Rank
| | Artist
| | Disc
| | Votes
|
|---|
| 1 | | Pärson Sound | | s/t | | 26 |
| 2 | | Neu! | | s/t | | 12 |
| 3 | | Henry Flynt | | You Are My Everlovin' / Celestial Power | | 8 |
| | | Velvet Underground | | Bootleg Series Vol. 1: The Quine Tapes | | 8 |
| 5 | | Terry Riley | | You're NoGood | | 9 |
| 6 | | V/A | | Nuggets Vol. 2 | | 7 |
| 7 | | Acid Mothers Temple | | La Novia | | 5 |
| 8 | | Neu! | | 75 | | 4 |
| 9 | | Langley Schools Music Project | | Innocence and Despair | | 5 |
| 10 | | Sonny Sharrock | | Black Woman | | 4 |
| 11 | | John Coltrane | | The Olatunji Concert | | 5 |
| 12 | | This Heat | | Deceit | | 4 |
| | | Wipers | | Box Set | | 4 |
| | | Miles Davis | | Complete In A Silent Way Sessions | | 4 |
| 15 | | Electric Eels | | The Eyeball of Hell | | 6 |
| 16 | | LiLiPut / Kleenex | | LiLiPut | | 4 |
| 17 | | Henry Flynt | | Graduation & Other New Country and Blues Music | | 5 |
| 18 | | Charley Patton | | Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues | | 3 |
| 19 | | Miles Davis | | Live At The Fillmore East (March 7, 1970) | | 2 |
| 20 | | Soft Boys | | Underwater Moonlight | | 3 |
| 21 | | C.O.B. | | Spirit of Love | | 2 |
| | | Coil | | Horse Rotorvator | | 2 |
| | | John Cale | | Sun Blindness Music | | 2 |
| 24 | | Syd Barrett | | Wouldn't You Miss Me? | | 3 |
| 25 | | Joe Jones | | Solar Music | | 2 |
| | | Lightning Bolt | | s/t | | 2 |
| | | Takehisa Kosugi | | Catch-Wave | | 2 |
| | | Black Sun Ensemble | | s/t | | 2 |
| | | John Cale | | Dream Interpretation | | 2 |
| | | Big Youth | | Natty Universal Dread | | 2 |
| | | Love | | Forever Changes | | 2 |
| | | 23 Skidoo | | Seven Songs | | 2 |
| | | F/i | | Space Mantra | | 2 |
| | | Harvester | | Hemat | | 2 |
| | | John Fahey | | Vol. 6: Days Have Gone By | | 2 |
| | | Limbus 3 | | New Atlantis | | 2 |
| | | Philip Cohram & The Artistic Heritage Ensemble | | On the Beach | | 2 |
| 38 | | Nikki Sudden | | Waiting on Egypt/the Bible Belt | | 1 |
| | | Stalk-Forrest Group | | St. Cecilia | | 1 |
| | | The Golden Cups | | Super Live Session | | 1 |
| 41 | | Neu! | | 2 | | 3 |
| 42 | | Sun City Girls | | Libyan Dream | | 2 |
| 43 | | Algarnas Tradgard | | Delayed CD | | 1 |
| | | Art Ensemble of Chicago | | A Jackson in Your House/Message To Our Folks | | 1 |
| | | Boris | | absolutego | | 1 |
| | | Outsiders | | CQCQCQCQ | | 1 |
| 47 | | John Cale/Terry Riley | | Church of Anthrax | | 2 |
| | | Luther Thomas & The Human Arts Ensemble | | Funky Donkey | | 2 |
| 49 | | Birthday Party | | BBC Sessions | | 1 |
| | | Eugene McDaniels | | Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse | | 1 |
| | | New Dawn | | There's A New Dawn... LP | | 1 |
| 52 | | Joy Division | | Les Baines Douches | | 2 |
| 53 | | Forbidden Planet | | Soundtrack | | 1 |
| | | Intersystems | | Number One LP + 45 | | 1 |
| | | Lol Coxhill | | Digswell Duets | | 1 |
| | | Peter Bellamy | | Mr Bellamy, Mr Kipling & The Tradition | | 1 |
| | | Reynols/Pauline Oliveros | | Pauline Oliveros in the Arms of Reynols | | 1 |
| | | The Latin Kings | | I skuggan av betongen | | 1 |
| | | Ween | | God Ween Satan | | 1 |
| 60 | | 13th Floor Elevators | | Easter Everywhere | | 2 |
| | | The Wake | | Harmony + Singles | | 2 |
| 62 | | Cecil Taylor | | It's in the Brewing Luminous | | 1 |
| | | Charlie Patton | | Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues | | 1 |
| | | Citizens For Interplanetary Activity | | C.I.A. Change | | 1 |
| | | Larry Young | | Lawrence of Newark | | 1 |
| | | Marc Bolan & T.Rex | | Shadowhead | | 1 |
| | | Rovo | | Imago | | 1 |
| 68 | | Grateful Dead | | The Golden Road | | 2 |
| 69 | | Che SHIZU | | I Can't Promise | | 1 |
| | | Serge Gainsbourg | | le cinema de Serge Gainsbourg | | 1 |
| | | V/A | | Truck Driver's Boogie: Big Rig Hits 1939-1969 | | 1 |
