Best Albums Since 1965

Submitted by ryab on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 19:49
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  • The Stooges - Fun House (Elektra) 70
  • Talking Heads - Remain In Light (Sire) 80
  • Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (WB) 68
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? (Reprise) 67
  • The Beatles - Revolver (Capitol) 66
  • The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve) 67
  • Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia) 65
  • The Modern Lovers (Beserkley/Rhino) 72
  • The Congos - Heart Of The Congo (Blood & Fire) 77
  • Television - Marquee Moon (Elektra) 77
  • The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady (Restless) 79
  • Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade (SST) 84
  • Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (Enigma) 88
  • The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime (SST) 84
  • The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms (Stiff/Line/A&M) 80
  • Fela Kuti - Zombie (Universal) 77
  • Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (Factory) 79
  • The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St. (Rolling Stones) 72
  • Brian Eno - Another Green World (EG) 75
  • Gang of Four - Entertainment! (WB) 79
  • The Raincoats (Rough Trade) 79
  • Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box/Second Edition (Virgin) 79
  • Wire - 154 (Restless) 79
  • Talking Heads - Fear Of Music (Sire) 79
  • The Clash - London Calling (Epic) 79
  • Wire - Pink Flag (Restless) 77
  • Sly & the Family Stone - There's A Riot Going On (Epic) 71
  • The Who - My Generation (MCA) 65
  • Tricky - Maxinquaye (Island) 95
  • The Pixies - Surfer Rosa (4AD) 88
  • Toots & the Maytals - Funky Kingston (Mango) 73
  • Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off Baby (Straight) 70
  • Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Doc At The Radar Station (Virgin) 80
  • Joy Division - Closer (Factory) 80
  • Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks (Columbia) 75
  • Curtis Mayfield - Superfly (Curtom) 72
  • T. Rex - Electric Warrior (Reprise) 71
  • David Bowie - Hunky Dory (RCA) 71
  • Tim Buckley - Starsailor (Straight) 71
  • Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets (EG) 73
  • David Bowie - The Rise Of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars (RCA) 72
  • Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (Reprise) 69
  • The Velvet Underground (Verve) 69
  • The Beatles - The White Album (Apple) 68
  • Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Clear Spot (Reprise) 72
  • R.E.M. - Murmur (IRS) 83
  • Roxy Music (Reprise) 72
  • Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves (Mango) 77
  • Nick Drake - Pink Moon (Island) 72
  • Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You (Hi) 72
  • DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (Mo Wax) 96
  • Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Super Ape (Mango) 76
  • The Kinks - Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire) (Reprise) 69
  • Rico - Man From Wareika (Island) 76
  • Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde (Columbia) 66
  • Iggy Pop - Lust For Life (Virgin) 77
  • Justin Hinds & The Dominoes - Jezebel (Island) 76
  • The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (London) 69
  • Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (Def Jam) 90
  • Cedric Im Brooks - The Light Of Saba (Total Sounds/Honest Jon's) 76
  • The Beatles - Abbey Road (Apple) 69
  • Al Green - Call Me (Hi) 73
  • The Stooges - Raw Power (Columbia) 73
  • Max Romeo & the Upsetters - War Ina Babylon (Mango/Hip-O Select) 76
  • Fela Kuti - Roforofo Fight (MCA) 72
  • Junior Byles - Beat Down Babylon (Trojan) 72
  • The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana (Heartbeat) 76
  • Keith Hudson - Flesh Of My Skin, Blood Of My Blood (Mamba/Atra) 74
  • Led Zeppelin II (Atlantic) 69
  • Yabby You - Conquering Lion (Prophets) 72
  • The Mighty Diamonds - Right Time (Shanachie) 76
  • Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come (Mango) 72
  • Bob Marley & the Wailers - Catch A Fire (Tuff Gong/Island) 72
  • Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy (EG) 74
  • The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bullocks (WB) 77
  • Bob Marley & the Wailers - Natty Dread (Tuff Gong/Island) 74
  • The Clash (Epic) 77
  • Pere Ubu - Dub Housing (Rough Trade) 78
  • Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation (Sire) 77
  • George Faith - To Be A Lover (Black Swan/Hip-O Select) 77
  • Patti Smith - Horses (Arista) 75
  • Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance (Blank) 77
  • Van Morrison - Moondance (WB) 70
  • David Bowie - Low (RCA) 77
  • Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Def Jam) 88
  • Can - Ege Bamyasi (Spoon/Mute) 72
  • Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures (Blue Note) 66
  • Neu - Neu! 75 (Brain/Astralwerks) 75
  • Comsat Angels - Sleep No More (Polydor/Renascent) 81
  • Tom Zé - Estudando O Samba (EW) 75
  • Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey (Mango) 75
  • The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari - Tales Of Mozambique (Dynamic) 75
  • Max Romeo & the Upsetters - Revelation Time (Trojan/Blood & Fire) 75
  • U2 - War (Island) 83
  • The Heptones - Party Time (Mango/Island) 77
  • Culture - Two Sevens Clash (Shanachie) 77
  • Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (Capitol) 89
  • George Russell - Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature (Soul Note) 67
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love (Reprise) 67
  • Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (Enigma) 78
  • Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (Island) 85
  • Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food (Sire) 78
  • X-Ray Spex - Germ-Free Adolescents (Caroline) 78
  • The Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen (Restless) 78
  • Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home (Columbia) 65
  • John Coltrane - First Meditations (For Quartet) (Impulse) 65
  • John Coltrane - Transition (Impulse) 65
  • Mission Of Burma - VS. (Ace Of Hearts) 82
  • Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Ice Cream For Crow (Virgin) 82
  • Dennis Brown - Visions of Dennis Brown (Shanachie/Joe Gibbs) 78
  • The Slits - Cut (Island) 79
  • Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth (Crepiscule) 79
  • David Bowie - Lodger (RCA) 79
  • Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material (EMI) 79
  • Disco Inferno - DI Go Pop (Rough Trade) 94
  • Slint - Spiderland (Touch & Go) 91
  • My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (Sire) 91
  • The Ruts - The Crack (Virgin) 79
