From: "R. Lim" <rlim-NOSPAM@escape.com>
To: dougo@ccs.neu.edu
Subject: drum roll... (oops)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:38:06 -0500 (EST)

In alphabetic order (to avoid those painful ranking decisions):

1.  Agitation Free- Live at the Cliffs of River Rhine CD (Garden of
Delights)
2.  Beach Boys- Endless Harmony CD (Capitol)
3.  Peter Brotzman- The Chicago Octet/Tentet 3CD (Okka)
4.  Neil Campbell- These Premises Are No Longer Bugged LP (Giardia)
5.  Edgardo Canto- Promenade d'Ete d'Utils NASA (Nepless)
6.  Cat Power- Moon Pix CD (Matador)
7.  Don't Dolby- s/t CD (Gefriem)
8.  Arnold Dreyblatt- The Sound of One String CD (Table of the Elements)
9.  Fennesz- Plays 7" (Mego)
10. Brion Gysin- Pool K III CD (Alga Marghen)
11. Brother JT- Dosed and Confused CD (Bedlam)
12. K. Salvatore- Four Impossible Puns 2LP (Siwai)
13. Joe Maneri- Paniots Nine CD (Avant)
14. Hermann Nitsch- Musik der 66 Aktion 2CD (Alga Marghen)
15. Osso Exotico- Church Organ Works CD (Sonoris)
16. Oval- Dok CD (Thrill Jockey)
17. Supersilent- 1-3 3CD (Rune Grammafon)
18. Tonalamotl- s/t LP (Bobby J)
19. V-3- Pimping in the 90s LP (Iron Press) (rest in peace, Jim...)
20. Various Artists- Attention: Cats (Reckankreuzungs Klankewerkzeuge)

Notable Reissues:
Apocalypsis- s/t LP (Lazarus Audio Products)
Art Ensemble of Chicago- Go Home, Bap-Tizum, Fanfare for the Warriors CDs
(latter two on Atlantic)
Gal Costa- s/t CD (Philips Japan)
Miles Davis Quintet- 1965-68 6CD (Columbia)
Kim Fowley- Outlaw Superman CD (Bacchus Archives)
Four Freshmen- Voices In Love/Love Lost CD (Collector's Choice Music)
Fushitsusha- Double Live aka PSF 3/4 2CD (PSF)
Gilberto Gil- Cerebro Eletronico CD (Philips Japan)
Jimmy Giuffre- Free Fall CD (Columbia)
Gruppo di Improvisazione Nuova Consonanza- Musica Su Schemi CD (EMI Italy)
The entire Impulse! New Thing reissue series (Impulse!)
Jacks- Karappo No Sekai CD (Columbia Japan)
Bill Keith- Something Auld, Something Newgrass, Something Borrowed,
Something Bluegrass CD (Rounder)
Kinks reissue series
Limbus 4- Mandalas CD (Spalax)
Hermann Nitsch- Island 4CD (Cortical)

(no, my list didn't get truncated)

Special award for most terribly botched issue of timeless material (aka
collectors will complain about anything)- John Coltrane "Classic
Quartet"- The Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings 8CD (Impulse!)

Special award for most odious "reissue" of 1998- Marble Sheep and the
Run-Down Sun's Children s/t LP ("fan club" pressing)