From: Tim Bugbee <TBugbee AT genetics.com>
Subject: Chug Poll '96
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 09:32:50 -0500

just under the deadline!

doug - hope this comes out ok, format-wise.  i really should have dug through the bins
 AT  home a little more thoroughly, since this list has some titles that, although i liked,
clearly aren't totally strong records (thinking fellers, jessamine, tortoise, bedhead,
others) - not too many things really floored me this year, but there were some nice
surprises, esp the sebadoh cd, which i resisted buying for so long until i came across a
promo copy someone dumped.  i can't figure out why the able tasmans could never
find an audience; i'd much rather listen to them than tall dwarfs or the bats.  

some disappointments include the loren mazzacane table of elements cd, the peter
jefferies cd, paying $27 for the last swervedriver cd to find that they lost most of what
made them good, not landing a copy of the surface of the earth 2lp, having the ad
read like john fahey was headlining and then him playing for only ~40 minutes,
watching the charalambides self-destruct onstage, and moving out of the city only to
find that no bars/restaurants carry tremont ale out where i live...

i didn't bother dragging out any singles, i guess, because there were so few memorable
ones.  maybe it's also because i am tiring of tracking down singles, playing them once
and then stuffing them in a box.

enough of my prattle:

Top twenty:

-	GBV 			under the bushes, under the stars 	matador
-	gastr del sol		upgrade and afterlife			drag city
-	dust/omit			deformed					corpus hermeticum
-	hood				silent *88					Slumberland
-	charalambides		historic 6th ward			wholly other
-	jessamine			the long arm of coincidence		kranky
-	able tasmans		store in a cool place			flying nun
-	sun city girls	330,003 crossdressers from across the rig veda	abduction
-	cul de sac			china gate					Thirsty ear
-	loren mazzacane/alan licht	2 nights *or* live in NYC	roadcone/NWOS
-	tar				Over and out				Touch and go
-	john coltrane		stellar regions				Impulse!
-	white winged moth	i can see inside your house		poon village
-	tortoise			1000000s now living will never die	thrill jockey
-	silkworm			firewater					Matador
-	bedhead			beheaded					Trance syndicate
-	various artistes		harmony of the spheres		drunken fish
-	sebadoh			harmacy					Sub pop
-	irving klaw trio		suarez (?)					Silly bird
-	thinking fellers 		i hope it lands				Communion