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1999

Village Voice Pazz & Jop (USA)

1. Moby: Play (V2)
2. The Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs (Merge)
3. Beck: Midnite Vultures (DGC)
4. The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin (Warner Bros.)
5. Tom Waits: Mule Variations (Epitaph)
6. Rage Against the Machine: The Battle of Los Angeles (Epic)
7. Fiona Apple: When the Pawn . . . (Clean Slate/Epic)
8. Wilco: Summer Teeth (Reprise)
9. Beth Orton: Central Reservation (Arista)
10. Mos Def: Black on Both Sides (Rawkus)
11. Randy Newman: Bad Love (DreamWorks)
12. The Roots: Things Fall Apart (MCA)
13. Macy Gray: On How Life Is (Epic)
14. Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile (Nothing)
15. Handsome Boy Modeling School: So . . . How's Your Girl? (Tommy Boy)
16. Prince Paul: A Prince Among Thieves (Tommy Boy)
17. Basement Jaxx: Remedy (Asralwerks)
18. Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band: The Mountain (E Squared)
19. Fountains of Wayne: Utopia Parkway (Atlantic)
20. Meshell Ndegéocello: Bitter (Maverick)
21. Mary J. Blige: Mary (MCA)
22. Built to Spill: Keep It Like a Secret (Warner Bros.)
23. Sleater-Kinney: The Hot Rock (Kill Rock Stars)
24. Ol' Dirty Bastard: N***a Please (Elektra)
25. Ibrahim Ferrer: Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer (Nonesuch/World Circuit)
26. Eminem: The Slim Shady LP (Aftermath/Interscope)
27. Kelly Willis: What I Deserve (Rykodisc)
28. Richard Thompson: Mock Tudor (Capitol)
29. Pavement: Terror Twilight (Matador)
30. Chemical Brothers: Surrender (Astralwerks)
31. TLC: Fanmail (LaFace)
32. Everything but the Girl: Temperamental (Atlantic)
33. XTC: Apple Venus Volume 1 (TVT)
34. Old 97's: Fight Songs (Elektra)
35. Underworld: Beaucoup Fish (V2)
36. John Prine: In Spite of Ourselves (Oh Boy)
37. Robbie Williams: The Ego Has Landed (Capitol)
38. Dr. Dre: Dr. Dre--2001 (Aftermath/Interscope)
39. Kid Rock: Devil Without a Cause (Atlantic)
40. Santana: Supernatural (Arista)



OOR (The Netherlands)

1. Tom Waits - Mule variations
2. Basement jazz - Remedy
3. Red hot chili peppers - Californication
4. Beck - Midnite vultures
5. Moby - Play
6. Daryll-Ann - Happy Traum
7. Flaming lips - The soft bulletin
8. Macy Gray - On how life is
9. Deus - The ideal crash
Mos Def - Black on both sides
11. Chemical brothers - Surrender
12. Blur - 13
13. Death in Vegas - The Contino sessions
14. Johnny Dowd - Pictures from life's other side
15. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I see a darkness
16. Breakbeat era - Ultra-obscene
17. Built to spill - Keep it like a secret
18. Bottle rockets - Brand new year
Underworld - Beaucoup fish
20. Missy "Misdemeanour" Elliott - Da real world
21. Counting crows - This desert life
22. Dyzack - The rat dance refizz
Leftfield - Rhythm & Stealth
24. Live - The distance to here
25. Chris Cornell - Euphoria morning
26. Gomez - Liquid skin
27. De Kift - Vlaskoorts
28. Junkie XL - Big sounds of the drags
29. Living end - The Living end
30. Nine inch nails - The fragile
31. Korn - Issues
32. 7Zuma7 - Deep inside ...
33. Michael de Jong - The waiting game
34. Shelby Lynne - I am Shelby Lynne
Ol' dirty bastard - N***a please
36. Destiny's child - The writing's on the wall
Krang - Roes
Roots - Things fall apart
39. Mary J. Blige - Mary
Rahsaan Patterson - Love in stereo
41. Willy DeVille - Horse of a different color
Johannes Heil - Illuminate the planet
43. Atari teenage riot - 60 second wipe out
Guided by voices - Do the Collapse
45. Bauer - On the move
46. Jon Spencer blues explosion - Acme plus
Sunny day real estate - How it feels to be something on
48. Steve Earle & the Del McCoury band - The mountain
49. Dream theater - Scenes from a memory (Metropolis pt 2)



NME (UK)

1. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
2. Shack – HMS Fable
3. Super Furry Animals – Guerrilla
4. Death In Vegas – The Contino Sessions
5. Beck – Midnite Vultures
6. Campag Velocet – Bon Chic Bon Genre
7. Pavement – Terror Twilight
8. Mogwai – Come One Die Young
9. The Folk Implosion – One Part Lullaby
10. Smog – Knock Knock
11. Basement Jaxx – Remedy
12. Underworld – Beaucoup Fish
13. Godspeed You Black Emperor! – Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
14. Make Up – Save Yourself
15. Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
16. Jim O’rourke – Eureka
17. Ol’ Dirty Bastard – N***A Please
18. Bonnie Prince Billy – I See Darkness
19. Blur – 13
20. The Charlatans – Us And Us Only
21. Tindersicks – Simple Pleasure
22. Low – Secret Name
23. Add N To X – Avant Hard
24. Leftfield – Rhythm And Stealth
25. TLC – Fanclub
26. Low – Christmas
27. Royal Trux – Veterans Of Disorder
28. Love As Laughter – Distination 2000
29. The All Seeing I – Pickled Eggs & Sherbet
30. Ian Brown – Golden Greats
31. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Spanish Dance Troupe
32. Sizzla – Royal Son Of Ethiopia
33. Mouse On Mars – Niun Niggung
34. The Chemical Bruthers – Surrender
35. Pole – Pole 2
36. The Beta Band – The Beta Band
37. Roots Manuva – Brand New Second Hand
38. U-Ziq – Royal Astronomy
39. Kevin Rowland – My Beauty
40. Travis – The Man Who
41. Future Pilot AKA – Future Pilot AKA VS. A Galaxy Of Sounds
42. Stereolab – Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night
43. Sebadoh – The Sebadoh
44. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead – Madonna
45. The Auteures – How I Learned To Love The Bootboys
46. Damien Jurado – Rehearsals For The Departure
47. Rage Againsed The Machine – The Battle Of Los Angeles
48. Clinton – Disco And The Halfway To Discontent
49. Papa M – Live From A Shark Cage
50. Missy Elliott – Da Real World



Rolling Stone (USA)

1. Rage Against The Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles
2. Beck – Midnite Vultures
3. Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
4. Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile
5. Moby – Play
6. Prince Paul – A Prince Among Thieves
7. Randy Newman – Bad Love
8. Mary J. Blige – Mary
9. The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
10. Fiona Apple – When The Pawn…



Hot Press (Ireland)

1. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
2. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
3. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See A Darkness
4. Tindersticks - Simple Pleasure
5. Beck - Midnite Vultures



Kerrang (UK)

1. Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose
2. Slipknot - Slipknot
3. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
4. Rage Against The Machine - The Battle Of Los Angeles
5. Stereophonics - Performance And Cocktails
6. Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning
7. Lit - A Place In The Sun
8. Metallica - S&M
9. Mogwai - Come On Die Young
10. Will Haven - WHVN
11. Black Crowes - By Your Side
12. Live - The Distance To Here
13. Therapy? - Suicide Pact - You First
14. Machine Head - The Burning Red
15. Amen - Amen
16. Feeder - Yesterday Went Too Soon
17. 3 Colours Red - Revolt
18. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
19. A - A Vs Monkey Kong
20. Unida - Coping With The Urban Coyote



Melody Maker (UK)

