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 OVERALL TOP 100
# ARTIST CD TITLE LABEL
1 Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos Atlantic
2 Austin Lounge Lizards Employee Of The Month Sugar Hill
3 Tom Waits Beautiful Maladies Island
4 Angelique Kidjo Oremi Island
5 Rachid Taha Diwan Island
6 Mollie O'Brien Big Red Sun Sugar Hill
7 Bill Frisell Gone, Just Like A Train Nonesuch
8 Don Byron Nu Blaxploitation Blue Note
9 Various Artists Orbitones, Spoon Harps... Ellipsis Arts
10 Karnak Karnak Tinder
11 Aretha Franklin Delta Meets Aretha's Blues Rhino/Atlantic
12 Sixteen Horsepower Low Estate A&M
13 Billy Tipton Mem.Sax Saxhouse Knitting Factory
14 Various: Tribute Serge Gainsebourg: Great Jewish Tzadik
15 Los Amigos Invisibles New Sounds O/Venezuelan Gozaderos Luaka Bop
16 Sally Nyolo Multiculti Tinder
17 Moondog Sax Pax For A Sax Atlantic
18 Maya Angelou Black Pearls Rhino Word Beat
19 Fly-Rite Boys Big Sandy Presents Hightone
20 Rahsaan Roland Kirk Dog Years In The Fourth Ring 32 Jazz
21 Various Artists Beg, Scream & Shout! Rhino
22 Jerry Douglas Restless On The Farm Sugar Hill
23 Varttina Vihma Wicklow
24 Hot Club Of Cowtown Swingin' Stampede Hightone
25 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy CD EMI/Capitol
26 Maryam Mursal The Journey Realworld
27 Laurie Lewis Seeing Things Rounder
28 Sam Bush Howlin' At The Moon Sugar Hill
29 Greg Brown Slant 6 Mind Red House
30 Beth Quist Shall We Dance? Elizabeth Quist
31 Critter's Buggin' Bumpa Loose Groove
32 Francoiz Breut Francoiz Breut Lithium
33 Olu Dara In The World Atlantic
34 Yeska Skafrocubanjazz Aztlan
35 Finley Quaye Maverick A Strike 550 Music
36 Various Artists Songs That Made T/Phones Light Up 32 Jazz
37 Shonen Knife Happy Hour Big Deal
38 Various Artists Cairo To Casablanca Putumayo
39 Ani Difranco Little Plastic Castles Righteous Babe
40 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Star Rise Real World
41 Curlew Fabulous Drop Cuneiform
42 Various Artists TV Terror Cargo Music
43 Brave Combo Polka Party Easy Disc
44 Tricky Angels With Dirty Faces Island
45 Charles Mingus Passions Of A Man: Box Set Rhino/Atlantic
46 Otis Taylor When Negros Walked The Earth Shoelace
47 Fatal Mambo Fatal Mambo Tinder
48 King Sunny Ade Odu Mesa/Blue Moon
49 Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Mercury
50 Ernest Ranglin In Search Of The Lost Riddim Palm Pictures
51 Medeski, Martin, Wood Combustication Blue Note
52 Soundtrack The Big Lebowski Mercury
53 Deep Forest III: Comparsa 550 Music
54 Kazutoki Umezu Desert In A Hand Knitting Factory
55 Kerosene Teenage Secret Caipirinha
56 Celeste Krenz Wishin' Emr
57 Gillian Welch Hell Among The Yearlings Almo Sounds
58 Steve Shehan/Bali Othmani Assarouf Triloka
59 Najma Pukar Mondo Melodia
60 Sonic Youth A Thousand Leaves Geffen
61 Buffalo Daughter New Rock Grand Royal
62 Pere Ubu Pennsylvania Tim/Kerr
63 Billy Bragg & Wilco Mermaid Avenue Elektra
64 Lynn Patrick Winnie's Guitar Self Produced
65 Pizzicato 5 Happy End Of The World Matador
66 Aqua Velvets Guitar Noir Riptide
67 Alloy Orchestra Silents Accurate
68 Various Artists Land Of The Rising Ska Moon Ska
69 The El Caminos Reverb Explosion! Del Fi
70 Jessie Mae Hemphill She-Wolf Hightone
71 Macka B Suspicious Ariwa/Ras
72 Mad Professor Under The Spell Of Dub Ras
73 Propellorheads Decksanddrumsandrockandroll Dreamworks
74 Cesaria Evora Miss Perfumado Nonesuch
75 Daau We Need New Animals Sony Classical
76 DJ Shadow Preemptive Strike Mo Wax/Ffrr
77 M Ball/I Thomas/T Nelson Sing It! Rounder
78 Ted Hawkins The Final Tour Evidence
79 Dr. Science Get Smart! Ducks Breath
80 Don Walser Down At The Sky-Vu Drive-In Watermelon
81 Robbie Robertson From T/Underworld Of Redboy Capitol
82 Hillbilly Hellcats Our Brand Rockin' Cat
83 World Saxaphone Quartet Selim Sivad Justin Time
84 Various Artists Legends Of The Ukelele Rhino
85 Chalf Hassan Songs & Dances From Morocco Arc Music
