review of The Best of..., the liberal Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny stated that "coming from Mysłowice, the band entered the new, wonderful world of show business with a small-town complex". In an interview with the Montreal Mirror (see above), Guitarist Przemek Myszor called Mysłowice "depressing" [...] like all small towns are. In Poland there are few big towns. And by big town I mean where there is culture. You know, towns that have big clubs. We still live in Mysłowice, but this is a city to die in, not to live. Our region of Poland, in the south, is very industrial, coal mining, hard industry" . For statements like these, Myslovitz were sometimes chided for fouling their own nest; paradoxically, however, they even helped to sanitize the city's image. Says the music journalist Leszek Gnoiński (author of the "standard work" Encyklopedia Polskiego Rocka): "Mysłowice is a city of some 100,000 people. Until the early 90s, it was known, at best, for its coalmines - until these five guys with guitars turned the mining town into a place that could be located on any map of Poland." Myslovitz's impact was one factor which stimulated the development of a local music scene. By now, with bands such as Negatyw and Supermusic, a lively Alternative rock and hip hop culture is flourishing in Mysłowice. Far away from Warsaw as the centre of the commercial Polish entertainment industry, it even benefits from its image as being peripheral, obscure, and non-commercial - not totally unlike the British Madchester phenomenon in the 1980s and early 1990s. Awards Apart from numerous accolades awarded by Polish music magazines and radio stations, Myslovitz received the weekly Polityka's prestigious Paszport in the category "Pop/Rock/Entertainment" in 1999; in 2000 the Polish Playboy declared Długość Dzwięku Samotności and Myslovitz "Song of The Year" and "Band of The Year" respectively, whereas the Polish issue of Elle declared them the "most stylish stars in music". Myslovitz were frequently nominated for Fryderyks (the Polish equivalent of the BRIT Award or the Grammy) in various categories. In total, they received seven Fryderyk awards - in 1998 for "Music Video of The Year" (for To nie był film/"It wasn't a movie" - see above), in 1999 for "Band of The Year" and "Rock Album of The Year" (for Długość Dzwięku Samotności/"Length of the sound of solitude"), in 2000 for "Song of The Year" (for Chłopcy/"(Town) Boys") and