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rhe Weekly Arts and Entertainment Supplement to the Daily Nexus 2 A Thursday, December 7,1995 Daily Nexus Love For those of us who like KRS-ONE ture of What heard that Noel “Oasis” bubble gum and keeping 5. Album: Foo Fighters 11. Sunny Day Real Es Gallagher played on a fan- Bone Thugs 'N' Sattler our attention spans out of / Foo Fighters tate / LP2 tasmic, magical, mysteri firm commitments, I sub 6. Single (with two bo 12. Sonic Youth / Wash ous track, but in the end, mit a proposal for the top nus tracks): Edwyn Col ing Machine James learned a lot more five singles of the year. I lins / “A Girl Like You” 13. Built to Spill / There’s than he had planned to. / © #® ®\ thought this year was so 7. Album: GZA / Liq Nothing Wrong With Pete Shotton began to believe_ in reincarnation and it generally mediocre that a uid Swords Love 5. The Verve / A North made his eyes tear up. He dreamt about all the Mends he TLC song almost made 8. Video: Weezer / 14. Yo La Tengo / Electr- ern Soul had lost and all the places he had known. All the things this list. The stuff that was “Buddy Holly” O-Pura They may have broken he had tried to say seemed less important because of all good this year was great, 9. TV commercial: 15. Various Artists / Kids up in August, but the the unknown things he must have said. and everything else was Grand Puba, CL Smooth Original Motion Picture myths and shadows sur Reincarnation came just when he needed it He was 20 just a notch above that and Pete Rock for Sprite Soundtrack rounding the Verve con and lonely. He decided to be easy on himself and wait horrible song about the 10. Single (with’bonus 16. Ropers / All the Time tinue to astonish and mys until he was 21. He was taking life a little too easy, girl and the guy who loves track): The Rentals / 17. Rocket From the tify. The Verve were not though. He started watching way too much MTV and her dog, too. ‘Triends of P.” Crypt / Scream, Dracula, just about working-class thinking punk revival music really way cool. 11. Single (with bonus Scream! English life. They were a He stuck with his strange déjà vu feeling for four or 1. Method Man featur track): The Pharcyde / 18. Quicksand / M anic movement, a feeling, a five days. He thought that was strange until he realized ing Mary J. Blige — “All I “Runnin”’ Compression truth in a world of chaos that he must have believed in reincarnation in one or sev Need” 12. Album track not re 19. Pavement / Wowee and tabloid headlines. eral of his past lives. This is the best by leased as a single: Ahmad, Zowee They were the Joy Division Waking up one Monday morning, not feeling strange, product of all the wu- Ras Kass & Saafir / 20. Aminiature / M urk of the ’90s. _ j oUe Lash he decided to get a post office box and that no matter tangents that came outthis “Come Widdit” Time Cruiser how broke he was at any point in his life he was going to year. It’s a lot better than 13. Album: Raekwon —Noah Blumbeig Assured that nothing keep the same box. When he turned 21 he planned on the Method Man/Redman featuring Ghost Face will change on New Year’s leaving and never coming back or going back or staying collaboration, but Killer / Only Built 4 Cu Day, I’m thrilled that 1995 anywhere. That made a constant P.O. box necessary, and wouldn’t it be cool if they ban Linx 1. Radiohead / The is going to end soon, birthday cards, that he would never read, filled with cash started a group and called 14. Video: Bjork / “It’s Bends mostly ’cause the albums I made it profitable enough. it “Red Method”? Oh So Quiet” Radiohead, Radiohead, really liked all came out in Next door to the post office was a liquor store. Pete 15. Live show: The wherefore art thou, Radio 1994. That is my fault and bought a Coke there. He finished the Coke quickly and 2. Matthew Sweet — Beatnuts with Common head? Deny thy main it is annoying, but it is still went into the library next door. “We’re the Same” (Sense), UCSB’s Hub stream fame and become 20 years better than most He fell in love inside the library with a girl he consid What a pretty song. It 16. Album: The Muffs / indie stars or if thou wilt people in Isla Vista. Any ered ugly. She gave him the eye. Pete considered licking even has a good video. Blonder and Blonder not: Cheer up, matest ways, here’s my top three: his lips or doing something really obnoxiously seductive. 