1995

1) Aphex Twin – I Care Because You Do

2) Long Fin Killie – Houdini

3) June of ’44 – Engine Takes To The Water

4) Julian Cope – 20 Mothers

5) Net Wet Kojak - Net Wet Kojak

6) Don Caballero – II

7) The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

8) Primus – Tales From the Punchball

9) Tortoise – Rhythms, Resolutions and Clusters

10) Pain Teens – Beast of Dreams

1996

1) Gastr Del Sol – Upgrate & Afterlife

2) Nearly God - Nearly God

3) Polvo – Exploded Drawning

4) Kletke Red – Hijacking

5) Derek Bailey – Guitar, Drum ‘n’ Bass

6) Roof – The Untraceable Cigar

7) Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I Got Worry

8) Cibo Matto – Viva! La Woman

9) Beck - Odelay

10) CSI – Linea Gotica

1997

1) Storm & Stress - Storm & Stress

2) Microstoria – Reprovisers

3) Gravitar – Now the Road of Knieves

4) Robert Wyatt - Shleep

5) To Rococo Rot – Veiculo

6) Susanne Brokesch – Sharing the Sunhat

7) Polvo – Shapes

8) We – As Is

9) Laika – Sound of the Satellites

10) Mouse on Mars - Autoditaker

1998

1) David Grubbs – The Thicket

2) You Fantastic! – Homesickness

3) Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

4) Calexico - The Black Light

5) 16B - Sounds from Another Room

6) Blonde Redhead - In an Expression of the Inexpressible

7) Gastr Del Sol – Camoufleur

8) June of ’44 – Four Great Points

9) Beck – Mutations

10) Vic Chesnutt – The Salesman and Bernadette

1999

1) Dean Roberts – All Cracked Media

2) Gorge Trio & Milo Fine - For Loss Of

3) Beck - Midnite Vultures

4) Kevin Drumm - Duo

5) The Flying Luttenbachers - The Truth Is a Fucking Lie

6) The Black Heart Procession - 2

7) Howie B. – Snatch

8) Repeat – Temporary Contemporary

U.S.

Maple – Talker

10) Sonic Youth – Goodbye 20^th Century

Blow Up critics’ list 2000

BEST ALBUM 2000

Daniel Givens-Age
Trans Am-Red line
Storm & Stress-Under thunder and fluorescent light
Storm & David Maranha-Circunscrita
Giant Sand-Chore of enchantment
Songs:Ohia – Ghost tropic
Cat Power-The covers record
Laurent Garnier-Unreasonable behaviour
Steve Peters-In memory of the four winds
Dj Assault-Belle isle tech
Kev Hopper-Whispering foils
Photek-Solaris
Gogogo Airheart- Gogogo Airheart
Sonic Youth NYC-Ghosts & flowers
Yo La Tengo-And then nothing turned itself inside-out
Jolly Music-Jolly bar 2000
Pillow-Field on water
Klaxon Gueule-Muets
Burkhard Stangl / Christof Kurzmann-Schnee
Dean Roberts-The grand cinema
Primal Scream-XTRMNTR
San Agustin-Amokhali
Shannon Wright-Maps of tacit
Badly Drawn Boy-The hour of bewilderbeast
Mojave 3-Excuses for travellers
Broadcast-The noise made by people
Kletka Red-Hybrid
Blonde Redhead-Melodies of certain damaged lemons
Vinicio Capossela-Canzoni a manovella
Jackie-O Motherfucker –Fig.5
Radiohead-Kid A
Etienne De Crecy-Tempovision
Jim O’Rourke / Mats Gustafsson-Xylophonen virtuosen
In Gowan Ring-Abend the knurled stitch
Kevin Drumm / Martin Tétreault-Particles and smears
Ma Cherie For Painting-Autres directions
Piano Magic-Artists’ rifles
Tarantel-From bone to satellite
Sun City Girls-Carnival folklore resurrection series
Aloha-That’s your fire
Arab On Radar-Soak the saddle
Anti Pop Consortium-Tragic epilogue
Calexico-Hot rail
Sodastream-Looks like a russian
C-Schulz & Hajsch- C-Schulz & Hajsch
Radian-Tg 11
90 Day Men-(It (is) it) Critical Band
A Short Apnea-Illu ogod ellat rhagedia
Mum-Yesterday was dramatic today is ok
Jimi Tenor-Out of nowhere

2001

1) Radiohead – Amnesiac

2) Clouddead – Clouddead

3) Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein

4) Old Time Relijun – Witchcraft rebellion

5) Jackie-O Motherfucker – Liberation

6) David Thomas & Two Pale Boys – Surf’s Up

7) Fennesz – Endless Summer

8) Björk - Vespertine

9) Neotropic – La prochaine fois

10) Jim O’Rourke - I'm Happy, and I'm Singing, and a 1,2,3,4

BLOW UP CRITICS’ LIST BEST ALBUM 2002

1. ONEIDA Each One Teach One
2. EL GUAPO Super / System
3. LOW Trust
4. THE BOOKS Thought For Food
5. ANTI POP CONSORTIUM Arrhythmia
6. SPRING HEEL JACK Amassed
7. THE STREETS Original Pirate Material
8. WILCO Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9. DALEK From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots
10. BLAZE Spiritually Speaking
11. LIARS They threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument...
12. L’ALTRA In The Afternoon
13. SUPER_COLLIDER Raw Digits
14. JOHNNY CASH The Man Comes Around
15. TOM WAITS Alice/Blood Money
16. McLUSKY Do Dallas
17. THE HUNCHES Yes. No. Shut It
18. PRIMAL SCREAM Evil Heat
19. ASA CHANG & JUNRAY Jun Ray Song Chang
20. WILLIAM BASINSKI The Disintegration Loops
21. SUICIDE American Supreme
22. BECK Sea Change
23. ELIANE RADIGUE Adnos I-III
24. COLDPLAY A Rush of Blood to the Head
25. CROSSOVER Fantasma
26. EKKEHARD EHLERS Plays
27. GUS GUS Attention
28. MASTERS AT WORK Out Time Is Coming
29. PERE UBU St. Arkansas
30. XIU XIU Knife Play
31. STEVE VON TILL If I Should Fall To The Field
32. BOARDS OF CANADA Geogaddi
33. DAVID GRUBBS Rickets & Scurvy
34. CLUB 8 Spring Come Rain Fell