The Top Albums from 1998

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	127	Lauryn Hill	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill		Listen
2	129	Air	Moon Safari		Listen
3	238	Lucinda Williams	Car Wheels on a Gravel Road		Listen
4	244	Mercury Rev	Deserter's Songs		Listen
5	316	Massive Attack	Mezzanine		Listen
6	356	Fatboy Slim	You've Come a Long Way, Baby		Listen
7	464	Bob Dylan	Live 1966 - The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert		Listen
8	517	Madonna	Ray of Light		Listen
9	523	Manu Chao	Clandestino		Listen
10	527	Neutral Milk Hotel	In the Aeroplane over the Sea		Listen
11	538	OutKast	Aquemini		Listen
12	561	Elliott Smith	XO		Listen
13	584	Pulp	This Is Hardcore		Listen
14	623	Beck	Mutations		Listen
15	719	Boards of Canada	Music Has the Right to Children		Listen
16	745	Beastie Boys	Hello Nasty
17	756	The Beta Band	The Three E. P.'s		Listen
18	822	Billy Bragg & Wilco	Mermaid Avenue		Listen
19	844	Belle and Sebastian	The Boy with the Arab Strap		Listen
20	898	Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach	Painted from Memory		Listen
21	961	Placebo	Without You I'm Nothing		Listen
22	1080	R.E.M.	Up		Listen
23	1083	Calexico	The Black Light		Listen
24	1124	Godspeed You Black Emperor!	F#A#Infinity		Listen
25	1426	Queens of the Stone Age	Queens of the Stone Age		Listen
26	1470	Manic Street Preachers	This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours		Listen
27	1503	Gomez	Bring It On		Listen
28	1552	David Gray	White Ladder		Listen
29	1554	Mark Hollis	Mark Hollis		Listen
30	1582	Rufus Wainwright	Rufus Wainwright		Listen
31	1631	Leila	Like Weather		Listen
32	1638	P J Harvey	Is This Desire?		Listen
33	1657	Turbonegro	Apocalypse Dudes		Listen
34	1726	Cat Power	Moon Pix		Listen
35	1748	Korn	Follow the Leader		Listen
36	1982	Hole	Celebrity Skin		Listen
37	2063	The Smashing Pumpkins	Adore		Listen
38	2075	Silver Jews	American Water		Listen
39	2175	Kid Rock	Devil Without a Cause		Listen
40	2269	Rachid Taha	Diwan		Listen
41	2326	Sparklehorse	Good Morning Spider		Listen
42	2344	Marilyn Manson	Mechanical Animals		Listen
43	2403	Monster Magnet	Powertrip		Listen
44	2411	Gang Starr	Moment of Truth		Listen
45	2443	UNKLE	Psyence Fiction		Listen
46	2471	Afghan Whigs	1965		Listen
47	2512	Herbert	Around the House		Listen
48	2687	Tortoise	TNT		Listen
49	2733	System of a Down	System of a Down		Listen
50	2734	4 Hero	Two Pages		Listen
51	2752	Arab Strap	Philophobia		Listen
52	2763	Boredoms	Super AE		Listen
53	2796	Asian Dub Foundation	Rafi's Revenge		Listen
54	2809	Garbage	Version 2.0		Listen
55	2822	Gastr del Sol	Camoufleur		Listen
56	2859	Propellerheads	Decksanddrumsandrockandroll		Listen
57	2865	Sonic Youth	A Thousand Leaves		Listen
58	2918	Jon Spencer Blues Explosion	ACME		Listen
59	2961	Third Eye Foundation	You Guys Kill Me		Listen
60	2996	Black Star	Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Talvin Singh	OK		Listen
		Refused	The Shape of Punk to Come		Listen
		Royal Trux	Accelerator		Listen
		Jeff Buckley	Sketches (For My Sweetheart the Drunk)		Listen
		Money Mark	Push the Button		Listen
		Eels	Electro-Shock Blues		Listen
		Tori Amos	From the Choirgirl Hotel		Listen
		Morcheeba	Big Calm		Listen
		Gillian Welch	Hell Among the Yearlings		Listen
		Jay-Z	Vol. 2 … Hard Knock Life		Listen