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Rough Trade Shops - Best Of 1997

Top 100 based on staff choice and customer choice (ie sales...)




1. Cornershop When I Was Born For The 7th Time
2. Perry, Lee Arkology
3. White, Jim Wrong Eyed Jesus!
4. Thievery Corporation Sounds From The Thievery Hi Fi
5. Size, Roni New Forms
6. King, The & The Questionaires Gravelands
7. Songs : Ohia S/T
8. Maurizio S/T Best Of The 12's
9. V/A Super Discount
10. Buena Vista Social Club Ry Cooder, Ruben Gonzales, Compay Segundo Etc
11. V/A Blaxploitation Volume 3
12. Wyatt, Robert Shleep
13. To Rococo Rot S/T
14. O'rourke, Jim Bad Timing
15. Stereolab Dots & Loops
16. Mogwai Young Team
17. Quaye, Finley Maverick A Strike
18. Sleater Kinney Dig Me Out
19. Dim Dim Nectarine
20. Land Of Loops Bundle Of Joy
21. Spiritualized Ladies & Gentlemen
22. Cave, Nick The Boatman's Call
23. Earle, Steve El Corazon
24. Holmes, David Let's Get Killed
25. Photek Modus Operandi
26. Sukia Contacto Espacial
27. Can Sacrilege
28. Coldcut Let Us Play
29. Daft Punk Homework
30. Die Veteranen & Stock , Hausen & Walkman Venetian Deer
31. Dummy Run (Stockhausen & Walkman) Ice Cream Headache
32. Kreidler Weekend
33. Major Force The Original Artform
34. Sukpatch Haulin Grass And Smokin Ass
35. Tindersticks Curtains
36. V/A 21st Century Soul
37. Verve Urban Hymns
38. Volume All Star Close Encounters
39. Wu Tang Clan Wu Tang Forever
40. Son Volt Straightaways
41. The Donnas S/T
42. Comet Gain Magnetic Poetry
43. Matmos S/T
44. Lambchop Thriller
45. Yo La Tengo I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
46. Mouse On Mars Autoditacker
47. X Anthology
48. Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole
49. Dj Krush Mylight
50. Folk Implosion Dare To Be Surprised
51. Harris, Ravi Funky Sitar Man
52. I Cube Picnic Attack
53. Microstoria Reprovisers Remixes
54. Portishead 2nd Album
55. Primal Scream Echo Dek (Onu Remixes)
56. Prodigy The Fat Of The Land
57. Radiohead Ok Computer
58. V/A Earth Vol 2 Bukem Presents Second Box Set
59. V/A Logical Progression Volume 2 - Blame Presents
60. Liquid Liquid S/T
61. Broadcast Work & Non Work
62. Me First & The Gimme Gimme's Have A Ball
63. Prolapse Italian Flag
64. Conet Project Recordings Of Shortwave Numbers Stations
65. Replacements All For Nothing
66. Mills, Jeff The Other Day
67. Slater, Luke Free Funk
68. V/A Smithsonian Folkways Anthology
69. Attica Blues S/T
70. Ballistic Brothers Rude System
71. Bentley Rhythm Ace S/T
72. Boymerang Balance Of The Force
73. France, Laila Orgonon
74. Freakwater Dancing Under Water
75. Heard, Larry Dance 2000
76. Howie B Turn The Dark Off
77. Oblivians Play 9 Songs With Mr. Quintron
78. Oldham, Will (Palace) Joya
79. Palace Music Lost Blues And Other Songs
80. Pixies Death To The Pixies
81. Primal Scream Vanishing Point
82. Silver Apples Official Double Release
83. Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy
84. Tosca Opera
85. Tosca Fuck Dub
86. Turn On Turn On
87. V/A Brassic Beats 2
88. V/A Dubmission - The Remixes
89. V/A Hip Hop Don't Stop Vol 2
90. Isotope 217 The Unstable Molecule
91. Toulouse The Way The City Stretches
92. V/A Songs For The Jet Set
93. Yabby You Jesus Dread
94. Apples In Stereo Tone Soul Evolution
95. Hazlewood, Lee Love & Other Crimes
96. Less Than Jake Losing Streak
97. Mccarthy It's All Very Well
98. Bis New Transistor Heros
99. Hydroplane S/T
100. Juicy Eureka Thinking Things Up....

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Rough Trade Shops - Best Of 2009

1. The Xx – The Xx
2. The Low Anthem – Oh My Gog, Charlie Darwin
3. The Horrors – Primary Colours
4. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
5. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
6. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
7. The Leisure Society - The Sleeper And The Product Of The Ego Drain
8. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
9. Forest Fire – Survival
10. The Very Best - Warm Heart Of Africa
11. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
13. Atlas Sound - Logos
14. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
15. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
16. White Denim - Fits
17. Jonsi And Alex - Riceboy Sleeps
18. Terry Lynn - Kingstonlogic 2.0
19. The Boy Least Likely To - The Law Of The Playground
20. Emmy The Great - First Love
21. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
22. Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come
23. Wild Beasts - 2 Dancers
24. Portico Quartet - Isla
25. Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do
26. Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
27. Florence And The Machine - Lungs
28. Girls - Album
29. Alela Diane - To Be Still
30. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
31. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
32. Taken By Trees - East Of Eden
33. Mos Def - The Ecstatic
34. Shitty Limits - Beware The Limits
35. Dead Mans Bones - Dead Man's Bones
36. Fanfarlo - Reservoir
37. Lindstrom And Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool
38. Kid Congo And The Pink Monkey Birds - Dracula Boots
39. Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love
40. Mumford And Sons - Sigh No More
41. A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
42. Young Republic - Balletesque
43. Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
44. Cate Le Bon - Me Oh My
45. Jarvis - Further Complications
46. Mummers - Tale To Tell
47. The Smith Westerns - The Smith Westerns
48. Ganglians - Monster Head Room
49. Irrepressibles - From The Circus..... To The Sea
50. Telepathe - Dance Mother
51. Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love
52. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
53. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
54. Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
55. Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
56. She Keeps Bees - Nests
57. Soulsavers - Broken
58. Let's Wrestle - In The Court Of The Wrestling Lets
59. Japandroids - Post Nothing
60. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Angel