Consumer Guide

CHOICE CUTS:

B-Rock & the Bizz, ''MyBabyDaddy'' (And Then There Was Bass, Tony Mercedes/LaFace); David Johansen, ''Alabama Song''; William Burroughs, ''What Keeps Mankind Alive?''; PJ Harvey, ''Ballad of the Soldier's Wife'' (September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill, Sony Classics); OMC, ''How Bizarre,'' ''On the Run'' (How Bizarre, Huh!/Mercury); Junior Cottonmouth, ''Physical Stuff,'' ''Something Scratching'' (Bespoke, Atlantic).

DUDS:

Mariah Carey, Butterfly (Columbia); Graham Haynes, Tones for the 21st Century (Antilles); Orquestra Was, Forever's a Long, Long Time (Verve Forecast); Phish, Billy Breathes (Elektra); Todd Rundgren, With a Twist...(Guardian); Vanessa Williams, Next (Mercury).

ADDRESSES:

Accurate, P.O. Box 390115, Cambridge MA 02139; Anyway, P.O. Box 82444, Columbus OH 43202; Bullseye Blues, 29 Camp Street, Cambridge MA 02140; Casino Music, c/o Ichiban, Box 724677, Atlanta GA 30339; Gramavision, Rykodisc, 530 North 3rd Street, Minneapolis MN 55401; Koch, Music Club, 2 Tri-Harbor Court, Port Washington NY 11050; Surefire, 72 Madison Avenue, 8th Floor, NYC 10016; TRG, 2217 Nicollet Avenue South, Minneapolis MN 55404.