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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 |
Acid Mother Temple | New Geocentric World | (Squealer) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
Barry Adamson & Pan Sonic | The Hymn Of The Seventh Illusion | (Kitchen Motors) | ambient | 6/10 | |
Aereogramme | A Story In White | (Chemikal Underground) | Genre | 6/10 | |
Air | 10.000 Hz Legend | (Virgin) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Alfie | If You Happy With You Need Do Nothing | (Twisted Nerve) | pop | 5/10 | |
Alloy Orchestra | Masters Of Slapstick | (Accurate) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
American Analog Set | Know By Heart | (Tigeerstyle) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
Amp | Saint Cecilia Sinsemilla | (Space Age) | ambient | 4/10 | |
Anaal Nathrakh | The Codex Necro | (Mordgrimm, 2001) | black metal | 7/10 | |
Anathema | A Fine Day To Exit | (Music For Nation) | doom-metal | 4/10 | |
Angels Of Light | How I Loved You | (Young God) | gothic | 6/10 | |
Aphex Twin | Drukqs | (Warp) | ambient techno | 5/10 | |
Apparat | Multifunktionsebene | (Shitkatapult) | techno | 6/10 | |
Appendix Out | The Night Is Advancing | (Drag City) | folk | 6/10 | |
Appleseed Cast | Low Level Owl | (Deep Elm) | emocore | 6/10 | |
Appliance | Imperial Metric | (Mute) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
Arab On Radar | Yahweh Or The Highway | (Skin Graft) | noise-rock | 6/10 | |
Arab Strap | The Red Thread | (Matador) | folk | 5/10 | |
Arlo | Up High In The Night | (Subpop) | power-pop | 4/10 | |
Art Zoyd | Ubique | (Inpossible) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
Ash | Free All Angels | (Infectious) | Brit-pop | 5/10 | |
Ass Ponys | Lohio | (Checkered Past) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
Natacha Atlas | Ayeshteni | (Mantra) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Atmosphere | Lucy Ford | (Rhymesayers) | hip-hop | 7/10 | |
Atomsmasher | Atomsmasher | (Hydrahead) | ambient | 6/10 | |
Aube | Seton | (Manifold) | avantgarde | 5/10 | |
Aube | Timemind | (Alchemy) | avantgarde | 5/10 | |
Autechre | Confield | (Warp) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Azusa Plane | The Highway's Jammed With Broken Heroes | (Kraak) | instrumental | 5/10 | |
Bardo Pond | Dilate | (Matador) | psych | 6/10 | |
Basement Jaxx | Rooty | (Astralwerks) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Steffen Basho-Junghans | Inside | (Strange Attractors) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Beachwood Sparks | Once We Were Trees album | (Subpop) | roots-rock | 7/10 | R |
Beta Band | Hot Shots II | (EMI) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Bethany Curve | You Brought Us Here | (Unit Circle Rekkids) | shoegaze | 6/10 | |
Beulah | The Coast is Never Clear | (Velocette) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Bevis Frond | Valedictory Songs | (Rubric) | psyc | 5/10 | |
Bevis Frond | What Did For The Dinosaurs | (Woronzow) | psych | 5/10 | |
Biohazard | Uncivilization | (Sanctuary) | metal | 4/10 | |
Biota | Invisible Map | (Recommended) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
Bis | Return To Central | (Spinart) | Brit-pop | 4/10 | |
Bjork | Vespertine | (Elektra) | Genre | 6/10 | |
Frank Black | Dog In The Sand | (What Are) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Black Crowes | Lions | (V2) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
Black Halos | The Violent Years | (Subpop) | punk-rock | 5/10 | |
Black Sun Ensemble | Hymn Of The Master | (Camera Obscura) | psych | 6/10 | |
Blake Babies | God Bless | (Zoe) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Blood Brothers | March on Electric Children | (Three One G) | hardcore | 7/10 | |
Blue Mountain | Roots | (Blue Mountain) | folk | 4/10 | |
Richard Bone | Tales From The Incantina | (Quirkworks) | ambient | 6/10 | |
Bonnie Prince Billy | Ease Down The Road | (Palace) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Boris | Flood | (MIDI Creative) | stoner | 6/10 | |
Boxhead Ensemble | Two Brothers | (Truckstop) | instrumental | 7/10 | |
Bran Van 3000 | Discosis | (Grand Royal) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Brand New Immortals | Tragic Show | (Elektra) | funk-rock | 5/10 | |
Brother JT | Maybe We Should Take | (Birdman) | folk-rock | 5/10 | |
Ian Brown | Music For The Spheres | (Polydor), | songwriter | 5/10 | |
BS2000 | Simply Mortified | (Grand Royal) | hip-hop | 5/10 | |
