Dec 25, 2010

The Best Albums Of 2006

Top 50


  1. Return to cookie mountain - TV ON THE RADIO
  2. Whatever people say I am, that's what I am not - ARCTIC MONKEYS
  3. Cansei De Ser Sexy - CSS
  4. Show your bones - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
  5. Be Your Own Pet - BE YOUR OWN PET
  6. Derdang derdang - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT
  7. The crane wife - THE DECEMBERISTS
  8. First impressions of earth - THE STROKES
  9. You in reverse - BUILT TO SPILL
  10. Rather ripped - SONIC YOUTH
  11. Boys and girls in America - THE HOLD STEADY
  12. Pieces of the people we love - THE RAPTURE
  13. Fishscale - GHOSTFACE KILLAH
  14. Yoyoyoyoyo - SPANK ROCK
  15. Standing in the way of control - GOSSIP
  16. Ringleader of the tormentors - MORRISSEY
  17. I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass - YO LA TENGO
  18. Rabbit fur coat - JENNY LEWIS WITH THE WATSON TWINS
  19. Robbers & cowards - COLD WAR KIDS
  20. Hit the floor! - YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE!
  21. Sam’s town - THE KILLERS
  22. The Lemonheads - THE LEMONHEADS
  23. The Bronx - THE BRONX
  24. The invisible deck - THE ROGERS SISTERS
  25. The body the blood the machine - THE THERMALS
  26. Drum's not dead - LIARS
  27. Impeach my bush - PEACHES
  28. The greatest - CAT POWER
  29. Broken boy soldiers - THE RACONTEURS
  30. Avatar - COMETS ON FIRE
  31. Powder burns - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS
  32. In colour - THE CONCRETES
  33. Someone to drive you home - THE LONG BLONDES
  34. Bottoms of barrels - TILLY AND THE WALL
  35. Gulag Orkestar - BEIRUT
  36. Putting the days to bed - THE LONG WINTERS
  37. The loon - TAPES 'N TAPES
  38. A hundred miles off - THE WALKMEN
  39. Zeroes and ones - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY
  40. Everything all the time - BAND OF HORSES
  41. Howling Bells - HOWLING BELLS
  42. Make love to the judges with your eyes - PONY UP!
  43. We are The Pipettes - THE PIPETTES
  44. Bring it back - MATES OF STATE
  45. Gang of losers - THE DEARS
  46. Let’s get out of this country - CAMERA OBSCURA
  47. Fox confessor brings the flood - NEKO CASE
  48. Pearl Jam - PEARL JAM
  49. Under a billion suns - MUDHONEY
  50. Hell hath no fury - CLIPSE
Also recommended:

Transparent things - FUJIYA AND MIYAGI, The warning - HOT CHIP, Yes, Virginia… - THE DRESDEN DOLLS, Knives don't have your back - EMILY HAINES & THE SOFT SKELETON, The life pursuit - BELLE & SEBASTIAN, Balled of broken seas - ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN, The trials of Van Occupanther - MIDLAKE, Happy new year - ONEIDA, At war with the mystics - THE FLAMING LIPS, The information - BECK, Food & liquor - LUPE FIASCO, Silent shout - THE KNIFE, Fab four suture - STEREOLAB, Carnavas - SILVERSUN PICKUPS, News and tributes - THE FUTUREHEADS, Remember the night parties - OXFORD COLLAPSE, Nightlife - ERASE ERRATA, Nine times that same song - LOVE IS ALL, Dancing with daggers - MAGNETA LANE, Elan Vital - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES, Just like the fambly cat - GRANDADDY, 'Sno angel like you - HOWE GELB, Brightblack Morning Light - BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT, Dreamt for light years in the belly of a mountain - SPARKLEHORSE, The spell - THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION, The letting go - BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY, Damaged - LAMBCHOP, The avalanche - SUFJAN STEVENS, Serena-Maneesh - SERENA-MANEESH, So this is goodbye - JUNIOR BOYS, A lesson in crime - TOKYO POLICE CLUB, The Obliterati - MISSION OF BURMA, Zodiac zoo - MADE IN MEXICO, Happy Hollow - CURSIVE, Enemies like this - RADIO 4, Ten silver drops - SECRET MACHINES, Fear is on our side - I LOVE YOU BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS, Passover - THE BLACK ANGELS, Visitations - CLINIC, Born in the UK - BADLY DRAWN BOY, Personality (one was a spider, one was a bird) - THE SLEEPY JACKSON, Idlewild - OUTKAST, Game theory - THE ROOTS, Doctor’s advocate - THE GAME, Meds - PLACEBO, So divided - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, Without feathers - THE STILLS, Over the mountain, across the valley, and back to the stars - JENNIFER O’CONNOR, Garden ruin - CALEXICO, From a compound eye - ROBERT POLLARD, Greg Dulli's Amber headlights - GREG DULLI, Film school - FILM SCHOOL, Cannibal sea - THE ESSEX GREEN, This hungry life - TANYA DONELLY, Fading trails - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO., Types of wood - WHIRLWIND HEAT, Bitter tea - THE FIERY FURNACES, Coal - DEVASTATIONS, Silver - JESU, Vessel states - WILDERNESS, Stadium Arcadium - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, Vision valley - THE VINES, Inside in / Inside out - THE KOOKS, Look at who you’re talking to - HUMAN TELEVISION, Fantastic success - MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA, Yellow house - GRIZZLY BEAR, Live a little - PERNICE BROTHERS, The eraser - THOM YORKE, St. Elsewhere - GNARLS BARKLEY, Varcharz - MOUSE ON MARS, Writer's block - PETER BJORN AND JOHN, Skelliconnection - CHAD VANGAALEN, Let's build a fire - +/-, Post-war - M. WARD, Begin to hope - REGINA SPEKTOR, Real life - JOAN AS POLICEWOMAN, Drowaton - STARLIGHT MINTS, Catastrophe keeps us together - RAINER MARIA, Give me a wall- !FORWARD RUSSIA!, Voices of animals and men - THE YOUNG KNIVES, Those the brokes - THE MAGIC NUMBERS, White bread, black beer - SCRITTI POLITTI, Orphans: Brawlers, bawlers and bastards - TOM WAITS, Living with war - NEIL YOUNG, Modern times - BOB DYLAN, Espers II - ESPERS, To find me gone - VETIVER, Ys - JOANNA NEWSOM, Micah P Hinson and the Opera Circuit - MICAH P HINSON, A blessing and a curse - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, Human animal - WOLF EYES, Easter - THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES, The hardest walk - SOLEDAD BROTHERS, Magic potion - THE BLACK KEYS, In the city of sleep - THE FEVER, Yours to keep - ALBERT HAMMOND JR., Into the blue again - THE ALBUM LEAF, Tell me - CATFISH HAVEN, Black holes & revelations - MUSE, Empire - KASABIAN, Riot city blues - PRIMAL SCREAM, Waterloo to anywhere - DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, Razorlight - RAZORLIGHT, A call and response - THE LONGCUT, Not accepted anywhere - THE AUTOMATIC, Raise the alarm - THE SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND, Making dens - MYSTERY JETS, Through the window pain - GUILLEMOTS, Jarvis - JARVIS COCKER, Chronicles of a bohemian teenager - GET CAPE. WEAR CAPE. FLY, Civilian - BOY KILL BOY, The only thing I ever wanted - PSAPP, The beatific visions - BRAKES, Mr Beast - MOGWAI, 10,000 Days - TOOL, Blood mountain - MASTODON, Wolfmother - WOLFMOTHER, Six demon bag - MAN MAN, What the toll tells - TWO GALLANTS, Zeno beach - RADIO BIRDMAN, My dark places - TELEVISION PERSONALITIES, Olé! Tarantula - ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE VENUS 3, When the going gets dark - QUASI, Shut up I am dreaming - SUNSET RUBDOWN, The rose has teeth in the mouth of a beast - MATMOS, Night ripper - GIRL TALK, The audience's listening - CUT CHEMIST, Live and learn - MEKALEK, King - T.I., Public warning - LADY SOVEREIGN, Pick a bigger weapon - THE COUP, Murray's revenge - MURS, Burial - BURIAL, The outsider - DJ SHADOW, Sound mirrors - COLDCUT, The hardest way to make an easy living - THE STREETS, Back to black - AMY WINEHOUSE, It’s never been like that - PHOENIX, Collisions - CALLA, Ships - DANIELSON, Roots & crowns - CALIFONE, Tragic treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events - GOTHIC ARCHES, Destroyer's rubies - DESTROYER, Dits from the commuter belt - BROMHEADS JACKET, The last temptation of... the Low Frequency in Stereo - THE LOW FREQUENCY IN STEREO, Threes - SPARTA, Seven from the village - FIELDS, Singles & sessions 1979 - 81 - DELTA 5, McLuskyism - McLUSKY, Echoes of the past - DEAD MOON, And I feel fine…The best of the IRS years 1982-1987 - R.E.M., The Peel Sessions 1991 - 2004 - PJ HARVEY, The destroyed room B-sides and rarities - SONIC YOUTH

Nov 28, 2010

The Best Albums Of 2005

Top 50


  1. Silent alarm - BLOC PARTY
  2. LCD Soundsystem - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
  3. Gimme fiction - SPOON
  4. Picaresque - THE DECEMBERISTS
  5. Fall heads roll - THE FALL
  6. Golden ocean - 50 FOOT WAVE
  7. No wow - THE KILLS
  8. You could have it so much better - FRANZ FERDINAND
  9. I'm wide awake, it's morning / Digital ash in a digital urn - BRIGHT EYES
  10. Illinois - SUFJAN STEVENS
  11. Cuts across the land - THE DUKE SPIRIT
  12. Lullabies to paralyze - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
  13. The great destroyer - LOW
  14. Broken Social Scene - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
  15. Everything ecstatic - FOUR TET
  16. Let us never speak of it again - OUT HUD
  17. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH
  18. The woods - SLEATER-KINNEY
  19. Witching hour - LADYTRON
  20. Set yourself on fire - STARS
  21. Pretty in black - THE RAVEONETTES
  22. Twin cinema - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
  23. The secret migration - MERCURY REV
  24. Plans - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
  25. Ex hex - MARY TIMONY
  26. Face the truth - STEPHEN MALKMUS
  27. Late registration - KANYE WEST
  28. Get behind me Satan - THE WHITE STRIPES
  29. Cripple crow - DEVENDRA BANHART
  30. The mouse and the mask - DANGER DOOM
  31. Apologies to the Queen Mary - WOLF PARADE
  32. Live it out - METRIC
  33. Grab that gun - THE ORGAN
  34. The back room - EDITORS
  35. Absence - DALEK
  36. Wilderness - WILDERNESS
  37. Elevator - HOT HOT HEAT
  38. Employment - KAISER CHIEFS
  39. Stars of CCTV - HARD-FI
  40. Capture / Release - THE RAKES
  41. A certain trigger - MAXIMO PARK
  42. Tree city - ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET
  43. The Bravery - THE BRAVERY
  44. Arular - M.I.A.
  45. We have sound - TOM VEK
  46. Feels - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
  47. Tournament of hearts - CONSTANTINES
  48. The alternative to love - BRENDAN BENSON
  49. Man-made - TEENAGE FANCLUB
  50. Oceans apart - THE GO-BETWEENS
Also recommended:

Separation Sunday - THE HOLD STEADY, Black forest - A FRAMES, The repulsion box - SONS AND DAUGHTERS, Waiting for the sirens' call - NEW ORDER, Odyssey - FISCHERSPOONER, The documentary - THE GAME, Surrounded by silence - PREFUSE 73, The new fellas - THE CRIBS, Tanglewood numbers - SILVER JEWS, A river ain't too much to love - SMOG, Take fountain - THE WEDDING PRESENT, Menos El Oso - MINUS THE BEAR, Birds make good neighbors - THE ROSEBUDS, Descended like vultures - ROGUE WAVE, The invisible invasion - THE CORAL, The Magic Numbers - THE MAGIC NUMBERS, Some cities - DOVES, Black Mountain - BLACK MOUNTAIN, Z - MY MORNING JACKET, Demon days - GORILLAZ, Guero - BECK, Lost and safe - THE BOOKS, Noah's ark - COCOROSIE, Year of meteors - LAURA VEIRS, Pixel revolt - JOHN VANDERSLICE, Discover a lovelier you - PERNICE BROTHERS, …Tick…Tick…Tick - STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3, Worlds apart - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, Howl - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Hearts and unicorns - GIANT DRAG, Nice and nicely done - SPINTO BAND, Underwater cinematographer - MOST SERENE REPUBLIC, Duel at dawn - MOMMY AND DADDY, With love and squalor - WE ARE SCIENTISTS, Weight is a gift - NADA SURF, Down in Albion - BABYSHAMBLES, Black rays defense - THE BEAT UP, The Others - THE OTHERS, Harmonies for the haunted - STELLASTARR*, Odditorium or Warlords of Mars - THE DANDY WARHOLS, Push the button - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, Before the dawn heals us - M83, In the clear - IVY, Open season - BRITISH SEA POWER, Oh no - OK GO, Gimmie trouble - ADULT., Home sweet home - KANO, You can't imagine how much fun we're having - ATMOSPHERE, In your honor - FOO FIGHTERS, Warnings / Promises - IDLEWILD, Laughter's fifth - LOVE AS LAUGHTER, Emoh - LOU BARLOW, Infiniheart - CHAD VANGAALEN, Blinking lights and other revelations - EELS, Cold roses / Jacksonville city nights - RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS, 29 - RYAN ADAMS, Rehearsing my choir / EP - THE FIERY FURNACES, Everything is - NINE BLACK ALPS, For screening purposes only - TEST ICICLES, The Dead 60's - THE DEAD 60'S, Axes - ELECTRELANE, Bleed like me - GARBAGE, Frances the mute - THE MARS VOLTA, What comes after the blues - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO, Trials & errors - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO, Loose in the air - THE DOUBLE, Pony Up! - PONY UP!, Matson Jones - MATSON JONES, The wedding - ONEIDA, I am a bird now - ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, Andrew Bird & the mysterious production of eggs - ANDREW BIRD, Somebody’s miracle - LIZ PHAIR, Be - COMMON, Black dialogue - PERCEPTIONISTS, In case we die - ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI, Black sheep boy - OKKERVIL RIVER, All harm ends here - EARLY DAY MINERS, Howl howl gaff gaff - SHOUT OUT LOUDS, Flex time - THE DIALS, The runners four - DEERHOOF, Tender buttons - BROADCAST, The best party ever - THE BOY LEAST LIKELY TO, Superwolf  - MATT SWEENEY AND BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Takk - SIGUR ROS, Bang bang rock and roll - ART BRUT, Give blood - BRAKES, Heat - COLDER, Awfully deep - ROOTS MANUVA, Grandmasters - DJ MUGGS VS. GZA/GENIUS, New whirl odor - PUBLIC ENEMY, My machine - PRINCESS SUPERSTAR, Purple haze - CAM'RON,  Beauty and the beat - EDAN, Out of breach (Manchester's revenge) - MU, Extraordinary machine - FIONA APPLE, Aerial - KATE BUSH, As is now - PAUL WELLER, Devils and dust - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Honeycomb - FRANK BLACK, Body of song - BOB MOULD, TheFutureEmbrace - BILLY CORGAN, Made in China - JULIANA HATFIELD, Pocket revolution - dEUS, Fires in distant buildings - GRAVENHURST, The lighthouse - ANA DA SILVA, Knuckle down - ANI DIFRANCO, Awake is the new sleep - BEN LEE, Nashville - JOSH ROUSE, Transistor radio - M WARD, On my way to absence - DAMIEN JURADO, Dignity and shame - CROOKED FINGERS, The view from the floor - SLOW DAZZLE, At the national grid - THE BATS, Spelled in bones - FRUIT BATS, More deep cuts - THEE MORE SHALLOWS, Alpine static - KINSKI, Mezmerize / Hypnotize - SYSTEM OF A DOWN, With teeth - NINE INCH NAILS, Out of my head - THE D4, Such triumph - NARRATOR, I was born at night - MENEGUAR, Black comet - THE HEAVENLY STATES, Hurricane bar - MANDO DIAO, Celebration - CELEBRATION, Aw come aw wry - PHOSPHORESCENT, Quit +/or fight - HOLOPAW, The color and the light - JENNIFER O'CONNOR, Okemah and the melody of riot - SON VOLT, Engineers - ENGINEERS, Field Music - FIELD MUSIC, Road to Rouen - SUPERGRASS, Here come The Tears - THE TEARS, Super extra gravity - THE CARDIGANS, Alligator - THE NATIONAL, OK cowboy - VITALIC, Jesu - JESU, Gypsy punks: Underdog world strike - GOGOL BORDELLO, The best little secrets are kept - LOUIS XIV, Easy beat - DR. DOG, The last romance - ARAB STRAP, Lucky dog recordings 03-04 - STUART A STAPLES, Strange geometry - THE CLIENTELE, Let it die - FEIST, The baby and the satellite - MICAH P HINSON, Tiger, my friend - PSAPP, God's money - GANG GANG DANCE, Woman king - IRON AND WINE, In the reins - CALEXICO / IRON AND WINE, Excerpts from the diary of Todd Zilla - GRANDADDY, Oscillons from the anti-sun - STEREOLAB, Prisoners of love - YO LA TENGO, The complete Peel Sessions 1978 - 2004 - THE FALL, B-sides & rarities - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS

Nov 12, 2010

The Best Albums Of 2004

Top 50


  1. Franz Ferdinand - FRANZ FERDINAND
  2. Abattoir blues / The lyre of Orpheus - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
  3. Good news for people who love bad news - MODEST MOUSE
  4. Louden up now - !!!
  5. Desperate youth, blood thirsty babes - TV ON THE RADIO
  6. Pawn shoppe heart - THE VON BONDIES
  7. Antics - INTERPOL
  8. You are the quarry - MORRISSEY
  9. Funeral - THE ARCADE FIRE
  10. Sonic nurse - SONIC YOUTH
  11. Misery is a butterfly - BLONDE REDHEAD
  12. Bubblegum - MARK LANEGAN BAND
  13. No cities left - THE DEARS
  14. To the 5 boroughs - BEASTIE BOYS
  15. Hot fuss - THE KILLERS
  16. The power out - ELECTRELANE
  17. Bows + arrows - THE WALKMEN
  18. You're a woman, I’m a machine - DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979
  19. Tyrannosaurus Hives - THE HIVES
  20. Uh huh her - PJ HARVEY
  21. More adventurous - RILO KILEY
  22. The Concretes - THE CONCRETES
  23. Thunder, lightning, strike - THE GO! TEAM
  24. The Futureheads - THE FUTUREHEADS
  25. The royal society - THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER
  26. Audit in progress - HOT SNAKES
  27. This island - LE TIGRE
  28. The college dropout - KANYE WEST
  29. American idiot - GREEN DAY
  30. Shake the sheets - TED LEO + THE PHARMACISTS
  31. Damage - BLUES EXPLOSION
  32. Auf Der Maur - AUF DER MAUR
  33. Cellar door - JOHN VANDERSLICE
  34. Our endless numbered days - IRON AND WINE
  35. The dirty south - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
  36. Love songs for patriots - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB
  37. Is all over the map - GIANT SAND
  38. Universal audio - THE DELGADOS
  39. LP - AMBULANCE LTD
  40. They were wrong, so we drowned - LIARS
  41. Sur les traces de black eskimo - LES GEORGES LENINGRAD
  42. 76/77 - COBRA KILLER
  43. Stealing of a nation - RADIO 4
  44. Margerine eclipse - STEREOLAB
  45. La maison de mon reve - COCOROSIE
  46. Love and distance - THE HELIO SEQUENCE
  47. Almost killed me - THE HOLD STEADY
  48. Fuckin A - THE THERMALS
  49. The Libertines - THE LIBERTINES
  50. Showtime - DIZZEE RASCAL
Also recommended:

Wet from birth - THE FAINT, Future perfect - AUTOLUX, Midnight Movies - MIDNIGHT MOVIES, Out of the shadow - ROGUE WAVE, These were The Earlies - THE EARLIES, Origin vol. 1 - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, Sex, love and rock 'n' roll - SOCIAL DISTORTION, Half smiles of the decomposed - GUIDED BY VOICES, A-ha shake heart break - KINGS OF LEON, 22-20s - 22-20s, Rubber factory - THE BLACK KEYS, Madvillainy - MADVILLAIN, Murs 3:16 the 9th edition - MURS, The tipping point - THE ROOTS, Faking the books - LALI PUNA, The new danger - MOS DEF, White people - HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL, Devin Dazzle & The Neon Fever - FELIX DA HOUSECAT, I com - MISS KITTIN, A grand don't come for free - THE STREETS, Winchester cathedral - CLINIC, Monolithic baby! - MONSTER MAGNET, Now here is nowhere - SECRET MACHINES, Lesser matters - THE RADIO DEPT., Around the sun - R.E.M., A ghost is born - WILCO, From a basement on the hill - ELLIOTT SMITH, She loves you - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS, America’s sweetheart - COURTNEY LOVE, Baby - THE DETROIT COBRAS, Three fingers - THE ROGERS SISTERS, Thunder + lightning - MODEY LEMON, Street’s disciple - NAS, The grey album - DANGER MOUSE, Das not compute - DIVISION OF LAURA LEE, Leave no ashes - BURNING BRIDES, Winning days - THE VINES, Up all night - RAZORLIGHT, Modern apprentice - IKARA COLT, Blueberry boat - THE FIERY FURNACES, 50 foot wave - 50 FOOT WAVE, Love the cup - SONS AND DAUGHTERS, All songs written by: Human Television - HUMAN TELEVISION, Awcmon Noyoucmon - LAMBCHOP, Monsoon - PRESTON SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY, Onoffon - MISSION OF BURMA, Porcelain - SPARTA, Secret wars - ONEIDA, Penance soiree - THE ICARUS LINE, 04 - SIX BY SEVEN, Heroes to zeros - THE BETA BAND, In exile deo - JULIANA HATFIELD, Whiskey tango ghosts - TANYA DONELLY, Tasty - KELIS, Revolutionary but gangsta - DEAD PREZ, Tical 0: the prequel - METHOD MAN, In a safe place - THE ALBUM LEAF, As the cry flows - SEAFOOD, Armed love - THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY, Fur - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT, Wild like children - TILLY AND THE WALL, One plus one is one - BADLY DRAWN BOY, Achilles heel - PEDRO THE LION, Panda park - 90 DAY MEN, The Dresden Dolls - THE DRESDEN DOLLS, Treble and tremble - EARLIMART, Folker - PAUL WESTERBERG, Together we’re heavy - THE POLYPHONIC SPREE, The laughing stock of indie rock - SOLEX, Rejoicing in the hands / Nino rojo - DEVANDRA BANHART, The delivery man - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE IMPOSTERS, New roman times - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, Fine lines - ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET, Radios burn faster - READ YELLOW, Yes to everything - THE WASHDOWN, Red bedroom - THE FEVER, School of etiquette - BOYSKOUT, Girls of war - DIE MONITR BATSS, No wicked heart shall prosper - SELFISH C*NT, Radical connector - MOUSE ON MARS, Ten - CLOUDDEAD, The handler - HAR MAR SUPERSTAR, The Pretty Toney album - GHOSTFACE, Encore - EMINEM, The beautiful struggle - TALIB KWELI, Cee-Lo Green is the soul machine - CEE-LO, Talkie walkie - AIR, Medulla - BJORK, Blue cathedral - COMETS ON FIRE, Burned mind - WOLF EYES, Summer in Abaddon - PINBACK, Trial of the century - FRENCH KICKS, Fontaine Toups - FONTAINE TOUPS, The difference between you and me is that I’m not on fire - McLUSKY, Kiss and tell - SAHARA HOTNIGHTS, Gold medal - THE DONNAS, Winged life - SHEARWATER, The lost riots - HOPE OF THE STATES, Over the counter culture - THE ORDINARY BOYS, Phantom Planet - PHANTOM PLANET, Drill a hole in that substrate & tell me what you see - JIM WHITE, Seven swans - SUFJAN STEVENS, Micah P Hinson and The Gospel Of Progress - MICAH P HINSON AND THE GOSPEL OF PROGRESS, Real gone - TOM WAITS, Where the humans eat - WILLY MASON, Post to wire - RICHMOND FONTAINE, The heat - JESSE MALIN, Soviet kitsch - REGINA SPEKTOR, Satan’s circus - DEATH IN VEGAS, Always outnumbered, never outgunned - THE PRODIGY, Any minute now - SOULWAX, C.aarme - C.AARME, Power - Q AND NOT U, Purity pledge - TODD, Named and shamed - THE FLAMING STARS, i - THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, Alphabetical - PHOENIX, Scissor Sisters - SCISSOR SISTERS, How to dismantle an atomic bomb - U2, Trampin’ - PATTI SMITH, Educated guess - ANI DIFRANCO, The milk-eyed mender - JOANNA NEWSOM, Spooked - ROBYN HITCHCOCK, Van Lear Rose - LORETTA LYNN, Rendezvous - LUNA, No more songs about sleep and fire - POSTER CHILDREN, Those are not my bongos - FUCK, Pyramid Electric Co. - JASON MOLINA, Bangers vs. fuckers - COACHWHIPS, Get saved - PILOT TO GUNNER, Moratoria - BIKINI ATOLL, Inches - LES SAVY FAV, Interim - THE FALL

Oct 23, 2010

The Best Albums Of 2003

Top 50


  1. Coral fang - THE DISTILLERS
  2. Elephant - THE WHITE STRIPES
  3. Throwing Muses - THROWING MUSES
  4. Fever to tell - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
  5. Take them on, on your own - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
  6. Echoes - THE RAPTURE
  7. Room on fire - THE STROKES
  8. You are free - CAT POWER
  9. The new romance - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
  10. The real new Fall LP (formerly ‘Country On The Click’) - THE FALL
  11. Send - WIRE
  12. Sumday - GRANDADDY
  13. Keep on your mean side - THE KILLS
  14. Fatherfucker - PEACHES
  15. Give up - THE POSTAL SERVICE
  16. You forgot it in people - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
  17. Old world underground, where are you now? - METRIC
  18. Lovers - THE SLEEPY JACKSON
  19. Rock N Roll - RYAN ADAMS
  20. Blackberry belle - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS
  21. Strays - JANE'S ADDICTION
  22. La musica negra - VERBENA
  23. Electric version - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
  24. Logic will break your heart - THE STILLS
  25. The Bronx - THE BRONX
  26. Rounds - FOUR TET
  27. Speakerboxxx / The love below - OUTKAST
  28. Hail to the thief - RADIOHEAD
  29. The New Folk Implosion - FOLK IMPLOSION
  30. This is the glamorous - NEW WET KOJAK
  31. Nocturama - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
  32. Feast of wire - CALEXICO
  33. Youth and young manhood - KINGS OF LEON
  34. Gallowsbird’s bark - THE FIERY FURNACES
  35. 99 Cents - CHICKS ON SPEED
  36. Wherever I am I am what is missing - LAIKA
  37. The instinct - DENALI
  38. Please believe it - THE PARTY OF HELICOPTERS
  39. Long knives drawn - RAINER MARIA
  40. Earthquake glue - GUIDED BY VOICES
  41. De-loused in the comatorium - THE MARS VOLTA
  42. Killing Joke - KILLING JOKE
  43. Baby I'm bored - EVAN DANDO
  44. Magic and medicine - THE CORAL
  45. Think tank - BLUR
  46. Stellastarr* - STELLASTARR*
  47. Bazooka!!! - THE STAR SPANGLES
  48. Hocus - pocus - ENON
  49. Alter - PLEASURE FOREVER
  50. Mary star of the sea - ZWAN
Also recommended:

Amazing grace - SPIRITUALIZED, Bright yellow bright orange - THE GO-BETWEENS, Come feel me tremble - PAUL WESTERBERG, Chutes too narrow - THE SHINS, Vulnerable - TRICKY, Liz Phair - LIZ PHAIR, A.R.E. Weapons - A.R.E. WEAPONS, Gettin wise - BRASSY, Down for whatever - VUE, Shine a light - CONSTANTINES, Motherfuckers be trippin' - SUPERSUCKERS, Static transmission - STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3, Yours, mine & ours - PERNICE BROTHERS, Whenever you're ready - SWELL, Supper - SMOG, Magnolia electric co. - SONGS: OHIA, It still moves - MY MORNING JACKET, Transatlanticism - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, One word extinguisher - PREFUSE 73, Revolutionary Vol. 2 - IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, The black album - JAY-Z, Chain gang of love - THE RAVEONETTES, Everyone down here - EARLIMART, Yoko - BEULAH, The Desert Sessions 9 & 10 - DESERT SESSIONS, The red, white & black - THE BELLRAYS, Dangerous magical noise - THE DIRTBOMBS, Voice of treason - SOLEDAD BROTHERS, Pig lib - STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS, Summer sun - YO LA TENGO, How I learned to write backwards - THE AISLERS SET, At crystal palace - ERASE ERRATA, Purely evil - THE ROGERS SISTERS, Anxiety always - ADULT., Do rabbits wonder? - WHIRLWIND HEAT, Kill them with kindness - THE JEALOUS SOUND, One bedroom - THE SEA AND CAKE, Heart - STARS, Monday at the Hug & Pint - ARAB STRAP, Shootenanny! - EELS, Show me your tears - FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS, Sleeping with ghosts - PLACEBO, Welcome to the monkey house - THE DANDY WARHOLS, Haha sound - BROADCAST, Bad timing - GRAND MAL, The listener - HOWE HOME, Still lookin' good to me - THE BAND OF…BLACKY RANCHETTE, Master and everyone - BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY, The grotto - KRISTIN HERSH, Regard the end - WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY, Waiting for the moon - TINDERSTICKS, Hot shit - QUASI, Decoration day - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The ugly organ - CURSIVE, The decline of British Sea Power - BRITISH SEA POWER, Shades of black - EASTERN LANE, Torch division - THE WISDOM OF HARRY, Airs above your station - KINSKI, Young liars - TV ON THE RADIO, The secret of Elena’s tomb - AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, Here comes that weird chill - MARK LANEGAN BAND, Love is hell pt.1 / pt.2 - RYAN ADAMS, Seven easy pieces - THE DETROIT COBRAS, Instant 0 in the universe - STEREOLAB, Roll, spirit, roll - THE DUKE SPIRIT, Hidden between sleeves - IMMENSE, Boy in da corner - DIZZEE RASCAL, Get rich or die tryin' - 50 CENT, Get born - JET, 39 minutes of bliss (in an otherwise meaningless world) - CAESARS, Thickfreakness - THE BLACK KEYS, Hearts of oak - TED LEO/PHARMACISTS, Two conversations - THE APPLESEED CAST, Built on squares - STARLIGHT MINTS, Movement - THE GOSSIP, Team boo - MATES OF STATE, Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State - SUFJAN STEVENS, Her Majesty the Decemberists - THE DECEMBERISTS, Dressy Bessy - DRESSY BESSY, Triggers - APRIL MARCH, Don’t try this at home - LAPTOP, Afro finger & gel - MU, Ghetto pop life - DANGER MOUSE AND JEMINI, Bazooka tooth - AESOP ROCK, Birth of a prince - RZA, This is not a test - MISSY ELLIOTT, The ownerz - GANG STARR, Seven’s travels - ATMOSPHERE, Take me to your leader - KING GEEDORAH, Vaudeville Villain - VIKTOR VAUGHN, Wallpaper for the soul - TAHITI 80, Black cherry - GOLDFRAPP, Radio blackout - T. RAUMSCHMIERE, Again - COLDER, Dead cities, red seas & lost ghosts - M83, Deux hot dogs moutarde chou - LES GEORGES LENINGRAD, Youth controllerzz - DIE MONITR BATSS, MNML - S PRCSS, Ima Robot - IMA ROBOT, Cedars - CLEARLAKE, View of an orbiting man - TENKI, Phoenix - WARLOCKS, The meadowlands - WRENS, The summer of the shark - PORTASTATIC, You are here - +/-, The black babies - DEVENDRA BANHART, The transient - DAVID DONDERO, Ghosts of the great highway - SUN KIL MOON, Per second, per second, per second… every second - WHEAT, 3 - SLUMBER PARTY, From the attic - DAMONE, Highly refined pirates - MINUS THE BEAR, The smell of our own - THE HIDDEN CAMERAS, Never never land - UNKLE, 100th window - MASSIVE ATTACK, The lemon of pink - THE BOOKS, Berlinette - ELLEN ALLIEN, Evolve - ANI DIFRANCO, A mark, a mission, a brand, a scar - DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, Loses control - HEY MERCEDES, Kick up the fire and let the flames break loose - COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE, So much for the city - THE THRILLS, Cast of thousands - ELBOW, Phantom power - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, Dear catastrophe waitress - BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, Underachievers please try harder - CAMERA OBSCURA, Happy songs for happy people - MOGWAI, Promise of love - THE AMERICAN ANALOG SET, Fiends on dope island - THE CRAMPS, Sleep and release - AEREOGRAMME, The Concretes - THE CONCRETES, Want one - RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, 1972 - JOSH ROUSE, Run to ruin - NINA NASTASIA, The ugly American - MARK EITZEL, Red devil dawn - CROOKED FINGERS, From every sphere - ED HARCOURT, Day I forgot - PETE YORN, Absolution - MUSE, Silence is easy - STARSAILOR, Welcome interstate managers - FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE, Midnight at the black nail polish factory - THE DEATHRAY DAVIES, Panic movement - THE HISS, The strangest things - LONGWAVE, War all the time - THURSDAY, The artist in the ambulance - THRICE, Antenna - CAVE IN, Sing the sorrow - AFI, Slow motion daydream - EVERCLEAR, Lost dogs - PEARL JAM, Cool as - INSPIRAL CARPETS, Wig in a Box - Songs from & inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch - VARIOUS ARTISTS

Sep 30, 2010

The Best Albums Of 2002

Top 50


  1. Turn on the bright lights - INTERPOL
  2. Songs for the deaf - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
  3. Source tags and codes - AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
  4. One beat - SLEATER-KINNEY
  5. Yoshimi battles the pink robots - THE FLAMING LIPS
  6. Evil heat - PRIMAL SCREAM
  7. Highly evolved - THE VINES
  8. Original pirate material - THE STREETS
  9. You can't fight what you can't see - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
  10. Title TK - BREEDERS
  11. They threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top - LIARS
  12. Gotham! - RADIO 4
  13. Fantastic damage - EL-P
  14. Murray street - SONIC YOUTH
  15. Suicide invoice - HOT SNAKES
  16. Chat and business - IKARA COLT
  17. Good health - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
  18. Plastic fang - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
  19. Kill the moonlight - SPOON
  20. Walking with thee - CLINIC
  21. All artists are criminals - CHA CHA COHEN
  22. Phrenology - THE ROOTS
  23. The remote part - IDLEWILD
  24. One by one - FOO FIGHTERS
  25. The way I feel today - SIX BY SEVEN
  26. Scorpio rising - DEATH IN VEGAS
  27. To everybody - 90 DAY MEN
  28. Free so free - J MASCIS + THE FOG
  29. Universal truths and cycles - GUIDED BY VOICES
  30. Since we've become translucent - MUDHONEY
  31. Six twenty - THE D4
  32. Lapalco - BRENDAN BENSON
  33. Lifted or The story is in the soil, keep your ear to the ground - BRIGHT EYES
  34. Have you fed the fish? - BADLY DRAWN BOY
  35. Handcream for a generation - CORNERSHOP
  36. Light and magic - LADYTRON
  37. The golden dove - MARY TIMONY
  38. Amore del tropico - THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION
  39. Yankee hotel foxtrot - WILCO
  40. Nextdoorland - THE SOFT BOYS
  41. Riot act - PEARL JAM
  42. At sixes and sevens - JASON LOEWENSTEIN
  43. Horse of the dog - THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER
  44. Make up the breakdown - HOT HOT HEAT
  45. Fall of the plastic empire - BURNING BRIDES
  46. American supreme - SUICIDE
  47. Legend of the liquid sword - GZA
  48. The Eminem show - EMINEM
  49. You can feel me - HAR MAR SUPERSTAR
  50. Up the bracket - THE LIBERTINES
Also recommended:

Real feelness - THE PATTERN, Your majesty - THE ANNIVERSARY, Italian platinum - SILKWORM, Wiretap scars - SPARTA, Loud like nature - ADD N TO (X), Intelligence and sacrifice - ALEC EMPIRE, The private press - DJ SHADOW, Trust - LOW, When I was cruel - ELVIS COSTELLO, Eyes Adrift - EYES ADRIFT, Spend the night - THE DONNAS, Let go - NADA SURF, Hate - THE DELGADOS, Got what we want - THE SIGHTS, Maladroit - WEEZER, Life on other planets - SUPERGRASS, California crossing - FU MANCHU, The Datsuns - THE DATSUNS, Quality - TALIB KWELI, God’s son - NAS, Come with us - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, A hundred days off - UNDERWORLD, Don't be afraid of love - LO-FIDELITY ALLSTARS, Romantica - LUNA, Cover magazine - GIANT SAND, Is a woman - LAMBCHOP, Beautysleep - TANYA DONNELLY, Devil's workshop - FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS, Folklore - SIXTEEN HORSEPOWER, Are you earthed? - APPLIANCE, Whip it on - THE RAVEONETTES, Read & Burn 01/ Read & Burn 02 - WIRE, Out of the races and onto the tracks - THE RAPTURE, Wood/Water - PROMISE RING, Everyone who pretended to like me is gone - THE WALKMEN, Fire music - GALLON DRUNK, Heathen chemistry - OASIS, Modulate - BOB MOULD, Flood - RAINING PLEASURE, Presidential suite - GONZALES, Genetic world - TELEPOPMUSIK, Meet the Bellrays - THE BELLRAYS, Now you know - DOUG MARTSCH, Each one teach one - ONEIDA, Call and response - BANGS, Italiano - BEATINGS, Electric sweat - THE MOONEY SUZUKI, Deadringer - RJD2, Arrhythmia - ANTIPOP CONSORTIUM, High society - ENON, Black letter days - FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS, Black city - DIVISION OF LAURA LEE, Jennie bomb - SAHARA HOTNIGHTS, Sing sing deathhouse - THE DISTILLERS, I name you destroyer - JUCIFER, They raging, quiet army - DETACHMENT KIT, McLusky do Dallas - McLUSKY, Steal your soul and dare your spirit to move - SOLEDAD BROTHERS, Grit - MADRUGADA, Some boots - KARATE, Geogaddi - BOARDS OF CANADA, Lost horizons - LEMON JELLY, Or - GOLDEN BOY WITH MISS KITTIN, In search of... - N*E*R*D, The blueprint 2: The gift & the curse - JAY-Z, Under construction - MISSY ELLIOTT, The fix - SCARFACE, I Phantom - MR. LIF, Nobody knows this is everywhere - 764-HERO, Skyscraper national park - HAYDEN, Sha Sha - BEN KWELLER, The fine art of self destruction - JESSE MALIN, Didn’t it rain - SONGS: OHIA, Hold tight the ropes - ELK CITY, The beginning stages of... - THE POLYPHONIC SPREE, Sea change - BECK, The golden state - MIA DOI TODD, The nature of maps / The green fury - MATT POND PA, Neon golden - NOTWIST, Zoomer - SCHNEIDER TM, ( ) - SIGUR ROS, Yanqui UXO - GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR, A rush of blood to the head - COLDPLAY, The last broadcast - DOVES, The Coral - THE CORAL, Blacklisted - NEKO CASE, The blackened air - NINA NASTASIA, Steady The Buffs - THE BUFF MEDWAYS, I break chairs - DAMIEN JURADO AND GATHERED IN SONG, Under cold blue stars - JOSH ROUSE, On - IMPERIAL TEEN, Whatever, mortal - PAPA M, Holes in the wall - ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE, See this through and leave - COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE, Ideas above our station - HUNDRED REASONS, By the way - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, Illumination - PAUL WELLER, The rising - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Alice / Blood Money - TOM WAITS, Jerusalem - STEVE EARLE, Stereo/Mono - PAUL WESTERBERG, Hitting the ground - GORDON GANO, Demolition - RYAN ADAMS, Don't worry about me - JOEY RAMONE, Heathen - DAVID BOWIE, Buzzkunst - SHELLEY DEVOTO, Step off - ESG, Metro Area - METRO AREA, Vulnerabilia - MY COMPUTER, Every day - CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA, Out of season - BETH GIBBONS & RUSTIN MAN, Daybreaker - BETH ORTON, A little deeper - MS DYNAMITE, Power in numbers - JURASSIC 5, Cee-Lo Green and his perfect imperfections - CEE-LO, Beaches and canyons - BLACK DICE, Thought for food - THE BOOKS, Perfecting loneliness - JETS TO BRAZIL, Control - PEDRO THE LION, Skorborealis - DANIELLE HOWLE AND THE TANTRUMS, OK Go - OK GO, Point - CORNELIUS, 18 - MOBY, We are science - DOT ALLISON, Redemption's son - JOSEPH ARTHUR, +/- - +/-, Calling zero - GO BACK SNOWBALL, Thriller - NEW END ORIGINAL, Basement apes - GLUECIFER, Pixies - PIXIES, 2G+2 - THE FALL

