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The Best Singles of 1989

2012-01-14T21:06:00.001+02:00

Top 50

Monkey Gone To Heaven - PIXIES
Blues From a Gun - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
Fools Gold - THE STONE ROSES
Kennedy - THE WEDDING PRESENT
Blew - NIRVANA
Just Like Heaven - DINOSAUR JR.
Dizzy / Santa Claus - THROWING MUSES
Cab It Up / Dead Beat Descendant - THE FALL
Fight the Power - PUBLIC ENEMY
Me, Myself And I - DE LA SOUL
Come Home - JAMES
She Bangs The Drums - THE STONE ROSES
Madchester Rave On EP - HAPPY MONDAYS
Don’t Let Me Down - THE WONDER STUFF
Joe - INSPIRAL CARPETS
The Third Time We Opened The Capsule - KITCHENS OF DISTINCTIONS
Pop Song '89 - R.E.M.
Touch Me I'm Sick / Halloween - SONIC YOUTH / MUDHONEY
This Gift - MUDHONEY
Tom Verlaine - THE FAMILY CAT
Barging Into The Presence Of God EP - PALE SAINTS
I Don't Know Why I Love You - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
Blood From a Stone - THE HEART THROBS
Love Goes On! - THE GO-BETWEENS
Mayor of Simpleton - XTC
Veronica - ELVIS COSTELLO
Can't Be Sure - THE SUNDAYS
Regina - THE SUGARCUBES
Sensitive - THE FIELD MICE
Waiting for the Winter - THE POPGUNS
Here Comes Your Man / Into the White - PIXIES
Head On - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
She Gives Me Love - THE GODFATHERS
Last Cigarette - DRAMARAMA
God Is A Bullet - CONCRETE BLONDE
Everybody Moves - DIED PRETTY
Luka - THE LEMONHEADS
Ana Ng - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
Sheriff Fatman - CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE
Round And Round - NEW ORDER
Pacific State - 808 STATE
One of Our Girls Has Gone Missing - A.C. MARIAS
White Knuckle Ride - DANIELLE DAX
Never - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
The Last of the Famous International Playboys - MORRISSEY
Fascination Street - THE CURE
Pet Sematary - RAMONES
Pictures of Matchstick Men / Jack Ruby - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
Ivy Ivy Ivy - PRIMAL SCREAM
Paradise - BIRDLAND

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The Best Albums Of 2010

2011-12-21T01:18:00.001+02:00

Top 50

Your future our clutter - THE FALL
Ring - GLASSER
High violet - THE NATIONAL
I will be - DUM DUM GIRLS
Treats - SLEIGH BELLS
Everything in between - NO AGE
Expo 86 - WOLF PARADE
The suburbs - ARCADE FIRE
Teen dream - BEACH HOUSE
King night - SALEM
Crystal Castles (II) - CRYSTAL CASTLES
Sisterworld - LIARS
Grinderman 2 - GRINDERMAN
Transference - SPOON
The fool - WARPAINT
High Places Vs Mankind - HIGH PLACES
Hidden - THESE NEW PURITANS
Nerve up - LONELADY
Gemini - WILD NOTHING
Forgiveness rock record - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
Root for ruin - LES SAVY FAV
Wilderness heart - BLACK MOUNTAIN
Crazy for you - BEST COAST
Contra - VAMPIRE WEEKEND
Total life forever - FOALS
The flexible entertainer - PIT ER PAT
Sea of cowards - THE DEAD WEATHER
Majesty shredding - SUPERCHUNK
The Soft Pack - THE SOFT PACK
Sleep forever - CROCODILES
Penny sparkle - BLONDE REDHEAD
Interpol - INTERPOL
Disconnect from desire - SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS
Cosmogramma - FLYING LOTUS
MAYA - M.I.A.
Brothers - THE BLACK KEYS
Coconut - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT
Congratulations - MGMT
Innerspeaker - TAME IMPALA
Halcyon digest - DEERHUNTER
Forget - TWIN SHADOW
The Drums - THE DRUMS
Avi Buffalo - AVI BUFFALO
1000 years - THE CORIN TUCKER BAND
The Soft Moon - THE SOFT MOON
The monitor - TITUS ANDRONICUS
XXXX - YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE!
The optimist - NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB
Relayted - GAYNGS
Swim - CARIBOU

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The Best Singles of 1988

2011-11-24T20:45:00.001+02:00

Top 50

Teenage Riot - SONIC YOUTH
The Mercy Seat - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Freak Scene - DINOSAUR JR.
You Made Me Realise - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
Bring the Noise - PUBLIC ENEMY
Coldsweat - THE SUGARCUBES
Gigantic - PIXIES
Christine - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
Streets of Your Town - THE GO-BETWEENS
Wrote for Luck - HAPPY MONDAYS
Sidewalkin' - THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN
Feed Me with Your Kiss - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
Destroy the Heart - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
Victoria - THE FALL
Touch Me I'm Sick - MUDHONEY
Love Buzz - NIRVANA
Revolution - SPACEMEN 3
Orange Crush - R.E.M.
Everyday Is Like Sunday - MORRISSEY
Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now? - THE WEDDING PRESENT
Deus - THE SUGARCUBES
Red Sun EP - THIN WHITE ROPE
Mountain Song - JANE'S ADDICTION
Silver Rocket - SONIC YOUTH
Deanna - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Biting My Nails - RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE
Follow the Leader - ERIC B &RAKIM
My Philosophy - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
Colors - ICE-T
Blind - TALKING HEADS
Sometimes, Almost Always EP - fIREHOSE
2541 - GRANT HART
Finest Worksong - R.E.M.
Talkin' All That Jazz - STETSASONIC
Strictly Business - E.P.M.D.
Elephant Stone - THE STONE ROSES
Crash - THE PRIMITIVES
Dying for It / Molly's Lips - THE VASELINES
Nobody's Twisting Your Arm - THE WEDDING PRESENT
Suedehead - MORRISSEY
What's the Matter Here - 10,000 MANIACS
Fisherman's Blues - THE WATERBOYS
Plane Crash EP - INSPIRAL CARPETS
Give Give Give Me More More More - THE WONDER STUFF
Def Con One - POP WILL EAT ITSELF
Kidney Bingos - WIRE
'Cause I Said So - THE GODFATHERS
Headin' South - THE NEW CHRISTS
Punk Rock Girl - THE DEAD MILKMEN
Clear Blue Sky / Distant Relatives - MEGA CITY FOUR

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The Best Singles of 1987

2011-10-30T19:32:00.000+02:00

Top 50

Rebel Without A Pause - PUBLIC ENEMY
Shine On - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
The One I Love - R.E.M.
Hit The North - THE FALL
Paid In Full - ERIC B & RAKIM
Birthday - THE SUGARCUBES
Chains Changed EP - THROWING MUSES
Headache EP - BIG BLACK
Blessing and Curse EP - BAND OF SUSANS
My Favourite Dress - THE WEDDING PRESENT
Could You Be the One? - HÜSKER DÜ
Crawl Babies - THE PASTELS
Right Here - THE GO-BETWEENS
Big Decision - THAT PETROL EMOTION
Sign 'O' The Times - PRINCE
Pump Up The Volume - M/A/R/R/S
True Faith - NEW ORDER
Just Like Heaven - THE CURE
Girlfriend In A Coma - THE SMITHS
Bury Me Deep In Love - THE TRIFFIDS
Lollita EP - A.R. KANE
Son Of A Gun - THE VASELINES
April Skies - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
You're Gonna Get Yours - PUBLIC ENEMY
I Wanna Live - RAMONES
Alex Chilton - THE REPLACEMENTS
New Mind - SWANS
There’s A Ghost In My House - THE FALL
Preposterous Tales - I, LUDICROUS
Anyone Can Make a Mistake - THE WEDDING PRESENT
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - THE SMITHS
I Know You Got Soul - ERIC B & RAKIM
Poetry - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
Never And Always - THE THREE JOHNS
Sally Cinnamon - THE STONE ROSES
Big Hollow Man - DANIELLE DAX
Trampolene - JULIAN COPE
Birth School Work Death - THE GODFATHERS
Where the Streets Have No Name - U2
Clarkesville - GREEN ON RED
My Favourite Room - LIME SPIDERS
Night of the Many Deaths - THE TRILOBITES
My Pal - GOD
No Sleep Till Brooklyn - BEASTIE BOYS
Push It - SALT 'N' PEPA
Happy Birthday (Yet Another) - THE BAMBI SLAM
Unbearable - THE WONDER STUFF
24 Hour Party People - HAPPY MONDAYS
Sheila Take a Bow - THE SMITHS
It Didn't Matter - THE STYLE COUNCIL

The Best Singles of 1986

2011-09-30T23:59:00.000+03:00

Top 50

Mr Pharmacist - THE FALL
World Shut Your Mouth - JULIAN COPE
Wide Open Road - THE TRIFFIDS
Into the Groovey - CICCONE YOUTH
Bigmouth Strikes Again - THE SMITHS
I Want You - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
Fall on Me - R.E.M.
Take the Skinheads Bowling - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
Saturday Night - SCHOOLLY D
Panic - THE SMITHS
Some Candy Talking - JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
Flower - SONIC YOUTH
Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely - HUSKER DU
Spring Rain - THE GO-BETWEENS
River Of Love - THE SPIKES
Walk This Way - RUN DMC
(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) - BEASTIE BOYS
Bizarre Love Triangle - NEW ORDER
Truck Train Tractor - THE PASTELS
Tokyo Storm Warning - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
Once More - THE WEDDING PRESENT
I Love My Leather Jacket - THE CHILLS
If You Were A Priest - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE EGYPTIANS
Bad News Travel Fast - THE FUZZTONES
Living To Late - THE FALL
Starpower - SONIC YOUTH
Brave Captain - fIREHOSE
Somebody Put Something in My Drink - RAMONES
51st State - NEW MODEL ARMY
Born Out of Time - THE NEW CHRISTS
This Damn Nation - THE GODFATHERS
Like an Angel - THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS
Infected - THE THE
Kaw-Liga - THE RESIDENTS
Mind At The End Of The Tether - TACKHEAD
South Bronx - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
Kiss - PRINCE
Word Up - CAMEO
Eric B. Is President - ERIC B. & RAKIM
Bassline - MANTRONIX
Kiss - AGE OF CHANCE
A Screw - SWANS
1936: The Spanish Revolution - THE EX
Therese - THE BODINES
Almost Prayed - THE WEATHER PROPHETS
Driving Away from Home (Jim's Tune) - IT'S IMMATERIAL
Sledgehammer - PETER GABRIEL
Graceland - PAUL SIMON
Greetings to the New Brunette - BILLY BRAGG
Don't Get Me Wrong - THE PRETENDERS

The Best Singles of 1985

2011-08-31T23:31:00.000+03:00

Top 50

How Soon Is Now? - THE SMITHS
Cruiser's Creek / L.A. - THE FALL
Tupelo - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Never Understand - THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN
The Perfect Kiss - NEW ORDER
Walls Come Tumbling Down - THE STYLE COUNCIL
Fields Of Glass EP - THE TRIFFIDS
Love & Desperation - JEFFREY LEE PIERCE
Looking For Lewis and Clark - THE LONG RYDERS
Makes No Sense At All - HUSKER DU
Yu Gung - EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
King of Rock - RUN DMC
Cities in Dust - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
Driver 8 - R.E.M.
Heaven - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE EGYPTIANS
In Between Days - THE CURE
Just Like Honey - THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN
Chance - RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY
Death of the European - THE THREE JOHNS
Up The Hill and Down the Slope - THE LOFT
The Boy with the Thorn in His Side - THE SMITHS
You Trip Me Up - THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN
Kick Over the Statues! - REDSKINS
Like A Curse - THE NEW CHRISTS
She's Wicked - THE FUZZTONES
V2 - THAT PETROL EMOTION
America - PRINCE
Road to Nowhere - TALKING HEADS
Bring on the Dancing Horses - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
Rollin' Dany / Couldn't Get Ahead - THE FALL
Go Out and Get 'Em Boy! - THE WEDDING PRESENT
No Rest - NEW MODEL ARMY
Salad Days - MINOR THREAT
Out of Control - LIME SPIDERS
Date with a Vampyre - THE SCREAMING TRIBESMEN
Time Ain't Nothing - GREEN ON RED
Between the Wars - BILLY BRAGG
Sunspots - JULIAN COPE
Move Me - THE WOODENTOPS
Raspberry Beret - PRINCE
Rock the Bells - LL COOL J
Needle to the Groove - MANTRONIX
I Want You - CABARET VOLTAIRE
No Time to Cry - THE SISTERS OF MERCY
When All's Well - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL
The Whole of the Moon - THE WATERBOYS
Don't You (Forget About Me) - SIMPLE MINDS
She Sells Sanctuary - THE CULT
Sequenz - XMAL DEUTSCHLAND
All Fall Down - PRIMAL SCREAM

The Best Singles of 1984

2011-07-28T21:19:00.005+03:00

Top 50

Upside Down - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
Death Valley '69 - SONIC YOUTH
What Difference Does It Make? - THE SMITHS
Dirty - HARD CORPS
Do The Square Thing - THE THREE JOHNS
Oh! Brother - THE FALL
Pink Frost - THE CHILLS
Racer-X - BIG BLACK
C.R.E.E.P. - THE FALL
The Killing Moon - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
Our Darkness - ANNE CLARK
Shout To The Top - THE STYLE COUNCIL
Still Ill - THE SMITHS
Pretty Persuasion - R.E.M.
Slave Girl - LIME SPIDERS
Psycho - BEASTS OF BOURBON
Eight Miles High - HUSKER DU
Eighties - KILLING JOKE
Call For Escape Route EP - THE FALL
World Destruction - TIME ZONE
Middle of the Road - PRETENDERS
The Greatness and Perfection of Love - JULIAN COPE
Walk Into The Sun - THE MARCH VIOLETS
Pearly Dewdrops' Drops - COCTEAU TWINS
Close (To The Edit) - THE ART OF NOISE
Calamity Crush - FOETUS-ART-TERRORISM
Sensoria - CABARET VOLTAIRE
Keep On Keeping On - THE REDSKINS
I Will Dare - THE REPLACEMENTS
Celebrated Summer / New Day Rising - HUSKER DU
Bad News Travels Fast - THE FUZZTONES
Change Is Gonna Come - DROOGS
Medicine Show - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
Like a Curse - THE NEW CHRISTS
Walk Away / Poison Door - THE SISTERS OF MERCY
Thieves Like Us - NEW ORDER
I Wanna Be Loved - ELVIS COSTELLO
When Doves Cry - PRINCE
Dancing In The Dark - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I Want You Back - HOODOO GURUS
In The Ghetto - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Fell From The Sun - KENDRA SMITH & DAVID ROBACK & KEITH MITCHEL
Come Back - THE MIGHTY WAH!
Let's Go Crazy - PRINCE
Rock Box - RUN-D.M.C.
Unity - AFRIKA BAMBAATAA & JAMES BROWN
The Lebanon - THE HUMAN LEAGUE
Michael Caine - MADNESS
You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want) - JOE JACKSON
Bachelor Kisses - THE GO-BETWEENS

The Best Singles of 1983

2011-06-24T22:32:00.000+03:00

Top 50

Blue Monday - NEW ORDER
Hand in glove - THE SMITHS
She's in parties - BAUHAUS
Gone daddy gone - VIOLENT FEMMES
Cattle and cane - THE GO-BETWEENS
This charming man - THE SMITHS
The man whose head expanded - THE FALL
A.W.O.L. - THE THREE JOHNS
Temple of love - SISTERS OF MERCY
Oblivious - AZTEC CAMERA
The cutter - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
Let's all go (to the fire dances) - KILLING JOKE
Mutiny EP - BIRTHDAY PARTY
Kicker conspiracy - THE FALL
Burning down the house - TALKING HEADS
Money-Go-Round (Parts 1+2) - THE STYLE COUNCIL
Every day I write the book - ELVIS COSTELLO
New Year’s Day - U2
Looking for the perfect beat - AFRIKA BAMBAATAA & THE SOUL SONIC FORCE
This is not a love song - P.I.L.
The walk - THE CURE
Just fascination - CABARET VOLTAIRE
Snake dance - THE MARCH VIOLETS
I want to help you Ann - LYRES
Another state of mind - SOCIAL DISTORTION
Bad seed EP - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Marquis cha-cha - THE FALL
Lean on me - THE REDSKINS
Great expectations - NEW MODEL ARMY
Mexican radio - WALL OF VOODOO
Tomorrow's (just another day) - MADNESS
Palm of my hand - THE PALE FOUNTAINS
Talk about the passion - R.E.M.
Sunday bloody Sunday - U2
Waterfront - SIMPLE MINDS
Let them all talk - ELVIS COSTELLO
Speak like a child - THE STYLE COUNCIL
Beat box - THE ART OF NOISE
White lines (Don't don't do it) - GRANDMASTER FLASH & MELLE MEL
It's like that - RUN-D.M.C.
Hip-Hop-Bommi-Bop - THE INCREADIBLE T.H. SCRATCHERS STARRING FREDDY LOVE
Long hot summer - THE STYLE COUNCIL
Sugar hiccup - COCTEAU TWINS
Song to the siren - THIS MORTAL COIL
Dear prudence - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
The crackdown - CABARET VOLTAIRE
October (love song) - CHRIS AND COSEY
Change - TEARS FOR FEARS
Relax - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
New gold dream (81-82-83-84) - SIMPLE MINDS

The Best Singles of 1982

2011-05-20T23:44:00.002+03:00

Top 50

Town called malice - THE JAM
Slowdive - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
The message - GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE
Planet rock - AFRIKA BAMBAATAA & THE SOUL SONIC FORCE
Let's go to bed - THE CURE
Temptation - NEW ORDER
I melt with you - MODERN ENGLISH
Love my way - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
Alice - THE SISTERS OF MERCY
I love a man in uniform - GANG OF FOUR
Know your rights - THE CLASH
Back on the chain gang - PRETENDERS
The back of love - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
Melt! - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
The hanging garden - THE CURE
Life in the gladhouse - MODERN ENGLISH
Look, know - THE FALL
Fire of love - THE GUN CLUB
Rolling moon - THE CHILLS
Senses working overtime - XTC
Beat surrender - THE JAM
Never say never - ROMEO VOID
ESG Says Dance to the Beat of Moody - ESG
Knife slits water - A CERTAIN RATIO
Empire song - KILLING JOKE
Ziggy Stardust - BAUHAUS
Mad world - TEARS FOR FEARS
Come on Eileen - DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
Our house - MADNESS
Annie get your gun - SQUEEZE
Pillar to post - AZTEC CAMERA
The story of the blues - WAH!
Shipbuilding - ROBERT WYATT
Man out of time - ELVIS COSTELLO
Blue spark - X
In a free land - HUSKER DU
1945 - SOCIAL DISTORTION
Bleed for me - DEAD KENNEDYS
Incubus Succubus - XMAL DEUTSCHLAND
Dancing / True love - ZOUNDS
Rock the Casbah - THE CLASH
Shock the monkey - PETER GABRIEL
Promised you a miracle - SIMPLE MINDS
In shreds - THE CHAMELEONS
Felicity - ORANGE JUICE
Steppin' out - JOE JACKSON
Situation - YAZOO
Let me go! - HEAVEN 17
Poison arrow - ABC
Buffalo gals - MALCOLM MCLAREN

The Best Singles of 1981

2011-04-25T16:14:00.000+03:00

Top 50

Sex beat / Ghost on the highway - THE GUN CLUB
Spellbound - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
Once in a lifetime - TALKING HEADS
That's entertainment - THE JAM
Ghost town - THE SPECIALS
Radio free Europe - R.E.M.
Goo Goo muck - THE CRAMPS
Romeo - WIPERS
Lie dream of a casino soul - THE FALL
What we all want - GANG OF FOUR
Ceremony - NEW ORDER
Reward - THE TEARDROP EXPLODES
Don't you want me - THE HUMAN LEAGUE
The Jezebel spirit - BRIAN ENO & DAVID BYRNE
Flowers of romance - P.I.L.
Primary - THE CURE
Kick in the eye - BAUHAUS
Follow the leaders - KILLING JOKE
Too drunk to fuck - THE DEAD KENNEDYS
Release the bats - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Demystification - ZOUNDS
You're no good - ESG
Things that go boom in the night - BUSH TETRAS
Pretty in pink - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
Love song - SIMPLE MINDS
Tainted love - SOFT CELL
Rapture - BLONDIE
We want the airwaves - RAMONES
The magnificent seven - THE CLASH
Inconvenience - THE AU PAIRS
The art of parties - JAPAN
The gospel comes to New Guinea - 23 SKIDOO
Computer love / The Model - KRAFTWERK
Der Mussolini - DAF
(We don't need this) Fascist groove thang - HEAVEN 17
O Superman - LAURIE ANDERSON
Papa's got a brand new Pigbag - PIGBAG
It must be love - MADNESS
One in ten - UB40
From a whisper to a scream - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
Only the stones remain - THE SOFT BOYS
The river - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Gloria - U2
Respectable street - XTC
A promise - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
Your turn, my turn - THE GO-BETWEENS
Calcutta - THE NAMES
The fish needs a bike - BLURT
Sex bomb - FLIPPER
Six pack - BLACK FLAG

The Best Singles of 1980

2011-03-12T01:03:00.000+02:00

Top 50

Going underground - THE JAM
Love will tear us apart - JOY DIVISION
Totally wired - THE FALL
A forest - THE CURE
Rescue - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
Treason - TEARDROP EXPLODES
Mr. Jones - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
Garbageman - THE CRAMPS
Seven minutes to midnight - WAH! HEAT
Christine - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
It’s obvious - THE AU PAIRS
Holiday in Cambodia - DEAD KENNEDYS
Alien boy - WIPERS
Wardance - KILLING JOKE
How I wrote 'Elastic Man' - THE FALL
The great curve - TALKING HEADS
Start! - THE JAM
Precious - PRETENDERS
Atomic - BLONDIE
Too many creeps - BUSH TETRAS
Israel - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
Atmosphere - JOY DIVISION
The puppet - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
Gathering dust - MODERN ENGLISH
Mr. Clarinet - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Dark entries - BAUHAUS
Let's build a car - SWELL MAPS
I wanna destroy you - THE SOFT BOYS
Bankrobber - THE CLASH
Call me - BLONDIE
Ashes to ashes - DAVID BOWIE
Whip it - DEVO
My girl - MADNESS
Another nail in my heart - SQUEEZE
Shack up - A CERTAIN RATIO
Changeling - SIMPLE MINDS
Enola Gay - ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK
Private Idaho - THE B-52's
You - DELTA 5
Final day - YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS
A song from under the floorboards - MAGAZINE
I can't stand up for falling down - ELVIS COSTELLO
White girl - X
Ha ha ha - FLIPPER
Amoeba - ADOLESCENTS
I wanna be sedated - RAMONES
I will follow - U2
Too much too young - THE SPECIALS
Geno - DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
Dog eat dog - ADAM AND THE ANTS

