KEXP celebrates its 40th anniversary by counting down the top albums of the past 40 years as chosen by KEXP listeners.
| Rank | Artist | Album | Buy Music |
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| 1 | Nirvana | Nevermind |  |
| 2 | Radiohead | OK Computer | |
| 3 | Pixies | Doolittle | |
| 4 | The Clash | London Calling | |
| 5 | U2 | The Joshua Tree | |
| 6 | Arcade Fire | Funeral | |
| 7 | David Bowie | The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust | |
| 8 | Radiohead | Kid A | |
| 9 | Pink Floyd | Dark Side Of The Moon | |
| 10 | Wilco | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | |
| 11 | Bob Dylan | Blood On The Tracks | |
| 12 | Sex Pistols | Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols | |
| 13 | Beastie Boys | Paul's Boutique | |
| 14 | The Rolling Stones | Exile On Mainstreet | |
| 15 | Michael Jackson | Thriller | |
| 16 | Joy Division | Unknown Pleasures | |
| 17 | Pearl Jam | Ten | |
| 18 | Prince and the Revolution | Purple Rain | |
| 19 | The Cure | Disintegration | |
| 20 | Pixies | Surfer Rosa | |
| 21 | Neutral Milk Hotel | In the Aeroplane Over The Sea | |
| 22 | Radiohead | The Bends | |
| 23 | Talking Heads | Stop Making Sense | |
| 24 | Led Zeppelin | Houses Of The Holy | |
| 25 | Fleetwood Mac | Rumors | |
| 26 | R.E.M. | Automatic For The People | |
| 27 | Paul Simon | Graceland | |
| 28 | New Order | Power, Corruption and Lies | |
| 29 | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead | |
| 30 | Smashing Pumpkins | Siamese Dream | |
| 31 | The Flaming Lips | Yoshimi vs. The Pink Robots | |
| 32 | Radiohead | In Rainbows | |
| 33 | Led Zeppelin | Physical Graffiti | |
| 34 | Beastie Boys | Licensed To Ill | |
| 35 | Weezer | Weezer | |
| 36 | Violent Femmes | Violent Femmes | |
| 37 | Neil Young | Harvest | |
| 38 | Jeff Buckley | Grace | |
| 39 | Sonic Youth | Daydream Nation | |
| 40 | Sufjan Stevens | Illinoise | |
| 41 | R.E.M. | Murmur | |
| 42 | The Magnetic Fields | 69 Love Songs | |
| 43 | Beck | Odelay | |
| 44 | The Ramones | The Ramones | |
| 45 | LCD Soundsystem | Sound Of Silver | |
| 46 | Pink Floyd | The Wall | |
| 47 | My Bloody Valentine | Loveless | |
| 48 | Massive Attack | Mezzanine | |
| 49 | AC/DC | Back In Black | |
| 50 | Depeche Mode | Violator | |
| 51 | Pretenders | Pretenders | |
| 52 | Patti Smith | Horses | |
| 53 | Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here | |
| 54 | Arcade Fire | The Suburbs | |
| 55 | Bruce Springsteen | Born To Run | |
| 56 | R.E.M. | Life's Rich Pageant | |
| 57 | Bob Marley | Legend | |
| 58 | Talking Heads | Remain In Light | |
| 59 | Elliott Smith | Either/Or | |
| 60 | Jane's Addiction | Nothing's Shocking | |
| 61 | Nirvana | Bleach | |
| 62 | Beastie Boys | Check Your Head | |
| 63 | Guns N' Roses | Appetite For Destruction | |
| 64 | Portishead | Dummy | |
| 65 | U2 | Achtung Baby | |
| 66 | Elliott Smith | XO | |
| 67 | Beastie Boys | Ill Communication | |
| 68 | The Postal Service | Give Up | |
| 69 | The National | Boxer | |
| 70 | Modest Mouse | The Moon And Antartica | |
| 71 | The White Stripes | Elephant | |
| 72 | Television | Marquee Moon | |
| 73 | Nirvana | MTV Unplugged | |
| 74 | Oasis | (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | |
| 75 | Peter Gabriel | So | |
| 76 | A Tribe Called Quest | Low End Theory | |
| 77 | The Replacements | Let It Be | |
| 78 | Elvis Costello | My Aim Is True | |
| 79 | The Stone Roses | The Stone Roses | |
| 80 | Joy Division | Closer | |
| 81 | The Cure | Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me | |
