Hot Licks & Rhetoric (Tim Riley, Editor)

BEST CDs 1990-1999	REISSUES 1990-1999
NOWHERE, Ride (Sire) 90 FAKEBOOK, Yo La Tengo (Matador) 90 WELD, Neil Young/Crazy Horse (Warner Bros) 91 CRUEL INVENTIONS, Sam Philips (Virgin) 91 IF ONLY THERE WAS A WAY, Dwight Yoakum (Warner Bros.) 90 LIVE, Big Star (Ryko) 71/92 SLANTED & ENCHANTED, Pavement (Matador) 92 HORSESHOES AND HANDGRENADES, Chris Mars (Smash) 92 SPINNING AROUND THE SUN, Jimmie Dale Gilmore (WEA/Elektra) 93 THE FUTURE, Leonard Cohen (Columbia) 93 THIS PERFECT WORLD, Freedy Johnston (Elektra) 94 MY LIFE, Iris Dement (Warner Bros.) 94 THE BEATLES AT THE BBC, The Beatles (Capitol) 94 [see THE COMPLETE BBC SESSIONS (Great Dane) 94] LIVE THROUGH THIS, Hole (DGC/Geffen) 94 NEVERMIND, Nirvana (Geffen) 94 PENTHOUSE, Luna (Label) 95 TO GIVE YOU MY LOVE, PJ Harvey (Island) 95 DUMMY, Portishead (Go! Discs/London) 95 CHAOS AND DISORDER, Prince (Warner Bros.) 96 MIDNIGHT VULTURES, Beck (Uni/Geffen) 99 RIP: Curtis Mayfield	Compilations BEG, SCREAM & SHOUT/BIG OL' BOX OF SOUL (Rhino) \| COMPLETE STAX/VOLT SINGLES 1959-1968 (Atlantic) \| CRESCENT CITY SOUL: THE SOUND OF NEW ORLEANS 1957-1974 (EMI) \| THE DOO-WOP BOX VOLS 1 & 2 (Rhino) \| THE HI RECORDS STORY (Label) \| HITSVILLE USA (Motown) \| LOUD, FAST & OUT OF CONTROL (Rhino) \| NUGGETS (Rhino) \| THE PHILLY SOUND1966-1976 (Sony Legacy) \| TOUGHER THAN TOUGH: THE STORY OF JAMAICAN MUSIC (Mango) \| [All MCA Remasters], Jimi Hendrix (MCA) Collections STAR TIME, James Brown (Polydor) 91 \| Live 1966, Bob Dylan/Band (Sony) 98 \| CITIZEN STEELY DAN 1972-1980 (MCA) 93 \| DOWN EVERY ROAD 1962-1994, Merle Haggard (Capitol) 96 \| THE COMPLETE HANK WILLIAMS (Mercury) 98 \| THE COMPLETE 50s, 60s, 70s MASTERS, Elvis Presley (RCA) 93, 94, 96 Classical BRAHMS FOUR SYMPHONIES, Mackerras \| COMPLETE RACHMANINOFF (RCA) \| BEETHOVEN VIOLIN SONATAS, Mutter/Orkin (Sony) \| SHOSTAKOVICH PRELUDES AND FUGUES, Vladimir Ashkenasy (London) \| SCHUBERT PIANO SONATAS, Andras Schiff (London)\| BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS, RichardGoode(Nonesuch)
1999 OVERLAP	WHAT WAS HE THINKING?
TEMPERAMENTAL, Everything But the Girl (Atlantic) MOUNTAIN, Steve Earle and Del McCoury (E Squared) -- Actually like this less than the Lauderdale/Stanley title.	RAVE UNTO THE JOY FANTASTIC, Prince (Larry King's guest on December 22, 1999)
STILL ON THE FENCE	QUOTE OF THE MONTH
SYNKRONIZED, Jamiroquai (WORK) -- He's no Stevie Wonder, but he's sure as funk on a different level than Lenny Kravitz. Makes you long for Terence Trent D'Arby.	On Pavement's "Spit on a Stranger": "Singer/guitarist Steve Malkmus could 4-track his grandma taking a dump and I'd think it was RUBBER SOUL..." -- Jon Dolan in Salon
HANG IN THERE, MITCH EASTER	HOW DID THEY TURN THAT BOOK INTO A MOVIE?
Smashmouth's cover of Let's Active's "Every Word Means No," used as background music to Dick Clark's New Year's Eve sequence on FRIENDS, December 16, 1999.	THE PRIDE IS BACK, David Cross (HBO)
COMMUTE READING	THE COMPLETE MAD ON CD-ROM
THE INTUITIONIST, by Colson Whitehead THE NEW NEW THING, by Michael Lewis	It's a Mad World After All, Tim Riley in Public Arts
ARTICLES WE'D LIKE TO READ	BANDS WE'D LIKE TO HEAR
PHARMACEUTICAL TV AD SURGE: CLINTON'S FAULT? EXILE as rock's premiere piano album, Ian Stewart; Ads on PBS, esp. NEWSHOUR	THE DOLOMITES
WANG-IDDY-WANG	BEST GET CLICKING
Consumer Guide by Robert Christgau, VOICE "Real Life Top Ten" by Greil Marcus, SALON KATHA POLLITT, THE NATION HARRY SHEARER GARY TRUDEAU (syndicated) GARY WILLS (syndicated)	ARTS & LETTERS DAILY DRUDGE RETORT FEED FRESH MEAT LETTERMAN ENTRAILS LEMON YELLOW (web diarist) NEW YORK OBSERVER THE ONION