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Les Inrockuptibles is a French publication since 1986. It comes out weekly since 1995. It's about "Musique, Cinema, Livres, etc..."

Thanks to Jean Alain Autret and Christophe Gourraud of The Pixies Home Page for compililing these lists for me .

Best 100 Albums From The Last Decade (1986 - 1996)
Critics lists from 1992, Critic and Readers lists from 1994 :

1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999

| 2000 | 2001 | 2002| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006

Many Thanks to Stéphane Baccetti of Asnières, France for supplying the '03 & '04 Lists.

1992 Les Inrocks Albums (alphabetical order )

• Arrested Development : 3 years, 5 months, 2 days in the life of...
• Peter Astor : Paradise
• Boo Radleys : Everything's alright forever
• John Cale : Fragments of a rainy season
• Nick Cave : Henry's Dream
• The Chills : Soft bomb
• Leonard Cohen : The Future
• John Cunningham : Shankly gates
• DC Basehead : Play with toys
• The Frank & Walters : Trains, boats and planes
• P.J. Harvey : Dry
• Brenda Kahn : Epiphany in Brooklyn
• Moose : ...XYZ
• The Nits : Ting
• Pavement : Slanted & enchanted
• REM : Automatic for the people
• Ride : Going blank again
• Sonic Youth : Dirty
• Television : Television
• Suzanne Vega : 99.9 f
• Neil Young : Harvest moon

The Reserve...

• Brian : Understand
• Cerebral Corps : Attributed to...
• Denim : Back in Denim
• Dominique A : La Fossette
• Bob Dylan : Good as I been to you
• Epic Soundtracks : Rise Above
• Fabulous trobadors : Era pas de faire
• The House of love : Babe rainbow
• David Kilgour : Here come the cars
• Me Phi me : One
• Pale Saints : In Ribbons
• Pulp : Separations
• Red House Painters : Down colourful hill
• St Christopher : Man I could scream
• Bettie Serveert : Palomine
• Sugar : Copper blue
• Tom Verlaine : Warm & cool
• Vulgar Boatmen : Please panic
• XTC : Nonsuch
• Yo La Tengo : May I sing with me

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1993 Les Inrocks Albums

1. Divine Comedy : Liberation
2. Palace Brothers : There's no one that will take care of you
3. Trash Can Sinatras : I've seen everything
4. Mazzy Star : So tonight that I might see
5. Ashtray boy : the honeymoon suite
6. The Goats : Tricks of the shade
7. Dominique A : Si je connais Harry
8. Boo Radleys : Giant Steps
9. Pascal Comelade : Traffic d'abstraction
10. Moose : Honey bee
11. Murat : Venus
12. Al Green : Don't look back
13. Bjork : Debut
14. Sugar : Beaster
15. Red House Painters : Red hose painters - 1
16. Paul Quinn : The phantoms of the archetypes
17. The Auteurs : New wave
18. Silvain Vanot : Sylvain Vanot
19. The Apartments : Drift
20. liz Phair : Exile in Guyville
21. Tindersticks : Tindersticks
22. American Music Club : Mercury
23. East River Pipe : Goodbye California
24. Geoffrey Oryema : beat the border
25. Nirvana : In Utero
26. Cypress Hill : Black sunday
27. The Lemonheads : Come on feel
28. James : Laid
29. De La Soul : Bulhoone mind state
30. Yo La Tengo : Painful
31. US 3 : Hand on the torch
32. Grant Mc Lennan : Fireboy
33. Jean Francois Coen : Jean francois Coen
34. Blur : Modern life is rubbish
35. Pooka : Pooka
36. Frank Black : Frank Black
37. Stuart Moxham : random rules
38. The Walkabouts : Satisfied mind
39. A Tribe Call Quest : Midnight marauders

1993 Les Inrocks Readers Albums

1. Boo Radleys : Giant Steps
2. The Auteurs : New Wave
3. Divine Comedy : Liberation
4. Tindersticks : Tindersticks
5. The Breeders : Last plash
6. James : Laid
7. The Apartments : Drift
8. Bjork : Debut
9. Suede : Suede
10. New Order : Republic
11. Moose : Honey bee
12. Sugar : Beaster
13. Frank Black : Frank Black
14. Belly : Star
15. Dominique A : Si je connais Harry
16. Sylvain Vanot : Sylvain Vanot
17. The Posies : Frosting on the beater
18. Trash Can Sinatras : I've seen everything
19. Dead Can Dance : Into the labyrinth
20. The Lemonheads : Come on feel

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1994 Les Inrocks Albums

1. Beck : Mellow Gold
2. Ben Harper : Welcome to the cruel World
3. Jean Bart : Il le faut
4. Warren G : Regulate... G funk era
5. Daniel Johnston : Fun
6. Beck : One foot in the grave
7. Neil Young : Sleeps with angels
8. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds : Let love in
9. Morrissey : Vauxhall & I
10. Swell : 41
11. Beastie Boys : III communication
12. Snoop Doggy Dog : Doggystyle
13. Liz Phair : Whip smart
14. Jeff Buckley : Grace
15. The Divine Comedy : Promenade
16. Urban Species : listen
17. Johnny Cash : American recordings
18. Pavement : Crooked rain
19. Grant Lee Buffalo : Mighty Joe Moon
20. Portishead : Dummy
21. Vic Chesnutt : Drunk
22. Sonic Youth : Experimental jet set, trash & no star
23. Nirvana : Unplugged in New York
24. Palace Brothers : Palace brothers
25. Lambchop : Jack's Tulips

