, 0 I UNIVERSITY Continued from Page 6 The top music picks and pans of 1988 Greg Baise Best Remake of the Velvet Underground Round circa Loaded: Felt and their Pictorial Jackson Review, whose lead singer Lawrence also pours out some Dylanesque vocals. Best Live Performance: Iggy Pop, of course. Most Missed Performance: Tracy Chapman, who has yet to perform in Michigan; the Sisters of Mercy, who have yet to perform live in promotion of Floodland. Best Video Featuring an Appearance by William S. Burroughs: A tie between Patti Smith's "People Have the Power" and Sonic Youth's "Teen Age Riot." Best Picture Disc Concept Album: Angel Dust: Music For Movie Bikers, a collection of music from biker movies from the 60's, assembled by British cartoonist the Savage Pencil (pseudonym). Must be seen and heard to believe. Best Album by an Ex-Cartoonist and His Motley Crew, Including Evil Bastard on Keyboards: Tattooed Beat Messiah by Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction. The 1987 Cult screamed about the zany antics of the Beat generation on Electric . Zodiac and crew present their parables in a cliche-metal style like the Cult, only with better lyrics. Personal favorite: "Wanna know about love, babe?/ Well let me teach ya/Come to church/I'm the preacher." Greatest Rock Duo: Mr. Anus and Mr. HCI (Horribly Charred Infant), known collectively as the Happy Flowers. If Sam Kinison had any real brains he'd promote videos for these, his younger siblings in spirit, instead of Bon Jovi, who would have probably made fun of Sam in high school. Biggest Musical Discovery: U2's discovery of the blues. Sure, Nick Cave may very well be the modern blues story, but U2 should get all of the credit for showing us ugly Americans our own heritage. Why do they get the credit? Because U2 makes more money than Nick Cave. Ain't that America? Least Missed Performance: The Pet Shop Boys, who know that to err is to play live. Michael Paul Fischer Albums of the Year: The Waterboys, Fisherman's Blues David Sylvian, Secrets of the Beehive Talking Heads, Naked Essential Concert Performances: Bruce Springsteen, Philadelphia J.F.K. Stadium (Amnesty gig) Michael Hedges, the Michigan Theatre Bryan Ferry, Meadowbrook Amphitheatre Don't turn off that MTV: Talking Heads, "Blind"/t(Nothing But) Flowers" Public Enemy, "Night of the Living Baseheads" Sharpest Lyrics: T-Bone Burnett, The Talking Animals R.E.M., Green U2, "God Part II." Deffest Groove: "Follow the Leader," by Eric B. and Rakim Best Reason To Start Liking Country: Steve Earle, Copperhead Road Ingenious Covers: U2, "Jesus Christ"; Fishbone, "Freddie's Dead"; The Waterboys, "Sweet Thing/Blackbird" Greatest Live Records: Joe Jackson, Live 1980-86 ; The Smiths, Rank Best Underhanded Rip at an Awards Show: "I don't know about you, but I'm still trying to catch my breath after Whitney Houston." - The Edge, accepting Best Album prize at the Grammys Welcome Comebacks: Iggy Pop and Robert Plant cut the crap and rocked out again at last; Patti Smith - after a long ten years - with a stunning LP, Dream of Life Heroes: Perseverent guitar-rockers Living Colour, led by Black Rock Coalition founder Vernon Reid, for finally breaking through format-radio's insipid racism with an AOR hit. New Age That Actually Isn't Lame: Interior, Design Overlooked in a Big Year for Female Solo Artists: Jane Siberry, The Walking ; Tracy Chapman's godmother Joan Armatrading, The Shouting Stage A Call for Truth in Advertising: Pink Floyd Live: Delicate Sound of Thunder. Repackage as: Pink Fraud Dead: Lucrative Sound of Blubber Samuel Taylor Coleridge Award for Advances in Artistic Creativity: Guitarist Bill Nelson gives credit to the "magical vacuity" encountered in occultist meditation for the prolific volume of his brilliant double LP Close Encounters in the Garden of Lights - you'll count4l tracks in all. Most Faithful Adaptation of a W.B. Yeats poem: The Waterboys, "The Stolen Child" Reasons for Optimism: A folksinger had a number one record; for the second consecutive year, U2 released an album which outsold the new one by Bon Jovi; Phil Collins Ann Arbor to See It: Danzig - in Detroit. I actually went to Harpo's to see it. What a show. Least Informative End of the Year List Because I Bought Almost No Records this Year: This one - no question. Sorry. Brian Jarvinen Everything Is All Right When You're Down: The Jesus