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From: Doug Orleans <dougo@ccs.neu.edu>
To: dougo@ccs.neu.edu
Subject: my faves of 1998
Date: Sun,  4 Apr 1999 05:20:06 -0400 (EDT)

My top 20, in roughly descending order:

    Come, _Gently Down the Stream_ CD (Matador)
    Swervedriver, _99th Dream_ CD (Zero Hour)
    Nebula, _Let It Burn_ CD (Tee Pee)
    Add N To X, _On The Wires Of Our Nerves_ CD (Mute)
    Various Artists, _Marvelous Sound Forms: Twisted Village Archives Volume One (1990-1995)_ CD (Twisted Village)
    Major Stars, _The Rock Revival_ CD (Twisted Village)
    Sleep, _Jerusalem_ CD (Music Cartel)
    Windy & Carl, _Depths_ CD (Kranky)
    Vocokesh, _Paradise Revisited_ CD (Drag City)
    Various Artists, _The Dawn of a New Era: A CD given free with Ptolemaic Terrascope 25_ CD (POT CD)
    Golden, _Golden_ CD (Trans Solar)
    Don Caballero, _What Burns Never Returns_ CD (Touch & Go)
    Unwound, _Challenge for a Civilized Society_ CD (Kill Rock Stars)
    Aislers Set, the, _Terrible Things Happen_ CD (Slumberland)
    Tuscadero, _My Way Or The Highway_ CD (Elektra)
    Monster Magnet, _Powertrip_ CD (A&M)
    Subarachnoid Space, _Endless Renovation_ CD (Release)
    DJ Icey, _Generate_ CD (FFRR/London)
    Jesus & Mary Chain, _Munki_ CD (Sub Pop)
    Juneau, _Juneau_ CD (Ba Da Bing!)

These are all tied for 21st:

    Beastie Boys, _Hello Nasty_ CD (Grand Royal)
    Bomb 20, _Field Manual_ (DHR)
    Chemical Brothers, _Brothers Gonna Work It Out_ CD (Astralwerks)
    David Grubbs, _The Thicket_ CD (Drag City)
    Elliott Smith, _XO_ CD (Dreamworks)
    Fun-Da-Mental, _Erotic Terrorism_ CD (Beggar's Banquet)
    godheadSilo, _Share The Fantasy_ CD (Sub Pop)
    Goldie, _SaturnzReturn_ 2xCD (FFRR)
    Helios Creed, _Activated Condition_ CD (Man's Ruin)
    Hi-Fives, the, _Get Down_ CD (Lookout!)
    Hum, _Downward is Heavenward_ CD (RCA)
    Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, _Walking into Clarksdale_ CD (Atlantic)
    Lenny Kravitz, _5_ CD (Virgin)
    Lhasa Cement Plant, _I Am Providence_ CD (Flydaddy)
    Makers, the, _Psycopathia Sexualis_ CD (Estrus)
    Neutrino, _Improved Hearing Through Amplification_ CD (Reptilian)
    P.E.E., _The Roaring Mechanism_ CD (Absolutely Kosher)
    Primordial Undermind, _You and Me and the Continuum_ CD (Camera Obscura)
    Remington Standard, _Why Less Desire To Be Neat?_ CD (Music Fellowship)
    Roy Montgomery, _And Now The Rain Sounds Like Life Is Falling Down Through It_ CD (Drunken Fish)
    Shellac, _Terraform_ CD (Touch & Go)
    Sonic Youth, _A Thousand Leaves_ CD (DGC)
    Sonic Youth, _Silver Session for Jason Knuth_ CD (SKR)
    Sonic Youth, _Sunday (import single)_ CDsingle (Geffen)
    Sonic Youth/Jim O'Rourke, _SYR 3_ CDep (SYR)
    Spatula, _Despina By Land_ CD (Squealer)
    ST-37, _Spaceage_ CD (Black Widow)
    Stone Breath, _A Silver Thread To Weave The Seasons_ CD (Camera Obscura)
    Swervedriver, _Wrong Treats_ CDsingle (SWD)
    Tadpoles, _Smoke Ghost_ CD (Bakery)
    Turkish Delight, _Howcha Magowcha_ CD (Archenemy)
    Turkish Delight, _Live_ CDep (Archenemy)
    Uzeda, _Different Section Wires_ CD (Touch & Go)
    Various Artists, _Serotonin Ronin_ (Camera Obscura)

