folks who donate floorspace
and couches, all the the side bands, and Lotsmore like ya’s...
Yr’s Best Music-title-inspired-name to bestow upon inanimate
objects:
Davie Allan’s tune “The Glory Stompers”, which
I named my workin boots this summer.
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