Rock Lists 1965 to 2010
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2010
- Ufomammut - Eve (Supernatural Cat)
- Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (Warp)
- Vampire Weekend – Contra (XL)
- LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (DFA/Virgin)
- The Chap - Well Done, Europe (Lo)
- High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine (Relapse)
- The Sword - Warp Riders (Kemado)
- Yeasayer – Odd Blood (Secretly Canadian)
- Caribou - Swim (Merge)
- Tame Impala - Innerspeaker (Modular)
- Gypsyhawk - Patience And Persevereace (Creator-Destructor)
- Ed Harcourt - Lustre (Piano Wolf)
- Sennen - Age Of Denial (Hungry Audio)
- Yakuza - Of Seismic Consequence (Profound Lore)
- Nachtmystium - Addicts - Black Meddle Pt II (Century Media)
- Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (Drag City)
- The Soft Pack (Kemado)
- Good Shoes - No Hope No Future (Brille)
- Spoon – Transference (Merge)
- Sleepy Sun - Fever (ATP)
- Nina Nastasia - Outlaster (Fat Cat)
- Gayngs – Relayted (Jagjaguwar)
- Gozu - Locust Season (Small Stone)
- The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Merge)
- M.I.A. - /\/\/\Y/\
- Jamie Lidell - Compass (Warp)
- The Radio Dept. - Clinging To A Scheme (Labrador)
- Jonsi - Go (XL)
- Von Spar - Foreigner (Italic)
- Zola Jesus - Stridulum EP (Sacred Bones)
- Night Horse - Perdition Hymns (Tee Pee)
- Alcest - Écailles De Lune (Prophecy)
- Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 1 EP (Cherry Tree)
- Voice Of The Seven Thunders (Tchantinler)
- Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (XL)
- Hot Chip – One Life Stand (EMI)
- Four Tet - There Is Love In You (Domino)
- Plants And Animals - La La Land (Secret City)
- The National - High Violet (4AD)
- Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can (Astralwerks)
- The Futureheads – The Chaos (NUL)
- Konono No. 1 - Assume Crash Position (Crammed Discs)
- Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two - Return Of The Ankh (Motown)
- The Interiors - Teeth EP (Interiors)
- Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier (EMI)
- Brutus (Transubstans)
- Black Tusk - Taste The Sin (Relapse)
- Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot The Son Of Chico Dusty (Def Jam)
- Guido - Anidea (Punch Drunk)
9
- !!! - Strange Weather, Isn't It
- Boris - BXI EP
- Matthew Dear - Black City
- The Klaxons - Surfing The Void
- Indian Jewelry - Totaled (We Are Free)
- Menomena - Mines (Barsuk)
- Zoroaster - Matador (E1)
- Earthride - Something Wicked (Southern Lord)
- Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time (Nuclear Blast)
- Danzig - Deth Red Sabboath (Evilive)
- The Roots - How I Got Over (Def Jam)
- Richard Youngs - Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits (Jagjaguwar)
- Ihsahn - After (Candlelight)
- Stars - The Five Ghosts (Vagrant/Soft Revolution)
- Khoma - A Final Storm (Selective Notes)
- The Drums (Island)
- High Confessions - Turning Lead Into Gold (Relapse)
- Black Breath - Heavy Breathing (Southern Lord)
- Gaslight Anthem - American Slang (Side One Dummy)
- Hawksley Workman - Meat (Warner Can/Zoom)
- Happy Birthday (Sub Pop)
- Local Natives - Gorilla Manor (French Kiss)
- Grand Magus - Hammer Of The North (Roadrunner)
- Karma To Burn - Appalachian Incantation (Napalm)
- Free Energy - Stuck On Nothing (Astralwerks)
- Teenage Fanclub - Shadows (Merge)
- Endless Boogie - Full House Head (No Quarter)
- Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder (Ipecac)
- Born Ruffians - Say It (Warp)
- Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts (Sub Pop)
- Sleigh Bells - Treats (N.E.E.T./Mom & Pop)
- The New Pornographers - Together (Matador)
- Cathedral - The Guessing Game (Nuclear Blast)
- Mumford And Sons - Sigh No More (Glass Note)
- Frog Eyes - Paul's Tomb - A Triumph (Dead Oceans)
- Sigh - Scenes From Hell (The End)
- Twilight - Monument To Time End (Southern Lord)
- The Dead Weather – Sea Of Cowards (WB)
- The Ruby Suns – Fight Softly (Sub Pop)
- Scout Niblett - The Calcination Of Scout Niblett (Drag City)
- Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR (Century Media)
- The Black Keys – Brothers (V2/Cooperative)
- Chemical Brothers - Further (Astralwerks)
- Foals – Total Life Forever (Transgressive)
- UNKLE – Where Did The Night Fall (Surrender All)
- Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation (Island)
- Black Cobra - Chronomega (Southern Lord)
- Trash Kit (Upset The Rhythm)
- Trans Am - Thing (Thrill Jockey)
- Nneka - Concrete Jungle (Decon)
- Jagga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit (Ninja Tune)
- Field Music - Measure (Memphis Industries)
- Georgia Anne Muldrow - Kings Ballad (Ubiquity)
- Laura Veirs - July Flame (Bella Union)
- These New Puritans - Hidden (Domino)
- Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record (Arts & Crafts)
- Titus Andronicus - The Monitor (XL)
- Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM (Elektra)
- Beach House - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
- Gogol Bordello - Trans-Continental Hustle (Columbia)
- Lali Puna - Our Inventions (Morr)
- Liars - Sisterworld (Mute)
- Solace - A.D (Smallstone)
- Priestess - Prior To The Fire (Teepee)
- MGMT - Congratulations (Columbia)
- The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever (Vagrant)
9-
- Witchery - Witchkrieg (Century Media)
- Mount Carmel (Siltbreeze)
- Delays - Star Tiger Star Ariel (101)
- Ke$ha - Animal (Sony)
- The-Dream - Love King (Def Jam)
- Ratt - Infestation (Roadrunner)
- Watain - Lawless Darkness (Roadrunner)
- Nada Surf - If I Had A Hi-Fi (Mardev)
- Kele - The Boxer (Wichita)
- The Wolfmen - Married To The Eiffel Tower (Howl)
- Sade - Soldier Of Love (Sony)
- Holy Fuck – Latin (Young Turks)
- The Strange Boys - Be Brave (In The Red)
- JJ – JJ No 3 (Secretly Canadian)
- Hot Hot Heat - Future Breeds (Dangerbird)
- Shout At Louds - Work (Merge)
- Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be (Sub Pop)
- Fang Island (Sargent House)
- The Morning Benders - Big Echo (Rough Trade)
- Crowded House - Intriguer (Fantasy)
- Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy (Dead Oceans)
- Rufus Wainwright - All Days Are Nights - Songs For Lulu (Decca)
- Blood Red Shoes - Fire Like This (V2)
- The Streets - Computers And Blues (Vice)
- Massive Attack - Heligoland (Virgin)
- RJD2 - The Colossus (RJ's Electrical Connections)
- Xiu Xiu - Dear God I Hate Myself (Kill Rock Stars)
- Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here (XL)
- OK Go - Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky (EMI)
- Hole - Nobody's Daughter (Mercury)
9+
2009
- King Midas Sound - Waiting For You (Hyperdub)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (Interscope)
- Mastodon – Crack The Skye (Reprise/WEA)
- Baroness - Blue Record (Relapse)
9+
- The Very Best - Warm Heart Of Africa (Green Owl)
- Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glassnote)
- Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay (Kompakt)
- Gary War - Horribles Parade (Sacred Bones)
- Fever Ray (Mute)
- Tony Allen - Secret Agent (World Circuit)
- Dâm-Funk - Toeachizown (Stones Throw)
- Them Crooked Vultures (DGC/Interscope)
- Kiila - Tuota Tuota (Fonal)
- OOIOO - Armonico Hewa (Thrill Jockey)
- Richard Youngs - Under Stellar Streams (Jagjaguwar)
- K'NAAN - Troubador (A&M/Octone)
- The xx - xx (Young Turks/XL)
- Wardruna - Runaljad: gap var Ginnunga (Fimbulljóð)
- Neko Case – Middle Cyclone (Anti)
- White Denim - Fits (Full Time Hobby)
- Evangelista - Prince Of Truth (Constellation)
- Shrinebuilder (Neurot)
- fun. - Aim And Ignite (Nettwerk)
- Zola Jesus - The Spoils (Sacred Bones)
- Wild Beasts - Two Dancers (Domino)
- Fontän – Winterhwila (Information)
- Cold Cave - Love Comes Close (Matador)
- Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts (No Fun Productions)
- Leyland Kirby - Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was (History Always Favours the Winner)
- White Rabbits - It's Frightening (TBD)
- Fool's Gold (IAm Sound)
- Ben Frost - By The Throat (Bedroom Community)
- Tinariwen - Imidiwan: Companions (Independiente)
- Sunn 0))) - Monoliths and Dimensions (Southern Lord)
- David Sylvian – Manafon (Samadhi Sound)
- Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp)
- The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love (4AD)
- The Rakes - Klang! (V2)
- Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (Domino)
- The Flaming Lips - Embryonic (WB)
- Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
- Raise The Red Lantern (At A Loss)
- Real Estate (Woodsist)
- Death - For the Whole World To See (Drag City) 75
- Hacride - Lazarus (Listenable)
- Zu - Carboniferous (Ipecac)
- Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck (Invada)
- Otto - Certa Manha Acordei De Sonhos Intranquilos (Nublu)
- Soap & Skin - Lovetune For Vacuum (P.I.A.S.)
- Katatonia - Night Is The New Day (Peaceville)
- Oneida - Rated O (Jagjaguwar)
- Franz Ferdinand - Tonight (Sony)
- Slough Feg - Ape Uprising (Cruz del Sur)
- Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights (Load)
- Anti-Pop Consortium - Fluorescent Black (Big Dada)
- YOB – The Great Cessation (Profound Lore)
- 3 Inches Of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom (Century Media)
- The Antlers - Hospice (Frenchkiss)
- Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night (Columbia)
- The Gates Of Slumber - Hymns Of Blood And Thunder (Rise Above)
- Health - Get Color (Lovepump United)
- The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away (Thrill Jockey)
- St Vincent - Actor (4AD)
- Julianna Barwick - Florine EP (Florid)
- Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor (Drag City)
- Alasdair Roberts - Spoils (Drag City)
- Girls - Album (True Panther Sounds)
- Kylesa - Static Tensions (Prosthetic)
- Tombs - Winter Hours (Relapse)
- Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone (Relapse)
- Ancestors - Of Sound Mind (Tee Pee)
- Liam Hayes & Plush - Bright Penny (Broken Horse)
- Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor (Universal/Polydor)
- Dälek - Gutter Tactics (Ipecac)
- Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick (Learning Curve)
- Brother Ali - Us (Rhymesayers)
- Khaled - Liberté (Wrasse)
- Teeth Of The Sea - Orphaned By The Ocean (Rocket Launch)
- DM Stith - Heavy Ghost (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Cobalt - Gin (ProfoundLore)
- Shafiq Husayn - Shafiq en' a-Free-Ka (Plug Research)
- City Center (Type)
- Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue (Warp)
- Abramis Brama - Smakar Söndag (Transubstans)
- Radio Moscow - Brain Cycles (Alive)
- Madder Mortem - Eight Ways (Peaceville)
- Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - I Speak Fula (Out Here)
9
- Freedom Hawk (Meteor City)
- Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love (Ubiquity)
- Converge - Axe To Fall (Epitaph)
- Broadcast & The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (Warp)
- The Horrors - Primary Colours (Beggars XL)
- Memory Tapes - Seek Magic (Something In Construction)
- Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth (Hometapes)
- Mountains - Choral (Thrill Jockey)
- Sonic Youth - The Eternal (Matador)
- Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (ATAP)
- Horisont - Två Sidor Av Horisonten (Crusher)
- Siena Root - Different Realities (Transubstans)
- Betty Davis - Is It Love Or Desire (Light In The Attic)
- British Sea Power - Man Of Aran (Rough Trade)
- Maxïmo Park - Quicken The Heart (Warp)
- 10-20 (Highpoint Lowlife)
- Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms (Lefse)
- Circlesquare - Songs About Dancing And Drugs (!K7)
- Warsaw Village Band - Infinity (Barbes)
- Zombi - Spirit Animal (Relapse)
- Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem (P.W. Elverum & Sun Ltd.)
- BEAK> (Invada/Ipecac)
- Maserati - Passages (Temporary Residence)
- Telepathe - Dance Mother (Iamsound)
- Greymachine - Disconnected (Hydra Head)
- Ooumou Sangare - Seya (Nonesuch)
- Javelin - Jamz n Jemz (Javelin)
- Black Math Horseman - Wyllt (Tee Pee)
- Isis - Wavering Radiant (Ipecac)
- Moderat (Bpitch Control)
- Georgia Anne Muldrow - Umsindo (SomeOthaShip/E1)
- High Wolf - Incalpulco/Gabon (Winged Sun)
- Meshell Ndegeocello - Devil’s Halo (Downtown)
- The Soft Pack - The Muslims EP (Hostess Japan/Zoom)
- The Slits - Trapped Animal (Sweet Nothing)
- The Clientele - Bonfires On The Heath (Merge)
- Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose (Island)
- Editors - In This Light On This Evening (Columbia)
- HTRK - Marry Me Tonight (Blast First Petite)
- Firebird - Grand Union (Metal Blade)
- NOMO - Invisible Cities (Ubuquity)
- Zoroaster - Voice Of Saturn (Terminal Doom)
- Emeralds - What Happened (No Fun Productions)
- Dan Deacon - Bromst (Carpark)
- Luciano - Tribute To The Sun (Cadenza)
- Gyratory System - The Sound-Board Breathes (Angular)
- Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough (Profound Lore)
- GusGus - 24/7 (Kompakt)
- Rain Machine (Anti)
- The Zookeepers - Ballin' Outrageous (Bandcamp)
- Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster (Kill Rock Stars)
- Extra Golden - Thank You Very Quickly (Thrill Jockey)
- Jesu - Opiate Sun EP (Caldo Verde)
- Slayer - World Painted Blood (Sony)
- Keelhaul - Keelhaul's Triumphant Return To Obscurity (Hydra Head)
- Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans (Napalm)
- Soulsavers - Broken (101)
- Miike Snow (Downtown)
- BLK JKS - After Robots (Secretly Canadian)
- Anvil - This Is Thirteen (VH1)
- Moon Wiring Club - Striped Paint For The Last Post (Gecophonic Audio Systems)
- Passion Pit - Manners (Columbia/French Kiss)
- Desire - II (Italians Do It Better)
- Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know (Rhino)
- Megadeth - Endgame (Roadrunner)
- Githead - Landing (Swim)
- Edan - Echo Party (Five Day Weekend)
- Pocahaunted - Passage (Troubleman Unlimited)
- Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian)
- Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans (Sub Pop)
- Part Chimp - Thriller (Rock Action)
- Micachu & The Shapes – Jewellery (WB)
- King Cannibal - Let the Night Roar (Ninja Tune)
- Zoot Woman - Things Are What They Used To Be (ZWR)
- Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People-- Lazers Do (Sony)
- Black To Comm - Alphabet 1968 (Type)
- Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career (4AD)
- Ducktails (Not Not Fun)
- Blank Dogs - Under And Under (In The Red)
- Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Crows Eat The Eyes From The Leviathan's Carcass (Release The Bats)
- Nite Jewel - Good Evening (Human Ear Music)
- Gwynbleidd - Nostalgia (MRI)
- Liturgy - Renihilation (20 Buck Spin)
- Obscura - Cosmogenesis (Relapse)
- Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us (Graveface)
- Jonsi and Alex - Riceboy Sleeps (Beggars/XL)
- Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect (Victory)
- Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years (WB)
- Tom Zé - Estudando A Bossa (Biscoito Fino)
- Rodrigo Y Gabriela - 11:11 (ATO/Red)
- Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy (Matador)
- Bibio - The Apple & The Tooth (Warp)
- Christopher Tignor - Core Memory Unwound (Western Vinyl)
- Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band - Between The Head And The Sky (Chimera Music)
- Coalesce - Ox (Relapse)
- Rhian Sheehan - Standing In Silence (Loop)
- The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead (Fat Cat)
- The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant (Wichita)
- Doom - Born Like This (Lex)
- A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head (Mute)
- JJ - JJ N° 2 (Sincerely Yours)
- Dinosaur Jr. - Farm (Jagjaguwar)
- Alela Diane - To Be Still (Rough Trade)
- Eleni Mandell - Artificial Fire (Zedtone)
- Big Business - Mind The Drift (Hydra Head)
- Om - God Is Good (Drag City)
- Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (Astralwerks)
- Skeletonwitch - Breathing The Fire (Prosthetic)
- The Mars Volta - Octahedron (WB)
- Nadja & Black Boned Angel (20 Buck Spin)
- Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate (Lucky Seven)
- Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Here Be Dragons (Planet Mu)
- Es - Kesämaan Lapset (Fonal)
- Mordant Music - SyMpToMs (Mordant Music)
- YACHT - See Mystery Lights (DFA)
- Wolf - Ravenous (Century Media)
- Annie - Don't Stop (Smalltown)
- Blueneck - The Fallen Host (Don't Touch)
- Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country (Kranky)
- Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts (Palilalia)
- Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw)
- Pelican - What We All Come To Need (Southern Lord)
- Julian Casablancas - Phrazes Fore The Young (Cult/RCA)
- The Smith Westerns (Hozac)
- Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti Is Skyscraper (Matador)
- The-Dream - Love vs. Money (Def Jam/Radio Killa)
- Gnaw Their Tongues - All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity (Crucial Blast)
- Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (Dead Oceans)
- Bloody Panda - Summon (Profound Lore)
- Dr. V - An American Dream (DrV)
- Heavy Trash - Midnight Soul Serenade (Fat Possum)
- Black Heart Procession - Six (Temporary Residence)
- Wilco - The Album (Nonesuch)
- The Unthanks - Here's The Tender Coming (Rough Trade/Beggars)
- Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest (Nuclear Blast)
- Serpent Throne - The Battle Of Old Crow (Season Of Mist)
- Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs (Matador)
- Dizzee Rascal - Tongue In Cheek (Dirtee Stank)
- Os Mutantes - Haih Or Amortecedor (Anti)
- Sleepy Sun - Embrace (ATP)
- Russian Circles - Geneva (Suicide Squeeze)
- Noah & The Whale - The First Days Of Spring (Mercury)
- Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another (4AD)
- Florence & The Machine - Lungs (Island)
- Karen O & The Kids - Where The Wild Things Are OST (DGC/Interscope)
- The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come (4AD)
- Maps - Turning The Mind (Mute)
- The Bats - The Guilty Office (Hidden Agenda)
- Kid Sister - Ultraviolet (Downtown)
- Andrew Bird - Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
- Polvo - In Prism (Merge)
- Basement Jaxx - Scars (Ultra)
- Nebula - Heavy Psych (Volcanic)
- The Wildhearts - Chutzpah! (Backstage Alliance)
- Porcupine Tree - The Incident (Roadrunner)
- Zebulon Pike - Intransience (Unfortunate)
- Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
- Masters Of Reality - Pine/Cross Dover (Mascot-Provogue BV)
- Mirah - (a)spera (K)
- Church Of Misery - Houses Of The Unholy (Metal Blade)
- Discovery - LP (XL)
- The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms (Fiction)
- God Help The Girl (Matador)
- Bebel Gilberto - All In One (Six Degrees)
- Do Make Say Think - Other Truths (Chicago Independent)
- Nadja - When I See The Sun It Always Shines On TV (End)
- Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave (Century Media)
- Mos Def - The Ecstatic (Downtown)
- Abouretum - Song of the Pearl (Thrill Jockey)
- Martyn – Great Lengths (3024)
- Atlas Sound - Logos (Kranky)
- Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall (Matador)
- Astra - The Weirding (Metal Blade)
- Why? - Eskimo Snow (Anticon)
- Engineers - Thee Fact Fader (Echo)
- The Crocodiles - Summer Of Hate (Fat Possum)
- Flight Of The Concords - I Told You I Was Freaky (Sub Pop)
- Japandroids - Post-Nothing (Unfamiliar)
- Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos (Steamhammer)
- Cornershop - Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast (Phantom Sound)
- Shackleton - Three EPs (Perlon)
- Omar-S - Fabric 45 (Fabric)
- La Roux (Cherrytree)
- Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications (Rough Trade)
- Regina Spektor - Far (Sire)
- Candlemass - Death Magic Doom (Nuclear Blast)
- Jim Tenor & Tony Allen - Inspiration Information (Strut)
- Van Morrison - Astral Weeks - Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Listen to the Lion)
- Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind (Human Highway)
- Dead Weather - Horehound (Reprise)
- Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian (Warp)
- Ida Maria - Fortress Around My Heart (Mercury/Island)
- Ed Harcourt - Russian Roulette EP (Dovecote)
- Fruit Bats - Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)
- Thermals - Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars)
- Rammstein - Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da (Rammstein)
- Mountains - Etching (Thrill Jockey)
- Drones - Havilah (ATP/MGM)
- The Field - Yesterday And Today (Anti)
- 2562 - Unbalance (Tectonic)
- Falty DL - Love Is a Liability (Planet Mu)
- Redshape - The Dance Paradox (Delsin)
- PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By (Island)
- Wiley - Race Against Time (SRD/Eskibeat)
- DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout (Mad Science)
- Busdriver - Jhelli Beam (Anti)
- The Pains of Being Pure At Heart (Slumberland)
- Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care (Domino)
- ...And You Will Know Us By The Train Of Dead - The Century Of Self (Richter Scale/Justice)
- Khanate – Clean Hands Go Foul (Hydra Head)
- Group Doueh - Treeg Salaam (Sublime Frequencies)
- Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon (Hospital)
- The Sandwitches - How To Make Ambient Sadcake (Turn Up)
- Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come (DFA)
- Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings (Roadrunner)
- Metric - Fantasies (02.)
- Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar)
- Goblin Cock - Come With Me If You Want to Live (Robocore)
9-
- Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God (Metal Blade)
- Orthodox - Sentencia (Alone/TSC)
- Three Oh Sees - Help (In The Red)
- Gallows - Grey Britain (Reprise)
- The Brakes - Touchdown (Fat Cat)
- Drake - So Far Gone (Cash Money)
- Zomby - One Foot Ahead Of The Other (Ramp)
- Sophia - There Are No Goodbyes (Flower Shop)
- Andrew Weatherall - A Pox On The Pioneers (Rotters Golf Club)
- Rancid - Let The Dominoes Fall (Hellcat/Epitaph)
- Vitalic - Flashmob (Play It Again Sam)
- Miranda Lambert - Revolution (Columbia)
- The Church - Untitled #23 (Second Motion/Unorthodox)
- Volcano Choir – Unmap (Jagjaguwar)
- Green Day - 21th Century Breakdown (Reprise)
- James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game (Young God)
- Gliss - Devotion Implosion (Cordless)
- Wooden Shjips - Dos (Holy Mountain)
- Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers (Columbia)
- Trembling Bells - Carbeth (Honest Jon's)
- Fu Manchu - Signs Of Infinite Power (Century Media)
- Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be (Warner/Reprise)
- Fanfarlo – Reservoir (Atlantic)
- Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg (Modular/Interscope)
- Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions (14th Floor)
- Cheap Trick - The Latest (Cheap Trick)
- Little Dragon - Machine Dreams (Peacefrog)
- Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice Born Men (Samadhisound)
- Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts (Mercury)
- Rihanna - Rated R (Def Jam)
- Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains (Sister's Den)
- The Entrance Band (Ecstatic Peace!)
- Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy (WB)
- Mission Of Burma - The Sound The Speed The Light (Matador)
- Quatre Tete - Art Of The State (Sickroom)
- Black Meteoric Star (DFA)
- Múm - Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know (2.O.G. Ent / P.A.L.)