Sep 11, 2010

The Best Albums Of 2001

Top 50


  1. Is this it - THE STROKES
  2. Group sounds - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
  3. Isolation drills - GUIDED BY VOICES
  4. All is dream - MERCURY REV
  5. Let it come down - SPIRITUALIZED
  6. Stephen Malkmus - STEPHEN MALKMUS
  7. White blood cells - THE WHITE STRIPES
  8. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C.
  9. The argument - FUGAZI
  10. Iron flag - WU-TANG CLAN
  11. Ancient melodies of the future - BUILT TO SPILL
  12. Are you are missing winner - THE FALL
  13. No more shall we part - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
  14. Ease down the road - BONNIE PRINCE BILLY
  15. It’s a wonderful life - SPARKLEHORSE
  16. Get ready - NEW ORDER
  17. 604 - LADYTRON
  18. Souljacker - EELS
  19. Change - THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN
  20. Behind the music - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES
  21. The cold vein - CANNIBAL OX
  22. #1 - FISCHERSPOONER
  23. Song yet to be sung - PERRY FARRELL
  24. Sound-dust - STEREOLAB
  25. The red thread - ARAB STRAP
  26. Rain on lens - SMOG
  27. Sunny border blue - KRISTIN HERSH
  28. Girls can tell - SPOON
  29. When do we start fighting - SEAFOOD
  30. The photo album - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
  31. Take back the universe and give me yesterday - CREEPER LAGOON
  32. Feminist sweepstakes - LE TIGRE
  33. Sea to shining sea - LOVE AS LAUGHTER
  34. A new morning, changing weather - THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY
  35. Here's to shutting up - SUPERCHUNK
  36. Bright flight - SILVER JEWS
  37. Here come the miracles - STEVE WYNN
  38. Ultraglide in black - THE DIRTBOMBS
  39. United by fate - RIVAL SCHOOLS
  40. Weird revolution - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
  41. Run come save me - ROOTS MANUVA
  42. Drukqs - APHEX TWIN
  43. Gorillaz - GORILLAZ
  44. Hot shots II - THE BETA BAND
  45. The Moldy Peaches - THE MOLDY PEACHES
  46. Anthem of the moon - ONEIDA
  47. Field songs - MARK LANEGAN
  48. Life, love and leaving - THE DETROIT COBRAS
  49. The world won't end - PERNICE BROTHERS
  50. Reveal - R.E.M.
Also recommended:

Things we lost in the fire - LOW, Insignificance - JIM O’ROURKE, Gold - RYAN ADAMS, The coast is never clear - BEULAH, Mass romantic - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Dyed in the wool - SHANNON WRIGHT, Leaves turn inside you - UNWOUND, Rock action - MOGWAI, Lack of communication - THE VON BONDIES, Charged - NEBULA, Turn 21 - THE DONNAS, A better version of me - RAINER MARIA, All this sounds gas - PRESTON SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY, Everybody wants to know - SWELL, Low kick and hard bop - SOLEX, Labor days - AESOP ROCK, The blueprint - JAY-Z, Blowback - TRICKY, Nice - ROLLINS BAND, Weezer (The green album) - WEEZER, Free all angels - ASH, The tracksuit trilogy - THE EXPERIMENTAL POP BAND, Imperial metric - APPLIANCE, The invisible man - MARK EITZEL, Vespertine - BJORK, We love life - PULP, Beautiful Garbage - GARBAGE, Short-staffed at the gene pool - RUBY, God bless the Blake Babies - THE BLAKE BABIES, The Texas Jerusalem crossroads - LIFT TO EXPERIENCE, Can our love...- TINDERSTICKS, The sword of God - QUASI, Danse macabre - THE FAINT, Love is here - STARSAILOR, The old me versus the new you / Opening credits - LAPTOP, That's not what I heard - THE GOSSIP, Sport fury - BEACHBUGGY, Amnesiac - RADIOHEAD, Gift - CURVE, Hip check - THE COME ONS, Confluence - HOWE GELB, No such place - JIM WHITE, Dog in the sand - FRANK BLACK & THE CATHOLICS, Pleased to meet you - JAMES, From the desk of Mr. Lady - LE TIGRE, Thelema - MURDER CITY DEVILS, Your new favourite band - THE HIVES, Pleasure Forever - PLEASURE FOREVER, A future lived in past tense - JUNO, Find your home - VUE, Rock it to the moon - ELECTRELANE, Bleed American - JIMMY EAT WORLD, Every night fire works - HEY MERCEDES, Mono - ICARUS LINE, Revelling/Reckoning - ANI DIFRANCO, Bavarian fruit bread - HOPE SANDOVAL & THE WARM INVENTIONS, The optimist LP - TURIN BRAKES, The Glow, part II - THE MICROPHONES, A dream in sound - ELF POWER, Asleep in the back - ELBOW, A story in white - AEREOGRAMME, Cold house - HOOD, Go plastic - SQUAREPUSHER, Princess Superstar is - PRINCESS SUPERSTAR, Bulletproof wallets - GHOSTFACE KILLAH, Digital bullet - RZA, Expansion team - DILATED PEOPLES, A journey to anywhere - UGLY DUCKLING, Lateralus - TOOL, Identikit - BURNING AIRLINES, A flight and a crash / Never ender - HOT WATER MUSIC, Causey vs. everything - CAUSEY WAY, Party music - THE COUP, Devil’s night - D-12, The reason - BEANIE SIGEL, Space boogie: Smoke Oddessey - KURUPT, The skinny - SLIMM CALHOUN, 9 lives - AZ, Pity the fool - MR. LEN, XO Experience - THA LIKS, The sneak attack - KRS-ONE, Take it or squeeze it - BEATNUTS, Psyco On Da Bus - PSYCO ON DA BUS, Execute - OXIDE & NEUTRINO, In search of... - N*E*R*D, Kill your darlings - KID LOCO, Melody AM - ROYKSOPP, Happiness - FRIDGE, Been here and gone - THALIA ZEDEK, Everything's fine - WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY, Psychopharmacology - FIREWATER, Quiet is the new loud - KINGS OF CONVENIENCE, Tiny waves, mighty sea - FUTURE PILOT AKA, Visioncreationnewsun - BOREDOMS, Standards - TORTOISE, Dilate - BARDO POND, Profane - COUCH, Lido - CLEARLAKE, Know your enemy - MANIC STREET PREACHERS, Rings around the world - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, How I long to feel that summer in my heart - GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI, Wonderland - THE CHARLATANS, The Oliver Twist manifesto - LUKE HAINES, Love and theft - BOB DYLAN, Global a go-go - JOE STRUMMER AND THE MESCALEROS, Próxima estación: Esperanza - MANU CHAO, Look into the eyeball - DAVID BYRNE, Poses - RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Musicforthemorningafter - PETE YORN, Here be monsters - ED HARCOURT, Essence - LUCINDA WILLIAMS, Once we were trees - BEACHWOOD SPARKS, Surf’s up - DAVID THOMAS & THE TWO PALE BOYS, Deep in the hole - MASTERS OF REALITY, Toxicity - SYSTEM OF A DOWN, Comfort eagle - CAKE, Miss E … So addictive - MISSY ELLIOTT, Since I left you - THE AVALANCHES, Idiology - MOUSE ON MARS, The Altogether - ORBITAL, Discovery - DAFT PUNK, 10000 Hz legend - AIR, Rooty - BASEMENT JAXX, Exciter - DEPECHE MODE, Phanerothyme - MOTORPSYCHO, Ghost ship - THE SULTANS, More revery - BONNIE BILLY, The e-music singles collection - STEVE WYNN, Rotten apples - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS, Looking for the perfect beat - AFRIKA BAMBAATAA, The Radio One sessions - ELASTICA, Complete 'B' Sides - PIXIES, The essential Radio Birdman (1974 - 1978) - RADIO BIRDMAN, The world bewitched - THE FALL

Aug 21, 2010

The Best Albums Of 2000

Top 50


  1. Stories from the city, stories from the sea - P.J. HARVEY
  2. Exterminator - PRIMAL SCREAM
  3. The unutterable - THE FALL
  4. R - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
  5. Relationship of command - AT THE DRIVE-IN
  6. All hands on the bad one - SLEATER-KINNEY
  7. The friends of Rachel Worth - THE GO-BETWEENS
  8. The moon and Antarctica - MODEST MOUSE
  9. The sophtware slump - GRANDADDY
  10. 100 broken windows - IDLEWILD
  11. The teaches of Peaches - PEACHES
  12. Automatic midnight - HOT SNAKES
  13. More light - J MASCIS + THE FOG
  14. Good news for modern man - GRANT HART
  15. God says no - MONSTER MAGNET
  16. Thirteen tales from urban Bohemia - THE DANDY WARHOLS
  17. Golden lies - MEAT PUPPETS
  18. The W - WU-TANG CLAN
  19. Got it made - BRASSY
  20. Will save us all! - CHICKS ON SPEED
  21. Melody of certain damaged lemons - BLONDE REDHEAD
  22. Dongs of sevotion - SMOG
  23. And then nothing turned itself inside-out - YO LA TENGO
  24. NYC ghosts and flowers - SONIC YOUTH
  25. 1000 hurts - SHELLAC
  26. Pound for pound - ROYAL TRUX
  27. Whiteout - BOSS HOG
  28. Stankonia - OUTKAST
  29. Good looking blues - LAIKA
  30. Chore of enchantment - GIANT SAND
  31. Juliana’s Pony: Total system failure / Beautiful creature - JULIANA HATFIELD
  32. The closer you get - SIX BY SEVEN
  33. The last match - THE AISLERS SET
  34. Nixon - LAMBCHOP
  35. The hour of bewilderbeast - BADLY DRAWN BOY
  36. Twilight - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS
  37. (It (is) it) Critical band - 90 DAY MEN
  38. In name and blood - MURDER CITY DEVILS
  39. Hurrah - VERSUS
  40. The death of Quickspace - QUICKSPACE
  41. Howdy! - TEENAGE FANCLUB
  42. Figure 8 - ELLIOTT SMITH
  43. Mountains - MARY TIMONY
  44. The great eastern - THE DELGADOS
  45. Internal wrangler - CLINIC
  46. Hot rail - CALEXICO
  47. Daisies of the galaxy - EELS
  48. Binaural - PEARL JAM
  49. Machina / The machines of God - SMASHING PUMPKINS
  50. Supreme clientele - GHOSTFACE KILLAH
Also recommended:

Deltron 3030 - DELTRON 3030, Kid A - RADIOHEAD, Do things - NEW WET KOJAK, Stalled parade - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY, Go kill mice - THE STARLITE DESPERATION, De Stijl - THE WHITE STRIPES, Electric children - THE MONKEYWRENCH, Get some go again - ROLLINS BAND, The Marshall Mathers LP - EMINEM, Let’s get free - DEAD PREZ, Black market music - PLACEBO, The menace - ELASTICA, Surviving the quiet - SEAFOOD, Survival sickness - THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY, We have the facts and we’re voting yes - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, The covers record - CAT POWER, House of binary - THE WISDOM OF HARRY, The noise made by people - BROADCAST, Add insult to injury - ADD N TO (X), …And then there was X - DMX, Skull and bones - CYPRESS HILL, Alone with everybody - RICHARD ASHCROFT, Secret south - 16 HORSEPOWER, The lioness - SONGS: OHIA, What are rock stars doing today - MAGIC DIRT, The For Carnation - THE FOR CARNATION, The platform - DILATED PEOPLES, The first of the microbe hunters - STEREOLAB, Standing on the shoulder of giants - OASIS, The race from the burning building LP - LINOLEUM, Transcendental medication - INGER LORRE, Status - ELK CITY, Feed - SWELL, Six modular pieces - APPLIANCE, Watering ghost garden - CREEPER LAGOON, The rock opera years - GIANT SAND, Volume one - ECHOBOY, Sweet revenge - THE BANGS, DDD - POSTER CHILDREN, Debutante - NASH KATO, Everybody loves Urusei Yatsura - URUSEI YATSURA, Vikings of mint - WOLF COLONEL, Bow down to the exit sign - DAVID HOLMES, Our aim is to satisfy - RED SNAPPER, War on plastic plants - REGULAR FRIES, Public places - RUSSELL SIMINS, High as hell - NASHVILLE PUSSY, Nightmare scenario - NEW BOMB TURKS, 000 - DELTA 72, Unsolved - KARATE, Lushlife - BOWERY ELECTRIC, Street soul - GURU’S JAZZMATAZZ, Reflection eternal - TALIB KWELI & HI-TEK, The unseen - QUASIMOTO, The reunion - CAPONE-N-NOREAGA, War and peace Volume 2 - ICE CUBE, Internal affairs - PHAROAHE MONCH, D.I.T.C - DIGGIN’ IN THE CRATES, Industry shake down - BUMPY KNUCKLES, 2000 BC (Before Can-I-Bus) - CANIBUS, Community music - ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION, In the mode - RONI SIZE / REPRAZENT, Tiny reminders - TWO LONE SWORDSMEN, Halfway between the gutter and the stars - FATBOY SLIM, Fold your hands child, you walk like a peasant - BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, The geometrid - LOOPER, No style - KING BISCUIT TIME, Courtesy of choice - LEILA, Maps of tacit - SHANNON WRIGHT, Saint Low - SAINT LOW, Hyacinths and thistles - 6THS, ENON: Believo! - ENON, The rising tide - SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE, The discovery of a world inside the moone - APPLES IN STEREO, The winter is coming - ELF POWER, The walls ablaze - SARAH DOUGHER, Private suit - BETTIE SERVEERT, The Kingsbury Manx - THE KINGSBURY MANX, We love the city - HEFNER, Worm into Phoenix - SLOW JETS, Starsandsons - MEAN RED SPIDERS, High visibility - THE HELLACOPTERS, Red line - TRANS AM, Heaven ain’t happenin’ - THE LAPSE

