Village Voice Pazz & Jop (USA)

1. Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville (Matador)
2. Nirvana: In Utero (DGC)
3. PJ Harvey: Rid of Me (Island)
4. The Breeders: Last Splash (4AD/Elektra)
5. Pet Shop Boys: Very (EMI)
6. Dr. Dre: The Chronic (Interscope)
7. Jimmie Dale Gilmore: Spinning Around the Sun (Elektra)
8. De La Soul: Buhloone Mindstate (Tommy Boy)
9. U2: Zooropa (Island)
10. Digable Planets: Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) (Pendulum)
11. Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream (Virgin)
12. P.M. Dawn: The Bliss Album . . . ? (Gee Street)
13. Paul Westerberg: 14 Songs (Sire/Reprise)
14. Pearl Jam: Vs. (Epic Associated)
15. Bettie Serveert: Palomine (Matador)
16. Urge Overkill: Saturation (Geffen)
17. The Afghan Whigs: Gentlemen (Elektra)
18. American Music Club: Mercury (Reprise)
19. Tony Toni Toné: Sons of Soul (Wing)
20. Yo La Tengo: Painful (Matador)
21. A Tribe Called Quest: Midnight Marauders (Jive)
22. Willie Nelson: Across the Borderline (Columbia)
23. Bob Dylan: World Gone Wrong (Columbia)
24. Stereolab: Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements (Elektra)
25. Jane Siberry: When I Was a Boy (Reprise)
26. Dwight Yoakam: This Time (Reprise)
27. Me'Shell NdegéOcello: Plantation Lullabies (Maverick/Sire/Reprise)
28. Uncle Tupelo: Anodyne (Sire/Reprise)
29. Cypress Hill: Black Sunday (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
30. Terence Trent D'Arby: Symphony or Damn (Columbia)
31. Sade: Love Deluxe (Epic)
32. Arthur Alexander: Lonely Just Like Me (Elektra Nonesuch/American Explorer Series)
33. Aimee Mann: Whatever (Imago)
34. Cassandra Wilson: Blue Light 'Til Dawn (Blue Note)
35. PJ Harvey: 4-Track Demos (Island)
36. Rosanne Cash: The Wheel (Columbia)
37. Belly: Star (Sire/Reprise)
38. John Hiatt: Perfectly Good Guitar (A&M)
Shaver: Tramp on Your Street (Zoo/Praxis International)
40. Dinosaur Jr.: Where You Been (Sire/Warner Bros.)



OOR (The Netherlands)

1. Smashing pumpkins - Siamese dream
2. Lemonheads - Come on feel
3. Mick Jagger - Wandering spirit
4. Buffalo Tom - Big red letter day
5. Cypress hill - Black sunday
6. Guru - Jazzmatazz
7. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Suede - Suede
9. Aerosmith - Get a grip
Björk - Debut
11. John Hiatt - Perfectly good guitar
12. Frank Black - Frank Black
13. Nirvana - In utero
14. Posies - Frosting on the beater
A tribe called quest - Midnight marauders
16. Rush - Counterparts
17. Serenes - Back to wonder
18. Beres Hammond - Full attention
Khaled - N'ssi N'ssi
Me'shell NdegeOcello - Plantation lullabies
21. Digable planets - Reachin' (a new refutation of time and space)
22. Scene - Avenue de la scene
23. Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Spinning around the sun
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
25. Afghan whigs - Gentlemen
Maria McKee - You gotta sin to get saved
Palace brothers - There is no one what will take care of you
28. Willie Nelson - Across the borderline
29. # - Black dog productions (Bytes)
Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy
31. New order - Republic
Tom Waits - The black rider
33. Gutterball - Gutterball
34. Bob Dylan - World gone wrong
35. Sebadoh - Bubble and scrap
36. Iggy Pop - American Caesar
37. Pet shop boys - Very
38. David Baerwald - Triage
39. Buju Banton - Voice of Jamaica
Neil Young - Unplugged
41. George Clinton - Hey man, smell my finger
Dr. Dre - The chronic
Einsturzende Neubauten - Tabula rasa
Sun electric - Kitchen
Trumans water - Spasm spasm xxxpxpx ox and ass
Waterboys - Dream harder
47. Coverdale & Page - Coverdale Page
Kift - Krankenhaus
Tool - Undertow
50. Pearl jam - Vs.
Seam - The problem with me



