1 U2 - Achtung Baby
2 Prince - Sign O' the Times
3 The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
4 Nirvana - Nevermind
5 Radiohead - OK Computer
6 Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
7 Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
8 PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
9 Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
10 Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
11 The Replacements - Tim
12 OutKast - Stankonia
13 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
14 The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
15 Husker Du - New Day Rising
16 The Pixies - Doolittle
17 De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
18 The Strokes - Is This It
19 Jay-Z - The Blueprint
20 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
21 Oasis - (What's the Story?) Morning Glory
22 Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full
23 Daft Punk - Discovery
24 Metallica - Master of Puppets
25 Nas - Illmatic
26 Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
27 Nirvana - In Utero
28 Radiohead - The Bends
29 Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
30 A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
31 Massive Attack - Blue Lines
32 Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
33 Bjork - Debut
34 Beck - Odelay
35 R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
36 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
37 Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
38 Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell
39 Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
40 Tricky - Maxinquaye
41 Pulp - Different Class
42 Green Day - Dookie
43 The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
44 The Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
45 The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
46 N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
47 Portishead - Dummy
48 Elliott Smith - Either/Or
49 D'Angelo - Voodoo
50 Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
51 Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
52 Kanye West - The College Dropout
53 The Cure - The Head on the Door
54 Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
55 Hole - Live Through This
56 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
57 The White Stripes - Elephant
58 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing…
59 Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
60 Fugazi - 13 Songs
61 Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
62 U2 - The Joshua Tree
63 R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
64 The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
65 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
66 Arcade Fire - Funeral
67 Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
68 Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…
69 The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
70 Pearl Jam - Ten
71 Oasis - Definitely Maybe
72 Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams
73 The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
74 Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
75 Bjork - Post
76 OutKast - Aquemini
77 Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
78 Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
79 The Breeders - Last Splash
80 The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
81 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
82 Dr. Dre - The Chronic
83 Steve Earle - Guitar Town
84 LL Cool J - Radio
85 Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
86 TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
87 The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
88 Jeff Buckley - Grace
89 Basement Jaxx - Remedy
90 Elliott Smith - XO
91 The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
92 Jay-Z - The Black Album
93 The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
94 Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
95 Soundgarden - Superunknown
96 The Roots - Things Fall Apart
97 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
98 Johnny Cash - American Recordings
99 PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
100 Kanye West - Late Registration
101 Blur - Parklife
102 Queen Latifah - All Hail the Queen
103 M.I.A. - Arular
104 The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
105 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
106 Fiona Apple - When the Pawn…
107 Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
108 Fugees - The Score
109 The Chills - Submarine Bells
110 Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
111 Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
112 Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
113 Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
114 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
115 OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
116 Against Me! - New Wave
117 The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
118 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
119 Green Day - American Idiot
120 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
121 Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
122 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
123 The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious
124 Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves
125 Moby - Play
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