Rock Lists 1965 to 2007
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For unreleased albums sorted by date, go to UPCOMING RELEASES.
2007
- Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub)
9+
- Radiohead - In Rainbows (ATO)
- Apparat - Walls (Bpitch Control)
- Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (We Are Free)
- Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position (Universal/Polydor)
- Matthew Dear - Asa Breed (Ghostly International)
- Jesu - Conquerer (Hydra Head)
- Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum (Graveface)
- Maxďmo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures (Warp)
- Tinariwen - Aman Iman (World Village)
- White Rabbits - Fort Nightly (Say Hey)
- Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings (Carpark)
- Moon Wiring Club - An Audience of Art Deco Eyes (Geophonic Audio Systems)
- Momo - A Estetica Do Rebisco (Umvd) - Brazil
- Nação Zumbí - Fome De Tudo (Deck Disk Brazil) - Brazil
- Good Shoes - Think Before You Speak (Brille/EMI UK)
- Mothers and the Addicts - Science Fiction Illustrated (Chemikal Underground)
- Islaja - Ulual Yyy (Fonal)
- Field Music - Tones Of Town (Memphis Industries)
- Parts & Labor - Mapmaker (Jagjaguwar/Brah)
- Tunng - Good Arrows (Thrill Jockey)
- Witchcraft - The Alchemist (Rise Above)
- Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Anti)
- Dax Riggs - We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love (Fat Possum)
- Dälek - Abandoned Language (Ipecac)
- Studio - West Coast (Information)
- James Blackshaw - The Cloud of Unknowing (Tompkins Square)
- Laub - Deinetwegen (Agf Producktion)
- Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance (Paperbag)
- A Place To Bury Strangers (Killer Pimp)
- Kemialliset Ystävät (Fonal)
- The Rakes - Ten New Messages (V2)
- The National - Boxer (Beggars Banquet)
- Modeselektor - Happy Birthday! (Bpitch Control)
- El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead (Definitive Jux)
- Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass (Definitive Jux)
- The Tough Alliance - A New Chance (Sincerely Yours)
- The White Sripes - Icky Thump (V2)
- Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris (Interscope)
- The Maccabees - Colour It In (Polydor)
- Strategy - Future Rock (Kranky)
- LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver (DFA)
- Soulsavers - It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land (V2)
- Gudrun Gut - I Put A Record On (Monika)
- PJ Harvey - White Chalk (Island)
- Pinch - Underwater Dancehall (Tectonic)
- Maps - We Can Create (Mute)
- Editors - An End Has A Start (Kitchenware UK)
- Menomena! - Friend And Foe (Barsuk)
- Caribou - Andorra (Merge)
- Balkan Beat Box - Nu Med (JDub)
- The Focus Group - We Are All Pan's People (Ghost Box)
- White Denim - Let's Talk About It EP (White Denim)
- Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino)
9
- Boris & Michio Kurihara - Rainbow (Drag City) - Japan
- Vladislav Delay - Whistleblower (Humme) - Finland
- Grinderman (Anti-)
- Wooden Shjips (Holy Mountain)
- Muscles - Guns Babes Lemonade (Modular)
- Pale Young Gentlemen (PYG)
- HUMANWINE - Fighting Naked (Nervous Relative)
- !!! - Myth Takes (Warp)
- Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City (Vice)
- Shape of Broad Minds - Craft of the Lost Art (Lex)
- Pharoahe Monch - Desire (SRC/Universal/Motown)
- The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters (Fat Cat)
- Chloe - The Waiting Room (Kill the DJ)
- Holy Fuck - LP (Young Turks)
- Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls (Too Pure)
- Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (Domino)
- Dungen - Tio Bitar (Kemado)
- Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde (Profound Lore)
- Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet (Atlantic)
- Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks (Hydra Head)
- Eluvium - Copia (Temporary Residence)
- Echospace - The Coldest Season (Modern Love)
- Wilco - Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch)
- Pram - The Moving Frontier (Domino)
- The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City (Thrill Jockey)
- Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta! (Side One Dummy)
- Noisettes - What's The Time Mr. Wolf? (Vertigo)
- New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom (Universal/Island)
- Oh No - Dr. No's Oxperiment (Stones Throw)
- Frog Eyes - Tears of the Valedictorian (Absolutely Kosher)
- Om - Pilgrimage (Southern Lord)
- Mammatus - The Coast Explodes (Holy Mountain)
- St. Vincent - Marry Me (Beggars Banquet)
- The Dirty Projectors - Rise Above (Dead Oceans)
- Celebration - The Modern Tribe (4AD)
- Dragons of Zynth - Coronation of Thieves (GTC)
- Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works (Wea/Relapse)
- Tokyo Jihen - Variety (EMI)
- Gallon Drunk - The Rotten Mile (Fred)
- Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today (CND)
- The Cribs - Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever (V2)
- Busdriver - RoadKillOvercoat (Epitaph)
- Cassius - 15 Again (Astralwerks)
- Deerhunter - Flourescent Grey EP (Kranky)
- M83 - Digital Shades Vol. 1 (Mute)
- Caspian - The Four Trees (Dopamine)
- Grails - Burning Off Impurities (Temporary Residence)
- The Good, The Bad And The Queen (Virgin)
- Shannon Wright - Let In The Light (Quarterstick)
- Eleni Mandell - Miracle of Five (Zedtone)
- Café Tacuba - Sino (Universal Latino)
- Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - 100 Days 100 Nights (Daptone)
- M.I.A. - Kala (Interscope)
- 65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas (Monotreme)
- White Williams - Smoke (Tigerbeat6)
- The Frames - The Cost (Anti)
- Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge (Mute)
- Morgan Packard - Airships Fill the Sky/Unsimulatable (Anticipate)
- Neurosis - Given to the Rising (Neurot)
- Porn Sword Tobacco - New Exclusive Olympic Heights (City Centre Offices)
- Avarus - Rasvaaja (Secret Eye)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is EP (Interscope)
- Pumice - Pebbles (Soft Abuse)
- Radical Face - Ghost (Morr)
- Battles - Mirrored (Warp)
- Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer (Polyvinyl)
- Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth (Rhymesayers)
- Black Milk - Popular Demand (Fat Beats)
- Richard Youngs - Autumn Response (Jagjaguwar)
- Flying Lotus - Reset EP (Warp)
- Seabear - The Ghost That Carried Us Away (Morr)
- Efterklang - Parade (Leaf)
- 1990s - Cookies (Rough Trade)
- Okkervil River - The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
- Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills (Merge)
- Korpiklaani - Tervaskanto (Napalm)
- Future of the Left - Curses (Too Pure)
- Fennesz & Sakamoto - Cendre (Touch)
- Health (Lovepump United)
- Melt-Banana - Bambi's Dilemma (A-Zap)
- Mouthus - Saw a Halo (Loa)
- Charalambides - Likeness (Kranky)
- Rosetta - Wake/Lift (Translation Lost)
- Nadja - Radiance of Shadows (Alien8)
- Magik Markers - Boss (Ecstatic Peace)
- Ra Ra Riot EP (Rebel Group)
- Gui Boratto - Chromophobia (Kompakt)
- Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss (Dial)
- The Field - From Here We Go Sublime (Kompakt)
- King Khan & his Shrines - What Is?! (Hazelwood)
- Coco Rosie - The Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn (Touch and Go)
- Distance - My Demons (Planet Mu)
- Gravenhurst - The Western Lands (Warp)
- Future Clouds & Radar (Star Apple Kingdom)
- Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum)
- Pitch Black - Rude Mechanicals (Remote/Rhythmethod)
- Oceansize - Frames (SPV)
- Boris & Michio Kurihara - Rainbow (Drag City)
- High On Fire - Death Is This Communion (Relapse)
- Candie Payne - I Wish I Could Have Loved You (Deltasonic)
- Dethklok - The Dethalbum (Williams Street)
- Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends (French Kiss)
- Great Lake Swimmers - Ongiara (Nettwerk)
- Miracle Fortress - Five Roses (Rough Trade)
- No Age - Weirdo Rippers (Fat Cat)
- Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover (Jagjaguwar)
- The Rosebuds - Night of the Furies (Merge)
- Chow Chow - Colours And Lines (Fantastic Plastic)
- MV & EE with the Golden Road - Gettin' Gone (Ecstatic Peace)
- Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity (Kill Rock Stars)
- Pelican - City of Echoes (Hydra Head)
- Grizzly Bear - Friend EP (Warp)
- John Vanderslice - The Emerald City (Barsuk)
- Jesu - Lifeline EP (Hydrahead)
- Studio - Yearbook 1 (Information)
- The Tough Alliance - New Waves EP (Sincerely Yours)
- Deerhunter - Cryptograms (Kranky)
- Wire - Read & Burn 3 EP (Pink Flag)
- Earthless - Rhythms From a Cosmic Sky (Tee Pee)
- Middian - Age Eternal (Metal Blade)
- Baroness - Red Album (3D)
- Yakuza - Transmutations (Prosthetic/Red)
- Giuseppe Ielasi - August (12k) - Italy
- Black Dice - Load Blown (Paw Tracks)
- The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Merge/Universal)
- Pole - Steingarten (~scape)
- Mark Templeton - Standing on a Hummingbird (TBC)
- Melchior Productions - No Disco Future (Perlon)
- Chromatics - Night Drive (Italians Do It Better)
- Björk - Volta (Elektra)
- José González - In Our Nature (Mute)
- The Shins - Wincing The Night Away (Sub Pop)
- Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
- Circle - Katapult (No Quarter)
- New Pornographers - Challengers (Matador)
- To Kill A Petty Bourgoise - The Patron (Kranky)
- Blue States - First Steps Into (Memphis Industries)
- Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline (Kranky)
- Boxcutter - Oneiric (Planet Mu)
- Tracey Thorn - Out of the Woods (Astralwerks)
- Cyrus - From The Shadows (Tectonic)
- Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil (Vice)
- Prinzhorn Dance School (DFA)
- Talib Kweli - Eardrum (WB)
- Art Brut - It's A Bit Complicated (Downtown)
- Justice - † (Ed Banger)
- Little Brother - Get Back (ABB)
- Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters (Southern Lord)
- Ween - La Cucaracha (Schnitzel)
- Antibalas - Security (Anti)
- Vampire Hands - Virgin Dust American Lips (Kevchino)
- Dogs - Tall Stories From Under The Table (Weekender)
- Film School - Hideout (Beggars Banquet)
- Jamie T - Panic Prevention (Virgin)
- Junior Senior - Hey Hey, My My, Yo Yo (Rykodisc)
- Extra Golden - Hera Ma Nono (Thrill Jockey)
- Wolfpack Unleashed - Anthems of Resistance (Napalm)
- The Kissaway Trail (Bella Union)
- Hard Fi - Once Upon A Time In The West (Atlantic)
- Kings Of Leon - Because Of The Times (RCA)
- The Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future (Universal)
- The 1900s - Cold and Kind (Parasol)
- Interpol - Our Love To Admire (Interscope)
- Throbbing Gristle - Part Two: The Endless Not (Mute)
- Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound (Touch & Go)
- Watchers - Vampire Driver (Gern Blandsten)
- Pharoah Overlord - The Battle of the Axehammer (Riot Season)
- Tigers and Monkeys - Loose Mouth (Little Lamb)
- Handsome Furs - Plague Park (Sub Pop)
- Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb (Relapse)
- 3 Inches of Blood - Fire Up The Blades (Roadrunner)
- O'Death - Head Home (Ernest Jenning)
- Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I (Noble) - Japan
- Opitope - Hau (Spekk) - Japan
- Signal Hill (Tidemark)
- Caďna - Mourner (Profound Lore)
- Taken By Trees - The Open Field (Rough Trade)
- Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me (Fat Cat)
- Black Francis - Bluefinger (Cooking Vinyl)
- Supagroup - Fire For Hire (Foodchain)
- Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (Domino)
- The Eternals - Heavy International (Aesthetics)
- Shock Cinema - Our Way Is Revenge (Kanine)
- Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová - Once OST (Columbia)
- Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing!)
- Yellow Swans - At All Ends (Load)
- Tokyo Police Club * A Lesson In Crime EP (Memphis Industries)
- Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond (Fat Possum)
- Von Südenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions (Domino)
- Turisas - The Varangian Way (EMI)
- Marnie Stern - In Advance Of The Broken Arm (Kill Rock Stars)
- Bobby Conn - King For A Day (Thrill Jockey)
- Deer Tick - War Elephant (Feow!)
- Watain - Sworn to the Dark (Season of the Mist)
- Low - Drums And Guns (Sub Pop)
- Amerie - Because I Love It (Sony BMG)
- Do Make Say Think - You, You're A History In Rust (Constellation)
- Bottomless Pit - Hammer of the Gods (Comedy Minus One)
- Blonde Redhead - 23 (4AD)
- Bowerbirds - Hymns for a Dark Horse (Burlytime)
- Supersilent - 8 (Rune Grammofon)
- Lazarus - The Onslaught (CD Baby)
- Bodies Of Water - Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink (Secretly Canadian)
- Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus! (Rough Trade)
- Mystery Jets - Zootime (Dim Mak)
- Jakobinarina - The First Crusade (Regal/Parlophone)
- Durrty Goodz - Axiom EP (Awkward)
- The Clientele * God Save The Clientele (Merge)
- Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments (Drag City)
- Coral - Roots N Echoes (Deltasonic)
- Travis Morrison Hellfighters - All Y'all (Barsuk)
- Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Animal Tracks)
- A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal (Notenuf)
- The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour (Epitaph/Anti)
- Voice of the Seven Woods (Twisted Nerve)
- Cloud Cult - The Meaning Of 8 (Rebel Group)
- The Go! Team - Proof Of Youth (Sub Pop)
- Iron & Wine - The Shephard's Dog (Sub Pop)
- Grave In the Sky - Cutlery Hits China: English for the Hearing Impared (Heart & Crossbone)
- Vieux Farka Toure (World Village)
- The Hives - The Black And White Album (Interscope)
- Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36 (Fabric 36)
- Sigur Rós - Hvarf/Heim (XL)
- Six Parts Seven - Casually Smashed to Pieces (Suicide Squeeze)
- Entombed - Serpent Saints: The Ten Amendments (Candlelight)
- Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust (Musicane)
- Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy (Nonesuch)
- Tocotronic - Kapitulation (Vertigo)
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Jukebox Explosion (In The Red)
- Disrupt - Foundation Bit (Werk)
- Various - After Dark (Italians Do It Better/Troubleman)
- Shackleton/Appleblim - Soundboy Punishments (Skull Disco)
- Johnossi (V2)
9-
- Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles Wieder Offen (Potomak)
- Amiina - Kurr (Ever)
- Earth - Hibernaculum (Southern Lord)
- Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)
- Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday (XL)
- The Violets - The Lost Pages (Angular)
- Public Enemy - How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul??? (Slam Jamz)
- Fanfare Ciocarlia - Queens and Kings (Asphalt & Tango)
- Akio Suzuki - K7 Box (ALM)
- Balmorhea (Balmorhea)
- The World On Higher Downs - Land Patterns (Plop)
- Tulsa Drone - Songs From a Mean Season (Perpetual Motion Machine)
- Lucinda Williams - West (Lost Highway)
- Pandit Pran Nath - Raga Cycle (SRI Moonshine)
- Imperial Teen - The Hair the TV the Baby & the Band (Merge)
- Glenn Mercer - Wheels In Motion (Pravda)
- Maserati - Inventions For The New Season (Modern)
- The Terminals - Last Days Of The Sun (Last Visible Dog)
- Circa Survive - On Letting Go (Equal Vision)
- Lichens - Omns (Kranky)
- Miracle Fortress - Five Roses (Rough Trade)
- Explosions In The Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone (Temporary Residence)
- Mary J. Blige - Growing Pains (Geffen)
- Me'Shell NdegéOcello - The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams (Emarcy/Umgd)
- The Broken West - I Can't Go On, I'll Go On (Merge)
- Plastic Little - She's Mature (Traffic)
- Carbon-Silicon - The Last Post (C499)
- Slough Feg - Hardworlder (Cruz Del Sur)
- Ghost - In Stormy Nights (Drag City)
- Phosphorescent - Pride (Dead Oceans)
- Phonograph (Arclight)
- Monster Magnet - 4-Way Diablo (SPV/Steamhammer)
- Benjamin Biolay - Trash Yéyé (EMI)
- The Earlies - The Enemy Chorus (Secretly Canadian)
- Manu Chao - La Radiolina (Because)
- Ozomotli - Don't Mess With The Dragon (Concord)
- The Ark - Prayer For the Weekend (Roxy)
- Picastro - Whore Luck (Polyvinyl)
- Anna Järvinen - Jag Fick Feeling (Hapna)
- CocoRosie - The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (Touch and Go)
- The Royal We (Domino)
- Edwyn Collins - Home Again (EMI/Heavenly)
- Common - Finding Forever (Geffen)
- Liars (Mute)
- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Living with the Living (Touch and Go)
- Moonsorrow - Viides Luku-Hävitetty (Unroly Sounds/Spikefarm)
- Bettye LaVette - The Scene Of The Crime (Anti)
- Mavis Staples - We'll Never Turn Back (Anti)
- Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs (Touch and Go)
- Gruff Rhys - Candylion (Team Love)
- Robert Plant And Alison Krauss - Raising Sand (Rounder)
- Puscifer - V Is For Vagina (Puscifer Entertainment)
- Yoko Ono - Yes, I'm A Witch (Astralwerks)
- Marissa Nadler - Song III: Bird on the Water (Peacefrog)
- Feist - The Reminder (Cherry Tree/Interscope)
- Datarock (Etcetc)
- Through The Sparks - Lazarus Beach (Skybucket)
- Georgie James - Places (Saddle Creek)
- Bad Brains - Build A Nation (Megaforce)
- Common - Finding Forever (Geffen)
- Monkey Swallows the Universe - The Casket Letters (Loose)
- Calle 13 - Residente O Visitante (Sony)
- Ministry - The Last Sucker (13th Planet/Megaforce)
- Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses (The Leaf Label)
- Buffalo Tom - Three Easy Pieces (Beggars Banquet)
- Jason Isbell - Sirens of the Ditch (New West)
- Eugene McGuinness - The Early Learnings Of (Double 6/Domino)
- Siouxsie - Mantaray (Decca)
- Adult. - Why Bother? (Thrill Jockey)
- Dizee Rascal - Maths And English (XL)
- Babyshambles - Shotters Nation (Astralwerks)
- Blanche - Little Amber Bottles (Loose)
- Minus Story - My Ion Truss (Jagjaguwar)
- Múm - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy (Fat Cat)
- Bunny Rabbit - Lovers And Crypts (Voodoo-Eros)
- Die! Die! Die! (Strapped 4 Life)
- Glass Candy - Beatbox (Italians Do It Better)
- Times New Viking - Present the Paisley Reich (Siltbreeze)
- Somnambulants - Paper Trail (Clairaudience)
- Shadows Fall - Threads Of Life (Roadrunner)
- Soho Dolls - Ribbed Music For The Numb Generation (A&G)
- Bruce Springsteen - Magic (Sony)
- Tiny Vipers - Hands Across The Void (Sub Pop)
- Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Sony Nashville)
- The Ponys - Turn The Lights Out (Matador)
- Kenna - Make Sure They See My Face (Interscope)
- Nick Lowe - At My Age (Yep Roc)
- Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad (Def Jam)
- Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love (Rough Trade)
- Clutch - From Beale Street To Oblivion (DRT)
- Calla - Strength In Numbers (Beggars Banquet)
- Sadies - New Seasons (Yep Roc)
- Amon Tobin - Foley Room (Ninja Tune)
- Shocking Pinks (Caroline)
- The Zincs - Black Pompadeur (Thrill Jockey)
- Avett Brothers - Emotionalism (Ramseur)
- The Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder (Yep Roc/Simian)
- Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers (Nonesuch)
- The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse (Jagjaguwar)
- The End - Elementary (Relapse)
- Surrounded - The Nautilus Years (Make My Day)
- Kevin Drew - Spirit If... (Arts & Crafts)
- The View - Hats Off To The Buskers (1965)
- Donnas - Bitchin' (Purple Feather)
- Air - Pocket Symphony (EMI/Virgin)
- Kathy Diamond - Miss Diamond To You (Groove Attack)
- The Hidden Hand - The Resurrection of Whiskey Foote (Southern Lord)
- Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter - Like, Love, Lust & The Open Halls Of The Soul (Barsuk)
- Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (Sony)
- Patty Griffin - Children Running Through (ATO)
- Wiley - Playtime Is Over (Ninja Tune)
- Bad Religion - New Maps Of Hell (Sony)
- Gowns - Red State (Cardboard)
- Pink Reason - Cleaning The Mirror (Siltbreeze)
- Rumble Strips - Girls and Weather (Universal/Island)
- Dean & Britta - Back Numbers (Rounder)
- Meat Puppets - Rise To Your Knees (Anodyne)
- Poppy & the Jezebels - Follow Me Down (Reveal)
- Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy (Ecstatic Peace)
- UGK - Underground Kingz (Jive)
- Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight (WB)
- The Cinematics - A Strange Education (TVT)
- The Autumn Defense (Broadmoor)
- Sondre Lerche - Phantom Punch (Astralwerks)
- Akron/Family - Love Is Simple (Young God)
- UNKLE - War Stories (surrender all)
- Scouting For Girls (Epic)
- The Enemy - We'll Live and Die in These Towns (WEA/Warner)
- Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War (Arts & Crafts)
- The Cult - Born Into This (Roadrunner)
- White Stars - White Magic EP (Drag City)
- Roisin Murphy - Overpowered (EMI)
- Mathew Sawyer & The Ghosts - Blue Birds Blood (Catbird)
- My Sister Klaus - Chateau Rouge (Tigersushi)
- Ulver - Shadows of the Sun (The End)
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder (CYHSY)
- Hot Hot Heat - Happiness Ltd (WEA/Warner)
- Jill Scott - The Real Thing (Hidden Beach)
In 2003 I started listing more albums that rate an 8+ to 9-. As explained elsewhere, while an 8, B or *** rating might be good enough for some people, at Fast 'n' Bulbous it means there are several thousand albums out this year that are much better. I don't have the time, energy, nor desire to hear all the albums that might merit an 8+. I still receive unsolicited promo copies, and while I feel sorry I don't have time to review them (but not guilty, I only guarantee a review if I specifically ask for a copy, and I don't get paid for this), the least I can do is rate the few that might merit over an 8. In my world, 9-, even 9 often means I wouldn't buy it, but there are parts that are quite good. 8 to 8+ is an honorable mention, certainly not horrible, given you're still in the top 30% of the heap of 25,000+ yearly releases. So don't give up and sell your instruments. Except for maybe you, Britney. Sell one of your houses and go back to school.
8+
- Devin The Dude - Waiting To Inhale (Rap-A-Lot)
- Kanye West - Graduation (Roc-A-Fella)
- Patti Smith - Twelve (Columbia)
- The Confession - Requiem (Science)
- Tiny Masters of Today - Bang Bang Boom Cake (Mute Irregulars)
- Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams (Street/Universal Motwown)
- Untitled Musical Project (Tigertrap)
- Arboretum - Rites Of Uncovering (Thrill Jockey)
- Qui - Love's Miracle (Ipecac)
- R. Kelly - Double Up (Jive/Zomba)
- Soulja Boy Tell Em - Souljaboytellem.com (Interscope)
- Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High (Island)
- Against Me! - New Wave (Sire/London)
- Rufus Wainwright - Release The Stars (Geffen)
- Darkest Hour - Deliver Us (Victory)
- Shit And Shine - Cunts With Roses (Noisestar Music)
- Pissed Jeans - Hope For Men (Sub Pop)
- Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (Nothing)
- Nine Black Alps - Love/Hate (Island)
- Jay-Z - American Gangster (Roc-A-Fella)
- Intelligence - Deuteronomy (In The Red)
- Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist (Reprise)
- The Stooges - The Weirdness (Virgin)
- Jesse Malin - Glitter In The Gutter (Adeline)
- Trans Am - Sex Change (Thrill Jockey)
- Tranzmitors (Deranged)
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81 (Sony)
- Bon Jovi - Lost Highway (Island)
- VHS Or Beta - Bring On The Comets (Astralwerks)
- The Aliens - Astronomy For Dogs (EMI)
- Bearsuit - Oh:Io (Fantastic Plastic)
- Ian Hunter - Shrunken Heads (Yep Roc)
- Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace (RCA)
- Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted (Ruffa Lane)
- Gallhammer - The Dawn Of (Peaceville)
- Little Man Tate - About What You Know (V2)
- Velvet Revolver - Libertad (RCA)
- Chinese Stars - Listen To Your Left Brain (Three One G)
- Shitdisco - Kingdom Of Fear (Fierce Panda)
- Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger (Lost Highway)
- Nightwish - Dark Passion Play (Nuclear Blast)
- Fair to Midland - Fables From A Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True (Universal)
- Pop Levi - The Return To Form Black Majick Party (Counter)
- Ghostface Killah - The Big Doe Rehab (Def Jam)
- Bright Eyes - Cassadaga (Saddle Creek)
- The Teeth - You're My Lover Now (Park The Van)
- The Horrors - Strange House (Loog)
- Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob (B-Unique)
- Alicia Keys - As I Am (RCA)
- Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion (Casablanca/Island)
- Britney Spears - Blackout (Jive)
10-
2006
- TV On The Radio * Return To Cookie Mountain (4AD/Interscope)
- Mastodon * Blood Mountain (Reprise)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs * Show Your Bones (Interscope)
9+
- Kassin +2 * Futurismo (Video Arts Japan)
- The Hold Steady * Boys And Girls In America (Vagrant)
- The Knife * Silent Shout (Rabid/Mute)
- Fujiya & Miyagi * Transparent Things (Tirk)
- Neko Case * Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti)
- Joanna Newsom * Ys (Drag City)
- Hot Chip * The Warning (DFA/Astralwerks)
- Benoît Pioulard * Précis (Kranky)
- Tony Allen * Lagos No Shaking (Honest Jon1s)
- Junior Boys * So This Is Goodbye (Domino)
- Cappablack * Facades and Skeletons (Scape Germany)
- Naçăo Zumbí * Futura (Trama)
- Lansing-Dreiden * The Dividing Island (Kemado)
- Various Productions * The World Is Gone (XL)
- Milanese * Extend (Planet Mu)
- Espers * Espers II (Drag City)
- The Horror The Horror (Tapete Records)
- The Flaming Stars * Born Under A Bad Neon Sign (Big Beat)
- Tokyo Jihen * Adult (EMI Japan)
- Asa * Terveisiä Kaaoksesta (Julkaisuvuosi)
- Ellen Allien & Apparat * Orchestra of Bubbles (Bpitch Control)
- Nathan Fake * Drowning in a Sea of Love (Border Community)
- Barbara Morgenstern * The Grass Is Always Greener (Monika)
- Tom Waits * Orphans: Bawlers, Brawlers & Bastards (Anti)
- OOIOO * Taiga (Thrill Jockey)
- Britta Persson * Top Quality Bones and a Little Terrorist (Bonnier Amigo)
- The Futureheads * News And Tributes (679)
- The Dirty Pretty Things * Waterloo To Anywhere (Universal)
- White Flight (Range Life)
- Ali Farka Touré * Savane (Nonesuch)
- Thomas Mapfumo * Rise Up (Realworld)
- Herbert * Scale (!K7)
- Yo La Tengo * I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador)
- The Roots * Game Theory (Def Jam Left)
- Toumani Diabaté Orchestra * Boulevard de l'Independance (Nonesuch)
- Shack * The Corner Of Miles And Gil (Sourmash)
- Built To Spill * You In Reverse (WB)
- Thom Yorke * The Eraser (Capitol)
- CSS * Cansei De Ser Sexy (Sub Pop)
- Mission of Burma * The Obliterati (Matador)
- The Mars Volta * Amputechture (Umvd)
- Caetano Veloso * Cę (Universal)
- Miho Hatori * Ecdysis (Rykodisc)
- Ornette Coleman * Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar)
- Mordant Music * Dead Air (Mordant)
- J. Dilla * Donuts (Stones Throw)
- Matmos * The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth of A Beast (Matador)
- Enslaved * Ruun (Candlelight)
- Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid * The Exchange Session (Domino)
- The Rapture * Pieces Of The People We Love (Universal)
- Spank Rock * Yoyoyoyoyo (Big Dada)
- Subtle * for hero: for fool (Astralwerks)
9
- The Radio Dept. * Pet Grief (Labrador)
- Kode9 & The Spaceape * Memories of the Future (Hyperdub)
- Burial (Hyperdub)
- Sahg * Sahg I (Candlelight)
- Colour Haze * Tempel (Elektrohasch GER)
- Isis * In The Absence of Truth (Ipecac)
- The Strokes * First Impressions Of Earth (RCA/BMG)
- Hot Club de Paris * Drop It Til It Pops (Moshi Moshi)
- Belbury Poly * The Owl's Map (Ghost Box)
- Radio Citizen * Berlin Serengeti (Ubiquity)
- Acoustic Ladyland * Skinny Grin (V2)
- Cold War Kids * Robbers & Cowards (Downtown/V2)
- The Fratellis * Costello Music (Umvd UK)
- Clark * Body Riddle (Warp Records)
- Longcut * A Call & Response (Deltasonic)
- Horse Feathers * Words Are Dead (Lucky Madison)
- Ad Astra Per Aspera * Catapult Calypso (Sonic Unyon)
- Phoenix * It's Never Been Like That (Astralwerks/Source)
- The Melvins * A Senile Animal (Ipecac)
- Ojos de Brujo * Techarí (Six Degrees)
- The Ark * State Of The Ark (EMI)
- Squarepusher * Hello Everything (Warp)
- Final Fantasy * He Poos Clouds (Tomlab)
- Sonic Youth * Rather Ripped (Geffen)
- Joan As Police Woman * Real Life (Reveal)
- Amp Fiddler * Afro Strut (Genuine UK)
- Cornelius * Sensuous (WEA)
- Man Man * Six Demon Bag (Ace Fu)
- Om * Conference Of The Birds (Holy Mountain)
- Ekkehard Ehlers * A Life Without Fear (Staubgold)
- Annuals * Be He Me (Ace Fu)
- Asobi Seksu * Citrus (Friendly Fire)
- Love Is All * Nine Times That Same Song (What's Your Rupture?)
- Mew * And The Glass-Handed Kites (Sony)
- Ladyfuzz * Kerfuffle (Transgressive/WEA International)
- Lilly Allen * Alright, Still (Regal)
- Sunn 0))) & Boris * Altar (Southern Lord)
- The Sword * Age Of Winters (Kemado)
- Jesu * Silver EP (Hydra Head)
- Booka Shade * Movements (Get Physical)
- Hawksley Workman * Treeful of Starling (Universal)
- Rhymefest * Blue Collar (Allido/J)
- The Coup * Pick a Bigger Weapon (Epitaph)
- National Trust * Kings And Queens (Thrill Jockey)
- The Ranconteurs * Broken Boy Soldiers (XL)
- Wolfmother (Modular/Interscope)
- The Ludes * The Dark Art Of Happiness (Double Dragon UK)
- LCD Soundsystem * 45:33 (Nike/iTunes)
- The Thermals * The Body, The Blood, The Machine (Sub Pop)
- Scritti Politti * White Bread Black Beer (Rough Trade)
- Rachid Taha * Diwan 2 (Wrasse)
- Scott Walker * The Drift (4AD)
- James Holden * The Idiots Are Winning (Border Community)
- Amit * Never Ending (Commercial Suicide)
- Gnarls Barkley * St Elsewhere (Downtown)
- Ms John Soda * Notes And The Like (Morr Music)
- Under Byen * Samme Stof Som Stof (Morningside)
- Sparklehorse * Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain (Astralwerks)
- Ty * Closer (Big Dada)
- Ampop * My Delusions (Recall Fr)
- Pit Er Pat * Pyramids (Thrill Jockey)
- Tapes 'N Tapes * The Loon (Ibid)
- Ratatat * Classics (XL)
- Carla Bozulich * Evangelista (Constellation)
- 120 Days (Vice)
- Liars * Drums Not Dead (Mute)
- Lindstrřm * It's A Feedelity Affair (Feedelity)
- Basement Jaxx * Crazy Itch Radio (XL)
- Comets On Fire * Avatar (Sub Pop)
- Marit Larsen * Under the Surface (EMI Norway)
- Svalastog * Woodwork (Rune Grammofon)
- The Blow * Paper Television (K)
- Amy Winehouse * Back To Black (Universal/Island)
- Nachtmystium * Instinct: Decay (Southern Lord)
- Ghostigital * In Cod We Trust (Ipecac)
- James Hunter * People Gonna Talk (Go Records/Rounder)
- Mountains * Sewn (Apestaartje)
- Rub 'n' Tug * Better Than A Spoonful Of Leather (aNything)
- Cortney Tidwell * Don’t Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ever)
- Coldcut * Sound Mirrors (Ninja Tune)
- Gigi * Gold And Wax (Palm Pictures)
- Tanya Stephens * Rebelution (VP)
- Jarvis Cocker * Jarvis (Rough Trade UK)
- Skream * Skream! (Tempa)
- Black Disco Devil Club * 28 After (Lo Recordings)
- The Brakes * Beatific Visions (Rough Trade UK)
- Iron Maiden * A Matter of Life and Death (Sanctuary)
- Tim Hecker * Harmony In Ultraviolet (Kranky)
- Candi Stanton * His Hands (Astralwerks)
- Swan Lake * Beast Moans (Jagjaguwar)
- Cibelle * The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves (Six Degrees/Crammed)
- My My * Songs for the Gentle (Playhouse)
- Beirut * Gulag Orkestar (Ba Da Bing!)
- Paul Simon * Surprise (WB)
- Los Lobos * The Town And The City (Hollywood)
- The Dears * Gang Of Losers (V2)
- Ed Harcourt * The Beautiful Lie (Heavenly)
- Grizzly Bear * Yellow House (Warp)
- Joseph Arthur * Nuclear Daydream (Mega Force)
- Jóhann Jóhannsson * IBM 1401, A User's Manual (4AD)
- Sloan * Never Hear The End Of It (Vik)
- Graham Coxon * Love Travels at Illegal Speeds (Parlophone)
- Clinic * Visitations (Domino UK)
- Current 93 * Black Ships Ate the Sky (Durtro/Jnana)
- Howlin' Rain (Birdman)
- Mr. Lif * Mo' Mega (Def Jux)
- Juana Molina * Son (Domino)
- The Walkmen * A Hundred Miles Off (Record Collection)
- ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead * So Divided (Interscope)
- Gotan Project * Lunático (XL)
- Bonnie "Prince" Billy * The Letting Go (Drag City)
- Rock Plaza Central * Are We Not Horses? (RPC)
- Johnny Cash * American V: A Hundred Highways (Lost Highway/American)
- Cat Power * The Greatest (Matador)
- Gianluca Petrella * Indigo4 (Blue Note)
- Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan * Ballad of the Broken Seas (V2)
- Radio Birdman * Zeno Beach (Yep Rock)
- Akala * It's Not A Rumour (Illastate)
- The Heart Attacks * Hellbound And Heartless (Hellcat)
- Absentee * Schmotime (Memphis Industries)
- Gwen Stefani * The Sweet Escape (Interscope)
- Madeleine Peyroux * Half the Perfect World (Rounder)
- Gjallarhorn * Rimfaxe (Vindauga/Westpark)
- Nas * Hip Hop Is Dead (Def Jam/Columbia)
- Charlotte Gainsbourg * 5:55 (Atlantic)
- Colleen & Les Boites A Musiques (The Leaf Label)
- The Broken Family Band * Balls (Track & Field)
- Huntsville * For The Middle Class (Rune Grammofon)
- Natacha Atlas * Mish Maoul (Beggars UK)
- Indian Jewelry * Invasion Exotics (Monitor)
- Vetiver * To Find Me Gone (Fatcat)
- Blind Guardian * A Twist In The Myth (Nuclear Blast)
- Mouse On Mars * Varcharz (Ipecac)
- Fields * 7 From The Village (Vice)
- Priestess * Hello Master (Ace Fu)
- Sunshine Underground * Raise The Alarm (City Rockers)
- Wolf & Cub * Vessels (Dot Dash/4AD)
- Silversun Pickups - Carnavas (Dangerbird)
9-
- Nebula * Apollo (Liquor and Poker)
- Turn Me On Dead Man * Technicolour Mother (Virus)
- Seemless * What Have We Become (Equal Vision)
- Oakley Hall * Second Guessing (Amish)
- Converge * No Heroes (Epitaph)
- The Gates Of Slumber * The Awakening (Final Chapter)
- Harvey Milk * Special Wishes (Troubleman Unlimited)
- Kalas (Tee Pee)
- Lamb Of God * Sacrament (Epic)
- Midnight Juggernauts * Secrets Of the Universe EP (Siberia)
- Dissection * Reinkaos (The End)
- Marisa Monte * Infinito Particular (Metro Blue)
- Malajube * Trompe-L'oeil (Dare to Care)
- Claude Vonstroke * Beware of the Bird (Dirtybird)
- Bat For Lashes * Fur And Gold (Echo)
- White Hats - Niobe (Tomlab)
- Thomas Strřnen * Pohlitz (Rune Grammofon)
- Vakill * Worst Fears Confirmed (Molemen)
- Lady Sovereign * Public Warning (Def Jam)
- Primal Scream * Riot City Blues (Sony)
- Tap Tap * Lanzafame (Catbird)
- Excepter * Alternation (5 Rue Christine)
- Oxford Collapse * Remember the Night Parties (Sub Pop)
- Cursive * Happy Hollow (Saddle Creek)
- The Flaming Lips * At War With The Mystics (WB)
- Solomon Burke * Nashville (Shout! Factory)
- Peaches * Impeach My Bush (XL)
- Amy Diamond * Still Me Still Now (Bonnier Amigo Music Group)
- Peter Bjorn and John * Writer's Block (Wichita/V2)
- Taylor Deupree * Northern (12K)
- Belong * October Language (Carpark)
- Phill Niblock * Touch Three (Touch)
- The Howling Bells (Bellaire)
- Califone * Roots & Crowns (Thrill Jockey)
- Viva Voce * Get Yr Blood Sucked Out (Barsuk)
- Brightblack Morning Light (Matador)
- Svarte Greiner * Knive (Type)
- Little Annie * Songs From The Coalmine Canary (Durtro Jnana)
- Bert Jansch * The Black Swan (Drag City)
- I'm From Barcelona * Let Me Introduce My Friends (Dolores)
- Figurines * Skeleton (Control Group)
- Kelley Stoltz * Below The Branches (Sub Pop)
- Archie Bronson Outfit * Derdang Derdang (Domino)
- Shogun Kunitoki * Tasankokaiku (Fonal)
- Flying Canyon (Soft Abuse)
- Adem * Love And Other Planets (Domino)
- Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. * The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager (WEA)
- Guillemots * Through The Windowpane (Polydor)
- Motörhead * Kiss Of Death (Sanctuary)
- Nico Muhly * Speaks Volume (Bedroom Community)
- Jeremy Enigk * World Waits (Reincarnate)
- Belle & Sebastian * The Life Pursuit (Rough Trade)
- Dani Siciliano * Slappers (!K7)
- Isobell Campbell * Milk White Sheets (V2)
- The Sunshine Underground * Raise The Alarm (City Rockers)
- The Hidden Cameras * Awoo (Arts & Crafts)
- Camera Obscura * Let's Get Out Of This Country (Merge)
- The Pipettes * We Are the Pipettes (Memphis Industries)
- Tool * 10,000 Days (Tool JV)
- Eagles Of Death Metal * Death By Sexy (Downtown)
- Eleventh Dream Day * Zeroes And Ones (Thrill Jockey)
- Oneida * Happy New Year (Jagjaguwar)
- Katatonia * The Great Cold Distance (Peaceville)
- The Long Winters * Putting The Days To Bed (Barsuk)
- Amel Larrieux * Morning (Bliss Life)
- Scissor Sisters * Ta-Dah (Universal)
- Psapp * The Only Thing I Ever Wanted (Domino)
- The Long Blondes * Someone To Drive You Home (Rough Trade)
- Lupe Fiasco * Food & Liquor (1st and 15th/Atlantic)
- Street Dogs * Fading American Dream (DRT)
- Bruce Springsteen * We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (Columbia)
- Razorlight (Universal)
- Cult Of Luna * Somewhere Along the Highway (Earache)
- Bromheads Jacket * Dits From The Commuter Belt (Marquis Cha Cha)
- The Feeling * Twelve Stops And Home (Island)
- Albert Hammond Jr * Yours To Keep (Rough Trade)
- Radio 4 * Enemies Like This (Astralwerks)
- Forward, Russia! * Give Me A Wall (Dance to the Radio UK)
- Erase Errata * Nightlife (Kill Rock Stars)
- The Young Knives * Voices of Animals And Men (Transgressive)
- Nina Nastasia * On Leaving (Fat Cat)
- Black Keys * Magic Potion (Nonesuch)
- White Rose Movement * Kick (Independiente UK)
- Wolf Eyes * Human Animal (Sub Pop)
- Slayer * Christ Illusion (American)
- Islands * Return To The Sea (Equator)
- Loose Fur * Born Again in the USA (Drag City)
- Adrian Belew * Side Three (Sanctuary)
- Beach House (Carpark)
- Xiu Xiu * The Air Force (5 Rue Christine)
- Sol Seppy * The Bells of 1 2 (Gronland)
- DAT Politics * Wow Twist (Chicks On Speed)
- Quantic * An Announcement To Answer (Ubiquity)
- Twilight Singers * Powder Burns (One Little Indian)
- Schneider TM * Skoda Mluvit (City Slang UK)
- Akron Family * Meek Warrior (Young God)
- Mugison * Little Trip (Ipecac)
- The Decemberists * The Crane Wife (Capitol)
- Calexico * Garden Ruin (Quarterstick)
- The Streets * The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living (Vice)
- Prurient * Pleasure Ground (Load)
- Destroyer * Destroyer's Rubies (Merge)
- Magnolia Electric Co. * Fading Trails (Secretly Canadian)
- Mondo Generator * Dead Planet (Sonicslowmotiontrails) (Tornado)
- Wilderness * Vessel States (Jagjaguwar)
- Lambchop * Damaged (Merge)
- Adrian Sherwood – Becoming A Cliché (EMI)
- Celtic Frost * Monotheist (Century Media)
- Howe Gelb * 'Sno Angel Like You (Thrill Jockey)
- Midlake * The Trials of Van Occupanther (Bella Union)
- Frida Hyvönen * Until Death Comes (Secretly Canadian)
- The Handsome Family * Last Days of Wonder (Carrot Top)
- Vanden Plas * Christ O (Inside Out)
- Bal-Sagath * The Cthonic Chronicles (Candlelight)
- The Sleepy Jackson * Personality (Astralwerks)
- Grandaddy * Just Like The Fambly Cat (V2)
- Quasi * When The Going Gets Dark (Touch & Go)
- Horse Stories * Everyone's A Photographer (Japanese Import)
- People In Planes * As Far As The Eye Can See (Wind-Up)
- Tom Verlaine * Songs And Other Things (Thrill Jockey)
- Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins * Rabbit Fur Coat (Rough Trade)
- DJ Shadow * The Outsider (Ujvd)
- Max Richter * Songs From Before (Fat-Cat Records)
- Brazilian Girls * Talk To La Bomb (Verve Forecast)
- The French Kicks * Two Thousand (Vagrant)
- Nouvelle Vague * Bande A Part (Peacefrog)
- Don Caballero * World Class Listening Problem (Relapse)
- Deftones * Saturday Night Wrist (Maverick)
- Battle Of Mice * A Day Of Nights (Neurot)
- Muse * Black Holes & Revelations (WB)
- Band Of Horses * Everything All The Time (Sub Pop)
- Black Heart Procession * The Spell (Touch & Go)
- Ludicra * Fex Urbis Lex Orbis (Alternative Tentacles)
- The Automatic * Not Accepted Anywhere (Unviersal)
- Black Keys * Chulahoma EP (Fast Possum)
- The Zutons * Tired Of Hangin Around (BMG UK)
- The Tyde * Three's Company (Rough Trade)
- Blood Meridian * Kick Up The Dust (V2)
- M. Ward * Post-War (Merge)
- The Gossip * Standing in the Way of Control (Kill Rock Stars)
- The Black Angels * Passover (Light in the Attic)
- Gomez * How We Operate (ATO)
- Mojave 3 * Puzzles Like You (4AD)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers * Stadium Arcadium (WB)
- The Stills * Without Feathers (Vice)
- Dresdon Dolls * Yes Virginia (Roadrunner)
- Ghostface Killah * Fishscale (Def Jam)
- Clearlake * Amber (Domino)
- Hope of the States * Left (Columbia)
- Sunset Rubdown * Shut Up I Am Dreaming (Absolutely Kosher)
- Karsh Kale * Broken English (Six Degrees)
- The Killers * Sam's Town (Island)
- Drive-By Truckers * A Blessing And A Curse (New West)
- Secret Machines * Ten Silver Drops (Reprise)
- Whirlwind Heat * Types of Wood (Brille)
- Seconds * Kratitude (5 Rue Christine)
- Fionn Regan * The End Of History (Bella Union)
- Stereolab * Fab Four Suture (Too Pure/Beggars Banquet)
- Prefuse 73 * Security Screenings (Warp)
- Pretty Girls Make Graves * Elan Vital (Matador)
- Be Your Own Pet (XL)
- Hikaru Utada * Ultra Blue (Island Jpn)
- Dilated Peoples * 20-20 (Capitol)
- Chihei Hatakeyama * Minima Moralia (Kranky)
- Soledad Brothers * The Hardest Walk (Alive)
- Morrissey * Ringleader of the Tormentors (Sanctuary/Attack)
- Gregor Tresher * Neon: Works In The Mix (Datapunk)
- Danielson * Ships (Secretly Canadian)
- My Morning Jacket * Okonnokos (Ato/RCA)
- Gallows * Orchestra Of Wolves (In At the Deep End)
- Sufjan Stevens * The Avalanche (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Mogwai * Mr. Beast (Matador)
- De Rosa * Mend (Chemikal Underground)
- The Caretaker * Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia (v/VM)
- Jacob Borshard * The Last Brontosaurus
- Bible Of The Devil * Diabolic Procession (Raw Deth)
- Northwinds * Chimeres (Black Widow)
- Thor * Devastation Of Musculation (Smog Veil)
- East-West Ensemble * Kabbalah Music: The Hidden Spirituals (Magda)
- Adrian Klumpes * Be Still (The Leaf Label)
- Mothboy * Deviance (Ad Noiseam)
- Casiotone For the Painfully Alone * Etiquette (Tomlab)
- Hanne Hukkelberg * Rykestraße68 (Leaf)
- K'Naan * The Dusty Foot Philosopher (BMG)
- Bellowhead * Burlesque (West Park)
- Anthony Braxton & Wolf Eyes * Black Vomit (Victo)
- Black Pus * III: MeamorPus
8+
- Outkast * Idlewild (La Face/Zomba)
- The Kooks * Inside In/Inside Out (Astralwerks/Virgin)
- Lil' Wayne & DJ Drama * Dedication 2 (Gangsta Grillz)
- Helmet * Monochrome (Warcon)
- Bob Dylan * Modern Times (Columbia)
- Rogers Sisters * The Invisible Deck (Too Pure/Beggars)
- Shoplifting * Body Stories (Kill Rock Stars)
- El Perro del Mar (Memphis Industries)
- Def Leppard * Yeah! (Bludgeon Riffola/Island)
- Cheap Trick * Rockford (Cheap Trick Unlimited)
- Plan B * Who Needs Action When You Got Words (679)
- New York Dolls * One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This (Roadrunner)
- Morning Runner * Wilderness Is Paradise Now (EMI UK)
- Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice * Gipsy Freedom (5RC)
- Willie Nelson * Songbird (Lost Highway)
- South * Adventures In The Underground Journey to the Stars (Young American)
- Sparks * Hello Young Lovers (In The Red/Gut)
- Beck * The Information (Interscope)
- Damien Rice * 9 (WB)
- My Chemical Romance * The Black Parade (Reprise)
- In Flagranti * Wronger Than Anyone Else (Codek)
- Corinne Bailey Rae (EMI)
- Kasabian * Empire (RCA)
- Slepcy * We Are The Newest Battle Models (Cock Rock Disco)
- The Lemonheads (Vagrant)
- The Adored * A New Language (V2/Ada)
- Pearl Jam (J Records)
- Beth Orton * Comfort Of Strangers (Astralwerks)
- David Kitt * Not Fade Away (Rough Trade)
- Concretes * In Colour (Astralwerks)
- Pink * I'm Not Dead (La Face)
- Elefant * The Black Magic Show (Kemado)
8-
- Neil Young * Living With War (Reprise)
- Tom Petty * Highway Companion (American Recordings)
- The Open * Statues (Universal UK)
- Justin Timberlake * FutureSex/LoveSounds (Jive)
- Clipse * Hell Hath No Fury (Star Trak)
- Pharrell Williams * In My Mind (Star Trak/Interscope)
- Orson * Bright Idea (Mercury)
- T.I. * The King (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)
- The Game * The Doctor's Advocate (Geffen)
- Duke Special * Songs From the Deep Forest (V2)
- Brand New * The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me (Interscope/Tiny Evil)
- Beyonce * B'Day (Sony)
- Simple Kid * 2 (Country Gentleman)
- The Vines * Vision Valley (Capitol)
- Arctic Monkeys * Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (Domino)
- The Fags * Light 'Em Up (Idol)
- Snow Patrol * Eyes Open (A&M/Polydor)
- Ciara * The Evolution (LaFace/Zomba)
- Matisyahu * Youth (Sony)
- She Wants Revenge (Geffen)
- Jet * Shine On (Atlantic)
- Akira The Don * When We Were Young (Something In Construction)
- Evanescence * The Open Door (Wind-Up)
- Nelly Furtado * Loose (Geffen)
10-
2005
- Opeth * Ghost Reveries (Roadrunner)
- Sleater-Kinney * The Woods (Sub Pop)
- Patrick Wolf * Wind In The Wires (Tomlab)
- My Computer * No CV (Tesla UK)
- Franz Ferdinand * You Could Have It So Much Better (Domino)
- Editors * The Back Room (Kitchenware UK)
- The Rakes * Capture/Release (V2 UK)
- Robyn (Konichiwa Records)
- Field Music (Memphis Industries UK)
- Bloc Party * Silent Alarm (Wichita/V2)
- Todosantos * Aeropuerto (La Superagencia)
- LCD Soundsystem (Capitol/DFA)
- Paavoharju * Yhä Hämärää (Fonal)
- Akron/Family (Young God)
- Broadcast * Tender Buttons (Warp)
- Sigur Ros * Takk... (Geffen)
- Enslaved * Isa (Candlelight)
- Nine Horses * Snow Borne Sorrow (Samadhisound)
- Amadou & Mariam * Dimanche a Bamako (Nonesuch)
- Go-Betweens * Oceans Apart (Yep Roc)
- Gorillaz * Demon Days (Virgin)
- Edan * Beauty and the Beat (Lewis)
- Maximo Park * A Certain Trigger (Warp)
- Spoon * Gimme Fiction (Merge)
- Eluvium * Talk Amongst The Trees (Temporary Residence)
- The Shortwave Set * The Debt Collection (Independiente UK)
- Nôze * Craft Sounds and Voices (Circus Company)
- Dogs * Turn Against This Land (Island UK)
- Russian Futurists * Our Thickness (Upper Class)
- Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production Of Eggs (Righteous Babe)
- Rhythm & Sound * See Mi Yah (Burial Mix)
- Konono No. 1 * Congotronics (Fat Cat)
- Clientele * Strange Geometry (Merge)
- Out Hud * Let Us Never Speak Of It Again (Kranky)
- Gogol Bordello * Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike (USA Side 1 Dummy)
- Richard Youngs * The Naive Shaman (Jajjaguwar)
- The Books * Lost and Safe (Tomlab)
- 65 Days Of Static * One Time For All Time (Monotreme)
- Jamie Lidell * Multiply (Warp)
- Seu Jorge * Cru (Wrasse)
- Max De Castro (Trama)
- DangerDoom * The Mouse and the Mask (Epitaph/ADA)
- Stephen Malkmus * Face The Truth (Matador)
- Colder * Heat (Output)
- Boris * Pink (Southern Lord)
- Kelley Polar * Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens (Environ)
- Various * Love's A Real Thing: The Funky Fuzzy Sounds Of West Africa (Luaka Bop)
9
- Witchcraft * Firewood (Candlelight)
- The White Stripes * Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
- Blut Aus Nord * Thematic Emanation of Archetypal Multiplicity (Candlelight)
- Hello Saferide * Introducing... (Razzia)
- Anthony Hamilton * Ain't Nobody Worryin' (So So Def/Zomba)
- The Spinto Band * Nice And Nicely Done (Bar/None)
- Volcano * Beautiful Seizure (Leaf)
- Mariem Hassan * Deseos OK (Nubenegra)
- Tom Vek * We Have Sound (Startime International)
- Art Brut * Bang Bang Rock and Roll (Rough Trade)
- Mountains (Apestaartje)
- Yat-Kha * Re-Covers (World Village)
- 50 Foot Wave * Golden Ocean (Throwing Music)
- Thione Seck * Orientation (Stern's Africa)
- Aoki Takamasa & Tujiko Noriko * 28 (Fat Cat)
- The Epoxies * Stop The Future (Fat Wreck)
- Celebration (4AD/Beggars Banquet)
- Brazilian Girls (Verve)
- Ellen Allien * Thrills (Bpitch Control)
- Birchville Cat Motel * Chi Vampires (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
- Animal Collective * Feels (Fat Cat)
- Devin Davis * Lonely People of the World, Unite! (Mousse)
- The Evens (Dischord)
- Camille * Le Fil (Virgin)
- Matias Aguayo * Are You Really Lost (Kompakt)
- Roisin Murphy * Ruby Blue (Echo)
- Ladytron * Witching Hour (Rykodisc)
- M83 * Before The Dawn Heals Us (Goom/Mute)
- Tom Zé * Estudando O Pagode (Trama)
- Four Tet * Everything Ecstatic (Domino)
- Elbow * Leaders Of The Free World (V2 UK)
- The Mars Volta * Frances The Mute (Universal)
- Jason Forrest * Shamelessly Exciting (Sonig)
- Vitalic * OK Cowboy (Pias)
- Lightning Bolt * Hypermagic Mountain (Load)
- Isolee * We Are Monster (Playhouse)
- Serena Maneesh (Honeymilk)
- Lady Sovereign * Vertically Challenged EP (Chocolate Industries)
- Polar Bear * Held On The Tips Of Fingers (Babel)
- Common * Be (Geffen)
- Roots Manuva * Awfully Deep (Big Dada/Ninja Tune UK)
- Engineers (Echo)
- Antony and the Johnsons * I Am A Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
- Go-Kart Mozart * Tearing Up The Album Chart (West Midlands UK)
- Kano * Home Sweet Home (679)
- A-Frames * Black Forest (Sub Pop)
- Half Man Half Biscuit * Achtung Bono (Probe Plus)
- M.I.A. * Arular (XL)
- Oneida * The Wedding (Jagjaguwar)
- Bettye LaVette * I've Got My Own Hell To Raise (Anti)
- Gang Gang Dance * God's Money (Social Registry)
- The Brakes * Give Blood (Rough Trade)
- Ulver * Blood Inside (The End)
- Sam Prekop * Who's Your New Professor (Thrill Jockey)
- High on Fire * Blessed Black Wings (Relapse)
- Dalek * Absence (Ipecac)
- The Living Things * Ahead Of The Lions (Jive/Zomba)
- Rammstein * Rosenrot (Universal)
- Early Man * Closing In (Matador)
- The Perceptionists * Black Dialogue (Definitive Jux)
- Chemical Brothers * Push The Button (Virgin)
- Wilderness (Jagjaguwar)
- Booka Shade * Memento (Get Physical)
- Richard Hawley * Cole's Corner (Mute)
- The Juan MaClean * Less Than Human (DFA/Astralwerks)
- The Lappetites * Before the Libretto (Quecksilber Germany)
- Kate Bush * Aerial (Columbia)
- Sway * This Is My Promo (Dcypha Productions)
- Triola * Im Funftonraum (Kompakt)
- Deerhoof * The Runners Four (Kill Rock Stars)
- Sunn O))) * Black One (Southern Lord)
- Imogen Heap * Speak For Yourself (Megaphonic)
- Goldfrapp * Supernature (Mute UK)
- Jesu (Hydra Head)
- Duke Spirit * Cuts Across the Land (Universal UK)
- Meshuggah * Catch Thirty-Three (Nuclear Blast)
- System of a Down * Mesmerize (Epic)
- Architecture In Helsinki * In Case We Die (Bar/None)
- Crooked Fingers * Dignity And Shame (Merge)
- Electrelane * Axes (Too Pure/Beggars)
- Low * The Great Destroyer (Sub Pop)
- The Boards Of Canada * Campfire Headcase (Warp)
- The Mountain Goats * The Sunset Tree (4AD)
- Okkervil River * Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)
- Tujiko Noriko * Blurred In My Mirror (Room40)
- Caribou [Manitoba] * The Milk Of Human Kindness (Domino)
- The Dirty Three * Cinder (Touch & Go)
- Jackson & His Computer Band * Smash (Warp)
- Greg Dulli * Amber Headlights (One Little Indian)
- Fantomas * Suspended Animation (Ipecac)
- Mugison * Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music? (Accidental)
- Capitol K * Nomad Junk (Faith & Industry)
- Queens of the Stone Age * Lullabies To Paralyze (Interscope)
- Cage * Hell's Winter (Definitive Jux)
- Coco Rosie * Noah's Ark (Touch & Go)
- Eels * Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (Vagrant)
- Mary Timony * Ex Hex (Lookout!)
