Les Inrockuptibles End of Year Lists 1992
Albums (Alphabetical Order )
• Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months, 2 Days In The Life Of...
• Peter Astor - Paradise
• Boo Radleys - Everything's Alright Forever
• John Cale - Fragments Of A Rainy Season
• Nick Cave - Henry's Dream
• The Chills - Soft Bomb
• Leonard Cohen - The Future
• John Cunningham - Shankly Gates
• DC Basehead - Play With Toys
• The Frank & Walters - Trains, Boats And Planes
• P.J. Harvey - Dry
• Brenda Kahn - Epiphany In Brooklyn
• Moose - ...XYZ
• The Nits - Ting
• Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
• REM - Automatic For The People
• Ride - Going Blank Again
• Sonic Youth - Dirty
• Television - Television
• Suzanne Vega - 99.9 F
• Neil Young - Harvest Moon
The Reserve...
• Brian - Understand
• Cerebral Corps - Attributed To...
• Denim - Back In Denim
• Dominique A - La Fossette
• Bob Dylan - Good As I Been To You
• Epic Soundtracks - Rise Above
• Fabulous Trobadors - Era Pas De Faire
• The House Of Love - Babe Rainbow
• David Kilgour - Here Come The Cars
• Me Phi Me - One
• Pale Saints - In Ribbons
• Pulp - Separations
• Red House Painters - Down Colourful Hill
• St Christopher - Man I Could Scream
• Bettie Serveert - Palomine
• Sugar - Copper Blue
• Tom Verlaine - Warm & Cool
• Vulgar Boatmen - Please Panic
• XTC - Nonsuch
• Yo La Tengo - May I Sing With Me
Skip
To TopLes Inrockuptibles End of Year Lists 1993
Albums
1. Divine Comedy - Liberation
2. Palace Brothers - There's No One That Will Take Care Of You
3. Trash Can Sinatras - I've Seen Everything
4. Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
5. Ashtray Boy - The Honeymoon Suite
6. The Goats - Tricks Of The Shade
7. Dominique A - Si Je Connais Harry
8. Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
9. Pascal Comelade - Traffic D'abstraction
10. Moose - Honey Bee
11. Murat - Venus
12. Al Green - Don't Look Back
13. Bjork - Debut
14. Sugar - Beaster
15. Red House Painters - Red Hose Painters - 1
16. Paul Quinn - The Phantoms Of The Archetypes
17. The Auteurs - New Wave
18. Silvain Vanot - Sylvain Vanot
19. The Apartments - Drift
20. Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
21. Tindersticks - Tindersticks
22. American Music Club - Mercury
23. East River Pipe - Goodbye California
24. Geoffrey Oryema - Beat The Border
25. Nirvana - In Utero
26. Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
27. The Lemonheads - Come On Feel
28. James - Laid
29. De La Soul - Bulhoone Mind State
30. Yo La Tengo - Painful
31. US 3 - Hand On The Torch
32. Grant Mc Lennan - Fireboy
33. Jean Francois Coen - Jean Francois Coen
34. Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
35. Pooka - Pooka
36. Frank Black - Frank Black
37. Stuart Moxham - Random Rules
38. The Walkabouts - Satisfied Mind
39. A Tribe Call Quest - Midnight Marauders
1993 Les Inrocks Readers Albums
1. Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
2. The Auteurs - New Wave
3. Divine Comedy - Liberation
4. Tindersticks - Tindersticks
5. The Breeders - Last Plash
6. James - Laid
7. The Apartments - Drift
8. Bjork - Debut
9. Suede - Suede
10. New Order - Republic
11. Moose - Honey Bee
12. Sugar - Beaster
13. Frank Black - Frank Black
14. Belly - Star
15. Dominique A - Si Je Connais Harry