The Best Albums Of The '00s

2011-02-09T11:15:00.000+02:00

Top 100

Stories from the city, stories from the sea - P.J. HARVEY
Is this it - THE STROKES
Turn on the bright lights - INTERPOL
Return to cookie mountain - TV ON THE RADIO
Songs for the deaf - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
Elephant - THE WHITE STRIPES
Fever to tell - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
Exterminator - PRIMAL SCREAM
The unutterable - THE FALL
Dig!!! Lazarus, dig!!! - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Let’s stay friends - LES SAVY FAV
Franz Ferdinand - FRANZ FERDINAND
Whatever people say I am, that's what I am not - ARCTIC MONKEYS
Good news for people who love bad news - MODEST MOUSE
Silent alarm - BLOC PARTY
LCD Soundsystem - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
Dance mother - TELEPATHE
Source tags and codes - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
Throwing Muses - THROWING MUSES
23 - BLONDE REDHEAD
Funeral - ARCADE FIRE
Yoshimi battles the pink robots - THE FLAMING LIPS
The eternal - SONIC YOUTH
Gimme fiction - SPOON
One beat - SLEATER-KINNEY
Coral fang - THE DISTILLERS
Group sounds - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
Isolation drills - GUIDED BY VOICES
Take them on, on your own - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
Exploding head - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
Abattoir blues / The lyre of Orpheus - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Picaresque - THE DECEMBERISTS
All is dream - MERCURY REV
Let it come down - SPIRITUALIZED
Fall heads roll - THE FALL
Dear science - TV ON THE RADIO
R - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
Relationship of command - AT THE DRIVE-IN
All hands on the bad one - SLEATER-KINNEY
The friends of Rachel Worth - THE GO-BETWEENS
You are free - CAT POWER
The moon and Antarctica - MODEST MOUSE
Icky thump - THE WHITE STRIPES
Grinderman - GRINDERMAN
Cansei De Ser Sexy - CSS
Show your bones - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
Louden up now - !!!
Echoes - THE RAPTURE
Room on fire - THE STROKES
You are the quarry - MORRISSEY
The sophtware slump - GRANDADDY
Stephen Malkmus - STEPHEN MALKMUS
White blood cells - THE WHITE STRIPES
Black rebel motorcycle club - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
The argument - FUGAZI
Golden ocean - 50 FOOT WAVE
No wow - THE KILLS
Pawn shoppe heart - THE VON BONDIES
Antics - INTERPOL
Sonic nurse - SONIC YOUTH
Desperate youth, blood thirsty babes - TV ON THE RADIO
We were dead before the ship even sank - MODEST MOUSE
Favourite worst nightmare - ARCTIC MONKEYS
You could have it so much better - FRANZ FERDINAND
I'm wide awake, it's morning - BRIGHT EYES
Illinois - SUFJAN STEVENS
Fantasies - METRIC
Two suns - BAT FOR LASHES
Merriweather post pavilion - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
Antidotes - FOALS
Neptune - THE DUKE SPIRIT
Crystal Castles - CRYSTAL CASTLES
To the 5 boroughs - BEASTIE BOYS
It's blitz! - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
Midnight boom - THE KILLS
Be Your Own Pet - BE YOUR OWN PET
Derdang derdang - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT
The crane wife - THE DECEMBERISTS
Neon bible - ARCADE FIRE
Ancient melodies of the future - BUILT TO SPILL
Boys and girls in America - THE HOLD STEADY
Consolers of the lonely - THE RACONTEURS
Saturnalia - THE GUTTER TWINS
Third - PORTISHEAD
Fever Ray - FEVER RAY
The teaches of Peaches - PEACHES
The W - WU-TANG CLAN
Evil heat - PRIMAL SCREAM
A weekend in the city - BLOC PARTY
100 broken windows - IDLEWILD
Highly evolved - THE VINES
Original pirate material - THE STREETS
You can't fight what you can't see - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
Title TK - BREEDERS
They threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top - LIARS
The new romance - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
The real new Fall LP (formerly ‘Country On The Click’) - THE FALL
Send - WIRE
You forgot it in people - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
Stankonia - OUTKAST

The next hundred:

First impressions of earth - THE STROKES, Our love to admire - INTERPOL, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - SPOON, Horehound - THE DEAD WEATHER, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART, Beat pyramid - THESE NEW PURITANS, Give up - THE POSTAL SERVICE, Fantastic damage - EL-P, Tromatic reflexxions - VON SUDENFED, Gotham! - RADIO 4, Murray street - SONIC YOUTH, Misery is a butterfly - BLONDE REDHEAD, Automatic midnight - HOT SNAKES, Bubblegum - MARK LANEGAN BAND, The great destroyer - LOW, You in reverse - BUILT TO SPILL, No cities left - THE DEARS, Old world underground, where are you now? - METRIC, Lovers - THE SLEEPY JACKSON, Digital ash in a digital urn - BRIGHT EYES, Hot fuss - THE KILLERS, Cuts across the land - THE DUKE SPIRIT, Rather ripped - SONIC YOUTH, Beyond - DINOSAUR JR., Baby 81 - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Lullabies to paralyze - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, Fishscale - GHOSTFACE KILLAH, I’ll sleep when you're dead - EL-P, Yoyoyoyoyo - SPANK ROCK, Sound of silver - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, Proof of youth - THE GO! TEAM, Cassadaga - BRIGHT EYES, Because of the times - KINGS OF LEON, Wincing the night away - THE SHINS, In rainbows - RADIOHEAD, Sumday - GRANDADDY, Oracular spectacular - MGMT, Keep on your mean side - THE KILLS, Fatherfucker - PEACHES, A brief history of love - THE BIG PINK, Get color - HEALTH, Only built 4 Cuban linx… pt. II - RAEKWON, Iron flag - WU-TANG CLAN, Are you are missing winner - THE FALL, No more shall we part - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, Ease down the road - BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, It’s a wonderful life - SPARKLEHORSE, Embryonic - THE FLAMING LIPS, Broken Social Scene - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, Everything ecstatic - FOUR TET, Get ready - NEW ORDER, 604 - LADYTRON, Souljacker - EELS, The power out - ELECTRELANE, Bows + arrows - THE WALKMEN, More light - J MASCIS + THE FOG, Good news for modern man - GRANT HART, God says no - MONSTER MAGNET, Thirteen tales from urban bohemia - THE DANDY WARHOLS, Boxer - THE NATIONAL, Golden lies - MEAT PUPPETS, Change - THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN, You're a woman, I’m a machine - DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979, Tyrannosaurus Hives - THE HIVES, Behind the music - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, A certain feeling - BODIES OF WATER, Songs in A&E - SPIRITUALIZED, Uh huh her - PJ HARVEY, Rock N Roll - RYAN ADAMS, Blackberry belle - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH, The woods - SLEATER-KINNEY, Set yourself on fire - STARS, More adventurous - RILO KILEY, Pretty in black - THE RAVEONETTES, Plastic fang - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, Kill the moonlight - SPOON, Loyalty to loyalty - COLD WAR KIDS, Vampire Weekend - VAMPIRE WEEKEND, Box of secrets - BLOOD RED SHOES, Chat and business - IKARA COLT, Walking with thee - CLINIC, Phrenology - THE ROOTS, The cold vein - CANNIBAL OX, #1 - FISCHERSPOONER, Sound-dust - STEREOLAB, Got it made - BRASSY, Will save us all! - CHICKS ON SPEED, Dongs of sevotion - SMOG, And then nothing turned itself inside-out - YO LA TENGO, 1000 hurts - SHELLAC, Pound for pound - ROYAL TRUX, Strays - JANE'S ADDICTION, Electric version - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Chore of enchantment - GIANT SAND, The photo album - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, I'm going away - THE FIERY FURNACES, Let us never speak of it again - OUT HUD, The college dropout - KANYE WEST, Arular - M.I.A.

The Best Albums Of 2009

2011-01-28T01:04:00.000+02:00

Top 50

Dance mother - TELEPATHE
Exploding head - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
The eternal - SONIC YOUTH
Fantasies - METRIC
Two suns - BAT FOR LASHES
It's blitz! - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
Merriweather Post Pavilion - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
Fever Ray - FEVER RAY
Horehound - THE DEAD WEATHER
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
A brief history of love - THE BIG PINK
Get color - HEALTH
Only built 4 Cuban linx… pt. II - RAEKWON
Embryonic - THE FLAMING LIPS
I'm going away - THE FIERY FURNACES
Marry me tonight - HTRK
Face control - HANDSOME FURS
Post-Nothing - JAPANDROIDS
Fits - WHITE DENIM
Popular songs - YO LA TENGO
Rated O - ONEIDA
Futuro - THE LOW FREQUENCY IN STEREO
Dragonslayer - SUNSET RUBDOWN
Six - THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION
Farm - DINOSAUR JR.
Dim light - GUN OUTFIT
Everything goes wrong - VIVIAN GIRLS
Rose city - VIVA VOCE
XX - THE XX
Tonight: Franz Ferdinand - FRANZ FERDINAND
Humbug - ARCTIC MONKEYS
There is no enemy - BUILT TO SPILL
Dos - WOODEN SHJIPS
Primary colours - THE HORRORS
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - PHOENIX
Lungs - FLORENCE + THE MACHINE
Radio wars - HOWLING BELLS
Years of refusal - MORRISSEY
The ecstatic - MOS DEF
Dark night of the soul - DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE
Balf quarry - MAGIK MARKERS
Sewn together - MEAT PUPPETS
Broken - SOULSAVERS
Monsters Of Folk - MONSTERS OF FOLK
Outer south - CONOR OBERST AND THE MYSTIC VALLEY BAND
Wilco (The album) - WILCO
The hazards of love - THE DECEMBERISTS
My old familiar friend - BRENDAN BENSON
Middle cyclone - NEKO CASE
Sometimes I wish we were an eagle - BILL CALLAHAN

Also recommended:

Actor - ST. VINCENT, Big sexy noise - BIG SEXY NOISE, I blame you - OBITS, King of jeans - PISSED JEANS, Tarot sport - FUCK BUTTONS, Love comes close - COLD CAVE, Phrazes for the young - JULIAN CASABLANCAS, Them Crooked Vultures - THEM CROOKED VULTURES, Swoon - SILVERSUN PICKUPS, In and out of control - THE RAVEONETTES, Bitte orca - DIRTY PROJECTORS, Logos - ATLAS SOUND, My maudlin career - CAMERA OBSCURA, Broken side of time - ALBERTA CROSS, Hot wax - GRANT HART, Now we can see - THE THERMALS, Spinnerette - SPINNERETTE, Til the casket drops - CLIPSE, Further complications - JARVIS COCKER, Kingdom of rust - DOVES, Baby darling doll face honey - BAND OF SKULLS, Infinite light - LIGHTNING DUST, A woman a man walked by - P.J. HARVEY & JOHN PARISH, Beware - BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Petits fours - GRAND DUCHY, Backspacer - PEARL JAM, The century of self - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, 200 million thousand - BLACK LIPS, Travels with myself and another - FUTURE OF THE LEFT, Art Brut vs. Satan - ART BRUT, Ignore the ignorant - THE CRIBS, In this light and on this evening - EDITORS, Julian Plenti is… skyscraper - JULIAN PLENTI, Love hate and then there's you - THE VON BONDIES, Yours truly, the commuter - JASON LYTLE, Goodnight unknown - LOU BARLOW, Varshons - THE LEMONHEADS, The spirit of Apollo - N.A.S.A., I feel cream - PEACHES, Music for men - GOSSIP, Hush - ASOBI SEKSU, Dear John - LONEY DEAR, Two dancers - WILD BEASTS, Bird-brains - TUNE-YARDS, The airing of grievances - TITUS ANDRONICUS, Why there are mountains - CYMBALS EAT GUITARS, Love on an oil rig - THE VICTORIAN ENGLISH GENTLEMENS CLUB, Tentacles - CRYSTAL ANTLERS, Grace/Wastelands - PETER DOHERTY, Expressions - MUSIC GO MUSIC, Jewellery - MICACHU & THE SHAPES, All aboard future - THESE ARE POWERS, Nowhere forever - LOVE OF DIAGRAMS, Nests - SHE KEEPS BEES, After robots - BLK JKS, Hospice - THE ANTLERS, What will we be - DEVENDRA BANHART, Psychic chasms - NEON INDIAN, Dark days/Light years - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, Checkmate savage - PHANTOM BAND, Armonico hewa - OOIOO, Album - GIRLS, Veckatimest - GRIZZLY BEAR, Seek magic - MEMORY TAPES, Outside love - THE PINK MOUNTAINTOPS, Romanian names - JOHN VANDERSLICE, A balloon called moaning - THE JOY FORMIDABLE, Under and under - BLANK DOGS, Kingstonlogic 2.0 - TERRY LYNN, Guns don't kill people…Lazers do - MAJOR LAZER, Three EPs - SHACKLETON, Ambivalence Avenue - BIBIO, SyMptoMs - MORDANT MUSIC, Cassette city - LUSHLIFE, Gutter tactics - DALEK, Born like this - DOOM, The blueprint 3 - JAY-Z, BlaQKout - DJ QUIK & KURUPT, Blackroc - BLACKROC, Temporary pleasure - SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, Begone dull care - JUNIOR BOYS, Manners - PASSION PIT, Walking on a dream - EMPIRE OF THE SUN, Rain Machine - RAIN MACHINE, Gorilla manor - LOCAL NATIVES, Harum scarum - JOE GIDEON AND THE SHARK, The sound the speed the light - MISSION OF BURMA, Trapped animal - THE SLITS, Down with liberty...Up with chains! - CHAIN AND THE GANG, Pine/Cross Dover - MASTERS OF REALITY, Goodnight Oslo - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE VENUS 3, Life and times - BOB MOULD, The real feel - SPIRAL STAIRS, Mo beauty - ALEC OUNSWORTH, The BQE - SUFJAN STEVENS, Noble beast - ANDREW BIRD, Through the devil softly - HOPE SANDOVAL & THE WARM INVENTIONS, Sun gangs - THE VEILS, Oh my God, Charlie Darwin - THE LOW ANTHEM, Dead Man’s Bones - DEAD MAN’S BONES, Bromst - DAN DEACON, Watch me fall - JAY REATARD, Post electric blues - IDLEWILD, Ashes grammar - A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW, 200 tons of bad luck - CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX, Earthly delights - LIGHTNING BOLT, Monoliths & dimensions - SUNN O))), Crack the skye - MASTADON, Dracula boots - KID CONGO AND THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS, The visitor - JIM O'ROURKE, Monster head room - GANGLIANS, To be still - ALELA DIANE, The life of the world to come - MOUNTAIN GOATS, Songs of shame - WOODS, The Smith Westerns - THE SMITH WESTERNS, Real Estate - REAL ESTATE, It’s frightening - WHITE RABBITS, Turning the mind - MAPS, Junior - ROYKSOPP, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum - KASABIAN, Only revolutions - BIFFY CLYRO, Wall of arms - THE MACCABEES, Tale to tell - MUMMERS, Kings & Queens - JAMIE T, Truelove's gutter - RICHARD HAWLEY, Far - REGINA SPECTOR, The crying light - ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, One fast move or I’m gone: Music from Kerouac’s Big Sur - JAY FARRAR & BENJAMIN GIBBARD, Journal for plague lovers - MANIC STREET PREACHERS, Klang - THE RAKES, Grey Britain - GALLOWS, I had the blues but I shook them loose - BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB, Quicken the heart - MAXIMO PARK, The resistance - MUSE, No line on the horizon - U2, Working on a dream - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Together through life - BOB DYLAN, Welcome to Mali - AMADOU & MARIAM, Imidiwan: Companions - TINARIWEN, Warm heart of Africa - THE VERY BEST, JJ no2 - JJ, Summertime! - THE DRUMS, No one's first and you're next - MODEST MOUSE, Enter The Vaselines - THE VASELINES.

The Best Albums Of 2008

2011-01-19T12:01:00.003+02:00

Top 50

Dig!!! Lazarus dig!!! - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Dear science - TV ON THE RADIO
Antidotes - FOALS
Neptune - THE DUKE SPIRIT
Crystal Castles - CRYSTAL CASTLES
Midnight boom - THE KILLS
Consolers of the lonely - THE RACONTEURS
Saturnalia - THE GUTTER TWINS
Third - PORTISHEAD
Beat pyramid - THESE NEW PURITANS
Oracular spectacular - MGMT
A certain feeling - BODIES OF WATER
Songs in A&E - SPIRITUALIZED
Loyalty to loyalty - COLD WAR KIDS
Stay positive - THE HOLD STEADY
Box of secrets - BLOOD RED SHOES
Vampire Weekend - VAMPIRE WEEKEND
Conor Oberst - CONOR OBERST
Intimacy - BLOC PARTY
Santogold - SANTOGOLD
Velocifero - LADYTRON
Re-arrange us - MATES OF STATE
Imperial wax solvent - THE FALL
Beautiful future - PRIMAL SCREAM
Saint Dymphna - GANG GANG DANCE
Donkey - CSS
Partie traumatic - BLACK KIDS
The bake sale - THE COOL KIDS
Narrow stairs - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
Lookout mountain, lookout sea - SILVER JEWS
Fleet Foxes - FLEET FOXES
Only by the night - KINGS OF LEON
Accelerate - R.E.M.
Microcastle / Weird era continued - DEERHUNTER
Alpinisms - SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS
Something for all of us… - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE PRESENTS: BRENDAN CANNING
Object 47 - WIRE
Walk it off - TAPES 'N TAPES
The chemistry of common life - FUCKED UP
In the future - BLACK MOUNTAIN
The lucky ones - MUDHONEY
Provisions - GIANT SAND
Keep your eyes ahead - THE HELIO SEQUENCE
The age of the understatement - THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS
Elephant shell - TOKYO POLICE CLUB
Lightbulbs - FUJIYA & MIYAGI
London zoo - THE BUG
Modern guilt - BECK
Real emotional trash - STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS
Alight of night - CRYSTAL STILTS

Also recommended:

Take it personally - THE STARLITE DESPERATION, Workout holiday - WHITE DENIM, Secret Machines - SECRET MACHINES, Evil urges - MY MORNING JACKET, Skeletal lamping - OF MONTREAL, Jukebox - CAT POWER, Acid tongue - JENNY LEWIS, Chemical chords - STEREOLAB, At Mount Zoomer - WOLF PARADE, The stand ins - OKKERVIL RIVER, O - TILLY AND THE WALL, Some are lakes - LAND OF TALK, Get awkward - BE YOUR OWN PET, Nouns - NO AGE, Bits - OXFORD COLLAPSE, Vivian Girls - VIVIAN GIRLS, Fortress ’round my heart - IDA MARIA, Alopecia - WHY?, Free gold! - INDIAN JEWELRY, High Places - HIGH PLACES, The Week That Was - THE WEEK THAT WAS, Twenty one - MYSTERY JETS, Friendly Fires - FRIENDLY FIRES, Forth - THE VERVE, Snowflake midnight - MERCURY REV, Directions to see a ghost - THE BLACK ANGELS, Attack and release - THE BLACK KEYS, This gift - SONS AND DAUGHTERS, Glasvegas - GLASVEGAS, The golden age - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB, Lie down in the light - BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY, Carried to dust - CALEXICO, The golden hour - FIREWATER, Missiles - THE DEARS, District line - BOB MOULD, This is not the world - THE FUTUREHEADS, Mega breakfast - THE CHAP, Does you inspire you - CHAIRLIFT, Youth novels - LYKKE LI, Oh (Ohio) - LAMBCHOP, Sunday at Devil Dirt - ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN, Knowle West boy - TRICKY, Tha Carter III - LIL WAYNE, Made in the dark - HOT CHIP. Como te llama? - ALBERT HAMMOND JR., You & me - THE WALKMEN, Mountain battles - THE BREEDERS, Inherit - FREE KITTEN, Retribution Gospel Choir - RETRIBUTION GOSPEL CHOIR, Svn fngrs - BLACK FRANCIS, Do it! - CLINIC, Kensington Heights - CONSTANTINES, The evangelist - ROBERT FORSTER, Crossing Dragon Bridge - STEVE WYNN, Do you like rock music? - BRITISH SEA POWER, Off with their heads - KAISER CHIEFS, Day and age - THE KILLERS, Rascalize - THE RASCALS, Motion to rejoin - BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT, For Emma, forever ago - BON IVER, Los Angeles - FLYING LOTUS, Pro tools - GZA, The Bronx (III) - THE BRONX, Delayer - THE HEAVENLY STATES, Promises, promises - DIE! DIE! DIE!, Ladyhawke - LADYHAWKE, Red, yellow and blue - BORN RUFFIANS, Upbeat love - THREATMANTICS, Εl Rey - WEDDING PRESENT, 22 dreams - PAUL WELLER, Brighter than creation's dark - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The '59 sound - THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM, Xs on your eyes - +/-, Street horrrsing - FUCK BUTTONS, In ghost colours - CUT COPY, Feed the animals - GIRL TALK, LP3 - RATATAT, The holy pictures - DAVID HOLMES, Dig out your soul - OASIS, You cross my path - THE CHARLATANS, The hungry saw - TINDERSTICKS, Couples - THE LONG BLONDES, The way we ride - FULTON LIGHTS, Ringer - FOUR TET, Fantasy black channel - LATE OF THE PIER, Cage The Elephant - CAGE THE ELEPHANT, We are beautiful, we are doomed - LOS CAMPESINOS!, Burnt out landscapes - THE MANHATTAN LOVE SUICIDES, A hundred things that keep me up at night - LOVE IS ALL, Waited up 'til it was light - JOHNNY FOREIGNER, Stainless style - NEON NEON, Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust - SIGUR ROS, 13 blues for thirteen moons - SILVER MT. ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA AND TRA-LA-LA BAND, The hawk is howling - MOGWAI, Little death - PETE AND THE PIRATES, Falling off the Lavender Bridge - LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION, Alas I cannot swim - LAURA MARLING, No way down - AIR FRANCE, Rising down - THE ROOTS, When life gives you lemons, you paint that shit gold - ATMOSPHERE, Rabbit hats - MAN MAN, Swimming - FRENCH KICKS, Black sheep - JULIAN COPE, How to walk away - JULIANA HATFIELD, Hymn & her - EARLIMART, Morning tide - THE LITTLE ONES, Moonwink - THE SPINTO BAND, Soft airplane - CHAD VANGAALEN, Forfeit / Fortune - CROOKED FINGERS, Preteen weaponry - ONEIDA, The rhumb line - RA RA RIOT, Bluebeard's rooms - DAVID CRONENBERG'S WIFE, The midnight organ fight - FRIGHTENED RABBIT, Now or heaven - THE BROKEN WEST, Cardinology - RYAN ADAMS AND THE CARDINALS, Everything that happens will happen today - BRIAN ENO & DAVID BYRNE, 4:13 Dream - THE CURE, The seldom seen kid - ELBOW, Luna - THE ALIENS, Disco - HEALTH, A land for renegades - ZOMBIE ZOMBIE, Repercussions - DISTANCE, The renaissance - Q-TIP, 808s and heartbreak - KANYE WEST, Hercules And Love Affair - HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR, Odd couple - GNARLS BARKLEY, Alegranza - EL GUINCHO, Nights out - METRONOMY, Saturdays = Youth - M83, Volume one - SHE & HIM, Furr - BLITZEN TRAPPER, Distortion - MAGNETIC FIELDS, Offend Maggie - DEERHOOF, Visiter - THE DODOS, Rook - SHEARWATER, Here with me - JENNIFER O'CONNOR, Oceans will rise - THE STILLS, Earth to The Dandy Warhols - THE DANDY WARHOLS, Sea lion - RUBY SUNS, Rest now, weary head! You will get well soon - GET WELL SOON, Avatar - MONIKA, Remember - THE FIERY FURNACES, Christmas on Mars - THE FLAMING LIPS

The Best Albums Of 2007

2011-01-07T01:33:00.000+02:00

Top 50

Let’s stay friends - LES SAVY FAV
23 - BLONDE REDHEAD
Icky thump - THE WHITE STRIPES
Grinderman - GRINDERMAN
We were dead before the ship even sank - MODEST MOUSE
Favourite worst nightmare - ARCTIC MONKEYS
A weekend in the city - BLOC PARTY
Neon bible - ARCADE FIRE
Our love to admire - INTERPOL
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - SPOON
Tromatic reflexxions - VON SUDENFED
Baby 81 - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
Beyond - DINOSAUR JR.
I’ll sleep when you're dead - EL-P
Sound of silver - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
Proof of youth - THE GO! TEAM
Cassadaga - BRIGHT EYES
Because of the times - KINGS OF LEON
Wincing the night away - THE SHINS
In rainbows - RADIOHEAD
Boxer - THE NATIONAL
Under the blacklight - RILO KILEY
Boss - MAGIK MARKERS
Curses - FUTURE OF THE LEFT
LP - HOLY FUCK
Myth takes - !!!
Spirit if… - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE PRESENTS: KEVIN DREW
Mosaic - LOVE OF DIAGRAMS
Lose all time - YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE!
A Place To Bury Strangers - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
Era vulgaris - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
The black and white album - THE HIVES
Voxtrot - VOXTROT
All hour cymbals - YEASAYER
The shepherd's dog - IRON AND WINE
Learn to sing like a star - KRISTIN HERSH
The shapes we make - MARY TIMONY BAND
No shouts no calls - ELECTRELANE
Everything last winter - FIELDS
Plague park - HANDSOME FURS
Liars - LIARS
Hissing fauna, are you the destroyer? - OF MONTREAL
The flying club cup - BEIRUT
Fur and gold - BAT FOR LASHES
White chalk - P.J. HARVEY
Bluefinger - BLACK FRANCIS
Excellent Italian greyhound - SHELLAC
Reformation post TLC - THE FALL
Widow city - THE FIERY FURNACES
Men's needs, women's needs, whatever - THE CRIBS

