Recensioni del 1999Seleziona la prima lettera del nome del gruppo o cognome del musicista; seleziona il titolo dell'album per vedere la recensione del disco seleziona il nome del musicista per vedere la scheda del musicista. Oppure guarda soltanto la classifica dei migliori. |
Reviews of 1999 albumsMost reviews are in English, but some were written for Italian magazines and are not available in English yet. Click on the first letter of the last name of the artist or name of the band; click on the title of the album to view the review; click on the name of the band to view a profile of the band. Or view just the list of the best albums of the year. |
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| Artist | Album Title | (Label) | Genre | Rat. | © |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Minor Forest | So Were They In Some Sort Of Fight? | (My Pal God) | alt rock | 6/10 | |
| Add N To (X) | Avant Hard | (Mute) | electronica | 7/10 | |
| Agalloch | Pale Folklore | (End) | folk-metal | 6/10 | |
| Agnostic Front | Riot Riot Upstart | (Epitaph) | hardcore | 5/10 | |
| Al Jabr | One Million And Three | (Alphaphone) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Marc Almond | Open All Night | (Instinct) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| American Analog Set | The Golden Band | (Emperor Jones) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
| Tori Amos | To Venus And Back | (Atlantic) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Anathema | Judgement | (Music for Nations) | doom-metal | 4/10 | |
| And You Will Know Us | Madonna | (Merge) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Bruce Anderson | Balkana | (Family Vineyard) | experimental | 6/10 | |
| Angels Of Light | New Mother | (Young God) | Gothic | 6/10 | M |
| Antenna | Installation | (Mushroom) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Appendix Out | Daylight Saving | (Drag City) | folk | 6/10 | |
| Fiona Apple | When The Pawn Hits The Conflicts | (Epic) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Apples In Stereo | Her Wallpaper Reverie | (Which) | pop | 6/10 | |
| Appliance | Manual | (Mute) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Arab On Radar | Rough Day At The Orifice | (On Pop Pop) | noise-rock | 7/10 | |
| Arab Strap | Elephant Shoe | (Go Beat) | folk-pop | 5/10 | |
| Arcana | (Cold Meat Industry) | gothic | 6/10 | | |
| Arcwelder | Everest | (Touch & Go) | Alt rock | 6/10 | R |
| Arovane | Atol Scrap | (DIN) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Art Of Noise | The Seduction Of Claude Debussy | (Universal) | dance-pop | 6/10 | |
| Atari Teenage Riot | 60 Seconds Wipeout | (DHR) | techno | 5/10 | |
| Natache Atlas | Gedida | (Beggars Banquet) | ethno techno | 7/10 | |
| Atman | Tradition | (Drunken Fish) | world-music | 7/10 | |
| Atomic Bitchwax | Atomic Bitchwax | (Mia) | stoner | 7/10 | |
| Atomine Elektrine | Archimetrical Universe | (Yantra) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Attrition | The Jeopardy Maze | (Projekt) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Autechre | EP7 | (Nothing) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Auteurs | How I Learned To Love The Bootboys | (Hut) | brit-pop | 4/10 | |
| Backstreet Boys | Millennium | (Jive) | pop | 4/10 | |
| Badawi | The Heretic Of Ether | (Asphodel) | illbient | 6/10 | |
| Jessica Bailiff | Hour Of The Trace | (Kranky) | songwriter | 7/10 | L |
| Bailter Space | Solar 3 | (Turnbuckle) | Australia | 6/10 | |
| Banco De Gaia | The Magical Sound Of | (Six Degrees) | rave | 6/10 | |
| Banyan | Anytime at All | (Higher Octave) | funk-rock | 6/10 | |
| Bardo Pond | Set And Setting | (Matador) | 6/10 | | |
| Basement Jaxx | Remedy | (Astralwerks) | techno | 7/10 | |
| Beck | Midnite Vultures | (Geffen) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Behemoth | Satanica | (Metal Mind) | death-metal | 7/10 | |
| Adrian Belew | Salad Days | (Thirsty Ear) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Ben Folds Five | The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner | (Sony) | Progressive | 5/10 | |
| Beta Band | The Three EPs | (Astralwerks) | dance-pop | 8/10 | |
| Beta Band | The Beta Band | (Astralwerks) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Better Than A Thousand | Value Driven | (Supersoul) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
| Beulah | When Your Heartstrings Break | (Sugar Free) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Bevis Frond | Vavona Burr | (Flydaddy) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Bicycle Thief | You Come And Go Like A Pop Song | (Golden Voice) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
| Bile | Sex Reflex | (Bile Style) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Binary System | From the Epicenter | (Atavistic) | progr-rock | 6/10 | |
| Biohazard | New World Disorder | (Warner Bros) | punk-metal | 4/10 | |
| Bionaut | Friends | (Harvest) | techno | 5/10 | |
| Bis | Social Dancing | (Grand Royal) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Brant Bjork | Jalamanta | (Man's Ruin) | hard-rock | 6/10 | |
| Frank Black | Pistolero | (Play It Again Sam) | Alt rock | 6/10 | |
| Black 47 | Trouble In The Land | (Tim/Kerr) | folk-rock | 5/10 | |
| Black Halos | Black Halos | (Die Young) | punk-rock | 6/10 | |
| Black Heart Procession | 2 | (Touch & Go) | alt-rock | 8/10 | |
| Black Watch | The King Of Good Intentions | (Not Lame Limited) | psyc-pop | 6/10 | |
| Blast | A Sophisticated Face | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Blink 182 | Enema Of The State | (MCA) | Punk-pop | 6/10 | |
| Blinker The Star | August Everywhere | (Dreamworks) | grunge | 4/10 | |
| Blondie | No Exit | (Beyond) | disco-punk | 4/10 | |
| Blue Mountain | Tales Of A Traveler | (Roadrunner) | folk | 5/10 | |
| Blue Rags | Eat At Joe's | (SubPop) | 4/10 | B | |
| Blur | 13 | (Wiiija) | Brit-pop | 5/10 | |
| Richard Bone | Coxa | (Quirkworks) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Boredoms | Super | (Birdman) | Noise-rock | 6/10 | |
| Boredoms | Super aR | (Birdman) | noise-rock | 6/10 | |
| Bottle Rockets | Brand New Year | (Doolittle) | roots-rock | 4/10 | |
| Bowery Electric | Lushlife | (Beggars Banquet) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
| Bows | Blush | (Too Pure) | dance-pop | 6/10 | |
| Boxhead Ensemble | Niagara Falls | (Atavistic) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Breakbeat Era | Ultra Obscene | (A&M) | jungle | 6/10 | |
| Breathless | Blue Moon | (Tenor Vossa) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Bright | Blue Christian | (Darla) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Brokeback | Field Recordings | (Thrill Jockey) | instrumental | 7/10 | |
