Rock Lists 1965 to 2012



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2012

    10-

  1. Ufomammut - Oro: Opus Primum (Neurot)
  2. Baroness - Yellow & Green (Relapse) Jul 17

    9+

  3. Royal Thunder - CVI (Relapse) | Bandcamp
  4. Christian Mistress - Possession (Relapse) | Bandcamp
  5. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage (Roadrunner)
  6. Dawnbringer - Into The Lair Of The Sun God (Profound Lore)
  7. Captain Crimson - Dancing Madly Backwards (Transubstans) Aug 29
  8. Jess and the Ancient Ones (Svart)
  9. Witch Mountain - Cauldron Of The Wild (Profound Lore)
  10. Orcus Chylde (World In Sound)
  11. At Devil Dirt - Chapter II - Vulgo gratissimus auctor (At Devil Dirt) | Bandcamp
  12. Torche - Harmonicraft (Volcom)
  13. Elder - Spires Burn EP (Armageddon) | Bandcamp
  14. Black Moth - The Killing Jar (New Heavy Sounds)
  15. Kadavar (Tee Pee)
  16. Alunah - White Hoarhound (PsycheDOOMelic) Aug 7
  17. Castle - Blacklands (Ván)
  18. Fellwoods - Gyromancer EP (At War With Noise) | Bandcamp
  19. Horisont - Second Assault (Rise Above)
  20. Greenleaf - Nest Of Vipers (Small Stone)
  21. Neneh Cherry & The Thing - The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Supersound)
  22. Maxďmo Park - The National Health (Warp)
  23. Japandroids - Celebration Rock (Polyvinyl)
  24. JEFF The Brotherhood - Hypnotic Nights (WB) Jul 17
  25. O.Children - Apnea (Deadly People)
  26. Blues Pills - Bliss EP (Crusher)
  27. The Machine - Calmer Than You Are (Elektrohasch)
  28. Ancestors - In Dreams And Time (Tee Pee)
  29. Snail - Terminus (Snail) | Bandcamp
  30. Baby Woodrose - Third Eye Surgery (Bad Afro)
  31. Ivy Garden Of The Desert - Blood Is Love (Nasoni)
  32. Conan - Monnos (Burning World) | Bandcamp
  33. High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis (eOne)
  34. Wight - Through The Woods Into Deep Water (Bilocation/Fat & Holy) | Bandcamp
  35. Ice Dragon - Dream Dragon (Yersinia Pestis) | Bandcamp
  36. Trippy Wicked & the Cosmic Children of the Knight - Going Home (Trippy Wicked) | Bandcamp
  37. Deepspacepilots (Deepspacepilots) | Bandcamp
  38. Jack White - Blunderbuss (V2)
  39. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan (Domino) Jul 17
  40. Twin Shadow - Confess (4AD)
  41. The Walkmen - Heaven (Fat Possum)
  42. Gallon Drunk - The Road Gets Darker From Here (Clouds Hill)
  43. Screaming Females - Ugly (Don Giovanni)
  44. Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral (4AD)
  45. Black Pyramid - II (MeteorCity)
  46. Liars - WIXIW (Mute)
  47. Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction (Profound Lore)
  48. Windhand (Forcefield) | Bandcamp
  49. Bushman's Revenge – A Little Bit Of Big Bonanza (Rune Grammofon)
  50. Mares Of Thrace - The Pilgrimage (Sonic Unyon)
  51. The Men - Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
  52. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE (Def Jam) Jul 17
  53. Field Music - Plumb (Memphis Industries)
  54. Beach House - Bloom (Sub Pop)
  55. The Mars Volta - Nocturniquet (WB)
  56. Storm Corrosion (Roadrunner)
  57. Undersmile - Narwhal (Future Noise)
  58. Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind) The Crafty Ape (Cool Green)
  59. Pharaoh - Bury The Light (Cruz Del Sur) | Bandcamp
  60. Ice Dragon - Tome Of The Future Ancients (Yersinia Pestis) | Bandcamp
  61. Pretty Lightning - There Are Witches In The Woods (Fonal)
  62. Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Âme (Prophecy)
  63. Grand Magus - The Hunt (Nuclear Blast)
  64. Naam - The Ballad of the Starchild EP (Tee Pee)

    9

  65. Om - Advaitic Songs (Drag City) Jul 23
  66. The Shrine - Primitive Blast (Tee Pee)
  67. Mothership (Mothership) | Bandcamp
  68. Dopelord - Magick Rites (Dopelord) | Bandcamp
  69. Nightstalker - Dead Rock Commandos (Small Stone) Jul
  70. Sons Of Otis - Seismic (Small Stone) Aug 28
  71. Hour Of 13 - 333 (Earache)
  72. Dödaren - Maen (Dödaren) | Bandcamp
  73. Zeitgeist (Zeitgeist) | Bandcamp (Name Yr Price!)
  74. Boyjazz - Unlimited Nights & Weekends (For Once) | Bandcamp (Name Yr Price!)
  75. Moon Curse (Moon Curse) | Bandcamp (Name Yr Price!)
  76. SardoniS - II (Meteor City)
  77. Mission Of Burma - Unsound (Fire)
  78. Crocodiles - Endless Flowers (Frenchkiss)
  79. Hot Chip - In Our Heads (Domino)
  80. Metric - Synthetica (Mom & Pop)
  81. DSW - Dust Storm Warning (Acid Cosmonaut) | Bandcamp (Name Yr Price!)
  82. Turbonegro - Sexual Harrassment (Volcom)
  83. Moonless - Calling All Demons (Doomentia) | Bandcamp
  84. Ceremony - Zoo (Matador)
  85. Candlemass - Psalms For The Dead (Napalm)
  86. Bible of the Devil - For the Love of Thugs and Fools (Cruz Del Sur) | Bandcamp
  87. Rush - Clockwork Angels (Anthem/Atlantic)
  88. The Bad Light - Marrow Of Sound (The Bad Light) | Bandcamp
  89. Saint Vitus - Lillie: F-65 (Candlelight) | Bandcamp
  90. Witchsorrow - God Curse Us (Rise Above)
  91. Earthen Grave (Earthen Grave) | Bandcamp
  92. Grass Widow - Internal Logic (HLR)
  93. Crystal Viper - Crimen Excepta (AFM)
  94. A Place To Bury Strangers - Worship (Dead Oceans)
  95. Melvins - Freak Puke (Ipecac)
  96. Pond - Beard Wives Denim (Modular Fontana)
  97. Swans - We Rose From Your Bed With The Sun In Our Head (Young God)
  98. Iron Mtn (Iron Mtn) | Bandcamp
  99. Dwellers - Good Morning Harakiri (Small Stone)
  100. Born To Hula - Tales Of Love (Born To Hula) | Bandcamp
  101. The Futureheads - Rant (Nul)
  102. Ides Of Gemini - Constantinople (Neurot)
  103. Tenacious D - Rize Of The Fenix (Sony)
  104. Lower Dens - Nootropics (Ribbon)
  105. Patti Smith - BANGA (Columbia)
  106. El Doom & The Born Electric (Rune Grammofon)
  107. Demon Lung - Pareidolia EP (Demon Lung)
  108. Behold! The Monolith - Defender, Redeemist (Arctic Forest)
  109. Julia Holter - Ekstasis (RVNG)
  110. White Rabbits - Milk Famous (TBD)
  111. Killing Joke - MMXII (Spinefarm)
  112. Black Breath - Sentenced To Life (Relapse)
  113. Electric Moon - The Doomsday Machine (Sulatron/Nasoni)
  114. Cornershop - Urban Turban (Ample Play)
  115. The Very Best - MTMTMK (Moshi Moshi) Jul 17
  116. The Monochrome Set - Platinum Coils (Cherry Red)
  117. Saturna - The Kingdom Of Spirit (Seven Snakes)
  118. Earth Drive - Ink Storm (Earth Drive)
  119. oOoOO - Our Loving Is Hurting Us (Tri Angle)
  120. Melvins - The Bulls And The Bees EP (Scion A/V)
  121. Les Lesbiennes (Self-Released)
  122. Dean Allen Foyd - Sounds Can Be So Cruel (Crusher)
  123. Lee Fields - Faithful Man (Truth & Soul)
  124. RAM - Death (Metal Blade)
  125. Acid Mothers Temple - Son Of A Bitches Brew (Important)
  126. Comus - Out Of The Coma (Rise Above)
  127. Orange Goblin – A Eulogy For The Damned (Candlelight) | Bandcamp
  128. Stoned Jesus - Seven Thunders Roar (Moon) | Bandcamp
  129. Astra - The Black Chord (Metal Blade)
  130. Disappears - Pre Language (Kranky)
  131. Pepe Deluxe - Queen Of The Waves (Catskills)
  132. Howlin Rain - The Russian Wilds (American)
  133. Black Space Riders - Light Is The New Black (Brainstorm)
  134. Uzala (Uzala) | Bandcamp
  135. Mangoo - Neverland (Small Stone)
  136. Ett Rop Pĺ Hjälp - Hur Svĺrt Kan Det Vara? (Transubstans)
  137. Santigold - Master Of My Make-Believe (Atlantic)
  138. Superchrist - Holy Shit (Hella Headbangers)
  139. Sigh - In Somniphobia (Candlelight) | Bandcamp
  140. Ararat - Ararat II (Elektrohasch)
  141. Worm Ouroboros - Come The Thaw (Profound Lore)
  142. Occultation - Three & Seven (Profound Lore)
  143. Chromatics – Kill For Love (Italians Do It Better)
  144. Soap & Skin - Narrow (Pais)
  145. Mirrorring - Foreign Body (Kranky)
  146. Janus - Nox Aeris (Realid)
  147. Van Halen - A Different Kind Of Truth (Interscope)
  148. Burial - Kindred EP (Hyperdub)
  149. Django Django (Because)
  150. Sigur Rós - Valtari (XL)
  151. Future Of The Left - The Plot Against Common Sense (PIAS)
  152. Errors - Have Some Faith In Magic (Rock Action)
  153. Sun Preachers - Faces Of Ashes (Sun Preachers) | Bandcamp
  154. Psyconauts - Planet X (Psyconauts) | Bandcamp
  155. Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania (Martha's)
  156. Old Man Gloom - NO (Hydra Head)
  157. Death Grips - The Money Store (Epic)

    9-

  158. Grimes - Visions (4AD)
  159. Go-Kart Mozart - On The Hot Dog Streets (West Midlands)
  160. Bobby Conn - Macaroni (Fire)
  161. Soulsavers - The Light of the Dead See (Red Ink)
  162. Crucified Barbara - The Midnight Chase (GMR/Nuclear Blast)
  163. Wizard Rifle - Speak Loud Say Nothing (Seventh Rule) | Bandcamp
  164. Witchden - Consulting The Bones (Witchden) | Bandcamp
  165. Zodiac N Black - The Aftermyth (Zodiac N Black) | Bandcamp
  166. Infernal Overdrive - Last Rays Of The Dying Sun (Small Stone) | Bandcamp
  167. Deep Sea Thunder Beast (DST) | Bandcamp
  168. Witchstone - Witchstone EP (Witchstone) | Bandcamp
  169. The dB's - Falling Off The Sky (Blue Rose)
  170. Dexys - One Day I'm Going To Soar (BMB)
  171. Nate Hall (USX) - A Great River (Neurot)
  172. Horeseback - Half Blood (Relapse) | Bandcamp
  173. JK Flesh (Justin Broadrick) (3by3)
  174. Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury - DROKK (Invada)
  175. MV & EE - Space Homestead (Ecstatic Peace)
  176. Mammoth Mammoth - Volume III: Hell's Likely (Mammoth Mammoth)
  177. Blondes (RVNGE)
  178. The Cult - Choice Of Weapon (Cooking Vinyl)
  179. Sabaton - Carolus Rex (Nuclear Blast)
  180. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It (Organs)
  181. Ahab - The Giant (Napalm) Jun 19
  182. Tindersticks - The Something Rain (Constellation)
  183. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (Epic)
  184. Accept - Stalingrad (Nuclear Blast)
  185. 3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal (Century Media)
  186. Meshuggah - Koloss (Nuclear Blast)
  187. Hospitality (Merge)
  188. The Shins - Port Of Morrow (Columbia)
  189. Delta Spirit (Rounder)
  190. Mellow Bravo (Small Stone)
  191. Low Gravity - Incarnadine (Low Gravity) | Bandcamp
  192. The Heartbreaks - Funtimes (Nusic)
  193. Jeff Loomis - Plains Of Oblivion (Century Media)
  194. The Cribs - In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull (Wichita)
  195. Corrosion Of Conformity (Candlelight) | Bandcamp
  196. Buried Sleeper - Colosseum (Buried Sleeper) | Bandcamp
  197. Pilgrim - Misery Wizard (Metal Blade) | Bandcamp
  198. A Place to Bury Strangers - Onwards to the Wall EP (Dead Oceans)
  199. Prong - Carved Into Stone (PID)
  200. The Hives - Lex Hives (Disques Hives)
  201. New Build - Yesterday Was Lived And Lost (Redeye)
  202. Shebrew - Provinance EP (Shebrew)
  203. Plants and Animals - The End of That (Secret City)
  204. Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II (Southern Lord)
  205. Thunderkraft – Totentanz (Svarga)
  206. Gravenhurst - The Ghost In Daylight (Warp)
  207. Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball (Columbia)
  208. Angel Witch - As Above So Below (Metal Blade)
  209. Otu - Apocalypse (Self-Released)
  210. Horseback - Half Blood (Relapse)
  211. Horse Latitudes - Awakening (AIS)
  212. Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest & The Blackbird (Universal)
  213. Unsane - Wreck (Alternative Tentacles)
  214. The Megaphonic Thrift (Sonic Unyon)
  215. Napalm Death - Utilitarian (Century Media)
  216. The Maccabees - Given To The Wild (Fiction)
  217. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light (Arista)
  218. Overkill - The Electric Age (eOne)
  219. Sleepy Sun - Spine Hits (The End)
  220. Lord Mantis - Pervertor (Candlelight) | Bandcamp
  221. Dirty Three - Toward the Low Sun (Drag City)
  222. Cannibal Corpse - Torture (Metal Blade)
  223. Nite Jewel - One Second Of Love (Secretly Canadian)
  224. Mpire Of Evil - Hell To The Holy (Scarlet)
  225. Pelican - Ataraxia / Taraxis EP (Southern Lord)
  226. Madonna - MDNA (Interscope)
  227. Miike Snow - Happy To You (Republic)
  228. Municipal Waste - The Fatal Feast: Waste In Space (Nuclear Blast)
  229. Ministry - Relapse (AFM)
  230. Huntress - Spell Eater (Napalm)
  231. Magnetic Fields - Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
  232. UFO - Seven Deadly (SPV/Steamhammer)
  233. Monarch - Omens (At A Loss)
  234. Drudkh - Eternal Turn Of The Wheel (Season Of Mist)
  235. Black Dice - Mr. Impossible (Ribbon)
  236. Goatwhore - Blood For The Master (Metal Blade)
  237. 16 - Deep Cuts From Dark Clouds (Relapse)
  238. Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself (Mom+Pop)
  239. Gonjasufi - MU.ZZ.LE (Warp)
  240. The Gossip - A Joyful Noise (Columbia)
  241. Lambchop - Mr. M (Merge)
  242. Air - Le Voyage de la Lune (Astralwerks)
  243. Wiley - Evolve Or Be Extinct (Big Dada)
  244. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp (Jagjaguwar)
  245. Rodrigo y Gabriela - Area 52 (Ato)
  246. Shearwater - Animal Joy (Sub Pop)
  247. The Big Pink - Future This (4AD)
  248. Sinead O'Connor - How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? (One Little Indian)
  249. Tribes - Baby (Island)
  250. Public Image Ltd. - This Is PiL (PiL)
  251. Craig Finn - Clear Heart Full Of Eyes (Vagrant)
  252. Ting Tings - Sounds From Nowheresville (BMG)
  253. Primal Rock Rebellion - Awoken Broken (Spinefarm)
  254. Die Antwoord - TEN$ION (Zef/Good Smile/Downtown/Co-op)


2011

    10-

  1. TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light (Interscope)
  2. Graveyard - Hisingen Blues (Nuclear Blast)

    9+

  3. White Denim - D (Downtown)
  4. Elder - Dead Roots Stirring (MeteorCity)
  5. Been Obscene - Night O' Mine (Elektrohasch)
  6. At Devil Dirt (Corvus Discos)
  7. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Blood Lust (Killer Candy/Svart)
  8. The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? (Columbia)
  9. Mastodon - The Hunter (Reprise)
  10. Tom Waits - Bad As Me (Anti-)
  11. Opeth - Heritage (Roadrunner)
  12. Sungrazer - Mirador (Elektrohasch)
  13. Hammers Of Misfortune - 17th Street (Metal Blade)
  14. Colornoise - Fake Apocalypse (Automata) | Bandcamp (Name Yr Price!)
  15. Le Butcherettes - Sin Sin Sin (Rodriguez Lopez Productions)
  16. John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves (Domino)
  17. Wild Beasts - Smother (Domino)
  18. Ufesas (Droehnhaus)
  19. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs (XL)
  20. Causa Sui - Pewt'r Sessions 1 & 2 (El Paraiso)
  21. Wo Fat - Noche del Chupacabra (Nasoni)
  22. Metronomy - English Riviera (Because)
  23. Pete & the Pirates - One Thousand Pictures (Stolen)
  24. Spiders - Spiders EP (Crusher)
  25. Humo del Cairo - Vol. II (Estamos Felices)
  26. Korallreven - An Album By Korallreven (Hybris/Acephale)
  27. Holy Ghost! (DFA)
  28. Lord Vicar - Signs Of Osiris (The Church Within)
  29. The Men - Leave Home (Sacred Bones)
  30. Peaking Lights - 936 (Not Not Fun)
  31. Boris - New Album (Tearbridge/Sargent House)
  32. Krux - III - He Who Sleeps Amongst The Stars (GMR)
  33. Obrero - Mortui Vivos Docent (Night Tripper)
  34. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room (Cyclone Empire/Metal Blade)
  35. Pantheďst - Pantheist (Grau)
  36. SubRosa - No Help For The Mighty One (Profound Lore)
  37. Jah Wobble & Julie Campbell - Psychic Life (Cherry Red)
  38. Freedom Hawk - Holding On (Small Stone)
  39. Amebix - Sonic Mass (Easy Action)
  40. Ĺrabrot - Solar Anus (Fysisk Format)
  41. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (4AD)
  42. Sleestak - The Fall Of Altrusia (Sleestak)
  43. Hills - Master Sleeps (Transubstans)
  44. The Chapman Family - Burn Your Town (PIAS/Electric Toaster)
  45. Fellnoise - Wulfram (At War With False Noise) | Bandcamp (Name Yr Price!)
  46. Elvis Deluxe - Favourite State Of Mind (Harmony)
  47. Circle - Infektio (Conspiracy)
  48. Lucas Santtana - Sem Nostalgia (Mais Um Discos)
  49. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life (Matador)
  50. Tinariwen - Tassili (Anti-)
  51. Tamikrest - Toumastin (Glitterhouse)
  52. The Horror The Horror - Wilderness (Tapete)
  53. YOB - Atma (Profound Lore)
  54. Obake (Rarenoise)
  55. Monkey3 - Beyond The Black Sky (Stickman)
  56. Alexander Tucker - Dorwytch (Thrill Jockey)
  57. Moon Duo - Mazes (Sacred Bones)
  58. Sahara Surfers - Sonar Pilot (Sound Zero)
  59. Thundercat - The Golden Age Of Apocalypse (Brainfeeder)
  60. The Fall - Ersatz G.B (Cherry Red)
  61. The Postelles (Plus One)
  62. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact (4AD)
  63. Pentagram - Last Rites (Metal Blade)
  64. Cherry Choke – A Night In The Arms Of Venus... (Elektrohasch)
  65. Highway Child (Elektrohasch)
  66. Radio Moscow - The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz (Alive)
  67. The Black Keys - El Camino (Nonesuch)
  68. Frankie And The Heartstrings - Hunger (Wichita)
  69. Rival Sons - Pressure & Time (Earache)
  70. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See (Domino)
  71. The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre (Van/Profound Lore)
  72. Washed Out - Within And Without (Sub Pop)
  73. The Weeknd - House Of Balloons (The Weeknd)
  74. The Gates Of Slumber - The Wretch (Rise Above)
  75. Anna Calvi (Domino)
  76. Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia (Hideout)
  77. The Feelies - Here Before (Bar/None)
  78. Zola Jesus - Conatus (Sacred Bones)
  79. Atlas Sound - Parallax (4AD)
  80. Battles - Gloss Drop (Warp)
  81. Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients (Rise Above)
  82. Arenna - Beats of Olarizu (Nasoni)
  83. Witch Mountain - South Of Salem (Mountastic/Profound Lore)
  84. Castle - In Witch Order (Ván)
  85. Glitter Wizard - Solar Hits (Archers Guild)
  86. Venomous Maximous - The Mission EP (Cutthroat)
  87. Fool's Gold - Leave No Trace (Iamsound)
  88. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know (Ribbon)
  89. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (History Always Favours the Winners)
  90. The Horrors - Skying (XL)
  91. Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years (Matador)
  92. Parts & Labor - Constant Future (Jagjaguwar)
  93. Slough Feg - Made in Poland (Megadisc)
  94. Melvins - Sugar Daddy Live (Ipecac)
  95. Siena Root - Root Jam (Transubstans)
  96. Cave - Neverendless (Drag City)
  97. Russian Circles - Empros (Sargent House)
  98. James Ferraro - Far Side Virtual (Hippos In Tanks)
  99. The Heavy Eyes (Heavy Eyes)
  100. Mars Red Sky (Emergence)
  101. Wild Flag (Merge)
  102. Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit (Nostalgia Blackrain)
  103. Iceage - New Brigade (What's Your Rupture?)
  104. Austra - Feel It Break (Domino)
  105. Lonely Kamel - Dust Devil (Napalm)
  106. The Cosmic Dead - Cosmik Tape I (Who Can You Trust?)
  107. DeWolff - Orchards/Lupine (REMusic)
  108. 1000mods - Super Van Vacation (Kozmik Artifactz)
  109. Human Eye - They Came From The Sky (Secretly Canadian)
  110. Phaedra - The Sea (Rune Grammofon)
  111. Grayceon - All We Destroy (Profound Lore)
  112. Omar Souleyman - Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts (Sublime Frequencies)
  113. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - From Africa With Fury: Rise (Knitting Factory)
  114. Eggnogg - Moments in Vacuum (Palaver)
  115. Green & Wood - Devil's Plan (Cyclopean)
  116. Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming (Dunham)
  117. Turisas - Stand Up And Fight (Century Media)
  118. In Solitude - The World. The Flesh. The Devil (Metal Blade)
  119. Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg (Season Of Mist)
  120. Săo Paulo Underground - Tres Cabeças Loucuras (Cuneiform)
  121. Kassin - Sonhando Devagar (Coqueiro Verde)
  122. Domenico - Cine Prive (Coqueiro Verde)
  123. Marcelo Camelo - Toque Dela (Universal Brazil)

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  124. When Saints Go Machine - Konkylie (!K7)
  125. Rotor - Festsaal Kreuzberg (Elektrohasch)
  126. Pharaoh Overlörd - Out Of Darkness (Ektro)
  127. Argus - Boldly Stride The Doomed (Cruz Del Sur)
  128. Orchid - Capricorn (Doom Dealer)
  129. Leather Nun America - Kult Occult (PsycheDOOMelic)
  130. Wooden Stake - Dungeon Prayers & Tombyard Serenades (Razorback)
  131. Loon (Beta-Lactam Ring)
  132. Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place (Asthmatic Kitty)
  133. The Wounded Kings - In The Chapel Of The Black Hand (I Hate Records)
  134. The Atomic Bitchwax - The Local Fuzz (Tee Pee)
  135. U.S. Christmas - The Valley Path (Neurot)
  136. The Flying Eyes - Done So Wrong (Flying Eyes)
  137. Acid Baby Jesus (Slovenly)
  138. Sandrider (Good To Die)
  139. Across Tundras - Sage (Neurot)
  140. Dopethrone - Dark Foil (Dopethrone)
  141. Ice Dragon - The Sorrowful Sun (Yersinia Pestis)
  142. Altar Of Plagues - Mammal (Profound Lore)
  143. Tombs - Path Of Totality (Relapse)
  144. Tarwater - Inside The Ships (Bureau B)
  145. Brotherhood Of Sleep - Dark As Light (Catch The Soap)
  146. Julia Holter - Tragedy (Leaving)
  147. Wiht - The Harrowing Of The North (Wiht)
  148. King Midas Sound - Without You (Hyperdub)
  149. Vladislav Delay - Vantaa (Raster)
  150. Disappears - Guider (Kranky)
  151. Hexvessel - Dawnbearer (Svart)
  152. Jeff The Brotherhood - We Are The Champions (Infinity Cat)
  153. Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer/Dream Loss (Yellowelectric)
  154. Shooting Guns - Born To Deal In Magic: 1952-1976 (Teargas)
  155. Portrait - Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae (Metal Blade)
  156. Wolf - Legions Of Bastards (EMI)
  157. Dark Forest - Dawn Of Infinity (Cruz Del Sur)
  158. White Wizzard - Flying Tigers (Earache)
  159. Arkona - Slovo (Napalm)
  160. Absu - Abzu (Candlelight)
  161. Pharaoh - Ten Years EP (Cruz Del Sur)
  162. Psychic Paramount - II (No Quarter)
  163. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - Soul Time! (Daptone)
  164. Beastwars (Destroy/Universal)
  165. The Book Of Knots - Garden Of Fainting Stars (Ipecac)
  166. Boris - Attention Please (Sargent House)
  167. Bill Callahan - Apocalaypse (Drag City)
  168. Demonic Death Judge - The Descent (Inverse)
  169. Cauldron - Burning Fortune (Earache)
  170. Bullet - Highway Pirates (Black Lodge)
  171. Troglodyte - Welcome To Boggy Creek (noMore Tomorrow)
  172. Rustie - Glass Swords (Warp)
  173. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Island)
  174. Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning (Ksope)
  175. Real Estate - Days (Domino)
  176. Spaces - Nothing Exists but Atoms and the Void (Spaces) | Bandcamp (Only $5!)
  177. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972 (Kranky)
  178. Korpiklaani - Ukon Wacka (Nuclear Blast)
  179. Barbara Panther (Republic Of Music)
  180. Wizard Smoke - The Speed Of Smoke (Wizard Smoke)
  181. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise (Circus Company)
  182. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica (Software)
  183. Lamb - 5 (Strata)
  184. Tia Carrera – Cosmic Priestess (Small Stone)
  185. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (Sub Pop)
  186. The Roots - undun (Def Jam)
  187. Frank Ocean - nostalgia, ULTRA. (Frank Ocean)
  188. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic)
  189. Esben and the Witch - Violet Cries (Matador)
  190. The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
  191. Planningtorock - W (DFA)
  192. Old Silver Key - Tales Of Wanderings (Season Of Mist)
  193. Barn Owl - Lost In The Glare (Thrill Jockey)
  194. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Tao Of The Dead (Superball)
  195. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints (Souterrain)
  196. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (PID)
  197. The Antlers - Burst Apart (Frenchkiss)
  198. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (PID)
  199. Grails - Deep Politics (Temporary Residence)
  200. Wilco - The Whole Love (Anti-)
  201. Wooden Shjips - West (Thrill Jockey)
  202. Trap Them - Darker Handcraft (Prosthetic)
  203. Machinedrum - Room(s) (Planet Mu)
  204. The Flight of Sleipnir - Essence of Nine (Northern Silence)
  205. Maligno - The Funeral Domine (Maligno)
  206. Lento - Icon (Denovali)
  207. Seidr - For Winter Fire (Flenser)
  208. Dub Trio - IV (ROIR)
  209. Sleep 8 Over - Forever (Hippos In Tanks)
  210. Denizen - Whispering Wild Stories (Denizen)
  211. Femi Kuti - Africa For Africa (Knitting Factory)
  212. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - Cotonou Club (Strut)
  213. Lo-Pan - Salvador (Small Stone)
  214. Sigiriya - Return To Earth (The Church Within)
  215. Lüger - Concrete Light (Giradiscos)
  216. Skraeckoedlan - Äppelträdet (Transubstans)
  217. Rômulo Fróes - Um Labirinto em Cada Pé (A Labyrinth in Each Foot) (Livraria Cultura)
  218. Unkind - Harhakuvat (Relapse)
  219. Hype Williams - One Nation (Hippos In Tanks)
  220. The Megaphonic Thrift - Decay Decoy (Sonic Unyon)
  221. Black Cobra - Invernal (Southern Lord)
  222. Weekend Nachos - Worthless (Relapse)
  223. Suplecs - Mad Oak Redoux (Small Stone)
  224. Dawn Richard - A Tell Tale Heart (Self-Release)
  225. Nguzunguzu - The Perfect Lullaby (Self-Release)
  226. Autopsy - Macabre Eternal (Peaceville)
  227. Hell - Human Remains (Nuclear Blast)
  228. Anthony Hamilton - Back To Love (RCA)
  229. Magazine - No Thyself (Wire-Sound/Redeye)
  230. Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow (Noble & Brite)
  231. The Weeknd - Thursday (The Weeknd)
  232. Weird Owl - Build Your Beast A Fire (Tee Pee)
  233. Seven That Spells - The Death And Resurrection of Krautrock: AUM (Beta-Lactam) | Bandcamp (name yr price!)
  234. Robag Wruhme - Thora Vukk (Pampa)
  235. Acid Mothers Temple - The Ripper at the Heavens' Gates of Dark (Riot Season)
  236. Blanck Mass (Rock Action)
  237. The Master Musicians Of Bukkake - Totem 3 (Important)
  238. Woods - Sun And Shade (Woodsist)
  239. Boris - Heavy Rocks (Sargent House)
  240. Hypatia Lake - Ouroboros (Hypatia Lake)
  241. Eidetic Seeing - Drink The Sun (Chybucca)
  242. Swimming - Ecstatics International (Tummy Touch)
  243. Cosmonauts Day - Paths of The Restless (Cosmonauts Day)
  244. Samsara Blues Experiment - Revelation & Mystery (World In Sound)
  245. Danava - Hemisphere Of Shadows (Kemado)
  246. Black Rainbows - Supermothafuzzalicious!! (Longfellow Deeds)
  247. Ironweed - Your World Of Tomorrow (Small Stone)
  248. Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance (Season Of Mist)
  249. Premonition 13 - 13 (Volcom)
  250. Poseidótica - Cronicas del Futuro (Aquatalan) | Bandcamp (FREE!)
  251. Zebulon Pike - Space Is The Corpse Of Time (Aquarius)
  252. Zombi - Escape Velocity (Relapse)
  253. Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1 (Southern Lord)
  254. Gideon Smith & The Dixie Damned - 30 Weight (Small Stone)
  255. Borracho - Splitting Sky (CDBY)
  256. Gordon Fights (Transubstans)
  257. Hands Of Orlac (Horror)
  258. Condenados - A Painful Journey Into Nihil (Shadow Kingdom)
  259. Red Fang - Murder The Mountains (Relapse)
  260. Anatomy Of Habit (Self)
  261. Black Lips - Arabian Mountain (Vice)
  262. The Kills - Blood Pressures (Domino)
  263. Gentleman’s Pistols – At Her Majesty’s Pleasure (Rise Above)
  264. Underdogs - Revolution Love (Go Down)
  265. Roadsaw (Small Stone)
  266. Wight - Wight Weedy Wight (Kozmik Artifactz)
  267. Dixie Witch - Let It Roll (Small Stone)
  268. Black Capricorn (12th Records)
  269. SerpentCult - Raised By Wolves (Listenable)
  270. S.C.U.M. - Again Into Eyes (Mute)
  271. Amon Tobin - ISAM (Ninja Tune)
  272. Asva - Presences Of Absences (Important)
  273. Sons And Daughters - Mirror Mirror (Domino)
  274. Roots Manuva - 4everevolution (Big Dada)
  275. Cornershop - Cornershop & Double ‘O’ Groove Of (w/ Bubbley Kaur) (Ample Play)
  276. Black Pyramid - Stormbringer (MeteorCity)
  277. Rocket From The Tombs - Barfly (Fire)
  278. High Places - Original Colors (Thrill Jockey)
  279. James Blake (Universal)
  280. White Denim - Takes Place In Your Work Space EP (Downtown)
  281. Betty Wright & The Roots - Betty Wright - The Movie (S-Curve)
  282. Mark Fry - I Lived In Trees (Second Language)
  283. Death Grips - ExMilitary (Death Grips)
  284. Wiley - 100% Publishing (Big Dada)
  285. Low - C'mon (Sub Pop)
  286. Black Spiders - Sons Of The North (Dark Riders)
  287. The Grand Astoria - Omnipresence (TGA)
  288. Thalamus - Subterfuge (Zyx)
  289. Andy Stott - Passed Me By (Modern Love)
  290. Andy Stott - We Stay Together (Modern Love)
  291. We Are The Damned - Holy Beast (Bastardized)
  292. Totimoshi - Avenger (At A Loss)
  293. Speed The Plough - Shine (Dromedary)
  294. Junior Boys - It's All True (Domino)
  295. Soul Manifest - White Season (Night Tripper)
  296. Belzebong - Sonic Scapes & Weedy Grooves (Self-released)
  297. Valley of the Sun - The Sayings of the Seers EP (Self-released)
  298. Anathema - Falling Deeper (Kscope)
  299. Karma To Burn - V (Napalm)
  300. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther)
  301. East Of The Wall - The Apologist (Translation Loss)
  302. Virus - The Agent That Shapes The Desert (Duplicate)
  303. Hull - Beyond the Lightless Sky (The End)
  304. Dir En Grey - Dum Spiro Spero (The End)
  305. Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (Southern Lord)
  306. Liturgy - Aesthethica (Thrill Jockey)
  307. Morne - Asylum (Profound Lore)
  308. Giant Squid - Cenotes (Translation Loss)
  309. Cynic - Carbon Based Anatomy EP (Season Of Mist)
  310. Weedsnake (Weedsnake)
  311. Caina - Hands That Pluck (Profound Lore)
  312. Pharaoh Overlord - Lunar Jetman (Sige)
  313. Nightwish - Imaginaerum (Roadrunner)
  314. The Rapture - The Grace Of Your Love (DFA/Red General)
  315. Earthling - Insomniac's Ball (Bandcamp)
  316. Crumbling Ghost (Withered Hand)
  317. Weedeater - Jason...The Dragon (Southern Lord)
  318. Rwake - Rest (Relapse)
  319. Slabdragger - Regress (Holy Roar)
  320. Brutal Truth - End Time (Relapse)
  321. The Atlas Moth - An Ache For The Distance (Profound Lore)
  322. Jeremy Irons & The Ratgang Malibus - Bloom (Transubstans)
  323. Meg Baird - Seasons On Earth (Drag City)
  324. The Bell - Great Heat (Badman)
  325. Young Knives - Ornaments From The Silver Arcade (Gadzook)
  326. Sólstafir - Svartir Sandar (Season Of Mist)
  327. The Computers - This Is The Computers (One Little Indian)
  328. Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks - Mirror Traffic (Matador)
  329. Ancient VVisdom - A Godlike Inferno (Shinebox)
  330. Ixion - To The Void (PID)
  331. Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds - Gorilla Rose (In The Red)
  332. Van Hunt - What Were You Hoping For? (Godless Hotspot)
  333. Nurses - Dracula (Dead Oceans)
  334. Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin' (Columbia)
  335. Fujiya & Miyagi - Ventriloquizzing (Yep Roc)
  336. tUnE-YaRdS - w h o k i l l (4AD)
  337. Meshell Ndegeocello - Weather (Naive)
  338. Yacht - Shangri-La (DFA)
  339. Peter Murphy - Ninth (Nettwerk)
  340. Anima Morte - The Nightmare Becomes Reality (Transubstans)
  341. Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine (Carpark)
  342. Ancestors - Invisible White EP (Tee Pee)
  343. The Quill - Full Circle (Metalville)
  344. Motörhead - The Wörld Is Yours (EMI)
  345. British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall (Rough Trade)
  346. Neon Indian - Era Extrańa (Mom & Pop)
  347. The Company Corvette - End Of The Summers (The Company)
  348. Those Dancing Days - Daydreams & Nightmares (Wichita)
  349. Man Man - Life Fantastic (Anti/Epitaph)
  350. The Victorian English Gentlemens Club - Bag Of Meat (This Is Fake DIY)
  351. Sloan - The Double Cross (Yep Roc)
  352. Friendly Fires - Pala (XL)
  353. Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On (Full Time Hobby)
  354. Bonus Eventus - Heart Attack (Bonus Eventus)
  355. The Naked And Famous - Passive Me Aggressive You (Republic)
  356. Bloodiest - Descent (Relapse)
  357. Three Seasons - Life's Road (Transubstans)
  358. Grifter (Ripple Music)
  359. Cave In - White Silence (Hydra Head)
  360. Apparat - The Devil's Walk (Mute/EMI)
  361. Kamchatka - Bury Your Roots (Ais)
  362. The Sea And Cake - The Moonlight Butterfly EP (Thrill Jockey)
  363. Gang Of Four - Content (Yep Roc)
  364. The Heads - Vertigo Swill (Rocket/Rooster)
  365. Cormorant - Dwellings (Cormorant)
  366. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop)
  367. Wanda Jackson - The Party Ain't Over (Nonesuch)
  368. Wire - Red Barked Tree (Pink Flag)
  369. Lazarus A.D. - Black Rivers Flow (Metal Blade)
  370. Black Tusk - Set The Dial (Relapse)
  371. Enablers - Blown Realms And Stalled Explosions (Exile On Mainstream)
  372. Hatchback - Zeus & Apollo (Lo)
  373. Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination (Prosthetic)
  374. Loss - Despond (Profound Lore)
  375. Sun Araw - Ancient Romans (101)
  376. Paris Suit Yourself - My Main Shitstain (Big Dada)
  377. PS I Love You - Meet Me At The Muster Station (Republic of Music)
  378. Young Widows - In and Out of Youth and Lightness (Temporary Residence)
  379. Art Brut - Brilliant! Tragic! (Cooking Vinyl)
  380. Wild Palms - Until Spring (One Little Indian)
  381. Machine Head - Unto The Locust (Roadrunner)
  382. Gyratory System - New Harmony (Angular)
  383. The Raveonettes - Raven In The Grave (Vice)
  384. Panda Bear - Tomboy (Paw Tracks)
  385. Die! Die! Die! - Form (Flying Nun)
  386. Dum Dum Girls - He Gets Me High (Sub Pop)
  387. Cut Copy - Zonoscope (Modular)
  388. Hella - Tripper (Sargent House)
  389. Cindytalk - Hold Everything Dear (Editions Mego)
  390. Pinch & Shackleton (Honest Jon's)
  391. Mamiffer - Mare Decendrii (Sige/Conspiracy)
  392. Vladislav Delay Quartet (Honest Jon's)
  393. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres (Constellation)
  394. Amir ElSaffar Two Rivers Ensemble - Inana (Pi)
  395. Maria Rita - Elo (Warner Music Latina)
  396. Cut Hands - Afro Noise 1 (Susan Lawly/Very Friendly)
  397. Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Songs From a Zulu Farm (Razor & Tie)
  398. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo (Matador)
  399. Joan As Police Woman - Deep Field (PIAS)
  400. Vetiver - The Errant Charm (Sub Pop)
  401. Cults (Columbia)
  402. Twerps (Underwater Peoples)
  403. Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps (Sub Pop)
  404. The Swan King - Eyes Like Knives (Seventh Rule)
  405. The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar (Atlantic)
  406. Hayvanlar Alemi - Guarana Superpower (Sublime Frequencies)
  407. Demdike Stare - Tryptych (Modern Love)
  408. Björk - Biophilia (Nonesuch)
  409. SBTRKT (Young Turks)
  410. Goapele - Break of Dawn (Skyblaze/Decon)
  411. Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (Bella Union)
  412. Graf Orlock - Doombox EP (Vitriol)
  413. Kill (Fysisk Format)
  414. Obscura - Omnivium (Relapse)
  415. The Eternals - Approaching The Energy Field (Addenda)
  416. TesseracT - One (Century Media)
  417. OvO - Cor Cordium (Supernatural Cat)
  418. Scar Symmetry - The Unseen Empire (Nuclear Blast)
  419. Leprous - Bilateral (Inside Out)
  420. Bruce Lamont - Feral Songs For The Epic Decline (At A Loss)

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  421. Pistol Annies - Hell On Heels (Sony)
  422. Wounded Lion - IVXLCDM (In The Red)
  423. Oh Land (Epic)
  424. AraabMuzik - Electronic Dream (Duke)
  425. Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors (Entertainment One)
  426. Alva Noto - Univrs (Raster-Noton)
  427. Maya Azucena - Cry Love (Half Note)
  428. Rahsaan Patterson - Bleuphoria (Artistry)
  429. Wye Oak - Civilian (Merge)
  430. Azita - Disturbing The Air (Drag City)
  431. Buffalo Tom - Skins (Scrawny)
  432. Rihanna - Talk The Talk (Def Jam)
  433. Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams (Sub Pop)
  434. Eleventh Dream Day - Riot Now! (Thrill Jockey)
  435. Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2 (Capitol)
  436. Adele - 21 (XL)
  437. Florence And The Machine - Ceremonials (Universal)
  438. Meat Puppets - Lollipop (Megaforce)
  439. Dwarves - The Dwarves Are Born Again (MVD)
  440. Today is the Day - Pain is a Warning (!K7/Black Market)
  441. The Strokes - Angles (RCA)
  442. M.I.A. - Vicki Leekx (MIA)
  443. The Human League - Credo (Krassner)
  444. Urge Overkill - Rock & Roll Submarine (UO Records)
  445. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong (Slumberland)
  446. Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys! (Polydor)
  447. The Throne - Watch The Throne (Def Jam)
  448. The Dodos - No Color (French Kiss)
  449. TV Ghost - Mass Dream (In The Red)
  450. New York Dolls - Dancing Backward In High Heels (429 Records)
  451. Yuck (Fat Possum)
  452. The Dears - Degeneration Street (Dangerbird)
  453. Katy B - On a Mission (Rinse/Columbia)
  454. Gridlink - Orphan (Hydra Head)
  455. Spirit Descent - Seven Chapters In A Minor (Eyes Like Snow)
  456. Beyoncé - 4 (Sony)
  457. The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow (Sensibility)
  458. Sleeper Agent - Celabrasion (Mom & Pop)
  459. Jill Scott - The Light Of The Sun (Blues Babe)
  460. Beverly Knight - Soul UK (Hurricane)
  461. Josh T. Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen (Mute)
  462. Blood Orange - Coastal Grooves (Domino)
  463. Riot - Immortal Soul (Steamhammer)
  464. One Inch Giant - Malva (One Inch Giant)
  465. Junius - Reports From the Threshold of Death (Prosthetic)
  466. Devil - Time To Repent (Soulseller)
  467. Arkham Witch - Croms Mountain (Barbarian Wrath)
  468. Vektor - Outer Isolation (MRI)
  469. Demonaz - March Of The Norse (Nuclear Blast)
  470. Rotten Sound - Cursed (Relapse)
  471. Childish Gambino - Camp (Glass Note)
  472. Skinny Puppy - Handover (SPV)
  473. Primus - Green Naugahyde (ATO/Red)
  474. Acid Witch - Stoned (Hell's Headbangers)
  475. Ringworm – Scars (Victory)
  476. Chris Connelly - Artificial Madness (Relapse)
  477. Indian - Guiltless (Relapse)
  478. Midnight Zombie Alligator - See No Evil Hear No Evil Speak No Evil (MZA)
  479. Dantesco - Seven Years Of Battle (Stormspell)
  480. Ordog - Remorse (Violent Journey)
  481. Wooden Stake - Black Caped Carnivore EP (Sorcerer's Pledge)
  482. Wreck of the Hesperus - Light Rotting Out (Aesthetic Death)
  483. Firebird - Double Diamond (Rise Above)
  484. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (RCA)
  485. Felipe Arcazas - Induction To The Subconscious EP (Arcazas)
  486. Molior Superum - Towards The Haze EP (Molior Sperum)
  487. Tank 86 - Rise (Rising Magma)
  488. Roadkillsoda - A Fucked Up Trip Gone Bad (Asiluum)
  489. Black Acid Devil - Mountains Of Madness (BAD)
  490. Beneath Oblivion - From Man To Dust (The Mylene Sheath)
  491. American Heritage - Sedentary (Translation Loss)
  492. James Blake - Enough Thunder EP (Polydor)
  493. Plaid - Scintilli (Warp)
  494. Cosmin TRG - Simulat (50 Weapons)
  495. Monster Coyote - Stoner To The Boner (Monster Coyote)
  496. Leviathan - True Traitor, True Whore (Profound Lore)
  497. Il Malpertugio - Deranged (Il Malpertugio)
  498. Unearth - Darkness in the Light (Metal Blade)
  499. Krallice - Diotima (Profound Lore)
  500. Blut Aus Nord - 777: Sect(S) (Debemur Morti)
  501. Primordial - Redemption at the Puritan’s Hand (Metal Blade)
  502. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues EP (Metal Blade)
  503. Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising (Metal Blade)
  504. Feist - Metals (Cherry Tree/Interscope)
  505. Destroyer - Kaputt (Merge)
  506. Joe Henry - Reverie (Anti-)
  507. Lucinda Williams - Blessed (Lost Highway)
  508. Mamas Gun - The Life and Soul (Candelion)
  509. Twin Sister - In Heaven (PID)
  510. A$AP Rocky - Livelovea$ap (RCA/Polo Grounds Music)
  511. Jane's Addiction - The Great Escape Artist (Capitol)
  512. Drake - Take Care (Cash Money)
  513. Asa - Beautiful Imperfection (Naive)
  514. Ladytron - Gravity The Seducer (Nettwerk)
  515. CSS - La Liberación (Fontana)
  516. The Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum)
  517. Spank Rock - Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a Fucking Liar (Ninja)
  518. Death Cab For Cutie - Codes And Keys (Atlantic)
  519. The Jayhawks - Mockingbirdtime (Rounder/Pgd)
  520. Lalah Hathaway - Where It All Begins (Stax)
  521. Danny Brown - XXX (Fool's Gold)
  522. Ginger Trees - Along With The Tide (Transubstans)
  523. Mona (Island)
  524. Is Tropical - Native To (V2)
  525. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Hysterical (Red General)
  526. Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm With You (WB)
  527. Gomez - Whatever's On Your Mind (Eat Sleep)
  528. Blondie - Panic Of Girls (EMI)
  529. The Cars - Move Like This (Hear Music)
  530. Seapony - Go With Me (Hardly Art)
  531. My Morning Jacket - Circuital (Rough Trade)
  532. Modeselektor - Monkeytown (Monkeytown)
  533. The Lonely Island - Turtleneck & Chain (Universal Republic)
  534. Paul Simon - So Beautiful Or So What (Hear Music)
  535. Akron/Family - S/T II: The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT (Dead Oceans)
  536. R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now (WB)
  537. Kaiser Chiefs - The Future Is Medieval (Fiction)
  538. Deerhoof - Deerhoof Vs. Evil (Polyvinyl)
  539. Social Distortion - Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes (Epitaph)
  540. Seefeel (Warp)
  541. Hercules And Love Affair - Blue Songs (Moshi Moshi)
  542. Vivian Girls - Share The Joy (Polyvinyl)
  543. Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto (Capitol)
  544. Die Miserable - Fuck The Facts (Relapse)
  545. Youth Lagoon - The Year Of Hibernation (Fat Possum)
  546. Times New Viking - Dancer Equired (Merge)
  547. Fountains Of Wayne - Sky Full Of Holes (Yep Roc)
  548. An Horse - Walls (Mom+Pop)
  549. Atari Teenage Riot - Is This Hyperreal? (Dim Mak)
  550. Lady Gaga - Born This Way (Streamline/Interscope)
  551. Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
  552. Britney Spears - Femme Fatale (Jive)
  553. The Drums - Portamento (PID)
  554. Funeral Party - Golden Age Of Knowhere (Jive)
  555. The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts (Memphis Industries)
  556. Skrillex - Bangarang EP (Big Beat)
  557. Tyler, the Creator - Goblin (Odd Future)

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2010

    10-

  1. Ufomammut - Eve (Supernatural Cat)

    9+

  2. Vampire Weekend – Contra (XL)
  3. LoneLady - Nerve Up (Warp)
  4. Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit (Rune Grammofon)
  5. Teeth Of The Sea - Your Mercury (Rocket)
  6. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (DFA/Virgin)
  7. The Soft Pack (Kemado)
  8. Kvelertak (Indie Recordings)
  9. Julie Christmas - The Bad Wife (Rising Pulse)
  10. New Young Pony Club - The Optimist (PIAS)
  11. These New Puritans - Hidden (Domino)
  12. Robyn - Body Talk (Interscope)
  13. Napoleon IIIrd - Christiania (Brainlove)
  14. The Chap - Well Done, Europe (Lo)
  15. Sungrazer (Elektrohasch)
  16. Yeasayer – Odd Blood (Secretly Canadian)
  17. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (Warp)
  18. Sennen - Age Of Denial (Hungry Audio)
  19. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker (Modular)
  20. Nina Nastasia - Outlaster (Fat Cat)
  21. Ghost - Opus Eponymous (Rise Above)
  22. Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante (+1)
  23. Numbah Ten - Reborn In 3D (Numbah Ten)
  24. Ed Harcourt - Lustre (Piano Wolf)
  25. Grinderman - Grinderman 2 (Epitaph)
  26. Wild Nothing - Gemini/Golden Haze EP (Captured Tracks)
  27. Dungen - Skit I Allt (Mexican Summer)
  28. Been Obscene - The Magic Table Dance (Elektrohasch)
  29. Warpaint - The Fool (Rough Trade)
  30. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope To the Sky (Young God)
  31. Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent (Spinefarm)
  32. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III) (Bad Boy/Atlantic)
  33. High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine (Relapse)
  34. Good Shoes - No Hope No Future (Brille)
  35. How To Dress Well - Love Remains (Lefse)
  36. Abe Vigoda - Crush (Bella Union/Post Present Medium)
  37. Pyrior - Oceanus Procellarum (Away)
  38. Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats - Vol. 1 (Killer Candy)
  39. Intronaut - Valley Of Smoke (Century Media)
  40. Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits (Profound Lore)
  41. Kylesa - Spiral Shadow (Season Of Mist)
  42. The Walkmen - Lisbon (Fat Possum)
  43. Gozu - Locust Season (Small Stone)
  44. Maximum Balloon (Interscope)
  45. Grass Widow - Past Time (Kill Rock Stars)
  46. Anika (Stones Throw)
  47. Gonjasufi - A Sufi And A Killer (Warp)
  48. Zola Jesus - Stridulum II (Sacred Bones/Soulterrain)
  49. The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter (Domino)
  50. White Denim - Last Day Of Summer (White Denim)
  51. Rangers - Suburban Tours (Olde English Spelling Bee)
  52. Shining - Blackjazz (The End)
  53. Ĺrabrot - Revenge (Fysisk Format)
  54. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here? (Editions Mego)
  55. Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement (Gnomonsong)
  56. Liars - Sisterworld (Mute)
  57. Roots Manuva Meets Wrongtom - Duppy Writer (Big Dada)
  58. Chico Mann - Analog Drift (Wax Poetics)
  59. Black Breath - Heavy Breathing (Southern Lord)
  60. Spoon – Transference (Merge)
  61. Ceremony - Rocket Fire (Killer Pimp)
  62. Beach House - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
  63. Dawnbringer - Nucleus (Profound Lore)
  64. The Sword - Warp Riders (Kemado)
  65. Alunah - Call Of Avernus (Catacomb)
  66. Witchburn - This Is How We Slay Our Demons... (Witchburn)
  67. Forest Swords - Dagger Path (Olde English Spelling Bee)
  68. Dax Riggs - Say Goodnight To The World (Fat Possum)
  69. Prins Thomas (Full Pupp)
  70. Screaming Females - Castle Talk (Don Giovanni)
  71. Wovenhand - The Threshingfloor (Sounds Familyre)
  72. Errors - Come Down With Me (Rock Action)
  73. Caribou - Swim (Merge)
  74. Alcest - Écailles De Lune (Prophecy)
  75. Diddy Dirty Money - Last Train To Paris (Bad Boy)
  76. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal (Editions Mego)
  77. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti - Before Today (4AD)
  78. Nachtmystium - Addicts - Black Meddle Pt II (Century Media)
  79. Sahara Surfers - Spacetrip On A Paper Plane (Sound Zero)
  80. El Guincho - Pop Negro (XL)
  81. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini (Nuclear Blast)
  82. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can (Astralwerks)
  83. Matthew Dear - Black City (Ghostly International)
  84. Circle - Rautatie (Ektro)
  85. Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart (Jagjaguwar)
  86. Suuns - Zeroes QC (Secretly Canadian)
  87. Moon Wiring Club - A Spare Tabby at the Cat's Wedding (Geophonic)
  88. Four Tet - There Is Love In You (Domino)
  89. Electric Wizard - Black Masses (Rise Above)
  90. Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium EP (20 Buck Spin)
  91. U.S. Christmas - Run Thick In The Night (Neurot)
  92. O.Children (Dead People)
  93. John & Jehn - Time For The Devil (Naďve)
  94. Sailors With Wax Wings (Angel Oven)
  95. Fatso Jetson - Archaic Volumes (Cobraside)
  96. The Radio Dept. - Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002-2010 (Labrador)

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  97. Mother-Unit - Brain-Massage (Stickman)
  98. Lüger (Giradiscos)
  99. Finntroll - Nifelvind (Century Media)
  100. Twin Shadow - Forget (Red General)
  101. Hot Chip – One Life Stand (EMI)
  102. Jonsi - Go (XL)
  103. Torche - Songs For Singles EP (Hydra Head)
  104. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (Drag City)
  105. White Hills (Thrill Jockey)
  106. Autre Ne Veut (Olde English Spelling Bee)
  107. Quest For Fire - Lights From Paradise (Tee Pee)
  108. Sahg - Sahg III (Indie Recordings)
  109. Sleepy Sun - Fever (ATP)
  110. Gypsyhawk - Patience And Persevereace (Creator-Destructor)
  111. Humo del Cairo (MeteorCity)
  112. My Sleeping Karma - Tri (Elektrohasch)
  113. Samsara Blues Experiment - Long Distance Trip (World In Sound)
  114. Tracer - Spaces in Between (PID)
  115. Hypnos 69 - Legacy (Elektrohasch)
  116. Rotor - 4 (Elektrohasch)
  117. Jeff The Brotherhood - Heavy Days (Infinity Cat)
  118. The Cosmic Dead - Psychonaut (Who Can You Trust?)
  119. Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History (Kitsune)
  120. Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here (The End/Kscope)
  121. Bo Ningen (Stolen)
  122. Black Milk - Album of the Year (Fat Beats)
  123. Envy - Recitation (Temporary Residence)
  124. Islaja - Keraaminen Paa (Fonal)
  125. Purple Rhinestone Eagle - The Great Return (Stank House)
  126. Crocodiles - Sleep Forever (Fat Possum)
  127. Tweak Bird (Soutterrain Transmissions)
  128. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier (EMI)
  129. Sasquatch - III (Small Stone)
  130. Ramon Zarate - Oyster (Freebird)
  131. Stonewall Noise Orchestra - Sweet Mississippi Deal (Transubstans)
  132. Nails - Unsilent Death EP (Southern Lord)
  133. Die Antwoord - $O$ (Interscope)
  134. Hoodoo Gurus - Purity Of Essence (Hoodoo Gurus)
  135. Salem - King Night (Iamsound)
  136. Three Mile Pilot - Inevitable Past Is The Future Forgotten (Temporary Residence)
  137. Enforcer - Diamonds (Earache/Heavy Artillery)
  138. Grand Magus - Hammer Of The North (Roadrunner)
  139. Cough - Ritual Abuse (Relapse)
  140. Cauchemar - La Vierge Noire EP (Nuclear War Now!)
  141. Monster Magnet - Mastermind (Napalm)
  142. Spiritual Beggars - Return To Zero (InsideOut)
  143. The Fërtility Cült - Eschatology (The Fërtility Cült)
  144. Wino - Adrift (Exile On Mainstream)
  145. Actress - Splazsh (Honest Jon's)
  146. The White Wires - WWII (Dirtnap)
  147. Haggatha - Haggatha II (Choking Hazard)
  148. Pulled Apart By Horses - (Transgressive)
  149. Řresund Space Collective - Slip Into The Vortex (Transubstans)
  150. Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time (Nuclear Blast)
  151. 65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway (Phantom Sound)
  152. The Besnard Lakes - Are The Roaring Night (Jagjaguwar)
  153. The Radio Dept. - Clinging To A Scheme (Labrador)
  154. Tamikrest - Adagh (Glitterhouse)
  155. Yellow Swans - Going Places (Type)
  156. Current 93 - Baalstorm, Sing Omega (Coptic Cat)
  157. Alasdair Roberts & Friends Too Long in This Condition (Drag City)
  158. Black Angels - Phosphene Dream (Blue Horizon)
  159. Blue Hawaii - Blooming Summer EP (Arbutus)
  160. Calle 13 - Entre los que Quieran (Sony U.S. Latin)
  161. Choc Quib Town - Oro (Nacional Records)
  162. Afrocubism (World Circuit)
  163. Raime EP (Blackest Ever Black)
  164. The Books - The Way Out (Temporary Residence)
  165. M.I.A. - /\/\/\Y/\
  166. N.E.R.D. - Nothing (Star Trak)
  167. Trans Am - Thing (Thrill Jockey)
  168. Nico Muhly - I Drink The Air Before Me (Decca)
  169. The Posies - Blood/Candy (Rykodisc)
  170. Jonathan Richman - O Moon, Queen Of Night On Earth (Vapor)
  171. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two - Return Of The Ankh (Motown)
  172. Chickenhawk - Modern Bodies (Brew)
  173. The Klaxons - Surfing The Void (Polydor UK)
  174. The Futureheads – The Chaos (NUL)
  175. Frog Eyes - Paul's Tomb - A Triumph (Dead Oceans)
  176. Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime (In the Red)
  177. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Def Jam)
  178. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot The Son Of Chico Dusty (Def Jam)
  179. The Roots - How I Got Over (Def Jam)
  180. Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here (XL)
  181. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones (Century Media)
  182. The Divine Baze Orchestra - Dead But Dreaming (Transubstans)
  183. Teebs - Ardour (Brainfeeder)
  184. Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder (Ipecac)
  185. Sun Araw - On Patrol (Fun Not Fun)
  186. Khaira Arby - Timbuktu Tarab (Clermont Music)
  187. James Ferraro - Last American Hero (Olde English Spelling Bee)
  188. Voltax - Fugitive State of Mind (Blower)
  189. The Austerity Program - Backsliders And Apostates Will Burn EP (Hydra Head)
  190. Mike Patton - Mondo Cane (Ipecac)
  191. Master Musicians Of Bukkake - Totem Two (Important)
  192. Marc Ribot Silent Movies (Pi)
  193. Eluvium - Similes (Temporary Residence)
  194. Autechre - Oversteps (Warp)
  195. No Age - Everything In Between (Sub Pop)
  196. Jim Ferraro - On Air (Muscleworks Inc.)
  197. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (4AD)
  198. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding (Merge)
  199. Jamie Lidell - Compass (Warp)
  200. Lindstrřm & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool (Smalltown Supersound)
  201. Women - Public Strain (Jagjaguwar)
  202. Black Tusk - Taste The Sin (Relapse)
  203. Yakuza - Of Seismic Consequence (Profound Lore)
  204. Disappears - Lux (Kranky)
  205. Oceansize - Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up (Superball)
  206. Sleigh Bells - Treats (N.E.E.T./Mom & Pop)
  207. Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws (Island)
  208. Gayngs – Relayted (Jagjaguwar)
  209. Faust - Faust Is Last (Klangbad)
  210. The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt (Dead Oceans)
  211. Digital Mystikz - Return II Space (DMZ)
  212. Knut - Wonder (Hydra Head)
  213. Owen Pallett - Heartland (Domino)
  214. Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 - Northern Aggression (Yep Roc)
  215. The Knife In Collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock - Tomorrow, In A Year (Mute)
  216. Darkthrone - Circle The Wagons (Peaceville)
  217. Gatekeeper - Giza (Merok)
  218. Walls (Kompakt)
  219. Red Sparowes - The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer (Sargent House)
  220. Kayo Dot - Coyote (Hydra Head)
  221. Kisses - The Heart Of The Nightlife (This Is Music)
  222. Grandfather - Why I'd Try (Grandfather)
  223. Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers (Hotflush)
  224. Gnaw Their Tongues - Arrivée de la Terne Mort Triomphante (Crucial Blast)
  225. Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner (Notown)
  226. Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song (Mercury)
  227. Willie Nelson - Country Music (Rounder)
  228. The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Merge)
  229. Tinie Tempah - Disc-Overy (Alliance)
  230. Villagers - Becoming A Jackal (Domino)
  231. Mystery Jets - Serotonin (Rough Trade)
  232. Cathedral - The Guessing Game (Nuclear Blast)
  233. Delorean - Subiza (True Panther)
  234. Cold Cave/Prurient - Stars Explode EP (Hospital Productions)
  235. Girls - Broken Dreams Club EP (Fantasy Trashcan)
  236. Trash Talk - Eyes & Nines EP (Trash Talk Collective)
  237. Black Sun - Twilight Of The Gods (Future Noise)
  238. The Body - All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood (At A Loss)
  239. I Like Trains - He Who Saw The Deep (ILR)
  240. The Black Keys – Brothers (V2/Cooperative)
  241. Ellen Allien - Dust (BPitch Control) Moon Duo - Escape (Woodsist)
  242. Sufjan Stevens - The Age Of Adz (Asthmatic Kitty)
  243. Baths - Cerulean (Anticon)
  244. Zoroaster - Matador (E1)
  245. Best Coast - Crazy For You (Wichita)
  246. White Wizzard - Over the Top (Earache)
  247. James Blake - CMYK EP (R&S)
  248. Crystal Viper - Legends (AFM)
  249. Belle & Sebastian - Write About Love (Matador)
  250. Unearthly Trance - V (Relapse)
  251. Avey Tare - Down There (Paw Tracks)
  252. Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi (Abduction)
  253. Ludicra - The Tenant (Profound Lore)
  254. Voice Of The Seven Thunders (Tchantinler)
  255. The Interiors - Teeth EP (Interiors)
  256. Kelis - Flesh Tone (Interscope)
  257. Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Steps Ahead (Strut)
  258. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (XL)
  259. Frightened Rabbit - The Winter Of Mixed Drinks (Fat Cat)
  260. The New Pornographers - Together (Matador)
  261. Clinic - Bubblegum (Domino)
  262. Black Cobra - Chronomega (Southern Lord)
  263. Bilal - Airtight's Revenge (Plug Research)
  264. Glasser - Ring (True Panther)
  265. Wetdog - Frauhaus! (Angular)
  266. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis (Season Of Mist)
  267. Altered Natives - Tenement Yard Vol. One (Eye4Eye)
  268. Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave (American)
  269. Kemialliset Ystävät - Ullakkopalo (Fonal)
  270. Woods - At Echo Lake (Woodsist)
  271. Eleh - Location Momentum (Touch UK)
  272. Von Spar - Foreigner (Italic)
  273. Sigh - Scenes From Hell (The End)
  274. The Dead Weather – Sea Of Cowards (WB)
  275. Konono No. 1 - Assume Crash Position (Crammed Discs)
  276. Seu Jorge and Almaz (Now-Again/Stones Throw)
  277. Luisa Maita - Lero Lero (Cumbancha)
  278. Night Horse - Perdition Hymns (Tee Pee)
  279. SardoniS (Meteor City)
  280. Mumford And Sons - Sigh No More (Glass Note)
  281. Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone (Anti-)
  282. Eminem - Recovery (Polydor)
  283. Darkstar - North (Hyperdub)
  284. Shit Robot - From The Cradle To The Rave (DFA)
  285. Shabazz Palaces (Templar Label Group)
  286. Brutus (Transubstans)
  287. Solar Bears - She Was Coloured In (Planet Mu)
  288. Guido - Anidea (Punch Drunk)
  289. Harvey Milk - A Small Turn of Human Kindness (Hydra Head)
  290. Plants And Animals - La La Land (Secret City)
  291. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor (XL)
  292. The Fresh & Onlys - Play It Strange (In The Red)
  293. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor (French Kiss)
  294. The Coral - Butterfly House (Zoom)
  295. Foals – Total Life Forever (Transgressive)
  296. Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be (Sub Pop)
  297. !!! - Strange Weather, Isn't It (Warp)
  298. JJ – JJ No. 3 (Secretly Canadian)
  299. The National - High Violet (4AD)
  300. The Thermals - Personal Life (Kill Rock Stars)
  301. John Grant - Queen Of Denmark (Bella Union)
  302. FM Einheit + Irmler - No Apologies (Klangbad)
  303. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II) (Universal Motown)
  304. Bottomless Pit - Blood Under The Bridge (Comedy Minus One)
  305. Lloyd Cole - Broken Record (Tapete)
  306. Indian Jewelry - Totaled (We Are Free)
  307. Menomena - Mines (Barsuk)
  308. Zs - New Slaves (Social Registry)
  309. Earthride - Something Wicked (Southern Lord)
  310. Brandon Flowers - Flamingo (Island)
  311. Danzig - Deth Red Sabboath (Evilive)
  312. Richard Youngs - Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits (Jagjaguwar)
  313. Celeste - Morte(s) Nee(s) (Denovali)
  314. Teengirl Fantasy - 7AM (Merok)
  315. Barn Owl - Ancestral Star (Thrill Jockey)
  316. Ihsahn - After (Candlelight)
  317. Stars - The Five Ghosts (Vagrant/Soft Revolution)
  318. Khoma - A Final Storm (Selective Notes)
  319. Gaslight Anthem - American Slang (Side One Dummy)
  320. Hawksley Workman - Meat (Warner Can/Zoom)
  321. Happy Birthday (Sub Pop)
  322. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit (Profound Lore)
  323. Robert Plant - Band Of Joy (Rounder)
  324. Budos Band - III (Daptone)
  325. Karma To Burn - Appalachian Incantation (Napalm)
  326. Free Energy - Stuck On Nothing (Astralwerks)
  327. Teenage Fanclub - Shadows (Merge)
  328. Endless Boogie - Full House Head (No Quarter)
  329. Tricky - Mixed Race (Domino)
  330. High Confessions - Turning Lead Into Gold (Relapse)
  331. Ratt - Infestation (Roadrunner)
  332. LA Vampires & Zola Jesus - LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus (Not Not Fun)
  333. Hey Colossus & The Van Halen Time Capsule - Eurogrumble vol 1
  334. Neil Young - Le Noise (Reprise)
  335. oOoOO - oOoOO EP (Tri Angle)
  336. Ikonika - Contact, Love, Want, Have (Hyperdub)
  337. Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts (Sub Pop)
  338. The Ruby Suns – Fight Softly (Sub Pop)
  339. Scout Niblett - The Calcination Of Scout Niblett (Drag City)
  340. Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR (Century Media)
  341. Chemical Brothers - Further (Astralwerks)
  342. Jagga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit (Ninja Tune)
  343. Hype Williams (Carnivals)
  344. Field Music - Measure (Memphis Industries)
  345. The Drums (Island)
  346. Plan B - The Defamation of Strickland Banks (679/Atlantic)
  347. Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise (Rough Trade)
  348. Edwyn Collins - Losing Sleep (Heavenly)
  349. Laura Veirs - July Flame (Bella Union)
  350. The Secret - Solve Et Coagula (Southern Lord)
  351. Shed - The Traveller (Ostgut Ton)
  352. Georgia Anne Muldrow - Kings Ballad (Ubiquity)
  353. Solace - A.D (Smallstone)
  354. Priestess - Prior To The Fire (Teepee)
  355. Sleestak - Skylon Express (Sleestak)
  356. Asteroid - Asteroid II (Fuzzorama)
  357. Nouvelle Vague - Couleurs Sur Paris (Peacefrog)
  358. Everything Everything - Man Alive (Polydor UK)
  359. Triptykon - Shatter [EP] (Century Media)
  360. King Sunny Ade - Babá mo Túndé (Mesa Blue/IndigeDisc)
  361. Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars - Rise & Shine (Cumbancha)
  362. Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans (Asylum)
  363. Dogs - We Are The Dogs EP (Moths)

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  364. Kings Destroy - And The Rest Will Surely Perish (Maple Forum)
  365. Drums Are For Parades - Master (DAFP)
  366. Rolo Tomassi - Cosmology (Hassle)
  367. Born Ruffians - Say It (Warp)
  368. Clientele - Minotaur [EP] (Import)
  369. Devil - Magister Mundi Xum EP (Soulseller)
  370. Horace Andy - Serious Times (Groove Attack)
  371. Nneka - Concrete Jungle (Decon)
  372. Angelique Kidjo - Oyo (Razor & Tie)
  373. Salif Keita - La Difference (Universal Music France)
  374. Watain - Lawless Darkness (Roadrunner)
  375. Of Montreal - False Priest (Polyvinyl)
  376. Thou - Summit (Gilead Media)
  377. Daughters (Hydra Head)
  378. Ultralyd - Inertiadrome (Rune Grammofon)
  379. Salome - Terminal (Profound Lore)
  380. Yelawolf - Trunk Muzik 0 To 60 (Interscope)
  381. John Legend & The Roots - Wake Up! (Columbia)
  382. Cee-Lo Green - The Lady Killer (WB)
  383. Drake - Thank Me Later (Universal-Island)
  384. Sailors With Wax Wings (Angel Oven)
  385. The-Dream - Love King (Def Jam)
  386. Man's Gin - Smiling Dogs (Profound Lore)
  387. Deftones - Diamond Eyes (Reprise)
  388. Brian Eno - Small Craft On A Milk Sea (Warp)
  389. Twilight - Monument To Time End (Southern Lord)
  390. Corin Tucker Band - 1,000 Years (Kill Rock Stars)
  391. Perfume Genius - Learning (Matador)
  392. Of Montreal - False Priest (Polyvinyl)
  393. Wavves - King of the Beach (Fat Possum)
  394. Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli (1017 Brick Squad/Warner Bros./Asylum)
  395. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks (Matador)
  396. Melissa Auf Der Maur - Out of Our Minds (Phi Group)
  397. Kings Of Leon - Come Around Sundown (RCA)
  398. UNKLE – Where Did The Night Fall (Surrender All)
  399. Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle (4AD)
  400. Scorpions - Sting In The Tail (UMe)
  401. Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation (Island)
  402. Jane Weaver - The Fallen By Watchbird (B-Music)
  403. Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Big Machine)
  404. Trash Kit (Upset The Rhythm)
  405. Curren$y - Pilot Talk / Pilot Talk II (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam)
  406. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record (Arts & Crafts)
  407. Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM (Elektra)
  408. Gogol Bordello - Trans-Continental Hustle (Columbia)
  409. Lali Puna - Our Inventions (Morr)
  410. Jaguar Love - Hologram Jams (Fat Possum)
  411. MGMT - Congratulations (Columbia)
  412. The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever (Vagrant)
  413. Rihanna - Loud (Def Jam)
  414. Boris & Ian Astbury - BXI EP (Southern Lord)
  415. Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday (Universal Motown)
  416. Hurts - Happiness/Wonderful Life [EP] (RCA)
  417. Les Savy Fav - Root For Ruin (French Kiss)
  418. Rick Ross - Teflon Don (Def Jam)
  419. Witchery - Witchkrieg (Century Media)
  420. Mount Carmel (Siltbreeze)
  421. Delays - Star Tiger Star Ariel (Lookout Mountain)
  422. Interpol (Matador)
  423. My Chemical Romance - Danger Days - The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (Reprise)
  424. Ke$ha - Animal (Sony)
  425. Tyler, The Creator - Bastard (Tyler)
  426. Nada Surf - If I Had A Hi-Fi (Mardev)
  427. Kele - The Boxer (Wichita)
  428. The Wolfmen - Married To The Eiffel Tower (Howl)
  429. Sade - Soldier Of Love (Sony)
  430. Holy Fuck – Latin (Young Turks)
  431. The Strange Boys - Be Brave (In The Red)
  432. Hot Hot Heat - Future Breeds (Dangerbird)
  433. Shout At Louds - Work (Merge)
  434. Fang Island (Sargent House)
  435. The Morning Benders - Big Echo (Rough Trade)
  436. Crowded House - Intriguer (Fantasy)
  437. Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy (Dead Oceans)
  438. Rufus Wainwright - All Days Are Nights - Songs For Lulu (Decca)
  439. Blood Red Shoes - Fire Like This (V2)
  440. The Streets - Computers And Blues (Vice)
  441. Helmet - Seeing Eye Dog (+1 Records)
  442. Massive Attack - Heligoland (Virgin)
  443. Weezer - Hurley (Epitaph)
  444. Rumer – Seasons of My Soul (Atlantic)
  445. RJD2 - The Colossus (RJ's Electrical Connections)
  446. Xiu Xiu - Dear God I Hate Myself (Kill Rock Stars)
  447. OK Go - Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky (EMI)
  448. Hole - Nobody's Daughter (Mercury)

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2009

    10-

  1. King Midas Sound - Waiting For You (Hyperdub)
  2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (Interscope)
  3. Mastodon – Crack The Skye (Reprise/WEA)
  4. Baroness - Blue Record (Relapse)

    9+

  5. The Very Best - Warm Heart Of Africa (Green Owl)
  6. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glassnote)
  7. Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay (Kompakt)
  8. Gary War - Horribles Parade (Sacred Bones)
  9. Fever Ray (Mute)
  10. Tony Allen - Secret Agent (World Circuit)
  11. Dâm-Funk - Toeachizown (Stones Throw)
  12. Truckfighters - Mania (Fuzzorama)
  13. Them Crooked Vultures (DGC/Interscope)
  14. Kiila - Tuota Tuota (Fonal)
  15. OOIOO - Armonico Hewa (Thrill Jockey)
  16. Richard Youngs - Under Stellar Streams (Jagjaguwar)
  17. K'NAAN - Troubador (A&M/Octone)
  18. The xx - xx (Young Turks/XL)
  19. Wardruna - Runaljad: gap var Ginnunga (Fimbulljóđ)
  20. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone (Anti-)
  21. White Denim - Fits (Full Time Hobby)
  22. Evangelista - Prince Of Truth (Constellation)
  23. Shrinebuilder (Neurot)
  24. fun. - Aim And Ignite (Nettwerk)
  25. Zola Jesus - The Spoils (Sacred Bones)
  26. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers (Domino)
  27. Fontän – Winterhwila (Information)
  28. Cold Cave - Love Comes Close (Matador)
  29. Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts (No Fun Productions)
  30. Leyland Kirby - Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was (History Always Favours the Winner)
  31. White Rabbits - It's Frightening (TBD)
  32. Fool's Gold (IAm Sound)
  33. Ben Frost - By The Throat (Bedroom Community)
  34. Tinariwen - Imidiwan: Companions (Independiente)
  35. Sunn 0))) - Monoliths and Dimensions (Southern Lord)
  36. David Sylvian – Manafon (Samadhi Sound)
  37. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp)
  38. The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love (4AD)
  39. The Rakes - Klang! (V2)
  40. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (Domino)
  41. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic (WB)
  42. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
  43. Raise The Red Lantern (At A Loss)
  44. Real Estate (Woodsist)
  45. Death - For the Whole World To See (Drag City) 75
  46. Hacride - Lazarus (Listenable)
  47. Zu - Carboniferous (Ipecac)
  48. Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck (Invada)
  49. Otto - Certa Manha Acordei De Sonhos Intranquilos (Nublu)
  50. Soap & Skin - Lovetune For Vacuum (P.I.A.S.)
  51. Katatonia - Night Is The New Day (Peaceville)
  52. Oneida - Rated O (Jagjaguwar)
  53. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight (Sony)
  54. Slough Feg - Ape Uprising (Cruz del Sur)
  55. Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights (Load)
  56. Los Natas - Nuevo Orden de La Libertad (Small Stone)
  57. Anti-Pop Consortium - Fluorescent Black (Big Dada)
  58. Lord Vicar - Fear No Pain (The Church Within)
  59. Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol. 1-3 (Elektrohasch)
  60. YOB – The Great Cessation (Profound Lore)
  61. 3 Inches Of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom (Century Media)
  62. The Antlers - Hospice (Frenchkiss)
  63. Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night (Columbia)
  64. The Gates Of Slumber - Hymns Of Blood And Thunder (Rise Above)
  65. Health - Get Color (Lovepump United)
  66. The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away (Thrill Jockey)
  67. St Vincent - Actor (4AD)
  68. Julianna Barwick - Florine EP (Florid)
  69. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor (Drag City)
  70. Alasdair Roberts - Spoils (Drag City)
  71. Girls - Album (True Panther Sounds)
  72. Kylesa - Static Tensions (Prosthetic)
  73. Tombs - Winter Hours (Relapse)
  74. Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone (Relapse)
  75. Ancestors - Of Sound Mind (Tee Pee)
  76. Liam Hayes & Plush - Bright Penny (Broken Horse)
  77. Elder (MeteorCity)
  78. Wo Fat - Psychedelonaut (Brainticket)
  79. The Devil's Blood - The Time Of No Time Evermore (Ván)
  80. Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor (Universal/Polydor)
  81. Dälek - Gutter Tactics (Ipecac)
  82. Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick (Learning Curve)
  83. Brother Ali - Us (Rhymesayers)
  84. Khaled - Liberté (Wrasse)
  85. Teeth Of The Sea - Orphaned By The Ocean (Rocket Launch)
  86. DM Stith - Heavy Ghost (Asthmatic Kitty)
  87. Cobalt - Gin (ProfoundLore)
  88. Shafiq Husayn - Shafiq en' a-Free-Ka (Plug Research)
  89. City Center (Type)
  90. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue (Warp)
  91. Abramis Brama - Smakar Söndag (Transubstans)
  92. Motorpsycho - Child Of The Future (Rune Grammafon)
  93. Radio Moscow - Brain Cycles (Alive)
  94. Madder Mortem - Eight Ways (Peaceville)
  95. Thy Catalfalque - Róka Hasa Rádió (Season Of Mist)
  96. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - I Speak Fula (Out Here)

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  97. Interkosmos - Nhtepkocmoc (Clinical Archives)
  98. Count Raven - Mammons War (I Hate Records)
  99. Bloodhorse - Horizoner (Translation Loss)
  100. Lo-Pan - Sasquanaut (Small Stone)
  101. Guadalupe Plata (Sociedad Fonográfica)
  102. Freedom Hawk (MeteorCity)
  103. Black Pyramid (MeteorCity)
  104. Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love (Ubiquity)
  105. Converge - Axe To Fall (Epitaph)
  106. RAM - Lightbringer (AFM)
  107. Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care (Domino)
  108. Broadcast & The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (Warp)
  109. Maxďmo Park - Quicken The Heart (Warp)
  110. Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand (Vice)
  111. Sons Of Otis - Exiled (Small Stone)
  112. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug (Domino)
  113. The Horrors - Primary Colours (Beggars XL)
  114. Memory Tapes - Seek Magic (Something In Construction)
  115. Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth (Hometapes)
  116. Mountains - Choral (Thrill Jockey)
  117. Sonic Youth - The Eternal (Matador)
  118. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (ATAP)
  119. Cave - Psychic Psummer (Important)
  120. Horisont - Tvĺ Sidor Av Horisonten (Crusher)
  121. Om - God Is Good (Drag City)
  122. Siena Root - Different Realities (Transubstans)
  123. Betty Davis - Is It Love Or Desire (Light In The Attic)
  124. British Sea Power - Man Of Aran (Rough Trade)
  125. 10-20 (Highpoint Lowlife)
  126. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms (Lefse)
  127. Circlesquare - Songs About Dancing And Drugs (!K7)
  128. Warsaw Village Band - Infinity (Barbes)
  129. Zombi - Spirit Animal (Relapse)
  130. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem (P.W. Elverum & Sun Ltd.)
  131. BEAK> (Invada/Ipecac)
  132. Maserati - Passages (Temporary Residence)
  133. Telepathe - Dance Mother (Iamsound)
  134. Greymachine - Disconnected (Hydra Head)
  135. Ooumou Sangare - Seya (Nonesuch)
  136. Javelin - Jamz n Jemz (Javelin)
  137. Black Math Horseman - Wyllt (Tee Pee)
  138. Isis - Wavering Radiant (Ipecac)
  139. Moderat (Bpitch Control)
  140. Georgia Anne Muldrow - Umsindo (SomeOthaShip/E1)
  141. High Wolf - Incalpulco/Gabon (Winged Sun)
  142. The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms (Fiction)
  143. Meshell Ndegeocello - Devil’s Halo (Downtown)
  144. The Soft Pack - The Muslims EP (Hostess Japan/Zoom)
  145. The Slits - Trapped Animal (Sweet Nothing)
  146. The Clientele - Bonfires On The Heath (Merge)
  147. Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose (Island)
  148. Editors - In This Light On This Evening (Columbia)
  149. The Victorian English Gentlemens Club - Love On An Oil Rig (This Is Fake DIY)
  150. HTRK - Marry Me Tonight (Blast First Petite)
  151. Firebird - Grand Union (Metal Blade)
  152. NOMO - Invisible Cities (Ubuquity)
  153. Zoroaster - Voice Of Saturn (Terminal Doom)
  154. Emeralds - What Happened (No Fun Productions)
  155. Cauldron - Chained To The Nite (Earache)
  156. Dan Deacon - Bromst (Carpark)
  157. Luciano - Tribute To The Sun (Cadenza)
  158. Gyratory System - The Sound-Board Breathes (Angular)
  159. Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough (Profound Lore)
  160. GusGus - 24/7 (Kompakt)
  161. Rain Machine (Anti-)
  162. The Zookeepers - Ballin' Outrageous (Bandcamp)
  163. Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster (Kill Rock Stars)
  164. Extra Golden - Thank You Very Quickly (Thrill Jockey)
  165. Jesu - Opiate Sun EP (Caldo Verde)
  166. Slayer - World Painted Blood (Sony)
  167. Keelhaul - Keelhaul's Triumphant Return To Obscurity (Hydra Head)
  168. Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans (Napalm)
  169. Soulsavers - Broken (V2)
  170. Miike Snow (Downtown)
  171. BLK JKS - After Robots (Secretly Canadian)
  172. Anvil - This Is Thirteen (VH1)
  173. Moon Wiring Club - Striped Paint For The Last Post (Gecophonic Audio Systems)
  174. Passion Pit - Manners (Columbia/French Kiss)
  175. Desire - II (Italians Do It Better)
  176. Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know (Rhino)
  177. Megadeth - Endgame (Roadrunner)
  178. Githead - Landing (Swim)
  179. Edan - Echo Party (Five Day Weekend)
  180. Pocahaunted - Passage (Troubleman Unlimited)
  181. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian)
  182. Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans (Sub Pop)
  183. Part Chimp - Thriller (Rock Action)
  184. Micachu & The Shapes – Jewellery (WB)
  185. King Cannibal - Let the Night Roar (Ninja Tune)
  186. Zoot Woman - Things Are What They Used To Be (ZWR)
  187. Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People-- Lazers Do (Sony)
  188. Black To Comm - Alphabet 1968 (Type)
  189. Purple Rhinestone Eagle - Amorun Tali EP (Eolian)
  190. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career (4AD)
  191. Ducktails (Not Not Fun)
  192. Blank Dogs - Under And Under (In The Red)
  193. Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Crows Eat The Eyes From The Leviathan's Carcass (Release The Bats)
  194. Nite Jewel - Good Evening (Human Ear Music)
  195. Gwynbleidd - Nostalgia (MRI)
  196. Liturgy - Renihilation (20 Buck Spin)
  197. Obscura - Cosmogenesis (Relapse)
  198. Wolf - Ravenous (Century Media)
  199. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us (Graveface)
  200. Jonsi and Alex - Riceboy Sleeps (Beggars/XL)
  201. Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect (Victory)
  202. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years (WB)
  203. Tom Zé - Estudando A Bossa (Biscoito Fino)
  204. Rodrigo Y Gabriela - 11:11 (ATO/Red)
  205. Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy (Matador)
  206. Bibio - The Apple & The Tooth (Warp)
  207. Christopher Tignor - Core Memory Unwound (Western Vinyl)
  208. Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band - Between The Head And The Sky (Chimera Music)
  209. Coalesce - Ox (Relapse)
  210. Rhian Sheehan - Standing In Silence (Loop)
  211. The Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead (Fat Cat)
  212. The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant (Wichita)
  213. Doom - Born Like This (Lex)
  214. A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head (Mute)
  215. JJ - JJ N° 2 (Sincerely Yours)
  216. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm (Jagjaguwar)
  217. Alela Diane - To Be Still (Rough Trade)
  218. Eleni Mandell - Artificial Fire (Zedtone)
  219. Big Business - Mind The Drift (Hydra Head)
  220. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (Astralwerks)
  221. Skeletonwitch - Breathing The Fire (Prosthetic)
  222. The Mars Volta - Octahedron (WB)
  223. Nadja & Black Boned Angel (20 Buck Spin)
  224. Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate (Lucky Seven)
  225. Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Here Be Dragons (Planet Mu)
  226. Es - Kesämaan Lapset (Fonal)
  227. Mordant Music - SyMpToMs (Mordant Music)
  228. YACHT - See Mystery Lights (DFA)
  229. Annie - Don't Stop (Smalltown)
  230. Blueneck - The Fallen Host (Don't Touch)
  231. Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country (Kranky)
  232. Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts (Palilalia)
  233. Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw)
  234. Pelican - What We All Come To Need (Southern Lord)
  235. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes Fore The Young (Cult/RCA)
  236. The Smith Westerns (Hozac)
  237. Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti Is Skyscraper (Matador)
  238. The-Dream - Love vs. Money (Def Jam/Radio Killa)
  239. Gnaw Their Tongues - All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity (Crucial Blast)
  240. Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (Dead Oceans)
  241. Bloody Panda - Summon (Profound Lore)
  242. Dr. V - An American Dream (DrV)
  243. Heavy Trash - Midnight Soul Serenade (Fat Possum)
  244. Black Heart Procession - Six (Temporary Residence)
  245. Wilco - The Album (Nonesuch)
  246. The Unthanks - Here's The Tender Coming (Rough Trade/Beggars)
  247. Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest (Nuclear Blast)
  248. Serpent Throne - The Battle Of Old Crow (Season Of Mist)
  249. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs (Matador)
  250. Dizzee Rascal - Tongue In Cheek (Dirtee Stank)
  251. Os Mutantes - Haih Or Amortecedor (Anti-)
  252. Sleepy Sun - Embrace (ATP)
  253. Russian Circles - Geneva (Suicide Squeeze)
  254. Noah & The Whale - The First Days Of Spring (Mercury)
  255. Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another (4AD)
  256. Florence & The Machine - Lungs (Island)
  257. Karen O & The Kids - Where The Wild Things Are OST (DGC/Interscope)
  258. The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come (4AD)
  259. Maps - Turning The Mind (Mute)
  260. The Bats - The Guilty Office (Hidden Agenda)
  261. Kid Sister - Ultraviolet (Downtown)
  262. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
  263. Polvo - In Prism (Merge)
  264. Basement Jaxx - Scars (Ultra)
  265. Nebula - Heavy Psych (Volcanic)
  266. The Wildhearts - Chutzpah! (Backstage Alliance)
  267. Porcupine Tree - The Incident (Roadrunner)
  268. Zebulon Pike - Intransience (Unfortunate)
  269. Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
  270. Masters Of Reality - Pine/Cross Dover (Mascot-Provogue BV)
  271. Mirah - (a)spera (K)
  272. Church Of Misery - Houses Of The Unholy (Metal Blade)
  273. Discovery - LP (XL)
  274. God Help The Girl (Matador)
  275. Bebel Gilberto - All In One (Six Degrees)
  276. Do Make Say Think - Other Truths (Chicago Independent)
  277. Nadja - When I See The Sun It Always Shines On TV (End)
  278. Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave (Century Media)
  279. Mos Def - The Ecstatic (Downtown)
  280. Abouretum - Song of the Pearl (Thrill Jockey)
  281. Martyn – Great Lengths (3024)
  282. Atlas Sound - Logos (Kranky)
  283. Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall (Matador)
  284. Astra - The Weirding (Metal Blade)
  285. Why? - Eskimo Snow (Anticon)
  286. Engineers - Thee Fact Fader (Echo)
  287. The Crocodiles - Summer Of Hate (Fat Possum)
  288. Flight Of The Concords - I Told You I Was Freaky (Sub Pop)
  289. Japandroids - Post-Nothing (Unfamiliar)
  290. Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos (Steamhammer)
  291. Cornershop - Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast (Phantom Sound)
  292. Shackleton - Three EPs (Perlon)
  293. Omar-S - Fabric 45 (Fabric)
  294. La Roux (Cherrytree)
  295. Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications (Rough Trade)
  296. Regina Spektor - Far (Sire)
  297. Candlemass - Death Magic Doom (Nuclear Blast)
  298. Jim Tenor & Tony Allen - Inspiration Information (Strut)
  299. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks - Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Listen to the Lion)
  300. Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind (Human Highway)
  301. Dead Weather - Horehound (Reprise)
  302. Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian (Warp)
  303. Ida Maria - Fortress Around My Heart (Mercury/Island)
  304. Ed Harcourt - Russian Roulette EP (Dovecote)
  305. Fruit Bats - Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)
  306. Thermals - Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars)
  307. Rammstein - Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da (Rammstein)
  308. Mountains - Etching (Thrill Jockey)
  309. Drones - Havilah (ATP/MGM)
  310. The Field - Yesterday And Today (Anti-)
  311. 2562 - Unbalance (Tectonic)
  312. Falty DL - Love Is a Liability (Planet Mu)
  313. Redshape - The Dance Paradox (Delsin)
  314. PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By (Island)
  315. Wiley - Race Against Time (SRD/Eskibeat)
  316. DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout (Mad Science)
  317. Busdriver - Jhelli Beam (Anti-)
  318. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart (Slumberland)
  319. ...And You Will Know Us By The Train Of Dead - The Century Of Self (Richter Scale/Justice)
  320. Khanate – Clean Hands Go Foul (Hydra Head)
  321. Group Doueh - Treeg Salaam (Sublime Frequencies)
  322. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon (Hospital)
  323. The Sandwitches - How To Make Ambient Sadcake (Turn Up)
  324. Nouvelle Vague - 3 (Peacefrog)
  325. Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come (DFA)
  326. Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings (Roadrunner)
  327. Metric - Fantasies (Last Gang)
  328. Fu Manchu - Signs Of Infinite Power (Century Media)
  329. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar)
  330. Goblin Cock - Come With Me If You Want to Live (Robocore)

