From: Joy Fisher <71511.16 AT CompuServe.COM>
Subject: poll:: top 20 records 
Date: 22 Dec 96 16:43:17 EST

hi all - - thanks to doug for doing a top 10 again,

favorite  records - - mixed between 7"s and full lengths
(in no particular order. only numbered so that i can keep count)

(1) holiday "ready, steady, go" (march records)

(2) sportsguitar "married, 3 kids" (our own rec - - out of switzerland!)

(3) henry's dress "bust 'em green" (slumberland)

(4) boyracer "in full colour" (zero hour)

(5) run on "start packing" (matador)

(6) olivia tremor control "dusk at cubist castle" (flydaddy)

(7) his name is alive "stars on esp" (4ad)

(8) neutral milk hotel "on avery island" (merge)

(9) bedhead "beheadd" (trance syndicate)

(10) various artists "pop american style" (march records)

(11) beck "odelay" (dgc)

(12) silkworm "firewater" (matador)

(13) 764-hero "salt sinks & sugar floats" (up)

(14) mary lou lord "matrian saints" 7" (kill rock stars)

(15) diskothi-q "heartland feeling" 7" (xmas records)

(16) sportsguitar/apples in stereo split 7" (100 guitar mania)

(17) henry's dress/rocketship split tour 7" (no label -- self-released)

(18) poundsign "almondy many" 7" (fantastic records)

extremely honorable mentions that don't fit top record rules::

dolly mixture "demonstration tapes" LP - - i found this record this year and
don't know when it was reissued. but this record was and is the best pop record
i have ever heard!!!!

ultra-lounge series on captiol records - - hats off to capitol. this series
kicks the butt of any lounge record series i've heard. great cocktail party
music.

galaxie 500 box set - - my record collection couldn't have done without the
today record out of this box set. period!

favorite live bands of the year ::

damon and naomi, run on, rocketship, henry's dress, holiday, sportsguitar,
neutral milk hotel  and uke fink

well that's my little contribution to the top 20 poll!!  
amalea