- Creme de Menthe * The Impossibility of Eroticism in the Suburbs (Disko B)
- Girls Aloud * Chemistry (Polydor UK)
- New Pornographers * Twin Cinema (Matador)
- Super Furry Animals * Love Kraft (XL)
- Love As Laughter * Laughter's Fifth (Sub Pop)
- Freakwater * Thinking Of You (Thrill Jockey)
- Blackalicious * The Craft (Anti-)
- Calla * Collisions (Beggars Banquet)
- Constantines * Tournament Of Hearts (Sub Pop)
- Pernice Brothers * Discover A Lovelier You (Sub Pop)
- Prefuse 73 * Surrounded By Silence (Warp)
- Asamov * And Now... (6 Hole)
- Hood * Outside Closer (Domino UK)
- Sufjan Stevens * Illinoise (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Modey Lemon * The Curious City (Birdman)
- Broken Social Scene (Arts & Crafts)
- Metric * Live It Out (Last Gang)
- John Cale * Black Acetate (Astralwerks)
- The Tears * Here Come The Tears (Independiente UK)
- Cave In * Perfect Pitch Black (Hydra Head)
- The Drones * Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By (ATP)
- The Gospel * The Moon Is A Dead World (Level Plane)
- Sinead O'Connor * Throw Down Your Arms (Rocket Science)
- The Fall Of Troy * Doppelganger (Equal Vision)
- Wolf Parade * Apologies to the Queen Mary (Sub Pop)
- The Hold Steady * Separation Sunday (French Kiss)
- Six Organs of Admittance * School of the Flower (Drag City)
- Kingsbury Manx * The Fast Rise And Fall Of The South (Yep Roc)
- David Pajo * Pajo (Drag City)
- Nada Surf * The Weight Is A Gift (Barsuk)
- Troubled Hubble * Making Beds In A Burning House (Lookout)
- Populous * Queue For Love (Morr)
- The Double * Loose In The Air (Matador)
- Fursaxa * Ecstatic Peace (13)
- Ry Cooder * Chavez Ravine (Nonesuch)
- British Sea Power * Open Season (Rough Trade)
- Oceansize * Everyone Into Position (Beggars Banquet)
- Pelican * The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw (Hydra Head)
- Sons And Daughters * The Repulsion Box (Domino)
- Black Mountain (Jagjaguwar)
- Jackie-O Motherfucker * Flags of the Sacred Harp (ATP)
- My Morning Jacket * Z (ATO)
- Lichens * The Psychic Nature Of Being (Kranky)
- Damian Marley * Welcome To Jamrock (Universal)
- Saint Etienne * Tales From Turnpike House (Sanctuary)
- Angels Of Light * Sings Other People (Young God)
- Thievery Corporation * Cosmic Game (ESL)
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (CYHSY)
- Petra Haden * Sings The Who Sell Out (Bar/None)
- Alan Braxe * The Upper Cuts (Electronica)
- Mercury Rev * The Secret Migration (V2 UK)
- System of a Down * Hypnotize (Epic)
- Dead Meadow * Feathers (Matador)
- The Kills * No Wow (Rough Trade/RCA)
- Missy Elliott * The Cookbook (Atlantic)
- Tod Dockstader * Aerial #1 (Sub Rosa)
- The Frames * Burn The Maps (Anti)
- Sugababes * Taller In More Ways (Universal)
- David Banner * Certified (SRC/Universal)
- Teenage Fanclub * Man-Made (Merge)
- Cursed * Two (Goodfellow)
- Kylesa * To Walk A Middle Course (Prosthetic)
- Archer Prewitt * Wilderness (Thrill Jockey)
- Lake Trout * Not Them, You (Palm Pictures)
- Mahjongg * Raydoncong (Cold Crush)
- Royksopp * The Understanding (Astralwerks)
- Asian Dub Foundation * Tank (Virgin UK)
- Of Monteral * The Sunlandic Twins (Polyvinyl)
- Immolation * Harnessing Ruin (Olympic)
- Withered * Memento Mori (Lifeforce)
- Supergrass * Road To Rouen (UK)
- Jaga Jazzist * What We Must (Ninja Tunes)
- Amon Tobin * Chaos Theory: Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack (Ninja Tune)
- Om * Variations on a Theme (Holy Mountain)
- Black Dice * Broken Ear Record (DFA/Astralwerks)
- Explosions In The Sky * How Strange, Innocence (Temporary Residence)
- Beck * Guero (WB)
- Keith Fullerton Whitman * Multiples (Kranky)
- Traveling Bell * Scatter Ways (Secret Eye)
9-
- Khold * Krek (Candlelight)
- Metal Inquisitor * Doomsday For The Heretic (Hellion)
- Electric Six * Senor Smoke (Warner)
- Hal (Rough Trade)
- Vashti Bunyan * Lookaftering (DiCristina/Fat Cat)
- Deana Carter * The Story of My Life (Vanguard)
- John Parish * Once Upon A Little Time (Thrill Jockey)
- Devendra Banhart * Cripple Crow (XL)
- Buck 65 * Secret House Against the World (WEA)
- Brian Eno * Another Day On Earth (Hannibal)
- ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead * Worlds Apart (Interscope)
- Emiliana Torrini * Fisherman's Wife (Rough Trade)
- The Magic Numbers (Heavenly)
- Absentee * Donkey Stock EP (Memphis Industries)
- Chad Vangaalen * Infiniheart (Sub Pop)
- Autechre * Untilted (Warp)
- Nedelle * From The Lion's Mouth (Kill Rock Stars)
- Kanye West * Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella)
- Slim Thug * Already Platinum (Geffen)
- Envelopes * Demon (Rex UK)
- Smog * A River Ain't Too Much To Love (Drag City)
- Darkest Hour * Undoing Ruin (Victory)
- Tangiers * Family Myth (French Kiss)
- Superpitcher * Today (Kompakt)
- Longwave * There's A Fire (RCA)
- Boy Least Likely To * The Best Party Ever (Rough Trade)
- Khanate * Capture & Release (Hydra Head)
- Trivium * Ascendancy (Roadrunner)
- Maria McKee * Peddlin Dreams (Eleven Thirty)
- Bloodbath * Nightmares Made Flesh (Century Media)
- Gris Gris * For The Season (Birdman)
- stellastarr* * Harmonies For The Haunted (RCA)
- Tenement Halls * Knitting Needles & Bicycle Bells (Merge)
- Anneli Drecker * Frolic (EMI UK)
- Coheed and Cambria * Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV (Sony)
- Rachel Stevens * Come And Get It (Universal)
- Richard Davis * Details (Kitty Yo)
- Young Jeezy * Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 (Def Jam)
- The 22-20s (Interscope)
- Rogue Wave * Descended Like Vultures (Sub Pop)
- Big Business * Head For The Shallow (Hydra Head)
- Coral * The Invisible Invasion (Sony)
- The Cribs * The New Fellas (Wichita UK)
- Idlewild * Warnings/Promises (EMI UK)
- OK Go * Oh No (Capitol)
- Hot Hot Heat * Elevator (Sire)
- Clor (EMI UK)
- Orenda Fink * Invisible Ones (Saddle Creek)
- Head of Femur * Hysterical Stars (Spin Art)
- Babyshambles * Down In Albion (Rough Trade)
- The Darkness * One Way Ticket To Hell...And Back (Atlantic)
- Test-Icicles * For Screening Purposes Only (Domino)
- The Warlocks * Surgery (Mute)
- Hard-Fi * Stars Of CCTV (Necessary/Atlantic)
- Nitin Sahwney * Philtre (V2)
- Horrorpops * Bring It On! (Hellcat)
- M. Ward * Transistor Radio (Merge)
- Wedding Present * Take Fountain (Scopitones)
- The National * Alligator (Beggars Banquet)
- Lungfish * Feral Hymns (Dischord)
- The Departure * Dirty Words (Parlophone)
- Weird War * Illuminated By The Light (Drag City)
- Napalm Death * The Code Is Red...Long Live The Code (Century Media)
- Primordial * The Gathering Wilderness (Metal Blade)
- The Soviettes * III (Fat Wreck)
- Fannypack * See You Next Tuesday (Tommy Boy)
- Fischerspooner * Odyssey (Capitol)
- Doves * Some Cities (Heavenly UK)
- Caesars * Paper Tigers (Astralwerks)
- Madonna * Confessions On A Dancefloor (WB)
Mu * Out Of Breach (Manchester's Revenge) (Output) - Shelby Lynne * Suit Yourself (Capitol)
- Josh Rouse * Nashville (Slow River/Rykodisc)
- Fiona Apple * Extraordinary Machine (Sony)
- Nagisa Ni Te * Dream Sounds (Jagjaguwar)
- Pit Er Pat * Shakey (Thrill Jockey)
- Nine Inch Nails * With Teeth (Nothing)
- Louis XIV * The Best Little Secrets Are Kept (Pineapple/Atlantic)
- Daft Punk * Human After All (Virgin)
- The Subways * Young For Eternity (Infectious UK)
- Make Believe * Shock of Being (Flameshovel)
8+
- Fast 'n' Bulbous * Pork Chop Blue Around The Rind (Cuneiform)
- Will Young * Keep On (BMG UK)
- James Blunt * Back To Bedlam (Atlantic/Custard)
- Ordinary Boys * Brassbound (B Unique)
- Coldplay * X&Y (Capitol)
- The Paddingtons * First Comes First (Universal)
- Ladybug Mecca * Trip the Light Fantastic (Nu Paradigm)
- Korn * See You on the Other Side (Virgin)
- Dandy Warhols * Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars ()
- Kaiser Chiefs * Employment (Universal)
- The Bravery (Island)
- Athlete * Tourist (Parolophone UK)
- The Dead 60s (Sony)
- Crazy Frog * Crazy Hits (Universal)
- Nine Black Alps * Everything Is (Island)
- The Others (Mercury UK)
- Panic! At The Disco * A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (Fueled By Ramen)
- Damon & Naomi * The Earth Is Blue (20/20/20/Revolver)
- Nicolai Dunger * This Cloud Is Learning (Overcoat Recordings)
- Matt Elliott * Drinking Songs (Lci'Dailleurs)
- Sage Francis * A Healthy Distrust (Epitaph)
- Laurent Garnier * The Cloud Making Machine (F-comm)
- Guy Called Gerald * To All Things What They Need (k7 UK)
- House of Love * Days Run Away (Art & Industry)
- Ida * Heart Like a River (Polyvinyl)
- Moby * Hotel (V2)
- Marco Passarani * Sullen Look (Peacefrog)
- Gruff Rhys * Yr Atal Genhedlaeth (Placid Casual UK)
9+
2004
- TV On The Radio * Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch & Go)
- Björk * Medulla (Elektra)
- Ghost * Hypnotic Underworld (Drag City)
- Mastodon * Leviathan (Relapse)
- Razorlight * Up All Night (Vertigo UK)
- Junior Boys * Last Exit (Kin UK)
- The Walkmen * Bows And Arrows (Record Collection)
- Arto Lindsay * Salt (Righteous Babe)
- Annie * Anniemal (679)
- The Mark Lanegan Band * Bubblegum (Beggars)
- Sketch Show * Loophole (Third Ear)
- The Black Keys * Rubber Factory (Fat Possum)
- Utada * Exodus (Island)
- Stars * Set Yourself On Fire (Arts & Crafts)
- Patrick Wolf * Lycanthropy (Tomlab)
- Tom Waits * Real Gone (Anti/Epitaph)
- Sonic Youth * Sonic Nurse (Geffen)
- Ed Harcourt * Strangers (Heavenly UK)
- Orphaned Land * Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven (Century Media)
- Dungen * Ta Det Lugnt (Subliminal Sounds)
- The Earlies * These Were The Earlies (WEA UK)
- Devendra Banhart * Rejoicing In The Hands Of (Young God)
- The Go! Team * Thunder, Lightning, Strike (Memphis Industries)
- The Czars * Goodbye (Bellaire)
- Bark Psychosis * ///Codename: Dustsucker (Fire)
- Federico Aubelle * Gran Hotel Buenos Aires (Eighteenth Street Lo)
- Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
- PJ Harvey * Uh Hu Her (Island)
- Syd Matters * A Whisper And A Sigh (3rd Side/V2)
- Ada * Blondie (Areal)
- Mission Of Burma * ONoffOn (Matador)
- Nick Cave * Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus (Anti/Epitaph)
- Cut Copy * Bright Like Neon Love (Modular)
- Anathema * A Natural Disaster (Koch)
- Skinnyman * Council Estate Of Mind (Lowlife)
- Wilco * A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
- Ricardo Villalobos * The au Harem d'Archimede (Perlon)
- Lali Puna * Faking The Books (Morr)
- Blue States * The Soundings (Memphis Industries UK)
- Fennesz * Venice (Touch)
- 65 Days Of Static * The Fall Of Math (Monotreme)
- Rachid Taha * Tekitoi (Wrasse)
- Tinariwen * Amassakoul (World Village)
- Wiley * Treddin' On Thin Ice (XL)
- Joseph Arthur * Our Shadows Will Remain (Vector)
- Elliott Smith * From A Basement On The Hill (Epitaph)
- Various * DFA Compilation #2 (DFA)
- Lucien-N-Luciano * Blind Behaviour (Peacefrog)
- Interpol * Antics (Matador)
- Max Richter * The Blue Notebooks (Fat Cat)
- The Eternals * Rawar Style (Aesthetics)
- Blanche * If We Can't Trust The Doctors (Loose Music/Vinyl Junkie)
- The Flaming Stars * Named And Shamed (Vinyl Japan UK/Alternative Tentacles)
- Beta Band * Heroes To Zeros (Astralwerks)
- The Legends * Up Against The Legends (Lakeshore 5)
- Beastie Boys * To The 5 Boroughs (Capitol)
- John Vanderslice * Cellar Door (Barsuk)
- On! Air! Library! (Arena Rock)
- The Crimea * Tragedy Rocks (Double Dragon)
- Feist * Let It Die (Arts & Crafts)
- Comets On Fire * Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop)
- Califone * Heron King Blues (Thrill Jockey)
- Entrance * Wandering Stranger (Fat Possum)
- Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter * Oh, My Girl (Barsuk)
- M.I.A. & Diplo * Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 (Hollertronix)
- Jason Forrest * The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash (Sonig)
- Andrew Morgan * Misadventures In Radiology (Broken Horse UK)
- Devin The Dude * To Tha X-Treme (Rap-A-Lot)
- Stereolab * Margarine Eclipse (Elektra)
- Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra * Who Is This America (Ropeadope)
- Spektrum * Enter ... The Spektrum (Playhouse UK)
9
- Polysics * Polysics Or Die!!! (Surla/Sony)
- The Eternals * Out Of Proportion EP (Antifaz)
- Psapp * Tiger, My Friend (Leaf)
- Graham Coxon * Happiness In Magazines (Trans Copic)
- Diplo * Florida (Big Dada)
- Hercules * In The Alleyway (March)
- The Abyssinians & Friends * Tree Of Satta (Blood & Fire)
- Ray LaMontagne * Trouble (RCA)
- The Thermals * Fuckin A (Sub Pop)
- The Futureheads (Fantastic UK)
- Animal Collective * Sung Tongs (Fatcat)
- The Blue Nile * High (Sanctuary)
- Telefon Tel Aviv * Map of What Is Effortless (Hefty)
- The Sultans * Shipwrecked (Swami)
- The Arcade Fire * Funeral (Merge)
- Micah P. Hinson & The Gospel Of Progress (Sketchbook)
- To Rococo Rot * Hotel Morgen (Domino)
- Ben Christophers * The Spaces In Between (Cooking Vinyl UK)
- Tom Russell * Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (Hightone)
- Secret Machines * Now Here Is Nowhere (Reprise)
- Mosquitos * Sunshine Barato (Bar/None)
- Sufjan Stevens * Seven Swans (Sounds Familyre)
- Comas * Conductor (Yep Roc)
- The Soft Pink Truth * Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth? (Tigerbeat6)
- Nouvelle Vague (Peacefrog)
- Devendra Banhart * Nino Rojos (Young God)
- The Delgados * Universal Audio (Mantra UK)
- Social Distortion * Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll (Time Bomb)
- Ambulance LTD * LP (TVT)
- !!! * Louden Up Now (Touch and Go/Warp)
- Scissor Sistors (Polydor UK)
- Joanna Newsom * The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
- The Organ * Grab That Gun (Mint)
- Dionysos * Whatever The Weather (Trema Fr)
- Isis * Panopticon (Ipecac)
- The Blues Explosion * damage! (Sanctuary)
- Faun Fables * Family Album (Drag City)
- Behemoth * Demigod (Regain)
- Savath & Savalas * Apropa't (Warp)
- Marianne Faithfull * Before the Poison (Naive UK)
- Etienne Daho * Pap Satori (Virgin)
- Crispy Ambulance * Powder Blind Dream (Darla)
- Frank Black Francis (Spin Art)
- Jim White * Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See (Luaka Bop)
- The Roots * The Tipping Point (Geffen)
- Beans * Shock City Maverick (Warp)
- Xiu Xiu * Fabulous Muscles (5 Rue Christine)
- Panda Bear * Young Prayer (Paw Tracks)
- Radian * Juxtaposition (Thrill Jockey)
- Tortoise * It's All Around You (Thrill Jockey)
- Born Heller (Locust)
- Efterklang * Tripper (Leaf)
- Bebel Gilberto (Six Degrees)
- Ellen Allien * My Parade (Bpitch Control)
- DJ /rupture * Special Gunpowder (Tigerbeat 6)
- Youssou N'Dour * Egypt (Nonesuch)
- Gwen Stefani * Love.Angel.Music.Baby (Interscope)
- Girls Aloud * What Will The Neighbours Say? (Polydor)
- Nellie McKay * Get Away From Me (Columbia)
- P.G. Six * The Well of Memory (Amish)
- Jens Lekman * When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog (Secretly Canadian)
- Giant Sand * Is All Over The Map (Thrill Jockey)
- Eleni Mandell * Afternoon (Zedtone)
- Moonbabies * The Orange Billboard (Hidden Agenda)
- Polly Paulusma * Scissors In My Pocket (One Little Indian)
- Adem * Homesongs (Domino)
- The Libertines (Rough Trade/Sanctuary)
- N*E*R*D * Fly Or Die (Virgin)
- Ozomatli * Street Signs (Real World)
- The Soundtrack Of Our Lives * Origin Vol. 1 (WEA UK)
- Tangiers * Never Bring You Pleasure (Sonic Unyon)
- Hot Snakes * Audit In Progress (Swami)
- Mouse On Mars * Radical Connector (Thrill Jockey)
- Neko Case * The Tigers Have Spoken (Anti)
- Blonde Redhead * Misery is a Butterfly (4AD)
- Einsturzende Neubauten * Perpetuum Mobile (Mute)
- Embrace * Out Of Nothing (Independiente UK)
- Frog Eyes * The Folded Palm (Absolutely Kosher)
- Black Dice * Creature Comforts (DFA/Fat Cat)
- Madvillain * Madvillainy (Stones Throw)
- The Fiery Furnaces * Blueberry Boat (Rough Trade)
- Dizzee Rascal * Showtime (XL)
- Michael Mayer * Touch (Kompact)
- Sondre Lerche * Two Way Monologue (Astralwerks)
- Lhasa * The Living Road (Les Disques Audiogramme)
- The Hold Steady * Almost Killed Me (French Kiss)
- Pinback * Summer In Abaddon (Touch and Go)
- Sleep Station * After The War (Eyeball/Bardic)
- Ikara Colt * Modern Apprentice (Fantastic Plastic UK)
- Akira Rabelais * Spellewauerynsherde (Samadhi Sound)
- Kevin Tihista's Red Terror * Wake Up Captain (Parasol)
- 90 Day Men * Panda Park (Southern)
- Les Savy Fav * Inches (French Kiss)
- Regina Spektor * Soviet Kitsch (Sire)
- Solex * The Laughing Stock Of Indie Rock (Arena Rock)
- Heiruspecs * A Tiger Dancing (Razor & Tie)
- The Bees * Free The Bees (Virgin UK)
- Peter Murphy * Unshattered (Viastar)
- The Radio Dept. * Lesser Matters (XL/Labrador)
- Clinic * Winchester Cathedral (Domino/Universal)
- Stina Nordenstam * The World Is Saved (V2)
- American Music Club * Love Songs for Patriots (Cooking Vinyl)
- Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez * A Manual Dexterity V.1 (GSL)
- Flogging Molly * Within A Mile Of Home (SideOneDummy)
- The (International) Noise Conspiracy * Armed Love (Burning Heart)
- Rachel Goswell * Waves Are Universal (4AD)
- Cee-Lo * Cee-Lo Green Is The Soul Machine (Arista)
- We Ragazzi * Wolves With Pretty Lips (Suicide Squeeze)
- The Wildhearts * Riff After Riff (Gearhead)
- De La Soul * The Grind Date (Sanctuary)
- Amon Tobin * Recorded Live (Ninja Tune)
- A.C. Newman * The Slow Wonder (Matador)
- The Ordinary Boys * Over The Counter Culture (B-Unique UK)
- Wagon Christ * Sorry I Made You Lush (Ninja Tune)
- Ulrich Schnauss * A Strangely Isolated Place (Domino)
- The Fever * Red Bedroom (Kemado)
- Drive-By Truckers * The Dirty South (New West)
- Ted Leo & the Pharmacists * Shake the Sheets (Lookout)
- Laura Veirs * Carbon Glacier (Bella Union UK)
- Lamb Of God * Ashes of the Wake (Epic)
- Shalabi Effect * Pink Abyss (Alien 8)
- Pig Destoyer * Terrifyer (Relapse)
- Savath & Savalas * Manana (Warp)
- Cult Of Luna * Salvation (Earache)
- The Faint * Wet From Birth (Saddle Creek)
- Thalia Zedek * Trust Not Those In Whom Without Some Touch of Madness (Thrill Jockey)
- CocoRosie * La Maison De Mon Reve (Touch and Go)
- Nicolai Dunger * Here's My Song You Can Have It (Universal)
- Earlimart * Treble & Tremble (Palm Pictures)
- Sunn 0))) * White 2 (Southern Lord)
- Mono * Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined (Temporary Residence)
- Black OX Orkestar * Ver Tanzt? (Constellation)
- The Cribs (Wichita UK)
- Shannon Wright * Over the Sun (Quarterstick)
- Old Time Relijun * Lost Light (K)
- Mirah * C'mon Miracle (K)
- Mum * Summer Make Good (Fat Cat)
- The Ponys * Laced With Romance (In The Red)
- Richmond Fontaine * Post To Wire (El Cortez)
- Ken Stringfellow * Soft Commands (Yep Roc)
- Tift Merritt * Tambourine (Lost Highway)
- Gomez * Split The Difference (Virgin)
- Prince Po * The Slickness (Lex)
- Elizabeth Anka Vagacic * Stand With the Stillness of the Day (Constellation)
- Valley of the Giants (Arts & Crafts)
- U2 * How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Interscope)
- Dillinger Escape Plan * Miss Machine (Relapse)
- cLOUDDEAD * Ten (Mush)
- Converge * You Fail Me (Epitaph)
- Rilo Kiley * More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)
- Jonathan Richman * Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love (Sanctuary/Vapor)
- Autolux * Future Perfect (DMZ)
- Lovedrug * Pretend You're alive (Militia Group)
- Coastal * Halfway To You (Words On Music)
9-
- The Hidden Cameras * Mississauga Goddam (Rough Trade)
- The French Kicks * The Trial Of The Century (Star Time)
- Dead Texas * Dead Texan (Kranky)
- Anaal Nathrakh * Domine Non Es Dignus (Season Mist America)
- McLusky * Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire (Beggars/Too Pure)
- Loretta Lynn * Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
- Brian Wilson * SMiLE (Nonesuch)
- Brave Captain * All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (Wichita UK)
- Dani Siciliano * Likes... (K7)
- Luna * Rendezvous (Jetset)
- Helio Sequence * Love And Distance (Sub Pop)
- Green Day * American Idiot (Reprise)
- The Blam * Caveat Emptor (Mootron)
- The Standard * Wire Post to Wire (Yep Roc)
- The Icarus Line * Penance Soiree (V2)
- Grant Lee Phillips * Virgina Creeper (Cooking Vinyl)
- Bobby Bare, Jr. * From The End Of Your Leash (Bloodshot)
- Wolf Eyes * Burned Mind (Sub Pop)
- The Boredoms * Seadrum/House Of Sun (Warners Japan)
- Camper Van Beethoven * New Roman Times (Vanguard)
- Dogs Die In Hot Cars * Please Describe Yourself (V2)
- Twilight Singers * She Loves You (One Little Indian)
- Amen * Death Before Musick (Eat URmusic/Columbia)
- Esoteric * Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum (Season of Mist)
- Helmet * Size Matters (Interscope)
- The Mattoid * Hello (Cleft)
- Frausdots * Couture Couture Couture (Sub Pop)
- Orbital * The Blue Album (London)
- Jean Grae * This Week (Babygrande)
- The Dwarves * The Dwarves Must Die (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
- Nancy Sinatra (Attack/Sanctuary)
- Bonnie Prince Billy * Sings Greatest Palace Music (Drag City)
- Radio 4 * Stealing Of A Nation (Astralwerks)
- Ella Guru * The First Album (Banana UK)
- The Zutons * Who Killed The Zutons? (Deltasonic UK)
- Kerrier District (Rephlex)
- Silkworm * It'll Be Cool (Touch and Go)
- Bikini Atoll * Moratoria (Bellaire)
- Probot (Southern Lord)
- Rjd2 * Since We Last Spoke (Def Jux)
- Le Tigre * This Island (Universal)
- theStart * Initiation (Nitro)
- Travis Morrison * Travistan (Barsuk)
- For Stars * It Falls Apart (Future Farmer)
- Mos Def * The New Danger (Geffen)
- The Prodigy * Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned (XL UK)
- Ghostface * The Pretty Toney Album (Def Jam)
- Clorox Girls (Smart Guy)
- Help She Can't Swim * Fashionista Super Dance Troupe (Fantastic Plastic UK)
- Bad Religion * The Empire Strikes First (Epitaph)
- Deerhoof * Milk Man (Kill Rock Stars)
- Rogue Wave * Out Of The Shadow (Sub Pop)
- Nas * Street's Disciple (Columbia)
- Air * Talkie Walkie (Source/Astralwerks)
- Mellow * Perfect Colors (Atmospheriques)
- Talib Kweli * The Beautiful Struggle (MCA)
- Squarepusher * Ultravisitor (Warp)
- Bobby Conn & The Glass Gypsies * The Homeland (Thrill Jockey)
- Juana Molina * Tres Cosas (Domino)
- Beauty Pill * The Unsustainable Lifestyle (Dischord)
- Golden Virgins * Songs Of Praise (XL UK)
- Handsome Boy Modeling School * White People (Atlantic/Elektra)
- Seafood * As The Cry Flows (Cooking Vinyl)
- The Streets * A Grand Don't Come For Free (Vice)
- Oneiros * Outputmessage (Echelon)
- The Killers * Hot Fuss (Lizard King/Island)
- The Cure (Geffen)
- Division Of Laura Lee * Das Not Compute (Epitaph/Burning Heart)
- Sparta * Porcelain (Geffen)
- Sluts Of Trust * We Are All Sluts Of Trust (Chemikal)
- Sahara Hotnights * Kiss & Tell (RCA)
- Hope Of The States * Lost Riots (Sony)
- Young Heart Attack * Mouthful Of Love (Beggars XL)
- Pink Grease * This is for Real (Mute)
- MF Doom * Mm..Food? (Rhymesayers)
- Monster Magnet * Monolithic Baby! (SPV)
- Amp Fiddler * Waltz Of A Ghetto Fly (Genuine)
- Oneida * Secret Wars (Jagjaguwar)
- The Stranglers * Norfolk Coast (EMI)
- Modest Mouse * Good News For People Who Love Bad News (Epic)
- Firewater * Songs We Should Have Written (Jetset)
- A Perfect Circle * Emotive (Virgin/EMI)
- Lambchop * Aw Cmon (Merge)
- The Magnetic Fields * i (Nonesuch)
- The Blueskins * Word Of Mouth (Domino UK)
- Brandon Wiard * Painting A Buring Building (Cerberus)
- Subtle * A New White (Lex)
- Sixtoo * Chewing on Glass and Other Miracle Cures (Ninja Tune)
- Seachange * Lay Of The Land (Matador)
- The Statistics * Leave Your Name (Jade Tree)
- Electrelane * The Power Out (Too Pure/Beggars)
- The Blow * The Concussive Caress (K)
- The Polyphonic Spree * Together We're Heavy (Hollywood)
- Lesser Birds Of Paradise * String Of Bees (Contraphonic)
- Jukeboxer * In The Food Chain (Absolutely Kosher)
- Kanye West * College Dropout (Roc-A-Fella)
- Iron & Wine * Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
- The Divine Comedy * Absent Friends (Parlophone)
- Macha * Forget Tomorrow (Jetset)
- Phoenix * Alphabetical (Astralwerks)
- The Veils * The Runaway Found (Rough Trade UK)
This year I'm listing more albums that rate an 8 to 9-. As explained elsewhere, while an 8, B or *** rating might be good enough for some people, at Fast 'n' Bulbous it means there are several hundred albums out this year that are much better. I've listened to plenty of of albums that would merit an 8+ that I don't list. I received unsolicited promo copies of these albums, and while I feel sorry I don't have time to review them (but not guilty, I only guarantee a review if I specifically ask for a copy, and I don't get paid for this), the least I can do is rate them. In my world, 9- means I wouldn't buy it, but there are parts that are quite good. 8 to 8+ is an honorable mention, certainly not bad, given you're still in the top 10 to 25% of the heap of 25,000+ releases. So don't give up and sell your instruments.
8+
- Morrissey * You Are The Quarry (Attack/Sanctuary)
- Thee Silver Mountain Reveries * Pretty Little Lightning Paw (Constellation)
- The Reigning Sound * Too Much Guitar! (In The Red)
- Hella * The Devil Isn't Red (5 Rue Christine)
- Slow Jets * Remain In Ether (Morphius)
- Starving Artists Crew * Up Pops The SAC (Fat Beats)
- Skalpel (Ninja Tune)
- Swayzak * Loops From The Bergerie (K7)
- The Album Leaf * In A Safe Place (Sub Pop)
- Pleasurecraft * Lost Patterns (Pleasurcraft)
- Old Ghost * Light Returns (Morphius)
- The Cucumbers * All Things To You (Fictitious Records)
- Action Action * Don't Cut Your Fabric to This Year's Fashion Action Action (Victory)
- Coastal Drag * Caught On The Wrist (Doubling Cube)
- Sweetback * Stage [2] (Epic)
- Death in Vegas * Satan's Circle (Drone UK)
- The Thrills * Let's Bottle Bohemia (Virgin)
- Chromeo * She's In Control (Vice)
- Icehouse * Heroes
8
- Miss Kittin * I Com (EMI)
- Patti Smith * Trampin' (Columbia)
- The Graze * Iowa Anvil (J-Shirt)
- Ministry * Houses Of The Mol? (Sanctuary)
- The Open * The Silent Hours (Polydor UK)
- The Coral * Nightfreak & The Sons Of Becker (Deltasonic UK)
- Delays * Faded Seaside Glamour (Rough Trade UK)
- Zero 7 * When It Falls (Ultimate Dilema UK)
- Auf der Maur (Capitol)
- The Von Bondies * Pawn Shoppe Heart (Sire)
- West Indian Girl (Astralwerks)
- U.S.E. * United State Of Electronica (Mannheim)
- Weird War * If You Can't Beat 'Em, Bit 'Em (Drag City)
- Lambchop * No You Cmon (Merge)
- The Church * Forget Yourself (spinART)
- The Stands * All Years Leaving (Echo Recs UK)
- Rochester Fosgate (Smooth Excavator)
- Keane * Hopes And Fears (Interscope)
- Liars * They Were Wrong So We Drowned (Mute)
- Ash * Meltdown (Infectious)
- Courtney Love * America's Sweetheart (Virgin)
These are alphabetical because I have not yet heard them
- Astrid (Incarnation UK)
- Atombombpocketknife * Lack & Pattern (File-13)
- Jello Biafra with the Melvins * Never Breathe What You Canxt See (Alternative Tentacles)
- Jane Birkin * Rendez-Vous (EMI)
- Blevin Blectum * Magic Maple (Deluxe)
- Blockhead * Music By Cavelight (Ninja Tune)
- Broken Social Scene * Beehives (Arts & Crafts)
- The Bronx (Wichita)
- Bruno E * Lovely Arthur (Trama)
- Burning Brides * Leave No Ashes (V2)
- Calexico * Convict Pool EP (Touch & Go)
- Calliope * Sounds Like Circles Feel (Thick)
- Elvis Costello * Il Sogno (Deutsche Grammaphon)
- Elvis Costello * The Delivery Man (Lost Highway)
- Converge * You Fail Me (Epitaph)
- Cranes * Particles And Waves (Dadaphonic)
- Daisy Cutters * Awake Among the Sleepers (Collision Aus)
- Greg Davis * Somnia (Kranky)
- Daydream Nation * Bella Vendetta (Elephant Stone/Parasol)
- Destroyer * Your Blues (Merge)
- Julie Doiron * Goodnight Nobody (Jagjaguwar)
- Tonya Donnelly * Whiskey Tango Ghosts (4AD/Beggars)
- DJ Krush * Jaku (Red Ink)
- El-P * High Water: Mark (Thirsty Ear)
- The Ex * Turn (Dekonkurent)
- The Fall * The New Fall LP, Formerly Known as Country on the Click (Narnack)
- Fly Pan Am * Necoutez Pas (Constellation)
- Front Line Assembly * Civilization (Metropolis)
- Fu Manchu * Start The Machine (DRT)
- Gift Of Gab * Fourth Dimensional Rocketships (Quannum)
- Growing * The Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light (Kranky)
- David Grubbs * A Guess at the Riddle (Drag City)
- Guided By Voices * Half Smiles Of The Decomposed The Eternals (Aesthetics)
- The Haunted * rEVOLVEr (Century Media)
- Haymarket Riot * Mog (Thick)
- The High Water Marks * Songs About The Ocean (Eenie Meanie)
- Hoodoo Gurus * Mach Shau (EMI)
- I Am the World Trade Center * Cover Up (Gammon)
- Bill Janovitz and Crown Victoria * Fireworks on TV (Q Division)
- Angelique Kidjo * Oyaya! (Columbia)
- Knife & Fork * Miserycord (Eric Drew Feldman) (Diesel Motor)
- Last Burning Embers * Lessons in Redemption (Pink Frost/Big Takeover)
- The Last Emperor * Palace Of The Pretender (Raptivism/Rykodisc)
- Los Lobos * The Ride (Mammoth)
- Jesse Malin * The Heat (Artemis)
- The Mendoza Line * Fortune (Bar/None)
- Tift Merritt * Tambourine (Universal)
- Pedro the Lion: Achilles Heel (Jade Tree)
- Pharoah Monch * Innver Vision
- The Mountain Goats * We Shall All Be Healed (4AD)
- Dan "The Automator" Nakamura * Omakase
- Numbers * In My Mind All The Time (Tigerbeat6)
- Of Montreal * Satanic Panic in the Attic (Polyvinyl)
- Jair Oliveira * 3.1 (Trama)
- OOIOO * Kila Kila Kila (Thrill Jockey)
- Rodney P * The Future (Riddim Killa)
- Pan-American * Quiet City (Kranky)
- Pedro the Lion * Achilles Heel (Jade Tree)
- Josh Ritter * Hellow Starling (Setanta)
- Rob K * The End of the Earth (Orange)
- Todd Rundgren * Liars (Sanctuary)
- The Sad Riders * Lay Your Head On The Soft Rock (Stick Sister)
- Saturday Looks Good To Me * Every Night (Polyvinyl)
- Shivaree * Breach (Rounder)
- Silver Ray * New Love (Broken Horse)
- State Of Bengal vs Paban Das Baul * Tana Tani (Real World)
- Huong Thanh * Mangustao (Act)
- David Thomas and Two Pale Boys * 18 Monkeys on a Dead Manxs Chest (Thirsty Ear)
- Glenn Tilbrook * Transatlantic Ping Pong (Compass/Quixotic London)
- Trans Am * Liberation (Thrill Jockey)
- Tweaker * 2 a.m. Wakeup Call (Waxploitation/iMusic)
- Vandermark 5 * Elements of Style...Exercises in Surprise (Atavistic)
- Vanishing * Still Lives in Progress (GSL)
- Velvet Crush * Stereo Blues (Action Musik)
- VHS or Beta * Night On Fire (Astralwerks)
- Waxwings * Let's Make our Descent (Yep Roc)
- Whirlwind Heat * Flamingo Honey (Dim Mak)
- Saul Williams (Fader)
- X-ecutioners * Revolutions (Columbia)
- Richard Youngs * River Through Howling Sky (Jagjaguwar)
9+
2003
- Radiohead * Hail To The Thief (Capitol)
- Four Tet * Rounds (Domino)
- Café Tacvba * Quatro Caminos (MCA)
- The Mars Volta * De-Loused In The Comatorium (GSL/Universal)
9+
- The Concretes (Licking Fingers Sweden)
- Lomax * A Symbol Of Modern Living (93 Records)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs * Fever To Tell (Interscope)
- Sufjan Stevens * Greetings from Michigan (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Prefuse 73 * One Word Extinguisher (Warp)
- Otto * Sem Gravidade (Trama)
- Super Furry Animals * Phantom Power (XL/Beggars)
- Broadcast * Hahasound (Warp)
- Ed Harcourt * From Every Sphere (Astralwerks/Heaven)
- Stars * Heart (Arts & Crafts)
- Josh Rouse * 1972 (Rykodisc)
- Shack * Here's Tom With The Weather (North Country UK)
- Do Make Say Think * Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn (Constellation)
- Tujiko Noriko * From Tokyo to Naiagara (Tomlab)
- Menomena * I Am The Fun Blame Monster (Muuuhahaha!)
- The White Stripes * Elephant (V2)
- Daude * Neguinha Te Amo (Realworld)
- Juana Molina * Segundo (Domino)
- M83 * Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (EMI FR)
- Frog Eyes * The Golden River (Animal World)
- Rokia Traore * Bowmboi (Tama)
- Colder * Again (Output UK)
- Lucas Santtana * Parada De Lucas (Diginois Brazil)
- Hawksley Workman * Lover/Fighter (Universal)
- Tom Zé * Imprensa Cantada (Trama)
- Mogwai * Happy Songs For Happy People (Matador)
- Nina Nastasia * Run To Ruin (Touch And Go)
- Joe Henry * Tiny Voices (Anti)
- Elbow * Cast Of Thousands (V2)
- Manitoba * Up In Flames (Domino)
- TV On The Radio * Young Liars EP (Touch And Go)
- A Frames * A Frames 2 (S-S Records)
- Belle & Sebastian * Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Sanctuary)
- Zoot Woman (Wall Of Sound)
- Pelican * Australasia (Hydra Head)
- The Darkness * Permission To Land (Must Destroy)
- Longwave * The Strangest Things (RCA)
- The Stills * Logic Will Break Your Heart (Vice)
- The Twilight Singers * Blackberry Belle (One Little Indian)
- Snow Patrol * Final Straw (Universal UK)
- The Rapture * Echoes (DFA/Universal)
- Bonobo * Dial "M" For Monkey (Ninja Tune)
- Benjamin Biolay * Negatif (EMI)
- Outkast * Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (LaFace)
- The Strokes * Room On Fire (BMG)
- Calexico * Feast of Wire (Quarterstick)
- Calla * Televise (Arena Rock Recording Co)
- HiM * Many In High Places Are Not Well (Bubble Core)
- The Books * Lemon Of Pink (TomLab)
- The Constantines * Shine A Light (Sub Pop)
- Kahimi Karie * Trapeziste (Victor)
- Enslaved * Below The Lights (The End)
- B. Fleischmann * Welcome Tourist (Morr)
- Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham * L' Avventura (Jetset)
- Haco & Sakamoto Hiromichi * Ash in the Rainbow (Detector/ReR Megacorp)
- Bang Gang * Something Wrong (Recall Iceland)
- The Black Keys * Thickfreakness (Fat Possum)
- Etienne Daho * Reevolution (Virgin)
- Robert Wyatt * Cuckooland (Hannibal)
- The Wrens * Meadowlands (Absolutely Kosher)
- Asian Dub Foundation * Enemy of the Enemy (Virgin)
- Mark Lanegan Band * Here Comes The Weird Chill EP (Beggars)
9
- The Lord Weird Slough Feg * Traveller (Dragon Heart)
- The Meads Of Asphodel * Exhuming The Grave Of Yeshua (Supernal)
- Beulah * Yoko (Velocette)
- Ty * Upwards (Big Dada UK)
- Johnny Cash * Unearthed (American)
- Head Of Femur * Ringodom Or Proctor (Greyday)
- The Coral * Magic And Medicine (Deltasonic)
- I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness EP (Emperor Jones)
- Architecture in Helsinki * Fingers Crossed (Trifekta)
- Terry Hall & Mushtaq * The Hour Of Two Lights (Astralwerks)
- Firewater * The Man On The Burning Tightrope (Jetset)
- The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa * Slowthinking (Labels Czech Rep)
- Pascals * Abiento (Les Disques Du Sol FR)
- The Silver Mt. Zion * This Is Our Punk-Rock (Constellation)
- Metric * Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? (Everloving)
- Sons And Daughters * Love The Cup (Ba Da Bing/Domino)
- Kazumi Nikaidoh * Mata Otosimasitayo (You Dropped Something Again, Didn't You) (Poet Portraits Jpn)
- John Cale * Hobosapiens (EMI)
- The Bug * Pressure (Meow)
- The Fiery Furnaces * Gallowsbird's Bark (Sanctuary)
- Diamanda Galas * La Serpenta Canta (Mute)
- Hexstatic * Listen & Learn (Ninja Tune)
- Cass McCombs * A (Monitor)
- Souad Massi * Deb (Wrasse)
- Alias * Muted (Anticon)
- The Autumn Defense * Circles (Arena Rock)
- stellastarr* (RCA)
- Magnet * On Your Side (Ultimate Dilemma UK)
- Amon Tobin * Collaborations EP (Ninja Tune)
- Supersilent * 6 (Rune Grammafon)
- M. Ward * Transfiguration of Vincent (Merge)
- The Cuts * 2 Over Ten (Birdman)
- Camera Obscura * Underachievers Please Try Harder (Elefant/Merge)
- Milky * Travels With A Donkey (Siesta Spain)
- Sun Kil Moon * Ghosts Of The Great Highway (Jetset)
- Diamanda Galas * Defixiones: Will and Testament, Orders from the Dead (Mute)
- Lamb Of God * As The Palaces Burn (Prosthetic)
- Dead Meadow * Shivering King and Others (Matador)
- The Kingsbury Manx * Aztec Discipline (Overcoat)
- The Shins * Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
- Excepter * Ka (Fusetron)
- The Wildhearts * Must Be Destroyed (Sanctuary)
- The Rosebuds * The Rosebuds Make Out (Merge)
- The Russian Futurists * Let's Get Ready To Crumble (Upper Class)
- The Unicorns * Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (Alien8)
- Diverse * One A.M. (Chocolate Industries)
- Alaska! * Emotions (B-Girl)
- Jean Grae * The Bootleg of the Bootleg EP (Babygrande)
- Viktor Vaughn (aka MF Doom) * Vaudeville Villain (Sound-Ink)
- Basement Jaxx * Kish Kash (Astralwerks)
- Modey Lemon * Thunder + Lightning (Birdman)
- Dean Roberts * Be Mine Tonight (Kranky)
- Fernanda Porto (Trama)
- The Ladybug Transistor (Merge)
- The Weakerthans * Reconstruction Site (Epitaph)
- Laika * Wherever I Am I Am What Is Missing (Too Pure/Beggars)
- David Sylvian * Blemish (Samadhisound)
- U.N.K.L.E. * Never, Never Land (Mo' Wax/Island)
- One Mile North * Minor Shadows (Ba Da Bing!)
- Animal Collective * Here Comes The Indian (Paw Tracks)
- Mu * Afro Finger and Gel (Tigersushi/Output)
- Explosions In The Sky * Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place (Temporary)
- Madlib * Shades Of Blue (Blue Note)
- Fannypack * So Stylistic (Tommy Boy)
- U.N.P.O.C. * Fifth Column (Domino UK)
- Pleasure Forever * Alter (Sub Pop)
- Tribalistas (Marisa Monte, Arnaldo Antunes, Carlinhos Brown) (EMI)
- Virginia Rodrigues * Mares Profundos (Edge Music)
- Shelby Lynne * Identity Crisis (Capitol)
- Oceansize * Effloresce (Beggars Banquet UK)
- Kid Koala * Some Of My Best Friends Are DJs (Ninja Tune)
- Poison The Well * You Come Before You (Trustkill)
- Steve Burns * Songs For Dustmites (Pias America)
- Lightning Bolt * Wonderful Rainbow (Load)
- Dimmu Borgir * Death Cult Armageddon (Nuclear Blast)
- Exhumed * Anatomy Is Destiny (Relapse)
- Children Of Bodom * Hate Crew Deathroll (Century Media)
- Naglfar * Sheol (Century Media)
- Hamell On Trial * Tough Love (Righteous Babe)
- Rufus Wainwright * Want One (DreamWorks)
- Chris Clark * Empty the Bones of You (Warp)
- 7 Hurtz * Electroleum (Output)
- Ellen Allien * Berlinette (Bpitch Control UK)
- The Hidden Cameras * The Smell Of Our Own (Evil Evil/Rough Trade)
- Yo La Tengo * Summer Sun (Matador)
- The Dirty Three * She Has No Strings, Apollo (Touch And Go)
- The Natural History * Beat Beat Heartbeat (Startime)
- The Handsome Family * Singing Bones (Carrot Top)
- Tricky * Vulnerable (Hollywood)
- Cibelle (Six Degrees)
- Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros * Streetcore (Hellcat/Epitaph)
- Cheer Accident * Gumballhead The Cat (Skin Graft)
- Set Fire to Flames * Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static (Alien8)
- Ricardo Villalobos * Alcachofa (Playhouse)
- Polmo Polpo * Like Hearts Swelling (Constellation)
- Angels of Light * Everything Is Good Here/Please Come (Young God)
- Tied & Tickled Trio * Observing Systems (Morr Music)
- Tim Hecker * Radio Amor (Mille Plateaux)
- Envy * Dead Sinking Story (Level Plane)
- Trio Mocote * Beleza! Beleza! Beleza! (Six Degrees)
- Growing * Sky's Run into the Sea (Kranky)
- +/- * You Are Here (Teenbeat)
- David Byrne * Lead Us Not Into Temptation (Thrill Jockey)
- Clientele * Violet Hour (Merge)
- Marshmallow (Lo-Max Aus.)
- Luke Haines & The Auteurs * Das Capital (Hut)
- Nitin Sawhney * Human (V2)
- The Undertones * Get What You Need (Sanctuary)
- Richard Youngs * Airs Of The Ear (Jagjaguwar)
- Ed Motta * Poptical (Trama)
- The Exploding Hearts * Guitar Romantic (Dirtnap)
- The Distillers * Coral Fang (Sire)
- Soft Pink Truth * Do You Party? (Soundslike)
- Luomo * The Present Lover (Force Inc)
- Mates Of State * Team Boo (Polyvinyl)
- Lamb * Between Darkness And Wonder (Mercury)
- Rhythm & Sound * The Artists (Asphodel)
- Elefant * Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid (Kernado)
- Willard Grant Conspiracy * Regard The End (Glitterhouse)
- Kevin Blechdom * Bitches Without Britches (EFA)
- The Fire Theft (Rykodisc)
- Isobel Campbell * Amorino (Instinct)
- Pernice Brothers * Yours, Mine & Ours (Ashmont)
- Eleni Mandell * Country For True Lovers (Zedtone)
- Emmylou Harris * Stumble Into Grace (Nonesuch)
- Janet Bean and the Concertina Wire * Dragging Wonder Lake (Thrill Jockey)
- Rancid * Indestructible (Epitaph)
- Alasdair Roberts * Farewell Sorrow (Rough Trade)
- Martina Topley-Bird * Quixotic (Independente)
- Wheat * Per Second Per Second . . . Every Second (Sony)
- Matmos * The Civil War (Matador)
- Quasi * Hot Shit! (Sub Pop)
- Pram * Dark Island (Merge)
- Ui * Answers (Southern)
- Cat Power * You Are Free (Matador)
- British Sea Power * The Decline Of British Sea Power (Rough Trade)
- Wire * Send (Pink Flag)
- Songs: Ohia * The Magnolia Electric Co. (Secretly Canadian)
- The Creatures * Hai! (Sioux)
- Opeth * Damnation (Koch)
- The Tyde * Twice (Rough Trade)
- Joy Zipper * American Whip (13 Amp)
- Murder By Death * Who Will Survive, And What Will Be Left of Them (Eyeball)
- Tindersticks * Waiting For The Moon (Beggars Banquet)
- DJ Cheb I Sabbha * As Far As (Six Degrees)
- Eels * Shootenanny! (DreamWorks)
- Bent * The Everlasting Blink (Sport)
- Tangiers * Hot New Spirits (Sonic Unyon)
- Bardo Pond * On The Eclipse (ATP)
- Non-Prophets * Hope (Lex)
- Death Cab For Cutie * Transalanticism (Barsuk)
9-
- Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower * Dissertation, Honey (Happy Couples Never)
- Califone * Quicksand/Cradlesnakes (Thrill Jockey)
- Portastatic * The Summer of the Shark (Merge)
- Portastatic * Autumn Was A Lark (Merge)
- So (Thrill Jockey)
- The Go Betweens * Bright Yellow, Bright Orange (Circus)
- The Sea And Cake * One Bedroom (Thrill Jockey)
- Arab Strap * Monday at the Hug and Pint (Matador)
- Beans * Tomorrow Right Now (Warp)
- Aesop Rock * Bazooka Tooth (Def Jux)
- King Geedorah * Take Me to Your Leader (Big Dada)
- Old Man's Child * In Defiance Of Existence (Century Media)
- Grimfist * Ghouls Of Grandeur (Candlelight)
- Arch Enemy * Anthems Of Rebellion (Century Media)
- Damien Jurado * Where Shall You Take Me? (Secretly Canadian)
- Entombed * Inferno (Koch)
- Occult * Rage To Revenge (Pavement)
- The Deadly Snakes * Ode To Joy (In The Red)
- The Sleepy Jackson * Lovers (EMI)
- Aereogramme * Sleep and Release (Chemikal Underground)
- Need New Body * UFO (File 13)
- Kelis * Tasty (Star Trak/Arista)
- Missy Elliott * This Is Not A Test (Goldmind/Elektra)
- The Postal Service * Give Up (Sub Pop)
- Lucinda Williams * World Without Tears (Lost Highway)
- Meshell Ndegeocello * Comfort Woman (Maverick)
- Psychonauts * Songs For Creatures (International Deejay Gigalo)
- The Watchers * To The Rooftops (Gern Blandsten)
- LFO * Sheath (Warp)
- Autechre * Draft 7.30 (Warp)
- Zinc * Faster (Polydor)
- Outrageous Cherry * Supernatural Equinox (Rainbow Quartz)
- The Thrills * So Much For The City (Virgin)
- The BellRays * Red, White And Black (Poptones)
- Daniel Lanois * Shine (Anti)
- James Kirk * You Can Make It If You Boogie (Marina)
- New Pornographers * Electric Version (Matador)
- 31 Knots * It Was High Time To Escape (54-40 or Fight)
- Ry Cooder/Manuel Galban * Mambo Sinuendo (Nonesuch/Perro Verde)
- Movietone * The Sand And The Stars (Domino/Geographic)
- Massive Attack * 100th Window (Virgin)
- The Tyrades (Broken Rekids)
- Gorky's Zygotic Mycni * Sleep/Holiday (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
- Chicks On Speed * 99 Cents (Chicks On Speed)
- Los Amigos Invisibles * The Venezuelan Zinga Son Vol 1 (Long Lost Brother)
- Guided By Voices * Earthquake Glue (Matador)
- Adult. * Anxiety Always (Ersatz Audio)
- Jay Farrar * Terroir Blues (Artemis)
- Erin McKeown * Grand (Nettwerk)
- Nebula * Atomic Ritual (Sub Pop)
- Damien Rice * O (Vector)
- Pretty Girls Make Graves * The New Romance (Matador)
- The National * Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (Brassland)
- Crooked Fingers * Red Devil Dawn (Merge)
- Paper Airplane Pilots * The History Of Flying (Spade Kitty)
- The Dears * No Cities Left (Grenadine)
- A Perfect Circle * Thirteenth Step (Virgin)
- Neil Michael Hagerty * The Hex (Drag City)
- Erase Errata * At Crystal Palace (Blast First)
- Goldfrapp * Black Cherry (Mute)
- Ex Models * Zoo Psychology (Frenchkiss)
- Natacha Atlas * Something Dangerous (Mantra)
- Amy Rigby * Til The Wheels Fall Off (Signature)
- Prince Paul * Politics of the Business (Razor & Tie)
- Cardia (Silverthree)
- The Kills * Keep On Your Mean Side (Rough Trade)
- Atmosphere * Seven's Travels (Epitaph)
- Clearlake * Cedars (Domino)
- Chris Lee * Cool Rock (Misra)
- The Gossip * Movement (Kill Rock Stars)
- Entombed * Inferno (Koch)
- The Webb Brothers (WEA)
- Blondie * The Curse Of Blondie (Epic)
- Susheela Raman * Love Trap (Narada)]
- Subarachnoid Space * Also Rising (Strange Attractors)
- Karsh Kale * Liberation (Six Degrees)
- Deerhoof * Apple O' (Kill Rock Stars)
- Mariza * Fado Curvo (Times Square)
- Killing Joke (Pilot)
- Tomahawk * Mit Gas (Ipecac)
- Dinky * Black Cabaret (Carpark)
- Richard Hawley * Lowedges (Setanta)
- Mr. Quintron * Are You Ready For An Organ Solo (Three-One-G)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds * Nocturama (Mute)
- Mojave 3 * Spoon And Rafter (4AD)
- Iggy Pop * Skull Ring (Virgin)
- Whirlwind Heat * Do Rabbits Wonder (V2)
- Turnerjoy * Transplant (Mohofusu)
- Black Box Recorder * Passionoia (One Little Indian)
- Iron Maiden * Dance Of Death (Columbia)
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre * And This Is Our Music (Tee Pee)
- Ricki Lee Jones * The Evening Of My Best Day (V2)
- Spiritualized * Amazing Grace (Sanctuary Records)
- The Party Of Helicopters * Please Believe It (Velocette)
- Saturday Looks Good To Me * All Your Summer Songs (Polyvinyl)
- Tokyo Sex Destruction * Le Red Soul Comunnitte (10 Points Program) (Dim Mak)
- Nataraj XT * Ocean Birds (Nu Tone)
- Fruit Bats * Mouthfuls (Sub Pop)
- Minus 5 * Down with Wilco (Yep Roc)
- Grandaddy * Sumday (V2)
- The Decemberists * Her Majesty, The Decemberists (Kill Rock Stars)
- Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks * Pig Lib (Matador)
- Andrew Bird * Weather Systems EP (Grimsey)
- Azita * Enantiodromia (Drag City)
- Gang Starr * Ownerz (Virgin)
- Buzzcocks (Merge)
- A.R.E. Weapons (Rough Trade)
- Scout Niblett * I Am (Secretly Canadian)
- Smog * Dinner (Drag City)
- Fantomas * Delerium Cordia (Ipecac)
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club * Take Them On, On Your Own (Virgin)
- Matt Eliott * The Mess We Made (Merge)
- Momus * Oskar Tennis Champion (American Patchwork)
- The Beautiful South * Gaze (Mercury)
- Katatonia * Viva Emptiness (Peaceville)
- Throwing Muses (4AD)
- Rainer Maria * Long Knives Drawn (Polyvinyl)
- Bonnie Prince Billie * Master And Everyone (Palace)
- Gillian Welch * Soul Journey (Acony/WEA)
- Black Eyes (Dischord)
- Cul de Sac * Death To The Sun (Strange Attractors Audio House)
- Loose Fur (Drag City)
- Audio Bullys * Ego War (Astralwerks)
- The Blood Brothers * Burn, Piano Island, Burn (ArtistDirect)
- The American Analog Set * Promise of Love (Tiger Style)
- Plaid * Spoke (Warp)
- Pole * 45/45 (Mute)
- The Aislers Set * How I Learned To Write Backwards (Suicide)
- Cave In * Antenna (RCA)
- Kinski * Airs Above Your Station (Strange Attractors Audio House/Sub Pop)
- Muse * Absolution (A&M/ EastWest)
- Jane's Addiction * Strays (Capitol)
- DJ Tiga * DJ Kicks (!K7)
- Shipping News * Three-Four (Touch & Go)
- Maria McKee * High Dive (Viewfinder)
- Blur * Think Tank (Virgin)
- Jetplane Landing * Once Like A Spark ()
- Vue * Down For Whatever (RCA)
- Sloan * Action Pact (Vik)
- Frankie Sparo * Welcome Crummy Mystics (Constellation)
- Kristin Hersh * The Grotto (4ad)
- Caitlin Cary * I'm Staying Out (Yep Roc)
- Junior Senior * D-Don't Stop The Music (Universal/Crunchy Frog)
- Thea Gilmore * Avalanche (Compass)
- The Lonesome Organist * Forms & Follies (Thrill Jockey)
- Deftones (Maverick)
- South * With The Tides (Kinetic)
- Jayhawks * Rainy Day Music (Lost Highway)
- Lungfish * Love Is Love (Dischord)
- Placebo * Sleeping With Ghosts (Astralwerks)
- Ween * Quebec (Sanctuary)
- The People Involved (People Involved)
- The Cramps * Fiends Of Dope Island (Vengeance)
- Adam Masterson * One Tale Too Many (Gravity)
- Drive-By Truckers * Decoration Day (Lost Highway)
- A.F.I. * Sing The Sorrow (DreamWorks)
I only list a few 8's to make a point that I heard the albums, but don't think they're that great. While a B or *** rating might be good enough for some people, at Fast 'n' Bulbous it means there are several hundred albums out this year that are much better. Which is why I usually don't bother with 8+ at all. Unless they're friends of yours, who cares about the also-rans? For a more accurate ranking, then, add about 300 to the numbers below. I'm not saying they're horrible. Just imagine the rankings of artists like Creed or Britney, who I'd give (perhaps over-generously) about a 4. With about 28,000 albums released, that puts them somewhere around 10,000.
8
- Athlete * Vehicles & Animals (EMI)
- Kings Of Leon * Youth And Young Manhood (RCA)
- Electric Soft Parade * American Adventure (BMG)
- Starsailor * Silence Is Easy (EMI)
- Coheed & Cambria * In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (Equal Vision)
- My Morning Jacket * It Still Moves (ATO/RCA)
- Peaches * Fatherfucker (Beggars XL)
- Bic Runga * Beautiful Collision (Columbia)
- Tom McRae * Just Like Blood (DB)
- Travis * 12 Memories (Epic)
- Bubba Sparxxx * Deliverance (Interscope)
- Lou Reed * The Raven (WB)
- Ocean Colour Scene * North Atlantic Drift (Sanctuary)
- Mink Lungs * I'll Take It (Arena Rock)
- Kill Hannah * For Never & Ever (Atlantic)
- Mondo Generator * Drug Problem That Never Existed (Ipecac)
- Fountains Of Wayne * Welcome Interstate Managers (Virgin)
- Sightings * Michigan Haters (Load)
- The Caridgans * Long Gone Before Daylight (Stockholm)
- Evan Dando * Baby I'm Bored (Bar None)
- The Microphones * Mount Eerie (k)
- Zwan * Mary Star of the Sea (Reprise)
- Sophie Ellis Bextor * Shoot From The Hip (Polydor UK)
- Dizzee Rascal * Boy In Da Corner (XL)
These are alphabetical because I have not yet heard them (but they come recommended by reasonably reputable sources)
- Amadou & Mariam * Wati (Universal)
- Antipop Consortium vs Matthew Shipp * (Thirsty Ear)
- Bed * Spacebox (Ici D'Alleurs)
- Bottom Of The Hudson * The Omaha Record (Absolutely Kosher)
- Breathless * Behind The Light (Tenor Vossa)
- Brokeback * Looks at Birds (Thrill Jockey)
- Broken Family Band * Cold Water Songs (Snowstorm)
- Buck 65 * Talkin' Honky Tonk Blues (WEA)
- Joe Budden (Def Jam)
- The Buffseeds * The Picture Show (Fantastic)
- Paul Burch * Fool For Love (Spit & Polish)
- Cex * Being Ridden (Temporary Residence)
- Consonant * Love And Affliction (Fenway)
- Julian Cope * Rome Wasn't Buried In A Day (Head Heritage)
- Cyann & Ben * Spring (Locust)
- De La Soul * SFS: Spit Flows & Safety (It Ain't Safe in the Water) (Sequence)
- Julie Doiron * Broken Girl (Jagjaguwar)
- Dub Syndicate * Murder Tone (On-U Sound)
- East River Pipe * Garbageheads on Endless Stun (Merge)
- Echoboy * Giraffe (Mute)
- The 88 * Kind Of Light (BMK)
- Electric Six * Fire (XL/Beggars)
- El-P * El-P Presents Sunrise In Brooklyn (Def Jux)
- Evil Beaver * Pleased to Eat You (Johann's Face)
- Exo * The Safety Primer Justice (i4)
- Fallacy * Blackmarket Boy (Virgin)
- Freescha * What's Come Inside You (Attack 9)
- Bill Frisell/Marc Ribot/Tim Sparks * Masada Guitars (Tzadik)
- Further Seems Forever * How To Start A Fire (Tooth And Nail)
- Future Bible Heroes * The Lonely Robot (Instinct)
- Howe Gelb * The Listener (Thrill Jockey)
- The Haunted * One Kill Wonder (Earache)
- I Am Kloot (Echo)
- Ima Robot (Virgin)
- The Jealous Sound * Kill Them With Kindness (Better Looking)
- Ted Leo & The Pharmacists * Hearts of Oak (Lookout!)