17. Single: Nate Dogg / Your self-loathing lyrical But the girl kept giving him the eye while he just stood 3. Folk Implosion — “One More Day” cries are wearing me thin. 1. Oasis / W hat’s the still, thinking. Pete then felt that this girl really under “Natural One” 18. Album: Aceyalone / And Thom, you are just a Story (Mominglory)? stood him in a very, very ancient way. This song from the Kids All Balls Don’t Bounce creep for being so low as to Exceptional, thought Dora Thang came home with Pete Shotton that day soundtrack captures the 19. Album: Matthew steal an “h” from your best provoking and fun. But and even waited in the hallway while Pete cleaned his theme of youth-gone- Sweet / 100% Fun friend Jonny. Give it back, the title song sucks, lead room thoroughly. Dora told Pete she loved him a week desperate a lot less self 20. Video: Weezer / man, give it back. ing me to believe that the later and she wanted to be together with him forever. consciously than does the “Say It Ain’t So” only projects that need “Impossible,” Pete said. movie. Also, it’s really cool 21. Album: Moby / Ev 2. elastica / elastica title songs are Andrew how the last lines of each erything Is Wrong No drivelheads exist in Lloyd Webber musicals Lyric of the Week: verse get tacked together 22. Live show: Cypress elastica’s “Line-Up” of and James Bond films. I to fill out the last chorus. Hill, Irvine Meadows three girls and a bloke. told my friend that Oasis is "My s t y l e 's b e e n m il k e d l ik e a Amphitheater They’re definitely not what the Fab 4 would BOTTLE OF YOO-HOO/ 'CUZ EVERY sound like if formed today, EMCEE MONKEY SEE MONKEY DO." 4. Mobb Deep — 23. Poorly dubbed tape I “S.O.F.T.,” even though __________________________________ -BAHAMADIA “Shook Ones PL 2” can’t find a good copy of they “Smile.” elastica is a but she just nodded her This song is beautiful. on vinyl or CD: Project hard, post-punk, pop head and pretended, like “We can,” said Dora. all fans of the Mother “I don’t think things work like that, Dora.” Queensbridge, N.Y., Biowed / Project Slow ed powerhouse not afraid of wordsmiths Havok and 24. Album: Self / Sub putting in an “All- Hips, to care about mod ‘They will.” ern music. Pete started thinking and realized that they may have Prodigy have a go at it with liminal Plastic Motives Nighter.” “2:1” students such well-constructed 25. EP: Milk. / Never agree that elastica is tops. already been together forever and would continue to be. 2. Foo Fighters / Foo He just didn’t know yet. rhymes as, “Your crew is D ated Get the “Connection”? featherweight / My gun —Eric Steuer Fighters “We can get married,” Pete said. Rewarding for everyone “Of course we will, Pete.” shots will make you levi tate.” Also good is the two- 3. Supergrass / I like me who has been Pete Shotton couldn’t believe how much his life had These are my favorites. Should Coco fighting foo for years while changed since Dora — his face even cleared up. He year-old original, “Shook Ones.” All of these were released 12 simple pure pop believing that Nirvana was blamed his clean face on the promise of having unpro in 1995. I was veiy strict tunes much better than Cobain’s tected sex before he turned 21. 5. The Nonce — “Mix about it. Too bad about 1 cracked mad-hatter— esoteric themes. I just got Married in the courthouse by a chubby man in a suit those late-’94 albums by I mean drummer into “For All the Cows,” and sandals, Dora asked Pete to take her to the doctor on Tapes” This was a single, right? Wedding Present and 3 goofballs the best song on the al the way to the honeymoon. That surprised Pete, but not American Music Club. 1 arrest by the fuzz bum, last Tuesday or extremely. He hadn’t bothered planning a honeymoon This might’ve been higher if they didn’t fay to get The new Ace of Base and (AKA the cops) Wednesday. yet, so he did so while she was with the doctor. Don Henley’s greatest hits Add ingredients in any Dora came out from the doctor’s office and told Pete away with rhyming “eighty-first” and “this was barely missed my top 20. order. Beat together furi 3. The Velvet Under that what she had between her legs had a better chance of Just kidding.