| Meredith Brooks | Deconstruction | (Capitol) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Brother JT | Way To Go | (Drag City) | psychedelic | 6/10 | R |
| Ian Brown | Golden Greats | (Polydor) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Buckethead | Monsters And Robots | (Cyber Octave) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Nigel Bunn | Index | (Emperor Jones) | Avantgarde | 6/10 | |
| Burning Airlines | Mission Control | (DeSoto) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
| Bush | The Science Of Things | (Interscope) | grunge | 5/10 | |
| Bernard Butler | Friends And Lovers | (Creation) | Brit-pop | 5/10 | |
| Buzzcocks | Modern | (Go Kart) | punk-pop | 4/10 | |
| C Average | C Average | (Kill Rock Stars) | heavy metal | 5/10 | |
| Cake Like | Goodbye So What | (Vapor) | 5/10 | | |
| Calla | Calla | (Sub Rosa) | ambient-folk | 7/10 | |
| Mariah Carey | Rainbow | (Columbia) | soul-pop | 5/10 | |
| Ralph Carney | I Like You | (Birdman) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Kim Cascone | Cathodeflower | (Ritornell) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Catatonia | Equally Cursed and Blessed | (Blanco Y Negro) | Brit-pop | 5/10 | |
| Catheters | Catheters | (Empty) | punk-rock | 6/10 | |
| Caustic Resin | Trick Question | (Alias) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
| Cerberus Shoal | Homb | (Temporary Residence) | prog-rock | 7/10 | |
| Tracy Chapman | Telling Stories | (Elektra) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Charalambides | Houston | (Siltbreeze) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
| Charlatans | Us And Us Only | (Universal) | Madchester | 5/10 | |
| Chemical Brothers | Surrender | (Astralwerks) | techno | 5/10 | |
| Chesterfield Kings | Where The Action Is | (Sundazed) | garage-rock | 5/10 | |
| Cibo Matto | Stereo Type A | (Warner Bros) | alt-pop | 5/10 | |
| Cinematic Orchestra | Motion | (Ninja) | post-jazz | 7/10 | |
| Citizens' Utilities | Sunbreak | (My Own Planet) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
| Clan of Xymos | Creatures | (Pandaimonium) | techno | 5/10 | |
| Kit Clayton | Nek Sanalet | (Scape) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Cleen | Second Path | (Zoth Ommog) | Industrial | 5/10 | |
| Nels Cline Trio | Ebbie Flowers | (WIN) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Clinton | Disco & The Halfway To Discontent | (Luaka Bop) | dance-music | 5/10 | |
| Clutch | The Elephant Riders | (Columbia) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Coal Chamber | Chamber Music | (Roadrunner) | grunge | 5/10 | |
| Coalesce | 0:12 Revolution In Just Listening | (Relapse) | hardcore | 7/10 | |
| Cobalt 60 | Twelve | (Edel) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Cobra Verde | Nightlife | (Motel) | alt rock | 6/10 | |
| Coil | Astral Disaster | (World Serpent) | industrial | 7/10 | |
| Coil | Musick to Play In The Dark Volume One | (World Serpent) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Coldcut | Let Us Replay | (Ninja Tune) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Collective Soul | Dosage | (Atlantic) | mainstream | 5/10 | |
| Colour Haze | Periscope | (Toaster) | stoner | 7/10 | |
| James Combs | Remotor | (Bliss) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Comet Gain | Tigertow Pictures | (Kill Rock Stars) | garage-pop | 7/10 | B |
| Console | Racket In The Pocket | (Payola) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Consolidated | Tikkun | (Clearspot) | rap | 4/10 | |
| Cornelius | CM | (Matador) | Electronica | 6/10 | |
| Cornelius | FM | (Matador) | Electronica | 5/10 | |
| Chris Cornell | Euphoria Morning | (A&M) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Corrupted | Llenandose de Gusanos | (HG Fact) | drone metal | 6/10 | |
| Counting Crows | This Desert Life | (Geffen) | roots-rock | 4/10 | |
| Coyote Oldman | House Made Of Dawn | (Hearts Of Space) | New Age | /10 | |
| Crabs | Sea And Sand | (K) | lo-fi pop | 6/10 | |
| Cranberries | Bury The Hatchet | (Mercury) | Irish pop | 4/10 | |
| Crawlspace | Ready For The Future | (Crawlspace) | Psychedelia | 6/10 | |
| Crawlspace | Nectar Flows From This Chalice | (Crawlspace) | Psychedelia | 6/10 | |
| Creatures | Anima Animus | (Sioux) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Creed | Human Clay | (Wind-up) | grunge | 4/10 | |
| Marshall Crenshaw | #447 | (Razor & Tie) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Crescent | Collected Songs | (Roomtone) | psychedelic | 4/10 | |
| Crooked Fingers | Crooked Fingers | (Warm) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
| Adrian Crowley | A Strange Kind | (Ba Da Bing) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
| Cul De Sac | Crashes To Light | (Thirsty Ear) | Progressive | 8/10 | R |
| Beth Custer | The Broken Fields Where I Lie | (BC) | avantgarde | 6/10 | |
| Cyrus Rego | Cyrus Rego | (Emperor Jones) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| D Generation | Through The Darkness | (Columbia) | Punk-rock | 5/10 | |
| Danielson Famile | Tri-Danielson!!! (Omega) | (Tooth & Nail) | lo-fi pop | 6/10 | |
| Danzig | 6:66 Satan's Child | (Nuclear Blast) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| DJ Dara | Halfway Home | (Smile) | drum'n'bass | 5/10 | |
| Dat Politics | Tracto Flirt | (Skipp) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Dat Politics | Villiger | (A-Musik) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Datach'i | 10110101 | (Caipirinha) | drum'n'bass | 7/10 | |
| Day One | Ordinary Man | (Astralwerks) | trip-hop | 5/10 | |
| DDT | Urban Observer | (Elektra) | punk | 5/10 | |
| Deadsy | Commencement | (Warner) | synth-pop | 5/10 | |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Something About Airplanes | (Barsuk) | slo-core | 7/10 | |
| Death In Vegas | The Contino Sessions | (Concrete) | prog-techno | 7/10 | |
| Warren Defever | I Want You To Live 100 Years | (Lo) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Mark Degliantoni | Horse Tricks | (Tzadik) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Vladislav Delay | Ele | (Sigma Editions) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Delgados | Peloton | (Chemikal Underground) | folk-rock | 6/10 | |
| Demolition Doll Rods | TLA | (Matador) | garage-rock | 5/10 | |
| Amy Denio | Greatest Hits | (Unit Circle Rekkids) | songwriter | 7/10 | R |
| Der Blutharsch | The Pleasures Received In Pain | (World Serpent) | electronica | 7/10 | |
| dEUS | The Ideal Crash | (Island) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Dickies | Dogs From The Hare That Bit Us | (Fat Wreck) | punk-rock | 4/10 | |
| Ani DiFranco | Fellow Workers | (Righteous Babe) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Ani DiFranco | To the Teeth | (Righteous Babe) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Dillinger Escape Plan | Calculating Infinity | (Relapse) | grindcore | 6/10 | |
