From: tubesox AT sirius.com (windy)
Subject: Re: POLL: send me a list of your 20 favorite records of the year
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 10:47:41 -0800

   Neutral Milk Hotel 'On Avery Island' (Merge)
           Aphex Twin 'Girl/Boy' (Warp)
Olivia Tremor Control 'Music from the Unrealized Script...' (Flydaddy)
     2 Lone Swordsmen 'The Fifth Mission (Return to the Flightpath Estate)'
                       (Emissions Audio Output)
          Zorn/Masada 'Bar Kokhba' (Tzadik)
   Scud Mountain Boys 'Massachusetts' (Sub Pop)
           Dr Octagon  s/t (Bulk)
       Mountain Goats 'Nothing for Juice' (Ajax)
               Burzum 'Filosofem' (Relapse)
                  LSR 'Excommunicate the Cult of the Band'
                        (Vinyl Communications)
        Trace/Ed Rush 'Mad Different Methods' 12"
             Tortoise 'Djed' 12" (John McEntire/UNKLE remixes) (Thrill Jockey)
              Zumpano 'Goin Through Changes' (Sub Pop)
                  Rex 'C' (Southern)
            Stereolab 'Emperor Tomato Ketchup' (Elektra)
           James Bong 'C'est Tres Bong' (2Kool)
            This Heat 'Peel Sessions'
                  V/A 'Harder Than The Rest' (Digital Hardcore Recordings)
            Cat Power 'What Would the Community Think' (Matador)
		 FUCK "Baby Loves a Funny Bunny"  (Walt Rhesus Lamplighter)

but the best is saved for last: alas it's not a valid entry on account of
its format, yet the most lovely and stunning music heard this year is on a
fifth-or-sixth gen dub of mixed songs from late 60's early 70's Brazilian
band Os Mutantes. if someone doesn't issue them in this country then i'm
going to have to do it.