Buckethead | Somewhere Over The Slaughterhouse | (Stray) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Built To Spill | Ancient Melodies Of The Future | (Warner Bros) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Burmese | A Mere Shadow And Reminiscence Of Humanity | (tUMULt) | industrial | 5/10 | |
Burning Airlines | Identikit | (DeSoto) | alt-country | 5/10 | |
Bush | Golden State | (Atlantic) | grunge | 4/10 | |
Butthole Surfers | Weird Revolution | (Hollywood) | Genre | 6/10 | R |
David Byrne | Look Into The Eyeball | (Virgin) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
C Average | Second Rekoning | (Kill Rock Stars) | heavy metal | 6/10 | |
Cake | Comfort Eagle | (Columbia) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Califone | Roomsound | (Glitterhouse) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
Calla | Scavengers | (Young God) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Kim Cascone | Residualism | (Ritornell) | industrial | 6/10 | |
Cash Audio | Orange Sessions | (Orange) | blues-rock | 5/10 | |
Cathedral | Endtyme | (Earache) | doom-metal | 5/10 | |
Nick Cave | No More Shall We Part | (Mute) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Charlatans | Wonderland | (MCA) | Genre | 4/10 | |
Richard Chartier | ![]() | (Trente Oiseaux) | concrete | 7/10 | |
Vic Chestnutt | Left To His Own Devices | (SpinArt) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
Chestnut Station | In Your Living Room | (Drag City) | garage-rock | 4/10 | |
Child's View | Hoshi No Koe | (Thrill Jockey) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Circulatory System | Circulatory System | (Cloud) | pop | 6/10 | |
Kit Clayton | Lateral Forces - Surface Fault | (Vertical Form) | electronica | 7/10 | |
Clean | Getaway | (Merge) | lo-fi | 5/10 | |
Nels Cline | Destroy All Nels Cline | (Atavistic) | instrumental | 7/10 | |
Coastal | Coastal | (Words On Music) | shoegaze | 7/10 | |
James Combs | Please Come Down | (Ubiquity) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Bobby Conn | The Golden Age | (Thrill Jockey) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Chris Connelly | Blonde Exodus | (Invisible) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Chris Connelly & Bill Rieflin | Largo | (First World) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Lloyd Cole | The Negatives | (At Source) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
Colour Haze | Ewige Blumenkraft | (Elektrohasch) | stoner | 5/10 | |
Edwyn Collins & Bill Rieflin | Largo | (First World) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Loren Mazzacane Connors | The Little Match Girl | (Road Cone) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Elvis Costello | For The Stars | (Deutsche Grammophone) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
Cowboy Junkies | Open | (Latent) | roots | 6/10 | |
Cracker | Forever | (Back Porch) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Cradle Of Filth | Bitter Suites to Succubi | (Koch) | black metal | 4/10 | |
Cranberries | Wake Up And Smell The Coffeee | (MCA) | alt-rock | 4/10 | |
Cranes | Future Songs | (Dadaphonic) | dream-pop | 6/10 | |
Creeper Lagoon | Take Back The Universe | (Dreamworks) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Crooked Fingers | Bring On The Snakes | (Warm) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Crystal Method | Tweekend | (Interscope) | Genre | 4/10 | |
Cult | Beyond Good And Evil | (Atlantic) | hard-rock | 4/10 | |
Cult of Luna | Cult of Luna | (Rage Of Achilles) | post-metal | 7/10 | |
Current 93 & NUrse With Wound | Bright Yellow Moon | (Durtro) | industrial | 5/10 | |
Current 93 | The Great In The Small | (Durtro) | industrial | 5/10 | |
Curve | Gift | (Universal) | dream-pop | 5/10 | |
Daft Punk | Discovery | (Virgin) | techno | 7/10 | |
Danielson Famile | Fetch the Compass Kids | (Tooth & Nail) | lo-fi pop | 6/10 | |
Daryll-Ann | Happy Traum | (Excelsior) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Alana Davis | Fortune Cookies | (Elektra) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
Dead Voices On Air | Frankie Pett Presents | (Invisible) | industrial | 6/10 | |
Death Cab For Cutie | The Photo Album | (Barsuk) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Death In June | All Pigs Must Die | (NER) | Genre | 5/10 | |
Degenerate Art Ensemble | Rinko | (Unit Circle Rekkids) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Vladislav Delay | Anima | (Mille Plateaux) | electronica | 7/10 | |
Depeche Mode | Exciter | (Mute) | synth-pop | 5/10 | |