86 Various Artists Ruckus Juice & Chitlins Yazoo
87 Richard Thompson Small Town Romance Hannibal
88 Munly De Har He Munly De Har He Top Notch
89 Mitchell Froom Dopamine Atlantic
90 Grace Jones Private Life... Island Records
91 Ted Hawkins The T. H. Story: Suffer No More Rhino
92 Yusef Lateef 9 Bagatelles Yal
93 Various Artists Trance Planet Volume 4 Worldly Triloka
94 Transglobal Underground Rejoice Rejoice Nation
95 Rahsaan Roland Kirk A Standing Eight 32 Jazz
96 Delbert Mcclinton One Of The Fortunate Few Rising Tide
97 Ralph Stanley Clinch Mountain Country Rebel Records
98 Various Artists Deep Polka Smithsonian Folkways
99 Todos Tus Muertos Sebversiones Universal
100 R.L. Burnside Come On In Fat Possum
101 Apocalyptica Inquisition Symphony Mercury
 World Music                 back to top
1 Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos Atlantic
2 Angelique Kidjo Oremi Island
3 Rachid Taha Diwan Island
4 Sally Nyolo Multiculti Tinder
5 Varttina Vihma Wicklow
6 Maryam Mursal The Journey Realworld
7 Various Artists Cairo To Casablanca Putumayo
8 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Star Rise Real World
9 Fatal Mambo 1997 Tinder
10 King Sunny Ade Odu Mesa/Blue Moon
11 Ernest Ranglin In Search Of The Lost Riddim Palm Pictures
12 Deep Forest III Comparsa 550 Music
13 Steve Shehan/Baly Othmani Assarouf Triloka
14 Najma Pukar Mondo Melodia
15 Cesaria Evora Miss Perfumado Nonesuch
16 Robbie Robertson From T/Underground Of Redboy Capitol
17 Chalf Hassan Songs & Dances From Morocco Arc Music
18 Various Artists Trance Planet Vol. 4 Worldly Triloka
19 Baaba Maal Nomad Soul Palm Pictures
20 Iva Bittova Iva Bittova Nonesuch
21 Baka Beyond Journey Between Hannibal
22 Various Artists Angels In T/Mirror:Vodou Of Haiti Ellipsis Arts
23 Soundtrack The Tango Lesson Sony Classical
24 Daktaris Soul Explosion Desco
25 Sharon Shannon Each Little Thing Green Linnet
26 Various Artists Afro-Latino Putomayo
27 Papa Wema Molokai Realworld
28 Tom Ze' Fabrication Defect Luaka Bop
29 Thornton & Ramzy Immortal Egypt New World
30 Various Salsa Mundo Candela/Tinder
31 Stella Chiweshe Best Of Shanachie
32 Radio Tarifa Temporal World Circuit
33 Capercaille Beautiful Wasteland Survival
34 Various: !Sabroso! Afro-Latin Groove Rhino
35 Virginia Rodrigues Sol Negro Hannibal
36 El General Move It Up Polygram
37 Yo-Yo Ma Piazzolla: Soul Of The Tango Sony Classical
38 Papi Oviedo Encuentro Entre Soneros Candela/Tinder
39 Martyn Bennett Bothy Culture Rykodisc
40 Henri Dikongue C'est La Vie Tinder
41 Dadaway Voices From The Sky Sire
42 Badi Assad Chameleon I.E. Music
43 Various Artists Invocation Mcm
44 Djivan Gasparyan Black Rock Real World
45 Iarla O Lionaird The Seven Steps To Mercy Real World
46 Ando Drum Gypsy Life On The Road North Pacific
47 Wimme Wimme Northside
48 Fela Anikulapo Kuti Music Is T/Weapon Of T/Future Exworks
49 Africando Baloba! Stern's Africa
50 Kyaw Kyaw Naing Magic Drum Circle Of Burma Shanachie
 Rock                back to top
1 Tom Waits Beautiful Maladies Island
2 Karnak Karnak Tinder
3 Sixteen Horsepower Low Estate A&M
4 Various: Tribute Serge Gainsebourg:Great Jewish Tzadik
5 Los Amigos Invisibles New Sounds O/Venezuelan Gozadera Luaka Bop
6 Francoiz Breut Francoiz Breut Lithium
7 Shonen Knife Happy Hour Big Deal
8 Ani Difranco Little Plastic Castle Righteous Babe
9 Various Artists TV Terror Cargo Music
10 Tricky Angels With Dirty Faces Island
11 Kerosene Teenage Secret Caipirinha
12 Sonic Youth A Thousand Leaves Geffen
13 Buffalo Daughter New Rock Grand Royal
14 Pere Ubu Pennsylvania Tim/Kerr
15 Billy Bragg & Wilco Mermaid Avenue Elektra
16 Pizzicato 5 Happy End Of The World Matador
17 Aqua Velvets Guitar Noir Riptide
18 Various Artists Land Of The Rising Ska Moon Ska
19 The El Caminos Reverb Explosion! Del Fi
20 Propellerheads Decksanddrumsandrockandroll Dreamworks
21 Hillbilly Hellcats Our Brand Rockin' Cat