1. Suede – Head Music
2. Blur – 13
3. Super Furry Animals – Guerrilla
4. The Charlatans – Us And Us Only
5. Travis – The Man Who
6. The Chemical Brothers – Surrender
7. Supergrass – Supergrass
8. Macy Gray – On How Life Is
9. TLC – Fanmail
10. Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
11. Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left To Lose
12. Basement Jaxx – Remedy
13. Gay Dad – Leasurenoise
14. Gomez – Liquid Skin
15. Catatonia – Equally Cursed And Blessed
16. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
17. A – Monkey Konk
18. Stereophonics – Performance And Cocktails
19. Les Rythmes Digitales – Darkdancer
20. Tindersticks – Simple Pleasure
21. The Longpigs – Mobile Home
22. The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
23. Ultrasound – Everything Picture
24. Feeder – Yesterday Went Too Soon
25. Missy Elliott – Da Real World
26. Orbital – The Middle Of Nowhere
27. Ian Brown – Golden Greats
28. Death In Vegas – The Contino Sessions
29. Groove Armada – Vertigo
30. The Beta Band – The Beta Band
31. Pet Shop Boys – Night Life
32. Underworld – Beaucoup Fish
33. Pavement – Terror Twilight
34. Limp Bizkit – Significant – Other
35. Doberman – The Manic Treehouse
36. Arsonists – As The World Burns
37. Cay – Nature Creates Freaks
38. Kevin Rowland – My Beauty
39. Merz – Merz
40. Fountain Of Wayne – Utopia Parkway
41. Gus Gus – This Is Normal
42. Wilco – Summerteeth
43. Royal Trux – Veterans Of Disorder
44. Astrid – Strange Weather Lately
45. The Folk Implosion – One Part Lullaby
46. 3 Colours Red – Revolt
47. Dot Allison – Afterglow
48. The All Seeing Eye – Pickled Eggs And Sherbet
49. Mos Def – Black On Both Sides
50. Beck – Midnite Vultures



The Face (UK)

1. Basement Jaxx – Remedy
2. TLC – Fanclub
3. Three Madkatt Courtship – I Know Electrikboy
4. Moby – Play
5. The Chemical Brothers – Surrender
6. The Charlatans – Us And Us Only
7. Add N To X – Avant Hard
8. Macy Gray – On How Life Is
9. Destiny’s Child – The Writings On The Wall
10. Death In Vegas – The Contino Sessions
11. Shack – HMS Fable
12. Roots Manuva – Brand New Second Hand
13. Belle & Sebastian – Tigermilk
14. Groove Armada – Vertigo
15. Leftfield – Rhythm & Stealth
16. The All Seeing Eye – Pickled Eggs & Sherbert
17. Mos Def – Black On Both Sides
18. Mob Deep – Murda Muzik
19. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
20. Beck – Midnight Vultures



Spex (Germany)

1. Blumfeld - Old Nobody
2. Missy Elliott - Da Real World
3. Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
4. Super_Collider - Head On
5. Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
6. Eins, Zwo - Gefährliches Halbwissen
7. Eminem - Slim Shady LP
8. Mouse On Mars - Niun Niggung
9. Innerzone Orchestra - Programmed
10. Clinton - Disco And The Halfway To Discontent
11. Pet Shop Boys - Nightlife
12. Bodenstanding 2000 - Maxi German Rave Blast Hits 3
13. Justus Köhncke - Spiralen der Einnerung
14. Scritti Politti - Anomie & Bonhomie
15. Prince Paul - Prince Among Thieves
16. Basement Jaxx - Remedy
17. Ib - Pop Artificielle
18. Add N to (X) - Avant Hard
19. Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
20. Fantômas - Dito
21. Rocko Schamoni - Showtime
22. Le Tigre - Dito
23. Mary J. Blige - Mary
24. Tied + Tickled Trio - Dito
25. Blur - 13
26. Built to Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
27. Antonelli Electr. - Me, The Disco Machine
28. Drexciya - Neptune's Lair
29. The Melvins - The Maggot
30. The Beta Band - The Three EPs
31. Readymade - Snapshot Poetry
32. Les Rythmes Digitales - Darkdancer
33. Echo & The Bunnymen - What Are You Going To Do With Your Life
34. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Nigga Please
35. Labradford - E Luxo So
36. Destiny's Child -The Writing On The Wall
37. Kool Keith - Black Elvis/Lost In Space
38. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
39. Rahzel - Make The Music 2000
40. Ginuwine - 100% Ginuwine
41. Cassius - 1999
42. Tony Allen - Black Voices
43. Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Mäander
44. Company Flow - Little Johnny From The Hospital
45. Knarf Rellöm Ism - Fehler Is King
46. Genius/GZA - Beneath The Surface
47. DJ Vadim - USSR-Life From The Other Side
48. Randy Newman - Bad Love
49. Donna Regina - A Quiet Week In The House
50. Melt Banana - Charlie



HUMO (Belgium)

1. Deus / The Ideal Crash
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers / Californication
3. Bonnie Prince Billy / I See A Darkness
4. Xtc / Apple Venus Vol. 1
5. Moby / Play
6. Randy Newman / Bad Love
7. Spain / She Haunts My Dreams
8. Mogwai / Come On Die Young
9. Folk Implosion / One Part Lullaby
10. Blur / 13
11. Beck / Midnite Vultures
12. Death In Vegas / The Contino Sessions
13. Peter Wolf / Fool’s Parade
14. Ben Harper / Burn To Shine
15. Los Lobos / This Time



Q (UK)

Album of the year: The Chemical Brothers – Surrender

The rest in alphabetical order…

• Basement Jaxx – Remedy
• Beck – Midnight Vultures
• Ben & Jerry – Emoticons
• The Beta Band – The Beta Band
• The Black Crows – By Your Side
• Mary J Blige – Mary
• Blur – 13
• David Bowie – …Hours
• Catatonia – Equally Cursed And Blessed
• The Charlatans – Us And Us Only
• Death In Vegas – The Contino Sessions
• Missy Elliott – Da Real World
• Eminem – The Slim Shady Lp
• The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
• Gomez – Liqued Skin
• Macy Gray – On How Life Is
• Groove Armada – Vertigo
• James – Millionaires
• Jamiroquai – Synkronized
• Lightning Seeds – Tilt
• Shelby Lynne – I Am Shelby Lynne
• Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabate – Kulanjan
• Moby – Play
• New Radicals – Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too
• Orbital – The Middle Of Nowhere
• Pavement – Terror Twilight
• Pet Shop Boys – Nightlife
• Re Hot Chilli Peppers – Californication
• Linda Ronstat & Emmylou Harris – Western Wall/The Tucson Sessions
• The Roots – Things Fall Apart
• Kate Rusby – Sleepless
• Scritti Politti – Anomie & Bonhomie
• Shack – Hms Fable
• Stereophonics – Performance & Cocktails
• Sting – Brand New Day
• Suede – Head Music
• Supergrass – Supergrass
• Texas – The Hush
• TLC – Fanmail
• Travis – The Man Who
• Tom Waits – Mule Variations
• Wilco – Summerteeth
• Casandra Wilson – Travelling Miles
• Witness – Before The Calm



Rock de Lux (Spain)

1. FLAMING LIPS: The Soft Bulletin
2. ARAB STRAP: Elephant Shoe
3. BASEMENT JAXX: Remedy
4. ROYAL TRUX: Veterans Of Disorder
5. HEFNER: The Fidelity Wars
6. KRUST: Coded Language
7. SMOG: Knock Knock
8. MOS DEF: Black On Both Sides
9. GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI: Spanish Dance Troupe
10. TOM WAITS: Mule Variations
11. ARMAND VAN HELDEN: 2Future4U
12. DOMINIQUE A: Remué
13. CENTRO-MATIC: Navigational
14. CRISTIAN VOGEL: Busca Invisibles
15. LOW: Secret Name
16. DEATH IN VEGAS: The Contino Sessions
17. BETH ORTON: Central Reservation
18. MOGWAI: Come On Die Young
19. ROOTS MANUVA: Brand New Second Hand
20. DAKOTA SUITE: Navigators Yard
21. CASSANDRA WILSON: Travelling Miles
22. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN: What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?
23. QUANNUM: Spectrum
24. SONGS:OHIA: Axxes & Ace
25. THE AUTERS: How I Learn To Love The Boot Boys
26. THE BETA BAND: The Beta Band
27. VINICIUS CANTUARIA: Tucuma
28. JIM O'ROURKE: Eureka
29. BARDO POND: Set And Setting
30. WILCO: Summerteeth
31. THE HERBALISER: Very Mercenary
32. MISSY MISDEMEANOR ELLIOT: Da Real World
33. PLONE: For Beginner Piano
34. ALI FARKA TOURE: Niafunke
35. MOUSE ON MARS: Niun Niggung
36. FEMI KUTI: Shoki Shoki
37. SAINT ETIENNE: Places To Visit
38. COREY HARRIS: Greens From The Garden
39. TERRANOVA: Close The Door BECK: Midnite Vultures
40. BECK: Midnite Vultures



Musikexpress (Germany)