Dickies | All This and Puppet Stew | (Fat Wreck) | punk-rock | 4/10 | |
Dirty 3 | Lowlands | (Anchor And Hope) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Disk Orchestra | K | (Rather Interesting) | electronica | 5/10 | |
Dismemberment Plan | Change | (Desoto) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
Divine Comedy | Regeneration | (Parlophone) | pop | 4/10 | |
Djam Karet | New Dark Age | (Cuneiform) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Julie Doiron | Desormais | (Jagjaguwar) | songwriter | 5.5/10 | |
Graeme Downes | Hammers And Anvils | (Sony) | Genre | 6/10 | |
Bob Drake | The Skull Mailbox | (Rer) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Dropkick Murphys | Sing Loud Sing Proud | (Epitaph) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
Drugstore | Songs For The Jet Set | (Global Warming) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
Dumptruck | Lemmings Travel To The Sea | (Devil In The Woods) | roots-rock | 6/10 | |
DUnlavy | King OF All He Surveys | (Fleece) | psych | 6/10 | |
Dunlavy | The Alison Effect | (Camera Obscura) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
Bob Dylan | Love And Theft | (Columbia) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Tim Easton | The Truth About Us | (New West) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Eat Static | In The Nude | (Mesmobeat) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Echo And The Bunnymen | Flowers | (Cooking Vinyl) | new wave | 5/10 | |
Eels | Souljacker | (Geffen) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Jewlia Eisenberg | Trilectic | (Tzadik) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Mark Eitzel | The Invisible Man | (Matador) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Electric Frankenstein | Don't Touch Me | (Twenty Stone Blatt) | garage-rock | 4/10 | |
Elysian Fields | Queen Of The Meadow | (Jetset) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Embrace | If You've Never Been | (Virgin) | pop | 5/10 | |
Emperor | Prometheus | (Candlelight) | black metal | 6/10 | |
Enslaved | Monumension | (Osmose) | metal | 5/10 | |
Entombed | Morning Star | (Music For Nations) | hard-rock | 5/10 | |
Envy | All The Footprints You've Ever Left | (HG Fact) | screamo | 7/10 | |
Alejandro Escovedo | A Man Under The Influence | (Bloodshot) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Melissa Etheridge | Skin | (Island) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Euphone | Hashin' It Out | (Jade Tree) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Ex | Dizzy Spells | (Touch & Go) | Genre | 6/10 | |
Experimental Pop Band | The Tracksuit Trilogy | (Swarf Finger) | pop | 4/10 | |
Jad Fair & Daniel Johnston | The Lucky Sperms | (Jagjaguwar) | lo-fi | 5/10 | |
Faithless | Outrospective | (Cheeky) | dance | 5/10 | |
Fall | Are You Are Missing Winner | (Cog Sinister) | alt-rock | 4/10 | |
Fantastic Plastic Machine | Beautiful | (Emperor Norton) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Fantomas | The Director's Cut | (Ipecac) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Jay Farrar | Sebastopol | (Artemis) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Perry Farrell | Song Yet To Be Sung | (Virgin) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Fear Factory | Digimortal | (Roadrunner) | death-metal | 5/10 | |
Janet Feder | Speak Puppet | (ReR) | instrumental | 7/10 | |
Mike Fellows | Mighty Flashlight | (Jade Tree) | songwriter | 6.5/10 | |
Fennesz | Endless Summer | (Mego) | electronica | 7/10 | |
Dave Fischoff | The Ox And The Rainbow | (Secretely Canadian) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Firewater | Psychopharmacology | (Jetset) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Steve Fisk | 999 Levels of Undo | (Subpop) | instrumental | 6/10 | N |
5uus | Abandon Ship | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Flanger | Inner Space Outer Space | (Ninja Tune) | electronica | 5/10 | |
B. Fleischmann | Tmp | (Charhizma) | glitch | 5/10 | |
Fleshtones | Solid Gold Sound | (Fantastik Music) | garage-rock | 6/10 | |
Flies Inside The Sun | Le Mal D'Archive | (Metonymic) | free-noise | 5/10 | |
Rosie Flores | Speed Of Sound | (Rounder) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Flying Luttenbachers | Trauma | (Ugexplode) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Foetus | Flow | (Thirsty Ear) | industrial | 6/10 | |
Ben Folds | Rockin' The Suburbs | (Epic) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
