1. Dire Straits – Making Movies
  2. Daryl Hall & John Oates – Private Eyes
  3. Valerie Dore – The Night
  4. Nico – The Marble Index
  5. The Flesh Eaters – A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die
  6. Nat King Cole – Love Is The Thing
  7. Talk Talk – It’s My Life
  8. Royal Trux – Accelerator
  9. Queens Of The Stone Age – Rated R
  10. Pylon – Gyrate
  11. Sea Hags – s/t
  12. Bus Boys – Minimum Wage Rock & Roll
  13. Gun Club – Lucky Jim
  14. Billy Joel – Glass Houses
  15. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
  16. Los Lobos – La Pistola Y El Corazón
  17. Keren Ann – La Disparition
  18. Tangerine Dream – Phaedra
  19. A Tribe Called Quest – People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
  20. UFO – Force It
  21. Abba – The Album
  22. Yo La Tengo – Painful
  23. Ozzy Osbourne – Blizzard of Ozz
  24. Blonde Redhead – La Mia Vita Violenta
  25. Tortoise – s/t
  26. Michael Jackson – Off The Wall
  27. Black Flag – Damaged
  28. Edie Brickell & New Bohemians – Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars
  29. Masters Of Reality – s/t
  30. Dave Edmunds – Repeat When Necessary
  31. The Pogues – Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
  32. Babes In Toyland – Fontanelle
  33. Ramones – Road To Ruin
  34. Derrick May – Innovator
  35. Woodentops – Well Well Well
  36. Prince – Controversy
  37. Ben Folds Five – Whatever And Ever Amen
  38. The White Stripes – De Stijl
  39. Permanent Record – soundtrack
  40. Ultravox – Systems Of Romance
  41. The Godfathers – Birth School Work Death
  42. Section 25 – From The Hip
  43. Maze feat. Frankie Beverly – s/t
  44. Rolling Stones – Aftermath
  45. Lisa Stansfield – Affection
  46. Bryan Ferry – Boys And Girls
  47. Spooky Tooth – That Was Only Yesterday: The Best Of
  48. Syd Barrett – Opel
  49. Queen Latifah – All Hail The Queen
  50. True West – Hollywood Holiday

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