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OK: The results are in, we can officially kiss off 1978 and be one year closer to what everyone hopes will be a real decade, the 80's. Right? | |||
Wrong. First you've got to sit still while we, in the best ''Creem'' tradition, tell you how half-assed we all are. | |||
First, despite record company and radio apathy, some new music entered the mainstream, or established itself more solidly therein; this is reflected in the polls by Elvis Costello's strong showing, Patti Smith's first Number One (Best New Wave Single), Cheap Trick's rocketing to the #3 album of the year, The Cars coming out of nowhere to become Best New Group, Blondie's strong showing for the first year, Nick Lowe's respectable showings in the Producer and Songwriter categories. | |||
Well, it's about time. And, to give credit, you sure as hell didn't hear them on any but the most enlightened radio stations (WMMS in Cleveland, KSAN in San Francisco — you know who you are). Not ''until'' they hit. Typically, radio got on Costello when they knew they had a sure hit; again in 1978, nobody took any chances, nobody gave any but the most established artists a shot. | |||
Simon Frith writes in his column this month of his deepening conviction that American tastes are inexorably set in their MOR ways; we're discouraged too — what, Linda Ronstadt was the ''best'' female singer of '78? Compared to what? — but if our poll can show some shift | |||
away from the Kiss/Foreigner/Aerosmith/Styx axis, when it shows that people are buying records and supporting artists other than the bloated supergroups the big guns at the record companies and radio stations are pushing — well, maybe it'll get through to somebody. There are enlightened disc jockeys still programming innovative radio; all you and we can do is support them, support new acts in concert, let the record companies know your tastes can't be bought. | |||
Obviously, Britain being an island, record buyers over there are a smaller, more enlightened group, and new acts break frequently and in a big way. (How many American bands — Blondie, Pere Ubu, Devo, Johnny Thunders — were first established stars in the U.K.?) But the whopping majority of the music is still derived from here. Why can't we appreciate our own heritage? Not just new bands, but ''overlooked'' bands, sleepers, genuine comebacks — whatever. | |||
Obviously, in 1979, anything in the groove like Costello or the Cars is going to make it; let's just hope other "outsiders'" are given the chance to blast the apathetic pants off the cocky megagroups playing your local coliseum; let's just hope all of you straight ticket Foreigner/Pablo Cruise/Heart/Queen fans hear some more passion in your music. But if it ain't on your radio, you'll probably stay in your multi-tracked womb. To the ''Creem'' loyalists who won't take it any more: Get outta here, we mean it! We love you. | |||
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Elvis Costello and [[Nick Lowe]] place in the 1978 Readers' Poll. | |||
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<center><h3> '78 Readers' Poll </h3></center> | <center><h3> '78 Readers' Poll </h3></center> | ||
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'' | '''EC and Nick placed in the following categories: | ||
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# Some Girls ( | '''BEST ALBUM | ||
# Who Are You ( | # Some Girls (Rolling Stones) <br> | ||
# Who Are You (The Who) <br> | |||
# Heaven Tonight (Cheap Trick) <br> | # Heaven Tonight (Cheap Trick) <br> | ||
# Live Bootleg (Aerosmith) <br> | # Live Bootleg (Aerosmith) <br> | ||
# Van Halen (Van Halen) <br> | # Van Halen (Van Halen) <br> | ||
# Darkness on the Edge of Town ( | # Darkness on the Edge of Town (Bruce Springsteen) <br> | ||
# Double Vision (Foreigner) <br> | # Double Vision (Foreigner) <br> | ||
# The Cars (The Cars) <br> | # The Cars (The Cars) <br> | ||
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# Draw the Line (Aerosmith) <br> | # Draw the Line (Aerosmith) <br> | ||
# Are We Not Men? (Devo) <br> | # Are We Not Men? (Devo) <br> | ||
# Stage ( | # Stage (David Bowie) <br> | ||
# Paul Stanley <br> | # Paul Stanley <br> | ||
# Hemispheres (Rush) <br> | # Hemispheres (Rush) <br> | ||
# | # David Johansen <br> | ||
# Lynyrd Skynyrd's First and Last | # Lynyrd Skynyrd's First and Last | ||
'''BEST NEW WAVE SINGLE | |||
# Because The Night (Patti Smith) <br> | # Because The Night (Patti Smith) <br> | ||
# Jocko Homo (Devo) <br> | # Jocko Homo (Devo) <br> | ||
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'''BEST NEW WAVE ALBUM | |||
# Are We Not Men? (Devo) <br> | # Are We Not Men? (Devo) <br> | ||
# Road to Ruin (Ramones) <br> | # Road to Ruin (Ramones) <br> | ||
# '''This Year's Model (Elvis Costello) <br> | # '''This Year's Model (Elvis Costello) <br> | ||
# Easter (Patti Smith) <br> | # Easter (Patti Smith) <br> | ||
# Parallel Lines ( | # Parallel Lines (Blondie) | ||
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'''BEST NEW WAVE BAND / PERFORMER | |||
# '''Elvis Costello <br> | # '''Elvis Costello <br> | ||
# Devo <br> | # Devo <br> | ||
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# Blondie <br> | # Blondie <br> | ||
# Patti Smith <br> | # Patti Smith <br> | ||
# | # Sex Pistols / Johnny Rotten <br> | ||
# | # Talking Heads <br> | ||
# | # The Clash <br> | ||
# | # '''Nick Lowe <br> | ||
# | # Iggy Pop <br> | ||
'''BEST NEW WAVE SINGER | |||
# | # Debbie Harry <br> | ||
# '''Elvis Costello <br> | # '''Elvis Costello <br> | ||
# Patti Smith <br> | # Patti Smith <br> | ||
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# David Johansen <br> | # David Johansen <br> | ||
# David Byrne <br> | # David Byrne <br> | ||
# Nick Lowe <br> | # '''Nick Lowe <br> | ||
# Iggy Pop <br> | # Iggy Pop <br> | ||
# Sid Vicious <br> | # Sid Vicious <br> | ||
'''BEST SONGWRITER | |||
# | # Mick Jagger / Keith Richards <br> | ||
# | # Jimmy Page / Robert Plant <br> | ||
# Bruce Springsteen <br> | # Bruce Springsteen <br> | ||
# | # Steven Tyler / Joe Perry <br> | ||
# | # Pete Townshend <br> | ||
# Paul Stanley / Gene Simmons <br> | # Paul Stanley / Gene Simmons <br> | ||
# '''Elvis Costello <br> | # '''Elvis Costello <br> | ||
# Freddie Mercury / Brian May <br> | # Freddie Mercury / Brian May <br> | ||
# Rick Nielsen <br> | # Rick Nielsen <br> | ||
# Nick Lowe <br> | # '''Nick Lowe <br> | ||
'''BEST PRODUCER | |||
# Glimmer Twins <br> | # Glimmer Twins <br> | ||
# Jimmy Page <br> | # Jimmy Page <br> | ||
# | # Todd Rundgren <br> | ||
# | # Brian Eno <br> | ||
# Roy Thomas Baker <br> | # Roy Thomas Baker <br> | ||
# Jack Douglas <br> | # Jack Douglas <br> | ||
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# Alan Parsons <br> | # Alan Parsons <br> | ||
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