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Best of 1990

1. Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
2. Sonic Youth - Goo
3. Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
4. Alice In Chains - Facelift
5. Deee-Lite - World Clique
6. Neil Young - Ragged Glory
7. Teenage Fan Club - A Catholic Education
8. Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
9. Sinιad O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
10. L.L. Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
11. Primus - Frizzle Fry
12. Bob Mould - Black Sheets Of Rain
13. The Breeders - Pod
14. Was (Not Was) - Are You OK?
15. Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting
16. Prince - Graffiti Bridge
17. Masters Of Reality - Masters Of Reality
18. Eric B. & Rakim - Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em
19. Lou Reed/John Cale - Songs For Drella
20. Soul II Soul - Vol II: 1990-A New Decade

Best of 1991

1. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
2. R.E.M. - Out Of Time
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
4. Pixies - Trompe le Monde
5. Pet Shop Boys - Discography
6. Robyn Hitchcock - Perspex Island
7. Public Enemy - Apocalypse '91: The Enemy Strikes Black
8. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
10. P.M. Dawn - Of The Heart, Of The Soul And Of The Cross: The Utopian Experience
11. Metallica - Metallica
12. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
13. Fugazi - Steady Diet Of Nothing
14. Urge Overkill - The Supersonic Storybook
15. Pearl Jam - Ten
16. Seal - Seal
17. De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
18. Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
19. Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I And II
20. Hole - Pretty On The Inside

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Best of 1992

1. Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
2. Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
3. Sonic Youth - Dirty
4. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
5. Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs
6. Sugar - Copper Blue
7. Neneh Cherry - Homebrew
8. Unrest - Imperial
9. Basehead - Play With Toys
10. Ween - The Pod
11. Mudhoney - Piece Of Cake
12. Urge Overkill - Stull EP
13. Tom Waits - Bone Machine
14. Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth
15. Morrissey - Your Arsenal
16. En Vogue - Funky Divas
17. Babes In Toyland - Fontanelle
18. PJ Harvey - Dry
19. Prince - Symbol
20. Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction

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Best of 1993

1. Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
2. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
3. Nirvana - In Utero
4. PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
5. John Mellencamp - Human Wheels
6. The Breeders - Last Splash
7. The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
8. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
9. Pet Shop Boys - Very
10. Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Spinning Around The Sun
11. P.M. Dawn - The Bliss Album...? (Vibrations Of Love And Anger And The Ponderance Of Life And Existence)
12. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
13. Saint Etienne - So Tough
14. American Music Club - Mercury
15. The Palace Brothers - There Is No-One What Will Take Care Of You
16. Yo La Tengo - Painful
17. Paul Westerberg - 14 Songs
18. Basehead - Not In Kansas Anymore
19. Willie Nelson - Across The Borderline
20. Guru - Jazzmatazz

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Best of 1994

Albums

1. Hole - Live Through This
2. Beck - Mellow Gold
3. Iris Dement - My Life
4. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
5. Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
6. R.E.M. - Monster
7. The Mavericks - What A Crying Shame
8. Veruca Salt - American Thighs
9. Suede - Dog Man Star
10. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
11. Superchunk - Foolish
12. Crystal Waters - Storyteller
13. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
14. Sugar - File Under: Easy Listening
15. Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era
16. Sebadoh - Bakesale
17. Soundgarden - Superunknown
18. The Magnetic Fields - The Charm Of The Highway Strip
19. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
20. John Mellencamp - Dance Naked

Singles

1. Beck - Loser/Beercan
2. The Cranberries - Dreams
3. Coolio - Fantastic Voyage
4. R.E.M. - What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
5. Beastie Boys - Sabotage
6. Hole - Miss World
7. Warren G & Nate Dogg - Regulate
8. Bikini Kill - New Radio/Rebel Girl/Demirep
9. Veruca Salt - Seether
10. Melting Hopefuls - Pulling An Allnighter Myself
11. Dawn Penn - You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)
12. Jeru The Damaja - Come Clean
13. Terror Fabulous - Action
14. Lisa Lisa - Skip To My Lu
15. The Mavericks - What A Crying Shame
16. Da Brat - Funkdafied
17. Ahmad - Back In The Day
18. Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
19. Green Day - Longview/Basket Case
20. Lisa Loeb - Stay (I Missed You)

