Rank
| | Band
| | Votes
|
|---|
| 1 | | Godspeed You Black Emperor! | | 19 |
| 2 | | Bardo Pond | | 6 |
| 3 | | Olivia Tremor Control | | 5 |
| 4 | | Bevis Frond | | 4 |
| | | Boredoms | | 4 |
| 6 | | Acid Mothers Temple | | 3 |
| | | Angels of Light | | 3 |
| | | Bablicon | | 3 |
| 9 | | Meisha | | 2 |
| | | Mogwai | | 2 |
| | | No Neck Blues Band | | 2 |
| | | Overhang Party | | 2 |
| | | Plastic People of the Universe | | 2 |
| | | Sonic Youth | | 2 |
| 15 | | Altered Statesmen (Dayton,OH); Pablo's Triangle (L | | 1 |
| | | Arto Lindsay Band | | 1 |
| | | Bad Seeds (Nick Cave) | | 1 |
| | | Bardo Frond | | 1 |
| | | Beta Band | | 1 |
| | | Borbetomagus | | 1 |
| | | Cat Power | | 1 |
| | | Chomsky | | 1 |
| | | Damon & Naomi | | 1 |
| | | DKV Trio (w/ Mats Gustafsson) | | 1 |
| | | Don Caballero | | 1 |
| | | Electrofetus | | 1 |
| | | Flim Flam Man | | 1 |
| | | fushitsusha | | 1 |
| | | Gaji | | 1 |
| | | Gil Scott-Heron | | 1 |
| | | Guided By Voices | | 1 |
| | | Haddonfield Symphony Orchestra | | 1 |
| | | His Name Is Alive | | 1 |
| | | hood | | 1 |
| | | IQU | | 1 |
| | | Kousokuya + Masayoshi Urabe | | 1 |
| | | Lee | | 1 |
| | | Lilies | | 1 |
| | | Low | | 1 |
| | | Marginal Consort | | 1 |
| | | Masada | | 1 |
| | | Minders | | 1 |
| | | mojave 3 | | 1 |
| | | Music Tapes | | 1 |
| | | Neutral Milk Hotel | | 1 |
| | | Other Dimensions in Music | | 1 |
| | | Peter Brotzmann / Die Like A Dog Quartet | | 1 |
| | | Photon Band | | 1 |
| | | Rafael Toral | | 1 |
| | | Smog | | 1 |
| | | Stereo Total | | 1 |
| | | Stereolab | | 1 |
| | | Swervedriver | | 1 |
| | | Test | | 1 |
| | | The Ex | | 1 |
| | | The Pretty Things | | 1 |
| | | The Residents | | 1 |
| | | Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 | | 1 |
| | | Thomas Brinkmann | | 1 |
| | | U.S. Maple | | 1 |
| | | Wilhelm Bruck & Theodor Ross | | 1 |