22 Mitchell Froom Dopamine Atlantic
23 Grace Jones Private Life... Island
24 Lisa Germano Slide 4AD
25 Todos Tus Muertos Subversiones Universal
26 Apocalyptica Inquisition Symphony Mercury
27 Los Fabulosos Cadillacs Fabulosos Calavera BMG
28 (The Fabulous) Wailers Original Golden Crest Masters Ace Records
29 Various Artists Puro Eskanol/Rice & Beans Aztlan
30 Jah Wobble Umbra Sumus 30 Hertz
31 Bill Bruford/Tony Levin Upper Extremities Papa Bear
32 Kolrassa Krokridandi Kold Eru Kvennarad Smekkleysa Sm/Ehf.
33 Reptile Palace Orch. Hwy X Omnium
34 Plastilina Mosh Aquamosh EMI Music Mexico
35 James Kolchalka Monkey Vs. Robot Tarquin
36 Sherri Jackson CD Metropolitan
37 Dr. John Anutha Zone Virgin
38 Portishead Portishead London
39 Nick Cave & Bad Seeds Best Of Reprise
40 Tijuana No! Contra-Revolution Avenue BMG
41 Howie B Turn The Dark Off Island
42 Ny Ska-Jazz Ensemble Get This Moon Ska
43 Lida Husik Faith In Space Alias
44 Soul Coughing Mystery Disc Warner
45 Various Artists Aloha Holland Hits Radio Netherlands
46 Tulku Season Of Souls Worldly Triloka
47 Hamster Theatre Siege On Hamburger City Self Produced
48 Combustible Edison The Impossible World Sub Pop
49 Frank Zappa Mystery Disc Rykodisc
50 Volapuk Slang Cuneiform
 Jazz                back to top
1 Don Byron Nu Blaxploitation Blue Note
2 Bill Frisell Gone, Just Like A Train Nonesuch
3 Billy Tipton Mem.Sax Saxhouse Knitting Factory
4 Moondog Sax Pax For A Sax Atlantic
5 Rahsaan Roland Kirk Dog Years In The Fourth Ring 32 Jazz
6 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy CD EMI/Capitol
7 Critters Buggin' Bumpa Loose Groove
8 Yeska Skafrocubanjazz Aztlan
9 Various Artists Songs That Made T/Phones Light Up 32 Jazz
10 Curlew Fabulous Drop Cuneiform Records
11 Charles Mingus Passions Of A Man: Box Set Rhino/Atlantic
12 Medeski, Martin, Wood Combustication Blue Note
13 Kazutoki Umezu Desert In A Hand Knitting Factory
14 World Saxaphone Quartet Selim Sivad Justin Time
15 Yusef Lateef 9 Bagatelles Yal
16 Rahsaan Roland Kirk A Standing Eight 32 Jazz
17 Wayne Horvitz/Zony Mash Brand Spankin' New Knitting Factory
18 Montefiori Cocktail Raccolta No. 1 Irmamerica
19 Vibes CD Knitting Factory
20 Fred Ho... Yes Means Yes, No Means No Koch
21 Subjazz Proxy Autumn Somewhere Lucid Subjazz
22 Kazutoki Umezu First Deserter Knitting Factory
23 Miles Davis/Bill Laswell Panthalassa Columbia
24 Kansas City Band KC After Dark Polygram Jazz
25 Sun Ra & His Arkestra Cosmo Sun Connection RER
26 Various Artists Red, Hot & Rhapsody Antilles
27 Various Artists Crime Jazz: Music In T/2nd Degree Rhino
28 Jack Rummel Brun's Boys Diagonal Recordings
29 Myra Melford/H. Bennink Eleven Ghosts Hat Hut
30 Groove Collective Dance Of The Drunken Master Shanachie
31 Billy Bang Bang On! Justin Time
32 Ethnic Heritage Ensemble The Continuum Delmark
33 Sex Mob Din Of Inequity Knitting Factory
34 Ahmad Jamal Nature Atlantic Records
35 Ethnic Heritage Ensemble 21st Century Union March Delmark
36 Charlie Hunter Return Of The Candyman Blue Note
37 Ray Charles/Betty Carter Dedicated To You Rhino
38 Little Jack Melody World Of Fireworks Little Jack Melody
39 Tuatara Trading With The Enemy Epic
40 Eva Cassidy Songbird Blix Street
41 Arcana Arc Of The Testimony Axiom
42 Hanuman Hanuman Omnivine
43 John Scofield A Go Go Verve
44 Yusef Lateef The Man With T/Big Frontyard 32 Jazz
45 Eddie Harris Greater Than The Sum Of... 32 Jazz
46 Bernard Purdie Soul To Jazz II Act Publishing
47 Clarence Gatemouth Brown Gate Swings Verve
48 Various Artists Kickin' Some Brass Shanachie
49 Bluiett Baritone Sax Live At The Knitting Factory Knitting Factory
50 Frank French Tango Brasiliero Viridiana Productions
50 String Trio Of New York Faze Phour: 20 Year Retrospective Black Saint
 Folk                 back to top
1 Austin Lounge Lizards Employee Of The Month Sugar Hill
2 Mollie O'brien Big Red Sun Sugar Hill
3 Laurie Lewis Seeing Things Rounder
