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Artist | Album Title | (Label) | Genre | Rat. | © |
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Ratings: 10=best rock album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan |
A Guy Called Gerald | Essence | (Studio K7) | jungle | 5/10 | |
A Perfect Circle | Mer De Noms | (Sea of Words) | grunge | 6/10 | |
Absurd Minds | Deception | (Scanner) | synth-pop | 7/10 | |
Acetone | York Blvd | (Vapor) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
DJ? Acucrack | Sorted | (E-Magine) | techno | 6/10 | |
Add N To (X) | Add Insult To Injury | (Mute) | techno | 6/10 | |
Adventures In Stereo | Monomania | (Bobsled) | Brit-pop | 5/10 | |
Air | Virgin Suicides | (Source) | Genre | 6/10 | |
Aix Em Klemm | Aix Em Klemm | (Kranky) | ambient | 5/10 | |
Carrie Akre | Home | (Good Ink) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Alabama Thunderpussy | Constellation | (Man's Ruin) | stoner | 5/10 | |
Album Leaf | An Orchestrated Rise to Fall | (Music Fellowship) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
All | Problematic | (Epitaph) | punk-pop | 5/10 | |
Aloha | That's Your Fire | (Polyvinyl) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
Amoeba | Pivot | (Release) | dream-pop | 6/10 | |
AMP Studio | Alien Registration Office | (Ochre) | ambient | 6/10 | |
Angel In Heavy Syrup | IV | (Monotremata) | prog-rock | 7/10 | M |
Apartment 26 | Hallucinating | (Hollywood) | rap-metal | 5/10 | |
Apoptygma Bezerk | Welcome to Earth | (Tatra) | techno | 5/10 | |
Apples In Stereo | The Discovery Of A World Inside The Moone | (spinArt) | pop | 6/10 | |
Appleseed Cast | Mare Vitalis | (Deep Elm) | emocore | 6/10 | |
Aqua | Aquarius | (MCA) | techno | 5/10 | |
Arovane | Tides | (City Centre Offices) | ambient | 6/10 | |
Joseph Arthur | Come To Where I'm From | (Virgin) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Richard Ashcroft | Alone With Everybody | (Virgin) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Ass Ponys | Some Stupid With A Flare Gun | (Checkered Past) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
Ian Astbury | Spirit\Light\Speed | (Beggars Banquet) | techno | 5/10 | |
At The Drive-in | Relationship of Command | (Grand Royal) | funk-rock | 6/10 | |
Atomic Bitchwax | II | (Tee Pee) | stoner | 5/10 | |
Auch | Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye | (Mille Plateaux) | techno | 6/10 | |
Ayreon | Universal Migrator | (Transmission) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
Steffen Basho-Junghans | Song of the Earth | (Sublingual) | instrumental | 7/10 | |
Beautiful South | Painting It Red | (Go Discs) | 4/10 | | |
Bellwether | Bellwether | (Square Dog) | alt-country | 5/10 | |
Bettie Serveert | Private Suit | (Hidden Agenda) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Baby Bird | Bugged | (Echo) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
Bad Livers | Blood And Mood | (Sugar Hill) | electro/country | 6/10 | |
Bad Religion | The New America | (Atlantic) | hardcore | 5/10 | |
Badly Drawn Boy | The Hour of The Bewilderbeast | (Twisted Nerve) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
Banco De Gaia | Igizeh | (Six Degrees) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Barenaked Ladies | Maroon | (Reprise) | pop | 6/10 | |
Beachwood Sparks | Beachwood Sparks | (Subpop) | folk | 6/10 | |
Beanfield | Human Patterns | (Streetbeat) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Adrian Belew | Coming Attractions | (Thirsty Ear) | prog-rock | 5/10 | R |
Belle & Sebastian | Fold Your Hands Child | (Jeepster) | alt rock | 7/10 | |
Bent Leg Fatima | Bent Leg Fatima | (File 13) | prog-rock | 7/10 | |
Bentley Rhythm Ace | For Your Years Only | (Parlophone) | techno | 5/10 | |
Bevis Frond | Acid Jam 2 | (Woronzow) | psyc | 5/10 | |
Biosphere | Birmingham Frequencies | (Headphone) | electronica | 5/10 | |
Biosphere | Cirque | (Touch) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic | Petrophonics | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Bjork | Selmasongs | (Elektra) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Black Box Recorder | The Facts Of Life | (Chrysalis) | pop | 4/10 | |
Black Heart Procession | 3 | (Touch & Go) | alt-rock | 7/10 | R |
Black Watch | Lime Green Girl | (Saltwater) | psyc-pop | 6/10 | |
Blectum From Blechdom | The Messy Jesse Fiesta | (Deluxe) | electronica | 7/10 | |
Blonde Redhead | Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons | (Touch & Go) | alt rock | 6/10 | |
Blood Brothers | This Adultery is Ripe | (Second Nature) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
Blue Rodeo | Days in Between | (Sire) | pop | 5/10 | |
Bluetones | Science & Nature | (Superior Quality) | Brit-pop | 5/10 | |
Richard Bone | Ascensionism | (Quirkworks) | electronica | 5/10 | |