1994 Les Inrocks Singles

1. Beck : Loser
2. Oasis : Supersonic
3. Neil Young : Philadelphia
4. Morrissey & Siouxsie : Interlude
5. Lambchop : Soaky in the pooper
6. Mazzy Star : fade into you
7. The Beastie Boys : Sabotage
8. Blur : Girls & boys
9. Stone Roses : love spreads
10. Catchers : Shifting ep
11. Oasis : whatever I
12. Pavement : Cut your hair
13. Portishead : Numb
14. Public Enemy : Give it up
15. The Sandals : Nothing
16. Compulsion : Mall monarchy
17. Beck : It's all in your mind
18. Deus : Sods & sodas
19. Elastica : Connection
20. Gene : For the dead
21. Kristin Hersh : Your ghost
22. Sebadoh : Careful
23. Plush : Found a little baby
24. Shed Seven : Mark
25. Veruca Salt : Seether
26. Ash : Petrol
27. Weezer : Undone the sweeter song
28. Palace Brothers : An arrow through the bitch
29. Pulp : Do you remember the first time

1994 Les Inrocks Readers Albums

1. Jeff Buckley : Grace
2. Morrissey : Vauxhall and I
3. Portishead : Dummy
4. Frank Black : Teenage of the year
5. Oasis : Definitely maybe
6. Sonic Youth : Experimental jet set ...
7. Pulp : His'n'hers
8. Divine Comedy : Promenade
9. Suede : Dog man star
10. Swell : 41
11. Blur : Parklife
12. Catchers : Mute
13. Nirvana : Unplugged in New York
14. Shed Seven : Change giver
15. Neil Young : Sleeps with angels
16. Hole : Live through this
17. Sebadoh : Bakesale
18. Pavement : Crooked rain
19. Ride : Carnival of light
20. Bashung : Chatterton

1994 Les Inrocks Readers Singles

1. Beck : Loser
2. Oasis : Supersonic
3. Elastica : Connection
4. Blur : Girls & boys
5. Shed Seven : Mark
6. Morrissey & Siouxsie : Interlude
7. Tindersticks : Kathleen
8. Morrissey : The more you ignore me, the closer I get
9. Oasis : Live forever
10. Veruca Salt : Seether

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1995 Les Inrocks Albums (alphabetical order )

The necessary 25 albums

• Akhenaton : Metheque et mat
• Baby Bird : I was born a man, Bad shave & Fatherhood
• Bjork : Post
• Blur : The great escape
• Boo Radleys : Wake up
• Cardinal : Cardinal
• Vic Chesnutt : Is the actor happy ?
• Lloyd Cole : Love story
• Cypress Hill : III temple of boom
• Dominique A : La memoire neuve
• Earthling : Radar
• Gene : Olympian
• PJ Harvey : To bring you my love
• Miossec : Boire
• Money Mark : Mark's Keyboard repair
• Oasis : ( What's the story morning glory )
• Ol' Dirty Bastard : Return to the 36 chambers
• Palace Music : Viva last blues
• Pulp : Different class
• Radiohead : The bends
• Ron Sexmith : Ron Sexmith
• Spain : The blue moods of spain
• Supergrass : I should coco
• Tarnation : Gentle creatures
• Tricky : Maxinquaye

The Reserve...

• Air Miami : Me, me, me
• The Apartments : A life full of farewells
• Ballistics Brothers : London hooligan soul
• Jean Bart : Fin et suite
• David Bowie : Outside
• Chemical Brothers : Exit planet dust
• Julian Cope : 20 mothers
• Delicatessen : Skin touching water
• Elastica : Elastica
• Flaming Lips : Clouds taste metallic
• Garbage : Garbage
• Gorky's Zigotic Mynci : Bwyd time
• Ben Lee : Grandpaw would
• Letfield : Leftism
• Eric Matthews : It's heavy in here
• Moose : Live a little, love a lot
• Passengers : Original soundtracks vol. 1
• Red House Painters : Ocean beach
• Smog : Wild love
• Sparklehorse : Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
• Bruce Springsteen : The gost of Tom Joad
• Teenage Fanclub : Grand Prix
• Tindersticks : The second tindersticks album
• Scott Walker : Tilt

1995 Les Inrocks Singles

1. Ruby : Paraffin
2. Clubbed to Death : Compact disc experience
3. Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue : Where the wild roses grow
4. Garbage : Vow
5. Goldie : Inner city life
6. Fila Brazillia : A zed & two I's
7. Foo Fighters : This is a call
8. Sloy : Pop
9. Weezer : Buddy Holly
10. High Llamas : Checking in checking out
11. The President of the USA : Lump
12. Stephen Duffy : London Girls
13. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion : Experimental remixes
14. The Apartments : The things you'll keep
15. Eva Luna : Ghost of you
16. Ecstatic Orange : World keep spinning
17. Cast : Fine time
18. Elastica : Waking up
19. Morrissey : Boxers
20. Mc Almont & Butler : Yes
21. Delicatessen : CF Kane
22. Salad : Drink the elixir
23. Cardigans : Carnival
24. Tindersticks : No more affairs
25. Menswear : I'll manage somehow