Also recommended:

    A Minor Forest, _Inindependence_ CD (Thrill Jockey)
    Brother JT/Vibolux, _Dosed and Confused_ CD (Bedlam)
    DJ Z-Trip & Radar, _Live at the Future Primitive Sound Session (volume two)_ CD (none)
    Earth Crisis, _Breed the Killers_ CD (Roadrunner)
    Girls Against Boys, _Freak*On*Ica_ CD (DGC)
    Girls Against Boys, _Park Avenue_ CDep (DGC)
    Lockgroove, _Rewired_ CDep (Krave)
    Mogwai, _Kicking a Dead Pig + Mogwai Fear Satan remixes_ 2xCD (Jetset)
    No Neck Blues Band, _Lettersfromtheserth_ CD (none)
    Paul Newman, _Only Love Can Break Your Heart_ CD (Trance Syndicate)
    Picks & Lighters, _Picks & Lighters_ CD (none)
    Prefab Messiahs, the, _Devolver_ CD (none)
    Primus, _Rhinoplasty_ CD (Interscope)
    Rocket From the Crypt, _Cheetah + 2_ CDsingle (Interscope)
    Rocket From The Crypt, _RFTC_ CD (Interscope)
    Sepultura, _Against_ CD (Roadrunner)
    Sheila Divine, the, _The Sheila Divine_ CD (none)
    Spaceboy, _Getting Warm on the Trail of Heat_ CD (Frenetic)
    Tadpoles, _Destroy Terrastock - Live_ CD (Bakery)
    The Jesus Lizard, _The Jesus Lizard_ CD (Jetset)
    Tugboat Annie, _Separation Songs_ CDep (Big Top)
    Various Artists, _Nothing Changes_ CD (Nothing)
    Various Artists, _Small Soldiers_ CD (Dreamworks)
    Various Artists, _Terrastock '97 (POT CD 2)_ CD (POT CD)
    Various Artists, _Up the Dosage!_ CD (Wonderdrug)
    Windy & Carl/Amp, _Near and Far / Reminiscense 1 and 2_ CDsingle (Blue Flea)
    Wrens, the, _Abbott 1135_ CD (Ten23)

Can't really recommend these, but maybe they'll grow on me:

    Bassholes, _Long Way Blues/1996-1998_ CD (Matador)
    Pulp, _This Is Hardcore_ CD (Island)
    Deicide, _When Satan Lives_ CD (Roadrunner)

I did buy some vinyl stuff this year, but I'm too damned lazy to go
and sort them out!  Except one thing that stands out in my memory:

    _Providence 27.4.97_ 10"ep (Ohrwurm)

a.k.a. the "drone summit" at Terrastock 1 with the guitarists from
FSA, Bardo Pond, Azusa Plane, and Windy & Carl.  mmm

Stuff I never got around to hearing but wanted to (donations welcomed):

    Air, _Moon Safari_
    Bedhead, _Transaction de Novo_
    Bright, _Blue Christian_
    Fatboy Slim, _You've Come A Long Way Baby_
    Gastr del Sol, _Camofleur_
    Godspeed You Black Emporer, _f#a#oo_
    Hurl, _We Are Quiet In This Room_
    ICU, _Choco Matte a Moment_
    Jessamine, _Don't Stay Too Long_
    Jesus Lizard, the, _Blue_
    Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, _Acme_
    Landed, _everything Happens_
    Low, _owL_
    Mark Hollis, _Mark Hollis_
    Mudhoney, _Tomorrow Hit Today_
    Poster Children, _Copyright_
    Propellerheads, _Decksanddrumsandrockandroll_
    Queens of the Stone Age, _s/t_
    Royal Trux, _Accelerator_
    Sir Richard Bishop, _Salvador Kali_
    Swell, _For All the Beautiful People_
    Tortoise, _TNT_
    Tower Recordings, _Furniture Music For Evening Shuttles_
    Trans Am, _The Surveillance_
    Trumans Water, _Fragments of a Lucky Break_
    Twinkeyz, _Aliens In Our Midst_
    Various Artists, _Nuggets_ box set
    Versus, _Two Cents Plus Tax_

--Doug