  • Dennis Brown - Wolves And Leopards (Blue Moon) 77
  • The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones) 71
  • The Who - Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy (MCA) 71
  • The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace (Beggars Banquet) 85
  • The Birthday Party (Missing Link) 80
  • X - Los Angeles (Slash) 80
  • The Birthday Party - Prayers On Fire (4AD) 81
  • Ramones - Rocket To Russia (Sire) 77
  • New York Dolls (Mercury) 73
  • Can - Soon Over Babaluma (Spoon/Mute) 74
  • David Bowie - Aladdin Sane (Rykodisc) 73
  • Pink Fairies - Kings Of Oblivion (Polydor) 73
  • Tom Waits - Bone Machine (Island) 92
  • Tom Waits - The Black Rider (Island) 93
  • Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (Thrill Jockey) 96
  • John McLaughlin - Extrapolation (Polydor) 69
  • The Maytals - Monkey Man (Trojan) 70
  • King Sunny Ade - Aura (Mango) 84
  • Nina Simone - Wild Is The Wind (Four Women) (Philips) 66
  • Can - Future Days (Spoon/Mute) 73
  • David Bowie - Scary Monsters (RCA)
  • The Raincoats - Ody Shape (Rough Trade) 81
  • Martha and the Muffins - This Is The Ice Age (Dindisc/Virgin) 81
  • David Byrne/Brian Eno - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (Sire) 81
  • The Sound - From The Lions Mouth (Korova/Renascent) 81
  • Lee Perry & the Upsetters - Blackboard Jungle Dub (Upsetter/Trojan) 73
  • This Heat - Deceit (Rough Trade) 81
  • Gang of Four - Solid Gold (WB) 81
  • The Au Pairs - Playing With A Different Sex (Human/RPM) 81
  • Bad Brains - Attitude(ROIR/In-Effect) 81
  • John Coltrane - Meditations (Impulse) 65
  • Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (Westbound) 71
  • Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (Verve) 68
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (Reprise) 68
  • Elvis Costello & the Attractions - This Year's Model (Columbia) 78
  • The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet (London/Abko) 68
  • Carla Bley and Paul Haines - Escalator Over The Hill (ECM) 71
  • Soft Machine - Third (CBS) 70
  • Ash Ra Tempel (Spalax) 71
  • Radiohead - Kid A (Capitol) 00
  • Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians (ECM) 78
  • Curtis Mayfield - Curtis (Curtom) 70
  • Black Sabbath - Paranoid (WB) 70
  • Amon Düül II - Yeti (Liberty) 70
  • Black Sabbath (WB) 70
  • Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (Reprise) 70
  • Massive Attack - Blue Lines (Virgin) 91
  • The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (Capitol) 66
  • The Beatles - Rubber Soul (Capitol) 65
  • La Dusseldorf (Radar) 76
  • John Coltrane - The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (Impulse) 65
  • John Coltrane - Sun Ship (Impulse) 65
  • Cluster - Zuckerzeit (Brain) 74
  • Harmonia - Deluxe (Brain) 75
  • The Meditations - Message From The Meditations (UA) 76
  • Parliament - Mothership Connection (Casablanca) 75
  • Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (Polydor) 91
  • Funkadelic (Westbound) 69
  • The Stooges (Elektra) 69
  • Led Zeppelin I (Atlantic) 68
  • Big Star - Radio City (Argent) 74
  • Free (A&M/Island) 69
  • Tim Buckley - Happy/Sad (Elektra) 69
  • The Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea With The Adverts (Devils Jukebox) 78
  • Wire - Chairs Missing (Restless) 78
  • Velvet Underground - Loaded (WB) 70
  • Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You (Elektra) 70
  • Hawkwind - Hall Of the Mountain Grill (UA/One Way) 74
  • Tim Buckley - Lorca (Elektra) 70
  • Sun Ra & his Arkestra - The Magic City (Saturn) 65
  • Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse!) 69
  • Don Cherry - Mu (Actuel/Charly) 69
  • Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1 (ESP) 65
  • Charles Mingus - Mingus at Carnegie Hall (Atlantic) 74
  • Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You (Atlantic) 67
  • Lee Perry - Roast Fish Collie Weed and Corn Bread (Upsetter/VP) 78
  • The Chantells - Waiting In The Park (Phase One) 78
  • Ijahman - Haile I Hymn (Mango/Jahmani) 78
  • The Jolly Brothers - Conscious Man (Seven Leaves) 78
  • The Meditations - Wake Up (Third World) 78
  • David Bowie - Heroes (RCA) 78
  • David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World (RCA) 70
  • Twink - Think Pink (Akarma) 70
  • Public Enemy - Apocalypse '91...The Enemy Strikes Black (Columbia) 91
  • Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (Columbia) 70
  • Sonic Youth - Sister (SST) 87
  • Big Star - Sister Lovers (Aura) 74
  • Caetano Veloso (Philips) 68
  • The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society (Reprise) 68
  • Tom Zé (Sony) 68
  • Japan - Tin Drum (Virgin) 81
  • Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Architecture & Morality (Virgin) 81
  • Talking Heads - The Name Of The Band Is Talking Heads (Sire) 81
  • Peter Brotzmann - Machine Gun (FMP) 68
  • Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man (Island) 76
  • Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band - Strictly Personal (Blue Thumb) 68
  • Dr. John The Night Tripper - Gris-Gris (Atco/Rhino) 68
  • Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul (Atlantic) 68
  • David Bowie - Station To Station (RCA) 76
  • Johnny Clarke - Rockers Time Now (Front Line) 76
  • Gilberto Gil (Philips) 68
  • Pink Floyd - The Piper At the Gates Of Dawn (Columbia) 67
  • The Kinks - Something Else (Reprise) 67
  • The Kinks - Face To Face (Reprise/ESM) 66
  • Augustus Pablo - King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown (Shanachie) 76
  • The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow (Harvest) 68
  • Don Cherry - Symphony For Improvisers (Blue Note) 66
  • Duke Ellington - The Far East Suite (Bluebird) 66
  • Nina Simone - Sings The Blues (RCA) 66
  • Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (Island) 68
  • John Coltrane - Coltrane Live At The Village Vanguard Again! (Impulse) 66
  • Serge Gainsbourg - Initials B.B. (Polygram) 68
  • Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples of the Moon for Electronic Music Synthesizer (Nonesuch) 68
  • Led Zeppelin III (Atlantic) 70
  • TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain (4AD/Interscope) 06
  • Marianne Faithfull - Broken English (Island) 79
  • Miles Davis - Miles Smiles (Columbia) 66
  • Jacob Miller - Who Say Jah No Dread (Ras) 75
  • The Specials (Chrysalis) 79
  • The Pop Group - Y (Radar) 79
  • The Sound - Jeopardy (Korova/Renascent) 80
  • The Jam - Sound Affects (Polydor) 80
  • Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles (Sire) 80
  • Björk - Homogenic (Elektra) 97
  • Colin Newman - A-Z (Restless/Beggars Banquet) 80
  • The Jam - All Mod Cons (Polydor) 78
  • Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop (Westbound) 73
  • Miles Davis - On The Corner (Columbia) 73
  • Toots & the Maytals - In The Dark (Trojan) 73
  • Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town (Columbia) 78
  • The Chantells - Children Of Jah 1977-79 (Blood & Fire)
  • Portishead - Dummy (Go! Discs) 94
  • T. Rex - The Slider (Reprise) 72
  • Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding (Columbia) 68
  • Bob Marley & the Wailers - African Herbsman (Trojan) 72
  • Faust - So Far (Recommended) 72
  • Radiohead - OK Computer (Capitol) 97
  • PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love (Island) 95
  • Björk Vespertine (Elektra) 01
  • TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch & Go) 04
  • Björk - Post (Elektra) 95
  • Betty Davis (Just Sunshine/Aztec) 73
  • Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different (Just Sunshine/Aztec) 74
  • Laika - Silver Apples Of The Moon (Too Pure) 94
  • Tortoise (Thrill Jockey) 94
  • Alice Coltrane - Ptah the El Daoud (Impulse!) 70
  • Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77 (Sire) 77
  • Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express (Capitol) 77
  • The Damned - Damned Damned Damned (Demon) 77
  • The Replacements - Let It Be (Twin/Tone) 84
  • Slayer - Reign In Blood (American) 86
  • Metallica - Master of Puppets (Elektra) 86
  • The Feelies - The Good Earth (Coyote) 86
  • The Woodentops - Giant (Rough Trade/Columbia) 86
  • Screaming Blue Messiahs - Gun Shy (Elektra) 86
  • Metallica - Ride The Lightning (Elektra) 84
  • Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Zulu Rock (Ze) 84
  • The Birthday Party - Junkyard (Virgin) 82
  • The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour (Kamera/Situation Two) 82
  • Chico Science & Nação Zumbi - Afrociberdelia (Chaos) 96
  • PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me (Island) 93
  • Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (Polydor) 82
  • Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (Arista) 97
  • Dome - Will You Speak This Word (Dome/Grey Area) 82
  • Dream Syndicate - Days of Wine and Roses (Big Time) 82
  • The Jam - In The City (Polydor) 77
  • Virgin Prunes - If I Die, I Die (Mute) 82
  • Pere Ubu - Datapanik In The Year Zero EP (Radar) 75
  • X - Under The Big Black Sun (Elektra) 82
  • John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana - Love Devotion Surrender (Columbia) 73
  • Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (Capitol) 03
  • Four Tet - Rounds (Domino) 03
  • Café Tacvba - Quatro Caminos (MCA) 03
  • R.E.M. - Reckoning (IRS) 8484
  • The Pogues - Red Roses For Me (WEA) 84
  • Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth (Mercury/Fontana) 84
  • The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops (Linn/Virgin) 84
  • The Fall - The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall (Beggars Banquet) 84
  • The Fall - Grotesque (Rough Trade) 80
  • Naked Raygun - Throb Throb (Homestead) 84
  • Killing Joke - Killing Joke (EG) 80
  • The Pretenders - The Pretenders (Sire) 80
  • Jimmy Cliff - Wonderful World, Beautiful People (Island/Trojan) 69
  • Kiddus I - Rockers: Graduation In Zion 1978-1980 (Dub Store)
  • The Tony Williams Lifetime - Emergency (Polydor) 69
  • Euphoria - A Gift From Euphoria (Capitol) 69
  • Velvet Underground - VU (Verve) 69
  • MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (Elektra) 69
  • Can - Monster Movie (Spoon/Mute) 69
  • The Upsetters - Return of Django (Trojan) 69
  • Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - Best Of 1980-1984 (Rhino)
  • Sly & The Family Stone - Life (Epic) 68
  • Os Mutantes - Mutantes (Omplatten) 69
  • Caetano Veloso (Philips) 69
  • Sly & the Family Stone - Stand! (Epic) 69
  • The Impressions - The Young Mods' Forgotten Story (Curtom) 69
  • The Meters - Look A-Py Py (Josie) 69
  • Can - Tago Mago (Spoon/Mute) 71
  • MC5 - High Time (Rhino/Atlantic) 71
  • Bim Sherman - Love Forever (Tribesmen/Century) 78
  • The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight (Rykodisc) 80
  • English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It (Sire) 80
  • Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap (Virgin) 80
  • The Maytals - From The Roots (Trojan) 70
  • Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation (Sequel) 70
  • Popol Vuh - Affenstunde (Tempel) 70
  • Funkadelic - Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow (Westbound) 70
  • John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band (EMI) 70
  • Brigitte Fontaine - Comme a la Radio (Saravah) 70
  • The Comsat Angels - Waiting For A Miracle (Polydor/Renascent) 80
  • Arto Lindsay - Noon Chill (Bar/None) 98
  • PJ Harvey - Is This Desire? (Island) 98
  • The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame (Columbia) 72
  • Big Star - #1 Record (Argent) 72
  • Stevie Wonder - Talking Book (Tamla) 72
  • Neu! (Brain/Astralwerks) 72
  • Tim Buckley - Greetings From L.A. (WB) 72
  • Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen (Spalax) 72
  • Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Merge) 98
  • Funkadelic - Standing On the Verge Of Getting It On (Westbound) 74
  • Michael Prophet - Serious Reasoning (Island) 80
  • The Meters - Rejuvenation (Reprise) 74
  • Asian Dub Foundation - Facts And Fictions (Nation) 95
  • Radiohead - The Bends (Capitol) 95
  • Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom (Thirsty Ear) 74
  • Neil Young - On The Beach (Reprise) 74
  • Dirty Three (Touch & Go) 95
  • Faust (Recommended) 71
  • The Doors - The Doors (Elektra) 67
  • Love - Forever Changes (Elektra) 67
  • Miles Davis - Nefertiti (Columbia) 67
  • Sun Ra - Atlantis (Evidence) 67
  • Cockney Rebel - Psychomodo (EMI) 74
  • John Coltrane - Interstellar Space (Impulse) 67
  • Albert Ayler Trio - Love Cry (Impulse) 67
  • Archie Shepp - Magic Of Ju-Ju (Impulse) 67
  • Otis Redding - The Immortal (Stax/Atlantic)67
  • Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe As Milk (Buddha) 67
  • Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi (WB) 71
  • Bob Marley & the Wailers - Soul Rebels (Trojan) 70
  • N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton (Ruthless) 88
  • Fela Kuti - Open & Close (Universal) 71
  • Popol Vuh - In Den Garten Pharaos (Tempel/Spalax) 71
  • Al Green - Let's Stay Together (Hi) 71
  • Joni Mitchell - Blue (Reprise) 71
  • The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies (RCA/Rhino) 71
  • Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness (Impulse!) 71
  • Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy (Impulse!) 71
  • Suicide (Red Star) 77
  • Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True (Columbia) 77
  • Electric Light Orchestra - Out Of The Blue (Jet) 77
  • Fela Kuti - Sorrow Tears And Blood (Universal) 77
  • Fela Kuti - Shuffering and Shmiling (Universal) 77
  • Ramones - Leave Home (Sire) 77
  • Horace Andy - In The Light (Blood & Fire) 77
