Rock Δισκογραφία (1950-2005)

* 1996

1. DJ Shadow * Endtroducing (Mo Wax)
2. Chico Science & Naηγo Zumbi * Afrociberdelia (Chaos)
3. Tortoise * Millions Now Living Will Never Die (Thrill Jockey)
4. Dr. Octagon * Dr. Octagonecologyst (75 Ark)
5. Dirty Three * Horse Stories (Touch & Go)
6. Labradford (Kranky)
7. Gallon Drunk * In The Long Still Night (City Slang UK)
8. Sheila Chandra * ABoneCroneDrone (Real World)
9. Beck * Odelay (Geffen)
10. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * Now I Got Worry (Matador)
11. Walt Mink * El Producto (Atlantic)
12. Cujo * Adventures In Foam (Shadow)
13. Jeremy Enigk * Return of the Frog Queen (Sub Pop)
14. Sleater-Kinney * Call The Doctor (Chainsaw)
15. Eels * Beautiful Freak (Dreamworks)
16. Disco Inferno * Technicolour (Go Ahead)
17. Tricky * Pre-Millenium Tension (Island)
18. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds * Murder Ballads (Mute)
19. The Wedding Present * Saturnalia (RCA)
20. Patti Smith * Gone Again (Arista)
21. Stereolab * Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Elektra)
22. Social Distortion * White Light, White Heat White Trash (Epic)
23. Einsturzende Neubauten * Ende Neu (Nothing)
24. Nearly God (Island)
25. Paul Schutze & Phantom City * Site Anubis (Big Cat)
26. Afghan Whigs * Black Love (Elektra)
27. Screaming Trees * Dust (Epic)
28. Soundgarden * Down On The Upside (A&M)
29. Weezer * Pinkerton (DGC)
30. Girls Against Boys * House of GSVB (Touch & Go)
31. Gastr Del Sol * Upgrade & Afterlife (Drag City)
32. Directions In Music (Thrill Jockey)
33. Super Furry Animals * Fuzzy Logic (Creation)
34. Various * Headz: A Soundtrack of Beathead Jams (Mo Wax)
35. The Walkabouts * Devil's Road (Virgin)
36. The Flaming Stars * Bring Me The Rest Of Alfredo Garcia Singles 1995-1996 (Vinyl Japan)
37. Barry Adamson * Oedipus Schmoedipus (Mute)
38. Ui * Sidelong (Luna Moth/Southern)
39. Transglobal Underground * Psychic Karaoke (Nation/MCA)
40. Various * Axiom Dub: Mysteries of Creation (Axiom)
41. HIM * Egg (Southern)
42. Cul De Sac * China Gate (Thirsty Ear)
43. Musicians of the Nile * Charcoal Gypsies (Real World)
44. Los Lobos * Colossal Head (WB)
45. Jessamine * The Long Arm Of Coincidence (Kranky)
46. Future Sound Of London * Dead Cities (Astralwerks)
47. Lamb (Mercury)
48. Ride * Tarantula (Sire)
49. Firewater * Get Off The Cross (Jetset)
50. Cibo Matto * Viva! La Woman (WB)
51. Richard Davies * There's Never Been A Crowd Like This (Flydaddy)
52. Scorn * Logghi Barogghi (Earache)
53. The Raincoats * Looking In The Shadows (Geffen)
54. Trans Am (Thrill Jockey)
55. Arto Lindsay * O Corpo Sutil (Bar None)
56. Mark Stewart * Control Data (Mute)
57. Unwound * Repetition (Kill Rock Stars)
58. Palace * Arise Therefore (Drag City)
59. Howie B * Music For Babies (Island)
60. Bardo Pond * Amanita (Matador)
61. Bowery Electric * Beat (Kranky)
62. Long Fin Killie * Valentino (Too Pure)
63. Trenchmouth * The Broadcasting System (Skene!)
64. Bikini Kill * Reject All American (Kill Rock Stars)
65. The Grifters * Ain't My Lookout (Sub Pop)
66. Roy Montgomery * Temple IV (Kranky)
67. DJ Spooky * Songs Of A Dead Dreamer (Asphodel)
68. John Zorn * Bar Kokhba (Tzadik)
69. Squarepusher * Feed Me Weird Things (Rephlex)
70. Plug * Drum 'n' Bass For Papa (Plant)
71. Omni Trio * Haunted Science (sm:)e)
72. Tool * Aenima (Volcano)
73. Various * Incursions In Illbient (Asphodel)
74. Various * In Memorium Gille Deleuze (Mille Plateaux)
75. Various * Land Of Baboon: An Illclectic Collection of Brooklyn Soundz (Silent)
76. Polly Jean Harvey & John Parish * Dance Hall At Louse Point (Island)
77. The American Analog Set * The Fun Of Watching Fireworks (Emperor Jones/Trance)
78. Godflesh * Songs Of Love And Hate (Earache)
79. Versus * Secret Swingers (Teen Beat/Caroline)
80. R.E.M. * New Adventures In Hi-Fi (WB)
81. Outkast * ATLiens (LaFace)
82. Gaunt * Kryptonite (Thrill Jockey)
83. Underworld * Second Toughest In The Infants (TVT/Wax Trax)
84. Run On * Start Packing (Matador)
85. Prince Paul * Psychoanalysis (What Is It?) (Wordsound/Tommy Boy)
86. Wilco * Being There (Reprise)
87. Joe Henry * Trampoline (Mammoth)
88. Deus * In A Bar, Under the Sea (Island)
89. Dead Can Dance * Spiritchaser (4AD)
90. Jale * So Wound (Sub Pop)
91. The Orb * Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond the Call of Duty (Deviant)
92. King Sunny Ade * E Dide Get Up (Mesa)
93. Rachid Taha * Ole Ole (Island)
94. Butter 08 (Grand Royal)
95. Maria McKee * Life Is Sweet (Geffen)
96. Tiger * We Are Puppets (Trade2/Island)
97. Fuxa * Very Well Organized (Che)
98. Fuxa * 3 Field Rotation (Che)
99. Cafe Tacuba * Avalanches De Exitos (WEA)
100. Various * Offbeat: A Red Hot Sound Trip (TVT)
101. Neneh Cherry * Man (Virgin)
102. Bedhead * Beheaded (Trance Syndicate)
103. Jason Falkner * Present Author Unknown (Elektra)
104. The Delta 72 * The R&B of Membership (Touch & Go)
105. Jack * Pioneer Soundtracks (Too Pure)
106. Home * Elf: Gulf Bore Waltz (Jetset)
107. Ghostface Killah * Ironman (Sire)
108. Various * Metalheadz: Platinum Breakz (ffrr)
109. Moonshake * Dirty And Divine (C/Z)
110. Six Finger Satellite * Paranormalized (Sub Pop)
111. Jeru the Damaja * Wrath Of The Math (Payday)
112. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci * Introducing... (Mercury)
113. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook * Night Song (Real World)
114. Morcheeba * Who Can You Trust? (Discovery/WB)
115. Everything But The Girl * Walking Wounded (Atlantic)
116. Aphex Twin * Richard D. James Album (Sire)
117. Come * Near Life Experience (Matador)
118. Telstar Ponies * Voices From The New Music (Fire)
119. Ruby * Salt peter (Creation/Work)
120. De La Soul * Stakes Is High (Tommy Boy)
121. Rome (Touch & Go)
122. Whore: Various Artists Play Wire (WMO)
123. The Roots * Illadelph Halflife (DGC)
124. Bjφrk * Telegram (Island)
125. Low * The Curtain Hits The Cast (Vernon Yard)
126. Silkworm * Firewater (Matador)
127. Jessamine/Spectrum * A Pox On You EP (Space Age)
128. Orbital * In Sides (ffrr)
129. Amp * Sirenes (Petrol)
130. The Melvins * Stag (Atlantic)
131. Moby * Animal Rights (Elektra)
132. Dubadelic * 2000: A Bass Odyssey (WordSound)
133. Mag Nog (Kranky)
134. Musica Transonic * A Pilgrim's Solace (PSF)
135. DJ Vadim * USSR Repertoire: The Theory Of Verticality (Ninja Tune)
136. Various * Future Sound of Paris (Polygram)
137. Low * Transmission EP (Vernon Yard)
138. Imperial Teen * Seasick (Slash)
139. Alex Reece * So Far (Island)
140. Team Dresch * Captain, My Captain (Kill Rock Stars)
141. Crescent EP (Atavistic)
142. Oumou Sangare * Worotan (World Circuit)
143. Guided By Voices * Under The Bushes Under The Stars (Matador)
144. Yungchen Lhamo * Tibet Tibet (Real World)
145. The Spinanes * Strand (Sub Pop)
146. Sloan * One Chord To Another (murderrecords)
147. Bim Sherman * Miracle (Mantra/On-U Sound)
148. Lambchop * Hank EP (Merge)
149. Ani Difranco * Dilate (Righteous Babe)
150. Seefeel * Ch-Vox (Rough Trade/Goahead)
151. Cat Power * What Would the Community Think (Matador)
152. Teen Angels * Daddy (Sub Pop)
153. The Church * Magician Among the Spirits (Griffin)
154. Luna EP (No. 6 Records)
155. Fu Manchu * In Search Of... (Mammoth)
156. Rainer Maria (Polyvinyl)
157. Scissor Girls * We People Space With Phantoms (Atavistic)
158. Seely * Julie Only (Too Pure)
159. Fugees * The Score (Ruffhouse)
160. The Hang Ups * So We Go (Restless)
161. A Tribe Called Quest * Beats, Rhymes & Life (Jive)
162. Me'Shell Ndege'Ocello * Peace Beyond Passion (Maverick)
163. Ween * 12 Golden Country Greats (WB)
164. Butthole Surfers * Electriclarryland (Capitol)
165. Derek Bailey * Guitar, Drums 'N' Bass (Avant)
166. David Toop * Pink Noir (Virgin)
167. The Jesus Lizard * Shot (Capitol)
168. The Boo Radleys * C'mon Kids (Creation/Mercury)
169. Suede * Coming Up (Columbia)
170. Various * Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks (Lava/Atlantic)
171. Neutral Milk Hotel * On Avery Island (Merge)
172. Various * Saturday Morning Cartoon's Greatest Hits (MCA)
173. Basehead * Faith (Imago)
174. Jamiroquai * Travelling Without Moving (Work)
175. Luscious Jackson * Fever In Fever Out (Grand Royal)
176. Plexi (Sub Pop)
177. Crucial Conflict * The Final Tic (Pallas)
178. Catatonia * Way Beyond Blue (Blanco Y Negro)
179. The Spiny Anteaters * Crescent (Kranky)
180. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 * I Hope It Lands (Communion)
181. Arcwelder * Entropy (Touch & Go)
182. Polvo * Exploded Drawing (Merge)
183. Railroad Jerk * The Third Rail (Matador)
184. Bad Religion * Gray Race (Atlantic)
185. June Of 44 * Tropics and Meridians (Quarterstick)
186. Earth * Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons (Sub Pop)
187. Posies * Amazing Disgrace (DGC)
188. Deadbolt * Tijuana Hit Squad (Headhunter/Cargo)
189. Arcana * The Last Wave (DIW)
190. Ascension * Broadcast (Shock)
191. Bailter Space * Wammo (Matador)
192. Buckethead * The Day of the Robot (Submeta)
193. Neal Casal * Rain, Wind & Speed (Buy Or Die)
194. Chavez * Ride The Fader (Matador)
195. Chokebore * A Taste For Bitters (Amphetamine Reptile)
196. Cranes * La Tragedie D'Oreste Et Electre (Dedicated)
197. The Kelley Deal 6000 * Go To The Sugar Altar (Consig.)
198. The Divine Comedy * Casanova (V2)
199. Dr. Isreal * Seven Tribes Of Israel (Wordsound)
200. Dr. Octagon * Instrumentalyst (Mo Wax)
201. East River Pipe * Mel (Merge)
202. Alec Empire * Les Etoiles Des Filles Mortes (Mille Plateaux)
203. Experimental Audio Research * Beyond The Pale (Big Cat)
204. The Fall * Oswald Defense Lawyer (Jet)
205. The Fall * The Light User Syndrome (Jet)
206. Faust * Rien (Table of the Elements)
207. The For Carnation * Marshmallows EP (Matador)
208. Fuck * pretty slow (Walt/Esther/Rhesus)
209. Funky Porcini * Love, Pussycats & Carwrecks (Ninja Tune)
210. Fushitsusha * Purple Trap (Blast First)
211. Gate * Monolake (Table of the Elements)
212. Germ * Parrot (GPR)
213. Godheadsilo * Skyward In Triumph (Sub Pop)
214. Halo Benders * Don't Tell Me Now (K)
215. High Rise * Disallow (PSF)
216. Danielle Howle * About to Burst (Simple Machines)
217. Kriedler * Weekend (Kiff SM)
218. Bill Laswell * Oscillations (Sub Rosa)
219. Lillys * Better Can't Make Your Life Better (Che)
220. lowercase * all destructive urges...seem so perfect (Amphetamine Reptile)
221. Lull * Continue (Release)
222. Luscious Jackson * Fever In/Fever Out (Grand Royal)
223. Mainliner * Mellow Out (Charnel Music)
224. The Make-Up * Destination: Love
225. Meat Beat Manifesto * Subliminal Sandwich
226. Melt-Banana * Scratch or Stitch (SkinGraft)
227. Microstoria * _snd (Mille Plateaux)
228. Mobb Deep * Hell On Earth (Loud)
229. Mogwai * Ten Rapid (Jetset)
230. Mr. Bungle * Disco Volante (Slash)
231. Olivia Tremor Control * Music From the Unrealized Film s c r i p t 'Dusk At Cubist Castle' (Flydaddy)
232. Optical'8 * All Over (God Mountain)
233. Pitchblende * Gygax (Headhunter/Cargo)
234. Photek * The Hidden Camera EP (Virgin)
235. Rachel's * Music For Egon Schiele (Quarterstick)
236. Rachel's * The Sea And The Bells (Quarterstick)
237. Alex Reese * So Far (
238. Retsin * Egg Fusion (Simple Machines)
239. Paul Schutze * Abysmal Evenings (Virgin)
240. Slipstream * Side Effects (Elektra)
241. Smog * The Doctor Came At Dawn (Drag City)
242. Smoke * Another Reason To Fast (Long Play)
243. Soma * The Inner Cinema (Extreme)
244. Sone * Holiday And Sport (Darla)
245. Space Streakings * Shakuhuachi Surprise (Skin Graft)
246. Spectrum * Songs For Owsley (Reprise)
247. Spleen * Soundtrack to Spleen (Swart Finger)
248. Squirrel Nut Zippers * Hot (Mammoth)
249. Strapping Fieldhands * Wattle & Daub (Shangri-La)
250. Swans * Soundtracks for the Blind (Atavistic)
251. Tha Dogg Pound * Dogg Food (Death Row)
252. Third Eye Foundation * Semtex (Linda's Strange Vacation)
253. The Thrones * Alraune (Communion)
254. Those Bastard Souls * Twentieth Century Chemical (Darla)
255. Tobin Sprout * Carnival Boy (Matador)
256. Underworld * Second Toughest In the Infants (TVT)
257. Windy & Carl * Portal (Ba Da Bing!)
258. The Wrens * Secaucus (Grass)
259. Various * Altered Beats: Assassin Knowledge Of The Remanipulated (Axiom)
260. Various * Crooklyn Dub Consortium: Certified Dope Vol. 2 (Wordsound)
261. Various * Electric Ladyland III (Mille Plateaux)
262. Various * Headz 2 (Mo Wax)
263. Various * Macro Dub Infection Vol. 2 (Virgin)
264. Various * New Yorica! Culture Clash In New York City: Experiments In Latin Music 1970-77 (Soul Jazz)
265. Various * Ninja Cuts: Flexistentialism/The Joy Of Dex (Ninja Tune)
266. Various * Swarms Of Drones (Asphodel)

* 1997

1. Bjφrk * Homogenic (Elektra)
2. Laika * Sounds of the Satellites (Too Pure)
3. Walt Mink * Colossus (Deep Elm)
4. Arto Lindsay * Mundo Civilizado (Bar/None)
5. Radiohead * OK Computer (Capitol)
6. Amon Tobin * Bricolage (Ninja Tune)
7. Cornershop * When I Was Born For the 7th Time (Luaka Bop/WB)
8. Los Fabulosos Cadillacs * Fabulosos Calavera (BMG)
9. Richard Horowitz & Susan Deyhim * Majoun (Sony Classical)
10. Missy Misdemeanor Elliott * Supa Dupa Fly (East/West)
11. Radio Tarifa * Rumba Argelina (World Circuit)
12. Tortoise * Remixed (Tokuma/Thrill Jockey)
13. Squarepusher * Hard Normal Daddy (Warp)
14. Spiritualized * Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (Arista)
15. Wyclef Jean * The Carnival (Columbia)
16. Sleater-Kinney * Dig Me Out (Kill Rock Stars)
17. The Flaming Lips * Zaireeka (WB)
18. Portishead (London)
19. Labradford * Mi Media Naranja (Kranky)
20. Buena Vista Social Club with Ry Cooder (Nonesuch)
21. Joseph Arthur * Big City Secrets (REal World)
22. Jim O'Rourke * Bad Timing (Drag City)
23. Natacha Atlas * Halim (Nation)
24. Cul De Sac & John Fahey * The Epiphany of Glenn Jones (Thirsty Ear)
25. Carlinhos Brown * Alfagamabetizado (Metro Blue)
26. Arto Lindsay * Hyper Civilizado (Gramavision)
27. Robert Wyatt * Shleep (Thirsty Ear)
28. Yo La Tengo * I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (Matador)
29. Richard Buckner * Devotion + Doubt (MCA)
30. Stereolab * Dots And Loops (Elektra)
31. Susana Baca (Luaka Bop)
32. X-Ecutioners * X-pressions (Asphodel)
33. Sixteen Horsepower * Low Estate (A&M)
34. Patti Smith * Peace & Noise (Arista)
35. Mogwai * Young Team (Jetset)
36. Eleventh Dream Day * Eighth (Thrill Jockey)
37. Death In Vegas * Dead Elvis (Time Bomb)
38. Casolando * Iliana: Carlos Ortega & his Latin Combo (482 Music)
39. The Handsome Family * Through The Trees (Carrot Top)
40. Fernanda Abreu * Raio X: Revista E Ampliada (EMI)
41. The Walkabouts * Nighttown (Virgin)
42. Archer Prewitt * In The Sun (Carrot Top)
43. Pavement * Brighten The Corners (Matador)
44. Erykah Badu * Baduizm (Universal)
45. Orang' * Fields And Waves (Echo)
46. u-Ziq * Lunatic Harness (Astralwerks)
47. Cheikh Lo * Ne La Thiess (World Circuit)
48. Mouse On Mars * Autoditacker (Thrill Jockey)
49. Pram * Music For Your Movies EP (Too Pure)
50. Various * Return of the DJ, Vol. II (Bomb Hip-Hop)
51. Helium * The Magic City (Matador)
52. Super Furry Animals * Radiator (Creation)
53. Khaled * Sahra (Island)
54. Talvin Singh * Anokha: Soundz of the Asian Underground (Quango)
55. Various * Vedic Presents Rhythmic Intelligence (Sub Rosa)
56. The Notwist * 12 (Zero Hour)
57. Palace Songs * Lost Blues And Other Songs (Thrill Jockey)
58. Blur (Virgin)
59. Kool Keith * Sex Style (Funky Ass Records)
60. Various * Star Rise: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Remixed (Real World)
61. DJ KRush * Milight (Mo' Wax)
62. Howie B * Turn the Dark Off (Elektra)
63. Electric Company Plays Amnesia (Supreme/Island)
64. Roni Size * Reprazent: New Forms (Mercury)
65. The Orb * Orblivion (Island)
66. David Holmes * Lets Get Killed (Go! Beat)
67. Built To Spill * Perfect From Now On (WB)
68. Modest Mouse * The Lonesome Crowded West (Up)
69. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds * The Boatman's Call (Reprise)
70. The Lonesome Organist * Collector of Cactus Echo Bags (Thrill Jockey)
71. Aphex Twin * Come To Daddy (Sire)
72. Trans Am * Surrender To The Night (Touch & Go)
73. Godflesh * Love And Hate In Dub (Earache)
74. The Delta 72 * The Soul of a New Machine (Touch & Go)
75. Cash Money * Black Hearts and Broken Wills (Touch & Go)
76. Kid Loco * A Grand Love Story (Yellow/East)
77. The Flaming Stars * Sell Your Soul To The Flaming Stars (Vinyl Japan)
78. Vinicius Cantuaria * Sol Na Cara (Rykodisc)
79. Gravediggaz * The Pick, the Sickle and the Shovel (Gee Street)
80. Red Red Meat * There's A Star Above The Manger Tonight (Sub Pop)
81. Mick Harvey * Pink Elephants (Mute)
82. Rex * Rex 3 (Southern)
83. Grandaddy * Under The Western Freeway (Will/V2)
84. The Dismemberment Plan * Is Terrified (de Soto)
85. Timbaland & Magoo * Welcome To Our World (Atlantic)
86. The Wedding Present * Singles 1995-97 (Cooking Vinyl/spinART)
87. Lake of Dracula (Skin Graft)
88. Lambchop * Thriller (Merge)
89. Cesaria Evora * Cabo Verde (Nonesuch)
90. Virginia Rodrigues * Sol Negro (Natasha)
91. Jim White * Wrong-Eyed Jesus (Luaka Bop)
92. Royal Trux * Sweet Sixteen (Virgin)
93. The Gothic Archies (Magnetic Fields) * The New Despair EP (Merge)
94. Rainer Maria * Past Worn Searching (Polyvinyl)
95. Various Artists * September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (Sony)
96. Elliott Smith * Either/Or (Kill Rock Stars)
97. Ganger * Fore (Domino)
98. The Bottle Rockets * 24 Hours A Day (Atlantic)
99. Space Needle * The Moray Eels Eat the Space Needle (Valley)
100. The Sea And Cake * The Fawn (Thrill Jockey)
101. Primal Scream * Echo Dek (Reprise)
102. Primal Scream * Vanishing Point (Reprise)
103. Catherine Wheel * Adam and Eve (Mercury)
104. P.W. Long's Reelfoot * We Didn't See You On Sunday (Touch & Go)
105. Badawi * Jerusalem Under Fire (ROIR)
106. Belle & Sebastion * If You're Feeling Sinister (The Enclave)
107. Buddy Miller * Poison Love (Hightone)
108. Beth Orton * Trailer Park (Dedicated)
109. Bis * The New Transistor Heroes (Grand Royal)
110. Various * Nuyorican Soul (Giant Step/Blue Thumb)
111. Dinosaur Jr. * Hand It Over (Reprise)
112. Carlos Vives * Tengo Fe (EMI Latin)
113. Stars of the Lid * The Ballasted Orchestra (Kranky)
114. Teenage Fanclub * Songs From Northern Britain (Columbia)
115. The Verve * Urban Hymns (Virgin)
116. Fatboy Slim * Better Living Through Chemistry (Astralwerks)
117. Erykah Badu * Baduizm (Universal)
118. Helium * No Guitars EP (Matador)
119. Photek * Risk Vs. Reward (Virgin)
120. Autechre * Chiastic Slide (Warp)
121. Te Vaka * Pacific Music (Arc)
122. Boymerang * Balance Of The Force (Astralwerks)
123. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci * Barafundle (Mercury)
124. Banco de Gaia * Big Men Cry (Planet Dog/Mammoth)
125. The Apples In Stereo * Tone Soul Evolution (spinART/Sire)
126. HIM * Interpretive Belief System (WordSound)
127. Bardo Pond * Lapsed (Matador)
128. Kid Loco * A Grand Love Story (Yellow)
129. Doldrums * Acupuncture (Kranky)
130. Spectrum * Forever Alien (Space Age)
131. Daft Punk * Homework (Virgin)
132. Amp * astralmoonbeamprojections (Kranky)
133. Luna * Pup Tent (Elektra)
134. Tranquility Bass * Let The Freak Flag Fly (Astralwerks)
135. The Jayhawks * Sound Of Lies (American)
136. Hurricane #1 (Creation/Sire)
137. Steve Earle * El Corazon (WB)
138. Various * Spawn The Album (Immortal/Epic)
139. DJ Food * Refried Food (Shadow)
140. Atari Teenage Riot * Burn, Berlin, Burn (Grand Royal)
141. Tindersticks * Curtains (London)
142. Mike Nicolai (Tramp Art)
143. Moloko * Do You Like My Tight Sweater? (WB/Echo)
144. Moby (Voodoo Child) * The End Of Everything (Elektra)
145. Rockers Hi-Fi * Mish Mash (WB)
146. Panasonic * Kulma (Blast First)
147. Common * One Day It Will All Make Sense (Relativity)
148. Company Flow * FuncRusher Plus (Official/Rawkus)
149. Prodigy * The Fat Of The Land (Maverick)
150. Polvo * Shapes (Touch & Go)
151. Ani Difranco * Living In Clip (Righteous Babe)
152. The High Llamas * Hawaii (V2)
153. The Chemical Brothers * Dig Your Own Hole (Astralwerks)
154. Claw Hammer * Hold Your Tongue (and say apple) (Interscope)
155. Bob Dylan * Time Out Of Mind (Columbia)
156. DJ Shadow * Preemptive Strike EP (Mo Wax)
157. Busta Rhymes * When Disaster Strikes (Elektra)
158. Wu-Tang * Wu-Tang Forever (Loud/RCA)
159. Various * Grooverider Presents the Prototype Years (Columbia)
160. Ry Cooder * The End of Violence Soundtrack (Outpost)
161. Spanish Fly * Fly By Night (Accurate)
162. Souled American * Notes Campfire (MoII)
163. Whiskeytown * Strangers Almanac
164. Run On * No Way (Matador)
165. Wabi Sabi (a-Musik)
166. Wuhling * Extra 6 (Touch & Go)
167. The Bottle Rockets * 24 Hours A Day (Atlantic)
168. Dwindle * Recently Okay (Guilt Ridden Pop)
169. Rainer Maria EP (Polyvinyl)
170. Scorn * [zAndEr] (Invisible)
171. The Grifters * Full Blown Possession (Sub Pop)
172. Faith No More * Album Of The Year (Slash/Reprise)
173. Mahmoud Ahmed * Soul Of Addis (Earthworks)
174. Ween * The Mollusk (Elektra)
175. Low * Songs for a Dead Pilot EP (Kranky)
176. Harmony Rockets * Golden Ticket EP (Big Cat)
177. BMX Bandits * Theme Park (Creation)
178. Dirty Old Man River (Radial)
179. Slipstream * Be Groovy Or Leave (Primary/Che)
180. A New January * After Clothes (Negative Nine)
181. Cranes * Population Four (Dedicated)
182. Sneaker Pimps * Becoming X (Virgin)
183. Cibo Matto * Super Relax EP (WB)
184. Fleetwood Mac * The Dance (Reprise)
185. Waco Brothers * Cowboy In Flames (Bloodshot)
186. Waco Brothers * Do You Think About Me? (Bloodshot)
187. Kim Richey * Bitter Sweet (Mercury)
188. Cranes * Can't Get Free EP (Dedicated)
189. Travis * Good Feeling (Independente/Epic)
190. Shaggy * Midnite Lover (Virgin)
191. Boss Hog * Winn Coma EP (Geffen)
192. Polara * C'est La Vie (Interscope)
193. Acron 2 * The Beckoning (Reinforced)
194. The Apples In Stereo * Tone Soul Evolution (spinART)
195. Bad Livers * Hogs on the Highway (Sugar Hill)
196. Baltier Space * Capsul (Turnbuckle)
197. Banyan (Cyberoctive)
198. Blowpipe * First Circle (Needlework)
199. Bowery Electric * Vertigo (Beggars Banquet)
200. Brainiac * Electro Shock For President EP (Touch & Go)
201. The Brian Jonestown Massacre * Give It Back! (Tangible/Bomp!)
202. Broadcast * Work And Non Work (Warp)
203. Bush Tetras * Beauty Lies (Mercury)
204. Neal Casal * The Sun Rises Here (Glitterhouse)
205. Children Of Dub * ESP (Magick Eye)
206. Chocolate In The Sun * Snowpony EP (GoAhead)
207. Coldcut * Let Us Play! (Ninja Tune)
208. Carl Craig * More Songs About Food & Revolutionary Art (Planet)
209. Crescent * Electric Sound Constructions (Touch & Go)
210. Los Crudos * Canciones Para Liberar Nuestras
211. The Crystal Method * Vegas (Outpost)
212. Catie Curtis (Guardian)
213. Dead C * Tusk (Siltbreeze)
214. Bill Dixon * Vade Mecum II (Soul Note)
215. DJ Muggs * Presents The Soul Assassins
216. Johnny Dowd * Wrong Side of Memphis
217. Alec Empire * Destroyer (Cargo)
218. John Fahey * City Of Refuge (Tim/Kerr)
219. John Fahey * Womblife (Table of the Elements)
220. The Fall * Levitate (Artful)
221. Lee Feldman * Living It All Wrong (Pure/Mercury)
222. The Firm All Stars (Aftermath/Interscope)
223. Flying Saucer Attack * New Lands (Drag City)
224. Foetus Symphony Orchestra & Lydia Lunch * York (Thirsty Ear)
225. The Frogs * Starjob EP (Mercury)
226. Frontier * Heater (Southern)
227. Edith Frost * Calling Over Time (Drag City)
228. Funky Porcini * Let's See What Carmen Can Do (Ninja Tune)
229. Fushitsusha * The Time Is Nigh/A Death Never to Be Complete (Tokuma)
230. Warren G * Take a Look Over Your Shoulder (Def Jam)
231. Geraldine Fibbers * Butch (Valley)
232. Grooverider * Diverse Artiesten (Prototype)
233. Ground Zero * Null & Void (Nani)
234. David Grubbs * Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange (Table of the Elements)
235. Guided By Voices * Mag Earwhig! (Matador)
236. Half Japanese * Bone Head (Alternative Tentacles)
237. The Halo Benders * The Rebel's Not In (K)
238. The High Fidelity Orchestra (Wayside)
239. Hovercraft * Akathisia (Blast First/Mute)
240. Danielle Howle & The Tantrums * Do a Two Sable
241. Huffamoose * We've Been Had Again (Interscope)
242. Huun Huur Tu * If I'd Been Born An Eagle (Shanachie)
243. Isotope 217 * The Unstable Molecule (Thrill Jockey)
244. Ivy * Apartment Life (Atlantic)
245. Jessamine * Another Fictionalized History (Histronic)
246. Jhelisa * Language Electric (Dorado)
247. Jungle Brothers * Raw Deluxe (Gee Street)
248. Paul K & the Weathermen * Life's A Gas (Alias)
249. Iman KhanBangeshi * Debut Recording
250. David Kilgour And the Heavy Eights (Flying Nun)
251. Kid Koala * Scratchhappyland (Ninja Tune)
252. King Cobb Steelie * Junior Relaxer
253. King Kong * Kingdom of Kong (Drag City)
254. Kumari * Irogami (Radio Argot)
255. Bill Laswell * City Of Light (Sub Rosa)
256. Lukas Ligeti & Beta Foly (Intuition/Allegro)
257. Licorice Roots * Melodeon (MoodFood)
258. Locust * Morvis Light (Seefeel)
259. Lotus Crown * Chokin' On the Jokes (Reprise)
260. J Majik * Slow Motion (Infra Red)
261. Man Or Astro-Man? * Made From Technetium (Touch & Go)
262. Barbara Manning * 1212 (Matador)
263. Eric Matthews * The Lateness Of The Hour (Sub Pop)
264. Kaffe Matthews * cdAnn (Annette Works)
265. Medeski, Martin and Wood * Shack-Man (Gramavision)
266. Medeski, Martin and Wood * Bubblehouse (Gramavision)
267. The Melvins * Honky (Amphetamine Reptile)
268. Baader Meinhof (Hut/Caroline)
269. Method Man * T2 (Def Jam)
270. Microstoria * _snd (Thrill Jockey/Mille Plateaux)
271. Microstoria * Reprovisers (Thrill Jockey)
272. Paul D Miller * Viral Sonata (Asphodel)
273. Mr. Quintron * The First Two Records (Bulb)
274. MJG * No More Glory (Suave/Universal)
275. The Mommyheads (DGC)
276. The Monorchid * Let Them Eat the Monorchid (Dischord)
277. Roy Montgomery * Winter Songs (RB)
278. R.B. Morris * Take That Ride (Oh Boy)
279. The Mountain Goats * Full Force Galesburg (Emperor Jones)
280. Mouse On Mars * Cache Coeur Naif EP (Thrill Jockey)
281. Movietone * Day And Night (Drag City)
282. The Notorious B.I.G. * Life After Death (Bad Boy/Arista)
283. Number One Cup * Wrecked By Lions (Flydaddy)
284. Oblivions * Play 9 Songs with Mr. Quintron (Crypt)
285. Will Oldham * Joya (Drag City)
286. Oxbow * Serenade in Red (SST)
287. Panacea * Low Profile Darkness (Force Inc.)
288. Papas Fritas * Helioself (Minty Fresh)
289. William Parker & The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra * Sunrise in the Tone World (Aum Fidelity)
290. Pegboy * Cha-Cha Damore (Touch & Go)
291. Photek * Modus Operandi (Virgin)
292. Plaid * Not For Threes (Warp)
293. Portastatic * The Nature Of Sap (Merge)
294. Praxis * Transmutation Live (Douglas)
295. Req * One (Skint)
296. Reservoir * Pink Machine (Zero Hour)
297. Salaryman (City Slang)
298. Salt Licks * Trust Your Body (Entropic)
299. Savage Aural Hotbed * Pressure Of Silence (UltraModern)
300. Scala * Slide EP (Seefeel)
301. Scanner * Delivery (Earache)
302. Paul Schutze * Nine Songs from the Garden of Welcome Lies (Tone Casualties)
303. The Scissor Girls * Here Is The "Is-Not" (Atavistic)
304. The Sea And Cake * Two Gentlemen EP (Thrill Jockey)
305. Seely * Seconds (Too Pure)
306. Silkworm * Developer (Sub Pop)
307. Luke Slater * Freek Funk (Novamute)
308. Slobberbone * Barrel Chested (Sonic Rendezvous)
309. Smog * Red Apple Falls (Touch & Go)
310. Son Volt * Straightaways (WB)
311. Songs * Ohia (Carrot Top)
312. Space Explosion (Captain Trip)
313. Tobin Sprout * Moonflow Plastic (Welcome To My Wigwam) (Matador)
314. Storm & Stress (Touch & Go)
315. Sub Dub (Instinct)
316. Sub Dub * Dancehall Malfunction (Asphodel)
317. Swell * Too Many Days Without Thinking (Beggars Banquet)
318. Third Eye Foundation * Ghost (Touch & Go)
319. Tone Rec * Thugny-Trugny (Sub Rosa)
320. To Rococo Rot * Veiclulu (City Slang)
321. Transient Waves (Che)
322. Jen Trynin * Gun Shy Trigger Happy (Squint/WB)
323. Tsunami * A Brilliant Mistake (Simple Machines)
324. U.S. Maple * Sang Phat Editor (Touch & Go)
325. Vainqueur * Elevations (Chain Reaction)
326. Various * Pakistani Soul Music
327. Volebeats * Sky and the Ocean (Safe House)
328. We * As Is (Asphodel)
329. Wellwater Conspiracy * Declaration Of Conformity (Third Gear)
330. Windy & Carl * Antarctica: The Bliss Out Vol. 2 (Darla)

