| 1 | Radiohead | Kid A | 2000 | |  |  |  |
| 2 | My Bloody Valentine | Loveless | 1991 | | | | |
| 3 | Neutral Milk Hotel | In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 1998 | | | | |
| 4 | Sigur Ros | Agaetis Byrjun | 1999 | | | | |
| 5 | Portishead | Dummy | 1994 | | | | |
| 6 | Wilco | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 2002 | | | | |
| 7 | The Flaming Lips | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 2002 | | | | |
| 8 | Massive Attack | Mezzanine | 1998 | | | | |
| 9 | The Mars Volta | De-Loused in the Comatorium | 2003 | | | | |
| 10 | U2 | Achtung Baby | 1991 | | | | |
| 11 | The Stone Roses | The Stone Roses | 1989 | | | | |
| 12 | Modest Mouse | The Moon & Antarctica | 1999 | | | | |
| 13 | Porcupine Tree | In Absentia | 2002 | | | | |
| 14 | Boards of Canada | Music Has the Right to Children | 1998 | | | | |
| 15 | The Verve | Urban Hymns | 1997 | | | | |
| 16 | My Bloody Valentine | Isn't Anything | 1988 | | | | |
| 17 | Blur | Blur | 1997 | | | | |
| 18 | Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 1992 | | | | |
| 19 | Animal Collective | Feels | 2005 | | | | |
| 20 | Smashing Pumpkins | Gish | 1991 | | | | |
| 21 | Primal Scream | Screamadelica | 1991 | | | | |
| 22 | The Cocteau Twins | Treasure | 1984 | | | | |
| 23 | Spiritualized | Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | 1997 | | | | |
| 24 | Slowdive | Souvlaki | 1993 | | | | |
| 25 | Mercury Rev | Deserter's Songs | 1998 | | | | |
| 26 | XTC | Skylarking | 1986 | | | | |
| 27 | Kyuss | Welcome to Sky Valley | 1994 | | | | |
| 28 | Animal Collective | Sung Tongs | 2004 | | | | |
| 29 | of Montreal | Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? | 2007 | | | | |
| 30 | Echo & The Bunnymen | Ocean Rain | 1984 | | | | |
| 31 | Tortoise | Millions Now Living Will Never Die | 1996 | | | | |
| 32 | Ride | Nowhere | 1990 | | | | |
| 33 | Neutral Milk Hotel | On Avery Island | 1996 | | | | |
| 34 | The Flaming Lips | Transmissions from the Satellite Heart | 1993 | | | | |
| 35 | Grandaddy | The Sophtware Slump | 2000 | | | | |
| 36 | Tricky | Maxinquaye | 1995 | | | | |
| 37 | Joanna Newsom | The Milk-Eyed Mender | 2004 | | | | |
| 38 | My Morning Jacket | Z | 2005 | | | | |
| 39 | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | B.R.M.C. | 2001 | | | | |
| 40 | Brian Eno and David Byrne | My Life in the Bush of Ghosts | 1981 | | | | |
| 41 | Echo & The Bunnymen | Crocodiles | 1980 | | | | |
| 42 | The Beta Band | The Three EP's | 1998 | | | | |
| 43 | The Dandy Warhols | Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia | 2000 | | | | |
| 44 | Yo La Tengo | Painful | 1993 | | | | |
| 45 | Grizzly Bear | Yellow House | 2006 | | | | |
| 46 | The Olivia Tremor Control | Music From the Unrealized Film Script | 1996 | | | | |
| 47 | Super Furry Animals | Rings Around the World | 2001 | | | | |
| 48 | Stereolab | Transient Random-Noise Bursts... | 1993 | | | | |
| 49 | Happy Mondays | Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches | 1990 | | | | |
| 50 | Super Furry Animals | Radiator | 1997 | | | | |
| 51 | Stone Temple Pilots | Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop | 1996 | | | | |
| 52 | The Coral | The Coral | 2002 | | | | |
| 53 | Porcupine Tree | Up the Downstair | 1993 | | | | |
| 54 | Mercury Rev | Yerself Is Steam | 1991 | | | | |
| 55 | MGMT | Oracular Spectacular | 2008 | | | | |
| 56 | Dungen | Ta Det Lugnt | 2004 | | | | |
| 57 | The Soft Boys | Underwater Moonlight | 1980 | | | | |
| 58 | Caribou | Andorra | 2007 | | | | |
| 59 | Spacemen 3 | The Perfect Prescription | 1987 | | | | |
| 60 | Prince | Around the World in a Day | 1985 | | | | |
| 61 | The Verve | A Storm in Heaven | 1993 | | | | |
| 62 | Butthole Surfers | Locust Abortion Technician | 1987 | | | | |
| 63 | Black Mountain | In the Future | 2008 | | | | |
| 64 | Kula Shaker | K | 1996 | | | | |
| 65 | The Orb | The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld | 1991 | | | | |
| 66 | Tiamat | Wildhoney | 1994 | | | | |
| 67 | The Church | Starfish | 1988 | | | | |
| 68 | Ween | Pure Guava | 1992 | | | | |
| 69 | Clinic | Internal Wrangler | 2000 | | | | |
| 70 | Dream Syndicate | The Days of Wine and Roses | 1982 | | | | |
| 71 | Morcheeba | Big Calm | 1998 | | | | |
| 72 | Secret Machines | Now Here Is Nowhere | 2004 | | | | |
| 73 | The Boo Radleys | Giant Steps | 1993 | | | | |
| 74 | Mazzy Star | She Hangs Brightly | 1990 | | | | |
| 75 | Pure Reason Revolution | The Dark Third | 2006 | | | | |
| 76 | Monster Magnet | Powertrip | 1998 | | | | |
| 77 | Espers | Espers II | 2006 | | | | |
| 78 | Spock's Beard | V | 2000 | | | | |
| 79 | The Teardrop Explodes | Kilimanjaro | 1980 | | | | |
| 80 | Television Personalities | ...And Don't the Kids Just Love It | 1981 | | | | |
| 81 | The Future Sound of London | Dead Cities | 1996 | | | | |
| 82 | The Apples in Stereo | Fun Trick Noisemaker | 1995 | | | | |
| 83 | Death in Vegas | The Contino Sessions | 1999 | | | | |
| 84 | Cornershop | When I Was Born for the 7th Time | 1997 | | | | |
| 85 | Beulah | When Your Heartstrings Break | 1999 | | | | |
| 86 | Lenny Kravitz | Let Love Rule | 1989 | | | | |
| 87 | Ghost | Hypnotic Underworld | 2004 | | | | |
| 88 | The Dukes of Stratosphear | Chips From the Chocolate Fireball | 1987 | | | | |
| 89 | Ozric Tentacles | Erpland | 1990 | | | | |
| 90 | Flying Saucer Attack | Further | 1995 | | | | |
| 91 | The Charlatans | Some Friendly | 1990 | | | | |
| 92 | Circulatory System | Circulatory System | 2001 | | | | |
| 93 | The Sleepy Jackson | Lovers | 2003 | | | | |
| 94 | Gorky's Zygotic Mynci | Barafundle | 1997 | | | | |
| 95 | The Bees | Free the Bees | 2004 | | | | |
| 96 | Thievery Corporation | The Cosmic Game | 2005 | | | | |
| 97 | Julian Cope | Fried | 1984 | | | | |
| 98 | The Black Angels | Passover | 2006 | | | | |
| 99 | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request | 1996 | | | | |
| 100 | Screaming Trees | Uncle Anesthesia | 1991 | | | | |