  • The Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire (Columbia) 73
  • Fela Kuti - Gentleman (Universal) 73
  • Heldon - Interface (Cuneiform/Rune) 77
  • The Saints - (I'm) Stranded (EMI) 77
  • Cedric Im Brooks - The Light Of Saba In Reggae (Total Sounds) 77
  • Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity (Oasis/Repertoire) 77
  • Ramones - Ramones (Sire) 76
  • The Breeders - Pod (4AD) 90
  • Asian Dub Foundation - Rafi's Revenge (London) 98
  • Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst (75 Ark) 96
  • Labradford - A Stable Reference (Kranky) 95
  • Dirty Three - Horse Stories (Touch & Go) 96
  • Roy Harper - HQ (Science Friction) 75
  • Neil Young - Tonight's The Night (Reprise) 75
  • Labradford (Kranky) 96
  • Eleventh Dream Day - Prairie School Freakout (Thrill Jockey/Amoeba) 88
  • Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden (EMI) 88
  • My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything (Creation) 88
  • Tom Zé - Fabrication Defect (Luaka Bop) 98
  • Fugazi - Repeater (Dischord) 90
  • De La Soul - Three Feet And Rising (Tommy Boy) 90
  • Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me (SST) 87
  • Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig (SST) 85
  • The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & The Lash (WEA) 85
  • Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun (SST) 85
  • Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral . . . My Trial (Homestead) 86
  • The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (Merge) 99
  • The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (WB) 99
  • PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (Island) 00
  • N*E*R*D - In Search Of ... (Virgin) 02
  • Run D.M.C. - Raising Hell (Profile) 86
  • Souled American - Around The Horn (Rough Trade) 90
  • Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey (Mute) 88
  • Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising (SST) 85
  • The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy (WB) 85
  • Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full (4th & Broadway) 87
  • Dinosaur Jr. - Bug (SST) 88
  • Amon Tobin - Supermodified (Ninja Tune) 00
  • EPMD - Strictly Business (Sleeping Bag/Fresh) 88
  • The Jungle Brothers - Straight Out The Jungle (Warlock) 93
  • Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf (Interscope) 02
  • Asian Dub Foundation - Community Music (London) 00
  • Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where (Ninja Tune) 02
  • The Notwist - Neon Golden (City Slang) 02
  • Arto Lindsay - Prize (Righteous Babe) 99
  • Herbie Hancock - Sextant (Columbia) 73
  • Serge Gainsbourg - Vu De L' Exterieur (Philips Fr) 73
  • Bob Marley & the Wailers - Burnin' (Tuff Gong/Island) 73
  • Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A. We Are Devo (WB) 78
  • Generation X (Chrysalis) 78
  • The Buzzcocks - Love Bites (Restless) 78
  • The Saints - Eternally Yours (EMI) 78
  • Baaba Maal - Lam Toro (Island/Palm Pictures) 93
  • The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol) 67
  • Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure (EG) 73
  • Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary (Jive) 88
  • Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown (Next Plateau) 88
  • Mastodon - Blood Mountain (Reprise) 06
  • Opeth - Ghost Reveries (Roadrunner) 05
  • Patrick Wolf - Wind In The Wires (Tomlab) 05
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones (Interscope) 06
  • Etta James - Tell Mama (Chess) 67
  • Augustus Pablo - This Is (Kaya/Heartbeat) 73
  • Tony Allen & Afrobeat 2000 - N.E.P.A. (Wrasse) 85
  • Björk - Debut (Elektra) 93
  • PJ Harvey - Dry (Island) 92
  • Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville (Matador) 93
  • Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (Elektra) 93
  • Beastie Boys - Check Your Head (Capitol) 92
  • Seam - The Problem With Me (Touch & Go) 93
  • Dog Faced Hermans - Hum Of Life (Project A Bomb) 93
  • Nirvana - In Utero (Geffen) 93
  • The Jesus Lizard - Goat (Touch & Go) 91
  • Laika - Sounds of the Satellites (Too Pure) 97
  • Arto Lindsay - Mundo Civilizado (Bar/None) 97
  • Walt Mink - Miss Happiness (Caroline) 92
  • God - Possession (Virgin) 92
  • The Jesus Lizard - Liar (Touch & Go) 92
  • Fugazi - 13 Songs (Dischord) 89
  • Nirvana - Nevermind (Geffen) 91
  • A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (Jive) 91
  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Devotional & Love Songs (Real World) 92
  • Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones (Elektra) 83
  • Bad Brains - Rock For Light (Line) 83
  • The Birthday Party - The Bad Seed/Mutiny! EPs (4AD) 83
  • The Minutemen - What Makes A Man Start Fires? (SST) 83
  • Walt Mink - Colossus (Deep Elm) 97
  • Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain (Sire) 83
  • Roxy Music - Country Life (EG) 74
  • David Bowie - Diamond Dogs (RCA) 74
  • Popol Vuh - Einsjager & Siebenjager (Spalax) 74
  • Fela Kuti - He Miss Road (Universal) 74
  • Prince Lincoln & The Royal Rasses - Humanity (Ballistic/Orange Street) 79
  • Dennis Brown - Just Dennis (Trojan) 74
  • Blondie - Blondie (Chrysalis) 76
  • Harry Mudie - Harry Mudie Meets King Tubby In Dub Conference Vol. One (Moodisc) 76
  • The Fall - Dragnet (Step Forward) 79
  • The Jam - Setting Sons (Polydor) 79
  • The Jungle Brothers - Done By The Forces Of Nature (WB) 89
  • Essential Logic - Beat Rhythm News (Rough Trade) 79
  • Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Armed Forces (Columbia) 79
  • The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (Chiswick) 79
  • Contortions (James Chance & the) - Buy (Arista/Infinite Zero) 79
  • The Violent Femmes (Slash) 83
  • The Minutemen - Buzz Or Howl Under The Influence Of Heat (SST) 83
  • Orchestral Manoevres In The Dark - Dazzle Ships (Virgin) 83
  • Yellow Magic Orchestra - Technodelic (EMI/Alfa) 81
  • The Sound - The BBC Recordings: Sessions (Rensascent) 81
  • X - Wild Gift (Slash) 81
  • The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood (Beggars Banquet) 83
  • Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster (XXX) 83
  • Mission Of Burma - Signals, Calls And Marches EP (Ace Of Hearts) 81
  • The Blue Orchids - The Greatest Hit (Rough Trade) 81
  • Art Bears - The World As It Is Today (Recommended) 81
  • Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mambo Nassau (Ze) 81
  • Minor Threat - Out Of Step (Dischord) 83
  • Archie Shepp - Mama Too Tight (Impulse) 66
  • Small Faces (Polygram) 66
  • The Animals - Animalisms (Repertoire/Decca) 66
  • The Yardbirds - Roger The Engineer (Columbia/Edsel) 66
  • Nina Simone - Let It All Out (Philips) 66
  • Nina Simone - High Priestess Of Soul (Philips) 66
  • Liliput (Rough Trade/Kill Rock Stars) 82
  • The Royals - Pick Up The Pieces (Pressure Sounds) 77