- The Long Winters * When I Pretend T oFall (Munich)
- Loop Guru * Bathtime With Loop Guru (Elsewhen)
- The Magic Band * Back To The Front (All Tomorrow's Parties)
- The Magic Magicians (Suicide Squeeze)
- April March * Triggers (Tricagel)
- Melt Banana * Cell-Scape (A-zap)
- More Fire Crew * More Fire Crew C.V. (Go Beat)
- Mull Historical Society * Society Us (Beggars)
- Nephlim Modulation Systems * Woe to Thee O Land When Thy King Is a Child (Big Dada)
- New Wet Kojak * The Glamorous (Beggars)
- Nurse With Wound * Salt Marie Celeste (United Dairies)
- Oh Susanna (Hot Records)
- Einar Orn * Ghostigital (Honest Jons)
- Piano Magic * The Troubled Sleep Of Piano Magic (Green UFOs)
- The Proclaimers * Born Innocent (Persevere)
- Radio Dept. * Lesser Matters (Shelflife)
- Radio Tarifa * Fiebre (World Circuit)
- Sarafin * No Push Collide (Taste)
- Adrian Sherwood * Never Trust A Hippy (Real World)
- Sole * Selling Live Water (Anticon)
- South San Gabriel * Welcome, Convalescence (Undertow)
- Spearmint * My Missing Days (Hitback)
- Joss Stone * The Soul Sessions (Relentless)
- Summer Hymns * Clemency (Misra)
- Nobukazu Takemura * 10th (Thrill Jockey)
- Themselves * The No Music Of Aiffs (Anticon)
- Trailer Bride * Hope Is a Thing With Feathers (Bloodshot)
- Trouble Hubble * Penturbia (Latest Flame)
- TRS-80 * Shake Hands with Danger (File 13)
- Venetian Snares * Chocolate Wheelchair Album (Planet Mu)
- Vibracathedral Orchestra * Queen Of Guess (VHF)
- The Waterboys * Universal Hall (Puck)
- Keith Fullerton Whitman * Dartmouth Street Underpass (Locust)
- Worm Is Green * Automagic (Thule Iceland)
- The Zephyrs * A Year To The Day (Setanta)
- Various * Rough Trade Shops 2002: Counter Culture (RT)
10-
2002
- N*E*R*D * In Search Of ... (Virgin)
- The Flaming Lips * Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner)
- Wilco * Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
- Amon Tobin * Out From Out Where (Ninja Tune)
- The Notwist * Neon Golden (City Slang)
9+
- Nina Nastasia * The Blackened Air (Touch and Go)
- Queens Of The Stone Age * Songs For The Deaf (Interscope)
- My Computer * Vulnerabilia (13 Amp UK)
- Rob * Satyred Love (Source/Virgin Fr)
- Plush * Fed (After Hours Jpn)
- Arto Lindsay * Invoke (Righteous Babe)
- Tom Waits * Alice (Anti/Epitaph)
- Neko Case * Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
- Nação Zumbí (Trama)
- Out Hud * S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. (Kranky)
- Schneider TM * Zoomer (City Slang)
- Domenico +2 * Sincerely Hot (Nippon Crown)
- Mastodon * Remission (Relapse)
- Rjd2 * Deadringer (Def Jux)
- DJ /rupture * Minesweeper Suite (Tigerbeat6)
- Spoon * Kill The Moonlight (Merge)
- Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man * Out Of Season (Go Beat UK)
- The Libertines * Up The Bracket (Rough Trade)
- Ampop * Made For Market (TMT/Thule Musik Iceland)
- Mum * Finally We Are No One (Fat Cat)
- Tom Waits * Blood Money (Anti/Epitaph)
- Sleater-Kinney * One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)
- Sigur Ros * ( ) (Fat Cat/MCA)
- The Walkmen * Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone (Startime)
- The Roots * Phrenology (MCA)
- Max De Castro * Orchestra Klaxon (Trama)
- Broken Social Scene * You Forgot It In People (Paper Bag)
- Interpol * Turn On The Bright Lights (Matador)
- The Fire Show * Saint The Fire Show (Perishable)
- Boards Of Canada * Geogaddi (Warp)
- Sixteen Horsepower * Folklore (Jetset)
- John Vanderslice * The Life And Death Of An American Fourtracker (Barsuk)
- Gallon Drunk * Fire Music (Sweet Nothing UK)
- Black Heart Procession * Amore Del Topico (Touch And Go)
- Crispy Ambulance * Scissorgun (Darla)
- Ms. John Soda * No P. or D. (Morr)
- Blue States * Man Mountain (XL)
- The Aluminum Group * Happyness (Wishing Tree)
- Cornelius * Point (Matador)
- Various * Red Hot + Riot! Tribute To Fela (MCA)
- The Coral (Sony UK)
- Isis * Oceanic (Ipecac)
- Radio 4 * Gotham (Gern Blandsten)
- Doves * The Last Broadcast (Heavenly/Astralwerks)
- Archer Prewitt * Three (Thrill Jockey)
- Cornershop * Handcream For A Generation (Luaka Bop)
- Blevin Blectum * Talon Slalom (Deluxe)
- The Books * Thought For Food (Tomlab)
- El-P * Fantastic Damage (Def Jux)
- Dalek * From The Filthy Tongues Of Gods And Griots (Ipecac)
- The Streets * Original Pirate Material (Locked On UK)
- Sonic Youth * Murray Street (Interscope)
- Gomez * In Our Gun (Virgin)
- Gemma Hayes * Night On My Side (Source)
- The Flaming Stars * Sunset & Void (Alternative Tentacles)
- Clinic * Walking With Thee (Domino)
- Godspeed You Black Emperor! * Yanqui U.X.O. (Constellation)
- The National Trust * Dekkagar (Thrill Jockey)
- Eleni Mandell * Snakebite (Spacebaby)
- DJ Shadow * The Private Press (Mo' Wax)
- Lake Trout * Another One Lost (Palm Pictures)
- Blackalicious * Blazing Arrow (Quannum/MCA)
- We Ragazzi * The Ache (Self-Starter)
- Wire * Read & Burn 01 & 02 (Pink Flag)
- The Decemberists * Castaways And Cut-Outs (Hugh)
- Benjamin Biolay * Rose Kennedy (Virgin Fr)
- Totonho & Os Cabra (Trama)
- Boom Bip * Seed To Sun (Lex)
- The Delgados * Hate (Mantra UK)
- Devendra Banhart * Oh Me Oh My... (Young God)
- Deadly Avenger * Deep Red (Illicit)
- 90 Day Men * To Everybody (Southern)
- Mary Timony * The Golden Dove (Matador)
- Primal Scream * Evil Heat (Columbia UK)
- Eileen Rose * Long Shot Novena (Rough Trade/BMG)
- The Breeders * Title TK (4AD/Elektra)
- Nicolai Dunger * Tranquil Isolation (Dolores/Virgin)
- Ojos de Brujo * Baro (La Fabrica de)
- Various * Sonar 2002: Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Arts (Milan)
- Opeth * Deliverance (Koch)
- Tony Allen * HomeCooking (Cornet)
- Jean Grae * Attack Of The Attacking Things (Third Earth)
- Various * Extra Yard (Big Dada)
9
- Frog Eyes * The Bloody Hand (Animal World)
- Kent * Vapen & Ammunition (BMG)
- DJ Dolores + Orchestra Santa Massa * Contraditoria? (Candeeiro/Stern's)
- Pere Ubu * St. Arkansas (Glitterhouse/spinART)
- DJ Cheb i Sabbah * Krishna Lila (Six Degrees)
- Dungen * Stadsvandringar (EMI/Astralwerks)
- Orchestra Baobab * Specialist In All Styles (World Circuit)
- The Black Keys * The Big Come Up (Alive)
- Lenine * Falange Canibal (BMG)
- Ms. Dynamite * A Little Deeper (Universal UK)
- Meshuggah * Nothing (Nuclear Blast)
- Common * Electric Circus (MCA)
- Lewis Taylor * Stoned Part I (Slow Reality)
- Soul Center III (Novamute)
- DAT Politics * Plugs Plus (Chicks On Speed)
- Cinematic Orchestra * Every Day (Ninja Tune)
- Los De Abajo * Cybertropic Chilango Power (Luaka Bop)
- In Flames * Reroute To Remain (Nuclear Blast)
- Solomon Burke * Don't Give Up On Me (Fat Possum)
- Susana Baca * Espiritu Vivo (Luaka Bop)
- Black Dice * Beaches And Canyons (DFA)
- Beck * Sea Change (Interscope)
- Wondermints * Mind If We Make Love To You (Smile)
- Add N to (X) * Loud Like Nature (Mute)
- Ladytron * Light & Magic (Emperor Norton)
- Richard Hawley (Pulp guitarist) * Late Night Final (Bar/None)
- Edwyn Collins * Doctor Syntax (Setanta)
- Nile * In Their Darkened Shrines (Relapse)
- Pretty Girls Make Graves * Good Health (Lookout)
- Tujiko Noriko * Make Me Hard (Mego)
- Technozoide * Bad Innosense (Trama)
- Metro Area (Environ)
- Suicide * American Supreme (Mute/Blast First)
- Recloose * Cardiology (Planet E)
- The Shalabi Effect * The Trial Of St. Orange (Alien8)
- Subway Sect * Sansend (Motion UK)
- Sondre Lerche * Faces Down (Astralwerks)
- Cody ChestnuTT * The Headphone Masterpiece (Ready Set Go)
- Vitesse * You Win Again, Gravity (Hidden Agenda/Parasol)
- The Polyphonic Spree * The Beginning Stages Of... (Good)
- Supergrass * Life On Other Planets (Parolophone UK)
- Cinerama * Torino (Manifesto)
- Radar Brothers * And The Surrounding Mountains (Merge)
- Death In Vegas * Scorpio Rising (Concrete UK)
- Work Of Saws * Pious Flats (Thick)
- Simian * We Are Your Friends (Source/Astralwerk)
- Ikara Colt * Chart And Business (Fantastic)
- Dimension Zero * Silent Night Fever (Century Media)
- Bloodbath * Resurrection Through Carnage (Century Media)
- The Gloria Record * Start Here (Arena Rock)
- Bellini * Snowing Sun (Monitor)
- Mr. Lif * I Phantom (Def Jux)
- Talib Kweli * Quality (Rawkus/Universal)
- Dead Prez * Turn Off The Radio (Loud/Columbia)
- Jurassic 5 * Power In Numbers (Interscope)
- And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead * Source Tags & Codes (Interscope)
- The Warlocks * The Phoenix Album (Birdman)
- Flogging Molly * Drunken Lullabies (SideOneDummy)
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * Plastic Fang (Matador)
- ShelleyDevoto * Buzzkunst (spinART)
- Hot Snakes * Suicide Invoice (Swami)
- The French Kicks * One Time Bells (Star Light)
- Song Of Zarathustra * A View From High Tides (Troubleman)
- The Rogers Sisters * Purely Evil (Troubleman)
- Dark Suns * Swanlike (Voice Of Life)
- Marianne Faithfull * Kissin Time (Virgin/Hut)
- Missy Elliott * Under Construction (Elektra)
- Horse Stories * Travelling Mercies (For Troubled Paths) (Loose UK)
- Anti-Pop Consortium * Arrhythmia (Warp)
- DJ Krush * Shinsou: Messate At The Depth (Red Ink)
- Nada Surf * Let Go (EMI)
- Hot Hot Heat * Make Up the Breakdown (Sub Pop)
- Fennesz/O'Rourke/Rehberg * The Return of FennO'Berg (Mego)
- Pepito * Migrante (This Record Label)
- Dot Allison * We Are Science (Mantra)
- Swayzak * Dirty Dancing (K7)
- Los Lobos * Good Morning Aztlan (Mammoth)
- Café Tacvba * Vale Callampa EP (MCA)
- Guided By Voices * Universal Truths And Cycles (Matador)
- Meshell Ndegeocello * Cookie: The Antropological Mixtape (Maverick/Warner)
- Luna * Romantica (Jetset)
- Position Normal * Goodly Time (Rum Records)
- Boas * Mansion (Overcoat)
- Caitlin Cary * While You Weren't Looking (Yep Roc)
- Julie Doiron * Heart & Crime (Jagjaguwar)
- Trio Mocoto * Samba Rock (Six Degrees)
- Chris Mills * The Silver Line (Sugar Free/Loose)
- Giant Sand * Cover Magazine (Thrill Jockey)
- Songs: Ohia * Didn't It Rain (Secretly Canadian)
- Leaves * Breathe (B-Unique/Warner)
- Peter Murphy * Dust (Metropolis)
- Josh Rouse * Under Cold Blue Stars (Slow River/Rykodisc)
- Lambchop * Is A Woman (Merge)
- Jute * A Violent Narcotic (Catalyst)
- Tahiti 80 * Wallpaper for the Soul (Minty Fresh)
- Cousteau * Sirena (Palm Pictures)
- Silkworm * Italian Platinum (Touch And Go)
- Cee-Lo * Cee-Lo Green And His Perfect IMperfections (Arista)
- Sue Garner * Shadyside (Thrill Jockey)
- Richard Buckner * Impasse (Overcoat)
- The Mars Volta * Tremulant EP (GSL)
- Neil Michael Hagerty * Plays That Good Old Rock And Roll EP (Drag City)
- Bad Religion * The Process Of Belief (Epitaph)
- Jay Bennett & Edward Burch * The Palace at 4 A.M. (Undertow)
- Chris Brokaw * Red Cities (Atavistic)
- +/- * Self-Titled Long-Playing Debut Album (Teen Beat)
- David Kilgour * A Feather in the Engine (Merge)
- Steve Earle * Jerusalem (Artemis)
- GZA/Genius * Legend Of The Liquid Sword (MCA)
- McLusky * McLusky Do Dallas (Too Pure)
- David Grubbs * Rickets & Scurvy (Drag City)
- Chemical Brothers * Come With Us (Astralwerks)
- The Party Of Helicopters * Space...And How Sweet It Was (Troubleman Unlimited)
- Elf Power * Creatures (spinART/Sugar Free)
- The Mercury Program * A Data Learn The Language (Tiger Style)
- Xinlisupreme * Tomorrow Never Comes (Fat Cat)
- Damien Jurado * I Break Chairs (Sub Pop)
- Love Life * Here Is Night, Brothers, Here the Birds Burn (Jagjaguwar)
- Miss Kitten * On The Road (Terminal Music)
- Longwave * Day Sleeper EP (Fenway)
- Kinky (Nettwerk)
- Thievery Corporation * The Richest Man In Babylon (Verve)
- Youssou N'Dour * Nothing's in Vain (Nonesuch)
- Salif Keita * Moffou (Universal)
- Natacha Atlas * Foretold In The Language Of Dreams (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
- Thievery Corporation * The Richest Man In Babylon (Verve)
- Echo & The Bunnymen * Live In Liverpool (Cooking
Vinyl)
9-
- Floetry * Floetic (Dreamworks)
- Joseph Arthur * Redemptions's Son (EMI)
- Deerhoof * Reveille (Kill Rock Stars)
- Motörhead * Hammered (Sanctuary)
- Girls Against Boys * You Can't Fight What You Can't See (Jade Tree)
- The Datsuns (V2)
- Panthers * Are You Down?? (Troubleman Unlimited)
- The Mendoza Line * Lost In Revelry (Misra)
- Low * Trust (Kranky)
- Division Of Laura Lee * Black City (Epitaph)
- Cex * Tall, Dark & Handcuffed (Tigerbeat6)
- Saloon * (This Is) What We Call Progress (Darla)
- Chan Poling * Calling All Stars (Manifesto)
- Idlewild * The Remote Part (Parlophone UK)
- OK Go (Capitol)
- Tift Merritt * Bramble Rose (Lost Highway)
- Woodbine (Domino)
- Roddy Frame * Surf (Redemption UK)
- Rilo Kiley * The Execution of All Things (Saddle Creek)
- Beachwood Sparks * Make The Cowboy Robots Cry EP (Sub Pop)
- Trans Am * T.A. (Thrill Jockey)
- The Gossip * Arkansas Heat EP (Kill Rock Stars)
- Piano Magic * Writers Without Homes (4AD)
- The Fucking Champs * V (Drag City)
- Tram * A Kind Of Closure (Jetset)
- Windsor For the Derby * The Emotional Rescue LP (Aesthetic)
- Oxes * Oxxxes (Monitor)
- Coldplay * A Rush Of Blood To The Head (Parlophone)
- Underworld * A Hundred Days Off (V2)
- Bryan Ferry * Frantic (EMI)
- Sir * The Night I Met My Second Wife (Pehr)
- Subtonix * Tarantism (Troubleman Unlimited)
- Weird War (Drag City)
- The Dishes * 1-2 (No. 89)
- Aime Mann * Lost In Space (Superego)
- Mirah * Advisory Committee (K)
- Electric Wizard * Let Us Prey (Rise Above/The Music Cartel)
- Shy Child * Please Consider Our Time (Grenadine)
- Tanya Donnelly * beautysleep (4AD/Beggars Banquet)
- Mates Of State * Our Constant Concern (Polyvinyl)
- Brendan Benson * Lapalco (Startime)
- Lo Fidelity Allstars * Don't Be Afraid Of Love (Skint/Columbia)
- Richard Ashcroft * Human Condition (Hut)
- Bright Eyes * Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil; Keep Your Ear to the
Ground (Saddle Creek)
8
- Porcupine Tree * In Absentia (Lava)
- Sparta * Austere EP (Dreamworks)
- Go Back Snowball [Robert Pollard & Mac McCaughan] * Calling Zero (Luna/Rockathon)
- Airport 5 [Robert Pollard & Tobin Sprout] * Life Starts Here (Luna/Rockathon)
- Milky Wimpshake * Lovers Not Fighters (Troubleman Unlimited)
- Ee * For 100 We Try Harder (Asian Man)
- Crosstops * Cloverleaf Fandango (Tinnitus)
- The Vines * Highly Evolved (Capitol)
- The Electric Soft Parade * Holes In The Wall (DB)
- Moby * 18 (V2)
- The Bigger Lovers * Honey In Hive (Yep Roc)
- Anniversary * Your Majesty (Vagrant)
- Badly Drawn Boy * Have You Fed The Fish? (XL)
- gusgus * Attention (Moonshine)
- Gay Dad * Transmission (Thirsty Ear)
- The Music (Hut)
- Moth * Provisions, Fiction And Gear (Virgin)
- Kasey Chambers * Barricades & Brickwalls (WB)
- Future Bible Heroes * Eternal Youth (Instinct)
These are alphabetical because I have not yet heard them (but they come recommended by reasonably reputable sources)
- Acid Mothers Temple * In C (Squealer)
- Barry Adamson * The King Of Nothing Hill (Mute)
- Aloha * Sugar (Polyvinyl)
- Atomic Bitchwax * Spit Blood (Meteorcity)
- Derek Bailey * Ballads (Tzadik)
- The Baldwin Brothers * Cooking With Lasers (TVT)
- Howie Beck * Hollow (Future Farmer)
- Brant Bjork and the Operators (The Music Cartel)
- Black Tape For A Blue Girl * The Scavanger Bride (Projekt)
- Billy Bragg * English, Half English (Elektra)
- The Peter Bruntnell Combination * Ends Of The Earth (Back Porch)
- Cannibal Corpse * Gore Obsessed (Metal Blade)
- Capleton * Still Blazing (VP)
- Marc Carroll * Ten Of Swords (Evangeline)
- Johnny Cash * American IV: The Man Comes Around (American)Carpark)
- Casino Versus Japan * Whole Numbers Play the Basics (Carpark)
- Cato Salsa Experience * A Tip For A Good Time (Emperor Norton)
- Asa-Chang & Junray * Jun Ray Sung Chang (Leaf)
- Chumbawamba * Readymade (Republic/Universal) Summer
- The Church * After Everything? Now This (Thirsty Ear)
- Coco * The Coco Sound (K)
- Comets on Fire * Field Recordings from the Sun (Ba Da Bing!)
- Consonant (Fenway)
- Cranes * Future Songs (Instinct)
- Cul De Sac * Immortality Lessons (Strange Attractors)
- Ritesh Das and the Toronto Tabla Ensemble * Weaving (Naxos World)
- Death Cab For Cutie * You Can Play These Songs With Chords (Barsuk)
- Desparecidos * Read Music/Speak Spanish (Saddle Creek)
- Destroyer * This Night (Merge)
- Dimitri from Paris * After the Playboy Mansion, Vol. 2 (Astralwerks)
- The Distillers * Sing Sing Death House (Hellcat)
- DJ Spooky * Modern Mantra (Shadow)
- The Donnas * Spend the Night (Atlantic)
- Kevin Drumm * Sheer Hellish Miasma (Mego)
- Ekkehard Ehlers * Plays (Staubgold)
- Mark Eitzel * Courage and Confidence (New West)
- Elders Of Zion * Dawn Refuses To Rise (Incidental)
- Enon * High Society (Touch & Go)
- ESG * Step Off (Soul Jazz)
- The Flaming Sideburns * Save Rock 'n' Roll (Jetset)
- The Flying Luttenbachers * Infection and Decline (Troubleman)
- Fog (Ninja Tune)
- 4Hero * Creating Patterns (Talkin' Loud)
- Fu Manchu * California Crossing (Mammoth)
- Future Sound Of London * Amorphous Androgynous: The Issness (Hypnotic)
- Peter Gabriel * Up (Geffen/Interscope)
- Ghostface Killah * Wonderful World of Wallabees (Epic)
- Goudie * Effects Of Madness (India UK)
- Hefner * Dead Media (Too Pure/Beggars Banquet)
- The Hellacopters * High Visibility (Gearhead)
- Hem * I'm Talking With My Mouth EP (Setanta)
- Hrvatski * Swarm & Dither (Planet 0)
- I Am The World Trade Center * The Tight Connection (Kindercore)
- Imperial Teen * On (Merge)
- Iron & Wine * The Creek Drank The Cradle (Sub Pop)
- Jackie-O Motherfucker * Change (Textile)
- Philip Jeck * Stoke (Touch)
- Jets To Brazil * Perfecting Loneliness (Jade Tree)
- Norah Jones * Come Away With Me (Blue Note)
- Katastropy Wife (ex-Babes in Toyland Kat Bjelland) * Amusia (AlmaFame)
- Kenna * New Sacred Cow (Flawless/Geffen)
- Angelique Kidjo * Black Ivory Soul (Columbia)
- Lemon Jelly * Lost Horizons (Beggars/XL)
- Luna * Close Cover Before Striking (Jetset)
- Mantler * Sadisfaction (Tomlab)
- Jesse Malin * The Fine Art Of Self-Destruction (One Little)
- Doug Martsch * Now You Know (WB)
- Shannon McNally * Jukebox Sparrows (Capitol)
- Mecca Normal * The Family Swan (Kill Rock Stars)
- The Mekons * O.O.O.H. (Quarterstick)
- Buddy Miller * Midnight and Lonesome (HighTone)
- Minus 5 * Bored at the Bed In (Malt/Mammoth)
- The Mooney Suzuki * Electric Sweat (Gammon)
- Morcheeba * Charango (WEA)
- Mountain Goats * All Hail West Texas (Emperor Jones)
- Mr. Scruff * Trouser Jazz (Ninja Tune)
- Mudhoney * Since We've Become Translucent (Sub Pop)
- Dan Nakamura * Wanna Buy a Monkey? (Sequence)
- Nas * God's Son (Columbia)
- Negativland * Death Sentences of the Polished and Structurally Weak (Seeland)
- Nekromantix * Return Of The Loving Dead (Hellcat/Epitaph)
- Noonday Underground * Surface Noise (Setani)
- Sinead O'Connor * Sean Nas Nua (Vanguard)
- Of Montreal * Aldhills Arboretum (Kindercore)
- Tara Jane Oneill * TJO TKO (Mr. Lady)
- Beth Orton * Daybreaker (Dreamworks)
- Oxide & Neutrino * 2 Steps Ahead (EastWest)
- John Parish * How Animals Move (Thrill Jockey)
- Pedro The Lion * Control (Jade Tree)
- Grant Lee Philips * Ladies' Love Oracle (Zoe/Rounder)
- Pony Club * Home Truths (Setanta)
- Promise Ring * Woodwater (Anti/Foreign Leisure)
- The Pupils (Dischord)
- Queers * Pleasant Screams (Lookout!)
- Q & Not U * Different Damage (Dischord)
- Q-Tip * Kamaal/The Abstract (Arista)
- Racebannon * In The Grips Of the Light (Secretly Canadian)
- Raging Speedhorn * We Will Be Dead Tomorrow (ZTT)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers * By The Way (WEA)
- The Reindeer Section * Son Of Evil Reindeer (PIAS America)
- Rev. Horton Heat * Lucky 7 (Artemis)
- Rocket from the Crypt * Live from Camp X-Ray (Vagrant)
- Roni Size * Touching Down (Full Cycle)
- Rye Coalition * On Top (Tiger Style)
- Saint Etienne * Finistere (Mantra/Beggars Group)
- Secret Machines * September 000 (Ace Fu)
- The Selby Tigers * The Curse of (Hopeless)
- Matthew Shipp * Nu Bop (Thirsty Ear)
- The Sights * Got What We Want (Fall Of Rome)
- Six Organs Of Admittance * Dark Noontide (Holy Mountain)
- Sixpence None The Richer * Divine Discontent (Reprise)
- Slum Village * Trinity (Priority/Capitol)
- The Soft Boys * Nextdoorland (Matador)
- Soft Cell * Cruelty Without Beauty (Cooking Vinyl)
- Soviet * We Are Eyes, We Are Builders (Plastiq Musiq)
- Sparta * Wiretap Scars (Dreamworks)
- Spock's Beard * Snow (Metal Blade)
- Spring Heel Jack * Amassed (Thirsty Ear)
- The Stratford 4 * Results Against Tired Noises (Jet Set)
- Streetwalkin' Cheetahs * Guitars, Guns & Gold (Triple X)
- The Stuck-Ups * Human Doll Express (SFTRI)
- Suede * A New Morning (Epic)
- Nobukazu Takemura * Signs (Thrill Jockey)
- Temple Of Sound * First Edition (Wargram)
- This Computer Kills (New Red )
- Linda Thompson * Fashionably Late (Topic)
- Town and Country * C'mon (Thrill Jockey)
- Transparents and Emotional Amputation (Electrix)
- Max Tundra * Mastered by the Guy at the Exchange (Tigerbeat6)
- Vapourspace * Sonic Residue from (Magna Carta)
- Velvet Crush * Soft Sounds (Action Musik)
- V for Vendetta * Beneath This Mask, Another Mask (Mr. Lady)
- Vex Red * Start With A Strong And Persistent Desire (Virgin)
- VNV Nation * Futureperfect (Metropolis)
- The Waco Brothers * New Deal (Bloodshot)
- Anna Waronker * Anna (Five Foot Two)
- Weezer * Maladroit (DGC/Interscope)
- Chuck E. Weiss * Old Soul & Wolf Tickets (Slow River/Rykodisc)
- Whiskey Biscuit (Loose)
- Keith Fullerton Whitman * Playthroughs (Kranky)
- Hank Williams III * Lovesick, Broke and... Driftin? (Curb)
- Kelly Willis * Easy (Rykodisc)
- X-ecutioners * Built From Scratch (Loud)
- Xinlisupreme * Murder License EP (Fat Cat)
- Yo La Tengo * The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science (Egon)
10-
2001
- Björk * Vespertine (Elektra)
9+
- Hawksley Workman * (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves (Universal)
- The Strokes * Is This It (RCA/BMG)
- Fugazi * The Argument (Dischord)
- Mercury Rev * All Is Dream (V2)
- Sparklehorse * It's A Wonderful Life (EMI/Parlophone)
- Ed Harcourt * Here Be Monsters (Virgin)
- Pulp * We Love Life (Uni/Island)
- Gorky's Zygotic Mynci * How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
- Super Furry Animals * Rings Around The World (Epic)
- The Czars * The Ugly People Vs. The Beautiful People (Bellaire)
- Eels * Soul Jacker (Dreamworks)
- Radiohead * Amnesiac (Capitol)
- Gorillaz (Virgin)
- The Dismemberment Plan * Change (De Soto)
- Steve Wynn * Here Come The Miracles (Innerstate)
- Four Tet * Pause (Domino)
- !!! (Chik Chik Chik) (Gold Standard)
- Otto * Condom Black (Trama)
- Opeth * Blackwater Park (Koch)
- N*E*R*D * In Search Of... (Virgin)
- Roots Manuva * Run Come Save Me (Big Dada)
- The White Stripes * White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
- Max De Castro * Samba Raro (Trama)
- Blue States * Nothing Changes Under The Sun (ESL)
- Mark Lanegan * Field Songs (Sub Pop)
- Dub Pistols * Six Million Ways To Live (Universal)
- Cannibal Ox * Cold Vein (Ozone Music)
- John Vanderslice * Time Travel Is Lonely (Barsuk)
- Kaada * Thank You For Giving Me Your Valuable Time (Ipecac)
- Mogwai * Rock Action (Matador)
- Tindersticks * Can Our Love... (Beggas Banquet)
- Le Tigre * Feminist Sweepstakes (Mr. Lady)
- The Boredoms * Vision, Creation, Newsun (WEA Japan)
- The Microphones * The Glow, Pt. 2 (K)
- Spoon * Girls Can Tell (Merge)
- Prefuse 73 * Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives (Warp)
- Orlando Cachaito Lopez * Cachaito (World Circuit)
- Fennesz * Endless Summer (Mego)
- Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire * The Swimming Hour (Rykodisc)
- Sufjan Stevens * Enjoy Your Rabbit (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Explosions In The Sky * How Strange, Innocense (Temporary)
- Even Johansen * Quiet & Still (FiveOne)
- Nicolai Dunger * Soul Rush (Delores/Lakeshore)
- Hood * Cold House (Aesthetics)
- Sahara Hotnights * Jennie Bomb (Jet Set)
- The Liars * They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top (Mute)
- No Doubt * Rock Steady (Interscope)
- The Flaming Stars * A Walk On The Wired Side (Vinyl Japan)
- Nitin Sawhney * Prophesy (V2)
- Built To Spill * Ancient Melodies Of The Future (WB)
- Elbow * Asleep In The Back (V2)
- Circulatory System (Cloud Recordings)
- Pernice Brothers * The World Won't End (Ashmont)
- Jim O'Rourke * Insignificance (Drag City)
- Foetus * Flow (Thirsty Ear)
- Shannon Wright * Dyed In The Wool (Quarterstick)
- Stereolab * Sound-Dust (Elektra)
- Bilal * 1st Born Second (Interscope)
- Ben Christophers * Spoonface (V2)
- The Autumn Defense * The Green Hour (Broadmoor)
- Handsome Family * Twilight (Carrot Top)
- Unwound * Leaves Turn Inside You (Kill Rock Stars)
- Fridge * Happiness (Temporary Residence)
- Spiritualized * Let It Come Down (Arista)
- Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros * Global A Go-Go (Hellcat)
- The American Analog Set * Know By Heart (Tiger Style)
- Royksopp * Melody A.M. (Wall Of Sond/EMI)
- Stars * Nightsongs (Le Grand)
- Lali Puna * Scary World Theory (Morr)
- Stars * Nightsongs (LeGrand)
- Broken Social Scene * Feel Good Lost (Noise Factory)
- Thalia Zedek * Been Here and Gone (Matador)
- The Tyde * Once (Track & Field)
- The Shins * Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop)
- Papa M * Whatever, Mortal (Drag City)
- The (International) Noise Conspiracy * A New Morning, Changing Weather (Epitaph)
- Moreno Veloso +2 * Music Typewriter (Hannibal/Natasha)
- Bardo Pond * Dilate (Matador)
- Thea Gilmore * Rules For Jokers (Flyin')
- Tom Zé * Jogos De Armar (Trama)
- Gigi (Palm Pictures)
- The Seconds * Y (5RC)
- Chris Lee * Plays & Sings Torch'd Songs, Charivari Hymns & Oriki Blue-Marches (Smells Like)
- Tortoise * Standards (Thrill Jockey)
- Enslaved * Monumension (Osmose)
- The Beta Band * Hotshots II (Astralwerks)
- Guided By Voices * Isolation Drills (TVT)
- Rocket From The Crypt * Group Sounds (TVT/Vagrant)
- Tiga/Various * American Gigalo (International DJ)
- Animal Collective/Avey tare & Panda Bear * Danse Manatee (Cats Up Plate)
- Various * All Tomorrow's Parties 1.0 (ATPR)
9
- The Avalanches * Since I Left You (Sire/Modular)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds * No More Shall We Part (Elektra)
- Fischerspooner * #1 (Ministry of Sound/Capitol)
- Katatonia * Last Fair Deal Gone Down (Peaceville/Snapper)
- R.E.M. * Reveal (WB)
- Rob * Don't Kill (Source Fr)
- Basement Jaxx * Rooty (XL)
- Manitoba * Start Breaking My Heart (Domino)
- Hector Zazou & Sandy Dillon * Las Vegas Is Curved (First World)
- Picastro * Red Your Blues (Pehr)
- Soundtrack Of Our Lives * Behind The Music (WEA)
- Natacha Atlas * Ayeshteni (Mantra)
- You Am I * Dress Me Slowly (BMG)
- Helio Sequence * Young Effectuals (Cavity Search)
- Life Without Buildings * Any Other City (Tugboat)
- Explosions In The Sky * Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever (Temporary)
- Playgroup (Source/Astralwerks)
- Joe Henry * Scar (Mammoth)
- Peaches * The Teaches Of Peaches (Kitty-Yo)
- Electric Company * 62-56 (Tigerbeat6)
- Soilent Green * A Deleted Symphony For the Beaten Down (Relapse)
- Kylie Minogue * Fever (EMI)
- Lucinda Williams * Essence (UNI/Lost Highway)
- Jim White * No Such Place (Luaka Bop)
- Femi Kuti * Fight To Win (MCA)
- Operator Generator * Polar Fleet (Man's Ruin)
- Autechre * Confield (Warp)
- Kreator * Violent Revolution (Steamhammer/SPV)
- Manu Chao * Proxima Estacion: Esperanza (EMD/Virgin)
- Rufus Wainright * Poses (Dreamworks)
- Tim Hecker * Haunt Me, Haunt Me Again (Substractif)
- Gillian Welch * Time (The Revelator) (Acony)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP (Wichita/Touch And Go)
- Adult * Resuscitation (Ersatz Audio)
- Trilok Gurtu * The Beat Of Love (Blue Note)
- Rachid Taha * Made In Medina (Mondo Melodia)
- Tool * Lateralus/Systema Encephale (Volcano)
- So Solid Crew * They Don't Know (Independiente)
- The Fire Show * Above the Volcano of Flowers (Perishable)
- Sloan * Pretty Together (Murder)
- Jay Farrar * Sebastapol (Artemis)
- Scout NIblett * Sweet Heart Fever (Secretly Canadian)
- Summer Hymns * Celebratory Arm Gesture (Misra)
- Beachwood Sparks * Once We Were Trees (Sub Pop)
- The Coup * Party Music (75 Ark)
- Missy Elliott * Miss E . . . So Addictive (WEA/Elektra)
- Kevin Tihista's Red Terror * Don't Breathe A Word (Blanco Y Negro)
- Burning Airlines * Identikit (DeSoto)
- Erase Errata * Other Animals (Troubleman)
- The Kingsbury Manx * Let You Down (Overcoat)
- Bobby Conn * The Golden Age (Thrill Jockey)
- Trembling Blue Stars * Alive To Every Smile (Sub Pop)
- Firewater * Psychopharmacology (Jetset)
- Fanfare Ciocarlia * Iag Bari (Piranha)
- The Faint * Danse Macabre (Saddle Creek)
- Krishna Das * Breath of the Heart (Triloka)
- Willard Grant Conspiracy * Everything's Fine (Rykodisc/Slow River)
- Califone * Roomsound (Perishable)
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club * B.R.M.C. (Virgin)
- Simian * Chemistry Is What We Are (Source/Astralwerks)
- Love As Laughter * Sea to Shining Sea (Sub Pop)
- Shelby Lynne * Love, Shelby (Island)
- Tara Jane O'Neil * In The Sun Lines (Quarterstick)
- Bob Dylan * Love And Theft (Columbia)
- Music For Mapmakers (Grenadine)
- Vue * Find Your Home (Sub Pop)
- Old 97's * Satellite Ride (Elektra)
- Beulah * The Coast Is Never Clear (Velocette)
- Her Space Holiday * Manic Expressive (Tiger Style)
- Ida * The Braille Night (Tiger Style)
- Mouse On Mars * Idiology (Thrill Jockey)
- Labradford : Fixed::Content (Kranky)
- Matmos * A Chance to Cut Is a Chance To Cure (Matador)
- The Rapture * Out Of The Races And Onto The Tracks EP (Sub Pop)
- Radiohead * I Might Be Wrong (Capitol)
- 16 Horsepower * Hoarse (Checkered Past)
- Daft Punk * Discovery (Virgin)
- Set Fire To Flames * Sings Reign Rebuilder (Alien 8)
- Talvin Singh * Ha (Island)
- Dilated Peoples * Expansion Team (Capitol)
- Karsh Kale * Realize (Six Degrees)
- Cex * Oops, I Did It Again! (Tigerbeat6)
- Lift To Experience * The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (Bella Union)
- Scarlet Life * Sugar, Spice, Saccharin & Cyanide (DivaNation)
- Karma Sutra * Prana (Invisible/DivaNation)
- Angels Of Light * How I Loved You (Young God)
- Badmarsh & Shri * Signs (Nutone/Nettwerk)
- Tim Easton * The Truth About Us (New West)
- Burning Brides * Fall of the Plastic Empire (V2)
- Tweaker * The Attraction To All Things Uncertain (Six Degrees)
- Isis * Celestial (7)
- Godflesh * Hymns (Earache)
- Entombed * Morning Star (Music for the Nations)
- The Haunted * Made Me Do It (Earache)
- Che * Sounds Of Liberation (Man's Ruin)
- The International Noise Conspiracy * Survival Sickness (Burning Heart/Epitaph)
- Fantomas * The Director's Cut (Ipecac)
- Whiskeytown * Pneumonia (Universal)
- The Cash Brothers * How Was Tomorrow (Uni/Zoe)
- Kelly Hogan * Because It Feel Good (Bloodshot)
- Clutch * Pure Rock Fury (Atlantic)
- Lamb * What Sound (Mercury)
- Zeke * Death Alley (Tee Pee)
- Spain * I Believe (Restless)
- Timbaland & Magoo * Indecent Proposal (Virgin)
- Jay-Z * The Blueprint (Roc-A-Fella)
- DJ Krush * Zen (Red Ink)
- Motörhead * Bastards (Steamhammer)
- Aesop Rock * Labor Days (Def Jux)
- Cesaria Evora * Sao Vicente (World Circuit)
- Sheila Chandra * This Sentence Is True (Shakti)
- Susheela Raman * Salt Rain (Narada)
- Temple Of Sound & Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali * People's Colony No. 1 (Real World)
- Felix Da Housecat * Kittenz And Thee Glitz (City Rockers)
- Vinicius Cantuaria * Vinicius (Transparent)
- Joi * We Are Three (Real World)
- Radio Tarifa * Cruzando El Rio (World Circuit)
- Cheb Mami * Dellali (Mondo Melodia/Ark 21)
- Neil Michael Hagerty (Drag City)
- The Butchies * Three (Mr. Lady)
- Rainer Maria * A Better Version Of Me (Polyvinyl)
- Anita Lane * Sex O' Clock (Mute)
- The Frames * For The Birds (Overcoat)
- Teenage Fanclub * Howdy! (Thirsty Ear)
- Zoot Woman * Living In A Magazine (Parlophone)
- Fruit Bats * Echo Location (Perishable)
- Clem Snide * The Ghost Of Fashion (spinART)
- Superchunk * Here's To Shutting Up (Merge)
- Low * Things We Lost In The Fire (Kranky)
- Portastatic * Looking for Leonard (Merge)
- Howe Gelb * Confluence (Thrill Jockey)
- System Of A Down * Toxicity (American)
- Cutthroats 9 (Man's Ruin)
- Old Time Relijun * Witchcraft Rebellion (K)
- The Dictators * D.F.F.D. (Dictators)
- Sea Of Tombs (Gravity)
- Julie Doiron * Desormais (Jagjaguwar)
- Love Life * Rose He Lied By (Troubleman Unlimited)
- Calexico * Aerocalexico (Our Soil, Our Stength)
- Stephen Malkmus (Matador)
- The Chamber Strings * Month Of Sundays (Bobsled)
- DJ Swamp * Never Is Now (Decadent/Lakeshore)
- Nebula * Charged (Sub Pop)
- The Sultans * Ghost Ship (Swami/Sympathy FTRI)
- Dante's Voodoo Cabaret * Songs For Saints And Sinners (Voodoo Cabaret)
- Death Cab For Cutie * The Photo Album (Barsuk)
- Pixeltan (Troubleman)
- Hope Sandoval & Warm Invention * Bavarian Fruit Bread (BMG/Sanctuary)
- Macy Gray * The ID (Epic)
- Stereo Total * The Automatique (Bobsled)
- The Gossip * That's Not What I Heard (Kill Rock Stars)
9-
- Air * 10,000 Hz Legend (Astralwerks)
- Old Man Gloom * Seminar III: Zozobra (Tortuga)
- Transglobal Underground * Yes Boss Food Corner
- Stina Nordenstam * This Is Stina Nordenstam (Independente) (UNI/Ark21)
- Electric Wizard * Dopethrone (Rise Above)
- Slayer * God Hates Us All (American/Columbia)
- David Byrne * Look Into The Eyeball (Virgin)
- Richard Hawley (Setanta)
- Shiner * Egg (De Soto)
- Zao (Tooth & Nail)
- Orthrelm * Asristirveildrioxe EP (Grenadine)
- Edith Frost * Wonder Wonder (Drag City)
- Preston School Of Industry * All This Sounds Gas (Matador)
- The Pharmacists * Ted Leo/Rx Pharmacists (Germ Blandsten)
- Kings of Convenience * Versus (Astralwerks)
- Chocolate Genius * Godmusic (V2)
- Trailer Bride * High Seas (Bloodshot)
- Kings of Convenience * Quiet Is The New Loud (Source/Astralwerks)
- The Lack (Troubleman)
- Ursula Rucker * Supa Sista (Studio !K7)
- The Nerves * World Of Gold (Thrill Jockey)
- Bigg Jus * Plantation Rhymes (Sub Verse)
- Lambchop * Tools In The Dryer (Merge)
- Mary J. Blige * No More Drama (MCA)
- Busta Rhymes * Genesis (J Records)
- Angie Stone * Mahogony Soul (J Records)
- Quasi * The Sword Of God (Touch & Go)
- Warhorse * As Heaven Turns To Ash... (Southern Lord)
- Rammstein * Mutter (Universal)
- My Dying Bride * The Dreadful Hour (Peaceville/Snapper)
- Ex Models * Other Mathematics (Ace Fu)
- Chestnut Station * In Your Living Room (Drag City)
- The Great Crusades * Damaged Goods (Glitterhouse)
- Maxwell * Now (Columbia)
- Jill Scott * Experience (Sony)
- Evil Beaver * Lick It! (Four Alarm)
- Buddy & Julie Miller (Hightone)
- ABCs (Troubleman)
- Dungeon Family * ...Even in Darkness (Arista)
- The Donnas * The Donnas Turn 21 (Lookout!)
- John Hammond * Wicked Grin (Virgin)
- Ghostface Killah * Bulletproof Wallets (Epic)
- Bonnie 'Prince' Billy * Ease Down The Road (Palace Records)
- Le Tigre * From The Desk of Mr. Lady EP (Mr. Lady)
- The Bigger Lovers * How I Learned To Stop Worrying (Black Dog)
8
- Garbage * Beautiful Garbage (Mushroom)
- Black Crowes * Lion (V2)
- Tom McRae (BMG/Arista)
- Monster Magnet * God Says No (A&M)
- Pete Yorn * Musicforthemorningafter (Sony)
- Muse * Origin Of Symmetry (Mushroom)
- Rollins Band * Nice (BMG/Sanctuary)
- Kool Keith * Spankmaster (TVT)
- Bullfrog (Ropeadope)
- Rizzo * Phoning It In (Sympathy For the Record Industry)
- Nick Lowe * The Convincer (Proper)
7+
- Ryan Adams * Gold (Lost Highway)
6+
- Weezer * The Green Album (Geffen)
- The Cult * Beyond Good & Evil (Lava/Atlantic)
- Tricky * Blowback (Island)
- Tori Amos * Strange Little Girls (Atlantic)
- Graham Parker * Deepcut to Nowhere (Razor & Tie)
- Leonard Cohen * Ten New Songs (Columbia)
- The Moldy Peaches (Sanctuary)
- Khanate (Southern Lord)
- Tomahawk (Ipecac)
These Are Alphabetical Because I Have Not Yet Heard Them
- Acid Mothers Temple * New Geocentric World (Squealer)
- Akercocke * The Goat Of Mendes (Peaceville/Snapper)
- Alabama Thunderpussy * Staring At The Divine (Man's Ruin)
- Alpha * The Impossible Thrill (Melankolic)
- Anathema * A Fine Day To Exit (Koch)
- The Apes * The Fugue In The Fog (French Kiss)
- Aphex Twin * Drukqs (Warp)
- Arab Strap * The Red Thread (Matador/Chemical Underground)
- Aria * Haze (Bleep)
- Ashley Park * The American Scene (Loose)
- Ass Ponys * Lohio (Checkered Past)
- Aterciopelados * Gozo Poderosa (BMG Latin)
- Atomsmasher (Hydra Head)
- AB Baars Trio * Songs (Geestgronden)
- The Bad Plus (Fresh Sound)
- Howie Beck * Hollow (Easy Tiger)
- The BellRays * Grand Fury (Vital Gesture)
- Ben & Jason * Ten Songs About You (Go Beat)
- Biosphere * Substrata/Man With A Movie Camera (Touch)
- Biota * Invisible Map (Import)
- Bis * Music For A Stranger World (Grand Royal)
- Brant Bjork & The Operators * Cocoa Butter (Man's Ruin)
- Frank Black & the Catholics * Dog In The Sand (What Are Records?)
- Blectum From Blechdom * Haus De Snaus (Tiberbeat6)
- Bluetip * Post Mortem Anthem (Dischord)
- Bonnevill (Mick Turner) * Pelican (Instinct)
- Bran Van 3000 * Discosis (Grand Royal)
- Brassy * Got It Made (Wiija)
- Brokeback * Morse Code in the Modern Age: Across The Americas (Thrill Jockey)
- Bronx Casket Co. * Sweet Home Transylvania
- Buck 65 * Man Overboard (Anticon)
- Cake * Comfort Eagle (Columbia)
- Capitol Years * Meet Yr Acrews (Full Frame)
- The Charlatans * Wonderland (UNI/MCA)
- Chicago Underground Quartet (Thrill Jockey)
- The Clean * Getaway (Merge)
- Clearlake * Lido (Dusty Company)
- cLOUDDEAD (Mush/Big Dada)
- Cockeyed Ghost * Ludlow 6:18 (Karma Frog)
- Comas * A Def Needle In Tomorrow (Plastique/Yep Roc)
- Constantines * The Constantines (Three Gut)
- The Convocation Of... * Pyramid Technology (Tiger Style)
- The Creatures * Sequins In The Sun
- The Crystal Method * Tweekend (Interscope)
- Cypress Hill * Stoned Raiders (Sony)
- The Damned * Grave Disorder (NIT)
- De La Soul * Bionix (Tommy Boy)
- Delerium * Poem (Nettwerk)
- Depeche Mode * Exciter (Warner)
- Dhol Foundation * Big Drum Small World (Shakti)
- Ani DiFranco * Revelling: Reckoning (Righteous Babe)
- Dimitri from Paris * Monsieur Dimitri's De-Luxe House of Funk (Razor & Tie)
- The Distillers * Sin Sin Death House (Hellcat/Epitaph)
- The Divine Comedy * Regeneration (Parolophone)
- Dntel * Life Is Full Of Possibilities (Plug Research)
- Sara Dougher * The Bluff (Mr. Lady)
- Graeme Downes * Hammers And Anvils (Matador)
- The Dum Dum Project * Export Quality (Grooovy Sounds Unlimited)
- Edan * Mic Manipulator (Lewis Recordings)
- Ekkehard Ehlers * Plays Albert Ayler (Staubgold)
- Mark Eitzel * The Invisible Man (Matador)
- Electrelane * Rock It To The Moon (Mr. Lady/Let's Rock!)
- Elysian Fields * Queen Of the Meadow (Flower Shop)
- Embrace * If You've Never Been
- Emperor * Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise (Candlelight)
- Elejandro Escovedo * A Man Under the Influence (Bloodshot)
- The Ex * Dizzy Spells (Touch & Go)
- Explosion Robinson * The Luxury Leader (Slabco)
- Faithless * Outrospective (Arista/Kinetic)
- Fear Factory * DigiMortal (Roadrunner)
- Field Mob * 6:13: Ashy To Classy (MCA)
- Firebird * Deluxe (Music For Nations)
- Ben Folds * Rockin' The Suburbs (Epic)
- French Kicks * Young Lawyer EP (Star Time)
- Fuck * Cupid's Cactus (Smells Like)
- Fushitsusha * Origin's Hesitation (PSF)
- Future Pilot AKA * Tiny Waves, Mighty Sea (Geographic)
- Rebecca Gates * Ruby Series (Badman)
- Warren G * Return Of The Regulator (Uptown/Universal)
- The Get Up Kids * Eudora (Vagrant)
- Goldfrapp * Utopia (EP) (Mute)
- Godhead * 2000 Years Of Human Error (Posthuman)
- Goldie * Goldie Co UK
- Green Velvet * Whatever (Musicman)
- Gridlock * Trace (Unit)
- Luke Haines * The Oliver Twist Manifesto (Hut)
- The Heavy Blinkers * Better Weather (Brobdignagian)
- Arve Henriksen, Sakuteiki (Rune Grammofon)
- Herbert * Bodily Functions (!K7)
- HIM * New Features (Bubble Core)
- Holger Hiller (Mute)
- Beth Hirsch * Titles And Idols (!K7)
- His Name Is Alive * Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth (4AD/Beggars Banquet)
- The Human League * Secrets (Papillon/Chrysalis)
- I Am Kloot * Natural History (We Love You)
- The Icarus Line * Mono (Crank!)
- Idaho * Levitate (Idaho Music)
- Jackie-O Motherfucker * Liberation (Road Cone)
- Bill Janovitz * Up Here (spinART)
- Freedy Johnston * Right Between The Promises (Elektra)
- k * New Problems (Tiger Style)
- Karma To Burn * Almost Heathen (Spitfire)
- Katatonia * Last Fair Deal Gone Down (Peaceville/Snaper)
- Alicia Keys * Songs In A Minor (J)
- Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (Sony/Legacy)
- Kinski * Be Gentle With the Warm Turtle (Pacifico)
- Ladytron * 604 (Emperor Norton)
- Bill Laswell * Carlos Santana - Divine Light (Columbia/Legacy)
- Melissa Lefton (Jive)
- Lightning Bolt * Ride The Skies (Loud)
- Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez * Cachaito (Nonesuch)
- John Oswald * Plunderphonics 69/96 (Seeland)
- The Locust * Flight Of The Wounded Locust (GSL)
- Patty Loveless * Mountain Soul (Epic)
- Lowgold * Just Backward Of Square (Nude)
- Lowsunday * Elesgiem (Projekt)
- Ludacris * Southern Hospitality (Def Jam)
- The Lucksmiths * Why That Doesn't Surprise Me (Drive-In)
- Billy MacKenzie And Steve Aungle * Eurocentric (Eurocentric)
- Marmoset * Record In Red (Secretly Canadian)
- Stephan Mathieu * Frequencylib (Ritornell)
- Paul McCartney * Driving Rain (Parlophone)
- Nathaniel Merriweather Presents Loveage * Music To Make Love to Your Old Lady By (75 Ark)
- Milemarker * Anaesthetic (Jade Tree)
- Minders * Golden Street (Spinart)
- Minus 5 * Let The War Against Music Begin (Malt/Mammoth)
- Roy Montgomery * Silver Wheel Of Prayer (VHF)
- Alan Moore & Tim Perkins * The Highbury Working (Re:)
- Jason Moran Trio * Black Stars (Blue Note)
- Mark Mulcahy * Smile Sunset (Loose)
- Mull Historical Society * Loss (EastWest)
- My Morning Jacket * At Dawn (Darla)
- Toshimaru Nakamura & Sachiko M * Do (Erstwhile)
- Nectarine No. 9 * Received, Transgressed & Transmitted (Beggars Banquet)
- Nataraj XT * Tandava (Nutone)
- New Order * Get Ready (WB)
- The New Year * Newness Ends (Touch And Go)
- Nagisa Ni Te * Songs for A Simple Moment (Geographic)
- Jeb Loy Nichols * Just What Time It Is (Rykodisc)
- Nas * Stillmatic (Columbia)
- Neurosis * A Sun That Never Sets (Relapse)
- No-Neck Blues Band * Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones (Revenant)
- Noonday Underground * Self-Assembly (Bar/None)
- North Mississippi Al Stars, John Medeski & Robert Randolph * The Word (Ropeadope/Atlantic)
- Heather Nova * South (1/2)
- Laura Nyro * Angel In The Dark (Rounder)
- Of Montreal * Cocquelicot Asleep In The :Poppies (Kindercore)
- OOIOO * Feather Float (Birdman)
- Orange Peels * So Far (spinART)
- Oranger * The Quiet Vibration Land (Poptones)
- Oval * Commers (Thrill Jockey)
- Oxide & Neutrino * Execute (East West)
- Pan Sonic * Aaltiopiiri (Blast First)
- Pep Love * Ascension (Hiero Imperium)
- The Pets * Love And War (Endearing)
- P.G. Six * Parlor Tricks And Porch Favorites (Amish)
- Phatt Pussycat * Phatt Life (Glasgow Underground)
- Grant Lee Phillips * Mobilize (Zoe/Rounder)
- Piano Magic * Seasonally Affective 1996-2000 (Rocket Girl)
- Plaid * Double Figure (Warp)
- Pleasure Forever (Sub Pop)
- Iggy Pop * Beat Em Up (Virgin)
- Praxis * Warszawa (Innerhythmic)
- Prefab Sprout * The Gunman And Other Stories (EMI)
- Rajna * Ishati (Projekt)
- Red House Painters * Old Ramon (Sub Pop)
- Marc Ribot * Saints (Division One)
- Christina Rosenvinge * Frozen Pool (Smells Like)
- Rovo * Imago (Incidental)
- Scorn * Greetings From Birmingham (Hymen)
- Senor Coconut * El Gran Baile (Emperor Norton)
- Matthew Shipp * Matthew Shipp's New Orbit (Thirsty Ear)
- Beanie Sigel * The Reason (Roc-A-Fella)
- The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra And Tra-La-La Band * Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward (Constellation)
- Sizzla * Rastafari Teach I Everything (Greensleaves)
- Slumber Party * Psychedelicate (Kill Rock Stars)
- Smog * Rain On Lens (Drag City)
- The Snow Patrol * When It's Over We Will Still Have To Clear Up (Jeepster)
- Snowpony * Sea Shanties For Spaceships (Dead Pan Alley)
- Solex * Low Kick & Hard Bop (Matador)
- Solid Steel Presents DJ Food & DK * Now, Listen! (Ninja Tune)
- Son Ambulence * Euphemystic (Saddle Creek)
- Spearmin * A Different Lifetime (Hitback)
- Squarepusher * Go Plastic (Warp)
- Stars * The Comeback EP (LeGrand)
- Starsailor * Love Is Here (Chrysalis)
- Taku Sugimoto * Italia (A Bruit Secret)
- Sebastien Tellier * L'Incroyable Verite Record Makers (Astralwerks)
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 * Bob Diners and Laarry Noodles Present Tubby Terdner's Celebrity Avalanche (Communion)
- Billy Bob Thornton * Private Radio (Lost Highway)
- Tindersticks * Trouble Every Day (Beggars Banquet)
- Jenny Toomey * Antidote (Misra)
- To Rococo Rot & I-Sound * Music Is A Hungry Ghost (City Slang)
- Town And Country * It Has All To Do With It (Thrill Jockey)
- Travis * The Invisible Band (Independiente)
- Turin Brakes * The Optimist LP (Astralwerks)
- US Maple * Acre Thrills (Drag City)
- Vandermark 5 * Acoustic Machine (Atavistic)
- Caetano Veloso * Noites Do Norte (WEA/Nonesuch)
- Caetano Veloso * Omaggio A Federico E Giulietta (WEA/Nonesuch)
- Varnaline * Songs In A Northern Key (E-Squared/Artemis)
- Volta Do Mar * At The Speeeed Of Light Or Day (Arborvitae)
- The Von Bondies * Lack Of Communication (Sympathy FTRI)
- Wagon Christ * Musipal (Ninja Tune)
- The Walkabouts * Ended Up A Stranger (Glitterhouse)
- Walker Kong * There Goes The Sun (Magic Marker)
- M Ward * End Of Amnesia (Loose)
- The White Octive * Menergy (Initial)
- Witness * Under A Sun (Island)
- Jah Wobble & Evan Parker * Passage to Hades (Blueprint)
- Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell * Radioaxiom (Palm/Axiom)
- Work Of Saws * Motivation and Watertown Grammar (Thick)
- Wu Tang Clan * WW II (Loud)
- Yesterday's New Quintet * Angles Without Edges (Stones Throw)
- Zero 7 * Simple Things (Ultimate Dilemma)
- Rob Zombie * Sinister Urge (Geffen)
10-
2000
- Radiohead * Kid A (Capitol)
- PJ Harvey * Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (Island)
- Amon Tobin * Supermodified (Ninja Tune)
- Asian Dub Foundation * Community Music (London)
9+
- Queens of the Stone Age * Rated R (Interscope)
- At The Drive-In * Relationship Of Command (Grand Royal)
- Modest Mouse * The Moon & Antarctica (Epic)
- Sussan Deyhim * Madman Of God: Divine Love Songs of the Persian Sufi Masters (CramWorld)
- Sigur Ros * Agaetis Byrjun (FatCat/Bubble Core)
- Sleater-Kinney * All Hands On The Bad One (Kill Rock Stars)
- Nação Zumbí * Radio S.AMB.A. (Stern's Brasil)
- Ampop * Nature Is Not A Virgin (R&R Iceland)
- Godspeed You Black Emperor! * Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (Kranky)
- 16 Horsepower * Secret South (Razor & Tie)
- Primal Scream * Xtrmntr (Creation)
- Nina Nastasia * Dogs (Socialist)
- Eleni Mandell * Thrill (Space Baby)
- The Delgados * The Great Eastern (Chemikal Underground)
- D'Angelo * Voodoo (Virgin)
- Eels * Daisies of the Galaxy (Dreamworks)
- Mum * Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is Okay (Tugboat)
- Soul Center II (W.v.B.)