Boredoms | Vision Creation Newsun | (Warner Bros) | noise | 7/10 | |
Boss Hog | White Out | (In The Red) | garage-rock | 7/10 | |
Billy Bragg & Wilco | Mermaid Avenue II | (Elektra) | Genre | 6/10 | B |
Bratmobile | Ladies Women And Girls | (Lookout) | riot-grrrls | 5/10 | |
Bright | Full Negative | (Ba Da Bing) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Bright Eyes | Fevers And Mirrors | (Saddle Creek) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Broadcast | The Noise Made By People | (Warp) | retro-pop | 6/10 | |
Caspar Brotzmann | Mute Massaker | (Thirsty Ear) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Franklin Bruno | Kiss Without Makeup | (Absolutely Kosher) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Brutal Truth | Goodbye Cruel World | (Relapse) | grindcore | 7/10 | |
BT | Movement In Still Life | (Nettwerk) | house | 5/10 | |
Richard Buckner | The Hill | (Overcoat) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
LTJ Bukem | Journey Inwards | (Good Looking) | jungle | 4/10 | |
Burmese | Monkeys Tear Man To Shreds | (tUMULt) | industrial | 6/10 |
Calexico | Hot Rail | (Quarterstick) | desert-rock | 7/10 | |
Califone | Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People | (Glitterhouse) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
Neko Case | Furnace Room Lullaby | (Bloodshot) | alt-country | 6/10 | |
Peter Case | Flying Saucer Blues | (Vanguard) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Cash Audio | Green Bullet | (Touch And Go) | blues-rock | 6/10 | |
Cat Power | The Covers Record | (Matador) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Cathode Bob | Threadbare | (One Mad Son) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Caustic Resin | The After Birth | (Alias) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
Cerberus Shoal | Crash My Moon Yacht | (Pandemonium) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Chainsaw Kittens | The All American | (4 Alarm) | algm | 6/10 | |
Ch'e | Sounds Of Liberation | (Man's Ruin) | stoner | 5/10 | |
Richard Chartier | ![]() | (Line) | concrete | 6/10 | |
Cheater Slicks | Refried Dreams | (In The Red) | garage-punk | 5/10 | |
Cheer-Accident | Salad Days | (Skin Graft) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Vic Chestnutt | Merriment | (Backburner) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Meg Lee Chin | Piece And Love | (Invisible) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Chumbawamba | What You See Is What You Get | (Republic) | punkrock | 5/10 | |
Cinerama | This Is Cinerama | (Spinart) | pop | 5/10 | |
Cinerama | Disco Volante | (Manifesto) | pop | 4/10 | |
Circle | Prospekt | (Resonant) | prog-rock | 7/10 | |
Cleaner | Solaris | (Accession) | Industrial | 5/10 | |
Nels Cline | The Inkling | (Cryptogramophone) | jazz-rock | 6/10 | |
Clinic | Internal Wrangler | (Domino) | post-pop | 7/10 | |
Coil | Queens Of The Circulating Library | (Eskaton) | industrial | 5/10 | |
Coil | Constant Shallwness Leads To Evil | (Eskaton) | industrial | 5/10 | |
Coil | Musick to Play In The Dark Volume Two | (Chalice) | industrial | 6/10 | |
Cold | Something Wicked This Way Comes | (Interscope) | grunge | 5/10 | |
Coldplay | Parachuttes | (Parlophone) | pop | 6/10 | |
Collective Soul | Blender | (Atlantic) | mainstream | 4/10 | |
Colour Haze | CO2 | (Elektrohasch) | stoner | 5/10 | |
Comets On Fire | Comets on Fire | (COF) | psych-rock | 7/10 | |
Common | Like Water for Chocolate | (MCA) | hip-hop | 6/10 | |
Controlled Bleeding | Our Journey's End | (MaSo) | ambient dub | 6/10 | |
Corrosion Of Conformity | America's Volume Dealer | (Sanctuary) | punkmetal | 4/10 | |
Corrs | In Blue | (Atlantic) | folk-rock | 4/10 | |
Covenant | United States Of Mind | (Subspace Communications) | industrial | 5/10 | |
Cradle Of Filth | Midian | (Koch) | black metal | 4/10 | |
Graham Coxon | The Golden D | (Transcopic) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Cro-Mags | Revenge | (Cro-Mag) | punkmetal | 5/10 | |
Cure | Bloodflowers | (Fiction) | dark-punk | 5/10 | |
Current 93 | Sleep Has His House | (Durtro) | industrial folk | 5/10 | |
Current 93 | Faust | (Durtro) | industrial folk | 5/10 | |
Beth Custer | Dona Luz 30 Besos | (City Of Tribes) | avantgarde | 6/10 | |
Czars | Before... But Longer | (Bella Union) | alt-country | 6/10 | |
Damage Manual | The Damage Manual | (Invisible) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Damon & Naomi | With Ghost | (Subpop) | noise-pop | 6/10 | R |
Dandy Warhols | Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia | (Capitol) | grunge | 6/10 | |
Darude | Before The Storm | (16 Inch) | hard house | 6/10 | |
Dat Politics | Sous-hit | (Digital Narcis) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Datach'i | We Are Always Well Thank You | (Caipirinha) | drum'n'bass | 7/10 | |