  • The Heptones - Night Food (Mango/Island) 76
  • Augustus Pablo - East Of The River Nile (Message/Shanachie) 77
  • Al Green - The Belle Album (Hi) 77
  • Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus (Tuff Gong/Island) 77
  • James Blood Ulmer - Black Rock (Columbia) 82
  • Fela Kuti - Fela's London Scene (Makossa) 70
  • Orchestra Baobob - Pirates Choice (Nonesuch/World Circuit) 82
  • Harry Nilsson - Pandemonium Shadow Show (RCA) 67
  • Tim Buckley - Blue Afternoon (Straight) 70
  • Nico - The Marble Index (Elektra) 69
  • Rico & The Rudies - Blow Your Horn (Trojan) 69
  • Al Green - Al Green Gets Next To You (Hi) 70
  • The Maytals - Sweet And Dandy (Beverly's) 70
  • Can - Soundtracks (Spoon/Mute) 70
  • Miles Davis - E.S.P. (Columbia) 65
  • John Coltrane - The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (Impulse) 65
  • Archie Shepp - Fire Music (Impulse) 65
  • Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 2 (ESP) 65
  • Albert Ayler Trio - Spirits Rejoice (ESP) 65
  • Otis Redding - The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads (Stax/Atlantic) 65
  • Otis Redding - Otis Blue (Stax/Atlantic) 65
  • Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You (Philips) 65
  • Nina Simone - Pastel Blues (Philips) 65
  • Herbie Hancock - Fat Albert Rotunda (WB) 70
  • Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (Island) 70
  • Wayne McGhie & The Sounds Of Joy (Light in the Attic) 70
  • Bob Andy - Song Book (Studio One) 70
  • John Coltrane - Expression (Impulse) 67
  • Horace Andy - Skylarking (Trojan) 70
  • Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson (Columbia) 70
  • Lora Logic - Pedigree Charm (Rough Trade) 82
  • The Art Ensemble Of Chicago - With Fontella Bass (America) 70
  • King Sunny Ade - Juju Music (Mango) 82
  • Free - Fire And Water (A&M/Island) 70
  • The Cables - What Kind Of World (Heartbeat) 70
  • Hüsker Dü - Metal Circus EP (SST) 83
  • Betty Davis - Nasty Gal (Just Sunshine/Aztec) 75
  • Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace (Atlantic) 72
  • Gilberto Gil - Expresso (Mercury) 72
  • Fela Kuti - Shakara (EMI) 72
  • Fela Kuti - Confusion (Polydor) 75
  • Amon Düül II - Carnival In Babylon (Mantra) 72
  • Amon Düül II - Wolf City (Mantra) 72
  • The Monks - Black Monk Time (Repertoire) 66
  • Serge Gainsbourg - L' Homme a Tete De Chou (Philips Fr) 76
  • Cedric Im Brooks & The Divine Light - From Mento To Reggae To Third World Music (Doctor Bird) 75
  • The Rolling Stones - Aftermath (London/Abko) 66
  • Sly & The Family Stone - A Whole New Thing (Epic) 66
  • The Shadows Of Knight - Back Door Men (Dunwich/Sundazed) 66
  • Toots & the Maytals - Reggae Got Soul (Mango) 76
  • John Coltrane - Stellar Regions (Impulse) 67
  • The Pretty Things - Get The Picture (Fontana) 66
  • The Who - A Quick One (Happy Jack) (MCA) 66
  • Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub) 07
  • Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson (Philips Fr) 71
  • Otis Redding - Dictionary Of Soul (Stax/Atlantic) 66
  • Gladiators - Trench Town Mix Up (Front Line/Virgin) 76
  • Yabby You - Chant Down Babylon Kingdom (Nationwide) 76
  • Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record (Jet/Epic Legacy) 76
  • Cluster - Sowiesoso (Sky) 76
  • The Wailing Souls (Studio One) 76
  • Johnny Clarke - Authorized Version (Front Line) 76
  • Otis Redding - The Soul Album (Stax/Atlantic) 66
  • La Dusseldorf - Viva (Radar) 78
  • Magazine - Real Life (Virgin) 78
  • Cedric Im Brooks - United Africa (Aquarius) 78
  • Burning Spear - Social Living (Blood & Fire) 78
  • Chrome - Alien Soundtracks (Touch & Go) 78
  • The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium (GSL/Universal) 03
  • The Only Ones (Columbia) 78
  • Roy Harper - Valentine (Chrysalis) 74
  • XTC - Drums And Wires (Virgin) 79
  • Heldon - Stand By (Cunneiform/Rune) 79
  • The Jungle Brothers - J. Beez Wit The Remedy (WB) 93
  • Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle (Atco/Beggars Banquet) 79
  • Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves (Touch & Go) 79
  • Art Bears - Winter Songs (Ralph/Recommended) 79
  • Gregory Isaacs - Soon Forward (Virgin) 79
  • The Beatles - The Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol) 67
  • Curtis Mayfield - Roots (Curtom) 71
  • John Coltrane - Ascension (Impulse) 65
  • Kassin +2 - Futurismo (Video Arts Japan/Luaka Bop) 06
  • Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today (Curtom) 75
  • Curtis Mayfield - Sweet Exorcist (Curtom) 74
  • Al Green - Explores Your Mind (Hi) 74
  • Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (Tamla) 73
  • Robert Calvert - Captain Lockheed & The Star Fighters (UA/BGO) 74
  • The Young Gods - Only Heaven (Interscope) 95
  • Son Of Bazerk - Bazerk Bazerk Bazerk (Soul/MCA) 91
  • Cornelius - 69/96 (Trattoria) 95
  • Radiohead - In Rainbows (ATO) 07
  • Chico Science & Nação Zumbi - De Lama Ao Caos (Chaos) 95
  • AC/DC - Highway To Hell (Epic) 79
  • Bill Withers - Just As I Am (Sussex) 71
  • Apparat - Walls (Bpitch Control) 07
  • Hawkwind - In Search Of Space (UA/One Way) 71
  • Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (We Are Free) 07
  • The Doors - Strange Days (Elektra) 67
  • R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction (IRS) 85
  • Thin Lizzy - Black Rose: A Rock Legend (Mercury/Vertigo) 79
  • Robert Fripp - Exposure (EG) 79
  • Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Press Color (Ze) 79
  • Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R (Interscope) 00
  • Amon Düül II - Phallus Dei (Revisited) 69
  • Sussan Deyhim - Madman Of God: Divine Love Songs of the Persian Sufi Masters (CramWorld)
  • Hawksley Workman - For Him And The Girls (Isadora/Ba Da Bing) 00
  • Cornelius - Fantasma (Matador) 98
  • Hawksley Workman - (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves (Universal) 01
  • The Strokes - Is This It (RCA/BMG) 01
  • Brian Wilson - SMiLE (Nonesuch) 04
  • Mastodon - Leviathan (Relapse) 04
  • My Computer - No CV (Tesla UK) 05
  • Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better (Domino) 05
  • Junior Boys - Last Exit (Kin UK) 04
  • Rob - Satyred Love (Source/Virgin Fr) 02
  • My Computer - Vulnerabilia (13 Amp UK) 02
  • Arto Lindsay - Invoke (Righteous Babe) 02
  • The Walkmen - Bows And Arrows (Record Collection) 04
  • Arto Lindsay - Salt (Righteous Babe) 04
  • Sketch Show - Loophole (Third Ear) 04
  • The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner) 02
  • Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch) 02
  • Finley Quaye - Maverick A Strike (550 Music) 97
  • Oval - 94 Diskont (Mille Plateaux) 95
  • Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air (Touch and Go) 02
  • The Rakes - Capture/Release (V2 UK) 05
  • Robyn (Konichiwa Records) 05
  • Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (Wichita/V2) 05