| Dinner Is Ruined | A Maggot in their Heads | (Sonic Unyon) | lo-fi | 6/10 | |
| Dismemberment Plan | Emergency and I | (DeSoto) | power-pop | 7/10 | |
| Ditch Croaker | Tranquil Waters | (Vital Cog) | lo-fi pop | 5/10 | |
| Don Dixon | The Invisible Man | (Gadfly) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Djam Karet | Live At Orion | (Cuneiform) | Progressive | 7/10 | M |
| Sally Doherty | Daughter Of The Sea | (Tiger) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Doldrums | Desk Trickery | (Kranky) | experimental | 7/10 | B |
| Don Caballero | Singles Breaking Up | (Touch & Go) | Instrumental | 8/10 | |
| Sarah Dougher | Day One | (K) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Donnas | Get Skintight | (Lookout) | foxcore | 5/10 | |
| Bill Douglas | Earth Prayer | (Hearts of Space) | New Age | /10 | |
| Down By Law | Fly The Flag | (Go Kart) | hardcore | 4/10 | |
| Bob Drake | Animal Medallion Carpet | (ReR) | prog-rock | 7/10 | |
| Dream City Film Club | In The Cold Light Of Morning | (Beggars Banquet) | alt-pop | 5/10 | |
| Dream Theater | Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From A Memory | (East West) | Progr-metal | 6/10 | |
| Dropkick Murphys | The Gang's All Hers | (Epitaph) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
| Drunk | Raised Toward | (Jagiaguwar) | alt-country | 6/10 | |
| Dub Narcotic Sound System | Sideways Soul | (K) | lo-fi | 5/10 | |
| Heather Duby | Post To Wire | (Subpop) | songwriter | 8/10 | B |
| Dumptruck | Terminal | (Devil In The Woods) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Dunlavy | John Merkle is a Miracle | (Fleece) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
| Dylan Group | More Adventures In Lying Down | (Bubble Core) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
| Alistair Galbraith & Matt De Gennaro | Wire Music | (Corpus Hermeticum) | avantgarde | 6/10 | |
| Gardener | New Dawning Time | (SubPop) | Alt rock | 7/10 | R |
| Sue Garner & Rick Brown | Still | (Thrill Jockey) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Laurent Garnier | Unreasonable Behaviour | (F-Communications) | techno | 5/10 | |
| Gay Dad | Leisure Noise | (London) | glam-pop | 4/10 | |
| Howard Gelb | Hisser | (V2) | desert rock | 6/10 | |
| Gene | Revelations | (Polydor) | Brit-pop | 4/10 | |
| Gene Loves Jezebel | VII | (Robison) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Lisa Gerrard & Peter Bourke | The Insider | (Sony) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Ghost | Snuff Box Immanence | (Drag City) | Psychedelic rock | 6/10 | R |
| Ghost | Turn In Turn On Free Tibet | (Drag City) | Psychedelic rock | 7/10 | R |
| Giant Sand | Chore Of Enchantment | (Ow Om - Thrill Jockey, 2000) | desert rock | 7/10 | R |
| Gluecifer | Head To Head Boredom | (Devil Doll) | garage-rock | 7/10 | |
| Go | Watcha Doin' | (Subpop) | Garage-rock | 6/10 | R |
| Goatsnake | Goatsnake | (Rise Above) | doom | 5/10 | |
| Godflesh | Us And Them | (Earache) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Godspeed You Black Emperor | Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | (Kranky) | Ambient rock | 6/10 | |
| Gomez | Liquid Skin | (Virgin) | roots rock | 5/10 | |
| Golden | Super Golden Original Movement | (Slowdime) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Goo Goo Dolls | Dizzy Up The Girl | (Warner Bros) | punk-pop | 5/10 | |
| Goodness | These Days | (Good Ink) | grunge | 5/10 | |
| Gorky's Zygotic Mynci | Spanish Dance Troupe | (Mantra) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Grandaddy | The Broken Down Comforter Collection | (V2) | lo-fi pop | 7/10 | |
| Green Pajamas | All Clues Lead To Meagan's Bed | (Camera Obscura) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
| Green Pajamas | Seven Fathoms Down And Falling | (Woronzow) | psychedelic | 5/10 | |
| Green Pajamas | Melancholy Sun | (Camera Obscura) | psychedelic | 4/10 | |
| Groove Armada | Vertigo | (Pepper) | downtempo | 6/10 | |
| Dave Grubbs | Apertura | (Blue Chopsticks), | avant rock | 6/10 | |
| Dave Grubbs | Coxcomb | (Rectangle) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Guided By Voices | Do The Collapse | (TVT) | alt rock | 5/10 | |
| Guitar Wolf | Jet Generation | (Matador) | punk-rock | 6/10 | |
| Gus Gus | This Is Normal | (4AD) | techno | 6/10 | |
| Guttermouth | Gorgeous | (Nitro) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
| Gwar | We Kill Everything | (Metal Blade) | heavy metal | 5/10 | |
| Half Film | The Road To The Crater | (Devil In The Woods) | slocore | 5/10 | |
| Hall Of Fame | First Came Love Then Came The Tree | (Amish) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
| Handsome Family | In the Air | (Carrot Top) | alt-country | 7/10 | |
| Hang Ups | Second Story | (Restless) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Ben Harper | Burn To Shine | (Virgin) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Beth Hart | Screamin' For My Supper | (Atlantic) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Hash Jar Tempo | Under Glass | (Drunken Fish | Avant rock | 8/10 | R |
| Paul Haslinger | Score | (RGB) | Electronica | 7/10 | |
| Jon Hassell | Fascinoma | (Water Lily Acoustics) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Haujobb | Ninetynine | (Offbeat) | Industrial | 6/10 | |
| Richie Hawtin | Decks, EFX & 909 | (Novamute) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Sean Hayes | A Thousand Tiny Pieces | (Snailblue) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| H-Blockx | Fly Eyes | (Risk) | heavy metal | 4/10 | B |
| Health & Happiness Show | Sad And Sexy | (Cropduster) | alt-country | 6/10 | |
| Hefner | The Fidelity Wars | (Too Pure) | folk-rock | 5/10 | |
| Hellacopters | Grande Rock | (SubPop) | Rock and roll | 5/10 | R |
| Herbalizer | Very Mercenary | (Ninja Tune) | trip-hop | 6/10 | |
| Kristin Hersh | Sky Motel | (4AD) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Hi Fi Killers | Jamaica | (Loosegroove) | funk | 4/10 | |
| High Llamas | Snowbug | (V2) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Him | Sworn Eyes | (Perishable) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
| Robyn Hitchcock | Jewels for Sophia | (Warner) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Hood | The Cycle Of Days And Season | (Domino) | lo-fi pop | 5/10 | |
| Hosemobile | What Can & Can't Go On | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Penelope Houston | Tongue | (Reprise) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Rowland Howard | Teenage Snuff Film | (Reliant) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Howie B | Snatch | (Pussyfoot) | trip-hop | 7/10 | |