* 1998

1. Arto Lindsay * Noon Chill (Bar/None)
2. PJ Harvey * Is This Desire? (Island)
3. Neutral Milk Hotel * In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Merge)
4. Asian Dub Foundation * Rafi's Revenge (London)
5. Tom Ze * Fabrication Defect (Luaka Bop)
6. Cornelius * Fantasma (Matador)
7. Outkast * Aquemini (LaFace)
8. Beck * Mutations (Geffen)
9. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * Acme (Matador/Capitol)
10. Pram * North Pole Radio Station (Merge)
11. Lucinda Williams * Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury)
12. Cat Power * Moon Pix (Matador)
13. Queens Of the Stone Age (Loosegroove)
14. Amon Tobin * Permutation (Ninja Tune)
15. Otto * Samba Pra Burro (Trama)
16. Massive Attack * Mezzanine (Virgin)
17. Mercury Rev * Deserter's Songs (V2)
18. Schneider TM * Moist (City Slang/Mute)
19. Leila * Like Weather (Rephlex)
20. Tied + Tickled Trio (Bingo)
21. Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos * The Prosthetic Cubans (Atlantic)
22. Sunny Day Real Estate * How It Feels To Be Something On (Sub Pop)
23. The Black Heart Procession * 1 (Cargo)
24. Mundo Livre S.A. * Carnaval Na Obra (Abril)
25. Black Star * Mos Def & Talib Kweli (Rawkus)
26. Afghan Whigs * 1965 (Columbia)
27. Tortoise * TNT (Thrill Jockey)
28. Eleni Mandell * Wishbone (Mr. Charles)
29. Boards Of Canada * Music Has The Right To Children (Matador)
30. The Notwist * Shrink (Zero Hour)
31. Cheb Mami * Meli Meli (Ark 21/Virgin)
32. Gastr Del Sol * Camoufleur (Drag City)
33. Jets To Brazil * Orange Rhyming Dictionary (Jade Tree)
34. The Grassy Knoll * III (Antilles)
35. Lhasa * La Llorona (Atlantic)
36. Ernest Ranglin * In Search Of The Lost Riddim (Palm Pictures-Rykodisc)
37. Godspeed You Black Emperor! * f#a# (Kranky)
38. Billy Bragg & Wilco * Mermaid Avenue (Elektra)
39. David Grubbs * The Thicket (Drag City)
40. Maryam Mursal * The Journey (Real World)
41. At The Drive-In * in/CASINO/OUT (Fearless)
42. Yungchen Lhamo * Coming Home (Real World)
43. Air * Moon Safari (Source/Caroline)
44. Lenine * O dia em que faremos contato (BMG Brasil)
45. Long Fin Killie * Amelia (Too Pure)
46. Radio Tarifa * temporal (World Circuit)
47. Transglobal Underground * Rejoice Rejoice (MCA)
48. Talvin Singh * OK (Island)
49. The Eels * Electro-Shock Blues (Dreamworks)
50. Sierra Maestra * Tibiri Tabera (World Circuit)
51. Conjunto Cespedes * Flores (Xenophile)
52. Rocket From the Crypt * RFTC (Interscope)
53. Beastie Boys * Hello Nasty (Grand Royal/Capitol)
54. Stereolab * Aluminum Tunes (Switched On Vol. 3) (Drag City)
55. Swervedriver * 99th Dream (Zero Hour)
56. Rufus Wainright (Dreamworks)
57. Manu Chao * Clandestino (Ark 21)
58. Electric Company * Studio City (Polygram)
59. Walt Mink * Goodnite (Deep Elm)
60. Cadallaca * Introducing Cadallaca (K)
61. Rhythm & Sound with Tikiman * Showcase (Burial Mix)
62. Chico Science & Naηγo Zumbi (Sony International)
63. Fugazi * End Hits (Dischord)
64. Pinetop Seven * Rigging The Toplights (Truckstop/Atavistic)
65. Calexico * The Black Light (Quarterstick)
66. Mark Lanegan * Scraps At Midnight (Sub Pop)
67. R.E.M. * Up (WB)
68. Death Cab For Cutie * Something About Airplanes (Barsuk)
69. Quasi * Featuring "Birds" (Up)
70. Cinerama * Va Va Voom (SpinArt)
71. The Delgados * Peloton (Mantra/Chemical Underground)
72. Willard Grant Conspiracy * Flying Low (Slow River)
73. Tricky * Angels With Dirty Faces (Island)
74. The Spinanes * Arches And Aisles (Sub Pop)
75. Jessamine * Don't Stay Too Long (Kranky)
76. Richard Davies * Telegraph (Flydaddy)
77. Plush * More You Becomes You (Drag City)
78. The Cows * Sorry In Pig Minor (Amphetamine Reptile)
79. Sloan * Navy Blues (murderrecords)
80. Pulp * This Is Hardcore (Island)
81. Lo-Fidelity Allstars * How To Operate With A Blown Mind (Skint/Columbia)
82. Lambchop * What Another Man Spills (Merge)
83. Belle & Sebastion * The Boy With the Arab Strap (Matador)
84. Busta Rhymes * Extinction Level Event (Elektra)
85. Money Mark * Push The Button (Mo Wax)
86. Lee Fields * Let's Get A Groove On (Desco)
87. Sonic Youth * A Thousand Leaves (Geffen)
88. Rancid * Life Won't Wait (Epitaph)
89. African Head Charge VS. Professor Stretch * Drums Of Defiance (On-U Sound)
90. Sue Garner * To Run More Smoothly (Thrill Jockey)
91. Pere Ubu * Pennsylvania (Cooking Vinyl)
92. Fun-Da-Mental * Erotic Terrorism (Beggars Banquet)
93. Spoon * A Series Of Sneaks (Elektra)
94. Mary Lou Lord * Got No Shadow (Sony Work Group)
95. Kahimi Karie (Minty Fresh)
96. Pernice Brothers * Overcome By Happiness (Sub Pop)
97. Ozomatli (Almo Sounds)
98. Clutch * The Elephant Riders (Columbia)
99. Bloque (Luaka Bop)
100. Pole * CD1 (Kiff/Matador)
101. moodyMANN * silentintroduction (planet e)
102. Fatboy Slim * You've Come A Long Way, Baby (Astralw%rks)
103. P.W. Long * Push Me Again (Touch & Go)
104. Ani DiFranco * Little Plastic Castle (Righteous Babe)
105. Firewater * The Ponzi Scheme (Jetset)
106. Rachid Taha * Diwan (Island)
107. Baaba Maal * Nomad Soul (Island)
108. Seam * The Pace Is Glacial (Touch & Go)
109. Gang Starr * Moment of Truth (Noo Trybe/Virgin)
110. Goodie Mob * Still Standing (Laface/Arista)
111. Royal Trux * Accelerator (Drag City)
112. Barry Adamson * As Above So Below (Mute)
113. Monster Magnet * Powertrip (A&M)
114. Los De Abajo (Luaka Bop)
115. Bobby Conn * Rise Up! (Truckstop/Atavistic)
116. Freakwater * Springtime (Thrill Jockey)
117. The Aluminum Group * Plano (Minty Fresh)
118. Chicago Underground Duo * 12 Degrees Of Freedom (Thrill Jockey)
119. Diamanda Galas * Malediction And Prayer (Mute)
120. Saint Etienne * Good Humor (Sub Pop)
121. Bharat Shah * Dil Se (Venus)
122. Alabama Thunder Pussy * Rise Again (Man's Ruin)
123. Souled American * Frozen (Checkered Past)
124. Ui * Lifelike (Southern)
125. Various * Great Jewish Music: Marc Bolan (Tzadik)
126. Trans Am * The Surveillance (Thrill Jockey)
127. Boukman Eksperyans * Revolution (Tuff Gong)
128. DeeJay Punk-Roc * ChickenEye (Independente/Epic)
129. Richard Buckner * Since (MCA)
130. June of 44 * Four Great Points (Quarterstick)
131. Silkworm * Blueblood (Touch & Go)
132. King Sunny Adι * Odu (Mesa)
133. Dirty Three * Ocean Songs (Touch & Go)
134. Grooverider * Mysteries Of Funk (Columbia)
135. Uilab * Fires EP (Bingo/Duophonic)
136. Jonathon Richman * I'm So Confused (WB)
137. Canibus * Can-I-Bus (Universal)
138. Orange Goblin * Time Travellign Blues (Rise Above)
139. Shellac * Terraform (Touch & Go)
140. Nebula * Let It Burn (Relapse)
141. Hole * Celebrity Skin (Geffen)
142. Min Xiao-Fen * Spring River Flower Moon Night (Asphodel)
143. Hector Zazou & Katie McMahon * Lights in the Dark (Erato/Detour/Atlantic)
144. Sam Mangwana * Galo Negro (Putumayo)
145. Elliott Smith * XO (Dreamworks)
146. Mike Nicolai * The Balloon Race EP (Tramp Art)
147. The Black Crowes * By Your Side (American/Columbia)
148. Gaunt * Bricks And Blackouts (WB)
149. Aterciopelados * Caribe Atomico (BMG Latin)
150. Plastilina Mosh * Aquamosh (Capitol)
151. Propellerheads * DecksanddrumsandRockandroll (Wall)
152. Dub Pistols * Point Blank (Concrete)
153. Boxhead Ensemble * Dutch Harbor: Where The Sea Breaks Its Back (Atavistic)
154. Anoushka Shankar * Anoushka (Angel
155. The Adjusters * The Politics Of Style (Jump Up Soul)
156. Boxhead Ensemble * The Last Place To Go: Recordings form the Dutch Harbor European Film Screening Tour (Atavistic)
157. Unwound * Challenge For A Civilized Society (Kill Rock Stars)
158. Son Volt * Wide Swing Tremolo (WB)
159. System Of A Down (American)
160. Public Enemy * He Got Game (Def Jam)
161. Don Caballero * What Burns Never Returns (Touch & Go)
162. Daniel Taubkin * Brazsil (Blue Jackel)
163. High Llamas * Cold And Bouncy (V2/Alpaca)
164. Six Finger Satellite * Law Of Ruins (Sub Pop)
165. Lauryn Hill * The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse)
166. Smashing Pumpkins * Adore (Virgin)
167. Snowpony * The Slow-Motion World (Radioactive)
168. Starball * Holstein Park (Pussy Cat)
169. Girls Against Boys * Freak*On*Ica (Geffen)
170. Spiritualized * Live At Albert Hall (BMG)
171. Garbage * Version 2.0 (Almo Sounds)
172. Buffalo Tom * Smitten (Polydor)
173. Add N To X * On The Wires Of Our Nerves (Mute)
174. Versus * Two Cents Plus Tax (Caroline)
175. Tori Amos * From The Choirgirl Hotel (Atlantic)
176. Heather Nova * Siren (Big Cat/Work)
177. Stereo Total (Bobsled)
178. U.N.K.L.E. * Psyence Fiction (PGD)
179. Howe Gelb * Hisser (V2)
180. Gomez * Bring It On (Virgin)
181. Don Byron * An Existential Dred: Nu Blaxploitation (Blue Note)
182. Cash Money * Halos Of Smoke And Fire (Touch & Go)
183. Maxwell * Embrya (Columbia)
184. Los Amigos Invisibles * The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera (Luaka Bop)
185. Chocolate Genius * Black Music (V2)
186. The Jesus Lizard * Blue (Capitol)
187. Madonna * Ray Of Light (Maverick)
188. Bad Religion * No Substance (Elektra)
189. Goldie * Saturnz Return (ffrr)
190. Soul Coughing * El Oso (WEA)
191. Manic Street Preachers * This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours (Epic)
192. Catatonia * International Velvet (Blanco Y Negro)
193. Marilyn Manson * Mechanical Animals (Nothing/Interscope)
194. Liz Phair * whitechocolatespaceegg (Matador/Capitol)
195. Bob Mould * The Last Dog and Pony Show (Rykodisc)
196. Fernanda Abreu * Raio X (EMI Brazil)
197. Acid Mothers Temple And The Melting Paraiso UFO (PSF)
198. Aerial M (Drag City)
199. The Aislers Set * Terrible Things Happen (Slumberland)
200. Tori Amos * From The Choirgirl Hotel (Atlantic)
201. Anouk * Together Alone (Sony)
202. Archers Of Loaf * White Trash Heroes (Alias)
203. Arnold * Hillside (Sony Music)
204. Ascension * Abomination (Toybox/Victoy)
205. Ash * Nu-Clear Sounds (Reprise)
206. Babe The Blue Ox * Way We Were (BMG)
207. Bad Livers * Industry and Thrift (Sugar Hill)
208. Derek Bailey & Min Xiao-Fen * Viper (Avant)
209. Bang On A Can * Music For Airports (Point)
210. Waldemar Bastos - Pretaluz [Blackligh] (Luaka Bop)
211. Bedhead * Transaction De Novo (Touch & Go)
212. Justin Bennett * The Mosques Of Tanger (Stallplaat)
213. Bis * Intendo EP (Grand Royal)
214. Black Eyed Peas * Behind The Front (Interscope)
215. Johnny Blas * Mambo 2000 (Cubop Records)
216. Boredoms * Super ae (WEA Japan)
217. Jimmy Bosch * Soneando Trombon (Ryko Latino)
218. BR5-49 * Big Backyard Beat Show (Arista)
219. Califone (Flydaddy)
220. Eliza Carthy * Red/Rice
221. Neal Casal * Basement Dreams (Glitterhouse)
222. Vic Chestnutt * The Salesman and Bernadette (Capricorn)
223. Chocoalte Weasel * Spaghettification (Ninja Tune)
224. Clem Snide * You Were a Diamond (Tractor Beam)
225. Adam Cohen (Columbia)
226. Coil * Time Machiens (Eskaton)
227. Steve Coleman * Genesis & The Opening Of The Way (RCA)
228. Come * Gently Down the Stream (Matador)
229. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach * Painted From Memory (Polygram)
230. The Coup * Steal This Album (Dogday)
231. Creeper Lagoon * I Become Small & Go (Nickelbag)
232. Crucial Conflict * Good Side Bad Side (Universal)
233. Cowboy Junkies * Miles From Our Home
234. Crimpshrine * Sound of a New World Being Born (Lookout)
235. Cubante * Interference (Wax Trax!/TVT)
236. Cypress Hill IV (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
237. Olu Dara * In The World: From Natchez to New York (Atlantic)
238. Death In June * Take Care and Control (World Serpent)
239. Digital Underground * Who's Got the Gravy (Interscope)
240. Divine Comedy * Fin De Siecle (V2)
241. DJ Quik * Rhythm-Al-Ism (Profile/Arista)
242. DJ Spooky * Synthetic Fury (Asphodel)
243. DJ Spooky * Riddim Warfare (Outpost)
244. Dmitri From Paris * Sacrebleu (Atlantic)
245. Dr. Israel - Inna City Pressure (Mutant Sound System)
246. Donnas * American Teenage Rock 'N' Roll Machine (Lookout!)
247. Dave Douglas * Magic Triangle (Arabesque)
248. Johnny Dowd * Wrong Side Of Memphis (Checkered Past)
249. Arnold Dreyblatt * The Sound Of One String (Table of the Elements)
250. Drums Of Death (Avant)
251. The Dylan Group * It's All About (Rims Shots & Faulty Wiring) (Bubble Core)
252. Echobelly * Lustra (Epic)
253. E Dancer * Heavenly (Planet E)
254. Embrace * The Good Will Out (DGC)
255. Ester * Hotel Hypercube (Thirsty Ear)
256. Experimental Audio Research * Millenium Music (Atavistic)
257. Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo * Strange But True (Matador)
258. Kali Fasteau * Camraderie (Flying Note)
259. Flaming Lips * 1984-1990: A Collection Of Songs Representing An Enthusiasm For Recording...By Amateurs (Restless)
260. John Forte * Poly Sci
261. Frontier * 4 (Emperor Jones)
262. Fushitsusha * Withdrawe, This SableDisclosure Ere Devot'd (Victo)
263. Fushitsusha * The Wisdom Prepared (Tokuma)
264. Alastair Galbraith * Mirrorwork (Emperor Jones)
265. Ganger * Hammock Style (Merge)
266. Gas * Zauberberg (Mille Plateaux)
267. Gilberto Gil * O Sol De Oslo (Blue Jackel)
268. God Is My Co-Piolot * Get Busy (Atavistic)
269. God Lives Underwater * Life in teh So-Called Space Age (1500)
270. High Llamas, Lollo Rosso, (V2)
271. Robyn Hitchcock * Storefront Hitchcock (WB)
272. Mark Hollis (Polydor)
273. Hasidic New Wave * Psycho-Semitic (Knitting Factory)
274. The Hellacopters * All (White Jazz)
275. Kristin Hersh * Strange Angels (Rykodisc)
276. High Rise * Desperado (PSF)
277. Robyn Hitchcock * The Storefront Hitchcock (WB)
278. Home * Netherregions (Jetset)
279. Hooverphonic * Blue Wonder Power Milk (Epic)
280. Tom House * This White Man's Burden (Checkered Past)
281. Hum * Downward Is Heavenward (RCA)
282. Linda Husik * Faith In Space (Alias)
283. Ice * Bad Blood (WB)
284. Imperial Teen * What Is Not to Love (London)
285. Jack * The Jazz Age (Too Pure)
286. Peter Jeffries * Substatic, (Emperor Jones)
287. The Jesus & Mary Chain * Munki (Elektra)
288. Juneau (Ba Da Bing!)
289. Karnak (Tinder Production)
290. Kreidler * Appearance And The Park (Kiff SM)
291. Ladybug (Shock)
292. Bill Laswell * Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis 1969-1974 (Columbia)
293. Julian Lennon * Photograph Smile (Music From Another Room)
294. Legendary Pink Dots * Nemesis On-Line (Soleilmoon)
295. Alan Licht & Loren MazzaCane Connors * Hoffman Estates (Drag City)
296. Local H * Pack Up The Cats (Island)
297. The Loud Family * Days For Days (Alias)
298. Joe Lovano * Trio Fascination: Edition One (Blue Note)
299. Love And Rockets * Lift (Red Ant)
300. Lyle Lovett * Step Inside This House (UNI/MCA)
301. Magnog * More Weather (Kranky)
302. Cheb Mami * Let Me Cry (Blue Silver)
303. Man...Or Astro-Man? * Deux Ex Machina (Touch & Go)
304. Medeski, Martin and Wood * Combustication (Blue Note)
305. Metallica * Garage, Inc. (Elektra)
306. Method Man * Tical 2000
307. Merzbow * Aqua Necromancer (Alien8)
308. Mimi * Soak (Luaka Bop)
309. Mr. Quintron * These Hands Of Mine (Skin Graaft)
310. Joni Mitchell * Taming The Tiger (Reprise)
311. Mix Master Mike * Anti-Theft Device (Asphodel)
312. Molotov * Donde Jugaran Las Ninas (UNI/Universal)
313. Roy Montgomery * Eulogy For Nick Drake (Drunken Fish)
314. Roy Montgomery * True (Kranky)
315. Thurston Moore * Root (Lo)
316. Morcheeba * Big Calm (Sony)
317. Mouse On Mars * Glam (Sonig)
318. Mount Shasta * Watch Out (Skin Graft)
319. Movietone * Day & Night (Drag City)
320. Jeff Muldaur * The Secret Handshake (Hightone)
321. Nada Surf * The Proximity Effect (Elektra)
322. Nashville Pussy * Let Them Eat Pussy (Amphetamine Reptile)
323. Nile * Among the Catacombs of Nephren-Ra (Relapse)
324. No Means No * Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie (Alternative Tentacles)
325. NRG Ensemble * DeJazzo Gets A Facelift (Atavistic)
326. Sally Nyolo * Multiculti (Trop M)
327. Olu Dara * In The World: From Natchez To New York (Atlantic)
328. Oval/Christophe Charles * Dok (Thrill Jockey)
329. Ozmatli (Uni/Almo Sounds)
330. Pan-American (Kranky)
331. Pedro The Lion * It's Hard to Find A Friend (Made in Mexico)
332. Pine Valley Cosmonauts * Salute the Majesty of Bob Wills, the King of Western Swing: Traditionalist, Avant-Gardist, Pioneer, Magician (Bloodshot)
333. Plaid * Not For Threes (Nothing)
334. Plastikman * Consumed (NovaMute)
335. PluRamon * Render Bandits (Mille Plateaux)
336. Pras * Ghetto Supastar (Sony)
337. Primus * Rhinoplasty (Interscope)
338. PhonosycographDISK * Ancient Termites (Bomp Hip-Hop)
339. The Push Kings * Far Places (Sealed Fate)
340. Q-Burns Abstract Message * Feng Shui (Astralwerks)
341. Rachid * Prototype (Universal)
342. Redman * Doc's the Name Def (Jam/Mercury)
343. Refused * The Shape Of Punk To Come (Epitaph)
344. Amy Rigby * Middlescence (Koch)
345. Rialto (China Records)
346. Dom Um Romao * Rhythm Traveller (Mr. Bongo)
347. Rudimentary Peni * Echoes Of Anguish (Outer Himalayan)
348. Ruins * Refusal Fossil (Skin Graft)
349. RZA * Bobby Digital In Stereo (Gee Street/V2)
350. Ryuichi Sakamoto * Love Is The Devil OST (Asphodel)
351. Sarge * The Glass Intact (Mud)
352. Scrawl * Nature Film (Elektra)
353. Seal * Human Being (Warner Brothers)
354. Semisonic * Feeling Strangely Fine (MCA)
355. Jules Shear * Between Us (High Street)
356. Shudder To Think * First Love Last Rites (Epic)
357. Silver Jews * American Water (Drag City)
358. Sister Soleil * Solarium (Universal)
359. Sly & Robbie * Strip to the Bone (Palm Pictures)
360. Solex * Solex Vs The Hitmeister (Matador)
361. Soul Coughing * El Oso (WEA)
362. Spring Heeled Jack * Songs from Suburbia (Ignition/Tommy Boy)
363. Robert Stewart * The Force (Qwest/WB)
364. Taraf De Haidouks * Dumbala Dumba (Crammed Discs)
365. Tarwater * Silur (Kitty Yo)
366. Techno Animal * Radio Hades (Caroline)
367. Terre Thaemlitz * Means From An End (Mille Plateaux)
368. Third Eye Foundation * You Guys Kill Me (Merge/Touch & Go)
369. Ticklah * Polydemic (Razorfish Records)
370. Timbaland * Tim's Bio
371. Tomorrowland * Sequence of the Negative Space Changes (Kranky)
372. A Tribe Called Quest * The Love Movement (Jive)
373. Trumans Water * Fragments Of A Lucky Break (Emperor Jones)
374. Trumystic Sound System * Product Three (Mutant Sound System)
375. David Tudor * Rainforest (Mode)
376. Two Dollar Guitar * Train Songs (Smells Like Records)
377. Maldita Vecindad Y Los Hijos * Mostros (BMG Latin)
378. Velvet CRush * Heavy Changes (Action Musik)
379. Wagon Christ * Tally Ho! (Astralwerks)
380. Don Walser * Down at the Sky-Vue Drive-In (Sire/Watermelon)
381. David S. Ware * Go See The World (Columbia)
382. Chris Watson * Outside The Circle Of Fire (Touch UK)
383. Gillian Welch * Hell Among the Yearlings (Almo Sounds)
384. Whale * All Disco Dancing Must End in Broken Bones (Virgin)
385. William Grant Conspiracy * Flying Low (Slow River)
386. Elmo Williams & Hezekiah Early * Takes One To Know One (Fat Possum)
387. Windy & Carl * Depths (Kranky)
388. Zeek Sheck * Good Luck Suckers (Skin Graft)
389. John Zorn * The Circle Maker (Tzadik)
390. Various * Dugga Dugga Dugga: Wire (WMO)
391. Various * V Classic, Volume 1 (Konkrete Jungle/Ultra Records)