| 72 | | Alan Silva and the Celestial Communication Orchestra | | s/t | | 2 |
| 73 | | Afrika Bambaata | | Looking for the Perfect Beat 1980-1985 | | 1 |
| | | Christina Kubisch/Fabrizio Plessi | | Two and Two | | 1 |
| | | Crystalaugur | | Terranaught | | 1 |
| | | Henry Chopin | | Audiopoems | | 1 |
| | | Kaoru Abe/Masayuki Takayanagi | | DIW releases | | 1 |
| | | Kraftwerk | | Ruckzuck | | 1 |
| | | mekons | | rock n roll | | 1 |
| | | Music Emporium | | s/t | | 1 |
| | | Pierre Henry | | Mix 3.0 Box set | | 1 |
| | | Staples Singers | | Good News/Collection | | 1 |
| | | The Meters | | S/T | | 1 |
| 84 | | John Cale | | Stainless Gamelan | | 2 |
| | | Ride | | Box set | | 2 |
| 86 | | Bill Dixon/Archie Shepp | | 7-tette/New York Contemporary 5 | | 1 |
| | | Fresh Blueberry Pancake | | Heavy | | 1 |
| | | Joy Division | | Heart and Soul box | | 1 |
| | | Martin Carthy | | The Carthy Chronicle | | 1 |
| | | Music Now Ensemble | | Silver Pyramid | | 1 |
| | | Talk Talk | | Missing Pieces | | 1 |
| | | The Pagans | | Pink Album...Plus! | | 1 |
| 93 | | Scientists | | Blood Red River '82-'84 | | 3 |
| 94 | | Taj Mahal Travellers | | July 15, 1972 | | 2 |
| 95 | | 23 Skidoo | | Urban Gamelan | | 1 |
| | | John Oswald | | Plunderphonics 69-96 | | 1 |
| | | Miles Davis | | It's About that Time | | 1 |
| | | Nagasi Ni Te | | On the Love Beach | | 1 |
| | | Semool | | Essais | | 1 |
| | | Shuggie Otis | | Information Inspiration | | 1 |
| | | The Freedom Highway | | Made In '68 LP | | 1 |
| | | Earth Opera | | s/t | | 1 |
| | | Fela w/ Ginger Baker | | Live! | | 1 |
| | | Jacques Berrocal | | Paralleles | | 1 |
| | | Melvins | | Electroretard | | 1 |
| | | Niney The Observer | | Microphone Attack | | 1 |
| | | Okay Temiz | | Drummer of Two Worlds | | 1 |
| | | Sigur Rós | | Von | | 1 |
| | | X | | Wild Gift | | 1 |
| | | Ceremony | | Buddah Meets Rock | | 1 |
| | | Dead can Dance | | Box Set | | 1 |
| | | Elvis Costello | | All This Useless Beauty | | 1 |
| | | Hands To | | Turn Back the Sun | | 1 |
| | | K.M.D. | | Mr. Hood | | 1 |
| | | Phil Ranelin | | The Time is Now | | 1 |
| | | The Music Ensemble | | s/t | | 1 |
| | | Träd Gräs Och Stenar | | Gärdet 12.6.1970 | | 1 |
| | | V/A | | Jazzactuel 6 LP set | | 1 |
| | | V/A | | Nigera 70: The Story of Funky Lagos | | 1 |
| | | Art Ensemble of Chicago | | Bap-tizum LP | | 1 |
| | | Beach Boys | | Friends/20/20 | | 1 |
| | | Earth | | Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars | | 1 |
| | | Government Issue | | History of.. Vol. 1 | | 1 |
| | | Joe McPhee | | Nation Time | | 1 |
| | | Judy Garland | | Judy at Carnegie Hall | | 1 |
| | | Nic Jones | | Unearthed | | 1 |
| | | Sun Ra | | Other Side Of The Sun | | 1 |
| | | Tokyo Kid Brothers | | Throw Away Your Books.... | | 1 |
| | | V/A | | Soul of Angola | | 1 |
| | | Dave Burrell | | Echo | | 1 |
| | | Dymaxion | | Dymaxion x 4 + 3 = 38:33 | | 1 |
| | | Heavenly | | Heavenly VS Satan | | 1 |
| | | Jack Nitzsche | | The Lonely Surfer | | 1 |
| | | Motions | | Introduction To/Their Own Way CD | | 1 |
| | | Piano Magic | | Seasonally Affective | | 1 |
| | | Smashing Pumpkins | | Greatest Hits | | 1 |
| | | Throbbing Gristle | | Very Friendly | | 1 |
| | | V/A | | Ethiopiques Vol. 9 | | 1 |
| | | De La Soul | | 3 Feet High and Rising 2CD | | 1 |
| | | Kalacakra | | Crawling to Lhasa | | 1 |
| | | Mariani | | Perpetuum Mobile LP | | 1 |
| | | Ramones | | s/t | | 1 |
| | | Xhol Caravan | | Motherfuckers Live | | 1 |
| | | International Harvester | | Sov Gott Rose Marie | | 1 |
| | | Jandek | | Your Turn to Fall | | 1 |
| | | Pixies | | Complete B-Sides | | 1 |
| | | Radio Birdman | | The Essential Radio Birdman | | 1 |
| | | Television | | The Blow-Up | | 1 |
| | | V/A | | Aliens, Psychos, and Wild Things 1 (Arcania Int'l) | | 1 |
| | | V/A | | Fit for Kings ll | | 1 |