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OOR (nr. 25/26 – Dec. ’78)

CRITICS TOP 20 (ALBUMS) – 1978

1. Elvis COSTELLO: This Year’s Model
2. TALKING HEADS: More Songs About Buildings And Food
3. DIRE STRAITS: Dire Straits
4. Bruce SPRINGSTEEN: Darkness On The Edge Of Town
5. Gerry RAFFERTY: City To City
6. PERE UBU: The Modern Dance
7. Herman BROOD & HIS WILD ROMANCE: Shpritsz
8. Dave EDMUNDS: Tracks On Wax
9. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: Hearts Of Stone
10. ROLLING STONES: Some Girls
11. GRUPPO SPORTIVO: Back To 78
12. Nick LOWE: Jesus Of Cool

12. Todd RUNDGREN: Hermit Of Mink Hollow
13. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART: Shiny Beast
14. BLONDIE: Parallel Lines
15. MAGAZINE: Real Life
16. BILLY JOEL: 52nd Street
17. 10 CC: Bloody Tourists
18. XTC: White Music
19. David BOWIE: Stage
20. ASHFORD & SIMPSON: Is It Still Good To ‘Ya

OOR (nr. 25/26 – Dec. ’79)

CRITICS TOP 10 (ALBUMS) – 1979

1. Ry COODER: Bop Till You Drop
2. TALKING HEADS: Fear Of Music
3. Linton KWESI JOHNSON: Forces Of Victory
4. Joe JACKSON: Look Sharp!
5. The UNDERTONES: The Undertones
6. The POLICE: Regatta De Blanc
7. Ian DURY: Do It Yourself
8. STIFF LITTLE FINGERS: Inflammable Material

• The POLICE: Outlandos D’Amour

10. Frank ZAPPA: Joe’s Garage Act 1

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OOR (nr. 25/26 – 17 Dec. ’80)

CRITICS TOP 20 (ALBUMS) – 1980

1. TALKING HEADS: Remain In Light
2. Bruce SPRINGSTEEN: The River
3. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND: Doc At The Radar Station
4. JOY DIVISION: Closer
5. PUBLIC IMAGE LTD.: Metal Box
6. The CURE: Seventeen Seconds
7. DIRE STRAITS: Making Movies
8. Joe JACKSON: Beat Crazy
9. John HIATT: Two Bit Monsters

• ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN: Crocodiles

9. Graham PARKER: The Up Escalator
10. JOHNNY G: G-Beat

• UB 40: Signing Off

14. The CLASH: London Calling
15. David BOWIE: Scary Monsters

• B 52’S: Wild Planet

17. U2: Boy
18. John MARTYN: Grace & Danger
19. Jack BRUCE & FRIENDS: I’ve Always Wanted To Do This

• XTC: Black Sea

OOR (nr. 25/26 – 16 Dec. ’81)

CRITICS TOP 10 (ALBUMS) – 1981

1. U2: October
2. Grace JONES: Nightclubbing
3. BLACK UHURU: Red
4. David THOMAS & THE PEDESTRIANS: The Sound Of The Sand & Other Songs Of The Pedestrian
5. MINK DEVILLE: Coup De Grâce
6. Steve WINWOOD: Arc Of A Diver
7. KING CRIMSON: Discipline
8. PIL: The Flowers Of Romance
9. SCARS: Author! Author!
10. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN: Heaven Up Here

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OOR (nr. 25/26 – 15 Dec. ’82)

CRITICS TOP 10 (ALBUMS) – 1982

1. Joe JACKSON: Night And Day
2. SIMPLE MINDS: New Gold Dream
3. PERE UBU: Song Of The Bailing Man
4. Marvin GAYE: Midnight Love
5. XTC: English Settlement
6. Kevin ROWLAND & DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS: ‘Too-Rye-Ay’
7. Bruce SPRINGSTEEN: Nebraska

• Elvis COSTELLO: Imperial Bedroom

9. Laurie ANDERSON: Big Science
10. COMSAT ANGELS: Fiction

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OOR (nr. 25/26 – 17 Dec. ’83)

CRITICS TOP 10 (ALBUMS) – 1983

1. Tom WAITS: Swordfishtrombones
2. CLOCK DVA: Advantage
3. Elvis COSTELLO: Punch The Clock
4. KING SUNNY ADÉ & HIS AFRICAN BEATS: Synchro System
5. THE THE: Soul Mining