* 1999

1. The Magnetic Fields * 69 Love Songs (Merge)
2. The Flaming Lips * The Soft Bulletin (WB)
3. Arto Lindsay * Prize (Righteous Babe)
4. Clinton [Cornershop] * Disco & The Half Way To Discontent (Hut)
5. The Dismemberment Plan * Emergency & I (De Soto)
6. Cafι Tacuba * Reves/Yosoy (WB)
7. Beck * Midnite Vultures (DGC)
8. Tom Waits * Mule Variations (Epitaph)
9. Built To Spill * Keep It Like A Secret (WB)
10. Natacha Atlas * Gedida (Beggars Banquet)
11. Moby * Play (V2)
12. Handsome Boy Modeling School [Prince Paul & The Automator)] * So...How's Your Girl? (Tommy Boy)
13. Nitin Sawhney * Beyond Skin (Outcaste)
14. Home * XIV (Arena Rock)
15. The White Stripes (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
16. Le Tigre (Mr. Lady)
17. Wilco * Summer Teeth (Reprise)
18. Sparklehorse * Good Morning Spider (Capitol)
19. I Am Spoonbender * Sender/Receiver (Gold Standard)
20. Mestre Ambrσsio * Fϊa Na Casa De Cabral
21. Godspeed You Black Emperor! * Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada EP (Kranky)
22. The Roots * Things Fall Apart (MCA)
23. Jim O'Rourke * Eureka (Drag City)
24. The Black Heart Procession * 2 (Touch & Go)
25. Sonic Youth * Goodbye 20th Century (Smells Like)
26. Mouse On Mars * Niun Niggung (Domino/Thrill Jockey)
27. Ben Christophers * My Beautiful Demon (V2)
28. Death In Vegas * The Contino Sessions (Time Bomb)
29. Ibrahim Ferrer * Buena Vista Social Club Presents (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
30. Khaled * Kenza (Barclay)
31. Those Bastard Souls * Debt & Departure (V2)
32. Sam Prekop (Thrill Jockey)
33. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci * Spanish Dance Troupe (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
34. Super Furry Animals * Guerrilla (Flydaddy)
35. Mos Def * Black On Both Sides (Rawkus)
36. Goodie Mob * World Party (LaFace)
37. Lenine * Na Pressγo (BMG Brasil)
38. Soul Center (W.v.B.)
39. Lali Puna * Tridecoder (Darla)
40. Mr. Scruff * Keep It Unreal (Ninja Tune)
41. Prince Paul * A Prince Among Thieves (Tommy Boy)
42. Matmos * The West (Deluxe/Vague Terrain)
43. Tantalus * Another Failed Attempt (Fading Fantasy Failing)
44. Ali Farka Tourι * NiaFunke (Hannibal)
45. Tom Zι * Postmodern Platos: Remixes (Luaka Bop)
46. David Sylvian * Dead Bees on a Cake (Virgin)
47. Fabulosos Cadillacs * La Marcha Del Golazo Solitario (BMG Latin)
48. Vinicius Cantuaria * Tucuma (Verve)
49. Joe Pernice * Shappaquiddick Skyline (Sub Pop)
50. Ely Guerra * Lotofire (Higher Octave)
51. Stereolab * Cobra and Phases Group Play "Voltage" in the Milky Night
52. The Beta Band * The Three EPs (Astralwerks) (Elektra)
53. Burning Airlines * Mission Control (Desoto)
54. Number One Cup * People, People, Why Are We Fighting? (Flydaddy)
55. Latin Playboys * Dose (WB)
56. Cul De Sac * Crashes to Light, Minutes to Its Fall (Thirsty Ear)
57. Royal Trux * Veterans of Disorder (Drag City)
58. The Angels Of Light * New Mother (Young God)
59. Olivia Tremor Control * Black Foliage Volume One (Flydaddy)
60. Caetano Veloso * Livro (Nonesuch)
61. Four Tet * Dialogue (Output)
62. Electric Company * Omakase (Vinyl)
63. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * Xtra Acme USA (Matador)
64. Archer Prewitt * White Sky (Carrot Top)
65. The Aluminum Group * Pedals (Minty Fresh)
66. Tony Allen * Black Voices (Comet)
67. Freakwater * End Time (Thrill Jockey)
68. Cesaria Evora * Cafι Atlantico (BMG)
69. dj Cheb i Sabbah * Shri Durga (Six Degrees)
70. Arab Strap * Elephant Shoe (Go Beat)
71. Low * Secret Name (Kranky)
72. Everything But The Girl * Temperamental (Atlantic)
73. Carlinhos Brown * Omelete Man (Metro Blue)
74. Buddy Miller * Cruel Moon (Hightone)
75. Rizwan-Muazam Qawwali Group * Sacrifice To Love (Real World)
76. Wheat * Hope And Adams (Sugar Free)
77. Lamb * Fear of Fours (Mercury/Island)
78. Fantomas (Ipecac)
79. Kalyanji V. & Anandji V. Shah, Automator & DJ Shadow * Bombay The Hard Way: Guns, Cars And Sitars (Motel)
80. Cibo Matto * Stereotype A (WB)
81. The Daktaris * Soul Explosion (Desco)
82. Lungfish * The Unanimous Hour (Dischord)
83. Rainer Maria * Look Now Look Again (Polyvinyl)
84. Joi * One and One Is One (Real World/Astralwerks)
85. Femi Kuti * Shoki Shoki (Talkin' Loud)
86. Basement Jaxx * Remedy (Astralwerks)
87. Badmarsh & Shri * Dancing Drums (Outcaste)
88. Mr. Bungle * California (WB)
89. Hamell On Trial * The Chord Is Mightier Than The Sword (Polygram)
90. Sunny Day Real Estate * Live (Sub Pop)
91. Beth Orton * Central Reservation (Arista)
92. Kelly Willis * What I Deserve (Rykodisc)
93. Willard Grant Conspiracy * Mojave (Slow River)
94. Labradford * E Luxo So (Kranky)
95. Les Rhythmes Digitales * DarkDancer (Astralwerks)
96. The Faint * Blank-Wave Arcade (Saddle Creek)
97. The Chemical Brothers * Surrender (Astralwerks)
98. Shannon Wright * Flightsafety (Quarterstick)
99. Solex * Pick Up (Matador)
100. Quasi * Field Studies (Up)
101. Fountains Of Wayne * Utopia Parkway (Atlantic)
102. Velvet CRush * Free Expression (Bobsled)
103. Spain * She Haunts My Dreams (Restless)
104. Ember Swift * Permanent Marker (Few'll Ignite Sound)
105. Julie Miller * Broken Things (Hightone)
106. Randy Newman * Bad Love (Dreamworks)
107. Breakbeat Era [Roni Size] * Ultra-Obscene (XL/A&M)
108. Elf Power * A Dream In Sound (Arena Rock)
109. Ani DiFranco * To The Teeth (Righteous Babe)
110. Solarized * Neanderthal Speedway (Man's Ruin)
111. Jessica Bailiff [& Low] * Hour of the Trace (Kranky)
112. Gomez * Liquid Skin (Hut/Virgin)
113. Sloan * Between The Bridges (murderrecords)
114. Mark Lanegan * I'll Take Care Of You (Sub Pop)
115. Bonnie Prince Billie (Will Oldham) * I See A Darkness (Palace)
116. Deus * The Ideal Crash (Polygram)
117. The Lonesome Organist * Cavalcade (Thrill Jockey)
118. Andrea Parker * Kiss My Arp (Mo'Wax/Beggars Banquet)
119. Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma * Sampradaya (Real World)
120. The Apples In Stereo * Her Wallpaper Reverie (spinART)
121. Cheikh Lo * Bambay Gueej (World Circuit)
122. Damien Jurado * Rehearsals For Departure (Sub Pop)
123. The Roots * Come Alive (MCA)
124. Luna * The Days of Our Nights (Beggars Banquet)
125. Various * Return of the Grievous Angel: Tribute to Gram Parsons (Almo)
126. Matthew Sweet * In Reverse (Volcano)
127. Blur * 13 (Virgin)
128. Afro Cuban All Stars * Distinto, Diferente (World Circuit)
129. Bis * Social Dancing (Capitol)
130. Luscious Jackson * Electric Honey (Grand Royal)
131. Sloan * 4 Nights At the Palais Royale (murderecords)
132. Ol' Dirty Bastard * Nigga Please (Elektra)
133. Low * Christmas EP (Kranky)
134. Bobby Conn * Llovessonngs EP (Thrill Jockey)
135. The Creatures * Anima Animus (Instinct)
136. Kool Keith (Dr. Doom) * First Come, First Served (Funky Ass Records)
137. Trans Am * Futureworld (Thrill Jockey)
138. Brokeback * Field Recordings From The Cook County Water Table (Thrill Jockey)
139. Los Lobos * This Time (Hollywood)
140. Joe Henry * Fuse (Mammoth)
141. Banco de Gaia * The Magical Sounds of (Six Degrees)
142. Black Tape for a Blue Girl * As One Aflame Laid Bare by Desire (Projekt)
143. Innerzone Orchestra * Programmed (Astralwerks)
144. Pavement * Terror Twilight (Matador)
145. Bardo Pond * Set And Setting (Matador)
146. DMX Krew * We Are DMX (Rephlex)
147. Atari Teenage Riot * 60 Second Wipeout (Elektra)
148. Dr. Isreal * Inna City Presure (Mutant Sound System)
149. Shakti * Remember Shakti (PolyGram)
150. Guided By Voices * Do The Collapse (TVT)
151. Verbena * Into The Pink (Capitol)
152. Kool Keith * Black Elvis/Lost in Space (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
153. Peanut Butter Wolf * My Vinyl Weighs A Ton (Studio K7)
154. Sleater-Kinney * The Hot Rock (Kill Rock Stars)
155. The Chamber Strings * Gospel Morning (Bobsled)
156. Tricky * Juxtapose (Island)
157. Mandy Barnett * I've Got a Right to Cry (Sire)
158. Mansun * Six (Epic)
159. Of Montreal Presents The Gay Parade (Bar/None)
160. Howie B * Snatch (Palm Pictures)
161. Sly & Robbie VS Howie B * Drum 'N Bass: Stripped to the Bone (Palm Pictures)
162. Roy Montgomery/Chris Heaphy * True (Kranky)
163. Dwindle * Days Away (Guilt Ridden Pop)
164. June Of 44 * Anahata (Quarterstick)
165. Rachel's * Selenography (Quarterstick)
166. Chuck E. Weiss * Extremely Cool (Slow River/Rykodisc)
167. Orbital * The Middle Of Nowhere (London)
168. Smog * Knock Knock (Drag City)
169. Prodigy Presents * The Dirtchamber Sessions Vol. 1 (remix album) (Beggars Banquet)
170. Red Hot Chili Peppers * Californication (WB)
171. Mick Turner * Marlan Rosa (Drag City)
172. John McEntire * Reach The Rock (Hefty)
173. Philosopher's Stone * Apparatus (Kranky)
174. The London Suede * Head Music (Nude/Columbia)
175. Electric Wizard * Come My Fanatics (The Music Cartel)
176. Mogwai * Come On Die Young (Matador)
177. Add N to X * Avant Hard (Mute)
178. Alabama Thunder Pussy * River City Revival (Man's Ruin)
179. Fu Manchu * Eatin' Dust (Man's Ruin)
180. Orange Goblin * Frequencies From Planet Ten (The Music Cartel)
181. Chris Cornell * Euphoria Morning (A&M/Interscope)
182. Make Up * Save Yourself (K)
183. The Get Up Kids * Red Letter Day/Woodson EPs (Doghouse)
184. Rage Against The Machine * The Battle Of Los Angeles (Epic)
185. Pavement * Major Leagues EP (Matador)
186. Nebula/Lowrider EP (Meteorcity)
187. The Selecter * Performs the Trojan Songbook (Reeiver)
188. Man...Or Astroman? * EEVIAC: Operational Index & Reference Guide... (Touch and Go)
189. Poster Children * New World Record (SpinART)
190. Angie Stone * Black Diamond (Arista)
191. Stereo Total * Juke-Box-Alarm (Bobsled)
192. Mike Ness * Under The Influences (Time Bomb)
193. Voodoo Glow Skulls * Exitos al Carbon (Grito!)
194. The Atomic Bitchwax (Tee Pee)
195. Gus Gus * This Is Normal (4AD/WB)
196. Cool Breeze * East Points Greatest Hit (UNI/Interscope)
197. Missy Elliott * Da Real World (EastWest)
198. Mary J. Blige * Mary (MCA)
199. Mike Ness * Cheating at Solitaire (Time Bomb)
200. Goldfinger * Darrin's Coconut Ass EP (Mojo)
201. Macy Gray * On How Life Is (Sony/Epic)
202. Jason Falkner * Can You Still Feel? (Elektra)
203. Waco Brothers * Wacoworld (Bloodshot)
204. The Donnas * Get Skintight (Lookout)
205. Melky Sedeck * Sister & Brother (MCA)
206. Bows * Blush (Beggars Banquet)
207. The Muffs * Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow (Honest Don's/Fat Wreck Chords)
208. Squarepusher * Budakhan Mindphone EP (Warp)
209. XTC * Apple Venus (TVT)
210. Katharine Whalen * & Her Jazz Squad (Mammoth)
211. The Living End (Reprise)
212. Various * Burning London: The Clash Tribute (Epic)
213. The Rentals * Seven More Minutes (Maverick/Reprise)
214. oRSo (Perishable)
215. Arcwelder * Everest (Touch & Go)
216. Nightmares on Wax * Carboot Soul (Matador)
217. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band * Buck Jump (Mammoth)
218. M People * Testify (Epic)
219. Shannon Moore * LTD (FMA)
220. Carlos Santana * Mumbo Jumbo (Arista)
221. Out In Worship * Sterilized (Perishable)
222. Drumhead (Perishable)
223. Echo & The Bunnymen * What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? (London)
224. Cesar Rosas * Soul Disguise (Rykodisc)
225. David Bowie * hours... (Virgon)
226. Huun-Huur-Tu * Where Young Grass Grows (Shanachie)
227. Elastica * 6 Track EP (Deceptive)
228. Ani DiFranco * Up Up Up Up Up Up (Righteous Babe)
229. Nine Inch Nails * The Fragile (Nothing)
230. The Beta Band (Astralwerks)
231. Therefore * Krohm (Inlet)
232. Jamiroquai * Synkronized (WORK Group)
233. Pete Krebs & the Gossamer Wings * Sweet Ona Rose (Cavity Search)
234. Tori Amos * to venus and back (Atlantic)
235. Fiona Apple * When the Pawn... (Epic)
236. Filter * Title Of Album (Reprise)
237. Ministry * Dark Side of the Spoon (WB)
238. Penelope Houston * Tongue (Reprise)
239. Paul Westerberg * Suicaine Gratifaction (Capitol)
240. The American Analog Set * The Golden Band (Emperor Jones)
241. American Football (Polyvinyl)
242. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead * Madonna (Merge/Touch & Go)
243. The Angry Samoans * The 90's Suck and So Do You (Triple X)
244. Ash * Nu-Clear Sounds (DreamWorks)
245. Autechre * EP7 (Warp/Nothing)
246. The Auteurs * How I Learned To Love The Bootboys (Hut)
247. Bailter Space * Solar.3 (Turnbuckle)
248. Sandra Bell * City of Sorrow (VHF)
249. Belloluna * Livid and Loving It (Daemon)
250. Bike * Take In The Sun (March/Flying Nun)
251. Biohazard * New World Disorder (Mercury/Def Jam)
252. Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire, Oh! The Grandeur (Rykodisc)
253. Frank Black & the Catholics * Pistolero (spinART)
254. Blondie * No Exit
255. Boo Radleys * Kingsize (Never)
256. Broken Dog * Sleeve With Hearts (Piao!)
257. Buckethead * Monsters And Robots (Higher Octave)
258. Nigel Bunn * Index (Emperor Jones)
259. Calavera * Day of the Dead (La Piedra del Rock)
260. Catatonia * Equally Cursed & Blessed (Blanco Y Negro)
261. Caustic Resin * Trick Question (Alias)
262. Gustavo Cerati * Bocanada (BMG Latin)
263. The Charlatans * Us And Us Only (MCA)
264. The Clash * Live From Here To Eternity (Sony/Epic)
265. Cobra Verde * Nightlife (Motel)
266. Coil * Musick To Play in the Dark Vol. 1 (Chalice)
267. Company Flow * Little Johnny From the Hospital (Rawkus)
268. Continental Drifters * Vermillion (Razor & Tie)
269. Cornelius * CM & FM (Matador)
270. Holger Czukay * Good Morning Story (Tone Casualties)
271. Vanessa Daou * Dear John Coltrane (Oxygen Music Works)
272. Dr. Dre * The Cronic 2001 (Aftermath)
273. Dolly Varden * The Dumbest Magnets (Evil Teen)
274. Charles Douglas * The Lives Of Charles Douglas (No. 6)
275. Heather Duby * Post To Wire (Sub Pop)
276. The Dylan Group * More Adventures In Lying Down (Bubble Core)
277. Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band * The Mountain (E-Squared)
278. East River Pipe * The Gasoline Age (Merge)
279. Electronic * Twisted Tenderness (Parlophone)
280. Elf Power * Come On EP (Little Army/Carrot Top)
281. Entombed * Black Juju (Man's Ruin)
282. EPMD * Out of Business (Def Jam)
283. Euphone * The Calendar Of Unlucky Days (Jade Tree)
284. Eurythmics * Peace (Arista)
285. The Fall * The Marshal Suite (Circus Artful)
286. Fernando * Old Man Hotel (Cravedog)
287. Faust * Ravviando (Klangbad)
288. Flin Flon * Boo-Boo (Teenbeat)
289. Gay Dad * Leisure Noise (WEA/Sire)
290. G Love & Special Sauce * Philadelphonic (Okeh/550)
291. Gene Loves Jezebel * VII (Robison)
292. Ghost * Snuffbox Immanence (Drag City)
293. Ghost * Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet (Drag City)
294. Gigolo Aunts * Minor Chords & Major Themes (E Pluribus Unum)
295. The Go * Whatcha Doin' (Sub Pop)
296. Godflesh * Us And Them (Earache)
297. Alex Gopher * You, My Baby&I (V2)
298. Gwar * We Kill Everything (Metal Blade)
299. GZA/Genius * Beneath The Surface (MCA)
300. Keiji Haino * An Unclear Trial: More Than This (Avant)
301. The Hang-Ups * Second Story (Restless)
302. Ben Harper, Burn to Shine (Virgin)
303. Hasidic New Wave * Kabalogy (Knitting Factory)
304. The Hellacopters * Grande Rock (Sub Pop)
305. The Hellacopters * Payin' The Dues (Sub Pop)
306. The Herbaliser * Very Mercenary (Ninja Tune)
307. Kristin Hersh * Sky Motel (4AD)
308. Hi Fi Killers * Control Jamaica (Loosegroove)
309. High Llamas * Snowbug (V2)
310. Robyn Hitchcock * Jewls For Sophia (WB)
311. Linda Husik * Mad Flavor (Alias)
312. The Iguanas * Sugartown (Koch)
313. Imperial Teen * What Is Not To Love (WB)
314. Indigo Girls * Come On Now Social (Epic)
315. Isotope 217 * Utonian Automatic (Thrill Jockey)
316. Wyclef Jean * Life (Original Soundtrack) (Interscope)
317. Jim And Jennie And The Pine Barons (Phovsho)
318. Freedy Johnston * Blue Days, Black Nights (Elektra)
319. June Of 44 * In The Fishtank EP (Quarterstick)
320. Juno * This Is The Way It Goes and Goes And Goes (DeSoto/Pacifico)
321. Paul K. and the Prayers * Saratoga (Alias)
322. Kid Silver * Dead City Sunbeams (Jetset)
323. KMFDM * Adios(Wax Trax!)
324. Krispy * From the Country (Bomb Hip-Hop)
325. Kruder & Dorfmeister * The K&D Sessions (!K7)
326. Ben Lee * Breathing Tornadoes (Grand Royal)
327. Le Mans * Aqui Vivia Yo (Elefant-Grimsey)
328. Light Bright Highway * Moon Glory and The 7th Sun (Two Ohm Hop)
329. The Lilac Time * Looking For A Day In The Night (spinART)
330. The Longpigs * Mobile Home (Mothe)
331. Loop Guru * Fountains of Paradise (Hypnotic/Cleopatra)
332. Love As Laughter * Destination 2000 (Sub Pop)
333. Love Battery * Confusion Au Go Go (C/Z Records)
334. The Long Beach Dub All Stars * Burn Unit (Skunk)
335. Love As Laughter * Destination: 2000 (Sub Pop)
336. L7 * Slap Happy (Wax Tadpole/Bong Load)
337. Macha * see It Another Way (Jetset)
338. Machine Head * The Burning Red (Roadrunner)
339. Material * Intonarumori (Axiom/Palm Pictures)
340. MC Solaar * Le Tour De La Question (WEA)
341. The Melvins * The Maggot (Ipecac)
342. The Melvins * The Bootlicker (Ipecac)
343. Mr. Bungle * California (WB)
344. Mobb Deep * Murda Muzik (Sony/Columbia)
345. Mojave 3 * Out Of Tune (4AD/Sire)
346. Moloko * I Am Not A Doctor (WB)
347. The Montgolfier brothers * Seventeen Stars (Vespertine)
348. Muslimgauze * Hussein Mahmood Jeeb Tehar Gass (Soleilmoon)
349. Mu-Ziq * Royal Astronomy (Astralwerks)
350. My Morning Jacket * The Tennessee Fire (Darla)
351. Nas * I Am...The Autobiography (Columbia)
352. Me'Shell Ndegιocello * Bitter (Columbia)
353. Naked Funk * Evolution ending (Palm Pictures)
354. Nebula * To The Center (Sub Pop)
355. New Bomb Turks * Crash '99 (All City/Columbis)
356. The Nerves * Right Now (Estrus)
357. Nocternal Emissions * Futurist Antiquarianism (Soleilmoon)
358. Old 97's * Fight Songs (Elektra)
359. Otherstarpeople * Diamonds In the Belly Of The Dog (A&M)
360. Oval * Aero Deko (Thrill Jockey)
361. Oval * Svendisk (Thrill Jockey)
362. Pachinko * Splendor In The Ass II: Electric Boogaloo (Alternative Tentacles)
363. Pan sonic * A (Mute)
364. Pelt * Empty Bell Ringing In The Sky (VHF)
365. Pharoahe Monch * Internal Affairs (Rawkus)
366. Joel Phelps * Blackbird (Pacifico)
367. Piano Magic * Low Birth Weight (Rocket Girl)
368. Pizzicato Five * The International Playboy & Playgirl Record (Matador)
369. Plaid * Rest Proof Clockwork (Nothing)
370. Plone * For Beginner Piano (Warp/Matador)
371. Pole 2 (Matador)
372. Rose Polenzani * Anybody (Daemon)
373. Iggy Pop * Avenue B (Virgin)
374. Pretenders * ΅Viva El Amor!(Warner Bros)
375. Primus * Anti Pop (Interscope)
376. The Promise Ring * Very Emergency (Jade Tree)
377. Public Enemy * There's a Poison Goin' On (Atomic Pop)
378. The Queers * Later Days and Better Days (Lookout!)
379. Quickspace * Precious Falling (Hidden Agenda/Parasol)
380. Ratos de Parao * Carneceria Tropicale (Alternative Tentacles)
381. Red House Painters * Old Ramon (Supreme/Island)
382. The Red Krayola * Finger Painting (Drag City)
383. Red Monkey * Difficult Is Easy (Troubleman)
384. Red Stars Theory * Life in a Bubble Can Be Beautiful (Touch and Go)
385. Regia * The Art of Navigation (spin-ART)
386. Stan Ridgway * Anatomy (New West)
387. Rick Rizzo & Tara Key * Dark Edson Tiger (Thrill Jockey)
388. Salako * Musicality (Jeepster)
389. Sebadoh * The Sebadoh (Sub Pop/Sire)
390. Seaweed * Actions and Indications (Merge)
391. Selecter * Cruel Britannia (Snapper)
392. Skull Kontrol * Deviate Beyond All Means of Capture (Touch & Go)
393. Luke Slater * Wireless (NovaMute)
394. Sleepyhead * The Brighter Shore (Sealed Fate)
395. Songs: Ohia * Axxess and Ace (Secretly Canadian)
396. Stars Of The Lid * Avec Laudenum (Sub Rosa)
397. Stereophonics * Performance and Cocktails (V2)
398. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros * X-Ray Style (Hellcat)
399. Superchunk * Come Pick Me Up (Merge)
400. Supersuckers * The Evil Poers Of Rock 'n' Roll (Tenty14/Koch)
401. Switchblade Symphony * The Three Calamities (Cleopatra)
402. Tarwater * Silur (Kitty-Yo/Mute)
403. 10,000 Maniacs The Earth Pressed Flat (Bar/None)
404. Jimi Tenor * Organism (Sire/Warp)
405. David Thomas * Mirror Man (Thirsty Ear)
406. Tindersticks * Simple Pleasure (London)
407. Sally Timms * Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments (For Lost Buckaroos) (Bloodshot)
408. David Toop * Museum Of Fruit (Caiprinha/Sire)
409. Travis * The Man Who (Sony)
410. To Roccoco Rot * The Amateur View (Mute)
411. Dwight Twilley * Tulsa (Coper)
412. Underworld * Beaucoup Fish (TVT)
413. U.S. Maple * Talker (Drag City)
414. Vandermark 5 * Simpatico (Atavistic)
415. Versus * Afterglow EP (Merge)
416. Ben Wa * Devil Dub (Black Hole)
417. Ween * Paintin' the Town Brown (Elektra)
418. We Ragazzi * Suicide Sound System (My Pal God)
419. Peter Whitehead * Three Bags Full (Strange Attractor)
420. Steve Wynn * My Midnight (Zero Hour)
421. Zen Guerilla * Trance Status In Tongues (Sub Pop)
422. Z'ev * Face The Wound (Soleilmoon)
423. Various * Source Material (French) (Source/Astralwerks)
424. Various * Tuva: Among The Spirits (Smithsonian Folkways)

Η δεκαετία του ’90 κλείνει θεαματικά με 2.307 παραγωγές.
Δηλαδή περίπου, ένας δίσκος κάθε 1,5 ημέρα.