Danubians | The Danubians | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 7/10 | |
Dave Matthews Band | Listener Supported | (RCA) | progressive | 6/10 | |
Richard Davies | Barbarians | (Kindercore) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Dead C | Dead C | (Language) | avantgarde | 7/10 | |
Dead Voices On Air | Frankie Pett Presents The Happy Submarines | (Invisible) | industrial | 4/10 | |
Deadlights | Deadlights | (Elektra) | metal | 5/10 | |
Death Cab For Cutie | We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes | (Barsuk) | slo-core | 6/10 | |
Death In June | Operation Hummingbird | (NER) | gothic | 6/10 | |
Deftones | White Pony | (Maverick) | angry metal | 6/10 | |
Deicide | Insineratehymn | (Roadrunner) | death metal | 4/10 | |
Vladislav Delay | Entain | (Mille Plateaux) | electronica | 7/10 | |
Vladislav Delay | Multila | (Chain Reaction) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Delerium | Poem | (Nettwerk) | electronica | 5/10 | |
Delgados | The Great Eastern | (Chemikal Underground) | folk-rock | 7/10 | |
Delta 72 | 000 | (Touch & Go) | r'n'b | 6/10 | R |
Demolition Squad | Hit It | (Psychotropic) | drum'n'bass | 7/10 | |
Der Blutharsch | The Track Of The Hunted | (Tesco) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Dianogah | Battle Champions | (Southern) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Die Form | Extremum | (Metropolis) | industrial | 6/10 | |
Ani DiFranco | Revelling/Reckoning | (Righteous Babe) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Dinner Is Ruined | Ray Charles Kinda Party | (Sonic Unyon) | lo-fi | 5/10 | |
Dirty Three | Whatever You Love You Are | (Touch & Go) | instrumental | 8/10 | R |
Disc | Transfer | (Vinyl Communications) | electronica | 5/10 | |
Djam Karet | Still No Commercial Potential | (HC) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Dntel | Something Always Goes Wrong | (Phthalo) | drum'n'bass | 4/10 | |
John Doe | Freedom Is | (SpinArt) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Sally Doherty | Empire Of Death | (Tiger) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Sally Doherty | On The Outside | (Tiger) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Don Caballero | American Don | (Touch & Go) | math-rock | 6/10 | A |
Double U | Falling Lanterns | (Emperor Jones) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
Sarah Dougher | The Walls Ablaze | (Mr Lady) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Donnas | Turn 21 | (Epitaph) | foxcore | 6/10 | |
Doves | Lost Souls | (Heavenly) | dream-pop | 7/10 | |
Download | Effector | (Nettwerk) | industrial | 6/10 | |
Dr Frank | Show Business Is My Life | (Lookout) | punk-pop | 4/10 | |
Dr Nerve | Ereia | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Drunk | Tableside Manners | (Jagiaguwar) | alt-country | 6/10 | |
Duran Duran | Pop Trash | (Hollywood) | Genre | 3/10 | |
Dusted | When We Were Young | (Go Beat) | dance | 5/10 | |
Dusty Trails | Dusty Trails | (Atlantic) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Dwarves | Come Clean | (Epitaph) | punk-rock | 6/10 | |
Dylan Group | Ur-Klang Search | (Bubble Core) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Early Day Miners | Placer Found | (Western Vinyl) | slocore | 6/10 | |
Eat Static | Crash And Burn | (Mesmobeat) | psych | 6/10 | |
EC8OR | The One And Only High And Low | (Digital Hardcore) | industrial | 6/10 | |
Echoboy | Volume One | (Mute) | avant-pop | 6/10 | |
Echoboy | Volume Two | (Mute) | avant-pop | 5/10 | |
Eels | Daisies Of The Galaxy | (Dreamworks) | roots-rock | 6/10 | |
Einsturzende Neubaten | Silence Is Sexy | (Mute) | industrial | 6/10 | |
Elastica | The Menace | (Deceptive) | Brit-pop | 5/10 | |
Electric Company | Exitos | (Tigerbeat6) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Electric Wizard | Dopethrone | (MUsic Cartel) | stoner-rock | 7/10 | |
Electronic | Twisted Tenderness | (Koch) | synth-pop | 5/10 | |
Electronic Eye | Neurometrik | (Alphaphone) | techno | 4/10 | |
Eleventh Dream Day | Stalled Parade | (Thrill Jockey) | Genre | 5/10 | |
Elevator | A Taste Of Complete Perspective | (Teenage USA) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Elf Power | The Winter is Coming | (Arena Rock) | psych-pop | 6/10 | |
Hanin Elias | In Flames | (DHR) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Elliott | False Cathedrals | (Revelation) | emocore | 6/10 | |
Embrace | Drawn From Memory | (Virgin) | pop | 5/10 | |
Eminem | The Marshall Mathers LP | (Columbia) | rap | 7.5/10 | |
Enon | Believo | (See Thru Broadcasting) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Ensemble Nimbus | Garmonbozia | (Record Heaven) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Enslaved | Mardraum | (Osmose) | black metal | 6/10 | |
