- Lisa Germano: Geek The Girl (4AD) (9)
- Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral (TVT) (8.5)
- Von Lmo: Cosmic Interception (Variant) (8.5)
- Magnetic Fields: The Charm Of The Highway Strip (Merge) (8)
- Aurora: Dimension Gate (Hyperion) (8)
- Portishead: Dummy (Go Disc) (8)
- Bugskull: Phantasies And Senseitions (Road Cone) (8)
- Soul Coughing: Ruby Vroom (Slash) (8)
- Rodan: Rusty (Quarterstick) (8)
- Lambchop: I Hope You're Sitting Down (Merge) (8)
- Shellac: At Action Park (Touch & Go) (8)
- Bark Psychosis: Hex (Circa) (8)
- Mo Boma: Myths Of The Near Future (Extreme) (8)
- Low: I Could Live In Hope (Vernon Yard) (8)
- Today Is The Day: Willpower (Amphetamine Reptile) (8)
- Pram: Helium (Too Pure) (8)
- Space Streakings: 7-Toku (Skin Graft) (8)
- Sky Cries Mary: This Timeless Turning (World Domination) (8)
- Drive Like Jehu: Yank Crime (Interscope) (8)
- Azonic: Halo (Strata) (7.5)
- Tortoise (Thrill Jockey) (7.5)
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Orange (Matador) (7.5)
- Dazzling Killmen: Face Of Collapse (Skin Graft) (7.5)
- Cobra Verde: Viva La Muerte (Scat) (7.5)
- Vidna Obmana: Spiritual Bonding (Extreme) (7.5)
- Soma: Hollow Earth (Extreme) (7.5)
- Gate: Dew Line (Table Of Elements) (7.5)
- Tiny Lights: Milky Juicy (Dr Dream) (7.5)
- Korn: self-titled (Epic) (7.5)
- Tori Amos: Under The Pink (Atlantic) (7.5)
- Loreena McKennitt: The Mask And The Mirror (Quinlan Road) (7.5)
- Loop Guru: Duniya (Nation) (Waveform) (7.5)
- Unsane: Total Destruction (Matador) (7.5)
- Cradle Of Thorns: Feed Us (Triple X) (7.5)
- Soundgarden: Superunknown (A&M) (7.5)
- Scorn: Colossus (Earache) (7.5)
- Stereolab: Mars Audiac Quintet (Elektra) (7.5)
- Dirty Three (Torn & Frayed) (7.5)
- Pearl Jam: Vitalogy (Epic) (7.5)
- Underworld: Dubnobasswithmyheadman (Junior Boy's Own) (7.5)
- Azalia Snail: Fumarole Rising (Funky Mushroom) (7.5)
- Voice Of Eye: Vespers (Cyclotron) (7.5)
- John Frusciante: Niandra Lades (American) (7.5)
- Skrew: Dusted (Metal Blade) (7.5)
- Paul Dolden: L'Ivresse de la Vitesse (Empreintes Digitales) (7.5)
- Denison-Kimball Trio: Walls In The City (1994)
- Dead C: The Operation Of The Sonne (Siltbreeze) (7)
- Paul Schutze: The Surgery Of Touch (Extreme) (7)
- Velo-Deluxe: Superelastic (Mammoth) (7)
- Three Mile Pilot: Chief Assassin to The Sinister (Cargo) (7)
- Souled American: Frozen (Moll) (7)
- Bedhead: What Fun Life Was (Trance Syndicate) (7)
- Datacide: Flowerhead (Rather Interesting) (7)
- Enslaved: Vikingligr Veldi (Osmose) (7)
- Ben Harper: Welcome To The Cruel World (Virgin) (7)
- Rancid: Let's Go (Epitaph) (7)
- Low Road: The Devil's Pocket (Passenger) (7)
- Jesus Lizard: Down (Touch & Go) (7)
- Mentallo & The Fixer: Where Angels Fear To Tread (Zoth Ommog) (7)
- Pegboy: Earwig (Quarterstick) (7)
- Guided By Voices: Bee Thousand (Scat) (7)
- Afghan Whigs: Gentlemen (SubPop) (7)
- Vapourspace: Themes From Vapourspace (Ffrr) (7)
- Sabalon Glitz: Ufonic (Trixie) (7)
- Luna: Bewitched (Elektra) (7)
- Southern Culture On The Skids: Ditch Diggin' (Safe House) (7)
- Lee Harvey Oswald Band: A Taste Of Prison (Touch And Go) (7)
- Global Communication: 76:14 (Dedicated) (7)
- Laika: Silver Apples Of The Moon (Too Pure) (7)
- Stone Roses: Second Coming (Geffen) (7)
- Satchel: EDC (Epic) (7)
- Phish: Hoist (Elektra) (7)
- Catherine: Sorry (TVT) (7)
- Cows: Orphan's Tragedy (Amphetamine Reptile) (7)
- Sister Machine Gun: Torture Technique (Wax Trax) (7)
- Crust: Crusty Love (Trance) (7)
- Delerium: Spheres (Dossier) (7)
- Porcupine Tree: The Sky Moves Sideways (Delerium) (7)
- Godheadsilo: Scientific Supercake (Kill Rock Stars) (7)
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282: Strangers From The Universe (Matador) (7)
- Beck: Mellow Gold (DGC) (7)