1995 Les Inrocks Readers Albums

1. P.J. Harvey : To bring you my love
2. Miossec : Boire
3. Tindersticks : The second album
4. Dominique A : La mmoire neuve
5. Bjork : Post
6. Supergrass : I should coco
7. Tricky : Maxinquaye
8. Palace : Viva last blues
9. Oasis : (What's the story) morning glory ?
10. Spain : The blue moods of Spain
11. The Apartments : A life full of farewell
12. Pulp : Different class
13. Blur : The great escape
14. Echobelly : On
15. Ben Harper : Fight for your mind
16. Boo Radleys : Wake up
17. Cast : All change
18. Earthling : Radar
19. Natacha Atlas : Diaspora
20. David Bowie : Outside
21. Garbage : Garbage
22. Radiohead : The bends
23. Ron Sexmith : Ron Sexmith
24. The Smashing Pumpkins : Mellon collie and...
25. Vic Chesnutt : Is the actor happy ?

1995 Les Inrocks Readers Singles

1. Pulp : Common people
2. Oasis : Wonderwall
3. Garbage : Vow
4. Supergrass : Allright
5. Dominique A : 22 bar
6. Tricky : Black steel
7. PJ Harvey : Down by the water
8. Bjork : Army of me
9. Presidents of the USA : Lump
10. Morrissey : Boxers
11. Blur : County house
12. Bjork : Isobel
13. Bjork : It's oh so quiet
14. Tindersticks : No more affairs
15. Supergrass : Mansize rooster
16. Supergrass : Caught by fuzz
17. N Cave & the Bad Seeds : Where the wild roses grow
18. Ruby : Paraffin
19. Boo Radleys : Wake up !

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1996 Les Inrocks Albums (alphabetical order )

The necessary 10 albums

• Beck : Odelay
• Deus : In a bar, under the sea
• Diabologum : 3
• The Divine Comedy : Casanova
• DJ Shadow : Endtroducing...
• Eels : Beautiful freak
• Papas Fritas : Papas Fritas
• Placebo : Placebo
• Morcheeba : who can you trust?
• Tricky : Pre-millenium tension

The reserve...

• Aphex Twins : Richard D. James lp
• Fiona Apple : Tidal
• Joseph Arthur : Big city secrets
• Baby Bird : Ugly beautiful
• Ben Folds Five : Ben Folds Five
• Billy Bragg : William Bloke
• Cat Power : What would the community think
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds : Murder ballads
• Richard Davies : There's never been a crowd like this
• Donovan : Sutras
• Dr Octagon : The ecologyst
• Mark Eitzel : 60 watt silver lining
• Everything but the girl : Walking wounded
• Fun Lovin Criminals : Come find yourself
• Lisa Germano : Exepts from a love circus
• Grant Lee Buffalo : Copperopolis
• Jeru the Damaja : Wrath of the math
• Katerine : Mes mauvaises frequentations
• Labradford : Labradford
• The Lemonheads : Car button cloth
• Luscious Jackson : Fever in fever out
• Maria Mc Kee : Life is sweet
• The Married Monk : The Jim side
• Mazzy Star : Among my swan
• Murat : Dolores
• Nearly God : Nearly God
• Peter Perrett : Woke up sticky
• Jonny Polonsky : Hi my name is Jonny
• The Olivia Tremor Control : Dusk at cubist castle
• Beth Orthon : Trailer park
• Out of my hair : Drop the roof
• Radar Bros : Radar bros
• The Rentals : Return of the Rentals
• Scud Mountain Boys : Massachussetts
• Silver Jews : The natural bridge
• Patti Smith : Gone again
• Sparkehorse : Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
• Suede : Coming up
• Underworld : Second toughest of the infants
• Suzanne Vega : Nine objects of desire

1996 Les Inrocks Singles (alphabetical order )

• Aphex Twin : Girl/Boy
• Archive : So few words
• Baby Bird : You're gorgeous
• Beck : Devil's Haircut
• Mathieu Boogaerts : Ondule
• Busta Rhymes : Woo hah
• Butthole surfers : Pepper
• Cat Power : Nude as the news
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds : Henry Lee
• The Chemical Brothers : Setting sun
• Cibo Matto : Know your children
• Daft Punk : Da funk
• Diabologum : A decouvrir absolument
• Dr Octagon : Blue flowers
• Elysian Fields : Star
• Everything but the Girl : Wrong
• The Folk Implosion : Natural one
• Fun Lovin' Criminals : Scooby snacks
• Garageland : Fingerpops
• Gorky's Zigotic Mincy : Lucy's hamper
• Guided by voices : the official ironmen rallysong
• Manic Street Preachers : A design for life
• Mazzy Star : Flowers of december
• Monk & Canatella : I can water my plants
• Movietone : Useless landscape
• Nada Surf : Popular
• Noir Desir : Un jour en France
• Number One Cup : Dive bomb
• Orbital : The box
• The Pharcyde : Runnin'
• Photek : The hidden camera
• Placebo : Teenage angst
• Primitive Radio Gods : Standing outside a broken telephone
• Prodigy : Firestarter
• Rogey Quigley : A kind of loving
• The Rentals : Friends of P
• The Saturnines : Caves
• 16 Horsepower : Haw
• Smashing Pumpkins : 1979
• Smog : Kicking a couple around
• Space : Female of the species
• Spice Girls : Wannabe
• Suede : Trash
• Underworld : Born slippy
• Weezer : El scorcho

