The big winners in bold, runners-up in order....

Best Historical Album
	Rashaan Rolad Kirk- Aces Back To Back Ramsey Lewis Trio- In Person 1960-67 Bob Marley- The Complete Wailers 1967-72 Nuggets- Orignal Artyfacts from the 1st Pyschedelic Era Taj Mahal- In Progress & In Motion, 1965-1998

Best Box Set
	Nuggets- Orignal Artyfacts from the 1st Pyschedelic Era Burt Bacharach- The Look Of Love Booker T. & The MGs- Time Is Tight The Jam- Direction Reaction Creation Randy Newman- Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman

Best Dance Performance
	Fatboy Slim- The Rockafeller Skank Moby-Honey Jason Nevins vs. Run DMC- It's Like That Lionrock- Scatter & Swing Air- Moon Safari

Best Alternative Music Performance (Since a lot of my nominees are "alternative", these nominees are all on independent labels and generally are more off beat than the nominees in other categories)
	F**k- Conduct Negativland- Dispepsi Tortoise- TNT Momus- Ping Pong Kahimi Karie- Kahimi Karie

Best Rap Performance
	Wyclef Jean- Gone Til November Pras Michel- Ghetto Superstar Jay Z- It's A Hard Knock Life Beastie Boys- Hello Nasty Outkast- Rosa Parks

Best Male Vocal Performance
	Eagle Eye Cherry- Save Tonight Elliott Smith- Waltz #2 Money Mark- Tomorrow Will Be Like Today Everlast- What It's Like Lenny Kravitz- Fly Away

Best Female Vocal Performance
	Madonna- Ray Of Light Lauryn Hill- Doo Wop (That Thing) Sheryl Crow- My Favorite Mistake Liz Phair- Polyester Bride Natalie Imbruglia- Torn

New Artist
	Lauryn Hill Gomez Creeper Lagoon The Beta Band Stereophonics

Record Of The Year (Artist/Producer)
	Fastball- The Way Hole- Malibu Madonna- Ray Of Light Fatboy Slim- The Rockafeller Skank Hole- Celebrity Skin

Song Of The Year (Artist/Songwriter)
	Elliott Smith- Waltz #2 Fastball- The Way Billy Bragg & Wilco (cowriter: Woody Guthrie)- California Stars Madonna- Ray Of Light Semisonic- Closing Time

Album Of The Year
	Hole- Celebrity Skin Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach- Painted From Memory Every Other Day At A Time- Liquor Giants Madonna- Ray Of Light Fatboy Slim- You've Come A Long Way, Baby

Best Thing About Music in '98

Recordable CD Players Dip Below $500 Proliferation of CD Sellers on Web (Improves Prices, Selection) MP3 Format Comes To Prominence (High Quality Sound On Web) Major Label Contracts Less Important For Success (Ani Di Franco, etc.) Electronica Gets Some Hair Where There Was None Before (Dance Music Gets Tough)

Worst Thing About Music in '98

Radio Stations Continue To Suck Lack Of "Real" Jazz Albums Being Put Out By Major Labels Music Industry Tries To Squelch MP3 Format Pop Culture Tastemakers Attempt to Turn Swing into the next Disco Many, Many Boy Groups (Backstreet Boys, NSync, etc.)

Note: I've used the images of album covers on this site so that if anyone reads this and is inspired to buy these albums, they know what they look like. Anyone from these record labels who would like me to add copyright information or remove any of these images, let me know. Thanks.