SQUEEZING OUT SPARKS
What's most heartening about our annual readers' poll is that our readers are revealed—we don't get the trendies or the saving-up-for-the-Toyota college grads or the soft-core teeny-bops or the serious record collectors with armpit stains and the entire Stiff singles catalog in the original box.
SQUEEZING OUT SPARKS
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What's most heartening about our annual readers' poll is that our readers are revealed—we don't get the trendies or the saving-upfor-the-Toyota college grads or the soft-core teeny-bops or the serious record collectors with armpit stains and the entire Stiff singles catalog in the original box. Our guy picks up CREEM at the 7-11 with his beer and Kraft macaroni, caught Iggy when he was in town, buys records whether Christgau likes them or not, is mad at Rick Johnson, and quite bored with his town and its radio stations.
Although most of us here woul#lfl like to get on with 1980, we should point out some of the poll's trends—most of them hearten (but hey, they are CREEM readers, after all...).
, GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR, —Charting in at a big #6 on the Album of the Year list, as opposed* to a #9 for the popular Kinks' Lo^v Budget album, this could only mean that with more exposuffev**" i.e., airplay—Parker would be.afe, popular coast-to-coast as he* with our readers. *
NICK LOWE—#3 Single of the Year# with "Cruel To Be Kind", Producer of the Year. *