The Best Albums Of 2002

Top 50

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

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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

Top 50

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

Also recommended:

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

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