16. Sylvain Vanot - Sylvain Vanot
17. The Posies - Frosting On The Beater
18. Trash Can Sinatras - I've Seen Everything
19. Dead Can Dance - Into The Labyrinth
20. The Lemonheads - Come On Feel
Skip
To TopLes Inrockuptibles End of Year Lists 1994
Albums
1. Beck - Mellow Gold
2. Ben Harper - Welcome To The Cruel World
3. Jean Bart - Il Le Faut
4. Warren G - Regulate... G Funk Era
5. Daniel Johnston - Fun
6. Beck - One Foot In The Grave
7. Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels
8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In
9. Morrissey - Vauxhall & I
10. Swell - 41
11. Beastie Boys - III Communication
12. Snoop Doggy Dog - Doggystyle
13. Liz Phair - Whip Smart
14. Jeff Buckley - Grace
15. The Divine Comedy - Promenade
16. Urban Species - Listen
17. Johnny Cash - American Recordings
18. Pavement - Crooked Rain
19. Grant Lee Buffalo - Mighty Joe Moon
20. Portishead - Dummy
21. Vic Chesnutt - Drunk
22. Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star
23. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
24. Palace Brothers - Palace Brothers
25. Lambchop - Jack's Tulips
1994 Les Inrocks Singles
1. Beck - Loser
2. Oasis - Supersonic
3. Neil Young - Philadelphia
4. Morrissey & Siouxsie - Interlude
5. Lambchop - Soaky In The Pooper
6. Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
7. The Beastie Boys - Sabotage
8. Blur - Girls & Boys
9. Stone Roses - Love Spreads
10. Catchers - Shifting Ep
11. Oasis - Whatever I
12. Pavement - Cut Your Hair
13. Portishead - Numb
14. Public Enemy - Give It Up
15. The Sandals - Nothing
16. Compulsion - Mall Monarchy
17. Beck - It's All In Your Mind
18. Deus - Sods & Sodas
19. Elastica - Connection
20. Gene - For The Dead
21. Kristin Hersh - Your Ghost
22. Sebadoh - Careful
23. Plush - Found A Little Baby
24. Shed Seven - Mark
25. Veruca Salt - Seether
26. Ash - Petrol
27. Weezer - Undone The Sweeter Song
28. Palace Brothers - An Arrow Through The Bitch
29. Pulp - Do You Remember The First Time
1994 Les Inrocks Readers Albums
1. Jeff Buckley - Grace
2. Morrissey - Vauxhall And I
3. Portishead - Dummy
4. Frank Black - Teenage Of The Year
5. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
6. Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set ...
7. Pulp - His'n'hers
8. Divine Comedy - Promenade
9. Suede - Dog Man Star
10. Swell - 41
11. Blur - Parklife
12. Catchers - Mute
13. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
14. Shed Seven - Change Giver
15. Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels
16. Hole - Live Through This
17. Sebadoh - Bakesale
18. Pavement - Crooked Rain
19. Ride - Carnival Of Light
20. Bashung - Chatterton
1994 Les Inrocks Readers Singles
1. Beck - Loser
2. Oasis - Supersonic
3. Elastica - Connection
4. Blur - Girls & Boys
5. Shed Seven - Mark
6. Morrissey & Siouxsie - Interlude
7. Tindersticks - Kathleen
8. Morrissey - The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get
9. Oasis - Live Forever
10. Veruca Salt - Seether
Skip
To TopLes Inrockuptibles End of Year Lists 1995
Albums (Alphabetical Order )
The Necessary 25 Albums
• Akhenaton - Metheque Et Mat
• Baby Bird - I Was Born A Man, Bad Shave & Fatherhood
• Bjork - Post
• Blur - The Great Escape
• Boo Radleys - Wake Up
• Cardinal - Cardinal
• Vic Chesnutt - Is The Actor Happy ?
