From: Bret McCabe <soundchk-NOSPAM@themet.net>
To: dougo@ccs.neu.edu
Subject: Chug poll 1998
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:32:39 -0500

Doug:

Let me know if you get this okay. I had some problems with my chug email
account, so I'm sending this from work. - bret

Top 20 listens from 1998, in alphabetical order:

1. Boredoms, _Super ae_ CD (Birdman)
2. Bruce Russell, _Project for a Revolution in New York_ LP (Siltbreeze)
3. David S. Ware, _Go See the World_ CD (Columbia)
4. DJ Cam, _The Beat Assasinated_ CD (Globe Trotter)
5. DJ Spooky, _Riddim Warfare_ CD (Outpost/Asphodel)
6. Godspeed You Black Emperor!, _F#a#Infinity_ LP (Kranky)
7. Loren MazzaCane Connors, _A Possible Dawn_ CD (Hat Noir)
8. Matthew Shipp, _The Multiplication Table_ CD (Hat Art)
9. San Agustin, self-titled, LP (Road Cone)
10. Silver Jews, _American Waters_ CD (Drag City)
11. Sir Richard Bishop, _Salvador Kali_ CD (Revenant)
12. Sonic Youth, _Silver Sessions for Jason Knuth_ CD (SKR) & _A Thousand
Leaves_ CD (Geffen)
13. Southering, _Template Made or Found_ CD (Drunken Fish)
14. Stereo Total, _Juke Box Alarm_ CD (Bungalow)
15. Tall Dwarfs, Fifty Flavors of Glue_ CD (Flying Nun)
16. The Ex, _Starters Alternators_ CD (Touch and Go)
17. Trio Hurricane, _Live at Fire in the Valley_ CD (Eremite)
18. Union of a Man and a Woman, _Sound of an Union of a Man and a Woman_ LP
(Jagjaguwar)
19. Various artiists, _Fit For Kings: A New Zealand compilation_ CD
(Drunken Fish)
20. Wessell Anderson, _Live at the Village Vanguard_ CD (Leaning House)

Other worthwhile brain feeds/bleeds:The Paris 1942 reissue, Gary Oldman's
_Nil By Mouth_, Hal Hartley's _Henry Fool_, Richard Powers' _Gain_, Haruki
Murakami's _Wind-Up Bird Chronicles_, Patrick McCabe's _Breakfast on
Pluto_, and John Coltrane re-issues.

Bret McCabe
bret_mccabe-NOSPAM@hotmail.com