1. Blur - 13
2. Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
3. Beck - Midnite Vultures
4. Pavement - Terror Twilight
5. Nightmares On Wax - Car Boot Soul
6. Moby - Play
7. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
8. Death In Vegas - The Contino Sessions
9. Mogwai - Come On Die Young
10. The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
11. Leftfield - Rhythm & Stealth
12. Tricky - Juxtapose
13. Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
14. Iggy Pop - Avenue B
15. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Nigga Please
16. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
17. Stereolab - Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Way
18. The Beta Band - The Three E.P.s
19. Eins, Zwo - Gefährliches Halbwissen
20. dEUS - The Ideal Crash
21. David Bowie - Hours ...
22. The Roots - Things Fall Apart
23. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
24. Randy Newman - Bad Love
25. Die Fantastischen Vier - 4:99
26. Tocotronic - K.O.O.K.
27. Wilco - Summer Teeth
28. Tindersticks - Simple Pleasure
29. Element Of Crime - Psycho
30. Missy Elliott - Da Real World
31. Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band - The Mountain
32. The High Llamas - Snowbug
33. Cibo Matto - Stereotype A
34. Die Sterne - Wo ist hier
35. Supergrass - Supergrass
36. Egoexpress - Bieker
37. Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner
38. Freundeskreis - Esperanto
39. Ibrahim Ferer - Buena Vista Social Club Presents
40. Peace Orchestra - Peace Orchestra
41. Santana - Supernatural
42. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP Animals
43. Suede - Head Music
44. Rage Against The Machine - The Battle Of Los Angeles
45. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Echo
46. Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
47. Everlast - Whitey Ford Sings The Blues
48. Tom Jones - Reload
49. Bush - The Science Of Things
50. Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4



Dagsavisen (Norway)

Album of the year: Basement Jaxx - Remedy



Select (UK)

1. Travis – The Man Who
2. The Chemical Brothers – Surrender
3. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
4. Death In Vegas – The Contino Sessions
5. Shack – Hms Fable
6. Basement Jaxx – Remedy
7. Beck – Midnite Vultures
8. TLC – Fanmail
9. Super Furry Animals – Guerrilla
10. Belle & Sebastian – Tigermilk
11. Blur – 13
12. Leftfield – Rhythm And Stealth
13. Pavement – Twilight Terror
14. Suede – Head Music
15. Supergrass – Supergrass
16. Mogwai – Come On Die Young
17. Roots Manuva – Brand New Second Hand
18. Smog – Knock Knock
19. The Beta Band – The Beta Band
20. The Auters – How I Learned To Love The Boot Boys
21. Stereophonics – Performance And Cocktails
22. Gay Dad – Leisurenoise
23. Catatonia – Equally Blessed And Cursed
24. The Charlatans – Us And Us Only
25. Wheat – Hope And Adams
26. Add N To (X) – Avant Hard
27. Wilco - Summerteeth
28. Missy Elliot – Da Real World
29. Gomez – Liquid Skin
30. Handsome Boy Modelling School – So.. How’s Your Girl?



SPIN (USA)

1. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
2. Rage Against The Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
3. Moby - Play
4. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs, Vol. 1, 2 & 3
5. Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves
5. Handsome Boy Modeling School - So…How's Your Girl?
6. Basement Jaxx - Remedy
7. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
8. Goodie Mob - World Party
9. Beck - Midnite Vultures
10. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn…
11. Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
12. The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
13. Ol' Dirty Bastard - N***a Please
14. Ibrahim Ferrer - Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer
15. Mary J. Blige - Mary
16. The Promise Ring - Very Emergency
16. Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again
17. Wilco - Summer Teeth
18. Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
19. Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions
20. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP



Eye Weekly Canadian Critics Poll (Canada)

1. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
2. Moby – Play
3. Tom Waits – Mule Variations
4. Guided By Voices – Do The Collapse
5. Mos Def – Black on Both Sides
6. Tricky Woo – Sometimes I Cry
7. Wilco - Summerteeth
8. Beck – Midnite Vultures
9. Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile
10. The Roots – Things Fall Apart
11. Rage Against The Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles
12. The Flashing Lights – Where The Change Is
13. Stereolab – Cobra & Phases Group Play Voltage Into The Milky Night
14. Built To Spill – Keep It Like A Secret
15. The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
16. Low – Secret Name
17. Pavement – Terror Twilight
18. Mogwai – Come On Die Young
19. Blur - 13
20. Fiona Apple – When The Pawn…



The Wire (UK)

I'm not sure if these were ranked or not...?

Mouse on Mars - Niun Niggung (Domino)
Sonic Youth - Goodbye 20th Century (Smells Like/SYR)
Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark, Vol 1 (Chalice)
Matmos - The West (Deluxe/Vague Terrain)
John Butcher & Phil Durrant - Secret Measures (Wobbly Rail)
Arto Lindsay - Prize (Rykodisc)
Jim O'Rourke - Eureka (Domino)
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensembe - Drawn Inward (ECM)
Supersilent - Supersilent 4 (Rune Grammafon)
David Sylvian - Dead Bees on a Cake (Virgin)
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides (Rawkus)
Pan Sonic - (Blast First)
Die Like a Dog Quartet - Little Birds Have Fast Hearts (FMP)
Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltange in the Milky Night
Tom Waits - Mule Variations (Epitaph)
Pita - Get Out (Mego)
Basement Jaxx - Remedy (XL)
Capt. Beefheart & the Magic Band - Grow Fins: Rarities 1965-82 (Revenant)
The Fall - The Marshall Suite (Artfull)
DJ Vadim - USSR Life from the Other Side (Ninja Tune)
Isotope 217 - Utonian Automatic (Thrill Jockey)
Philip Jeck - Surf (Touch)
Company Flow - Little Johnny from the Hospital (Rawkus)
Powerfield - Electronic Electric Electronic (Paratactile)
Vinicius Cantuaria - Tacuma (Rykodisc)
Charlemagne Palestine - Schlingen-Blangen (New World)
Tom Ze - Postmodern Platos (Luaka Bop)
Crank - Wanton Phenomena (Mille Plateaux)
Paul Panhuysen - Lost for Words (Table of the Elements)
Lamb - Fear of Fours (Fontana)
Jon Hassell - Facinoma (Water Lily Acoustics)
Ali Farka Toure - Niafunke (World Circuit)
Paul Panhuysen - Partitas for Long Strings (XI)
The Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks Vol 14: Boston Music Hall 11/30/73 & 12/2/73
Alog - Red Shift Swing (Rune Grammafon)
Angus MacLise - The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (Siltbreeze/Quakebasket)
Argan - South Moroccan Moter Berber (Barraka Al-Farnatshi)
Luciano Berio - Sequenzas (Deutche Grammaphon)
Femi Kuti - Shoki Shoki (Talkin' Loud)
Alan Silva & William Parker - A Hero's Welcome: Pieces for Rare Occasions
Innerzone Orchestra - Programmed (Talkin' Loud)
Caspar Brotzmann - Mute massaker (Mute)
Aphrodite - Aphrodite (V2)
Pole - Pole 2 (Kiff SM)
To Rococo Rot - The Amateur View (City Slang)
Jonathan Harvey - Le Tombeau De Messiaen (Sargasso)
Flanger - Templates (N'Tone)
Chicago Underground Trio - Possible Cube (Delmark)
Pelt - Empty Bell Ringking in the Sky (VHF)
Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma - Sampradaya (Realworld)



Les Inrockuptibles (France)

1. Beck : Midnight vultures
2. Moby : Play
3. Death in Vegas : The continos sessions
4. Jean Louis Murat : Mustango
5. The Folk Implosion : One part lullaby
6. Jude : No one is really beautiful
7. Mos Def : Black on both sides
8. Hansome Boy Modeling School : So ... how's your girl
9. Katerine : Les creatures & L'homme à trois mains
10. Smog : Knock knock
11. Quannum : Spectrum
12. The Flaming Lips : The soft bulletin
13. Brendan Perry : Eye of the hunter
14. Pavement : Terror twilight
15. Bosco : Paramour
16. Basement Jaxx : Remedy
17. Beth Orton : Central reservation
18. Archive : Take my head
19. Merz : Merz
20. Alex Gopher : You my baby and I
21. Saian Supa Crew : KLR
22. The Roots : Things fall apart
23. 1000 Clowns : Freelance bubblehead
24. Mr Oizo : Analog worms attack
25. Faultline : Closer colder
26. Dominique A : Remué
27. Fiona Apple : When the pawn...
28. Deus : The ideal crash
29. The Chemical Brothers : Surrender
30. Muse : Showbiz
31. "Rinoçérose" : Installation sonore
32. Stina Nordenstam : People are strange
33. Gomez : Liquid skin
34. Chocolate Genius : Black music
35. Les Negresses Vertes : Trabendo
36. Les Rhytmes Digitales : Darkdancer
37. Ben Christophers : My beautiful demon
38. Eminem : The Slim shady LP
39. Bob Marley : Chant down babylon
40. Ron Sexmith : Whereabouts
41. Kevin Rowland : My beauty
42. Baby Namboos : Ancoats 2 Zambia
43. Plaid : Rest proof clockwork
44. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion : Acme +
45. Super Collider : Head on
46. Jim O' Rourke : Eureka
47. Travis : The man who
48. Bryan Ferry : As time goes by
49. Built to Spill : Keep it like a secret
50. Supergrass : Supergrass