Entombed | Uprising | (Sanctuary) | hard-rock | 5/10 | |
Entropic Advance | ![]() | (Symbolic Insight) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Enya | A Day Without Rain | (Reprise) | new age | 5/10 | |
Eternals | The Eternals | (De Soto) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Evanescence | Origin (2000) | (Bigwig) | pop-metal | 7/10 | |
Everlasting The Way | Long Stretch Motorcycle Hymn Highway | (Monitor) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Everlasting The Way | Songs From An American Movie: Vol 1 | (Dreamworks) | grunge | 6/10 | |
Eyehategod | Confederacy of Ruined Lives | (Century Media) | heavy-metal | 6/10 | |
Eyehategod | Southern Discomfort | (Century Media) | heavy-metal | 6/10 | |
Eyeless in Gaza | Song Of The Beautiful Wanton | (Soleilmoon) | Genre | 5/10 | |
Face To Face | Reactionary | (Ladyluck) | hardcore | 5/10 | |
Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo | Strange But True | (Matador) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Jad Fair & Jason Willett | Enjoyable Songs | (Alternative Tentacles) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Faith & Disease | Beneath The Trees | (Projekt) | gothic | 6/10 | |
Michael Fakesch | Marion | (Musik Aus Strom) | techno | 6/10 | |
Fall | The Unutterable | (Eagle) | alt-rock | 4/10 | |
Forrest Fang | Gongland | (Projekt) | world-music | 6/10 | |
Geoff Farina | Reverse Eclipse | (Southern) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Fastball | The Harsh Light of Day | (Hollywood) | pop | 5/10 | |
Fatboy Slim | Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars | (Astralwerks) | techno | 5/10 | |
Fennesz | Magic Sound | (Mego) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Figgs | Sucking In Stereo | (Hearbox) | power-pop | 6/10 | |
Fire & Ice | Birdking | (Asafoetida) | 5/10 | | |
Firebird | Firebird | (Rise Above) | hard-rock | 6/10 | |
Fishbone | The Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx | (Hollywood) | funk-rock | 4/10 | |
Flanger | Midnight Sound | (Ntone) | jazz-rock | 5/10 | |
Flaying Saucer Attack | Mirror | (Drag City) | ambient | 5/10 | |
B. Fleischmann | A Choir of Empty Beds | (Fuzzy Box) | glitch | 6/10 | |
Flies Inside The Sun | Cactus Sky | (Metonymic) | free-noise | 6/10 | |
Flying Luttenbachers | Alptraum | (Ugexplode) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Ron Flynt | Big Blue Heart | (Ya Ya) | power-pop | 6/10 | |
Foehn | Hidden Cinema Soundtracks | (Fat Cat) | ambient | 5/10 | |
Sue Foley | Love Comin' Down | (Shanachie) | blues | 6/10 | |
Fontanelle | Fontanelle | (Kranky) | instrumental | 7/10 | |
DJ Food | Kaleidoscope | (Ninja Tune) | Genre | 6/10 | |
For Carnation | For Carnation | (Touch & Go) | math-rock | 7/10 | |
Forever Einstein | Down With Gravity | (Cuneiform) | progressive | 5/10 | |
Frank & Walters | Glass | (Setanta) | pop | 5/10 | |
Freed Unit | Gigglegoo | (Freed Unit) | psych-pop | 6/10 | |
Burnt Friedman | Con Ritmo | (Nonplace) | Genre | 6/10 | |
Burnt Friedman | Plays Love Songs | (Nonplace) | Genre | 5/10 | |
Friends Of Nina Martinez | A Place In The Sun | (Knitting Factory) | 6/10 | | |
Frogs | Bananimals | (4 Alarm) | folk-pop | 6/10 | |
Fruit Bats | Echolocation | (Perishable) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Fu Manchu | King Of The Road | (Mammoth) | stoner | 5/10 | |
Fucking Champs | IV | (Drag City) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Robbie Fulks | The Very Best | (Bloodshot) | alt-country | 6/10 | |
Fun Lovin' Criminals | Loco | (EMI) | hip hop | 4/10 | |
Funkstorung | Appetite Fur Disctruction | (K7) | techno | 6/10 | |
Fuxa | Fuxa 2000 | (Mind Expansion) | psych-rock | 5/10 | |
F.Y.P. | Toys That Kill | (Recess) | punk-pop | 5/10 | |
Peter Gabriel | Ovo | (Real World) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
Eric Gaffney | Brilliant Concert Numbers | (Old Gold) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Alastair Galbraith | Cry | (Emperor Jones) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
Gallon Drunk | Black Milk | (FM) | punk | 6/10 | |
Gas | ![]() | (Mille Plateaux) | techno | 6/10 | |
Giant Sand | Rock Opera | (OW OM) | roots-rock | 6/10 | R |
Eliza Gilkyson | Hard Times In Babylon | (Red House) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Glide | Performance | (Ochre) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Gluecifer | Get The Horn | (Subpop) | garage-rock | 5/10 | B |
Gluecifer | Tender Is The Savage | (Subpop) | garage-rock | 6/10 | |
Go-Betweens | Friends Of Rachel Worth | (Jetset) | pop | 5/10 | |
Goatsnake | Flower Of Disease | (Southern Lord) | doom | 5/10 | |
Godspeed You Black Emperor | Lift Your Skinny Fists | (Kranky) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Golden | Golden Summer | (Slowdime) | roots-rock | 6/10 | |