- Velocity Girl: Simpatico (SubPop) (7)
- Man Or Astro-man: Destroy All Astro-men (Estrus) (7)
- Jeff Buckley: Grace (Columbia) (7)
- Further: Sometimes Chimes (Christmas) (7)
- God: The Anatomy Of Addiction (Big Cat) (7)
- Codeine: White Birch (SubPop) (7)
- Cranberries: No Need To Argue (Island) (7)
- Slowdive: Souvlaki (Creation) (7)
- Heavenly: Decline And Fall (K) (7)
- Marilyn Manson: Portrait Of An American Family (Nothing) (7)
- Orbital: Snivilisation (Ffrr) (7)
- A Handful Of Dust: The Philosophik Mercury (Corpus Hermeticum) (7)
- Unwound: New Plastic Ideas (Kill Rock Stars) (7)
- Wedding Present: Watusi (Island) (7)
- Come: Don't Ask Don't Tell (Matador) (7)
- Freedy Johnston: This Perfect World (Elektra) (7)
- Dream Theater: Awake (Atco) (7)
- Mountain Goats: Zopilote Machine (Ajax) (7)
- Jawbox: For Your Own Special Sweetheart (Atlantic) (7)
- Green Day: Dookie (Reprise) (7)
- Kyuss: Sky Valley (Elektra) (7)
- Oval: Systemisch (Mille Plateaux) (7)
- Transglobal Underground: International Times (Nation) (7)
- Kristin Hersh: Hips And Makers (4AD) (7)
- Cubanate: Cyberia (Polygram) (7)
- Irresistible Force: Global Chillage (Rising High) (7)
- Tadpoles: He Fell Into The Sky (Bakery) (7)
- Spacetime Continuum: Sea Biscuit (Astralwerks) (7)
- Silver Jews: Starlite Walker (Drag City) (7)
- Elliott Smith: Roman Candle (Cavity Search) (7)
- Seefeel: Succour (Warp) (7)
- A Produce: Land Of A Thousand Trances (Trance Port) (7)
- Sunny Day Real Estate: Diary (SubPop) (7)
- Brise-Glace: When In Vanitas (Skin Graft) (7)
- Esoteric: Epistemological Despondency (Aesthetic Death)
- Milk Cult: Burn Or Bury (Basura) (7)
- Stone Temple Pilots: Purple (Atlantic) (7)
- Disco Inferno: DI Go Pop (Rough Trade) (7)
- Love And Rockets: Hot Trip To Heaven (Beggars Banquet) (7)
- O.Rang: Herd Of Instinct (Echo) (7)
- Mermen: Food For Other Fish (Kelptone) (7)
- Minus 5: Old Liquidator (Glitterhouse) (7)
- Burzum: Hvis Lyset Tar Oss (Misanthropy) (7)
- Neil Young: Sleeps With Angels (Reprise) (7)
- Sea And Cake (Thrill Jockey) (7)
- EAR: Mesmerised (Sympathy) (7)
- Palace Brothers: Days In The Wake (Drag City) (7)
- Lungfish: Pass And Stow (Dischord) (7)
- Ani DiFranco: Out Of Range (Rightous Babe) (7)
- Seven Year Bitch: Viva Zapata (C/Z) (7)
- Bailter Space: Vortura (Matador) (7)
- Atomic 61: Tinnitus In Extremis (Cavity Search) (7)
- Karp: Mustaches Wild (K) (7)
- Blackeyed Susans: All Souls Alive (Frontier) (7)
- Towering Inferno: Kaddish (Island) (7)
- Chris Connelly: Shipwreck (Wax Trax) (7)
- Emperor: In The Nightside Eclipse (Century Black) (7)
- Chrome Cranks: Chrome Cranks (PCP, 1994) (7)
- 4 Hero: Parallel Universe (Reinforced) (7)
- DQE: But Me I Fell Down (Feel Good All Over) (7)
- MC900 Ft Jesus: One Step Ahead of the Spider (1994) (7)
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Songwriters
- Lisa Germano: Geek The Girl (4AD)
- Magnetic Fields: The Charm Of The Highway Strip (Merge)
- Tori Amos: Under The Pink (Atlantic)
- Loreena McKennitt: The Mask And The Mirror (Quinlan Road)
- Liz Phair: Whip-Smart (Matador)
- Daniel Johnston: Fun (Atlantic)
- Beck: Mellow Gold (DGC)
- Jeff Buckley: Grace (Columbia)
- Freedy Johnston: This Perfect World (Elektra)
- Frank Black: Teenager Of The Year (Elektra)
- Azalia Snail: Fumarole Rising (Funky Mushroom)
- Krestin Hersh: Hips And Makers (4AD)
- Elliott Smith: Roman Candle (Cavity Search)
- Ani DiFranco: Out Of Range (Rightous Babe)
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Britain
- Portishead: Dummy (Go Disc)
- Bark Psychosis: Hex (Circa)
- Pram: Helium (Too Pure)
- Aphex Twins: Selected Ambient Works II (Warp)
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Germany
- Das Ich: Die Propheten (Danse Macabre)
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