Here's the playlist for 5/31/97
(Those titles with a "#" were donations)
| Artist | Title | Album | Label |
| Heldon | Stand By | Stand By | Cuneiform |
| Gong | Flying Teapot | Live at Sheffield '74 | Mantra |
| Xaal | The Walk | On the Way | Progressive International |
| Yes | Clap | The Yes Album | Atlantic |
| U Totem | Two Looks at One End | U Totem | Cuneiform |
| Lard Free | Warinobaril | Supernatural Fairy Tales [Gilbert Artman's Lard Free] | Rhino |
| The Mistakes | Career Politicians | The Mistakes | Immune |
| Philharmonie | Unter den Linden | Nord | Cuneiform |
| Brian Eno | Distributed Being | Nerve Net | Warner Bros. |
| Genesis | Harold the Barrel | Nursery Cryme | Atlantic |
| Magma | Köhntarkösz | Köhntarkösz | Seventh |
| National Health | Bourée / Paracelsus / Bourée Reprise | Missing Pieces | ESD |
| Ozric Tentacles | Bizarre Bazaar | Live Underslunky | Dovetail |
| Art Zoyd | Plague | Faust | Atonal Records |
| Frank Zappa | Son of Orange County / More Trouble Every Day | Roxy and Elsewhere | Barking Pumpkin |
| David Sylvian / Robert Fripp | Damage (FEATURED ALBUM) | Virgin | |
| P.F.M. | L'isola di niente | L'isola di niente | RCA |
| Rhesus O | Preambule | Rhesus O | Musea |
| Henry Cow | 1/2 the Sky | Western Culture | ESD |
| Tesseract | Allegro assai | # Tesseract | independent |
| Rattlemouth | Hummalong Combustion | Walking a Full Moon Dog | Cuneiform |
| Runaway Totem | Lapis exilis | Trimegisto | Black Widow |
| Hal Darling | The Writhen Plain | # Darling | independent |
| Ensemble Nimbus | The Exhortation | # Key Figures | APM |
| Michael Brook | Err | Shona | Sine Records |
| John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Jack DeJohnette | Unshielded Desire | Gateway | ECM |
| Pendragon | Masters of Illusion | # The Masquerade Overture | Toff Records |
| Klaus Schulze | Neuronengesang | Cyborg | Spalax |