Ranking:
01. Bob Dylan – Time out of mind
02. R.E.M. – Automatic for the People
03. The Black Crowes – Southern harmony and musical companion
04. Mark Lanegan – I’ll take care of you
05. Oasis – (What’s the story) Morning glory
06. Element of Crime- Weißes Papier
07. Cracker – Kerosene hat
08. The Blue Aeroplanes – Beatsongs
09. The Jayhawks – Tomorrow the green grass
10. Manic Street Preachers – Everything must go
11. Wilco – Being there
12. Paul Weller – Wild Wood
13. Green On Red – Scapegoats
14. Nirvana – Unplugged in New York
15. Chuck Prophet – Homemade blood
16. Dakota Suite – Songs for a barbed wire fence
17. Wilco – Summerteeth
18. Jeff Buckley – Grace
19. The Jayhawks – Hollywood town hall
20. Built to Spill – Perfect from now on
21. Nirvana – Nevermind
22. Pearl Jam – Vs.
23. Lucinda Williams – Car wheels on a gravel road
24. U2 – Achtung Baby
25. Mick Jagger – Wandering spririt
26. Aimee Mann – Bachelor No. 2
27. Live – Throwing copper
28. Screaming Trees – Dust
29. Midnight Choir – Amsterdam stranded
30. Temple of the Dog – s/t
31. Izzy Stradlin – Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds
32. The Black Crowes – Amorica
33. World Party – Goodbye Jumbo
34. Tom Petty – Wildflowers
35. Hothouse Flowers – Home
36. Crowded House – Woodface
37. Grant Lee Buffalo – Fuzzy
38. Manic Street Preachers – This is my truth, tell me yours
39. XTC – Nonsuch
40. Therapy? – Troublegum
41. 16 Horsepower – Sackcloth ’n ashes
42. Elliott Smith – Either / Or
43. Chuck Prophet – Feast of hearts
44. The Gun Club – Lucky Jim
45. Radiohead – Ok Computer
46. Arc Angels – s/t
47. Cracker – The golden Age
48. Tragically Hip – Road apples
49. Del Amitri – Twisted
50. Billy Bragg & Wilco – Mermaid Avenue
51. Chris Whitley – Living with the law
52. R.E.M. – New adventures in Hi-Fi
53. Guns ’n Roses – Use your illusion II
54. Gary Floyd – World of Trouble
55. Fairport Convention – Cropredy Live
56. The Verve – Urban hymns
57. Johnny Cash – American recordings
58. Crowded House – Together alone
59. Black Box Recorder – England made me
60. Bonnie Prince Billy – I see a darkness
61. Social Distortion – White light, white heat, white trash
62. Element of Crime – Damals hinterm Mond
63. Sonny Landreth – South of I-10
64. Tragically Hip – Fully completely
65. Belle and Sebastian – Boy with the arab strap
66. Chuck Prophet – The hurting Business
67. Del Amitri – Change everything
68. Soundgarden – Superunknown
69. David Gray – White ladder
70. John Hiatt – Perfectly good guitar
71. Tool – Aenima
72. Palace Music – Viva Last Blues
73. Johnny Cash – American II: Unchained
74. The Bluetones – Expecting to fly
75. The Blue Aeroplanes – Swagger
76. Chris Cacavas – Pale blonde hell
77. Oasis – Definitely maybe
78. Blur – The great escape
79. Smashing Pumkpkins – Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness
80. Paul Weller – Stanley Road
81. Blur – Blur
82. Nick Cave – The boatman’s call
83. John Hiatt – Stolen moments
84. Sand Rubies – Release the hounds
85. Travis – The man who
86. Sand Rubies – Return of the living dead
87. Little Blue – Angels, horses and pirates
88. Elliott Smith – XO
89. Uncle Tupelo – Anodyne
90. Son Volt – Straightaways
91. Chris Cacavas – Good times
92. Whiskeytown – Strangers almanac
93. Redd Kross – Phaseshifter
94. The Auteurs – How I learned to love the bootboys
95. Todd Thibaud – Little mystery
96. Del Fuegos – Smoking in the fields
97. Immaculate Fools – Woodhouse
98. Dan Stuart – Can o‘ Worms
99. Richard Thompson – Mock tudor
100. Faith No More – Angel dust
01. – 19. *****
20. – 72. ****1/2
73. – 100. ****
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