+ Les albums musiques (world - jazz - classique)

1. Ibrahim Ferrer : Ibrahim Ferrer
2. Vinicius Cantuaria : Tucuma
3. Lenine : Na pressao
4. Arto Linsay : Prize
5. Eliades Ochoa Y El Cuarteto Patria : Sublime ilusion
6. Keith Jarrett : The melody at night with you
7. Jon Hassel : Fascinorama
8. Ali Farka Touré : Niafundé
9. Zuco 103 : Outro lado
10. Bernard Lubat : Conversatoire
11. Bill Carrothers : Afterhours
12. Yves Robert : Eté
13. Pierre Boulez : Répons
14. Dubussy/Planès : Préludes
15. Martha Argerich : Chopin - The legendary 1965 recording
16. Daniel Waro : Foutan fonnker
17. Thomas Fersen : Qu4tre
18. David Krakauer : Klezmer, NY
19. Orchestre National de Barbès : Poulina
20. Britten/Kremer : Double Concerto
21. Idir : Identités
22. Boubacar Traoré : Maciré
23. Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabaté : Kulunjan
24. Giammaria Testa : Lampo
25. Compay Segundo : Calle Salud
26. Cesaria Evora : Café Atlantico
27. Brad Mehldau : Back at the Vanguard/the art of trio N°4
28. Khaled : Kenza
29. Charles Trenet : Les poetes descendent dans la rue
30. Dick Annegarn : Adieu verdure

Re: 1999

Magnet (USA)

1 69 love songs - magnetic fields
2 soft bulletin - flaming lips
3 play - moby
4 do the collapse - guded by voices
5 mule variations - tom waits
6 come pick me up - superchunk
7 central reservation - beth orton
8 guerrilla - super furry animals
9 beta band - beta band

the rest (10-29 in no particular order)

remedy - baement jaxx
keep it like a secret - built to spill
contino sessions - death in vegas
get skintight - donnas
gasoline age - east river pipe
dream in sound - elf power
one part lullaby - folk implosion
tune in, turn on, free tibet - ghost
spanish dance troupe - gorky's zygotic mynci
dead city sunbeams - kid silver
see it another way - macha
come on die young - mogwai
eureka - jim o'rourke
kiss my arp - andrea parker
precious falling - quickspace
selenography - rachel's
cobra and phases group play voltage in the milky night - stereolab
silur - tarwater
hope and adams - wheat
summerteeth - wilco



Mojo (UK)

1. Tom Waits ~ Mule Variations
2. Fountains Of Wayne ~ Utopia Parkway
3. Supergrass - Supergrass
4. Macy Gray ~ On How Lif Is
5. Wilco ~ Summerteeth
6. The Flaming Lips ~ The Soft Bulletin
7. XTC ~ Apple Venus Vol. 1
8. Beck ~ Midnight Vultures
9. Ben Folds Five ~ The Autobiography Of Reinhold Messner
10. The Beta Band ~ The Beta Band
11. Chemical Brothers ~ Surrender
12. Pavement ~ Terror Twilight
13. Ibrahim Ferrerr ~ Ibrahim Ferrer
14. Seelby Lynne ~ I Am Shelby Lynne
15. Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band ~ The Mountain
16. Cesaria Evora ~ Café Atlantico
17. Guided By Voices ~ Do The Collapse
18. Underworld ~ Beaucoup Fish
19. Paul McCartney ~ Run Devil Run
20. Travis ~ The Man Who
21. Shack ~ HMS Fable
22. Blur ~ 13
23. Moby ~ Play
24. Gomez ~ Liquid Skin
25. Death In Vegas ~ The Contino Sessions
26. New Radicals ~ Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too
27. Iggy Pop ~ Avenue B
28. Gay Dad ~ Leisure Noise
29. Basement Jaxx ~ Remedy
30. David Bowie ~ Hours…
31. U-Ziq ~ Royal Astronomy
32. Jim O’rourke ~ Eureka
33. Missy Elliott ~ Da Real World
34. Leftfield ~ Rhythm & Stealth
35. Smog ~ Knock Knock
36. Cheikh Lo ~ Bambay
37. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
38. Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham ~ Moments From This Theatre
39. Peter Bruntnell ~ Normal For Bridgwater
40. Add N To X ~ Avant Hard



Muzik (UK)

1. Basement Jaxx ‘Remedy’
2. TLC ‘Fanmail’
3. The Chemical Brothers ‘Surrender’
4. Three Madkatt Courtship ‘I Know Electrikboy’
5. Layo & Bushwccka! ‘Lowlife’
6. Nightmares On Wax ‘Car Boot Soul’
7. Death In Vegas ‘The Contino Sessions’
8. Eminem ‘Slim Shady’
9. Leftfield ‘Rhythm And Stealth’
10. Underworld ‘Beaucoup Fish’
11. Macy Gray – ‘On How Life Is’
12. Roots Manuva ‘Brand New Second Hand’
13. The Roots ‘Things Fall Apart’
14. Armend Van Helden ‘2 Future 4 U’
15. Missy Elliott ‘Da Real World’
16. Destiny’s Child ‘The Writings On The Wall’
17. Presence ‘All Systems Gone’
18. Groove Armada ‘Vertigo’
19. Melky Sedeck ‘Sister And Brother’
20. Curtis ‘Grand Hotel’
21. N’dambi ‘Little Lost Girl Blues’
22. Peshay ‘Miles From Home’
23. Bt ‘Movement In Still Life’
24. Skyray ‘Mind Lagoons’
25. Aim ‘Cold Water Music’
26. Orbital ‘The Middle Nowhere' (Ffrr)
27. The Beta Band' The Beta Band' (Regal)
28. Busta Rhymes 'ELE - Final Front' (Elektra)
29. Cherokee 'I Love You... Me' (RCA)
30. All Seeing I 'Pickled Eggs & Sherbert’ (Ffrr)
31. Nitin Sawhney 'Beyond Skin' (Outcaste)
32. Eric Benet 'A Day In The Life' (Warner Brothers)
33. Les Rythmes Digitales 'Darkdancer' (Wall Of Sound)
34. Roy Davis Junior 'Soul Electrika' (Pacefrog)
35. Freq Nasty 'Freaks, Geeks & Mutations' (Botchit & Scarper)
36. The Aloof 'This Constant Chase For Thrills' (Screaming Target)
37. Mr Scruff 'Keep It Unreal' (Ninja Tune)
38. Ozomatli 'Ozomatli'(Almo Sounds)
39. Gus Gus 'This Is Normal' (4AD)
40. Kevin Yost 'One Starry Night' (Distance)
41. Air 'Premieres Symptomes' (Virgin)
42. Ram Trilogy 'Ram Trilogy' (Ram)
43. Aubrey 'Liquid Funk' (Offshoot)
44. DJ Spinna ‘Heavy Beats Vol.1’ (Rawkus)
45. Donnell Jones ‘Where I Wanna Be’ (Laface)
46. Art Of Trance 'Voice Of Earth' (Platipus)
47. Handsome Boy Modelling School 'So... How's Your Girl' (Tommy Boy)
48. Beverley Knight 'Prodical Sista' (Dome)
49. Beth Orton 'Central Reservation’ (Heavenly)
50. Gak Sato 'Post Echo' (Lrma)



Magic (France)