2000

1. Radiohead * Kid A (Capitol)
2. PJ Harvey * Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (Island)
3. Amon Tobin * Supermodified (Ninja Tune)
4. Asian Dub Foundation * Community Music (London)
5. Queens of the Stone Age * Rated R (Interscope)
6. At The Drive-In * Relationship Of Command (Grand Royal)
7. Modest Mouse * The Moon & Antarctica (Epic)
8. Sussan Deyhim * Madman Of God: Divine Love Songs of the Persian Sufi Masters (CramWorld)
9. Sigur Rσs * Αgaetis Byrjun (FatCat/Bubble Core)
10. Sleater-Kinney * All Hands On The Bad One (Kill Rock Stars)
11. Naηγo Zumbi * Rαdio S.AMB.A. (Stern's Brasil)
12. AmPop * Nature Is Not A Virgin (R&R Iceland)
13. Godspeed You Black Emperor! * Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (Kranky)
14. 16 Horsepower * Secret South (Razor & Tie)
15. Primal Scream * Xtrmntr (Creation)
16. Nina Nastasia * Dogs (Socialist)
17. Eleni Mandell * Thrill (Space Baby)
18. The Delgados * The Great Eastern (Chemikal Underground)
19. D'Angelo * Voodoo (Virgin)
20. Eels * Daisies of the Galaxy (Dreamworks)
21. Mϊm * Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is Okay (Tugboat)
22. Soul Center II (W.v.B.)
23. The White Stripes * De Stijl (Sympathy For the Record Industry)
24. Calexico * Hot Rail (Quarterstick)
25. The Black Heart Procession * Three (Touch & Go)
26. Radio 4 * The New Song And Dance (Gern Blandsten)
27. Grandaddy * The Sophtware Slump (V2)
28. Mundo Livre S.A. * Por Pouco (Abril)
29. The Kingsbury Manx (Overcoat)
30. Various * Caipirνssima: Batucada Eletrτnica (Caipirinha)
31. Hawksley Workman * For Him And The Girls (Isadora/Ba Da Bing)
32. John Vanderslice * Mass Suicide Occult Figurines (Barsuk)
33. The Concretes * Boyoubetterunow (Up)
34. Poem Rocket * Psychogeography (Atavistic)
35. The Czars * Before But Longer (Bella Union)
36. Leila * Courtesy Of Choice (XL)
37. The Russian Futurists * The Method Of Modern Love (Upper Class)
38. Twilight Singers * Twilight As Played By the Twilight Singers (Columbia)
39. The Dirty Three * Whatever You Love You Are (Touch & Go)
40. Boss Hog * Whiteout (In The Red)
41. The Fire Show (Perishable)
42. Broadcast * The Noise Made By People (Warp/Tommy Boy)
43. Elliott Smith * Figure 8 (Dreamworks)
44. Outkast * Stankonia (LaFace)
45. Entombed * Uprising (Threeman)
46. The Handsome Family * In The Air (Carrot Top)
47. Yo La Tengo * And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (Matador)
48. Pram * Museum Of Imaginary Animals (Too Pure)
49. Joseph Arthur * Come To Where I'm From (RealWorld)
50. Chris Lee (Misra)
51. Animal Collective/Avey Tare & Panda Bear * Spirit They've Gone...Spirit They've Vanished (Animal)
52. Giant Sand * Chore Of Enchantment (Thrill Jockey)
53. Isolee * Rest (Playhouse)
54. Suba * Sao Paulo Confessions (Six Degrees)
55. Johnny Cash * American III: Solitary Man (Columbia)
56. Joe Pernice * Big Tobacco (Glitterhouse)
57. Laika * Good Looking Blues (Too Pure)
58. David Holmes * Bow Down To the Exit Sign (Go Beat)
59. Tabla Beat Science * Tala Matrix (Axiom)
60. Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos * Muy Divertido (Atlantic)
61. State Of Bengal * Visual Audio (Six Degrees)
62. Thievery Corporation * Mirror Conspiracy (ESL)
63. Patti Smith * Gung Ho (Arista)
64. Kid 606 * Down With The Scene (Ipecac)
65. The Go-Betweens * The Friends Of Rachel Worth (Jetset)
66. Super Furry Animals * Mwng (Flydaddy)
67. Eleventh Dream Day * Stalled Parade (Thrill Jockey)
68. Royal Trux * Pound For Pound (Drag City)
69. Bjφrk * Selmasongs (Elektra)
70. Pinetop Seven * Bringing Home The Last Great Strike (Truckstop)
71. Ryan Adams * Heartbreaker (Bloodshot)
72. Jets To Brazil * Four Cornered Night (Jade Tree)
73. Tahiti 80 * Puzzle (Minty Fresh)
74. Elf Power * Winter Is Coming (Sugar Free)
75. Cinerama * Disco Volante (Manifesto)
76. Einsturzende Neubauten * Silence Is Sexy (Mute)
77. Lambchop * Nixon (Merge)
78. Bonfire Madigan * Saddle The Bridge (Kill Rock Stars)
79. Damien Jurado * Ghost Of David (Sub Pop)
80. Blackalicious * Nia (Quannum Projects)
81. Jason Moran * Facing Left (Blue Note)
82. Common * Like Water For Chocolate (MCA)
83. Jah Wobble * Molam Dub (30 Hertz)
84. Susana Baca * Eco De Sombras (Luaka Bop)
85. Jill Scott * Who Is Jill Scott? (Sony/Epic)
86. Anti Pop Consortium * Tragic Epilogue (75 Ark)
87. Goldfrapp * Felt Mountain (Mute)
88. Dead Prez * Let's Get Free (Loud)
89. Ghostface Killah * Supreme Clientele (Epic/Razor Sharp)
90. Deltron 3030 (75 Ark)
91. Built To Spill * Live (WB)
92. Virginνa Rodrigues * Nσs (Hannibal)
93. Jurassic 5 * Quality Control (Interscope)
94. Reflection Eternal (Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek) * Train Of Thought (Rawkus)
95. Tantalus * Constant Gratification (SHP)
96. Flogging Molly * Swagger (SideOneDummy)
97. The Aluminum Group * Pelo (Symbiotic/Hefty)
98. Doves * Lost Souls (Heavenly)
99. Schneider TM * Binokular EP (City Slang)
100. Weakerthans * Left & Leaving (Sub City)
101. The Clientele * SubUrban Light (Merge)
102. No Doubt * Return Of Saturn (Interscope)
103. Toshack Highway (Flower Shop)
104. Mondo Generator * Cocaine Rodeo (Southern Lord)
105. Elastica * The Menace (Geffen)
106. Nile * Black Seeds Of Vengeance (Relapse)
107. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci * The Blue Trees (Mantra)
108. Erin McKeown * Distillation (Signature)
109. High On Fire * The Art of Self Defense (Man's Ruin)
110. Shannon Wright * Maps Of Tacit (Quarterstick)
111. Otto * Changez Tout: Samba Par Burro Dissecado (Trama)
112. Kathryn Williams * Little Black Numbers (Caw)
113. Quasimoto * The Unseen (Stones Throw)
114. Chicks On Speed * Will Save Us All! (Chicks On Speed)
115. The Walkabouts * Train Leaves at Eight (Glitterhouse)
116. Dillinger Escape Plan * Calculating Infinity (Relapse)
117. Smog * Dongs Of Sevotion (Drag City)
118. Sunny Day Real Estate * Rising Tide (BMG/Time Bomb)
119. Bebel Gilberto * Tanto tempo (Six Degrees)
120. Hamell on Trial * Choochtown (Such A Punch)
121. North Mississippi Allstars * Shake Hands With Shorty (Uni/Tone Cool)
122. The Webb Brothers * Maroon (Warners)
123. Fu Manchu * King Of The Road (Mammoth)
124. Allison Moorer * The Hardest Part (MCA)
125. The Fucking Champs * IV (Drag City)
126. Kid Koala * Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (Ninja Tune)
127. Shelby Lynne * I Am Shelby Lynne (Island)
128. Clutch * Jam Room (Spitfire)
129. Emmylou Harris * Red Dirt Girl (Nonesuch)
130. Death Cab For Cutie * We Have The Facts & We're Voting Yes (Barsuk)
131. Idaho * Hearts Of Palm (Idaho Music)
132. The BellRays * Grand Fury (Vital Gesture/Upper Cut)
133. The Sea And Cake * Oui (Thrill Jockey)
134. Zeke * Dirty Sanchez (Epitaph)
135. The The * Naked Self (Nothing)
136. The Blacks * Just Like Home (Bloodshot)
137. Neko Case & Her Boyfriends * Furnace Room Lullaby (Bloodshot)
138. Natacha Atlas * The Remix Collection (Mantra)
139. Boubacar Traore * Macire (Indigo)
140. Rokia Traore * Wanita (Indigo)
141. Erykah Badu * Mama's Gun (Motown)
142. Movietone * The Blossom Filled Streets (Domino)
143. Rage Against The Machine * Renegades (Epic)
144. Go-Kart Mozart * Instant Wigwam And Igloo Mixture (West Midlands Records)
145. Schema (5 Rue Christine)
146. Blonde Redhead * Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons (Touch And Go)
147. The Delta 72 * 000 (Touch & Go)
148. Ruben Gonzalez * Chanchullo (World Circuit)
149. Marah * Kids In Philly (E Squared/Artemis)
150. Emiliana Torrini * Love In The Time of Science (Virgin)
151. Youssou N'dour * Joko (Nonesuch)
152. Don Caballero * American Don (Touch & Go)
153. Slumber Party (Kill Rock Stars)
154. Cat Power * The Covers Record (Matador)
155. Sinead O'Connor * Faith And Courage (Atlantic)
156. Sonic Youth * NYC Ghosts & Flowers (Geffen)
157. Motφrhead * We Are Motφrhead (CMC)
158. Will Oldham * Lost Blues II (Drag City)
159. Will Oldham * Ode Music (Drag City)
160. Steve Earle * Transcendental Blues (WB)
161. Vermin * Millennium Ride (Metal Blade)
162. Dismember * Hate Campaign (Nuclear Blast)
163. Bettie Serveert * Private Suit (WB)
164. The Waxwings * Low To The Ground (Bobsled)
165. Black Eyed Peas * Bridging The Gap (Interscope)
166. Songs: Ohia * Ghost Tropic (Secretly Canadian)
167. Bride Of No No * B.O.N.N. Appetit (Atavistic)
168. The Eternals (DeSoto)
169. Roni Size (Reprazent) * In The Mode (Studio K7/Full Cycle)
170. Master Musicians of Jajouka * Featuring Bachir Attar & Talvin Singh (Universal)
171. High Llamas * Buzzle Bee (Drag City)
172. The Damage Manual (Invisible)
173. U2 * All That You Can't Leave Behind (Interscope)
174. Clinic! * Internal Wrangler (Domino)
175. Aimee Mann * Magnolia/Bachelor #1 (WEA)
176. Lois Maffao & Brendan Canty * The Union Themes (Kill Rock Stars)
177. Badly Drawn Boy * The Hour Of Bewilderbeast (Twisted Nerve)
178. Silkworm * Lifestyle (Touch & Go)
179. Jeff Buckley * Mystery White Boy 1995-1996 (Columbia)
180. Dolly Varden * The Dumbest Magnets (Evil Teen)
181. Trans Am * Red Line (Thrill Jockey)
182. Versus * Hurrah (Merge)
183. Tara Jane O'Neil * Peregrine (Quarterstick)
184. Shellac * 1000 Hurts (Touch & Go)
185. Hot Snakes * Automatic Midnight (Swami)
186. Lungfish * Necrophones (Dischord)
187. Kool Keith * Matthew (Funky Ass)
188. Femi Kuti * Shoki Shoki (UNI/MCA)
189. Lucas Santtana * Eletro Ben Dodo (Natasha)
190. Ida * Will You Find Me (Tiger Style)
191. Add N To (X) * Add Insult To Injury (Mute)
192. Goudie * Peep Show (Elektra)
193. The Helio Sequence * Com Plex (Cavity Search)
194. Cadallaca * Out West EP (Kill Rock Stars)
195. Napalm Death * Leaders Not Followers (Relapse)
196. Spaceways Incorporated * Thirteen Cosmic Standars by Sun Ra & Funkadelic (Atavistic)
197. Capleton * More Fire (VP)
198. Quickspace * The Death Of Quickspace (Matador)
199. Richard Ashcroft * Alone With Everybody (Virgin)
200. The Bangs * Sweet Revenge (Kill Rock Stars)
201. Seely * Winter Birds (Koch)
202. Merle Haggard * If I Could Only Fly (Anti/Epitaph)
203. Kelly Hogan and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts * Beneath the Country Underdog(Bloodshot)
204. Rancid (Epitaph)
205. Longwave (Lunasea)
206. Waco Brothers * Electric Waco Chair (Bloodshot)
207. Third Eye Foundation * Little Lost Soul (Domino)
208. Air * The Virgin Suicides (Astralwerks)
209. William Orbit * Pieces in a Modern Style (Maverick)
210. Tara Key & Rick Rizzo * Dark Edson Tiger (Thrill Jockey)
211. Belle & Sebastian * Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant (Matador)
212. Seρor Coconut * El Baile Alemαn (Emperor Norton)
213. International Noise Conspiracy * First Conspiracy (Epitaph)
214. Idlewild * 100 Broken Windows (EMD/Capitol)
215. A Guy Called Gerald * Essence (!K7)
216. Guru's Jazzmatazz * StreetSoul (Virgin)
217. Deftones * White Pony (Maverick)
218. Amen * We Have Come For Your Parents (Virgin)
219. The Beautiful South * Painting It Red (Ark 21)
220. Dmitri from Paris * A Night at the Playboy Mansion (Astralwerks)
221. The Motion (Sad Loud America)
222. The Need * The Need Is Dead (Chainsaw)
223. The Dishes * The Dishes (No. 89 Records)
224. Hefner * We Love The City (Too Pure)
225. Fontanelle (Kranky)
226. Cash Audio * Green Bullet (Touch & Go)
227. The Dandy Warhols * Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia (Capitol)
228. Plastilina Mosh * Juan Manuel (Astralwerks)
229. Omara Portuondo * Buena Vista Social Club Presents (Nonesuch)
230. Saint Etienne * Sound Of Water (Sub Pop)
231. Wheatus (Sony/Columbia)
232. Screeching Weasel * Teen Punks In Heat (Lookout)
233. Sad Rockets * Transition (Matador)
234. Future Bible Heroes * I'm Lonely (And I Love It) EP (Merge)
235. New Bomb Turks * Nightmare Scenario (Epitaph)
236. Lo-Fidelity All Stars * On The Floor At the Boutique (Sony)
237. Khan * Passport (Matador)
238. Cheikh Lo * Bambay Gueej (Nonesuch)
239. Marilyn Manson * Holy Wood * In The Shadow of the Valley of Death (Nothing/Interscope)
240. Kelis * Kaleidoscope (Virgin)
241. Mary Timony * Mountains (Matador)
242. Pearl Jam * Binaural (Epic)
243. Vue (Sub Pop)
244. Aix Em Klemm (Kranky)
245. The Jayhawks * Smile (American)
246. Storm And Stress * Under Thunder And Fluorescent Light (Touch And Go)
247. The For Carnation (Touch & Go)
248. Ian Astbury * Spirit Light Speed (Elektra)
249. Sade * Lovers Rock (Epic)
250. A Perfect Circle * Mer De Noms (Virgin)
251. Lolita Storm * G-F-S-U (DHR/Fatal)
252. Spring Heel Jack * Treader (Tugboat)
253. Zuco 103 * Outro Lado (Six Degrees)
254. Coldplay * Parachutes (Parlophone)
255. Moloko * Things To Do And Make (Echo)
256. Ute Lemper * Punishing Kiss (Decca)
257. Frisbie * The Subversive Sounds Of Love (Hear Diagonally)
258. Babybird * Bugged (Echo)
259. Smashing Pumpkins * Machina/The Machines Of God (Virgin)
260. Eminem * The Marshall Mathers LP (Interscope)
261. Acid Mothers Temple * Troubadours From Another Heavenly World (PSF)
262. Actionslacks * The Scene's Outta Sight (Self Starter)
263. Adventures In Stereo * Monomania (Bobsled)
264. Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble (Cornet)
265. Los Amigos Invisibles * Arepa 3000 (Luaka Bop)
266. Merrie Amsterbur * Little Steps (Zoo)
267. The Apples In Stereo * The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone (spinART)
268. Nate Ashley * Where Matter Lives (Knw-Yr-Own)
269. Ass Ponys * Some Stupid With A Flare Gun (Checkered Past)
270. A3 * La Peste (Columbia)
271. Atomic Bitchwax * II (Tee Pee)
272. Bad Religion * The New America (Atlantic)
273. Buju Banton * Unchained Spirit (Anti)
274. Beachwood Sparks (Sub Pop)
275. Beenie Man * Art and Life (Virgin)
276. Robert Belfour * What's Wrong With You? (Fat Possum/Epitaph)
277. Bent * Bent Programmed To Love (Imp)
278. David Berkman * Communication Theory (Palmetto)
279. Black Box Recorder * The Facts Of Life (Jet Set)
280. The Blue Aeroplanes * Cavaliers (Artstar)
281. Bluebird * The Two (Pacifico)
282. The Bluetones * Science And Nature (SQR)
283. The Bobbyteams * Not So Sweet (Estrus)
284. Bowery Electric * Lushlife (Beggars Banquet)
285. Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise * Time to Discover (RCA)
286. Brave Captain * Go With Yourself (Wichita)
287. The Bronx Casket Co. (The Music Cartel)
288. Brooklyn Funk Essentials * Make 'Em Like It (Shanachie)
289. Caspar Brφtzmann * Mute Massaker (Thirsty Ear)
290. BT * Movement In Still Life (Nettwerk)
291. R.L. Burnside * Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down (Fast Possum/Epitaph)
292. Neal Casal * Anytime Tomorrow (Glitterhouse)
293. Peter Case * Flying Saucer Blues (Vanguard)
294. Catherine Wheel * Anybody Hurt (Columbia)
295. Centro-matic * All The Falsest Hearts (Quality Park)
296. Chainsaw Kittens * The All American (4 Alarm)
297. Kasey Chambers * The Captain (Asylum)
298. Chicago Underground Duo * Synesthesia (Thrill Jockey)
299. Chumbawumba * What You See Is What You Get (Republic/Universal)
300. Cinnamon * Vertigo (March Records)
301. Clem Snide * Your Favorite Music (Sire)
302. Coil * Musick To Play In The Dark Vol 2 (Chalice)
303. Chris Cologne * Horn (Blackberry)
304. Company Flow & Cannibal Ox * Five Songs From Def Jux (Def Jux)
305. Cathal Coughlan * Black River Falls (Cooking Vinyl)
306. Sarah Cracknell * Kelly's Locker (Instinct)
307. Crooked Fingers (Warm)
308. Cyptopsy * And Then You'll Beg (Century Media)
309. The Cure * Blood Flowers (Elektra)
310. Current 93 * Sleep Has His House (Durtro)
311. Current 93 * Faust (Durtro)
312. Cursive * Domestica (Saddle Creek)
313. Dakota Suite * Signal Hill (Badman)
314. Damon & Naomi * With Ghost (Sub Pop)
315. Datach'i * We Are Always Well Thank You (Caipirinha)
316. The Dead C (Language)
317. Deathray (Capricorn)
318. Dispatch * Who Are We Living For? (Bomber Records)
319. Distillers (Hellcat)
320. DJ Craze * United DJs of America Volume 16 (DMC/Razor & Tie)
321. DJ Food * Kaleidoscope (Ninja Tune)
322. DJ Smallcock * Yinyue (Dual Plover)
323. Nahawa Doumbia * Yaala (Cobalt France)
324. Download * Effector (Nettwerk)
325. Dr. Dre * 2001 (Interscope)
326. Drowningman * Rock And Roll Killing Machine (Revelation)
327. Dusty Trails (Atlantic)
328. The Dwarves * Come Clean (Epitaph)
329. Earthlings? * Human Beans (Man's Ruin)
330. Eastern Youth * May My Scream (Toy's Factory)
331. Either/Orchestra * More Beautiful Than Death (Accurate)
332. Eleven * Avantgardedog (Interscope)
333. Embrooks * Our New Day (Voxx)
334. Etienne De Crecy * tempovision (XL)
335. E. Town Concrete * The Second Coming (Triple Crown)
336. Explosion * Flash Flash Flash (Jade Tree)
337. John Fahey * Hitomi (LivHouse)
338. Faith & Diseas * Beneath The Trees (Projekt)
339. The Fall * The Unutterable (Eagle)
340. Fatboy Slim * Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (Astralwerks)
341. The Flashing Lights * Where the Change Is (SpinART)
342. Flying Saucer Attack * Mirror CD (Drag City)
343. Flavor Flav * It's About Time (WEA/Lightyear)
344. Fleurety * Department of Apocalyptic Affairs (Superal Music)
345. Funkstφrung * Appetite For Disctruction (!K7)
346. Nelly Furtado * Whoa Nelly! (Dreamworks)
347. Fushitsusha * I Saw It! That Which Before I Could Only Sense (Paratactile)
348. Fuzzbubble (Future Primitive)
349. Sue Garner & Rick Brown * Still (Thrill Jockey)
350. Laurent Garnier * Unreasonable Behaviour (Mute)
351. Geneva * Weather Underground (Nude)
352. The Glands ((Capricorn)
353. Godzik Pink * Es Em, Ekel Em (5 Rue Christine)
354. Chilly Gonzales * The Entertainist (Kitty-Yo)
355. Gourds * Bolsa de Agua (Sugar Hill)
356. Green Velvet (Warner)
357. David Grubbs * The Spectrum Between (Drag City)
358. Gul 3 * Soul (Crazy Wisdom)
359. Hεkan Hellstrφm * Kδnn Ingen Sorg fφr Mig Gφteborg (Virgin)
360. Haunted * Made Me Do It (Earache)
361. Roy Haynes Trio * Featuring Danilo Perez & John Patitucci (Verve)
362. Hepcat * Push 'N Shove (Hellcat/Epitaph)
363. The Hives * Veni, Vidi, Vicious (Burning Heart/Epitaph)
364. Hoahio * Ohayo Hoahio (Tzadik)
365. Susie Ibarra * Flower After Flower (Tzadik)
366. Ryoji Ikeda * Matrix (Touch)
367. The Januaries (Foodchain)
368. Philip Jeck * Vinyl Coda 1-III (Intermedium)
369. Jega * Geometry (Matador)
370. The Jigsaw Seen * Zenith (Vibro-Phonic/Eggbert)
371. Jucifer * Calling All Cars On The Sunset Strip (Capricorn)
372. June And the Exit Wounds * A Little More Haven Hamilton, Please (Marina)
373. Kletka Red * Hybrid (Explain)
374. Knife In The Water * Plays One Sound And Others (Glitterhouse)
375. Koufax * It Had to Do With Love (Heroes & Villains)
376. Kreidler * Weekend (Mute)
377. Lamb Of God * New American Gospel (Prosthetic/Metal Blade)
378. The Lazy Cowgirls * Somewhere Down the Line (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
379. Lifter Puller * Fiestas Fiascos (French Kiss)
380. Live Human * Elefish Jellyphant (Matador)
381. Looper * The Geometrid (Sub Pop)
382. Helen Love * Love And Glitter, Hot Days and Music (Che)
383. Love Kit * The September Heads (Ginger)
384. Jack Lukeman * Metropolis Blue (Razor & Tie)
385. Luomo * Vocalcity (Force Inc.)
386. Mahar Shalal Hash Baz * From A Summer To Another Summer (Geographic)
387. The Makers * Rock Star God (Sub Pop)
388. Mansun * Kix (WB)
389. Mantaray * The Betty Poperetta (Mantaray)
390. Mass * From Zero (Paratactile)
391. Meat Puppets * Golden Lies (Atlantic)
392. Medeski, Martin & Wood * The Dropper (Blue Note)
393. The Melvins * The Crybaby (Ipecac)
394. Microstoria * MOdel 3, Step 2 (Thrill Jockey)
395. The Mighty Wah! * Songs of Strength & Heartbreak (Castle)
396. Mirah * You Think It's Like This, But Really... (K)
397. Mr. 0120 * Analog Worms Attack (Mute)
398. Joni Mitchell * Both Sides Now (Reprise)
399. Modernist * Explosion (Matador)
400. Roy Montgomery * Allegory OF Hearing (Drunken Fish)
401. M.O.P. * Warriorz (Loud)
402. Chris Morris * Blue Jam (Warp)
403. The Necks * Hanging Gardens (Fish Of Milk)
404. New Bomb Turks * Nightmare Scenario (Epitaph)
405. New Wet Kojak * Do Things (Beggars Banquet)
406. Non * Receive The Flame (Mute)
407. Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson & Sigur Ros * Angels of the Universe (Krunk)
408. Orgy * Vapor Transmission (Elementree/Reprise)
409. Orishas * A Lo Cubano (Universal)
410. Greg Osby * The Invisible Hand (Blue Note)
411. Panther Burns * Panther Phobia (In The Red)
412. Reid Paley * Revival (Emusic)
413. Papas Fritas * Buildings & Grounds (Minty Fresh)
414. Pedro the Lion * Winners Never Quit (Jade Tree)
415. Phoenix * United (Astralwerks)
416. Photek * Solaris (Astralwerks)
417. Placebo * Black Market Music (Hut)
418. Pole * Pole 3 (Kiff SM)
419. The Poster Children * DDD (spinART)
420. The Promise Ring * Electric Pink (Jade Tree)
421. Chuck Prophet * The Hurting Business (Hightone)
422. Alim Qasimov * Love's Deep Ocean (Network)
423. The Queers * Beyond the Valley...of the Assfuckers (Hopeless)
424. Rainer * Alpaca Lips (Glitterhouse)
425. Amy Rigby * The Sugar Tree (Koch)
426. Rinocerose * Installation Sonore (V2)
427. The Rock*A*Teens * Sweet Bird of Youth (Merge)
428. Josh Rouse * Home (Slow River)
429. Sarge * Distant (Mud/Parasol)
430. Saturnine * American Kestrel (Motorcoat)
431. 7-Hurt2 * Audiophiliac (Output)
432. 764-Hero * Weekends Of Sound (Up)
433. Shark Quest * Man on Stilts (Merge)
434. The Shazam * Godspeed The Shazam (Rainbow Quartz)
435. Matthew Shipp * Pastoral Compusure (Thirsty Ear)
436. Shivaree * I Oughta Give You A Shot... (Capitol)
437. John Shough * Ultra Vega (Big Beef)
438. Sick Of It All * Yours Truly (Fat Wreck Chords)
439. The 6ths * Hyacinths And Thistles (Circus)
440. Skull Kontrol * Zzzzz... (Tocuh & Go)
441. Slobberbone * Everything YOu Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today (New West)
442. Snapcase * Designs For Automotion (Victory)
443. Johnny Society * Clairvoyance (Messenger)
444. Sonic Sum * The Sanity Annex (Ozone Music)
445. Speedball Baby * Uptight! (In The Red)
446. Speedealer * Here Comes Death (Ryko Palm)
447. Starflyer 59 * Everybody Makes Mistakes (Tooth & Nail)
448. Starlight Mints * the dream that stuff was made of (See Thru Broadcasting)
449. Matt Suggs * Golden Days Before They End (Merge)
450. Sekou Sundiata * Long Story Short (Righteous Babe)
451. Byron Stingily * Club Stories (Nervous)
452. Suns Of Arqa * Cosmic Jugalbandi (Arka Sounds)
453. Lewis Taylor * Lewis II (Universal/Island)
454. Teenage Fanclub * Howdy! (Columbia)
455. Towa Tei * Last Century Modern (Elektra)
456. David Thomas & the Foreigners * Bay City (Thirsty Ear)
457. Tobias Delius 4 Tet * Toby's Mloby (ICP
458. David Toop * 37th Floor At Sunset/Music for Mondophrenetic (Sub Rosa)
459. Tosca * Suzuki (G-Stone)
460. Town and Country * Decoration Day EP (Thrill Jockey)
461. Travis * The Man Who (Epic)
462. Tristeza * Dream Signals in Full Circles (Tiger Style)
463. Tsar (Hollywood)
464. Two Dollar Guitar * Weak Beats And Lame-Ass Rhymes (Smells Like)
465. Two Lone Swordsmen * Tiny Reminders (Warp/Caroline)
466. Max Tundra * Some Best Friend You Turned Out to Be (Domino)
467. Underworld * Everything, Everything (V2)
468. Unified Theory (3:33/Universal)
469. The Up On In (ex-Jawbox) * Steps for the Light (Big Top)
470. Paul Van Dyk * Out There And Back (Mute)
471. Armand Van Helden * Killing Puritans (Armed)
472. Vast * Music For People (Elektra)
473. Vivid Low Sky * Music for Movies Unmade (Plastique)
474. Christian Vogel * Rescate 137 (Nova/Mute)
475. Ween * White Pepper (Elektra)
476. Paul Weller * Heliocentric (Polygram)
477. Chris Whitley * Perfect Day (Valley Entertainment)
478. Wilco & Billy Bragg * Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (WEA)
479. Dar Williams * The Green World (Razor & Tie)
480. Wondermints * Bali (Castle)
481. The Wu-Tang Clan * The W (Loud)
482. XTC * Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) (TVT)
483. Otomo Yoshihide * Cathode (Tzadik)

2001

1. Bjφrk * Vespertine (Elektra)
2. Hawksley Workman * (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves (Universal)
3. The Strokes * Is This It (BMG/RCA)
4. Fugazi * The Argument (Dischord)
5. Mercury Rev * All Is Dream (V2)
6. Sparklehorse * It's A Wonderful Life (EMI/Parlophone)
7. Ed Harcourt * Here Be Monsters (Virgin)
8. Pulp * We Love Life (Uni/Island)
9. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci * How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
10. Super Furry Animals * Rings Around The World (Epic)
11. The Czars * The Ugly People Vs. The Beautiful People (Bellaire)
12. Eels * Soul Jacker (Dreamworks)
13. Radiohead * Amnesiac (Capitol)
14. The Dismemberment Plan * Change (De Soto)
15. Steve Wynn * Here Come The Miracles (Innerstate)
16. Four Tet * Pause (Domino)
17. !!! (Chik Chik Chik) (Gold Standard)
18. Otto * Condom Black (Trama)
19. N*E*R*D * In Search Of... (Virgin)
20. Roots Manuva * Run Come Save Me (Big Dada)
21. The White Stripes * White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
22. Max De Castro * Samba Raro (Trama)
23. Blue States * Nothing Changes Under The Sun (ESL)
24. Mark Lanegan * Field Songs (Sub Pop)
25. Dub Pistols * Six Million Ways To Live (Universal)
26. Cannibal Ox * Cold Vein (Ozone Music)
27. John Vanderslice * Time Travel Is Lonely (Barsuk)
28. Kaada * Thank You For Giving Me Your Valuable Time (Ipecac)
29. Mogwai * Rock Action (Matador)
30. Tindersticks * Can Our Love... (Beggas Banquet)
31. Le Tigre * Feminist Sweepstakes (Mr. Lady)
32. The Boredoms * Vision, Creation, Newsun (WEA Japan)
33. The Microphones * The Glow, Pt. 2 (K)
34. Spoon * Girls Can Tell (Merge)
35. Prefuse 73 * Vocal Studies & UpRock Narratives (Warp)
36. Orlando Cachaito Lopez * Cachaito (World Circuit)
37. Fennesz * Endless Summer (Mego)
38. Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire * The Swimming Hour (Rykodisc)
39. Sufjan Stevens * Enjoy Your Rabbit (Asthmatic Kitty)
40. Explosions In The Sky * How Strange, Innocense (temporary)
41. Even Johansen * Quiet & Still (FiveOne)
42. Nicolai Dunger * Soul Rush (Delores/Lakeshore)
43. Hood * Cold House (Aesthetics)
44. Sahara Hotnights * Jennie Bomb (Jet Set)
45. The Liars * They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top (Mute)
46. No Doubt * Rock Steady (Interscope)
47. The Flaming Stars * A Walk On The Wired Side (Vinyl Japan)
48. Nitin Sawhney * Prophesy (V2)
49. Built To Spill * Ancient Melodies Of The Future (WB)
50. Elbow * Asleep In The Back (V2)
51. Circulatory System (Cloud Recordings)
52. Pernice Brothers * The World Won't End (Ashmont)
53. Jim O'Rourke * Insignificance (Drag City)
54. Foetus * Flow (Thirsty Ear)
55. Shannon Wright * Dyed In The Wool (Quarterstick)
56. Stereolab * Sound-Dust (Elektra)
57. Bilal * 1st Born Second (Interscope)
58. Ben Christophers * Spoonface (V2)
59. The Autumn Defense * The Green Hour (Broadmoor)
60. Handsome Family * Twilight (Carrot Top)
61. Unwound * Leaves Turn Inside You (Kill Rock Stars)
62. Fridge * Happiness (temporary Residence)
63. Spiritualized * Let It Come Down (Arista)
64. Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros * Global A Go-Go (Hellcat)
65. The American Analog Set * Know By Heart (Tiger Style)
66. Rφyksopp * Melody A.M. (Wall Of Sond/EMI)
67. Stars * Nightsongs (Le Grand)
68. Lali Puna * Scary World Theory (Morr)
69. Stars * Nightsongs (LeGrand)
70. Broken Social Scene * Feel Good Lost (Noise Factory)
71. Thalia Zedek * Been Here and Gone (Matador)
72. The Tyde * Once (Track & Field)
73. The Shins * Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop)
74. Papa M * Whatever, Mortal (Drag City)
75. The (International) Noise Conspiracy * A New Morning, Changing Weather (Epitaph)
76. Moreno Veloso +2 * Music Typewriter (Hannibal/Natasha)
77. Bardo Pond * Dilate (Matador)
78. Thea Gilmore * Rules For Jokers (Flyin')
79. Tom Zι * Jogos De Armar (Trama)
80. Gigi (Palm Pictures)
81. Opeth * Blackwater Park (Koch)
82. The Seconds * Y (5RC)
83. Chris Lee * Plays & Sings Torch'd Songs, Charivari Hymns & Oriki Blue-Marches (Smells Like)
84. Tortoise * Standards (Thrill Jockey)
85. The Beta Band * Hotshots II (Astralwerks)
86. Guided By Voices * Isolation Drills (TVT)
87. Rocket From The Crypt * Group Sounds (TVT/Vagrant)
88. Tiga/Various * American Gigalo (International DJ)
89. Animal Collective/Avey tare & Panda Bear * Danse Manatee (Cats Up Plate)
90. Various * All Tomorrow's Parties 1.0 (ATPR)
91. The Avalanches * Since I Left You (Sire/Modular)
92. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds * No More Shall We Part (Elektra)
93. Fischerspooner * #1 (Ministry of Sound/Capitol)
94. R.E.M. * Reveal (WB)
95. Rob * Don't Kill (Source Fr)
96. Basement Jaxx * Rooty (XL)
97. Manitoba * Start Breaking My Heart (Domino)
98. Hector Zazou & Sandy Dillon * Las Vegas Is Curved (First World)
99. Picastro * Red Your Blues (Pehr)
100. Soundtrack Of Our Lives * Behind The Music (WEA)
101. Natacha Atlas * Ayeshteni (Mantra)
102. You Am I * Dress Me Slowly (BMG)
103. Helio Sequence * Young Effectuals (Cavity Search)
104. Life Without Buildings * Any Other City (Tugboat)
105. Explosions In The Sky * Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever (temporary)
106. Playgroup (Source/Astralwerks)
107. Joe Henry * Scar (Mammoth)
108. Peaches * The Teaches Of Peaches (Kitty-Yo)
109. Electric Company * 62-56 (Tigerbeat6)
110. Kylie Minogue * Fever (EMI)
111. Lucinda Williams * Essence (UNI/Lost Highway)
112. Jim White * No Such Place (Luaka Bop)
113. Femi Kuti * Fight To Win (MCA)
114. Operator Generator * Polar Fleet (Man's Ruin)
115. Autechre * Confield (Warp)
116. Manu Chao * Proxima Estacion: Esperanza (EMD/Virgin)
117. Rufus Wainright * Poses (Dreamworks)
118. Tim Hecker * Haunt Me, Haunt Me Again (Substractif)
119. Gillian Welch * Time (The Revelator) (Acony)
120. Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP (Wichita/Touch And Go)
121. Adult * Resuscitation (Ersatz Audio)
122. Trilok Gurtu * The Beat Of Love (Blue Note)
123. Rachid Taha * Made In Medina (Mondo Melodia)
124. Tool * Lateralus/Systema Encephale (Volcano)
125. So Solid Crew * They Don't Know (Independiente)
126. The Fire Show * Above the Volcano of Flowers (Perishable)
127. Sloan * Pretty Together (Murder)
128. Jay Farrar * Sebastapol (Artemis)
129. Scout NIblett * Sweet Heart Fever (Secretly Canadian)
130. Summer Hymns * Celebratory Arm Gesture (Misra)
131. Beachwood Sparks * Once We Were Trees (Sub Pop)
132. The Coup * Party Music (75 Ark)
133. Missy Elliott * Miss E . . . So Addictive (WEA/Elektra)
134. Kevin Tihista's Red Terror * Don't Breathe A Word (Blanco Y Negro)
135. Burning Airlines * Identikit (DeSoto)
136. Erase Errata * Other Animals (Troubleman)
137. The Kingsbury Manx * Let You Down (Overcoat)
138. Bobby Conn * The Golden Age (Thrill Jockey)
139. Trembling Blue Stars * Alive To Every Smile (Sub Pop)
140. Firewater * Psychopharmacology (Jetset)
141. Fanfare Ciocarlia * Iag Bari (Piranha)
142. The Faint * Danse Macabre (Saddle Creek)
143. Krishna Das * Breath of the Heart (Triloka)
144. Willard Grant Conspiracy * Everything's Fine (Rykodisc/Slow River)
145. Califone * Roomsound (Perishable)
146. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club * B.R.M.C. (Virgin)
147. Simian * Chemistry Is What We Are (Source/Astralwerks)
148. Love As Laughter * Sea to Shining Sea (Sub Pop)
149. Shelby Lynne * Love, Shelby (Island)
150. Tara Jane O'Neil * In The Sun Lines (Quarterstick)
151. Bob Dylan * Love And Theft (Columbia)
152. Music For Mapmakers (Grenadine)
153. Vue * Find Your Home (Sub Pop)
154. Old 97's * Satellite Ride (Elektra)
155. Beulah * The Coast Is Never Clear (Velocette)
156. Her Space Holiday * Manic Expressive (Tiger Style)
157. Ida * The Braille Night (Tiger Style)
158. Mouse On Mars * Idiology (Thrill Jockey)
159. Labradford : Fixed::Content (Kranky)
160. Matmos * A Chance to Cut Is a Chance To Cure (Matador)
161. The Rapture * Out Of The Races And Onto The Tracks EP (Sub Pop)
162. Radiohead * I Might Be Wrong (Capitol)
163. 16 Horsepower * Hoarse (Checkered Past)
164. Daft Punk * Discovery (Virgin)
165. Set Fire To Flames * Sings Reign Rebuilder (Alien 8)
166. Talvin Singh * Ha (Island)
167. Dilated Peoples * Expansion Team (Capitol)
168. Karsh Kale * Realize (Six Degrees)
169. Cex * Oops, I Did It Again! (Tigerbeat6)
170. Lift To Experience * The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (Bella Union)
171. Scarlet Life * Sugar, Spice, Saccharin & Cyanide (DivaNation)
172. Karma Sutra * Prana (Invisible/DivaNation)
173. Angels Of Light * How I Loved You (Young God)
174. Badmarsh & Shri * Signs (Nutone/Nettwerk)
175. Tim Easton * The Truth About Us (New West)
176. Burning Brides * Fall of the Plastic Empire (V2)
177. Tweaker * The Attraction To All Things Uncertain (Six Degrees)
178. Isis * Celestial (7)
179. Godflesh * Hymns (Earache)
180. Entombed * Morning Star (Music for the Nations)
181. The Haunted * …Made Me Do It (Earache)
182. Chι * Sounds Of Liberation (Man's Ruin)
183. The International Noise Conspiracy * Survival Sickness (Burning Heart/Epitaph)
184. Fantomas * The Director's Cut (Ipecac)
185. Whiskeytown * Pneumonia (Universal)
186. The Cash Brothers * How Was Tomorrow (Uni/Zoe)
187. Kelly Hogan * Because It Feel Good (Bloodshot)
188. Clutch * Pure Rock Fury (Atlantic)
189. Lamb * What Sound (Mercury)
190. Zeke * Death Alley (Tee Pee)
191. Spain * I Believe (Restless)
192. Timbaland & Magoo * Indecent Proposal (Virgin)
193. Jay-Z * The Blueprint (Roc-A-Fella)
194. DJ KRush * Zen (Red Ink)
195. Aesop Rock * Labor Days (Def Jux)
196. Cesaria Evora * Sao Vicente (World Circuit)
197. Sheila Chandra * This Sentence Is True (Shakti)
198. Susheela Raman * Salt Rain (Narada)
199. Temple Of Sound & Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali * People's Colony No. 1 (Real World)
200. Felix Da Housecat * Kittenz And Thee Glitz (City Rockers)
201. Vinicius Cantuaria * Vinicius (Transparent)
202. Joi * We Are Three (Real World)
203. Radio Tarifa * Cruzando El Rio (World Circuit)
204. Cheb Mami * Dellali (Mondo Melodia/Ark 21)
205. Neil Michael Hagerty (Drag City)
206. The Butchies * Three (Mr. Lady)
207. Rainer Maria * A Better Version Of Me (Polyvinyl)
208. Anita Lane * Sex O' Clock (Mute)
209. The Frames * For The Birds (Overcoat)
210. Teenage Fanclub * Howdy! (Thirsty Ear)
211. Zoot Woman * Living In A Magazine (Parlophone)
212. Fruit Bats * Echo Location (Perishable)
213. Clem Snide * The Ghost Of Fashion (spinART)
214. Superchunk * Here's To Shutting Up (Merge)
215. Low * Things We Lost In The Fire (Kranky)
216. Portastatic * Looking for Leonard (Merge)
217. Howe Gelb * Confluence (Thrill Jockey)
218. System Of A Down * Toxicity (American)
219. Cutthroats 9 (Man's Ruin)
220. Old Time Relijun * Witchcraft Rebellion (K)
221. The Dictators * D.F.F.D. (Dictators)
222. Sea Of Tombs (Gravity)
223. Julie Doiron * Desormais (Jagjaguwar)
224. Love Life * Rose He Lied By (Troubleman Unlimited)
225. Calexico * Aerocalexico (Our Soil, Our Stength)
226. Stephen Malkmus (Matador)
227. The Chamber Strings * Month Of Sundays (Bobsled)
228. DJ Swamp * Never Is Now (Decadent/Lakeshore)
229. Nebula * Charged (Sub Pop)
230. The Sultans * Ghost Ship (Swami/Sympathy FTRI)
231. Dante's Voodoo Cabaret * Songs For Saints And Sinners (Voodoo Cabaret)
232. Death Cab For Cutie * The Photo Album (Barsuk)
233. Pixeltan (Troubleman)
234. Hope Sandoval & Warm Invention * Bavarian Fruit Bread (BMG/Sanctuary)
235. Macy Gray * The ID (Epic)
236. Stereo Total * The Automatique (Bobsled)
237. The Gossip * That's Not What I Heard (Kill Rock Stars)
238. Air * 10,000 Hz Legend (Astralwerks)
239. Transglobal Underground * Yes Boss Food Corner
240. Stina Nordenstam * This Is Stina Nordenstam (Independente) (UNI/Ark21)
241. Electric Wizard * Dopethrone (Rise Above)
242. Slayer * God Hates Us All (American/Columbia)
243. David Byrne * Look Into The Eyeball (Virgin)
244. Richard Hawley (Setanta)
245. Shiner * Egg (De Soto)
246. Zao (Tooth & Nail)
247. Orthrelm * Asristirveildrioxe EP (Grenadine)
248. Edith Frost * Wonder Wonder (Drag City)
249. Preston School Of Industry * All This Sounds Gas (Matador)
250. The Pharmacists * Ted Leo/Rx Pharmacists (Germ Blandsten)
251. Kings of Convenience * Versus (Astralwerks)
252. Chocolate Genius * Godmusic (V2)
253. Trailer Bride * High Seas (Bloodshot)
254. Kings of Convenience * Quiet Is The New Loud (Source/Astralwerks)
255. The Lack (Troubleman)
256. Ursula Rucker * Supa Sista (Studio !K7)
257. The Nerves * World Of Gold (Thrill Jockey)
258. Bigg Jus * Plantation Rhymes (Sub Verse)
259. Lambchop * Tools In The Dryer (Merge)
260. Mary J. Blige * No More Drama (MCA)
261. Busta Rhymes * Genesis (J Records)
262. Angie Stone * Mahogony Soul (J Records)
263. Quasi * The Sword Of God (Touch & Go)
264. Warhorse * As Heaven Turns To Ash... (Southern Lord)
265. Rammstein * Mutter (Universal)
266. My Dying Bride * The Dreadful Hour (Peaceville/Snapper)
267. Ex Models * Other Mathematics (Ace Fu)
268. Chestnut Station * In Your Living Room (Drag City)
269. The Great Crusades * Damaged Goods (Glitterhouse)
270. Maxwell * Now (Columbia)
271. Jill Scott * Experience (Sony)
272. Evil Beaver * Lick It! (Four Alarm)
273. Buddy & Julie Miller (Hightone)
274. Gorillaz (Virgin)
275. ABCs (Troubleman)
276. Dungeon Family * ...Even in Darkness (Arista)
277. The Donnas * The Donnas Turn 21 (Lookout!)
278. John Hammond * Wicked Grin (Virgin)
279. Ghostface Killah * Bulletproof Wallets (Epic)
280. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy * Ease Down The Road (Palace Records)
281. Le Tigre * From The Desk of Mr. Lady EP (Mr. Lady)
282. The Bigger Lovers * How I Learned To Stop Worrying (Black Dog)
283. Garbage * Beautiful Garbage (Mushroom)
284. Black Crowes * Lion (V2)
285. Tom McRae (BMG/Arista)
286. Monster Magnet * God Says No (A&M)
287. Pete Yorn * Musicforthemorningafter (Sony)
288. Muse * Origin Of Symmetry (Mushroom)
289. Rollins Band * Nice (BMG/Sanctuary)
290. Kool Keith * Spankmaster (TVT)
291. Bullfrog (Ropeadope)
292. Rizzo * Phoning It In (Sympathy For the Record Industry)
293. Nick Lowe * The Convincer (Proper)
294. Ryan Adams * Gold (Lost Highway)
295. Weezer * The Green Album (Geffen)
296. The Cult * Beyond Good & Evil (Lava/Atlantic)
297. Tricky * Blowback (Island)
298. Tori Amos * Strange Little Girls (Atlantic)
299. Graham Parker * Deepcut to Nowhere (Razor & Tie)
300. Leonard Cohen * Ten New Songs (Columbia)
301. The Moldy Peaches (Sanctuary)
302. Khanate (Southern Lord)
303. Tomahawk (Ipecac)
304. Acid Mothers Temple * New Geocentric World (Squealer)
305. Akercocke * The Goat Of Mendes (Peaceville/Snapper)
306. Alabama Thunderpussy * Staring At The Divine (Man's Ruin)
307. Alpha * The Impossible Thrill (Melankolic)
308. Anathema * A Fine Day To Exit (Koch)
309. The Apes * The Fugue In The Fog (French Kiss)
310. Aphex Twin * Drukqs (Warp)
311. Arab Strap * The Red Thread (Matador/Chemical Underground)
312. Aria * Haze (Bleep)
313. Ashley Park * The American Scene (Loose)
314. Ass Ponys * Lohio (Checkered Past)
315. Aterciopelados * Gozo Poderosa (BMG Latin)
316. Atomsmasher (Hydra Head)
317. AB Baars Trio * Songs (Geestgronden)
318. The Bad Plus (Fresh Sound)
319. Bathory * Blood Fire Death (Black Mark/SPV
320. Howie Beck * Hollow (Easy Tiger)
321. The BellRays * Grand Fury (Vital Gesture)
322. Ben & Jason * Ten Songs About You (Go Beat)
323. Biosphere * Substrata/Man With A Movie Camera (Touch)
324. Biota * Invisible Map (Import)
325. Bis * Music For A Stranger World (Grand Royal)
326. Brant Bjφrk & The Operators * Cocoa Butter (Man's Ruin)
327. Frank Black & the Catholics * Dog In The Sand (What Are Records?)
328. Blectum From Blechdom * Haus De Snaus (Tiberbeat6)
329. Bluetip * Post Mortem Anthem (Dischord)
330. Bonnevill (Mick Turner) * Pelican (Instinct)
331. Bran Van 3000 * Discosis (Grand Royal)
332. Brassy * Got It Made (Wiija)
333. Brokeback * Morse Code in the Modern Age: Across The Americas (Thrill Jockey)
334. Bronx Casket Co. * Sweet Home Transylvania
335. Buck 65 * Man Overboard (Anticon)
336. Cake * Comfort Eagle (Columbia)
337. Capitol Years * Meet Yr Acrews (Full Frame)
338. The Charlatans * Wonderland (UNI/MCA)
339. Chicago Underground Quartet (Thrill Jockey)
340. The Clean * Getaway (Merge)
341. Clearlake * Lido (Dusty Company)
342. cLOUDDEAD (Mush/Big Dada)
343. Cockeyed Ghost * Ludlow 6:18 (Karma Frog)
344. Comas * A Def Needle In Tomorrow (Plastique/Yep Roc)
345. Constantines * The Constantines (Three Gut)
346. The Convocation Of... * Pyramid Technology (Tiger Style)
347. The Creatures * Sequins In The Sun
348. The Crystal Method * Tweekend (Interscope)
349. Cypress Hill * Stoned Raiders (Sony)
350. The Damned * Grave Disorder (NIT)
351. De La Soul * Bionix (Tommy Boy)
352. Delerium * Poem (Nettwerk)
353. Depeche Mode * Exciter (Warner)
354. Dhol Foundation * Big Drum Small World (Shakti)
355. Ani DiFranco * Revelling: Reckoning (Righteous Babe)
356. Dimitri from Paris * Monsieur Dimitri's De-Luxe House of Funk (Razor & Tie)
357. The Distillers * Sin Sin Death House (Hellcat/Epitaph)
358. The Divine Comedy * Regeneration (Parolophone)
359. Dntel * Life Is Full Of Possibilities (Plug Research)
360. Sara Dougher * The Bluff (Mr. Lady)
361. Graeme Downes * Hammers And Anvils (Matador)
362. The Dum Dum Project * Export Quality (Grooovy Sounds Unlimited)
363. Edan * Mic Manipulator (Lewis Recordings)
364. Ekkehard Ehlers * Plays Albert Ayler (Staubgold)
365. Mark Eitzel * The Invisible Man (Matador)
366. Electrelane * Rock It To The Moon (Mr. Lady/Let's Rock!)
367. Elysian Fields * Queen Of the Meadow (Flower Shop)
368. Embrace * If You've Never Been
369. Emperor * Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise (Candlelight)
370. Elejandro Escovedo * A Man Under the Influence (Bloodshot)
371. The Ex * Dizzy Spells (Touch & Go)
372. Explosion Robinson * The Luxury Leader (Slabco)
373. Faithless * Outrospective (Arista/Kinetic)
374. Fear Factory * DigiMortal (Roadrunner)
375. Field Mob * 6:13: Ashy To Classy (MCA)
376. Firebird * Deluxe (Music For Nations)
377. Ben Folds * Rockin' The Suburbs (Epic)
378. French Kicks * Young Lawyer EP (Star Time)
379. Fuck * Cupid's Cactus (Smells Like)
380. Fushitsusha * Origin's Hesitation (PSF)
381. Future Pilot AKA * Tiny Waves, Mighty Sea (Geographic)
382. Rebecca Gates * Ruby Series (Badman)
383. Warren G * Return Of The Regulator (Uptown/Universal)
384. The Get Up Kids * Eudora (Vagrant)
385. Goldfrapp * Utopia (EP) (Mute)
386. Godhead * 2000 Years Of Human Error (Posthuman)
387. Goldie * Goldie Co UK
388. Green Velvet * Whatever (Musicman)
389. Gridlock * Trace (Unit)
390. Luke Haines * The Oliver Twist Manifesto (Hut)
391. The Heavy Blinkers * Better Weather (Brobdignagian)
392. Arve Henriksen, Sakuteiki (Rune Grammofon)
393. Herbert * Bodily Functions (!K7)
394. HIM * New Features (Bubble Core)
395. Holger Hiller (Mute)
396. Beth Hirsch * Titles And Idols (!K7)
397. His Name Is Alive * Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth (4AD/Beggars Banquet)
398. The Human League * Secrets (Papillon/Chrysalis)
399. I Am Kloot * Natural History (We Love You)
400. The Icarus Line * Mono (Crank!)
401. Idaho * Levitate (Idaho Music)
402. Jackie-O Motherfucker * Liberation (Road Cone)
403. Bill Janovitz * Up Here (spinART)
404. Freedy Johnston * Right Between The Promises (Elektra)
405. k * New Problems (Tiger Style)
406. Karma To Burn * Almost Heathen (Spitfire)
407. Katatonia * Last Fair Deal Gone Down (Peaceville/Snaper)
408. Alicia Keys * Songs In A Minor (J)
409. Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (Sony/Legacy)
410. Kinski * Be Gentle With the Warm Turtle (Pacifico)
411. Ladytron * 604 (Emperor Norton)
412. Bill Laswell * Carlos Santana - Divine Light (Columbia/Legacy)
413. Melissa Lefton (Jive)
414. Lightning Bolt * Ride The Skies (Loud)
415. Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez * Cachaito (Nonesuch)
416. John Oswald * Plunderphonics 69/96 (Seeland)
417. The Locust * Flight Of The Wounded Locust (GSL)
418. Patty Loveless * Mountain Soul (Epic)
419. Lowgold * Just Backward Of Square (Nude)
420. Lowsunday * Elesgiem (Projekt)
421. Ludacris * Southern Hospitality (Def Jam)
422. The Lucksmiths * Why That Doesn't Surprise Me (Drive-In)
423. Billy MacKenzie And Steve Aungle * Eurocentric (Eurocentric)
424. Marmoset * Record In Red (Secretly Canadian)
425. Stephan Mathieu * Frequencylib (Ritornell)
426. Paul McCartney * Driving Rain (Parlophone)
427. Nathaniel Merriweather Presents Loveage * Music To Make Love to Your Old Lady By (75 Ark)
428. Milemarker * Anaesthetic (Jade Tree)
429. Minders * Golden Street (Spinart)
430. Minus 5 * Let The War Against Music Begin (Malt/Mammoth)
431. Roy Montgomery * Silver Wheel Of Prayer (VHF)
432. Alan Moore & Tim Perkins * The Highbury Working (Re:)
433. Jason Moran Trio * Black Stars (Blue Note)
434. Mark Mulcahy * Smile Sunset (Loose)
435. Mull Historical Society * Loss (EastWest)
436. My Morning Jacket * At Dawn (Darla)
437. Toshimaru Nakamura & Sachiko M * Do (Erstwhile)
438. Nectarine No. 9 * Received, Transgressed & Transmitted (Beggars Banquet)
439. Nataraj XT * Tandava (Nutone)
440. New Order * Get Ready (WB)
441. The New Year * Newness Ends (Touch And Go)
442. Nagisa Ni Te * Songs for A Simple Moment (Geographic)
443. Jeb Loy Nichols * Just What Time It Is (Rykodisc)
444. Nas * Stillmatic (Columbia)
445. Neurosis * A Sun That Never Sets (Relapse)
446. No-Neck Blues Band * Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones (Revenant)
447. Noonday Underground * Self-Assembly (Bar/None)
448. North Mississippi Al Stars, John Medeski & Robert Randolph * The Word (Ropeadope/Atlantic)
449. Heather Nova * South (1/2)
450. Laura Nyro * Angel In The Dark (Rounder)
451. Of Montreal * Cocquelicot Asleep In The :Poppies (Kindercore)
452. OOIOO * Feather Float (Birdman)
453. Old Man Gloom * Seminar III: Zozobra (Tortuga)
454. Orange Peels * So Far (spinART)
455. Oranger * The Quiet Vibration Land (Poptones)
456. Oval * Commers (Thrill Jockey)
457. Oxide & Neutrino * Execute (East West)
458. Pan Sonic * Aaltiopiiri (Blast First)
459. Pep Love * Ascension (Hiero Imperium)
460. The Pets * Love And War (Endearing)
461. P.G. Six * Parlor Tricks And Porch Favorites (Amish)
462. Phatt Pussycat * Phatt Life (Glasgow Underground)
463. Grant Lee Phillips * Mobilize (Zoe/Rounder)
464. Piano Magic * Seasonally Affective 1996-2000 (Rocket Girl)
465. Plaid * Double Figure (Warp)
466. Pleasure Forever (Sub Pop)
467. Iggy Pop * Beat Em Up (Virgin)
468. Praxis * Warszawa (Innerhythmic)
469. Prefab Sprout * The Gunman And Other Stories (EMI)
470. Rajna * Ishati (Projekt)
471. Red House Painters * Old Ramon (Sub Pop)
472. Marc Ribot * Saints (Division One)
473. Christina Rosenvinge * Frozen Pool (Smells Like)
474. Rovo * Imago (Incidental)
475. Scorn * Greetings From Birmingham (Hymen)
476. Senor Coconut * El Gran Baile (Emperor Norton)
477. Matthew Shipp * Matthew Shipp's New Orbit (Thirsty Ear)
478. Beanie Sigel * The Reason (Roc-A-Fella)
479. The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra And Tra-La-La Band * Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward (Constellation)
480. Sizzla * Rastafari Teach I Everything (Greensleaves)
481. Slumber Party * Psychedelicate (Kill Rock Stars)
482. Smog * Rain On Lens (Drag City)
483. The Snow Patrol * When It's Over We Will Still Have To Clear Up (Jeepster)
484. Snowpony * Sea Shanties For Spaceships (Dead Pan Alley)
485. Soilent Green * A Deleted Symphony For the Beaten Down (Relapse)
486. Solex * Low Kick & Hard Bop (Matador)
487. Solid Steel Presents DJ Food & DK * Now, Listen! (Ninja Tune)
488. Son Ambulence * Euphemystic (Saddle Creek)
489. Spearmin * A Different Lifetime (Hitback)
490. Squarepusher * Go Plastic (Warp)
491. Stars * The Comeback EP (LeGrand)
492. Starsailor * Love Is Here (Chrysalis)
493. Taku Sugimoto * Italia (A Bruit Secret)
494. Sebastien Tellier * L'Incroyable Verite Record Makers (Astralwerks)
495. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 * Bob Diners and Laarry Noodles Present Tubby Terdner's Celebrity Avalanche (Communion)
496. Billy Bob Thornton * Private Radio (Lost Highway)
497. Tindersticks * Trouble Every Day (Beggars Banquet)
498. Jenny Toomey * Antidote (Misra)
499. To Rococo Rot & I-Sound * Music Is A Hungry Ghost (City Slang)
500. Town And Country * It Has All To Do With It (Thrill Jockey)
501. Travis * The Invisible Band (Independiente)
502. Turin Brakes * The Optimist LP (Astralwerks)
503. US Maple * Acre Thrills (Drag City)
504. Vandermark 5 * Acoustic Machine (Atavistic)
505. Caetano Veloso * Noites Do Norte (WEA/Nonesuch)
506. Caetano Veloso * Omaggio A Federico E Giulietta (WEA/Nonesuch)
507. Varnaline * Songs In A Northern Key (E-Squared/Artemis)
508. Volta Do Mar * At The Speeeed Of Light Or Day (Arborvitae)
509. The Von Bondies * Lack Of Communication (Sympathy FTRI)
510. Wagon Christ * Musipal (Ninja Tune)
511. The Walkabouts * Ended Up A Stranger (Glitterhouse)
512. Walker Kong * There Goes The Sun (Magic Marker)
513. M Ward * End Of Amnesia (Loose)
514. The White Octive * Menergy (Initial)
515. Witness * Under A Sun (Island)
516. Jah Wobble & Evan Parker * Passage to Hades (Blueprint)
517. Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell * Radioaxiom (Palm/Axiom)
518. Work Of Saws * Motivation and Watertown Grammar (Thick)
519. Wu Tang Clan * WW II (Loud)
520. Yesterday's New Quintet * Angles Without Edges (Stones Throw)
521. Zero 7 * Simple Things (Ultimate Dilemma)
522. Rob Zombie * Sinister Urge (Geffen)

