Village Voice Pazz & Jop (USA)

1. Hole: Live Through This (DGC)
2. Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador)
3. R.E.M.: Monster (Warner Bros.)
4. Nirvana: MTV Unplugged in New York (DGC)
5. Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Sleeps With Angels (Reprise)
6. Liz Phair: Whip-Smart (Matador)
7. Johnny Cash: American Recordings (American)
8. Guided by Voices: Bee Thousand (Scat)
9. Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral (Nothing/TVT/Interscope)
10. Beck: Mellow Gold (DGC)
11. Soundgarden: Superunknown (A&M)
12. Green Day: Dookie (Reprise)
13. Freedy Johnston: This Perfect World (Elektra)
14. Portishead: Dummy (Go Discs/London)
15. Beastie Boys: Ill Communication (Grand Royal)
16. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Orange (Matador)
17. Victoria Williams: Loose (Mammoth)
18. Iris DeMent: My Life (Warner Bros.)
19. Sam Phillips: Martinis and Bikinis (Virgin)
20. Sebadoh: Bakesale (Sub Pop)
21. Sugar: File Under: Easy Listening (Rykodisc)
22. Warren G: Regulate . . . G Funk Era (Violator/RAL)
23. Jeff Buckley: Grace (Columbia)
24. Kristin Hersh: Hips and Makers (Sire/Reprise)
25. Pearl Jam: Vitalogy (Epic)
26. Madonna: Bedtime Stories (Maverick/Sire)
27. Latin Playboys: Latin Playboys (Slash/Warner Bros.)
28. Lisa Germano: Geek the Girl (4AD)
29. The Magnetic Fields: The Charm of the Highway Strip (Merge)
30. Luscious Jackson: Natural Ingredients (Grand Royal)
31. Elvis Costello: Brutal Youth (Warner Bros.)
32. Grant Lee Buffalo: Mighty Joe Moon (Slash/Reprise)
33. Nas: Illmatic (Columbia)
34. Digable Planets: Blowout Comb (Pendulum/EMI)
35. The Mavericks: What a Crying Shame (MCA)
36. K. McCarty: Dead Dog's Eyeball (Bar/None)
37. Soul Coughing: Ruby Vroom (Slash/Warner Bros.)
38. Ted Hawkins: The Next Hundred Years (DGC)
39. Shara Nelson: What Silence Knows (Chrysalis)
40. Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder: Talking Timbuktu (Hannibal)



OOR (The Netherlands)

1. Spearhead - Home
2. Johnny Cash - American recordings
3. Pavement - Crooked rain crooked rain
4. Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
5. Beastie boys - Ill communication
6. Oasis - Definitely maybe
7. Soundgarden - Superunknown
8. Massive attack - Protection
9. Dan Penn - Do right man
10. Jeff Buckley - Grace
11. Portishead - Dummy
12. Deus - Worst case scenario
Neil Young - Sleeps with angels
14. Suede - Dog man star
15. Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
16. Guided by voices - Bee thousand
17. Beck - Mellow gold
Jon Spencer blues explosion - Orange
19. Jimmy LaFave - Highway trance
20. Therapy? - Troublegum
21. Jeru the damaja - The sun rises in the east
22. Morphine - Cure for pain
23. Ben Harper - Welcome to the cruel world
24. Weezer - Weezer
25. Liz Phair - Whip-smart
26. Ali Farka Toure & Ry Cooder - Talking Timbuktu
27. Toad the wet sprocket - Dulcinea
28. Prodigy - Music for the jilted generation
Tragically hip - Day for night
30. Compulsion - Comforter
God machine - One last laugh in a place of dying
32. Dream theater - Awake
Morrissey - Vauxhal and I
34. G. Love - G. Love & special sauce
35. Hole - Live through this
36. Live - Throwing copper
Senser - Stacked up
38. Pride & glory - Pride & glory
39. Blur - Park life
40. Hamid Baroudi - City no mad
41. Jet black Joe - You ain't here
Nas - Illmatic
Youssou N'Dour - The guide
44. Green day - Dookie
45. Arrested development - Zingalamaduni
Lou Barlow - 23 songs
Vince Bell - Phoenix
Urban dance squad - Persona non grata
49. Toni Childs - The woman's boat
Moody boyz - Product of the environment



NME (UK)

