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These are from Eye Weekly which is the major Toronto entertainment weekly. Since 1991, they have had a Canadian Cross-Country Critics Poll (about 70 critics all across Canada) so it's kind of like the Canadian version of the Village Voice poll.


Thanks to Jeff Brown for these lists.






Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 1991

Albums

Nirvana

1.Nirvana - Nevermind
2.R.E.M. - Out Of Time
3.The Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
4.Bruce Cockburn - Nothing But A Burning Light
5.Art Bergmann - Art Bergmann
6.My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
7.Public Enemy - Apocalypse '91 ... The Enemy Strikes Black
8.Massive Attack - Blue Lines
9.Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
10.U2 - Achtung Baby
11.Red Hot Chili Peppers - BloodSugarSexMagic
12.Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
13.Billy Bragg - Don't Try This At Home
14.Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
15.Van Morrison - Hymns To The Silence
16.Tragically Hip - Road Apples
17.Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II
18.Neil Young - Arc-Weld
19.Circle C - ©
20.Sarah McLachlan - Solace
21.Ice-T - O.G. Original Gangster
22.P.M. Dawn - Of The Heart, Of The Soul And Of The Cross: The Utopian Experience
23. Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I
23. The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
25.Dream Warriors - And Now The Legacy Begins
26.Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
27.Seal - Seal
28.Richard Thompson - Rumour And Sigh
29.Crowded House - Woodface
30.Elvis Costello - Mighty Like A Rose

Top Singles of 1991

Teen Sprit

1.Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
2.R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
3.Metallica - Enter Sandman
3.Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now
5.Billy Bragg - Sexuality
6.P.M. Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss
7.Divinyls - I Touch Myself
8.Seal - Crazy
9.Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away
10.Tragically Hip - Little Bones
11.Prince - Cream
12.R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People
13.EMF - Unbelievable
14.Teenage Fanclub - Star Sign
15.Art Bergmann - Faithlessly Yours
16.Sons Of Freedom - You're No Good
17. KLF - 3 A.M. Eternal
17. Pixies - Planet Of Sound
19.Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway
20.Anthrax Featuring Chuck D - Bring Tha Noize

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Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 1993

Albums


1. Urge Overkill - Saturation
2. Pearl Jam - Vs.
3. Blue Rodeo - Five Days In July
4. Nirvana - In Utero
5. The Breeders - Last Splash
6. Jane Siberry - When I Was A Boy
7. Suede - Suede
8. Doughboys - Crush
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
10. PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
11. Concrete Blonde - Mexican Moon
12. Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
13. Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
14. King Cobb Steelie - King Cobb Steelie
15. Morphine - Cure For Pain
16. Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Toward Ecstacy
17. Aimee Mann - Whatever
18. Dwight Yoakam - This Time
19. Matthew Sweet - Altered Beast
20. Janet Jackson - Janet.
21. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
22. Rosanne Cash - The Wheel
23. PJ Harvey - 4-Track Demos
24. Björk - Debut
25. Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
26. Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
27. 13 Engines - Perpetual Motion Machine
28. U2 - Zooropa
29. Aerosmith - Get A Grip
30. Daniel Lanois - For The Beauty Of Wynona

Top Singles of 1993

1. Smashing Pumpkins - Today
2. Doughboys - Shine
3. Urge Overkill - Sister Havana
4. The Breeders - Cannonball
5. Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box
6. Cypress Hill - Insane In The Brain
7. Blind Melon - No Rain
8. Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
9. Björk - Human Behavior
10. Junkhouse - Out Of My Head
11. Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
12. SWV - Right Here (Human Nature)
13. Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name
14. Radiohead - Creep
15. U2 - Lemon
16. The Posies - Dream All Day
17. Juliana Hatfield Three - My Sister
18. Shaggy - Oh Carolina
19. Sting - If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
20. The Breeders - Divine Hammer

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Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 1994

Albums

1. Hole - Live Through This
2. R.E.M. - Monster
3. Sloan - Twice Removed
4. Jeff Buckley - Grace
5. Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels
6. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York
7. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
8. Tragically Hip - Day For Night
9. Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
10. Soundgarden - Superunknown
11. Orbital - Snivilization
12. Suede - Dog Man Star
13. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
14. Beck - Mellow Gold
15. Veruca Salt - American Thighs
16. Green Day - Dookie
17. Liz Phair - Whip-Smart
18. Rheostatics - Introducing Happiness
19. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
20. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
21. Sebadoh - Bake Sale
22. Portishead - Dummy
23. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
24. Nick Cave - Let Love In
25. Blur - Parklife
26. Sugar - File Under: Easy Listening
27. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
28. Johnny Cash - American Recordings
29. Supersuckers - El Mano Cornuda
30. Laika - Silver Apples Of The Moon