• KOWALSKI: Schlagende Wetter

7. Anita BAKER: The Songstress

• John HIATT: Riding With The King
• YELLO: You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess

10. Die HAUT: Burnin’ The Ice

OOR (nr. 25/26 – 15 Dec. ’84)

CRITICS TOP 10 (ALBUMS) – 1984

1. Nick CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS: From Her To Eternity
2. The GUN CLUB: The Las Vegas Story
3. PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION: Purple Rain
4. David SYLVIAN: Brilliant Trees
5. SCRAPING FOETUS OFF THE WHEEL: ‘Hole’
6. Bruce SPRINGSTEEN: Born In The U.S.A.
7. Scott WALKER: Climate Of Hunter
8. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN: Ocean Rain
9. U2: The Unforgettable Fire

• Holger HILLER: Ein Bündel Fäulnis In Der Grube

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OOR (nr. 25/26 – 14 Dec. ’85)

CRITICS TOP 10 (ALBUMS) – 1985

1. Tom WAITS: Rain Dogs
2. Chris ISAAK: Silvertone
3. STING: The Dream Of The Blue Turtles
4. The POGUES: Rum Sodomy & The Lash
5. TALKING HEADS: Little Creatures
6. The JESUS & MARY CHAIN: Psychocandy
7. Nick CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS: The Firstborn Is Dead
8. JASON & THE SCORCHERS: Lost & Found

• R.E.M.: Fables Of The Reconstruction/Reconstruction Of The Fables

10. SCRAPING FOETUS OFF THE WHEEL: ‘Nail’

OOR (nr. 25/26 – 12 Dec. ’86)

CRITICS TOP 10 (ALBUMS) – 1986

1. PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION: Parade
2. Paul SIMON: Graceland
3. R.E.M.: Lifes Rich Pageant
4. THE THE: Infected
5. Peter GABRIEL: So
6. Peter CASE: Peter CASE
7. Bruce SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND: Live/1975-85
8. FRANCO & LE T.P.O.K. JAZZ: A Nairobi
9. Elvis COSTELLO: King Of America
10. SONIC YOUTH: Evol

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OOR (nr. 25/26 – 12 Dec. ’87)

CRITICS TOP 10 (ALBUMS) – 1987

1. PRINCE: Sign ‘O’ The Times
2. Bruce SPRINGSTEEN: Tunnel Of Love
3. John HIATT: Bring The Family
4. SONIC YOUTH: Sister
5. The TRIFFIDS: Calenture
6. R.E.M.: Document

• Tom WAITS: Franks Wild Years

8. Robbie ROBERTSON; Robbie Robertson
9. The REPLACEMENTS: Pleased To Meet Me
10. SWANS: Children Of God

OOR (nr. 25/26 – 17 Dec. ’88)

CRITICS TOP 10 (ALBUMS) – 1988

1. WOMACK & WOMACK: Conscience
2. PUBLIC ENEMY: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
3. R.E.M.: Green

• John HIATT: Slow Turning

5. Nick CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS: Tender Prey
6. PIXIES: Surfer Rosa
7. PRINCE: Lovesexy
8. SONIC YOUTH: Daydream Nation
9. POGUES: If I Should Fall From Grace With God
10. The HOUSE OF LOVE: The House Of Love

• TALKING HEADS: Naked

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OOR (nr. 25/26 – 16 Dec. ’89)

CRITICS TOP 10 (ALBUMS) – 1989

1. Lou REED: New York
2. Neil YOUNG: Freedom
3. URBAN DANCE SQUAD: Mental Floss For The Globe
4. NEVILLE BROTHERS: Yellow Moon
5. Lenny KRAVITZ: Let Love Rule
6. DE LA SOUL: 3 Feet High And Rising
7. Peter CASE: The Man With The Blue Postmodern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar
8. Daniel LANOIS: Acadie
9. Gavin FRIDAY & THE MAN SEEZER: Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves

9. MASTERS OF REALITY: Masters Of Reality

OOR (nr. 25/26 – 15 Dec. ’90)

CRITICS TOP 10 (ALBUMS) – 1990

1. LIVING COLOUR: Time’s Up
2. Neil YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE: Ragged Glory
3. WORLD PARTY: Goodbye Jumbo
4. The POGUES: Hell’s Ditch
5. PUBLIC ENEMY: Fear Of A Black Planet
6. Nick CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS: The Good Son
7. PIXIES: Bossanova