| 82 | Public Enemy | It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back | |
| 83 | Pavement | Slanted & Enchanted | |
| 84 | Interpol | Turn On The Bright Lights | |
| 85 | Nine Inch Nails | Pretty Hate Machine | |
| 86 | The White Stripes | White Blood Cells | |
| 87 | Liz Phair | Exile In Guyville | |
| 88 | Modest Mouse | The Lonesome Crowded West | |
| 89 | The Flaming Lips | Soft Bulletin | |
| 90 | Death Cab For Cutie | Transatlanticism | |
| 91 | Pavement | Crooked Rain Crooked Rain | |
| 92 | The Replacements | Tim | |
| 93 | Fugazi | 13 Songs | |
| 94 | The Clash | The Clash | |
| 95 | X | Los Angeles | |
| 96 | The Strokes | Is This It | |
| 97 | Nirvana | In Utero | |
| 98 | The B-52's | The B-52's | |
| 99 | Amy Winehouse | Back to Black | |
| 100 | The Police | Synchronicity | |
| 101 | Nick Drake | Pink Moon | |
| 102 | Fleet Foxes | Fleet Foxes | |
| 103 | U2 | War | |
| 104 | The Smiths | The Smiths | |
| 105 | Lou Reed | Transformer | |
| 106 | Modest Mouse | Good News For People Who Love Bad News | |
| 107 | Smashing Pumpkins | Gish | |
| 108 | LCD Soundsystem | This is Happening | |
| 109 | Belle & Sebastian | If You're Feeling Sinister | |
| 110 | Nine Inch Nails | Downward Spiral | |
| 111 | The Smiths | Louder Than Bombs | |
| 112 | U2 | The Unforgettable Fire | |
| 113 | DJ Shadow | Endtroducing | |
| 114 | Built to Spill | Keep It Like A Secret | |
| 115 | Kate Bush | Hounds Of Love | |
| 116 | The Who | Quadrophenia | |
| 117 | Talking Heads | Talking Heads '77 | |
| 118 | R.E.M. | Green | |
| 119 | The Smiths | Meat Is Murder | |
| 120 | Bon Iver | For Emma, Forever Ago | |
| 121 | Big Star | #1 Record | |
| 122 | Smashing Pumpkins | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | |
| 123 | PJ Harvey | Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea | |
| 124 | R.E.M | Reckoning | |
| 125 | The Cure | The Head on the Door | |
| 126 | De La Soul | 3 Feet High and Rising | |
| 127 | David Bowie | Heroes | |
| 128 | Stevie Wonder | Songs in the Key of Life | |
| 129 | LCD Soundsystem | LCD Soundsystem | |
| 130 | They Might Be Giants | Flood | |
| 131 | Devo | Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo | |
| 132 | The Cure | Boys Don't Cry | |
| 133 | The Shins | Oh, Inverted World | |
| 134 | Bruce Springsteen | Nebraska | |
| 135 | Neil Young | Rust Never Sleeps | |
| 136 | Elvis Costello and the Attractions | This Year's Model | |
| 137 | Gang of Four | Entertainment | |
| 138 | Elton John | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | |
| 139 | Jane's Addiction | Ritual de Lo Habitual | |
| 140 | Neko Case | Blacklisted | |
| 141 | Beck | Sea Change | |
| 142 | Bright Eyes | I'm Wide Awake, Its Morning | |
| 143 | Tom Waits | Rain Dogs | |
| 144 | Rage Against the Machine | Rage Against the Machine | |
| 145 | Lucinda Williams | Car Wheels on a Gravel Road | |
| 146 | Arcade Fire | Neon Bible | |
| 147 | The Stooges | Raw Power | |
| 148 | Bob Marley & the Wailers | Exodus | |
| 149 | Metallica | Master of Puppets | |
| 150 | Sigur Ros | Agaetis Byrujun | |
| 151 | Talking Heads | Speaking in Tongues | |
| 152 | Radiohead | Hail to the Thief | |
| 153 | Animal Collective | Merriweather Post Pavilion | |
| 154 | Sonic Youth | Goo | |
| 155 | Sugar | Copper Blue | |
| 156 | Weezer | Pinkerton | |
| 157 | Soundgarden | Badmotorfinger | |
| 158 | R.E.M. | Document | |
| 159 | The xx | The xx | |
| 160 | Moby | Play | |
| 161 | Radiohead | Amnesiac | |
| 162 | Death Cab For Cutie | Plans | |
| 163 | Coldplay | Parachutes | |