Top Singles of 1994

1.Beck - Loser
2.Veruca Salt - Seether
3. Liz Phair - Supernova
3. Beastie Boys - Sabotage
5.R.E.M. - What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
6.Weezer - Buddy Holly
7.Blur - Girls And Boys
8.Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do
9.Hole - Miss World
10.Pavement - Cut Your Hair
11.Sloan - Coax Me
12.Cranberries - Zombie
13.Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
14.Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline
15.Frank Black - Headache

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Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 1995

Albums

1.PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
2.Tricky - Maxinquaye
3.Radiohead - The Bends
4.Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
5.Björk - Post
6.Elastica - Elastica
7.Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
8.Rancid - ...And Out Come The Wolves
9.The Super Friendz - Mock Up Scale Down
10.Joan Osborne - Relish
11.Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura
12.Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
13.Luna - Penthouse
14.Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
15.Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
16.The Jayhawks - Tomorrow The Green Grass
17.Mercury Rev - See You On The Other Side
18.Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
19.Blue Rodeo - Nowhere To Here
20.Supergrass - I Should Coco
21.Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
22.Spiritualized Electric Mainline - Pure Phase
23.Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
24.Fugazi - Red Medicine
25.Portishead - Dummy
26. Everclear - Sparkle And Fade
26. Goldie - Timeless
26. The 6ths - Wasps Nests
26. Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
30.Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah!


Top Singles of 1995

1.Elastica - Connection
2.Matthew Sweet - Sick Of Myself
3.Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise
4.Tricky - Black Steel
5.Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You
6.Oasis - Wonderwall
7.Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
8.Björk - Army Of Me
9.Massive Attack - Protection
10.Portishead - Sour Times
11. Alanis Morissette - Hand In My Pocket
11. Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
13.Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
14.The Super Friendz - 10 Lbs.
15.Pulp - Common People


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Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 1996


Albums

Beck

1. Beck - Odelay
2. Sloan - One Chord To Another
3. Wilco - Being There
4. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
5. The Tragically Hip - Trouble At The Henhouse
6. Patti Smith - Gone Again
7. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I Got Worry
8. Steve Earle - I Feel Alright
9. Nirvana - From The Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
10. Everything But The Girl - Walking Wounded
11. R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
12. Various Artists - Trainspotting OST
13. Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
14. Tricky - Pre-Millennium Tension
15. Fugees - The Score
16. Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman
17. Lamb - Lamb
18. Suede - Coming Up
19. Rheostatics - The Blue Hysteria
20. Cracker - The Golden Age
21. Rocket From The Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream!
22. Pest 5000 - Inter/a/bang
23. Dirty Three - Horse Stories
24. Sebadoh - Harmacy
25. Afghan Whigs - Black Love
26. Los Lobos - Colossal Head
27. 54-40 - Trusted By Millions
28. Long Fin Killie - Valentino
29. Orbital - In Sides
30. Scud Mountain Boys - Massachusetts

Singles

1. Underworld - Born Slippy
2. Beck - Devil's Haircut
3. Social Distortion - I Was Wrong
4. The Tragically Hip - Ahead By A Century
5. Beck - Where It's At
6. Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
7. Stone Temple Pilots - Big Bang Baby
8. Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun
9. Eels - Novocaine For The Soul
10. Busta Rhymes - Woo-Hah! (Got You All In Check)
11. Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth
12. Odds - Someone Who's Cool
13. Sloan - The Good In Everyone
14. R.E.M. - E-Bow The Letter
15. Ghostface Killah - Daytona 500

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Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 1997


Albums

OK Computer

1. Radiohead - Ok Computer
2. The Verve - Urban Hymns
3. Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
4. Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
5. Primal Scream - Vanishing Point
6. Björk - Homogenic
7. Beth Orton - Trailer Park
8. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
9. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
10. Pavement - Brighten The Corners
11. Ben Folds Five - Whatever And Ever Amen
12. Foo Fighters - The Color And The Shape
13. Sarah Mclachlan - Surfacing
14. Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
15. Steve Earle - El Corazon
16. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
17. Bran Van 3000 - Glee
18. Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
19. Spring Heel Jack - Busy Curious Thirsty
20. Oasis - Be Here Now
21. The Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
22. Blur - Blur
23. Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7th Time
24. The Jayhawks - The Sound Of Lies
25. The Dandy Warhols - Come Down
26. Stereolab - Dots And Loops
27. Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - The Virginian
28. Lhasa - La Llorona
29. Supergrass - In It For The Money
30. Nuyorican Soul - Nuyorican Soul


