From: Michael Howes <mhowes-NOSPAM@best.com>
To: Doug Orleans <dougo@ccs.neu.edu>
Subject: Re: POLL: your favorite records of 1998
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 22:22:45 -0800

>Send me <dougo@ccs.neu.edu> a list of up to 20 of your favorite
>records released in 1998 in any format, length, or medium.
>Compilations and live albums are allowed; reissues and bootlegs are
>not.  Polls will close on Feb 1st.

 Strange coincidence, I just finished my top 25 list for another thing. 
wow...and wammo here it is, after some removals of live shows. 

· COLL Dreams Are Free (With Purchase) CD (Dark Beloved Cloud)
· Soilent Green - Sewn Mouth Secrets CD (Relapse) 
· Spazz/Lack of Interest - Double Wammy split EP CD (Deep Six) 
· Agathocles - Humarrogance CD (Morbid Records) 
· The Ex - Starters Alternators CD (Touch and Go)
· Techno Animal - Versus Reality CD (City Slang)
· Spazz/Opstand 7" (Coalition)
· Romantic Gorilla - s/t CD (Sound Pollution)
· Skinny Puppy - Remix Dys Temper CD (Nettwerk)
· No Less - Boxed In 7" (Slap A Ham)
· Sleep - Jerusalem CD (????)
· Phobia - Means of Exisence CD (Slap A Ham)
· Stickky - Spamthology Volume 1 CD (Sound Pollution)
· Illusion of Safety - Bad Karma CD (Soleilmoon Recordings)
· COLL Bllleeeaauuurrggghhhh - A Music War! 7" (Slap A Ham)
· COLL RRR 500 12" (RRR)
· Metabass ‘n’ Breath - Seek CD (BOMB Basic)
· Les Sculpteurs De Vinyl - Memory & Money CD (Stupeur & Trompette!)
· Eugene Chadbourne - Insect Attracter CD (Leo)
· Sandaya - Spellbinding Piano of Burma CD (Shanachie)

thanks
mike
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