Fontanelle | F | (Kranky) | instrumental | 5/10 | |
4 Hero | Creative Patterns | (Talking Loud) | jungle | 6/10 | |
Paula Frazer | Indoor Universe | (Birdman) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Lars Frederiksen | And The Bastards | (Epitaph) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Friends Of Nina Martinez | Wichita Lineman | (Glitterhouse) | 6/10 | | |
Frogs | Hopscotch Lollipop Sunday Surprise | (Scratchie) | folk-pop | 6/10 | |
From Quagmire | The Tropic Of Barren | (VHF) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
Front Line Assembly | Epitaph | (Metropolis) | industrial | 4/10 | |
Edith Frost | Wonder Wonder | (Drag City) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
John Frusciante | To Record Only Water For Ten Days | (Warner Bros) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Fuck | Cupid's Cactus | (Smells Like) | lo-fi pop | 5/10 | |
Fugazi | The Argument | (Discord) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
Fundamental | There Shall Be Loved | (Nation) | ethnic | 5/10 | |
Fushitsusha | Origin's Hesitation | (PSF) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
Garbage | Beautiful | (Mushroom) | alt-rock | 4/10 | |
Rebecca Gates | Ruby Series | (Badman) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Howe Gelb | Confluence | (Thrill Jockey) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Howe Gelb | Lull Some Piano | (Ow Om) | psych-rock | 4/10 | |
Howe Gelb | Down Home | (Ow Om) | psych-rock | 4/10 | |
Go-Go's | God Bless | (Beyond) | girl-group | 4/10 | |
Godflesh | Hymns | (Music For Nations) | industrial | 5/10 | |
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci | How I Long | (BEggars Banquet) | folk-pop | 5/10 | |
Gossip | That's Not What I Heard | (Kill Rock Stars) | garage-blues | 6/10 | |
Gravitar | Freedom Is Another Word | (Enterruption) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
Green Pajamas | The Carolers' Song | (Hidden Agenda) | pop | 5/10 | |
Green Pajamas | This Is Where We Disappear | (Woronzow) | pop | 5/10 | |
Groove Armada | Goodbye Country | (Hello Nightclub) | downtempo | 6/10 | |
Guapo | Great Sage | (Tumult) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Guided By Voices | Isolation Drills | (TVT) | lo-fi pop | 6/10 | |
Gwar | Violence Has Arrived | (Metal Blade) | metal | 5/10 | |
Ida | The Braille Night | (Tigerstyle) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Idaho | Levitate | (Idaho) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
Illusion Of Safety | In Opposition To Our Acceleration | (Die Stadt) | industrial | 6/10 | |
In The Nursery | Hindle Wakes | (ITN) | gothic | 6/10 | |
In The Nursery | Engel | (ITN) | gothic | 6/10 | |
Incubus | Morning View | (Immortal) | funk-rock | 5/10 | |
Tetsu Inoue | Firld Tracker | (Anomalous) | ambient | 5/10 | |
Ioscil | Triple Point | (Kranky) | electronica | 5/10 | |
Jackie-O Motherfucker | Liberation | (Road Cone) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Jaga Jazzist | A Livingroom Hush | (Ninja Tune) | jazztronica | 6/10 | |
James | Pleased To Meet You | (Mercury) | dance-pop | 5/10 | |
Bill Janowitz | Up Here | (Beggar's Banquet) | 5/10 | | |
Japancakes | The Sleepy Strange | (Kindercore) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Peter Jefferies | Closed Circuit | (Emperor Jones) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Jimmy Eat World | Bleed American | (Dreamworks) | emocore | 6/10 | |
Freedy Johnston | Right Between The Promises | (Elektra) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Simon Joyner | Hotel Lives | (Truckstop) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
Juno | A Future Lived in Past Tense | (Desoto) | post-hardcore | 6/10 | |
Damien Jurado | I Break Chairs | (Subpop) | songwriter | 5/10 | R |
Kammerflimmer Kollektief | Hysteria | (Temporary Residence Limited) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Karamasov | Divorce Your Loved Ones With Dignity | (Satellite) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Katatonia | Last Fair Deal Gone Down | (Peaceville) | doom | 5/10 | |
Cevin Key | The Ghost Of Each Room | (Metropolis) | industrial | 6/10 | |
Khan | No Comprendo | (Matador) | electronica | 5/10 | |
Kid 606 | PS You Love Me | (MIlle Plateaux) | electronica | 6/10 | |
David Kilgour | A Feather in the Engine | (Merge) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Kill Creek | Colors of Home | (Second Nature) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