NME (UK)

1. Debut - Bjork
2. Giant steps - The Boo Radleys
3. Suede - Suede
4. come on feel the lemonheads - The Lemonheads
5. Star - Belly
6. Siamese dream - Smashing Pumpkins
7. Modern life is rubbish - Blur
8. Black Sunday - Cypress Hill
9. Become what you are - The Juliana Hatfield three
10. Untitled - Orbital
11. Trans-global underground - Dream of 100 nations
12. Tricks of the shade - The Goats
13. Tindersticks - Tindersticks
14. Very - Pet shop boys
15. Rid of me - PJ Harvey
16. Beaster - Sugar
17. The dodgy album - Dodgy
18. New wave - The Auteurs
19. Dusk - The the
20. Gentlemen - Afghan whigs
21. Liberation - The divine comedy
22. Post-Historic Monsters - Carter USM
23. Sabresonic - Sabres of paradise
24. Gold against the soul - Manic street preachers
25. Wild Wood - Paul Weller
26. Neil Young - Unplugged
27. Bring it down - Madder rose
28. Republic - New Order
29. From the heart of town - Gallon Drunk
30. In utero - Nirvana
31. Rage against the machine - Rage against the machine
32. Big red letter day - Buffalo Tom
33. 14 shots to the dome - LL Cool J
34. A storm in heaven - Verve
35. Pablo Honey - Radiohead
36. Last splash - The breeders
37. Thirdteen - Teenage Fanclub
38. Mercury - American Music Club
39. Bizarre ride II the pharcyde - The Pharcyde
40. Saturation - Urge Overkill
41. United Kingdoms - Ultramarine
42. Live ‘93 - The Orb
43. The Infotainment Scan - The Fall
44. So tonight that I might see - Mazzy Star
45. The red shoes - Kate Bush
46. Four calendar cafe - Cocteau Twins
47. Tabula Rasa - Einsturzende Neubauten
48. In search of Manny - Luscious Jackson
49. Abduction - Eat static
50. Fuzzy - Grant Lee Buffalo



Rolling Stone (USA)

1. Nirvana - In Utero
2. U2 - Zooropa
3. Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
4. Pearl Jam - Vs.
5. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
6. PJ Harvey - 4-Track Demos
7. Urge Overkill - Saturation



Hot Press (Ireland)

1. Aimee Mann - Whatever
2. Kate Bush - The Red Shoes
3. Bjork - Debut
4. Radiohead - Pablo Honey
5. American Music Club - Mercury



Kerrang (UK)

1. Pearl Jam - Vs
2. Entombed - Wolverine Blues
3. Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
4. The Wildhearts - Earth Vs The Wildhearts
5. Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon
6. Girls Against Boys - Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby
7. Nirvana - In Utero
8. Manic Street Preachers - Gold Against The Soul
9. Melvins - Houdini
10. Monster Magnet - Superjudge
11. Kiss - Alive III
12. Cry Of Love - Brother
13. Poison Idea - We Must Burn
14. Grotus - Slow Motion Apocalypse
15. The Posies - Frosting On The Beater
16. The Dwarves - Sugarfix
17. Brad - Shame
18. Warrior Soul - Chill Pill
19. Paw - Dragline
20. Carcass - Heartwork
21. Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise
22. Pitch Shifter - Desensitized
23. Senseless Things - Empire Of The Senseless
24. Raging Slab - Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert
25. Clutch - Transnational Speedway League



Melody Maker (UK)