1. Definitely Maybe - Oasis
2. Parklife - Blur
3. Ill Communication - Beastie Boys
4. Unplugged In New York - Nirvana
5. The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
6. Dummy - Portishead
7. Snivilisation - Orbital
8. Dog Man Star - Suede
9. Music For A Jilted Generation - The Prodigy
10. Let Love In - Nick Cave
11. Sleeps With Angels - Neil Young
12. Live Through This - Hole
13. Protection - Massive Attack
14. Monster - REM
15. Workshy - Animals That Swim
16. Orange - Jon Spencer Blues
17. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
18. Dookie - Green Day
19. His 'N' Hers - Pulp
20. Muse Sick 'N' Hour Mess Age - Public Enemy
21. Grace - Jeff Buckley
22. Niggamortis - Gravediggaz
23. American Recordings - Johnny Cash
24. File Under: Easy Listening - Sugar
25. Regulate..G Funk Era - Warren G
26. Vauxhall And I - Morrissey
27. Bakesale - Sebadoh
28. S*M*A*S*H - S*M*A*S*H
29. Change Giver - Shed Seven
30. Bedtime Stories - Madonna
31. Mellow Gold - Beck
32. Give Out But Don't Give Up - Primal Scream
33. Illmatic - Nas
34. Hips And Makers - Kristin Hersh
35. Bluff Limbo - U-Ziq
36. Worst Case Scenario - Deus
37. Lifeforms - Future Sound Of London
38. Second Coming - The Stone Roses
39. Everybody's Got One - Echobelly
40. Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
41. (Come On Join) The High Society - These Animal Men
42. Carnival Of Light - Ride
43. San Francisco - American Music Club
44. The Plot Thickens - Galliano
45. I Love Everybody - Lyle Lovett
46. Stacked Up - Senser
47. Haunted Dancehall - Sabres Of Paradise
48. The Snake - Shane Macgowan And The Popes
49. Troublegum - Therapy?
50. Homegrown - Dodgy



Rolling Stone (USA)

1. Hole - Live Through This
2. R.E.M. - Monster
3. Soundgarden - Superunknown
4. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
5. Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels



Hot Press (Ireland)

1. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Sleeps With Angels
2. R.E.M. - Monster
3. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
4. Elvis Costelllo - Brutal Youth
5. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York



Kerrang (UK)

1. Therapy? - Troublegum
2. Soundgarden - Superunknown
3. Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
4. The Black Crowes - Amorica
5. Killing Joke - Pandemonium
6. Live - Throwing Copper
7. Kyuss - Sky Valley
8. Warrior Soul - Space Age Playboys
9. Prong - Cleansing
10. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
11. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
12. Terrorvision - How To Make Friends And Influence People
13. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
14. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
15. Green Day - Dokie
16. Demolition 23 - Demolition 23
17. Slayer - Divine Intervention
18. Sick Of It All - Scratch The Surface
19. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
20. Collective Soul - Hints, Allegations And Things Left Unsaid
21. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
22. Stabbing Westward - Ungod
23. Supersuckers - La Mano Cornuda
24. Corrosion Of Conformity - Deliverance
25. Boston - Walk On



Melody Maker (UK)

1. Dummy - Portishead
2. His 'n' hers - Pulp
3. Crooked rain, crooked rain - Pavement
4. Definitely maybe - Oasis
5. The holy bible - Manic street preachers
6. Parklife - Blur
7. Live through this - Hole
8. Snivilisation - Orbital
9. Grace - Jeff Buckley
10. EDC - Satchel
11. Unplugged in New York - Nirvana
12. Regulate..G-Funk era - Warren G
13. Dog man star - Suede
14. Seize the time - Fun-da-mental
15. Vitalogy - Pearl jam
16. Dubnobasswithmyheadman - Underworld
17. Second coming - Stone roses
18. Ill communication - Beastie boys
19. Hips and makers - Kristin Hersh
20. Haunted dancehall - Sabres of paradise
21. Protection - Massive attack
22. Let love in - Nick Cave and the bad seeds
23. Mellow gold - Beck
24. Duniya - Loop Guru
25. Superunknown - Soundgarden
26. Mars audiac quintet - Stereolab
27. Muse sick-n-hour mess age - Public enemy
28. Monster - R.E.M.
29. Bakesale - Sebadoh
30. Hex - Bark psychosis
31. Tiger bay - St Etienne
32. Doggystyle - Snoop doggy dogg
33. One last laugh in a place of dying
34. Weight - Rollins band
35. Orange - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
36. Shot in the dark - Laurent Garnier
37. Troublegum - Therapy?
38. Change giver - Shed seven
39. Natural Ingredients - Luscious Jackson
40. Everyone’s got one - Echobelly