• Lloyd Cole - Love Story
• Cypress Hill - III Temple Of Boom
• Dominique A - La Memoire Neuve
• Earthling - Radar
• Gene - Olympian
• PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
• Miossec - Boire
• Money Mark - Mark's Keyboard Repair
• Oasis - ( What's The Story Morning Glory )
• Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return To The 36 Chambers
• Palace Music - Viva Last Blues
• Pulp - Different Class
• Radiohead - The Bends
• Ron Sexmith - Ron Sexmith
• Spain - The Blue Moods Of Spain
• Supergrass - I Should Coco
• Tarnation - Gentle Creatures
• Tricky - Maxinquaye
The Reserve...
• Air Miami - Me, Me, Me
• The Apartments - A Life Full Of Farewells
• Ballistics Brothers - London Hooligan Soul
• Jean Bart - Fin Et Suite
• David Bowie - Outside
• Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
• Julian Cope - 20 Mothers
• Delicatessen - Skin Touching Water
• Elastica - Elastica
• Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
• Garbage - Garbage
• Gorky's Zigotic Mynci - Bwyd Time
• Ben Lee - Grandpaw Would
• Letfield - Leftism
• Eric Matthews - It's Heavy In Here
• Moose - Live A Little, Love A Lot
• Passengers - Original Soundtracks Vol. 1
• Red House Painters - Ocean Beach
• Smog - Wild Love
• Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
• Bruce Springsteen - The Gost Of Tom Joad
• Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
• Tindersticks - The Second Tindersticks Album
• Scott Walker - Tilt
1995 Les Inrocks Singles
1. Ruby - Paraffin
2. Clubbed To Death - Compact Disc Experience
3. Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow
4. Garbage - Vow
5. Goldie - Inner City Life
6. Fila Brazillia - A Zed & Two I's
7. Foo Fighters - This Is A Call
8. Sloy - Pop
9. Weezer - Buddy Holly
10. High Llamas - Checking In Checking Out
11. The President Of The USA - Lump
12. Stephen Duffy - London Girls
13. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Experimental Remixes
14. The Apartments - The Things You'll Keep
15. Eva Luna - Ghost Of You
16. Ecstatic Orange - World Keep Spinning
17. Cast - Fine Time
18. Elastica - Waking Up
19. Morrissey - Boxers
20. Mc Almont & Butler - Yes
21. Delicatessen - CF Kane
22. Salad - Drink The Elixir
23. Cardigans - Carnival
24. Tindersticks - No More Affairs
25. Menswear - I'll Manage Somehow
1995 Les Inrocks Readers Albums
1. P.J. Harvey - To Bring You My Love
2. Miossec - Boire
3. Tindersticks - The Second Album
4. Dominique A - La Mmoire Neuve
5. Bjork - Post
6. Supergrass - I Should Coco
7. Tricky - Maxinquaye
8. Palace - Viva Last Blues
9. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory ?
10. Spain - The Blue Moods Of Spain
11. The Apartments - A Life Full Of Farewell
12. Pulp - Different Class
13. Blur - The Great Escape
14. Echobelly - On
15. Ben Harper - Fight For Your Mind
16. Boo Radleys - Wake Up
17. Cast - All Change
18. Earthling - Radar
19. Natacha Atlas - Diaspora
20. David Bowie - Outside
21. Garbage - Garbage
22. Radiohead - The Bends
23. Ron Sexmith - Ron Sexmith
24. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And...
25. Vic Chesnutt - Is The Actor Happy ?
1995 Les Inrocks Readers Singles
1. Pulp - Common People
2. Oasis - Wonderwall
3. Garbage - Vow
4. Supergrass - Allright
5. Dominique A - 22 Bar
6. Tricky - Black Steel
7. PJ Harvey - Down By The Water
8. Bjork - Army Of Me
9. Presidents Of The USA - Lump
10. Morrissey - Boxers
11. Blur - County House
12. Bjork - Isobel
13. Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet
14. Tindersticks - No More Affairs
15. Supergrass - Mansize Rooster
16. Supergrass - Caught By Fuzz
17. N Cave & The Bad Seeds - Where The Wild Roses Grow
18. Ruby - Paraffin
19. Boo Radleys - Wake Up !
Skip
To TopLes Inrockuptibles End of Year Lists 1996
Albums (Alphabetical Order )
The Necessary 10 Albums
• Beck - Odelay
• Deus - In A Bar, Under The Sea
• Diabologum - 3
• The Divine Comedy - Casanova
• DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
• Eels - Beautiful Freak
• Papas Fritas - Papas Fritas
• Placebo - Placebo
• Morcheeba - Who Can You Trust?
• Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension
The Reserve...
• Aphex Twins - Richard D. James LP
• Fiona Apple - Tidal
• Joseph Arthur - Big City Secrets
• Baby Bird - Ugly Beautiful
• Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
• Billy Bragg - William Bloke
• Cat Power - What Would The Community Think
• Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
• Richard Davies - There's Never Been A Crowd Like This
• Donovan - Sutras
• Dr Octagon - The Ecologyst
• Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining
• Everything But The Girl - Walking Wounded
• Fun Lovin Criminals - Come Find Yourself
• Lisa Germano - Exepts From A Love Circus
• Grant Lee Buffalo - Copperopolis
• Jeru The Damaja - Wrath Of The Math
• Katerine - Mes Mauvaises Frequentations
• Labradford - Labradford
• The Lemonheads - Car Button Cloth
• Luscious Jackson - Fever In Fever Out
• Maria Mc Kee - Life Is Sweet
• The Married Monk - The Jim Side
• Mazzy Star - Among My Swan
• Murat - Dolores
• Nearly God - Nearly God
• Peter Perrett - Woke Up Sticky
• Jonny Polonsky - Hi My Name Is Jonny
• The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle
• Beth Orthon - Trailer Park
• Out Of My Hair - Drop The Roof
• Radar Bros - Radar Bros
• The Rentals - Return Of The Rentals
• Scud Mountain Boys - Massachussetts
• Silver Jews - The Natural Bridge
• Patti Smith - Gone Again
• Sparkehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
• Suede - Coming Up
• Underworld - Second Toughest Of The Infants
• Suzanne Vega - Nine Objects Of Desire
1996 Les Inrocks Singles (Alphabetical Order )
• Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy
• Archive - So Few Words
• Baby Bird - You're Gorgeous
• Beck - Devil's Haircut
• Mathieu Boogaerts - Ondule
• Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah
• Butthole Surfers - Pepper
• Cat Power - Nude As The News
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Henry Lee
• The Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun
• Cibo Matto - Know Your Children
• Daft Punk - Da Funk
• Diabologum - A Decouvrir Absolument
• Dr Octagon - Blue Flowers
• Elysian Fields - Star
• Everything But The Girl - Wrong
• The Folk Implosion - Natural One
• Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks
• Garageland - Fingerpops
• Gorky's Zigotic Mincy - Lucy's Hamper
• Guided By Voices - The Official Ironmen Rallysong
• Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life
• Mazzy Star - Flowers Of December
• Monk & Canatella - I Can Water My Plants
• Movietone - Useless Landscape
• Nada Surf - Popular
• Noir Desir - Un Jour En France
• Number One Cup - Dive Bomb
• Orbital - The Box
• The Pharcyde - Runnin'