Also recommended:

Myths of the near future - KLAXONS, Fantastic playroom - NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB, Kala - M.I.A., None shall pass - AESOP ROCK, 8 diagrams - WU TANG CLAN, The big doe rehab - GHOSTFACE KILLAH, Good bad not evil - THE BLACK LIPS, Lust lust lust - THE RAVEONETTES, Grand animals - ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET, Cease to begin - BAND OF HORSES, In our bedroom after the war - STARS, Lion the girl - MIDNIGHT MOVIES, Friend and foe - MENOMENA, Challengers - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Turn the lights out - THE PONYS, Pre-emptive false rapture - CHROME HOOF, Strawberry jam - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, Trees outside the academy - THURSTON MOORE, Woke on a whaleheart - BILL CALLAHAN, A brighter beat - MALCOLM MIDDLETON, Prinzhorn Dance School - PRINZHORN DANCE SCHOOL, It's a bit complicated - ART BRUT, Yours truly, angry mob - KAISER CHIEFS, An end has a start - EDITORS, Ten new messages - THE RAKES, War stories - UNKLE, Random spirit lover - SUNSET RUBDOWN, Some loud thunder - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH, Wooden Shjips - WOODEN SHJIPS, Drums and guns - LOW, Rise to your knees - MEAT PUPPETS, Smokey rolls down thunder canyon - DEVENDRA BANHART, Shotter's nation - BABYSHAMBLES, Our earthly pleasures - MAXIMO PARK, Friend opportunity - DEERHOOF, Read & burn 03 - WIRE, Mantaray - SIOUXSIE, Let in the light - SHANNON WRIGHT, The adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn - COCOROSIE, The Good, The Bad & The Queen - THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN, Make another world - IDLEWILD, Yes yes vindictive - OPERATOR PLEASE, The Blakes - THE BLAKES, Strange house - THE HORRORS, Attack decay sustain release - SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, Person pitch - PANDA BEAR, Mirrored - BATTLES, We can create - MAPS, Ash Wednesday - ELVIS PERKINS, The western lands - GRAVENHURST, Tied & true - THE DETROIT COBRAS, What’s the time Mr. Wolf? - NOISETTES, Happiness Ltd. - HOT HOT HEAT, Once upon a time in the west - HARD-FI, Easy tiger - RYAN ADAMS, Sky blue sky - WILCO, The stage names - OKKERVIL RIVER, The reminder - FEIST, Untrue - BURIAL, Graduation - KANYE WEST, American gangster - JAY-Z, New wave - AGAINST ME!, Cast iron soul - DANNY AND DUSTY, Three easy pieces - BUFFALO TOM, Zeitgeist - SMASHING PUMPKINS, Echoes, silence, patience and grace - FOO FIGHTERS, The sun and the moon - THE BRAVERY, Sex change - TRANS AM, Emerald city - JOHN VANDERSLICE, The inevitable rise and liberation of NiggyTardust! - SAUL WILLIAMS, Hope for men - PISSED JEANS, Weirdo rippers - NO AGE, Cryptograms - DEERHUNTER, Oblivion with bells - UNDERWORLD, Night of the furies - THE ROSEBUDS, Asleep at heaven's gate - ROGUE WAVE, Living with the living - TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS, In the garden - EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER, Little amber bottles - BLANCHE, Armchair apocrypha - ANDREW BIRD, Saltbreakers - LAURA VEIRS, Astronomy for dogs - THE ALIENS, Roots and echoes - THE CORAL, Hey trouble - THE CONCRETES, Applause cheer boo hiss - LAND OF TALK, The modern tribe - CELEBRATION, Why bother - ADULT., † - JUSTICE, Andorra - CARIBOU, Finding forever - COMMON, Maths & English - DIZZEE RASCAL, Back to bizznizz - LETHAL BIZZLE, Datarock - DATAROCK, Love/Hate - NINE BLACK ALPS, Cookies - 1990s, Volta - BJORK, The enemy chorus - THE EARLIES, Puzzle - BIFFY CLYRO, Magic - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Chrome dreams II - NEIL YOUNG, Comicopera - ROBERT WYATT, Washington square serenade - STEVE EARLE, West - LUCINDA WILLIAMS, You follow me - NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE, 12 Crass songs - JEFFREY LEWIS, Watch the fireworks - EMMA POLLOCK, Besnard Lakes are the dark horse - BESNARD LAKES, Panic prevention - JAMIE T, New magnetic wonder - THE APPLES IN STEREO, Going way out with Heavy Trash - HEAVY TRASH, Candylion - GRUFF RHYS, Western Xterminator - RTX, If the ocean gets rough - WILLY MASON, Book of bad breaks - THEE MORE SHALLOWS, Ode to ochrasy - MANDO DIAO, All that to the wall - THE NARRATOR, God save the Clientele - THE CLIENTELE, Release the stars - RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Forts - THE BOGGS, Abandoned language - DALEK, Dumb luck - DNTEL, Sticking fingers into sockets - LOS CAMPESINOS!, In camera - ARTHUR AND YU, It's not how far you fall, it's the way you land - SOULSAVERS, New seasons - THE SADIES, Fourteen autumns and fifteen winters - TWILIGHT SAD, With lasers - BONDE DO ROLE, Orchestra of wolves - GALLOWS, Bad football - THE TAKEOVERS, Best friends in love - BANG LIME, Super taranta! - GOGOL BORDELLO, We are the night - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, From here we go sublime - THE FIELD, Twilight of the innocents - ASH, Control - GOODBOOKS, Girls and weather - RUMBLE STRIPS, We'll live and die in these towns - THE ENEMY, Teenager - THE THRILLS, The hair the TV the baby and the band - IMPERIAL TEEN, Anytown graffiti - PELA, Country mouse city house - JOSH ROUSE, Lady's bridge - RICHARD HAWLEY, Made of bricks - KATE NASH, Elegies to lessons learnt - ILIKETRAINS, Hvarf / Heim - SIGUR ROS, 4 way diablo - MONSTER MAGNET, Hideout - FILM SCHOOL, Our ill wills - SHOUT OUT LOUDS, Autumn of the seraphs - PINBACK, Transnormal skiperoo - JIM WHITE, I can't go on I’ll go on - THE BROKEN WEST, Love is simple - AKRON/FAMILY, Fort nightly - WHITE RABBITS, Shelter from the ash - SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, Kingdom of fear - SHITDISCO, Pilgrimage - OM, Down below it’s chaos - KINSKI, Close to paradise - PATRICK WATSON, Yes U - DEVASTATIONS, Manhattan Love Suicides - MANHATTAN LOVE SUICIDES, Voice Of The Seven Woods - VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS, Population - THE MOST SERENE REPUBLIC, Sawdust - THE KILLERS

The Best Albums Of 2006

2010-12-25T14:18:00.000+02:00

Top 50

Return to cookie mountain - TV ON THE RADIO
Whatever people say I am, that's what I am not - ARCTIC MONKEYS
Cansei De Ser Sexy - CSS
Show your bones - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
Be Your Own Pet - BE YOUR OWN PET
Derdang derdang - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT
The crane wife - THE DECEMBERISTS
First impressions of earth - THE STROKES
You in reverse - BUILT TO SPILL
Rather ripped - SONIC YOUTH
Boys and girls in America - THE HOLD STEADY
Pieces of the people we love - THE RAPTURE
Fishscale - GHOSTFACE KILLAH
Yoyoyoyoyo - SPANK ROCK
Standing in the way of control - GOSSIP
Ringleader of the tormentors - MORRISSEY
I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass - YO LA TENGO
Rabbit fur coat - JENNY LEWIS WITH THE WATSON TWINS
Robbers & cowards - COLD WAR KIDS
Hit the floor! - YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE!
Sam’s town - THE KILLERS
The Lemonheads - THE LEMONHEADS
The Bronx - THE BRONX
The invisible deck - THE ROGERS SISTERS
The body the blood the machine - THE THERMALS
Drum's not dead - LIARS
Impeach my bush - PEACHES
The greatest - CAT POWER
Broken boy soldiers - THE RACONTEURS
Avatar - COMETS ON FIRE
Powder burns - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS
In colour - THE CONCRETES
Someone to drive you home - THE LONG BLONDES
Bottoms of barrels - TILLY AND THE WALL
Gulag Orkestar - BEIRUT
Putting the days to bed - THE LONG WINTERS
The loon - TAPES 'N TAPES
A hundred miles off - THE WALKMEN
Zeroes and ones - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY
Everything all the time - BAND OF HORSES
Howling Bells - HOWLING BELLS
Make love to the judges with your eyes - PONY UP!
We are The Pipettes - THE PIPETTES
Bring it back - MATES OF STATE
Gang of losers - THE DEARS
Let’s get out of this country - CAMERA OBSCURA
Fox confessor brings the flood - NEKO CASE
Pearl Jam - PEARL JAM
Under a billion suns - MUDHONEY
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

The Best Albums Of 2005

2010-11-28T04:22:00.000+02:00

Top 50

Silent alarm - BLOC PARTY
LCD Soundsystem - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
Gimme fiction - SPOON
Picaresque - THE DECEMBERISTS
Fall heads roll - THE FALL
Golden ocean - 50 FOOT WAVE
No wow - THE KILLS
You could have it so much better - FRANZ FERDINAND
I'm wide awake, it's morning / Digital ash in a digital urn - BRIGHT EYES
Illinois - SUFJAN STEVENS
Cuts across the land - THE DUKE SPIRIT
Lullabies to paralyze - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
The great destroyer - LOW
Broken Social Scene - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
Everything ecstatic - FOUR TET
Let us never speak of it again - OUT HUD
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH
The woods - SLEATER-KINNEY
Witching hour - LADYTRON
Set yourself on fire - STARS
Pretty in black - THE RAVEONETTES
Twin cinema - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
The secret migration - MERCURY REV
Plans - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
Ex hex - MARY TIMONY
Face the truth - STEPHEN MALKMUS
Late registration - KANYE WEST
Get behind me Satan - THE WHITE STRIPES
Cripple crow - DEVENDRA BANHART
The mouse and the mask - DANGER DOOM
Apologies to the Queen Mary - WOLF PARADE
Live it out - METRIC
Grab that gun - THE ORGAN
The back room - EDITORS
Absence - DALEK
Wilderness - WILDERNESS
Elevator - HOT HOT HEAT
Employment - KAISER CHIEFS
Stars of CCTV - HARD-FI
Capture / Release - THE RAKES
A certain trigger - MAXIMO PARK
Tree city - ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET
The Bravery - THE BRAVERY
Arular - M.I.A.
We have sound - TOM VEK
Feels - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
Tournament of hearts - CONSTANTINES
The alternative to love - BRENDAN BENSON
Man-made - TEENAGE FANCLUB
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

The Best Albums Of 2004

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Top 50

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

The Best Albums Of 2003

2010-10-23T21:31:00.005+03:00

Top 50

Coral fang - THE DISTILLERS
Elephant - THE WHITE STRIPES
Throwing Muses - THROWING MUSES
Fever to tell - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
Take them on, on your own - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
Echoes - THE RAPTURE
Room on fire - THE STROKES
You are free - CAT POWER
The new romance - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
The real new Fall LP (formerly ‘Country On The Click’) - THE FALL
Send - WIRE
Sumday - GRANDADDY
Keep on your mean side - THE KILLS
Fatherfucker - PEACHES
Give up - THE POSTAL SERVICE
You forgot it in people - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
Old world underground, where are you now? - METRIC
Lovers - THE SLEEPY JACKSON
Rock N Roll - RYAN ADAMS
Blackberry belle - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS
Strays - JANE'S ADDICTION
La musica negra - VERBENA
Electric version - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
Logic will break your heart - THE STILLS
The Bronx - THE BRONX
Rounds - FOUR TET
Speakerboxxx / The love below - OUTKAST
Hail to the thief - RADIOHEAD
The New Folk Implosion - FOLK IMPLOSION
This is the glamorous - NEW WET KOJAK
Nocturama - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Feast of wire - CALEXICO
Youth and young manhood - KINGS OF LEON
Gallowsbird’s bark - THE FIERY FURNACES
99 Cents - CHICKS ON SPEED
Wherever I am I am what is missing - LAIKA
The instinct - DENALI
Please believe it - THE PARTY OF HELICOPTERS
Long knives drawn - RAINER MARIA
Earthquake glue - GUIDED BY VOICES
De-loused in the comatorium - THE MARS VOLTA
Killing Joke - KILLING JOKE
Baby I'm bored - EVAN DANDO
Magic and medicine - THE CORAL
Think tank - BLUR
Stellastarr* - STELLASTARR*
Bazooka!!! - THE STAR SPANGLES
Hocus - pocus - ENON
Alter - PLEASURE FOREVER
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

The Best Albums Of 2002

2010-09-30T23:10:00.000+03:00

Top 50

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

The Best Albums Of 2001

2010-09-11T19:30:00.001+03:00

Top 50

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

The Best Albums Of 2000

2010-08-21T15:36:00.001+03:00

Top 50

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

The Best Albums Of The '90s

2010-07-26T02:28:00.001+03:00

Top 100

Nevermind - NIRVANA
Rid of me - P.J. HARVEY
Live through this - HOLE
Extricate - THE FALL
Goo - SONIC YOUTH
Siamese dream - SMASHING PUMPKINS
Fear of a black planet - PUBLIC ENEMY
The hot rock - SLEATER - KINNEY
House of GVSB - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
Fontanelle - BABES IN TOYLAND
Dirty - SONIC YOUTH
Swift-work - THE FALL
Slanted and enchanted - PAVEMENT
Celebrity skin - HOLE
1965 - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
Sweet oblivion - SCREAMING TREES
Too high to die - MEAT PUPPETS
Trompe le monde - THE PIXIES
Every good boy deserves fudge - MUDHONEY
The real Ramona - THROWING MUSES
Copper blue - SUGAR
In utero - NIRVANA
Dry - P.J. HARVEY
Henry’s dream - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
At Action Park - SHELLAC
Bakesale - SEBADOH
Definitely maybe - OASIS
Deadsexy - SCARCE
The magic city - HELIUM
New west motel - THE WALKABOUTS
Saturation - URGE OVERKILL
Independent worm saloon - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
Gentlemen - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
University - THROWING MUSES
Let love in - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Scream, Dracula, scream - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
White light white heat white trash - SOCIAL DISTORTION
Into the pink - VERBENA
Freak*on*ica - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
Powertrip - MONSTER MAGNET
Acme - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
Hello nasty - BEASTIE BOYS
Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury - DISPOSABLE HEROES OF HIPHOPRISY
The slow-motion world of Snowpony - SNOWPONY
One part lullaby - THE FOLK IMPLOSION
Jehovahkill - JULIAN COPE
New adventures in hi-fi - R.E.M.
Uncle Anesthesia - SCREAMING TREES
The Italian Flag - PROLAPSE
Code: Selfish - THE FALL
Cleopatra grip - THE HEART THROBS
Blast the human flower - DANIELLE DAX
Pills and thrills and bellyaches - HAPPY MONDAYS
Swagger - THE BLUE AEROPLANES
Submarine bells - THE CHILLS
Sack full of silver - THIN WHITE ROPE
Bossanova - THE PIXIES
Repeater - FUGAZI
Bandwagonesque - TEENAGE FANCLUB
Loveless - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
No joke! - MEAT PUPPETS
Mellon collie and the infinite sadness - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
Soundclash - RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE
Garbage - GARBAGE
Giant steps - THE BOO RADLEYS
Too many days without thinking - SWELL
In the long still night - GALLON DRUNK
Social Distortion - SOCIAL DISTORTION
Ritual de lo habitual - JANE'S ADDICTION
Dig me out - SLEATER-KINNEY
Hungry for sting - L7
Big red letter day - BUFFALO TOM
Come on feel the Lemonheads - THE LEMONHEADS
Laughing down the limehouse - ANASTASIA SCREAMED
Brighten the corners - PAVEMENT
Cha Cha Cohen - CHA CHA COHEN
Do the collapse - GUIDED BY VOICES
The soft bulletin - THE FLAMING LIPS
Full Isaac - LOTION
San Francisco - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB
My brother the cow - MUDHONEY
To bring you my love - P.J. HARVEY
Peggy suicide - JULIAN COPE
O.G. Original Gangster - ICE T
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 chambers) - WU-TANG CLAN
Urban hymns - THE VERVE
The Dandy Warhols come down - THE DANDY WARHOLS
I can hear the heart beating as one - YO LA TENGO
Keep it like a secret - BUILT TO SPILL
Foo Fighters - FOO FIGHTERS
Butch - THE GERALDINE FIBBERS
Madonna - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
Deserter’s songs - MERCURY REV
Center of the universe - GIANT SAND
Automatic for the people - R.E.M.
In the aeroplane over the sea - NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL
Beet - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY
A thousand leaves - SONIC YOUTH
Amerikkka's most wanted - ICE CUBE
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?

The Best Albums Of 1999

2010-06-30T02:14:00.001+03:00

Top 50

The hot rock - SLEATER - KINNEY
Into the pink - VERBENA
The slow-motion world of Snowpony - SNOWPONY
One part lullaby - THE FOLK IMPLOSION
Cha Cha Cohen - CHA CHA COHEN
Do the collapse - GUIDED BY VOICES
The soft bulletin - THE FLAMING LIPS
The Marshall suite - THE FALL
Keep it like a secret - BUILT TO SPILL
Madonna - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
Debt and departure - THOSE BASTARD SOULS
Terror twilight - PAVEMENT
The Sebadoh - SEBADOH
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 ideal crash - DEUS
Save yourself - MAKE UP
Midnite vultures - BECK
The Contino sessions - DEATH IN VEGAS
Ghosts of dead aeroplanes - PROLAPSE
Electric honey - LUSCIOUS JACKSON
Black on both sides - MOS DEF
Beaucoup fish - UNDERWORLD
The days of our nights - LUNA
Jewels for Sophia - ROBYN HITCHCOCK
Destination 2000 - L.A.L.
The evil powers of rock 'n' roll - SUPERSUCKERS
King of the road - FU MANCHU
Nature creates freaks - CAY
Slap-happy - L7
There is nothing left to lose - FOO FIGHTERS
Beneath the surface - GZA/GENIUS
Surrender - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
Bon chic bon genre - CAMPAG VELOCET
So…how's your girl? - HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL
Nigga please - OL' DIRTY BASTARD
Juxtapose - TRICKY
Works project LP - SCOTT 4
Come pick me up - SUPERCHUNK
Get skintight - THE DONNAS
Things that I discover - TINY TOO
Manual - APPLIANCE
Avant hard - ADD N TO (X)
Rhythm and stealth - LEFTFIELD
Things fall apart - THE ROOTS
I am … - NAS
Homesick - THE EXPERIMENTAL POP BAND
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

The Best Albums Of 1998

2010-05-21T19:33:00.004+03:00

Top 50

Celebrity skin - HOLE
1965 - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
Freak*on*ica - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
Powertrip - MONSTER MAGNET
Acme - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
Hello nasty - BEASTIE BOYS
Is this desire? - P.J. HARVEY
Deserter’s songs - MERCURY REV
In the aeroplane over the sea - NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL
A thousand leaves - SONIC YOUTH
Whitechocolatespaceegg - LIZ PHAIR
Little plastic castle - ANI DIFRANCO
Munki - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
RFTC - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
Come clean - CURVE
Without you I’m nothing - PLACEBO
The things we make - SIX BY SEVEN
Tomorrow hit today - MUDHONEY
End hits - FUGAZI
Yield - PEARL JAM
Queens Of The Stone Age - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
Introducing Cadallaca - CADALLACA
Hope is important - IDLEWILD
Peloton - THE DELGADOS
Bed - JULIANA HATFIELD
The rebels not in - THE HALO BENDERS
Kingsize - THE BOO RADLEYS
For all the beautiful people - SWELL
Aquemini - OUTKAST
Mezzanine - MASSIVE ATTACK
How to operate with a blown mind - LO-FIDELITY ALLSTARS
Recorded in state LP - SCOTT 4
American water - SILVER JEWS
XO - ELLIOTT SMITH
Psyence fiction - UNKLE
Nature film - SCRAWL
The last dog and pony show - BOB MOULD
Blue - THE JESUS LIZARD
Slain by - URUSEI YATSURA
Moment of truth - GANG STARR
He got game - PUBLIC ENEMY
Cypress Hill IV - CYPRESS HILL
Version 2.0 - GARBAGE
Up - R.E.M.
Moon pix - CAT POWER
Strung out in heaven - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE
Accelerator - ROYAL TRUX
Featuring ‘birds’ - QUASI
Solex vs. the Hitmeister - SOLEX
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

The Best Albums Of 1997

2010-04-29T23:11:00.005+03:00

Top 50

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

The Best Albums Of 1996

2010-03-28T18:55:00.002+03:00

Top 50

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

The Best Albums Of 1995

2010-02-27T00:00:00.002+02:00

Top 50

Deadsexy - SCARCE
University - THROWING MUSES
Scream, dracula, scream / Hot charity - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
No joke! - MEAT PUPPETS
Mellon collie and the infinite sadness - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
My brother the cow - MUDHONEY
Garbage - GARBAGE
To bring you my love - P.J. HARVEY
Foo Fighters - FOO FIGHTERS
Sleepy eyed - BUFFALO TOM
Boss Hog - BOSS HOG
Lost somewhere between the earth and my home - THE GERALDINE FIBBERS
Washing machine - SONIC YOUTH
Nobody 's cool - LOTION
Exit the dragon - URGE OVERKILL
Burned - ELECTRAFIXION
Hormone hotel - BANDIT QUEEN
Elastica - ELASTICA
Only everything - JULIANA HATFIELD
Dopes to infinity - MONSTER MAGNET
King - BELLY
Dreamette - CROWSDELL
Cerebral caustic - THE FALL
Maxinquaye - TRICKY
(What 's the story) Morning glory? - OASIS
Straight freak ticket - LOVE BATTERY
The dirt of luck - HELIUM
Pacer - THE AMPS
Liquid swords - GENIUS/GZA
Only built 4 Cuban linx - RAEKWON
Sacrilicious - SUPERSUCKERS
Infernal love - THERAPY?
Junior citizen - POSTER CHILDREN
Thank you - ROYAL TRUX
Viva last blues - PALACE MUSIC
Five ways of disappearing - KENDRA SMITH
Here comes success - BAND OF SUSANS
Leftism - LEFTFIELD
III (Temples of boom) - CYPRESS HILL
20 mothers - JULIAN COPE
Lick - HARDCANDY
Are you going to eat that - HAZEL
Wowee zowee - PAVEMENT
Different class - PULP
Electr-o-pura - YO LA TENGO
Red medicine - FUGAZI
Dandys rule OK? - THE DANDY WARHOLS
I should coco - SUPERGRASS
The great escape - BLUR
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

