writers’ favs

Rip It Up, Issue 31, 1 February 1980, Page 1

writers’ favs

As it traditional, about this time;every/ year , Rip It Up asks some of the staple RIU writers to sort out their favourite pieces of vinyl from the preceding year. It's also tiime for readers to post their poll forms! We must receive your vote by February 28, so don't delay. Will the Rolling Stones win Best Group or David Bowie win Best Single, Best Album and Best Male Vocalist? Vote now! The results will, be published in the March Rip It Up. Every effort will be made to detect any attempts to rig the poll. Independent scrutineers will count votes.

KEN WILLIAMS Bop Till You Drop, Ry Cooder. Street Life, Crusaders. Look Sharp, Joe Jackson. Rust Never Sleeps, Neil Young. Rickie Lee Jones, Rickie Lee Jones. GEORGE KAY Single ‘‘Here Comes The Summer”, Undertones. NZ Single “Rebel”, Toy Love. Album Ali Mod Cons, Jam. Second-best-equal —■’ Drums and Wires, XTC and Undertones, Undertones. DOMINIC FREE Armed Forces, Elvis Costello. It's Alive, The Ramones. Drums And Wires, XTC. All Mod Cons, The Jam. Night Food, The Heptones.

DUNCAN CAMPBELL Fear Of Music, Talking Heads. Survival, Bob Marley & the Wailers. Tribute To Martyrs, Steel Pulse. Regatta de Blanc, The Police. Mingus, Joni Mitchell. LOUISE CHUNN Drums And Wires, XTC. The Undertones, The Undertones. AK 79, Various Artists. Outlandos D 'Amour, The Police Stateless, Lene Lovich. MURRAY CAMMICK Squeezing Out Sparks, Graham Parker. Bad Girls, Donna Summer. Fear of Music, Talking Heads. Screaming Targets, Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons. Singles “Radio Radio”, Elvis Costello and

"Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough”, Michael Jackson. TERENCE HOGAN Five best! impossible. So instead here’s a handful of bits of plastic that readily come to mind. “I’m Bored”, Iggy Pop a funny 70’s anthem, not as funny as the old Bonzo Dog song but that’s symptomatic of the 70’s too. “Teenage Kicks”, The Undertones the power pop dream come true, my fav single for ’79 though not released here as one. The Cure, The Cure and 154, Wire state-of-the-garage eccentricity of the first order. Alchemy, Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine, Tom Verlaine superb solo debuts by two exTelevisions. “Pop Musik”, M Pop Music! (and hooray for Neil Young.)