4 Greg Brown Slant 6 Mind Red House
5 Brave Combo Polka Party Easy Disc
6 Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road Mercury
7 Celeste Krenz Wishin' Emr
8 Gillian Welch Hell Among The Yearlings Almo Sounds
9 Lynn Patrick Winnie's Guitar Self Produced
10 Richard Thompson Small Town Romance Hannibal
11 Munly De Har He Munly De Har He Top Notch
12 Various Deep Polka Smithsonian Folkways
13 Dakota Blonde 'til They Fade Self Produced
14 Dave Alvin Blackjack Dave Hightone
15 Pat Donohue Backroads Bluesky
16 Japonize Elephants La Fete Du Cloune-Pirate Secretly Canadian
17 V.A.:Pete Seeger Tribute Where Have All The Flowers Gone? Appleseed
18 Norman Blake Chattanooga Sugar Babe Shanachie
19 Mary Stribling Combo Amazo Mondo Blondo
20 Libby Kirkpatrick Songs From The Ether Self Produced
21 Various Artists Prison Worksongs Arhoolie
22 Aiko Shimada Window Bera
23 Ben Winship One Shoe Left Snake River
24 Bela Fleck Left Of Cool Warner Brothers
25 Four Bitchin' Babes Gabby Road Shanachie
26 Robin & Linda Williams Devil Of A Dream Sugar Hill
27 Dan Bern Fifty Eggs Work Music
28 Loudon Wainwright III Little Ship Virgin
29 Activos Hasta Los Huesos Tinder
30 V.A.: Harry Smith, Ed. Anth. Of American Folk Music Smithsonian Folkways
31 Dan Hicks Return To Hicksville Hip-O
32 Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Waltzing With You Angel
33 Cordelia's Dad Spine Appleseed
34 V.A.:Kate Wolf Tribute Treasures Left Behind Red House
35 Emmylou Harris Spyboy EMInent
36 Klezmatics The Well Xenophile
37 Vance Gilbert Shakin' Off Gravity Philo
38 Woody Guthrie Hard Travelin'-Asch Recordings Smithsonain/Folkways
39 Jerry Garcia/D.Grisman So What Accoustic Disc
40 Cry Cry Cry Cry Cry Cry Razor & Tie
41 Janis Ian Hunger Windham Hill
42 Various Artists Native American Currents Silver Wave
43 Mark O'connor Midnight On The Water Sony Classical
44 Flood Plain Gang Blind Ride Self Produced
45 Coteau Highly Seasoned Cajun Music Rounder
46 Dana Lyons Cowpie Nation Cowpilation Reigning Records
47 Ted Hawkins Love You Most Of All Evidence
48 Dar Williams What Do You Hear In These... Razor & Tie
49 Dave Lippman I Hate Walmart Urgent
50 Orville Johnson Blueprint For The Blues Self Produced
51 Ruth Mackenzie Kalevala Omnium
52 June Tabor Aleyn Green Linnet
 Techno, Space                 back to top
1 Beth Quist Shall We Dance? Quist
2 Transglobal Underground Rejoice Rejoice Nation
3 Various Artists Untouchable Outcaste Beat Tommy Boy
4 Various Artists Deutshcer Funk Caipirinha
5 Fat Boy Slim Better Living Through ChEMIstry Astralwerks
6 The Fire This Time Still Dancing On John Wayne's Head Extreme
7 Various Artists RER Quarterly RER
8 Al Gromer Khan Tantra Drums New Earth
9 Negativland Happy Heroes Seeland
10 Micky Hart Planet Drum Supralinga Rykodisc
11 Cold Cut Let Us Play Ninja Tune
12 Various Artists Sacriledge: Can Remixes Mute
13 Various Arstist Event Horizon City Of Tribes
14 Cevin Key Music For Cats Metropolis
15 DJ Spooky Synthetic Fury EP Asphodel
16 Various Artists Trip To The Andes Ark 21
17 The Residents Our Tired,Poor Huddled Masses Rykodisc
18 Pilgrimage Nine Songs Of Ecstacy Point Music
19 Roni Size Reprazent New Forms
20 Jesse Manno Rainforest Jesse Manno
21 Glenn Velez Rhythm Of The Chakras Sounds True
22 Lisa Gerrard/P Bourke Duality 4AD
23 Talvin Singh OK Island
24 Juno Reactor Bible Of Dreams Wax Trax
25 Various Artists In Flux: Drum & Bass Irmamerica
26 Fetisch Park Alluvial Extreme
27 Elliott Sharp:Tectonics Field And Stream Knitting Factory
28 Si Begg Commuter World Caipirinha
29 DJ Tres Manos How To Chill Self Produced
30 Paul Winter Canyon Lullabye Earth Music
31 Ed Pias Ancestor's Halo Extreme
32 Dylan Group It's All About Bubble Core
33 Savage Aural Hotbed Pressure Of Silence Ultra Modern
34 O Rang Fields And Waves Hit It!
35 Various Artists Untitled (Ten) Extreme
36 Freaky Chakra Blacklight Fantasy Astralwerks
37 Witchman Heavy Traffic Deviant