1996 Les Inrocks Readers Albums

1. Eels : Beautifuls freaks
2. Beck : Odelay
3. Placebo : Placebo
4. The Divine Comedy : Casanova
5. Suede : Coming up
6. Cat Power : What would the community think
7. Noir Desir : 666.667 Club
8. Diabologum : 3
9. Deus : In a bar, under the sea
10. Jean Louis Murat : Dolores
11. Tricky : Pre-millenium tension
12. Mazzy star : Among my swan
13. Nick Cave ansd the bad seeds : Murder ballads
14. Guideg by voices : Under the bushes, under the stars
15. Manic Street Preachers : Everything must go
16. Trash Can Sinatras : A happy pocket
17. Baby Bird : Ugly beautiful
18. Boo Radleys : C'mon kids
19. Morcheeba : Who can you trust ?
20. Bim Sherman : Miracle

1996 Les Inrocks Readers Singles

1. Nada Surf : Popular
2. Eels : Novocaine for your soul
3. Fun Lovin' Criminals : Scooby snacks
4. Suede : Trash
5. Placebo : 36 degrees
6. Cat Power : Nude as the news
7. Beck : Devil's haircut
8. Smashing Pumpkins : 1979
9. Divine Comedy : Something for the weekend
10. Underworld : Born slippy

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1997 Critics albums (alphabetical order )

The 10 best albums :

• Alpha : Come from heaven
• Björk : Homogenic
• Belle & Sebastian : If you're feeling sinister
• Craig Armstrong : The space between us
• Jay-Jay Johanson : Whiskey
• Portishead : Portishead

• Radiohead : OK Computer
• Swell : Too many days without thinking
• Tranquility Bass : Let the freak flag fly
• The Verve : Urban hymns

The others :

• The Apartments : Apart
  Archive : Londinium
  Bentley Rhythm Ace : BRA
  Françoiz Breut : Françoiz Breut
  David Byrne : Feelings
  Nick Cave : the Boatman's call
  The Chemical Brothers : Dig your own hole
  Cornershop : when I was born for the 7th time
  Death in Vegas : Dead Elvis
  Echo & the Bunnymen : Evergreen
  Forest for the Trees : Forest for the Trees
  Grandaddy : The western freeway
  Gus Gus : Polydistorsion
  Michael Head : The magical world of the strands
  Lauren Hoffman : Meggiddo
  IAM : L'école du micro d'argent
  Jonathan Fire Eater : Wolf songs for lambs
  Kid Loco : A grand love story
  Labradford : Mi media naranja
  Miossec : Baiser
  Mogwai : Young team
  Monk & Canatella : Care in the community
  Mouse on Mars : Autoditacker
  OP8 : Slush
  Pavement : Brighten the corners
  Photek : Modus operandi
  Primal Scream : Vanishing point
  Prodigy : The fat of the land
  Rakim : the 18th letter
  RoniSize/Reprazent : New forms
  Elliot Smith : either/or
  Smog : Red apple falls
  Spiritualized : Ladies & gentlemen, we are floating in space
  Thievery Corporation : Sounds from the thievery hi-fi
  Tindersticks : Curtains
  Ulan Bator : Végétale
  Silvain Vanot : Egérie
  Jim White : Wrong-eyed Jesus!
  Wu-Tang Clan : Wu-Tang forever
  Robert Wyatt : Shleep
  

1997 Critics singles (alphabetical order )

• Air : Le soleil est près de toi
• All Saints : Never ever
• Alpha : Sometime later
• Aphex Twin : Come to daddy
• Julien Baer : le monde s'écroule
• Beck : Devil's haircut
• Belle & Sebastian : Dog on wheels/3.6.9 seconds of light
• Ben Folds Five : The battle of who could care less
• Cornershop : Good shit
• Cake : Frank Sinatra
• Catch : Bingo
• Cuba : Havana
• Daft Punk : Around the world
• Depeche Mode : Home
• DJ Shadow : High noon
• Dumb Angel : Make a sound
• Eels : Rags to rags
• Embrace : All you good good people
• Fatboy Slim : Everybody needs a 303
• Folk Implosion : Pole position
• Fountains of Wayne : Sink to the bottom
• Fugu : F24
• Invisible Pair of Hands : La balançoire
• Janet Jackson : Got'til it's gone
• Leila : Don't fall asleep
• Lo-Fidelity All Stars : Disco machine gun
• Luscious Jackson : Naked eyed
• Massive Attack : Risingson
• Mono : Life in Mono
• Plaid : Undoneson
• Plush : No education
• Pressure Drop : My friend
• Prodigy : Smack my bitch up EP
• Propellerheads : Take California
• Finley Quaye : Even after all
• Radar Bros : Stay
• Radiohead : Paranoid android
• Rialto : Untouchable
• Scott 4 : Scott 4
• Squarebusher : 30 big loada
• Symposium : The answer to why I hate you
• Jimi Tenor : Can't stay with you baby
• Transparent Things : Car
• Tricky : Makes me wanna die
• U2 : Staring at the sun
• Velocette : Get yourself together
• Velvia : Genial
• The Verve : Bitter sweet symphony
• The Verve : The drugs don't work
• Wannadies : Hit
• Wiseguys : Casino

1997 reader's albums

• Radiohead : OK Computer
• Portishead : Portishead
• Björk : Homogenic
• Belle and Sebastian : If you're feeling sinister
• Jay-Jay Johanson : Whiskey
• Miossec : Baiser
• Swell : Too many days without thinking
• The Verve : Urban hymns
• IAM : L'école du micro d'argent
• Ben Harper : The will to live

1997 readers singles

• The Verve : Bitter sweet symphony
• Radiohead : Paranoid Android
• The Verve : The drugs don't work
• Björk : Joga
• Radiohead : Karma police
• Finley Quaye : Sunday shining
• Monaco : What do you want from me ?
• Cake : I will survive
• Miossec : La fidélité
• Prodigy : Breathe

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Les Inrockuptibles Critics Albums & Singles of 1998.

