[Dead-Air]

1. Smack My Crack (in part for the title but the line up is incredible too: Butthole Surfers, Einsturzende Neubauten, William S. Burroughs, Diamanda Galas before she thought she was a soul singer and was actually great, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Swans, and more!)

2. Deep Six (Green River, Melvins as a fast punk rock band, Malfunkshun, U-men, Skin Yard, and pre-bloat Sound Garden!)

3. Sub Pop 100 (Sonic Youth doing "Kill Yr. Idols", U-men, Steve Albini, Steve Fisk, Savage Republic, Wipers, Naked Raygun, Shonen Knife, and more!)

4. Kill Rock Stars (Melvins, Unwound, Nirvana, Steve Fisk, Bikini Kill, Kicking Giant, Witchy Poo, Jad Fair, Nation of Ulysses, Some Velvet Sidewalk, and other stuff too!)

5. Wiretapper #9 (2 cd edition with Wire, Liars, Themselves, Suicide, A Small Good Thing, Pulseprogramming, Amon Tobin, Supersilent, Mum, Vadim, Leafcutter John, Sun, and a whole fuck of a lot more great stuff too!)

6. Jungle Exotica (Crypt Records comp. of crossover garage rock/exotica tracks from 32 acts you never heard of who all fucking rule!)

7. The Elephant Table Album (Chris & Cosey, Coil, Nurse With Wound, Lustmord, SPK, Nocturnal Emissions, Legendary Pink Dots, and lots of other killer proto-gothic industrial psyced out weird shit!)

8. CRI The Composer-Performer, Forty Years of Discovery 1954-1994 (Harry Partch, Henry Cowell, Otto Luening, Alice Shields, Tan Dun, Guy Klucevsek, and many other geniuses!)

9. Sub Pop 200 (you know...)

10. Pebbles Vol. 1 (beats Nuggets by a landslide in my book, favorite tracks include Kim Fowley's "The Trip" and The Wild Knights incredible "Beaver Patrol"!)

11. All Tomorrow's Parties 1.0 (The Sea and Cake, Prefuse 73, Yo La Tengo, Tortois, Mike Ladd, Boards of Canada, Atmosphere, Autechre, and everyone else is great too!)

12. The Tyranny of the Beat (Mute comp that oddly has many tracks with little or no beat and some where that is what it's about, but anyway SPK, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Die Krpps, Einsturzende Neubauten, Non, Can, Wire, Swell Maps, Dome, The Halfler Trio, Loop, Fad Gadget, and other killer stuff)

13. Throne of Drones (pretty much what it says, all great, but standouts from Maryanne Amacher, Biosphere, and Jeff Greinke)

14. Sidereal Rest (a Scratch Records comp based upon sleepiness with Noggin, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, U.S. Saucer, Sun City Girls, Loren Mazzacane, Bugskull, Roughage, Pork Queen, Caroliner, Kathleen Yearwood, and much more!)

15. Shimmy Disc - The 20th Anniversary of the Summer of Love 1967-1987 (Half Japanese, Fred Frith, Shockabilly, Bongwater, Missing Foundation, King Missle, Krackhouse, Tuli Kupferberg, Allen Ginseberg with Steve Taylor, and tons of other awesome shit!)