|  Playlist for Program 542 July 4, 1998 
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| Song Title (or Segment) | Artist, Album (Label, Year) | 
| Paper Chains (The Crime Part III) | Grey Lady Down, Fear (Cyclops, 1997) | 
| The Joke | Fruitcake, One More Slice (Cyclops, 1997) | 
| Part IX | Species Being, Yonilicious (Grauspace, 1998) | 
| Wolves at War | Flamborough Head, Unspoken Whisper | 
| The Sword | Monolith, Monolith (Musea, 1998) | 
| In the Mouth of Madness | Spock's Beard, The Kindness of Strangers | 
| Bluff Creek and Beyond | Pressurehead, Explaining the Unexplained | 
| What Colour is God? | Fish, Sunsets on Empire (Viceroy, 1997) | 
| Over the Edge | Rudess Morgenstein Project, RMP | 
| You Dinosaur Thing | h, Ice Cream Genius (Castle, 1997) | 
| Romantic | Emerald Tiers, Whisper the First Scene | 
| Signify | Porcupine Tree, Signify (Ark 21, 1997) | 
| The Open Door | Caliban, Caliban (Magna Carta, 1998) | 
| Breathe | Arena, Acoustic (Verglas, 1998) | 
| Aspirations | Always Almost, God Pounds His Nails | 
| New Millenium | Dream Theater, Falling into Infinity | 
| Ice Spirits | Alaska, Alaska (Lifescape, 1998) | 
| Ghost on Chrome | Science Friction, Science Friction | 
| Angels and Rage | Cairo, Conflict and Dreams | 
| The Man Who Walked with Kings | The Flower Kings, Stardust We Are | 
| Dark Corners | Bozzio Levin Stevens, Black Light Syndrome | 
| Just in Words | Dagmahr, My Magnificent Instability | 
| 80 Days | Marillion, This Strange Engine | 
| 13 Days | White Willow, Ex Tenebris (Laser's Edge, 1998) | 
| Not the Future I Ordered | Blue Shift, Not the Future I Ordered (1998) | 
| An Emptiness That's Never Filled | Lands End, Natural Selection (Cyclops, 1998) | 
| Storm of Cleopatra | Spaceship Eyes, Kamarupa (NP, 1997) | 
| If Summer Had Its Ghosts | Bill Bruford, If Summer Had Its Ghosts | 
| Kindred Spirits | Liquid Tension Experiment, | 
| Internal Combustion | Man On Fire, Man On Fire (October, 1998) | 
| Jolly | Boom, One Hour Tailsman (Cuneiform, 1998) | 
| Useless Humans | Vic Stevens, Mistaken Identities (LOLO, 1997) | 
| Red | Brand X, Schizoid Dimension | 
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