1. Tindersticks - Tindersticks
2. Gentlemen - Afghan Whigs
3. Star - Belly
4. VS - Pearl Jam
5. Suede - Suede
6. Debut - Bjork
7. Where you been - Dinosaur Jr
8. Bring it down - Madder Rose
9. Fuzzy - Grant Lee Buffalo
10. Selected Ambient Works '85 -' 92 - Aphex Twin
11. Rid of me - PJ Harvy
12. Last splash - The Breeders
13. Quique - Seefeel
14. Mercury - American Music Club
15. Transient Random noise bursts.. - Stereolab
16. Morning dove white - One dove
17. Frosting on the beater - The Posies
18. Come on feel the lemonheads - The Lemonheads
19. New wave - The Auteurs
20. Republic - New Order
21. Insides - Euphoria
22. Pigeonhed - Pigeonhed
23. Dream of 100 nations - Trans-Global Underground
24. Forever - Cranes
25. Gold against the soul - Manic street preachers
26. In Utero - Nirvana
27. Red house painters - Red House Painters
28. In search of manny - Luscious Jackson
29. A storm in heaven - Verve
30. Giant steps - The Boo Radlys
31. 4 track demos - PJ Harvy
32. Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
33. So tough - St Etienne
34. Everything is now - The Drum Club
35. Black Sunday - Cypress Hill
36. Sabresonic - Sabres of Paradise
37. Very - Pet Shop Boys
38. Dream Harder - The Waterboys
39. Rage against the machine - Same
40. Gargantuan - Spooky



The Face (UK)

1. Bjork - Debut
2. The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
3. Pet Shop Boys -Very
4. Dr Dre -The Chronic
5. Paul Weller - Wild Wood
6. U2 -Zooropa
7. One Dove - Morning Dove White
8. Guru - Jazzmatazz
9. Nirvana - In Utero
10. Suede - Suede
11. St Etienne - So Tough
12. Lemonheads - Come On Feel The Lemonheads
13. Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
14. Jamiroquai - Emergancy on Planet Earth
15. The Black Dog - Bytes
16. Belly - Star
17. The Auters - New Wave
18. The Beloved - Conscience
19. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
20. Us3 - Hand on the Torch
21. De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate
22. M People - Elegant Slumming
23. Ronny Jorson - Quiet Revolution
24. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
25. MC Solaar - Qui Seme Le Vent Recolte Le Temp
26. United Future Organization - UFO
27. New Order - Republic
28. Polygon Window - Surfing on Sine Waves
29. Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
30. Tony Humphries - Ministry Of Sound, The Sessions



Spex (Germany)

1. Freestyle Fellowship - Inner City Griots
2. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
3. Palace Brothers - There Is No-One What Will Take Care Of You
4. Liz Phaire - Exile In Guyville
5. Krs-One - Return Of The Boom Bop
6. Leaders Of The New School - T.I.M.E.
7. Cop Shoot Cop - Ask Questions Later
8. Luscious Jackson - In Search Of Manny
9. Melvins - Houdini
10. Geto Boys - Till Death Do Us Part
11. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
12. Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
13. Penelope Houston - The Whole World
14. Shrimp Boat - Cavale
15. Masters At Work - The Album
16. Girl Trouble - New American Shame
17. De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate
18. Björk - Debut
19. Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
20. Jeff Mills - Waveform Transmission Vol. 1
21. The Pharcyde - A Bizarre Ride II The Pharcycle
22. Paul Weller - Wild Wood
23. Big Chief - Mack Avenue Skull Game
24. Milk Cult - Love God
25. Iggy Pop - American Caesar
26. Trumans Water - Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass
27. Bernd Begemann - Rezession, Baby
28. Waldo The Dog Faced Boy - Tingle
29. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Extra Width
30. Mutter - Du bist nicht mein Bruder
31. Kenny Dope - The Unreleased Project
32. Pere Ubu - The Story Of My Life
33. Pet Shop Boys - Very
34. Gastr Del Sol - The Serpentine Similar
35. Yo La Tengo - Painful