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  331. Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God (Metal Blade)
  332. Orthodox - Sentencia (Alone/TSC)
  333. Three Oh Sees - Help (In The Red)
  334. Gallows - Grey Britain (Reprise)
  335. The Brakes - Touchdown (Fat Cat)
  336. Drake - So Far Gone (Cash Money)
  337. Zomby - One Foot Ahead Of The Other (Ramp)
  338. Sophia - There Are No Goodbyes (Flower Shop)
  339. Andrew Weatherall - A Pox On The Pioneers (Rotters Golf Club)
  340. Rancid - Let The Dominoes Fall (Hellcat/Epitaph)
  341. Vitalic - Flashmob (Play It Again Sam)
  342. Miranda Lambert - Revolution (Columbia)
  343. The Church - Untitled #23 (Second Motion/Unorthodox)
  344. Volcano Choir – Unmap (Jagjaguwar)
  345. Green Day - 21th Century Breakdown (Reprise)
  346. James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game (Young God)
  347. Gliss - Devotion Implosion (Cordless)
  348. Wooden Shjips - Dos (Holy Mountain)
  349. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers (Columbia)
  350. Trembling Bells - Carbeth (Honest Jon's)
  351. Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be (Warner/Reprise)
  352. Fanfarlo – Reservoir (Atlantic)
  353. Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg (Modular/Interscope)
  354. Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions (14th Floor)
  355. Cheap Trick - The Latest (Cheap Trick)
  356. Little Dragon - Machine Dreams (Peacefrog)
  357. Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice Born Men (Samadhisound)
  358. Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts (Mercury)
  359. Rihanna - Rated R (Def Jam)
  360. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains (Sister's Den)
  361. The Entrance Band (Ecstatic Peace!)
  362. Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy (WB)
  363. Mission Of Burma - The Sound The Speed The Light (Matador)
  364. Quatre Tete - Art Of The State (Sickroom)
  365. Black Meteoric Star (DFA)
  366. Múm - Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know (2.O.G. Ent / P.A.L.)
  367. Medusa - En Raga Sül (Hawthorne Street)
  368. Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade (Southern Lord)
  369. The Duke & The King - Nothing Gold Can Stay (Ramseur)
  370. The Low Anthem - Oh My God Charlie Darwin (Nonesuch)
  371. Woods - Songs Of Shame (Shrimper)
  372. Shakira - She Wolf (Epic)
  373. Art Brut - Art Brut Vs. Satan (Downtown)
  374. Stellastarr* - Civilized (Bloated Wife)
  375. CKY - Carver City (Roadrunner)
  376. Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment (RCA)
  377. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (Drag City)
  378. Spinnerette (Anthem/Red)
  379. Hot Leg - Red Light Fever (Barbecue Rock)
  380. The Gossip - Music For Men (Columbia)
  381. Portal - Swarth (Profound Lore)
  382. Utada - This Is The One (Island)
  383. Gui Boratto – Take My Breath Away (Kompakt)
  384. Decemberists - Hazards Of Love (Capitol)
  385. Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - Dracula Boots (In The Red)
  386. Eels - Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs Of Desire (Vagrant)
  387. 1990s - Kicks (Rough Trade)
  388. Röyksopp - Junior (Astralwerks)
  389. Freeway - Philadelphia Freeway 2 (Real Talk)
  390. Clipse - Til The Casket Drops (Columbia)
  391. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt II (EMI)
  392. Black Dice - Repo (Paw Tracks)
  393. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust (Astralwerks)
  394. Wavvves (Fat Possum)
  395. Peter Bjorn & John - Living Thing (Almost Gold/Star Time)
  396. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt II (EMI)
  397. Condo Fucks - Fuckbook (Matador)
  398. Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster (Interscope)
  399. Strange Boys - And Girls Club (In The Red)
  400. Pearl Jam - Backspacer (Monkeywrench)
  401. Lamb Of God – Wrath (Epic)
  402. U2 - No Line On The Horizon (Interscope)
  403. Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself (Bpitch Control)
  404. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)
  405. Pete Doherty - Grace - Wastelands (Astralwerks)

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2008

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  1. TV On The Radio - Dear Science, (DGC/Interscope)

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  2. Colour Haze - All (Elektrohasch)
  3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (Anti-)
  4. Vampire Weekend (Beggars/XL)
  5. Ufomammut - Idolum (Supernatural Cat)

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  6. Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista (Fonal)
  7. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna (Social Registry)
  8. Torche - Meanderthal (Hydra Head)
  9. Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh (Prosthetic/Red)
  10. The Bug - London Zoo (Ninja Tune)
  11. Opeth - Watershed (Roadrunner)
  12. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (Modular)
  13. Graveyard (Tee Pee)
  14. Pete & the Pirates - Little Death (Stolen)
  15. Pharaoh - Be Gone (Cruz Del Sur)
  16. Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You (Domino)
  17. Dead Man - Euphoria (Crusher)
  18. Melvins - Nude With Boots (Ipecac)
  19. Portishead - Third (Mercury/Island)
  20. Boris - Smile (Southern Lord)
  21. Dungen - 4 (Kemado)
  22. NOMO - Ghost Rock (Ubiquity)
  23. M83 - Saturdays = Youth (Mute)
  24. White Denim - Exposion/Workout Holiday (Transmission)
  25. DJ/rupture - Uproot (Agriculture)
  26. Air France - No Way Down (Something In Construction)
  27. The Horror The Horror - Wired Boy Child (Tapete)
  28. Tom Zé - Estudando a Bossa Nordesta Plaza (Luaka Bop)
  29. Eine Kleine Nacht Musik (Modular/Island UK)
  30. Black Mountain - In the Future (Jagjaguwar)
  31. Pale Young Gentlemen - Black Forest (Tra La La) (Science Of Sound)
  32. Simon Bookish – Everything/Everything (Tomlab)
  33. Parts & Labor – Receivers (Jagjaguwar)
  34. Femi Kuti - Day By Day (Mercer Street/Downtown)
  35. Kasai Allstars - In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And Ate The Head Of His Enemy By Magic (Crammed)
  36. Jex Thoth (I Hate Records)
  37. Siena Root - Far From The Sun (Transubstans)
  38. The Very Best - Eau Mwamwaya & Radioclit Are The Very Best (Ghettopop/Green Owl)
  39. Valkyrie - Man Of Two Visions (Noble Origin)
  40. Anthony Hamilton - The Point Of It All (Jive/Zomba)
  41. Amadou & Mariam - Welcome To Mali (Because)
  42. TAPE - Luminarium (Häpna)
  43. The Week That Was (Memphis Industries)
  44. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (Motown)
  45. The Walkmen - You & Me (Gigantic)
  46. Shugo Tokumaru - Exit (Almost Gold)
  47. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles (Warp)
  48. Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel (EMD Intl)
  49. Black Milk - Tronic (Fat Beats)
  50. Hammers Of Misfortune - Fields/Church Of Broken Glass (Profound Lore)
  51. Grace Jones - Hurricane (Wall Of Sound)
  52. Gilberto Gil - Banda Larga Cordel (Warner Latina)
  53. Made Out Of Babies - The Ruiner (The End)
  54. Dozer - Beyond Colossal (Small Stone)
  55. Ancestors - Neptune With Fire (North Atlantic Sound)
  56. Valkyrie - Man Of Two Visions (Noble Origin)
  57. Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music (Keysound)
  58. Man Man - Rabbit Habits (Anti-)
  59. El Guincho - Alegranza (Mistletone/XL)
  60. Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto (Domino)
  61. Glasvegas (Columbia)
  62. The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion (Memphis Industries/Sub Pop)
  63. School Of Seven Bells - Alpinisms (Ghostly International)
  64. The Advisory Circle - Other Channels (Ghost Box)
  65. Au Revoir Borealis - Dark Enough For Stars (Utter East)
  66. Stereo Image - S/T (Frog Man Jake)
  67. Snowman - The Horse, the Rat and the Swan (Dot Dash)
  68. The Black Keys - Attack & Release (Nonesuch)
  69. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 (Disorient)
  70. Toumani Diabaté - The Mande Variations (World Circuit)
  71. Thomas Brinkmann - When Horses Die (Max Ernst)
  72. Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull (Southern Lord)
  73. Nachtmystium - Assassins - Black Meddle Part I (Century Media)
  74. Caďna - Temporary Antennae (Profound Lore)
  75. Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments (Rune Grammofon)
  76. U.S. Christmas - Eat The Low Dogs (Neurot)
  77. Circle - Hollywood (Ektro)
  78. Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday (Temporary Residence)
  79. Jacaszek - Treny (Miasmah)
  80. Enslaved - Vertebrae (Nuclear Blast)
  81. Steve Wynn - Crossing Dragon Bridge (Rock Ridge)
  82. Sahg - Sahg II (Regain)
  83. The Sword - Gods Of The Earth (Kemado)
  84. Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight (V2)
  85. Madrugada (Universal)

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  86. Sons And Daughters - This Gift (Domino)
  87. Dead Meadow - Old Growth (Matador)
  88. Bloc Party - Intimacy (Wichita)
  89. Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life (Matador)
  90. The Bell - Make Some Quiet (Badman)
  91. Hawksley Workman - Los Manlicious (Universal)
  92. Tricky - Knowle West Boy (Domino)
  93. Wovenhand - Ten Stones (Sounds Familyre)
  94. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive (Vagrant)
  95. Rhymefest - Man In The Mirror (Plugg City/Allido)
  96. Blood Ceremony (Rise Above)
  97. SubRosa - Strega (I Hate Records)
  98. Asian Dub Foundation - Punkara (Rinse It Out)
  99. Hercules And Love Affair (Phantom Sound & Vision)
  100. Gary War - New Raytheonport (Sacred Bones)
  101. Lau Nau - Nukkuu (Locust)
  102. Robert Forster - The Evangelist (Yep Roc)
  103. Fennesz - Black Sea (Touch)
  104. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music (Rough Trade UK)
  105. The Interiors (54 40 Or Fight)
  106. These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid (Angular/Domino)
  107. My Sleeping Karma - Satya (Elektrohasch)
  108. Fujiya and Miyagi - Lightbulbs (Deaf Dumb & Blind)
  109. Roots Manuva - Slime & Reason (Big Dada)
  110. The Gates Of Slumber - Conqueror (Profound Lore)
  111. Korpiklaani - Korven Kuningas (Nuclear Blast)
  112. The Black Angels - Directions To See a Ghost (Light In The Attic)
  113. Alice Russell - Pot of Gold (Six Degrees)
  114. Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha (EMI)
  115. Young Knives - Superabundance (Transgressive)
  116. Stephanie McKay - Tell It Like It Is (Muthas Of Invention)
  117. Quiet Village - Silent Movie (K7)
  118. Rokia Traoré - Tchamantché (Nonesuch/Tama)
  119. One More Grain - Isle Of Grain (White Heat)
  120. Cloudland Canyon - Lie In Light (Kranky)
  121. Jaguar Love - Take Me To The Sea (Matador)
  122. The Dodos - The Visitor (French Kiss)
  123. Evangelista - Hello, Voyager (Constellation)
  124. Benoît Pioulard - Temper (Kranky)
  125. Johnny Flynn - A Larum (Vertigo)
  126. Adebisi Shank - This Is The Album (Richter Collective)
  127. Why? - Alopecia (Anticon)
  128. Friendly Fires (XL)
  129. Jamie Lidell - Jim (Warp)
  130. Nico Muhly - Mothertongue (Brassland)
  131. The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing (BMG)
  132. Santogold (Downtown)
  133. Juana Molina - Un Dia (Domino)
  134. Emilíana Torrini - Me and Armini (Rough Trade)
  135. Anthony David - Acey Ducey (Soulbird/Universal)
  136. Lykke Li - Youth Novels (LL)
  137. Marcelo Camelo - Sou (Sony/BMG, Brasil)
  138. Asa - Loppuasukas (Roihismusica)
  139. Calle 13 - Los De Atrás Vienen Conmigo (Norte)
  140. Stereolab - Chemical Chords (4AD)
  141. Clark - Turning Dragon (Warp)
  142. Howlin' Rain - Magnificent Fiend (Birdman)
  143. Totimoshi - Milagrosa (Volcom)
  144. The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace (Load)
  145. Philip Jeck - Sand (Touch)
  146. Indian - Slights and Abuse/The Sycophant (Seventh Rule)
  147. Vinicius Cantuaria - Cymbals (Naive)
  148. The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Inside (Barge)
  149. Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid - NYC (Domino)
  150. Hauschka - Ferndorf (Fat Cat)
  151. Girl Talk – Feed the Animals (Illegal Art)
  152. Bird Show (Kranky)
  153. Ellen Allien - Sool (Bpitch Control)
  154. Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour (Fat Cat)
  155. Burning Saviours - Nymphs & Weavers (Transubstans)
  156. Gods And Queens (Robotic Empire)
  157. Flight Of The Conchords (Sub Pop)
  158. Mark Stewart - Edit (Crippled Dick Hot Wax)
  159. The Lucky Dragons - Dream Island Laughing Language (Marriage)
  160. Barbara Morgenstern - BM (Monika)
  161. Harvey Milk - Life...The Best Game in Town (Hydra Head)
  162. The Aliens - Luna (Pet Rock)
  163. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park (4AD)
  164. The Dutchess and the Duke - She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke (Hardly Art)
  165. Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Angles (Sunday Best)
  166. Eric Chenaux - Sloppy Ground (Constellation)
  167. Grand Magus - Iron Will (Rise Above)
  168. RPG - Worth The Weight (RPG)
  169. Wetnurse - Invisible City (Seventh Rule)
  170. Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw (Beggars Banquet)
  171. Natacha Atlas & The Mazeeka Ensemble - Ana Hina (World Village)
  172. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (Geffen)
  173. The Duke Spirit - Neptune (Shangri-La)
  174. Enforcer - Into The Night (Heavy Artillery)
  175. Portrait (Holycaust)
  176. Kano - 140 Grime Street (BPM)
  177. The Roots - Rising Down (Def Jam)
  178. Deerhunter - Microcastle (Kranky)
  179. Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up The Hill (Type)
  180. Alex Moulton - Exodus (Expansion Team)
  181. No Tears - Obsessions (Str8line)
  182. Little Joy (Rough Trade)
  183. Thalia Zedek Band - Liars And Prayers (Thrill Jockey)
  184. Solange - Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams (Geffen)
  185. Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer? (Roadrunner)
  186. Metronomy - Nights Out (Because)
  187. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It (Columbia)
  188. Zdzislaw Piernik & Piotr Zabrodzki - Namanga (Vivo)
  189. No Age - Nouns (Sub Pop)
  190. Thomas Tantrum (Sindy Stroker)
  191. Pyramids (Hydra Head)
  192. The Sea And Cake - Car Alarm (Thrill Jockey)
  193. Hot Chip - Made In The Dark (EMI)
  194. Sigur Rós - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (Beggars XL)
  195. Blevin Blectum - Gular Flutter (Aagoo)
  196. Aterciopelados - Rio (Nacional)
  197. Indian Jewelry - Free Gold! (We Are Free)
  198. The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely (WB)
  199. The Breeders - Mountain Battles (4AD)
  200. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlandia (4AD)
  201. Al Green - Lay It Down (Blue Note)
  202. James Blackshaw - Litany Of Echoes (Tompkins Square)
  203. Endless Boogie - Focus Level (No Quarter)
  204. The Matthew Herbert Big Band - There's Me And There's You (Accidental)
  205. Death Vessel - Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us (Sub Pop)
  206. The New Year (Touch & Go)
  207. Leila - Blood, Looms and Blooms (Warp)
  208. Crystal Stilts - Alight Of Night (Slumberland)
  209. XX Teens - Welcome To Goon Island (Mute)
  210. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement (Domino)
  211. High Places (Thrill Jockey)
  212. Jape - Ritual (V2)
  213. Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (Kranky)
  214. Blood Red Shoes - Box Of Secrets (V2)
  215. Grails - Take Refuge In Clean Living (Important)
  216. Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath (Universal/GSL)
  217. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound (Side One Dummy)
  218. Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
  219. In Solitude (Pure Steel)
  220. Shearwater - Rook (Matador)
  221. Burst - Lazarus Bird (Relapse)
  222. Beach House - Devotion (Carpark)
  223. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (Sony)
  224. 2562 - Aerial (Tectonic)
  225. Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior (Tempa)
  226. Primal Scream - Beautiful Future (WB)
  227. Genghis Tron - Board Up the House (Relapse)
  228. Haltya - Book Of Nature (Exogenic)
  229. Cynic - Traced In Air (Sem)
  230. Rolo Tomassi - Hysterics (Hassle)
  231. Melingo - Maldito Tango (Manana)
  232. Bajofondo - Mar Ducle (Decca)
  233. Lindstrřm - Where You Go I Go Too (Smalltown Supersound)
  234. Foals - Antidotes (Transgressive)
  235. Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale (Season of Mist)
  236. Bullet - Bite The Bullet (Black Lodge)
  237. Krallice (Profound Lore)
  238. The Kills - Midnight Boom (Domino)
  239. Q-Tip - The Renaissance (Universal Motown)
  240. Invincible - Shapeshifters (Emergence)
  241. Polysics - We Ate The Machine (MySpace)
  242. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight (Fat Cat)
  243. For Against - Shade Side Sunny Side (Words on Music)
  244. Caretaker - Persistant Repetition (V/Vm)
  245. Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual (We Are Free)
  246. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday At Devil Dirt (V2)
  247. Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward (Ecstatic Peace)
  248. Aluminum Group - Little Happyness (Minty Fresh)
  249. Ladyhawke (Island)
  250. Maps & Atlases - You & Me & The Mountain EP (Sargent House)
  251. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)
  252. Deerhoof - Offend Maggie (Kill Rock Stars)
  253. Wilderness – (k)no(w)here (Jagjaguwar)
  254. Booka Shade - The Sun And The Neon Light (Get Physical)
  255. Wire - Object 47 (Pink Flag)
  256. Burial Hex - Initiations (Aurora Borealis)
  257. Cough - Sigillum Luciferi (Forcefield)
  258. Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash (Matador)
  259. Stephan Mathieu - Radioland (Die Schactel)
  260. Spiritualized - Songs In A & E (Universal)
  261. Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line (Barsuk)
  262. Testament - The Formation Of Damnation (Nuclear Blast)
  263. The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia (Sub Pop)
  264. Meshuggah - Obzen (Nuclear Blast)
  265. Subtle - ExitingARM (Lex)
  266. Shed - Shedding The Past (Ostgut)
  267. The Constantines - Kensington Heights (Arts & Crafts)
  268. Sian Alice Group - 59.59 (Social Registry)
  269. Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night (What's Your Rupture?)
  270. Sun Kil Moon - April (Caldo Verde)
  271. American Music Club - The Golden Age (Merge)
  272. Albert Hammond Jr. - Como Te Llama (Red Int/Red Ink)
  273. Bruno Pronsato - Why Can't We Be Like Us (Word and Sound)
  274. Dave Aju - Open Wide (Circus Company)
  275. Girls Aloud - Out Of Control (Polydor)
  276. Antony and the Johnsons - Another World EP (Secretly Canadian)
  277. R.E.M. - Accelerate (WB)
  278. The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me (Domino)
  279. Kelley Polar - I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling (Environ)
  280. Tall Firs - Too Old To Die Young (Ecstatic Peace)
  281. Autechre - Quaristice (Warp)
  282. Justus Köhncke - Safe And Sound (Kompakt)
  283. Abe Vigoda - Skeleton (Post Present Medium)
  284. Pit Er Pat - High Time (Thrill Jockey)
  285. Vampire Hands - Me And You Cherry Red (Peppermint Coffins)
  286. Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
  287. Brian Eno & David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (everythingthathappens.com)
  288. Lair Of The Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master (Southern Lord)
  289. Rotten Sound - Cycles (Spinefarm)
  290. Disfear - Live The Storm (Relapse)
  291. Clinic - Do It! (Domino)
  292. James Hunter - The Hard Way (Hear Music)
  293. 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)
  294. Calexico - Calexico - Carried To Dust (Quarterstick)
  295. Hackman - Enterprises (Small Stone)
  296. So So Modern - Friends And Fires (Transgressive)
  297. Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim (Virgin)
  298. Luomo - Convivial (Huume)
  299. Lambchop - OH (Ohio) (City Slang)
  300. The Presets - Apocalypso (Modular Interscope)
  301. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar)
  302. Hawksley Workman - Between The Beautifuls (Universal)
  303. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree (Mute)
  304. Vivian Girls (In The Red)
  305. Dirty Pretty Things - Romance At Short Notice (Vertigo)
  306. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God (Metal Blade)
  307. Claro Intelecto - Metanarrative (Modern Love)
  308. Growing - All The Way (Social Registry)

    9-

  309. Azeda Booth - In Flesh Tones (Absolutely Kosher)
  310. Sonantes (Six Degrees)
  311. Secret Shine - All of the Stars (Clairecords)
  312. The Damned - So, Who's Paranoid? (English Chanel)
  313. Umalali - The Garifuna Women's Project (Cumbancha)
  314. Marcelo D2 - A Arte Do Barulho (EMI Brasil)
  315. Maga Bo - Archipelagos (Soot)
  316. Unni Lřvlid - Rite (Grappa)
  317. Wildbirds & Peacedrums - The Snake (Caprice)
  318. Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda (Som Livre Apresenta)
  319. Windsurf - Coastlines (Internasjonal)
  320. Efdemin - Carry On: Pretend We Are Not in the Room (Curle)
  321. Helios - Caesura (Type)
  322. Johan Agebjörn - Mossebo (Lotus Pike)
  323. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)
  324. Dirt Dress - Theme Songs EP (Self-released)
  325. Roommate - We Were Enchanted (Plug Research/Shrug)
  326. HILOTRONS - Happymatic (Kelp)
  327. The Instruments - Dark Smĺland (Orange Twin)
  328. Dan Friel - Ghost Town (Important)
  329. Yellow Swans - Deterioration (Modern Radio)
  330. Laura Barrett - Victory Garden (Paper Bag)
  331. Grand Salvo - Death (Spunk/Preservation)
  332. Mount Eerie f/ Julie Doiron and Fred Squire - Lost Wisdom (PW Elverum and Sun)
  333. The Haunted - Versus (Century Media)
  334. Verve - Forth (RED)
  335. Intronaut - Prehistoricisms (Century Media)
  336. Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life (Moribund/Debemur Morti)
  337. Blitzen Trapper - Furr (Sub Pop)
  338. The Futureheads - This Is Not The World (Nul)
  339. Eagles Of Death Metal - Heart On (Universal)
  340. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges (Red)
  341. Alexis Taylor - Rubbed Out (Treader)
  342. Motörhead - Motörizer (Steamhammer)
  343. Metallica - Death Magnetic (WB)
  344. AC/DC - Black Ice (Columbia)
  345. Beck - Modern Guilt (Interscope)
  346. The-Dream - Love/Hate (Def Jam)
  347. Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman (Def Jam)
  348. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple (Atlantic)
  349. Mystery Jets - Twenty One (sixsevennine)
  350. Dominique Leone (Stromland)
  351. Indian Jewelry - We Are the Wild Beast (Tigerbeat 6)
  352. Estelle - Shine (Atlantic/Homeschool)
  353. Danny! - And I Love H.E.R. (Badenov/1911)
  354. The Music Tapes - Music Tapes for Clouds & Tornadoes (Merge)
  355. The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave (Gravitation)
  356. Jim White - Transnormal Skiperoo (Luaka Bop)
  357. Costanza - Sonic Diary (ZerOKilled Music)
  358. Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara - Soul Science (World Village)
  359. The Mae Shi - HLLLYH (Team Shi)
  360. Osborne (Spectral Sound)
  361. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs (Atlantic)
  362. Mates Of State - Re-arrange Us (Barsuk)
  363. Martha Wainwright - I Know You`re Married But I Got Feelings Too (Drowned In Sound)
  364. Flight Of The Concords (Warner)
  365. Aidan John Moffat - I Can Hear Your Heart (Chemikal Underground)
  366. Julian Cope - Black Sheep (Head Heritage)
  367. Messiah J & the Expert - From The Word Go (Inaudible)
  368. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Pilgrim Road (Loose)
  369. Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams (Merge)
  370. The Cure - 4:13 Dream (Geffen)
  371. Black Kids - Partie Traumatic (Red Int/Red Ink)
  372. The Killers - Day & Age (Island)
  373. Castanets - City of Refuge (Asthmatic Kitty)
  374. The Howling Hex - Earth Junk (Drag City)
  375. The Dears – Missles (Dangerbird)
  376. Natural Snow Buildings - Laurie Bird (Students of Decay)
  377. Monkey - A Journey To The West (XL)
  378. Joan As Policewoman - To Survive (Reveal)
  379. Women (Flemish Eye)
  380. Sic Alps - U.S. EZ (Siltbreeze)
  381. Young Widows - Old Wounds (Temporary Residence)
  382. Manual - Confluence (Darla)
  383. Die! Die! Die! - Promises Promises (S.A.F.)
  384. Horse Feathers - House With No Home (Kill Rock Stars)
  385. The Pretenders - Break Up the Concrete (Shangri-La)
  386. Wold - Stratification (Profound Lore)
  387. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams (Island)
  388. Neon Neon - Stainless Style (Lex)
  389. Crooked Fingers - Forfeit/Fortune (Red Pig/Constant Artists)
  390. Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - Animal! (Epic)
  391. Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - Not Animal (Epic)
  392. The Rosebuds - Life Like (Merge)
  393. Kanye West - 808s And Heartbreak (Roc-A-Fella)
  394. Taylor Swift - Fearless (Big Machine)
  395. Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery (Peaceville)
  396. Curumin - Japan Pop Show (Quannum)
  397. The Faint - Fascination (Blank Wave)
  398. Absentee – Victory Shorts (Memphis Industries)
  399. Annuals - Such Fun (Canvasback)
  400. Fire On Fire EP (Young God) + / – – Xs on Your Eyes (Absolutely Kosher)
  401. Paranthetical Girls - Entanglements (Tomlab)
  402. Valet - Naked Acid (Kranky)
  403. Sloan - Parallel Play (Yep Roc)
  404. Firewater - The Golden Hour (Bloodshot)
  405. Black Ghosts (Iamsound)
  406. Ascend - Ample Fire Within (Southern Lord)
  407. The Stills - Oceans Will Rise (Arts & Crafts)
  408. Blood On The Wall - Liferz (Social Registry)
  409. CSS - Donkey (Sub Pop)
  410. Teddy Thompson - A Piece Of What You Need (Verve Forecast)
  411. Hot Club De Paris - Live At Dead Lake (Moshi Moshi)
  412. Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty Is Wild And Raw (Ada/Vapor)
  413. Blackstrap - Steal My Horses And Run (Tee Pee)
  414. Dragonforce - Ultra Beatdown (Roadrunner)
  415. Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain (Earache)
  416. Dantesco - Pagano (Stormspell/Cruz Del Sur)
  417. Hail Of Bullets - Of Frost And War (Metal Blade)
  418. Origin - Antithesis (Relapse)
  419. N.E.R.D. - Seeing Sounds (Interscope)
  420. Eat Skull - Sick To Death (Siltbreeze)
  421. U.S. Girls - Bits + Pieces
  422. Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (Capitol)
  423. Neuraxis - The Thin Line Between (Prosthetic/Red)
  424. Zomby - Where Were U In 92? (Werk Discs)
  425. Hush Arbors (Ecstatic Peace)
  426. Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head (4AD)
  427. Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Momofuku (Lost Highway)
  428. Wedding Present - El Rey (Vibrant)
  429. Baltic Fleet (Blow Up)
  430. HEALTH - HEALTH//DISCO (Lovepump)
  431. Madvillain - Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix (Stones Throw)
  432. Broken West - Now Or Heaven (Merge)
  433. Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
  434. Bob Mould - District Line (Anti-)
  435. Scott Tuma - Not For Nobody (Digitalis)
  436. The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed (679/Vice)
  437. Nada Surf - Lucky (Barsuk)
  438. Bauhaus - Go Away White (Bauhaus)
  439. Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell (Saddle Creek)
  440. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing (ATP)
  441. Protest The Hero - Fortress (Vagrant)
  442. French Kicks - Swimming (Vagrant)
  443. iForward Russia! - Life Processes (Cooking Vinyl)
  444. Shortwave Set - Replica Sun Machine (Rough Trade)
  445. Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul (Big Brother)
  446. Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night (RCA)
  447. Cold War Kids - Loyalty To Loyalty (Downtown)
  448. Los Campesinos - Hold On Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
  449. Apes - Ghost Games (Gypsy Eyes)
  450. Tapes 'n' Tapes - Walk It Off (Beggars XL)
  451. EPMD - We Mean Business (EP Records)
  452. School Of Language - Sea From Shore (Thrill Jockey)
  453. Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead (Sub Pop)
  454. Aufgehoben - Khora (Holy Mountain)
  455. Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane (Flemish Eye/Sub Pop)
  456. Titus Andronicus - The Airing Of Grievances (Troubleman Unlimited)
  457. Xiu Xiu - Women As Lovers (Kill Rock Stars)
  458. The Big Sleep - Sleep Forever (Frenchkiss)
  459. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (New West)
  460. Rings - Black Habit (Paw Tracks)
  461. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson (Say Hey)
  462. Pink - Funhouse (La Face)
  463. The Cool Kids - Bake Sale EP (Chocolate Industries)
  464. Nas (Def Jam)
  465. Common - Universal Mind Control (Geffen)
  466. Los Campesinos - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (Arts & Crafts)
  467. Britney Spears - Circus (Jive)
  468. Dengue Fever - Venus On Earth (M80)
  469. Temposhark - The Invisible Line (Paper and Glue/Defend Music)

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  470. Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy (Interscope)
  471. T.I. - Paper Trail (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)
  472. Madonna - Hard Candy (WB)
  473. Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads (B-Unique/Universal Motown)
  474. Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08 (Matador)
  475. Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
  476. Young Jeezy - The Recession (Def Jam)
  477. Razorlight - Slipway Fires (Universal)
  478. Weezer - Red Album (Geffen)
  479. Keane - Perfect Symmetry (Island)
  480. Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off the Lavender Bridge (Domino)
  481. Adele - 19 (XL)
  482. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III (Cash Money)

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2007

    10-

  1. Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub)
  2. Radiohead - In Rainbows (ATO)
  3. Witchcraft - The Alchemist (Rise Above)

    9+

  4. Sgt. Sunshine - Black Hole (Elektrohasch)
  5. Apparat - Walls (Bpitch Control)
  6. Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (We Are Free)
  7. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position (Universal/Polydor)
  8. Matthew Dear - Asa Breed (Ghostly International)
  9. Jesu - Conquerer (Hydra Head)
  10. White Rabbits - Fort Nightly (Say Hey)
  11. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver (DFA)
  12. Nação Zumbi - Fome De Tudo (Deck Disk Brazil)
  13. Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings (Carpark)
  14. Maxďmo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures (Warp)
  15. Field Music - Tones Of Town (Memphis Industries)
  16. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Anti-)
  17. Om - Pilgrimage (Southern Lord)
  18. Causa Sui - Free Ride (Elektrohasch)
  19. M.I.A. - Kala (Interscope)
  20. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (Domino)
  21. Gudrun Gut - I Put A Record On (Monika)
  22. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum (Graveface)
  23. Tinariwen - Aman Iman (World Village)
  24. Circle - Katapult (Ektro/No Quarter)
  25. Baroness - Red Album (Relapse)
  26. Moon Wiring Club - An Audience of Art Deco Eyes (Gecophonic Audio Systems)
  27. Turbonegro - Retox (Shock)
  28. Good Shoes - Think Before You Speak (Brille/EMI UK)
  29. Mothers and the Addicts - Science Fiction Illustrated (Chemikal Underground)
  30. Islaja - Ulual Yyy (Fonal)
  31. Parts & Labor - Mapmaker (Jagjaguwar/Brah)
  32. Tunng - Good Arrows (Thrill Jockey)
  33. Dax Riggs - We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love (Fat Possum)
  34. Grinderman (Anti-)
  35. High On Fire - Death Is This Communion (Relapse)
  36. Dälek - Abandoned Language (Ipecac)
  37. Studio - West Coast (Information)
  38. Slough Feg - Hardworlder (Cruz Del Sur)
  39. James Blackshaw - The Cloud of Unknowing (Tompkins Square)
  40. Laub - Deinetwegen (Agf Producktion)
  41. Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance (Paperbag)
  42. A Place To Bury Strangers (Killer Pimp)
  43. Kemialliset Ystävät (Fonal)
  44. The Rakes - Ten New Messages (V2)
  45. The National - Boxer (Beggars Banquet)
  46. Modeselektor - Happy Birthday! (Bpitch Control)
  47. El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead (Definitive Jux)
  48. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass (Definitive Jux)
  49. The Tough Alliance - A New Chance (Sincerely Yours)
  50. The White Sripes - Icky Thump (V2)
  51. Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris (Interscope)
  52. The Maccabees - Colour It In (Polydor)
  53. Strategy - Future Rock (Kranky)
  54. Soulsavers - It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land (V2)
  55. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum)
  56. PJ Harvey - White Chalk (Island)
  57. Pinch - Underwater Dancehall (Tectonic)
  58. Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss (Dial)
  59. Maps - We Can Create (Mute)
  60. Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup (Century Media)
  61. Editors - An End Has A Start (Kitchenware UK)
  62. Menomena! - Friend And Foe (Barsuk)
  63. Caribou - Andorra (Merge)
  64. Balkan Beat Box - Nu Med (JDub)
  65. The Clientele - God Save The Clientele (Merge)
  66. The Focus Group - We Are All Pan's People (Ghost Box)
  67. White Denim - Let's Talk About It EP (White Denim)
  68. Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino)
  69. Celebration - The Modern Tribe (4AD)
  70. Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Animal Tracks)
  71. Sigh - Hangman's Hymn: Musikalische Exequien (The End)
  72. Mammatus - The Coast Explodes (Holy Mountain)
  73. Elope - 9 Distilled Dreams (Gravitation)
  74. Gentleman's Pistols (Candlelight)
  75. Torche - In Return EP (Robotic Empire)
  76. Truckfighters - Phi (Fuzzorama)

    9

  77. The Scientists - Sedition (ATP)
  78. Hermano - Into The Exam Room (Suburban/Regain)
  79. Monster Magnet - 4-Way Diablo (SPV/Steamhammer)
  80. Rotor - 3 (Elektrohasch)
  81. Dogs - Tall Stories From Under The Table (Weekender)
  82. Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil (Vice)
  83. The Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future (Universal)
  84. No Age - Weirdo Rippers (Fat Cat)
  85. Clutch - From Beale Street To Oblivion (DRT)
  86. Sinéad O'Connor - Theology (Koch)
  87. Rwake - Voices Of Omens (Relapse)
  88. One More Grain - Pigeon English (Victory Garden)
  89. Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City (Vice)
  90. Boris & Michio Kurihara - Rainbow (Drag City) - Japan
  91. Vladislav Delay - Whistleblower (Humme) - Finland
  92. Mick Harvey - Two Of Diamonds (Mute)
  93. Korpiklaani - Tervaskanto (Napalm)
  94. Wooden Shjips (Holy Mountain)
  95. Pale Young Gentlemen (PYG)
  96. Battles - Mirrored (Warp)
  97. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer (Polyvinyl)
  98. HUMANWINE - Fighting Naked (Nervous Relative)
  99. Kanye West - Graduation (Roc-A-Fella)
  100. The Fucking Champs - VI (Drag City)
  101. Slidin' Slim - One Man Riot (Transubstans)
  102. !!! - Myth Takes (Warp)
  103. Nadja - Radiance of Shadows (Nothingness/The End)
  104. Trans Am - Sex Change (Thrill Jockey)
  105. Seu Jorge - América Brasil O Disco (EMI/Naive)
  106. The Good, The Bad And The Queen (Virgin)
  107. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet (Atlantic)
  108. Múm - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy (Fat Cat)
  109. Dungen - Tio Bitar (Kemado)
  110. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde (Profound Lore)
  111. Shape of Broad Minds - Craft of the Lost Art (Lex)
  112. Pharoahe Monch - Desire (SRC/Universal/Motown)
  113. The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters (Fat Cat)
  114. Entombed - Serpent Saint: The Ten Amendments (Candlelight)
  115. Chloe - The Waiting Room (Kill the DJ)
  116. Holy Fuck - LP (Young Turks)
  117. Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls (Too Pure)
  118. 3 Inches of Blood - Fire Up The Blades (Roadrunner)
  119. Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks (Hydra Head)
  120. Eluvium - Copia (Temporary Residence)
  121. Echospace - The Coldest Season (Modern Love)
  122. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch)
  123. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)
  124. Overmars - Born Again (Crucial Blast)
  125. Pram - The Moving Frontier (Domino)
  126. The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City (Thrill Jockey)
  127. Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta! (Side One Dummy)
  128. Noisettes - What's The Time Mr. Wolf? (Vertigo)
  129. New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom (Universal/Island)
  130. Oh No - Dr. No's Oxperiment (Stones Throw)
  131. Frog Eyes - Tears of the Valedictorian (Absolutely Kosher)
  132. Muscles - Guns Babes Lemonade (Modular)
  133. St. Vincent - Marry Me (Beggars Banquet)
  134. The Dirty Projectors - Rise Above (Dead Oceans)
  135. Dragons of Zynth - Coronation of Thieves (GTC)
  136. Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works (Wea/Relapse)
  137. Tokyo Jihen - Variety (EMI)
  138. Gallon Drunk - The Rotten Mile (Fred)
  139. Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today (CND)
  140. Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth (Rhymesayers)
  141. Black Milk - Popular Demand (Fat Beats)
  142. Richard Youngs - Autumn Response (Jagjaguwar)
  143. The Cribs - Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever (V2)
  144. Busdriver - RoadKillOvercoat (Epitaph)
  145. Cassius - 15 Again (Astralwerks)
  146. Deerhunter - Flourescent Grey EP (Kranky)
  147. M83 - Digital Shades Vol. 1 (Mute)
  148. Caspian - The Four Trees (Dopamine)
  149. Grails - Burning Off Impurities (Temporary Residence)
  150. The Epoxies - My New World EP (Metropolis)
  151. Shannon Wright - Let In The Light (Quarterstick)
  152. Eleni Mandell - Miracle of Five (Zedtone)
  153. Café Tacuba - Sino (Universal Latino)
  154. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - 100 Days 100 Nights (Daptone)
  155. Solace - The Black Black EP (Underdogma)
  156. Weedeater - God Luck and Good Speed (Southern Lord)
  157. ofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas (Monotreme)
  158. Down – Over The Under (Down)
  159. White Williams - Smoke (Tigerbeat6)
  160. Icy Demons - Miami Ice (Obey Your Brain)
  161. The Frames - The Cost (Anti-)
  162. Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge (Mute)
  163. Morgan Packard - Airships Fill the Sky/Unsimulatable (Anticipate)
  164. Neurosis - Given to the Rising (Neurot)
  165. Porn Sword Tobacco - New Exclusive Olympic Heights (City Centre Offices)
  166. Avarus - Rasvaaja (Secret Eye)
  167. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is EP (Interscope)
  168. Pumice - Pebbles (Soft Abuse)
  169. Radical Face - Ghost (Morr)
  170. Flying Lotus - Reset EP (Warp)
  171. Seabear - The Ghost That Carried Us Away (Morr)
  172. Efterklang - Parade (Leaf)
  173. 1990s - Cookies (Rough Trade)
  174. Okkervil River - The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
  175. Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills (Merge)
  176. Future of the Left - Curses (Too Pure)
  177. Fennesz & Sakamoto - Cendre (Touch)
  178. Health (Lovepump United)
  179. Melt-Banana - Bambi's Dilemma (A-Zap)
  180. Mouthus - Saw a Halo (Loa)
  181. Charalambides - Likeness (Kranky)
  182. Rosetta - Wake/Lift (Translation Lost)
  183. Magik Markers - Boss (Ecstatic Peace)
  184. Ra Ra Riot EP (Rebel Group)
  185. Gui Boratto - Chromophobia (Kompakt)
  186. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime (Kompakt)
  187. King Khan & his Shrines - What Is?! (Hazelwood)
  188. Coco Rosie - The Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn (Touch and Go)
  189. Distance - My Demons (Planet Mu)
  190. Gravenhurst - The Western Lands (Warp)
  191. Future Clouds & Radar (Star Apple Kingdom)
  192. Pitch Black - Rude Mechanicals (Remote/Rhythmethod)
  193. Oceansize - Frames (SPV)
  194. ASG - Win Us Over (Volcom)
  195. Candie Payne - I Wish I Could Have Loved You (Deltasonic)
  196. Dethklok - The Dethalbum (Williams Street)
  197. Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends (French Kiss)
  198. Great Lake Swimmers - Ongiara (Nettwerk)
  199. Miracle Fortress - Five Roses (Rough Trade)
  200. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover (Jagjaguwar)
  201. The Rosebuds - Night of the Furies (Merge)
  202. Chow Chow - Colours And Lines (Fantastic Plastic)
  203. MV & EE with the Golden Road - Gettin' Gone (Ecstatic Peace)
  204. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity (Kill Rock Stars)
  205. Pelican - City of Echoes (Hydra Head)
  206. Grizzly Bear - Friend EP (Warp)
  207. John Vanderslice - The Emerald City (Barsuk)
  208. Jesu - Lifeline EP (Hydra Head)
  209. Studio - Yearbook 1 (Information)
  210. The Tough Alliance - New Waves EP (Sincerely Yours)
  211. Deerhunter - Cryptograms (Kranky)
  212. Wire - Read & Burn 3 EP (Pink Flag)
  213. Earthless - Rhythms From a Cosmic Sky (Tee Pee)
  214. Middian - Age Eternal (Metal Blade)
  215. Turisas - The Varangian Way (EMI)
  216. Yakuza - Transmutations (Prosthetic/Red)
  217. Earth - Hibernaculum (Southern Lord)
  218. Bloody Panda - Pheromone (Level Plane)
  219. Giuseppe Ielasi - August (12k) - Italy
  220. Black Dice - Load Blown (Paw Tracks)
  221. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Merge/Universal)
  222. Pole - Steingarten (~scape)
  223. Mark Templeton - Standing on a Hummingbird (TBC)
  224. Melchior Productions - No Disco Future (Perlon)
  225. Chromatics - Night Drive (Italians Do It Better)
  226. Björk - Volta (Elektra)
  227. José González - In Our Nature (Mute)
  228. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away (Sub Pop)
  229. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
  230. Circle - Katapult (No Quarter)
  231. New Pornographers - Challengers (Matador)
  232. To Kill A Petty Bourgoise - The Patron (Kranky)
  233. Blue States - First Steps Into (Memphis Industries)
  234. Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline (Kranky)
  235. Boxcutter - Oneiric (Planet Mu)
  236. Tracey Thorn - Out of the Woods (Astralwerks)
  237. Cyrus - From The Shadows (Tectonic)
  238. Prinzhorn Dance School (DFA)
  239. Talib Kweli - Eardrum (WB)
  240. Art Brut - It's A Bit Complicated (Downtown)
  241. Justice - † (Ed Banger)
  242. Little Brother - Get Back (ABB)
  243. Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters (Southern Lord)
  244. Ween - La Cucaracha (Schnitzel)
  245. Antibalas - Security (Anti-)
  246. Vampire Hands - Virgin Dust American Lips (Kevchino)
  247. Film School - Hideout (Beggars Banquet)
  248. Jamie T - Panic Prevention (Virgin)
  249. Junior Senior - Hey Hey, My My, Yo Yo (Rykodisc)
  250. Extra Golden - Hera Ma Nono (Thrill Jockey)
  251. Wolfpack Unleashed - Anthems of Resistance (Napalm)
  252. The Kissaway Trail (Bella Union)
  253. Frightened Rabbit - Sing The Greys (Fat Cat)
  254. Hard Fi - Once Upon A Time In The West (Atlantic)
  255. Kings Of Leon - Because Of The Times (RCA)
  256. The 1900s - Cold and Kind (Parasol)
  257. Interpol - Our Love To Admire (Interscope)
  258. Throbbing Gristle - Part Two: The Endless Not (Mute)
  259. Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound (Touch & Go)
  260. Watchers - Vampire Driver (Gern Blandsten)
  261. Pharoah Overlord - The Battle of the Axehammer (Riot Season)
  262. Tigers and Monkeys - Loose Mouth (Little Lamb)
  263. Handsome Furs - Plague Park (Sub Pop)
  264. Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb (Relapse)
  265. O'Death - Head Home (Ernest Jenning)
  266. Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I (Noble) - Japan
  267. Opitope - Hau (Spekk) - Japan
  268. Signal Hill (Tidemark)
  269. Caďna - Mourner (Profound Lore)
  270. Taken By Trees - The Open Field (Rough Trade)
  271. Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me (Fat Cat)
  272. Black Francis - Bluefinger (Cooking Vinyl)
  273. Supagroup - Fire For Hire (Foodchain)
  274. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (Domino)
  275. The Eternals - Heavy International (Aesthetics)
  276. Shock Cinema - Our Way Is Revenge (Kanine)
  277. Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová - Once OST (Columbia)
  278. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing!)
  279. Yellow Swans - At All Ends (Load)
  280. Tokyo Police Club - A Lesson In Crime EP (Memphis Industries)
  281. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond (Fat Possum)
  282. Von Südenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions (Domino)
  283. Marnie Stern - In Advance Of The Broken Arm (Kill Rock Stars)
  284. Bobby Conn - King For A Day (Thrill Jockey)
  285. Deer Tick - War Elephant (Feow!)
  286. Watain - Sworn to the Dark (Season of the Mist)
  287. Low - Drums And Guns (Sub Pop)
  288. Amerie - Because I Love It (Sony BMG)
  289. Do Make Say Think - You, You're A History In Rust (Constellation)
  290. Bottomless Pit - Hammer of the Gods (Comedy Minus One)
  291. Blonde Redhead - 23 (4AD)
  292. Bowerbirds - Hymns for a Dark Horse (Burlytime)
  293. Supersilent - 8 (Rune Grammofon)
  294. Lazarus - The Onslaught (CD Baby)
  295. Bodies Of Water - Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink (Secretly Canadian)
  296. Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus! (Rough Trade)
  297. Mystery Jets - Zootime (Dim Mak)
  298. Jakobinarina - The First Crusade (Regal/Parlophone)
  299. Durrty Goodz - Axiom EP (Awkward)
  300. Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments (Drag City)
  301. Coral - Roots N Echoes (Deltasonic)
  302. Travis Morrison Hellfighters - All Y'all (Barsuk)
  303. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal (Notenuf)
  304. The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour (Epitaph/Anti-)
  305. Voice of the Seven Woods (Twisted Nerve)
  306. Cloud Cult - The Meaning Of 8 (Rebel Group)
  307. The Go! Team - Proof Of Youth (Sub Pop)
  308. Iron & Wine - The Shephard's Dog (Sub Pop)
  309. Grave In the Sky - Cutlery Hits China: English for the Hearing Impared (Heart & Crossbone)
  310. Vieux Farka Toure (World Village)
  311. The Hives - The Black And White Album (Interscope)
  312. Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36 (Fabric 36)
  313. Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid - Tongues (Domino)
  314. Sigur Rós - Hvarf/Heim (XL)
  315. Six Parts Seven - Casually Smashed to Pieces (Suicide Squeeze)
  316. Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust (Musicane)
  317. Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy (Nonesuch)
  318. Tocotronic - Kapitulation (Vertigo)
  319. The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain (Bella Union)
  320. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Jukebox Explosion (In The Red)
  321. The Divine Baze Orchestra - Once We Were Born (Transubstans)
  322. Disrupt - Foundation Bit (Werk)
  323. Various - After Dark (Italians Do It Better/Troubleman)
  324. Shackleton/Appleblim - Soundboy Punishments (Skull Disco)
  325. Johnossi (V2)
  326. Babyshambles - Shotters Nation (Astralwerks)

    9-

  327. Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles Wieder Offen (Potomak)
  328. Amiina - Kurr (Ever)
  329. Fu Manchu - We Must Obey (Century Media)
  330. Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday (XL)
  331. The Violets - The Lost Pages (Angular)
  332. Public Enemy - How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul??? (Slam Jamz)
  333. Fanfare Ciocarlia - Queens and Kings (Asphalt & Tango)
  334. The Broken West - I Can't Go On, I'll Go On (Merge)
  335. Akio Suzuki - K7 Box (ALM)
  336. Balmorhea (Balmorhea)
  337. The World On Higher Downs - Land Patterns (Plop)
  338. Tulsa Drone - Songs From a Mean Season (Perpetual Motion Machine)
  339. Lucinda Williams - West (Lost Highway)
  340. Pandit Pran Nath - Raga Cycle (SRI Moonshine)
  341. Imperial Teen - The Hair the TV the Baby & the Band (Merge)
  342. Glenn Mercer - Wheels In Motion (Pravda)
  343. Maserati - Inventions For The New Season (Modern)
  344. The Terminals - Last Days Of The Sun (Last Visible Dog)
  345. Circa Survive - On Letting Go (Equal Vision)
  346. Lichens - Omns (Kranky)
  347. Miracle Fortress - Five Roses (Rough Trade)
  348. Explosions In The Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone (Temporary Residence)
  349. Mary J. Blige - Growing Pains (Geffen)
  350. Me'Shell NdegéOcello - The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams (Emarcy/Umgd)
  351. The Broken West - I Can't Go On, I'll Go On (Merge)
  352. Plastic Little - She's Mature (Traffic)
  353. Carbon-Silicon - The Last Post (C499)
  354. Ghost - In Stormy Nights (Drag City)
  355. Phosphorescent - Pride (Dead Oceans)
  356. Phonograph (Arclight)
  357. Benjamin Biolay - Trash Yéyé (EMI)
  358. The Earlies - The Enemy Chorus (Secretly Canadian)
  359. Manu Chao - La Radiolina (Because)
  360. Ozomotli - Don't Mess With The Dragon (Concord)
  361. The Ark - Prayer For the Weekend (Roxy)
  362. Picastro - Whore Luck (Polyvinyl)
  363. Anna Järvinen - Jag Fick Feeling (Hapna)
  364. The Royal We (Domino)
  365. Edwyn Collins - Home Again (EMI/Heavenly)
  366. Dawnbringer - In Sickness And In Dreams (Battle Kommand)
  367. Common - Finding Forever (Geffen)
  368. Liars (Mute)
  369. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Living with the Living (Touch and Go)
  370. Moonsorrow - Viides Luku-Hävitetty (Unroly Sounds/Spikefarm)
  371. Bettye LaVette - The Scene Of The Crime (Anti-)
  372. Mavis Staples - We'll Never Turn Back (Anti-)
  373. Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs (Touch and Go)
  374. Gruff Rhys - Candylion (Team Love)
  375. Robert Plant And Alison Krauss - Raising Sand (Rounder)
  376. Puscifer - V Is For Vagina (Puscifer Entertainment)
  377. Yoko Ono - Yes, I'm A Witch (Astralwerks)
  378. Marissa Nadler - Song III: Bird on the Water (Peacefrog)
  379. Feist - The Reminder (Cherry Tree/Interscope)
  380. Datarock (Etcetc)
  381. Through The Sparks - Lazarus Beach (Skybucket)
  382. Georgie James - Places (Saddle Creek)
  383. Bad Brains - Build A Nation (Megaforce)
  384. Common - Finding Forever (Geffen)
  385. Monkey Swallows the Universe - The Casket Letters (Loose)
  386. Calle 13 - Residente O Visitante (Sony)
  387. Ministry - The Last Sucker (13th Planet/Megaforce)
  388. Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses (The Leaf Label)
  389. Buffalo Tom - Three Easy Pieces (Beggars Banquet)
  390. Jason Isbell - Sirens of the Ditch (New West)
  391. Eugene McGuinness - The Early Learnings Of (Double 6/Domino)
  392. Siouxsie - Mantaray (Decca)
  393. Adult. - Why Bother? (Thrill Jockey)
  394. Dizzee Rascal - Maths And English (XL)
  395. Blanche - Little Amber Bottles (Loose)
  396. Minus Story - My Ion Truss (Jagjaguwar)
  397. Bunny Rabbit - Lovers And Crypts (Voodoo-Eros)
  398. Die! Die! Die! (Strapped 4 Life)
  399. Glass Candy - Beatbox (Italians Do It Better)
  400. Times New Viking - Present the Paisley Reich (Siltbreeze)
  401. Somnambulants - Paper Trail (Clairaudience)
  402. Shadows Fall - Threads Of Life (Roadrunner)
  403. Soho Dolls - Ribbed Music For The Numb Generation (A&G)
  404. Bruce Springsteen - Magic (Sony)
  405. Tiny Vipers - Hands Across The Void (Sub Pop)
  406. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Sony Nashville)
  407. The Ponys - Turn The Lights Out (Matador)
  408. Kenna - Make Sure They See My Face (Interscope)
  409. Nick Lowe - At My Age (Yep Roc)
  410. Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad (Def Jam)
  411. Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love (Rough Trade)
  412. Calla - Strength In Numbers (Beggars Banquet)
  413. Sadies - New Seasons (Yep Roc)
  414. Amon Tobin - Foley Room (Ninja Tune)
  415. Shocking Pinks (Caroline)
  416. The Zincs - Black Pompadeur (Thrill Jockey)
  417. Avett Brothers - Emotionalism (Ramseur)
  418. The Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder (Yep Roc/Simian)
  419. Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers (Nonesuch)
  420. The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse (Jagjaguwar)
  421. The End - Elementary (Relapse)
  422. Surrounded - The Nautilus Years (Make My Day)
  423. Kevin Drew - Spirit If... (Arts & Crafts)
  424. The View - Hats Off To The Buskers (1965)
  425. Donnas - Bitchin' (Purple Feather)
  426. Air - Pocket Symphony (EMI/Virgin)
  427. Kathy Diamond - Miss Diamond To You (Groove Attack)
  428. The Hidden Hand - The Resurrection of Whiskey Foote (Southern Lord)
  429. Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter - Like, Love, Lust & The Open Halls Of The Soul (Barsuk)
  430. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (Sony)
  431. Patty Griffin - Children Running Through (ATO)
  432. Wiley - Playtime Is Over (Ninja Tune)
  433. Bad Religion - New Maps Of Hell (Sony)
  434. Gowns - Red State (Cardboard)
  435. Pink Reason - Cleaning The Mirror (Siltbreeze)
  436. Rumble Strips - Girls and Weather (Universal/Island)
  437. Dean & Britta - Back Numbers (Rounder)
  438. Meat Puppets - Rise To Your Knees (Anodyne)
  439. Poppy & the Jezebels - Follow Me Down (Reveal)
  440. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy (Ecstatic Peace)
  441. UGK - Underground Kingz (Jive)
  442. Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight (WB)
  443. The Cinematics - A Strange Education (TVT)
  444. The Autumn Defense (Broadmoor)
  445. Sondre Lerche - Phantom Punch (Astralwerks)
  446. Akron/Family - Love Is Simple (Young God)
  447. UNKLE - War Stories (surrender all)
  448. Scouting For Girls (Epic)
  449. The Enemy - We'll Live and Die in These Towns (WEA/Warner)
  450. Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War (Arts & Crafts)
  451. The Cult - Born Into This (Roadrunner)
  452. White Stars - White Magic EP (Drag City)
  453. Roisin Murphy - Overpowered (EMI)
  454. Mathew Sawyer & The Ghosts - Blue Birds Blood (Catbird)
  455. My Sister Klaus - Chateau Rouge (Tigersushi)
  456. Ulver - Shadows of the Sun (The End)
  457. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder (CYHSY)
  458. Hot Hot Heat - Happiness Ltd (WEA/Warner)
  459. 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+

  460. Devin The Dude - Waiting To Inhale (Rap-A-Lot)
  461. Patti Smith - Twelve (Columbia)
  462. The Confession - Requiem (Science)
  463. Tiny Masters of Today - Bang Bang Boom Cake (Mute Irregulars)
  464. Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams (Street/Universal Motwown)
  465. Untitled Musical Project (Tigertrap)
  466. Arboretum - Rites Of Uncovering (Thrill Jockey)
  467. Qui - Love's Miracle (Ipecac)
  468. R. Kelly - Double Up (Jive/Zomba)
  469. Soulja Boy Tell Em - Souljaboytellem.com (Interscope)
  470. Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High (Island)
  471. Against Me! - New Wave (Sire/London)
  472. Rufus Wainwright - Release The Stars (Geffen)
  473. Darkest Hour - Deliver Us (Victory)
  474. Shit And Shine - Cunts With Roses (Noisestar Music)
  475. Pissed Jeans - Hope For Men (Sub Pop)
  476. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (Nothing)
  477. Nine Black Alps - Love/Hate (Island)
  478. Jay-Z - American Gangster (Roc-A-Fella)
  479. Intelligence - Deuteronomy (In The Red)
  480. Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist (Reprise)
  481. The Stooges - The Weirdness (Virgin)
  482. Jesse Malin - Glitter In The Gutter (Adeline)
  483. Tranzmitors (Deranged)
  484. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81 (Sony)
  485. Bon Jovi - Lost Highway (Island)
  486. VHS Or Beta - Bring On The Comets (Astralwerks)
  487. The Aliens - Astronomy For Dogs (EMI)
  488. Bearsuit - Oh:Io (Fantastic Plastic)
  489. Ian Hunter - Shrunken Heads (Yep Roc)
  490. Britney Spears - Blackout (Jive)
  491. Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace (RCA)
  492. Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted (Ruffa Lane)
  493. Gallhammer - The Dawn Of (Peaceville)
  494. Little Man Tate - About What You Know (V2)
  495. Velvet Revolver - Libertad (RCA)
  496. Chinese Stars - Listen To Your Left Brain (Three One G)
  497. Shitdisco - Kingdom Of Fear (Fierce Panda)
  498. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger (Lost Highway)
  499. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play (Nuclear Blast)
  500. Fair to Midland - Fables From A Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True (Universal)
  501. Pop Levi - The Return To Form Black Majick Party (Counter)
  502. Ghostface Killah - The Big Doe Rehab (Def Jam)
  503. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga (Saddle Creek)
  504. The Teeth - You're My Lover Now (Park The Van)
  505. The Horrors - Strange House (Loog)
  506. Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob (B-Unique)
  507. Alicia Keys - As I Am (RCA)
  508. Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion (Casablanca/Island)

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2006

    10-

  1. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (4AD/Interscope)
  2. Colour Haze - Tempel (Elektrohasch)
  3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones (Interscope)
  4. The Knife - Silent Shout (Rabid/Mute)
  5. Mastodon - Blood Mountain (Reprise)

    9+

  6. Kassin +2 - Futurismo (Video Arts Japan/Luaka Bop)
  7. The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America (Vagrant)
  8. Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things (Tirk)
  9. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti-)
  10. OOIOO - Taiga (Thrill Jockey)
  11. Joanna Newsom - Ys (Drag City)
  12. Hot Chip - The Warning (DFA/Astralwerks)
  13. Benoît Pioulard - Précis (Kranky)
  14. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (Domino)
  15. Naçăo Zumbi - Futura (Trama)
  16. Tony Allen - Lagos No Shaking (Honest Jon1s)
  17. Burial (Hyperdub)
  18. Melvins - A Senile Animal (Ipecac)
  19. Sunn 0))) & Boris - Altar (Southern Lord)
  20. The Futureheads - News And Tributes (679)
  21. Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That (Astralwerks/Source)
  22. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye (Domino)
  23. The Horror The Horror (Tapete Records)
  24. Comets On Fire - Avatar (Sub Pop)
  25. Mammatus (Holy Mountain)
  26. Cappablack - Facades and Skeletons (Scape Germany)
  27. Lansing-Dreiden - The Dividing Island (Kemado)
  28. Various Productions - The World Is Gone (XL)
  29. Los Natas - El Hombre Montańa (Small Stone)
  30. Om - Conference Of The Birds (Holy Mountain)
  31. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House (Warp)
  32. Califone - Roots & Crowns (Thrill Jockey)
  33. Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time (Sub Pop)
  34. J. Dilla - Donuts (Stones Throw)
  35. Sahg - Sahg I (Candlelight)
  36. Lucas Santtana & Seleçăo Natural - 3 Sessions In A Greenhouse (Diginois)
  37. Momo - A Estetica Do Rebisco (Universal)
  38. Fucked Up - Hidden World (Jade Tree)
  39. NOMO - New Tones (Ubiquity)
  40. The Flaming Stars - Born Under A Bad Neon Sign (Big Beat)
  41. Tokyo Jihen - Adult (EMI Japan)
  42. Asa - Terveisiä Kaaoksesta (Julkaisuvuosi)
  43. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles (Bpitch Control)
  44. Hawksley Workman - Treeful of Starling (Universal)
  45. Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love (Border Community)
  46. Espers - Espers II (Drag City)
  47. Barbara Morgenstern - The Grass Is Always Greener (Monika)
  48. Tom Waits - Orphans: Bawlers, Brawlers & Bastards (Anti-)
  49. Britta Persson - Top Quality Bones and a Little Terrorist (Bonnier Amigo)
  50. Ali Farka Touré - Savane (Nonesuch)
  51. Thomas Mapfumo - Rise Up (Realworld)
  52. Herbert - Scale (!K7)
  53. Milanese - Extend (Planet Mu)
  54. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador)
  55. The Roots - Game Theory (Def Jam Left)
  56. Toumani Diabaté Orchestra - Boulevard de l'Independance (Nonesuch)
  57. Shack - The Corner Of Miles And Gil (Sourmash)
  58. Built To Spill - You In Reverse (WB)
  59. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (Capitol)
  60. CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexy (Sub Pop)
  61. Mission of Burma - The Obliterati (Matador)
  62. Burning Saviours - Hundus (I Hate Records)
  63. The Mars Volta - Amputechture (Umvd)
  64. Caetano Veloso - Cę (Universal)
  65. Miho Hatori - Ecdysis (Rykodisc)
  66. Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar)
  67. Mordant Music - Dead Air (Mordant)
  68. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (Universal/Island)
  69. Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth of A Beast (Matador)
  70. Enslaved - Ruun (Candlelight)
  71. Isis - In The Absence of Truth (Ipecac)
  72. Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid - The Exchange Session (Domino)
  73. The Rapture - Pieces Of The People We Love (Universal)
  74. Tunng - Comments OF The Inner Chorus (Full Time Hobby)
  75. Hainloose - Burden State (Elektrohasch)
  76. Elope - 3WD (Gravitation)
  77. Kylesa - Time Will Fuse Its Worth (Prosthetic)
  78. Bert Jansch - The Black Swan (Drag City)
  79. Pharaoh - The Longest Night (Cruz Del Sur)
  80. Motorpsycho - Black Hole/Blank Canvas (Rune Grammofon)
  81. Spank Rock - Yoyoyoyoyo (Big Dada)
  82. Pearls & Brass - The Indian Tower (Drag City)
  83. Subtle - for hero: for fool (Astralwerks)
  84. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (Rough Trade)
  85. Ed Harcourt - The Beautiful Lie (Heavenly)
  86. The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief (Labrador)

    9

  87. Rico - Wareika Vibes (Jamdown)
  88. Wolfmother (Modular/Interscope)
  89. Made Out Of Babies - Coward (Neurot)
  90. Madder Mordem - Desiderata (Peaceville)
  91. Wo Fat - The Gathering Dark (Red Menace)
  92. The Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo To Anywhere (Universal)
  93. Hypnos 69 - Eclectic Measure (Elektrohasch)
  94. The Ranconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (XL)
  95. Subvision - So Far So Noir (Kooljunk)
  96. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds (Jive)
  97. Slayer - Christ Illusion (American)
  98. Negura Bunget – Om (Code 666)
  99. Kode9 & The Spaceape - Memories of the Future (Hyperdub)
  100. Zebulon Pike - Zebulon Pike II: The Deafening Twilight (Unfortunate)
  101. U.S. Christmas - Salt The Wound (Raig)
  102. Deepspacepilots EP (Deepspacepilots)
  103. The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth (RCA/BMG)
  104. Hot Club de Paris - Drop It Til It Pops (Moshi Moshi)
  105. White Flight (Range Life)
  106. Belbury Poly - The Owl's Map (Ghost Box)
  107. Jay Reatard - Blood Visions (Matador)
  108. Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape (Interscope)
  109. Radio Citizen - Berlin Serengeti (Ubiquity)
  110. Acoustic Ladyland - Skinny Grin (V2)
  111. The Sword - Age Of Winters (Kemado)
  112. Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards (Downtown/V2)
  113. The Fratellis - Costello Music (Umvd UK)
  114. Clark - Body Riddle (Warp Records)
  115. Longcut - A Call & Response (Deltasonic)
  116. Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death (Sanctuary)
  117. Horse Feathers - Words Are Dead (Lucky Madison)
  118. Cornelius - Sensuous (WEA)
  119. Dead Man (Crusher)
  120. Man Man - Six Demon Bag (Ace Fu)
  121. Burst - Origo (Relapse)
  122. Ad Astra Per Aspera - Catapult Calypso (Sonic Unyon)
  123. Mouth Of The Architect - The Ties That Blind (Translation Loss)
  124. Ojos de Brujo - Techarí (Six Degrees)
  125. Mr. Lif - Mo' Mega (Def Jux)
  126. Juana Molina - Son (Domino)
  127. The Ark - State Of The Ark (EMI)
  128. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (American)
  129. Squarepusher - Hello Everything (Warp)
  130. Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds (Tomlab)
  131. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (Geffen)
  132. Joan As Police Woman - Real Life (Reveal)
  133. Amp Fiddler - Afro Strut (Genuine UK)
  134. Ekkehard Ehlers - A Life Without Fear (Staubgold)
  135. Annuals - Be He Me (Ace Fu)
  136. Asobi Seksu - Citrus (Friendly Fire)
  137. Sasquatch - II (Small Stone)
  138. Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song (What's Your Rupture?)
  139. Mew - And The Glass-Handed Kites (Sony)
  140. Ladyfuzz - Kerfuffle (Transgressive/WEA International)
  141. Lilly Allen - Alright, Still (Regal)
  142. Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay (Southern Lord)
  143. Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth (Nuclear Blast)
  144. Jesu - Silver EP (Hydra Head)
  145. Booka Shade - Movements (Get Physical)
  146. Rhymefest - Blue Collar (Allido/J)
  147. The Coup - Pick a Bigger Weapon (Epitaph)
  148. National Trust - Kings And Queens (Thrill Jockey)
  149. Scott Walker - The Drift (4AD)
  150. The Victorian English Gentlemens Club (Republic of Music)
  151. The Ludes - The Dark Art Of Happiness (Double Dragon UK)
  152. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (Nike/iTunes)
  153. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine (Sub Pop)
  154. Scritti Politti - White Bread Black Beer (Rough Trade)
  155. Cat Power - The Greatest (Matador)
  156. Rachid Taha - Diwan 2 (Wrasse)
  157. James Holden - The Idiots Are Winning (Border Community)
  158. Amit - Never Ending (Commercial Suicide)
  159. Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere (Downtown)
  160. Ms John Soda - Notes And The Like (Morr Music)
  161. Under Byen - Samme Stof Som Stof (Morningside)
  162. Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain (Astralwerks)
  163. Ty - Closer (Big Dada)
  164. Ampop - My Delusions (Recall Fr)
  165. Pit Er Pat - Pyramids (Thrill Jockey)
  166. Tapes 'N Tapes - The Loon (Ibid)
  167. Ratatat - Classics (XL)
  168. Carla Bozulich - Evangelista (Constellation)
  169. 120 Days (Vice)
  170. Liars - Drums Not Dead (Mute)
  171. Lindstrřm - It's A Feedelity Affair (Feedelity)
  172. Basement Jaxx - Crazy Itch Radio (XL)
  173. Marit Larsen - Under the Surface (EMI Norway)
  174. Svalastog - Woodwork (Rune Grammofon)
  175. The Blow - Paper Television (K)
  176. Ghostigital - In Cod We Trust (Ipecac)
  177. James Hunter - People Gonna Talk (Go Records/Rounder)
  178. Mountains - Sewn (Apestaartje)
  179. Rub 'n' Tug - Better Than A Spoonful Of Leather (aNything)
  180. Cortney Tidwell - Don’t Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ever)
  181. Coldcut - Sound Mirrors (Ninja Tune)
  182. Gigi - Gold And Wax (Palm Pictures)
  183. Tanya Stephens - Rebelution (VP)
  184. Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis (Rough Trade UK)
  185. Skream - Skream! (Tempa)
  186. Black Disco Devil Club - 28 After (Lo Recordings)
  187. The Brakes - Beatific Visions (Rough Trade UK)
  188. Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet (Kranky)
  189. Candi Stanton - His Hands (Astralwerks)
  190. Swan Lake - Beast Moans (Jagjaguwar)
  191. Cibelle - The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves (Six Degrees/Crammed)
  192. My My - Songs for the Gentle (Playhouse)
  193. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar (Ba Da Bing!)
  194. Paul Simon - Surprise (WB)
  195. Los Lobos - The Town And The City (Hollywood)
  196. The Dears - Gang Of Losers (V2)
  197. Joseph Arthur - Nuclear Daydream (Mega Force)
  198. Jóhann Jóhannsson - IBM 1401, A User's Manual (4AD)
  199. Sloan - Never Hear The End Of It (Vik)
  200. Graham Coxon - Love Travels at Illegal Speeds (Parlophone)
  201. Clinic - Visitations (Domino UK)
  202. Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky (Durtro/Jnana)
  203. Howlin' Rain (Birdman)
  204. The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off (Record Collection)
  205. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - So Divided (Interscope)
  206. Gotan Project - Lunático (XL)
  207. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go (Drag City)
  208. Rock Plaza Central - Are We Not Horses? (RPC)
  209. Gianluca Petrella - Indigo4 (Blue Note)
  210. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas (V2)
  211. Radio Birdman - Zeno Beach (Yep Rock)
  212. Akala - It's Not A Rumour (Illastate)
  213. The Heart Attacks - Hellbound And Heartless (Hellcat)
  214. Absentee - Schmotime (Memphis Industries)
  215. Madeleine Peyroux - Half the Perfect World (Rounder)
  216. Gjallarhorn - Rimfaxe (Vindauga/Westpark)
  217. The Ordinary Boys - How to Get Everything You Ever Wanted in Ten Easy Steps (B-Unique)
  218. Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead (Def Jam/Columbia)
  219. Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55 (Atlantic)
  220. Raise The Red Lantern - Breathe Fire (At A Loss)
  221. Colleen & Les Boites A Musiques (The Leaf Label)
  222. The Broken Family Band - Balls (Track & Field)
  223. Huntsville - For The Middle Class (Rune Grammofon)
  224. Natacha Atlas - Mish Maoul (Beggars UK)
  225. Indian Jewelry - Invasion Exotics (Monitor)
  226. Vetiver - To Find Me Gone (Fatcat)
  227. Mouse On Mars - Varcharz (Ipecac)
  228. Fields - 7 From The Village (Vice)
  229. Totimoshi - Ladrón (Crucial Blast)
  230. Priestess - Hello Master (Ace Fu)
  231. The Gates Of Slumber - The Awakening (Final Chapter)
  232. Sunshine Underground - Raise The Alarm (City Rockers)
  233. Bullet - Heading For The Top (Black Lodge)
  234. Wolf & Cub - Vessels (Dot Dash/4AD)
  235. Nebula - Apollo (Liquor and Poker)
  236. Witch (Tee Pee)
  237. Nouvelle Vague - Bande A Part (Peacefrog)
  238. Silversun Pickups - Carnavas (Dangerbird)

    9-

  239. Turn Me On Dead Man - Technicolour Mother (Virus)
  240. Seemless - What Have We Become (Equal Vision)
  241. Oakley Hall - Second Guessing (Amish)
  242. Hammers Of Misfortune - The Locust Years (Cruz del Sur)
  243. Bible Of The Devil - Diabolic Procession (Raw Deth)
  244. Converge - No Heroes (Epitaph)
  245. Harvey Milk - Special Wishes (Troubleman Unlimited)
  246. Kalas (Tee Pee)
  247. Midnight Juggernauts - Secrets Of the Universe EP (Siberia)
  248. Dissection - Reinkaos (The End)
  249. Marisa Monte - Infinito Particular (Metro Blue)
  250. Malajube - Trompe-L'oeil (Dare to Care)
  251. Claude Vonstroke - Beware of the Bird (Dirtybird)
  252. Bat For Lashes - Fur And Gold (Echo)
  253. White Hats - Niobe (Tomlab)
  254. Thomas Strřnen - Pohlitz (Rune Grammofon)
  255. Vakill - Worst Fears Confirmed (Molemen)
  256. Lady Sovereign - Public Warning (Def Jam)
  257. Primal Scream - Riot City Blues (Sony)
  258. Tap Tap - Lanzafame (Catbird)
  259. Excepter - Alternation (5 Rue Christine)
  260. Oxford Collapse - Remember the Night Parties (Sub Pop)
  261. Cursive - Happy Hollow (Saddle Creek)
  262. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics (WB)
  263. Solomon Burke - Nashville (Shout! Factory)
  264. Peaches - Impeach My Bush (XL)
  265. Amy Diamond - Still Me Still Now (Bonnier Amigo Music Group)
  266. Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block (Wichita/V2)
  267. Taylor Deupree - Northern (12K)
  268. Belong - October Language (Carpark)
  269. Phill Niblock - Touch Three (Touch)
  270. The Howling Bells (Bellaire)
  271. Viva Voce - Get Yr Blood Sucked Out (Barsuk)
  272. Brightblack Morning Light (Matador)
  273. Svarte Greiner - Knive (Type)
  274. Little Annie - Songs From The Coalmine Canary (Durtro Jnana)
  275. I'm From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends (Dolores)
  276. Figurines - Skeleton (Control Group)
  277. Kelley Stoltz - Below The Branches (Sub Pop)
  278. Archie Bronson Outfit - Derdang Derdang (Domino)
  279. Shogun Kunitoki - Tasankokaiku (Fonal)
  280. Flying Canyon (Soft Abuse)
  281. Adem - Love And Other Planets (Domino)
  282. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. - The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager (WEA)
  283. Guillemots - Through The Windowpane (Polydor)
  284. Motörhead - Kiss Of Death (Sanctuary)
  285. Nico Muhly - Speaks Volume (Bedroom Community)
  286. Jeremy Enigk - World Waits (Reincarnate)
  287. Dani Siciliano - Slappers (!K7)
  288. Isobell Campbell - Milk White Sheets (V2)
  289. The Sunshine Underground - Raise The Alarm (City Rockers)
  290. The Hidden Cameras - Awoo (Arts & Crafts)
  291. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country (Merge)
  292. The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes (Memphis Industries)
  293. Tool - 10,000 Days (Tool JV)
  294. Eagles Of Death Metal - Death By Sexy (Downtown)
  295. Krux - Krux II (GMR)
  296. Church Of Misery - Master Of Brutality (Diwphalanx)
  297. Eleventh Dream Day - Zeroes And Ones (Thrill Jockey)
  298. Oneida - Happy New Year (Jagjaguwar)
  299. Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance (Peaceville)
  300. The Long Winters - Putting The Days To Bed (Barsuk)
  301. Amel Larrieux - Morning (Bliss Life)
  302. Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah (Universal)
  303. Psapp - The Only Thing I Ever Wanted (Domino)
  304. The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home (Rough Trade)
  305. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor (1st and 15th/Atlantic)
  306. Street Dogs - Fading American Dream (DRT)
  307. Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (Columbia)
  308. Razorlight (Universal)
  309. Battle Of Mice - A Day Of Nights (Neurot)
  310. Cult Of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway (Earache)
  311. Bromheads Jacket - Dits From The Commuter Belt (Marquis Cha Cha)
  312. The Feeling - Twelve Stops And Home (Island)
  313. Albert Hammond Jr - Yours To Keep (Rough Trade)
  314. Radio 4 - Enemies Like This (Astralwerks)
  315. Forward, Russia! - Give Me A Wall (Dance to the Radio UK)
  316. Erase Errata - Nightlife (Kill Rock Stars)
  317. Young Knives - Voices of Animals And Men (Transgressive)
  318. Nina Nastasia - On Leaving (Fat Cat)
  319. Black Keys - Magic Potion (Nonesuch)
  320. White Rose Movement - Kick (Independiente UK)
  321. Wolf Eyes - Human Animal (Sub Pop)
  322. Islands - Return To The Sea (Equator)
  323. Loose Fur - Born Again in the USA (Drag City)
  324. Adrian Belew - Side Three (Sanctuary)
  325. Beach House (Carpark)
  326. Xiu Xiu - The Air Force (5 Rue Christine)
  327. Sol Seppy - The Bells of 1 2 (Gronland)
  328. DAT Politics - Wow Twist (Chicks On Speed)
  329. Quantic - An Announcement To Answer (Ubiquity)
  330. Twilight Singers - Powder Burns (One Little Indian)
  331. Schneider TM - Skoda Mluvit (City Slang UK)
  332. Akron Family - Meek Warrior (Young God)
  333. Mugison - Little Trip (Ipecac)
  334. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (Capitol)
  335. Calexico - Garden Ruin (Quarterstick)
  336. The Streets - The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living (Vice)
  337. Prurient - Pleasure Ground (Load)
  338. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies (Merge)
  339. Magnolia Electric Co. - Fading Trails (Secretly Canadian)
  340. Mondo Generator - Dead Planet (Sonicslowmotiontrails) (Tornado)
  341. Wilderness - Vessel States (Jagjaguwar)
  342. Lambchop - Damaged (Merge)
  343. Adrian Sherwood – Becoming A Cliché (EMI)
  344. Celtic Frost - Monotheist (Century Media)
  345. Howe Gelb - 'Sno Angel Like You (Thrill Jockey)
  346. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther (Bella Union)
  347. Frida Hyvönen - Until Death Comes (Secretly Canadian)
  348. The Handsome Family - Last Days of Wonder (Carrot Top)
  349. Vanden Plas - Christ O (Inside Out)
  350. Bal-Sagath - The Cthonic Chronicles (Candlelight)
  351. The Sleepy Jackson - Personality (Astralwerks)
  352. Grandaddy - Just Like The Fambly Cat (V2)
  353. Quasi - When The Going Gets Dark (Touch & Go)
  354. Horse Stories - Everyone's A Photographer (Japanese Import)
  355. People In Planes - As Far As The Eye Can See (Wind-Up)
  356. Tom Verlaine - Songs And Other Things (Thrill Jockey)
  357. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat (Rough Trade)
  358. DJ Shadow - The Outsider (Ujvd)
  359. Max Richter - Songs From Before (Fat-Cat Records)
  360. Brazilian Girls - Talk To La Bomb (Verve Forecast)
  361. The French Kicks - Two Thousand (Vagrant)
  362. Lamb Of God * Sacrament (Epic)
  363. Don Caballero - World Class Listening Problem (Relapse)
  364. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist (Maverick)
  365. Muse - Black Holes & Revelations (WB)
  366. Black Heart Procession - The Spell (Touch & Go)
  367. Ludicra - Fex Urbis Lex Orbis (Alternative Tentacles)
  368. The Automatic - Not Accepted Anywhere (Unviersal)
  369. Black Keys - Chulahoma EP (Fast Possum)
  370. The Zutons - Tired Of Hangin Around (BMG UK)
  371. The Tyde - Three's Company (Rough Trade)
  372. Blood Meridian - Kick Up The Dust (V2)
  373. M. Ward - Post-War (Merge)
  374. The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control (Kill Rock Stars)
  375. The Black Angels - Passover (Light in the Attic)
  376. Gomez - How We Operate (ATO)
  377. Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You (4AD)
  378. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium (WB)
  379. The Stills - Without Feathers (Vice)
  380. Dresdon Dolls - Yes Virginia (Roadrunner)
  381. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (Def Jam)
  382. Clearlake - Amber (Domino)
  383. Hope of the States - Left (Columbia)
  384. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming (Absolutely Kosher)
  385. Karsh Kale - Broken English (Six Degrees)
  386. The Killers - Sam's Town (Island)
  387. Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing And A Curse (New West)
  388. Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops (Reprise)
  389. Whirlwind Heat - Types of Wood (Brille)
  390. Seconds - Kratitude (5 Rue Christine)
  391. Fionn Regan - The End Of History (Bella Union)
  392. Stereolab - Fab Four Suture (Too Pure/Beggars Banquet)
  393. Prefuse 73 - Security Screenings (Warp)
  394. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Elan Vital (Matador)
  395. Be Your Own Pet (XL)
  396. Hikaru Utada - Ultra Blue (Island Jpn)
  397. Dilated Peoples - 20-20 (Capitol)
  398. Chihei Hatakeyama - Minima Moralia (Kranky)
  399. Soledad Brothers - The Hardest Walk (Alive)
  400. Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors (Sanctuary/Attack)
  401. Gregor Tresher - Neon: Works In The Mix (Datapunk)
  402. Danielson - Ships (Secretly Canadian)
  403. My Morning Jacket - Okonnokos (Ato/RCA)
  404. Gallows - Orchestra Of Wolves (In At the Deep End)
  405. Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche (Asthmatic Kitty)
  406. Mogwai - Mr. Beast (Matador)
  407. De Rosa - Mend (Chemikal Underground)
  408. The Caretaker - Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia (v/VM)
  409. Jacob Borshard - The Last Brontosaurus
  410. Northwinds - Chimeres (Black Widow)
  411. Thor - Devastation Of Musculation (Smog Veil)
  412. East-West Ensemble - Kabbalah Music: The Hidden Spirituals (Magda)
  413. Adrian Klumpes - Be Still (The Leaf Label)
  414. Mothboy - Deviance (Ad Noiseam)
  415. Casiotone For the Painfully Alone - Etiquette (Tomlab)
  416. Hanne Hukkelberg - Rykestraße68 (Leaf)
  417. K'Naan - The Dusty Foot Philosopher (BMG)
  418. Bellowhead - Burlesque (West Park)
  419. Anthony Braxton & Wolf Eyes - Black Vomit (Victo)
  420. Black Pus - III: MeamorPus

    8+

  421. Outkast - Idlewild (La Face/Zomba)
  422. The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out (Astralwerks/Virgin)
  423. Lil' Wayne & DJ Drama - Dedication 2 (Gangsta Grillz)
  424. Helmet - Monochrome (Warcon)
  425. Bob Dylan - Modern Times (Columbia)
  426. Rogers Sisters - The Invisible Deck (Too Pure/Beggars)
  427. Shoplifting - Body Stories (Kill Rock Stars)
  428. El Perro del Mar (Memphis Industries)
  429. Def Leppard - Yeah! (Bludgeon Riffola/Island)
  430. Cheap Trick - Rockford (Cheap Trick Unlimited)
  431. Plan B - Who Needs Action When You Got Words (679)
  432. New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This (Roadrunner)
  433. Morning Runner - Wilderness Is Paradise Now (EMI UK)
  434. Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice - Gipsy Freedom (5RC)
  435. Willie Nelson - Songbird (Lost Highway)
  436. South - Adventures In The Underground Journey to the Stars (Young American)
  437. Sparks - Hello Young Lovers (In The Red/Gut)
  438. Beck - The Information (Interscope)
  439. Damien Rice - 9 (WB)
  440. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (Reprise)
  441. In Flagranti - Wronger Than Anyone Else (Codek)
  442. Corinne Bailey Rae (EMI)
  443. Kasabian - Empire (RCA)
  444. Slepcy - We Are The Newest Battle Models (Cock Rock Disco)
  445. The Lemonheads (Vagrant)
  446. The Adored - A New Language (V2/Ada)
  447. Pearl Jam (J Records)
  448. Beth Orton - Comfort Of Strangers (Astralwerks)
  449. David Kitt - Not Fade Away (Rough Trade)
  450. Concretes - In Colour (Astralwerks)
  451. Pink - I'm Not Dead (La Face)
  452. Elefant - The Black Magic Show (Kemado)

    8-

  453. Neil Young - Living With War (Reprise)
  454. Tom Petty - Highway Companion (American Recordings)
  455. The Open - Statues (Universal UK)
  456. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (Star Trak)
  457. Pharrell Williams - In My Mind (Star Trak/Interscope)
  458. Orson - Bright Idea (Mercury)
  459. T.I. - The King (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)
  460. The Game - The Doctor's Advocate (Geffen)
  461. Duke Special - Songs From the Deep Forest (V2)
  462. Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me (Interscope/Tiny Evil)
  463. Beyonce - B'Day (Sony)
  464. Simple Kid - 2 (Country Gentleman)
  465. The Vines - Vision Valley (Capitol)
  466. The Fags - Light 'Em Up (Idol)
  467. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open (A&M/Polydor)
  468. Ciara - The Evolution (LaFace/Zomba)
  469. Matisyahu - Youth (Sony)
  470. She Wants Revenge (Geffen)
  471. Jet - Shine On (Atlantic)
  472. Akira The Don - When We Were Young (Something In Construction)
  473. Evanescence - The Open Door (Wind-Up)
  474. Nelly Furtado - Loose (Geffen)

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2005

    10-

  1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries (Roadrunner)
  2. Patrick Wolf - Wind In The Wires (Tomlab)
  3. Robyn (Konichiwa Records)

    9+

  4. Witchcraft - Firewood (Candlelight)
  5. My Computer - No CV (Tesla UK)
  6. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better (Domino)
  7. Boris - Pink (Southern Lord)
  8. Circle - Tulikoira (No Quarter)
  9. The Rakes - Capture/Release (V2 UK)
  10. Kate Bush - Aerial (Columbia)
  11. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (Wichita/V2)
  12. Clutch - Robot Hive/Exodus (DRT)
  13. Field Music (Memphis Industries UK)
  14. Spoon - Gimme Fiction (Merge)
  15. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (Sub Pop)
  16. Gang Gang Dance - God's Money (Social Registry)
  17. Editors - The Back Room (Kitchenware UK)
  18. LCD Soundsystem (Capitol/DFA)
  19. Paavoharju - Yhä Hämärää (Fonal)
  20. Matias Aguayo - Are You Really Lost (Kompakt)
  21. Broadcast - Tender Buttons (Warp)
  22. Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart (Yep Roc)
  23. Gorillaz - Demon Days (Virgin)
  24. Clientele - Strange Geometry (Merge)
  25. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday (French Kiss)
  26. Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche a Bamako (Nonesuch)
  27. Gojira - From Mars To Sirius (Listenable/Prosthetic)
  28. Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger (Warp)
  29. High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings (Relapse)
  30. Black Mountain (Jagjaguwar)
  31. Torche (Robotic Empire)
  32. M.I.A. - Arular (XL)
  33. Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production Of Eggs (Righteous Babe)
  34. Animal Collective - Feels (Fat Cat)
  35. Dogs - Turn Against This Land (Island UK)
  36. Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Yah (Burial Mix)
  37. Konono No. 1 - Congotronics (Fat Cat)
  38. Sigur Rós - Takk... (Geffen)
  39. Jamie Lidell - Multiply (Warp)
  40. The Hellacopters - Rock & Roll Is Dead (Wild Kingdom)
  41. Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow (Samadhisound)
  42. Edan - Beauty and the Beat (Lewis)
  43. The National - Alligator (Beggars Banquet)
  44. Enslaved - Isa (Candlelight)
  45. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree (4AD)
  46. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)
  47. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
  48. Akron/Family (Young God)
  49. Todosantos - Aeropuerto (La Superagencia)
  50. Eluvium - Talk Amongst The Trees (Temporary Residence)
  51. The Shortwave Set - The Debt Collection (Independiente UK)
  52. Nôze - Craft Sounds and Voices (Circus Company)
  53. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock and Roll (Rough Trade)
  54. Abramis Brama - Rubicon (Transubstans)
  55. Russian Futurists - Our Thickness (Upper Class)
  56. Out Hud - Let Us Never Speak Of It Again (Kranky)
  57. Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike (USA Side 1 Dummy)
  58. Richard Youngs - The Naive Shaman (Jajjaguwar)
  59. The Books - Lost and Safe (Tomlab)
  60. 65 Days Of Static - One Time For All Time (Monotreme)
  61. Seu Jorge - Cru (Wrasse)
  62. Max De Castro (Trama)
  63. YOB - The Unreal Never Lived (Metal Blade)
  64. Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth (Matador)
  65. Emiliana Torrini - Fisherman's Wife (Rough Trade)
  66. Colder - Heat (Output)
  67. M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us (Goom/Mute)
  68. The Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir (Rough Trade)
  69. Mick Harvey - One Man's Treasure (Mute)
  70. Corrupted - El Mundo Frio (HG Fact)
  71. Freakwater - Thinking Of You (Thrill Jockey)
  72. Earth - Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method (Southern Lord)
  73. Cowboys & Aliens - Language Of Superstars (Apache)
  74. Dälek - Absence (Ipecac)
  75. Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens (Environ)
  76. Sons Of Otis - X (Small Stone)
  77. Dead Meadow - Feathers (Matador)
  78. Steve Wynn - ...tick...tick...tick (Redeye)
  79. Baroness - Second EP (Hyperrealist)
  80. Ufomammut - Lucifer Songs EP (Supernatural Cat)
  81. Hermano - Dare I Say... (MeteorCity)
  82. Various - Love's A Real Thing: The Funky Fuzzy Sounds Of West Africa (Luaka Bop)
  83. Madrugada - The Deep End (Virgin)