1. The Flaming Lips : The soft bulletin
2. Merz : Merz
3. The Chemical Brothers : Surrender
4. Moby : Play
5. Death in Vegas : The continos sessions
6. Quannum : Spectrum
7. Deus : The ideal crash
8. Plaid : Rest proof clockwork
9. Hood : The cycle of ...
10. Spearmint : A week away
11. Make Up : I want some
12. Tricky : Juxstapose
13. Arab Strap : Mad for sadness
14. Mos Def : Black on both sides
15. Blur : 13
16. "Rinoçérose" : Installation sonore
17. Blackaliscious : Nia
18. Beck : Midnight vultures
19. Beth Orton : Central reservation
20. Ian Brown : Golden greats
21. Les Rhytmes Digitales : Darkdancer
22. Labradford : E Luxo so
23. Birdie : Some dusty
24. Presence : All systems gone
25. Archive : Take my head
26. Faze Action : Moving cities
27. Shack : HMS Fable
28. Fridge : Eph
29. Dot Allison : Afterglow
30. Money Penny Project : Money Penny Project
31. Saint Etienne : The misadventures of...
32. Dominique A : Remué
33. The All Seeing I : Picled Eggs & Sherbert
34. Jean Louis Murat : Mustango
35. Low : Secret Name
36. Texas : The hush
37. John Cunningham : Homeless house
38. Les Négresses Vertes : Trabendo
39. Underworld : Beaucoup fish
40. Regular Fries : Accept the signal
41. Katerine : Les creatures & L'homme à trois mains
42. Gus Gus : This is normal
43. Trashmonk : Mona Lisa Overdrive
44. Venus : Welcome to the modern dancehall
45. I:Cube : Adore
46. Electronic : Twisted Tenderness
47. Perry Blake : Still life
48. The Herbaliser : Very mercenary
49. Gay Dad : Leisure noise
50. Bonnie Prince Billy : I see a darkness



Mixmag (UK)

1. Basement Jaxx – Remedy
2. The Chemical Brothers – Surrender
3. The Maddkatt Courtship – I Know Electrikboy
4. Underworld – Beaucoup Fish
5. Macy Gray – On How Life Is
6. Moby – Play
7. TLC – Fanmail
8. Layo And Bushwacka – Lowlife
9. Presence – All Systems Gone
10. Orbital – The Middle Of Nowhere



Blow Up (Italy)

1) Dean Roberts – All Cracked Media
2) Gorge Trio & Milo Fine - For Loss Of
3) Beck - Midnite Vultures
4) Kevin Drumm - Duo
5) The Flying Luttenbachers - The Truth Is a Fucking Lie
6) The Black Heart Procession - 2
7) Howie B. – Snatch
8) Repeat – Temporary Contemporary
9) U.S. Maple – Talker
10) Sonic Youth – Goodbye 20th Century



Metal Hammer (UK)

1. Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning
2. Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause
3. Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose
4. Incubus - Make Yourself
5. Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
6. Feeder - Yesterday Went Too Soon
7. Machine Head - The Burning Red
8. Live - The Distance To Here
9. Misfits - Famous Monsters
10. Amen - Amen
11. Slipknot - Slipknot
12. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From A Memory
13. The Clash - From Here To Eternity
14. Anathema - Judgement
15. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
16. Emperor - IX Equilibrium
17. Mark Lanegan - I'll Take Care Of You
18. Neurosis - Times Of Grace
19. Stereophonics - Performance And Cocktails
20. Paradise Lost - Host



Terroriser (UK)

1. Neurosis - Times Of Grace
2. Emperor - IX Equilibrium
3. Katatonia - Tonight's Decision
4. Satyricon - Rebel Extravaganza
5. Mercyful Fate - 9
6. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
7. Opeth - Still Life
8. Anathema - Judgement
9. Today Is The Day - In The Eyes Of God
10. Ulver - Themes From William Blake's "The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell"
11. Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges
12. In Flames - Colony
13. AFI - Black Sails In The Sunset
14. Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
15. Sodom - Code Red
16. Angel Corpse - The Inexorable
17. Dark Tranquility - Projector
18. Sick Of It All - Call To Arms
19. Misfits - Famous Monsters
20. Akercocke - Rape Of The Bastard Nazarene
21. Immolation - Failures For Gods
22. Karma To Burn - Wild Wonderful Purgatory
23. Beyond Dawn - Electric Sulking Machine
24. Arcturus And The Deception Circus - Disguised Masters
25. Testament - The Gathering
26. Marduk - Panzer Division Marduk
27. Grade - Under The Radar
28. Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
29. Babylon Whores - King Fear
30. Slipknot - Slipknot
31. Botch - We Are The Romans
32. Spirit Caravan - Jug Fulla Sun
33. Dødheimsgard - 666 International
34. Agnostic Front - Riot Riot Upstart
35. 59 Times The Pain - End Of The Millennium
36. Fu Manchu - King Of The Road
37. Unida - Coping With The Urban Coyote
38. Cause For Alarm - Between The Wheel
39. Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions
40. Demoniac - The Fire And The Wind



Rolling Stone (Germany)

1. Travis - The Man Who
2. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
3. Blur - 13
4. Randy Newman - Bad Love
5. Wilco - Summer Teeth
6. Supergrass - Supergrass
7. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
8. Beck - Midnite Vultures
9. Gomez - Liquid Skin
10. Tocotronic - K.O.O.K.
11. Ben Folds Five - Reinhold Messner
12. Mark Lanegan _ I'll Take Care Of You
13. XTC - Apple Venus Volume One
14. Blumfeld - Old Nobody
15. Mr.Bungle - California
16. Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness
17. The Auteurs - How I Learned To Love The Bootboys
18. Shack - H.M.S. Fable
19. Steve Earle & Del McCoury Band - The Mountain
20. Chuck Prophet - The Hurting Business



Addicted to Noise (Worldwide poll)

1. Moby Play V2 120
2. Beck Midnight Vultures Interscope 118
3. Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin WB 114
4. Wilco Summerteeth Reprise 113
5. Tom Waits Mule Variations Epitaph 94
6. Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles Epic 93
7. Nine Inch Nails The Fragile Nothing/Interscope 70
8. The Roots Things Fall Apart MCA 64
9. Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs Merge 58
10. Mos Def Black on Both Sides Rawkus 56
10. Beth Orton Central Reservation Arista 56
12. Built to Spill Keep it Like a Secret WB 51
12. Macy Gray Oh How Life Is Epic 51
14. Fountains of Wayne Utopia Parkway Atlantic 49
15. Fiona Apple When the Pawn…. Clean Slate/Epic 48
16. Randy Newman Bad Love Dreamworks 41
17. Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication WB 36
18. Mary J. Blige Mary MCA 33
18. Steve Earle & the Del McCoury The Mountain E Squared 33
20. Guided by Voices Do the Collapse TVT 32
21. Santana Supernatural Arista 31
21. Chemical Brothers Surrender Astralwerks 31
21. Sleater-Kinney The Hot Rock Kill Rock Stars 31
21. Pavement Terror Twilight Matador 31
25. Prince Paul Handsome Boy Modeling School Tommy Boy 30
25. Kelly Willis What I Deserve Ryko 30
25. XTC Apple Venus Vol. 1 TVT 30
25. Basement Jaxx Remedy Astralwerks 30
25. Meshelle Ndegocello Bitter Maverick 30
30. TLC Fan Mail Arista/LaFace 29
31. Richard Thompson Mock Tudor Capitol 28
32. Paul McCartney Run Devil Run Capitol 26
33. Ol' Dirty Bastard Nigga Please Elektra 25
33. Underworld Beaucoups Fish BMG/V2 25
35. Matthew Sweet In Reverse Volcano 23
35. Prince Paul A Prince Among Thieves Tommy Boy 23
35. Gomez Liquid Skin Virgin 23
35. Limp Bizkit Significant Other Flip/Interscope 23
35. Death in Vegas The Contino Sessions Time Bomb 23
35. Old 97s Fight Songs Elektra 23
41. Ben Folds Five The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner 550 22
41. Blur 13 Virgin 22
43. Eminem The Slim Shady LP Interscope 21
44. Foo Fighters There is Nothing Left to Lose RCA 20
45. Counting Crows This Desert Life DGC 19
45. Dr. Dre Chronic 2001 Interscope 19
45. VA Buena Vista Social Club World Circuit/Nonesuch 19
48. Tom Petty Echo WB 18
49. Ben Harper & the Innocent Crim Burn to Shine Virgin 17
49. Café Tacuba Reves/Yo Soy WEA Latina 17
49. Dixie Chicks Fly Monument 17



Uncut (UK)

1. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
2. Shack – Hms Fable
3. Death In Vegas – The Contino Sessions
4. Beck – Midnite Vultures
5. Richard Thompson – Mock Tudor
6. Wilco – Summerteeth
7. Shelby Lynne – I Am Shelby Lynne
8. Basement Jaxx – Remedy
9. Bonny ‘Prince’ Billy – I See Darkness
10. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros – Art Rock And The X-Ray Style
11. The Chemical Brother – Surrender
12. Macy Gray – On How Life Is
13. Mark Mulcahy – Fathering
14. TLC – Fanmail
15. Smog – Knock Knock
16. The All Seeing Eye – Pickled Eggs And Sherbert
17. New Radicals – Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too
18. Underworled – Beaucoup Fish
19. The Wondermints – Bali
20. XTC – Apple Venus Vol 1
21. Tom Waits – Mule Variations
22. Kate Rusby – Sleepless
23. Wheat – Hope And Adams
24. Supper Furry Animals – Guerrilla
25. Matthew Sweet – In Reverse
26. Orbital – Middle Of Nowhere
27. The Willard Grant Conspiracy – Mojave
28. Jim O’Rourke – Eureka
29. The High Llams – Snowbug
30. Counting Crows – This Desert Life
31. Pavement – Terror Twilight
32. Ol’ Dirty Bastard – N***A Please
33. Freakwater – End Time
34. Beth Orton – Central Reservation
35. Leftfield – Rhythm And Stealth
36. Stereolab – Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night
37. The Beta Band - The Beta Band
38. Missy Elliott – Da Real World
39. Dwight Twilley – Tulsa
40. Iggy Pop – Avenue B
41. Ben Folds Five – The Biography Of Reinhold Messner
42. Atari Teenage Riot – 60 Second Wipeout
43. Fountains Of Wayne – Utopia Parkway
44. Mouse On Mars – Niun Niggung
45. David Bowie – Hours…
46. To Rococo Rot – The Amateur View
47. Dot Allison – Afterglow
48. Plone – For Beginner Piano
49. Olivia Tremor Control – Black Foliage
50. Paul Westerberg – Suicaine Gratifacation
51. Kevin Rowland – My Beauty
52. Nightmares In Wax – Carboot Soul
53. Luna – The Days Of Our Nights
54. Add N To X – Avant Hard
55. Lilac Time – Looking For A Day In The Night
56. Haig/Mackenzie – Memory Palace
57. Owsley – Owsley
58. East River Pipe – The Gasoline Age
59. Ben Christophers – My Beautiful Demon
60. Trashmonk – Trashmonk
61. Bows – Blush
62. Royal Trux – Veterans Of Disorder
63. Alex Gopher – You, My Baby & I
64. The Make Up – Save Yourself
65. Cousteau – Cousteau
66. Position Normal – Stop Your Nonsence
67. Scritti Politti – Anomie & Bonhomie
68. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Spanish Dance Troupe
69. Dave Alvin – Blackjack David
70. U-Zig – Royal Astronomy



Nöjesguiden (Sweden)

1. Built to Spill : Keep It Like a Secret
2. TLC : Fanmail
3. Missy Misdemeanor Elliott : Da Real World
4. Nitin Sawhney : Beyond Skin
5. Eminem : The Slim Shady LP
6. Mos Def : Black on Both Sides
7. People Under the Stairs : The Next Step
8. Mary J Blige : Mary
9. Ron Sexsmith : Whereabouts
10. Eve : Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryder's First Lady
11. Blackalicious : Nia
12. All Natural : No Additives, No Preservatives
13. Flaming Lips : The Soft Bulletin
14. Ol' Dirty Bastard : Nigga Please
15. Slum Village : Fantastic II
16. Eric Benét : A Day in the Life
17. Tom Waits : Mule Variations
18. Damien Jurado : Rehearsals for Departure
19. Make Up : Save Yourself
20. Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham : Moments From This Theatre
21. Pavement : Terror Twilight
22. Beth Orton : Central Reservation
23. Ugly Duckling : Fresh Mode
24. Incognito : No Time Like the Future
25. Kool Keith : Black Elvis/Lost in Space



Mofo (Belgium)

1. Deus : The ideal crash
2. The Chemical Brothers : Surrender
3. Blur : 13
4. Ben Harper : Burn to shine
5. Katerine : Les créatures / L'homme a trois mains
6. Gomez : Liquid skin
7. Kula Shaker : Peasants, pigs and astronauts
8. Supergrass : Supergrass
9. Suede : Head Music
10. Skunk Anansie : Post orgasmic chill



Rumba (Finland)

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
2. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
3. Basement Jaxx - Remedy
4. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
5. Beck - Midnite Vultures
6. Kent - Hagnesta Hill
7. The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
8. Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning
9. Macy Gray - On How Life Is
10. Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
11. Iggy Pop - Avenue B
12. Weeping Willows - Endless Night
13. All Seeing 1 - Pickled Eggs & Sherbet
14. Moby - Play
14. Suede - Head Music (yes, two albums at #14...)
15. Leftfield - Rhythm and Stealth
16. Ministry - The Dark Side Of The Spoon
17. dEUS - The Ideal Crash
18. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
19. Foo Fighters - There's Nothing Left To Lose
20. Echo & The Bunnymen - What Are You Going To Do With Your Life



Tip (Germany)

1. Wilco - Summer Teeth
2. Blur - 13
3. Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
4. Steve Earle & Del McCoury Band - The Mountain
5. XTC - Apple Venus Vol. 1
6. Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris - Western Wall
7. Whistler - Whistler
8. Nightmares On Wax - Car Boot Soul
9. Kelly Willis - What I Deserve
10. Peace Orchestra - Peace Orchestra
11. Plone - For Beginner Piano
12. Tricky - Juxtapose



Aftonbladet (Sweden)

1. TLC - Fanmail
2. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
3. Mary J Blige - Mary
4. Missy Elliott - Da Real World
5. Sahara Hotnights - C'mon Let's Pretend
6. Eldkvarn - Limbo
7. Christian Falk - Quel Bordel
8. Chemical Brothers - Surrender
9. Kent - Hagnesta Hill
10. Basement Jaxx - Remedy
11. Thåström - De e ni som e dom konstiga...
12. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
13. Beth Orton - Central Reservation
14. Dr Dre - 2001
15. Ron Sexsmith - Whereabouts
16. Petter - Bananrepubliken
17. Patrik Isaksson - När Verkligheten Tränger Sig På
18. Mauro Scocco - Tillbaks Till Världen
19. Dilba - You and I
20. Van Morrison - Back to Life
21. Robyn - My Truth
22. Macy Gray - On How Life Is
23. Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
24. Cassius - 1999
25. Nas - Nastradamus
26. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
27. Ibrahim Ferrer - Buena Vista Social Club Presents
28. Groove Armada - Vertigo
29. Wilco - Summer Teeth
30. Korn - Issues
31. Built to Spill - Keep it like a Secret
32. Spain - She Haunts My Dreams
33. Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne
34. Eric Gadd - Spirit
35. Suede - Head Music
36. Armand Van Helden - 2 Future 4 U
37. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
38. Beenie Man - The Doctor
39. Drain - Freaks of Nature
40. Lady Saw - 99 Ways
41. Blur - 13
42. In Flames - Colony
43. Tindersticks - Simple Pleasures
44. Travis - The Man Who
45. Staffan Hellstrand - Underbarn
46. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Looking Forward
47. Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
48. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Nigga Please
49. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
50. Kevin Rowland - My Beauty
51. Danzig - 6:66 Satan's Child
52. Dot Allison - Afterglow
53. Love Olzon - När Din Dag Kommer
54. Beck - Midnite Vultures
55. Jungle Brothers - V.I.P.
56. Dave Hollister - Ghetto Hymns
57. Breakbeat Era - Ultra Obscene
58. Angel Dust - Bleed
59. Handsome Boy Modeling School - So...How's Your Girl?
60. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Echo
61. Counting Crows - This Desert Life
62. Foxy Brown - Chyna Doll
63. Kelly Willis - What I Deserve
64. Motorhomes - Songs for Me (and My Baby)
65. Defleshed - Fast Forward
66. Damien Jurado - Rehearsals for Departure
67. Spring Heel Jack - Treader
68. Everything but the Girl - Temperamental
69. Shack - HMS Fable
70. Testament - The Gathering
71. Nightmares on Wax - Carboot Soul
72. Backstreet Boys - Millennium
73. David Bowie - Hours...
74. Jimi Tenor - Organism
75. Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
76. The $ 1000 Playboys - The 1000 $ Playboys
77. Ruff Ryders - Ryde or Die Vol. 1
78. Wannadies - Yeah
79. Gomez - Liquid Skin
80. Nas - I Am
81. Lene Marlin - Playing My Game
82. Lucky People Center - Interference
83. Eric Benét - A Day in the Life
84. Monster - Gone, Gone, Gone
85. Matthew Sweet - In Reverse
86. The Persuader - Stockholm
87. Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris - Western Walls
88. Ingy - Unlikely Heroes
89. Eve - Ruff Ryders First Lady
90. Autechre - EP7
91. Echo & The Bunnymen - What Are You Going to Do with Your Life
92. David Sylvian - Dead Bees on a Cake
93. Weeping Willows - Endless Nights
94. Ginuwine - 100% Ginuwine
95. Mobb Deep - Murda Muzik
96. Richard Thompson - Mock Tudor
97. Los Lobos - This Time
98. Ja Rule - Venni Vetti Vecci
99. John Holm - Vägen Till Californien
100. Sophie Zelmani - Time to Kill