HUMO (Belgium)

01. Buffalo Tom - Big red letter day
02. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese dream
03. John Hiatt - Perfectly good guitar
04. Nirvana - In utero
05. Masters of Reality - Sunrise of the sufferbus
06. David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - The first day
07. Sugar - Beaster
08. Beatles - 1962-1966 & 1967-1970
09. David Bowie - Black tie, white noise
10. World Party - Bang!
11. Henry Rollins - The boxed life
12. Waterboys - Dream harder
13. Teenage Fanclub - Thirteen
14. Lemonheads - Come on feel
15. Cocteau Twins - Four calender cafe



Q (UK)

• The Auteurs - New wave
• Cypress hill - Black Sunday
• Aimee Mann - Whatever
• Meat Loaf - Bat out of hell IV
• New order - Republic
• Nirvana - In Utero
• The spin doctors - Pocket full of Kryptonite
• Sting - Ten Summoner’s tales
• UB40 - Promises and lies
• Neil Young - Unplugged

The rest
• A-Ha - Memorial Beach
• Geri Allen - Maroons
• Altan - Island
• The Aphex twin - selected ambient recordings 1985 - 1992
• David Baerwald - Triage
• Bjork - Debut
• Frank Black - Same
• Blur - Modern life is rubbish
• The boo radleys - Giant steps
• David Bowie - Black tie white noise
• Jackson Browne - I’m Alive
• Buzzcocks - Trade test transmissions
• The Cranberries - Everybody else is doing it, So why can’t we?
• Sheryl Crow - Tuesday night music club
• Crowded house - Together alone
• Terence Trent D’Obolicle - Symphony or damn: bla bla bla...
• Chaka Demus and Torque wrench - Tease me
• Depeche mode - Songs of faith and devotion
• Dr Dre - The Chronic
• Donald Fagen - Kamakiriad
• Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy
• John Hiatt - Perfectly good guitar
• The Lemonheads - Come on feel the lemonheads
• Willie Nelson - Across the borderline
• Geoggrey Oryema - Beat the border
• Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
• PJ Harvy - Rid of me
• Robert Plant - Fate of nations
• Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese dream
• Suede - Same
• Teenage Fanclub - Thirteen
• Tont Toni tone - Sons of soul
• U2 - Zooropa
• Sven Vath - Accident in paradise
• Paul Weller - Wild Wood
• Paul Westerberg - 14 songs
• The wildhearts - Earth versus the wildhearts
• The wonderstuff - Construction for the modern idiot
• World Party - Bang
• Warren Zevon - Learning to flinch



Rock de Lux (Spain)

1 P J Harvey: "Rid Of Me"
2 The Boo Radleys: "Giant Steps"
3 Björk: "Debut"
4 Red House Painters: "Red House Painters"
5 Orbital: "Orbital"
6 One Dove: "Morning White Dove"
7 Paris: "Sleeping With The Enemy"
8 Mercury Rev: "Boces"
9 Pet Shop Boys: "Very"
10 Belly: "Star"
11 Sugar: "Beaster"
12 The Goats: "Tricks Of The Shade"
13 Afghan Whigs: "Gentlmen"
14 Digable Planets: "Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time And Space)
15 De La Soul: "Buhloone Mindstate"
16 The Auters: "New Wave"
17 Saint Etienne: "So Tough"
18 New Order: "Republic"
19 Fugazi: "In On The Kill Taker"
20 Sepultura: "Chaos A.D."
21 The Sabres Of Paradise: "Sabresonic"
22 Seefeel: "Quique"
23 Cypress Hill: "Black Sunday"
24 Polygon Window: "(Surfing On Sine Waves)"
25 The Palace Brothers: "There Is No-One What Will Take Care Of You"
26 Guru: "Jazzmatazz Vol. 1"
27 Yo La Tengo: "Painful"
28 Greg Osby: "3-D Lifestyle"
29 Pigeonhed: "Pigeonhed"
30 Rage Against The Machine: "Rage Against The Machine"



