1. Howe Gelb – Hisser
2. Gillian Welch – Hell Among The Yearlings
3. Belle & Sebastian – The Boy With The Arab Strab
4. PJ Harvey – Is This Desire?
5. Calexico – The Black Light
6. Billy Brag & Wilco – Mermaid Avenue
7. 22-Pistepirkko – Eleven
8. Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos – The Prosthetic Cubans
9. Golden Smog – Weird Tales
10. Elliot Smith – XO
11. Mercury Rev – Dester’s Songs
12. Pulp – This Is Hardcore
13. Freakwater – Springtime
14. Fink – Loch In Der Welt
15. Massive Attack – Mezzanine
16. Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
17. Madonna – Ray Of Light
18. Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
19. Mark Hollis – s/t
20. Lambchop – What Another Man Spills
21. Sparlehorse – Good Morning Spider
22. The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
23. Midnight Choir – Amsterdam Stranded
24. Gomez – Bring It On
25. Faithless – Sunday 8 P.M.
26. Jimmy Page & Robert Plant – Walking Into Clarksdale
27. Cracker – Gentleman’s Blues
28. Bright Eyes – Letting Off the Happiness
29. Portishead – Roseland NYC Live
30. Air – Moon Safari
31. Cake – Prolonging The Magic
32. Dakota Suite – Songs for a Barbed Wire Fence
33. Hazeldine – Digging You Up
34. Rufus Wainwright – s/t
35. Eels – Electro-Shock Blues
36. Jeff Buckley – Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
37. The Bluetones – Return to the Last Chance Saloon
38. The Cruel Sea – Over Easy
39. Mansun – Six
40. Beck – Mutations
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