* 2001

1. Bjφrk * Vespertine (Elektra)
2. Hawksley Workman * (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves (Universal)
3. The Strokes * Is This It (BMG/RCA)
4. Fugazi * The Argument (Dischord)
5. Mercury Rev * All Is Dream (V2)
6. Sparklehorse * It's A Wonderful Life (EMI/Parlophone)
7. Ed Harcourt * Here Be Monsters (Virgin)
8. Pulp * We Love Life (Uni/Island)
9. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci * How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
10. Super Furry Animals * Rings Around The World (Epic)
11. The Czars * The Ugly People Vs. The Beautiful People (Bellaire)
12. Eels * Soul Jacker (Dreamworks)
13. Radiohead * Amnesiac (Capitol)
14. The Dismemberment Plan * Change (De Soto)
15. Steve Wynn * Here Come The Miracles (Innerstate)
16. Four Tet * Pause (Domino)
17. !!! (Chik Chik Chik) (Gold Standard)
18. Otto * Condom Black (Trama)
19. N*E*R*D * In Search Of... (Virgin)
20. Roots Manuva * Run Come Save Me (Big Dada)
21. The White Stripes * White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
22. Max De Castro * Samba Raro (Trama)
23. Blue States * Nothing Changes Under The Sun (ESL)
24. Mark Lanegan * Field Songs (Sub Pop)
25. Dub Pistols * Six Million Ways To Live (Universal)
26. Cannibal Ox * Cold Vein (Ozone Music)
27. John Vanderslice * Time Travel Is Lonely (Barsuk)
28. Kaada * Thank You For Giving Me Your Valuable Time (Ipecac)
29. Mogwai * Rock Action (Matador)
30. Tindersticks * Can Our Love... (Beggas Banquet)
31. Le Tigre * Feminist Sweepstakes (Mr. Lady)
32. The Boredoms * Vision, Creation, Newsun (WEA Japan)
33. The Microphones * The Glow, Pt. 2 (K)
34. Spoon * Girls Can Tell (Merge)
35. Prefuse 73 * Vocal Studies & UpRock Narratives (Warp)
36. Orlando Cachaito Lopez * Cachaito (World Circuit)
37. Fennesz * Endless Summer (Mego)
38. Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire * The Swimming Hour (Rykodisc)
39. Sufjan Stevens * Enjoy Your Rabbit (Asthmatic Kitty)
40. Explosions In The Sky * How Strange, Innocense (temporary)
41. Even Johansen * Quiet & Still (FiveOne)
42. Nicolai Dunger * Soul Rush (Delores/Lakeshore)
43. Hood * Cold House (Aesthetics)
44. Sahara Hotnights * Jennie Bomb (Jet Set)
45. The Liars * They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top (Mute)
46. No Doubt * Rock Steady (Interscope)
47. The Flaming Stars * A Walk On The Wired Side (Vinyl Japan)
48. Nitin Sawhney * Prophesy (V2)
49. Built To Spill * Ancient Melodies Of The Future (WB)
50. Elbow * Asleep In The Back (V2)
51. Circulatory System (Cloud Recordings)
52. Pernice Brothers * The World Won't End (Ashmont)
53. Jim O'Rourke * Insignificance (Drag City)
54. Foetus * Flow (Thirsty Ear)
55. Shannon Wright * Dyed In The Wool (Quarterstick)
56. Stereolab * Sound-Dust (Elektra)
57. Bilal * 1st Born Second (Interscope)
58. Ben Christophers * Spoonface (V2)
59. The Autumn Defense * The Green Hour (Broadmoor)
60. Handsome Family * Twilight (Carrot Top)
61. Unwound * Leaves Turn Inside You (Kill Rock Stars)
62. Fridge * Happiness (temporary Residence)
63. Spiritualized * Let It Come Down (Arista)
64. Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros * Global A Go-Go (Hellcat)
65. The American Analog Set * Know By Heart (Tiger Style)
66. Rφyksopp * Melody A.M. (Wall Of Sond/EMI)
67. Stars * Nightsongs (Le Grand)
68. Lali Puna * Scary World Theory (Morr)
69. Stars * Nightsongs (LeGrand)
70. Broken Social Scene * Feel Good Lost (Noise Factory)
71. Thalia Zedek * Been Here and Gone (Matador)
72. The Tyde * Once (Track & Field)
73. The Shins * Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop)
74. Papa M * Whatever, Mortal (Drag City)
75. The (International) Noise Conspiracy * A New Morning, Changing Weather (Epitaph)
76. Moreno Veloso +2 * Music Typewriter (Hannibal/Natasha)
77. Bardo Pond * Dilate (Matador)
78. Thea Gilmore * Rules For Jokers (Flyin')
79. Tom Zι * Jogos De Armar (Trama)
80. Gigi (Palm Pictures)
81. Opeth * Blackwater Park (Koch)
82. The Seconds * Y (5RC)
83. Chris Lee * Plays & Sings Torch'd Songs, Charivari Hymns & Oriki Blue-Marches (Smells Like)
84. Tortoise * Standards (Thrill Jockey)
85. The Beta Band * Hotshots II (Astralwerks)
86. Guided By Voices * Isolation Drills (TVT)
87. Rocket From The Crypt * Group Sounds (TVT/Vagrant)
88. Tiga/Various * American Gigalo (International DJ)
89. Animal Collective/Avey tare & Panda Bear * Danse Manatee (Cats Up Plate)
90. Various * All Tomorrow's Parties 1.0 (ATPR)
91. The Avalanches * Since I Left You (Sire/Modular)
92. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds * No More Shall We Part (Elektra)
93. Fischerspooner * #1 (Ministry of Sound/Capitol)
94. R.E.M. * Reveal (WB)
95. Rob * Don't Kill (Source Fr)
96. Basement Jaxx * Rooty (XL)
97. Manitoba * Start Breaking My Heart (Domino)
98. Hector Zazou & Sandy Dillon * Las Vegas Is Curved (First World)
99. Picastro * Red Your Blues (Pehr)
100. Soundtrack Of Our Lives * Behind The Music (WEA)
101. Natacha Atlas * Ayeshteni (Mantra)
102. You Am I * Dress Me Slowly (BMG)
103. Helio Sequence * Young Effectuals (Cavity Search)
104. Life Without Buildings * Any Other City (Tugboat)
105. Explosions In The Sky * Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever (temporary)
106. Playgroup (Source/Astralwerks)
107. Joe Henry * Scar (Mammoth)
108. Peaches * The Teaches Of Peaches (Kitty-Yo)
109. Electric Company * 62-56 (Tigerbeat6)
110. Kylie Minogue * Fever (EMI)
111. Lucinda Williams * Essence (UNI/Lost Highway)
112. Jim White * No Such Place (Luaka Bop)
113. Femi Kuti * Fight To Win (MCA)
114. Operator Generator * Polar Fleet (Man's Ruin)
115. Autechre * Confield (Warp)
116. Manu Chao * Proxima Estacion: Esperanza (EMD/Virgin)
117. Rufus Wainright * Poses (Dreamworks)
118. Tim Hecker * Haunt Me, Haunt Me Again (Substractif)
119. Gillian Welch * Time (The Revelator) (Acony)
120. Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP (Wichita/Touch And Go)
121. Adult * Resuscitation (Ersatz Audio)
122. Trilok Gurtu * The Beat Of Love (Blue Note)
123. Rachid Taha * Made In Medina (Mondo Melodia)
124. Tool * Lateralus/Systema Encephale (Volcano)
125. So Solid Crew * They Don't Know (Independiente)
126. The Fire Show * Above the Volcano of Flowers (Perishable)
127. Sloan * Pretty Together (Murder)
128. Jay Farrar * Sebastapol (Artemis)
129. Scout NIblett * Sweet Heart Fever (Secretly Canadian)
130. Summer Hymns * Celebratory Arm Gesture (Misra)
131. Beachwood Sparks * Once We Were Trees (Sub Pop)
132. The Coup * Party Music (75 Ark)
133. Missy Elliott * Miss E . . . So Addictive (WEA/Elektra)
134. Kevin Tihista's Red Terror * Don't Breathe A Word (Blanco Y Negro)
135. Burning Airlines * Identikit (DeSoto)
136. Erase Errata * Other Animals (Troubleman)
137. The Kingsbury Manx * Let You Down (Overcoat)
138. Bobby Conn * The Golden Age (Thrill Jockey)
139. Trembling Blue Stars * Alive To Every Smile (Sub Pop)
140. Firewater * Psychopharmacology (Jetset)
141. Fanfare Ciocarlia * Iag Bari (Piranha)
142. The Faint * Danse Macabre (Saddle Creek)
143. Krishna Das * Breath of the Heart (Triloka)
144. Willard Grant Conspiracy * Everything's Fine (Rykodisc/Slow River)
145. Califone * Roomsound (Perishable)
146. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club * B.R.M.C. (Virgin)
147. Simian * Chemistry Is What We Are (Source/Astralwerks)
148. Love As Laughter * Sea to Shining Sea (Sub Pop)
149. Shelby Lynne * Love, Shelby (Island)
150. Tara Jane O'Neil * In The Sun Lines (Quarterstick)
151. Bob Dylan * Love And Theft (Columbia)
152. Music For Mapmakers (Grenadine)
153. Vue * Find Your Home (Sub Pop)
154. Old 97's * Satellite Ride (Elektra)
155. Beulah * The Coast Is Never Clear (Velocette)
156. Her Space Holiday * Manic Expressive (Tiger Style)
157. Ida * The Braille Night (Tiger Style)
158. Mouse On Mars * Idiology (Thrill Jockey)
159. Labradford : Fixed::Content (Kranky)
160. Matmos * A Chance to Cut Is a Chance To Cure (Matador)
161. The Rapture * Out Of The Races And Onto The Tracks EP (Sub Pop)
162. Radiohead * I Might Be Wrong (Capitol)
163. 16 Horsepower * Hoarse (Checkered Past)
164. Daft Punk * Discovery (Virgin)
165. Set Fire To Flames * Sings Reign Rebuilder (Alien 8)
166. Talvin Singh * Ha (Island)
167. Dilated Peoples * Expansion Team (Capitol)
168. Karsh Kale * Realize (Six Degrees)
169. Cex * Oops, I Did It Again! (Tigerbeat6)
170. Lift To Experience * The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (Bella Union)
171. Scarlet Life * Sugar, Spice, Saccharin & Cyanide (DivaNation)
172. Karma Sutra * Prana (Invisible/DivaNation)
173. Angels Of Light * How I Loved You (Young God)
174. Badmarsh & Shri * Signs (Nutone/Nettwerk)
175. Tim Easton * The Truth About Us (New West)
176. Burning Brides * Fall of the Plastic Empire (V2)
177. Tweaker * The Attraction To All Things Uncertain (Six Degrees)
178. Isis * Celestial (7)
179. Godflesh * Hymns (Earache)
180. Entombed * Morning Star (Music for the Nations)
181. The Haunted * …Made Me Do It (Earache)
182. Chι * Sounds Of Liberation (Man's Ruin)
183. The International Noise Conspiracy * Survival Sickness (Burning Heart/Epitaph)
184. Fantomas * The Director's Cut (Ipecac)
185. Whiskeytown * Pneumonia (Universal)
186. The Cash Brothers * How Was Tomorrow (Uni/Zoe)
187. Kelly Hogan * Because It Feel Good (Bloodshot)
188. Clutch * Pure Rock Fury (Atlantic)
189. Lamb * What Sound (Mercury)
190. Zeke * Death Alley (Tee Pee)
191. Spain * I Believe (Restless)
192. Timbaland & Magoo * Indecent Proposal (Virgin)
193. Jay-Z * The Blueprint (Roc-A-Fella)
194. DJ KRush * Zen (Red Ink)
195. Aesop Rock * Labor Days (Def Jux)
196. Cesaria Evora * Sao Vicente (World Circuit)
197. Sheila Chandra * This Sentence Is True (Shakti)
198. Susheela Raman * Salt Rain (Narada)
199. Temple Of Sound & Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali * People's Colony No. 1 (Real World)
200. Felix Da Housecat * Kittenz And Thee Glitz (City Rockers)
201. Vinicius Cantuaria * Vinicius (Transparent)
202. Joi * We Are Three (Real World)
203. Radio Tarifa * Cruzando El Rio (World Circuit)
204. Cheb Mami * Dellali (Mondo Melodia/Ark 21)
205. Neil Michael Hagerty (Drag City)
206. The Butchies * Three (Mr. Lady)
207. Rainer Maria * A Better Version Of Me (Polyvinyl)
208. Anita Lane * Sex O' Clock (Mute)
209. The Frames * For The Birds (Overcoat)
210. Teenage Fanclub * Howdy! (Thirsty Ear)
211. Zoot Woman * Living In A Magazine (Parlophone)
212. Fruit Bats * Echo Location (Perishable)
213. Clem Snide * The Ghost Of Fashion (spinART)
214. Superchunk * Here's To Shutting Up (Merge)
215. Low * Things We Lost In The Fire (Kranky)
216. Portastatic * Looking for Leonard (Merge)
217. Howe Gelb * Confluence (Thrill Jockey)
218. System Of A Down * Toxicity (American)
219. Cutthroats 9 (Man's Ruin)
220. Old Time Relijun * Witchcraft Rebellion (K)
221. The Dictators * D.F.F.D. (Dictators)
222. Sea Of Tombs (Gravity)
223. Julie Doiron * Desormais (Jagjaguwar)
224. Love Life * Rose He Lied By (Troubleman Unlimited)
225. Calexico * Aerocalexico (Our Soil, Our Stength)
226. Stephen Malkmus (Matador)
227. The Chamber Strings * Month Of Sundays (Bobsled)
228. DJ Swamp * Never Is Now (Decadent/Lakeshore)
229. Nebula * Charged (Sub Pop)
230. The Sultans * Ghost Ship (Swami/Sympathy FTRI)
231. Dante's Voodoo Cabaret * Songs For Saints And Sinners (Voodoo Cabaret)
232. Death Cab For Cutie * The Photo Album (Barsuk)
233. Pixeltan (Troubleman)
234. Hope Sandoval & Warm Invention * Bavarian Fruit Bread (BMG/Sanctuary)
235. Macy Gray * The ID (Epic)
236. Stereo Total * The Automatique (Bobsled)
237. The Gossip * That's Not What I Heard (Kill Rock Stars)
238. Air * 10,000 Hz Legend (Astralwerks)
239. Transglobal Underground * Yes Boss Food Corner
240. Stina Nordenstam * This Is Stina Nordenstam (Independente) (UNI/Ark21)
241. Electric Wizard * Dopethrone (Rise Above)
242. Slayer * God Hates Us All (American/Columbia)
243. David Byrne * Look Into The Eyeball (Virgin)
244. Richard Hawley (Setanta)
245. Shiner * Egg (De Soto)
246. Zao (Tooth & Nail)
247. Orthrelm * Asristirveildrioxe EP (Grenadine)
248. Edith Frost * Wonder Wonder (Drag City)
249. Preston School Of Industry * All This Sounds Gas (Matador)
250. The Pharmacists * Ted Leo/Rx Pharmacists (Germ Blandsten)
251. Kings of Convenience * Versus (Astralwerks)
252. Chocolate Genius * Godmusic (V2)
253. Trailer Bride * High Seas (Bloodshot)
254. Kings of Convenience * Quiet Is The New Loud (Source/Astralwerks)
255. The Lack (Troubleman)
256. Ursula Rucker * Supa Sista (Studio !K7)
257. The Nerves * World Of Gold (Thrill Jockey)
258. Bigg Jus * Plantation Rhymes (Sub Verse)
259. Lambchop * Tools In The Dryer (Merge)
260. Mary J. Blige * No More Drama (MCA)
261. Busta Rhymes * Genesis (J Records)
262. Angie Stone * Mahogony Soul (J Records)
263. Quasi * The Sword Of God (Touch & Go)
264. Warhorse * As Heaven Turns To Ash... (Southern Lord)
265. Rammstein * Mutter (Universal)
266. My Dying Bride * The Dreadful Hour (Peaceville/Snapper)
267. Ex Models * Other Mathematics (Ace Fu)
268. Chestnut Station * In Your Living Room (Drag City)
269. The Great Crusades * Damaged Goods (Glitterhouse)
270. Maxwell * Now (Columbia)
271. Jill Scott * Experience (Sony)
272. Evil Beaver * Lick It! (Four Alarm)
273. Buddy & Julie Miller (Hightone)
274. Gorillaz (Virgin)
275. ABCs (Troubleman)
276. Dungeon Family * ...Even in Darkness (Arista)
277. The Donnas * The Donnas Turn 21 (Lookout!)
278. John Hammond * Wicked Grin (Virgin)
279. Ghostface Killah * Bulletproof Wallets (Epic)
280. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy * Ease Down The Road (Palace Records)
281. Le Tigre * From The Desk of Mr. Lady EP (Mr. Lady)
282. The Bigger Lovers * How I Learned To Stop Worrying (Black Dog)
283. Garbage * Beautiful Garbage (Mushroom)
284. Black Crowes * Lion (V2)
285. Tom McRae (BMG/Arista)
286. Monster Magnet * God Says No (A&M)
287. Pete Yorn * Musicforthemorningafter (Sony)
288. Muse * Origin Of Symmetry (Mushroom)
289. Rollins Band * Nice (BMG/Sanctuary)
290. Kool Keith * Spankmaster (TVT)
291. Bullfrog (Ropeadope)
292. Rizzo * Phoning It In (Sympathy For the Record Industry)
293. Nick Lowe * The Convincer (Proper)
294. Ryan Adams * Gold (Lost Highway)
295. Weezer * The Green Album (Geffen)
296. The Cult * Beyond Good & Evil (Lava/Atlantic)
297. Tricky * Blowback (Island)
298. Tori Amos * Strange Little Girls (Atlantic)
299. Graham Parker * Deepcut to Nowhere (Razor & Tie)
300. Leonard Cohen * Ten New Songs (Columbia)
301. The Moldy Peaches (Sanctuary)
302. Khanate (Southern Lord)
303. Tomahawk (Ipecac)
304. Acid Mothers Temple * New Geocentric World (Squealer)
305. Akercocke * The Goat Of Mendes (Peaceville/Snapper)
306. Alabama Thunderpussy * Staring At The Divine (Man's Ruin)
307. Alpha * The Impossible Thrill (Melankolic)
308. Anathema * A Fine Day To Exit (Koch)
309. The Apes * The Fugue In The Fog (French Kiss)
310. Aphex Twin * Drukqs (Warp)
311. Arab Strap * The Red Thread (Matador/Chemical Underground)
312. Aria * Haze (Bleep)
313. Ashley Park * The American Scene (Loose)
314. Ass Ponys * Lohio (Checkered Past)
315. Aterciopelados * Gozo Poderosa (BMG Latin)
316. Atomsmasher (Hydra Head)
317. AB Baars Trio * Songs (Geestgronden)
318. The Bad Plus (Fresh Sound)
319. Bathory * Blood Fire Death (Black Mark/SPV
320. Howie Beck * Hollow (Easy Tiger)
321. The BellRays * Grand Fury (Vital Gesture)
322. Ben & Jason * Ten Songs About You (Go Beat)
323. Biosphere * Substrata/Man With A Movie Camera (Touch)
324. Biota * Invisible Map (Import)
325. Bis * Music For A Stranger World (Grand Royal)
326. Brant Bjφrk & The Operators * Cocoa Butter (Man's Ruin)
327. Frank Black & the Catholics * Dog In The Sand (What Are Records?)
328. Blectum From Blechdom * Haus De Snaus (Tiberbeat6)
329. Bluetip * Post Mortem Anthem (Dischord)
330. Bonnevill (Mick Turner) * Pelican (Instinct)
331. Bran Van 3000 * Discosis (Grand Royal)
332. Brassy * Got It Made (Wiija)
333. Brokeback * Morse Code in the Modern Age: Across The Americas (Thrill Jockey)
334. Bronx Casket Co. * Sweet Home Transylvania
335. Buck 65 * Man Overboard (Anticon)
336. Cake * Comfort Eagle (Columbia)
337. Capitol Years * Meet Yr Acrews (Full Frame)
338. The Charlatans * Wonderland (UNI/MCA)
339. Chicago Underground Quartet (Thrill Jockey)
340. The Clean * Getaway (Merge)
341. Clearlake * Lido (Dusty Company)
342. cLOUDDEAD (Mush/Big Dada)
343. Cockeyed Ghost * Ludlow 6:18 (Karma Frog)
344. Comas * A Def Needle In Tomorrow (Plastique/Yep Roc)
345. Constantines * The Constantines (Three Gut)
346. The Convocation Of... * Pyramid Technology (Tiger Style)
347. The Creatures * Sequins In The Sun
348. The Crystal Method * Tweekend (Interscope)
349. Cypress Hill * Stoned Raiders (Sony)
350. The Damned * Grave Disorder (NIT)
351. De La Soul * Bionix (Tommy Boy)
352. Delerium * Poem (Nettwerk)
353. Depeche Mode * Exciter (Warner)
354. Dhol Foundation * Big Drum Small World (Shakti)
355. Ani DiFranco * Revelling: Reckoning (Righteous Babe)
356. Dimitri from Paris * Monsieur Dimitri's De-Luxe House of Funk (Razor & Tie)
357. The Distillers * Sin Sin Death House (Hellcat/Epitaph)
358. The Divine Comedy * Regeneration (Parolophone)
359. Dntel * Life Is Full Of Possibilities (Plug Research)
360. Sara Dougher * The Bluff (Mr. Lady)
361. Graeme Downes * Hammers And Anvils (Matador)
362. The Dum Dum Project * Export Quality (Grooovy Sounds Unlimited)
363. Edan * Mic Manipulator (Lewis Recordings)
364. Ekkehard Ehlers * Plays Albert Ayler (Staubgold)
365. Mark Eitzel * The Invisible Man (Matador)
366. Electrelane * Rock It To The Moon (Mr. Lady/Let's Rock!)
367. Elysian Fields * Queen Of the Meadow (Flower Shop)
368. Embrace * If You've Never Been
369. Emperor * Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise (Candlelight)
370. Elejandro Escovedo * A Man Under the Influence (Bloodshot)
371. The Ex * Dizzy Spells (Touch & Go)
372. Explosion Robinson * The Luxury Leader (Slabco)
373. Faithless * Outrospective (Arista/Kinetic)
374. Fear Factory * DigiMortal (Roadrunner)
375. Field Mob * 6:13: Ashy To Classy (MCA)
376. Firebird * Deluxe (Music For Nations)
377. Ben Folds * Rockin' The Suburbs (Epic)
378. French Kicks * Young Lawyer EP (Star Time)
379. Fuck * Cupid's Cactus (Smells Like)
380. Fushitsusha * Origin's Hesitation (PSF)
381. Future Pilot AKA * Tiny Waves, Mighty Sea (Geographic)
382. Rebecca Gates * Ruby Series (Badman)
383. Warren G * Return Of The Regulator (Uptown/Universal)
384. The Get Up Kids * Eudora (Vagrant)
385. Goldfrapp * Utopia (EP) (Mute)
386. Godhead * 2000 Years Of Human Error (Posthuman)
387. Goldie * Goldie Co UK
388. Green Velvet * Whatever (Musicman)
389. Gridlock * Trace (Unit)
390. Luke Haines * The Oliver Twist Manifesto (Hut)
391. The Heavy Blinkers * Better Weather (Brobdignagian)
392. Arve Henriksen, Sakuteiki (Rune Grammofon)
393. Herbert * Bodily Functions (!K7)
394. HIM * New Features (Bubble Core)
395. Holger Hiller (Mute)
396. Beth Hirsch * Titles And Idols (!K7)
397. His Name Is Alive * Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth (4AD/Beggars Banquet)
398. The Human League * Secrets (Papillon/Chrysalis)
399. I Am Kloot * Natural History (We Love You)
400. The Icarus Line * Mono (Crank!)
401. Idaho * Levitate (Idaho Music)
402. Jackie-O Motherfucker * Liberation (Road Cone)
403. Bill Janovitz * Up Here (spinART)
404. Freedy Johnston * Right Between The Promises (Elektra)
405. k * New Problems (Tiger Style)
406. Karma To Burn * Almost Heathen (Spitfire)
407. Katatonia * Last Fair Deal Gone Down (Peaceville/Snaper)
408. Alicia Keys * Songs In A Minor (J)
409. Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (Sony/Legacy)
410. Kinski * Be Gentle With the Warm Turtle (Pacifico)
411. Ladytron * 604 (Emperor Norton)
412. Bill Laswell * Carlos Santana - Divine Light (Columbia/Legacy)
413. Melissa Lefton (Jive)
414. Lightning Bolt * Ride The Skies (Loud)
415. Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez * Cachaito (Nonesuch)
416. John Oswald * Plunderphonics 69/96 (Seeland)
417. The Locust * Flight Of The Wounded Locust (GSL)
418. Patty Loveless * Mountain Soul (Epic)
419. Lowgold * Just Backward Of Square (Nude)
420. Lowsunday * Elesgiem (Projekt)
421. Ludacris * Southern Hospitality (Def Jam)
422. The Lucksmiths * Why That Doesn't Surprise Me (Drive-In)
423. Billy MacKenzie And Steve Aungle * Eurocentric (Eurocentric)
424. Marmoset * Record In Red (Secretly Canadian)
425. Stephan Mathieu * Frequencylib (Ritornell)
426. Paul McCartney * Driving Rain (Parlophone)
427. Nathaniel Merriweather Presents Loveage * Music To Make Love to Your Old Lady By (75 Ark)
428. Milemarker * Anaesthetic (Jade Tree)
429. Minders * Golden Street (Spinart)
430. Minus 5 * Let The War Against Music Begin (Malt/Mammoth)
431. Roy Montgomery * Silver Wheel Of Prayer (VHF)
432. Alan Moore & Tim Perkins * The Highbury Working (Re:)
433. Jason Moran Trio * Black Stars (Blue Note)
434. Mark Mulcahy * Smile Sunset (Loose)
435. Mull Historical Society * Loss (EastWest)
436. My Morning Jacket * At Dawn (Darla)
437. Toshimaru Nakamura & Sachiko M * Do (Erstwhile)
438. Nectarine No. 9 * Received, Transgressed & Transmitted (Beggars Banquet)
439. Nataraj XT * Tandava (Nutone)
440. New Order * Get Ready (WB)
441. The New Year * Newness Ends (Touch And Go)
442. Nagisa Ni Te * Songs for A Simple Moment (Geographic)
443. Jeb Loy Nichols * Just What Time It Is (Rykodisc)
444. Nas * Stillmatic (Columbia)
445. Neurosis * A Sun That Never Sets (Relapse)
446. No-Neck Blues Band * Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones (Revenant)
447. Noonday Underground * Self-Assembly (Bar/None)
448. North Mississippi Al Stars, John Medeski & Robert Randolph * The Word (Ropeadope/Atlantic)
449. Heather Nova * South (1/2)
450. Laura Nyro * Angel In The Dark (Rounder)
451. Of Montreal * Cocquelicot Asleep In The :Poppies (Kindercore)
452. OOIOO * Feather Float (Birdman)
453. Old Man Gloom * Seminar III: Zozobra (Tortuga)
454. Orange Peels * So Far (spinART)
455. Oranger * The Quiet Vibration Land (Poptones)
456. Oval * Commers (Thrill Jockey)
457. Oxide & Neutrino * Execute (East West)
458. Pan Sonic * Aaltiopiiri (Blast First)
459. Pep Love * Ascension (Hiero Imperium)
460. The Pets * Love And War (Endearing)
461. P.G. Six * Parlor Tricks And Porch Favorites (Amish)
462. Phatt Pussycat * Phatt Life (Glasgow Underground)
463. Grant Lee Phillips * Mobilize (Zoe/Rounder)
464. Piano Magic * Seasonally Affective 1996-2000 (Rocket Girl)
465. Plaid * Double Figure (Warp)
466. Pleasure Forever (Sub Pop)
467. Iggy Pop * Beat Em Up (Virgin)
468. Praxis * Warszawa (Innerhythmic)
469. Prefab Sprout * The Gunman And Other Stories (EMI)
470. Rajna * Ishati (Projekt)
471. Red House Painters * Old Ramon (Sub Pop)
472. Marc Ribot * Saints (Division One)
473. Christina Rosenvinge * Frozen Pool (Smells Like)
474. Rovo * Imago (Incidental)
475. Scorn * Greetings From Birmingham (Hymen)
476. Senor Coconut * El Gran Baile (Emperor Norton)
477. Matthew Shipp * Matthew Shipp's New Orbit (Thirsty Ear)
478. Beanie Sigel * The Reason (Roc-A-Fella)
479. The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra And Tra-La-La Band * Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward (Constellation)
480. Sizzla * Rastafari Teach I Everything (Greensleaves)
481. Slumber Party * Psychedelicate (Kill Rock Stars)
482. Smog * Rain On Lens (Drag City)
483. The Snow Patrol * When It's Over We Will Still Have To Clear Up (Jeepster)
484. Snowpony * Sea Shanties For Spaceships (Dead Pan Alley)
485. Soilent Green * A Deleted Symphony For the Beaten Down (Relapse)
486. Solex * Low Kick & Hard Bop (Matador)
487. Solid Steel Presents DJ Food & DK * Now, Listen! (Ninja Tune)
488. Son Ambulence * Euphemystic (Saddle Creek)
489. Spearmin * A Different Lifetime (Hitback)
490. Squarepusher * Go Plastic (Warp)
491. Stars * The Comeback EP (LeGrand)
492. Starsailor * Love Is Here (Chrysalis)
493. Taku Sugimoto * Italia (A Bruit Secret)
494. Sebastien Tellier * L'Incroyable Verite Record Makers (Astralwerks)
495. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 * Bob Diners and Laarry Noodles Present Tubby Terdner's Celebrity Avalanche (Communion)
496. Billy Bob Thornton * Private Radio (Lost Highway)
497. Tindersticks * Trouble Every Day (Beggars Banquet)
498. Jenny Toomey * Antidote (Misra)
499. To Rococo Rot & I-Sound * Music Is A Hungry Ghost (City Slang)
500. Town And Country * It Has All To Do With It (Thrill Jockey)
501. Travis * The Invisible Band (Independiente)
502. Turin Brakes * The Optimist LP (Astralwerks)
503. US Maple * Acre Thrills (Drag City)
504. Vandermark 5 * Acoustic Machine (Atavistic)
505. Caetano Veloso * Noites Do Norte (WEA/Nonesuch)
506. Caetano Veloso * Omaggio A Federico E Giulietta (WEA/Nonesuch)
507. Varnaline * Songs In A Northern Key (E-Squared/Artemis)
508. Volta Do Mar * At The Speeeed Of Light Or Day (Arborvitae)
509. The Von Bondies * Lack Of Communication (Sympathy FTRI)
510. Wagon Christ * Musipal (Ninja Tune)
511. The Walkabouts * Ended Up A Stranger (Glitterhouse)
512. Walker Kong * There Goes The Sun (Magic Marker)
513. M Ward * End Of Amnesia (Loose)
514. The White Octive * Menergy (Initial)
515. Witness * Under A Sun (Island)
516. Jah Wobble & Evan Parker * Passage to Hades (Blueprint)
517. Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell * Radioaxiom (Palm/Axiom)
518. Work Of Saws * Motivation and Watertown Grammar (Thick)
519. Wu Tang Clan * WW II (Loud)
520. Yesterday's New Quintet * Angles Without Edges (Stones Throw)
521. Zero 7 * Simple Things (Ultimate Dilemma)
522. Rob Zombie * Sinister Urge (Geffen)