- Medusa - En Raga Sül (Hawthorne Street)
- Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade (Southern Lord)
- The Duke & The King - Nothing Gold Can Stay (Ramseur)
- The Low Anthem - Oh My God Charlie Darwin (Nonesuch)
- Woods - Songs Of Shame (Shrimper)
- Shakira - She Wolf (Epic)
- Art Brut - Art Brut Vs. Satan (Downtown)
- Stellastarr* - Civilized (Bloated Wife)
- CKY - Carver City (Roadrunner)
- Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment (RCA)
- Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (Drag City)
- Spinnerette (Anthem/Red)
- Hot Leg - Red Light Fever (Barbecue Rock)
- The Gossip - Music For Men (Columbia)
- Portal - Swarth (Profound Lore)
- Utada - This Is The One (Island)
- Gui Boratto – Take My Breath Away (Kompakt)
- Nouvelle Vague - NV3 (Peacefrog)
- Decemberists - Hazards Of Love (Capitol)
- Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - Dracula Boots (In The Red)
- Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand (Vice)
- Eels - Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs Of Desire (Vagrant)
- 1990s - Kicks (Rough Trade)
- Röyksopp - Junior (Astralwerks)
- Freeway - Philadelphia Freeway 2 (Real Talk)
- Clipse - Til The Casket Drops (Columbia)
- Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt II (EMI)
- Black Dice - Repo (Paw Tracks)
- Doves - Kingdom Of Rust (Astralwerks)
- Wavvves (Fat Possum)
- Peter Bjorn & John - Living Thing (Almost Gold/Star Time)
- Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt II (EMI)
- Condo Fucks - Fuckbook (Matador)
- Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster (Interscope)
- Strange Boys - And Girls Club (In The Red)
- Pearl Jam - Backspacer (Monkeywrench)
- Lamb Of God – Wrath (Epic)
- U2 - No Line On The Horizon (Interscope)
- Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself (Bpitch Control)
- Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)
- Pete Doherty - Grace - Wastelands (Astralwerks)
10-
2008
- TV On The Radio - Dear Science, (DGC/Interscope)
10-
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (Anti)
- Vampire Weekend (Beggars/XL)
9+
- Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista (Fonal)
- Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna (Social Registry)
- Torche - Meanderthal (Hydra Head)
- The Bug - London Zoo (Ninja Tune)
- Opeth - Watershed (Roadrunner)
- Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (Modular)
- Graveyard (Tee Pee)
- Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You (Domino)
- Colour Haze - All (Elektrohasch)
- Dead Man - Euphoria (Crusher)
- Portishead - Third (Mercury/Island)
- Boris - Smile (Southern Lord)
- Pete & the Pirates - Little Death (Stolen)
- Dungen - 4 (Kemado)
- NOMO - Ghost Rock (Ubiquity)
- M83 - Saturdays = Youth (Mute)
- White Denim - Exposion/Workout Holiday (Transmission)
- DJ/rupture - Uproot (Agriculture)
- Ufomammut - Idolum (Supernatural Cat)
- Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh (Prosthetic/Red)
- Air France - No Way Down (Something In Construction)
- The Horror The Horror - Wired Boy Child (Tapete)
- Eine Kleine Nacht Musik (Modular/Island UK)
- Black Mountain - In the Future (Jagjaguwar)
- Pale Young Gentlemen - Black Forest (Tra La La) (Science Of Sound)
- Simon Bookish – Everything/Everything (Tomlab)
- Parts & Labor – Receivers (Jagjaguwar)
- Femi Kuti - Day By Day (Mercer Street/Downtown)
- Kasai Allstars - In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And Ate The Head Of His Enemy By Magic (Crammed)
- Siena Root - Far From The Sun (Transubstans)
- The Very Best - Eau Mwamwaya & Radioclit Are The Very Best (Ghettopop/Green Owl)
- Valkyrie - Man Of Two Visions (Noble Origin)
- Anthony Hamilton - The Point Of It All (Jive/Zomba)
- Amadou & Mariam - Welcome To Mali (Because)
- TAPE - Luminarium (Häpna)
- The Week That Was (Memphis Industries)
- Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (Motown)
- The Walkmen - You & Me (Gigantic)
- Shugo Tokumaru - Exit (Almost Gold)
- Flying Lotus - Los Angeles (Warp)
- Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel (EMD Intl)
- Black Milk - Tronic (Fat Beats)
- Hammers Of Misfortune - Fields/Church Of Broken Glass (Profound Lore)
- Grace Jones - Hurricane (Wall Of Sound)
- Gilberto Gil - Banda Larga Cordel (Warner Latina)
- Made Out Of Babies - The Ruiner (The End)
- Valkyrie - Man Of Two Visions (Noble Origin)
- Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music (Keysound)
- Man Man - Rabbit Habits (Anti)
- El Guincho - Alegranza (Mistletone/XL)
- Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto (Domino)
- Glasvegas (Columbia)
- The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion (Memphis Industries/Sub Pop)
- School Of Seven Bells - Alpinisms (Ghostly International)
- The Advisory Circle - Other Channels (Ghost Box)
- Au Revoir Borealis - Dark Enough For Stars (Utter East)
- Stereo Image - S/T (Frog Man Jake)
- Snowman - The Horse, the Rat and the Swan (Dot Dash)
- The Black Keys - Attack & Release (Nonesuch)
- Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 (Disorient)
- Toumani Diabaté - The Mande Variations (World Circuit)
- Thomas Brinkmann - When Horses Die (Max Ernst)
- Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull (Southern Lord)
- Nachtmystium - Assassins - Black Meddle Part I (Century Media)
- Caïna - Temporary Antennae (Profound Lore)
- Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday (Temporary Residence)
- Jacaszek - Treny (Miasmah)
- Enslaved - Vertebrae (Nuclear Blast)
- Steve Wynn - Crossing Dragon Bridge (Rock Ridge)
- Sahg - Sahg II (Regain)
- The Sword - Gods Of The Earth (Kemado)
- Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight (V2)
9
- Hawksley Workman - Los Manlicious (Universal)
- Tricky - Knowle West Boy (Domino)
- The Hold Steady - Stay Positive (Vagrant)
- Rhymefest - Man In The Mirror (Plugg City/Allido)
- Blood Ceremony (Rise Above)
- Asian Dub Foundation - Punkara (Rinse It Out)
- Hercules And Love Affair (Phantom Sound & Vision)
- Gary War - New Raytheonport (Sacred Bones)
- Lau Nau - Nukkuu (Locust)
- Robert Forster - The Evangelist (Yep Roc)
- Dozer - Beyond Colossal (Small Stone)
- Fennesz - Black Sea (Touch)
- The Interiors (54 40 Or Fight)
- My Sleeping Karma - Satya (Elektrohasch)
- Fujiya and Miyagi - Lightbulbs (Deaf Dumb & Blind)
- Roots Manuva - Slime & Reason (Big Dada)
- The Gates Of Slumber - Conqueror (Profound Lore)
- Korpiklaani - Korven Kuningas (Nuclear Blast)
- The Black Angels - Directions To See a Ghost (Light In The Attic)
- Alice Russell - Pot of Gold (Six Degrees)
- Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha (EMI)
- Stephanie McKay - Tell It Like It Is (Muthas Of Invention)
- Quiet Village - Silent Movie (K7)
- Rokia Traoré - Tchamantché (Nonesuch/Tama)
- One More Grain - Isle Of Grain (White Heat)
- Cloudland Canyon - Lie In Light (Kranky)
- Jaguar Love - Take Me To The Sea (Matador)
- The Dodos - The Visitor (French Kiss)
- Evangelista - Hello, Voyager (Constellation)
- Benoît Pioulard - Temper (Kranky)
- Johnny Flynn - A Larum (Vertigo)
- Adebisi Shank - This Is The Album (Richter Collective)
- Why? - Alopecia (Anticon)
- Friendly Fires (XL)
- Jamie Lidell - Jim (Warp)
- Nico Muhly - Mothertongue (Brassland)
- The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing (BMG)
- Santogold (Downtown)
- Juana Molina - Un Dia (Domino)
- Emilíana Torrini - Me and Armini (Rough Trade)
- Anthony David - Acey Ducey (Soulbird/Universal)
- Lykke Li - Youth Novels (LL)
- Marcelo Camelo - Sou (Sony/BMG, Brasil)
- Asa - Loppuasukas (Roihismusica)
- Calle 13 - Los De Atrás Vienen Conmigo (Norte)
- Stereolab - Chemical Chords (4AD)
- Clark - Turning Dragon (Warp)
- Howlin' Rain - Magnificent Fiend (Birdman)
- Totimoshi - Milagrosa (Volcom)
- The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace (Load)
- Philip Jeck - Sand (Touch)
- Vinicius Cantuaria - Cymbals (Naive)
- The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Inside (Barge)
- Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid - NYC (Domino)
- Hauschka - Ferndorf (Fat Cat)
- Girl Talk – Feed the Animals (Illegal Art)
- Bird Show (Kranky)
- Ellen Allien - Sool (Bpitch Control)
- Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour (Fat Cat)
- Burning Saviours - Nymphs & Weavers (Transubstans)
- Gods And Queens (Robotic Empire)
- Flight Of The Conchords (Sub Pop)
- Mark Stewart - Edit (Crippled Dick Hot Wax)
- The Lucky Dragons - Dream Island Laughing Language (Marriage)
- Barbara Morgenstern - BM (Monika)
- Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life (Matador)
- The Aliens - Luna (Pet Rock)
- Department of Eagles - In Ear Park (4AD)
- The Dutchess and the Duke - She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke (Hardly Art)
- Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Angles (Sunday Best)
- Eric Chenaux - Sloppy Ground (Constellation)
- Grand Magus - Iron Will (Rise Above)
- RPG - Worth The Weight (RPG)
- Wetnurse - Invisible City (Seventh Rule)
- Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw (Beggars Banquet)
- Natacha Atlas & The Mazeeka Ensemble - Ana Hina (World Village)
- Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (Geffen)
- The Duke Spirit - Neptune (Shangri-La)
- Kano - 140 Grime Street (BPM)
- The Roots - Rising Down (Def Jam)
- Deerhunter - Microcastle (Kranky)
- Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up The Hill (Type)
- Alex Moulton - Exodus (Expansion Team)
- No Tears - Obsessions (Str8line)
- Little Joy (Rough Trade)
- Thalia Zedek Band - Liars And Prayers (Thrill Jockey)
- Solange - Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams (Geffen)
- Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer? (Roadrunner)
- Metronomy - Nights Out (Because)
- Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It (Columbia)
- Zdzislaw Piernik & Piotr Zabrodzki - Namanga (Vivo)
- No Age - Nouns (Sub Pop)
- Thomas Tantrum (Sindy Stroker)
- Pyramids (Hydra Head)
- The Sea And Cake - Car Alarm (Thrill Jockey)
- Hot Chip - Made In The Dark (EMI)
- Sigur Rós - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (Beggars XL)
- Blevin Blectum - Gular Flutter (Aagoo)
- Aterciopelados - Rio (Nacional)
- Indian Jewelry - Free Gold! (We Are Free)
- The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely (WB)
- The Breeders - Mountain Battles (4AD)
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlandia (4AD)
- Al Green - Lay It Down (Blue Note)
- James Blackshaw - Litany Of Echoes (Tompkins Square)
- Endless Boogie - Focus Level (No Quarter)
- The Matthew Herbert Big Band - There's Me And There's You (Accidental)
- Death Vessel - Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us (Sub Pop)
- The New Year (Touch & Go)
- Leila - Blood, Looms and Blooms (Warp)
- Crystal Stilts - Alight Of Night (Slumberland)
- XX Teens - Welcome To Goon Island (Mute)
- The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement (Domino)
- High Places (Thrill Jockey)
- Jape - Ritual (V2)
- Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (Kranky)
- Blood Red Shoes - Box Of Secrets (V2)
- Grails - Take Refuge In Clean Living (Important)
- Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath (Universal/GSL)
- The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound (Side One Dummy)
- Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
- Shearwater - Rook (Matador)
- Burst - Lazarus Bird (Relapse)
- Beach House - Devotion (Carpark)
- MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (Sony)
- British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music (Rough Trade UK)
- 2562 - Aerial (Tectonic)
- Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior (Tempa)
- Primal Scream - Beautiful Future (WB)
- Genghis Tron - Board Up the House (Relapse)
- Haltya - Book Of Nature (Exogenic)
- Cynic - Traced In Air (Sem)
- Rolo Tomassi - Hysterics (Hassle)
- Melingo - Maldito Tango (Manana)
- Bajofondo - Mar Ducle (Decca)
- Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too (Smalltown Supersound)
- Foals - Antidotes (Transgressive)
- Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale (Season of Mist)
- Krallice (Profound Lore)
- Harvey Milk - Life...The Best Game in Town (Hydra Head)
- The Kills - Midnight Boom (Domino)
- Melvins - Nude With Boots (Ipecac)
- Q-Tip - The Renaissance (Universal Motown)
- Invincible - Shapeshifters (Emergence)
- Polysics - We Ate The Machine (MySpace)
- Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight (Fat Cat)
- For Against - Shade Side Sunny Side (Words on Music)
- Caretaker - Persistant Repetition (V/Vm)
- Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual (We Are Free)
- Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday At Devil Dirt (V2)
- Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward (Ecstatic Peace)
- Aluminum Group - Little Happyness (Minty Fresh)
- Ladyhawke (Island)
- Maps & Atlases - You & Me & The Mountain EP (Sargent House)
- Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)
- Deerhoof - Offend Maggie (Kill Rock Stars)
- Wilderness – (k)no(w)here (Jagjaguwar)
- Booka Shade - The Sun And The Neon Light (Get Physical)
- Wire - Object 47 (Pink Flag)
- Burial Hex - Initiations (Aurora Borealis)
- Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash (Matador)
- Stephan Mathieu - Radioland (Die Schactel)
- Spiritualized - Songs In A & E (Universal)
- Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line (Barsuk)
- Testament - The Formation Of Damnation (Nuclear Blast)
- The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia (Sub Pop)
- Meshuggah - Obzen (Nuclear Blast)
- Subtle - ExitingARM (Lex)
- Shed - Shedding The Past (Ostgut)
- The Constantines - Kensington Heights (Arts & Crafts)
- Sian Alice Group - 59.59 (Social Registry)
- Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night (What's Your Rupture?)
- Sun Kil Moon - April (Caldo Verde)
- American Music Club - The Golden Age (Merge)
- Albert Hammond Jr. - Como Te Llama (Red Int/Red Ink)
- Bruno Pronsato - Why Can't We Be Like Us (Word and Sound)
- Dave Aju - Open Wide (Circus Company)
- Girls Aloud - Out Of Control (Polydor)
- Antony and the Johnsons - Another World EP (Secretly Canadian)
- R.E.M. - Accelerate (WB)
- The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me (Domino)
- Kelley Polar - I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling (Environ)
- Tall Firs - Too Old To Die Young (Ecstatic Peace)
- Autechre - Quaristice (Warp)
- Justus Köhncke - Safe And Sound (Kompakt)
- Abe Vigoda - Skeleton (Post Present Medium)
- Pit Er Pat - High Time (Thrill Jockey)
- Vampire Hands - Me And You Cherry Red (Peppermint Coffins)
- Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
- Brian Eno & David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (everythingthathappens.com)
- Lair Of The Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master (Southern Lord)
- Rotten Sound - Cycles (Spinefarm)
- Disfear - Live The Storm (Relapse)
- Clinic - Do It! (Domino)
- James Hunter - The Hard Way (Hear Music)
- Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It And She Is It And... (Kill Rock Stars)
- These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid (Angular/Domino)
- Calexico - Calexico - Carried To Dust (Quarterstick)
- Hackman - Enterprises (Small Stone)
- So So Modern - Friends And Fires (Transgressive)
- Dead Meadow - Old Growth (Matador)
- Bloc Party - Intimacy (Wichita)
- Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim (Virgin)
- Luomo - Convivial (Huume)
- Lambchop - OH (Ohio) (City Slang)
- The Presets - Apocalypso (Modular Interscope)
- Okkervil River - The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar)
- Hawksley Workman - Between The Beautifuls (Universal)
- Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree (Mute)
- Vivian Girls (In The Red)
- Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God (Metal Blade)
- Claro Intelecto - Metanarrative (Modern Love)
- Growing - All The Way (Social Registry)
9-
- Azeda Booth - In Flesh Tones (Absolutely Kosher)
- Sonantes (Six Degrees)
- Secret Shine - All of the Stars (Clairecords)
- The Damned - So, Who's Paranoid? (English Chanel)
- Umalali - The Garifuna Women's Project (Cumbancha)
- Marcelo D2 - A Arte Do Barulho (EMI Brasil)
- Maga Bo - Archipelagos (Soot)
- Unni Løvlid - Rite (Grappa)
- Wildbirds & Peacedrums - The Snake (Caprice)
- Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda (Som Livre Apresenta)
- Windsurf - Coastlines (Internasjonal)
- Efdemin - Carry On: Pretend We Are Not in the Room (Curle)
- Helios - Caesura (Type)
- Johan Agebjörn - Mossebo (Lotus Pike)
- Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)
- Dirt Dress - Theme Songs EP (Self-released)
- Roommate - We Were Enchanted (Plug Research/Shrug)
- HILOTRONS - Happymatic (Kelp)
- The Instruments - Dark Småland (Orange Twin)
- Dan Friel - Ghost Town (Important)
- Yellow Swans - Deterioration (Modern Radio)
- Laura Barrett - Victory Garden (Paper Bag)
- Grand Salvo - Death (Spunk/Preservation)
- Mount Eerie f/ Julie Doiron and Fred Squire - Lost Wisdom (PW Elverum and Sun)
- The Haunted - Versus (Century Media)
- Verve - Forth (RED)
- Intronaut - Prehistoricisms (Century Media)
- Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life (Moribund/Debemur Morti)
- Blitzen Trapper - Furr (Sub Pop)
- The Futureheads - This Is Not The World (Nul)
- Eagles Of Death Metal - Heart On (Universal)
- My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges (Red)
- Alexis Taylor - Rubbed Out (Treader)
- Motörhead - Motörizer (Steamhammer)
- Metallica - Death Magnetic (WB)
- AC/DC - Black Ice (Columbia)
- Beck - Modern Guilt (Interscope)
- The-Dream - Love/Hate (Def Jam)
- Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman (Def Jam)
- Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple (Atlantic)
- Mystery Jets - Twenty One (sixsevennine)
- Dominique Leone (Stromland)
- Indian Jewelry - We Are the Wild Beast (Tigerbeat 6)
- Estelle - Shine (Atlantic/Homeschool)
- Danny! - And I Love H.E.R. (Badenov/1911)
- The Music Tapes - Music Tapes for Clouds & Tornadoes (Merge)
- The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave (Gravitation)
- Jim White - Transnormal Skiperoo (Luaka Bop)
- Costanza - Sonic Diary (ZerOKilled Music)
- Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara - Soul Science (World Village)
- The Mae Shi - HLLLYH (Team Shi)
- Osborne (Spectral Sound)
- Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs (Atlantic)
- Mates Of State - Re-arrange Us (Barsuk)
- Martha Wainwright - I Know You`re Married But I Got Feelings Too (Drowned In Sound)
- Flight Of The Concords (Warner)
- Aidan John Moffat - I Can Hear Your Heart (Chemikal Underground)
- Julian Cope - Black Sheep (Head Heritage)
- Messiah J & the Expert - From The Word Go (Inaudible)
- Willard Grant Conspiracy - Pilgrim Road (Loose)
- Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams (Merge)
- The Cure - 4:13 Dream (Geffen)
- Black Kids - Partie Traumatic (Red Int/Red Ink)
- The Killers - Day & Age (Island)
- Castanets - City of Refuge (Asthmatic Kitty)
- The Howling Hex - Earth Junk (Drag City)
- The Dears – Missles (Dangerbird)
- Natural Snow Buildings - Laurie Bird (Students of Decay)
- Monkey - A Journey To The West (XL)
- Joan As Policewoman - To Survive (Reveal)
- Women (Flemish Eye)
- Sic Alps - U.S. EZ (Siltbreeze)
- Young Widows - Old Wounds (Temporary Residence)
- Manual - Confluence (Darla)
- Die! Die! Die! - Promises Promises (S.A.F.)
- Horse Feathers - House With No Home (Kill Rock Stars)
- The Pretenders - Break Up the Concrete (Shangri-La)
- Wold - Stratification (Profound Lore)
- Paul Weller - 22 Dreams (Island)
- Neon Neon - Stainless Style (Lex)
- Crooked Fingers - Forfeit/Fortune (Red Pig/Constant Artists)
- Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - Animal! (Epic)
- Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - Not Animal (Epic)
- The Rosebuds - Life Like (Merge)
- Kanye West - 808s And Heartbreak (Roc-A-Fella)
- Taylor Swift - Fearless (Big Machine)
- Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery (Peaceville)
- Curumin - Japan Pop Show (Quannum)
- The Faint - Fascination (Blank Wave)
- Absentee – Victory Shorts (Memphis Industries)
- Annuals - Such Fun (Canvasback)
- Fire On Fire EP (Young God) + / – – Xs on Your Eyes (Absolutely Kosher)
- Paranthetical Girls - Entanglements (Tomlab)
- Valet - Naked Acid (Kranky)
- Sloan - Parallel Play (Yep Roc)
- Firewater - The Golden Hour (Bloodshot)
- Black Ghosts (Iamsound)
- Ascend - Ample Fire Within (Southern Lord)
- The Stills - Oceans Will Rise (Arts & Crafts)
- Blood On The Wall - Liferz (Social Registry)
- CSS - Donkey (Sub Pop)
- Teddy Thompson - A Piece Of What You Need (Verve Forecast)
- Hot Club De Paris - Live At Dead Lake (Moshi Moshi)
- Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty Is Wild And Raw (Ada/Vapor)
- Blackstrap - Steal My Horses And Run (Tee Pee)
- Dirty Pretty Things - Romance At Short Notice (Vertigo)
- Dragonforce - Ultra Beatdown (Roadrunner)
- Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain (Earache)
- Hail Of Bullets - Of Frost And War (Metal Blade)
- Origin - Antithesis (Relapse)
- N.E.R.D. - Seeing Sounds (Interscope)
- Eat Skull - Sick To Death (Siltbreeze)
- U.S. Girls - Bits + Pieces
- Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (Capitol)
- Neuraxis - The Thin Line Between (Prosthetic/Red)
- Zomby - Where Were U In 92? (Werk Discs)
- Hush Arbors (Ecstatic Peace)
- Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head (4AD)
- Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Momofuku (Lost Highway)
- Wedding Present - El Rey (Vibrant)
- Baltic Fleet (Blow Up)
- HEALTH - HEALTH//DISCO (Lovepump)
- Madvillain - Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix (Stones Throw)
- Broken West - Now Or Heaven (Merge)
- Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
- Bob Mould - District Line (Anti)
- Scott Tuma - Not For Nobody (Digitalis)
- The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed (679/Vice)
- Nada Surf - Lucky (Barsuk)
- Bauhaus - Go Away White (Bauhaus)
- Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell (Saddle Creek)
- Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing (ATP)
- Protest The Hero - Fortress (Vagrant)
- French Kicks - Swimming (Vagrant)
- iForward Russia! - Life Processes (Cooking Vinyl)
- Sons And Daughters - This Gift (Domino)
- Shortwave Set - Replica Sun Machine (Rough Trade)
- Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul (Big Brother)
- Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night (RCA)
- Cold War Kids - Loyalty To Loyalty (Downtown)
- Los Campesinos - Hold On Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
- Apes - Ghost Games (Gypsy Eyes)
- Tapes 'n' Tapes - Walk It Off (Beggars XL)
- EPMD - We Mean Business (EP Records)
- School Of Language - Sea From Shore (Thrill Jockey)
- Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead (Sub Pop)
- Aufgehoben - Khora (Holy Mountain)
- Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane (Flemish Eye/Sub Pop)
- Titus Andronicus - The Airing Of Grievances (Troubleman Unlimited)
- Xiu Xiu - Women As Lovers (Kill Rock Stars)
- The Big Sleep - Sleep Forever (Frenchkiss)
- Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (New West)
- Rings - Black Habit (Paw Tracks)
- Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson (Say Hey)
- Pink - Funhouse (La Face)
- The Cool Kids - Bake Sale EP (Chocolate Industries)
- Nas (Def Jam)
- Common - Universal Mind Control (Geffen)
- Los Campesinos - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (Arts & Crafts)
- Dengue Fever - Venus On Earth (M80)
- Temposhark - The Invisible Line (Paper and Glue/Defend Music)
8
- Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy (Interscope)
- T.I. - Paper Trail (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)
- Madonna - Hard Candy (WB)
- Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads (B-Unique/Universal Motown)
- Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08 (Matador)
- Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
- Young Jeezy - The Recession (Def Jam)
- Britney Spears - Circus (Jive)
- Razorlight - Slipway Fires (Universal)
- Weezer - Red Album (Geffen)
- Keane - Perfect Symmetry (Island)
- Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off the Lavender Bridge (Domino)
- Adele - 19 (XL)
- Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III (Cash Money)
10
2007
- Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub)
- Radiohead - In Rainbows (ATO)
9+
- 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)
- White Rabbits - Fort Nightly (Say Hey)
- LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver (DFA)
- Nação Zumbi - Fome De Tudo (Deck Disk Brazil)
- Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings (Carpark)
- Maxïmo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures (Warp)
- Field Music - Tones Of Town (Memphis Industries)
- Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Anti)
- Witchcraft - The Alchemist (Rise Above)
- Om - Pilgrimage (Southern Lord)
- M.I.A. - Kala (Interscope)
- Gudrun Gut - I Put A Record On (Monika)
- Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum (Graveface)
- Tinariwen - Aman Iman (World Village)
- Baroness - Red Album (Relapse)
- Moon Wiring Club - An Audience of Art Deco Eyes (Gecophonic Audio Systems)
- Good Shoes - Think Before You Speak (Brille/EMI UK)
- Mothers and the Addicts - Science Fiction Illustrated (Chemikal Underground)
- Islaja - Ulual Yyy (Fonal)
- Parts & Labor - Mapmaker (Jagjaguwar/Brah)
- Tunng - Good Arrows (Thrill Jockey)
- Dax Riggs - We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love (Fat Possum)
- Grinderman (Anti)
- High On Fire - Death Is This Communion (Relapse)
- Dälek - Abandoned Language (Ipecac)
- Studio - West Coast (Information)
- Slough Feg - Hardworlder (Cruz Del Sur)
- 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)
- Soulsavers - It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land (V2)
- Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum)
- PJ Harvey - White Chalk (Island)
- Pinch - Underwater Dancehall (Tectonic)
- Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss (Dial)
- Maps - We Can Create (Mute)
- Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup (Century Media)
- Editors - An End Has A Start (Kitchenware UK)
- Menomena! - Friend And Foe (Barsuk)
- Caribou - Andorra (Merge)
- Balkan Beat Box - Nu Med (JDub)
- The Clientele - God Save The Clientele (Merge)
- 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)
- Celebration - The Modern Tribe (4AD)
- Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Animal Tracks)
- Sigh - Hangman's Hymn: Musikalische Exequien (The End)
- Elope - 9 Distilled Dreams (Gravitation)
- Gentleman's Pistols (Candlelight)
- Torche - In Return EP (Robotic Empire)
9
- Sinéad O' Connor - Theology (Koch)
- One More Grain - Pigeon English (Victory Garden)
- Boris & Michio Kurihara - Rainbow (Drag City) - Japan
- Vladislav Delay - Whistleblower (Humme) - Finland
- Mick Harvey - Two Of Diamonds (Mute)
- Korpiklaani - Tervaskanto (Napalm)
- Wooden Shjips (Holy Mountain)
- Pale Young Gentlemen (PYG)
- Battles - Mirrored (Warp)
- Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer (Polyvinyl)
- HUMANWINE - Fighting Naked (Nervous Relative)
- Kanye West - Graduation (Roc-A-Fella)
- !!! - Myth Takes (Warp)
- Nadja - Radiance of Shadows (Nothingness/The End)
- Trans Am - Sex Change (Thrill Jockey)
- Seu Jorge - América Brasil O Disco (EMI/Naive)
- The Good, The Bad And The Queen (Virgin)
- Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet (Atlantic)
- Múm - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy (Fat Cat)
- Dungen - Tio Bitar (Kemado)
- Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde (Profound Lore)
- 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)
- Entombed - Serpent Saint: The Ten Amendments (Candlelight)
- 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)
- 3 Inches of Blood - Fire Up The Blades (Roadrunner)
- Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks (Hydra Head)
- Eluvium - Copia (Temporary Residence)
- Echospace - The Coldest Season (Modern Love)
- Wilco - Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch)
- Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)
- Overmars - Born Again (Crucial Blast)
- 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)
- Mammatus - The Coast Explodes (Holy Mountain)
- Muscles - Guns Babes Lemonade (Modular)
- St. Vincent - Marry Me (Beggars Banquet)
- The Dirty Projectors - Rise Above (Dead Oceans)
- 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)
- Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth (Rhymesayers)
- Black Milk - Popular Demand (Fat Beats)
- Richard Youngs - Autumn Response (Jagjaguwar)
- 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 Epoxies - My New World EP (Metropolis)
- 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)
- Solace - The Black Black EP (Underdogma)
- Weedeater - God Luck and Good Speed (Southern Lord)
- ofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas (Monotreme)
- Down – Over The Under (Down)
- White Williams - Smoke (Tigerbeat6)
- Icy Demons - Miami Ice (Obey Your Brain)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Magik Markers - Boss (Ecstatic Peace)
- Ra Ra Riot EP (Rebel Group)
- Gui Boratto - Chromophobia (Kompakt)
- 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)
- Pitch Black - Rude Mechanicals (Remote/Rhythmethod)
- Oceansize - Frames (SPV)
- ASG - Win Us Over (Volcom)
- 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 (Hydra Head)
- 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)
- Turisas - The Varangian Way (EMI)
- Yakuza - Transmutations (Prosthetic/Red)
- Earth - Hibernaculum (Southern Lord)
- Bloody Panda - Pheromone (Level Plane)
- 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)
- Frightened Rabbit - Sing The Greys (Fat Cat)
- 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)
- O'Death - Head Home (Ernest Jenning)
- Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I (Noble) - Japan
- Opitope - Hau (Spekk) - Japan
- Signal Hill (Tidemark)
- Caïna - 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)
- 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)
- Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments (Drag City)
- Coral - Roots N Echoes (Deltasonic)
- Travis Morrison Hellfighters - All Y'all (Barsuk)
- 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)
- Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid - Tongues (Domino)
- Sigur Rós - Hvarf/Heim (XL)
- Six Parts Seven - Casually Smashed to Pieces (Suicide Squeeze)
- Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust (Musicane)
- Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy (Nonesuch)
- Tocotronic - Kapitulation (Vertigo)
- The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain (Bella Union)
- 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)
- 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)
- The Broken West - I Can't Go On, I'll Go On (Merge)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones (Interscope)
- The Knife - Silent Shout (Rabid/Mute)
- Mastodon - Blood Mountain (Reprise)
9+
- Kassin +2 - Futurismo (Video Arts Japan/Luaka Bop)
- The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America (Vagrant)
- Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things (Tirk)
- Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti)
- OOIOO - Taiga (Thrill Jockey)
- Colour Haze - Tempel (Elektrohasch GER)
- Joanna Newsom - Ys (Drag City)
- Hot Chip - The Warning (DFA/Astralwerks)
- Benoît Pioulard - Précis (Kranky)
- Nação Zumbi - Futura (Trama)
- Tony Allen - Lagos No Shaking (Honest Jon1s)
- Burial (Hyperdub)
- Sunn 0))) & Boris - Altar (Southern Lord)
- Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That (Astralwerks/Source)
- Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye (Domino)
- Comets On Fire - Avatar (Sub Pop)
- Cappablack - Facades and Skeletons (Scape Germany)
- Lansing-Dreiden - The Dividing Island (Kemado)
- Various Productions - The World Is Gone (XL)
- Om - Conference Of The Birds (Holy Mountain)
- Grizzly Bear - Yellow House (Warp)
- Califone - Roots & Crowns (Thrill Jockey)
- Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time (Sub Pop)
- J. Dilla - Donuts (Stones Throw)
- Sahg - Sahg I (Candlelight)
- Lucas Santtana & Seleção Natural - 3 Sessions In A Greenhouse (Diginois)
- Momo - A Estetica Do Rebisco (Universal)
- NOMO - New Tones (Ubiquity)
- Espers - Espers II (Drag City)
- The Horror The Horror (Tapete Records)
- The Flaming Stars - Born Under A Bad Neon Sign (Big Beat)
- Melvins - A Senile Animal (Ipecac)
- Tokyo Jihen - Adult (EMI Japan)
- Asa - Terveisiä Kaaoksesta (Julkaisuvuosi)
- Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles (Bpitch Control)
- Hawksley Workman - Treeful of Starling (Universal)
- 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)
- 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)