Kings Of Convenience | Quiet Is The New Loud | (Source) | folk-rock | 6/10 | |
Kingsbury Manx | Let You Down | (Overcoat) | folk-rock | 6/10 | |
Kinski | Be Gentle With the Warm Turtle | (Pacifico) | psych | 6/10 | |
Steve Kirk | Pop | (Kirk) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Knoxville Girls | In a Paper Suit | (In The Red) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Koenjihyakkei | Nivraym | (God Mountain) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
Thomas Koner | Kontakt Der Junglinge | (Die Stadt) | ambient | 5/10 | |
Thomas Koner | Daikan | (Mille Plateaux) | ambient | 6/10 | |
Lenny Kravitz | Lenny | (Virgin) | hard-rock | 4/10 | |
David Kristian | Sawdust Sinedust Squaredust | (Pandora) | electronica | 6/10 | |
DJ Krush | Zen | (Sony) | trip-hop | 6/10 | |
Labradford | Fixed::Context | (Kranky) | ambient | 6/10 | R/A |
Ladybug Transistor | Argyle Heir | (Merge) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Ladytron | 604 | (Invicta Hifi) | synth-pop | 5/10 | |
Lali Puna | Scary World Theory | (Darla) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Lamb | What Sound | (Mercury) | trip-hop | 5/10 | |
Lamp Of The Universe | The Cosmic Union | (Cranium) | psych-rock | 5/10 | |
Lamp Of The Universe | Echo In Light | (Cranium) | psych-rock | 7/10 | |
Landing | Circuit | (Music fellowship) | ambient | 6/10 | |
Landing | Oceanless | (Strange Attractors) | ambient | 6/10 | |
Mark Lanegan | Field Songs | (Subpop) | songwriter | 6/10 | N |
Bill Laswell | Cyclops | (Emusic) | dub | 4/10 | |
Le Tigre | Feminist Sweepstakes | (Mr Lady) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Lenola | Treat Me To Some Life | (Tappersize) | psyc-pop | 6/10 | |
Leroy | Leroy | (Hollywood) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Alan Licht | Plays Well | (Crank Automative) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
Lies | Resigned | (Kill Rock Stars) | gothic | 5/10 | |
Lightning Bolt | Ride The Skies | (LOad) | noise | 6/10 | |
Lightwave | Caryotype | (Signature) | cosmic | 6/10 | |
Richard Lloyd | The Cover Doesn't Matter | (Upsetter) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Lofty Pillars | Amsterdam | (Truckstop) | chamber rock | 8/10 | |
DJ Logic | Anomaly | (Atlantic) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
Lord Of Acid | Farstucker | (Antler Subway) | dance | 6/10 | |
Love As Laughter | Sea To SHining Sea | (Subpop) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
Low | Things We Lost In The Fire | (Kranky) | slo-core | 7/10 | R |
Nick Lowe | The Convincer | (Yep Roc) | Genre | 4/10 | |
Low + Dirty Three | In The Fishtank | (Subpop) | slo-core | 7/10 | R |
Gary Lucas | Street of Lost Brothers | (Tzadik) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Lucky Boys Confusion | Throwing The Game | (Elektra) | punk-pop | 7/10 | |
Lupine Howl | The Carnivorous Lunar Adventures | (Beggars Banquet) | acid-rock | 6/10 | |
Lustmord | Metavoid | (Nextera) | electronica | 5/10 | |
Magic Carpatians Project | Ethnocore II: Nytu | (Drunken Fish) | pan-ethnic | 6/10 | |
Magic Magicians | Girls | (Suicide Squeeze) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
Mainliner | Imaginative Plain | (PSF) | psych | 6/10 | |
Stephen Malkmus | Stephen Malkmus | (Matador) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Manic Street Preachers | Know Your Enemy | (Epic) | Genre | 4/10 | |
Barbara Manning | You Should Know By Now | (Innerstate) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Manorexia | Volvox Turbo | (Ectopic Ents) | industrial | 6/10 | |
Massacre | Meltdown | (Tzadik) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Matt Marque | Get There | (Truckstop) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Maskit Chamber | Heaven Machine | (TMC) | instrumental | 5/10 | |
Maskit Chamber | The 4th Wave | (TMC) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Matmos | A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure | (Matador) | electronica | 7/10 | |
Dave Matthews Band | Everyday | (RCA) | pop | 4/10 | |
Robert McCreedy | Streamline | (Safe House) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Megadeth | The World Needs A Hero | (Sanctuary) | metal | 5/10 | |
Melvins | Colossus Of Destiny | (Ipecac) | grunge | 5/10 | |
Melvins | Electroretard | (Man's Ruin) | grunge | 5/10 | |
Natalie Merchant | Motherland | (Elektra) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Mercury Rev | All Is Dream | (V2) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