* 2002

1. N*E*R*D * In Search Of ... (Virgin)
2. The Flaming Lips * Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner)
3. Wilco * Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
4. Amon Tobin * Out From Out Where (Ninja Tune)
5. The Notwist * Neon Golden (City Slang)
6. Nina Nastasia * The Blackened Air (Touch and Go)
7. Queens Of The Stone Age * Songs For The Deaf (Interscope)
8. My Computer * Vulnerabilia (13 Amp UK)
9. Rob * Satyred Love (Source/Virgin Fr)
10. Plush * Fed (After Hours Jpn)
11. Arto Lindsay * Invoke (Righteous Babe)
12. Tom Waits * Alice (Anti/Epitaph)
13. Neko Case * Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
14. Naηγo Zumbi (Trama)
15. Out Hud * S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. (Kranky)
16. Schneider TM * Zoomer (City Slang)
17. Domenico +2 * Sincerely Hot (Nippon Crown)
18. Rjd2 * Deadringer (Def Jux)
19. DJ /rupture * Minesweeper Suite (Tigerbeat6)
20. Spoon * Kill The Moonlight (Merge)
21. Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man * Out Of Season (Go Beat UK)
22. The Libertines * Up The Bracket (Rough Trade)
23. AmPop * Made For Market (TMT/Thule Musik Iceland)
24. Mϊm * Finally We Are No One (Fat Cat)
25. Tom Waits * Blood Money (Anti/Epitaph)
26. Sleater-Kinney * One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)
27. Sigur Rσs * ( ) (Fat Cat/MCA)
28. The Walkmen * Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone (Startime)
29. The Roots * Phrenology (MCA)
30. Max De Castro * Orchestra Klaxon (Trama)
31. Broken Social Scene * You Forgot It In People (Paper Bag)
32. Interpol * Turn On The Bright Lights (Matador)
33. The Fire Show * Saint The Fire Show (Perishable)
34. Boards Of Canada * Geogaddi (Warp)
35. Sixteen Horsepower * Folklore (Jetset)
36. John Vanderslice * The Life And Death Of An American Fourtracker (Barsuk)
37. Gallon Drunk * Fire Music (Sweet Nothing UK)
38. Black Heart Procession * Amore Del Topico (Touch And Go)
39. Crispy Ambulance * Scissorgun (Darla)
40. Ms. John Soda * No P. or D. (Morr)
41. Blue States * Man Mountain (XL)
42. The Aluminum Group * Happyness (Wishing Tree)
43. Cornelius * Point (Matador)
44. Various * Red Hot + Riot! Tribute To Fela (MCA)
45. The Coral (Sony UK)
46. Isis * Oceanic (Ipecac)
47. Radio 4 * Gotham (Gern Blandsten)
48. Doves * The Last Broadcast (Heavenly/Astralwerks)
49. Archer Prewitt * Three (Thrill Jockey)
50. Cornershop * Handcream For A Generation (Luaka Bop)
51. Blevin Blectum * Talon Slalom (Deluxe)
52. The Books * Thought For Food (Tomlab)
53. El-P * Fantastic Damage (Def Jux)
54. Dδlek * From The Filthy Tongues Of Gods And Griots (Ipecac)
55. The Streets * Original Pirate Material (Locked On UK)
56. Sonic Youth * Murray Street (Interscope)
57. Gomez * In Our Gun (Virgin)
58. Gemma Hayes * Night On My Side (Source)
59. The Flaming Stars * Sunset & Void (Alternative Tentacles)
60. Clinic * Walking With Thee (Domino)
61. Godspeed You Black Emperor! * Yanqui U.X.O. (Constellation)
62. The National Trust * Dekkagar (Thrill Jockey)
63. Eleni Mandell * Snakebite (Spacebaby)
64. DJ Shadow * The Private Press (Mo' Wax)
65. Lake Trout * Another One Lost (Palm Pictures)
66. Blackalicious * Blazing Arrow (Quannum/MCA)
67. We Ragazzi * The Ache (Self-Starter)
68. Wire * Read & Burn 01 & 02 (Pink Flag)
69. The Decemberists * Castaways And Cut-Outs (Hugh)
70. Benjamin Biolay * Rose Kennedy (Virgin Fr)
71. Totonho & Os Cabra (Trama)
72. Boom Bip * Seed To Sun (Lex)
73. The Delgados * Hate (Mantra UK)
74. Devendra Banhart * Oh Me Oh My... (Young God)
75. Deadly Avenger * Deep Red (Illicit)
76. 90 Day Men * To Everybody (Southern)
77. Mary Timony * The Golden Dove (Matador)
78. Primal Scream * Evil Heat (Columbia UK)
79. Eileen Rose * Long Shot Novena (Rough Trade/BMG)
80. The Breeders * Title TK (4AD/Elektra)
81. Nicolai Dunger * Tranquil Isolation (Dolores/Virgin)
82. Ojos de Brujo * Barν (La Fαbrica de)
83. Various * Sσnar 2002: Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Arts (Milan)
84. Tony Allen * HomeCooking (Cornet)
85. Jean Grae * Attack Of The Attacking Things (Third Earth)
86. Various * Extra Yard (Big Dada)
87. Frog Eyes * The Bloody Hand (Animal World)
88. Kent * Vapen & Ammunition (BMG)
89. DJ Dolores + Orchestra Santa Massa * Contraditoria? (Candeeiro/Stern's)
90. Pere Ubu * St. Arkansas (Glitterhouse/spinART)
91. Opeth * Deliverance (Koch)
92. DJ Cheb i Sabbah * Krishna Lila (Six Degrees)
93. Orchestra Baobab * Specialist In All Styles (World Circuit)
94. The Black Keys * The Big Come Up (Alive)
95. Lenine * Falange Canibal (BMG)
96. Ms. Dynamite * A Little Deeper (Universal UK)
97. Common * Electric Circus (MCA)
98. Lewis Taylor * Stoned Part I (Slow Reality)
99. Soul Center III (Novamute)
100. DAT Politics * Plugs Plus (Chicks On Speed)
101. Cinematic Orchestra * Every Day (Ninja Tune)
102. Los De Abajo * Cybertropic Chilango Power (Luaka Bop)
103. Solomon Burke * Don't Give Up On Me (Fat Possum)
104. Susana Baca * Espiritu Vivo (Luaka Bop)
105. Black Dice * Beaches And Canyons (DFA)
106. Beck * Sea Change (Interscope)
107. Wondermints * Mind If We Make Love To You (Smile)
108. Add N to (X) * Loud Like Nature (Mute)
109. Ladytron * Light & Magic (Emperor Norton)
110. Richard Hawley (Pulp guitarist) * Late Night Final (Bar/None)
111. Edwyn Collins * Doctor Syntax (Setanta)
112. Nile * In Their Darkened Shrines (Relapse)
113. Pretty Girls Make Graves * Good Health (Lookout)
114. Tujiko Noriko * Make Me Hard (Mego)
115. Technozoide * Bad Innosense (Trama)
116. Metro Area (Environ)
117. Suicide * American Supreme (Mute/Blast First)
118. Meshuggah * Nothing (Nuclear Blast)
119. Recloose * Cardiology (Planet E)
120. The Shalabi Effect * The Trial Of St. Orange (Alien8)
121. Subway Sect * Sansend (Motion UK)
122. Sondre Lerche * Faces Down (Astralwerks)
123. Cody ChestnuTT * The Headphone Masterpiece (Ready Set Go)
124. Vitesse * You Win Again, Gravity (Hidden Agenda/Parasol)
125. The Polyphonic Spree * The Beginning Stages Of... (Good)
126. Supergrass * Life On Other Planets (Parolophone UK)
127. Cinerama * Torino (Manifesto)
128. Radar Brothers * And The Surrounding Mountains (Merge)
129. Death In Vegas * Scorpio Rising (Concrete UK)
130. Work Of Saws * Pious Flats (Thick)
131. Simian * We Are Your Friends (Source/Astralwerk)
132. Ikara Colt * Chart And Business (Fantastic)
133. Dimension Zero * Silent Night Fever (Century Media)
134. Bloodbath * Resurrection Through Carnage (Century Media)
135. The Gloria Record * Start Here (Arena Rock)
136. Bellini * Snowing Sun (Monitor)
137. Mr. Lif * I Phantom (Def Jux)
138. Talib Kweli * Quality (Rawkus/Universal)
139. Dead Prez * Turn Off The Radio (Loud/Columbia)
140. Jurassic 5 * Power In Numbers (Interscope)
141. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead * Source Tags & Codes (Interscope)
142. The Warlocks * The Phoenix Album (Birdman)
143. Flogging Molly * Drunken Lullabies (SideOneDummy)
144. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * Plastic Fang (Matador)
145. ShelleyDevoto * Buzzkunst (spinART)
146. Hot Snakes * Suicide Invoice (Swami)
147. The French Kicks * One Time Bells (Star Light)
148. Song Of Zarathustra * A View From High Tides (Troubleman)
149. The Rogers Sisters * Purely Evil (Troubleman)
150. Dark Suns * Swanlike (Voice Of Life)
151. Marianne Faithfull * Kissin Time (Virgin/Hut)
152. Missy Elliott * Under Construction (Elektra)
153. Horse Stories * Travelling Mercies (For Troubled Paths) (Loose UK)
154. Anti-Pop Consortium * Arrhythmia (Warp)
155. DJ KRush * Shinsou: Messate At The Depth (Red Ink)
156. Nada Surf * Let Go (EMI)
157. Hot Hot Heat * Make Up the Breakdown (Sub Pop)
158. Fennesz/O'Rourke/Rehberg * The Return of FennO'Berg (Mego)
159. Pepito * Migrante (This Record Label)
160. Dot Allison * We Are Science (Mantra)
161. Swayzak * Dirty Dancing (K7)
162. Los Lobos * Good Morning Aztlan (Mammoth)
163. Cafι Tacuba * Vale Callampa EP (MCA)
164. Guided By Voices * Universal Truths And Cycles (Matador)
165. Meshell Ndegιocello * Cookie: The Antropological Mixtape (Maverick/Warner)
166. Luna * Romantica (Jetset)
167. Position Normal * Goodly Time (Rum Records)
168. Boas * Mansion (Overcoat)
169. Caitlin Cary * While You Weren't Looking (Yep Roc)
170. Julie Doiron * Heart & Crime (Jagjaguwar)
171. Trio Mocotσ * Samba Rock (Six Degrees)
172. Chris Mills * The Silver Line (Sugar Free/Loose)
173. Giant Sand * Cover Magazine (Thrill Jockey)
174. Songs: Ohia * Didn't It Rain (Secretly Canadian)
175. Leaves * Breathe (B-Unique/Warner)
176. Peter Murphy * Dust (Metropolis)
177. Josh Rouse * Under Cold Blue Stars (Slow River/Rykodisc)
178. Lambchop * Is A Woman (Merge)
179. Jute * A Violent Narcotic (Catalyst)
180. Tahiti 80 * Wallpaper for the Soul (Minty Fresh)
181. Cousteau * Sirena (Palm Pictures)
182. Silkworm * Italian Platinum (Touch And Go)
183. Cee-Lo * Cee-Lo Green And His Perfect IMperfections (Arista)
184. Sue Garner * Shadyside (Thrill Jockey)
185. Richard Buckner * Impasse (Overcoat)
186. The Mars Volta * Tremulant EP (GSL)
187. Neil Michael Hagerty * Plays That Good Old Rock And Roll EP (Drag City)
188. Bad Religion * The Process Of Belief (Epitaph)
189. Jay Bennett & Edward Burch * The Palace at 4 A.M. (Undertow)
190. Chris Brokaw * Red Cities (Atavistic)
191. +/- * Self-Titled Long-Playing Debut Album (Teen Beat)
192. David Kilgour * A Feather in the Engine (Merge)
193. Steve Earle * Jerusalem (Artemis)
194. GZA/Genius * Legend Of The Liquid Sword (MCA)
195. McLusky * McLusky Do Dallas (Too Pure)
196. Motφrhead * Hammered (Sanctuary)
197. David Grubbs * Rickets & Scurvy (Drag City)
198. Chemical Brothers * Come With Us (Astralwerks)
199. The Party Of Helicopters * Space...And How Sweet It Was (Troubleman Unlimited)
200. Elf Power * Creatures (spinART/Sugar Free)
201. The Mercury Program * A Data Learn The Language (Tiger Style)
202. Xinlisupreme * Tomorrow Never Comes (Fat Cat)
203. Damien Jurado * I Break Chairs (Sub Pop)
204. Love Life * Here Is Night, Brothers, Here the Birds Burn (Jagjaguwar)
205. Miss Kitten * On The Road (Terminal Music)
206. Longwave * Day Sleeper EP (Fenway)
207. Kinky (Nettwerk)
208. Thievery Corporation * The Richest Man In Babylon (Verve)
209. Youssou N'Dour * Nothing's in Vain (Coono du rιιr) (Nonesuch)
210. Salif Keita * Moffou (Universal)
211. Natacha Atlas * Foretold In The Language Of Dreams (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
212. Thievery Corporation * The Richest Man In Babylon (Verve)
213. Echo & The Bunnymen * Live In Liverpool (Cooking Vinyl)
214. Floetry * Floetic (Dreamworks)
215. Joseph Arthur * Redemptions's Son (EMI)
216. Deerhoof * Reveille (Kill Rock Stars)
217. Girls Against Boys * You Can't Fight What You Can't See (Jade Tree)
218. The Datsuns (V2)
219. Panthers * Are You Down?? (Troubleman Unlimited)
220. The Mendoza Line * Lost In Revelry (Misra)
221. Low * Trust (Kranky)
222. Division Of Laura Lee * Black City (Epitaph)
223. Cex * Tall, Dark & Handcuffed (Tigerbeat6)
224. Saloon * (This Is) What We Call Progress (Darla)
225. Chan Poling * Calling All Stars (Manifesto)
226. Idlewild * The Remote Part (Parlophone UK)
227. OK Go (Capitol)
228. Tift Merritt * Bramble Rose (Lost Highway)
229. Woodbine (Domino)
230. Roddy Frame * Surf (Redemption UK)
231. Rilo Kiley * The Execution of All Things (Saddle Creek)
232. Beachwood Sparks * Make The Cowboy Robots Cry EP (Sub Pop)
233. Trans Am * T.A. (Thrill Jockey)
234. The Gossip * Arkansas Heat EP (Kill Rock Stars)
235. Piano Magic * Writers Without Homes (4AD)
236. The Fucking Champs * V (Drag City)
237. Tram * A Kind Of Closure (Jetset)
238. Windsor For the Derby * The Emotional Rescue LP (Aesthetic)
239. Oxes * Oxxxes (Monitor)
240. Coldplay * A Rush Of Blood To The Head (Parlophone)
241. Underworld * A Hundred Days Off (V2)
242. Bryan Ferry * Frantic (EMI)
243. Sir * The Night I Met My Second Wife (Pehr)
244. Subtonix * Tarantism (Troubleman Unlimited)
245. Weird War (Drag City)
246. The Dishes * 1-2 (No. 89)
247. Aime Mann * Lost In Space (Superego)
248. Mirah * Advisory Committee (K)
249. Electric Wizard * Let Us Prey (Rise Above/The Music Cartel)
250. Shy Child * Please Consider Our Time (Grenadine)
251. Tanya Donnelly * beautysleep (4AD/Beggars Banquet)
252. Mates Of State * Our Constant Concern (Polyvinyl)
253. Brendan Benson * Lapalco (Startime)
254. Lo Fidelity Allstars * Don’t Be Afraid Of Love (Skint/Columbia)
255. Richard Ashcroft * Human Condition (Hut)
256. Bright Eyes * Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil; Keep Your Ear to the Ground (Saddle Creek)
257. Porcupine Tree * In Absentia (Lava)
258. Sparta * Austere EP (Dreamworks)
259. Go Back Snowball [Robert Pollard & Mac McCaughan] * Calling Zero (Luna/Rockathon)
260. Airport 5 [Robert Pollard & Tobin Sprout] * Life Starts Here (Luna/Rockathon)
261. Milky Wimpshake * Lovers Not Fighters (Troubleman Unlimited)
262. Ee * For 100 We Try Harder (Asian Man)
263. Crosstops * Cloverleaf Fandango (Tinnitus)
264. The Vines * Highly Evolved (Capitol)
265. The Electric Soft Parade * Holes In The Wall (DB)
266. Moby * 18 (V2)
267. The Bigger Lovers * Honey In Hive (Yep Roc)
268. Anniversary * Your Majesty (Vagrant)
269. Badly Drawn Boy * Have You Fed The Fish? (XL)
270. gusgus * Attention (Moonshine)
271. Gay Dad * Transmission (Thirsty Ear)
272. The Music (Hut)
273. Moth * Provisions, Fiction And Gear (Virgin)
274. Kasey Chambers * Barricades & Brickwalls (WB)
275. Future Bible Heroes * Eternal Youth (Instinct)
276. Acid Mothers Temple * In C (Squealer)
277. Barry Adamson * The King Of Nothing Hill (Mute)
278. Aloha * Sugar (Polyvinyl)
279. Atomic Bitchwax * Spit Blood (Meteorcity)
280. Derek Bailey * Ballads (Tzadik)
281. The Baldwin Brothers * Cooking With Lasers (TVT)
282. Howie Beck * Hollow (Future Farmer)
283. Brant Bjφrk and the Operators (The Music Cartel)
284. Black Tape For A Blue Girl * The Scavanger Bride (Projekt)
285. Billy Bragg * English, Half English (Elektra)
286. The Peter Bruntnell Combination * Ends Of The Earth (Back Porch)
287. Cannibal Corpse * Gore Obsessed (Metal Blade)
288. Capleton * Still Blazing (VP)
289. Marc Carroll * Ten Of Swords (Evangeline)
290. Johnny Cash * The Man Comes Around (American)Carpark)
291. Casino Versus Japan * Whole Numbers Play the Basics (Carpark)
292. Cato Salsa Experience * A Tip For A Good Time (Emperor Norton)
293. Asa-Chang & Junray * Jun Ray Sung Chang (Leaf)
294. Chumbawamba * Readymade (Republic/Universal) Summer
295. The Church * After Everything… Now This (Thirsty Ear)
296. Coco * The Coco Sound (K)
297. Comets on Fire * Field Recordings from the Sun (Ba Da Bing!)
298. Consonant (Fenway)
299. Cranes * Future Songs (Instinct)
300. Cul De Sac * Immortality Lessons (Strange Attractors)
301. Ritesh Das and the Toronto Tabla Ensemble * Weaving (Naxos World)
302. Death Cab For Cutie * You Can Play These Songs With Chords (Barsuk)
303. Desparecidos * Read Music/Speak Spanish (Saddle Creek)
304. Destroyer * This Night (Merge)
305. Dimitri from Paris * After the Playboy Mansion, Vol. 2 (Astralwerks)
306. The Distillers * Sing Sing Death House (Hellcat)
307. DJ Spooky * Modern Mantra (Shadow)
308. The Donnas * Spend the Night (Atlantic)
309. Kevin Drumm * Sheer Hellish Miasma (Mego)
310. Ekkehard Ehlers * Plays (Staubgold)
311. Mark Eitzel * Courage and Confidence (New West)
312. Elders Of Zion * Dawn Refuses To Rise (Incidental)
313. Enon * High Society (Touch & Go)
314. ESG * Step Off (Soul Jazz)
315. The Flaming Sideburns * Save Rock 'n' Roll (Jetset)
316. The Flying Luttenbachers * Infection and Decline (Troubleman)
317. Fog (Ninja Tune)
318. 4Hero * Creating Patterns (Talkin' Loud)
319. Fu Manchu * California Crossing (Mammoth)
320. Future Sound Of London * Amorphous Androgynous: The Issness (Hypnotic)
321. Peter Gabriel * Up (Geffen/Interscope)
322. Ghostface Killah * Wonderful World of Wallabees (Epic)
323. Goudie * Effects Of Madness (India UK)
324. Hefner * Dead Media (Too Pure/Beggars Banquet)
325. The Hellacopters * High Visibility (Gearhead)
326. Hem * I'm Talking With My Mouth EP (Setanta)
327. Hrvatski * Swarm & Dither (Planet µ)
328. I Am The World Trade Center * The Tight Connection (Kindercore)
329. Imperial Teen * On (Merge)
330. Iron & Wine * The Creek Drank The Cradle (Sub Pop)
331. Jackie-O Motherfucker * Change (Textile)
332. Philip Jeck * Stoke (Touch)
333. Jets To Brazil * Perfecting Loneliness (Jade Tree)
334. Norah Jones * Come Away With Me (Blue Note)
335. Katastropy Wife (ex-Babes in Toyland Kat Bjelland) * Amusia (AlmaFame)
336. Kenna * New Sacred Cow (Flawless/Geffen)
337. Angelique Kidjo * Black Ivory Soul (Columbia)
338. Lemon Jelly * Lost Horizons (Beggars/XL)
339. Luna * Close Cover Before Striking (Jetset)
340. Mantler * Sadisfaction (Tomlab)
341. Jesse Malin * The Fine Art Of Self-Destruction (One Little)
342. Doug Martsch * Now You Know (WB)
343. Shannon McNally * Jukebox Sparrows (Capitol)
344. Mecca Normal * The Family Swan (Kill Rock Stars)
345. The Mekons * O.O.O.H. (Quarterstick)
346. Buddy Miller * Midnight and Lonesome (HighTone)
347. Minus 5 * Bored at the Bed In (Malt/Mammoth)
348. The Mooney Suzuki * Electric Sweat (Gammon)
349. Morcheeba * Charango (WEA)
350. Mountain Goats * All Hail West Texas (Emperor Jones)
351. Mr. Scruff * Trouser Jazz (Ninja Tune)
352. Mudhoney * Since We've Become Translucent (Sub Pop)
353. Dan Nakamura * Wanna Buy a Monkey? (Sequence)
354. Nas * God's Son (Columbia)
355. Negativland * Death Sentences of the Polished and Structurally Weak (Seeland)
356. Nekromantix * Return Of The Loving Dead (Hellcat/Epitaph)
357. Noonday Underground * Surface Noise (Setani)
358. Sinιad O’Connor * Sean Nσs Nua (Vanguard)
359. Of Montreal * Aldhills Arboretum (Kindercore)
360. Tara Jane Oneill * TJO TKO (Mr. Lady)
361. Beth Orton * Daybreaker (Dreamworks)
362. Oxide & Neutrino * 2 Steps Ahead (EastWest)
363. John Parish * How Animals Move (Thrill Jockey)
364. Pedro The Lion * Control (Jade Tree)
365. Grant Lee Philips * Ladies' Love Oracle (Zoe/Rounder)
366. Pony Club * Home Truths (Setanta)
367. Promise Ring * Woodwater (Anti/Foreign Leisure)
368. The Pupils (Dischord)
369. Queers * Pleasant Screams (Lookout!)
370. Q & Not U * Different Damage (Dischord)
371. Q-Tip * Kamaal/The Abstract (Arista)
372. Racebannon * In The Grips Of the Light (Secretly Canadian)
373. Raging Speedhorn * We Will Be Dead Tomorrow (ZTT)
374. Red Hot Chili Peppers * By The Way (WEA)
375. The Reindeer Section * Son Of Evil Reindeer (PIAS America)
376. Rev. Horton Heat * Lucky 7 (Artemis)
377. Rocket from the Crypt * Live from Camp X-Ray (Vagrant)
378. Roni Size * Touching Down (Full Cycle)
379. Rye Coalition * On Top (Tiger Style)
380. Saint Etienne * Finistere (Mantra/Beggars Group)
381. Secret Machines * September 000 (Ace Fu)
382. The Selby Tigers * The Curse of (Hopeless)
383. Matthew Shipp * Nu Bop (Thirsty Ear)
384. The Sights * Got What We Want (Fall Of Rome)
385. Six Organs Of Admittance * Dark Noontide (Holy Mountain)
386. Sixpence None The Richer * Divine Discontent (Reprise)
387. Slum Village * Trinity (Priority/Capitol)
388. The Soft Boys * Nextdoorland (Matador)
389. Soft Cell * Cruelty Without Beauty (Cooking Vinyl)
390. Soviet * We Are Eyes, We Are Builders (Plastiq Musiq)
391. Sparta * Wiretap Scars (Dreamworks)
392. Spock's Beard * Snow (Metal Blade)
393. Spring Heel Jack * Amassed (Thirsty Ear)
394. The Stratford 4 * Results Against Tired Noises (Jet Set)
395. Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs * Guitars, Guns & Gold (Triple X)
396. The Stuck-Ups * Human Doll Express (SFTRI)
397. Suede * A New Morning (Epic)
398. Nobukazu Takemura * Signs (Thrill Jockey)
399. Temple Of Sound * First Edition (Wargram)
400. This Computer Kills (New Red )
401. Linda Thompson * Fashionably Late (Topic)
402. Town and Country * C’mon (Thrill Jockey)
403. Transparents and Emotional Amputation (Electrix)
404. Max Tundra * Mastered by the Guy at the Exchange (Tigerbeat6)
405. Vapourspace * Sonic Residue from (Magna Carta)
406. Velvet CRush * Soft Sounds (Action Musik)
407. V for Vendetta * Beneath This Mask, Another Mask (Mr. Lady)
408. Vex Red * Start With A Strong And Persistent Desire (Virgin)
409. VNV Nation * Futureperfect (Metropolis)
410. The Waco Brothers * New Deal (Bloodshot)
411. Anna Waronker * Anna (Five Foot Two)
412. Weezer * Maladroit (DGC/Interscope)
413. Chuck E. Weiss * Old Soul & Wolf Tickets (Slow River/Rykodisc)
414. Whiskey Biscuit (Loose)
415. Keith Fullerton Whitman * Playthroughs (Kranky)
416. Hank Williams III * Lovesick, Broke and... Driftin’ (Curb)
417. Kelly Willis * Easy (Rykodisc)
418. X-ecutioners * Built From Scratch (Loud)
419. Xinlisupreme * Murder License EP (Fat Cat)
420. Yo La Tengo * The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science (Egon)