    9

  84. Wilco - Kicking Television: Live In Chicago (Nonesuch)
  85. Acid King - III (Small Stone)
  86. Sheavy - Republic? (Candlelight USA)
  87. Turbonegro - Party Animals (MSI)
  88. Dozer - Through The Eyes Of Heathens (Small Stone)
  89. Truckfighters - Gravity X (MeteorCity)
  90. Causa Sui (Elektrohasch)
  91. Spiritual Beggars - Demons (SPV/InsideOut)
  92. Pearls & Brass (Doppelganger)
  93. F/i - Blanga (Lexicon Devil)
  94. Anthony Hamilton - Ain't Nobody Worryin' (So So Def/Zomba)
  95. Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep (Big Dada/Ninja Tune UK)
  96. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
  97. Mary Timony - Ex Hex (Lookout!)
  98. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze (Interscope)
  99. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise (Asthmatic Kitty)
  100. Black Lips - Let It Bloom (In The Red)
  101. The Fiery Furnaces - The Fiery Furnaces EP (Rough Trade)
  102. Drunk Horse - In Tongues (Tee Pee)
  103. Burning Saviours (Meteor City)
  104. Kanye West - Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella)
  105. The Ordinary Boys - Brassbound (B Unique)
  106. Quasimoto - The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas (Stones Throw)
  107. Sinéad O'Connor - Throw Down Your Arms (THCV)
  108. Blut Aus Nord - Thematic Emanation of Archetypal Multiplicity (Candlelight)
  109. DangerDoom - The Mouse and the Mask (Epitaph/ADA)
  110. Hello Saferide - Introducing... (Razzia)
  111. Sunn 0))) - Black One (Southern Lord)
  112. The Spinto Band - Nice And Nicely Done (Bar/None)
  113. Volcano - Beautiful Seizure (Leaf)
  114. Mariem Hassan - Deseos OK (Nubenegra)
  115. Tom Vek - We Have Sound (Startime International)
  116. Mountains (Apestaartje)
  117. Yat-Kha - Re-Covers (World Village)
  118. Sigh - Gallows Gallery (The End)
  119. 50 Foot Wave - Golden Ocean (Throwing Music)
  120. Thione Seck - Orientation (Stern's Africa)
  121. Aoki Takamasa & Tujiko Noriko - 28 (Fat Cat)
  122. The Epoxies - Stop The Future (Fat Wreck)
  123. The Darkness - One Way Ticket To Hell...And Back (Atlantic)
  124. Celebration (4AD/Beggars Banquet)
  125. Brazilian Girls (Verve)
  126. Ellen Allien - Thrills (Bpitch Control)
  127. Birchville Cat Motel - Chi Vampires (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
  128. Devin Davis - Lonely People of the World, Unite! (Mousse)
  129. The Evens (Dischord)
  130. Camille - Le Fil (Virgin)
  131. Roisin Murphy - Ruby Blue (Echo)
  132. Ladytron - Witching Hour (Rykodisc)
  133. Tom Zé - Estudando O Pagode (Trama)
  134. Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic (Domino)
  135. Elbow - Leaders Of The Free World (V2 UK)
  136. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute (Universal)
  137. Jason Forrest - Shamelessly Exciting (Sonig)
  138. Vitalic - OK Cowboy (Pias)
  139. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain (Load)
  140. Isolee - We Are Monster (Playhouse)
  141. Serena Maneesh (Honeymilk)
  142. Lady Sovereign - Vertically Challenged EP (Chocolate Industries)
  143. Polar Bear - Held On The Tips Of Fingers (Babel)
  144. Common - Be (Geffen)
  145. British Sea Power - Open Season (Rough Trade)
  146. Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine (Nonesuch)
  147. Engineers (Echo)
  148. Go-Kart Mozart - Tearing Up The Album Chart (West Midlands UK)
  149. Kano - Home Sweet Home (679)
  150. A-Frames - Black Forest (Sub Pop)
  151. Half Man Half Biscuit - Achtung Bono (Probe Plus)
  152. Oneida - The Wedding (Jagjaguwar)
  153. Bettye LaVette - I've Got My Own Hell To Raise (Anti-)
  154. The Brakes - Give Blood (Rough Trade)
  155. Ulver - Blood Inside (The End)
  156. Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor (Thrill Jockey)
  157. The Living Things - Ahead Of The Lions (Jive/Zomba)
  158. Rammstein - Rosenrot (Universal)
  159. Early Man - Closing In (Matador)
  160. The Perceptionists - Black Dialogue (Definitive Jux)
  161. Chemical Brothers - Push The Button (Virgin)
  162. Wilderness (Jagjaguwar)
  163. Booka Shade - Memento (Get Physical)
  164. Richard Hawley - Cole's Corner (Mute)
  165. The Juan MaClean - Less Than Human (DFA/Astralwerks)
  166. The Lappetites - Before the Libretto (Quecksilber Germany)
  167. Sway - This Is My Promo (Dcypha Productions)
  168. Triola - Im Funftonraum (Kompakt)
  169. Deerhoof - The Runners Four (Kill Rock Stars)
  170. Sunn O))) - Black One (Southern Lord)
  171. Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself (Megaphonic)
  172. Goldfrapp - Supernature (Mute UK)
  173. Jesu (Hydra Head)
  174. Duke Spirit - Cuts Across the Land (Universal UK)
  175. Meshuggah - Catch Thirty-Three (Nuclear Blast)
  176. System of a Down - Mesmerize (Epic)
  177. Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die (Bar/None)
  178. Crooked Fingers - Dignity And Shame (Merge)
  179. Electrelane - Axes (Too Pure/Beggars)
  180. Low - The Great Destroyer (Sub Pop)
  181. Khold - Krek (Candlelight)
  182. The Boards Of Canada - Campfire Headcase (Warp)
  183. Tujiko Noriko - Blurred In My Mirror (Room40)
  184. Caribou [Manitoba] - The Milk Of Human Kindness (Domino)
  185. The Dirty Three - Cinder (Touch & Go)
  186. Grand Magus - Wolf’s Return (Candlelight)
  187. Jackson & His Computer Band - Smash (Warp)
  188. Greg Dulli - Amber Headlights (One Little Indian)
  189. Fantomas - Suspended Animation (Ipecac)
  190. Mugison - Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music? (Accidental)
  191. Capitol K - Nomad Junk (Faith & Industry)
  192. Cage - Hell's Winter (Definitive Jux)
  193. Coco Rosie - Noah's Ark (Touch & Go)
  194. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (Vagrant)
  195. Creme de Menthe - The Impossibility of Eroticism in the Suburbs (Disko B)
  196. Girls Aloud - Chemistry (Polydor UK)
  197. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (Matador)
  198. Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft (XL)
  199. Love As Laughter - Laughter's Fifth (Sub Pop)
  200. Blackalicious - The Craft (Anti-)
  201. Calla - Collisions (Beggars Banquet)
  202. Constantines - Tournament Of Hearts (Sub Pop)
  203. Pernice Brothers - Discover A Lovelier You (Sub Pop)
  204. Prefuse 73 - Surrounded By Silence (Warp)
  205. Asamov - And Now... (6 Hole)
  206. Hood - Outside Closer (Domino UK)
  207. Modey Lemon - The Curious City (Birdman)
  208. Broken Social Scene (Arts & Crafts)
  209. Metric - Live It Out (Last Gang)
  210. John Cale - Black Acetate (Astralwerks)
  211. The Tears - Here Come The Tears (Independiente UK)
  212. Cave In - Perfect Pitch Black (Hydra Head)
  213. The Drones - Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By (ATP)
  214. The Gospel - The Moon Is A Dead World (Level Plane)
  215. The Fall Of Troy - Doppelganger (Equal Vision)
  216. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (Sub Pop)
  217. Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower (Drag City)
  218. Kingsbury Manx - The Fast Rise And Fall Of The South (Yep Roc)
  219. David Pajo - Pajo (Drag City)
  220. Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift (Barsuk)
  221. Troubled Hubble - Making Beds In A Burning House (Lookout)
  222. Populous - Queue For Love (Morr)
  223. The Double - Loose In The Air (Matador)
  224. Fursaxa - Ecstatic Peace (13)
  225. Oceansize - Everyone Into Position (Beggars Banquet)
  226. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw (Hydra Head)
  227. Sons And Daughters - The Repulsion Box (Domino)
  228. Jackie-O Motherfucker - Flags of the Sacred Harp (ATP)
  229. My Morning Jacket - Z (ATO)
  230. Lichens - The Psychic Nature Of Being (Kranky)
  231. Damian Marley - Welcome To Jamrock (Universal)
  232. Saint Etienne - Tales From Turnpike House (Sanctuary)
  233. Angels Of Light - Sings Other People (Young God)
  234. Thievery Corporation - Cosmic Game (ESL)
  235. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (CYHSY)
  236. Petra Haden - Sings The Who Sell Out (Bar/None)
  237. Alan Braxe - The Upper Cuts (Electronica)
  238. Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration (V2 UK)
  239. System of a Down - Hypnotize (Epic)
  240. The Kills - No Wow (Rough Trade/RCA)
  241. Missy Elliott - The Cookbook (Atlantic)
  242. Tod Dockstader - Aerial #1 (Sub Rosa)
  243. The Frames - Burn The Maps (Anti-)
  244. Sugababes - Taller In More Ways (Universal)
  245. David Banner - Certified (SRC/Universal)
  246. Teenage Fanclub - Man-Made (Merge)
  247. Cursed - Two (Goodfellow)
  248. Repugnant - Epitome of Darkness (Soulseller)
  249. Kylesa - To Walk A Middle Course (Prosthetic)
  250. Archer Prewitt - Wilderness (Thrill Jockey)
  251. Lake Trout - Not Them, You (Palm Pictures)
  252. Mahjongg - Raydoncong (Cold Crush)
  253. Royksopp - The Understanding (Astralwerks)
  254. Asian Dub Foundation - Tank (Virgin UK)
  255. Of Monteral - The Sunlandic Twins (Polyvinyl)
  256. Immolation - Harnessing Ruin (Olympic)
  257. Withered - Memento Mori (Lifeforce)
  258. Supergrass - Road To Rouen (UK)
  259. Jaga Jazzist - What We Must (Ninja Tunes)
  260. Amon Tobin - Chaos Theory: Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack (Ninja Tune)
  261. Om - Variations on a Theme (Holy Mountain)
  262. Stonewall Noise Orchestra - Vol. 1 (Transubstans)
  263. Black Dice - Broken Ear Record (DFA/Astralwerks)
  264. Explosions In The Sky - How Strange, Innocence (Temporary Residence)
  265. Beck - Guero (WB)
  266. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Multiples (Kranky)
  267. Traveling Bell - Scatter Ways (Secret Eye)

    9-

  268. Metal Inquisitor - Doomsday For The Heretic (Hellion)
  269. Electric Six - Senor Smoke (Warner)
  270. Hal (Rough Trade)
  271. Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering (DiCristina/Fat Cat)
  272. Deana Carter - The Story of My Life (Vanguard)
  273. John Parish - Once Upon A Little Time (Thrill Jockey)
  274. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow (XL)
  275. Buck 65 - Secret House Against the World (WEA)
  276. Brian Eno - Another Day On Earth (Hannibal)
  277. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart (Interscope)
  278. The Magic Numbers (Heavenly)
  279. Absentee - Donkey Stock EP (Memphis Industries)
  280. Chad Vangaalen - Infiniheart (Sub Pop)
  281. Autechre - Untilted (Warp)
  282. Nedelle - From The Lion's Mouth (Kill Rock Stars)
  283. Slim Thug - Already Platinum (Geffen)
  284. Envelopes - Demon (Rex UK)
  285. Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love (Drag City)
  286. Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin (Victory)
  287. Tangiers - Family Myth (French Kiss)
  288. Superpitcher - Today (Kompakt)
  289. Longwave - There's A Fire (RCA)
  290. Boy Least Likely To - The Best Party Ever (Rough Trade)
  291. Khanate - Capture & Release (Hydra Head)
  292. Trivium - Ascendancy (Roadrunner)
  293. Maria McKee - Peddlin Dreams (Eleven Thirty)
  294. Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh (Century Media)
  295. Gris Gris - For The Season (Birdman)
  296. stellastarr* - Harmonies For The Haunted (RCA)
  297. Tenement Halls - Knitting Needles & Bicycle Bells (Merge)
  298. Anneli Drecker - Frolic (EMI UK)
  299. Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV (Sony)
  300. Rachel Stevens - Come And Get It (Universal)
  301. Richard Davis - Details (Kitty Yo)
  302. Young Jeezy - Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 (Def Jam)
  303. The 22-20s (Interscope)
  304. Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures (Sub Pop)
  305. Big Business - Head For The Shallow (Hydra Head)
  306. Coral - The Invisible Invasion (Sony)
  307. The Cribs - The New Fellas (Wichita UK)
  308. Idlewild - Warnings/Promises (EMI UK)
  309. OK Go - Oh No (Capitol)
  310. Hot Hot Heat - Elevator (Sire)
  311. Clor (EMI UK)
  312. Orenda Fink - Invisible Ones (Saddle Creek)
  313. Head of Femur - Hysterical Stars (Spin Art)
  314. Babyshambles - Down In Albion (Rough Trade)
  315. Test-Icicles - For Screening Purposes Only (Domino)
  316. The Warlocks - Surgery (Mute)
  317. Hard-Fi - Stars Of CCTV (Necessary/Atlantic)
  318. Nitin Sahwney - Philtre (V2)
  319. Horrorpops - Bring It On! (Hellcat)
  320. M. Ward - Transistor Radio (Merge)
  321. Wedding Present - Take Fountain (Scopitones)
  322. Lungfish - Feral Hymns (Dischord)
  323. The Departure - Dirty Words (Parlophone)
  324. Weird War - Illuminated By The Light (Drag City)
  325. Napalm Death - The Code Is Red...Long Live The Code (Century Media)
  326. Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness (Metal Blade)
  327. The Soviettes - III (Fat Wreck)
  328. Fannypack - See You Next Tuesday (Tommy Boy)
  329. Fischerspooner - Odyssey (Capitol)
  330. Doves - Some Cities (Heavenly UK)
  331. Caesars - Paper Tigers (Astralwerks)
  332. Madonna - Confessions On A Dancefloor (WB) Mu - Out Of Breach (Manchester's Revenge) (Output)
  333. Shelby Lynne - Suit Yourself (Capitol)
  334. Josh Rouse - Nashville (Slow River/Rykodisc)
  335. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine (Sony)
  336. Nagisa Ni Te - Dream Sounds (Jagjaguwar)
  337. Pit Er Pat - Shakey (Thrill Jockey)
  338. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth (Nothing)
  339. Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets Are Kept (Pineapple/Atlantic)
  340. Daft Punk - Human After All (Virgin)
  341. The Subways - Young For Eternity (Infectious UK)
  342. Make Believe - Shock of Being (Flameshovel)

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  343. Fast 'n' Bulbous - Pork Chop Blue Around The Rind (Cuneiform)
  344. Will Young - Keep On (BMG UK)
  345. James Blunt - Back To Bedlam (Atlantic/Custard)
  346. Coldplay - X&Y (Capitol)
  347. The Paddingtons - First Comes First (Universal)
  348. Ladybug Mecca - Trip the Light Fantastic (Nu Paradigm)
  349. Korn - See You on the Other Side (Virgin)
  350. Dandy Warhols - Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars ()
  351. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment (Universal)
  352. The Bravery (Island)
  353. Athlete - Tourist (Parolophone UK)
  354. The Dead 60s (Sony)
  355. Crazy Frog - Crazy Hits (Universal)
  356. Nine Black Alps - Everything Is (Island)
  357. The Others (Mercury UK)
  358. Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (Fueled By Ramen)
  359. Damon & Naomi - The Earth Is Blue (20/20/20/Revolver)
  360. Nicolai Dunger - This Cloud Is Learning (Overcoat Recordings)
  361. Matt Elliott - Drinking Songs (Lci'Dailleurs)
  362. Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust (Epitaph)
  363. Laurent Garnier - The Cloud Making Machine (F-comm)
  364. Guy Called Gerald - To All Things What They Need (k7 UK)
  365. House of Love - Days Run Away (Art & Industry)
  366. Ida - Heart Like a River (Polyvinyl)
  367. Moby - Hotel (V2)
  368. Marco Passarani - Sullen Look (Peacefrog)
  369. Gruff Rhys - Yr Atal Genhedlaeth (Placid Casual UK)

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2004

    10-

  1. TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch & Go)
  2. Colour Haze (Elektrohasch)
  3. Mastodon - Leviathan (Relapse)
  4. Ufomammut - Snailking (Music Cartel/Supernatural Cat)

    9+

  5. Clutch - Blast Tyrant (DRT)
  6. Björk - Medulla (Elektra)
  7. Brian Wilson - SMiLE (Nonesuch)
  8. Junior Boys - Last Exit (Kin UK)
  9. The Walkmen - Bows And Arrows (Record Collection)
  10. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
  11. Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
  12. Arto Lindsay - Salt (Righteous Babe)
  13. Sketch Show - Loophole (Third Ear)
  14. Circle - Forest (Ektro/No Quarter)
  15. Los Natas - Toba Trance II (Ektro)
  16. Annie - Anniemal (679)
  17. The Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum (Beggars)
  18. Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld (Drag City)
  19. Madvillain - Madvillainy (Stones Throw)
  20. Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy (Tomlab)
  21. Electrelane - The Power Out (Too Pure/Beggars)
  22. Tom Waits - Real Gone (Anti/Epitaph)
  23. Isis - Panopticon (Ipecac)
  24. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse (Geffen)
  25. Witchcraft (Candlelight)
  26. The Arcade Fire - Funeral (Merge)
  27. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat (Rough Trade)
  28. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - The Doldrums (Paw Tracks)
  29. Orphaned Land - Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven (Century Media)
  30. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory (Fat Possum)
  31. Razorlight - Up All Night (Vertigo UK)
  32. Utada - Exodus (Island)
  33. Dizzee Rascal - Showtime (XL)
  34. Stars - Set Yourself On Fire (Arts & Crafts)
  35. Ed Harcourt - Strangers (Heavenly UK)
  36. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
  37. M.I.A. & Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 (Hollertronix)
  38. Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt (Subliminal Sounds)
  39. Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks (Fat Cat)
  40. The Soft Pink Truth - Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth? (Tigerbeat6)
  41. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike (Memphis Industries)
  42. Elope - The No Name Record (Gravitation)
  43. The Earlies - These Were The Earlies (WEA UK)
  44. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands Of (Young God)
  45. The Czars - Goodbye (Bella Union)
  46. Bark Psychosis - ///Codename: Dustsucker (Fire)
  47. Federico Aubelle - Gran Hotel Buenos Aires (Eighteenth Street Lo)
  48. PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her (Island)
  49. Syd Matters - A Whisper And A Sigh (3rd Side/V2)
  50. Ada - Blondie (Areal)
  51. Mission Of Burma - ONoffOn (Matador)
  52. Nick Cave - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus (Anti/Epitaph)
  53. Kanye West - The College Dropout (Roc-A-Fella)
  54. Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love (Modular)
  55. Anathema - A Natural Disaster (Koch)
  56. Skinnyman - Council Estate Of Mind (Lowlife)
  57. Ricardo Villalobos - The au Harem d'Archimede (Perlon)
  58. Lali Puna - Faking The Books (Morr)
  59. Blue States - The Soundings (Memphis Industries UK)
  60. Fennesz - Venice (Touch)
  61. 65 Days Of Static - The Fall Of Math (Monotreme)
  62. Rachid Taha - Tekitoi (Wrasse)
  63. Tinariwen - Amassakoul (World Village)
  64. Wiley - Treddin' On Thin Ice (XL)
  65. The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters (XL/Labrador)
  66. Joseph Arthur - Our Shadows Will Remain (Vector)
  67. Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill (Epitaph)
  68. Various - DFA Compilation #2 (DFA)
  69. 90 Day Men - Panda Park (Southern)
  70. Lucien-N-Luciano - Blind Behaviour (Peacefrog)
  71. Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop)
  72. Interpol - Antics (Matador)
  73. The Eternals - Rawar Style (Aesthetics)
  74. Blanche - If We Can't Trust The Doctors (Loose Music/Vinyl Junkie)
  75. The Flaming Stars - Named And Shamed (Vinyl Japan UK/Alternative Tentacles)
  76. Beta Band - Heroes To Zeros (Astralwerks)
  77. The Legends - Up Against The Legends (Lakeshore 5)
  78. Beastie Boys - To The 5 Boroughs (Capitol)
  79. John Vanderslice - Cellar Door (Barsuk)
  80. Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green Is The Soul Machine (Arista)
  81. The Crimea - Tragedy Rocks (Double Dragon)
  82. Feist - Let It Die (Arts & Crafts)
  83. Califone - Heron King Blues (Thrill Jockey)
  84. Entrance - Wandering Stranger (Fat Possum)
  85. Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Oh, My Girl (Barsuk)
  86. Jason Forrest - The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash (Sonig)
  87. Andrew Morgan - Misadventures In Radiology (Broken Horse UK)
  88. Mouse On Mars - Radical Connector (Thrill Jockey)
  89. Social Distortion - Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll (Time Bomb)
  90. Devin The Dude - To Tha X-Treme (Rap-A-Lot)
  91. Stereolab - Margarine Eclipse (Elektra)
  92. Squarepusher - Ultravisitor (Warp)
  93. On! Air! Library! (Arena Rock)
  94. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Who Is This America (Ropeadope)
  95. Spektrum - Enter ... The Spektrum (Playhouse UK)

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  96. Electric Wizard - We Live (Rise Above/Music Cartel)
  97. Orange Goblin - Thieving From The House Of God (Rise Above)
  98. Monster Magnet - Monolithic Baby! (SPV)
  99. The Futureheads (Fantastic UK)
  100. TAPE - Milieu (Häpna)
  101. Baroness - First EP (Hyperrealist)
  102. Zebulon Pike - And Blood Was Passion (Unfortunate)
  103. Black Lips - We Did Not Know the Forest Spirit Made the Flowers Grow (Bomp!)
  104. Polysics - Polysics Or Die!!! (Surla/Sony)
  105. The Hives - Tyrannasaurus Hives (Interscope)
  106. Lansing-Dreiden - The Incomplete Triangle (Kemado)
  107. Mouth Of The Architect - Time & Withering (Translation Loss)
  108. The Eternals - Out Of Proportion EP (Antifaz)
  109. Psapp - Tiger, My Friend (Leaf)
  110. Graham Coxon - Happiness In Magazines (Trans Copic)
  111. Diplo - Florida (Big Dada)
  112. Hercules - In The Alleyway (March)
  113. The Abyssinians & Friends - Tree Of Satta (Blood & Fire)
  114. Ray LaMontagne - Trouble (RCA)
  115. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Start A People (Graveface)
  116. The Thermals - Fuckin A (Sub Pop)
  117. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (Fatcat)
  118. Fu Manchu - Start The Machine (DRT)
  119. The Blue Nile - High (Sanctuary)
  120. Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What Is Effortless (Hefty)
  121. The Sultans - Shipwrecked (Swami)
  122. Micah P. Hinson & The Gospel Of Progress (Sketchbook)
  123. To Rococo Rot - Hotel Morgen (Domino)
  124. Ben Christophers - The Spaces In Between (Cooking Vinyl UK)
  125. Tom Russell - Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (Hightone)
  126. Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere (Reprise)
  127. Mosquitos - Sunshine Barato (Bar/None)
  128. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans (Sounds Familyre)
  129. Comas - Conductor (Yep Roc)
  130. Khold - Mřrke Gravers Kammer (Candlelight)
  131. Nouvelle Vague (Peacefrog)
  132. Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojos (Young God)
  133. The Delgados - Universal Audio (Mantra UK)
  134. Ambulance LTD - LP (TVT)
  135. !!! - Louden Up Now (Touch and Go/Warp)
  136. Scissor Sistors (Polydor UK)
  137. The Organ - Grab That Gun (Mint)
  138. Dionysos - Whatever The Weather (Trema Fr)
  139. Deathspell Omega – Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
  140. The Blues Explosion - damage! (Sanctuary)
  141. Faun Fables - Family Album (Drag City)
  142. Behemoth - Demigod (Regain)
  143. Savath & Savalas - Apropa't (Warp)
  144. Marianne Faithfull - Before the Poison (Naive UK)
  145. Etienne Daho - Pap Satori (Virgin)
  146. Crispy Ambulance - Powder Blind Dream (Darla)
  147. Frank Black Francis (Spin Art)
  148. Jim White - Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See (Luaka Bop)
  149. The Roots - The Tipping Point (Geffen)
  150. Beans - Shock City Maverick (Warp)
  151. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles (5 Rue Christine)
  152. Panda Bear - Young Prayer (Paw Tracks)
  153. Radian - Juxtaposition (Thrill Jockey)
  154. Tortoise - It's All Around You (Thrill Jockey)
  155. Born Heller (Locust)
  156. Efterklang - Tripper (Leaf)
  157. Bebel Gilberto (Six Degrees)
  158. Ellen Allien - My Parade (Bpitch Control)
  159. DJ /rupture - Special Gunpowder (Tigerbeat 6)
  160. Youssou N'Dour - Egypt (Nonesuch)
  161. Gwen Stefani - Love.Angel.Music.Baby (Interscope)
  162. Girls Aloud - What Will The Neighbours Say? (Polydor)
  163. Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me (Columbia)
  164. P.G. Six - The Well of Memory (Amish)
  165. Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog (Secretly Canadian)
  166. Giant Sand - Is All Over The Map (Thrill Jockey)
  167. Eleni Mandell - Afternoon (Zedtone)
  168. Moonbabies - The Orange Billboard (Hidden Agenda)
  169. Polly Paulusma - Scissors In My Pocket (One Little Indian)
  170. Adem - Homesongs (Domino)
  171. The Libertines (Rough Trade/Sanctuary)
  172. N*E*R*D - Fly Or Die (Virgin)
  173. Ozomatli - Street Signs (Real World)
  174. The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Origin Vol. 1 (WEA UK)
  175. Tangiers - Never Bring You Pleasure (Sonic Unyon)
  176. Hot Snakes - Audit In Progress (Swami)
  177. Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken (Anti-)
  178. Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly (4AD)
  179. Einsturzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile (Mute)
  180. Embrace - Out Of Nothing (Independiente UK)
  181. Frog Eyes - The Folded Palm (Absolutely Kosher)
  182. Black Dice - Creature Comforts (DFA/Fat Cat)
  183. Michael Mayer - Touch (Kompact)
  184. Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue (Astralwerks)
  185. Lhasa - The Living Road (Les Disques Audiogramme)
  186. The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me (French Kiss)
  187. Pinback - Summer In Abaddon (Touch and Go)
  188. Sleep Station - After The War (Eyeball/Bardic)
  189. Ikara Colt - Modern Apprentice (Fantastic Plastic UK)
  190. Akira Rabelais - Spellewauerynsherde (Samadhi Sound)
  191. Kevin Tihista's Red Terror - Wake Up Captain (Parasol)
  192. Les Savy Fav - Inches (French Kiss)
  193. Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch (Sire)
  194. Solex - The Laughing Stock Of Indie Rock (Arena Rock)
  195. Heiruspecs - A Tiger Dancing (Razor & Tie)
  196. The Bees - Free The Bees (Virgin UK)
  197. Peter Murphy - Unshattered (Viastar)
  198. Clinic - Winchester Cathedral (Domino/Universal)
  199. Stina Nordenstam - The World Is Saved (V2)
  200. Luna - Rendezvous (Jetset)
  201. American Music Club - Love Songs for Patriots (Cooking Vinyl)
  202. Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez - A Manual Dexterity V.1 (GSL)
  203. Flogging Molly - Within A Mile Of Home (SideOneDummy)
  204. The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Armed Love (Burning Heart)
  205. Rachel Goswell - Waves Are Universal (4AD)
  206. We Ragazzi - Wolves With Pretty Lips (Suicide Squeeze)
  207. The Wildhearts - Riff After Riff (Gearhead)
  208. De La Soul - The Grind Date (Sanctuary)
  209. Amon Tobin - Recorded Live (Ninja Tune)
  210. A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder (Matador)
  211. The Ordinary Boys - Over The Counter Culture (B-Unique UK)
  212. Wagon Christ - Sorry I Made You Lush (Ninja Tune)
  213. Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place (Domino)
  214. The Fever - Red Bedroom (Kemado)
  215. Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South (New West)
  216. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets (Lookout)
  217. Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier (Bella Union UK)
  218. Lamb Of God - Ashes of the Wake (Epic)
  219. Shalabi Effect - Pink Abyss (Alien 8)
  220. Pig Destoyer - Terrifyer (Relapse)
  221. Savath & Savalas - Manana (Warp)
  222. Cult Of Luna - Salvation (Earache)
  223. Wolf - Evil Star (Prosthetic)
  224. The Faint - Wet From Birth (Saddle Creek)
  225. Thalia Zedek - Trust Not Those In Whom Without Some Touch of Madness (Thrill Jockey)
  226. CocoRosie - La Maison De Mon Reve (Touch and Go)
  227. Nicolai Dunger - Here's My Song You Can Have It (Universal)
  228. Earlimart - Treble & Tremble (Palm Pictures)
  229. Sunn 0))) - White 2 (Southern Lord)
  230. Mono - Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined (Temporary Residence)
  231. Black OX Orkestar - Ver Tanzt? (Constellation)
  232. The Cribs (Wichita UK)
  233. Shannon Wright - Over the Sun (Quarterstick)
  234. Old Time Relijun - Lost Light (K)
  235. Mirah - C'mon Miracle (K)
  236. Mum - Summer Make Good (Fat Cat)
  237. The Ponys - Laced With Romance (In The Red)
  238. Richmond Fontaine - Post To Wire (El Cortez)
  239. Ken Stringfellow - Soft Commands (Yep Roc)
  240. Tift Merritt - Tambourine (Lost Highway)
  241. Gomez - Split The Difference (Virgin)
  242. Prince Po - The Slickness (Lex)
  243. Elizabeth Anka Vagacic - Stand With the Stillness of the Day (Constellation)
  244. Valley of the Giants (Arts & Crafts)
  245. U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Interscope)
  246. Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine (Relapse)
  247. cLOUDDEAD - Ten (Mush)
  248. Converge - You Fail Me (Epitaph)
  249. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)
  250. Jonathan Richman - Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love (Sanctuary/Vapor)
  251. Autolux - Future Perfect (DMZ)
  252. Lovedrug - Pretend You're alive (Militia Group)
  253. Coastal - Halfway To You (Words On Music)

    9-

  254. The Hidden Cameras - Mississauga Goddam (Rough Trade)
  255. The French Kicks - The Trial Of The Century (Star Time)
  256. Danzig - Circle Of Snakes (Evilive)
  257. Dead Texas - Dead Texan (Kranky)
  258. Anaal Nathrakh - Domine Non Es Dignus (Season Mist America)
  259. McLusky - Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire (Beggars/Too Pure)
  260. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
  261. Brave Captain - All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (Wichita UK)
  262. Dani Siciliano - Likes... (K7)
  263. Helio Sequence - Love And Distance (Sub Pop)
  264. Green Day - American Idiot (Reprise)
  265. The Blam - Caveat Emptor (Mootron)
  266. The Standard - Wire Post to Wire (Yep Roc)
  267. The Icarus Line - Penance Soiree (V2)
  268. Grant Lee Phillips - Virgina Creeper (Cooking Vinyl)
  269. Bobby Bare, Jr. - From The End Of Your Leash (Bloodshot)
  270. Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind (Sub Pop)
  271. The Boredoms - Seadrum/House Of Sun (Warners Japan)
  272. Camper Van Beethoven - New Roman Times (Vanguard)
  273. Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself (V2)
  274. Twilight Singers - She Loves You (One Little Indian)
  275. Amen - Death Before Musick (Eat URmusic/Columbia)
  276. Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum (Season of Mist)
  277. Helmet - Size Matters (Interscope)
  278. The Mattoid - Hello (Cleft)
  279. Frausdots - Couture Couture Couture (Sub Pop)
  280. Orbital - The Blue Album (London)
  281. Jean Grae - This Week (Babygrande)
  282. The Dwarves - The Dwarves Must Die (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
  283. Nancy Sinatra (Attack/Sanctuary)
  284. Bonnie Prince Billy - Sings Greatest Palace Music (Drag City)
  285. Radio 4 - Stealing Of A Nation (Astralwerks)
  286. Ella Guru - The First Album (Banana UK)
  287. The Zutons - Who Killed The Zutons? (Deltasonic UK)
  288. Kerrier District (Rephlex)
  289. Silkworm - It'll Be Cool (Touch and Go)
  290. Bikini Atoll - Moratoria (Bellaire)
  291. Probot (Southern Lord)
  292. Rjd2 - Since We Last Spoke (Def Jux)
  293. Le Tigre - This Island (Universal)
  294. theStart - Initiation (Nitro)
  295. Travis Morrison - Travistan (Barsuk)
  296. For Stars - It Falls Apart (Future Farmer)
  297. Mos Def - The New Danger (Geffen)
  298. The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned (XL UK)
  299. Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album (Def Jam)
  300. Clorox Girls (Smart Guy)
  301. Help She Can't Swim - Fashionista Super Dance Troupe (Fantastic Plastic UK)
  302. Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First (Epitaph)
  303. Deerhoof - Milk Man (Kill Rock Stars)
  304. Rogue Wave - Out Of The Shadow (Sub Pop)
  305. Nas - Street's Disciple (Columbia)
  306. Air - Talkie Walkie (Source/Astralwerks)
  307. Mellow - Perfect Colors (Atmospheriques)
  308. Talib Kweli - The Beautiful Struggle (MCA)
  309. Bobby Conn & The Glass Gypsies - The Homeland (Thrill Jockey)
  310. Juana Molina - Tres Cosas (Domino)
  311. Beauty Pill - The Unsustainable Lifestyle (Dischord)
  312. Golden Virgins - Songs Of Praise (XL UK)
  313. Handsome Boy Modeling School - White People (Atlantic/Elektra)
  314. Seafood - As The Cry Flows (Cooking Vinyl)
  315. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free (Vice)
  316. Oneiros - Outputmessage (Echelon)
  317. The Killers - Hot Fuss (Lizard King/Island)
  318. The Cure (Geffen)
  319. Division Of Laura Lee - Das Not Compute (Epitaph/Burning Heart)
  320. Sparta - Porcelain (Geffen)
  321. Sluts Of Trust - We Are All Sluts Of Trust (Chemikal)
  322. Sahara Hotnights - Kiss & Tell (RCA)
  323. Hope Of The States - Lost Riots (Sony)
  324. Young Heart Attack - Mouthful Of Love (Beggars XL)
  325. Pink Grease - This is for Real (Mute)
  326. MF Doom - Mm..Food? (Rhymesayers)
  327. Amp Fiddler - Waltz Of A Ghetto Fly (Genuine)
  328. Oneida - Secret Wars (Jagjaguwar)
  329. The Stranglers - Norfolk Coast (EMI)
  330. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News (Epic)
  331. Firewater - Songs We Should Have Written (Jetset)
  332. A Perfect Circle - Emotive (Virgin/EMI)
  333. Lambchop - Aw Cmon (Merge)
  334. The Magnetic Fields - i (Nonesuch)
  335. The Blueskins - Word Of Mouth (Domino UK)
  336. Brandon Wiard - Painting A Buring Building (Cerberus)
  337. Subtle - A New White (Lex)
  338. Sixtoo - Chewing on Glass and Other Miracle Cures (Ninja Tune)
  339. Seachange - Lay Of The Land (Matador)
  340. The Statistics - Leave Your Name (Jade Tree)
  341. The Blow - The Concussive Caress (K)
  342. The Polyphonic Spree - Together We're Heavy (Hollywood)
  343. Lesser Birds Of Paradise - String Of Bees (Contraphonic)
  344. Jukeboxer - In The Food Chain (Absolutely Kosher)
  345. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
  346. The Divine Comedy - Absent Friends (Parlophone)
  347. Macha - Forget Tomorrow (Jetset)
  348. Phoenix - Alphabetical (Astralwerks)
  349. 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+

  350. Morrissey - You Are The Quarry (Attack/Sanctuary)
  351. Thee Silver Mountain Reveries - Pretty Little Lightning Paw (Constellation)
  352. The Reigning Sound - Too Much Guitar! (In The Red)
  353. Hella - The Devil Isn't Red (5 Rue Christine)
  354. Slow Jets - Remain In Ether (Morphius)
  355. Starving Artists Crew - Up Pops The SAC (Fat Beats)
  356. Skalpel (Ninja Tune)
  357. Swayzak - Loops From The Bergerie (K7)
  358. The Album Leaf - In A Safe Place (Sub Pop)
  359. Pleasurecraft - Lost Patterns (Pleasurcraft)
  360. Old Ghost - Light Returns (Morphius)
  361. The Cucumbers - All Things To You (Fictitious Records)
  362. Action Action - Don't Cut Your Fabric to This Year's Fashion Action Action (Victory)
  363. Coastal Drag - Caught On The Wrist (Doubling Cube)
  364. Sweetback - Stage [2] (Epic)
  365. Death in Vegas - Satan's Circle (Drone UK)
  366. The Thrills - Let's Bottle Bohemia (Virgin)
  367. Chromeo - She's In Control (Vice)
  368. Icehouse - Heroes

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  369. Miss Kittin - I Com (EMI)
  370. Patti Smith - Trampin' (Columbia)
  371. The Graze - Iowa Anvil (J-Shirt)
  372. Ministry - Houses Of The Mol? (Sanctuary)
  373. The Open - The Silent Hours (Polydor UK)
  374. The Coral - Nightfreak & The Sons Of Becker (Deltasonic UK)
  375. Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour (Rough Trade UK)
  376. Zero 7 - When It Falls (Ultimate Dilema UK)
  377. Auf der Maur (Capitol)
  378. The Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart (Sire)
  379. West Indian Girl (Astralwerks)
  380. U.S.E. - United State Of Electronica (Mannheim)
  381. Weird War - If You Can't Beat 'Em, Bit 'Em (Drag City)
  382. Lambchop - No You Cmon (Merge)
  383. The Church - Forget Yourself (spinART)
  384. The Stands - All Years Leaving (Echo Recs UK)
  385. Rochester Fosgate (Smooth Excavator)
  386. Keane - Hopes And Fears (Interscope)
  387. Liars - They Were Wrong So We Drowned (Mute)
  388. Ash - Meltdown (Infectious)
  389. Courtney Love - America's Sweetheart (Virgin)

    These are alphabetical because I have not yet heard them

  390. Astrid (Incarnation UK)
  391. Atombombpocketknife - Lack & Pattern (File-13)
  392. Jello Biafra with Melvins - Never Breathe What You Canxt See (Alternative Tentacles)
  393. Jane Birkin - Rendez-Vous (EMI)
  394. Blevin Blectum - Magic Maple (Deluxe)
  395. Blockhead - Music By Cavelight (Ninja Tune)
  396. Broken Social Scene - Beehives (Arts & Crafts)
  397. The Bronx (Wichita)
  398. Bruno E - Lovely Arthur (Trama)
  399. Burning Brides - Leave No Ashes (V2)
  400. Calexico - Convict Pool EP (Touch & Go)
  401. Calliope - Sounds Like Circles Feel (Thick)
  402. Elvis Costello - Il Sogno (Deutsche Grammaphon)
  403. Elvis Costello - The Delivery Man (Lost Highway)
  404. Converge - You Fail Me (Epitaph)
  405. Cranes - Particles And Waves (Dadaphonic)
  406. Daisy Cutters - Awake Among the Sleepers (Collision Aus)
  407. Greg Davis - Somnia (Kranky)
  408. Daydream Nation - Bella Vendetta (Elephant Stone/Parasol)
  409. Destroyer - Your Blues (Merge)
  410. Julie Doiron - Goodnight Nobody (Jagjaguwar)
  411. Tonya Donnelly - Whiskey Tango Ghosts (4AD/Beggars)
  412. DJ Krush - Jaku (Red Ink)
  413. El-P - High Water: Mark (Thirsty Ear)
  414. The Ex - Turn (Dekonkurent)
  415. The Fall - The New Fall LP, Formerly Known as Country on the Click (Narnack)
  416. Fly Pan Am - Necoutez Pas (Constellation)
  417. Front Line Assembly - Civilization (Metropolis)
  418. Gift Of Gab - Fourth Dimensional Rocketships (Quannum)
  419. Growing - The Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light (Kranky)
  420. David Grubbs - A Guess at the Riddle (Drag City)
  421. Guided By Voices - Half Smiles Of The Decomposed The Eternals (Aesthetics)
  422. The Haunted - rEVOLVEr (Century Media)
  423. Haymarket Riot - Mog (Thick)
  424. The High Water Marks - Songs About The Ocean (Eenie Meanie)
  425. Hoodoo Gurus - Mach Shau (EMI)
  426. I Am the World Trade Center - Cover Up (Gammon)
  427. Bill Janovitz and Crown Victoria - Fireworks on TV (Q Division)
  428. Angelique Kidjo - Oyaya! (Columbia)
  429. Knife & Fork - Miserycord (Eric Drew Feldman) (Diesel Motor)
  430. Last Burning Embers - Lessons in Redemption (Pink Frost/Big Takeover)
  431. The Last Emperor - Palace Of The Pretender (Raptivism/Rykodisc)
  432. Los Lobos - The Ride (Mammoth)
  433. Jesse Malin - The Heat (Artemis)
  434. The Mendoza Line - Fortune (Bar/None)
  435. Tift Merritt - Tambourine (Universal)
  436. Pedro the Lion: Achilles Heel (Jade Tree)
  437. Pharoah Monch - Innver Vision
  438. The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed (4AD)
  439. Dan "The Automator" Nakamura - Omakase
  440. Numbers - In My Mind All The Time (Tigerbeat6)
  441. Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic (Polyvinyl)
  442. Jair Oliveira - 3.1 (Trama)
  443. Rodney P - The Future (Riddim Killa)
  444. Pan-American - Quiet City (Kranky)
  445. Pedro the Lion - Achilles Heel (Jade Tree)
  446. Josh Ritter - Hellow Starling (Setanta)
  447. Rob K - The End of the Earth (Orange)
  448. Todd Rundgren - Liars (Sanctuary)
  449. The Sad Riders - Lay Your Head On The Soft Rock (Stick Sister)
  450. Saturday Looks Good To Me - Every Night (Polyvinyl)
  451. Shivaree - Breach (Rounder)
  452. Silver Ray - New Love (Broken Horse)
  453. State Of Bengal vs Paban Das Baul - Tana Tani (Real World)
  454. Huong Thanh - Mangustao (Act)
  455. David Thomas and Two Pale Boys - 18 Monkeys on a Dead Manxs Chest (Thirsty Ear)
  456. Glenn Tilbrook - Transatlantic Ping Pong (Compass/Quixotic London)
  457. Trans Am - Liberation (Thrill Jockey)
  458. Tweaker - 2 a.m. Wakeup Call (Waxploitation/iMusic)
  459. Vandermark 5 - Elements of Style...Exercises in Surprise (Atavistic)
  460. Vanishing - Still Lives in Progress (GSL)
  461. Velvet Crush - Stereo Blues (Action Musik)
  462. VHS or Beta - Night On Fire (Astralwerks)
  463. Waxwings - Let's Make our Descent (Yep Roc)
  464. Whirlwind Heat - Flamingo Honey (Dim Mak)
  465. Saul Williams (Fader)
  466. X-ecutioners - Revolutions (Columbia)
  467. Richard Youngs - River Through Howling Sky (Jagjaguwar)

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2003

    10-

  1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell (Interscope)
  2. The White Stripes - Elephant (V2)
  3. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (Capitol)
  4. Colour Haze - Los Sounds de Krauts (Elektrohasch)
  5. Sgt. Sunshine (Abstract/Elektrohasch)
  6. Four Tet - Rounds (Domino)
  7. Café Tacvba - Quatro Caminos (MCA)

    9+

  8. Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather (Epitaph)
  9. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher (Warp)
  10. TV On The Radio - Young Liars EP (Touch And Go)
  11. Stars - Heart (Arts & Crafts)
  12. Boris - Akuma No Uta (Fangs Anal Satan/Southern Lord)
  13. Los Natas - Toba Trance (Ektro)
  14. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner (XL)
  15. Otto - Sem Gravidade (Trama)
  16. Shack - Here's Tom With The Weather (North Country UK)
  17. Broadcast - Hahasound (Warp)
  18. Ed Harcourt - From Every Sphere (Astralwerks/Heaven)
  19. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan (Asthmatic Kitty)
  20. Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power (XL/Beggars)
  21. Colder - Again (Output UK)
  22. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (EMI FR)
  23. The Rapture - Echoes (DFA/Universal)
  24. The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium (GSL/Universal)
  25. Wire - Send (Pink Flag)
  26. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Sanctuary)
  27. The Wrens - Meadowlands (Absolutely Kosher)
  28. Pharaoh - After The Fire (Cruz Del Sur)
  29. The Darkness - Permission To Land (Must Destroy)
  30. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller (Dragonheart)
  31. Blind Dog - Captain Dog Rides Again (MeteorCity)
  32. Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow (Load)
  33. The Concretes (Licking Fingers Sweden)
  34. Frog Eyes - The Golden River (Animal World)
  35. Caribou [Manitoba] - Up In Flames (Domino)
  36. A Frames - A Frames 2 (S-S Records)
  37. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
  38. Elbow - Cast Of Thousands (V2)
  39. Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn (Constellation)
  40. The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic (Dirtnap)
  41. The Constantines - Shine A Light (Sub Pop)
  42. Josh Rouse - 1972 (Rykodisc)
  43. Tujiko Noriko - From Tokyo to Naiagara (Tomlab)
  44. Menomena - I Am The Fun Blame Monster (Muuuhahaha!)
  45. Daude - Neguinha Te Amo (Realworld)
  46. Juana Molina - Segundo (Domino)
  47. Grand Magus – Monument (Rise Above)
  48. Abramis Brama - Nothing Changes (Transubstans)
  49. Lomax - A Symbol Of Modern Living (93 Records)
  50. Solace - 13 (Meteor City)
  51. Rokia Traoré - Bowmboi (Tama)
  52. Lucas Santtana - Parada De Lucas (Diginois Brazil)
  53. Dead Meadow - Shivering King and Others (Matador)
  54. Hawksley Workman - Lover/Fighter (Universal)
  55. Tom Zé - Imprensa Cantada (Trama)
  56. Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People (Matador)
  57. Cave In - Jupiter (Hydra Head)
  58. Nina Nastasia - Run To Ruin (Touch And Go)
  59. Joe Henry - Tiny Voices (Anti-)
  60. Zoot Woman (Wall Of Sound)
  61. Pelican - Australasia (Hydra Head)
  62. Longwave - The Strangest Things (RCA)
  63. The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart (Vice)
  64. The Twilight Singers - Blackberry Belle (One Little Indian)
  65. Bonobo - Dial "M" For Monkey (Ninja Tune)
  66. Benjamin Biolay - Negatif (EMI)
  67. Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (LaFace)
  68. The Strokes - Room On Fire (BMG)
  69. Calexico - Feast of Wire (Quarterstick)
  70. Gojira - The Link (Listenable)
  71. Calla - Televise (Arena Rock Recording Co)
  72. HiM - Many In High Places Are Not Well (Bubble Core)
  73. The Books - Lemon Of Pink (TomLab)
  74. Kahimi Karie - Trapeziste (Victor)
  75. Enslaved - Below The Lights (The End)
  76. B. Fleischmann - Welcome Tourist (Morr)
  77. Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham - L' Avventura (Jetset)
  78. Haco & Sakamoto Hiromichi - Ash in the Rainbow (Detector/ReR Megacorp)
  79. Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa (Playhouse)
  80. Bang Gang - Something Wrong (Recall Iceland)
  81. The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark (Rough Trade)
  82. Hammers Of Misfortune - The August Engine (Cruz del Sur)
  83. Pelican EP (Hydra Head)
  84. The Black Keys - Thickfreakness (Fat Possum)
  85. Etienne Daho - Reevolution (Virgin)
  86. British Sea Power - The Decline Of British Sea Power (Rough Trade)
  87. Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland (Hannibal)
  88. Madder Mortem - Deadlands (The End)
  89. The Clientele - Violet Hour (Merge)
  90. Ween - Quebec (Sanctuary)
  91. Asian Dub Foundation - Enemy of the Enemy (Virgin)
  92. Mark Lanegan Band - Here Comes The Weird Chill EP (Beggars)

    9

  93. F/i - A Question For The Somnambulist (Submergence/Strange Attractors)
  94. The Meads Of Asphodel - Exhuming The Grave Of Yeshua (Supernal)
  95. Krux (Mascot)
  96. Nebula - Atomic Ritual (Sub Pop)
  97. Beulah - Yoko (Velocette)
  98. Ty - Upwards (Big Dada UK)
  99. Amy Winehouse - Frank (Island)
  100. Johnny Cash - Unearthed (American)
  101. Opeth - Damnation (Koch)
  102. The Distillers - Coral Fang (Sire)
  103. Head Of Femur - Ringodom Or Proctor (Greyday)
  104. Massive Attack - 100th Window (Virgin)
  105. The Coral - Magic And Medicine (Deltasonic)
  106. Dozer - Call It Conspiracy (Molten Universe)
  107. Hainloose - Rosula (Elektrohasch)
  108. Boris - Boris At Last -Feedbacker- (Fangs Anal Satan/Conspiracy)
  109. Snow Patrol - Final Straw (Universal UK)
  110. Kraftwerk - Tour De France (Astralwerks)
  111. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness EP (Emperor Jones)
  112. Architecture in Helsinki - Fingers Crossed (Trifekta)
  113. Terry Hall & Mushtaq - The Hour Of Two Lights (Astralwerks)
  114. Firewater - The Man On The Burning Tightrope (Jetset)
  115. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - Slowthinking (Labels Czech Rep)
  116. Pascals - Abiento (Les Disques Du Sol FR)
  117. The Silver Mt. Zion - This Is Our Punk-Rock (Constellation)
  118. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step (Virgin)
  119. Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? (Last Gang)
  120. Sons And Daughters - Love The Cup (Ba Da Bing/Domino)
  121. Kazumi Nikaidoh - Mata Otosimasitayo (You Dropped Something Again, Didn't You) (Poet Portraits Jpn)
  122. John Cale - Hobosapiens (EMI)
  123. The Bug - Pressure (Meow)
  124. Rancid - Indestructible (Epitaph)
  125. Diamanda Galas - La Serpenta Canta (Mute)
  126. Hexstatic - Listen & Learn (Ninja Tune)
  127. Cass McCombs - A (Monitor)
  128. Souad Massi - Deb (Wrasse)
  129. Alias - Muted (Anticon)
  130. The Autumn Defense - Circles (Arena Rock)
  131. Boxstep - Backroads (Boxstep)
  132. stellastarr* (RCA)
  133. Magnet - On Your Side (Ultimate Dilemma UK)
  134. Amon Tobin - Collaborations EP (Ninja Tune)
  135. Supersilent - 6 (Rune Grammafon)
  136. M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent (Merge)
  137. The Cuts - 2 Over Ten (Birdman)
  138. Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death (Columbia)
  139. Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder (Elefant/Merge)
  140. Milky - Travels With A Donkey (Siesta Spain)
  141. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts Of The Great Highway (Jetset)
  142. Diamanda Galas - Defixiones: Will and Testament, Orders from the Dead (Mute)
  143. Lamb Of God - As The Palaces Burn (Prosthetic)
  144. The Kingsbury Manx - Aztec Discipline (Overcoat)
  145. Kelis - Tasty (Star Trak/Arista)
  146. Missy Elliott - This Is Not A Test (Goldmind/Elektra)
  147. Excepter - Ka (Fusetron)
  148. The Wildhearts - Must Be Destroyed (Sanctuary)
  149. The Rosebuds - The Rosebuds Make Out (Merge)
  150. The Russian Futurists - Let's Get Ready To Crumble (Upper Class)
  151. The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (Alien8)
  152. Diverse - One A.M. (Chocolate Industries)
  153. Alaska! - Emotions (B-Girl)
  154. Jean Grae - The Bootleg of the Bootleg EP (Babygrande)
  155. Viktor Vaughn (aka MF Doom) - Vaudeville Villain (Sound-Ink)
  156. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash (Astralwerks)
  157. Modey Lemon - Thunder + Lightning (Birdman)
  158. Dean Roberts - Be Mine Tonight (Kranky)
  159. Fernanda Porto (Trama)
  160. The Ladybug Transistor (Merge)
  161. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site (Epitaph)
  162. Laika - Wherever I Am I Am What Is Missing (Too Pure/Beggars)
  163. David Sylvian - Blemish (Samadhisound)
  164. U.N.K.L.E. - Never, Never Land (Mo' Wax/Island)
  165. One Mile North - Minor Shadows (Ba Da Bing!)
  166. Animal Collective - Here Comes The Indian (Paw Tracks)
  167. Mu - Afro Finger and Gel (Tigersushi/Output)
  168. Explosions In The Sky - Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place (Temporary)
  169. Madlib - Shades Of Blue (Blue Note)
  170. Fannypack - So Stylistic (Tommy Boy)
  171. U.N.P.O.C. - Fifth Column (Domino UK)
  172. Pleasure Forever - Alter (Sub Pop)
  173. Tribalistas (Marisa Monte, Arnaldo Antunes, Carlinhos Brown) (EMI)
  174. Virginia Rodrigues - Mares Profundos (Edge Music)
  175. Shelby Lynne - Identity Crisis (Capitol)
  176. Oceansize - Effloresce (Beggars Banquet UK)
  177. Kid Koala - Some Of My Best Friends Are DJs (Ninja Tune)
  178. Poison The Well - You Come Before You (Trustkill)
  179. Steve Burns - Songs For Dustmites (Pias America)
  180. Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon (Nuclear Blast)
  181. Exhumed - Anatomy Is Destiny (Relapse)
  182. Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll (Century Media)
  183. Naglfar - Sheol (Century Media)
  184. Hamell On Trial - Tough Love (Righteous Babe)
  185. Rufus Wainwright - Want One (DreamWorks)
  186. Chris Clark - Empty the Bones of You (Warp)
  187. 7 Hurtz - Electroleum (Output)
  188. Ellen Allien - Berlinette (Bpitch Control UK)
  189. The Hidden Cameras - The Smell Of Our Own (Evil Evil/Rough Trade)
  190. Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun (Matador)
  191. The Dirty Three - She Has No Strings, Apollo (Touch And Go)
  192. The Natural History - Beat Beat Heartbeat (Startime)
  193. The Handsome Family - Singing Bones (Carrot Top)
  194. Tricky - Vulnerable (Hollywood)
  195. Cibelle (Six Degrees)
  196. Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Streetcore (Hellcat/Epitaph)
  197. Cheer Accident - Gumballhead The Cat (Skin Graft)
  198. Set Fire to Flames - Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static (Alien8)
  199. Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa (Playhouse)
  200. Polmo Polpo - Like Hearts Swelling (Constellation)
  201. Angels of Light - Everything Is Good Here/Please Come (Young God)
  202. Tied & Tickled Trio - Observing Systems (Morr Music)
  203. Tim Hecker - Radio Amor (Mille Plateaux)
  204. Envy - Dead Sinking Story (Level Plane)
  205. Trio Mocote - Beleza! Beleza! Beleza! (Six Degrees)
  206. Growing - Sky's Run into the Sea (Kranky)
  207. +/- - You Are Here (Teenbeat)
  208. David Byrne - Lead Us Not Into Temptation (Thrill Jockey)
  209. Marshmallow (Lo-Max Aus.)
  210. Luke Haines & The Auteurs - Das Capital (Hut)
  211. Nitin Sawhney - Human (V2)
  212. The Undertones - Get What You Need (Sanctuary)
  213. Richard Youngs - Airs Of The Ear (Jagjaguwar)
  214. Ed Motta - Poptical (Trama)
  215. Soft Pink Truth - Do You Party? (Soundslike)
  216. Luomo - The Present Lover (Force Inc)
  217. Mates Of State - Team Boo (Polyvinyl)
  218. Lamb - Between Darkness And Wonder (Mercury)
  219. Rhythm & Sound - The Artists (Asphodel)
  220. Elefant - Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid (Kernado)
  221. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Regard The End (Glitterhouse)
  222. Kevin Blechdom - Bitches Without Britches (EFA)
  223. The Fire Theft (Rykodisc)
  224. Isobel Campbell - Amorino (Instinct)
  225. Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine & Ours (Ashmont)
  226. Eleni Mandell - Country For True Lovers (Zedtone)
  227. Emmylou Harris - Stumble Into Grace (Nonesuch)
  228. Janet Bean and the Concertina Wire - Dragging Wonder Lake (Thrill Jockey)
  229. Alasdair Roberts - Farewell Sorrow (Rough Trade)
  230. Martina Topley-Bird - Quixotic (Independente)
  231. Wheat - Per Second Per Second . . . Every Second (Sony)
  232. Matmos - The Civil War (Matador)
  233. Quasi - Hot Shit! (Sub Pop)
  234. Pram - Dark Island (Merge)
  235. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Nocturama (Mute)
  236. Ui - Answers (Southern)
  237. Cat Power - You Are Free (Matador)
  238. Songs: Ohia - The Magnolia Electric Co. (Secretly Canadian)
  239. The Creatures - Hai! (Sioux)
  240. The Tyde - Twice (Rough Trade)
  241. Joy Zipper - American Whip (13 Amp)
  242. Murder By Death - Who Will Survive, And What Will Be Left of Them (Eyeball)
  243. Tindersticks - Waiting For The Moon (Beggars Banquet)
  244. DJ Cheb I Sabbha - As Far As (Six Degrees)
  245. Eels - Shootenanny! (DreamWorks)
  246. Bent - The Everlasting Blink (Sport)
  247. Tangiers - Hot New Spirits (Sonic Unyon)
  248. Bardo Pond - On The Eclipse (ATP)
  249. Non-Prophets - Hope (Lex)
  250. Death Cab For Cutie - Transalanticism (Barsuk)

    9-

  251. Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower - Dissertation, Honey (Happy Couples Never)
  252. Califone - Quicksand/Cradlesnakes (Thrill Jockey)
  253. Portastatic - The Summer of the Shark (Merge)
  254. Portastatic - Autumn Was A Lark (Merge)
  255. So (Thrill Jockey)
  256. The Go Betweens - Bright Yellow, Bright Orange (Circus)
  257. The Sea And Cake - One Bedroom (Thrill Jockey)
  258. Arab Strap - Monday at the Hug and Pint (Matador)
  259. Beans - Tomorrow Right Now (Warp)
  260. Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth (Def Jux)
  261. King Geedorah - Take Me to Your Leader (Big Dada)
  262. Old Man's Child - In Defiance Of Existence (Century Media)
  263. Grimfist - Ghouls Of Grandeur (Candlelight)
  264. Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion (Century Media)
  265. Damien Jurado - Where Shall You Take Me? (Secretly Canadian)
  266. Entombed - Inferno (Koch)
  267. Occult - Rage To Revenge (Pavement)
  268. The Deadly Snakes - Ode To Joy (In The Red)
  269. The Sleepy Jackson - Lovers (EMI)
  270. Aereogramme - Sleep and Release (Chemikal Underground)
  271. Need New Body - UFO (File 13)
  272. The Postal Service - Give Up (Sub Pop)
  273. Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears (Lost Highway)
  274. Meshell Ndegeocello - Comfort Woman (Maverick)
  275. Psychonauts - Songs For Creatures (International Deejay Gigalo)
  276. The Watchers - To The Rooftops (Gern Blandsten)
  277. LFO - Sheath (Warp)
  278. Autechre - Draft 7.30 (Warp)
  279. Zinc - Faster (Polydor)
  280. Outrageous Cherry - Supernatural Equinox (Rainbow Quartz)
  281. The Thrills - So Much For The City (Virgin)
  282. The BellRays - Red, White And Black (Poptones)
  283. Daniel Lanois - Shine (Anti-)
  284. James Kirk - You Can Make It If You Boogie (Marina)
  285. New Pornographers - Electric Version (Matador)
  286. 31 Knots - It Was High Time To Escape (54-40 or Fight)
  287. Ry Cooder/Manuel Galban - Mambo Sinuendo (Nonesuch/Perro Verde)
  288. Movietone - The Sand And The Stars (Domino/Geographic)
  289. The Tyrades (Broken Rekids)
  290. Gorky's Zygotic Mycni - Sleep/Holiday (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
  291. Chicks On Speed - 99 Cents (Chicks On Speed)
  292. Los Amigos Invisibles - The Venezuelan Zinga Son Vol 1 (Long Lost Brother)
  293. Guided By Voices - Earthquake Glue (Matador)
  294. Adult. - Anxiety Always (Ersatz Audio)
  295. Jay Farrar - Terroir Blues (Artemis)
  296. Erin McKeown - Grand (Nettwerk)
  297. Damien Rice - O (Vector)
  298. Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance (Matador)
  299. The National - Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (Brassland)
  300. Crooked Fingers - Red Devil Dawn (Merge)
  301. Paper Airplane Pilots - The History Of Flying (Spade Kitty)
  302. The Dears - No Cities Left (Grenadine)
  303. Neil Michael Hagerty - The Hex (Drag City)
  304. Erase Errata - At Crystal Palace (Blast First)
  305. Goldfrapp - Black Cherry (Mute)
  306. Ex Models - Zoo Psychology (Frenchkiss)
  307. Natacha Atlas - Something Dangerous (Mantra)
  308. Amy Rigby - Til The Wheels Fall Off (Signature)
  309. Prince Paul - Politics of the Business (Razor & Tie)
  310. Cardia (Silverthree)
  311. The Kills - Keep On Your Mean Side (Rough Trade)
  312. Atmosphere - Seven's Travels (Epitaph)
  313. Clearlake - Cedars (Domino)
  314. Chris Lee - Cool Rock (Misra)
  315. The Gossip - Movement (Kill Rock Stars)
  316. Entombed - Inferno (Koch)
  317. The Webb Brothers (WEA)
  318. Blondie - The Curse Of Blondie (Epic)
  319. Susheela Raman - Love Trap (Narada)]
  320. Subarachnoid Space - Also Rising (Strange Attractors)
  321. Karsh Kale - Liberation (Six Degrees)
  322. Deerhoof - Apple O' (Kill Rock Stars)
  323. Mariza - Fado Curvo (Times Square)
  324. Killing Joke (Pilot)
  325. Tomahawk - Mit Gas (Ipecac)
  326. Dinky - Black Cabaret (Carpark)
  327. Richard Hawley - Lowedges (Setanta)
  328. Mr. Quintron - Are You Ready For An Organ Solo (Three-One-G)
  329. Mojave 3 - Spoon And Rafter (4AD)
  330. Iggy Pop - Skull Ring (Virgin)
  331. Whirlwind Heat - Do Rabbits Wonder (V2)
  332. Turnerjoy - Transplant (Mohofusu)
  333. Black Box Recorder - Passionoia (One Little Indian)
  334. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - And This Is Our Music (Tee Pee)
  335. Ricki Lee Jones - The Evening Of My Best Day (V2)
  336. Spiritualized - Amazing Grace (Sanctuary Records)
  337. The Party Of Helicopters - Please Believe It (Velocette)
  338. Saturday Looks Good To Me - All Your Summer Songs (Polyvinyl)
  339. Tokyo Sex Destruction - Le Red Soul Comunnitte (10 Points Program) (Dim Mak)
  340. Nataraj XT - Ocean Birds (Nu Tone)
  341. Fruit Bats - Mouthfuls (Sub Pop)
  342. Minus 5 - Down with Wilco (Yep Roc)
  343. Grandaddy - Sumday (V2)
  344. The Decemberists - Her Majesty, The Decemberists (Kill Rock Stars)
  345. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Pig Lib (Matador)
  346. Andrew Bird - Weather Systems EP (Grimsey)
  347. Azita - Enantiodromia (Drag City)
  348. Gang Starr - Ownerz (Virgin)
  349. Buzzcocks (Merge)
  350. A.R.E. Weapons (Rough Trade)
  351. Scout Niblett - I Am (Secretly Canadian)
  352. Smog - Dinner (Drag City)
  353. Fantomas - Delerium Cordia (Ipecac)
  354. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On, On Your Own (Virgin)
  355. Matt Eliott - The Mess We Made (Merge)
  356. Momus - Oskar Tennis Champion (American Patchwork)
  357. The Beautiful South - Gaze (Mercury)
  358. Katatonia - Viva Emptiness (Peaceville)
  359. Throwing Muses (4AD)
  360. Rainer Maria - Long Knives Drawn (Polyvinyl)
  361. Bonnie Prince Billie - Master And Everyone (Palace)
  362. Gillian Welch - Soul Journey (Acony/WEA)
  363. Black Eyes (Dischord)
  364. Cul de Sac - Death To The Sun (Strange Attractors Audio House)
  365. Loose Fur (Drag City)
  366. Audio Bullys - Ego War (Astralwerks)
  367. The Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn (ArtistDirect)
  368. The American Analog Set - Promise of Love (Tiger Style)
  369. Plaid - Spoke (Warp)
  370. Pole - 45/45 (Mute)
  371. The Aislers Set - How I Learned To Write Backwards (Suicide)
  372. Cave In - Antenna (RCA)
  373. Kinski - Airs Above Your Station (Strange Attractors Audio House/Sub Pop)
  374. Muse - Absolution (A&M/ EastWest)
  375. Jane's Addiction - Strays (Capitol)
  376. DJ Tiga - DJ Kicks (!K7)
  377. Shipping News - Three-Four (Touch & Go)
  378. Maria McKee - High Dive (Viewfinder)
  379. Blur - Think Tank (Virgin)
  380. Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark ()
  381. Vue - Down For Whatever (RCA)
  382. Sloan - Action Pact (Vik)
  383. Frankie Sparo - Welcome Crummy Mystics (Constellation)
  384. Kristin Hersh - The Grotto (4ad)
  385. Caitlin Cary - I'm Staying Out (Yep Roc)
  386. Junior Senior - D-Don't Stop The Music (Universal/Crunchy Frog)
  387. Thea Gilmore - Avalanche (Compass)
  388. The Lonesome Organist - Forms & Follies (Thrill Jockey)
  389. Deftones (Maverick)
  390. South - With The Tides (Kinetic)
  391. Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music (Lost Highway)
  392. Lungfish - Love Is Love (Dischord)
  393. Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts (Astralwerks)
  394. The People Involved (People Involved)
  395. The Cramps - Fiends Of Dope Island (Vengeance)
  396. Adam Masterson - One Tale Too Many (Gravity)
  397. Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day (Lost Highway)
  398. 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

  399. Athlete - Vehicles & Animals (EMI)
  400. Kings Of Leon - Youth And Young Manhood (RCA)
  401. Electric Soft Parade - American Adventure (BMG)
  402. Starsailor - Silence Is Easy (EMI)
  403. Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (Equal Vision)
  404. My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves (ATO/RCA)
  405. Peaches - Fatherfucker (Beggars XL)
  406. Bic Runga - Beautiful Collision (Columbia)
  407. Tom McRae - Just Like Blood (DB)
  408. Travis - 12 Memories (Epic)
  409. Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance (Interscope)
  410. Lou Reed - The Raven (WB)
  411. Ocean Colour Scene - North Atlantic Drift (Sanctuary)
  412. Mink Lungs - I'll Take It (Arena Rock)
  413. Kill Hannah - For Never & Ever (Atlantic)
  414. Mondo Generator - Drug Problem That Never Existed (Ipecac)
  415. Fountains Of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers (Virgin)
  416. Sightings - Michigan Haters (Load)
  417. The Caridgans - Long Gone Before Daylight (Stockholm)
  418. Evan Dando - Baby I'm Bored (Bar None)
  419. The Microphones - Mount Eerie (k)
  420. Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea (Reprise)
  421. 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)

  422. Amadou & Mariam - Wati (Universal)
  423. Anti-Pop Consortium vs Matthew Shipp - (Thirsty Ear)
  424. Bed - Spacebox (Ici D'Alleurs)
  425. Bottom Of The Hudson - The Omaha Record (Absolutely Kosher)
  426. Breathless - Behind The Light (Tenor Vossa)
  427. Brokeback - Looks at Birds (Thrill Jockey)
  428. Broken Family Band - Cold Water Songs (Snowstorm)
  429. Buck 65 - Talkin' Honky Tonk Blues (WEA)
  430. Joe Budden (Def Jam)
  431. The Buffseeds - The Picture Show (Fantastic)
  432. Paul Burch - Fool For Love (Spit & Polish)
  433. Cex - Being Ridden (Temporary Residence)
  434. Consonant - Love And Affliction (Fenway)
  435. Julian Cope - Rome Wasn't Buried In A Day (Head Heritage)
  436. Cyann & Ben - Spring (Locust)
  437. De La Soul - SFS: Spit Flows & Safety (It Ain't Safe in the Water) (Sequence)
  438. Julie Doiron - Broken Girl (Jagjaguwar)
  439. Dub Syndicate - Murder Tone (On-U Sound)
  440. East River Pipe - Garbageheads on Endless Stun (Merge)
  441. Echoboy - Giraffe (Mute)
  442. The 88 - Kind Of Light (BMK)
  443. Electric Six - Fire (XL/Beggars)
  444. El-P - El-P Presents Sunrise In Brooklyn (Def Jux)
  445. Evil Beaver - Pleased to Eat You (Johann's Face)
  446. Exo - The Safety Primer Justice (i4)
  447. Fallacy - Blackmarket Boy (Virgin)
  448. Freescha - What's Come Inside You (Attack 9)
  449. Bill Frisell/Marc Ribot/Tim Sparks - Masada Guitars (Tzadik)
  450. Further Seems Forever - How To Start A Fire (Tooth And Nail)
  451. Future Bible Heroes - The Lonely Robot (Instinct)
  452. Howe Gelb - The Listener (Thrill Jockey)
  453. The Haunted - One Kill Wonder (Earache)
  454. I Am Kloot (Echo)
  455. Ima Robot (Virgin)
  456. The Jealous Sound - Kill Them With Kindness (Better Looking)
  457. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak (Lookout!)
  458. The Long Winters - When I Pretend T oFall (Munich)
  459. Loop Guru - Bathtime With Loop Guru (Elsewhen)
  460. The Magic Band - Back To The Front (All Tomorrow's Parties)
  461. The Magic Magicians (Suicide Squeeze)
  462. April March - Triggers (Tricagel)
  463. Melt Banana - Cell-Scape (A-zap)
  464. More Fire Crew - More Fire Crew C.V. (Go Beat)
  465. Mull Historical Society - Society Us (Beggars)
  466. Nephlim Modulation Systems - Woe to Thee O Land When Thy King Is a Child (Big Dada)
  467. New Wet Kojak - The Glamorous (Beggars)
  468. Nurse With Wound - Salt Marie Celeste (United Dairies)
  469. Oh Susanna (Hot Records)
  470. Einar Orn - Ghostigital (Honest Jons)
  471. Piano Magic - The Troubled Sleep Of Piano Magic (Green UFOs)
  472. The Proclaimers - Born Innocent (Persevere)
  473. Radio Tarifa - Fiebre (World Circuit)
  474. Sarafin - No Push Collide (Taste)
  475. Adrian Sherwood - Never Trust A Hippy (Real World)
  476. Sole - Selling Live Water (Anticon)
  477. South San Gabriel - Welcome, Convalescence (Undertow)
  478. Spearmint - My Missing Days (Hitback)
  479. Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions (Relentless)
  480. Summer Hymns - Clemency (Misra)
  481. Nobukazu Takemura - 10th (Thrill Jockey)
  482. Themselves - The No Music Of Aiffs (Anticon)
  483. Trailer Bride - Hope Is a Thing With Feathers (Bloodshot)
  484. Trouble Hubble - Penturbia (Latest Flame)
  485. TRS-80 - Shake Hands with Danger (File 13)
  486. Venetian Snares - Chocolate Wheelchair Album (Planet Mu)
  487. Vibracathedral Orchestra - Queen Of Guess (VHF)
  488. The Waterboys - Universal Hall (Puck)
  489. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Dartmouth Street Underpass (Locust)
  490. Worm Is Green - Automagic (Thule Iceland)
  491. The Zephyrs - A Year To The Day (Setanta)
  492. Various - Rough Trade Shops 2002: Counter Culture (RT)

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2002

    10-

  1. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf (Interscope)
  2. N*E*R*D - In Search Of ... (Virgin)
  3. Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where (Ninja Tune)
  4. The Notwist - Neon Golden (City Slang)

    9+

  5. Neko Case - Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
  6. Boris - Heavy Rocks (Quattro/UK)
  7. Isis - Oceanic (Ipecac)
  8. My Computer - Vulnerabilia (13 Amp UK)
  9. Arto Lindsay - Invoke (Righteous Babe)
  10. Spiritual Beggars - On Fire (Music For Nations)
  11. Cowboys & Aliens - Love Sex Volume (Buzzville)
  12. Circle - Sunrise (Ektro/No Quarter)
  13. Tom Waits - Alice (Anti/Epitaph)
  14. The Streets - Original Pirate Material (Locked On UK)
  15. Mastodon - Remission (Relapse)
  16. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner)
  17. Rob - Satyred Love (Source/Virgin Fr)
  18. Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air (Touch and Go)
  19. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
  20. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)
  21. Nação Zumbi (Trama)
  22. Spoon - Kill The Moonlight (Merge)
  23. The Libertines - Up The Bracket (Rough Trade)
  24. Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi (Warp)
  25. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (Matador)
  26. The Hellacopters - By The Grace Of God (Polar Music)
  27. Domenico +2 - Sincerely Hot (Nippon Crown)
  28. Plush - Fed (After Hours Jpn)
  29. Max Tundra - Mastered by the Guy at the Exchange (Tigerbeat6)
  30. Doves - The Last Broadcast (Heavenly/Astralwerks)
  31. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Yanqui U.X.O. (Constellation)
  32. Sigur Rós - ( ) (Fat Cat/MCA)
  33. OOIOO - Kila Kila Kila (Thrill Jockey)
  34. Floor (No Idea)
  35. Fatso Jetson - Cruel & Delicious (Rekords)
  36. Anti-Pop Consortium - Arrhythmia (Warp)
  37. Out Hud - S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. (Kranky)
  38. Schneider TM - Zoomer (City Slang)
  39. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People (Paper Bag)
  40. Tom Waits - Blood Money (Anti/Epitaph)
  41. Los Natas - Corsario Negro (Small Stone)
  42. Rjd2 - Deadringer (Def Jux)
  43. Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out Of Season (Go Beat UK)
  44. The Books - Thought For Food (Tomlab)
  45. El-P - Fantastic Damage (Def Jux)
  46. Dälek - From The Filthy Tongues Of Gods And Griots (Ipecac)
  47. Sonic Youth - Murray Street (Interscope)
  48. Brendan Benson - Lapalco (Startime)
  49. Mum - Finally We Are No One (Fat Cat)
  50. DJ /rupture - Minesweeper Suite (Tigerbeat6)
  51. The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone (Startime)
  52. The Roots - Phrenology (MCA)
  53. Max De Castro - Orchestra Klaxon (Trama)
  54. Ampop - Made For Market (TMT/Thule Musik Iceland)
  55. The Fire Show - Saint The Fire Show (Perishable)
  56. Sixteen Horsepower - Folklore (Jetset)
  57. John Vanderslice - The Life And Death Of An American Fourtracker (Barsuk)
  58. Gallon Drunk - Fire Music (Sweet Nothing UK)
  59. Black Heart Procession - Amore Del Topico (Touch And Go)
  60. Crispy Ambulance - Scissorgun (Darla)
  61. Ms. John Soda - No P. or D. (Morr)
  62. Blue States - Man Mountain (XL)
  63. The Aluminum Group - Happyness (Wishing Tree)
  64. Cornelius - Point (Matador)
  65. Various - Red Hot + Riot! Tribute To Fela (MCA)
  66. The Coral (Sony UK)
  67. Radio 4 - Gotham (Gern Blandsten)
  68. Archer Prewitt - Three (Thrill Jockey)
  69. Cornershop - Handcream For A Generation (Luaka Bop)
  70. Blevin Blectum - Talon Slalom (Deluxe)
  71. Gomez - In Our Gun (Virgin)
  72. Gemma Hayes - Night On My Side (Source)
  73. The Flaming Stars - Sunset & Void (Alternative Tentacles)
  74. Clinic - Walking With Thee (Domino)
  75. The National Trust - Dekkagar (Thrill Jockey)
  76. Eleni Mandell - Snakebite (Spacebaby)
  77. DJ Shadow - The Private Press (Mo' Wax)
  78. The Delgados - Hate (Mantra UK)
  79. Devendra Banhart - Oh Me Oh My... (Young God)
  80. Lake Trout - Another One Lost (Palm Pictures)
  81. Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow (Quannum/MCA)
  82. For Against - Coalesced (Words On Music)
  83. We Ragazzi - The Ache (Self-Starter)
  84. Wire - Read & Burn 01 & 02 (Pink Flag)
  85. The Decemberists - Castaways And Cut-Outs (Hugh)
  86. Metro Area (Environ)
  87. Suicide - American Supreme (Mute/Blast First)
  88. Recloose - Cardiology (Planet E)
  89. Benjamin Biolay - Rose Kennedy (Virgin Fr)
  90. Totonho & Os Cabra (Trama)
  91. Boom Bip - Seed To Sun (Lex)
  92. The Walkabouts - Ended Up A Stranger (Innerstate)
  93. Deadly Avenger - Deep Red (Illicit)
  94. 90 Day Men - To Everybody (Southern)
  95. Mary Timony - The Golden Dove (Matador)
  96. Primal Scream - Evil Heat (Columbia UK)
  97. Eileen Rose - Long Shot Novena (Rough Trade/BMG)
  98. The Breeders - Title TK (4AD/Elektra)
  99. Nicolai Dunger - Tranquil Isolation (Dolores/Virgin)
  100. Ojos de Brujo - Baro (La Fabrica de)
  101. Various - Sonar 2002: Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Arts (Milan)
  102. Opeth - Deliverance (Koch)
  103. Reverend Bizarre - In The Rectory Of Reverend Bizarre (Hammerheart)
  104. Melvins - Hostile Ambient Takeover (Ipecac)
  105. High On Fire - Surrounded By Thieves (Relapse)
  106. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Source Tags & Codes (Interscope)
  107. Tony Allen - HomeCooking (Cornet)
  108. Amadou & Mariam - The Magic Couple (Wrasse)
  109. Jean Grae - Attack Of The Attacking Things (Third Earth)
  110. Various - Extra Yard (Big Dada)

    9

  111. Madrugada - Grit (Music For Nations)
  112. The Mushroom River Band - Simsalabim (Century Media)
  113. Sheavy - Synchronized (Rise Above)
  114. Orange Goblin - Coup de Grace (Rise Above)
  115. Sinéad O'Connor - Sean-Nós Nua (Vanguard)
  116. TAPE - Opera (Häpna)
  117. Frog Eyes - The Bloody Hand (Animal World)
  118. Kent - Vapen & Ammunition (BMG)
  119. DJ Dolores + Orchestra Santa Massa - Contraditoria? (Candeeiro/Stern's)
  120. Beck - Sea Change (Interscope)
  121. Pere Ubu - St. Arkansas (Glitterhouse/spinART)
  122. DJ Cheb i Sabbah - Krishna Lila (Six Degrees)
  123. Dozer - Madre De Dios (Man's Ruin)
  124. Dungen - Stadsvandringar (EMI/Astralwerks)
  125. Young Knives - ...Are Dead EP (Shifty Disco)
  126. Orchestra Baobab - Specialist In All Styles (World Circuit)
  127. The Black Keys - The Big Come Up (Alive)
  128. Lenine - Falange Canibal (BMG)
  129. Ms. Dynamite - A Little Deeper (Universal UK)
  130. Meshuggah - Nothing (Nuclear Blast)
  131. The Donnas - Spend The Night (Atlantic)
  132. Common - Electric Circus (MCA)
  133. Lewis Taylor - Stoned Part I (Slow Reality)
  134. Wolf – Black Things (No Fashion)
  135. Soul Center III (Novamute)
  136. The Fucking Champs - V (Drag City) 02
  137. DAT Politics - Plugs Plus (Chicks On Speed)
  138. Cinematic Orchestra - Every Day (Ninja Tune)
  139. Los De Abajo - Cybertropic Chilango Power (Luaka Bop)
  140. In Flames - Reroute To Remain (Nuclear Blast)
  141. Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me (Fat Possum)
  142. Susana Baca - Espiritu Vivo (Luaka Bop)
  143. Black Dice - Beaches And Canyons (DFA)
  144. Wondermints - Mind If We Make Love To You (Smile)
  145. Add N to (X) - Loud Like Nature (Mute)
  146. Ladytron - Light & Magic (Emperor Norton)
  147. Richard Hawley (Pulp guitarist) - Late Night Final (Bar/None)
  148. Edwyn Collins - Doctor Syntax (Setanta)
  149. Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines (Relapse)
  150. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Good Health (Lookout)
  151. Tujiko Noriko - Make Me Hard (Mego)
  152. Technozoide - Bad Innosense (Trama)
  153. The Shalabi Effect - The Trial Of St. Orange (Alien8)
  154. Subway Sect - Sansend (Motion UK)
  155. Sondre Lerche - Faces Down (Astralwerks)
  156. Cody ChestnuTT - The Headphone Masterpiece (Ready Set Go)
  157. Vitesse - You Win Again, Gravity (Hidden Agenda/Parasol)
  158. The Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages Of... (Good)
  159. Supergrass - Life On Other Planets (Parolophone UK)
  160. Cinerama - Torino (Manifesto)
  161. Radar Brothers - And The Surrounding Mountains (Merge)
  162. Death In Vegas - Scorpio Rising (Concrete UK)
  163. Work Of Saws - Pious Flats (Thick)
  164. Simian - We Are Your Friends (Source/Astralwerk)
  165. Ikara Colt - Chart And Business (Fantastic)
  166. Wolf - Black Wings (Prosthetic)
  167. Dimension Zero - Silent Night Fever (Century Media)
  168. Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage (Century Media)
  169. The Gloria Record - Start Here (Arena Rock)
  170. Bellini - Snowing Sun (Monitor)
  171. Mr. Lif - I Phantom (Def Jux)
  172. Talib Kweli - Quality (Rawkus/Universal)
  173. Dead Prez - Turn Off The Radio (Loud/Columbia)
  174. Jurassic 5 - Power In Numbers (Interscope)
  175. The Warlocks - The Phoenix Album (Birdman)
  176. Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies (SideOneDummy)
  177. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Plastic Fang (Matador)
  178. ShelleyDevoto - Buzzkunst (spinART)
  179. Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice (Swami)
  180. The French Kicks - One Time Bells (Star Light)
  181. Song Of Zarathustra - A View From High Tides (Troubleman)
  182. The Rogers Sisters - Purely Evil (Troubleman)
  183. Dark Suns - Swanlike (Voice Of Life)
  184. Marianne Faithfull - Kissin Time (Virgin/Hut)
  185. Missy Elliott - Under Construction (Elektra)
  186. Horse Stories - Travelling Mercies (For Troubled Paths) (Loose UK)
  187. DJ Krush - Shinsou: Messate At The Depth (Red Ink)
  188. Nada Surf - Let Go (EMI)
  189. Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown (Sub Pop)
  190. Fennesz/O'Rourke/Rehberg - The Return of FennO'Berg (Mego)
  191. Pepito - Migrante (This Record Label)
  192. Dot Allison - We Are Science (Mantra)
  193. Swayzak - Dirty Dancing (K7)
  194. Los Lobos - Good Morning Aztlan (Mammoth)
  195. Café Tacvba - Vale Callampa EP (MCA)
  196. Guided By Voices - Universal Truths And Cycles (Matador)
  197. Meshell Ndegeocello - Cookie: The Antropological Mixtape (Maverick/Warner)
  198. Luna - Romantica (Jetset)
  199. Position Normal - Goodly Time (Rum Records)
  200. Boas - Mansion (Overcoat)
  201. Caitlin Cary - While You Weren't Looking (Yep Roc)
  202. Julie Doiron - Heart & Crime (Jagjaguwar)
  203. Trio Mocoto - Samba Rock (Six Degrees)
  204. Chris Mills - The Silver Line (Sugar Free/Loose)
  205. Giant Sand - Cover Magazine (Thrill Jockey)
  206. Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain (Secretly Canadian)
  207. Leaves - Breathe (B-Unique/Warner)
  208. Peter Murphy - Dust (Metropolis)
  209. Josh Rouse - Under Cold Blue Stars (Slow River/Rykodisc)
  210. Lambchop - Is A Woman (Merge)
  211. Jute - A Violent Narcotic (Catalyst)
  212. Tahiti 80 - Wallpaper for the Soul (Minty Fresh)
  213. Cousteau - Sirena (Palm Pictures)
  214. Silkworm - Italian Platinum (Touch And Go)
  215. Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green And His Perfect IMperfections (Arista)
  216. Sue Garner - Shadyside (Thrill Jockey)
  217. Richard Buckner - Impasse (Overcoat)
  218. The Mars Volta - Tremulant EP (GSL)
  219. Neil Michael Hagerty - Plays That Good Old Rock And Roll EP (Drag City)
  220. Bad Religion - The Process Of Belief (Epitaph)
  221. Jay Bennett & Edward Burch - The Palace at 4 A.M. (Undertow)
  222. Chris Brokaw - Red Cities (Atavistic)
  223. +/- - Self-Titled Long-Playing Debut Album (Teen Beat)
  224. David Kilgour - A Feather in the Engine (Merge)
  225. Steve Earle - Jerusalem (Artemis)
  226. GZA/Genius - Legend Of The Liquid Sword (MCA)
  227. McLusky - McLusky Do Dallas (Too Pure)
  228. David Grubbs - Rickets & Scurvy (Drag City)
  229. Chemical Brothers - Come With Us (Astralwerks)
  230. The Party Of Helicopters - Space...And How Sweet It Was (Troubleman Unlimited)
  231. Elf Power - Creatures (spinART/Sugar Free)
  232. The Mercury Program - A Data Learn The Language (Tiger Style)
  233. Xinlisupreme - Tomorrow Never Comes (Fat Cat)
  234. Damien Jurado - I Break Chairs (Sub Pop)
  235. Love Life - Here Is Night, Brothers, Here the Birds Burn (Jagjaguwar)
  236. Miss Kitten - On The Road (Terminal Music)
  237. Longwave - Day Sleeper EP (Fenway)
  238. Kinky (Nettwerk)
  239. Thievery Corporation - The Richest Man In Babylon (Verve)
  240. Youssou N'Dour - Nothing's in Vain (Nonesuch)
  241. Salif Keita - Moffou (Universal)
  242. Natacha Atlas - Foretold In The Language Of Dreams (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
  243. Echo & The Bunnymen - Live In Liverpool (Cooking Vinyl)

    9-

  244. Hermano - Only A Suggestion (Tee Pee)
  245. Floetry - Floetic (Dreamworks)
  246. Joseph Arthur - Redemptions's Son (EMI)
  247. Deerhoof - Reveille (Kill Rock Stars)
  248. Motörhead - Hammered (Sanctuary)
  249. Girls Against Boys - You Can't Fight What You Can't See (Jade Tree)
  250. The Datsuns (V2)
  251. Panthers - Are You Down?? (Troubleman Unlimited)
  252. The Mendoza Line - Lost In Revelry (Misra)
  253. Low - Trust (Kranky)
  254. Division Of Laura Lee - Black City (Epitaph)
  255. Cex - Tall, Dark & Handcuffed (Tigerbeat6)
  256. Saloon - (This Is) What We Call Progress (Darla)
  257. Chan Poling - Calling All Stars (Manifesto)
  258. Idlewild - The Remote Part (Parlophone UK)
  259. OK Go (Capitol)
  260. Tift Merritt - Bramble Rose (Lost Highway)
  261. Woodbine (Domino)
  262. Roddy Frame - Surf (Redemption UK)
  263. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things (Saddle Creek)
  264. Beachwood Sparks - Make The Cowboy Robots Cry EP (Sub Pop)
  265. Trans Am - T.A. (Thrill Jockey)
  266. The Gossip - Arkansas Heat EP (Kill Rock Stars)
  267. Piano Magic - Writers Without Homes (4AD)
  268. Tram - A Kind Of Closure (Jetset)
  269. Windsor For the Derby - The Emotional Rescue LP (Aesthetic)
  270. Oxes - Oxxxes (Monitor)
  271. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head (Parlophone)
  272. Underworld - A Hundred Days Off (V2)
  273. Bryan Ferry - Frantic (EMI)
  274. Sir - The Night I Met My Second Wife (Pehr)
  275. Subtonix - Tarantism (Troubleman Unlimited)
  276. Weird War (Drag City)
  277. The Dishes - 1-2 (No. 89)
  278. Aime Mann - Lost In Space (Superego)
  279. Mirah - Advisory Committee (K)
  280. Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey (Rise Above/The Music Cartel)
  281. Shy Child - Please Consider Our Time (Grenadine)
  282. Tanya Donnelly - beautysleep (4AD/Beggars Banquet)
  283. Mates Of State - Our Constant Concern (Polyvinyl)
  284. Lo Fidelity Allstars - Don't Be Afraid Of Love (Skint/Columbia)
  285. Richard Ashcroft - Human Condition (Hut)
  286. Bright Eyes - Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil; Keep Your Ear to the Ground (Saddle Creek)

    8

  287. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (Lava)
  288. Sparta - Austere EP (Dreamworks)
  289. Go Back Snowball [Robert Pollard & Mac McCaughan] - Calling Zero (Luna/Rockathon)
  290. Airport 5 [Robert Pollard & Tobin Sprout] - Life Starts Here (Luna/Rockathon)
  291. Milky Wimpshake - Lovers Not Fighters (Troubleman Unlimited)
  292. Ee - For 100 We Try Harder (Asian Man)
  293. Crosstops - Cloverleaf Fandango (Tinnitus)
  294. The Vines - Highly Evolved (Capitol)
  295. The Electric Soft Parade - Holes In The Wall (DB)
  296. Moby - 18 (V2)
  297. The Bigger Lovers - Honey In Hive (Yep Roc)
  298. Anniversary - Your Majesty (Vagrant)
  299. Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed The Fish? (XL)
  300. gusgus - Attention (Moonshine)
  301. Gay Dad - Transmission (Thirsty Ear)
  302. The Music (Hut)
  303. Moth - Provisions, Fiction And Gear (Virgin)
  304. Kasey Chambers - Barricades & Brickwalls (WB)
  305. Future Bible Heroes - Eternal Youth (Instinct)

    These are alphabetical because I have not yet heard them (but they come recommended by reasonably reputable sources)

  306. Acid Mothers Temple - In C (Squealer)
  307. Barry Adamson - The King Of Nothing Hill (Mute)
  308. Aloha - Sugar (Polyvinyl)
  309. Atomic Bitchwax - Spit Blood (Meteorcity)
  310. Derek Bailey - Ballads (Tzadik)
  311. The Baldwin Brothers - Cooking With Lasers (TVT)
  312. Howie Beck - Hollow (Future Farmer)
  313. Brant Bjork and the Operators (The Music Cartel)
  314. Black Tape For A Blue Girl - The Scavanger Bride (Projekt)
  315. Billy Bragg - English, Half English (Elektra)
  316. The Peter Bruntnell Combination - Ends Of The Earth (Back Porch)
  317. Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed (Metal Blade)
  318. Capleton - Still Blazing (VP)
  319. Marc Carroll - Ten Of Swords (Evangeline)
  320. Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around (American)Carpark)
  321. Casino Versus Japan - Whole Numbers Play the Basics (Carpark)
  322. Cato Salsa Experience - A Tip For A Good Time (Emperor Norton)
  323. Asa-Chang & Junray - Jun Ray Sung Chang (Leaf)
  324. Chumbawamba - Readymade (Republic/Universal) Summer
  325. The Church - After Everything? Now This (Thirsty Ear)
  326. Coco - The Coco Sound (K)
  327. Comets on Fire - Field Recordings from the Sun (Ba Da Bing!)
  328. Consonant (Fenway)
  329. Cranes - Future Songs (Instinct)
  330. Cul De Sac - Immortality Lessons (Strange Attractors)
  331. Ritesh Das and the Toronto Tabla Ensemble - Weaving (Naxos World)
  332. Death Cab For Cutie - You Can Play These Songs With Chords (Barsuk)
  333. Desparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish (Saddle Creek)
  334. Destroyer - This Night (Merge)
  335. Dimitri from Paris - After the Playboy Mansion, Vol. 2 (Astralwerks)
  336. The Distillers - Sing Sing Death House (Hellcat)
  337. DJ Spooky - Modern Mantra (Shadow)
  338. Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma (Mego)
  339. Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays (Staubgold)
  340. Mark Eitzel - Courage and Confidence (New West)
  341. Elders Of Zion - Dawn Refuses To Rise (Incidental)
  342. Enon - High Society (Touch & Go)
  343. ESG - Step Off (Soul Jazz)
  344. The Flaming Sideburns - Save Rock 'n' Roll (Jetset)
  345. The Flying Luttenbachers - Infection and Decline (Troubleman)
  346. Fog (Ninja Tune)
  347. 4Hero - Creating Patterns (Talkin' Loud)
  348. Future Sound Of London - Amorphous Androgynous: The Issness (Hypnotic)
  349. Peter Gabriel - Up (Geffen/Interscope)
  350. Ghostface Killah - Wonderful World of Wallabees (Epic)
  351. Goudie - Effects Of Madness (India UK)
  352. Hefner - Dead Media (Too Pure/Beggars Banquet)
  353. Hem - I'm Talking With My Mouth EP (Setanta)
  354. Hrvatski - Swarm & Dither (Planet 0)
  355. I Am The World Trade Center - The Tight Connection (Kindercore)
  356. Imperial Teen - On (Merge)
  357. Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle (Sub Pop)
  358. Jackie-O Motherfucker - Change (Textile)
  359. Philip Jeck - Stoke (Touch)
  360. Jets To Brazil - Perfecting Loneliness (Jade Tree)
  361. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me (Blue Note)
  362. Katastropy Wife (ex-Babes in Toyland Kat Bjelland) - Amusia (AlmaFame)
  363. Kenna - New Sacred Cow (Flawless/Geffen)
  364. Angelique Kidjo - Black Ivory Soul (Columbia)
  365. Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons (Beggars/XL)
  366. Luna - Close Cover Before Striking (Jetset)
  367. Mantler - Sadisfaction (Tomlab)
  368. Jesse Malin - The Fine Art Of Self-Destruction (One Little)
  369. Doug Martsch - Now You Know (WB)
  370. Shannon McNally - Jukebox Sparrows (Capitol)
  371. Mecca Normal - The Family Swan (Kill Rock Stars)
  372. The Mekons - O.O.O.H. (Quarterstick)
  373. Buddy Miller - Midnight and Lonesome (HighTone)
  374. Minus 5 - Bored at the Bed In (Malt/Mammoth)
  375. The Mooney Suzuki - Electric Sweat (Gammon)
  376. Morcheeba - Charango (WEA)
  377. Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (Emperor Jones)
  378. Mr. Scruff - Trouser Jazz (Ninja Tune)
  379. Mudhoney - Since We've Become Translucent (Sub Pop)
  380. Dan Nakamura - Wanna Buy a Monkey? (Sequence)
  381. Nas - God's Son (Columbia)
  382. Negativland - Death Sentences of the Polished and Structurally Weak (Seeland)
  383. Nekromantix - Return Of The Loving Dead (Hellcat/Epitaph)
  384. Noonday Underground - Surface Noise (Setani)
  385. Of Montreal - Aldhills Arboretum (Kindercore)
  386. Tara Jane Oneill - TJO TKO (Mr. Lady)
  387. Beth Orton - Daybreaker (Dreamworks)
  388. Oxide & Neutrino - 2 Steps Ahead (EastWest)
  389. John Parish - How Animals Move (Thrill Jockey)
  390. Pedro The Lion - Control (Jade Tree)
  391. Grant Lee Philips - Ladies' Love Oracle (Zoe/Rounder)
  392. Pony Club - Home Truths (Setanta)
  393. Promise Ring - Woodwater (Anti/Foreign Leisure)
  394. The Pupils (Dischord)
  395. Queers - Pleasant Screams (Lookout!)
  396. Q & Not U - Different Damage (Dischord)
  397. Q-Tip - Kamaal/The Abstract (Arista)
  398. Racebannon - In The Grips Of the Light (Secretly Canadian)
  399. Raging Speedhorn - We Will Be Dead Tomorrow (ZTT)
  400. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way (WEA)
  401. The Reindeer Section - Son Of Evil Reindeer (PIAS America)
  402. Rev. Horton Heat - Lucky 7 (Artemis)
  403. Rocket from the Crypt - Live from Camp X-Ray (Vagrant)
  404. Roni Size - Touching Down (Full Cycle)
  405. Rye Coalition - On Top (Tiger Style)
  406. Saint Etienne - Finistere (Mantra/Beggars Group)
  407. Secret Machines - September 000 (Ace Fu)
  408. The Selby Tigers - The Curse of (Hopeless)
  409. Matthew Shipp - Nu Bop (Thirsty Ear)
  410. The Sights - Got What We Want (Fall Of Rome)
  411. Six Organs Of Admittance - Dark Noontide (Holy Mountain)
  412. Sixpence None The Richer - Divine Discontent (Reprise)
  413. Slum Village - Trinity (Priority/Capitol)
  414. The Soft Boys - Nextdoorland (Matador)
  415. Soft Cell - Cruelty Without Beauty (Cooking Vinyl)
  416. Soviet - We Are Eyes, We Are Builders (Plastiq Musiq)
  417. Sparta - Wiretap Scars (Dreamworks)
  418. Spock's Beard - Snow (Metal Blade)
  419. Spring Heel Jack - Amassed (Thirsty Ear)
  420. The Stratford 4 - Results Against Tired Noises (Jet Set)
  421. Streetwalkin' Cheetahs - Guitars, Guns & Gold (Triple X)
  422. The Stuck-Ups - Human Doll Express (SFTRI)
  423. Suede - A New Morning (Epic)
  424. Nobukazu Takemura - Signs (Thrill Jockey)
  425. Temple Of Sound - First Edition (Wargram)
  426. This Computer Kills (New Red )
  427. Linda Thompson - Fashionably Late (Topic)
  428. Town and Country - C'mon (Thrill Jockey)
  429. Transparents and Emotional Amputation (Electrix)
  430. Vapourspace - Sonic Residue from (Magna Carta)
  431. Velvet Crush - Soft Sounds (Action Musik)
  432. V for Vendetta - Beneath This Mask, Another Mask (Mr. Lady)
  433. Vex Red - Start With A Strong And Persistent Desire (Virgin)
  434. VNV Nation - Futureperfect (Metropolis)
  435. The Waco Brothers - New Deal (Bloodshot)
  436. Anna Waronker - Anna (Five Foot Two)
  437. Weezer - Maladroit (DGC/Interscope)
  438. Chuck E. Weiss - Old Soul & Wolf Tickets (Slow River/Rykodisc)
  439. Whiskey Biscuit (Loose)
  440. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs (Kranky)
  441. Hank Williams III - Lovesick, Broke and... Driftin? (Curb)
  442. Kelly Willis - Easy (Rykodisc)
  443. X-ecutioners - Built From Scratch (Loud)
  444. Xinlisupreme - Murder License EP (Fat Cat)
  445. Yo La Tengo - The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science (Egon)

