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	Here's the 1998 Phoenix/WFNX Best Music Poll winners.
	Local National Best act Letters to Cleo Runners up: Morphine Amazing Royal Crowns Gravel Pit Radiohead Runners up: Mighty Mighty Bosstones Fiona Apple Pearl Jam Best new act Dropkick Murphys Runners up: Star Ghost Dog Rubyhorse Lockgroove Third Eye Blind Runners up: Crystal Method Smashmouth Cornershop Best male vocalist Mark Sandman (Morphine) Runners up: Rivers Cuomo Lou Barlow (Sebadoh, Folk Implosion) Bill Janovitz Beck Runners up: Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) Billie Joe Armstrong James Hetfield Best female vocalist Kay Hanley (Letters to Cleo) Runners up: Juliana Hatfield Tanya Donnely Mary Lou Lord Sarah McLachlan Runners up: Ani DiFranco Fiona Apple Jewel Best Ska Bim Skala Bim Runners up: Allstonians Skavoovie and the Epitones Big D and the Kids Table Mighty Mighty Bosstones Runners up: Sublime Reel Big Fish Save Ferris Best loud music Scissorfight Runners up: Upper Crust Quintaine Americana Honkeyball Rage Against the Machine Runners up: Tool Metallica Deftones Best rap/hip-hop act Down Low Connection Runners up: Double Dong Wise Guys Ed O.G. Wu-Tang Clan Runners up: LL Cool J Puff Daddy Busta Rhymes Best r&b/soul act Barrence Whitfield Runners up: Crown Electric Company Mighty Sam McClain Weepin Willie Robinson Erykah Badu Runners up: Toni Braxton Mariah Carey Bones Thugs n Harmony Best folk act Merrie Amsterburg Runners up: Bill Morrissey Faith Soloway Tracie Smart Ani DiFranco Runners up: Jewel Tracy Chapman Indigo Girls Best blues Roomful of Blues Runners up: Susan Tedeschi Ronnie Earl Dave Maxwell B.B. King Runners up: John Lee Hooker Jonny Lang R.L. Burnside Best world music Babaloo Runners up: Mango Blues Jayuya Cosmos Factor The Chieftains Runners up: Gipsy Kings Cubanismo Altan Best jazz act The Fringe Runners up: Either/Orchestra Joe Morris Charlie Kohlhase Quintet Wynton Marsalis Runners up: Medeski Martin and Wood Cassandra Wilson Pat Metheny Best live show Morphine Runners up: Amazing Royal Crowns Upper Crust Elevator Drops Lilith Fair Runners up: HORDE U2 Popmart Lollapalooza Best electronica Future Bible Heroes Runners up: Splashdown DJ Casper and Timestretch Count Zero Prodigy Runners up: Chemical Brothers Crystal Method Daft Punk Best album GO!, Letters to Cleo Runners up: Lovesongs For Underdogs, Tanya Donelly Got No Shadow, Mary Lou Lord The Magic City, Helium OK Computer, Radiohead Runners up: The Color and the Shape, Foo Fighters Yield, Pearl Jam The Fat of the Land, Prodigy Best song "Anchor," Letters to Cleo "Do the Devil," Amazing Royal Crowns "Early to Bed," Morphine "Insinuation," Folk Implosion "Song No. 2," Blur Runners up: "Rascal King, "Mighty Mighty Bosstones "Walking On The Sun," Smashmouth "Tubthumping," Chumbawamba
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