2004-1985

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[ This top 3 albums list for each year doesn't reflect lists of best-selling albums of a particular year nor my acknowledgement of music critics' reviews, but are solely reflecting what albums I have heard the most. I intend to expand the list to a top 10 list, and to include other favorites of the year in sorted order, but that's a costly affair... time-wise. ]



2004
1. Arcade Fire Funeral
2. The Streets A Grand Don't Come for Free
3. Grant-Lee Phillips Virginia Creeper

4. Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News
5. The Killers Hot Fuss [debut]
6. The Blue Nile High
7. Morrissey You Are the Quarry
8. The Durutti Column Tempus fugit
9. Interpol Antics
10. Omara Portuondo Flor de amor
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2003
1. Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway [debut]
2. Rufus Wainwright Want One
3. Bo Kaspers Orkester Vilka tror vi att vi är

4. Mew Frengers
5. Amy Winehouse Frank [debut]
6. Bill Frisell The Intercontinentals
7. Blur Think Tank
8. Olesen-Olesen Hårdnakket idyl
9. John Mayer Any Given Thursday (live album)
10. Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros Streetcore
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2002
1. The Streets Original Pirate Material [debut]
2. Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights [debut]
3. Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around

4. Kent Vapen & Ammunition
5. Saybia The Second You Sleep [debut]
6. Fatboy Slim Illuminati (ep)
7. Adrian Borland Harmony & Destruction
8. Roland Gift Roland Gift [debut]
9. Moby 18
10. Sigur Rós ( ) (aka "Brackets album")
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2001
1. Björk Vespertine
2. Natalie Merchant Motherland
3. Rammstein Mutter

4. Tom Waits Used Songs (1973-1980) (compilation)
5. Bo Kaspers Orkester Kaos
6. Tindersticks Can Our Love...
7. Nick Lowe The Convincer
8. Red House Painters Old Ramon
9. Blue Foundation Blue Foundation [debut]
10. The Strokes Is This It
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2000
1. PJ Harvey Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
2. Susana Baca Eco de sombras
3. Olesen-Olesen Der er brev fra onkel Bob i Amerika

4. Omara Portuondo Buena Vista Social Club Presents: Omara Portuondo
5. Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard Gladiator (OST)
6. Antony and the Johnsons Antony and the Johnsons
7. Tim Christensen Secrets on Parade
8. Radiohead Kid A
9. Neil Young Silver & Gold
10. Bill Frisell Ghost Town
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1999
1. The Chemical Brothers Surrender
2. Underworld Beaucoup Fish
3. Everything but the Girl Temperamental

4. Tindersticks Simple Pleasures
5. Tom Waits Mule variations
6. Grant Hart Good News for Modern Man
7. Kent Hagnesta hill
8. Bill Frisell Good Dog, Happy Man
9. XTC Apple Venus Volume 1
10. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros Rock Art and the X-Ray Style
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1998
1. Grant Lee Buffalo Jubilee
2. Mark Hollis Mark Hollis
3. Fatboy Slim You've Come a Long Way, Baby

4. PJ Harvey Is This Desire?
5. Roddy Frame The North Star
6. Robbie Robertson Contact From the Underworld of Redboy
7. David McAlmont A Little Communication
8. Olesen-Olesen Dagens Gerning
9. Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
10. Natalie Merchant Ophelia
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1997
1. Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club
2. The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole
3. The Divine Comedy A Short Album About Love

4. The Prodigy The Fat of the Land
5. Adrian Borland 5:00 AM
6. Tindersticks Curtains
7. Love Shop Go!
8. Cesária Évora Cabo Verde
9. Portishead Portishead
10. Olesen-Olesen Indenlands udenbys [debut]
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1996
1. Bob Mould Bob Mould
2. Fatboy Slim Better Living Through Chemistry
3. Ryuichi Sakamoto 1996

4. Cardigans First Band on the Moon
5. Suede Coming Up
6. Everything but the Girl Walking Wounded
7. The Chemical Brothers Loops of Fury (ep)
8. Julian Cope The Interpreter
9. Neil Young Broken Arrow
10. The Church Magician Among the Spirits
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1995
1. Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill
2. The Cardigans Life
3. The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

4. Björk Post
5. Tindersticks Tinderticks (II)
6. Black Grape It's Great When You're Straight ... Yeah
7. Van Morrison Days Like This
8. The Chemical Brothers Exit Planet Dust
9. Salif Keita Folon
10. Adrian Borland Cinematic
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1994
1. The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation
2. Everything but the Girl Amplified Heart
3. C.V. Jørgensen Sjælland

4. Morrissey Vauxhall and I
5. Love Shop Billeder af verden
6. David McAlmont McAlmont
7. Vangelis Blade Runner (OST)
8. The Cardigans Emmerdale [debut]
9. Suede Dog Man Star
10. Sugar File Under: Easy Listening
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1993
1. Tindersticks Tindersticks [debut]
2. Björk Debut [debut]
3. The Breeders Last Splash

4. P.J. Harvey Rid of Me
5. Morrissey Beethoven Was Deaf (live)
6. The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
7. Wilmer X Pontiac till himmelen
8. Sort Sol Glamourpuss
9. Cocteau Twins Four-Calendar Café
10. Red House Painters Red House Painters [Rollercoaster]
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Robert Forster Calling from a Country Phone


1992
1. 10.000 Maniacs Our Time in Eden
2. Morrissey Your Arsenal
3. Adrian Borland Brittle Heaven

4. PJ Harvey Dry [debut]
5. Carter USM 1992: The Love Album
6. Lou Reed Magic and Loss
7. Kitchens Of Distinction The Death of Cool
8. Sugar Copper Blue [debut]
9. Tom Waits Bone Machine
10. R.E.M. Automatic for the People
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1991
1. Talk Talk Laughing Stock
2. Van Morrison Hymns to the Silence
3. Kitchens of Distinction Strange Free World

4. My Bloody Valentine Loveless
5. U2 Achtung Baby
6. Neil Young Weld (live)
7. Pixies Trompe le monde
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik
9. Nirvana Nevermind
10. Julian Cope Peggy Suicide
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1990
1. Neil Young Ragged Glory
2. Van Morrison Enlightenment
3. Sinéad O'Connor I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

4. C.V. Jørgensen I det muntre hjørne
5. Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas
6. Aztec Camera Stray
7. Prefab Sprout Jordan: The Comeback
8. Happy Mondays Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
9. Jan Garbarek I Took Up the Runes
10. Depeche Mode Violator
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1989
1. Pixies Doolittle
2. The Blue Nile Hats
3. Kitchens of Distinction Love Is Hell

4. Adrian Borland and The Citizens Alexandria
5. Lou Reed New York
6. Joe Strummer Earthquake Weather
7. The Stone Roses The Stone Roses
8. Les Negresses Vertes Mlah [debut]
9. Love and Rockets Love and Rockets
10. The Durutti Column Vini Reilly
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1988
1. Chet Baker Memories: Chet Baker in Tokyo, Vol. 1
2. R.E.M. Green
3. Talk Talk Spirit of Eden

4. Philip Glass Powaqqatsi (OST)
5. Morrissey Viva Hate [debut]
6. Fine Young Cannibals The Raw & the Cooked
7. The Pogues If I Should Fall From Grace With God
8. The Go Betweens 16 Lovers Lane
9. C.V. Jørgensen Indian Summer
10. Pixies Surfer Rosa
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1987
1. The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come
2. U2 The Joshua Tree
3. Hüsker Dü Warehouse - Songs and Stories

4. R.E.M. Document
5. Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love
6. 10,000 Maniacs In My Tribe
7. Terence Trent D’Arby Introducing the Hardline According to...
8. David Sylvian Secrets of the Beehive
9. The Sound Thunder Up
10. Aztec Camera Love
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1986
1. The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
2. Talk Talk The Colour of Spring
3. R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant

4. Paul Simon Graceland
5. Van Morrison No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
6. And Also the Trees Virus Meadow
7. The Housemartins London 0 Hull 4
8. The The Infected
9. Elvis Costello and the Attractions Blood and Chocolate
10. Felt Forever Breathes the Lonely Word
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1985
1. Ry Cooder Paris, Texas (OST)
2. The Smiths Meat Is Murder
3. The Pogues Rum, Sodomy and the Lash

4. The Sound Heads and Hearts
5. Kate Bush Hounds of Love
6. Everything but the Girl Love Not Money
7. New Order Low-Life
8. Paul Young The Secret of Association
9. C.V. Jørgensen Vennerne & vejen
10. Felt Ignite the Seven Cannons
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