From: "Jeffrey W. Breeze" <jbreeze AT mail.coin.missouri.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 14:58:21 -0600 (CST)

I wrote down a list of all the records that came out in 1997 that I
purchased within the year, so this isn't really in much of an order as
yet, but here goes...

1  David Shea     Satyricon      Sub Rosa
2  Jim O'Rourke   Happy Days     Revenant
3  David Thomas & 2 Pale Boys    Meadville   Cooking Vinyl (5th CD in box)
4  Sonora Pine    II             1/4 Stick
5  Smog           Red Apple FallsDrag City
6  Oblivians      Play 9 Songs   Crypt
7  Moviola        Glen Echo Autoharp  Spirit of Orr
8  Faust          wakes NosferatuKlangbad
9  Jesse Sterling Harrison   Happy 17th   Fear of Sky
10 Muller Voice Crack O'Rourke  Table Chair Hatstand  for4ears
11 Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments  Straight to Video  Anyway
12 John Davis     Blue Mountains  Shrimper
13 Revelators     We Told You Not to Cross Us   Crypt
14 Jim O'Rourke   Bad Timing      Drag City
15 Nick Cave      Boatmen's Call  Reprise
16 Untamed Youth  Planet Mace     Estrus
17 Sleater Kinney Dig Me Out      Kill Rock Stars
18 Dutch Harbor Soundtrack        Atavistic
19 Hurl           Not a Memory    Peas Kor
20 Folk Implosion Dare to be Suprised  Communion

local cassettes:
Northerns "15 Minutes"   acousti-punk primal beauty
Product 19  "Not for Everyone"   post-Killmen frenetic revelry

honorable mention
David Grubbs (Table of the Elements), Edith Frost (Drag City), Cold Cold
Hearts (KRS), Darling Little Jackhammer (hey buddy!), John Fahey (totE)

the only other record I bought this year (reissues and box sets aside)
that fits the '97 category was Pavement.  I've listened to it once.

Maybe I'll add more words later,
jeff

						Jeff Breeze
						jbreeze AT mail.coin.missouri.edu

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