38 Flying Saucer Attack New Lands Drag City
39 Various Drop Acid & Listen To This Knitting Factory
40 Dogon Sirius Expedition New Dog
41 The Residents Residue Deux East Side Digital
42 Lunar Drive Here At Black Mesa, Arizona Nation
43 Crawling With Tarts I Am Telephoning A Star Self Produced
44 Bang On A Can Music For Airports Point Music
45 Steve Roach/Roger King Dust To Dust Projekt
46 Various Future Perfect Ultra Modern
47 Robert Rich Seven Veils Hearts Of Space
48 The Orb U.F.Off Island
49 DJ Skunk New Day Rising Self Produced
50 Jhno Khno Delicate Ear
 Blues, R&B, Gospel                back to top
1 Aretha Franklin Delta Meet Detroit Rhino/Atlantic
2 Various Beg, Scream & Shout Rhino
3 Olu Dara In The World Atlantic
4 Otis Taylor When Negros Walked The Earth Shoelace
5 Jessie Mae Hemphill She-Wolf Hmg/Hightone
6 Marcia Ball/Irma Thomas/Tracy Nelson Sing It! Rounder
7 Ted Hawkins The Final Tour Evidence
8 Various Ruckus Juice & Chitlins Yazoo
9 Ted Hawkins The T.H. Story: Suffer No More Rhino
10 R L Burnside Come On In Fat Possum
11 Various Artists Night Train Rounder
12 Campbell Brothers Pass Me Not Arhoolie
13 Henry Butler Blues After Sunset Black Top
14 Alvin Youngblood Hart Territory Hannibal
15 Josh White Free And Equal Blues Smithsonian Folkways
16 David Booker Take Out Your False Teeth, Mama Big Nut
17 Big Sandy Dedicated To You Hightone
18 Paul Butterfield Anthology: The Elektra Years Elektra
19 Lead Belly Shout On! Smithsonian Folkways
20 Various Blues Masters V 17, 18 Rhino
21 Keb Mo Slow Down Okeh
22 John Lee Hooker The Best Of Friends Point Blank
23 The Four Blazes Mary Jo Delmark
24 Satan And Adam Living On The River Flying Fish
25 Taj Mahal Sacred Island Private Music
26 George Clinton/P-Funk Dope Dogs Dogone
27 Various American Folk Blues Festival Evidence
28 Coco Robicheaux Louisiana Medicine Man Orleans
29 Last Chance Jug Band Shake That Thing! Inside Sounds
30 Johnny Adams Man Of My Word Rounder
31 Catfish Keith Twist It, Babe! Fish Tail
32 Johnnie Lewis Alabama Slide Guitar Arhoolie
33 Saffire Live & Uppity Alligator
34 Mance Lipscomb Captain, Captain! Arhoolie
35 Roy Rogers Pleasure And Pain Pointblank
36 Rory Block Confessions Of A Blues Singer Rounder
37 Various 15 Down Home Gospel Favorites Arhoolie
38 John Hammond Long As I Have You Virgin
39 Lionel Young Band As The Sun Goes Down Self Produced
40 Duke Robillard Stretchin' Out Live Stony Plain
41 Roy Bookbinder Polk City Ramble Rounder
42 Various Artists Ain't No Funk Like N.O. Funk Bullseye
43 Earl Hooker The Moon Is Rising Arhoolie
44 Ben Stevens Reservation Blues Blue Rooster
45 Tab Benoit Live: Swampland Jam Justice
46 Fred Mcdowell The First Recordings Rounder
47 Maria Muldaur Southland Of The Heart Telarc Blues
48 Stefan Grossman Shake That Thing Shanachie
49 Brenda Boykin Home Cookin' Blue Dot
50 Rev.Clay Evans/Aarc He's A Battle Axe Meek
 Honky-Tonk                back to top
1 Fly-Rite Boys Big Sandy Presents Hightone
2 Hot Club Of Cowtown Swingin' Stampede Hightone
3 Don Walser Town At The Sky-Vu Drive-In Watermelon
4 Delbert Mcclinton One Of The Fortunate Few Rising Tide
5 Derailers Reverb Deluxe Watermelon
6 Bad Livers Industry And Thrift Sugar Hill
7 Various Uprooted Shanachie
8 Ray Charles Country & Western 1959-86 Rhino
9 L Masterson/S Blackburn Born To The Saddle Western Serenade
10 Chuck Pyle Keeping Time By The River Bee 'n' Flower Music
11 Buddy Miller Poison Love Hightone
12 Br5-49 Big Backyard Beat Show Arista
13 Libbi Bosworth Outskirts Of You Freedom
14 Redd Volkaert Telewacker Hmg/Hightone
15 Junior Brown Long Walk Back Curb
16 Lyle Lovett Step Inside This House MCA
17 Slim Cessna's Auto Club CD Auto Club
18 Steve Earle Early Tracks Sony
19 Dwight Yoakum A Long Way Home Reprise
20 Hank Thompson Hank Thompson & Friends Curb
21 Hillbilly Idol Town & Country HBI
22 Heather Myles Highways & Honky Tonks Rounder
