Top Ten #30

fig. a: Only Angels...

1. Only Angels Have Wings, dir. Hawks

2. Toronto the Good

fig. b: A16

3. Nate Appleman and Shelly Lindgren, A16 + Meatball Mondays

4. A Young Summer Party, Cornwallville, NY

fig. c: Sonic Youth

5. Sonic Youth, The Eternal (Matador)

6. The Whalesbone Oyster House, Ottawa

fig. d: Alice Coltrane

7. Alice Coltrane, Journey in Satchidananda (Impulse)

8. Happy Go Lucky, dir. Leigh

fig. e: Abner Jay

9. Abner Jay, True Story of Abner Jay (Mississippi Records)

10. the new Laloux, Montreal

Top Ten #26

fig. a: Son of PM

1. V/A, Shadow Music of Thailand (Sublime Frequencies)

2. Jeffrey Hamelman, Bread: A Baker's Book of Techniques and Recipes (Wiley)

3. tomato chutney & hamburgers

fig. b: product placement

4. Big Star's "September Girls" + Upper Saranac Lake, NY

5. doubling up on Mister Spicee's doubles

6. Freaks & Geeks + Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen"

7. Badlands, dir. Terrence Malick

fig. c: Casse-Croute 45

8. Rte 132, entre Beaumont et Rivière du Loup

9. Joseph Mitchell, Up in the Old Hotel

fig. d: ORdK

10. Orchestre Régional de Kayes, The Best of the First Biennale of Arts and Culture for the Young (1970) (Mali Music/Mississippi Records)

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