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2001

    10-

  1. Björk - Vespertine (Elektra)
  2. The Strokes - Is This It (RCA/BMG)
  3. Unida - The Great Divide (Unida)
  4. Fugazi - The Argument (Dischord)
  5. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Record Industry)

    9+

  6. Hawksley Workman - (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves (Universal)
  7. Opeth - Blackwater Park (Koch)
  8. Fennesz - Endless Summer (Mego)
  9. Mercury Rev - All Is Dream (V2)
  10. Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life (EMI/Parlophone)
  11. Ed Harcourt - Here Be Monsters (Virgin)
  12. Colour Haze - Ewige Blumenkraft (MonsterZero)
  13. Mammoth Volume - A Single Book Of Songs (Music Cartel)
  14. Terra Firma - Harms Way (SPV)
  15. Fatso Jetson - Toasted (Bong Load)
  16. Circle - Taantumus (Bad Vugum/Ektro)
  17. Radiohead - Amnesiac (Capitol)
  18. The Dismemberment Plan - Change (De Soto)
  19. The Boredoms - Vision, Creation, Newsun (WEA Japan)
  20. Isis - SGNL>05 EP (Neurot)
  21. Rocket From The Crypt - Group Sounds (TVT/Vagrant)
  22. Gorillaz (Virgin)
  23. Daft Punk - Discovery (Virgin)
  24. Cannibal Ox - Cold Vein (Ozone Music)
  25. The Avalanches - Since I Left You (Sire/Modular)
  26. Spoon - Girls Can Tell (Merge)
  27. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World (Epic)
  28. The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2 (K) 01
  29. Pulp - We Love Life (Uni/Island)
  30. Zeke - Death Alley (Aces & Eights)
  31. Mark Lanegan - Field Songs (Sub Pop)
  32. No Doubt - Rock Steady (Interscope)
  33. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You (Kill Rock Stars)
  34. Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (Tugboat)
  35. Sigh - Imaginary Soundscape (Century Media)
  36. Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator) (Acony)
  37. The Czars - The Ugly People Vs. The Beautiful People (Bellaire)
  38. Steve Wynn - Here Come The Miracles (Innerstate)
  39. Elbow - Asleep In The Back (V2)
  40. Basement Jaxx - Rooty (XL)
  41. Clone Defects - Blood On Jupiter (Tom Perkins)
  42. Missy Elliott - Miss E . . . So Addictive (WEA/Elektra)
  43. Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance (Drag City)
  44. Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire - The Swimming Hour (Rykodisc)
  45. Eels - Soul Jacker (Dreamworks)
  46. Four Tet - Pause (Domino)
  47. Otto - Condom Black (Trama)
  48. Bows - Cassidy (Too Pure)
  49. The Beta Band - Hotshots II (Astralwerks)
  50. Lift To Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (Bella Union)
  51. !!! (Chik Chik Chik) (Gold Standard)
  52. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
  53. N*E*R*D - In Search Of... (Virgin)
  54. Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me (Big Dada)
  55. Bardo Pond - Dilate (Matador)
  56. Spirit Caravan - Elusive Truth (Tolotta)
  57. Hammers Of Misfortune - The Bastard (Tumult)
  58. Max De Castro - Samba Raro (Trama)
  59. Moreno Veloso +2 - Music Typewriter (Hannibal/Natasha)
  60. Blue States - Nothing Changes Under The Sun (ESL)
  61. Dub Pistols - Six Million Ways To Live (Universal)
  62. John Vanderslice - Time Travel Is Lonely (Barsuk)
  63. Kaada - Thank You For Giving Me Your Valuable Time (Ipecac)
  64. Mogwai - Rock Action (Matador)
  65. Tindersticks - Can Our Love... (Beggas Banquet)
  66. Le Tigre - Feminist Sweepstakes (Mr. Lady)
  67. Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives (Warp)
  68. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop)
  69. Orlando Cachaito Lopez - Cachaito (World Circuit)
  70. Sufjan Stevens - Enjoy Your Rabbit (Asthmatic Kitty)
  71. Explosions In The Sky - How Strange, Innocense (Temporary)
  72. Even Johansen - Quiet & Still (FiveOne)
  73. Nicolai Dunger - Soul Rush (Delores/Lakeshore)
  74. Hood - Cold House (Aesthetics)
  75. Sahara Hotnights - Jennie Bomb (Jet Set)
  76. The Liars - They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top (Mute)
  77. The Flaming Stars - A Walk On The Wired Side (Vinyl Japan)
  78. Nitin Sawhney - Prophesy (V2)
  79. Built To Spill - Ancient Melodies Of The Future (WB)
  80. Circulatory System (Cloud Recordings)
  81. Pernice Brothers - The World Won't End (Ashmont)
  82. Herbert - Bodily Functions (!K7)
  83. Foetus - Flow (Thirsty Ear)
  84. Shannon Wright - Dyed In The Wool (Quarterstick)
  85. Stereolab - Sound-Dust (Elektra)
  86. Bilal - 1st Born Second (Interscope)
  87. The Autumn Defense - The Green Hour (Broadmoor)
  88. Handsome Family - Twilight (Carrot Top)
  89. Fridge - Happiness (Temporary Residence)
  90. Spiritualized - Let It Come Down (Arista)
  91. Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Global A Go-Go (Hellcat)
  92. The American Analog Set - Know By Heart (Tiger Style)
  93. Low - Things We Lost In The Fire (Kranky)
  94. Royksopp - Melody A.M. (Wall Of Sond/EMI)
  95. Stars - Nightsongs (Le Grand)
  96. Lali Puna - Scary World Theory (Morr)
  97. Broken Social Scene - Feel Good Lost (Noise Factory)
  98. Thalia Zedek - Been Here and Gone (Matador)
  99. The Tyde - Once (Track & Field)
  100. Papa M - Whatever, Mortal (Drag City)
  101. Ben Christophers - Spoonface (V2)
  102. The (International) Noise Conspiracy - A New Morning, Changing Weather (Epitaph)
  103. Thea Gilmore - Rules For Jokers (Flyin')
  104. Tom Zé - Jogos De Armar (Trama)
  105. Gigi (Palm Pictures)
  106. The Seconds - Y (5RC)
  107. Chris Lee - Plays & Sings Torch'd Songs, Charivari Hymns & Oriki Blue-Marches (Smells Like)
  108. Tortoise - Standards (Thrill Jockey)
  109. Enslaved - Monumension (Osmose)
  110. Guided By Voices - Isolation Drills (TVT)
  111. Tiga/Various - American Gigalo (International DJ)
  112. Animal Collective/Avey tare & Panda Bear - Danse Manatee (Cats Up Plate)
  113. The Other People Place - Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe (Warp)
  114. Slayer - God Hates Us All (American/Columbia)
  115. Motörhead - Bastards (RGS/Babylon)
  116. Various - All Tomorrow's Parties 1.0 (ATPR)
  117. Madrugada - The Nightly Disease (Virgin)

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  118. Sons Of Otis - Songs For Worship (Music Cartel)
  119. Nebula - Charged (Sub Pop)
  120. Cowboys & Aliens - A Trip To The Stonehenge Colony (Buzzville)
  121. Abramis Brama - Nar Tystnaden Lagt Sig (Transubstans)
  122. Dead Meadow (Tolotta)
  123. Arab Strap - The Red Thread (Matador/Chemical Underground)
  124. Weezer - The Green Album (Geffen)
  125. Entombed - Morning Star (Music for the Nations)
  126. Astroqueen - Into Submission (Pavement)
  127. Blind Dog - The Last Adventures Of Captain Dog (MeteorCity)
  128. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part (Elektra)
  129. Fischerspooner - #1 (Ministry of Sound/Capitol)
  130. Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down (Peaceville/Snapper)
  131. Karma To Burn - Almost Heathen (Spitfire)
  132. Gojira - Terra Ingognita (Mon Slip)
  133. Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise (Candlelight)
  134. Cathedral - Endtyme (Earache)
  135. R.E.M. - Reveal (WB)
  136. Rob - Don't Kill (Source Fr)
  137. Manitoba - Start Breaking My Heart (Domino)
  138. Hector Zazou & Sandy Dillon - Las Vegas Is Curved (First World)
  139. Picastro - Red Your Blues (Pehr)
  140. Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Behind The Music (WEA)
  141. Natacha Atlas - Ayeshteni (Mantra)
  142. You Am I - Dress Me Slowly (BMG)
  143. Helio Sequence - Young Effectuals (Cavity Search)
  144. Explosions In The Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever (Temporary)
  145. Playgroup (Source/Astralwerks)
  146. Joe Henry - Scar (Mammoth)
  147. Peaches - The Teaches Of Peaches (Kitty-Yo)
  148. Electric Company - 62-56 (Tigerbeat6)
  149. Soilent Green - A Deleted Symphony For the Beaten Down (Relapse)
  150. Monster Magnet - God Says No (A&M)
  151. Kylie Minogue - Fever (EMI)
  152. Lucinda Williams - Essence (UNI/Lost Highway)
  153. Jim White - No Such Place (Luaka Bop)
  154. Femi Kuti - Fight To Win (MCA)
  155. Operator Generator - Polar Fleet (Man's Ruin)
  156. Dead Meadow - Howls From The Hills (Tolotta)
  157. Autechre - Confield (Warp)
  158. Kreator - Violent Revolution (Steamhammer/SPV)
  159. Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion: Esperanza (EMD/Virgin)
  160. Rufus Wainright - Poses (Dreamworks)
  161. Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me Again (Substractif)
  162. Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP (Wichita/Touch And Go)
  163. Adult - Resuscitation (Ersatz Audio)
  164. Trilok Gurtu - The Beat Of Love (Blue Note)
  165. Kelis - Wanderland (Virgin UK)
  166. Rachid Taha - Made In Medina (Mondo Melodia)
  167. Tool - Lateralus/Systema Encephale (Volcano)
  168. So Solid Crew - They Don't Know (Independiente)
  169. The Fire Show - Above the Volcano of Flowers (Perishable)
  170. Sloan - Pretty Together (Murder)
  171. Jay Farrar - Sebastapol (Artemis)
  172. Scout NIblett - Sweet Heart Fever (Secretly Canadian)
  173. Summer Hymns - Celebratory Arm Gesture (Misra)
  174. Beachwood Sparks - Once We Were Trees (Sub Pop)
  175. The Coup - Party Music (75 Ark)
  176. Kevin Tihista's Red Terror - Don't Breathe A Word (Blanco Y Negro)
  177. Burning Airlines - Identikit (DeSoto)
  178. Erase Errata - Other Animals (Troubleman)
  179. The Meads Of Asphodel - The Excommunication Of Christ (Supernal)
  180. The Kingsbury Manx - Let You Down (Overcoat)
  181. Bobby Conn - The Golden Age (Thrill Jockey)
  182. Trembling Blue Stars - Alive To Every Smile (Sub Pop)
  183. Firewater - Psychopharmacology (Jetset)
  184. Fanfare Ciocarlia - Iag Bari (Piranha)
  185. The Faint - Danse Macabre (Saddle Creek)
  186. Fu Manchu - California Crossing (Mammoth)
  187. Krishna Das - Breath of the Heart (Triloka)
  188. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Everything's Fine (Rykodisc/Slow River)
  189. Califone - Roomsound (Perishable)
  190. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C. (Virgin)
  191. Simian - Chemistry Is What We Are (Source/Astralwerks)
  192. Love As Laughter - Sea to Shining Sea (Sub Pop)
  193. Shelby Lynne - Love, Shelby (Island)
  194. Tara Jane O'Neil - In The Sun Lines (Quarterstick)
  195. Bob Dylan - Love And Theft (Columbia)
  196. Music For Mapmakers (Grenadine)
  197. Vue - Find Your Home (Sub Pop)
  198. Old 97's - Satellite Ride (Elektra)
  199. Beulah - The Coast Is Never Clear (Velocette)
  200. Her Space Holiday - Manic Expressive (Tiger Style)
  201. Ida - The Braille Night (Tiger Style)
  202. Mouse On Mars - Idiology (Thrill Jockey)
  203. Labradford : Fixed::Content (Kranky)
  204. Matmos - A Chance to Cut Is a Chance To Cure (Matador)
  205. The Rapture - Out Of The Races And Onto The Tracks EP (Sub Pop)
  206. Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong (Capitol)
  207. 16 Horsepower - Hoarse (Checkered Past)
  208. Set Fire To Flames - Sings Reign Rebuilder (Alien 8)
  209. Talvin Singh - Ha (Island)
  210. Dilated Peoples - Expansion Team (Capitol)
  211. Karsh Kale - Realize (Six Degrees)
  212. Cex - Oops, I Did It Again! (Tigerbeat6)
  213. Scarlet Life - Sugar, Spice, Saccharin & Cyanide (DivaNation)
  214. Karma Sutra - Prana (Invisible/DivaNation)
  215. Angels Of Light - How I Loved You (Young God)
  216. Badmarsh & Shri - Signs (Nutone/Nettwerk)
  217. Tim Easton - The Truth About Us (New West)
  218. Burning Brides - Fall of the Plastic Empire (V2)
  219. Tweaker - The Attraction To All Things Uncertain (Six Degrees)
  220. Godflesh - Hymns (Earache)
  221. Che - Sounds Of Liberation (Man's Ruin)
  222. The International Noise Conspiracy - Survival Sickness (Burning Heart/Epitaph)
  223. Fantomas - The Director's Cut (Ipecac)
  224. Whiskeytown - Pneumonia (Universal)
  225. The Cash Brothers - How Was Tomorrow (Uni/Zoe)
  226. Kelly Hogan - Because It Feel Good (Bloodshot)
  227. Clutch - Pure Rock Fury (Atlantic)
  228. Lamb - What Sound (Mercury)
  229. Zeke - Death Alley (Tee Pee)
  230. Spain - I Believe (Restless)
  231. Timbaland & Magoo - Indecent Proposal (Virgin)
  232. Jay-Z - The Blueprint (Roc-A-Fella)
  233. DJ Krush - Zen (Red Ink)
  234. Aesop Rock - Labor Days (Def Jux)
  235. Cesaria Evora - Sao Vicente (World Circuit)
  236. Sheila Chandra - This Sentence Is True (Shakti)
  237. Susheela Raman - Salt Rain (Narada)
  238. Temple Of Sound & Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali - People's Colony No. 1 (Real World)
  239. Felix Da Housecat - Kittenz And Thee Glitz (City Rockers)
  240. Vinicius Cantuaria - Vinicius (Transparent)
  241. Joi - We Are Three (Real World)
  242. Radio Tarifa - Cruzando El Rio (World Circuit)
  243. Cheb Mami - Dellali (Mondo Melodia/Ark 21)
  244. Neil Michael Hagerty (Drag City)
  245. The Butchies - Three (Mr. Lady)
  246. Rainer Maria - A Better Version Of Me (Polyvinyl)
  247. Anita Lane - Sex O' Clock (Mute)
  248. The Frames - For The Birds (Overcoat)
  249. Teenage Fanclub - Howdy! (Thirsty Ear)
  250. Zoot Woman - Living In A Magazine (Parlophone)
  251. Fruit Bats - Echo Location (Perishable)
  252. Clem Snide - The Ghost Of Fashion (spinART)
  253. Superchunk - Here's To Shutting Up (Merge)
  254. Portastatic - Looking for Leonard (Merge)
  255. Howe Gelb - Confluence (Thrill Jockey)
  256. System Of A Down - Toxicity (American)
  257. Cutthroats 9 (Man's Ruin)
  258. Old Time Relijun - Witchcraft Rebellion (K)
  259. The Dictators - D.F.F.D. (Dictators)
  260. Sea Of Tombs (Gravity)
  261. Julie Doiron - Desormais (Jagjaguwar)
  262. Love Life - Rose He Lied By (Troubleman Unlimited)
  263. Calexico - Aerocalexico (Our Soil, Our Stength)
  264. Stephen Malkmus (Matador)
  265. The Chamber Strings - Month Of Sundays (Bobsled)
  266. DJ Swamp - Never Is Now (Decadent/Lakeshore)
  267. The Sultans - Ghost Ship (Swami/Sympathy FTRI)
  268. Dante's Voodoo Cabaret - Songs For Saints And Sinners (Voodoo Cabaret)
  269. Death Cab For Cutie - The Photo Album (Barsuk)
  270. Pixeltan (Troubleman)
  271. Hope Sandoval & Warm Invention - Bavarian Fruit Bread (BMG/Sanctuary)
  272. Macy Gray - The ID (Epic)
  273. Stereo Total - The Automatique (Bobsled)
  274. The Gossip - That's Not What I Heard (Kill Rock Stars)

    9-

  275. Air - 10,000 Hz Legend (Astralwerks)
  276. Old Man Gloom - Seminar III: Zozobra (Tortuga)
  277. Transglobal Underground - Yes Boss Food Corner
  278. Stina Nordenstam - This Is Stina Nordenstam (Independente) (UNI/Ark21)
  279. David Byrne - Look Into The Eyeball (Virgin)
  280. Richard Hawley (Setanta)
  281. Shiner - Egg (De Soto)
  282. Zao (Tooth & Nail)
  283. Orthrelm - Asristirveildrioxe EP (Grenadine)
  284. Edith Frost - Wonder Wonder (Drag City)
  285. Preston School Of Industry - All This Sounds Gas (Matador)
  286. The Pharmacists - Ted Leo/Rx Pharmacists (Germ Blandsten)
  287. Kings of Convenience - Versus (Astralwerks)
  288. Chocolate Genius - Godmusic (V2)
  289. Trailer Bride - High Seas (Bloodshot)
  290. Kings of Convenience - Quiet Is The New Loud (Source/Astralwerks)
  291. The Lack (Troubleman)
  292. Ursula Rucker - Supa Sista (Studio !K7)
  293. The Nerves - World Of Gold (Thrill Jockey)
  294. Bigg Jus - Plantation Rhymes (Sub Verse)
  295. Lambchop - Tools In The Dryer (Merge)
  296. Mary J. Blige - No More Drama (MCA)
  297. Busta Rhymes - Genesis (J Records)
  298. Angie Stone - Mahogony Soul (J Records)
  299. Quasi - The Sword Of God (Touch & Go)
  300. Warhorse - As Heaven Turns To Ash... (Southern Lord)
  301. Rammstein - Mutter (Universal)
  302. My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hour (Peaceville/Snapper)
  303. Ex Models - Other Mathematics (Ace Fu)
  304. Chestnut Station - In Your Living Room (Drag City)
  305. The Great Crusades - Damaged Goods (Glitterhouse)
  306. Maxwell - Now (Columbia)
  307. Jill Scott - Experience (Sony)
  308. Evil Beaver - Lick It! (Four Alarm)
  309. Buddy & Julie Miller (Hightone)
  310. ABCs (Troubleman)
  311. Dungeon Family - ...Even in Darkness (Arista)
  312. The Donnas - The Donnas Turn 21 (Lookout!)
  313. John Hammond - Wicked Grin (Virgin)
  314. Ghostface Killah - Bulletproof Wallets (Epic)
  315. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ease Down The Road (Palace Records)
  316. Le Tigre - From The Desk of Mr. Lady EP (Mr. Lady)
  317. The Bigger Lovers - How I Learned To Stop Worrying (Black Dog)

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  318. Garbage - Beautiful Garbage (Mushroom)
  319. Black Crowes - Lion (V2)
  320. Tom McRae (BMG/Arista)
  321. Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter (Sony)
  322. Muse - Origin Of Symmetry (Mushroom)
  323. Rollins Band - Nice (BMG/Sanctuary)
  324. Kool Keith - Spankmaster (TVT)
  325. Bullfrog (Ropeadope)
  326. Rizzo - Phoning It In (Sympathy For the Record Industry)
  327. Nick Lowe - The Convincer (Proper)

    7+

  328. Ryan Adams - Gold (Lost Highway)

    6+

  329. The Cult - Beyond Good & Evil (Lava/Atlantic)
  330. Tricky - Blowback (Island)
  331. Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls (Atlantic)
  332. Graham Parker - Deepcut to Nowhere (Razor & Tie)
  333. Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs (Columbia)
  334. The Moldy Peaches (Sanctuary)
  335. Khanate (Southern Lord)
  336. Tomahawk (Ipecac)

    These Are Alphabetical Because I Have Not Yet Heard Them

  337. Acid Mothers Temple - New Geocentric World (Squealer)
  338. Akercocke - The Goat Of Mendes (Peaceville/Snapper)
  339. Alabama Thunderpussy - Staring At The Divine (Man's Ruin)
  340. Alpha - The Impossible Thrill (Melankolic)
  341. Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit (Koch)
  342. The Apes - The Fugue In The Fog (French Kiss)
  343. Aphex Twin - Drukqs (Warp)
  344. Aria - Haze (Bleep)
  345. Ashley Park - The American Scene (Loose)
  346. Ass Ponys - Lohio (Checkered Past)
  347. Aterciopelados - Gozo Poderosa (BMG Latin)
  348. Atomsmasher (Hydra Head)
  349. AB Baars Trio - Songs (Geestgronden)
  350. The Bad Plus (Fresh Sound)
  351. Howie Beck - Hollow (Easy Tiger)
  352. The BellRays - Grand Fury (Vital Gesture)
  353. Ben & Jason - Ten Songs About You (Go Beat)
  354. Biosphere - Substrata/Man With A Movie Camera (Touch)
  355. Biota - Invisible Map (Import)
  356. Bis - Music For A Stranger World (Grand Royal)
  357. Brant Bjork & The Operators - Cocoa Butter (Man's Ruin)
  358. Frank Black & the Catholics - Dog In The Sand (What Are Records?)
  359. Blectum From Blechdom - Haus De Snaus (Tiberbeat6)
  360. Bluetip - Post Mortem Anthem (Dischord)
  361. Bonnevill (Mick Turner) - Pelican (Instinct)
  362. Bran Van 3000 - Discosis (Grand Royal)
  363. Brassy - Got It Made (Wiija)
  364. Brokeback - Morse Code in the Modern Age: Across The Americas (Thrill Jockey)
  365. Bronx Casket Co. - Sweet Home Transylvania
  366. Buck 65 - Man Overboard (Anticon)
  367. Cake - Comfort Eagle (Columbia)
  368. Capitol Years - Meet Yr Acrews (Full Frame)
  369. The Charlatans - Wonderland (UNI/MCA)
  370. Chicago Underground Quartet (Thrill Jockey)
  371. The Clean - Getaway (Merge)
  372. Clearlake - Lido (Dusty Company)
  373. cLOUDDEAD (Mush/Big Dada)
  374. Cockeyed Ghost - Ludlow 6:18 (Karma Frog)
  375. Comas - A Def Needle In Tomorrow (Plastique/Yep Roc)
  376. Constantines - The Constantines (Three Gut)
  377. The Convocation Of... - Pyramid Technology (Tiger Style)
  378. The Creatures - Sequins In The Sun
  379. The Crystal Method - Tweekend (Interscope)
  380. Cypress Hill - Stoned Raiders (Sony)
  381. The Damned - Grave Disorder (NIT)
  382. De La Soul - Bionix (Tommy Boy)
  383. Delerium - Poem (Nettwerk)
  384. Depeche Mode - Exciter (Warner)
  385. Dhol Foundation - Big Drum Small World (Shakti)
  386. Ani DiFranco - Revelling: Reckoning (Righteous Babe)
  387. Dimitri from Paris - Monsieur Dimitri's De-Luxe House of Funk (Razor & Tie)
  388. The Distillers - Sin Sin Death House (Hellcat/Epitaph)
  389. The Divine Comedy - Regeneration (Parolophone)
  390. Dntel - Life Is Full Of Possibilities (Plug Research)
  391. Sara Dougher - The Bluff (Mr. Lady)
  392. Graeme Downes - Hammers And Anvils (Matador)
  393. The Dum Dum Project - Export Quality (Grooovy Sounds Unlimited)
  394. Edan - Mic Manipulator (Lewis Recordings)
  395. Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays Albert Ayler (Staubgold)
  396. Mark Eitzel - The Invisible Man (Matador)
  397. Electrelane - Rock It To The Moon (Mr. Lady/Let's Rock!)
  398. Elysian Fields - Queen Of the Meadow (Flower Shop)
  399. Embrace - If You've Never Been
  400. Elejandro Escovedo - A Man Under the Influence (Bloodshot)
  401. The Ex - Dizzy Spells (Touch & Go)
  402. Explosion Robinson - The Luxury Leader (Slabco)
  403. Faithless - Outrospective (Arista/Kinetic)
  404. Fear Factory - DigiMortal (Roadrunner)
  405. Field Mob - 6:13: Ashy To Classy (MCA)
  406. Firebird - Deluxe (Music For Nations)
  407. Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs (Epic)
  408. French Kicks - Young Lawyer EP (Star Time)
  409. Fuck - Cupid's Cactus (Smells Like)
  410. Fushitsusha - Origin's Hesitation (PSF)
  411. Future Pilot AKA - Tiny Waves, Mighty Sea (Geographic)
  412. Rebecca Gates - Ruby Series (Badman)
  413. Warren G - Return Of The Regulator (Uptown/Universal)
  414. The Get Up Kids - Eudora (Vagrant)
  415. Goldfrapp - Utopia (EP) (Mute)
  416. Godhead - 2000 Years Of Human Error (Posthuman)
  417. Goldie - Goldie Co UK
  418. Green Velvet - Whatever (Musicman)
  419. Gridlock - Trace (Unit)
  420. Luke Haines - The Oliver Twist Manifesto (Hut)
  421. The Heavy Blinkers - Better Weather (Brobdignagian)
  422. Arve Henriksen, Sakuteiki (Rune Grammofon)
  423. HIM - New Features (Bubble Core)
  424. Holger Hiller (Mute)
  425. Beth Hirsch - Titles And Idols (!K7)
  426. His Name Is Alive - Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth (4AD/Beggars Banquet)
  427. The Human League - Secrets (Papillon/Chrysalis)
  428. I Am Kloot - Natural History (We Love You)
  429. The Icarus Line - Mono (Crank!)
  430. Idaho - Levitate (Idaho Music)
  431. Jackie-O Motherfucker - Liberation (Road Cone)
  432. Bill Janovitz - Up Here (spinART)
  433. Freedy Johnston - Right Between The Promises (Elektra)
  434. k - New Problems (Tiger Style)
  435. Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor (J)
  436. Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (Sony/Legacy)
  437. Kinski - Be Gentle With the Warm Turtle (Pacifico)
  438. Ladytron - 604 (Emperor Norton)
  439. Bill Laswell - Carlos Santana - Divine Light (Columbia/Legacy)
  440. Melissa Lefton (Jive)
  441. Lightning Bolt - Ride The Skies (Loud)
  442. Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez - Cachaito (Nonesuch)
  443. John Oswald - Plunderphonics 69/96 (Seeland)
  444. The Locust - Flight Of The Wounded Locust (GSL)
  445. Patty Loveless - Mountain Soul (Epic)
  446. Lowgold - Just Backward Of Square (Nude)
  447. Lowsunday - Elesgiem (Projekt)
  448. Ludacris - Southern Hospitality (Def Jam)
  449. The Lucksmiths - Why That Doesn't Surprise Me (Drive-In)
  450. Billy MacKenzie And Steve Aungle - Eurocentric (Eurocentric)
  451. Marmoset - Record In Red (Secretly Canadian)
  452. Stephan Mathieu - Frequencylib (Ritornell)
  453. Paul McCartney - Driving Rain (Parlophone)
  454. Nathaniel Merriweather Presents Loveage - Music To Make Love to Your Old Lady By (75 Ark)
  455. Milemarker - Anaesthetic (Jade Tree)
  456. Minders - Golden Street (Spinart)
  457. Minus 5 - Let The War Against Music Begin (Malt/Mammoth)
  458. Roy Montgomery - Silver Wheel Of Prayer (VHF)
  459. Alan Moore & Tim Perkins - The Highbury Working (Re:)
  460. Jason Moran Trio - Black Stars (Blue Note)
  461. Mark Mulcahy - Smile Sunset (Loose)
  462. Mull Historical Society - Loss (EastWest)
  463. My Morning Jacket - At Dawn (Darla)
  464. Toshimaru Nakamura & Sachiko M - Do (Erstwhile)
  465. Nectarine No. 9 - Received, Transgressed & Transmitted (Beggars Banquet)
  466. Nataraj XT - Tandava (Nutone)
  467. New Order - Get Ready (WB)
  468. The New Year - Newness Ends (Touch And Go)
  469. Nagisa Ni Te - Songs for A Simple Moment (Geographic)
  470. Jeb Loy Nichols - Just What Time It Is (Rykodisc)
  471. Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets (Relapse)
  472. No-Neck Blues Band - Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones (Revenant)
  473. Noonday Underground - Self-Assembly (Bar/None)
  474. North Mississippi Al Stars, John Medeski & Robert Randolph - The Word (Ropeadope/Atlantic)
  475. Heather Nova - South (1/2)
  476. Laura Nyro - Angel In The Dark (Rounder)
  477. Of Montreal - Cocquelicot Asleep In The :Poppies (Kindercore)
  478. Orange Peels - So Far (spinART)
  479. Oranger - The Quiet Vibration Land (Poptones)
  480. Oval - Commers (Thrill Jockey)
  481. Oxide & Neutrino - Execute (East West)
  482. Pan Sonic - Aaltiopiiri (Blast First)
  483. Pep Love - Ascension (Hiero Imperium)
  484. The Pets - Love And War (Endearing)
  485. P.G. Six - Parlor Tricks And Porch Favorites (Amish)
  486. Phatt Pussycat - Phatt Life (Glasgow Underground)
  487. Grant Lee Phillips - Mobilize (Zoe/Rounder)
  488. Piano Magic - Seasonally Affective 1996-2000 (Rocket Girl)
  489. Plaid - Double Figure (Warp)
  490. Pleasure Forever (Sub Pop)
  491. Iggy Pop - Beat Em Up (Virgin)
  492. Praxis - Warszawa (Innerhythmic)
  493. Prefab Sprout - The Gunman And Other Stories (EMI)
  494. Rajna - Ishati (Projekt)
  495. Red House Painters - Old Ramon (Sub Pop)
  496. Marc Ribot - Saints (Division One)
  497. Christina Rosenvinge - Frozen Pool (Smells Like)
  498. Rovo - Imago (Incidental)
  499. Scorn - Greetings From Birmingham (Hymen)
  500. Senor Coconut - El Gran Baile (Emperor Norton)
  501. Matthew Shipp - Matthew Shipp's New Orbit (Thirsty Ear)
  502. Beanie Sigel - The Reason (Roc-A-Fella)
  503. The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra And Tra-La-La Band - Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward (Constellation)
  504. Sizzla - Rastafari Teach I Everything (Greensleaves)
  505. Slumber Party - Psychedelicate (Kill Rock Stars)
  506. Smog - Rain On Lens (Drag City)
  507. The Snow Patrol - When It's Over We Will Still Have To Clear Up (Jeepster)
  508. Snowpony - Sea Shanties For Spaceships (Dead Pan Alley)
  509. Solex - Low Kick & Hard Bop (Matador)
  510. Solid Steel Presents DJ Food & DK - Now, Listen! (Ninja Tune)
  511. Son Ambulence - Euphemystic (Saddle Creek)
  512. Spearmin - A Different Lifetime (Hitback)
  513. Squarepusher - Go Plastic (Warp)
  514. Stars - The Comeback EP (LeGrand)
  515. Starsailor - Love Is Here (Chrysalis)
  516. Taku Sugimoto - Italia (A Bruit Secret)
  517. Sebastien Tellier - L'Incroyable Verite Record Makers (Astralwerks)
  518. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Bob Diners and Laarry Noodles Present Tubby Terdner's Celebrity Avalanche (Communion)
  519. Billy Bob Thornton - Private Radio (Lost Highway)
  520. Tindersticks - Trouble Every Day (Beggars Banquet)
  521. Jenny Toomey - Antidote (Misra)
  522. To Rococo Rot & I-Sound - Music Is A Hungry Ghost (City Slang)
  523. Town And Country - It Has All To Do With It (Thrill Jockey)
  524. Travis - The Invisible Band (Independiente)
  525. Turin Brakes - The Optimist LP (Astralwerks)
  526. US Maple - Acre Thrills (Drag City)
  527. Vandermark 5 - Acoustic Machine (Atavistic)
  528. Caetano Veloso - Noites Do Norte (WEA/Nonesuch)
  529. Caetano Veloso - Omaggio A Federico E Giulietta (WEA/Nonesuch)
  530. Varnaline - Songs In A Northern Key (E-Squared/Artemis)
  531. Volta Do Mar - At The Speeeed Of Light Or Day (Arborvitae)
  532. The Von Bondies - Lack Of Communication (Sympathy FTRI)
  533. Wagon Christ - Musipal (Ninja Tune)
  534. The Walkabouts - Ended Up A Stranger (Glitterhouse)
  535. Walker Kong - There Goes The Sun (Magic Marker)
  536. M Ward - End Of Amnesia (Loose)
  537. The White Octive - Menergy (Initial)
  538. Witness - Under A Sun (Island)
  539. Jah Wobble & Evan Parker - Passage to Hades (Blueprint)
  540. Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell - Radioaxiom (Palm/Axiom)
  541. Work Of Saws - Motivation and Watertown Grammar (Thick)
  542. Wu Tang Clan - WW II (Loud)
  543. Yesterday's New Quintet - Angles Without Edges (Stones Throw)
  544. Zero 7 - Simple Things (Ultimate Dilemma)
  545. Rob Zombie - Sinister Urge (Geffen)

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2000

    10-

  1. Radiohead - Kid A (Capitol)
  2. PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (Island)
  3. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (Rise Above/Candlelight)
  4. Spiritual Beggars - Ad Astra (Music For Nations)
  5. Queens of the Stone Age - R (Interscope)
  6. Amon Tobin - Supermodified (Ninja Tune)
  7. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (Kranky)
  8. Primal Scream - Xtrmntr (Creation)
  9. D'Angelo - Voodoo (Virgin)
  10. Circle - Prospekt (Elektroverde)
  11. OOIOO - Gold And Green (Polystar/Thrill Jockey)
  12. Sussan Deyhim - Madman Of God: Divine Love Songs of the Persian Sufi Masters (CramWorld)
  13. Asian Dub Foundation - Community Music (London)

    9+

  14. Goatsnake - Flower Of Disease (Man's Ruin)
  15. The Hellacopters - High Visibility (Gearhead)
  16. Hawksley Workman - For Him And The Girls (Isadora/Ba Da Bing)
  17. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command (Grand Royal)
  18. Quasimoto - The Unseen (Stones Throw)
  19. The White Stripes - De Stijl (Sympathy For the Record Industry)
  20. Isis - Celestial (Hydra Head)
  21. Ufomammut - Godlike Snake (Beard Of Stars)
  22. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica (Epic)
  23. 16 Horsepower - Secret South (Razor & Tie)
  24. The Go-Betweens - The Friends Of Rachel Worth (Jetset)
  25. The Delgados - The Great Eastern (Chemikal Underground)
  26. Sleater-Kinney - All Hands On The Bad One (Kill Rock Stars)
  27. Nação Zumbi - Radio S.AMB.A. (Stern's Brasil)
  28. Colour Haze - Co2 (Homegrown/MonsterZero)
  29. Shellac - 1000 Hurts (Touch & Go)
  30. Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (Dreamworks)
  31. Entombed - Uprising (Threeman)
  32. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among The Deadmen (Dragonheart)
  33. Iron Maiden - Brave New World (Portrait/Columbia)
  34. Blackalicious - Nia (Quannum Projects)
  35. Common - Like Water For Chocolate (MCA)
  36. Eleventh Dream Day - Stalled Parade (Thrill Jockey)
  37. Lowrider - Ode To Io (MeteorCity)
  38. Royal Trux - Pound For Pound (Drag City)
  39. The Clientele - Suburban Light (Merge)
  40. Leila - Courtesy Of Choice (XL)
  41. Gas - Pop (Mille Plateaux)
  42. Ampop - Nature Is Not A Virgin (R&R Iceland)
  43. Broadcast - The Noise Made By People (Warp/Tommy Boy)
  44. Spirit Caravan - Jug Fulla Sun (Tolotta)
  45. Nina Nastasia - Dogs (Socialist)
  46. Boris - Flood (MIDI Creative)
  47. Eleni Mandell - Thrill (Space Baby)
  48. Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy (Dreamworks)
  49. High On Fire - The Art of Self Defense (Man's Ruin)
  50. Mum - Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is Okay (Tugboat)
  51. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic (Mint/Matador)
  52. Soul Center II (W.v.B.)
  53. Calexico - Hot Rail (Quarterstick)
  54. Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl (Nonesuch)
  55. The Black Heart Procession - Three (Touch & Go)
  56. Radio 4 - The New Song And Dance (Gern Blandsten)
  57. Mundo Livre S.A. - Por Pouco (Abril)
  58. The Kingsbury Manx (Overcoat)
  59. Various - Caipirissima: Batucada Eletronica (Caipirinha)
  60. John Vanderslice - Mass Suicide Occult Figurines (Barsuk)
  61. The Concretes - Boyoubetterunow (Up)
  62. Poem Rocket - Psychogeography (Atavistic)
  63. The Czars - Before But Longer (Bella Union)
  64. The Russian Futurists - The Method Of Modern Love (Upper Class)
  65. Twilight Singers - Twilight As Played By the Twilight Singers (Columbia)
  66. The Dirty Three - Whatever You Love You Are (Touch & Go)
  67. Boss Hog - Whiteout (In The Red)
  68. The Fire Show (Perishable)
  69. Outkast - Stankonia (LaFace)
  70. The Handsome Family - In The Air (Carrot Top)
  71. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (Matador)
  72. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump (V2)
  73. Pram - Museum Of Imaginary Animals (Too Pure)
  74. Chris Lee (Misra)
  75. Animal Collective/Avey Tare & Panda Bear - Spirit They've Gone...Spirit They've Vanished (Animal)
  76. Giant Sand - Chore Of Enchantment (Thrill Jockey)
  77. Isolee - Rest (Playhouse)
  78. Suba - Sao Paulo Confessions (Six Degrees)
  79. Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man (Columbia)
  80. Joe Pernice - Big Tobacco (Glitterhouse)
  81. Laika - Good Looking Blues (Too Pure)
  82. David Holmes - Bow Down To the Exit Sign (Go Beat)
  83. Anti-Pop Consortium - Tragic Epilogue (75 Ark)
  84. Tabla Beat Science - Tala Matrix (Axiom)
  85. Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos - Muy Divertido (Atlantic)
  86. State Of Bengal - Visual Audio (Six Degrees)
  87. Thievery Corporation - Mirror Conspiracy (ESL)
  88. Orange Goblin - The Big Black (The Music Cartel/Rise Above)
  89. Demon Cleaner - The Freeflight (Molten Universe)
  90. Patti Smith - Gung Ho (Arista)
  91. Kid 606 - Down With The Scene (Ipecac)
  92. Super Furry Animals - Mwng (Flydaddy)
  93. Björk - Selmasongs (Elektra)
  94. Pinetop Seven - Bringing Home The Last Great Strike (Truckstop)
  95. The Haunted - Made Me Do It (Earache)
  96. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker (Bloodshot)
  97. Jets To Brazil - Four Cornered Night (Jade Tree)
  98. Tahiti 80 - Puzzle (Minty Fresh)
  99. Elf Power - Winter Is Coming (Sugar Free)
  100. Cinerama - Disco Volante (Manifesto)
  101. Einsturzende Neubauten - Silence Is Sexy (Mute)
  102. Lambchop - Nixon (Merge)
  103. Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain (Mute)
  104. The Fucking Champs - IV (Drag City)
  105. Dead Prez - Let's Get Free (Loud)
  106. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele (Epic/Razor Sharp)
  107. Deltron 3030 (75 Ark)
  108. Phoenix - United (Astralwerks)
  109. Demons & Wizards (SPV)
  110. Virginia Rodrigues - Nos (Hannibal)
  111. Jurassic 5 - Quality Control (Interscope)
  112. Reflection Eternal (Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek) - Train Of Thought (Rawkus)
  113. Spoon - Love Ways EP (Merge)
  114. Emiliana Torrini - Love In The Time of Science (Virgin)
  115. Enslaved - Mardraum (Necropolis)
  116. Motorpsycho - Let Them Eat Cake (Stickman)
  117. Sheavy - Celestial Hi-Fi (Music Cartel)
  118. The Aluminum Group - Pelo (Symbiotic/Hefty)

    9

  119. Mammoth Volume - Noara Dance (Music Cartel)
  120. Tantalus - Constant Gratification (SHP)
  121. Dozer - In The Tail Of A Comet (Man's Ruin)
  122. Jah Wobble - Molam Dub (30 Hertz)
  123. Susana Baca - Eco De Sombras (Luaka Bop)
  124. The Glands (Capricorn)
  125. New Bomb Turks - Nightmare Scenario (Epitaph)
  126. The Hives - Veni Vidi, Vicious (Burning Heart)
  127. Bonfire Madigan - Saddle The Bridge (Kill Rock Stars)
  128. Damien Jurado - Ghost Of David (Sub Pop)
  129. Jason Moran - Facing Left (Blue Note)
  130. Joseph Arthur - Come To Where I'm From (RealWorld)
  131. Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott? (Sony/Epic)
  132. A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms (Virgin)
  133. Flogging Molly - Swagger (SideOneDummy)
  134. Doves - Lost Souls (Heavenly)
  135. Melvins - The Crybaby (Ipecac)
  136. Greenleaf (Molten Universe)
  137. AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip (East West)
  138. Green Day - Warning (Reprise)
  139. Built To Spill - Live (WB)
  140. Schneider TM - Binokular EP (City Slang)
  141. Weakerthans - Left & Leaving (Sub City)
  142. No Doubt - Return Of Saturn (Interscope)
  143. Toshack Highway (Flower Shop)
  144. Mondo Generator - Cocaine Rodeo (Southern Lord)
  145. Ween - White Pepper (Elektra)
  146. Elastica - The Menace (Geffen)
  147. Nile - Black Seeds Of Vengeance (Relapse)
  148. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - The Blue Trees (Mantra)
  149. Erin McKeown - Distillation (Signature)
  150. Shannon Wright - Maps Of Tacit (Quarterstick)
  151. Otto - Changez Tout: Samba Par Burro Dissecado (Trama)
  152. Kathryn Williams - Little Black Numbers (Caw)
  153. Chicks On Speed - Will Save Us All! (Chicks On Speed)
  154. The Walkabouts - Train Leaves at Eight (Glitterhouse)
  155. Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity (Relapse)
  156. Smog - Dongs Of Sevotion (Drag City)
  157. Sunny Day Real Estate - Rising Tide (BMG/Time Bomb)
  158. Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo (Six Degrees)
  159. Hamell on Trial - Choochtown (Such A Punch)
  160. North Mississippi Allstars - Shake Hands With Shorty (Uni/Tone Cool)
  161. The Webb Brothers - Maroon (Warners)
  162. Fu Manchu - King Of The Road (Mammoth)
  163. Allison Moorer - The Hardest Part (MCA)
  164. Kid Koala - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (Ninja Tune)
  165. Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne (Island)
  166. Clutch - Jam Room (Spitfire)
  167. Death Cab For Cutie - We Have The Facts & We're Voting Yes (Barsuk)
  168. Idaho - Hearts Of Palm (Idaho Music)
  169. The BellRays - Grand Fury (Vital Gesture/Upper Cut)
  170. The Sea And Cake - Oui (Thrill Jockey)
  171. Zeke - Dirty Sanchez (Epitaph)
  172. The The - Naked Self (Nothing)
  173. The Blacks - Just Like Home (Bloodshot)
  174. Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - Furnace Room Lullaby (Bloodshot)
  175. Natacha Atlas - The Remix Collection (Mantra)
  176. Boubacar Traoré - Macire (Indigo)
  177. Rokia Traoré - Wanita (Indigo)
  178. Solace - Further (Meteor City)
  179. Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun (Motown)
  180. Movietone - The Blossom Filled Streets (Domino)
  181. Rage Against The Machine - Renegades (Epic)
  182. Go-Kart Mozart - Instant Wigwam And Igloo Mixture (West Midlands Records)
  183. Schema (5 Rue Christine)
  184. Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons (Touch And Go)
  185. The Delta 72 - 000 (Touch & Go)
  186. Ruben Gonzalez - Chanchullo (World Circuit)
  187. Marah - Kids In Philly (E Squared/Artemis)
  188. Youssou N'dour - Joko (Nonesuch)
  189. Don Caballero - American Don (Touch & Go)
  190. Slumber Party (Kill Rock Stars)
  191. Cat Power - The Covers Record (Matador)
  192. Sinéad O'Connor - Faith And Courage (Atlantic)
  193. Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers (Geffen)
  194. Motörhead - We Are Motörhead (CMC)
  195. Will Oldham - Lost Blues II (Drag City)
  196. Will Oldham - Ode Music (Drag City)
  197. Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues (WB)
  198. Vermin - Millennium Ride (Metal Blade)
  199. Dismember - Hate Campaign (Nuclear Blast)
  200. Bettie Serveert - Private Suit (WB)
  201. The Waxwings - Low To The Ground (Bobsled)
  202. Black Eyed Peas - Bridging The Gap (Interscope)
  203. Songs: Ohia - Ghost Tropic (Secretly Canadian)
  204. Bride Of No No - B.O.N.N. Appetit (Atavistic)
  205. The Eternals (DeSoto)
  206. Roni Size (Reprazent) - In The Mode (Studio K7/Full Cycle)
  207. Master Musicians of Jajouka - Featuring Bachir Attar & Talvin Singh (Universal)
  208. High Llamas - Buzzle Bee (Drag City)
  209. The Damage Manual (Invisible)
  210. U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind (Interscope)
  211. Clinic! - Internal Wrangler (Domino)
  212. Aimee Mann - Magnolia/Bachelor #1 (WEA)
  213. Lois Maffao & Brendan Canty - The Union Themes (Kill Rock Stars)
  214. Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast (Twisted Nerve)
  215. Silkworm - Lifestyle (Touch & Go)
  216. Mammoth Volume - Noara Dance EP (Music Cartel)
  217. Jeff Buckley - Mystery White Boy 1995-1996 (Columbia)
  218. Dolly Varden - The Dumbest Magnets (Evil Teen)
  219. Brant Bjork - Jalamanta (Man's Ruin)
  220. Trans Am - Red Line (Thrill Jockey)
  221. Versus - Hurrah (Merge)
  222. Tara Jane O'Neil - Peregrine (Quarterstick)
  223. Belle & Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant (Matador)
  224. Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight (Swami)
  225. Lungfish - Necrophones (Dischord)
  226. Kool Keith - Matthew (Funky Ass)
  227. Femi Kuti - Shoki Shoki (UNI/MCA)
  228. Lucas Santtana - Eletro Ben Dodo (Natasha)
  229. Ida - Will You Find Me (Tiger Style)
  230. Add N To (X) - Add Insult To Injury (Mute)
  231. Goudie - Peep Show (Elektra)
  232. The Helio Sequence - Com Plex (Cavity Search)
  233. Cadallaca - Out West EP (Kill Rock Stars)
  234. Napalm Death - Leaders Not Followers (Relapse)
  235. Spaceways Incorporated - Thirteen Cosmic Standars by Sun Ra & Funkadelic (Atavistic)
  236. Capleton - More Fire (VP)
  237. Quickspace - The Death Of Quickspace (Matador)
  238. Richard Ashcroft - Alone With Everybody (Virgin)
  239. The Bangs - Sweet Revenge (Kill Rock Stars)
  240. Seely - Winter Birds (Koch)
  241. Merle Haggard - If I Could Only Fly (Anti/Epitaph)
  242. Kelly Hogan and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Beneath the Country Underdog(Bloodshot)
  243. Rancid (Epitaph)
  244. Longwave (Lunasea)
  245. Waco Brothers - Electric Waco Chair (Bloodshot)
  246. Third Eye Foundation - Little Lost Soul (Domino)
  247. Air - The Virgin Suicides (Astralwerks)
  248. William Orbit - Pieces in a Modern Style (Maverick)
  249. Tara Key & Rick Rizzo - Dark Edson Tiger (Thrill Jockey)
  250. Senor Coconut - El Baile Alemen (Emperor Norton)

    9-

  251. The Mushroom River Band (MeteorCity)
  252. International Noise Conspiracy - First Conspiracy (Epitaph)
  253. Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows (EMD/Capitol)
  254. A Guy Called Gerald - Essence (!K7)
  255. Guru's Jazzmatazz - Streetsoul (Virgin)
  256. Deftones - White Pony (Maverick)
  257. Amen - We Have Come For Your Parents (Virgin)
  258. The Beautiful South - Painting It Red (Ark 21)
  259. Dmitri from Paris - A Night at the Playboy Mansion (Astralwerks)
  260. The Motion (Sad Loud America)
  261. The Need - The Need Is Dead (Chainsaw)
  262. The Dishes - The Dishes (No. 89 Records)
  263. Hefner - We Love The City (Too Pure)
  264. Fontanelle (Kranky)
  265. Cash Audio - Green Bullet (Touch & Go)
  266. The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia (Capitol)
  267. Plastilina Mosh - Juan Manuel (Astralwerks)
  268. Omara Portuondo - Buena Vista Social Club Presents (Nonesuch)
  269. Saint Etienne - Sound Of Water (Sub Pop)
  270. Wheatus (Sony/Columbia)
  271. Screeching Weasel - Teen Punks In Heat (Lookout)
  272. Sad Rockets - Transition (Matador)
  273. In Flames - Clayman (Nuclear Blast)
  274. Future Bible Heroes - I'm Lonely (And I Love It) EP (Merge)
  275. New Bomb Turks - Nightmare Scenario (Epitaph)
  276. Lo-Fidelity All Stars - On The Floor At the Boutique (Sony)
  277. Khan - Passport (Matador)
  278. Cheikh Lo - Bambay Gueej (Nonesuch)
  279. Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood - In The Shadow of the Valley of Death (Nothing/Interscope)
  280. Kelis - Kaleidoscope (Virgin)
  281. Mary Timony - Mountains (Matador)
  282. Pearl Jam - Binaural (Epic)
  283. Gary Valentine - Tomorrow Belongs To You 1977-00 (Overground)
  284. Vue (Sub Pop)
  285. Aix Em Klemm (Kranky)
  286. The Jayhawks - Smile (American)
  287. Storm And Stress - Under Thunder And Fluorescent Light (Touch And Go)
  288. The For Carnation (Touch & Go)
  289. Ian Astbury - Spirit Light Speed (Elektra)
  290. Sade - Lovers Rock (Epic)
  291. Lolita Storm - G-F-S-U (DHR/Fatal)
  292. Spring Heel Jack - Treader (Tugboat)
  293. Zuco 103 - Outro Lado (Six Degrees)
  294. Coldplay - Parachutes (Parlophone)
  295. Moloko - Things To Do And Make (Echo)
  296. Ute Lemper - Punishing Kiss (Decca)
  297. Frisbie - The Subversive Sounds Of Love (Hear Diagonally)
  298. Babybird - Bugged (Echo)

    6-

  299. Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines Of God (Virgin)
  300. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (Interscope)

    These Are Alphabetical Because I Have Not Yet Heard Them

  301. Acid Mothers Temple - Troubadours From Another Heavenly World (PSF)
  302. Actionslacks - The Scene's Outta Sight (Self Starter)
  303. Adventures In Stereo - Monomania (Bobsled)
  304. Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble (Cornet)
  305. Los Amigos Invisibles - Arepa 3000 (Luaka Bop)
  306. Merrie Amsterbur - Little Steps (Zoo)
  307. The Apples In Stereo - The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone (spinART)
  308. Nate Ashley - Where Matter Lives (Knw-Yr-Own)
  309. Ass Ponys - Some Stupid With A Flare Gun (Checkered Past)
  310. A3 - La Peste (Columbia)
  311. Atomic Bitchwax - II (Tee Pee)
  312. Bad Religion - The New America (Atlantic)
  313. Buju Banton - Unchained Spirit (Anti-)
  314. Beachwood Sparks (Sub Pop)
  315. Beenie Man - Art and Life (Virgin)
  316. Robert Belfour - What's Wrong With You? (Fat Possum/Epitaph)
  317. Bent - Bent Programmed To Love (Imp)
  318. David Berkman - Communication Theory (Palmetto)
  319. Black Box Recorder - The Facts Of Life (Jet Set)
  320. The Blue Aeroplanes - Cavaliers (Artstar)
  321. Bluebird - The Two (Pacifico)
  322. The Bluetones - Science And Nature (SQR)
  323. The Bobbyteams - Not So Sweet (Estrus)
  324. Bowery Electric - Lushlife (Beggars Banquet)
  325. Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise - Time to Discover (RCA)
  326. Brave Captain - Go With Yourself (Wichita)
  327. The Bronx Casket Co. (The Music Cartel)
  328. Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Make 'Em Like It (Shanachie)
  329. Caspar Brotzmann - Mute Massaker (Thirsty Ear)
  330. BT - Movement In Still Life (Nettwerk)
  331. R.L. Burnside - Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down (Fast Possum/Epitaph)
  332. Neal Casal - Anytime Tomorrow (Glitterhouse)
  333. Peter Case - Flying Saucer Blues (Vanguard)
  334. Centro-matic - All The Falsest Hearts (Quality Park)
  335. Chainsaw Kittens - The All American (4 Alarm)
  336. Kasey Chambers - The Captain (Asylum)
  337. Chicago Underground Duo - Synesthesia (Thrill Jockey)
  338. Chumbawumba - What You See Is What You Get (Republic/Universal)
  339. Cinnamon - Vertigo (March Records)
  340. Clem Snide - Your Favorite Music (Sire)
  341. Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark Vol 2 (Chalice)
  342. Chris Cologne - Horn (Blackberry)
  343. Company Flow & Cannibal Ox - Five Songs From Def Jux (Def Jux)
  344. Cathal Coughlan - Black River Falls (Cooking Vinyl)
  345. Sarah Cracknell - Kelly's Locker (Instinct)
  346. Crooked Fingers (Warm)
  347. Cyptopsy - And Then You'll Beg (Century Media)
  348. The Cure - Blood Flowers (Elektra)
  349. Current 93 - Sleep Has His House (Durtro)
  350. Current 93 - Faust (Durtro)
  351. Cursive - Domestica (Saddle Creek)
  352. Dakota Suite - Signal Hill (Badman)
  353. Damon & Naomi - With Ghost (Sub Pop)
  354. Datach'i - We Are Always Well Thank You (Caipirinha)
  355. The Dead C (Language)
  356. Deathray (Capricorn)
  357. Dispatch - Who Are We Living For? (Bomber Records)
  358. Distillers (Hellcat)
  359. DJ Craze - United DJs of America Volume 16 (DMC/Razor & Tie)
  360. DJ Food - Kaleidoscope (Ninja Tune)
  361. DJ Smallcock - Yinyue (Dual Plover)
  362. Nahawa Doumbia - Yaala (Cobalt France)
  363. Download - Effector (Nettwerk)
  364. Dr. Dre - 2001 (Interscope)
  365. Drowningman - Rock And Roll Killing Machine (Revelation)
  366. Dusty Trails (Atlantic)
  367. The Dwarves - Come Clean (Epitaph)
  368. Earthlings? - Human Beans (Man's Ruin)
  369. Eastern Youth - May My Scream (Toy's Factory)
  370. Either/Orchestra - More Beautiful Than Death (Accurate)
  371. Eleven - Avantgardedog (Interscope)
  372. Embrooks - Our New Day (Voxx)
  373. Etienne De Crecy - Tempovision (XL)
  374. E. Town Concrete - The Second Coming (Triple Crown)
  375. Explosion - Flash Flash Flash (Jade Tree)
  376. John Fahey - Hitomi (LivHouse)
  377. Faith & Diseas - Beneath The Trees (Projekt)
  378. The Fall - The Unutterable (Eagle)
  379. Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (Astralwerks)
  380. The Flashing Lights - Where the Change Is (SpinART)
  381. Flying Saucer Attack - Mirror CD (Drag City)
  382. Flavor Flav - It's About Time (WEA/Lightyear)
  383. Fleurety - Department of Apocalyptic Affairs (Superal Music)
  384. Funkstrung - Appetite For Disctruction (!K7)
  385. Nelly Furtado - Whoa Nelly! (Dreamworks)
  386. Fushitsusha - I Saw It! That Which Before I Could Only Sense (Paratactile)
  387. Fuzzbubble (Future Primitive)
  388. Sue Garner & Rick Brown - Still (Thrill Jockey)
  389. Laurent Garnier - Unreasonable Behaviour (Mute)
  390. Geneva - Weather Underground (Nude)
  391. Godzik Pink - Es Em, Ekel Em (5 Rue Christine)
  392. Chilly Gonzales - The Entertainist (Kitty-Yo)
  393. Gourds - Bolsa de Agua (Sugar Hill)
  394. Green Velvet (Warner)
  395. David Grubbs - The Spectrum Between (Drag City)
  396. Gul 3 - Soul (Crazy Wisdom)
  397. H?kan Hellstr?m - K?nn Ingen Sorg f?r Mig G?teborg (Virgin)
  398. Haunted - Made Me Do It (Earache)
  399. Roy Haynes Trio - Featuring Danilo Perez & John Patitucci (Verve)
  400. Hepcat - Push 'N Shove (Hellcat/Epitaph)
  401. The Hives - Veni, Vidi, Vicious (Burning Heart/Epitaph)
  402. Hoahio - Ohayo Hoahio (Tzadik)
  403. Susie Ibarra - Flower After Flower (Tzadik)
  404. Ryoji Ikeda - Matrix (Touch)
  405. The Januaries (Foodchain)
  406. Philip Jeck - Vinyl Coda 1-III (Intermedium)
  407. Jega - Geometry (Matador)
  408. The Jigsaw Seen - Zenith (Vibro-Phonic/Eggbert)
  409. Jucifer - Calling All Cars On The Sunset Strip (Capricorn)
  410. June And the Exit Wounds - A Little More Haven Hamilton, Please (Marina)
  411. Kletka Red - Hybrid (Explain)
  412. Knife In The Water - Plays One Sound And Others (Glitterhouse)
  413. Koufax - It Had to Do With Love (Heroes & Villains)
  414. Kreidler - Weekend (Mute)
  415. Lamb Of God - New American Gospel (Prosthetic/Metal Blade)
  416. The Lazy Cowgirls - Somewhere Down the Line (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
  417. Lifter Puller - Fiestas Fiascos (French Kiss)
  418. Live Human - Elefish Jellyphant (Matador)
  419. Looper - The Geometrid (Sub Pop)
  420. Helen Love - Love And Glitter, Hot Days and Music (Che)
  421. Love Kit - The September Heads (Ginger)
  422. Jack Lukeman - Metropolis Blue (Razor & Tie)
  423. Luomo - Vocalcity (Force Inc.)
  424. Mahar Shalal Hash Baz - From A Summer To Another Summer (Geographic)
  425. The Makers - Rock Star God (Sub Pop)
  426. Mansun - Kix (WB)
  427. Mantaray - The Betty Poperetta (Mantaray)
  428. Mass - From Zero (Paratactile)
  429. Meat Puppets - Golden Lies (Atlantic)
  430. Medeski, Martin & Wood - The Dropper (Blue Note)
  431. Microstoria - MOdel 3, Step 2 (Thrill Jockey)
  432. The Mighty Wah! - Songs of Strength & Heartbreak (Castle)
  433. Mirah - You Think It's Like This, But Really... (K)
  434. Mr. 0120 - Analog Worms Attack (Mute)
  435. Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now (Reprise)
  436. Modernist - Explosion (Matador)
  437. Roy Montgomery - Allegory OF Hearing (Drunken Fish)
  438. M.O.P. - Warriorz (Loud)
  439. Chris Morris - Blue Jam (Warp)
  440. The Necks - Hanging Gardens (Fish Of Milk)
  441. New Bomb Turks - Nightmare Scenario (Epitaph)
  442. New Wet Kojak - Do Things (Beggars Banquet)
  443. Non - Receive The Flame (Mute)
  444. Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson & Sigur Rós - Angels of the Universe (Krunk)
  445. Orgy - Vapor Transmission (Elementree/Reprise)
  446. Orishas - A Lo Cubano (Universal)
  447. Greg Osby - The Invisible Hand (Blue Note)
  448. Panther Burns - Panther Phobia (In The Red)
  449. Reid Paley - Revival (Emusic)
  450. Papas Fritas - Buildings & Grounds (Minty Fresh)
  451. Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit (Jade Tree)
  452. Photek - Solaris (Astralwerks)
  453. Placebo - Black Market Music (Hut)
  454. Pole - Pole 3 (Kiff SM)
  455. The Poster Children - DDD (spinART)
  456. The Promise Ring - Electric Pink (Jade Tree)
  457. Chuck Prophet - The Hurting Business (Hightone)
  458. Alim Qasimov - Love's Deep Ocean (Network)
  459. The Queers - Beyond the Valley...of the Assfuckers (Hopeless)
  460. Rainer - Alpaca Lips (Glitterhouse)
  461. Amy Rigby - The Sugar Tree (Koch)
  462. Rinocerose - Installation Sonore (V2)
  463. The Rock*A*Teens - Sweet Bird of Youth (Merge)
  464. Josh Rouse - Home (Slow River)
  465. Sarge - Distant (Mud/Parasol)
  466. Saturnine - American Kestrel (Motorcoat)
  467. 7-Hurt2 - Audiophiliac (Output)
  468. 764-Hero - Weekends Of Sound (Up)
  469. Shark Quest - Man on Stilts (Merge)
  470. The Shazam - Godspeed The Shazam (Rainbow Quartz)
  471. Matthew Shipp - Pastoral Compusure (Thirsty Ear)
  472. Shivaree - I Oughta Give You A Shot... (Capitol)
  473. John Shough - Ultra Vega (Big Beef)
  474. Sick Of It All - Yours Truly (Fat Wreck Chords)
  475. The 6ths - Hyacinths And Thistles (Circus)
  476. Skull Kontrol - Zzzzz... (Tocuh & Go)
  477. Slobberbone - Everything YOu Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today (New West)
  478. Snapcase - Designs For Automotion (Victory)
  479. Johnny Society - Clairvoyance (Messenger)
  480. Sonic Sum - The Sanity Annex (Ozone Music)
  481. Speedball Baby - Uptight! (In The Red)
  482. Speedealer - Here Comes Death (Ryko Palm)
  483. Starflyer 59 - Everybody Makes Mistakes (Tooth & Nail)
  484. Starlight Mints - the dream that stuff was made of (See Thru Broadcasting)
  485. Matt Suggs - Golden Days Before They End (Merge)
  486. Sekou Sundiata - Long Story Short (Righteous Babe)
  487. Byron Stingily - Club Stories (Nervous)
  488. Suns Of Arqa - Cosmic Jugalbandi (Arka Sounds)
  489. Lewis Taylor - Lewis II (Universal/Island)
  490. Towa Tei - Last Century Modern (Elektra)
  491. David Thomas & the Foreigners - Bay City (Thirsty Ear)
  492. Tobias Delius 4 Tet - Toby's Mloby (ICP
  493. David Toop - 37th Floor At Sunset/Music for Mondophrenetic (Sub Rosa)
  494. Tosca - Suzuki (G-Stone)
  495. Town and Country - Decoration Day EP (Thrill Jockey)
  496. Travis - The Man Who (Epic)
  497. Tristeza - Dream Signals in Full Circles (Tiger Style)
  498. Tsar (Hollywood)
  499. Two Dollar Guitar - Weak Beats And Lame-Ass Rhymes (Smells Like)
  500. Two Lone Swordsmen - Tiny Reminders (Warp/Caroline)
  501. Max Tundra - Some Best Friend You Turned Out to Be (Domino)
  502. Underworld - Everything, Everything (V2)
  503. Unified Theory (3:33/Universal)
  504. The Up On In (ex-Jawbox) - Steps for the Light (Big Top)
  505. Paul Van Dyk - Out There And Back (Mute)
  506. Armand Van Helden - Killing Puritans (Armed)
  507. Vast - Music For People (Elektra)
  508. Vivid Low Sky - Music for Movies Unmade (Plastique)
  509. Christian Vogel - Rescate 137 (Nova/Mute)
  510. Paul Weller - Heliocentric (Polygram)
  511. Chris Whitley - Perfect Day (Valley Entertainment)
  512. Wilco & Billy Bragg - Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (WEA)
  513. Dar Williams - The Green World (Razor & Tie)
  514. Wondermints - Bali (Castle)
  515. The Wu-Tang Clan - The W (Loud)
  516. XTC - Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) (TVT)
  517. Otomo Yoshihide - Cathode (Tzadik)

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1999

    10-

  1. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I (De Soto)
  2. Sigur Rós - Agaetis Byrjun (FatCat/Bubble Core)
  3. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (WB)
  4. Unida - Coping With The Urban Coyote (Man's Ruin)
  5. OOIOO - Feather Float (Polys/Birdman)
  6. Arto Lindsay - Prize (Righteous Babe)
  7. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (Merge)

    9+

  8. The Screws - 12 New Hate-Filled Classics (In The Red)
  9. Clinton [Cornershop] - Disco & The Half Way To Discontent (Hut)
  10. Café Tacvba - Reves/Yosoy (WB)
  11. Turbonegro - Apcocalypse Dudes (Epitaph/Burning Heart)
  12. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Twilight Of The Idols (Dragonheart)
  13. Sons Of Otis - Temple Ball (Man's Ruin)
  14. Beck - Midnite Vultures (DGC)
  15. Wilco - Summerteeth (Reprise)
  16. Moby - Play (V2)
  17. Los Natas - Ciudad de Brahman (Man's Ruin)
  18. Opeth - Still Life (Peaceville/Snapper)
  19. Circle - Andexelt (Metomorphos)
  20. Tom Waits - Mule Variations (Epitaph)
  21. Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret (WB)
  22. Le Tigre (Mr. Lady)
  23. The White Stripes (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
  24. Royal Trux - Veterans of Disorder (Drag City)
  25. Basement Jaxx - Remedy (Astralwerks)
  26. Mr. Bungle - California (WB)
  27. Colour Haze - Periscope (Elektrohasch)
  28. Natacha Atlas - Gedida (Beggars Banquet)
  29. Melvins - The Maggot (Ipecac)
  30. Handsome Boy Modeling School [Prince Paul & The Automator)] - So...How's Your Girl? (Tommy Boy)
  31. Shack - H.M.S. Fable (Laurel/London)
  32. Nitin Sawhney - Beyond Skin (Outcaste)
  33. Cibo Matto - Stereotype A (WB)
  34. Home - XIV (Arena Rock)
  35. Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider (Capitol)
  36. The Delgados - Peloton (Chemikal Underground)
  37. I Am Spoonbender - Sender/Receiver (Gold Standard)
  38. Mestre Ambrosio - Fua Na Casa De Cabral
  39. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada EP (Kranky)
  40. The Roots - Things Fall Apart (MCA)
  41. Jim O'Rourke - Eureka (Drag City)
  42. The Black Heart Procession - 2 (Touch & Go)
  43. Sonic Youth - Goodbye 20th Century (Smells Like)
  44. Mouse On Mars - Niun Niggung (Domino/Thrill Jockey)
  45. Death In Vegas - The Contino Sessions (Time Bomb)
  46. Ibrahim Ferrer - Buena Vista Social Club Presents (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
  47. Khaled - Kenza (Barclay)
  48. Those Bastard Souls - Debt & Departure (V2)
  49. Sam Prekop (Thrill Jockey)
  50. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Spanish Dance Troupe (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
  51. Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla (Flydaddy)
  52. Mos Def - Black On Both Sides (Rawkus)
  53. Goodie Mob - World Party (LaFace)
  54. Lenine - Na Pressao (BMG Brasil)
  55. Soul Center (W.v.B.)
  56. Ben Christophers - My Beautiful Demon (V2)
  57. Lali Puna - Tridecoder (Darla)
  58. Mr. Scruff - Keep It Unreal (Ninja Tune)
  59. Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves (Tommy Boy)
  60. Matmos - The West (Deluxe/Vague Terrain)
  61. Tantalus - Another Failed Attempt (Fading Fantasy Failing)
  62. Ali Farka Toure - Niafunke (Hannibal)
  63. Tom Zé - Postmodern Platos: Remixes (Luaka Bop)
  64. David Sylvian - Dead Bees on a Cake (Virgin)
  65. Fabulosos Cadillacs - La Marcha Del Golazo Solitario (BMG Latin)
  66. Vinicius Cantuaria - Tucuma (Verve)
  67. Joe Pernice - Shappaquiddick Skyline (Sub Pop)
  68. Ely Guerra - Lotofire (Higher Octave)
  69. Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play "Voltage" in the Milky Night
  70. The Beta Band - The Three EPs (Astralwerks) (Elektra)
  71. Burning Airlines - Mission Control (Desoto)
  72. Number One Cup - People, People, Why Are We Fighting? (Flydaddy)
  73. Latin Playboys - Dose (WB)
  74. Cul De Sac - Crashes to Light, Minutes to Its Fall (Thirsty Ear)
  75. The Angels Of Light - New Mother (Young God)
  76. Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage Volume One (Flydaddy)
  77. Caetano Veloso - Livro (Nonesuch)
  78. Four Tet - Dialogue (Output)
  79. Electric Company - Omakase (Vinyl)
  80. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Xtra Acme USA (Matador)
  81. Archer Prewitt - White Sky (Carrot Top)
  82. The Aluminum Group - Pedals (Minty Fresh)
  83. Neurosis - Times Of Grace (Relapse)
  84. Tony Allen - Black Voices (Comet)
  85. The Atomic Bitchwax (Tee Pee)
  86. Wipers - The Power In One (Zeno)
  87. Freakwater - End Time (Thrill Jockey)
  88. Missy Elliott - Da Real World (EastWest)
  89. Cesaria Evora - Cafe Atlantico (BMG)
  90. dj Cheb i Sabbah - Shri Durga (Six Degrees)
  91. Today Is The Day - In The Eyes Of God (Relapse)
  92. Arab Strap - Elephant Shoe (Go Beat)
  93. Low - Secret Name (Kranky)
  94. Everything But The Girl - Temperamental (Atlantic)
  95. Carlinhos Brown - Omelete Man (Metro Blue)
  96. Buddy Miller - Cruel Moon (Hightone)
  97. Nebula - To The Center (Sub Pop)
  98. Rizwan-Muazam Qawwali Group - Sacrifice To Love (Real World)
  99. Wheat - Hope And Adams (Sugar Free)
  100. Lamb - Fear of Fours (Mercury/Island)
  101. Isis - The Red Sea EP (Second Nature)
  102. Fantomas (Ipecac)
  103. Kalyanji V. & Anandji V. Shah, Automator & DJ Shadow - Bombay The Hard Way: Guns, Cars And Sitars (Motel)
  104. Tindersticks - Simple Pleasure (London)
  105. The Daktaris - Soul Explosion (Desco)
  106. Madrugada - Industrial Silence (EMI)

    9

  107. Acid King - Busse Woods (Kreation)
  108. Melvins - The Bootlicker (Ipecac)
  109. The BellRays - Let It Blast (Vital Gesture)
  110. Lungfish - The Unanimous Hour (Dischord)
  111. Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again (Polyvinyl)
  112. Blur - 13 (Virgin)
  113. The Chemical Brothers - Surrender (Astralwerks)
  114. XTC - Apple Venus, Vol. 1(TVT)
  115. Joi - One and One Is One (Real World/Astralwerks)
  116. Femi Kuti - Shoki Shoki (Talkin' Loud)
  117. Badmarsh & Shri - Dancing Drums (Outcaste)
  118. Hamell On Trial - The Chord Is Mightier Than The Sword (Polygram)
  119. Sunny Day Real Estate - Live (Sub Pop)
  120. Beth Orton - Central Reservation (Arista)
  121. Kelly Willis - What I Deserve (Rykodisc)
  122. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Mojave (Slow River)
  123. The Hellacopters - Grande Rock (Sub Pop)
  124. Kampfar - Fra Underverdenen (Hammerheart)
  125. Labradford - E Luxo So (Kranky)
  126. Les Rhythmes Digitales - Darkdancer (Astralwerks)
  127. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn... (Epic)
  128. The Donnas - Get Skintight (Lookout!)
  129. The Faint - Blank-Wave Arcade (Saddle Creek)
  130. Shannon Wright - Flightsafety (Quarterstick)
  131. Solex - Pick Up (Matador)
  132. Mammoth Volume (Music Cartel)
  133. Quasi - Field Studies (Up)
  134. Fountains Of Wayne - Utopia Parkway (Atlantic)
  135. Velvet Crush - Free Expression (Bobsled)
  136. Spirit Caravan - Dreamwheel (MeteorCity)
  137. Country Teasers - Destroy All Human Life (Crypt)
  138. Spain - She Haunts My Dreams (Restless)
  139. Ember Swift - Permanent Marker (Few'll Ignite Sound)
  140. Julie Miller - Broken Things (Hightone)
  141. Randy Newman - Bad Love (Dreamworks)
  142. Breakbeat Era [Roni Size] - Ultra-Obscene (XL/A&M)
  143. Elf Power - A Dream In Sound (Arena Rock)
  144. Ani DiFranco - To The Teeth (Righteous Babe)
  145. Solarized - Neanderthal Speedway (Man's Ruin)
  146. Jessica Bailiff [& Low] - Hour of the Trace (Kranky)
  147. Gomez - Liquid Skin (Hut/Virgin)
  148. Sloan - Between The Bridges (murderrecords)
  149. Mark Lanegan - I'll Take Care Of You (Sub Pop)
  150. Bonnie Prince Billie (Will Oldham) - I See A Darkness (Palace)
  151. Deus - The Ideal Crash (Polygram)
  152. The Lonesome Organist - Cavalcade (Thrill Jockey)
  153. Andrea Parker - Kiss My Arp (Mo'Wax/Beggars Banquet)
  154. Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma - Sampradaya (Real World)
  155. The Apples In Stereo - Her Wallpaper Reverie (spinART)
  156. Cheikh Lo - Bambay Gueej (World Circuit)
  157. Damien Jurado - Rehearsals For Departure (Sub Pop)
  158. The Roots - Come Alive (MCA)
  159. Luna - The Days of Our Nights (Beggars Banquet)
  160. Various - Return of the Grievous Angel: Tribute to Gram Parsons (Almo)
  161. Matthew Sweet - In Reverse (Volcano)
  162. Afro Cuban All Stars - Distinto, Diferente (World Circuit)
  163. Bis - Social Dancing (Capitol)
  164. Luscious Jackson - Electric Honey (Grand Royal)
  165. Sloan - 4 Nights At the Palais Royale (murderecords)
  166. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Nigga Please (Elektra)
  167. Low - Christmas EP (Kranky)
  168. Bobby Conn - Llovessonngs EP (Thrill Jockey)
  169. The Creatures - Anima Animus (Instinct)
  170. Kool Keith (Dr. Doom) - First Come, First Served (Funky Ass Records)
  171. Trans Am - Futureworld (Thrill Jockey)
  172. Brokeback - Field Recordings From The Cook County Water Table (Thrill Jockey)
  173. Los Lobos - This Time (Hollywood)
  174. Joe Henry - Fuse (Mammoth)
  175. Banco de Gaia - The Magical Sounds of (Six Degrees)
  176. Black Tape for a Blue Girl - As One Aflame Laid Bare by Desire (Projekt)
  177. Innerzone Orchestra - Programmed (Astralwerks)
  178. Pavement - Terror Twilight (Matador)
  179. Bardo Pond - Set And Setting (Matador)
  180. DMX Krew - We Are DMX (Rephlex)
  181. Atari Teenage Riot - 60 Second Wipeout (Elektra)
  182. Dr. Isreal - Inna City Presure (Mutant Sound System)
  183. Shakti - Remember Shakti (PolyGram)
  184. Guided By Voices - Do The Collapse (TVT)
  185. Verbena - Into The Pink (Capitol)
  186. Kool Keith - Black Elvis/Lost in Space (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
  187. Peanut Butter Wolf - My Vinyl Weighs A Ton (Studio K7)
  188. Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock (Kill Rock Stars)
  189. The Chamber Strings - Gospel Morning (Bobsled)
  190. Tricky - Juxtapose (Island)
  191. Mandy Barnett - I've Got a Right to Cry (Sire)
  192. Mansun - Six (Epic)
  193. Of Montreal Presents The Gay Parade (Bar/None)
  194. Howie B - Snatch (Palm Pictures)
  195. Sly & Robbie VS Howie B - Drum 'N Bass: Stripped to the Bone (Palm Pictures)
  196. Roy Montgomery/Chris Heaphy - True (Kranky)
  197. Dwindle - Days Away (Guilt Ridden Pop)
  198. June Of 44 - Anahata (Quarterstick)
  199. Rachel's - Selenography (Quarterstick)
  200. Chuck E. Weiss - Extremely Cool (Slow River/Rykodisc)
  201. Orbital - The Middle Of Nowhere (London)
  202. Smog - Knock Knock (Drag City)
  203. Prodigy Presents - The Dirtchamber Sessions Vol. 1 (remix album) (Beggars Banquet)
  204. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (WB)
  205. Mick Turner - Marlan Rosa (Drag City)
  206. John McEntire - Reach The Rock (Hefty)
  207. Philosopher's Stone - Apparatus (Kranky)
  208. The London Suede - Head Music (Nude/Columbia)

    9-

  209. Enslaved - Blodhemn (Osmose)
  210. Fatso Jetson - Flames For All (Man's Ruin)
  211. Mogwai - Come On Die Young (Matador)
  212. Add N to X - Avant Hard (Mute)
  213. Alabama Thunder Pussy - River City Revival (Man's Ruin)
  214. Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning (A&M/Interscope)
  215. Make Up - Save Yourself (K)
  216. The Get Up Kids - Red Letter Day/Woodson EPs (Doghouse)
  217. Rage Against The Machine - The Battle Of Los Angeles (Epic)
  218. Pavement - Major Leagues EP (Matador)
  219. In Flames - Colony (Nuclear Blast)
  220. Nebula/Lowrider EP (Meteorcity)
  221. The Selecter - Performs the Trojan Songbook (Reeiver)
  222. Man...Or Astroman? - EEVIAC: Operational Index & Reference Guide... (Touch and Go)
  223. Poster Children - New World Record (SpinART)
  224. Angie Stone - Black Diamond (Arista)
  225. Stereo Total - Juke-Box-Alarm (Bobsled)
  226. Mike Ness - Under The Influences (Time Bomb)
  227. Voodoo Glow Skulls - Exitos al Carbon (Grito!)
  228. Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges (Century Media)
  229. Gus Gus - This Is Normal (4AD/WB)
  230. Cool Breeze - East Points Greatest Hit (UNI/Interscope)
  231. Mary J. Blige - Mary (MCA)
  232. Mike Ness - Cheating at Solitaire (Time Bomb)
  233. Goldfinger - Darrin's Coconut Ass EP (Mojo)
  234. Macy Gray - On How Life Is (Sony/Epic)
  235. Jason Falkner - Can You Still Feel? (Elektra)
  236. Waco Brothers - Wacoworld (Bloodshot)
  237. Melky Sedeck - Sister & Brother (MCA)
  238. Bows - Blush (Beggars Banquet)
  239. The Muffs - Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow (Honest Don's/Fat Wreck Chords)
  240. Squarepusher - Budakhan Mindphone EP (Warp)
  241. Katharine Whalen - & Her Jazz Squad (Mammoth)
  242. The Living End (Reprise)
  243. Various - Burning London: The Clash Tribute (Epic)
  244. The Rentals - Seven More Minutes (Maverick/Reprise)
  245. oRSo (Perishable)
  246. Arcwelder - Everest (Touch & Go)
  247. Nightmares on Wax - Carboot Soul (Matador)
  248. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Buck Jump (Mammoth)
  249. M People - Testify (Epic)
  250. Shannon Moore - LTD (FMA)
  251. Carlos Santana - Mumbo Jumbo (Arista)
  252. Out In Worship - Sterilized (Perishable)
  253. Drumhead (Perishable)
  254. Echo & The Bunnymen - What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? (London)
  255. Cesar Rosas - Soul Disguise (Rykodisc)
  256. David Bowie - hours... (Virgon)
  257. Huun-Huur-Tu - Where Young Grass Grows (Shanachie)
  258. Elastica - 6 Track EP (Deceptive)
  259. Ani DiFranco - Up Up Up Up Up Up (Righteous Babe)
  260. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (Nothing)
  261. The Beta Band (Astralwerks)
  262. Therefore - Krohm (Inlet)
  263. Jamiroquai - Synkronized (WORK Group)
  264. Pete Krebs & the Gossamer Wings - Sweet Ona Rose (Cavity Search)

    7

  265. Tori Amos - to venus and back (Atlantic)
  266. Filter - Title Of Album (Reprise)
  267. Ministry - Dark Side of the Spoon (WB)
  268. Penelope Houston - Tongue (Reprise)
  269. Paul Westerberg - Suicaine Gratifaction (Capitol)

    These Are Alphabetical Because I Have Not Yet Heard Them

  270. The American Analog Set - The Golden Band (Emperor Jones)
  271. American Football (Polyvinyl)
  272. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead - Madonna (Merge/Touch & Go)
  273. The Angry Samoans - The 90's Suck and So Do You (Triple X)
  274. Ash - Nu-Clear Sounds (DreamWorks)
  275. Autechre - EP7 (Warp/Nothing)
  276. The Auteurs - How I Learned To Love The Bootboys (Hut)
  277. Bailter Space - Solar.3 (Turnbuckle)
  278. Sandra Bell - City of Sorrow (VHF)
  279. Belloluna - Livid and Loving It (Daemon)
  280. Bike - Take In The Sun (March/Flying Nun)
  281. Biohazard - New World Disorder (Mercury/Def Jam)
  282. Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire, Oh! The Grandeur (Rykodisc)
  283. Frank Black & the Catholics - Pistolero (spinART)
  284. Blondie - No Exit
  285. Boo Radleys - Kingsize (Never)
  286. Broken Dog - Sleeve With Hearts (Piao!)
  287. Buckethead - Monsters And Robots (Higher Octave)
  288. Nigel Bunn - Index (Emperor Jones)
  289. Calavera - Day of the Dead (La Piedra del Rock)
  290. Catatonia - Equally Cursed & Blessed (Blanco Y Negro)
  291. Caustic Resin - Trick Question (Alias)
  292. Gustavo Cerati - Bocanada (BMG Latin)
  293. The Charlatans - Us And Us Only (MCA)
  294. The Clash - Live From Here To Eternity (Sony/Epic)
  295. Cobra Verde - Nightlife (Motel)
  296. Coil - Musick To Play in the Dark Vol. 1 (Chalice)
  297. Company Flow - Little Johnny From the Hospital (Rawkus)
  298. Continental Drifters - Vermillion (Razor & Tie)
  299. Cornelius - CM & FM (Matador)
  300. Holger Czukay - Good Morning Story (Tone Casualties)
  301. Vanessa Daou - Dear John Coltrane (Oxygen Music Works)
  302. Dolly Varden - The Dumbest Magnets (Evil Teen)
  303. Charles Douglas - The Lives Of Charles Douglas (No. 6)
  304. Heather Duby - Post To Wire (Sub Pop)
  305. The Dylan Group - More Adventures In Lying Down (Bubble Core)
  306. Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band - The Mountain (E-Squared)
  307. East River Pipe - The Gasoline Age (Merge)
  308. Electronic - Twisted Tenderness (Parlophone)
  309. Elf Power - Come On EP (Little Army/Carrot Top)
  310. Entombed - Black Juju EP (Man's Ruin)
  311. EPMD - Out of Business (Def Jam)
  312. Euphone - The Calendar Of Unlucky Days (Jade Tree)
  313. Eurythmics - Peace (Arista)
  314. The Fall - The Marshal Suite (Circus Artful)
  315. Fernando - Old Man Hotel (Cravedog)
  316. Faust - Ravviando (Klangbad)
  317. Flin Flon - Boo-Boo (Teenbeat)
  318. Gay Dad - Leisure Noise (WEA/Sire)
  319. G Love & Special Sauce - Philadelphonic (Okeh/550)
  320. Gene Loves Jezebel - VII (Robison)
  321. Ghost - Snuffbox Immanence (Drag City)
  322. Ghost - Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet (Drag City)
  323. Gigolo Aunts - Minor Chords & Major Themes (E Pluribus Unum)
  324. The Go - Whatcha Doin' (Sub Pop)
  325. Godflesh - Us And Them (Earache)
  326. Alex Gopher - You, My Baby&I (V2)
  327. Gwar - We Kill Everything (Metal Blade)
  328. GZA/Genius - Beneath The Surface (MCA)
  329. Keiji Haino - An Unclear Trial: More Than This (Avant)
  330. The Hang-Ups - Second Story (Restless)
  331. Ben Harper, Burn to Shine (Virgin)
  332. Hasidic New Wave - Kabalogy (Knitting Factory)
  333. The Herbaliser - Very Mercenary (Ninja Tune)
  334. Kristin Hersh - Sky Motel (4AD)
  335. Hi Fi Killers - Control Jamaica (Loosegroove)
  336. High Llamas - Snowbug (V2)
  337. Robyn Hitchcock - Jewls For Sophia (WB)
  338. Linda Husik - Mad Flavor (Alias)
  339. The Iguanas - Sugartown (Koch)
  340. Imperial Teen - What Is Not To Love (WB)
  341. Indigo Girls - Come On Now Social (Epic)
  342. Isotope 217 - Utonian Automatic (Thrill Jockey)
  343. Wyclef Jean - Life (Original Soundtrack) (Interscope)
  344. Jim And Jennie And The Pine Barons (Phovsho)
  345. Freedy Johnston - Blue Days, Black Nights (Elektra)
  346. June Of 44 - In The Fishtank EP (Quarterstick)
  347. Juno - This Is The Way It Goes and Goes And Goes (DeSoto/Pacifico)
  348. Paul K. and the Prayers - Saratoga (Alias)
  349. Kid Silver - Dead City Sunbeams (Jetset)
  350. KMFDM - Adios(Wax Trax!)
  351. Krispy - From the Country (Bomb Hip-Hop)
  352. Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions (!K7)
  353. Ben Lee - Breathing Tornadoes (Grand Royal)
  354. Le Mans - Aqui Vivia Yo (Elefant-Grimsey)
  355. Light Bright Highway - Moon Glory and The 7th Sun (Two Ohm Hop)
  356. The Lilac Time - Looking For A Day In The Night (spinART)
  357. The Longpigs - Mobile Home (Mothe)
  358. Loop Guru - Fountains of Paradise (Hypnotic/Cleopatra)
  359. Love As Laughter - Destination 2000 (Sub Pop)
  360. Love Battery - Confusion Au Go Go (C/Z Records)
  361. The Long Beach Dub All Stars - Burn Unit (Skunk)
  362. Love As Laughter - Destination: 2000 (Sub Pop)
  363. L7 - Slap Happy (Wax Tadpole/Bong Load)
  364. Macha - see It Another Way (Jetset)
  365. Machine Head - The Burning Red (Roadrunner)
  366. Material - Intonarumori (Axiom/Palm Pictures)
  367. MC Solaar - Le Tour De La Question (WEA)
  368. Mobb Deep - Murda Muzik (Sony/Columbia)
  369. Mojave 3 - Out Of Tune (4AD/Sire)
  370. Moloko - I Am Not A Doctor (WB)
  371. The Montgolfier brothers - Seventeen Stars (Vespertine)
  372. Muslimgauze - Hussein Mahmood Jeeb Tehar Gass (Soleilmoon)
  373. Mu-Ziq - Royal Astronomy (Astralwerks)
  374. My Morning Jacket - The Tennessee Fire (Darla)
  375. Nas - I Am...The Autobiography (Columbia)
  376. Me'Shell Ndeg?ocello - Bitter (Columbia)
  377. Naked Funk - Evolution ending (Palm Pictures)
  378. New Bomb Turks - Crash '99 (All City/Columbis)
  379. The Nerves - Right Now (Estrus)
  380. Nocternal Emissions - Futurist Antiquarianism (Soleilmoon)
  381. Old 97's - Fight Songs (Elektra)
  382. Otherstarpeople - Diamonds In the Belly Of The Dog (A&M)
  383. Oval - Aero Deko (Thrill Jockey)
  384. Oval - Svendisk (Thrill Jockey)
  385. Pachinko - Splendor In The Ass II: Electric Boogaloo (Alternative Tentacles)
  386. Pan sonic - A (Mute)
  387. Pelt - Empty Bell Ringing In The Sky (VHF)
  388. Pharoahe Monch - Internal Affairs (Rawkus)
  389. Joel Phelps - Blackbird (Pacifico)
  390. Piano Magic - Low Birth Weight (Rocket Girl)
  391. Pizzicato Five - The International Playboy & Playgirl Record (Matador)
  392. Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork (Nothing)
  393. Plone - For Beginner Piano (Warp/Matador)
  394. Pole 2 (Matador)
  395. Rose Polenzani - Anybody (Daemon)
  396. Iggy Pop - Avenue B (Virgin)
  397. Pretenders - ?Viva El Amor!(Warner Bros)
  398. Primus - Anti Pop (Interscope)
  399. The Promise Ring - Very Emergency (Jade Tree)
  400. Public Enemy - There's a Poison Goin' On (Atomic Pop)
  401. The Queers - Later Days and Better Days (Lookout!)
  402. Quickspace - Precious Falling (Hidden Agenda/Parasol)
  403. Ratos de Parao - Carneceria Tropicale (Alternative Tentacles)
  404. Red House Painters - Old Ramon (Supreme/Island)
  405. The Red Krayola - Finger Painting (Drag City)
  406. Red Monkey - Difficult Is Easy (Troubleman)
  407. Red Stars Theory - Life in a Bubble Can Be Beautiful (Touch and Go)
  408. Regia - The Art of Navigation (spin-ART)
  409. Stan Ridgway - Anatomy (New West)
  410. Rick Rizzo & Tara Key - Dark Edson Tiger (Thrill Jockey)
  411. Salako - Musicality (Jeepster)
  412. Sebadoh - The Sebadoh (Sub Pop/Sire)
  413. Seaweed - Actions and Indications (Merge)
  414. Selecter - Cruel Britannia (Snapper)
  415. Skull Kontrol - Deviate Beyond All Means of Capture (Touch & Go)
  416. Luke Slater - Wireless (NovaMute)
  417. Sleepyhead - The Brighter Shore (Sealed Fate)
  418. Songs: Ohia - Axxess and Ace (Secretly Canadian)
  419. Stars Of The Lid - Avec Laudenum (Sub Rosa)
  420. Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails (V2)
  421. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - X-Ray Style (Hellcat)
  422. Superchunk - Come Pick Me Up (Merge)
  423. Supersuckers - The Evil Poers Of Rock 'n' Roll (Tenty14/Koch)
  424. Switchblade Symphony - The Three Calamities (Cleopatra)
  425. Tarwater - Silur (Kitty-Yo/Mute)
  426. 10,000 Maniacs The Earth Pressed Flat (Bar/None)
  427. Jimi Tenor - Organism (Sire/Warp)
  428. David Thomas - Mirror Man (Thirsty Ear)
  429. Sally Timms - Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments (For Lost Buckaroos) (Bloodshot)
  430. David Toop - Museum Of Fruit (Caiprinha/Sire)
  431. Travis - The Man Who (Sony)
  432. To Roccoco Rot - The Amateur View (Mute)
  433. Dwight Twilley - Tulsa (Coper)
  434. Underworld - Beaucoup Fish (TVT)
  435. U.S. Maple - Talker (Drag City)
  436. Vandermark 5 - Simpatico (Atavistic)
  437. Versus - Afterglow EP (Merge)
  438. Ben Wa - Devil Dub (Black Hole)
  439. Ween - Paintin' the Town Brown (Elektra)
  440. We Ragazzi - Suicide Sound System (My Pal God)
  441. Peter Whitehead - Three Bags Full (Strange Attractor)
  442. Steve Wynn - My Midnight (Zero Hour)
  443. Zen Guerilla - Trance Status In Tongues (Sub Pop)
  444. Z'ev - Face The Wound (Soleilmoon)
  445. Various - Source Material (French) (Source/Astralwerks)
  446. Various - Tuva: Among The Spirits (Smithsonian Folkways)