23 Riders In The Sky A Great Big Western Howdy Rounder
24 Steve Earle Corazon Warner
25 Don Edwards My Hero Gene Autry Shanachie
26 Beau Joque Check It Out, Lock It In... Rounder
27 Pine Valley Cosmonauts Salute T/Majesty Of Bob Wills Bloodshot
28 Hank Williams The Complete H.W. Sampler Mercury
29 Tom Russel The Long Way Around Hightone
30 Belmont Playboys Hot Rod Heart Teen Rebel
31 Robbie Fulks South Mouth Bloodshot
32 Prickly Pear Saddle Up And Ride Rockhouse
33 George Jones It Don't Get Any Better MCA
34 Neko Case The Virginian Bloodshot
35 Two Dollar Pistols On Down The Drack Scrimshaw
36 Ray Campi Quartet Train Rhythm Blue Mouthpiece
37 Jim Lauderdale Whisper BMG
38 Waylon Jennings Closing In On The Fire Ark 21
39 Brian Marshall Texas Polish Roots Arhoolie
40 Durwood Haddock The Texas Honky Tonk Blues Eagle
 Bluegrass                back to top
1 Jerry Douglas Restless On The Farm Sugar Hill
2 Sam Bush Howlin' At The Moon Sugar Hill
3 Ralph Stanley Clinch Mountain Country Rebel
4 Richard Greene Sales Tax Toddle Rebel
5 Freight Hoppers Waiting On The Gravy Train Rounder
6 Old & In The Way Breakdown Accoustic Disc
7 Alan Munde & Joe Carr Welcome To West Texas Flying Fish
8 Dave Evans Look At Me Now Neon
9 Blue Highway Midnight Storm Rebel
10 Snuffy Jenkins Pioneer Of Bluegrass Banjo Arhoolie
11 Doc & Merle Watson Home Sweet Home Sugar Hill
12 Ricky Skaggs Bluegrass Rules! Rounder
13 Claire Lynch Friends For A Lifetime Rounder
14 David Grier Hootenany Dreadnaught
15 Southern Rail Wasting My Time Pinecastle
16 Nashville Bluegrass Band American Beauty Sugar Hill
17 Mccoury/Watson/Wiseman Mac, Doc, & Del Sugar Hill
18 Hazel Dickens/Jones/Hawker Heart Of A Singer Rounder
19 Reno Brothers Three Part Harmony Pinecastle
20 Bobby Hicks Fiddle Patch Rounder
21 New Coon Creek Girls Our Point Of View Pinecastle
22 Lonesome River Band Finding The Way Sugar Hill
23 Valerie Smith Patchwork Heart Rebel
24 David Grier Panorama Rounder
25 Sammy Shelor Leading Roll Sugar Hill
26 Bluegrass '98 CD Pinecastle
27 Breakaway Watershed Signature Sounds
28 Magraw Gap CD Self Produced
29 Johnson Mountain Boys Working Close Rounder
30 Art Stevenson/High Water Dusty Boxcar Wall Wolf Tracks
31 Laurel Canyon Ramblers Back On The Street Again Sugar Hill
32 Butch Baldassari New Classics For B.G. Mandolin Soundart
33 Country Gentlemen Early Rebel Recordings 1962-71 Rebel
34 Vince Farsetta Ever More Self Produced
35 Crucial Smith CD Micah Records
36 Tina Adair Just You Wait And See Sugar Hill
37 IIIrd Time Out Live At The Mac Rounder
38 Eddie & Martha Adcock Spirited Pinecastle
39 Tumbleweed Weed Garden Tumbleweed
40 Jones & Leva Journey Home Rounder
 Reggae                back to top
1 Finley Quaye Maverick A Strike 550 Music
2 Macka B Suspicious Ariwa
3 Mad Professor Under The Spell Of Dub Ras
4 Ernest Ranglin Memories Of Barber Mack Island
5 Various Viva La Rasta Aztlan
6 Various Reggae Around The World Putumayo
7 Yabby You Jesus Dread Blood & Fire
8 Bob Marley & Wailers Complete Marley 1967-72, Parts 1&2 Jad
9 Skatalites Ball Of Fire Island Jamaica
10 Jazz Jamaica Double Barrel Hannibal
11 Skatalites & Friends At Randy's Vp Records
12 Alpha Blondy Yitzak Rabin Tuff Gong
13 Various Dubmission 2: The Remixes Quango
14 Various Dubwise & Otherwise Blood & Fire
15 Various Ska After Ska After Ska Heartbeat
16 Impact All-Stars Forward The Bass Dub Blood & Fire
17 Dr. Ring-Ding Ram Di Dance Moon Ska
18 Maytals Never Grow Old Heartbeatg
19 Linton Kwesi Johnson Independant Intavenshun Island
20 Bob Marley Dreams Of Freedom Island
21 Horace Andy Mr. Bassie Heartbeat
22 Culture Production Something Heartbeat
23 Mad Professor Dubtronic Ariwa
24 Dean Fraser Big Up! Island
25 Various Reggae On The Rocks Live 1997 What Are ?
26 Various Ska's The Limit:1959-64 Island Ska Island
27 Coyabalites Unhinged Shanachie
28 Various Fly American Eagle Shanachie
29 Abyssinians Declaration Of Dub Heartbeat
