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Sep 24
Weezer
Pinkerton
72
critic score
(10)
84
user score
(3,533)
Oct 22
Swans
Soundtracks For The Blind
97
critic score
(3)
91
user score
(2,785)
Jun 18
Beck
Odelay
92
critic score
(10)
83
user score
(1,003)
Mar 26
Neutral Milk Hotel
On Avery Island
71
critic score
(7)
78
user score
(946)
Jun 1
Metallica
Load
70
critic score
(9)
59
user score
(879)
Apr 16
Modest Mouse
This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
81
critic score
(4)
83
user score
(798)
Feb 5
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Murder Ballads
77
critic score
(8)
85
user score
(649)
Apr 9
Stereolab
Emperor Tomato Ketchup
89
critic score
(4)
83
user score
(458)
Apr 9
Unwound
Repetition
90
critic score
(1)
85
user score
(447)
Jul 30
Sublime
Sublime
85
critic score
(3)
76
user score
(403)
Oct 29
Wilco
Being There
83
critic score
(8)
82
user score
(321)
Aug 13
Failure
Fantastic Planet
75
critic score
(2)
83
user score
(317)
May 7
The Cure
Wild Mood Swings
57
critic score
(7)
58
user score
(280)
Aug 27
Pearl Jam
No Code
66
critic score
(10)
71
user score
(272)
Jan 30
Tortoise
Millions Now Living Will Never Die
87
critic score
(3)
81
user score
(272)
Jul 16
Placebo
Placebo
73
critic score
(3)
78
user score
(248)
Jul 30
Alice in Chains
Unplugged
53
critic score
(3)
87
user score
(240)
Sep 9
R.E.M.
New Adventures in Hi-Fi
82
critic score
(11)
77
user score
(230)
May 21
Soundgarden
Down on the Upside
64
critic score
(6)
75
user score
(229)
Sep 17
The Cardigans
First Band on the Moon
80
critic score
(8)
81
user score
(222)
Nov 12
Bowery Electric
Beat
80
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(216)
Aug 6
The Olivia Tremor Control
Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle
88
critic score
(5)
83
user score
(194)
Sep 17
CAKE
Fashion Nugget
67
critic score
(4)
77
user score
(187)
Jan 22
Radiohead
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
80
critic score
(1)
92
user score
(186)
May 20
Manic Street Preachers
Everything Must Go
87
critic score
(7)
81
user score
(185)
Sep 2
Suede
Coming Up
81
critic score
(8)
79
user score
(179)
1996
Swans
Die Tür ist zu
90
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(176)
Oct 1
Silver Jews
The Natural Bridge
65
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(174)
Mar 25
Sleater-Kinney
Call The Doctor
84
critic score
(4)
79
user score
(161)
Mar 26
Stone Temple Pilots
Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
50
critic score
(6)
75
user score
(154)
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Jun 11
Cardiacs
Sing to God
88
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(154)
Aug 13
Eels
Beautiful Freak
71
critic score
(6)
80
user score
(133)
Sep 11
Porcupine Tree
Signify
90
critic score
(2)
73
user score
(129)
Aug 6
Modest Mouse
Interstate 8
80
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(128)
Jan 23
The Smashing Pumpkins
1979
96
user score
(128)
Jan 14
12 RODS
Gay?
80
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(127)
Apr 1
Swirlies
They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days In the Glittering World of the Salons
70
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(123)
Apr 2
Butthole Surfers
Electriclarryland
59
critic score
(6)
70
user score
(120)
Oct 1
Matchbox 20
Yourself or Someone Like You
75
critic score
(2)
71
user score
(112)
Apr 30
The Cranberries
To the Faithful Departed
62
critic score
(5)
70
user score
(109)
Apr 23
Spoon
Telephono
62
critic score
(3)
68
user score
(96)
Oct 29
Heatmiser
Mic City Sons
83
critic score
(4)
77
user score
(95)
Sep 24
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow
81
critic score
(8)
76
user score
(92)
Jun 25
Screaming Trees
Dust
80
critic score
(8)
78
user score
(90)
Sep 19
Weezer
El Scorcho
60
critic score
(1)
87
user score
(89)
Nov 19
O(+>
Emancipation
73
critic score
(6)
73
user score
(88)
Jul 9
O(+>
Chaos and Disorder
53
critic score
(6)
64
user score
(87)
Sep 10
Cat Power
What Would the Community Think
84
critic score
(5)
75
user score
(85)
Jul 23
Red House Painters
Songs for a Blue Guitar
72
critic score
(6)
79
user score
(81)
Apr 30
Dave Matthews Band
Crash
72
critic score
(5)
74
user score
(80)
Sep 10
Rush
Test for Echo
68
critic score
(2)
54
user score
(78)
Feb 19
Oasis
Don't Look Back in Anger
80
critic score
(1)
91
user score
(78)
Sep 24
PJ Harvey and John Parish
Dance Hall at Louse Point
68
critic score
(7)
72
user score
(77)
1996
Weezer
Songs From the Black Hole
83
user score
(77)
Oct 29
Weezer
The Good Life
91
user score
(76)
Mar 26
Brainiac
Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
83
critic score
(4)
79
user score
(75)
Jul 23
Jimmy Eat World
Static Prevails
60
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(72)
May 20
Super Furry Animals
Fuzzy Logic
82
critic score
(7)
77
user score
(71)
Jun 18
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request
90
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(71)
May 28
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Take It From the Man!
85
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(68)
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