30 2003 |
Not surprisingly, there's quite a few on both lists, even the US one, that I haven't heard of before. Tonight might be a good night to tempt the RIAA's wrath, fire up KaZaA Lite, and fill up a few CDs.
A few years back, a magazine at Barnes & Noble caught my eye. Witty, classy, Q Magazine had a big price tag but it came with a 'best music of 1999' CD. I was happily impressed with the tunes and the text, but the subscription rate (over $100 US?) is out of my league and delivery to the Fargo media outlets is small and spotty. I've flipped through it a couple times, scared off by it's $8 or $9 newsstand price, but I miss the view from the UK. There's something just a little different, something non-Clearchannel, something more akin to my tastes.
For a while, I'd check out the Top 40 charts for foreign countries, downloading the interesting things, but it became a bit tiresome to find so much Timberlake, Madonna, Creed, Blur, and their contemoraries on the Japanese and French charts. Hopefully I can pull enough from this Guaradian list to satisfy my taste for unique music until the next time I run across a 'greatest' list.