1997, the Year in Review

A Few Awards...

• The Howard Carter memorial Award for trawling through the oldies in search of a song to cover
  Destroyer, for Edward Bear's "Masquerade"

  
  

• The Gary Puckett / Andy Kim Award for cheesiest lyric
  Bossanova, for "It's not hard, too hard to see / Oh, woman you bring out the man in me" (from "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning")

  
  

• The Linda Lovelace Award for sucking above and beyond the call of duty
  Custard

  
  

• The "There's a Bathroom on the Right" Award for best mis-interpretation of a lyric
  Me, for Zuckerbaby's "Bellybutton Queen," as performed while opening for the Cardigans

  What he actually sang: "I wanna be every raindrop tasted by you"
  What I thought he sang: "I wanna be every rim job tasted by you"

  
  

• Special Jury Prize for Daring Audacity
  2 Foot Flame
  Everyone knows at least one local musician who would benefit from being strapped down and made to listen to this Mecca Normal offshoot on a loop for 24 hours straight.

  
  

Top 10 best bets on local music for 1998

(Not necessarily in this order.)



1. Pipedream
2. Bossanova
3. Third Eye Tribe
4. Ottobon
5. Oh Susanna
6. The Ids
7. Readymade
8. Veal
9. Vancouver Knights
10. The Plantains (naturally...)

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