and Mary Chain, Barbed Wire Kisses Spacemen 3, The Perfect Perscription We Wanna Be Free To Ride Our Bikes And Get Loaded!! Savage Pencil Presents: Angel Dust, Music For Movie Bikers Mudhoney, Superfuzz Bigmuff Nice Boys Don't Play Rock And Roll/Power Fucking House: Rock City Angels, Young Man's Blues Guns n' Roses, G N' R Lies Drivin' n Cryin', The Whisper Tames The Lion All Instruments Have No Way Of Measuring This Feeling: The Church, Starfish Rhythmatic Systematic World Control: M/A/R/R/S, "Pump Up The Volume" J.J. Fad, "Super Sonic" Yummy Yummy Yummy I've Got Pop In My Tummy: Men Without Hats, "Pop Goes The World" The Bangles, "In Your Room" Got Live If You Want It: Iggy Pop, St. Andrew's, July The Chesterfield Kings, Blind Pig, July MudHoney, The Beat, November Don't Know Much About History Kingdom Come, Kingdom Come Jim Poniewozik The Logan's Run Had The Right Idea Worst Radio Trend Award: Classic Rock. Best Song by a Band with Ex-Descendents Members about a Mexican restaurant: Tie - All, "Alfredo's" and Dag Nasty, "La Penita." Sing-Along of the Year: "He wants a shoehorn, the kind with teeth/ People should get beat up for stating their beliefs" - They Might Be Giants, "Shoehorn With Teeth." Best Case for the Existence of an Evil God: Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians. A tie-dyed burial shroud for '80s pop culture. Best Cover: Charles Manson's "Home is Where You're Happy," by the Lemonheads. Yes, that Charles Manson. No Longer Qualifies as Instant Humor: A n y reference to Elvis. Best Slam: Little Richard's well-deserved rip on the Grammies. Most Trite Lyric (The David Gates Memorial Award): "Why are the missiles called Peacekeepers/ When they're aimed to kill?" - Tracy Chapman, "Why?" Why not, "You can't hug your child with nuclear arms?" Jee-sus. Most Disgusting Video: Poison's "Fallen Angel." Hey, let's make a song about how bad it is when men exploit women - then we can make a video with scantily-dressed models! Double Jesus. Most Hair Thrown in One Night: Corey Glover and Dave Pirner on the same stage at the Living Colour/Soul Asylum Nectarine Show. Best-spent $15: See previous. Worst-spent $15: Red Hot Chili Peppers at St. An- drews. If you're going to play for less than an hour, you're going to have to do more than just get butt-nekked on stage, guys. The I Can't Think Of A Cute Category For It But It's So Good I Have To Mention It Award: Game Theory's Two Steps From The Middle Ages. And Finally, Two Small Prayers for 1989: Please, God, let at least one woman put out an album without being compared to Suzanne Vega. And tell Bruce not to rush. See MUSIC, Page 11 toward research. Inevitably, the president of a 35,000-student public university will make decisions that won't please everyone. After only five months in office, Duderstadt has al- ready had his share of unpopular de- cisions. His inauguration, a flamboyant $176,000 campus-wide festival in October, attracted dignitaries from all over the country to celebrate the beginning of the Duderstadt era. In colorful academic robes and amid much pomp and circumstance, Re- gent. Paul Brown (D-Petoskey) "knighted" Duderstadt president. But the inauguration was hard to swallow for many students, who were disgustedawith the event's overkill and invite-only audience. MSA President Phillips, one of the speakers, augmented his graduation- like robes with a spray-painted sign proclaiming, "Duderstadt is illegal." Outside, a small group of protesters tried to force their ways into the events, only to be turned away by University and city police. When the dust had cleared, four stu- dents - all Daily staffers - were arrested and later charged for their actions. Their cases are still pending in court. Duderstadt's selection of former Engineering Dean Charles Vest as his second-in-command was the last major replaced part for the Univer- sity machine in 1988. In a sense, his appointment symbolizes the begin- ning of the transition's end. Vest took office Jan. 1, and his appointment may symbolize the di- rection of the Duderstadt era. His critics say the University will focus firmly on engineering interests now that its top two are former engineer- ing deans. But supporters say the two worked extremely well together at the top of the engineering school from 1981 to 1986. And Vest has made visible efforts to meet with LSA faculty and administration