the bands you couldn't live without: 1. Holiday (10) 2. Belle & Sebastian (8) 3. Trembling Blue Stars (7) 4. Bis (6) Magnetic Fields (6) Wedding Present (6) Stereolab (6) 8. La Buena Vida (5) Red Sleeping Beauty (5) Versus (5) (plus 98 more with less votes) pop songs your new boyfriend should really know about: 1. Push Kings - Macy Macy (4) 2. Rocketship - I'm Lost Without You Here (3) Arab Strap - The Long Weekend (3) Momus - I am a Kitten (3) Tullycraft - Josie (3) (plus 205 other songs with one or two votes each) most listen to longplay records: 1. Holiday - Ready, Steady, Go! (19) 2. Trembling Blue Stars - Her Handwriting (11) 3. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (9) Club 8 - Nouvelle (9) 5. Heavenly - Operation Heavenly (8) 6. Momus - 20 Vodka Jellies (5) Tullycraft - Old Traditions, New Standards (5) Pop Amercan Style (5) Push Kings - Push kings (5) Rocketship - A Certain Smile A Certain Sadness (5) (plus 131 with one or two votes each) most promising new acts: 1. Belle And Sebastian (12) 2. Push Kings (10) 3. Broadcast (9) 4. Club 8 (8) 5. Shoestrings (6) 6. Adventures In Stereo (4) Arab Strap (4) Beanpole (4) Jumprope (4) (plus 118 more with one or two votes each) most amazing live experiences: 1. Stereolab (16) 2. The Wedding Present (9) 3. Holiday (7) 4. Bis (6) Push Kings (6) 6. Belle & Sebastian (5) Divine Comedy (5) Momus (5) Rocketship (5) (plus 150 others) most fancied indiepop personality: 1. Rose Melberg (7) 2. Calvin Johnson (4) 3. Amelia Fletcher (3) Laetitia Stereolab (3) Manda Rin from bis (3) Nina (Cardigan) Persson (3) (plus 33 others) best band not from the US or the UK: 1. Cardigans (Sweden) (7) Cat's Miaow (Australia) (7) Red Sleeping Beauty (Sweden) (7) 4. Club 8 (Sweden) (5) Komeda (Sweden) (5) 6. Cannanes (Australia) (4) 7. Blumfeld (Germany) (3) Cub (Canada) (3) (plus 50 others) best thread on the indiepop list: (see detailed list later this month) a fine music fanzine: 1. Caught In Flux (8) 2. Copacetic (5) 3. Chickfactor (4) 4. PopWatch (3) (plus 49 others) this sucked in 1996: 1. Matthew Fletcher killing himself. (9) 2. Oasis (5) (and at least 65 other things)as voted by 90 members of the indiepop mailing-list in December 1996