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| 1993 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pearl Jam | |
| 2 | Wu-Tang Clan | |
| 3 | Morphine | |
| 4 | Smashing Pumpkins | |
| 5 | Slowdive | Souvlaki |
| 6 | Snoop Dogg | |
| 7 | Nirvana | In Utero |
| 8 | Tribe Called Quest, A | |
| 9 | Orbital | Orbital 2 |
| 10 | Radiohead | |
| 11 | Yo La Tengo | Painful |
| 12 | PJ Harvey | Rid of Me |
| 13 | Tool | |
| 14 | Cranberries, The | Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? |
| 15 | Digable Planets | Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space) |
| 16 | Liz Phair | Exile in Guyville |
| 17 | Flaming Lips | Transmissions from the Satellite Heart |
| 18 | Björk | Debut |
| 19 | Aphex Twin | On |
| 20 | Phish | Rift |
| 21 | Breeders, The | Last Splash |
| 22 | Red House Painters | Red House Painters I |
| 23 | Dinosaur Jr. | Where You Been |
| 24 | Cypress Hill | Black Sunday |
| 25 | Suede | Suede |
| 26 | Urge Overkill | Saturation |
| 27 | Primus | |
| 28 | Blur | Modern Life is Rubbish |
| 29 | Polygon Window | Surfing on Sine Waves |
| 30 | Sepultura | Chaos A.D. |
| 31 | Belly | Star |
| 32 | Mazzy Star | |
| 33 | Type O Negative | Bloody Kisses |
| 34 | Juliana Hatfield Three, The | Become What You Are |
| 35 | 2Pac | Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. |
| 36 | Autechre | Incunabula |
| 37 | Jamiroquai | Emergency on Planet Earth |
| 38 | Frank Black | Frank Black |
| 39 | Boo Radleys, The | Giant Steps |
| 40 | Trans-Global Underground | Dream Of 100 Nations |
| 41 | Black Moon | Enta da Stage |
| 42 | 311″ | Music |
| 43 | James | Laid |
| 44 | Meat Loaf | Bat Out of Hell II Back Into Hell |
| 45 | Depeche Mode | Songs of Faith and Devotion |
| 46 | Lemonheads, The | Come On Feel the Lemonheads |
| 47 | New Order | Republic |
| 48 | Aerosmith | Get A Grip |
| 49 | Counting Crows | August and Everything After |
| 50 | Lenny Kravitz | Are You Gonna Go My Way |
| 10/50 | 20% |
| 1994 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Notorious BIG | |
| 2 | Nine Inch Nails | |
| 3 | Portishead | |
| 4 | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Let Love In |
| 5 | Pavement | |
| 6 | Weezer | |
| 7 | Tom Petty | |
| 8 | Jeff Buckley | Grace |
| 9 | Stereolab | Mars Audiac Quintet |
| 10 | Green Day | |
| 11 | Elliott Smith | Roman Candle |
| 12 | OutKast | |
| 13 | Lush | Split |
| 14 | Ween | Chocolate and Cheese |
| 15 | Nas | Illmatic |
| 16 | Beck | Mellow Gold |
| 17 | Sunny Day Real Estate | Diary |
| 18 | Emperor | In the Nightside Eclipse |
| 19 | Pearl Jam | Vitalogy |
| 20 | Oasis | Definitely Maybe |
| 21 | Reverend Horton Heat | Liquor In the Front |
| 22 | Blur | Parklife |
| 23 | Method Man | Tical |
| 24 | Kyuss | Welcome to Sky Valley |
| 25 | Alice In Chains | Jar of Flies |
| 26 | Bone Thugs-N-Harmony | |
| 27 | Machine Head | Burn My Eyes |
| 28 | Manic Street Preachers | The Holy Bible |
| 29 | UGK | Super Tight |
| 30 | NOFX | |
| 31 | Built to Spill | There’s Nothing Wrong with Love |
| 32 | Beastie Boys | Ill Communication |
| 33 | Bush | Sixteen Stone |
| 34 | Daniel Johnston | Fun |
| 35 | Silver Jews | Starlite Walker |
| 36 | Digable Planets | Blowout Comb |
| 37 | Stone Temple Pilots | Purple |
| 38 | Shellac | At Action Park |
| 39 | Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | Orange |
| 40 | Toadies | Rubberneck |
| 41 | Cranberries | No Need to Argue |
| 42 | Warren G | Regulate… G Funk Era |
| 43 | TLC | CrazySexyCool |
| 44 | Superchunk | Foolish |
| 45 | Dinosaur Jr. | Without a Sound |