Merzbow | Dharma | (Hydrahead) | noise | 7/10 | |
Mice Parade | Mokoondi | (Fat Cat) | drum'n'bass | 6/10 | |
Microphones | The Glow Pt 2 | (K) | pop | 6/10 | |
Migala | Arde | (Subpop) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Justin Mikulka | Move Toward The Exit | (One Mad Son) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Robert Miles | Organik | (Shakti) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Minus 5 | Let The War Against The Music Begin | (Mammoth) | pop | 5/10 | |
Mira | Apart | (Projekt) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Mirah | You Think It's Like | (K) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Miriodor | Mekano | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Mogwai | The Rock Action | (Matador) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Momus | Folktronic | (Le Grand Magistery) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Money Mark | Change Is Coming | (Emperor Norton) | funk | 6/10 | |
Roy Montgomery | Silver Wheel Of Prayer | (VHF) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Mortiis | The Smell Of Rain | (Earache) | goth | 5/10 | |
Motion Picture | A Paper Gift | (Words On Music) | folk-rock | 7/10 | |
Motorpsycho | Phanerothyme | (Stickman) | garage | 4/10 | |
Mountain Goats | The Coroner's Gambit | (Absolutely Kosher) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Mouse On Mars | Idiology | (Thrill Jockey) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
Moviola | Rumors Of The Faithful | (Spirit Of Orr) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Murder City Devils | Thelema | (Subpop) | garage-rock | 5/10 | |
Muse | Origin of Symmetry | (Mushroom) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
My Dying Bride | The Dreadful Hours | (Peaceville) | doom | 6/10 | |
Napalm Death | Enemy Of The Music Business | (Spitfire) | grindcore | 5/10 | |
Dave Navarro | Trust No One | (Capitol) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
Nebula | Charged | (Subpop) | stoner-rock | 7/10 | N |
Nectarine No.9 | Received Transgressed & Transmitted | (Beggars Banquet) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Neotropic | La Prochaine Foix | (Ntone) | trip-hop | 7/10 | |
Neurosis | The Sun Never Sets | (Relapse) | industrial | 6/10 | |
New Order | Get Ready | (Reprise) | dance | 5/10 | |
New Year | Newness Ends | (Subpop) | slo-core | 6/10 | |
No-Man | Returning Jesus | (3rd Stone) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
Alva Noto | Transform | (Mille Plateaux) | glitch music | 6/10 | |
Notwist | Neon Golden | (City Slang) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
Heather Nova | South | (MCA) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Tara Jane O'Neil | In The Sun Lines | (Quarterstick) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Jim O'Rourke | Insignificance | (Drag City) | avant-pop | 4/10 | |
Jim O'Rourke | I'm Happy | (Drag City) | avant-pop | 5/10 | |
Ocean Color Scene | Mechanical Wonder | (MCA) | Genre | 4/10 | |
Of Montreal | Coquelicot Asleep In The Poppies | (Kindercore) | pop | 4/10 | |
OHGR | Welt | (Spitfire) | industrial | 4/10 | |
Old 97's | Satellite Rides | (Elektra) | country-pop | 4/10 | |
Old Time Relijun | Witchcraft Rebellion | (K) | lo-fi | 7/10 | |
Oneida | Anthem Of The Moon | (Jagjaguwar) | garage-rock | 7/10 | |
Orb | Cydonia | (Island) | ambient | 5/10 | |
Orbital | The Altogether | (FFRR) | techno | 4/10 | |
Ordo Equilibrio | The Wedlock of Equilibrium | (Cold Meat) | gothic | 5/10 | |
Outrageous Cherry | The Book of Spectral Projections | (Poptones) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
Oval | Commers | (Form & Function) | glitch music | 6/10 | |
Owls | Owls | (Jade Tree) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Oysterhead | The Grand Pecking Order | (Elektra) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
Pan Sonic | Aaltopiiri | (Mute) | electronica | 5/10 | |
Papa M | Papa M Sings | (Rock Action) | folk | 5/10 | A |
Papa M | Whatever Mortal | (Drag City) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
Peaches | The Teaches Of Peaches | (Kitty Yo) | rap | 6/10 | |
Pelt | Ayahuasca | (VHF) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
Pelt | Keyhole | (Eclipse) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Pennywise | Land Of The Free | (Epitaph) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
Pernice Brothers | World Won't End | (Ashmont) | alt-country | 5/10 | |