| 164 | The Decemberists | The Crane Wife | |
| 165 | The Cars | The Cars | |
| 166 | M83 | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | |
| 167 | INXS | Kick | |
| 168 | Johnny Cash | American IV | |
| 169 | Dead Kennedys | Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegteables | |
| 170 | Public Enemy | Fear of a Black Planet | |
| 171 | Depeche Mode | Music for the Masses | |
| 172 | Queen | A Night at the Opera | |
| 173 | R.E.M. | Fables of the Reconstruction | |
| 174 | Billy Bragg and Wilco | Mermaid Avenue | |
| 175 | Michael Jackson | Off the Wall | |
| 176 | James | Laid | |
| 177 | Yo La Tengo | I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One | |
| 178 | Neil Young | Harvest Moon | |
| 179 | The Replacements | Hootenanny | |
| 180 | NWA | Straight Out of Compton | |
| 181 | Marvin Gaye | Let's Get It On | |
| 182 | Sigur Ros | () | |
| 183 | Duran Duran | Rio | |
| 184 | The Cure | Standing on a Beach | |
| 185 | The Clash | Sandinista | |
| 186 | U2 | Boy | |
| 187 | The Rolling Stones | Some Girls | |
| 188 | Queens of the Stone Age | Songs for the Deaf | |
| 189 | Daft Punk | Discovery | |
| 190 | A Tribe Called Quest | Midnight Marauders | |
| 191 | Joni Mitchell | Court and Spark | |
| 192 | The Black Keys | Brothers | |
| 193 | My Morning Jacket | Z | |
| 194 | Band of Horses | Everything All the Time | |
| 195 | Tori Amos | Little Earthquakes | |
| 196 | The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow | |
| 197 | Gorillaz | Demon Days | |
| 198 | Modest Mouse | This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About | |
| 199 | Roxy Music | Avalon | |
| 200 | Talking Heads | More Songs About Buildings and Food | |
| 201 | Vampire Weekend | Vampire Weekend | |
| 202 | Pink Floyd | Animals | |
| 203 | Pulp | Different Class | |
| 204 | Bon Iver | Bon Iver | |
| 205 | Iggy Pop | Lust For Life | |
| 206 | Jesus and Mary Chain | Psychocandy | |
| 207 | Bruce Springsteen | Darkness on the Edge of Town | |
| 208 | The Clash | Combat Rock | |
| 209 | Beck | Mellow Gold | |
| 210 | XTC | Skylarking | |
| 211 | Adele | 21 | |
| 212 | Brian Eno | Here Come the Warm Jets | |
| 213 | Madonna | Like a Virgin | |
| 214 | Sigur Ros | Takk | |
| 215 | David Bowie | Low | |
| 216 | The National | High Violet | |
| 217 | Bjork | Post | |
| 218 | Beach House | Teen Dream | |
| 219 | The National | Alligator | |
| 220 | Stevie Wonder | Innervisions | |
| 221 | Husker Du | Zen Arcade | |
| 222 | New Order | Low Life | |
| 223 | The Pixies | Come On Pilgrim | |
| 224 | Blur | Parklife | |
| 225 | Bruce Springsteen | Born in the USA | |
| 226 | R.E.M. | Out of Time | |
| 227 | Echo & the Bunnymen | Ocean Rain | |
| 228 | Air | Moon Safari | |
| 229 | Blondie | Blondie | |
| 230 | Yeah Yeah Yeah's | Fever To Tell | |
| 231 | Neko Case | Fox Confessor Brings the Flood | |
| 232 | Wire | Pink Flag | |
| 233 | Neil Young | Decade | |
| 234 | Tom Waits | Mule Variations | |
| 235 | Bob Dylan | Desire | |
| 236 | Sleater-Kinney | Dig Me Out | |
| 237 | John Lennon | Double Fantasy | |
| 238 | Talking Heads | Fear of Music | |
| 239 | Broken Social Scene | You Forgot it in People | |
| 240 | Blondie | Parallel Lines | |
| 241 | Brian Eno | Another Green World | |
| 242 | Belle & Sebastian | The Boy With the Arab Strap | |
| 243 | Black Flag | Damaged | |
| 244 | The Smiths | Strangeways Here We Come | |
| 245 | Dinosaur Jr | You're Living All Over Me | |
| 246 | Outkast | Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | |
| 247 | PJ Harvey | Rid of Me | |
| 248 | The White Stripes | Icky Thump | |