• Lou REED & John CALE: Songs For Drella

9. The SERENES: Barefoot & Pregnant
10. John HIATT: Stolen Moments

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OOR (nr. 25/26 – 14 Dec. ’91)

CRITICS TOP 10 (ALBUMS) – 1991

1. NIRVANA: Nevermind
2. R.E.M.: Out Of Time
3. MASSIVE ATTACK: Blue Lines
4. Richard THOMPSON: Rumor And Sigh
5. Lenny KRAVITZ: Mama Said
6. URBAN DANCE SQUAD: Life ’N Perspectives Of A Genuine Crossover
7. PUBLIC ENEMY: Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black
   

7. The TRAGICALLY HIP: Road Apples
8. CROWDED HOUSE: Woodface
9. U2: Achtung Baby

OOR (nr. 25/26 – 12 Dec. ’92)

CRITICS TOP 10 (ALBUMS) – 1992

1. Tom WAITS: Bone Machine
2. ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: 3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of…
3. LOS LOBOS: Kiko
4. R.E.M.: Automatic For The People
5. GANG STARR: Daily Operation
6. The BLACK CROWES: The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
7. SUGAR: Copper Blue
8. SONIC YOUTH: Dirty
9. DISPOSABLE HEROES OF HIPHOPRISY: Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
10. Peter GABRIEL: Us

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OOR (nr. 25/26 – 11 Dec. ’93)

CRITICS TOP 10 (ALBUMS) – 1993

1. The LEMONHEADS: Come On Feel The Lemonheads
2. SMASHING PUMPKINS: Siamese Dream
3. BUFFALO TOM: Big Red Letter Day
4. Mick JAGGER: Wandering Spirit
5. CYPRESS HILL: Black Sunday
6. Liz PHAIR: Exile In Guyville
   

6. SUEDE: Suede
7. BJÖRK: Debut
8. AEROSMITH: Get A Grip
9. John HIATT: Perfectly Good Guitar

OOR (nr. 25/26 – 17 Dec. ’94)

CRITICS TOP 10 (ALBUMS) – 1994

1. SPEARHEAD: Home
2. Johnny CASH: American Recordings
3. BEASTIE BOYS: Ill Communication
4. PAVEMENT: Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
5. SOUNDGARDEN: Superunknown
6. UNDERWORLD: Dubnobasswithmyheadman
7. Dan PENN: Do Right Man
8. Jeff BUCKLEY: Grace
9. OASIS: Definitely Maybe
10. GUIDED BY VOICES: Bee Thousand

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OOR (nr. 25/26 – 16 Dec. ’95)

CRITICS TOP 10 (ALBUMS) – 1995

1. OASIS: (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
2. SMASHING PUMPKINS: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
3. TRICKY: Maxinquaye
4. GOLDIE: Timeless
5. PJ HARVEY: To Bring You My Love
6. CHEMICAL BROTHERS: Exit Planet Dust
7. MONSTER MAGNET: Dopes To Infinity
8. The PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: The Presidents Of The United States Of America
9. SUPERGRASS: I Should Coco
10. GUIDED BY VOICES: Alien Lanes

OOR (nr. 25/26 – 14 Dec. ’96)

CRITICS TOP 10 (ALBUMS) – 1996

1. BECK: Odelay
2. DJ SHADOW: Endtroducing
3. FUN LOVING CRIMINALS: Come Find Yourself
4. 16 HORSEPOWER: Sackcloth ‘N’ Ashes
5. SPARKLEHORSE: Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
6. SUEDE: Coming Up
7. KULA SHAKER: K
8. TOOL: Aenima
9. EELS: Beautiful Freak
10. JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION: Now I Got Worry

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OOR CRITICS TOP 100 ALBUMS - 1997