The Face (UK)

1.Portishead – Dummy
2.Oasis – Definitely Maybe
3.Blur – Park Life
4.Massive Attack – Protection
5.The Beastie Boys – Ill Communication
6.Jhelisa - Galactica Rush
7.Hole - Live Through This
8.Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
9.REM – Monster
10.Primal Scream - Give Out But Don't Give Up
11.Suede - Dog Man Star
12.Above The Rim Soundtrack
13.Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels
14.Pulp - His 'N' Hers
15.Johnny Cash - American Recordings
16. Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
=16 Veruca Salt Ä American Thighs
18.Jeff Buckley – Grace
19.Edwyn Collins - Gorgeous George
20.The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
21.Future Sound Of London – Lifeforms
22.Nas – Illmatic
23.Various - Drum And Bass Selection 1
24.Nick Cave - Let Love In
25=Warren G - Regulate... G Funk Era
25= Luscious Jackson - Natural Ingredients
27.Pete Rock & CL Smooth - The Main Ingredient
28.Morrissey - Vauxhall And I
29.Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle
30=Liz Phair – Whip-Smart
30=Sinead O'Connor - Universal Mother



Spex (Germany)

1. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
2. Jeff Mills - Waveform Transmission Vol. 3
3. Tortoise - dto.
4. The Sea And Cake - dto.
5. Hole - Live Through This
6. Portishead - Dummy
7. Blumfeld - L'Etat Et Moi
8. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
9. Nas - Illmatic
10. DJ Pierre - The Album
11. Combustible Edison - I, Swinger
12. Brand Nubian - Everything Is Everything
13. Warren G - Regulate...G-Funk Era
14. Die Goldenen Zitronen - Das bißchen Totschlag
15. Jon Spencer Explosion - Orange
16. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Strangers From The Universe
17. Gang Starr - Hard To Earn
18. Robert Hood - Minimal Nation
19. Gravediggaz - Niggamortis
20. Christian Vogel - Beginning To Understand
21. Gastr Del Sol - Crookt, Crackt, Or Fly
22. Workshop - Talent
23. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang Clan (36 Chambers)
24. Pete Rock & C.L.Smooth - The Main Ingredient
25. Melvins - Stoner Witch
26. Silver Jews - Starlite Walker
27. Deee-Lite - Dewdrops In The Garden
28. Meat Puppets - Too High To Die
29. Mutter - Hauptsache Musik
30. Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels
31. Luscious Jackson - Natural Ingredients
32. Jeru The Damaja - The Sun Rises In The East
33. Bobby Sichran - From A Sympathetical Hurricane
34. Fugees - Blunted On Reality
35. Andreas Dorau - Neu
36. Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
37. Beck - Mellow Gold
38. Oval - Systemisch
39. Pram - Helium
40. Moonshake - The Sound Your Eyes Can Follow



HUMO (Belgium)

01. Neil Young - Sleeps with angels
02. Pavement - Crooked rain, crooked rain
03. Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
04. Soundgarden - Superunknown
05. Fatima Mansions - Lost in the former West
06. dEUS - Worst case scenario
07. Elvis Costello - Brutal youth
08. David Sylvian - Damage
09. Live - Throwing copper
10. Tragically Hip - Day for night
11. Shane Mac Gowan - The snake
12. Joni Mitchell - Turbulent indigo
13. R.E.M. - Monster
14. Van Morrison - A night in San Francisco
15. Sugar - File under : easy listening



Q (UK)

Top 10
• Blur - Park life
• Jackie Leven - The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death
• Morrissy - Vauxhall and I
• Soundtrack (Various artists) - Natural born killers
• Oasis - Definitely maybe
• Orbital - Snivilation
• Pink Floyd - The division bell
• Soundgarden - Superunknown
• Suede - Dog man star
• Therapy? - Troublegum