Singles

Verve

1. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
2. Blur - Song 2
3. Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
4. Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In L.A.
5. Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha
6. Smash Mouth - Walking On The Sun
7. The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats
8. Hanson - Mmmbop
9. Ben Folds Five - Brick
10. Big Wreck - The Oaf
11. Aqua - Barbie Girl
12. Daft Punk - Da Funk
13. Hanson - Where's The Love
14. Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
15. Radiohead - Paranoid Android

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Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 1998

Albums

1. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
2. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
3. Elliott Smith - XO
4. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
5. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
6. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
7. Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
8. Air - Moon Safari
9. Sloan - Navy Blues
10. Hole - Celebrity Skin
11. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
12. Afghan Whigs - 1965
13. Madonna - Ray of Light
14. Talvin Singh - OK
15. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
16. Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
17. Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
18. Golden Smog - Weird Tales
19. Boards of Canada - Music Has a Right to Children
20. R.E.M. - Up

Best Singles - 1998

Fatboy Slim

1. Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank
2. New Radicals - You Get What You Give
3. Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
4. Sloan - Money City Maniacs
5. Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
6. Madonna - Ray of Light
7. Massive Attack - Teardrop
8. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
9. Barenaked Ladies - One Week
10. Sheryl Crow - My Favorite Mistake
11. Brandy & Monica - The Boy Is Mine
12. Drugstore - El Presidente
13. Semisonic - Closing Time
14. Hole - Celebrity Skin
15. Air - Sexy Boy

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Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 1999

Albums

The Flaming Lips

1. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
2. Moby – Play
3. Tom Waits – Mule Variations
4. Guided By Voices – Do The Collapse
5. Mos Def – Black on Both Sides
6. Tricky Woo – Sometimes I Cry
7. Wilco - Summerteeth
8. Beck – Midnite Vultures
9. Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile
10. The Roots – Things Fall Apart
11. Rage Against The Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles
12. The Flashing Lights – Where The Change Is
13. Stereolab – Cobra & Phases Group Play Voltage Into The Milky Night
14. Built To Spill – Keep It Like A Secret
15. The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
16. Low – Secret Name
17. Pavement – Terror Twilight
18. Mogwai – Come On Die Young
19. Blur - 13
20. Fiona Apple – When The Pawn…

Best Singles - 1999

1. Len – Steal My Sunshine
2. Madonna – Beautiful Stranger
3. The Roots w/ Erykah Badu – You Got Me
4. TLC – No Scrubs
5. Beck – Sexx Laws
6. Tricky Woo – Fly The Orient
7. Guided By Voices – Teenage FBI
8. Fatboy Slim – Praise You
9. Moby - Honey
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Scar Tissue
11. Danko Jones – Bounce
12. Chemical Brothers – Let Forever Be
13. Sloan – Losing California
14. Foo Fighters – Learn To Fly
15. Pavement – Carrot Rope

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Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 2000

Albums

1. Radiohead - Kid A
2. OutKast – Stankonia
3. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
4. The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
5. Sarah Harmer - You Were Here
6. Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - Furnace Room Lullaby
7. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
8. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
9. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
10. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
11. PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
12. Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues
13. Dandy Warhols - 13 Tales From Urban Bohemia
14. Kid Koala - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
15. Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
16. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
17. Richard Ashcroft - Alone With Everybody
18. At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
19. The Dears - End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story
20. Bebel Gilberto - Tante Tempo


Singles

1. OutKast - B.O.B.
2. U2 - Beautiful Day
3. Coldplay - Yellow
4. Eminem - Stan
5. OutKast - Ms. Jackson
6. The New Pornographers - Letter From an Occupant
7. Richard Ashcroft - A Song for the Lovers
8. The Deftones - Change (In the House of Flies)
9. A Perfect Circle - Judith
10. Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
11. Madonna - Music
12. Sarah Harmer - Basement Apartment
13. Aaliyah - Try Again
14. Treble Charger - American Psycho
15. Nelly - Country Grammar