1. OK Computer...Radiohead Parlophone/EMI
2. New Forms...Reprazent featuring Roni Size Talking Loud/Mercury
3. Buena Vista Social Club...Ry Cooder World Circuit/Munich
4. Urban Hymns...The Verve Hut/Virgin
5. The Fat Of The Land...The Prodigy XL/P.i.a.S.
6. The Boatman's Call...Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Mute/P.i.a.S.
7. Time Out Of Mind...Bob Dylan Columbia
8. Homework...Daft Punk Daft Trax/Virgin
9. Low Estate...16 Horsepower A&M/Polydor
10. When I Was Born For The Seventh Time...Cornershop Wiiija/P.i.a.S.
11. El Corazon...Steve Earle Warner Bros/Warner
12. Around The Fur...Deftones Maverick/Warner
13. The Future Of War...Atari Teenage Riot Digital Hardcore/P.i.a.S.
14. Saturday Teenage Kicks...Junkie XL Roadrunner
15. Brighten The Corners...Pavement Domino/Konkurrent
16. Dig Your Own Hole...Chemical Brothers Virgin
17. Baduizm...Erykah Badu Kedar/Universal
18. Wu-Tang Forever...Wu-Tang Clan Loud/RCA/BMG
19. Under The Western Freeway...Grandaddy V
20. Fountains Of Wayne...Fountains Of Wayne Scratchie/Atlantic/Warner
21. In It For The Money...Supergrass Parlophone/EMI
22. Interiors...Brad Epic/Sony
23. Echo Dek...Primal Scream Epic
24. Lifeforms...Reprazent featuring Roni Size Mercury
25. Blue Moon Swamp...John Fogerty Warner
26. Portishead...Portishead Go!Beat/Polydor
27. Barrel Chested...Slobberbone Doolittle/Sonic Rendezvous
28. Dust Bunnies...Bettie Serveert Brinkman Records/P.i.a.S.
29. Be Here Now...Oasis Epic
30. Homemade Blood...Chuck Prophet Cooking Vinyl/Zomba/Rough Trad
31. One Second...Paradise Lost ????
32. Songs From The Capeman...Paul Simon Warner
33. The Colour And The Shape...Foo Fighters Roswell/Capitol/EMI
34. Blur...Blur Food/Parlophone/EMI
35. The End Of Violence...Ry Cooder Outpost/BMG
36. The New Transistor Heroes...Bis Wiiija/Konkurrent
37. Nutrient...Soylent Green Eigen Beheer
38. Sound Of Lies...The Jayhawks American/BMG
39. Halim...Natacha Atlas Naton/Beggars Banquet/P.i.a.S.
40. You Should Be Sinnin'...The Dirty's Crypt/Sonic
41. Homogenic...Bjork Mother/Polydor
42. Fashion Nugget...Cake Capricorn/Mercury
43. En Concert...Orchestre National De Barbes Popular African Music/Munich
44. Baduizm Live...Erykah Badu Universal
45. Poison Love...Buddy Miller HighTone/Sonic Rendezvous
46. Flaming Pie...Paul McCartney Parlophone/EMI
47. Falling Into Infinity...Dream Theater ??
48. Transmission...The Tea Party EMI
49. 13 Featuring Lester Butler...13 Featuring Lester Butler Hightone/Sonic Rendez Vous
50. Freek Funk...Luke Slater Novamute/P.i.a.S.
51. Aphrodite Recordings...Aphrodite Aphrodite Record
52. Sol Niger Within...FredrikThordendal's Sp. Defect UAE/Finyl Vinyl
53. Turn The Dark Off...Howie B. Polydor
54. The Charity Of Night...Bruce Cockburn Ryko/Munich
55. Kopstoot Van Een Vlinder...Van Dik Hout Columbia
56. The Comfort Of Replay...Benjamin B. Excelsior/Universal
57. Dots And Loops...Stereolab Warner
58. Es Ist Egal, Aber...Toc O Tronic L'Age d'Or
59. White On Blonde...Texas ????
60. Balance Of The Force...Boymerang Regal/EMI
61. Mag Earwhig!...Guided By Voices Matador/Konkurrent
62. Modus Operandi...Photek Virgin
63. Sound Verite...The Make-Up K/Konkurrent
64. Earthling...David Bowie Arista/BMG
65. Further...Geneva Nude/
66. At The Club...Kenickie Emidisc/EMI
67. Universal Playground...Tuesday Child Columbia
68. The Wake Of The World...Savatage Shrapnel/Roadrunner
69. Niks Is Zoas 't Lek...Skik Polydor
70. Red Apple Falls...Smog Domino/Konkurrent
71. Gaaphonger...De Kift Konkurrel/Konkurrent
72. A Wrong-Eyed Jesus...Jim White Luaka Bop/Warner
73. Hint Of Mess...Andrew Dorff Columbia/Sony
74. Either/Or...Elliot Smith Kill Rock Stars
75. Jugulator...Judas Priest Judas Priest/SPV/P.i.a.S.
76. Keepers...Guy Clark Sugar Hill
77. Pop...U2 Island/Mercury
78. Circle Songs...Bobby McFerrin Sony
79. Back In Business...EPMD Defjam/Mercury
80. Stardust We Are...Flower Kings ??
81. The Time Is Nigh...Fushitsusha Tokuma/Japan
82. Yeah, It's That Easy...G. Love & Special Sauce Okeh/Sony
83. Hippjokk...Hedningarna Silence/Music & Words
84. Selfish...Lemon Crush Whale/Zomba
85. Cryptic Writings...Megadeth EMI
86. Seipsipd...Negativeland Secland/Staalplaat
87. Play 9 Songs With Mr. Quintron...Oblivians Crypt/Sonic Rendezvous
88. Water, Lucht En Liefde...Rowwen Heze HKM/CNR
89. Jungle Warriors On The Mountain Top...Tribe Of Issachar Congo Natty
90. Relax 20...6th Sense Approach Re-Load
91. Shizuo Vs. Shizor...Shizuo Digital Hardcore/P.i.a.S.
92. So Long So Wrong...Alison Kraus & Union Station Rounder/CRS/Munich
93. Share My World...Mary J.Blige Universal
94. Surf-N-Burn...Blue Stingrays Epitone/Epitaph/P.i.a.S.
95. Colla Parte...Ernst Reijseger Winter & Winter/VIA
96. A Death Never To Be Complete...Fushitsusha Tokuma/Japan
97. I Got Next...KRS One Jive/Zomba
98. Three Dollar Bill Y'All...Limb Bizkit ????
99. Help Wanted, Love Needed, Caretaker...Mount Pilot Doolittle/Sonic Rendezvous
100. Bedrooms And Cities...Neil Landstrumm Tresor/P.i.a.S.