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1998

    10-

  1. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire? (Island)
  2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Merge)
  3. Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children (Matador)
  4. Boredoms - Super Ae (Birdman)
  5. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - f#a# (Kranky)
  6. Arto Lindsay - Noon Chill (Bar/None)
  7. Tom Zé - Fabrication Defect (Luaka Bop)
  8. Queens Of the Stone Age (Loosegroove)

    9+

  9. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs (V2)
  10. Turbonegro - Apcocalypse Dudes (Epitaph/Burning Heart)
  11. Motorpsycho - Trust Us (Stickman)
  12. Massive Attack - Mezzanine (Virgin)
  13. Mark Hollis (Universal)
  14. Cornelius - Fantasma (Matador)
  15. Asian Dub Foundation - Rafi's Revenge (London)
  16. Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come (Epitaph)
  17. Afghan Whigs - 1965 (Columbia)
  18. Long Fin Killie - Amelia (Too Pure)
  19. Royal Trux - Accelerator (Drag City)
  20. Outkast - Aquemini (LaFace)
  21. Beck - Mutations (Geffen)
  22. Spiritual Beggars - Mantra III (Music For Nations)
  23. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme (Matador/Capitol)
  24. Cat Power - Moon Pix (Matador)
  25. Air - Moon Safari (Source/Caroline)
  26. Pram - North Pole Radio Station (Merge)
  27. Amon Tobin - Permutation (Ninja Tune)
  28. Elliott Smith - XO (Dreamworks)
  29. Otto - Samba Pra Burro (Trama)
  30. Belle & Sebastion - The Boy With the Arab Strap (Matador)
  31. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse)
  32. Tortoise - TNT (Thrill Jockey)
  33. Pulp - This Is Hardcore (Island)
  34. Rancid - Life Won't Wait (Epitaph)
  35. Spoon - A Series Of Sneaks (Elektra)
  36. The Eels - Electro-Shock Blues (Dreamworks)
  37. The Black Heart Procession - 1 (Cargo)
  38. Smashing Pumpkins - Adore (Virgin)
  39. Schneider TM - Moist (City Slang/Mute)
  40. Autechre - LP5 (Nothing/Warp)
  41. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury)
  42. Leila - Like Weather (Rephlex)
  43. Tricky - Angels With Dirty Faces (Island)
  44. Mudhoney - Tomorrow Hit Today (Reprise)
  45. Tied + Tickled Trio (Bingo)
  46. Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos - The Prosthetic Cubans (Atlantic)
  47. Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On (Sub Pop)
  48. Mundo Livre S.A. - Carnaval Na Obra (Abril)
  49. Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli (Rawkus)
  50. Eleni Mandell - Wishbone (Mr. Charles)
  51. Squarepusher - Music Is Rotted One Note (Warp)
  52. The Notwist - Shrink (Zero Hour)
  53. Cheb Mami - Meli Meli (Ark 21/Virgin)
  54. Gastr Del Sol - Camoufleur (Drag City)
  55. Jets To Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary (Jade Tree)
  56. The Grassy Knoll - III (Antilles)
  57. Lhasa - La Llorona (Atlantic)
  58. Ernest Ranglin - In Search Of The Lost Riddim (Palm Pictures-Rykodisc)
  59. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue (Elektra)
  60. David Grubbs - The Thicket (Drag City)
  61. Maryam Mursal - The Journey (Real World)
  62. At The Drive-In - in/CASINO/OUT (Fearless)
  63. Yungchen Lhamo - Coming Home (Real World)
  64. Lenine - O dia em que faremos contato (BMG Brasil)
  65. Radio Tarifa - Temporal (World Circuit)
  66. Transglobal Underground - Rejoice Rejoice (MCA)
  67. Talvin Singh - OK (Island)
  68. Sierra Maestra - Tibiri Tabera (World Circuit)
  69. Conjunto Cespedes - Flores (Xenophile)
  70. Rocket From the Crypt - RFTC (Interscope)
  71. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty (Grand Royal/Capitol)
  72. Stereolab - Aluminum Tunes (Switched On Vol. 3) (Drag City)
  73. Swervedriver - 99th Dream (Zero Hour)
  74. Rufus Wainright (Dreamworks)
  75. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth (Import)
  76. Manu Chao - Clandestino (Ark 21)
  77. Madonna - Ray Of Light (Maverick)
  78. Electric Company - Studio City (Polygram)
  79. Walt Mink - Goodnite (Deep Elm)
  80. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse (Century Media)
  81. Death - Sound Of Perseverence (Nuclear Blast)
  82. Monster Magnet - Powertrip (A&M)
  83. Cadallaca - Introducing Cadallaca (K)
  84. Rhythm & Sound with Tikiman - Showcase (Burial Mix)
  85. Chico Science & Nação Zumbi - CSNZ (Sony International)
  86. Fugazi - End Hits (Dischord)
  87. Pinetop Seven - Rigging The Toplights (Truckstop/Atavistic)
  88. Calexico - The Black Light (Quarterstick)

    9

  89. Colour Haze - Seven (Selfburn)
  90. Os Paralamas do Sucesso - Hey Hey Na Na (EMI Brazil)
  91. Mark Lanegan - Scraps At Midnight (Sub Pop)
  92. Terra Firma (Music Cartel)
  93. Orange Goblin - Time Travelling Blues (The Music Cartel/Rise Above)
  94. Boris - Amplifier Worship (Mangrove/Southern Lord)
  95. Isis - Mosquito Control EP (Escape Artist)
  96. Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh (Earache)
  97. R.E.M. - Up (WB)
  98. Death Cab For Cutie - Something About Airplanes (Barsuk)
  99. Quasi - Featuring "Birds" (Up)
  100. Cinerama - Va Va Voom (SpinArt)
  101. Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka (Relapse)
  102. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Munki (Sub Pop)
  103. Sheavy - The Electric Sleep (Music Cartel)
  104. The Delgados - Peloton (Mantra/Chemical Underground)
  105. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Flying Low (Slow River)
  106. The Haunted (Earache)
  107. Meshuggah - Chaosphere (Nuclear Blast)
  108. The Spinanes - Arches And Aisles (Sub Pop)
  109. Jessamine - Don't Stay Too Long (Kranky)
  110. Richard Davies - Telegraph (Flydaddy)
  111. Plush - More You Becomes You (Drag City)
  112. The Cows - Sorry In Pig Minor (Amphetamine Reptile)
  113. Sloan - Navy Blues (murderrecords)
  114. Lo-Fidelity Allstars - How To Operate With A Blown Mind (Skint/Columbia)
  115. Lambchop - What Another Man Spills (Merge)
  116. Busta Rhymes - Extinction Level Event (Elektra)
  117. Money Mark - Push The Button (Mo Wax)
  118. Lee Fields - Let's Get A Groove On (Desco)
  119. Whale - All Disco Dancing Must End in Broken Bones (Virgin)
  120. Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves (Geffen)
  121. African Head Charge VS. Professor Stretch - Drums Of Defiance (On-U Sound)
  122. Sue Garner - To Run More Smoothly (Thrill Jockey)
  123. Pere Ubu - Pennsylvania (Cooking Vinyl)
  124. Fun-Da-Mental - Erotic Terrorism (Beggars Banquet)
  125. Mary Lou Lord - Got No Shadow (Sony Work Group)
  126. Kahimi Karie (Minty Fresh)
  127. Pernice Brothers - Overcome By Happiness (Sub Pop)
  128. Ozomatli (Almo Sounds)
  129. Clutch - The Elephant Riders (Columbia)
  130. Bloque (Luaka Bop)
  131. Pole - CD1 (Kiff/Matador)
  132. moodyMANN - silentintroduction (planet e)
  133. Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way, Baby (Astralw%rks)
  134. P.W. Long - Push Me Again (Touch & Go)
  135. Ani DiFranco - Little Plastic Castle (Righteous Babe)
  136. Firewater - The Ponzi Scheme (Jetset)
  137. Rachid Taha - Diwan (Island)
  138. Baaba Maal - Nomad Soul (Island)
  139. Seam - The Pace Is Glacial (Touch & Go)
  140. Gang Starr - Moment of Truth (Noo Trybe/Virgin)
  141. Goodie Mob - Still Standing (Laface/Arista)
  142. Barry Adamson - As Above So Below (Mute)
  143. Los De Abajo (Luaka Bop)
  144. Bobby Conn - Rise Up! (Truckstop/Atavistic)
  145. Freakwater - Springtime (Thrill Jockey)
  146. The Aluminum Group - Plano (Minty Fresh)
  147. Chicago Underground Duo - 12 Degrees Of Freedom (Thrill Jockey)
  148. Diamanda Galas - Malediction And Prayer (Mute)
  149. Saint Etienne - Good Humor (Sub Pop)
  150. Bharat Shah - Dil Se (Venus)
  151. Alabama Thunder Pussy - Rise Again (Man's Ruin)
  152. Souled American - Frozen (Checkered Past)
  153. Ui - Lifelike (Southern)
  154. Various - Great Jewish Music: Marc Bolan (Tzadik)
  155. Trans Am - The Surveillance (Thrill Jockey)
  156. Boukman Eksperyans - Revolution (Tuff Gong)
  157. DeeJay Punk-Roc - ChickenEye (Independente/Epic)
  158. Richard Buckner - Since (MCA)
  159. June of 44 - Four Great Points (Quarterstick)
  160. Silkworm - Blueblood (Touch & Go)
  161. King Sunny Ade - Odu (Mesa)
  162. Dirty Three - Ocean Songs (Touch & Go)
  163. Grooverider - Mysteries Of Funk (Columbia)
  164. Uilab - Fires EP (Bingo/Duophonic)
  165. Jonathon Richman - I'm So Confused (WB)
  166. Canibus - Can-I-Bus (Universal)
  167. Orange Goblin - Time Travelling Blues (The Music Cartel/Rise Above)
  168. Shellac - Terraform (Touch & Go)
  169. The Detroit Cobras - Mink Rat Or Rabbit (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
  170. Nebula - Let It Burn (Relapse)
  171. Hole - Celebrity Skin (Geffen)
  172. Donnas - American Teenage Rock 'N' Roll Machine (Lookout!)
  173. Min Xiao-Fen - Spring River Flower Moon Night (Asphodel)
  174. New Bomb Turks - At Rope's End (Epitaph)
  175. Nashville Pussy - Let Them Eat Pussy (Amphetamine Reptile)
  176. Hector Zazou & Katie McMahon - Lights in the Dark (Erato/Detour/Atlantic)
  177. Sam Mangwana - Galo Negro (Putumayo)
  178. Mike Nicolai - The Balloon Race EP (Tramp Art)
  179. The Black Crowes - By Your Side (American/Columbia)
  180. Gaunt - Bricks And Blackouts (WB)
  181. Aterciopelados - Caribe Atomico (BMG Latin)
  182. Plastilina Mosh - Aquamosh (Capitol)
  183. Propellerheads - Decksanddrumsandrockandroll (Wall)
  184. Dub Pistols - Point Blank (Concrete)
  185. Boxhead Ensemble - Dutch Harbor: Where The Sea Breaks Its Back (Atavistic)
  186. Anoushka Shankar - Anoushka (Angel
  187. The Adjusters - The Politics Of Style (Jump Up Soul)
  188. Boxhead Ensemble - The Last Place To Go: Recordings form the Dutch Harbor European Film Screening Tour (Atavistic)
  189. Cows - Sorry In Pig Minor (Amphetamine Reptile)

    9-

  190. Unwound - Challenge For A Civilized Society (Kill Rock Stars)
  191. Son Volt - Wide Swing Tremolo (WB)
  192. System Of A Down (American)
  193. Public Enemy - He Got Game (Def Jam)
  194. Don Caballero - What Burns Never Returns (Touch & Go)
  195. Daniel Taubkin - Brazsil (Blue Jackel)
  196. High Llamas - Cold And Bouncy (V2/Alpaca)
  197. Six Finger Satellite - Law Of Ruins (Sub Pop)
  198. Snowpony - The Slow-Motion World (Radioactive)
  199. Starball - Holstein Park (Pussy Cat)
  200. Soilent Green - Sewn Mouth Secrets (Relapse)
  201. Girls Against Boys - Freak*On*Ica (Geffen)
  202. Spiritualized - Live At Albert Hall (BMG)
  203. Garbage - Version 2.0 (Almo Sounds)
  204. Buffalo Tom - Smitten (Polydor)
  205. Add N To X - On The Wires Of Our Nerves (Mute)
  206. Versus - Two Cents Plus Tax (Caroline)
  207. Tori Amos - From The Choirgirl Hotel (Atlantic)
  208. Heather Nova - Siren (Big Cat/Work)
  209. Stereo Total (Bobsled)
  210. U.N.K.L.E. - Psyence Fiction (PGD)
  211. Howe Gelb - Hisser (V2)
  212. Gomez - Bring It On (Virgin)

    8+

  213. Don Byron - An Existential Dred: Nu Blaxploitation (Blue Note)
  214. Cash Money - Halos Of Smoke And Fire (Touch & Go)
  215. Maxwell - Embrya (Columbia)
  216. Los Amigos Invisibles - The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera (Luaka Bop)
  217. Chocolate Genius - Black Music (V2)
  218. The Jesus Lizard - Blue (Capitol)
  219. Bad Religion - No Substance (Elektra)
  220. Goldie - Saturnz Return (ffrr)
  221. Soul Coughing - El Oso (WEA)
  222. Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours (Epic)
  223. Catatonia - International Velvet (Blanco Y Negro)
  224. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals (Nothing/Interscope)
  225. Liz Phair - whitechocolatespaceegg (Matador/Capitol)

    8

  226. Bob Mould - The Last Dog and Pony Show (Rykodisc)

    These Are Alphabetical Because I Have Not Yet Heard Them

  227. Fernanda Abreu - Raio X (EMI Brazil)
  228. Acid Mothers Temple And The Melting Paraiso UFO (PSF)
  229. Aerial M (Drag City)
  230. The Aislers Set - Terrible Things Happen (Slumberland)
  231. Tori Amos - From The Choirgirl Hotel (Atlantic)
  232. Anouk - Together Alone (Sony)
  233. Archers Of Loaf - White Trash Heroes (Alias)
  234. Arnold - Hillside (Sony Music)
  235. Ascension - Abomination (Toybox/Victoy)
  236. Ash - Nu-Clear Sounds (Reprise)
  237. Babe The Blue Ox - Way We Were (BMG)
  238. Bad Livers - Industry and Thrift (Sugar Hill)
  239. Derek Bailey & Min Xiao-Fen - Viper (Avant)
  240. Bang On A Can - Music For Airports (Point)
  241. Waldemar Bastos - Pretaluz [Blackligh] (Luaka Bop)
  242. Bedhead - Transaction De Novo (Touch & Go)
  243. Justin Bennett - The Mosques Of Tanger (Stallplaat)
  244. Bis - Intendo EP (Grand Royal)
  245. Black Eyed Peas - Behind The Front (Interscope)
  246. Johnny Blas - Mambo 2000 (Cubop Records)
  247. Boredoms - Super ae (WEA Japan)
  248. Jimmy Bosch - Soneando Trombon (Ryko Latino)
  249. BR5-49 - Big Backyard Beat Show (Arista)
  250. Califone (Flydaddy)
  251. Eliza Carthy - Red/Rice
  252. Neal Casal - Basement Dreams (Glitterhouse)
  253. Vic Chestnutt - The Salesman and Bernadette (Capricorn)
  254. Chocoalte Weasel - Spaghettification (Ninja Tune)
  255. Clem Snide - You Were a Diamond (Tractor Beam)
  256. Adam Cohen (Columbia)
  257. Coil - Time Machiens (Eskaton)
  258. Steve Coleman - Genesis & The Opening Of The Way (RCA)
  259. Come - Gently Down the Stream (Matador)
  260. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach - Painted From Memory (Polygram)
  261. The Coup - Steal This Album (Dogday)
  262. Creeper Lagoon - I Become Small & Go (Nickelbag)
  263. Crucial Conflict - Good Side Bad Side (Universal)
  264. Cowboy Junkies - Miles From Our Home
  265. Crimpshrine - Sound of a New World Being Born (Lookout)
  266. Cubante - Interference (Wax Trax!/TVT)
  267. Cypress Hill IV (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
  268. Olu Dara - In The World: From Natchez to New York (Atlantic)
  269. Death In June - Take Care and Control (World Serpent)
  270. Digital Underground - Who's Got the Gravy (Interscope)
  271. Divine Comedy - Fin De Siecle (V2)
  272. DJ Quik - Rhythm-Al-Ism (Profile/Arista)
  273. DJ Spooky - Synthetic Fury (Asphodel)
  274. DJ Spooky - Riddim Warfare (Outpost)
  275. Dmitri From Paris - Sacrebleu (Atlantic)
  276. Dr. Israel - Inna City Pressure (Mutant Sound System)
  277. Dave Douglas - Magic Triangle (Arabesque)
  278. Johnny Dowd - Wrong Side Of Memphis (Checkered Past)
  279. Arnold Dreyblatt - The Sound Of One String (Table of the Elements)
  280. Drums Of Death (Avant)
  281. The Dylan Group - It's All About (Rims Shots & Faulty Wiring) (Bubble Core)
  282. Echobelly - Lustra (Epic)
  283. E Dancer - Heavenly (Planet E)
  284. Embrace - The Good Will Out (DGC)
  285. Ester - Hotel Hypercube (Thirsty Ear)
  286. Experimental Audio Research - Millenium Music (Atavistic)
  287. Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo - Strange But True (Matador)
  288. Kali Fasteau - Camraderie (Flying Note)
  289. Flaming Lips - 1984-1990: A Collection Of Songs Representing An Enthusiasm For Recording...By Amateurs (Restless)
  290. John Forte - Poly Sci
  291. Frontier - 4 (Emperor Jones)
  292. Fushitsusha - Withdrawe, This SableDisclosure Ere Devot'd (Victo)
  293. Fushitsusha - The Wisdom Prepared (Tokuma)
  294. Alastair Galbraith - Mirrorwork (Emperor Jones)
  295. Ganger - Hammock Style (Merge)
  296. Gas - Zauberberg (Mille Plateaux)
  297. Gilberto Gil - O Sol De Oslo (Blue Jackel)
  298. God Is My Co-Piolot - Get Busy (Atavistic)
  299. God Lives Underwater - Life in teh So-Called Space Age (1500)
  300. High Llamas, Lollo Rosso, (V2)
  301. Robyn Hitchcock - Storefront Hitchcock (WB)
  302. Mark Hollis (Polydor)
  303. Hasidic New Wave - Psycho-Semitic (Knitting Factory)
  304. The Hellacopters - All (White Jazz)
  305. Kristin Hersh - Strange Angels (Rykodisc)
  306. High Rise - Desperado (PSF)
  307. Home - Netherregions (Jetset)
  308. Hooverphonic - Blue Wonder Power Milk (Epic)
  309. Tom House - This White Man's Burden (Checkered Past)
  310. Hum - Downward Is Heavenward (RCA)
  311. Linda Husik - Faith In Space (Alias)
  312. Ice - Bad Blood (WB)
  313. Imperial Teen - What Is Not to Love (London)
  314. Jack - The Jazz Age (Too Pure)
  315. Peter Jeffries - Substatic, (Emperor Jones)
  316. Juneau (Ba Da Bing!)
  317. Karnak (Tinder Production)
  318. Kreidler - Appearance And The Park (Kiff SM)
  319. Ladybug (Shock)
  320. Bill Laswell - Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis 1969-1974 (Columbia)
  321. Julian Lennon - Photograph Smile (Music From Another Room)
  322. Legendary Pink Dots - Nemesis On-Line (Soleilmoon)
  323. Alan Licht & Loren MazzaCane Connors - Hoffman Estates (Drag City)
  324. Local H - Pack Up The Cats (Island)
  325. The Loud Family - Days For Days (Alias)
  326. Joe Lovano - Trio Fascination: Edition One (Blue Note)
  327. Love And Rockets - Lift (Red Ant)
  328. Lyle Lovett - Step Inside This House (UNI/MCA)
  329. Magnog - More Weather (Kranky)
  330. Cheb Mami - Let Me Cry (Blue Silver)
  331. Man...Or Astro-Man? - Deux Ex Machina (Touch & Go)
  332. Medeski, Martin and Wood - Combustication (Blue Note)
  333. Metallica - Garage, Inc. (Elektra)
  334. Method Man - Tical 2000
  335. Merzbow - Aqua Necromancer (Alien8)
  336. Mimi - Soak (Luaka Bop)
  337. Mr. Quintron - These Hands Of Mine (Skin Graaft)
  338. Joni Mitchell - Taming The Tiger (Reprise)
  339. Mix Master Mike - Anti-Theft Device (Asphodel)
  340. Molotov - Donde Jugaran Las Ninas (UNI/Universal)
  341. Roy Montgomery - Eulogy For Nick Drake (Drunken Fish)
  342. Roy Montgomery - True (Kranky)
  343. Thurston Moore - Root (Lo)
  344. Morcheeba - Big Calm (Sony)
  345. Mouse On Mars - Glam (Sonig)
  346. Mount Shasta - Watch Out (Skin Graft)
  347. Movietone - Day & Night (Drag City)
  348. Jeff Muldaur - The Secret Handshake (Hightone)
  349. Nada Surf - The Proximity Effect (Elektra)
  350. No Means No - Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie (Alternative Tentacles)
  351. NRG Ensemble - Dejazzo Gets A Facelift (Atavistic)
  352. Sally Nyolo - Multiculti (Trop M)
  353. Olu Dara - In The World: From Natchez To New York (Atlantic)
  354. Oval/Christophe Charles - Dok (Thrill Jockey)
  355. Ozmatli (Uni/Almo Sounds)
  356. Pan-American (Kranky)
  357. Pedro The Lion - It's Hard to Find A Friend (Made in Mexico)
  358. Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Salute the Majesty of Bob Wills, the King of Western Swing: Traditionalist, Avant-Gardist, Pioneer, Magician (Bloodshot)
  359. Plaid - Not For Threes (Nothing)
  360. Plastikman - Consumed (NovaMute)
  361. Pluramon - Render Bandits (Mille Plateaux)
  362. Pras - Ghetto Supastar (Sony)
  363. Primus - Rhinoplasty (Interscope)
  364. PhonosycographDISK - Ancient Termites (Bomp Hip-Hop)
  365. The Push Kings - Far Places (Sealed Fate)
  366. Q-Burns Abstract Message - Feng Shui (Astralwerks)
  367. Rachid - Prototype (Universal)
  368. Redman - Doc's the Name Def (Jam/Mercury)
  369. Amy Rigby - Middlescence (Koch)
  370. Rialto (China Records)
  371. Dom Um Romao - Rhythm Traveller (Mr. Bongo)
  372. Rudimentary Peni - Echoes Of Anguish (Outer Himalayan)
  373. Ruins - Refusal Fossil (Skin Graft)
  374. RZA - Bobby Digital In Stereo (Gee Street/V2)
  375. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Love Is The Devil OST (Asphodel)
  376. Sarge - The Glass Intact (Mud)
  377. Scrawl - Nature Film (Elektra)
  378. Seal - Human Being (Warner Brothers)
  379. Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine (MCA)
  380. Jules Shear - Between Us (High Street)
  381. Shudder To Think - First Love Last Rites (Epic)
  382. Silver Jews - American Water (Drag City)
  383. Sister Soleil - Solarium (Universal)
  384. Sly & Robbie - Strip to the Bone (Palm Pictures)
  385. Solex - Solex Vs The Hitmeister (Matador)
  386. Soul Coughing - El Oso (WEA)
  387. Spring Heeled Jack - Songs from Suburbia (Ignition/Tommy Boy)
  388. Robert Stewart - The Force (Qwest/WB)
  389. Taraf De Haidouks - Dumbala Dumba (Crammed Discs)
  390. Tarwater - Silur (Kitty Yo)
  391. Techno Animal - Radio Hades (Caroline)
  392. Terre Thaemlitz - Means From An End (Mille Plateaux)
  393. Third Eye Foundation - You Guys Kill Me (Merge/Touch & Go)
  394. Ticklah - Polydemic (Razorfish Records)
  395. Timbaland - Tim's Bio
  396. Tomorrowland - Sequence of the Negative Space Changes (Kranky)
  397. A Tribe Called Quest - The Love Movement (Jive)
  398. Trumans Water - Fragments Of A Lucky Break (Emperor Jones)
  399. Trumystic Sound System - Product Three (Mutant Sound System)
  400. David Tudor - Rainforest (Mode)
  401. Two Dollar Guitar - Train Songs (Smells Like Records)
  402. Maldita Vecindad Y Los Hijos - Mostros (BMG Latin)
  403. Velvet Crush - Heavy Changes (Action Musik)
  404. Wagon Christ - Tally Ho! (Astralwerks)
  405. Don Walser - Down at the Sky-Vue Drive-In (Sire/Watermelon)
  406. David S. Ware - Go See The World (Columbia)
  407. Chris Watson - Outside The Circle Of Fire (Touch UK)
  408. Gillian Welch - Hell Among the Yearlings (Almo Sounds)
  409. William Grant Conspiracy - Flying Low (Slow River)
  410. Elmo Williams & Hezekiah Early - Takes One To Know One (Fat Possum)
  411. Windy & Carl - Depths (Kranky)
  412. Zeek Sheck - Good Luck Suckers (Skin Graft)
  413. John Zorn - The Circle Maker (Tzadik)
  414. Various - Dugga Dugga Dugga: Wire (WMO)
  415. Various - V Classic, Volume 1 (Konkrete Jungle/Ultra Records)

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1997

    10-

  1. Björk - Homogenic (Elektra)
  2. Radiohead - OK Computer (Capitol)
  3. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out (Kill Rock Stars)
  4. Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (Arista)
  5. Laika - Sounds of the Satellites (Too Pure)
  6. Arto Lindsay - Mundo Civilizado (Bar/None)
  7. Robert Wyatt - Shleep (Thirsty Ear)
  8. Walt Mink - Colossus (Deep Elm)

    9+

  9. Finley Quaye - Maverick A Strike (550 Music)
  10. Cornershop - When I Was Born For the 7th Time (Luaka Bop/WB)
  11. Portishead (London)
  12. Daft Punk - Homework (Virgin)
  13. Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole (Astralwerks)
  14. Missy Misdemeanor Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly (East/West)
  15. Sixteen Horsepower - Low Estate (A&M)
  16. Stereolab - Dots And Loops (Elektra)
  17. Blur (Virgin)
  18. The Flaming Lips - Zaireeka (WB)
  19. Catherine Wheel - Adam and Eve (Mercury)
  20. Primal Scream - Vanishing Point (Reprise)
  21. Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - Fabulosos Calavera (BMG)
  22. Richard Horowitz & Susan Deyhim - Majoun (Sony Classical)
  23. The Hellacopters - Payin' the Dues (Sub Pop)
  24. Amon Tobin - Bricolage (Ninja Tune)
  25. Elliott Smith - Either/Or (Kill Rock Stars)
  26. Polvo - Shapes (Touch & Go)
  27. Material Issue - Telecommando Americano (Rykodisc)
  28. Sigur Rós - Von (One Little Indian)
  29. Radio Tarifa - Rumba Argelina (World Circuit)
  30. Tortoise - Remixed (Tokuma/Thrill Jockey)
  31. Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy (Warp)
  32. Super Furry Animals - Radiator (Creation)
  33. Labradford - Mi Media Naranja (Kranky)
  34. Buena Vista Social Club with Ry Cooder (Nonesuch)
  35. Jim O'Rourke - Bad Timing (Drag City)
  36. Natacha Atlas - Halim (Nation)
  37. Cul De Sac & John Fahey - The Epiphany of Glenn Jones (Thirsty Ear)
  38. Carlinhos Brown - Alfagamabetizado (Metro Blue)
  39. Arto Lindsay - Hyper Civilizado (Gramavision)
  40. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (Matador)
  41. Richard Buckner - Devotion + Doubt (MCA)
  42. Susana Baca (Luaka Bop)
  43. X-Ecutioners - X-pressions (Asphodel)
  44. Eleventh Dream Day - Eighth (Thrill Jockey)
  45. Death In Vegas - Dead Elvis (Time Bomb)
  46. Casolando - Iliana: Carlos Ortega & his Latin Combo (482 Music)
  47. The Handsome Family - Through The Trees (Carrot Top)
  48. Fernanda Abreu - Raio X: Revista E Ampliada (EMI)
  49. The Walkabouts - Nighttown (Virgin)
  50. Archer Prewitt - In The Sun (Carrot Top)
  51. Pavement - Brighten The Corners (Matador)
  52. Erykah Badu - Baduizm (Universal)
  53. Orang' - Fields And Waves (Echo)
  54. u-Ziq - Lunatic Harness (Astralwerks)
  55. Cheikh Lo - Ne La Thiess (World Circuit)
  56. Primal Scream - Echo Dek (Reprise)
  57. Mouse On Mars - Autoditacker (Thrill Jockey)
  58. Pram - Music For Your Movies EP (Too Pure)
  59. Various - Return of the DJ, Vol. II (Bomb Hip-Hop)
  60. Helium - The Magic City (Matador)
  61. Khaled - Sahra (Island)
  62. Patti Smith - Peace & Noise (Arista)
  63. Mogwai - Young Team (Jetset)
  64. The Notwist - 12 (Zero Hour)
  65. Palace Songs - Lost Blues And Other Songs (Thrill Jockey)
  66. Wyclef Jean - The Carnival (Columbia)
  67. Joseph Arthur - Big City Secrets (Real World)
  68. Kool Keith - Sex Style (Funky Ass Records)
  69. Various - Star Rise: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Remixed (Real World)
  70. DJ Krush - Milight (Mo' Wax)
  71. Howie B - Turn the Dark Off (Elektra)
  72. Electric Company Plays Amnesia (Supreme/Island)
  73. Roni Size - Reprazent: New Forms (Mercury)
  74. The Orb - Orblivion (Island)
  75. David Holmes - Lets Get Killed (Go! Beat)
  76. Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On (WB)
  77. Entombed - To Ride, Shoot Straight And Speak The Truth (Music for Nations)
  78. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West (Up)
  79. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call (Reprise)
  80. Neko Case & her Boyfriends - The Virginian (Bloodshot)
  81. The Lonesome Organist - Collector of Cactus Echo Bags (Thrill Jockey)
  82. Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy (Sire)
  83. Trans Am - Surrender To The Night (Touch & Go)
  84. Royal Trux - Sweet Sixteen (Virgin)
  85. Godflesh - Love And Hate In Dub (Earache)
  86. The Delta 72 - The Soul of a New Machine (Touch & Go)
  87. Cash Money - Black Hearts and Broken Wills (Touch & Go)
  88. The Flaming Stars - Sell Your Soul To The Flaming Stars (Vinyl Japan)
  89. Vinicius Cantuaria - Sol Na Cara (Rykodisc)
  90. Gravediggaz - The Pick, the Sickle and the Shovel (Gee Street)
  91. Spoon - Soft Effects EP (Matador)
  92. Red Red Meat - There's A Star Above The Manger Tonight (Sub Pop)
  93. Mick Harvey - Pink Elephants (Mute)
  94. Rex - Rex 3 (Southern)
  95. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk (Century Media)
  96. Ween - The Mollusk (Elektra)
  97. Orange Goblin - Frequencies From Planet Ten (The Music Cartel/Rise Above)
  98. Broadcast - Work And Non-Work (Drag City)
  99. Dwarves - The Dwarves Are Young And Good Looking (Theologian/Epitaph)
  100. The Fucking Champs - III (Frenetic)
  101. Talvin Singh - Anokha: Soundz of the Asian Underground (Quango)
  102. Various - Vedic Presents Rhythmic Intelligence (Sub Rosa)

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  103. Desert Sessions - Vol. 1: Instrumental Driving Music for Felons (Man's Ruin)
  104. Kid Loco - A Grand Love Story (Yellow/East)
  105. Grandaddy - Under The Western Freeway (Will/V2)
  106. The Delgados - Domestiques (Chemikal Underground)
  107. Veruca Salt - Eight Arms To Hold You (Out Post)
  108. The Dismemberment Plan - Is Terrified (de Soto)
  109. Fu Manchu - The Action Is Go (Mammoth)
  110. Timbaland & Magoo - Welcome To Our World (Atlantic)
  111. The Wedding Present - Singles 1995-97 (Cooking Vinyl/spinART)
  112. Lake of Dracula (Skin Graft)
  113. Lambchop - Thriller (Merge)
  114. Melvins - Honky (Amphetamine Reptile)
  115. Cesaria Evora - Cabo Verde (Nonesuch)
  116. Fatso Jetson - Power Of Three (SST)
  117. Virginia Rodrigues - Sol Negro (Natasha)
  118. Jim White - Wrong-Eyed Jesus (Luaka Bop)
  119. Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant (Century Media)
  120. Corrupted - Paso Inferior (Frigidity)
  121. The Gothic Archies (Magnetic Fields) - The New Despair EP (Merge)
  122. Rainer Maria - Past Worn Searching (Polyvinyl)
  123. Today Is The Day - Temple Of The Morning Star (Amphetamine Reptile)
  124. Various Artists - September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (Sony)
  125. Guided By Voices - Mag Earwhig! (Matador)
  126. Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope (Virgin)
  127. Ganger - Fore (Domino)
  128. The Bottle Rockets - 24 Hours A Day (Atlantic)
  129. Space Needle - The Moray Eels Eat the Space Needle (Valley)
  130. The Sea And Cake - The Fawn (Thrill Jockey)
  131. P.W. Long's Reelfoot - We Didn't See You On Sunday (Touch & Go)
  132. Badawi - Jerusalem Under Fire (ROIR)
  133. Buddy Miller - Poison Love (Hightone)
  134. Beth Orton - Trailer Park (Dedicated)
  135. Bis - The New Transistor Heroes (Grand Royal)
  136. Various - Nuyorican Soul (Giant Step/Blue Thumb)
  137. Dinosaur Jr. - Hand It Over (Reprise)
  138. Carlos Vives - Tengo Fe (EMI Latin)
  139. Stars of the Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra (Kranky)
  140. Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain (Columbia)
  141. The Verve - Urban Hymns (Virgin)
  142. Fatboy Slim - Better Living Through Chemistry (Astralwerks)
  143. Erykah Badu - Baduizm (Universal)
  144. Helium - No Guitars EP (Matador)
  145. The Donnas (Super*Teem!/Lookout!)
  146. Photek - Risk Vs. Reward (Virgin)
  147. Autechre - Chiastic Slide (Warp)
  148. The Infections - Kill (Rip Off)
  149. Te Vaka - Pacific Music (Arc)
  150. Boymerang - Balance Of The Force (Astralwerks)
  151. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Barafundle (Mercury)
  152. Bantam Rooster - Deal Me In (Crypt)
  153. Banco de Gaia - Big Men Cry (Planet Dog/Mammoth)
  154. The Apples In Stereo - Tone Soul Evolution (spinART/Sire)
  155. HIM - Interpretive Belief System (WordSound)
  156. Bardo Pond - Lapsed (Matador)
  157. Kid Loco - A Grand Love Story (Yellow)
  158. Doldrums - Acupuncture (Kranky)
  159. Spectrum - Forever Alien (Space Age)
  160. Amp - astralmoonbeamprojections (Kranky)
  161. Luna - Pup Tent (Elektra)
  162. Tranquility Bass - Let The Freak Flag Fly (Astralwerks)
  163. The Jayhawks - Sound Of Lies (American)
  164. Hurricane #1 (Creation/Sire)
  165. Steve Earle - El Corazon (WB)
  166. Various - Spawn The Album (Immortal/Epic)
  167. DJ Food - Refried Food (Shadow)
  168. Atari Teenage Riot - Burn, Berlin, Burn (Grand Royal)
  169. Tindersticks - Curtains (London)
  170. Mike Nicolai (Tramp Art)
  171. Moloko - Do You Like My Tight Sweater? (WB/Echo)
  172. Moby (Voodoo Child) - The End Of Everything (Elektra)
  173. Rockers Hi-Fi - Mish Mash (WB)
  174. Panasonic - Kulma (Blast First)
  175. Common - One Day It Will All Make Sense (Relativity)
  176. Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus (Official/Rawkus)
  177. Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land (Maverick)
  178. Ani Difranco - Living In Clip (Righteous Babe)
  179. The High Llamas - Hawaii (V2)
  180. Claw Hammer - Hold Your Tongue (and say apple) (Interscope)
  181. Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind (Columbia)
  182. DJ Shadow - Preemptive Strike EP (Mo Wax)
  183. Busta Rhymes - When Disaster Strikes (Elektra)
  184. Wu-Tang - Wu-Tang Forever (Loud/RCA)
  185. Various - Grooverider Presents the Prototype Years (Columbia)
  186. Ry Cooder - The End of Violence Soundtrack (Outpost)
  187. Spanish Fly - Fly By Night (Accurate)
  188. Souled American - Notes Campfire (MoII)
  189. Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
  190. Run On - No Way (Matador)
  191. Wabi Sabi (a-Musik)
  192. Wuhling - Extra 6 (Touch & Go)
  193. The Bottle Rockets - 24 Hours A Day (Atlantic)

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  194. Dwindle - Recently Okay (Guilt Ridden Pop)
  195. Rainer Maria EP (Polyvinyl)
  196. Scorn - [zAndEr] (Invisible)
  197. The Grifters - Full Blown Possession (Sub Pop)
  198. Faith No More - Album Of The Year (Slash/Reprise)
  199. Mahmoud Ahmed - Soul Of Addis (Earthworks)
  200. Low - Songs for a Dead Pilot EP (Kranky)
  201. Harmony Rockets - Golden Ticket EP (Big Cat)
  202. BMX Bandits - Theme Park (Creation)
  203. Dirty Old Man River (Radial)
  204. Slipstream - Be Groovy Or Leave (Primary/Che)
  205. A New January - After Clothes (Negative Nine)
  206. Cranes - Population Four (Dedicated)
  207. Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X (Virgin)
  208. Cibo Matto - Super Relax EP (WB)
  209. Fleetwood Mac - The Dance (Reprise)
  210. Waco Brothers - Cowboy In Flames (Bloodshot)
  211. Waco Brothers - Do You Think About Me? (Bloodshot)
  212. Kim Richey - Bitter Sweet (Mercury)
  213. Cranes - Can't Get Free EP (Dedicated)
  214. Travis - Good Feeling (Independente/Epic)
  215. Shaggy - Midnite Lover (Virgin)
  216. Boss Hog - Winn Coma EP (Geffen)
  217. Polara - C'est La Vie (Interscope)

    These Are Alphabetical Because I Have Not Yet Heard Them

  218. Acron 2 - The Beckoning (Reinforced)
  219. The Apples In Stereo - Tone Soul Evolution (spinART)
  220. Bad Livers - Hogs on the Highway (Sugar Hill)
  221. Baltier Space - Capsul (Turnbuckle)
  222. Banyan (Cyberoctive)
  223. Blowpipe - First Circle (Needlework)
  224. Bowery Electric - Vertigo (Beggars Banquet)
  225. Brainiac - Electro Shock For President EP (Touch & Go)
  226. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Give It Back! (Tangible/Bomp!)
  227. In Flames - Whoracle (Nuclear Blast)
  228. Broadcast - Work And Non Work (Warp)
  229. Bush Tetras - Beauty Lies (Mercury)
  230. Neal Casal - The Sun Rises Here (Glitterhouse)
  231. Children Of Dub - ESP (Magick Eye)
  232. Chocolate In The Sun - Snowpony EP (GoAhead)
  233. Coldcut - Let Us Play! (Ninja Tune)
  234. Carl Craig - More Songs About Food & Revolutionary Art (Planet)
  235. Crescent - Electric Sound Constructions (Touch & Go)
  236. Los Crudos - Canciones Para Liberar Nuestras
  237. The Crystal Method - Vegas (Outpost)
  238. Catie Curtis (Guardian)
  239. Dead C - Tusk (Siltbreeze)
  240. Bill Dixon - Vade Mecum II (Soul Note)
  241. DJ Muggs - Presents The Soul Assassins
  242. Johnny Dowd - Wrong Side of Memphis
  243. Alec Empire - Destroyer (Cargo)
  244. John Fahey - City Of Refuge (Tim/Kerr)
  245. John Fahey - Womblife (Table of the Elements)
  246. The Fall - Levitate (Artful)
  247. Lee Feldman - Living It All Wrong (Pure/Mercury)
  248. The Firm All Stars (Aftermath/Interscope)
  249. Flying Saucer Attack - New Lands (Drag City)
  250. Foetus Symphony Orchestra & Lydia Lunch - York (Thirsty Ear)
  251. The Frogs - Starjob EP (Mercury)
  252. Frontier - Heater (Southern)
  253. Edith Frost - Calling Over Time (Drag City)
  254. Funky Porcini - Let's See What Carmen Can Do (Ninja Tune)
  255. Fushitsusha - The Time Is Nigh/A Death Never to Be Complete (Tokuma)
  256. Warren G - Take a Look Over Your Shoulder (Def Jam)
  257. Geraldine Fibbers - Butch (Valley)
  258. Grooverider - Diverse Artiesten (Prototype)
  259. Ground Zero - Null & Void (Nani)
  260. David Grubbs - Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange (Table of the Elements)
  261. Half Japanese - Bone Head (Alternative Tentacles)
  262. The Halo Benders - The Rebel's Not In (K)
  263. The High Fidelity Orchestra (Wayside)
  264. Hovercraft - Akathisia (Blast First/Mute)
  265. Danielle Howle & The Tantrums - Do a Two Sable
  266. Huffamoose - We've Been Had Again (Interscope)
  267. Huun Huur Tu - If I'd Been Born An Eagle (Shanachie)
  268. Isotope 217 - The Unstable Molecule (Thrill Jockey)
  269. Ivy - Apartment Life (Atlantic)
  270. Jessamine - Another Fictionalized History (Histronic)
  271. Jhelisa - Language Electric (Dorado)
  272. Jungle Brothers - Raw Deluxe (Gee Street)
  273. Paul K & the Weathermen - Life's A Gas (Alias)
  274. Iman Khanbangeshi - Debut Recording
  275. David Kilgour And the Heavy Eights (Flying Nun)
  276. Kid Koala - Scratchhappyland (Ninja Tune)
  277. King Cobb Steelie - Junior Relaxer
  278. King Kong - Kingdom of Kong (Drag City)
  279. Kumari - Irogami (Radio Argot)
  280. Bill Laswell - City Of Light (Sub Rosa)
  281. Lukas Ligeti & Beta Foly (Intuition/Allegro)
  282. Licorice Roots - Melodeon (MoodFood)
  283. Locust - Morvis Light (Seefeel)
  284. Lotus Crown - Chokin' On the Jokes (Reprise)
  285. J Majik - Slow Motion (Infra Red)
  286. Man Or Astro-Man? - Made From Technetium (Touch & Go)
  287. Barbara Manning - 1212 (Matador)
  288. Eric Matthews - The Lateness Of The Hour (Sub Pop)
  289. Kaffe Matthews - cdAnn (Annette Works)
  290. Medeski, Martin and Wood - Shack-Man (Gramavision)
  291. Medeski, Martin and Wood - Bubblehouse (Gramavision)
  292. Baader Meinhof (Hut/Caroline)
  293. Method Man - T2 (Def Jam)
  294. Microstoria - _snd (Thrill Jockey/Mille Plateaux)
  295. Microstoria - Reprovisers (Thrill Jockey)
  296. Paul D Miller - Viral Sonata (Asphodel)
  297. Mr. Quintron - The First Two Records (Bulb)
  298. MJG - No More Glory (Suave/Universal)
  299. The Mommyheads (DGC)
  300. The Monorchid - Let Them Eat the Monorchid (Dischord)
  301. Roy Montgomery - Winter Songs (RB)
  302. R.B. Morris - Take That Ride (Oh Boy)
  303. The Mountain Goats - Full Force Galesburg (Emperor Jones)
  304. Mouse On Mars - Cache Coeur Naif EP (Thrill Jockey)
  305. Movietone - Day And Night (Drag City)
  306. The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death (Bad Boy/Arista)
  307. Number One Cup - Wrecked By Lions (Flydaddy)
  308. Oblivions - Play 9 Songs with Mr. Quintron (Crypt)
  309. Will Oldham - Joya (Drag City)
  310. Oxbow - Serenade in Red (SST)
  311. Panacea - Low Profile Darkness (Force Inc.)
  312. Papas Fritas - Helioself (Minty Fresh)
  313. William Parker & The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra - Sunrise in the Tone World (Aum Fidelity)
  314. Pegboy - Cha-Cha Damore (Touch & Go)
  315. Photek - Modus Operandi (Virgin)
  316. Plaid - Not For Threes (Warp)
  317. Portastatic - The Nature Of Sap (Merge)
  318. Praxis - Transmutation Live (Douglas)
  319. Req - One (Skint)
  320. Reservoir - Pink Machine (Zero Hour)
  321. Salaryman (City Slang)
  322. Salt Licks - Trust Your Body (Entropic)
  323. Savage Aural Hotbed - Pressure Of Silence (UltraModern)
  324. Scala - Slide EP (Seefeel)
  325. Scanner - Delivery (Earache)
  326. Paul Schutze - Nine Songs from the Garden of Welcome Lies (Tone Casualties)
  327. The Scissor Girls - Here Is The "Is-Not" (Atavistic)
  328. The Sea And Cake - Two Gentlemen EP (Thrill Jockey)
  329. Seely - Seconds (Too Pure)
  330. Silkworm - Developer (Sub Pop)
  331. Luke Slater - Freek Funk (Novamute)
  332. Slobberbone - Barrel Chested (Sonic Rendezvous)
  333. Smog - Red Apple Falls (Touch & Go)
  334. Son Volt - Straightaways (WB)
  335. Songs - Ohia (Carrot Top)
  336. Space Explosion (Captain Trip)
  337. Tobin Sprout - Moonflow Plastic (Welcome To My Wigwam) (Matador)
  338. Storm & Stress (Touch & Go)
  339. Sub Dub (Instinct)
  340. Sub Dub - Dancehall Malfunction (Asphodel)
  341. Swell - Too Many Days Without Thinking (Beggars Banquet)
  342. Third Eye Foundation - Ghost (Touch & Go)
  343. Tone Rec - Thugny-Trugny (Sub Rosa)
  344. To Rococo Rot - Veiclulu (City Slang)
  345. Transient Waves (Che)
  346. Jen Trynin - Gun Shy Trigger Happy (Squint/WB)
  347. Tsunami - A Brilliant Mistake (Simple Machines)
  348. U.S. Maple - Sang Phat Editor (Touch & Go)
  349. Vainqueur - Elevations (Chain Reaction)
  350. Cowboys & Aliens - League Of Fools (Alien/Buzzville)
  351. Various - Pakistani Soul Music
  352. Volebeats - Sky and the Ocean (Safe House)
  353. We - As Is (Asphodel)
  354. Wellwater Conspiracy - Declaration Of Conformity (Third Gear)
  355. Windy & Carl - Antarctica: The Bliss Out Vol. 2 (Darla)

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1996

    10

  1. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (Mo Wax)
  2. Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (Thrill Jockey)
  3. Beck - Odelay (Geffen)
  4. Chico Science & Nação Zumbi - Afrociberdelia (Chaos)

    10-

  5. Acrimony - Tumuli Shroomaroom (Leaf)
  6. Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst (75 Ark)
  7. Dirty Three - Horse Stories (Touch & Go)
  8. Labradford (Kranky)

    9+

  9. Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics... (The Music Cartel)
  10. Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood (Relapse)
  11. Belle & Sebastion - If You're Feeling Sinister (The Enclave)
  12. Melvins - Stag (Atlantic)
  13. Walt Mink - El Producto (Atlantic)
  14. Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics (Rotten)
  15. Tool - Ćnima (Volcano)
  16. Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman (WB)
  17. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Elektra)
  18. Long Fin Killie - Valentino (Too Pure)
  19. Sleater-Kinney - Call The Doctor (Chainsaw)
  20. Soundgarden - Down On The Upside (A&M)
  21. The Oblivians - Popular Favorites (Crypt)
  22. Gallon Drunk - In The Long Still Night (City Slang UK)
  23. Sheila Chandra - ABoneCroneDrone (Real World)
  24. Orbital - In Sides (ffrr)
  25. Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension (Island)
  26. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads (Mute)
  27. Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk (Matador)
  28. Screaming Trees - Dust (Epic)
  29. Afghan Whigs - Black Love (Elektra)
  30. Turbonegro - Ass Cobra (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
  31. The Hellacopters - Supershitty To The Max (White Jazz)
  32. Ride - Tarantula (Sire)
  33. Weezer - Pinkerton (DGC)
  34. Spoon - Telephono (Matador)
  35. Nightstalker - Use (Mad Prophet)
  36. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I Got Worry (Matador)
  37. Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat White Trash (Epic)
  38. Cujo - Adventures In Foam (Shadow)
  39. Jeremy Enigk - Return of the Frog Queen (Sub Pop)
  40. Polvo - Exploded Drawing (Merge)
  41. Brainiac - Hissing Prigs In Static Couture (Touch & Go)
  42. Zeke - Flat Tracker (Snooch Pooch)
  43. The No-Talents - 100% No Talent (Wild Child)
  44. Eels - Beautiful Freak (Dreamworks)
  45. Disco Inferno - Technicolour (Go Ahead)
  46. The Wedding Present - Saturnalia (RCA)
  47. Orphaned Land - El Nora Alila (Holy Records)
  48. Einsturzende Neubauten - Ende Neu (Nothing)
  49. Nearly God (Island)
  50. Paul Schutze & Phantom City - Site Anubis (Big Cat)
  51. Fu Manchu - In Search Of... (Mammoth)
  52. Girls Against Boys - House of GSVB (Touch & Go)
  53. Opeth - Morningrise (Century Media)
  54. Outkast - ATLiens (LaFace)
  55. Patti Smith - Gone Again (Arista)
  56. Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic (Creation)
  57. Various - Headz: A Soundtrack of Beathead Jams (Mo Wax)
  58. The Walkabouts - Devil's Road (Virgin)
  59. Wipers - The Herd (Tim/Kerr)
  60. The Flaming Stars - Bring Me The Rest Of Alfredo Garcia Singles 1995-1996 (Vinyl Japan)
  61. Barry Adamson - Oedipus Schmoedipus (Mute)
  62. Slo Burn - Amusing The Amazing EP (Malicious)
  63. Ui - Sidelong (Luna Moth/Southern)
  64. Transglobal Underground - Psychic Karaoke (Nation/MCA)
  65. HIM - Egg (Southern)
  66. Cul De Sac - China Gate (Thirsty Ear)
  67. Musicians of the Nile - Charcoal Gypsies (Real World)
  68. Los Lobos - Colossal Head (WB)
  69. Jessamine - The Long Arm Of Coincidence (Kranky)
  70. Future Sound Of London - Dead Cities (Astralwerks)
  71. Lamb (Mercury)
  72. Trans Am (Thrill Jockey)
  73. Arto Lindsay - O Corpo Sutil (Bar None)
  74. Mark Stewart - Control Data (Mute)
  75. Unwound - Repetition (Kill Rock Stars)
  76. Palace - Arise Therefore (Drag City)
  77. Howie B - Music For Babies (Island)
  78. Bardo Pond - Amanita (Matador)
  79. Bowery Electric - Beat (Kranky)
  80. Various - Axiom Dub: Mysteries of Creation (Axiom)
  81. Ride - OX4: The Best Of 1990-96 (Ignition)
  82. Various - Incursions In Illbient (Asphodel)
  83. Various - In Memorium Gille Deleuze (Mille Plateaux)
  84. Various - Land Of Baboon: An Illclectic Collection of Brooklyn Soundz (Silent)

    9

  85. Polly Jean Harvey & John Parish - Dance Hall At Louse Point (Island)
  86. Plug - Drum 'n' Bass For Papa (Plant)
  87. Omni Trio - Haunted Science (sm:)e)
  88. Fountains Of Wayne (Tag/Atlantic)
  89. Trenchmouth - The Broadcasting System (Skene!)
  90. Sons Of Otis - Spacejumbofudge (Man's Ruin)
  91. Sheavy - Blue Sky Mind (Dallas Tar/Rise Above)
  92. Bikini Kill - Reject All American (Kill Rock Stars)
  93. Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things (Rephlex)
  94. The Grifters - Ain't My Lookout (Sub Pop)
  95. Johnny Cash - Unchained (American)
  96. Roy Montgomery - Temple IV (Kranky)
  97. Fiona Apple - Tidal (Epic)
  98. DJ Spooky - Songs Of A Dead Dreamer (Asphodel)
  99. John Zorn - Bar Kokhba (Tzadik)
  100. Firewater - Get Off The Cross (Jetset)
  101. Richard Davies - There's Never Been A Crowd Like This (Flydaddy)
  102. Scorn - Logghi Barogghi (Earache)
  103. Boris - Absolutego (Fangs Anal Satan/Southern Lord)
  104. The Raincoats - Looking In The Shadows (Geffen)
  105. The American Analog Set - The Fun Of Watching Fireworks (Emperor Jones/Trance)
  106. Godflesh - Songs Of Love And Hate (Earache)
  107. Versus - Secret Swingers (Teen Beat/Caroline)
  108. R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi (WB)
  109. Gaunt - Kryptonite (Thrill Jockey)
  110. New Bomb Turks - Scared Straight (Epitaph)
  111. Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants (TVT/Wax Trax)
  112. Country Teasers - Satan Is Real Again Or Feeling Good About Bad Thoughts (Crypt)
  113. The Candy Snatchers (Safe House)
  114. Run On - Start Packing (Matador)
  115. Prince Paul - Psychoanalysis (What Is It?) (Wordsound/Tommy Boy)
  116. Wilco - Being There (Reprise)
  117. Joe Henry - Trampoline (Mammoth)
  118. Deus - In A Bar, Under the Sea (Island)
  119. Spiritual Beggars - Another Way To Shine (Music For Nations)
  120. Dead Can Dance - Spiritchaser (4AD)
  121. Jale - So Wound (Sub Pop)
  122. The Orb - Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond the Call of Duty (Deviant)
  123. King Sunny Ade - E Dide Get Up (Mesa)
  124. Rachid Taha - Ole Ole (Island)
  125. Butter 08 (Grand Royal)
  126. Maria McKee - Life Is Sweet (Geffen)
  127. Tiger - We Are Puppets (Trade2/Island)
  128. Fuxa - Very Well Organized (Che)
  129. Fuxa - 3 Field Rotation (Che)
  130. Café Tacvba - Avalanches De Exitos (WEA)
  131. Various - Offbeat: A Red Hot Sound Trip (TVT)
  132. Prong - Rude Awakening (Epic)
  133. Neneh Cherry - Man (Virgin)
  134. Bedhead - Beheaded (Trance Syndicate)
  135. Jason Falkner - Present Author Unknown (Elektra)
  136. The Delta 72 - The R&B of Membership (Touch & Go)
  137. Jack - Pioneer Soundtracks (Too Pure)
  138. Home - Elf: Gulf Bore Waltz (Jetset)
  139. Lewis Taylor (Island)
  140. Ghostface Killah - Ironman (Sire)
  141. Various - Metalheadz: Platinum Breakz (ffrr)
  142. Moonshake - Dirty And Divine (C/Z)
  143. Six Finger Satellite - Paranormalized (Sub Pop)
  144. Jeru the Damaja - Wrath Of The Math (Payday)
  145. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Introducing... (Mercury)
  146. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane (NBA)
  147. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook - Night Song (Real World)
  148. Morcheeba - Who Can You Trust? (Discovery/WB)
  149. Everything But The Girl - Walking Wounded (Atlantic)
  150. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album (Sire)
  151. Come - Near Life Experience (Matador)
  152. Telstar Ponies - Voices From The New Music (Fire)
  153. Ruby - Salt peter (Creation/Work)
  154. De La Soul - Stakes Is High (Tommy Boy)
  155. Rome (Touch & Go)
  156. Whore: Various Artists Play Wire (WMO)
  157. The Roots - Illadelph Halflife (DGC)
  158. Björk - Telegram (Island)
  159. Low - The Curtain Hits The Cast (Vernon Yard)
  160. Silkworm - Firewater (Matador)
  161. Jessamine/Spectrum - A Pox On You EP (Space Age)
  162. Amp - Sirenes (Petrol)
  163. Moby - Animal Rights (Elektra)
  164. Dubadelic - 2000: A Bass Odyssey (WordSound)
  165. Mag Nog (Kranky)
  166. Musica Transonic - A Pilgrim's Solace (PSF)
  167. DJ Vadim - USSR Repertoire: The Theory Of Verticality (Ninja Tune)
  168. Various - Future Sound of Paris (Polygram)
  169. Low - Transmission EP (Vernon Yard)
  170. Imperial Teen - Seasick (Slash)
  171. Alex Reece - So Far (Island)
  172. Motörhead - Overnight Sensation (CMC)
  173. Team Dresch - Captain, My Captain (Kill Rock Stars)
  174. Crescent EP (Atavistic)
  175. Oumou Sangare - Worotan (World Circuit)
  176. Guided By Voices - Under The Bushes Under The Stars (Matador)
  177. Yungchen Lhamo - Tibet Tibet (Real World)
  178. The Spinanes - Strand (Sub Pop)
  179. Sloan - One Chord To Another (murderrecords)
  180. Bim Sherman - Miracle (Mantra/On-U Sound)
  181. Lambchop - Hank EP (Merge)

    9-

  182. Ani Difranco - Dilate (Righteous Babe)
  183. Seefeel - Ch-Vox (Rough Trade/Goahead)
  184. Cat Power - What Would the Community Think (Matador)
  185. Teen Angels - Daddy (Sub Pop)
  186. The Church - Magician Among the Spirits (Griffin)
  187. Luna EP (No. 6 Records)
  188. Nevermore - The Politics Of Ecstasy (Century Media)
  189. Rainer Maria (Polyvinyl)
  190. Scissor Girls - We People Space With Phantoms (Atavistic)
  191. Seely - Julie Only (Too Pure)
  192. Fugees - The Score (Ruffhouse)
  193. The Hang Ups - So We Go (Restless)
  194. A Tribe Called Quest - Beats, Rhymes & Life (Jive)
  195. Meshell Ndegeocello - Peace Beyond Passion (Maverick)
  196. Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats (WB)
  197. Butthole Surfers - Electriclarryland (Capitol)
  198. Derek Bailey - Guitar, Drums 'N' Bass (Avant)
  199. Cannibal Corpse - Vile (Metal Blade)
  200. David Toop - Pink Noir (Virgin)
  201. The Jesus Lizard - Shot (Capitol)
  202. The Boo Radleys - C'mon Kids (Creation/Mercury)
  203. Suede - Coming Up (Columbia)
  204. Various - Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks (Lava/Atlantic)
  205. Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island (Merge)
  206. Various - Saturday Morning Cartoon's Greatest Hits (MCA)
  207. Basehead - Faith (Imago)
  208. Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving (Work)
  209. Luscious Jackson - Fever In Fever Out (Grand Royal)
  210. Iced Earth - The Dark Saga (Century Media)
  211. Plexi (Sub Pop)
  212. Crucial Conflict - The Final Tic (Pallas)
  213. Catatonia - Way Beyond Blue (Blanco Y Negro)
  214. The Spiny Anteaters - Crescent (Kranky)
  215. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - I Hope It Lands (Communion)
  216. Arcwelder - Entropy (Touch & Go)
  217. Railroad Jerk - The Third Rail (Matador)
  218. Bad Religion - Gray Race (Atlantic)
  219. June Of 44 - Tropics and Meridians (Quarterstick)
  220. Earth - Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons (Sub Pop)
  221. Posies - Amazing Disgrace (DGC)
  222. Deadbolt - Tijuana Hit Squad (Headhunter/Cargo)

    These Are Alphabetical Because I Have Not Yet Heard Them

  223. Arcana - The Last Wave (DIW)
  224. Ascension - Broadcast (Shock)
  225. Bailter Space - Wammo (Matador)
  226. Buckethead - The Day of the Robot (Submeta)
  227. Neal Casal - Rain, Wind & Speed (Buy Or Die)
  228. Chavez - Ride The Fader (Matador)
  229. Chokebore - A Taste For Bitters (Amphetamine Reptile)
  230. Cranes - La Tragedie D'Oreste Et Electre (Dedicated)
  231. The Kelley Deal 6000 - Go To The Sugar Altar (Consig.)
  232. The Divine Comedy - Casanova (V2)
  233. Dr. Isreal - Seven Tribes Of Israel (Wordsound)
  234. Dr. Octagon - Instrumentalyst (Mo Wax)
  235. East River Pipe - Mel (Merge)
  236. Alec Empire - Les Etoiles Des Filles Mortes (Mille Plateaux)
  237. Experimental Audio Research - Beyond The Pale (Big Cat)
  238. The Fall - Oswald Defense Lawyer (Jet)
  239. The Fall - The Light User Syndrome (Jet)
  240. Faust - Rien (Table of the Elements)
  241. The For Carnation - Marshmallows EP (Matador)
  242. Fuck - pretty slow (Walt/Esther/Rhesus)
  243. Funky Porcini - Love, Pussycats & Carwrecks (Ninja Tune)
  244. Fushitsusha - Purple Trap (Blast First)
  245. Gate - Monolake (Table of the Elements)
  246. Germ - Parrot (GPR)
  247. Godheadsilo - Skyward In Triumph (Sub Pop)
  248. Halo Benders - Don't Tell Me Now (K)
  249. High Rise - Disallow (PSF)
  250. Danielle Howle - About to Burst (Simple Machines)
  251. Kriedler - Weekend (Kiff SM)
  252. Bill Laswell - Oscillations (Sub Rosa)
  253. Lillys - Better Can't Make Your Life Better (Che)
  254. lowercase - all destructive urges...seem so perfect (Amphetamine Reptile)
  255. Lull - Continue (Release)
  256. Luscious Jackson - Fever In/Fever Out (Grand Royal)
  257. Mainliner - Mellow Out (Charnel Music)
  258. The Make-Up - Destination: Love
  259. Meat Beat Manifesto - Subliminal Sandwich
  260. Melt-Banana - Scratch or Stitch (SkinGraft)
  261. Microstoria - _snd (Mille Plateaux)
  262. Mobb Deep - Hell On Earth (Loud)
  263. Mogwai - Ten Rapid (Jetset)
  264. Olivia Tremor Control - Music From the Unrealized Film Script 'Dusk At Cubist Castle' (Flydaddy)
  265. Optical'8 - All Over (God Mountain)
  266. Pitchblende - Gygax (Headhunter/Cargo)
  267. Photek - The Hidden Camera EP (Virgin)
  268. Rachel's - Music For Egon Schiele (Quarterstick)
  269. Rachel's - The Sea And The Bells (Quarterstick)
  270. Alex Reese - So Far (
  271. Retsin - Egg Fusion (Simple Machines)
  272. Paul Schutze - Abysmal Evenings (Virgin)
  273. Slipstream - Side Effects (Elektra)
  274. Smog - The Doctor Came At Dawn (Drag City)
  275. Smoke - Another Reason To Fast (Long Play)
  276. Soma - The Inner Cinema (Extreme)
  277. Sone - Holiday And Sport (Darla)
  278. Space Streakings - Shakuhuachi Surprise (Skin Graft)
  279. Spectrum - Songs For Owsley (Reprise)
  280. Spleen - Soundtrack to Spleen (Swart Finger)
  281. Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hot (Mammoth)
  282. Strapping Fieldhands - Wattle & Daub (Shangri-La)
  283. Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind (Atavistic)
  284. Tha Dogg Pound - Dogg Food (Death Row)
  285. Third Eye Foundation - Semtex (Linda's Strange Vacation)
  286. The Thrones - Alraune (Communion)
  287. Those Bastard Souls - Twentieth Century Chemical (Darla)
  288. Tobin Sprout - Carnival Boy (Matador)
  289. Underworld - Second Toughest In the Infants (TVT)
  290. Windy & Carl - Portal (Ba Da Bing!)
  291. The Wrens - Secaucus (Grass)
  292. Various - Altered Beats: Assassin Knowledge Of The Remanipulated (Axiom)
  293. Various - Crooklyn Dub Consortium: Certified Dope Vol. 2 (Wordsound)
  294. Various - Electric Ladyland III (Mille Plateaux)
  295. Various - Headz 2 (Mo Wax)
  296. Various - Macro Dub Infection Vol. 2 (Virgin)
  297. Various - New Yorica! Culture Clash In New York City: Experiments In Latin Music 19-77 (Soul Jazz)
  298. Various - Ninja Cuts: Flexistentialism/The Joy Of Dex (Ninja Tune)
  299. Various - Swarms Of Drones (Asphodel)

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1995

    10

  1. Tricky - Maxinquaye (Island)

    10-

  2. Sleep - Dopesmoker (Tee Pee)
  3. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love (Island)
  4. Björk - Post (Elektra)
  5. Cornelius - 69/96 (Trattoria)
  6. Fugazi - Red Medicine (Dischord)
  7. Radiohead - The Bends (Capitol)
  8. Dirty Three (Touch & Go)
  9. Monster Magnet - Dopes To Infinity (A&M)
  10. Labradford - A Stable Reference (Kranky)

    9+

  11. Pulp - Different Class (Island)
  12. The Lazy Cowgirls - Ragged Soul (Crypt)
  13. Rocket From the Crypt - Scream, Dracula Scream! (Interscope)
  14. The Young Gods - Only Heaven (Interscope)
  15. Chico Science & Nação Zumbi - De Lama Ao Caos (Chaos)
  16. Oval - 94 Diskont (Mille Plateaux)
  17. Elastica (Geffen)
  18. Swervedriver - Ejector Seat Reservation (Creation)
  19. Earthling - Radar (Cool Tempo)
  20. The Boo Radleys - Wake Up! (Creation/Columbia)
  21. Catherine Wheel - Happy Days (Fontana/Mercury)
  22. Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix (DGC)
  23. Long Fin Killie - Houdini (Too Pure)
  24. Slowdive - Pygmalion (4AD)
  25. Pavement - Wowie Zowie (Matador)
  26. Autechre - Tri Repetae (Warp)
  27. The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic (WB)
  28. Asian Dub Foundation - Facts And Fictions (Nation)
  29. Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve (Nuclear Blast)
  30. Natacha Atlas - Diaspora (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
  31. Pram - Sargasso Sea (Too Pure)
  32. Mouse On Mars - Iaora Tahiti (Too Pure)
  33. Scott Walker - Tilt (Fontana)
  34. The Oblivians - Soul Food (Crypt)
  35. Down - NOLA (Elektra)
  36. Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun (Zoo)
  37. No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom (Interscope)
  38. Belly - King (Sire/Reprise)
  39. Acrimony - The Acid Elephant EP (Flying/Godhead)
  40. The Wildhearts - P.H.U.Q. (Lemon)
  41. Kyuss - ...And The Circus Leaves Town (Elektra)
  42. D'Angelo - Brown Sugar (EMI)
  43. Helium - The Dirt of Luck (Matador)
  44. Rocket From the Crypt - Scream, Dracula Scream! (Interscope)
  45. Spiritualized - Pure Phase (Dedicated/Arista)
  46. Mercury Rev - See You On The Other Side (Work)
  47. Rancid - ...And Out Come The Wolves (Epitaph)
  48. Mudhoney - My Brother The Cow (Reprise)
  49. Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante (Slash)
  50. Techno Animal - Re-Entry (Virgin)
  51. Seam - Am I Driving You Crazy? (Touch & Go)
  52. Blur - The Great Escape (Virgin)
  53. The Jayhawks - Tomorrow The Green Grass (American)
  54. The Sea And Cake - Nassau (Thrill Jockey)
  55. Wilco - A.M. (Reprise/WB)
  56. Buffalo Tom - Sleepy Eyed (EastWest/Beggars Banquet)
  57. Urge Overkill - Exit The Dragon (DGC)
  58. Pere Ubu - Ray Gun Suitcase (Cooking Vinyl)
  59. Sonic Youth - Washing Machine (Geffen)
  60. Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura (Matador)
  61. Cornershop - Woman's Gotta Have It (Luaka Bop/WB)
  62. Throwing Muses - University (4AD/Sire)
  63. Seefeel - Succour (Warp)
  64. Gaunt - I Can See Your Mom From Here (Thrill Jockey/Crypt)
  65. Sunny Day Real Estate - The Pink Album (Sub Pop)
  66. Opeth - Orchid (Century Media)
  67. Royal Trux - Thank You (Geffen)
  68. Cheater Slicks - Don't Like You (In The Red)
  69. The X-Rays - Speed Kills (Lowlife)
  70. Rocket From the Crypt - Hot Charity (Swami)
  71. Rocket From the Crypt - The State of Art Is On Fire (Sympathy)
  72. Goodie Mob - Soul Food (WB)
  73. The Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords (Geffen)
  74. Flying Saucer Attack - Further (Drag City)
  75. No Doubt - The Beacon Street Collection (Sea Creature)
  76. Foetus - Gash (Columbia)
  77. Transglobal Underground - International Times (Nation/Epic)
  78. Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - Rey Azucar (Sony Discos)
  79. Various - The Soul of Black Peru (Luaka Bop)
  80. Team Dresch - Personal Best (Chainsaw/Candy Ass)
  81. Massive Attack v. Mad Professor - No Protection (Circa)
  82. 18th Dye - Tribute To A Bus (Matador)
  83. Paul Schutze - Apart (Virgin)
  84. Flying Saucer Attack - Chorus (Drag City)
  85. Fatso Jetson - Stinky Little Gods (SST)
  86. Main - Hertz (Beggars Banquet)
  87. The Grifters - The Eureka EP (Shangri-La)
  88. Ui - Unlike: Remixes Volume 1 (Lunamoth)
  89. Ui - The 2-Sided EP/Sharpie (Southern)
  90. Suede - Dog Man Star (Columbia)
  91. Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (Capitol)
  92. Boss Hog (Geffen)
  93. The Magnetic Fields - Get Lost (Merge)
  94. Son Volt - Trace (WB)
  95. Tortoise - Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters (Thrill Jockey)
  96. Electric Company - A Pert Cyclic Omen (Warner)
  97. God - Appeal To Human Greed EP (Big Cat)
  98. Low - Long Division (Vernon Yard)
  99. Goldie - Timeless (ffrr)
  100. Speed The Plough - Marina (East Side Digital)
  101. David Toop - Screen Ceremonies (Wire Editions)
  102. DJ Krush - Krush (Shadow)
  103. Various - Macro Dub Infection (Virgin)
  104. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul (Earache)
  105. Cathedral - The Carnival Bizarre (Earache)
  106. The Roots - Do You Want More?!!!??! (DGC)
  107. Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda (Hollywood Basic)
  108. DJ Krush - Meiso (Mo Wax)

    9

  109. Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - Bait And Switch (Onion//American)
  110. Cosmic Psychos - Self Totaled (Amphetamine Reptile)
  111. Apache Indian - Make Way for the Indian (Island)
  112. The Auteurs - After Murder Park (Hut)
  113. Acid King - Zoroaster (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
  114. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (Loud)
  115. In Flames - Jester Race (Nuclear Blast)
  116. Redman - Dare Iz A Darkside (Def Jam)
  117. Peter Murphy - Cascade (Beggars Banquet)
  118. Fushitsusha - The Caution Appears (Les Disques Du Soleil)
  119. Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side (EMI)
  120. Red Red Meat - Bunny Gets Paid (Sub Pop)
  121. The Muffs - Blonder And Blonder (WB)
  122. Gaunt - Yeah, Me Too (Amphetamine Reptile)
  123. Today Is The Day - Supernova (Amphetamine Reptile)
  124. Immortal - Battles In The North (Osmose)
  125. Mick Harvey - Intoxicated Man (Mute)
  126. Scorn - Ellipsis (Earache)
  127. The 6ths (Magnetic Fields) - Wasps' Nests (London)
  128. Rachel's - Handwriting (Quarterstick)
  129. Unwound - The Future of What (Kill Rock Stars)
  130. Guitar Wolf - Wolf Rock! (Goner)
  131. Fun-Da-Mental - Seize The Time (Beggars Banquet)
  132. Telstar Ponies - In The Space Of A Few Minutes (Fire)
  133. Loop Guru - Amrita (World Domination)
  134. Ride - Live Light (Mutiny)
  135. Spain - The Blue Moods of Spain (Restless)
  136. Lambchop - How I Quit Smoking (Merge)
  137. Movietone (Planet)
  138. Sufi - Life's Rising (Virgin)
  139. Money Mark - Mark's Keyboard Repair (Mo Wax)
  140. Hepcat - Out of Nowhere (Moon Records)
  141. Gaunt - I Can See Your Mom From Here (Thrill Jockey)
  142. Jonathon Richman - You Must Ask The Heart (Rounder)
  143. Third Rail - South Delta Space Age (Antilles)
  144. Palace Music - Viva Last Blues (Drag City)
  145. Polvo - This Eclipse EP (Merge)
  146. The Sea And Cake - The Biz (Thrill Jockey)
  147. Clutch (East West)
  148. Microstoria - Init Ding (Mille Plateaux/Thrill Jockey)
  149. U.S. Maple - Long Hair In Three Stages (Skin Graft)
  150. Six Finger Satellite - Severe Exposure (Sub Pop)
  151. Stereolab - Refried Ectoplasm: Switched On Vol. 2 (Too Pure)
  152. Smog - Wild Love (Drag City)
  153. Harmony Rockets - Paralyzed Mind of the Archangel Void (Excelsior/Big Cat)
  154. Bowery Electric (Kranky)
  155. Moby - Everything is Wrong (Sire)
  156. A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology (Juice Box)
  157. 5ive Style (Sub Pop)
  158. Scud Mountain Boys - Massachusetts (Sub Pop)
  159. Crescent - Now (Planet)
  160. Luna - Penthouse (Elektra)
  161. Cesaria Evora (Nonesuch)
  162. Medicine - Her Highness (WB)
  163. Magic Hour - Will They Turn You On Or Will They Turn On You (Che/Twisted Village)
  164. Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do (Sire)
  165. Cul De Sac - I Don't Want to Go To Bed (Cargo/Flying Nun)
  166. Yoko Ono/IMA - Rising (Capitol)
  167. Omni Trio - The Deepest Cut/Music for the Next Millenium (Smile)
  168. Freakwater - Old Paint (Thrill Jockey)
  169. Sally Timms - To The Land Of Milk And Honey (Feel Good All Over)
  170. The Bottlerockets - The Brooklyn Side (ESD)
  171. Cibo Matto - The Birthday Cake EP (El Diablo)
  172. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Experimental Remixes EP (Matador)
  173. Waco Bros. - To The Last Dead Cowboy (Bloodshot)
  174. Apache Indian - Make Way for the Indian (Mango)
  175. Bolt Thrower - For Victory (Earache)
  176. Run On - On/Off EP (Matador)
  177. Buddy Miller - Your Love And Other Lies (Hightone)
  178. The Black Dog - Spanners (East-West)
  179. Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust (Geffen)
  180. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (Elektra)
  181. Dog Faced Hermans - Bump and Swing (Alternative Tentacles)
  182. Don Caballero 2 (Touch & Go)
  183. Motörhead - Sacrifice (CMC)
  184. Scorn - Gyral (Scorn)
  185. Guru - Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality (Chrysalis)
  186. The For Carnation - Fight Songs EP (Matador)
  187. Prodigy - Music For the Jilted Generation (Mute)
  188. Hedfunk (Shadow)

    9-

  189. The Comsat Angels - The Glamour (Thunderbird/Renascent)
  190. Vanessa Daou - Zipless (Krasnow/MCA)
  191. Tindersticks (London)
  192. Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n' Ashes (A&M)
  193. Stars Of The Lid - Music For Nitrous Oxide (Sedimental)
  194. Space Needle - Voyager (Zero Hour)
  195. Fear Factory - Demanufacture (Roadrunner)
  196. June of 44 - Engine Takes To Water (Quarterstick)
  197. Home - IX (Relativity)
  198. Fu Manchu - Daredevil (Bong Load)
  199. L.L. Cool J. - Mr. Smith (Def Jam)
  200. Roy Montgomery - Scenes From The South Island (Drunken Fish)
  201. Earth - Phase 3: Thrones And Dominions (Sub Pop)
  202. Minxus - Pabulum (Too Pure)
  203. This Living Hand - Consolation Prise (e pluribus unum)
  204. Bardo Pond - Big Laughing Jym (Compulsiv)
  205. Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom (Ruffhouse)
  206. 9 Lazy 9 - The Herb (Shadow)
  207. The Pretenders - Isle Of View (WB)
  208. Gastr Del Sol - The Harp Factory On Lake Street (Table Of the Elements)
  209. Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow (4AD)
  210. Colour Haze - Chopping Machine (David)
  211. Ani DiFranco - Not A Pretty Girl (Righteous Babe)
  212. Meat Puppets - No Joke! (London)
  213. Gene - Olympian (Polydor)
  214. Menswear - Nuisance (London)
  215. Home - IX (Relativity)
  216. Death - Symbolic (Roadrunner)
  217. Chokebore - Anything Near Water (Amphetamine Reptile)
  218. Doldrums - The Secret Life Of Machines (VHF)
  219. Jonathan Richman - You Must Ask the Heart (Rounder)
  220. Witch Hazel - Landlocked (Flydaddy)
  221. Das EFX - Hold It Down (EastWest)
  222. M People - Bizarre Fruit (Epic)
  223. The Pharcyde - LabCabInCalifornia (WB)

    These Are Alphabetical Because I Have Not Yet Heard Them

  224. Bardo Pond - Bufolarius (Drunken Fish)
  225. Beatnik Filmstars - Astronaut House (La-Di-Da America)
  226. Neal Casal - Fade Away Diamond Time (Glitterhouse)
  227. Children Of Dub - The Silent Pool (Magick Eye)
  228. D-Knowledge - All That and a Bag of words (Qwest)
  229. Duce Duce - A Sip of the Duce (Delicoius)
  230. Fat Joe - Jealous One's Envy (Relativity)
  231. Funkdoobiest - Brothas Doobie (Immortal)
  232. Future Sound Of London - ISDN (Astralwerks)
  233. Hurricane - The Hurra (Capitol)
  234. Kam - Made in America (East-West)
  235. KRS-One (Jive)
  236. Masta Ace Incorporated - Sittin' On Chrome (Delicious)
  237. MC Breed - Big Baller (Wrap)
  238. Naughty by Nature - Poverty's Paradise (Tommy Boy)
  239. PM Dawn - Jesus Wept (Polygram)
  240. RBX - The RBX-Files (Premeditated)
  241. Saturnine - Wreck At Pillar Point (Dirt)
  242. SF Seals - Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows (Matador)
  243. Slipstream (Che/Carrot Top)
  244. Spectrum - Highs, Lows and Heavenly Blows (Silvertone)
  245. Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - Bait And Switch (Onion)
  246. Whale - We Care (Virgin)
  247. Various - Ear of the Dragon (Fortune5)

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1994

    10

  1. Disco Inferno - DI Go Pop (Rough Trade)

    10-

  2. Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley (Elektra)
  3. Portishead - Dummy (Go! Discs)
  4. Laika - Silver Apples Of The Moon (Too Pure)
  5. Tortoise (Thrill Jockey)
  6. Shellac - At Action Park (Touch & Go)

    9+

  7. Blacktop - I've Got A Baaad Feeling About This (In The Red)
  8. Th' Faith Healers - Imaginary Friend (Too Pure/Elektra)
  9. Motorpsycho - Timothy's Monster (Stickman)
  10. Red Red Meat - Jimmie Wine Majestic (Sub Pop)
  11. Massive Attack - Protection (Circa)
  12. Material Issue - Freak City Soundtrack (Mercury)
  13. God - The Anatomy of Addiction (Big Cat)
  14. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange (Matador)
  15. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In (Elektra)
  16. Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet (Elektra)
  17. Luna - Bewitched (Elektra)
  18. Low - I Could Live In Hope (Vernon Yard)
  19. Entombed - Wolverine Blues (Sony)
  20. Jeff Buckley - Grace (Columbia)
  21. Weezer (DGC)
  22. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador)
  23. Melvins - Stoner Witch (Atlantic)
  24. Pram - Helium (Too Pure)
  25. `O'rang - Herd of Instinct (Echo)
  26. Soundgarden - Superunknown (A&M)
  27. Dog Faced Hermans - Those Deep Buds (Alternative Tentacles)
  28. Built To Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love (Up)
  29. The Grifters - Crappin' You Negative (Shangri-La)
  30. Beck - Mellow Gold (Geffen)
  31. The Sea And Cake (Thrill Jockey)
  32. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Stoned & Dethroned (Blanco Y Negro/American)
  33. Orbital - Snivilisation (ffrr)
  34. Rodan - Rusty (Quarterstick)
  35. Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime (Interscope)
  36. Unwound - New Plastic Ideas (Kill Rock Stars)
  37. Sloan - Twice Removed (DGC)
  38. Bark Psychosis - Hex (Caroline)
  39. Electric Wizard (Rise Above)
  40. Ride - Carnival Of Light (Sire)
  41. Hole - Live Through This (Geffen)
  42. Ween - Chocolate And Cheese (Geffen)
  43. Corrosion Of Conformity - Deliverance (Sony)
  44. Blur - Parklife (Food)
  45. Rancid - Let's Go (Epitaph)
  46. Crunt (Trance Syndicate)
  47. Baaba Maal - Firin' In Fouta (Mango)
  48. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand (Matador)
  49. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - The Last Prophet (Real World)
  50. Jessamine (Kranky)
  51. Eleventh Dream Day - Ursa Major (Atavistic)
  52. Versus - The Stars Are Insane (Teen Beat)
  53. Velocity Girl - Simpatico! (Sub Pop)
  54. Bedhead - What Fun Life Was (Trance Syndicate)
  55. Veruca Salt - American Thighs (Minty Fresh)
  56. Mano Negra - Casa Babylon (Virgin)
  57. Café Tacvba - Re (WEA)
  58. Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary (Sub Pop)
  59. Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror (Colulmbia)
  60. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (Nothing/Interscope/Halo)
  61. The Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (Grand Royal/Capitol)
  62. Nas - Illmatic (Columbia)
  63. Brainiac - Bonsai Superstar (Grass)
  64. The Devil Dogs - Saturday Night Fever (Crypt)
  65. Tiamat - Wildhoney (Century Media)
  66. Prong - Cleansing (Epic)
  67. Marisa Monte - Rose And Charcoal (Metro Blue)
  68. Latin Playboys (Slash)
  69. Cornershop - Hold On It Hurts (Merge)
  70. Flying Saucer Attack (VHF)
  71. Polvo - Celebrate The New Dark Age EP (Merge)
  72. Sierra Maestra - Dundunbanza! (World Circuit)
  73. Sabalon Glitz - Ufronic (Trixie)
  74. Main - Motion Pool (Beggars Banquet)
  75. Godflesh - Selfless (Earache)
  76. Scorn - Evanescense (Earache)
  77. Magic Hour - No Excess Is Absurd (Twisted Village)
  78. The Wedding Present - Watusi (Island)
  79. Cardinal (Flydaddy)
  80. Public Enemy - Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age (Def Jam)
  81. Velvet Crush - Teenage Symphonies To God (Sony/Creation)
  82. Johnny Cash - American Recordings (American)
  83. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse (Century Black)
  84. Oasis - Definitely Maybe (Epic)
  85. Laika - Antenna EP (Too Pure)
  86. Floor - Dove EP (No Idea)
  87. Mule - If I Don't Six / Wrung EP (Quarterstick)
  88. Disco Inferno - Second Language/It's A Kid's World EPs (Rough Trade)

    9

  89. Speed The Plough - Mason's Box (East Side Digital)
  90. Supersuckers - La Mano Cornuda (Sub Pop)
  91. Outkast - Southernplalistincadillacmuzik (LaFace)
  92. Sinéad O'Connor - Universal Mother (Ensign/Chrysalis)
  93. The Rip Offs - Got A Record (Rip Off)
  94. The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die (Bad Boy)
  95. Fu Manchu - No One Rides For Free (Cube Farm)
  96. Acrimony - Hymns To The Stone (Gestrichen)
  97. The Clean - Modern Rock (Summershine)
  98. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle (Death Row)
  99. Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops (Rotten)
  100. Teengenerate - Get Action! (Crypt)
  101. DJ Krush - Strictly Turntablized (Mo Wax)
  102. Pulp - His 'n' Hers (Island)
  103. Crunt (Trance Syndicate)
  104. Lisa Germano - Geek The Girl (4AD)
  105. Gaunt - Sob Story EP (Crypt)
  106. New Bomb Turks - Information Highway Revisited (Crypt)
  107. Paul Schutze - The Surgery Of Touch (Tone Casualties)
  108. Digable Planets - Blowout Comb (Pendulum)
  109. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Strangers From The Universe (Matador)
  110. Sheila Chandra - The Zen Kiss (Real World)
  111. Danzig - IV (American)
  112. Revolutionary Dub Warriors - Deliverance: Reaction Dub Part 1 (On-U Sound)
  113. Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within (4AD)
  114. Today Is The Day - Supernova (Amphetamine Reptile)
  115. Table (Humble)
  116. Ani Difranco - Out Of Range (Righteous Babe)
  117. Audio Active - Tokyo Space Cowboys (On-U Sound)
  118. Autechre - Amber (Wax Trax!)
  119. Oval - Systemich (Mille Plateaux)
  120. The Walkabouts - Setting The Woods On Fire (Creativeman)
  121. Magnetic Fields - Holiday (Merge)
  122. Gang Starr - Hard To Earn (Chrysalis)
  123. Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises In The East (Payday/ffrr)
  124. The Moles - Instinct (Flydaddy)
  125. Lungfish - Pass And Stow (Dischord)
  126. Arcwelder - Xerxes (Touch & Go)
  127. Madonna - Bedtime Stories (WB)
  128. Silkworm - Libertine (ElRecordo)
  129. Big Chief - Platinum Jive: Greatest Hits 1969-1999 (Capitol)
  130. Mouse on Mars - Vulvaland (Too Pure)
  131. Brise-Glace - When In Vanitas . . . (Skin Graft)
  132. Songhai - Songhai 2: Ketama, Toumani Diabate, Jose Soto (Hannibal)
  133. Napalm Death - Fear Emptiness Despair (Sony)
  134. Medicine - The Buried Life (WB)
  135. Meat Puppets - Too High To Die (London)
  136. Silkworm - In The West (C/Z)
  137. Crain - Heater (Automatic Wrecklords)
  138. The Spiny Anteaters - All Is Well (Kranky)
  139. aMINIATURE - Depth 5 Route 6 (Restless)
  140. Girls Against Boys - Cruise Yourself (Touch & Go)
  141. Helium - Pirate Prude EP (Matador)
  142. Praxis - Metatron (Subharmonic)
  143. Palace Brothers (Drag City)
  144. Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart (Atlantic)
  145. Smog - Burning Kingdom EP (Drag City)
  146. Pitchblende - Au Jus (Matador)
  147. Method Man - Tical (Ral/Def Jam)
  148. Warren G - Regulate . . . G Funk Era (Violator)
  149. Praxis - Sacrifist (Subharmonic)
  150. Gneissmaker - 40 Acre Fuege (Skene!)
  151. Dinosaur Jr. - Without A Sound (Sire/WB)
  152. Flies Inside The Sun - An Audience Of Others (Including Herself) (Kranky)
  153. US3 - Hand On The Torch (Blue Note)
  154. Come - Don't Ask Don't Tell (Matador)
  155. '68 Comeback - Golden Rogues Collection (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
  156. Spiritual Beggars (Wrong Again)
  157. Turbonegro - Never Is Forever (Bitzcore)
  158. The Cramps - Flamejob (The Medicine Label)
  159. Metalheads - Inner City Life (ffrr)
  160. The Cows - Orphans Tragedy (Ampetamine Reptile)
  161. Luscious Jackson - Natural Ingrediants (Grand Royale)
  162. Gastr Del Sol - Crookt, Crackt, Fly (Drag City)
  163. The Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep (Gee Street)
  164. Six Finger Satellite - Machine Cuisine EP (Sub Pop)
  165. Engine Kid - Bear Catching Fish (C/Z)
  166. DJ Krush - Strictly Turntablized (Mo Wax)
  167. Fugees - Blunted On Reality (Ruffhouse)
  168. Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding (Metal Blade)
  169. Clutch - Passive Restraints (Ruthless)
  170. Small - Chin Music (Alias)

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  171. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - The Main Ingrediant (Elektra)
  172. Liz Phair - Whip-Smart (Matador)
  173. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (Century Media)
  174. Today Is The Day (Amphetamine Reptile)
  175. Saint Etienne - Tiger Bay (Sire)
  176. Elastica - Stutter EP (Geffen)
  177. Spongehead - Curb Your Dogma (XXX)
  178. Giant Sand - Glum (Imago)
  179. Pegboy - Earwig (Quarterstick)
  180. The Jesus Lizard - Down (Touch & Go)
  181. Tom Petty - Wildflowers (WB)
  182. Deee-Lite - Dewdrops in the Garden (Elektra)
  183. Dr. Didg - Out of the Woods (Hannibal)
  184. Faith No More - King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime (Slash/Reprise)
  185. Heavens To Betsy - Calculated (Kill Rock Stars)
  186. Johnboy - Claim Dedications (Trance Syndicate)
  187. Kepone - The Ugly Dance (Quarterstick)
  188. Helmet - Betty (Interscope)
  189. Paul K. & The Weathermen - Achilles Heel (Thirsty Ear)
  190. The Iguanas - Nuevo Boogaloo (MCA)
  191. Lambchop - I Hope You're Sitting Down (Merge)
  192. The Cult (Sire)
  193. The Church - Sometime Anywhere (Arista)
  194. Palace Songs - Hope EP (Drag City)
  195. Raincoats - Extended Play EP (Smells Like)
  196. The Red Crayola (Drag City)
  197. The Silver Jews - Starlite Walker (Drag City)
  198. Slant 6 - Soda Pop-Rip Off (Dischord)
  199. The Goats - No Goats, No Glory (Ruffhouse)
  200. Steel Pole Bath Tub - Some Cocktail Suggestions from SPBT EP (Boner)
  201. Bad Livers - Horses In the Mines (Quarterstick)
  202. Gastr Del Sol - Mirror Repair EP (Drag City)
  203. Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set Trash, No Star (Geffen)
  204. Suede - Stay Together EP (Columbia)
  205. Grant Lee Buffalo - Mighty Joe Moon (Slash/Reprise)
  206. Trumans Water - Godspeed The Punchline (Homestead)
  207. Lull - Cold Summer (Subharmonic)
  208. Ecstasy of St. Theresa - Free D (Free)
  209. Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (Atlantic)
  210. Craig Mack - Flava In Ya Ear (Bad Boy)
  211. Sebadoh - Bakesale (Sub Pop)
  212. '68 Comeback - Mr. Downchild (Sympathy)
  213. Mad Flava - From tha Ground Unda (Priority)
  214. The Solsonics - Jazz In The Present Tense (Chrysalis)
  215. Paris - Guerilla Funk (Priority)
  216. Orphaned Land - Sahara (Holy Land)