- The White Stripes * De Stijl (Sympathy For the Record Industry)
- Calexico * Hot Rail (Quarterstick)
- The Black Heart Procession * Three (Touch & Go)
- Radio 4 * The New Song And Dance (Gern Blandsten)
- Grandaddy * The Sophtware Slump (V2)
- Mundo Livre S.A. * Por Pouco (Abril)
- The Kingsbury Manx (Overcoat)
- Various * Caipirissima: Batucada Eletronica (Caipirinha)
- Hawksley Workman * For Him And The Girls (Isadora/Ba Da Bing)
- John Vanderslice * Mass Suicide Occult Figurines (Barsuk)
- The Concretes * Boyoubetterunow (Up)
- Poem Rocket * Psychogeography (Atavistic)
- The Czars * Before But Longer (Bella Union)
- Leila * Courtesy Of Choice (XL)
- The Russian Futurists * The Method Of Modern Love (Upper Class)
- Twilight Singers * Twilight As Played By the Twilight Singers (Columbia)
- The Dirty Three * Whatever You Love You Are (Touch & Go)
- Boss Hog * Whiteout (In The Red)
- The Fire Show (Perishable)
- Broadcast * The Noise Made By People (Warp/Tommy Boy)
- Elliott Smith * Figure 8 (Dreamworks)
- Outkast * Stankonia (LaFace)
- Entombed * Uprising (Threeman)
- The Handsome Family * In The Air (Carrot Top)
- Yo La Tengo * And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (Matador)
- Pram * Museum Of Imaginary Animals (Too Pure)
- Joseph Arthur * Come To Where I'm From (RealWorld)
- Chris Lee (Misra)
- Animal Collective/Avey Tare & Panda Bear * Spirit They've Gone...Spirit They've Vanished (Animal)
- Giant Sand * Chore Of Enchantment (Thrill Jockey)
- Isolee * Rest (Playhouse)
- Suba * Sao Paulo Confessions (Six Degrees)
- Johnny Cash * American III: Solitary Man (Columbia)
- Joe Pernice * Big Tobacco (Glitterhouse)
- Laika * Good Looking Blues (Too Pure)
- David Holmes * Bow Down To the Exit Sign (Go Beat)
- Tabla Beat Science * Tala Matrix (Axiom)
- Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos * Muy Divertido (Atlantic)
- State Of Bengal * Visual Audio (Six Degrees)
- Thievery Corporation * Mirror Conspiracy (ESL)
- Patti Smith * Gung Ho (Arista)
- Kid 606 * Down With The Scene (Ipecac)
- The Go-Betweens * The Friends Of Rachel Worth (Jetset)
- Super Furry Animals * Mwng (Flydaddy)
- Eleventh Dream Day * Stalled Parade (Thrill Jockey)
- Royal Trux * Pound For Pound (Drag City)
- Björk * Selmasongs (Elektra)
- Pinetop Seven * Bringing Home The Last Great Strike (Truckstop)
- Ryan Adams * Heartbreaker (Bloodshot)
- Jets To Brazil * Four Cornered Night (Jade Tree)
- Tahiti 80 * Puzzle (Minty Fresh)
- Elf Power * Winter Is Coming (Sugar Free)
- Cinerama * Disco Volante (Manifesto)
- Einsturzende Neubauten * Silence Is Sexy (Mute)
- Lambchop * Nixon (Merge)
- Bonfire Madigan * Saddle The Bridge (Kill Rock Stars)
- Damien Jurado * Ghost Of David (Sub Pop)
- Blackalicious * Nia (Quannum Projects)
- Jason Moran * Facing Left (Blue Note)
- Common * Like Water For Chocolate (MCA)
- Jah Wobble * Molam Dub (30 Hertz)
- Susana Baca * Eco De Sombras (Luaka Bop)
- Jill Scott * Who Is Jill Scott? (Sony/Epic)
- Anti Pop Consortium * Tragic Epilogue (75 Ark)
- Goldfrapp * Felt Mountain (Mute)
- Dead Prez * Let's Get Free (Loud)
- Ghostface Killah * Supreme Clientele (Epic/Razor Sharp)
- Deltron 3030 (75 Ark)
- Built To Spill * Live (WB)
- Virginia Rodrigues * Nos (Hannibal)
- Jurassic 5 * Quality Control (Interscope)
- Reflection Eternal (Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek) * Train Of Thought (Rawkus)
- Tantalus * Constant Gratification (SHP)
- Flogging Molly * Swagger (SideOneDummy)
- Enslaved * Mardraum (Necropolis)
- The Aluminum Group * Pelo (Symbiotic/Hefty)
9
- Doves * Lost Souls (Heavenly)
- AC/DC * Stiff Upper Lip (East West)
- Schneider TM * Binokular EP (City Slang)
- Weakerthans * Left & Leaving (Sub City)
- The Clientele * Suburban Light (Merge)
- No Doubt * Return Of Saturn (Interscope)
- Toshack Highway (Flower Shop)
- Mondo Generator * Cocaine Rodeo (Southern Lord)
- Elastica * The Menace (Geffen)
- Nile * Black Seeds Of Vengeance (Relapse)
- Gorky's Zygotic Mynci * The Blue Trees (Mantra)
- Erin McKeown * Distillation (Signature)
- High On Fire * The Art of Self Defense (Man's Ruin)
- Shannon Wright * Maps Of Tacit (Quarterstick)
- Otto * Changez Tout: Samba Par Burro Dissecado (Trama)
- Kathryn Williams * Little Black Numbers (Caw)
- Quasimoto * The Unseen (Stones Throw)
- Chicks On Speed * Will Save Us All! (Chicks On Speed)
- The Hellacopters * Payin' The Dues (Sub Pop)
- The Walkabouts * Train Leaves at Eight (Glitterhouse)
- Dillinger Escape Plan * Calculating Infinity (Relapse)
- Smog * Dongs Of Sevotion (Drag City)
- Sunny Day Real Estate * Rising Tide (BMG/Time Bomb)
- Bebel Gilberto * Tanto Tempo (Six Degrees)
- Hamell on Trial * Choochtown (Such A Punch)
- North Mississippi Allstars * Shake Hands With Shorty (Uni/Tone Cool)
- The Webb Brothers * Maroon (Warners)
- Fu Manchu * King Of The Road (Mammoth)
- Allison Moorer * The Hardest Part (MCA)
- The Fucking Champs * IV (Drag City)
- Kid Koala * Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (Ninja Tune)
- Shelby Lynne * I Am Shelby Lynne (Island)
- Clutch * Jam Room (Spitfire)
- Emmylou Harris * Red Dirt Girl (Nonesuch)
- Death Cab For Cutie * We Have The Facts & We're Voting Yes (Barsuk)
- Idaho * Hearts Of Palm (Idaho Music)
- The BellRays * Grand Fury (Vital Gesture/Upper Cut)
- The Sea And Cake * Oui (Thrill Jockey)
- Zeke * Dirty Sanchez (Epitaph)
- The The * Naked Self (Nothing)
- The Blacks * Just Like Home (Bloodshot)
- Neko Case & Her Boyfriends * Furnace Room Lullaby (Bloodshot)
- Natacha Atlas * The Remix Collection (Mantra)
- Boubacar Traore * Macire (Indigo)
- Rokia Traore * Wanita (Indigo)
- Erykah Badu * Mama's Gun (Motown)
- Movietone * The Blossom Filled Streets (Domino)
- Rage Against The Machine * Renegades (Epic)
- Go-Kart Mozart * Instant Wigwam And Igloo Mixture (West Midlands Records)
- Schema (5 Rue Christine)
- Blonde Redhead * Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons (Touch And Go)
- The Delta 72 * 000 (Touch & Go)
- Ruben Gonzalez * Chanchullo (World Circuit)
- Marah * Kids In Philly (E Squared/Artemis)
- Emiliana Torrini * Love In The Time of Science (Virgin)
- Youssou N'dour * Joko (Nonesuch)
- Don Caballero * American Don (Touch & Go)
- Slumber Party (Kill Rock Stars)
- Cat Power * The Covers Record (Matador)
- Sinead O'Connor * Faith And Courage (Atlantic)
- Sonic Youth * NYC Ghosts & Flowers (Geffen)
- Motörhead * We Are Motörhead (CMC)
- Will Oldham * Lost Blues II (Drag City)
- Will Oldham * Ode Music (Drag City)
- Steve Earle * Transcendental Blues (WB)
- Vermin * Millennium Ride (Metal Blade)
- Dismember * Hate Campaign (Nuclear Blast)
- Bettie Serveert * Private Suit (WB)
- The Waxwings * Low To The Ground (Bobsled)
- Black Eyed Peas * Bridging The Gap (Interscope)
- Songs: Ohia * Ghost Tropic (Secretly Canadian)
- Bride Of No No * B.O.N.N. Appetit (Atavistic)
- The Eternals (DeSoto)
- Roni Size (Reprazent) * In The Mode (Studio K7/Full Cycle)
- Master Musicians of Jajouka * Featuring Bachir Attar & Talvin Singh (Universal)
- High Llamas * Buzzle Bee (Drag City)
- The Damage Manual (Invisible)
- U2 * All That You Can't Leave Behind (Interscope)
- Clinic! * Internal Wrangler (Domino)
- Aimee Mann * Magnolia/Bachelor #1 (WEA)
- Lois Maffao & Brendan Canty * The Union Themes (Kill Rock Stars)
- Badly Drawn Boy * The Hour Of Bewilderbeast (Twisted Nerve)
- Silkworm * Lifestyle (Touch & Go)
- Jeff Buckley * Mystery White Boy 1995-1996 (Columbia)
- Dolly Varden * The Dumbest Magnets (Evil Teen)
- Trans Am * Red Line (Thrill Jockey)
- Versus * Hurrah (Merge)
- Tara Jane O'Neil * Peregrine (Quarterstick)
- Shellac * 1000 Hurts (Touch & Go)
- Hot Snakes * Automatic Midnight (Swami)
- Lungfish * Necrophones (Dischord)
- Kool Keith * Matthew (Funky Ass)
- Femi Kuti * Shoki Shoki (UNI/MCA)
- Lucas Santtana * Eletro Ben Dodo (Natasha)
- Ida * Will You Find Me (Tiger Style)
- Add N To (X) * Add Insult To Injury (Mute)
- Goudie * Peep Show (Elektra)
- The Helio Sequence * Com Plex (Cavity Search)
- Cadallaca * Out West EP (Kill Rock Stars)
- Napalm Death * Leaders Not Followers (Relapse)
- Spaceways Incorporated * Thirteen Cosmic Standars by Sun Ra & Funkadelic (Atavistic)
- Capleton * More Fire (VP)
- Quickspace * The Death Of Quickspace (Matador)
- Richard Ashcroft * Alone With Everybody (Virgin)
- The Bangs * Sweet Revenge (Kill Rock Stars)
- Seely * Winter Birds (Koch)
- Merle Haggard * If I Could Only Fly (Anti/Epitaph)
- Kelly Hogan and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts * Beneath the Country Underdog(Bloodshot)
- Rancid (Epitaph)
- Longwave (Lunasea)
- Waco Brothers * Electric Waco Chair (Bloodshot)
- Third Eye Foundation * Little Lost Soul (Domino)
- Air * The Virgin Suicides (Astralwerks)
- William Orbit * Pieces in a Modern Style (Maverick)
- Tara Key & Rick Rizzo * Dark Edson Tiger (Thrill Jockey)
- Belle & Sebastian * Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant (Matador)
- Senor Coconut * El Baile Alemen (Emperor Norton)
9-
- International Noise Conspiracy * First Conspiracy (Epitaph)
- Idlewild * 100 Broken Windows (EMD/Capitol)
- A Guy Called Gerald * Essence (!K7)
- Guru's Jazzmatazz * Streetsoul (Virgin)
- Deftones * White Pony (Maverick)
- Amen * We Have Come For Your Parents (Virgin)
- The Beautiful South * Painting It Red (Ark 21)
- Dmitri from Paris * A Night at the Playboy Mansion (Astralwerks)
- The Motion (Sad Loud America)
- The Need * The Need Is Dead (Chainsaw)
- The Dishes * The Dishes (No. 89 Records)
- Hefner * We Love The City (Too Pure)
- Fontanelle (Kranky)
- Cash Audio * Green Bullet (Touch & Go)
- The Dandy Warhols * Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia (Capitol)
- Plastilina Mosh * Juan Manuel (Astralwerks)
- Omara Portuondo * Buena Vista Social Club Presents (Nonesuch)
- Saint Etienne * Sound Of Water (Sub Pop)
- Wheatus (Sony/Columbia)
- Screeching Weasel * Teen Punks In Heat (Lookout)
- Sad Rockets * Transition (Matador)
- In Flames * Clayman (Nuclear Blast)
- Future Bible Heroes * I'm Lonely (And I Love It) EP (Merge)
- New Bomb Turks * Nightmare Scenario (Epitaph)
- Lo-Fidelity All Stars * On The Floor At the Boutique (Sony)
- Khan * Passport (Matador)
- Cheikh Lo * Bambay Gueej (Nonesuch)
- Marilyn Manson * Holy Wood * In The Shadow of the Valley of Death (Nothing/Interscope)
- Kelis * Kaleidoscope (Virgin)
- Mary Timony * Mountains (Matador)
- Pearl Jam * Binaural (Epic)
- Gary Valentine * Tomorrow Belongs To You 1977-00 (Overground)
- Vue (Sub Pop)
- Aix Em Klemm (Kranky)
- The Jayhawks * Smile (American)
- Storm And Stress * Under Thunder And Fluorescent Light (Touch And Go)
- The For Carnation (Touch & Go)
- Ian Astbury * Spirit Light Speed (Elektra)
- Sade * Lovers Rock (Epic)
- A Perfect Circle * Mer De Noms (Virgin)
- Lolita Storm * G-F-S-U (DHR/Fatal)
- Spring Heel Jack * Treader (Tugboat)
- Zuco 103 * Outro Lado (Six Degrees)
- Coldplay * Parachutes (Parlophone)
- Moloko * Things To Do And Make (Echo)
- Ute Lemper * Punishing Kiss (Decca)
- Frisbie * The Subversive Sounds Of Love (Hear Diagonally)
- Babybird * Bugged (Echo)
6-
- Smashing Pumpkins * Machina/The Machines Of God (Virgin)
- Eminem * The Marshall Mathers LP (Interscope)
These Are Alphabetical Because I Have Not Yet Heard Them
- Acid Mothers Temple * Troubadours From Another Heavenly World (PSF)
- Actionslacks * The Scene's Outta Sight (Self Starter)
- Adventures In Stereo * Monomania (Bobsled)
- Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble (Cornet)
- Los Amigos Invisibles * Arepa 3000 (Luaka Bop)
- Merrie Amsterbur * Little Steps (Zoo)
- The Apples In Stereo * The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone (spinART)
- Nate Ashley * Where Matter Lives (Knw-Yr-Own)
- Ass Ponys * Some Stupid With A Flare Gun (Checkered Past)
- A3 * La Peste (Columbia)
- Atomic Bitchwax * II (Tee Pee)
- Bad Religion * The New America (Atlantic)
- Buju Banton * Unchained Spirit (Anti)
- Beachwood Sparks (Sub Pop)
- Beenie Man * Art and Life (Virgin)
- Robert Belfour * What's Wrong With You? (Fat Possum/Epitaph)
- Bent * Bent Programmed To Love (Imp)
- David Berkman * Communication Theory (Palmetto)
- Black Box Recorder * The Facts Of Life (Jet Set)
- The Blue Aeroplanes * Cavaliers (Artstar)
- Bluebird * The Two (Pacifico)
- The Bluetones * Science And Nature (SQR)
- The Bobbyteams * Not So Sweet (Estrus)
- Bowery Electric * Lushlife (Beggars Banquet)
- Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise * Time to Discover (RCA)
- Brave Captain * Go With Yourself (Wichita)
- The Bronx Casket Co. (The Music Cartel)
- Brooklyn Funk Essentials * Make 'Em Like It (Shanachie)
- Caspar Brotzmann * Mute Massaker (Thirsty Ear)
- BT * Movement In Still Life (Nettwerk)
- R.L. Burnside * Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down (Fast Possum/Epitaph)
- Neal Casal * Anytime Tomorrow (Glitterhouse)
- Peter Case * Flying Saucer Blues (Vanguard)
- Catherine Wheel * Anybody Hurt (Columbia)
- Centro-matic * All The Falsest Hearts (Quality Park)
- Chainsaw Kittens * The All American (4 Alarm)
- Kasey Chambers * The Captain (Asylum)
- Chicago Underground Duo * Synesthesia (Thrill Jockey)
- Chumbawumba * What You See Is What You Get (Republic/Universal)
- Cinnamon * Vertigo (March Records)
- Clem Snide * Your Favorite Music (Sire)
- Coil * Musick To Play In The Dark Vol 2 (Chalice)
- Chris Cologne * Horn (Blackberry)
- Company Flow & Cannibal Ox * Five Songs From Def Jux (Def Jux)
- Cathal Coughlan * Black River Falls (Cooking Vinyl)
- Sarah Cracknell * Kelly's Locker (Instinct)
- Crooked Fingers (Warm)
- Cyptopsy * And Then You'll Beg (Century Media)
- The Cure * Blood Flowers (Elektra)
- Current 93 * Sleep Has His House (Durtro)
- Current 93 * Faust (Durtro)
- Cursive * Domestica (Saddle Creek)
- Dakota Suite * Signal Hill (Badman)
- Damon & Naomi * With Ghost (Sub Pop)
- Datach'i * We Are Always Well Thank You (Caipirinha)
- The Dead C (Language)
- Deathray (Capricorn)
- Dispatch * Who Are We Living For? (Bomber Records)
- Distillers (Hellcat)
- DJ Craze * United DJs of America Volume 16 (DMC/Razor & Tie)
- DJ Food * Kaleidoscope (Ninja Tune)
- DJ Smallcock * Yinyue (Dual Plover)
- Nahawa Doumbia * Yaala (Cobalt France)
- Download * Effector (Nettwerk)
- Dr. Dre * 2001 (Interscope)
- Drowningman * Rock And Roll Killing Machine (Revelation)
- Dusty Trails (Atlantic)
- The Dwarves * Come Clean (Epitaph)
- Earthlings? * Human Beans (Man's Ruin)
- Eastern Youth * May My Scream (Toy's Factory)
- Either/Orchestra * More Beautiful Than Death (Accurate)
- Eleven * Avantgardedog (Interscope)
- Embrooks * Our New Day (Voxx)
- Etienne De Crecy * Tempovision (XL)
- E. Town Concrete * The Second Coming (Triple Crown)
- Explosion * Flash Flash Flash (Jade Tree)
- John Fahey * Hitomi (LivHouse)
- Faith & Diseas * Beneath The Trees (Projekt)
- The Fall * The Unutterable (Eagle)
- Fatboy Slim * Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (Astralwerks)
- The Flashing Lights * Where the Change Is (SpinART)
- Flying Saucer Attack * Mirror CD (Drag City)
- Flavor Flav * It's About Time (WEA/Lightyear)
- Fleurety * Department of Apocalyptic Affairs (Superal Music)
- Funkstrung * Appetite For Disctruction (!K7)
- Nelly Furtado * Whoa Nelly! (Dreamworks)
- Fushitsusha * I Saw It! That Which Before I Could Only Sense (Paratactile)
- Fuzzbubble (Future Primitive)
- Sue Garner & Rick Brown * Still (Thrill Jockey)
- Laurent Garnier * Unreasonable Behaviour (Mute)
- Geneva * Weather Underground (Nude)
- The Glands ((Capricorn)
- Godzik Pink * Es Em, Ekel Em (5 Rue Christine)
- Chilly Gonzales * The Entertainist (Kitty-Yo)
- Gourds * Bolsa de Agua (Sugar Hill)
- Green Velvet (Warner)
- David Grubbs * The Spectrum Between (Drag City)
- Gul 3 * Soul (Crazy Wisdom)
- H?kan Hellstr?m * K?nn Ingen Sorg f?r Mig G?teborg (Virgin)
- Haunted * Made Me Do It (Earache)
- Roy Haynes Trio * Featuring Danilo Perez & John Patitucci (Verve)
- Hepcat * Push 'N Shove (Hellcat/Epitaph)
- The Hives * Veni, Vidi, Vicious (Burning Heart/Epitaph)
- Hoahio * Ohayo Hoahio (Tzadik)
- Susie Ibarra * Flower After Flower (Tzadik)
- Ryoji Ikeda * Matrix (Touch)
- The Januaries (Foodchain)
- Philip Jeck * Vinyl Coda 1-III (Intermedium)
- Jega * Geometry (Matador)
- The Jigsaw Seen * Zenith (Vibro-Phonic/Eggbert)
- Jucifer * Calling All Cars On The Sunset Strip (Capricorn)
- June And the Exit Wounds * A Little More Haven Hamilton, Please (Marina)
- Kletka Red * Hybrid (Explain)
- Knife In The Water * Plays One Sound And Others (Glitterhouse)
- Koufax * It Had to Do With Love (Heroes & Villains)
- Kreidler * Weekend (Mute)
- Lamb Of God * New American Gospel (Prosthetic/Metal Blade)
- The Lazy Cowgirls * Somewhere Down the Line (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
- Lifter Puller * Fiestas Fiascos (French Kiss)
- Live Human * Elefish Jellyphant (Matador)
- Looper * The Geometrid (Sub Pop)
- Helen Love * Love And Glitter, Hot Days and Music (Che)
- Love Kit * The September Heads (Ginger)
- Jack Lukeman * Metropolis Blue (Razor & Tie)
- Luomo * Vocalcity (Force Inc.)
- Mahar Shalal Hash Baz * From A Summer To Another Summer (Geographic)
- The Makers * Rock Star God (Sub Pop)
- Mansun * Kix (WB)
- Mantaray * The Betty Poperetta (Mantaray)
- Mass * From Zero (Paratactile)
- Meat Puppets * Golden Lies (Atlantic)
- Medeski, Martin & Wood * The Dropper (Blue Note)
- The Melvins * The Crybaby (Ipecac)
- Microstoria * MOdel 3, Step 2 (Thrill Jockey)
- The Mighty Wah! * Songs of Strength & Heartbreak (Castle)
- Mirah * You Think It's Like This, But Really... (K)
- Mr. 0120 * Analog Worms Attack (Mute)
- Joni Mitchell * Both Sides Now (Reprise)
- Modernist * Explosion (Matador)
- Roy Montgomery * Allegory OF Hearing (Drunken Fish)
- M.O.P. * Warriorz (Loud)
- Chris Morris * Blue Jam (Warp)
- The Necks * Hanging Gardens (Fish Of Milk)
- New Bomb Turks * Nightmare Scenario (Epitaph)
- New Wet Kojak * Do Things (Beggars Banquet)
- Non * Receive The Flame (Mute)
- Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson & Sigur Ros * Angels of the Universe (Krunk)
- Orgy * Vapor Transmission (Elementree/Reprise)
- Orishas * A Lo Cubano (Universal)
- Greg Osby * The Invisible Hand (Blue Note)
- Panther Burns * Panther Phobia (In The Red)
- Reid Paley * Revival (Emusic)
- Papas Fritas * Buildings & Grounds (Minty Fresh)
- Pedro the Lion * Winners Never Quit (Jade Tree)
- Phoenix * United (Astralwerks)
- Photek * Solaris (Astralwerks)
- Placebo * Black Market Music (Hut)
- Pole * Pole 3 (Kiff SM)
- The Poster Children * DDD (spinART)
- The Promise Ring * Electric Pink (Jade Tree)
- Chuck Prophet * The Hurting Business (Hightone)
- Alim Qasimov * Love's Deep Ocean (Network)
- The Queers * Beyond the Valley...of the Assfuckers (Hopeless)
- Rainer * Alpaca Lips (Glitterhouse)
- Amy Rigby * The Sugar Tree (Koch)
- Rinocerose * Installation Sonore (V2)
- The Rock*A*Teens * Sweet Bird of Youth (Merge)
- Josh Rouse * Home (Slow River)
- Sarge * Distant (Mud/Parasol)
- Saturnine * American Kestrel (Motorcoat)
- 7-Hurt2 * Audiophiliac (Output)
- 764-Hero * Weekends Of Sound (Up)
- Shark Quest * Man on Stilts (Merge)
- The Shazam * Godspeed The Shazam (Rainbow Quartz)
- Matthew Shipp * Pastoral Compusure (Thirsty Ear)
- Shivaree * I Oughta Give You A Shot... (Capitol)
- John Shough * Ultra Vega (Big Beef)
- Sick Of It All * Yours Truly (Fat Wreck Chords)
- The 6ths * Hyacinths And Thistles (Circus)
- Skull Kontrol * Zzzzz... (Tocuh & Go)
- Slobberbone * Everything YOu Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today (New West)
- Snapcase * Designs For Automotion (Victory)
- Johnny Society * Clairvoyance (Messenger)
- Sonic Sum * The Sanity Annex (Ozone Music)
- Speedball Baby * Uptight! (In The Red)
- Speedealer * Here Comes Death (Ryko Palm)
- Starflyer 59 * Everybody Makes Mistakes (Tooth & Nail)
- Starlight Mints * the dream that stuff was made of (See Thru Broadcasting)
- Matt Suggs * Golden Days Before They End (Merge)
- Sekou Sundiata * Long Story Short (Righteous Babe)
- Byron Stingily * Club Stories (Nervous)
- Suns Of Arqa * Cosmic Jugalbandi (Arka Sounds)
- Lewis Taylor * Lewis II (Universal/Island)
- Teenage Fanclub * Howdy! (Columbia)
- Towa Tei * Last Century Modern (Elektra)
- David Thomas & the Foreigners * Bay City (Thirsty Ear)
- Tobias Delius 4 Tet * Toby's Mloby (ICP
- David Toop * 37th Floor At Sunset/Music for Mondophrenetic (Sub Rosa)
- Tosca * Suzuki (G-Stone)
- Town and Country * Decoration Day EP (Thrill Jockey)
- Travis * The Man Who (Epic)
- Tristeza * Dream Signals in Full Circles (Tiger Style)
- Tsar (Hollywood)
- Two Dollar Guitar * Weak Beats And Lame-Ass Rhymes (Smells Like)
- Two Lone Swordsmen * Tiny Reminders (Warp/Caroline)
- Max Tundra * Some Best Friend You Turned Out to Be (Domino)
- Underworld * Everything, Everything (V2)
- Unified Theory (3:33/Universal)
- The Up On In (ex-Jawbox) * Steps for the Light (Big Top)
- Paul Van Dyk * Out There And Back (Mute)
- Armand Van Helden * Killing Puritans (Armed)
- Vast * Music For People (Elektra)
- Vivid Low Sky * Music for Movies Unmade (Plastique)
- Christian Vogel * Rescate 137 (Nova/Mute)
- Ween * White Pepper (Elektra)
- Paul Weller * Heliocentric (Polygram)
- Chris Whitley * Perfect Day (Valley Entertainment)
- Wilco & Billy Bragg * Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (WEA)
- Dar Williams * The Green World (Razor & Tie)
- Wondermints * Bali (Castle)
- The Wu-Tang Clan * The W (Loud)
- XTC * Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) (TVT)
- Otomo Yoshihide * Cathode (Tzadik)
10-
1999
- The Magnetic Fields * 69 Love Songs (Merge)
- The Flaming Lips * The Soft Bulletin (WB)
- Arto Lindsay * Prize (Righteous Babe)
9+
- Clinton [Cornershop] * Disco & The Half Way To Discontent (Hut)
- The Dismemberment Plan * Emergency & I (De Soto)
- Café Tacvba * Reves/Yosoy (WB)
- Beck * Midnite Vultures (DGC)
- Tom Waits * Mule Variations (Epitaph)
- Built To Spill * Keep It Like A Secret (WB)
- Natacha Atlas * Gedida (Beggars Banquet)
- Moby * Play (V2)
- Handsome Boy Modeling School [Prince Paul & The Automator)] * So...How's Your Girl? (Tommy Boy)
- Nitin Sawhney * Beyond Skin (Outcaste)
- Home * XIV (Arena Rock)
- The White Stripes (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
- Le Tigre (Mr. Lady)
- Wilco * Summer Teeth (Reprise)
- Sparklehorse * Good Morning Spider (Capitol)
- I Am Spoonbender * Sender/Receiver (Gold Standard)
- Mestre Ambrosio * Fua Na Casa De Cabral
- Godspeed You Black Emperor! * Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada EP (Kranky)
- The Roots * Things Fall Apart (MCA)
- Jim O'Rourke * Eureka (Drag City)
- The Black Heart Procession * 2 (Touch & Go)
- Sonic Youth * Goodbye 20th Century (Smells Like)
- Mouse On Mars * Niun Niggung (Domino/Thrill Jockey)
- Ben Christophers * My Beautiful Demon (V2)
- Death In Vegas * The Contino Sessions (Time Bomb)
- Ibrahim Ferrer * Buena Vista Social Club Presents (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
- Khaled * Kenza (Barclay)
- Those Bastard Souls * Debt & Departure (V2)
- Sam Prekop (Thrill Jockey)
- Gorky's Zygotic Mynci * Spanish Dance Troupe (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
- Super Furry Animals * Guerrilla (Flydaddy)
- Mos Def * Black On Both Sides (Rawkus)
- Goodie Mob * World Party (LaFace)
- Lenine * Na Pressao (BMG Brasil)
- Soul Center (W.v.B.)
- Lali Puna * Tridecoder (Darla)
- Mr. Scruff * Keep It Unreal (Ninja Tune)
- Prince Paul * A Prince Among Thieves (Tommy Boy)
- Matmos * The West (Deluxe/Vague Terrain)
- Tantalus * Another Failed Attempt (Fading Fantasy Failing)
- Ali Farka Toure * Niafunke (Hannibal)
- Tom Zé * Postmodern Platos: Remixes (Luaka Bop)
- David Sylvian * Dead Bees on a Cake (Virgin)
- Fabulosos Cadillacs * La Marcha Del Golazo Solitario (BMG Latin)
- Vinicius Cantuaria * Tucuma (Verve)
- Joe Pernice * Shappaquiddick Skyline (Sub Pop)
- Ely Guerra * Lotofire (Higher Octave)
- Stereolab * Cobra and Phases Group Play "Voltage" in the Milky Night
- The Beta Band * The Three EPs (Astralwerks) (Elektra)
- Burning Airlines * Mission Control (Desoto)
- Number One Cup * People, People, Why Are We Fighting? (Flydaddy)
- Latin Playboys * Dose (WB)
- Cul De Sac * Crashes to Light, Minutes to Its Fall (Thirsty Ear)
- Royal Trux * Veterans of Disorder (Drag City)
- The Angels Of Light * New Mother (Young God)
- Olivia Tremor Control * Black Foliage Volume One (Flydaddy)
- Caetano Veloso * Livro (Nonesuch)
- Four Tet * Dialogue (Output)
- Electric Company * Omakase (Vinyl)
- Opeth * Still Life (Peaceville/Snapper)
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * Xtra Acme USA (Matador)
- Archer Prewitt * White Sky (Carrot Top)
- The Aluminum Group * Pedals (Minty Fresh)
- Neurosis * Times Of Grace (Relapse)
- Tony Allen * Black Voices (Comet)
- Freakwater * End Time (Thrill Jockey)
- Cesaria Evora * Cafe Atlantico (BMG)
- dj Cheb i Sabbah * Shri Durga (Six Degrees)
- Today Is The Day * In The Eyes Of God (Relapse)
- Arab Strap * Elephant Shoe (Go Beat)
- Low * Secret Name (Kranky)
- Everything But The Girl * Temperamental (Atlantic)
- Carlinhos Brown * Omelete Man (Metro Blue)
- Buddy Miller * Cruel Moon (Hightone)
- Rizwan-Muazam Qawwali Group * Sacrifice To Love (Real World)
- Wheat * Hope And Adams (Sugar Free)
- Lamb * Fear of Fours (Mercury/Island)
- Fantomas (Ipecac)
- Kalyanji V. & Anandji V. Shah, Automator & DJ Shadow * Bombay The Hard Way: Guns, Cars And Sitars (Motel)
- Cibo Matto * Stereotype A (WB)
- The Daktaris * Soul Explosion (Desco)
9
- Lungfish * The Unanimous Hour (Dischord)
- Rainer Maria * Look Now Look Again (Polyvinyl)
- Joi * One and One Is One (Real World/Astralwerks)
- Femi Kuti * Shoki Shoki (Talkin' Loud)
- Basement Jaxx * Remedy (Astralwerks)
- Badmarsh & Shri * Dancing Drums (Outcaste)
- Mr. Bungle * California (WB)
- Hamell On Trial * The Chord Is Mightier Than The Sword (Polygram)
- Sunny Day Real Estate * Live (Sub Pop)
- Beth Orton * Central Reservation (Arista)
- Kelly Willis * What I Deserve (Rykodisc)
- Willard Grant Conspiracy * Mojave (Slow River)
- Labradford * E Luxo So (Kranky)
- Les Rhythmes Digitales * Darkdancer (Astralwerks)
- The Faint * Blank-Wave Arcade (Saddle Creek)
- The Chemical Brothers * Surrender (Astralwerks)
- Shannon Wright * Flightsafety (Quarterstick)
- Solex * Pick Up (Matador)
- Quasi * Field Studies (Up)
- Fountains Of Wayne * Utopia Parkway (Atlantic)
- Velvet Crush * Free Expression (Bobsled)
- Spain * She Haunts My Dreams (Restless)
- Ember Swift * Permanent Marker (Few'll Ignite Sound)
- Julie Miller * Broken Things (Hightone)
- Randy Newman * Bad Love (Dreamworks)
- Breakbeat Era [Roni Size] * Ultra-Obscene (XL/A&M)
- Elf Power * A Dream In Sound (Arena Rock)
- Ani DiFranco * To The Teeth (Righteous Babe)
- Solarized * Neanderthal Speedway (Man's Ruin)
- Jessica Bailiff [& Low] * Hour of the Trace (Kranky)
- Gomez * Liquid Skin (Hut/Virgin)
- Sloan * Between The Bridges (murderrecords)
- Mark Lanegan * I'll Take Care Of You (Sub Pop)
- Bonnie Prince Billie (Will Oldham) * I See A Darkness (Palace)
- Deus * The Ideal Crash (Polygram)
- The Lonesome Organist * Cavalcade (Thrill Jockey)
- Andrea Parker * Kiss My Arp (Mo'Wax/Beggars Banquet)
- Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma * Sampradaya (Real World)
- The Apples In Stereo * Her Wallpaper Reverie (spinART)
- Cheikh Lo * Bambay Gueej (World Circuit)
- Damien Jurado * Rehearsals For Departure (Sub Pop)
- The Roots * Come Alive (MCA)
- Luna * The Days of Our Nights (Beggars Banquet)
- Various * Return of the Grievous Angel: Tribute to Gram Parsons (Almo)
- Matthew Sweet * In Reverse (Volcano)
- Blur * 13 (Virgin)
- Afro Cuban All Stars * Distinto, Diferente (World Circuit)
- Bis * Social Dancing (Capitol)
- Luscious Jackson * Electric Honey (Grand Royal)
- Sloan * 4 Nights At the Palais Royale (murderecords)
- Ol' Dirty Bastard * Nigga Please (Elektra)
- Low * Christmas EP (Kranky)
- Bobby Conn * Llovessonngs EP (Thrill Jockey)
- The Creatures * Anima Animus (Instinct)
- Kool Keith (Dr. Doom) * First Come, First Served (Funky Ass Records)
- Trans Am * Futureworld (Thrill Jockey)
- Brokeback * Field Recordings From The Cook County Water Table (Thrill Jockey)
- Los Lobos * This Time (Hollywood)
- Joe Henry * Fuse (Mammoth)
- Banco de Gaia * The Magical Sounds of (Six Degrees)
- Black Tape for a Blue Girl * As One Aflame Laid Bare by Desire (Projekt)
- Innerzone Orchestra * Programmed (Astralwerks)
- Pavement * Terror Twilight (Matador)
- Bardo Pond * Set And Setting (Matador)
- DMX Krew * We Are DMX (Rephlex)
- Atari Teenage Riot * 60 Second Wipeout (Elektra)
- Dr. Isreal * Inna City Presure (Mutant Sound System)
- Shakti * Remember Shakti (PolyGram)
- Guided By Voices * Do The Collapse (TVT)
- Verbena * Into The Pink (Capitol)
- Kool Keith * Black Elvis/Lost in Space (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
- Peanut Butter Wolf * My Vinyl Weighs A Ton (Studio K7)
- Sleater-Kinney * The Hot Rock (Kill Rock Stars)
- The Chamber Strings * Gospel Morning (Bobsled)
- Tricky * Juxtapose (Island)
- Mandy Barnett * I've Got a Right to Cry (Sire)
- Mansun * Six (Epic)
- Of Montreal Presents The Gay Parade (Bar/None)
- Howie B * Snatch (Palm Pictures)
- Sly & Robbie VS Howie B * Drum 'N Bass: Stripped to the Bone (Palm Pictures)
- Roy Montgomery/Chris Heaphy * True (Kranky)
- Dwindle * Days Away (Guilt Ridden Pop)
- June Of 44 * Anahata (Quarterstick)
- Rachel's * Selenography (Quarterstick)
- Chuck E. Weiss * Extremely Cool (Slow River/Rykodisc)
- Orbital * The Middle Of Nowhere (London)
- Smog * Knock Knock (Drag City)
- Prodigy Presents * The Dirtchamber Sessions Vol. 1 (remix album) (Beggars Banquet)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers * Californication (WB)
- Mick Turner * Marlan Rosa (Drag City)
- John McEntire * Reach The Rock (Hefty)
- Philosopher's Stone * Apparatus (Kranky)
- The London Suede * Head Music (Nude/Columbia)
- Electric Wizard * Come My Fanatics (The Music Cartel)
9-
- Enslaved * Blodhemn (Osmose)
- Mogwai * Come On Die Young (Matador)
- Add N to X * Avant Hard (Mute)
- Alabama Thunder Pussy * River City Revival (Man's Ruin)
- Fu Manchu * Eatin' Dust (Man's Ruin)
- Orange Goblin * Frequencies From Planet Ten (The Music Cartel)
- Chris Cornell * Euphoria Morning (A&M/Interscope)
- Make Up * Save Yourself (K)
- The Get Up Kids * Red Letter Day/Woodson EPs (Doghouse)
- Rage Against The Machine * The Battle Of Los Angeles (Epic)
- Pavement * Major Leagues EP (Matador)
- In Flames * Colony (Nuclear Blast)
- Nebula/Lowrider EP (Meteorcity)
- The Selecter * Performs the Trojan Songbook (Reeiver)
- Man...Or Astroman? * EEVIAC: Operational Index & Reference Guide... (Touch and Go)
- Poster Children * New World Record (SpinART)
- Angie Stone * Black Diamond (Arista)
- Stereo Total * Juke-Box-Alarm (Bobsled)
- Mike Ness * Under The Influences (Time Bomb)
- Voodoo Glow Skulls * Exitos al Carbon (Grito!)
- Arch Enemy * Burning Bridges (Century Media)
- The Atomic Bitchwax (Tee Pee)
- Gus Gus * This Is Normal (4AD/WB)
- Cool Breeze * East Points Greatest Hit (UNI/Interscope)
- Missy Elliott * Da Real World (EastWest)
- Mary J. Blige * Mary (MCA)
- Mike Ness * Cheating at Solitaire (Time Bomb)
- Goldfinger * Darrin's Coconut Ass EP (Mojo)
- Macy Gray * On How Life Is (Sony/Epic)
- Jason Falkner * Can You Still Feel? (Elektra)
- Waco Brothers * Wacoworld (Bloodshot)
- The Donnas * Get Skintight (Lookout)
- Melky Sedeck * Sister & Brother (MCA)
- Bows * Blush (Beggars Banquet)
- The Muffs * Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow (Honest Don's/Fat Wreck Chords)
- Squarepusher * Budakhan Mindphone EP (Warp)
- XTC * Apple Venus (TVT)
- Katharine Whalen * & Her Jazz Squad (Mammoth)
- The Living End (Reprise)
- Various * Burning London: The Clash Tribute (Epic)
- The Rentals * Seven More Minutes (Maverick/Reprise)
- oRSo (Perishable)
- Arcwelder * Everest (Touch & Go)
- Nightmares on Wax * Carboot Soul (Matador)
- The Dirty Dozen Brass Band * Buck Jump (Mammoth)
- M People * Testify (Epic)
- Shannon Moore * LTD (FMA)
- Carlos Santana * Mumbo Jumbo (Arista)
- Out In Worship * Sterilized (Perishable)
- Drumhead (Perishable)
- Echo & The Bunnymen * What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? (London)
- Cesar Rosas * Soul Disguise (Rykodisc)
- David Bowie * hours... (Virgon)
- Huun-Huur-Tu * Where Young Grass Grows (Shanachie)
- Elastica * 6 Track EP (Deceptive)
- Ani DiFranco * Up Up Up Up Up Up (Righteous Babe)
- Nine Inch Nails * The Fragile (Nothing)
- The Beta Band (Astralwerks)
- Therefore * Krohm (Inlet)
- Jamiroquai * Synkronized (WORK Group)
- Pete Krebs & the Gossamer Wings * Sweet Ona Rose (Cavity Search)
7
- Tori Amos * to venus and back (Atlantic)
- Fiona Apple * When the Pawn... (Epic)
- Filter * Title Of Album (Reprise)
- Ministry * Dark Side of the Spoon (WB)
- Penelope Houston * Tongue (Reprise)
- Paul Westerberg * Suicaine Gratifaction (Capitol)
These Are Alphabetical Because I Have Not Yet Heard Them
- The American Analog Set * The Golden Band (Emperor Jones)
- American Football (Polyvinyl)
- ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead * Madonna (Merge/Touch & Go)
- The Angry Samoans * The 90's Suck and So Do You (Triple X)
- Ash * Nu-Clear Sounds (DreamWorks)
- Autechre * EP7 (Warp/Nothing)
- The Auteurs * How I Learned To Love The Bootboys (Hut)
- Bailter Space * Solar.3 (Turnbuckle)
- Sandra Bell * City of Sorrow (VHF)
- Belloluna * Livid and Loving It (Daemon)
- Bike * Take In The Sun (March/Flying Nun)
- Biohazard * New World Disorder (Mercury/Def Jam)
- Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire, Oh! The Grandeur (Rykodisc)
- Frank Black & the Catholics * Pistolero (spinART)
- Blondie * No Exit
- Boo Radleys * Kingsize (Never)
- Broken Dog * Sleeve With Hearts (Piao!)
- Buckethead * Monsters And Robots (Higher Octave)
- Nigel Bunn * Index (Emperor Jones)
- Calavera * Day of the Dead (La Piedra del Rock)
- Catatonia * Equally Cursed & Blessed (Blanco Y Negro)
- Caustic Resin * Trick Question (Alias)
- Gustavo Cerati * Bocanada (BMG Latin)
- The Charlatans * Us And Us Only (MCA)
- The Clash * Live From Here To Eternity (Sony/Epic)
- Cobra Verde * Nightlife (Motel)
- Coil * Musick To Play in the Dark Vol. 1 (Chalice)
- Company Flow * Little Johnny From the Hospital (Rawkus)
- Continental Drifters * Vermillion (Razor & Tie)
- Cornelius * CM & FM (Matador)
- Holger Czukay * Good Morning Story (Tone Casualties)
- Vanessa Daou * Dear John Coltrane (Oxygen Music Works)
- Dr. Dre * The Cronic 2001 (Aftermath)
- Dolly Varden * The Dumbest Magnets (Evil Teen)
- Charles Douglas * The Lives Of Charles Douglas (No. 6)
- Heather Duby * Post To Wire (Sub Pop)
- The Dylan Group * More Adventures In Lying Down (Bubble Core)
- Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band * The Mountain (E-Squared)
- East River Pipe * The Gasoline Age (Merge)
- Electronic * Twisted Tenderness (Parlophone)
- Elf Power * Come On EP (Little Army/Carrot Top)
- Entombed * Black Juju EP (Man's Ruin)
- EPMD * Out of Business (Def Jam)
- Euphone * The Calendar Of Unlucky Days (Jade Tree)
- Eurythmics * Peace (Arista)
- The Fall * The Marshal Suite (Circus Artful)
- Fernando * Old Man Hotel (Cravedog)
- Faust * Ravviando (Klangbad)
- Flin Flon * Boo-Boo (Teenbeat)
- Gay Dad * Leisure Noise (WEA/Sire)
- G Love & Special Sauce * Philadelphonic (Okeh/550)
- Gene Loves Jezebel * VII (Robison)
- Ghost * Snuffbox Immanence (Drag City)
- Ghost * Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet (Drag City)
- Gigolo Aunts * Minor Chords & Major Themes (E Pluribus Unum)
- The Go * Whatcha Doin' (Sub Pop)
- Godflesh * Us And Them (Earache)
- Alex Gopher * You, My Baby&I (V2)
- Gwar * We Kill Everything (Metal Blade)
- GZA/Genius * Beneath The Surface (MCA)
- Keiji Haino * An Unclear Trial: More Than This (Avant)
- The Hang-Ups * Second Story (Restless)
- Ben Harper, Burn to Shine (Virgin)
- Hasidic New Wave * Kabalogy (Knitting Factory)
- The Hellacopters * Grande Rock (Sub Pop)
- The Hellacopters * Payin' The Dues (Sub Pop)
- The Herbaliser * Very Mercenary (Ninja Tune)
- Kristin Hersh * Sky Motel (4AD)
- Hi Fi Killers * Control Jamaica (Loosegroove)
- High Llamas * Snowbug (V2)
- Robyn Hitchcock * Jewls For Sophia (WB)
- Linda Husik * Mad Flavor (Alias)
- The Iguanas * Sugartown (Koch)
- Imperial Teen * What Is Not To Love (WB)
- Indigo Girls * Come On Now Social (Epic)
- Isotope 217 * Utonian Automatic (Thrill Jockey)
- Wyclef Jean * Life (Original Soundtrack) (Interscope)
- Jim And Jennie And The Pine Barons (Phovsho)
- Freedy Johnston * Blue Days, Black Nights (Elektra)
- June Of 44 * In The Fishtank EP (Quarterstick)
- Juno * This Is The Way It Goes and Goes And Goes (DeSoto/Pacifico)
- Paul K. and the Prayers * Saratoga (Alias)
- Kid Silver * Dead City Sunbeams (Jetset)
- KMFDM * Adios(Wax Trax!)
- Krispy * From the Country (Bomb Hip-Hop)
- Kruder & Dorfmeister * The K&D Sessions (!K7)
- Ben Lee * Breathing Tornadoes (Grand Royal)
- Le Mans * Aqui Vivia Yo (Elefant-Grimsey)
- Light Bright Highway * Moon Glory and The 7th Sun (Two Ohm Hop)
- The Lilac Time * Looking For A Day In The Night (spinART)
- The Longpigs * Mobile Home (Mothe)
- Loop Guru * Fountains of Paradise (Hypnotic/Cleopatra)
- Love As Laughter * Destination 2000 (Sub Pop)
- Love Battery * Confusion Au Go Go (C/Z Records)
- The Long Beach Dub All Stars * Burn Unit (Skunk)
- Love As Laughter * Destination: 2000 (Sub Pop)
- L7 * Slap Happy (Wax Tadpole/Bong Load)
- Macha * see It Another Way (Jetset)
- Machine Head * The Burning Red (Roadrunner)
- Material * Intonarumori (Axiom/Palm Pictures)
- MC Solaar * Le Tour De La Question (WEA)
- The Melvins * The Maggot (Ipecac)
- The Melvins * The Bootlicker (Ipecac)
- Mr. Bungle * California (WB)
- Mobb Deep * Murda Muzik (Sony/Columbia)
- Mojave 3 * Out Of Tune (4AD/Sire)
- Moloko * I Am Not A Doctor (WB)
- The Montgolfier brothers * Seventeen Stars (Vespertine)
- Muslimgauze * Hussein Mahmood Jeeb Tehar Gass (Soleilmoon)
- Mu-Ziq * Royal Astronomy (Astralwerks)
- My Morning Jacket * The Tennessee Fire (Darla)
- Nas * I Am...The Autobiography (Columbia)
- Me'Shell Ndeg?ocello * Bitter (Columbia)
- Naked Funk * Evolution ending (Palm Pictures)
- Nebula * To The Center (Sub Pop)
- New Bomb Turks * Crash '99 (All City/Columbis)
- The Nerves * Right Now (Estrus)
- Nocternal Emissions * Futurist Antiquarianism (Soleilmoon)
- Old 97's * Fight Songs (Elektra)
- Otherstarpeople * Diamonds In the Belly Of The Dog (A&M)
- Oval * Aero Deko (Thrill Jockey)
- Oval * Svendisk (Thrill Jockey)
- Pachinko * Splendor In The Ass II: Electric Boogaloo (Alternative Tentacles)
- Pan sonic * A (Mute)
- Pelt * Empty Bell Ringing In The Sky (VHF)
- Pharoahe Monch * Internal Affairs (Rawkus)
- Joel Phelps * Blackbird (Pacifico)
- Piano Magic * Low Birth Weight (Rocket Girl)
- Pizzicato Five * The International Playboy & Playgirl Record (Matador)
- Plaid * Rest Proof Clockwork (Nothing)
- Plone * For Beginner Piano (Warp/Matador)
- Pole 2 (Matador)
- Rose Polenzani * Anybody (Daemon)
- Iggy Pop * Avenue B (Virgin)
- Pretenders * ?Viva El Amor!(Warner Bros)
- Primus * Anti Pop (Interscope)
- The Promise Ring * Very Emergency (Jade Tree)
- Public Enemy * There's a Poison Goin' On (Atomic Pop)
- The Queers * Later Days and Better Days (Lookout!)