| Danielle Howle | Catalog | (Kill Rock Stars) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| H2O | FTTW | (Epitaph) | 5/10 | | |
| Human Drama | Solemn Sun Setting | (Triple X) | gothic | 7/10 | |
| Hurricane #1 | Only the Strongest Will Surive | (Sire) | 4/10 | | |
| Lida Husik | Mad Flavor | (Alias) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Ida Retsin Family | Volume One | (Muss My Hair) | folk-pop | 6/10 | |
| Idaho | Alas | (Buzz) | Alt rock | 6/10 | R |
| Idlewild | Hope Is Important | (Food) | punk-pop | 7/10 | |
| If Bwana | Clara Nostra | (Pogus) | drones | 7/10 | |
| Ryoji Ikeda | 20' To 2000 | (Noton) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Ryoji Ikeda | 99: 1999 | (Noton) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Illusion Of Safety | Mort Aux Vaches | (Staalplaat) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| In The Labyrinth | Walking On Clouds | (Record Heaven) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| In The Nursery | Man With A Movie Camera | (ITN) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Incredible Expanding Mindfuck | IEM | (Delerium) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
| Incubus | Make Yourself | (Immortal) | funk-rock | 6/10 | |
| Indigo Girls | Come On Now Social | (Epic) | folk | 5/10 | |
| Innerzone Orchestra | Programmed | (Planet E) | techno | 7/10 | |
| Tetsu Inoue | Fragment Of Dots | (Tzadik) | ambient | 5/10 | |
| Tetsu Inoue | Waterloo Terminal | (Caipirinha) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Isolationist | Isolationist | (Jazz Fudge) | hip-hop | 4/10 | |
| Isotope 217 | Utonian Automatic | (Thrill Jockey) | post-jazz | 5/10 | |
| Jackie-O Motherfucker | Fig. 5 | (Road Cone) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Jackie-O Motherfucker | Wow | (Fisheye) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Joe Jackson | Symphony No 1 | (Sony) | classical | 6/10 | |
| Jaloppy | Walking Off Naked | (Womb Tunes) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| James | Millionaires | (Mercury) | dance-pop | 4/10 | |
| Jamirocqai | Synkronized | (Epic) | funk-soul | 5/10 | |
| Japancakes | If I Could See Dallas | (Kindercore) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Philip Jeck | Surf | (Touch) | noise | 6/10 | |
| Jimmy Eat World | Clarity | (Capitol) | emocore | 5/10 | |
| Joan Of Arc | Live in Chicago 1999 | (Jade Tree) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| John Stuart Mill | Forget Everything | (SeeThru Broadcasting) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Freedy Johnston | Blue Days Black Nights | (Elektra) | songwriter | 6/10 | R |
| Simon Joyner | The Lousy Dance | (Truckstop) | songwriter | 6.5/10 | |
| June Of 44 | Anahata | (Touch & Go) | Alt rock | 6/10 | |
| June Of 44 | In The Fishtank | (Konkurrent) | Alt rock | 6/10 | |
| Juno | This is the Way It Goes And Goes And Goes | (Desoto) | post-hardcore | 7/10 | |
| Damien Jurado | Rehearsals For Departure | (Subpop) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Paul K | Saratoga | (Alias) | alt-blues | 6/10 | |
| Kammerflimmer Kollektief | Maander | (Payola) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
| Katatonia | Tonight's Decision | (Peaceville) | doom | 6/10 | |
| Katies | Spongebath | (Elektra) | power-pop | 3/10 | |
| Mike Keneally | Nonkertompf | (Exowax) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Kevorkian Death Cycle | A+0(m) | (Metropolis) | industrial | 4/10 | |
| Tara Key & Rick Rizzo | Dark Edson Tiger | (Thrill Jockey) | instrumental | 7/10 | R |
| Khan | Silent Movie Silent Scream (Caipirinha) | electronica | 5/10 | | |
| Khan | 1-900-Get-Khan | (Matador) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| Kid Silver | Dead City Sunbeams | (Jetset) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Kingsbury Manx | Kingsbury Manx | (Overcoat) | psych folk | 7/10 | |
| Kinski | Spacelaunch for Frenchie | (Kinski) | psych | 6/10 | |
| Klangkrieg | Das Fieber der Menschlichen Stimme | (Audioview) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| KMFDM | Adios | (Wax Trax) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Chris Knox | Almost | (Dark Beloved Cloud) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Knoxville Girls | Knoxville Girls | (In The Red) | garage-rock | 6/10 | |
| Korn | Issues | (Epic) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Michael Krassner | Michael Krassner | (Truckstop) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Pete Krebs | Sweet Ona Rose | (Cavity Search) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| David Kristian | Room Tone | (Alien8) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| David Kristian | Beneath The Valley Of The Modulars | (Alien8) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Peter Kruder | Peace Orchestra | (K7) | trip-hop | 6/10 | |
| DJ Krust | Coded Language | (Mercury) | jungle | 6/10 | |
| Kula Shaker | Peasants Pigs And Astronauts | (Columbia) | Brit pop | 5/10 | |
| Illyah Kuryahkin | Thirtycabminute | (Arena Rock) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Labradford | E Luxo So | (Kranky) | Ambient rock | 6/10 | M |
| Ladybug Transistor | The Albemarle Sound | (Merge) | pop | 6/10 | |
| Lakuna | Castle Of Crime | (4AD) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Lali Puna | Tricoder | (Darla) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
| Lamb | Fear Of Fours | (Mercury) | trip-hop | 6/10 | |
| Mark Lanegan | I'll Take Care Of You | (Subpop) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Bill Laswell | Imaginary Cuba | (Wicklow) | ambient dub | 5/10 | |
| Bill Laswell | Charged | (Apollo) | dub | 5/10 | |
| Bill Laswell | Permutation | (Ion) | dub | 4/10 | |
| Bill Laswell | Invisible Design | (Tzadik) | ambient dub | 5/10 | |
| Lazy Cowgirls | Rank Outsider | (Sympathy) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
| Le Tigre | Le Tigre | (Mr Lady) | riot-grrrls | 6/10 | |
| Keith Leblanc | Freakatorium | (On-U-Sound) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Leftfield | Rhythm And Stealth | (Hard Hands) | techno | 5/10 | |
| Lenola | My Invisible Name | (Tappersize) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
| Less Than Jake | Hello Rockview | (Capitol) | Ska-punk | 6/10 | |
| Alan Licht | Rabbi Sky | (Siltbreeze) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
| Lies | Underdogs and Infidels | (Kill Rock Stars) | gothic | 5/10 | |
| Lightning Bolt | Lightning Bolt | (LOad) | noise | 6/10 | |
| Lights In A Fat City | Memory Ground | (City of Tribes) | Electronica | 6/10 | |
| Lightwave | Cantus Umbrarum | (Horizon) | cosmic | 7/10 | |
| Lilys | Zero Population Growth | (Darla) | garage-rock | 7/10 | |
| Limp Bizkit | Significant Other | (Interscope) | rap-metal | 7/10 | |