| 249 | Matthew Sweet | Girlfriend | |
| 250 | Massive Attack | Blue Lines | |
| 251 | The Afghan Whigs | Gentlemen | |
| 252 | Bjork | Debut | |
| 253 | Alt-J | An Awesome Wave | |
| 254 | The Church | Starfish | |
| 255 | Run DMC | Raising Hell | |
| 256 | Depeche Mode | Black Celebration | |
| 257 | New Order | Movement | |
| 258 | Buzzcocks | Singles Going Steady | |
| 259 | Prince | 1999 | |
| 260 | Snoop Dogg | Doggystyle | |
| 261 | The Ramones | Rocket To Russia | |
| 262 | XTC | English Settlement | |
| 263 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessnessblues | |
| 264 | MGMT | Oracular Spectacular | |
| 265 | The Specials | The Specials | |
| 266 | Jay-Z | The Blueprint | |
| 267 | Deerhunter | Halcyon Digest | |
| 268 | Cake | Fashion Nugget | |
| 269 | At The Drive In | Relationship of Command | |
| 270 | Soundgarden | Superunknown | |
| 271 | My Morning Jacket | It Still Moves | |
| 272 | Radiohead | Pablo Honey | |
| 273 | Elbow | The Seldom Seen Kid | |
| 274 | DeVotchka | How It Ends | |
| 275 | Hole | Live Through This | |
| 276 | Ryan Adams | Heartbreaker | |
| 277 | The Smiths | Hatful of Hollow | |
| 278 | The English Beat | Special Beat Service | |
| 279 | The Jam | All Mod Cons | |
| 280 | Iron & Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days | |
| 281 | The Band | The Last Waltz | |
| 282 | Sinead O' Connor | I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got | |
| 283 | Daft Punk | Homework | |
| 284 | The White Stripes | The White Stripes | |
| 285 | Spoon | Gimme Fiction | |
| 286 | Wilco | Summerteeth | |
| 287 | Kraftwerk | Trans Europe Express | |
| 288 | Uncle Tupelo | No Depression | |
| 289 | M.I.A. | Kala | |
| 290 | The Shins | Wincing the Night Away | |
| 291 | Cat Power | The Greatest | |
| 292 | The Black Keys | El Camino | |
| 293 | Bjork | Homogenic | |
| 294 | Gillian Welch | Time (The Revelator) | |
| 295 | Beck | Mutations | |
| 296 | The Head and The Heart | The Head and The Heart | |
| 297 | Yaz | Upstairs at Eric's | |
| 298 | Sunny Day Real Estate | Diary | |
| 299 | The Pogues | Rum Sodomy & The Lash | |
| 300 | Wilco | Being There | |
| 301 | Eurythmics | Sweet Dreams | |
| 302 | Heart | Dreamboat Annie | |
| 303 | Arctic Monkeys | Whatever People Say, That's What I'm Not | |
| 304 | Al Green | Let's Stay Together | |
| 305 | Various Artists | The Harder They Come OST | |
| 306 | Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand | |
| 307 | Grateful Dead | Europe '72 | |
| 308 | Minutemen | Double Nickels on the Dime | |
| 309 | The Modern Lovers | The Modern Lovers | |
| 310 | Tom Waits | Swordfishtrombones | |
| 311 | Dire Straits | Brothers in Arms | |
| 312 | Spoon | Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | |
| 313 | T Rex | The Slider | |
| 314 | David Bowie | Station to Station | |
| 315 | Brian Eno and David Byrne | My Life In the Bush of Ghosts | |
| 316 | The English Beat | I Just Can't Stop | |
| 317 | Joe Jackson | Look Sharp | |
| 318 | Neil Young | Tonight's the Night | |
| 319 | Elliott Smith | Figure 8 | |
| 320 | The Mountain Goats | The Sunset Tree | |
| 321 | U2 | Rattle and Hum | |
| 322 | The Pixies | Trompe Le Monde | |
| 323 | Jane's Addiction | Jane's Addiction | |
| 324 | Elliott Smith | Elliott Smith | |
| 325 | Leonard Cohen | I'm Your Man | |
| 326 | Big Star | Radio City | |
| 327 | Morrissey | Viva Hate | |
| 328 | Oasis | Definitely Maybe | |
| 329 | Tricky | Maxinquaye | |
| 330 | Built to Spill | There's Nothing Wrong With Love | |
| 331 | David Bowie | Young Americans | |
