TweeNet poll 99 results
the bands you couldn't live without:
1. Belle And Sebastain 27
2. magnetic fields 17
3. The Lucksmiths 12
4. Birdie 11
5. Club Eight 8
6. The Aislers Set 7
Dressy Bessy 7
Trembling Blue Stars 7
9. Marine Research 6
pop songs your new boyfriend should really know about:
1. trembling blue stars - doo wop music 6
2. the fairways - phthalo blue 5
3. beulah - if we can land a man on the moon surely i can win your heart 3
birdie - "let her go" 3
cinnamon - maybe in the next life 3
the clientele - saturday 3
club 8 - missing you 3
kleenex girl wonder - tendency right foot forward 3
waltz for debbie - he loves anna 3
most listen to longplay records:
1. birdie - some dusty 12
2. magnetic fields - 69 love songs 11
3. belle and sebastian - tigermilk 10
marine research - sounds from the gulf stream 10
5. kissing book - lines and color 7
6. brittle stars - brittle stars 6
dressy bessy - pink hearts, yellow mons 6
harvey williams - california 6
9. belle and sebastian - if you′re feeling sinister 5
club 8 - the friend i once had 5
most promising new acts:
1. brittle stars 16
2. clientele 12
3. the fairways 11
4. barcelona 9
5. birdie 9
6. marine research 8
winterbrief 8
8. kissing book 7
9. waltz for debbie 5
most amazing live experiences:
1. the lucksmiths 19
2. magnetic fields 10
stereolab 10
4. marine research 9
5. go-betweens 7
stereo total 7
momus 7
8. san francisco pop fest 6
9. la buena vida 5
rocketship 5
most fancied indiepop personality:
1. amelia fletcher (Marine Research) 7
2. bob wratten (Trembling Blue Stars) 4
3. stephen merritt (Magenetic Fields) 4
4. rose melberg (Softies) 3
5. brent kitihara (fairways) 2
johan angergard (club 8) 2
karolina (club 8) 2
laura watling (autocollants) 2
mark robinson (TeenBeat) 2
Marty (Lucksmiths) 2
oliver goetzl (Marsh Marigold Records) 2
skippy (march records) 2
steve malkmus (?) 2
best band not from the US or the UK:
1. lucksmiths (Australia) 21
2. club 8 (Sweden) 8
3. la buena vida (Spain) 5
sloan (canada) 5
5. cinnamon (sweden) 3
girlfrendo (sweden) 3
rockformation diskokugel (Germany) 3
shermans (sweden) 3
stereo total (Germany) 3
best EP or mini-LP:
1. lucksmiths - staring at the sky 12
2. cinnamon - against the world 4
3. moose - baby, it's over 3
4. rockformation diskokugel - für softdrinks keine zeit 2
sweet william - world of books 2
trembling blue stars- dark eyes 2
cool mailing list or newsgroup besides indiepop:
1. shalala mailing list 10
2. march records list 8
3. belle and sebastian sinister list 5
spanish pop mailing list 5
5. elephant 6 list 3
6. droneon 2
popjourno 2
zinesters list 2
a fine music fanzine:
1. caught in flux 10
2. chickfactor 9
3. benno 7
4. beikoku ongaku 6
5. happy to be sad 3
puncture 3
speck 3
as voted by 138 people in December 1999, these were members of the indiepop and Shalala mailing-lists or visitors to TweeNet.