- Milanese - Extend (Planet Mu)
- 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)
- Burning Saviours - Hundus (I Hate Records)
- The Mars Volta - Amputechture (Umvd)
- Caetano Veloso - Cê (Universal)
- Miho Hatori - Ecdysis (Rykodisc)
- Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar)
- Mordant Music - Dead Air (Mordant)
- Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth of A Beast (Matador)
- Enslaved - Ruun (Candlelight)
- Isis - In The Absence of Truth (Ipecac)
- Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid - The Exchange Session (Domino)
- The Rapture - Pieces Of The People We Love (Universal)
- Tunng - Comments OF The Inner Chorus (Full Time Hobby)
- Elope - 3WD (Gravitation)
- Bert Jansch - The Black Swan (Drag City)
- Spank Rock - Yoyoyoyoyo (Big Dada)
- Subtle - for hero: for fool (Astralwerks)
- Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (Rough Trade)
9
- Wolfmother (Modular/Interscope)
- Made Out Of Babies - Coward (Neurot)
- Madder Mordem - Desiderata (Peaceville)
- The Ranconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (XL)
- Ed Harcourt - The Beautiful Lie (Heavenly)
- Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds (Jive)
- Slayer - Christ Illusion (American)
- Negura Bunget – Om (Code 666)
- The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief (Labrador)
- Kode9 & The Spaceape - Memories of the Future (Hyperdub)
- Zebulon Pike - Zebulon Pike II: The Deafening Twilight (Unfortunate)
- 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)
- Jay Reatard - Blood Visions (Matador)
- Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape (Interscope)
- 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)
- Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death (Sanctuary)
- Horse Feathers - Words Are Dead (Lucky Madison)
- Cornelius - Sensuous (WEA)
- Dead Man (Crusher)
- Man Man - Six Demon Bag (Ace Fu)
- Burst - Origo (Relapse)
- Ad Astra Per Aspera - Catapult Calypso (Sonic Unyon)
- Mouth Of The Architect - The Ties That Blind (Translation Loss)
- Ojos de Brujo - Techarí (Six Degrees)
- Mr. Lif - Mo' Mega (Def Jux)
- Juana Molina - Son (Domino)
- The Ark - State Of The Ark (EMI)
- Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (American)
- 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)
- 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)
- Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay (Southern Lord)
- Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth (Nuclear Blast)
- Jesu - Silver EP (Hydra Head)
- Booka Shade - Movements (Get Physical)
- Rhymefest - Blue Collar (Allido/J)
- The Coup - Pick a Bigger Weapon (Epitaph)
- National Trust - Kings And Queens (Thrill Jockey)
- Scott Walker - The Drift (4AD)
- 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)
- Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (Lost Highway/American)
- Cat Power - The Greatest (Matador)
- Rachid Taha - Diwan 2 (Wrasse)
- 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)
- Lindstrøm - It's A Feedelity Affair (Feedelity)
- Basement Jaxx - Crazy Itch Radio (XL)
- Marit Larsen - Under the Surface (EMI Norway)
- Svalastog - Woodwork (Rune Grammofon)
- The Blow - Paper Television (K)
- Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (Universal/Island)
- The Sword - Age Of Winters (Kemado)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Madeleine Peyroux - Half the Perfect World (Rounder)
- Gjallarhorn - Rimfaxe (Vindauga/Westpark)
- Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead (Def Jam/Columbia)
- Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55 (Atlantic)
- Raise The Red Lantern - Breathe Fire (At A Loss)
- 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)
- Mouse On Mars - Varcharz (Ipecac)
- Fields - 7 From The Village (Vice)
- Totimoshi - Ladrón (Crucial Blast)
- Priestess - Hello Master (Ace Fu)
- The Gates Of Slumber - The Awakening (Final Chapter)
- Sunshine Underground - Raise The Alarm (City Rockers)
- Wolf & Cub - Vessels (Dot Dash/4AD)
- Nebula - Apollo (Liquor and Poker)
- Witch (Tee Pee)
- Silversun Pickups - Carnavas (Dangerbird)
9-
- Turn Me On Dead Man - Technicolour Mother (Virus)
- Seemless - What Have We Become (Equal Vision)
- Oakley Hall - Second Guessing (Amish)
- Hammers Of Misfortune - The Locust Years (Cruz del Sur)
- Bible Of The Devil - Diabolic Procession (Raw Deth)
- Converge - No Heroes (Epitaph)
- Harvey Milk - Special Wishes (Troubleman Unlimited)
- Kalas (Tee Pee)
- 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 Strønen - 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Krux - Krux II (GMR)
- Church Of Misery - Master Of Brutality (Diwphalanx)
- 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)
- Battle Of Mice - A Day Of Nights (Neurot)
- 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)
- 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)
- Lamb Of God * Sacrament (Epic)
- Nouvelle Vague - Bande A Part (Peacefrog)
- Don Caballero - World Class Listening Problem (Relapse)
- Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist (Maverick)
- Muse - Black Holes & Revelations (WB)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- Patrick Wolf - Wind In The Wires (Tomlab)
- Robyn (Konichiwa Records)
9+
- My Computer - No CV (Tesla UK)
- Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better (Domino)
- Boris - Pink (Southern Lord)
- The Rakes - Capture/Release (V2 UK)
- Kate Bush - Aerial (Columbia)
- Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (Wichita/V2)
- Field Music (Memphis Industries UK)
- Spoon - Gimme Fiction (Merge)
- Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (Sub Pop)
- Gang Gang Dance - God's Money (Social Registry)
- Editors - The Back Room (Kitchenware UK)
- LCD Soundsystem (Capitol/DFA)
- Paavoharju - Yhä Hämärää (Fonal)
- Matias Aguayo - Are You Really Lost (Kompakt)
- Broadcast - Tender Buttons (Warp)
- Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart (Yep Roc)
- Gorillaz - Demon Days (Virgin)
- Clientele - Strange Geometry (Merge)
- The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday (French Kiss)
- Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche a Bamako (Nonesuch)
- Witchcraft - Firewood (Candlelight)
- Gojira - From Mars To Sirius (Listenable/Prosthetic)
- High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings (Relapse)
- Black Mountain (Jagjaguwar)
- Torche (Robotic Empire)
- M.I.A. - Arular (XL)
- Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production Of Eggs (Righteous Babe)
- Animal Collective - Feels (Fat Cat)
- Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Yah (Burial Mix)
- Konono No. 1 - Congotronics (Fat Cat)
- Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock and Roll (Rough Trade)
- Sigur Ros - Takk... (Geffen)
- Jamie Lidell - Multiply (Warp)
- Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow (Samadhisound)
- Edan - Beauty and the Beat (Lewis)
- Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger (Warp)
- The National - Alligator (Beggars Banquet)
- Enslaved - Isa (Candlelight)
- The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree (4AD)
- Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)
- Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
- Akron/Family (Young God)
- Todosantos - Aeropuerto (La Superagencia)
- Eluvium - Talk Amongst The Trees (Temporary Residence)
- The Shortwave Set - The Debt Collection (Independiente UK)
- Nôze - Craft Sounds and Voices (Circus Company)
- Abramis Brama - Rubicon (Transubstans)
- Dogs - Turn Against This Land (Island UK)
- Russian Futurists - Our Thickness (Upper Class)
- 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)
- Seu Jorge - Cru (Wrasse)
- Max De Castro (Trama)
- Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth (Matador)
- Emiliana Torrini - Fisherman's Wife (Rough Trade)
- Colder - Heat (Output)
- M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us (Goom/Mute)
- The Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir (Rough Trade)
- Mick Harvey - One Man's Treasure (Mute)
- Freakwater - Thinking Of You (Thrill Jockey)
- Earth - Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method (Southern Lord)
- Dälek - Absence (Ipecac)
- Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens (Environ)
- Steve Wynn - ...tick...tick...tick (Redeye)
- Baroness - Second EP (Hyperrealist)
- Various - Love's A Real Thing: The Funky Fuzzy Sounds Of West Africa (Luaka Bop)
9
- Anthony Hamilton - Ain't Nobody Worryin' (So So Def/Zomba)
- Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep (Big Dada/Ninja Tune UK)
- The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
- Mary Timony - Ex Hex (Lookout!)
- Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze (Interscope)
- Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise (Asthmatic Kitty)
- The Fiery Furnaces - The Fiery Furnaces EP (Rough Trade)
- Drunk Horse - In Tongues (Tee Pee)
- Burning Saviours (Meteor City)
- Kanye West - Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella)
- Quasimoto - The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas (Stones Throw)
- Sinéad O' Connor - Throw Down Your Arms (THCV)
- Blut Aus Nord - Thematic Emanation of Archetypal Multiplicity (Candlelight)
- DangerDoom - The Mouse and the Mask (Epitaph/ADA)
- Hello Saferide - Introducing... (Razzia)
- Sunn 0))) - Black One (Southern Lord)
- Ufomammut - Lucifer Songs (Supernatural Cat)
- 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)
- Mountains (Apestaartje)
- Yat-Kha - Re-Covers (World Village)
- Sigh - Gallows Gallery (The End)
- 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)
- The Darkness - One Way Ticket To Hell...And Back (Atlantic)
- Celebration (4AD/Beggars Banquet)
- Brazilian Girls (Verve)
- Ellen Allien - Thrills (Bpitch Control)
- Birchville Cat Motel - Chi Vampires (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
- Devin Davis - Lonely People of the World, Unite! (Mousse)
- The Evens (Dischord)
- Camille - Le Fil (Virgin)
- Roisin Murphy - Ruby Blue (Echo)
- Ladytron - Witching Hour (Rykodisc)
- 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)
- Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine (Nonesuch)
- Engineers (Echo)
- 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)
- Oneida - The Wedding (Jagjaguwar)
- Bettye LaVette - I've Got My Own Hell To Raise (Anti)
- The Brakes - Give Blood (Rough Trade)
- Ulver - Blood Inside (The End)
- Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor (Thrill Jockey)
- 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)
- 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)
- Khold - Krek (Candlelight)
- The Boards Of Canada - Campfire Headcase (Warp)
- Tujiko Noriko - Blurred In My Mirror (Room40)
- Caribou [Manitoba] - The Milk Of Human Kindness (Domino)
- The Dirty Three - Cinder (Touch & Go)
- Grand Magus - Wolf’s Return (Candlelight)
- 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)
- Cage - Hell's Winter (Definitive Jux)
- Coco Rosie - Noah's Ark (Touch & Go)
- Sheavy - Republic? (Candlelight USA)
- Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (Vagrant)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- The Fall Of Troy - Doppelganger (Equal Vision)
- Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (Sub Pop)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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-
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
10-
2004
- TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch & Go)
- Mastodon - Leviathan (Relapse)
9+
- Björk - Medulla (Elektra)
- Brian Wilson - SMiLE (Nonesuch)
- Junior Boys - Last Exit (Kin UK)
- The Walkmen - Bows And Arrows (Record Collection)
- Wilco - A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
- Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
- Arto Lindsay - Salt (Righteous Babe)
- Sketch Show - Loophole (Third Ear)
- Annie - Anniemal (679)
- The Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum (Beggars)
- Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld (Drag City)
- Madvillain - Madvillainy (Stones Throw)
- Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy (Tomlab)
- Electrelane - The Power Out (Too Pure/Beggars)
- Colour Haze (Elektrohasch)
- Tom Waits - Real Gone (Anti/Epitaph)
- Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse (Geffen)
- Witchcraft (Candlelight)
- The Arcade Fire - Funeral (Merge)
- The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat (Rough Trade)
- Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - The Doldrums (Paw Tracks)
- Orphaned Land - Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven (Century Media)
- The Black Keys - Rubber Factory (Fat Possum)
- Razorlight - Up All Night (Vertigo UK)
- Utada - Exodus (Island)
- Dizzee Rascal - Showtime (XL)
- Stars - Set Yourself On Fire (Arts & Crafts)
- Ed Harcourt - Strangers (Heavenly UK)
- Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
- M.I.A. & Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 (Hollertronix)
- Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt (Subliminal Sounds)
- Ufomammut - Snailking (Supernatural Cat)
- Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks (Fat Cat)
- The Soft Pink Truth - Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth? (Tigerbeat6)
- The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike (Memphis Industries)
- Elope - The No Name Record (Gravitation)
- The Earlies - These Were The Earlies (WEA UK)
- Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands Of (Young God)
- The Czars - Goodbye (Bella Union)
- Bark Psychosis - ///Codename: Dustsucker (Fire)
- Federico Aubelle - Gran Hotel Buenos Aires (Eighteenth Street Lo)
- PJ Harvey - Uh Huh 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)
- Kanye West - The College Dropout (Roc-A-Fella)
- Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love (Modular)
- Anathema - A Natural Disaster (Koch)
- Skinnyman - Council Estate Of Mind (Lowlife)
- 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)
- 90 Day Men - Panda Park (Southern)
- Lucien-N-Luciano - Blind Behaviour (Peacefrog)
- Interpol - Antics (Matador)
- 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)
- 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)
- Jason Forrest - The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash (Sonig)
- Andrew Morgan - Misadventures In Radiology (Broken Horse UK)
- Mouse On Mars - Radical Connector (Thrill Jockey)
- Social Distortion - Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll (Time Bomb)
- Devin The Dude - To Tha X-Treme (Rap-A-Lot)
- Stereolab - Margarine Eclipse (Elektra)
- Squarepusher - Ultravisitor (Warp)
- On! Air! Library! (Arena Rock)
- Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Who Is This America (Ropeadope)
- Spektrum - Enter ... The Spektrum (Playhouse UK)
9
- TAPE - Milieu (Häpna)
- Baroness - First EP (Hyperrealist)
- Zebulon Pike - And Blood Was Passion (Unfortunate)
- Polysics - Polysics Or Die!!! (Surla/Sony)
- Lansing-Dreiden - The Incomplete Triangle (Kemado)
- Mouth Of The Architect - Time & Withering (Translation Loss)
- 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)
- Black Moth Super Rainbow - Start A People (Graveface)
- 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)
- 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)
- Khold - Mørke Gravers Kammer (Candlelight)
- Nouvelle Vague (Peacefrog)
- Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojos (Young God)
- The Delgados - Universal Audio (Mantra UK)
- Ambulance LTD - LP (TVT)
- !!! - Louden Up Now (Touch and Go/Warp)
- Scissor Sistors (Polydor UK)
- The Organ - Grab That Gun (Mint)
- Dionysos - Whatever The Weather (Trema Fr)
- Deathspell Omega – Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Luna - Rendezvous (Jetset)
- 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)
- Danzig - Circle Of Snakes (Evilive)
- 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)
- Brave Captain - All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (Wichita UK)
- Dani Siciliano - Likes... (K7)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 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)
- 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)
10-
2003
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell (Interscope)
- The White Stripes - Elephant (V2)
- Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (Capitol)
- Four Tet - Rounds (Domino)
- Café Tacvba - Quatro Caminos (MCA)
9+
- Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher (Warp)
- TV On The Radio - Young Liars EP (Touch And Go)
- Stars - Heart (Arts & Crafts)
- Boris - Akuma No Uta (Fangs Anal Satan/Southern Lord)
- Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner (XL)
- Otto - Sem Gravidade (Trama)
- Shack - Here's Tom With The Weather (North Country UK)
- Broadcast - Hahasound (Warp)
- Ed Harcourt - From Every Sphere (Astralwerks/Heaven)
- Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power (XL/Beggars)
- Colder - Again (Output UK)
- M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (EMI FR)
- The Rapture - Echoes (DFA/Universal)
- The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium (GSL/Universal)
- Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Sanctuary)
- The Wrens - Meadowlands (Absolutely Kosher)
- The Darkness - Permission To Land (Must Destroy)
- The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller (Dragonheart)
- Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow (Load)
- The Concretes (Licking Fingers Sweden)
- Frog Eyes - The Golden River (Animal World)
- Caribou [Manitoba] - Up In Flames (Domino)
- A Frames - A Frames 2 (S-S Records)
- The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
- Elbow - Cast Of Thousands (V2)
- Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn (Constellation)
- The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic (Dirtnap)
- The Constantines - Shine A Light (Sub Pop)
- Josh Rouse - 1972 (Rykodisc)
- Tujiko Noriko - From Tokyo to Naiagara (Tomlab)
- Menomena - I Am The Fun Blame Monster (Muuuhahaha!)
- Daude - Neguinha Te Amo (Realworld)
- Juana Molina - Segundo (Domino)
- Grand Magus – Monument (Rise Above)
- Abramis Brama - Nothing Changes (Transubstans)
- Lomax - A Symbol Of Modern Living (93 Records)
- Solace - 13 (Meteor City)
- Colour Haze - Los Sounds de Krauts (Elektrohasch)
- Rokia Traoré - Bowmboi (Tama)
- Lucas Santtana - Parada De Lucas (Diginois Brazil)
- Hawksley Workman - Lover/Fighter (Universal)
- Tom Zé - Imprensa Cantada (Trama)
- Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People (Matador)
- Cave In - Jupiter (Hydra Head)
- Nina Nastasia - Run To Ruin (Touch And Go)
- Joe Henry - Tiny Voices (Anti)
- Zoot Woman (Wall Of Sound)
- Pelican - Australasia (Hydra Head)
- Longwave - The Strangest Things (RCA)
- The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart (Vice)
- The Twilight Singers - Blackberry Belle (One Little Indian)
- 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)
- Gojira - The Link (Listenable)
- Calla - Televise (Arena Rock Recording Co)
- HiM - Many In High Places Are Not Well (Bubble Core)
- The Books - Lemon Of Pink (TomLab)
- 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)
- Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa (Playhouse)
- Bang Gang - Something Wrong (Recall Iceland)
- The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark (Rough Trade)
- Hammers Of Misfortune - The August Engine (Cruz del Sur)
- Pelican EP (Hydra Head)
- The Black Keys - Thickfreakness (Fat Possum)
- Etienne Daho - Reevolution (Virgin)
- Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland (Hannibal)
- Madder Mortem - Deadlands (The End)
- The Clientele - Violet Hour (Merge)
- Ween - Quebec (Sanctuary)
- Asian Dub Foundation - Enemy of the Enemy (Virgin)
- Mark Lanegan Band - Here Comes The Weird Chill EP (Beggars)
9
- The Meads Of Asphodel - Exhuming The Grave Of Yeshua (Supernal)
- Krux (Mascot)
- Beulah - Yoko (Velocette)
- Ty - Upwards (Big Dada UK)
- Johnny Cash - Unearthed (American)
- Opeth - Damnation (Koch)
- The Distillers - Coral Fang (Sire)
- Head Of Femur - Ringodom Or Proctor (Greyday)
- Massive Attack - 100th Window (Virgin)
- The Coral - Magic And Medicine (Deltasonic)
- Boris - Boris At Last -Feedbacker- (Fangs Anal Satan/Conspiracy)
- Snow Patrol - Final Straw (Universal UK)
- Kraftwerk - Tour De France (Astralwerks)
- 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)
- Rancid - Indestructible (Epitaph)
- 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)
- Boxstep - Backroads (Boxstep)
- 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)
- Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death (Columbia)
- 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)
- Kelis - Tasty (Star Trak/Arista)
- Missy Elliott - This Is Not A Test (Goldmind/Elektra)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Nocturama (Mute)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
These are alphabetical because I have not yet heard them (but they come recommended by reasonably reputable sources)
- Amadou & Mariam - Wati (Universal)
- Anti-Pop 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
- Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf (Interscope)
- N*E*R*D - In Search Of ... (Virgin)
- Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where (Ninja Tune)
- The Notwist - Neon Golden (City Slang)
9+
- Neko Case - Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
- Boris - Heavy Rocks (Quattro/UK)
- My Computer - Vulnerabilia (13 Amp UK)
- Arto Lindsay - Invoke (Righteous Babe)
- Tom Waits - Alice (Anti/Epitaph)
- The Streets - Original Pirate Material (Locked On UK)
- The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner)
- Rob - Satyred Love (Source/Virgin Fr)
- Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air (Touch and Go)
- Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
- Sleater-Kinney - One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)
- Nação Zumbi (Trama)
- Spoon - Kill The Moonlight (Merge)
- The Libertines - Up The Bracket (Rough Trade)
- Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi (Warp)
- Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (Matador)
- Domenico +2 - Sincerely Hot (Nippon Crown)
- Plush - Fed (After Hours Jpn)
- Max Tundra - Mastered by the Guy at the Exchange (Tigerbeat6)
- Doves - The Last Broadcast (Heavenly/Astralwerks)
- Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Yanqui U.X.O. (Constellation)
- Sigur Rós - ( ) (Fat Cat/MCA)
- OOIOO - Kila Kila Kila (Thrill Jockey)
- Isis - Oceanic (Ipecac)
- Floor (No Idea)
- Anti-Pop Consortium - Arrhythmia (Warp)
- Mastodon - Remission (Relapse)
- Out Hud - S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. (Kranky)
- Schneider TM - Zoomer (City Slang)
- Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People (Paper Bag)
- Tom Waits - Blood Money (Anti/Epitaph)
- Rjd2 - Deadringer (Def Jux)
- Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out Of Season (Go Beat UK)
- The Books - Thought For Food (Tomlab)
- El-P - Fantastic Damage (Def Jux)
- Dälek - From The Filthy Tongues Of Gods And Griots (Ipecac)
- Sonic Youth - Murray Street (Interscope)
- Brendan Benson - Lapalco (Startime)
- Mum - Finally We Are No One (Fat Cat)
- DJ /rupture - Minesweeper Suite (Tigerbeat6)
- The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone (Startime)
- The Roots - Phrenology (MCA)
- Max De Castro - Orchestra Klaxon (Trama)
- Ampop - Made For Market (TMT/Thule Musik Iceland)
- The Fire Show - Saint The Fire Show (Perishable)
- 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)
- Radio 4 - Gotham (Gern Blandsten)
- Archer Prewitt - Three (Thrill Jockey)
- Cornershop - Handcream For A Generation (Luaka Bop)
- Blevin Blectum - Talon Slalom (Deluxe)
- Gomez - In Our Gun (Virgin)
- Gemma Hayes - Night On My Side (Source)
- The Flaming Stars - Sunset & Void (Alternative Tentacles)
- Clinic - Walking With Thee (Domino)
- The National Trust - Dekkagar (Thrill Jockey)
- Eleni Mandell - Snakebite (Spacebaby)
- DJ Shadow - The Private Press (Mo' Wax)
- The Delgados - Hate (Mantra UK)
- Devendra Banhart - Oh Me Oh My... (Young God)
- Lake Trout - Another One Lost (Palm Pictures)
- Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow (Quannum/MCA)
- For Against - Coalesced (Words On Music)
- We Ragazzi - The Ache (Self-Starter)
- Wire - Read & Burn 01 & 02 (Pink Flag)
- The Decemberists - Castaways And Cut-Outs (Hugh)
- Metro Area (Environ)
- Suicide - American Supreme (Mute/Blast First)
- Recloose - Cardiology (Planet E)
- Benjamin Biolay - Rose Kennedy (Virgin Fr)
- Totonho & Os Cabra (Trama)
- Boom Bip - Seed To Sun (Lex)
- The Walkabouts - Ended Up A Stranger (Innerstate)
- 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)
- High On Fire - Surrounded By Thieves (Relapse)
- And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Source Tags & Codes (Interscope)
- Tony Allen - HomeCooking (Cornet)
- Amadou & Mariam - The Magic Couple (Wrasse)
- Jean Grae - Attack Of The Attacking Things (Third Earth)
- Various - Extra Yard (Big Dada)
9
- Sinéad O' Connor - Sean-Nós Nua (Vanguard)
- TAPE - Opera (Häpna)
- Frog Eyes - The Bloody Hand (Animal World)
- Kent - Vapen & Ammunition (BMG)
- DJ Dolores + Orchestra Santa Massa - Contraditoria? (Candeeiro/Stern's)
- Beck - Sea Change (Interscope)
- 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)
- Wolf – Black Things (No Fashion)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- The Strokes - Is This It (RCA/BMG)
- Fugazi - The Argument (Dischord)
- The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
9+
- Hawksley Workman - (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves (Universal)
- Opeth - Blackwater Park (Koch)
- Fennesz - Endless Summer (Mego)
- Mercury Rev - All Is Dream (V2)
- Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life (EMI/Parlophone)
- Ed Harcourt - Here Be Monsters (Virgin)
- Radiohead - Amnesiac (Capitol)
- The Dismemberment Plan - Change (De Soto)
- Gorillaz (Virgin)
- Daft Punk - Discovery (Virgin)
- The Boredoms - Vision, Creation, Newsun (WEA Japan)
- Cannibal Ox - Cold Vein (Ozone Music)
- The Avalanches - Since I Left You (Sire/Modular)
- Spoon - Girls Can Tell (Merge)
- Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World (Epic)
- The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2 (K) 01
- Pulp - We Love Life (Uni/Island)
- Mark Lanegan - Field Songs (Sub Pop)
- No Doubt - Rock Steady (Interscope)
- Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You (Kill Rock Stars)
- Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (Tugboat)
- Sigh - Imaginary Soundscape (Century Media)
- Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator) (Acony)
- The Czars - The Ugly People Vs. The Beautiful People (Bellaire)
- Steve Wynn - Here Come The Miracles (Innerstate)
- Elbow - Asleep In The Back (V2)
- Basement Jaxx - Rooty (XL)
- Missy Elliott - Miss E . . . So Addictive (WEA/Elektra)
- Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance (Drag City)
- Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire - The Swimming Hour (Rykodisc)
- Eels - Soul Jacker (Dreamworks)
- Four Tet - Pause (Domino)
- Otto - Condom Black (Trama)
- Bows - Cassidy (Too Pure)
- The Beta Band - Hotshots II (Astralwerks)
- Lift To Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (Bella Union)
- !!! (Chik Chik Chik) (Gold Standard)
- Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
- N*E*R*D - In Search Of... (Virgin)
- Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me (Big Dada)
- Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (Rise Above/Candlelight)
- Bardo Pond - Dilate (Matador)
- Spirit Caravan - Elusive Truth (Tolotta)
- Hammers Of Misfortune - The Bastard (Tumult)
- Max De Castro - Samba Raro (Trama)
- Moreno Veloso +2 - Music Typewriter (Hannibal/Natasha)
- Blue States - Nothing Changes Under The Sun (ESL)
- Dub Pistols - Six Million Ways To Live (Universal)
- 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)
- Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives (Warp)
- The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop)
- Orlando Cachaito Lopez - Cachaito (World Circuit)
- 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)
- The Flaming Stars - A Walk On The Wired Side (Vinyl Japan)
- Nitin Sawhney - Prophesy (V2)
- Built To Spill - Ancient Melodies Of The Future (WB)
- Circulatory System (Cloud Recordings)
- Pernice Brothers - The World Won't End (Ashmont)
- Herbert - Bodily Functions (!K7)
- Foetus - Flow (Thirsty Ear)
- Shannon Wright - Dyed In The Wool (Quarterstick)
- Stereolab - Sound-Dust (Elektra)
- Bilal - 1st Born Second (Interscope)
- The Autumn Defense - The Green Hour (Broadmoor)
- Handsome Family - Twilight (Carrot Top)
- 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)
- Low - Things We Lost In The Fire (Kranky)
- Royksopp - Melody A.M. (Wall Of Sond/EMI)
- Stars - Nightsongs (Le Grand)
- Lali Puna - Scary World Theory (Morr)
- Broken Social Scene - Feel Good Lost (Noise Factory)
- Thalia Zedek - Been Here and Gone (Matador)
- The Tyde - Once (Track & Field)
- Papa M - Whatever, Mortal (Drag City)
- Ben Christophers - Spoonface (V2)
- The (International) Noise Conspiracy - A New Morning, Changing Weather (Epitaph)
- Isis - Celestial (7)
- 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)
- 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)
- The Other People Place - Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe (Warp)
- Motörhead - Bastards (RGS/Babylon)
- Various - All Tomorrow's Parties 1.0 (ATPR)
9
- Abramis Brama - Nar Tystnaden Lagt Sig (Transubstans)
- Arab Strap - The Red Thread (Matador/Chemical Underground)
- Weezer - The Green Album (Geffen)
- Entombed - Morning Star (Music for the Nations)
- Slayer - God Hates Us All (American/Columbia)
- 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)
- Gojira - Terra Ingognita (Mon Slip)
- Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise (Candlelight)
- R.E.M. - Reveal (WB)
- Rob - Don't Kill (Source Fr)
- 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)
- 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)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP (Wichita/Touch And Go)
- Adult - Resuscitation (Ersatz Audio)
- Trilok Gurtu - The Beat Of Love (Blue Note)
- Kelis - Wanderland (Virgin UK)
- 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)
- Kevin Tihista's Red Terror - Don't Breathe A Word (Blanco Y Negro)
- Burning Airlines - Identikit (DeSoto)
- Erase Errata - Other Animals (Troubleman)
- The Meads Of Asphodel - The Excommunication Of Christ (Supernal)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Godflesh - Hymns (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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+
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Queens of the Stone Age - R (Interscope)
- Amon Tobin - Supermodified (Ninja Tune)
- Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (Kranky)
- Primal Scream - Xtrmntr (Creation)
- D'Angelo - Voodoo (Virgin)
- OOIOO - Gold And Green (Polystar/Thrill Jockey)
- Sussan Deyhim - Madman Of God: Divine Love Songs of the Persian Sufi Masters (CramWorld)
- Asian Dub Foundation - Community Music (London)
9+
- Hawksley Workman - For Him And The Girls (Isadora/Ba Da Bing)
- At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command (Grand Royal)
- Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun (FatCat/Bubble Core)
- Quasimoto - The Unseen (Stones Throw)
- The White Stripes - De Stijl (Sympathy For the Record Industry)
- Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica (Epic)
- 16 Horsepower - Secret South (Razor & Tie)
- The Go-Betweens - The Friends Of Rachel Worth (Jetset)
- The Delgados - The Great Eastern (Chemikal Underground)
- Sleater-Kinney - All Hands On The Bad One (Kill Rock Stars)
- Nação Zumbi - Radio S.AMB.A. (Stern's Brasil)
- Shellac - 1000 Hurts (Touch & Go)
- Entombed - Uprising (Threeman)
- The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among The Deadmen (Dragonheart)
- Iron Maiden - Brave New World (Portrait/Columbia)
- Blackalicious - Nia (Quannum Projects)
- Common - Like Water For Chocolate (MCA)
- The Clientele - Suburban Light (Merge)
- Goatsnake - Flower Of Disease (Man's Ruin)
- Leila - Courtesy Of Choice (XL)
- Gas - Pop (Mille Plateaux)
- Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (Dreamworks)
- Ampop - Nature Is Not A Virgin (R&R Iceland)
- Broadcast - The Noise Made By People (Warp/Tommy Boy)
- Spirit Caravan - Jug Fulla Sun (Tolotta)
- Nina Nastasia - Dogs (Socialist)
- Boris - Flood (MIDI Creative)
- Eleni Mandell - Thrill (Space Baby)
- Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy (Dreamworks)
- High On Fire - The Art of Self Defense (Man's Ruin)
- Mum - Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is Okay (Tugboat)
- The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic (Mint/Matador)
- Soul Center II (W.v.B.)