- Quickspace * Precious Falling (Hidden Agenda/Parasol)
- Ratos de Parao * Carneceria Tropicale (Alternative Tentacles)
- Red House Painters * Old Ramon (Supreme/Island)
- The Red Krayola * Finger Painting (Drag City)
- Red Monkey * Difficult Is Easy (Troubleman)
- Red Stars Theory * Life in a Bubble Can Be Beautiful (Touch and Go)
- Regia * The Art of Navigation (spin-ART)
- Stan Ridgway * Anatomy (New West)
- Rick Rizzo & Tara Key * Dark Edson Tiger (Thrill Jockey)
- Salako * Musicality (Jeepster)
- Sebadoh * The Sebadoh (Sub Pop/Sire)
- Seaweed * Actions and Indications (Merge)
- Selecter * Cruel Britannia (Snapper)
- Skull Kontrol * Deviate Beyond All Means of Capture (Touch & Go)
- Luke Slater * Wireless (NovaMute)
- Sleepyhead * The Brighter Shore (Sealed Fate)
- Songs: Ohia * Axxess and Ace (Secretly Canadian)
- Stars Of The Lid * Avec Laudenum (Sub Rosa)
- Stereophonics * Performance and Cocktails (V2)
- Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros * X-Ray Style (Hellcat)
- Superchunk * Come Pick Me Up (Merge)
- Supersuckers * The Evil Poers Of Rock 'n' Roll (Tenty14/Koch)
- Switchblade Symphony * The Three Calamities (Cleopatra)
- Tarwater * Silur (Kitty-Yo/Mute)
- 10,000 Maniacs The Earth Pressed Flat (Bar/None)
- Jimi Tenor * Organism (Sire/Warp)
- David Thomas * Mirror Man (Thirsty Ear)
- Tindersticks * Simple Pleasure (London)
- Sally Timms * Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments (For Lost Buckaroos) (Bloodshot)
- David Toop * Museum Of Fruit (Caiprinha/Sire)
- Travis * The Man Who (Sony)
- To Roccoco Rot * The Amateur View (Mute)
- Dwight Twilley * Tulsa (Coper)
- Underworld * Beaucoup Fish (TVT)
- U.S. Maple * Talker (Drag City)
- Vandermark 5 * Simpatico (Atavistic)
- Versus * Afterglow EP (Merge)
- Ben Wa * Devil Dub (Black Hole)
- Ween * Paintin' the Town Brown (Elektra)
- We Ragazzi * Suicide Sound System (My Pal God)
- Peter Whitehead * Three Bags Full (Strange Attractor)
- Steve Wynn * My Midnight (Zero Hour)
- Zen Guerilla * Trance Status In Tongues (Sub Pop)
- Z'ev * Face The Wound (Soleilmoon)
- Various * Source Material (French) (Source/Astralwerks)
- Various * Tuva: Among The Spirits (Smithsonian Folkways)
10-
1998
- Arto Lindsay * Noon Chill (Bar/None)
- PJ Harvey * Is This Desire? (Island)
- Neutral Milk Hotel * In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Merge)
- Asian Dub Foundation * Rafi's Revenge (London)
- Tom Zé * Fabrication Defect (Luaka Bop)
9+
- Cornelius * Fantasma (Matador)
- Outkast * Aquemini (LaFace)
- Beck * Mutations (Geffen)
- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * Acme (Matador/Capitol)
- Pram * North Pole Radio Station (Merge)
- Lucinda Williams * Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury)
- Cat Power * Moon Pix (Matador)
- Queens Of the Stone Age (Loosegroove)
- Amon Tobin * Permutation (Ninja Tune)
- Otto * Samba Pra Burro (Trama)
- Massive Attack * Mezzanine (Virgin)
- Mercury Rev * Deserter's Songs (V2)
- Schneider TM * Moist (City Slang/Mute)
- Leila * Like Weather (Rephlex)
- Tied + Tickled Trio (Bingo)
- Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos * The Prosthetic Cubans (Atlantic)
- Sunny Day Real Estate * How It Feels To Be Something On (Sub Pop)
- The Black Heart Procession * 1 (Cargo)
- Mundo Livre S.A. * Carnaval Na Obra (Abril)
- Black Star * Mos Def & Talib Kweli (Rawkus)
- Afghan Whigs * 1965 (Columbia)
- Tortoise * TNT (Thrill Jockey)
- Eleni Mandell * Wishbone (Mr. Charles)
- Boards Of Canada * Music Has The Right To Children (Matador)
- The Notwist * Shrink (Zero Hour)
- Cheb Mami * Meli Meli (Ark 21/Virgin)
- Gastr Del Sol * Camoufleur (Drag City)
- Jets To Brazil * Orange Rhyming Dictionary (Jade Tree)
- The Grassy Knoll * III (Antilles)
- Lhasa * La Llorona (Atlantic)
- Ernest Ranglin * In Search Of The Lost Riddim (Palm Pictures-Rykodisc)
- Godspeed You Black Emperor! * f#a# (Kranky)
- Billy Bragg & Wilco * Mermaid Avenue (Elektra)
- David Grubbs * The Thicket (Drag City)
- Maryam Mursal * The Journey (Real World)
- At The Drive-In * in/CASINO/OUT (Fearless)
- Yungchen Lhamo * Coming Home (Real World)
- Air * Moon Safari (Source/Caroline)
- Lenine * O dia em que faremos contato (BMG Brasil)
- Long Fin Killie * Amelia (Too Pure)
- Radio Tarifa * Temporal (World Circuit)
- Transglobal Underground * Rejoice Rejoice (MCA)
- Talvin Singh * OK (Island)
- The Eels * Electro-Shock Blues (Dreamworks)
- Sierra Maestra * Tibiri Tabera (World Circuit)
- Conjunto Cespedes * Flores (Xenophile)
- Rocket From the Crypt * RFTC (Interscope)
- Beastie Boys * Hello Nasty (Grand Royal/Capitol)
- Stereolab * Aluminum Tunes (Switched On Vol. 3) (Drag City)
- Swervedriver * 99th Dream (Zero Hour)
- Rufus Wainright (Dreamworks)
- Blind Guardian * Nightfall In Middle-Earth (Import)
- Manu Chao * Clandestino (Ark 21)
- Electric Company * Studio City (Polygram)
- Walt Mink * Goodnite (Deep Elm)
- Opeth * My Arms, Your Hearse (Century Media)
- Death * Sound Of Perseverence (Nuclear Blast)
- Cadallaca * Introducing Cadallaca (K)
- Rhythm & Sound with Tikiman * Showcase (Burial Mix)
- Chico Science & Nação Zumbí (Sony International)
- Fugazi * End Hits (Dischord)
- Pinetop Seven * Rigging The Toplights (Truckstop/Atavistic)
- Calexico * The Black Light (Quarterstick)
9
- Os Paralamas do Sucesso * Hey Hey Na Na (EMI Brazil)
- Mark Lanegan * Scraps At Midnight (Sub Pop)
- Morbid Angel * Formulas Fatal to the Flesh (Earache)
- R.E.M. * Up (WB)
- Death Cab For Cutie * Something About Airplanes (Barsuk)
- Quasi * Featuring "Birds" (Up)
- Cinerama * Va Va Voom (SpinArt)
- Nile * Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka (Relapse)
- The Delgados * Peloton (Mantra/Chemical Underground)
- Willard Grant Conspiracy * Flying Low (Slow River)
- Meshuggah * Chaosphere (Nuclear Blast)
- Tricky * Angels With Dirty Faces (Island)
- The Spinanes * Arches And Aisles (Sub Pop)
- Jessamine * Don't Stay Too Long (Kranky)
- Richard Davies * Telegraph (Flydaddy)
- Plush * More You Becomes You (Drag City)
- The Cows * Sorry In Pig Minor (Amphetamine Reptile)
- Sloan * Navy Blues (murderrecords)
- Pulp * This Is Hardcore (Island)
- Lo-Fidelity Allstars * How To Operate With A Blown Mind (Skint/Columbia)
- Lambchop * What Another Man Spills (Merge)
- Belle & Sebastion * The Boy With the Arab Strap (Matador)
- Busta Rhymes * Extinction Level Event (Elektra)
- Money Mark * Push The Button (Mo Wax)
- Lee Fields * Let's Get A Groove On (Desco)
- Sonic Youth * A Thousand Leaves (Geffen)
- Rancid * Life Won't Wait (Epitaph)
- African Head Charge VS. Professor Stretch * Drums Of Defiance (On-U Sound)
- Sue Garner * To Run More Smoothly (Thrill Jockey)
- Pere Ubu * Pennsylvania (Cooking Vinyl)
- Fun-Da-Mental * Erotic Terrorism (Beggars Banquet)
- Spoon * A Series Of Sneaks (Elektra)
- Mary Lou Lord * Got No Shadow (Sony Work Group)
- Kahimi Karie (Minty Fresh)
- Pernice Brothers * Overcome By Happiness (Sub Pop)
- Ozomatli (Almo Sounds)
- Clutch * The Elephant Riders (Columbia)
- Bloque (Luaka Bop)
- Pole * CD1 (Kiff/Matador)
- moodyMANN * silentintroduction (planet e)
- Fatboy Slim * You've Come A Long Way, Baby (Astralw%rks)
- P.W. Long * Push Me Again (Touch & Go)
- Ani DiFranco * Little Plastic Castle (Righteous Babe)
- Firewater * The Ponzi Scheme (Jetset)
- Rachid Taha * Diwan (Island)
- Baaba Maal * Nomad Soul (Island)
- Seam * The Pace Is Glacial (Touch & Go)
- Gang Starr * Moment of Truth (Noo Trybe/Virgin)
- Goodie Mob * Still Standing (Laface/Arista)
- Royal Trux * Accelerator (Drag City)
- Barry Adamson * As Above So Below (Mute)
- Monster Magnet * Powertrip (A&M)
- Los De Abajo (Luaka Bop)
- Bobby Conn * Rise Up! (Truckstop/Atavistic)
- Freakwater * Springtime (Thrill Jockey)
- The Aluminum Group * Plano (Minty Fresh)
- Chicago Underground Duo * 12 Degrees Of Freedom (Thrill Jockey)
- Diamanda Galas * Malediction And Prayer (Mute)
- Saint Etienne * Good Humor (Sub Pop)
- Bharat Shah * Dil Se (Venus)
- Alabama Thunder Pussy * Rise Again (Man's Ruin)
- Souled American * Frozen (Checkered Past)
- Ui * Lifelike (Southern)
- Various * Great Jewish Music: Marc Bolan (Tzadik)
- Trans Am * The Surveillance (Thrill Jockey)
- Boukman Eksperyans * Revolution (Tuff Gong)
- DeeJay Punk-Roc * ChickenEye (Independente/Epic)
- Richard Buckner * Since (MCA)
- June of 44 * Four Great Points (Quarterstick)
- Silkworm * Blueblood (Touch & Go)
- King Sunny Ade * Odu (Mesa)
- Dirty Three * Ocean Songs (Touch & Go)
- Grooverider * Mysteries Of Funk (Columbia)
- Uilab * Fires EP (Bingo/Duophonic)
- Jonathon Richman * I'm So Confused (WB)
- Canibus * Can-I-Bus (Universal)
- Orange Goblin * Time Travellign Blues (Rise Above)
- Shellac * Terraform (Touch & Go)
- Nebula * Let It Burn (Relapse)
- Hole * Celebrity Skin (Geffen)
- Min Xiao-Fen * Spring River Flower Moon Night (Asphodel)
- Hector Zazou & Katie McMahon * Lights in the Dark (Erato/Detour/Atlantic)
- Sam Mangwana * Galo Negro (Putumayo)
- Elliott Smith * XO (Dreamworks)
- Mike Nicolai * The Balloon Race EP (Tramp Art)
- The Black Crowes * By Your Side (American/Columbia)
- Gaunt * Bricks And Blackouts (WB)
- Aterciopelados * Caribe Atomico (BMG Latin)
- Plastilina Mosh * Aquamosh (Capitol)
- Propellerheads * Decksanddrumsandrockandroll (Wall)
- Dub Pistols * Point Blank (Concrete)
- Boxhead Ensemble * Dutch Harbor: Where The Sea Breaks Its Back (Atavistic)
- Anoushka Shankar * Anoushka (Angel
- The Adjusters * The Politics Of Style (Jump Up Soul)
- Boxhead Ensemble * The Last Place To Go: Recordings form the Dutch Harbor
European Film Screening Tour (Atavistic)
9-
- Unwound * Challenge For A Civilized Society (Kill Rock Stars)
- Son Volt * Wide Swing Tremolo (WB)
- System Of A Down (American)
- Public Enemy * He Got Game (Def Jam)
- Don Caballero * What Burns Never Returns (Touch & Go)
- Daniel Taubkin * Brazsil (Blue Jackel)
- High Llamas * Cold And Bouncy (V2/Alpaca)
- Six Finger Satellite * Law Of Ruins (Sub Pop)
- Lauryn Hill * The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse)
- Smashing Pumpkins * Adore (Virgin)
- Snowpony * The Slow-Motion World (Radioactive)
- Starball * Holstein Park (Pussy Cat)
- Soilent Green * Sewn Mouth Secrets (Relapse)
- Girls Against Boys * Freak*On*Ica (Geffen)
- Spiritualized * Live At Albert Hall (BMG)
- Garbage * Version 2.0 (Almo Sounds)
- Buffalo Tom * Smitten (Polydor)
- Add N To X * On The Wires Of Our Nerves (Mute)
- Versus * Two Cents Plus Tax (Caroline)
- Tori Amos * From The Choirgirl Hotel (Atlantic)
- Heather Nova * Siren (Big Cat/Work)
- Stereo Total (Bobsled)
- U.N.K.L.E. * Psyence Fiction (PGD)
- Howe Gelb * Hisser (V2)
- Gomez * Bring It On (Virgin)
8+
- Don Byron * An Existential Dred: Nu Blaxploitation (Blue Note)
- Cash Money * Halos Of Smoke And Fire (Touch & Go)
- Maxwell * Embrya (Columbia)
- Los Amigos Invisibles * The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera (Luaka Bop)
- Chocolate Genius * Black Music (V2)
- The Jesus Lizard * Blue (Capitol)
- Madonna * Ray Of Light (Maverick)
- Bad Religion * No Substance (Elektra)
- Goldie * Saturnz Return (ffrr)
- Soul Coughing * El Oso (WEA)
- Manic Street Preachers * This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours (Epic)
- Catatonia * International Velvet (Blanco Y Negro)
- Marilyn Manson * Mechanical Animals (Nothing/Interscope)
- Liz Phair * whitechocolatespaceegg (Matador/Capitol)
8
- Bob Mould * The Last Dog and Pony Show (Rykodisc)
These Are Alphabetical Because I Have Not Yet Heard Them
- Fernanda Abreu * Raio X (EMI Brazil)
- Acid Mothers Temple And The Melting Paraiso UFO (PSF)
- Aerial M (Drag City)
- The Aislers Set * Terrible Things Happen (Slumberland)
- Tori Amos * From The Choirgirl Hotel (Atlantic)
- Anouk * Together Alone (Sony)
- Archers Of Loaf * White Trash Heroes (Alias)
- Arnold * Hillside (Sony Music)
- Ascension * Abomination (Toybox/Victoy)
- Ash * Nu-Clear Sounds (Reprise)
- Babe The Blue Ox * Way We Were (BMG)
- Bad Livers * Industry and Thrift (Sugar Hill)
- Derek Bailey & Min Xiao-Fen * Viper (Avant)
- Bang On A Can * Music For Airports (Point)
- Waldemar Bastos * Pretaluz [Blackligh] (Luaka Bop)
- Bedhead * Transaction De Novo (Touch & Go)
- Justin Bennett * The Mosques Of Tanger (Stallplaat)
- Bis * Intendo EP (Grand Royal)
- Black Eyed Peas * Behind The Front (Interscope)
- Johnny Blas * Mambo 2000 (Cubop Records)
- Boredoms * Super ae (WEA Japan)
- Jimmy Bosch * Soneando Trombon (Ryko Latino)
- BR5-49 * Big Backyard Beat Show (Arista)
- Califone (Flydaddy)
- Eliza Carthy * Red/Rice
- Neal Casal * Basement Dreams (Glitterhouse)
- Vic Chestnutt * The Salesman and Bernadette (Capricorn)
- Chocoalte Weasel * Spaghettification (Ninja Tune)
- Clem Snide * You Were a Diamond (Tractor Beam)
- Adam Cohen (Columbia)
- Coil * Time Machiens (Eskaton)
- Steve Coleman * Genesis & The Opening Of The Way (RCA)
- Come * Gently Down the Stream (Matador)
- Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach * Painted From Memory (Polygram)
- The Coup * Steal This Album (Dogday)
- Creeper Lagoon * I Become Small & Go (Nickelbag)
- Crucial Conflict * Good Side Bad Side (Universal)
- Cowboy Junkies * Miles From Our Home
- Crimpshrine * Sound of a New World Being Born (Lookout)
- Cubante * Interference (Wax Trax!/TVT)
- Cypress Hill IV (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
- Olu Dara * In The World: From Natchez to New York (Atlantic)
- Death In June * Take Care and Control (World Serpent)
- Digital Underground * Who's Got the Gravy (Interscope)
- Divine Comedy * Fin De Siecle (V2)
- DJ Quik * Rhythm-Al-Ism (Profile/Arista)
- DJ Spooky * Synthetic Fury (Asphodel)
- DJ Spooky * Riddim Warfare (Outpost)
- Dmitri From Paris * Sacrebleu (Atlantic)
- Dr. Israel * Inna City Pressure (Mutant Sound System)
- Donnas * American Teenage Rock 'N' Roll Machine (Lookout!)
- Dave Douglas * Magic Triangle (Arabesque)
- Johnny Dowd * Wrong Side Of Memphis (Checkered Past)
- Arnold Dreyblatt * The Sound Of One String (Table of the Elements)
- Drums Of Death (Avant)
- The Dylan Group * It's All About (Rims Shots & Faulty Wiring) (Bubble Core)
- Echobelly * Lustra (Epic)
- E Dancer * Heavenly (Planet E)
- Embrace * The Good Will Out (DGC)
- Ester * Hotel Hypercube (Thirsty Ear)
- Experimental Audio Research * Millenium Music (Atavistic)
- Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo * Strange But True (Matador)
- Kali Fasteau * Camraderie (Flying Note)
- Flaming Lips * 1984-1990: A Collection Of Songs Representing An Enthusiasm For Recording...By Amateurs (Restless)
- John Forte * Poly Sci
- Frontier * 4 (Emperor Jones)
- Fushitsusha * Withdrawe, This SableDisclosure Ere Devot'd (Victo)
- Fushitsusha * The Wisdom Prepared (Tokuma)
- Alastair Galbraith * Mirrorwork (Emperor Jones)
- Ganger * Hammock Style (Merge)
- Gas * Zauberberg (Mille Plateaux)
- Gilberto Gil * O Sol De Oslo (Blue Jackel)
- God Is My Co-Piolot * Get Busy (Atavistic)
- God Lives Underwater * Life in teh So-Called Space Age (1500)
- High Llamas, Lollo Rosso, (V2)
- Robyn Hitchcock * Storefront Hitchcock (WB)
- Mark Hollis (Polydor)
- Hasidic New Wave * Psycho-Semitic (Knitting Factory)
- The Hellacopters * All (White Jazz)
- Kristin Hersh * Strange Angels (Rykodisc)
- High Rise * Desperado (PSF)
- Robyn Hitchcock * The Storefront Hitchcock (WB)
- Home * Netherregions (Jetset)
- Hooverphonic * Blue Wonder Power Milk (Epic)
- Tom House * This White Man's Burden (Checkered Past)
- Hum * Downward Is Heavenward (RCA)
- Linda Husik * Faith In Space (Alias)
- Ice * Bad Blood (WB)
- Imperial Teen * What Is Not to Love (London)
- Jack * The Jazz Age (Too Pure)
- Peter Jeffries * Substatic, (Emperor Jones)
- The Jesus And Mary Chain * Munki (Elektra)
- Juneau (Ba Da Bing!)
- Karnak (Tinder Production)
- Kreidler * Appearance And The Park (Kiff SM)
- Ladybug (Shock)
- Bill Laswell * Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis 1969-1974 (Columbia)
- Julian Lennon * Photograph Smile (Music From Another Room)
- Legendary Pink Dots * Nemesis On-Line (Soleilmoon)
- Alan Licht & Loren MazzaCane Connors * Hoffman Estates (Drag City)
- Local H * Pack Up The Cats (Island)
- The Loud Family * Days For Days (Alias)
- Joe Lovano * Trio Fascination: Edition One (Blue Note)
- Love And Rockets * Lift (Red Ant)
- Lyle Lovett * Step Inside This House (UNI/MCA)
- Magnog * More Weather (Kranky)
- Cheb Mami * Let Me Cry (Blue Silver)
- Man...Or Astro-Man? * Deux Ex Machina (Touch & Go)
- Medeski, Martin and Wood * Combustication (Blue Note)
- Metallica * Garage, Inc. (Elektra)
- Method Man * Tical 2000
- Merzbow * Aqua Necromancer (Alien8)
- Mimi * Soak (Luaka Bop)
- Mr. Quintron * These Hands Of Mine (Skin Graaft)
- Joni Mitchell * Taming The Tiger (Reprise)
- Mix Master Mike * Anti-Theft Device (Asphodel)
- Molotov * Donde Jugaran Las Ninas (UNI/Universal)
- Roy Montgomery * Eulogy For Nick Drake (Drunken Fish)
- Roy Montgomery * True (Kranky)
- Thurston Moore * Root (Lo)
- Morcheeba * Big Calm (Sony)
- Mouse On Mars * Glam (Sonig)
- Mount Shasta * Watch Out (Skin Graft)
- Movietone * Day & Night (Drag City)
- Jeff Muldaur * The Secret Handshake (Hightone)
- Nada Surf * The Proximity Effect (Elektra)
- Nashville Pussy * Let Them Eat Pussy (Amphetamine Reptile)
- No Means No * Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie (Alternative Tentacles)
- NRG Ensemble * Dejazzo Gets A Facelift (Atavistic)
- Sally Nyolo * Multiculti (Trop M)
- Olu Dara * In The World: From Natchez To New York (Atlantic)
- Oval/Christophe Charles * Dok (Thrill Jockey)
- Ozmatli (Uni/Almo Sounds)
- Pan-American (Kranky)
- Pedro The Lion * It's Hard to Find A Friend (Made in Mexico)
- Pine Valley Cosmonauts * Salute the Majesty of Bob Wills, the King of Western Swing: Traditionalist, Avant-Gardist, Pioneer, Magician (Bloodshot)
- Plaid * Not For Threes (Nothing)
- Plastikman * Consumed (NovaMute)
- Pluramon * Render Bandits (Mille Plateaux)
- Pras * Ghetto Supastar (Sony)
- Primus * Rhinoplasty (Interscope)
- PhonosycographDISK * Ancient Termites (Bomp Hip-Hop)
- The Push Kings * Far Places (Sealed Fate)
- Q-Burns Abstract Message * Feng Shui (Astralwerks)
- Rachid * Prototype (Universal)
- Redman * Doc's the Name Def (Jam/Mercury)
- Refused * The Shape Of Punk To Come (Epitaph)
- Amy Rigby * Middlescence (Koch)
- Rialto (China Records)
- Dom Um Romao * Rhythm Traveller (Mr. Bongo)
- Rudimentary Peni * Echoes Of Anguish (Outer Himalayan)
- Ruins * Refusal Fossil (Skin Graft)
- RZA * Bobby Digital In Stereo (Gee Street/V2)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto * Love Is The Devil OST (Asphodel)
- Sarge * The Glass Intact (Mud)
- Scrawl * Nature Film (Elektra)
- Seal * Human Being (Warner Brothers)
- Semisonic * Feeling Strangely Fine (MCA)
- Jules Shear * Between Us (High Street)
- Shudder To Think * First Love Last Rites (Epic)
- Silver Jews * American Water (Drag City)
- Sister Soleil * Solarium (Universal)
- Sly & Robbie * Strip to the Bone (Palm Pictures)
- Solex * Solex Vs The Hitmeister (Matador)
- Soul Coughing * El Oso (WEA)
- Spring Heeled Jack * Songs from Suburbia (Ignition/Tommy Boy)
- Robert Stewart * The Force (Qwest/WB)
- Taraf De Haidouks * Dumbala Dumba (Crammed Discs)
- Tarwater * Silur (Kitty Yo)
- Techno Animal * Radio Hades (Caroline)
- Terre Thaemlitz * Means From An End (Mille Plateaux)
- Third Eye Foundation * You Guys Kill Me (Merge/Touch & Go)
- Ticklah * Polydemic (Razorfish Records)
- Timbaland * Tim's Bio
- Tomorrowland * Sequence of the Negative Space Changes (Kranky)
- A Tribe Called Quest * The Love Movement (Jive)
- Trumans Water * Fragments Of A Lucky Break (Emperor Jones)
- Trumystic Sound System * Product Three (Mutant Sound System)
- David Tudor * Rainforest (Mode)
- Two Dollar Guitar * Train Songs (Smells Like Records)
- Maldita Vecindad Y Los Hijos * Mostros (BMG Latin)
- Velvet Crush * Heavy Changes (Action Musik)
- Wagon Christ * Tally Ho! (Astralwerks)
- Don Walser * Down at the Sky-Vue Drive-In (Sire/Watermelon)
- David S. Ware * Go See The World (Columbia)
- Chris Watson * Outside The Circle Of Fire (Touch UK)
- Gillian Welch * Hell Among the Yearlings (Almo Sounds)
- Whale * All Disco Dancing Must End in Broken Bones (Virgin)
- William Grant Conspiracy * Flying Low (Slow River)
- Elmo Williams & Hezekiah Early * Takes One To Know One (Fat Possum)
- Windy & Carl * Depths (Kranky)
- Zeek Sheck * Good Luck Suckers (Skin Graft)
- John Zorn * The Circle Maker (Tzadik)
- Various * Dugga Dugga Dugga: Wire (WMO)
- Various * V Classic, Volume 1 (Konkrete Jungle/Ultra Records)
10-
1997
- Björk * Homogenic (Elektra)
- Laika * Sounds of the Satellites (Too Pure)
- Walt Mink * Colossus (Deep Elm)
- Arto Lindsay * Mundo Civilizado (Bar/None)
9+
- Radiohead * OK Computer (Capitol)
- Spiritualized * Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (Arista)
- Finley Quaye * Maverick A Strike (550 Music)
- Amon Tobin * Bricolage (Ninja Tune)
- Cornershop * When I Was Born For the 7th Time (Luaka Bop/WB)
- Los Fabulosos Cadillacs * Fabulosos Calavera (BMG)
- Richard Horowitz & Susan Deyhim * Majoun (Sony Classical)
- Missy Misdemeanor Elliott * Supa Dupa Fly (East/West)
- Radio Tarifa * Rumba Argelina (World Circuit)
- Tortoise * Remixed (Tokuma/Thrill Jockey)
- Squarepusher * Hard Normal Daddy (Warp)
- Wyclef Jean * The Carnival (Columbia)
- Sleater-Kinney * Dig Me Out (Kill Rock Stars)
- The Flaming Lips * Zaireeka (WB)
- Portishead (London)
- Labradford * Mi Media Naranja (Kranky)
- Buena Vista Social Club with Ry Cooder (Nonesuch)
- Joseph Arthur * Big City Secrets (REal World)
- Jim O'Rourke * Bad Timing (Drag City)
- Natacha Atlas * Halim (Nation)
- Cul De Sac & John Fahey * The Epiphany of Glenn Jones (Thirsty Ear)
- Carlinhos Brown * Alfagamabetizado (Metro Blue)
- Arto Lindsay * Hyper Civilizado (Gramavision)
- Robert Wyatt * Shleep (Thirsty Ear)
- Yo La Tengo * I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (Matador)
- Richard Buckner * Devotion + Doubt (MCA)
- Stereolab * Dots And Loops (Elektra)
- Susana Baca (Luaka Bop)
- X-Ecutioners * X-pressions (Asphodel)
- Sixteen Horsepower * Low Estate (A&M)
- Patti Smith * Peace & Noise (Arista)
- Mogwai * Young Team (Jetset)
- Eleventh Dream Day * Eighth (Thrill Jockey)
- Death In Vegas * Dead Elvis (Time Bomb)
- Casolando * Iliana: Carlos Ortega & his Latin Combo (482 Music)
- The Handsome Family * Through The Trees (Carrot Top)
- Fernanda Abreu * Raio X: Revista E Ampliada (EMI)
- The Walkabouts * Nighttown (Virgin)
- Archer Prewitt * In The Sun (Carrot Top)
- Pavement * Brighten The Corners (Matador)
- Erykah Badu * Baduizm (Universal)
- Orang' * Fields And Waves (Echo)
- u-Ziq * Lunatic Harness (Astralwerks)
- Cheikh Lo * Ne La Thiess (World Circuit)
- Mouse On Mars * Autoditacker (Thrill Jockey)
- Pram * Music For Your Movies EP (Too Pure)
- Various * Return of the DJ, Vol. II (Bomb Hip-Hop)
- Helium * The Magic City (Matador)
- Super Furry Animals * Radiator (Creation)
- Khaled * Sahra (Island)
- Talvin Singh * Anokha: Soundz of the Asian Underground (Quango)
- Various * Vedic Presents Rhythmic Intelligence (Sub Rosa)
- The Notwist * 12 (Zero Hour)
- Palace Songs * Lost Blues And Other Songs (Thrill Jockey)
- Blur (Virgin)
- Kool Keith * Sex Style (Funky Ass Records)
- Various * Star Rise: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Remixed (Real World)
- DJ Krush * Milight (Mo' Wax)
- Howie B * Turn the Dark Off (Elektra)
- Electric Company Plays Amnesia (Supreme/Island)
- Roni Size * Reprazent: New Forms (Mercury)
- The Orb * Orblivion (Island)
- David Holmes * Lets Get Killed (Go! Beat)
- Built To Spill * Perfect From Now On (WB)
- Entombed * To Ride, Shoot Straight And Speak The Truth (Music for Nations)
- Modest Mouse * The Lonesome Crowded West (Up)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds * The Boatman's Call (Reprise)
- Neko Case & her Boyfriends * The Virginian (Bloodshot)
- The Lonesome Organist * Collector of Cactus Echo Bags (Thrill Jockey)
- Aphex Twin * Come To Daddy (Sire)
- Trans Am * Surrender To The Night (Touch & Go)
- Godflesh * Love And Hate In Dub (Earache)
- The Delta 72 * The Soul of a New Machine (Touch & Go)
- Cash Money * Black Hearts and Broken Wills (Touch & Go)
- Kid Loco * A Grand Love Story (Yellow/East)
- The Flaming Stars * Sell Your Soul To The Flaming Stars (Vinyl Japan)
- Vinicius Cantuaria * Sol Na Cara (Rykodisc)
- Gravediggaz * The Pick, the Sickle and the Shovel (Gee Street)
- Red Red Meat * There's A Star Above The Manger Tonight (Sub Pop)
- Mick Harvey * Pink Elephants (Mute)
- Rex * Rex 3 (Southern)
- Emperor * Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk (Century Media)
9
- Grandaddy * Under The Western Freeway (Will/V2)
- The Dismemberment Plan * Is Terrified (de Soto)
- Timbaland & Magoo * Welcome To Our World (Atlantic)
- The Wedding Present * Singles 1995-97 (Cooking Vinyl/spinART)
- Lake of Dracula (Skin Graft)
- Lambchop * Thriller (Merge)
- Cesaria Evora * Cabo Verde (Nonesuch)
- Virginia Rodrigues * Sol Negro (Natasha)
- Jim White * Wrong-Eyed Jesus (Luaka Bop)
- Royal Trux * Sweet Sixteen (Virgin)
- Dimmu Borgir * Enthrone Darkness Triumphant (Century Media)
- The Gothic Archies (Magnetic Fields) * The New Despair EP (Merge)
- Rainer Maria * Past Worn Searching (Polyvinyl)
- Today Is The Day * Temple Of The Morning Star (Amphetamine Reptile)
- Various Artists * September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (Sony)
- Elliott Smith * Either/Or (Kill Rock Stars)
- Ganger * Fore (Domino)
- The Bottle Rockets * 24 Hours A Day (Atlantic)
- Space Needle * The Moray Eels Eat the Space Needle (Valley)
- The Sea And Cake * The Fawn (Thrill Jockey)
- Primal Scream * Echo Dek (Reprise)
- Primal Scream * Vanishing Point (Reprise)
- Catherine Wheel * Adam and Eve (Mercury)
- P.W. Long's Reelfoot * We Didn't See You On Sunday (Touch & Go)
- Badawi * Jerusalem Under Fire (ROIR)
- Belle & Sebastion * If You're Feeling Sinister (The Enclave)
- Buddy Miller * Poison Love (Hightone)
- Beth Orton * Trailer Park (Dedicated)
- Bis * The New Transistor Heroes (Grand Royal)
- Various * Nuyorican Soul (Giant Step/Blue Thumb)
- Dinosaur Jr. * Hand It Over (Reprise)
- Carlos Vives * Tengo Fe (EMI Latin)
- Stars of the Lid * The Ballasted Orchestra (Kranky)
- Teenage Fanclub * Songs From Northern Britain (Columbia)
- The Verve * Urban Hymns (Virgin)
- Fatboy Slim * Better Living Through Chemistry (Astralwerks)
- Erykah Badu * Baduizm (Universal)
- Helium * No Guitars EP (Matador)
- Photek * Risk Vs. Reward (Virgin)
- Autechre * Chiastic Slide (Warp)
- Te Vaka * Pacific Music (Arc)
- Boymerang * Balance Of The Force (Astralwerks)
- Gorky's Zygotic Mynci * Barafundle (Mercury)
- Banco de Gaia * Big Men Cry (Planet Dog/Mammoth)
- The Apples In Stereo * Tone Soul Evolution (spinART/Sire)
- HIM * Interpretive Belief System (WordSound)
- Bardo Pond * Lapsed (Matador)
- Kid Loco * A Grand Love Story (Yellow)
- Doldrums * Acupuncture (Kranky)
- Spectrum * Forever Alien (Space Age)
- Daft Punk * Homework (Virgin)
- Amp * astralmoonbeamprojections (Kranky)
- Luna * Pup Tent (Elektra)
- Tranquility Bass * Let The Freak Flag Fly (Astralwerks)
- The Jayhawks * Sound Of Lies (American)
- Hurricane #1 (Creation/Sire)
- Steve Earle * El Corazon (WB)
- Various * Spawn The Album (Immortal/Epic)
- DJ Food * Refried Food (Shadow)
- Atari Teenage Riot * Burn, Berlin, Burn (Grand Royal)
- Tindersticks * Curtains (London)
- Mike Nicolai (Tramp Art)
- Moloko * Do You Like My Tight Sweater? (WB/Echo)
- Moby (Voodoo Child) * The End Of Everything (Elektra)
- Rockers Hi-Fi * Mish Mash (WB)
- Panasonic * Kulma (Blast First)
- Common * One Day It Will All Make Sense (Relativity)
- Company Flow * Funcrusher Plus (Official/Rawkus)
- Prodigy * The Fat Of The Land (Maverick)
- Polvo * Shapes (Touch & Go)
- Ani Difranco * Living In Clip (Righteous Babe)
- The High Llamas * Hawaii (V2)
- The Chemical Brothers * Dig Your Own Hole (Astralwerks)
- Claw Hammer * Hold Your Tongue (and say apple) (Interscope)
- Bob Dylan * Time Out Of Mind (Columbia)
- DJ Shadow * Preemptive Strike EP (Mo Wax)
- Busta Rhymes * When Disaster Strikes (Elektra)
- Wu-Tang * Wu-Tang Forever (Loud/RCA)
- Various * Grooverider Presents the Prototype Years (Columbia)
- Ry Cooder * The End of Violence Soundtrack (Outpost)
- Spanish Fly * Fly By Night (Accurate)
- Souled American * Notes Campfire (MoII)
- Whiskeytown * Strangers Almanac
- Run On * No Way (Matador)
- Wabi Sabi (a-Musik)
- Wuhling * Extra 6 (Touch & Go)
- The Bottle Rockets * 24 Hours A Day (Atlantic)
9-
- Dwindle * Recently Okay (Guilt Ridden Pop)
- Rainer Maria EP (Polyvinyl)
- Scorn * [zAndEr] (Invisible)
- The Grifters * Full Blown Possession (Sub Pop)
- Faith No More * Album Of The Year (Slash/Reprise)
- Mahmoud Ahmed * Soul Of Addis (Earthworks)
- Ween * The Mollusk (Elektra)
- Low * Songs for a Dead Pilot EP (Kranky)
- Harmony Rockets * Golden Ticket EP (Big Cat)
- BMX Bandits * Theme Park (Creation)
- Dirty Old Man River (Radial)
- Slipstream * Be Groovy Or Leave (Primary/Che)
- A New January * After Clothes (Negative Nine)
- Cranes * Population Four (Dedicated)
- Sneaker Pimps * Becoming X (Virgin)
- Cibo Matto * Super Relax EP (WB)
- Fleetwood Mac * The Dance (Reprise)
- Waco Brothers * Cowboy In Flames (Bloodshot)
- Waco Brothers * Do You Think About Me? (Bloodshot)
- Kim Richey * Bitter Sweet (Mercury)
- Cranes * Can't Get Free EP (Dedicated)
- Travis * Good Feeling (Independente/Epic)
- Shaggy * Midnite Lover (Virgin)
- Boss Hog * Winn Coma EP (Geffen)
- Polara * C'est La Vie (Interscope)
These Are Alphabetical Because I Have Not Yet Heard Them
- Acron 2 * The Beckoning (Reinforced)
- The Apples In Stereo * Tone Soul Evolution (spinART)
- Bad Livers * Hogs on the Highway (Sugar Hill)
- Baltier Space * Capsul (Turnbuckle)
- Banyan (Cyberoctive)
- Blowpipe * First Circle (Needlework)
- Bowery Electric * Vertigo (Beggars Banquet)
- Brainiac * Electro Shock For President EP (Touch & Go)
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre * Give It Back! (Tangible/Bomp!)
- In Flames * Whoracle (Nuclear Blast)
- Broadcast * Work And Non Work (Warp)
- Bush Tetras * Beauty Lies (Mercury)
- Neal Casal * The Sun Rises Here (Glitterhouse)
- Children Of Dub * ESP (Magick Eye)
- Chocolate In The Sun * Snowpony EP (GoAhead)
- Coldcut * Let Us Play! (Ninja Tune)
- Carl Craig * More Songs About Food & Revolutionary Art (Planet)
- Crescent * Electric Sound Constructions (Touch & Go)
- Los Crudos * Canciones Para Liberar Nuestras
- The Crystal Method * Vegas (Outpost)
- Catie Curtis (Guardian)
- Dead C * Tusk (Siltbreeze)
- Bill Dixon * Vade Mecum II (Soul Note)
- DJ Muggs * Presents The Soul Assassins
- Johnny Dowd * Wrong Side of Memphis
- Alec Empire * Destroyer (Cargo)
- John Fahey * City Of Refuge (Tim/Kerr)
- John Fahey * Womblife (Table of the Elements)
- The Fall * Levitate (Artful)
- Lee Feldman * Living It All Wrong (Pure/Mercury)
- The Firm All Stars (Aftermath/Interscope)
- Flying Saucer Attack * New Lands (Drag City)
- Foetus Symphony Orchestra & Lydia Lunch * York (Thirsty Ear)
- The Frogs * Starjob EP (Mercury)
- Frontier * Heater (Southern)
- Edith Frost * Calling Over Time (Drag City)
- Funky Porcini * Let's See What Carmen Can Do (Ninja Tune)
- Fushitsusha * The Time Is Nigh/A Death Never to Be Complete (Tokuma)
- Warren G * Take a Look Over Your Shoulder (Def Jam)
- Geraldine Fibbers * Butch (Valley)
- Grooverider * Diverse Artiesten (Prototype)
- Ground Zero * Null & Void (Nani)
- David Grubbs * Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange (Table of the Elements)
- Guided By Voices * Mag Earwhig! (Matador)
- Half Japanese * Bone Head (Alternative Tentacles)
- The Halo Benders * The Rebel's Not In (K)
- The High Fidelity Orchestra (Wayside)
- Hovercraft * Akathisia (Blast First/Mute)
- Danielle Howle & The Tantrums * Do a Two Sable
- Huffamoose * We've Been Had Again (Interscope)
- Huun Huur Tu * If I'd Been Born An Eagle (Shanachie)
- Isotope 217 * The Unstable Molecule (Thrill Jockey)
- Ivy * Apartment Life (Atlantic)
- Jessamine * Another Fictionalized History (Histronic)
- Jhelisa * Language Electric (Dorado)
- Jungle Brothers * Raw Deluxe (Gee Street)
- Paul K & the Weathermen * Life's A Gas (Alias)
- Iman Khanbangeshi * Debut Recording
- David Kilgour And the Heavy Eights (Flying Nun)
- Kid Koala * Scratchhappyland (Ninja Tune)
- King Cobb Steelie * Junior Relaxer
- King Kong * Kingdom of Kong (Drag City)
- Kumari * Irogami (Radio Argot)
- Bill Laswell * City Of Light (Sub Rosa)
- Lukas Ligeti & Beta Foly (Intuition/Allegro)
- Licorice Roots * Melodeon (MoodFood)
- Locust * Morvis Light (Seefeel)
- Lotus Crown * Chokin' On the Jokes (Reprise)
- J Majik * Slow Motion (Infra Red)
- Man Or Astro-Man? * Made From Technetium (Touch & Go)
- Barbara Manning * 1212 (Matador)
- Eric Matthews * The Lateness Of The Hour (Sub Pop)
- Kaffe Matthews * cdAnn (Annette Works)
- Medeski, Martin and Wood * Shack-Man (Gramavision)
- Medeski, Martin and Wood * Bubblehouse (Gramavision)
- The Melvins * Honky (Amphetamine Reptile)
- Baader Meinhof (Hut/Caroline)
- Method Man * T2 (Def Jam)
- Microstoria * _snd (Thrill Jockey/Mille Plateaux)
- Microstoria * Reprovisers (Thrill Jockey)
- Paul D Miller * Viral Sonata (Asphodel)
- Mr. Quintron * The First Two Records (Bulb)
- MJG * No More Glory (Suave/Universal)
- The Mommyheads (DGC)
- The Monorchid * Let Them Eat the Monorchid (Dischord)
- Roy Montgomery * Winter Songs (RB)
- R.B. Morris * Take That Ride (Oh Boy)
- The Mountain Goats * Full Force Galesburg (Emperor Jones)
- Mouse On Mars * Cache Coeur Naif EP (Thrill Jockey)
- Movietone * Day And Night (Drag City)
- The Notorious B.I.G. * Life After Death (Bad Boy/Arista)
- Number One Cup * Wrecked By Lions (Flydaddy)
- Oblivions * Play 9 Songs with Mr. Quintron (Crypt)
- Will Oldham * Joya (Drag City)
- Oxbow * Serenade in Red (SST)
- Panacea * Low Profile Darkness (Force Inc.)
- Papas Fritas * Helioself (Minty Fresh)
- William Parker & The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra * Sunrise in the Tone World (Aum Fidelity)
- Pegboy * Cha-Cha Damore (Touch & Go)
- Photek * Modus Operandi (Virgin)
- Plaid * Not For Threes (Warp)
- Portastatic * The Nature Of Sap (Merge)
- Praxis * Transmutation Live (Douglas)
- Req * One (Skint)
- Reservoir * Pink Machine (Zero Hour)
- Salaryman (City Slang)
- Salt Licks * Trust Your Body (Entropic)
- Savage Aural Hotbed * Pressure Of Silence (UltraModern)
- Scala * Slide EP (Seefeel)
- Scanner * Delivery (Earache)
- Paul Schutze * Nine Songs from the Garden of Welcome Lies (Tone Casualties)
- The Scissor Girls * Here Is The "Is-Not" (Atavistic)
- The Sea And Cake * Two Gentlemen EP (Thrill Jockey)
- Seely * Seconds (Too Pure)
- Silkworm * Developer (Sub Pop)
- Luke Slater * Freek Funk (Novamute)
- Slobberbone * Barrel Chested (Sonic Rendezvous)
- Smog * Red Apple Falls (Touch & Go)
- Son Volt * Straightaways (WB)
- Songs * Ohia (Carrot Top)
- Space Explosion (Captain Trip)
- Tobin Sprout * Moonflow Plastic (Welcome To My Wigwam) (Matador)
- Storm & Stress (Touch & Go)
- Sub Dub (Instinct)
- Sub Dub * Dancehall Malfunction (Asphodel)
- Swell * Too Many Days Without Thinking (Beggars Banquet)
- Third Eye Foundation * Ghost (Touch & Go)
- Tone Rec * Thugny-Trugny (Sub Rosa)
- To Rococo Rot * Veiclulu (City Slang)
- Transient Waves (Che)
- Jen Trynin * Gun Shy Trigger Happy (Squint/WB)
- Tsunami * A Brilliant Mistake (Simple Machines)
- U.S. Maple * Sang Phat Editor (Touch & Go)
- Vainqueur * Elevations (Chain Reaction)
- Various * Pakistani Soul Music
- Volebeats * Sky and the Ocean (Safe House)
- We * As Is (Asphodel)
- Wellwater Conspiracy * Declaration Of Conformity (Third Gear)
- Windy & Carl * Antarctica: The Bliss Out Vol. 2 (Darla)
10-
1996
- DJ Shadow * Endtroducing (Mo Wax)
- Chico Science & Nação Zumbí * Afrociberdelia (Chaos)
- Tortoise * Millions Now Living Will Never Die (Thrill Jockey)
10-
- Dr. Octagon * Dr. Octagonecologyst (75 Ark)
- Dirty Three * Horse Stories (Touch & Go)
- Labradford (Kranky)
9+
- Gallon Drunk * In The Long Still Night (City Slang UK)
- Sheila Chandra * ABoneCroneDrone (Real World)
- Beck * Odelay (Geffen)
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * Now I Got Worry (Matador)
- Walt Mink * El Producto (Atlantic)
- Cujo * Adventures In Foam (Shadow)
- Jeremy Enigk * Return of the Frog Queen (Sub Pop)
- Sleater-Kinney * Call The Doctor (Chainsaw)
- Eels * Beautiful Freak (Dreamworks)
- Disco Inferno * Technicolour (Go Ahead)
- Tricky * Pre-Millenium Tension (Island)
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds * Murder Ballads (Mute)
- The Wedding Present * Saturnalia (RCA)
- Patti Smith * Gone Again (Arista)
- Orphaned Land * El Nora Alila (Holy Records)
- Stereolab * Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Elektra)
- Neurosis * Through Silver In Blood (Relapse)
- Social Distortion * White Light, White Heat White Trash (Epic)
- Einsturzende Neubauten * Ende Neu (Nothing)
- Nearly God (Island)
- Paul Schutze & Phantom City * Site Anubis (Big Cat)
- Afghan Whigs * Black Love (Elektra)
- Screaming Trees * Dust (Epic)
- Soundgarden * Down On The Upside (A&M)
- Weezer * Pinkerton (DGC)
- Girls Against Boys * House of GSVB (Touch & Go)
- Gastr Del Sol * Upgrade & Afterlife (Drag City)
- Directions In Music (Thrill Jockey)
- Super Furry Animals * Fuzzy Logic (Creation)
- Various * Headz: A Soundtrack of Beathead Jams (Mo Wax)
- The Walkabouts * Devil's Road (Virgin)
- The Flaming Stars * Bring Me The Rest Of Alfredo Garcia Singles 1995-1996 (Vinyl Japan)
- Barry Adamson * Oedipus Schmoedipus (Mute)
- Ui * Sidelong (Luna Moth/Southern)
- Transglobal Underground * Psychic Karaoke (Nation/MCA)
- Various * Axiom Dub: Mysteries of Creation (Axiom)
- HIM * Egg (Southern)
- Cul De Sac * China Gate (Thirsty Ear)
- Musicians of the Nile * Charcoal Gypsies (Real World)
- Los Lobos * Colossal Head (WB)
- Jessamine * The Long Arm Of Coincidence (Kranky)
- Future Sound Of London * Dead Cities (Astralwerks)
- Lamb (Mercury)
- Firewater * Get Off The Cross (Jetset)
- Cibo Matto * Viva! La Woman (WB)
- Richard Davies * There's Never Been A Crowd Like This (Flydaddy)
- Scorn * Logghi Barogghi (Earache)
- The Raincoats * Looking In The Shadows (Geffen)
- Trans Am (Thrill Jockey)
- Arto Lindsay * O Corpo Sutil (Bar None)
- Mark Stewart * Control Data (Mute)
- Unwound * Repetition (Kill Rock Stars)
- Palace * Arise Therefore (Drag City)
- Howie B * Music For Babies (Island)
- Bardo Pond * Amanita (Matador)
- Bowery Electric * Beat (Kranky)
- Long Fin Killie * Valentino (Too Pure)
- Trenchmouth * The Broadcasting System (Skene!)
- Bikini Kill * Reject All American (Kill Rock Stars)
- The Grifters * Ain't My Lookout (Sub Pop)
- Roy Montgomery * Temple IV (Kranky)
- DJ Spooky * Songs Of A Dead Dreamer (Asphodel)
- John Zorn * Bar Kokhba (Tzadik)
- Squarepusher * Feed Me Weird Things (Rephlex)
- Plug * Drum 'n' Bass For Papa (Plant)
- Omni Trio * Haunted Science (sm:)e)
- Tool * Aenima (Volcano)
- Ride * OX4: The Best Of 1990-96 (Ignition)
- Various * Incursions In Illbient (Asphodel)
- Various * In Memorium Gille Deleuze (Mille Plateaux)
- Various * Land Of Baboon: An Illclectic Collection of Brooklyn Soundz (Silent)
9
- Ride * Tarantula (Sire)
- Polly Jean Harvey & John Parish * Dance Hall At Louse Point (Island)
- The American Analog Set * The Fun Of Watching Fireworks (Emperor Jones/Trance)
- Godflesh * Songs Of Love And Hate (Earache)
- Versus * Secret Swingers (Teen Beat/Caroline)
- R.E.M. * New Adventures In Hi-Fi (WB)
- Outkast * ATLiens (LaFace)
- Gaunt * Kryptonite (Thrill Jockey)
- Opeth * Morningrise (Century Media)
- Underworld * Second Toughest In The Infants (TVT/Wax Trax)
- Run On * Start Packing (Matador)
- Prince Paul * Psychoanalysis (What Is It?) (Wordsound/Tommy Boy)
- Wilco * Being There (Reprise)
- Joe Henry * Trampoline (Mammoth)
- Deus * In A Bar, Under the Sea (Island)
- Dead Can Dance * Spiritchaser (4AD)
- Jale * So Wound (Sub Pop)
- The Orb * Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond the Call of Duty (Deviant)
- King Sunny Ade * E Dide Get Up (Mesa)
- Rachid Taha * Ole Ole (Island)
- Butter 08 (Grand Royal)
- Maria McKee * Life Is Sweet (Geffen)
- Tiger * We Are Puppets (Trade2/Island)
- Fuxa * Very Well Organized (Che)
- Fuxa * 3 Field Rotation (Che)
- Café Tacvba * Avalanches De Exitos (WEA)
- Various * Offbeat: A Red Hot Sound Trip (TVT)
- Prong * Rude Awakening (Epic)
- Neneh Cherry * Man (Virgin)
- Bedhead * Beheaded (Trance Syndicate)
- Jason Falkner * Present Author Unknown (Elektra)
- The Delta 72 * The R&B of Membership (Touch & Go)
- Jack * Pioneer Soundtracks (Too Pure)
- Home * Elf: Gulf Bore Waltz (Jetset)
- Lewis Taylor (Island)
- Ghostface Killah * Ironman (Sire)
- Various * Metalheadz: Platinum Breakz (ffrr)
- Moonshake * Dirty And Divine (C/Z)
- Six Finger Satellite * Paranormalized (Sub Pop)
- Jeru the Damaja * Wrath Of The Math (Payday)
- Gorky's Zygotic Mynci * Introducing... (Mercury)
- Dissection * Storm Of The Light's Bane (NBA)
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook * Night Song (Real World)
- Morcheeba * Who Can You Trust? (Discovery/WB)
- Everything But The Girl * Walking Wounded (Atlantic)
- Aphex Twin * Richard D. James Album (Sire)
- Come * Near Life Experience (Matador)
- Telstar Ponies * Voices From The New Music (Fire)
- Ruby * Salt peter (Creation/Work)
- De La Soul * Stakes Is High (Tommy Boy)
- Rome (Touch & Go)
- Whore: Various Artists Play Wire (WMO)
- The Roots * Illadelph Halflife (DGC)
- Björk * Telegram (Island)
- Low * The Curtain Hits The Cast (Vernon Yard)
- Silkworm * Firewater (Matador)
- Jessamine/Spectrum * A Pox On You EP (Space Age)
- Orbital * In Sides (ffrr)
- Amp * Sirenes (Petrol)
- The Melvins * Stag (Atlantic)
- Moby * Animal Rights (Elektra)
- Dubadelic * 2000: A Bass Odyssey (WordSound)
- Mag Nog (Kranky)
- Musica Transonic * A Pilgrim's Solace (PSF)
- DJ Vadim * USSR Repertoire: The Theory Of Verticality (Ninja Tune)
- Various * Future Sound of Paris (Polygram)
- Low * Transmission EP (Vernon Yard)
- Imperial Teen * Seasick (Slash)
- Alex Reece * So Far (Island)
- Motörhead * Overnight Sensation (CMC)
- Team Dresch * Captain, My Captain (Kill Rock Stars)
- Crescent EP (Atavistic)
- Oumou Sangare * Worotan (World Circuit)
- Guided By Voices * Under The Bushes Under The Stars (Matador)
- Yungchen Lhamo * Tibet Tibet (Real World)
- The Spinanes * Strand (Sub Pop)
- Sloan * One Chord To Another (murderrecords)
- Bim Sherman * Miracle (Mantra/On-U Sound)
- Lambchop * Hank EP (Merge)
9-
- Ani Difranco * Dilate (Righteous Babe)
- Seefeel * Ch-Vox (Rough Trade/Goahead)
- Cat Power * What Would the Community Think (Matador)
- Teen Angels * Daddy (Sub Pop)
- The Church * Magician Among the Spirits (Griffin)
- Luna EP (No. 6 Records)
- Fu Manchu * In Search Of... (Mammoth)
- Nevermore * The Politics Of Ecstasy (Century Media)
- Rainer Maria (Polyvinyl)
- Scissor Girls * We People Space With Phantoms (Atavistic)
- Seely * Julie Only (Too Pure)
- Fugees * The Score (Ruffhouse)
- The Hang Ups * So We Go (Restless)
- A Tribe Called Quest * Beats, Rhymes & Life (Jive)
- Me'Shell Ndege'Ocello * Peace Beyond Passion (Maverick)
- Ween * 12 Golden Country Greats (WB)
- Butthole Surfers * Electriclarryland (Capitol)
- Derek Bailey * Guitar, Drums 'N' Bass (Avant)
- Cannibal Corpse * Vile (Metal Blade)
- David Toop * Pink Noir (Virgin)
- The Jesus Lizard * Shot (Capitol)
- The Boo Radleys * C'mon Kids (Creation/Mercury)
- Suede * Coming Up (Columbia)
- Various * Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks (Lava/Atlantic)
- Neutral Milk Hotel * On Avery Island (Merge)
- Various * Saturday Morning Cartoon's Greatest Hits (MCA)
- Basehead * Faith (Imago)
- Jamiroquai * Travelling Without Moving (Work)
- Luscious Jackson * Fever In Fever Out (Grand Royal)
- Iced Earth * The Dark Saga (Century Media)
- Plexi (Sub Pop)
- Crucial Conflict * The Final Tic (Pallas)
- Catatonia * Way Beyond Blue (Blanco Y Negro)
- The Spiny Anteaters * Crescent (Kranky)
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 * I Hope It Lands (Communion)
- Arcwelder * Entropy (Touch & Go)
- Polvo * Exploded Drawing (Merge)
- Railroad Jerk * The Third Rail (Matador)
- Bad Religion * Gray Race (Atlantic)
- June Of 44 * Tropics and Meridians (Quarterstick)
- Earth * Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons (Sub Pop)
- Posies * Amazing Disgrace (DGC)
- Deadbolt * Tijuana Hit Squad (Headhunter/Cargo)
These Are Alphabetical Because I Have Not Yet Heard Them
- Arcana * The Last Wave (DIW)
- Ascension * Broadcast (Shock)
- Bailter Space * Wammo (Matador)
- Buckethead * The Day of the Robot (Submeta)
- Neal Casal * Rain, Wind & Speed (Buy Or Die)
- Chavez * Ride The Fader (Matador)
- Chokebore * A Taste For Bitters (Amphetamine Reptile)
- Cranes * La Tragedie D'Oreste Et Electre (Dedicated)
- The Kelley Deal 6000 * Go To The Sugar Altar (Consig.)
- The Divine Comedy * Casanova (V2)
- Dr. Isreal * Seven Tribes Of Israel (Wordsound)
- Dr. Octagon * Instrumentalyst (Mo Wax)
- East River Pipe * Mel (Merge)
- Alec Empire * Les Etoiles Des Filles Mortes (Mille Plateaux)
- Experimental Audio Research * Beyond The Pale (Big Cat)
- The Fall * Oswald Defense Lawyer (Jet)
- The Fall * The Light User Syndrome (Jet)
- Faust * Rien (Table of the Elements)
- The For Carnation * Marshmallows EP (Matador)
- Fuck * pretty slow (Walt/Esther/Rhesus)
- Funky Porcini * Love, Pussycats & Carwrecks (Ninja Tune)
- Fushitsusha * Purple Trap (Blast First)
- Gate * Monolake (Table of the Elements)
- Germ * Parrot (GPR)
- Godheadsilo * Skyward In Triumph (Sub Pop)
- Halo Benders * Don't Tell Me Now (K)
- High Rise * Disallow (PSF)
- Danielle Howle * About to Burst (Simple Machines)
- Kriedler * Weekend (Kiff SM)
- Bill Laswell * Oscillations (Sub Rosa)
- Lillys * Better Can't Make Your Life Better (Che)
- lowercase * all destructive urges...seem so perfect (Amphetamine Reptile)
- Lull * Continue (Release)
- Luscious Jackson * Fever In/Fever Out (Grand Royal)
- Mainliner * Mellow Out (Charnel Music)
- The Make-Up * Destination: Love
- Meat Beat Manifesto * Subliminal Sandwich
- Melt-Banana * Scratch or Stitch (SkinGraft)
- Microstoria * _snd (Mille Plateaux)
- Mobb Deep * Hell On Earth (Loud)
- Mogwai * Ten Rapid (Jetset)
- Mr. Bungle * Disco Volante (Slash)
- Olivia Tremor Control * Music From the Unrealized Film Script 'Dusk At Cubist Castle' (Flydaddy)
- Optical'8 * All Over (God Mountain)
- Pitchblende * Gygax (Headhunter/Cargo)
- Photek * The Hidden Camera EP (Virgin)
- Rachel's * Music For Egon Schiele (Quarterstick)
- Rachel's * The Sea And The Bells (Quarterstick)
- Alex Reese * So Far (
- Retsin * Egg Fusion (Simple Machines)
- Paul Schutze * Abysmal Evenings (Virgin)
- Slipstream * Side Effects (Elektra)
- Smog * The Doctor Came At Dawn (Drag City)
- Smoke * Another Reason To Fast (Long Play)
- Soma * The Inner Cinema (Extreme)
- Sone * Holiday And Sport (Darla)
- Space Streakings * Shakuhuachi Surprise (Skin Graft)
- Spectrum * Songs For Owsley (Reprise)
- Spleen * Soundtrack to Spleen (Swart Finger)
- Squirrel Nut Zippers * Hot (Mammoth)
- Strapping Fieldhands * Wattle & Daub (Shangri-La)
- Swans * Soundtracks for the Blind (Atavistic)
- Tha Dogg Pound * Dogg Food (Death Row)
- Third Eye Foundation * Semtex (Linda's Strange Vacation)
- The Thrones * Alraune (Communion)
- Those Bastard Souls * Twentieth Century Chemical (Darla)
- Tobin Sprout * Carnival Boy (Matador)
- Underworld * Second Toughest In the Infants (TVT)
- Windy & Carl * Portal (Ba Da Bing!)
