Top 10 Texas Platters

Greg Beets

1. Golden Arm Trio, Why the Sea Is Salt (Loveletter/Shamrock)

2. Ignorance Park, Bad Luck ... Or the Plan? (Mortville)

3. Three Day Stubble, The Figshta Diaries (Nerd Rock)

4. Spoon, Loveways EP (Merge)

5. The Chumps, R.I.P. Good Times (Mortville)

6. The Blue Noise Band, Multi-Purpose (Aerosol)

7. Subset, Overpass (Post-Parlo)

8. Honky, Attacked by Lesbians in a Chicago Bowling Alley (Eat @ the Y)

9. The Futants (Aerosol)

10. The Playthings, Demo Mode

Jim Caligiuri

1. Marti Brom, Feudin' & Fighting With the Cornell Hurd Band (Goofin')

2. Slaid Cleaves, Broke Down (Philo)

3. Jimmie Dale Gilmore, One Endless Night (Rounder)

4. Michael Hall & the Woodpeckers, Dead by Dinner (Aznut)

5. James Hand, Evil Things (Cold Spring)

6. Barbara K, Ready (Firesister)

7. Beaver Nelson, Little Brother (Black Dog)

8. Ted Roddy & the Tearjoint Troubadors, Tear Time (The Music Room)

9. Doug Sahm, The Return of Wayne Douglas (Tornado)

10. Slobberbone, Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today (New West)

Michael Chamy

1. Palaxy Tracks, The Long Wind Down (Grey Flat)

2. The Gloria Record, A Lull in Traffic (Crank!)

3. KVRX Local Live, V.4 1999: Refurbished Robots

4. Sub Oslo, Dubs in the Key of Life (Two Ohm Hop)

5. Search for Saturnalia, Four Letters (Has Anyone Ever Told You?)

6. Experimental Aircraft (Devil in the Woods)

7. Peek-a-Boo's Book of Spells (Peek-a-Boo)

8.Mandarin, Driftline (Two Ohm Hop)

9. Subset, Overpass (Post-Parlo)

10. Friends of Dean Martinez, A Place in the Sun (Knitting Factory)

Raoul Hernandez

1. Doug Sahm, The Return of Wayne Douglas (Texas Tornado)

2. Beaver Nelson, Little Brother (Black Dog)

3. Friends of Dean Martinez, A Place in the Sun (Knitting Factory)

4. Brannen Temple, Blaze

5. Li'l Cap'n Travis, Li'l Cap'n Travis (SMB)

6. Adult Rodeo, Texxxas (Shimmy-Disc)

7. Jean Caffeine, Idée Fixe (Innerstate)

8. Correo Aereo, Lo Que Me Dijo el Viento

9. Mike Rosenthal, Mike Rosenthal (Red Truck)

10. The Swells, Yesterday's Songs (Sandwich)

Christopher Hess

1. Rob Halverson, Robinson Ear's Little Whirled of Sound (Jumping Man)

2. Brannen Temple, Blaze

3. The Gourds, Bolsa de Agua (Sugar Hill)

4. Paul Newman, Machine Is Not Broken (My Pal God)

5. Spoon, Loveways EP (Merge)

6. Adult Rodeo, Texxxas (Shimmy-Disc)

7. Golden Arm Trio, Why the Sea Is Salt (Loveletter/Shamrock)

8. Terri Hendrix, Places in Between (Wilory)

9. Joe Ely, Live at Antone's (Rounder)

10. The Swells, Yesterday's Songs (Sandwich)

Christopher Gray

1. Li'l Cap'n Travis (SMB)

2. Orange Mothers, Big Blue House (Jim Thunder)

3. Ted Roddy & the Tearjoint Troubadors, Tear Time (The Music Room)

4. Tee Double, TX Resident (Kinetic Camp)

5. Playdoh Squad, Mutate (Animatronic)

6. Joe West & the Sinners, Jamie Was a Boozer (Rehab)

7. Smackola, Verbal KunKushEnz (BodyHead)

8. The Blues Specialists, N2Deep (Ariel)

9. Wannabes, Decade of Moral Fumbles (Pez)

10. The Real Heroes (Center)

Andy Langer

1. Bob Schneider, Lonelyland

2. Willie Nelson, Milk Cow Blues (Island)

3. Beaver Nelson, Little Brother (Black Dog)

4. Goudie, Peep Show (TMC/Elektra)

5. Fastball, The Harsh Light of Day (Hollywood)

6. Spoon, Loveways EP (Merge)

7. Meat Puppets, Golden Lies (Atlantic)

8. Household Names, The Trouble With Being Nice (Top 40)

9. Subset, Overpass (Post-Parlo)

10. Shatzi, Death of the Alphabet EP

David Lynch

1. Tchiya Amet, Rise Again Truth (Milky Way)

2. The Gypsies, Live on KUT (Global Improvisation)

3. Mastica, '99 (First World)

4. Steve James, Boom Chang (Burnside)

5. Erik the Butcher, Happy Land (Animatronic)

6. Sixteen Deluxe, Vision Take Me Make Me Never Forsake Me (Sugar Fix)

7. Sambaxé, Macacada (Sambaxé)

8. King's X, Please Come Home ... Mr. Bulbous (Metal Blade)

9. Spot, Unhalfbaking (Upland)

10. Chaski, Unay (Chaski)

Margaret Moser

1. The Gourds, Bolsa de Agua (Sugar Hill)

2. Jean Caffeine, Idée Fixe (Joe)

3. Doug Sahm, The Return of Wayne Douglas (Tornado)

4. Slaid Cleaves, Broke Down (Philo)

5. Mike Rosenthal, Mike Rosenthal (Red Truck)

6. Poor Man's Fortune, Blow Hard

7. Three Balls of Fire, Friday Night at Ego's Lounge

8. Barbara Lynn, Hot Night Tonight (Antone's)

9. Barbara K, Ready (Fire Sister)

10. Doug Sahm Hoot: Live at the Hole in the Wall

Jerry Renshaw

1. Susanna Van Tassel, The Heart I Wear

2. James Hand, Evil Things (Cold Spring)

3. Doug Sahm, The Return of Wayne Douglas (Tornado)

4. Hot Club of Cowtown, Dev'lish Mary (Hightone)

5. Slobberbone, Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today (New West)

6. The Hollisters, The Land of Rhythm and Pleasure (Hightone)

7. Lower Class Brats, The Plot Sickens (Punkcore)

8. The Hard Feelings, Fought Back and Lost (Sympathy for the Record Industry)

9. Don Walser, The Texas Plainsmen With "Yodelin" Donnie Walser

10. Ted Roddy & the Tearjoint Troubadors, Tear Time (Music Room)

Jay Trachtenberg

1. Brannen Temple, Blaze

2. Friends of Dean Martinez, A Place in the Sun (Knitting Factory)

3. Tina Marsh, Out of Time (CreOp)

4. Doug Sahm, The Return of Wayne Douglas (Tornado)

5. Jeff Hellmer, Peak Moments (Viewpoint)

6 Ted Roddy & the Tearjoint Troubadors, Tear Time (Music Room)

7. Joe Ely, Live at Antone's (Rounder)