Jul 26, 2010

The Best Albums Of The '90s

Top 100

  1. Nevermind - NIRVANA
  2. Rid of me - P.J. HARVEY
  3. Live through this - HOLE
  4. Extricate - THE FALL
  5. Goo - SONIC YOUTH
  6. Siamese dream - SMASHING PUMPKINS
  7. Fear of a black planet - PUBLIC ENEMY
  8. The hot rock - SLEATER - KINNEY   
  9. House of GVSB - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
  10. Fontanelle - BABES IN TOYLAND
  11. Dirty - SONIC YOUTH
  12. Swift-work - THE FALL
  13. Slanted and enchanted - PAVEMENT
  14. Celebrity skin - HOLE
  15. 1965 - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
  16. Sweet oblivion - SCREAMING TREES
  17. Too high to die - MEAT PUPPETS
  18. Trompe le monde - THE PIXIES
  19. Every good boy deserves fudge - MUDHONEY
  20. The real Ramona - THROWING MUSES
  21. Copper blue - SUGAR
  22. In utero - NIRVANA
  23. Dry - P.J. HARVEY
  24. Henry’s dream - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
  25. At Action Park - SHELLAC
  26. Bakesale - SEBADOH
  27. Definitely maybe - OASIS
  28. Deadsexy - SCARCE
  29. The magic city - HELIUM
  30. New west motel - THE WALKABOUTS
  31. Saturation - URGE OVERKILL
  32. Independent worm saloon - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
  33. Gentlemen - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
  34. University - THROWING MUSES
  35. Let love in - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS   
  36. Scream, Dracula, scream - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
  37. White light white heat white trash - SOCIAL DISTORTION
  38. Into the pink - VERBENA
  39. Freak*on*ica - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
  40. Powertrip - MONSTER MAGNET
  41. Acme - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
  42. Hello nasty - BEASTIE BOYS
  43. Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury - DISPOSABLE HEROES OF HIPHOPRISY
  44. The slow-motion world of Snowpony - SNOWPONY
  45. One part lullaby - THE FOLK IMPLOSION   
  46. Jehovahkill - JULIAN COPE
  47. New adventures in hi-fi - R.E.M.
  48. Uncle Anesthesia - SCREAMING TREES
  49. The Italian Flag - PROLAPSE
  50. Code: Selfish - THE FALL
  51. Cleopatra grip - THE HEART THROBS
  52. Blast the human flower - DANIELLE DAX
  53. Pills and thrills and bellyaches - HAPPY MONDAYS
  54. Swagger - THE BLUE AEROPLANES
  55. Submarine bells - THE CHILLS
  56. Sack full of silver - THIN WHITE ROPE
  57. Bossanova - THE PIXIES
  58. Repeater - FUGAZI
  59. Bandwagonesque - TEENAGE FANCLUB
  60. Loveless - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
  61. No joke! - MEAT PUPPETS
  62. Mellon collie and the infinite sadness - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
  63. Soundclash - RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE
  64. Garbage - GARBAGE
  65. Giant steps - THE BOO RADLEYS
  66. Too many days without thinking - SWELL
  67. In the long still night - GALLON DRUNK
  68. Social Distortion - SOCIAL DISTORTION
  69. Ritual de lo habitual - JANE'S ADDICTION
  70. Dig me out - SLEATER-KINNEY
  71. Hungry for sting - L7
  72. Big red letter day - BUFFALO TOM
  73. Come on feel the Lemonheads - THE LEMONHEADS
  74. Laughing down the limehouse - ANASTASIA SCREAMED
  75. Brighten the corners - PAVEMENT
  76. Cha Cha Cohen - CHA CHA COHEN
  77. Do the collapse - GUIDED BY VOICES
  78. The soft bulletin - THE FLAMING LIPS
  79. Full Isaac - LOTION
  80. San Francisco - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB
  81. My brother the cow - MUDHONEY
  82. To bring you my love - P.J. HARVEY
  83. Peggy suicide - JULIAN COPE
  84. O.G. Original Gangster - ICE T
  85. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 chambers) - WU-TANG CLAN
  86. Urban hymns - THE VERVE
  87. The Dandy Warhols come down - THE DANDY WARHOLS
  88. I can hear the heart beating as one - YO LA TENGO
  89. Keep it like a secret - BUILT TO SPILL
  90. Foo Fighters - FOO FIGHTERS
  91. Butch - THE GERALDINE FIBBERS
  92. Madonna - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
  93. Deserter’s songs - MERCURY REV
  94. Center of the universe - GIANT SAND
  95. Automatic for the people - R.E.M.
  96. In the aeroplane over the sea - NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL
  97. Beet - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY
  98. A thousand leaves - SONIC YOUTH
  99. Amerikkka's most wanted - ICE CUBE
  100. The chronic - DR. DRE
The next hundred:

Blue lines - MASSIVE ATTACK, Maxinquaye - TRICKY, Apocalypse 1991...The enemy strikes black - PUBLIC ENEMY, Orange - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, Boss Hog - BOSS HOG, Pretty on the inside - HOLE, Nowhere - RIDE, Crooked rain, crooked rain - PAVEMENT, She hangs brightly - MAZZY STAR, Star - BELLY, Pod - THE BREEDERS, Let me come over - BUFFALO TOM, Congregation - THE AFGHAN WHIGS, Goat - THE JESUS LIZARD, Pastoral, hide 'n' seek - THE GUN CLUB, The comforts of madness - PALE SAINTS, Whitechocolatespaceegg - LIZ PHAIR, Little Plastic Castle - ANI DIFRANCO, Munki - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, Second toughest in the infants - UNDERWORLD, The fat of the land - PRODIGY, All eyez on me - 2PAC, Fireproof - THAT PETROL EMOTION, Supertasty - GUMBALL, Middle class revolt - THE FALL, Cruise yourself - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS, Red heaven - THROWING MUSES, Black love - THE AFGHAN WHIGS, Dust - SCREAMING TREES, Volume war - TRASH CAN SCHOOL, Superjudge - MONSTER MAGNET, Eleven : Eleven - COME, Where you been - DINOSAUR JR, The ruby sea - THIN WHITE ROPE, Pond - POND, Ventriloquist - VERTIGO, Skiz - MUDWIMIN, The infotainment scan - THE FALL, 30 something - CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE, Blood sugar sex magic - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, Third eye - REDD KROSS, Tales of great neck glory - SAMMY, Killing time - BLEACH, Furthest from the sun - THE FAMILY CAT, Honey's dead - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, Debt and departure - THOSE BASTARD SOULS, The Sebadoh - SEBADOH, In on the kill taker - FUGAZI, Sleepy eyed - BUFFALO TOM, Perpetual motion machine - 13 ENGINES, Teenager of the year - FRANK BLACK, Burned - ELECTRAFIXION, Elastica - ELASTICA, Hormone hotel - BANDIT QUEEN, Limbo - THROWING MUSES, The light user syndrome - THE FALL, Electriclarryland - BUTTHOLE SURFERS, Murder ballads - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, Lower yourself - THE NEW CHRISTS, Perfect from now on - BUILT TO SPILL, Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space - SPIRITUALIZED, The lonesome crowded west - MODEST MOUSE, Yield - PEARL JAM, Queens of the stone age - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, Wu-Tang forever - WU-TANG CLAN, Black Sunday - CYPRESS HILL, It was written - NAS, Fever in fever out - LUSCIOUS JACKSON, Dig your own hole - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, Come clean - CURVE, Without you I’m nothing - PLACEBO, Gold mother - JAMES, Life - INSPIRAL CARPETS, People people why are we fighting? - NUMBER ONE CUP, Le Tigre - LE TIGRE, Cobra and phases group play voltage in the milky night - STEREOLAB, Pick up - SOLEX, The things we make - SIX BY SEVEN, Serene machine - ED KUEPPER, Exile in Guyville - LIZ PHAIR, When I was born for the 7th time - CORNERSHOP, Liquid swords - GENIUS/GZA, Midnite vultures - BECK, Bricks are heavy - L7, Reject all American - BIKINI KILL, Indoor living - SUPERCHUNK, Save yourself - MAKE UP, What would the community think - CAT POWER, Viva last blues - PALACE MUSIC, It's a shame about Ray - THE LEMONHEADS, Only everything - JULIANA HATFIELD, Park life - BLUR, Different class - PULP, Lovelife - LUSH, Bring it down - MADDER ROSE, The low end theory - A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, Aquemini - OUTKAST, Weight - ROLLINS BAND, Crunt - CRUNT, Nurse - THERAPY?

Jun 30, 2010

The Best Albums Of 1999

Top 50



  1. The hot rock - SLEATER - KINNEY
  2. Into the pink - VERBENA
  3. The slow-motion world of Snowpony - SNOWPONY
  4. One part lullaby - THE FOLK IMPLOSION
  5. Cha Cha Cohen - CHA CHA COHEN
  6. Do the collapse - GUIDED BY VOICES
  7. The soft bulletin - THE FLAMING LIPS
  8. The Marshall suite - THE FALL
  9. Keep it like a secret - BUILT TO SPILL
  10. Madonna - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
  11. Debt and departure - THOSE BASTARD SOULS
  12. Terror twilight - PAVEMENT
  13. The Sebadoh - SEBADOH
  14. People people why are we fighting? - NUMBER ONE CUP
  15. Le Tigre - LE TIGRE
  16. Cobra and phases group play voltage in the milky night - STEREOLAB
  17. Pick up - SOLEX
  18. The ideal crash - DEUS
  19. Save yourself - MAKE UP
  20. Midnite vultures - BECK
  21. The Contino sessions - DEATH IN VEGAS
  22. Ghosts of dead aeroplanes - PROLAPSE
  23. Electric honey - LUSCIOUS JACKSON
  24. Black on both sides - MOS DEF
  25. Beaucoup fish - UNDERWORLD
  26. The days of our nights - LUNA
  27. Jewels for Sophia - ROBYN HITCHCOCK
  28. Destination 2000 - L.A.L.
  29. The evil powers of rock 'n' roll - SUPERSUCKERS
  30. King of the road - FU MANCHU
  31. Nature creates freaks - CAY
  32. Slap-happy - L7
  33. There is nothing left to lose - FOO FIGHTERS
  34. Beneath the surface - GZA/GENIUS
  35. Surrender - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
  36. Bon chic bon genre - CAMPAG VELOCET
  37. So…how's your girl? - HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL
  38. Nigga please - OL' DIRTY BASTARD
  39. Juxtapose - TRICKY
  40. Works project LP - SCOTT 4
  41. Come pick me up - SUPERCHUNK
  42. Get skintight - THE DONNAS
  43. Things that I discover - TINY TOO
  44. Manual - APPLIANCE
  45. Avant hard - ADD N TO (X)
  46. Rhythm and stealth - LEFTFIELD
  47. Things fall apart - THE ROOTS
  48. I am … - NAS
  49. Homesick - THE EXPERIMENTAL POP BAND
  50. Maledictions - GRAND MAL
Also recommended:

The White Stripes - THE WHITE STRIPES, I see a darkness - BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLIE, Knock knock - SMOG, Sky motel - KRISTIN HERSH, I'll take care of you - MARK LANEGAN, Cheating at solitaire - MIKE NESS, To the center - NEBULA, Veterans of disorder - ROYAL TRUX, 13 - BLUR, Field studies - QUASI, New dawning time - GARDENER, 69 love songs - THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, When your heartstrings break - BEULAH, Acme-plus - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, 2001 - DR. DRE, There 's a poison goin on… - PUBLIC ENEMY, The middle of nowhere - ORBITAL, 60 second wipeout - ATARI TEENAGE RIOT, Coping with the urban coyote - UNIDA, Seventh deadly sin - ICE T, Flesh of my flesh blood of my blood - DMX, Dead letter chorus - LLAMA FARMERS, Supergrass - SUPERGRASS, Rosaria - TIGER, Simple pleasure - TINDERSTICKS, Anima animus - THE CREATURES, Black milk - GALLON DRUNK, My midnight - STEVE WYNN, Up up up up up up - ANI DIFRANCO, Sounds from the Gulf stream - MARINE RESEARCH, Spanish dance troupe - GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI, Elephant shoe - ARAB STRAP, Black foliage volume 1 - THE OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL, The battle of Los Angeles - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, The third meeting at the third counter - SATISFACT, Challenge for a civilized society - UNWOUND, Trail of stars - THE WALKABOUTS, Mule variations - TOM WAITS, Empty bottles, broken hearts - THE MURDER CITY DEVILS, Pistolero - FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS, Very emergency - THE PROMISE RING, Look now look again - RAINER MARIA, Free popcorn - LYNNFIELD PIONEERS, How to know the Butterflies of Love - THE BUTTERFLIES OF LOVE, Extended revelation - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, Young and full of the devil - MAGIC DIRT, New world record - POSTER CHILDREN, To the teeth - ANI DIFRANCO, Hello June fool - MADDER ROSE, The fidelity wars - HEFNER, Hope and Adams - WHEAT, Something to write home about - GET UP KIDS, Emergency & I - DISMEMBERMENT PLAN, Mission: control! - BURNING AIRLINES, No division - HOT WATER MUSIC, Sometimes I cry - TRICKY WOO, Summer teeth - WILCO, The fragile - NINE INCH NAILS, Californication - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, Play - MOBY, The Slim Shady LP - EMINEM, Spectrum - QUANNUM, As the world burns - ARSONISTS, Nastradamus - NAS, Immobilarity - CHEF RAEKWON, Amplified - Q-TIP, The master - RAKIM, No Limit Top Dogg - SNOOP DOGG, World party - GOODIE MOB, A prince among thieves - PRINCE PAUL, Brand new second hand - ROOTS MANUVA, Come on die young - MOGWAI, Slow riot for new zero Kanada - GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR!, Agaetis byrjun - SIGUR ROS, Eureka - JIM O' ROURKE, HMS fable - SHACK, Guerrilla - SURER FURRY ANIMALS, Us and us only - THE CHARLATANS, Head music - SUEDE, Golden greats - IAN BROWN, Chrominance decoder - APRIL MARCH, Pole 2 - POLE, Niun niggung - MOUSE ON MARS, The Beta Band - THE BETA BAND, Calling all cars on the Vegas strip - JUCIFER, Future pilot AKA Vs a galaxy of sound - FUTURE PILOT AKA, Kid marine - ROBERT POLLARD, Day one - SARAH DOUGHER, Catalog - DANIELLE HOWLE, Central reservation - BETH ORTON, When the pawn…- FIONA APPLE, Rehearsals for departure - DAMIEN JURADO, Scarnella - SCARNELLA, The cat and the cobra - LES SAVY FAV, 2 - THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION, Secret name - LOW, Flightsafety - SHANNON WRIGHT, Axxess & ace - SONGS: OHIA, Industrial silence - MADRUGADA, Teenage snuff film - ROWLAND S. HOWARD, The Tennessee fire - MY MORNING JACKET, Pizza deliverance - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, Mojave - WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY, Fight songs - OLD 97's, Apple Venus volume 1 - XTC, Rock art and the X-ray style - JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS, Operation: Doomsday - MF DOOM, Black Elvis / Lost in space - KOOL KEITH, Soundpieces: Da antidote - LOOTPACK, My vinyl weighs a ton - PEANUT BUTTER WOLF, Internal affairs - PHAROAHE MONCH, The cycle of days and seasons - HOOD, Futureworld - TRANS AM, Blank-wave arcade - THE FAINT, Pinback - PINBACK, The maggot - MELVINS, Vision creation newsun - BOREDOMS, Beastie Boys Anthology: The sounds of science - BEASTIE BOYS, Clinic - CLINIC, Stars of super 8 - THE WISDOM OF HARRY