Mondo Sonoro (Spain)

1. TOM WAITS: Mule Variations
2. NINE INCH NAILS: The Fragile
3. BECK: Midnite Vultures
4. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: Californication
5. MOGWAI: Come On Die Young
6. BUILT TO SPILL: Keep It Like A Secret
7. THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS: Surrender
8. TERRANOVA: Close The Door
9. DEUS: The Ideal Crash
10. THE WALKABOUTS: Trail Of Stars
11. THE FLAMING LIPS: The Soft Bulletin
12. TRICKY: Juxtapose
13. HEFNER: The Fidelity Wars
14. LIMP BIZKIT: Significant Other
15. GOMEZ: Liquid Skin
16. ZEBDA: Essence Ordinaire
17. WILCO: Summerteeth
18. GIGOLO AUNTS: Minor Chords And Major Themes
19. MOS DEF: Black On Both Sides
20. LES RHYTHMES DIGITALES: Darkdance
21. CLUB 8: The Friend I Once Had
22. THE HELLACOPTERS: Grande Rock
23. UNDERWORLD: Beaucoup Fish
24. STEREOLAB: Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night
25. LEFTFIELD: Rhythm And Stealrh
26. EPMD: Our Of Business
27. THE MAKE UP: Save Yourself
28. BETH ORTON: Central Reservation
29. TOM PETTY: Echo
30. THE PROMISE RING: Very Emergency!
31. FARMED NOT SO JOHN: Receiver
32. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN: What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?
33. ARAB STRAP: Elephant Shoe
34. MINISTRY: Dark Side Of The Spoon
35. KRUST: Coded Language
36. SARGENTO GARCIA: Un poquito quema'o
37. LUNA: The Days Of Our Nights
38. CHRIS CORNELL: Euphoria Morning
39. BUCKBERRY: Buckberry
40. FOO FIGHTERS: There Is Nothing Left To Lose



Technikart (France)

1. Add N To (X) : Avant Hard
2. Basement Jaxx : Remedy
3. Three Madkatt Courtship : I Know Electrikboy
4. Beck : Midnight vultures
5. Bosco : Paramour
6. The Chemical Brothers : Surrender
7. Alex Gopher : You my baby and I
8. Green Velvet : The Nineties
9. Roots Manuva : Brand New Second Hand



Wall of Sound (USA)

1. Tom Waits: Mule Variations (Epitaph)
2. Beck: Midnite Vultures (Geffen)
3. Fiona Apple: When the Pawn … (Epic)
4. Joe Henry: Fuse (Mammoth)
5. Gomez: Liquid Skin (Virgin)
5. Matthew Sweet: In Reverse (Volcano)
5. Robbie Williams: The Ego Has Landed (Capitol)
8. Tal Bachman: Tal Bachman (Columbia)
9. Fountains of Wayne: Utopia Parkway (Atlantic)
9. Moby: Play (V2)
9. The Roots: Things Fall Apart (MCA)
12. Cree Summer: Street Faerie (Work Group/Epic)
12. Mr. Scruff: Keep It Unreal (Ninja Tune)
12. Taj Mahal and Toumani Diabate: Kulanjan (Hannibal)
12. Wilco: Summer Teeth (Reprise)
16. Randy Newman: Bad Love (DreamWorks)
17. Basement Jaxx: Remedy (Astralwerks)
17. Carlos Santana: Supernatural (Arista)
17. Me'Shell Ndegeocello: Bitter (Maverick)
17. Robert Cray: Take Your Shoes Off (Rykodisc)
17. The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin (Warner Bros.)
22. Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile (Nothing/Interscope)
23. Mos Def: Black on Both Sides (Rawkus)
24. Foo Fighters: There Is Nothing Left to Lose (RCA)
24. Rage Against the Machine: The Battle of Los Angeles (Epic)
24. Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band: The Mountain (E Squared)



OAZA (Yugoslavia)

1. DEATH IN VEGAS:The Contino Sessions (Concrete)
2. TRAVIS:The Man Who (Independiente)
3. TRICKY:Juxtapose (Island)
4. PAVEMENT:Terror Twilight (Domino)
5. ELECTRONIC:Twisted Tenderness (Parlophone)
6. NINE INCH NAILS:Fragile (Interscope)
7. SUEDE:Head Music (Nude)
8. BLUR:13 (Food)
9. ORBITAL:The Middle Of Nowhere (FFRR)
10. ROOTS:Things Fall Apart (MCA)
11. JAMES:Millionaires (Mercury)
12. MOBY:Play (Mute)
13. THE BETA BAND:The Beta Band (Regal)
14. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS:Californication (WEA)
15. SCRITTI POLITTI:Anomie & Bonhomie (Virgin)
16. PET SHOP BOYS:Night Life (Parlophone)
17. GROOVE ARMADA:Vertigo (Pepper)
18. NEW RADICALS:You`ve Been Brainwashed Too (MCA)
19. THE FLAMING LIPS:Soft Bulletin` (East West)
20. SHACK:H.M.S. Fable (London)
21. TOM WAITS:Mule Variations (Epitaph)
22. STEREOPHONICS:Performance & Coctails (V2)
23. INCOGNITO:No Time Like The Future (Talkin` Loud)
24. IAN BROWN:Golden Greats (Polydor)
25. BASEMENT JAXX:Remedy (XL)
26. MARY J. BLIGE:Mary (Universal)
27. JAMIROQUAI:Synkronised (Sony)
28. CHEMICAL BROTHERS:Surrender (Virgin)
29. MACY GRAY:On How Life`s (Epic)
30. BECK:Midnite Vultures (Geffen)

Re: 1999

Babylon (Greece)

1. Moby: Play
2. Nine Inch Nails: Fragile
3. Limp Bizkit: Significant Other
4. Death In Vegas: The Contino Sessions
5. Rage Against The Machine: The Battle Of Los Angeles
6. Chemical Brothers: Surrender
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Californication
8. Missy Elliott: Da Real World
9. Everlast: Whitey Ford Sings The Blues
10. Tricky: Juxtapose
11. Beth Orton: Central Reservation
12. Deus: The Ideal Crash
13. Folk Implosion: One Part Lullaby
14. Cuba: Leap Of Faith
15. Beck: Midnite Vultures
16. Appliance: Manual
17. James: Millionaires
18. Basement Jaxx: Remedy
19. Orbital: The Middle Of Nowhere
20. Lamb: Fear Of Fours
21. Underworld: Beaucoup Fish
22. Skunk Anansie: Post Orgasmic Chill
23. Experimental Pop Band: Homesick
24. Arab Strap: Elephant Shoe
25. Lamma Farmers: Dead Letter Chorus
26. Ben Harper : Burn To Shine
27. Eminem: Slim Shady Lp
28. Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
29. Echo & The Bunnymen: What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?
30. Tindersticks: Simple Pleasure
31. Verbena: Into The Pink
32. Make Up: Save Yourself
33. Public Enemy: There’s A Poison Going On
34. Supergrass: Supergrass
35. Bush: The Science Of Things
36. Amstrong: Spinkler
37. Τρύπες: Μέσα Στη Νύχτα Των Αλλων
38. Closer: Universe
39. Ξύλινα Σπαθιά: Τροφή Για Τα Θηρία
40. The Artist: Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
41. Blur: 13
42. Everything But The Girl: Temperamental
43. Medal: Drop Your Weapon
44. Ministry: Dark Side Of The Spoon
45. Kid Rock: Devil Without A Cause
46. Pavement: Terror Twilight
47. Stereolab: Cobra & Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night
48. Tom Waits: Mule Variations
49. Foo Fighters: There’s Nothing Left To Lose
50. Gomez: Liquid Skin



Panorama (Norway)