Mercury Rev : Deserter's song
Rufus Wainwright : Rufus Wainwright
Beck : Mutations
Massive Attack : Mezzanine
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion : Acme
Leila : Like weather
R.E.M. : Up
Manu Chao : Clandestino
Elliot Smith : XO
Placebo : Without you I'm nothing
Mark Hollis : Mark Hollis
The Third Eye Foundation : You guys kill me
Portishead : Live Roseland NYC
Black Box Recorder : England made me
Jurassic 5 : J5
Tue-Loup : La bancale
Roudoudou : Tout l'univers ( listerner's digest )

Cornelius : Fantasma
Alain Bashung : Fantaisie Militaire
P.J. Harvey : Is this desire ?
Stephen Duffy : I love my friends
Morcheeba : Big calm
Sparklehorse : Good morning spider
Sunhouse : Crazy on the week end
Kruder & Dorfmeister : The K & D sessions
Garbage : Version 2.0
Bran Van 3000 : Glee
The Smashing Pumpkins : Adore
Air : Moon safari
Boo Radleys : Kingsize
Cat Power : Moon pix
Perry blake : Perry Blake
Tarwater : Silur
Freestylers : We rock hard
Lo-Fidelity Allstars : How to operate with a blown mind
Pulp : This is hardcore
Tortoise : TNT
Calexico : The black light
Jeff Buckley : Sketches for my sweetheart the drunk
The Beta Band : 3 ep's
The Dandy Wharhols : Come down
Drugstore : White magic for lovers
Miossec : A prendre
Beastie Boys : Hello nasty
Johnny Dowd : West of Memphis
U.N.K.L.E : Psyence fiction
Talvin Singh : OK
Rae & Christian : Northers sulphuric soul
The Little Rabbits : Yeah !
Cosmo Vitelli : Vidéo

50 singles of 1998

Fatboy Slim : Rockafeller skank
Bran Van 3000 : Drinking in L.A.
Stardust : Music sounds better with you
Cornershop : Brimful of Asha ( Norman Cook remix )
Jurassic 5 : Concrete schoolyards
Beastie Boys : Intergalactic
Little Rabbits : La Piscine
Wagon Christ : Rendleshack
Cosmo Vitelli : We don't need no smurf here
Air : Kelly watch the star
Czerkinsky : Natacha
Drugstore : El President
Pulp : This is hardcore
Lionrock : Rude boy rock
Freestylers : Ruffneck
Tarwater : The watersample
A.D.O.R. : Let it all hang out
Madonna : Frozen
Fun Lovin' Criminals : Love unlimited
Money Mark : Hand in your head
Terry Callier : Love the from Spartacus
Tricky & P.J. Harvey : Broken homes
Belle & Sebastian : This is just a modern rock song
Beta Band : The Patty Patty sound
Black Star : Definition
Lauryn Hill : Doo Wap ( That Thing )
Rinocerose : Le Mobilier
Roudoudou : Peace & tranquility to earth
Mellow : Mellow
Deejay Punk-Roc : Dead husband
The Divine Comedy : generation sex
Hole : Malibu
Kreidler : Au pair
Bjork : Hunter
Sofa Surfers : The Plan
Morcheeba : Let me see
Seafood : Porchlight
Les Rythmes Digitales : Music makes you lost control
Sebadoh : Flame
Wiseguys : Ooh la la
Skinny : Failure
Badly Drawn Boy : I need a sign
Regular Fries : Dust it, don't bust it
Lo-Fidelity Allstars : Vision incision
Baby bird : Bad old man
Volume All* Star : Alpo boy
Six by Seven : 88-92-96
Bedlam Ago Go : Season No 5
Red Snapper : The sleepless
Velocette : Spoiled children

 

Readers Selections :

Rock album

Massive Attack : Mezzanine
Elliot Smith : XO
Mercury Rev : Deserter's songs
REM : Up
PJ Harvey : Is this desire ?
Belle & Sebastian : The boy with the arab strap
Alain Bashung : fantaisie militaire
Yann Tiersen : Le phare
Pulp : This is hardcore
Manu Chao : Clandestino

Single

Pulp : This is hardcore
Placebo : Pure morning
Fatboy Slim : The rockafeller skank
The Devine Comedy : generation sex
Drugstore : El president
Stardust : Music sounds better with you
The Little rabbits : La piscine
Mercury Rev : Goddess on a highway
Czerkinsky : Natacha
The Smashing Pumpkins : Ava adore

World Album

Manu Chao : Clandestino
Rachid taha : Diwan
Amadou & Mariam : Sou ni tilé
Lhasa : La llorona
Caetano Veloso : Livro

French album

Alain Bashung : Fantaisie militaire
Miossec : A prendre
Gérard Manset : Jadis & naguére
Brel : Aux suivants
Tetes Raides : Chamboultou