Goldfrapp | Felt Mountain | (Mute) | trip-hop | 6/10 | |
Nina Gordon | Tonight And The Rest Of My Life | (Warner Bros) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
Goudie | Peep Show | (Elektra) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Grandaddy | The Sophtware | (V2) | Genre | 7/10 | |
Gravitar | You Must First Learn To Draw The Real | (Monotremata) | instrumental | 7/10 | |
Gravitar | Edifier | (Manifold) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
David Gray | White Ladder | (ATO) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Green Day | Warning | (Reprise) | punkpop | 5/10 | |
David Grubbs | The Spectrum Between | (Drag City) | songwriter | 7/10 | R/A |
Ida | Will You Find Me | (Tiger Style) | folk-pop | 6/10 | |
Idaho | Hearts Of Palm | (Idaho) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Idlewild | 100 Broken Windows | (Food) | punk-pop | 6/10 | |
Ryoji Ikeda | Matrix | (Touch) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Immortal | Damned In Black | (Osmose) | dark metal | 4/10 | |
In The Nursery | Groundloop | (ITN) | gothic | 6/10 | |
Index | Ultra Hard Shadow | (COP) | industrial | 5/10 | |
Tetsu Inoue | Active/Freeze | (12k) | ambient | 5/10 | |
Isis | Celestial | (Escape Artist) | industrial | 6/10 | |
Isotope 217 | Who Stole The I Walkman | (Thrill Jockey) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
Ivy | Long Distance | (Nettwerk) | folk-pop | 5/10 | |
Jack Drag | Soft Songs LP | (Sugar Free) | psyc-pop | 5/10 | |
Jackie-O Motherfucker | Magick Fire Music | (Ecstatic Peace) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
Jacques | To Stars | (Setanta) | pop | 4/10 | |
Jayhawks | Smile | (Columbia) | country-pop | 4/10 | |
Japancakes | The Sleepy Strange | (Kindercore) | ambient | 6/10 | |
Jazz Butcher | Rotten Soul | (Vinyl Japan) | Genre | 4/10 | |
Philip Jeck | Vinyl Coda I-III | (Intermedium) | noise | 7/10 | |
Jennyanykind | I Need You | (Yep Rock) | Genre | 5/10 | |
Jets To Brazil | Four Cornered Night | (Jade Tree) | pop | 4/10 | |
Joan Of Arc | The Gap | (Jade Tree) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
Daniel Johnston | Rejected Unknown | (Pickled Egg) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Juliana's Pony | Total System Failure | (Zoe) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Damien Jurado | Ghost Of David | (Subpop) | songwriter | 6/10 | R |
Edward Ka-Spel | Red Letters | (Caciocavallo) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Kammerflimmer Kollektief | Incommunicado | (Payola) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
Kampec Dolores | Sitting On The Buffalo | (ReR) | world-music | 6/10 | |
Karate | Unsolved | (Southern) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
Nash Kato | Debutante | (Will) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Mike Keneally | Dancing | (Exowax) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Dave Kerman & 5uu's | Regarding Purgatories | (Cuneiform) | progressive | 5/10 | |
Kid Rock | History Of Rock | (Atlantic) | rap-metal | 4/10 | |
Kid 606 | Down With The Scene | (Ipecac) | electronica | 7/10 | |
Kid Spatula | Full Sunken Breaks | (Planet Mu) | techno | 6/10 | |
Kiln | Ampday | (Thalassa) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
King Black Acid | Loves A Long Song | (Cavity Search) | psych | 6/10 | |
King's X | Please Come Home | (Metal Blade) | hard-rock | 4/10 | |
King Crimson | The ConstruKction of Light | (Virgin) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
Kings Of Convenience | Kings Of Convenience | (Kindercone) | folk-rock | 6/10 | |
Kevn Kinney | The Flower And The Knife | (Capricorn) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Richard Kirk | Loopstatic | (Touch) | techno | 5/10 | |
Richard Kirk | Darkness At Noon | (Touch) | techno | 4/10 | |
Kletka Red | Hybrid | (Red Note) | avant-folk | 5/10 | |
Klute | Fear Of People | (Certificate) | drum'n'bass | 5/10 | |
Mark Knopfler | Sailing To Philadelphia | (Warner Bros) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Knotworking | Knotworking | (One Mad Son) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Chris Knox | Beat | (Thirsty Ear) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Kreidler | Kreidler | (Mute) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
DJ Krush | Code4109 | (Sony) | trip-hop | 5/10 | |
Ed Kuepper | Smile Pacific | (Hot) | Genre | 5/10 | |
Nada Surf | Proximity Effect | (MarDev) | pop | 4/10 | |
Nashville Pussy | High As Hell | (TVT) | hard-rock | /10 | |
Neina | Subconsciousness | (Mille Plateaux) | glitch-music | 6/10 | |
Mike Ness | Under the Influences | (Time Bomb) | folksinger | 4/10 | |
New Bomb Turks | Nightmare Scenario | (Epitaph) | Genre | 7/10 | R |
New Model Army | Eight | (Attack Attack) | Genre | 4/10 | |
New Pornographers | Mass Romantic | (Mint) | pop | 6/10 | |