Musikexpress (Germany)

1. Pearl Jam - Vs.
2. Paul Weller - Wild Wood
3. Element Of Crime - Weißes Papier
4. Donald Fagen - Kamakiriad
5. Stephan Eicher - Carcassone
6. Neil Young - Unplugged
7. World Party - Bang
8. U2 - Zooropa
9. Stephen Duffy / Nigel Kennedy - Music In Colors
10. Guru - Jazzmatazz Vol. 1
11. Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
12. Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been
13. Fury In The Slaughterhouse - Mono
14. Iggy Pop - American Caesar
15. Aerosmith - Get A Grip
16. US 3 - Hand On The Torch
17. Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
18. Nirvana - In Utero
19. Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion
20. Crowded House - Together Alone
21. Phillip Boa - Boaphenia
22. The Lemonheads - Come On Feel
23. Van Morrison - Too Long In Exile
24. Al Green - Don't Look Back
25. DC Basehead - Not In Kansas Anymore
26. The Waterboys - Dream Harder
27. Guns N' Roses - The Spaghetti Incident?
28. Die Toten Hosen - Kauf Mich!
29. Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy
30. Mc Lyte - Ain't No Other
31. Maxim Rad - Old
32. Ian McNabb - Truth And Beauty
33. Mick Jagger - Wandering Spirit
34. Jamiroquai - Emergency On Planet Earth
35. Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise
36. Porno For Pyros - Porno For Pyros
37. Cracker - Kerosene Hat
38. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
39. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
40. Urge Overkill - Saturation
41. PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
42. Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
43. Björk - Debut
44. Big Chief - Mack Avenue Skull Game
45. Robert Plant - Fate Of Nations
46. Daniel Lanois - For The Beauty Of Wynona
47. John Hiatt - Perfectly Good Guitar
48. Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
49. Matthew Sweet - Alterd Beast
50. Rickie Lee Jones - Traffic From Paradise



Dagsavisen (Norway)

Album of the Year: DeLillos - Neste Sommer



Select (UK)

1. The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
2. One Dove - Morning Dove White
3. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works '85 - 92
4. Suede - Suede
5. Pj Harvy - Rid Of Me
6. The Auteurs - New Wave
7. Bjork - Debut
8. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
9. Frank Black - Frank Black
10. Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
11. The Jerky Boys - The Jerky Boys
12. Nirvana - In Utero
13. Sabres Of Paradise - Sabersonic
14. Pet Shop Boys - Very
15. Orbital - Untitled
16. Sven Vath - Accident In Paradise
17. Suger - Beaster
18. Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
19. The Fall - The Infotainment Scan
20. Belly - Star
21. Divine Comedy - Liberation
22. Lemonheads - Come On Feel The Lemonheads
23. Saint Etienne - So Tough
24. New Order - Republic
25. U2 - Zooropa
26. James - Laid
27. The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride Ii The Pharcyde
28. Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been
29. Tindersticks - Tindersticks
30. The Goats - Tricks Of The Shade
31. Seefeel - Quique
32. Gallon Drunk -From The Heart Of Town
33. Therapy? - Nurse
34. Manic Street Preachers - Gold Against The Soul
35. Paul Weller - Wild Wood
36. The Wonder Stuff - Construction Time For The Modern Idiot
37. The Waterboys - Dream Harder
38. Bandulu - Guidance
39. Neil Young - Unplugged
40. Teenage Fanclub - Thirteen
41. Gigolo Aunts - Flippin' Out
42. Various - Judgement Night Ost
43. Ultramarine - United Kingdoms
44. Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion
45. The The - Dusk
46. Carter Usm - Post Historic Monsters
47. Trans-Global Underground - Dream Of 100 Nations
48. Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
49. Lloyd Cole - Bad Vibes
50. The Black Dog - Temple Of Transparent Balls



Vox (UK)