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  217. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works II (Warp)
  218. Black Sheep - Non-Fiction (Mercury)
  219. Brand Nubian - Everything Is Everything (Elektra)
  220. Dadamah - This Is Not A Dream (Kranky)
  221. Dead Moon - Crack In the System
  222. DFC (Da Funk Clan) - Things in tha Hood (Big Beat)
  223. Da Lench Mob - Planet of Da Apes (Priority)
  224. Dissolve - That That Is . . . Is (Not) (Kranky)
  225. The Divine Comedy - Promenade (V2)
  226. Dolomite - The Gift Horse Acetate EP (Thrill Jockey)
  227. Gate - The Dew Line (Table of Elements)
  228. God And Texas - Double Shot (Restless)
  229. Godheadsilo - The Scientific Supercake LP (Kill Rock Stars)
  230. House of Pain - Same As It Ever Was (Tommy Boy)
  231. Ice-T - Lethal Injection (4th & Broadway)
  232. Knucklehedz - Strictly Savage (East-West)
  233. KRS-One - Return of the Boom Bap (Jive)
  234. Lords Of The Underground - Keepers Of The Funk (Pendulum/EMI)
  235. SF Seals - Nowhere (Matador)
  236. Smif 'n' Wesson - Da Shinin' (Wreck)
  237. Suede - Dog Man Star (Columbia)
  238. Wagon Christ - Phat Lab Nightmare (Rising High)

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1993

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  1. PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me (Island)
  2. Tom Waits - The Black Rider (Island)
  3. Nirvana - In Utero (Geffen)
  4. Melvins - Houdini (Atlantic)
  5. Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (Elektra)
  6. Björk - Debut (Elektra)
  7. Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville (Matador)
  8. Seam - The Problem With Me (Touch & Go)
  9. Fugazi - In On The Kill Taker (Dischord)
  10. Flaming Lips - Transmissions From The Satellite Heart (WB)
  11. Dog Faced Hermans - Hum Of Life (Project A Bomb)
  12. Baaba Maal - Lam Toro (Island/Palm Pictures)
  13. Monster Magnet - Superjudge (A&M)

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  14. Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements (Elektra)
  15. Walt Mink - Bareback Ride (Caroline)
  16. Slowdive - Souvlaki (4AD)
  17. Yo La Tengo - Painful (Matador/Atlantic)
  18. Swervedriver - Mezcal Head (A&M)
  19. Catherine Wheel - Chrome (Mercury)
  20. The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps (Creation/Columbia)
  21. Gallon Drunk - From the Heart of Town (Sire/Reprise)
  22. Sepultura - Chaos A.D. (Roadrunner)
  23. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (Virgin)
  24. Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been (Sire/WB)
  25. The Breeders - Last Splash (4AD/Elektra)
  26. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (Loud)
  27. Moonshake - Eva Luna/Big Good Angel EP (Too Pure)
  28. Orbital 2 (ffrr)
  29. Einsturzende Neubauten - Tabula Rasa (Mute)
  30. Archers Of Loaf - Icky Mettle (Alias)
  31. Tool - Undertow (Zoo)
  32. Neurosis - Enemy Of The Sun (Alternative Tentacles)
  33. The Posies - Frosting On The Beater (DGC)
  34. Matthew Sweet - Altered Beast (Zoo)
  35. Earth - Earth 2 (Sub Pop)
  36. Eleventh Dream Day - El Moodio (Atlantic)
  37. Royal Trux - Cats And Dogs (Drag City)
  38. Red Red Meat (Perishable)
  39. Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne (Sire/Reprise)
  40. Teenage Fanclub - Thirteen (Geffen)
  41. Scrawl - Velvet Hammer (Simple Machines)
  42. Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See (Capitol)
  43. Velocity Girl - Copacetic (Sub Pop)
  44. Girls Against Boys - Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby (Touch & Go)
  45. Motorpsycho - Demon Box (Voices Of Wonder)
  46. Built To Spill - Ultimate Alternative Wavers (C/Z)
  47. Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles (Merge)
  48. Mark Lanegan - Whiskey For the Holy Ghost (Sub Pop)
  49. The Jungle Brothers - J. Beez Wit The Remedy (WB)
  50. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Extra Width (Matador)
  51. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live Seeds (Mute/Elektra)
  52. Transglobal Underground - Dream of 100 Nations (Nation)
  53. Mercury Rev - Boces (Beggars Banquet)
  54. Built To Spill - The Normal Years (K)
  55. Me'Shell Ndgeg'Ocello - Plantation Lullabies (Maverick)
  56. Basehead - Not In Kansas Anymore (Imago)
  57. Big Chief - Mack Avenue Skullgame (Sub Pop)
  58. Khaled - N'ssi N'ssi (Mango)
  59. Seefeel - Quique (Too Pure)
  60. Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary (Sub Pop)
  61. The Grifters - One Sock Missing (Sangri-la)
  62. Ice - Under The Skin (Pathological)
  63. Six Finger Satellite - The Pigeon Is The Most Popular Bird (Sub Pop)
  64. The The - Dusk (Epic)
  65. Labradford - Prazision LP (Kranky)
  66. Scorn - Vae Solis (Earache)
  67. Don Caballero - For Respect (Touch & Go)
  68. Buffalo Tom - Big Red Letter Day (Beggars Banquet)
  69. Pram - The Stars Are So Big . . . (Too Pure)
  70. The Palace Brothers - There Is No One What Will Take Care Of You (Drag City)
  71. Masters Of Reality - Sunrise On The Sufferbus (Chrysalis)
  72. Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil - Tropicalia 2 (Elektra)
  73. Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt - A Meeting by the River (Water Lily Acoustics)
  74. Guru - Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 (Chrysalis)
  75. Paris - Sleeping with the Enemy (Scarface)
  76. De La Soul - Buhloon Mindstate (Tommy Boy)
  77. Barry Adamson - The Negro Inside Me (Mute)
  78. Maria McKee - You Gotta Sin To Get Saved (Geffen)
  79. Bettie Serveert - Palomine (Matador)
  80. Unwound - Fake Train (Kill Rock Stars)
  81. Urge Overkill - Saturation (DGC)
  82. The Draghounds - Last Stop 'Til Ninth Street (Crackpot)
  83. Versus - Let's Electrify! EP (Remora)
  84. Rocket From The Crypt - Circa: Now! (Interscope)
  85. Queen Latifah - Black Reign (Motown)
  86. Ry Cooder - Music By Ry Cooder 1980-1993 (WB)
  87. Disco Inferno - Summer's Last Sound/A Rock To Cling To EPs (Rough Trade)

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  88. Wipers - Silver Sail (Tim/Kerr)
  89. Iggy Pop - American Caesar (Virgin)
  90. The Auteurs - New Wave (Hut/Caroline)
  91. Superconductor - Hit Songs For Girls (Boner)
  92. Cynic - Focus (Roadrunner)
  93. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders (Jive)
  94. The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde (Delicious Vinyl)
  95. Boss Hog - Girl + EP (Amphetamine Reptile)
  96. Arcwelder - Pull (Touch & Go)
  97. Dwarves - Sugarfix (Sub Pop)
  98. Meshell Ndegeocello - Plantation Lullabies (Maverick)
  99. Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish (Food/EMI)
  100. Belly - Star (Sire/Reprise)
  101. fireHOSE - Mr. Machinery Operator (Columbia)
  102. The Magnetic Fields - The House Of Tomorrow EP (Merge)
  103. Supercharger - Goes Way Out! (Estrus)
  104. The Walkabouts - Satisfied Mind (Creativeman)
  105. Digable Planets - Reachin': A New Refutation . . . (Pendulum)
  106. Apache Indian - No Reservations (4th & Broadway)
  107. The Verve - A Storm In Heaven (Vernon Yard)
  108. Cocteau Twins - Four Calendar Cafe (Capital)
  109. Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth (4AD)
  110. Suede (Columbia)
  111. The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - Waiting For The Love Bus (Creation)
  112. Pavement - Watery, Domestic EP (Matador)
  113. Mule (Quarterstick)
  114. Nirvana - From The Muddy Bankds Of The Wishkah 1989-1993 (Geffen)
  115. Stereolab - Space Age Batchelor Pad Music EP (Too Pure)
  116. The Orb - Live 93 (Island)
  117. Sebadoh - Bubble And Scrape (Sub Pop)
  118. Man Or Astro-Man? - Album #1 (Estrus)
  119. Main - Firmament (Beggars Banquet)
  120. Pitchblende - Kill Atom Smasher (Cargo)
  121. Boredoms - Pop Tatari (Reprise)
  122. The Walkabouts - New West Motel (Cargo)
  123. Morbid Angel - Covenant (Giant)
  124. Shrimp Boat - Cavale (Bar None)
  125. Das EFX - Straight Up Sewaside (East West)
  126. Smog - Julius Caesar (Drag City)
  127. Dick Dale - Tribal Thunder (Hightone Records)
  128. The Blue Humans - Clear To Higher Time (New Alliance)
  129. Brainiac - Smack Bunny Baby (Grass)
  130. Jeff Buckley - Live At Sin-e EP (Columbia)
  131. The Cows - Sexy Pee Story (Amphetamine Reptile)
  132. Guided By Voices - Vampire On Titus (Scat)
  133. Half Japanese - Fire In The Sky (Safe House)
  134. Death - Individual Thought Patterns (Combat)
  135. Clutch - Transnational Speedway League (East West)
  136. Sebadoh - Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock (Sub Pop)
  137. Blind Idiot God - Cyclotron (Disc Union)
  138. King Kong - Funny Farm (Drag City)
  139. Luna - Slide EP (Elektra)
  140. Apache Indian - No Reservations (Mango)
  141. Luscious Jackson - In Search of Manny EP (Grand Royale)
  142. Engine Kid - Astronaut EP (C/Z)
  143. Erectus Monotone - Close Up EP (Merge)
  144. Pegboy - Fore EP (Quarterstick)
  145. Hammerhead - Ethereal Killer (Amphetemine Reptile)
  146. Janitor Joe - Big Metal Birds (Amphetemine Reptile)
  147. Tar - Toast (Touch & Go)
  148. Janet Jackson - janet. (Virgin)
  149. The Jesus Lizard - Lash EP (Touch & Go)
  150. Johnboy - Pistolswing (Trance Syndicate)
  151. Gibson Bros. - Memphis Sol Today! (Sympathy)
  152. God And Texas - Criminal Element (TKO Empire/Restless)
  153. Small 23 - True Zero Hook (Alias)
  154. Steel Pole Bath Tub - The Miracle of Sound In Motion (Boner)
  155. Tar - Clincher EP (Touch & Go)
  156. Shaggy - Pure Pleasure (Virgin)
  157. Babe The Blue Ox - Je m'Appelle Babe EP (Homestead)
  158. Verlaines - Way Out There (Slash)
  159. Big Star - Columbia: Live At Missouri University 4/25/93 (Zoo)
  160. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Mother Of All Saints (Matador)
  161. Bad Religion - Recipe For Hate (Epitaph)
  162. Apollo 9 - Nothing Matters (Trixie)
  163. Bikini Kill - Pussy Whipped (Kill Rock Stars)
  164. Suede - The Drowners EP (Columbia)
  165. Babe The Blue Ox - Box (Homestead)
  166. New Model Army - The Love Of Hopeless Causes (Epic)
  167. His Name Is Alive - Mouth By Mouth (4AD)
  168. Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstacy (Arista)
  169. Cypress Hill - Black Sunday (Ruffhouse)
  170. Paul K. And The Weathermen - Garden Of Forking Paths (SilenZ)
  171. Stereolab - Low Fi EP (Too Pure)

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  172. L.L. Cool J. - 14 Shot to the Dome (Def Jam)
  173. PM Dawn - The Bliss Album? (Polygram)
  174. Saint Etienne - So Tough (WB)
  175. Prince - The Love Symbol (Paisley Park)
  176. Milk - Ear (Spanish Fly)
  177. Chokebore - Motionless (Amphetamine Reptile)
  178. The Divine Comedy - Liberation (V2)
  179. Metalheads - Angel EP (Synthetic)
  180. Frank Black (4AD)
  181. Butterfly Child - Onomatopoeia (Rough Trade/Hitit!)
  182. Cop Shoot Cop - Suck City EP (Interscope)
  183. Romanthony - Fall From Grace (EastWest)
  184. Unrest - Perfect Teeth (4AD)
  185. American Music Club - Mercury (Reprise)
  186. Onyx - Bacdafucup (RAL/Columbia)
  187. Fishbone - Give A Monkey A Brain . . . (Columbia)
  188. Beck - Stereopathic Soul Manure (Flipside)
  189. Kam - Neva Again (East-West)
  190. Digital Underground - The Body Hat Syndrome (Tommy Boy)
  191. Brand Nubian - In God We Trust (Elektra)
  192. Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity Griots (4th & Broadway)
  193. Monie Love - In a Word or 2 (WB)
  194. Young Disciples - Road To Freedom (Talkin' Loud)
  195. Salt-N-Pepa - Very Necessary (London)
  196. Boss - Born Like Gangsterz DJ (East-West)
  197. Intelligent Hoodlum - Tragedy - Saga of a Hoodlum (A&M)
  198. Shara Nelson - What Silence Knows (Cooltempo)
  199. Fat Joe Da Gangsta - Represent (Relativity)
  200. Stereo MC's - Connected (Polygram)
  201. M People - Living (Epic)

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  202. Dr. Dre - The Chronic (Priority)

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1992

    10

  1. Tom Waits - Bone Machine (Island)

    10-

  2. Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun (Dali/Elektra)
  3. PJ Harvey - Dry (Island)
  4. Walt Mink - Miss Happiness (Caroline)
  5. The Jesus Lizard - Liar (Touch & Go)
  6. Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted (Matador)
  7. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head (Capitol)
  8. God - Possession (Virgin)
  9. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Devotional & Love Songs (Real World)

    9+

  10. Bark Psychosis - Independency (3rd Stone)
  11. Seam - Headsparks (Homestead)
  12. Sleep - Holy Mountain (Earache)
  13. Th Faith Healers - Lido (Too Pure/Elektra)
  14. Unrest - Imperial f.f.r.r. (No. 6 Records)
  15. Stereolab - Peng! (Too Pure)
  16. Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall (American)
  17. Luna - Lunapark (Elektra)
  18. Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies (Dedicated)
  19. The House Of Love - Babe Rainbow (Fontana)
  20. Afghan Whigs - Congregation (Sub Pop)
  21. Melvins - Lysol (Boner)
  22. Dog Faced Hermans - Mental Blocks For All Ages (Project A- Bomb)
  23. Helmet - Meantime (Interscope)
  24. Fela Kuti - Underground System (MCA)
  25. Catherine Wheel - Ferment (Mercury/Polygram)
  26. Social Distortion - Somewhere Between Heaven And Hell (Epic)
  27. Sonic Youth - Dirty (WB)
  28. Babes In Toyland - Fontanelle (Reprise)
  29. Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over (Beggars Banquet)
  30. Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion (Epic)
  31. Basehead - Play With Toys (Imago)
  32. Ride - Going Blank Again (Sire/Reprise)
  33. Flaming Lips - Hit To Death In The Future Head (WB)
  34. Faith No More - Angel Dust (Slash)
  35. Young Gods - TV Sky (Caroline)
  36. New Bomb Turks - !!Destroy-Oh-Boy!! (Crypt)
  37. Alice In Chains - Dirt (Columbia)
  38. R.E.M. - Automatic For the People (WB)
  39. Mano Negra - In The Hell Of Patchinko (Virgin)
  40. Material Issue - Destination Universe (Mercury)
  41. Cul De Sac - Ecim (Aurora)
  42. Gang Starr - Daily Operation (Chrysalis)
  43. Afghan Whigs - Uptown Avondale EP (Sub Pop)
  44. Stereolab - Switched On (Too Pure)
  45. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Honey's Dead (American/Blanco y Negro)
  46. Main - Dry Stone Feed (Beggars Banquet)
  47. Souled American - Sonny (Rough Trade)
  48. Disco Inferno - Summer's Last Sound EP (Cheree)
  49. Bongwater - The Big Sell-Out (Shimmy Disc)
  50. The Orb - U.F. Orb (Island)
  51. Uncle Tupelo - March 16-20, 1992 (Rockville)
  52. Therapy? - Caucasion Psychosis (Touch & Go)
  53. Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - El Leon (Sony Discos)
  54. The Master Musicians of Jajouka - Apocalypse Across The Sky (Axiom)
  55. Bahia Black - Ritual Beating System (Axiom)
  56. Paul Schutze - New Maps Of Hell (Extreme)
  57. Died Pretty - Doughboy Hollow (Beggars Banquet/Citadel)
  58. Polvo - Cor-Crane Secret (Merge)
  59. Sugar - Copper Blue (Rykodisc)
  60. Barry Adamson - Soul Murder (Mute)
  61. Sheila Chandra - Weaving My Ancestors' Voices (Real World)
  62. Jawbox - Novelty (Dischord)
  63. Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World (Elektra)

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  64. Danzig - Danzig III: How The Gods Kill (American)
  65. The Comsat Angels - My Mind's Eye (Caroline/Renascent)
  66. The Boo Radleys - Everything's Alright Forever (Creation)
  67. Neneh Cherry - Homebrew (Virgin)
  68. The Breeders - Safari EP (4AD)
  69. The Mummies - Never Been Caught (Telstar)
  70. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Crypt Style (Caroline/1+2)
  71. Ministry - Psalm 69 (Sire/WB)
  72. Television (Capitol)
  73. Gallon Drunk - You, The Night...The Music (Rykodisc/Sartorial)
  74. Gallon Drunk - Tonight, The Singles Bar (Rykodisc)
  75. Solitude Aeturnus - Beyond The Crimson Horizon (Roadrunner)
  76. The Goats - Tricks of the Shade (Ruffhouse)
  77. Das EFX - Dead Serious (East West)
  78. The Sugarcubes - Stick Around For Joy (Elektra)
  79. The Fluid - Purplemetalflakemusic (Sub Pop)
  80. House of Pain (Tommy Boy)
  81. Redman - Whut? The Album (RAL)
  82. Hassan Hakmoun - The Fire Within (Music of World)
  83. Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living (American)
  84. Praxis - Transmutation (Axiom/Island)
  85. Los Lobos - Kiko (Slash/WB)
  86. Tom Waits - Night On Earth (Island)
  87. Girls Against Boys - Tropic of Scorpio (Adult Swim)
  88. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream (Elektra)
  89. Cop Shoot Cop - White Noise (Circuit)
  90. Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction (Capitol)
  91. Godflesh - Pure (Earache)
  92. Yo La Tengo - May I Sing With Me (Alias)
  93. Café Tacvba (WB)
  94. Victims Family - The Germ (Alternative Tentacles)
  95. Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power (Atco)
  96. Jonestown - All Day Sucker (Project A-Bomb)
  97. Cows - Cunning Stunts (Amphetemine Reptile)
  98. Pale Saints - In Ribbons (4AD)
  99. Peter Murphy - Holy Smoke (Beggars Banquet)
  100. The Church - Priest = Aura (Arista)
  101. Superchunk - On The Mouth (Matador)
  102. Shiny Beast EP (Boner)
  103. Dead C - Harsh '70s Reality (Siltbreeze)
  104. God Is My Co-Pilot - I Am Not This Body (Making)
  105. Stina Nordenstam - Memories Of A Color (Telegram)
  106. Trumans Water - Of Thick Tum (Homestead)
  107. Vaselines - The Way of the Vaselines (Sub Pop)
  108. Reverend Horton Heat - Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em (Sub Pop)
  109. L7 - Bricks Are Heavy (Slash)
  110. Meat Beat Manifesto - Satyricon (Elektra)
  111. Thee Headcoats - Heavens to Murgatroyd Even! It's Thee Headcoats (Sub Pop)
  112. Dwarves - Thank Heaven For Little Girls (Sub Pop)
  113. Didjits - Full Nelson Reilly (Touch & Go)
  114. Ultramagnetic MCs - Funk Your Head Up (Mercury)
  115. Nine Inch Nails - Broken EP (Interscope)
  116. Madonna - Erotica (WB)
  117. Bad Religion - Generator (Epitaph)
  118. Urge Overkill - Stull EP (Touch & Go)
  119. Yo La Tengo - 200% EP (Matador)
  120. The Flaming Lips - Wastin' Pigs EP (WB)
  121. Big Chief - Face (Sub Pop)
  122. Sloan - Smeared (DGC)
  123. Monster Zero - Wreck (Sonic Bubblegum)

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  124. Tumbleweed - Weedseed (Seed)
  125. Deee-Lite - Infinity Within (Elektra)
  126. The X-Clan - X-Odus (Polydor)
  127. Boogie Down Productions - Sex and Violence (Jive)
  128. Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo - Live and let Die (WB)
  129. Too Short - Shorty the Pimp (Jive)
  130. Motörhead - March Or Die (Sony)
  131. Arrested Development - Three Years, Five Months & Two Days in the Life of . . . (Chrysalis)
  132. Ice Cube - The Predator (Priority)
  133. The Brand New Heavies - Heavy Rhyme Experience, Vol. 1 (Delicious Vinyl)
  134. Grand Puba - Reel to Reel (Elektra)
  135. Da Lench Mob - Guerillas in Tha Mist (Atco)
  136. EPMD - Business Never Personal (Def Jam)
  137. K-Solo - Time's Up (Atlantic)
  138. Kid Frost - East Side Story (Virgin)
  139. Showbiz & A.G. - Runaway Slaves (Payday/London)
  140. Lord Finesse - Return of the Funky Man (Giant)
  141. Geto Boys - Geto Boys the Best Uncut Dope (Rap-A-Lot)
  142. Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics - Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop (Polygram)
  143. Compton's Most Wanted - Music to Driveby (Orpheus)
  144. Def Leppard - Adrenalize (Mercury)
  145. Strictly Roots - Begs No Friends (Friends)
  146. Soul II Soul - Vol. III: Just Right (Virgin)

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1991

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  1. Slint - Spiderland (Touch & Go)
  2. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (Sire)

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  3. Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages (Axiom)
  4. Nirvana - Nevermind (Geffen)
  5. Massive Attack - Blue Lines (Virgin)
  6. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (Polydor)
  7. The Jesus Lizard - Goat (Touch & Go)
  8. Melvins - Bullhead (Boner)
  9. Monster Magnet - Spine Of God (Caroline)
  10. Public Enemy - Apocalypse '91...The Enemy Strikes Black (Columbia)

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  11. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque (Geffen)
  12. Swervedriver - Raise (A&M)
  13. Halo Of Flies - Music For Insect Minds (Amphetamine Reptile)
  14. Monster Magnet - Tab...25 (Glitterhouse/Caroline)
  15. Fugazi - Steady Diet Of Nothing (Dischord)
  16. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (Jive)
  17. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (A&M)
  18. Speed The Plough - Wonder Wheel (East Side Digital)
  19. The Feelies - Time For A Witness (A&M)
  20. Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty (Matador)
  21. Smashing Pumpkins - gish (Caroline)
  22. The Pixies - Trompe Le Monde (Elektra)
  23. Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend (Zoo)
  24. The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld (Mercury)
  25. Orbital (ffrr)
  26. The Boo Radleys - Learning To Walk (Rough Trade)
  27. Screeching Weasel - My Brain Hurts (Lookout!)
  28. Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind (Sire)
  29. Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam (Columbia)
  30. Slowdive - Just For A Day (Creation)
  31. U2 - Achtung Baby (Island)
  32. Disco Inferno - Open Doors, Closed Windows (Che)
  33. Son Of Bazerk - Bazerk Bazerk Bazerk (Soul/MCA)
  34. Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona (4AD/Sire)
  35. Eleventh Dream Day - Lived To Tell (Atlantic)
  36. Material Issue - International Pop Overthrow (Mercury)
  37. Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide (Island)
  38. Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (Sub Pop)
  39. The Obsessed - Lunar Womb (Noise)
  40. Screaming Trees - Uncle Anesthesia (Epic)
  41. Ambitious Lovers - Lust (Elektra/Strange Fruit)
  42. Pavement - Westing (by musket or sextant) (Drag City)
  43. Uncle Tupelo - Still Feel Gone (Rockville)
  44. Ice-T - O.G. Original Gangster (Sire/WB)
  45. The Wedding Present - Seamonsters (BMG)
  46. Velvet Crush - In The Presence Of Greatness (Actin Musik)
  47. Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill (Ruffhouse)
  48. De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead (Tommy Boy)
  49. The Blue Aeroplanes - Beatsongs (Chrysalis)
  50. Melvins - Eggnog EP (Boner)
  51. Tad - 8-Way Santa (Sub Pop)
  52. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence (Metal Blade)
  53. Khaled (Cohiba)
  54. Various - Too Pure: The Peel Sessions (Th' Faith Healers/PJ Harvey/Stereolab)
  55. The Draghounds - Angel Boots (Crackpot)
  56. Gary Clail & On-U Sound System - Emotional Hooligan (BMG)
  57. Mano Negra - King Of Bongo (Virgin)
  58. Entombed - Clandestine (Earache)
  59. Sepultura - Arise (Roadrunner)
  60. Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick (Combat)
  61. Metallica (Elektra)
  62. Bongwater - The Power of Pussy (Shimmy Disc)
  63. The Field Mice - For Keeps (Sarah/LTM)
  64. Earth - A Bureaucratic Desire For Extra Capsular Extraction (Sub Pop)
  65. Paris - The Devil Made Me Do It (Tommy Boy)
  66. The Pixies - Complete B-Sides (4AD)
  67. Trouble - Manic Frustration (American)
  68. Superchunk - Tossing Seeds 1989-91 (Merge)

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  69. Cathedral - Forest Of Equilibrium (Earache)
  70. Meat Puppets - Forbidden Places (London)
  71. Urge Overkill - The Supersonic Storybook (Touch & Go)
  72. Voivod - Angel Rat (Mechanic)
  73. Mr. Bungle (WB)
  74. Guns 'n' Roses - Use Your Illusion I & II (Geffen)
  75. The Young Gods - Play Kurt Weill (Play It Again Sam)
  76. Kyuss - Wretch (Dali/Chameleon)
  77. Pearl Jam - Ten (Sony)
  78. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (WB)
  79. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother (Elektra)
  80. fireHOSE - Flyin' The Flannel (Columbia)
  81. Saint Etienne - Fox Base Alpha (WB)
  82. Lloyd Cole - Don't Get Weird On Me, Babe (Capitol)
  83. Neil Young - Weld (Reprise)
  84. Jawbox - Grippe (Dischord)
  85. Ice Cube - Death Certificate (Priority)
  86. Coroner - Mental Vortex (Noise)
  87. Michael Jackson - Dangerous (Epic)
  88. Rocket From The Crypt - Paint As A Fragrance (Headhunter/Cargo)
  89. Paul K. - The Big Nowhere (Silenz)
  90. Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - Rising Above Bedlam (Atlantic)
  91. Metal Church - Human Factor (Epic)
  92. Motörhead - 1916 (Sony)
  93. Steel Pole Bath Tub - Tulip (Boner)
  94. Yo La Tengo - This Is Yo La Tengo EP (Coyote)
  95. Naked City - Torture Garden (Shimmy Disc)
  96. Sebadoh - Sebadoh III (Homestead)
  97. Arcwelder - Jacket Made In Canada (Big Money Music)
  98. Primus - Sailing The Sees Of Cheese (Interscope)
  99. Front 242 - Tyranny For You (Epic)
  100. Prong - Prove You Wrong (Epic)
  101. Pegboy - Strong Reaction (Touch & Go)
  102. Bolt Thrower - Warmaster (Combat)
  103. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Lovelyville (Matador)
  104. Black Sheep - A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing (Mercury)
  105. Hole - Pretty On the Inside (Caroline)
  106. Death - Human (Combat)
  107. Big Chief - Drive It Off (Get Hip Recordings)
  108. Boneclub - Bless This (Big Store)
  109. Primal Scream - Screamadelica (Sire)
  110. Shrimp Boat - Duende (Bar None/Rough Trade)
  111. Babes In Toyland - To Mother EP (Twin/Tone)
  112. Vijaya Anand - Dance Raja Dance: Asia Classics (Luaka Bop)
  113. NoMeansNo - 0+1=2 (Alternative Tentacles)
  114. Organized Konfusion (Hollywood Basic)
  115. Nirvana - Incesticide 88-91 (Geffen)
  116. The Cranes - Wings Of Joy (Dedicated)
  117. Love Child - Okay? (Homestead)
  118. Verlaines - Ready To Fly (Slash)
  119. The Gun Club - Divinity (Buddha)
  120. Hall & Kramer - Real Men (Shimmy Disc)
  121. King Missile - The Way to Salvation (Atlantic)
  122. Fishbone - The Reality of My Surroundings (Columbia)
  123. Lemonheads - Lovey (Atlantic)
  124. PM Dawn - Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross... (Gee Street)
  125. Violent Femmes - Why Do Birds Sing? (Slash)
  126. R.E.M. - Out Of Time (WB)
  127. Codeine - Frigid Stars (Sub Pop)
  128. Dismember - Like An Everflowing Stream (Nuclear Blast)
  129. Dinosaur Jr. - Whatever's Cool With Me (Sire)

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  130. EPMD - Business As Usual (Def Jam)
  131. Digital Underground - Sons of the P (Tommy Boy)
  132. Stetsasonic - Blood, Sweat & No Tears (Tommy Boy)
  133. Leaders of the New School - Future Without a Past (Elektra)
  134. Heavy D & the Boyz - Peaceful Journey (Uptown)
  135. Terminator X - Terminator X & the Valley of the Jeep Beats (RAL)
  136. Boogie Down Productions - Live Hardcore Worldwide (Jive)
  137. Queen Latifah - Nature of a Sista' (Tommy Boy)
  138. Guns N' Roses - User Your Illusion I (Geffen)
  139. 3rd Bass - Derelicts of Dialect (Def Jam)
  140. Wrecks-N-Effect - Wrecks-N-Effect (Atlantic)
  141. Compton's Most Wanted - Straight Checkn' 'Em (Orpheus)
  142. Naughty by Nature (Tommy Boy)
  143. Urban Dance Squad - Life 'n Perspective of a Genuine Crossover (Arista)
  144. Tim Dog - Penicillin on Wax (CBS)
  145. Yo-Yo - Make Way for the Motherlode (East-West)
  146. Scarface - Mr. Scarface Is Back (Rap-a-Lot)
  147. Nice & Smooth - Ain't a Damned Thing Changed (RAL/Columbia)
  148. Dream Warriors - And Now the Legacy Begins (4th & Broadway)
  149. Cannibal Corpse - Butchered At Birth (Metal Blade)
  150. Prince - Diamonds And Pearls (Paisley Park)
  151. Main Source - Breaking Atoms (Wild Pitch)

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1990

    10

  1. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (Def Jam)

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  2. Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss (American)
  3. The Breeders - Pod (4AD)
  4. Fugazi - Repeater (Dischord)
  5. Ride - Nowhere (Creation/Sire)
  6. Souled American - Around The Horn (Rough Trade)

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  7. Dwarves - Blood Guts & Pussy (Sub Pop)
  8. Helmet - Strap It On (Amphetemine Reptile)
  9. The House Of Love - The Butterfly Album (Fontana)
  10. Bitch Magnet - Ben Hur (Communion)
  11. Buffalo Tom - Birdbrain (Beggars Banquet)
  12. Flaming Lips - In A Priest Driven Ambulence (Restless)
  13. The Pixies - Bossanova (Elektra)
  14. The Lazy Cowgirls - How It Looks How It Is (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
  15. The Jesus Lizard - Head (Touch & Go)
  16. Uncle Tupelo - No Depression (Rockville)
  17. Cosmic Psychos - Go The Hack (Sub Pop)
  18. A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm (Jive)
  19. Sonic Youth - Goo (Geffen)
  20. Jane's Addiction - Ritual De La Habitual (WB)
  21. Babes In Toyland - Spanking Machine (Twin/Tone)
  22. Tragic Mulatto - Chartreuse Toulouse (Alt. Tentacles)
  23. Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas (4AD)
  24. Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music (Rough Trade/Ryko)
  25. Sinéad O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (Chrysalis)
  26. Judas Priest - Painkiller (Columbia)
  27. Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives (Drag City)
  28. Afghan Whigs - Up In It (Sub Pop)
  29. Yo La Tengo - Fakebook (Bar/None)
  30. F/i - Blue Star (RRR/Lexicon Devil)
  31. Soul Asylum - And The Horse They Rode In On (A&M)
  32. Peter Murphy - Deep (Beggars Banquet)
  33. Social Distortion (Epic)
  34. The Gories - I Know You Fine, But How You Doin' (Crypt)
  35. Brian Eno & John Cale - Wrong Way Up (Opal/WB)
  36. Bad Brains - The Youth Are Getting Restless (Caroline)
  37. Claw Hammer - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Not Devo! (Sympathy)
  38. Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Taste (Sire)
  39. Megadeth - Rust In Peace (Capitol)
  40. Depeche Mode - Violator (Reprise/WEA)
  41. Ice Cube - Amerikkka's Most Wanted (Priority)
  42. L.L. Cool J. - Mama Said Knock You Out (Def Jam)
  43. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Good Son (Mute)
  44. Youssou N'Dour - Set (Virgin)
  45. Cheb Mami - Let Me Rai (Virgin)
  46. Legendary Pink Dots - Crushed Velvet Apocalypse (Play It Again Sam)
  47. Loop - A Gilded Eternity (RCA)
  48. Monster Magnet EP (Glitterhouse)
  49. Dead C - Trapdoor Fucking Exit (Siltbreeze)
  50. Fela Kuti & Egypt 80 - Beasts Of No Nation (Universal)
  51. Fela Kuti & Egypt 80 - O.D.O.O. (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake) (Universal)
  52. Death Angel - Act III (Geffen Goldline)
  53. Nice Strong Arm - Stress City (Homestead)
  54. Trouble (American)
  55. Danzig - Danzig II: Lucifuge (American)
  56. Redd Kross - Third Eye (Atlantic)
  57. Gary Clail & On-U Sound System - End Of The Century Party (On- U Sound)

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  58. Ride - Smile (Creation/Sire)
  59. Teenage Fanclub - A Catholic Education (Matador)
  60. Mother Love Bone - Apple (Polydor)
  61. Digital Underground - Sex Packets (Tommy Boy)
  62. Lloyd Cole (Capitol)
  63. The Blue Aeroplanes - Swagger (Chrysalis)
  64. Lubricated Goat - Psychedelicatessen (Amphtetamine Reptile)
  65. The Jazz Butcher - Cult Of The Basement (Rough Trade)
  66. KMFDM - Naive (Wax Trax!)
  67. Entombed - Left Hand Path (Earache)
  68. Primus - Frizzle Fry (Caroline)
  69. Iggy Pop - Brick By Brick (Virgin)
  70. Neil Young - Ragged Glory (Reprise)
  71. Run Westy Run - Green Cat Island (Twin/Tone)
  72. Victims Family - White Bread Rules (Mordam)
  73. The Gun Club - Pastoral Hide And Seek (Buddha)
  74. Asbestosdeath - Dejection Unclean EP (Profane Existence/Southern Lord)
  75. Kyuss - Sons Of Kyuss EP (Kyuss)
  76. Arsenal - Factory Smog Is A Sign Of Progress (Touch & Go)
  77. Cop Shoot Cop - Consumer Revolt (Circuit)
  78. Prong - Beg To Differ (Epic)
  79. New Model Army - Impurity (EMI)
  80. Foetus Inc. - Sink (Wax Trax!)
  81. Deee-Lite - World Clique (Elektra)
  82. Pegboy - Three Chord Monte EP (Touch & Go)
  83. Blind Guardian - Tales From the Twilight World (EMI)
  84. Didjits - Hornet Pinata (Touch & Go)
  85. Asbestosdeath - Dejection Unclean EP (Profane Existence/Southern Lord)
  86. Queensryche - Empire (EMI)
  87. Bad Religion - Against the Grain (Epitaph)
  88. Gear Daddies - Billy's Live Bait (Polygram)
  89. L7 - Smell the Magic (Sub Pop)
  90. The Fluid - Glue EP (Sub Pop)
  91. Dead Moon - Thirteen Off My Hook (Music Maniac)
  92. The Devil Dogs - Big Beef Bonanza (Crypt)
  93. Salt-N-Pepa - Black's Magic (London)
  94. Boss Hog - Cold Hands (Amphetamine Reptile)
  95. Laughing Hyaenas - Life Of Crime (Touch & Go)
  96. Fastbacks - Very, Very Powerful Motor (PopLlama Products)

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  97. Eric B. & Rakim - Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em (MCA)
  98. Prefab Sprout - Jordan: The Comback (Epic)
  99. Boogie Down Productions - Edutainment (Jive)
  100. Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. - New Funky Nation (4th & Broadway)
  101. Mellow Man Ace - Escape from Havana (Capitol)
  102. Brand Nubian - One For All (Elektra)
  103. Above the Law - Livin' Like Hustlers (Ruthless/Epic)
  104. Gang Starr - Step In The Arena (Chrysalis)
  105. Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption (Earache)
  106. Poor Righteous Teachers - Holy Intellect (Profile)
  107. Compton's Most Wanted - It's a Compton Thang (Capitol)
  108. Lord Finesse - Funky Technician Wild (Pitch)
  109. Kid Frost - Hispanic Causing Panic (Virgin)
  110. K-Solo - Tell the World My Name (Atlantic)
  111. Geto Boys - Grip It! on That Level (Def American)
  112. Monie Love - Down to Earth (WB)
  113. Urban Dance Squad - Mental Floss for the Globe (Arista)
  114. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell (Metal Magic)
  115. Soul II Soul - Vol. II: 1990, A New Decade (Virgin)
  116. Nikki D. - Daddy's little Girl Def (Jam/Columbia)
  117. Movement Ex - Movement Ex (Columbia)

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1989

    10

  1. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (Capitol)

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  2. Godflesh - Streetcleaner (Mosh/Earache)
  3. De La Soul - Three Feet And Rising (Tommy Boy)
  4. Fugazi - 13 Songs (Dischord)
  5. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (TVT/Halo)
  6. The Jungle Brothers - Done By The Forces Of Nature (WB)

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  7. The Pixies - Doolittle (Elektra)
  8. John Zorn - Naked City (Elektra/Nonesuch)
  9. Spiral Jetty - Dogstar (Absolute A-Go-Go)
  10. Melvins - Ozma (Boner)
  11. Nirvana - Bleach (Sub Pop)
  12. f/I - Paradise Out Here (Human/Lexicon Devil)
  13. NoMeansNo - Wrong (Alternative Tentacles)
  14. Speed The Plough (East Side Digital)
  15. Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie (Virgin)
  16. Einsturzende Neubauten - Haus der Luege (Rough Trade/Thirsty Ear)
  17. Operation Ivy - Energy (Lookout!)
  18. Bad Brains - Quickness (Caroline)
  19. Buffalo Tom (SST)
  20. The Gories - House Rockin' (Crypt)
  21. The Jungle Brothers - Done By The Forces Of Nature (WB)
  22. The Blue Nile - Hats (A&M/Virgin)
  23. The Cure - Disintegration (Elektra)
  24. Love And Rockets (Beggars Banquet)
  25. The Cynics - Rock 'n' Roll (Get Hip)
  26. Voivod - Nothingface (Mechanic)
  27. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic (WB)
  28. The The - Mind Bomb (Epic)
  29. Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Step (Epic)
  30. Slint - Tweez (Jill)
  31. A.R. Kane - "i" (Rough Trade)
  32. Mano Negra - Puta's Fever (Virgin)
  33. Souled American - Flubber (Rough Trade)
  34. Cheb Khaled - Kutche (Stern's)
  35. Rapeman - Two Nuns And A Pack Mule (Touch & Go)
  36. The Young Gods - L'Eau Rouge - Red Water (Play It Again Sam)
  37. Kreator - Extreme Agression (Epic)
  38. The Stone Roses (Silvertone)
  39. Tragic Mulatto - Hot Man Pussy (Alternative Tentacles)
  40. Band Of Susans - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
  41. Mudhoney (Sub Pop)
  42. Sepultura - Beneath The Remains (Roadrunner)
  43. Galaxie 500 - On Fire (Rough Trade/Ryko)
  44. Queen Latifah - All Hail the Queen (Tommy Boy)
  45. The Celibate Rifles - Sofa 1983-89 (Restless)

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  46. The Celibate Rifles - Blind Ear (Hot)
  47. Felt - Me And A Monkey On The Moon (Cherry Red)
  48. Barry Adamson - Moss Side Story (Mute)
  49. New Order - Technique (Qwest/WB)
  50. Dead Moon - Unknown Passage (Tombstone)
  51. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness (Earache)
  52. The Godfathers - More Songs About Love & Hate (Epic)
  53. EPMD - Unfinished Business (Sleeping Bag/Fresh)
  54. Gang Starr - No More Mr. Nice Guy (Chrysalis)
  55. Sodom - Agent Orange (Roadracer/Steamhammer)
  56. XTC - Oranges And Lemons (Geffen)
  57. Autopsy - Severed Survival (Peaceville)
  58. The Mighty Lemon Drops - Laughter (Sire/Reprise)
  59. The Creatures - Boomerang (Geffen)
  60. Exodus - Fabulous Disaster (Combat)
  61. The Lilac Time - Paradise Circus (Fontana)
  62. The Jazz Butcher - Big Planet Scarey Planet (Creation/Genius)
  63. The Screaming Blue Messiahs - Totally Religious (Elektra)
  64. Hoodoo Gurus - Magnum Cum Louder (Elektra)
  65. Big Daddy Kane - It's a Big Daddy Thing (Cold Chillin')
  66. The Walkabouts - Rag & Bone/Cataract (Sub Pop)
  67. Boss Hog - Drinkin' Lechin' & Lyin' EP (Amphetamine Reptile)
  68. Mark Lanegan - The Winding Sheet (Sub Pop)
  69. Bitch Magnet - Umber (Communion)
  70. Atheist - Piece Of Time (Metal Blade)
  71. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - 1984-1989 (Capitol)
  72. Pussy Galore - Dial M For Motherfucker (Caroline)
  73. Neil Young - Freedom (Reprise)
  74. Pere Ubu - Cloudland (Mercury)
  75. Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop (Jive)
  76. Bad Religion - No Control (Epitaph)
  77. The Frogs - It's Only Right And Natural (Frogs)
  78. Bolt Thrower - Realm Of Chaos (Combat)
  79. Death Of Samantha - Come All Ye Faithless (Homestead)
  80. KMFDM - UAIOE (Wax Trax!)
  81. Screaming Trees - Anthology: SST Years 1985-1989 (SST)
  82. Laughing Hyaenas - You Can't Pray A Lie (Touch & Go)
  83. De La Soul - Three Feet High And Rising (Tommy Boy)
  84. Mekons - The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll (A&M)
  85. Lou Reed - New York (RCA)
  86. Blood Circus - Primal Rock Therapy EP + Singles (Sub Pop)
  87. Tad - God's Balls (Sub Pop)
  88. The Wedding Present - Bizarro (RCA)
  89. Bastards - Monticello (Treehouse)
  90. Eleventh Dream Day - Beet (Atlantic)
  91. Kate Bush - The Sensual World (EMI)
  92. Mother Love Bone - Shine EP (Polydor)
  93. The Psychedelic Furs - Book Of Days (Columbia)
  94. Big Audio Dynamite - Megatop Phoenix (Columbia)
  95. Rollins Band - Hard Volume (Texas Hotel)
  96. Naked Raygun - Understand? (Caroline/Quarterstick)
  97. Claw Hammer (Sympathy)
  98. The Associates - The Glamour Chase (WB)
  99. Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood (Elektra)
  100. Bullet Lavolta - The Gift (Taang!)
  101. Stygian Shore - The Shore Will Arise (Shadow Kingdom)
  102. Killdozer - Twelve Point Buck (Touch & Go)
  103. Steel Pole Bath Tub - Butterfly Love (Boner)
  104. Coroner - No More Color (Noise)
  105. Soundgarden - Louder Than Love (A&M)
  106. Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi (Virgin)
  107. Arcwelder - This (Big Money Inc.)
  108. Ice-T - The Iceberg, Freedom of Speech . . . Just Watch What You Say (Sire)
  109. Kool Moe Dee - Knowledge Is King (Jive/RCA)

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  110. New Model Army - Thunder & Consolation (Capitol)
  111. The Sugarcubes - Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! (Elektra)
  112. Heavy D & the Boyz - Big Tyme (Uptown)
  113. Terrorizer - World Downfall (Combat)
  114. Metal Church - Blessing In Disguise (Elektra)
  115. Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy (Geffen)
  116. L.A. Guns - Cocked & Loaded (Polydor)
  117. The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better (Ruthless)
  118. The Original Sins - The Hardest Way (Skyclad)
  119. Negativland - Helter Stupid (SST)
  120. Carcass - Symphonies Of Sickness (Earache)
  121. MC Lyte - Eyes on This (First Priority)
  122. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk (EMI)
  123. Skid Row (Atlantic)
  124. Nuclear Assault - Handle With Care (Combat)
  125. The X-Clan - To The East Blackwards (4th & Broadway)
  126. L.L. Cool J. - Walking with a Panther (Def Jam)
  127. Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich (Columbia)

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1988

    10

  1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (Enigma)
  2. The Pixies - Surfer Rosa (4AD)
  3. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Def Jam)

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  4. Slayer - South Of Heaven (American)
  5. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton (Ruthless)
  6. Eleventh Dream Day - Prairie School Freakout (Thrill Jockey/Amoeba)
  7. Dinosaur Jr. - Bug (SST)
  8. Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden (EMI)
  9. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything (Creation)
  10. The House Of Love (Creation)
  11. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey (Mute)
  12. EPMD - Strictly Business (Sleeping Bag/Fresh)
  13. The Jungle Brothers - Straight Out The Jungle (Warlock)
  14. Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary (Jive)
  15. Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown (Next Plateau)

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  16. Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff EP (Sub Pop)
  17. Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (RT)
  18. Naked Raygun - Jettison (Caroline/Quarterstick)
  19. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From The Grace Of God (WEA)
  20. The Mighty Lemon Drops - World Without End (Sire)
  21. The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good (Elektra)
  22. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking (WB)
  23. Danzig (American)
  24. The Woodentops - Wooden Foot Cops On A Highway (Rough Trade/Cherry Red)
  25. Moving Targets - Brave Noise (Taang!)
  26. Union Carbide Productions - In The Air Tonight (Radium)
  27. Ambitious Lovers - Greed (Virgin)
  28. F/i - Space Mantra (RRR/Lexicon Devil)
  29. A.R. Kane - Sixty Nine (Rough Trade/One Little Indian)
  30. Souled American - Fe (Rough Trade)
  31. Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration (Combat)
  32. Kreator - Terrible Certainty (Noise)
  33. Galaxie 500 - Today (Ryko)
  34. The Church - Starfish (Arista)
  35. Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man (Columbia)
  36. The Feelies - Only Life (A&M)
  37. Mano Negra - Patchanka (Virgin)
  38. Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America (Virgin)
  39. Soul Asylum - Hang Time (A&M)
  40. For Against - December (Chameleon)
  41. Yo La Tengo - President Yo La Tengo (Coyote)
  42. Chaba Fadela - You Are Mine (Mango)
  43. Tom Waits - Big Time (Island)
  44. Fishbone - Truth And Soul (Columbia)
  45. Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader (Uni)
  46. Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session (RCA)
  47. Ministry - The Land Of Rape And Honey (Sire)
  48. Living Colour - Vivid (Epic)
  49. R.E.M. - Green (WB)
  50. Run Westy Run - Hardly Not Even (SST)
  51. Soundgarden - Ultramega OK (SST)
  52. Bathory - Blood Fire Death (Maze/Kraze)
  53. The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane (Capitol/Beggars Banquet)
  54. The Ex - Aural Guerrilla (Ex)
  55. Destruction - Release From Agony (Profile/Steamhammer)
  56. Lubricated Goat - Paddock of Love (Amphetemine Reptile)
  57. Wipers - The Circle (Restless)
  58. Butthole Surfers - Hairway To Steven (Touch & Go)
  59. NoMeansNo - Small Parts Isolated & Destroyed (Alternative Tentacles)
  60. Pussy Galore - Right Now! (Matador)
  61. Pussy Galore - Sugarshit Sharp EP (Caroline)
  62. The Waterboys - The Fisherman's Tale (Ensign)
  63. Los Lobos - La Pistola y El Corazon (WB)
  64. Nice Strong Arm - Mind Furnace (Homestead
  65. Pailhead - Trail EP (Wax Trax!)
  66. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper (Jive)
  67. Victims Family - Things I Hate To Admit (Mordam)
  68. Konk - The Sound Of Konk: Tales of the New York Underground 1981-88 (Soul Jazz)

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  69. Metallica - ...And Justice For All (Elektra)
  70. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Barbed Wire Kisses (WB)
  71. Wire - A Bell Is A Cup Until It is Stuck (Enigma)
  72. Dwarves - Toolin' For A Warm Teabag (Recess)
  73. Throwing Muses - House Tornado (4AD/Sire)
  74. Pere Ubu - The Tenement Year (Enigma/Mercury)
  75. Stetsasonic - In Full Gear (Tommy Boy)
  76. The Bevis Frond - Tryptych (Woronzow)
  77. Masters Of Reality (American)
  78. Lubricated Goat - Paddock Of Love (Amphetamine Reptile)
  79. Voivod - Dimension Hatross (FAD)
  80. Game Theory - Two Steps From The Middle Ages (Enigma)
  81. The Jazz Butcher - Fiscotheque (Creation)
  82. Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll (4AD)
  83. Skinny Puppy - VIVIsectVI (Nettwerk)
  84. Gary Clail's On-U Sound System - Tackhead Sound System (Nettwerk)
  85. Social Distortion - Prison Bound (Time Bomb)
  86. Death Of Samantha - Where The Women Wear The Glory And The Men Wear The Pants (Homestead)
  87. Gear Daddies - Let's Go Scare Al (Gark)
  88. Hunters & Collectors - Fate (IRS)
  89. Beat Happening - Jamboree (K/Sub Pop)
  90. King Diamond - Them (Roadrunner)
  91. Testament - The New Order (Megaforce)
  92. Bongwater - Double Bummer (Shimmy Disc)
  93. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime (EMI)
  94. Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane (Cold Chillin')
  95. Foetus Interruptus - Thaw (Some Bizarre)
  96. Front 242 - Front By Front (Wax Trax!)
  97. The Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death (Epic)
  98. The Gibson Bros. - Big Pine Boogie (Okra)
  99. Youth Of Today - We're Not In This Alone (Revelation)
  100. Rollins Band - Life Time (Texas Hotel)
  101. Rollins Band - Do It (Texas Hotel)
  102. The Cynics - Twelve Flights Up (Get Hip)
  103. Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick (Def Jam)
  104. Adult Net - Honey Tangle (Fontana)
  105. Yello - Flag (Universal)
  106. Halo of Flies - Singles Going Nowhere (Twin/Tone)
  107. Bad Religion - Suffer (Epitaph)
  108. Didjits - Hey Judester (Touch & Go)
  109. Michelle Shocked - Short Sharp Shocked (Mercury)
  110. SNFU - Better Than A Stick In the Eye (Cargo)
  111. Godflesh (Earache)
  112. Prince - Lovesexy (WB)
  113. Peter Murphy - Love Hysteria (Beggars Banquet)
  114. The Lime Spiders - Volatile (Caroline)
  115. Felt - The Pictorial Jackson Review (Creation)

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  116. Too Short - Born to Mack (Jive)
  117. Samhain - Final Descent (E-Magine)
  118. The Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba (Enigma)
  119. Laughing Hyaenas - Come Down To The Merry Go Round (Touch & Go)
  120. World Domination Enterprises - Let's Play Domination (Caroline/Product Inc.)
  121. MC Lyte - Lyte as a Rock (First Priority)
  122. Death - Leprosy (Combat)
  123. Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction (Earache)
  124. Doug E. Fresh - The World's Greatest Entertainer (Reality)
  125. Salt-N-Pepa - A Salt with a Deadly Pepa (London)
  126. Bon Jovi - New Jersey (Mercury)
  127. Prince - The Black Album (WB)
  128. Robert Plant - Now And Zen (Es Paranza)
  129. Iggy Pop - Instinct (A&M)
  130. Cinderella - Long Cold Winter (Mercury)
  131. L.A. Guns (Polydor)

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1987

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  1. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me (SST)

    10-

  2. Sonic Youth - Sister (SST)
  3. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full (4th & Broadway)

    9+

  4. Prince - Sign O' The Times (Paisley Park)
  5. The Pixies - Come On Pilgrim EP (4AD)
  6. The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (Elektra)
  7. The House Of Love - The German Album (Creation/Renascent)
  8. The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come (Sire)
  9. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands (WB/Blanco Y Negro)
  10. Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs And Stories (WB)
  11. U2 - The Joshua Tree (Island)
  12. The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me (Sire)
  13. Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion And The Cobra (Chrysalis)
  14. Big Black - Songs About Fucking (Touch & Go)
  15. Spiral Jetty - Art's Sand Bar (Incas)
  16. R.E.M. - Document (IRS)
  17. Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments (Boner/Ipecac)
  18. Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven (Homestead)
  19. Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show (Def Jam)
  20. Wire - The Ideal Copy (Mute)
  21. Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded (B-Boy)
  22. The Cult - Electric (Sire)
  23. Swans - Children Of God (Caroline)
  24. Hugo Largo - Drum (Opal)
  25. That Petrol Emotion - Babble (Polydor)
  26. The Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland (Elektra)
  27. Dukes Of Stratosphear - Psonic Psunspot (Virgin)
  28. The Wedding Present - George Best (Reception)
  29. My Bloody Valentine - Ecstasy/Strawberry Wine EPs (Lazy)
  30. Julian Cope - Saint Julian (Island)
  31. Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction (Geffen)
  32. Echo & The Bunnymen (Sire)
  33. INXS - Kick (Atlantic)
  34. Yo La Tengo - New Wave Hot Dogs (Coyote)
  35. Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium (Noise)
  36. Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years (Island)
  37. Loop - Heaven's End (Mute)
  38. King Sunny Ade - Let Them Say (Atom Park)
  39. Thin White Rope - Moonhead (Frontier)
  40. Close Lobsters - Foxheads Stalk This Land (Fire)
  41. F/i - Why Not Now?...Alan! (RRR/Lexicon Devil)
  42. The Lazy Cowgirls - Tapping The Source (Bomp)
  43. Yung Wu - Shore Leave (Coyote)
  44. Scratch Acid - Berserker EP (Touch & Go)
  45. Yello - One Second (Universal)
  46. Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium (Noise/Sanctuary)
  47. Tackhead - Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System (On-U Sound)
  48. Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician (Touch & Go)
  49. The Go-Betweens - Tallulah (Beggars Banquet)
  50. Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription (Genius)
  51. Tragic Mulatto - Loco por el Sexo (Alternative Tentacles)
  52. The Triffids - Calenture (Island)
  53. Napalm Death - Scum (Earache)
  54. Candlemass - Nightfall (Powerline/Peaceville)
  55. The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs (Sire)
  56. Various - The Indestructible Beat of Soweto (Shanachie)

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  57. For Against - Echelons (Independent Project)
  58. Lime Spiders - The Cave Comes Alive! (Virus)
  59. Loop - The World In Your Eyes (Mute)
  60. Einsturzende Neubauten - Fuenf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala (Some Bizarre/Thirsty Ear)
  61. World Party - Private Revolution (Gold Rush)
  62. Game Theory - Lolita Nation (Enigma)
  63. Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love (Columbia)
  64. fIREHOSE - If'N' (SST)
  65. Hoodoo Gurus - Blow Your Cool! (Elektra)
  66. L.L. Cool J. - Bigger and Deffer (Def Jam)
  67. The Celibate Rifles - Roman Beach Party (Hot)
  68. Guadalcanal Diary - 2x4 (Elektra)
  69. Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses (Sire)
  70. Original Sins - Big Soul (Bar/None)
  71. Love And Rockets - Earth, Sun, Moon (Beggars Banquet)
  72. The Bevis Frond - Inner Marshland (Reckless)
  73. Flesh For Lulu - Long Live The New Flesh (Capitol)
  74. Drivin' N' Cryin' - Whisper Tames The Lion (Island)
  75. The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death (Elektra)
  76. Anthrax - Among The Living (Megaforce)
  77. The Screaming Tribesmen - Bones + Flowers (Rykodisc)
  78. Michael Jackson - Bad (Epic)
  79. Lubricated Goat - Plays The Devils Music (Amphetamine Reptile)
  80. The Gun Club - Mother Juno (Buddha)
  81. The Dead Milkmen - Bucky Fellini (Enigma)
  82. Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - Bo-Day-Shus!!! (Enigma)
  83. Pet Shop Boys - Actually (EMI)
  84. Sodom - Persecution Mania (Roadrunner/Steamhammer)
  85. The Lilac Time (Mercury)
  86. Testament - The Legacy (Atlantic)
  87. Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Mainstream (Capitol)
  88. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Pt. 1 (RCA)
  89. King Diamond - Abigail (Roadrunner)
  90. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Through The Looking Glass (Geffen)
  91. This Kind of Punishment - In The Same Room (Ajax)
  92. Dead C - DR503 (Feel Good All Over)
  93. X - See How We Are (Elektra)
  94. The Blue Aeroplanes - Spitting Out Miracles (Velvel)
  95. Gene Loves Jezebel - The House Of Dolls (Geffen)
  96. Lucinda Williams (Koch)
  97. The Flaming Lips - Oh My Gawd!!! (Restless)
  98. The Young Gods (Wax Trax!)
  99. Verlaines - Juvenilia (Flying Nun/Homestead)
  100. Meat Puppets - Mirage (SST)
  101. Meat Puppets - Huevos (SST)
  102. Los Lobos - By The Light Of The Moon (Slash)
  103. Negativland - Escape From Noise (SST)
  104. Front 242 - Official Version (Wax Trax!)
  105. Blind Idiot God (SST)
  106. Screaming Blue Messiahs - Bikini Red (Elektra)
  107. All - Allroy Sez... (Cruz)
  108. Napalm Death - Scum (Earache)
  109. Dio - Dream Evil (Reprise)
  110. The Call - Into The Woods (Elektra)
  111. Henry Rollins - Hot Animal Machine (Texas Hotel)
  112. Wipers - Follow Blind (Restless)
  113. The Pastels - Up For A Bit With the Pastels (Big Time)
  114. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Rock The House (Jive)
  115. Schooly D. - Saturday Night (Schooly D.)
  116. Dep Leppard - Hysteria (Mercury)
  117. The Psychedelic Furs - Midnight To Midnight (Columbia)

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  118. Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls (Elektra)
  119. Pentagram - Day Of Reckoning (Peaceville/Snapper)
  120. Trouble - Run To The Light (Metal Blade)
  121. Manilla Road - Mystification (Black Dragon)
  122. Whitesnake (Geffen)
  123. Death - Screaming Bloody Gore (Combat)
  124. Motörhead - Rock 'n' Roll (Castle)
  125. Kool Moe Dee - How Ya Like Me Now (Rooftop-Jive)
  126. Salt-N-Pepa - Hot, Cool & Vicious (London)
  127. Bullet Lavolta (Taang!)
  128. Faster Pussycat (Elektra)
  129. Ice-T - Rhyme Pays (Sire)
  130. Voivod - Killing Technology (Noise)

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1986

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  1. Slayer - Reign In Blood (American)
  2. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (Sire)
  3. The Feelies - The Good Earth (Coyote)
  4. Bad Brains - I Against I (SST)
  5. Metallica - Master of Puppets (Elektra)
  6. Sonny Sharrock - Guitar (Enemy)
  7. XTC - Skylarking (Geffen)
  8. The Woodentops - Giant (Rough Trade/Columbia)
  9. Screaming Blue Messiahs - Gun Shy (Elektra)
  10. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral . . . My Trial (Homestead)
  11. Run D.M.C. - Raising Hell (Profile)
  12. The Church - Heyday (Arista)
  13. Love And Rockets - Express (Beggars)
  14. The The - Infected (Epic)
  15. Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring (EMI)

    9+

  16. R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant (IRS)
  17. New Order - Brotherhood (Factory/Qwest)
  18. Died Pretty - Free Dirt (What Goes On/Aztec)
  19. The Chameleons - Strange Times (Geffen)
  20. Big Black - Atomizer (Homestead)
  21. Paul Simon - Graceland (WB)
  22. Sonic Youth - EVOL (SST)
  23. Scratch Acid - Just Keep Eating (Rabid Cat)
  24. Hunters & Collectors - Human Frailty (IRS)
  25. The Cramps - A Date With Elvis (IRS/Vengeance)
  26. Shriekback - Big Night Music (Island)
  27. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Tinderbox (Geffen)
  28. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Kicking Against the Pricks (Homestead)
  29. Melvins - 10 Songs EP (Volcano)
  30. The Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill (Def Jam)
  31. Peter Gabriel - So (Geffen)
  32. Naked Raygun - All Rise (Homestead/Quarterstick)
  33. Moving Targets - Burning In Water (Taang!)
  34. Violent Femmes - The Blind Leading The Naked (WB)
  35. Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat (IRS)
  36. Wipers - Land of the Lost (Restless)
  37. The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4 (Elektra)
  38. Soul Asylum - Made To Be Broken (Twin/Tone)
  39. Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse (Touch & Go)
  40. Arthur Russell - World Of Echo (Audika)
  41. Hüsker Dü - Candy Apple Grey (WB)
  42. The Call - Reconciled (Eletkra)
  43. The Lucy Show - Mania (Words Music)
  44. Public Image Ltd. - Album (Elektra)
  45. That Petrol Emotion - Manic Pop Thrill (Demon)
  46. fIREHOSE - Ragin' Full-On (SST)
  47. Crowded House (Capitol)
  48. David & David - Boomtown (A&M)
  49. Felt - Forever Breathes The Lonely Word (Creation)
  50. Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? (Capitol)
  51. Manilla Road - The Deluge (Black Dragon)
  52. Saint Vitus - Born Too Late (SST)
  53. Kreator - Pleasure To Kill (Noise)
  54. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - One For the Soul (Polydor)
  55. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (Leviathan/Peaceville)
  56. King Sunny Ade - Sweet Banana (Atom Park)
  57. King Sunny Ade - My Dear (Atom Park)
  58. Stetsasonic - On Fire (Tommy Boy)
  59. Camper Van Beethoven (Pitch-A-Tent/Rough Trade)
  60. Mantronix - Music Madness (Sleeping Bag)
  61. One Last Wish - 1986 (Dischord)
  62. The Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle & The Black Diamond Express (Beggars Banquet)
  63. Throwing Muses (4AD)
  64. The Scientists - The Human Jukebox 1984-1986 (Sympathy FTRI)
  65. The Blue Aeroplanes - Tolerance (Velvel)
  66. The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional (Hot/Rough Trade)
  67. Soul Asylum - While You Were Out (Twin/Tone)
  68. Yo La Tengo - Ride The Tiger (Coyote)
  69. The Fall - Bend Sinister (Beggars Banquet)
  70. Swans - Greed EP (PVC)
  71. Swans - Holy Money EP (PVC)
  72. F/i - Boy Dirt Car EP (RRR/Lexicon Devil)
  73. The Triffids - In The Pines (Hot/Domino)
  74. Peter Murphy - Should The World Fail To Fall Apart (Beggars Banquet)
  75. Bathory - Under The Sign: The Sign Of The Black Mark (New Renaissance)
  76. The Mekons - The Edge Of The World (Quarterstick)
  77. Camper Van Beethoven - II & III (Pitch-A-Tent/Rough Trade)
  78. Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen(Chrysalis/Cherry Red)
  79. The Chills - Kaleidoscope World (Flying Nun/Homestead)
  80. Kukl - Holidays In Europe (The Naughty Nought) (Crass)
  81. The Wild Swans - Incandescent 81-86 (Renascent)
  82. Tom Verlaine - The Miller's Tale: A Tom Verlaine Anthology 1979-1986 (Virgin)

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  83. The Mission U.K. - God's Own Medicine (Mercury)
  84. Meat Puppets - Out My Way EP (SST)
  85. The Smithereens - Especially For You (Enigma)
  86. Effigies - Ink (Restless)
  87. Iggy Pop - Blah Blah Blah (A&M)
  88. The Celibate Rifles - The Turgid Miasma Of Existence (Hot)
  89. Elvis Costello - Blood & Chocolate (Rykodisc)
  90. Afrika Bambaataa - Beware (The Funk Is Everywhere) (Tommy Boy)
  91. Game Theory - Big Shot Chronicles (Alias)
  92. Gene Loves Jezebel - Discover (Geffen)
  93. Cocteau Twins - Victorialand (4AD)
  94. The Celibate Rifles - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Hot)
  95. The Mighty Lemon Drops - Happy Head (Sire)
  96. Cowboy Junkies - Whites Off Earth Now!! (BMG)
  97. The Dicks - 1980-1986 (Alternative Tentacles)
  98. The Godfathers - Hit By Hit (Link)
  99. Robyn Hitchcock - Element Of Light (Glass Fish)
  100. Kraftwerk - Electric Cafe/Techno Pop (Elektra/Astralwerks)
  101. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration (Mute)
  102. Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time (Capitol)
  103. Let's Active - Big Plans For Everybody (IRS)
  104. Samhain III - November Coming-Fire (Plan 9/Caroline)
  105. Kool Moe Dee (Rooftop-Jive)
  106. Prince - Parade (WB)
  107. Guadalcanal Diary - Jamboree (Elektra)
  108. Robert Wyatt - Old Rottenhat (Gramavision)
  109. Head Of David - CD (Blast First)
  110. Ministry - Twitch (Sire/WB)
  111. Motörhead - Orgasmatron (Castle)
  112. Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy (Polydor)
  113. Big Audio Dynamite - No. 10, Upping St. (Columbia)
  114. Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - Frenzy (Restless)
  115. Deborah Iyall - Strange Language (Wounded Bird)
  116. Toy Dolls - Idle Gossip (Castle/Sanctuary)
  117. The Raunch Hands - Learn to Whap-A-Dang With The Raunch Hands (Relativity)
  118. The Dead Milkmen - Eat Your Paisley! (Enigma)
  119. Pet Shop Boys - Please (EMI)
  120. The Dicks - 1980-1986 (Alternative Tentacles)
  121. Laurie Anderson - Home Of the Brave (WB)
  122. SNFU - If You Swear, You'll Catch No Fish (BYD)
  123. Conflict - Ungovernable Force (Motarhate)

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  124. The Rainmakers (Mercury)
  125. The Beat Farmers - Van Go (Curb)
  126. Lone Justice - Shelter (Geffen)
  127. The BoDeans - Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams (Slash/WB)
  128. Drivin' n' Cryin' - Scarred But Smarter (Island)
  129. Georgia Satellites (Elektra)
  130. Timbuk 3 - Greetings From Timbuk 3 (IRS)
  131. Jason & The Scorchers - Still Standing (Mammoth)
  132. Erasure - Wonderland (Sire)
  133. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet (Mercury)
  134. Cyndi Lauper - True Colors (Epic)
  135. David Lee Roth - Eat 'Em And Smile (WB)
  136. The Flaming Lips - Hear It Is (Pink Dust)
  137. New Model Army - The Ghost Of Cain (Capitol)
  138. a-ha - Scoundrel Days (WB)
  139. Killing Joke - Brighter Than A Thousand Suns (EG)
  140. Joan Jett - Good Music (Epic)
  141. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - The Pacific Age (Virgin)
  142. Agnostic Front - Cause For Alarm (Combat)
  143. Madonna - True Blue (Sire)
  144. Mood Six - Songs From the Lost Boutique 1982-1986 (Cherry Red)
  145. NoMeansNo - Sex Mad (Alternative Tentacles)
  146. Didjits - Fizzjob (Bam Bam)
  147. Eurythmics - Revenge (RCA)
  148. Vinnie Vincent - Invasion (Chrysalis)
  149. Tesla - Mechanical Resonance (Geffen)
  150. Cinderella - Night Songs (Mercury)
  151. Judas Priest - Turbo (Columbia)
  152. Electric Light Orchestra - Balance Of Power (Epic/Jet)
  153. The Bangles - Different Light (Columbia)
  154. Ratt - Dancing Undercover (Atlantic)
  155. The Stranglers - Dreamtime (Epic)
  156. Bananarama - True Confessions (London)

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1985

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  1. Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig (SST)
  2. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (WB)
  3. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (Island)
  4. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace (Beggars Banquet)

    10-

  5. New Order - Low-life (Factory/Qwest)
  6. The Cult - Love (Beggars Banquet)
  7. The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & The Lash (WEA)
  8. R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction (IRS)
  9. The Replacements - Tim (Sire)
  10. Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun (SST)
  11. Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising (SST)
  12. Tony Allen & Afrobeat 2000 - N.E.P.A. (Wrasse)
  13. Tenor Saw - Fever (Blue Mountain/Sprint)
  14. Various - The Sugarhill Story 1979-1985 (Rhino)

    9+

  15. Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love (EMI)
  16. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder (Sire)
  17. Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising (Homestead)
  18. L.L. Cool J. - Radio (Def Jam)
  19. The Cure - The Head On The Door (Elektra)
  20. Hoodoo Gurus - Mars Needs Guitars (Elektra)
  21. INXS - Listen Like Thieves (A&M)
  22. Killing Joke - Night Time (EG)
  23. The Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean? Basically (Statik)
  24. Big Audio Dynamite - This Is Big Audio Dynamite (Columbia)
  25. Spiral Jetty - Tour Of Homes EP (Incas)
  26. Einsturzende Neubauten - 1/2 Mensch (Rough Trade)
  27. Slayer - Hell Awaits (Metal Blade)
  28. The Alarm - Strength (IRS)
  29. The Jazz Butcher - Sex And Travel (Glass UK)
  30. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen/Two Wheels Good (Kitchenware UK/Epic)
  31. Pentagram - Relentless (Peaceville/Snapper)
  32. Love And Rockets - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven (Beggars Banquet)
  33. Rush - Power Windows (Mercury)
  34. The Dukes Of Stratosphear - 25 O' Clock (Geffen/Ape House)
  35. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Firstborn Is Dead (Homestead)
  36. Possessed - Seven Churches (Relativity)
  37. Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion (Noise)
  38. Butthole Surfers - Psychic . . . Powerless . . . Another Man's Sac (Touch & Go)
  39. Manilla Road - Open The Gates (Black Dragon)
  40. Naked Raygun - Throb Throb (Homestead/Quarterstick)
  41. Descendents - I Don't Want To Grow Up (SST)
  42. Shriekback - Oil And Gold (Island)
  43. The Minutemen - 3-Way Tie For Last (SST)
  44. Dinosaur Jr. (Homestead)
  45. Felt - Absolute Classic Masterpieces 1981-1985 (Cherry Red)
  46. Yello - Stella (Universal)
  47. The Wake - Here Comes Everybody (Factory)
  48. Junior Reid - Boom Shack A Lack (Greensleeves)
  49. The Sound - Heads And Hearts (Statik/Renascent)
  50. Squirrel Bait (Homestead)
  51. The Saints - All Fools Day (TVT)
  52. Embrace (Dischord)
  53. Metal Church (Elektra)
  54. Rites Of Spring (Dischord)
  55. Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory (IP)
  56. Doug E. Fresh - Oh My God! (Reality)
  57. The Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard In My Back Yard (Enigma)

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  58. Gene Loves Jezebel - Immigrant (Relativity)
  59. The Lucy Show - ...Undone (A&M)
  60. Run D.M.C. - King Of Rock (Profile)
  61. Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Easy Pieces (Capitol)
  62. Flesh For Lulu - Big Fun City (Statik)
  63. The Colourfield - Virgins and Philistines (EMI/Cherry Red)
  64. Savage Republic - Trudge (Fundamental Music)
  65. Effigies - Fly On A Wire (Enigma)
  66. The Sound - In The Hothouse (Statik/Renascent)
  67. Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper (IRS)
  68. Dexys Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down (Mercury)
  69. Schooly D. - The Adventures of Schoolly D (Rykodisc)
  70. Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85 (WB)
  71. The Mekons - Fear and Whiskey (Sin/Quarterstick)
  72. Fine Young Cannibals (IRS)
  73. Loudness - Thunder In The East (Atlantic)
  74. Accept - Metal Heart (Portrait)
  75. Felt - Gold Mine Trash (PVC/Cherry Red)
  76. Anthrax - Spreading The Disease (Megaforce)
  77. Exodus - Bonded By Blood (Combat)
  78. Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist (Alternative Tentacles)
  79. Fishbone EP (Columbia)
  80. David Byrne - Music For the Knee Plays (Sire)
  81. Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel - Nail (Homestead)
  82. Thee Mighty Caesars - Beware The Ides Of March (Big Beat)
  83. Bathory - The Return... (Black Mark)
  84. The Verlaines - Hallelujah All The Way Home (Homestead)
  85. The Apartments - The Evening Visits...and Stays for Years (Hot)
  86. The Style Council - Our Favourite Shop (Polydor)
  87. New Model Army - No Rest for the Wicked (Capitol)
  88. X - Ain't Love Grand (Elektra)
  89. Game Theory - Real Nighttime (Alias)
  90. Trouble - The Skull (Metal Blade)
  91. Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good (Combat)
  92. Rock Goddess - Young And Free (A&M)

    9-

  93. Robert Plant - Shaken 'N' Stirred (Es Paranza)
  94. Talking Heads - Little Creatures (Sire)
  95. The Assocaites - Perhaps (WB)
  96. S.O.D. - Speak English Or Die (Megaforce)
  97. Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching Out (Polydor)
  98. Leonard Cohen - Various Positions (Columbia)
  99. Government Issue - The Fun Just Never Ends (Fountain Of Youth)
  100. Wipers (Enigma)
  101. D.R.I. - Dealin' With It (Metal Blade)
  102. ah-ha - Hunting High And Low (WB)
  103. Savatage - The Dungeons Are Calling (Metal Blade)
  104. Eurythmics - Be Yourself Tonight (RCA)
  105. The Costello Show - King Of America (Rykodisc)
  106. W.A.S.P. - The Last Command (Capitol)
  107. Amebix - Arise (Alternative)
  108. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Crush (A&M)

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  109. Motley Crue - Theatre Of Pain (Elektra)
  110. Bon Jovi - 7800 Deg. Fahrenheit (Mercury)
  111. Ratt - Invasion Of Your Privacy (Atlantic)
  112. Venom - Possessed (Combat)
  113. The Fat Boys - The Fat Boys Are Back! (Sutra)
  114. Dokken - Under Lock And Key (Elektra)

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    10

  1. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade (SST)
  2. The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime (SST)
  3. King Sunny Ade - Aura (Mango)

    10-

  4. The Smiths - Hatful Of Hollow (Rough Trade/Sire)
  5. The Replacements - Let It Be (Twin/Tone)
  6. Metallica - Ride The Lightning (Elektra)
  7. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire (Island)
  8. Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain (Sire)
  9. Prince - Purple Rain (WB)
  10. R.E.M. - Reckoning (IRS)
  11. The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops (Linn/Virgin)
  12. Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A. (Columbia)
  13. The Fall - The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall (Beggars Banquet)
  14. Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II (SST)
  15. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Zulu Rock (Ze)
  16. Justin Hinds & The Dominoes - Travel With Love (Nighthawk)
  17. Junior Murvin - Muggers In The Street (Greensleeves)
  18. The Scientists - Blood Red River 1982-1984 (Sympathy FTRI)
  19. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - Best Of 1980-1984 (Rhino)

    9+

  20. The Alarm - Declaration (IRS)
  21. Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes (Sire)
  22. Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual (Epic)
  23. The Pogues - Red Roses For Me (WEA)
  24. The Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always (Elektra)
  25. Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth (Mercury/Fontana Jpn)
  26. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity (Homestead)
  27. Ambitious Lovers - Envy (EG)
  28. Julian Cope - Fried (Mercury/Fontana)
  29. Half Japanese - Charmed Life (10,000,000...Watts)
  30. Laurie Anderson - United States Live (WB)
  31. The Art Of Noise - (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art Of Noise (ZTT/Island)
  32. Iron Maiden - Powerslave (Capitol)
  33. Rush - Grace Under Pressure (Mercury)
  34. The Go-Betweens - Spring Hill Fair (Beggars Banquet)
  35. The Jazz Butcher - A Scandal In Bohemia (Glass)
  36. 23 Skidoo - Urban Gamelon (Illuminated)
  37. Youssou N'dour - Immigres (Earthworks)
  38. The Specials - In The Studio (Two-Tone/IRS)
  39. Scratch Acid EP (Rabid Cat)
  40. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath (Roadrunner)
  41. Overdrive - Swords and Axes (Metal for Muthas)
  42. Dio - The Last In Line (WB)
  43. Rock Goddess - Hell Hath No Fury (A&M)
  44. Big Black - Racer-X EP (Homestead)
  45. The Bluebells - Sisters (Sire/London)
  46. Guadalcanal Diary - Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man (Elektra)
  47. Manowar - Hail To England (Music for Nations)
  48. Laurie Anderson - Mister Heartbreak (WB)
  49. Trouble - Psalm 9 (Metal Blade)
  50. Felt - The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories (Cherry Red)
  51. General Public - All The Rage (IRS)
  52. Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock - The Album 1981-1984 (Tommy Boy)
  53. Run D.M.C. - Run D.M.C. (Profile)
  54. Cristina - Sleep It Off (Ze)
  55. Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground (Slash)
  56. The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story (IRS)
  57. The Icicle Works - The Small Price Of A Bicycle (Beggars Banquet)
  58. Effigies - For Ever Grounded (Ruthless)
  59. Half Pint - Money Man Skank (Jammys)
  60. Whitesnake - Slide It In (EMI)
  61. Section 25 - From The Hip (Factory)
  62. Ultravox - Lament (Chrysalis)
  63. Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force (Polydor)
  64. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Hyaena (Geffen)
  65. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome (ZTT/Island)
  66. Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain (Virgin)
  67. Big Boys - No Matter How Long the Line . . . (Enigma/Touch & Go)
  68. Bad Religion - Back To the Known EP (Epitaph)
  69. The Jazz Butcher - The Gift Of Music (Glass)

    9

  70. The Cure - The Top (Elektra)
  71. Van Halen - 1984 (WB)
  72. The Smiths (Sire)
  73. The dB's - Like This (IRS/Collector's Choice)
  74. The Saints - A Little Madness To Be Free (Mushroom)
  75. The Long Ryders - Native Sons (Frontier)
  76. Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground (Slash)
  77. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Junk Culture (A&M)
  78. Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Moves (Columbia)
  79. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward (Sire)
  80. Cocteau Twins - Treasure (4AD)
  81. INXS - The Swing (Atco)
  82. Prefab Sprout - Swoon (Kitchenware/Epic)
  83. Aztec Camera - Knife (Sire)
  84. Orange Juice - The Orange Juice (Polydor)
  85. Lou Reed - New Sensations (Iconoclassic)
  86. True West - Drifters (Avatar)
  87. Romeo Void - Instincts (Columbia)
  88. The Trypes - Explorers Hold EP (Coyote)
  89. Shriekback - Jam Science (Arista)
  90. Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream Of Trains (Yep Roc)
  91. The Blue Aeroplanes - Bop Art (Abstract UK)
  92. Orange Juice - Texas Fever EP (Polydor)
  93. Samhain - Initium (Plan 9)
  94. Loudness - Disillusion (Music For Nations)
  95. Armored Saint - March Of The Saint (Chrysalis)
  96. Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth (Capitol)
  97. Heaven 17 - How Men Are (Virgin)
  98. The Verlaines - Ten O'Clock in the Afternoon (Flying Nun)
  99. The Bangles - All Over The Place (Columbia)
  100. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (Sire)
  101. The Ramones - Too Tough To Die (Sire)
  102. New Model Army - Vengeance (Abstract)
  103. Hunters & Collectors - Jaws Of Life (Epic)
  104. Chrome - Into The Eyes Of The Zombie King (Cleopatra)
  105. Accept - Balls To The Wall (Portrait)
  106. Felt - The Splendour Of Fear (Cherry Red)
  107. Hellhammer - Apocalyptic Raids (Noise)
  108. Talk Talk - It's My Life (EMI)
  109. Kukl - The Eye (Crass)
  110. Soul Asylum - Say What You Will . . . (Twin/Tone)
  111. Modern English - Ricochet Days (Sire)
  112. Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel - Hole (Self Immolation)
  113. Let's Active - Cyprus (IRS)
  114. Los Lobos - How Will the Wolf Survive? (Slash)
  115. Joan Jett - Glorious Results of A Misspent Youth (Blackheart)
  116. Grim Reaper - See You In Hell (Spittfire)
  117. Kurtis Blow - Best of Kurtis Blow (Mercury)
  118. S.N.F.U. - . . . And No One Else Wanted to Play (BYO)
  119. Die Kreuzen (Touch & Go)
  120. The Triffids - Raining Pleasure EP (Hot/Rough Trade)
  121. Rainbow - Bent Out Of Shape (Polydor)
  122. The Rain Parade - Explosions In The Glass Palace EP (Enigma)
  123. Chrome - Into the Eyes of the Zombie King (Mosquito)

    9-

  124. The Go-Go's - Talk Show (IRS)
  125. Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales (Metal Blade)
  126. Conflict - Increase The Pressure (Motarhate)
  127. D.R.I. - Dirty Rotten LP (Dirty Rotten)
  128. Red Hot Chili Peppers (EMI)
  129. Agnostic Front - Victim In Pain (Relativity)
  130. Man Sized Action - Five Story Garage (Homestead)
  131. The Fixx - Phantoms (MCA)
  132. Black Flag - My War (SST)
  133. The Style Council - Caf? Bleu (Polydor)
  134. Armored Saint - March Of The Saint (Metal Blade)
  135. Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry (Atlantic)
  136. Quiet Riot - Metal Health (Portrait/Epic)
  137. Forgotten Rebels - In Love With the System (Can.Star)
  138. Government Issue - Joyride (Fountain Of Youth)
  139. The Call - Scene Beyond Dreams (Mercury)
  140. Kiss - Animalize (Mercury)
  141. Tragic Mulatto - Judo For the Blind (Alternative Tentacles)
  142. Half Japanese - Sing No Evil (Iridescence)
  143. Ratt - Out Of The Cellar (Atlantic)
  144. Exciter - Violence and Force (Music For Nations)
  145. This Kind of Punishment - A Beard of Bees (Ajax)
  146. W.A.S.P. (Capitol)
  147. Madonna - Like A Virgin (Sire)
  148. Bananarama (London)
  149. Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers (Mercury)
  150. Whodini - Greatest Hits 1982-1984 (Jive)
  151. Bathory (Black Mark)

    8+

  152. Billy Squier - Signs Of Life (Capitol/American Beat)
  153. Anthrax - Fistful of Metal (Megaforce)
  154. Warlock - Burning the Witches (Mercury)
  155. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction (Metal Blade)
  156. Thrust - Fist Held High (Metal Blade)
  157. Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith (Columbia)
  158. Spandau Ballet - Parade (Chrysalis)
  159. The Fat Boys - The Fat Boys (Sutra)
  160. Slade - Greatest Hits 1971-1984 (Polydor)
  161. Torch - Electrikiss (Sword)
  162. Bon Jovi (Mercury)
  163. Whodini - Escape (Jive)

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1983

    10

  1. R.E.M. - Murmur (IRS)
  2. U2 - War (Island)

    10-

  3. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind (EMI)
  4. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies (Factory/Qwest)
  5. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones (Elektra)
  6. Bad Brains - Rock For Light (Line)
  7. The Birthday Party - The Bad Seed/Mutiny! EPs (4AD)
  8. The Minutemen - What Makes A Man Start Fires? (SST)
  9. Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain (Sire)
  10. Violent Femmes (Slash)
  11. Big Country - The Crossing
  12. Wipers - Over The Edge (Restless/Zeno)
  13. The Minutemen - Buzz Or Howl Under The Influence Of Heat (SST)
  14. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Dazzle Ships (Virgin)
  15. The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood (Beggars Banquet)
  16. Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster (XXX)
  17. Minor Threat - Out Of Step (Dischord)
  18. Hüsker Dü - Metal Circus EP (SST)

    9+

  19. The Meditations - No More Friend (Greensleeves)
  20. X - More Fun In The New World (Elektra)
  21. Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeos (A&M)
  22. Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues (Sire)
  23. Echo & the Bunnymen - Porcupine (Sire)
  24. Pretenders - Learning To Crawl (Sire)
  25. Bauhaus - Burning From the Inside (A&M)
  26. Kip Hanrahan - Desire Develops An Edge (American Clave)
  27. James Blood Ulmer - Odyssey (Columbia)
  28. King Sunny Ade - Synchro System (Mango)
  29. The Chameleons UK - Script of the Bridge (Statik)
  30. True West - Hollywood Holiday (Avatar)
  31. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Texas Flood (Epic)
  32. Rod Taylor - If Jah Should Come Now (Daddy Kool)
  33. Madonna (Sire)
  34. The Fall - Palace Of Swords Reversed 1980-1983 (Beggars Bqt)
  35. The Fall - Perverted By Language (Castle/Sanctuary)
  36. Einsturzende Neubauten - Drawings Of Patient O.T. (Some Bizarre)
  37. Yazoo - You And Me Both (Sire)
  38. Def Leppard - Pyromania (Mercury)
  39. Alan Vega - Saturn Strip (Elektra/Wounded Bird)
  40. U2 - Under A Blood Red Sky (Island)
  41. The The - Soul Mining (Epic)
  42. Raven - All For One (Neat)
  43. Big Black - Bulldozer EP (Homestead)
  44. James White - Flaming Denomics (Ze/Infinite Zero)
  45. The Art Of Noise - Into Battle With The Art Of Noise EP (ZTT)
  46. Maximum Joy - Unlimited 1979-83 (Crippled Dick)
  47. Rip Rig + Panic - Attitude (Virgin)
  48. Liliput - Some Songs (Rough Trade/Off Course)
  49. Metallica - Kill 'Em All (Megaforce)
  50. Loudness - Law Of Devil's Land (Columbia Japan)
  51. Killing Joke - Fire Dances (EG)
  52. Fun Boy Three - Waiting (Chrysalis)
  53. Dio - Holy Diver (Reprise)
  54. Liquid Liquid 1981-1983 (Grand Royal)
  55. Art Of Noise - Into Battle With The Art Of Noise EP (ZTT/Repertoire)
  56. Shriekback - Care (WEA)
  57. Konk - Yo (Crepescule/Ze)
  58. Trio - Trio And Error (Mercury)
  59. Bad Religion - Into The Unknown (Epitaph)
  60. Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies (Frontier)
  61. Yes - 90125 (Elektra/Rhino)
  62. Madness - The Rise And Fall (Virgin)
  63. Necros - Conquest For Death (Touch & Go)
  64. Bush Tetras - Boom In The Night 80-83 (ROIR)
  65. Malcolm McLaren - Duck Rock (Island)
  66. The Passage - Enflame (Cherry Red/ltd)
  67. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Punch the Clock (Columbia)
  68. The Flesh Eaters - A Hard Road To Follow (Ruby/Atavistic)
  69. The Plimsouls - Everywhere At Once (Geffen)
  70. Yello - You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess (Mercury)
  71. The Effigies - We're Da Machine EP (Ruthless)
  72. Rock Goddess (A&M)
  73. Rock Goddess - Hell Hath No Fury (A&M)
  74. Nina Hagen - Fearless (Columbia)
  75. Lacksley Castell - Princess Lady (Negus Roots)
  76. The Triffids - Treeless Plain (Hot/Rough Trade)
  77. The Gun Club - Death Party EP (New Rose)
  78. Accept - Restless And Wild (Portrait)
  79. Black Flag - The First Four Years (SST)
  80. Anvil - Forged In Fire (Attic)
  81. The Raincoats - The Kitchen Tapes (ROIR)
  82. The Flesh Eaters - Greatest Hits-DestroyedB.F. (SST)
  83. Gary Numan - I, Assassin (Beggars Banquet)
  84. Misfits - Earth A.D. (Plan 9)
  85. Misfits - Collection (Plan 9)
  86. Misfits - Legacy of Brutality 77-83 (Plan 9)

    9

  87. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Naughty Boys (EMI/Alfa)
  88. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Confrontation (Tuff Gong/Island)
  89. Manilla Road - Crystal Logic (Massacre)
  90. Thin Lizzy - Thunder And Lightning (WB/Wounded Bird)
  91. Howard Devoto - Jerky Versions Of The Dream (EMI/Virgin)
  92. The Rolling Stones - Undercover (Rolling Stones)
  93. Tom Tom Club - Close To The Bone (Island)
  94. Electric Light Orchestra - Secret Messages (Jet)
  95. Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil (Elektra)
  96. The Lines - Ultramarine (REd/Acute)
  97. The Police - Synchronicity (A&M)
  98. Eurythmics - Touch (RCA)
  99. Joan Jett - Album (Blackheart)
  100. Bananarama - Deep Sea Diving (London)
  101. Rock Goddess (A&M)
  102. The Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip (Enigma)
  103. Negative Approach - Tied Down (Touch & Go)
  104. The Jazz Butcher - In Bath Of Bacon (Glass UK)
  105. The Stranglers - Feline (EMI)
  106. Ministry - With Sympathy (Arista)
  107. Naked Raygun - Basement Screams EP (Quarterstick)
  108. Suburbs - Love Is The Law (Twin/Tone)
  109. A Flock Of Seagulls - Listen (Zomba/Cherry Pop)
  110. Pat Benatar - Live From Earth (Chrysalis)
  111. The Church - Seance (Arista)
  112. John Foxx - The Golden Section (Virgin)
  113. Slayer - Show No Mercy (Metal Blade)
  114. Mercyful Fate - Melissa (Megaforce)
  115. Alcatrazz - No Parole From Rock 'n' Roll (Grand Slamm)
  116. Savatage - Sirens (Metal Blade)
  117. Pete Shelley - XL-1 (Genetic/Arista)
  118. The Big Boys - Lullabies Help The Brain Grow (Moment/Touch & Go)
  119. Toy Dolls - Dig That Groove Baby (Castle/Sanctuary)
  120. The Replacements - Hootenanny (Twin/Tone)
  121. Rudimentary Peni - Death Church (Corpus Christi)
  122. Robert Plant - The Principle Of Moments (Es Paranza)
  123. Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (Virgin)
  124. Conflict - It's Time To See Who's Who (Corpus Christi)
  125. Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Doppelganger (Sire)
  126. Nightingales - Pigs On Purpose (Cherry Red)
  127. The Fixx - Reach The Beach (MCA)
  128. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (RCA)
  129. Manowar - Into Glory Ride (Music for Nations)
  130. Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts (RCA)
  131. Cheap Trick - Next Position Please (Epic)
  132. Venom - At War With Satan (Neat/Combat)
  133. Tank - This Means War (Music For Nations)
  134. Motörhead - Another Perfect Day (Roadrunner)
  135. Black Flag - Everything Went Black (SST)
  136. The Pagans - The Pink Album 82-83 (Crypt)

    9-

  137. Black Sabbath - Born Again (WB)
  138. Twisted Sister - You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll (Atlantic)
  139. Hanoi Rocks - Self-Destruction Blues (Lick)
  140. Kiss - Lick It Up (Mercury)
  141. Spandau Ballet - True (Chrysalis)
  142. AC/DC - Flick Of The Switch (Atco)
  143. Chateaux - Chained And Desperate (Ebony)
  144. Highway Chile - Storybook Heroes (21)
  145. The Ramones - Subterranean Jungle (Sire)
  146. Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again (Sire)
  147. G.B.H. - City Baby's Revenge (Combat)
  148. Jonathon Richman - Jonathon Sings! (Sire)
  149. Men At Work - Cargo (Columbia)
  150. D.O.A. - Bloodied But Unbowed: 1978-1983 (CD Presents)
  151. The B-52's - Whammy! (WB)
  152. Freur - Doot-Doot (Oglio)
  153. Krokus - Headhunters (Arista)
  154. Duran Duran - Seven And The Ragged Tiger (EMI)
  155. Richard Hell & the Voidoids - R.I.P.: The ROIR Sessions (ROIR)
  156. The Call - Modern Romans (Mercury)
  157. Pat Benatar - Live From Earth (Chrysalis)
  158. Circle Jerks - Golden Shower Of Hits (Avenue)
  159. Gang Of Four - Hard (WB)