| 332 | PJ Harvey | To Bring You My Love | |
| 333 | Pearl Jam | Vs | |
| 334 | Dinosaur Jr | Bug | |
| 335 | Gorillaz | Gorillaz | |
| 336 | Wolf Parade | Apologies to the Queen Mary | |
| 337 | David Bowie | Diamond Dogs | |
| 338 | The White Stripes | Get Behind Me Satan | |
| 339 | Roxy Music | Roxy Music | |
| 340 | The Decemberists | Picaresque | |
| 341 | Neko Case | Furnace Room Lullaby | |
| 342 | Nada Surf | Let Go | |
| 343 | Bob Marley & the Wailers | Catch a Fire | |
| 344 | The Black Keys | Rubber Factory | |
| 345 | The Dandy Warhols | Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia | |
| 346 | Devo | Freedom of Choice | |
| 347 | Elliott Smith | From a Basement on a Hill | |
| 348 | New Order | Technique | |
| 349 | The Verve | Urban Hymns | |
| 350 | David Bowie | Let's Dance | |
| 351 | The Cult | Love | |
| 352 | The Chemical Brothers | Dig Your Own Hole | |
| 353 | The Pogues | If I Should Fall From Grace With God | |
| 354 | Echo & the Bunnymen | Songs To Learn And Sing | |
| 355 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Mother's Milk | |
| 356 | Bjork | Vespertine | |
| 357 | Love and Rockets | Express | |
| 358 | Explosions in the Sky | The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | |
| 359 | The Decemberists | The King is Dead | |
| 360 | PJ Harvey | Dry | |
| 361 | Beck | Guero | |
| 362 | The Wrens | The Meadowlands | |
| 363 | The Police | Zenyatta Monatta | |
| 364 | The Cure | Pornography | |
| 365 | The The | Soul Mining | |
| 366 | Willie Nelson | Red Headed Stranger | |
| 367 | A Tribe Called Quest | Beats, Rhymes and Life | |
| 368 | Chemical Brothers | Exit Planet Dust | |
| 369 | Slint | Spiderland | |
| 370 | Silversun Pickups | Carnavas | |
| 371 | Boards of Canada | Music Has the Right To Children | |
| 372 | Beirut | The Gulag Orkestar | |
| 373 | Iron & Wine | The Creek Drank The Cradle | |
| 374 | The Police | Outlandos d'Amour | |
| 375 | Sigur Ros | Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endaluasst | |
| 376 | Tears for Fears | Songs From the Big Chair | |
| 377 | X | Under the Big Black Sun | |
| 378 | Metallica | The Black Album | |
| 379 | Nas | Illmatic | |
| 380 | Faith No More | The Real Thing | |
| 381 | Outkast | Stankonia | |
| 382 | Of Monsters and Men | My Head is an Animal | |
| 383 | The Jam | In the City | |
| 384 | Pearl Jam | Vitalogy | |
| 385 | Curtis Mayfield | Superfly | |
| 386 | Cocteau Twins | Heaven or Las Vegas | |
| 387 | AC/DC | Highway to Hell | |
| 388 | Ride | Nowhere | |
| 389 | Dire Straits | Dire Straits | |
| 390 | Spoon | Kill the Moonlight | |
| 391 | The Posies | Dear 23 | |
| 392 | Son Volt | Trace | |
| 393 | Neko Case | Middle Cyclone | |
| 394 | Avett Brothers | I and Love and You | |
| 395 | Whiskeytown | Strangers Almanac | |
| 396 | Band of Horses | Cease to Begin | |
| 397 | Peter Gabriel | Peter Gabriel (I) | |
| 398 | Frank Zappa | Joe's Garage | |
| 399 | The Notorious B.I.G. | Ready to Die | |
| 400 | Eric B & Rakim | Paid in Full | |
| 401 | Kraftwerk | Autobahn | |
| 402 | XTC | Drums and Wires | |
| 403 | Sonic Youth | Dirty | |
| 404 | Elvis Costello and the Attractions | Imperial Bedroom | |
| 405 | Uncle Tupelo | Anodyne | |
| 406 | Bruce Springsteen | The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle | |
| 407 | They Might Be Giants | They Might Be Giants | |
| 408 | The Pixies | Bossanova | |
| 409 | Queen | News of the World | |
| 410 | Black Sabbath | Vol 4 | |
| 411 | Catherine Wheel | Ferment | |
| 412 | Brian Eno | Taking Tiger Mountain | |
| 413 | Luna | Penthouse | |
