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| Ratings: 10=best rock album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan |
| Neko Case | Blacklisted | (Lady Pilot) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
| Cathedral | Seventh Coming | (Dream Catcher) | doom-metal | 5/10 | |
| Catheters | Static Delusions | (Subpop) | punk-rock | 6/10 | |
| Central Falls | Latitude | (Truckstop) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Cerberus Shoal | Mr Boy Dog | (Temporary Residence) | prog-rock | 7/10 | |
| Tracy Chapman | Like It Rain | (Elektra) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Chemical Brothers | Come With Us | (Astralwerks) | techno | 6/10 | |
| Chokebore | It's A Miracle | (Pale Mule) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Christmas Decorations | Model 91 | (Kranky) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| Chumbawamba | Readymades | (Republic) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Church | After Everything Now This | (Thirsty Ear) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Cinerama | Torino | (Manifesto) | pop | 4/10 | |
| Cinematic Orchestra | Every Day | (Ninja Tune) | trip-hop | 6/10 | |
| Circus Devils | Ringworm Interiors | (Fading Captain) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Nels Cline | Instrumentals | (Cryptogramophone) | jazz | 6/10 | |
| Clinic | Walking With Thee | (Domino) | post-pop | 6/10 | |
| Coldplay | A Rush Of Blood To The Head | (Capitol) | dance | 5/10 | |
| Comet Gain | Realistes | (Kill Rock Stars) | garage-rock | 6/10 | |
| Comets On Fire | Field Recordings From the Sun | (Ba Da Bing) | psych-rock | 7/10 | |
| Concrete Blonde | Group Therapy | (Manifesto) | roots-rock | 4/10 | |
| Congo Norvell | Choking Victim | (Kunst) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Chris Connelly | Private Education | (Invisible) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Consonant | Consonant | (Fenway) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Cornelius | Point | (Matador) | techno | 6/10 | N |
| Cornershop | Handcream For A Generation | (Wiija) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Elvis Costello | When I Was Cruel | (Island) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Counting Crows | Hard Candy | (Geffen) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
| Graham Coxon | The Kiss of Morning | (Transcopic) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Adrian Crowley | When You Are Here You Are Family | (Ba Da Bing) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Cul De Sac | Immortality Lessons | (Strange Attractors) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Danzig | 777 I Luciferi | (Spitfire) | metal | 5/10 | |
| Dat Politics | Plugs Plus | (Chicks On Speed) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Dead And Gone | The Beautician | (GSL) | hardcore | 5/10 | |
| Dead C | New Electric Music | (Language) | noise | 6/10 | |
| Death In Vegas | Scorpio Rising | (BMG) | trip-hop | 5/10 | |
| Delgados | Hate | (Mantra) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Der Blutharsch | When All Else Fails | (Tesco) | gothic | 6/10 | |
| Dianogah | Millions Of Brazilians | (Southern) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
| Julie Doiron | Heart and Crime | (Jagjaguwar) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Tanya Donelly | Beautysleep | (4AD) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Donnas | Spend The Night | (Atlantic) | punk-pop | 6/10 | |
| Double U | White Night Floating Anchor | (Emperor Jones) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
| Sarah Dougher | The Bluff | (Mr Lady) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Doves | Last Broadcast | (Capitol) | dream-pop | 6/10 | |
| Down | A Bustle In Your Hedgerow | (Elektra) | metal | 4/10 | |
| Dream Theater | Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | (Elektra) | prog-metal | 6/10 | |
| E.A.R. | Continuum | (Space Age) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Mark Eitzel | Music For Courage And Confidence | (New West) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| El Guapo | Super System | (Dischord) | jazzcore | 7/10 | |
| Electric Wizard | Let Us Prey | (Music Cartel) | stoner | 6/10 | |
| Elf Power | Creatures | (SpinART) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Eminem | Show | (Columbia) | white rap | 6/10 | |
| Alec Empire | Intelligence And Sacrifice | (Santeria) | dance | 7/10 | |
| Enon | High Society | (Touch And Go) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Entropic Advance | Red Yellow Noise | (Symbolic Insight) | electronica | 7/10 | |
| Face To Face | How To Ruin Everything | (Vagrant) | punk-rock | 5/10 | |
| Faultline | Your Love Means Everything | (Blanco Y Negro) | jungle | 6/10 | |
| Fila Brazillia | Jump Leeds | (TwentyThree) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| Filter | The Amalgamut | (Warner) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Flaming Lips | Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots | (Warner Bros) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
| Flying Luttenbachers | Infection And Decline | (Troubleman Unlimited) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Fontanelle | Style Drift | (Kranky) | jazz-rock | 5/10 | |
| Foo Fighters | One By One | (RCA) | power-pop | 5/10 | |
| For Against | Coalesced | (World Music) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Burnt Friedman | Secret Rhythms | (Nonplace) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
| Fu Manchu | California Crossing | (Mammoth) | hard-rock | 4/10 | |
| Fucking Champs | V | (Drag City) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Funky Porcini | Fast Asleep | (Ninja Tune) | acid-jazz | 5/10 | |
| Future Bible Heroes | Eternal Youth | (Instinct) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Future Sound Of London | The Isness | (Artful) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| Fuxa | Supercharged | (Rocketgirl) | ambient | 5/10 | |
| Peter Gabriel | Long Walk Home | (Real World) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
| Peter Gabriel | Up | (Real World) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
| Alistair Galbraith | Long Wires in Dark Museums | (Emperor Jones) | avantgarde | 5/10 | |
| Gallon Drunk | Fire Music | (Sweet Nothing) | pop | 6/10 | |
| Gordon Gano | Hitting the Ground | (Instinct) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Sue Garner | Shadyside | (Thrill Jockey) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Gay Dad | Transmission | (London) | glam-pop | 4/10 | |
| Gene | Libertine | (Imusic) | Brit-pop | 4/10 | |
| Lisa Germano | Lullaby For Liquid Pig | (Ineffable) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Giant Sand | Cover Magazine | (Thrill Jockey) | roots-rock | 4/10 | |
| Michael Gira | What We Did | (Young God) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Girls Against Boys | You Can't Fight What You Can't See | (Jade Tree) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Lutz Glandien | The 5th Elephant | (ReR) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
| Gluecifer | BasementApes | (Epic) | garage-rock | 5/10 | B |
| Go Back Snowball | Calling Zero | (Matador) | pop | 6/10 | |
| Godspeed You Black Emperor | Yanqui UXO | (Constellation) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
| Barbara Gogan | Wheels | (Gogan) | new age | 5/10 | |
| Gomez | In Our Gun | (Virgin) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Goo Goo Dolls | Gutterflower | (Warner) | power-pop | 4/10 | |
| Gravity Kills | Superstarved | (Sanctuary) | industrial | 4/10 | |
| David Gray | A New Day At Midnight | (RCA) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
| Groove Armada | Lovebox | (Jive) | techno | 5/10 | |
| Dave Grubbs | Act Five Scene One | (Blue Chopsticks) | avant-rock | 5/10 | |
| David Grubbs | Rickets & Scurvy | (Drag City) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Guided By Voices | Universal Truths And Cycles | (Matador) | lo-fi pop | 5/10 | |
| Gus Gus | Attention | (Underwater) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Guttermouth | Gusto | (Epitaph) | hardcore | 4/10 | |
| Idlewild | The Remote Part | (EMI) | punk-pop | 6/10 | |
| Ikara Colt | Chat And Business | (Epitaph) | retro-rock | 6/10 | |
| Immortal | Sons Of Northern Darkness | (Nuclear Blast) | dark metal | 6/10 | |
| Imperial Teen | On | (Merge) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Indigo Girls | Become You | (Epic) | folk | 5/10 | |
| Infinite X's | Infinite X's | (Chainsaw) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Interpol | Turn on the Bright Lights | (Matador) | new wave | 7/10 | |
| Ioscil | Submers | (Kranky) | electronica | 7/10 | |
| Iron And Wine | The Creek Drank The Cradle | (Subpop) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Isis | Oceanic | (Ipecac) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Jets To Brazil | Perfecting Loneliness | (Jade Tree) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Calvin Johnson | What Was Me | (K) | lo-fi pop | 5/10 | |
| Mike Johnson | What Would You Do | (Up) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
| Karate | Some Boots | (Southern) | post-rock | 4/10 | |
| Tommy Keene | The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down | (Spinart) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Kent 3 | Spells | (Burn Burn Burn) | garage | 5/10 | |
| Khanate | Khanate | (Southern Lord) | super-doom | 7/10 | |
| Kid 606 | The Action Packed Mentallist | (Violent Turd) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| King Kong | The Big Bang | (Drag City) | alt-rock | 4/10 | |
| KMFDM | Attack | (Metropolis) | industrial | 4/10 | |
| Knotworking | Notes Left Out | (One Mad Son) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Thomas Koener | Unerforschtes Gebeit | (Die Stadt) | ambient | 5/10 | |
| Korn | Untouchables | (Epic) | rap-metal | 6/10 | |
| L'altra | In The Afternoon | (Aesthetics) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Ladytron | Light & Magic | (Emperor Norton) | synth-pop | 4/10 | |
| Lambchop | Is A Woman | (Merge) | alt-country | 5/10 | |
| Landing | Seasons | (Ba Da Ding) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Laub | Filesharing | (Kitty-Yo) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Leaving Trains | Emotional Legs | (Steelcage) | glam | 4/10 | |
| Leels | Leels | (Emperor Jones) | psych-rock | 5/10 | |
| Legendary Pink Dots | Synesthesia | (Caciocavallo) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Lenola | Sharks & Flames | (Homesleep) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Arto Lindsay | Invoke | (Righteous Babe) | noise-rock | 6/10 | |
| Lo Fidelity Allstars | Don't Be Afraid Of Love | (Skint) | dance | 5/10 | |
| Lisa Loeb | Cake And Pie | (A&M) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Jason Loewenstein | At Sixes And Sevens | (Subpop) | songwriter | 6/10 | R/N |
| Lone Pigeon | Concubine Rice | (Domino) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Looper | The Snare | (Mute) | avant-rock | 5/10 | |
| Los Lobos | Good Morning Aztlan | (Mammoth) | roots-rock | 4/10 | |
| Loveliescrushing | Glissceule | (Sonic Syrup) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Lovespirals | Windblown Kiss | (Projekt) | pop | 4/10 | |
| Low | Trust | (Kranky) | slo-core | 8/10 | |
| Luna | Romantica | (Jetset) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Lupine Howl | The Bar At The End Of The World | (Vinyl Hiss) | psych-rock | 4/10 | |
| Lycia | Tripping Back Into The Broken Days | (Projekt) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Magic Carpatians Project | Ethnocore II: Vak | (Drunken Fish) | pan-ethnic | 6/10 | |
| Main | Tau | (K-raa-k) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Makers | Strangest Parade | (Sub Pop) | garage | 4/10 | |
| Aimee Mann | Lost in Space | (Superego) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Maquiladora | Ritual Of The Hearts | (Better Looking) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
| Doug Martsch | Now You Know | (Warner Bros) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| J Mascis | Free So Free | (Ultimatum) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Masters Of Reality | Deep In The Hole | (Brownhouse) | hard-rock | 5/10 | |
| Dave Matthews | Busted Stuff | (RCA) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Meat Beat Manifesto | RUOK | (Run) | dance | 5/10 | |
| Medusa Cyclone | Tangier | (Small Stone) | noise | 6/10 | |
| Mekons | Oooh | (Touch & Go) | punk | 4/10 | |
| Melvins | Hostile Ambient Takeover | (Ipecac) | stoner | 5/10 | |
| Stephen Merritt | Eban & Charley | (Merge) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Mighty Mighty Bosstones | A Jackknife To A Swan | (SideOne) | ska-pop | 5/10 | |
| Millencolin | Home From Home | (Epitaph) | punk-pop | 4/10 | |
| Mini+Boyd | Angular Island | (Phthalo) | techno | 6/10 | |
| Mirah | Advisory Committee | (K) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Moby | 18 | (V2) | techno | 4/10 | |
| Monster Movie | Last Night Something Happened | (Clairecords) | dream-pop | 6/10 | |
| Morcheeba | Charango | (Reprise) | trip-hop | 5/10 | |
| Alanis Morissette | Under Rug Swept | (Maverick) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Motorpsycho | It's A Love Cult | (Stickman) | garage | 4/10 | |
| Bob Mould | Modulate. | (Red Ink) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Mountain Goats | All Hail West Texas | (Emperor Jones) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Mudhoney | Since We've Become Translucent | (Subpop) | grunge | 6/10 | |
| Muffins | Bandwidth | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
| Mum | Finally We Are No One | (Fat Cat) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Mummydogs | Mummydogs | (Frontier) | folk-rock | 5/10 | |
| Dorine Muraille | Mani | (Fat Cat) | ambient | 7/10 | |
| Peter Murphy | Dust | (Metropolis) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Mysteries Of Life | Distant Relative | (No Nostalgia) | folk-rock | 5/10 | |
| Nada Surf | Let Go | (Labels) | pop | 6/10 | |
| Nina Nastasia | The Blackened Air | (Touch & Go) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| New Bomb Turks | The Night Before the Day the Earth Stood Still | (Gearhead) | garage | 4/10 | |
| New Christs | We Got This | (Laughing Outlaw) | garage | 6/10 | |
| New Radiant Storm King | Winter's Kill | (Rainbow Quartz) | noise-rock | 5/10 | |
| Sheila Nicholls | Wake | (Hollywood) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Nightmare On Wax | Mind Elevation | (Warp) | trip-hop | 5/10 | |
| Nile | In Their Darkened Shrines | (Relapse) | death-metal | 6/10 | |
| Noize Creator | Deferred Media | (Ambush) | drum'n'bass | 7/10 | |
| Non | Children of the Black Sun | (Mute) | noise | 6/10 | |
| Novex | Kleptophonica | (Revolver) | avant-rock | 5/10 | |
| Nurse With Wound | Man With The Woman Face | (World Serpent) | industrial | 4/10 | |
| Sinead O'Connor | Sean-Nos Nua | (Vanguard) | songwriter | 3/10 | |
| Tara Jane ONeil | Tjo Tko | (Mr Lady) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Oasis | Heathen Chemistry | (Epic) | Brit-pop | 4/10 | |
| Of Montreal | Aldhils Arboretum | (Kindercore) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Oneida | Each One Teach One | (Jagjaguwar) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
| Orange Goblin | Coup De Grace | (Rise Above) | doom-metal | 5/10 | |
| Beth Orton | Daybreaker | (Heavenly) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Otep | Sevas Tra | (Capitol) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
| Out Hud | Street Dad | (Kranky) | dance | 7/10 | |
| Pan American | The River Made No Sound | (Kranky) | ambient | 7/10 | |
| Papa Roach | Lovehatetragedy | (Dreamworks) | rap-metal | 5/10 | |
| Pearl Jam | Riot Act | (Epic) | grunge | 5/10 | |
| Pedro The Lion | Control | (Jade Tree) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Pere Ubu | St Arkansas | (Spinart) | new wave | 6/10 | |
| Pet Shop Boys | Release | (EMI) | synth-pop | 5/10 | |
| Piano Magic | Writers Without Homes | (4AD) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Pine Valley Cosmonauts | The Executioner's Last Songs | (Bloodshot) | country | 5/10 | |
| Planetarium Music | Traditional Psychedelic Electronic Music | (Strange Attractors) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| +/- | Self Titled Long Playing Debut Album | (Teen Beat) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Polara | Jetpack Blues | (Susstones) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Porcupine Tree | In Absentia | (Lava) | prog-rock | 7/10 | |
| Robert Poss | Distortion Is Truth | (Trace Elements) | avantgarde | 6/10 | |
| Robert Poss | Crossing Casco Bay | (Trace Elements) | avantgarde | 6/10 | |
| Pretenders | Loose Screw | (Artemis) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Archer Prewitt | Three | (Thrill Jockey) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Primal Scream | Evil Hat | (Epic) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Promise Ring | Wood/ Water | (Epitaph) | power-pop | 5/10 | |
| Chuck Prophet | No Other Love | (New West) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Pulp | We Love Life | (Island) | synth-pop | 6/10 | |
| Queens Of The Stone Age | Songs For The Deaf | (Interscope) | stoner-rock | 7/10 | |
| Queers | Pleasant Screams | (Hopeless) | punk-pop | 4/10 | |
| Radar Brothers | And The Surrounding Mountains | (Merge) | alt-country | 5/10 | |
| Rasputina | Cabin Fever | (Instinct) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | By The Way | (Warner) | funk-rock | 4/10 | |
| Reindeer Section | Son of Evil Reindeer | (Pias) | pop | 4/10 | |
| Residents | Demons Dance Alone | (ESD) | new wave | 5/10 | |
| Jonathan Richman | Her Mystery Not Of High Heels And Eye Shadow | (Vapor) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Stan Ridgway | Holiday In Dirt | (New West) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Steve Roach | Streams & Currents | (Projekt) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Steve Roach | Trance Spirits | (Projekt) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Josh Rouse | Under Cold Blue Stars | (Slow River) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Royksopp | Melody AM | (Virgin) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Ruins | Tzomborgha | (Ipecac) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
| Saint Etienne | Finisterre | (Mantra) | dance-pop | 5/10 | |
| Scenic | The Acid Gospel Experience | (Hidden Agenda) | psych-rock | 7/10 | |
| Janek Schaefer | Pulled Under | (Audioh) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Scorn | Plan B | (Hymen) | industrial | 4/10 | |
| Sentridoh | Tales from Loobiecore | (Repo) | lo-fi | 5/10 | |
| 764 Hero | Nobody Knows This Is Everywhere | (Tiger Style) | jungle | 6/10 | |
| Ron Sexsmith | Cobblestone Runway | (Nettwerk) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| DJ Shadow | The Private Press | (MCA) | jungle | 5/10 | |
| Shalabi | The Trial Of St. Orange | (Alien 8) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
| Duncan Sheik | Daylight | (Atlantic) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Shinjuku Thief | The Witch Haven | (Dorobo) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Sigur Ros | ( ) | (MCA) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
| Silkworm | Italian Platinum | (Touch & Go) | alt-rock | 6/10 | N |
| Silverchair | Diorama | (Atlantic) | 4/10 | | |
| Six By Seven | The Way I Feel Today | (Mantra) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Sixteen Horsepower | Folklore | (JetSet) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
| Roni Size | Touching Down | (Full Cycle) | jungle | 5/10 | |
| Skeleton Key | Obtainium | (Ipecac) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Luke Slater | Alright on Top | (Novamute) | techno | 4/10 | |
| Sleater Kinney | One Beat | (Kill Rock Stars) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
| Slipper | Zoon Sandwich | (Mechanism) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| Steven Smith | Lineaments | (3 Acre Floor) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Smith & Mighty | Life Is | (K7) | trip-hop | 4/10 | |
| Todd Snider | New Connection | (Oh Boy) | songwriter | 5/10 | B |
| Soft Boys | Nextdoorland | (Matador) | psych-rock | 5/10 | |
| Sol Invictus | Thrones | (Tursa) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Sonic Youth | Murray Street | (Geffen) | noise-rock | 6/10 | |
| Songs: Ohia | Didn't It Rain | (Secretly Canadian) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Sophia | Spite | (Cold Meat Industry) | gothic | 5/10 | |
| Sotos | Platypus | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Soul-Junk | 1957 | (Sounds Are Active) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Soulfly | III | (Roadrunner) | metal | 5/10 | |
| Spaceheads | Low Pressure | (Bip Hop) | prog-rock | 7/10 | |
| Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | Plastic Fang | (Matador) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| DJ Spooky | Optometry | (Thirsty Ear) | avant-jazz | 7/10 | |
| Spoon | Kill The Moonlight | (Merge) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Spring Heel Jack | Amassed | (Thirsty Ear) | avant-jazz | 8/10 | |
| Bruce Springsteen | Rising | (Columbia) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Squarepusher | Do You Know | (Warp) | jungle | 5/10 | |
| Standard | August | (Touch & Go) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Steroid Maximus | Ectopia | (Ipecac) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| ST37 | Down On Us | (Emperor Jones) | psych-rock | 4/10 | |
| Suede | A New Morning | (Sony) | Brit-pop | 4/10 | |
| Suicide | American Supreme | (Blast First) | new wave | 7/10 | |
| Sun City Girls | High Asia Lo-Pacific | (Abduction) | psych | 5/10 | |
| Sunn | Flight Of The Behemoth | (Southern Lord) | doom | 6/10 | |
| Sunshine Fix Project | Age Of The Sun | (Emperor Norton) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Super_Collider | Raw Digits | (Rise Robots Rise) | techno | 5/10 | |
| Superdrag | Last Call For Vitriol | (Arena Rock) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Supergrass | Life On Other Planets | (Parlophone) | Brit-pop | 4/10 | |
| Sybarite | Nonument | (4AD) | avant-rock | 5/10 | |
| System Of A Down | Steal This Album | (American) | metal | 5/10 | |
| Nobukazu Takemura | Water's Suite | (Extreme) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Tarwater | Dwellers On The Threshold | (Mute) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
| Telescopes | Third Wave | (Double Agent) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
| Tender Trap | Film Molecules | (K) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Thaw | Holy Cat | (Elsewhen) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| They Might Be Giants | No | (Idlewild) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Thievery Corporation | The Richest Man In Babylon | (18th Street Lounge) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| 3rd Strike | Lost Angel | (Hollywood) | rap-metal | 5/10 | |
| Jonathan Thomas | Septimania | (Commodity This) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Thuja | Ghost Plants | (Emperor Jones) | avant-rock | 5/10 | |
| Thuja | Suns | (Emperor Jones) | noise | 6/10 | |
| Tight Bro's From Way Back When | Lend You a Hand | (Kill Rock Stars) | garage | 5/10 | |
| Mary Timony | The Golden Dove | (Matador) | songwriter | 6/10 | N |
| Tin Hat Trio | Rodeo Eroded | (Ropeadope) | alt-rock | 4/10 | |
| Amon Tobin | Out From Out Where | (Ninja Tune) | jungle | 6/10 | |
| Today Is The Day | Sadness Will Prevail | (Relapse) | death | 6/10 | |
| Jenny Toomey | Tempting | (Misra) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Town And Country | C'mon | (Thrill JOckey) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
| MC Trachiotomy | W/Love from Tahiti | (Bulb) | rap | 7/10 | |
| Tram | A Kind Of Closure | (Jetset) | slo-core | 5/10 | |
| Trans Am | TA | (Thrill Jockey) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
| Trespassers W | Sex and the End of It | (Somnimage) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Tribes of Neurot | Adaptation and Survival | (Neurot) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Tuatara | Cinemathique | (Fast Horse) | world-music | 4/10 | |
| Mick Turner | Moth | (Drag City) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Twinemen | Twinemen | (High N Dry) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Ugly Casanova | Sharpen Your Teeth | (Sub Pop) | alt-rock | 7/10 | |
| Underworld | A Hundred Days Off | (Junion Boys Own) | techno | 5/10 | |
| Univers Zero | Rhythmix | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 | R |
| DJ Vadim | The Art Of Listening | (Ninja Tune) | hip hop | 5/10 | |
| Sven Vath | Fire | (Ultra) | techno | 5/10 | |
| Vibracathedral Orchestra | Dabbling With Gravity | (VHF) | drone-music | 6/10 | |
| Vida Blue | Vida Blue | (Elektra) | prog-rock | 5/10 | |
| Viva Death | Viva Death | (Vagrant) | hardcore | 6/10 | |
| Christian Vogel | Dungeon Master | (Tresor) | techno | 5/10 | |
| Steve Von Till | If I Should Fall To The Field | (Neurot) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Voodoo Glow Skulls | Steady As She Goes | (Victory) | ska-core | 5/10 | |
| Wallflowers | Red Letter Day | (Interscope) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
| Greg Weeks | Awake Like Sleep | (BaDaBing) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Paul Westerberg | Stereo Mono | (Vagrant) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Keith Fullerton Whitman | Playthroughs | (Kranky) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Wilco | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | (Nonesuch) | roots-rock | 7/10 | |
| Windsor For The Derby | The Emotional Rescue LP | (Aesthetics) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Witch Hazel | This World Then The Fireworks | (Hidden Agenda) | roots-rock | 6/10 | |
| Xiu Xiu | Knife Play | (5rc, 2002) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Yo La Tengo | The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science | (Egon) | psych-rock | 6/10 | |
| Richard Youngs | May | (Jagjaguar) | instrumental | 6/10 | |
| Yume Bitsu | The Golden Vessyl Of Sound | (K) | psych-rock | 5/10 | |
| Ratings: 10=best album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan |
TM, ®, Copyright © 2002 Piero Scaruffi
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| A = Billboard
| N = Nude As The News