- The Wrens * Secaucus (Grass)
- Various * Altered Beats: Assassin Knowledge Of The Remanipulated (Axiom)
- Various * Crooklyn Dub Consortium: Certified Dope Vol. 2 (Wordsound)
- Various * Electric Ladyland III (Mille Plateaux)
- Various * Headz 2 (Mo Wax)
- Various * Macro Dub Infection Vol. 2 (Virgin)
- Various * New Yorica! Culture Clash In New York City: Experiments In Latin Music 1970-77 (Soul Jazz)
- Various * Ninja Cuts: Flexistentialism/The Joy Of Dex (Ninja Tune)
- Various * Swarms Of Drones (Asphodel)
10
1995
- Tricky * Maxinquaye (Island)
10-
- PJ Harvey * To Bring You My Love (Island)
- Björk * Post (Elektra)
- Asian Dub Foundation * Facts And Fictions (Nation)
- Dirty Three (Touch & Go)
- Radiohead * The Bends (Capitol)
- Labradford * A Stable Reference (Kranky)
9+
- The Young Gods * Only Heaven (Interscope)
- Cornelius * 69/96 (Trattoria)
- Chico Science & Nação Zumbí * De Lama Ao Caos (Chaos)
- Oval * 94 Diskont (Mille Plateaux)
- Meshuggah * Destroy Erase Improve (Nuclear Blast)
- The Flaming Lips * Clouds Taste Metallic (WB)
- Fugazi * Red Medicine (Dischord)
- Natacha Atlas * Diaspora (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
- Swervedriver * Ejector Seat Reservation (Creation)
- Techno Animal * Re-Entry (Virgin)
- Cornershop * Woman's Gotta Have It (Luaka Bop/WB)
- Yo La Tengo * Electr-O-Pura (Matador)
- Spiritualized * Pure Phase (Dedicated/Arista)
- Pram * Sargasso Sea (Too Pure)
- Mouse On Mars * Iaora Tahiti (Too Pure)
- Mercury Rev * See You On The Other Side (Work)
- Flying Saucer Attack * Further (Drag City)
- No Doubt * The Beacon Street Collection (Sea Creature)
- Pulp * Different Class (Island)
- Helium * The Dirt of Luck (Matador)
- Rocket From the Crypt * Hot Charity (Swami)
- Rocket From the Crypt * The State of Art Is On Fire (Sympathy)
- Foetus * Gash (Columbia)
- Goodie Mob * Soul Food (WB)
- The Genius/GZA * Liquid Swords (Geffen)
- Transglobal Underground * International Times (Nation/Epic)
- Los Fabulosos Cadillacs * Rey Azucar (Sony Discos)
- Various * The Soul of Black Peru (Luaka Bop)
- Team Dresch * Personal Best (Chainsaw/Candy Ass)
- Massive Attack v. Mad Professor * No Protection (Circa)
- 18th Dye * Tribute To A Bus (Matador)
- Paul Schutze * Apart (Virgin)
- Flying Saucer Attack * Chorus (Drag City)
- Main * Hertz (Beggars Banquet)
- The Grifters * The Eureka EP (Shangri-La)
- Ui * Unlike: Remixes Volume 1 (Lunamoth)
- Ui * The 2-Sided EP/Sharpie (Southern)
- Sparklehorse * Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (Capitol)
- Boss Hog (Geffen)
- Sunny Day Real Estate * The Pink Album (Sub Pop)
- Elastica (Geffen)
- The Magnetic Fields * Get Lost (Merge)
- Son Volt * Trace (WB)
- D'Angelo * Brown Sugar (EMI)
- Tortoise * Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters (Thrill Jockey)
- Electric Company * A Pert Cyclic Omen (Warner)
- God * Appeal To Human Greed EP (Big Cat)
- Low * Long Division (Vernon Yard)
- Goldie * Timeless (ffrr)
- David Toop * Screen Ceremonies (Wire Editions)
- DJ Krush * Krush (Shadow)
- Wilco * A.M. (Reprise/WB)
- The Sea And Cake * Nassau (Thrill Jockey)
- Buffalo Tom * Sleepy Eyed (EastWest/Beggars Banquet)
- The Jayhawks * Tomorrow The Green Grass (American)
- Various * Macro Dub Infection (Virgin)
- Autechre * Tri Repetae (Warp)
- Seam * Am I Driving You Crazy? (Touch & Go)
- At The Gates * Slaughter Of The Soul (Earache)
- The Roots * Do You Want More?!!!??! (DGC)
- Organized Konfusion * Stress: The Extinction Agenda (Hollywood Basic)
- DJ Krush * Meiso (Mo Wax)
- Mr. Bungle * Disco Volante (WB)
9
- No Doubt * Tragic Kingdom (Interscope)
- Blur * The Great Escape (Virgin)
- Apache Indian * Make Way for the Indian (Island)
- Raekwon * Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (Loud)
- In Flames * Jester Race (Nuclear Blast)
- Redman * Dare Iz A Darkside (Def Jam)
- Teenage Fanclub * Grand Prix (DGC)
- Peter Murphy * Cascade (Beggars Banquet)
- Fushitsusha * The Caution Appears (Les Disques Du Soleil)
- Scott Walker * Tilt (Fontana)
- Blind Guardian * Imaginations from the Other Side (EMI)
- Red Red Meat * Bunny Gets Paid (Sub Pop)
- Opeth * Orchid (Century Media)
- Today Is The Day * Supernova (Amphetamine Reptile)
- Immortal * Battles In The North (Osmose)
- Mick Harvey * Intoxicated Man (Mute)
- Scorn * Ellipsis (Earache)
- The 6ths (Magnetic Fields) * Wasps' Nests (London)
- Rachel's * Handwriting (Quarterstick)
- Unwound * The Future of What (Kill Rock Stars)
- Fun-Da-Mental * Seize The Time (Beggars Banquet)
- Telstar Ponies * In The Space Of A Few Minutes (Fire)
- Rancid * And Out Come The Wolves (Epitaph)
- Loop Guru * Amrita (World Domination)
- Ride * Live Light (Mutiny)
- Spain * The Blue Moods of Spain (Restless)
- Lambchop * How I Quit Smoking (Merge)
- Movietone (Planet)
- Sufi * Life's Rising (Virgin)
- Money Mark * Mark's Keyboard Repair (Mo Wax)
- Hepcat * Out of Nowhere (Moon Records)
- Gaunt * I Can See Your Mom From Here (Thrill Jockey)
- Jonathon Richman * You Must Ask The Heart (Rounder)
- Third Rail * South Delta Space Age (Antilles)
- Pavement * Wowie Zowie (Matador)
- Palace Music * Viva Last Blues (Drag City)
- Polvo * This Eclipse EP (Merge)
- The Sea And Cake * The Biz (Thrill Jockey)
- Seefeel * Succour (Warp)
- Clutch (East West)
- Microstoria * Init Ding (Mille Plateaux/Thrill Jockey)
- U.S. Maple * Long Hair In Three Stages (Skin Graft)
- Six Finger Satellite * Severe Exposure (Sub Pop)
- Stereolab * Refried Ectoplasm: Switched On Vol. 2 (Too Pure)
- Smog * Wild Love (Drag City)
- Long Fin Killie * Houdini (Too Pure)
- Harmony Rockets * Paralyzed Mind of the Archangel Void (Excelsior/Big Cat)
- Bowery Electric (Kranky)
- Moby * Everything is Wrong (Sire)
- A Guy Called Gerald * Black Secret Technology (Juice Box)
- 5ive Style (Sub Pop)
- Scud Mountain Boys * Massachusetts (Sub Pop)
- Crescent * Now (Planet)
- Luna * Penthouse (Elektra)
- Cesaria Evora (Nonesuch)
- Sonic Youth * Washing Machine (Geffen)
- Medicine * Her Highness (WB)
- Magic Hour * Will They Turn You On Or Will They Turn On You (Che/Twisted Village)
- Aphex Twin * I Care Because You Do (Sire)
- Cul De Sac * I Don't Want to Go To Bed (Cargo/Flying Nun)
- Yoko Ono/IMA * Rising (Capitol)
- Omni Trio * The Deepest Cut/Music for the Next Millenium (Smile)
- Freakwater * Old Paint (Thrill Jockey)
- Sally Timms * To The Land Of Milk And Honey (Feel Good All Over)
- The Bottlerockets * The Brooklyn Side (ESD)
- Cibo Matto * The Birthday Cake EP (El Diablo)
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * Experimental Remixes EP (Matador)
- Waco Bros. * To The Last Dead Cowboy (Bloodshot)
- Apache Indian * Make Way for the Indian (Mango)
- Suede * Dog Man Star (Columbia)
- Bolt Thrower * For Victory (Earache)
- Run On * On/Off EP (Matador)
- Buddy Miller * Your Love And Other Lies (Hightone)
- The Black Dog * Spanners (East-West)
- Chemical Brothers * Exit Planet Dust (Geffen)
- Monster Magnet * Dopes To Infinity (A&M)
- Ol' Dirty Bastard * Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (Elektra)
- Dog Faced Hermans * Bump and Swing (Alternative Tentacles)
- Don Caballero 2 (Touch & Go)
- Motörhead * Sacrifice (CMC)
- Scorn * Gyral (Scorn)
- Guru * Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality (Chrysalis)
- Royal Trux * Thank You (Geffen)
- The For Carnation * Fight Songs EP (Matador)
- Prodigy * Music For the Jilted Generation (Mute)
- Hedfunk (Shadow)
- Gaunt * Yeah, Me Too (Amphetamine Reptile)
9-
- The Comsat Angels * The Glamour (Thunderbird/Renascent)
- Vanessa Daou * Zipless (Krasnow/MCA)
- Tindersticks (London)
- Sixteen Horsepower * Sackcloth 'n' Ashes (A&M)
- Stars Of The Lid * Music For Nitrous Oxide (Sedimental)
- Space Needle * Voyager (Zero Hour)
- Fear Factory * Demanufacture (Roadrunner)
- June of 44 * Engine Takes To Water (Quarterstick)
- Home * IX (Relativity)
- L.L. Cool J. * Mr. Smith (Def Jam)
- Roy Montgomery * Scenes From The South Island (Drunken Fish)
- Rocket From the Crypt * Scream, Dracula Scream! (Interscope)
- Earth * Phase 3: Thrones And Dominions (Sub Pop)
- Minxus * Pabulum (Too Pure)
- This Living Hand * Consolation Prise (e pluribus unum)
- Bardo Pond * Big Laughing Jym (Compulsiv)
- Cypress Hill * Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom (Ruffhouse)
- 9 Lazy 9 * The Herb (Shadow)
- The Pretenders * Isle Of View (WB)
- Gastr Del Sol * The Harp Factory On Lake Street (Table Of the Elements)
- Mojave 3 * Ask Me Tomorrow (4AD)
- Ani DiFranco * Not A Pretty Girl (Righteous Babe)
- Meat Puppets * No Joke! (London)
- Gene * Olympian (Polydor)
- Menswear * Nuisance (London)
- Home * IX (Relativity)
- Death * Symbolic (Roadrunner)
- Chokebore * Anything Near Water (Amphetamine Reptile)
- Doldrums * The Secret Life Of Machines (VHF)
- Jonathan Richman * You Must Ask the Heart (Rounder)
- Witch Hazel * Landlocked (Flydaddy)
- Das EFX * Hold It Down (EastWest)
- M People * Bizarre Fruit (Epic)
- The Pharcyde * LabCabInCalifornia (WB)
These Are Alphabetical Because I Have Not Yet Heard Them
- Bardo Pond * Bufolarius (Drunken Fish)
- Beatnik Filmstars * Astronaut House (La-Di-Da America)
- Neal Casal * Fade Away Diamond Time (Glitterhouse)
- Children Of Dub * The Silent Pool (Magick Eye)
- D-Knowledge * All That and a Bag of words (Qwest)
- Duce Duce * A Sip of the Duce (Delicoius)
- Fat Joe * Jealous One's Envy (Relativity)
- Funkdoobiest * Brothas Doobie (Immortal)
- Future Sound Of London * ISDN (Astralwerks)
- Hurricane * The Hurra (Capitol)
- Kam * Made in America (East-West)
- KRS-One (Jive)
- Masta Ace Incorporated * Sittin' On Chrome (Delicious)
- MC Breed * Big Baller (Wrap)
- Naughty by Nature * Poverty's Paradise (Tommy Boy)
- PM Dawn * Jesus Wept (Polygram)
- RBX * The RBX-Files (Premeditated)
- Saturnine * Wreck At Pillar Point (Dirt)
- SF Seals * Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows (Matador)
- Slipstream (Che/Carrot Top)
- Slowdive * Pygmalion (4AD)
- Spectrum * Highs, Lows and Heavenly Blows (Silvertone)
- Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments * Bait And Switch (Onion)
- Whale * We Care (Virgin)
- Various * Ear of the Dragon (Fortune5)
10
Back To The Top
1994
- Disco Inferno * DI Go Pop (Rough Trade)
10-
- Laika * Silver Apples Of The Moon (Too Pure)
- Tortoise (Thrill Jockey)
- Portishead * Dummy (Go! Discs)
9+
- Massive Attack * Protection (Circa)
- God * The Anatomy of Addiction (Big Cat)
- `O'rang * Herd of Instinct (Echo)
- Dog Faced Hermans * Those Deep Buds (Alternative Tentacles)
- Mano Negra * Casa Babylon (Virgin)
- Café Tacvba * Re (WEA)
- Bark Psychosis * Hex (Caroline)
- Disco Inferno * Second Language/It's A Kid's World EPs (Rough Trade)
- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * Orange (Matador)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds * Let Love In (Elektra)
- Shellac * At Action Park (Touch & Go)
- Stereolab * Mars Audiac Quintet (Elektra)
- Jeff Buckley * Grace (Columbia)
- Baaba Maal * Firin' In Fouta (Mango)
- Built To Spill * There's Nothing Wrong With Love (Up)
- The Grifters * Crappin' You Negative (Shangri-La)
- Beck * Mellow Gold (Geffen)
- Orbital * Snivilisation (ffrr)
- Pram * Helium (Too Pure)
- Rodan * Rusty (Quarterstick)
- The Beastie Boys * Ill Communication (Grand Royal/Capitol)
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan * The Last Prophet (Real World)
- Jessamine (Kranky)
- Entombed * Wolverine Blues (Sony)
- Tiamat * Wildhoney (Century Media)
- Eleventh Dream Day * Ursa Major (Atavistic)
- Prong * Cleansing (Epic)
- Versus * The Stars Are Insane (Teen Beat)
- Bedhead * What Fun Life Was (Trance Syndicate)
- Latin Playboys (Slash)
- Cornershop * Hold On It Hurts (Merge)
- Flying Saucer Attack (VHF)
- Polvo * Celebrate The New Dark Age EP (Merge)
- Unwound * New Plastic Ideas (Kill Rock Stars)
- Sierra Maestra * Dundunbanza! (World Circuit)
- Drive Like Jehu * Yank Crime (Interscope)
- Sabalon Glitz * Ufronic (Trixie)
- Sloan * Twice Removed (DGC)
- Main * Motion Pool (Beggars Banquet)
- Godflesh * Selfless (Earache)
- Scorn * Evanescense (Earache)
- Pavement * Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador)
- Magic Hour * No Excess Is Absurd (Twisted Village)
- The Wedding Present * Watusi (Island)
- The Sea And Cake (Thrill Jockey)
- Blur * Parklife (Food)
- Cardinal (Flydaddy)
- Public Enemy * Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age (Def Jam)
- Ween * Chocolate And Cheese (Geffen)
- Soundgarden * Superunknown (A&M)
- Emperor * In The Nightside Eclipse (Century Black)
- Kyuss * Welcome To Sky Valley (Elektra)
- Laika * Antenna EP (Too Pure)
- Mule * If I Don't Six / Wrung EP (Quarterstick)
9
- Outkast * Southernplalistincadillacmuzik (LaFace)
- Slowdive * Souvlaki (4AD)
- Ride * Carnival Of Light (Sire)
- DJ Krush * Strictly Turntablized (Mo Wax)
- Pulp * His 'n' Hers (Island)
- Sunny Day Real Estate * Diary (Sub Pop)
- Nas * Illmatic (Columbia)
- Crunt (Trance Syndicate)
- Paul Schutze * The Surgery Of Touch (Tone Casualties)
- Rancid * Let's Go (Epitaph)
- Digable Planets * Blowout Comb (Pendulum)
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 * Strangers From The Universe (Matador)
- Sheila Chandra * The Zen Kiss (Real World)
- Revolutionary Dub Warriors * Deliverance: Reaction Dub Part 1 (On-U Sound)
- Dead Can Dance * Toward the Within (4AD)
- Today Is The Day * Supernova (Amphetamine Reptile)
- Velvet Crush * Teenage Symphonies To God (Sony/Creation)
- Table (Humble)
- Red Red Meat * Jimmie Wine Majestic (Sub Pop)
- Ani Difranco * Out Of Range (Righteous Babe)
- Audio Active * Tokyo Space Cowboys (On-U Sound)
- Autechre * Amber (Wax Trax!)
- Oval * Systemich (Mille Plateaux)
- Neurosis * Enemy Of The Sun (Alternative Tentacles)
- The Walkabouts * Setting The Woods On Fire (Creativeman)
- Magnetic Fields * Holiday (Merge)
- Gang Starr * Hard To Earn (Chrysalis)
- Jeru the Damaja * The Sun Rises In The East (Payday/ffrr)
- The Moles * Instinct (Flydaddy)
- Lungfish * Pass And Stow (Dischord)
- Arcwelder * Xerxes (Touch & Go)
- Silkworm * Libertine (ElRecordo)
- Low * I Could Live In Hope (Vernon Yard)
- Big Chief * Platinum Jive: Greatest Hits 1969-1999 (Capitol)
- Mouse on Mars * Vulvaland (Too Pure)
- Brise-Glace * When In Vanitas . . . (Skin Graft)
- Th' Faith Healers * Imaginary Friend (Too Pure/Elektra)
- Songhai * Songhai 2: Ketama, Toumani Diabate, Jose Soto (Hannibal)
- Napalm Death * Fear Emptiness Despair (Sony)
- Medicine * The Buried Life (WB)
- Meat Puppets * Too High To Die (London)
- Silkworm * In The West (C/Z)
- Oasis * Definitely Maybe (Epic)
- Crain * Heater (Automatic Wrecklords)
- The Spiny Anteaters * All Is Well (Kranky)
- aMINIATURE * Depth 5 Route 6 (Restless)
- Girls Against Boys * Cruise Yourself (Touch & Go)
- Helium * Pirate Prude EP (Matador)
- Praxis * Metatron (Subharmonic)
- Palace Brothers (Drag City)
- Jawbox * For Your Own Special Sweetheart (Atlantic)
- Smog * Burning Kingdom EP (Drag City)
- Guided By Voices * Bee Thousand (Matador)
- Pitchblende * Au Jus (Matador)
- Method Man * Tical (Ral/Def Jam)
- Warren G * Regulate . . . G Funk Era (Violator)
- Praxis * Sacrifist (Subharmonic)
- Gneissmaker * 40 Acre Fuege (Skene!)
- The Melvins * Stoner Witch (Atlantic)
- Dinosaur Jr. * Without A Sound (Sire/WB)
- Hole * Live Through This (Geffen)
- Flies Inside The Sun * An Audience Of Others (Including Herself) (Kranky)
- US3 * Hand On The Torch (Blue Note)
- Come * Don't Ask Don't Tell (Matador)
- The Cramps * Flamejob (The Medicine Label)
- Metalheads * Inner City Life (ffrr)
- The Cows * Orphans Tragedy (Ampetamine Reptile)
- Luscious Jackson * Natural Ingrediants (Grand Royale)
- Gastr Del Sol * Crookt, Crackt, Fly (Drag City)
- The Gravediggaz * 6 Feet Deep (Gee Street)
- Six Finger Satellite * Machine Cuisine EP (Sub Pop)
- Engine Kid * Bear Catching Fish (C/Z)
- DJ Krush * Strictly Turntablized (Mo Wax)
- Luna * Bewitched (Elektra)
- Fugees * Blunted On Reality (Ruffhouse)
- Cannibal Corpse * The Bleeding (Metal Blade)
- Clutch * Passive Restraints (Ruthless)
- Small * Chin Music (Alias)
9-
- Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth * The Main Ingrediant (Elektra)
- Mayhem * De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (Century Media)
- Today Is The Day (Amphetamine Reptile)
- Saint Etienne * Tiger Bay (Sire)
- Elastica * Stutter EP (Geffen)
- Spongehead * Curb Your Dogma (XXX)
- Giant Sand * Glum (Imago)
- Pegboy * Earwig (Quarterstick)
- The Jesus Lizard * Down (Touch & Go)
- Deee-Lite * Dewdrops in the Garden (Elektra)
- Dr. Didg * Out of the Woods (Hannibal)
- Faith No More * King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime (Slash/Reprise)
- Heavens To Betsy * Calculated (Kill Rock Stars)
- Johnboy * Claim Dedications (Trance Syndicate)
- Kepone * The Ugly Dance (Quarterstick)
- Helmet * Betty (Interscope)
- Paul K. & The Weathermen * Achilles Heel (Thirsty Ear)
- The Iguanas * Nuevo Boogaloo (MCA)
- Lambchop * I Hope You're Sitting Down (Merge)
- The Cult (Sire)
- The Church * Sometime Anywhere (Arista)
- Palace Songs * Hope EP (Drag City)
- Raincoats * Extended Play EP (Smells Like)
- The Red Crayola (Drag City)
- The Silver Jews * Starlite Walker (Drag City)
- Slant 6 * Soda Pop-Rip Off (Dischord)
- The Goats * No Goats, No Glory (Ruffhouse)
- Steel Pole Bath Tub * Some Cocktail Suggestions from SPBT EP (Boner)
- Bad Livers * Horses In the Mines (Quarterstick)
- Gastr Del Sol * Mirror Repair EP (Drag City)
- Sonic Youth * Experimental Jet Set Trash, No Star (Geffen)
- Suede * Stay Together EP (Columbia)
- Grant Lee Buffalo * Mighty Joe Moon (Slash/Reprise)
- Trumans Water * Godspeed The Punchline (Homestead)
- Lull * Cold Summer (Subharmonic)
- Ecstasy of St. Theresa * Free D (Free)
- Bad Religion * Stranger Than Fiction (Atlantic)
- Craig Mack * Flava In Ya Ear (Bad Boy)
- Sebadoh * Bakesale (Sub Pop)
- '68 Comeback * Mr. Downchild (Sympathy)
- Mad Flava * From tha Ground Unda (Priority)
- The Solsonics * Jazz In The Present Tense (Chrysalis)
- Paris * Guerilla Funk (Priority)
- Orphaned Land * Sahara (Holy Land)
These Are Alphabetical Because I Have Not Yet Heard Them
- Aphex Twin * Selected Ambient Works II (Warp)
- Black Sheep * Non-Fiction (Mercury)
- Brand Nubian * Everything Is Everything (Elektra)
- Dadamah * This Is Not A Dream (Kranky)
- Dead Moon * Crack In the System
- DFC (Da Funk Clan) * Things in tha Hood (Big Beat)
- Da Lench Mob * Planet of Da Apes (Priority)
- Dissolve * That That Is . . . Is (Not) (Kranky)
- The Divine Comedy * Promenade (V2)
- Dolomite * The Gift Horse Acetate EP (Thrill Jockey)
- Gate * The Dew Line (Table of Elements)
- God And Texas * Double Shot (Restless)
- Godheadsilo * The Scientific Supercake LP (Kill Rock Stars)
- House of Pain * Same As It Ever Was (Tommy Boy)
- Ice-T * Lethal Injection (4th & Broadway)
- Knucklehedz * Strictly Savage (East-West)
- KRS-One * Return of the Boom Bap (Jive)
- Lords Of The Underground * Keepers Of The Funk (Pendulum/EMI)
- The Notorious B.I.G. * Ready to Die (Bad Boy)
- SF Seals * Nowhere (Matador)
- Smif 'n' Wesson * Da Shinin' (Wreck)
- Snoop Doggy Dogg * Doggystyle (Death Row)
- Suede * Dog Man Star (Columbia)
- Wagon Christ * Phat Lab Nightmare (Rising High)
10
1993
- Tom Waits * The Black Rider (Island)
10-
- PJ Harvey * Rid Of Me (Island)
- Björk * Debut (Elektra)
- Seam * The Problem With Me (Touch & Go)
- Dog Faced Hermans * Hum Of Life (Project A Bomb)
- Disco Inferno * Summer's Last Sound/A Rock To Cling To EPs (Rough Trade)
- Nirvana * In Utero (Geffen)
- Walt Mink * Bareback Ride (Caroline)
- The Jungle Brothers * J. Beez Wit The Remedy (WB)
- Baaba Maal * Lam Toro (Island/Palm Pictures)
9+
- Afghan Whigs * Gentlemen (Elektra)
- Yo La Tengo * Painful (Matador/Atlantic)
- Flaming Lips * Transmission From The Satellite Heart (WB)
- Fugazi * In On The Kill Taker (Dischord)
- Stereolab * Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements (Elektra)
- Sepultura * Chaos A.D. (Roadrunner)
- Moonshake * Eva Luna/Big Good Angel EP (Too Pure)
- Einsturzende Neubauten * Tabula Rasa (Mute)
- Built To Spill * Ultimate Alternative Wavers (C/Z)
- Mark Lanegan * Whiskey For the Holy Ghost (Sub Pop)
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * Extra Width (Matador)
- Gallon Drunk * From the Heart of Town (Sire/Reprise)
- Swervedriver * Mezcal Head (A&M)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds * Live Seeds (Mute/Elektra)
- Transglobal Underground * Dream of 100 Nations (Nation)
- Mercury Rev * Boces (Beggars Banquet)
- Red Red Meat (Perishable)
- Built To Spill * The Normal Years (K)
- Me'Shell Ndgeg'Ocello * Plantation Lullabies (Maverick)
- Basehead * Not In Kansas Anymore (Imago)
- Big Chief * Mack Avenue Skullgame (Sub Pop)
- Khaled * N'ssi N'ssi (Mango)
- Seefeel * Quique (Too Pure)
- Monster Magnet * Superjudge (A&M)
- The Grifters * One Sock Missing (Sangri-la)
- Ice * Under The Skin (Pathological)
- Six Finger Satellite * The Pigeon Is The Most Popular Bird (Sub Pop)
- Orbital 2 (ffrr)
- The The * Dusk (Epic)
- Labradford * Prazision LP (Kranky)
- Uncle Tupelo * Anodyne (Sire/Reprise)
- Girls Against Boys * Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby (Touch & Go)
- Scorn * Vae Solis (Earache)
- Don Caballero * For Respect (Touch & Go)
- Polvo * Today's Active Lifestyles (Merge)
- Pram * The Stars Are So Big . . . (Too Pure)
- The Palace Brothers * There Is No One What Will Take Care Of You (Drag City)
- Apache Indian * No Reservations (4th & Broadway)
- Ry Cooder * Music By Ry Cooder 1980-1993 (WB)
- Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil * Tropicalia 2 (Elektra)
- Mazzy Star * So Tonight That I Might See (Capitol)
- Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt * A Meeting by the River (Water Lily Acoustics)
- Guru * Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 (Chrysalis)
- Paris * Sleeping with the Enemy (Scarface)
- De La Soul * Buhloon Mindstate (Tommy Boy)
- Barry Adamson * The Negro Inside Me (Mute)
- Maria McKee * You Gotta Sin To Get Saved (Geffen)
- Bettie Serveert * Palomine (Matador)
- The Draghounds * Last Stop 'Til Ninth Street (Crackpot)
9
- Tool * Undertow (Zoo)
- A Tribe Called Quest * Midnight Marauders (Jive)
- The Pharcyde * Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde (Delicious Vinyl)
- Boss Hog * Girl + EP (Amphetamine Reptile)
- Arcwelder * Pull (Touch & Go)
- Rocket From The Crypt * Circa: Now! (Interscope)
- Me'Shell Ndege'Ocello * Plantation Lullabies (Maverick)
- Blur * Modern Life Is Rubbish (Food/EMI)
- Posies * Frosting On The Beater (DGC)
- fireHOSE * Mr. Machinery Operator (Columbia)
- The Magnetic Fields * The House Of Tomorrow EP (Merge)
- Unwound * Fake Train (Kill Rock Stars)
- Cynic * Focus (Roadrunner)
- Buffalo Tom * Big Red Letter Day (Beggars Banquet)
- Dinosaur Jr. * Where You Been (Sire/WB)
- Teenage Fanclub * Thirteen (Geffen)
- The Breeders * Last Splash (4AD/Elektra)
- The Walkabouts * Satisfied Mind (Creativeman)
- Digable Planets * Reachin': A New Refutation . . . (Pendulum)
- The Verve * A Storm In Heaven (Vernon Yard)
- Cocteau Twins * Four Calendar Cafe (Capital)
- Dead Can Dance * Into the Labyrinth (4AD)
- Suede (Columbia)
- The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy * Waiting For The Love Bus (Creation)
- Pavement * Watery, Domestic EP (Matador)
- Mule (Quarterstick)
- Wu-Tang Clan * Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (Loud)
- Nirvana * From The Muddy Bankds Of The Wishkah 1989-1993 (Geffen)
- Stereolab * Space Age Batchelor Pad Music EP (Too Pure)
- The Orb * Live 93 (Island)
- Sebadoh * Bubble And Scrape (Sub Pop)
- Man Or Astro-Man? * Album #1 (Estrus)
- The Auteurs * New Wave (Hut)
- Main * Firmament (Beggars Banquet)
- Pitchblende * Kill Atom Smasher (Cargo)
- Boredoms * Pop Tatari (Reprise)
- Royal Trux * Cats And Dogs (Drag City)
- The Walkabouts * New West Motel (Cargo)
- Morbid Angel * Covenant (Giant)
- Shrimp Boat * Cavale (Bar None)
- Eleventh Dream Day * El Moodio (Atlantic)
- Das EFX * Straight Up Sewaside (East West)
- Smog * Julius Caesar (Drag City)
- The Melvins * Houdini (Atlantic)
- Archers Of Loaf * Icky Mettle (Alias)
- Dick Dale * Tribal Thunder (Hightone Records)
- The Blue Humans * Clear To Higher Time (New Alliance)
- Brainiac * Smack Bunny Baby (Grass)
- Jeff Buckley * Live At Sin-e EP (Columbia)
- The Cows * Sexy Pee Story (Amphetamine Reptile)
- Guided By Voices * Vampire On Titus (Scat)
- Half Japanese * Fire In The Sky (Safe House)
- Death * Individual Thought Patterns (Combat)
- Clutch * Transnational Speedway League (East West)
- Sebadoh * Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock (Sub Pop)
- Blind Idiot God * Cyclotron (Disc Union)
- Luna * Lunapark (Elektra)
- King Kong * Funny Farm (Drag City)
- Luna * Slide EP (Elektra)
- Apache Indian * No Reservations (Mango)
- Luscious Jackson * In Search of Manny EP (Grand Royale)
- Engine Kid * Astronaut EP (C/Z)
- Erectus Monotone * Close Up EP (Merge)
- Pegboy * Fore EP (Quarterstick)
- Hammerhead * Ethereal Killer (Amphetemine Reptile)
- Janitor Joe * Big Metal Birds (Amphetemine Reptile)
- Tar * Toast (Touch & Go)
- The Jesus Lizard * Lash EP (Touch & Go)
- Johnboy * Pistolswing (Trance Syndicate)
- Gibson Bros. * Memphis Sol Today! (Sympathy)
- God And Texas * Criminal Element (TKO Empire/Restless)
- Small 23 * True Zero Hook (Alias)
- Steel Pole Bath Tub * The Miracle of Sound In Motion (Boner)
- Tar * Clincher EP (Touch & Go)
- Shaggy * Pure Pleasure (Virgin)
- Babe The Blue Ox * Je m'Appelle Babe EP (Homestead)
- Verlaines * Way Out There (Slash)
- Big Star * Columbia: Live At Missouri University 4/25/93 (Zoo)
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 * Mother Of All Saints (Matador)
- Bad Religion * Recipe For Hate (Epitaph)
- Apollo 9 * Nothing Matters (Trixie)
- Bikini Kill * Pussy Whipped (Kill Rock Stars)
- Suede * The Drowners EP (Columbia)
- Babe The Blue Ox * Box (Homestead)
- New Model Army * The Love Of Hopeless Causes (Epic)
- His Name Is Alive * Mouth By Mouth (4AD)
- Sarah McLachlan * Fumbling Towards Ecstacy (Arista)
- Cypress Hill * Black Sunday (Ruffhouse)
- Paul K. And The Weathermen * Garden Of Forking Paths (SilenZ)
- Stereolab * Low Fi EP (Too Pure)
9-
- L.L. Cool J. * 14 Shot to the Dome (Def Jam)
- PM Dawn * The Bliss Album? (Polygram)
- Saint Etienne * So Tough (WB)
- Prince * The Love Symbol (Paisley Park)
- Milk * Ear (Spanish Fly)
- Chokebore * Motionless (Amphetamine Reptile)
- Smashing Pumpkins * Siamese Dream (Virgin)
- The Divine Comedy * Liberation (V2)
- Queen Latifah * Black Reign (Motown)
- Metalheads * Angel EP (Synthetic)
- Frank Black (4AD)
- Butterfly Child * Onomatopoeia (Rough Trade/Hitit!)
- Cop Shoot Cop * Suck City EP (Interscope)
- Romanthony * Fall From Grace (EastWest)
- Unrest * Perfect Teeth (4AD)
- American Music Club * Mercury (Reprise)
- Onyx * Bacdafucup (RAL/Columbia)
- Fishbone * Give A Monkey A Brain . . . (Columbia)
- Beck * Stereopathic Soul Manure (Flipside)
- Kam * Neva Again (East-West)
- Digital Underground * The Body Hat Syndrome (Tommy Boy)
- Brand Nubian * In God We Trust (Elektra)
- Freestyle Fellowship * Innercity Griots (4th & Broadway)
- Monie Love * In a Word or 2 (WB)
- Young Disciples * Road To Freedom (Talkin' Loud)
- Salt-N-Pepa * Very Necessary (London)
- Boss * Born Like Gangsterz DJ (East-West)
- Intelligent Hoodlum * Tragedy - Saga of a Hoodlum (A&M)
- Shara Nelson * What Silence Knows (Cooltempo)
- Fat Joe Da Gangsta * Represent (Relativity)
- Stereo MC's * Connected (Polygram)
- M People * Living (Epic)
8
- Dr. Dre * The Chronic (Priority)
10
1992
- Tom Waits * Bone Machine (Island)
10-
- PJ Harvey * Dry (Island)
- Beastie Boys * Check Your Head (Capitol)
- Walt Mink * Miss Happiness (Caroline)
- God * Possession (Virgin)
- The Jesus Lizard * Liar (Touch & Go)
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan * Devotional & Love Songs (Real World)
9+
- Pavement * Slanted And Enchanted (Matador)
- Bark Psychosis * Independency (3rd Stone)
- Seam * Headsparks (Homestead)
- Spiritualized * Lazer Guided Melodies (Dedicated)
- Mano Negra * In The Hell Of Patchinko (Virgin)
- Cul De Sac * Ecim (Aurora)
- Kyuss * Blues For The Red Sun (Dali)
- Gang Starr * Daily Operation (Chrysalis)
- Young Gods * TV Sky (Caroline)
- Afghan Whigs * Uptown Avondale EP (Sub Pop)
- Stereolab * Peng! (Too Pure)
- Stereolab * Switched On (Too Pure)
- Flaming Lips * Hit To Death In The Future Head (WB)
- Main * Dry Stone Feed (Beggars Banquet)
- Sonic Youth * Dirty (WB)
- Souled American * Sonny (Rough Trade)
- Disco Inferno * Summer's Last Sound EP (Cheree)
- Babes In Toyland * Fontanelle (Reprise)
- Afghan Whigs * Congregation (Sub Pop)
- Buffalo Tom * Let Me Come Over (Beggars Banquet)
- Screaming Trees * Sweet Oblivion (Epic)
- Dog Faced Hermans * Mental Blocks For All Ages (Project A- Bomb)
- Basehead * Play With Toys (Imago)
- The Orb * U.F. Orb (Island)
- Uncle Tupelo * March 16-20, 1992 (Rockville)
- Therapy? * Caucasion Psychosis (Touch & Go)
- Helmet * Meantime (Interscope)
- Los Fabulosos Cadillacs * El Leon (Sony Discos)
- The Master Musicians of Jajouka * Apocalypse Across The Sky (Axiom)
- Bahia Black * Ritual Beating System (Axiom)
- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * Crypt Style (Caroline/1+2)
- Th Faith Healers * Lido (Too Pure/Elektra)
- Paul Schutze * New Maps Of Hell (Extreme)
- Polvo * Cor-Crane Secret (Merge)
- Sugar * Copper Blue (Rykodisc)
- Luna * Lunapark (Elektra)
- Barry Adamson * Soul Murder (Mute)
- Sheila Chandra * Weaving My Ancestors' Voices (Real World)
- Jawbox * Novelty (Dischord)
- Lucinda Williams * Sweet Old World (Elektra)
- The Goats * Tricks of the Shade (Ruffhouse)
- Das EFX * Dead Serious (East West)
- House of Pain (Tommy Boy)
- Redman * Whut? The Album (RAL)
9
- Catherine Wheel * Ferment (Mercury/Polygram)
- Jayhawks * Hollywood Town Hall (Def American)
- Ride * Going Blank Again (Sire/Reprise)
- R.E.M. * Automatic For the People (WB)
- The Comsat Angels * My Mind's Eye (Caroline/Renascent)
- The Boo Radleys * Everything's Alright Forever (Creation)
- Neneh Cherry * Homebrew (Virgin)
- The Breeders * Safari EP (4AD)
- Ministry * Psalm 69 (Sire/WB)
- Gallon Drunk * You, The Night...The Music (Rykodisc/Sartorial)
- Gallon Drunk * Tonight, The Singles Bar (Rykodisc)
- Hassan Hakmoun * The Fire Within (Music of World)
- Medicine * Shot Forth Self Living (American)
- Praxis * Transmutation (Axiom/Island)
- Los Lobos * Kiko (Slash/WB)
- Tom Waits * Night On Earth (Island)
- Girls Against Boys * Tropic of Scorpio (Adult Swim)
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds * Henry's Dream (Elektra)
- Cop Shoot Cop * White Noise (Circuit)
- Megadeth * Countdown To Extinction (Capitol)
- Godflesh * Pure (Earache)
- The Jesus And Mary Chain * Honey's Dead (American/Blanco y Negro)
- Yo La Tengo * May I Sing With Me (Alias)
- Social Distortion * Somewhere Between Heaven And Hell (Epic)
- Café Tacvba (WB)
- Victims Family * The Germ (Alternative Tentacles)
- Unrest * Imperial f.f.r.r. (No. 6 Records)
- Pantera * Vulgar Display Of Power (Atco)
- Jonestown * All Day Sucker (Project A-Bomb)
- Cows * Cunning Stunts (Amphetemine Reptile)
- Pale Saints * In Ribbons (4AD)
- Peter Murphy * Holy Smoke (Beggars Banquet)
- The Church * Priest = Aura (Arista)
- Slowdive * Just For A Day (Creation)
- Superchunk * On The Mouth (Matador)
- Shiny Beast EP (Boner)
- Dead C * Harsh '70s Reality (Siltbreeze)
- God Is My Co-Pilot * I Am Not This Body (Making)
- Stina Nordenstam * Memories Of A Color (Telegram)
- Trumans Water * Of Thick Tum (Homestead)
- Vaselines * The Way of the Vaselines (Sub Pop)
- Reverend Horton Heat * Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em (Sub Pop)
- L7 * Bricks Are Heavy (Slash)
- Meat Beat Manifesto * Satyricon (Elektra)
- Ultramagnetic MCs * Funk Your Head Up (Mercury)
- Nine Inch Nails * Broken EP (Interscope)
- Television (Capitol)
- Faith No More * Angel Dust (Slash)
- Bad Religion * Generator (Epitaph)
- Urge Overkill * Stull EP (Touch & Go)
- Yo La Tengo * 200% EP (Matador)
- The Flaming Lips * Wastin' Pigs EP (WB)
- Big Chief * Face (Sub Pop)
- Sloan * Smeared (DGC)
- Monster Zero * Wreck (Sonic Bubblegum)
9-
- Deee-Lite * Infinity Within (Elektra)
- The X-Clan * X-Odus (Polydor)
- Boogie Down Productions * Sex and Violence (Jive)
- Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo * Live and let Die (WB)
- Too Short * Shorty the Pimp (Jive)
- Motörhead * March Or Die (Sony)
- Arrested Development * Three Years, Five Months & Two Days in the Life of . . . (Chrysalis)
- Ice Cube * The Predator (Priority)
- The Brand New Heavies * Heavy Rhyme Experience, Vol. 1 (Delicious Vinyl)
- Grand Puba * Reel to Reel (Elektra)
- Da Lench Mob * Guerillas in Tha Mist (Atco)
- EPMD * Business Never Personal (Def Jam)
- K-Solo * Time's Up (Atlantic)
- Kid Frost * East Side Story (Virgin)
- Showbiz & A.G. * Runaway Slaves (Payday/London)
- Lord Finesse * Return of the Funky Man (Giant)
- Geto Boys * Geto Boys the Best Uncut Dope (Rap-A-Lot)
- Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics * Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop (Polygram)
- Compton's Most Wanted * Music to Driveby (Orpheus)
- Strictly Roots * Begs No Friends (Friends)
- Soul II Soul * Vol. III: Just Right (Virgin)
10
1991
- Slint * Spiderland (Touch & Go)
- My Bloody Valentine * Loveless (Sire)
10-
- Massive Attack * Blue Lines (Virgin)
- Talk Talk * Laughing Stock (Polydor)
- Public Enemy * Apocalypse '91...The Enemy Strikes Black (Columbia)
- The Jesus Lizard * Goat (Touch & Go)
- A Tribe Called Quest * The Low End Theory (Jive)
- Son Of Bazerk * Bazerk Bazerk Bazerk (Soul/MCA)
9+
- Nirvana * Nevermind (Geffen)
- The Orb * Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld (Mercury)
- Orbital (ffrr)
- Disco Inferno * Open Doors, Closed Windows (Che)
- Mercury Rev * Yerself Is Steam (Columbia)
- Ambitious Lovers * Lust (Elektra/Strange Fruit)
- Bitch Magnet * Ben Hur (Communion)
- Smashing Pumpkins * gish (Caroline)
- Fugazi * Steady Diet Of Nothing (Dischord)
- Soundgarden * Badmotorfinger (A&M)
- Pavement * Westing (by musket or sextant) (Drag City)
- Swervedriver * Raise (A&M)
- Uncle Tupelo * Still Feel Gone (Rockville)
- Ice-T * O.G. Original Gangster (Sire/WB)
- The Wedding Present * Seamonsters (BMG)
- Teenage Fanclub * Bandwagonesque (Geffen)
- Cypress Hill * Cypress Hill (Ruffhouse)
- De La Soul * De La Soul Is Dead (Tommy Boy)
- The Blue Aeroplanes * Beatsongs (Chrysalis)
- Atheist * Unquestionable Presence (Metal Blade)
- Khaled (Cohiba)
- The Pixies * Trompe Le Monde (Elektra)
- Various * Too Pure: The Peel Sessions (Th' Faith Healers/PJ Harvey/Stereolab)
- The Draghounds * Angel Boots (Crackpot)
- Gary Clail & On-U Sound System * Emotional Hooligan (BMG)
- Mano Negra * King Of Bongo (Virgin)
- Monster Magnet * Spine Of God (Caroline)
- Entombed * Clandestine (Earache)
- Sepultura * Arise (Roadrunner)
- Morbid Angel * Blessed Are The Sick (Combat)
- Bongwater * The Power of Pussy (Shimmy Disc)
- Paris * The Devil Made Me Do It (Tommy Boy)
- The Pixies * Complete B-Sides (4AD)
9
- The Feelies * Time For A Witness (A&M)
- Voivod * Angel Rat (Mechanic)
- The Young Gods * Play Kurt Weill (Play It Again Sam)
- Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth * Mecca and the Soul Brother (Elektra)
- fireHOSE * Flyin' The Flannel (Columbia)
- Saint Etienne * Fox Base Alpha (WB)
- Lloyd Cole * Don't Get Weird On Me, Babe (Capitol)
- Screaming Trees * Uncle Anesthesia (Epic)
- Jawbox * Grippe (Dischord)
- Ice Cube * Death Certificate (Priority)
- Coroner * Mental Vortex (Noise)
- Mr. Bungle (WB)
- Rocket From The Crypt * Paint As A Fragrance (Headhunter/Cargo)
- Paul K. * The Big Nowhere (Silenz)
- Boo Radleys * Learning To Walk (Rough Trade)
- Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart * Rising Above Bedlam (Atlantic)
- The Melvins * Bullhead (Boner)
- Metallica (Elektra)
- Metal Church * Human Factor (Epic)
- Motörhead * 1916 (Sony)
- Steel Pole Bath Tub * Tulip (Boner)
- Yo La Tengo * This Is Yo La Tengo EP (Coyote)
- Naked City * Torture Garden (Shimmy Disc)
- Sebadoh * Sebadoh III (Homestead)
- Arcwelder * Jacket Made In Canada (Big Money Music)
- Primus * Sailing The Sees Of Cheese (Interscope)
- Front 242 * Tyranny For You (Epic)
- Prong * Prove You Wrong (Epic)
- Pegboy * Strong Reaction (Touch & Go)
- Bolt Thrower * Warmaster (Combat)
- Eleventh Dream Day * Lived To Tell (Atlantic)
- Royal Trux * Twin Infinitives (Drag City)
- Meat Puppets * Forbidden Places (London)
- Throwing Muses * The Real Ramona (Sire)
- Urge Overkill * The Supersonic Storybook (Touch & Go)
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 * Lovelyville (Matador)
- Matthew Sweet * Girlfriend (Zoo)
- Black Sheep * A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing (Mercury)
- Hole * Pretty On the Inside (Caroline)
- Death * Human (Combat)
- Big Chief * Drive It Off (Get Hip Recordings)
- Boneclub * Bless This (Big Store)
- Primal Scream * Screamadelica (Sire)
- Shrimp Boat * Duende (Bar None/Rough Trade)
- Babes In Toyland * To Mother EP (Twin/Tone)
- Vijaya Anand * Dance Raja Dance: Asia Classics (Luaka Bop)
- NoMeansNo * 0+1=2 (Alternative Tentacles)
- Organized Konfusion (Hollywood Basic)
- Nirvana * Incesticide 88-91 (Geffen)
- Superchunk * Tossing Seeds 1989-91 (Merge)
- Superchunk * No Pocky For Kitty (Matador)
- The Cranes * Wings Of Joy (Dedicated)
- Love Child * Okay? (Homestead)
- Verlaines * Ready To Fly (Slash)
- The Gun Club * Divinity (Buddha)
- Hall & Kramer * Real Men (Shimmy Disc)
- King Missile * The Way to Salvation (Atlantic)
- Fishbone * The Reality of My Surroundings (Columbia)
- Lemonheads * Lovey (Atlantic)
- PM Dawn * Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross... (Gee Street)
- Violent Femmes * Why Do Birds Sing? (Slash)
- R.E.M. * Out Of Time (WB)
- Codeine * Frigid Stars (Sub Pop)
- Dismember * Like An Everflowing Stream (Nuclear Blast)
- Dinosaur Jr. * Green Mind (Sire)
- Dinosaur Jr. * Whatever's Cool With Me (Sire)
9-
- EPMD * Business As Usual (Def Jam)
- Digital Underground * Sons of the P (Tommy Boy)
- Stetsasonic * Blood, Sweat & No Tears (Tommy Boy)
- Leaders of the New School * Future Without a Past (Elektra)
- Heavy D & the Boyz * Peaceful Journey (Uptown)
- Terminator X * Terminator X & the Valley of the Jeep Beats (RAL)
- Boogie Down Productions * Live Hardcore Worldwide (Jive)
- Queen Latifah * Nature of a Sista' (Tommy Boy)
- 3rd Bass * Derelicts of Dialect (Def Jam)
- Wrecks-N-Effect * Wrecks-N-Effect (Atlantic)
- Compton's Most Wanted * Straight Checkn' 'Em (Orpheus)
- Naughty by Nature (Tommy Boy)
- Urban Dance Squad * Life 'n Perspective of a Genuine Crossover (Arista)
- Tim Dog * Penicillin on Wax (CBS)
- Yo-Yo * Make Way for the Motherlode (East-West)
- Scarface * Mr. Scarface Is Back (Rap-a-Lot)
- Nice & Smooth * Ain't a Damned Thing Changed (RAL/Columbia)
- Dream Warriors * And Now the Legacy Begins (4th & Broadway)
- Cannibal Corpse * Butchered At Birth (Metal Blade)
- Prince * Diamonds And Pearls (Paisley Park)
- Main Source * Breaking Atoms (Wild Pitch)
10
1990
- Public Enemy * Fear of a Black Planet (Def Jam)
10-
- The Breeders * Pod (4AD)
- Fugazi * Repeater (Dischord)
- De La Soul * Three Feet And Rising (Tommy Boy)
- Souled American * Around The Horn (Rough Trade)
9+
- The Jesus Lizard * Head (Touch & Go)
- Ride * Nowhere (Creation/Sire)
- Uncle Tupelo * No Depression (Rockville)
- A Tribe Called Quest * People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm (Jive)
- Buffalo Tom * Birdbrain (Beggars Banquet)
- Helmet * Strap It On (Amphetemine Reptile)
- Babes In Toyland * Spanking Machine (Twin/Tone)
- Brian Eno & John Cale * Wrong Way Up (Opal/WB)
- Bad Brains * The Youth Are Getting Restless (Caroline)
- Flaming Lips * In A Priest Driven Ambulence (Restless)
- Slayer * Seasons In The Abyss (American)
- Afghan Whigs * Up In It (Sub Pop)
- Yo La Tengo * Fakebook (Bar/None)
- Claw Hammer * Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Not Devo! (Sympathy)
- Ministry * The Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Taste (Sire)
- Megadeth * Rust In Peace (Capitol)
- Peter Murphy * Deep (Beggars Banquet)
- Ice Cube * Amerikkka's Most Wanted (Priority)
- L.L. Cool J. * Mama Said Knock You Out (Def Jam)
- The Pixies * Bossanova (Elektra)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds * The Good Son (Mute)
- Youssou N'Dour * Set (Virgin)
- Cheb Mami * Let Me Rai (Virgin)
- Tragic Mulatto * Chartreuse Toulouse (Alt. Tent.)
- Loop * A Gilded Eternity (RCA)
- Dead C * Trapdoor Fucking Exit (Siltbreeze)
- Godflesh * Streetcleaner (Earache)
- Fela Kuti & Egypt 80 * Beasts Of No Nation (Universal)
- Fela Kuti & Egypt 80 * O.D.O.O. (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake) (Universal)
- Death Angel * Act III (Geffen Goldline)
- Nice Strong Arm * Stress City (Homestead)
- Gary Clail & On-U Sound System * End Of The Century Party (On- U Sound)
9
- Ride * Smile (Creation/Sire)
- Digital Underground * Sex Packets (Tommy Boy)
- Lloyd Cole (Capitol)
- The Blue Aeroplanes * Swagger (Chrysalis)
- The Jazz Butcher * Cult Of The Basement (Rough Trade)
- KMFDM * Naive (Wax Trax!)
- Entombed * Left Hand Path (Earache)
- Run Westy Run * Green Cat Island (Twin/Tone)
- Sinead O'Connor * I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (Chrysalis)
- Victims Family * White Bread Rules (Mordam)
- The Gun Club * Pastoral Hide And Seek (Buddha)
- Dwarves * Blood, Guts And Pussy (Sub Pop)
- Teenage Fanclub * A Catholic Education (Matador)
- Arsenal * Factory Smog Is A Sign Of Progress (Touch & Go)
- Cop Shoot Cop * Consumer Revolt (Circuit)
- Prong * Beg To Differ (Epic)
- New Model Army * Impurity (EMI)
- Sonic Youth * Goo (Geffen)
- Jane's Addiction * Ritual De La Habitual (WB)
- Foetus Inc. * Sink (Wax Trax!)
- Deee-Lite * World Clique (Elektra)
- Pegboy * Three Chord Monte EP (Touch & Go)
- Blind Guardian * Tales From the Twilight World (EMI)
- Didjits * Hornet Pinata (Touch & Go)
- Soul Asylum * And The Horse They Rode In On (A&M)
- Queensryche * Empire (EMI)
- Bad Religion * Against the Grain (Epitaph)
- Gear Daddies * Billy's Live Bait (Polygram)
- L7 * Smell the Magic (Sub Pop)
- Salt-N-Pepa * Black's Magic (London)
- Social Distortion (Epic)
- Laughing Hyaenas * Life Of Crime (Touch & Go)
- Fastbacks * Very, Very Powerful Motor (PopLlama Products)
9-
- Eric B. & Rakim * Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em (MCA)
- Primus * Frizzle Fry (Caroline)
- Cocteau Twins * Heaven Or Las Vegas (4AD)
- Boss Hog * Cold Hands (Amphetamine Reptile)
- Prefab Sprout * Jordan: The Comback (Epic)
- Boogie Down Productions * Edutainment (Jive)
- Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. * New Funky Nation (4th & Broadway)
- Mellow Man Ace * Escape from Havana (Capitol)
- Brand Nubian * One For All (Elektra)
- Above the Law * Livin' Like Hustlers (Ruthless/Epic)
- Gang Starr * Step In The Arena (Chrysalis)
- Napalm Death * Harmony Corruption (Earache)
- Poor Righteous Teachers * Holy Intellect (Profile)
- Compton's Most Wanted * It's a Compton Thang (Capitol)
- Lord Finesse * Funky Technician Wild (Pitch)
- Kid Frost * Hispanic Causing Panic (Virgin)
- K-Solo * Tell the World My Name (Atlantic)
- Geto Boys * Grip It! on That Level (Def American)
- Monie Love * Down to Earth (WB)
- Urban Dance Squad * Mental Floss for the Globe (Arista)
- Pantera * Cowboys From Hell (Metal Magic)
- Judas Priest * Painkiller (Columbia)
- Soul II Soul * Vol. II: 1990, A New Decade (Virgin)
- Nikki D. * Daddy's little Girl Def (Jam/Columbia)
- Movement Ex * Movement Ex (Columbia)
10
1949-1964
The albums below are hardly representative of all good music from 1949-1965. The list is restricted to LPs, which were introduced by Columbia Records in 1948 to replace 78s. The 33-1/3 RPM "microgroove" records (named for the narrower grooves that required a smaller stylus) changed the way music was heard, and conceptualized. They were issued in 10" format until the mid-50s, when they graduated to 12". Another concurrent post-war innovation improved sound quality in recordings by switching from gramophone recording to 1/4" magnetic tape recording.
Better sound and longer playing time shifted the emphasis from single three minute tunes to longer playing times. But because RCA Victor introduced the 7" 45 RPM records in 1949, pop music, blues, country and rock 'n' roll still focused on the single song format. So largely the only genre that really sunk its teeth into the LP as an artform unto itself before 1965 was jazz. Hence, below you'll find mostly jazz. The best of other genres are better represented by CD compilations, listed in the Other Lists section.
- Charles Mingus * The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (Impulse!) 63
- John Coltrane * A Love Supreme (Impulse!) 64
- Miles Davis * Kind Of Blue (Columbia) 59
- Eric Dolphy * Out To Lunch! (Prestige) 64
- John Coltrane * My Favorite Things (Atlantic) 60
- Charles Mingus * Mingus Ah-Um (Columbia) 59
- Ornette Coleman * The Shape Of Jazz To Come (Atlantic) 59
- John Coltrane * Crescent (Impulse) 64
- Oliver Nelson * The Blues And The Abstract Truth (Impulse) 61
- John Coltrane * Giant Steps (Atlantic) 59
- John Coltrane * Ole Coltrane (Atlantic) 61
- Sonny Rollins * Saxophone Colossus (Prestige) 56
- Charles Mingus * New Tijuana Moods (Bluebird) 57
- Charles Mingus * Pithecanthropus Erectus (Atlantic) 56
- John Coltrane * Coltrane Plays The Blues (Atlantic) 60
- Thelonious Monk * Brilliant Corners (Riverside) 56
- Ornette Coleman * Free Jazz (Atlantic) 60
- Palo Congo * Sabu (Blue Note) 57
- Joáo Gilberto * Brazil's Brilliant (Capitol) 60
- Tito Puente * Puente In Love (Tico) 59
- Charles Mingus * Mingus At Antibes (Atlantic) 60
- Dave Brubeck Quartet * Time Out (Columbia) 59
- Charles Mingus * Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Impulse) 63
- Bob Dylan * Another Side Of Bob Dylan (Columbia) 64
- Charles Mingus * Oh Yeah (Atlantic) 61
- Charles Mingus * Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Candid) 60
- Charles Mingus * Town Hall Concert (Jazz Workshop/OJC) 64
- The Horace Silver Quintet * Song for My Father (Blue Note) 64
- Sarah Vaughan * Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown (Verve) 54
- Dizzy Gillespie * At Newport (Verve) 57
- Thelonious Monk * Brilliant Corners (Milestone) 56
- Anita O'Day * Anita Sings the Most (Verve) 56
- Miles Davis * Sketches Of Spain (Columbia) 60
- Bob Dylan * The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (Columbia) 63
- Albert Ayler * Spiritual Unity (ESP) 64
- Cecil Taylor: Nefertiti (Freedom) 62
- Sun Ra * Other Planes of There (Evidence) 64
- Duke Ellington * Ellington at Newport (Columbia) 56
- Johnny Guitar Watson * Gangster of Love (King) 58
- Lightnin' Hopkins (Smithsonian) 59
- Sonny Rollins * Way Out West (Contemporary) 57
- Ornette Coleman * Change Of The Century (Atlantic) 59
- Tito Puente * Cuban Carnival (RCA) 55
- Tito Puente * Top Percussion (RCA) 57
- Etta James * At Last (Chess) 61
- Charles Mingus * The Great Concert, 1964 (Musidisc) 64
- Duke Ellington with Max Roach and Charles Mingus * Money Jungle (Blue Note) 62
- Martin Denny * Hypnotique (Liberty) 58
- Johnny Burnette * Rock 'n' Roll Trio (Coral) 56
- Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'N' Roll Trio (Coral) 57
- Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars * Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (Columbia) 54
- George Russell * New York, N.Y. (Decca) 59
- Wayne Shorter * Speak No Evil (Blue Note) 64
- Sun Ra * Jazz In Silhouette (Evidence) 58
- Ray Charles (Atlantic) 57
- Ray Charles * The Genius Of Ray Charles (Atlantic) 59
- Jerry Lee Lewis (Sun) 57
- Buddy Holly * The Chirping Crickets (MCA) 57
- Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers * Moanin' (Blue Note) 58
- Ornette Coleman * This Is Our Music (Atlantic) 59
- Ornette Coleman * The Art Of The Improvisers (Atlantic) 60
- Chuck Berry * Chuck Berry Is on Top (Chess) 59
- George Russell * Jazz Workshop (Bluebird) 56
- Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto * Getz/Gilberto featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim (Verve) 63
- Bill Evans Trio * Waltz For Debby (Riverside/OJC) 61
- Elvis Presley (RCA Victor) 56
- Tito Puente * Dance Mania (RCA) 58
- Harry Belafonte * Calypso (RCA Victor) 56
- Erroll Garner * Concert By the Sea (Columbia) 55
- John Coltrane * Coltrane (Impulse) 62
- Roy Orbison * Oh Pretty Woman (London) 64
- Sonny Rollins * A Night At The Village Vanguard, Vol. 2 (Blue Note) 57
- Thelonious Monk * Misterioso (Riverside) 58
- The Rolling Stones * 12 X 5 (Abko) 64
- Jacques Brel * Jacques Brel, Vol. 6 (Barclay) 64
- The Gil Evans Orchestra * Out of the Cool (Impulse!) 60
- Freddie Hubbard * Open Sesame (Blue Note) 60
- Jackie McLean * Let Freedom Ring (Blue Note) 62
- Charlie Parker * Bird And Diz (Verve) 50
- King Curtis * Soul Serenade (Capitol) 64
- Jimmy Smith * The Sermon! (Blue Note) 58
- Dizzy Gillespie * The Champ (Savoy) 53
- Modern Jazz Quartet * Django (Prestige/OJC) 55
- Lee Konitz * Subconscious-Lee (Prestige/OJC) 50
- Serge Gainsbourg * Du Chant a la Une (Philips/Polygram) 58
- Ray Charles * Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (ABC) 62
- Major Lance * Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um (Okeh) 64
10-
- John Coltrane * Ballads (Impulse) 61
- Johnny Cash * Bitter Tears (Ballads of the American Indian) (Columbia) 64
- Miles Davis * Birth Of The Cool (Capitol) 50
- John Coltrane * Africa/Brass (Impulse) 61
- The Impressions (Paramount) 63
- The Louvin Brothers * Satan Is Real (Capitol) 60
- Sarah Vaughan * In the Land of Hi-Fi (Emarcy) 55
- Sarah Vaughan * Swingin' Easy (Trip/Emarcy) 54
- Johnny Guitar Watson (King) 63
- Django Reinhardt * The Great Artistry of Django Reinhardt (Clef) 54
- Little Willie John * Fever (King) 56
- Wanda Jackson * Rockin' With Wanda (Capitol) 60
- Gene Vincent * Bluejean Bop! (Capitol) 56
- Larry Williams * Here's Larry Williams (Specialty) 59
- John Coltrane * John Coltrane With Johnny Hartman (Atlantic) 63
- Bob Dylan * The Times They Are A-Changin' (Columbia) 64
- Thelonious Monk * Thelonious With John Coltrane (Riverside) 57
- T-Bone Walker * I Get So Weary (Imperial) 61
- T-Bone Walker * Great Blues Vocals and Guitar (Capitol) 63
- Muddy Waters * Folk Singer (Chess) 64
- Django Reinhardt * Django Reinhardt et Ses Rythmes (Blue Star) 53
- Count Basie * Count Basie Swings -- Joe Williams Sings (Verve) 55
- Tito Puente * Tambo (RCA) 60
- Cal Tjader * Latin Kick (Fantasy) 56
- Wanda Jackson (Capitol) 58
- Hank Williams * Hank Williams Sings (MGM) 52
- Ernest Tubb * The Daddy Of 'Em All (Decca) 57
- Dizzy Gillespie * New Wave (Philips) 62
- Dizzy Gillespie * Something Old, Something New (Philips) 63
- The Miracles * Hi, We're The Miracles (Motown) 61
- Duke Ellington * Ellington Uptown (Columbia) 53
- Fats Domino * The Fabulous Mr. D (Imperial) 58
- Bobby Bland * Two Steps From the Blues (MCA) 60
- Harry Belafonte * Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (RCA Victor) 59
- John Coltrane * Impressions (Impulse) 63
- John Coltrane * Coltrane Live At Birdland (Impulse) 63
- Dizzy Gillespie with Roy Eldridge (Verve) 54
- Yma Sumac * Mambo (Capitol) 55
- Little Richard * Here's Little Richard (Specialty) 57
- Count Basie * Atomic Mr. Basie (Roulette) 57
- Muddy Waters * At Newport (Chess) 60
- Jacques Brel * Jacques Brel 1 (Jacques Brel et Ses Chansons) (Philips) 55
- Joao Gilberto * Gilberto and Jobim (Capitol) 60
- Elvis Presley * Elvis (RCA Victor) 56
- Patsy Cline (MCA) 57
- Willie Bobo * Bobo's Beat (Blue Note) 63
- Sarah Vaughan * No Count Sarah (Polygram) 58
- James Brown * Live At The Apollo (Polydor) 62
- Sonny Boy Williamson * Down And Out Blues (Chess) 59
- Dizzy Gillespie * Gillespiana (Verve) 61
- Maya Angelou * Miss Calypso (Scamp) 57
- Freddie Hubbard * The Artistry Of Freddie Hubbard (Impulse) 62
- Sonny Rollins * Tenor Madness (Prestige) 56
- Tito Puente * Let's Cha Cha (RCA) 56
- Stan Kenton * New Concepts Of Artistry In Rhythm (Capitol) 52
- Ornette Coleman * Tomorrow Is The Question! (Contemporary) 59
- Mongo Santamaria * Watermelon Man (Milestone) 63
- Red Garland Trio * Groovy (Prestige/OJC) 57
- Chuck Berry * St. Louis to Liverpool (Chess) 64
- Sun Ra * Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy (Evidence) 63
- The Louvin Brothers * Tragic Songs Of Life (Capitol) 56
- John Coltrane * Live At The Village Vanguard (Impulse) 61
- John Coltrane * Newport '63 (Impulse!) 63
- Esquivel * Exploring New Sounds in Stereo (RCA Victor) 58
- Marlene Dietrich * Lili Marlene (Columbia) 59
- Martin Denny * Quiet Village (Liberty) 59
- Bo Diddley (Checker) 57
- John Coltrane & Don Cherry * The Avant-Garde (Atlantic) 60
- Otis Redding * Pain In My Heart (Stax/Atlantic) 64
- Sun Ra * Interstellar Low Ways (Evidence) 60
- Sun Ra * Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow (Evidence) 62
- Sun Ra * Visits Planet Earth (Evidence) 58
- John Coltrane * Blue Train (Blue Note) 57
- Howlin' Wolf (Chess) 62
- Gene Vincent * Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps (Capitol) 57
- George Jones * White Lightning And Other Favorites (Mercury) 59
- Charles Mingus * Reincarnation of a Lovebird (Candid) 60
- Sonny Boy Williamson * Help Me (Chess) 64
- Cal Tjader * Tjader Plays Mambo (Fantasy) 54
- Bo Diddley * Go Bo Diddley (Chess) 59
- The Rolling Stones (Abko) 64
- Sam Cooke * Night Beat (Abko) 63
- Miles Davis * Miles & Coltrane (Columbia) 58
- Frank Sinatra * Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (Capitol) 55
- Peggy Lee * Beauty And The Beat! (Capitol) 59
- Nat King Cole * Penthouse Serenade (Capitol) 52
- Fats Domino * Let the Four Winds Blow (Imperial) 61
- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong * Ella And Louis (Verve) 56
- Charles Mingus * Mingus (Candid) 60
- Jacques Brel * Jacques Brel 3 (Philips) 58
- Miles Davis * Workin' (Prestige) 56
- Etta James * The Second Time Around (Chess) 61
- Anita O'Day * Anita O'Day and the Three Sounds (Verve) 62
- Anita O'Day * All the Sad Young Men (Verve) 61
- Anita O'Day * This Is Anita (Verve) 55
- John Coltrane * Coltrane's Sound (Atlantic) 60
- John Coltrane * Coltrane Jazz (Atlantic) 59
- Miles Davis * Steamin' (Prestige) 56
- Miles Davis * Cookin' (Prestige) 56
- Miles Davis * Relaxin' (Prestige) 56
- The Supremes * Where Did Our Love Go? (Motown) 64
- Herbie Hancock * Empyrean Isles (Blue Note) 64
- Fats Domino * Walking to New Orleans (Imperial) 63
- Sarah Vaughan * It's You Or No One (Musicraft) 47
- Mongo Santamaria * Sabroso! (Fantasy) 59
- Miles Davis * Miles Ahead (Columbia) 57
- Sun Ra * Angels And Demons At Play (Evidence) 60
- Sun Ra * Holiday For Soul Dance (Evidence) 60
- Charlie Parker (& Gillespie/Roach/Mingus/Powell) * Jazz At Massey Hall (Debut) 53
- Lightnin' Hopkins * Lightnin' and the Blues (Herald) 60
- Miles Davis * Milestones (Columbia) 58
- Anita O'Day * Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day (Verve) 56
- Frank Sinatra * In the Wee Small Hours (Capitol) 54
- Charles Mingus * The Clown (Atlantic) 57
- Peggy Lee * Things Are Swingin' (Capitol) 59
- Sun Ra * Super Sonic Jazz (Evidence) 56
- Nina Simone * In Concert (Philips) 64
- Sun Ra * The Nubians of Plutonia 58-59 (Evidence) 59
- Johnny Cash * The Fabulous Johnny Cash (Columbia) 58
- Serge Gainsbourg * Gainsbourg Percussions (Philips Fr) 64
- Nat King Cole * Sings For Two In Love (Capitol) 55
- Sonny Rollins * Freedom Suite (Contemporary) 58
- Sonny Rollins * A Night At The Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (Blue Note) 57
- Sonny Rollins * Newk's Time (Blue Note) 58
- The Beatles * With The Beatles (Capitol) 63
- Ornette Coleman * Ornette! (Atlantic) 61
- Hank Mobley * Soul Station (Blue Note) 60
- Sonny Rollins * The Bridge (Bluebird/RCA) 62
- Serge Gainsbourg * Number 4 (Philips Fr) 62
- B.B. King * Singin' The Blues (Crown) 56
- Thelonious Monk * Thelonious Monk (Prestige) 54
- Quincy Jones * This Is How I Feel About Jazz (Paramount/GRP) 56
- Ornette Coleman * Ornette On Tenor (Atlantic) 61
- Hank Ballard & the Midnighters * Singin' & Swingin' (King) 59
- Bo Diddley * Bo Diddley Is A Gun Slinger (Chess) 63
- The Beatles * Please Please Me (Capitol) 63
- Frank Sinatra * Come Fly with Me (Capitol) 57
- Miles Davis * Seven Steps To Heaven (Columbia) 63
- Mary Wells * Mary Wells Sings My Guy (Motown) 64
- John Coltrane * Soultrane (OJC/Prestige) 58
- Dizzy Gillespie * Jambo Caribe (Verve) 64
- John Coltrane * Black Pearls (OJC/Fantasy) 58
- Johnny Cash * Johnny Cash With His Hot & Blue Guitar (Sun) 56
- Serge Gainsbourg * Confidentiel (Philips Fr) 63
- Thelonious Monk * Alone In San Francisco (Riverside) 59
- Miles Davis * Round About Midnight (Columbia) 56
- Cannonball Adderly Quartet * Somethin' Else (Blue Note) 58
- Frank Sinatra * A Swingin' Affair! (Capitol) 57
- Mongo Santamaria * Yambu (Fantasy) 58
- Les Baxter * Tamboo! (Capitol) 54
- B.B. King * The Blues (Crown) 60
- Mary Wells * Two Lovers (Motown) 62
- Nina Simone * Little Girl Blue (Get Back) 57
- Nina Simone * Nina Simone & Her Friends (Bethlehem) 57
- Miles Davis * Porgy and Bess (Columbia) 58
- Solomon Burke (Apollo) 62
- Etta James * Rocks The House (Chess/MCA) 63
- John Coltrane * Duke Ellington and John Coltrane (Impulse) 62
- Sun Ra * When Sun Comes Out (Saturn) 63
- Johnny Cash * Now, There Was a Song! (Columbia) 60
- Charles Mingus * Mingus Dynasty (Columbia) 59
- Arthur Lyman * Taboo: The Exotic Sounds of Arthur Lyman (Rykodisc) 58
- Charles Mingus * Blues and Roots (Atlantic) 59
- Arthur Lyman * Hawain Sunset (Hi Fi) 59
- Les Baxter * Ritual Of The Savage (Capitol) 52
- Joe Williams * Me And The Blues (RCA) 64
- Martin Denny * Afro-Desia (Liberty) 59
- Pee Wee Crayton (Crown) 59
- Les Baxter * Space Escapade (Capitol) 58
- Patsy Cline * Sentimentally Yours (MCA) 62
- Anita O'Day * Anita O'Day Sings the Winners (Verve) 58
- Frank Sinatra * Nice 'N' Easy (Capitol) 60
- Sonny Rollins * Work Time (Prestige) 55
- Miles Davis * '58 Sessions (Columbia) 58
- Ornette Coleman * Twins (Atlantic) 61
- Ornette Coleman * To Whom Keeps A Record (Atlantic) 61
- Bob Dylan (Columbia) 62
- Eartha Kitt * That Bad Eartha (RCA) 55
10
1965
- Bob Dylan * Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia)
- The Who * My Generation (MCA)
- Bob Dylan * Bringing It All Back Home (Columbia)
- John Coltrane * First Meditations (For Quartet) (Impulse)
- John Coltrane * Transition (Impulse)
- John Coltrane * Meditations (Impulse)
10-
- The Beatles * Rubber Soul (Capitol)
- John Coltrane * The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (Impulse)
- John Coltrane * Sun Ship (Impulse)
- Sun Ra & his Arkestra * The Magic City (Saturn)
- Sun Ra * The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1 (ESP)
- Miles Davis * E.S.P. (Columbia)
- Sun Ra * The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 2 (ESP)
- Archie Shepp * Fire Music (Impulse)
- Albert Ayler Trio * Spirits Rejoice (ESP)
- The Animals * Complete Animals 1964-1965 (EMI)
- Otis Redding * The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads (Stax/Atlantic)
- Otis Redding * Otis Blue (Stax/Atlantic)
- Nina Simone * I Put A Spell On You (Philips)
- Nina Simone * Pastel Blues (Philips)
- Herbie Hancock * Maiden Voyage (Blue Note)
9+
- John Coltrane * Ascension (Impulse)
- Archie Shepp * On This Night (Impulse)
- The Beatles * Help! (Capitol)
- John Coltrane * Om (Impulse)
- Albert Ayler Trio * Bells (ESP)
- The Rolling Stones * Now! (London/Abko)
- The Pretty Things (Fontana)
- Miles Davis * Highlights From The Plugged Nickel (Columbia)
- Larry Young * Unity (Blue Note)
- Ornette Coleman * At The Golden Circle Vols. 1 & 2 (Blue Note)
- The Kinks * The Kink Kontroversy (Pye/ESM)
- The Yardbirds * Vol. 1: Smokestack Lightning 1964-1965 (Sony)
- The Yardbirds * Vol. 2: Blues, Backtracks and Shapes of Things 1964-65 (Sony)
- The Rolling Stones * December's Children (And Everybody's) (London/Abko)
- Jackson C. Frank * Blues Run the Game (Columbia/Castle/Sanctuary)
- Stan Getz * Focus (Verve)
9
- John Coltrane * Kalu Se Mama (Impulse)
- John Coltrane * Selflessness (Impulse)
- John Coltrane * Live In Seattle (Impulse)
- The Rolling Stones * Out Of Our Heads (London/Abko)
- The Sonics * Here Are The Sonics! (Norton)
- Donovan * Catch The Wind (Castle)
- The Kinks * Kinda Kinks (Pye/ESM)
- The Beau Brummels * Vol. 2 (Sundazed)
- Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band * The Legendary A&M Sessions (A&M)
- The Byrds * Mr. Tambourine Man (Columbia)
- Donovan * Fairytale (Castle)
- The Yardbirds * Having A Rave Up With The Yardbirds (Epic)
9-
- The Fugs * Virgin Fugs (ESP)
- The Barbarians * Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl? (One Way)
- The Beau Brummels * Introducing The Beau Brummels (Sundazed)
- The Fugs * The First Fugs Album (ESP)
- The Yardbirds * For Your Love (Epic)
10
1966
- The Beatles * Revolver (Capitol)
- Bob Dylan * Blonde On Blonde (Columbia)
- Cecil Taylor * Unit Structures (Blue Note)
- Nina Simone * Wild Is The Wind (Four Women) (Philips)
10-
- The Kinks * Face To Face (Reprise/ESM)
- Don Cherry * Symphony For Improvisers (Blue Note)
- Duke Ellington * Far East Suite (Bluebird/BMG)
- Nina Simone * Sings The Blues (RCA)
- John Coltrane * Coltrane Live At The Village Vanguard Again! (Impulse)
- Miles Davis * Miles Smiles (Columbia)
- Archie Shepp * Mama Too Tight (Impulse)
- Small Faces (Polygram)
- The Animals * Animalisms (Repertoire/Decca)
- The Yardbirds * Roger The Engineer (Columbia/Edsel)
- Nina Simone * Let It All Out (Philips)
- Nina Simone * High Priestess Of Soul (Philips)
- The Monks * Black Monk Time (Repertoire)
- The Rolling Stones * Aftermath (London/Abko)
- Sly & The Family Stone * A Whole New Thing (Epic)
- The Shadows Of Knight * Back Door Men (Dunwich/Sundazed)
- The Pretty Things * Get The Picture (Fontana)
- The Who * A Quick One (Happy Jack) (MCA)
- Otis Redding * Dictionary Of Soul (Stax/Atlantic)
- Otis Redding * The Soul Album (Stax/Atlantic)
- Justin Hinds & The Dominoes * Ska Uprising 1963-66 (Trojan)
9+
- Sonny Rollins * East Broadway Run Down (Impulse!)