  • The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America (Vagrant) 06
  • The Knife - Silent Shout (Rabid/Mute) 06
  • Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position (Universal/Polydor) 07
  • Matthew Dear - Asa Breed (Ghostly International) 07
  • Massive Attack - Protection (Circa) 94
  • The Flamin' Groovies - Teenage Head (Big Beat) 71
  • Gong - Camembert Electrique (Charly) 71
  • AC/DC - High Voltage (Atlantic) 76
  • Magazine - Secondhand Daylight (Virgin) 79
  • The Adverts - Cast of Thousands (RCA/Devils Jukebox) 79
  • The Fall - Live At the Witch Trials (IRS) 79
  • Amon Düül II - Dance of the Lemmings (Revisited) 71
  • Tom Verlaine - Tom Verlaine (Elektra) 79
  • Jesu - Conquerer (Hydra Head) 07
  • Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum (Graveface) 07
  • The Residents - Eskimo (Ralph) 79
  • Sylford Walker & Welton Irie - Lambs Bread International (Blood & Fire) 79
  • Norris Reid - Give Jah The Praises (Rockers) 79
  • Dennis Brown - Words Of Wisdom (Shanachie) 79
  • Serge Gainsbourg - Aux Armes Et Caetera (Universal Fr) 79
  • Chelsea (Step Forward) 79
  • Dennis Brown - Joseph's Coat Of Many Colours (Shanachie/Blood & Fire) 79
  • Miles Davis - In A Silent Way (Columbia) 69
  • Ijahman - Are We A Warrior (Mango/Jahmani) 79
  • Motorhead - Ace Of Spades (Roadracer) 80
  • White Rabbits - Fort Nightly (Say Hey) 07
  • Nação Zumbi - Fome De Tudo (Deck Disk Brazil) 07
  • Miles Davis - Sorcerer (Columbia) 67
  • Small Faces - There Are But Four Small Faces (Immediate) 67
  • Otis Redding - The Dock Of The Bay (Atlantic) 67
  • Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle (WB) 67
  • Amon Tobin - Bricolage (Ninja Tune) 97
  • Björk - Medulla (Elektra) 04
  • Os Mutantes (Omplatten) 68
  • Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today (Curtom) 75
  • Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman (Vortex) 69
  • Gilberto Gil (Philips) 69
  • L.L. Cool J. - Radio (Def Jam) 85
  • Big Black - Atomizer (Homestead) 86
  • Sonic Youth - EVOL (SST) 86
  • Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things (Tirk) 06
  • Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti) 06
  • Joanna Newsom - Ys (Drag City) 06
  • Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (Straight/Rykodisc) 69
  • Scratch Acid - Just Keep Eating (Rabid Cat) 86
  • The Pop Group - For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? (Rough Trade) 80
  • The Buzzcocks - A Different Kind Of Tension (Restless) 80
  • Hunters & Collectors - Human Frailty (IRS) 86
  • The Chameleons UK - Strange Times (Geffen) 86
  • Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted (Matador) 92
  • The Silvertones - Silver Bullets (Trojan) 73
  • The Impressions - This Is My Country (Curtom) 68
  • The Associates - The Affectionate Punch (Fiction) 80
  • Peter Gabriel - 3 (Geffen)80
  • Free - Tons Of Sobs (A&M/Island) 68
  • The Damned - The Black Album (Big Beat) 80
  • T. Rex - Tanx (Mercury/Repertoire) 73
  • Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising (Homestead) 85
  • Various - No New York (Antilles) 78
  • Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Press Color (Ze) 79
  • John Cooper Clarke - Snap, Crackle & Bop (Epic) 80
  • Roxy Music - Stranded (EG) 73
  • John Cale - Paris 1919 (WB) 73
  • Cockney Rebel - The Human Menagerie (EMI) 73
  • John Martyn - Solid Air (Island) 73
  • Horace Andy - Pure Ranking (Clocktower) 79
  • Nara Leao (Philips) 68
  • The Byrds - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (Columbia) 68
  • Arthur Brown - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (Polydor) 68
  • Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie & Clyde (Virgin Fr) 68
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell (Interscope) 03
  • Hot Chip - The Warning (DFA/Astralwerks) 06
  • Moby Grape (Columbia) 67
  • The Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons (London/Abko) 67
  • The White Stripes - Elephant (V2) 03
  • Nina Simone - Nina Simone Sings The Blues (RCA) 67
  • The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Magesty's Request (London/Abko) 67
  • Sly & the Family Stone - Dance To The Music (Epic) 67
  • Aretha Franklin - Aretha Arrives (Atlantic/Rhino) 67
  • Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxter's (RCA) 67
  • Gilberto Gil - Louvao (Philips) 67
  • Herman Chin-Loy - Aquarius Rock (Pressure Sounds) 73
  • Cymande - Second Time Round (Janus/Sequel) 73
  • David Byrne - The Catherine Wheel (Sire) 81
  • Virgin Prunes - A New Form Of Beauty (Rough Trade/Mute) 81
  • King Crimson - Discipline (WB) 81
  • Comsat Angels - Fiction (Polydor/Renascent) 82
  • The Sound - All Fall Down (Korova/Renascent) 82
  • The English Beat - Special Beat Service (IRS) 82
  • Fun Boy Three (Chrysalis) 82
  • The Passage - Degenerates (Cherry Red/ltd) 82
  • Echo & the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here (Sire) 81
  • Crispy Ambulance - The Plateau Phase (Factory Benelux/LTM) 82
  • Chrome - 3rd from the Sun (Siren) 82
  • Kate Bush - The Dreaming (EMI) 82
  • Harmonia - Music Von Harmonia (Brain) 73
  • Curtis Mayfield - Back To The World (Curtom) 73
  • Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (RT) 88
  • Bill Withers - Still Bill (Sussex) 72
  • Dr. John The Night Tripper - Babylon (Wounded Bird) 69
  • Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 (WB) 72
  • Harmonia - Music Von Harmonia (Brain) 73
  • Van Morrison - St. Dominic's Preview (WB) 72
  • Rico - Midnight In Ethiopia (Island) 77
  • God - The Anatomy of Addiction (Big Cat) 94
  • `O'rang - Herd of Instinct (Echo) 94
  • The Stranglers - No More Heroes (UA) 77
  • Joni Mitchell - For The Roses (Reprise) 72
  • Wishbone Ash - Argus (MCA) 72
  • Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido (UA/One Way) 72
  • Exuma The Obeah Man - Snake (Kama Sutra) 72
  • The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari - Grounation (Ashanti/MRR) 72
  • Brian Eno - Before And After Science (EG) 77
  • The Cars - The Cars (Elektra) 78
  • Cymande (Janus/Sequel) 72
  • Ultravox - Ha! Ha! Ha! (Island) 77
  • Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (Mercury)77
  • David Ackles - American Gothic (Elektra) 72
  • Scott Walker - Scott 4 (Fontana) 69
  • Nara Leao (Philips) 68
  • Seam - Headsparks (Homestead) 92
  • Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies (Dedicated) 92
  • Gal Costa (Philips) 69
  • X - More Fun In The New World (Elektra) 83
  • Kip Hanrahan - Desire Develops An Edge (American Clave) 83
  • James Blood Ulmer - Odyssey (Columbia) 83
  • Roy Harper - Lifemask (Resurgent) 73
  • Faust - Faust IV (Virgin) 73
  • Hawkwind - Space Ritual (UA/One Way) 73
  • The The - Infected (Epic) 86
  • The Pixies - Doolittle (Elektra) 89
  • The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (Sire) 86
  • Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring (EMI) 86
  • Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Kicking Against the Pricks (Homestead) 86
  • Ambitious Lovers - Greed (Virgin) 87
  • Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes (Sire) 84
  • Plush - Fed (After Hours Jpn) 02
  • Tom Waits - Alice (Anti/Epitaph) 02
  • Neko Case - Blacklisted (Bloodshot) 02
  • The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic (WB) 95
  • Fugazi - Red Medicine (Dischord) 95
  • Field Music (Memphis Industries UK) 05
  • Souled American - Fe (Rough Trade) 87
  • Gallon Drunk - In The Long Still Night (City Slang UK) 96
  • Einsturzende Neubauten - Haus der Luege (Rough Trade/Thirsty Ear) 89
  • The Pogues - If I Should Fall From The Grace Of God (WEA) 87
  • Mano Negra - Patchanka (Virgin) 87
  • Sheila Chandra - ABoneCroneDrone (Real World) 96
  • Beck - Odelay (Geffen) 96
  • Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill (Def Jam) 86
  • Ambitious Lovers - Envy (EG) 84
  • Julian Cope - Fried (Mercury/Fontana) 84
  • Cornell Campbell - Natty Dread In A Greenwich Farm (Grounation) 75
  • Black Sabbath - Sabotage (WB) 75
  • Joe Higgs - Life of Contradiction (Vulcan/Lagoon) 75
  • Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Capitol) 75
  • Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (Asylum) 75
  • Tom Zé - Correio Da Estao Do Bras (EW) 78
  • Kraftwerk - The Man Machine (Capitol) 78
  • Linval Thompson - I Love Marijuana (Trojan) 78
  • Queen - A Night At The Opera (Elektra) 75
  • Hugh Mundell - Africa Must Be Free By 1983 (Ras) 75
  • Cedric Im Brooks & The Light Of Saba - Sabebe (Total Sounds) 78
  • Junior Delgado - Taste Of The Young Heart (DEB) 78
  • The Jolt (Polydor/Captain Mod) 78
  • Gladiators - Proverbial Reggae (Front Line/Virgin) 78
  • Dr. Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken In Town (Greensleeves) 78
  • Tony Allen - No Accomodation For Lagos (P-Vine) 78
  • Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (Sub Pop) 05
  • Art Bears - Hopes And Fears (Randam Radar/ReR) 78
  • Gregory Isaacs - Cool Ruler (Front Line) 78
  • The Boys - Alternative Chartbusters (Safari) 78
  • The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope (Epic) 78
  • The Soft Boys - A Can Of Bees (Rykodisc) 78
  • Television - Adventure (Elektra) 78
  • Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs And Stories (WB) 87
  • The Pixies - Come On Pilgrim EP (4AD) 87
  • Big Black - Songs About Fucking (Touch & Go) 87
  • At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command (Grand Royal) 00
  • King Sunny Ade - Synchro System (Mango) 83
  • Robert Wyatt - Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard (Virgin/Thirsty Ear) 75
  • New Order - Low-Life (WB) 85
  • The Chameleons UK - Script of the Bridge (Statik) 83
  • Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark (Reprise) 74
  • Rod Taylor - If Jah Should Come Now (Daddy Kool) 83
  • Einsturzende Neubauten - 1/2 Mensch (Rough Trade) 85
  • Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale (Motown) 74
  • The Replacements - Tim (Sire) 85
  • King Crimson - Red (Atlantic) 74
  • XTC - Skylarking (Geffen) 87
  • R.E.M. - Document (IRS) 87
  • Butthole Surfers - Psychic . . . Powerless . . . Another Man's Sac (Touch & Go) 85
  • Os Mutantes - A Divina Comedia Ou Ando meio Desligado (Omplatten) 70
  • Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry (Columbia) 69
  • Sigur Rós - Ágaetis Byrjun (FatCat/Bubble Core) 00
  • T. Rex - Dandy In The Underworld (Mercury) 77
  • Roy Harper - Stormcock (Resurgent) 71
  • Natacha Atlas - Diaspora (Mantra/Beggars Banquet) 95
  • T. Rex - Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow (Mercury) 74
  • Cornershop - When I Was Born For the 7th Time (Luaka Bop/WB) 97
  • Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - Fabulosos Calavera (BMG) 97
  • Kraftwerk - Autobahn (Philips) 74
  • Richard Horowitz & Susan Deyhim - Majoun (Sony Classical) 97
  • Cornell Campbell - I Shall Not Remove 1975-80 (Blood & Fire) 80
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto - B 2 Unit (A&M/Alfa) 80
  • New Age Steppers (On-U Sound/Statik) 80
  • Outkast - Aquemini (LaFace) 98
  • Dog Faced Hermans - Those Deep Buds (Alternative Tentacles) 94
  • Mano Negra - Casa Babylon (Virgin) 94
  • Caravan - In The Land Of The Grey & Pink (London/Some Wax) 71
  • Mott The Hoople - Brain Capers (Atlantic) 71
  • Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness (Impulse!) 71
  • Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story (Mercury) 71
  • Exuma The Obeah Man - Do Wah Nanny (Kama Sutra) 71
  • Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes Of The Apocalypse (Atlantic) 71
  • Comus - First Utterance (Dawn/Breathless) 71
  • Café Tacuba - Re (WEA) 94
  • Bark Psychosis - Hex (Caroline) 94
  • Naked Raygun - Jettison (Caroline) 88
  • Prince - Sign O' The Times (Paisley Park) 87
  • Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show (Def Jam) 87
  • Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded (B-Boy) 87
  • Clinton [Cornershop] - Disco & The Half Way To Discontent (Hut) 99
  • The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I (De Soto) 99
  • Café Tacuba - Reves/Yosoy (WB) 99
  • The Wedding Present - George Best (Reception) 87
  • My Bloody Valentine - Ecstasy/Strawberry Wine EPs (Lazy) 87
  • King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black (Atlantic) 74
  • Heldon - Electronic Guerrilla (Cunneiform/Rune) 74
  • Yo La Tengo - Painful (Matador/Atlantic) 93
  • The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld (Mercury) 91
  • Fela Kuti - I.T.T. (Polygram) 80
  • Tetrack - Let's Get Started (Greensleeves) 80
  • Hugh Mundell - Time And Place (Jet Star/Rockers) 80
  • The Chords - So Far Away (Polydor/Captain Mod) 80
  • Half Japanese - Charmed Life (10,000,000...Watts) 84
  • Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (Cherry Red) 80
  • Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Organisation (Virgin) 80
  • The Clash - Sandinista! (Epic) 80
  • Laurie Anderson - United States Live (WB) 84
  • Squeeze - Argybargy (A&M) 80
  • Bob Marley & the Wailers - Rastaman Vibration (Tuff Gong/Island) 76
  • Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (Mercury) 76
  • Siouxsie & the Banshees - Kaleidoscope (Polydor/Geffen) 80
  • Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain (Sire) 84
  • Prince - Purple Rain (WB) 84
  • Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds of the Western World (Deram) 73
  • The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro (Mercury) 80
  • Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II (SST) 84
  • The Art Of Noise - (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art Of Noise (ZTT/Island) 84
  • The Runaways (Touchwood/Cherry Red) 76