| 414 | Spiritualized | Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | |
| 415 | Built to Spill | You In Reverse | |
| 416 | Cut Copy | In Ghost Colors | |
| 417 | Ryan Adams | Gold | |
| 418 | Mclusky | Mclusky Do Dallas | |
| 419 | The Black Angels | Passover | |
| 420 | The New Pornographers | Twin Cinema | |
| 421 | Elvis Costello | Armed Forces | |
| 422 | Yo La Tengo | And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out | |
| 423 | David Bowie | Scary Monsters | |
| 424 | The Smiths | How Soon Is Now? | |
| 425 | Prince | Sign 'O' The Times | |
| 426 | Various Artists | Saturday Night Fever OST | |
| 427 | The Ramones | Road to Ruin | |
| 428 | Talking Heads | Little Creatures | |
| 429 | Stevie Wonder | Talking Book | |
| 430 | Husker Du | Candy Apple Grey | |
| 431 | Dinosaur Jr | Where You Been | |
| 432 | Tom Petty | Full Moon Fever | |
| 433 | Sonic Youth | Sister | |
| 434 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake | |
| 435 | The Beta Band | The Three EPs | |
| 436 | The Black Keys | Thickfreakness | |
| 437 | The Clash | Give em Enough Rope | |
| 438 | Husker Du | New Day Rising | |
| 439 | Kraftwerk | Computer World | |
| 440 | The Breeders | Last Splash | |
| 441 | Death Cab For Cutie | The Photo Album | |
| 442 | Cat Power | Moon Pix | |
| 443 | Garbage | Garbage | |
| 444 | M83 | Saturdays=Youth | |
| 445 | Massive Attack | Protection | |
| 446 | Talk Talk | Laughing Stock | |
| 447 | The Police | Reggatta de Blanc | |
| 448 | TV on the Radio | Return To Cookie Mountain | |
| 449 | Soul Coughing | Ruby Vroom | |
| 450 | The Tallest Man on Earth | The Wild Hunt | |
| 451 | The Lumineers | The Lumineers | |
| 452 | The Avett Brothers | Emotionalism | |
| 453 | The Mountain Goats | Tallahassee | |
| 454 | Bright Eyes | Lifted or the Story is in the Soil... | |
| 455 | TV on the Radio | Dear Science | |
| 456 | The Jesus and Mary Chain | Darklands | |
| 457 | Queen | Sheer Heart Attack | |
| 458 | Pavement | Wowee Zowee | |
| 459 | The Psychedelic Furs | Talk Talk Talk | |
| 460 | Archers of Loaf | Icky Mettle | |
| 461 | ABBA | ABBA | |
| 462 | Iggy Pop | The Idiot | |
| 463 | Galaxie 500 | This Is Our Music | |
| 464 | Elbow | Build A Rocket Boys | |
| 465 | The Jayhawks | Hollywood Town Hall | |
| 466 | Helio Sequence | Keep Your Eyes Ahead | |
| 467 | Johnny Cash | American Recording I | |
| 468 | Slowdive | Soulvaki | |
| 469 | Brian Eno | Music For Airports | |
| 470 | Radiohead | The King of Limbs | |
| 471 | U2 | Under a Blood Red Sky | |
| 472 | Kanye West | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | |
| 473 | Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers | Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers | |
| 474 | Cowboy Junkies | The Trinity Sessions | |
| 475 | Madonna | Madonna | |
| 476 | M.I.A. | Arular | |
| 477 | Warren Zevon | Excitable Boy | |
| 478 | The Waterboys | This is the Sea | |
| 479 | The Jam | Sound Affects | |
| 480 | Spoon | Girls Can Tell | |
| 481 | Laurie Anderson | Big Science | |
| 482 | Buena Vista Social Club | Buena Vista Social Club | |
| 483 | Guided By Voices | Alien Lanes | |
| 484 | Bob Dylan | Time Out of Mind | |
| 485 | Blue Scholars | Blue Scholars | |
| 486 | Mudhoney | Superfuzz Bigmuff | |
| 487 | Yeah Yeah Yeah's | It's Blitz | |
| 488 | ZZ Top | Tres Hombres | |
| 489 | We Are Augustines | Rise Ye Sunken Ships | |
| 490 | Damien Rice | O | |
| 491 | John Lennon | Mind Games | |
| 492 | New York Dolls | New York Dolls | |
| 493 | U2 | Zooropa | |
| 494 | Peter Tosh | Equal Rights | |