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Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 2001

Albums

Is This it

1. The Strokes – Is This It
2. Bjork - Vespertine
3. Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
4. The Constantines – The Constantines
5. Radiohead - Amnesiac
6. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
7. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
8. Spritualized - Let It Come Down
9. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
10. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
11. Mercury Rev - All Is Dream
12. Weezer - Weezer
13. New Order - Get Ready
14. Fugazi - The Argument
15. Tool - Lateralus
16. Rufus Wainwright - Poses
17. Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life
18. Richie Hawtin - DE9: Closer to the Edit
19. Pete Yorn - musicforthemorningafter
20. Pernice Brothers - The World Won't End

Singles

1. The Strokes - Last Nite
2. Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On
3. Destiny’s Child - Bootylicious
4. Mary J. Blige - Family Affair
5. Weezer - Island in the Sun
6. The Strokes - The Modern Age
7. Bran Van 3000 - Astounded
8. Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
9. Jay-Z - Izzo
10. Freelance Hellraiser - A Stroke of Genie-Us
11. Daft Punk - One More Time
12. Eve w/ Gwen Stefani - Let Me Blow Ya Mind
13. International Noise Conspiracy - Capitalism Stole My Virginity
14. Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At?
15. Sloan - If It Feels Good Do It

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Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 2002

Albums

1. Neko Case – Blacklisted
2. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
3. Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
4. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It in People
5. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
6. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
7. Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights
8. Beck – Sea Change
9. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
10. Sigur Ros – ()
11. Spoon – Kill the Moonlight
12. Solomon Burke – Don’t Give Up on Me
13. Liars – they threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top
14. Blackalicious – Blazing Arrow
15. DJ Shadow – The Private Press
16. Mum – finally we are no one
17. Elvis Costello – When I Was Cruel
18. RJD2 – Dead Ringer
19. Akufen – My Way
20. The Roots - Phrenology

Singles

1. Missy Elliott – Work It
2. Nelly – Hot in Herre
3. Eminem – Without Me
4. The White Stripes – Fell in Love With a Girl
5. Sam Roberts – Brother Down
6. Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows
7. Tweet – Oops (Oh My)
8. The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers
9. Nirvana – You Know You’re Right
10. Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out of My Head
11. Avril Lavigne – Complicated
12. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
13. Sloan – The Other Man
14. Coldplay – The Scientist
15. Golden Boy – Rippin Kittin

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Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 2003

Albums

1. Constantines – Shine A Light
2. The White Stripes – Elephant
3. OutKast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
4. The New Pornographers – Electric Version
5. Metric – Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
6. Dizzee Rascal – Boy In Da Corner
7. The Dears – No Cities Left
8. Stars – Heart
9. Manitoba – Up In Flames
10. Jim Guthrie – Now, More Than Ever
11. The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
12. The Hidden Cameras – The Smell of Our Own
13. Cat Power – You Are Free
14. Rufus Wainwright – Want One
15. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot it in People
16. Deerhoof – Apple O
17. Buck 65 – Talkin’ Honky Blues
18. Calexico – Feast of Wire
19. The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?
20. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief

Singles

1. OutKast – Hey Ya!
2. Beyonce Feat. Jay-Z – Crazy In Love
3. The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
4. 50 Cent – In da Club
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Date With the Night
6. Stars – Elevator Love Letter
7. The Strokes – 12:51
8. Justin Timberlake – Cry Me a River
9. Nick Cave – Babe, I’m on Fire
10. The Stills – Still in Love Song
11. The Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
12. The Dears – Lost in the Plot
13. Sloan – The Rest of My Life
14. Sean Paul – Get Busy
15. Broken Social Scene – Stars and Sons

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Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 2004

Albums

1. K-OS – Joyful Rebellion
2. The Arcade Fire – Funeral
3. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
4. Feist – Let it Die
5. The Streets – A Grand Don’t Come for Free
6. Death from Above 1979 – You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine
7. Kanye West – The College Dropout
8. Stars – Set Yourself on Fire
9. Tom Waits – Real Gone
10. Loretta Lynn – Van Lear Rose
11. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
12. Morrissey – You are the Quarry
13. Bjork – Medulla
14. AC Newman – The Slow Wonder
15. TV on the Radio – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
16. Brian Wilson – Smile
17. Green Day – American Idiot
18. Madvillain – Madvillainy
19. Wilco – A Ghost is Born
20. The Killers - Hot Fuss

