Best Techno Cash-In
— The Saint soundtrack (Orbital, Moby, Sneaker Pimps, etc.)
sparked our hard drives.
Worst Techno Cash-In
— Hal (Featuring Gillian Anderson)'s ''Extremis'' — the blecch files
Saddest Cash-In, Any Genre
— Pat Boone's desperate ''metal'' album, No More Mr. Nice Guy
Best Videos
— ''Wail,'' by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion; ''The Rain (Supa Dupa
Fly),'' by Missy Elliott; ''Karma Police,'' by Radiohead;
''Champagne,'' by Chris Rock; ''Smack My Bitch Up,'' by Prodigy
Worst Video
— The 30-minute ''Midnight in Chelsea,'' by Jon Bon Jovi,
which was approximately 27 minutes too long
Creepiest Video
— ''Criminal,'' by Fiona Apple
Best Softcore Pop
— Sex-O-Rama: Music From Classic Adult Films and Janet Jackson's
The Velvet Rope — a tie (pun intended)
Aging Gracefully Award
— Bowie turns 50; Stones keep rolling; McCartney is knighted
Aging Not So Gracefully Award
— George Harrison, for his crotchety rant against U2, the Spice
Girls, and other post-Fab sprouts
Best Live Album, Funeral Division
— The complete recording of Princess Di's memorial became
available for those looking to use excerpts of Earl Spencer's
scathing eulogy on their answering machines.
Hello/Goodbye Award
— Oasis
Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion Award for Double CD Most in Need
of Editing
— Wu-Tang Clan, Wu-Tang Forever
Worst Album Title
— Foo Fighters' The Colour and the Shape — final proof that
grunge is dead
Tempting-Fate Award, Flop-Albums Division
— Album of the Year, Faith No More; The Beauty Process: Triple
Platinum, L7
Truth-in-Packaging Award
— Return of the One-Hit Wonder, Young MC
Garth Brooks Commemorative Fake-Humility Award
— John Mellencamp for titling his greatest-hits set The Best
That I Could Do
Titles So Good We Didn't Need to Hear the Song
— ''Gangstas Need Love,'' Master P; ''Satan Rejected My Soul,''
Morrissey
Most Promising Newcomers
— Jonathan Fire*Eater; Belle and Sebastian; Beth Orton; Alana
Davis
Our Worst Nightmare for the New Year
— ''Puffy, the Magic Dragon,'' Puff Daddy, featuring a sample
from Peter, Paul and Mary
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