- Sun Ra & his Arkestra * Monorails And Satellites Vols. I & II (Evidence)
- Blues Magoos * Psychedelic Lollipop (Mercury)
- Howard Tate * Get It While You Can (Verve)
- Donovan * Sunshine Superman (Pye)
- The Byrds * Fifth Dimension (Columbia)
- The Seeds (GNP Crescendo)
- The Fugs * Fugs II (ESP)
- Cecil Taylor * Conquistador! (Blue Note)
- Geno Washington And The Ram Jam Band * Hand Clappin', Foot Stompin', Funky- Butt . . . Live! (Piccadilly)
- The Shadows Of Knight * Gloria (Dunwich/Sundazed)
- The Byrds * Turn! Turn! Turn! (Columbia)
- The Maytals * The Sensational Maytals (Doctor Bird)
- Sonny Rollins * Alfie (Impulse!)
9
- Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention * Absolutely Free (Rykodisc)
- The Leaves * Hey Joe (One Way)
- Beach Boys * Pet Sounds (Capitol)
- Love (Elektra)
- The Seeds * A Web Of Sound (GNP Crescendo)
- The Outsiders * Time Won't Let Me (Capitol)
- ? And The Mysterians * 96 Tears (Cameo)
- The Seeds (GNP)
- The Sonics * Sonics Boom (Norton)
- Simon & Garfunkel * Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (Columbia)
- Lee Hazelwood * Sings Friday's Child
- The 13th Floor Elevators * The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
- Eric Burdon & the Animals * Eric Is Here (MGM)
- Tim Buckley * Tim Buckley (Elektra)
8+
- The Blues Project * Projections (Verve)
- Godz * Contact High With The Godz (ESP) (IA)
- The Troggs * From Nowhere (Fontana)
- Simon & Garfunkel * Sounds of Silence (Columbia)
10
1967
- The Velvet Underground * Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve)
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Are You Experienced? (Reprise)
- George Russell * Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature (Soul Note)
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Axis: Bold As Love (Reprise)
10-
- Aretha Franklin * I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You (Atlantic)
- Pink Floyd * The Piper At the Gates Of Dawn (Columbia)
- The Kinks * Something Else (Reprise)
- The Doors * The Doors (Elektra)
- Love * Forever Changes (Elektra)
- Miles Davis * Nefertiti (Columbia)
- Sun Ra * Atlantis (Evidence)
- John Coltrane * Interstellar Space (Impulse)
- Albert Ayler Trio * Love Cry (Impulse)
- Archie Shepp * Magic Of Ju-Ju (Impulse)
- Otis Redding * The Immortal (Stax/Atlantic)
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band * Safe As Milk (Buddha)
- The Beatles * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol)
- The Pretty Things * Get A Buzz: Best of the Fontana Years 64-67 (Fontana)
- Etta James * Tell Mama (Chess)
- Harry Nilsson * Pandemonium Shadow Show (RCA)
- John Coltrane * Stellar Regions (Impulse)
- John Coltrane * Expression (Impulse)
9+
- The Beatles * The Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol)
- The Doors * Strange Days (Elektra)
- Miles Davis * Sorcerer (Columbia)
- Small Faces * There Are But Four Small Faces (Immediate)
- Otis Redding * The Dock Of The Bay (Atlantic)
- Van Dyke Parks * Song Cycle (WB)
- Moby Grape (Columbia)
- The Rolling Stones * Between The Buttons (London/Abko)
- Nina Simone * Nina Simone Sings The Blues (RCA)
- The Rolling Stones * Their Satanic Magesty's Request (London/Abko)
- Sly & the Family Stone * Dance To The Music (Epic)
- Aretha Franklin * Aretha Arrives (Atlantic/Rhino)
- Jefferson Airplane * After Bathing At Baxter's (RCA)
- Gilberto Gil * Louvao (Philips)
- James Brown * Live At the Apollo (Polydor)
- Donovan * A Gift From A Flower To A Garden (Epic)
- McCoy Tyner * The Real McCoy (Blue Note)
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Jimi Plays Monterey (Reprise)
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Radio One (Rykodisc)
- The Beau Brummels * Triangle (Warner)
- Gene Chandler * The Girl Don't Care (Brunswick)
- Darrell Banks * Darrell Banks Is Here! (Atco)
- The Action * Action Packed 1965-67 (Edsel)
- Red Crayola * Parable of Arable Land (IA)
- Otis Redding * Love Man (Atlantic/Rhino)
- Otis Redding * Tell The Truth (Atlantic)
9
- The Who * The Who Sell Out (MCA)
- Donovan * Mellow Yellow (Epic)
- The Byrds * Younger Than Yesterday (Columbia)
- Brigitte Bardot * Brigitte Bardot Show (Universal/AZ Fr)
- Astrud Gilberto * Beach Samba (Verve)
- The Chambers Brothers * The Time Has Come (Columbia)
- The Chocolate Watchband * No Way Out (Sundazed)
- Strawberry Alarm Clock * Incense and Peppermints (UNI)
- Caetano Veloso e Gal Costa * Domingo (Mercury)
- The Byrds * The Notorious Byrd Brothers (Columbia)
- Blue Cheer * Vincebus Eruptum (Philips)
- Love * Da Capo (Elektra)
- Jefferson Airplane * Surrealistic Pillow (RCA)
- Otis Redding * In Person At The Whisky-A-Go-Go (Atco/Stax)
- Otis Redding * Live In Europe (Atlantic)
- Tim Buckley * Goodbye And Hello (Elektra)
- The Smoke * My Friend Jack (Retroactive)
- Lee Hazelwood * Hazelwoodism: Its Cause And Cure (Smells Like)
- Otis Redding & Carla Thomas * King & Queen (Stax/Atlantic)
- The Deviants * Ptooff! (Underground Impressarios)
- Quicksilver Messenger Service * Happy Trails (Capitol)
9-
- The Electric Prunes * The Electric Prunes (I Had Too Much to Dream) (Collectors)
- Strawberry Alarm Clock * Wake Up?It's Tomorrow (UNI)
- The Youngbloods (Edsel)
- The Young Rascals * Groovin' (WB)
- Frank Zappa * Lumpy Gravy (Rykodisc)
- Scott Walker * Scott (Fontana)
- The Bonzo Dog Band * Gorilla (BGO)
- Van Morrison * The Bang Masters (Epic/Legacy)
8
- Dave Peel & the Lower East Side * The Pope Smokes Dope (Elektra)
- The Pretty Things * Emotions (Fontana)
10
1968
- Van Morrison * Astral Weeks (WB)
- The Beatles * The White Album (Apple)
- Desmond Dekker * Rudy Got Soul: The Early Beverley's Sessions 1963-68 (Trojan)
10-
- Velvet Underground * White Light/White Heat (Verve)
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Electric Ladyland (Reprise)
- The Rolling Stones * Beggars Banquet (London/Abko)
- Led Zeppelin I (Atlantic)
- Various * Tropicalia: Ou Panis Et Circencis (Philips)
- Caetano Veloso (Philips)
- The Kinks * The Village Green Preservation Society (Reprise)
- Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band * Strictly Personal (Blue Thumb)
- Tom Zé (Sony)
- Peter Brotzmann * Machine Gun (FMP)
- Dr. John The Night Tripper * Gris-Gris (Atco/Rhino)
- Aretha Franklin * Lady Soul (Atlantic)
- Gilberto Gil (Philips)
- The Pretty Things * S.F. Sorrow (Harvest)
- Nick Drake * Five Leaves Left (Island)
- Serge Gainsbourg * Initials B.B. (Polygram)
- David Axelrod * Song Of Innocence (Capitol)
- Morton Subotnick * Silver Apples of the Moon for Electronic Music Synthesizer (Nonesuch)
- Bob Dylan * John Wesley Harding (Columbia)
- Sly & The Family Stone * Life (Epic)
9+
- Os Mutantes (Omplatten)
- The Impressions * This Is My Country (Curtom)
- Nara Leao (Philips)
- The Byrds * Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (Columbia)
- Arthur Brown * The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (Polydor)
- Serge Gainsbourg * Bonnie & Clyde (Virgin Fr)
- Harry Nilsson * Aerial Ballet (RCA)
- Herbie Hancock * Speak Like A Child (Blue Note)
- Archie Shepp * The Way Ahead (Impulse)
- Aretha Franklin * Aretha Now (Atlantic/Rhino)
- Laura Nyro * Eli and the 13th Confesion (Columbia)
- Chico Buarque * Chico Buarque Vol. 3 (RGE)
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Live At Winterland (Rykodisc)
- Caravan (Verve)
- Miles Davis * Miles In The Sky (Columbia)
- The Heptones * On Top (Studio One)
- Jimmy Cliff * Hard Road To Travel (Island)
- The Millennium * Begin (Columbia)
- Buffalo Springfield * Buffalo Springfield Again (Atco)
- Jefferson Airplane * Crown of Creation (RCA)
- Tomorrow (See For Miles)
- The Beau Brummels * Bradley's Barn (Edsel)
- The Band * Music From Big Pink (Capitol)
- Small Faces * Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (Immediate)
- David Ackles (Elektra)
- The Soft Machine (MCA/Big Beat)
- The United States Of America (Edsel)
- The Zombies * Odyssey & Oracle (Big Beat)
- Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band * I May Be Hungry But I Sure Ain't Weird (Sequel)
- Frank Zappa & the Mothers Of Invention * We're Only In It For the Money (Rykodisc)
- Blue Cheer * Outsideinside (Philips)
- Albert Ayler Trio * New Grass (Impulse)
- Tim Buckley * Dream Letter, Live In London 1968 (Enigma)
9
- Anthony Braxton * For Alto (Arista)
- Gene Chandler * There Was A Time! (Brunswick)
- Ornette Coleman * Who's Crazy? (Atmosphere)
- Francoise Hardy * Comment Te Dire Adieu (EMI Japan)
- Chick Corea * Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (Blue Note)
- Sun Ra & his Arkestra * A Black Mass (Jihad)
- Sun Ra & his Arkestra * Continuation (Saturn)
- Steve Miller Band * Sailor (Capitol)
- The Move (Westside)
- Fairport Convention (Polydor)
- Bob Dylan * Nashville Skyline (Columbia)
- Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band * Mirror Man (Buddah)
- Red Crayola * God Bless the Red Crayola & All Who Sail on Her (IA)
- Pink Floyd * A Saucerful Of Secrets (Capitol)
- The Bonzo Dog Band * The Doughnuts in Grannys Greenhouse (Edsel)
- Jeff Beck * Beck-Ola (Epic)
- Leonard Cohen * Songs Of Leonard Cohen (Columbia)
- Silver Apples (TRC)
- The Nazz (Rhino)
- The Chocolate Watchband * Inner Mystique (Sundazed)
- Steve Miller Band * Children of the Future (Capitol)
9-
- Donovan * Hurdy Gurdy Man (Epic)
- Jeff Beck * Truth (Columbia)
- Pink Floyd * More (Capitol)
- Scott Walker * Scott 2 (Fontana)
- Big Brother & the Holding Co. * Cheap Thrills (Columbia)
- Nico * Chelsea Girl (Verve)
- Les Fleur De Lys * Reflections (Blueprint)
- The Doors * Waiting For The Sun (Elektra)
- Simon & Garfunkel * Bookends (Columbia)
- Can * Delay (Spoon/Mute)
- Steve Miller Band * Children Of The Future (Capitol)
8+
- Cream * Wheels Of Fire (Polydor)
- Free * Tons Of Sobs (A&M)
10
1969
- Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band * Trout Mask Replica (Reprise)
- The Velvet Underground (Verve)
- The Kinks * Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire) (Reprise)
- The Rolling Stones * Let It Bleed (London)
- The Beatles * Abbey Road (Apple)
- John McLaughlin * Extrapolation (Polydor)
- Derrick Morgan * Moon Hop: Best of the Early Years 1960-69 (Trojan)
10-
- Funkadelic (Westbound)
- The Stooges (Elektra)
- Charlie Haden * Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse!)
- Don Cherry * Mu (Actuel/Charly)
- Jimmy Cliff * Wonderful World, Beautiful People (Island/Trojan)
- The Tony Williams Lifetime * Emergency (Polydor)
- Euphoria * A Gift From Euphoria (Capitol)
- Led Zeppelin II (Atlantic)
- Velvet Underground * VU (Verve)
- MC5 * Kick Out The Jams (Elektra)
- Can * Monster Movie (Spoon/Mute)
- Velvet Underground * 1969 Live Vol. I & II (Mercury)
- The Upsetters * Return of Django (Trojan)
- Os Mutantes * Mutantes (Omplatten)
- Caetano Veloso (Philips)
- Sly & the Family Stone * Stand! (Epic)
- The Impressions * The Young Mods' Forgotten Story (Curtom)
- The Meters * Look A-Py Py (Josie)
- Nico * The Marble Index (Elektra)
- Rico & The Rudies * Blow Your Horn (Trojan)
- Tim Buckley * Happy/Sad (Elektra)
- David Axelrod * Songs Of Experience (Capitol)
- Slim Smith & The Uniques * The Best Of The Uniques 1967-69 (Trojan)
- Various * Nuggets 1965-1969 (Elektra)
9+
- Miles Davis * In A Silent Way (Columbia)
- Amon Düül II * Phallus Dei (High Tide)
- Sonny Sharrock * Black Woman (Vortex)
- Gilberto Gil (Philips)
- Frank Zappa * Hot Rats (Straight/Rykodisc)
- Dr. John The Night Tripper * Babylon (Wounded Bird)
- Scott Walker * Scott 4 (Fontana)
- Gal Costa (Philips)
- Laura Nyro * New York Tendaberry (Columbia)
- King Crimson * In The Court Of The Crimson King (EG)
- The Art Ensemble Of Chicago * People In Sorrow (Nessa)
- Fairport Convention * Unhalfbricking (Hannibal)
- Miles Davis * Filles de Killimanjaro (Columbia)
- Tyrannosaurus Rex * Unicorn (A&M)
- Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin (Virgin Fr)
- The Art Ensemble Of Chicago * Eda Wobu (JMY)
- Syd Barrett * The Madcap Laughs (EMI)
- The Meters * The Meters (Josie)
- The Isley Brothers * It's Our Thing (Epic)
- The Soft Machine * Two (MCA/Big Beat)
- The Sir Douglas Quintet * Mendocino (Smash)
- The Zombies * The Singles Collection: As & Bs 1964-1969 (Big Beat)
- The Deviants * Deviants (Sire/Line)
- Fairport Convention * Liege and Lief (A&M)
- Jefferson Airplane * Volunteers (RCA)
- The Flying Burrito Brothers * The Gilded Palace Of Sin (Reprise)
- The Band (Capitol)
- Neil Young * Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Reprise)
- Tyrone Davis * Can I Change Your Mind (Brunswick)
- Steve Miller Band * Brave New World (Capitol)
- Brigitte Fontaine * Brigitte Fontaine Est . . . Folle (Saravah)
- Howard Tate * Reaction (Koch)
- Donovan * Barabajagal (Epic)
- Jack Bruce * Songs For A Tailor (PolyGram)
- The Pretty Things * Parachute (Harvest)
- Velvet Underground * Another View (Verve)
- Rod Stewart * The Rod Stewart Album (Mercury)
- Lee Perry & The Upsetters * The Upsetter (Trojan)
- Dave Barker Meets The Upsetters * Prisoner Of Love (Trojan)
- The Isley Brothers * Brothers: Isley (Epic)
- Mott The Hoople (Atlantic)
- Terry Reid * Superlungs (EMI/Astralwerks)
9
- David Bowie * Space Oddity (Virgin)
- Fairport Convention * What We Did on Our Holidays (Hannibal)
- Ornette Coleman * New York Is Now! (Blue Note)
- Ornette Coleman * Love Call (Blue Note)
- Harry Nilsson * Harry (RCA)
- Van Der Graaf Generator * Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other (Charisma/Blue Plate)
- The Who * Tommy (MCA)
- The Nazz * Nazz Nazz (Rhino)
- Neil Young (Reprise)
- The Youngbloods * Elephant Mountain (RCA)
- Alexander Spence * Oar (Sony/Sundazed)
- Silver Apples * Contact (TRC)
- The Move * Shazam (Westside)
- Isaac Hayes * Hot Buttered Soul (Stax)
- John Cale * Vintage Violence (Columbia)
- Dusty Springfield * Dusty In Memphis (Atlantic)
- Aretha Franklin * Soul '69 (Atlantic)
- Scott Walker * Scott 3 (Fontana/Mercury)
- Leonard Cohen * Songs From A Room (Columbia)
- Cream * Strange Brew: Best Of (Polydor)
- Free (A&M)
- Chick Corea * Is (Solid State)
- Chick Corea * Sundance (People)
- Dexter Gordon * Tower of Power (Prestige)
- Terry Reid * Superlungs (EMI/Astralwerks)
9-
- Albert Ayler Trio * Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe (Impulse)
- Kevin Ayers * Joy Of A Toy (BGO)
- Alice Cooper * Pretties For You (Straight/Bizarre)
- Gene Chandler * The Two Sides Of Gene Chandler (Brunswick/Demon)
- Herbie Hancock * The Prisoner (Blue Note)
- Spooky Tooth * Spooky Two (A&M)
- Alice Cooper * Pretties For You (Straight/Rhino)
- Steve Miller Band * Your Saving Grace (Capitol)
- The Bonzo Dog Band * Urban Spaceman (One Way)
- Plastic Ono Band * Live Peace In Toronto (Apple)
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins * What That Is! (Phillips)
- The Bonzo Dog Band * Tadpoles (One Way)
8+
- The Bee Gees * Odessa (Polydor)
- The Doors * The Soft Parade (Elektra)
- The Moody Blues * On The Threshold Of A Dream (Decca/Deram)
- Dave Peel & the Lower East Side * Have A Marijuana (Elektra)
- The Turtles * Turtle Soup (White Whale)
- Roy Harper * Folkjokeopus (Griffin)
- The Shaggs * Philosophy of the World (RCA)
10
1970
- The Stooges * Fun House (Elektra)
- Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band * Lick My Decals Off Baby (Straight)
- Van Morrison * Moondance (WB)
- The Maytals * Monkey Man (Trojan)
10-
- Black Sabbath * Paranoid (WB)
- Amon Düül II * Yeti (Liberty)
- Soft Machine * Third (CBS)
- Curtis Mayfield * Curtis (Curtom)
- Velvet Underground * Loaded (WB)
- Tim Buckley * Lorca (Elektra)
- Miles Davis * Bitches Brew (Columbia)
- Led Zeppelin III (Atlantic)
- The Maytals * Sweet And Dandy (Beverly's)
- Alice Coltrane * Ptah the El Daoud (Impulse!)
- The Maytals * From The Roots (Trojan)
- Tangerine Dream * Electronic Meditation (Sequel)
- Popol Vuh * Affenstunde (Tempel)
- Funkadelic * Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow (Westbound)
- John Lennon * Plastic Ono Band (EMI)
- David Bowie * The Man Who Sold The World (RCA)
- Twink * Think Pink (Akarma)
- Brigitte Fontaine * Comme a la Radio (Saravah)
- Bob Marley & the Wailers * Soul Rebels (Trojan)
- Fela Kuti * Fela's London Scene (Makossa)
- Tim Buckley * Blue Afternoon (Straight)
- Neil Young * After The Gold Rush (Reprise)
- Herbie Hancock * Fat Albert Rotunda (WB)
- Nick Drake * Bryter Layter (Island)
- Wayne McGhie & The Sounds Of Joy (Light in the Attic)
- Bob Andy * Song Book (Studio One)
- Horace Andy * Skylarking (Trojan)
- Miles Davis * A Tribute To Jack Johnson (Columbia)
- The Art Ensemble Of Chicago * With Fontella Bass (America)
- The Cables * What Kind Of World (Heartbeat)
- Clancy Eccles * Fatty Fatty 1967-70 (Trojan)
9+
- Os Mutantes * A Divina Comedia Ou Ando meio Desligado (Omplatten)
- The Meters * Struttin' (Josie)
- Black Sabbath (WB)
- Al Green * Al Green Gets Next To You (Hi)
- Can * Soundtracks (Spoon/Mute)
- King Crimson * In The Wake Of Poseidon (EG)
- James Brown * Sex Machine (Polydor)
- Exuma The Obeah Man * Exuma (Mercury)
- Uriah Heep * Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble (Mercury)
- T. Rex (A&M)
- Edu Lobo * Sergio Mendes Presents Edu Lobo (A&M/Verve)
- Tyrannosaurus Rex * A Beard Of Stars (A&M)
- David Axelrod * Earth Rot (Capitol)
- Baby Huey & The Babysitters * The Baby Huey Story: Living Legend (Water)
- John McLaughlin * Devotion (Restless)
- Randy Newman * 12 Songs (Reprise)
- Sir Douglas Quintet * Together After Five (Smash/Acadia)
- Otis Redding * Tell The Truth (Atlantic)
- Van Der Graaf Generator * H To He, Who Am The Only One (Charisma/Blue Plate)
- The Beatles * Let It Be (Apple)
- Caravan * If I Could Do It All Over Again I'd Do It Over You (London)
- Miles Davis * Live-Evil (Columbia)
- Al Green * Al Green Is Blues (Motown)
- Tyrone Davis * Turn Back The Hands Of Time (Brunswick)
- The Who * Live At Leeds (MCA)
- Tin Tin (Atco)
- Syd Barrett * Barrett (EMI)
- Jimi Hendrix * Voodoo Soup (Cry Of Love) (Reprise)
- The Art Ensemble Of Chicago * Les stances Sophie (Boulogne)
- Rod Stewart * Gasoline Alley (Mercury)
- The Rolling Stones * Get Yer Ya Ya's Out! (London/Abko)
- Exuma The Obeah Man * Exuma II (Mercury)
- Santana * Abraxas (Columbia)
- Jimi Hendrix * Band Of Gypsys (Reprise)
- Ry Cooder (Reprise)
- Harry Nilsson * Nilsson Sings Newman (Buddha)
- Amon Düül I * Pardieswarts Duul (Spalax)
- MC5 * Back In the U.S.A. (Rhino/Atlantic)
- The Isley Brothers * Get Into Something (T-Neck/Epic)
- Jimmy Cliff * Wild World (Island)
- The Bonzo Dog Band * The Beast of the Bonzos (UA)
- Sun Ra & his Arkestra * My Brother The Wind Vol. 1 (Saturn)
- John McLaughlin * My Goals Beyond (Rykodisc)
- David Ackles * Subway To The Country (Elektra/Collectors Choice)
- The Art Ensemble Of Chicago * Certain Blacks (Do What They Wanna!) (Inner City)
- McCoy Tyner * Extensions (Blue Note)
9
- Mayo Thompson * Corky's Debt To His Father (Drag City Revolution)
- Dr. John The Night Tripper * Remedies (Wounded Bird)
- Serge Gainsbourg * Cannabis / Ce Sacre Grand-Pere (Universal Fr)
- Traffic * John Barleycorn Must Die (Polygram)
- Family * A Song For Me (Castle)
- Alice Cooper * Easy Action (Straight/Bizarre)
- Free * Fire And Water (A&M)
- Mountain * Climbing! (Columbia)
- The Impressions * Check Out Your Mind! (Curtom)
- The Faces * First Step (Demon)
- Fairport Convention * Full House (Hannibal)
- Lee Hazelwood * Cowboy In Sweden (Smells Like)
- The Doors * Morrison Hotel (Elektra)
- Van Morrison * His Band And the Street Choir (WB)
- Derek & The Dominoes * Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (Polydor)
- War * Eric Burdon Declares War (Avenue)
- Lou Reed (RCA)
- Bob Dylan * New Morning (Columbia)
- The Kinks * Lola Versus the Powerman and the Moneygoround (Reprise)
- The Move * Looking On (Westside)
- Robert Wyatt * The End Of An Ear (Columbia)
- Spirit * The Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus (Epic)
- The Equals * Best Of 66-70 (See For Miles)
- The Band * Stage Fright (Capitol)
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins * Because Is In Your Mind/Armpitrubber (Philips)
- Donovan * Open Road (Epic)
- Eugene McDaniels * Outlaw (Atlantic)
- Syd Barrett * Opel (1968-70) (Capitol)
- Nico * Desertshore (Reprise)
- Sonny Sharrock * Monkey-Pockie-Boo (BYG)
- Chick Corea * Early Circle (Blue Note)
- Sam Moore * Plenty Good Lovin' (EMI)
- Ornette Coleman * Friends And Neighbours (Flying Dutchman)
9-
- Steve Miller Band * Number Five (Capitol)
- Badfinger * No Dice (Capitol)
- Harry Nilsson * The Point! (RCA)
- Alice Cooper * Easy Action (Straight/Rhino)
- Grateful Dead * American Beauty (WB)
- ZZ Top * First Album (WB)
- Charles Wright & the 103rd Street Rhythm Band * In The Jungle, Babe (WB)
- Charles Wright & the 103rd Street Rhythm Band * Express Yourself (WB)
- King Crimson * Lizard (Atlantic)
- Lee Hazelwood * Cowboy In Sweden (Smells Like)
- Deep Purple * In Rock (WB)
- Roy Harper * Flat Baroque & Berserk (Science)
10
1971
- Sly & the Family Stone * There's A Riot Going On (Epic)
- T. Rex * Electric Warrior (Reprise)
- David Bowie * Hunky Dory (RCA)
- Tim Buckley * Starsailor (Straight)
- The Rolling Stones * Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones)
- The Who * Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy (MCA)
- Rico * Trombone Man: Anthology 1961-71 (Trojan)
10-
- Funkadelic * Maggot Brain (Westbound)
- Carla Bley and Paul Haines * Escalator Over The Hill (ECM)
- Ash Ra Tempel (Spalax)
- Can * Tago Mago (Spoon/Mute)
- MC5 * High Time (Rhino/Atlantic)
- Faust (Recommended)
- Black Sabbath * Master Of Reality (WB)
- The Doors * L.A. Woman (Elektra)
- Herbie Hancock * Mwandishi (WB)
- Fela Kuti * Open & Close (Universal)
- Popol Vuh * In Den Garten Pharaos (Tempel/Spalax)
- Al Green * Let's Stay Together (Hi)
- Joni Mitchell * Blue (Reprise)
- The Kinks * Muswell Hillbillies (RCA/Rhino)
- Alice Coltrane * Universal Consciousness (Impulse!)
- Alice Coltrane * World Galaxy (Impulse!)
- Serge Gainsbourg * Histoire de Melody Nelson (Philips Fr)
- Creedence Clearwater Revival * Chronicle, Vol. 1 1968-71 (Fantasy)
9+
- Curtis Mayfield * Roots (Curtom)
- Bill Withers * Just As I Am (Sussex)
- The Flamin' Groovies * Teenage Head (Big Beat)
- Gong * Camembert Electrique (Charly)
- Amon Düül II * Dance of the Lemmings (Revisited)
- Roy Harper * Stormcock (Resurgent)
- Caravan * In The Land Of The Grey & Pink (London/Some Wax)
- Mott The Hoople * Brain Capers (Atlantic)
- Alice Coltrane * Universal Consciousness (Impulse!)
- Rod Stewart * Every Picture Tells A Story (Mercury)
- Exuma The Obeah Man * Do Wah Nanny (Kama Sutra)
- Eugene McDaniels * Headless Heroes Of The Apocalypse (Atlantic)
- Comus * First Utterance (Dawn/Breathless)
- Sir Douglas Quintet * The Return of Doug Saldana (Smash/Acadia)
- Toots & The Maytals * Stoot Slatyam (Trojan)
- The Faces * A Nod Is A Wink . . . To A Blind Horse (WB)
- David Crosby * If I Could Only Remember My Name (Atlantic)
- Tangerine Dream * Alpha Centauri (Relativity)
- Van Der Graaf Generator * Pawn Hearts (Charisma/Caroline)
- Alice Cooper * Love It To Death (WB)
- Fela Kuti & Ginger Baker * Live! (Celluloid)
- Santana III (Columbia)
- Marvin Gaye * What's Going On (Tamla)
- The Who * Who's Next (MCA)
- Dave & Ansel Collins * Double Barrel (RAS)
- Dr. John The Night Tripper * The Sun, Moon & Herbs (Wounded Bird)
- Harry Nilsson * Nilsson Schmilsson (RCA)
- Led Zeppelin IV (Atlantic)
- Pierre Barouh * Ca Va, Ca Vient (Saravah Fr)
- Donovan * HMS Donovan (Epic/Beat Goes On)
- Kevin Ayers * Whatevershebringswesing (Beat Goes On)
- Soft Machine * Fourth (Columbia)
- Pink Floyd * Meddle (Capitol)
- Peter Hammill * Fool's Mate (Chrysalis/Blue Plate)
- Ornette Coleman * Science Fiction (Columbia)
- Creedence Clearwater Revival * Chronicle Vol. 2 1968-71 (Fantasy)
- The Gaylads * Over The Rainbow's End: Best Of The Gaylads 1968-71 (Trojan)
9
- Donovan * HMS Donovan (Beat Goes On)
- Jethro Tull * Aqualung (Chrysalis)
- Jimmy Cliff * Another Cycle (Island)
- Little Feat (WB)
- 100 Proof (Aged In Soul) * Somebody's Been Sleeping In My Bed (Hot Wax)
- MC5 * Babes In Arms 66-71 (ROIR)
- Van Morrison * Tupelo Honey (WB)
- Lee Perry & the Upsetters * Africa's Blood (Trojan)
- The Faces * Long Player (WB)
- The Isley Brothers * Give It Back (Epic)
- Shuggie Otis * Freedom Flight (Epic)
- Traffic * The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (Island)
- Kraftwerk 1 (Philips)
- Gentle Giant * Acquiring The Taste (PolyGram)
- Tower Of Power * Bump City (Columbia)
- Uriah Heep * Look At Yourself (Mercury)
- Humble Pie * Rock On (A&M)
- The Residents * Santa Dog EP (Ralph)
- John Lennon * Imagine (Apple)
- Budgie (MCA/Roadracer)
- War * All Day Music (Avenue/Ryko)
- Sparks (Bearsville)
- Gene Clark * White Light (A&M)
- Leonard Cohen * Songs Of Love And Hate (Columbia)
- Marcos Valle * Garra (Odeon)
- Genesis * Nursery Cryme (Atlantic)
- The Allman Brothers Band * At Fillmore East (PolyGram/Capricorn)
- John Prine * John Prine (Atlantic)
- Mott The Hoople * Wildlife (Atlantic)
- Free * Free Live! (A&M)
- King Crimson * Islands (EG)
- Badfinger * Straigt Up (Capitol)
8+
- Deep Purple * Fireball (WB)
- The Moody Blues * Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (Decca/Deram)
- Isaac Hayes * Black Moses (Stax)
10
1972
- The Modern Lovers (Beserkley/Rhino)
- The Rolling Stones * Exile On Main St. (Rolling Stones)
- Curtis Mayfield * Superfly (Curtom)
- David Bowie * The Rise Of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars (RCA)
- Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band * Clear Spot (Reprise)
- Roxy Music (Reprise)
- Nick Drake * Pink Moon (Island)
- Al Green * I'm Still In Love With You (Hi)
- Fela Kuti * Roforofo Fight (MCA)
- Junior Byles * Beat Down Babylon (Trojan)
- Yabby You * Conquering Lion (Prophets)
- Jimmy Cliff * The Harder They Come (Mango)
- Bob Marley & the Wailers * Catch A Fire (Tuff Gong/Island)
- Can * Ege Bamyasi (Spoon/Mute)
10-
- T. Rex * The Slider (Reprise)
- Bob Marley & the Wailers * African Herbsman (Trojan)
- Faust * So Far (Recommended)
- The Mahavishnu Orchestra * The Inner Mounting Flame (Columbia)
- Big Star * #1 Record (Argent)
- Stevie Wonder * Talking Book (Tamla)
- Neu! (Brain/Astralwerks)
- Tim Buckley * Greetings From L.A. (WB)
- Ash Ra Tempel * Schwingungen (Spalax)
- Aretha Franklin * Amazing Grace (Atlantic)
- Gilberto Gil * Expresso (Mercury)
- Fela Kuti * Shakara (EMI)
- Amon Düül II * Carnival In Babylon (Mantra)
- Amon Düül II * Wolf City (Mantra)
- Alton Ellis * Soul Groover 1962-72 (Trojan)
- Stranger Cole * Bangarang: The Best Of Stranger Cole 1962-72 (Trojan)
- John Holt * The Best Of John Holt 1967-72 (Trojan)
9+
- Bill Withers * Still Bill (Sussex)
- Black Sabbath * Vol. 4 (WB)
- Van Morrison * St. Dominic's Preview (WB)
- Joni Mitchell * For The Roses (Reprise)
- Wishbone Ash * Argus (MCA)
- Exuma The Obeah Man * Snake (Kama Sutra)
- The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari * Grounation (Ashanti/MRR)
- Cymande (Janus/Sequel)
- David Ackles * American Gothic (Elektra)
- Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band * The Spotlight Kid (Reprise)
- Mott The Hoople * All The Young Dudes (Columbia)
- Art Ensemble of Chicago * Bap-Tizum (Atlantic/Koch)
- Herbie Hancock * Crossings (WB)
- Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (Philadelphia International)
- The Sensational Alex Harvey Band * Framed (Mercury)
- Todd Rundgren * Something/Anything (WB/Rhino)
- Parliament * First Thangs 1970-1972 (Invictus)
- Tangerine Dream * Atem (Relativity)
- Tangerine Dream * Zeit (Relativity)
- Tom Zé * Se O Caso a Chorar (EW)
- Funkadelic * America Eats Its Young (Westbound)
- Steely Dan * Can't Buy A Thrill (MCA)
- Lyn Collins * Think (About It) (Polydor)
- Harry Nilsson * Son Of Schmilsson (RCA)
- The Meters * Cabbage Alley (Reprise)
- Marvin Gaye * Let's Get It On (Motown)
- Lou Reed * Transformer (RCA)
- Gentle Giant * Octopus (PolyGram)
- Little Feat * Sailin' Shoes (WB)
- Stevie Wonder * Music Of My Mind (Tamla)
- Brigitte Fontaine (Saravah)
- Dr. John * Gumbo (Atco)
- Sun Ra & his Arkestra * Space Is The Place (Blue Thumb)
- Focus III (Polydor)
- Lee Perry & the Upsetters * Cloak & Dagger (Trojan)
- Delroy Wilson * Greatest Hits w/ Bunny Lee (Jamaican Gold)
- The Isley Brothers * Brother, Brother, Brother (T-Neck)
- Brinsley Schwarz * Nervous On The Road (EMI/BGO)
- Neil Young * Harvest (Reprise)
- Led Zeppelin * How The West Was Won (Atlantic)
9
- Yes * Close To The Edge (Atlantic)
- Chick Corea * Return To Forever (Polydor)
- Chick Corea * Light As A Feather (Polydor)
- Soft Machine * Fifth (CBS)
- Genesis * Foxtrot (Atlantic)
- Manhattans * A Million To One (Deluxe)
- 100 Proof (Aged In Soul) * 100 Proof (Hot Wax)
- Tyrone Davis * I Had It All The Time (Brunswick)
- Santana * Caravanserai (Columbia)
- Alice Cooper * Killer (WB)
- Kraftwerk 2 (Philips)
- Uriah Heep * Demons And Wizards (Mercury)
- Townes Van Zandt * High, Low And In Between (EMI)
- War * The World Is A Ghetto (Avenue)
- Hawkwind * Doremi Fasol Latido (One Way)
- Brinsley Schwarz * Silver Pistol (EMI)
- The Politicians * The Politicians Featuring McKinley Jackson (Hot Wax)
- Ry Cooder * Into the Purple Valley (Reprise)
- Jethro Tull * Thick As A Brick (Chrysalis)
- Electric Light Orchestra * No Answer (Jet/Epic Legacy)
- Yes * Fragile (Atlantic)
- Slade * Slayed? (Polydor/Salvo)
- Rasberries (Capitol)
- Rasberries * Fresh (Capitol)
- Van Dyke Parks * Discover America (WB)
- Sparks * A Woofer In Tweeter's Clothing (Bearsville)
- Sandy Denny * Sandy (A&M)
- Ry Cooder * Boomer's Story (Reprise)
- Lee Hazelwood * 13 (Smells Like)
- Rod Stewart * Never A Dull Moment (Mercury)
- Marcos Valle * Vento Sul (EMI)
- The Flatlanders * More A Legend Than A Band (Rounder)
- Gene Clark * Roadmaster (A&M)
- Gentle Giant * Three Friends (PolyGram)
- The Pharoahs * Awakening (Luv N' Haight)
- ZZ Top * Rio Grande Mud (WB)
- The Residents * Meet the Residents (Ralph)
- Blue Öyster Cult * Blue Öyster Cult (Columbia)
- Free * Free At Last (A&M)
- Weather Report * I Sing The Body Electric (Columbia)
9-
- The Impressions * Times Have Changed (Curtom)
- Emerson Lake & Palmer * Trilogy (Atlantic/Rhino)
- Spirit * Time Circle 1968-1972 (Epic/Legacy)
- Uriah Heep * The Magician's Birthday (Mercury)
- Townes Van Zandt * The Late, Great Townes Van Zandt (EMI)
- Loudon Wainright III * Album III (Columbia)
- Budgie * Squawk (MCA/Roadrunner)
- Deep Purple * Machine Head (WB)
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- Toots & the Maytals * Funky Kingston (Mango)
- Brian Eno * Here Come The Warm Jets (EG)
- Al Green * Call Me (Hi)
- The Stooges * Raw Power (Columbia)
- New York Dolls * New York Dolls (Mercury)
- David Bowie * Aladdin Sane (Rykodisc)
- Betty Davis (Just Sunshine/Light in the Attic)
- Can * Future Days (Spoon/Mute)
- Lee Perry & the Upsetters * Blackboard Jungle Dub (Upsetter/Trojan)
10-
- Funkadelic * Cosmic Slop (Westbound)
- Miles Davis * On The Corner (Columbia)
- Toots & the Maytals * In The Dark (Trojan)
- John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana * Love Devotion Surrender (Columbia)
- The Mahavishnu Orchestra * Birds Of Fire (Columbia)
- Fela Kuti * Gentleman (Universal)
- Herbie Hancock * Sextant (Columbia)
- Serge Gainsbourg * Vu De L' Exterieur (Philips Fr)
- Bob Marley & the Wailers * Burnin' (Tuff Gong/Island)
- Roxy Music * For Your Pleasure (EG)
- Augustus Pablo * This Is Augustus Pablo (Kaya/Heartbeat)
- Larry Marshall * Presenting Larry Marshall 1968-73 (Heartbeat)
9+
- Stevie Wonder * Innervisions (Tamla)
- The Silvertones * Silver Bullets (Trojan)
- T. Rex * Tanx (Mercury/Repertoire)
- Roxy Music * Stranded (EG)
- Cockney Rebel * The Human Menagerie (EMI)
- John Cale * Paris 1919 (WB)
- John Martyn * Solid Air (Island)
- Thin Lizzy * Vagabonds of the Western World (Deram)
- Herman Chin-Loy * Aquarius Rock (Pressure Sounds)
- Harmonia * Music Von Harmonia (Brain)
- Curtis Mayfield * Back To The World (Curtom)
- John Martyn * Inside Out (Island)
- Slapp Happy * Acnalbasac Noom (Cuneiform)
- Roy Harper * Lifemask (Resurgent)
- Kevin Coyne * Marjory Razorblade (Virgin)
- Herbie Hancock * Head Hunters (Columbia)
- Faust * Faust IV (Virgin)
- Big Youth * Screaming Target (Trojan)
- Hawkwind * Space Ritual (One Way)
- Al Green * Livin' For You (Hi)
- Cymande * Second Time Round (Janus/Sequel)
- Mott The Hoople * Mott (Columbia)
- Secos e Molhados (Continental)
- The Mahavishnu Orchestra * Between Nothingness And Eternity (Columbia)
- Little Feat * Dixie Chicken (WB)
- Ash Ra Tempel * Join Inn (Spalax)
- Gong * The Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Pt. 1) (Charly)
- Fela Kuti * Afrodisiac (Universal)
- Terry Reid * River (Water/Atlantic)
- Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes * Black & Blue (Philadelphia International)
- Sly & the Family Stone * Fresh (Epic)
- King Crimson * Larks' Tongues In Aspic (Atlantic)
- Tom Zé * Todos Os Olhos (EW)
- Gentle Giant * In A Glass House (PolyGram)
- Faust * The Faust Tapes (Cuneiform)
- ZZ Top * Tres Hombres (WB)
- Todd Rundgren * A Wizard, A True Star (WB/Rhino)
- Cornell Campbell (Trojan)
- Tim Buckley * Honeyman (Manifesto)
- John Holt * 1000 Volts Of Holt (Trojan)
- The J.B.'s * Food For Thought (Polydor)
- Nektar * Remember The Future (Bellaphon)
- Mahavishnu Orchestra * The Lost Trident Sessions (Columbia)
- Lynyrd Skynyrd * Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd (MCA)
- Bruce Springsteen * The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle (Columbia)
- Gong * Angel's Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible Pt. 2) (Charly)
- Lou Reed * Berlin (RCA)
- Pink Fairies * Kings Of Oblivion (Polydor)
- Horace Andy * You Are My Angel (Trojan)
- Black Sabbath * Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (WB)
- The Isley Brothers * 3+3 (T-Neck/Epic)
- Neu * Neu! 2 (Brain/Astralwerks)
- Alice Cooper * Billion Dollar Babies (WB)
- Larry Young * Lawrence Of Newark (Sequel/Sanctuary)
- Guru Guru (Polydor)
- Tom Waits * Closing Time (Elektra)
- Magma * Mekanik Destruktiv Kommandoh (A&M)
- Chick Corea * Hymn to the Seventh Galaxy (Polydor)
- The Melodians * Sweet Sensation: Best Of 1967-73 (Trojan/Sanctuary)
- Bill Withers * Live At Carnegie Hall (Sussex)
9
- Charles Mingus * Mingus Moves (Atlantic)
- Robert Fripp & Brian Eno * No Pussyfooting (EG)
- Jane Birkin * Di Doo Dah (Fontana/Universal Fr)
- Pink Floyd * Dark Side Of The Moon (Harvest)
- Budgie * Never Turn Your Back On A Friend (MCA/Roadracer)
- Queen (Elektra/Hollywood)
- Steely Dan * Countdown To Ecstasy (MCA)
- The Strawbs * Hero And Heroine (A&M)
- Yes * Yessongs (Atlantic)
- 10cc (UK)
- Neil Young * Time Fades Away (Reprise)
- Genesis * Selling England By The Pound (Atlantic)
- Jimmy Cliff * Unlimited (Island)
- Santana * Welcome (Columbia)
- Tower Of Power (Columbia)
- Kevin Ayers * Bananamour (Beat Goes On)
- Led Zeppelin * Houses Of The Holy (Atlantic)
- Bruce Springsteen * Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ (Columbia)
- Humble Pie * In Concert (King Biscuit)
- Tyrone Davis * Without You In My Life (Brunswick)
- The Rolling Stones * Goats Head Soup (Rolling Stones)
- The Modern Lovers * Precise Modern Lovers Order (Rounder)
- Alice Cooper * School's Out (WB)
- Gram Parsons * GP (Reprise)
- Electric Light Orchestra * On The Third Day (Jet/Epic Legacy)
- Gram Parsons & the Fallen Angels * Live (Rhino)
- The O'Jays * Ship Ahoy (CBS)
- Tangerine Dream * Green Desert (Castle)
- David Bowie * Pin-Ups (RCA)
- Henry Cow * Legend (ESD)
- Weather Report * Sweetnighter (Columbia)
9-
- Electric Light Orchestra * ELO II (Jet/Epic Legacy)
- Brinsley Schwarz * Please Don't Ever Change (EMI)
- Kraftwerk * Ralf And Florian (Philips)
- Emerson Lake & Palmer * Brain Salad Surgery (Atlantic)
- Rasberries * Side Three (Capitol)
- Yes * Tales From Topographic Oceans (Atlantic)
- The Who * Quadrophenia (MCA)
- Alice Cooper * Muscle Of Love (WB/Rhino)
- Free * Heartbreaker (A&M)
- Montrose (WB)
- Black Nasty * Talking To The People (Stax)
8
- Kiss (Casablanca)
10
1974
- Brian Eno * Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy (EG)
- Bob Marley & the Wailers * Natty Dread (Tuff Gong/Island)
- Can * Soon Over Babaluma (Spoon/Mute)
- Betty Davis * They Say I'm Different (Just Sunshine/Light in the Attic)
10-
- Cluster * Zuckerzeit (Brain)
- Big Star * Radio City (Argent)
- Charles Mingus * Mingus at Carnegie Hall (Atlantic)
- Big Star * Sister Lovers (Aura)
- Keith Hudson * Flesh Of My Skin, Blood Of My Blood (Mamba/Atra)
- Funkadelic * Standing On the Verge Of Getting It On (Westbound)
- The Meters * Rejuvenation (Reprise)
- Robert Wyatt * Rock Bottom (Thirsty Ear)
- Neil Young * On The Beach (Reprise)
- Cockney Rebel * Psychomodo (EMI)
- Roxy Music * Country Life (EG)
- David Bowie * Diamond Dogs (RCA)
- Popol Vuh * Einsjager & Siebenjager (Spalax)
- Fela Kuti * He Miss Road (Universal)
- Dennis Brown * Just Dennis (Trojan)
- Roy Harper * Valentine (Chrysalis)
- Burning Spear * Creation Rebel: The Original Classics From Studio One 1970-74 (Studio One/Heartbeat)
- Delroy Wilson * Once Upon a Time: The Best of Delroy Wilson 1967-74 (Trojan)
- King Sunny Ad? * The Best of the Classic Years 1967-74 (Shanachie)
9+
- Curtis Mayfield * Sweet Exorcist (Curtom)
- Al Green * Explores Your Mind (Hi)
- Richard & Linda Thompson * I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight (Hannibal)
- Joni Mitchell * Court And Spark (Reprise)
- Stevie Wonder * Fulfillingness' First Finale (Motown)
- King Crimson * Red (Atlantic)
- T. Rex * Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow (Mercury)
- Kraftwerk * Autobahn (Philips)
- King Crimson * Starless And Bible Black (Atlantic)
- Heldon * Electronic Guerrilla (Cunneiform/Rune)
- Popol Vuh * Seligpreisung (Spalax)
- Miles Davis * Get Up With It (Columbia)
- Dennis Brown * Deep Down (Observer)
- Lee Perry & the Upsetters * Kung Fu Meets The Dragon (DIP/Justice League)
- Bunny Rugs [Scott] & the Upsetters * To Love Somebody (Klik)
- Herbie Hancock * Thrust (Columbia)
- Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus * Dadawah - Peace & Love (Trojan)
- Secos e Molhados (Continental)
- Cymande * Promised Heights (Janus/Sequel)
- Gene Clark * No Other (Line)
- Electric Light Orchestra * Eldorado (Jet/Epic Legacy)
- Keith Hudson * Entering The Dragon (Magnet)
- Randy Newman * Good Old Boys (Reprise)
- Lee Perry & The Upsetters * Double Seven (Trojan)
- Jimmy Cliff * Struggling Man (Island)
- Raspberries * Starting Over (Capitol)
- Shuggie Otis * Inspiration Information (Epic/Luaka Bop)
- The Sensational Alex Harvey Band * Next (Mercury)
- Santana * Lotus (Columbia)
- Ry Cooder * Paradise and Lunch (Reprise)
- Nick Drake * Time Of No Reply 68-74 (Rykodisc)
- Gram Parsons * Grievous Angel (Reprise)
- Bill Withers * 'Justments (Sussex)
- The J.B.'s * Breakin' Bread (Polydor)
- Big Star * Live (Rykodisc)
- John Cale * Fear (Island)
- Millie Jackson * Caught Up (Southbound)
- Parliament * Up For The Down Stroke (Casablanca)
- Queen * Sheer Heart Attack (Elektra)
- Cecil Taylor * Silent Tongues (Arista)
- Curtis Mayfield * Got To Find A Way (Curtom)
- Be Bop Deluxe * Axe Victim (Harvest)
- Charles Mingus * Changes One (Atlantic)
- Charles Mingus * Changes Two (Atlantic)
9
- Queen II (EMI/Hollywood)
- Steely Dan * Pretzel Logic (MCA)
- Mott The Hoople * The Hoople (Columbia)
- Sparks * Propaganda (Island)
- Sparks * Kimono My House (Island)
- Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus * Nyahbinghi (Trojan)
- 10cc * Sheet Music (UK)
- Lynyrd Skynyrd * Second Helping (MCA)
- Thin Lizzy * Night Life (Deram)
- Supertramp * Crime of the Century (A&M)
- Gong * You (Radio Gnome Invisible Pt. 3) (Virgin)
- The Sensational Alex Harvey Band * The Impossible Dream (Mercury)
- The Mahavishnu Orchestra * Apocalypse (Columbia)
- Budgie * In For The Kill! (MCA)
- Ducks Deluxe (RCA)
- Badfinger * Wish You Were Here (WB)
- Kiss (Casablanca/Mercury)
- Van Morrison * It's Too Late To Stop Now (WB)
- Tower Of Power * Urban Renewal (Columbia)
- Tower Of Power * Back To Oakland (Columbia)
- Bad Company (Swan Song)
- Junior Byles * Jordan (Trojan)
- Hawkwind * Hall Of the Mountain Grill (UA)
- Nico * The End (Island)
- The Rolling Stones * It's Only Rock 'N' Roll (Virgin)
- The Isley Brothers * Live It Up (T-Neck)
- Genesis * The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Atlantic)
- Tom Waits * The Heart Of Saturday Night (Asylum)
- John Cale, Eno, Nico * June 1, 1974 (Island)
- New York Dolls * Too Much Too Soon (Mercury)
- Brigitte Fontaine * Je Ne Connais Pas Cet Homme (Saravah)
- Todd Rundgren * Todd (WB/Rhino)
- Bob Dylan * Before The Flood (Asylum)
- Leonard Cohen * New Skin for the Old Ceremony (Columbia)
- Cosmic Jokers (Brain)
- Tangerine Dream * Phaedra (Virgin)
- Flora Purim & Airto Moreia * 500 Miles High: At Montreux (Milestone)
- Chick Corea * Where Have I Known You Before? (Polydor)
- Blue Öyster Cult * Secret Treaties (Columbia)
- Average White Band (Atlantic/Rhino)
- Jimmy Cliff * Music Maker (WB/Wounded Bird)
- Weather Report * Mysterious Traveller (Columbia)
9-
- Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band * Unconditionally Guaranteed (Virgin/EMI)
- Kiss * Hotter Than Hell (Casablanca/Mercury)
- AC/DC * '74 Jailbreak (Atco)
- Aerosmith * Get Your Wings (Columbia)
8+
- Stooges * Rubber Legs (Fan Club)
- Boz Scaggs * Slow Dancer (Columbia)
- Lou Reed * Rock 'n' Roll Animal (RCA)
10
1975
- Brian Eno * Another Green World (EG)
- Bob Dylan * Blood On The Tracks (Columbia)
- Patti Smith * Horses (Arista)
- Neu * Neu! 75 (Brain/Astralwerks)
- Tom Zé * Estudando O Samba (EW)
- Burning Spear * Marcus Garvey (Mango)
- The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari * Tales Of Mozambique (Dynamic)
10-
- Harmonia * Deluxe (Brain)
- Parliament * Mothership Connection (Casablanca)
- Jacob Miller * Who Say Jah No Dread (Ras)
- Max Romeo & the Upsetters * Revelation Time (Trojan/Blood & Fire)
- Pere Ubu * Datapanik In The Year Zero EP (Radar)
- Roy Harper * HQ (Science Friction)
- Neil Young * Tonight's The Night (Reprise)
- Betty Davis * Nasty Gal (Just Sunshine/Aztec)
- Fela Kuti * Confusion (Polydor)
- Cedric Im Brooks & The Divine Light * From Mento To Reggae To Third World Music (Doctor Bird)
9+
- Curtis Mayfield * There's No Place Like America Today (Curtom)
- Cornell Campbell * Natty Dread In A Greenwich Farm (Grounation)
- Joe Higgs * Life of Contradiction (Vulcan/Lagoon)
- Pink Floyd * Wish You Were Here (Capitol)
- Joni Mitchell * The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (Asylum)
- Van Der Graaf Generator * Godbluff (Charisma/Blue Plate)
- Hugh Mundell * Africa Must Be Free By 1983 (Ras)
- Robert Wyatt * Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard (Virgin/Thirsty Ear)
- Lee Perry & The Upsetters * Heart Of The Dragon (Justice League)
- Pablo Moses * Revolutionary Dream (Shanachie)
- Fela Kuti * Expensive Shit (Editions)
- Bob Marley & the Wailers * Live! (Tuff Gong)
- Funkadelic * Let's Take It To The Stage (Westbound)
- Bruce Springsteen * Born To Run (Columbia)
- T. Rex * Bolan's Zip Gun (Mercury)
- Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel * The Best Years Of Our Lives (EMI)
- Be Bop Deluxe * Futurama (Harvest)
- Ian Hunter (Columbia)
- Kiss * Alive! (Mercury)
- AC/DC * TNT (Albert Productions)
- Kraftwerk * Radio Activity (Capitol)
- Roxy Music * Siren (Atco)
- Brian Eno * Discreet Music (EG)
- Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus * Rastafari (VP)
- Larry Marshall * I Admire You (Heartbeat)
- The Staple Singers * Let's Do It Again (Curtom)
- 10cc * The Original Soundtrack (Mercury)
- Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes * To Be True (Philadelphia International)
- Serge Gainsbourg * Rock Around The Bunker (Philips Fr)
- Hawkwind * Warrior On The Edge Of Time (Atco)
- Lyn Collins * Check Me Out If You Don't Know Me By Now (Polydor)
- Al Green * Is Love (Hi)
- Tony Allen * Jealousy (P-Vine)
- Soft Machine * Bundles (See For Miles)
- Vin Gordon & the Upsetters * Musical Bones (DIP)
- Haruomi Hosono * Tropical Dandy (Crown Japan)
- Heldon * Allez Teia (Cunneiform/Rune)
- The Twinkle Brothers * Rasta Pon Top (Twinkle)
- Bunny Scott * To Love Somebody (Klik)
- Dictators * Go Girl Crazy (Epic)
- Neil Young * Zuma (Reprise)
- Black Sabbath * Sabotage (WB)
- Thin Lizzy * Fighting (Vertigo/Phonogram)
- Sparks * Indiscreet (Island)
- Fela Kuti * Monkey Banana (Universal)
- Can * Landed (Spoon/Mute)
- Lee Perry & Upsetters * Revolution Dub (Cactus UK/Trojan)
- Fela Kuti * Excuse O (Universal)
- Fred Locks * Black Star Liner (Vulcan)
- Keith Hudson * Torch Of Freedom (Atra)
- The Gladiators * Bongo Red 1971-75 (Heartbeat)
- Ken Boothe * Everything I Own: The Best Of Ken Boothe 1968-75 (Trojan)
- The Ethiopians * Train To Skaville Anthology 1966-75 (Trojan)
- Denzel Dennis * Me Nah WorryThe Anthology 1963-75 (Trojan/Sanctuary)
9
- Dr. Feelgood * Down By The Jetty (EMI)
- The Meters * Fire On The Bayou (Reprise)
- Gregory Isaacs * In Person (Trojan)
- The Heptones * Cool Rasta (Trojan)
- Robert Fripp & Brian Eno * Evening Star (EG)
- The Strawbs * Ghosts (A&M)
- Van Dyke Parks * Clang of the Yankee Reaper (Reprise)
- Queen * A Night At The Opera (Elektra)
- Steely Dan * Katy Lied (MCA)
- Peter Hammill * Nadir's Big Chance (Blue Plate)
- Bob Dylan * Desire (Columbia)
- Kilburn & The High Roads * Handsome (Dawn/Castle)
- The Isley Brothers * The Heat Is On (T-Neck)
- Alice Cooper * Welcome To My Nightmare (WB/Rhino)
- AC/DC * High Voltage (Albert Productions)
- Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart * Bongo Fury (Rykodisc)
- Susan Cadogan * Hurt So Good (Trojan)
- Alex Chilton * Bach's Bottom (Razor & Tie)
- John Cale * Slow Dazzle (Island)
- ZZ Top * Fandango (London)
- Bob Dylan * The Basement Tapes (Columbia)
- David Bowie * Young Americans (RCA/Virgin)
- The Sensational Alex Harvey Band * Tomorrow Belongs To Me (Mercury)
- Fela Kuti * Everything Scatter (Universal)
- Dr. Feelgood * Malpractice (EMI)
- Fela Kuti * Noise For Vendor Mouth (Universal)
- Jimmy Cliff * Brave Warrior (Island)
- Kiss * Dressed To Kill (Casablanca/Mercury)
- Jimmy Cliff * Follow My Mind (Island)
9-
- The Residents * Present the Third Reich 'n' Roll (Ralph)
- Ducks Deluxe * Taxi To The Terminal Zone (RCA)
- Scorpions * In Trance (RCA)
- Stooges * I'm Sick Of You EP (Revenge)
- John Cale * Helen Of Troy (Island)
- Electric Eels * Having A Philosophical Investigation With The Electric Eels (Tinnitus)
- Aerosmith * Toys In The Attic (Columbia)
- Rod Stewart * Atlantic Crossing (WB)
- Led Zeppelin * Physical Graffiti (Atlantic)
8+
- Electric Light Orchestra * Face The Music (Jet/Epic Legacy)
- John Lennon * Rock 'n' Roll (Apple)
- Parliament * Chocolate City (Casablanca)
- Tom Waits * Nighthawks At The Diner (Elektra)
8
- Motörhead * On Parole (Cleopatra)
- Lou Reed * Metal Machine Music (RCA)
10
1976
- Lee Perry & the Upsetters * Super Ape (Island/Hip-O Select)
- Rico * Man From Wareika (Island)
- Justin Hinds & The Dominoes * Jezebel (Island)
- Cedric Im Brooks * The Light Of Saba (Total Sounds/Honest Jon's)
- Max Romeo & the Upsetters * War Ina Babylon (Mango/Hip-O Select)
- The Mighty Diamonds * Right Time (Shanachie)
10-
- La Dusseldorf (Radar)
- The Meditations * Message From The Meditations (UA)
- Bunny Wailer * Blackheart Man (Island)
- David Bowie * Station To Station (RCA)
- Johnny Clarke * Rockers Time Now (Front Line)
- Augustus Pablo * King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown (Shanachie)
- The Ramones (Sire)
- Blondie (Chrysalis)
- Harry Mudie * Harry Mudie Meets King Tubby In Dub Conference Vol. One (Moodisc)
- Serge Gainsbourg * L' Homme a Tete De Chou (Philips Fr)
- Toots & the Maytals * Reggae Got Soul (Mango)
- The Abyssinians * Satta Massagana (Heartbeat)
- Gladiators * Trench Town Mix Up (Front Line/Virgin)
- Yabby You * Chant Down Babylon Kingdom (Nationwide)
- Cluster * Sowiesoso (Sky)
- The Wailing Souls (Studio One)
- Johnny Clarke * Authorized Version (Front Line)
9+
- Electric Light Orchestra * A New World Record (Jet/Epic Legacy)
- AC/DC * High Voltage (Epic)
- Bob Marley & the Wailers * Rastaman Vibration (Tuff Gong/Island)
- Thin Lizzy * Jailbreak (Mercury)
- Popol Vuh * Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte (United Artists/Spalax)
- Heldon * Un Reve Sans Consequence Speciale (Cunneiform/Rune)
- Penguin Cafe Orchestra * Music From The Penguin Cafe Orchestra (EG)
- Haruomi Hosono * Bon Voyage Co. (Crown Japan)
- Jean Michel Jarre * Oxygene (Polydor/Dreyfus)
- Leon Ware * Musical Massage (Motown)
- Lou Reed * Coney Island Baby (RCA/Legacy)
- T. Rex * Futuristic Dragon (Mercury)
- Graham Parker * Howlin' Wind (Mercury)
- Tom Waits * Small Change (Elektra)
- Joni Mitchell * Hejira (Asylum)
- Steely Dan * The Royal Scam (MCA)
- Patti Smith * Radio Ethiopia (Arista)
- Bootsy Collins * Ahhh…The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! (WB)
- Aretha Franklin * Sparkle (Atlantic/Rhino)
- Burning Spear * Man In The Hills (Mango)
- Parliament * The Clones Of Dr. Funkenstein (Casablanca)
- Van Der Graaf Generator * Still Life (Charisma/Blue Plate)
- Be Bop Deluxe * Sunburst Finish (EMI)
- Peter Tosh * Legalize It (Columbia)
- Jah Lion * Colombia Colly (Mango/Island)
- Fela Kuti * Up Side Down (Celluloid)
- AC/DC * Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Albert Productions)
- Graham Parker * Heat Treatment (Mercury)
- John Holt * Up Park Camp (Channel One)
- Delroy Wilson * Sarge (Charmers/JAS)
- Third World (Island)
- Thin Lizzy * Johnny The Fox (Vertigo/PolyGram)
- The Mighty Diamonds * Stand Up To Your Judgment (Channel One)
- Ry Cooder * Chicken Skin Music (Reprise)
- Prince Jazzbo * Natty Passing Thru/Ital Corner (Black Wax/Clocktower)
- Judas Priest * Sad Wings Of Destiny (Columbia)
- Rainbow * Rising (Polydor)
- John Martyn * Live At Leeds (Island)
- Burning Spear * Garvey's Ghost (Mango)
- The Heptones * The Meaning Of Life: Best Of 1966-76 (Trojan/Sanctuary)
- Marvin Gaye * I Want You (Motown)
9
- Curtis Mayfield * Give, Get, Take And Have (Curtom)
- Led Zeppelin * Presence (Swan Song)
- Al Green * Full Of Fire (Hi)
- Eddie & The Hot Rods * Teenage Depression (Island/Captain Oi!)
