GERARD COSLOY

1. Slayer, live at Roseland, October '98
2. Quasi - featuring "Birds" (Up)
3. Rushmore (Anderson, Wilson, a movie)
4. Turk Wendell
5. The Notwist - Shrink (Community)
6. "I Got The Hook-Up" (Master P., the new Orson Welles)
7. Jackie-O Motherfucker - Flat Fixed (Imp)
8. The bin w/out a name (V/VM, Michael Fakesch, Funkstorung etc.)
9. Fridge - Twelves & Sevens (Output)
10. Matador Alumni Club (Spoon, Silkworm, Barbara Manning and Sue Garner albums from '98)

    best album of '99 prediction: Cha Cha Cohen -s/t (Chemikal Underground), aka the Jaqui Delaney Blues Explosion.

1. gillian anderson
2. gary busey
3. the first time the monkey from "dr. doolittle" was on
4. the "let's get ready to rumble" guy
5. the second time the monkey from "dr. doolittle" was on

RUSS WATERHOUSE

1. Move out the ghetto
2. Caroliner Rainbow Audience-member Bareback Pony Ride
3. Detroit/Lansing: Universal Indians table-top wheeze and tape flutter. Hospitality, refried beans, allergies, and broken effects. Alas, I never imagined "Death Valley '69" could sound so tired, but the kids seemed happy anyway
4. Friends new and friends old. Old friends new again. Old Homestead friends
5. Charleston light shows
6. DIY haircut
7. Show: The Locust, Crom-Tech, Army of Ghosts/Corpse, Other Dimensions, Deerhoof, Neil Campbell & Sticky Foster
8. Walkman: Six Organs of Admittance, Dramatics, Flatline Construct, Ron of Japan, Hold Onto ID, Tea Culture, The Pillage, Soundtracks to Imaginary Videogames

1. red wings win second stanley cup in a row.
2. elliot smith
3. macguire vs. sosa home run race...made me realize how much of a loser i really am
4. the smile i got from this kid in a stroller i saw on 7th st.
5. i'm still here

1. Coming back to New York
2. Nothing in the news about Quebec succession (or anything French, actually)
3. Reaching the age where all the bands I like are now in the cutout bins
4. The yin/yang synthesis of the two best movies of the year: Happiness and Life Is Beautiful
5. The yin/yang synthesis of the two best albums of the year: Neutral Milk Hotel and Cat Power

LYLE HYSEN

1. Mr. Show
2. Cheap Trick 3 Nights @ Irving!
3. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
4. Anyway Festival
5. Scrawl @ Under Acme

KRIS GILLESPIE

1. Anything by Bob Hund (Silence Sweden)
2. Chris Cacavas - Anonymous (Normal Germany)
3. Black Box Recorder - England Made Me (Chrysalis UK)
4. Kurtis Mantronik - I Sing The Body Electro (Oxygen)
5. Quasi - Featuring 'Birds' (Up)
6. 2 Lone Swordsman - A Bag of Blue Sparks (Warp UK)
7. Nothing Painted Blue - The Monte Carlo Method (Scat)
8. Silver Jews - American Water (Drag City)
9. Notwist - Shrink (Zero Hour)
10. Squarepusher - Big Loada (Nothing/Warp)

1. we've heard the records and seen the pictures, so we're pretty sure we can take them.
2. it's obvious that somebody needs to do it, and we're the kind of people who believe in community service.
3. we wanted to kick the shit out of the smiths in the '80's; but we'll settle for kicking the shit out of belle and sebstian in the '90's.
4. this will be the easiest way for us to get on the cover of nme.
5. the idea of millions of belle and sebastian fans weeping openly for their fallen idols is even more beautiful than when we convinced uncle tupelo to break up.

   fuck (kyle), photo by by Gail Butenski

1. Bruce Bennett, "Tallahassee Lassie." to commemorate the Knicks' playoff victory over the Miami Heat. Princeton Unviersity, 3/29
2. David Thomas, "Pushin' Too Hard." 2 favorite moments: David's Ace Tone solo--both of his shoes placed on the keyboard--and his reaction when he realized that James and I had ceased singing our background "too hard"s--"What happened to my chick singers?" Edinburgh, 8/23
3. Joe Puleo, "I Got You Babe." No description could suffice. Hoboken, 9/17
4. Hamish Kilgour, "Whatever I Do Is . . ." Part of our ongoing project to play every song from The Clean Compilation with a member of the Clean. Hoboken, 9/17.
5. David Fair, "I Walk Through Walls." Probably the highlight of my whole year. D.C., 11/14
6. Homer Simpson, "Simpsons' Theme." Probably the highlight of James's whole year. 11/15

