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Recensioni del 1996Seleziona la prima lettera del gruppo o del musicista (nome di battesimo, non cognome); seleziona il titolo dell'album per vedere la recensione del disco, il nome del musicista per vedere la scheda del musicista. Oppure guarda soltanto la classifica dei migliori. |
Reviews of 1996 albumsClick on the first letter of the first name of the artist or name of the band; click on the title of the album to view the review; click on the name of the band to view a profile of the band. Or view just the list of the best albums of the year. |
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| C17H19NO3 | Terra Damnata | (Fifth Column) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| C17H19NO3 | Terra Damnata | (Fifth Column) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Cake | Fashion Nugget | (Capricorn) | roots-rock | 6/10 | |
| Cakekitchen | The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea | (Merge) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Cannanes | Cannanes | (Ajax) | pop | 6/10 | |
| Capercaillie | To The Moon | (Survival - Green Linnet) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Carcass | Swansong | (Earache) | grindcore | 4/10 | |
| Cardiacs | Sing to God | (Alphabet Business Concern) | genius | 7.5/10 | |
| Cardigans | First Band on the Moon | (Mercury) | trip-pop | 5/10 | |
| Caspar Brötzmann | Zulu Time | (Atavistic) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Cat Power | Myra Lee | (Smells Like) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
| Cat Power | What Would The Community Think | (Matador) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
| Catatonia | Way Beyond Blue | (Blanco Y Negro) | Brit-pop | 5/10 | |
| Cathedral | Supernatural Birth Machine | (Earache) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Catherine | Hot Saki & Bedtime Stories | (TVT) | shoegaze | 5/10 | |
| Nick Cave | Murder Ballads | (Reprise) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Exene Cervenka | Surface To Air Serpents | (213CD) | spoken | 4/10 | |
| Chainsaw Kittens | Chainsaw Kittens | (Scratchie) | glam | 6/10 | |
| Charalambides | Historic Sixth Ward | (Siltbreeze) | psychedelic | 5/10 | |
| Charlie Chesterman | Studebakersfield | (Slow River) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Cheer-Accident | Not A Food | (Pravda) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Chemical Brothers | Setting Sun | (Astralwerks) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Chemlab | East Side Militia | (Fifth Column) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Chemlab | East Side Militia | (Fifth Column) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Neneh Cherry | Man | (Virgin) | pop-soul | 5/10 | |
| Cherubs | Short Of Popular | (Trance) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Chills | Sunburnt | (Flying Nun) | lo-fi pop | 5/10 | |
| Chisel | 8 AM All Day | (Gern Bandsten) | punk-pop | 5/10 | |
| Chixdiggit | self-titled | (SubPop) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Chris Camozzi | Windows Of My Soul | (Higher Octave) | Genre | /10 | |
| Chris Mars | Anonymous Botch | (Bar None) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Chris Spheeris | Mystic Traveller | (Essence) | Genre | /10 | |
| Chrome Cranks | Love In Exile | (PCP) | garage-rock | 5/10 | |
| Chuck Vrtacek | Silent Heaven | (Cuneiform) | Genre | 8/10 | |
| Church | Magician Among The Spirits | (Deep Karma- Thirsty Ear) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Cibo Matto | Viva La Woman | (Warner) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Cindy Lee Berryhill | Straight Outta Marysville | (Cargo) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Citizens' Utilities | Lost And Foundered | (Mute) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Claire Ann Matz | Some Secrets | (Materiali Sonori) | Genre | /10 | |
| Clarissa | Silver  | (Mammoth) | punk-pop | 5/10 | |
| Climax Golden Twins | Imperial Household Orchestra | (Scratch) | Genre | /10 | |
| Cobalt 60 | Elemental | (Edel) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Cocteau Twins | Milk And Kisses | (Capitol) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Collide | Beneath The Skin | (Cargo) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Gerald Collier | I Had To Laugh Like Hell | (C/Z) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
| Coma Virus | Hidden | (Side Effects) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Combine | The History Of American Rock 'N' Roll | (Caroline) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Combustible Edison | Schizophonic | (SubPop) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Come | Near Life Experience | (Matador) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Congo Norvell | The Dope The Lies The Vaseline | (Basura) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Connells | Weird Food & Devastation | (TVT) | folk-rock | 5/10 | |
| Controlled Bleeding | Inanition | (Hypnotic) | ambient dub | 6/10 | |
| Corrosion Of Conformity | Wiseblood | (Columbia) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Counting Crows | Recovering The Satellites | (Geffen) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
| Covenant | Sequencer | (21st Circuitry) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Cowboy Junkies | Lay It Down | (Geffen) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Cowboy Mouth | Are You With Me | (MCA) | roots-rock | 4/10 | |
| Cows | Old Gold | (Amphetamine Reptile) | Genre | 8/10 | |
| Cows | Whorn | (Amphetamine Reptile) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Crabs | Brainwashed | (K) | lo-fi pop | 5/10 | |
| Cracker | The Golden Age | (Virgin) | roots-rock | 4/10 | |
| Cradle Of Thorns | Download This | (Triple X) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Cranberries | To The Faithful Departed | (Island) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Cranes | La Tragedie D'Oreste Et Electre | (Dedicated) | dream-pop | 5/10 | |
| Crash Test Dummies | A Worm's Life | (Arista) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Creedle | When The Wind Blows | (Cargo) | punk-jazz | 6/10 | |
| Crescent | Now | (Atavistic) | psychedelic | 5/10 | |
| Cub | Box Of Hair | (Mint) | punk-pop | 6/10 | |
| Cubanate | Barbarossa | (Wax Trax) | aggro | 5/10 | |
| Cul De Sac | China Gate | (Thirsty Ear) | Genre | 8/10 | |
| Cure | Wild Mood Swings | (Elektra) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Current 93 | All The Pretty Little Horses | (Durtro) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Cyco Miko | Lost My Brain | (Epic) | hardcore | 5/10 | |
| D Generation | No Lunch | (Columbia) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| D.J. Shadow | Endtroducing | (Mo' Wax) | Genre | 8/10 | |
| Dada | El Subliminoso | (IRS) | power-pop | 4/10 | |
| Daft Punk | Homework | (Virgin) | techno | 6/10 | |
| Jeff Dahl | French Cough Syrup | (Triple X) | hardcore | 5/10 | |
| Dan Stuart | Can O' Worms | (Normal) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Dandy Warhols | Dandys Rules OK | (Tim/Kerr- Capitol) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Daniel Paul | Rhythms Of Paradise | (Soundings Of The Planet) | Genre | /10 | |
| Danielle Howle | About To Burst | (Simple Machines) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Danny Wright | Hot Summer Nights | (Moulin D'Or) | Genre | /10 | |
| Danzig | Blackaciddevil | (Hollywood) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Vanessa Daou | Slow To Burn | (Krasnow) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Daryll-Ann | Weeps | (Hut) | noise-rock | 7/10 | |
| Dave Matthews Band | Crash | (RCA) | progressive | 6/10 | |
| David Arkenstone and Troika | Goddess | (Enso) | Genre | /10 | |
| David Arkenstone | Return Of The Guardians | (Narada) | Genre | /10 | |
| David Gray | Sell Sell Sell | (EMI) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| David Lanz | Sacred Road | (Narada) | Genre | /10 | |
| David Thomas | Erewhon | (Tim Kerr) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Dazzling Killmen | Recuerda | (Skin Graft) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Dead C | Repent | (Siltbreeze) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Dead Can Dance | Spiritchaser | (4AD) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Dead Voice On Air | How Hollow Heart | (Invisible) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Dead Voice On Air | Shap | (Invisible) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Deathprod | Imaginary Songs From Tristan Da Cunha | (dBUT interambience) | avantgarde | 7/10 | |
| Dean Evenson | Dreamstreams | (Soundings Of The Planet) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Death Organ | 9 To 5 | (Belle Antique) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Delta 72 | The R B Of Membership | (Touch And Go) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Iris Dement | The Way I Should | (Warner) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Denim | Denim On Ice | (Echo) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Descendents | Everything Sucks | (Epitaph) | punk-pop | 5/10 | |
| Dessau | Details Sketchy | (Fifth Column) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| dEUS | In a Bar Under The Sea | (Island) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Diatribe | self-titled | (Cargo) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Die Krupps | Odyssey Of The Mind | (Rough Trade) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Died Pretty | Trace | (Columbia) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| Ani DiFranco | Dilate | (Righteous Babe) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
| Ani DiFranco | The Past Didn't Go Anywhere | (Righteous Babe) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Dig | Defenders Of the Universe | (Radioactive) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Dilate | Cyclos | (Cleopatra) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Dino Pacifici | Urban Oasis | (Dance Plant) | Genre | /10 | |
| Dirt Merchants | Scarified | (Zero Hour) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Dirty Three | Horse Stories | (Torn & Frayed) | Genre | 8/10 | |
| Disco Inferno | Technicolour | (Rough Trade) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Dishwalla | And You Think You Know What Life's About | (A&M) | Genre | 8/10 | |
| Disjecta | Clean Pit & Lid | (Warp) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Ditch Croaker | Secrets Of The Mule | (Reprise) | lo-fi pop | 5/10 | |
| Dive | Grinding Walls | (Daft) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Divine Comedy | Casanova | (Setanta) | pop | 6/10 | |
| Divination - Bill Laswell | Akasha | (Subharmonic) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Divination - Bill Laswell | Distill | (Sub Meta) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| DJ Cam | Substances | (Inflammable) | ambient hip-hop | 7/10 | |
| DJ Spooky | Songs Of A Dead Dreamer | () | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Dodgy | Free Peace Sweet | (A&M) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Dogon | Notdunjusta | (New Dog) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Sally Doherty | Sally Doherty | (Tiger) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Donnas | The Donnas | (Super*teem) | foxcore | 6/10 | |
| Double U | Absurd Fjord | (Communion) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
| Doug Cameron | Rendezvous | (Higher Octave) | Genre | /10 | |
| Down By Law | All Scratched Up | (Epitaph) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Download | The Eyes Of Stanley Pain | (Nettwerk) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Drain | Offspeed And In There | (Trance Syndicate) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Pete Droge | Find A Door | (American) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Drum Club | Live In Iceland | (Instinct) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Dub Narcotic Sound System | Boot Party | (K) | lo-fi | 5/10 | |
| Dustdevils | Extant | (Matador) | Genre | /10 | |
| Duncan Sheik | Duncan Sheik | (Atlantic) | songwriter | 7/10 | |
| Dunlavy | The Spinning Dog | (September Gurls) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
| H2O | H2O | (Blackout) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Petra Haden | Imaginaryland | (WIN) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Half String | A Fascination With Heights | (Independent Project) | dream-pop | 6/10 | |
| Hammerhead | Duh The Big City | (Amphetamine Reptile) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Hanatarashi | 5 | (Shock City) | noise | 6/10 | |
| Handsome Family | Milk And Scissors | (Carrot Top) | alt-country | 7/10 | |
| Harmonia | Events Line | (Materiali Sonori) | Genre | /10 | |
| Tim Harrington | Master Frequency | (Triply X) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Harry Pussy | Ride A Dove | (Siltbreeze) | noise | 7/10 | |
| Harvey Milk | My Love Is Higher | (Yesha) | prog-metal | 7/10 | |
| Hate Dept | Omnipresent | (Neurotic) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Hayden | The Closer I Get | (Outpost) | songwriter | 4/10 | |
| Haynes Boys | Haynes Boys | (Slab) | alt-country | 6/10 | |
| H-Blockx | Discover My Soul | (Sing Sing) | heavy metal | 4/10 | |
| Heads | No Talking Just Head | (MCA) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Mark Knopfler | Relaxing With | (Cargo) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
| Heartworms | Enemies | (Darla) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Heatmiser | Mic City Sons | (Caroline) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Heavenly | Operation | (Wiiija) | pop | 7/10 | |
| Heavenly Music Corporation | Anechoic | (Silent) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Heidi Berry | Miracle | (4AD) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Hellacopters | Supershitty To The Max | (White Jazz)(First Man's Ruin, 1998) | Rock and roll | 7/10 | |
| Hell3ent | 0.01 | (Fifth Column) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Karl Hendricks Trio | For A While It Was Funny | (Merge) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Hepcat | Scientific | (BYO) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| High Llamas | Hawaii | (Alpaca) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| High Rise | Disallow | (PSF) | acid-rock | 6/10 | |
| His Name Is Alive | Stars On E.S.P. | (4AD) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Holiday | Ready Steady Go | (March) | pop | 4/10 | |
| Holy Barbarians | Cream | (Beggar Banquet) | Brit-pop | 4/10 | |
| Home | X | (Trance Syndicate) | prog-rock | 7/10 | |
| Home | Elf::Gulf Bore Waltz | (Jetset) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Hood | Silent '88 | (Slumberland) | lo-fi pop | 5/10 | |
| Hoodoo Gurus | Blue Cave | (Zoo) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Hootie & The Blowfish | Fairweather Johnson | (Atlantic) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Hot Water | Hot Water | (Elektra) | Genre | /10 | |
| Howie B | Music For Babies | (Island) | trip-hop | 6/10 | |
| Humpers | Live Forever Or Die Young | (Epitaph) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Husikesque | Green Blue Fire | (Astralwerks) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Hybryds | Dreamscapes From A Dark Side | (Daft) | industrial | 4/10 | |
| Hybryds | Cortex Stimulation | (Daft) | industrial | 4/10 | |
| Hyperdex-1-Sect | Metachrome | (Synthetic Symphony) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Robyn Hitchcock | Greatest Hits | (A & M) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Iceburn Collective | Meditavolutions | (Revelation) | prog-rock | 7/10 | |
| Ida | I Know About You | (Simple Machines) | folk-pop | 6/10 | |
| Idaho | Three Sheets To The Wind | (Caroline) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Imperial Teen | Seasick | (Slash) | alt-rock | 6/10 | |
| In Blind Embrace | Songs From The Shadows | (Death Factory) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| In The Nursery | Deco | (ITN) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| In The Nursery | The Cabinet of Dr Caligari | (ITN) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Index | Sky Laced Silver | (COP) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Tetsu Inoue | Zenith | (Fax) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Tetsu Inoue | World Receiver | (Instinct) | ambient | 5/10 | |
| Iron Lung Corp |  Big Shiny Spears | (Cargo) | aggro | 7/10 | |
| Irving Klaw Trio | Irving Klaw Trio | (Silly Bird) | punk-jazz | 6/10 | |
| K&D | DJ Kicks | (K7) | trip-hop | 5/10 | |
| Brenda Kahn | Destination Anywhere | (Shanachiem) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Karate | Karate | (Southern) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Karp | Suplex | (K) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Peter Kater/ Carlos Nakai | Improvisations In Concert | (Silver Wave) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Kelly Deal 6000 | Go To The Sugar Altar | (Nice) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Mike Keneally | Half Alive In Hollywood | (Immune) | prog-rock | 6/10 | |
| Kevin Locke | Open Circle | (Makoche) | Genre | /10 | |
| Kevin Salem | Glimmer | (Roadrunner) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Kevorkian Death Cycle | Collection for Injection | (Metropolis) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Kid Rock | Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp | (Top Dog) | rap-metal | 6/10 | |
| Kid Spatula | Spatula Freak | (Reflective) | techno | 6/10 | |
| Kill Creek | Proving Winter Cruel | (Mammoth) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Killing Joke | Democracy | (Big Life) | dark-punk | 4/10 | |
| King Black Acid | Sunlit | (Cavity Search) | psych | 7/10 | |
| King's X | Ear Candy | (Atlantic) | hard-rock | 4/10 | |
| King Loser | You Cannot Kill What Does Not Live | (Flying Nun) | garage-rock | 6/10 | |
| Kittywinder | Livre Des Monstres | (Zero Hour) | foxcore | 6/10 | |
| Kletka Red | Hijacking | (Tzadik) | avant-folk | 5/10 | |
| KMFDM | Xtort | (Wax Trax) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Cheri Knight | The Knitter | (East Side Digital) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Mark Knopfler | Golden Heart | (Vertigo) | psych | 5/10 | |
| Thomas Koner | Aubrite | (Barooni) | ambient | 5/10 | |
| Korn | Life Is Peachy | (Epic) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Kostia | Ten Pebbles | (Narada) | Genre | /10 | |
| Wayne Kramer | Dangerous Madness | (Epitaph) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Kreidler | Weekend | (Play It Again Sam) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
| Pete Krebs | Brigadier | (Cavity Search) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Ed Kuepper | Frontierland | (Hot) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Ed Kuepper | Starstruck | (Hot) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Kula Shaker | K | (Columbia) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Kustomized | At The Vanishing Point | (Matador) | alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| L.S.U. | Dogfish Jones | () | Genre | 6/10 | |
| La Bouche | Sweet Dreams | (RCA) | techno | 6/10 | |
| Labradford | self-titled | (Kranky) | Genre | 8/10 | |
| Lagwagon | Hoss | (Fat Wreck) | popcore | 5/10 | |
| Lamb | Lamb | (Mercury) | trip-hop | 7/10 | |
| Lambchop | How I Quit Smoking | (Merge) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Land Of The Loops | Bundle Of Joy | (Up) | experimental | 7/10 | |
| Johnny Lang | Lie To Me | (A&M) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Lassigue Bendthaus | Pop Artificielle | (Kk) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Bill Laswell | Web | (Subharmonic) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Latimer | Live From Sour City | (World Domination) | noise-rock | 6/10 | |
| Lazy | The Lazy Music Group | (Roadrunner) | power-pop | 5/10 | |
| Leaving Trains | Smoke Follows Beauty | (SST) | hardcore | 4/10 | |
| Lee Harvey Oswald Band | Blastronaut | (Touch And Go) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Lee Harvey Oswald Band | Blastronaut | (Touch & Go) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Legion | Leviathan | (Side Effects) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Lemonheads | Car Button CLoth | (Atlantic) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Lemonheads | Car Button Cloth | (Atlantic) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Lenola | The Last Ten Feet Of The Suicide Mile | (Tappersize) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
| Les Claypool And The Holy Mackerel | Present Highball With The Devil | (Interscope) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Les Jumeaux | Feathercut | (ITN) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Less Than Jake | Losing Streak | (Capitol) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Levellers | Zeitgeist | (Elektra) | folk-rock | 5/10 | |
| Jackie Leven | Argyll Cycle | (Cooking Vinyl) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Lightwave | In Der Unterwelt | (Plans Sonores) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Lightwave | In Der Unterwelt | (Plans Sonores) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Lilys | Better Can't Make Your Life Better | (Che) | garage-rock | 6/10 | |
| Linus Pauling Quartet | Linus Pauling Quartet | (September Girls) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
| Liquid Mind | Slow World | (Chuck Wild) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Liquor Giants | Liquor Giants | (Matador) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
| Lisa Germano | Excerpts From A Love Circus | (4AD) | Genre | 8/10 | |
| Little Axe | Slow Fuse | (Wired) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| LMNOP | Pound | (Baby Sue) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Local H | As Good As Dead | (Island) | grunge | 4/10 | |
| Jack Logan | Mood Elevator | (Medium Cool) | songwriter | 5/10 | |
| Lois Maffeo | Infinity Plus | (Kill Rock Stars) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Lollipop | Dog Piss On Dog | (Amphetamine Reptile) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Long Fin Killie | Valentino | (Too Pure) | dance-pop | 6/10 | |
| Loop Guru | Catalogues Of Desires | (North South) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Lorelei | Spiritus | (Soundings Of The Planet) | new age | /10 | |
| Lorelei | Everyone Must Touch The Stove | (Slumberland) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
| Los Lobos | Colossal Head | (Warner Bros) | roots-rock | 5/10 | |
| Los Straitjackets | Viva | (Upstart) | instrumental | 5/10 | |
| Lotion | Nobody's Cool | (Spinart) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Loud Family | Interbabe Concern | (Alias) | pop | 6/10 | |
| Love And Rockets | Sweet F.A | (Beggars Banquet) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Love As Laughter | Greks Bring Gifts | (K) | Alt-rock | 5/10 | |
| Love 666 | Please Kill Yourself | (Amphetamine Reptile) | hardcore | 7/10 | |
| Love Spirals Downwards | Ever | (Projekt) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Lovesliescrusching | Xuvetyn | (Projekt) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Low | The Curtain Hits The Cast | (Vernon Yard) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Lowercase | All Destructive Urges | (Amphetamine Reptiles) | post-rock | 6/10 | |
| Lull | Continue | (Release) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Lullaby For The Working Class | Blanket Warm | (Bar/None) | chamber folk | 7/10 | |
| Lunachicks | Pretty Ugly | (Go-Kart) | heavy-metal | 4/10 | |
| Lungfish | Sound In Time | (Dischord) | hardcore | 7/10 | |
| Luscious Jackson | Fever In Fever Out | (Capitol) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Lush | Lovelife | (4AD) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Lustre | Lustre | (A&M) | Genre | /10 | |
| Lutefisk | Deliver From Porcelain | (Bong Load Custom) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Lycia | Cold | (Projekt) | Genre | 7/10 | R |
| O Yuki Conjugate | Sunchemical | (Staalplaat) | electronica | 5/10 | |
| Oblivians | Popular Favorites | (Crypt) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Ocean Blue | See The Ocean Blue | (Mercury) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Ocean Color Scene | Moseley Shoals | (MCA) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Oingo Boingo | Farewell | (A & M) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Olympic Death Squad | Blue | (Teenbeat) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Orange 9mm | Tragic | (Atlantic) | funk-metal | 5/10 | |
| Orbit | Libido Speedway | (A&M) | grunge | 5/10 | |
| William Orbit | Hinterland | (WEA) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Orbital | In Sides | (FFRR) | Genre | 8/10 | |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark | Universal | (Virgin) | synth-pop | 4/10 | |
| Original Sins | Bethlehem | (Bar None) | garage-rock | 6/10 | |
| Osamu Kitajima | Beyond The Circle | (Higher Octave) | Genre | /10 | |
| Outrageous Cherry | Stereo Action Rent Party | (Third Gear) | psych-rock | 4/10 | |
| Oval | 94 Diskont | (Thrill Jockey) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Ovarian Trolley | Bullseye | (Broken Rekids) | foxcore | 5/10 | |
| Overwhelming Colorfast | Moonlight And Castanets | (Cargo) | punk-pop | 5/10 | |
| Oyster Band | The Shouting End Of Life | (Cooking Vinyl) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Palace Music | Arise Therefore | (Drag City) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Pale Nudes | Wise To The Heat | (Rec Rec) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Paleface | Get Off | (Sire) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Paleface | Get Off | (Sire) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Pangea | Pangea | (Columbia) | world-music | 6/10 | |
| Pansy Division | Wish I'd Taken Pictures | (Lookout) | power-pop | 5/10 | |
| Pantera | The Great Southern Trendkill | (East West) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Panther Burns | Shadow Dancer | (Upstart Sounds) | revival | 4/10 | |
| Mike Paradinas | Expert Knob Twiddlers | (Rephlex) | 6/10 | | |
| Path Of Resistance | Who Dares Wins | (Victory) | hardcore | 5/10 | |
| Patty Griffin | Living With Ghosts | (A&M) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Paul Haslinger | World Without Rules | (RGB) | Genre | 8/10 | |
| Paul Westerberg | Eventually | (Reprise) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Pearl Jam | No Code | (Epic) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Pearl Jam | No Code | (Epic) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Pee Shy | Who Let All The Monkeys Out | (Mercury) | pop | 5/10 | |
| Peeches | Do The Math | (Kill Rock Stars) | punk-rock | 6/10 | |
| Pell Mell | Star City | (Matador) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Pelt | Burning/Filament/Rockets | (Econogold) | psychedelic | 6/10 | |
| Penelope Houston | Cut You | (Reprise) | songwriter | 6/10 | |
| Pere Ubu | Datapanik In The Year Zero | (Geffen) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Pet Shop Boys | Bilingual | (Parlophone/EMI) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Tom Petty | She's The One | (Warner Bros) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Phantom Surfers | The Phantom Surfers and Dick Dale | (Crown) | garage-surf | 5/10 | |
| Phantom Surfers | The Great Surf Crash of '97 | (Lookout) | garage-surf | 5/10 | |
| Joe Phelps | Warm Springs Night | (El Recordo) | roots-rock | 6/10 | |
| Phil Krauth | Silver Eyes | (Teenbeat) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Philarmonie | Rage | (Cuneiform) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Phish | Billy Breathes | (Elektra) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Phono-Comb | Fresh Gasoline | (Quarterstick) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Pig | Wrecked | (Victor) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Pipe | International Cement | (Jesus Christ) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Pita | Seven Tons For Free | (Mego) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Pizzicato Five | Antique 96 | (Sony) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Pizzicato Five | Romantique 96 | (Columbia) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Placebo | Placebo | (Caroline) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Plexi | Cheer Up | (SubPop) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Plug | Drums'n'Bass For Papa | (Blue Angel- Nothing, 1997) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Plug | Plug 1 + 2 | (Blue Angel) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Poem Rocket | Felix Culpa | (PCP) | noise-rock | 7/10 | |
| Pogues | Pogue Mahone | (Warner, 1995 - Mesa) | Genre | 4/10 | |
| Polvo | Exploded Drawing | (Touch & Go) | Genre | 8/10 | |
| Polyphemus | Stonehouse | (Beggars Banquet) | psychedelic | 5/10 | |
| Pop Sickle | Pop Sickle | (C/Z) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Porcupine Tree | Signify | (Delerium) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Pork | Slop | (Trance Syndicate) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Porno For Pyros | Good God's Urge | (Warner Bros) | heavy metal | 6/10 | |
| Porter Ricks | Biokinetics | (Chain Reaction) | techno | 6/10 | |
| Posies | Amazing Disgrace | (Geffen) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Possession + African Dub | Off World One | (SubMeta) | ambient dub | 7/10 | |
| Possum Dixon | Star Maps | (Interscope) | power-pop | 7/10 | |
| Present | Live | (Cuneiform) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Pressure Drop | Dusk | (Cafe Del Mar) | trip-hop | 5/10 | |
| Promise Ring | 30 Degrees Everywhere | (Jade Tree) | emocore | 6/10 | |
| Prong | Rude Awakening | (Epic) | punk-metal | 5/10 | |
| Propeller | Rame | (Scratch) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Psyche | Elements 1989-1990 | (Planet E) | techno | 6/10 | |
| Psychic TV | Trip Reset | (Cleopatra) | industrial | 6/10 | |
| Pulley | Esteem Driven Engine | (Epitaph) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Pursuit of Happiness | The Wonderful World Of... | (Iron) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Queers | Don't Back Down | (Lookout) | punk-pop | 7/10 | |
| Quickspace | Quickspace | (Kitty Kitty) | post-rock | 5/10 | |
| Quintron | Internet Feedback 001-011 | (Bulb) | avant-rock | 6/10 | |
| Ubzub | Alien Manna For Sleeping Monkeys | (Electromotive) | avant-rock | 7/10 | |
| Ugly Kid Joe | Motel California | (Evilution) | hard-rock | 4/10 | |
| Ui | Sidelong | (Southern) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Ultra Bide` | God Is God | (Alternative Tentacles) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Ulver | Nattens Madrigal | (Century Media) | death-metal | 6/10 | |
| Uncle Wiggly | Jump Back Baby | (Teen Beat) | psych-rock | 5/10 | |
| Underworld | Second Toughest | (Wax Trax) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Underground Lovers | Dream It Down | (Polydor) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Unit 187 | Unit 187 | (21st Circuitry) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Unwound | Repetition | (Kill Rock Stars) | Genre | 7/10 | |
| Up Bustle And Out | One Colour Just Reflects Another | (Ninja Tune) | trip-hop | 6/10 | |
| Usurei Yatsura | We Are | (Che) | lo-fi pop | 6/10 | |
| Yeht Mae | Eam They | (Out Of Line) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Susumu Yokota | Cat Mouse And Me | (Skintone) | ambient | 6/10 | |
| Gary Young | Hospital | (Big Cat) | Genre | 6/10 | |
| Richard Youngs | Georgians | (VHF) | post-rock | 4/10 | |
| Yulara | self-titled | (Higher Octave) | Genre | /10 | |
| Zeke | Flat Tracker | (Scooch Pooch) | Genre | 5/10 | |
| Zena Sheck | I Love You | (Skin Graft) | noise-pop | 6/10 | |
| Zero | Olento | (Sahko) | electronica | 6/10 | |
| Zeus Faber | Below | (Hearts Of Space) | Genre | /10 | |
| Zoviet France | In Version | (Charrm) | industrial | 5/10 | |
| Zumpano | Goin' Through Changes | (SubPop) | Genre | 5/10 | |
TM, ®, Copyright © 1999 Piero Scaruffi
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| M = Mjuzik
| B = Blow Up