The rest
• Above the rim - The soundtrack
• Beastie Boys - ill Communication
• Beck - Mellow gold
• Boston - Walk on
• Jeff - Buckley - Grace
• Johnny Cash - American recordings
• Vic Chesnut - Drunk
• Eric Clapton - From the cradle
• Colour me bad - Time and chance
• Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth
• Counting crows - August and everything after
• The Cranberries - No need to argue
• Crash test dummies - God shuffled his feet
• The divine comedy - Promenade
• Warren G - Regulate...G funk era
• Green day - Dookie
• Hole - Live through this
• Ice cube - Lethal injection
• Lightning seeds - Jollification
• Nick Lowe - The impossible bird
• Baaba Maal - Firin’ in fouta
• Shane MacGowan & The Popes - The Snake
• Machine Head - Burn my eyes
• Manic street preachers - The Holy Bible
• Massive attack - Protection
• Ian McNabb - Head like a rock
• Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
• Sinead O’Connor - Universal mother
• Jimmy Page and Robert Plant - No Quarter: Unledded
• Liz Phair - Whip-Smart
• The Prodigy - Music for a jilted generation
• Pulp - His ‘N’ hers
• REM - Monster
• Danny Red - Riddimwize
• David Sanchez - The departure
• Snoop Doggy dog - Doggystyle
• Sparks - Gratuitous sax and senseless violins
• Strangelove - Time for the rest of your life
• Terrorvision - How to make friends and influence people
• Neil Young - Sleeps with angels



Rock de Lux (Spain)

1. Portishead: "Dummy"
2. The Sabres Of Paradise: "Haunted Dancehall"
3. Suede: "Dog Man Star"
4. Underworld: "Dubnobasswithmyheadman"
5. Justin Warfield: "My Field Trip To Planet 9"
6. Blur: "Parklife"
7. Beastie Boys: "Ill Communication"
8. Pavement: "Crooked Rain Crooked Rain"
9. Jeff Buckley: "Grace"
10. Kristin Hersh: "Hips And Makers"
11. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: "Let Love In"
12. Ken Ishii: "Innerelements"
13. Public Enemy: "Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age"
14. Sebadoh: "Bakesale"
15. Sonic Youth: "Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star"
16. Hole: Live Through This"
17. Neil Young And Crazy Horse: "Sleep With Angels"
18. Morrisey: "Vauxhall And I"
19. Johnny Cash: "American Recordings"
20. Shellac: "At Action Park"
21. American Music Club: "San Francisco"
22. Disco Inferno: "D.I. Go Pop"
23. Sandals: "Rite To Silence"
24. Carlos Vives: "Clasicos de la provincia"
25. Mano Negra: "Casa Babylon"
26. Bark Psychosis: "Hex"
27. Urban Species: "Listen"
28. Palace Brothers: "Palace Brothers"
29. Autechre: "Amber"
30. Mouse On Mars: "Vulvaland"



Musikexpress (Germany)

1. Soundgarden - Superunknown
2. Nine Inch Nails -The Downward Spiral
3. The Black Crowes - Amorica
4. R.E.M. - Monster
5. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
6. Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year
7. Tom Petty - Wildflowers
8. Helmet - Betty
9. Broadlahn - Leib und Seel
10. Sister Double Happiness - Horsey Water
11. Redd Kross - Phaseshifter
12. Gary Floyd - World Of Trouble
13. Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash
14. Element Of Crime - An einem Sonntag im April
15. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Sleeps With Angels
16. Mark Lanegan - Whiskey For The Holy Ghost
17. Eric Clapton - From The Cradle
18. Portishead - Dummy
19. Big Chief - Platinum Jive
20. Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
21. G. Love & Special Sauce - G. Love & Special Sauce
22. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
23. Freddy Johnston - This Perfect World
24. Meat Puppets - Too High To Die
25. Victoria Willams - Loose
26. Green Day - Dookie
27. Grant Lee Buffalo - Mighty Joe Moon
28. Stiltskin - The Mind's Eye
29. Gun - Swagger
30. Dinosaur Jr. - Without A Sound
31. Beck - Mellow Gold
32. Primal Scream - Give Out But Don't Give Up
33. Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
34. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
35. They Might Be Giants - John Henry
36. Therapy? - Troublegum
37. Toris Amos - Under The Pink
38. Liz Phair - Whipsmart
39. Counting Crows - August And Everything After
40. Pavement - Crooked Rain
41. Buddy Guy - Slippin' In
42. Body Count - Born Dead
43. Biohazard - State Of The World Address
44. Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt - Direkt aus Rödelheim
45. Compulsion - Comforter
46. Hole - Live Through This
47. Rollins Band - Weight
48. Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
49. Souled American - Frozen
50. The Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge



Dagsavisen (Norway)