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Best of 1995

Albums

1. Moby - Everything Is Wrong
2. Tricky - Maxinquaye
3. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
4. Elastica - Elastica
5. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
6. TLC - CrazySexyCool
7. Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
8. SF Seals - Truth Walks In Sleepy Shadows
9. Geraldine Fibbers - Lost Somewhere Between The Earth And My Home
10. Rancid - ...And Out Come The Wolves
11. Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura
12. Buju Banton - 'Til Shiloh
13. Bjφrk - Post
14. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
15. Green Day - Insomniac
16. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
17. Goldie - Timeless
18. Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute
19. Richard Buckner - Bloomed
20. Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters

Singles

1. Moby - Feeling So Real; Every Time You Touch Me
2. Portishead - Sour Times
3. TLC - Creep; Waterfalls
4. Goldie - Inner City Life
5. PJ Harvey - Down By The Water
6. The Notorious B.I.G. - Big Poppa
7. Sixteen Deluxe - Idea/Honey
8. Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You
9. Madonna - Human Nature
10. Adina Howard - Freak Like Me
11. Elastica - Connection
12. Cibo Matto - Birthday Cake/Black Hole Sun
13. Geraldine Fibbers - Dragon Lady
14. Beenie Man - Slam
15. Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Part II
16. Orbital - Are We Here
17. Helium - Superball
18. Chemical Brothers - Leave Home
19. Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
20. Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know

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Best of 1996

Albums

1. Beck - Odelay
2. Fugees - The Score
3. Pulp - Different Class
4. Imperial Teen - Seasick
5.  Girls Against Boys - House of GVSB
6. Tricky - Pre-Millennium Tension
7.  Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire
8. Sublime - Sublime
9. Los Lobos - Colossal Head
10. Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman
11. R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
12.  DJ Shadow - Endtroducing....
13. Tori Amos - Boys For Pele
14. Nirvana - From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah
15. Everything But The Girl - Walking Wounded
16. Various Artists - Waiting To Exhale OST
17. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
18. Sleater-Kinney - Call The Doctor
19. L.T.J. Bukem - Presents Logical Progression
20. The Roots - Illadelph Halflife

Singles

1. Fugees - "Ready or Not" and "Killing Me Softly"
2. Pulp - Common People
3. Orbital - The Box
4. Quad City DJ's - C'Mon N' Ride It (The Train)
5. Dr. Octagon - "Earth People"/"No Awareness" and "Bear Witness"; Kool Keith - "Wanna Be
5. A Star"; Big Willie Smith - "Keep It Real...Represent '96"/"Prepare"
6. The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
7. Funky Green Dogs - Fired Up!
8. Everclear - Santa Monica
9. Busta Rhymes - Woo-Hah!! Got You All In Check
10. Folk Implosion - Natural One
11. Butthole Surfers - Pepper
12. Beck - Where It's At
13. Alec Empire - "22:24"/"The Peak"; Atari Teenage Riot - "Deutschland (Has Gotta
13. Die!)"/"Riot '96"
14. Lateef The Truth Speaker - "The Wreckoning"/Lateef w/Lyrics Born - "Latyrx"
15. Everything But The Girl - Wrong
16. Space Needle - "Sun Doesn't Love Me"/"Sugar Mountain"
17. Varnaline - "Party Now"/"The Iron Horse"
18. Kim Richey - Those Words We Said
19. The Crystal Method - Keep Hope Alive
20. Oasis - Wonderwall
 