| 495 | The Who | The Kids Are Alright | |
| 496 | Operation Ivy | Energy | |
| 497 | Richard Hell and the Voidoids | Blank Generation | |
| 498 | U2 | October | |
| 499 | Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five | The Message | |
| 500 | Public Enemy | Apocalypse '91 | |
| 501 | Happy Mondays | Pills, Thrills, & Bellyaches | |
| 502 | Teenage Fanclub | Bandwagonesque | |
| 503 | Run-DMC | Run-DMC | |
| 504 | Wire | 154 | |
| 505 | Joe Jackson | I'm the Man | |
| 506 | Rolling Stones | Tattoo You | |
| 507 | Bad Brains | Bad Brains | |
| 508 | Primal Scream | Screamadelica | |
| 509 | Fugazi | Repeater | |
| 510 | Paul McCartney & Wings | Band On the Run | |
| 511 | Digable Planets | Reachin... | |
| 512 | Billy Bragg | Talking With the Taxman About Poetry | |
| 513 | Gil Scott-Heron | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | |
| 514 | The La's | The La's | |
| 515 | The Cars | Candy-O | |
| 516 | Bauhaus | The Sky's Gone Out | |
| 517 | Portishead | Portishead | |
| 518 | Emmylou Harris | Wrecking Ball | |
| 519 | A Tribe Called Quest | People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm | |
| 520 | Mudhoney | Mudhoney | |
| 521 | Cheap Trick | Live at Budokon | |
| 522 | Ramones | Rock N Roll High School | |
| 523 | Fleetwood Mac | Tusk | |
| 524 | Ministry | The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste | |
| 525 | Adam & the Ants | Kings of the Wild Frontier | |
| 526 | Depeche Mode | Some Great Reward | |
| 527 | The Sugarcubes | Life's Too Good | |
| 528 | Motorhead | Ace of Spades | |
| 529 | Mazzy Star | So Tonight I Might See | |
| 530 | Al Green | Call Me | |
| 531 | Harry Nilsson | Son of Schmilsson | |
| 532 | The Jam | The Gift | |
| 533 | Dead Kennedys | Plastic Surgery Disasters | |
| 534 | Buzzcocks | Love Bites | |
| 535 | The Cure | Wish | |
| 536 | The Dead Milkmen | Beezlabubba | |
| 537 | Radiohead | I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings | |
| 538 | Blur | Modern Life is Rubbish | |
| 539 | Big Black | Songs About Fucking | |
| 540 | Frankie Goes to Hollywood | Welcome to the Pleasuredome | |
| 541 | The Vaselines | The Way of the Vaselines | |
| 542 | The Lemonheads | It's a Shame About Ray | |
| 543 | Sebadoh | Bakesale | |
| 544 | The Police | Ghost in the Machine | |
| 545 | Johnny Cash | Unchained | |
| 546 | Mission of Burma | Vs | |
| 547 | Squeeze | Cool for Cats | |
| 548 | R.E.M. | Monster | |
| 549 | The Ramones | End of the Century | |
| 550 | New Order | Republic | |
| 551 | The Go-Gos | Beauty and the Beat | |
| 552 | Echo & the Bunnymen | Crocodiles | |
| 553 | Herbie Hancock | Headhunters | |
| 554 | Dead Milkmen | Big Lizard in My Backyard | |
| 555 | Sleater-Kinney | Call the Doctor | |
| 556 | Throwing Muses | The Real Ramona | |
| 557 | Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | |
| 558 | The The | Dusk | |
| 559 | Parliament | Mothership Connection | |
| 560 | The Posies | Frosting on the Beater | |
| 561 | Crowded House | Crowded House | |
| 562 | The Sundays | Reading, Writing and Arithmetic | |
| 563 | Doves | Last Broadcast | |
| 564 | Buzzcocks | Different Kind of Tension | |
| 565 | Dolly Parton | Jolene | |
| 566 | Pavement | Brighten the Corners | |
| 567 | Bauhaus | Crackle | |
| 568 | Siouxsie & the Banshees | Peepshow | |
| 569 | Electric Light Orchestra | Out of the Blue | |
| 570 | Killing Joke | Killing Joke | |
| 571 | Mission of Burma | Singles, Calls, and Marches | |
| 572 | Dinosaur Jr | Green Mind | |
| 573 | James Brown | Get on the Good Foot | |
