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Mondo Sonoro Best Records 1998


1. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
2. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme
3. Asian Dub Foundation - Rafi's Revenge
4. Manu Chao - Clandestino
5. Propeellerheads - Decksandrumsdandrockandroll
6. P J Harvey - Is This Desire?
7. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
8. Belle And Sebsatian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
9. R.E.M - Up
10. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
11. Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
12. Fun Lovin' Criminals - 100% Colombian
13. Korn - Follow The Leader
14. Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On
15. Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
16. Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way Baby
17. Gang Starr - Moment Of Truth
18. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
19. Pearl Jam - Yield
20. Cracker - Gentleman's Blues
21. Royal Crown Revue - The Contender
22. 4 Hero - Two Pages
23. Jack - The Jazz Age
24. Monster Magnet - Powertrip
25. Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
26. The Afghan Whigs - 1965
27. Slayer - Diabolus In Musica
28. Mark Lanegan - Scaps At Midnight
29. Gluecifer - Soaring With Eagles
30. Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
31. Golden Smog - Weird Tales
32. Jeff Buckley - (Sketches For) My Sweetheart The Drunk
33. Fugazi - End Hits
34. Tortoise - TNT
35. Air - Moon Safari
36. Come - Gently Down The Stream
37. The Divine Comedy - Fin De Siecle
38. Freestylers - We Rock Hard
39. Tricky - Angels With Dirty Faces
40. The Posies - Success

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Mondo Sonoro Best Records 1999

1. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
2. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
3. Beck - Midnite Vultures
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
5. Mogwai - Come On Die Young
6. Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
7. The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
8. Terranova - Close The Door
9. Deus - The Ideal Crash
10. The Walkabouts - Trail Of Stars
11. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
12. Tricky - Juxtapose
13. Hefner - The Fidelity Wars
14. Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
15. Gomez - Liquid Skin
16. Zebda - Essence Ordinaire
17. Wilco - Summerteeth
18. Gigolo Aunts - Minor Chords And Major Themes
19. Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
20. Les Rhythmes Digitales - Darkdance
21. Club 8 - The Friend I Once Had
22. The Hellacopters - Grande Rock
23. Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
24. Stereolab - Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night
25. Leftfield - Rhythm And Stealrh
26. Epmd - Our Of Business
27. The Make Up - Save Yourself
28. Beth Orton - Central Reservation
29. Tom Petty - Echo
30. The Promise Ring - Very Emergency!
31. Farmed Not So John - Receiver
32. Echo & The Bunnymen - What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?
33. Arab Strap - Elephant Shoe
34. Ministry - Dark Side Of The Spoon
35. Krust - Coded Language
36. Sargento Garcia - Un Poquito Quema'o
37. Luna - The Days Of Our Nights
38. Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning
39. Buckberry - Buckberry
40. Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose

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Mondo Sonoro Best Records 2000


1. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command/Sunny Day Real State - The Rising Tide
2. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
3. Primal Scream - Exterminator
4. P J Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
5. Radiohead - Kid A
6. Deftones - The White Pony
7. Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
8. The Jayhawks - Smile
9. Lambchop - Nixon
10. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
11. Roni Size / Reprazent - In The Mode
12. David Holmes - Bow Down To The Exit Sign
13. Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
14. The Cure - Bloodflowers
15. Björk - Selmasongs
16. Belle & Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like A Peasant
17. St. Germain - Tourist
18. Calexico - Hot Rail
19. Coldplay - Parachutes
20. Piano Magic - Artists' Rifles
21. Snapcase - Designs For Automotion
22. Last Days Of April - Angel Youth
23. The Delgados - The Great Eastern
24. Mojave 3 - Excuses For Travellers
25. Dilated Peoples - The Platform
26. Goodspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven!
27. Eels - Daisies Of The Galaxies
28. Leila - Courtesy Of Choice
29. Einstürzende Neubaten - Silence Is Sexy
30. The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About
31. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
32. David Gray - White Ladders
33. Giant Sand - Chore Of Enchantment
34. Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
35. Hefner - We Love The City
36. The Third Eye Foundation - Little Lost Soul
37. Julieta Venegas - Buenivento
38. Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood
39. Boss Hog - Whiteout
40. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker

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Mondo Sonoro Best Records 2001

1. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
2. Mogwai - Rock Action
3. Radiohead - Amnesiac
4. The Strokes - Is This It
5. System Of A Down - Toxicity
6. Björk - Vespertine
7. Weezer - The Green Album
8. Ryan Adams - Gold
9. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
10. Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
11. B.R.M.C - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
12. Experience - Aujourd'hui, Maintenant
13. Kings Of Convenience - Quiet Is The New Loud
14. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
15. Built To Spill - Ancient Melodies Of The Future
16. Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life
17. Dominique A - Auguri
18. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
19. 4 Hero - Creatting Patterns
20. Lali Puna - Scary World Theory
21. Zen Guerrilla - Shadows Of The Sun
22. Incubus - Morning View
23. Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
24. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
25. Clem Snide - The Ghost Of Fashion
26. Travis - The Invisible Band
27. Pulp - We Love Life
28. Yann Tiersen - L'absente
29. Thalia Zedek - Been Here And Gone
30. The Black Crowes - Lions
31. Slipknot - Iowa
32. Thursday - Full Colapse
33. Isis - Celestial
34. Dimmu Borgir
35. Tool - Lateratus
36. Spiritualized - Let It Come Down
37. Mercury Rev - All Is Dream
38. Eels - Souljacker
39. Herber - Bodily Functions
40. Stereo Mc's - Deep, Down & Dirty

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Mondo Sonoro Best Records 2002

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
3. Múm - Finally We Are No One
4. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
5. Sigur Ros - ()
6. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
7. Dj Shadow - The Private Press
8. Liars - They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top
9. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
10. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
11. Doves - The Last Broadcast
12. The Mooney Suzuki - Electric Sweat
13. Programme - L’enfer Tiède
14. Peter Gabriel - Up
15. El-P - Fantastic Damage
16. Radio 4 - Gotham!
17. Tom Waits - Blood Money
18. Lambchop - Is A Woman
19. Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
20. Foo Fighters - Ibe By One
21. Low - Trust
22. Primal Scream - Evil Heat
23. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
24. The Monarchs - Make Yer Own Fun
25. Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
26. The Notwist - Neon Golden
27. Death Cab For Cutie - The Photo Album
28. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
29. Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi
30. Idlewild - Te Remote Part
31. The Delgados - Hate
32. Korn - Untouchables
33. The Hellacopters - By The Grace Of God
34. Last Days Of April - Ascend To The Stars
35. David Gray - A New Day At Midnight
36. Today Is The Day - Sadness Will Prevail
37. Goo Goo Dolls - Gutterflower
38. Underworld - A Hundred Days Off
39. Napalm Death - Order Of The Leech
40. The Vines - Highly Evolved

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Mondo Sonoro Best Records 2003

1.. Death Cab For Cutie - Traanstlanticism
2.. The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
3.. The White Stripes - Elephant
4.. Hot Hot Heat - Make Up The Breakdown
5.. The Rapture - Echoes
6.. Calexico - Feast Of Wire
7.. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
8.. The Postal Service - Give Up
9.. The Strokes - Room On Fire
10.. The Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn
11.. Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
12.. Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll
13.. Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
14.. The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
15.. Damien Rice - O
16.. Gang Starr - The Ownerz
17.. Ed Harcourt - From Every Sphere
18.. The Fire Theft - The Fire Theft
19.. Josh Rouse - 1972
20.. Asian Dub Foundation - Enemy Of The Enemy
21.. The Robocop Kraus - Living With Other People
22.. Broadcast - Haha Sound
23.. Fountains Of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
24.. Dayna Kurtz - Postcards From Heaven
25.. The Long Winters - When I Pretend To Fall
26.. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
27.. Plastikman - Closer
28.. Belle And Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
29.. Wire - Send
30.. Mojave 3 - Spoon And Rafter
31.. Bejamin Biolay - Negatif
32.. Nick Cave - Nocturama
33.. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
34.. Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
35.. Adam Green - Friends Of Mine
36.. Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
37.. Colder - Again
38.. Muse - Absolution
39.. Killing Joke - Killing Joke
40.. The Dandy Warhols - Welcome To The Monkey House


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Mondo Sonoro Best Records 2004



1. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
2. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
3. !!! - Louden Up Now
4. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
5. Julieta Venegas - Sí
6. Nick Cave - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus (2 Cds)
7. The Faint - Wet From Birth
8. Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
9. Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
10. Tv On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
11. Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself
12. Le Tigre - This Island
13. Fennesz - Venice
14. Lambchop - Awcmon / Noyoucmon
15. Kanye West - The College Dropout
16. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
17. Junior Boys - Last Exit
18. Drive - By Truckers - The Dirty South
19. Mastodon - Leviathan
20. Pink Grease - This Is For Real
21. Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill
22. Madvillain - Madvillainy
23. The Hidden Cameras - Mississauga Goddam
24. Tom Waits - Real Gone
25. Isis - Panopticon
26. The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
27. Q And Not U - Power
28. Brian Wilson - Smile
29. Experience - Hémisphère Gauche
30. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
31. P. J. Harvey - Uh Huh Her
32. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
33. The Libertines - The Libertines
34. Lali Puna - Faking The Books
35. Interpol - Antics
36. Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
37. Cocorosie - La Maison De Mon Rêve
38. Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
39. Morrisey - Morrisey, You Are The Quarry
40. The Blood Brothers - Crimes


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Mondo Sonoro Best Records Of 2005



1.Arcade Fire - Funeral
2.Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
3.Lcd Soundsysyem - Lcd Soundsysyem
4.Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
5.Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning / Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
6.Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
7.System Of A Down - Mesmerize
8.My Morning Jacket - Z
9.Sigur Ros - Takk
10.MIA - Arular
11.The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
12.Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
13.The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
14.Rufus Wainwright - Want Two
15.The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
16.Devandra Bandhart - Cripple Crow
17.Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
18.Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
19.Isolee - Wearemonster
20.Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
21.Kanye West - Late Registration
22.The Robocop Kraus - They Think They Are The Robocop Kraus
23.Animal Collective - Feels
24.Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
25.Clem Snide - End Of Love
26.Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
27.Josh Rouse - Nashville
28.The Decemberists - Picaresque
29.Echo & The Bunnymen - Siberia
30.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
31.Death Cub For Cutie - Plans
32.Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
33.Weezer - Make Believe
34.Ryan Adams - Jacksonville City Nights
35.Laura Veirs - Year Of Meteors
36.The Raveonettes - Pretty In Black
37.Patrick Wolf - Wind In The Wires
38.Eels - Blinking Lights And Other Revelations
39.High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings
40.Alkaline Trio - Crimson

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Best Albums Mondo Sonoro 2006

1- TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
2- M.Ward - Post-War
3- Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
4- Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
5- Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
6- Bob Dylan - Modern Times
7- The Rapture - Pieces Of The People We Love
8- Herman Düne - Giant
9- Scott Walker - The Drift
10- Mastodon - Blood Mountain
11- Wolfmother - Wolfmother
12- The Sleepy Jackson - Personality (One Was A Spider One Was A Bird)
13- Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
14- The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
15- Cansei De Ser Sexy - Cansei De Ser Sexy
16- The Mars Volta - Amputechture
17- Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
18- Architecture In Helsinki - In Case W Die
19- Damien Rice - S
20- The Spinto Band - Nice And Nicely Done
21- Akron / Family - Meek Warrior
22- Subtle - For Hero For Fool
23- Joana Newson - Ya
24- J Dilla - The Shining
25- Cat Power - The Greatest
26- Liars - Drum's Not Dead
27- Lily Allen - Alright, Still...
28- Gossip - Standing On The Way Of Control
29- Mogwai - Mr. Beast
30- Julieta Venegas - Limón Y Sal
31- Centro-Matic - Fort Recovery
32- Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things
33- Micah P.Hinson - And The Opera Ciruit
34- Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
35- Lo-Fi-Fnk - Boylife
36- Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky
37- Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah
38- Woven Hand - Mosaic
39- Clark - Body Riddle
40- I'm From Barcelona - Last Me Introduce My Friends

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Mondo Sonoro Best Albums Of 2007



1. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
2. M.I.A. Kala
3. Klaxons – Myths Of The Near Future
4. Lcd Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver
5. Justice – Cross
6. !!! – Myth Takes
7. Akron/Family – Love Is Simply
8. The Shins – Wincing The Night Away
9. The Rumble Strips – Girls And Strips
10. Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
11. Jens Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala
12. Vic Chesnutt – North Star Deserter
13. Digitalism – Idealism
14. The Go! Team – Proof Of Youth
15. Artic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
16. Battles – Mirrored
17. Two Gallants – Two Gallants
18. Richard Hawley – Lady`S Bridge
19. Bright Eyes – Cassadaga
20. The New Pornographers – Challengers
21. PJ Harvey – White Chalk
22. Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
23. The National – Boxer
24. Queens Of The Stone Age – Era Vulgaris
25. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
26. Okkervil River – The Stage Names
27. Devendra Banhart – Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
28. Rufus Wainwright – Release The Stars
29. Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City
30. Kanye West – Graduation
31. High On Fire – Death Is This Communion
32. Radiohead – In Rainbows
33. 1990’s – Cookies
34. Against Me! – New Wave
35. Beirut – The Flying Club Cup
36. Burial – Untrue
37. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
38. Band Of Horses – Cease To Begin
39. Panda Bear – Person Pitch
40. The Mary Onettes – The Mary Onettes

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Mondo Sonoro Best Albums Of 2008

1. Sigur Rós “Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust”
2. Portishead “Third”
3. TV On The Radio “Dear Science”
4. Vampire Weekend “Vampire Weekend”
5. Bon Iver “For Emma, Forever Ago”
6. Mgmt “Oracular Spectacular”
7. Gnarls Barkley “The Odd Couple”
8. Fleet Foxes “Fleet Foxes”
9. Cut Copy “In Ghost Colours”
10. The Wave Pictures “Instant Coffee Baby”
11. Lindstrøm “Where You Go I Go Too”
12. Late Of The Pier “Fantasy Black Channel”
13. Pete & The Pirates “Little Death”
14. Jeremy Jay “A Place Where We Could Go”
15. Grand Archives “Grand Archives”
16. Silver Jews “Lookout Mountain…”
17. My Morning Jacket “Evil Urges”
18. Kings Of Leon “Only By The Night”
19. Glasvegas “Glasvegas”
20. Glass Candy “B/E/A/T/B/O/X”
21. The Mars Volta “The Bedlam In Goliath”
22. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy “Lie Down In The Light”
23. Yelle “Pop-Up”
24. Foals “Antidotes”
25. Ron Sexmith “Exit Strategy Of The Soul”
26. Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed & The True Loves “Roll With You”
27. Ra Ra Riot “The Rhumb Line”
28. Drive By Truckers “Brighter Than…”
29. Vetiver “Thing Of The Past”
30. Ghostface Killah “The Big Doe Rehab”
31. Girl Talk “Feed The Animals”
32. Crystal Castles “Crystal Castles”
33. Fuck Buttons “Street Horrrsing”
34. The Wombats “A Guide To Love…”
35. Mates Of State “Re-Arrange Us”
36. The Last Shadow Puppets “The Age Of Understatement”
37. The Whip “X Marks Destination”
38. Nada Surf “Lucky”
39. Annuals “Such Fun”
40. Black Mountain “In The Future”

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Mondo Sonoro Best Albums Of 2009



1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
2. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
4. Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
5. Girls - Album
6. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
7. Xx, The - Xx
8. Horrors, The - Primary Colours
9. Duke And The King - Nothing Gold Can Stay
10. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
11. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
12. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
13. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
14. Kings Of Convenience - Declaration Of Dependence
15. Cass Mccombs - Catacombs
16. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
17. M. Ward - Hold Time
18. Flaming Lips - Embryonic
19. Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Cock
20. Jack Peñate - Everything Is New
21. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
22. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
23. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
24. Jeremy Jay - Slow Dance
25. Simian Mobile Disco - Temporary Pleasure
26. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
27. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
28. Gossip - Music For Men
29. Antlers, The - Hospice
30. Sunn 0))) - Monoliths And Dimensions
31. Dan Deacon - Bromst
32. Dead Man's Bones - Dead Man's Bones
33. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
34. Passion Pit - Manners
35. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
36. JJ - N°2
37. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt Ii
38. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
39. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
40. Converge - Axe To Fall