The Best Albums Of 1994

2010-01-22T21:15:00.003+02:00

Top 50

Live through this - HOLE
Too high to die - MEAT PUPPETS
Definitely maybe - OASIS
At Action Park - SHELLAC
Bakesale - SEBADOH
Unplugged in New York - NIRVANA
Let love in - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Middle class revolt - THE FALL
Cruise yourself - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
Hungry for stink - L7
Full Isaac - LOTION
File Under : Easy Listening - SUGAR
Perpetual motion machine - 13 ENGINES
San Francisco - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB
Crooked rain, crooked rain - PAVEMENT
Debut album - SAMMY
Teenager of the year - FRANK BLACK
Orange - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 chambers) - WU-TANG CLAN
Smash - OFFSPRING
Weight - ROLLINS BAND
Crunt - CRUNT
Viva Zapata - 7 YEAR BITCH
Strawberry stone - 360's
Revolution on ice - GUMBALL
Troublegum - THERAPY?
Down - THE JESUS LIZARD
Monster - R.E.M.
Hips and makers - KRISTIN HERSH
Natural ingredients - LUSCIOUS JACKSON
Ill communication - BEASTIE BOYS
Illmatic - NAS
Experimental jet set, trash and no star - SONIC YOUTH
Don't ask, don't tell - COME
Release - COP SHOOT COP
Setting the woods on fire - THE WALKABOUTS
Character assassination - ED KUEPPER
Milky juicy - TINY LIGHTS
Whip smart - LIZ PHAIR
American thighs - VERUCA SALT
Second coming - THE STONE ROSES
Park life - BLUR
Howyoudoin? - RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE
Dubnobasswithmyheadman - UNDERWOLD
Dummy - PORTISHEAD
Mars audiac quintet - STEREOLAB
Whiskey for the Holy Ghost - MARK LANEGAN
Yank crime - DRIVE LIKE JEHU
Without a sound - DINOSAUR JR.
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... G Funk era - WARREN G, Give out but don't give up - PRIMAL SCREAM, Anarchy - CHUMBAWAMBA, Stranger than fiction - BAD RELIGION, Punk in drublic - NOFX, Change giver - SHED SEVEN, Everyone's got one - ECHOBELLY, The decline and fall of Heavenly - HEAVENLY, Striving for the lazy perfection - THE ORCHIDS, Withdrawal method - DIE MONSTER DIE, Cosmovalidator - PONY

The Best Albums Of 1993

2009-12-29T11:20:00.004+02:00

Top 50

Rid of me - P.J. HARVEY
Siamese dream - SMASHING PUMPKINS
New west motel - THE WALKABOUTS
Saturation - URGE OVERKILL
Independent worm saloon - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
Gentlemen - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
In utero - NIRVANA
Volume war - TRASH CAN SCHOOL
The infotainment scan - THE FALL
Giant steps - THE BOO RADLEYS
Superjudge - MONSTER MAGNET
Big red letter day - BUFFALO TOM
Come on feel the Lemonheads - THE LEMONHEADS
Star - BELLY
Fireproof - THAT PETROL EMOTION
Pond - POND
In on the kill taker - FUGAZI
Venus luxure No. 1 baby - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
Supertasty - GUMBALL
Black Sunday - CYPRESS HILL
Bring it down - MADDER ROSE
Frank Black - FRANK BLACK
Where you been - DINOSAUR JR
Beaster - SUGAR
Serene machine - ED KUEPPER
Exile in Guyville - LIZ PHAIR
The Breeders' last splash - THE BREEDERS
Toreador of love - HAZEL
Ask questions later - COP SHOOT COP
Home invasion - ICE T
Purplemetalflakemusic - THE FLUID
Icky mettle - ARCHERS OF LOAF
Tricks of the shade - THE GOATS
Lethal injection - ICE CUBE
Porno for Pyros - PORNO FOR PYROS
Fuzzy - GRANT LEE BUFFALO
Mercury - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB
So tonight that I might see - MAZZY STAR
Modern life is rubbish - BLUR
Phaseshifter - REDD KROSS
Circa, now! - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
From the heart of town - GALLON DRUNK
Boces - MERCURY REV
On the mouth - SUPERCHUNK
Bubble and scrape - SEBADOH
Tindersticks - TINDERSTICKS
Sunrise on the sufferbus - MASTERS OF REALITY
Sand Rubies - SAND RUBIES
Rage against the machine - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
Debut - BJORK

Also recommended:

Cuckoo - CURVE, Mezcal head - SWERVEDRIVER, Imaginary friend - TH' FAITH HEALERS, Transmissions from the satellite heart - THE FLAMING LIPS, Extra width - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, Pablum - CLAW HAMMER, Nail hole - VERTIGO, Steal it - HELL TO PAY, Far gone - LOVE BATTERY, New wave - THE AUTEURS, Vertical smile - THE HEART THROBS, 13 - TEENAGE FANCLUB, Reachin' (a new refutation of time and space) - DIGABLE PLANETS, Become what you are - THE JULIANA HATFIELD 3, El moodio - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY, Happy hour - KING MISSILE, Republic - NEW ORDER, Bleeding star - JPS EXPERIENCE, Purrrr - HOLLY FAITH, Anger - UNDERNATION, Post historic monsters - CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE, Sulk - MOLLY HALF HEAD, Uncut - SISTER DOUBLE HAPPINESS, Lucky Jim - THE GUN CLUB, True zero hook - SMALL 23, Pussy whipped - BIKINI KILL, In search of Manny - LUSCIOUS JACKSON, Big good angel - MOONSHAKE, Five dollar Bob's mock cooter stew - MUDHONEY, Painful - YO LA TENGO, A storm in heaven - VERVE, Scenes from the second storey - THE GOD MACHINE, Suede - SUEDE, Pablo honey - RADIOHEAD, Veil - BAND OF SUSANS, American grafishy - FLIPPER, Numb - HAMMERBOX, Blow - STRAIGHT JACKET FITS, When no one's looking - ZUZU'S PETALS, I'm scared - JACOB'S MOUSE, Violent sentimental - BREED, Velvet hammer - SCRAWL, Mr. Machinery Operator - FIREHOSE, Electra 2000 - HUM, Life's too long - MIDWAY STILL, Against perfection - ADORABLE, Empire of the senseless - SENSELESS THINGS, Core - STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, Shoulder voices - ROLLERSKATE SKINNY, Cindy - ACETONE, Yeah, yeah.../...Our troubled youth - BIKINI KILL / HUGGY BEAR, God protects fools - MERCY RULE, Construction for the modern idiot - WONDER STUFF, Epicure - EAT, Smeared - SLOAN, There is no one what will take care of you - PALACE BROTHERS, Dig - DIG, Glamourpuss - SORT SOL, Dirty pearl - ANITA LANE, Transient random noise bursts with announcements / The groop played "Space age batchelor pad music" - STEREOLAB, Satisfied mind - THE WALKABOUTS, Wild wood - PAUL WELLER, 93 'til infinity - SOULS OF MISCHIEF, Tool of man - POSTER CHILDREN, Silverbeet - THE BATS, Sexy pee story - COWS, Big metal birds - JANITOR JOE, Inhaler - TAD, Toast - TAR, Vortex - CHRISTMAS, No stone unturned - GRAVEL, Chrome - CATHERINE WHEEL, Fuckhead entropy - THE LAST DRIVE, Take it to the vertical - DENIZ TEK, The honeymoon is over - THE CRUEL SEA, Frosting on the bitter - THE POSIES, Flippin' out - GIGOLO AUNTS, Hi-fi Sci-fi - DRAMARAMA, Blonder tongue audio baton - SWIRLIES, Cats and dogs - ROYAL TRUX, Destroy-Oh-Boy - THE NEW BOMB TURKS, Houdini - MELVINS, Vs. - PEARL JAM, Slip - QUICKSAND, Ultimate alternative wavers - BUILT TO SPILL, 14 songs - PAUL WESTERBERG, Love of will - DAVID McCOMB, Fireboy - GRANT McLENNAN, Calling from a country phone - ROBERT FORSTER, Sin factory - KIM SALMON & THE SURREALISTS, Julius Caesar - SMOG, Vampire on Titus - GUIDED BY VOICES, Today's active lifestyles - POLVO, Robot world - BAILTER SPACE, The Venus trail - 3Ds, Manos - THE SPINANES, Copacetic - VELOCITY GIRL, Mule - MULE, The miracle of sound in motion - STEEL POLE BATH TUB, Enter: The conquering chicken - THE GITS, Is It... - MAN OR ASTRO-MAN?, Mack avenue skull game - BIG CHIEF, Midnight marauders - A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, Return of the boom bap - KRS ONE, Doggystyle - SNOOP DOGGY DOGG, The world is yours - SCARFACE, The four horsemen - ULTRAMAGNETIC MC'S, Here come the Lords - LORDS OF THE UNDERGROUND, Dream of 100 nations - TRANSGLOBAL UNDERGROUND, Orbital (The brown album) - ORBITAL, Ντισκολάτα - ΣΤΕΡΕΟ ΝΟΒΑ, 9 πληρωμένα τραγούδια - ΤΡΥΠΕΣ, Cure for pain - MORPHINE, Anodyne - UNCLE TUPELO, The full custom gospel sounds of The Reverend Horton Heat - THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT, Kerosene hat - CRACKER, Mexican moon - CONCRETE BLONDE, Blow - HEATHER NOVA, Puddle dive - ANI DIFRANCO, I (Love) Mekons - MEKONS, One sock missing - THE GRIFTERS, Love Tara - ERIC'S TRIP, Perfect teeth - UNREST, Why do they call me Mr. Happy? - NOMEANSNO, Let's knife - SHONEN KNIFE, Pottymouth - BRATMOBILE, Souvlaki - SLOWDIVE, Red House Painters (Rollercoaster) - RED HOUSE PAINTERS, Forever - CRANES, Liberation - DIVINE COMEDY, The Dodgy album - DODGY, Songs of faith and devotion - DEPECHE MODE, Tabula Rasa - EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN, Undertow - TOOL, Spasm smash XXXOXOX Ox and ass / Godspeed the punchline - TRUMANS WATER, Flying Saucer Attack - FLYING SAUCER ATTACK, Rainbows from atoms - LUNGFISH, Solid brass - CIRCUS LUPUS, The Muffs - THE MUFFS, That Dog - THAT DOG, The buried life - MEDICINE, Cavale - SHRIMP BOAT

The Best Albums Of 1992

2009-11-17T23:14:00.009+02:00

Top 50

Fontanelle - BABES IN TOYLAND
Dirty - SONIC YOUTH
Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury - DISPOSABLE HEROES OF HIPHOPRISY
Copper blue - SUGAR
Dry - P.J. HARVEY
Jehovahkill - JULIAN COPE
Code: Selfish - THE FALL
Slanted and enchanted - PAVEMENT
Sweet oblivion - SCREAMING TREES
Henry’s dream - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Red heaven - THROWING MUSES
Skiz - MUDWIMMIN
Ventriloquist - VERTIGO
Piece of cake - MUDHONEY
Furthest from the sun - THE FAMILY CAT
Killing time - BLEACH
Center of the universe - GIANT SAND
Automatic for the people - R.E.M.
Honey's dead - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
Nurse / Pleasure death - THERAPY?
Let me come over - BUFFALO TOM
Congregation - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
Eleven: Eleven - COME
Bricks are heavy - L7
The chronic - DR. DRE
The predator - ICE CUBE
Play more music - CONSOLIDATED
Organ fan - SILVERFISH
Honey steel's gold / Black ticket day - ED KUEPPER
It's a shame about Ray - THE LEMONHEADS
Going blank again - RIDE
Ritual landscape - THE BADGEMAN
Lido - TH' FAITH HEALERS
Sick 'em - 7 YEAR BITCH
Blues for the red sun - KYUSS
Psalm 69 - MINISTRY
Stupid people shouldn't breed - SKATENIGS
Slo blo - CELL
Revenge of the goldfish - INSPIRAL CARPETS
Body Count - BODY COUNT
The end of silence - ROLLINS BAND
The lump in my forehead - THE LEAVING TRAINS
Weak - SEAWEED
You, the night and the music - GALLON DRUNK
Somewhere between heaven and hell - SOCIAL DISTORTION
May I sing with me? - YO LA TENGO
Soft bomb - THE CHILLS
Jubilee twist - THE HEART THROBS
Doppelganger - CURVE
Spooky - LUSH

Also recommended:

Hey babe - JULIANA HATFIELD, No pocky for kitty - SUPERCHUNK, Swandive - BULLET LAVOLTA, Palomine - BETTIE SERVEERT, Peng! - STEREOLAB, Valhalla avenue - THE FATIMA MANSIONS, TV sky - YOUNG GODS, Body exit mind - NEW FAST AUTOMATIC DAFFODILS, The low road - BEASTS OF BOURBON, The smoke of hell - SUPERSUCKERS, Dazzling display - STEVE WYNN, Well? - SWELL, Need for not - LEVITATION, More boy, less friend - SPRINKLER, Oomalama - EUGENIUS, Daisy chain reaction - POSTER CHILDREN, 3 years, 5 months and 2 days in the life of…- ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, Greatest misses - PUBLIC ENEMY, Ferment - CATHERINE WHEEL, Fear of God - THE BATS, Sebastopol rd. - MEGA CITY 4, Dial square - MIDWAY STILL, Lazer guided melodies - SPIRITUALIZED, Stick around for joy - SUGARCUBES, Babe rainbow - HOUSE OF LOVE, Everything's alright for ever - THE BOO RADLEYS, 1992 The love album - CARTER U.S.M., Hit to death in the future head - FLAMING LIPS, Are you normal? - NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN, Rise up - OSMIUM, Dayglo - LOVE BATTERY, Rocking the forest vs. Helmet - SEBADOH, In ribbons - PALE SAINTS, Business never personal - EPMD, Between 10th and 11th - CHARLATANS, Asquarious - CUD, Wheel - CRAZY ALICE, Rise above - EPIC SOUNDTRACKS, Liar - THE JESUS LIZARD, Supernatural - 360's, Sick jokes and wet dreams - TRASHCAN SCHOOL, Sex diary of mister vampire - THE FLESH EATERS, Autocannibalism - THE AINTS, Your arsenal - MORRISSEY, Check your head - BEASTIE BOYS, Mecca and the soul brother - PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH, Daily operation - GANGSTARR, Don't sweat the technique - ERIC B & RAKIM, Sex and violence - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS, Live and let die - KOOL G RAP & DJ POLO, Bizarre ride II The Pharcyde - THE PHARCYDE, Play with toys - DC BASEHEAD, Eva luna - MOONSHAKE, Bikini Kill EP - BIKINI KILL, Magnapop - MAGNAPOP, You turn me on - BEAT HAPPENING, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, Clean as a broke-dick dog - THE MONKEYWRENCH, Ramwhale - CLAW HAMMER, Spine of God - MONSTER MAGNET, In the meantime - HELMET, Plays pretty for baby - NATION OF ULYSSES, Propeller - GUIDED BY VOICES, Cunning stunts - COWS, Frenching the bully - THE GITS, Royal Trux (2) - ROYAL TRUX, Wrecker! - THE MONO MEN, Imperial f.f.r.r. - UNREST, The guild of temporal adventurers - KENDRA SMITH, Closer to God - TELEVISION PERSONALITIES, London stone - BEVIS FROND, Strange pray tell - DEAD MOON, I'm never gonna die again - THESE IMMORTAL SOULS, Bone machine - TOM WAITS, Magic and loss - LOU REED, Harvest moon - NEIL YOUNG, Barely real - CODEINE, Sound mind - VIVA SATURN, Road movies - RUSS TOLMAN, Martha Jane Canary - CALAMITY JANE, Push - GRUNTRUCK, Overwhelming color fast - OVERWHELMING COLOR FAST, Theater of gnomes - TUMBLEWEED, Stull EP - URGE OVERKILL, Back in Denim - DENIM, Separations - PULP, …XYZ - MOOSE, Soul kiss (Glide divine) - SPECTRUM, Reflecter - SUN DIAL, Melomania - THE DARKSIDE, The Telescopes - THE TELESCOPES, Nightblooms - NIGHTBLOOMS, Rev - ULTRA VIVID SCENE, Down colorful hill - RED HOUSE PAINTERS, Lunapark - LUNA, Cracker - CRACKER, Good - MORPHINE, Mondo bizzaro - RAMONES, Lysol - MELVINS, Angel dust - FAITH NO MORE, Dirt - ALICE IN CHAINS, The untidy suicides of your degenerate children - ALICE DONUT, Bivouac - JAWBREAKER, Novelty - JAWBOX, Cor-crane secret - POLVO, Tropic of Scorpio - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS, Get your goat - SHUDDER TO THINK, Super genius - CIRCUS LUPUS, Talking songs for walking - LUNGFISH, Kiss to the brain - HELIOS CREED, Generator - BAD RELIGION, Kerplunk - GREEN DAY, Smeared - SLOAN, Television - TELEVISION, Love of life - SWANS, Nonsuch - XTC, Paul Weller - PAUL WELLER, Le jardin de Heavenly - HEAVENLY, Trains, boats and planes - THE FRANK AND WALTERS, Generation terrorists - MANIC STREET PREACHERS, Imperfectly - ANI DIFRANCO, Our time in Eden - 10000 MANIACS, Walking in London - CONCRETE BLONDE, Wish - THE CURE, Seven - JAMES, Soul murder - BARRY ADAMSON, Return of the product - MC SERCH, Guerrillas in tha mist - DA LENCH MOB, Dead serious - DAS EFX, Connected - STEREO MCs, Sleeping with the enemy - PARIS, Funk your head up - ULTRAMAGNETIC MC'S, House of Pain - HOUSE OF PAIN, Reel to reel - GRAND PUBA, Moby - MOBY, U.F.Orb - THE ORB, Selected ambient works 85-92 - APHEX TWIN, Satyricon - MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO, Tactical neural implant - FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, The singer - DIAMANDA GALAS, The big sell-out - BONGWATER, Duende - SHRIMP BOAT, More sad hits - DAMON & NAOMI, Deep end - TSUNAMI, I am not this body - GOD IS MY CO-PILOT, Of thick tum - TRUMANS WATER, The Rockingbirds - THE ROCKINGBIRDS, Grave dancers union - SOUL ASYLUM, The southern harmony and musical companion - THE BLACK CROWES, Hollywood town hall - JAYHAWKS, 99.9 F° - SUZANNE VEGA, Ingenue - K.D. LANG, 40 oz. to freedom - SUBLIME, Hit parade 1 / Hit parade 2 - WEDDING PRESENT, Switched on Stereolab - STEREOLAB

The Best Albums Of 1991

2009-10-23T01:57:00.009+03:00

Top 50

Nevermind - NIRVANA
Swift-work - THE FALL
Trompe le monde - THE PIXIES
Every good boy deserves fudge - MUDHONEY
Uncle Anesthesia - SCREAMING TREES
The real Ramona - THROWING MUSES
Blast the human flower - DANIELLE DAX
Apocalypse 1991...The enemy strikes black - PUBLIC ENEMY
Pretty on the inside - HOLE
30 something - CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE
Beat songs - THE BLUE AEROPLANES
O.G. Original Gangster - ICE T
Forbidden places - MEAT PUPPETS
Bandwagonesque - TEENAGE FANCLUB
The ruby sea - THIN WHITE ROPE
Peggy Suicide - JULIAN COPE
Loveless - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
Out of time - R.E.M.
Lived to tell - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY
Ramp - GIANT SAND
Scavenger - THE WALKABOUTS
Everclear - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB
Gish - SMASHING PUMPKINS
Green mind - DINOSAUR JR
Blood sugar sex magic - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
Nymphs - NYMPHS
Moontime - ANASTASIA SCREAMED
Starcaster - HEAD CANDY
Friendly fascism - CONSOLIDATED
Blue lines - MASSIVE ATTACK
Whirlpool - CHAPTERHOUSE
The low end theory - A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
Derelicts of dialect - 3RD BASS
Never loved Elvis - WONDER STUFF
Steady diet of nothing - FUGAZI
Dragstrip riot - THE FLESH EATERS
Ascension - THE AINTS
Babyteeth - THERAPY?
To mother - BABES IN TOYLAND
Blokes you can trust - COSMIC PSYCHOS
Spiderland - SLINT
Life ’n’ perspectives of a genuine crossover - URBAN DANCE SQUAD
Godfodder - NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN
The beast inside - INSPIRAL CARPETS
Foxbase Alpha - SAINT ETIENNE
Piouhgd - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
Mush - LEATHERFACE
The last days of Pompeii - NOVA MOB
Flyin’ the flannel - FIREHOSE
Leisure - BLUR

Also recommended:

I am the greatest - A HOUSE, Screamadelica - PRIMAL SCREAM, Step in the arena - GANG STARR, The way to salvation - KING MISSILE, 8 way Santa - TAD, Looser illusion pt. 0 / Sleeping underwater survivors - THE LEAVING TRAINS, Seaweed - SEAWEED, The history of dogs - PAUL LEARY, Watershed - G. W. McLENNAN, Superstition - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES, Time for a witness - THE FEELIES, III - SEBADOH, Why do birds sing? - VIOLENT FEMMES, Unreal world - THE GODFATHERS, Queer - WOLFGANG PRESS, Wings of joy - CRANES, Strange free world - KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION, Raise - SWERVEDRIVER, The first of too many - SENSELESS THINGS, The great white wonder - POOH STICKS, Sea monsters - THE WEDDING PRESENT, Efil 4 Zaggin - N.W.A, And now the legacy begins - DREAM WARRIORS, Bed - FIVE THIRTY, Things come apart - THE CHARLOTTES, The world and the flesh - BAND OF SUSANS, Yerself is steam - MERCURY REV, Mighty like a rose - ELVIS COSTELLO, Powerstance - FLESHTONES, Incision - VENUS BEADS, Illuminated - 360s, Crammed into infinity - TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, Supersonic storybook - URGE OVERKILL, Cypress Hill - CYPRESS HILL, Death certificate - ICE CUBE, A blur to me now - 13 ENGINES, Drive Like Jehu - DRIVE LIKE JEHU, Goat - THE JESUS LIZARD, Ten - PEARL JAM, Achtung baby - U2, Despise - SEAWEED, Vinyl - DRAMARAMA, New river head - BEVIS FROND, Nice job Einstein - HARM FARM, Kill uncle - MORRISSEY, Dreamy - BEAT HAPPENING, Guerrilla love inn - DROOGS, Face - BIG CHIEF, Hovering - HP ZINGER, Bertie’s brochures - FATIMA MANSIONS, Don’t try this at home - BILLY BRAGG, Ex:El - 808 STATE, Eat yourself whole - KINGMAKER, In the presence of greatness - VELVET CRUSH, Recurring - SPACEMEN 3, 13-point program to destroy America - NATION OF ULYSSES, Fillet show - HUM, Doughboy hollow - DIED PRETTY, The power of pussy - BONGWATER, White noise - COP SHOOT COP, Paint as a fragrance - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT, Wretch - KYUSS, Stranded in the mystery zone - DEAD MOON, From influence to ignorance - UNION CARBIDE PRODUCTIONS, Birdland - BIRDLAND, This is not the way home - THE CRUEL SEA, Jack Frost - JACK FROST, Body blow - HEADLESS CHICKENS, One perfect green blanket - BARBARA MANNING, Still feel gone - UNCLE TUPELO, The curse of the Mekons - MEKONS, Just for a day - SLOWDIVE, Heavenly vs. Satan - HEAVENLY, White light from the mouth of infinity - SWANS, Look mom, no head! - THE CRAMPS, Braindrops - THE FUZZTONES, Headcoatitude / W.O.A.H. Bo in thee garage - THEE HEADCOATS, Girlsville - THEE HEADCOATEES, Unsane - UNSANE, Bullhead - MELVINS, The sky is falling and I want my mommy - JELLO BIAFRA & NOMEANSNO, Thank heaven for little girls - DWARVES, Grippe - JAWBOX, Peacetika - COWS, Nationwide - SURGERY, 1000 smiling knuckles - SKIN YARD, Tulip - STEEL POLE BATH TUB, Funeral at the movies - SHUDDER TO THINK, 2Pacalypse Now - 2PAC, Mr. Scarface is back - SCARFACE, We can't be stopped - GETO BOYS, Naughty By Nature - NAUGHTY BY NATURE, De La Soul is dead - DE LA SOUL, I wish my brother George was here - DEL THA FUNKEE HOMOSAPIEN, Organized Konfusion - ORGANIZED KONFUSION, Frequencies - LFO, Orbital (Green album) - ORBITAL, The Orb's adventures beyond the Ultraworld - THE ORB, Accelerator - THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON, Electronic - ELECTRONIC, Coterie - LEVITATION, For keeps - THE FIELD MICE, Unholy soul - THE ORCHIDS, Chicken rhythms - NORTHSIDE, Quality Street - WORLD OF TWIST, Honey lingers - VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE, Rain Tree Crow - RAIN TREE CROW, West of Rome - VIC CHESNUTT, Fork songs - TALL DWARFS, Prove you wrong - PRONG, Shotgun wedding - LYDIA LUNCH & ROWLAND S. HOWARD, Plague mass - DIAMANDA GALAS, Artistic vice - DANIEL JOHNSTON, Squatter’s rights - THIN WHITE ROPE, Bleach - BLEACH