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OOR Critics albums of 1998

1. Elliott SMITH: XO
2. MASSIVE ATTACK: Mezzanine
3. AIR: Moon Safari
4. BEASTIE BOYS: Hello Nasty
5. CALEXICO: The Black Light
6. Lauryn HILL: The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
7. Johnny DOWD: Wrong Side Of Memphis
8. SPARKLEHORSE: Good Morning Spider
9. Lucinda WILLIAMS: Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
10. CAESAR: No Rest For The Alonely

OOR Critics top 10 of 1999

1. WAITS, Tom: Mule Variations
2. BASEMENT JAXX: Remedy
3. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: Californication
4. MOBY: Play
5. BECK: Midnite Vultures
6. DARYLL-ANN: Happy Traum
7. MACY GRAY, Macy: On How Life Is
8. DEUS: The Ideal Crash
8. MOS DEF: Black On Both Sides
10. BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY: I See A Darkness

OOR Critics top 10 2000

1.      EMINEM: The Marshall Mathers LP
2.      RADIOHEAD: Kid A
3.      COLDPLAY: Parachutes
4.      D’ANGELO: Voodoo
5.      BADLY DRAWN BOY: The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
6.      JOHNNY CASH: American III: Solitary Man
7.      MADONNA: Music
8.      AT THE DRIVE-IN: Relationship Of Command
9.      U2: All That You Can’t Leave Behind
10.  GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR!: Levez Voz Skinny Fists Comme Antennas To Heaven!

OOR Critics list 2001

1. Is This It - The Strokes (RCA/BMG)
2. All Is Dream - Mercury Rev (V2)
3. Amnesiac - Radiohead (Parlophone/EMI)
4. Pergola - Johan (Excelsior/V2)
5. Lateralus - Tool (Volcano/Zomba)
6. In Search Of - N*E*R*D (Virgin)
7. White Blood Cells - The White Stripes (XL/V2)
8. Endless Summer - Fennesz (Mego/Konkurrent)
9. Mahogany Soul - Angie Stone (J/Arista/BMG)
10. It's A Wonderful Life - Sparklehorse (Capitol/EMI)

OOR's 2002 critics list:

1. Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf
2. Spinvis – Spinvis
3.The Streets – Original Pirate Material
4.Bright Eyes – Lifted
5.Solomon Burke – Don’t Give Up On Me
6.Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head
7.Audioslave – Audioslave
8.Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9.The Coral – The Coral
10.Missy Elliott – Under Construction

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