did mick mercer have the best taste of any melody maker critic in 1984?

i don't even know who he is, or any of these other guys for that matter (except david fricke who doesn't really count), but these year-end 1984 melody maker lists i just found in an envelope in my hall closet show that he picked songs by naked raygun, belfefore, cyndi lauper (she bop), stephanie mills (medicine song -- cool title!), jazz butcher, pauline murray (she was in some seminal early punk band right?), plus lots of bands with cool names i never heard of (shark taboo!, 1000 mexicans! dead man's shadow!) among his favorite tracks of the year (they only listed tracks not albums), so i think he wins! on the other hand it is true that frank worrall included one big flame song (and also indians in moscow - who are they??), abd barry mclilheney put the 3 johns' great english white boy on the bottom of an otherwise fairly dull list (which does though include something called hollywood hong kong swing by cruella de ville, which and who i hereby want to hear), and...wait, i was wrong! this lady named carol clerk votes for songs by zz top, hanoi rocks (twice), the sweet, and status quo (plus marillon and big country and something called hup two three four by somebody called the sid presley experience), so i think she wins instead! a couple other pick zz top tracks, but their lists are kinda boring. brian case picks almost all jazz tracks (sonny rollins, wayne shorter, don pulen - good stuff!), but also includes the jazz butcher, which is pretty funny because the jazz butcher weren't actually jazz, right? maybe he just liked their name. mark jenkins must have turned into a techno guy, since he votes for tracks by klaus schulze, philip glass, tangerine dream, hawkwind, terry riley and even the wonderfully named unknowns mainframe and neuronium and agents aren't airplanes (which is true, they're not!), or maybe he just moved to venus or something instead. colin irwin seems kinda cool, i guess - womack & womack, special aka, dick vaughan, plus lots of reggae that is probably good even though i never heard it (smiley culture, papa and levi -- well, the names SOUND reggae anyway.) most of the other guys and gals seem like jangly shambling pop bands i guess. participating critics also include allan jones, adam sweeting, steve sutherland, john barton, andy cowles, tom sheehan, lynden barber, ian pye (who actually come to think of it maybe should win instead -- art of noise, change, stephanie mills's the medicine song AGAIN, bambaataa, ollie and jerry's breakdance hit, bobby womack, womack & womack, joceylyn brown, plus the absolute clincher - hip hop bommi bop by the incredible th scratcher starring freddy love!! ok, he wins for sure but who finishes in second place??), paul strange, helen fitzgerald, richard fenn, tom morton (what a bore HE is), and well that's it i guess. none of whom, again, i know anything about? were any of these guys good writers., even good ROCK CRITICS? i really want to know! i am not british and never have been but there is a whole world out there so i want to be open-minded!