Album of the Year: Grant Lee Buffalo - Mighty Joe Moon



Select (UK)

1. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
2. Blur - Parklife
3. The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
4. Primal Scream - Give Out But Don't Give Up
5. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
6. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
7. Portishead - Dummy
8. Suede - Dog Man Star
9. Therapy? - Troublegum
10. Morrissey - Vauxhall & I
11. Massive Attack - Protection
12. Orbital - Snivilisation
13. Saint Etienne - Tiger Bay
14. Nick Cave - Let Love In
15. The Grid - Evolver
16. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
17. Pulp - His 'N' Hers
18. Nas - Illmatic
19. Neil Young And Crazy Horse - Sleeps With Angels
20. Sabres Of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall
21. The Auteurs - Now I'm A Cowboy
22. Echobelly - Everyone's Got One
23. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
24. Hole - Live Through This
25. Senser - The Exchange
26. Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
27. R.E.M. - Monster
28. Bandulu - Antimatters
29. Sugar - (F.U.E.L.)
30. Green Day - Dookie
31. The Black Crowes - Amorica
32. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. Ii
33. Liz Phair - Whip-Smart
34. Soundclash Republic - The Birth Of Shiva Shanti
35. Various - Mo' Wax Headz
36. Johnny Cash - American Recordings
37. Depth Charge - Seven Deadly Venoms
38. Djs John Digweed & Sasha - Renasissance - The Mix Collection
39. Ride - Carnival Of Light
40. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
41. Jeff Buckley - Grace
42. Soundgarden - Superunknown
43. Full Moon Scientist - The Men In White Coats
44. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
45. James - Wah-Wah
46. Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year
47. Plastikman - Musik
48. Shed Seven - Change Giver
49. Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quartet
50. Madder Rose - Panic On



Vox (UK)

1. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
2. Blur - Parklife
3. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
4. Morrissey - Vauxhall And I
5. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
6. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
7. Neil Young And Crazy Horse - Sleeps With Angels
8. Hole - Live Through This
9. R.E.M. - Monster
10. Suede - Dog Man Star
11. Echobelly - Everyone's Got One
12. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Let Love In
13. The Beautiful South - Miaow
14. Suger - File Under: Easy Listening
15. Various Artists - Natural Born Killers Soundtrack
16. Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star
17. Deus - Worst Case Scenario
18. Counting Crows - Auguset And Everything After
19. Shane Macgowan And The Popes - The Snake
20. Dinosaur Jr - Without A Sound



SPIN (USA)

1. Hole - Live Through This
2. Beck - Mellow Gold
3. Iris Dement - My Life
4. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
5. Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
6. R.E.M. - Monster
7. The Mavericks - What A Crying Shame
8. Veruca Salt - American Thighs
9. Suede - Dog Man Star
10. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
11. Superchunk - Foolish
12. Crystal Waters - Storyteller
13. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
14. Sugar - File Under: Easy Listening
15. Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era
16. Sebadoh - Bakesale
17. Soundgarden - Superunknown
18. The Magnetic Fields - The Charm Of The Highway Strip
19. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
20. John Mellencamp - Dance Naked



Eye Weekly Canadian Critics Poll (Canada)

1. Hole - Live Through This
2. R.E.M. - Monster
3. Sloan - Twice Removed
4. Jeff Buckley - Grace
5. Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels
6. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York
7. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
8. Tragically Hip - Day For Night
9. Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
10. Soundgarden - Superunknown
11. Orbital - Snivilization
12. Suede - Dog Man Star
13. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
14. Beck - Mellow Gold
15. Veruca Salt - American Thighs
16. Green Day - Dookie
17. Liz Phair - Whip-Smart
18. Rheostatics - Introducing Happiness
19. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
20. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
21. Sebadoh - Bake Sale
22. Portishead - Dummy
23. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
24. Nick Cave - Let Love In
25. Blur - Parklife
26. Sugar - File Under: Easy Listening
27. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
28. Johnny Cash - American Recordings
29. Supersuckers - El Mano Cornuda
30. Laika - Silver Apples Of The Moon



Pop (Sweden)