| 46 | Frank Black | Teenager of the Year |
| 47 | Sublime | |
| 48 | Soundgarden | Superunknown |
| 49 | Bad Religion | Stranger than Fiction |
| 50 | Sebadoh | Bakesale |
| 11/50 | 22% |
| 1995 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Radiohead | |
| 2 | Don Caballero | Don Caballero 2 |
| 3 | PJ Harvey | |
| 4 | GZA | Liquid Swords |
| 5 | Sonic Youth | Washing Machine |
| 6 | Björk | Post |
| 7 | The Smashing Pumpkins | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| 8 | Mobb Deep | The Infamous |
| 9 | Cap’n Jazz | Burritos, Inspiration Point, … |
| 10 | Bone Thug N Harmony | |
| 11 | Elliott Smith | Elliott Smith |
| 12 | Raekwon | Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… |
| 13 | Sparklehorse | |
| 14 | Rancid | …And Out Come the Wolves |
| 15 | The Apples In Stereo | Fun Trick Noisemaker |
| 16 | Slowdive | Pygmalion |
| 17 | Oasis | (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? |
| 18 | No Doubt | |
| 19 | Flaming Lips, The | Clouds Taste Metallic |
| 20 | Big L | Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous |
| 21 | The Pharcyde | Labcabincalifornia |
| 22 | Red House Painters | Ocean Beach |
| 23 | Yo La Tengo | Electr-O-Pura |
| 24 | Alanis Morissette | |
| 25 | Aphex Twin | …I Care Because You Do |
| 26 | Mojave 3 | Ask Me Tomorrow |
| 27 | Foo Fighters | Foo Fighters |
| 28 | Spiritualized | Pure Phase |
| 29 | Dissection | Storm of the Light’s Bane |
| 30 | Brian Jonestown Massacre | Methodrone |
| 31 | Tricky | Maxinquaye |
| 32 | Ol’ Dirty Bastard | Return to the 36 Chambers |
| 33 | Meshuggah | Destroy Erase Improve |
| 34 | Blind Melon | Soup |
| 35 | Sunny Day Real Estate | LP2 |
| 36 | The Chemical Brothers | Exit Planet Dust |
| 37 | Alice In Chains | Alice In Chains |
| 38 | Pavement | Wowee Zowee |
| 39 | 311″ | 311″ |
| 40 | Autechre | Tri Repetae |
| 41 | Pulp | Different Class |
| 42 | At The Gates | Slaughter of the Soul |
| 43 | Goldie | Timeless |
| 44 | Moloko | Do You Like My Tight Sweater |
| 45 | 2Pac | Me Against the World |
| 46 | Guided By Voices | Alien Lanes |
| 47 | Nightmares on Wax | Smokers Delight |
| 48 | Ben Harper | Fight for Your Mind |
| 49 | Green Day | Insomniac |
| 50 | The Presidents of the United States of America | The Presidents of the United States of America |
| 6/50 | 12% |
| 1996 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | OutKast | |
| 2 | Swans | |
| 3 | Beck | |
| 4 | DJ Shadow | |
| 5 | Weezer | Pinkerton |
| 6 | Brian Jonestown Massacre, The | Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request |
| 7 | Fugees | The Score |
| 8 | Fiona Apple | Tidal |
| 9 | Fishmans | Long Season |
| 10 | Olivia Tremor Control | Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle |
| 11 | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | |
| 12 | Tortoise | Millions Now Living Will Never Die |
| 13 | Cake | |
| 14 | Sublime | |
| 15 | Eels | Beautiful Freak |
| 16 | UGK | Ridin’ Dirty |
| 17 | Tool | Ænima |
| 18 | Rage Against the Machine | Evil Empire |
| 19 | Brian Jonestown Massacre | Take It From the Man! |
| 20 | Fishmans | 空中キャンプ (Kūchū Camp) |
| 21 | Neutral Milk Hotel | On Avery island |
| 22 | Jay-Z | Reasonable Doubt |
| 23 | Pearl Jam | No Code |
| 24 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Murder Ballads |
| 25 | Modest Mouse | This Is A Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| 26 | Burzum | Filosofem |
| 27 | Aphex Twin | Richard D. James Album |
| 28 | Roots, The | Illadelph Halflife |
| 29 | Wilco | Being There |
| 30 | A Tribe Called Quest | Beats, Rhymes and Life |
