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Feb 10
Neutral Milk Hotel
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
87
critic score
(12)
90
user score
(6,919)
Feb 24
Duster
Stratosphere
85
critic score
(3)
85
user score
(2,241)
Sep 22
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age
76
critic score
(5)
74
user score
(833)
Jun 8
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
F♯ A♯ ∞ [Expanded Version]
78
critic score
(3)
92
user score
(598)
Sep 29
PJ Harvey
Is This Desire?
72
critic score
(11)
83
user score
(513)
Jun 2
The Smashing Pumpkins
Adore
70
critic score
(8)
79
user score
(503)
Oct 20
Silver Jews
American Water
81
critic score
(7)
82
user score
(502)
Jan 12
Radiohead
No Surprises
96
user score
(385)
Sep 29
Shakira
¿Dónde Están los Ladrones?
83
critic score
(3)
81
user score
(371)
Mar 10
Tortoise
TNT
77
critic score
(6)
83
user score
(369)
Jan 20
Swans
Swans Are Dead
79
critic score
(2)
90
user score
(351)
Sep 8
Sunny Day Real Estate
How It Feels to Be Something On
91
critic score
(3)
85
user score
(339)
Oct 12
Placebo
Without You I'm Nothing
70
critic score
(6)
79
user score
(310)
Sep 8
Hole
Celebrity Skin
75
critic score
(9)
78
user score
(309)
Aug 24
UNKLE
Psyence Fiction
78
critic score
(9)
81
user score
(297)
Nov 3
Beck
Mutations
82
critic score
(11)
78
user score
(294)
Feb 3
Pearl Jam
Yield
73
critic score
(9)
76
user score
(289)
Jun 9
Don Caballero
What Burns Never Returns
81
critic score
(2)
77
user score
(280)
Mar 30
Pulp
This Is Hardcore
79
critic score
(12)
82
user score
(279)
May 5
Tori Amos
From the Choirgirl Hotel
75
critic score
(9)
86
user score
(275)
May 12
Sonic Youth
A Thousand Leaves
72
critic score
(7)
75
user score
(239)
Aug 5
bôa
Duvet
96
user score
(187)
May 11
Garbage
Version 2.0
75
critic score
(7)
79
user score
(176)
Jul 20
Sparklehorse
Good Morning Spider
87
critic score
(8)
84
user score
(168)
Nov 3
Alanis Morissette
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
63
critic score
(10)
79
user score
(163)
Feb 2
Mark Hollis
Mark Hollis
95
critic score
(4)
81
user score
(161)
Sep 21
Eels
Electro-Shock Blues
77
critic score
(6)
82
user score
(159)
Aug 18
Death Cab for Cutie
Something About Airplanes
75
critic score
(6)
75
user score
(159)
Oct 26
R.E.M.
Up
74
critic score
(11)
70
user score
(157)
Jan 27
Hum
Downward Is Heavenward
87
critic score
(2)
84
user score
(151)
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Mar 25
Boredoms
Super æ
78
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(143)
Oct 13
Neutral Milk Hotel
Holland, 1945
95
user score
(142)
May 26
Jeff Buckley
Sketches for My Sweetheart The Drunk
77
critic score
(9)
78
user score
(136)
May 5
Spoon
A Series of Sneaks
87
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(126)
Mar 31
Dirty Three
Ocean Songs
85
critic score
(4)
76
user score
(125)
Sep 14
Manic Street Preachers
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
78
critic score
(10)
74
user score
(123)
Nov 3
Oasis
The Masterplan
75
critic score
(8)
83
user score
(122)
Sep 22
Goo Goo Dolls
Dizzy Up the Girl
63
critic score
(6)
72
user score
(122)
Jul 28
12 RODS
Split Personalities
89
critic score
(2)
83
user score
(122)
Nov 24
Metallica
Garage Inc.
66
critic score
(6)
68
user score
(120)
Jun 23
Billy Bragg & Wilco
Mermaid Avenue
77
critic score
(6)
73
user score
(110)
Oct 20
New Radicals
Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
69
critic score
(9)
81
user score
(110)
Oct 27
Melt-Banana
"Charlie"
50
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(106)
Aug 18
Kid Rock
Devil Without a Cause
66
critic score
(4)
25
user score
(105)
Apr 21
Radiohead
Airbag / How Am I Driving?
82
critic score
(3)
79
user score
(101)
Oct 1
The Cardigans
Gran Turismo
64
critic score
(8)
76
user score
(99)
Feb 10
Bedhead
Transaction de Novo
87
critic score
(4)
82
user score
(86)
Oct 2
Faye Wong
唱遊
81
user score
(83)
Sep 28
The Beta Band
The Three E.P.'s
82
critic score
(8)
82
user score
(83)
Aug 25
Godsmack
Godsmack
60
critic score
(1)
55
user score
(82)
Mar 17
Van Halen
Van Halen III
52
critic score
(3)
26
user score
(81)
Mar 24
Buckethead
Colma
60
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(72)
Apr 7
Goo Goo Dolls
Iris
50
critic score
(1)
92
user score
(71)
Oct 6
CAKE
Prolonging the Magic
61
critic score
(6)
72
user score
(69)
Oct 27
Jets to Brazil
Orange Rhyming Dictionary
84
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(67)
Aug 11
Liz Phair
whitechocolatespaceegg
68
critic score
(7)
73
user score
(67)
Jul 1
bôa
The Race of a Thousand Camels
80
user score
(66)
Nov 27
David Gray
White Ladder
73
critic score
(5)
75
user score
(65)
Mar 11
Nickelback
The State
40
critic score
(1)
49
user score
(62)
Jul 7
Barenaked Ladies
Stunt
45
critic score
(4)
66
user score
(61)
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