DAVE ATWEREBOANDA
Top 5 Things Written on the Wall by the Elevator

1. fuck Giuliani
   
2. Nick loves (heart sign) sexy girls
   
3. the Vanguards rule New Jersey's music scene
   
4. Nick is player
   
5. Nick loves (heart sign) what's underneath the girls skirt

1. Infamous skateboards
   
2. Mos Def and Talib Kweli are...Blackstar
   
3. flavor-saver (goatees)
   
4. the copy machine at Matador
   
5. Stuart Murdoch's silver sparkle pants at Belle and Sebastian's Supper Club show

1. High Rise at the Mercury Lounge. Anyone with a pulse should have been blown to shit by the heavy jams.
2. seeing former Matador Intern Ryan Tozzi drink himself into a blacked-out stupor, walk into a deli on Avenue A, proceeding to trash the place, then getting to the counter to pay for his stuff and not being able to tell the difference between the bills in his wallet. ha ha ha.
3. Brother JT and Vibrolux - Dosed and Confused cd; and live opening for old-timers Mudhoney, who were pummeled into submission by JT and his new band of drug-peddlers.
4. Ghost(two piece w/ Batoh and Kurihara) live and stoned at the Knitting Factory. Kurihara's Cippo-guitar has never sounded as tranced. I was really drunk though, so......
5. v/a - "Marvelous Sound Forms" (Twisted Village)
6. Blues Creation - "s/t" (lp boot)
7. v/a - "World of Acid" lp(especially "Moustache In Your Face" by Pretty.) (Parallel World)
8. psychedelic Chad from Chattanooga visiting for a meeting of the third mind during CMJ week... I have pictures to prove it, too....
9. finally buying the Bent Wind lp...divebomb guitar extravaganza....do YOU have a Sacred Cow?
10. Samuel Smith's Winter Welcome/Newcastle Brown Ale
11. Alan Pavlica
12. Pretending what it would be like to be Ron Asheton. everyday.

JESPER EKLOW

1. recent usage of phrases like "yo!", "what it is," "chillin'," "on the down-low," "aiight", "dope," "illadelphia" etc. etc. amongst the office staff
2. bad news: people no longer get fired for playing The Beatles or David Bowie in the office
3. Björn Olsson - Instrumentalmusik
4. the hot sauce at Sucelt Coffee Shop, NYC
5. reason Dave Atwereboanda's top five is wrong: "Jon Spencer is a Wigger - Dat Shit Aint Blues"

MARK OHE

1. 1999

1. Wicked Lady lps (and ensuing music wars in the office)
2. Notwist "Shrink" CD (Zero Hour)
3. High Rise shows
4. Charlie Feathers "Get With It: Essential Recordings (1954-69)" DBL CD (Revenant)
5. Medusa Cyclone "Mr Devil" CD (Third Gear)
   Honorable mention:
   Styrenes "We care, so you don't have to " lp (Scat)

CHE' RYBACK

1. moon pix
2. adult situations on a manhattan rooftop at night in a thunder/lightning storm, with a little rain thrown in the mix.
3. micheleen (yeah, i'm whipped)
4. jack and coke (for the first 8 months)
5. pool at the ace bar
6. dewars chilled (for the last three months)
7. beer, of course
8. a belt buckle i got from my friend jenn
9. didn't get arrested
10. still not a father (i think)

MIKE JANSON, Lynnfield Pioneers
Top Five Smoking Fetish Homepages

1. Smoke Screen
2. Nostril Exhales
3. Smoke and Glamour
4. Sweet Smell of Smoke
5. Smoke Clouds

NILS BERNSTEIN

1. "Saints Around My Neck"
2. ebay
3. Bola--Soup (Skam)
4. soup
5. blind cc

RICK BROWN, Run On
Top Five Thrift Store Purchases of 1998

1. Casio SK-1 sampling keyboard $5
2. Girlscout "Camping '75" t-shirt (x-large) $1.99
3. Lafayette Stereo tube amplifier $10
4. Child Guidance "Talk 'n' Play" 4-track cassette player $3.50
5. Townes Van Zandt LP "Our Mother the Mountain" excellent condition $.50

