Difficult Music on KALX
 most frequently played avant-garde and adventurous

chart for for the week ending January 18, 1998

  1. Sonic Youth - Slaapkamers met slagroom (SYR)
  2. Bill Horist - Soylent Radio (Unit Circle)
  3. Merzbow- Hybrid Noisebloom (Vinyl Communications)
  4. Moe! Staiano - The Non-Study of First Impressions (Dephine Knormal)
  5. Derek Bailey - Music and Dance (Revenant)
  6. Coffee - Artifact/Artifact Shadow (The Lotus Sound)
  7. Various Artist- DRIFTWORKS (Big Cat)
  8. Minga and Eye - Minga Love Eye 8" (Japan Overseas)
  9. Alvin Lucier - Panorama (Lovely)
  10. Ben Azarm - Neoapplictana (Artifact)
  11. Puzzle Punks - Pipeline (Japan)
  12. Dead C - Tusk (Siltbreeze)
  13. Various Artists - RER QUARTERLY V.4 #2 (ReR/Cuneiform)
  14. Dum Dum TV - Part-colored Irregular Sonic (Dustbin - Japan)
  15. Davey Williams - Charmed, I'm Sure (Ecstatic Peace)
  16. Various Artist - CHIKY(U)U (Ash International - England)