• Photek - The Hidden Camera
• Placebo - Teenage Angst
• Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside A Broken Telephone
• Prodigy - Firestarter
• Rogey Quigley - A Kind Of Loving
• The Rentals - Friends Of P
• The Saturnines - Caves
• 16 Horsepower - Haw
• Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
• Smog - Kicking A Couple Around
• Space - Female Of The Species
• Spice Girls - Wannabe
• Suede - Trash
• Underworld - Born Slippy
• Weezer - El Scorcho
1996 Les Inrocks Readers Albums
1. Eels - Beautifuls Freak
2. Beck - Odelay
3. Placebo - Placebo
4. The Divine Comedy - Casanova
5. Suede - Coming Up
6. Cat Power - What Would The Community Think
7. Noir Desir - 666.667 Club
8. Diabologum - 3
9. Deus - In A Bar, Under The Sea
10. Jean Louis Murat - Dolores
11. Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension
12. Mazzy Star - Among My Swan
13. Nick Cave Ansd The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
14. Guideg By Voices - Under The Bushes, Under The Stars
15. Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
16. Trash Can Sinatras - A Happy Pocket
17. Baby Bird - Ugly Beautiful
18. Boo Radleys - C'mon Kids
19. Morcheeba - Who Can You Trust ?
20. Bim Sherman - Miracle
1996 Les Inrocks Readers Singles
1. Nada Surf - Popular
2. Eels - Novocaine For Your Soul
3. Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks
4. Suede - Trash
5. Placebo - 36 Degrees
6. Cat Power - Nude As The News
7. Beck - Devil's Haircut
8. Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
9. Divine Comedy - Something For The Weekend
10. Underworld - Born Slippy
Skip
To TopLes Inrockuptibles End of Year Lists 1997
Albums (Alphabetical Order)
The 10 Best Albums
• Alpha - Come From Heaven
• Björk - Homogenic
• Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
• Craig Armstrong - The Space Between Us
• Jay-Jay Johanson - Whiskey
• Portishead - Portishead
• Radiohead - OK Computer
• Swell - Too Many Days Without Thinking
• Tranquility Bass - Let The Freak Flag Fly
• The Verve - Urban Hymns
• The Others - The Others
• The Apartments - Apart
• Archive - Londinium
• Bentley Rhythm Ace - BRA
• Françoiz Breut - Françoiz Breut
• David Byrne - Feelings
• Nick Cave - The Boatman's Call
• The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
• Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7th Time
• Death In Vegas - Dead Elvis
• Echo & The Bunnymen - Evergreen
• Forest For The Trees - Forest For The Trees
• Grandaddy - The Western Freeway
• Gus Gus - Polydistorsion
• Michael Head - The Magical World Of The Strands
• Lauren Hoffman - Meggiddo
• IAM - L'école Du Micro D'argent
• Jonathan Fire Eater - Wolf Songs For Lambs
• Kid Loco - A Grand Love Story
• Labradford - Mi Media Naranja
• Miossec - Baiser
• Mogwai - Young Team
• Monk & Canatella - Care In The Community
• Mouse On Mars - Autoditacker
• OP8 - Slush
• Pavement - Brighten The Corners
• Photek - Modus Operandi
• Primal Scream - Vanishing Point
• Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
• Rakim - The 18th Letter
• Ronisize/Reprazent - New Forms
• Elliot Smith - Either/Or
• Smog - Red Apple Falls
• Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space
• Thievery Corporation - Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi
• Tindersticks - Curtains
• Ulan Bator - Végétale
• Silvain Vanot - Egérie
• Jim White - Wrong-Eyed Jesus!
• Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
• Robert Wyatt - Shleep
1997 Critics Singles (Alphabetical Order )
• Air - Le Soleil Est Près De Toi
• All Saints - Never Ever
• Alpha - Sometime Later
• Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
• Julien Baer - Le Monde S'écroule
• Beck - Devil's Haircut
• Belle & Sebastian - Dog On Wheels/3.6.9 Seconds Of Light
• Ben Folds Five - The Battle Of Who Could Care Less
• Cornershop - Good Shit
• Cake - Frank Sinatra
• Catch - Bingo
• Cuba - Havana
• Daft Punk - Around The World
• Depeche Mode - Home
• DJ Shadow - High Noon
• Dumb Angel - Make A Sound
• Eels - Rags To Rags
• Embrace - All You Good Good People
• Fatboy Slim - Everybody Needs A 303
• Folk Implosion - Pole Position
• Fountains Of Wayne - Sink To The Bottom
• Fugu - F24
• Invisible Pair Of Hands - La Balançoire
• Janet Jackson - Got'til It's Gone
• Leila - Don't Fall Asleep
• Lo-Fidelity All Stars - Disco Machine Gun
• Luscious Jackson - Naked Eyed
• Massive Attack - Risingson
• Mono - Life In Mono
• Plaid - Undoneson
• Plush - No Education
• Pressure Drop - My Friend
• Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up EP
• Propellerheads - Take California
• Finley Quaye - Even After All
• Radar Bros - Stay
• Radiohead - Paranoid Android
• Rialto - Untouchable
• Scott 4 - Scott 4
• Squarebusher - 30 Big Loada
• Symposium - The Answer To Why I Hate You
• Jimi Tenor - Can't Stay With You Baby
• Transparent Things - Car
• Tricky - Makes Me Wanna Die
• U2 - Staring At The Sun
• Velocette - Get Yourself Together
• Velvia - Genial
• The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
• The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
• Wannadies - Hit
• Wiseguys - Casino
1997 Reader's Albums
• Radiohead - OK Computer
• Portishead - Portishead
• Björk - Homogenic
• Belle And Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
• Jay-Jay Johanson - Whiskey
• Miossec - Baiser
• Swell - Too Many Days Without Thinking
• The Verve - Urban Hymns
• IAM - L'école Du Micro D'argent
• Ben Harper - The Will To Live
1997 Readers Singles
• The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
• Radiohead - Paranoid Android
• The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
• Björk - Joga
• Radiohead - Karma Police
• Finley Quaye - Sunday Shining
• Monaco - What Do You Want From Me ?
• Cake - I Will Survive
• Miossec - La Fidélité
• Prodigy - Breathe
Skip
To TopLes Inrockuptibles End of Year Lists 1998
Albums (Critics)
• Mercury Rev - Deserter's Song
• Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
• Beck - Mutations
• Massive Attack - Mezzanine
• The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme
• Leila - Like Weather
• R.E.M. - Up
• Manu Chao - Clandestino
• Elliot Smith - XO
• Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
• Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
• The Third Eye Foundation - You Guys Kill Me
• Portishead - Live Roseland NYC
• Black Box Recorder - England Made Me
• Jurassic 5 - J5
• Tue-Loup - La Bancale
• Roudoudou - Tout L'univers ( Listerner's Digest )
• Cornelius - Fantasma
• Alain Bashung - Fantaisie Militaire
• P.J. Harvey - Is This Desire ?
• Stephen Duffy - I Love My Friends
• Morcheeba - Big Calm
• Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
• Sunhouse - Crazy On The Week End
• Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K & D Sessions
• Garbage - Version 2.0
• Bran Van 3000 - Glee
• The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
• Air - Moon Safari
• Boo Radleys - Kingsize
• Cat Power - Moon Pix
• Perry Blake - Perry Blake
• Tarwater - Silur
• Freestylers - We Rock Hard
• Lo-Fidelity Allstars - How To Operate With A Blown Mind
• Pulp - This Is Hardcore
• Tortoise - TNT
• Calexico - The Black Light
• Jeff Buckley - Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk
• The Beta Band - 3 Ep's
• The Dandy Wharhols - Come Down
• Drugstore - White Magic For Lovers
• Miossec - A Prendre
• Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
• Johnny Dowd - West Of Memphis
• U.N.K.L.E - Psyence Fiction
• Talvin Singh - OK
• Rae & Christian - Northers Sulphuric Soul
• The Little Rabbits - Yeah !
• Cosmo Vitelli - Vidéo
50 Singles Of 1998
• Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank
• Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In L.A.
• Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
• Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha ( Norman Cook Remix )
• Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyards
• Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
• Little Rabbits - La Piscine
• Wagon Christ - Rendleshack
• Cosmo Vitelli - We Don't Need No Smurf Here
• Air - Kelly Watch The Star
• Czerkinsky - Natacha
• Drugstore - El President
• Pulp - This Is Hardcore
• Lionrock - Rude Boy Rock
• Freestylers - Ruffneck
• Tarwater - The Watersample
• A.D.O.R. - Let It All Hang Out
• Madonna - Frozen
• Fun Lovin' Criminals - Love Unlimited
• Money Mark - Hand In Your Head
• Terry Callier - Love The From Spartacus
• Tricky & P.J. Harvey - Broken Homes
• Belle & Sebastian - This Is Just A Modern Rock Song
• Beta Band - The Patty Patty Sound
• Black Star - Definition
• Lauryn Hill - Doo Wap ( That Thing )
• Rinocerose - Le Mobilier
• Roudoudou - Peace & Tranquility To Earth
• Mellow - Mellow
• Deejay Punk-Roc - Dead Husband
• The Divine Comedy - Generation Sex
• Hole - Malibu
• Kreidler - Au Pair
• Bjork - Hunter
• Sofa Surfers - The Plan
• Morcheeba - Let Me See
• Seafood - Porchlight
• Les Rythmes Digitales - Music Makes You Lost Control
• Sebadoh - Flame
• Wiseguys - Ooh La La
• Skinny - Failure
• Badly Drawn Boy - I Need A Sign
• Regular Fries - Dust It, Don't Bust It
• Lo-Fidelity Allstars - Vision Incision
• Baby Bird - Bad Old Man
• Volume All* Star - Alpo Boy
• Six By Seven - 88-92-96
• Bedlam Ago Go - Season No 5
• Red Snapper - The Sleepless
• Velocette - Spoiled Children
Readers Selections -
Rock Album
• Massive Attack - Mezzanine
• Elliot Smith - XO
• Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
• REM - Up
• PJ Harvey - Is This Desire ?
• Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
• Alain Bashung - Fantaisie Militaire
• Yann Tiersen - Le Phare
• Pulp - This Is Hardcore
• Manu Chao - Clandestino
Single
• Pulp - This Is Hardcore
• Placebo - Pure Morning
• Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank
• The Devine Comedy - Generation Sex
• Drugstore - El President
• Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
• The Little Rabbits - La Piscine
• Mercury Rev - Goddess On A Highway
• Czerkinsky - Natacha
• The Smashing Pumpkins - Ava Adore
World Album
• Manu Chao - Clandestino
• Rachid Taha - Diwan
• Amadou & Mariam - Sou Ni Tilé
• Lhasa - La Llorona
• Caetano Veloso - Livro
French Album
• Alain Bashung - Fantaisie Militaire
• Miossec - A Prendre
• Gérard Manset - Jadis & Naguére
• Brel - Aux Suivants
• Tetes Raides - Chamboultou
Jazz Album
• Brad Mehldau - Songs
• John Lurie - Queen Of All Ears
• John Coltrane - The Classic Quartet
• Thelonious Monk - Monk Alone
• Lisa Ekdhal - Back To Earth
Skip
To TopLes Inrockuptibles End of Year Lists 1999
Albums (Critics)