* 2003

1. Radiohead * Hail To The Thief (Capitol)
2. Four Tet * Rounds (Domino)
3. Cafe Tacvba * Quatro Caminos (MCA)
4. The Mars Volta * De-Loused In The Comatorium (GSL/Universal)
5. The Concretes (Licking Fingers Sweden)
6. Lomax * A Symbol Of Modern Living (93 Records)
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs * Fever To Tell (Interscope)
8. Sufjan Stevens * Greetings from Michigan (Asthmatic Kitty)
9. Prefuse 73 * One Word Extinguisher (Warp)
10. Otto * Sem Gravidade (Trama)
11. Super Furry Animals * Phantom Power (XL/Beggars)
12. Broadcast * Hahasound (Warp)
13. Ed Harcourt * From Every Sphere (Astralwerks/Heaven)
14. Stars * Heart (Arts & Crafts)
15. Josh Rouse * 1972 (Rykodisc)
16. Shack * Here's Tom With The Weather (North Country UK)
17. Do Make Say Think * Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn (Constellation)
18. Tujiko Noriko * From Tokyo to Naiagara (Tomlab)
19. Menomena * I Am The Fun Blame Monster (Muuuhahaha!)
20. The White Stripes * Elephant (V2)
21. Daϊde * Neguinha Te Amo (Realworld)
22. Juana Molina * Segundo (Domino)
23. M83 * Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (EMI FR)
24. Mastodon * Remission (Relapse)
25. Frog Eyes * The Golden River (Animal World)
26. Rokia Traorι * Bowmboο (Tama)
27. Colder * Again (Output UK)
28. Lucas Santtana * Parada De Lucas (Diginois Brazil)
29. Hawksley Workman * Lover/Fighter (Universal)
30. Tom Zι * Imprensa Cantada (Trama)
31. Mogwai * Happy Songs For Happy People (Matador)
32. Nina Nastasia * Run To Ruin (Touch And Go)
33. Joe Henry * Tiny Voices (Anti)
34. Elbow * Cast Of Thousands (V2)
35. Manitoba * Up In Flames (Domino)
36. TV On The Radio * Young Liars EP (Touch And Go)
37. A Frames * A Frames 2 (S-S Records)
38. Belle & Sebastian * Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Sanctuary)
39. Zoot Woman (Wall Of Sound)
40. Pelican * Australasia (Hydra Head)
41. The Darkness * Permission To Land (Must Destroy)
42. Longwave * The Strangest Things (RCA)
43. The Stills * Logic Will Break Your Heart (Vice)
44. The Twilight Singers * Blackberry Belle (One Little Indian)
45. Snow Patrol * Final Straw (Universal UK)
46. The Rapture * Echoes (DFA/Universal)
47. Bonobo * Dial "M" For Monkey (Ninja Tune)
48. Benjamin Biolay * Negatif (EMI)
49. Outkast * Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (LaFace)
50. The Strokes * Room On Fire (BMG)
51. Calexico * Feast of Wire (Quarterstick)
52. Calla * Televise (Arena Rock Recording Co)
53. HiM * Many In High Places Are Not Well (Bubble Core)
54. The Books * Lemon Of Pink (TomLab)
55. The Constantines * Shine A Light (Sub Pop)
56. Kahimi Karie * Trapθziste (Victor)
57. B. Fleischmann * Welcome Tourist (Morr)
58. Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham * L' Avventura (Jetset)
59. Haco & Sakamoto Hiromichi * Ash in the Rainbow (Detector/ReR Megacorp)
60. Bang Gang * Something Wrong (Recall Iceland)
61. The Black Keys * Thickfreakness (Fat Possum)
62. Etienne Daho * Reevolution (Virgin)
63. Robert Wyatt * Cuckooland (Hannibal)
64. The Wrens * Meadowlands (Absolutely Kosher)
65. Asian Dub Foundation * Enemy of the Enemy (Virgin)
66. Mark Lanegan Band * Here Comes The Weird Chill EP (Beggars)
67. Beulah * Yoko (Velocette)
68. Ty * Upwards (Big Dada UK)
69. Johnny Cash * Unearthed (American)
70. Head Of Femur * Ringodom Or Proctor (Greyday)
71. The Coral * Magic And Medicine (Deltasonic)
72. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness EP (Emperor Jones)
73. Architecture in Helsinki * Fingers Crossed (Trifekta)
74. Terry Hall & Mushtaq * The Hour Of Two Lights (Astralwerks)
75. Firewater * The Man On The Burning Tightrope (Jetset)
76. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa * Slowthinking (Labels Czech Rep)
77. Pascals * Abiento (Les Disques Du Sol FR)
78. The Silver Mt. Zion * This Is Our Punk-Rock (Constellation)
79. Metric * Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? (Everloving)
80. Sons And Daughters * Love The Cup (Ba Da Bing/Domino)
81. Kazumi Nikaidoh * Mata Otosimasitayo (You Dropped Something Again, Didn't You) (Poet Portraits Jpn)
82. John Cale * Hobosapiens (EMI)
83. The Bug * Pressure (Meow)
84. The Fiery Furnaces * Gallowsbird's Bark (Sanctuary)
85. Diamanda Galas * La Serpenta Canta (Mute)
86. Hexstatic * Listen & Learn (Ninja Tune)
87. Cass McCombs * A (Monitor)
88. Souad Massi * Deb (Wrasse)
89. Alias * Muted (Anticon)
90. The Autumn Defense * Circles (Arena Rock)
91. stellastarr* (RCA)
92. Magnet * On Your Side (Ultimate Dilemma UK)
93. Amon Tobin * Collaborations EP (Ninja Tune)
94. Supersilent * 6 (Rune Grammafon)
95. M. Ward * Transfiguration of Vincent (Merge)
96. The Cuts * 2 Over Ten (Birdman)
97. Camera Obscura * Underachievers Please Try Harder (Elefant/Merge)
98. Milky * Travels With A Donkey (Siesta Spain)
99. Sun Kil Moon * Ghosts Of The Great Highway (Jetset)
100. Diamanda Galas * Defixiones: Will and Testament, Orders from the Dead (Mute)
101. Lamb Of God * As The Palaces Burn (Prosthetic)
102. Dead Meadow * Shivering King and Others (Matador)
103. The Kingsbury Manx * Aztec Discipline (Overcoat)
104. The Shins * Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
105. Excepter * Ka (Fusetron)
106. The Wildhearts * Must Be Destroyed (Sanctuary)
107. The Rosebuds * The Rosebuds Make Out (Merge)
108. The Meads Of Asphodel * Exhuming The Grave Of Yeshua (Supernal)
109. The Russian Futurists * Let's Get Ready To Crumble (Upper Class)
110. The Unicorns * Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (Alien8)
111. Diverse * One A.M. (Chocolate Industries)
112. Alaska! * Emotions (B-Girl)
113. Jean Grae * The Bootleg of the Bootleg EP (Babygrande)
114. Viktor Vaughn (aka MF Doom) * Vaudeville Villain (Sound-Ink)
115. Basement Jaxx * Kish Kash (Astralwerks)
116. Modey Lemon * Thunder + Lightning (Birdman)
117. Dean Roberts * Be Mine Tonight (Kranky)
118. Fernanda Porto (Trama)
119. The Ladybug Transistor (Merge)
120. The Weakerthans * Reconstruction Site (Epitaph)
121. Laika * Wherever I Am I Am What Is Missing (Too Pure/Beggars)
122. David Sylvian * Blemish (Samadhisound)
123. U.N.K.L.E. * Never, Never Land (Mo' Wax/Island)
124. One Mile North * Minor Shadows (Ba Da Bing!)
125. Animal Collective * Here Comes The Indian (Paw Tracks)
126. Mu * Afro Finger and Gel (Tigersushi/Output)
127. Explosions In The Sky * Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place (temporary)
128. Madlib * Shades Of Blue (Blue Note)
129. Fannypack * So Stylistic (Tommy Boy)
130. U.N.P.O.C. * Fifth Column (Domino UK)
131. Pleasure Forever * Alter (Sub Pop)
132. Tribalistas (Marisa Monte, Arnaldo Antunes, Carlinhos Brown) (EMI)
133. Virginia Rodrigues * Mares Profundos (Edge Music)
134. Shelby Lynne * Identity Crisis (Capitol)
135. Oceansize * Effloresce (Beggars Banquet UK)
136. Kid Koala * Some Of My Best Friends Are DJs (Ninja Tune)
137. Poison The Well * You Come Before You (Trustkill)
138. Steve Burns * Songs For Dustmites (Pias America)
139. Lightning Bolt * Wonderful Rainbow (Load)
140. Dimmu Borgir * Death Cult Armageddon (Nuclear Blast)
141. Exhumed * Anatomy Is Destiny (Relapse)
142. Children Of Bodom * Hate Crew Deathroll (Century Media)
143. Naglfar * Sheol (Century Media)
144. Hamell On Trial * Tough Love (Righteous Babe)
145. Rufus Wainwright * Want One (DreamWorks)
146. Chris Clark * Empty the Bones of You (Warp)
147. 7 Hurtz * Electroleum (Output)
148. Ellen Allien * Berlinette (Bpitch Control UK)
149. The Hidden Cameras * The Smell Of Our Own (Evil Evil/Rough Trade)
150. Yo La Tengo * Summer Sun (Matador)
151. The Dirty Three * She Has No Strings, Apollo (Touch And Go)
152. The Natural History * Beat Beat Heartbeat (Startime)
153. The Handsome Family * Singing Bones (Carrot Top)
154. Tricky * Vulnerable (Hollywood)
155. Cibelle (Six Degrees)
156. Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros * Streetcore (Hellcat/Epitaph)
157. Cheer Accident * Gumballhead The Cat (Skin Graft)
158. Set Fire to Flames * Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static (Alien8)
159. Ricardo Villalobos * Alcachofa (Playhouse)
160. Polmo Polpo * Like Hearts Swelling (Constellation)
161. Angels of Light * Everything Is Good Here/Please Come (Young God)
162. Tied & Tickled Trio * Observing Systems (Morr Music)
163. Tim Hecker * Radio Amor (Mille Plateaux)
164. Envy * Dead Sinking Story (Level Plane)
165. Trio Mocotσ * Beleza! Beleza! Beleza! (Six Degrees)
166. Growing * Sky's Run into the Sea (Kranky)
167. +/- * You Are Here (Teenbeat)
168. David Byrne * Lead Us Not Into Temptation (Thrill Jockey)
169. Clientele * Violet Hour (Merge)
170. Marshmallow (Lo-Max Aus.)
171. Luke Haines & The Auteurs * Das Capital (Hut)
172. Nitin Sawhney * Human (V2)
173. The Undertones * Get What You Need (Sanctuary)
174. Richard Youngs * Airs Of The Ear (Jagjaguwar)
175. Ed Motta * Poptical (Trama)
176. The Exploding Hearts * Guitar Romantic (Dirtnap)
177. The Distillers * Coral Fang (Sire)
178. Soft Pink Truth * Do You Party? (Soundslike)
179. Luomo * The Present Lover (Force Inc)
180. Mates Of State * Team Boo (Polyvinyl)
181. Lamb * Between Darkness And Wonder (Mercury)
182. Rhythm & Sound * The Artists (Asphodel)
183. Elefant * Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid (Kernado)
184. Willard Grant Conspiracy * Regard The End (Glitterhouse)
185. Kevin Blechdom * Bitches Without Britches (EFA)
186. The Fire Theft (Rykodisc)
187. Isobel Campbell * Amorino (Instinct)
188. Pernice Brothers * Yours, Mine & Ours (Ashmont)
189. Eleni Mandell * Country For True Lovers (Zedtone)
190. Emmylou Harris * Stumble Into Grace (Nonesuch)
191. Janet Bean and the Concertina Wire * Dragging Wonder Lake (Thrill Jockey)
192. Rancid * Indestructible (Epitaph)
193. Alasdair Roberts * Farewell Sorrow (Rough Trade)
194. Martina Topley-Bird * Quixotic (Independente)
195. Wheat * Per Second Per Second . . . Every Second (Sony)
196. Matmos * The Civil War (Matador)
197. Quasi * Hot Shit! (Sub Pop)
198. Pram * Dark Island (Merge)
199. Ui * Answers (Southern)
200. Cat Power * You Are Free (Matador)
201. British Sea Power * The Decline Of British Sea Power (Rough Trade)
202. Wire * Send (Pink Flag)
203. Songs: Ohia * The Magnolia Electric Co. (Secretly Canadian)
204. The Creatures * Hai! (Sioux)
205. Opeth * Damnation (Koch)
206. The Tyde * Twice (Rough Trade)
207. Joy Zipper * American Whip (13 Amp)
208. Murder By Death * Who Will Survive, And What Will Be Left of Them (Eyeball)
209. Tindersticks * Waiting For The Moon (Beggars Banquet)
210. DJ Cheb I Sabbha * As Far As (Six Degrees)
211. Eels * Shootenanny! (DreamWorks)
212. Bent * The Everlasting Blink (Sport)
213. Tangiers * Hot New Spirits (Sonic Unyon)
214. Bardo Pond * On The Eclipse (ATP)
215. Non-Prophets * Hope (Lex)
216. Death Cab For Cutie * Transalanticism (Barsuk)
217. Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower * Dissertation, Honey (Happy Couples Never)
218. Califone * Quicksand/Cradlesnakes (Thrill Jockey)
219. Portastatic * The Summer of the Shark (Merge)
220. Portastatic * Autumn Was A Lark (Merge)
221. So (Thrill Jockey)
222. The Go Betweens * Bright Yellow, Bright Orange (Circus)
223. The Sea And Cake * One Bedroom (Thrill Jockey)
224. Arab Strap * Monday at the Hug and Pint (Matador)
225. Beans * Tomorrow Right Now (Warp)
226. Aesop Rock * Bazooka Tooth (Def Jux)
227. King Geedorah * Take Me to Your Leader (Big Dada)
228. Chimaira * The Impossibility Of Reason (Roadrunner)
229. Old Man's Child * In Defiance Of Existence (Century Media)
230. Grimfist * Ghouls Of Grandeur (Candlelight)
231. Arch Enemy * Anthems Of Rebellion (Century Media)
232. Damien Jurado * Where Shall You Take Me? (Secretly Canadian)
233. Entombed * Inferno (Koch)
234. Occult * Rage To Revenge (Pavement)
235. Dew Scented * Impact (Nuclear Blast)
236. The Deadly Snakes * Ode To Joy (In The Red)
237. The Sleepy Jackson * Lovers (EMI)
238. Aereogramme * Sleep and Release (Chemikal Underground)
239. Need New Body * UFO (File 13)
240. Kelis * Tasty (Star Trak/Arista)
241. Missy Elliott * This Is Not A Test (Goldmind/Elektra)
242. The Postal Service * Give Up (Sub Pop)
243. Lucinda Williams * World Without Tears (Lost Highway)
244. Meshell Ndegιocello * Comfort Woman (Maverick)
245. Psychonauts * Songs For Creatures (International Deejay Gigalo)
246. The Watchers * To The Rooftops (Gern Blandsten)
247. LFO * Sheath (Warp)
248. Autechre * Draft 7.30 (Warp)
249. Zinc * Faster (Polydor)
250. Outrageous Cherry * Supernatural Equinox (Rainbow Quartz)
251. The Thrills * So Much For The City (Virgin)
252. The BellRays * Red, White And Black (Poptones)
253. Daniel Lanois * Shine (Anti)
254. James Kirk * You Can Make It If You Boogie (Marina)
255. New Pornographers * Electric Version (Matador)
256. 31 Knots * It Was High Time To Escape (54-40 or Fight)
257. Ry Cooder/Manuel Galban * Mambo Sinuendo (Nonesuch/Perro Verde)
258. Movietone * The Sand And The Stars (Domino/Geographic)
259. Massive Attack * 100th Window (Virgin)
260. The Tyrades (Broken Rekids)
261. Gorky's Zygotic Mycni * Sleep/Holiday (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
262. Chicks On Speed * 99 Cents (Chicks On Speed)
263. Los Amigos Invisibles * The Venezuelan Zinga Son Vol 1 (Long Lost Brother)
264. Guided By Voices * Earthquake Glue (Matador)
265. Adult. * Anxiety Always (Ersatz Audio)
266. Jay Farrar * Terroir Blues (Artemis)
267. Erin McKeown * Grand (Nettwerk)
268. Nebula * Atomic Ritual (Sub Pop)
269. Damien Rice * O (Vector)
270. Pretty Girls Make Graves * The New Romance (Matador)
271. The National * Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (Brassland)
272. Crooked Fingers * Red Devil Dawn (Merge)
273. Paper Airplane Pilots * The History Of Flying (Spade Kitty)
274. The Dears * No Cities Left (Grenadine)
275. A Perfect Circle * Thirteenth Step (Virgin)
276. Neil Michael Hagerty * The Hex (Drag City)
277. Erase Errata * At Crystal Palace (Blast First)
278. Goldfrapp * Black Cherry (Mute)
279. Ex Models * Zoo Psychology (FrenchKiss)
280. Natacha Atlas * Something Dangerous (Mantra)
281. Amy Rigby * Til The Wheels Fall Off (Signature)
282. Prince Paul * Politics of the Business (Razor & Tie)
283. Cardia (Silverthree)
284. The Kills * Keep On Your Mean Side (Rough Trade)
285. Atmosphere * Seven's Travels (Epitaph)
286. Clearlake * Cedars (Domino)
287. Chris Lee * Cool Rock (Misra)
288. The Gossip * Movement (Kill Rock Stars)
289. Entombed * Inferno (Koch)
290. The Webb Brothers (WEA)
291. Blondie * The Curse Of Blondie (Epic)
292. Susheela Raman * Love Trap (Narada)]
293. Subarachnoid Space * Also Rising (Strange Attractors)
294. Karsh Kale * Liberation (Six Degrees)
295. Deerhoof * Apple O' (Kill Rock Stars)
296. Mariza * Fado Curvo (Times Square)
297. Killing Joke (Pilot)
298. Tomahawk * Mit Gas (Ipecac)
299. Dinky * Black Cabaret (Carpark)
300. Richard Hawley * Lowedges (Setanta)
301. Mr. Quintron * Are You Ready For An Organ Solo (Three-One-G)
302. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds * Nocturama (Mute)
303. Mojave 3 * Spoon And Rafter (4AD)
304. Iggy Pop * Skull Ring (Virgin)
305. Whirlwind Heat * Do Rabbits Wonder (V2)
306. Turnerjoy * Transplant (Mohofusu)
307. Black Box Recorder * Passionoia (One Little Indian)
308. Iron Maiden * Dance Of Death (Columbia)
309. The Brian Jonestown Massacre * And This Is Our Music (Tee Pee)
310. Ricki Lee Jones * The Evening Of My Best Day (V2)
311. Spiritualized * Amazing Grace (Sanctuary Records)
312. The Party Of Helicopters * Please Believe It (Velocette)
313. Saturday Looks Good To Me * All Your Summer Songs (Polyvinyl)
314. Tokyo Sex Destruction * Le Red Soul Comunnitte (10 Points Program) (Dim Mak)
315. Nataraj XT * Ocean Birds (Nu Tone)
316. Fruit Bats * Mouthfuls (Sub Pop)
317. Minus 5 * Down with Wilco (Yep Roc)
318. Grandaddy * Sumday (V2)
319. The Decemberists * Her Majesty, The Decemberists (Kill Rock Stars)
320. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks * Pig Lib (Matador)
321. Andrew Bird * Weather Systems EP (Grimsey)
322. Azita * Enantiodromia (Drag City)
323. Gang Starr * Ownerz (Virgin)
324. Buzzcocks (Merge)
325. A.R.E. Weapons (Rough Trade)
326. Scout Niblett * I Am (Secretly Canadian)
327. Smog * Dinner (Drag City)
328. Fantτmas * Delerium Cordia (Ipecac)
329. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club * Take Them On, On Your Own (Virgin)
330. Matt Eliott * The Mess We Made (Merge)
331. Momus * Oskar Tennis Champion (American Patchwork)
332. The Beautiful South * Gaze (Mercury)
333. Katatonia * Viva Emptiness (Peaceville)
334. Throwing Muses (4AD)
335. Rainer Maria * Long Knives Drawn (Polyvinyl)
336. Bonnie Prince Billie * Master And Everyone (Palace)
337. Gillian Welch * Soul Journey (Acony/WEA)
338. Black Eyes (Dischord)
339. Cul de Sac * Death To The Sun (Strange Attractors Audio House)
340. Loose Fur (Drag City)
341. Audio Bullys * Ego War (Astralwerks)
342. The Blood Brothers * Burn, Piano Island, Burn (ArtistDirect)
343. The American Analog Set * Promise of Love (Tiger Style)
344. Plaid * Spoke (Warp)
345. Pole * 45/45 (Mute)
346. The Aislers Set * How I Learned To Write Backwards (Suicide)
347. Cave In * Antenna (RCA)
348. Kinski * Airs Above Your Station (Strange Attractors Audio House/Sub Pop)
349. Muse * Absolution (A&M/ EastWest)
350. Jane's Addiction * Strays (Capitol)
351. DJ Tiga * DJ Kicks (!K7)
352. Shipping News * Three-Four (Touch & Go)
353. Maria McKee * High Dive (Viewfinder)
354. Blur * Think Tank (Virgin)
355. Jetplane Landing * Once Like A Spark ()
356. Vue * Down For Whatever (RCA)
357. Sloan * Action Pact (Vik)
358. Frankie Sparo * Welcome Crummy Mystics (Constellation)
359. Kristin Hersh * The Grotto (4ad)
360. Caitlin Cary * I'm Staying Out (Yep Roc)
361. Junior Senior * D-Don't Stop The Music (Universal/Crunchy Frog)
362. Thea Gilmore * Avalanche (Compass)
363. The Lonesome Organist * Forms & Follies (Thrill Jockey)
364. Deftones (Maverick)
365. South * With The Tides (Kinetic)
366. Jayhawks * Rainy Day Music (Lost Highway)
367. Lungfish * Love Is Love (Dischord)
368. Placebo * Sleeping With Ghosts (Astralwerks)
369. Ween * Quebec (Sanctuary)
370. The People Involved (People Involved)
371. The Cramps * Fiends Of Dope Island (Vengeance)
372. Adam Masterson * One Tale Too Many (Gravity)
373. Drive-By Truckers * Decoration Day (Lost Highway)
374. A.F.I. * Sing The Sorrow (DreamWorks)
375. Athlete * Vehicles & Animals (EMI)
376. Kings Of Leon * Youth And Young Manhood (RCA)
377. Electric Soft Parade * American Adventure (BMG)
378. Starsailor * Silence Is Easy (EMI)
379. Coheed & Cambria * In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (Equal Vision)
380. My Morning Jacket * It Still Moves (ATO/RCA)
381. Peaches * Fatherfucker (Beggars XL)
382. Bic Runga * Beautiful Collision (Columbia)
383. Tom McRae * Just Like Blood (DB)
384. Travis * 12 Memories (Epic)
385. Bubba Sparxxx * Deliverance (Interscope)
386. Lou Reed * The Raven (WB)
387. Ocean Colour Scene * North Atlantic Drift (Sanctuary)
388. Mink Lungs * I'll Take It (Arena Rock)
389. Kill Hannah * For Never & Ever (Atlantic)
390. Mondo Generator * Drug Problem That Never Existed (Ipecac)
391. Fountains Of Wayne * Welcome Interstate Managers (Virgin)
392. Sightings * Michigan Haters (Load)
393. The Caridgans * Long Gone Before Daylight (Stockholm)
394. Evan Dando * Baby I'm Bored (Bar None)
395. The Microphones * Mount Eerie (k)
396. Zwan * Mary Star of the Sea (Reprise)
397. Sophie Ellis Bextor * Shoot From The Hip (Polydor UK)
398. Dizzee Rascal * Boy In Da Corner (XL)
399. Amadou & Mariam * Wati (Universal)
400. Anathema * Natural Disaster (Koch) Feb 24
401. AntiPop Consortium vs Matthew Shipp * (Thirsty Ear)
402. Bed * Spacebox (Ici D'Alleurs)
403. Bottom Of The Hudson * The Omaha Record (Absolutely Kosher)
404. Breathless * Behind The Light (Tenor Vossa)
405. Brokeback * Looks at Birds (Thrill Jockey)
406. Broken Family Band * Cold Water Songs (Snowstorm)
407. Buck 65 * Talkin' Honky Tonk Blues (WEA)
408. Joe Budden (Def Jam)
409. The Buffseeds * The Picture Show (Fantastic)
410. Paul Burch * Fool For Love (Spit & Polish)
411. Cex * Being Ridden (temporary Residence)
412. Consonant * Love And Affliction (Fenway)
413. Julian Cope * Rome Wasn't Buried In A Day (Head Heritage)
414. Cyann & Ben * Spring (Locust)
415. De La Soul * SFS: Spit Flows & Safety (It Ain't Safe in the Water) (Sequence)
416. Julie Doiron * Broken Girl (Jagjaguwar)
417. Dub Syndicate * Murder Tone (On-U Sound)
418. East River Pipe * Garbageheads on Endless Stun (Merge)
419. Echoboy * Giraffe (Mute)
420. The 88 * Kind Of Light (BMK)
421. Electric Six * Fire (XL/Beggars)
422. El-P * El-P Presents Sunrise In Brooklyn (Def Jux)
423. Evil Beaver * Pleased to Eat You (Johann’s Face)
424. Exo * The Safety Primer Justice (i4)
425. Fallacy * Blackmarket Boy (Virgin)
426. Freescha * What's Come Inside You (Attack 9)
427. Bill Frisell/Marc Ribot/Tim Sparks * Masada Guitars (Tzadik)
428. Further Seems Forever * How To Start A Fire (Tooth And Nail)
429. Future Bible Heroes * The Lonely Robot (Instinct)
430. Howe Gelb * The Listener (Thrill Jockey)
431. The Haunted * One Kill Wonder (Earache)
432. I Am Kloot (Echo)
433. Ima Robot (Virgin)
434. The Jealous Sound * Kill Them With Kindness (Better Looking)
435. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists * Hearts of Oak (Lookout!)
436. The Long Winters * When I Pretend T oFall (Munich)
437. Loop Guru * Bathtime With Loop Guru (Elsewhen)
438. The Magic Band * Back To The Front (All Tomorrow's Parties)
439. The Magic Magicians (Suicide Squeeze)
440. April March * Triggers (Tricagel)
441. Melt Banana * Cell-Scape (A-zap)
442. More Fire Crew * More Fire Crew C.V. (Go Beat)
443. Mull Historical Society * Society Us (Beggars)
444. Nephlim Modulation Systems * Woe to Thee O Land When Thy King Is a Child (Big Dada)
445. New Wet Kojak * The Glamorous (Beggars)
446. Nurse With Wound * Salt Marie Celeste (United Dairies)
447. Oh Susanna (Hot Records)
448. Einar ?rn - Ghostigital (Honest Jons)
449. Piano Magic * The Troubled Sleep Of Piano Magic (Green UFOs)
450. The Proclaimers * Born Innocent (Persevere)
451. Radio Dept. * Lesser Matters (Shelflife)
452. Radio Tarifa * Fiebre (World Circuit)
453. Sarafin * No Push Collide (Taste)
454. Adrian Sherwood * Never Trust A Hippy (Real World)
455. Sole * Selling Live Water (Anticon)
456. South San Gabriel * Welcome, Convalescence (Undertow)
457. Spearmint * My Missing Days (Hitback)
458. Joss Stone * The Soul Sessions (Relentless)
459. Summer Hymns * Clemency (Misra)
460. Nobukazu Takemura * 10th (Thrill Jockey)
461. Themselves * The No Music Of Aiffs (Anticon)
462. Trailer Bride * Hope Is a Thing With Feathers (Bloodshot)
463. Trouble Hubble * Penturbia (Latest Flame)
464. TRS-80 * Shake Hands with Danger (File 13)
465. Venetian Snares * Chocolate Wheelchair Album (Planet Mu)
466. Vibracathedral Orchestra * Queen Of Guess (VHF)
467. The Waterboys * Universal Hall (Puck)
468. Keith Fullerton Whitman * Dartmouth Street Underpass (Locust)
469. Worm Is Green * Automagic (Thule Iceland)
470. The Zephyrs * A Year To The Day (Setanta)
471. Various * Rough Trade Shops 2002: Counter Culture (RT)