Grant Lee Phillips | Mobilize | (Zoe) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Sam Phillips | Fan Dance | (Nonesuch) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Pinback | Blue Screen Like | (Ace Fu) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Pinehurst Kids | Bleed It Dry | (Barbaric) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Plaid | Double Figure | (Warp) | dance | 5/10 | |
Pleasure Forever | Pleasure Forever | (Subpop) | glam | 6/10 | |
P.O.D. | Satellite | (Atlantic) | metal | 5/10 | |
Robert Pollard/ Airport 5 | Tower In The Fountain Of Sparks | (Fading Captain) | lo-fi pop | 6/10 | |
Robert Pollard | Choreographed Man of War | (Recordhead) | lo-fi pop | 6/10 | |
Portastatic | Looking For Leonard | (Merge) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Prefab Sprout | The Gunman And Other Stories | (EMI) | pop | 4/10 | |
Primordial Undermind | Beings Of Game P-U | (Camera Obscura) | psych | 7/10 | |
Pullman | Viewfinder | (Thrill Jockey) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
Push Kings | Feel No Fade | (LeGrand Magistery) | pop | 4/10 | |
Quasi | The Sword Of God | (Touch & Go) | Genre | 6/10 | R |
Radiohead | Amnesiac | (Capitol) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
Raging Slab | The Dealer | (Tee Pee) | blues-rock | 4/10 | |
Kurt Ralske | Amor 0+01 | (SubRosa) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Rapoon | Cold War | (Caciocavallo) | ambient | 5/10 | |
Amy Ray | Stag | (Daemon) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
Red House Painters | Old Ramon | (Subpop) | folk-rock | 6/10 | R/A |
Reindeer Section | Y'all Get Scared Now Ya Hear | (Pias) | pop | 4/10 | |
REM | Reveal | (Warner Bros) | folk-rock | 4/10 | |
Remy Zero | The Golden Hum | (Elektra) | alt-rock | 4/10 | |
Retsin | Cabin In The Woods | (Carrot Top) | folk-rock | 6/10 | |
Reveille | Bleed The Sky | (Elektra) | rap-metal | 5/10 | |
Marc Ribot | Saints | (Warner) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
Robert Rich | Somnium | (Hypnos) | new age | 7/10 | |
Robert Rich | Bestiary | (Hypnos) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Rival Schools | United By Fate | (Island) | power-pop | 4/10 | |
Steve Roach | The Serpent's Lair | (Projekt) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Steve Roach | Core | (Timeroom) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Mark Robinson | Canada's Green Highways | (Teenbeat) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Rockets From The Crypt | Group Sounds | (Vagrant) | rock and roll | 7/10 | |
Rollerball | Trait Of The Butter Yeti | (Road Cone) | prog-rock | 7/10 | |
Rollins Band | Nice | (Sanctuary) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Rollins Band | Yellow Blues | (Sanctuary) | alt-rock | 4/10 | |
Rovo | Imago | (Incidental) | noise | 6/10 | |
Royksopp | Melody A.M. | (Wall Of Sound) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Ruby | Short Staffed In The Gene Pool | (Thirsty Ear) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
Run-DMC | Crown Royal | (Arista) | hip hop | 4/10 | |
Bruce Russell | Painting The Passports Brown | (Corpus Hermeticum) | avantgarde | 7/10 | |
Table Beat Science | Tala Matrix | (Axiom) | dub | 6/10 | |
Tarentel | The Order of Things | (Neurot) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Techno Animal | The Brotherhood Of The Bomb | (Matador) | industrial | 6/10 | |
Jimi Tenor | Utopian Dream | (Sahko) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Territory Band 1 | Transatlantic Bridge | (Okka Disk) | punk-jazz | 6/10 | |
They Might Be Giants | Mink Car | (Restless) | pop | 5/10 | |
Thighpaulsandra | I, Thighpaulsandra | (Eskaton) | electronica | 5/10 | |
Thinking Fellers | Bob Dinners | (Communion) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
David Thomas | Surf's Up | (Thirsty Ear) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Rosie Thomas | When We Were Small | (Subpop) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Thrall | Hung Like God | (Reptilian) | stoner | 6/10 | |
310 | Nothing To See Here | (Desolat) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
Tied + Tickled Trio | Electric Avenue Tape | (Clearspot) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Yann Tiersen | L'Absent | (Ici D'Ailleurs) | ambient | 5/10 | |
Tindersticks | Trouble Everyday | (Connected) | pop | 6/10 | |
Tindersticks | Can Our Love | (Beggars Banquet) | soul-pop | 6/10 | |
Toadies | Hell Below Stars Above | (Interscopre) | grunge | 5/10 | |
