Here's the playlist for 8/23/97
(Those titles with a "#" were donations)
| Artist | Title | Album | Label |
| Gentle Giant | The Advent of Panurge | Octopus | Columbia |
| Hatfield and the North | Lounging There Trying | The Rotters' Club | Virgin |
| Daniel Denis | Deploration funébre mais non destinée aux morts | Les eaux troubles | Cuneiform |
| Thinking Plague | Run Amok | In This Life | RéR |
| Genesis | Firth of Fifth | Live in Montreal | Swingin' Pig |
| Ruins | Gravestone | Hyderomastgroningem | Tzadik |
| Ozric Tentacles | Shaping the Pelm | Pungent Effulgent | Dovetail |
| Fred Frith Guitar Quartet | Ayaya Moses | Ayaya Moses | Ambiances Magnétiques |
| Frank Zappa | Spider of Destiny | Läther | Rykodisc |
| King Crimson | Drop In | Epitaph (disc two) | DGM |
| X-Legged Sally | Laut und Leise | Eggs and Ashes | Sub Rosa |
| Van der Graaf Generator | White Hammer | The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other | Virgin |
| Lockwood Top Vander Widemann | GHK Go to Miles | Fusion | Disques JMS |
| Weather Report | Black Market | Black Market | Columbia |
| Art Zoyd | Speedy Gonzalez | Génération sans futur | Mantra |
| Shylock | Laocksetal | Ile de fièvre | Musea |
| Henry Cow / Slapp Happy | In Praise of Learning (FEATURED ALBUM) | Virgin | |
| Zello | Overture | # Zello | APM |
| Tømrerclaus | Cellokarma | # Tømrerclaus | APM |
| The Elliot Freedman Group | Strictly Plutonic | # The Elliot Freedman Group | independent |
| Jordan Rudess / Rod Morgenstein | Drop the Puck | # Rudess Morgenstein Project | Domo Records |
| Michael Shrieve | Queen Bee | Two Doors | CMP |
| Robert Fripp | New Worlds | That Which Passes | DGM |