1. Warren G - Regulate... The G Funk Era
2. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
3. The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
4. Various Artists - Above the Rim
5. Morrissey - Vauxhall and I
6. Blur - Parklife
7. Stina Nordenstam - And She Closed Her Eyes
8. Various Artists - Drum & Bass Selection 2
9. Nas - Illmatic
10. Massive Attack - Protection
11. Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises in the East
12. Sounds of Blackness - Africa to America; the Journey of the Drum
13. Gang Starr - Hard to Earn
14. Portishead - Dummy
15. Dan Penn - Do Right Man
16. Ulf Lundell - Xavante
17. Saint Etienne - Tiger Bay
18. Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
19. Schooly D - Welcome to America
20. Primal Scream - Give Out But Don't Give Up
21. Mary J Blige - My Life
22. The Stone Roses - Second Coming
23. Moody Boyz - Product of the Environment
24. Lyle Lovett - I Love Everybody
25. Velvet Crush - Teenage Symphonies to God
26. Neil Young - Sleeps with Angels
27. Suede - Dog Man Star
28. Public Enemy - Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age
29. Various Artists - Drum & Bass Selection 1
30. The Cardigans - Emmerdale



The Wire (UK)

1. Portishead - Dummy
2. Massive Attack - Protection
3. David Toop & Max Eastley - Buried Dreams
4. Peter Brotzmann - Die Like a Dog
5. Laika - Silver Apples of the Moon
6. Charles Gayle - Live at Disobey
7. Jeru the Damaaja - The Sun Rises in the East
8. John Oswald - Grayfolded
9. Orang - Herd of Instinct
10. Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble - Officium
11. AMM - Newfoundland
12. Bill Frisell - Music for the Films of Buster Keaton
13. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
14. Earthling - Nothing/Nothingness
15. FM Einheit/Caspar Brotzmann - Merry Christmas
16. Nick Cave - Let Love In
17. Orbital - Snivilization
18. Paul Schutze - The Surgery of Touch
19. 4 Hero - Parallel Universe
20. Craig Mack - Flava in Ya Ear
21. Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
22. Warren G - Regulate...G-Funk Era
23. Plastikman - Musik
24. Mu-ziq - Tango N'Vectif
25. Cheb Khaled - N'ssi N'ssi
26. Kristin Hersh - Hips and Makers
27. Robin Holloway - Concerto for Orchestra No.2
28. Trans-Global Underground - Internationsal Times
29. MC Solaar - Prose Combat
30. Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesizer
31. Tricky - Ponderosa
32. Jeff Buckley - Grace
33. God - The Anatomy of Addiction
34. Roni Size - Music Box
35. Fun-Da-Mental - Seize the Time
36. Suns of Arqa - Govinda's Dream (A Guy Called Gerald Remixes)
37. Blur - Parklife
38. Mouse ON Mars - Vulvaland
39. Scorn - Evanescence
40. Nirvana - Unpugged in New York
41. Ascension - Five Titles
42. Ken Ishii - Innerelements
43. Moody Boyz - Product of the Environment
44. Frnk Zappa - The Yellow Shark
45. Baaba Maal - Firin' In Fouta
46. Roger Sessions - Chamber Music
47. Metalheads - Inner City Life
48. Joshua Redman - Mood Swing
49. Bary Guy/London Jazz ComposersÕ Orchestra - Portraits
50. Jon Hassel & Bluescreen - Dressing for Pleasure



Raw (UK)

1. Therapy? - Troublegum
2. Steve Perry - For The Love Of Strange Medicine
3. Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies/Sap
4. Soundgarden - Superunknown
5. The Black Crowes - Amorica
6. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
7. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
8. Kyuss - Sky Valley
9. Dream Theater - Awake
10. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
11. Queensrÿche - Promised Land
12. Terrorvision - How To Make Friends And Influence People
13. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
14. Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter
15. Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
16. Bruce Dickinson - Balls To Picasso
17. Megadeth - Youthanasia
18. Live - Throwing Copper
19. Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
20. Marillion - Brave



Les Inrockuptibles (France)

1. Beck : Mellow Gold
2. Ben Harper : Welcome to the cruel World
3. Jean Bart : Il le faut
4. Warren G : Regulate... G funk era
5. Daniel Johnston : Fun
6. Beck : One foot in the grave
7. Neil Young : Sleeps with angels
8. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds : Let love in
9. Morrissey : Vauxhall & I
10. Swell : 41
11. Beastie Boys : III communication
12. Snoop Doggy Dog : Doggystyle
13. Liz Phair : Whip smart
14. Jeff Buckley : Grace
15. The Divine Comedy : Promenade
16. Urban Species : Listen
17. Johnny Cash : American recordings
18. Pavement : Crooked rain
19. Grant Lee Buffalo : Mighty Joe Moon
20. Portishead : Dummy
21. Vic Chesnutt : Drunk
22. Sonic Youth : Experimental jet set, trash & no star
23. Nirvana : Unplugged in New York
24. Palace Brothers : Palace brothers
25. Lambchop : Jack's Tulips