1. Beck - Midnight Vultures
2. Moby - Play
3. Death In Vegas - The Continos Sessions
4. Jean Louis Murat - Mustango
5. The Folk Implosion - One Part Lullaby
6. Jude - No One Is Really Beautiful
7. Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
8. Hansome Boy Modeling School - So ... How's Your Girl
9. Katerine - Les Creatures & L'homme À Trois Mains
10. Smog - Knock Knock
11. Quannum - Spectrum
12. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
13. Brendan Perry - Eye Of The Hunter
14. Pavement - Terror Twilight
15. Bosco - Paramour
16. Basement Jaxx - Remedy
17. Beth Orton - Central Reservation
18. Archive - Take My Head
19. Merz - Merz
20. Alex Gopher - You My Baby And I
21. Saian Supa Crew - KLR
22. The Roots - Things Fall Apart
23. 1000 Clowns - Freelance Bubblehead
24. Mr Oizo - Analog Worms Attack
25. Faultline - Closer Colder
26. Dominique A - Remué
27. Fiona Apple - When The Pawn...
28. Deus - The Ideal Crash
29. The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
30. Muse - Showbiz
31. "Rinoçérose" - Installation Sonore
32. Stina Nordenstam - People Are Strange
33. Gomez - Liquid Skin
34. Chocolate Genius - Black Music
35. Les Negresses Vertes - Trabendo
36. Les Rhytmes Digitales - Darkdancer
37. Ben Christophers - My Beautiful Demon
38. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
39. Bob Marley - Chant Down Babylon
40. Ron Sexmith - Whereabouts
41. Kevin Rowland - My Beauty
42. Baby Namboos - Ancoats 2 Zambia
43. Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork
44. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme +
45. Super Collider - Head On
46. Jim O' Rourke - Eureka
47. Travis - The Man Who
48. Bryan Ferry - As Time Goes By
49. Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
50. Supergrass - Supergrass
Singles
1. Mr Oizo - Flat Beat
2. Archive - Take My Head & You Make Me Feel
3. Madonna - Beautiful Stranger
4. New Radicals - You Get What You Give
5. Eminem - My Name Is ...
6. Day One - Waiting For A Break
7. Me -One - Frenemy
8. 1000 Clowns - Not The Gratest Rapper
9. Patrice - Lions
10. Katerine - Je Vous Emmerde
11. Deus - Instant Street
12. The Chemical Brothers - Out Of Control
13. Alex Gopher - The Child
14. REM - At My Most Beautiful
15. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
16. Basement Jazz - Rendez-Vu
17. Micronauts - The Jag
18. Fatboy Slim - Right Here, Right Now
19. Mr Scruff - Get A Move On
20. Scott Grooves - Mothership Reconnection
21. Tim Hutton - Been A Fool
22. Leila - Soda Stream
23. Ben Diamond - Joyride
24. Everlast - Ends
25. King Biscuit Time - Me & The Pharaons
26. Console - 14 Zero Zero
27. Rob Swift - Dope On Plastic
28. TLC - No Scrubs
29. Jackson - Gourmet
30. Julien Jabre - Time
31. Muse - Muscle Museum
32. Grand Popo Football Club - Each Finger Has An Attitude
33. Back Star - Respiration
34. Quannum - The Extravaganza
35. Morgan - Miss Parker
36. Badly Drown Boy - It Came From The Ground
37. Ooberman - Shorlay Wall
38. Pascale Comelade - Love Too Soon
39. Arsonists - Pyromaniax
40. Pépé Bradock - Burning
41. Beber - Juvenile Delinquent
42. Brothers In Sound - Barelyafterwake
43. Phoenix - Heatwave
44. Moby - Honey
45. Ben's Symphonyc Orchestra - Ben's Symphonyc Orchestra
1999 Albums Readers Choice
1. Jean Louis Murat - Mustango
2. Deus - The Ideal Crash
3. Beck - Midnite Vultures
4. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
5. Archive - Take My Head
6. Tidersticks - Simple Pleasures
7. Moby - Play
8. Everything But The Girl - Temperamental
9. Dionysos - Haiku
10. Jude - No One Is Really Beautiful
11. The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
12. Smog - Knock Knock
13. Pavement - Terror Twilight
14. Brendan Perry - Eye Of The Hunter
15. Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
1999 Singles Readers Choice
1. Katerine - Je Vous Emmerde
2. Deus - Instant Street
3. The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl
4. Alex Gopher - The Child
5. Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
6. Muse - Muscle Museum
7. Gus Gus - Ladyshave
8. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
9. The Chemical Brothers - Out Of Control
10. Mr Oizo - Flat Beat