* 2004

1. TV On The Radio * Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch & Go)
2. Bjφrk * Medulla (Elektra)
3. Ghost * Hypnotic Underworld (Drag City)
4. Razorlight * Up All Night (Vertigo UK)
5. Junior Boys * Last Exit (Kin UK)
6. The Walkmen * Bows And Arrows (Record Collection)
7. Arto Lindsay * Salt (Righteous Babe)
8. Annie * Anniemal (679)
9. The Mark Lanegan Band * Bubblegum (Beggars)
10. Sketch Show * Loophole (Third Ear)
11. The Black Keys * Rubber Factory (Fat Possum)
12. The Go! Team * Thunder, Lightning, Strike (Memphis Industries)
13. Utada * Exodus (Island)
14. Stars * Set Yourself On Fire (Arts & Crafts)
15. Tom Waits * Real Gone (Anti/Epitaph)
16. Sonic Youth * Sonic Nurse (Geffen)
17. Ed Harcourt * Strangers (Heavenly UK)
18. Dungen * Ta Det Lugnt (Subliminal Sounds)
19. The Earlies * These Were The Earlies (WEA UK)
20. Devendra Banhart * Rejoicing In The Hands Of (Young God)
21. Mastodon * Leviathan (Relapse)
22. The Czars * Goodbye (Bellaire)
23. Bark Psychosis * ///Codename: Dustsucker (Fire)
24. Federico Aubelle * Gran Hotel Buenos Aires (Eighteenth Street Lo)
25. Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
26. PJ Harvey * Uh Hu Her (Island)
27. Syd Matters * A Whisper And A Sigh (3rd Side/V2)
28. Ada * Blondie (Areal)
29. Mission Of Burma * ONoffOn (Matador)
30. Nick Cave * Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus (Anti/Epitaph)
31. Cut Copy * Bright Like Neon Love (Modular)
32. Anathema * A Natural Disaster (Koch)
33. Skinnyman * Council Estate Of Mind (Lowlife)
34. Wilco * A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
35. Ricardo Villalobos * Thι au Harem d'Archimθde (Perlon)
36. Lali Puna * Faking The Books (Morr)
37. Blue States * The Soundings (Memphis Industries UK)
38. Fennesz * Venice (Touch)
39. Rachid Taha * Tekitoi (Wrasse)
40. Tinariwen * Amassakoul (World Village)
41. Wiley * Treddin' On Thin Ice (XL)
42. Joseph Arthur * Our Shadows Will Remain (Vector)
43. Elliott Smith * From A Basement On The Hill (Epitaph)
44. Various * DFA Compilation #2 (DFA)
45. Lucien-N-Luciano * Blind Behaviour (Peacefrog)
46. Interpol * Antics (Matador)
47. Max Richter * The Blue Notebooks (Fat Cat)
48. The Eternals * Rawar Style (Aesthetics)
49. Blanche * If We Can't Trust The Doctors (Loose Music/Vinyl Junkie)
50. The Flaming Stars * Named And Shamed (Vinyl Japan UK/Alternative Tentacles)
51. Beta Band * Heroes To Zeros (Astralwerks)
52. The Legends * Up Against The Legends (Lakeshore 5)
53. Beastie Boys * To The 5 Boroughs (Capitol)
54. John Vanderslice * Cellar Door (Barsuk)
55. On! Air! Library! (Arena Rock)
56. Comets On Fire * Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop)
57. Califone * Heron King Blues (Thrill Jockey)
58. Entrance * Wandering Stranger (Fat Possum)
59. Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter * Oh, My Girl (Barsuk)
60. M.I.A. & Diplo * Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 (Hollertronix)
61. Jason Forrest * The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash (Sonig)
62. Andrew Morgan * Misadventures In Radiology (Broken Horse UK)
63. Devin The Dude * To Tha X-Treme (Rap-A-Lot)
64. Stereolab * Margarine Eclipse (Elektra)
65. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra * Who Is This America (Ropeadope)
66. Spektrum * Enter ... The Spektrum (Playhouse UK)
67. Polysics * Polysics Or Die!!! (Surla/Sony)
68. The Eternals * Out Of Proportion EP (Antifaz)
69. Psapp * Tiger, My Friend (Leaf)
70. Diplo * Florida (Big Dada)
71. Hercules * In The Alleyway (March)
72. Ray LaMontagne * Trouble (RCA)
73. The Thermals * Fuckin A (Sub Pop)
74. The Futureheads (Fantastic UK)
75. Animal Collective * Sung Tongs (Fatcat)
76. The Blue Nile * High (Sanctuary)
77. Telefon Tel Aviv * Map of What Is Effortless (Hefty)
78. The Arcade Fire * Funeral (Merge)
79. Micah P. Hinson & The Gospel Of Progress (Sketchbook)
80. To Rococo Rot * Hotel Morgen (Domino)
81. Ben Christophers * The Spaces In Between (Cooking Vinyl UK)
82. Tom Russell * Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (Hightone)
83. Secret Machines * Now Here Is Nowhere (Reprise)
84. Mosquitos * Sunshine Barato (Bar/None)
85. Sufjan Stevens * Seven Swans (Sounds Familyre)
86. Comas * Conductor (Yep Roc)
87. The Soft Pink Truth * Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth? (Tigerbeat6)
88. Nouvelle Vague (Peacefrog)
89. Devendra Banhart * Niρo Rojos (Young God)
90. The Delgados * Universal Audio (Mantra UK)
91. Social Distortion * Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll (Time Bomb)
92. Ambulance LTD * LP (TVT)
93. !!! * Louden Up Now (Touch and Go/Warp)
94. Scissor Sistors (Polydor UK)
95. Joanna Newsom * The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
96. Dionysos * Whatever The Weather (Trema Fr)
97. Isis * Panopticon (Ipecac)
98. The Blues Explosion * damage! (Sanctuary)
99. Faun Fables * Family Album (Drag City)
100. Savath & Savalas * Apropa't (Warp)
101. Marianne Faithfull * Before the Poison (Naive UK)
102. Etienne Daho * Pap Satori (Virgin)
103. Crispy Ambulance * Powder Blind Dream (Darla)
104. Frank Black Francis (Spin Art)
105. Jim White * Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See (Luaka Bop)
106. The Roots * The Tipping Point (Geffen)
107. Beans * Shock City Maverick (Warp)
108. Xiu Xiu * Fabulous Muscles (5 Rue Christine)
109. Panda Bear * Young Prayer (Paw Tracks)
110. Radian * Juxtaposition (Thrill Jockey)
111. Tortoise * It's All Around You (Thrill Jockey)
112. Born Heller (Locust)
113. Efterklang * Tripper (Leaf)
114. Bebel Gilberto (Six Degrees)
115. Ellen Allien * My Parade (Bpitch Control)
116. DJ /rupture * Special Gunpowder (Tigerbeat 6)
117. Youssou N'Dour * Egypt (Nonesuch)
118. Gwen Stefani * Love.Angel.Music.Baby (Interscope)
119. Girls Aloud * What Will The Neighbours Say? (Polydor)
120. Nellie McKay * Get Away From Me (Columbia)
121. P.G. Six * The Well of Memory (Amish)
122. Jens Lekman * When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog (Secretly Canadian)
123. Giant Sand * Is All Over The Map (Thrill Jockey)
124. Eleni Mandell * Afternoon (Zedtone)
125. Moonbabies * The Orange Billboard (Hidden Agenda)
126. Polly Paulusma * Scissors In My Pocket (One Little Indian)
127. Adem * Homesongs (Domino)
128. The Libertines (Rough Trade/Sanctuary)
129. N*E*R*D * Fly Or Die (Virgin)
130. Ozomatli * Street Signs (Real World)
131. The Soundtrack Of Our Lives * Origin Vol. 1 (WEA UK)
132. Tangiers * Never Bring You Pleasure (Sonic Unyon)
133. Hot Snakes * Audit In Progress (Swami)
134. Mouse On Mars * Radical Connector (Thrill Jockey)
135. Neko Case * The Tigers Have Spoken (Anti)
136. Blonde Redhead * Misery is a Butterfly (4AD)
137. Einsturzende Neubauten * Perpetuum Mobile (Mute)
138. Embrace * Out Of Nothing (Independiente UK)
139. Frog Eyes * The Folded Palm (Absolutely Kosher)
140. Black Dice * Creature Comforts (DFA/Fat Cat)
141. Madvillain * Madvillainy (Stones Throw)
142. The Fiery Furnaces * Blueberry Boat (Rough Trade)
143. Dizzee Rascal * Showtime (XL)
144. Michael Mayer * Touch (Kompact)
145. Sondre Lerche * Two Way Monologue (Astralwerks)
146. Lhasa * The Living Road (Les Disques Audiogramme)
147. The Hold Steady * Almost Killed Me (French Kiss)
148. Pinback * Summer In Abaddon (Touch and Go)
149. Sleep Station * After The War (Eyeball/Bardic)
150. Ikara Colt * Modern Apprentice (Fantastic Plastic UK)
151. Akira Rabelais * Spellewauerynsherde (Samadhi Sound)
152. Kevin Tihista's Red Terror * Wake Up Captain (Parasol)
153. 90 Day Men * Panda Park (Southern)
154. Les Savy Fav * Inches (French Kiss)
155. Regina Spektor * Soviet Kitsch (Sire)
156. Solex * The Laughing Stock Of Indie Rock (Arena Rock)
157. Heiruspecs * A Tiger Dancing (Razor & Tie)
158. The Bees * Free The Bees (Virgin UK)
159. Peter Murphy * Unshattered (Viastar)
160. The Radio Dept. * Lesser Matters (XL/Labrador)
161. Clinic * Winchester Cathedral (Domino/Universal)
162. Stina Nordenstam * The World Is Saved (V2)
163. American Music Club * Love Songs for Patriots (Cooking Vinyl)
164. Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez * A Manual Dexterity V.1 (GSL)
165. Flogging Molly * Within A Mile Of Home (SideOneDummy)
166. The (International) Noise Conspiracy * Armed Love (Burning Heart)
167. Rachel Goswell * Waves Are Universal (4AD)
168. Cee-Lo * Cee-Lo Green Is The Soul Machine (Arista)
169. We Ragazzi * Wolves With Pretty Lips (Suicide Squeeze)
170. The Wildhearts * Riff After Riff (Gearhead)
171. De La Soul * The Grind Date (Sanctuary)
172. Amon Tobin * Recorded Live (Ninja Tune)
173. A.C. Newman * The Slow Wonder (Matador)
174. The Ordinary Boys * Over The Counter Culture (B-Unique UK)
175. Wagon Christ * Sorry I Made You Lush (Ninja Tune)
176. Ulrich Schnauss * A Strangely Isolated Place (Domino)
177. The Fever * Red Bedroom (Kemado)
178. Drive-By Truckers * The Dirty South (New West)
179. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists * Shake the Sheets (Lookout)
180. Laura Veirs * Carbon Glacier (Bella Union UK)
181. Lamb Of God * Ashes of the Wake (Epic)
182. Shalabi Effect * Pink Abyss (Alien 8)
183. Savath & Savalas * Manana (Warp)
184. The Faint * Wet From Birth (Saddle Creek)
185. Thalia Zedek - Trust Not Those In Whom Without Some Touch of Madness (Thrill Jockey)
186. CocoRosie * La Maison De Mon Reve (Touch and Go)
187. Nicolai Dunger * Here's My Song You Can Have It (Universal)
188. Earlimart * Treble & Tremble (Palm Pictures)
189. Mono * Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined (temporary Residence)
190. Black OX Orkestar * Ver Tanzt? (Constellation)
191. The Cribs (Wichita UK)
192. Shannon Wright * Over the Sun (Quarterstick)
193. Old Time Relijun * Lost Light (K)
194. Mirah * C'mon Miracle (K)
195. Mϊm * Summer Make Good (Fat Cat)
196. The Ponys * Laced With Romance (In The Red)
197. Richmond Fontaine * Post To Wire (El Cortez)
198. Ken Stringfellow * Soft Commands (Yep Roc)
199. Tift Merritt * Tambourine (Lost Highway)
200. Gomez * Split The Difference (Virgin)
201. Prince Po * The Slickness (Lex)
202. Elizabeth Anka Vagacic * Stand With the Stillness of the Day (Constellation)
203. Valley of the Giants (Arts & Crafts)
204. U2 * How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Interscope)
205. Dillinger Escape Plan * Miss Machine (Relapse)
206. cLOUDDEAD * Ten (Mush)
207. Converge * You Fail Me (Epitaph)
208. Rilo Kiley * More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)
209. Jonathan Richman * Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love (Sanctuary/Vapor)
210. Autolux * Future Perfect (DMZ)
211. Lovedrug * Pretend You're alive (Militia Group)
212. Coastal * Halfway To You (Words On Music)
213. The Hidden Cameras * Mississauga Goddam (Rough Trade)
214. The French Kicks * The Trial Of The Century (Star Time)
215. Dead Texas * Dead Texan (Kranky)
216. McLusky * Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire (Beggars/Too Pure)
217. Loretta Lynn * Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
218. Brian Wilson * SMiLE (Nonesuch)
219. Brave Captain * All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (Wichita UK)
220. Dani Siciliano * Likes... (K7)
221. Luna * Rendezvous (Jetset)
222. Helio Sequence * Love And Distance (Sub Pop)
223. Green Day * American Idiot (Reprise)
224. The Standard * Wire Post to Wire (Yep Roc)
225. The Icarus Line * Penance Soiree (V2)
226. Grant Lee Phillips * Virgina Creeper (Cooking Vinyl)
227. Bobby Bare, Jr. * From The End Of Your Leash (Bloodshot)
228. Wolf Eyes * Burned Mind (Sub Pop)
229. The Boredoms * Seadrum/House Of Sun (Warners Japan)
230. Camper Van Beethoven * New Roman Times (Vanguard)
231. Dogs Die In Hot Cars * Please Describe Yourself (V2)
232. Twilight Singers * She Loves You (One Little Indian)
233. Amen * Death Before Musick (Eat URmusic/Columbia)
234. Helmet * Size Matters (Interscope)
235. The Mattoid * Hello (Cleft)
236. Frausdots * Couture Couture Couture (Sub Pop)
237. Orbital * The Blue Album (London)
238. Jean Grae * This Week (Babygrande)
239. The Dwarves * The Dwarves Must Die (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
240. Nancy Sinatra (Attack/Sanctuary)
241. Bonnie Prince Billy * Sings Greatest Palace Music (Drag City)
242. Radio 4 * Stealing Of A Nation (Astralwerks)
243. Ella Guru * The First Album (Banana UK)
244. The Zutons * Who Killed The Zutons? (Deltasonic UK)
245. Kerrier District (Rephlex)
246. Silkworm * It'll Be Cool (Touch and Go)
247. Bikini Atoll * Moratoria (Bellaire)
248. Probot (Southern Lord)
249. Rjd2 * Since We Last Spoke (Def Jux)
250. Le Tigre * This Island (Universal)
251. theStart * Initiation (Nitro)
252. Sultans * Shipwrecked (Swami)
253. Travis Morrison * Travistan (Barsuk)
254. For Stars * It Falls Apart (Future Farmer)
255. Mos Def * The New Danger (Geffen)
256. The Prodigy * Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned (XL UK)
257. Ghostface * The Pretty Toney Album (Def Jam)
258. Clorox Girls (Smart Guy)
259. Help She Can't Swim * Fashionista Super Dance Troupe (Fantastic Plastic UK)
260. Bad Religion * The Empire Strikes First (Epitaph)
261. Deerhoof * Milk Man (Kill Rock Stars)
262. Rogue Wave * Out Of The Shadow (Sub Pop)
263. Nas * Street's Disciple (Columbia)
264. Air * Talkie Walkie (Source/Astralwerks)
265. Mellow * Perfect Colors (Atmospheriques)
266. Talib Kweli * The Beautiful Struggle (MCA)
267. Squarepusher * Ultravisitor (Warp)
268. Bobby Conn & The Glass Gypsies * The Homeland (Thrill Jockey)
269. Juana Molina * Tres Cosas (Domino)
270. Beauty Pill * The Unsustainable Lifestyle (Dischord)
271. Golden Virgins * Songs Of Praise (XL UK)
272. Handsome Boy Modeling School * White People (Atlantic/Elektra)
273. Seafood * As The Cry Flows (Cooking Vinyl)
274. The Streets * A Grand Don't Come For Free (Vice)
275. Oneiros * Outputmessage (Echelon)
276. The Killers * Hot Fuss (Lizard King/Island)
277. The Cure (Geffen)
278. Division Of Laura Lee * Das Not Compute (Epitaph/Burning Heart)
279. Sparta * Porcelain (Geffen)
280. Sluts Of Trust * We Are All Sluts Of Trust (Chemikal)
281. Sunn 0))) * White 2 (Southern Lord)
282. Sahara Hotnights * Kiss & Tell (RCA)
283. Hope Of The States * Lost Riots (Sony)
284. Young Heart Attack * Mouthful Of Love (Beggars XL)
285. Pink Grease * This is for Real (Mute)
286. MF Doom * Mm..Food? (Rhymesayers)
287. Monster Magnet * Monolithic Baby! (SPV)
288. Amp Fiddler * Waltz Of A Ghetto Fly (Genuine)
289. Oneida * Secret Wars (Jagjaguwar)
290. The Stranglers * Norfolk Coast (EMI)
291. Modest Mouse * Good News For People Who Love Bad News (Epic)
292. Firewater * Songs We Should Have Written (Jetset)
293. A Perfect Circle * Emotive (Virgin/EMI)
294. Lambchop * Aw Cmon (Merge)
295. The Magnetic Fields * i (Nonesuch)
296. The Blueskins * Word Of Mouth (Domino UK)
297. Brandon Wiard * Painting A Buring Building (Cerberus)
298. Subtle * A New White (Lex)
299. Sixtoo * Chewing on Glass and Other Miracle Cures (Ninja Tune)
300. Seachange * Lay Of The Land (Matador)
301. The Statistics * Leave Your Name (Jade Tree)
302. Electrelane * The Power Out (Too Pure/Beggars)
303. The Blow * The Concussive Caress (K)
304. The Polyphonic Spree * Together We're Heavy (Hollywood)
305. Lesser Birds Of Paradise * String Of Bees (Contraphonic)
306. Jukeboxer * In The Food Chain (Absolutely Kosher)
307. Kanye West * College Dropout (Roc-A-Fella)
308. Iron & Wine * Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
309. The Divine Comedy * Absent Friends (Parlophone)
310. Macha * Forget Tomorrow (Jetset)
311. Phoenix * Alphabetical (Astralwerks)
312. The Veils * The Runaway Found (Rough Trade UK)
313. Morrissey * You Are The Quarry (Attack/Sanctuary)
314. Thee Silver Mountain Reveries * Pretty Little Lightning Paw (Constellation)
315. The Reigning Sound * Too Much Guitar! (In The Red)
316. Hella * The Devil Isn't Red (5 Rue Christine)
317. Slow Jets * Remain In Ether (Morphius)
318. Starving Artists Crew * Up Pops The SAC (Fat Beats)
319. Skalpel (Ninja Tune)
320. Swayzak * Loops From The Bergerie (K7)
321. The Album Leaf * In A Safe Place (Sub Pop)
322. Pleasurecraft * Lost Patterns (Pleasurcraft)
323. Old Ghost * Light Returns (Morphius)
324. The Cucumbers * All Things To You (Fictitious Records)
325. Action Action * Don't Cut Your Fabric to This Year's Fashion Action Action (Victory)
326. Coastal Drag * Caught On The Wrist (Doubling Cube)
327. Sweetback * Stage [2] (Epic)
328. Death in Vegas * Satan's Circle (Drone UK)
329. The Thrills * Let's Bottle Bohemia (Virgin)
330. Chromeo * She's In Control (Vice)
331. Icehouse * Heroes
332. Miss Kittin * I Com (EMI)
333. Patti Smith * Trampin' (Columbia)
334. The Graze * Iowa Anvil (J-Shirt)
335. Ministry * Houses Of The Molκ (Sanctuary)
336. The Open * The Silent Hours (Polydor UK)
337. The Coral * Nightfreak & The Sons Of Becker (Deltasonic UK)
338. Delays * Faded Seaside Glamour (Rough Trade UK)
339. Zero 7 * When It Falls (Ultimate Dilema UK)
340. Auf der Maur (Capitol)
341. The Von Bondies * Pawn Shoppe Heart (Sire)
342. West Indian Girl (Astralwerks)
343. U.S.E. * United State Of Electronica (Mannheim)
344. Weird War * If You Can't Beat 'Em, Bit 'Em (Drag City)
345. Lambchop * No You Cmon (Merge)
346. The Church * Forget Yourself (spinART)
347. The Stands * All Years Leaving (Echo Recs UK)
348. Rochester Fosgate (Smooth Excavator)
349. Keane * Hopes And Fears (Interscope)
350. Liars * They Were Wrong So We Drowned (Mute)
351. Ash * Meltdown (Infectious)
352. Courtney Love * America's Sweetheart (Virgin)
353. Astrid (Incarnation UK)
354. Atombombpocketknife * Lack & Pattern (File-13)
355. Jello Biafra with the Melvins * Never Breathe What You Canxt See (Alternative Tentacles)
356. Jane Birkin * Rendez-Vous (EMI)
357. Blevin Blectum * Magic Maple (Deluxe)
358. Blockhead * Music By Cavelight (Ninja Tune)
359. Broken Social Scene * Beehives (Arts & Crafts)
360. The Bronx (Wichita)
361. Bruno E * Lovely Arthur (Trama)
362. Burning Brides * Leave No Ashes (V2)
363. Calexico * Convict Pool EP (Touch & Go)
364. Calliope * Sounds Like Circles Feel (Thick)
365. Elvis Costello * Il Sogno (Deutsche Grammaphon)
366. Elvis Costello * The Delivery Man (Lost Highway)
367. Converge * You Fail Me (Epitaph)
368. Cranes * Particles And Waves (Dadaphonic)
369. Daisy Cutters * Awake Among the Sleepers (Collision Aus)
370. Greg Davis * Somnia (Kranky)
371. Daydream Nation * Bella Vendetta (Elephant Stone/Parasol)
372. Destroyer * Your Blues (Merge)
373. Julie Doiron * Goodnight Nobody (Jagjaguwar)
374. Tonya Donnelly * Whiskey Tango Ghosts (4AD/Beggars)
375. DJ KRush * Jaku (Red Ink)
376. El-P * High Water: Mark (Thirsty Ear)
377. The Ex * Turn (Dekonkurent)
378. The Fall * The New Fall LP, Formerly Known as Country on the Click (Narnack)
379. Fly Pan Am * Necoutez Pas (Constellation)
380. Front Line Assembly * Civilization (Metropolis)
381. Fu Manchu * Start The Machine (DRT)
382. Gift Of Gab * Fourth Dimensional Rocketships (Quannum)
383. Growing * The Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light (Kranky)
384. David Grubbs * A Guess at the Riddle (Drag City)
385. Guided By Voices * Half Smiles Of The Decomposed The Eternals (Aesthetics)
386. The Haunted * rEVOLVEr (Century Media)
387. Haymarket Riot * Mog (Thick)
388. The High Water Marks * Songs About The Ocean (Eenie Meanie)
389. Hoodoo Gurus * Mach Shau (EMI)
390. I Am the World Trade Center * Cover Up (Gammon)
391. Bill Janovitz and Crown Victoria * Fireworks on TV (Q Division)
392. Angιlique Kidjo * Oyaya! (Columbia)
393. Knife & Fork * Miserycord (Eric Drew Feldman) (Diesel Motor)
394. Last Burning Embers * Lessons in Redemption (Pink Frost/Big Takeover)
395. The Last Emperor * Palace Of The Pretender (Raptivism/Rykodisc)
396. Los Lobos * The Ride (Mammoth)
397. Jesse Malin * The Heat (Artemis)
398. The Mendoza Line * Fortune (Bar/None)
399. Tift Merritt * Tambourine (Universal)
400. Pedro the Lion: Achilles Heel (Jade Tree)
401. Pharoah Monch * Innver Vision
402. The Mountain Goats * We Shall All Be Healed (4AD)
403. Dan "The Automator" Nakamura * Omakase
404. Numbers * In My Mind All The Time (Tigerbeat6)
405. Of Montreal * Satanic Panic in the Attic (Polyvinyl)
406. Jair Oliveira * 3.1 (Trama)
407. OOIOO * Kila Kila Kila (Thrill Jockey)
408. Rodney P * The Future (Riddim Killa)
409. Pan-American * Quiet City (Kranky)
410. Pedro the Lion * Achilles Heel (Jade Tree)
411. Josh Ritter * Hellow Starling (Setanta)
412. Rob K * The End of the Earth (Orange)
413. Todd Rundgren * Liars (Sanctuary)
414. The Sad Riders * Lay Your Head On The Soft Rock (Stick Sister)
415. Saturday Looks Good To Me * Every Night (Polyvinyl)
416. Shivaree * Breach (Rounder)
417. Silver Ray * New Love (Broken Horse)
418. State Of Bengal vs Paban Das Baul * Tana Tani (Real World)
419. Huong Thanh * Mangustao (Act)
420. David Thomas and Two Pale Boys * 18 Monkeys on a Dead Manxs Chest (Thirsty Ear)
421. Glenn Tilbrook * Transatlantic Ping Pong (Compass/Quixotic London)
422. Trans Am * Liberation (Thrill Jockey)
423. Tweaker * 2 a.m. Wakeup Call (Waxploitation/iMusic)
424. Vandermark 5 * Elements of Style...Exercises in Surprise (Atavistic)
425. Vanishing * Still Lives in Progress (GSL)
426. Velvet CRush * Stereo Blues (Action Musik)
427. VHS or Beta * Night On Fire (Astralwerks)
428. Waxwings * Let's Make our Descent (Yep Roc)
429. Whirlwind Heat * Flamingo Honey (Dim Mak)
430. Saul Williams (Fader)
431. X-ecutioners * Revolutions (Columbia)
432. Richard Youngs * River Through Howling Sky (Jagjaguwar)

* 2005

1. Opeth * Ghost Reveries (Roadrunner)
2. Sleater-Kinney * The Woods (Sub Pop)
3. Bloc Party * Silent Alarm (Wichita/V2)
4. Spoon * Gimme Fiction (Merge)
5. My Computer * No CV (Tesla UK)
6. Editors * The Back Room (Kitchenware UK)
7. Field Music (Memphis Industries UK)
8. LCD Soundsystem (Capitol/DFA)
9. Sigur Rσs * Takk... (Geffen) Sep 13
10. The Shortwave Set * The Debt Collection (Independiente UK)
11. The Boards Of Canada * Campfire Headcase (Warp) Oct 18
12. The Rakes * Capture/Release (V2 UK)
13. Antony and the Johnsons * I Am A Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
14. Maximo Park * A Certain Trigger (Warp)
15. Dogs * Turn Against This Land (Island UK)
16. Brakes * Give Blood (Rough Trade)
17. Four Tet * Everything Ecstatic (Domino)
18. Out Hud * Let Us Never Speak Of It Again (Kranky)
19. Seu Jorge * Cru (Wrasse)
20. Max De Castro (Trama)
21. Go-Betweens * Oceans Apart (Yep Roc)
22. Okkervil River * Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)
23. The Mars Volta * Frances The Mute (Universal)
24. Edan * Beauty and the Beat (Lewis)
25. Gogol Bordello * Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike (USA Side 1 Dummy)
26. Colder * Heat (Output)
27. Super Furry Animals * Love Kraft (XL UK)
28. Sufjan Stevens * Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
29. Roots Manuva * Awfully Deep (Big Dada/Ninja Tune UK)
30. Various * Love's A Real Thing: The Funky Fuzzy Sounds Of West Africa (Luaka Bop)
31. New Pornographers * Twin Cinema (Matador)
32. Jamie Lidell * Multiply (Warp)
33. The Departure * Dirty Words (Parlophone)
34. Lake Trout * Not Them, You (Palm Pictures) Sep 6
35. The Cribs * The New Fellas (Wichita UK) Aug 22
36. Pernice Brothers * Discover A Lovelier You (Sub Pop)
37. Prefuse 73 * Surrounded By Silence (Warp)
38. Envelopes * Demon (Rex UK)
39. Hood * Outside Closer (Domino UK)
40. Kano * Home Sweet Home (679)
41. Hard-Fi * Stars Of CCTV (Necessary/Atlantic)
42. Gang Gang Dance * God's Money (Social Registry)
43. Clor (EMI UK)
44. Love As Laughter * Laughter's Fifth (Sub Pop)
45. Brazilian Girls (Verve)
46. Goldfrapp * Supernature (Mute UK)
47. Elbow * Leaders Of The Free World (V2 UK) Sep 12
48. The Tears * Here Come The Tears (Independiente UK)
49. Queens of the Stone Age * Lullabies To Paralyze (Interscope)
50. White Stripes * Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
51. Vitalic * OK Cowboy (Pias)
52. Isolιe * We Are Monster (Playhouse)
53. Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production Of Eggs (Righteous Babe)
54. Mary Timony * Ex Hex (Lookout!)
55. Oneida * The Wedding (Jagjaguwar)
56. Black Mountain (Jagjaguwar)
57. Caribou [Manitoba] * The Milk Of Human Kindness (Domino)
58. David Pajo * Pajo (Drag City)
59. Konono No. 1 * Congotronics (Fat Cat)
60. M.I.A. * Arular (XL)
61. A-Frames * Black Forest (Sub Pop)
62. Eels * Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (Vagrant)
63. Tom Zι * Estudando O Pagode (Trama)
64. Wilderness (Jagjaguwar)
65. The Juan MaClean * Less Than Human (DFA/Astralwerks)
66. Troubled Hubble * Making Beds In A Burning House (Lookout)
67. Populous * Queue For Love (Morr)
68. Fόrsaxa * Ecstatic Peace (13)
69. Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine (Nonesuch)
70. British Sea Power * Open Season (Rough Trade)
71. Art Brut * Bang Bang Rock and Roll (Rough Trade)
72. Asian Dub Foundation * Tank (Virgin UK)
73. Russian Futurists * Our Thickness (Upper Class)
74. Stephen Malkmus * Face The Truth (Matador)
75. Pelican * The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw (Hydra Head)
76. Rφyksopp * The Understanding (Astralwerks)
77. Dδlek * Absence (Ipecac)
78. Common * Be (Geffen)
79. Saint Etienne * Tales From Turnpike House (Sanctuary)
80. Angels Of Light * Sings Other People (Young God)
81. Big Business * Head For The Shallow (Hydra Head)
82. Thievery Corporation * Cosmic Game (ESL)
83. Architecture In Helsinki * In Case We Die (Bar/None)
84. Crooked Fingers * Dignity And Shame (Merge)
85. The Magic Numbers (Heavenly)
86. Sam Prekop * Who's Your New Professor (Thrill Jockey)
87. Mercury Rev * The Secret Migration (V2 UK)
88. Dead Meadow * Feathers (Matador)
89. The Bravery (Island)
90. The Kills * No Wow (Rough Trade/RCA)
91. Missy Elliott * The Cookbook (Atlantic)
92. Low * The Great Destroyer (Sub Pop)
93. The Frames * Burn The Maps (Anti)
94. Teenage Fanclub * Man-Made (Merge)
95. Autechre * Untilted (Warp)
96. Archer Prewitt * Wilderness (Thrill Jockey)
97. Emiliana Torrini * Fisherman's Wife (Rough Trade)
98. The 22-20s (Interscope)
99. Chemical Brothers * Push The Button (Virgin)
100. M83 * Before The Dawn Heals Us (Goom/Mute)
101. Gorillaz * Demon Days (Virgin)
102. Of Monteral * The Sunlandic Twins (Polyvinyl)
103. Jaga Jazzist * What We Must (Ninja Tunes)
104. Amon Tobin * Chaos Theory: Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack (Ninja Tune)
105. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead * Worlds Apart (Interscope)
106. Hal (Rough Trade)
107. Beck * Guero (WB)
108. Maria McKee - Peddlin Dreams (Eleven Thirty)
109. The Warlocks * Surgery (Mute)
110. Longwave * There's A Fire (RCA)
111. Coral * The Invisible Invasion (Sony)
112. The Subways * Young For Eternity (Infectious UK)
113. Hot Hot Heat * Elevator (Sire)
114. Head of Femur * Hysterical Stars (Spin Art)
115. The Dead 60s (Sony)
116. Nitin Sahwney * Philtre (V2)
117. HorrorPops * Bring It On! (Hellcat)
118. The National * Alligator (Beggars Banquet)
119. Lungfish * Feral Hymns (Dischord)
120. Weird War * Illuminated By The Light (Drag City)
121. The Soviettes * III (Fat Wreck)
122. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (CYHSY)
123. Fischerspooner * Odyssey (Capitol)
124. Kaiser Chiefs * Employment (Universal)
125. Doves * Some Cities (Heavenly UK)
126. Ordinary Boys * Brassbound (B Unique)
127. Caesars * Paper Tigers (Astralwerks)
128. Shelby Lynne * Suit Yourself (Capitol)
129. Josh Rouse * Nashville (Slow River/Rykodisc)
130. Nagisa Ni Te * Dream Sounds (Jagjaguwar)
131. Pit Er Pat * Shakey (Thrill Jockey)
132. Nine Black Alps * Everything Is (Island)
133. Nine Inch Nails * With Teeth (Nothing)
134. Louis XIV * The Best Little Secrets Are Kept (Pineapple/Atlantic)
135. The Others (Mercury UK)
136. Daft Punk * Human After All (Virgin)
137. Fannypack * See You Next Tuesday (Tommy Boy)
138. Ladybug Mecca * Trip the Light Fantastic (Nu Paradigm)
139. Coldplay * X&Y (Capitol)
140. Athlete * Tourist (Parolophone UK)
141. Damon & Naomi * The Earth Is Blue (20/20/20/Revolver)
142. Nicolai Dunger * This Cloud Is Learning (Overcoat Recordings)
143. Fast 'n' Bulbous * Pork Chop Blue Around The Rind (Cuneiform)
144. Sage Francis * A Healthy Distrust (Epitaph)
145. Laurent Garnier * The Cloud Making Machine (F-comm)
146. Guy Called Gerald * To All Things What They Need (k7 UK)
147. High on Fire * Blessed Black Wings (Relapse)
148. House of Love * Days Run Away (Art & Industry)
149. Ida * Heart Like a River (Polyvinyl)
150. Idlewild * Warnings/Promises (EMI UK)
151. Moby * Hotel (V2)
152. Marco Passarani * Sullen Look (Peacefrog)
153. Gruff Rhys * Yr Atal Genhedlaeth (Placid Casual UK)
154. System Of A Down * Hypnotise (Epic)
155. M. Ward * Transistor Radio (Merge)
156. Wedding Present * Take Fountain (Scopitones)