The Best Albums Of 1990

2009-09-14T00:15:00.003+03:00

Top 50

Extricate - THE FALL
Goo - SONIC YOUTH
Fear of a black planet - PUBLIC ENEMY
Cleopatra grip - THE HEART THROBS
Pills and thrills and bellyaches - HAPPY MONDAYS
Swagger - THE BLUE AEROPLANES
Submarine bells - THE CHILLS
Sack full of silver - THIN WHITE ROPE
Soundclash - RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE
Bossanova - THE PIXIES
Repeater - FUGAZI
Social Distortion - SOCIAL DISTORTION
Ritual de lo habitual - JANE'S ADDICTION
Laughing down the limehouse - ANASTASIA SCREAMED
A catholic education - TEENAGE FANCLUB
Gold mother - JAMES
Birdbrain - BUFFALO TOM
Beet - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY
Nowhere - RIDE
101 damnations - CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE
Amerikkka's most wanted - ICE CUBE
Pod - THE BREEDERS
She hangs brightly - MAZZY STAR
Pastoral, hide 'n' seek - THE GUN CLUB
Chemicrazy - THAT PETROL EMOTION
The comforts of madness - PALE SAINTS
Life - INSPIRAL CARPETS
Third eye - REDD KROSS
Spanking machine - BABES IN TOYLAND
Claw Hammer - CLAW HAMMER
Stuck in Wonderamaland - DRAMARAMA
Some friendly - THE CHARLATANS
Heaven or Las Vegas - COCTEAU TWINS
Pigeonhole - NEW FAST AUTOMATIC DAFFODILS
Leggy mambo - CUD
Heaven scent - PERFECT DISASTER
Done by the forces of nature - JUNGLE BROTHERS
People's instinctive travels and the paths of rhythm - A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
Reading, writing and arithmetic - THE SUNDAYS
A gilded eternity - LOOP
Reason is 6/7 of treason - X-TAL
Under towers - ARSON GARDEN
Lovey - THE LEMONHEADS
The cactus album - 3RD BASS
Metatron - MARK STEWART
Every brilliant eye - DIED PRETTY
The winding sheet - MARK LANEGAN
The good son - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Last scream of the missing neighbors - JELLO BIAFRA WITH D.O.A.
Mental floss for the globe - URBAN DANCE SQUAD

Also recommended:

Smell the magic - L7, Down the primrose path - SALEM 66, This is our music - GALAXY 500, Fontana - HOUSE OF LOVE, Love god - SOUP DRAGONS, Immigrants, emigrants and me - POWER OF DREAMS, One thing - SYLVIA JUNCOSA, Joy 1967 - 1990 - ULTRA VIVID SCENE, Blood letting - CONCRETE BLONDE, Danger in the past - ROBERT FORSTER, Kerosene man - STEVE WYNN, The wonder - TOM VERLAINE, Black sheets of rain - BOB MOULD, Privilege - TELEVISION PERSONALITIES, Psych out - THE SEERS, Paradise discotheque - CRIME AND THE CITY SOLUTION, 90 - 808 STATE, Manscape - WIRE, Flood - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, Swerve / Long stem rant - GIANT SAND, Rag and bone - THE WALKABOUTS, Come down heavy - THEE HYPNOTICS, New funky nation - BOO YAA TRIBE, Vertigo - VERTIGO, Black milk - BEASTS OF BOURBON, Green cat island - RUN WESTY RUN, Any gas faster - BEVIS FROND, Slam - BIG DIPPER, Beyond it all - H.P. ZINGER, Who cares wins - MEGA CITY 4, Positively spooked - BAND OF HOLY JOY, Sage advice - BAND OF BLACKY RANCHETTE, Up in it - THE AFGHAN WHIGS, Head - THE JESUS LIZARD, Superchunk - SUPERCHUNK, Fakebook - YO LA TENGO, In a priest-driven ambulance - THE FLAMING LIPS, Sunburn - BLAKE BABIES, Eye - ROBYN HITCHCOCK, Recurring - SPACEMEN 3, Spectrum - SONIC BOOM, Viva dead ponies - THE FATIMA MANSIONS, Fat Axl - SILVERFISH, Consumer revolt - COP SHOOT COP, Twin infinitives - ROYAL TRUX, Historia de la musica rock - PUSSY GALORE, Cold hands - BOSS HOG, Mystical shit - KING MISSILE, Defiance - DEAD MOON, Eucalyptus - PITCHFORK, Strap it on - HELMET, Smoke 'em if you got 'em - THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT, Roundhouse - TAR, Ben Hur - BITCH MAGNET, No depression - UNCLE TUPELO, Frigid stars - CODEINE, Ichabod and I - THE BOO RADLEYS, Ani Difranco - ANI DIFRANCO, Dear 23 - THE POSIES, Songs for Drella - LOU REED & JOHN CALE, Ragged glory - NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE, Stay sick! - THE CRAMPS, Against the grain - BAD RELIGION, Fly me courageous - DRIVIN 'N’ CRYIN', Glue - THE FLUID, How it looks - How it is - THE LAZY COWGIRLS, Melt - STRAITJACKET FITS, Hey spinner! - ABLE TASMANS, Vehicle - CLEAN, Skywriting - THE FIELD MICE, Other way out - SUN DIAL, Supernatural - STEREO MCs, Let the rhythm hit ‘em - ERIC B & RAKIM, Edutainment - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS, Sex packets - DIGITAL UNDERGROUND, Pawns in the game - PROFESSOR GRIFF & THE LAST ASIATIC DISCIPLES, To the east blackwards - X CLAN, One for all - BRAND NUBIAN, Take a look around - MASTA ACE, Killer - RUTHLESS RAP ASSASSINS, Formula one generation - THE POOH STICKS, A cast of aspersions - LOUIS TILLET, Auntie Ramos’ pool hall - SIDEWINDERS, Skelington / Drooliant - JULIAN COPE, Bang up to date - POPINJAYS, Turtle soup - MOCK TURTLES, Wrong way up - ENO & CALE, Eugenie - THE POPGUNS, Vivian’s fountain - VIV ACAULDREN, The La’s - THE LA’S, The last temptation of Reid - LARD, Mule / Revenge fantasies of the impotent - ALICE DONUT, Ghosts of love - GREEN PAJAMAS, Fragile - PORCELAIN BUS, Today wonder - ED KUEPPER, Eat your sons - THE THREE JOHNS, Angel bite - CLAW BOYS CLAW, Blood nirvana - THE LAST DRIVE, Τρύπες στον παράδεισο - ΤΡΥΠΕΣ, Stop draggin' me down - THE MONO MEN, Blood guts & pussy - DWARVES, Feel the darkness - POISON IDEA, Yummy! - THE HARD-ONS, Audio sonic love affair - THE DUBROVNIKS, All shook down - THE REPLACEMENTS, And the horse they rode in on - SOUL ASYLUM, Songs for the sad eyed girl - BIFF BANG POW!, Cult of the basement - THE JAZZ BUTCHER, Violator - DEPECHE MODE, The crushed velvet apocalypse - THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, Naked city - JOHN ZORN, Aion - DEAD CAN DANCE, An Emotional Fish - AN EMOTIONAL FISH, I do not want what I haven't got - SINEAD O'CONNOR, Hell's ditch - THE POGUES, From the secret laboratory - LEE SCRATCH PERRY, 1990 - DANIEL JOHNSTON

The Best Albums of 1995 - 1999

2009-09-12T23:01:00.001+03:00

Top 60

1. The hot rock - SLEATER-KINNEY
2. Celebrity skin - HOLE
3. House of GVSB - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
4. 1965 - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
5. Deadsexy - SCARCE
6. University - THROWING MUSES
7. The magic city - HELIUM
8. To bring you my love - P.J. HARVEY
9. No joke! - MEAT PUPPETS
10. Scream, dracula, scream - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
11. White light white heat white trash - SOCIAL DISTORTION
12. Dust - SCREAMING TREES
13. Mellon collie and the infinite sadness - SMASHING PUMPKINS
14. Garbage - GARBAGE
15. New adventures in hi-fi - R.E.M.
16. A thousand leaves - SONIC YOUTH
17. The light user syndrome - THE FALL
18. Murder ballads - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
19. My brother the cow - MUDHONEY
20. Powertrip - MONSTER MAGNET
21. Acme - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
22. Hello nasty - BEASTIE BOYS
23. Foo Fighters - FOO FIGHTERS
24. Into the pink - VERBENA
25. The slow-motion world of Snowpony - SNOWPONY
26. The Italian flag - PROLAPSE
27. Too many days without thinking - SWELL
28. Do the collapse - GUIDED BY VOICES
29. The soft bulletin - THE FLAMING LIPS
30. Deserter’s songs - MERCURY REV
31. Keep it like a secret - BUILT TO SPILL
32. Madonna - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
33. In the long still night - GALLON DRUNK
34. Brighten the corners - PAVEMENT
35. Urban hymns - THE VERVE
36. Butch - THE GERALDINE FIBBERS
37. One part lullaby - THE FOLK IMPLOSION
38. Cha Cha Cohen - CHA CHA COHEN
39. The Dandy Warhols come down - THE DANDY WARHOLS
40. I can hear the heart beating as one - YO LA TENGO
41. The Sebadoh - SEBADOH
42. Tales of great neck glory - SAMMY
43. Electriclarryland - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
44. Munki - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
45. Cobra and phases group play voltage in the milky night - STEREOLAB
46. Maxinquaye - TRICKY
47. All eyez on me - 2PAC
48. Second toughest in the infants - UNDERWORLD
49. Whitechocolatespaceegg - LIZ PHAIR
50. Yield - PEARL JAM
51. Boss Hog - BOSS HOG
52. Debt and departure - THOSE BASTARD SOULS
53. Little plastic castle - ANI DIFRANCO
54. Odelay - BECK
55. It was written - NAS
56. Le Tigre - LE TIGRE
57. Elastica - ELASTICA
58. Without you I’m nothing - PLACEBO
59. (What 's the story) Morning glory? - OASIS
60. Blur - BLUR

The Best Albums of 1990 - 1994

2009-09-05T21:18:00.000+03:00

Top 60

1. Never mind - NIRVANA
2. Rid of me - P.J. HARVEY
3. Live through this - HOLE
4. Extricate - THE FALL
5. Dirty - SONIC YOUTH
6. Siamese dream - SMASHING PUMPKINS
7. Fear of a black planet - PUBLIC ENEMY
8. Fontanelle - BABES IN TOYLAND
9. Trompe le monde - PIXIES
10. Every good boy deserves fudge - MUDHONEY
11. Too high to die - MEAT PUPPETS
12. Sweet oblivion - SCREAMING TREES
13. Henry’s dream - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
14. The real Ramona - THROWING MUSES
15. Slanted and enchanted - PAVEMENT
16. Copper blue - SUGAR
17. Definitely maybe - OASIS
18. Bakesale - SEBADOH
19. At action park - SHELLAC
20. Repeater - FUGAZI
21. Independent worm saloon - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
22. Gentlemen - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
23. New west motel - THE WALKABOUTS
24. Saturation - URGE OVERKILL
25. Cruise yourself - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
26. Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury - DISPOSABLE HEROES OF HIPHOPRISY
27. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 chambers) - WU-TANG CLAN
28. Jehovahkill - JULIAN COPE
29. Blast the human flower - DANIELLE DAX
30. Cleopatra grip - THE HEART THROBS
31. Swagger - THE BLUE AEROPLANES
32. Submarine bells - THE CHILLS
33. Sack full of silver - THIN WHITE ROPE
34. Automatic for the people - R.E.M.
35. Bandwagonesque - TEENAGE FANCLUB
36. Loveless - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
37. Giant steps - THE BOO RADLEYS
38. Soundclash - RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE
39. Pills and thrills and bellyaches - HAPPY MONDAYS
40. 30 something - CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE
41. O.G. Original Gangster - ICE T
42. The chronic - DR. DRE
43. Amerikkka's most wanted - ICE CUBE
44. Blue lines - MASSIVE ATTACK
45. Pod - THE BREEDERS
46. Hungry for sting - L7
47. Social Distortion - SOCIAL DISTORTION
48. Ritual de lo habitual - JANE'S ADDICTION
49. Let me come over - BUFFALO TOM
50. Come on feel the Lemonheads - THE LEMONHEADS
51. Ill communication - BEASTIE BOYS
52. Superjudge - MONSTER MAGNET
53. Beet - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY
54. San Francisco - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB
55. Center of the universe - GIANT SAND
56. Park life - BLUR
57. Gold mother - JAMES
58. Nowhere - RIDE
59. Blood sugar sex magic - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
60. The low end theory - A TRIBE CALLED QUEST

The Best Albums Of The '80s

2009-08-28T13:30:00.000+03:00

Top 100

Daydream nation - SONIC YOUTH
Perverted by language - THE FALL
Surfer Rosa - PIXIES
It takes a nation of millions to hold us back - PUBLIC ENEMY
Songs about fucking - BIG BLACK
Zen arcade - HUSKER DU
Document - R.E.M.
Meat is murder - THE SMITHS
The gift - THE JAM
Remain in light - TALKING HEADS
Closer - JOY DIVISION
Psychocandy - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
This nation’s saving grace - THE FALL
Sister - SONIC YOUTH
Fire dances - KILLING JOKE
Juju - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
Blood and chocolate - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
Life’s too good - THE SUGARCUBES
Bug - DINOSAUR JR.
Automatic - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
The Smiths - THE SMITHS
The days of wine and roses - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
Over the edge - WIPERS
Violent Femmes - VIOLENT FEMMES
Sound affects - THE JAM
Crocodiles - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
Playing with a different sex - THE AU PAIRS
The fire of love - THE GUN CLUB
Throwing Muses - THROWING MUSES
Meat Puppets II - MEAT PUPPETS
Before Hollywood - THE GO-BETWEENS
From her to eternity - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Gas, food, lodging - GREEN ON RED
Murmur - R.E.M.
The Stone Roses - THE STONE ROSES
Bummed - HAPPY MONDAYS
The House of Love - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
Valley of rain - GIANT SAND
In the Spanish cave - THIN WHITE ROPE
My invisible lantern - SCREAMING TREES
Isn’t anything - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
Raising hell - RUN DMC
I - A.R. KANE
Our favourite shop - THE STYLE COUNCIL
3 feet high and rising - DE LA SOUL
Straight outta Compton - N.W.A.
Atom drum bop - THE THREE JOHNS
The wonderful and frightening world of... - THE FALL
Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables - DEAD KENNEDYS
Los Angeles - X
Pornography - THE CURE
Power, corruption and lies - NEW ORDER
Doolittle - PIXIES
House tornado - THROWING MUSES
Warehouse: songs and stories - HUSKER DU
Mirage - MEAT PUPPETS
Yo! Bum rush the show - PUBLIC ENEMY
Criminal minded - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
Hex enduction hour - THE FALL
The Queen is dead - THE SMITHS
The flowers of romance - PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED
Burning from the inside - BAUHAUS
Crazy rhythms - THE FEELIES
Is this real? - WIPERS
Damaged - BLACK FLAG
Double nickels on the dime - MINUTEMEN
Mommy’s little monster - SOCIAL DISTORTION
Let it be - THE REPLACEMENTS
Green - R.E.M.
Mudhoney - MUDHONEY
Bleach - NIRVANA
Atomizer - BIG BLACK
New day rising - HUSKER DU
Living in darkness - AGENT ORANGE
Psychedelic jungle - THE CRAMPS
Miami - THE GUN CLUB
Tallulah - THE GO-BETWEENS
Calenture - THE TRIFFIDS
The firstborn is dead - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Evol - SONIC YOUTH
Grotesque (after the Gramme) - THE FALL
Kilimanjaro - THE TEARDROP EXPLODES
Charm world - YO
Life’s rich pageant - R.E.M.
A kiss in the dreamhouse - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
The Psychedelic Furs - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
The Pretenders - THE PRETENDERS
Saturday night! The Album - SCHOOLLY D
Paid in full - ERIC B & RAKIM
Monsters - MEAT PUPPETS
Byram lake blues - 13 ENGINES
Desperate fires - THE JET BLACK BERRIES
Babble - THAT PETROL EMOTION
Garlands - COCTEAU TWINS
After the snow - MODERN ENGLISH
Wild weed - JEFFREY LEE PIERCE
Native sons - THE LONG RYDERS
Bedtime for democracy - DEAD KENNEDYS
Vs - MISSION OF BURMA
Hex breaker - THE FLESHTONES

The 2nd hundred:

Desire - TUXEEDO MOON, Dare - HUMAN LEAGUE, World shut your mouth - JULIAN COPE, Killing Joke - KILLING JOKE, Youth of America - WIPERS, You’re living all over me - DINOSAUR JR., Even if and especially when - SCREAMING TREES, Treeless plain - THE TRIFFIDS, Get happy - ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS, Underwater moonlight - THE SOFT BOYS, Solid gold - GANG OF 4, Bend sinister - THE FALL, 17 seconds - THE CURE, Kaleidoscope - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES, Tocsin - X-MAL DEUTSCHLAND, First and last and always - THE SISTERS OF MERCY, Junkyard - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, Lysergic emanations - THE FUZZTONES, Exploring the axis - THIN WHITE ROPE, Medicine show - THE DREAM SYNDICATE, Hallowed ground - VIOLENT FEMMES, Sorry ma, forgot to take out the trash - THE REPLACEMENTS, Up on the sun - MEAT PUPPETS, Fables of the reconstruction - R.E.M., Low life - NEW ORDER, The crackdown - CABARET VOLTAIRE, Around the world in a day - PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION, Black sea - XTC, Once in a blue moon - YO, Hunkpapa - THROWING MUSES, Frequency and urgency - SALEM 66, Mother Juno - THE GUN CLUB, Inky bloaters - DANIELLE DAX, George Best - THE WEDDING PRESENT, Hup - THE WONDER STUFF, The Young Gods - THE YOUNG GODS, Locust abortion technician - BUTTHOLE SURFERS, Your funeral, my trial - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, Frenz experiment - THE FALL, I am kurious oranj - THE FALL, By all means necessary - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS, The love songs - GIANT SAND, Hope against hope - BAND OF SUSANS, Tender prey - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, Our beloved revolutionary sweetheart - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, Prairie school freakout - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY, Buffalo Tom - BUFFALO TOM, Lick - THE LEMONHEADS, Let’s play domination - WORLD DOMINATION ENTERPRISES, Power - ICE T, Licensed to ill - BEASTIE BOYS, Nothing’s shocking - JANE’S ADDICTION, Before our time - 13 ENGINES, Gravity talks - GREEN ON RED, Ghost stories - THE DREAM SYNDICATE, Buzz factory - SCREAMING TREES, Ragin’ full on - FIREHOSE, Huevos - MEAT PUPPETS, Born sandy devotional - THE TRIFFIDS, Heaven up here - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN, Fried - JULIAN COPE, Headache rhetoric - THE CLOSE LOBSTERS, Sittin’ pretty - THE PASTELS, Bizzaro - THE WEDDING PRESENT, The eight legged groove machine - THE WONDER STUFF, In the flat field - BAUHAUS, Songs the lord taught us - THE CRAMPS, The covenant, the sword and the arm of the lord - CABARET VOLTAIRE, Strangeways, here we come - THE SMITHS, 69 - A.R. KANE, Slates - THE FALL, Superfuzz bigmuff - MUDHONEY, The Las Vegas story - THE GUN CLUB, Reckoning - R.E.M., The world by storm - THE THREE JOHNS, Neither Washington nor Moscow - REDSKINS, Land of the lost - WIPERS, Under a blue marlin - NAKED PREY, Ballad of a thin line man - GIANT SAND, Manic pop thrill - THAT PETROL EMOTION, Jane from occupied Europe - SWELL MAPS, Freedom of choice - DEVO, Porcupine - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN, High land hard rain - AZTEC CAMERA, War - U2, My life in the bush of ghosts - DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO, What’s this for…! - KILLING JOKE, Talk talk talk - PSYCHEDELIC FURS, Wild gift - X, Living eyes - RADIO BIRDMAN, Sandinista - THE CLASH, Trust - ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS, Free dirt - DIED PRETTY, Devil’s river - DIVINE HORSEMAN, Ride the tiger - YO LA TENGO, Sons and fascination - SIMPLE MINDS, Frankenchrist - DEAD KENNEDYS, Flip your wig - HUSKER DU, Generic - FLIPPER, Sonic Youth - SONIC YOUTH

The Best Albums Of 1989

2009-08-19T02:50:00.003+03:00

Top 50

Automatic - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
I - A.R. KANE
Monsters - MEAT PUPPETS
3 feet high and rising - DE LA SOUL
The Stone Roses - THE STONE ROSES
Doolittle - PIXIES
Byram lake blues - 13 ENGINES
Mudhoney - MUDHONEY
Straight outta Compton - N.W.A.
Hup - THE WONDER STUFF
Lick - THE LEMONHEADS
Hunkpapa - THROWING MUSES
Buzz factory - SCREAMING TREES
Bleach - NIRVANA
Buffalo Tom - BUFFALO TOM
Headache rhetoric - THE CLOSE LOBSTERS
Bizzaro - THE WEDDING PRESENT
Sittin’ pretty - THE PASTELS
Love is hell - KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION
Don’t stop the night - MOMUS
Technique - NEW ORDER
Dubrovnik blues - THE DUBROVNIKS
Love agenda - BAND OF SUSANS
L’eau rouge - THE YOUNG GODS
Spike - ELVIS COSTELLO
Key lime pie - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
Cataract - THE WALKABOUTS
Scar - LUSH
When in Rome, kill me - CUD
Sell me a god - EAT
Up - THE PERFECT DISASTER
Rock’n’roll - THE MEKONS
The whitey album - CICCONE YOUTH
The Iceberg / Freedom of speech...just watch what you say - ICE T
Talking to God - PORCELAIN BUS
Distemper - THE NEW CHRISTS
Intolerance - GRANT HART
One of our girls (has gone missing) - A.C. MARIAS
Oranges and lemons - XTC
Black swan - THE TRIFFIDS
Blind ear - THE CELIBATE RIFLES
Fromohio - FIREHOSE
More songs about love and hate - THE GODFATHERS
Lincoln - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
Tranzophobia - MEGA CITY 4
Brain drain - RAMONES
This is the day...this is the hour...this is this - POP WILL EAT ITSELF
Workbook - BOB MOULD
Candleland - IAN McCULLOCH
Groove - NICKY SUDDEN & THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Also recommended:

Dum-Dum - THE VASELINES, Margin walker - FUGAZI, Go the hack - COSMIC PSYCHOS, A warning to the curious - I, LUDICROUS, Tell ’em we ’re surfin’ - THE FAMILY CAT, Fade out - LOOP, Playing with fire - SPACEMEN 3, Taste - THE TELESCOPES, Free - CONCRETE BLONDE, Queen Elvis - ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE EGYPTIANS, Boomerang - THE CREATURES, Blind man’s zoo - 10000 MANIACS, Sonic Temple and the court of Babylon - BRIAN RITCHIE, Lately I keep scissors - BARBARA MANNING, The taller you are, the shorter you get - MY DAD IS DEAD, 3 - VIOLENT FEMMES, Pop said - DARLING BUDS, Snowball - FIELD MICE, Meglamania - BIRDHOUSE, The circle - WIPERS, Transportation D. Vices - THE LEAVING TRAINS, Awakening - THE LAST, Chris Cacavas - CHRIS CACAVAS & JUNKYARD LOVE, I pass for human - STONE BY STONE, Beelzebubba - THE DEAD MILKMEN, Primal Scream - PRIMAL SCREAM, The Acid House album - BIFF BANG POW!, It’s beginning to and back again - WIRE, Here today, tomorrow next week - THE SUGARCUBES, Paul's boutique - BEASTIE BOYS, Am I black enough for you? - SCHOOLLY D, Ghetto music: The blueprint of hip hop - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS, Unfinished business - EPMD, Friendly as a hand grenade - TACKHEAD, Disintegration - THE CURE, Tweez - SLINT, United Kingdom - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB, On fire - GALAXIE 500, In heat - FUZZTONES, Unknown passage - DEAD MOON, Dial M for Motherfucker - PUSSY GALORE, Positraction - LIVE SKULL, Wrong - NOMEANSNO, Thermos - BAILTER SPACE, The law of things - THE BATS, Labyrinth - THE MOFFS, Some disenchanted evening - THE VERLAINES, Hail - STRAITJACKET FITS, The size of food - JPS EXPERIENCE, Lyceum - THE ORCHIDS, The honey tangle - ADULT NET, Earwig - BLAKE BABIES, Black candy - BEAT HAPPENING, President Yo La Tengo - YO LA TENGO, Telepathic surgery - THE FLAMING LIPS, The freed man - SEBADOH, Too much sleep - BONGWATER, Financially dissatisfied, philosophically trying - UNION CARBIDE PRODUCTIONS, Hard volume - ROLLINS BAND, God's balls - TAD, Umber - BITCH MAGNET, Understand? - NAKED RAYGUN, Roadmouth - FLUID, Witch doctor - SIDEWINTERS, Failure - THE POSIES, Against nature - THE FATIMA MANSIONS, We shoot for the moon - SLOVENLY, Rock 'n' roll - THE CYNICS, Ego tripping at the gates of hell - LOUIS TILLETT, Moss side story - BARRY ADAMSON, Hope and despair - EDWYN COLLINS, Floating into the night - JULEE CRUISE, Haus der luge - EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, The king and eye - RESIDENTS, The burning world - SWANS, Mother's milk - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, The real thing - FAITH NO MORE, Pretty hate machine - NINE INCH NAILS, The mind is a terrible thing to taste - MINISTRY, No control - BAD RELIGION, Love is a battlefield of wounded hearts - THE HARD-ONS, Mystery road - DRIVIN' N CRYIN', Just because you can't see it... doesn't mean it isn't there... - KIM SALMON & THE SURREALISTS, Enquire within - THE STEPPES, Scenes from the dreams of angels - OUTSKIRTS OF INFINITY, Headcoats down! - THEE HEADCOATS, Live'r than God - THEE HYPNOTICS, Griller - UT, Tantilla - HOUSE OF FREAKS, Manic, magic, majestic - THE BAND OF HOLY JOY, End of the century party - GARY CLAIL, As nasty as they wanna be - 2 LIVE CREW, No one can do it better - THE D.O.C., Road to the riches - KOOL G RAP & DJ POLO, Grip It! On that other level - GETO BOYS, It's a Big Daddy thing - BIG DADDY KANE, Club classics Vol.1 - SOUL II SOUL, 33 45 78 - STEREO MC’S, Liquidizer - JESUS JONES, What's that noise? - COLDCUT, Mind bomb - THE THE, The enraged will inherit the earth - McCARTHY, This one's for the ladies - THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, Magnum cum louder - HOODOO GURUS, Don't tell a soul - THE REPLACEMENTS, Cloudland - PERE UBU, New York - LOU REED, Freedom - NEIL YOUNG, Oh mercy - BOB DYLAN, Full moon fever - TOM PETTY, Avalon sunset - VAN MORRISON, Yellow moon - NEVILLE BROTHERS, Indigo Girls - INDIGO GIRLS, Raw like sushi - NENEH CHERRY, Maria McKee - MARIA McKEE, The sensual world - KATE BUSH, Each man kills the thing he loves - GAVIN FRIDAY, Customs - SAVAGE REPUBLIC, Εν πλω - ΕΝ ΠΛΩ, Laying down law - THE WRECKERY, Blow - RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY, Scratch the surface - THE JASMINE MINKS, The singular adventures of the Style Council - THE STYLE COUNCIL, Once round the fair - THE LOFT, Giant Sandwich - GIANT SAND, Seminal live - THE FALL

The Best Albums Of 1988

2009-07-30T03:47:00.009+03:00

Top 50

Daydream Nation - SONIC YOUTH
Surfer Rosa - PIXIES
Life’s too good - THE SUGARCUBES
Bug - DINOSAUR JR.
The House of Love - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
In the Spanish Cave - THIN WHITE ROPE
Green - R.E.M.
It takes a nation of millions to hold us back - PUBLIC EMENY
Bummed - HAPPY MONDAYS
My invisible lantern - SCREAMING TREES
House Tornado - THROWING MUSES
I am Kurious Oranj / Frenz Experiment - THE FALL
By all means necessary - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
Isn’t anything - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
The love songs / Storm - GIANT SAND
Hope against hope - BAND OF SUSANS
Tender prey - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
The eight legged groove machine - THE WONDER STUFF
Let’s play domination - WORLD DOMINATION ENTERPRISES
69 - A.R. KANE
Our beloved revolutionary sweetheart - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
Hairway to Steven - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
Ghost stories - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
Huevos - MEAT PUPPETS
Power - ICE T
Naked - TALKING HEADS
Judges, juries and horsemen - WEATHER PROPHETS
Follow the leader - ERIC B & RAKIM
If’n - FIREHOSE
Prairie school freakout - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY
Superfuzz bigmuff - MUDHONEY
Nothing’s shocking - JANE’S ADDICTION
Prison bound - SOCIAL DISTORTION
Everybody’s got to - ED KUEPPER
Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch - SENATOR FLUX
Strictly business - E.P.M.D.
Sugarshit sharp - PUSSY GALORE
Lonely Mr. Happy - THE DEADLY HUME
Lost - DIED PRETTY
Heavens - BIG DIPPER
Kool and deadly - JUST ICE
A bell is a cup until it is struck - WIRE
The tenement year - PERE UBU
Birth, school, work, death - THE GODFATHERS
Two nuns and a pack mule - RAPEMAN
Straight out the jungle - JUNGLE BROTHERS
The Bambi Slam - THE BAMBI SLAM
Hardly not even - RUN WESTY RUN
Only life - THE FEELIES
16 Lover’s lane - THE GO-BETWEENS

Also recommended:

Things - THINGS, Trouble from providence - SACRED COWBOYS, National treasures, natural disasters - SALEM 66, Viva hate - MORRISSEY, Peepshow - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES, Blue bell knoll - COCTEAU TWINS, Ultra Vivid scene - ULTRA VIVID SCENE, Wooden foot cops on the highway - THE WOODENTOPS, My nation underground - JULIAN COPE, Fisherman’s blues - THE WATERBOYS, Globe of frogs - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE EGYPTIANS, End of the millennium psychosis blues - THAT PETROL EMOTION, Lovely - THE PRIMITIVES, Tender pervert - MOMUS, It wings above - CHEEPSKATES, Salvation guaranteed - THEE FOURGIVEN, Confession - THE LAST, The death of everything - THE THREE JOHNS, World without end - THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS, Kiss ass godhead - MEMBRANES, Volatile - LIME SPIDERS, You must be certain of the devil - DIAMANDA GALAS, Front by front - FRONT 242, Stewdio - THE STEPPES, Strip-mine - JAMES, Animal necessity - JET BLACK BERRIES, Let’s skip the details - MY DAD IS DEAD, Craps - BIG DIPPER, In the air tonight - UNION CARBIDE PRODUCTIONS, Sour mash - THE BEASTS OF BOURBON, Jamboree - BEAT HAPPENING, Today - GALAXIE 500, California - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB, See beautiful rattlesnake gardens - THE WALKABOUTS, Masters of Reality - MASTERS OF REALITY, Still brothers - PORCELAIN BUS, Smoker’s paradise - BREAKING CIRCUS, Jettison - NAKED RAYGUN, Creator - THE LEMONHEADS, L7 - L7, Rehab doll - GREEN RIVER, In the graveyard - DEAD MOON, Pink sun quartz blasting - HOLLOWMEN, Royal Trux - ROYAL TRUX, They - KING MISSILE, Double bummer - BONGWATER, Charmed life - HALF JAPANESE, In Gut's house - UT, Donut comes alive - ALICE DONUT, Small parts isolated and destroyed - NOMEANSNO, Hail - STRAITJACKET FITS, Tanker - BAILTER SPACE, Love songs - JPS EXPERIENCE, Asylum road - THE PERFECT DISASTER, A way of life - SUICIDE, The Beatnigs - THE BEATNIGS, Tackhead tape time - TACKHEAD SOUND SYSTEM, Critical beatdown - ULTRAMAGNETIC MC's, In full gear - STETSASONIC, Smoke some kill - SCHOOLLY D, Eazy-duz-it - EAZY E, Long live the Kane - BIG DADDY KANE, He’s the DJ, I’m the rapper - DJ JAZZY JEFF AND THE FRESH PRINCE, The great adventures of Slick Rick - SLICK RICK, Tougher than leather - RUN DMC, A Salt with a deadly Pepa, - SALT ’N’ PEPA, Bullet from a gun - DEREK B, Lovesexy - PRINCE, If I should fall from grace with God - THE POGUES, Modern Lovers ’88 - JONATHAN RICHMAN AND THE MODERN LOVERS, Green thoughts - THE SMITHEREENS, A promise is a promise - LYRES, Heatwave - LAST DRIVE, Overdose - MIRACLE WORKERS, Inner mission - BLACKLIGHT CHAMELEONS, Down in earthquake town - RUSS TOLMAN, Make my day - MINERS OF MUSO, Shellak the Bozac - LIQUID HIPPOS, It’s like everything else - I LUDICROUS, The innocents - PARACHUTE MEN, Let it bee - VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE, Keep to the beat - HUXTONE CREEPERS, STP not LSD - ANGRY SAMOANS, How about some more - VIPERS, Cuacha - SIDEWINDERS, Twelve flights up - THE CYNICS, Baby - TROTSKI ICEPICK, Holden interview - TACTICS, Thaw - FOETUS INTERRUPTUS, Love is forever - BIFF BANG POW!, Triptych / The auntie Winnie album - THE BEVIS FROND, Sun tunnels - THE TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, Sister Double Happiness - SISTER DOUBLE HAPPINESS, Hang time / Say what you will, Clarence...Karl sold the truck / Clam dip and other delights - SOUL ASYLUM, Suffer - BAD RELIGION, The land of rape and honey - MINISTRY, ...And justice for all - METALLICA, From enslavement to obliteration - NAPALM DEATH, A fierce pancake - STUMP, So good it hurts - MEKONS, Based on a true story - THE DEL LORDS, Lucinda Williams - LUCINDA WILLIAMS, The trinity session - COWBOY JUNKIES, Workers playtime - BILLY BRAGG, Starfish - THE CHURCH, The serpent's egg - DEAD CAN DANCE, Jamahiriya Democratique et Populaire de Sauvage - SAVAGE REPUBLIC, Aural guerrilla - THE EX, Dickcheese - THE HARD-ONS, Move something - 2 LIVE CREW, It takes two - ROB BASE & DJ EZ ROCK, Goin' off - BIZ MARKIE, Life is... Too Short - TOO SHORT, Pure righteousness - LAKIM SHABAZZ, Unity - SHINEHEAD, To the batmobile let's go - THE TODD TERRY PROJECT, Bird wood cage - THE WOLFGANG PRESS, The pictorial Jackson review - FELT, The stars we are - MARC ALMOND, Copy cats - JOHNNY THUNDERS & PATTI PALLADIN, Nothing wrong - RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY, This is our art - THE SOUP DRAGONS, Somebody up there likes me - THE BRILLIANT CORNERS, December - FOR AGAINST, Totally lost - THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, Love junk - THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, Tracy Chapman - TRACY CHAPMAN, Short sharp shocked - MICHELLE SHOCKED, Irish heartbeat - VAN MORRISON & THE CHIEFTAINS, Friendloverplane - THE BLUE AEROPLANES, Tommy 1985-1987 - THE WEDDING PRESENT, Barbed wire kisses - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, Substance 1977-1980 - JOY DIVISION, Ramones mania - RAMONES, Rank - THE SMITHS

The Best Albums Of 1987

2009-06-27T02:35:00.006+03:00

Top 50

Songs about fucking - BIG BLACK
Sister - SONIC YOUTH
Warehouse: songs and stories - HUSKER DU
Document - R.E.M.
Mirage - MEAT PUPPETS
Yo! Bum rush the show - PUBLIC ENEMY
Tallulah - THE GO-BETWEENS
Saturday night! The Album - SCHOOLY D
Babble - THAT PETROL EMOTION
Calenture - THE TRIFFIDS
Frequency and urgency - SALEM 66
Mother Juno - THE GUN CLUB
Inky bloaters - DANIELLE DAX
You’re living all over me - DINOSAUR JR.
Even if and especially when - SCREAMING TREES
George Best - THE WEDDING PRESENT
Criminal minded - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
The Young Gods - THE YOUNG GODS
Locust abortion technician - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
Your funeral, my trial - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Strangeways, here we come - THE SMITHS
Before our time - 13 ENGINES
Paid in full - ERIC B & RAKIM
Bigger and deffer - LL COOL J
Pleased to meet me - THE REPLACEMENTS
Come on pilgrim - PIXIES
Follow blind - WIPERS
Half way to sanity - RAMONES
Saint Julian - JULIAN COPE
Ragin’ full on - FIREHOSE
Licensed to ill - BEASTIE BOYS
Sign of the times - PRINCE
In my tribe - 10000 MANIACS
Snake handler - DIVINE HORSEMAN
The cave comes alive - LIME SPIDERS
Children of God - SWANS
Engine - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB
Spitting out miracles - THE BLUE AEROPLANES
Secrets of the beehive - DAVID SYLVIAN
The Joshua tree - U2
The ideal copy - WIRE
Right now! - PUSSY GALORE
The ice machine - BREAKING CIRCUS
Salon - PLASTICLAND
Happy nightmare baby - OPAL
Up for a bit with the Pastels - THE PASTELS
Brave words - THE CHILLS
Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me - THE CURE
Code - CABARET VOLTAIRE
Mark Stewart - MARK STEWART

Also recommended:

The fat skier - THROWING MUSES, Moonhead - THIN WHITE ROPE, Neurotica - REDD KROSS, Testify! - THEE FOURGIVEN, Heaven’s end - LOOP, Darklands - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, Within the realm of a dying sun - DEAD CAN DANCE, Rhythm killers - SLY & ROBBIE, Trouble over here, trouble over there - TROUBLE FUNK, Squirrel and G-Man twenty four hour party people plastic face carnt smile (white out) - HAPPY MONDAYS, Crush collision / 10000 years of trouble - AGE OF CHANCE, Box frenzy - POP WILL EAT ITSELF, Hot animal machine - HENRY ROLLINS, Life time - ROLLINS BAND, The killer inside me - GREEN ON RED, Two fisted tales - THE LONG RYDERS, Played - BODINES, Sea hunt - PLAN 9, Six days of sound - LORD JOHN, Too many cowboys - THE EX, Fleshtones vs. Reality - THE FLESHTONES, New wave hot dogs - YO LA TENGO, Fuck - THE LEAVING TRAINS, Foxheads stalk this land - THE CLOSE LOBSTERS, Me, grandma, Iliko and Hilarian - THE DEADLY HUME, Box office bomb - DRAMARAMA, Whisper tames the lion - DRIVIN’ N’ CRYIN’, Texas Instruments - TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, Tapping the source - LAZY COWGIRLS, Come to your senses - TO DAMASCUS, 40 miles from nowhere - NAKED PREY, Daddy's highway - THE BATS, At first sight violets are blue - THE STEMS, Book of hours - GREEN PAJAMAS, Oh my Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips - THE FLAMING LIPS, Hate your friends - THE LEMONHEADS, Kingdom day - THE DROOGS, Roman beach party - THE CELIBATE RIFLES, Cosmic Psychos - COSMIC PSYCHOS, Hardware - THE NOMADS, The perfect prescription - SPACEMEN 3, Mayflower - THE WEATHER PROPHETS, Sonic flower groove - PRIMAL SCREAM, Off to heaven - REVOLVING PAINT DREAM, Dirtdish - WISEBLOOD, In the air tonight - UNION CARBIDE PRODUCTIONS, Flying Color - FLYING COLOR, I am a wallet - McCARTHY, The girl who runs the beat hotel - BIFF BANG POW!, The poison boyfriend - MOMUS, Danse macabre / A cabinet of curiosities - PAUL ROLAND, Overdose - THE MIRACLE WORKERS, Surprise surprise surprise - MIRACLE LEGION, Mute lament - 100th MONKEY, For the country - DUMPTRUCK, Remember - CHEEPSKATES, Prayer for the halcyon fear - TINY LIGHTS, Ego tripping at the gates of hell - LOUIS TILLETT, Mother fist and her five daughters - MARC ALMOND, Franks wild years - TOM WAITS, Strange weather - MARIANNE FAITHFULL, Solitude standing - SUZANNE VEGA, Through the looking glass - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES, Echo & the Bunnymen - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN, Flash light - TOM VERLAINE, Bird dog - THE VERLAINES, Blow your cool - HOODOO GURUS, The Mekons honky tonkin' - MEKONS, Gluey porch treatments - MELVINS, Skag heaven - SQUIRREL BAIT, In gut's house - UT, Dustbowl - HEAD OF DAVID, Riposte - SLOVENLY, Skin Yard - SKIN YARD, Taint pluribus taint unum - COWS, Don't open til doomsday - THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS, Drop of the creature - THE STEPPES, A cuppa tea and a lie down - ABLE TASMANS, More tales from the city - THE BAND OF HOLY JOY, Soro - SALIF KEITA, Rhyme pays - ICE T, Lethal - UTFO, Down by law - MC SHAN, Civilization and its discotheques - THE FIBONACCIS, Hang-ten! - THE SOUP DRAGONS, Poem of the river - FELT, Psonic psunspot - THE DUKES OF STRATOSPHEAR, The guitar and other machines - THE DURUTTI COLUMN, Fuent auf der nach oben offenen richterskala - EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, Get lost (don't lie) - THESE IMMORTAL SOULS, Honeymoon in red - LYDIA LUNCH, Jackamo - ANNIE ANXIETY BANDEZ, Tacky souvenirs of pre-revolutionary America - CULTURCIDE, Never mind the ballots - CHUMBAWAMBA, Back again in the D.H.S.S. - HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT, Inner marshland - THE BEVIS FROND, Catfish eyes... and tales - THE VIETNAM VETERANS, Reunion wilderness - THE RAILWAY CHILDREN, Crooked mile - MICRODISNEY, Mainstream - LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS, The people who grinned themselves to death - THE HOUSEMARTINS, Freaks - PULP, War, famine, death, pestilence and Miss Timberlake - THE DEEP FREEZE MICE, Bucky Fellini - THE DEAD MILKMEN, Plays the devil's music - LUBRICATED GOAT, Locos por el Sexo - TRAGIC MULATTO, Steel construction - LEATHER NUN, The men who loved music - THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, Cuba - THE SILOS, Monkey on a chain gang - HOUSE OF FREAKS, 2 x 4 - GUADALCANAL DIARY, The pursuit of happiness - THE BEAT FARMERS, Outside looking in - BODEANS, Echelons - FOR AGAINST, Lolita nation - GAME THEORY, I'll call you sometime - VIV AKAULDREN, Scum - NAPALM DEATH, Πάρτυ στον 13ο όροφο - ΤΡΥΠΕΣ, In the Dutch mountains - THE NITS, Music for the masses - DEPECHE MODE, Actually - PET SHOP BOYS, Hopeless cases - ANNE CLARK, Official version - FRONT 242, Floodland - THE SISTERS OF MERCY, Earth Sun Moon - LOVE AND ROCKETS, The uplift mofo party plan - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, Electric - THE CULT, Diesel and dust - MIDNIGHT OIL, Tunnel of love - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Dreams of reason produce monsters - MICK KARN, The cost of loving - THE STYLE COUNCIL, One second - YELLO, How ya like me now - KOOL MOE DEE, Mana fiesta - PERSONAL EFFECTS,Viva - XMAL DEUTSCHLAND, Palace of swords reversed - THE FALL, Substance 1987 - NEW ORDER, The House of Love - THE HOUSE OF LOVE, Hit by hit - THE GODFATHERS, Give me convenience or give me death - DEAD KENNEDYS, Wasted...again - BLACK FLAG, Greatest hits-Destroyed by fire - THE FLESH EATERS, Eight Crepuscule tracks - CABARET VOLTAIRE

The Best Albums Of 1986

2009-05-24T03:38:00.005+03:00

Top 50

Blood and chocolate - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
Life’s rich pageant - R.E.M.
Once in a blue moon - YO
Desperate fires - THE JET BLACK BERRIES
Bedtime for democracy - DEAD KENNEDYS
Bend sinister - THE FALL
Raising hell - RUN DMC
The Queen is dead - THE SMITHS
Throwing Muses - THROWING MUSES
Atomizer - BIG BLACK
Evol - SONIC YOUTH
The world by storm - THE THREE JOHNS
Neither Washington nor Moscow - REDSKINS
Land of the lost - WIPERS
Candy apple grey - HUSKER DU
Out of the grey - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
Ballad of a thin line man - GIANT SAND
Born sandy devotional / In the pines - THE TRIFFIDS
Manic pop thrill - THAT PETROL EMOTION
Under a blue marlin - NAKED PREY
The good earth - THE FEELIES
Liberty belle and the black diamond express - THE GO-BETWEENS
Devil’s river - DIVINE HORSEMAN
Free dirt - DIED PRETTY
Out my way - MEAT PUPPETS
A date with Elvis - THE CRAMPS
Ride the tiger - YO LA TENGO
Music from Elba - ANTIETAM
Happy head - THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS
Tinderbox - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
The blind leading the naked - VIOLENT FEMMES
Word up - CAMEO
Telephone free landslide victory - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
All rise - NAKED RAYGUN
The ghost of Cain - NEW MODEL ARMY
Album - P.I.L.
The King of America - THE COSTELLO SHOW
Infected - THE THE
Brotherhood - NEW ORDER
Graceland - PAUL SIMON
So - PETER GABRIEL
Talking with the taxman about poetry - BILLY BRAGG
Giant - THE WOODENTOPS
Outside my window - THE THINGS
All-night lotus party - VOLCANO SUNS
Underworld shakedown - THE LAST DRIVE
Too cool to live too smart to die - DEJA VOODOO
Songs of love and fury - MEMBRANES
Grenade - THE CASSANDRA COMPLEX
Stars and Hank forever - THE RESIDENTS

Also recommended:

Kicking against the pricks - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, Enjoy The Creeps - THE CREEPS, Schooly D - SCHOOLY D, Life’s hard and then you die - IT’S IMMATERIAL, Contenders - EASTERHOUSE, Rooms of the magnificent - ED KUEPPER, Tolerance - THE BLUE AEROPLANES, Element of light - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE EGYPTIANS, Sound of confusion - SPACEMEN 3, Hear it is - THE FLAMING LIPS, Rembrandt pussyhorse - BUTTHOLE SURFERS, Kill tunes - THE LEAVING TRAINS, Clairvoyance - SCREAMING TREES, The restless stranger - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB, Positively Dumptruck - DUMPTRUCK, Second and last - CHEEPSKATES, Lyres Lyres - LYRES, Blue train station - THE CYNICS, Hallelujah all the way home - VERLAINES, The turgid miasma of existence - CELIBATE RIFLES, Thinking of empire - SLOVENLY, ...And he's not gonna take it anymore - MY DAD IS DEAD, Made to be broken / While you were out - SOUL ASYLUM, Mending wall - ANGST, Inner limits - CRAWLING WALL, Swimming with sharks - GET SMART, Stop pretending - THE PANDORAS, Shop Assistants - SHOP ASSISTANTS, Stutter - JAMES, Skylarking - XTC, Gone to earth - DAVID SYLVIAN, Forever breathes the lonely word - FELT, Diesel river - THE WEATHER PROPHETS, Texas - JACOBITES, Monster walks the winter lake - DAVID THOMAS, Holy money - SWANS, Paint your wagon - RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY, Force - A CERTAIN RATIO, Parade - PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION, Hot, cool, vicious - SALT ’N PEPA, Back to the old school - JUST ICE, Music madness - MANTRONIX, Skeezer pleaser - UTFO, On fire - STETSASONIC, Is what we are - 2 LIVE CREW, Oh my God! - DOUG E. FRESH & THE GET FRESH CREW, Back in black - WHODINI, Say what? - TROUBLE FUNK, R & B skeletons in the closet - GEORGE CLINTON, Planet rock: The album - AFRIKA BAMBAATAA & THE SOULSONIC FORCE, Electric cafe - KRAFTWERK, Ship of fools - TUXEDO MOON, Home of the brave - LAURIE ANDERSON, Victorialand - COCTEAU TWINS, Filigree & shadow - THIS MORTAL COIL, Big world - JOE JACKSON, Get close - THE PRETENDERS, True stories - TALKING HEADS, Animal boy - RAMONES, Blah blah blah - IGGY POP, Concrete Blonde - CONCRETE BLONDE, Big plans for everybody - LET’S ACTIVE, Sex and love and hope and dreams - BODEANS, Scarred but smarter - DRIVIN' N’ CRYIN', The Backlight Chameleons - THE BACKLIGHT CHAMELEONS, Trudge - SAVAGE REPUBLIC, Cloud one - LIVE SKULL, Sex mad - NOMEANSNO, Weird love - THE SCIENTISTS, Rivers of corn - THE ZIMMERMEN, The edge of the world - MEKONS, I am John's pancreas - A WITNESS, Step on it - BOGSHED, Acropolis now - THEE MIGHTY CAESARS, Miasma - THE BEVIS FROND, Brighter than a thousand suns - KILLING JOKE, Black celebration - DEPECHE MODE, Horse rotorvator - COIL, Master of puppets - METALLICA, Reign in blood - SLAYER, The divine punishment / Saint of the pit - DIAMANDA GALAS, Gods own medicine - THE MISSION, Express - LOVE AND ROCKETS, Circus Maximus - MOMUS, Anna Domino - ANNA DOMINO, The no comprendo - LES RITA MITSOUKO, Different light - BANGLES, Guitars, Cadillacs, etc., etc. - DWIGHT YOAKAM, Guitar town - STEVE EARLE, Georgia Satellites - GEORGIA SATELLITES, Johnny comes marching home - THE DEL LORDS, Van go - THE BEAT FARMERS, Still standing - JASON & THE SCORCHERS, It's time for... - JONATHAN RICHMAN & THE MODERN LOVERS, They Might Be Giants - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, London 0 Hull 4 - THE HOUSEMARTINS, Jamboree - GUADALCANAL DIARY, Heyday - THE CHURCH, Big shot chronicles - GAME THEORY, Aristocracie - PHILLIP BOA AND THE VOODOOCLUB, Standing up straight - THE WOLFGANG PRESS, Medusa - CLAN OF XYMOX, Room of lights - CRIME & THE CITY SOLUTION, The moon looked down & laughed - VIRGIN PRUNES, Commercial suicide - COLIN NEWMAN, Off the beaten track - AFRICAN HEAD CHARGE, In the good old country way - THE NIGHTINGALES, Strange times - THE CHAMELEONS, Especially for you - THE SMITHEREENS, Something weird - THE STOMACHMOUTHS, I against I - BAD BRAINS, Eat your paisley - THE DEAD MILKMEN, Smell my finger - THE HARD-ONS, Pictures of starving children sell records - CHUMBAWAMBA, The unacceptable face of freedom - TEST DEPT., Twitch - MINISTRY, Mind: The perpetual intercourse - SKINNY PUPPY, Mafu cage - THE NEON JUDGEMENT, Virus meadow - AND ALSO THE TREES, The wrong people - FURNITURE, What's in a word? - THE BRILLIANT CORNERS, Revenge - T.S.O.L., Can I say - DAG NASTY, October file - DIE KREUZEN, Burning in water - MOVING TARGETS, LP - HEAD OF DAVID, How green is the valley - THE MEN THEY COULDN'T HANG, Henk - THE NITS, The big heat - STAN RIDGWAY, Rapture - ANITA BAKER, Rough & rugged - SHINEHEAD, Gift - THE SISTERHOOD, In visible silence - THE ART OF NOISE, Utter Madness - MADNESS, The world won’t listen - THE SMITHS, Kaleidoscope world - THE CHILLS, The hammer party - BIG BLACK, Ballot result - MINUTEMEN

The Best Albums Of 1985

2009-05-01T00:40:00.001+03:00

Top 50

Meat is murder - THE SMITHS
Psychocandy - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
This nation’s saving grace - THE FALL
Our favourite shop - THE STYLE COUNCIL
Gas, food, lodging / No free lunch - GREEN ON RED
New day rising / Flip your wig - HUSKER DU
Wild weed - JEFFREY LEE PIERCE
Charm world - YO
Valley of rain - GIANT SAND
The firstborn is dead - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Frankenchrist - DEAD KENNEDYS
First and last and always - THE SISTERS OF MERCY
Lysergic emanations - THE FUZZTONES
Exploring the axis - THIN WHITE ROPE
Up on the sun - MEAT PUPPETS
Fables of the reconstruction - R.E.M.
Low life - NEW ORDER
The covenant, the sword and the arm of the lord - CABARET VOLTAIRE
Around the world in a day - PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION
State of our union - THE LONG RYDERS
Sundown on Venus - THE JET BLACK BERRIES
The head on the door - THE CURE
Colourbox - COLOURBOX
King of rock - RUN DMC
Bad moon rising - SONIC YOUTH
3 way tie (for last) - MINUTEMEN
Stone cold world - THE DROOGS
The lost weekend - DANNY & DUSTY
28th day - 28TH DAY
Wonder wonderful wonderland - PLASTICLAND
Keep your cool and read the rules - PLAN 9
Straight ahead - GREG SAGE
Antietam - ANTIETAM
Tim - THE REPLACEMENTS
Crashing dream - RAIN PARADE
Fegmania! - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE EGYPTIANS
Ghosts of an ideal wife - LAUGHING CLOWNS
Stella - YELLO
The album - MANTRONIX
Language barrier - SLY AND ROBBIE
Once upon a time - SIMPLE MINDS
This is the sea - THE WATERBOYS
Little creatures - TALKING HEADS
Slave girl - LIME SPIDERS
Succumb - TO DAMASCUS
Love - THE CULT
A secret wish - PROPAGANDA
Love not money - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL
Ain’t love grant - X
No rest for the wicked - NEW MODEL ARMY

Also recommended:

Dinosaur - DINOSAUR JR., Run better run - CHEEPSKATES, Electrical storm - ED KUEPPER, Τρύπες - ΤΡΥΠΕΣ, When in Rome do as the Vandals - THE VANDALS, Six sharp cuts - SPIKES, Night of a thousand candles - THE MEN THEY COULDN’T HANG, Beat Happening - BEAT HAPPENING, As the veneer of democracy starts to fade - MARK STEWART, Halber mensch - EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, Robespierre’s velvet basement - JACOBITES, Tales of the new west - THE BEAT FARMERS, Underwater - CRIPPLED PILGRIMS, Cinema verite - DRAMARAMA, The bright orange years - VOLCANO SUNS, Lite life - ANGST, Translate slowly - ZEITGEIST, There are eight million stories… - JUNE BRIDES, Rockin' and romance - JONATHAN RICHMAN & THE MODERN LOVERS, Oil and gold - SHRIEKBACK, Radio - LL COOL J, Raindogs - TOM WAITS, Rum sodomy and the lush - THE POGUES, The clock comes down the stairs - MICRODISNEY, Not born beautiful - SHOCK HEADED PETERS, Nail - SCRAPING FOETUS OFF THE WHEEL, Talk about the weather - RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY, New beginnings - PINK INDUSTRY, Night time - KILLING JOKE, Loose nut - BLACK FLAG, The Lazy Cowgirls - THE LAZY COWGIRLS, Boston, Mass. - THE DEL FUEGOS, Lost & found - JASON & THE SCORCHERS, Wishing chair - 10000 MANIACS, Lone Justice - LONE JUSTICE, Prayer for the halcyon fear - TINY LIGHTS, Town + Country - THE RAVE-UPS, Pass the paintbrush, honey.. - BIFF BANG POW!, Sex and travel - THE JAZZ BUTCHER, Inside out - THE MIRACLE WORKERS, Stop! - THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS, Mars needs guitars! - HOODOO GURUS, Hallelujah all the way home - THE VERLAINES, You get what you deserve - SCIENTISTS, Greed - SWANS, Bringing home the bait - LIVE SKULL, Fear and whiskey - MEKONS, Gift of noise - MEMBRANES, Back in the D.H.S.S. - HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT, Pokkeherrie - THE EX, Rites of Spring - RITES OF SPRING, The difference is…- MOOD SIX, Energized - BLUE MURDER, Spleen and ideal - DEAD CAN DANCE, Ceremonial - SAVAGE REPUBLIC, 25 o’ clock - THE DUKES OF STRATOSPHERE, Old rottenhat - ROBERT WYATT, Hounds of love - KATE BUSH, Steve McQueen - PREFAB SPROUT, Centerfield - JOHN FOGERTY, Paris, Texas - RY COODER, Songs from the big chair - TEARS FOR FEARS, Virgins and Philistines - THE COLOURFIELD, Suzanne Vega - SUZANNE VEGA, Boys and girls - BRYAN FERRY, Easy pieces - LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS, Don't stand me down - DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS, Mad not mad - MADNESS, Cupid & psyche 85 - SCRITTI POLITTI, Working nights - WORKING WEEK, Pressure points - ANNE CLARK, Holy wars - TUXEDOMOON, Ignite the seven cannons - FELT, Perhaps - ASSOCIATES, Groovy decoy - ROBYN HITCHCOCK, What does anything mean? Basically - THE CHAMELEONS, Asylum - THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, Raging souls - MINIMAL COMPACT, Maximizing the audience - WIM MERTENS, Just south of heaven - CRIME & THE CITY SOLUTION, Seventh dream of teenage heaven - LOVE AND ROCKETS, Alive - THE LEATHER NUN, Phantasmagoria - THE DAMNED, Real nighttime - GAME THEORY, The evening visits... and stays for years - THE APARTMENTS, More places forever - DAVID THOMAS, Topsy turvy - YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, Past, present and future - WATERMELON MEN, Odditties - THE CLEAN, That's the long and the short of it - TALL DWARVES, City slab horror - SEVERED HEADS, Ashes - CHRISTIAN DEATH, Clan of Xymox - CLAN OF XYMOX, Here comes everybody - THE WAKE, Seven days in Sammystown - WALL OF VOODOO, Dead man's party - OINGO BOINGO, Big lizard in my backyard - THE DEAD MILKMEN, I don't want to grow up - DESCENDENTS, The Crucifucks - THE CRUCIFUCKS, Walk together, rock together - 7 SECONDS, Fly on a wire - THE EFFIGIES, More beer - FEAR, Freaky styley - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, The way to go out - HUNTERS & COLLECTORS, Green peas - THE VIETNAM VETERANS, Flesh on flesh - THE SNAKE CORPS, Shoulder to shoulder - TEST DEPT. & SOUTH WALES STRIKING MINERS CHOIR, Philister - PHILIP BOA AND THE VOODOO CLUB, Fancy meeting God! - MARC RILEY WITH THE CREEPERS, Hip priest and Kamerads - THE FALL, Live - WIPERS, Beyond the sunset - RAIN PARADE

The Best Albums Of 1984

2009-04-04T19:06:00.006+03:00

Top 50

Zen Arcade - HUSKER DU
The wonderful and frightening world of... - THE FALL
The Smiths - THE SMITHS
Atom drum bop - THE THREE JOHNS
Tocsin - X-MAL DEUTSCHLAND
From her to eternity - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Medicine show - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
Meat Puppets II - MEAT PUPPETS
Native sons - THE LONG RYDERS
Hallowed ground - VIOLENT FEMMES
Let it be - THE REPLACEMENTS
Double nickels on the dime - MINUTEMEN
The Las Vegas story - THE GUN CLUB
Reckoning - R.E.M.
World shut your mouth / Fried - JULIAN COPE
Learning to crawl - THE PRETENDERS
Sparkle in the rain - SIMPLE MINDS
Vengeance - NEW MODEL ARMY
Joined up writing - ANNE CLARK
Micro-phonies - CABARET VOLTAIRE
Ricochet days - MODERN ENGLISH
Ocean rain - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
Natural history - THE MARCH VIOLETS
Brilliant trees - DAVID SYLVIAN
The waking hour - DALIS CAR
A word to the wise guy - THE MIGHTY WAH!
Treasure - COCTEAU TWINS
Cover - TOM VERLAINE
Born in the USA - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Purple rain - PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION
Raining pleasure - THE TRIFFIDS
Spring hill fair - THE GO-BETWEENS
The axeman's jazz - THE BEASTS OF BOURBON
Good tidings - YO
On fyre - LYRES
Explosions in the glass palace - RAIN PARADE
Time stands still - CHRIS D & DIVINE HORSEMAN
Drifters - TRUE WEST
Goodbye cruel world - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
Cafe blue - THE STYLE COUNCIL
Body and soul - JOE JACKSON
Instincts - ROMEO VOID
Fervor - JASON AND THE SCORCHERS
Hole - SCRAPING FOETUS OFF THE WHEEL
This is what you want...this is what you get - P.I.L.
The top - THE CURE
Mirror moves - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
Keep moving - MADNESS
Hysteria - HUMAN LEAGUE
How men are - HEAVEN 17

Also recommended:

Urban gamelan - 23 SKIDOO, Knowledge, power, truth and sex / Jam science - SHRIEKBACK, (Who’s afraid of ?) The Art Of Noise! - THE ART OF NOISE, Slow to fade - RED GUITARS, Law of nature - LAUGHING CLOWNS, I often dream of trains - ROBYN HITCHCOCK, Jesus egg that wept - DANIELLE DAX, It’ll end in tears - THIS MORTAL COIL, Jedda by the sea - 17 PYGMIES, November's heat - CERTAIN GENERAL, The longest day - DEL FUEGOS, Frontier days - DEL LORDS, Way down blue highway - THE LEAVING TRAINS, Naked Prey - NAKED PREY, Head down hand out - CRIPPLED PILGRIMS, Color appreciation / Plasticland - PLASTICLAND, Plan 9 - PLAN 9, Stoneage Romeos - HOODOO GURUS, Rainy Day - RAINY DAY, Colored heaven - THE THINGS, Psychic...Powerless...Another man's sac - BUTTHOLE SURFERS, Slip it in - BLACK FLAG, Too tough to die - RAMONES, Teen babes from Monsanto - REDD KROSS, Gone fishin' - FLIPPER, Cop - SWANS, Throb throb - NAKED RAYGUN, The Celibate Rifles - THE CELIBATE RIFLES, Outta the nest! - THE VIPERS, It's about time - THE PANDORAS, Cemetery - DEJA VOODOO, Action reaction - GET SMART!, Change today? - T.S.O.L., Cypress - LET’S ACTIVE, Blood On The Saddle - BLOOD ON THE SADDLE, The fabulous sounds of the Pacific Northwest - THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, Painting smiles on a dead man - THE LAST, Moving - THE RAINCOATS, Hyaena - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES, Red roses for me - THE POGUES, Brewing up with Billy Bragg - BILLY BRAGG, The painted word - TELEVISION PERSONALITIES, Pop - TONES ON TAILS, Run DMC - RUN DMC, Escape - WHODINI, In the studio - SPECIAL A.K.A., Love wars - WOMACK AND WOMACK, Poet 2 - BOBBY WOMACK, Shango funk theology - SHANGO, No motive - 3 TEENS KILL 4, Soul possession - ANNIE ANXIETY, If I kissed her, I’d have to kill her first - 400 BLOWS, Mister Heartbreak - LAURIE ANDERSON, The big express - XTC, Pacific street - THE PALE FOUNTAINS, The Orange Juice / Texas fever - ORANGE JUICE, Splendor of fear / The strange idols pattern and other short stories - FELT, Dreamtime - THE CULT, The unforgettable fire - U2, A pagan place - THE WATERBOYS, Everybody is fantastic - MICRODISNEY, Eden - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL, All over the place - BANGLES, Rattlesnakes - LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS, Walking in the shadow of the big man - GUADALCANAL DIARY, How will the wolf survive? - LOS LOBOS, Stampede - THE METEORS, The bushes scream while my daddy prunes - THE VERY THINGS, Bullets for you - BLURT, Deadly weapons - MINIMAL COMPACT, Night air - BLAINE L. REININGER, This last night in Sodom - SOFT CELL, Dead Can Dance - DEAD CAN DANCE, Some great reward - DEPECHE MODE, Welcome to the pleasuredome - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD, The age of consent - BRONSKI BEAT, The Icicle Works - THE ICICLE WORKS, In limbo - LYDIA LUNCH, Diamanda Galas - DIAMANDA GALAS, Catastrophe ballet - CHRISTIAN DEATH, Scatology - COIL, And Also The Trees - AND ALSO THE TREES, Gardens - NEW MATH, The lovers / The tower - THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, From the hip - SECTION 25, The jaws of life - HUNTERS & COLLECTORS, Like this - THE DB'S, Die Kreuzen - DIE KREUZEN, A scandal in Bohemia - THE JAZZ BUTCHER, Beating the retreat - TEST DEPT., The fucking cunts treat us like pricks - FLUX OF PINK INDIANS, From the cradle to the grave - SUBHUMANS, Crawfish for the notary - THE VIETNAM VETERANS, Rhyme & reason - MISSING PERSONS, Knife - AZTEC CAMERA, Swoon - PREFAB SPROUT, A walk across the rooftops - THE BLUE NILE, Red sails in the sunset - MIDNIGHT OIL, Climate of the hunter - SCOTT WALKER, George and James - THE RESIDENTS, The love songs - PETER HAMILL, Caribbean sunset - JOHN CALE, New sensations - LOU REED, The magazine - RICKIE LEE JONES, Diamond life - SADE, Bananarama - BANANARAMA, Into the gap - THOMPSON TWINS, The Treacherous Three - THE TREACHEROUS THREE, Hatful of hollow - THE SMITHS, Ten bloody marys and ten how’s your fathers - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS, Exorcising ghosts - JAPAN, At the Palace - GANG OF 4

The Best Albums Of 1983

2009-03-03T14:11:00.009+02:00

Top 50

Fire dances - KILLING JOKE
Perverted by language - THE FALL
Before Hollywood - THE GO-BETWEENS
Violent Femmes - VIOLENT FEMMES
Murmur - R.E.M.
Over the edge - WIPERS
Mommy’s little monster - SOCIAL DISTORTION
Burning from the inside - BAUHAUS
Hex breaker - THE FLESHTONES
Power, corruption and lies - NEW ORDER
The crackdown - CABARET VOLTAIRE
Porcupine - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
Treeless plain - THE TRIFFIDS
High land hard rain - AZTEC CAMERA
War - U2
Gravity talks - GREEN ON RED
Confusion is sex - SONIC YOUTH
My war - BLACK FLAG
Burnin' the ice - DIE HAUT AND NICK CAVE
Speaking in tongues - TALKING HEADS
Jonathan sings - JONATHAN RICHMAN & THE MODERN LOVERS
Saturn strip - ALAN VEGA
Punch the clock - ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS
Life’s a riot with a spy vs spy - BILLY BRAGG
Head over heels - COCTEAU TWINS
Script of the bridge - THE CHAMELEONS
Let the tribe increase - THE MOB
Hootenanny - THE REPLACEMENTS
Death party - THE GUN CLUB
Metal circus - HUSKER DU
Out of step - MINOR THREAT
More fun in the new world - X
A hard road to follow - THE FLESH EATERS
Rock for light - BAD BRAINS
Subterranean jungle - RAMONES
Buzz or howl under the influence of heat - MINUTEMEN
Filth - SWANS
Learning to cope with cowardice - MARK STEWART
Feast - CREATURES
The hurting - TEARS FOR FEARS
Luxury gap - HEAVEN 17
The art of falling apart - SOFT CELL
Swordfishtrombones - TOM WAITS
10-5-60 - THE LONG RYDERS
Emergency third rail power trip - RAIN PARADE
Mummer - XTC
Soul mining - THE THE
You gotta say yes to another excess - YELLO
Computer games - GEORGE CLINTON
Come away with ESG - ESG

Also recommended:

Pop-eyes - DANIELLE DAX, Fetisch - XMAL DEUTSCHLAND, Blue sunshine - THE GLOVE, Whammy - THE B-52s, Golden shower of hits - CIRCLE JERKS, Dealing with the dead - PLAN 9, Hollywood holiday - TRUE WEST, D is for Dumptruck - DUMPTRUCK, Chomp - PYLON, The secrets of the I-ching - 10000 MANIACS, Waterboys - WATERBOYS, Beggars can be choosers - NEWTOWN NEUROTICS, Zeichnungen des patienten O.T. - EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, Bible belt - NIKKI SUDDEN, Torment & toreros - MARC & THE MAMBAS, Oil on canvas - JAPAN, Let's dance - DAVID BOWIE, Legendary hearts - LOU REED, Hysterics - THE NIGHTINGALES, Hard - GANG OF 4, Engine shudder - MOODISTS, It's all done by mirrors - THE ASTRONAUTS, Autoportrait - MECANO, One by one - MINIMAL COMPACT, Rust red September - EYELESS IN GAZA, Dreams less sweet - PSYCHIC TV, Feeding the flame - SAD LOVERS AND GIANTS, Everybody's fantastic - MICRODISNEY, Embrace the herd - THE GIST, Foundation Steppers - THE NEW AGE STEPPERS, The culling is coming - 23 SKIDOO, Lend an ear - PIGBAG, Attitude - RIP RIG AND PANIC, Advantage - CLOCK D.V.A, Koyaanisqatsi / The photographer - PHILIP GLASS, Changing places - ANNE CLARK, Lazy ways - MARINE GIRLS, Everywhere at once - THE PLIMSOULS, Here are the Chesterfield Kings - THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS, Sixteen tambourines - THE THREE O'CLOCK, 100 Flowers - 100 FLOWERS, Sleep in safety - 45 GRAVE, Yes sir, I will - CRASS, Sideroxylon - THE CELIBATE RIFLES, On the right track now - THE VIETNAM VETERANS, Jerky versions of the dream - HOWARD DEVOTO, Saw a ranch house burning last night - DEEP FREEZE MICE, Wreckin' crew - THE METEORS, Mean time - THE BARRACUDAS, Suicidal Tendencies - SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, Kill 'em all - METALLICA, Synchronicity - THE POLICE, Construction time again - DEPECHE MODE, Whodini - WHODINI, Cold-blooded - RICK JAMES, Future shock - HERBIE HANCOCK, Duck rock - MALCOLM McLAREN, You and me both - YAZOO, Quick step & side kick - THOMPSON TWINS, Waiting - FUN BOY 3, Heaven is waiting - THE DANSE SOCIETY, Promise - GENE LOVES JEZEBEL, Another setting - THE DURUTTI COLUMN, The fireman's curse - HUNTERS & COLLECTORS, Curse - LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, Cherished dreams come true - IN THE NURSERY, In bath of Bacon - THE JAZZ BUTCHER, The burden of mules - THE WOLFGANG PRESS, It - PULP, Yip/Jump music - DANIEL JOHNSTON, Off the bone / Smell of female - THE CRAMPS, Snap! - THE JAM, Introducing - THE STYLE COUNCIL, Nocturne - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES, Live in Berlin - THE AU PAIRS