May 21, 2010

The Best Albums Of 1998

Top 50



  1. Celebrity skin - HOLE
  2. 1965 - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
  3. Freak*on*ica - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
  4. Powertrip - MONSTER MAGNET
  5. Acme - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
  6. Hello nasty - BEASTIE BOYS
  7. Is this desire? - P.J. HARVEY
  8. Deserter’s songs - MERCURY REV
  9. In the aeroplane over the sea - NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL
  10. A thousand leaves - SONIC YOUTH
  11. Whitechocolatespaceegg - LIZ PHAIR
  12. Little plastic castle - ANI DIFRANCO
  13. Munki - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
  14. RFTC - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
  15. Come clean - CURVE
  16. Without you I’m nothing - PLACEBO
  17. The things we make - SIX BY SEVEN
  18. Tomorrow hit today - MUDHONEY
  19. End hits - FUGAZI
  20. Yield - PEARL JAM
  21. Queens Of The Stone Age - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
  22. Introducing Cadallaca - CADALLACA
  23. Hope is important - IDLEWILD
  24. Peloton - THE DELGADOS
  25. Bed - JULIANA HATFIELD
  26. The rebels not in - THE HALO BENDERS
  27. Kingsize - THE BOO RADLEYS
  28. For all the beautiful people - SWELL
  29. Aquemini - OUTKAST
  30. Mezzanine - MASSIVE ATTACK
  31. How to operate with a blown mind - LO-FIDELITY ALLSTARS
  32. Recorded in state LP - SCOTT 4
  33. American water - SILVER JEWS
  34. XO - ELLIOTT SMITH
  35. Psyence fiction - UNKLE
  36. Nature film - SCRAWL
  37. The last dog and pony show - BOB MOULD
  38. Blue - THE JESUS LIZARD
  39. Slain by - URUSEI YATSURA
  40. Moment of truth - GANG STARR
  41. He got game - PUBLIC ENEMY
  42. Cypress Hill IV - CYPRESS HILL
  43. Version 2.0 - GARBAGE
  44. Up - R.E.M.
  45. Moon pix - CAT POWER
  46. Strung out in heaven - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE
  47. Accelerator - ROYAL TRUX
  48. Featuring ‘birds’ - QUASI
  49. Solex vs. the Hitmeister - SOLEX
  50. The miseducation of Lauryn Hill - LAURYN HILL
Also recommended:

In mass mind - MAKE-UP, Scraps at midnight - MARK LANEGAN, A series of sneaks - SPOON, #1 USA - L.A.L., ...And you will know us by the trail of dead - AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, Adore - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS, Angels with dirty faces - TRICKY, Big calm - MORCHEEBA, Tical 2000: Judgement day - METHOD MAN, Frank Black and the Catholics - FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS, I become small and go - CREEPER LAGOON, Let them eat pussy - NASHVILLE PUSSY, At rope’s end - NEW BOMB TURKS, Feeling you up - TRULY, Precious falling - QUICKSPACE, Nu-clear sounds - ASH, International velvet - CATATONIA, Good morning spider - SPARKLEHORSE, Empty bottles broken hearts - MURDER CITY DEVILS, The bed is in the ocean - KARATE, Smitten - BUFFALO TOM, Lotion - LOTION, Gently down the stream - COME, In an expression of the inexpressible - BLONDE REDHEAD, Terraform - SHELLAC, How it feels to be something on - SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE, Push me again - P.W. LONG WITH REELFOOT, Semi-detached - THERAPY?, Out of your mind - DUB NARCOTIC SOUND SYSTEM, Asylum - SENSER, Graceless - LK, One head, two arms, two legs - DAWN OF THE REPLICANTS, Strange angels - KRISTIN HERSH, The first spilled drink of the evening - THE GREAT CRUSADES, Space heater - REVEREND HORTON HEAT, Tongue - PENELOPE HOUSTON, Terrible things happen - THE AISLERS SET, Mary Lou Lord / Got no shadow - MARY LOU LORD, Mermaid avenue - BILLY BRAGG AND WILCO, Good funeral weather - GRANFALOON BUS, Va va voom - CINERAMA, Messenger in the camp - SEAFOOD, Captain - IDLEWILD, Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star - BLACK STAR, War and peace Vol.1 - ICE CUBE, MP Da Last Don - MASTER P, Can-I-Bus - CANIBUS, American teenage rock 'n' roll machine - THE DONNAS, Two cents plus tax - VERSUS, The flat black chronicles - MERCY RULE, David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights - DAVID KILGOUR AND THE HEAVY EIGHTS, Breaking God's heart - HEFNER, Overcome by happiness - PERNICE BROTHERS, England made me - BLACK BOX RECORDER, Jurassic 5 - JURASSIC 5, It's dark and hell is hot - DMX, You 've come a long way, baby - FATBOY SLIM, Mutations - BECK, Making bones - RED SNAPPER, A grand love story - KID LOCO, Moon safari - AIR, Like weather - LEILA, This is hardcore - PULP, Electro-shock blues - EELS, Car wheels on a gravel road - LUCINDA WILLIAMS, There's something going on - BABYBIRD, The boy with the Arab Strap - BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, Philophobia - ARAB STRAP, Music has the right to children - BOARDS OF CANADA, Open transport - MDK, Riddim warfare - DJ SPOOKY, Live at the Royal Albert Hall - SPIRITUALIZED, Bright side - JOHN EASDALE, Waved out - ROBERT POLLARD, The black light - CALEXICO, Letting off the happiness - BRIGHT EYES, The proximity effect - NADA SURF, You guys kill me - THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION, Silur - TARWATER, Appearance and the park - KREIDLER, Turning into small - ALL NATURAL LEMON & LIME FLAVORS, Extended revelation - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, 1 - THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION, TNT - TORTOISE, The Ponzi scheme - FIREWATER, All clues lead to Meagan's bed - THE GREEN PAJAMAS, White trash heroes - ARCHERS OF LOAF, Mink rat or rabbit - THE DETROIT COBRAS, What another man spills - LAMBCHOP, Flying low - WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY, As above so below - BARRY ADAMSON, Bring it on - GOMEZ, Six - MANSUN, The good will out - EMBRACE, Peasant musik - KENT 3, Hellbilly deluxe - ROB ZOMBIE, Mechanical animals - MARILYN MANSON, Interference - CUBANATE, Permutation - AMON TOBIN, Saturnz return - GOLDIE, RZA as Bobby Digital in stereo - THE RZA, The pillage - CAPPADONNA, Heavy mental - KILLA PRIEST, The love movement - A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, Soul survivor - PETE ROCK, Rafi's revenge - ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION, Flight paths - PARADISE MOTEL, Caught in a trap and I can't back out 'cause I love you too much, baby - MARK EITZEL, Jubilee - GRANT LEE BUFFALO, Pleasure farm - PLAN 9, Visual Audio Sensory Theater - VAST, What makes it go? - KOMEDA, Sounds from the Thievery hi-fi - THIEVERY CORPORATION, On the wires of our nerves - ADD N TO (X), Ocean songs - DIRTY THREE, Navy blues - SLOAN, In/Casino/Out - AT THE DRIVE-IN, The shape of punk to come - REFUSED, Charlie - MELT BANANA, Sorry in pig minor - COWS, Swans are dead - SWANS, Trust us - MOTORPSYCHO, Steal this album - THE COUP, Music is rotted one note - SQUAREPUSHER, Shrink - THE NOTWIST, What burns never returns - DON CABALLERO, It's hard to find a friend - PEDRO THE LION, Through the trees - THE HANDSOME FAMILY, The salesman and Bernadette - VIC CHESNUTT, Gangstabilly - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, When my blue moon turns red again - BASSHOLES, Black black - CHOKEBORE, The storms of early summer: Semantics of song - CURSIVE, Orange rhyming dictionary - JETS TO BRAZIL, The masterplan - OASIS, Aluminum tunes - STEREOLAB, The three EPs - THE BETA BAND, Storefront Hitchcock - ROBYN HITCHCOCK

Apr 29, 2010

The Best Albums Of 1997

Top 50



  1. The magic city - HELIUM
  2. The Italian flag - PROLAPSE
  3. Too many days without thinking - SWELL
  4. Brighten the corners - PAVEMENT
  5. Dig me out - SLEATER-KINNEY
  6. Levitate - THE FALL
  7. Urban hymns - THE VERVE
  8. The Dandy Warhols come own - THE DANDY WARHOLS
  9. Butch - THE GERALDINE FIBBERS
  10. Wu-Tang forever - WU-TANG CLAN
  11. The fat of the land - PRODIGY
  12. I can hear the heart beating as one - YO LA TENGO
  13. Perfect from now on - BUILT TO SPILL
  14. Lower yourself - THE NEW CHRISTS
  15. The beauty process: Triple platinum - L7
  16. When I was born for the 7th time - CORNERSHOP
  17. Songs from Northern Britain - TEENAGE FANCLUB
  18. Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space - SPIRITUALIZED
  19. The lonesome crowded west - MODEST MOUSE
  20. Souls for sale - VERBENA
  21. Eight arms to hold you - VERUCA SALT
  22. Show world - REDD KROSS
  23. Be here now - OASIS
  24. The colour and the shape - FOO FIGHTERS
  25. Dig your own hole - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
  26. Dissent - LINOLEUM
  27. What would the community think - CATPOWER
  28. Love songs for underdogs - TANYA DONELLY
  29. Dare to be surprised - THE FOLK IMPLOSION
  30. Indoor living - SUPERCHUNK
  31. Cheer up! - PLEXI
  32. Rock collection - POND
  33. Sweetness and light - STEVE WYNN
  34. Hand it over - DINOSAUR JR.
  35. The 18th letter - RAKIM
  36. Dots and loops - STEREOLAB
  37. Blur - BLUR
  38. In it for the money - SUPERGRASS
  39. Tiger - SUPERETTE
  40. Low estate - SIXTEEN HORSEPOWER
  41. Fake can be just as good - BLONDE REDHEAD
  42. Everyone wants the honey but not the sting - MY DAD IS DEAD
  43. Under the western freeway - GRANDADDY
  44. Mag earwhig! - GUIDED BY VOICES
  45. Aftertaste - HELMET
  46. Come in and burn - ROLLINS BAND
  47. 1212 - BARBARA MANNING
  48. Portishead - PORTISHEAD
  49. Vanishing point - PRIMAL SCREAM
  50. Con art - SMART WENT CRAZY
Also recommended:

Last exit to Garageland - GARAGELAND, So much for the afterglow - EVERCLEAR, Retreat from the sun - THAT DOG, Sounds of the satellites - LAIKA, Dead Elvis - DEATH IN VEGAS, Wolf songs for lambs - JONATHAN FIRE*EATER, No way - RUN ON, Curtains - TINDERSTICKS, West - MARK EITZEL, The boatman’s call - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, Gone - BEASTS OF BOURBON, Nighttown - THE WALKABOUTS, OK computer - RADIOHEAD, I got next - KRS ONE, At the club - KENICKIE, Let the body hang - MORNING GLORIES, Sweet sixteen - ROYAL TRUX, Made from technetium - MAN OR ASTRO-MAN?, In place of real insight - KARATE, RTFM - POSTER CHILDREN, Tragic magic - MADDER ROSE, Please do not disturb - JULIANA HATFIELD, Eighth - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY, Must ’ve been high - SUPERSUCKERS, Handsome - HANDSOME, Save your face - FELINE, Speed crash burn - HARD CANDY, Magic Dirt - MAGIC DIRT, Memory comes back - RAINING PLEASURE, Red apple falls - SMOG, Joya - WILL OLDHAM, Thriller - LAMBCHOP, Slush - OP8, The lateness of the hour - ERIC MATTHEWS, Apartment life - IVY, Tremble under boom lights - JONATHAN FIRE*EATER, Sound verité - MAKE UP, The Murder City Devils - THE MURDER CITY DEVILS, 3/5 - LES SAVY FAV, Barely legal - THE HIVES, Heavy soul - PAUL WELLER, Zaireeka - THE FLAMING LIPS, Either/Or - ELLIOTT SMITH, R&B transmogrification - QUASI, Full blown possession - THE GRIFTERS, Luxury plane crash - SCARFO, Shapes - POLVO, Smoke follows beauty - LEAVING TRAINS, Hold your tongue - CLAW HAMMER, The action is go - FU MANCHU, Sentimental education - FREE KITTEN, The smaller the grape, the sweeter the wine - TINY LIGHTS, Wrecked by lions - NUMBER ONE CUP, Being there - WILCO, Stranger's almanac - WHISKEYTOWN, Another desert, another sea - THREE MILE PILOT, Give it back! - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, Pup tent - LUNA, Evergreen - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN, Mirador - TARNATION, The Virginian - NEKO CASE & HER BOYFRIENDS, The mysterious tale of how I shouted wrong-eyed Jesus! - JIM WHITE, In your bright ray - GRANT MCLENNAN, Handsome western states - BEULAH, When the red king comes - ELF POWER, Nothing feels good - THE PROMISE RING, Downward is heavenward - HUM, Four minute mile - THE GET UP KIDS, The Dismemberment Plan is terrified - THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN, A brilliant mistake - TSUNAMI, Dust bunnies - BETTIE SERVEERT, Illumination - THE PASTELS, Radiator - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, Mogwai young team - MOGWAI, If you are feeling sinister - BELLE & SEBASTIAN, Homogenic - BJORK, New forms - RONI SIZE / REPRAZENT, Modus operandi - PHOTEK, Funcrusher plus - COMPANY FLOW, Sex style - KOOL KEITH, Future development - DEL THA FUNKEE HOMOSAPIEN, The pick, the sickle and the shovel - GRAVEDIGGAZ, The untouchable - SCARFACE, In my lifetime, Vol. 1 - JAY-Z, Life after death - NOTORIOUS B.I.G., Supa dupa fly - MISSY ELLIOTT, Ghetto D - MASTER P, Overcast! - ATMOSPHERE, Homework - DAFT PUNK, Autoditacker - MOUSE ON MARS, Burn, Berlin, burn! - ATARI TEENAGE RIOT, Chiastic slide - AUTECHRE, Ghost - THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION, The fawn - THE SEA AND CAKE, Surrender to the night - TRANS AM, Salaryman - SALARYMAN, Fantasma - CORNELIUS, The new transistor heroes - BIS, Bentley Rhythm Ace - BENTLEY RYTHM ACE, Glee - BRAN VAN 3000, Let’s get killed - DAVID HOLMES, Tellin’ stories - THE CHARLATANS, Stupid, stupid, stupid - BLACK GRAPE, Good feeling - TRAVIS, Bagsy me - THE WANNADIES, The magical world of the Strands - MICHAEL HEAD / THE STRANDS, Shleep - ROBERT WYATT, Barafundle - GORKY’S ZYGOTIC MYNCI, Amelia - LONG FIN KILLIE, Like swimming - MORPHINE, Violent demise - BODY COUNT, Big beat from Badsville - THE CRAMPS, Pure chewing satisfaction - LARD, Contemplating the engine room - MIKE WATT, New mansions in sound - FASTBACKS, Do a two sable - DANIELLE HOWLE & THE TANTRUMS, Helioself - PAPAS FRITAS, Star city - PELL MELL, I never asked for light - LULLABY FOR THE WORKING CLASS, Home turf - GOLD BLADE, Learn to hypnotize - POTHEAD, Shihad - SHIHAD, Angels and daemons at play - MOTORPSYCHO, Lapsed - BARDO POND, F♯A♯∞ [1995-1997] - GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR, The fruit that ate itself - MODEST MOUSE, My body, the hand grenade - HOLE, Supo spot - QUICKSPACE, Living in clip - ANI DIFRANCO

