From: Brent Burton <bburton AT CapAccess.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 12:36:25 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Doug Orleans wrote:

> Thanks for the list.  I'll be tabulating them fairly soonish.  Let me
> know if you have any changes or corrections or whatever.

actually i do have two corrections if it doesn't screw you up too badly 
in your calculating.  thanks.
 
Top 20 1997 - In Alphabetical Order

AERIAL M (Drag City)
AUTECHRE "Chiastic Slide" (Warp)
DEREK BAILEY "Music and Dance" (Revenant)
THE CHAMPS "Home Taping is Recording Music" (Frenetic)
CROM-TECH 7inch (Ixor Stix) & CD (Gravity)
JOHN FAHEY "Womblife" (Table of the Elements)
GREAT UNRAVELING (Kill Rock Stars)
DAVID GRUBBS "Banana Cabbage..." (Table of the Elements)
MONORCHID "Let Them Eat" (Simple Machines / Dischord)
JIM O'ROURKE "Bad Timing" (Drag City)
POLVO "Shapes" (Touch & Go)
RYE COALITION "H ee Saw Dhuh Kaet" (Gern Blandsten)
SEA AND CAKE "The Fawn" (Thrill Jockey)
SONORA PINE "II" (Quarterstick)
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN "Kontakte" (Ecstatic Peace)
STORM & STRESS (Touch & Go)
TO ROCOCO ROT "Veiculo" (City Slang)
TRANS AM "Surrender to the Night" (Thrill Jockey)
MIKA VAINIO "Onko" (Touch)
IANNIS XENAKIS "Electronic Music" (EMF)