Rock & Folk (France)

1. Snoop Doggy Dog : Doggystyle
2. Black Crowes : Amorica
3. Oasis : Definitely maybe
4. Beck : Mellow gold
5. Jimmy Page : Quarter
6. Jeff Buckley : Grace
7. Warren G : Regulate
8. L7 : Hungry for sting
9. Eric Clapton : From the cradle
10. Massive Attack : Protection



Rocksound (France)

1. Beck : Mellow gold
2. Jeff Buckley : Grace
3. Neil Young : Sleep with Angel
4. Grant Lee Buffalo : Mighty Joe Moon
5. Sugar : Fuel
6. Alain Bashung : Chatterton
7. REM : Monster
8. Frank Black : Teenager of the year
9. Johnny Cash : American Recording
10. Swell : 41
11. Morrissey : Vauxhall and I
12. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds : Let love in
13. Oasis : Definitely maybe
14. Therapy? : Troublegum
15. Blur : Parklife
16. Portishead : Dummy
17. Sonic Youth : Experimental Jet Set
18. Massive Attack : Protection
19. Suede : Dog Man Star
20. Green Day : Dookie
21. Pavement : Crooked rain
22. Vic Chesnutt : Drunk
23. Lyle Lovett : I love everybody
24. Beastie Boys : Ill communication
25. Nine Inch Nail : The downard spiral
26. Noir Desir : Dies irae
27. Jesus and Mary Chain : Stoned & dethroned
28. Mc Solaar : Prose combat
29. Sebadoh : Bakesale
30. Nirvana : Unplugged in New York
31. Liz Phair : Whipsmart
32. Tom Petty : Wildflowers
33. Counting Crows : August & everything after
34. Elvis Costello : Brutal Youth
35. Ben Harper : Welcome to the cruel world
36. Divine Comedy : Promenade
37. Meat Puppets : Too high to die
38. Mark Lanegan : Whiskey for the holy ghost
39. Jimmy Page/Robert Plant : No quarter
40. JJ Cale : Closer to you
41. I AM : Ombre et lumieres
42. Pulp : His' hers
43. Helmet : Betty
44. Soundgarden : Superunknown
45. Beck : One foot in the grave
46. Shed Seven : Change giver
47. Offspring : Smash
48. Bobby Sichran : From a sympethical...
49. The Black Crowes : Amorica
50. John Spencer Blues Explosion : Orange



Mojo (UK)

1. Jeff Buckley - Grace
2. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Sleeps With Angels
3. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
4. Johhny Cash - American Recordings
5. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
6. Dan Penn - Do Right Man
7. Blur - Parklife
8. Tom Petty - Wildflowers
9. The High Llamas - Gideon Gaye
10. Counting Crows - August And Everything After
11. Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter
12. Portishead - Dummy
13. Freddy Johnston - This Perfect World
14. The Pretenders - Last Of The Independents
15. Suede - Dog Man Star
16. Ali Farka Toure/Ry Cooder - Talking Timbuktu
17. Morrissey - Vauxhall And I
18. Nick Lowe - The Impossible Bird
19. Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth
20. The Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge
21. Palace Brothers - Palace Brothers
22. Ian McNabb - Head Like A Rock
23. June Tabor - Against The Streams
24. Joni Mitchell - Turbulent Indigo
25. Sebadoh - Bakesale



Metal Hammer (UK)

1. Soundgarden- Superunknown
2. Therapy? - Troublegum
3. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
4. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
5. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
6. Black Crowes - Amorica
7. Rollins Band - Weight
8. Megadeth - Youthanasia
9. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
10. Warrior Soul - Space Age Playboys
11. Green Day - Dookie
12. Queensrÿche - Promised Land
13. Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
14. Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter
15. Slayer - Divine Intervention
16. Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
17. Sugar - F.U.E.L.
18. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
19 Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
20. Collective Soul - Hints, Allegations And Things Left Unsaid

1. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Sleeps with Angels
2. Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
3. R.E.M. - Monster
4. Suede - Dog Man Star
5. Oasis - Definitely Maybe