- Calexico - Hot Rail (Quarterstick)
- Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl (Nonesuch)
- The Black Heart Procession - Three (Touch & Go)
- Radio 4 - The New Song And Dance (Gern Blandsten)
- Mundo Livre S.A. - Por Pouco (Abril)
- The Kingsbury Manx (Overcoat)
- Various - Caipirissima: Batucada Eletronica (Caipirinha)
- John Vanderslice - Mass Suicide Occult Figurines (Barsuk)
- The Concretes - Boyoubetterunow (Up)
- Poem Rocket - Psychogeography (Atavistic)
- The Czars - Before But Longer (Bella Union)
- 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)
- Outkast - Stankonia (LaFace)
- The Handsome Family - In The Air (Carrot Top)
- Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (Matador)
- Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump (V2)
- Pram - Museum Of Imaginary Animals (Too Pure)
- 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)
- Anti-Pop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue (75 Ark)
- 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)
- 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)
- The Haunted - Made Me Do It (Earache)
- 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)
- Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain (Mute)
- Dead Prez - Let's Get Free (Loud)
- Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele (Epic/Razor Sharp)
- Deltron 3030 (75 Ark)
- Virginia Rodrigues - Nos (Hannibal)
- Jurassic 5 - Quality Control (Interscope)
- Reflection Eternal (Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek) - Train Of Thought (Rawkus)
- Spoon - Love Ways EP (Merge)
- Emiliana Torrini - Love In The Time of Science (Virgin)
- Enslaved - Mardraum (Necropolis)
- The Aluminum Group - Pelo (Symbiotic/Hefty)
9
- Tantalus - Constant Gratification (SHP)
- Jah Wobble - Molam Dub (30 Hertz)
- Susana Baca - Eco De Sombras (Luaka Bop)
- The Glands (Capricorn)
- Bonfire Madigan - Saddle The Bridge (Kill Rock Stars)
- Damien Jurado - Ghost Of David (Sub Pop)
- Jason Moran - Facing Left (Blue Note)
- Joseph Arthur - Come To Where I'm From (RealWorld)
- Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott? (Sony/Epic)
- Flogging Molly - Swagger (SideOneDummy)
- Doves - Lost Souls (Heavenly)
- AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip (East West)
- Green Day - Warning (Reprise)
- Built To Spill - Live (WB)
- Schneider TM - Binokular EP (City Slang)
- Weakerthans - Left & Leaving (Sub City)
- No Doubt - Return Of Saturn (Interscope)
- Toshack Highway (Flower Shop)
- Mondo Generator - Cocaine Rodeo (Southern Lord)
- Ween - White Pepper (Elektra)
- Elastica - The Menace (Geffen)
- Nile - Black Seeds Of Vengeance (Relapse)
- Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - The Blue Trees (Mantra)
- Erin McKeown - Distillation (Signature)
- Shannon Wright - Maps Of Tacit (Quarterstick)
- Otto - Changez Tout: Samba Par Burro Dissecado (Trama)
- Kathryn Williams - Little Black Numbers (Caw)
- 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)
- 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 Traoré - Macire (Indigo)
- Rokia Traoré - Wanita (Indigo)
- Solace - Further (Meteor City)
- 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)
- Youssou N'dour - Joko (Nonesuch)
- Don Caballero - American Don (Touch & Go)
- Slumber Party (Kill Rock Stars)
- Cat Power - The Covers Record (Matador)
- Sinéad 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)
- Belle & Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant (Matador)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- OOIOO - Feather Float (Polys/Birdman)
- 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)
- The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Twilight Of The Idols (Dragonheart)
- 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)
- Shack - H.M.S. Fable (Laurel/London)
- Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider (Capitol)
- The Delgados - Peloton (Chemikal Underground)
- 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)
- Death In Vegas - The Contino Sessions (Time Bomb)
- Opeth - Still Life (Peaceville/Snapper)
- 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.)
- Ben Christophers - My Beautiful Demon (V2)
- 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)
- 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)
- Colour Haze - Periscope (Elektrohasch)
- 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)
- XTC - Apple Venus, Vol. 1(TVT)
- 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)
- Kampfar - Fra Underverdenen (Hammerheart)
- 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)
- Spirit Caravan - Dreamwheel (MeteorCity)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Melvins - The Maggot (Ipecac)
- 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)
- Massive Attack - Mezzanine (Virgin)
- Outkast - Aquemini (LaFace)
- Beck - Mutations (Geffen)
- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme (Matador/Capitol)
- Pram - North Pole Radio Station (Merge)
- Queens Of the Stone Age (Loosegroove)
- Amon Tobin - Permutation (Ninja Tune)
- Otto - Samba Pra Burro (Trama)
- Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs (V2)
- Cat Power - Moon Pix (Matador)
- Belle & Sebastion - The Boy With the Arab Strap (Matador)
- Schneider TM - Moist (City Slang/Mute)
- Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury)
- 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)
- Autechre - LP5 (Nothing/Warp)
- 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)
- Squarepusher - Music Is Rotted One Note (Warp)
- 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)
- Spoon - A Series Of Sneaks (Elektra)
- 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 Zumbi - CSNZ (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)
- Boris - Amplifier Worship (Mangrove/Southern Lord)
- 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)
- The Haunted (Earache)
- 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)
- Busta Rhymes - Extinction Level Event (Elektra)
- Money Mark - Push The Button (Mo Wax)
- Lee Fields - Let's Get A Groove On (Desco)
- Whale - All Disco Dancing Must End in Broken Bones (Virgin)
- Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves (Geffen)
- Rancid - Life Won't Wait (Epitaph)
- Colour Haze - Seven (Elektrohasch)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Radiohead - OK Computer (Capitol)
- Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (Arista)
- Laika - Sounds of the Satellites (Too Pure)
- Arto Lindsay - Mundo Civilizado (Bar/None)
- Walt Mink - Colossus (Deep Elm)
9+
- Finley Quaye - Maverick A Strike (550 Music)
- Amon Tobin - Bricolage (Ninja Tune)
- Richard Horowitz & Susan Deyhim - Majoun (Sony Classical)
- Cornershop - When I Was Born For the 7th Time (Luaka Bop/WB)
- Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - Fabulosos Calavera (BMG)
- Portishead (London)
- Missy Misdemeanor Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly (East/West)
- Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out (Kill Rock Stars)
- Radio Tarifa - Rumba Argelina (World Circuit)
- Tortoise - Remixed (Tokuma/Thrill Jockey)
- Sixteen Horsepower - Low Estate (A&M)
- Stereolab - Dots And Loops (Elektra)
- Primal Scream - Vanishing Point (Reprise)
- Catherine Wheel - Adam and Eve (Mercury)
- Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy (Warp)
- Super Furry Animals - Radiator (Creation)
- Blur (Virgin)
- The Flaming Lips - Zaireeka (WB)
- Labradford - Mi Media Naranja (Kranky)
- Buena Vista Social Club with Ry Cooder (Nonesuch)
- 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)
- Susana Baca (Luaka Bop)
- X-Ecutioners - X-pressions (Asphodel)
- 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)
- Primal Scream - Echo Dek (Reprise)
- 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)
- Khaled - Sahra (Island)
- Patti Smith - Peace & Noise (Arista)
- Mogwai - Young Team (Jetset)
- The Notwist - 12 (Zero Hour)
- Palace Songs - Lost Blues And Other Songs (Thrill Jockey)
- Wyclef Jean - The Carnival (Columbia)
- Joseph Arthur - Big City Secrets (Real World)
- 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)
- 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)
- Spoon - Soft Effects EP (Matador)
- 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)
- Ween - The Mollusk (Elektra)
- Broadcast - Work And Non-Work (Drag City)
- Talvin Singh - Anokha: Soundz of the Asian Underground (Quango)
- Various - Vedic Presents Rhythmic Intelligence (Sub Rosa)
9
- Kid Loco - A Grand Love Story (Yellow/East)
- Grandaddy - Under The Western Freeway (Will/V2)
- The Delgados - Domestiques (Chemikal Underground)
- 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)
- Guided By Voices - Mag Earwhig! (Matador)
- 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)
- P.W. Long's Reelfoot - We Didn't See You On Sunday (Touch & Go)
- Badawi - Jerusalem Under Fire (ROIR)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (Thrill Jockey)
- Chico Science & Nação Zumbi - Afrociberdelia (Chaos)
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)
- Belle & Sebastion - If You're Feeling Sinister (The Enclave)
- Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension (Island)
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads (Mute)
- The Wedding Present - Saturnalia (RCA)
- 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)
- Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk (Matador)
- Weezer - Pinkerton (DGC)
- Girls Against Boys - House of GSVB (Touch & Go)
- Spoon - Telephono (Matador)
- Opeth - Morningrise (Century Media)
- Outkast - ATLiens (LaFace)
- Tool - Aenima (Volcano)
- Patti Smith - Gone Again (Arista)
- 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)
- 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)
- Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman (WB)
- 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)
- Various - Axiom Dub: Mysteries of Creation (Axiom)
- 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)
- Melvins - Stag (Atlantic)
- Polly Jean Harvey & John Parish - Dance Hall At Louse Point (Island)
- Plug - Drum 'n' Bass For Papa (Plant)
- Omni Trio - Haunted Science (sm:)e)
- Fountains Of Wayne (Tag/Atlantic)
- Trenchmouth - The Broadcasting System (Skene!)
- Bikini Kill - Reject All American (Kill Rock Stars)
- Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things (Rephlex)
- The Grifters - Ain't My Lookout (Sub Pop)
- Johnny Cash - Unchained (American)
- Roy Montgomery - Temple IV (Kranky)
- DJ Spooky - Songs Of A Dead Dreamer (Asphodel)
- John Zorn - Bar Kokhba (Tzadik)
- Firewater - Get Off The Cross (Jetset)
- Richard Davies - There's Never Been A Crowd Like This (Flydaddy)
- Scorn - Logghi Barogghi (Earache)
- Boris - Absolutego (Fangs Anal Satan/Southern Lord)
- The Raincoats - Looking In The Shadows (Geffen)
- 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)
- Gaunt - Kryptonite (Thrill Jockey)
- 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)
- 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)
- Meshell Ndegeocello - 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 19-77 (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)
- Dirty Three (Touch & Go)
- Radiohead - The Bends (Capitol)
- Asian Dub Foundation - Facts And Fictions (Nation)
- Labradford - A Stable Reference (Kranky)
9+
- The Young Gods - Only Heaven (Interscope)
- Cornelius - 69/96 (Trattoria)
- Chico Science & Nação Zumbi - De Lama Ao Caos (Chaos)
- Oval - 94 Diskont (Mille Plateaux)
- Elastica (Geffen)
- 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)
- Sunny Day Real Estate - The Pink Album (Sub Pop)
- Opeth - Orchid (Century Media)
- 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)
- Sleep - Dopesmoker (Tee Pee)
- Ui - Unlike: Remixes Volume 1 (Lunamoth)
- Ui - The 2-Sided EP/Sharpie (Southern)
- Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (Capitol)
- Boss Hog (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)
- Rancid - And Out Come The Wolves (Epitaph)
- 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)
- Pere Ubu - Ray Gun Suitcase (Cooking Vinyl)
- Apache Indian - Make Way for the Indian (Island)
- The Auteurs - After Murder Park (Hut)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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-
- Portishead - Dummy (Go! Discs)
- Laika - Silver Apples Of The Moon (Too Pure)
- Tortoise (Thrill Jockey)
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)
- Marisa Monte - Rose And Charcoal (Metro Blue)
- 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)
- Velvet Crush - Teenage Symphonies To God (Sony/Creation)
- Ween - Chocolate And Cheese (Geffen)
- Soundgarden - Superunknown (A&M)
- Johnny Cash - American Recordings (American)
- Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse (Century Black)
- Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley (Elektra)
- Melvins - Stoner Witch (Atlantic)
- Oasis - Definitely Maybe (Epic)
- 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)
- Lisa Germano - Geek The Girl (4AD)
- 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)
- Danzig - IV (American)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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!)
- 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)
- Liz Phair - Whip-Smart (Matador)
- 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)
- Tom Petty - Wildflowers (WB)
- 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)
- PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me (Island)
- Björk - Debut (Elektra)
- Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville (Matador)
- Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (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)
- The Jungle Brothers - J. Beez Wit The Remedy (WB)
- Baaba Maal - Lam Toro (Island/Palm Pictures)
9+
- Yo La Tengo - Painful (Matador/Atlantic)
- Flaming Lips - Transmission From The Satellite Heart (WB)
- Walt Mink - Bareback Ride (Caroline)
- Swervedriver - Mezcal Head (A&M)
- Catherine Wheel - Chrome (Mercury)
- Gallon Drunk - From the Heart of Town (Sire/Reprise)
- 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)
- 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)
- Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary (Sub Pop)
- 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)
- Melvins - Houdini (Atlantic)
- 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)
- Masters Of Reality - Sunrise On The Sufferbus (Chrysalis)
- 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)
- Versus - Let's Electrify! EP (Remora)
- Queen Latifah - Black Reign (Motown)
- Apache Indian - No Reservations (4th & Broadway)
- Ry Cooder - Music By Ry Cooder 1980-1993 (WB)
9
- Tool - Undertow (Zoo)
- The Auteurs - New Wave (Hut/Caroline)
- Superconductor - Hit Songs For Girls (Boner)
- Cynic - Focus (Roadrunner)
- 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)
- Meshell Ndegeocello - 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)
- Urge Overkill - Saturation (DGC)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Afghan Whigs - Congregation (Sub Pop)
- Dog Faced Hermans - Mental Blocks For All Ages (Project A- Bomb)
- Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun (Dali)
- Fela Kuti - Underground System (MCA)
- Sleep - Holy Mountain (Earache)
- Catherine Wheel - Ferment (Mercury/Polygram)
- Mano Negra - In The Hell Of Patchinko (Virgin)
- Cul De Sac - Ecim (Aurora)
- 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)
- Unrest - Imperial f.f.r.r. (No. 6 Records)
- Main - Dry Stone Feed (Beggars Banquet)
- Sonic Youth - Dirty (WB)
- Souled American - Sonny (Rough Trade)
- Disco Inferno - Summer's Last Sound EP (Cheree)
- Bongwater - The Big Sell-Out (Shimmy Disc)
- Babes In Toyland - Fontanelle (Reprise)
- Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over (Beggars Banquet)
- Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion (Epic)
- 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
- Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall (American)
- Ride - Going Blank Again (Sire/Reprise)
- Danzig - Danzig III: How The Gods Kill (American)
- 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)
- 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)
- Def Leppard - Adrenalize (Mercury)
- 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)
- Nirvana - Nevermind (Geffen)
- A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (Jive)
9+
- Son Of Bazerk - Bazerk Bazerk Bazerk (Soul/MCA)
- The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld (Mercury)
- Melvins - Bullhead (Boner)
- Monster Magnet - Spine Of God (Caroline)
- Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (A&M)
- Orbital (ffrr)
- Disco Inferno - Open Doors, Closed Windows (Che)
- Swervedriver - Raise (A&M)
- Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide (Island)
- 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)
- Pavement - Westing (by musket or sextant) (Drag City)
- Uncle Tupelo - Still Feel Gone (Rockville)
- Ice-T - O.G. Original Gangster (Sire/WB)
- The Wedding Present - Seamonsters (BMG)
- Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque (Geffen)
- Trouble - Manic Frustration (American)
- The Obsessed - Lunar Womb (Noise)
- Velvet Crush - In The Presence Of Greatness (Actin Musik)
- 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)
- Entombed - Clandestine (Earache)
- Sepultura - Arise (Roadrunner)
- Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick (Combat)
- Bongwater - The Power of Pussy (Shimmy Disc)
- The Field Mice - For Keeps (Sarah/LTM)
- 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)
- 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)
- Guns N' Roses - User Your Illusion I (Geffen)
- 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)
- Sinéad O' Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (Chrysalis)
- Afghan Whigs - Up In It (Sub Pop)
- Yo La Tengo - Fakebook (Bar/None)
- Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music (Rough Trade/Ryko)
- 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)
- Trouble (American)
- Danzig - Danzig II: Lucifuge (American)
- 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)
- Judas Priest - Painkiller (Columbia)
- Run Westy Run - Green Cat Island (Twin/Tone)
- 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)
- 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
1989
- Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (Capitol)
10-
- Fugazi - 13 Songs (Dischord)
- The Jungle Brothers - Done By The Forces Of Nature (WB)
9+
- The Pixies - Doolittle (Elektra)
- Einsturzende Neubauten - Haus der Luege (Rough Trade/Thirsty Ear)
- Operation Ivy - Energy (Lookout!)
- Bad Brains - Quickness (Caroline)
- Nirvana - Bleach (Sub Pop)
- NoMeansNo - Wrong (Alternative Tentacles)
- Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff EP + Singles (Sub Pop)
- The Jungle Brothers - Done By The Forces Of Nature (WB)
- The Blue Nile - Hats (A&M/Virgin)
- Voivod - Nothingface (Mechanic)
- The The - Mind Bomb (Epic)
- Slint - Tweez (Jill)
- A.R. Kane - "i" (Rough Trade)
- Mano Negra - Puta's Fever (Virgin)
- Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie (Virgin)
- Souled American - Flubber (Rough Trade)
- Cheb Khaled - Kutche (Stern's)
- Melvins - Ozma (Boner)
- Rapeman - Two Nuns And A Pack Mule (Touch & Go)
- The Young Gods - L'Eau Rouge - Red Water (Play It Again Sam)
- The Cure - Disintegration (Elektra)
- Buffalo Tom (SST)
- Kreator - Extreme Agression (Epic)
- Felt - Me And A Monkey On The Moon (Cherry Red)
- Tragic Mulatto - Hot Man Pussy (Alt. Tent.)
- Band Of Susans - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
- Mudhoney (Sub Pop)
- Sepultura - Beneath The Remains (Roadrunner)
- Galaxie 500 - On Fire (Rough Trade/Ryko)
- Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (TVT)
- Barry Adamson - Moss Side Story (Mute)
- Queen Latifah - All Hail the Queen (Tommy Boy)
9
- Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness (Earache)
- EPMD - Unfinished Business (Sleeping Bag/Fresh)
- Gang Starr - No More Mr. Nice Guy (Chrysalis)
- Sodom - Agent Orange (Roadracer/Steamhammer)
- The Creatures - Boomerang (Geffen)
- Exodus - Fabulous Disaster (Combat)
- The Lilac Time - Paradise Circus (Fontana)
- The Jazz Butcher - Big Planet Scarey Planet (Creation/Genius)
- Big Daddy Kane - It's a Big Daddy Thing (Cold Chillin')
- The Walkabouts - Rag & Bone/Cataract (Sub Pop)
- Mark Lanegan - The Winding Sheet (Sub Pop)
- Bitch Magnet - Umber (Communion)
- Atheist - Piece Of Time (Metal Blade)
- Cosmic Psychos - Go the Hack (Sub Pop)
- Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - 1984-1989 (Capitol)
- Pussy Galore - Dial M For Motherfucker (Caroline)
- Pere Ubu - Cloudland (Mercury)
- Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop (Jive)
- Bad Religion - No Control (Epitaph)
- The Frogs - It's Only Right And Natural (Frogs)
- Bolt Thrower - Realm Of Chaos (Combat)
- KMFDM - UAIOE (Wax Trax!)