| 31 | Belle & Sebastian | If You’re Feeling Sinister |
| 32 | Tori Amos | Boys for Pele |
| 33 | Ghostface Killah | Ironman |
| 34 | RL Burnside | A Ass Pocket of Whiskey |
| 35 | Stereolab | Emperor Tomato Ketchup |
| 36 | Low | The Curtain Hits the Cast |
| 37 | Silver Jews | The Natural Bridge |
| 38 | 2Pac | |
| 39 | Brainiac | Hissing Prigs in Static Couture |
| 40 | Stone Temple Pilots | Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop |
| 41 | Cryptopsy | None So Vile |
| 42 | Cardigans, The | First Band on the Moon |
| 43 | Mazzy Star | Among My Swan |
| 44 | Social Distortion | White Light, White Heat, White Trash |
| 45 | Dave Matthews Band | Crash |
| 46 | Fatboy Slim | Better Living Through Chemistry |
| 47 | Damian Marley | Mr. Marley |
| 48 | Busta Rhymes | The Coming |
| 49 | Phish | Billy Breathes |
| 50 | Butthole Surfers | Electriclarryland |
| 8/50 | 16% |
| 1997 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Radiohead | |
| 2 | Björk | Homogenic |
| 3 | Yo La Tengo | I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One |
| 4 | Mogwai | Young Team |
| 5 | Emperor | Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| 6 | Modest Mouse | The Lonesome Crowded West |
| 7 | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| 8 | Spiritualized | |
| 9 | Notorious BIG | Life After Death |
| 10 | Three 6 Mafia | |
| 11 | Amon Tobin | Bricolage |
| 12 | Built to Spill | Perfect From Now On |
| 13 | Grandaddy | Under the Western Freeway |
| 14 | Smog | Red Apple Falls |
| 15 | Bob Dylan | Time Out of Mind |
| 16 | Portishead | |
| 17 | Fishmans | 宇宙 日本 世田谷 [Uchū Nippon Setagaya] |
| 18 | Ween | |
| 19 | Wu-Tang Clan | Wu-Tang Forever |
| 20 | Cornelius | Fantasma |
| 21 | Elliott Smith | |
| 22 | µ-Ziq | Lunatic Harness |
| 23 | Primal Scream | Vanishing Point |
| 24 | Stereolab | Dots and Loops |
| 25 | Erykah Badu | Baduizm |
| 26 | Camp Lo | Uptown Saturday Night |
| 27 | Pavement | Brighten the Corners |
| 28 | Prodigy, The | |
| 29 | Daft Punk | |
| 30 | Blink-182 | Dude Ranch |
| 31 | Electric Wizard | Come My Fanatics… |
| 32 | Chemical Brothers, The | Dig Your Own Hole |
| 33 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | The Boatman’s Call |
| 34 | Ben Folds Five | Whatever and Ever Amen |
| 35 | Super Furry Animals | Radiator |
| 36 | Mouse on Mars | Autoditacker |
| 37 | Blur | Blur |
| 38 | Alpha | Come from Heaven |
| 39 | Foo Fighters | The Colour and the Shape |
| 40 | Bone Thugs-N-Harmony | The Art of War |
| 41 | Sleater-Kinney | Dig Me Out |
| 42 | Verve, The | Urban Hymns |
| 43 | Promise Ring, The | Nothing Feels Good |
| 44 | RL Burnside | |
| 45 | OAR | The Wanderer |
| 46 | Third Eye Blind | Third Eye Blind |
| 47 | Cornershop | When I Was Born for the 7th Time |
| 48 | Busta Rhymes | When Disaster Strikes… |
| 49 | Green Day | Nimrod |
| 50 | David Bowie | Earthling |
| 9/50 | 18% |
| 1998 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neutral Milk Hotel | |
| 2 | Beta Band, The | |
| 3 | OutKast | |
| 4 | Tortoise | TNT |
| 5 | Fatboy Slim | You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby |
| 6 | Refused | |
| 7 | Beastie Boys | |
| 8 | Boards of Canada | Music Has the Right to Children |
| 9 | Air | |
| 10 | Black Star | Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star |
| 11 | Massive Attack | Mezzanine |
| 12 | Sonic Youth | A Thousand Leaves |
| 13 | Cat Power | Moon Pix |
| 14 | Herbert | Around the House |
| 15 | Cake | Prolonging the Magic |
| 16 | Bright Eyes | Letting Off the Happiness |
| 17 | Sparklehorse | Good Morning Spider |
| 18 | Jets to Brazil | Orange Rhyming Dictionary |
| 19 | Morcheeba | Big Calm |
| 20 | Liquid Tension Experiment | Liquid Tension Experiment |
| 21 | Silver Jews | American Water |
| 22 | Jay-Z | |
| 23 | Lauryn Hill | The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill |
| 24 | UNKLE | Psyence Fiction |
| 25 | Black Box Recorder | England Made Me |
| 26 | Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | ACME |
| 27 | Gomez | Bring It On |
| 28 | Death Cab for Cutie | Something About Airplanes |
| 29 | Red Snapper | Making Bones |
| 30 | Mercury Rev | Deserter’s Songs |
| 31 | Pedro the Lion | It’s Hard to Find a Friend |
| 32 | Quasi | Featuring “Birds” |
| 33 | Shellac | Terraform |
| 34 | RL Burnside | |
| 35 | Busta Rhymes | E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front |
| 36 | Elliott Smith | XO |
| 37 | Queens of the Stone Age | Queens of the Stone Age |
| 38 | Eels | Electro-Shock Blues |
| 39 | Beck | Mutations |
| 40 | Saint Etienne | Good Humor |
| 41 | Pearl Jam | Yield |
| 42 | Billy Bragg & Wilco | Mermaid Avenue |
| 43 | Marilyn Manson | Mechanical Animals |
| 44 | Lo-Fidelity Allstars | How To Operate with a Blown Mind |
| 45 | Fastball | All the Pain Money Can Buy |
| 46 | Pras | Ghetto Supastar |
| 47 | Belle & Sebastian | The Boy with the Arab Strap |
| 48 | Dispatch | Bang Bang |
| 49 | Dave Matthews Band | Before These Crowded Streets |
| 50 | Propellerheads | Decksandrumsandrockandroll |
| 8/50 | 16% |
| 1999 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine Inch Nails | |
| 2 | Dismemberment Plan, The | |
| 3 | Sigur Rós | |
| 4 | Olivia Tremor Control | Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One |
| 5 | Dr. Dre | |
| 6 | Moby | Play |
| 7 | Tom Waits | |
| 8 | Flaming Lips | The Soft Bulletin |
| 9 | Add N to (X) | Avant Hard |
| 10 | Boredoms | Vision Creation Newsun |
| 11 | Roots, The | Things Fall Apart |
| 12 | Fiona Apple | When the Pawn… |
| 13 | Smog | Knock Knock |
| 14 | Mogwai | Come On Die Young |
| 15 | Rage Against the Machine | The Battle of Los Angeles |
| 16 | Basement Jaxx | Remedy |
| 17 | Mos Def | Black on Both Sides |
| 18 | Blur | “13” |
| 19 | Wilco | Summerteeth |
| 20 | To Rococo Rot | The Amateur View |
| 21 | Jay-Z | Vol. III The Life and Times |
| 22 | Chemical Brothers, The | Surrender |
| 23 | Built to Spill | Keep It Like A Secret |
| 24 | Ol’ Dirty Bastard | Nigga Please |
| 25 | Shpongle | Are You Shpongled? |
| 26 | Squarepusher | Music Is Rotted One Note |
| 27 | Muse | Showbiz |
| 28 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Californication |
| 29 | American Football | American Football |
| 30 | Mouse on Mars | Niun Niggung |
| 31 | Beck | Midnite Vultures |
| 32 | Magnetic Fields | 69 Love Songs |
| 33 | Blink-182 | Enema of the State |
| 34 | Q-Tip | Amplified |
| 35 | Promise Ring, The | Very Emergency |
| 36 | Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy | I See a Darkness |
| 37 | Eminem | The Slim Shady LP |
| 38 | Sleater-Kinney | The Hot Rock |
| 39 | Beth Orton | Central Reservation |
| 40 | Incubus | Make yourself |
| 41 | MF Doom | Operation: Doomsday |
| 42 | Foo Fighters | There Is Nothing Left To Lose |
| 43 | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | Echo |
| 44 | Project Pat | Ghetty Green |
| 45 | Pavement | Terror Twilight |
| 46 | Gomez | Liquid Skin |
| 47 | White Stripes, The | The White Stripes |
| 48 | Hansome Boy Modeling School | So… How’s Your Girl? |
| 49 | Beta Band, The | The Beta Band |
| 50 | Stone Temple Pilots | No. 4 |
| 5/50 | 10% |