30 Various Marley Magic Tuff Gong
31 Sugar Minott Herbman Hustling Heartbeat
32 Victor Essiet/Mandators Crucial Mystic Music
33 Sly & Robbie Friends East West Records
34 Various Natty & Nice: Reggae Christmas Rhino
35 Steel Pulse Rage And Fury Mesa/Blue Moon
36 Various Blazing Hits National Musik
37 Les Exodus Kilimanjaro Umoja
38 Lee Scratch Perry Dub Fire Ariwa
39 Various Culture Vibes Scratchie
40 Junior Byles & Friends 129 Beat Street Blood & Fire
 Hiphop                back to top
1 DJ Shadow Preemptive Strike Mo Wax/Ffrr
2 Public Enemy He Got Game Def Jam
3 Control Machete Mucho Barato... Polygram
4 Other Side (Don't Look Back) Behind Desco
5 DJ Spooky Riddim Warfare Outpost Recordings
6 X-Ecutioners X-Pressions Asphodel
7 DJ Krush Milight Mowaxx
8 Sylk 130 When The Funk Hits The Fan Ovum
9 Moloko Fun For Me Warner Brothers
10 George Clinton/P-Funk Live...And Kickin' Intersound
11 Jestofunk The Remixes Irmamerica
12 George Clinton/P-Funk Dope Dogs Dogone
13 Various Artists Best Of Sugar Hill Rhino
14 Prince Paul Psychoanalysis (What Is It?) Tommy Boy
15 Dr. Octagon Instrumentalyst Dreamworks
16 Armand Van Helden Enter The Meatmarket Ruffhouse
17 Cypress Hill IV Ruffhouse
18 Various Artists Fat Beats And Brastraps Rhino
19 Black Eyed Peas Behind The Front Interscope
20 Nino Nardini Rodonde Musicque Desco
21 Last Poets Time Has Come Mercury
22 Pimp Daddy Nash Private Left Field World Domination
23 DJ Andy Smith The Document Phase 4
24 Various Artists Tommy Boy Greatest Beats Tommy Boy
25 Lewis Parker Masquerades & Silhouettes Astralwerks
26 Brooklyn Funk Essentials In The Buzz Bag Shanachie
27 Various Artists Spike's Choice Desco
28 X-Men Musica Negra/Wordplay EP Asphodel
29 Sylk 130 Last Night A DJ Saved My Life Ruffhouse
30 Wycleff Jean We Trying To Stay Alive Sony
 Classical                back to top
1 John Adams Gnarly Buttons Nonesuch
2 Lotte Lenya Kurt Weill: The 7 Deadly Sins Sony
3 Mary Schneider Yodeling The Classics Innerworks
4 Mike Vargas Whispering The Turmoil Mike Vargas
5 Minnesota Contemp.Ensemble 180 Degrees From Ordinary Innova
6 Fred Frith The Previous Evening RER
7 Eve Beglarian Overstepping 00 Discos
8 Stephen Rush Murders In The Rue Morgue MMC Recordings
9 Kronos Quartet Early Music Nonesuch
10 David Lang Are You Experienced? CRI
11 Susan Johns Phase Mask Nada Music
12 Philip Glass Symphony #2 Nonesuch
13 Soweto String Quartet Zebra Crossing BMG
14 Tan Dun Marco Polo Sony Classical
15 Steve Reich Music For 18 Musicians (1976) Nonesuch
16 Erno Kiraly Phoenix RER
17 Mary Jane Leach Ariadne's Lament New World Music
18 Arvo Part Kanon Pokajanen ECM
19 Aaron Copland He Got Game Sony Classical
20 Yo-Yo Ma The Cello Suites Sony Classical
21 Heinrich Schweizer East-West Symphony Swiss Radio Int'l
22 David Tanenbaum CD New Albion
23 Camille Saint-Saens Carnival Of The Animals BMG Classics
24 Colorado Chamber Players Uplifting Discoveries Centaur
25 Leonard Bernstein What Is Jazz? Sony Classical
26 J. Krasnick/G. Kalish In The Shadow Of World War I Arabesque
27 Orlando Jacinto Garcia Celestial Voices 00 Discs
28 Saegusa Shigeaki Chushingura Opera Sony Classical
29 Amy Beach Under The Stars Arabesque
30 Louis Andriessen Silver New Albion
 Spoken Word                back to top
1 Maya Angelou Black Pearls Rhino Word Beat
2 Bob Holman In With The Out Crowd Mouth Almighty
3 V.A. Read Poe Closed On Account Of Rabies Mercury
4 Jack Collum/Ken Bernstein Calluses Of Poetry Self Produced
5 Lou Malandra Trio Out Of The Silence Alm
6 Various Rainbow Tales Rounder Kids
7 Judi Bari Who Bombed Judi Bari? Alternative Tentacle
8 Various:Tribute Kerouac Kicks Joy Darkness Rykodisc
9 James Keman Seven Stories Ak Press
10 Shelley Hirsh States Tellus
11 Noam Chomsky Capital Rules Ak Press
12 Jack Brewer & Bazooka Elysian Intervals New Alliance
13 Dana Bryant Wishing From The Top Warner
14 Josh Troy Frogstorm Self Produced
15 Material Seven Souls Triloka