Singles

1. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
2. K-Os - Crabbuckit
3. Modest Mouse - Float On
4. Jay-Z - 99 Problems
5. Feist - Mushaboom
6. K-Os - B-Boy Stance
7. M.I.A. - Galang
8. Kanye West - Jesus Walks
9. The Walkmen - The Rat
10. The Killers - Somebody Told Me
11. Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights
12. U2 - Vertigo
13. Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For?
14. Snoop Dogg Feat. Pharrell - Drop it Like it's Hot
15. The Streets - Fit But You Know It
16. Britney Spears - Toxic
16. Stars – Ageless Beauty
17. Green Day- American Idiot
18. Avril Lavigne - My Happy Ending
19. Loretta Lynn Feat. Jack White - Portland, Oregon
20. Metric - Dead Disco


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Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 2005

Albums

1. MIA - Arular
2. kanYe West - Late Registration
3. Kate Bush - Aerial
4. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
5. Metric - Live It Out
6. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
7. Antony & the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
8. Sarah Harmer - I’m a Mountain
9. Vitalic - OK Cowboy
10. Animal Collective - Feels
11. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
12. Jason Collett - Idols of Exile
13. Caribou - Milk of Human Kindness
14. Wolf Parade - Apologies To the Queen Mary
15. Great Lake Swimmers - Bodies & Minds
16. Final Fantasy - Has a Good Home!!!
17. Mountain Goats - Sunset Tree
18. Deadly Snakes - Porcella
19. Isolée - We Are Monster
20. Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

Singles

1. kanYe West - Gold Digger
2. Wolf Parade - Shine a Light
3. LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
4. Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone
5. Damien ‘Jr Gong’ Marley - Welcome To Jamrock
6. Missy Elliott featuring Ciara & Fatman Scoop - Lose Control
7. Sleater-Kinney - Entertain
8. Game featuring 50 Cent - Hate It Or Love It
9. Final Fantasy - CN Tower Belongs To the Dead
10. MIA - Bucky Done Gun

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Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 2006

Albums

1. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
2. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
3. TV On the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
4. Hot Chip - Warning
5. Junior Boys - So, This Is Goodbye
6. Cat Power - Greatest
7. Hold Steady - Boys & Girls In America
8. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
9. Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
10. Decemberists - Crane Wife
11. Lily Allen - Alright, Still
12. Dears - Gang of Losers
13. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
14. Joanna Newsom - Ys
15. Scott Walker - The Drift
16. Malajube - Trompe l’Oeil
17. Tokyo Police Club - A Lesson In Crime EP
18. Destroyer - Destroyer’s Rubies
19. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
20. Herbert - Scale
21. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
22. K-Os - Atlantis: Hymns for Disco
23. Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar
24. Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere
25. Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
26. Hidden Cameras - Awoo
27. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
28. Knife - Silent Shout
29. Love Is All - Nine Times the Same Song
30. Belle & Sebastian - Life Pursuit by...
31. CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
32. J Dilla - Donuts
33. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
34. TI - King
35. Roots - Game Theory
36. Sloan - Never Hear the End of It

Singles

1. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
2. TV On the Radio - Wolf Like Me
3. Lily Allen - Smile
4. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken
5. Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland - Promiscuous
6. Nelly Furtado - Maneater
7. TI - What You Know
8. Killers - When You Were Young
9. Hot Chip - Over & Over
10. Hot Chip - Boy from School
11. K-Os - Sunday Morning
12. Justin Timberlake - My Love
13. Christina Aguilera - Ain’t No Other Man
14. Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks
15. Junior Boys - In the Morning
16. Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes
17. Clipse featuring Slim Thug - Wamp Wamp (What It Do)
18. Final Fantasy - This Lamb Sells Condos
19. Pipettes - Pull Shapes
20. Johnny Cash - God’s Gonna Cut You Down
21. CSS - Let’s Make Love & Listen To Death from Above
22. Joel Plaskett Emergency - Nowhere with You
23. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor
24. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion
25. Cat Power - Greatest
26. Lily Allen - LDN
27. Gossip - Standing In the Way of Control
28. Band of Horses - Funeral
29. Clipse featuring Pharrell Williams - Mr Me Too
30. Sloan - Who Taught You To Live Like That?
31. My Chemical Romance - Welcome To the Black Parade
32. Phoenix - Long Distance Call
33. Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone - Ridin’
34. Justin Timberlake - SexyBack
35. Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier
36. Sonic Youth - Incinerate