Best of 1997

Albums

1. Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7th Time
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
4. Bjφrk - Homogenic
5. Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
6. Portishead - Portishead
7. The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
8. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
9. Missy "Misdemeanour" Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
10. The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
11. Pavement - Brighten The Corners
12. Erykah Badu - Baduizm
13. Roni Size/Reprazent - New Forms
14. Various Artists - Return Of The D.J. Vol.II
15. Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
16. Daft Punk - Homework
17. Geraldine Fibbers - Butch
18. Belle And Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
19. Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
20. Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land

Singles

1. The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
2. Hanson - MMMBop
3. The Notorious B.I.G. (Featuring Puff Daddy & Mase) - Mo Money Mo Problems
4. Prodigy - Firestarter
5. Erykah Badu - On And On
6. Oasis - D'You Know What I Mean
7. Daft Punk - Da Funk
8. Blur - Song 2
9. The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats
10. Spice Girls - Wannabe
11. Veruca Salt - Volcano Girls
12. The Crystal Method - Busy Child
13. Timbaland and Magoo - Up Jumps Da Boogie
14. Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
15. Company Flow - "Info Kill"/"Population Control"
16. J-Live - "Can I Get It?"/"Hush The Crowd"
17. Janet Jackson - Got 'Til It's Gone
18. MC Lyte - Cold Rock A Party
19. Elliot Smith - "Speed Trials"/"Angeles" and "I Don't Think I'm Ever Gonna Figure It Out"
20. Fiona Apple - Criminal

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Best Of 1998
 

Albums

1. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
2. Elliott Smith - XO
3. Outkast - Aquemini
4. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
5. Air - Moon Safari
6. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
7. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
8. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
9. Garbage - Version 2.0
10. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
11. Hole - Celebrity Skin
12. Quasi - Featuring "Birds"
13. Tori Amos - From The Choirgirl Hotel
14. Plastikman - Consumed
15. R.E.M. - Up
16. Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
17. Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
18. Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way Baby
19. Unkle - Psyence Fiction
20. Local H - Pack Up The Cats

Singles

1. Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank
2. Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
3. Marilyn Manson - The Dope Show
4. L.L. Cool J - 4,3,2,1
4. Canibus - Second Round K.O.
4. L.L. Cool J - The Ripper Strikes Back
4. Wyclef - What's Clef
5. I-F - Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass
6. Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody?
7. The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
8. Reflection Eternal - Fortified Live
9. Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
10. Beenie Man - Who Am I
11. Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
12. Deftones - Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)
13. Goodie Mob - Black Ice (Sky High)
14. Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
15. Company Flow - End to End / Krazy Kings Too
16. Big Punisher - Still Not A Player
17. Pulp - Help The Aged
18. Korn - Got The Life
19. Juvenile - Ha
20. Pras Featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard And Introducing Mya - Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)

Thanks to Steve Silva  for suplying the specilist lists.

The 15 Ten Best Reissues of 1998:

1. Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 -Various Artists [Rhino]
2. The Complete Hank Williams - Hank Williams [Mercury/Nashville]
3. Innovator - Derrick May [Transmat]
4. Tropicalia: 30 Anos - Various Artists [Mercury/Polygram Brazil]
5. (tie) Volume One, Making Time - The Creation [Retroactive]
=  Volume Two, Biff Bang Pow! - The Creation [Retroactive]
6. (tie) Fat Beats & Brastraps: Women of Hip-Hop; Volume One, Classics -Various Artists [Rhino]
=  Fat Beats & Brastraps: Women of Hip-Hop; Volume Two, Battle Rhymes & Posse Cuts - Various Artists [Rhino]
7. Paid in Full: Platinum Edition - Eric B. & Rakim [Chronicles/Island]
8. From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music - Various Artists [Warner Bros.]
9. The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (August 1969 - February 1970) - Miles Davis [Columbia/Legacy]
10. The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection - Various Artists [Rhino]

The 10 Best Albums You Never Heard (in no particular order):

Prototype - Rachid [Universal]
It's Hard to Find a Friend - Pedro the Lion [Made in Mexico]
Interstellar Fugitives - Various Artists [Underground Resistance/Submerge]
Untouchable Outcaste Beats: Volume One - Various Artists [Outcaste/Tommy Boy]
Shrink - The Notwist [Zero Hour]
Heavenly - E Danger [Planet E]
Life in the So-Called Space Age - God Lives Underwater [1500]
Love From Beyond - Various Artists [Interdimensional Transmissions]
Anti-Theft Device - Mix Master Mike [Asphodel]
Higher Than the Funk - Shantel [Studio K7]

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Best Of - 1999

Albums

1. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
2. Rage Against The Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
3. Moby - Play
4. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs, Vol. 1, 2 & 3
5. Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves
5. Handsome Boy Modeling School - So…How's Your Girl?
6. Basement Jaxx - Remedy
7. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
8. Goodie Mob - World Party
9. Beck - Midnite Vultures
10. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn…
11. Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
12. The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
13. Ol' Dirty Bastard - N***a Please
14. Ibrahim Ferrer - Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer
15. Mary J. Blige - Mary
16. The Promise Ring - Very Emergency
16. Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again
17. Wilco - Summer Teeth
18. Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
19. Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions
20. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
 
Singles - 1999

1. TLC - No Scrubs
2. Rage Against The Machine - Guerrilla Radio
3. Lauryn Hill - Ex-Factor
3. Mary J. Blige - Deep Inside
4. Everlast - What It's Like
5. Basement Jaxx - Rendez-Vu
6. Korn - Freak On A Leash
7. Cool Breeze Featuring OutKast, Goodie Mob and Witchdoctor - Watch For The Hook
8. Tori Amos - Bliss
9. Nine Inch Nails - We're In This Together
10. Moby - Honey
11. Eminem - My Name Is
12. Sean Paul & Mr. Vegas - Haffi Get Da Gal Yah
13. Goodie Mob - Chain Swang
14. OD Featuring Freestyle Fellowship - Can You Find the Level of Difficulty In This? / OD Featuring Adlib - The Ancient Art of Adlibbing
15. Krust Feat' Saul Williams - Coded Language
16. Armand Van Helden Featuring Duane Harden - U Don't Know Me
17. Kid Rock - Bawitdaba
18. New Radicals - You Get What You Give
19. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
20. Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
 

Spin Albums 2000

1. Your Hard Drive
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
4. D'Angelo - Voodoo
5. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
6. Outkast - Stankonia
7. PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
8. Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
9. Armand Van Helden - Killing Puritans
10. Le Tigre – Le Tigre
11. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
12. Aimee Mann – Magnolia: Music From The Motion Picture
13. Sigur Rσs - Αgζtis Byrjun
14. Capleton - More Fire
15. Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne
16. Mouse On Mars - Niun Nigging
17. Quasimoto - The Unseen
18. Madonna - Music
19. Coldplay – Parachutes
20. U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind

Singles 2000

1. Eminem – The Real Slim Shady
2. Outkast – B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)
3. Destiny’s Child – Say My Name/Jumpin’ Jumpin
4. Rage Against The Machine – Testify/Papa Roach – Last Resort
5. Nelly – Country Grammar (Hot…)
6. Artful Dodger UK – Re-Rewind
7. Deftones – Change (In The House of Flies)
8. Madonna – Music
9. Sisqσ – Thong Song
10. Dynamite Hack – Boyz in the Hood
11. Elton John – Tiny Dancer
12. Common – The Light
13. Britney Spears – Oops!…I Did It Again
14. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication/Matchbox Twenty – Bent
15. Detroit Grand Pubahs – Sandwiches
16. Air – Playground Love
17. Dr. Dre Featuring Eminem – Forgot About Dre
18. The Aztec Mystic – Knights of the Jaguar
19. No Doubt – Ex-Girlfriend
20. Jay-Z – Big Pimpin’

SPIN – Best of 2001

Albums

1. System of a Down – Toxicity

2. Radiohead – Amnesiac

3. Basement Jaxx – Rooty

4. Bob Dylan – Love and Theft

5. Bjφrk – Vespertine

6. Gorillaz – Gorillaz

7. Jay-Z – The Blueprint

8. Daft Punk – Discovery

9. Weezer – Weezer

10. Tori Amos – Strange Little Girls

11. Richie Hawtin – DE9: Closer to the Edit

12. Manu Chao – Proxima Estacion: Esperanza

13. Lucinda Williams – Essence

14. The Coup – Party Music

15. The Dismemberment Plan – Change

16. Tool – Lateralus

17. Macy Gray – The Id

18. The Strokes – Is This It

19. Craig David – Born To Do It

20. Various Artists – American Pie 2: Music From the Motion Picture

 Singles

1. Missy Elliott – Get Ur Freak on

2. Madonna – Don’t Tell Me

3. Daft Punk – Digital Love

4. Nelly – Ride Wit Me

5. Destiny’s Child – Independent Women Part 1

6. Staind – Outside

7. Gorillaz – 19-2000

8. Aaliyah – We Need A Resolution

9. M.O.P. – Ante Up (Robbing-Hoodz Theory)

10. Basement Jaxx – Romeo

11. Stephen Malkmus – Jenny & the Ess-Dog

12. Squarepusher – My Red Hot Car

13. Aerosmith – Jaded

14. Alicia Keys – Fallin’

15. Kelis – Young, Fresh n’ New

16. Weezer – Islands in the Sun

17. Jay-Z – IZZO (H.O.V.A.)

18. Nikka Costa – Like a Feather

19. 17. Nelly Furtado – I’m Like a Bird

20. Blink-182 – The Rock Show

21. D12 – Purple Hills

22. Irving Berlin with Celine Dion, Hillary Clinton and Leann Rhimes – God Bless America

SPIN – Best of 2002

Albums

1. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
2. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. Beck – Sea Change
4. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
5. Eminem – The Eminem Show
6. Weezer - Maladroit
7. Missy Elliott – Under Construction
8. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
9. N.E.R.D. – In Search Of…
10. The Hives – Veni Vidi Vicious
11. Felix Da Housecat – Kittenz and Thee Glitz
12. Sleater-Kinney – One Beat
13. Jay-Z – The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse
14. Bruce Springsteen – The Rising
15. Tori Amos – Scarlet’s Walk
16. The Roots - Phrenology
17. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
18. Scarface – The Fix
19. DJ Shadow – The Private Press
20. Bright Eyes – Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground

Singles

1. Eminem – Cleanin’ Out My Closet
2. Avril Lavigne - Complicated
3. Clipse – Grindin’
4. Jimmy Eat World – The Middle
5. Nirvana – You Know You’re Right
6. Missy Elliott – Work It
7. The White Stripes – Fell In Love With a Girl
8. Nelly – Hot in Here
9. The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers
10. Nappy Roots - Awnaw
11. Angie Stone – Wish I Didn’t Miss You
12. Felix Da Housecat – Silver Screen Shower Scene
13. The Strokes - Someday
14. The Hives – Hate To Say I Told You So
15. The Chemical Brothers – Star Guitar
16. N.E.R.D. – Rock Star
17. Oasis – Stop Crying Your Heart Out
18. LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge
19. Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way
20. The Vines – Get Free

SPIN – Best of 2003

Albums

1. The White Stripes - Elephant
2. OutKast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
3. The Strokes – Room on Fire
4. 50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin’
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
6. Jay-Z – The Black Album
7. Thursday – War All the Time
8. The New Pornographers – Electric Version
9. Missy Elliott – This Is Not a Test
10. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
11. Metallica – St. Anger
12. Dizzee Rascal – Boy in Da Corner
13. Belle and Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress
14. Ted Leo/Pharmacists – Hearts of Oak
15. AFI – Sing the Sorrow
16. Blur – Think Tank
17. Dashboard Confessional – A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar
18. Ryan Adams – Rock N Roll
19. Atmosphere – Seven’s Travels
20. The Libertines – Up the Bracket
21. The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium
22. Pretty Girls Make Graves – The New Romance
23. Ms. Dynamite – A Little Deeper
24. The Rapture – Echoes
25. The Darkness – Permission to Land
26. The Postal Service – Give Up
27. Bubba Sparxxx – Deliverance
28. Drive-By Truckers – Decoration Day
29. Joe Budden – Joe Budden
30. Cat Power – You Are Free
31. Spiritualized – Amazing Grace
32. Kings of Leon – Youth & Young Manhood
33. Lucinda Williams – World Without Tears
34. My Morning Jacket – It Still Moves
35. Brand New- Deja Entendu
36. The Thrills – So Much for the City
37. The Raveonettes – Chain Gang of Love
38. Basement Jaxx – Kish Kash
39. The Jealous Sound – Kill Them With Kindness
40. Electric Six – Fire

Singles

1. 50 Cent – In Da Club
2. Eminem – Lose Yourself
3. The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
4. OutKast – Hey Ya!
5. R. Kelly – Ignition (Remix)
6. Justin Timberlake – Cry Me A River
7. Panjabi MC – Beware of the Boys (Mundian to Bach Ke)
8. Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows
9. Nas – Made You Look
10. The Strokes – 12:51
11. Dizzee Rascal – I Luv U
12. The Donnas – Take It Off
13. Wayne Wonder – No Letting Go
14. AFI – The Leaving Song Pt. II
15. Joe Budden – Pump It Up
16. The Darkness – Growing On Me
17. Electric Six – Danger! High Voltage
18. !!! – Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard (A True Story)
19. T. Raumschmiere – Monstertruckdriver
20. Beyonce Featuring Jay-Z – Crazy In Love
20. Jane’s Addiction – Just Because
 

SPIN – Best of 2004

Albums

1. Kanye West- The College Dropout
2. Green Day – American Idiot
3. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
4. Modest Mouse – Good News for People Who Love Bad News
5. Danger Mouse – The Grey Album
6. Elliott Smith – From a Basement on the Hill
7. The Streets – A Grand Don’t Come for Free
8. Loretta Lynn – Van Lear Rose
9. Interpol – Antics
10. Brian Wilson – Smile
11. Dizzee Rascal – Showtime
12. TV On the Radio – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
13. The Hives – Tyrannosaurus Hives
14. Various Artists – DFA Compilation #2
15. Courtney Love – America’s Sweetheart
16. The Killers – Hot Fuss
17. Madvillain – Madvillainy
18. Prince – Musicology
19. Bjork – Medulla
20. Ted Leo/Pharmacists – Shake the Sheets
21. Jimmy Eat World – Futures
22. Le Tigre – This Island
23. Snow Patrol – Final Straw
24. Morrissey – You are the Quarry
25. The Secret Machines – Now Here is Nowhere
26. Eminem – Encore
27. Tom Waits – Real Gone
28. Various Artists – Kompakt 100
29. U2 – How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
30. The Libertines – The Libertines
31. PJ Harvey – Uh Huh Her
32. The Faint – Wet from Birth
33. Comets on Fire – Blue Cathedral
34. My Chemical Romance – Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
35. Air – Talkie Walkie
36. Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous
37. RJD2 – Since We Last Spoke
38. Wilco – A Ghost is Born
39. Ghostface – The Pretty Toney Album
40. Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender

Singles

1. Green Day – American Idiot
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
3. Kanye West – All Falls Down
4. Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
5. Modest Mouse – Float On
6. The Darkness – I Believe In A Thing Called Love
7. TV on the Radio – Staring at the Sun
8. The Hives – Walk Idiot Walk
9. Akon – Locked Up
10. LCD Soundsystem – Yeah
11. Morrissey – Irish Blood, English Heart
12. Dizzee Rascal – Stand Up Tall
13. Jadakiss feat. Anthony Hamilton – Why
14. Courtney Love – Mono
15. Jay-Z – 99 Problems
16. The Killers – Somebody Told Me
17. Wolf Eyes – Stabbed in the Face
18. Scissor Sisters – Take Your Mama
19. Alicia Keys – If I Ain’t Got You
20. Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl?
 

Spin - Best 0f 2005

Albums

1. Kanye West, Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam)
2. M.I.A., Arular (Interscope)
3. Franz Ferdinand, You Could Have It So Much Better (Domino/Epic)
4. Gorillaz, Demon Days (Virgin)
5. LCD Soundsystem, LCD Soundsystem (DFA/EMI)
6. Bloc Party, Silent Alarm (Vice)
7. The New Pornographers, Twin Cinema (Matador)
8. Sufjan Stevens, Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
9. Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine (Epic/Clean Slate)
10. The Hold Steady, Separation Sunday (French Kiss)
11. Beck, Guero (Interscope)
12. The Mars Volta, Frances the Mute (Strummer/Universal)
13. My Morning Jacket, Z (ATO/RCA)
14. Death Cab for Cutie, Plans (Atlantic)
15. Slim Thug, Already Platinum (Star Trak/Geffen)
16. The Go! Team, Thunder, Lightning, Strike (Memphis Industries/Columbia)
17. Common, Be (Geffen)
18. The White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
19. Kaiser Chiefs, Employment (Universal)
20. System of a Down, Hypnotize (American/Columbia)
21. Bright Eyes, I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Saddle Creek)
22. Various Artists, Run the Road (Vice)
23. The Darkness, One Way Ticket to Hell...and Back (Atlantic)
24. Spoon, Gimme Fiction (Merge)
25. DangerDoom, The Mouse & the Mask (Epitaph)
26. Dungen, Ta Det Lugnt (Kemado)
27. Damian Marley, Welcome to Jamrock (Tuff Gong/Ghetto Youth/Universal)
28. Antony and the Johnsons, I Am a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
29. Nine Inch Nails, With Teeth (Nothing/Interscope)
30. The Decemberists, Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
31. Living Things, Ahead of the Lions (Jive/Zomba)
32. Caps & Jones, Moving in Stereo (Self-released)
33. Amadou & Mariam, Dimanche a Bamako (Nonesuch)
34. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Self-released)
35. Sleater-Kinney, The Woods (Sub Pop)
36. Animal Collective, Feels (Fat Cat)
37. Young Jeezy, Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 (Def Jam)
38. Art Brut, Bang Bang Rock & Roll (Fierce Panda)
39. Wolf Parade, Apologies to the Queen Mary (Sub Pop)
40. Against Me!, Searching for a Former Clarity (Fat Wreck Chords)
 

Spin 10 Best Reissues of 2005 (01/06)

1.The Pye Album Collection (Castle Import) The Kinks
2.One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds, Lost & Found (Rhino) Various Artists
3.Fillmore West 1969 (Rhino) Grateful Dead
4.No Direction Home (Columbia/Legacy) Bob Dylan
5.Run-D.M.C., King of Rock, Raising Hell, Tougher Than Leather (Profile/Legacy/Arista) Run-D.M.C.
6.Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) Ray Charles
7.Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables: The Special 25th Anniversary Edition CD + DVD (Manifesto) Dead Kennedys
8.World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love’s a Real Thing (Luaka) Various Artists
9.Duchess of Coolsville (Rhino) Rickie Lee Jones
10.Penitentiary Blues (Shout! Factory/Hacktone) David Allan Coe