New Radiant Storm King | Singular No Article | (Poster Girl) | noise-rock | 5/10 | |
New Wet Kojak | Do Things | (Konkurrel) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Martin Newell | Spirit Cage | (Cherry Red) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
Nigo | Ape Sounds | (Source) | hip hop | 6/10 | |
Nile | Black Seeds Of Vengeance | (Relapse) | death-metal | 6/10 | |
No Doubt | Return of Saturn | (Interscope) | Genre | 5/10 | |
No Means No | One | (Wrong) | alt-rock | 4/10 | |
No Use For A Name | More Betterness | (Fat Wreck) | hardcore | 4/10 | |
No-WTO Combo | Live From The Battle Is Seattle | (Alternative Tentacles) | punk-rock | 5/10 | |
Nocturnal Emissions | Futurist Antiquarism | (Staalplat) | Genre | 4/10 | |
Nocturnal Emissions | Mort Aux Vaches | (Staalplat) | Genre | 4/10 | |
NOFX | Pump Up The Valuum | (Epitaph) | hardcore | 5/10 | |
Alva Noto | Prototypes | (Mille Plateaux) | glitch music | 6/10 | |
Alva Noto | Wohltemperiert | (Noton) | glitch music | 5/10 | |
Alva Noto | Cyclo | (Noton) | glitch music | 5/10 | |
KK Null | Gev | (Staalplaat) | noise | 5/10 | |
KK Null | Discoteca Plasma | (Mindfield) | noise | 5/10 | |
Sinead O'Connor | Faith And Courage | (Atlantic) | Genre | 6/10 | |
Oasis | Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants | (Epic) | Brit-pop | 5/10 | |
Octant | Can Alarms And Crickets | (Up) | new wave | 4/10 | |
Of Montreal | Horse And Elephant Eatery | (Bar None) | pop | 5/10 | |
Offspring | Conspiracy Of One | (Columbia) | hardcore | 5/10 | |
Will Oldham | Ode Music | (Drag City) | folk | 6/10 | |
Mark Olson | My Own Jo Ellen | (Hightone) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Oneida | Come On Everybody Let's Rock | (Jagjaguwar) | garage-rock | 7/10 | |
Ooioo | Gold And Green | (Shock City) | noise | 5/10 | |
Optiganally Yours | Presents | (Absolutely Kosher) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Orange Goblin | Big Black | (MUsic Cartel) | doom-metal | 5/10 | |
Orange Peels | So Far | (Spinart) | pop | 5/10 | |
Oranger | Quiet Vibration Land | (Amazing Grease) | pop | 5/10 | |
Ordo Equilibrio | The Wedlock of Roses | (Cold Meat) | gothic | 5/10 | |
Orgy | Vapor Transmission | (Warner) | metal | 6/10 | |
Orso | Long Time By | (Perishable) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Joan Osborne | Righteous Love | (Interscope) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Oval | Ovalprocess | (Thrill Jockey) | avant-rock | 5/10 | |
Ozric Tentacles | The Hidden Step | (Stretchy) | psych-rock | 5/10 | |
Pan American | 360 Business 360 Bypass | (Kranky) | ambient dub | 7/10 | R |
Pantera | Reinventing the Steel | (Elektra) | heavy metal | 5/10 | |
Papa Roach | Infest | (Dreamworks) | rap-metal | 6/10 | |
Papas Fritas | Buildings And Grounds | (Minty Fresh) | power-pop | 5/10 | |
Paul Newman | Machine Is Not Broken | (My Pal God) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Pearl Jam | Binaural | (Epic) | grunge | 5/10 | |
Pedro The Lion | Winners Never Quit | (Jade Tree) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Joe Pernice | Big Tobacco | (Glitterhouse) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Persona | Maximal | (Vinyl Communications) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
Persona | Uptight | (Simulated) | psych-rock | 7/10 | |
Phantom Surfers | XXX | (Lookout) | garage-surf | 5/10 | |
Grant Lee Phillips | Ladies Over Oracle | (Phillips) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Phish | Farmhouse | (Elektra) | progressive | 5/10 | |
Photek | Solaris | (Source) | dance | 5/10 | |
Photon Band | Oh The Sweet Sweet Changes | (Darla) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Phylr | Halflife | (Invisible) | industrial | 6/10 | |
Piano Magic | Artists Rifles | (Rocket Girl) | psych-pop | 6/10 | |
Pineal Ventana | Axes To Ice | (Unit Circle Rekkids) | noise-rock | 6/10 | |
Pinehurst Kids | Viewmaster | (Four Alarm) | noise-pop | 5/10 | |
Pinetop Seven | Bringing Home The Last Great Strike | (Truckstop) | roots-rock | 7/10 | |
Pizzicato Five | The Fifth Release | (Matador) | kitsch | 5/10 | |
Placebo | Black Market Music | (Neurot) | dance | 5/10 | |
Plaid | Trainer | (Warp) | techno | 5/10 | |
Poe | Haunted | (Atlantic) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Poem Rocket | Psychogeography | (Atavistic) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
Pole | 3 | (Kiff) | dub | 5/10 | |
Porcupine Tree | Lightbulb Sun | (K-Scope) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Portastatic | De Mel De Melao | (Merge) | alt-rock | 4/10 | |
Poster Children | DDD | (SpinArt) | Genre | 6/10 | |
Pram | Museum Of Imaginary Animals | (Domino) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Archer Prewitt | Gerroa Songs | (Carrot Top) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Primal Scream | XTRMNTR | (Astralwerks) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