1. The Lemonheads - Come On Feel The Lemonheads
2. Nirvana - In Utero
3. Suger Beaster
4. Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been
5. Pj Harvey - Rid Of Me
6. Bjork - Bebut
7. New Order - Republic
8. Neil Young - Unplugged
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
10. Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
11. Teenage Fanclub 0 Thirteen
12. The Breeders - Last Splash
13. American Music Club - Mercury
14. Suede - Suede
15. Aimee Mann - Whatever
16. The Posies - Frosting On The Beater
17. Belly - Star
18. Paul Weller - Wild Wood
19. Us - Zooropa
20. Buffalo Tom - Big Red Letter Day

Also Mentioned:
Urge Overkill - Saturation
Kd Land - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Van Morrison - Too Long In Exile
The Fall - Infotainment Scam
Pet Shop Boys - Very



SPIN (USA)

1. Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
2. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
3. Nirvana - In Utero
4. PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
5. John Mellencamp - Human Wheels
6. The Breeders - Last Splash
7. The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
8. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
9. Pet Shop Boys - Very
10. Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Spinning Around The Sun
11. P.M. Dawn - The Bliss Album...? (Vibrations Of Love And Anger And The Ponderance Of Life And Existence)
12. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
13. Saint Etienne - So Tough
14. American Music Club - Mercury
15. The Palace Brothers - There Is No-One What Will Take Care Of You
16. Yo La Tengo - Painful
17. Paul Westerberg - 14 Songs
18. Basehead - Not In Kansas Anymore
19. Willie Nelson - Across The Borderline
20. Guru - Jazzmatazz



Eye Weekly Canadian Critics Poll (Canada)

1. Urge Overkill - Saturation
2. Pearl Jam - Vs.
3. Blue Rodeo - Five Days In July
4. Nirvana - In Utero
5. The Breeders - Last Splash
6. Jane Siberry - When I Was A Boy
7. Suede - Suede
8. Doughboys - Crush
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
10. PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
11. Concrete Blonde - Mexican Moon
12. Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
13. Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
14. King Cobb Steelie - King Cobb Steelie
15. Morphine - Cure For Pain
16. Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Toward Ecstacy
17. Aimee Mann - Whatever
18. Dwight Yoakam - This Time
19. Matthew Sweet - Altered Beast
20. Janet Jackson - Janet.
21. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
22. Rosanne Cash - The Wheel
23. PJ Harvey - 4-Track Demos
24. Björk - Debut
25. Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
26. Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
27. 13 Engines - Perpetual Motion Machine
28. U2 - Zooropa
29. Aerosmith - Get A Grip
30. Daniel Lanois - For The Beauty Of Wynona



Pop (Sweden)

1. Björk - Debut
2. Saint Etienne - So Tough
3. Suede - Suede
4. Ice Cube - The Predator
5. PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
6. Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
7. Orbital - Orbital
8. One Dove - Morning Dove White
9. Pet Shop Boys - Very/Relentless
10. Teenage Fanclub - Thirteen
11. Dr Dre - The Chronic
12. Paul Weller - Wild Wood
13. Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been
14. Olle Ljungström - Olle Ljungström
15. Black Dog Productions - Bytes
16. Maria McKee - You Gotta Sin to Get Saved
17. Digable Planets - Reachin' (a New Refutation of Time and Space)
18. Crowded House - Together Alone
19. The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
20. Mary J Blige - What's the 411?
21. Chaka Demus & Pliers - Tease Me
22. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
23. The Goats - Tricks of the Shade
24. Pizzicato Five - Bossanova 2001
25. Red House Painters - Red House Painters
26. Lemonheads - Come On Feel the Lemonheads
27. John & Mary - The Weedkiller's Daughter
28. Tindersticks - Tindersticks
29. The Auteurs - New Wave
30. This Perfect Day - This Perfect Day



The Wire (UK)