Spin 20 Best Singles of 2005 (01/06)

1.Feel Good Inc. – Gorillaz
2.Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down – Fall Out Boy
3.1 Thing – Amerie
4.Still Trippin’ – Mike Jones feat. Slim Thug and Paul Wall
5.Gold Digger – Kanye West
6.George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People – The Legendary KO
7.Since U Been Gone- Kelly Clarkson
8.Welcome to Jamrock – Damian Marley
9.Do You Want To – Franz Ferdinand
10.Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani
11.Mr. Brightside – The Killers
12.Gasolina – Daddy Yankee
13.Lose Control – Missy Elliott feat. Ciara and Fat Man Scoop
14.Helena – My Chemical Romance
15.Formed a Band – Art Brut
16.There It Go! (The Whistle Song) – Juelz Santana
17.The Importance of Being Idle – Oasis
18.Random – Lady Sovereign
19.Banquet – Bloc Party
20.Wake Me Up When September Ends – Green Day

Many thanks to Omar Franco for the 05 Lists

Spin End of year lists 2006

Albums

1. TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
2. Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere
3. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
4. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
5. My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
6. Joanna Newsom - Ys
7. Cat Power - Greatest
8. My Morning Jacket - Okonokos
9. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
10. Beck - Information
11. Decemberists - Crane Wife
12. Hot Chip - Warning
13. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
14. TI - King
15. Lady Sovereign - Public Warning
16. Editors - Back Room
17. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
18. Streets - Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living
19. Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
20. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
21. Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
22. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
23. Roots - Game Theory
24. Pernice Brothers - Live a Little
25. OutKast - Idlewild
26. Boris - Pink
27. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
28. Thom Yorke - Eraser
29. Tapes ‘N Tapes - The Loon
30. Dears - Gang of Losers
31. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
32. Fags - Light ‘Em Up
33. Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love
34. Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
35. J Dilla - The Shining
36. Bronx - Bronx
37. Wolfmother - Wolfmothe
38. M Ward - Post-War
39. Thermals - The Body, the Blood, the Machine
40. Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards

Singles

1.Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
2.Killers - When You Were Young
3.Christina Aguilera - Ain’t No Other Man
4.My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
5.TV On the Radio - Wolf Like Me
6.Rick Ross - Hustlin’
7.Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone - Ridin’
8.Raconteurs - Steady as She Goes
9.Lily Allen - Smile
10.Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rise Up With Fists!!
11.Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push
12.Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
13.Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cheated Hearts
14.Turbulence - Notorious
15.Scissor Sisters - I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’
16.Pack - Vans
17.Band of Horses - Funeral
18.Knife - Silent Shout
19.Guillemots - Trains to Brazil
20.Boy Least Likely To - Be Gentle with Me


 

Spin End of Year Album List: 2007

1. Against Me! - New Wave
2. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
3. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
4. kanYe West - Graduation
5. MIA - Kala
6. Radiohead - In Rainbows
7. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
8. Jay-Z - American Gangster
9. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
10. White Stripes - Icky Thump
11. Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3
12. Prince - Planet Earth
13. Hives - Black & White Album
14. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
15. Justice - †
16. Lily Allen - Alright, Still
17. National - Boxer
18. Feist - Reminder
19. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
20. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
21. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
22. Elliott Smith - New Moon
23. Peter, Bjorn & John - Writer’s Block
24. Shins - Wincing the Night Away
25. Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
26. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
27. Band of Horses - Cease To Begin
28. Iron & Wine - Shepherd’s Dog
29. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
30. Brother Ali - Undisputed Truth
31. Handsome Furs - Plague Park
32. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
33. Wildhearts - Wildhearts
34. Bat for Lashes - Fur & Gold
35. Say Anything - In Defense of the Genre
36. Bonde do Rolκ - With Lasers
37. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Living with the Living
38. Dizzee Rascal - Maths & English
39. Turbonegro - Retox
40. Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight