8.5/10
- Pixies: Surfer Rosa (4AD)
- Steve Roach: Dreamtime Return (Fortuna)
- American Music Club: California (Grifter)
8/10
- Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation (Blast First)
- Red Temple Spirits: Dancing To Restore An Eclipsed Moon (Nate Starkman & Son)
- Ministry: The Land Of Rape And Honey (Sire)
- Peter Frohmader: Through Time And Mistery (GEMA)
- My Bloody Valentine: Isn't Anything (Creation)
- Mary Margaret O'Hara: Miss America (Virgin)
- Missing Foundation: 1933 (Purge)
- Talk Talk: Spirit Of Eden (EMI)
- King Snake Roost: Things That Play Themselves (Aberrant)
- Djam Karet: Reflections From The Firepool (HC Productions)
- Michael Jones: After The Rain (Narada)
- Pauline Oliveros: Roots Of The Moment
- Enya: Watermark (Geffen)
- Bongwater: Double Bummer (Shimmy-Disc)
- Public Enemy: It Takes A Nation Of Millions to Hold Us Back (Def Jam)
- Ambitious Lovers: Greed (Virgin)
7.5/10
- Foetus: Thaw (Some Bizarre)
- Nick Cave: Tender Prey (Mute)
- Band Of Susans: Hope Against Hope (Furthur)
- Godflesh: Godflesh (Silverfish)
- Rollins Band: Life Time (Texas Hotel)
- Zoogz Rift: Nonentity (SST)
- Rudimentary Peni: Cacophony (Outer Himalayan)
- Unrest: Malcolm X Park (Caroline)
- Death Of Samantha: Where The Women Wear The Glory (Homestead)
- Jane's Addiction: Nothing's Shocking (Warner Bros)
- Royal Trux: Royal Trux (Royal LP)
- Naked Raygun: Jettison (Caroline)
- Smithereens: Green Thoughts (Enigma)
- Bad Religion: Suffer (Epitaph)
- Queensryche: Operation: Mindcrime (EMI)
- Peter Frohmader: Homunculus (Multimood)
7/10
- In The Nursery: Koda (Wax Trax)
- Lubricated Goat: Paddock Of Love (Black Eye)
- Crime And The City Solution: Shine (Mute)
- Cocteau Twins: Blue Bell Knoll (4AD)
- Dead Can Dance: The Serpent's Egg (4AD)
- Die Kreuzen: Century Days (Touch & Go)
- Spacemen 3: Playing With Fire (Fire)
- Metallica: And Justice For All (Elektra)
- Soundgarden: Ultramega OK (SST)
- Chuck Vrtacek: When Heaven Comes To Town (Recommended)
- The Scene Is Now: Tonight We Ride (Lost)
- Mofungo: Bugged (SST)
- Galaxie 500: Today (Aurora)
- They Might Be Giants: Lincoln (Bar None)
- Didjits: Hey Judester (Touch And Go)
- Savage Republic: Jamahiriya (Fundamental)
- Tiny Lights: Hazel's Wreath (Gaia)
- Universal Congress Of: Prosperous And Qualified (SST)
- Annette Peacock: Abstract-Contact (Ironic)
- Eleventh Dream Day: Prairie School Freakout (Amoeba)
- L7: L7 (Epitaph)
- F/I: Space Mantra (RRRecords)
- Danzig: Danzig (Def American)
- Pere Ubu: Tenement Year (Fontana)
- Dead C: Trapdoor Fucking Exit (Precious Metal)
- Tracy Chapman: T racy Chapman (Elektra)
- Bill Nelson: Chance Encounters In The Garden Of Lights (Cocteau)
- King Missile: They (Shimmy Disc)
- Cat Heads: Submarine (Restless)
- Bill Laswell: Hear No Evil (Virgin)
- Butthole Surfers: Hairway To Steven (Touch And Go)
- Donner Party: Donner Party II (Pict-A-Tent)
- Soul Asylum: Hang Time (Twin Tone)
- Living Colour: Vivid (Epic)
- Prong: Force Fed (Spigot)
- Camper Van Beethoven: Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (Virgin)
- Green River: Rehab Doll (SubPop)
- Death: Leprosy (Combat)
- Dinosaur Jr: Bug (SST)
- Wolfgang Press: Bird Wood Cage (4AD)
- Napalm Death: From Enslavement To Obliteration (Earache)
- Primitives: Lovely (RCA)
- Feelies: Only Life (Coyote)
- Front Line Assembly: State Of Mind (Dossier)
- Helios Creed: Superior Catholic Fingers (Subterranean)
- Bob Neuwirth: Back to the Front (Gold Castle)
- Lucinda Williams: Lucinda Williams (Rough Trade)
- Giant Sand: Storm (What Goes On)
- Das Damen: Triskaidekaphobe (SST)
- Black Sun Ensemble: Black Sun Ensemble (Restless)
- Souled American: Fe (Rough Trade)
- Black Sun Ensemble: Lambent Flame (Reckless)
- Michelle Shocked: Short Sharp Shocked (Mercury)
- Cowboy Junkies: Trinity Sessions (BMG)
- Gories: House Rockin' (New Rose)
- Fishbone: Truth And Soul (Columbia)
- Ed Hall: Albert (Boner)
- A R Kane: 69 (Rough Trade)
- REM: Green (Warner Bros)
- Sugarcubes: Life's Too Good (One Little Indian)
- Vaselines: Dum Dum (53rd & 3rd)
- Phish: Junta (Elektra)
- Membranes: Kiss Ass Godhead (Homestead)
- Bats: Daddy's Highway (Flying Nun)
- Bevis Frond: Triptych (1988)
- Lyle Lovett: Pontiac (MCA)
- Hafler Trio: Inoutof (Soleilmoon)
- Arcane Device: Engines Of Myth (ReR)
- Sadus: Illusions (Sadus)
- Barbara Manning: Lately I Keep Scissors (Heyday)
- Eric Andersen: Ghosts Upon The Road (Gold Castle)
- Boogie Down Productions: By All Means Necessary (Jive)
- David Lanz: Cristofori's Dream (Narada)
- GG Allin: Freaks, Faggots, Drunks & Junkies (Homestead)
- Holger Czukay & David Sylvian: Plight And Premonition (Virgin)
- Jeff Greinke: Timbral Planes
- Kevin Braheny: Galaxies (Hearts Of Space)
- Liz Story: Speechless (Novus)
- Residents: God In Three Persons
- Sharkbait: Feed Our Frenzy (Gladys Pearce)
- Trespassers W: Dummy (TW)
- Turtle Island String Quartet: Turtle Island String Quartet (Windham Hill)
- Front 242: Front By Front (Was Trax)
- Melissa Etheridge: Melissa Etheridge (Island)
- N.W.A: Straight Outta Compton (Ruthless)
6.5/10
- Pain Teens: self-titled (Anomie)
- Lard: The Power Of Lard (Alternative Tentacles)
- Flour (Touch & Go)
- Cassandra Complex: Theomania (Play It Again Sam)
- Miriodor: self-titled (Wayside)
- Julian Cope: My Nation Underground (Island)
- John Hiatt: Slow Turning (A&M)
- Roy Loney: The Scientific Bombs Away (Aim)
- Richard Thompson: Amnesia (Capitol)
- Carcass: Reek Of Putrefaction (earache)
- Roger Miller: No Man Is Hurting Me (Forced Exposure)
- Rum DMC: Tougher Than Leather (Profile)
- Beatnigs: Self-titled (Alternative Tentacles)
- Nuclear Assault: Survive (Relativity)
- Beasts Of Bourbon: Sour Mash (Red Eye)
- Suicidal Tendencies: How Will I Laugh Tomorrow (Epic)
- Masters Of Reality: self-titled (Def American)
- Let's Active: Every Dog Has His Day (IRS)
- Dream Syndicate: Ghost Stories (A&M)
- Loop: Fade Out (Chapter 22)
- My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult: I See Good Spirits (Wax Trax)
- Pontiac Brothers: Johnson (Frontier)
- Front 242: Front By Front (Was Trax)
- Skinny Puppy: VIVIsectVI (Nettwerk)
- Zoogz Rift: Murdering Hell's Happy Cretins (SST)
- Zoviet France: Shouting At The Ground (Red Rhino)
- Fields Of Nephilim: Nephilim (Beggars Banquet)
- Die Haut: Headless Body In Topless Bar (What'sSoFunny)
- William Orbit: Strange Cargo (IRS)
- Tony Childs: Union (A&M)
- Melissa Etheridge: self-titled (Island)
- Edie Brickell: Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars (Geffen)
- All: Allroy Sez (Cruz)
- Steppes: Stewdio (Vozz)
- Giant Sand: Love Songs (Homestead)
- Ciccone Youth: The Whitey Album (Blast First)
- 'Til Tuesday: Everything's Different Now (Epic)
- Warrant: Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich (Columbia)
- Steve Earle: Copperhead Road (MCA)
- Walkabouts: See Beautiful Rattlesnake Gardens (PopLlama)
- Straitjacket Fits: Hail (Flying Nun)
- Skinyard: Hallowed Ground (C/Z)
- Dag Nasty: Field Day (Giant)
- Workdogs: Roberta (Okra)
- Gories: House Rockin' (New Rose)
- Peter Principle: Tone Poems (Crammed)
- Balancing Act: Three Squares And A Roof (Primitive Man)
- Melted Americans (MAd Hatter)
- Bonedaddys: A-Koo-De-A (Chamaleon)
- World Domination Enterprise: Let's Play Domination (Caroline)
- Wonder Stuff: Eight Legged Groove Machine (Polydor)
- NWA: Straight Outta Compton (Ruthless)
- AC/DC: Blow Up Your Video (Atlantic)
- Jeff Healey: See The Light (Arista)
- Gibson Brothers: Big Pine Boogie (Okra)
- Stetsasonic: In Full Gear (Tommy Boy)
- New Christs: Divine Rites (Citadel)
- Bobby Brown: Don't Be Cruel (MCA)
- Yngwie Malmsteen: Odyssey (Polydor)
- Head Of David: Dustbowl (Blast First)
- EPMD: Strictly Business (Fresh)
- Hypnolovewheel: Turn Turn Burn (Fabian)
- Texas Instruments: Sun Tunnels (Rabid Cat)
- Youth of Today: We're Not In This Alone (Caroline)
- Everything But The Girl: Idlewind (BlancoYNegro)
- Weathermen: Black Album (Play It Again Sam)
- Hothouse Flowers: People (Polydor)
- House Of Love: self-titled (Creation)
- Fine Young Cannibals: The Raw And The Cooked (IRS)
- Bomb The Bass: Into The Dragon (Rhythm King)
- Was Not Was: What Up Dog (Chrysalis)
- Gipsy Kings: self-titled (Elektra)
- Stuart Hamm: Radio Free Albemuth (Relativity)
- Afghan Whigs: Big Top Halloween (Ultrasuede)
- Ice-T: Power (Sire)
- M.C. Hammer: Let's Get Started (Capitol)
- Mc Lyte: Lyte As A Rock (First Priority)
- Patty Loveless: Honky Tonk Angel (MCA)
- Pogues: If I Should Fall From Grace With God (Pogue Mahone)
- Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince: He's The D.J. I'm The Rapper (Jive)
EPs and minis:
- Bitch Magnet: Star Booty (Glitterhouse), 7/10
- Mudhoney: Superfuzz Bigmuff (SubPop), 7/10
- Of Cabbages And Kings: Face (Purge), 7/10
- Paul Roland: Happy Families (New Rose), 7/10
- Rapeman: Budd (Touch And Go), 7/10
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