- Screaming Trees - Anthology: SST Years 1985-1989 (SST)
- Laughing Hyaenas - You Can't Pray A Lie (Touch & Go)
- De La Soul - Three Feet High And Rising (Tommy Boy)
- Mekons - The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll (A&M)
- Lou Reed - New York (RCA)
- Blood Circus - Primal Rock Therapy EP + Singles (Sub Pop)
- Tad - God's Balls (Sub Pop)
- The Wedding Present - Bizarro (RCA)
- Bastards - Monticello (Treehouse)
- Eleventh Dream Day - Beet (Atlantic)
- Kate Bush - The Sensual World (EMI)
- Big Audio Dynamite - Megatop Phoenix (Columbia)
- Rollins Band - Hard Volume (Texas Hotel)
- Naked Raygun - Understand? (Caroline/Quarterstick)
- Claw Hammer (Sympathy)
- New Order - Technique (Qwest/WB)
- The Associates - The Glamour Chase (WB)
- Bullet Lavolta - The Gift (Taang!)
- Stygian Shore - The Shore Will Arise (Shadow Kingdom)
- Killdozer - Twelve Point Buck (Touch & Go)
- Steel Pole Bath Tub - Butterfly Love (Boner)
- Coroner - No More Color (Noise)
- Soundgarden - Louder Than Love (A&M)
- Arcwelder - This (Big Money Inc.)
- Ice-T - The Iceberg, Freedom of Speech . . . Just Watch What You Say (Sire)
- The Godfathers - More Songs About Love & Hate (Epic)
- The Mighty Lemon Drops - Laughter (Sire)
- Kool Moe Dee - Knowledge Is King (Jive/RCA)
9-
- New Model Army - Thunder & Consolation (Capitol)
- Heavy D & the Boyz - Big Tyme (Uptown)
- The Mighty Lemon Drops - Laughter (Sire/Reprise)
- Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi (Virgin)
- Terrorizer - World Downfall (Combat)
- Metal Church - Blessing In Disguise (Elektra)
- The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better (Ruthless)
- The Original Sins - The Hardest Way (Skyclad)
- Negativland - Helter Stupid (SST)
- Carcass - Symphonies Of Sickness (Earache)
- MC Lyte - Eyes on This (First Priority)
- Nuclear Assault - Handle With Care (Combat)
- The X-Clan - To The East Blackwards (4th & Broadway)
- L.L. Cool J. - Walking with a Panther (Def Jam)
- Stone Roses (Silvertone)
10
1988
- Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (Enigma)
- The Pixies - Surfer Rosa (4AD)
- Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Def Jam)
10-
- Slayer - South Of Heaven (American)
- N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton (Ruthless)
- Eleventh Dream Day - Prairie School Freakout (Thrill Jockey/Amoeba)
- Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden (EMI)
- My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything (Creation)
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey (Mute)
- Dinosaur Jr. - Bug (SST)
- EPMD - Strictly Business (Sleeping Bag/Fresh)
- The Jungle Brothers - Straight Out The Jungle (Warlock)
- Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary (Jive)
- Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown (Next Plateau)
9+
- Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (RT)
- Naked Raygun - Jettison (Caroline/Quarterstick)
- Ambitious Lovers - Greed (Virgin)
- Konk - The Sound Of Konk: Tales of the New York Underground 1981-88 (Soul Jazz)
- Souled American - Fe (Rough Trade)
- The Pogues - If I Should Fall From The Grace Of God (WEA)
- The Woodentops - Wooden Foot Cops On A Highway (Rough Trade/Cherry Red)
- Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration (Combat)
- Kreator - Terrible Certainty (Noise)
- Galaxie 500 - Today (Ryko)
- The Church - Starfish (Arista)
- Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man (Columbia)
- The Feelies - Only Life (A&M)
- Mano Negra - Patchanka (Virgin)
- A.R. Kane - Sixty Nine (Rough Trade/One Little Indian)
- The Mighty Lemon Drops - World Without End (Sire)
- Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America (Virgin)
- Soul Asylum - Hang Time (A&M)
- For Against - December (Chameleon)
- Yo La Tengo - President Yo La Tengo (Coyote)
- Chaba Fadela - You Are Mine (Mango)
- Tom Waits - Big Time (Island)
- Fishbone - Truth And Soul (Columbia)
- Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking (WB)
- Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader (Uni)
- Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session (RCA)
- Ministry - The Land Of Rape And Honey (Sire)
- R.E.M. - Green (WB)
- Run Westy Run - Hardly Not Even (SST)
- Soundgarden - Ultramega OK (SST)
- Bathory - Blood Fire Death (Maze/Kraze)
- The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane (Capitol/Beggars Banquet)
- The Ex - Aural Guerrilla (Ex)
- Destruction - Release From Agony (Profile/Steamhammer)
- Lubricated Goat - Paddock of Love (Amphetemine Reptile)
- Butthole Surfers - Hairway To Steven (Touch & Go)
- The Sugarcubes - Life Won't Wait (Elektra)
- Danzig (American)
- NoMeansNo - Small Parts Isolated & Destroyed (Alternative Tentacles)
- Pussy Galore - Right Now! (Matador)
- Pussy Galore - Sugarshit Sharp EP (Caroline)
- The Waterboys - The Fisherman's Tale (Ensign)
- Los Lobos - La Pistola y El Corazon (WB)
- Nice Strong Arm - Mind Furnace (Homestead
- Pailhead - Trail EP (Wax Trax!)
- DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper (Jive)
- Victims Family - Things I Hate To Admit (Mordam)
9
- Pere Ubu - The Tenement Year (Enigma/Mercury)
- Stetsasonic - In Full Gear (Tommy Boy)
- Masters Of Reality (American)
- Voivod - Dimension Hatross (FAD)
- Game Theory - Two Steps From The Middle Ages (Enigma)
- The Jazz Butcher - Fiscotheque (Creation)
- Gary Clail's On-U Sound System - Tackhead Sound System (Nettwerk)
- Social Distortion - Prison Bound (Time Bomb)
- Gear Daddies - Let's Go Scare Al (Gark)
- Hunters & Collectors - Fate (IRS)
- Beat Happening - Jamboree (K/Sub Pop)
- King Diamond - Them (Roadrunner)
- Testament - The New Order (Megaforce)
- Bongwater - Double Bummer (Shimmy Disc)
- Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime (EMI)
- Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane (Cold Chillin')
- Foetus Interruptus - Thaw (Some Bizarre)
- Front 242 - Front By Front (Wax Trax!)
- The Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death (Epic)
- Youth Of Today - We're Not In This Alone (Revelation)
- Rollins Band - Life Time (Texas Hotel)
- Rollins Band - Do It (Texas Hotel)
- Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick (Def Jam)
- Jesus & Mary Chain - Barbed Wire Kisses (WB)
- Adult Net - Honey Tangle (Fontana)
- Yello - Flag (Universal)
- Halo of Flies - Singles Going Nowhere (Twin/Tone)
- Throwing Muses - House Tornado (4AD/Sire)
- Bad Religion - Suffer (Epitaph)
- Michelle Shocked - Short Sharp Shocked (Mercury)
- SNFU - Better Than A Stick In the Eye (Cargo)
- Godflesh (Earache)
- Prince - Lovesexy (WB)
- Peter Murphy - Love Hysteria (Beggars Banquet)
- Felt - The Pictorial Jackson Review (Creation)
9-
- Too Short - Born to Mack (Jive)
- Samhain - Final Descent (E-Magine)
- The Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba (Enigma)
- Laughing Hyaenas - Come Down To The Merry Go Round (Touch & Go)
- World Domination Enterprises - Let's Play Domination (Caroline/Product Inc.)
- Wire - A Bell Is A Cup Until It is Stuck (Enigma)
- MC Lyte - Lyte as a Rock (First Priority)
- Death - Leprosy (Combat)
- Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction (Earache)
- Doug E. Fresh - The World's Greatest Entertainer (Reality)
- Salt-N-Pepa - A Salt with a Deadly Pepa (London)
- Bon Jovi - New Jersey (Mercury)
- Prince - The Black Album (WB)
- Metallica - ...And Justice For All (Elektra)
- Robert Plant - Now And Zen (Es Paranza)
- Cinderella - Long Cold Winter (Mercury)
10
1987
- Sonic Youth - Sister (SST)
- Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me (SST)
- Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full (4th & Broadway)
9+
- The Pixies - Come On Pilgrim EP (4AD)
- Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs And Stories (WB)
- U2 - The Joshua Tree (Island)
- Big Black - Songs About Fucking (Touch & Go)
- R.E.M. - Document (IRS)
- Prince - Sign O' The Times (Paisley Park)
- The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (Elektra)
- Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show (Def Jam)
- Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded (B-Boy)
- The Wedding Present - George Best (Reception)
- My Bloody Valentine - Ecstasy/Strawberry Wine EPs (Lazy)
- Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me (Sire)
- The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come (Sire)
- Yo La Tengo - New Wave Hot Dogs (Coyote)
- Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium (Noise)
- Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years (Island)
- King Sunny Ade - Let Them Say (Atom Park)
- The Go-Betweens - Tallulah (Beggars Banquet)
- Thin White Rope - Moonhead (Frontier)
- The Jesus And Mary Chain - Darklands (Blanco Y Negro)
- Close Lobsters - Foxheads Stalk This Land (Fire)
- Scratch Acid - Berserker EP (Touch & Go)
- The Triffids - Calenture (Island)
- Hugo Largo - Drum (Opal)
- Swans - Children Of God (Caroline)
- Yello - One Second (Universal)
- The Cult - Electric (Sire)
- That Petrol Emotion - Babble (Polydor)
- The Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland (Elektra)
- Dukes Of Stratosphear - Psonic Psunspot (Virgin)
- Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven (Homestead)
- Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium (Noise/Sanctuary)
- Tackhead - Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System (On-U Sound)
- Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician (Touch & Go)
- Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription (Genius)
- Napalm Death - Scum (Earache)
- The Smiths - The Sound of the Smiths (Warner/Rhino)
- The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs (Sire)
- Various - The Indestructible Beat of Soweto (Shanachie)
9
- Julian Cope - Saint Julian (Island)
- World Party - Private Revolution (Gold Rush)
- Game Theory - Lolita Nation (Enigma)
- Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love (Columbia)
- Echo & The Bunnymen (Sire)
- Loop - Heaven's End (Mute)
- fIREHOSE - If'N' (SST)
- Hoodoo Gurus - Blow Your Cool! (Elektra)
- Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction (Geffen)
- L.L. Cool J. - Bigger and Deffer (Def Jam)
- Loop - The World In Your Eyes (Mute)
- Einsturzende Neubauten - Fuenf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala (Some Bizarre/Thirsty Ear)
- Sinéad O' Connor - The Lion And The Cobra (Chrysalis)
- Guadalcanal Diary - 2x4 (Elektra)
- Original Sins - Big Soul (Bar/None)
- Drivin' N' Cryin' - Whisper Tames The Lion (Island)
- The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death (Elektra)
- Love And Rockets - Earth.Sun.Moon (Beggars)
- Anthrax - Among The Living (Megaforce)
- The Gun Club - Mother Juno (Buddha)
- The Dead Milkmen - Bucky Fellini (Enigma)
- Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - Bo-Day-Shus!!! (Enigma)
- Pet Shop Boys - Actually (EMI)
- Sodom - Persecution Mania (Roadrunner/Steamhammer)
- The Lilac Time (Mercury)
- Testament - The Legacy (Atlantic)
- Yung Wu - Shore Leave (Coyote)
- For Against - Echelons (Independent Project)
- Lime Spiders - The Cave Comes Alive! (Virus)
- Tragic Mulatto - Locos por el Sexo (Alternative Tentacles)
- Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Mainstream (Capitol)
- Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Pt. 1 (RCA)
- King Diamond - Abigail (Roadrunner)
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - Through The Looking Glass (Geffen)
- This Kind of Punishment - In The Same Room (Ajax)
- Dead C - DR503 (Feel Good All Over)
- Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses (Sire)
- X - See How We Are (Elektra)
- The Blue Aeroplanes - Spitting Out Miracles (Velvel)
- Lucinda Williams (Koch)
- The Flaming Lips - Oh My Gawd!!! (Restless)
- The Young Gods (Wax Trax!)
- Wire - The Ideal Copy (Mute)
- Verlaines - Juvenilia (Flying Nun/Homestead)
- Meat Puppets - Mirage (SST)
- Meat Puppets - Huevos (SST)
- Los Lobos - By The Light Of The Moon (Slash)
- Negativland - Escape From Noise (SST)
- Front 242 - Official Version (Wax Trax!)
- Blind Idiot God (SST)
- Screaming Blue Messiahs - Bikini Red (Elektra)
- All - Allroy Sez... (Cruz)
- Napalm Death - Scum (Earache)
- Dio - Dream Evil (Reprise)
- The Call - Into The Woods (Elektra)
- Henry Rollins - Hot Animal Machine (Texas Hotel)
- Wipers - Follow Blind (Restless)
- Flesh For Lulu - Long Live The New Flesh (Capitol)
- The Pastels - Up For A Bit With the Pastels (Big Time)
- DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Rock The House (Jive)
- Schooly D. - Saturday Night (Schooly D.)
- Dep Leppard - Hysteria (Mercury)
9-
- Pentagram - Day Of Reckoning (Peaceville/Snapper)
- Trouble - Run To The Light (Metal Blade)
- Manilla Road - Mystification (Black Dragon)
- Whitesnake (Geffen)
- Death - Screaming Bloody Gore (Combat)
- Motörhead - Rock 'n' Roll (Castle)
- Kool Moe Dee - How Ya Like Me Now (Rooftop-Jive)
- Salt-N-Pepa - Hot, Cool & Vicious (London)
- Bullet Lavolta (Taang!)
- Ice-T - Rhyme Pays (Sire)
- Voivod - Killing Technology (Noise)
- Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls (Elektra)
10-
1986
- Slayer - Reign In Blood (American)
- Bad Brains - I Against I (SST)
- Metallica - Master of Puppets (Elektra)
- The Feelies - The Good Earth (Coyote)
- The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (Sire)
- XTC - Skylarking (Geffen)
- The Woodentops - Giant (Rough Trade/Columbia)
- Screaming Blue Messiahs - Gun Shy (Elektra)
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral . . . My Trial (Homestead)
- Run D.M.C. - Raising Hell (Profile)
9+
- R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant (IRS)
- The The - Infected (Epic)
- Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring (EMI)
- Died Pretty - Free Dirt (What Goes On/Aztec)
- The Chameleons - Strange Times (Geffen)
- Big Black - Atomizer (Homestead)
- Paul Simon - Graceland (WB)
- Sonic Youth - EVOL (SST)
- Scratch Acid - Just Keep Eating (Rabid Cat)
- The Cramps - A Date With Elvis (IRS/Vengeance)
- Hunters & Collectors - Human Frailty (IRS)
- The Church - Heyday (Arista)
- Shriekback - Big Night Music (Island)
- The Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill (Def Jam)
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - Tinderbox (Geffen)
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Kicking Against the Pricks (Homestead)
- Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse (Touch & Go)
- Peter Gabriel - So (Geffen)
- Arthur Russell - World Of Echo (Audika)
- Hüsker Dü - Candy Apple Grey (WB)
- fIREHOSE - Ragin' Full-On (SST)
- New Order - Brotherhood (Factory/Qwest)
- The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4 (Elektra)
- Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? (Capitol)
- Manilla Road - The Deluge (Black Dragon)
- Saint Vitus - Born Too Late (SST)
- Crowded House (Capitol)
- Kreator - Pleasure To Kill (Noise)
- Lizzy Mercier Descloux - One For the Soul (Polydor)
- King Sunny Ade - Sweet Banana (Atom Park)
- King Sunny Ade - My Dear (Atom Park)
- Stetsasonic - On Fire (Tommy Boy)
- Camper Van Beethoven (Pitch-A-Tent/Rough Trade)
- Mantronix - Music Madness (Sleeping Bag)
- One Last Wish - 1986 (Dischord)
- The Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle & The Black Diamond Express (Beggars Banquet)
- Love And Rockets - Express (Beggars)
- Felt - Forever Breathes The Lonely Word (Creation)
- Throwing Muses (4AD)
- The Scientists - The Human Jukebox 1984-1986 (Sympathy FTRI)
- The Blue Aeroplanes - Tolerance (Velvel)
- The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional (Hot/Rough Trade)
- Soul Asylum - Made To Be Broken (Twin/Tone)
- Soul Asylum - While You Were Out (Twin/Tone)
- Yo La Tengo - Ride The Tiger (Coyote)
- David & David - Boomtown (A&M)
- The Wild Swans - Incandescent 81-86 (Renascent)
- Kukl - Holidays In Europe (The Naughty Nought) (Crass)
- The Fall - Bend Sinister (Beggars Banquet)
- Swans - Greed EP (PVC)
- Swans - Holy Money EP (PVC)
- The Triffids - In The Pines (Hot/Domino)
- Peter Murphy - Should The World Fail To Fall Apart (Beggars Banquet)
- Bathory - Under The Sign: The Sign Of The Black Mark (New Renaissance)
- The Mekons - The Edge Of The World (Quarterstick)
- Camper Van Beethoven - II & III (Pitch-A-Tent/Rough Trade)
- Cowboy Junkies - Whites Off Earth Now!! (BMG)
- Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen(Chrysalis/Cherry Red)
- The Chills - Kaleidoscope World (Flying Nun/Homestead)
- Effigies - Ink (Restless)
- Tom Verlaine - The Miller's Tale: A Tom Verlaine Anthology 1979-1986 (Virgin)
9
- That Petrol Emotion - Manic Pop Thrill (Demon)
- The Lucy Show - Mania (Words Music)
- Meat Puppets - Out My Way EP (SST)
- The Smithereens - Especially For You (Enigma)
- Afrika Bambaataa - Beware (The Funk Is Everywhere) (Tommy Boy)
- Game Theory - Big Shot Chronicles (Alias)
- The Dicks - 1980-1986 (Alternative Tentacles)
- Violent Femmes - The Blind Leading The Naked (WB)
- The Godfathers - Hit By Hit (Link)
- Robyn Hitchcock - Element Of Light (Glass Fish)
- The Mighty Lemon Drops - Happy Head (Sire)
- Kraftwerk - Electric Cafe/Techno Pop (Elektra/Astralwerks)
- Depeche Mode - Black Celebration (Mute)
- The Call - Reconciled (Eletkra)
- Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time (Capitol)
- Let's Active - Big Plans For Everybody (IRS)
- Samhain III - November Coming-Fire (Plan 9/Caroline)
- Public Image Ltd. - Album (Elektra)
- Kool Moe Dee (Rooftop-Jive)
- Prince - Parade (WB)
- Guadalcanal Diary - Jamboree (Elektra)
- Robert Wyatt - Old Rottenhat (Gramavision)
- Head Of David - CD (Blast First)
- Ministry - Twitch (Sire/WB)
- Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat (IRS)
- Elvis Costello - Blood & Chocolate (Rykodisc)
- Motörhead - Orgasmatron (Castle)
- Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy (Polydor)
- Big Audio Dynamite - No. 10, Upping St. (Columbia)
- Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - Frenzy (Restless)
- Deborah Iyall - Strange Language (Wounded Bird)
- Toy Dolls - Idle Gossip (Castle/Sanctuary)
- The Triffids - In The Pines (Hot/Rough Trade)
- The Dead Milkmen - Eat Your Paisley! (Enigma)
- Pet Shop Boys - Please (EMI)
- The Dicks - 1980-1986 (Alternative Tentacles)
- Laurie Anderson - Home Of the Brave (WB)
- SNFU - If You Swear, You'll Catch No Fish (BYD)
- Conflict - Ungovernable Force (Motarhate)
9-
- The Rainmakers (Mercury)
- The Beat Farmers - Van Go (Curb)
- Lone Justice - Shelter (Geffen)
- The BoDeans - Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams (Slash/WB)
- Drivin' n' Cryin' - Scarred But Smarter (Island)
- Georgia Satellites (Elektra)
- Timbuk 3 - Greetings From Timbuk 3 (IRS)
- Jason & The Scorchers - Still Standing (Mammoth)
- Erasure - Wonderland (Sire)
- Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet (Mercury)
- Cyndi Lauper - True Colors (Epic)
- The Flaming Lips - Hear It Is (Pink Dust)
- New Model Army - The Ghost Of Cain (Capitol)
- a-ha - Scoundrel Days (WB)
- Joan Jett - Good Music (Epic)
- Orchestral Manoevres In The Dark - The Pacific Age (Virgin)
- Agnostic Front - Cause For Alarm (Combat)
- Madonna - True Blue (Sire)
- Mood Six - Songs From the Lost Boutique 1982-1986 (Cherry Red)
- NoMeansNo - Sex Mad (Alternative Tentacles)
- Didjits - Fizzjob (Bam Bam)
- Wipers - Land of the Lost (Restless)
- Eurythmics - Revenge (RCA)
- Cinderella - Night Songs (Mercury)
- Judas Priest - Turbo (Columbia)
- Electric Light Orchestra - Balance Of Power (Epic/Jet)
- The Bangles - Different Light (Columbia)
- Ratt - Dancing Undercover (Atlantic)
- The Stranglers - Dreamtime (Epic)
- Bananarama - True Confessions (London)
10-
1985
- Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (Island)
- The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace (Beggars Banquet)
10-
- New Order - Low-life (Factory/Qwest)
- Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig (SST)
- The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & The Lash (WEA)
- R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction (IRS)
- Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun (SST)
- Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising (SST)
- The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy (WB)
- Tony Allen & Afrobeat 2000 - N.E.P.A. (Wrasse)
- Various - The Sugarhill Story 1979-1985 (Rhino)
9+
- Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising (Homestead)
- The Replacements - Tim (Sire)
- Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love (EMI)
- L.L. Cool J. - Radio (Def Jam)
- Big Audio Dynamite - This Is Big Audio Dynamite (Columbia)
- Einsturzende Neubauten - 1/2 Mensch (Rough Trade)
- Slayer - Hell Awaits (Metal Blade)
- The Alarm - Strength (IRS)
- The Jazz Butcher - Sex And Travel (Glass UK)
- The Dukes Of Stratosphear - 25 O' Clock (Geffen/Ape House)
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Firstborn Is Dead (Homestead)
- Possessed - Seven Churches (Relativity)
- Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion (Noise)
- Butthole Surfers - Psychic . . . Powerless . . . Another Man's Sac (Touch & Go)
- The Cure - The Head On The Door (Elektra)
- Manilla Road - Open The Gates (Black Dragon)
- Naked Raygun - All Rise (Homestead/Quarterstick)
- Shriekback - Oil And Gold (Island)
- The Minutemen - 3-Way Tie For Last (SST)
- Dinosaur Jr. (Homestead)
- Felt - Absolute Classic Masterpieces 1981-1985 (Cherry Red)
- Yello - Stella (Universal)
- The Wake - Here Comes Everybody (Factory)
- The Sound - Heads And Hearts (Statik/Renascent)
- Squirrel Bait (Homestead)
- Embrace (Dischord)
- Metal Church (Elektra)
- Killing Joke - Night Time (EG)
- Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen/Two Wheels Good (Kitchenware UK/Epic)
- The Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean? Basically (Statik)
- Rush - Power Windows (Mercury)
- Rites Of Spring (Dischord)
- Love And Rockets - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven (Beggars Banquet)
- Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory (IP)
- Doug E. Fresh - Oh My God! (Reality)
- The Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard In My Back Yard (Enigma)
9
- Run D.M.C. - King Of Rock (Profile)
- The Smiths - Meat Is Murder (Sire)
- Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Easy Pieces (Capitol)
- Hoodoo Gurus - Mars Needs Guitars (Elektra)
- INXS - Listen Like Thieves (A&M)
- The Colourfield - Virgins and Philistines (EMI/Cherry Red)
- Savage Republic - Trudge (Fundamental Music)
- Effigies - Fly On A Wire (Enigma)
- The Sound - In The Hothouse (Statik/Renascent)
- Flesh For Lulu - Big Fun City (Statik)
- Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper (IRS)
- Dexys Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down (Mercury)
- Schooly D. - The Adventures of Schoolly D (Rykodisc)
- Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85 (WB)
- The Mekons - Fear and Whiskey (Sin/Quarterstick)
- Fine Young Cannibals (IRS)
- Loudness - Thunder In The East (Atlantic)
- Accept - Metal Heart (Portrait)
- Felt - Gold Mine Trash (PVC/Cherry Red)
- Anthrax - Spreading The Disease (Megaforce)
- Exodus - Bonded By Blood (Combat)
- Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist (Alternative Tentacles)
- Fishbone EP (Columbia)
- David Byrne - Music For the Knee Plays (Sire)
- Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel - Nail (Homestead)
- Bathory - The Return... (Black Mark)
- The Verlaines - Hallelujah All The Way Home (Homestead)
- The Apartments - The Evening Visits...and Stays for Years (Hot)
- The Style Council - Our Favourite Shop (Polydor)
- New Model Army - No Rest for the Wicked (Capitol)
- Game Theory - Real Nighttime (Alias)
- Trouble - The Skull (Metal Blade)
- Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good (Combat)
- Rock Goddess - Young And Free (A&M)
9-
- Robert Plant - Shaken 'N' Stirred (Es Paranza)
- Talking Heads - Little Creatures (Sire)
- The Assocaites - Perhaps (WB)
- S.O.D. - Speak English Or Die (Megaforce)
- Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching Out (Polydor)
- Leonard Cohen - Various Positions (Columbia)
- Government Issue - The Fun Just Never Ends (Fountain Of Youth)
- Wipers (Enigma)
- The Saints - All Fools Day (TVT)
- D.R.I. - Dealin' With It (Metal Blade)
- ah-ha - Hunting High And Low (WB)
- Savatage - The Dungeons Are Calling (Metal Blade)
- Eurythmics - Be Yourself Tonight (RCA)
- The Costello Show - King Of America (Rykodisc)
- W.A.S.P. - The Last Command (Capitol)
- Amebix - Arise (Alternative)
- Pentagram - Relentless (Peaceville/Snapper)
- Orchestral Manoevres In The Dark - Crush (A&M)
8+
- Motley Crue - Theatre Of Pain (Elektra)
- Bon Jovi - 7800 Deg. Fahrenheit (Mercury)
- Ratt - Invasion Of Your Privacy (Atlantic)
- Venom - Possessed (Combat)
- The Fat Boys - The Fat Boys Are Back! (Sutra)
- Dokken - Under Lock And Key (Elektra)
10
1984
- Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade (SST)
- The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime (SST)
- King Sunny Ade - Aura (Mango)
10-
- The Replacements - Let It Be (Twin/Tone)
- Metallica - Ride The Lightning (Elektra)
- U2 - The Unforgettable Fire (Island)
- Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain (Sire)
- Prince - Purple Rain (WB)
- R.E.M. - Reckoning (IRS)
- The Pogues - Red Roses For Me (WEA)
- Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth (Mercury/Fontana Jpn)
- The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops (Linn/Virgin)
- Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A. (Columbia)
- The Alarm - Declaration (IRS)
- The Fall - The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall (Beggars Banquet)
- Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II (SST)
- Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Zulu Rock (Ze)
- The Scientists - Blood Red River 1982-1984 (Sympathy FTRI)
- Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - Best Of 1980-1984 (Rhino)
9+
- Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes (Sire)
- Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual (Epic)
- Orange Juice - Texas Fever EP (Polydor)
- Ambitious Lovers - Envy (EG)
- The Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always (Elektra)
- Julian Cope - Fried (Mercury/Fontana)
- Half Japanese - Charmed Life (10,000,000...Watts)
- Laurie Anderson - United States Live (WB)
- Naked Raygun - Throb Throb (Homestead/Quarterstick)
- Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeos (A&M)
- The Art Of Noise - (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art Of Noise (ZTT/Island)
- Iron Maiden - Powerslave (Capitol)
- The Go-Betweens - Spring Hill Fair (Beggars Banquet)
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity (Homestead)
- The Jazz Butcher - A Scandal In Bohemia (Glass)
- 23 Skidoo - Urban Gamelon (Illuminated)
- Youssou N'dour - Immigres (Earthworks)
- The Specials - In The Studio (Two-Tone/IRS)
- Scratch Acid EP (Rabid Cat)
- Rush - Grace Under Pressure (Mercury)
- Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath (Roadrunner)
- Overdrive - Swords and Axes (Metal for Muthas)
- Dio - The Last In Line (WB)
- Rock Goddess - Hell Hath No Fury (A&M)
- Big Black - Racer-X EP (Homestead)
- The Bluebells - Sisters (Sire/London)
- Guadalcanal Diary - Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man (Elektra)
- Manowar - Hail To England (Music for Nations)
- Trouble - Psalm 9 (Metal Blade)
- Felt - The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories (Cherry Red)
- General Public - All The Rage (IRS)
- Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock - The Album 1981-1984 (Tommy Boy)
- Run D.M.C. - Run D.M.C. (Profile)
- Cristina - Sleep It Off (Ze)
- Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground (Slash)
- The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story (IRS)
- The Icicle Works - The Small Price Of A Bicycle (Beggars Banquet)
- Effigies - For Ever Grounded (Ruthless)
- Whitesnake - Slide It In (EMI)
- Section 25 - From The Hip (Factory)
- Ultravox - Lament (Chrysalis)
- Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force (Polydor)
- Siouxsie & the Banshees - Hyaena (Geffen)
- Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome (ZTT/Island)
- Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain (Virgin)
- Big Boys - No Matter How Long the Line . . . (Enigma/Touch & Go)
- Bad Religion - Back To the Known EP (Epitaph)
- The Jazz Butcher - The Gift Of Music (Glass)
9
- Van Halen - 1984 (WB)
- Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground (Slash)
- Orchestral Manoevres In The Dark - Junk Culture (A&M)
- Prefab Sprout - Swoon (Kitchenware/Epic)
- Aztec Camera - Knife (Sire)
- Orange Juice - The Orange Juice (Polydor)
- Lou Reed - New Sensations (Iconoclassic)
- True West - Drifters (Avatar)
- Romeo Void - Instincts (Columbia)
- The Trypes - Explorers Hold EP (Coyote)
- Shriekback - Jam Science (Arista)
- Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream Of Trains (Yep Roc)
- The Blue Aeroplanes - Bop Art (Abstract UK)
- Samhain - Initium (Plan 9)
- Loudness - Disillusion (Music For Nations)
- Armored Saint - March Of The Saint (Chrysalis)
- Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth (Capitol)
- Heaven 17 - How Men Are (Virgin)
- The Verlaines - Ten O'Clock in the Afternoon (Flying Nun)
- The Bangles - All Over The Place (Columbia)
- Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (Sire)
- The Ramones - Too Tough To Die (Sire)
- New Model Army - Vengeance (Abstract)
- Hunters & Collectors - Jaws Of Life (Epic)
- Chrome - Into The Eyes Of The Zombie King (Cleopatra)
- Accept - Balls To The Wall (Portrait)
- Felt - The Splendour Of Fear (Cherry Red)
- Hellhammer - Apocalyptic Raids (Noise)
- Kukl - The Eye (Crass)
- Soul Asylum - Say What You Will . . . (Twin/Tone)
- Modern English - Ricochet Days (Sire)
- Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel - Hole (Self Immolation)
- Cocteau Twins - Treasure (4AD)
- Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Moves (Columbia)
- Let's Active - Cyprus (IRS)
- Los Lobos - How Will the Wolf Survive? (Slash)
- Laurie Anderson - Mister Heartbreak (WB)
- The Cure - The Top (Elektra)
- Joan Jett - Glorious Results of A Misspent Youth (Blackheart)
- Grim Reaper - See You In Hell (Spittfire)
- Kurtis Blow - Best of Kurtis Blow (Mercury)
- Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward (Sire)
- INXS - The Swing (Atco)
- S.N.F.U. - . . . And No One Else Wanted to Play (BYO)
- Die Kreuzen (Touch & Go)
- The Triffids - Raining Pleasure EP (Hot/Rough Trade)
- Rainbow - Bent Out Of Shape (Polydor)
- The Rain Parade - Explosions In The Glass Palace EP (Enigma)
- Chrome - Into the Eyes of the Zombie King (Mosquito)
9-
- The Go-Go's - Talk Show (IRS)
- Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales (Metal Blade)
- Conflict - Increase The Pressure (Motarhate)
- D.R.I. - Dirty Rotten LP (Dirty Rotten)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers (EMI)
- Agnostic Front - Victim In Pain (Relativity)
- Man Sized Action - Five Story Garage (Homestead)
- The Fixx - Phantoms (MCA)
- Black Flag - My War (SST)
- The Style Council - Caf? Bleu (Polydor)
- Armored Saint - March Of The Saint (Metal Blade)
- Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry (Atlantic)
- Quiet Riot - Metal Health (Portrait/Epic)
- Forgotten Rebels - In Love With the System (Can.Star)
- Government Issue - Joyride (Fountain Of Youth)
- The Call - Scene Beyond Dreams (Mercury)
- Tragic Mulatto - Judo For the Blind (Alternative Tentacles)
- Half Japanese - Sing No Evil (Iridescence)
- Ratt - Out Of The Cellar (Atlantic)
- Exciter - Violence and Force (Music For Nations)
- This Kind of Punishment - A Beard of Bees (Ajax)
- The Smiths (Sire)
- W.A.S.P. (Capitol)
- Bananarama (London)
- Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers (Mercury)
- Whodini - Greatest Hits 1982-1984 (Jive)
- Bathory (Black Mark)
8+
- Talk Talk - It's My Life (EMI)
- Anthrax - Fistful of Metal (Megaforce)
- Warlock - Burning the Witches (Mercury)
- Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction (Metal Blade)
- Thrust - Fist Held High (Metal Blade)
- Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith (Columbia)
- The Fat Boys - The Fat Boys (Sutra)
- Slade - Greatest Hits 1971-1984 (Polydor)
- Torch - Electrikiss (Sword)
- Billy Squier - Signs Of Life (Capitol/American Beat)
- Madonna - Like A Virgin (Sire)
- Bon Jovi (Mercury)
- Whodini - Escape (Jive)
10
1983
- R.E.M. - Murmur (IRS)
- U2 - War (Island)
10-
- Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind (EMI)
- New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies (Factory/Qwest)
- Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones (Elektra)
- Bad Brains - Rock For Light (Line)
- The Birthday Party - The Bad Seed/Mutiny! EPs (4AD)
- The Minutemen - What Makes A Man Start Fires? (SST)
- Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain (Sire)
- Violent Femmes (Slash)
- Big Country - The Crossing
- Wipers - Over The Edge (Restless/Zeno)
- The Minutemen - Buzz Or Howl Under The Influence Of Heat (SST)
- Orchestral Manoevres In The Dark - Dazzle Ships (Virgin)
- The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood (Beggars Banquet)
- Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster (XXX)
- Minor Threat - Out Of Step (Dischord)
- Hüsker Dü - Metal Circus EP (SST)
9+
- X - More Fun In The New World (Elektra)
- Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues (Sire)
- Echo & the Bunnymen - Porcupine (Sire)
- Pretenders - Learning To Crawl (Sire)
- Bauhaus - Burning From the Inside (A&M)
- Kip Hanrahan - Desire Develops An Edge (American Clave)
- James Blood Ulmer - Odyssey (Columbia)
- King Sunny Ade - Synchro System (Mango)
- The Chameleons UK - Script of the Bridge (Statik)
- True West - Hollywood Holiday (Avatar)
- Rod Taylor - If Jah Should Come Now (Daddy Kool)
- Madonna (Sire)
- The Fall - Palace Of Swords Reversed 1980-1983 (Beggars Bqt)
- The Fall - Perverted By Language (Castle/Sanctuary)
- Einsturzende Neubauten - Drawings Of Patient O.T. (Some Bizarre)
- Yazoo - You And Me Both (Sire)
- Def Leppard - Pyromania (Mercury)
- Alan Vega - Saturn Strip (Elektra/Wounded Bird)
- U2 - Under A Blood Red Sky (Island)
- The The - Soul Mining (Epic)
- Raven - All For One (Neat)
- Big Black - Bulldozer EP (Homestead)
- James White - Flaming Denomics (Ze/Infinite Zero)
- The Art Of Noise - Into Battle With The Art Of Noise EP (ZTT)
- Maximum Joy - Unlimited 1979-83 (Crippled Dick)
- Rip Rig + Panic - Attitude (Virgin)
- Liliput - Some Songs (Rough Trade/Off Course)
- Metallica - Kill 'Em All (Megaforce)
- Loudness - Law Of Devil's Land (Columbia Japan)
- Killing Joke - Fire Dances (EG)
- Fun Boy Three - Waiting (Chrysalis)
- Dio - Holy Diver (Reprise)
- Liquid Liquid 1981-1983 (Grand Royal)
- Art Of Noise - Into Battle With The Art Of Noise EP (ZTT/Repertoire)
- Shriekback - Care (WEA)
- Konk - Yo (Crepescule/Ze)
- Trio - Trio And Error (Mercury)
- Bad Religion - Into The Unknown (Epitaph)
- Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies (Frontier)
- Yes - 90125 (Elektra/Rhino)
- Madness - The Rise And Fall (Virgin)
- Necros - Conquest For Death (Touch & Go)
- Bush Tetras - Boom In The Night 80-83 (ROIR)
- Malcolm McLaren - Duck Rock (Island)
- The Passage - Enflame (Cherry Red/ltd)
- Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Punch the Clock (Columbia)
- The Flesh Eaters - A Hard Road To Follow (Ruby/Atavistic)
- The Plimsouls - Everywhere At Once (Geffen)
- Yello - You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess (Mercury)
- The Effigies - We're Da Machine EP (Ruthless)
- Rock Goddess (A&M)
- Rock Goddess - Hell Hath No Fury (A&M)
- Nina Hagen - Fearless (Columbia)
- The Triffids - Treeless Plain (Hot/Rough Trade)
- The Gun Club - Death Party EP (New Rose)
- Accept - Restless And Wild (Portrait)
- Black Flag - The First Four Years (SST)
- Anvil - Forged In Fire (Attic)
- The Raincoats - The Kitchen Tapes (ROIR)
- The Flesh Eaters - Greatest Hits-DestroyedB.F. (SST)
- Gary Numan - I, Assassin (Beggars Banquet)
- Misfits - Earth A.D. (Plan 9)
- Misfits - Collection (Plan 9)
- Misfits - Legacy of Brutality 77-83 (Plan 9)
9
- Yellow Magic Orchestra - Naughty Boys (EMI/Alfa)
- Bob Marley & The Wailers - Confrontation (Tuff Gong/Island)
- Manilla Road - Crystal Logic (Massacre)
- Thin Lizzy - Thunder And Lightning (WB/Wounded Bird)
- Howard Devoto - Jerky Versions Of The Dream (EMI/Virgin)
- Tom Tom Club - Close To The Bone (Island)
- Electric Light Orchestra - Secret Messages (Jet)
- The Lines - Ultramarine (REd/Acute)
- The Police - Synchronicity (A&M)
- Eurythmics - Touch (RCA)
- Joan Jett - Album (Blackheart)
- Bananarama - Deep Sea Diving (London)
- Rock Goddess (A&M)
- The Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip (Enigma)
- Negative Approach - Tied Down (Touch & Go)
- The Jazz Butcher - In Bath Of Bacon (Glass UK)
- The Stranglers - Feline (EMI)
- Ministry - With Sympathy (Arista)
- Naked Raygun - Basement Screams EP (Quarterstick)
- Suburbs - Love Is The Law (Twin/Tone)
- Pat Benatar - Live From Earth (Chrysalis)
- The Church - Seance (Arista)
- John Foxx - The Golden Section (Virgin)
- Slayer - Show No Mercy (Metal Blade)
- Mercyful Fate - Melissa (Megaforce)
- Alcatrazz - No Parole From Rock 'n' Roll (Grand Slamm)
- Savatage - Sirens (Metal Blade)
- Pete Shelley - XL-1 (Genetic/Arista)
- The Big Boys - Lullabies Help The Brain Grow (Moment/Touch & Go)
- Toy Dolls - Dig That Groove Baby (Castle/Sanctuary)
- The Replacements - Hootenanny (Twin/Tone)
- Rudimentary Peni - Death Church (Corpus Christi)
- Robert Plant - The Principle Of Moments (Es Paranza)
- Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (Virgin)
- Conflict - It's Time To See Who's Who (Corpus Christi)
- Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Doppelganger (Sire)
- Nightingales - Pigs On Purpose (Cherry Red)
- The Fixx - Reach The Beach (MCA)
- Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (RCA)
- Manowar - Into Glory Ride (Music for Nations)
- Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts (RCA)
- Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil (Elektra)
- Cheap Trick - Next Position Please (Epic)
- Venom - At War With Satan (Neat/Combat)
- Tank - This Means War (Music For Nations)
- Motörhead - Another Perfect Day (Roadrunner)
- Black Flag - Everything Went Black (SST)
- The Pagans - The Pink Album 82-83 (Crypt)
9-
- Black Sabbath - Born Again (WB)
- Twisted Sister - You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll (Atlantic)
- Hanoi Rocks - Self-Destruction Blues (Lick)
- AC/DC - Flick Of The Switch (Atco)
- Chateaux - Chained And Desperate (Ebony)
- Highway Chile - Storybook Heroes (21)
- The Ramones - Subterranean Jungle (Sire)
- Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again (Sire)
- G.B.H. - City Baby's Revenge (Combat)
- Jonathon Richman - Jonathon Sings! (Sire)
- Men At Work - Cargo (Columbia)
- D.O.A. - Bloodied But Unbowed: 1978-1983 (CD Presents)
- The B-52's - Whammy! (WB)
- Freur - Doot-Doot (Oglio)
- Krokus - Headhunters (Arista)
- Duran Duran - Seven And The Ragged Tiger (EMI)
- Richard Hell & the Voidoids - R.I.P.: The ROIR Sessions (ROIR)
- The Call - Modern Romans (Mercury)
- Pat Benatar - Live From Earth (Chrysalis)
- Circle Jerks - Golden Shower Of Hits (Avenue)
- Gang Of Four - Hard (WB)
8+
- Diamond Head - Death and Progress (Metal Blade)
- Man Sized Action - Claustrophobia (Reflex)
- Witchfynde - Cloak & Dagger (Expulsion)
- Sonic Youth - Kill Yr. Idols EP (SST)
- The Beastie Boys - Cooky Puss EP (Ratcage/Grand Royal)
- XTC - Mummer (Geffen)
- Loverboy - Keep It Up (Columbia)
- Rick Springfield - Living In Oz (RCA)
- Waysted - Vices (Chrysalis)
10
1982
- Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (Polydor)
- Mission Of Burma - VS. (Ace Of Hearts)
- Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Ice Cream For Crow (Virgin)
10-
- Orange Juice - Rip It Up (Polydor)
- Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast (Capitol)
- The Birthday Party - Junkyard (Virgin)
- The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour (Castle/Sanctuary)
- Dome - Will You Speak This Word (Dome/Grey Area)
- Dream Syndicate - Days of Wine and Roses (Big Time)
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - A Kiss In The Dreamhouse (Polydor/Geffen)
- Virgin Prunes - If I Die, I Die (Mute)
- X - Under The Big Black Sun (Elektra)
- The Clean - Compilation (Homestead)
- Liliput (Rough Trade/Kill Rock Stars)
- James Blood Ulmer - Black Rock (Columbia)
- The Cure - Pornography (Elektra)
- The Bongos - Drums Along The Hudson (Cooking Vinyl)
- Orchestra Baobob - Pirates Choice (Nonesuch/World Circuit)
- King Sunny Ade - Juju Music (Mango)
- Josef K - Young And Stupid 1979-82 (LTM)
9+
- Comsat Angels - Fiction (Polydor/Renascent) 82
- The Sound - All Fall Down (Korova/Renascent)
- Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Tropical Gangster (Island/Universal)
- Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love (Columbia)
- Rush - Signals (Polygram)
- More - Blood & Thunder (Atlantic/Wounded Bird)
- Scritti Politti - Songs To Remember (Virgin)
- Eddy Grant - Killer On The Rampage (Portrait/Universal)
- Michael Jackson - Thriller (Epic)
- ABC - The Lexicon Of Love (Mercury)
- The Individuals - Aquamarine (Plexus/Bar/None)
- The English Beat - Special Beat Service (IRS)
- Fun Boy Three (Chrysalis)
- The Buggles - Adventures In Modern Recording (ZTT/Salvo)
- The Passage - Degenerates (Cherry Red/ltd)
- Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (Virgin)
- Martha and the Muffins - Danseparc (RCA/Muffin Music)
- Crispy Ambulance - The Plateau Phase (Factory Benelux/LTM)
- Chrome - 3rd from the Sun (Siren)
- Kate Bush - The Dreaming (EMI)
- Lora Logic - Pedigree Charm (Rough Trade)
- 23 Skidoo - Seven Songs (Fetish)
- Rip Rig + Panic - I Am Cold (Virgin)
- Massacre - Killing Time (Celluloid)
- The Gun Club - Miami (IRS)
- Trouble Funk - Drop The Bomb (Sequel)
- Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society - Mandance (Antilles/Mango)
- Fela Kuti - Original Suffer Head (Capitol)
- Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Imperial Bedroom (Columbia)
- Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse (Mango)
- Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska (Columbia)
- Hüsker Dü - Everything Falls Apart (Reflex)
- Lydia Lunch - Honeymoon In Red (Atavistic)
- Cabaret Voltaire - 2 X 45 (Mute)
- Venom - Black Metal (Neat/Combat)
- Nina Hagen - Nunsexmonkrock (Columbia)
- James White & the Blacks - Sax Maniac (Ze/Infinite Zero)
- Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing (Clay)
- Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters (Alternative Tentacles)
- The Jam - Dig The New Breed (Polydor)
- Savage Republic - Tragic Figures (IP/Fundamental)
- Einsturzende Neubauten - Kollaps (Zick Zack)
- Devo - Oh No! It's Devo (WB/Infinite Zero)
- Gang of Four - Songs of the Free (WB)
- Colin Newman - Not To (4AD)
- Au Pairs - Sense And Sensuality (Kamera)
- Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age Of Wireless (Capitol)
- New Age Steppers - Foundation Steppers (On-U Sound)
- Big Black - Lungs EP (Homestead)
- Raven - Wiped Out (Roadrunner)
- Descendents - Milo Goes To College (SST)
- Chrome - No Humans Allowed (Siren)
- Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Destiny Street (Red Star)
- Laurie Anderson - Big Science (WB)
- Mission of Burma - The Horrible Truth About Burma (live) (Ace of Hearts)
- Brian Eno - On Land (EG)
- Killing Joke - Revelations (EG)
- The Vandals - Peace Thru Vandalism (Suite Beat)
- Black Uhuru - Chill Out (Mango)
- MDC - Millions of Dead Cops (Radical R.)
- Crass - Christ - The Album (Crass)
- Barry Brown - Far East (Hit Bound)
- Bauhaus - Press the Eject & Give Me The Tape (Beggars Banquet)
- Wall Of Voodoo - Call Of The West (IRS)
- Robert Wyatt - Nothing Can Stop Us (Gramavision)
- The dB's - Repercussion (EMI)
- John Cale - Music For A New Society (Rhino)
- Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now (Columbia)
- The Replacements - Stink EP (Twin/Tone)
- T.S.O.L. - Thoughts Of Yesterday (Posh Boy)
- T.S.O.L. - Beneath the Shadows (Restless)
- Roxy Music - Avalon (Atlantic)
- The Clash - Combat Rock (Epic)
- Associates - Sulk (V2)
- Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets (SST)
- Culture & Don Carlos - Roots & Culture (VP/17 North Parade)
- Bad Religion - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? (Epitaph)
- The Birthday Party - It's Still Living: Live (Virgin)
- XTC - Waxworks: 1977-1982 (Geffen)
- King Crimson - Beat (WB)
- Misfits - Walk Among Us (Slash/Rhino)
- Die Haut & Nick Cave - Burnin' The Ice (Hit Thing)
- The Abyssinians - Forward (Alligator)
- Billy Squier - Emotions In Motion (Capitol/American Beat)
- Ludus - Danger Came Smiling (New Hormones/LTM)
- Manowar - Battle Hymns (Liberty)
- Joe Jackson - Night And Day (A&M)
- Anvil - Metal On Metal (Attic)
- Whitesnake - Saints & Sinners (EMI)
- Pat Benatar - Get Nervous (Chrysalis)
- Dollar - The Dollar Album (WEA/Cherry Pop)
- Various - Big Apple Rappin': The Early Days Of Hip-Hop Culture In New York City 1979-82 (Soul Jazz)
9
- Yaz - Upstairs At Eric's (Sire)
- UFO - Mechanix (Chrysalis)
- Zapp - Zapp II (WB)
- Hunters & Collectors (Liberation Blue)
- Romeo Void - Benefactor (Columbia/Acadia)
- Peter Gabriel - Security (Geffen)
- Haircut One Hundred - Pelican West (Arista)
- The Exploited - Troops Of Tomorrow (Captain Oi!)