  • Popol Vuh - Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte (United Artists/Spalax) 76
  • Heldon - Un Reve Sans Consequence Speciale (Cunneiform/Rune) 76
  • Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby (RCA/Legacy) 76
  • Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor (Restless) 80
  • Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me (Sire) 87
  • The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come (Sire) 87
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto - Left Handed Dream (MIDI) 81
  • The Jesus Lizard - Head (Touch & Go) 90
  • La Dusseldorf - Individuellos (Radar) 81
  • Jerry Harrison - The Red And The Black (Sire) 81
  • Close Lobsters - Foxheads Stalk This Land (Fire) 87
  • DNA - A Taste Of DNA EP (American Clave/Rough Trade) 81
  • Mano Negra - In The Hell Of Patchinko (Virgin) 92
  • Einsturzende Neubauten - Tabula Rasa (Mute) 93
  • XTC - Black Sea (Geffen) 80
  • Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun (Dali) 92
  • Uncle Tupelo - No Depression (Rockville) 90
  • Rip Rig + Panic - God (Virgin) 81
  • Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Virgin) 80
  • Beck - Mutations (Geffen) 98
  • Orbital (ffrr) 91
  • King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (EG) 69
  • The Meters - Struttin' (Josie) 70
  • Disco Inferno - Open Doors, Closed Windows (Che) 91
  • The Go-Betweens - Spring Hill Fair (Beggars Banquet) 84
  • Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - The Spotlight Kid (Reprise) 72
  • The Stranglers - IV Rattus Norvegicus (A&M) 77
  • Lee Perry - Roast Fish Collie Weed and Corn Bread (Upsetter) 76
  • Vibrators - Pure Mania (Columbia) 77
  • The Stranglers - Black And White (EMI) 78
  • Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher (Warp) 03
  • Otto - Sem Gravidade (Trama) 03
  • Shack - Here's Tom With The Weather (North Country UK) 03
  • XTC - Go 2 (Virgin) 78
  • James White & the Blacks - Off White (Ze/Infinite Zero) 79
  • Nação Zumbi (Trama) 02
  • Gary Numan & Tubeway Army - Replicas (Beggars Banquet) 79
  • Sir Douglas Quintet - The Return of Doug Saldana (Smash/Acadia) 71
  • T. Rex - Futuristic Dragon (Mercury) 76
  • The Beatles - Help! (Capitol) 65
  • Broadcast - Hahasound (Warp) 03
  • Flaming Lips - Transmission From The Satellite Heart (WB) 93
  • Walt Mink - Bareback Ride (Caroline) 93
  • Fugazi - In On The Kill Taker (Dischord) 93
  • A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm (Jive) 90
  • Annie - Anniemal (679) 04
  • The Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum (Beggars) 04
  • Benoît Pioulard - Précis (Kranky) 06
  • Nação Zumbi - Futura (Trama) 06
  • Tony Allen - Lagos No Shaking (Honest Jon) 06
  • Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye (Domino) 06
  • Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld (Drag City) 04
  • Electrelane - The Power Out (Too Pure/Beggars) 04
  • Orphaned Land - Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven (Century Media) 04
  • Graham Parker - Howlin' Wind (Mercury) 76
  • Archie Shepp - On This Night (Impulse) 65
  • Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy (Tomlab) 04
  • Tom Waits - Small Change (Elektra) 76
  • Sleater-Kinney - All Hands On The Bad One (Kill Rock Stars) 00
  • Nação Zumbi - Radio S.AMB.A. (Stern's Brasil) 00
  • Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music From The Penguin Cafe Orchestra (EG) 76
  • Joni Mitchell - Hejira (Asylum) 76
  • Ed Harcourt - From Every Sphere (Astralwerks/Heaven) 03
  • Harry Nilsson - Aerial Ballet (RCA) 68
  • Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child (Blue Note) 68
  • Archie Shepp - The Way Ahead (Impulse) 68
  • Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now (Atlantic/Rhino) 68
  • Laura Nyro - Eli and the 13th Confesion (Columbia) 68
  • Steely Dan - The Royal Scam (MCA) 76
  • Operation Ivy - Energy (Lookout!) 89
  • Fela Kuti - No Agreement (Terrascope) 77
  • The Morwells - Crab Race (Burning Sounds) 77
  • King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon (EG) 70
  • James Brown - Sex Machine (Polydor) 70
  • Mountain - Climbing! (Columbia) 70
  • Santana - Abraxas (Columbia) 70
  • Atomic Rooster - Atomic Roooster (Elektra) 70
  • Exuma The Obeah Man - Exuma (Mercury) 70
  • Uriah Heep - Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble (Mercury) 70
  • T. Rex (A&M) 70
  • Naked Raygun - All Rise (Homestead) 85
  • Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia (Arista) 76
  • Burning Spear - Man In The Hills (Mango) 76
  • Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life (Charisma/Blue Plate) 76
  • Third World - 96 Degrees in the Shade (Mango) 77
  • Hawkwind (UA/One Way) 70
  • Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus - Kibir-Am-Lak (Greensleeves) 77
  • Prince Far I - Heavy Manners (Joe Gibbs/TP) 77
  • The Art Ensemble Of Chicago - People In Sorrow (Nessa) 69
  • Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking (Hannibal) 69
  • Miles Davis - Filles de Killimanjaro (Columbia) 69
  • Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn (A&M) 69
  • Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin (Virgin Fr) 69
  • Wayne Wade - Black Is Our Colour (Grove) 77
  • Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie & Clyde (Virgin Fr) 68
  • Harry Nilsson - Aerial Ballet (RCA) 68
  • Peter Tosh - Legalize It (Columbia) 76
  • Edu Lobo - Sergio Mendes Presents Edu Lobo (A&M/Verve) 70
  • Tyrannosaurus Rex - A Beard Of Stars (A&M) 70
  • David Axelrod - Earth Rot (Capitol) 70
  • Baby Huey & The Babysitters - The Baby Huey Story: Living Legend (Water) 70
  • John McLaughlin - Devotion (Restless) 70
  • Randy Newman - 12 Songs (Reprise) 70
  • Gregory Isaacs - Mr. Isaacs (Blood & Fire) 77
  • Slapp Happy - Acnalbasac Noom (Cuneiform) 73
  • John Martyn - Inside Out (Island) 73
  • Roy Harper - Lifemask (Resurgent) 73
  • Kevin Coyne - Marjory Razorblade (Virgin) 73
  • Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters (Columbia) 73
  • Faust - Faust IV (Virgin) 73
  • Big Youth - Screaming Target (Trojan) 73
  • Al Green - Livin' For You (Hi) 73
  • Fugazi - The Argument (Dischord) 01
  • Mercury Rev - All Is Dream (V2) 01
  • Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life (EMI/Parlophone) 01
  • Ed Harcourt - Here Be Monsters (Virgin) 01
  • Cannibal Ox - Cold Vein (Ozone Music) 01
  • Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World (Epic) 01
  • Ampop - Nature Is Not A Virgin (R&R Iceland) 00
  • Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (Kranky) 00
  • 16 Horsepower - Secret South (Razor & Tie) 00
  • Cappablack - Facades and Skeletons (Scape Germany) 06
  • Lansing-Dreiden - The Dividing Island (Kemado) 06
  • Various Productions - The World Is Gone (XL) 06
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