Jazz Album

Brad Mehldau : songs
John Lurie : Queen of all ears
John Coltrane : The classic quartet
Thelonious Monk : Monk alone
Lisa Ekdhal : Back to earth

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1999 Albums (Critics)

 

1. Beck : Midnight vultures
2. Moby : Play
3. Death in Vegas : The continos sessions
4. Jean Louis Murat : Mustango
5. The Folk Implosion : One part lullaby
6. Jude : No one is really beautiful
7. Mos Def : Black on both sides
8. Hansome Boy Modeling School : So ... how's your girl
9. Katerine : Les creatures & L'homme à trois mains
10. Smog : Knock knock
11. Quannum : Spectrum
12. The Flaming Lips : The soft bulletin
13. Brendan Perry : Eye of the hunter
14. Pavement : Terror twilight
15. Bosco : Paramour
16. Basement Jaxx : Remedy
17. Beth Orton : Central reservation
18. Archive : Take my head
19. Merz : Merz
20. Alex Gopher : You my baby and I
21. Saian Supa Crew : KLR
22. The Roots : Things fall apart
23. 1000 Clowns : Freelance bubblehead
24. Mr Oizo : Analog worms attack
25. Faultline : Closer colder
26. Dominique A : Remué
27. Fiona Apple : When the pawn...
28. Deus : The ideal crash
29. The Chemical Brothers : Surrender
30. Muse : Showbiz
31. "Rinoçérose" : Installation sonore
32. Stina Nordenstam : People are strange
33. Gomez : Liquid skin
34. Chocolate Genius : Black music
35. Les Negresses Vertes : Trabendo
36. Les Rhytmes Digitales : Darkdancer
37. Ben Christophers : My beautiful demon
38. Eminem : The Slim shady LP
39. Bob Marley : Chant down babylon
40. Ron Sexmith : Whereabouts
41. Kevin Rowland : My beauty
42. Baby Namboos : Ancoats 2 Zambia
43. Plaid : Rest proof clockwork
44. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion : Acme +
45. Super Collider : Head on
46. Jim O' Rourke : Eureka
47. Travis : The man who
48. Bryan Ferry : As time goes by
49. Built to Spill : Keep it like a secret
50. Supergrass : Supergrass

Singles

1. Mr Oizo : Flat beat
2. Archive : Take my head & You make me feel
3. Madonna : Beautiful stranger
4. New Radicals : You get what you give
5. Eminem : My name is ...
6. Day One : Waiting for a break
7. Me:One : Frenemy
8. 1000 Clowns : Not the gratest rapper
9. Patrice : Lions
10. Katerine : Je vous emmerde
11. Deus : Instant street
12. The Chemical Brothers : Out of control
13. Alex Gopher : The child
14. REM : At my most beautiful
15. Aphex Twin : Windowlicker
16. Basement Jazz : Rendez-vu
17. Micronauts : The Jag
18. Fatboy Slim : Right here, right now
19. Mr Scruff : Get a move on
20. Scott Grooves : Mothership reconnection
21. Tim Hutton : Been a fool
22. Leila : Soda stream
23. Ben Diamond : Joyride
24. Everlast : Ends
25. King Biscuit Time : Me & the pharaons
26. Console : 14 zero zero
27. Rob Swift : Dope on plastic
28. TLC : No scrubs
29. Jackson : Gourmet
30. Julien Jabre : Time
31. Muse : Muscle Museum
32. Grand Popo Football Club : Each finger has an attitude
33. Back Star : Respiration
34. Quannum : The extravaganza
35. Morgan : Miss Parker
36. Badly Drown Boy : It came from the ground
37. Ooberman : Shorlay wall
38. Pascale Comelade : Love too soon
39. Arsonists : Pyromaniax
40. Pépé Bradock : Burning
41. Beber : Juvenile delinquent
42. Brothers in Sound : Barelyafterwake
43. Phoenix : Heatwave
44. Moby : Honey
45. Ben's Symphonyc Orchestra : Ben's Symphonyc Orchestra

1999 Albums Readers Choice

1. Jean Louis Murat : Mustango
2. Deus : The ideal crash
3. Beck : Midnite vultures
4. The Flaming Lips : The soft bulletin
5. Archive : Take my head
6. Tidersticks : Simple pleasures
7. Moby : Play
8. Everything but the Girl : Temperamental
9. Dionysos : Haiku
10. Jude : No one is really beautiful
11. The Chemical Brothers : Surrender
12. Smog : Knock knock
13. Pavement : Terror twilight
14. Brendan Perry : Eye of the hunter
15. Underworld : Beaucoup fish

1999 Singles Readers Choice

1. Katerine : Je vous emmerde
2. Deus : Instant street
3. The Chemical Brothers : Hey boy hey girl
4. Alex Gopher : The child
5. Placebo : Without you I'm nothing
6. Muse : Muscle museum
7. Gus Gus : Ladyshave
8. Aphex Twin : Windowlicker
9. The Chemical Brothers : Out of control
10. Mr Oizo : Flat beat

Albums Pop/rock/electro/rap : 2000

1. Wu-Tang Clang : The W
2. Badly Drawn Boy : The hour of bewilderbeast
3. Goldfrapp : Felt mountain
4. P.J. Harvey : Stories from the city, stories from the sea
5. Sigur Ros : Agaetis byrjun
6. Radiohead : Kid A
7. Lampchop : Nixon
8. Elliot Smith : Figure 8
9. Bent : Programmed to love
10. Godspeed you black emperor ! : Levez vos skinny fists comme antennas to
11. heaven
12. Grandaddy : The sophtware slump
13. Bjork : Selmasongs
14. At the drive-in : Relation ship of command
15. Lemon Jelly : Lemon Jelly
16. Gonzales : The entertainist
17. Leila : Courtesy of choice
18. Deltron 3030 : Deltron 3030
19. Eminem : The Marshall Mathers LP
20. Programme : Mon cerveau dans ma bouche
21. Day One : Ordinary man
22. Common : Like water for chocolate
23. Me:One : As far as I'm concerned
24. Outkast : Stankonia
25. Ramsay Midwood : Shoot out at the OK chinese restaurant
26. Placebo : Black market music
27. Etienne Daho : Corps et armes
28. D'angelo : Voodoo
29. Moodymann : Forevernevermore
30. RL Burnside : Wish I was in heaven sitting down
31. Talib Kweli & D.J. Hi-Tek : Reflection eternal
32. Daniel Johnston : Rejected unknown
33. Doctor Rockit : Indoor fireworks
34. Bertrand Burgalat : The sssound of mmmusic
35. Anti-Pop Consortium : The tragic epilogue
36. Etienne de Crecy : Tempovision
37. Shivaree : I oughta give you a shot in the head for making me live in this
38. slump
39. De La Soul : Art official intelligence
40. Michel Houellebecq : Présence humaine
41. Papas Fritas : Buildings and grounds
42. Kelis : Kaleidoscope
43. Albums Music/Jazz/World :
44. Susana Baca : Eco de sombras
45. Cheikha Rimitti : Nouar
46. Roswell Rudd : Broad strokes
47. Henri Salvador : Chambre avec vue
48. Annette Peacock : An acrobat's heart
49. Benoit Delbecq : Pursuit
50. Bebel Gilberto : Tanto tempo
51. Carlos Maza : Tierra fertil
52. Keren Ann : La biographie de Luka Philipsen
53. Rokia Traore : Wanita
54. John Cage : The seasons
55. Bill Frisell : Ghost town
56. Anouar Brahem : Astrakan Café
57. Denis Colin : Etudes du terrain
58. John Zorn : The big gundown
59. Howard Shore : BOF Esther Kahn
60. Bonga : Mulemba xangola
61. Gesualdo : O dolorosa gioia
62. Omara Portuondo : Omara Portuondo
63. Michael Galasso : BOF in the mood for love

Singles

1. Kelis : Caught out there
2. Sugababes : Overload
3. Alan Braxe & Fred Falke : Running
4. Markus Nikolai : Bushes
5. Akhenaton/Bouga : Belsunce breakdown
6. All Saints : Pure shores
7. Pharoahe Monch : Simon says
8. Destiny's Child : Jumpin' jumpin'
9. St Germain : Rose Rouge
10. Aaliyah :Try again
11. Wu-Tan Clan : Gravel pit
12. Life without Buildings : The leanover
13. Spiller : Groovejet
14. JJ72 : Oxygen
15. Madonna : Music
16. Peaches : Lovertits
17. Phoenix : Too young
18. Add N to (X) : Plug me in
19. Isolée : Beau mot plage
20. Eminem : The real slim shady
21. Zero 7 : Ep1
22. Superfunk : Lucky star
23. Shawn Lee : Happiness
24. Autour de Lucie : Je reviens
25. Lake Soul : Autour de toi
26. Etienne de Crécy : Am I wrong
27. Goldfrapp : Lovely head
28. J- Walk : Soul vibration
29. Romanthony : Bring U up
30. Tom McRae : Cut your hair
31. Laurent Garnier : Sound of the big Baboo
32. The Dandy Wharhols : Godless
33. Coldplay : Yellow
34. Lucy Pearl : Dance tonight
35. Micronauts : Bleep to bleep
36. Doctor Rockit : Café de Flore
37. Turin Brakes : The boss
38. Death in Vegas : Aisha
39. Deltron 3030 : Virus
40. Simians : Drop & roll
41. Eliott Smith : Hapiness
42. Saint Etienne : How we used to live
43. Fatboy Slim : Sunset
44. Modjo : Lady
45. Roni Size / Reprazent : Who told you
46. Bosco : Quid
47. Daft Punk : One more time
48. Kings of convenience : Toxic girl
49. Tommy Hools : Maire de Venise
50. Wheatus : Teenage dirtbag

2000 rock/electro/rap reader's albums

1. Radiohead : Kid A
2. P.J. Harvey : Stories from the city, stories from the sea
3. Placebo : Black market music
4. Madonna : Music
5. Grandaddy : The sophtware slump
6. Goldfrapp : Felt mountain
7. Coldplay : Parachute
8. Wu-Tang Clang : The W
9. Ramsay Midwood : Shoot out at the OK chinese restaurant
10. Sigur Ros : Agaetis byrjun

2000 readers singles

1. St Germain : Rose rouge
2. Madonna : Music
3. P.J. Harvey : Good fortune
4. Coldplay : Trouble
5. Coldplay : Yellow

2000 Readers world music album

1. Bebel Gilberto : Tanto tempo
2. Rachid Taha : Made in Medina
3. Henri Salvador : Chambre avec vue
4. Compay Segundo : Lo mejor de la vida
5. Miles Davis : Kind of blue
6. Youssou N'Dour : Joko
7. Ruben Gonzales : Chanchullo
8. Eric Mingus : Um...Er...Uh
9. Laurent Garnier : Unreasonable behaviour
10. Billie Holiday : Lady in satin