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Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 2007

16th Annual Cross-Canada Music Critics' Poll

Albums

1. Neko Case - Fox Cofessor Brings the Flood
2. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
3. TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie mountain
4. Hot Chip - The Warning
4. Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
5. Cat Power - The Greatest
5. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
6. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
7. Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
8. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
9. Lily Allen - Alright, Still
10. The Dears - Gang of Losers
10. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
11. Joanna Newsom - Ys
12. Scott Walker - The Drift
13. Malajube - Trompe L'oeil
13. Tokyo Police Club - A Lesson in Crime
14. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
15. Mastadon - Blood Mountain
16. Herbert - Scale
17. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
17. K-Os - Atlantis: Hymns for Disco
18. Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar
19. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
20. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
21. The Hidden Cameras - Awoo
22. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
22. The Knife - Silent Shout
22. Love Is All - Niine Times the Same Song
23. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
23. CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
24. J Dilla - Donuts
24. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
24. T.I. - King
25. The Roots - Game Theory
25. Sloan - Never Hear the End of It


Singles

1. Gnarls Barkle - Crazy
2. TV On the Radio - Wolf Like Me
3. Lily Allen - Smile
4. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken
5. Nelly Furtado ft. Timbaland - Promiscuous
6. Nelly Furtado - Maneater
7. T.I. - What You Know
8. The Killers - When You wer Young
9. Hot Chip - Over and Over
10. Hot Chip - Boy from School
11. K-Os - Sunday Morning
12. Justin Timberlake - My Love
12. Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man
13. Peter Bjorn & John - Young Folks
14. Junior Boys - In the Morning
15. The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes
16. Clipse ft. Slim Thug - Wamp Wamp (What It Do)
17. Final Fantasy - This Lamb Sells Condos
18. The Pipettes - Pull Shapes
18. Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down
19. CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
20. Joel Plaskett Emergency - Nowhere With You
21. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
21. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion
22. Cat Power - The Greatest
22. Lily Allen - LDN
22. The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control
22. Band of Horses - Funeral
22. Clipse ft. Pharell Williams - Mr. Me Too
22. Sloan - Who Taught You to Love Like That?
23. My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
23. Phoenix - Long Distance Call
24. Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone - Ridin
25. Justin Timberlake - Sexy Back
25. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier
25. Sonic Youth - Incinerate

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Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 2008

Albums

1. Portishead - Third
2. Fucked Up - Chemistry of Common Life
3. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
4. TV On the Radio - Dear Science
5. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont
6. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
7. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
8. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
9. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
10. Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
11. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
12. Constantines - Kensington Heights
13. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
14. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
15. Santogold - Santogold
16. Plants & Animals - Parc Avenue
17. Bon Iver - For Emma - Forever Ago
18. Justin Rutledge - Man Descending
19. Opeth - Watershed
20. Gaslight Anthem - ‘59 Sound
21. Black Mountain - In the Future
22. Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
23. Duffy - Rockferry

Singles

1. MGMT - Time To Pretend
2. MIA - Paper Planes
3. Santogold - LES Artistes
4. Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
5. Estelle featuring kanYe West - American Boy
6. Lil Wayne - A Milli
7. Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire
8. Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)
9. Portishead - Machine Gun
10. Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart
11. TV On the Radio - Golden Age
12. kanYe West - Love Lockdown

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Eye weekly End Of Year Lists 2009

Albums

1. Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre
2. Girls - Album
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. The Xx - The Xx
5. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
6. K’naan - Troubadour
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!
8. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
9. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
10. Handsome Furs - Face Control
11. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
12. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
13. (TIE) The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II
14. St. Vincent - Actor
15. Converge - Axe To Fall
16. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
17. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
18. Gallows - Grey Britain
19. Metric - Fantasies
20. Joel Plaskett - Three

Singles

1. Dirty Projectors – Stillness Is The Move
2. Jay-Z Feat. Alicia Keys – Empire State Of Mind
3. Phoenix – 1901
4. Animal Collective – My Girls
5. Japandroids – Young Hearts Spark Fire
6. Bat For Lashes – Daniel
7. Lady Gagagagagaga – Bad Romance
8. Kid Cudi – Day N’ Night
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
10. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
11. Phoenix – Lisztomania
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll