WXYC
Top 79 May 11-17 >> 1997
 1. Irving Klaw Trio -- Utek Pahtoo Mogoi (ROAD CONE)
 2. Yo La Tengo -- I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One (MATADOR)
 3. Freakwater -- Dancing Under Water (THRILL JOCKEY)
 4. v/a -- Negro Blues and Hollers (ROUNDER)
 5. v/a -- White Elephants and Golden Ducks (SHANACHIE)
 6. Fuzzhead -- I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Rock (NEW WORLD OF SOUND); Mind Soup (HELIOCENTRIC WORLDS OF SOUND)
 7. Electric Company -- Electric Company Plays Amnesia (SUPREME)
 8. Hank Thompson and his Brazos Valley Boys -- Vintage Collections (CAPITOL) 
 9. v/a -- Alan Lomax Collection Sampler (ROUNDER)
10. v/a -- Cuban Gold 3 (QBADISC)
11. "Harmonica" Frank Floyd -- The Great Medical Menagerist (ADELPHI)
12. v/a -- This is Home Entertainment Vol. 3 (LIQUID SKY)
13. Serge Gainsbourg -- Comic Strip, Couleur Cafe, Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin (MERCURY)
14. v/a -- Edge of the Forest (MUSIC OF THE WORLD)
15. Abida Parveen -- Best of Abida Parveen (SHANACHIE)
16. v/a -- Ngoma - Music from Uganda (MUSIC OF THE WORLD)
17. Andrew Bird -- Music of Hair (self-released)
18. DJ Cam -- 2 x 10" No. 1 (SHADOW)
19. Coldcut/DJ Krush -- Cold Krush Cuts (NINJA TUNE)
20. Edith Frost -- Calling Over Time (DRAG CITY)
21. Insomniacs -- Out of It (ESTRUS)
22. Shok Therapy -- "Padlock" b/w "S.O.S." 12-inch (MASS VINYL)
23. Songs: Ohia -- self-titled (SECRETLY CANADIAN)
24. Tammy Wynette -- Stand By Your Man (KOCH)
25. Tricky -- "Makes Me Wanna Die" 12-inch (ISLAND)
26. Folk Implosion -- Dare to be Surprised (COMMUNION)
27. Analogue/Cruise Control Pills -- split 7-inch (SIT-N-SPIN)
28. Archer Prewitt -- In the Sun (CARROT TOP)
29. Him/The Dylan Group -- collaboration LP (BUBBLECORE)
30. Rahsaan Roland Kirk -- I, Eye, Aye (RHINO)
31. Tarnation -- Mirador (REPRISE)
32. Tower Recordings -- The Fraternity of Moonwalkers (AUDIBLE HISS)
33. We -- As Is (ASPHODEL)
34. Lata Mangeshkar -- Mata (INTERRA)
35. Yande Codou Sene -- Night Sky in Sine Saloum (SHANACHIE)
36. Andrew Barker/Charles Waters Duo -- self-titled (EARMARK)
37. Cecil Taylor -- Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come (REVENANT)
38. Crawling With Tarts -- I Am Telephoning a Star (ASP)
39. King Chubby -- Qedeshim (BLACK MARKET)
40. Kletka Red -- Hijacking (TZADIK)
41. Palace Music -- Lost Blues and Other Songs (DRAG CITY)
42. Brokeback -- ...Returns to the Orange Grove 7-inch (THRILL JOCKEY)
43. Magical Power Mako -- Music from Heaven (ATAVISTIC)
44. Marimba Ava Murewa -- Mazuva Ano (ZIMBOB)
45. Rampage the Last Boyscout -- "Take it to the Streets" 12" (ELEKTRA)
46. Soul Assassins (DJ Muggs) -- self-titled (COLUMBIA)
47. v/a -- Songs and Ballads of the Anthracite Miners (ROUNDER)
48. v/a -- MRG 100 (MERGE)
49. v/a -- Can - The Remixes (MUTE)
50. Third Eye Foundation -- Ghost (MERGE)
51. v/a -- Merengue - Dominican Music and Dominican Identity (ROUNDER)
52. Kronos Quartet w/ Wu Man -- Ghost Opera (NONESUCH)
53. Najat Aatabu -- Country Girls & City Women (ROUNDER)
54. Frank London/Greg Wall -- Hasidic New Wave - Jews and the Abstract Truth (KNITTING FACTORY WORKS)
55. Orange Cake Mix -- Silver Lining Underwater (DARLA)
56. Papas Fritas -- Helioself (MINTY FRESH)
57. Squarepusher -- "Vic Acid" 12-inch (WARP)
58. v/a -- Take it Off! Striptease Classics (RHINO)
59. v/a -- Double Articulation (SUB ROSA)
60. Amp -- Astralmoonbeamprojections (KRANKY)
61. Great Unraveling -- self-titled (KILL ROCK STARS)
62. Hal al Shedad -- self-titled (TROUBLEMAN UNLIMITED)
63. Helium -- No Guitars (MATADOR)
64. Hi-Tech -- 24/7 (MASS VINYL)
65. Jonny Cohen's Love Machine -- If 6 were 8 (TEENBEAT)
66. Matthew Shipp "String" Trio -- By the Law of Music (HAT HUT)
67. Sleater-Kinney -- Dig Me Out (KILL ROCK STARS)
68. Splash 4 -- Kicks in Style! (ESTRUS)
69. v/a -- Artcore 3 (REACT)
70. Vernon Frazer (w/Thomas Chapin) -- Song of Baobab (VFCI)
71. Zusaan Kali Fasteau -- Sensual Hearing (FLYING NOTE)
72. Akira Satake -- Cooler Heads Prevail (ALULA)
73. Antediluvian Rocking Horse -- Music for the Odd Occasion (SEELAND)
74. King James Version -- Peaks and Valleys (HOT WATER MUSIC)
75. Klezmatics -- Possessed (XENOPHILE)
76. Sonny Simmons -- American Jungle (QWEST)
77. Speedy J -- Public Energy No. 1 (PLUS 8)
78. v/a -- Used to Be: Blues from the Pacific Delta for Bill Monroe (UNDERCOVER)
79. v/a -- Abstract Vibes 2 More Vibes (QUANGO)