Chuck Prophet | The Hurting Business | (Cooking Vinyl) | 6/10 | |
Queens Of The Stone Age | Rated R | (Interscope) | stoner-rock | 6/10 | |
Queers | Beyond The Valley Of The Assfuckers | (Hopeless) | punk-pop | 4/10 | |
Quickspace | The Death of Quickspace | (Matador) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Quintron | The Unmasked Organ Light-Year of Inifinity Man | (Bulb) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
Rachel's | Full On Night (Quarterstick) | (Touch & Go) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Radiohead | Kid A | (Capitol) | 6/10 | | |
Rage Against The Machine | Renegades | (Epic) | funk-metal | 4/10 | |
Rainer Maria | A Better Version Of Me | (Polyvinyl) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Lee Ranaldo | Dirty Windows | (Atavistic) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Lee Ranaldo & William Hooker | Bouquet | (Knitting Factory) | Genre | 5/10 | |
Rancid | Rancid | (Hellcat) | Skapunk | 6/10 | |
Rapoon | What Do You Suppose | (Staalplaat) | ambient | 5/10 | |
Recoil | Liquid | (Mute) | synth-pop | 4/10 | |
Red Snapper | Our Aim Is To Satisfy | (Warp) | trip-hop | 5/10 | |
Red Star Belgrade | Telescope | (Checkered Past) | alt-country | 5/10 | |
Reef | Getaway | (Sony) | hard-rock | 4/10 | |
Blaine Reininger | The More I Learn The Less I Know | (MaSo) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Martin Rev | Strangeworld | (Sahko) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Kimberley Rew | Tunnel Into Summer | (Gadfly) | power-pop | 6/10 | |
Marc Ribot | Muy Divertido | (Atlantic) | progressive | 6/10 | |
Julie Ritter | Songs Of Love And Empire | (Luxstar) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Steve Roach & Jorge Reyes | Vine - Bark & Spore | (Timeroom) | new age | 7/10 | R |
Steve Roach & Thupten Pema Lama | Prayers To The Protector | (Celestial Harmonies) | new age | 6/10 | |
Steve Roach | Midnight Moon | (Projekt) | new age | 7/10 | |
Steve Roach | Early Man | (Projekt) | electronica | 7/10 | |
Dean Roberts | The Grand Cinema | (Mille Plateaux) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
Mark Robinson | Tiger Banana | (Teenbeat) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Rock*a*teens | Sweet Bird Of Youth | (Merge) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
Rollerball | Bathing Music | (Road Cone) | post-jazz | 6/10 | |
Rollins Band | Get Some Go Again | (Dreamworks) | 4/10 | | |
Josh Rouse | Home | (Slow River) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Royal Trux | Pound For Pound | (Drag City) | noise-rock | 6/10 | |
Ruins | Pallaschtom | (Sonore) | Genre | 6/10 | |
Bruce Russell | Maximalist Mantra Music | (Crank Automotive) | avantgarde | 7/10 | |
T Power | Long Time Dead | (Botchit) | jungle | 5/10 | |
Take 5 | Against All Odds | (Elektra) | pop | 3/10 | |
Nobukazu Takemura | Sign | (Thrill Jockey) | electronica | 7/10 | |
Tarwater | Animals Suns And Atoms | (Kitty-Yo) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Teenage Funclub | Howdy | (Columbia) | Brit-pop | 5/10 | |
Jimi Tenor | Out Of Nowhere | (Warp) | techno/kitsch | 6/10 | |
Terre Thaemlitz | Interstices | (Mille Plateaux) | ambient | 5/10 | |
Terre Thaemlitz | Fagjazz | (Comatonse) | ambient | 6/10 | |
Terrifying Experience | Magnetic Breakthrough | (Mental Telemetry) | noise-rock | 6/10 | |
THD | Under a Static Sky | (Pendragon) | industrial | 6/10 | |
Thievery Corporation | Mirror Conspiracy | (Eighteenth Street Lounge) | dub-hop | 6/10 | |
Third Eye Foundation | Little Lost Soul | (Merge) | ambient | 5/10 | |
David Thomas | Bay City | (Thirsty Ear) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Richard Thomas | Soggy Martyrs | (Lo) | techno | 6/10 | |
310 | The Dirty Rope | (Leaf) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Thrones | Sperm Whale | (Kill Rock Stars) | experimental | 7/10 | |
Thuja | The Deer Lay Down Their Bones | (Tumult) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
Mary Timony | Mountains | (Matador) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Tin Hat Trio | Helium | (Angel) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
Amon Tobin | Supermodified | (Ninjatune) | dub-hop | 6/10 | |
Russ Tolman | New Quadraphonic Highway | (Weed) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Tom Tom Club | The Good The Bad And The Funky | (Rykodisc) | funk | 6/10 | |
Tone | Structure | (Dischord) | instrumental | 5/10 | |
Tosca | Suzuki | (G-Stone) | trip-hop | 6/10 | |
Toshack Highway | Toshack Highway | (Catapult) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
Town And Country | It All Has To Do With It | (Thrill JOckey) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Tragically Hip | Music @ Work | (London) | roots-rock | 4/10 | |
