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Irish Picks - Scottish Picks - Picks of the Week
We've had fun finding the sites that make Yahoo! UK & Ireland one of the best places to find UK or Irish sites, so we thought we'd share a few with you. If you have any suggestions, please send us a note about them. Also send any general thoughts or comments about Picks of the Week or even suggest sites you'd like us to consider for the next issue. Click here if you only want to view the list of sites.
Christmas is over for another year. The turkey carcass is festering in the bin outside, your waistline has gone out three inches, and you've been back to M&S six times to return presents which, you discover, didn't cost as much as you'd hoped. You're tired, jaded, depressed and irritated by the back-to-back Bond films on the TV.
And on top of everything you've got to make the key decision of the year: how to avoid having to sing Auld Lang Syne on New Year's Eve because, like everyone else, you only know the first line. And what does Auld Lang Syne mean anyway?
Fear not. Yahoo! is here to ensure you are not musically challenged as you enter the last year of the milllenium.
You might be an Abba fan, so the Swedish quartet's Happy New Year is an obvious choice. If you can't remember the lyrics, try ABBAnatic. It's a conjugation of ABBA and fanatic, obviously. ABBAnatic includes a diary of the first musical written by ABBA's creative axis, Benny and Bjorn; a listing of ABBA bootlegs; and a section called Girls Without The Guys, which sounds like a Swedish 'art' movie but is actually about the post-ABBA life of Agnetha and Frida.
One band with a surprising passion for ABBA is U2 - they've even been known to play Dancing Queen at their stadium gigs. Ireland's finest have their own celebratory December 31 song, New Year's Day. Websters obviously prefer U2 to ABBA, judging by the number of sites relating to Ireland's finest, including their own web-ring. One of the best U2 sites is U2 Zone, which includes guitar chords and is regularly updated, or, if you need the lyrics to New Year's Day, try The U2 Lyrics Archive.
The band most keenly looking forward to New Year's Eve 12 months from now is Pulp, whose Disco 2000 probably won't be blasting out of speakers this New Year, but give it 12 months and it will be ubiquitous, assuming the Y2K bug doesn't fry everyone's CD players. Pulp's leading light Jarvis Cocker is of course best known for showing his rear end to Michael Jackson at the Brit Awards, but to see him in comic-book form try the Common People site, where Tank Girl creator Jamie Hewlett illustrates the words to Pulp's biggest hit. Pulp's official website was one of the best when it launched, but sadly it hasn't been updated since October, so try the web ring instead.
But, when New Year's Eve comes around this time, there's really only one song to play. This is the year when Prince's 1999 finally comes into its own.
The Small Ex-Slave's bank manager must be salivating at the prospect of all those royalties flooding in, although there is a significant body of people who won't be playing the song; there is a small but vociferous group of anti-Prince websites, including the subtly-named Screw the Artist. But The Artist Formerly Known as Prince does have a lot of fans, some of whom have interesting ways of displaying his current nomenclature; as well as TAFKAP, there is O(+>. Don't ask us why.