The Best Albums Of 1999

Top 50

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

Also recommended:

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

The Best Albums Of 1998

Top 50

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

Also recommended:

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

The Best Albums Of 1997

Top 50

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

Also recommended:

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

The Best Albums Of 1996

Top 50

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

Also recommended:

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

The Best Albums Of 1995

Top 50

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

Also recommended:

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