| Liquid Mind | Balance | (Chuck Wild) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Live Human | Monostereosis | (Fatcat) | instrumental hip hop | 7/10 | |
| DJ Logic | Project Logic | (Ropeadope) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
| Lonesome Organist | Cavalcade | (Thrill Jockey) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Long Beach Dub Allstars | Right Back | (Dreamworks) | reggae | 5/10 | |
| Looper | Up A Tree | (Subpop) | songwriter | 6/10 | L |
| Los Lobos | This Time | (Hollywood) | roots-rock | 4/10 | |
| Los Straitjackets | The Velvet Touch | (Yep Rock) | instrumental | 5/10 | |
| Love As Laughter | Destination 2000 | (K) | Alt-rock | 6/10 | R |
| Love Battery | Confusion Au Go-Go | (C/Z) | grunge | 5/10 | |
| Love Is Colder Than Death | Atopos | (Chrom) | gothic | 6/10 | |
| Low | Secret Name | (Kranky) | slocore | 7/10 | |
| Low | Christmas | (Tugboat) | slocore | 6/10 | |
| Lowercase | The Going Away Present | (Punk In My Vitamins) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| L7 | Slap-Happy | (Wax Tadpole) | 5/10 | | |
| Gary Lucas | @Paradiso | (Oxygen Music Works) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Lullaby For The Working Class | Song | (Bar/None) | chamber folk | 6/10 | |
| Luna | The Days Of Our Nights | (Elektra) | pop | 6/10 | |
| Lunachicks | Luxury Problem | (Go-Kart) | heavy-metal | 4/10 | |
| Lungfish | Unanimous Hour | (Dischord) | hardcore | 5/10 | |
| John Lurie | African Swim/ Manny & Lo | (Strange & Beautiful) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
| Luscious Jackson | Electric Honey | (Capitol) | Soul | 6/10 | |
| Lynnfield Pioneers | Free Popcorn | (Matador) | 5/10 | |
| Nina Nastasia | Dogs | (Socialist) | songwriter | 6.5/10 | |
| Nebula | Let It Burn | (Tee Pee, 1997 - Relapse) | stoner-rock | 6/10 | |
| Nebula | To The Center | (Sweet Nothing) | stoner-rock | 6/10 | |
| Neina | Formed Verse | (Mille Plateaux) | glitch-music | 6/10 | |
| Mike Ness | Cheating At Solitaire | (Time Bomb) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Neurosis | Times of Grace | (Relapse) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Bob Neuwirth | Havana Midnight | (Diesel Motor) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Sheila Nicholls | Brief Strop | (Hollywood) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Nightmares On Wax | Carboot Soul | (Warp) | trip-hop | 5/10 | |
| Nightstick | Death To Music | (Relapse) | stoner | 6/10 | |
| Nine Inch Nail | Fragile | (Interscope) | industrial | 7/10 | |
| Novak |  Novak | (Kitty Kitty) | noise-rock | 6/10 | |
| Nu-Dub Players | Just Landed | (Scape) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| KK Null | 0.0004 | (Vinyl Communications) | noise | 5/10 | |
| Numb | Language Of Silence | (Metropolis) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Tara Jane O'Neil | Peregrine | (Quartersticks) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
| Jim O'Rourke | Eureka | (Drag City) | avant-pop | 6/10 | |
| Octant | Shock-No-Par | (Up) | new wave | 5/10 | |
| Of Montreal | The Gay Parade | (Bar None) | pop | 6/10 | |
| Ohm | Voices | (Two Ohm Hop) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Old 97's | Fight Songs | (Elektra) | Roots-rock | 5/10 | |
| Old Time Relijun | Utereus And Fire | (K) | lo-fi | 7/10 | |
| Olivia Tremor Control | Black Foliage | (Flydaddy) | pop | 7/10 | |
| Oneida | Enemy Hogs | (Turnbuckle) | garage-rock | 5/10 | |
| Ooioo | Feather Float | (Shock City) | noise | 6/10 | |
| Orange Goblin | Time Traveling Blues | (MUsic Cartel) | doom-metal | 5/10 | |
| Orange Humble Band | Humblin' | (Half A Cow) | power-pop | 6/10 | |
| Orange 9mm | Pretend I'm Human | (NG) | funk-metal | 4/10 | |
| Orbital | The Middle Of Nowhere | (FFRR) | Techno | 6/10 | |
| Organum | Birds Wings | (Matchless) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Beth Orton | Central Reservation | (Arista) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Out Of Worship | Sterilized | (Perishable) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
| Outrageous Cherry | Out There In The Dark | (Del-Fi) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
| Oval | Wohnton | (Thrill Jockey, max$7 | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Ozric Tentacles | Waterfall Cities | (Stretchy) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
| Pablo's Eyes | All She Wants Grows Blue | (Swim) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Pan Sonic | A | (Blast First) | electronica | 7/10 | |
| Panacea | Phoenix Metabolism | (Position Chrome) | steptech | 6/10 | |
| Panacea | Brasilia | (Caipirinha) | steptech | 6/10 | |
| Papa M | Live From A Shark Cage | (Drag City) | instrumental | 8/10 | R |
| Paradise Lost | Host | (EMI) | synth-pop | 4/10 | |
| Andrea Parker | Kiss My Arp | (Mo Wax) | jungle | 7/10 | |
| Andrea Parkins | Slippage | (Knitting Factory) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Pavement | Terror Twilight | (Matador) | lo-fi pop | 5/10 | |
| Pelt | Empty Bell Ringing In The Sky | (VHF) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
| Pennywise | Straight Ahead | (Epitaph) | punk-pop | 5/10 | |
| Pere Ubu | Apocalypse Now | (Thirsty Ear) | New Wave | 7/10 | |
| Joe Pernice | Chappaquiddick Skuyline | (Subpop) | folk | 5/10 | B |
| Brendan Perry | Eye Of The Hunter | (4AD) | songwriter | 8/10 | L |
| Pet Shop Boys | Nightlife | (EMI) | synth-pop | 5/10 | |
| Tom Petty | Echo | (Warner Bros) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Phantom Engineer | Phantom Engineer | (Paperhouse) | avant-rock | 5/10 | |
| Joe Phelps | Blackbird | (Pacifico) | roots-rock | 6/10 | |
| Philharmonie | The Last Word | (Cuneiform) | Progressive | 6/10 | M |
| Philosopher's Stone | Apparatus | (Kranky) | Avantgarde | 5/10 | |
| Phranc | Milkman | (Phancy) | folksinger | 4/10 | |
| Piano Magic | Low Birth Weight | (Rocket Girl) | psych-pop | 6/10 | |
| Pieters, Stapleton & Russell | Sex/Machine | (Metonymic) | improvised | 6/10 | |
| Pig | Genuine American Monster | (Victor) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Pinback | Pinback | (Ace Fu) | alt rock | 5/10 | |
| Pineal Ventana | Malpractice | (Unit Circle Rekkids) | noise-rock | 5/10 | |
| Plaid | Rest Proof Clockwork | (Warp) | techno | 5/10 | |
| James Hardway | A Positive Sweat | (Recordings Of Substance) | jungle | 5/10 | |
| James Plotkin/ Brent Gutzeit | Mosquito Dream | (Kranky) | Ambient | 6/10 | B |
| P.O.D. | The Fundamental Elements Of Southtown | (Atlantic) | rap-rock | 5/10 | |
| Pole | CD 2 | (Kiff) | dub | 6/10 | |
| Robert Pollard | Speak Kindly | (Fading Captain Series) | alt rock | 6/10 | |
| Porcupine Tree | Stupid Dream | (K-Scope) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