HELEN McLAUGHLIN, Matador Europe

1. Page and Plant at Reading Festival, August 28th.
2. Cat Power - The White Session (recorded for the Bernard Lenoir Radio Show, Paris, August 31st.)
3. Richard Youngs and Simon Wickham Smith - Chanti Deva (Public Schoolboy Hippy Records 7") / Clinic - Cement Mixer (Aladdins Cave Of Golf Records 7"
4. God Speed You Black Emperor f#k#oo (Kranky LP)
5. Our new office (ie not having to feel Rob's breath on my cheek).
6. Kreutzs (especially the vegetarian option).

NEIL, Belle and Sebastian
Top 5 Numbers

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5

J.P. JONES, Lynnfield Pioneers
Top 5 Record Finds

1. Sun Ra: Night of the Purple Moon
2. Sun Ra: My Brother the Wind vol. 1
3. Leigh Stephens: Red Weather
4. Battered Ornaments: Mantle-Piece
5. Nas: "Freestyle"--white-label promo 12"

MIKE HOLDSWORTH

1. Getting married
2. Californian deserts and hot mineral springs
3. Mogwai live (Upstairs at the Garage, Astoria, Roskilde, Reading)
4. Bob Dylan at Roskilde Festival (lean and mean)
5. Marrakech

DAVE MARTIN

1. Bassholes "When My Blue Moon Turns Red Again" In The Red
2. V/A "Marvelous Sound Forms" Twisted Village
3. '68 Comeback "A Bridge Too Fuckin' Far" Sympathy
4. PhonosycographDISK "Ancient Termites" Bomb Hip Hop
5. Boredoms "Super Are" Birdman
6. Revenant Records, except that Jim O'Rourke record of course.
7. Don Caballero "What Burns Never Returns Touch & Go
8. Thee Speaking Canaries "Life Like Homes" Scat
9. V/A "Shock City Shockers" Shock City
10. Medusa Cyclone "Mr. Devil" Third Gear

PATRICK AMORY

1. Arsonists' reaction to hearing the RZA album played in my office
2. Le Périgord
3. Acquiring a Victrola at last
4. Record stores: Mooncurser, A-1 (NYC), Record Recycler
5. Murray Hill

HOSI SIMON

1. The always entertaining quest for British identity and the Millenium Dome
2. Chancellor Kohl gone
3. Timbaland's production skills
4. Bathing Ape clothing
5. de:bug magazine
6. Dackelblut
7. Stardust/Roule tracks

SOLEX
Best American Support Bands....and Why

1. The Joysticks Battle The Clip-on Expressway To Yr Skull: Their parents.
2. Strangulated Beatoffs: Couch-sitting.
3. Suckpatch: Best kept secret.
4. The Letdowns: Randy Costanza.
5. Wesley Willis: For not playing.

VERN RUMSEY, Unwound

1. Chokebore - Live and the Black Black LP
2. Elliot Smith - XO
3. Unwound's European Tour
4. Yind
5. Tomb Raider III

JANET WEISS
Top five singers I'm not in a band with

1. Doug Martsch
2. Gilly Hanner
3. Stephen Malkmus
4. Elliott Smith
5. Ray Davies

JUSTIN TROSPER, Unwound

1. deerhoof live
2. beach boys smile bootleg
3. the comeback of ben gazarra
4. The Sonics(the band, definitely not the stupid NBA lockout aargh)
5. Mens Recovery Project(various releases and happenings/annoyances).

From Nozone

CARRIE McLAREN

1. Spin - Video documentary with illegal '92 satellite footage wherein George Bush, Clinton, Larry King, Pat Robertson and others talk, fix themselves, and mouth the words, all presumably offscreen. (The same guy who did this gave footage to a similar but lesser doc., Feed.)
2. Nozone #8, "work issue" - great little New York mag. Funny, sharp lookin', punk rock.
3. The Manipulators -juvenile, dada-esque "wee" zine.
4. Best of Todd Morman VHS - America's #1 public access show... and I haven't even seen it yet!
5. Medium Cool (1969) - Verité, superb
6. The Wall Street Journal - again