1. Bjork - Debut
2. Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II
3. Joe Henderson - So Near So Far
4. Bill Frisell - Have a Little Faith
5. Brodsky Quartet - Crumb/Schubert
6. Trans-Global Underground - Dream of 100 Nations
7. Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
8. PJ Harvey - 4-Track Demos
9. American Music Club - Mercury
10. Various - Chess Blues Box
11. PM Dawn - The Bliss Album
12. PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
13. Butterfly Child - Onomatopoeia
14. TS Monk - Take One
15. Ice - Under the Skin
16. Orbital - Orbital
17. Last Exit - Head First Into the Flames
18. Charles Gayle - Touchin' On Trane
19. Insides - Euphoria
20. Einstuzende Neubauten - Tabula Rosa
21. Pet Shop Boys - Very
22. Pram - The Star Are So Big...
23. Various - Beyond the Machines
24. Stock, Housen & Walkman - Giving Up With
25. Goats - Tricks of the Shade
26. Breeders - The Last Splash
27. De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate
28. Thomas Koner - Permafrost
29. Caspar Brotzmann Massaker - Koksofen
30. Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy
31. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
32. Mori/Jauniaux - Vibraslaps
33. Diamanda Galas - Vena Cava
34. Paul Weller - Wild Wood
35. Blue Humans - Clear to Higher Time
36. King Crimson - The Great Deceiver
37. Sylvia Hallett - Skimming
38. Sublette/Weiner/Persuasions - Ships at Sea...
39. Michael Nyman - The Piano: Original Sound Track
40. Giuffre/Bley/Swallow - Fly Away Little Bird
41. (c) - Witch
42. Beloved - Conscience
43. Karlheinz Stockhousen - Stimming
44. Stina Nordenstam - Memories of a Color
45. Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity Griots
46. Haniwa - Happy People
47. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
48. Don Grolnick - Night Town
49. Alexander Goehr - Sing, Ariel
50. Reload - Short Stories



Raw (UK)

1. The Wildhearts - Earth Vs The Wildhearts
2. Pearl Jam - Vs
3. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
4. Def Leppard - Retro Active
5. Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise
6. Tool - Undertow
7. Nirvana - In Utero
8. Manic Street Preachers - Gold Against The Soul
9. Brad - Shame
10. Robert Plant - Fate Of Nations
11. Urge Overkill - Saturation
12. Iggy Pop - American Caesar
13. Raging Slab - Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert
14. Dream Theater - Live At The Marquee
15. Heart - Desire Walks On
16. Blind Melon - Blind Melon
17. Bad Religion - Recipe For Hate
18. Motörhead - Bastards
19. Brother - Cry Of Love
20. Sepultura - Chaos A.D.



Les Inrockuptibles (France)

1. Divine Comedy : Liberation
2. Palace Brothers : There's no one that will take care of you
3. Trash Can Sinatras : I've seen everything
4. Mazzy Star : So tonight that I might see
5. Ashtray boy : the honeymoon suite
6. The Goats : Tricks of the shade
7. Dominique A : Si je connais Harry
8. Boo Radleys : Giant Steps
9. Pascal Comelade : Traffic d'abstraction
10. Moose : Honey bee
11. Murat : Venus
12. Al Green : Don't look back
13. Bjork : Debut
14. Sugar : Beaster
15. Red House Painters : Red hose painters - 1
16. Paul Quinn : The phantoms of the archetypes
17. The Auteurs : New wave
18. Silvain Vanot : Sylvain Vanot
19. The Apartments : Drift
20. Liz Phair : Exile in Guyville
21. Tindersticks : Tindersticks
22. American Music Club : Mercury
23. East River Pipe : Goodbye California
24. Geoffrey Oryema : beat the border
25. Nirvana : In Utero
26. Cypress Hill : Black sunday
27. The Lemonheads : Come on feel
28. James : Laid
29. De La Soul : Bulhoone mind state
30. Yo La Tengo : Painful
31. US 3 : Hand on the torch
32. Grant Mc Lennan : Fireboy
33. Jean Francois Coen : Jean francois Coen
34. Blur : Modern life is rubbish
35. Pooka : Pooka
36. Frank Black : Frank Black
37. Stuart Moxham : Random rules
38. The Walkabouts : Satisfied mind
39. A Tribe Call Quest : Midnight marauders