1. THE SOFT BULLETIN - The Flaming Lips
2. HAGNESTA HILL - Kent
3. MY BEAUTIFUL DEMON - Ben Christophers
4. MIDNITE VULTURES - Beck
5. REMEDY - Basement Jaxx
6. COME ON DIE YOUNG - Mogwai
7. PLAY - Moby
8. SOMETHING IS LIKE NOTHING WAS - Monopot
9. DO THE COLLAPSE - Guided By Voices
10. LOW - Krøyt
11. NIA - Blacklalicious
12. SURRENDER - The Chemical Brothers
13. TERROR TWILIGHT - Pavement
14. 13 - Blur
15. ENDLESS NIGHT - Weeping Willows
16. 1999 - Cassius
17. APPLE VENUS PT. 1 - XTC
18. THE CONTINO SESSIONS - Death In Vegas
19. SO, HOW'S YOUR GIRL...? - Handsome Boy Modeling School
20. LIQUID SKIN - Gomez
21. ASTRODOME - Home Groan
22. SUMMERTEETH - Wilco
23. CALIFORNICATION - Red Hot Chili Peppers
24. INDUSTRIAL SILENCE - Madrugada
25. JUXTAPOSE - Tricky
26. THE FRAGILE - Nine Inch Nails
27. KING OF THE ROAD - Fu Manchu
28. ATOMIC SWING - Vidar Busk & His True Believers
29. SPANISH DANCE TROUPE - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
30. VERTIGO - Groove Armada
31. SECRET NAME - Low
32. IN REVERSE - Matthew Sweet
33. PICKLED EGGS & SHERBET - The All Seeing I
34. COBRA AND PHASES GROUP PLAY VOLTAGE IN THE MILKY NIGHT - Stereolab
35. BEACOUP FISH - Underworld
36. SOUL ON SOUL - Claudia Scott
37. SIMPLE PLEASURE - Tindersticks
38. THIS DESERT LIFE - Counting Crows
39. SLOW RIOT FOR NEW ZERO KANADA - Godspeed You Black Emperor!
40. THE BETA BAND - The Beta Band
41. DET ÄR NI SOM E DOM KONSTIGA DET ÄR JAG SOM E NORMAL - Thåström
42. SNOWBUG - The High Llamas
43. MOUNTAINS OF TIME - Savoy
44. NIGHTLIFE - Pet Shop Boys
45. THE MAN WHO - Travis
46. RHYTHM AND STEALTH - Leftfield
47. HERE WE GO THEN YOU AND I - Morten Abel
48. RESOLUTIONS - Todd Terry
49. HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE THE BOOTBOYS - The Auteurs
50. ROYAL ASTRONOMY - µ-Ziq



Pitchfork (USA)

1. Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
2. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
3. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
4. The Beta Band - The Three EPs
5. Beck - Midnite Vultures
6. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
7. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
8. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
9. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada EP
10. Blur - 13



Record Collector (UK)

(no order)

o Beck – Midnite Vultures
o Cay – Nature Creates Freaks
o Clinic – Clinic
o Clinton – Disco and the Half Way to Discontent
o Cornelius – CM: the Remixes
o Death in Vegas – Contino Sessions
o DJ Wally – Stoned Ranger Rydes Again
o Eminem – Slim Shady LP
o Flaming Lips – Soft Bulletin
o Jimi Jamison’s Survivor – Empires
o Kid Loco – Presents Jesus for Children Under 12 Inches
o Malmsteen, Yngwie – Live
o Metallica – S&M
o Mogwai – Come on Die Young
o Morissette, Alanis – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
o Rowland, Kevin – My Beauty
o Sleater Kinney – Hot Rock
o Super Furry Animals – Guerrilla
o Supergrass – Supergrass
o Wakeman, Rick – Return to the Centre of the Earth



Heaven (The Netherlands)

1. Norma Waterson - The very thought of you
2. Tom Waits - Mule variations
3. Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham - Moments from this theatre
4. Shelby Lynne - I am Shelby Lynne
5. XTC - Apple Venus
6. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I see a darkness
7. Marianne Faithfull - Vagabond ways



Bibel (Sweden)

1. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
2. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
3. Missy Elliott - Da Real World
4. Mary J Blige - Mary
5. Beth Orton - Central Reservation
6. TLC - Fanmail
7. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
8. Mogwai - Come On, Die Young
9. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Nigga Please
10. Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
11. Kevin Rowland - My Beauty
12. K-Ci and JoJo - It's Real
13. Basement Jaxx - Remedy
14. Death in Vegas - The Contino Sessions
15. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
16. Shack - HMS Fable
17. Nithin Sawhney - Beyond Skin
18. Tindersticks - Simple Pleasure
19. Coko - Hot Coko
20. TQ - They Never Saw Me Coming
21. Damien Jurado - Rehearsals for Departure
22. The Make-Up - Save Yourself
23. The Charlatans - Us and Us Only
24. Pavement - Terror Twilight
25. Beulah - When Your Heartstrings Break
26. Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
27. John Prine - In Spite of Ourselves
28. Thomas Brinkmann - Soul Center
29. Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham - Moments from This Theatre Live
30. Tanto Metro & Devonte - Everyone Falls in Love



Natt & Dag (Norway)

1. Basement Jaxx - Remedy
2. Handsome Boy Modelling School - So… how’s your girl?
3. Beck - Midnite Vultures
4. The Roots - Things fall apart
5. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
6. Wilco - Summer Teeth
7. Blur - 13
8. Supergrass - Supergrass
9. Dr. Doom - First come first served
10. Super_Collider - Head On
11. The Magnetic Fields - 69 love songs
12. Pavement - Terror Twilight
13. Sleater Kinney - The Hot Rock
14. Beth Orton - Central Reservation
15. Super Furry Animals - Guerilla
16. Old 97’s - Fight songs
17. Chuck E. Weiss - Extremely Cool
18. Mary J. Blige - Mary
19. Sensational - Corner the marked
20. Chemical Brothers - Surrender
21. TLC - Fanmail
22. Bonnie Prince Billy - Now i see a darkness
23. Jim O’Rourke - Eureka
24. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
25. Presence - All systems gone



Popnews (France)

01. LOW - Secret Name
02. TINDERSTICKS - Simple Pleasure
03. DAKOTA SUITE - Songs for a Barbed Wired Fence
04. DEUS - the Ideal Crash
05. JEAN-LOUIS MURAT - Mustango
06. SALAKO - Musicality
07. SPAIN - She Haunts my Dreams
08. GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI - Spanish Dance Troupe
09. PRESENCE - All Systems Gone
10. CHEMICAL BROTHERS - Surrender
11. DAKOTA SUITE - Alone with Everybody
12. THE ROOTS - Things Fall Apart
13. JOHN CUNNINGHAM - Homeless House
14. MIGALA - Asi Duele un Verano
15. XTC - Apple Venus Volume 1
16. IDAHO - Alas
17. DOMINIQUE A - Remué
--. SUPERGRASS - Supergrass
19. BLACKALICIOUS - Nia
--. PIANO MAGIC - Low Birth Weight
--. WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY - Mojave
22. PAVEMENT - Terror Twilight
23. AIM - Cold Water Music
--. APRIL MARCH - Chrominance
--. JUDE - No One is Really Beautiful*
--. LUNA - The Days of our Nights
27. THOSE BASTARD SOULS - Debt & Departure
--. HANDSOME BOY MODELLING SCHOOL - So... Hows...
--. MF DOOM - Operation Doomsday
--. NIGHTMARES ON WAX - Carboot Soul
--. OF MONTREAL - The Gay Parade
--. THE STEREO BUS - So... Hows your Girl
--. WHISTLER - Whistler
34. BEN FOLDS FIVE - The Unauthorized...
--. BEULAH - When your Heartstrings Break
--. DEATH IN VEGAS - the Contino Sessions
--. LOOPER - Up a Tree
--. MOS DEF - Black on Both Sides
--. MR SCRUFF - Keep it Unreal
--. SPEARMINT - A Week Away
--. STEPHEN PRINA - Push Comes to Love
42. TRAM - Heavy Black Frame
--. ZEN GUERILLA - Trance States In Tongues
--. ARAB STRAP - Mad for Sadness
--. LEFTFIELD - Rhythm and Stealth
--. LENOLA - My Invisible Name
--. TAHITI 80 - Puzzle
--. YANN TIERSEN - Tout est Calme
--. TRAVIS - the Man Who
50. MOGWAI - Come on Die Young



Ink Blot (USA)

1 The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
2 The Charlatans - Us & Us Only
3 Wilco - Summerteeth
4 Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla
5 Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
6 Orbital - Middle of Nowhere
7 Shack - HMS Fable
8 The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
9 Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group...
10 Beth Orton - Central Reservation