01. Placebo - Without you I'm nothing
02. Kent - Isola
03. The dandy Warhols - Come down
04. R.E.M. - Up
05. Embrace - The good will out
06. The cardigans - Gran turismo
07. Mansun - Six
08. Solex - Solex versus the hitmeister
09. Manic street preachers - This is my truth tell me yours
10. Air - Moon safari

1. Madonna - Ray of light
2. Air - Moon safari
3. Massive attack - Mezzanine
4. Zita Swoon - I paint pictures on a wedding dress
5. Belle & Sebastian - The boy with the Arab strap
6. Mercury Rev - Deserter's songs
7. Morcheeba - Big calm
8. Carleen Anderson - Blessed burden
9. Tori Amos - From the choirgirl hotel
10. Fatboy Slim - You've come a long way baby

1. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty (5)
2. Outkast - Aquemini (4.5)
3. System of a Down - System of a Down (4.5)
4. Eels - Electro-Shock Blues (4)
5. Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby (4)
6. Black Eyed Peas - Behind the Front (4)
7. Fun Lovin' Criminals - 100% Colombian (4)
8. Styles of Beyond - 2000 Fold (4)
9. UNKLE - Psyence Fiction (4)
10. Rammstein - Sehnsucht (4)

1. System Of A Down - System Of A Down
2. Meshuggah - Chaosphere
3. Fear Factory - Obsolete
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Best Of...
5. Fantomas - Amenaza al Mundo
6. Monster Magnet - Powertrip
7. Queens Of The Stoneage - Queens Of The Stoneage
7. Air - Moon Safari
9. Soulfly - Soulfly
10. Korn - Follow The Leader

1. Motorpsycho - Trust Us
2. Mansun - Six
3. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
4. Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
5. Placebo - Without You I Am Nothing
6. Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
7. DAAU - We Need New Animals
8. Tortoise - TNT
9. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
10. Caesar - No Rest For The Alonely

1. Mercury Rev-Deserter's Songs
2. Mansun-Six
3. Kruder & Dorfmeister-The K&D Sessions
4. Pulp-This Is Hardcore
5. Elliott Smith-XO
6. Autopulver- F Words
7. Fatboy Slim-You've Come A Long Way Baby
8. Eels-Electro Shock Blues
9. Belle & Sebstian-The Boy With The Arab Strap
10. XTC-Apple Venus, Volume 1

Weer allemaal 5 sterren:

1. Mercury Rising- John Barry
2. Ronin- Elia Cmiral
3. Deep Impact- James Horner
4. Kikoku Kotai- Kenji Kawai
5. Saving Private Ryan- John Williams
6. What Dreams May Come- Michael Kamen
7. The X-Files: Fight the Future
8. The Truman Show- Burkhard Dallwitz
9. House on Haunted Hill- Don Davis
10. Los Amantes Del Círculo Polar- Alberto Iglesias

1. G-Town Madness meets Attic & Stylzz - The Legacy Continues
2. Sound Enhancers - Joint Venture Part 1
3. Boards of Canada - Peel Session
4. Promo - Metal Warfare
5. Perpetrator VS Attic & Stylzz - MacGuyvers of The 90's (Can You Pick Locks?)
6. Promo - Dancefloor Hardcore
7. Pi
8. Promo - King of Pain
9. Kenji Kawai - Ghost In The Shell
10. Global Communication - Pentamerous Metamorphosis

Wat zijn we weer lekker kritisch .

Ik dacht dat veel mensen ooit eens zouden dat er enkel goede en slechte muziek is. Nou zie daar!

1. The Grouch - Fuck The Dumb
2. Millencolin - Same Old Tunes
3. At The Drive-In - In Casino Out
4. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
5. 2Pac - Greatest Hits
6. Black Star - Black Star
7. Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 5 LP
8. Outkast - Aquemini
9. Aceyalone - A Book Of Human Language
10. Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way, Baby

1. Motorpsycho - Trust Us
2. Gorki - Ik Ben Aanwezig
3. Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
4. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
5. Beck - Mutations
6. Lambchop - What Another Man Spills
7. 16 Horsepower - Low Estate
8. Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
9. Tori Amos - From The Choirgirl Hotel
10. Vic Chesnutt - The Salesman and Bernadette

1. Mark Lanegan - Scraps at Midnight
2. Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
3. Air - Moon Safari
4. System of a Down - System of a Down
5. Cake - Prolonging the Magic
6. Paolo Conte - The Best of Paolo Conte
7. Phish - The Story of the Ghost
8. Calexico - The Black Light
9. Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
10. Primus - Rhinoplasty

1. Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
2. Tortoise - TNT
3. The Delgados - Peloton
4. Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
5. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
6. Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On
7. Bola - Soup
8. Elliott Smith - XO
9. Cat Power - Moon Pix
10. Caesar - No Rest For The Alonely

Gloeiende, wat een jaar! Twee van mijn top-10 noteringen stammen uit 1998, en een derde is er pas onlangs uitgevallen. Daarnaast is (Sparklehorse, Elliott Smith en Cat Power uitgezonderd) elk album uit deze lijst het beste album van de desbetreffende artiest.

1. Electro Shock Blues - Eels
2. Hope is Important - Idlewild
3. Deserter's Songs - Mercury Rev
4. Without You I'm Nothing - Placebo
5. White Magic for Lovers - Drugstore
6. The Boy With the Arab Strap - Belle & Sebastian
7. Moon Safari - Air
8. Mezzanine - Massive Attack
9. How Does It Feel To Be Something On - Sunny Day Real Estate
10. XO - Elliot Smith

1. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
2. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
3. Soulwax - Much Against Everyone's Advice
4. Plastikman - Consumed
5. UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
6. Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
7. Zita Swoon - I Paint Pictures On A Wedding Dress
8. Elliott Smith - XO
9. Autopulver - f-words
10. Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

1. Dirty three - Ocean songs
2. Firewater - The Ponzi scheme
3. Eels - Electro-shock blues
4. Calexico - The black light
5. Tortoise - TNT
6. For carnation - Promised works
7. June of '44 - Four great points
8. Six organs of admittance - Six organs of admittance
9. Supersilent - 1-3
10. Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright

1. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
2. Chocolate Genius - Black Music
3. Jeff Buckley - Sketches(For My Sweatheart The Drunk)
4. Tortoise - TNT
5. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
6. Beck - Mutations
7. Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach - Painted From Memory
8. Karate - The Bed Is In The Ocean
9. 22 Pistepirkko - Eleven
10.Eels - Electro-shock Blues

1. KISS - Psycho Circus
2. The Mavericks - Trampoline
3. Monster Magnet - Powertrip
4. Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours
5. Soulfly - Soulfly
6. Whitesnake - Starkers In Tokyo

Ik kom niet verder dan 6 albums, voor mij dus een zeer matig jaar wat cd-releases betreft.

1. Air - Moon Safari
2. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
3. Manic street preachers - This is my truth tell me yours
4. Kent - Isola
5. Embrace - The good will out
6. Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
7. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
8. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
10. Fatboy Slim-You've Come A Long Way Baby

1. Air - Moon Safari
2. R.E.M. - Up
3. Marco Borsato - De Bestemming
4. Marillion - Radiation
5. Beck - Mutations
6. Placebo - Without You I'm Noting
7. Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
8. Madonna - Ray of light
9. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
10. Brian Wilson - Imagination

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
2. Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours
3. Dirty Three - Ocean Songs
4. Arena - The Visitor
5. Blackmore's Night - Shadow of the Moon
6. David Gray - White Ladder
7. Belle & Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
8. Air - Moon Safari
9. Manu Chao - Clandestino
10. DAAU - We Need New Animals

1. REM – Up
2. Belle and Sebastian – The boy with the Arab strap
3. Elliott Smith – XO
4. Godspeed you black emperor – F#A# (Infinity)
5. Eels – Electro-shock blues
6. Madonna – Ray of light
7. Mark Hollis – Mark Hollis
8. Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach – Painted from memory
9. Air – Moon safari
10. Manic Street Preachers – This is my truth, tell me yours

1. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
2. Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
3. Slayer - Diabolus In Musica
4. Ash - Nu-Clear Sounds
5. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
6. Iron Maiden - Virtual XI
7. Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast
8. Mayhem - Wolf's Lair Abyss
9. Pantera - Official Live: 101 Proof
10. Soulfly - Soulfly

1. Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
2. 16 Horsepower - Low Estate
3. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
4. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
5. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
6. Lucinda Williams -Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
7. Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
8. Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause
9. David Gray - White Ladder
10. Black Crowes - By Your Side

1. Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
2. 16 Horsepower - Low Estate
3. Elliott Smith - XO
4. Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
5. The Afghan Whigs - 1965
6. Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
7. Embrace - The Good Will Out
8. Zita Swoon - I Paint Pictures on a Wedding Dress
9. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
10. Godspeed You Black Emperor! – F#A# (Infinity)

Update:

1. Madonna - Ray of light
2. Massive attack - Mezzanine
3. Air - Moon Safari
4. Zita Swoon - I paint pictures on a wedding dress
5. Belle & Sebastian - The boy with the Arab strap
6. Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
7. Mercury Rev - Deserter's songs
8. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
9. Loituma - Things of Beauty
10. Carleen Anderson - Blessed burden

1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A# (Infinity)
2. System of a Down - System of a Down
3. Meshuggah - Chaosphere
4. Fantômas - Amenaza Al Mundo
5. Fear Factory - Obsolete
6. Nasum - Inhale / Exhale
7. Death - The Sound of Perseverance
8. Tribes of Neurot & Walking Timebombs - Static Migration
9. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
10. Queens Of The Stoneage - Queens Of The Stoneage

Toch maar die top 10 weer aanpassen, door de KO '98 ben ik Eels weer eens gaan beluisteren en tot de conclusie gekomen dat die zeker in mijn top 10 hoort:

1. Madonna - Ray of light
2. Massive attack - Mezzanine
3. Air - Moon Safari
4. Zita Swoon - I paint pictures on a wedding dress
5. Belle & Sebastian - The boy with the Arab strap
6. Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
7. Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
8. Mercury Rev - Deserter's songs
9. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
10. Loituma - Things of Beauty

Ook maar 's een update:

01. (01) Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
02. (02) Mansun - Six
03. (---) UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
04. (04) Pulp - This Is Hardcore
05. (---) Swayzak - Snowboarding In Argentina
06. (05) Elliott Smith - XO
07. (08) Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
08. (---) Gomez - Bring It On
09. (03) Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions
10. (---) Motorpsycho - Trust Us

zo, en dan nu de top-10's van andere jaren nog even wijzigen...