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First off, I'm one of those boring people
who insist--correctly, which is even more boring of us--that the decade, century and
millennium don't end until the end of this year. So all we're doing here is looking at
1999. Maybe this time next year, we'll do the decade/century/millennium thing. Or maybe
not. In theory, we should be on our own as everyone else will already have shot their
bolt, but in practice I can't help thinking that won't stop them from doing it all over
again. Initially, I sent out a ballot to all the FAR reporters with
the categories you see over there (except I gave myself Texas so I'd have somewhere to put
Terry Allen). This didn't work out too good-the best way to describe the FAR gang is as a
pack of lone wolves. Trying to get them moving in anything like the same direction was, to
scramble my similes, like herding cats. Also, there was too much flexibility, allowing for
tactical voting. The same artists could, and did, show up in several different categories,
getting a lot of overall support without doing real well in any one of them.
To give you some idea, with a college of 32 voters, I ended up with
well over 150 nominations-and that doesn't include Outstanding Tracks. If FAR was a label
and everyone had their way, we'd have put out about 300 singles last year.
My error, of course, was to try and come up with a structured
result, when the operative word in this whole deal is 'Freeform.' So, fuck it, I dumped
the categories and simply added up all the separate votes, and this is how it came out.
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