Things you hope will happen in 2003

I hope that the Strokes and White Stripes deliver acceptable but not groundbreaking albums while yet more manufactured major-label bands continue to adopt their sound, thereby insuring that the whole genre starts to give way to something else.

I hope that those same bands start doing different drugs than coke (and hopefully not smack but, well, if need be) because music produced by cokeheads is always, always, ALWAYS shit.

I hope that Britney's NASCAR movie is worse than Glitter, because I hate women pop stars.

And I agree about the interesting elements of post-punk being explored... a bit more Fetish Records and a bit less Gang of Four/ACR (who I love, but, well any more would get kind of boring).

I hope the Dan the Automator/Mike Patton "Peeping Tom" album finally gets released.

I hope the return-of-Phish is as good as mid-90s Phish, which made the late-90s Phish sound like dweebs who just happened to really know their scales.

I hope Andrew WK changes his clothes.

I hope Zack de la Rocha puts out his friggin' solo album before it becomes another 'Chinese Democracy'.

I hope my band's gig at the SXSW festival next March works out well. I don't think I've ever been so excited about anything.

I hope all the world "leaders" that contribute to setting global society and ecology and economy back wake up to the long-term effects of their actions, and that they do so before they are prompted by a cataclysmic event.

I hope I will find a female counterpart who is open and honest and caring and...well...er...ACTUALLY EXISTS.

I hope Fred Durst either dies or shuts his mouth FOREVER, or at least bothers to learn two words other than "fuck" and "shit".

I hope the Neptunes/NERD work with an artist who is actually WORTHY.

I hope Bob Dylan smiles.

I hope I don't sound like a total tool.

i hope to see ACTUAL female rock stars, and not dollybird singers dressed up as such.

i'd like to see mike patton in a boy group.

I am particularly looking forward to albums from these 30 artists:

1. Bark Psychosis
2. Killing Joke
3. Beyond Dawn
4. Broadway Project
5. Solefald
6. Ulver
7. Meat Katie
8. New Order
9. Ulrich Schnauss
10. Photek
11. Narcissus
12. Voivod
13. Cave In
14. Dave Clarke
15. Zan Lyons
16. Cult of Luna
17. Futureshock
18. Impossible Beings
19. Laika
20. Massive Attack
21. The Gathering
22. Circulation
23. Carl Craig
24. The Rapture
25. Strapping Young Lad
26. LCD Soundsystem
27. Klute
28. Patrick Wolf
29. Spooky
30. Kate Bush

I've already heard Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love 2003" it's a bit rub.

Why?

Also Garm from Ulver is featuring on The Gathering's new album - apparently they going back to a darker and heavier direction - I also hope they recapture the production of: How to Measure a Planet.

I also hope somebody puts out a slow song Isabel and I both really really like in time for us to use it as our wedding tune.

Mogwai to the rescue Tom !

I hope electro(clash) will go out of fashion at its current creative peak. The only way is down from here on, and the sight won't be pretty. Cocaine rehab clinics in NYC, Berlin and The Hague should be alerted.

I hope that metal will wake from its post-1996 hibernation. Perhaps sludge/ambient will be the new catalyst for the genre. Although I'm looking forward to the new releases from a couple of veterans (Countess, Darkthrone, Arckanum, Cryptopsy, Esoteric), any renaissance will need new bands.

I hope that Murder fucking Inc and all related cronies will go belly-up in a major way and that ODB will get out on parole. And that Nelly's acne will be cured so that he doesn't have to wear plasters on his face anymore.

I hope that the gabber revival will go mainstream again, and that the current not-as-high-profile-as they-used-to-be, steady-going but healthy house and trance scenes maintain their position, and that the overheated techno scene will cool down a bit.

As US R&B/hiphop producers generally tend to lag the productional techniques of the electronic dance music scenes by about five years, we might see some electro sounds emerging next year, inna Afrika Bambaata retro-stylee perhaps. Should be interesting.

Even Station to Station??

