1. Slayer – Show No Mercy
  2. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy
  3. Beck – Odelay
  4. Siouxsie and the Banshees – The Scream
  5. Laraaji – Vision Songs Vol. 1
  6. Donald Fagen – The Nightfly
  7. Beach Boys – Surf’s Up
  8. Cabaret Voltaire – The Crackdown
  9. Sigur Rós – Ágætis Byrjun
  10. The Who – Sell Out
  11. Marianne Faithfull – Strange Weather
  12. Thin Lizzy – Johnny The Fox
  13. Wall Of Voodoo – Call Of The West
  14. Klaus Nomi – s/t
  15. R.E.M. – Lifes Rich Pageant
  16. The Kinks – Give The People What They Want
  17. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
  18. Nick Lowe – Nick The Knife
  19. Shuggie Otis – Freedom Flight
  20. Roxy Music – Country Life
  21. Broadcast – Tender Buttons
  22. Game Theory – The Big Star Chronicles
  23. Eazy-E – Eazy Duz It
  24. Rufus Wainwright – Poses
  25. The Cure – Seventeen Seconds
  26. Zero 7 – Simple Things
  27. Gene Clark – No Other
  28. The Black Crowes – The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
  29. Horace Andy – Wicked Dem A Burn
  30. Altered Images – Pinky Blue
  31. Darkthrone – Introducing Darkthrone
  32. The Doors – L.A. Woman
  33. The Geraldine Fibbers – Lost Somewhere Between The Earth And My Home
  34. Curtis Mayfield – Curtis
  35. Bauhaus – The Sky’s Gone Out
  36. CAN – Future Days
  37. The Police – Zenyatta Mondatta
  38. Tom Waits – Alice
  39. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – s/t
  40. Tom Tom Club – s/t
  41. Wu-Tang Clan – Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers
  42. Kendra Smith – Five Ways Of Disappearing
  43. Brian Eno – Here Come The Warm Jets
  44. The Smithereens – Especially For You
  45. Steely Dan – Countdown To Ecstasy
  46. Sparks – Hello Young Lovers
  47. Stereolab – Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On Volume 2)
  48. Haysi Fantayzee – Battle Hymns For Children Singing
  49. The Time – Ice Cream Castle
  50. Martha & the Muffins – This Is The Ice Age

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