The Best Albums Of 2000

Top 50

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

Also recommended:

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

The Best Albums Of The '90s

Top 100

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

The next hundred:

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

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

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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

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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