Les inrockuptibles 2001  

2001 Critics Albums 

1. Royksöpp Melody AM

2. A Silver Mt Zion Born into trouble as the sparks fly upward

3. Sparklehorse It's A Wonderful Life

4. Avalanches Since I Left you

5. Björk Vespertine

6. White Stripes White blood cells

7. Missy Elliott So Addictive

8. The Strokes Is this it ?

9. New Order Get Ready

10. Roots Manuva Run come save me

11. Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein

12. Radiohead Amnesiac

13. Matmos A chance to cut is a chance to cure

14. Air 10000 Hh Legend

15. Gillian Welch Time The Revelator

16. Kings of Convenience Quiet Is The New Loud

17. Spiritualized Let It Come Down

18. Simian Chemistry is what we are

19. Sébastien Tellier L'Incroyable Vérité

20. Stina Nordenstam This Is

21. Mercury Rev All Is Dream

22. Leonard Cohen Ten New Songs

23. NERD In search of.

24. Autechre Confield

25. Gorillaz Gorillaz

26. Pinback Blue screen life

27. Joe Henry Scar

28. Tricky Blow back

29. Lift To Experience The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads

30. Macy Gray The Id

31. Playgroup Playgroup

32. Vincent Gallo When

33. Daft Punk Discovery

34. Aphex Twin Drukqs

35. Rufus Wainwright Poses

36. Ed Harcourt Here Be Monsters

37. Super Furry Animals Rings around the world

38. Sporto Kantes Act 1

39. Brigitte Fontaine Kekeland

40. Fridge Happiness

41. Bosco Action

42. Noir Désir Des Visages, des figures

43. Miossec Brûle

44. Dominique A Auguri

45. Basement Jaxx Rooty

46. Dan The Automator Lovage - How to make love to your old lady by

47. Nitin Sahwney Prophecy

48. Kelis Wanderland

49. Kid Loco Kill Your Darlings

50. A Camp A Camp

2001 Music Albums Critics choise ( world -jazz - classic ) 

1. Susheela Raman Salt rain

2. Bill Frisell Blues dream

3. Moreno Veloso Music Typewriter

4. Christophe Comm' si la terre penchait

5. Baaba Maal Missing you. My Yeewnii

6. Dave Douglas Witness

7. Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez Cachaito

8. Brad Meldhau Progression - Art of trio vol.5

9. D. Gary Akata meso

10. Supersilent "5"

11. Sylvain Chauveau Nocturne impalpable

12. Djelimady Tounkara Sigui

13. Susan Abbuehl April

14. Kip Hanrahan Drawn from memory

15. Wagner Pa Brazuca matraca

16. Hermann Nitsch Harmoniumwerk

17. Mamani Keita & Marc Minelli Electro Bamako

18. Robert Ashley Dust

19. Les Enfants des autres Graines et bulbes

20. Jackie O-Motherfucker Liberation & The Magick fire music

2001 Singles Critics choise 

1. Missy Elliot : Get ur freak on

2. The Avalanches : Since I left you

3. The Strokes : The modern age

4. Gorillaz : Clint Eastwood

5. Outkast : Ms Jackson

6. Noir Désir : Le vent nous portera

7. Basement Jaxx : Where's your head at ?

8. Squarepusher : Red hot car

9. Aaliyah : We need a resolution

10. Bjork : Hidden place

11. Detroit Grand Pubahs : Sandwiches

12. Royksopp : Poor leno

13. The Coral : Shadowfall

14. Afroman : Because I got high

15. The Supermen lovers : Starlight

16. Mary J Bridge : Family Affair

17. So Solid Crew : 21 Second to go

18. New Order : Crystal

19. Britney Spears : I'm a slave 4 U

20. Depeche Mode : Freelove

21. Oxyde & Neutrino : No good 4 me

22. John Mathias : All the time in the world

23. Ludacris : Roll out (my business)

24. Destiny's Child : Bootylicious

25. Dilated People : Worst come to worst

26. Ana Rago : Sex

27. Air : Radio number one

28. The streets : has it come to this ?

29. Modjo : Chillin'

30. Turin Brakes : Underdog ( Save me)

31. The Electric Soft Parade : Silent to dark

32. Slipknot : Left behind

33. Metro Area : Metro Area 4

34. Baxter Dury : Oscar Brown

35. Playgroup : Make it happen

36. The Music : Take the long road & walk it

37. Black Rebel Motorcycle club : Whatever happened to my rock'n'roll

38. Travis : Sing

39. Etienne de Crécy : Scratched

40. Zoot Woman : Living in a magazine

 2001 Albums Readers 

1. Radiohead : Amnesia

2. Björk : Vespertine

3. Aphex Twins : Drukqs

4. Noir Désir : Des visages des figures

5. New Order : Get ready

6. Air : 10 000 Hz legend

7. The Divine Comedy : Regeneration

8. Daft Punk : Discovery

9. Tricky : Blow back

10. Gorillaz : Gorillaz

 2001 Singles Readers choise 

1. Noir désir : Le vent nous portera

2. Gorillaz : Clint Eastwood

3. The Avalanches : Since I left you

4. Radiohead : Pyramid Song