| Poster Children | New World Record | (SpinArt) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Sam Prekop | Sam Prekop | (Thrill Jockey) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
| Presidents Of The USA | II | (Columbia) | funk-rock | 4/10 | |
| Pretenders | Viva El Amor | (Warner Bros) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Archer Prewitt | White Sky | (Carrot Top) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Primordial Undermind | Universe I've Got | (Camera Obscura) | psychedelic | 7/10 | |
| Primus | Antipop | (Interscope) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
| Stephen Prina | Push Comes To Love | (Drag City) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Project Pitchfork | Eon:Eon | (EastWest) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Prolapse | Ghosts Of Dead Aeroplanes | (Jetset) | noise-rock | 6/10 | |
| Promise Ring | Very Emergency | (Jade Tree) | emocore | 5/10 | |
| Purple Ivy Shadows | White Electric | (Krave) | country | 4/10 | |
| Purr Machine | Ging Ging | (Cargo) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Puya | Fundamental | (MCA) | rap-metal | 5/10 | |
| Quasi | Field Studies | (Up) | pop | 6/10 | |
| Queensryche | Q2K | (Atlantic) | prog-metal | 4/10 | |
| Quintron | These Hands Of Mine | (Skin Graft) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
| Rachel's | Selenography | (Touch & Go) | Instrumental | 6/10 | M |
| Radar Bros | The Singing Hatchet | (See Thru Broadcasting) | slocore | 6/10 | |
| Rage Against The Machine | The Battle of Los Angeles | (Epic) | funk-metal | 7/10 | |
| Rainer Maria | Look Now Look Again | (Polyvinyl) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Raison d'Etre | Collective Archives | (Cold Meat Industry) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Rapoon | Navigating By Colour | (Staalplaat) | ambient | 5/10 | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | Californication | (Warner Bros) | funk-rock | 4/10 | |
| Red Krayola | Fingerpainting | (Drag City) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
| Red Star Belgrade | Fractured Hymnal | (Checkered Past) | alt-country | 5/10 | |
| Red Stars Theory | Life In A Bubble Can Be Beautiful | (Touch & Go) | psychedelic | 8/10 | R |
| Reef | Rides | (Sony) | hard-rock | 5/10 | |
| Refrigerator | Glitter Jazz | (Shrimper) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Rentals | Seven More Minutes | (Maverick) | punk-pop | 6/10 | |
| Replikants | Slickpahonics | (5RC) | noise-rock | 6/10 | |
| Retsin | Sweet Luck Of Amaryllis | (Carrot Top) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Reveille | Laced | (Elektra) | rap-metal | 5/10 | |
| Rhombus Of Doom | Rhombus Of Doom | (Magneto) | acid-rock | 6/10 | |
| Jonathan Richman | I'm So Confused | (Vapor) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Stan Ridgway | Anatomy | (Birdcage) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Bill Rieflin | Birth Of A Giant | (First World) | progr-rock | 5/10 | |
| Rinocerose | Installation Sonore | (V2) | techno | 6/10 | |
| Steve Roach | Light Fantastic | (Hearts of Space) | new age | 6/10 | |
| Steve Roach & Vir Unis | Body Electric | (Projekt) | new age | 6/10 | |
| Steve Roach | Truth & Beauty - Lost Pieces vol 2 | (Timeroom) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| Steve Roach | Slow Heat | (Timeroom) | electronica | 7/10 | |
| Steve Roach | Atmospheric Conditions | (Timeroom) | electronica | 7/10 | |
| Dean Roberts | All Cracked Medias | (Mille Plateaux) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
| Rock*a*teens | Golden Time | (Merge) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
| Rockfords | 2000 | (Epic) | grunge | 5/10 | |
| Rollerball | Einaugige Kirsche | (Road Cone) | post-jazz | 7/10 | |
| Royal Trux | Veterans of Disorder | (Drag City) | alt rock | 6/10 | |
| Ruins | Vrresto | (Sonore) | noise-rock | 6.5/10 |
| Saint Etienne | Places To Visit | (SubPop) | Synth-pop | 5/10 | |
| Saints | Everybody Knows The Monkey | (Amsterdamned) | punk-rock | 5/10 | |
| Salamander | Red Mantra | (Camera Obscura) | psychedelic | 7/10 | |
| Salaryman | Karoshi | (City Slang) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
| Santana | Supernatural | (Arista) | latin-rock | 6/10 | |
| Satisfact | The Third Meeting At The Third Counter | (K) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Saturnine | American Kestrel | (VictoriaLand) | folk-pop | 5/10 | |
| Scala | Compass Heart | (Touch) | synth-pop | 5/10 | |
| Scanner | Lauwarm Instrumentals | (Sulphur) | electronica | 7/10 | |
| Dave Schramm | Hammer And Nails | (Catamount) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Scott 4 | Works Project LP | (Folk Archive) | roots-rock | 6/10 | |
| Screeching Weasel | Emo | (Panic Button) | punk-pop | 5/10 | |
| Scritti Politti | Anomie & Bonhomie | (Virgin) | soul | 4/10 | |
| Seaweed | Actions And Indications | (Merge) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Sebadoh | The Sebadoh | (SubPop) | Alt rock | 5/10 | B |
| Sense Field | Part Of The Deal | (GrapeOS) | emocore | 4/10 | |
| September Plateau | Occasional Light | (E+J) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| 764-Hero | Get Here And Stay | (Up) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| 7% Solution | Gabriel's Waltz | (X-Ray) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
| Ron Sexsmith | Whereabouts | (Interscope) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Sick Of It All | Call To Arms | (Fat Wreck) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
| Simon Says | Jump Start | (Hollywood) | grunge | 5/10 | |
| Simply Red | Love And The Russian Winter | (East West) | soul | 4/10 | |
| 16 Volt | Supercool Nothing | (Edel) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Skull Kontrol | Deviate Beyond All Means Of Capture | (Touch & Go) | hardcore | 7/10 | B |
| Skunk Anansie | Post-Orgasmic Chill | (Virgin) | Funk-rock | 6/10 | |
| Slackers | The Question | (Hellcat) | ska-punk | 6/10 | |
| Luke Slater | Wireless | (NovaMute) | techno | 6/10 | |
| Slaves | The Devil's Pleasures | (Troubleman Unlimited) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Sleater-Kinney | The Hot Rock | (Kill Rock Stars) | Alt rock | 5/10 | |
| Sleep | Enfolded in Luxury | (Metonymic) | noise | 6/10 | |
| Sleepyhead | Brighter Shore | (Sealed Fate) | folk-pop | 7/10 | |
| Slipknot | Slipknot | (Roadrunner) | death-metal | 7/10 | |
| Sloan | Between The Bridges | (Murderrecords) | pop | 4/10 | |
| Slotek | Hydrophonic | (WordSound) | dub | 6/10 | |
| Smash Mouth | Astro Lounge | (Interscope) | ska-pop | 5/10 | |
| Smithereens | God Save The Smithereens | (Koch) | power-pop | 5/10 | |
| Steven Smith | From Ashes Come | (3 Acre Floor) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Smog | Knock Knock | (Drag City) | songwriter | 6/10 | B |