Rock & Folk (France)

1. Pearl Jam : Vs
2. A Tribe Call Quest : Midnight marauders
3. Iggy Pop : American caesar
4. Pet Shop Boys : Very
5. Stephane Eicher : Carcassone
6. Rage Against The Machine : RATM
7. Rita Mitsouko : Système D
8. Noir Désir : Tostaky
9. Bjork : Début
10. Neil Young : Unplugged
11. Reverend Norton Heat : The full gospel
12. Grant Lee Buffalo : Fuzzy
13. Frank Black : Frank Black



Rocksound (France)

1. Grant Lee Buffalo : Fuzzy
2. Liz Phair : Exile in Guyville
3. Jean Louis Murat : Venus
4. The Auteurs : New Wave
5. Tindersticks : Tindersticks
6. Frank Black : Frank Black
7. Geoffrey Oryema : Beat the border
8. Divine Comedy : Liberation
9. Nirvana : In Utero
10. Boo Radleys : Giant steps
11. Mazzy Star : So tonight that I might see
12. The Apartments : Drift
13. U2 : Zooropa
14. The The : Dusk
15. De la Soul : Bulhone mindstate
16. James : Laid
17. Breeders : The last plash
18. Lemonheads : Come on feel...
19. Afghan Whigs : Gentlemen
20. 22 Pisterpirkko : big luppu
21. Khaled : N'ssi N'ssi
22. Sylvain Vanot : Vanot
23. Sugar : Beaster
24. Paul Weller : Wild wood
25. US 3 : Hand on the torch
26. PJ Harvey : Rid of me
27. Teenage Fanclub : 13
28. Waterboys : Dream harder
29. Suede : Suede
30. Dominique A : Si je connais Harry
31. Monochrome Set : Charade
32. Iggy Pop : American Caesar
33. Blur : Modern life is Rubbish
34. Jayhawks : Hollywood townhall
35. Dead can dance : Into the labyrinth
36. 54:40 : dear dear
37. Paul Westerberg : 14 songs
38. Lloyd Cole : Bad vibes
39. Yo La Tengo : Painfull
40. Johan Asherton : The night forlom
41. Pascale Comelade : Traffic d'abstraction
42. Arno : Idiots savants
43. Chris Isaak : San francisco days
44. The Posies : Frosting on the beater
45. Matthew Sweet : Altered beast
46. Pet shop boys : Very
47. New Order : Republic
48. Smashing Pumpkins : Siamese dreams
49. Sebadoh : bubble & scrape
50. Neil Young : Unplugged



Magnet (USA)

1. venus luxure no. 1 baby - girls against boys
2. saturation - urge overkill
3. pull - arcwelder
3. mack avenue skull game - big chief (tie)
5. in utero -nirvana
6. pop tatari - boredoms
7. cats and dogs - royal trux
8. julius caesar - smog
9. girl + - boss hog
10. in on the kill taker - fugazi
11. motionless - chokebore
12. extra width - jon spencer blues explosion
13. spasm smash xxxoxox ox and ass - trumans water
14. bubble and scrape - sebadoh
15. there is no one like what will take care of you - palace brothers
16. purplemetalflakemusic - fluid
16. four - seaweed (tie)
18. for respect - don caballero
19. year after year - idaho
20. where you been - dinosaur jr
21. rival time - new radiant storm king
22. pistolswing - johnboy
23. exile in guyville - liz phair
24. last splash - breeders
25. the story of my life - pere ubu
26. ask questions later - cop shoot cop
27. independent worm saloon - butthole surfers
28. paunful - yo la tengo
29. toast -tar
30. vampire on titus - guided by voices

1. Björk - Debut
2. Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion
3. Kate Bush - The Red Shoes
4. Neil Young - Unplugged
5. Suede - Suede