To Rococo Rot | Music Is A Hungry Ghost | (Mute) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Tomahawk | Tomahawk | (Ipecac) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
Tool | Lateralus | (Volcano Entertainment) | grunge | 7/10 | |
Jenny Toomey | Antidote | (Misra) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Tortoise | Standards | (Thrill Jockey) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Tram | Frequently Asked Questions | (Jetset) | slo-core | 5/10 | |
Transglobal Underground | Yes Boss Food Corner | (Ark 21) | trance/dance | 5/10 | |
Travis | The Invisible Band | (Independiente) | pop | 4/10 | |
Trembling Blue Stars | Alive To Every Smile | (Subpop) | pop | 6/10 | |
Trespassers W | Vlucht Over Den Haag | (Snowdonia) | alt-rock | /10 | |
Tricky | Blowback | (Hollywood) | jungle | 5/10 | |
Tricolor | Nonparticipant + MIlk | (Atavistic) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg | Forest Of Doom | (Monolith) | doom-metal | 6/10 | |
Trumans Water | Trumans Water | (Emperor Jones) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
Scott Tuma | Hard Again | (Truckstop) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
Tyde | Once | (Orange Sky) | psych folk | 6/10 | |
Unloco | Healing | (Maverick) | metal | 6.5/10 | |
Unwound | Leaves Turn Inside You | (Kill Rock Stars) | psych-pop | 6/10 | N |
US Maple | Acre Thrills | (Drag City) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
Ilpo Vaisanen | Asuma | (Mego) | electronica | 5/10 | |
Armand Van Helden | Gandhi Khan | (Armed) | house | 5/10 | |
Varnaline | Songs In A Northern Key | (E-Squared) | roots-rock | 7/10 | |
Vas Deferens Organization | Suspension | (Beta) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
Vaz | Demonstration In Micronesia | (Load) | hard-rock | 5/10 | |
Suzanne Vega | Songs In Red And Gray | (Universal) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
Victim's Family | Apocalicious | (Alternative Tentacles) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
Vidna Obmana | The Contemporary Nocturne | (Hypnos) | electronica | 4/10 | |
Vidna Obmana | Tremor | (Release) | electronica | 6/10 | |
Vibracathedral Orchestra | My Gate's Open | (Roaratorio) | drone-music | 5/10 | |
Volebeats | Mosquito Spiral | (Blue Rose) | folk-rock | 6/10 | |
Vue | Find Your Home | (Subpop) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
Wagon Christ | Musipal | (Ninja Tune) | techno | 6/10 | |
Rufus Wainwright | Poses | (Dreamworks) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Walkabouts | Ended Up a Stranger | (Glitterhouse) | folk-rock | 5/10 | |
TW Walsh | Blue Laws | (Truckstop) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Wellwater Conspiracy | The Scroll and Its Combinations | (TVT) | grunge | 4/10 | |
Whiskeytown | Pneumonia | (Lost Highway) | alt-country | 6/10 | |
Jim White | No Such Place | (Luaka Bop) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
White Stripes | White Blood Cells | (Sympathy) | blues-rock | 7/10 | |
Chris Whitley | Rocket House | (New Machine) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Willard Grant Conspiracy & Telefunk | In The Fishtank | (Konkurrent) | alt-folk | 4/10 | |
Lucinda Williams | Essence | (Lost Highway) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
Windy And Carl | Consciousness | (Kranky) | ambient | 6/10 | R |
Wipeouters | P'twaaang!!! | (Casual Tonalities) | surf | 6/10 | |
Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell | Radioaxom | (Axiom) | dub | 6/10 | |
Shannon Wright | Dyed In The Wool | (Touch & Go) | songwriter | 7/10 | R |
Wumpscut | Wreath Of Barbs | (Metropolis) | industrial | 4/10 | |
Steve Wynn | Here Come The Miracles | (Blue Rose) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
Yesterdays New Quintet | Angles Without Edges | (Stones Throw) | hip-hop | 6/10 | |
Susumu Yokota | Grinning Cat | (Skintone) | ambient | 6/10 | |
Otomo Yoshihide | Flutter | (Tzadik) | noise | 4/10 | |
Young Fresh Fellows | Because We Hate You | (Mammoth) | pop | 5/10 | |
Thalia Zedek | Been Here And Gone | (Matador) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
Zeke | Death Alley | (Aces & Eights) | punk-rock | 5/10 | |
Zen Guerrilla | Shadows On The Sun | (Subpop) | garage-rock | 7/10 | R |
Zeni Geva | 10,000 Light Years | (Neurot) | industrial | 4/10 | |
Zero and Noto | Wohltemperiert | (Raster-Noton) | electronica | 5/10 | |
Rob Zombie | Sinister Urge | (Interscope) | hard-rock | 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 © 2001 Piero Scaruffi
R = Rockerilla
| A = Billboard
| N = Nude As The News