The Best Albums Of 1982

2009-02-01T18:16:00.010+02:00

Top 50

The gift - THE JAM
The days of wine and roses - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
Hex enduction hour / Room to live - THE FALL
A kiss in the dreamhouse - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
Pornography - THE CURE
Miami - THE GUN CLUB
Garlands - COCTEAU TWINS
After the snow - MODERN ENGLISH
Vs - MISSION OF BURMA
Junkyard - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Under the big black sun - X
Sonic Youth - SONIC YOUTH
The sky’s gone out - BAUHAUS
The curse of Zounds! - ZOUNDS
English settlement - XTC
Imperial bedroom - ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS
Combat rock - THE CLASH
Peter Gabriel 4 - PETER GABRIEL
The rise and fall - MADNESS
Too-Rye-Ay - DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
Upstairs at Eric’s - YAZOO
Forever now - PSYCHEDELIC FURS
Sense and sensuality - THE AU PAIRS
Oh no! It’s Devo - DEVO
How could hell be any worse - BAD RELIGION
Forever came today - THE FLESH EATERS
Revelations - KILLING JOKE
Tragic figures - SAVAGE REPUBLIC
New gold dream (81-82-83-84) - SIMPLE MINDS
Message - GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE
Bad Brains - BAD BRAINS
Stink - THE REPLACEMENTS
What makes a man start fires? - MINUTEMEN
Back from Samoa - ANGRY SAMOANS
Born innocent - REDD KROSS
Meat Puppets - MEAT PUPPETS
Everything falls apart - HUSKER DU
Plastic surgery disasters - DEAD KENNEDYS
Millions of dead cops - M.D.C.
Beneath the shadows - T.S.O.L.
Walk among us - MISFITS
Milo goes to college - DESCENDENTS
Mommy you’re not watching me / They could have been bigger than the Beatles - TELEVISION PERSONALITIES
Waiting on Egypt - NIKKI SUDDEN
13.13 / In limbo - LYDIA LUNCH
If I die, I die - VIRGIN PRUNES
Tin drum - JAPAN
Big science - LAURIE ANDERSON
Songs of the free - GANG OF 4
Nebraska - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Also recommended:

Words from the front - TOM VERLAINE, Rip it up / You can’t hide your love forever - ORANGE JUICE, 2x45 - CABARET VOLTAIRE, The tunes of two cities - RESIDENTS, Song of the bailing man - PERE UBU, Wild in the streets - CIRCLE JERKS, Call of the west - WALL OF VOODOO, Mesopotamia - THE B-52'S, Epic garden music - SAD LOVERS AND GIANTS, Drumming the beating heart - EYELESS IN GAZA, Force the hand of chance - PSYCHIC TV, Eligible bachelors - THE MONOCHROME SET, Swimming - THE NAMES, The lexicon of love - ABC, Night and day - JOE JACKSON, Avalon - ROXY MUSIC, Mr. Uddich-Schmuddich goes to town - LAUGHING CLOWNS, Not to - COLIN NEWMAN, 7 songs - 23 SKIDOO, Sulk - ASSOCIATES, The greatest hit (Money mountain) - BLUE ORCHIDS, The gas chair - THE CRAWLING CHAOS, Mecano - MECANO, Pedigree charm - LORA LOGIC, Liliput - LILIPUT, All by myself - RIKK AGNEW, Only theatre of pain - CHRISTIAN DEATH, Westworld - THEATRE OF HATE, Groovy decay - ROBYN HITCHCOCK, Destiny street - RICHARD HELL AND THE VOIDOIDS, Zombie birdhouse - IGGY POP, Music for a new society - JOHN CALE, The blue mask - LOU REED, North by northwest - TOM ROBINSON, Homosapien - PETE SHELLEY, Benefactor - ROMEO VOID, Action battlefield - THE NEW AGE STEPPERS, Change of heart - POSITIVE NOISE, The key of dreams - SECTION 25, Sextet - A CERTAIN RATIO, A broken frame - DEPECHE MODE, A distant shore - TRACEY THORN, The Fun Boy Three - FUN BOY THREE, Computer games - GEORGE CLINTON, Drop the bomb - TROUBLE FUNK, I want candy - BOW WOW WOW, Songs to remember - SCRITTI POLITTI, All fall down - THE SOUND, Frustration - PLAN 9, The record - FEAR, Hunters & Collectors - HUNTERS & COLLECTORS, Pigs on purpose - THE NIGHTINGALES, Fiction - THE COMSAT ANGELS, The gates of lunch - THE DEEP FREEZE MICE, Hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing - DISCHARGE, Christ - The Album - CRASS, Strive to survive causing least suffering possible - FLUX OF PINK INDIANS, Blurt - BLURT, Station MXJY - MAXIMUM JOY, One by one - MINIMAL COMPACT, Seduction - THE DANSE SOCIETY, Harmony - THE WAKE, Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive - PIGBAG, I am cold - RIP RIG + PANIC, Für immer - D.A.F., Oceans - ARTERY, Sundown - RANK & FILE, Spring session M - MISSING PERSONS, ...The big dentist - LEMON KITTENS, Nothing can stop us - ROBERT WYATT, The nightfly - DONALD FAGEN, Marshall Crenshaw - MARSHALL CRENSHAW, Shoot out the lights - RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON, Enter K - PETER HAMMILL, Casablanca - THE SAINTS, Strawberries - THE DAMNED, Women and captains first - CAPTAIN SENSIBLE, 1999 - PRINCE, Midnight love - MARVIN GAYE, Night nurse - GREGORY ISAACS, Juju music - KING SUNNY ADE, UB44 - UB40, Vacation - GO-GO’S, Love over gold - DIRE STRAITS, American fool - JOHN COUGAR, The blurred crusade - THE CHURCH, Repercussion - THE DB'S, Split LP - THE FAITH / VOID, Sound & fury - YOUTH BRIGADE, Blaze of glory - GAME THEORY, Special Beat service - THE BEAT, The poet - BOBBY WOMACK, Moving targets - GIL SCOTT-HERON, Thermo-nuclear sweat - DEFUNKT, Nothing to fear - OINGO BOINGO, Geography - FRONT 242, Beat it down - Y PANTS, Kill for Christ - THE F.U.'S, The kids will have their say - SS DECONTROL, Vicious circle - ZERO BOYS, Drop out - THE BARRACUDAS

The Best Albums Of 1981

2009-01-04T17:36:00.015+02:00

Top 50

Juju - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
Playing with a different sex - THE AU PAIRS
The flowers of romance - PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED
The fire of love - THE GUN CLUB
Youth of America - WIPERS
Damaged - BLACK FLAG
Living in darkness - AGENT ORANGE
Sorry ma, forgot to take out the trash - THE REPLACEMENTS
Psychedelic jungle - THE CRAMPS
Heaven up here - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
Desire - TUXEEDOMOON
Dare - HUMAN LEAGUE
My life in the bush of ghosts - DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO
Solid gold - GANG OF 4
Slates - THE FALL
What’s this for…! - KILLING JOKE
Talk talk talk - PSYCHEDELIC FURS
Wild gift - X
Living eyes - RADIO BIRDMAN
Sandinista - THE CLASH
Faith - THE CURE
Movement - NEW ORDER
Mesh and lace - MODERN ENGLISH
Wilder - THE TEARDROP EXPLODES
Trust / Almost blue - ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS
Sons and fascination / Sister feelings call - SIMPLE MINDS
Alles ist gut - D.A.F.
Generic - FLIPPER
Send me a lullaby - THE GO-BETWEENS
Prayers on fire - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
A minute to pray a second to die - THE FLESH EATERS
Adolescents - ADOLESCENTS
Return of the giant Slits - THE SLITS
Computer world - KRAFTWERK
Red Mecca - CABARET VOLTAIRE
Penthouse and pavement - HEAVEN 17
Collision drive - ALAN VEGA
Roman Gods - THE FLESHTONES
It’s a condition - ROMEO VOID
Nah = Poo. The art of bluff - WAH!
The only fun in town - JOSEF K
The Pretenders II - THE PRETENDERS
Pleasant dreams - RAMONES
Teaching you the fear - REALLY RED
The punch line - MINUTEMEN
In God we trust - DEAD KENNEDYS
The Scientists - THE SCIENTISTS
Mask - BAUHAUS
Tin drum - JAPAN
Odyshape - THE RAINCOATS

Also recommended:

Still - JOY DIVISION, The first and the last - NEW RACE, Magic murder and the weather - MAGAZINE, From the lions mouth - THE SOUND, Second sentence - STEVE MIRO & THE EYES, And don’t the kids just love it - TELEVISION PERSONALITIES, Black snake diamond role - ROBYN HITCHCOCK, October - U2, Art of walking - PERE UBU, Land speed record - HUSKER DU, Dance with me - T.S.O.L., Hardcore ’81 - D.O.A., Kollaps - EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, Thirst - CLOCK DVA, Sunnyboys - SUNNYBOYS, Two halves for the price of one - THE SOFT BOYS, Dreamtime - TOM VERLAINE, New traditionalists - DEVO, 7 - MADNESS, East side story - SQUEEZE, Positive touch - UNDERTONES, See the whirl - DELTA 5, Glitterhouse - MEDIUM MEDIUM, Photographs as memories - EYELESS IN GAZA, LC - DURUTTI COLUMN, Entitled - MECANO, Non stop erotic cabaret - SOFT CELL, Crumbling the antiseptic beauty - FELT, Heart of darkness - POSITIVE NOISE, Sleep no more - THE COMSAT ANGELS, Pleasure - GIRLS AT OUR BEST, Beauty and the beat - GO-GO’S, Wha'ppen? - THE BEAT, Nightclubbing - GRACE JONES, Controversy - PRINCE, Street songs - RICK JAMES, Red - BLACK UHURU, Present arms - UB40, See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah! City All Over, Go Ape Crazy! - BOW WOW WOW, Happy birthday - ALTERED IMAGES, Speak and spell - DEPECHE MODE, Journeys to glory - SPANDAU BALLET, Architecture and morality - ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK, To each - A CERTAIN RATIO, Deceit - THIS HEAT, God - RIP RIG & PANIC, Penis envy - CRASS, Wild and wandering - WASTED YOUTH, No cause for concern - VICE SQUAD, He who dares wins - THEATRE OF HATE, Teenage head in my refrigerator - THE DEEP FREEZE MICE, Stands for decibels - THE dB’s, The Blasters - THE BLASTERS, Peter Pan hits the suburbs - THE ASTRONAUTS, Suburban Lawns - SUBURBAN LAWNS, Go for it - STIFF LITTLE FINGERS, Animal now - RUTS DC, Sitting targets - PETER HAMMILL, Nothing can stop us - ROBERT WYATT, Tom Tom Club - TOM TOM CLUB, The Catherine Wheel - DAVID BYRNE, Ghost in the machine - THE POLICE, Tattoo you - THE ROLLING STONES, I love rock & roll - JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS, Private eyes - DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES, Was (Not Was) - WAS (NOT WAS), Bella Donna - STEVIE NICKS, Hard promises - TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS, For those about to rock (we salute you) - AC/DC, 4 - FOREIGNER, Arc of a diver - STEVE WINWOOD, Pirates - RICKIE LEE JONES, The poet - BOBBY WOMACK, Black president - FELA KUTI, The electric spanking of war babies - FUNKADELIC, Memory serves - MATERIAL, Claro que si - YELLO, Klaus Nomi - KLAUS NOMI, Fourth drawer down - THE ASSOCIATES, Of skins and heart - THE CHURCH, My Houdini - TACTICS, Only a lad - OINGO BOINGO, Always now - SECTION 25

The Best Albums Of 1980

2008-12-05T21:44:00.023+02:00

Top 50

Remain in light - TALKING HEADS
Closer - JOY DIVISION
Sound affects - THE JAM
Crocodiles - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
Grotesque (after the gramme) - THE FALL
Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables - DEAD KENNEDYS
Is this real? - WIPERS
Los Angeles - X
Crazy rhythms - THE FEELIES
Kilimanjaro - THE TEARDROP EXPLODES
Killing Joke - KILLING JOKE
Kaleidoscope - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
17 seconds - THE CURE
The Psychedelic Furs - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
The Pretenders - THE PRETENDERS
Get happy - ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS
Underwater moonlight - THE SOFT BOYS
Black sea - XTC
In the flat field - BAUHAUS
Songs the lord taught us - THE CRAMPS
Jane from occupied Europe - SWELL MAPS
The Birthday Party - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
No questions asked - THE FLESH EATERS
Freedom of choice - DEVO
The correct use of soap - MAGAZINE
Boy - U2
Empires and dance - SIMPLE MINDS
Travelogue - HUMAN LEAGUE
Wild planet - THE B-52’s
End of the century - RAMONES
Rude intrusions - STEVE MIRO & THE EYES
Further ellipses - SPHERICAL OBJECTS
Searching for the young soul rebels - DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
Scary monsters (and super creeps) - DAVID BOWIE
Peter Gabriel III - PETER GABRIEL
The river - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Absolutely - MADNESS
Autoamerican - BLONDIE
Gentlemen take polaroids - JAPAN
Queen of Siam - LYDIA LUNCH
Do animals believe in God? - PINK MILITARY
For how much longer do we tolerate mass murder? - THE POP GROUP
Group sex - CIRCLE JERKS
Alan Vega - ALAN VEGA
Jeopardy - THE SOUND
Sinsemilla - BLACK UHURU
Signing off - UB 40
More Specials - THE SPECIALS
I just can’t stop it - THE BEAT
Kings of the wild frontier - ADAM AND THE ANTS

Also recommended:

The art of walking - PERE UBU, Gyrate - PYLON, Something better change - D.O.A., The black album - THE DAMNED, Nobody’s heroes - STIFF LITTLE FINGERS, Baby's got a gun - THE ONLY ONES, Strange boutique / Love zombies - THE MONOCHROME SET, Lubricate your living room - FIRE ENGINES, A-Z - COLIN NEWMAN, Half-Mute - TUXEDOMOON, Voice of America - CABARET VOLTAIRE, The return of The Durutti Column - THE DURUTTI COLUMN, Organisation / Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK, Die kleinen und die bosen - D.A.F., Solid pleasure - YELLO, Waiting for a miracle - COMSAT ANGELS, A black box - PETER HAMILL, Never forever - KATE BUSH, Zennyata mondatta - THE POLICE, Flesh and blood - ROXY MUSIC, Argybargy - SQUEEZE, Hypnotized - UNDERTONES, Big smash - WRECKLESS ERIC, The absolute game - SKIDS, Vienna - ULTRAVOX, Commercial album - THE RESIDENTS, Heartattack and vine - TOM WAITS, Double fantasy - JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO, Uprising - BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS, Bass culture - LINTON KWESI JOHNSON, Hotter than July - STEVIE WONDER, Warm leatherette - GRACE JONES, Dirty mind - PRINCE, Kurtis Blow - KURTIS BLOW, Too much pressure - SELECTER, Laughter - IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS, Snap crackle & bop - JOHN COOPER CLARKE, Heathen earth - THROBBING GRISTLE, Half machine lip moves - CHROME, Half gentlemen/not beasts - HALF JAPANESE, Devils, rats and piggies: A special message from Godzilla - MEKONS, Soldier - IGGY POP, Disconnected - STIV BATORS, Metro music - MARTHA & THE MUFFINS, Making movies - DIRE STRAITS, Ace of spades - MOTORHEAD, Back in black - AC/DC, New clear days - THE VAPORS, The age of plastic - BUGGLES, The affectionate punch - THE ASSOCIATES, The Nuns - THE NUNS, American music - THE BLASTERS, Out of the tunnel - MX-80 SOUND, We buy a hammer for daddy - LEMON KITTENS, New Age Steppers - THE NEW AGE STEPPERS, Negativland - NEGATIVLAND, Black market - THE CLASH

The Best Albums of 1985 - 1989

2008-11-23T17:47:00.004+02:00

Top 60

1. Daydream nation - SONIC YOUTH
2. Surfer Rosa - PIXIES
3. This nation’s saving grace - THE FALL
4. It takes a nation of millions to hold us back - PUBLIC ENEMY
5. Songs about fucking - BIG BLACK
6. Psychocandy - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
7. Meat is murder - THE SMITHS
8. Document - R.E.M.
9. Bug - DINOSAUR JR.
10. Warehouse: Songs and stories - HUSKER DU
11. Mirage - MEAT PUPPETS
12. House tornado - THROWING MUSES
13. Life’s too good - THE SUGARCUBES
14. Blood and chocolate - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
15. Gas, food, lodging - GREEN ON RED
16. Valley of rain - GIANT SAND
17. My invisible lantern - SCREAMING TREES
18. In the Spanish cave - THIN WHITE ROPE
19. The firstborn is dead - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
20. Isn’t anything - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
21. I - A.R. KANE
22. The Stone Roses - THE STONE ROSES
23. Bummed - HAPPY MONDAYS
24. Raising hell - RUN DMC
25. Criminal minded - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
26. The House of Love - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
27. Tallulah - THE GO-BETWEENS
28. Calenture - THE TRIFFIDS
29. Wild weed - JEFFREY LEE PIERCE
30. Charm world - YO
31. Bedtime for democracy - DEAD KENNEDYS
32. Mudhoney - MUDHONEY
33. Bleach - NIRVANA
34. Byram lake blues - 13 ENGINES
35. Babble - THAT PETROL EMOTION
36. Paid in full - ERIC B & RAKIM
37. 3 feet high and rising - DE LA SOUL
38. Straight outta Compton - N.W.A.
39. Saturday night! The album - SCHOOLY D
40. Our favourite shop - THE STYLE COUNCIL
41. George Best - THE WEDDING PRESENT
42. The eight legged groove machine - THE WONDER STUFF
43. Desperate fires - THE JET BLACK BERRIES
44. Hope against hope - BAND OF SUSANS
45. Frequency and urgency - SALEM 66
46. Lysergic emanations - THE FUZZTONES
47. First and last and always - THE SISTERS OF MERCY
48. Low life - NEW ORDER
49. Around the world in a day - PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION
50. Our beloved revolutionary sweetheart - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
51. Mother Juno - THE GUN CLUB
52. Inky bloaters - DANIELLE DAX
53. Lick - THE LEMONHEADS
54. Buffalo Tom - BUFFALO TOM
55. The world by storm - THE THREE JOHNS
56. Let’s play domination - WORLD DOMINATION ENTERPRISES
57. Power - ICE T
58. Locust abortion technician - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
59. Land of the lost - WIPERS
60. The Young Gods - THE YOUNG GODS

The Best Albums of 1980 - 1984

2008-11-14T02:14:00.006+02:00

Top 60

1. Perverted by language - THE FALL
2. Remain in light - TALKING HEADS
3. Closer - JOY DIVISION
4. The Smiths - THE SMITHS
5. Sound affects - THE JAM
6. Zen arcade - HUSKER DU
7. Fire dances - KILLING JOKE
8. Juju - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
9. Crocodiles - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
10. Murmur - R.E.M.
11. The days of wine and roses - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
12. From her to eternity - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
13. Over the edge - WIPERS
14. The fire of love - THE GUN CLUB
15. Violent Femmes - VIOLENT FEMMES
16. Before Hollywood - THE GO-BETWEENS
17. Playing with a different sex - THE AU PAIRS
18. Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables - DEAD KENNEDYS
19. Meat Puppets II - MEAT PUPPETS
20. Los Angeles - X
21. Pornography - THE CURE
22. Power, corruption and lies - NEW ORDER
23. Burning from the inside - BAUHAUS
24. Garlands - COCTEAU TWINS
25. The flowers of romance - PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED
26. Crazy rhythms - THE FEELIES
27. Damaged - BLACK FLAG
28. Double nickels on the dime - MINUTEMEN
29. Mommy’s little monster - SOCIAL DISTORTION
30. Let it be - THE REPLACEMENTS
31. Living in darkness - AGENT ORANGE
32. Atom drum bop - THE THREE JOHNS
33. Kilimanjaro - THE TEARDROP EXPLODES
34. The Pretenders - THE PRETENDERS
35. Psychedelic jungle - THE CRAMPS
36. Vs - MISSION OF BURMA
37. Hex breaker - THE FLESHTONES
38. Native sons - THE LONG RYDERS
39. Treeless plain - THE TRIFFIDS
40. Desire - TUXEDO MOON
41. Dare - HUMAN LEAGUE
42. After the snow - MODERN ENGLISH
43. The Psychedelic Furs - THE PSYCHEDELIC FUR
44. Get happy - ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS
45. World shut your mouth - JULIAN COPE
46. Underwater moonlight - THE SOFT BOYS
47. Solid gold - GANG OF 4
48. Junkyard - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
49. Tocsin - X-MAL DEUTSCHLAND
50. The crackdown - CABARET VOLTAIRE
51. My life in the bush of ghosts - DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO
52. Sonic Youth - SONIC YOUTH
53. Sandinista - THE CLASH
54. Black sea - XTC
55. Computer world - KRAFTWERK
56. Sons and fascination - SIMPLE MINDS
57. War - U2
58. High land hard rain - AZTEC CAMERA
59. Gravity talks - GREEN ON RED
60. Curse of Zounds - ZOUNDS

Top Tracks: 70 songs from the late 70s

2008-10-30T12:05:00.001+02:00

The Sex Pistols - God save the queen
The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K
The Clash - London calling
The Clash - Janie Jones
The Jam - Down in the tube station at midnight
The Jam - The Eton rifles
The Damned - New rose
The Damned - Smash it up
Ramones - Blitzkrieg bop
Ramones - Sheena is a punk rocker
Richard Hell And The Voidoids - Blank generation
New York Dolls - Personality crisis
Television - Marquee moon
Dead Boys - Sonic reducer
Gang Of Four - Damaged goods
The Fall - Rowche rumble
The Fall - Rebellious jukebox
The Saints - (I’m) stranded
The Saints - This perfect day
Talking Heads - Life during wartime
Talking Heads - Cites
Blondie - Heart of glass
Blondie - Atomic
Suicide - Ghost rider
The Cramps - Human fly
Dead Kennedys - California uber alles
The Undertones - Teenage kicks
Joy Division - She’s lost control
Joy Division - Transmission
Killing Joke - Are you receiving?
Public Image Ltd - Public Image
Wire - I am the fly
Wire - Outdoor miner
Pere Ubu - Final solution
Pere Ubu - Non alignment pact
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hong Kong garden
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Mirage
The Cure - Killing an Arab
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's dead
Magazine - Shot by both sides
Buzzcocks - Ever fallen in love
XTC - Making plans for Nigel
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - (I don’t want to go to) Chelsea
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Oliver’s army
The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
Bruce Springsteen - Born to run
Patti Smith - Free money
David Bowie - Heroes
Iggy Pop - The passenger
Television Personalities - Part time punks
Young Marble Giants - Credit in the straight world
The Slits - Typical girls
X-Ray Spex - Oh! Bondage up yours!
X-Ray Spex - Identity
The Au Pairs - You
Delta 5 - Mind your own business
The Raincoats - Fairytale in the supermarket
Swell Maps - Midget submarines
Cabaret Voltaire - Nag nag nag
Kraftwerk - The model
Simple Minds - Changeling
The B-52s - Rock lobster
The B-52s - Planet Claire
The Specials - Too much too young
Madness - One step beyond
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sex & drugs & rock & roll
The Stranglers - No more heroes
The Only Ones - Another girl, another planet
Radio Birdman - Burn my eye
Crime - Hot wire my heart

The Best Albums of 1975 - 1979

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Top 30

1. Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols - THE SEX PISTOLS
2. Live At The Witch Trials - THE FALL
3. Unknown Pleasures - JOY DIVISION
4. Entertainment! - GANG OF FOUR
5. London Calling - THE CLASH
6. Ramones - RAMONES
7. All Mod Cons - THE JAM
8. This Year's Model - ELVIS COSTELLO
9. Fear Of Music - TALKING HEADS
10. Pink Flag - WIRE
11. Suicide - SUICIDE
12. The Modern Dance - PERE UBU
13. The Scream - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
14. Real Life - MAGAZINE
15. Germ Free Adolescents - X-RAY SPEX
16. Damned Damned Damned - THE DAMNED
17. (I'm) Stranded - THE SAINTS
18. Cut - THE SLITS
19. Second Edition - PUBLIC IMAGE LTD
20. Marquee Moon - TELEVISION
21. Born To Run - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
22. Parallel Lines - BLONDIE
23. The B-52's - THE B-52'S
24. Drums And Wires - XTC
25. The Undertones - THE UNDERTONES
26. Radios Appear - RADIO BIRDMAN
27. Singles Going Steady - BUZZCOCKS
28. The Man Machine - KRAFTWERK
29. Horses - PATTI SMITH
30. Young, Loud And Snotty - DEAD BOYS