| Sneaker Pimps | Splinter | (Virgin) | trip-hop | 6/10 | |
| Snog | Third Mail From The Sun | (Metropolis) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Sol Invictus | In A Garden Green | (Tursa) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Solex | Pick Up | (Matador) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
| Songs: Ohia | Axxess & Ace | (Secretely Canadian) | folk | 6/10 | |
| Sonic Youth | Goodbye 20th Century | (SYR) | alt rock | 5/10 | |
| Sorrow | Sleep Now Forever | (Piski Disk) | goth-pop | 6/10 | |
| Sotos | Sotos | (Gazul) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Soul Junk | 1955 | (Homestead) | alt rock | 6/10 | |
| Sound | Drunk On Confusion | (Tekito) | instrumental | 7/10 | |
| Sound In Action Trio | Design In Time | (Delmark) | punk-jazz | 6/10 | |
| Source Direct | Exorcise The Demons | (Astralwerks) | jungle | 6/10 | |
| Spaceheads | Angel Station | (Pandemonium) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Spacetime Continuum | Double Fine Zone | (Astralwerks) | techno | 4/10 | |
| Spahn Ranch | Beat Noir | (Cleopatra) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Spain | She Haunts My Dreams | (Restless) | slo-core | 6/10 | |
| Speaker/Cranker | Speaker/Cranker (Holophon, 1999) | (Holophon) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Species Being | Yonilicious | (Grauspace) | Progressive | 7/10 | |
| Jon Spencer Blues Explosion & Dub Narcotic Sound | Sideways Soul | (K) | garage-blues | 6/10 | |
| Spin Doctors | Here Comes The Bride | (DAS/Universal) | prog-rock | 4/10 | |
| Spirits Burning | New Worlds By Design | (Gazul) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Splendid | Have You Got a Name For It | (Mammoth) | folk-rock | 5/10 | |
| Split Lip Rayfield | In The Mud | (Bloodshot) | alt-country | 6/10 | |
| Sponge | New Pop Sunday | (Beyond/BMG) | grunge | 4/10 | |
| DJ Spooky | File Under Futurism | (Caipirinha) | electronica | 7/10 | |
| DJ Spooky | Kaotik: Transgression | (Manifold) | illbient | 5/10 | |
| Spring Heel Jack | Treader | (Tugboat) | jungle | 7/10 | |
| Mark Springer | Capture | (Exit) | trip-hop | 6/10 | |
| Tobin Sprout | Let's Welcome The Circus People | (Wigwam) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Squarepusher | Budakhan Mindphone | (Warp) | jungle | 6/10 | |
| Squeeze | Domino | (Quixotic) | pop | 4/10 | |
| ST 37 | I Love To Talk | (Emperor Jones) | psychedelic | 5/10 | B |
| Staind | Dysfunction | (Elektra) | grunge | 5/10 | |
| Starfish Pool | Rituals For The Dying | (U-Cover) | techno | 6/10 | |
| Starfish Pool | Kinetic | (Daft) | techno | 5/10 | |
| Starflyer 59 | Fashion Focus | (Tooth & Nail) | shoegaze | 4/10 | |
| Stars Of The Lid | Avec Laudenum | (SubRosa) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| State of Grace | Sometimes | (State of Grace) | dream-pop | 5/10 | |
| Static-X | Wisconsin Death Trip | (Warner) | speedmetal | 6/10 | |
| Stereo Total | My Melody | (Bungalow) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Stereolab | Cobra And Phases Group | (Elektra) | Alternative rock | 6/10 | |
| Stereophonics | Performance And Cocktails | (V2) | Brit-pop | 5/10 | |
| Sting | Brand New Day | (A&M) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Stone Temple Pilots | No 4 | (Atlantic) | grunge | 5/10 | |
| Robin Storey & Nigel Ayers | Perfidious Albion | (Soleilmoon) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Robin Storey & Randy Greif | Nail Of Pious Bride | (Soleilmoon) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Storm And Stress | Under Thunder And Fluorescent Light | (Quartersticks) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Stratotanker | The Miracle Of Flight | (Anisette) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros | Rock Art And The X-Ray Style | (Hellcat) | world-music | 5/10 | |
| Subarachnoid Space and Walking Timebombs | The Sleepless Sickness | (E+J) | Psychedelic | 7/10 | R |
| Nikki Sudden | Seven Lives Later | (Idiot Savant) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Suede | Head Music | (Sony) | Brit-pop | 4/10 | |
| Sugar Ray | 14:59 | (Atlantic) | funk-metal | 5/10 | |
| Super Furry Animals | Guerrilla | (Flydaddy) | Brit-pop | 5/10 | |
| Superchunk | Come Pick Me Up | (Merge) | punk-pop | 5/10 | |
| Super_Collider | Head On | (Medicine) | techno | 6/10 | |
| Supergrass | Supergrass | (Parlophone) | Brit-pop | 4/10 | |
| Supersuckers | The Evil Powers Of Rock'N'Roll | (Twenty14) | punk-pop | 5/10 | |
| Matthew Sweet | In Reverse | (Volcano) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Sweet Water | Suicide | (GoodInk) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Switchblade Symphony | The Three Calamities | (Cleopatra) | goth rock | 5/10 | |
| Switchhitter | Academy | (Framed) | post-hardcore | 6/10 | |
| David Sylvian | Dead Bees On A Cake | (Virgin) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Tadpoles | Whirlaway | (Camera Obscura) | Psychedelic | 7/10 | |
| Takako Minekawa | Fun 9 | (Emperor Norton) | synth-pop | 5/10 | |
| Nobukazu Takemura | Funfair | (Bubblecore) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Nobukazu Takemura | Milano | (Thrill Jockey) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Nobukazu Takemura | Scope | (Thrill Jockey) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Tall Dwarfs | Fifty Flavours Of Glue | (Flying Nun) | pop | 6/10 | |
| Tarentel | From Bone To Satellite | (Temporary Residence) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
| Techno Animal & Porter Ricks | Symbiotics | (Mille Plateaux) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Tek 9 | Simply | (SSR) | jungle | 4/10 | |
| Omar Faruk Tekbilek | One Truth | (Hearts Of Space) | New Age | /10 | |
| Jimi Tenor | Organism | (Warp) | techno/kitsch | 6/10 | |
| 10,000 Maniacs | The Earth Pressed Flat | (Bar None) | folk-rock | 5/10 | |
| Terre Thaemlitz | Replicas Rubato | (Mille Plateaux) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Terrifying Experience | Supreme Radial | (AAJ) | noise-rock | 6/10 | |
| Texas | The Hush | (Mercury) | disco-pop | 4/10 | |
| Terre Thaemlitz | Love For Sale | (Mille Plateaux) | ambient | 5/10 | |
| The The | Naked Self | (Nothing) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Therapy? | Suicide Pact | (Ark 21) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Thingy | To The Innocent | (Absolutely Kosher) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Third Ear Blind | Blue | (Elektra) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
| David Thomas | Mirror Man | (Thirsty Ear) | songwriter | 5/10 | M |
| Richard Thomas | Seven Point Plan To Destroy Astrology | (Lo) | techno | 5/10 | |
