THE RECORD HOSPITAL
DECEMBER TOP 50

1. Gerty Farish- Dangerous Attackers (Menlo Park)
2. Le Tigre- self-titled (Kill Rock Stars)
3. Outhud/ !!! split (GSC)
4. Stereo Total- My Melody (Bobsled)
5. The Faint- Blank Wave Arcade (Saddle Creek)
6. Bright Eyes- Every Day Every Night (Saddle Creek)
7. Saetia- self-titled (Mountain Cooperative)
8. Comet Gain- Tigertown Pictures (Kill Rock Stars)
9. The Yips- The Seven Pillars of the Yips
10. Mountain Goats
11. Uz Jzme Doma- In the Middle of Words (Skoda)
12. V/A- Extreme Music of Africa
13. Lucksmiths- Staring at the Sky (Matinee)
14. Going Stagg
15. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci- Spanish Dance Troupe (Mental)
16. Red Essentials- Little Drummer Boy (English Muffin Records)
17. Billy Childish/ Holiday Golighty split
18. Three Penny Opera- Countless Trips from Here to There (Spectra Sonic Sound)
19. Bob Tilton- Crescent (Southern)
20. Crom Tech- untitled (Slowdime)
21. Jawbreaker- Live 4/30/96 (Blackball)
22. Melt Banana- Cactuses Come in Flocks- (A-ZAP)
23. V/A- La Foresta Della Arte: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Toyo)
24. Essex Green- Everything is Green (Kindercore)
25. Robert Pollard
26. Uberhund- Inexpensively Embalmed (Cream Cloud)
27. Exploder/Griver split
28. The Catholic Church- Sad Magician (Capillary)
29. Curriback County
30. Rainer Marie
31. The Clocks- self-titled (Track Star)
32. Volume Eleven- Prole Art Threat (self-released)
33. Tej Leo/ 99,1000 TGLOM split
34. Knit Seperates- Swords then Diamonds (Acre Floor)
35. Twelve Hour Turn-The Victory of Flight(No Idea)
36. Bastard Noise/ Painjerk split (Alternative Tentacles)
37. Icebreaker- Distant Early Warning (Aesthetics)
38. Destroyer
39. Binary System- From the Epicenter (Atavistic)
40. J.P. Phelps Trio
41. Asshole Parade
42. Caretaker- Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom (V/VM)
43. The Lies- Underdogs and Infidels (Kill Rock Stars)
44. Reversal of Man
45. Thingy
46. The Busy Signals
47. Roads to Space Travel- Ballad Jazz Waltz (Amish)
48. Hatti Fatteners
49. Album Leaf
50. Retsin  (Polyvinyl)