• Jaguar & all accompanying rmxs are released as a Rhino box set

• The Shakedowns eclipse DC's Ian fetish and assume their rightful place as garage champions alongside the Mooney Suzuki

• It becomes socially acceptable to admit I like BRMC, esp. the singles

• The Bangs fire their drummer and hire me, joining the ranks of Le Tigre & Chicks On Speed as Grrl bands w/ techno hoopla

• Alternatively, Helltime & I find a good place to rehearse and Wolfgang gets some spare time and we rock the fuck out. Finding a photogenic frontwoman, we spearhead the post-ironic synth blam movement to the forefront of several glossy magazines.

• I make it up to NYC for CMJ. Who's got a spare press badge?

Why does this rather innocuous statement make me so angry??

I'd like to hear what they'd do with someone from a completely different genre/community. Like, pair them with Iggy Pop (himself desperately in need of creative kick-start) or someone.

You know, this is a fine idea.

oh sorry, thought we were talkin about 2006

Can someone elaborate on this fresh hell?

i hope the digits in the year turn out to add up to something else

They will. The answer is "5".

• jess convinces Al Qaeda it's all a big waste of time

• s trife gets really into PLUR and glowsticks

• mark s teams up with Peter Jackson to remix the LOTR trilogy

• sundar is hired by Comedy Central as the Daily Show's Pop Music Correspondent

• Siegbran gets the top A&R job at one of the Big Five

• DJ Martian starts a discount online record shop and/or high-speed filesharing service

• Helltime Producto, nickalicious, & Ally star in a new film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer based on Diesel Sweeties. Leonardo DiCaprio is Indie Rock Pete

• Tom discovers a secret formula which puts an end to random googling and makes introduction threads obsolete

None of which look particularly on the cards at the moment.

Daft Punk play live in Dublin, I mean why won't they just fucking tour. I'd pay anything but the best part is I probably wouldn't have to.

Vitalic also must make an album and then play in Dublin.

Pitman puts out album on CD.

The Groundbreaker gets reissued and is number one all summer long.

And Black Box Recorder go top 20 again.

That will be very nice, thank you sir.

A definitive Leonard Cohen Box Set.

Robert Pollard hires an editor.

Billy Corgan gets arrested for public indescency whilst masturbating to Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do?"

Johnny Marr's new Healers album goes multi-platinum.

O'Rourke works with Eno. (Have they??)

David Baker re-joins Mercury Rev.

VHS or Beta gets the recognition they deserve.

Ian Svenonius recalls all copies of Weird War and claims that it was a joke in poor taste.

Modest Mouse plays in Detroit without a big festival to hold them back.

I find a job.

I also find some people who like to make mixes AND listen to music I haven't already heard all too often.

Compared to her cover of "Paint It Black", I'd rather watch my mother beaten to death in front of me.

The Twilight Singers' second album is released and the band is tapped to open for Zwan on a U.S. tour.
Matt B. rejoins Q and Not U.
Black Eyes puts out a full-length.
The Dismemberment Plan puts out an EP or album of stuff like "The Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich." (They previously promised to do this, but now it looks unlikely.)

whatta surprise

And there are even a few exiled Mancs like myself in the London office. Surrounded by Liverpool supporters. With cockney accents.

Tom Middleton and Jacques Lu Cont team up for a joint production job?

6th. 6th. Above Liverpool, only one point off fifth with superior goal difference, and - perhaps oddest of all - joint best defence in the Premiership. If I'm not dreaming, I'm very, very sleepy at least.

Fishbone finally releases their album (that was supposed to come out last fall). "Frayed Fuckin' Nerve-Endings" somehow sneaks it's way onto radio rotation.

The Neptunes produce a Wesley Willis album.

I wish Eric La Casa and Jean-Luc Guillonet would take an interest in dance music & act on that interest

I wish Stones Throw would kidnap Li'l Flip, give him a Clockwork Orange style brainwashing involving lots of Godard movies, and then let him loose in a studio

And all the infrequently employed critics on this board assume the collective helms of all the lousy music magazines in the world, run cover stories on the new MC Pitman LP, and get real paid.

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