    8+

  160. Diamond Head - Death and Progress (Metal Blade)
  161. Man Sized Action - Claustrophobia (Reflex)
  162. Witchfynde - Cloak & Dagger (Expulsion)
  163. Sonic Youth - Kill Yr. Idols EP (SST)
  164. The Beastie Boys - Cooky Puss EP (Ratcage/Grand Royal)
  165. XTC - Mummer (Geffen)
  166. Loverboy - Keep It Up (Columbia)
  167. Rick Springfield - Living In Oz (RCA)
  168. Waysted - Vices (Chrysalis)

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1982

    10

  1. Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (Polydor)
  2. Mission Of Burma - VS. (Ace Of Hearts)
  3. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Ice Cream For Crow (Virgin)

    10-

  4. Orange Juice - Rip It Up (Polydor)
  5. Rush - Signals (Polygram)
  6. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast (Capitol)
  7. The Birthday Party - Junkyard (Virgin)
  8. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour (Castle/Sanctuary)
  9. Dome - Will You Speak This Word (Dome/Grey Area)
  10. Dream Syndicate - Days of Wine and Roses (Big Time)
  11. Siouxsie & The Banshees - A Kiss In The Dreamhouse (Polydor/Geffen)
  12. Virgin Prunes - If I Die, I Die (Mute)
  13. X - Under The Big Black Sun (Elektra)
  14. The Clean - Compilation (Homestead)
  15. Liliput (Rough Trade/Kill Rock Stars)
  16. James Blood Ulmer - Black Rock (Columbia)
  17. The Cure - Pornography (Elektra)
  18. The Bongos - Drums Along The Hudson (Cooking Vinyl)
  19. Orchestra Baobob - Pirates Choice (Nonesuch/World Circuit)
  20. King Sunny Ade - Juju Music (Mango)
  21. The Monochrome Set - Eligible Bachelors (Virgin/Cherry Red)
  22. Josef K - Young And Stupid 1979-82 (LTM)

    9+

  23. Comsat Angels - Fiction (Polydor/Renascent) 82
  24. The Sound - All Fall Down (Korova/Renascent)
  25. Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Tropical Gangster (Island/Universal)
  26. Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love (Columbia)
  27. More - Blood & Thunder (Atlantic/Wounded Bird)
  28. Scritti Politti - Songs To Remember (Virgin)
  29. Eddy Grant - Killer On The Rampage (Portrait/Universal)
  30. Michael Jackson - Thriller (Epic)
  31. ABC - The Lexicon Of Love (Mercury)
  32. The Individuals - Aquamarine (Plexus/Bar/None)
  33. The English Beat - Special Beat Service (IRS)
  34. Fun Boy Three (Chrysalis)
  35. The Buggles - Adventures In Modern Recording (ZTT/Salvo)
  36. The Passage - Degenerates (Cherry Red/ltd)
  37. The Church - The Blurred Crusade (Arista)
  38. Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (Virgin)
  39. Martha and the Muffins - Danseparc (RCA/Muffin Music)
  40. Crispy Ambulance - The Plateau Phase (Factory Benelux/LTM)
  41. Chrome - 3rd from the Sun (Siren)
  42. Kate Bush - The Dreaming (EMI)
  43. Scientist - Scientist Encounters Pac-Man (Greensleeves)
  44. Lora Logic - Pedigree Charm (Rough Trade)
  45. 23 Skidoo - Seven Songs (Fetish)
  46. Rip Rig + Panic - I Am Cold (Virgin)
  47. Massacre - Killing Time (Celluloid)
  48. The Gun Club - Miami (IRS)
  49. Trouble Funk - Drop The Bomb (Sequel)
  50. Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society - Mandance (Antilles/Mango)
  51. Fela Kuti - Original Suffer Head (Capitol)
  52. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Imperial Bedroom (Columbia)
  53. Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse (Mango)
  54. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska (Columbia)
  55. Hüsker Dü - Everything Falls Apart (Reflex)
  56. Lydia Lunch - Honeymoon In Red (Atavistic)
  57. Cabaret Voltaire - 2 X 45 (Mute)
  58. Venom - Black Metal (Neat/Combat)
  59. Nina Hagen - Nunsexmonkrock (Columbia)
  60. James White & the Blacks - Sax Maniac (Ze/Infinite Zero)
  61. Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing (Clay)
  62. Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters (Alternative Tentacles)
  63. The Jam - Dig The New Breed (Polydor)
  64. Savage Republic - Tragic Figures (IP/Fundamental)
  65. Einsturzende Neubauten - Kollaps (Zick Zack)
  66. Devo - Oh No! It's Devo (WB/Infinite Zero)
  67. Gang of Four - Songs of the Free (WB)
  68. Colin Newman - Not To (4AD)
  69. Au Pairs - Sense And Sensuality (Kamera)
  70. Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age Of Wireless (Capitol)
  71. New Age Steppers - Foundation Steppers (On-U Sound)
  72. Big Black - Lungs EP (Homestead)
  73. Raven - Wiped Out (Roadrunner)
  74. Descendents - Milo Goes To College (SST)
  75. Chrome - No Humans Allowed (Siren)
  76. Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Destiny Street (Red Star)
  77. Laurie Anderson - Big Science (WB)
  78. Mission of Burma - The Horrible Truth About Burma (live) (Ace of Hearts)
  79. Brian Eno - On Land (EG)
  80. Killing Joke - Revelations (EG)
  81. The Vandals - Peace Thru Vandalism (Suite Beat)
  82. Black Uhuru - Chill Out (Mango)
  83. John Holt - Police In Helicopter (Greensleeves)
  84. Junior Murvin - Badman Possee (Dread At The Controls)
  85. MDC - Millions of Dead Cops (Radical R.)
  86. Crass - Christ - The Album (Crass)
  87. Barry Brown - Far East (Hit Bound)
  88. Bauhaus - Press the Eject & Give Me The Tape (Beggars Banquet)
  89. Wall Of Voodoo - Call Of The West (IRS)
  90. Robert Wyatt - Nothing Can Stop Us (Gramavision)
  91. The dB's - Repercussion (EMI)
  92. John Cale - Music For A New Society (Rhino)
  93. Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now (Columbia)
  94. The Replacements - Stink EP (Twin/Tone)
  95. T.S.O.L. - Thoughts Of Yesterday (Posh Boy)
  96. T.S.O.L. - Beneath the Shadows (Restless)
  97. Roxy Music - Avalon (Atlantic)
  98. The Clash - Combat Rock (Epic)
  99. Associates - Sulk (V2)
  100. Linval Thompson - Look How Me Sexy (Greensleeves)
  101. Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets (SST)
  102. Culture & Don Carlos - Roots & Culture (VP/17 North Parade)
  103. Delroy Wilson - Go Away Dream (Black Music)
  104. Bad Religion - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? (Epitaph)
  105. The Birthday Party - It's Still Living: Live (Virgin)
  106. XTC - Waxworks: 1977-1982 (Geffen)
  107. King Crimson - Beat (WB)
  108. Misfits - Walk Among Us (Slash/Rhino)
  109. Die Haut & Nick Cave - Burnin' The Ice (Hit Thing)
  110. The Abyssinians - Forward (Alligator)
  111. Yellowman - Mister Yellowman (Greensleeves)
  112. Billy Squier - Emotions In Motion (Capitol/American Beat)
  113. Captain Sinbad - The Seven Voyages Of Captain Sinbad (Greensleeves)
  114. Ludus - Danger Came Smiling (New Hormones/LTM)
  115. A Flock Of Seagulls (Jive)
  116. Manowar - Battle Hymns (Liberty)
  117. Joe Jackson - Night And Day (A&M)
  118. Anvil - Metal On Metal (Attic)
  119. Whitesnake - Saints & Sinners (EMI)
  120. Pat Benatar - Get Nervous (Chrysalis)
  121. Dollar - The Dollar Album (WEA/Cherry Pop)
  122. Various - Big Apple Rappin': The Early Days Of Hip-Hop Culture In New York City 1979-82 (Soul Jazz)

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  123. Yaz - Upstairs At Eric's (Sire)
  124. UFO - Mechanix (Chrysalis)
  125. Zapp - Zapp II (WB)
  126. Hunters & Collectors (Liberation Blue)
  127. Romeo Void - Benefactor (Columbia/Acadia)
  128. Peter Gabriel - Security (Geffen)
  129. New Race - The First And The Last (Witness)
  130. National Health - D.S. al Coda (Blueprint)
  131. Haircut One Hundred - Pelican West (Arista)
  132. The Exploited - Troops Of Tomorrow (Captain Oi!)
  133. Subhumans - The Day The Country Died (Bluurg)
  134. Zapp - Zapp II (WB)
  135. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond 1974-1982 (Virgin)
  136. Soft Cell - The Art Of Falling Apart (Mercury)
  137. Tank - Filth Hounds Of Hades (Action Music)
  138. New Order - 1981-1982 EP (Factory)
  139. The Damned - Strawberries (Virgin)
  140. The Glove - Blue Sunshine (Rough Trade)
  141. The Teardrop Explodes - Everybody Wants To Shag (Fontana)
  142. Lora Logic - Pedigree Charm (Rough Trade)
  143. R.E.M. - Chronic Town EP (IRS)
  144. Robert Plant - Pictures At Eleven (Swan Song)
  145. Japan - Oil On Canvas (Virgin)
  146. Stiff Little Fingers - Now Then . . . (Chrysalis)
  147. Fear - The Record (Slash)
  148. Tank - Power Of The Hunter (This Record/Repertoire)
  149. Witchfinder General - Death Penalty (Heavy Metal)
  150. The Names - Swimming (Factory)
  151. Lou Reed - The Blue Mask (RCA)
  152. G.B.H. - City Baby Attacked By Rats (Clay)
  153. Prince - 1999 (WB)
  154. Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Wise Guy (Sire)
  155. Lydia Lunch - 13.13 (Ruby)
  156. Pere Ubu - Song Of The Bailing Man (Geffen)
  157. INXS - Shabooh Shoobah (Atco)
  158. Heavy Load - Death Or Glory (Thunderload)
  159. Flipper - Generic Flipper (Subterranean/American)
  160. Anti-Nowhere League - We Are...The League (WXYZ)
  161. Spandau Ballet - Diamond (EMI)
  162. Modern English - After The Snow (Sire)
  163. Robert Wyatt - The Animals Film (Rough Trade/Thirsty Ear)
  164. Iggy Pop - Zombie Birdhouse (IRS)
  165. Haircut One Hundred - Pelican West (Arista)
  166. Men At Work - Business As Usual (Columbia)
  167. Duran Duran - Rio (Harvest)
  168. Killing Joke - Birds Of A Feather EP (EG)
  169. Killing Joke - Ha EP (EG)
  170. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance (Columbia)
  171. Tom Waits - One From The Heart (Columbia)
  172. Sonic Youth EP (Neutral/Geffen)
  173. Ultravox - Quartet (Chrysalis)
  174. Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out (Beggars Banquet)
  175. Defunkt - Thermonuclear Sweat (Hannibal/Ryko)
  176. Queen - Hot Space (Elektra)
  177. David Johansen - Live It Up (BGO)
  178. Scorpions - Blackout (RCA)
  179. Motörhead - Iron Fist (Castle)
  180. Dream Syndicate - Dream Syndicate EP (Down There)
  181. Gang of Four - Another Day/Another Dollar EP (WB)
  182. Tuxedomoon - Divine (Operation Twilight)
  183. Adam Ant - Friend Or Foe (Columbia)

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  184. XTC - English Settlement (Geffen)
  185. Rick James - Throwin' Down (Motown)
  186. Altered Images - Pinky Blue (Portrait)
  187. The B-52's - Mesopotamia (WB)
  188. Diamond Head - Borrowed Time (MCA)
  189. The Go-Go's - Vacation (IRS)
  190. Twisted Sister - Under The Blade (Secret)
  191. Van Halen - Diver Down (WB)
  192. Pat Benatar - Get Nervous (Chrysalis)
  193. Cheap Trick - One On One (Epic)
  194. Tom Petty - Long After Dark (MCA)
  195. Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame (Sire)
  196. Agent Orange - Bitchin' Summer EP (Posh Boy)
  197. Ozzy Osbourne - Speak Of The Devil (Jet)
  198. Circle Jerks - Wild In The Streets (Frontier)
  199. Ruts D.C. - Rhythm Collision Dub (ROIR)
  200. George Clinton - Computer Games (Capitol)
  201. Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights (Hannibal)

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  202. The Beastie Boys - Polly Wog Stew EP (Ratcage/Grand Royal)
  203. Talk Talk - The Party's Over (EMI)
  204. Torch - Fireraiser (Metal Blade)
  205. U.K. Subs - The Singles: 1978-1982 (Progressive)
  206. Krokus - One Vice At A Time (Arista)
  207. The Fixx - Shuttered Room (Fuel 2000)
  208. Kiss - Creatures Of The Night (Casablanca/Mercury)
  209. Torch (Tandem)
  210. Asia (Geffen)

    8-

  211. Marshall Crenshaw (WB)
  212. Rick Springfield - Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet (RCA)
  213. Donald Fagen - The Nightfly (Warners)
  214. Krokus - One Vice At A Time (Arista)

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1981

    10

  1. Wipers - Youth Of America (Restless)
  2. Comsat Angels - Sleep No More (Polydor/Renascent) 81
  3. The Birthday Party - Prayers On Fire (4AD)
  4. Martha and the Muffins - This Is The Ice Age (Virgin/Dindisc) 81
  5. The Raincoats - Ody Shape (Rough Trade)
  6. David Byrne/Brian Eno - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (Sire)
  7. Scientist - Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (Greensleeves)
  8. The Sound - From The Lions Mouth (Korova/Renascent)
  9. This Heat - Deceit (Rough Trade)
  10. Gang of Four - Solid Gold (WB)
  11. The Au Pairs - Playing With A Different Sex (Human/RPM)
  12. Bad Brains - Attitude (ROIR/In-Effect)

    10-

  13. Japan - Tin Drum (Virgin)
  14. Billy Squier - Don't Say No (Capitol/American Beat)
  15. Rush - Moving Pictures (Polygram)
  16. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Juju (Geffen)
  17. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Architecture & Morality (Virgin)
  18. Talking Heads - The Name Of The Band Is Talking Heads (Sire)
  19. Iron Maiden - Killers (Capitol)
  20. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Technodelic (EMI/Alfa)
  21. The Sound - The BBC Recordings: Sessions (Rensascent)
  22. X - Wild Gift (Slash)
  23. Mission Of Burma - Signals, Calls And Marches EP (Ace Of Hearts)
  24. Scientist - Scientist Meets The Space Invaders (Greensleeves)
  25. The Blue Orchids - The Greatest Hit (Money Mountain) (Rough Trade/Ltm)
  26. Art Bears - The World As It Is Today (Recommended)
  27. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mambo Nassau (Ze)
  28. The Method Actors - This Is Still It: Early Recordings 1980-81 (Acute)
  29. Minor Threat - Minor Threat EP (Dischord)
  30. The Wailing Souls - Fire House Rock (Greensleeves)
  31. Linval Thompson - Don't Cut Off Your Dreadlocks 1975-81 (Trojan)

    9+

  32. The Police - Ghost In The Machine (A&M)
  33. Bauhaus - Mask (Beggars Banquet)
  34. Riot - Fire Down Under (Fire Sign/Metal Bldade)
  35. Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (Phonogram)
  36. TV21 - A Thin Red Line (Cherry Red)
  37. The Human League - Dare (Virgin)
  38. Simple Minds - Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call (Virgin)
  39. The Cure - Faith (Elektra)
  40. Echo & the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here (Sire)
  41. New Order - Movement (Factory)
  42. The Teardrop Explodes - Wilder (Mercury)
  43. Dinosaur L - 24-24 Music (Sleeping Bag)
  44. Electric Light Orchestra - Time (Jet/Epic Legacy)
  45. David Byrne - The Catherine Wheel (Sire)
  46. King Crimson - Discipline (WB)
  47. The Church - Of Skins And Hearts (Arista)
  48. Def Leppard - High 'N' Dry (Mercury)
  49. Van Halen - Fair Warning (WB)
  50. Motörhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Bronze)
  51. Hitmen (Savage Beat)
  52. Kraftwerk - Computer World (EMI/Astralwerks)
  53. Tom Tom Club (Island)
  54. U2 - October (Island)
  55. Associates - Fourth Drawer Down (V2)
  56. Dome - Dome 3 (Dome/Grey Area)
  57. Michael Rother - Fernwärme (Sky/Water)
  58. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Left Handed Dream (MIDI)
  59. La Dusseldorf - Individuellos (Radar)
  60. Madness - 7 (Sire)
  61. Jerry Harrison - The Red And The Black (Sire)
  62. DNA - A Taste Of DNA EP (American Clave/Rough Trade)
  63. Rip Rig + Panic - God (Virgin)
  64. Chrome - Blood On The Moon (Siren/Dossier)
  65. Minor Threat - In My Eyes EP (Dischord)
  66. Tuxedomoon - Desire (Ralph)
  67. Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming (Do It/Columbia)
  68. Public Image Ltd. - The Flowers Of Romance (WB)
  69. The English Beat - Wha'ppen? (Sire)
  70. Penguin Café Orchestra (EG)
  71. The Jags - No Tie Like A Present (Island)
  72. The Au Pairs - Equal But Different: BBC Sessions 79-81 (RPM)
  73. Stiff Little Fingers - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
  74. Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk (Columbia)
  75. The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot TTOTT (Twin/Tone)
  76. Gun Club - Fire of Love (Ruby)
  77. The Fall - Slates EP (Castle/Sanctuary)
  78. Black Flag - Damaged (SST)
  79. The Photos - Crystal Tips And Mighty Mice (Cherry Red)
  80. Fela Kuti - Black President (Capitol)
  81. The Durutti Column - LC (Factory)
  82. The Passage - For All And None (Virgin)
  83. T.S.O.L. - Dance With Me (Frontier)
  84. Crass - Penis Envy (Crass)
  85. Marvin Gaye - In Our Lifetime (Motown)
  86. Minutemen - The Punch Line (SST)
  87. New Age Steppers - Action Battlefield (On-U Sound/Statik)
  88. Rip, Rig + Panic - God (Virgin)
  89. Praying Mantis - Time Tells No Lies (Arista)
  90. Squeeze - East Side Story (A&M)
  91. Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement (Virgin)
  92. B.E.F. - Music For Listening To (Virgin)
  93. Raven - Rock Till You Drop (Roadrunner)
  94. UFO - The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent (Chrysalis)
  95. The Scientists (Cherry Red/SFTRI)
  96. Chrome - Inworlds (Siren)
  97. Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca (Mute)
  98. Material - Memory Serves (Celluloid)
  99. Wall Of Voodoo - Dark Continent (IRS)
  100. Fingerprintz - Beat Noir (Virgin)
  101. The dB's - Stands for deciBels (EMI)
  102. Gang Of Four - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
  103. The Birthday Party - Peel Sessions EP (Strange Fruit)
  104. Stiff Little Fingers - Go For It (Chrysalis)
  105. Killing Joke - What's THIS for . . . ! (Virgin)
  106. The Stranglers - La Folie (EMI)
  107. Yello - Claro Que Si (Ralph/Mercury)
  108. Social Climbers (Yoga/Drag City)
  109. The The - Burning Blue Soul (Epic)
  110. Effigies - Haunted Town EP (Autumn)
  111. Agent Orange - Living In Darkness (Posh Boy)
  112. John Foxx - The Garden (Virgin)
  113. Colin Newman - Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish (4AD)
  114. Bad Religion EP (Epitaph)
  115. Tygers Of Pan Tang - Spellbound (MCA)
  116. Black Uhuru - Red (Mango)
  117. The Mighty Diamonds - Changes (Music Works)
  118. The Go-Betweens - Send Me A Lullaby (Beggars Banquet)
  119. Clock DVA - Thirst (Contempo)
  120. Culture - More Culture (Joe Gibbs/17 North Parade)
  121. Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman (Jet)
  122. Girlschool - Hit & Run (Stiff/Sanctuary)
  123. Pete Shelley - Homosapien (Genetic/Arista)
  124. Rick James - Street Songs (Motown)
  125. The Lines - Therapy (Red/Acute)
  126. Trouble Funk - Early Singles (Infinite Zero)
  127. Joan Jett - I Love Rock And Roll (Boardwalk)
  128. Plimsouls - The Plimsouls (Planet)
  129. Ludus - The Seduction (New Hormones)
  130. Various - The Heartbeat Singles Collection 1978-81 (Heartbeat/Cherry Red)
  131. Leroy Brown - Color Barrier 1975-81 (Makasound)

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  132. Scars - Author! Author! (PreV)
  133. Blue Öyster Cult - Fire Of Unknown Origin (Columbia)
  134. The Suburbs - Credit In Heaven (Twin/Tone)
  135. Romeo Void - It's A Condition (415 Records/Wounded Bird)
  136. Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love (Elektra)
  137. Thin Lizzy - Renegade (WB/Wounded Bird)
  138. Urban Verbs - Early Damage (WB/Wounded Bird)
  139. The Go-Go's - Beauty & the Beat (IRS)
  140. 8 Eyed Spy (Fetish)
  141. The Diagram Brothers - Some Marvels Of Modern Science (New Hormones/LTM)
  142. The Homosexuals - The Homosexuals' Record 1978-1981 (ReR)
  143. Wah! - Nah=Poo - The Art Of Bluff (Castle)
  144. Flesh Eaters - A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die (Slash/Rhino)
  145. The Jam - The Gift (Polydor)
  146. Tom Verlaine - Dreamtime (WB)
  147. Samson - Shock Tactics (Grand Slamm)
  148. Modern English - Mesh & Lace (4AD)
  149. Altered Images - Happy Birthday (Epic)
  150. Ludus - Pickpocket EP (New Hormones/LTD)
  151. Duran Duran (EMI)
  152. The Undertones - Positive Touch (Sire/Rykodisc)
  153. Josef K - The Only Fun In Town (LTD)
  154. The Slits - Return Of The Giant Slits (Epic)
  155. Magazine - Scree: Rarities 1978-1981 (Virgin)
  156. Heavy Load - Metal Conquest (Thunderload)
  157. Joe Jackson - Jumpin' Jive (A&M)
  158. Grace Jones - Nightclubbing (Island)
  159. Pat Benatar - Precious Time (Chrysalis)
  160. Adolescents - Adolescents (Frontier)
  161. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Hard Promises (MCA)
  162. AC/DC - For Those About To Rock... (Epic)
  163. Descendents - Bonus Fat EP 79-81 (SST)
  164. The Professionals - I Didn't See It Coming (EMI)
  165. New Musik - Anywhere (Epic)
  166. Neil Young - Re-ac-tor (Reprise)
  167. Pretenders - Extended Play EP (Sire)
  168. Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places (Ze/Universal/Island)
  169. Bow Wow Wow - See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah! City All Over, Go Ape Crazy! (One Way)
  170. Anderson/Burroughs/Giorno - You're the Guy I Want to Share My Life With (Rough Trade)
  171. The Undertones - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
  172. Pretenders - Pretenders II (Sire)
  173. Big Boys - Where's My Towel (WastedTalent/Touch&Go)
  174. Felt - Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty (Cherry Red)
  175. Yellow Magic Orchestra - BGM (Sony)
  176. Dexys Midnight Runners - Too Rye Ay (Mercury)
  177. Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking Of War Babies (WB/Charly Groove)
  178. Prince - Controversy (WB)
  179. The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle (I.R.S.)
  180. Ramones - Pleasant Dreams (Sire)
  181. Iggy Pop - Party (Arista)
  182. Exploited - Punks Not Dead (Exploited)
  183. The Specials - Ghost Town EP (Chrysalis)
  184. Devo - New Traditionalists (WB)
  185. Fred Frith - Speechless (ESD)
  186. Fist - Fleet Street (A&M)
  187. MX-80 - Crowd Control (Ralph)
  188. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Trust (Columbia)
  189. The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You (Rolling Stones)
  190. Depeche Mode - Speak & Spell (Sire)
  191. The Vapors - Magnets (Liberty/EMI)
  192. Genesis - Abacab (Atlantic)
  193. The Individuals - Fields EP (Infidelity/Bar/None)
  194. Ludus - Pickpocket EP (New Hormones/LTM)

    9-

  195. The Stranglers - The Men In Black (EMI)
  196. Generation X - Kiss Me Deadly (Chrysalis)
  197. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules (WB)
  198. Accept - Breaker (Universal/Brain)
  199. Y&T - Earthshaker (A&M)
  200. Section 25 - Always Now (Factory)
  201. The Cars - Shake It Up (Elektra)
  202. The Saints - The Monkey Puzzle (Mushroom)
  203. Mars - 78+ (Atavistic)
  204. Gary Glitter - The Ultimate Gary Glitter 1972-1981 (Snapper)
  205. Robyn Hitchcock - Black Snake Diamond Role (Rhino)
  206. Neville Brothers - Fiyo On The Bayou (A&M)
  207. Vice Squad - Last Rockers: The Singles 1979-1981 (AABT)
  208. Sonic Youth - Sonic Youth EP (SST)
  209. Venom - Welcome To Hell (Neat/Combat)
  210. Saxon - Denim And Leather (Carrere)
  211. Telex - Sex (Sire)
  212. The Weirdos - Weird World: 1977-1981 Vol. 1 (Frontier)
  213. Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust, Inc. EP (Alternative Tentacles)
  214. Ultravox - Rage In Eden (Chrysalis)
  215. The Fall - A Part Of America Herein, 1981 (Rough Trade)
  216. Dictators - Fuck 'Em If They Can't TAJ (ROIR)
  217. Hüsker Dü - Land Speed Record (SST)

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  218. The B-52's - Party Mix (WB)
  219. Various - I.R.S. Greatest Hits Vols. 2&3 (I.R.S.)
  220. Judas Priest - Point Of Entry (Columbia)
  221. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Almost Blue (Columbia)
  222. ZZ Top - El Loco (WB)
  223. Tygers Of Pan Tang - Crazy Nights (MCA)
  224. Parliament - Trombipulation (Casablanca)
  225. Rick Springfield - Working Class Dog (RCA)
  226. Spandau Ballet - Journeys To Glory (EMI)
  227. Loverboy - Get Lucky (Columbia)
  228. Journey - Escape (Columbia)
  229. Pat Benatar - Precious Time (Chrysalis)

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1980

    10

  1. Talking Heads - Remain In Light (Sire)
  2. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms (Stiff/Line/A&M)
  3. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Doc At The Radar Station (Virgin)
  4. Joy Division - Closer (Factory)
  5. The Jam - Sound Affects (Polydor)
  6. The Birthday Party (Missing Link)
  7. X - Los Angeles (Slash)
  8. David Bowie - Scary Monsters (RCA)

    10-

  9. Iron Maiden (Capitol)
  10. The Sound - Jeopardy (Korova/Renascent)
  11. Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles (Sire)
  12. The Pretenders (Sire/Rhino)
  13. Misfits - 12 Hits From Hell (Caroline)
  14. Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap (Virgin)
  15. The Monochrome Set - Love Zombies (Virgin)
  16. Colin Newman - A-Z (Restless/Beggars Banquet)
  17. The Fall - Grotesque (Rough Trade)
  18. Killing Joke - Killing Joke (EG)
  19. Sugar Minott - Black Roots (Black Roots/Hip-O Select)
  20. Joy Division - Substance (Factory/WB)
  21. Kiddus I - Rockers: Graduation In Zion 1978-1980 (Dub Store)
  22. The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight (Rykodisc)
  23. English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It (Sire)
  24. The Comsat Angels - Waiting For A Miracle (Polydor/Renascent) 80
  25. Motörhead - Ace Of Spades (Roadracer)
  26. Michael Prophet - Serious Reasoning (Island)
  27. The Ruts - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)

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  28. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Uprising (Tuff Gong/Island)
  29. The Pop Group - For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? (Rough Trade)
  30. Buzzcocks - A Different Kind Of Tension (Restless)
  31. Scientist - Heavyweight Dub Champion (Greensleeves)
  32. The Ethiopians - Everything Crash (Studio One)
  33. Squeeze - Argybargy (A&M)
  34. The Associates - The Affectionate Punch (Fiction)
  35. Peter Gabriel - 3 (Geffen)
  36. The Buggles - The Age Of Plastic (Island)
  37. The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta (A&M)
  38. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (Beggars Banquet)
  39. The Monochrome Set - Strange Boutique (Virgin)
  40. Simple Minds - Empires And Dance (Virgin)
  41. Rush - Permanent Waves (Mercury)
  42. Van Halen - Women And Children First (WB)
  43. AC/DC - Back In Black (Epic)
  44. Suicide (Mute)
  45. The Jags - Evening Standard (Island)
  46. The Damned - The Black Album (Big Beat)
  47. Robert Palmer - Clues (Island)
  48. John Cooper Clarke - Snap, Crackle & Bop (Epic)
  49. Hugh Mundell w/ Lacksley Castell & Augustus Pablo - Jah Fire (Live and Love/Black Arrow)
  50. Cornell Campbell - I Shall Not Remove 1975-80 (Blood & Fire)
  51. Ryuichi Sakamoto - B 2 Unit (A&M/Alfa)
  52. New Age Steppers (On-U Sound/Statik)
  53. Fela Kuti - I.T.T. (Polygram)
  54. Martha & the Muffins - Metro Music (Virgin/Dindisc)
  55. Urban Verbs (WB/Wounded Bird)
  56. Tetrack - Let's Get Started (Greensleeves)
  57. Hugh Mundell - Time And Place (Jet Star/Rockers)
  58. The Chords - So Far Away (Polydor/Captain Mod)
  59. Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes (EMI)
  60. Joy Division - Still (Factory)
  61. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Organisation (Virgin)
  62. The Clash - Sandinista! (Epic)
  63. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Kaleidoscope (Polydor/Geffen)
  64. The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro (Mercury)
  65. Ultravox - Vienna (Chrysalis)
  66. John Foxx - Metamatic (Virgin)
  67. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor (Restless)
  68. XTC - Black Sea (Geffen)
  69. Willi Williams - Messenger Man (Blood & Fire)
  70. Swell Maps - Jane From Occupied Europe (Rough Trade/Secretly Canadian)
  71. Knowledge - Straight Outta Trenchtown 1975-80 (Makasound)
  72. Pylon - Gyrate (DB/DFA)
  73. Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Virgin)
  74. Scientist - Scientist Vs. Prince Jammy - Big Showdown at King Tubby's (Greensleeves)
  75. Pink Military - Do Animals Believe In God? (Eric's)
  76. MX-80 - Out Of The Tunnel (Ralph)
  77. Subway Sect - What's The Matter Boy? (MCA)
  78. The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us (I.R.S.)
  79. The Royals - Ten Years After (Tamoki & Wambesi)
  80. Tuxedomoon - Half Mute (Ralph)
  81. The Specials - More Specials (Chrysalis)
  82. Black Uhuru - Sinsemilla (Mango)
  83. Joe Jackson - Beat Crazy (A&M)
  84. Nick Lowe - Labour Of Lust (Demon)
  85. Lydia Lunch - Queen Of Siam (Triple X)
  86. Prince - Dirty Mind (WB)
  87. Fingerprintz - Distinguishing Marks (Virgin)
  88. Tony Allen - No Discrimination (P-Vine)
  89. James Chance & The Contortions - Soul Exorcism (ROIR/Danceteria)
  90. Chrome - Red Exposure (Siren)
  91. Zapp (WB)
  92. Gary Numan - Telekon (Beggars Banquet)
  93. The Ruts - Grin & Bear It (Virgin)
  94. Pat Benatar - Crimes Of Passion (Capitol)
  95. The Clash - Black Market Clash (Epic)
  96. Devo - Freedom Of Choice (WB)
  97. Yello - Solid Pleasure (Ralph/Mercury)
  98. The Passage - Pindrop (Ltm)
  99. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (Virgin)
  100. Angel Witch (Castle)
  101. Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell (WB)
  102. Burning Spear - Hail H.I.M. (Heartbeat)
  103. Barrington Levy - Robin Hood (Greensleeves)
  104. Gang of Four - The Yellow EP (WB)
  105. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (Elektra)
  106. Wall Of Voodoo - Wall Of Voodoo (The Index Masters) (Restless)
  107. Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels (EMI)
  108. Judy Mowatt - Black Woman (Island/Shanachie)
  109. The Undertones - Hypnotised (Sire/Rykodisc)
  110. New Musik - From A To B (Epic/Edsel)
  111. The Psychedelic Furs (Columbia)
  112. Clock DVA - White Souls In Black Suits (Industrial Records)
  113. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz (Jet)
  114. U2 - Boy (Island)
  115. The Twinkle Brothers - Countrymen (Front Line/Virgin)
  116. Girlschool - Demolition (Bronze)
  117. Cristina - Doll In The Box (Ze)
  118. This Heat - Repeat (These)
  119. Madness - Absolutely (Sire)
  120. Rubber City Rebels (Capitol)
  121. Soft Cell - Mutant Moments EP (Big Frock/Some Bizarre)
  122. Alan Vega - Jukebox Babe (Infinite Zero)
  123. Pat Benatar - Crimes Of Passion (Chrysalis)
  124. Defunkt (Hannibal/Ryko)
  125. Pete Townsend - Empty Glass (MCA)
  126. The Fire Engines - Hungry Beat (Acute)

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  127. Queen - The Game (Elektra)
  128. The Photos (Epic/Cherry Red)
  129. Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls (Illusive/Griffin)
  130. Fela - Authority Stealing (Universal)
  131. Scorpions - Animal Magnetism (Mercury)
  132. UFO - No Place To Run (Chrysalis)
  133. Judas Priest - British Steel (Columbia)
  134. The Gears - Rockin' At Ground Zero (Bacchus/Playgems)
  135. John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy (Capitol)
  136. Purple Hearts - Beat That! (Fiction/Captain Mod)
  137. Roger Chapman - Mail Order Magic (Castle)
  138. The Lambrettas - Beat Boys in the Jet Age (Dojo)
  139. Secret Affair - Behind Closed Doors (I Spy/Captain Mod)
  140. Johnny Guitar Watson - Love Jones (Collectables)
  141. Dire Straits - Making Movies (WB)
  142. D.A.F. - Die Kleinen und die B?sen (Mute)
  143. The Only Ones - Baby's Got A Gun (Columbia)
  144. Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette (Island)
  145. Nina Hagen Band EP (Columbia)
  146. The Human League - Travelogue (Virgin/Caroline)
  147. Minutemen - Paranoid Time EP (SST)
  148. UK Subs - Brand New Age (Gem)
  149. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Get Happy! (Columbia)
  150. Kate Bush - Never For Ever (EMI)
  151. Thin Lizzy - Chinatown (WB/Metal Blade)
  152. Lene Lovich - Flex (Stiff/Rhino)
  153. Billy Squier - The Tale Of The Tape (Capitol/American Beat)
  154. Joan Jett - Bad Reputation (Blackheart)
  155. Bad Manners - Ska 'n' B (69 REcords)
  156. The Kings - The Kings Are Here (Elektra)
  157. Subhumans - Incorrect Thoughts (CD Presents)
  158. Various - Dance Craze: Best Of 2-Tone (Chrysalis)
  159. Big Boys - Live At Raul's Club (Rat Race/Touch & Go)
  160. The Dickies - Great Dictations (A&M)
  161. The Only Ones - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
  162. The Ramones - End of the Century (Sire)
  163. Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law (Carrere)
  164. Saxon - Wheels of Steel (Carrere)
  165. Rick James - Garden Of Love (Motown)
  166. The Blasters - American Music (Slash/Hightone)
  167. Suburbs - In Combo (Twin/Tone)
  168. Iggy Pop - Soldier (Arista)
  169. The Plimsouls - Zero Hour EP (Beat)
  170. Cabaret Voltaire - Live At the YMCA (Rough Trade)
  171. Mission of Burma - Forget (Taang!)
  172. Crass - Stations of the Crass (Crass)
  173. Bruce Springsteen - The River (Columbia)
  174. Def Leppard - On Through The Night (Mercury)
  175. Billy Joel - Glass Houses (Columbia)
  176. The Vapors - New Clear Days (UA/Liberty)
  177. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Xoo Multiples (EMI)
  178. Tom Waits - Heart Attack And Vine (Elektra)
  179. Mission Of Burma - Mission Of Burma (Taang!)
  180. Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Off The Coast Of Me (Ze/Universal/Island)
  181. The Members - Sound Of the Suburbs 78-80 (Virgin)
  182. Specials - The Special A.K.A. Live! EP (Chrysalis)
  183. Rockpile - Seconds Of Pleasure (Columbia)
  184. Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue (Virgin)
  185. Buzzcocks - Lest We Forget 77-80 (ROIR)

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  186. Cheap Trick - All Shook Up (Epic)
  187. Nick Gilder - Rock America (Chrysalis)
  188. Suzi Quatro - Rock Hard (Dreamland)
  189. Various - The Moonlight Tapes (Danceville)
  190. Quartz - Stand Up And Fight (MCA)
  191. Tygers Of Pan Tang - Wild Cat (MCA)
  192. J. Geils Band - Love Stinks (Capitol)
  193. The B-52's - Wild Planet (WB)
  194. Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July (Motown)
  195. Yes - Drama (Atlantic)
  196. Genesis - Duke (Atlantic)
  197. The Angels - Dark Room (Epic/Liberation Blue)
  198. Buzzcocks - Parts 1-3 EP (Restless)
  199. Blondie - Autoamerican (Chrysalis)
  200. Pere Ubu - The Art Of Walking (Rough Trade)
  201. The Dickies - Stukas Over Disneyland (A&M)
  202. The Selecter - Too Much Pressure (Chrysalis)
  203. Madness - Work Rest & Play EP (Stiff)
  204. Telex - Neurovision (Sire)

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  205. The Boys - Boys Only (Safari)
  206. Merton Parkas - The Complete Mod Collection (Cherry Red/Anagram)
  207. Adam & the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier (Epic)
  208. Loverboy (Columbia)
  209. Circle Jerks - Group Sex (Frontier)
  210. 999 - Biggest Tour In Sport EP (Polydor)

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  211. Roxy Music - Flesh + Blood (Virgin)
  212. Loverboy (Columbia)
  213. Paul McCartney - McCartney II (Capitol)

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  1. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady (Restless)
  2. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (Factory)
  3. Gang of Four - Entertainment! (WB)
  4. The Raincoats - The Raincoats (Rough Trade)
  5. Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box/Second Edition (Virgin)
  6. Wire - 154 (Restless)
  7. Talking Heads - Fear Of Music (Sire)
  8. The Clash - London Calling (Epic)
  9. The Slits - Cut (Island)
  10. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth (Crepiscule)
  11. The Jam - Setting Sons (Polydor)
  12. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Armed Forces (Columbia)
  13. XTC - Drums And Wires (Virgin)
  14. David Bowie - Lodger (RCA)
  15. Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material (EMI)
  16. The Ruts - The Crack (Virgin)
  17. Lee Perry - Larks From The Ark (Nectar)

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  18. Thin Lizzy - Black Rose: A Rock Legend (Mercury/Vertigo)
  19. AC/DC - Highway To Hell (Epic)
  20. UFO - Strangers In The Night (Chrysalis)
  21. Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle (Atco/Beggars Banquet)
  22. The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (Chiswick)
  23. Marianne Faithfull - Broken English (Island)
  24. The Specials (Chrysalis)
  25. The Undertones (Sire/Rykodisc)
  26. The Pop Group - Y (Radar)
  27. The Wailing Souls - Wild Suspense (Island)
  28. Eddy Grant - Walking On Sunshine (Ice/Universal)
  29. Michael Rother - Katzenmusik (Sky/Water)
  30. Prince Lincoln & The Royal Rasses - Humanity (Ballistic/Orange Street)
  31. The Chantells - Children Of Jah 1977-79 (Blood & Fire)
  32. The Fall - Dragnet (Step Forward)
  33. Essential Logic - Beat Rhythm News (Rough Trade)
  34. Contortions (James Chance & the) - Buy (Arista/Infinite Zero)
  35. Heldon - Stand By (Cunneiform/Rune)
  36. Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves (Touch & Go)
  37. Art Bears - Winter Songs (Ralph/Recommended)
  38. Scorpions - Lovedrive (Mercury)
  39. Johnny Osbourne - Truths and Rights (Studio One/Heartbeat)
  40. Sugar Minott - Ghetto-ology (Trojan/Easy Star)
  41. Barrington Levy - Shaolin Temple (Auralux)
  42. Gregory Isaacs - Soon Forward (Front Line)
  43. Freddie McGregor - Mr. McGregor (VP)
  44. Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock & Fuzz Funk (Soundway)
  45. Hallelujah Chicken Run Band 1974-79 (Analog Africa)
  46. Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound Of The Underground Lagos Dancefloor 74-79 (Soundway)
  47. Jacob Miller & Inner Circle - Forward Jah Jah Children 1974-79 (Trojan)

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  48. Robert Fripp - Exposure (EG)
  49. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Press Color (Ze)
  50. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps (Reprise)
  51. Magazine - Secondhand Daylight (Virgin)
  52. Moebius & Plank - Rastakraut Pasta (Sky/Water)
  53. The Police - Regatta de Blanc (A&M)
  54. Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East (Columbia)
  55. Simple Minds - Real To Real Cacophony (Virgin)
  56. The Cars - Candy-O (Elektra)
  57. Michael Jackson - Off The Wall (Epic)
  58. The Adverts - Cast of Thousands (RCA/Devils Jukebox)
  59. The Fall - Live At the Witch Trials (Castle/Sanctuary)
  60. Metal Urbain - Dead Men Are Dangerous/Anarchy In Paris! (Celluloid/Acute)
  61. Tom Verlaine - Tom Verlaine (Elektra)
  62. The Residents - Eskimo (Ralph)
  63. Sylford Walker & Welton Irie - Lambs Bread International (Blood & Fire)
  64. Norris Reid - Give Jah The Praises (Rockers)
  65. Dennis Brown - Words Of Wisdom (Shanachie)
  66. Serge Gainsbourg - Aux Armes Et Caetera (Universal Fr)
  67. Chelsea (Step Forward)
  68. Blondie - Eat To the Beat (Chrysalis)
  69. The Knack - Get The Knack (Capitol)
  70. Dennis Brown - Joseph's Coat Of Many Colours (Shanachie/Blood & Fire)
  71. Motörhead - Overkill (EMI)
  72. Nina Hagen - Unbehagen (CBS)
  73. Motörhead - Bomber (Bronze)
  74. Horace Andy - Natty Dread A Weh She Want (Trojan)
  75. Ijahman - Are We A Warrior (Mango/Jahmani)
  76. Horace Andy - Pure Ranking (Clocktower)
  77. Prince Alla - Heaven Is My Roof (Blood & Fire)
  78. Judas Priest - Killing Machine/Hell Bent For Leather (Columbia)
  79. Adam & The Ants - Dirk Wears White Sox (Do It/CBS)
  80. James White & the Blacks - Off White (Ze/Infinite Zero)
  81. Tubeway Army - Replicas (Beggars Banquet)
  82. This Heat (These)
  83. The Congos - Congo Ashanti (CBS/Blood & Fire)
  84. The Cure - Boys Don't Cry/Three Imaginary Boys (Friction)
  85. Nick Lowe - Jesus Of Cool (Demon)
  86. Metal Urbain - Les Hommes Mort Est Dangereux (Rough Trade)
  87. Pat Benatar - In The Heat Of The Night (Capitol)
  88. Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats (Mute)
  89. Graham Parker & the Rumor - Squeezing Out Sparks (Arista)
  90. Lou Reed - The Bells (Arista/Buddha)
  91. The Only Ones - Even Serpents Shine (Columbia)
  92. Joe Jackson - I'm The Man (A&M)
  93. The Visitors (Citadel)
  94. James Blood Ulmer - Tales Of Captain Black (Artists House/DIW)
  95. Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus - Love Thy Neighbour (RAS)
  96. Culture - International Herb (Virgin/Frontline)
  97. Ranking Joe - Round The World (Zion High) (Blood & Fire)
  98. The Boys - To Hell With The Boys (Safari)
  99. The Ramones - It's Alive (Sire)
  100. Electric Light Orchestra - Discovery (Jet/Epic Legacy)
  101. The Soft Boys - Invisible Hits 78-79 (Rykodisc)
  102. Iggy Pop - New Values (Arista)
  103. The Birthday Party - Hee Haw EP (Missing Link)
  104. Fingerprintz - The Very Dab (Virgin)
  105. Alan Vega - Collision Drive (Infinite Zero)
  106. Wipers - Is This Real? (Trap/Zeno)
  107. Teaze - One Night Stands (Unidisc/Rock Candy)
  108. John Cale - Sabotage (Live) (Spy/Diesel)
  109. Bad Brains - Black Dots (Caroline)
  110. Japan - Quiet Life (Virgin)
  111. Pere Ubu - New Picnic Time (Rough Trade)
  112. The B-52's (WB)
  113. UK Subs - Another Kind Of Blues (Gem)
  114. Devo - Duty Now For the Future (WB)
  115. Fela Kuti - V.I.P. (Universal)
  116. Joe Jackson - Look Sharp! (A&M)
  117. Neil Young - Live Rust (Reprise)
  118. Cheap Trick - At Budokan (Epic)
  119. Robert Palmer - Secrets (Island)
  120. The Sound - Propaganda (Renascent)
  121. Various - Avon Calling: The Bristol Compilation (Heartbeat/Cherry Red)
  122. Sugar Minott - Sugar Minott At Studio One (Soul Jazz)
  123. The Prefects - The Prefects Are Amateur Wankers 1977-79 (Acute)
  124. Afro Baby: The Evolution Of The Afro-Sound In Nigeria 1970-79 (Soundway)
  125. Joe Gibbs - Love Of The Common People 1967-79 (Trojan/Sanctuary)
  126. Prince Alla - Only Love Can Conquer 1976-1979 (Blood & Fire)
  127. Prince Far I - Silver & Gold 1973-79 (Blood & Fire)
  128. Lee Perry - Enter The Ark 1974-79 (Ascension)

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  129. Van Halen II (WB)
  130. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedos (MCA)
  131. Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door (Swan Song)
  132. Squeeze - Cool For Cats (A&M)
  133. M - New York-London-Paris-Munich (Westside/Sire)
  134. Nick Gilder - Frequency (Chrysalis)
  135. Cheap Trick - Dream Police (Epic)
  136. Rick James - Bustin' Out Of L Seven (Motown)
  137. Prince (WB)
  138. Rick James - Fire It Up (Motown/Hip-O)
  139. The Flying Lizards (Microwerks)
  140. Tin Huey - Contents Dislodged During Shipment (WB/Collectors' Choice)
  141. Pat Benatar - In The Heat of the Night (Chrysalis)
  142. Secret Affair - Glory Boys (Sire/Captain Mod)
  143. The Mighty Diamonds - Deeper Roots (Virgin)
  144. Visage (Polydor)
  145. Generation X - Valley Of The Dolls (Chrysalis)
  146. Wayne County & the Electric Chairs - The Electric Chairs (Safari)
  147. D.A.F. - Ein Produkt der DAF (Warning/Mute)
  148. Alternative TV - Vibing Up the Senile Man (Deptford)
  149. Various - The Great New York Singles 1974-1979 (ROIR)
  150. Rickie Lee Jones (WB)
  151. Lene Lovich - Stateless (Stiff/Rhino)
  152. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Survival (Tuff Gong/Island)
  153. The Desperate Bicycles - Another Commercial Venture (Refill)
  154. The Germs - GI (Slash)
  155. Riot - Narita (Capitol)
  156. The Dickies - Dawn of The Dickies (A&M)
  157. Human League - Reproduction (Virgin)
  158. The Dickies - The Incredible Shrinking Dickies (A&M/Captain Oi!)
  159. The Last - L.A. Explosion! (Bomp!)
  160. The Angels - No Exit (Epic/Sony)
  161. Tuxedomoon - Scream With A View EP (Pre)
  162. Cabaret Voltaire - Mix-Up (Rough Trade)
  163. The Stranglers - The Raven (EMI)
  164. Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth (Mute)
  165. O.V. Wright - We're Still Together (Hi)
  166. The Boys Next Door (The Birthday Party) - Door Door (Mushroom)
  167. Madness - One Step Beyond . . . (Sire)
  168. Angelic Upstarts - Teenage Warning (WB/Captain Oi)
  169. Ted Nugent - State Of Shock (Epic)
  170. Buzzcocks - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
  171. Wire - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
  172. Rocky Burnette - Son Of Rock And Roll (EMI)
  173. Desperate Bicycles - Another Commercial Venture (Refill Records)
  174. The Damned - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
  175. Killing Joke - Almost Red EP (Island)
  176. The Gladiators - Sweet So Till (Front Line/Virgin)
  177. The Members - At the Chelsea Nightclub (Virgin)
  178. Rainbow - Down To Earth (Polydor)
  179. Shoes - Present Tense (Elektra)
  180. Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Back In Your Life (Beserkley/Castle)
  181. The Pagans - Shit Street 77-79 (Crypt)
  182. Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations: Behold The Beginning (Metal Blade)
  183. Whitesnake - Lovehunter (Geffen)

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  184. Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster (Epic)
  185. Patti Smith - Wave (Arista)
  186. Lenoard Cohen - Recent Songs (Columbia)
  187. Teenage Jesus & The Jerks - Everything (Atavistic)
  188. Sparks - No. 1 In Heaven (Virgin)
  189. Funkadelic - Uncle Jam Wants You (WB/Funk Mob)
  190. Lurker - God's Lonely Men (Beggars Banquet)
  191. Van Morrison - Into the Music (WB)
  192. The Pagans - Buried Alive (Treehouse)
  193. Sparks - Terminal Jive (Oglio)
  194. ZZ Top - Deguello (WB)
  195. Grand Funk Railraod - Closer To Home (Capitol)
  196. Kiss - Dynasty (Casablanca)

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  197. Roxy Music - Manifesto (Virgin)
  198. Parliament - Gloryhallastoopid or Pin The Tale On The Funky (Casablanca)
  199. Telex - Looking For Saint-Tropez (Sire)

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  200. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Join Hands (Geffen)
  201. Supertramp - Breakfast In America (A&M)
  202. Suicide Commandos - The Commandos Commit Suicide (Twin/Tone)
  203. Christopher Cross (WB)

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    10

  1. X-Ray Spex - Germ-Free Adolescents (Caroline)
  2. Pere Ubu - Dub Housing (Rough Trade)
  3. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (Enigma)
  4. Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen (Restless)
  5. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - This Year's Model (Columbia)
  6. The Jam - All Mod Cons (Polydor)
  7. Wire - Chairs Missing (Restless)
  8. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food (Sire)
  9. Misfits - Static Age (Caroline)
  10. Bim Sherman - Love Forever (Tribesmen/Century)
  11. Dennis Brown - Visions of Dennis Brown (Shanachie/Joe Gibbs)

    10-

  12. Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians (ECM)
  13. The Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea With The Adverts (Devils Jukebox)
  14. Lee Perry - Roast Fish Collie Weed and Corn Bread (Upsetter/VP)
  15. Ijahman - Haile I Hymn (Mango/Jahmani)
  16. The Heptones - Better Days (Third World)
  17. The Chantells - Waiting In The Park (Phase One)
  18. The Jolly Brothers - Conscious Man (Seven Leaves)
  19. The Meditations - Wake Up (Third World)
  20. The Meditations - Guidance (Makasound)
  21. David Bowie - Heroes (RCA)
  22. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town (Columbia)
  23. Van Halen (WB)
  24. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A. We Are Devo (WB)
  25. Generation X (Chrysalis)
  26. Buzzcocks - Love Bites (Restless)
  27. Judas Priest - Stained Class (Columbia)
  28. The Saints - Eternally Yours (EMI)
  29. Magazine - Real Life (Virgin)
  30. Michael Rother - Sterntaler (Sky/Water)
  31. Keith Hudson - Rasta Communication (Joint International/Greensleeves)
  32. La Dusseldorf - Viva (Radar)
  33. Cedric Im Brooks - United Africa (Aquarius)
  34. Burning Spear - Social Living (Blood & Fire)
  35. Chrome - Alien Soundtracks (Touch & Go)
  36. The Only Ones (Columbia)
  37. Junior Byles & Friends - 129 Beat Street: Ja-Man Special 1975-78 (Blood & Fire)

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  38. Popol Vuh - Brüder des Schattens - Söhne des Lichts (Brain/Spalax)
  39. Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear (Motown)
  40. Various - No New York (Antilles)
  41. The Cars - The Cars (Elektra)
  42. Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous (WB)
  43. AC/DC - If You Want Blood, You've Got It (Atco)
  44. Tom Zé - Correio Da Estao Do Brs (EW)
  45. Kraftwerk - The Man Machine (Capitol)
  46. Linval Thompson - I Love Marijuana (Trojan)
  47. Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes (RCA)
  48. Hawklords - 25 Years On (Rock Fever)
  49. Magma - Attahk (Vertigo/Seventh)
  50. Cedric Im Brooks & The Light Of Saba - Sabebe (Total Sounds)
  51. Dictators - Bloodbrothers (Elektra)
  52. AC/DC - Powerage (Epic)
  53. Rush - Hemispheres (Mercury)
  54. Junior Delgado - Taste Of The Young Heart (DEB)
  55. Culture - Baldhead Bridge (Joe Gibbs/17 North Parade)
  56. Sweet - Level Headed (Polydor/Lemon)
  57. The Gladiators - Proverbial Reggae (Front Line/Virgin)
  58. Israel Vibration - The Same Song (RAS/Sanctuary)
  59. Dr. Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken In Town (Greensleeves)
  60. Keith Hudson - Rasta Communication (Joint International/Greensleeves)
  61. Tony Allen - No Accomodation For Lagos (P-Vine)
  62. Culture - Harder Than The Rest (Shanachie)
  63. The Abyssinians - Arise (Frontline)
  64. The Boys - Alternative Chartbusters (Safari)
  65. Gregory Isaacs - Cool Ruler (Front Line)
  66. Tom Waits - Blue Valentine (Elektra)
  67. Chris Bell - I Am the Cosmos (Rykodisc)
  68. Art Bears - Hopes And Fears (Randam Radar/ReR)
  69. Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Durch die Wüste (Sky/Bureau)
  70. Robert Palmer - Double Fun (Island)
  71. The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope (Epic)
  72. The Soft Boys - A Can Of Bees (Rykodisc)
  73. Horace Andy - Natty Dread A Weh She Want (Trojan)
  74. Television - Adventure (Elektra)
  75. The Stranglers - Black And White (EMI)
  76. XTC - Go 2 (Virgin)
  77. Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Scream (Polydor/Geffen)
  78. Rose Tattoo (Alberts)
  79. Carl Harvey - Ecstasy Of Mankind (Makasound)
  80. Cluster (Eno Moebius Roedelius) - After The Heat (Sky/Water)
  81. Ultravox - Systems Of Romance (Virgin)
  82. The Jolt (Polydor/Captain Mod)
  83. The Saints - Prehistoric Sounds (EMI)
  84. Japan - Adolescent Sex (Virgin)
  85. Public Image Ltd. - Public Image (Virgin)
  86. Peter Hammill - The Future Now (Blue Plate)
  87. Blondie - Parallel Lines (Chrysalis)
  88. XTC - White Music (Virgin)
  89. Third World - Journey To Addis (Island)
  90. Nick Gilder - City Nights (Chrysalis)
  91. UFO - Obsession (Chrysalis/EMI)
  92. The Twinkle Brothers - Love (Front Line)
  93. Haruomi Hosono - Paraiso (Crown Japan)
  94. Radio Birdman - Living Eyes (UA/Citadel)
  95. Tubeway Army (Beggars Banquet)
  96. Justin Hinds & the Dominoes - Just In Time (Island)
  97. Marcia Griffiths - Naturally (High Note)
  98. Heart - Dog & Butterfly (Epic/Legacy)
  99. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Babylon by Bus (Tuff Gong/Island)
  100. The Mighty Diamonds - Planet Earth (Virgin)
  101. The Vibrators - V2 (Columbia/Captain Oi!)
  102. The Rolling Stones - Some Girls (Rolling Stones)
  103. The Outsiders - Close Up (Raw Edge)
  104. The Vibrators - V2 (Epic/Captain Oi)
  105. Kevin Coyne - Dynamite Daze (Virgin)
  106. The Rich Kids - Ghosts Of Princes In Towers (EMI)
  107. Be Bop Deluxe - Drastic Plastic (Harvest)
  108. The Rezillos - Can't Stand the Rezillos (Sire)
  109. Eddie Hinton - Very Extremely Dangerous (Capricorn)
  110. Maria Bethania - Alibi (Verve)
  111. Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (Elektra)
  112. Lou Reed - Street Hassle (RCA)
  113. Rick James - Come Get It! (Motown)
  114. John Cooper Clarke - Disguise In Love (Epic/Sony)
  115. Lenny White - The Adventures Of Astral Pirates (Elektra/Wounded Bird)
  116. Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll (Polydor)
  117. Prince Far I & The Arabs - Cry Tough: Dub Encounter Chapter 1 (Hitrun/Pressure Sounds)
  118. Trinity - Shanty Town Determination 1976-78 (Blood & Fire)

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  119. Brian Eno - Music For Airports (Virgin/DSD)
  120. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Kaya (Tuff Gong/Island)
  121. Dead Fingers Talk - Storm The Reality Studios (Pye/Sanctuary)
  122. City Boy - Book Early (Vertigo/Renaissance)
  123. National Health - Of Queues and Cures (Esoteric)
  124. Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo (Epic)
  125. Doctors Of Madness - Late Night Movies, All Night Brainstorms (Polydor)
  126. Prince Far I - Long Life (Virgin)
  127. Jimmy Cliff - Give Thanx (WB/Wounded Bird)
  128. Alternative TV - The Image Has Cracked (Anagram/Cherry Red)
  129. David Johansen (Razor & Tie/BGO)
  130. Henry Cow - Western Culture (Recommended)
  131. Japan - Obscure Alternatives (Virgin)
  132. Jane Birkin - Ex Fan Des Sixties (Fontana/Universal Fr)
  133. Marcia Griffiths - Steppin' (High Note)
  134. Lee Dorsey - Night People (EMI)
  135. 999 - Separates (Ahoy)
  136. Ann Peebles - If This Is Heaven (Hi)
  137. 999 (Ahoy)
  138. Lee Perry & the Upsetters - Return Of The Super Ape (VP)
  139. Wire - Behind The Curtain: Early Versions 1977-1978 (EMI)
  140. Avengers - Avengers (White Noise)
  141. O.V. Wright - The Bottom Line (Hi)
  142. Johnny Thunders - So Alone (Real)
  143. Ramones - Road To Ruin (Sire)
  144. Penetration - Moving Targets (Virgin)
  145. The Police - Outlandos D'Amour (A&M)
  146. Teaze - On The Loose (Unidisc)
  147. Dead Boys - We Have Come F.Y. Children (Sire)
  148. The Slits - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
  149. Patti Smith - Easter (Arista)
  150. Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove (WB/Charly Groove)
  151. Etta James - Deep In The Night (Chess)
  152. Parliament - Motor-Booty Affair (Casablanca)
  153. Mick Farren - Vampires Stole My Lunch Money (Line)
  154. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - You're Gonna Get It (WB/Gone Gator)
  155. Mink DeVille - Return To Magenta (ERA/Raven)
  156. U.K. (Glo)
  157. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
  158. Suicide Commandos - Make A Record (Blank)
  159. Pere Ubu - 390 Degrees Of Simulated Stereo (Rough Trade)
  160. Al Green - Truth 'n' Time (Motown)
  161. Aerosmith - Live Bootleg (Columbia)
  162. Crass - Feeding of the 5000 (Crass)
  163. The Dils - Dils Dils Dils (Bacchus)
  164. Curtis Mayfield - Do It All Night (Curtom)
  165. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 2 (Atlantic)
  166. Throbbing Gristle - D.o.A. (Mute)
  167. Sham 69 - Tell Us The Truth (Sire)
  168. Warsaw (Joy Division) - Warsaw (MPG)
  169. Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight (Epic)
  170. Lurker - Fulham Fallout (Beggars Banquet)

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  171. Yesterday And Today - Struck Down (London/Mondo)
  172. Ted Nugent - Weekend Warriors (Epic)
  173. The Angels - Face To Face (Epic)
  174. Styx - Equinox (A&M)
  175. Dire Straits (WB)
  176. Detective - It Takes One To Know One (Wounded Bird)
  177. Eater - The Album (Label)
  178. Whitesnake - Trouble (Geffen)
  179. Deaf School - English Boys/Working Girls (WB/Sanctuary)
  180. The Residents - Duck Stab/Buster & Glen (Ralph)

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  181. Queen - Jazz (Elektra)

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    10

  1. The Congos - Heart Of The Congo (Blood & Fire)
  2. Television - Marquee Moon (Elektra)
  3. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life (Virgin)
  4. Wire - Pink Flag (Restless)
  5. Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves (Mango)
  6. Fela Kuti - Zombie (Universal)
  7. The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bullocks (WB)
  8. The Clash (Epic)
  9. Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation (Sire)
  10. George Faith - To Be A Lover (Black Swan/Hip-O Select)
  11. Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance (Blank)
  12. David Bowie - Low (RCA)
  13. The Heptones - Party Time (Mango/Island)
  14. Culture - Two Sevens Clash (Shanachie)
  15. Peter Tosh - Equal Rights (Columbia)
  16. Dennis Brown - Wolves And Leopards (Blue Moon)
  17. Ramones - Rocket To Russia (Sire)

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  18. Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation (PolyGram)
  19. Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77 (Sire)
  20. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express (Capitol)
  21. The Damned - Damned Damned Damned (Demon)
  22. The Jam - In The City (Polydor)
  23. Electric Light Orchestra - Out Of The Blue (Jet)
  24. Suicide (Red Star)
  25. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True (Columbia)
  26. Fela Kuti - Sorrow Tears And Blood (Universal)
  27. Third World - 96 Degrees in the Shade (Mango)
  28. Fela Kuti - Shuffering and Shmiling (Universal)
  29. Ramones - Leave Home (Sire)
  30. Horace Andy - In The Light (Blood & Fire)
  31. Heldon - Interface (Cuneiform/Rune)
  32. The Saints - (I'm) Stranded (EMI)
  33. Cedric Im Brooks - The Light Of Saba In Reggae (Total Sounds)
  34. Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity (Oasis/Repertoire)
  35. The Royals - Pick Up The Pieces (Pressure Sounds)
  36. Augustus Pablo - East Of The River Nile (Message/Shanachie)
  37. Al Green - The Belle Album (Hi)
  38. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus (Tuff Gong/Island)
  39. Dennis Brown - Some Like It Hot 1973-77 (Heartbeat)
  40. Linval Thompson - Ride On Dreadlocks 1975-77 (Blood & Fire)

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  41. Rico - Midnight In Ethiopia (Island)
  42. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals - African Dub Chapter Two (Gibbs/17 North Parade)
  43. The Stranglers - No More Heroes (UA)
  44. Ian Dury & The Blockheads - New Boots & Panties!! (Demon)
  45. Brian Eno - Before And After Science (EG)
  46. Ultravox - Ha! Ha! Ha! (Island)
  47. AC/DC - Let There Be Rock (Epic)
  48. Radio Birdman - Radios Appear (Tralfalgar)
  49. Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F. (Jungle)
  50. Buzzcocks - Spiral Scratch EP (New Hormones)
  51. Heart - Little Queen (Epic)
  52. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (Mercury)
  53. Michael Rother - Flammende Herzen (Sky/Water)
  54. Cheap Trick - In Color (Epic)
  55. Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness And Charm (UA/Atomhenge)
  56. T. Rex - Dandy In The Underworld (Mercury)
  57. Willie Wright - Telling The Truth (Variety/Numero)
  58. John Martyn - One World (Island)
  59. The Ethiopians - Slave Call (Third World)
  60. Popol Vuh - Coeur de Verre (Spalax)
  61. The Stranglers - IV Rattus Norvegicus (A&M)
  62. Vibrators - Pure Mania (Columbia)
  63. Fela Kuti - No Agreement (Universal)
  64. City Boy - Young Men Gone West (Vertigo/Renaissance)
  65. Fela Kuti - Opposite People (Universal)
  66. The Runaways - Queens Of Noise (Touchwood/Cherry Red)
  67. The Morwells - Crab Race (Burning Sounds)
  68. Fela Kuti - Stalemate (Universal)
  69. Fela Kuti - Fear Not For Man (Universal)
  70. The Travellers - Black Black Minds (Pressure Sounds)
  71. Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus - Kibir-Am-Lak (Greensleeves)
  72. Prince Far I - Heavy Manners (Joe Gibbs/TP)
  73. Wayne Wade - Black Is Our Colour (Grove)
  74. Peter Hammill - Over (Blue Plate)
  75. Gregory Isaacs - Mr. Isaacs (Blood & Fire)
  76. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors (MCA)
  77. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside (EMI)
  78. Van Der Graaf Generator - The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome (Charisma/Blue Plate)
  79. Bizarros/Rubber City Rebels - From Akron (Clone)
  80. Ultravox - Ultravox! (Island)
  81. Cluster & Eno (Sky/Water)
  82. This Heat - Made Available: Peel Sessions (These)
  83. Tony Allen - Progress (P-Vine)
  84. UFO - Lights Out (Chrysalis/EMI)
  85. Devo - Hardcore Vol. 1 74-77 (Rykodisc)
  86. Bill Withers - Managerie (CBS)
  87. Bunny Wailer - Protest (Island)
  88. Iggy Pop - The Idiot (RCA)
  89. Dead Boys - Young, Loud And Snotty (Sire)
  90. Yes - Going For The One (Atlantic)
  91. The Boys (Safari)
  92. Yabby You - Deliver Me From My Enemies (Blood & Fire)
  93. Sex Pistols - Flogging A Dead Horse (Virgin)
  94. MX-80 - Hard Attack (Island/Atavistic)
  95. Can - Saw Delight (Spoon/Mute)
  96. Cheap Trick (Epic)
  97. Burning Spear - Dry And Heavy (Mango)
  98. Sugar Minott - Live Loving (Studio One)
  99. Sugar Minott - Showcase (Studio One)
  100. Dennis Brown - Open The Gate (Heartbeat)
  101. The Mighty Diamonds - Ice On Fire (Frontline)
  102. Motörhead - Motörhead (Roadracer)
  103. Judas Priest - Sin After Sin (Columbia)
  104. The Real Kids (Red Star/Norton)
  105. Deaf School - Don't Stop The World (WB/Sanctuary)
  106. Blondie - Plastic Letters (Chrysalis)
  107. Junior Ross - Babylon Fall 75-77 (Blood & Fire)
  108. Tommy McCook - Blazing Horns/Tenor In Roots (Blood & Fire)
  109. Rico - Man From Wareika Dub (Island)
  110. Kalo Kawongolo & Seke Molenga - From The Heart of the Congo (Runn)
  111. The Outsiders - Calling On Youth (Raw Edge)
  112. The Slits - Peel Sessions EP (Strange Fruit)
  113. Roy Harper - Bullinamingvase (Science Friction)
  114. Pink Floyd - Animals (Capitol)
  115. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (WB)
  116. Devo - Hardcore Vol. 2 74-77 (Rykodisc)
  117. Nona Hendryx (CBS/T-Bird)
  118. The Adverts - Peel Sessions EP (Strange Fruit)

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  119. Queen - News of the World (Elektra)
  120. Dictators - Manifest Destiny (Elektra)
  121. Rush - A Farewell To Kings (Mercury)
  122. National Health (Esoteric)
  123. Blue Öyster Cult - Spectres (Columbia)
  124. 10cc - Deceptive Bends (Mercury)
  125. The Runaways - Waitin' For The Night (Touchwood/Cherry Red)
  126. Eddie & The Hot Rods - Life On The Line (Island/Captain Oi!)
  127. Nick Gilder - You Know Who You Are (Chrysalis)
  128. Detective (Wounded Bird)
  129. Chris Spedding (EMI/Repertoire)
  130. Curtis Mayfield - Never Say You Can't Survive (Curtom)
  131. Sweet - Off The Record (RCA)
  132. Black Uhuru - Love Crisis (Black Sounds of Freedom) (Third World)
  133. The Jam - This Is The Modern World (Polydor)
  134. Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Rock 'n' Roll With The Modern Lovers (Rhino)
  135. Tom Waits - Foreign Affairs (Elektra)
  136. Mink DeVille - Cabretta (ERA/Raven)
  137. David Ruffin - In My Stride (Motown)
  138. Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers (Rhino)
  139. Shoes - Black Vinyl Shoes (Black Vinyl)
  140. Be Bop Deluxe - Modern Music (EMI)
  141. O.V. Wright - Into Something (Can't Shake Loose) (Hi)
  142. Randy Newman - Little Criminals (WB)
  143. The Scruffs - Wanna Meet the Scruffs? (Power Play)
  144. Riot - Rock City (Fire Sign/Metal Blade)
  145. Legs Diamond (Nightmare)
  146. Rex Smith - Where Do We Go From Here? (Sony/Wounded Bird)
  147. Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever (Epic)
  148. Neil Young - American Stars 'n Bars (Reprise)
  149. Parliament - Funkentelecy Vs. The Placebo System (Casablanca)
  150. Teddy Pendergrass (The Right Stuff)
  151. Curtis Mayfield - Short Eyes (Curtom)
  152. Quartz - Deleted (Jet)
  153. Klaatu - Hope (Capitol/BGO)
  154. Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell (Epic)
  155. Roy C. Hammond - More Sex & More Soul (Polygram)

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  156. Scorpions - Taken By Force (Universal/Hip-O)
  157. Parliament - P. Funk Earth Tour (Casablanca)
  158. Throbbing Gristle - Second Annual Report (Mute)
  159. Piper - Can't Wait (A&M/American Beat)
  160. Styx - The Grand Illusion (A&M)
  161. Supertramp - Even In The Quitest Moments... (Universal)
  162. Whitesnake (Spit Fire)
  163. Kiss - Love Gun (Casablanca/Mercury)
  164. X-Ray Spex - Obsessed With You: Early Years (Receiver)

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  165. The Damned - Music For Pleasure (Stiff)

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1976

    10

  1. Lee Perry & the Upsetters - Super Ape (Island/Hip-O Select)
  2. Rico - Man From Wareika (Island)
  3. Justin Hinds & The Dominoes - Jezebel (Island)
  4. The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana (Heartbeat)
  5. Cedric Im Brooks - The Light Of Saba (Total Sounds/Honest Jon's)
  6. Max Romeo & the Upsetters - War Ina Babylon (Mango/Hip-O Select)
  7. The Mighty Diamonds - Right Time (Frontline)
  8. Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man (Island)

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  9. La Dusseldorf (Radar)
  10. The Meditations - Message From The Meditations (UA)
  11. Peter Tosh - Legalize It (Columbia)
  12. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny (RCA/Koch)
  13. Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox (Vertigo/PolyGram)
  14. David Bowie - Station To Station (RCA)
  15. Johnny Clarke - Rockers Time Now (Front Line)
  16. Augustus Pablo - King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown (Shanachie)
  17. The Ramones (Sire)
  18. Blondie (Chrysalis)
  19. Harry Mudie - Harry Mudie Meets King Tubby In Dub Conference Vol. One (Moodisc)
  20. The Heptones - Night Food (Mango/Island)
  21. Serge Gainsbourg - L' Homme a Tete De Chou (Philips Fr)
  22. Toots & the Maytals - Reggae Got Soul (Mango)
  23. Gladiators - Trench Town Mix Up (Front Line/Virgin)
  24. Yabby You - Chant Down Babylon Kingdom (Nationwide)
  25. Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record (Jet/Epic Legacy)
  26. Cluster - Sowiesoso (Sky)
  27. The Wailing Souls (Studio One)
  28. Johnny Clarke - Authorized Version (Front Line)
  29. Harry Whitaker - Black Rennaissance: Body, Mind and Spirit (Luv N' Haight)

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  30. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Rastaman Vibration (Tuff Gong/Island)
  31. Scorpions - Virgin Killer (RCA)
  32. AC/DC - High Voltage (Epic)
  33. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (Mercury)
  34. Aerosmith - Rocks (Columbia)
  35. City Boy - Dinner At The Ritz (Vertigo/Renaissance)
  36. Zap Pow - Revolution (Trojan)
  37. UFO - No Heavy Petting (Chrysalis/EMI)
  38. Klaatu (Capitol/BGO)
  39. Sweet - Give Us A Wink (RCA)
  40. Heart - Dreamboat Annie (Capitol)
  41. The Runaways (Touchwood/Cherry Red)
  42. Popol Vuh - Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte (United Artists/Spalax)
  43. Heldon - Un Reve Sans Consequence Speciale (Cunneiform/Rune)
  44. Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music From The Penguin Cafe Orchestra (EG)
  45. Haruomi Hosono - Bon Voyage Co. (Crown Japan)
  46. The Heptones - Unreleased Night Food & Rare Black Ark Session (Auralux)
  47. Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene (Polydor/Dreyfus)
  48. Ann Peebles - Tellin' It (Hi)
  49. Rose Royce - Car Wash (MCA)
  50. Leon Ware - Musical Massage (Motown)
  51. Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby (RCA/Legacy)
  52. T. Rex - Futuristic Dragon (Mercury)
  53. Rainbow - Rising (Polydor)
  54. Graham Parker - Howlin' Wind (Mercury)
  55. Tom Waits - Small Change (Elektra)
  56. Joni Mitchell - Hejira (Elektra/Asylum)
  57. Steely Dan - The Royal Scam (MCA)
  58. Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia (Arista)
  59. Bootsy Collins - Ahhh…The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! (WB)
  60. Candi Staton - Youn Hearts Run Free (WB)
  61. David Ruffin - Everything's Coming Up Love (Motown)
  62. Aretha Franklin - Sparkle (Atlantic/Rhino)
  63. Burning Spear - Man In The Hills (Mango)
  64. Parliament - The Clones Of Dr. Funkenstein (Casablanca)
  65. Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life (Charisma/Blue Plate)
  66. Be Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish (EMI)
  67. Jah Lion - Colombia Colly (Mango/Island)
  68. Fela Kuti - Up Side Down (Celluloid)
  69. AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Albert Productions)
  70. Graham Parker - Heat Treatment (Mercury)
  71. John Holt - Up Park Camp (Channel One)
  72. Delroy Wilson - Sarge (Charmers/JAS)
  73. Third World (Island)
  74. The Mighty Diamonds - Stand Up To Your Judgment (Channel One)
  75. The Numbers Band (15.60.75) - Jimmy Bell's Back In Town (Hearthan)
  76. 10cc - How Dare You! (Mercury)
  77. Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life (Motown)
  78. Sparks - Big Beat (Island/Universal)
  79. City Boy (Vertigo/Renaissance)
  80. Ry Cooder - Chicken Skin Music (Reprise)
  81. Prince Jazzbo - Natty Passing Thru/Ital Corner (Black Wax/Clocktower)
  82. Can - Flow Motion (Spoon/Mute)
  83. Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head (A&M)
  84. John Martyn - Live At Leeds (Island)
  85. Burning Spear - Garvey's Ghost (Mango)
  86. The Heptones - The Meaning Of Life: Best Of 1966-76 (Trojan/Sanctuary)
  87. Marvin Gaye - I Want You (Motown)
  88. Bill Withers - Naked & Warm (Columbia/Reel)
  89. Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From The Road (MCA)

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  90. Rush - 2112 (Mercury)
  91. Rashied Ali & Royal Blue - N.Y. Ain't So Bad: Ali Plays The Blues (Knitting Factory)
  92. Anthony Braxton - Creative Orchestra Music (Arista)
  93. Eddie Palmieri & Lalo Rodriguez - Unfinished Masterpiece (Musical Productions)
  94. Frederic Rzewski (Marc-André Hamelin) - The People United Will Never Be Defeated (Hyperion)
  95. Curtis Mayfield - Give, Get, Take And Have (Curtom)
  96. Led Zeppelin - Presence (Swan Song)
  97. Esther Phillips - For All We Know (Kudu)
  98. Esther Phillips - Capricorn Princess (Kudu)
  99. Etta James - Bettah Than Evah (Chess)
  100. Johnny Robinson - Memphis High (Sony)
  101. Al Green - Full Of Fire (Hi)
  102. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Live Bullet (Capitol)
  103. Smokey Robinson - Smokey's Family Robinson (Motown)
  104. Eddie & The Hot Rods - Teenage Depression (Island/Captain Oi!)
  105. Streetwalkers - Red Card (Vertigo/Repertoire)
  106. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (MCA/Gone Gator)
  107. Grupo Folklórico Y Experimental Nuevayorquino - Concepts In Unity (Salsoul)
  108. Ted Nugent - Free-For-All (Epic)
  109. The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action (Aim)
  110. Queen - A Day At The Races (Elektra/Hollywood)
  111. Magma - Üdü Wüdü (Vertigo/Seventh)
  112. Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail (Rhino/Atlantic)
  113. The Rolling Stones - Black And Blue (Virgin)
  114. Gregory Isaacs - All I Have Is Love (Trojan)
  115. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (Philadelphia International)
  116. Chrome - The Visitation (Siren)
  117. Cerrone - Cerrone 3: Supernature (Barclay)
  118. Absolute Elsewhere - In Search Of Ancient Gods (WB/Wounded Bird)
  119. Santana - Amigos (Columbia)
  120. Bob Dylan - Desire (Columbia)
  121. Yesterday And Today (London/Mondo)
  122. Buzzcocks - Time's Up (Document)
  123. Starz (Capital/Ryko)
  124. Piper (A&M/American Beat)
  125. Rex Smith - Rex (Sony/Wounded Bird)
  126. Moxy (Pacemaker)
  127. The 101ers - Elgin Avenue Breakdown Revisited (Astralwerks)
  128. Can - Unlimited Edition (Spoon/Mute)
  129. Lou Reed - Rock And Roll Heart (Arista/Buddha)
  130. Radio Birdman - Burn My Eye EP (Tralfalgar)
  131. Deaf School - 2nd Honeymoon (WB/Sanctuary)
  132. MX-80 - Hard Pop From the Hoosiers EP (Gulcher/Atavistic)
  133. Al Green - Have A Good Time (Hi)
  134. Blue Öyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune (Columbia)
  135. Genesis - Wind & Wuthering (Rhino/Atlantic)
  136. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves (Capitol)
  137. Rush - All The World's A Stage (Mercury)

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  138. Kiss - Destroyer (Casablanca)
  139. Rod Stewart - A Night On The Town (WB)
  140. Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle (Capitol)
  141. ZZ Top - Tejas (WB)
  142. Jackson Browne - The Pretender (Elektra)
  143. Sex Pistols - Live At Chelmsford Top Security Prison (Virgin)
  144. Funkadelic - Hardcore Jollies (WB/Charly Groove)
  145. Various - New York New Wave: Max's Kansas City (CBS)

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  146. Boston (Epic)
  147. Warren Zevon (Asylum)
  148. The Residents - Fingerprince (Ralph)
  149. Venus & the Razorblades - Songs From The Sunshine Jungle (Charlatan)
  150. Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear (Virgin)
  151. Funkadelic - Tales Of Kidd Funkadelic (Westbound)
  152. Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees (Columbia)
  153. Styx - Crystal Ball (A&M)
  154. Truth And Janey - No Rest For The Wicked (Rockadrome)
  155. Live At C.B.G.B.'s - Home of Underground Rock (Atlantic)

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  156. Ohio Players - Gold (Mercury)

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  157. Stooges - Kill City EP (Revenge)

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1975

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  1. Brian Eno - Another Green World (EG)
  2. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks (Columbia)
  3. Patti Smith - Horses (Arista)
  4. Harmonia - Deluxe (Brain)
  5. Neu - Neu! 75 (Brain/Astralwerks)
  6. Gavin Bryars - The Sinking Of The Titanic/Jesus' Blood Has Never Failed Me Yet (Obscure)
  7. Tom Zé - Estudando O Samba (EW)
  8. Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey (Mango)
  9. The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari - Tales Of Mozambique (Dynamic)
  10. Max Romeo & the Upsetters - Revelation Time (Trojan/Blood & Fire)

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  11. Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today (Curtom)
  12. Donald Byrd - Places And Spaces (Blue Note)
  13. Black Sabbath - Sabotage (WB)
  14. Jacob Miller - Who Say Jah No Dread (Ras)
  15. Pere Ubu - Datapanik In The Year Zero EP (Radar)
  16. Parliament - Mothership Connection (Casablanca)
  17. Popol Vuh - Das Hohelied Salomos (UA/Spalax)
  18. Roy Harper - HQ (Harvest/Science Friction)
  19. Neil Young - Tonight's The Night (Reprise)
  20. Fela Kuti - Confusion (Polydor)
  21. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run (Columbia)
  22. Crack The Sky (Lifesong)
  23. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - The Vodun Effect: Funk & Sato from Benin's Obscure Labels 1972-75 (Analog Africa)
  24. Augustus Pablo - Original Rockers 1972-75 (Greensleeves)

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  25. Scorpions - In Trance (RCA)
  26. Queen - A Night At The Opera (Elektra)
  27. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (Atlantic)
  28. Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time (UA/One Way)
  29. Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger (Columbia)
  30. Sam Dees - The Show Must Go On (Atlantic)
  31. Betty Davis - Nasty Gal (Just Sunshine/Light In The Attic)
  32. Cornell Campbell - Natty Dread In A Greenwich Farm (Grounation)
  33. Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head (Virgin)
  34. Can - Landed (Spoon/Mute)
  35. Joe Higgs - Life of Contradiction (Vulcan/Pressure Sounds)
  36. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Capitol)
  37. Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (Elektra/Asylum)
  38. Heavy Metal Kids - Anvil Chorus (Atlantic/Lemon)
  39. Neil Young - Zuma (Reprise)
  40. Dictators - Go Girl Crazy (Epic)
  41. Thin Lizzy - Fighting (Vertigo/Phonogram)
  42. UFO - Force It (Chrysalis/EMI)
  43. Fripp & Eno - Evening Star (EG/Opal Ltd.)
  44. Van Der Graaf Generator - Godbluff (Charisma/Blue Plate)
  45. Hugh Mundell - Africa Must Be Free By 1983 (Ras)
  46. Robert Wyatt - Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard (Virgin/Thirsty Ear)
  47. Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Heart Of The Dragon (Justice League)
  48. 10cc - The Original Soundtrack (Mercury)
  49. Pablo Moses - Revolutionary Dream (Shanachie)
  50. Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit (Editions)
  51. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Live! (Tuff Gong)
  52. Funkadelic - Let's Take It To The Stage (Westbound)
  53. Robert Palmer - Pressure Drop (Island)
  54. T. Rex - Bolan's Zip Gun (Mercury)
  55. Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - The Best Years Of Our Lives (EMI)
  56. Be Bop Deluxe - Futurama (Harvest)
  57. Ian Hunter (Columbia)
  58. Rush - Fly By Night (Mercury)
  59. Kiss - Alive! (Mercury)
  60. Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic (Columbia)
  61. AC/DC - TNT (Albert Productions)
  62. Klaus Schulze - Timewind (Universal/SPV)
  63. Kraftwerk - Radio Activity (Capitol)
  64. Roxy Music - Siren (Atco)
  65. Bill Withers - Making Music (Columbia/Reel)
  66. Esther Phillips - What A Diff'rence A Day Makes (Kudu)
  67. Brian Eno - Discreet Music (EG)
  68. Syl Johnson - Total Explosion (Hi)
  69. Doris Duke - Woman (Shout!)
  70. Millie Jackson - Still Caught Up (Westbound)
  71. Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus - Rastafari (VP)
  72. Larry Marshall - I Admire You (Heartbeat)
  73. Minnie Riperton - Adventures In Paradise (Capitol)
  74. Allen Toussaint – Southern Nights (WB)
  75. The Staple Singers - Let's Do It Again (Curtom)
  76. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - To Be True (Philadelphia International)
  77. Serge Gainsbourg - Rock Around The Bunker (Philips Fr)
  78. Lyn Collins - Check Me Out If You Don't Know Me By Now (Polydor)
  79. Al Green - Is Love (Hi)
  80. Tony Allen - Jealousy (P-Vine)
  81. Soft Machine - Bundles (See For Miles)
  82. Vin Gordon & the Upsetters - Musical Bones (DIP)
  83. Haruomi Hosono - Tropical Dandy (Crown Japan)
  84. Heldon - Allez Teia (Cunneiform)
  85. The Twinkle Brothers - Rasta Pon Top (Twinkle)
  86. Bunny Scott - To Love Somebody (Klik)
  87. Budgie - Bandolier (MCA)
  88. Fela Kuti - Monkey Banana (Universal)
  89. Lee Perry & Upsetters - Revolution Dub (Cactus UK/Trojan)
  90. Fela Kuti - Excuse O (Universal)
  91. Fred Locks - Black Star Liner (Vulcan)
  92. Keith Hudson - Torch Of Freedom (Atra)
  93. Fleetwood Mac (WB)
  94. Bob Seger - Beautiful Loser (Capitol)
  95. The Gladiators - Bongo Red 1971-75 (Heartbeat)
  96. Ken Boothe - Everything I Own: The Best Of Ken Boothe 1968-75 (Trojan)
  97. The Ethiopians - Train To Skaville Anthology 1966-75 (Trojan)
  98. Denzel Dennis - Me Nah WorryThe Anthology 1963-75 (Trojan/Sanctuary)
  99. Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo De Cotonou - Vodoun Effect: Funk & Sato From Benin's Obscure Labels 1973 to 1975 (Analog Africa)

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  100. Sparks - Indiscreet (Island)
  101. Dr. Feelgood - Down By The Jetty (EMI)
  102. Sweeney Todd (London)
  103. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Nuthin' Fancy (MCA)
  104. Prince Far I - Pslams For I (Carib Gems) 75
  105. The Meters - Fire On The Bayou (Reprise)
  106. Gregory Isaacs - In Person (Trojan)
  107. The Heptones - Cool Rasta (Trojan)
  108. The Twinkle Brothers - Rasta Pon Top (Twinkle)
  109. Ted Nugent (Epic)
  110. Foghat - Fool For The City (Bearsville)
  111. The Strawbs - Ghosts (A&M)
  112. Van Dyke Parks - Clang of the Yankee Reaper (Reprise)
  113. Popol Vuh - Aguirre (Barclay/Spalax)
  114. Steely Dan - Katy Lied (MCA)
  115. Peter Hammill - Nadir's Big Chance (Blue Plate)
  116. Bob Dylan - Desire (Columbia)
  117. John Lennon - Rock 'n' Roll (Capitol)
  118. David Ruffin - Who I Am (Motown)
  119. Kilburn & The High Roads - Handsome (Dawn/Castle)
  120. The Isley Brothers - The Heat Is On (T-Neck)
  121. Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare (WB/Rhino)
  122. AC/DC - High Voltage (Albert Productions)
  123. Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart - Bongo Fury (Rykodisc)
  124. Susan Cadogan - Hurt So Good (Trojan)
  125. Alex Chilton - Bach's Bottom (Razor & Tie)
  126. John Cale - Slow Dazzle (Island)
  127. ZZ Top - Fandango! (WB)
  128. Rush - Caress Of Steel (Mercury)
  129. David Bowie - Young Americans (RCA/Virgin)
  130. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Tomorrow Belongs To Me (Mercury)
  131. Fela Kuti - Everything Scatter (Universal)
  132. Dr. Feelgood - Malpractice (EMI)
  133. Fela Kuti - Noise For Vendor Mouth (Universal)
  134. Hank Crawford - Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing (Masterworks)
  135. Jimmy Cliff - Brave Warrior (Island)
  136. Cortex - Troupeau Bleu (Underdog)
  137. Kiss - Dressed To Kill (Casablanca/Mercury)
  138. Jimmy Cliff - Follow My Mind (Island)
  139. Sly Stone - High On You (Epic)
  140. Isaac Hayes - Chocolate Chip (Stax)

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  141. The Residents - Present the Third Reich 'n' Roll (Ralph)
  142. Ducks Deluxe - Taxi To The Terminal Zone (RCA)
  143. Stooges - I'm Sick Of You EP (Revenge)
  144. John Cale - Helen Of Troy (Island)
  145. Electric Eels - Having A Philosophical Investigation With The Electric Eels (Tinnitus)
  146. Rod Stewart - Atlantic Crossing (WB)
  147. Electric Light Orchestra - Face The Music (Jet/Epic Legacy)
  148. John Lennon - Rock 'n' Roll (Apple)
  149. Parliament - Chocolate City (Casablanca)
  150. Supertramp - Crisis? What Crisis? (Universal)
  151. Tom Waits - Nighthawks At The Diner (Elektra)

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  152. Motörhead - On Parole (Cleopatra)
  153. Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (RCA)

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  1. Keith Hudson - Flesh Of My Skin, Blood Of My Blood (Mamba/Atra)
  2. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy (EG)
  3. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Natty Dread (Tuff Gong/Island)
  4. Can - Soon Over Babaluma (Spoon/Mute)

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  5. Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions (RCA)
  6. Popol Vuh - Einsjager & Siebenjager (Kosmische/Ohr)
  7. Cluster - Zuckerzeit (Brain)
  8. Big Star - Radio City (Argent)
  9. Sweet - Sweet Fanny Adams (RCA)
  10. Hawkwind - Hall Of the Mountain Grill (UA/One Way)
  11. Sweet - Desolation Boulevard (RCA)
  12. Charles Mingus - Mingus at Carnegie Hall (Atlantic)
  13. Big Star - Sister Lovers (Aura)
  14. Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information (Epic/Luaka Bop)
  15. Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different (Just Sunshine/Light in the Attic)
  16. Funkadelic - Standing On the Verge Of Getting It On (Westbound)
  17. The Meters - Rejuvenation (Reprise)
  18. Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom (Thirsty Ear)
  19. Neil Young - On The Beach (Reprise)
  20. Heavy Metal Kids (Atlantic/Lemon)
  21. Cockney Rebel - Psychomodo (EMI)
  22. Roxy Music - Country Life (EG)
  23. David Bowie - Diamond Dogs (RCA)
  24. Fela Kuti - He Miss Road (Universal)
  25. Dennis Brown - Just Dennis (Trojan)
  26. Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel (Capitol)
  27. The Staple Singers - City In The Sky (Stax)
  28. Roy Harper - Valentine (Chrysalis)
  29. Ann Peebles - Can't Stand the Rain (Hi)
  30. Burning Spear - Creation Rebel: The Original Classics From Studio One 1970-74 (Studio One/Heartbeat)
  31. Delroy Wilson - Once Upon a Time: The Best of Delroy Wilson 1967-74 (Trojan)
  32. King Sunny Ade - The Best of the Classic Years 1967-74 (Shanachie)