16 Henry Rollins Everything Thirsty Ear
17 Mumia Abu-Jamal Spoken Word Alternative Tentacle
18 Danny Weizmann Hollywoodland New Alliance
19 Henry Rollins Think Tank (Edits) Dreamworks
20 Various Rainbow Tales Too Rounder Kids
 Humor                back to top
1 Dr. Science Get Smart! Duck's Breath...
2 Reverend Billy C Wirtz Unchained Maladies Hightone
3 Capitol Steps Unzippin' My Doo-Dah Capitol Steps
4 Coyle & Sharp On The Loose 2.13.61
5 Ian Sholes I Gotta Go 2.13.61
6 Paul Ogata Mental Oriental Tropical Jam
7 Firesign Theatre Give Me Immortality Or Give Me Death Rhino
8 Kate Clinton Comedy You Can Dance To Self Produced
9 Andy Breckman... Death-Defying Radio Stunts Gadfly
10 Trina Jeffrie Sister Cantaloupe: Go Cantaloupe Aleho
 Under The Floorboards Little Fyodor's hot picks                back to top
The most played artists of 1998 on Under The Floorboards (from available evidence) are:

1. Gordon Klock
2. The Implicit Order
2. Hal McGee
2. The Evolution Control Committee
5. Static Insect
6. Adam Bohman
6. Crawling With Tarts
6. Blacklight Braille
9. The Haters
9. 1000 Licks
10. Dan Susnara
10. Moo Laka Moo
10. The Majestic 12
10. Secret Square

Others with multiple plays include:
Smoking Catapillar, Johnny Dowd, Daisies & Sunflowers, Life Garden, Dead Gerbils From Outer Space, Noodle Muffin & The Pig Squints, Winona Righteous, Premature Ejaculation, Jandek, Two Foot Tall Jerk, That People's Sleep, Ken Rubenstein, Mindstrohl, Don Campau, HkO, Dave Fuglewicz, Bruce Atchinson, Dent, The Silly Pillows, Guchlrug, the Mute Ant Compilation and Sal III Fold.

Thanks for whatever you can do with this info! -FYODOR!

 Soundtracks, Movie Music                back to top
1 ST The Big Lebowsky Mercury
2 Alloy Orchestra Silents Accurate
3 Va The Horse Whisperer MCA
4 ST Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas Geffen
5 Va: Music Of Kurt Weill September Songs Sony Classical
6 Va Deep In The Heart Of Texas Shanachie
7 ST Smoke Signals TVT
8 ST Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Rykodisc
9 ST The End Of Violence Outpost
10 ST Pi Thrive
11 Va Trainspotting #2 EMI
12 ST The Revenge Of Mr. Mopoji Desco
13 Nino Rota Musica Da Film Sony
14 Va Next Stop Wonderland Verve
15 Gert Wilden & Orch. Schoolgirl Report Crippled Dick Hot Wax
16 ST In The Heat Of The Night Rykodisc
17 Peter Thomas Futuremuzik Caroline
18 ST Why Do Fools Fall In Love? Rhino
19 Va Jackie Brown Maverick
20 ST Some Like It Hot Rykodisc
21 Va Warner Bros: 75 Years Of Film Warner
22 Club Foot Orchestra Plays Nino Rota Rastascan
23 Kalyanji & Anadji Bombay The Hard Way Motel
24 ST Across 110th Street Rykodisc
25 Va Best Of Nicktoons Kid Rhino
26 ST Six String Samurai Palm Pictures
27 ST Return Of The Magnificent 7 Rykodisc
28 ST Hommage A Noir Zero Hour
29 Doris Day It's Magic: Movie Music Rhino
30 Phillip Glass Kundun Nonesuch
 'Everything Else' Modern, Holiday, Schlock and beyond                 back to top
1 Various Artists Orbitones, Spoon Harps.... Ellipsis Arts
2 Daau We Need New Animals Sony Classical
3 Various Artists Legends Of The Ukelele Rhino
4 Guy Klucevsek Altered Landscape Evva
5 Jin Hi Kim Komunguitar Oodiscs
6 Various Frogs Sounds Of American Frogs Smithsonian/Folkways
7 Accordian Tribe CD Intuition Music
8 Vernon Reid/E Sharp Guitar Oblique Knitting Factory
9 Brent Spiner Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back Infinite Visions
10 Choonz And Warez Disc Two Self Produced
11 Woody Phillips Toolbox Classics Gourd Music
12 Various Babies Happy Baby Sounds Rhino
13 Charles Amirkhanian Walking Tune Starkland
14 Squirrel Nut Zippers Christmas Caravan Mammoth
15 Va: Microtonal Musicians Tuning@Eartha.Mill.Edu Neil Haverstick
16 Mike Patton Adult Themes For Voice Tzadik
17 Don Tiki The Forbidden Sounds Of D.T. Taboo
18 Various Mandolins From Italy Arc
19 Rinde Eckert Story In, Story Out Intuition Music
20 USAF Heritage Of Am. Airwaves USAF