| 574 | Depeche Mode | Speak and Spell | |
| 575 | Ben Harper | Fight for Your Mind | |
| 576 | Jesus and Mary Chain | Automatic | |
| 577 | X | Wild Gift | |
| 578 | Jurassic 5 | Quality Control | |
| 579 | The Cure | Seventeen Seconds | |
| 580 | Mazzy Star | She Hangs Brightly | |
| 581 | Doves | Lost Souls | |
| 582 | Lou Reed | New York | |
| 583 | Jawbreaker | 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | |
| 584 | Peter Gabriel | Peter Gabriel III | |
| 585 | Underworld | dubnobasswithmyhead | |
| 586 | Low | Things We Lost in the Fire | |
| 587 | The Damned | Machine Gun Ettique | |
| 588 | Dismemberment Plan | Emergency & I | |
| 589 | The Thermals | The Body, the Blood, The Machine | |
| 590 | Frank Black | Teenager of the Year | |
| 591 | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | Let Love In | |
| 592 | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | |
| 593 | Beck | Modern Guilt | |
| 594 | Eels | Souljacker | |
| 595 | TV on the Radio | Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | |
| 596 | M83 | Before the Dawn Heals Us | |
| 597 | The Walkmen | Bows + Arrows | |
| 598 | Ned's Atomic Dustbin | Godfodder | |
| 599 | Mogwai | Young Team | |
| 600 | Belle & Sebastian | Tigermilk | |
| 601 | Ween | Chocolate and Cheese | |
| 602 | Catherine Wheel | Chrome | |
| 603 | Hold Steady | Boys and Girls in America | |
| 604 | The Jayhawks | Tomorrow the Green Grass | |
| 605 | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis | Vs | |
| 606 | Ministry | Psalm 69 | |
| 607 | Gary Numan | Pleasure Principal | |
| 608 | The Knife | Silent Shout | |
| 609 | Yo La Tengo | Fakebook | |
| 610 | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | |
| 611 | Beck | Stereopathetic Soulmanure | |
| 612 | Talk Talk | Spirit of Eden | |
| 613 | The Cult | Sonic Temple | |
| 614 | James Brown | The Payback | |
| 615 | Wedding Present | Seamonsters | |
| 616 | The Dandy Warhols | Come Down | |
| 617 | Blur | Leisure | |
| 618 | Bob Marley & the Wailers | Burnin' | |
| 619 | Fugazi | The Argument | |
| 620 | Meat Puppets | Meat Puppets II | |
| 621 | Tom Waits | Bone Machine | |
| 622 | Blur | Think Tank | |
| 623 | Daniel Johnston | Hi, How Are You | |
| 624 | Gnarls Barkley | St. Elsewhere | |
| 625 | The B-52s | Wild Planet | |
| 626 | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | |
| 627 | The Long Winters | When I Pretend to Fall | |
| 628 | Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans | |
| 629 | Grant Lee Buffalo | Mighty Joe Moon | |
| 630 | Mark Lanegan | Whiskey For the Holy Ghost | |
| 631 | Psychedelic Furs | Psychedelic Furs | |
| 632 | Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works | |
| 633 | Peter Bjorn and John | Writer's Block | |
| 634 | Digable Planets | Blowout Comb | |
| 635 | Depeche Mode | Songs of Faith and Devotion | |
| 636 | Godspeed You Black Emperor | Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas Up to Heaven | |
| 637 | Elbow | Leaders of the Free World | |
| 638 | Interpol | Antics | |
| 639 | Foals | Total Life Forever | |
| 640 | Wilco | Sky Blue Sky | |
| 641 | Snow Patrol | Final Straw | |
| 642 | Wedding Present | Bizarro | |
| 643 | Phoenix | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | |
| 644 | Shabazz Palaces | Black Up | |
| 645 | Ryan Adams | Love is Hell | |
| 646 | Visqueen | Message to Garcia | |
| 647 | Cat Power | You Are Free | |
| 648 | Okkervill River | Black Sheep Boy | |
| 649 | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | Howl | |
| 650 | The Flaming Lips | At War With the Mystics | |