Mar 28, 2010

The Best Albums Of 1996

Top 50



  1. House of GVSB - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
  2. White light white heat white trash - SOCIAL DISTORTION
  3. In the long still night - GALLON DRUNK
  4. Black love - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
  5. Dust - SCREAMING TREES
  6. New adventures in hi-fi - R.E.M.
  7. Tales of Great Neck glory - SAMMY
  8. Limbo - THROWING MUSES
  9. The light user syndrome - THE FALL
  10. Electriclarryland - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
  11. Murder ballads - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
  12. Interpreter - JULIAN COPE
  13. C'mon kids - THE BOO RADLEYS
  14. All eyez on me - 2PAC
  15. Second toughest in the infants - UNDERWORLD
  16. Now I got worry - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
  17. Conquistador - 13 ENGINES
  18. It was written - NAS
  19. Pre-millennium tension - TRICKY
  20. Fever in fever out - LUSCIOUS JACKSON
  21. Rubbing doesn't help - MAGNAPOP
  22. Reject all American - BIKINI KILL
  23. So wound - JALE
  24. Sackcloth 'n' ashes - 16 HORSEPOWER
  25. Harmacy - SEBADOH
  26. Placebo - PLACEBO
  27. Odelay - BECK
  28. Ironman - GHOSTFACE KILLAH
  29. Autobiography of Mistachuck - CHUCK D
  30. Endtroducing - DJ SHADOW
  31. Secret swingers - VERSUS
  32. We are puppets - TIGER
  33. Blastronaut - THE LEE HARVEY OSWALD BAND
  34. Melting in the dark - STEVE WYNN
  35. Good god's urge - PORNO FOR PYROS
  36. Dance hall at Louse point - J. PARISH & P.J. HARVEY
  37. Emperor tomato ketchup - STEREOLAB
  38. Lovelife - LUSH
  39. Snow job - JACK FROST
  40. Amazing disgrace - THE POSIES
  41. Shot - THE JESUS LIZARD
  42. Call the doctor - SLEATER-KINNEY
  43. Now we're even - SMART WENT CRAZY
  44. Karate - KARATE
  45. I am beautiful - JUNE
  46. Devil's road - THE WALKABOUTS
  47. Frontierland - ED KUEPPER
  48. In a bar, under the sea - DEUS
  49. Darling's out of cocktail - MR. GLORIA'S HEAD
  50. Infliction - SCHEER
Also recommended:

Auscultate - SALT, Please kill yourself so I can rock - LOVE 666, Animal's rights - MOBY, Reasonable doubt - JAY-Z, VI : Return of the real - ICE T, Scared straight - NEW BOMB TURKS, The cult of Ray - FRANK BLACK, Car button cloth - THE LEMONHEADS, Start packing - RUN ON, Store in a cool place - ABLE TASMANS, Among my swan - MAZZY STAR, Myra Lee - CAT POWER, This is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about - MODEST MOUSE, Telephono - SPOON, Under the bushes under the stars - GUIDED BY VOICES, Welcome to the infant freebase - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, Looking in the shadows - THE RAINCOATS, Black eye - FLUFFY, Year of the rat - NY LOOSE, This world and body - MARION, Tha Doggfather - SNOOP DOGGY DOGG, Filth pig - MINISTRY, Gato negro - 7 YEAR BITCH, Near life experience - COME, Sunburnt - MARTIN PHILLIPPS AND THE CHILLS, 60 watt silver lining - MARK EITZEL, The conqueror worm - X-TAL, 1977 - ASH, All the nations airports - ARCHERS OF LOAF, An instinct for detection - LIONROCK, Dead cities - THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON, Hissing prigs in static couture - BRAINIAC, Party store - 10 HIGH, Bob Mould - BOB MOULD, English and French - HOPPER, Gilded stars and zealous hearts - VELOCITY GIRL, Pinkerton - WEEZER, Electric juices - FUZZY, Don't tell me now - THE HALO BENDERS, The natural bridge - SILVER JEWS, Massachusetts - SCUD MOUNTAIN BOYS, On Avery Island - NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL, Dusk at cubist castle - THE OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL, Quickspace - QUICKSPACE, We are Urusei Yatsura - URUSEI YATSURA, Destination love: Live! At Cold Rice - MAKE UP, Paris in April - APRIL MARCH, Crash landing in teen heaven - SlNCOLA, If you're feeling sinister / Tigermilk - BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, The week never starts round here - ARAB STRAP, Arise therefore - PALACE MUSIC, The doctor came at dawn - SMOG, How I quit smoking - LAMBCHOP, The curtain hits the cast - LOW, Being there - WILCO, The golden age - CRACKER, Get off the cross...We need the wood for the fire - FIREWATER, Not in my airforce - ROBERT POLLARD, Take it from the man! / Their satanic majesties' second request - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, They spent their wild youthful days in the glittering world of the salons - SWIRLIES, Exploded drawing - POLVO, Jawbox - JAWBOX, Firewater - SILKWORM, Dilate - ANI DIFRANCO, ATLiens - OUTKAST, Richard D. James - APHEX TWIN, Feed me weird things - SQUAREPUSHER, Prince Blimey - RED SNAPPER, Trans Am - TRANS AM, Horse stories - DIRTY THREE, Beautiful freak - EELS, Radar Bros. - RADAR BROS., Soundtracks for the blind - SWANS, Amanita - BARDO POND, Hang to dry - A SUBTLE PLAGUE, Floored - PUSHERMAN, Seasick - IMPERIAL TEEN, Flash - RED FIVE, No room for humans - SERVOTRON, Experiment zero - MAN OR ASTRO-MAN?, I was the king, I really was the king - ANIMALS THAT SWIM, Between the 1 and the 9 - PATTY ROTHBERG, The burdens of being upright - TRACY BONHAM, Jitter juice - 12 ROUNDS, Keen - SOUNDS FROM THE GROUND, Voices from the new music - TELSTAR PONIES, Off speed and in there - DRAIN, Blue one - MAKE BELIEVE, Burn mother burn - SUICIDAL FLOWERS, Wrath of the math - JERU THE DAMAJA, The Don Killuminati: The 7 day theory - MAKAVELI, Illadelph halflife - THE ROOTS, In sides - ORBITAL, Londinium - ARCHIVE, Gravity kills - GRAVITY KILLS, Load - METALLICA, Down on the upside - SOUNDGARDEN, Tiny music - STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, Aenima - TOOL, No code - PEARL JAM, The gray race - BAD RELIGION, Sublime - SUBLIME, Oedipus scmoedipus - BARRY ADAMSON, Star maps - POSSUM DIXON, Everything I long for - HAYDEN, Scars from falling down - STEEL POLE BATH TUB, Millions now living will never die - TORTOISE, Scaramanga - HEAVE, Strand - THE SPINANES, Ain't my lookout - THE GRIFTERS, Naughty little doggie - IGGY POP, Gone again - PATTI SMITH, The love show - AN MAGNUSON, The score - FUGEES, Evil empire - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, Valentino - LONG FIN KILLIE, Kontrapunkt - DONE LYING DOWN, Fuzzy logic - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, Your world against fire - TORCHER, Copperopolis - GRANT LEE BUFFALO, Defenders of the universe - DIG, Pioneer soundtracks - JACK, Go to the sugar altar - THE KELLEY DEAL 6000, Free peace sweet - DODGY, Stakes is high - DE LA SOUL, Beats, rhymes and life - A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, Trip 66 - TRIP 66, Weasels - ALCOHOL FUNNYCAR, Saturnalia - THE WEDDING PRESENT, Everything must go - MANIC STREET PREACHERS, Coming up - SUEDE, Tarantula - RIDE, So far - ALEX REECE, Hell on earth - MOBB DEEP, High/low - NADA SURF, A taste for bitters - CHOKEBORE, Better can't make your life better - LILYS, Bender - CRAZY ALICE, Expecting to fly - THE BLUETONES, Ugly/Beautiful - BABY BIRD, Paradise don't come cheap - NEW KINGDOM, Way beyond blue - CATATONIA, Nightclub - THE YUMMY FUR, Casanova - THE DIVINE COMEDY, Night of the wolverine - DAVE GRANEY & THE CORAL SNAKES, Music for Egon Schiele - RACHEL'S, ADM - SNAPPER, In search of... - FU MANCHU, Stag - MELVINS, Destruction by definition - THE SUICIDE MACHINES, One chord to another - SLOAN, Mic city sons - HEATMISER, After murder park - THE AUTEURS, Songs for a blue guitar - RED HOUSE PAINTERS, Return of the frog queen - JEREMY ENIGK, Beheaded - BEDHEAD, Who can you trust? - MORCHEEBA, Trailer park - BETH ORTON, About to choke - VIC CHESNUTT, Son of Walter - THE BEVIS FROND, Hourly, daily - YOU AM I, Backyard barbecue broadcast - GIANT SAND, The herd - WIPERS, From the muddy banks of the Wishkah - NIRVANA, Sinister waltz - THE FALL

Feb 27, 2010

The Best Albums Of 1995

Top 50



  1. Deadsexy - SCARCE
  2. University - THROWING MUSES
  3. Scream, dracula, scream / Hot charity - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
  4. No joke! - MEAT PUPPETS
  5. Mellon collie and the infinite sadness - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
  6. My brother the cow - MUDHONEY
  7. Garbage - GARBAGE
  8. To bring you my love - P.J. HARVEY
  9. Foo Fighters - FOO FIGHTERS
  10. Sleepy eyed - BUFFALO TOM
  11. Boss Hog - BOSS HOG
  12. Lost somewhere between the earth and my home - THE GERALDINE FIBBERS
  13. Washing machine - SONIC YOUTH
  14. Nobody 's cool - LOTION
  15. Exit the dragon - URGE OVERKILL
  16. Burned - ELECTRAFIXION
  17. Hormone hotel - BANDIT QUEEN
  18. Elastica - ELASTICA
  19. Only everything - JULIANA HATFIELD
  20. Dopes to infinity - MONSTER MAGNET
  21. King - BELLY
  22. Dreamette - CROWSDELL
  23. Cerebral caustic - THE FALL
  24. Maxinquaye - TRICKY
  25. (What 's the story) Morning glory? - OASIS
  26. Straight freak ticket - LOVE BATTERY
  27. The dirt of luck - HELIUM
  28. Pacer - THE AMPS
  29. Liquid swords - GENIUS/GZA
  30. Only built 4 Cuban linx - RAEKWON
  31. Sacrilicious - SUPERSUCKERS
  32. Infernal love - THERAPY?
  33. Junior citizen - POSTER CHILDREN
  34. Thank you - ROYAL TRUX
  35. Viva last blues - PALACE MUSIC
  36. Five ways of disappearing - KENDRA SMITH
  37. Here comes success - BAND OF SUSANS
  38. Leftism - LEFTFIELD
  39. III (Temples of boom) - CYPRESS HILL
  40. 20 mothers - JULIAN COPE
  41. Lick - HARDCANDY
  42. Are you going to eat that - HAZEL
  43. Wowee zowee - PAVEMENT
  44. Different class - PULP
  45. Electr-o-pura - YO LA TENGO
  46. Red medicine - FUGAZI
  47. Dandys rule OK? - THE DANDY WARHOLS
  48. I should coco - SUPERGRASS
  49. The great escape - BLUR
  50. Wake up! - BOO RADLEYS
Also recommended:

Grand prix - TEENAGE FANCLUB, The second Tindersticks album - TINDERSTICKS, Exit planet dust - CHEMICAL BROTHERS, Post - BJORK, Salt Peter - RUBY, Psychic hearts - THURSTON MOORE, Anything near water - CHOKEBORE, Sparkle and fade - EVERCLEAR, Rough music - THE BLUE AEROPLANES, I hope you're sitting down (Jack's tulips) - LAMBCHOP, Wasps' nests - THE 6THS, Alien lanes - GUIDED BY VOICES, Fully loaded - MORNING GLORIES, Nemesisters - BABES IN TOYLAND, Smart - SLEEPER, Sophie magic - ANGEL CAGE, Drink me - SALAD, Tical - METHOD MAN, Return to the 36 Chambers: The dirty version - OL' DIRTY BASTARD, Dogg food - THA DOGG POUND, Voodoo-U - LORDS OF ACID, …And the circus leaves town - KYUSS, Vee vee - ARCHERS OF LOAF, BackSaturday - PROLAPSE, The practice of joy before death - POND, The devil may care - THE PSYCLONE RANGERS, Intoxicated man - MICK HARVEY, Dapper snappings - PLASTICLAND, You'd prefer an astronaut - HUM, Somebody spoke - THE HARDSHIP POST, Weasel - GUTTERBALL, Life full of holes - CHRIS AND CARLA, For richer, for poorer - MY DAD IS DEAD, Ejector seat reservation - SWERVEDRIVER, Bonsai superstar - BRAINIAC, A king in the kindness room - ED KUEPPER, Ball-hog or tugboat? - MIKE WATT, Juvenilia - LIZ PHAIR, Let it come down - ST. JOHNNY, Fast stories…from Kid Coma - TRULY, La mia vita violenta / Blonde Redhead - BLONDE REDHEAD, Dear Sir - CAT POWER, Wild love - SMOG, Clouds taste metallic - THE FLAMING LIPS, Pure phase - SPIRITUALIZED ELECTRIC MAINLINE, Here's where the strings come in - SUPERCHUNK, Long division - LOW, Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot - SPARKLEHORSE, Providence - MERCY RULE, Mysteries of inner beauty - MUDWIMIN, Possum trot plant - NUMBER ONE CUP, American revolution - LOVE 666, One track mind - RAILROAD JERK, Ragged soul - LAZY COWGIRLS, Self totaled - COSMIC PSYCHOS, Spanaway - SEAWEED, Life was better - MAGIC DIRT, Net - SANDRA BELL, Rope-a-dope - ANTIETAM, Music for the amorphous body study center - STEREOLAB, See you on the other side - MERCURY REV, The bends - RADIOHEAD, Stanley road - PAUL WELLER, Totally crushed out! - THAT DOG, Truth walks in sleepy shadows - S.F. SEALS, It 's heavy in here - ERIC MATTHEWS, 100 % fun - MATTHEW SWEET, Playground - MAKE BELIEVE, Inzombia - SLANT 6, The pink album - TUSCADERO, Home - SEX POD, A northern soul - THE VERVE, Bwyd time - GORGY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI, Houdini - LONG FIN KILLIE, Happy days - CATHERINE WHEEL, I was born a man - BABYBIRD, Drugstore - DRUGSTORE, Not a pretty girl - ANI DIFRANCO, Couchmaster - THE BATS, Modern rock - THE CLEAN, Wammo - BAILTER SPACE, Three legged dog - THE CRUEL SEA, Penthouse - LUNA, A.M. - WILCO, Trace - SON VOLT, Faithless street - WHISKEYTOWN, New improved pain - CHRIS CACAVAS AND JUNK YARD LOVE, Mirror ball - NEIL YOUNG, Tales from the punchbowl - PRIMUS, Yes - MORPHINE, I was a mod before you was a mod - TELEVISION PERSONALITIES, Woman's gotta have it - CORNERSHOP, Methodrone - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, Dear you - JAWBREAKER, Scattered, smothered and covered - UNSANE, The future of what - UNWOUND, Nervous sooner changes - DEAD MOON, Intravenous television continuum / Project infinity - MAN OR ASTRO-MAN?, Scratch or stitch! - MELT-BANANA, Bunny gets paid - RED RED MEAT, Beast of dreams - PAIN TEENS, Realistic - IVY, Get lost - THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, Pygmalion - SLOWDIVE, Ocean beach - RED HOUSE PAINTERS, The blue moods of Spain - SPAIN, Tilt - SCOTT WALKER, Is the actor happy? - VIC CHESNUTT, Sunny Day Real Estate - SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE, Look what the rookie did - ZUMPANO, Venus with arms - BLAG DAHLIA, Me, me, me - AIR MIAMI, Timeless - GOLDIE, Everything is wrong - MOBY, One hot minute - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, Insomniac - GREEN DAY, Astro creep 2000 - WHITE ZOMBIE, Above - MAD SEASON, ...And out come the wolves - RANCID, Short bus - FILTER, Jagged little pill - ALANIS MORISSETTE, The Presidents of the U.S.A. - THE PRESIDENTS OF THE U.S.A., Me against the world - 2PAC, The infamous... - MOBB DEEP, Soul food - GOODIE MOB, Labcabincalifornia - THE PHARCYDE, Doe or die - AZ, KRS One - KRS ONE, Do you want more?!!!??! - THE ROOTS, Mack 10 - MACK 10, Mark's keyboard repair - MONEY MARK, The Charlatans - THE CHARLATANS, It's great when you're straight…yeah - BLACK GRAPE, Southpaw grammar - MORRISSEY, Do you like my tight sweater? - MOLOKO, This film's crap, let's slash the seats - DAVID HOLMES, Clear - BOMB THE BASS, Throbbing pouch - WAGON CHRIST, Iaora Tahiti - MOUSE ON MARS, Nassau - THE SEA AND CAKE, The great annihilator - SWANS, Desiccated soup - POTHEAD, What the nothinghead said - SINCOLA, Nature - THE MUTTON BIRDS, Refried ectoplasm - STEREOLAB, The 27 points - THE FALL

Jan 22, 2010

The Best Albums Of 1994

Top 50



  1. Live through this - HOLE
  2. Too high to die - MEAT PUPPETS
  3. Definitely maybe - OASIS
  4. At Action Park - SHELLAC
  5. Bakesale - SEBADOH
  6. Unplugged in New York - NIRVANA
  7. Let love in - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
  8. Middle class revolt - THE FALL
  9. Cruise yourself - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
  10. Hungry for stink - L7
  11. Full Isaac - LOTION
  12. File Under : Easy Listening - SUGAR
  13. Perpetual motion machine - 13 ENGINES
  14. San Francisco - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB
  15. Crooked rain, crooked rain - PAVEMENT
  16. Debut album - SAMMY
  17. Teenager of the year - FRANK BLACK
  18. Orange - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
  19. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 chambers) - WU-TANG CLAN
  20. Smash - OFFSPRING
  21. Weight - ROLLINS BAND
  22. Crunt - CRUNT
  23. Viva Zapata - 7 YEAR BITCH
  24. Strawberry stone - 360's
  25. Revolution on ice - GUMBALL
  26. Troublegum - THERAPY?
  27. Down - THE JESUS LIZARD
  28. Monster - R.E.M.
  29. Hips and makers - KRISTIN HERSH
  30. Natural ingredients - LUSCIOUS JACKSON
  31. Ill communication - BEASTIE BOYS
  32. Illmatic - NAS
  33. Experimental jet set, trash and no star - SONIC YOUTH
  34. Don't ask, don't tell - COME
  35. Release - COP SHOOT COP
  36. Setting the woods on fire - THE WALKABOUTS
  37. Character assassination - ED KUEPPER
  38. Milky juicy - TINY LIGHTS
  39. Whip smart - LIZ PHAIR
  40. American thighs - VERUCA SALT
  41. Second coming - THE STONE ROSES
  42. Park life - BLUR
  43. Howyoudoin? - RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE
  44. Dubnobasswithmyheadman - UNDERWOLD
  45. Dummy - PORTISHEAD
  46. Mars audiac quintet - STEREOLAB
  47. Whiskey for the Holy Ghost - MARK LANEGAN
  48. Yank crime - DRIVE LIKE JEHU
  49. Without a sound - DINOSAUR JR.
  50. Dookie - GREEN DAY
Also recommended:

Glum - GIANT SAND, Pointless walks to dismal places - PROLAPSE, Nova Mob - NOVA MOB, Sky valley - KYUSS, Flamejob - THE CRAMPS, Vitalogy - PEARL JAM, Weezer - WEEZER, Muse sick'n'hour mess age - PUBLIC ENEMY, The diary - SCARFACE, Smack bunny baby - BRAINIAC, Time to make the donuts - ALCOHOL FUNNYCAR, Platinum jive - BIG CHIEF, King Missile - KING MISSILE, Living room - CELL, Mayday - X-TAL, 41 - SWELL, Split - LUSH, Dreamcake - JALE, Panic on - MADDER ROSE, Brutal youth - ELVIS COSTELLO, Stoned and dethroned - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, Devil hopping - INSPIRAL CARPETS, Magic happens - THE FAMILY CAT, Life model - THE BLUE AEROPLANES, Watusi - THE WEDDING PRESENT, John Austin Rutledge - DONE LYING DOWN, Business of punishment - CONSOLIDATED, Born dead - BODY COUNT, Speed is dreaming - ST. JOHNNY, Foolish - SUPERCHUNK, Hot boxing - MAGNAPOP, Comforter - COMPULSION, Autogeddon - JULIAN COPE, Carnival of light - RIDE, The music of your life - ZUZU'S PETALS, Fluorescent - STEVE WYNN, Red - SCARCE, Pirate prude - HELIUM, Simpatico - VELOCITY GIRL, If I don't six - MULE, Bee thousand - GUIDED BY VOICES, Ursa major - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY, Sangria - THRONEBERRY, Pony express record - SHUDDER TO THINK, Done - 18TH DYE, Fuzzy - FUZZY, Grace - JEFF BUCKLEY, There's nothing wrong with love - BUILT TO SPILL, God don't make no junk - THE HALO BENDERS, The stars are insane - VERSUS, Vauxhall and I - MORRISSEY, Silver apples of the moon - LAIKA, Protection - MASSIVE ATTACK, Ready to die - THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G., Hard to earn - GANG STARR, Blow out comb - DIGABLE PLANETS, Lost in the former west - THE FATIMA MANSIONS, His 'n' hers - PULP, Now I'm a cowboy - THE AUTEURS, Mobile safari - THE PASTELS, Starlite walker - SILVER JEWS, Days in the wake - PALACE BROTHERS, I could live in hope - LOW, The white birch - CODEINE, Tortoise - TORTOISE, Dirty Three - DIRTY THREE, Diary - SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE, Celebrate the new dark age - POLVO, Calculated - HEAVENS TO BETSY, Motionless - CHOKEBORE, Cop and speeder - HEATMISER, Roman candle - ELLIOTT SMITH, Horsebreaker star - GRANT McLENNAN, I had a New York girlfriend - ROBERT FORSTER, Mighty Joe Moon - GRANT LEE BUFFALO, Pale blonde hell - CHRIS CACAVAS AND JUNK YARD LOVE, Bewitched - LUNA, Sprawl - THE BEVIS FROND, Destroy all Astro-Men!! - MAN OR ASTRO-MAN?, Crack in the system - DEAD MOON, La mano cornuda - SUPERSUCKERS, Information highway revisited - NEW BOMB TURKS, 24 hour revenge therapy - JAWBREAKER, For your own special sweetheart - JAWBOX, Soda pop rip off - SLANT 6, Out of range - ANI DIFRANCO, Oyster - HEATHER NOVA, Pure - THE GOLDEN PALOMINOS, My field trip to Planet 9 - JUSTIN WARFIELD, 6 feet deep (Niggamortis) - GRAVEDIGGAZ, Guerrilla funk - PARIS, The main ingredient - PETE ROCK AND CL SMOOTH, Music for the jilted generation - PRODIGY, Snivilisation - ORBITAL, What a mangled web we live - SKATENIGS, Perfect sex - PINK TURNS BLUE, One last laugh in a place of dying - THE GOD MACHINE, Horsemountain - WHIPPED CREAM, Manilow - SMUDGE, Mellow gold / One foot in the grave - BECK, Hold on, it hurts - CORNERSHOP, Mary Queen of Scots - EUGENIUS, Trace - DIED PRETTY, Spaceman in a satin suit - CELIBATE RIFLES, Subliminal - THE LAST DRIVE, Ασύρματος κόσμος - ΣΤΕΡΕΟ ΝΟΒΑ, Rumble city, LaLa land - 22-PISTEPIRKKO, Worst case scenario - dEUS, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik - OUTKAST, The sun rises in the east - JERU THE DAMAJA, Stress: The extinction agenda - ORGANIZED KONFUSION, Word...life - O.C., Resurrection - COMMON SENSE, Selected ambient works volume II - APHEX TWIN, Lifeforms - THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON, Haunted dancehall - THE SABRES OF PARADISE, Amber - AUTECHRE, Vulvaland - MOUSE ON MARS, The downward spiral - NINE INCH NAILS, American recordings - JOHNNY CASH, Sleeps with angels - NEIL YOUNG, Superunknown - SOUNDGARDEN, Stoner witch - MELVINS, Betty - HELMET, Timothy's monster - MOTORPSYCHO, Twice removed - SLOAN, Forever again - ERIC'S TRIP, Jimmy wine majestic - RED RED MEAT, Crappin' you negative - THE GRIFTERS, Shimmer - SURGERY, Willpower - TODAY IS THE DAY, Total destruction - UNSANE, New plastic ideas - UNWOUND, Uncompromising war on art under the dictatorship of the proletariat - KILLDOZER, Speak squeak creak - MELT-BANANA, Vortura - BAILTER SPACE, 3 EPs - TALL DWARFS, Lamprey - BETTIE SERVEERT, Geek the girl - LISA GERMANO, Mute - CATCHERS, Homegrown - DODGY, Cowboys and aliens - KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION, New clear child - AR KANE, Retreat from Memphis - MEKONS, Yougli - LINUS, 8 Storey Window - 8 STOREY WINDOW, Giving birth to a stone - PEACH, Lately - IVY, Holiday / The charm of the highway strip - THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, The Holy Bible - MANIC STREET PREACHERS, Dog man star - SUEDE, Up to our hips - THE CHARLATANS, Gorgeous George - EDWYN COLLINS, Workshy - ANIMALS THAT SWIM, Teenage symphonies to God - VELVET CRUSH, Highs, lows and heavenly blows - SPECTRUM, The Sea And Cake - THE SEA AND CAKE, The sound your eyes can follow - MOONSHAKE, Stacked up - SENSER, Regulate... 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