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  33. Esther Phillips - Performance (Kudu)
  34. Chairmen Of The Board - Skin I'm In (Invictus)
  35. Curtis Mayfield - Sweet Exorcist (Curtom)
  36. Al Green - Explores Your Mind (Hi)
  37. Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla (RCA/Koch)
  38. Terry Callier - I Just Can't Help Myself (Cadet/Verve)
  39. Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado (Jet/Epic Legacy)
  40. Cecil Taylor - Silent Tongues (Arista)
  41. Magma - Wurdah Ďtah (Vertigo/Seventh)
  42. Robert Calvert - Captain Lockheed & The Star Fighters (UA/BGO)
  43. Klaus Schulze - Blackdance (Universal/SPV)
  44. Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark (Elektra/Asylum)
  45. Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight (Hannibal)
  46. Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale (Motown)
  47. King Crimson - Red (Atlantic)
  48. T. Rex - Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow (Mercury)
  49. Herbie Hancock - Thrust (Columbia)
  50. Kraftwerk - Autobahn (Philips)
  51. King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black (Atlantic)
  52. Heldon - Electronic Guerrilla (Cunneiform/Rune)
  53. Syreeta - Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta (Motown)
  54. Popol Vuh - Seligpreisung (Kosmische/Ohr)
  55. Laura Lee - I Can't Make It Alone (Hot Wax/Invictus)
  56. Miles Davis - Get Up With It (Columbia)
  57. Dennis Brown - Deep Down (Observer)
  58. Smokey Robinson - A Quiet Storm (Motown)
  59. Robert Palmer - Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley (Island)
  60. John Martyn - Sunday's Child (Island)
  61. Bob Seger - Seven (Capitol)
  62. Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus - Dadawah - Peace & Love (Trojan)
  63. Secos e Molhados (Continental)
  64. Cymande - Promised Heights (Janus/Sequel)
  65. Gene Clark - No Other (Line)
  66. Keith Hudson - Entering The Dragon (Magnet)
  67. Augustus Pablo - Ital Dub (Clock Tower/Get On Down)
  68. Randy Newman - Good Old Boys (Reprise)
  69. Raspberries - Starting Over (Capitol)
  70. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next (Mercury)
  71. Santana - Lotus (Columbia)
  72. Ry Cooder - Paradise and Lunch (Reprise)
  73. Nick Drake - Time Of No Reply 68-74 (Rykodisc)
  74. Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel (Reprise)
  75. Bill Withers - +'Justments (Sussex)
  76. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping (MCA)
  77. Etta James - Come A Little Closer (Chess)
  78. Betty Wright - Danger High Voltage (Alston)
  79. The J.B.'s - Breakin' Bread (Polydor)
  80. Big Star - Live (Rykodisc)
  81. John Cale - Fear (Island)
  82. Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Double Seven (Trojan)
  83. Jimmy Cliff - Struggling Man (Island)
  84. Millie Jackson - Caught Up (Southbound)
  85. Labelle – Nightbirds (Epic)
  86. Parliament - Up For The Down Stroke (Casablanca)
  87. Queen - Sheer Heart Attack (Elektra)
  88. Sparks - Kimono My House (Island)
  89. Sparks - Propaganda (Island)
  90. Budgie - In For The Kill! (MCA)
  91. Queen II (EMI/Hollywood)
  92. 10cc - Sheet Music (UK)
  93. UFO - Phenomenon (Chrysalis/EMI)
  94. Kiss (Casablanca/Mercury)
  95. Primevil - Smokin' Bats At Campton's (700 West/Radioactive)
  96. Curtis Mayfield - Got To Find A Way (Curtom)
  97. Guru Guru - Dance On The Flames (Atlantic)
  98. Harmonia - Live 1974 (Water)
  99. Be Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim (Harvest)
  100. Charles Mingus - Changes One (Atlantic)
  101. Charles Mingus - Changes Two (Atlantic)
  102. The Ohio Players - Orgams - The Very Best of the Westbound Years 72-74 (Westbound)

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  103. The Miracles - City Of Angels (Tamla/Hip-O)
  104. Leroy Hutson - Hutson (Curtom)
  105. Betty Wright - Danger High Voltage (Alston)
  106. Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (MCA)
  107. Magma - Köhntarkösz (Vertigo/Seventh)
  108. Mott The Hoople - The Hoople (Columbia)
  109. Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow (RCA)
  110. Eddie Kendricks - For You (Motown)
  111. Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky (Elektra)
  112. Syl Johnson - Diamond In The Rough (Hi)
  113. Sly & The Family Stone - Small Talk (Epic)
  114. The Commodores - Machine Gun (Motown)
  115. David Ruffin - Me N' Rock N' Roll Are Here To Stay (Motown)
  116. Don Covay - Hot Blood (Mercury)
  117. Rush (Mercury)
  118. Bad Company - Bad Co. (Swan Song)
  119. Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus - Nyahbinghi (Trojan)
  120. Thin Lizzy - Night Life (Deram)
  121. Supertramp - Crime of the Century (A&M)
  122. Gong - You (Radio Gnome Invisible Pt. 3) (Virgin)
  123. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - The Impossible Dream (Mercury)
  124. The Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse (Columbia)
  125. Ducks Deluxe (RCA)
  126. Buffalo - Only Want You For Your Body (Vertigo/Repertoire)
  127. Jobriath - Creatures Of The Street (Elektra)
  128. Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes - Tooth, Fang & Claw (Discreet/Bizarre Planet)
  129. Badfinger - Wish You Were Here (WB)
  130. Van Morrison - It's Too Late To Stop Now (WB)
  131. Tower Of Power - Urban Renewal (Columbia)
  132. Tower Of Power - Back To Oakland (Columbia)
  133. Bad Company (Swan Song)
  134. Junior Byles - Jordan (Trojan)
  135. The Soul Children - Friction (Stax)
  136. Nico - The End (Island)
  137. The Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock 'N' Roll (Virgin)
  138. Lou Bond (We Produce/Light In The Attic)
  139. The Isley Brothers - Live It Up (T-Neck)
  140. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Atlantic)
  141. Tom Waits - The Heart Of Saturday Night (Asylum)
  142. Johnnie Taylor - Super Taylor (Stax)
  143. John Cale, Eno, Nico - June 1, 1974 (Island)
  144. New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon (Mercury)
  145. Brigitte Fontaine - Je Ne Connais Pas Cet Homme (Saravah)
  146. Todd Rundgren - Todd (WB/Rhino)
  147. Bob Dylan - Before The Flood (Asylum)
  148. Leonard Cohen - New Skin for the Old Ceremony (Columbia)
  149. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (Virgin)
  150. Cosmic Jokers (Brain)
  151. The Soul Children – Friction (Stax)
  152. Flora Purim & Airto Moreia - 500 Miles High: At Montreux (Milestone)
  153. Chick Corea - Where Have I Known You Before? (Polydor)
  154. Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties (Columbia)
  155. Average White Band (Atlantic/Rhino)
  156. Witch - Lazy Bones!! (QDK Media)
  157. Beautiful Losers - Nobody Knows The Heaven (Lion)
  158. Jimmy Cliff - Music Maker (WB/Wounded Bird)
  159. Isaac Hayes - Truck Turner (Stax)
  160. Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller (Columbia)
  161. Lou Reed - Rock 'n' Roll Animal (RCA)
  162. Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance (RCA)
  163. Aerosmith - Get Your Wings (Columbia)
  164. John Lennon - Walls And Bridges (Capitol)

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  165. Isaac Hayes - Tough Guys (Stax)
  166. Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band - Unconditionally Guaranteed (Virgin/EMI)
  167. Kiss - Hotter Than Hell (Casablanca/Mercury)
  168. AC/DC - '74 Jailbreak (Atco)

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  169. Stooges - Rubber Legs (Fan Club)
  170. Suzi Quatro - Quatro (EMI/BGO)
  171. Boz Scaggs - Slow Dancer (Columbia)

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1973

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  1. Toots & the Maytals - Funky Kingston (Mango)
  2. Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets (EG)
  3. Al Green - Call Me (Hi)
  4. The Stooges - Raw Power (Columbia)
  5. Donald Byrd - Black Byrd (Blue Note)
  6. Harmonia - Music Von Harmonia (Brain)
  7. New York Dolls - New York Dolls (Mercury)
  8. David Bowie - Aladdin Sane (Rykodisc)
  9. Herbie Hancock - Sextant (Columbia)
  10. Pink Fairies - Kings Of Oblivion (Polydor)
  11. Can - Future Days (Spoon/Mute)
  12. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (Tamla)
  13. Joăo Gilberto (Polydor)
  14. Lee Perry & the Upsetters - Blackboard Jungle Dub (Upsetter/Trojan)

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  15. Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy (Atlantic)
  16. Lonnie Liston Smith - Astral Traveling (RCA)
  17. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Burnin' (Tuff Gong/Island)
  18. Esther Phillips - Black-Eyed Blues (Kudu)
  19. John Martyn - Solid Air (Island)
  20. Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle (Columbia)
  21. Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop (Westbound)
  22. Miles Davis - On The Corner (Columbia)
  23. Toots & the Maytals - In The Dark (Trojan)
  24. John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana - Love Devotion Surrender (Columbia)
  25. Donny Hathaway - Extension Of A Man (Atlantic)
  26. The Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire (Columbia)
  27. Fela Kuti - Gentleman (Universal)
  28. Serge Gainsbourg - Vu De L' Exterieur (Philips Fr)
  29. Jobriath (Elektra)
  30. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure (EG)
  31. Augustus Pablo - This Is Augustus Pablo (Kaya/Heartbeat)
  32. Larry Marshall - Presenting Larry Marshall 1968-73 (Heartbeat)
  33. Etta James (Chess/Hip-O Select)

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  34. Curtis Mayfield - Back To The World (Curtom)
  35. The Temptations - 1990 (Motown)
  36. Larry Harlow - Orchestra Harlow Hommy A Latin Opera (Fania)
  37. The Temptations - Masterpiece (Motown)
  38. Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds of the Western World (Deram)
  39. Buffalo - Volcanic Rock (Vertigo/Repertoire)
  40. Wishbone Ash - Wishbone Four (MCA)
  41. Granicus (RCA/Free)
  42. Betty Davis (Just Sunshine/Light in the Attic)
  43. Billy Paul - War Of The Gods (Philadelphia International/EMI)
  44. The Isley Brothers - 3 + 3 (T Neck)
  45. Sly & The Family Stone - Fresh (Epic)
  46. Augustus Pablo - This Is Augustus Pablo (Kaya/17 North Parade)
  47. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On (Motown)
  48. The Silvertones - Silver Bullets (Trojan)
  49. Eddie Kendricks (Motown)
  50. T. Rex - Tanx (Mercury/Repertoire)
  51. Bob Seger - Back In '72 (Capitol)
  52. Eddie Kendricks - Boogie Down (Motown)
  53. Roxy Music - Stranded (EG)
  54. Cockney Rebel - The Human Menagerie (EMI)
  55. Magma - Mekanďk Destruktďw Kommandöh (Vertigo/Seventh)
  56. John Cale - Paris 1919 (WB)
  57. Emitt Rhodes - Farewell To Paradise (A&M)
  58. Necromandus - Orexis Of Death (Vertigo/Rise Above)
  59. Zap Pow (Island)
  60. Herman Chin-Loy - Aquarius Rock (Pressure Sounds)
  61. Impact Allstars - Java Java Java Java (Impact!/VP)
  62. Neu! - Neu! 2 (Brain/Astralwerks)
  63. Gloria Jones - Share My Love (Reel/Universal)
  64. Cymande - Second Time Round (Janus/Sequel)
  65. Free - Heartbreaker (A&M/Island)
  66. Procol Harum - Grand Hotel (A&M)
  67. Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend (MCA)
  68. Queen (Elektra/Hollywood)
  69. Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters (Columbia)
  70. Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (WB)
  71. Alice Coltrane - Lord Of Lords (Impulse)
  72. John Martyn - Inside Out (Island)
  73. The Who - Quadrophenia (MCA)
  74. Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans (Atlantic)
  75. Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting (EG/Opal, Ltd.)
  76. Willie Tee - I'm Only A Man (Tuff City/Get On Down)
  77. Slapp Happy - Acnalbasac Noom (Cuneiform)
  78. Joe Henderson & Alice Coltrane - The Elements (Fantasy/OJC)
  79. Roy Harper - Lifemask (Resurgent)
  80. Kevin Coyne - Marjory Razorblade (Virgin)
  81. Faust - Faust IV (Virgin)
  82. Big Youth - Screaming Target (Trojan)
  83. Hawkwind - Space Ritual (UA/One Way)
  84. Al Green - Livin' For You (Hi)
  85. Mott The Hoople - Mott (Columbia)
  86. Bruce Springsteen - Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ (Columbia)
  87. Secos e Molhados (Continental)
  88. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd (MCA)
  89. The Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness And Eternity (Columbia)
  90. Little Feat - Dixie Chicken (WB)
  91. Ash Ra Tempel - Join Inn (Spalax)
  92. Gong - The Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Pt. 1) (Charly)
  93. Fela Kuti - Afrodisiac (Universal)
  94. Terry Reid - River (Water/Atlantic)
  95. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Black & Blue (Philadelphia International)
  96. King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic (Atlantic)
  97. Tom Zé - Todos Os Olhos (EW)
  98. Gentle Giant - In A Glass House (PolyGram)
  99. Johnnie Taylor - Taylored In Silk (Stax)
  100. Gladys Knight & The Pips - Imagination (Buddah)
  101. 24-Carat Black - Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth (Stax)
  102. Millie Jackson - Hurts So Good (Southbound)
  103. Silverhead - Sixteen And Savaged (MCA)
  104. Mickey Newbury - Heaven Help The Child (Elektra/Drag City)

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  105. Orquesta Harlow - Hommy: A Latin Opera (Fania)
  106. Eddie Palmieri - The Sun Of Latin Music (Coco/Charly)
  107. Montrose (WB)
  108. Cedric Im Brooks & The Divine Light - From Mento To Reggae To Third World Music (Doctor Bird/17 North Parade)
  109. Faust - The Faust Tapes (Cuneiform)
  110. Don Covay - Superdude (Mercury)
  111. Klaus Schulze - Cyborg (Ohr/Revisited)
  112. Amon Düül II - Vive la Trance (UA/Repertoire)
  113. ZZ Top - Tres Hombres (WB)
  114. Syl Johnson - Back for a Taste of Your Love (Hi)
  115. Guru Guru (Brain/Revisited)
  116. Guru Guru - Don't Call Us We Call You (Atlantic)
  117. Jane Birkin - Di Doo Dah (Fontana/Universal Fr)
  118. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (Harvest)
  119. Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstasy (MCA)
  120. Hard Stuff - Bolex Dementia (Mercury)
  121. Freda Payne – Reaching Out (HDH/Edsel)
  122. The Strawbs - Hero And Heroine (A&M)
  123. Suzi Quatro (EMI/BGO)
  124. The Staple Singers - Be What You Are (Stax)
  125. Yes - Yessongs (Atlantic)
  126. 10cc (UK)
  127. Neil Young - Time Fades Away (Reprise)
  128. Genesis - Selling England By The Pound (Atlantic)
  129. Jimmy Cliff - Unlimited (Island)
  130. Santana - Welcome (Columbia)
  131. Tower Of Power (Columbia)
  132. Kevin Ayers - Bananamour (Beat Goes On)
  133. Alice Cooper - Muscle Of Love (WB/Rhino)
  134. Tyrone Davis - Without You In My Life (Brunswick)
  135. The Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup (Rolling Stones)
  136. The Modern Lovers - Precise Modern Lovers Order (Rounder)
  137. Gram Parsons - GP (Reprise)
  138. Willie Hutch - The Mack (Motown)
  139. Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes - Call Of The Wild (Discreet/Bizarre Planet)
  140. Humble Pie - In Concert (King Biscuit)
  141. Jackson Browne - For Everyman (Elektra)
  142. Electric Light Orchestra - On The Third Day (Jet/Epic Legacy)
  143. Gram Parsons & the Fallen Angels - Live (Rhino)
  144. David Ruffin (Motown)
  145. John Lennon - Mind Games (Capitol)
  146. The O'Jays - Ship Ahoy (CBS)
  147. Barbara Mason - Give Me Your Love (Buddah)
  148. These Trails (Sinergia/Drag City)
  149. Tangerine Dream - Green Desert (Castle)
  150. David Bowie - Pin-Ups (RCA)
  151. Henry Cow - Legend (ESD)
  152. Weather Report - Sweetnighter (Columbia)
  153. Electric Light Orchestra - ELO II (Jet/Epic Legacy)
  154. Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (Atlantic)
  155. Raspberries - Side Three (Capitol)

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  156. Brinsley Schwarz - Please Don't Ever Change (EMI)
  157. Kraftwerk - Ralf And Florian (Philips)
  158. Black Nasty - Talking To The People (Stax)

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  1. The Modern Lovers (Beserkley/Rhino)
  2. The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St. (Rolling Stones)
  3. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly (Curtom)
  4. David Bowie - The Rise Of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars (RCA)
  5. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Clear Spot (Reprise)
  6. Roxy Music (Reprise)
  7. Nick Drake - Pink Moon (Island)
  8. Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You (Hi)
  9. Fela Kuti - Roforofo Fight (MCA)
  10. Junior Byles - Beat Down Babylon (Trojan)
  11. Yabby You - Conquering Lion (Prophets)
  12. Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come (Mango)
  13. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Catch A Fire (Tuff Gong/Island)
  14. Can - Ege Bamyasi (Spoon/Mute)

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  15. Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music (Columbia)
  16. Dave Holland Quartet - Conference Of The Birds (ECM)
  17. Herbie Hancock - Crossings (WB)
  18. Eddie Kendricks - People...Hold On (Motown)
  19. Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 (WB)
  20. Bill Withers - Still Bill (Sussex)
  21. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book (Tamla)
  22. Archie Shepp - Attica Blues (Impulse)
  23. Esther Phillips - From A Whisper To A Scream (Kudu)
  24. Terry Callier - What Color Is Love (Cadet/Verve)
  25. Neu! (Brain/Astralwerks)
  26. Guru Guru - Känguru (Brain/Universal)
  27. T. Rex - The Slider (Reprise)
  28. Bob Marley & the Wailers - African Herbsman (Trojan)
  29. Faust - So Far (Recommended)
  30. Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra (Kosmische Musik/SPV)
  31. Tangerine Dream - Zeit (Relativity)
  32. The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame (Columbia)
  33. Big Star - #1 Record (Argent)
  34. Tim Buckley - Greetings From L.A. (WB)
  35. Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen (Spalax)
  36. Esther Phillips - Alone Again, Naturally (Kudu)
  37. The Temptations - All Directions (Motown)
  38. Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace (Atlantic)
  39. Van Morrison - St. Dominic's Preview (WB)
  40. Ann Peebles - Straight From The Heart (Hi)
  41. Gilberto Gil - Expresso (Mercury)
  42. Fela Kuti - Shakara (EMI)
  43. Amon Düül II - Wolf City (UA/Repertoire)
  44. Alton Ellis - Soul Groover 1962-72 (Trojan)
  45. Stranger Cole - Bangarang: The Best Of Stranger Cole 1962-72 (Trojan)
  46. Highlife Time - Nigerian & Ghanaian Sound 1964-72 (Vampi Soul)
  47. John Holt - The Best Of John Holt 1967-72 (Trojan)

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  48. Night Sun - Mournin' (Zebra)
  49. Wishbone Ash - Argus (MCA)
  50. Terry Callier - Occasional Rain (Cadet/Verve)
  51. Joni Mitchell - For The Roses (Elektra/Asylum)
  52. Allen Toussaint - Life, Love and Faith (WB)
  53. Jerusalem (Deram/Decca)
  54. James Brown - There It Is (Polydor)
  55. Fontella Bass - Free (Paula/Fuel)
  56. Bobby Womack - Understanding (UA)
  57. O.V. Wright - Memphis Unlimited (Backbeat)
  58. Chairmen Of The Board - Bittersweet (Invictus)
  59. Arthur Verocai (Ubiquity/Luv N Haight)
  60. Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido (UA/One Way)
  61. Deep Purple - Machine Head (WB)
  62. Buffalo - Dead Forever... (Vertigo/Repertoire)
  63. Bang (Capitol)
  64. Hard Stuff - Bulletproof (Purple)
  65. Captain Beyond (Capricorn)
  66. November - 6:e (Sonet Grammofon)
  67. Exuma The Obeah Man - Snake (Kama Sutra)
  68. Tangerine Dream - Atem (Relativity)
  69. Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht (Ohr/Revisited)
  70. Cluster - Cluster II (Brain/Revisited)
  71. Amon Düül II - Carnival In Babylon (UA/Repertoire)
  72. The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari - Grounation (Ashanti/MRR)
  73. Cymande (Janus/Sequel)
  74. Bobby Charles (Bearsville/Rhino Handmade)
  75. David Ackles - American Gothic (Elektra)
  76. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - The Spotlight Kid (Reprise)
  77. Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes (Columbia)
  78. Art Ensemble of Chicago - Bap-Tizum (Atlantic/Koch)
  79. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (Philadelphia International)
  80. Syreeta (Motown)
  81. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Framed (Mercury)
  82. Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything (WB/Rhino)
  83. Parliament - Osmium/First Thangs 1970-1972 (Invictus)
  84. Tom Zé - Se O Caso a Chorar (EW)
  85. Funkadelic - America Eats Its Young (Westbound)
  86. Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill (MCA)
  87. Lyn Collins - Think (About It) (Polydor)
  88. Harry Nilsson - Son Of Schmilsson (RCA)
  89. The Meters - Cabbage Alley (Reprise)
  90. Lou Reed - Transformer (RCA)
  91. Silverhead (MCA)
  92. Gentle Giant - Octopus (PolyGram)
  93. Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes (WB)
  94. Stevie Wonder - Music Of My Mind (Tamla)
  95. Brigitte Fontaine (Saravah)
  96. Dr. John - Gumbo (Atco)
  97. The O'Jays - Back Stabbers (Philadelphia International)
  98. Sun Ra & his Arkestra - Space Is The Place (Blue Thumb)
  99. Focus III (Polydor)
  100. Lee Perry & the Upsetters - Cloak & Dagger (Trojan)
  101. Ornette Coleman - Broken Shadows (Columbia)
  102. Delroy Wilson - Greatest Hits w/ Bunny Lee (Jamaican Gold)
  103. The Isley Brothers - Brother, Brother, Brother (T-Neck)
  104. Brinsley Schwarz - Nervous On The Road (EMI/BGO)
  105. Billy Paul - 360 Degrees Of Billy Paul (Philadelphia International/Sony)
  106. Neil Young - Harvest (Reprise)
  107. Toad (Polydor)
  108. The Guess Who - Live At The Paramount (Buddha)
  109. Deep Purple - Made In Japan (EMI)
  110. Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa (Unidisc)
  111. Humble Pie - Smokin' (A&M)
  112. Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man (Motown)
  113. Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won (Atlantic)

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  114. The Temptations - Solid Rock (Motown)
  115. Gwen McCrae - Lay It On Me (Columbia/Reel)
  116. Yes - Close To The Edge (Atlantic)
  117. Bob Seger - Smokin' O.P.'s (Capitol)
  118. Chick Corea - Return To Forever (Polydor)
  119. Chick Corea - Light As A Feather (Polydor)
  120. Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday (Mercury)
  121. Budgie - Squawk (MCA)
  122. Millie Jackson (Spring)
  123. Arthur Alexander (WB)
  124. Morly Grey - The Only Truth (Sundazed)
  125. Otis Clay - Trying to Live My Life Without You (Hi)
  126. Poobah - Let Me In (Ripple)
  127. Steel Mill - Jewels Of The Forest (Green Eyed God) (Rise Above)
  128. Bang - Mother/Bow To The King (Capitol)
  129. Jacula - Tardo Pede in Magiam (Black Widow)
  130. The Staple Singers - Be Altitude: Respect Yourself (Stax)
  131. Honey Cone - Love, Peace And Soul (Hot Wax)
  132. Denise LaSalle - On The Loose (Westbound)
  133. Denise LaSalle - Trapped by a Thing Called Love (Westbound)
  134. The Heptones - Meet The New Generation! (Joe Gibbs/17 North Parade)
  135. Hard Stuff - Bullet Proof (Mercury)
  136. The Detroit Spinners – Spinners (Atlantic)
  137. Soft Machine - Fifth (CBS)
  138. Thin Lizzy - Shades Of A Blue Orphanage (Decca/Deram)
  139. Genesis - Foxtrot (Atlantic)
  140. Dust - Hard Attack (One Way)
  141. Manhattans - A Million To One (Deluxe)
  142. 100 Proof (Aged In Soul) - 100 Proof (Hot Wax)
  143. Tyrone Davis - I Had It All The Time (Brunswick)
  144. Santana - Caravanserai (Columbia)
  145. Alice Cooper - School's Out (WB)
  146. The Allman Brothers Band - Eat A Peach (Capricorn/Polydor)
  147. Kraftwerk 2 (Philips)
  148. Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards (Mercury)
  149. Groundhogs - Who Will Save The World? (UA/EMI)
  150. Pink Fairies - What A Bunch Of Sweeties (Polydor)
  151. Free - Free At Last (A&M)
  152. Townes Van Zandt - High, Low And In Between (EMI)
  153. War - The World Is A Ghetto (Avenue)
  154. Brinsley Schwarz - Silver Pistol (EMI)
  155. The Politicians - The Politicians Featuring McKinley Jackson (Hot Wax)
  156. Ry Cooder - Into the Purple Valley (Reprise)
  157. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick (Chrysalis)
  158. Electric Light Orchestra - No Answer (Jet/Epic Legacy)
  159. Yes - Fragile (Atlantic)
  160. Slade - Slayed? (Polydor/Salvo)
  161. Raspberries (Capitol)
  162. Raspberries - Fresh (Capitol)
  163. Van Dyke Parks - Discover America (WB)
  164. Sparks - A Woofer In Tweeter's Clothing (Bearsville)
  165. Sandy Denny - Sandy (A&M)
  166. Ry Cooder - Boomer's Story (Reprise)
  167. Lee Hazelwood - 13 (Smells Like)
  168. Rod Stewart - Never A Dull Moment (Mercury)
  169. Marcos Valle - Vento Sul (EMI)
  170. The Flatlanders - More A Legend Than A Band (Rounder)
  171. Gene Clark - Roadmaster (A&M)
  172. Emerson Lake & Palmer - Trilogy (Atlantic/Rhino)
  173. Gentle Giant - Three Friends (PolyGram)
  174. The Pharoahs - Awakening (Luv N' Haight)
  175. ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud (WB)
  176. The Residents - Meet the Residents (Ralph)
  177. Blue Öyster Cult - Blue Öyster Cult (Columbia)
  178. Weather Report - I Sing The Body Electric (Columbia)

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  179. The Impressions - Times Have Changed (Curtom)
  180. Scorpions - Lonesome Crow (Brain)
  181. Spirit - Time Circle 1968-1972 (Epic/Legacy)
  182. Townes Van Zandt - The Late, Great Townes Van Zandt (EMI)
  183. Loudon Wainright III - Album III (Columbia)
  184. John Lennon - Some Time In New York City (Capitol)

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    10

  1. Sly & the Family Stone - There's A Riot Going On (Epic)
  2. T. Rex - Electric Warrior (Reprise)
  3. David Bowie - Hunky Dory (RCA)
  4. Tim Buckley - Starsailor (Straight)
  5. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones)
  6. The Who - Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy (MCA)
  7. Rico - Trombone Man: Anthology 1961-71 (Trojan)

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  8. Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity (Impulse)
  9. Pharoah Sanders - Thembi (Impulse)
  10. Led Zeppelin IV (Atlantic)
  11. Bill Withers - Just As I Am (Sussex)
  12. Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi (WB)
  13. Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction (Columbia)
  14. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (Westbound)
  15. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality (WB)
  16. Roy Harper - Stormcock (Harvest/Science Friction)
  17. Janis Joplin - Pearl (Columbia)
  18. Curtis Mayfield - Roots (Curtom)
  19. Carla Bley and Paul Haines - Escalator Over The Hill (ECM)
  20. Ash Ra Tempel (Spalax)
  21. Can - Tago Mago (Spoon/Mute)
  22. The Temptations - Sky's The Limit (Motown)
  23. The Chi-Lites - (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People (Brunswick)
  24. Faust (Recommended)
  25. MC5 - High Time (Rhino/Atlantic)
  26. Lee Moses - Time And Place (Maple)
  27. The Doors - L.A. Woman (Elektra)
  28. Fela Kuti - Open & Close (Universal)
  29. Popol Vuh - In Den Gärten Pharaos (Pilz/Ohr)
  30. Al Green - Let's Stay Together (Hi)
  31. Joni Mitchell - Blue (Reprise)
  32. The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies (RCA/Rhino)
  33. Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness (Impulse!)
  34. Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy (Impulse!)
  35. Donny Hathaway (Atlantic)
  36. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson (Philips Fr)
  37. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle, Vol. 1 1968-71 (Fantasy)

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  38. Leaf Hound - Growers Of Mushroom (Decca)
  39. Lucifer's Friend (Universal)
  40. November - 2:a (Sonet Grammofon)
  41. The Who - Who's Next (MCA)
  42. Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (Island)
  43. Billy Paul - Going East (Philadelphia International/EMI)
  44. Flower Travellin' Band - Satori (Atlantic/Phoenix)
  45. Pink Fairies - Neverneverland (Polydor)
  46. Eddie Kendricks - All By Myself (Motown)
  47. Pharoah Sanders - Thembi (Impulse)
  48. Procol Harum - Broken Barricades (A&M)
  49. The Stylistics (Amherst)
  50. Hawkwind - In Search Of Space (UA/One Way)
  51. Blues Creation - Demon & Eleven Children (Blow-Up)
  52. The Flamin' Groovies - Teenage Head (Big Beat)
  53. Emitt Rhodes - Mirror (A&M)
  54. Gong - Camembert Electrique (Charly)
  55. Amon Düül II - Dance of the Lemmings (Liberty/Revisited)
  56. Guru Guru - Hinten (Brain/Spalax)
  57. Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey (WB)
  58. Wishbone Ash - Pilgrimage (MCA)
  59. Blackwater Park - Dirt Box (BASF/Spalax)
  60. Ann Peebles - Part Time Love (Hi)
  61. Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted And Black (Atlantic)
  62. Laura Lee - Women's Love Rights (Hot Wax)
  63. Margie Joseph - Makes A New Impression (Volt)
  64. David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name (Atlantic)
  65. Honey Cone - Sweet Replies (Hot Wax)
  66. McDonald And Giles (Virgin)
  67. Cluster - Cluster 71 (Philips/Captain Trip)
  68. Caravan - In The Land Of The Grey & Pink (London/Some Wax)
  69. Mott The Hoople - Brain Capers (Atlantic)
  70. Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story (Mercury)
  71. Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus (Atlantic)
  72. Exuma The Obeah Man - Do Wah Nanny (Kama Sutra)
  73. Groundhogs - Split (UA/EMI)
  74. Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes Of The Apocalypse (Atlantic)
  75. Comus - First Utterance (Dawn/Breathless)
  76. Sir Douglas Quintet - The Return of Doug Saldana (Smash/Acadia)
  77. Toots & The Maytals - Stoot Slatyam (Trojan)
  78. The Faces - A Nod Is A Wink . . . To A Blind Horse (WB)
  79. Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri (Relativity)
  80. Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself (Mercury/Sanctuary)
  81. Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts (Charisma/Caroline)
  82. Alice Cooper - Love It To Death (WB)
  83. Fela Kuti & Ginger Baker - Live! (Celluloid)
  84. Santana III (Columbia)
  85. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (Tamla)
  86. Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat (A&M)
  87. Johnnie Taylor - One Step Beyond (Stax)
  88. Dave & Ansel Collins - Double Barrel (RAS)
  89. Dr. John The Night Tripper - The Sun, Moon & Herbs (Wounded Bird)
  90. Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson (RCA)
  91. Alice Cooper - Killer (WB)
  92. Pierre Barouh - Ca Va, Ca Vient (Saravah Fr)
  93. Donovan - HMS Donovan (Epic/Beat Goes On)
  94. Humble Pie - Rock On (A&M)
  95. Rodriguez - Coming From Reality (Sussex/Light in the Attic)
  96. Kevin Ayers - Whatevershebringswesing (Beat Goes On)
  97. Soft Machine - Fourth (Columbia)
  98. Pink Floyd - Meddle (Capitol)
  99. Peter Hammill - Fool's Mate (Chrysalis/Blue Plate)
  100. Free - Free Live! (A&M/Island)
  101. Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction (Columbia)
  102. Genesis - Nursery Cryme (Atlantic)
  103. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle Vol. 2 1968-71 (Fantasy)
  104. The Gaylads - Over The Rainbow's End: Best Of The Gaylads 1968-71 (Trojan)
  105. Merry Clayton (Repertoire)
  106. Mickey Newbury - 'Frisco Mabel Joy (Elektra/Drag City)

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  107. Sparks (Bearsville)
  108. Budgie (MCA/Roadracer)
  109. Deep Purple - Fireball (WB)
  110. The Move - Message From The Country (EMI/Capital)
  111. Jethro Tull - Aqualung (Chrysalis)
  112. Jimmy Cliff - Another Cycle (Island)
  113. John Martyn - Bless The Weather (Island)
  114. Little Feat (WB)
  115. 100 Proof (Aged In Soul) - Somebody's Been Sleeping In My Bed (Hot Wax)
  116. MC5 - Babes In Arms 66-71 (ROIR)
  117. Sweet - Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be (RCA)
  118. Lee Perry & the Upsetters - Africa's Blood (Trojan)
  119. Thin Lizzy (Decca/Deram)
  120. The Faces - Long Player (WB)
  121. The Isley Brothers - Givin' It Back (Epic)
  122. Shuggie Otis - Freedom Flight (Epic)
  123. Dust (Akarma)
  124. Sir Lord Baltimore (Mercury)
  125. Charles Wright & the 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself (WB)
  126. Swamp Dogg - Rat On (Elektra)
  127. David Ruffin - David (Motown)
  128. Freda Payne – Contact (HDH/Edsel)
  129. Kraftwerk 1 (Philips)
  130. Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste (PolyGram)
  131. Tower Of Power - Bump City (Columbia)
  132. Charles Wright & the 103rd Street Rhythm Band - You're So Beautiful (WB)
  133. Uriah Heep - Salisbury (Mercury/Sanctuary)
  134. Cactus - One Way...Or Another (WB/Wounded Bird)
  135. The Residents - Santa Dog EP (Ralph)
  136. Isaac Hayes - Black Moses (Stax)
  137. John Lennon - Imagine (Apple)
  138. King Crimson - Islands (EG)
  139. Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride (Columbia)
  140. War - All Day Music (Avenue/Ryko)
  141. Sparks (Bearsville)
  142. Gene Clark - White Light (A&M)
  143. Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Love And Hate (Columbia)
  144. Jackie Mittoo - Wishbone (Summus/Light in the Attic)
  145. Marcos Valle - Garra (Odeon)
  146. The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East (PolyGram/Capricorn)
  147. John Prine - John Prine (Atlantic)
  148. Mott The Hoople - Wildlife (Atlantic)
  149. Badfinger - Straight Up (Capitol)

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  150. Bob Seger - Brand New Morning (Capitol)
  151. Edgar Broughton Band (BGO)
  152. The Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (Decca/Deram)

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    10

  1. The Stooges - Fun House (Elektra)
  2. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off Baby (Straight)
  3. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis (Curtom)
  4. Black Sabbath - Paranoid (WB)
  5. Van Morrison - Moondance (WB)
  6. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (Columbia)
  7. Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda (Impulse)
  8. Donny Hathaway - Everything Is Everything (Atlantic)

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  9. Amon Düül II - Yeti (Liberty/Revisited)
  10. The Maytals - Monkey Man (Trojan)
  11. Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (Reprise)
  12. Soft Machine - Third (CBS)
  13. Ahmad Jamal - The Awakening (Impulse)
  14. Black Sabbath (WB)
  15. Velvet Underground - Loaded (WB)
  16. Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You (Elektra)
  17. Tim Buckley - Lorca (Elektra)
  18. Lee Dorsey - Yes We Can (EMI)
  19. Led Zeppelin III (Atlantic)
  20. Alice Coltrane - Ptah the El Daoud (Impulse!)
  21. Emitt Rhodes (A&M)
  22. Wilson Pickett - In Philadelphia (Atlantic)
  23. O.V. Wright - A Nickel And A Nail And The Ace of Spades (Back Beat)
  24. The Maytals - From The Roots (Trojan)
  25. Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation (Sequel)
  26. Popol Vuh - Affenstunde (Tempel)
  27. Funkadelic - Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow (Westbound)
  28. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band (EMI)
  29. Deep Purple - In Rock (WB)
  30. David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World (RCA)
  31. Twink - Think Pink (Akarma)
  32. Brigitte Fontaine - Comme a la Radio (Saravah)
  33. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Soul Rebels (Trojan)
  34. Fela Kuti - Fela's London Scene (Makossa)
  35. Tim Buckley - Blue Afternoon (Straight)
  36. Al Green - Gets Next To You (Hi)
  37. The Bob Seger System - Mongrel (Capitol)
  38. The Maytals - Sweet And Dandy (Beverly's)
  39. Can - Soundtracks (Spoon/Mute)
  40. Herbie Hancock - Fat Albert Rotunda (WB)
  41. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (Island)
  42. Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon (Reprise)
  43. Wayne McGhie & The Sounds Of Joy (Light in the Attic)
  44. Bob Andy - Song Book (Studio One)
  45. Horace Andy - Skylarking (Trojan)
  46. Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson (Columbia)
  47. The Art Ensemble Of Chicago - With Fontella Bass (America)
  48. Free - Fire And Water (A&M/Island)
  49. Minnie Riperton - Come To My Garden (GRT/Varese)
  50. The Cables - What Kind Of World (Heartbeat)
  51. Clancy Eccles - Fatty Fatty 1967-70 (Trojan)

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  52. November - En Ny Tid Är Här (Sonet Grammofon)
  53. The Delfonics (Buddha)
  54. Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come (Mercury)
  55. The Groundhogs - Thank Christ For The Bomb (UA/EMI)
  56. The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack (Motown)
  57. Doris Duke - I'm A Loser (Canyon)
  58. Syl Johnson - Is It Because I'm Black? (Twinight)
  59. Os Mutantes - A Divina Comedia Ou Ando meio Desligado (Omplatten/Universal)
  60. Jorge Ben - Força Bruta (Philips/Dusty Groove America)
  61. Etta James - Losers Weepers (Kent)
  62. Roy Harper - Flat Baroque & Berserk (Harvest/Science Friction)
  63. Procol Harum - Home (A&M/Salvo)
  64. Rodriguez - Cold Fact (Sussex/Lightintheattic)
  65. The Meters - Struttin' (Josie)
  66. King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon (EG)
  67. James Brown - Sex Machine (Polydor)
  68. Mountain - Climbing! (Columbia)
  69. Santana - Abraxas (Columbia)
  70. Atomic Rooster - Atomic Roooster (Elektra)
  71. Willie Dixon - I Am The Blues (Columbia/Legacy)
  72. Van Morrison - His Band And the Street Choir (WB)
  73. The Who - Live At Leeds (MCA)
  74. Os Mutantes - Tecnicolor (Universal)
  75. Ernie K-Doe - Here Come The Girls! (Great American Music)
  76. Exuma The Obeah Man - Exuma (Mercury)
  77. Uriah Heep - Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble (Mercury)
  78. T. Rex (A&M)
  79. Hawkwind (UA/One Way)
  80. May Blitz (Vertigo)
  81. Edu Lobo - Sergio Mendes Presents Edu Lobo (A&M/Verve)
  82. Tyrannosaurus Rex - A Beard Of Stars (A&M)
  83. Joăo Donato - A Bad Donato (Universal)
  84. David Axelrod - Earth Rot (Capitol)
  85. Emerson Lake & Palmer (Atlantic)
  86. Baby Huey & The Babysitters - The Baby Huey Story: Living Legend (Water)
  87. John McLaughlin - Devotion (Restless)
  88. Randy Newman - 12 Songs (Reprise)
  89. Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman (A&M)
  90. Sir Douglas Quintet - Together After Five (Smash/Acadia)
  91. Otis Redding - Tell The Truth (Atlantic)
  92. Van Der Graaf Generator - H To He, Who Am The Only One (Charisma/Blue Plate)
  93. The Beatles - Let It Be (Apple)
  94. Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again I'd Do It Over You (London)
  95. Groundhogs - Thank Christ For The Bomb (UA/EMI)
  96. Miles Davis - Live-Evil (Columbia)
  97. Roberta Flack - Chapter Two (Atlanitc)
  98. Al Green - Al Green Is Blues (Motown)
  99. Tyrone Davis - Turn Back The Hands Of Time (Brunswick)
  100. Swamp Dogg - Total Destruction To Your Mind (Canyon)
  101. Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die (Island)
  102. Marie Queenie Lyons - Soul Fever (Vampi Soul)
  103. Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed and Delivered (Motown)
  104. Tin Tin (Atco)
  105. Syd Barrett - Barrett (EMI)
  106. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (Capitol/EMI)
  107. Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Soup (Cry Of Love) (Reprise)
  108. The Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Les stances Sophie (Boulogne)
  109. Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley (Mercury)
  110. The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya Ya's Out! (London/Abko)
  111. Exuma The Obeah Man - Exuma II (Mercury)
  112. Jimi Hendrix - Band Of Gypsys (Reprise)
  113. Ry Cooder (Reprise)
  114. Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Sings Newman (Buddha)
  115. Amon Düül I - Pardieswarts Duul (Spalax)
  116. Guru Guru - UFO (Brain/Ohr)
  117. MC5 - Back In the U.S.A. (Rhino/Atlantic)
  118. The Isley Brothers - Get Into Something (T-Neck/Epic)
  119. Jimmy Cliff - Wild World (Island)
  120. The Bonzo Dog Band - The Beast of the Bonzos (UA)
  121. Sun Ra & his Arkestra - My Brother The Wind Vol. 1 (Saturn)
  122. John McLaughlin - My Goals Beyond (Rykodisc)
  123. Esther Phillips - Burnin' (Atlantic)
  124. David Ackles - Subway To The Country (Elektra/Collectors Choice)
  125. The Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Certain Blacks (Do What They Wanna!) (Inner City)
  126. McCoy Tyner - Extensions (Blue Note)

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  127. Wishbone Ash (MCA)
  128. The Doors - Morrison Hotel (Elektra)
  129. Cactus (WB/Wounded Bird)
  130. Mayo Thompson - Corky's Debt To His Father (Drag City Revolution)
  131. The Pentangle - Cruel Sister (Sanctuary)
  132. Dr. John The Night Tripper - Remedies (Wounded Bird)
  133. Cat Stevens - Mona Bone Jakon (A&M)
  134. Serge Gainsbourg - Cannabis / Ce Sacre Grand-Pere (Universal Fr)
  135. Bloodrock (Capitol/Repertoire)
  136. Grand Funk Railraod - Grand Funk (Capitol)
  137. Grand Funk Railraod - Live Album (Capitol)
  138. Yes - Time And A Word (Atlantic)
  139. Merry Clayton - Gimme Shelter (Repertoire)
  140. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (Capitol)
  141. Family - A Song For Me (Castle)
  142. Alice Cooper - Easy Action (Straight/Bizarre)
  143. The Impressions - Check Out Your Mind! (Curtom)
  144. The Faces - First Step (Demon)
  145. Fairport Convention - Full House (Hannibal)
  146. Lee Hazelwood - Cowboy In Sweden (Smells Like)
  147. Mott The Hoople - Mad Shadows (Atlantic/Wounded Bird)
  148. The Flamin' Groovies - Flamingo (Ace/Big Beat)
  149. Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green (EMI)
  150. Derek & The Dominoes - Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (Polydor)
  151. War - Eric Burdon Declares War (Avenue)
  152. Lou Reed (RCA)
  153. Bob Dylan - New Morning (Columbia)
  154. The Kinks - Lola Versus the Powerman and the Moneygoround (Reprise)
  155. The Move - Looking On (Westside)
  156. Robert Wyatt - The End Of An Ear (Columbia)
  157. The Guess Who - American Woman (Buddha)
  158. Spirit - The Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus (Epic)
  159. The Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South (Capricorn/Polydor)
  160. The Equals - Best Of 66-70 (See For Miles)
  161. The Band - Stage Fright (Capitol)
  162. Honey Cone - Take Me With You (Hot Wax)
  163. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Because Is In Your Mind/Armpitrubber (Philips)
  164. Donovan - Open Road (Epic)
  165. Eugene McDaniels - Outlaw (Atlantic)
  166. Chicago - Chicago II (Columbia)
  167. Syd Barrett - Opel (1968-70) (Capitol)
  168. Charles Wright & the 103rd Street Rhythm Band - In The Jungle, Babe (WB)
  169. Nico - Desertshore (Reprise)
  170. Sonny Sharrock - Monkey-Pockie-Boo (BYG)
  171. Chick Corea - Early Circle (Blue Note)
  172. Sam Moore - Plenty Good Lovin' (EMI)
  173. Ornette Coleman - Friends And Neighbours (Flying Dutchman)

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  174. Steve Miller Band - Number Five (Capitol)
  175. Edgar Broughton Band - Sing Brother Sing (BGO)
  176. Frank Zappa - Weasels Ripped My Flesh (
  177. Badfinger - No Dice (Capitol)
  178. Harry Nilsson - The Point! (RCA)
  179. Grand Funk Railraod - Closer To Home (Capitol)
  180. Vanilla Fudge - Rock 'n' Roll (Atlantic/Sundazed)
  181. Grateful Dead - American Beauty (WB)
  182. ZZ Top - First Album (WB)
  183. King Crimson - Lizard (Atlantic)
  184. Lee Hazelwood - Cowboy In Sweden (Smells Like)

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  1. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (Reprise)
  2. The Velvet Underground (Verve)
  3. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (London)
  4. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way (Columbia)
  5. The Kinks - Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire) (Reprise)
  6. The Beatles - Abbey Road (Apple)
  7. Led Zeppelin II (Atlantic)
  8. Pharoah Sanders - Karma (Impulse!)
  9. John McLaughlin - Extrapolation (Polydor)
  10. Derrick Morgan - Moon Hop: Best of the Early Years 1960-69 (Trojan)

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  11. Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman (Vortex)
  12. Pharoah Sanders - Jewels Of Thought (Impulse)
  13. Amon Düül II - Phallus Dei (Liberty/Revisited)
  14. Funkadelic (Westbound)
  15. The Stooges (Elektra)
  16. Free (A&M/Island)
  17. MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (Elektra)
  18. Tim Buckley - Happy/Sad (Elektra)
  19. Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse!)
  20. Don Cherry - Mu (Actuel/Charly)
  21. Sly & the Family Stone - Stand! (Epic)
  22. Jimmy Cliff - Wonderful World, Beautiful People (Island/Trojan)
  23. The Tony Williams Lifetime - Emergency (Polydor)
  24. Euphoria - A Gift From Euphoria (Capitol)
  25. Velvet Underground - VU (Verve)
  26. Can - Monster Movie (Spoon/Mute)
  27. Velvet Underground - 1969 Live Vol. I & II (Mercury)
  28. The Upsetters - Return of Django (Trojan)
  29. Os Mutantes - Mutantes (Omplatten/Universal)
  30. Caetano Veloso (Philips)
  31. The Impressions - The Young Mods' Forgotten Story (Curtom)
  32. Jimmy Hughes - Something Special (Volt)
  33. The Meters - Look A-Py Py (Josie)
  34. Nico - The Marble Index (Elektra)
  35. Rico & The Rudies - Blow Your Horn (Trojan)
  36. David Axelrod - Songs Of Experience (Capitol)
  37. Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam (Sunspots)
  38. Slim Smith & The Uniques - The Best Of The Uniques 1967-69 (Trojan)
  39. Various - Nuggets 1965-1969 (Elektra)

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  40. Muddy Waters - Fathers And Sons (MCA)
  41. Procol Harum - A Salty Dog (A&M/Salvo)
  42. David Bowie - Space Oddity (Virgin)
  43. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Reprise)
  44. The Nice - Nice (Columbia/Sanctuary)
  45. Gilberto Gil (Philips)
  46. Jorge Ben (Philips/Dusty Groove)
  47. The Isley Brothers - It's Our Thing (T Neck)
  48. Jeff Beck - Beck-Ola (Epic)
  49. Betty Harris - Soul Perfection (Action)
  50. Candi Staton – I’m Just A Prisoner (Fame)
  51. Clarence Carter - The Dynamic Clarence Carter (Atlantic)
  52. The Temptations - Cloud Nine (Motown)
  53. The Who - Tommy (MCA)
  54. Dr. John The Night Tripper - Babylon (Wounded Bird)
  55. Scott Walker - Scott 4 (Fontana)
  56. Gal Costa (Philips)
  57. Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry (Columbia)
  58. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (EG)
  59. Blind Faith (Polydor)
  60. Randy Holden - Population II (Favorite)
  61. The Art Ensemble Of Chicago - People In Sorrow (Nessa)
  62. Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking (Hannibal)
  63. Miles Davis - Filles de Killimanjaro (Columbia)
  64. Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn (A&M)
  65. Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin (Virgin Fr)
  66. The Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Eda Wobu (JMY)
  67. Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs (EMI)
  68. The Meters - The Meters (Josie)
  69. The Soft Machine - Two (MCA/Big Beat)
  70. The Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino (Smash)
  71. The Zombies - The Singles Collection: As & Bs 1964-1969 (Big Beat)
  72. The Deviants - Deviants (Sire/Line)
  73. Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief (A&M)
  74. Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers (RCA)
  75. Jethro Tull - Stand (Chrysalis)
  76. The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace Of Sin (Reprise)
  77. The Band (Capitol)
  78. Tyrone Davis - Can I Change Your Mind (Brunswick)
  79. Steve Miller Band - Brave New World (Capitol)
  80. Brigitte Fontaine - Brigitte Fontaine Est . . . Folle (Saravah)
  81. Howard Tate - Reaction (Koch)
  82. Donovan - Barabajagal (Epic)
  83. Jack Bruce - Songs For A Tailor (PolyGram)
  84. The Pretty Things - Parachute (Harvest)
  85. Velvet Underground - Another View (Verve)
  86. Rod Stewart - The Rod Stewart Album (Mercury)
  87. David Ruffin - My Whole World Ended (Motown)
  88. Lee Perry & The Upsetters - The Upsetter (Trojan)
  89. Dave Barker Meets The Upsetters - Prisoner Of Love (Trojan)
  90. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (Straight/Rykodisc)
  91. The Isley Brothers - Brothers: Isley (Epic)
  92. Roberta Flack - First Take (Atlantic)
  93. Mott The Hoople (Atlantic)
  94. Terry Reid - Superlungs (EMI/Astralwerks)
  95. Mickey Newbury - Looks Like Rain (Elektra/Drag City)

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  96. Willie Colón - Cosa Nuestra (Código)
  97. Fairport Convention - What We Did on Our Holidays (Hannibal)
  98. The Pentangle - Basket Of Light (Sanctuary)
  99. Yes (Atlantic)
  100. Pink Floyd - Ummaguma (Capitol)
  101. Ten Years After - Stonedhenge (Deram)
  102. Edgar Broughton Band - Wasa Wasa (BGO)
  103. Ornette Coleman - New York Is Now! (Blue Note)
  104. Ornette Coleman - Love Call (Blue Note)
  105. Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two (A&M)
  106. The Guess Who - Canned Wheat (Buddha)
  107. Harry Nilsson - Harry (RCA)
  108. Van Der Graaf Generator - Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other (Charisma/Blue Plate)
  109. The Holy Modal Rounders - The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders (Elektra)
  110. The Nazz - Nazz Nazz (Rhino)
  111. The Youngbloods - Elephant Mountain (RCA)
  112. Alexander Spence - Oar (Sony/Sundazed)
  113. Silver Apples - Contact (TRC)
  114. The Move - Shazam (Westside)
  115. Jacula - In Cauda Semper Stat Venenum (Black Widow)
  116. Blue Cheer (Akarma)
  117. Emitt Rhodes - The American Dream (A&M)
  118. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul (Stax)
  119. John Cale - Vintage Violence (Columbia)
  120. Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis (Atlantic)
  121. David Ruffin - Feelin' Good (Motown)
  122. Aretha Franklin - Soul '69 (Atlantic)
  123. Scott Walker - Scott 3 (Fontana/Mercury)
  124. Leonard Cohen - Songs From A Room (Columbia)
  125. Cream - Strange Brew: Best Of (Polydor)
  126. Jimmy Ruffin - Ruff 'N Ready (Motown/Reel)
  127. Chick Corea - Is (Solid State)
  128. Chick Corea - Sundance (People)
  129. Dexter Gordon - Tower of Power (Prestige)
  130. Clarence Reid - Nobody But You Babe (Traffic/Tayster)
  131. Terry Reid - Superlungs (EMI/Astralwerks)
  132. Blue Cheer - New! Improved! Blue Cheer (Akarma)
  133. Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority (Columbia)
  134. Vanilla Fudge - Near The Beginning (Atlantic/Sundazed)

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  135. Albert Ayler Trio - Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe (Impulse)
  136. Kevin Ayers - Joy Of A Toy (BGO)
  137. Alice Cooper - Pretties For You (Straight/Bizarre)
  138. The Bob Seger System - Noah (Capitol)
  139. Gene Chandler - The Two Sides Of Gene Chandler (Brunswick/Demon)
  140. Herbie Hancock - The Prisoner (Blue Note)
  141. Steve Miller Band - Your Saving Grace (Capitol)
  142. The Bonzo Dog Band - Urban Spaceman (One Way)
  143. Plastic Ono Band - Live Peace In Toronto (Apple)
  144. The Grateful Dead - Live/Dead (WB)
  145. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - What That Is! (Phillips)
  146. The Bonzo Dog Band - Tadpoles (One Way)

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  147. The Bee Gees - Odessa (Polydor)
  148. The Doors - The Soft Parade (Elektra)
  149. Grand Funk Railroad - On Time (Capitol)
  150. The Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream (Decca/Deram)
  151. Dave Peel & the Lower East Side - Have A Marijuana (Elektra)
  152. The Turtles - Turtle Soup (White Whale)
  153. Roy Harper - Folkjokeopus (Griffin)
  154. The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World (RCA)

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  1. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (WB)
  2. The Beatles (Apple)
  3. Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now (Atlantic/Rhino)
  4. Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul (Atlantic)
  5. Desmond Dekker - Rudy Got Soul: The Early Beverley's Sessions 1963-68 (Trojan)

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  6. Peter Brötzmann - Machine Gun (FMP/Unheard Music)
  7. Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (Verve)
  8. Clarence Carter - This Is Clarence Carter (Atlantic)
  9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (Reprise)
  10. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet (London/Abko)
  11. Anthony Braxton - For Alto (Delmark)
  12. Led Zeppelin I (Atlantic)
  13. Caetano Veloso (Philips)
  14. The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society (Reprise)
  15. Tom Zé (Sony)
  16. Dr. John The Night Tripper - Gris-Gris (Atco/Rhino)
  17. Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band - Strictly Personal (Blue Thumb)
  18. Gilberto Gil (Philips)
  19. The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow (Harvest)
  20. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (Island)
  21. James Carr - A Man Needs A Woman (Kent/Ace)
  22. Solomon Burke - King Solomon (Atlantic)
  23. Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum (Philips)
  24. Serge Gainsbourg - Initials B.B. (Polygram)
  25. David Axelrod - Song Of Innocence (Capitol)
  26. Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples of the Moon for Electronic Music Synthesizer (Nonesuch)
  27. Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding (Columbia)
  28. Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly (A&M/Salvo)
  29. Sly & The Family Stone - Life (Epic)
  30. Etta James - Tell Mama (MCA/Chess)
  31. Otis Redding - The Immortal Otis Redding (Stax)
  32. O.V. Wright - Nucleus Of Soul (Back Beat)
  33. Wilson Pickett - The Midnight Mover (Atlantic)
  34. Percy Sledge - Take Time To Know Her (Atlantic)
  35. Various - Tropicalia: Ou Panis Et Circencis (Philips)

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  36. Os Mutantes (Omplatten/Universal)
  37. The Impressions - This Is My Country (Curtom)
  38. Otis Redding - The Dock Of The Bay (Stax)
  39. The Bob Seger System - Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (Capitol)
  40. Bobby Womack - Fly Me To The Moon (Minit)
  41. Solomon Burke - I Wish I Knew (Atlantic)
  42. Traffic (Island)
  43. Free - Tons Of Sobs (A&M/Island)
  44. Nara Leao (Philips)
  45. The Byrds - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (Columbia)
  46. Arthur Brown - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (Polydor)
  47. Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie & Clyde (Virgin Fr)
  48. The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (Hannibal)
  49. Harry Nilsson - Aerial Ballet (RCA)
  50. Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child (Blue Note)
  51. Archie Shepp - The Way Ahead (Impulse)
  52. Laura Nyro - Eli and the 13th Confesion (Columbia)
  53. Chico Buarque - Chico Buarque Vol. 3 (RGE)
  54. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live At Winterland (Rykodisc)
  55. Caravan (Verve)
  56. Miles Davis - Miles In The Sky (Columbia)
  57. Blue Cheer - Outsideinside (Philips)
  58. The Heptones - On Top (Studio One)
  59. Jimmy Cliff - Hard Road To Travel (Island)
  60. The Millennium - Begin (Columbia)
  61. Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again (Atco)
  62. Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation (RCA)
  63. Tomorrow (See For Miles)
  64. The Beau Brummels - Bradley's Barn (Edsel)
  65. The Band - Music From Big Pink (Capitol)
  66. Albert Ayler - New Grass (Impulse)
  67. Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (Immediate)
  68. David Ackles (Elektra)
  69. Syl Johnson - Dresses Too Short (Twinight)
  70. Johnnie Taylor - Who's Making Love... (Stax)
  71. The Soft Machine (MCA/Big Beat)
  72. The United States Of America (Edsel)
  73. The Zombies - Odyssey & Oracle (Big Beat)
  74. The Pentangle - Sweet Child (Sanctuary)
  75. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Special Occasion (Motown)
  76. Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band - I May Be Hungry But I Sure Ain't Weird (Sequel)
  77. Frank Zappa & the Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For the Money (Rykodisc)
  78. Kante Manfila & Sorry Bamba - Clash Mandingue (Oriki/Discograph)
  79. Albert Ayler Trio - New Grass (Impulse)
  80. The Yardbirds - Ultimate! (Rhino)
  81. Mitty Collier - Shades Of Mitty Collier: The Chess Singes 1961-68 (Chess/Ace)
  82. The Attack - About Time! The Definitive Mod-Pop Collection 1967-68 (RPM/Bangaruso)
  83. The Vagrants - I Can't Make A Friend 1965-1968 (Light In The Attic)
  84. Tim Buckley - Dream Letter, Live In London 1968 (Manifesto)

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  85. The Doors - Waiting For The Sun (Elektra/Rhino)
  86. Anthony Braxton - For Alto (Arista)
  87. Neil Young (Reprise)
  88. Gene Chandler - There Was A Time! (Brunswick)
  89. Ornette Coleman - Who's Crazy? (Atmosphere)
  90. The Pentangle (Sanctuary)
  91. The Deviants - Disposable (Sire/Captain Trip)
  92. Vanilla Fudge - The Beat Goes On (Atlantic/Sundazed)
  93. Francoise Hardy - Comment Te Dire Adieu (EMI Japan)
  94. Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (Blue Note)
  95. Sun Ra & his Arkestra - A Black Mass (Jihad)
  96. Sun Ra & his Arkestra - Continuation (Saturn)
  97. Steve Miller Band - Sailor (Capitol)
  98. The Move (Westside)
  99. Fairport Convention (Polydor)
  100. Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline (Columbia)
  101. Vanilla Fudge - Near The Beginning (Atlantic/Sundazed)
  102. Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band - Mirror Man (Buddah)
  103. Red Crayola - God Bless the Red Crayola & All Who Sail on Her (IA)
  104. Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets (Capitol)
  105. The Bonzo Dog Band - The Doughnuts in Grannys Greenhouse (Edsel)
  106. Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Leonard Cohen (Columbia)
  107. Silver Apples (TRC)
  108. Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Atco/Rhino)
  109. The Nazz (Rhino)
  110. The Flamin' Groovies - Supersnazz (CBS/Sundazed)
  111. The Chocolate Watchband - Inner Mystique (Sundazed)
  112. The Temptations - Live At The Copa (Motown)
  113. Steve Miller Band - Children of the Future (Capitol)

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  114. Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man (Epic)
  115. Iron Butterfly - Heavy (Atco/Rhino)
  116. Pink Floyd - More (Capitol)
  117. Scott Walker - Scott 2 (Fontana)
  118. Big Brother & the Holding Co. - Cheap Thrills (Columbia)
  119. Nico - Chelsea Girl (Verve)
  120. Les Fleur De Lys - Reflections (Blueprint)
  121. The Five Day Week Straw People (Saga)
  122. Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends (Columbia)
  123. Can - Delay (Spoon/Mute)
  124. Steve Miller Band - Children Of The Future (Capitol)
  125. Vanilla Fudge - Renaissance (Atlantic/Sundazed)
  126. The Fugs - It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest (Reprise/Wounded Bird)

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  127. Cream - Wheels Of Fire (Polydor)

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  1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? (Reprise)
  2. The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve)
  3. Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You (Atlantic)
  4. George Russell - Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature (Soul Note)
  5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love (Reprise)

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  6. James Carr - You Got My Mind Messed Up (Kent/Ace)
  7. Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid (Impulse)
  8. Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser (Columbia)
  9. Pink Floyd - The Piper At the Gates Of Dawn (Columbia)
  10. The Kinks - Something Else (Reprise)
  11. Wilson Pickett - The Sound Of Wilson Pickett (Atlantic)
  12. Irma Thomas - Something Good: The Muscle Shoals Sessions (Chess/MCA)
  13. Jimmy Hughes – Why Not Tonight? (Atco)
  14. The Doors - The Doors (Elektra)
  15. Love - Forever Changes (Elektra)
  16. Miles Davis - Nefertiti (Columbia)
  17. Sun Ra - Atlantis (Evidence)
  18. John Coltrane - Interstellar Space (Impulse)
  19. Albert Ayler Trio - Love Cry (Impulse)
  20. Archie Shepp - Magic Of Ju-Ju (Impulse)
  21. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe As Milk (Buddha)
  22. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol)
  23. The Beatles - The Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol)
  24. The Pretty Things - Get A Buzz: Best of the Fontana Years 64-67 (Fontana)
  25. Harry Nilsson - Pandemonium Shadow Show (RCA)
  26. John Coltrane - Stellar Regions (Impulse)
  27. John Coltrane - Expression (Impulse)

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  28. The Doors - Strange Days (Elektra)
  29. Miles Davis - Sorcerer (Columbia)
  30. Small Faces - There Are But Four Small Faces (Immediate)
  31. Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle (WB)
  32. Etta James - Call My Name (Kent)
  33. Traffic - Mr. Fantasy/Heaven Is In Your Mind (Island)
  34. Sam & Dave - Soul Men (Atlantic)
  35. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Make It Happen (Motown)
  36. The Temptations - With A Lot O' Soul (Motown)
  37. Percy Sledge - The Percy Sledge Way (Atlantic)
  38. Moby Grape (Columbia/Sundazed)
  39. The Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons (London/Abko)
  40. Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign (Stax)
  41. Nirvana - The Story Of Simon Simopath (Island)
  42. The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Magesty's Request (London/Abko)
  43. The Who - The Who Sell Out (MCA)
  44. Sly & the Family Stone - Dance To The Music (Epic)
  45. Aretha Franklin - Aretha Arrives (Atlantic/Rhino)
  46. Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxter's (RCA)
  47. Gilberto Gil - Louvao (Philips)
  48. James Brown - Live At the Apollo (Polydor)
  49. Donovan - A Gift From A Flower To A Garden (Epic)
  50. McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy (Blue Note)
  51. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Jimi Plays Monterey (Reprise)
  52. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Radio One (Rykodisc)
  53. The Beau Brummels - Triangle (Warner)
  54. Gene Chandler - The Girl Don't Care (Brunswick)
  55. Darrell Banks - Darrell Banks Is Here! (Atco)
  56. The Action - Action Packed 1965-67 (Edsel)
  57. Red Crayola - Parable of Arable Land (IA)
  58. Otis Redding - Love Man (Atlantic/Rhino)
  59. Albert Ayler - Love Cry (Impulse)
  60. Otis Redding - Tell The Truth (Atlantic)

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  61. Donovan - Mellow Yellow (Epic)
  62. The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday (Columbia)
  63. Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes (Columbia)
  64. The Litter - Distortions (Warick)
  65. Vanilla Fudge (Atlantic/Sundazed)
  66. Oscar Toney Jr. For Your Precious Love (Bell)
  67. Love - Da Capo (Elektra)
  68. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (RCA)
  69. Brigitte Bardot - Brigitte Bardot Show (Universal/AZ Fr)
  70. Aretha Franklin - Take It Like You Give It (Columbia)
  71. Astrud Gilberto - Beach Samba (Verve)
  72. The Chambers Brothers - The Time Has Come (Columbia)
  73. The Electric Prunes - Underground (Collectors' Choice)
  74. The Chocolate Watchband - No Way Out (Sundazed)
  75. Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints (UNI)
  76. Caetano Veloso e Gal Costa - Domingo (Mercury)
  77. The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers (Columbia)
  78. Otis Redding - In Person At The Whisky-A-Go-Go (Atco/Stax)
  79. Otis Redding - Live In Europe (Atlantic)
  80. Tim Buckley - Goodbye And Hello (Elektra)
  81. The Incredible String Band - 5000 Spirits of the Layers of the Onion (Hannibal)
  82. The Pretty Things - Emotions (Fontana)
  83. The Smoke - My Friend Jack (Retroactive)
  84. Lee Hazelwood - Hazelwoodism: Its Cause And Cure (Smells Like)
  85. Otis Redding & Carla Thomas - King & Queen (Stax/Atlantic)
  86. The Deviants - Ptooff! (Underground Impressarios)
  87. Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails (Capitol)
  88. David Montague and Guy Mascolo - Five Day Week Straw People (Akarma)

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  89. The Electric Prunes - The Electric Prunes (I Had Too Much to Dream) (Collectors)
  90. Strawberry Alarm Clock - Wake Up?It's Tomorrow (UNI)
  91. The Youngbloods (Edsel)
  92. Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy (Rykodisc)
  93. Scott Walker - Scott (Fontana)
  94. The Bonzo Dog Band - Gorilla (BGO)
  95. Van Morrison - The Bang Masters (Epic/Legacy)

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  96. Dave Peel & the Lower East Side - The Pope Smokes Dope (Elektra)
  97. The Young Rascals - Groovin' (WB)

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1966

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  1. The Beatles - Revolver (Capitol)
  2. Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde (Columbia)
  3. Otis Redding - Complete & Unbelievable: Dictionary Of Soul (Stax)
  4. Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures (Blue Note)
  5. Nina Simone - Wild Is The Wind (Four Women) (Philips)

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  6. Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman (Atlantic)
  7. Albert Ayler - Live In Greenwich Village (Impulse)
  8. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (Capitol)
  9. The Rolling Stones - Aftermath (London/Abko)
  10. The Kinks - Face To Face (Reprise/ESM)
  11. Don Cherry - Symphony For Improvisers (Blue Note)
  12. Duke Ellington - Far East Suite (Bluebird/BMG)
  13. Nina Simone - Nina Simone Sings The Blues (RCA)
  14. Hank Mobley - Straight No Filter (Blue Note)
  15. John Coltrane - Coltrane Live At The Village Vanguard Again! (Impulse)
  16. Miles Davis - Miles Smiles (Columbia)
  17. Archie Shepp - Mama Too Tight (Impulse)
  18. Small Faces (Polygram)
  19. The Animals - Animalisms (Repertoire/Decca)
  20. The Yardbirds - Roger The Engineer (Columbia/Edsel)
  21. Them - Them Again (Decca/Deram)
  22. Nina Simone - Let It All Out (Philips)
  23. Nina Simone - High Priestess Of Soul (Philips)
  24. The Monks - Black Monk Time (Repertoire)
  25. Sly & The Family Stone - A Whole New Thing (Epic)
  26. The Shadows Of Knight - Back Door Men (Dunwich/Sundazed)
  27. The Pretty Things - Get The Picture (Fontana)
  28. The Who - A Quick One (Happy Jack) (MCA)
  29. Justin Hinds & The Dominoes - Ska Uprising 1963-66 (Trojan)

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  30. Otis Redding - The Soul Album (Stax)
  31. Percy Sledge - Warm & Tender Soul (Atlantic)
  32. Wilson Pickett - The Exciting Wilson Pickett (Atlantic)
  33. The 13th Floor Elevators - Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (IA/Charly)
  34. Don Covay - See Saw (Atlantic)
  35. Howard Tate - Get It While You Can (Verve)
  36. Wilson Pickett - The Wicked Pickett (Atlantic)
  37. Sonny Rollins - East Broadway Run Down (Impulse!)
  38. Sun Ra & his Arkestra - Monorails And Satellites Vols. I & II (Evidence)
  39. Birds - The Collectors' Guide To Rare British Birds (Deram)
  40. Blues Magoos - Psychedelic Lollipop (Mercury)
  41. Howard Tate - Get It While You Can (Verve)
  42. Little Willie John - Nineteen Sixty Six (The David Axelrod/H.B. Barnum Sessions) (Kent)
  43. Donovan - Sunshine Superman (Pye)
  44. The Byrds - Fifth Dimension (Columbia)
  45. Aretha Franklin - Soul Sister (Columbia)
  46. The Sonics - Boom (Etiquette/Big Beat)
  47. The Seeds (GNP Crescendo)
  48. The Fugs - Fugs II (ESP)
  49. Martha & the Vandellas - Watchout! (Motown)
  50. Sonny Rollins - Alfie (Impulse!)
  51. The Sonics - Introducing The Sonics (Jerden/Sundazed)
  52. Cecil Taylor - Conquistador! (Blue Note)
  53. Geno Washington And The Ram Jam Band - Hand Clappin', Foot Stompin', Funky- Butt . . . Live! (Piccadilly)
  54. The Shadows Of Knight - Gloria (Dunwich/Sundazed)
  55. The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn! (Columbia)
  56. The Maytals - The Sensational Maytals (Doctor Bird)

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  57. The Temptations - Gettin' Ready (Motown)
  58. The Isley Brothers - This Old Heart Of Mine (Motown)
  59. Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free (Rykodisc)
  60. The Leaves - Hey Joe (One Way)
  61. Chris Kenner - Land Of 1000 Dances (Atlantic)
  62. Love (Elektra)
  63. The Seeds - A Web Of Sound (GNP Crescendo)
  64. The Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me (Capitol)
  65. ? And The Mysterians - 96 Tears (Cameo)
  66. The Seeds (GNP)
  67. Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (Columbia)
  68. Lee Hazelwood - Sings Friday's Child
  69. Eric Burdon & the Animals - Eric Is Here (MGM)
  70. Georgie Fame - Mod Classics 1964-66 (BGP)
  71. Tim Buckley - Tim Buckley (Elektra)

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  72. The Blues Project - Projections (Verve)
  73. Godz - Contact High With The Godz (ESP) (IA)
  74. The Troggs - From Nowhere (Fontana)
  75. Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence (Columbia)

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1965

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  1. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (Impulse!)
  2. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia)
  3. The Who - My Generation (MCA)
  4. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home (Columbia)
  5. John Coltrane - First Meditations (For Quartet) (Impulse)
  6. John Coltrane - Transition (Impulse)
  7. John Coltrane - Meditations (Impulse)

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  8. John Coltrane - Ascension (Impulse)
  9. Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (Stax)
  10. Grant Green - Idle Moments (Blue Note)
  11. The Beatles - Rubber Soul (Capitol)
  12. The Beatles - Help! (Capitol)
  13. John Coltrane - The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (Impulse)
  14. John Coltrane - Sun Ship (Impulse)
  15. Sun Ra & his Arkestra - The Magic City (Saturn)
  16. The Rolling Stones - Now! (London/Abko)
  17. The Rolling Stones - Out Of Our Heads (London/Abko)
  18. The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics! (Etiquette/Big Beat)
  19. Them - The Angry Young Them (Decca/Deram)
  20. Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1 (ESP)
  21. Miles Davis - E.S.P. (Columbia)
  22. Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 2 (ESP)
  23. Archie Shepp - Fire Music (Impulse)
  24. Albert Ayler Trio - Spirits Rejoice (ESP)
  25. Otis Redding - The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads (Stax/Atlantic)
  26. Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You (Philips)
  27. Nina Simone - Pastel Blues (Philips)
  28. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage (Blue Note)
  29. Albert Ayler - Spirits Rejoice (ESP)
  30. The Animals - Complete Animals 1964-1965 (EMI)

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  31. Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues (Delmark)
  32. The Rolling Stones - December's Children (And Everybody's) (London/Abko)
  33. Archie Shepp - On This Night (Impulse)
  34. Albert Ayler - Bells (ESP)
  35. John Coltrane - Om (Impulse)
  36. O.V. Wright - If It's Only for Tonight/Eight Men, Four Women (Backbeat/MCA)
  37. Albert Ayler Trio - Bells (ESP)
  38. The Pretty Things (Fontana)
  39. Miles Davis - Highlights From The Plugged Nickel (Columbia)
  40. Larry Young - Unity (Blue Note)
  41. Ornette Coleman - At The Golden Circle Vols. 1 & 2 (Blue Note)
  42. The Beach Boys - Today! (Capitol)
  43. The Kinks - The Kink Kontroversy (Pye/ESM)
  44. The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man (Columbia)
  45. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Going To A Go-Go (Motown)
  46. Bert Jansch (Transatlantic/Demon)
  47. The Maytals - The Sensational Maytals (Doctor Bird/17 North Parade)
  48. Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run the Game (Columbia/Castle/Sanctuary)
  49. Stan Getz - Focus (Verve)

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  50. John Coltrane - Kalu Se Mama (Impulse)
  51. John Coltrane - Selflessness (Impulse)
  52. John Coltrane - Live In Seattle (Impulse)
  53. Martha & the Vandellas - Dance Party (Motown)
  54. Donovan - Catch The Wind (Castle)
  55. The Kinks - Kinda Kinks (Pye/ESM)
  56. The Beau Brummels - Vol. 2 (Sundazed)
  57. Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band - The Legendary A&M Sessions (A&M)
  58. The Beach Boys - Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) (Capitol)
  59. Donovan - Fairytale (Castle)
  60. The Yardbirds - Having A Rave Up With The Yardbirds (Epic)

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  61. The Fugs - Virgin Fugs (ESP)
  62. The Barbarians - Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl? (One Way)
  63. The Beau Brummels - Introducing The Beau Brummels (Sundazed)
  64. The Fugs - The First Fugs Album (ESP)
  65. The Yardbirds - For Your Love (Epic)

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1949-1964

The albums below are hardly representative of all good music from 1949-1965. The list is restricted to LPs, which were introduced by Columbia Records in 1948 to replace 78s. The 33-1/3 RPM "microgroove" records (named for the narrower grooves that required a smaller stylus) changed the way music was heard, and conceptualized. They were issued in 10" format until the mid-50s, when they graduated to 12". Another concurrent post-war innovation improved sound quality in recordings by switching from gramophone recording to 1/4" magnetic tape recording.

Better sound and longer playing time shifted the emphasis from single three minute tunes to longer playing times. But because RCA Victor introduced the 7" 45 RPM records in 1949, pop music, blues, country and rock 'n' roll still focused on the single song format. So largely the only genre that really sunk its teeth into the LP as an artform unto itself before 1965 was jazz. Hence, below you'll find mostly jazz. The best of other genres are better represented by CD compilations, listed in the Other Lists section.

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  1. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (Impulse!) 63
  2. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue (Columbia) 59
  3. Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch! (Prestige) 64
  4. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things (Atlantic) 60
  5. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah-Um (Columbia) 59
  6. Bobby Bland - Two Steps From the Blues (MCA) 61
  7. Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come (Atlantic) 59
  8. Sam Cooke - Night Beat (Abko) 63
  9. Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity (ESP) 64
  10. Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti (Freedom) 62
  11. John Coltrane - Crescent (Impulse) 64
  12. Oliver Nelson - The Blues And The Abstract Truth (Impulse) 61
  13. John Coltrane - Giant Steps (Atlantic) 59
  14. John Coltrane - Ole Coltrane (Atlantic) 61
  15. The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (Capitol) 64
  16. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus (Prestige) 56
  17. Charles Mingus - New Tijuana Moods (Bluebird) 57
  18. The Beatles - Please Please Me (Capitol) 63
  19. Bob Dylan - Another Side Of Bob Dylan (Columbia) 64
  20. The Beatles - With The Beatles (Capitol) 63
  21. Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus (Atlantic) 56
  22. Joáo Gilberto - Chega de Saudade (Capitol) 59
  23. John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues (Atlantic) 60
  24. Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners (Riverside) 56
  25. Donald Byrd - A New Perspective (Blue Note) 63
  26. Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz (Atlantic) 60
  27. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (Columbia) 63
  28. Tito Puente - Puente In Love (Tico) 59
  29. Joáo Gilberto - O Amor, O Sorriso e a Flor (Capitol) 60
  30. Joáo Gilberto (Capitol) 61
  31. Charles Mingus - Mingus At Antibes (Atlantic) 60
  32. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out (Columbia) 59

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  33. Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Impulse) 63
  34. John Coltrane - Blue Train (Blue Note) 57
  35. Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah (Atlantic) 61
  36. Jackie McLean - Destination Out! (Blue Note) 63
  37. Charles Mingus - Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Candid) 60
  38. Charles Mingus - Town Hall Concert (Jazz Workshop/OJC) 64
  39. The Horace Silver Quintet - Song for My Father (Blue Note) 64
  40. Hank Mobley - Soul Station (Blue Note) 60
  41. Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown (Verve) 54
  42. Dizzy Gillespie - At Newport (Verve) 57
  43. Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin' (Blue Note) 58
  44. Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder (Blue Note) 63
  45. Andrew Hill - Point Of Departure (Blue Note) 64
  46. Joe Henderson - Page One (Blue Note) 63
  47. Anita O'Day - Anita Sings the Most (Verve) 56
  48. Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain (Columbia) 60
  49. Miles Davis - Round About Midnight (Columbia) 56
  50. Stan Getz/Joáo Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim (Verve) 63
  51. Sun Ra - Other Planes of There (Evidence) 64
  52. Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport (Columbia) 56
  53. Johnny Guitar Watson - Gangster of Love (King) 58
  54. Lightnin' Hopkins (Smithsonian) 59
  55. Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land (Blue Note) 64
  56. Sonny Rollins - Way Out West (Contemporary) 57
  57. Ornette Coleman - Change Of The Century (Atlantic) 59
  58. Tito Puente - Cuban Carnival (RCA) 55
  59. Tito Puente - Top Percussion (RCA) 57
  60. Etta James - At Last (Chess) 61
  61. Joáo Gilberto - Brazil's Brilliant (Capitol) 60
  62. John Coltrane - Ballads (Impulse) 61
  63. Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off (Blue Note) 62
  64. Miles Davis - Birth Of The Cool (Capitol) 50
  65. John Coltrane - Africa/Brass (Impulse) 61
  66. Charles Mingus - The Great Concert, 1964 (Musidisc) 64
  67. Duke Ellington with Max Roach and Charles Mingus - Money Jungle (Blue Note) 62
  68. Martin Denny - Hypnotique (Liberty) 58
  69. Johnny Burnette - Rock 'n' Roll Trio (Coral) 56
  70. Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'N' Roll Trio (Coral) 57
  71. Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars - Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (Columbia) 54
  72. George Russell - New York, N.Y. (Decca) 59
  73. Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil (Blue Note) 64
  74. Sun Ra - Jazz In Silhouette (Evidence) 58
  75. Ray Charles (Atlantic) 57
  76. Serge Gainsbourg - Du Chant a la Une (Philips/Polygram) 58
  77. Ray Charles - The Genius Of Ray Charles (Atlantic) 59
  78. The Rolling Stones - 12 X 5 (Abko) 64
  79. Jerry Lee Lewis (Sun) 57
  80. Buddy Holly - The Chirping Crickets (MCA) 57
  81. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Moanin' (Blue Note) 58
  82. Ornette Coleman - This Is Our Music (Atlantic) 59
  83. Ornette Coleman - The Art Of The Improvisers (Atlantic) 60
  84. Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry Is on Top (Chess) 59
  85. George Russell - Jazz Workshop (Bluebird) 56
  86. Bill Evans Trio - Waltz For Debby (Riverside/OJC) 61
  87. Elvis Presley (RCA Victor) 56
  88. Tito Puente - Dance Mania (RCA) 58
  89. Harry Belafonte - Calypso (RCA Victor) 56
  90. Erroll Garner - Concert By the Sea (Columbia) 55
  91. John Coltrane - Coltrane (Impulse) 62
  92. George Russell - Ezz-thetics (Riverside) 61
  93. Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman (London) 64
  94. Sonny Rollins - A Night At The Village Vanguard, Vol. 2 (Blue Note) 57
  95. Thelonious Monk - Misterioso (Riverside) 58
  96. Jacques Brel - Jacques Brel, Vol. 6 (Barclay) 64
  97. Sabu - Palo Congo (Blue Note) 57
  98. The Gil Evans Orchestra - Out of the Cool (Impulse!) 60
  99. Solomon Burke - Rock 'n' Soul (Atlantic) 64
  100. Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame (Blue Note) 60
  101. Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring (Blue Note) 62
  102. Charlie Parker - Bird And Diz (Verve) 50
  103. King Curtis - Soul Serenade (Capitol) 64
  104. Jimmy Smith - The Sermon! (Blue Note) 58
  105. Wayne Shorter - Juju (Blue Note) 64
  106. Donald Byrd - Off To The Races (Blue Note) 58
  107. Hank Mobley - Roll Call (Blue Note) 60
  108. Dizzy Gillespie - The Champ (Savoy) 53
  109. Modern Jazz Quartet - Django (Prestige/OJC) 55
  110. Lee Konitz - Subconscious-Lee (Prestige/OJC) 50
  111. Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (ABC) 62
  112. Major Lance - Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um (Okeh) 64
  113. Bobby Bland - Call On Me (Duke) 63
  114. Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News (RCA) 64
  115. Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin' (Columbia) 64
  116. Johnny Cash - Bitter Tears (Ballads of the American Indian) (Columbia) 64
  117. Jimmy Hughes - Steal Away (Vee Jay) 64
  118. Sam Cooke - Mr. Soul (RCA) 63
  119. The Impressions (Paramount) 63
  120. The Louvin Brothers - Satan Is Real (Capitol) 60
  121. Sarah Vaughan - In the Land of Hi-Fi (Emarcy) 55
  122. Sarah Vaughan - Swingin' Easy (Trip/Emarcy) 54
  123. Johnny Guitar Watson (King) 63
  124. Django Reinhardt - The Great Artistry of Django Reinhardt (Clef) 54
  125. Little Willie John - Fever (King) 56
  126. Wanda Jackson - Rockin' With Wanda (Capitol) 60
  127. Gene Vincent - Bluejean Bop! (Capitol) 56
  128. Larry Williams - Here's Larry Williams (Specialty) 59
  129. John Coltrane - John Coltrane With Johnny Hartman (Impulse) 63
  130. Thelonious Monk - Thelonious With John Coltrane (Riverside) 57
  131. Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dreamm (Columbia) 63
  132. T-Bone Walker - I Get So Weary (Imperial) 61
  133. T-Bone Walker - Great Blues Vocals and Guitar (Capitol) 63
  134. Muddy Waters - Folk Singer (Chess) 64
  135. Django Reinhardt - Django Reinhardt et Ses Rythmes (Blue Star) 53
  136. Count Basie - Count Basie Swings -- Joe Williams Sings (Verve) 55
  137. Tito Puente - Tambo (RCA) 60
  138. Cal Tjader - Latin Kick (Fantasy) 56
  139. Wanda Jackson (Capitol) 58
  140. Hank Williams - Hank Williams Sings (MGM) 52
  141. Ernest Tubb - The Daddy Of 'Em All (Decca) 57
  142. Dizzy Gillespie - New Wave (Philips) 62
  143. Dizzy Gillespie - Something Old, Something New (Philips) 63
  144. The Miracles - Hi, We're The Miracles (Motown) 61
  145. Duke Ellington - Ellington Uptown (Columbia) 53
  146. Fats Domino - The Fabulous Mr. D (Imperial) 58
  147. Harry Belafonte - Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (RCA Victor) 59
  148. John Coltrane - Impressions (Impulse) 63
  149. John Coltrane - Coltrane Live At Birdland (Impulse) 63
  150. Dizzy Gillespie with Roy Eldridge (Verve) 54
  151. Johnny Hartman - I Just Dropped By To Say Hello (Impulse) 63
  152. Yma Sumac - Mambo (Capitol) 55
  153. Little Richard - Here's Little Richard (Specialty) 57
  154. Albert Ayler - Prophesy (ESP) 64
  155. Count Basie - Atomic Mr. Basie (Roulette) 57
  156. Muddy Waters - At Newport (Chess) 60
  157. Jacques Brel - Jacques Brel 1 (Jacques Brel et Ses Chansons) (Philips) 55
  158. Joao Gilberto - Gilberto and Jobim (Capitol) 60
  159. Elvis Presley - Elvis (RCA Victor) 56
  160. Patsy Cline (MCA) 57
  161. Willie Bobo - Bobo's Beat (Blue Note) 63
  162. Sarah Vaughan - No Count Sarah (Polygram) 58
  163. James Brown - Live At The Apollo (Polydor) 62
  164. Sonny Boy Williamson - Down And Out Blues (Chess) 59
  165. Dizzy Gillespie - Gillespiana (Verve) 61
  166. Maya Angelou - Miss Calypso (Scamp) 57
  167. Freddie Hubbard - The Artistry Of Freddie Hubbard (Impulse) 62
  168. Tito Puente - Let's Cha Cha (RCA) 56
  169. Stan Kenton - New Concepts Of Artistry In Rhythm (Capitol) 52
  170. Ornette Coleman - Tomorrow Is The Question! (Contemporary) 59
  171. Mongo Santamaria - Watermelon Man (Milestone) 63
  172. Red Garland Trio - Groovy (Prestige/OJC) 57
  173. Chuck Berry - St. Louis to Liverpool (Chess) 64
  174. Sun Ra - Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy (Evidence) 63
  175. The Louvin Brothers - Tragic Songs Of Life (Capitol) 56
  176. John Coltrane - Live At The Village Vanguard (Impulse) 61
  177. John Coltrane - Newport '63 (Impulse!) 63
  178. Esquivel - Exploring New Sounds in Stereo (RCA Victor) 58
  179. Marlene Dietrich - Lili Marlene (Columbia) 59
  180. Martin Denny - Quiet Village (Liberty) 59
  181. Bo Diddley (Checker) 57
  182. John Coltrane & Don Cherry - The Avant-Garde (Atlantic) 60
  183. Otis Redding - Pain In My Heart (Stax/Atlantic) 64
  184. Sun Ra - Interstellar Low Ways (Evidence) 60
  185. Sun Ra - Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow (Evidence) 62
  186. Sun Ra - Visits Planet Earth (Evidence) 58
  187. Howlin' Wolf (Chess) 62
  188. Gene Vincent - Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps (Capitol) 57
  189. George Jones - White Lightning And Other Favorites (Mercury) 59
  190. Charles Mingus - Reincarnation of a Lovebird (Candid) 60
  191. Sonny Boy Williamson - Help Me (Chess) 64
  192. Cal Tjader - Tjader Plays Mambo (Fantasy) 54
  193. Bo Diddley - Go Bo Diddley (Chess) 59
  194. The Rolling Stones (Abko) 64
  195. Miles Davis - Miles & Coltrane (Columbia) 58
  196. Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (Capitol) 55
  197. Peggy Lee - Beauty And The Beat! (Capitol) 59
  198. Nat King Cole - Penthouse Serenade (Capitol) 52
  199. Fats Domino - Let the Four Winds Blow (Imperial) 61
  200. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Ella And Louis (Verve) 56
  201. Charles Mingus - Mingus (Candid) 60
  202. Chuck Willis - The King Of The Stroll (Atlantic) 58
  203. Jacques Brel - Jacques Brel 3 (Philips) 58
  204. Miles Davis - Workin' (Prestige) 56
  205. Etta James - The Second Time Around (Chess) 61
  206. The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones (England's Newest Hit Makers) (Abko) 64
  207. Anita O'Day - Anita O'Day and the Three Sounds (Verve) 62
  208. Anita O'Day - All the Sad Young Men (Verve) 61
  209. Anita O'Day - This Is Anita (Verve) 55
  210. Chuck Willis - I Remember Chuck Willis (Atlantic) 63
  211. John Coltrane - Coltrane's Sound (Atlantic) 60
  212. John Coltrane - Coltrane Jazz (Atlantic) 59
  213. Miles Davis - Steamin' (Prestige) 56
  214. Miles Davis - Cookin' (Prestige) 56
  215. Miles Davis - Relaxin' (Prestige) 56
  216. The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go? (Motown) 64
  217. Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles (Blue Note) 64
  218. Fats Domino - Walking to New Orleans (Imperial) 63
  219. Sarah Vaughan - It's You Or No One (Musicraft) 47
  220. Mongo Santamaria - Sabroso! (Fantasy) 59
  221. Miles Davis - Miles Ahead (Columbia) 57
  222. Sun Ra - Angels And Demons At Play (Evidence) 60
  223. Sun Ra - Holiday For Soul Dance (Evidence) 60
  224. Charlie Parker (& Gillespie/Roach/Mingus/Powell) - Jazz At Massey Hall (Debut) 53
  225. Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin' and the Blues (Herald) 60
  226. Miles Davis - Milestones (Columbia) 58
  227. Anita O'Day - Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day (Verve) 56
  228. Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours (Capitol) 54
  229. Charles Mingus - The Clown (Atlantic) 57
  230. Peggy Lee - Things Are Swingin' (Capitol) 59
  231. Sun Ra - Super Sonic Jazz (Evidence) 56
  232. Nina Simone - In Concert (Philips) 64
  233. Sun Ra - The Nubians of Plutonia 58-59 (Evidence) 59
  234. Junior Wells - Calling All Blues (Chess) 61
  235. Johnny Cash - The Fabulous Johnny Cash (Columbia) 58
  236. Serge Gainsbourg - Gainsbourg Percussions (Philips Fr) 64
  237. Nat King Cole - Sings For Two In Love (Capitol) 55
  238. Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite (Contemporary) 58
  239. Sonny Rollins - A Night At The Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (Blue Note) 57
  240. Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time (Blue Note) 58
  241. Ornette Coleman - Ornette! (Atlantic) 61
  242. Sonny Rollins - The Bridge (Bluebird/RCA) 62
  243. Serge Gainsbourg - Number 4 (Philips Fr) 62
  244. B.B. King - Singin' The Blues (Crown) 56
  245. Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk (Prestige) 54
  246. Quincy Jones - This Is How I Feel About Jazz (Paramount/GRP) 56
  247. Ornette Coleman - Ornette On Tenor (Atlantic) 61
  248. Hank Ballard & the Midnighters - Singin' & Swingin' (King) 59
  249. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley Is A Gun Slinger (Chess) 63
  250. Frank Sinatra - Come Fly with Me (Capitol) 57
  251. Miles Davis - Seven Steps To Heaven (Columbia) 63
  252. Mary Wells - Mary Wells Sings My Guy (Motown) 64
  253. John Coltrane - Soultrane (OJC/Prestige) 58
  254. Dizzy Gillespie - Jambo Caribe (Verve) 64
  255. John Coltrane - Black Pearls (OJC/Fantasy) 58
  256. Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash With His Hot & Blue Guitar (Sun) 56
  257. Serge Gainsbourg - Confidentiel (Philips Fr) 63
  258. Thelonious Monk - Alone In San Francisco (Riverside) 59
  259. Cannonball Adderly Quartet - Somethin' Else (Blue Note) 58
  260. Frank Sinatra - A Swingin' Affair! (Capitol) 57
  261. Mongo Santamaria - Yambu (Fantasy) 58
  262. Les Baxter - Tamboo! (Capitol) 54
  263. B.B. King - The Blues (Crown) 60
  264. Mary Wells - Two Lovers (Motown) 62
  265. Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue (Get Back) 57
  266. Nina Simone - Nina Simone & Her Friends (Bethlehem) 57
  267. Miles Davis - Porgy and Bess (Columbia) 58
  268. Solomon Burke (Apollo) 62
  269. Etta James - Rocks The House (Chess/MCA) 63
  270. John Coltrane - Duke Ellington and John Coltrane (Impulse) 62
  271. Sun Ra - When Sun Comes Out (Saturn) 63
  272. Johnny Cash - Now, There Was a Song! (Columbia) 60
  273. Charles Mingus - Mingus Dynasty (Columbia) 59
  274. Arthur Lyman - Taboo: The Exotic Sounds of Arthur Lyman (Rykodisc) 58
  275. Charles Mingus - Blues and Roots (Atlantic) 59
  276. Arthur Lyman - Hawain Sunset (Hi Fi) 59
  277. Les Baxter - Ritual Of The Savage (Capitol) 52
  278. Joe Williams - Me And The Blues (RCA) 64
  279. Martin Denny - Afro-Desia (Liberty) 59
  280. Pee Wee Crayton (Crown) 59
  281. Les Baxter - Space Escapade (Capitol) 58
  282. Patsy Cline - Sentimentally Yours (MCA) 62
  283. Ray Charles - Genius + Soul = Jazz (Impulse) 61
  284. Anita O'Day - Anita O'Day Sings the Winners (Verve) 58
  285. Frank Sinatra - Nice 'N' Easy (Capitol) 60
  286. Sonny Rollins - Work Time (Prestige) 55
  287. Miles Davis - '58 Sessions (Columbia) 58
  288. Norma Benguell - Ooooooh! Norma (Deon) 59
  289. Ornette Coleman - Twins (Atlantic) 61
  290. Ornette Coleman - To Whom Keeps A Record (Atlantic) 61
  291. Bob Dylan (Columbia) 62
  292. Eartha Kitt - That Bad Eartha (RCA) 55
  293. The Beatles - Beatles For Sale (Capitol) 64

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