Page 18-The Michigan Daily -Weekend etc.--April 16,1992 9 Love letters of the year Best Presidential candidate for 1992: Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) With the band, record, and show of the year behind him, Pearl Jam's Vedder exudes more life and charisma than a dozen Bill Clintons or Pat Buchanans. Write him in, you won't be sorry. Best New Artist: Basehead Equal parts Velvet Underground, early Prince, and some decidedly Morrissey-like angst, Basehead's Play With Toys has taken hip hop to another dimension. Best Show That No One Saw: Poster Children (Blind Pig) These kids kicked out a maelstrom of whiz- bang garage-grunge to a depress- ingly small crowd. And Annabelle loved 'em. Second-best Show No One Saw: Billy (Dan and Sven's house party) Much like My Bloody Valentine covering Sonic Youth with a dose of 4AD minus the words, Billy is A2's best-kept secret. Get me a tape NOW. Heaviest Show: L7 (Blind Pig) NY's sonic assault squad Helmet Love That Pop Culture! Worst pop creation: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch Best pop creation: Ned's Atomic Dustbin (just kidding) Best rock video concept: black and white footage (Refreshing! Really.). Best song lyric: "James Brown is dead" LA Style World's weirdest music/political happening: The Jerry Brown-Was (Not Was) Extravaganza Best cross-genre revival: Tammy had this one wrapped up, until a mack truck with the license plate "L7" pulverized the Pig into a pile of rubble and bodies. Can women rock? After this show, I wondered if guys could. Disc Worth Paying Import Price For: Face (Big Chief) The hell with Seattle, the bigger and deffer rock- gods are right here in Ann Arbor. The metal Bomb Squad at their finest. Album I Couldn't Get Sick Of: Gish (Smashing Pumpkins) Psychodelic sensurround mantras, with a kiss of Physical Graffitti -ized ambiance that never failed to rock my world. Best Reason To Hate Nirvana: Kurt Cobain's dumb statements about Pearl Jam. Watch the hair dye, buddy. It's getting too close to your brain. Best Reason Not To Hate Nirvana: Your band can now get signed. Thanks to Nevermind proving that people actually like music by good bands, record co.'s are scrambling to find more. Get in line. - Scott Sterling Wynnette and the KLF Best album-selling trick: Use Your Illusion Iand Use Your Illusion II Best sub-culture turned main- stream: Hip-hop Best persistent sub-culture of the year: Nouveaux hippies Most annoying trend among big stars: Parenting Most welcomed '70s revival: Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" Best product idea up for grabs: "Smartbeer" The Michigan Daily-Weekend 'U'offers aMo' Better by Loretta Lee 11I any students want to whiz through college and jump right into the mainstream of yuppiedom. An engineering or law degree is their ticket to a life of caviar and Saabs. But for students choosing less pop- ular majors, the main goal when embarking on a career is fulfillment. "I took a class about Jesus and the Bible, and it struck me out of the blue that I could take this for the rest of my life and never be bored," ex- plains Orville Erickson, one of two students studying Ancient and Biblical Studies. In spite of the people Erickson has encountered that "look at me like 'are you insane?' and don't think I'll ever get a job," Erickson says, "It's not something I worry about, really. I'll find a job someday. I realize I won't be making that much, but I'll be doing something I really like and that's what counts, I guess." But, unlike the hordes of Communications and Psychology majors, Erickson faces less competition in his field. "There's not that many people in it, fortunately." Erickson is not the only student choosing such an obscure major. There are at least 23 fields of study with an enrollment of less than five people. Many majors tie for the least number of people - since so many have only one person in them. Among these are Arabic studies, biophysics, botany, Islamic studies, and Turkish studies. LSA senior Jennifer Koss, grew up on the coasts - Virginia Beach, Maine, and Lake Michigan. Koss at- tribu ences caree geolc spong me t one be c diff peo don lot a phir think U will push pope pass I. A couple of years ago, Big Chief was just this little local band with records available only on import--kind of like Livonia's His Name Is Alive. Now, all grown up and such, their album is about to be released on some big ass label. PAUL TAYLOR/Daiiy The Graduate Library wins for best place to study. Shhh. Best new food: "Smartdrinks" Best TV ad: Suzanne Sommers and "Thighmaster" Best excuse to plow into store win- dows: Rollerblades Best fashion oxymoron: Birken- style Most annoying fashion trend: peg- ged cuffs Strangest unexplained pheno- menon: Mall Bangs Best instance of a goddess de- scending on Ann Arbor: Sandra Bernhard -Andrea Kachudas Top 10 overplayed songs 10. "Let's Talk About Sex" (Salt-n- Pepa) 9. "Beauty and the Beast" (Peabo Bryson and Celine Dion) 8. "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen) 7. "To Be With You" (Mr. Big) 6. "Finally" (CC Peniston) 5. "I'm Too Sexy" (Right Said Fred) 4. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Nirvana) 3. "Remember the Time" (Michael Jackson) 2. "Save the Best For Last" (Vanessa Williams) 1. "Everything I do (I Do It For U U r- ,g JIpW uIp - WO R L D TO U R 4 tej Ys 0 QQ You)" (Bryan Adams) Worst Hair 5. The Nelsons 4. Ex-Poison guitarist C.C. Deville (blue hair) 3. Michael Jackson 2. Wayne and Garth 1. Good Luck Troll Worst Dressed Heavy Metal Types 4. ex-Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille (it's hard to get past that blue hair) 3. Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx (black overall shorts with combat boots?) 2. Skid Row's Sebastian Bach (who saw the Rolling Stone cover?) 1. Axl Rose (nice kilt) -Kristen Knudsen - Get the Scoop! 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