- Subhumans - The Day The Country Died (Bluurg)
- Zapp - Zapp II (WB)
- Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond 1974-1982 (Virgin)
- Soft Cell - The Art Of Falling Apart (Mercury)
- Tank - Filth Hounds Of Hades (Action Music)
- New Order - 1981-1982 EP (Factory)
- The Damned - Strawberries (Virgin)
- The Glove - Blue Sunshine (Rough Trade)
- The Teardrop Explodes - Everybody Wants To Shag (Fontana)
- Lora Logic - Pedigree Charm (Rough Trade)
- R.E.M. - Chronic Town EP (IRS)
- Robert Plant - Pictures At Eleven (Swan Song)
- Japan - Oil On Canvas (Virgin)
- Stiff Little Fingers - Now Then . . . (Chrysalis)
- The Church - The Blurred Crusade (Arista)
- Fear - The Record (Slash)
- Tank - Power Of The Hunter (This Record/Repertoire)
- Witchfinder General - Death Penalty (Heavy Metal)
- The Names - Swimming (Factory)
- Lou Reed - The Blue Mask (RCA)
- G.B.H. - City Baby Attacked By Rats (Clay)
- Prince - 1999 (WB)
- Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Wise Guy (Sire)
- Lydia Lunch - 13.13 (Ruby)
- Pere Ubu - Song Of The Bailing Man (Geffen)
- INXS - Shabooh Shoobah (Atco)
- Heavy Load - Death Or Glory (Thunderload)
- Flipper - Generic Flipper (Subterranean/American)
- Anti-Nowhere League - We Are...The League (WXYZ)
- Modern English - After The Snow (Sire)
- Robert Wyatt - The Animals Film (Rough Trade/Thirsty Ear)
- Iggy Pop - Zombie Birdhouse (IRS)
- Haircut One Hundred - Pelican West (Arista)
- Men At Work - Business As Usual (Columbia)
- Duran Duran - Rio (Harvest)
- Killing Joke - Birds Of A Feather EP (EG)
- Killing Joke - Ha EP (EG)
- Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance (Columbia)
- Tom Waits - One From The Heart (Columbia)
- Sonic Youth EP (Neutral/Geffen)
- Ultravox - Quartet (Chrysalis)
- Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out (Beggars Banquet)
- Defunkt - Thermonuclear Sweat (Hannibal/Ryko)
- Queen - Hot Space (Elektra)
- David Johansen - Live It Up (BGO)
- Scorpions - Blackout (RCA)
- Motörhead - Iron Fist (Castle)
- Dream Syndicate - Dream Syndicate EP (Down There)
- Gang of Four - Another Day/Another Dollar EP (WB)
- Tuxedomoon - Divine (Operation Twilight)
- Adam Ant - Friend Or Foe (Columbia)
9-
- XTC - English Settlement (Geffen)
- Altered Images - Pinky Blue (Portrait)
- The B-52's - Mesopotamia (WB)
- Diamond Head - Borrowed Time (MCA)
- The Go-Go's - Vacation (IRS)
- Twisted Sister - Under The Blade (Secret)
- Van Halen - Diver Down (WB)
- Pat Benatar - Get Nervous (Chrysalis)
- Cheap Trick - One On One (Epic)
- Tom Petty - Long After Dark (MCA)
- Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame (Sire)
- Agent Orange - Bitchin' Summer EP (Posh Boy)
- Ozzy Osbourne - Speak Of The Devil (Jet)
- Circle Jerks - Wild In The Streets (Frontier)
- Ruts D.C. - Rhythm Collision Dub (ROIR)
- George Clinton - Computer Games (Capitol)
- Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights (Hannibal)
8+
- The Beastie Boys - Polly Wog Stew EP (Ratcage/Grand Royal)
- Talk Talk - The Party's Over (EMI)
- Torch - Fireraiser (Metal Blade)
- U.K. Subs - The Singles: 1978-1982 (Progressive)
- Krokus - One Vice At A Time (Arista)
- The Fixx - Shuttered Room (Fuel 2000)
- Kiss - Creatures Of The Night (Casablanca/Mercury)
- Torch (Tandem)
- Asia (Geffen)
8-
- Marshall Crenshaw (WB)
- Rick Springfield - Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet (RCA)
- Donald Fagen - The Nightfly (Warners)
- Krokus - One Vice At A Time (Arista)
10
1981
- Wipers - Youth Of America (Restless)
- Comsat Angels - Sleep No More (Polydor/Renascent) 81
- The Birthday Party - Prayers On Fire (4AD)
- Martha and the Muffins - This Is The Ice Age (Virgin/Dindisc) 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)
- Billy Squier - Don't Say No (Capitol/American Beat)
- Siouxsie & the Banshees - Juju (Geffen)
- Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Architecture & Morality (Virgin)
- Talking Heads - The Name Of The Band Is Talking Heads (Sire)
- Iron Maiden - Killers (Capitol)
- 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)
- The Method Actors - This Is Still It: Early Recordings 1980-81 (Acute)
- Minor Threat - Minor Threat EP (Dischord)
- Linval Thompson - Don't Cut Off Your Dreadlocks 1975-81 (Trojan)
9+
- The Police - Ghost In The Machine (A&M)
- Bauhaus - Mask (Beggars Banquet)
- Riot - Fire Down Under (Fire Sign/Metal Bldade)
- Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (Phonogram)
- TV21 - A Thin Red Line (Cherry Red)
- The Human League - Dare (Virgin)
- Simple Minds - Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call (Virgin)
- The Cure - Faith (Elektra)
- Echo & the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here (Sire)
- New Order - Movement (Factory)
- The Teardrop Explodes - Wilder (Mercury)
- Rush - Moving Pictures (Polygram)
- Electric Light Orchestra - Time (Jet/Epic Legacy)
- David Byrne - The Catherine Wheel (Sire)
- King Crimson - Discipline (WB)
- Def Leppard - High 'N' Dry (Mercury)
- Van Halen - Fair Warning (WB)
- Motörhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Bronze)
- Hitmen (Savage Beat)
- Kraftwerk - Computer World (EMI/Astralwerks)
- Tom Tom Club (Island)
- U2 - October (Island)
- Associates - Fourth Drawer Down (V2)
- Dome - Dome 3 (Dome/Grey Area)
- Michael Rother - Fernwärme (Sky/Water)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto - Left Handed Dream (MIDI)
- The Church - Of Skins And Hearts (Arista)
- La Dusseldorf - Individuellos (Radar)
- Madness - 7 (Sire)
- 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 Jags - No Tie Like A Present (Island)
- 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)
- The Photos - Crystal Tips And Mighty Mice (Cherry Red)
- 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)
- Marvin Gaye - In Our Lifetime (Motown)
- Minutemen - The Punch Line (SST)
- New Age Steppers - Action Battlefield (On-U Sound/Statik)
- Rip, Rig + Panic - God (Virgin)
- Praying Mantis - Time Tells No Lies (Arista)
- 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)
- UFO - The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent (Chrysalis)
- 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)
- The Birthday Party - Peel Sessions EP (Strange Fruit)
- Stiff Little Fingers - Go For It (Chrysalis)
- Killing Joke - What's THIS for . . . ! (Virgin)
- The Stranglers - La Folie (EMI)
- Yello - Claro Que Si (Ralph/Mercury)
- 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)
- Tygers Of Pan Tang - Spellbound (MCA)
- Black Uhuru - Red (Mango)
- 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)
- Rick James - Street Songs (Motown)
- The Lines - Therapy (Red/Acute)
- Trouble Funk - Early Singles (Infinite Zero)
- Joan Jett - I Love Rock And Roll (Boardwalk)
- Plimsouls - The Plimsouls (Planet)
- Ludus - The Seduction (New Hormones)
- Various - The Heartbeat Singles Collection 1978-81 (Heartbeat/Cherry Red)
- Leroy Brown - Color Barrier 1975-81 (Makasound)
9
- Blue Öyster Cult - Fire Of Unknown Origin (Columbia)
- The Suburbs - Credit In Heaven (Twin/Tone)
- Romeo Void - It's A Condition (415 Records/Wounded Bird)
- Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love (Elektra)
- Thin Lizzy - Renegade (WB/Wounded Bird)
- Urban Verbs - Early Damage (WB/Wounded Bird)
- The Go-Go's - Beauty & the Beat (IRS)
- 8 Eyed Spy (Fetish)
- The Diagram Brothers - Some Marvels Of Modern Science (New Hormones/LTM)
- The Homosexuals - The Homosexuals' Record 1978-1981 (ReR)
- Wah! - Nah=Poo - The Art Of Bluff (Castle)
- Flesh Eaters - A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die (Slash/Rhino)
- The Jam - The Gift (Polydor)
- Tom Verlaine - Dreamtime (WB)
- Samson - Shock Tactics (Grand Slamm)
- Modern English - Mesh & Lace (4AD)
- Altered Images - Happy Birthday (Epic)
- Ludus - Pickpocket EP (New Hormones/LTD)
- Duran Duran (EMI)
- 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)
- Pat Benatar - Precious Time (Chrysalis)
- Adolescents - Adolescents (Frontier)
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Hard Promises (MCA)
- AC/DC - For Those About To Rock... (Epic)
- 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)
- 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)
- Devo - New Traditionalists (WB)
- 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)
- The Individuals - Fields EP (Infidelity/Bar/None)
- Rick James - Street Songs (Motown)
- Ludus - Pickpocket EP (New Hormones/LTM)
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 - Shake It Up (Elektra)
- The Saints - The Monkey Puzzle (Mushroom)
- Mars - 78+ (Atavistic)
- Gary Glitter - The Ultimate Gary Glitter 1972-1981 (Snapper)
- Robyn Hitchcock - Black Snake Diamond Role (Rhino)
- Neville Brothers - Fiyo On The Bayou (A&M)
- Vice Squad - Last Rockers: The Singles 1979-1981 (AABT)
- Sonic Youth - Sonic Youth EP (SST)
- Venom - Welcome To Hell (Neat/Combat)
- Saxon - Denim And Leather (Carrere)
- Telex - Sex (Sire)
- The Weirdos - Weird World: 1977-1981 Vol. 1 (Frontier)
- Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust, Inc. EP (Alternative Tentacles)
- Ultravox - Rage In Eden (Chrysalis)
- The Fall - A Part Of America Herein, 1981 (Rough Trade)
- Dictators - Fuck 'Em If They Can't TAJ (ROIR)
- Hüsker Dü - Land Speed Record (SST)
8+
- The B-52's - Party Mix (WB)
- Various - I.R.S. Greatest Hits Vols. 2&3 (I.R.S.)
- Judas Priest - Point Of Entry (Columbia)
- Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Almost Blue (Columbia)
- ZZ Top - El Loco (WB)
- Tygers Of Pan Tang - Crazy Nights (MCA)
- Parliament - Trombipulation (Casablanca)
- Rick Springfield - Working Class Dog (RCA)
- Loverboy - Get Lucky (Columbia)
- Journey - Escape (Columbia)
- Pat Benatar - Precious Time (Chrysalis)
10
1980
- Talking Heads - Remain In Light (Sire)
- The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms (Stiff/Line/A&M)
- Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Doc At The Radar Station (Virgin)
- Joy Division - Closer (Factory)
- The Jam - Sound Affects (Polydor)
- The Birthday Party (Missing Link)
- X - Los Angeles (Slash)
- David Bowie - Scary Monsters (RCA)
10-
- Iron Maiden (Capitol)
- The Sound - Jeopardy (Korova/Renascent)
- Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles (Sire)
- The Pretenders (Sire/Rhino)
- Misfits - 12 Hits From Hell (Caroline)
- Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap (Virgin)
- Colin Newman - A-Z (Restless/Beggars Banquet)
- The Fall - Grotesque (Rough Trade)
- Killing Joke - Killing Joke (EG)
- Sugar Minott - Black Roots (Black Roots/Hip-O Select)
- Joy Division - Substance (Factory/WB)
- Kiddus I - Rockers: Graduation In Zion 1978-1980 (Dub Store)
- The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight (Rykodisc)
- English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It (Sire)
- 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)
- Buzzcocks - A Different Kind Of Tension (Restless)
- Squeeze - Argybargy (A&M)
- The Associates - The Affectionate Punch (Fiction)
- Peter Gabriel - 3 (Geffen)
- The Buggles - The Age Of Plastic (Island)
- The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta (A&M)
- Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (Beggars Banquet)
- Simple Minds - Empires And Dance (Virgin)
- Van Halen - Women And Children First (WB)
- Suicide (Mute)
- The Jags - Evening Standard (Island)
- The Damned - The Black Album (Big Beat)
- Robert Palmer - Clues (Island)
- 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 (Virgin/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)
- Siouxsie & the Banshees - Kaleidoscope (Polydor/Geffen)
- The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro (Mercury)
- Ultravox - Vienna (Chrysalis)
- John Foxx - Metamatic (Virgin)
- 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/DFA)
- 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)
- The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us (I.R.S.)
- The Royals - Ten Years After (Tamoki?Wambesi)
- Tuxedomoon - Half Mute (Ralph)
- 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)
- Zapp (WB)
- Rush - Permanent Waves (Mercury)
- Gary Numan - Telekon (Beggars Banquet)
- The Ruts - Grin & Bear It (Virgin)
- The Monochrome Set - Love Zombies (Virgin)
- Pat Benatar - Crimes Of Passion (Capitol)
- 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 Passage - Pindrop (Ltm)
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (Virgin)
- Angel Witch (Castle)
- Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell (WB)
- Burning Spear - Hail H.I.M. (Heartbeat)
- Barrington Levy - Robin Hood (Greensleeves)
- 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)
- Clock DVA - White Souls In Black Suits (Industrial Records)
- Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz (Jet)
- U2 - Boy (Island)
- The Twinkle Brothers - Countrymen (Front Line/Virgin)
- Girlschool - Demolition (Bronze)
- Cristina - Doll In The Box (Ze)
- This Heat - Repeat (These)
- Madness - Absolutely (Sire)
- Rubber City Rebels (Capitol)
- Soft Cell - Mutant Moments EP (Big Frock/Some Bizarre)
- Alan Vega - Jukebox Babe (Infinite Zero)
- Pat Benatar - Crimes Of Passion (Chrysalis)
- Defunkt (Hannibal/Ryko)
- Pete Townsend - Empty Glass (MCA)
- The Fire Engines - Hungry Beat (Acute)
9
- Queen - The Game (Elektra)
- The Photos (Epic/Cherry Red)
- Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls (Illusive/Griffin)
- Fela - Authority Stealing (Universal)
- Scorpions - Animal Magnetism (Mercury)
- UFO - No Place To Run (Chrysalis)
- Judas Priest - British Steel (Columbia)
- The Gears - Rockin' At Ground Zero (Bacchus/Playgems)
- Purple Hearts - Beat That! (Fiction/Captain Mod)
- Roger Chapman - Mail Order Magic (Castle)
- 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)
- The Human League - Travelogue (Virgin/Caroline)
- Minutemen - Paranoid Time EP (SST)
- UK Subs - Brand New Age (Gem)
- Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Get Happy! (Columbia)
- Kate Bush - Never For Ever (EMI)
- Thin Lizzy - Chinatown (WB/Metal Blade)
- Lene Lovich - Flex (Stiff/Rhino)
- Billy Squier - The Tale Of The Tape (Capitol/American Beat)
- Joan Jett - Bad Reputation (Blackheart)
- Bad Manners - Ska 'n' B (69 REcords)
- The Kings - The Kings Are Here (Elektra)
- 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)
- 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)
- Bruce Springsteen - The River (Columbia)
- Def Leppard - On Through The Night (Mercury)
- Billy Joel - Glass Houses (Columbia)
- 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)
- Buzzcocks - Lest We Forget 77-80 (ROIR)
9-
- Cheap Trick - All Shook Up (Epic)
- Nick Gilder - Rock America (Chrysalis)
- Suzi Quatro - Rock Hard (Dreamland)
- Various - The Moonlight Tapes (Danceville)
- Quartz - Stand Up And Fight (MCA)
- Tygers Of Pan Tang - Wild Cat (MCA)
- J. Geils Band - Love Stinks (Capitol)
- The B-52's - Wild Planet (WB)
- Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July (Motown)
- Yes - Drama (Atlantic)
- Genesis - Duke (Atlantic)
- The Angels - Dark Room (Epic/Liberation Blue)
- 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)
- Loverboy (Columbia)
- Circle Jerks - Group Sex (Frontier)
- 999 - Biggest Tour In Sport EP (Polydor)
8
- Roxy Music - Flesh + Blood (Virgin)
- Loverboy (Columbia)
- Paul McCartney - McCartney II (Capitol)
10
1979
- 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)
- Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth (Crepiscule)
- The Jam - Setting Sons (Polydor)
- Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Armed Forces (Columbia)
- XTC - Drums And Wires (Virgin)
- David Bowie - Lodger (RCA)
- Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material (EMI)
- The Ruts - The Crack (Virgin)
- Lee Perry - Larks From The Ark (Nectar)
10-
- Thin Lizzy - Black Rose: A Rock Legend (Mercury/Vertigo)
- AC/DC - Highway To Hell (Epic)
- UFO - Strangers In The Night (Chrysalis)
- Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle (Atco/Beggars Banquet)
- The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (Chiswick)
- Marianne Faithfull - Broken English (Island)
- The Specials (Chrysalis)
- The Undertones (Sire/Rykodisc)
- The Pop Group - Y (Radar)
- The Wailing Souls - Wild Suspense (Island)
- Eddy Grant - Walking On Sunshine (Ice/Universal)
- Michael Rother - Katzenmusik (Sky/Water)
- Prince Lincoln & The Royal Rasses - Humanity (Ballistic/Orange Street)
- The Chantells - Children Of Jah 1977-79 (Blood & Fire)
- The Fall - Dragnet (Step Forward)
- Essential Logic - Beat Rhythm News (Rough Trade)
- Contortions (James Chance & the) - Buy (Arista/Infinite Zero)
- Heldon - Stand By (Cunneiform/Rune)
- Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves (Touch & Go)
- Art Bears - Winter Songs (Ralph/Recommended)
- Scorpions - Lovedrive (Mercury)
- Johnny Osbourne - Truths and Rights (Studio One/Heartbeat)
- Sugar Minott - Ghetto-ology (Trojan/Easy Star)
- Barrington Levy - Shaolin Temple (Auralux)
- Gregory Isaacs - Soon Forward (Front Line)
- Freddie McGregor - Mr. McGregor (VP)
- Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock & Fuzz Funk (Soundway)
- Hallelujah Chicken Run Band 1974-79 (Analog Africa)
- Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound Of The Underground Lagos Dancefloor 74-79 (Soundway)
- Jacob Miller & Inner Circle - Forward Jah Jah Children 1974-79 (Trojan)
9+
- Robert Fripp - Exposure (EG)
- Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Press Color (Ze)
- Magazine - Secondhand Daylight (Virgin)
- Moebius & Plank - Rastakraut Pasta (Sky/Water)
- The Police - Regatta de Blanc (A&M)
- Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East (Columbia)
- Simple Minds - Real To Real Cacophony (Virgin)
- The Cars - Candy-O (Elektra)
- Michael Jackson - Off The Wall (Epic)
- 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)
- Blondie - Eat To the Beat (Chrysalis)
- The Knack - Get The Knack (Capitol)
- Dennis Brown - Joseph's Coat Of Many Colours (Shanachie/Blood & Fire)
- Motörhead - Overkill (EMI)
- Nina Hagen - Unbehagen (CBS)
- Motörhead - Bomber (Bronze)
- Horace Andy - Natty Dread A Weh She Want (Trojan)
- Ijahman - Are We A Warrior (Mango/Jahmani)
- Horace Andy - Pure Ranking (Clocktower)
- Prince Alla - Heaven Is My Roof (Blood & Fire)
- Judas Priest - Killing Machine/Hell Bent For Leather (Columbia)
- 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)
- Pat Benatar - In The Heat Of The Night (Capitol)
- Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats (Mute)
- Graham Parker & the Rumor - Squeezing Out Sparks (Arista)
- Lou Reed - The Bells (Arista/Buddha)
- The Only Ones - Even Serpents Shine (Columbia)
- Joe Jackson - I'm The Man (A&M)
- James Blood Ulmer - Tales Of Captain Black (Artists House)
- Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus - Love Thy Neighbour (RAS)
- Ranking Joe - Round The World (Zion High) (Blood & Fire)
- The Boys - To Hell With The Boys (Safari)
- The Ramones - It's Alive (Sire)
- Electric Light Orchestra - Discovery (Jet/Epic Legacy)
- The Soft Boys - Invisible Hits 78-79 (Rykodisc)
- Iggy Pop - New Values (Arista)
- The Birthday Party - Hee Haw EP (Missing Link)
- Fingerprintz - The Very Dab (Virgin)
- Alan Vega - Collision Drive (Infinite Zero)
- Wipers - Is This Real? (Trap/Zeno)
- Teaze - One Night Stands (Unidisc/Rock Candy)
- 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)
- Cheap Trick - At Budokan (Epic)
- Robert Palmer - Secrets (Island)
- The Sound - Propaganda (Renascent)
- Various - Avon Calling: The Bristol Compilation (Heartbeat/Cherry Red)
- Sugar Minott - Sugar Minott At Studio One (Soul Jazz)
- The Prefects - The Prefects Are Amateur Wankers 1977-79 (Acute)
- Afro Baby: The Evolution Of The Afro-Sound In Nigeria 1970-79 (Soundway)
- 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
- Van Halen II (WB)
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedos (MCA)
- Squeeze - Cool For Cats (A&M)
- M - New York-London-Paris-Munich (Westside/Sire)
- Nick Gilder - Frequency (Chrysalis)
- Cheap Trick - Dream Police (Epic)
- The Flying Lizards (Microwerks)
- Tin Huey - Contents Dislodged During Shipment (WB/Collectors' Choice)
- 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/Mute)
- 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 Dickies - Dawn of The Dickies (A&M)
- Human League - Reproduction (Virgin)
- The Dickies - The Incredible Shrinking Dickies (A&M/Captain Oi!)
- The Last - L.A. Explosion! (Bomp!)
- The Angels - No Exit (Epic/Sony)
- Tuxedomoon - Scream With A View EP (Pre)
- Cabaret Voltaire - Mix-Up (Rough Trade)
- The Stranglers - The Raven (EMI)
- Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth (Mute)
- O.V. Wright - We're Still Together (Hi)
- The Boys Next Door (The Birthday Party) - Door Door (Mushroom)
- Madness - One Step Beyond . . . (Sire)
- Angelic Upstarts - Teenage Warning (WB/Captain Oi)
- Ted Nugent - State Of Shock (Epic)
- Buzzcocks - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
- Wire - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
- Rocky Burnette - Son Of Rock And Roll (EMI)
- 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)
- Rainbow - Down To Earth (Polydor)
- 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)
- Whitesnake - Lovehunter (Geffen)
9-
- Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster (Epic)
- 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)
- Grand Funk Railraod - Closer To Home (Capitol)
- Kiss - Dynasty (Casablanca)
8+
- Roxy Music - Manifesto (Virgin)
- Parliament - Gloryhallastoopid or Pin The Tale On The Funky (Casablanca)
- Telex - Looking For Saint-Tropez (Sire)
8
- Siouxsie & The Banshees - Join Hands (Geffen)
- Supertramp - Breakfast In America (A&M)
- Suicide Commandos - The Commandos Commit Suicide (Twin/Tone)
- Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door (Swan Song)
- Christopher Cross (WB)
10
1978
- X-Ray Spex - Germ-Free Adolescents (Caroline)
- Pere Ubu - Dub Housing (Rough Trade)
- Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (Enigma)
- Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen (Restless)
- Elvis Costello & the Attractions - This Year's Model (Columbia)
- The Jam - All Mod Cons (Polydor)
- Wire - Chairs Missing (Restless)
- Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food (Sire)
- Misfits - Static Age (Caroline)
- Bim Sherman - Love Forever (Tribesmen/Century)
- Dennis Brown - Visions of Dennis Brown (Shanachie/Joe Gibbs)
10-
- Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians (ECM)
- The Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea With The Adverts (Devils Jukebox)
- 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)
- The Meditations - Guidance (Makasound)
- David Bowie - Heroes (RCA)
- Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town (Columbia)
- Van Halen (WB)
- Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A. We Are Devo (WB)
- Generation X (Chrysalis)
- Buzzcocks - Love Bites (Restless)
- Judas Priest - Stained Class (Columbia)
- The Saints - Eternally Yours (EMI)
- Magazine - Real Life (Virgin)
- Michael Rother - Sterntaler (Sky/Water)
- 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+
- Popol Vuh - Brüder des Schattens - Söhne des Lichts (Brain/Spalax)
- Various - No New York (Antilles)
- The Cars - The Cars (Elektra)
- Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous (WB)
- AC/DC - If You Want Blood, You've Got It (Atco)
- Tom Zé - Correio Da Estao Do Brs (EW)
- Kraftwerk - The Man Machine (Capitol)
- Linval Thompson - I Love Marijuana (Trojan)
- Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes (RCA)
- Hawklords - 25 Years On (Rock Fever)
- Cedric Im Brooks & The Light Of Saba - Sabebe (Total Sounds)
- Dictators - Bloodbrothers (Elektra)
- AC/DC - Powerage (Epic)
- Rush - Hemispheres (Mercury)
- Junior Delgado - Taste Of The Young Heart (DEB)
- Sweet - Level Headed (Polydor/Lemon)
- 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)
- Culture - Harder Than The Rest (Shanachie)
- The Abyssinians - Arise (Frontline)
- The Boys - Alternative Chartbusters (Safari)
- Gregory Isaacs - Cool Ruler (Front Line)
- Art Bears - Hopes And Fears (Randam Radar/ReR)
- Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Durch die Wüste (Sky/Bureau)
- Robert Palmer - Double Fun (Island)
- 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)
- Rose Tattoo (Alberts)
- Carl Harvey - Ecstasy Of Mankind (Makasound)
- Cluster (Eno Moebius Roedelius) - After The Heat (Sky/Water)
- Ultravox - Systems Of Romance (Virgin)
- The Jolt (Polydor/Captain Mod)
- The Saints - Prehistoric Sounds (EMI)
- Japan - Adolescent Sex (Virgin)
- Public Image Ltd. - Public Image (Virgin)
- Peter Hammill - The Future Now (Blue Plate)
- Blondie - Parallel Lines (Chrysalis)
- XTC - White Music (Virgin)
- Third World - Journey To Addis (Island)
- Nick Gilder - City Nights (Chrysalis)
- UFO - Obsession (Chrysalis/EMI)
- The Twinkle Brothers - Love (Front Line)
- Haruomi Hosono - Paraiso (Crown Japan)
- Radio Birdman - Living Eyes (UA/Citadel)
- Tubeway Army (Beggars Banquet)
- Justin Hinds & the Dominoes - Just In Time (Island)
- Marcia Griffiths - Naturally (High Note)
- Heart - Dog & Butterfly (Epic/Legacy)
- 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)
- 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)
- Maria Bethania - Alibi (Verve)
- Lou Reed - Street Hassle (RCA)
- John Cooper Clarke - Disguise In Love (Epic/Sony)
- Lenny White - The Adventures Of Astral Pirates (Elektra/Wounded Bird)
- Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll (Polydor)
- Trinity - Shanty Town Determination 1976-78 (Blood & Fire)
9
- Brian Eno - Music For Airports (Virgin/DSD)
- Dead Fingers Talk - Storm The Reality Studios (Pye/Sanctuary)
- City Boy - Book Early (Vertigo/Renaissance)
- Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo (Epic)
- Doctors Of Madness - Late Night Movies, All Night Brainstorms (Polydor)
- Jimmy Cliff - Give Thanx (WB/Wounded Bird)
- Alternative TV - The Image Has Cracked (Anagram/Cherry Red)
- David Johansen (Razor & Tie/BGO)
- Henry Cow - Western Culture (Recommended)
- Japan - Obscure Alternatives (Virgin)
- Jane Birkin - Ex Fan Des Sixties (Fontana/Universal Fr)
- Marcia Griffiths - Steppin' (High Note)
- Lee Dorsey - Night People (EMI)
- 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)
- O.V. Wright - The Bottom Line (Hi)
- Bob Marley & the Wailers - Kaya (Tuff Gong/Island)
- Johnny Thunders - So Alone (Real)
- Ramones - Road To Ruin (Sire)
- Penetration - Moving Targets (Virgin)
- The Police - Outlandos D'Amour (A&M)
- Teaze - On The Loose (Unidisc)
- 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)
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - You're Gonna Get It (WB/Gone Gator)
- Mink DeVille - Return To Magenta (ERA/Raven)
- U.K. (Glo)
- 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)
- Al Green - Truth 'n' Time (Motown)
- Chris Bell - I Am the Cosmos (Rykodisc)
- Crass - Feeding of the 5000 (Crass)
- The Dils - Dils Dils Dils (Bacchus)
- Curtis Mayfield - Do It All Night (Curtom)
- 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-
- Yesterday And Today - Struck Down (London/Mondo)
- Ted Nugent - Weekend Warriors (Epic)
- The Angels - Face To Face (Epic)
- Styx - Equinox (A&M)
- Dire Straits (WB)
- Detective - It Takes One To Know One (Wounded Bird)
- Eater - The Album (Label)
- Whitesnake - Trouble (Geffen)
- Deaf School - English Boys/Working Girls (WB/Sanctuary)
- The Residents - Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (Ralph)
7
- Queen - Jazz (Elektra)
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)
- The Heptones - Party Time (Mango/Island)
- Culture - Two Sevens Clash (Shanachie)
- Dennis Brown - Wolves And Leopards (Blue Moon)
- Ramones - Rocket To Russia (Sire)
10-
- Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation (PolyGram)
- Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77 (Sire)
- Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express (Capitol)
- The Damned - Damned Damned Damned (Demon)
- The Jam - In The City (Polydor)
- Electric Light Orchestra - Out Of The Blue (Jet)
- Suicide (Red Star)
- Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True (Columbia)
- Fela Kuti - Sorrow Tears And Blood (Universal)
- Third World - 96 Degrees in the Shade (Mango)
- 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 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)
- Joe Gibbs & The Professionals - African Dub Chapter Two (Gibbs/17 North Parade)
- The Stranglers - No More Heroes (UA)
- Brian Eno - Before And After Science (EG)
- Ultravox - Ha! Ha! Ha! (Island)
- AC/DC - Let There Be Rock (Epic)
- Radio Birdman - Radios Appear (Tralfalgar)
- Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F. (Jungle)
- Heart - Little Queen (Epic)
- Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (Mercury)
- Michael Rother - Flammende Herzen (Sky/Water)
- Cheap Trick - In Color (Epic)
- Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness And Charm (UA/Atomhenge)
- T. Rex - Dandy In The Underworld (Mercury)
- John Martyn - One World (Island)
- Popol Vuh - Coeur de Verre (Spalax)
- The Stranglers - IV Rattus Norvegicus (A&M)
- Vibrators - Pure Mania (Columbia)
- Fela Kuti - No Agreement (Universal)
- City Boy - Young Men Gone West (Vertigo/Renaissance)
- Fela Kuti - Opposite People (Universal)
- The Runaways - Queens Of Noise (Touchwood/Cherry Red)
- The Morwells - Crab Race (Burning Sounds)
- Fela Kuti - Stalemate (Universal)
- Fela Kuti - Fear Not For Man (Universal)
- The Travellers - Black Black Minds (Pressure Sounds)
- 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)
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors (MCA)
- 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)
- This Heat - Made Available: Peel Sessions (These)
- Tony Allen - Progress (P-Vine)
- UFO - Lights Out (Chrysalis/EMI)
- Devo - Hardcore Vol. 1 74-77 (Rykodisc)
- 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)
- Sex Pistols - Flogging A Dead Horse (Virgin)
- MX-80 - Hard Attack (Island/Atavistic)
- Can - Saw Delight (Spoon/Mute)
- Cheap Trick (Epic)
- Burning Spear - Dry And Heavy (Mango)
- Sugar Minott - Live Loving (Studio One)
- Sugar Minott - Showcase (Studio One)
- Dennis Brown - Open The Gate (Heartbeat)
- The Mighty Diamonds - Ice On Fire (Frontline)
- 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)
- Junior Ross - Babylon Fall 75-77 (Blood & Fire)
- 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)
- Roy Harper- Bullinamingvase (Science Friction)
- Pink Floyd - Animals (Capitol)
- Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (WB)
- Devo - Hardcore Vol. 2 74-77 (Rykodisc)
- Iggy Pop - The Idiot (RCA)
- The Adverts - Peel Sessions EP (Strange Fruit)
9
- Queen - News of the World (Elektra)
- Dictators - Manifest Destiny (Elektra)
- Rush - A Farewell To Kings (Mercury)
- Blue Öyster Cult - Spectres (Columbia)
- 10cc - Deceptive Bends (Mercury)
- Ian Dury & The Blockheads - New Boots & Panties!! (Demon)
- The Runaways - Waitin' For The Night (Touchwood/Cherry Red)
- Eddie & The Hot Rods - Life On The Line (Island/Captain Oi!)