- Streetwalkers * Red Card (Vertigo/Repertoire)
- Can * Flow Motion (Spoon)
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (MCA/Gone Gator)
- Queen * A Day At The Races (Elektra/Hollywood)
- The Rolling Stones * Black And Blue (Virgin)
- Gregory Isaacs * All I Have Is Love (Trojan)
- Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes * Wake Up Everybody (Philadelphia International)
- Chrome * The Visitation (Siren)
- Cerrone * Cerrone 3: Supernature (Barclay)
- Rush * 2112 (Mercury)
- Aerosmith * Rocks (Columbia)
- Santana * Amigos (Columbia)
- Bob Dylan * Desire (Columbia)
- The Buzzcocks * Time's Up (Document)
- 10cc * How Dare You! (Mercury)
- Sparks * Big Beat (Island)
- The 101ers * Elgin Avenue Breakdown Revisited (Astralwerks)
- Can * Unlimited Edition (Spoon/Mute)
- Lou Reed * Rock And Roll Heart (Arista/Buddha)
- Radio Birdman * Burn My Eye EP (Tralfalgar)
- Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band * Live Bullet (Capitol)
- Deaf School * 2nd Honeymoon (WB/Sanctuary)
- MX-80 * Hard Pop From the Hoosiers EP (Gulcher/Atavistic)
- Al Green * Have A Good Time (Hi)
- Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band * Night Moves (Capitol)
- Lynyrd Skynyrd * One More From The Road (MCA)
- Rush * All The World's A Stage (Mercury)
9-
- Kiss * Destroyer (Casablanca)
- Rod Stewart * A Night On The Town (WB)
- Blue Öyster Cult * Agents Of Fortune (Columbia)
- Steve Miller Band * Fly Like An Eagle (Capitol)
- ZZ Top * Tejas (WB)
- Sex Pistols * Live At Chelmsford Top Security Prison (Virgin)
- Funkadelic * Hardcore Jollies (WB/Charly Groove)
- Various * New York New Wave: Max's Kansas City (CBS)
8+
- Boston (Epic)
- Stevie Wonder * Songs In The Key Of Life (Motown)
- Warren Zevon (Asylum)
- The Residents * Fingerprince (Ralph)
- Tangerine Dream * Stratosfear (Virgin)
- Funkadelic * Tales Of Kidd Funkadelic (Westbound)
- Scorpions * Virgin Killer (RCA)
- Boz Scaggs * Silk Degrees (Columbia)
- Live At C.B.G.B.'s * Home of Underground Rock (Atlantic)
8
- Ohio Players * Gold (Mercury)
8-
- Stooges * Kill City EP (Revenge)
10
1977
- The Congos * Heart Of The Congo (Blood & Fire)
- Television * Marquee Moon (Elektra)
- Wire * Pink Flag (Restless)
- Junior Murvin * Police & Thieves (Mango)
- Fela Kuti * Zombie (Universal)
- Iggy Pop * Lust For Life (Virgin)
- The Sex Pistols * Never Mind the Bullocks (WB)
- The Clash (Epic)
- Richard Hell & the Voidoids * Blank Generation (Sire)
- George Faith * To Be A Lover (Black Swan/Hip-O Select)
- Pere Ubu * The Modern Dance (Blank)
- David Bowie * Low (RCA)
- Dennis Brown * Wolf And Leopards (Blue Moon/VP)
- Ramones * Rocket To Russia (Sire)
10-
- Talking Heads * Talking Heads: 77 (Sire)
- Kraftwerk * Trans-Europe Express (Capitol)
- The Damned * Damned Damned Damned (Demon)
- The Jam * In The City (Polydor)
- Suicide (Red Star)
- Elvis Costello * My Aim Is True (Columbia)
- Electric Light Orchestra * Out Of The Blue (Jet)
- Fela Kuti * Sorrow Tears And Blood (Universal)
- Fela Kuti * Shuffering and Shmiling (Universal)
- Ramones * Leave Home (Sire)
- Horace Andy * In The Light (Blood & Fire)
- Heldon * Interface (Cuneiform/Rune)
- The Saints * (I'm) Stranded (EMI)
- Cedric Im Brooks * The Light Of Saba In Reggae (Total Sounds)
- Giorgio Moroder * From Here To Eternity (Oasis/Repertoire)
- The Heptones * Party Time (Mango)
- The Royals * Pick Up The Pieces (Pressure Sounds)
- Augustus Pablo * East Of The River Nile (Message/Shanachie)
- Al Green * The Belle Album (Hi)
- Bob Marley & the Wailers * Exodus (Tuff Gong/Island)
- Dennis Brown * Some Like It Hot 1973-77 (Heartbeat)
- Linval Thompson * Ride On Dreadlocks 1975-77 (Blood & Fire)
9+
- Rico * Midnight In Ethiopia (Island)
- The Stranglers * No More Heroes (UA)
- Brian Eno * Before And After Science (EG)
- Ultravox * Ha! Ha! Ha! (Island)
- Peter Gabriel * Peter Gabriel (Mercury)
- T. Rex * Dandy In The Underworld (Mercury)
- The Stranglers * IV Rattus Norvegicus (A&M)
- Vibrators * Pure Mania (Columbia)
- Fela Kuti * No Agreement (Universal)
- Fela Kuti * Opposite People (Universal)
- The Morwells * Crab Race (Burning Sounds)
- Fela Kuti * Stalemate (Universal)
- Fela Kuti * Fear Not For Man (Universal)
- The Travellers * Black Black Minds (Pressure Sounds)
- Third World * 96 Degrees in the Shade (Mango)
- Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus * Kibir-Am-Lak (Greensleeves)
- Prince Far I * Heavy Manners (Joe Gibbs/TP)
- Wayne Wade * Black Is Our Colour (Grove)
- Peter Hammill * Over (Blue Plate)
- Gregory Isaacs * Mr. Isaacs (Blood & Fire)
- Kate Bush * The Kick Inside (EMI)
- Van Der Graaf Generator * The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome (Charisma/Blue Plate)
- Bizarros/Rubber City Rebels * From Akron (Clone)
- Ultravox * Ultravox! (Island)
- Cluster & Eno (Sky/Water)
- Thin Lizzy * Bad Reputation (PolyGram)
- This Heat * Made Available: Peel Sessions (These)
- AC/DC * Let There Be Rock (Epic)
- Culture * Two Sevens Clash (Shanachie)
- Tony Allen * Progress (P-Vine)
- Devo * Hardcore Vol. 1 74-77 (Rykodisc)
- Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers * L.A.M.F. (Jungle)
- Bill Withers * Managerie (CBS)
- Bunny Wailer * Protest (Island)
- Dead Boys * Young, Loud And Snotty (Sire)
- The Boys (Safari)
- Yabby You * Deliver Me From My Enemies (Blood & Fire)
- Radio Birdman * Radios Appear (Tralfalgar)
- Sex Pistols * Flogging A Dead Horse (Virgin)
- MX-80 * Hard Attack (Island/Atavistic)
- Can * Saw Delight (Restless)
- Burning Spear * Dry And Heavy (Mango)
- Sugar Minott * Live Loving (Studio One)
- Sugar Minott * Showcase (Studio One)
- Dennis Brown * Open The Gate (Heartbeat)
- Motörhead * Motörhead (Roadracer)
- Judas Priest * Sin After Sin (Columbia)
- The Real Kids (Red Star/Norton)
- Deaf School * Don't Stop The World (WB/Sanctuary)
- Blondie * Plastic Letters (Chrysalis)
- Tommy McCook * Blazing Horns/Tenor In Roots (Blood & Fire)
- Rico * Man From Wareika Dub (Island)
- Kalo Kawongolo & Seke Molenga * From The Heart of the Congo (Runn)
- The Outsiders * Calling On Youth (Raw Edge)
- The Slits * Peel Sessions EP (Strange Fruit)
- Pink Floyd * Animals (Capitol)
- Devo * Hardcore Vol. 2 74-77 (Rykodisc)
- Iggy Pop * The Idiot (RCA)
- The Adverts * Peel Sessions EP (Strange Fruit)
9
- John Martyn * One World (Island)
- Queen * News of the World (Elektra)
- Ian Dury & The Blockheads * New Boots & Panties!! (Demon)
- Eddie & The Hot Rods * Life On The Line (Island/Captain Oi!)
- Curtis Mayfield * Never Say You Can't Survive (Curtom)
- Black Uhuru * Love Crisis (Black Sounds of Freedom) (Third World)
- The Jam * This Is The Modern World (Polydor)
- Tom Waits * Foreign Affairs (Elektra)
- Mink DeVille * Cabretta (ERA/Raven)
- Shoes * Black Vinyl Shoes (Black Vinyl)
- Be Bop Deluxe * Modern Music (EMI)
- The Buzzcocks * Spiral Scratch EP (New Hormones)
- The Scruffs * Wanna Meet the Scruffs? (Power Play)
- Cheap Trick (Epic)
- Riot * Rock City (Fire Sign/Metal Blade)
- Parliament * Funkentelecy Vs. The Placebo System (Casablanca)
- Quartz * Deleted (Jet)
- Dictators * Manifest Destiny (Elektra)
- Rush * A Farewell To Kings (Mercury)
9-
- Parliament * P. Funk Earth Tour (Casablanca)
- Throbbing Gristle * Second Annual Report (Mute)
- Kiss * Love Gun (Casablanca/Mercury)
- X-Ray Spex * Obsessed With You: Early Years (Receiver)
8+
- The Damned * Music For Pleasure (Stiff)
- Cheap Trick * In Color (Epic)
- Scorpions * Taken By Force (Universal/Hip-O)
10
1978
- Pere Ubu * Dub Housing (Rough Trade)
- Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band * Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (Enigma)
- Talking Heads * More Songs About Buildings And Food (Sire)
- X-Ray Spex * Germ-Free Adolescents (Caroline)
- The Buzzcocks * Another Music In A Different Kitchen (Restless)
- Bim Sherman * Love Forever (Tribesmen/Century)
- Dennis Brown * Visions of Dennis Brown (Shanachie/Joe Gibbs)
10-
- Elvis Costello & the Attractions * This Year's Model (Columbia)
- Steve Reich * Music For 18 Musicians (ECM)
- The Adverts * Crossing the Red Sea With The Adverts (Devils Jukebox)
- Wire * Chairs Missing (Restless)
- Lee Perry * Roast Fish Collie Weed and Corn Bread (Upsetter/VP)
- Ijahman * Haile I Hymn (Mango/Jahmani)
- The Chantells * Waiting In The Park (Phase One)
- The Jolly Brothers * Conscious Man (Seven Leaves)
- The Meditations * Wake Up (Third World)?
- David Bowie * Heroes (RCA)
- The Jam * All Mod Cons (Polydor)
- Bruce Springsteen * Darkness On The Edge Of Town (Columbia)
- Devo * Q: Are We Not Men? A. We Are Devo (WB)
- Generation X (Chrysalis)
- The Buzzcocks * Love Bites (Restless)
- The Saints * Eternally Yours (EMI)
- Magazine * Real Life (Virgin)
- La Dusseldorf * Viva (Radar)
- Cedric Im Brooks * United Africa (Aquarius)
- Burning Spear * Social Living (Blood & Fire)
- Chrome * Alien Soundtracks (Touch & Go)
- The Only Ones (Columbia)
- Junior Byles & Friends * 129 Beat Street: Ja-Man Special 1975-78 (Blood & Fire)
9+
- Various * No New York (Antilles)
- The Cars * The Cars (Elektra)
- Tom Zé * Correio Da Estao Do Brs (EW)
- Kraftwerk * The Man Machine (Capitol)
- Linval Thompson * I Love Marijuana (Trojan)
- Cedric Im Brooks & The Light Of Saba * Sabebe (Total Sounds)
- Junior Delgado * Taste Of The Young Heart (DEB)
- The Gladiators * Proverbial Reggae (Front Line/Virgin)
- Israel Vibration * The Same Song (RAS/Sanctuary)
- Dr. Alimantado * Best Dressed Chicken In Town (Greensleeves)
- Tony Allen * No Accomodation For Lagos (P-Vine)
- The Boys * Alternative Chartbusters (Safari)
- Gregory Isaacs * Cool Ruler (Front Line)
- Art Bears * Hopes And Fears (Randam Radar/ReR)
- The Misfits * Static Age (Caroline)
- The Clash * Give 'Em Enough Rope (Epic)
- The Soft Boys * A Can Of Bees (Rykodisc)
- Horace Andy * Natty Dread A Weh She Want (Trojan)
- Television * Adventure (Elektra)
- The Stranglers * Black And White (EMI)
- XTC * Go 2 (Virgin)
- Siouxsie & the Banshees * The Scream (Polydor/Geffen)
- Judas Priest * Stained Class (Columbia)
- Van Halen (WB)
- Carl Harvey * Ecstasy Of Mankind (Makasound)
- Ultravox * Systems Of Romance (Virgin)
- The Abyssinians * Arise (Frontline)
- The Jolt (Polydor/Captain Mod)
- The Saints * Prehistoric Sounds (EMI)
- Japan * Adolescent Sex (Virgin)
- Public Image Ltd. * Public Image (Virgin)
- Culture * Harder Than The Rest (Shanachie)
- Peter Hammill * The Future Now (Blue Plate)
- Blondie * Parallel Lines (Chrysalis)
- XTC * White Music (Virgin)
- Third World * Journey To Addis (Island)
- The Twinkle Brothers * Love (Front Line)
- Haruomi Hosono * Paraiso (Crown Japan)
- Tubeway Army (Beggars Banquet)
- Justin Hinds & the Dominoes * Just In Time (Island)
- Marcia Griffiths * Naturally (High Note)
- Bob Marley & the Wailers * Babylon by Bus (Tuff Gong/Island)
- The Mighty Diamonds * Planet Earth (Virgin)
- The Vibrators * V2 (Columbia/Captain Oi!)
- The Rolling Stones * Some Girls (Rolling Stones)
- The Outsiders * Close Up (Raw Edge)
- The Vibrators * V2 (Epic/Captain Oi)
- Dictators * Bloodbrothers (Elektra)
- Kevin Coyne * Dynamite Daze (Virgin)
- The Rich Kids * Ghosts Of Princes In Towers (EMI)
- Be Bop Deluxe * Drastic Plastic (Harvest)
- The Rezillos * Can't Stand the Rezillos (Sire)
- Lou Reed * Street Hassle (RCA)
- John Cooper Clarke * Disguise In Love (Epic/Sony)
- Lenny White * The Adventures Of Astral Pirates (Elektra/Wounded Bird)
- Thin Lizzy * Live And Dangerous (WB)
- AC/DC * If You Want Blood, You've Got It (Atco)
- Trinity * Shanty Town Determination 1976-78 (Blood & Fire)
9
- Brian Eno * Music For Airports (Virgin/DSD)
- Jimmy Cliff * Give Thanx (Island)
- David Johansen (Razor & Tie)
- Henry Cow * Western Culture (Recommended)
- AC/DC * Powerage (Epic)
- Japan * Obscure Alternatives (Virgin)
- Jane Birkin * Ex Fan Des Sixties (Fontana/Universal Fr)
- Marcia Griffiths * Steppin' (High Note)
- 999 * Separates (Ahoy)
- 999 (Ahoy)
- Lee Perry & the Upsetters * Return Of The Super Ape (VP)
- Wire * Behind The Curtain: Early Versions 1977-1978 (EMI)
- Avengers * Avengers (White Noise)
- Bob Marley & the Wailers * Kaya (Tuff Gong/Island)
- Rainbow * Long Live Rock 'n' Roll (Polydor)
- Johnny Thunders * So Alone (Real)
- Ramones * Road To Ruin (Sire)
- Penetration * Moving Targets (Virgin)
- The Police * Outlandos D'Amour (A&M)
- Dead Boys * We Have Come F.Y. Children (Sire)
- The Slits * Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
- Patti Smith * Easter (Arista)
- Funkadelic * One Nation Under A Groove (WB/Charly Groove)
- Parliament * Motor-Booty Affair (Casablanca)
- Mick Farren * Vampires Stole My Lunch Money (Line)
- Radio Birdman * Living Eyes (UA)
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers * You're Gonna Get It (WB/Gone Gator)
- Mink DeVille * Return To Magenta (ERA/Raven)
- Siouxsie & the Banshees * Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
- Suicide Commandos * Make A Record (Blank)
- Pere Ubu * 390 Degrees Of Simulated Stereo (Rough Trade)
- Tom Waits * Blue Valentine (Elektra)
- Chris Bell * I Am the Cosmos (Rykodisc)
- Crass * Feeding of the 5000 (Crass)
- Rush * Hemispheres (Mercury)
- The Dils * Dils Dils Dils (Bacchus)
- Peter Gabriel * Peter Gabriel 2 (Atlantic)
- Throbbing Gristle * D.o.A. (Mute)
- Sham 69 * Tell Us The Truth (Sire)
- Warsaw (Joy Division) * Warsaw (MPG)
- Cheap Trick * Heaven Tonight (Epic)
- Lurker * Fulham Fallout (Beggars Banquet)
9-
- Dire Straits (WB)
- Eater * The Album (Label)
- Al Green * Truth 'n' Time (Motown)
- Deaf School * English Boys/Working Girls (WB/Sanctuary)
- The Residents * Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (Ralph)
7
- Queen * Jazz (Elektra)
10
1979
- The Buzzcocks * Singles Going Steady (Restless)
- Joy Division * Unknown Pleasures (Factory)
- Gang of Four * Entertainment! (WB)
- The Raincoats * The Raincoats (Rough Trade)
- Public Image Ltd. * Metal Box/Second Edition (Virgin)
- Wire * 154 (Restless)
- Talking Heads * Fear Of Music (Sire)
- The Clash * London Calling (Epic)
- The Slits * Cut (Island)
- David Bowie * Lodger (RCA)
- Stiff Little Fingers * Inflammable Material (EMI)
- The Ruts * The Crack (Virgin)
- Lee Perry * Larks From The Ark (Nectar)
10-
- Young Marble Giants * Colossal Youth (Crepiscule)
- The Specials (Chrysalis)
- The Pop Group * Y (Radar)
- Prince Lincoln & The Royal Rasses * Humanity (Ballistic/Orange Street)
- The Chantells * Children Of Jah 1977-79 (Blood & Fire)
- The Fall * Dragnet (Step Forward)
- The Jam * Setting Sons (Polydor)
- Essential Logic * Beat Rhythm News (Rough Trade)
- Elvis Costello & the Attractions * Armed Forces (Columbia)
- The Damned * Machine Gun Etiquette (Chiswick)
- Contortions (James Chance & the) * Buy (Arista/Infinite Zero)
- XTC * Drums And Wires (Virgin)
- Heldon * Stand By (Cunneiform/Rune)
- Gary Numan * The Pleasure Principle (Atco/Beggars Banquet)
- Chrome * Half Machine Lip Moves (Touch & Go)
- Art Bears * Winter Songs (Ralph/Recommended)
- Gregory Isaacs * Soon Forward (Front Line)
- Jacob Miller & Inner Circle * Forward Jah Jah Children 1974-79 (Trojan)
9+
- AC/DC * Highway To Hell (Epic)
- Thin Lizzy * Black Rose: A Rock Legend (Mercury/Vertigo)
- Robert Fripp * Exposure (EG)
- Lizzy Mercier Descloux * Press Color (Ze)
- Magazine * Secondhand Daylight (Virgin)
- The Cars * Candy-O (Elektra)
- The Adverts * Cast of Thousands (RCA/Devils Jukebox)
- The Fall * Live At the Witch Trials (Castle/Sanctuary)
- Metal Urbain * Dead Men Are Dangerous/Anarchy In Paris! (Celluloid/Acute)
- Tom Verlaine * Tom Verlaine (Elektra)
- The Residents * Eskimo (Ralph)
- Sylford Walker & Welton Irie * Lambs Bread International (Blood & Fire)
- Norris Reid * Give Jah The Praises (Rockers)
- Dennis Brown * Words Of Wisdom (Shanachie)
- Serge Gainsbourg * Aux Armes Et Caetera (Universal Fr)
- Chelsea (Step Forward)
- Dennis Brown * Joseph's Coat Of Many Colours (Shanachie/Blood & Fire)
- Motörhead * Overkill (EMI)
- UFO * Strangers In The Night (Chrysalis)
- Motörhead * Bomber (Bronze)
- Horace Andy * Natty Dread A Weh She Want (Trojan)
- Ijahman * Are We A Warrior (Mango/Jahmani)
- Horace Andy * Pure Ranking (Clocktower)
- Adam & The Ants * Dirk Wears White Sox (Do It/CBS)
- James White & the Blacks * Off White (Ze/Infinite Zero)
- Tubeway Army * Replicas (Beggars Banquet)
- This Heat (These)
- The Congos * Congo Ashanti (CBS/Blood & Fire)
- The Cure * Boys Don't Cry/Three Imaginary Boys (Friction)
- Nick Lowe * Jesus Of Cool (Demon)
- Metal Urbain * Les Hommes Mort Est Dangereux (Rough Trade)
- Neil Young * Rust Never Sleeps (Reprise)
- Throbbing Gristle * 20 Jazz Funk Greats (Mute)
- Graham Parker & the Rumor * Squeezing Out Sparks (Arista)
- Lou Reed * The Bells (Arista/Buddha)
- Simple Minds * Real To Real Cacophony (Virgin)
- The Only Ones * Even Serpents Shine (Columbia)
- Joe Jackson * I'm The Man (A&M)
- James Blood Ulmer * Tales Of Captain Black (Artists House)
- The Undertones * The Undertones (Sire/Rykodisc)
- Johnny Osbourne * Truth and Rights (Studio One/Heartbeat)
- Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus * Love Thy Neighbour (RAS)
- The Boys * To Hell With The Boys (Safari)
- The Ramones * It's Alive (Sire)
- The Soft Boys * Invisible Hits 78-79 (Rykodisc)
- Moebius & Plank * Rastakraut Pasta (Skyclad)
- Blondie * Eat To the Beat (Chrysalis)
- The Knack * Get The Knack (Capitol)
- Iggy Pop * New Values (Arista)
- The Birthday Party * Hee Haw EP (Missing Link)
- Fingerprintz * The Very Dab (Virgin)
- Alan Vega * Collision Drive (Infinite Zero)
- John Cale * Sabotage (Live) (Spy/Diesel)
- Bad Brains * Black Dots (Caroline)
- Japan * Quiet Life (Virgin)
- Pere Ubu * New Picnic Time (Rough Trade)
- The B-52's (WB)
- UK Subs * Another Kind Of Blues (Gem)
- Devo * Duty Now For the Future (WB)
- Fela Kuti * V.I.P. (Universal)
- Joe Jackson * Look Sharp! (A&M)
- Neil Young * Live Rust (Reprise)
- The Sound * Propaganda (Renascent)
- The Prefects * The Prefects Are Amateur Wankers 1977-79 (Acute)
- Judas Priest * Killing Machine/Hell Bent For Leather (Columbia)
- Joe Gibbs * Love Of The Common People 1967-79 (Trojan/Sanctuary)
- Prince Alla * Only Love Can Conquer 1976-1979 (Blood & Fire)
- Prince Far I * Silver & Gold 1973-79 (Blood & Fire)
- Lee Perry * Enter The Ark 1974-79 (Ascension)
9
- Pat Benatar * In The Heat of the Night (Chrysalis)
- Secret Affair * Glory Boys (Sire/Captain Mod)
- The Mighty Diamonds * Deeper Roots (Virgin)
- Visage (Polydor)
- Generation X * Valley Of The Dolls (Chrysalis)
- D.A.F. * Ein Produkt der DAF (Warning)
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers * Damn The Torpedos (MCA)
- Scorpions * Lovedrive (Mercury)
- Alternative TV * Vibing Up the Senile Man (Deptford)
- Various * The Great New York Singles 1974-1979 (ROIR)
- Rickie Lee Jones (WB)
- Prince (WB)
- Lene Lovich * Stateless (Stiff/Rhino)
- Bob Marley & The Wailers * Survival (Tuff Gong/Island)
- The Desperate Bicycles * Another Commercial Venture (Refill)
- The Germs * GI (Slash)
- Riot * Narita (Capitol)
- The Wipers * Is This Real? (Park Ave.)
- The Dickies * Dawn of The Dickies (A&M)
- Human League * Reproduction (Virgin)
- The Dickies * The Incredible Shrinking Dickies (A&M/Captain Oi!)
- Squeeze * Cool For Cats (A&M)
- Ted Nugent * Great Gonzos! The Best Of (Epic)
- The Last * L.A. Explosion! (Bomp!)
- Tuxedomoon * Scream With A View EP (Pre)
- Cabaret Voltaire * Mix-Up (Rough Trade)
- The Stranglers * The Raven (EMI)
- Throbbing Gristle * Heathen Earth (Mute)
- The Boys Next Door (The Birthday Party) * Door Door (Mushroom)
- Madness * One Step Beyond . . . (Sire)
- Bob Marley * Survival (Tuff Gong)
- Angelic Upstarts * Teenage Warning (WB/Captain Oi)
- The Buzzcocks * Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
- Wire * Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
- Desperate Bicycles * Another Commercial Venture (Refill Records)
- The Damned * Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
- Killing Joke * Almost Red EP (Island)
- The Gladiators * Sweet So Till (Front Line/Virgin)
- The Members * At the Chelsea Nightclub (Virgin)
- The Police * Regatta de Blanc (A&M)
- Lou Reed * The Bells (RCA)
- Shoes * Present Tense (Elektra)
- Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers * Back In Your Life (Beserkley/Castle)
- The Pagans * Shit Street 77-79 (Crypt)
- Diamond Head * Lightning to the Nations: Behold The Beginning (Metal Blade)
9-
- Van Halen II (WB)
- Patti Smith * Wave (Arista)
- Lenoard Cohen * Recent Songs (Columbia)
- Teenage Jesus & The Jerks * Everything (Atavistic)
- Sparks * No. 1 In Heaven (Virgin)
- Funkadelic * Uncle Jam Wants You (WB/Funk Mob)
- Lurker * God's Lonely Men (Beggars Banquet)
- Van Morrison * Into the Music (WB)
- The Pagans * Buried Alive (Treehouse)
- Sparks * Terminal Jive (Oglio)
- ZZ Top * Deguello (WB)
8+
- Electric Light Orchestra * Discovery (Jet/Epic Legacy)
- Roxy Music * Manifesto (Virgin)
- Parliament * Gloryhallastoopid or Pin The Tale On The Funky (Casablanca)
- Cheap Trick * At Budokan (Epic)
- Telex * Looking For Saint-Tropez (Sire)
8
- Siouxsie & The Banshees * Join Hands (Geffen)
- Suicide Commandos * The Commandos Commit Suicide (Twin/Tone)
- Cheap Trick * Dream Police (Epic)
8-
- Led Zeppelin * In Through The Out Door (Swan Song)
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1980
- Talking Heads * Remain In Light (Sire)
- The Feelies * Crazy Rhythms (Line)
- Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band * Doc At The Radar Station (Virgin)
- Joy Division * Closer (Factory)
- The Birthday Party * The Birthday Party (Missing Link)
- X * Los Angeles (Slash)
- David Bowie * Scary Monsters (RCA)
10-
- The Sound * Jeopardy (Korova/Renascent)
- The Jam * Sound Affects (Polydor)
- Echo & the Bunnymen * Crocodiles (Sire)
- Colin Newman * A-Z (Restless/Beggars Banquet)
- The Fall * Grotesque (Rough Trade)
- Killing Joke * Killing Joke (EG)
- The Pretenders (Sire/Rhino)
- Joy Division * Substance (Factory/WB)
- The Soft Boys * Underwater Moonlight (Rykodisc)
- English Beat * I Just Can't Stop It (Sire)
- Magazine * The Correct Use of Soap (Virgin)
- The Comsat Angels * Waiting For A Miracle (Polydor/Renascent) 80
- Motörhead * Ace Of Spades (Roadracer)
- Michael Prophet * Serious Reasoning (Island)
- The Ruts * Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
9+
- The Pop Group * For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? (Rough Trade)
- The Buzzcocks * A Different Kind Of Tension (Restless)
- The Associates * The Affectionate Punch (Fiction)
- Peter Gabriel * 3 (Geffen)
- The Damned * The Black Album (Big Beat)
- John Cooper Clarke * Snap, Crackle & Bop (Epic)
- Cornell Campbell * I Shall Not Remove 1975-80 (Blood & Fire)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto * B 2 Unit (A&M/Alfa)
- New Age Steppers (On-U Sound/Statik)
- Fela Kuti * I.T.T. (Polygram)
- Martha & the Muffins * Metro Music (Dindisc)
- Urban Verbs (WB/Wounded Bird)
- Tetrack * Let's Get Started (Greensleeves)
- Hugh Mundell * Time And Place (Jet Star/Rockers)
- The Chords * So Far Away (Polydor/Captain Mod)
- Stiff Little Fingers * Nobody's Heroes (EMI)
- Joy Division * Still (Factory)
- Dead Kennedys * Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (Alternative Tentacles)
- Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark * Organisation (Virgin)
- The Clash * Sandinista! (Epic)
- Squeeze * Argybargy (A&M)
- Siouxsie & the Banshees * Kaleidoscope (Polydor/Geffen)
- The Teardrop Explodes * Kilimanjaro (Mercury)
- Yellow Magic Orchestra * Solid State Survivor (Restless)
- XTC * Black Sea (Geffen)
- Willi Williams * Messenger Man (Blood & Fire)
- Swell Maps * Jane From Occupied Europe (Rough Trade/Secretly Canadian)
- Knowledge * Straight Outta Trenchtown 1975-80 (Makasound)
- Pylon * Gyrate (DB)
- Japan * Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Virgin)
- Pink Military * Do Animals Believe In God? (Eric's)
- MX-80 * Out Of The Tunnel (Ralph)
- Subway Sect * What's The Matter Boy? (MCA)
- Bauhaus * In the Flat Field (Beggars Banquet)
- Ultravox * Vienna (Chrysalis)
- The Cramps * Songs the Lord Taught Us (I.R.S.)
- The Royals * Ten Years After (Tamoki?Wambesi)
- Tuxedomoon * Half Mute (Ralph)
- Iron Maiden (Capitol)
- The Specials * More Specials (Chrysalis)
- Bob Marley & The Wailers * Uprising (Tuff Gong/Island)
- Joe Jackson * Beat Crazy (A&M)
- Nick Lowe * Labour Of Lust (Demon)
- Lydia Lunch * Queen Of Siam (Triple X)
- Prince * Dirty Mind (WB)
- Fingerprintz * Distinguishing Marks (Virgin)
- Tony Allen * No Discrimination (P-Vine)
- James Chance & The Contortions * Soul Exorcism (ROIR/Danceteria)
- Chrome * Red Exposure (Siren)
- AC/DC * Back In Black (Epic)
- Gary Numan * Telekon (Beggars Banquet)
- The Ruts * Grin & Bear It (Virgin)
- The Monochrome Set * Love Zombies (Virgin)
- The Clash * Black Market Clash (Epic)
- Devo * Freedom Of Choice (WB)
- Sugar Minott * Black Roots (Black Roots)
- Yello * Solid Pleasure (Ralph/Mercury)
- Black Uhuru * Sinsemilla (Mango)
- The Police * Zenyatta Mondatta (A&M)
- The Passage * Pindrop (Ltm)
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (Virgin)
- Judas Priest * British Steel (Columbia)
- Burning Spear * Hail H.I.M. (Heartbeat)
- Gang of Four * The Yellow EP (WB)
- The Cure * Seventeen Seconds (Elektra)
- Wall Of Voodoo * Wall Of Voodoo (The Index Masters) (Restless)
- The Monochrome Set * A Strange Boutique (Virgin)
- Dexys Midnight Runners * Searching for the Young Soul Rebels (EMI)
- Judy Mowatt * Black Woman (Island/Shanachie)
- The Undertones * Hypnotised (Sire/Rykodisc)
- New Musik * From A To B (Epic/Edsel)
- The Psychedelic Furs (Columbia)
- John Foxx * Metamatic (Virgin)
- Clock DVA * White Souls In Black Suits (Industrial Records)
- Ozzy Osbourne * Blizzard Of Ozz (Jet)
- U2 * Boy (Island)
- Angel Witch (Castle)
- The Twinkle Brothers * Countrymen (Front Line/Virgin)
- Girlschool * Demolition (Bronze)
- Cristina * Doll In The Box (Ze)
- Rubber City Rebels (Capitol)
- Alan Vega * Jukebox Babe (Infinite Zero)
- Pat Benatar * Crimes Of Passion (Chrysalis)
- Defunkt (Hannibal/Ryko)
9
- Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls (Illusive/Griffin)
- Fela * Authority Stealing (Universal)
- The Gears * Rockin' At Ground Zero (Bacchus/Playgems)
- Purple Hearts * Beat That! (Fiction/Captain Mod)
- The Lambrettas * Beat Boys in the Jet Age (Dojo)
- Secret Affair * Behind Closed Doors (I Spy/Captain Mod)
- Johnny Guitar Watson * Love Jones (Collectables)
- Dire Straits * Making Movies (WB)
- D.A.F. * Die Kleinen und die B?sen (Mute)
- The Only Ones * Baby's Got A Gun (Columbia)
- Grace Jones * Warm Leatherette (Island)
- Nina Hagen Band EP (Columbia)
- This Heat * Repeat 1979-1980 (These)
- The Human League * Travelogue (Virgin/Caroline)
- Minutemen * Paranoid Time EP (SST)
- UK Subs * Brand New Age (Gem)
- Elvis Costello & the Attractions * Get Happy! (Columbia)
- Simple Minds * Empires And Dance (Virgin)
- The Cars * Panorama (Elektra)
- Kate Bush * Never For Ever (EMI)
- Bob Marley * Uprising (Tuff Gong)
- Lene Lovich * Flex (Stiff/Rhino)
- Joan Jett * Bad Reputation (Blackheart)
- Bad Manners * Ska 'n' B (69 REcords)
- Subhumans * Incorrect Thoughts (CD Presents)
- Various * Dance Craze: Best Of 2-Tone (Chrysalis)
- Big Boys * Live At Raul's Club (Rat Race/Touch & Go)
- The Dickies * Great Dictations (A&M)
- The Only Ones * Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
- The Ramones * End of the Century (Sire)
- Saxon * Strong Arm of the Law (Carrere)
- Saxon * Wheels of Steel (Carrere)
- Black Sabbath * Heaven And Hell (WB)
- The Blasters * American Music (Slash/Hightone)
- Suburbs * In Combo (Twin/Tone)
- Iggy Pop * Soldier (Arista)
- The Plimsouls * Zero Hour EP (Beat)
- Cabaret Voltaire * Live At the YMCA (Rough Trade)
- Mission of Burma * Forget (Taang!)
- Crass * Stations of the Crass (Crass)
- Madness * Absolutely (Sire)
- Rush * Permanent Waves (Mercury)
- Van Halen * Women And Children First (WB)
- The Vapors * New Clear Days (UA/Liberty)
- Yellow Magic Orchestra * Xoo Multiples (EMI)
- Tom Waits * Heart Attack And Vine (Elektra)
- Mission Of Burma * Mission Of Burma (Taang!)
- Kid Creole & The Coconuts * Off The Coast Of Me (Ze/Universal/Island)
- The Members * Sound Of the Suburbs 78-80 (Virgin)
- Specials * The Special A.K.A. Live! EP (Chrysalis)
- Rockpile * Seconds Of Pleasure (Columbia)
- Rolling Stones * Emotional Rescue (Virgin)
- Angel City * Dark Room (Epic)
- The Buzzcocks * Lest We Forget 77-80 (ROIR)
9-
- Suzi Quatro * Rock Hard (Dreamland)
- Various * The Moonlight Tapes (Danceville)
- Angel City * Face To Face (Epic)
- Quartz * Stand Up And Fight (MCA)
- Tygers Of Pan Tang * Wild Cat (MCA)
- The B-52's * Wild Planet (WB)
- The Buzzcocks * Parts 1-3 EP (Restless)
- Blondie * Autoamerican (Chrysalis)
- Pere Ubu * The Art Of Walking (Rough Trade)
- The Dickies * Stukas Over Disneyland (A&M)
- The Selecter * Too Much Pressure (Chrysalis)
- Madness * Work Rest & Play EP (Stiff)
- Telex * Neurovision (Sire)
8+
- The Boys * Boys Only (Safari)
- Merton Parkas * The Complete Mod Collection (Cherry Red/Anagram)
- Adam & the Ants * Kings of the Wild Frontier (Epic)
- Def Leppard * On Through The Night (Polydor)
- Circle Jerks * Group Sex (Frontier)
- 999 * Biggest Tour In Sport EP (Polydor)
8
- Queen * The Game (Elektra)
- Billy Joel * Glass Houses (Columbia)
- Roxy Music * Flesh + Blood (Virgin)
- Pete Townsend * Empty Glass (MCA)
- Loverboy (Columbia)
- Paul McCartney * McCartney II (Capitol)
10
1981
- Comsat Angels * Sleep No More (Polydor/Renascent) 81
- The Birthday Party * Prayers On Fire (4AD)
- Martha and the Muffins * This Is The Ice Age (Dindisc/Virgin) 81
- The Raincoats * Ody Shape (Rough Trade)
- David Byrne/Brian Eno * My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (Sire)
- The Sound * From The Lions Mouth (Korova/Renascent)
- This Heat * Deceit (Rough Trade)
- Gang of Four * Solid Gold (WB)
- The Au Pairs * Playing With A Different Sex (Human/RPM)
- Bad Brains * Attitude (ROIR/In-Effect)
10-
- Japan * Tin Drum (Virgin)
- Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark * Architecture & Morality (Virgin)
- Talking Heads * The Name Of The Band Is Talking Heads (Sire)
- Yellow Magic Orchestra * Technodelic (EMI/Alfa)
- The Sound * The BBC Recordings: Sessions (Rensascent)
- X * Wild Gift (Slash)
- Mission Of Burma * Signals, Calls And Marches EP (Ace Of Hearts)
- The Blue Orchids * The Greatest Hit (Money Mountain) (Rough Trade/Ltm)
- Art Bears * The World As It Is Today (Recommended)
- Lizzy Mercier Descloux * Mambo Nassau (Ze)
- Minor Threat * Minor Threat EP (Dischord)
- Linval Thompson * Don't Cut Off Your Dreadlocks 1975-81 (Trojan)
9+
- David Byrne * The Catherine Wheel (Sire)
- King Crimson * Discipline (WB)
- Echo & the Bunnymen * Heaven Up Here (Sire)
- Dome * Dome 3 (Dome/Grey Area)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto * Left Handed Dream (MIDI)
- La Dusseldorf * Individuellos (Radar)
- Jerry Harrison * The Red And The Black (Sire)
- DNA * A Taste Of DNA EP (American Clave/Rough Trade)
- Rip Rig + Panic * God (Virgin)
- Chrome * Blood On The Moon (Siren/Dossier)
- Minor Threat * In My Eyes EP (Dischord)
- Tuxedomoon * Desire (Ralph)
- Adam & The Ants * Prince Charming (Do It/Columbia)
- Public Image Ltd. * The Flowers Of Romance (WB)
- The English Beat * Wha'ppen? (Sire)
- Penguin Café Orchestra (EG)
- The Au Pairs * Equal But Different: BBC Sessions 79-81 (RPM)
- Stiff Little Fingers * Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
- Psychedelic Furs * Talk Talk Talk (Columbia)
- The Replacements * Sorry Ma, Forgot TTOTT (Twin/Tone)
- Gun Club * Fire of Love (Ruby)
- The Fall * Slates EP (Castle/Sanctuary)
- Black Flag * Damaged (SST)
- Fela Kuti * Black President (Capitol)
- The Durutti Column * LC (Factory)
- The Passage * For All And None (Virgin)
- T.S.O.L. * Dance With Me (Frontier)
- Crass * Penis Envy (Crass)
- Minutemen * The Punch Line (SST)
- New Age Steppers * Action Battlefield (On-U Sound/Statik)
- Rip, Rig + Panic * God (Virgin)
- Iron Maiden * Killers (Capitol)
- Squeeze * East Side Story (A&M)
- Heaven 17 * Penthouse and Pavement (Virgin)
- B.E.F. * Music For Listening To (Virgin)
- Raven * Rock Till You Drop (Roadrunner)
- The Scientists (Cherry Red/SFTRI)
- Chrome * Inworlds (Siren)
- Cabaret Voltaire * Red Mecca (Mute)
- Material * Memory Serves (Celluloid)
- Wall Of Voodoo * Dark Continent (IRS)
- Fingerprintz * Beat Noir (Virgin)
- The dB's * Stands for deciBels (EMI)
- Gang Of Four * Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
- New Order * Movement (Factory)
- The Birthday Party * Peel Sessions EP (Strange Fruit)
- Stiff Little Fingers * Go For It (Chrysalis)
- Killing Joke * What's THIS for . . . ! (Virgin)
- Siouxsie & the Banshees * Juju (Geffen)
- The Stranglers * La Folie (EMI)
- Associates * Fourth Drawer Down (V2)
- Yello * Claro Que Si (Ralph/Mercury)
- Bauhaus * Mask (Beggars Banquet)
- The The * Burning Blue Soul (Epic)
- Effigies * Haunted Town EP (Autumn)
- Agent Orange * Living In Darkness (Posh Boy)
- John Foxx * The Garden (Virgin)
- Colin Newman * Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish (4AD)
- Bad Religion EP (Epitaph)
- The Church * Of Skins And Hearts (Arista)
- Tygers Of Pan Tang * Spellbound (MCA)
- Riot * Fire Down Under (Fire Sign/Metal Bldade)
- Black Uhuru * Red (Mango)
- Tom Tom Club (Sire)
- The Go-Betweens * Send Me A Lullaby (Beggars Banquet)
- Clock DVA * Thirst (Contempo)
- Ozzy Osbourne * Diary Of A Madman (Jet)
- Girlschool * Hit & Run (Stiff/Sanctuary)
- Pete Shelley * Homosapien (Genetic/Arista)
- B.E.F. (British Electric Foundation) * Music For Listening To (Virgin)
- Trouble Funk * Early Singles (Infinite Zero)
- Plimsouls * The Plimsouls (Planet)
- Ludus * The Seduction (New Hormones)
- Leroy Brown * Color Barrier 1975-81 (Makasound)
9
- The Police * Ghost In The Machine (A&M)
- The Suburbs * Credit In Heaven (Twin/Tone)
- 8 Eyed Spy (Fetish)
- The Teardrop Explodes * Wilder (Mercury)
- The Homosexuals * The Homosexuals' Record 1978-1981 (ReR)
- Wah! * Nah=Poo - The Art Of Bluff (Castle)
- Soft Cell * Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (Phonogram)
- The Jam * The Gift (Polydor)
- Tom Verlaine * Dreamtime (WB)
- The Cure * Faith (Elektra)
- The Human League * Dare (Virgin)
- Samson * Shock Tactics (Grand Slamm)
- Modern English * Mesh & Lace (4AD)
- Simple Minds * Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call (Virgin)
- Altered Images * Happy Birthday (Epic)
- Ludus * Pickpocket EP (New Hormones/LTD)
- Duran Duran (EMI)
- Van Halen * Women And Children First (WB)
- The Undertones * Positive Touch (Sire/Rykodisc)
- Josef K * The Only Fun In Town (LTD)
- The Slits * Return Of The Giant Slits (Epic)
- Magazine * Scree: Rarities 1978-1981 (Virgin)
- Heavy Load * Metal Conquest (Thunderload)
- Joe Jackson * Jumpin' Jive (A&M)
- Grace Jones * Nightclubbing (Island)
- Adolescents * Adolescents (Frontier)
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers * Hard Promises (MCA)
- Electric Light Orchestra * Time (Jet/Epic Legacy)
- Descendents * Bonus Fat EP 79-81 (SST)
- The Professionals * I Didn't See It Coming (EMI)
- New Musik * Anywhere (Epic)
- Pretenders * Extended Play EP (Sire)
- Kid Creole & the Coconuts * Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places (Ze/Universal/Island)
- Bow Wow Wow * See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah! City All Over, Go Ape Crazy! (One Way)
- Anderson/Burroughs/Giorno * You're the Guy I Want to Share My Life With (Rough Trade)
- The Undertones * Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
- Pretenders * Pretenders II (Sire)
- Big Boys * Where's My Towel (WastedTalent/Touch&Go)
- Felt * Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty (Cherry Red)
- Yellow Magic Orchestra * BGM (Sony)
- Dexys Midnight Runners * Too Rye Ay (Mercury)
- Funkadelic * The Electric Spanking Of War Babies (WB/Charly Groove)
- Prince * Controversy (WB)
- Motörhead * No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Bronze)
- Rush * Moving Pictures (Polygram)
- The Cramps * Psychedelic Jungle (I.R.S.)
- Ramones * Pleasant Dreams (Sire)
- Iggy Pop * Party (Arista)
- Neil Young * Re-ac-tor (Reprise)
- Exploited * Punks Not Dead (Exploited)
- The Specials * Ghost Town EP (Chrysalis)
- The Wipers * Youth Of America (Restless)
- Fred Frith * Speechless (ESD)
- Fist * Fleet Street (A&M)
- MX-80 * Crowd Control (Ralph)
- Elvis Costello & the Attractions * Trust (Columbia)
- The Rolling Stones * Tattoo You (Rolling Stones)
- Depeche Mode * Speak & Spell (Sire)
- The Vapors * Magnets (Liberty/EMI)
- Genesis * Abacab (Atlantic)
- Ludus * Pickpocket EP (New Hormones/LTM)
- AC/DC * For Those About To Rock... (Epic)
9-
- The Stranglers * The Men In Black (EMI)
- Generation X * Kiss Me Deadly (Chrysalis)
- Black Sabbath * Mob Rules (WB)
- Accept * Breaker (Universal/Brain)
- Y&T * Earthshaker (A&M)
- Section 25 * Always Now (Factory)
- The Cars * Sh
10