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The Final Issue

From The Archive

End of year Critic Lists

1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 |1999 | 2000

The 70's & '80's

The Melody Maker All Time Top 100 Albums  

MM Albums 1990

1. Pills 'n thrills and bellyaches - Happy Mondays
2. World clique - Deee-lite
3. Songs for drella - Lou Reed & John Cale
4. Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau twins
5. Ragged glory - Neil Young & Crazy horse
6. Some friendly - The charlatans
7. She hangs brightly - Mazzy star
8. Ritual de lo habitual - Janes addiction
9. Floating into the night - Julee Cruise
10. Behaviour - The pet shop boys
11. Bossanove - The pixies
12. Fear of a black planet - Public enemy
13. The la's - The la's
14. I do not want what I hav'nt got - Sinead O'Connor
15. The good son - Nick Cave
16. Cleopatra grip - The heart throbs
17. All shock down - The replacements
18. Reading, writing and arithmetic - The Sundays
19. Set the controls .. for the bass - Bass-o-matic
20. Nowhere - Ride
21. Chillout - The KLF
22. Pod - The breeders
23. Supernatural - Stereo mc's
24. A catholic education - Teenage fanclub
25. Goodbye jumbo - World party
26. Gold mother - James
27. Jordan: the comeback - Prefab sprout
28. Spanking machine - Babes in toyland
29. Swagger - The blue aeroplanes
30. Boomania - Betty boo

MM Singles 1990

1. Groove is in the heart - Deee-lite
2. Nothing compares to you - Sinead O'Connor
3. Kinky afro - Happy Mondays
4. What time is love - The KLF
5. Glider EP - My bloody valentine
6. The only one I know - The charlatans
7. Fall EP - Ride
8. Justify my love - Madonna
9. Killer - Adamski
10. The ship song - Nick Cave
11. Dub B good to me - Beats international
12. Step on - Happy Mondays
13. Fascinating rhythm - Bass-o-matic
14. There she goes - The La's
15. Everything flows - Teenage fanclub
16. World in motion - England/New order
17. This is how it feels - Inspiral carpets
18. Only love can break your heart - St etienne
19. Mad love EP - Lush
20. Espero EP - Cranes

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MM Albums 1991

1. Screamadelica - Primal Scream
2. Weld - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3. Out of time - REM
4. Yerself is steam - Mercury rev
5. Nevermind - Nirvana
6. Never loved Elvis - The wonder stuff
7. Loveless - My bloody valentine
8. Everclear - American music club
9. The real Ramona - The throwing muses
10. Use your illusion 2 - Guns 'n' roses
11. Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub
12. Laughing stock - Talk talk
13. Pretty on the inside - Hole
14. Levelling the land - The levellers
15. Electronic - Electronic
16. Metallica - Metallica
17. Foxbase alpha - St etienne
18. Of the heart, of the soul etc.... - PM Dawn
19. Trompe le monde - The pixies
20. 30 something - Carter USM
21. Apocalypse '91 - enemy strikes bak - Public enemy
22. Adventures beyond the ultraworld - The orb
23. Blue lines - Massive attack
24. Diamond and pearls - Prince
25. Original gangster - Ice T
26. And now the legacy begins - Dream warriors
27. Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden
28. To mother - Babes in toyland
29. The ruby sea - Thin white rope
30. Schubert dip - EMF

MM Singles 1991

1. Unfinished sympathy - Massive attack
2. Losing my religion - REM
3. Higher than the sun - Primal scream
4. Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana
5. Blindfold EP - Curve
6. Coppelina EP - Levitation
7. Tremolo EP - My bloody valentine
8. Nothing can stop us - St etienne
9. Carwash hair - Mercury rev
10. Enter sandman - Matallica
11. Size of a cow - The wonder stuff
12. Bring the noise - Anthrax/Public enemy
13. This is fascism - Consolidated
14. Starsign - Teenage fanclub
15. Last train to transcentral - The KLF
16. Where the streets have no name - The pet shop boys
17. Get the message - Electronic
18. Adoration - Cranes
19. Winter in July - Bomb the bass
20. Teenage whore - Hole

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MM Albums 1992

1. Automatic for the people - REM
2. Slanted and enchanted - Pavement
3. Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury - Disposable heroes of hiphoprisy
4. Red heaven - Throwing muses
5. Eleven:eleven - Come
6. Dry - P.J. Harvey
7. Henry's dream - Nick Cave & the bad seeds
8. Down colourful hill - Red house painters
9. Ten - Pearl jam
10. UF Orb - The Orb
11. Lazer guided melodies - Spiritualized
12. Let me come over - Buffalo Tom
13. Fontanelle - Babes in toyland
14. Rockin' the forest - Sebadoh
15. 3 years, 5 months, 2 days... - Arrested development
16. Copper blue - Sugar
17. Praise - Inner city
18. Hollywood town hall - The Jayhawks
19. It's a shame about ray - The lemonheads
20. Valhalla avenue - Fatima mansions
21. Accelerator - Future sound of London
22. Psalm 69:How to succeed & suck eggs - Ministry
23. Dirty - Sonic youth
24. Back in denim - Denim
25. Congregation - Afghan whigs
26. Barely real - Codeine
27. Double dare ya - Bikini kill
28. ...Well? - Swell
29. Hit to death in the future head - The flaming lips
30. Nurse - Therapy?

MM Singles 1992

1. The drowners - Suede
2. Sheela na gig - P.J. Harvey
3. Taillight fade - Buffalo Tom
4. Metal Mickey - Suede
5. Fast piss blues - Come
6. Trigger cut - Pavement
7. Scum - Bark psychosis
8. My world is empty without you - Afghan whigs
9. Weekender - Flowered up
10. Car - Come
11. Avenue - St Etienne
12. Drive - REM
13. Papua new guinea - Future sound of London
14. Pretend we're dead - L7
15. Dusted - Belly
16. leave them all behind - Ride
17. The blue room - The Orb
18. Gravity grave - Verve
19. Connected - Stereo MC's
20. Rubbing the impossible to burst - Huggy bear

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MM 1993 Albums

1. Tindersticks - Tindersticks
2. Gentlemen - Afghan Whigs
3. Star - Belly
4. VS - Pearl Jam
5. Suede - Suede
6. Debut - Bjork
7. Where you been - Dinosaur Jr
8. Bring it down - Madder Rose
9. Fuzzy - Grant Lee Buffalo
10. Selected Ambient Works '85 -' 92 - Aphex Twin
11. Rid of me - PJ Harvy
12. Last splash - The Breeders
13. Quique - Seefeel
14. Mercury - American Music Club
15. Transient Random noise bursts.. - Stereolab
16. Morning dove white - One dove
17. Frosting on the beater - The Posies
18. Come on feel the lemonheads - The Lemonheads
19. New wave - The Auteurs
20. Republic - New Order
21. Insides - Euphoria
22. Pigeonhed - Pigeonhed
23. Dream of 100 nations - Trans-Global Underground
24. Forever - Cranes
25. Gold against the soul - Manic street preachers
26. In Utero - Nirvana
27. Red house painters - Red House Painters
28. In search of manny - Luscious Jackson
29. A storm in heaven - Verve
30. Giant steps - The Boo Radlys
31. 4 track demos - PJ Harvy
32. Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
33. So tough - St Etienne
34. Everything is now - The Drum Club
35. Black Sunday - Cypress Hill
36. Sabresonic - Sabres of Paradise
37. Very - Pet Shop Boys
38. Dream Harder - The Waterboys
39. Rage against the machine - Same
40. Gargantuan - Spooky

MM 1993 Singles

1. Cannonball - The Breeders
2. Creep - Radiohead
3. Razzamatazz - Pulp
4. City sickness - Tindersticks
5. Venus as a boy - Bjork
6. Call it what you want - Credit to the Nation
7. Her jazz - Huggy Bear
8. Fuzzy - Grant Lee Buffalo
9. Regret - New Order
10. MMM... Skyscraper, I love you - Underworld
11. Swim - Madder Rose
12. Open up - Leftfield & Lydon
13. Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
14. Beautiful Son - Hole
15. Smokebelch - Sabres of Paradise
16. Stutter - Elastica
17. Rez - Underworld
18. Gentlemen - Afghan Whigs
19. Animal Nitrate - Suede
20. For Tomorrow - Blur

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MM Albums 1994

1. Dummy - Portishead
2. His 'n' hers - Pulp
3. Crooked rain, crooked rain - Pavement
4. Definitely maybe - Oasis
5. The holy bible - Manic street preachers
6. Parklife - Blur
7. Live through this - Hole
8. Snivilisation - Orbital
9. Grace - Jeff Buckley
10. EDC - Satchel
11. Unplugged in New York - Nirvana
12. Regulate..G-Funk era - Warren G
13. Dog man star - Suede
14. Seize the time - Fun-da-mental
15. Vitalogy - Pearl jam
16. Dubnobasswithmyheadman - Underworld
17. Second coming - Stone roses
18. Ill communication - Beastie boys
19. Hips and makers - Kristin Hersh
20. Haunted dancehall - Sabres of paradise
21. Protection - Massive attack
22. Let love in - Nick Cave and the bad seeds
23. Mellow gold - Beck
24. Duniya - Loop Guru
25. Superunknown - Soundgarden
26. Mars audiac quintet - Stereolab
27. Muse sick-n-hour mess age - Public enemy
28. Monster - R.E.M.
29. Bakesale - Sebadoh
30. Hex - Bark psychosis
31. Tiger bay - St Etienne
32. Doggystyle - Snoop doggy dogg
33. One last laugh in a place of dying
34. Weight - Rollins band
35. Orange - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
36. Shot in the dark - Laurent Garnier
37. Troublegum - Therapy?
38. Change giver - Shed seven
39. Natural Ingredients - Luscious Jackson
40. Everyone’s got one - Echobelly

MM Singles 1994

1. Girls and boys - Blur
2. Live forever - Oasis
3. Aftermath - Tricky
4. Regulate - Warren G
5. Connection - Elastica
6. Sleep well tonight - Gene
7. Sour times - Portishead
8. Sabotage - Beastie Boys
9. Ping pong - Stereolab
10. Faster/Pcp - Manic street preachers
11. Your ghost - Kristin Hersh
12. Supersonic - Oasis
13. Kathleen EP - Tindersticks
14. I can't imagine the world without me - Echobelly
15. Parklife - Blur
16. The sisters EP - Pulp
17. Girl you'll be a woman soon - Urge overkill
18. Loser - Beck
19. To the end - Blur
20. Cigarettes and alcohol - Oasis

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MM Albums 1995

1. Different Class - Pulp
2. Maxinquaye - Tricky
3. (What's the story) Morning Glory? - Oasis
4. It's great when you're straight... - Black Grape
5. The Second Tindersticks album - Tindersticks
6. The bends - Radiohead
7. I Should coco - Supergrass
8. Timeless - Goldie
9. To bring you my love - PJ Harvey
10. The great escape - Blur
11. In the space of a few moments - Telstar ponies
12. Clouds taste metallic - The flaming lips
13. Leftism - Leftfield
14. Drugstore - Drugstore
15. The Charlatans - The Charlatans
16. Wild Love - Smog
17. Only heaven - The young gods
18. Garbage - Garbage
19. Wake up - The Boo Radleys
20. Skin touching water - Delicatessen
21. Elastica - Elastica
22. Mornington Crescent - My life story
23. Olympian - Gene
24. Disgraceful - Dubstar
25. Experimental Remixes - The Jon Spencer blues Explosion
26. Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
27. Bad shave - Baby bird
28. The infamous - Mobb Deep
29. A northern soul - The Verve
30. Viva last blues - Palace music
31. Heartworm - Whipping boy
32. Re-Entry - Techno Animal
33. All change - Cast
34. We care - Whale
35. Journeys by DJ - Coldcut
36. Exit planet dust - The Chemical Brothers
37. The blue moods of Spain - Spain
38. Exit the Dragon - Urge Overkill
39. Wowee Zowee - Pavement
40. CrazySexyCool - TLC
41. A Stable reference - Labradford
42. Liquid Swords - Genius/Gza
43. Life - The Cardigans
44. The dirty three - same
45. Black street technology - A guy called Gerald
46. Iahora Tahiti - Mouse on mars
47. Tri repetae - Autechre
48. Post - Bjork
49. Nuisance - Menswear
50. Makesaracket - Jake Slazenger

MM Singles 1995

1. Common People - Pulp
2. Alright - Supergrass
3. Some might say - Oasis
4. Yes - McAlmont & Butler
5. Tricky - Black steel
6. Wonderwall - Oasis
7. Mis-shapes - Pulp
8. Wake up Boo! - Boo Radleys
9. Hobo humpin' slobo babe - Whale
10. Bonnie & Clyde - Luna
11. Reverend Black Grape - Black Grape
12. Down by the river - PJ Harvey
13. Bluetonic - Bluetones
14. Lucky - Radiohead
15. Fake plastic trees - Radiohead
16. Where the wild roses grow - Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue
17. He's on the phone - St Etienne
18. Waterfalls - TLC
19. What does your soul look like - DJ Shadow
20. Stars - Dubstar
21. You oughtta know - Alanis Morissette
22. I'll stick around - Foo fighters
23. The universal - Blur
24. Plastic bag - Minty
25. Gangsta's paradise - Coolio
26. Kissing the sun - The Young gods
27. The hell EP - Tricky vs. Gravediggaz
28. A girl like you - Edwin Collins
29. Dreamer - Livin' joy
30. In the name of the father - Black Grape
31. CF Kane - Delicatessen
32. Ten story love song - The stone roses
33. I’ll be there for you - Method man/Mary J Blige
34. We don’t need nobody else - Whipping boy
35. Horny mutant jazz - T Power & MK Ultra
36. History - The Verve
37. Her name - Telstar Ponies
38. Mr Boombastic - Shaggy
39. Inbetweener - Sleeper
40. Jullander Shere - Cornershop
41. Inner city life - Goldie
42. Vow - Garbage
43. Freestyle EP - Kushti
44. Back for good - Take that
45. Disco 200 - Pulp
46. Now they’ll sleep - Belly
47. Alright - Cast
48. Queer - Garbage
49. Happy when it rains - Garbage
50. Superplus - Quickspace Supersport

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Melody Maker 1996 Albums

1. Manic Street Preachers - Everything must go
2. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
3. Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy logic
4. Tricky - Pre-Millennium tension
5. Underworld - Second toughest in the infants
6. Beck - Odalay
7. Suede - Coming up
8. Afghan Whigs - Black love
9. Babybird - Ugly/Beautiful
10. The Boo Radleys - C’mon kids
11. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I got worry
12. The Make-up - Destination: Love: Live! At cold rice
13. Screaming trees - Dust
14. Then Aloof - Sinking
15. New Kingdom - Paradise don’t come cheap
16. Nick Cave - Murder ballads
17. Black Star Liner - Yemen cutta connection
18. Silver Jaws - The natural bridge
19. The Bluetones - Expecting to fly
20. Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarine...
21. Placebo - Placebo
22. Catatonia - Way beyond blue
23. Trembling Blue Trees - Her handwriting
24. Telstar Ponies - Voices from the new music
25. Tortoise - Millions now living will never die
26. His Name is Alive - Stars on ESP
27. Lambchop - How I quit smoking
28. Jack - Pioneer soundtracks
29. The Dirty Three - Horse stories
30. The Cardigans - First band on the moon
31. Orbital - In sides
32. Longpigs - The sun is often out
33. Barry Adamson - Oedipus Schmoedipus
34. Ash - 1977
35. 60ft Dolls - The big three
36. Lamb - Lamb
37. Sterolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
38. Rachel’s - Music for egon schiele
39. Rocket From The Crypt - Scream, dracula, scream!
40. The Divine Comedy - Casanova
41. The Yummy Fur - Nightclub
42. Subcircus - Carousel
43. Jeru The Damaja - Wrath of then math
44. Fila Brazillia - Black market gardening
45. Spring Heel Jack - 68 million shades
46. Dodgy - Free peace sweet
47. Red Snapper - Prince Blimey
48. Throwing Muses - Limbo
49. Snoop Doggy Dogg - The Doggfather
50. Cul De Sac - China gate

Melody Maker 1996 Singles

1. Underworld - Born slippy
2. The Prodigy - Firestarter
3. Manic Street Preachers - A design for life
4. Suede - Trash
5. Spice Girls - Wannabe
6. Beck - Devil’s haircut
7. The Charlatans - One to another
8. Garbage - Stupid girl
9. Mark Morrison - Return of the mack
10. Gorky’s Zygotic Myncy - Patio song
11. Babybird - You’re gorgeous
12. Super Furry Animals - The man don’t give a fuck
13. Manic Street Preachers - Everything must go
14. Placebo - Teenage angst
15. Catatonia - Bleed
16. Afghan Whigs - Honky’s ladder
17. Super Furry Animals - Hometown unicorn
18. Gabrielle - Give me a little more time
19. Mansun - Wide open space
20. Smog - Kicking a couple around EP
21. Rocket From The Crypt - On a rope
22. DJ Shadow - Stem
23. Photek - The hidden camera
24. 2pac with Dr Dre - California love
25. The Chemical Brothers - Setting sun
26. The Jon Spencer Explosion - 2 kindsa love
27. The Flaming Lips - Bad days
28. 60ft Dolls - Stay
29. The Prodigy - Breath
30. Sneaker Pimps - 6 underground
31. Oasis - Don’t look back in anger
32. dEUS - Little arithmetic’s
33. Black Star Liner - Harmon session special
34. The Folk Implosion - Natural one
35. Geneva - No one speaks
36. Orlando - The magic EP
37. Nick Cave & PJ Harvey - Henry Lee
38. Lewis Taylor - Lucky EP
39. Black Grape - England’s irie
40. Bis - The secret vampire soundtrack EP
41. Supergrass - Going out
42. Kenickie - Millionaire sweeper
43. Sparklehorse - Hammering the cramps
44. Skinner, Baddiel & Lightning Seeds - Three lions
45. Fugees - Fu-gee-la
46. Los Del Rio - Macarena ...Oh yeah sure !!!???
47. Comet Gain - Hideaway
48. Busta Rhymes - Woo-hah!! (Got you all in check)
49. Ben Folds five - Where’s summer B?
50. The Bluetones - Marble Johnson

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Melody Maker Albums Of 1997

1. The Verve – Urban Hymns
2. Radiohead – OK Computer
3. Super Furry Animals – Radiator
4. The Charlatans – Tellin’ Stories
5. Spiritualized – Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
6. Black Grape – Stupid Stupid Stupid
7. Roni Size – New Forms
8. Oasis – Be Here Now
9. Supergrass – In It For The Money
10. Kenickie – At The Club
11. Cornershop – When I Was Born For The 7^th Time
12. Mansun – Attack Of The Grey Lantern
13. Prodigy – The Fat Of The Land
14. Blur – Blur
15. Echo And The Bunneymen – Evergreen
16. Primal Scream – Vanishing Point
17. Daft Punk – Homework
18. Portishead – Portishead
19. Travis – Good Feeling
20. Orlando – Passive Soul
21. Foo Fighters – The Colour And The Shape
22. Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
23. Bentley Rhythm Ace – Bentley Rhythm Ace
24. David Holmes – Let’s Get Killed
25. Stereophonics – Word Gets Around
26. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – The Boatman’s Call
27. Geneva – Further
28. Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang Forever
29. Finley Quaye – Maverick A Strike
30. Laika – Sounds Of The Satellites
31. Death In Vegas – Dead Elvis
32. Santa Cruz – Way Out
33. Bjork – Homogenic
34. Tindersticks – Curtains
35. My Life Story – The Golden Mile
36. Hurricane #1 – Hurricane # 1
37. Spice Girls – Spice World
38. Stereolab – Dots And Loops
39. The Divine Comedy – A Short Album About Love
40. Mogwai – Mogwai Young Team
41. Teenage Fanclub – Songs From Northern Britain
42. Primal Scream – Echo Deck
43. Eels – Beautiful Freak
44. Silver Sun – Silver Sun
45. Erykah Badu – Baduism
46. Labradford – Me Media Naranjo
47. Republica – Republica
48. Billy Mackenzie – Beyond The Sun
49. Mono – Formica Blues
50. Hanson – Middle Of Nowhere

Melody Maker Singles Of 1997

1. The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony
2. The Verve – The Drugs Don’t Work
3. Radiohead – Paranoid Android
4. Lo-Fidelity Allstars – Disco Machine Gun
5. Blur – Song 2
6. Cornershop – Brimful Of Asha
7. All Saints – Never Ever
8. Hanson – Plumbs Drop
9. The Charlatans – North Country Boy
10. The Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin Beats
11. Supergrass – Richard III
12. Pulp – Help The Aged
13. Embrace – All You Good Good People
14. Oasis – D’you Know What I Mean
15. Super Furry Animals – Demons
16. Placebo – Nancy Boy
17. Ash – A Life Less Ordinary
18. Radiohead – Karma Police
19. Foo Fighters – Everlong
20. Chumbawamba – Tubthumping
21. Daft Punk – Da Funk
22. Travis – All I Want To Do Is Rock
23. Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Wife
24. Blur – Beetlebum
25. Blueboy – Remember Me
26. All Saints – I Know Where It’s At
27. Roni Size – Brown Paper Bag
28. Echo And The Bunnymen – Nothing Lasts Forever
29. Daft Punk – Around The World
30. Propellerheads – Bang On
31. Embrace – Fireworks EP
32. Hurricane #1 – Step Into My World
33. Belle And Sebastian – 3..6..9.. Seconds Of Light
34. Belle And Sebastian – Lazy Line Painter Jane
35. The Beta Band – Champion Version
36. Natalie Imbruglia – Torn
37. White Town – Your Woman
38. Belle And Sebastian – Dog On Wheels
39. Primal Scream – Kowalski
40. The Verve – Luck Man
41. Bentley Rhythm Ace – Bentley’s Gonna Work It Out
42. Super Furry Animals – Hermann Loves Pauline
43. David Arnold – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
44. AQUA – BARBIE GIRL Hahahahahahah
45. Republica – Ready To Go
46. Stereophonics – Traffic
47. Luscious Jackson – Naked Eye
48. Finley Quaye – Sunday Shining
49. Lo-Fidelity Allstars – Kool Roc Bass
50. Jimi Tenor – Sugardaddy

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Melody Maker Albums Of 1998

1. Catatonia – International Velvet
2. Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty
3. Mercury Rev – Deserters Songs
4. Pulp – This Is Hardcore
5. Air Moon Safari
6. Beck – Mutations
7. Belle & Sebastian – The Boy With The Arab Strap
8. Ash – Nu-Clear Sounds
9. Fun Lovin’ Criminals – 100% Colombian
10. Sparkelehorse –Good Morning Spider
11. Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come A Long Way Baby
12. Morcheeba – Big Calm
13. Gomez – Bring It On
14. Massive Attack – Mezzanine
15. Embrace – The Good Will Out
16. Low Fidelity Allstars – How To Operate With A Blown Mind
17. Money Mark – Push The Button
18. Asian Dub Foundation – Rafi’s Revenge
19. Jurassic 5 – Jurassic 5
20. Propellerheads – Deckanddrumsandrockandroll
21. Idlewild – Hope Is Important
22. R.E.M. – Up
23. Mansun – Six
24. Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing
25. Unkle – Psyence Fiction
26. Boo Radleys – Kingsize
27. The Divine Comedy – Fin De Siecle
28. Kenickie – Get In!
29. Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
30. Garbage – Version 2.0
31. The Bluetones – Return To The Last Chance Saloon
32. Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
33. The Cardigans – Gran Turismo
34. Pj Harvey – Is This Desire
35. The Audience – The Audience
36. Elliott Smith – Xo
37. Black Box Recorder – England Made Me
38. The Dandy Warhols – Come Down
39. Rialto – Rialto
40. Scott 4 – Recorded In State LP
41. Royal Trux – Accelerator
42. Space – Tin Planet
43. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Acme
44. Smashing Pumpkins – Adore
45. Freak*On*Ice – Girls Against Boys
46. Fugazi – End Hits
47. Eels – Electro Shock Blues
48. Wheat - Medeiros
49. Freestylers – We Rock Hard
50. Kent – Isola

Singles

1. Fatboy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank
2. Catatonia – Road Rage
3. Pulp – This Is Hardcore
4. Beastie Boys – Intergalactic
5. Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You
6. Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
7. Ultrasound – Stay Young
8. Cornershop – Brimful Of Asha
9. Hole – Celebrity Skin
10. Super Furry Animals – Ice Hockey Hair EP
11. Mercury Rev – Goddess On A Hiway
12. Air – Sexy Boy
13. The Cardigans – My Favourite Game
14. Temper Featuring Maya – Feel It
15. Stereophonics – The Bartender And The Thief
16. Asian Dub Foundation – Buzzin’
17. Kenickie – I Would Fix You
18. Bis – Eurodisco
19. Fun Lovin’ Criminals – Big Night Out
20. Catatonia – Mulder And Scully
21. Embrace – Come Back To What You Know
22. The Dandy Warhols – Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth
23. Placebo – Pure Morning
24. Run DMC Vs Jason Nevins – It’s Like That
25. Gomez – Whippin Piccadilly
26. Gomez – Get Myself Arrested
27. The Beautiful South – Perfect 10
28. Fatboy Slim – Gangster Trippin
29. Smashing Pumpkins – Ava Adore
30. B*Wiched – C’est La Vie
31. Space Featuring Cerys – The Ballad Of Tom Jones
32. U2 – The Sweetest Thing
33. Jeff Buckley – Everybody Here Wants You
34. Spearmint – A Trip Into Space
35. Mansun – Being A Girl
36. Beastie Boys – Body Movin’
37. Bran Van 3000 – Drinking In La
38. Drugstore – Et President
39. Spice Girls – Viva Forever
40. The Beta Band – Los Amigos Del Beta Bandidos
41. Idlewild – A Film For The Future
42. Pulp – Party Hard
43. Eels – Last Stop:This Town
44. R.E.M. – Daysleeper
45. All Saints – Bootie Call
46. Pulp – A Little Soul
47. Fun Lovin’ Criminals – Love Unlimited
48. Mel B/Missy Elliott – I Want You Back
49. Ash – Jesus Says
50. Brandy & Monica – The Boy Is Mine

Melody Maker Recordings Of 1999

1. Suede – Head Music
2. Blur – 13
3. Super Furry Animals – Guerrilla
4. The Charlatans – Us And Us Only
5. Travis – The Man Who
6. The Chemical Brothers – Surrender
7. Supergrass – Supergrass
8. Macy Gray – On How Life Is
9. TLC – Fanmail
10. Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
11. Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left To Lose
12. Basement Jaxx – Remedy
13. Gay Dad – Leasurenoise
14. Gomez – Liquid Skin
15. Catatonia – Equally Cursed And Blessed
16. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
17. A – Monkey Konk
18. Stereophonics – Performance And Cocktails
19. Les Rythmes Digitales – Darkdancer
20. Tindersticks – Simple Pleasure
21. The Longpigs – Mobile Home
22. The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
23. Ultrasound – Everything Picture
24. Feeder – Yesterday Went Too Soon
25. Missy Elliott – Da Real World
26. Orbital – The Middle Of Nowhere
27. Ian Brown – Golden Greats
28. Death In Vegas – The Contino Sessions
29. Groove Armada – Vertigo
30. The Beta Band – The Beta Band
31. Pet Shop Boys – Night Life
32. Underworld – Beaucoup Fish
33. Pavement – Terror Twilight
34. Limp Bizkit – Significant – Other
35. Doberman – The Manic Treehouse
36. Arsonists – As The World Burns
37. Cay – Nature Creates Freaks
38. Kevin Rowland – My Beauty
39. Merz – Merz
40. Fountain Of Wayne – Utopia Parkway
41. Gus Gus – This Is Normal
42. Wilco – Summerteeth
43. Royal Trux – Veterans Of Disorder
44. Astrid – Strange Weather Lately
45. The Folk Implosion – One Part Lullaby
46. 3 Colours Red – Revolt
47. Dot Allison – Afterglow
48. The All Seeing Eye – Pickled Eggs And Sherbet
49. Mos Def – Black On Both Sides
50. Beck – Midnite Vultures

Singles

1. Macy Gray – I Try
2. Blur – Tender
3. Blur – Coffee + TV
4. Super Furry Animals – Northern Lites
5. TLC – Unpretty
6. The Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy Hey Girl
7. Madonna – Beautiful Stranger
8. Britney Spears – Babu One More Time
9. Travis – Why Does It Always Rain On Me
10. Eminem – My Name Is
11. Gay Dad – To Earth With Love
12. Eminem – Guilty Conscience
13. TLC – No Scrubs
14. Basement Jaxx – Red Alert
15. Supergrass – Moving
16. Fatboy Slim – Praise You
17. Shed Seven – Disco Down
18. All Seeing Eye – Walk Like A Panther
19. Badly Drawn Boy – Once Around The Block
20. Idlewild – Little Discorage
21. Morgan – Miss Parker
22. Travis – Driftwood
23. Sigur Ros – Svefn-G-Englar
24. Moloko – Sing It Back
25. The Offspring – Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
26. Hole – Awful
27. Blur – Distance Left To Run
28. Suede – She’s In Fashion
29. The Flaming Lips – Race For The Prize
30. The Charlatans – Forever
31. Apollo Four Forty – Stop The Rock
32. Catatonia – Dead From The Waist Down
33. JJ72 – October Swimmer
34. Travis – Writing To Reach You
35. Baby Bird – Back Together
36. Supergrass – Pumping On Your Stereo
37. Suede – Everything Will Flow
38. New Electronics – Beautiful Mind
39. Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Scar Tissue
40. Dope Smugglaz – Double Double Dutch
41. The Devine Comedy - The Pop Singers Fear Of The Pollen Count
42. Pavement – Carrot Rope
43. Gomez – Rhythm And Blues Alibi
44. New Radicles – You Get What You Give
45. Tindersticks – Can We Start Again?
46. Primal Scream – Swastika Eyes
47. Manic Street Preachers – Tsunami
48. Merz – Many Weathers Apart
49. Foo Fighters – Learn To Fly
50. Lit – My Own Worst Enemy

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MM Recordings Of 2000

Albums

1. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
2. Coldplay – Parachutes
3. Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast
4. Primal Scream – Exterminator
5. Radiohead – Kid A
6. Manson – Little Kix
7. PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
8. Elastica – The Menace
9. Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish
10. JJ72 – JJ72
11. Doves – Lost Souls
12. Granddaddy – The Sophtware Slump
13. Idlewild – 100 Broken Windows
14. Embrace – Drawn From Memory
15. At The Drive-In – Relationship Of Command
16. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Madonna
17. The Dandy Warhols – Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
18. Queens Of The Stone Age – Rated R
19. Teenage Fanclub – Howdy!
20. Belle And Sebastian – Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
21. Fatboy Slim – Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars
22. Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
23. The Delgados – The Great Eastern
24. Super Furry Animals – Mwng
25. Black Box Recorder – The Facts Of Life
26. The Webb Brothers – Maroon
27. Placebo – Black Market Music
28. Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
29. The Offspring – Conspiracy Of One
30. Lambchop – Nixon
31. Eels – Daisies Of The Galaxy
32. Marilyn Manson – Holywood….
33. Roni Size Reprazent – In The Mode
34. Baby Bird – Bugged
35. Madonna – Music
36. Daphne And Celeste – We Didn’t Say That
37. Asian Dub Foundation – Community Music
38. Six By Seven – The Closer You Get
39. Oasis – Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants
40. Brassy – Got It Made
41. Crashland – Glued
42. Cypress Hill – Skull And Bones
43. Kylie Minogue – Light Years
44. Soulwax – Much Againset Everyone’s Advice
45. The Vandals – Look What I Almost Stepped In
46. Sleater-Kinney – All Hands On The Bad One
47. The Go-Betweens – The Friends Of Rachael Worth
48. Nofx – Pump Up The Valuum
49. Green Day – Warning
50. Deftones – White Pony

Singles

1. Spiller – Groovejet
2. Eminem – Stan
3. Coldplay – Yellow
4. The Bloodhound Gang – The Bad Touch
5. Eminem – The Real Slim Shady
6. Primal Scream – Accelerator
7. Limp Bizkit – Take A Look Around
8. Mint Royal – Don’t Falter
9. Queens Of The Stone Age – Feelgood Hit Of The Summer
10. Blink 182 – All The Small Things
11. Sisqo – Thong Song
12. Eminem – The Way I Am
13. Death In Vegas – Aisha
14. Daphne And Celeste – Ugly
15. Manson – I Can Only Disappoint U
16. Doves – The Cedar Room
17. Black Box Recorder – The Facts Of Life
18. Manic Street Preachers – Masses Against The Classes
19. Primal Scream – Kill All Hippies
20. Blur – Music Is My Radar
21. Belle And Sebastian – Legal Man
22. Idlewild – Actually It’s Darkness
23. The Offspring – Original Prankster
24. At The Drive-In – One Armed Scissor
25. Madonna – Music
26. Pj Harvey – Good Fortune
27. Cypress Hill – Rock Superstar
28. All Saints – Pure Shores
29. JJ72 – October Swimmer
30. Coldplay – Trouble
31. Sugarbabes – Overload
32. Daphne & Celeste – Ooh Stick You
33. Limp Bizkit – My Generation
34. Placebo – Slave To The Wage
35. Queens Of The Stone Age – The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret
36. Fatboy Slim – Sunset [Bird Of Prey]
37. Kylie Minogue – Spinning Around
38. Dr Dre – Still Dre
39. Moloko – The Time Is Now
40. King Adora – Bionic
41. Travis – Coming Around
42. Dr Dre – Forget About Dre
43. Babybird – Out Of Sight
44. Idlewild – Those Wooden Ideas
45. Doves – Catch The Sun
46. Britney Spears – Oops!! She Did It Again!
47. Muse – Muscle Museum
48. The Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You
49. Outkast – Bob
50. Oasis – Go Let It Out