20 EDITOR’S MESSAGE OVER THE EDGE NEWSPAPER. NOVEMBER &, 2006 SEssentials P —SCFURTONSO Rank = Artist Title Label mm Pre-Sello ey! olilt 1 DJ Shadow — The Outsider ‘Universal/ Mowtown War- What Is [¢ Good For? in? ‘The folloving éssentist-albame all Big Old Eyes Cathedral & Cathedral Independent come from bands that have made it big: © 3: Harvee Sink Or Swim: Independent There's nO argument-- war is a terrible major label contracts, huge tours, loads 4 Classified Hitch Hikin’ Music Urbnet thing and should be avoided as much as of merch, even an action figure or two, 5 Robert Pollard Normal Happiness Merge gage Sle Elomepyetsghies doegtinicttsnge But before they were big; they were just 6: The Denembankt Thec Wif Capitol ._ the fact that ae. the above rama some punk, hardcore or indie rock band 9 = 2 ecemberists e Crane Wire pito tion with the words “absolutely nothing” at the dive bar. Relive the glory days 7 Anime ee The Solar Music Aardskarf isa complete falsehood. Here are the top when Green Day and AFI were still al- 8» Rock Plaza Central Are We Not Horses Independent — ten things that war is good for. lowed at 924 Gilman with the following B.A. Johnston ‘Call Me When Old And Fat Is ~ ‘-*F Opies aia lsanlig? albums: ih The New Young And Sexy Just Friends —~ A state of total war has historically suc- 17 he Cli indlinc ded i ing a demand f ds 1. AFI - Shut Your Mouth & Open 0 TheCliks Snakehouse anes Ze. cechslogy nl tw aeccifdeg jae. ; ; : irl 4 BY Jo Your Eyes yi The Awkward Stage —_ Heaven Is For Easy Girls Mint Plus, you can always join’ the army. 72. ‘Various CBC Radio 3 Sessions Mint. : eR. : . Lary Tt ; 9. Increasing your international stand- 13 Amy Millan Honey From The Tombs Arts & Crafts ing- Tired of being ignored by all the bigger 14 Brya nSca ry The Shredd ing.Tea rs Blue & Greene countries at the United Nations? Declare war 15 Jeffrey And Jack ZZ nee of — 5 get nr Lewis City And Eastern Songs Rough Trade ha tie aia 16 The Jet Age Breathless Sonic ‘Boomerang ao SRA : 8, Making babies- Ww Someone Still Loves This is more for after the war than during You Boris Yeltsin Broom it, but still-- the baby boom would never have The Slits Revenge Of The Killer Slits happened if it weren't for World War IT. Various The World Is Gone AL surrechontieteal eivallttangs 2.G Day - Kerplunk Lost Cause We will Wait indepe ndent Whether it’s medicine, weaponry, or trans- aes ik Sent Shotgun And Jaybird Trying To Get Somewhere Sappy port, nothing gets government dollars into i TheTh t ‘y Hi toliver ; ind dent science like the belief that their survival de- : e Thurstons 1 Have To Live Forever ndependen ibicoill beta, enti Lipseesealetimeatiohe i _. Fake Cops Thundertheft Reluctant other guys. a ; Senge te. - i - Two Hours Traffic Isolator Independent eee t Lullabye Arkestra Ampgrave Constellation Nou tent pantantee War'for Mike on ter- i 6. NoLuckClub Prosperity Igloo _ Cartel rorism and his war in Iraq, —— W. Bush : NG : gQ¢ will have his name mentioned in history : 27- Wa Birdap — : Get It Done ; - Peanuts & Com books far more often than Bill Clinton ever ; 28 Yoko Casionos _ These Are The New OldTimes Boompa _ will. i 29 ~~ Chad VanGaalen Skelliconnection _ Flemish Eye/Sub Pop oe My. q = : ee : . Bey eae ey ena : -D. ig people politically active- 30 The Ghost Is Dancing The Ghost Is Dancing Sonic Unyon Geneeally declacian wad ailiceieigle cae 3. Alkaline Trio - Goddamnit REKALINE TRIO 4. My Chemical. Romance - I Brought -CFUR DJ of the Week ‘Name: Corey Wintemute and Brian “Korno” Kornichuk Day job: Corey: haha Show title: Corey Hotline How you started (in radio): thighs on guitar heroes Korno: caffeinated beverage industry Birthplace: Home of the Cougars Corey: Stumbled into the studio and I was on the air Korno: Woke up in the studio one day Show description; a sound fresher than Korno’s newly shaved inner What I'm listening to right now: Corey: Korno playing Ziggy Stardust Korno: The Faces more interest in a politician than introducing a new economic policy, 4. Uniting a generation- Tt has been said that the best way to make people feel as if they have had a common experience is to put them through a war to- gether. Sadly, this is probably true. 3. Getting rid of fascists- They might be replaced by some other dictator, But still, war was pretty effective at ending the careers of Mussolini, Hitler, and Sadaam Hussein, 2. Music. movies, and books- Be it Apocalypse Now or American Idiot, somehow seeing the worst in. people brings — out the best in artists. ° Top five sources of inspiration (rhusic, movies, people, books, etc): Corey:Rod Stewart, Cola, Kazakhstan, George Asay, my 3 soul mates (Jean, Korno, Brad) Korno:Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Borat, The Pose You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love 1. Making us realize how damn 5. Death Cab For Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes 5.Cool Things 1. Borat With comedian Sacha Baron Cohen appearing everywhere from talk shows to film festivals to the White House lawn without once breaking character, he's become the talk of the media cir- cuit. 2. Snow Come on, Vancouverites! This is what you came north for--maybe this year welll actually have a truly white Christ- mas. JENNIFER HAWKE (Geroy Simon), Montreal Canadiens When you're on: Wednesdays at 3, rebroadcast Monday at 7am 3. ‘The US Democrats ~ It looks like the leadership of the party is going to turn into a race between Hil- ary Clinton and Barack Obama. Mean- ing that we might finally see either the first female of the first African-Amer- ican president in history, 4, www.beedogs.com * Dogs in bee costumes. And that's it. lucky we really are. Let's not take it for granted. 5. My Chemical Romance Renaming themselves “The Black Pa- rade,’ these New Jersey rockers are fol- lowing in the footsteps of Green Day by using a concept album inspired by the Beatles, the Who, and Queen to make one of the best-reviewed albums of the year.