| Richard Thompson | Mock Tudor | (Capitol) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Those Bastard Souls | Debt & Departure | (V2) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Three Mile Pilot | Songs From An Old Town We Once Knew | (Cargo) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Sound System | (Capricorn) | funk-rock | 5/10 | | |
| Thrush Hermit | Clayton Park | (Sonic Unyon) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Tied & Tickled Trio | EA1 EA2 | (Payola) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Tiger | Rosaria | (Tugboat) | punk-rock | 4/10 | |
| Tight Bro's From Way Back When | Runnin Thru My Bones | (Kill Rock Stars) | garage-rock | 6/10 | |
| Tin Hat Trio | Memory Is An Elephant | (Angel) | instrumental | 7/10 | |
| Tindersticks | Simple Pleasure | (Quicksilver, 1999) | dream-pop | 5/10 | |
| To Rococo Rot | The Amateur View | (Mute) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Today Is The Day | In The Eyes Of God | (Relapse) | Alt-rock | 6/10 | R |
| Tone Rec | Coucy-Pack | (SubRosa) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Tortoise + The Ex | In The Fishtank | (Konkurrent) | Alt rock | 6/10 | |
| Fuzz Townshend | Far In | (Stinky) | dance | 5/10 | |
| MC Trachiotomy | Robot Alien or Ghost | (Bulb) | rap | 7/10 | |
| Tram | Heavy Black Frame | (Jetset) | slo-core | 6/10 | |
| Trance Mission | A Day Out Of Time | (City Of Tribes) | Electronica | 7/10 | B |
| Trance To The Sun | Urchin Tear Soda | (Precipice) | gothic | 6/10 | |
| Trans Am | Future World | (Thrill Jockey) | Alt rock | 6/10 | R |
| Transient Waves | Sonic Narcotic | (Fat Cat) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Travis | The Man Who | (Independiente) | pop | 4/10 | |
| Trembling Blue Stars | Broken By Whispers | (Shinkansen - Subpop, 2000) | dance-pop | 6/10 | |
| Trespassers W | Leaping The Chasm | (Organic) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Treiops Treyfid | Reach The Explosion | (Deep Reverb) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Tribes Of Neurot | Grace | (Neurot) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Tricky | Juxtapose | (Island) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Tricolor | Mirth + Feckless | (Atavistic) | post-jazz | 6/10 | |
| Tristeza | Spine And Sensory | (Makoto) | instrumental | 7/10 | |
| Mick Turner | Marlan Rosa | (Drag City) | instrumental | 7/10 | R |
| Twisted Science | Deep and Warm | (Lo) | techno | 5/10 | |
| Type O Negative | World Coming Down | (Roadrunner) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Peter Ulrich | Pathways And Dawns | (Projekt) | goth-pop | 6/10 | |
| Unida | Coping With The Urban Coyote | (Man's Ruin) | hard-rock | 6/10 | |
| Univers Zero | The Hard Quest | (Cuneiform) | Progressive | 6/10 | B |
| Unwound | A Single History | (Kill Rock Stars) | noise-rock | 6/10 | |
| Urban Dance Squad | Artantica | (Virgin) | funk-metal | 5/10 | |
| U.S. Maple | Talker | (Drag City) | avant-rock | 7/10 | |
| Uz Isme Doma | Usi/Ears | (Skoda) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| DJ Vadim | Life From the Other Side | (Ninja Tune) | hip-hop | 5/10 | |
| Steve Vai | The Ultra Zone | (Epic) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
| Mika Vainio | Ydin | (Wavetrap) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Armand Van Helden | 2 Future 4 U | (Ffrr) | house | 6/10 | |
| Vandermark 5 | Simpatico | (Atavistic) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Vas Deferens Organization | Idiot Parade | (Eerie Materials) | psychedelic | 7/10 | |
| Vas Deferens Organization | Drug Bubbles | (Tekito) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Vas Deferens Organization & Electric Company | More Pelvis Wick For The Baloney Boners | (Tekito) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Velvet Crush | Free Expression | (Bobsled) | power-pop | 4/10 | |
| Verbena | Into the Pink | (Capitol) | hard-rock | 6/10 | B |
| Vidna Obmana | The Shape of Solitude | (Multimood) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Vidna Obmana | True Stories | (Mirage) | ambient | 5/10 | |
| Violent Femmes | Freak Magnet | (Beyond) | roots-rock | 4/10 | |
| Christian Vogel | Busca Invisibles | (Tresor) | techno | 6/10 | |
| Voodoo Glow Skulls | Exitos al Cabron | (Grita) | ska-core | 5/10 | |
| Waco Bros | Waco World | (Bloodshot) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Walkabouts | Trail Of Stars | (Glitterhouse) | roots-rock | 6/10 | |
| TW Walsh | How We Spend Our Days | (Made) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| We | Livin' The Lore | (Voices Of Wonder) | hard-rock | 5/10 | |
| Greg Weeks | Fire In The Arms Of The Sun | (BaDaDing) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Ween | Paintin' The Town Brown | (Elektra) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Towa Wei | Last Century Modern | (Elektra) | techno | 5/10 | |
| Bill Weita | Subsidized Time | (Heliocentric) | psych | 6/10 | |
| Wellwater Conspiracy | Brotherhood Of Electric | (Time Bomb) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
| Paul Westerberg | Suicaine Gratifaction | (Capitol) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
| Wheat | Hope And Adams | (Sugar Free) | folk-rock | 7/10 | |
| White Stripes | White Stripes | (Sympathy) | blues-rock | 6/10 | |
| Wilco | Summer Teeth | (Reprise) | folk-rock | 7/10 | |
| Scott Wilkie | Boundless | (Narada) | New age | 6/10 | |
| Willard Grant Conspiracy | Mojave | (Rykodisc) | alt-country | 7/10 | |
| Doug Wimbish | Trippy Notes For Bass | (On-U-Sound) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Windsor For The Derby | Difference And Repetition | (Young God) | Ambient | 6/10 | |
| Wingtip Sloat | If Only For The Hatchery | (VHF) | lo-fi pop | 7/10 | |
| Paul Winter | Celtic Solstice | (Living Music) | World music | /10 | |
| Witchman | Inferno | (Invisible) | drum'n'bass | 5/10 | |
| Jah Wobble | Full Moon Over The Shopping Mall | (30Hertz) | dub-rock | 6/10 | |
| Jah Wobble | Deep Space | (30hertz) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Shannon Wright | Flight Safety | (Touch & Go) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| :Wumpscut: | Boeses Junges Fleisch | (Beton Kopf Media) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Steve Wynn | My Midnight | (Zero Hour) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Xorcist | Nomad | (Pendragon) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| XTC | Apple Venus vol 1 | (TVT) | pop | 6/10 | |
| Susumu Yokota | Images | (Skintone) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Otomo Yoshihide | Cathode | (Tzadik) | noise | 5/10 | |
| Yume Bitsu | Yume Bitsu | (Ba Da Bing) | psych-rock | 8/10 | |
| Zen Guerrilla | Trance States In Tongues | (Subpop) | Garage-rock | 7/10 | |
TM, ®, Copyright © 1999 Piero Scaruffi
R = Rockerilla
| M = Mjuzik
| B = Blow Up