Trans Am | You Can Always Get What You Want | (Thrill Jockey) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Trans Am | Red Line | (Thrill Jockey) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Treble Charger | Wide Awake Bored | (RCA) | pop | 4/10 | |
Tristeza | Dream Signals In Full Circles | (Tiger Style) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Trunk Federation | Lay The Hip | (Plastique) | psyc-rock | 4/10 | |
Tsar | Tsar | (Hollywood) | power-pop | 5/10 | |
Turing Machine | A New Machine For Living | (Jade Tree) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
23 Skidoo | 23 Skidoo | (Virgin) | dance | 4/10 | |
Twilight Singers | Twilight | (Columbia) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Two Dollar Guitar | Weak Beats And Lame-Ass Rhymes | (Smells Like) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
Two Lone Swordsmen | Tiny Reminders | (Warp) | techno | 6/10 | |
Tyro | Audiocards | (Mute) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Ulan Bator | Ego Echo | (Young God) | avant-rock | 7/10 | |
Ulan Bator | Ego Echo | (Young God) | avant-rock | 7/10 | |
Ulver | Perdition City | (Jester) | prog-metal | 7/10 | |
Unisex | Stratosfear | (Double Agent) | psych-rock | 7/10 | |
Up Bustle And Out | Rebel Radio | (Ninja Tune) | trip-hop | 4/10 | |
Usurei Yatsura | Everybody Loves | (Che) | lo-fi pop | 4/10 | |
U2 | All That You CAn't Leave Behind | (Reprise) | pop-rock | 5/10 | |
Uusitalo | Vapaa Muurari Live | (Force) | techno | 6/10 | |
Mika Vainio | Kajo | (Touch) | electronica | 5/10 | |
Armand Van Helden | Killing Puritans | (Armed) | house | 6/10 | |
Vandermark 5 | Burn The Incline | (Atavistic) | Genre | 7/10 | |
VAST | Music For People | (Elektra) | mainstream | 5/10 | |
Sven Vath | Contact | (Ultra) | techno | 5/10 | |
Jack Vees | The Restaurant Behind The Pier | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Versus | Hurrah | (Merge) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Veruca Salt | Resolver | (Beyond Music) | alt-rock | 4/10 | |
Luke Vibert & BJ Cole | Stop The Panic | (Astralwerks) | trip-hop | 5/10 | |
Vidna Obmana | The Surreal Sanctuary | (Hypnos) | electronica | 5/10 | |
Vibracathedral Orchestra | Lino Hi | (Giardia) | drone-music | 6/10 | |
Vibracathedral Orchestra | Versatile Arab Chord Chart | (VHF) | drone-music | 6/10 | |
Christian Vogel | Rescate 137 | (Novamute) | techno | 5/10 | |
Volapuk | Polyglot | (Cuneiform) | progressive | 6/10 | |
Volebeats | Solitude | (Safe House) | folk-rock | 8/10 | |
Voltaire | Almost Human | (Projekt) | glam-rock | 6/10 | |
Steve Von Till | As The Crow Flies | (Neurot) | industrial | 6/10 | |
Vue Vue | Vue Vue | (Subpop) | garage-rock | 6/10 | B |
Waco Bros | Electric Waco Chair | (Bloodshot) | Genre | 5/10 | |
Wallflowers | Breach | (Interscope) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
We | Decentertainment | (Liquid Sky) | drum'n'bass | 6/10 | |
Ween | White Pepper | (Elektra) | pop | 6/10 | |
Paul Weller | Heliocentric | (Island) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
White Stripes | De Stijl | (Sympathy) | blues-rock | 7/10 | |
Chris Whitley | Perfect Day | (New Machine) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Willard Grant Conspiracy | Everything's Fine | (Rykodisc) | alt-country | 6/10 | |
Robbie Williams | Sing When You're Winning | (Chrysalis) | pop | 4/10 | |
Victoria Williams | Water To Drink | (Atlantic) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Wipers | The Power In One | (Zeno) | psych-rock | 5/10 | |
Wisdom Of Harry | House Of Binary | (Matador) | lo-fi pop | 5/10 | |
Jah Wobble | Beach Fervour Spare | (30Hertz) | dub-rock | 6/10 | |
Jah Wobble | Molam Dub | (30Hertz) | dub-rock | 6/10 | |
Shannon Wright | Maps Of Tacit | (Touch & Go) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Xorcist | Insects And Angels | (Metropolis) | electronica | 6/10 | |
XTC | Wasp Star | (TVT) | pop | 4/10 | |
Trisha Yearwood | Real Live Album | (MCA) | Genre | 5/10 | |
Yo La Tengo | And Then Nothing Turned | (Matador) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
Yo-Yo's | Uppers And Downers | (Subpop) | power-pop | 6/10 | |
Susumu Yokota | Sakura | (Skintone) | ambient | 7/10 | |
Otomo Yoshihide | Anode | (Tzadik) | noise | 6/10 | |
Richard Youngs | Making Paper | (Jagjaguwar) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Yume Bitsu | Auspicious Winds | (K) | psych-rock | 7/10 | |
Zeke | Dirty Sanchez | (Epitaph) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
Zoviet France | Decriminalization | (Tramway) | industrial | 5/10 | |
Ratings: 10=best album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan |
TM, ®, Copyright © 2000 Piero Scaruffi
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