- Nick Gilder - You Know Who You Are (Chrysalis)
- Detective (Wounded Bird)
- Curtis Mayfield - Never Say You Can't Survive (Curtom)
- Sweet - Off The Record (RCA)
- Black Uhuru - Love Crisis (Black Sounds of Freedom) (Third World)
- The Jam - This Is The Modern World (Polydor)
- Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Rock 'n' Roll With The Modern Lovers (Rhino)
- Tom Waits - Foreign Affairs (Elektra)
- Mink DeVille - Cabretta (ERA/Raven)
- Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers (Rhino)
- Shoes - Black Vinyl Shoes (Black Vinyl)
- Be Bop Deluxe - Modern Music (EMI)
- O.V. Wright - Into Something (Can't Shake Loose) (Hi)
- Buzzcocks - Spiral Scratch EP (New Hormones)
- The Scruffs - Wanna Meet the Scruffs? (Power Play)
- Riot - Rock City (Fire Sign/Metal Blade)
- Legs Diamond (Nightmare)
- Rex Smith - Where Do We Go From Here? (Sony/Wounded Bird)
- Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever (Epic)
- Parliament - Funkentelecy Vs. The Placebo System (Casablanca)
- Curtis Mayfield - Short Eyes (Curtom)
- Quartz - Deleted (Jet)
- Klaatu - Hope (Capitol/BGO)
- Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell (Epic)
- Roy C. Hammond - More Sex & More Soul (Polygram)
9-
- Scorpions - Taken By Force (Universal/Hip-O)
- Parliament - P. Funk Earth Tour (Casablanca)
- Throbbing Gristle - Second Annual Report (Mute)
- Piper - Can't Wait (A&M/American Beat)
- Styx - The Grand Illusion (A&M)
- Supertramp - Even In The Quitest Moments... (Universal)
- Whitesnake (Spit Fire)
- Kiss - Love Gun (Casablanca/Mercury)
- X-Ray Spex - Obsessed With You: Early Years (Receiver)
8+
- The Damned - Music For Pleasure (Stiff)
10
1976
- Lee Perry & the Upsetters - Super Ape (Island/Hip-O Select)
- Rico - Man From Wareika (Island)
- Justin Hinds & The Dominoes - Jezebel (Island)
- The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana (Heartbeat)
- 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 (Frontline)
10-
- La Dusseldorf (Radar)
- The Meditations - Message From The Meditations (UA)
- Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny (RCA/Koch)
- Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox (Vertigo/PolyGram)
- 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)
- The Heptones - Night Food (Mango/Island)
- Serge Gainsbourg - L' Homme a Tete De Chou (Philips Fr)
- Toots & the Maytals - Reggae Got Soul (Mango)
- Gladiators - Trench Town Mix Up (Front Line/Virgin)
- Yabby You - Chant Down Babylon Kingdom (Nationwide)
- Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record (Jet/Epic Legacy)
- Zap Pow - Revolution (Trojan)
- Cluster - Sowiesoso (Sky)
- The Wailing Souls (Studio One)
- Johnny Clarke - Authorized Version (Front Line)
9+
- Scorpions - Virgin Killer (RCA)
- AC/DC - High Voltage (Epic)
- Bob Marley & the Wailers - Rastaman Vibration (Tuff Gong/Island)
- Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (Mercury)
- Aerosmith - Rocks (Columbia)
- City Boy - Dinner At The Ritz (Vertigo/Renaissance)
- UFO - No Heavy Petting (Chrysalis/EMI)
- Klaatu (Capitol/BGO)
- Sweet - Give Us A Wink (RCA)
- Heart - Dreamboat Annie (Capitol)
- The Runaways (Touchwood/Cherry Red)
- 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)
- The Heptones - Unreleased Night Food & Rare Black Ark Session (Auralux)
- Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene (Polydor/Dreyfus)
- Leon Ware - Musical Massage (Motown)
- Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby (RCA/Legacy)
- T. Rex - Futuristic Dragon (Mercury)
- Rainbow - Rising (Polydor)
- Graham Parker - Howlin' Wind (Mercury)
- Tom Waits - Small Change (Elektra)
- Joni Mitchell - Hejira (Elektra/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)
- The Mighty Diamonds - Stand Up To Your Judgment (Channel One)
- The Numbers Band (15.60.75) - Jimmy Bell's Back In Town (Hearthan)
- 10cc - How Dare You! (Mercury)
- Sparks - Big Beat (Island/Universal)
- City Boy (Vertigo/Renaissance)
- Ry Cooder - Chicken Skin Music (Reprise)
- Prince Jazzbo - Natty Passing Thru/Ital Corner (Black Wax/Clocktower)
- Can - Flow Motion (Spoon/Mute)
- Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head (A&M)
- 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)
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From The Road (MCA)
9
- Rush - 2112 (Mercury)
- 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)
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (MCA/Gone Gator)
- Ted Nugent - Free-For-All (Epic)
- The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action (Aim)
- 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)
- Absolute Elsewhere - In Search Of Ancient Gods (WB/Wounded Bird)
- Santana - Amigos (Columbia)
- Bob Dylan - Desire (Columbia)
- Yesterday And Today (London/Mondo)
- Buzzcocks - Time's Up (Document)
- Starz (Capital/Ryko)
- Piper (A&M/American Beat)
- Rex Smith - Rex (Sony/Wounded Bird)
- Moxy (Pacemaker)
- 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)
- Blue Öyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune (Columbia)
- Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves (Capitol)
- Rush - All The World's A Stage (Mercury)
9-
- Kiss - Destroyer (Casablanca)
- Rod Stewart - A Night On The Town (WB)
- 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)
- Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees (Columbia)
- Styx - Crystal Ball (A&M)
- Live At C.B.G.B.'s - Home of Underground Rock (Atlantic)
8
- Ohio Players - Gold (Mercury)
8-
- Stooges - Kill City EP (Revenge)
10
1975
- Brian Eno - Another Green World (EG)
- Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks (Columbia)
- Patti Smith - Horses (Arista)
- Harmonia - Deluxe (Brain)
- Neu - Neu! 75 (Brain/Astralwerks)
- Gavin Bryars - The Sinking Of The Titanic/Jesus' Blood Has Never Failed Me Yet (Obscure)
- Tom Zé - Estudando O Samba (EW)
- Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey (Mango)
- The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari - Tales Of Mozambique (Dynamic)
- Max Romeo & the Upsetters - Revelation Time (Trojan/Blood & Fire)
10-
- Black Sabbath - Sabotage (WB)
- Jacob Miller - Who Say Jah No Dread (Ras)
- Pere Ubu - Datapanik In The Year Zero EP (Radar)
- Parliament - Mothership Connection (Casablanca)
- Popol Vuh - Das Hohelied Salomos (UA/Spalax)
- Roy Harper - HQ (Harvest/Science Friction)
- Neil Young - Tonight's The Night (Reprise)
- Fela Kuti - Confusion (Polydor)
- Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run (Columbia)
- Crack The Sky (Lifesong)
- Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - The Vodun Effect: Funk & Sato from Benin's Obscure Labels 1972-75 (Analog Africa)
9+
- Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today (Curtom)
- Scorpions - In Trance (RCA)
- Queen - A Night At The Opera (Elektra)
- Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (Atlantic)
- Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time (UA/One Way)
- Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger (Columbia)
- Cornell Campbell - Natty Dread In A Greenwich Farm (Grounation)
- Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head (Virgin)
- Can - Landed (Spoon/Mute)
- Joe Higgs - Life of Contradiction (Vulcan/Pressure Sounds)
- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Capitol)
- Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (Elektra/Asylum)
- Heavy Metal Kids - Anvil Chorus (Atlantic/Lemon)
- Fripp & Eno - Evening Star (EG/Opal Ltd.)
- 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)
- 10cc - The Original Soundtrack (Mercury)
- 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)
- Robert Palmer - Pressure Drop (Island)
- Betty Davis - Nasty Gal (Just Sunshine/Light In The Attic)
- 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)
- Rush - Fly By Night (Mercury)
- Kiss - Alive! (Mercury)
- Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic (Columbia)
- AC/DC - TNT (Albert Productions)
- Klaus Schulze - Timewind (Universal/SPV)
- 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)
- Minnie Riperton - Adventures In Paradise (Capitol)
- The Staple Singers - Let's Do It Again (Curtom)
- Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - To Be True (Philadelphia International)
- Serge Gainsbourg - Rock Around The Bunker (Philips Fr)
- 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)
- The Twinkle Brothers - Rasta Pon Top (Twinkle)
- Bunny Scott - To Love Somebody (Klik)
- Budgie - Bandolier (MCA)
- Dictators - Go Girl Crazy (Epic)
- Neil Young - Zuma (Reprise)
- Thin Lizzy - Fighting (Vertigo/Phonogram)
- UFO - Force It (Chrysalis/EMI)
- Fela Kuti - Monkey Banana (Universal)
- 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)
- Fleetwood Mac (WB)
- 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)
- Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo De Cotonou - Vodoun Effect: Funk & Sato From Benin's Obscure Labels 1973 to 1975 (Analog Africa)
9
- Sparks - Indiscreet (Island)
- Dr. Feelgood - Down By The Jetty (EMI)
- Sweeney Todd (London)
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - Nuthin' Fancy (MCA)
- The Meters - Fire On The Bayou (Reprise)
- Gregory Isaacs - In Person (Trojan)
- The Heptones - Cool Rasta (Trojan)
- The Twinkle Brothers - Rasta Pon Top (Twinkle)
- Ted Nugent (Epic)
- Foghat - Fool For The City (Bearsville)
- The Strawbs - Ghosts (A&M)
- Van Dyke Parks - Clang of the Yankee Reaper (Reprise)
- Popol Vuh - Aguirre (Barclay/Spalax)
- 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! (WB)
- Rush - Caress Of Steel (Mercury)
- 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)
- 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)
- Rod Stewart - Atlantic Crossing (WB)
- Electric Light Orchestra - Face The Music (Jet/Epic Legacy)
- John Lennon - Rock 'n' Roll (Apple)
- Parliament - Chocolate City (Casablanca)
- Supertramp - Crisis? What Crisis? (Universal)
- Tom Waits - Nighthawks At The Diner (Elektra)
8+
- Motörhead - On Parole (Cleopatra)
- Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (RCA)
10
1974
- Keith Hudson - Flesh Of My Skin, Blood Of My Blood (Mamba/Atra)
- Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy (EG)
- Bob Marley & the Wailers - Natty Dread (Tuff Gong/Island)
- Can - Soon Over Babaluma (Spoon/Mute)
10-
- Popol Vuh - Einsjager & Siebenjager (Kosmische/Ohr)
- Cluster - Zuckerzeit (Brain)
- Big Star - Radio City (Argent)
- Sweet - Sweet Fanny Adams (RCA)
- Hawkwind - Hall Of the Mountain Grill (UA/One Way)
- Sweet - Desolation Boulevard (RCA)
- Charles Mingus - Mingus at Carnegie Hall (Atlantic)
- Big Star - Sister Lovers (Aura)
- Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information (Epic/Luaka Bop)
- Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different (Just Sunshine/Light in the Attic)
- 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)
- Heavy Metal Kids (Atlantic/Lemon)
- Cockney Rebel - Psychomodo (EMI)
- Roxy Music - Country Life (EG)
- David Bowie - Diamond Dogs (RCA)
- Fela Kuti - He Miss Road (Universal)
- Dennis Brown - Just Dennis (Trojan)
- Terry Callier - I Just Can't Help Myself (Cadet/Verve)
- Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel (Capitol)
- 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 Ade - The Best of the Classic Years 1967-74 (Shanachie)
9+
- Curtis Mayfield - Sweet Exorcist (Curtom)
- Al Green - Explores Your Mind (Hi)
- Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla (RCA/Koch)
- Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado (Jet/Epic Legacy)
- Cecil Taylor - Silent Tongues (Arista)
- Robert Calvert - Captain Lockheed & The Star Fighters (UA/BGO)
- Klaus Schulze - Blackdance (Universal/SPV)
- Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark (Elektra/Asylum)
- Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight (Hannibal)
- Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale (Motown)
- King Crimson - Red (Atlantic)
- T. Rex - Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow (Mercury)
- Herbie Hancock - Thrust (Columbia)
- Kraftwerk - Autobahn (Philips)
- King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black (Atlantic)
- Heldon - Electronic Guerrilla (Cunneiform/Rune)
- Popol Vuh - Seligpreisung (Kosmische/Ohr)
- 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)
- Robert Palmer - Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley (Island)
- John Martyn - Sunday's Child (Island)
- Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus - Dadawah - Peace & Love (Trojan)
- Secos e Molhados (Continental)
- Cymande - Promised Heights (Janus/Sequel)
- Gene Clark - No Other (Line)
- 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)
- 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)
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping (MCA)
- 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)
- Sparks - Kimono My House (Island)
- Sparks - Propaganda (Island)
- Budgie - In For The Kill! (MCA)
- Queen II (EMI/Hollywood)
- 10cc - Sheet Music (UK)
- UFO - Phenomenon (Chrysalis/EMI)
- Kiss (Casablanca/Mercury)
- Curtis Mayfield - Got To Find A Way (Curtom)
- Guru Guru - Dance On The Flames (Atlantic)
- Harmonia - Live 1974 (Water)
- Be Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim (Harvest)
- Charles Mingus - Changes One (Atlantic)
- Charles Mingus - Changes Two (Atlantic)
- The Ohio Players - Orgams - The Very Best of the Westbound Years 72-74 (Westbound)
9
- Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (MCA)
- Mott The Hoople - The Hoople (Columbia)
- Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow (RCA)
- Rush (Mercury)
- Bad Company - Bad Co. (Swan Song)
- Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus - Nyahbinghi (Trojan)
- 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)
- Ducks Deluxe (RCA)
- Buffalo - Only Want You For Your Body (Vertigo/Repertoire)
- Jobriath - Creatures Of The Street (Elektra)
- Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes - Tooth, Fang & Claw (Discreet/Bizarre Planet)
- Badfinger - Wish You Were Here (WB)
- 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)
- 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)
- Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (Virgin)
- Cosmic Jokers (Brain)
- 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)
- Witch - Lazy Bones!! (QDK Media)
- Beautiful Losers - Nobody Knows The Heaven (Lion)
- 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)
- Suzi Quatro - Quatro (EMI/BGO)
- Boz Scaggs - Slow Dancer (Columbia)
- Lou Reed - Rock 'n' Roll Animal (RCA)
10
1973
- Toots & the Maytals - Funky Kingston (Mango)
- Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets (EG)
- Al Green - Call Me (Hi)
- The Stooges - Raw Power (Columbia)
- Harmonia - Music Von Harmonia (Brain)
- New York Dolls - New York Dolls (Mercury)
- David Bowie - Aladdin Sane (Rykodisc)
- Pink Fairies - Kings Of Oblivion (Polydor)
- Can - Future Days (Spoon/Mute)
- Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (Tamla)
- João Gilberto (Polydor)
- Lee Perry & the Upsetters - Blackboard Jungle Dub (Upsetter/Trojan)
10-
- John Martyn - Solid Air (Island)
- Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle (Columbia)
- Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop (Westbound)
- Miles Davis - On The Corner (Columbia)
- Toots & the Maytals - In The Dark (Trojan)
- Betty Davis (Just Sunshine/Light in the Attic)
- John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana - Love Devotion Surrender (Columbia)
- Donny Hathaway - Extension Of A Man (Atlantic)
- 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)
- Jobriath (Elektra)
- Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure (EG)
- Augustus Pablo - This Is Augustus Pablo (Kaya/Heartbeat)
- Larry Marshall - Presenting Larry Marshall 1968-73 (Heartbeat)
9+
- Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds of the Western World (Deram)
- Buffalo - Volcanic Rock (Vertigo/Repertoire)
- Wishbone Ash - Wishbone Four (MCA)
- Granicus (RCA/Free)
- 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)
- Emitt Rhodes - Farewell To Paradise (A&M)
- Zap Pow (Island)
- Herman Chin-Loy - Aquarius Rock (Pressure Sounds)
- Neu! - Neu! 2 (Brain/Astralwerks)
- Gloria Jones - Share My Love (Reel/Universal)
- Cymande - Second Time Round (Janus/Sequel)
- Free - Heartbreaker (A&M/Island)
- Curtis Mayfield - Back To The World (Curtom)
- Procol Harum - Grand Hotel (A&M)
- Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend (MCA)
- Queen (Elektra/Hollywood)
- Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (WB)
- John Martyn - Inside Out (Island)
- Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting (EG/Opal, Ltd.)
- 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 (UA/One Way)
- Al Green - Livin' For You (Hi)
- Mott The Hoople - Mott (Columbia)
- Bruce Springsteen - Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ (Columbia)
- Secos e Molhados (Continental)
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd (MCA)
- 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)
- Millie Jackson - Hurts So Good (Southbound)
- Silverhead - Sixteen And Savaged (MCA)
9
- Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy (Atlantic)
- Montrose (WB)
- Cedric Im Brooks & The Divine Light - From Mento To Reggae To Third World Music (Doctor Bird/17 North Parade)
- Faust - The Faust Tapes (Cuneiform)
- Klaus Schulze - Cyborg (Ohr/Revisited)
- Amon Düül II - Vive la Trance (UA/Repertoire)
- ZZ Top - Tres Hombres (WB)
- Guru Guru (Brain/Revisited)
- Guru Guru - Don't Call Us We Call You (Atlantic)
- Jane Birkin - Di Doo Dah (Fontana/Universal Fr)
- Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (Harvest)
- Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstasy (MCA)
- Hard Stuff - Bolex Dementia (Mercury)
- The Strawbs - Hero And Heroine (A&M)
- Suzi Quatro (EMI/BGO)
- 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)
- Alice Cooper - Muscle Of Love (WB/Rhino)
- Tyrone Davis - Without You In My Life (Brunswick)
- The Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup (Rolling Stones)
- The Modern Lovers - Precise Modern Lovers Order (Rounder)
- Gram Parsons - GP (Reprise)
- Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans (Atlantic)
- The Who - Quadrophenia (MCA)
- Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes - Call Of The Wild (Discreet/Bizarre Planet)
- Humble Pie - In Concert (King Biscuit)
- 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)
- Electric Light Orchestra - ELO II (Jet/Epic Legacy)
- Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (Atlantic)
- Raspberries - Side Three (Capitol)
9-
- Brinsley Schwarz - Please Don't Ever Change (EMI)
- Kraftwerk - Ralf And Florian (Philips)
- Black Nasty - Talking To The People (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-
- Terry Callier - What Color Is Love (Cadet/Verve)
- Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 (WB)
- Bill Withers - Still Bill (Sussex)
- Stevie Wonder - Talking Book (Tamla)
- Neu! (Brain/Astralwerks)
- Guru Guru - Känguru (Brain/Universal)
- T. Rex - The Slider (Reprise)
- Bob Marley & the Wailers - African Herbsman (Trojan)
- Faust - So Far (Recommended)
- Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra (Kosmische Musik/SPV)
- Tangerine Dream - Zeit (Relativity)
- The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame (Columbia)
- Big Star - #1 Record (Argent)
- Tim Buckley - Greetings From L.A. (WB)
- Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen (Spalax)
- Terry Callier - Occasional Rain (Cadet/Verve)
- The Temptations - All Directions (Motown)
- Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace (Atlantic)
- Gilberto Gil - Expresso (Mercury)
- Fela Kuti - Shakara (EMI)
- Amon Düül II - Wolf City (UA/Repertoire)
- Alton Ellis - Soul Groover 1962-72 (Trojan)
- Stranger Cole - Bangarang: The Best Of Stranger Cole 1962-72 (Trojan)
- Highlife Time - Nigerian & Ghanaian Sound 1964-72 (Vampi Soul)
- John Holt - The Best Of John Holt 1967-72 (Trojan)
9+
- Van Morrison - St. Dominic's Preview (WB)
- Joni Mitchell - For The Roses (Elektra/Asylum)
- Wishbone Ash - Argus (MCA)
- Jerusalem (Deram/Decca)
- Fontella Bass - Free (Paula/Fuel)
- Bobby Womack - Understanding (UA)
- O.V. Wright - Memphis Unlimited (Backbeat)
- Arthur Verocai (Ubiquity/Luv N Haight)
- Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido (UA/One Way)
- Deep Purple - Machine Head (WB)
- Buffalo - Dead Forever... (Vertigo/Repertoire)
- Exuma The Obeah Man - Snake (Kama Sutra)
- Tangerine Dream - Atem (Relativity)
- Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht (Ohr/Revisited)
- Cluster - Cluster II (Brain/Revisited)
- Amon Düül II - Carnival In Babylon (UA/Repertoire)
- The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari - Grounation (Ashanti/MRR)
- Cymande (Janus/Sequel)
- Syreeta (Motown)
- 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 - Osmium/First Thangs 1970-1972 (Invictus)
- 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)
- Silverhead (MCA)
- 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)
- Ornette Coleman - Broken Shadows (Columbia)
- 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)
- The Guess Who - Live At The Paramount (Buddha)
- Deep Purple - Made In Japan (EMI)
- Humble Pie - Smokin' (A&M)
- 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)
- Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday (Mercury)
- Budgie - Squawk (MCA)
- The Heptones - Meet The New Generation! (Joe Gibbs/17 North Parade)
- Hard Stuff - Bullet Proof (Mercury)
- Soft Machine - Fifth (CBS)
- Thin Lizzy - Shades Of A Blue Orphanage (Decca/Deram)
- Genesis - Foxtrot (Atlantic)
- Dust - Hard Attack (One Way)
- 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 - School's Out (WB)
- The Allman Brothers Band - Eat A Peach (Capricorn/Polydor)
- Kraftwerk 2 (Philips)
- Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards (Mercury)
- Groundhogs - Who Will Save The World? (UA/EMI)
- Pink Fairies - What A Bunch Of Sweeties (Polydor)
- Free - Free At Last (A&M)
- Townes Van Zandt - High, Low And In Between (EMI)
- War - The World Is A Ghetto (Avenue)
- 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)
- Raspberries (Capitol)
- Raspberries - 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)
- Emerson Lake & Palmer - Trilogy (Atlantic/Rhino)
- 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)
- Weather Report - I Sing The Body Electric (Columbia)
9-
- The Impressions - Times Have Changed (Curtom)
- Scorpions - Lonesome Crow (Brain)
- Spirit - Time Circle 1968-1972 (Epic/Legacy)
- Townes Van Zandt - The Late, Great Townes Van Zandt (EMI)
- Loudon Wainright III - Album III (Columbia)
10
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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-
- Led Zeppelin IV (Atlantic)
- Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (Westbound)
- Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality (WB)
- Bill Withers - Just As I Am (Sussex)
- Roy Harper - Stormcock (Harvest/Science Friction)
- Janis Joplin - Pearl (Columbia)
- Carla Bley and Paul Haines - Escalator Over The Hill (ECM)
- Ash Ra Tempel (Spalax)
- Can - Tago Mago (Spoon/Mute)
- Faust (Recommended)
- MC5 - High Time (Rhino/Atlantic)
- The Doors - L.A. Woman (Elektra)
- Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi (WB)
- Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction (Columbia)
- Fela Kuti - Open & Close (Universal)
- Popol Vuh - In Den Gärten Pharaos (Pilz/Ohr)
- 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!)
- Donny Hathaway (Atlantic)
- Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson (Philips Fr)
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle, Vol. 1 1968-71 (Fantasy)
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- Curtis Mayfield - Roots (Curtom)
- Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (Island)
- Flower Travellin' Band - Satori (Atlantic/Phoenix)
- Pink Fairies - Neverneverland (Polydor)
- Procol Harum - Broken Barricades (A&M)
- Hawkwind - In Search Of Space (UA/One Way)
- The Flamin' Groovies - Teenage Head (Big Beat)
- Emitt Rhodes - Mirror (A&M)
- Gong - Camembert Electrique (Charly)
- Amon Düül II - Dance of the Lemmings (Liberty/Revisited)
- Guru Guru - Hinten (Brain/Spalax)
- Wishbone Ash - Pilgrimage (MCA)
- David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name (Atlantic)
- McDonald And Giles (Virgin)
- Cluster - Cluster 71 (Philips/Captain Trip)
- Caravan - In The Land Of The Grey & Pink (London/Some Wax)
- Mott The Hoople - Brain Capers (Atlantic)
- Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story (Mercury)
- Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus (Atlantic)
- Exuma The Obeah Man - Do Wah Nanny (Kama Sutra)
- Groundhogs - Split (UA/EMI)
- 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)
- Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri (Relativity)
- Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself (Mercury/Sanctuary)
- 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)
- Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat (A&M)
- Johnnie Taylor - One Step Beyond (Stax)
- Dave & Ansel Collins - Double Barrel (RAS)
- Dr. John The Night Tripper - The Sun, Moon & Herbs (Wounded Bird)
- Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson (RCA)
- Alice Cooper - Killer (WB)
- Pierre Barouh - Ca Va, Ca Vient (Saravah Fr)
- Donovan - HMS Donovan (Epic/Beat Goes On)
- Humble Pie - Rock On (A&M)
- Rodriguez - Coming From Reality (Sussex/Light in the Attic)
- Kevin Ayers - Whatevershebringswesing (Beat Goes On)
- Soft Machine - Fourth (Columbia)
- Pink Floyd - Meddle (Capitol)
- Peter Hammill - Fool's
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