to assure them that humanities won't be put on the back burner. So far, Duderstadt has taken some positive steps, such as his highly- publicized Michigan Mandate, a plan to make the University more "pluralistic" as it heads into the 21st century. He has also pointed to in- creases in minority recruitment last year during his tenure as provost - such as*20 new Black faculty and about 400 more Black students from 1987 to 1988. But the mandate is laden with generalizations and repetitions. Since he assumed office, Duderstadt has continually repeated the same speeches about pluralism and diver- sity. Many students, too, say much more needs to be done to recruit Na- tive Americans and other under-rep- resented minorities. If the plan results in higher re- cruitment figures, Duderstadt will deserve the credit, but it remains to be seen whether the plan has teeth or if it is merely a public relations Hundreds turned out for a MLK Day march last yeat - this year classe Day. Student voices were heard loud and clear on many issues in 198 campaign. Duderstadt and Vest will also be caught in another no-win issue for the University. During the last three years, tuition has skyrocketed 25 percent, including a 12 percent in- crease last year. It's generally a vicious circle: the state legislature gives the University less money than it originally re- quested, so University officials raise tuition. Then, state officials get sore because higher tuition means less access for their constituents. Late last year, though, the Uni- versity changed its strategy. Instead of raising tuition after the state an- nounces its funding amount, the University planned a 10 percent in- crease for next year. That way, the heat goes back on the state for tu- ition increases. Duderstadt oversaw this plan, which recognizes the need for lobbying changes. But unfortunately it has the same result - huge tuition increases. Dud( main can they mitn It smo( chin( nice. unde finisl will whet is mortal and must eventually die away. Hill Street Forum/Celebration of Jewish Arts Juli~e Hei *etz Performance Artis Jewish Woman/Jewish Arts Today Saturday, January 21, 8:00 pm at Irwin Green Auditorium, Hillel Poet, Woman, Jew, Psychologist, Teacher. Julie Heifetzpres- ents an uplifting program about the struggle for identity, for personal and spiritual integration-of the many-sided self She is accompanied on the guitar by JimKlueh, aFranciscan seminarian and composer. Tickets $5 at Hillel. - el does not necessarily endorse dw Dailys opinionsor agree with its edrialpoidrs IBMk O ANN ARBOR 1220 S. UNIVERSITY 4 pp. Robert Flaggert 1988. Last year. And at long last the year the music writers admit that the Top-Ten List is not only un-informative, but ego-boosting, and self-indulgent as well. Times have changed. Our end-o'-the-year list has changed. But it serves the same purpose - to plug our favorite records which you have about as much chance of buying as I have of being tricked into writing for Rolling Stone (like I would want to... like they'd want me to). Biggest Flash in the Pan: Tracy Chapman. Billy Bragg and Michelle Shocked were around long before she showed up - they'll be around long after she's gone. Thank god. Should be Taken Out and Shot Before Doing Any More Damage to the Music Industry: Bruce Springsteen. Period BestShoulda' Been a Hit: "Yeah We Know" off Dinosaur Jr.'s Bug. Best Shoulda' Been a Hit Record: Miriam Makeba's Sangoma. Psychick T.V.'s Allegory and Self. Best 'More of the Same' Record - Which is Exactly What We Wanted: Dinosaur Jr.'s Bug. Great follow-up to You're Living All Over Me. Best Album Produced by Steve Albini: Flour's Flour. Albini produced more records this year than Spot (uggh) and Jellybean combined. Coolest Banned Album Cover Artist: Robert Williams. Everything from Divine Horsemen to Ludichrist. Coolest Show I Saw in '88 and Actually Left U 'C pi y.£i~ VALUABLE COUPON -e 3m BABY g I PAN .1PAN.!T Plus Tax 'iji r P a e inUAonly Two adorable little ,ndv,dual-szed pan pizzas with cneese and pepperoni ' or one low ci ce vlo oni. wetn coupon at participating Little Caesars T .. I- 71, 7 m "ee caes-Entersesr es nc MD VALUABLE COUPON Tew SMALL PIZZAS with cheese and 2 toppings* iwh699 Plus Tax' ce a nUSAon Valid only with coupon at participating Little Caesars. -Excludes extra cheese. 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