| ARTIST | ALBUM | LABEL | |
| 1 | Beastie Boys | Ill Communication | Grand Royal |
| 2 | Arcwelder | Xerxes | Touch and Go |
| 3 | Stereolab | Mars Audiac Quintet | Elektra |
| 4 | G Love and Special Sauce | G Love and Special Sauce | Okeh/Epic |
| 5 | Hole | Live Through This | DGC |
| 6 | Pavement | Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | Matador |
| 7 | Liz Phair | Whip-Smart | Matador/Atlantic |
| 8 | Lily Liver | "Queen of the Ball" 7" | Skinnie Girl |
| 9 | Balloon Guy | "Incidentally" 7" | Generator |
| 10 | Nirvana | Unplugged in New York | DGC |
| 11 | Halo Benders | God Don't Make No Junk | K |
| 12 | Sunny Day Real Estate | diary | SubPop |
| 13 | Nine Inch Nails | The Downward Spiral | Nothing |
| 14 | Soundgarden | Superunknown | A&M |
| 15 | Polara | "Counting Down" 7" | Generator |
| 16 | Low | I Could Live in Hope | Vernon Yard |
| 17 | Frank Black | Teenager of the Year | 4AD/Elektra |
| 18 | Sugar | File Under Easy Listening | Ryko |
| 19 | Stuart Davis | Self Untitled | Panacea |
| 20 | Pearl Jam | Vitalogy | Epic |
| 21 | Everclear | World of Noise | Tim Kerr |
| 22 | Tot 50 | On Top of the World | Dannyboy |
| 23 | Sinead O'Connor | Universal Mother | Chrysalis |
| 24 | Weezer | Weezer | DGC |
| 25 | Luscious Jackson | Natural Ingredients | Grand Royal |
| 26 | Phish | Hoist | Elektra |
| 27 | Built to Spill | There's Nothing Wrong with Love | Up! |
| 28 | American Music Club | San Francisco | Reprise |
| 29 | Beck | Mellow Gold | DGC |
| 30 | Cows | Orphan's Tragedy | Amphetamine Reptile |
| 31 | Victoria Williams | Loose | Mammoth |
| 32 | Milk | Succeeding/Receding | Spanish Fly |
| 33 | Kicking Giant | Alien ID | K |
| 34 | Ben Harper | Welcome to the Cruel World | Virgin |
| 35 | Ween | Chocolate and Cheese | Elektra |
| 36 | Pizzicato Five | Five by Five EP | Matador |
| 37 | Balloon Guy | "Scars" 7" | Third Gear |
| 38 | Butterglory | Crumble | Merge |
| 39 | Oasis | Definitely Maybe | Epic |
| 40 | Adjustable Boy | Adjustable Boy | self release |
| 41 | Green Day | Dookie | Reprise |
| 42 | various artists | Natural Born Killers s/t | Warner Bros. |
| 43 | Figgs | Lo-Fi at Society High | Imago |
| 44 | REM | Monster | Warner Bros. |
| 45 | Velocity Girl | Simpatico | SubPop |
| 46 | Stone Temple Pilots | Purple | Atlantic |
| 47 | Freedy Johnston | This Perfect World | Elektra |
| 48 | Ivy | Lately | SEED |
| 49 | Magnolias | (unreleased secret single) | |
| 50 | Johnny Cash | American Recordings | American |
| 51 | Bean Girl | Beer Party/Boner Sensation | self released |
| 52 | aMiniature | depthfiveratesix | Restless |
| 53 | Sebadoh | Bakesale | SubPop |
| 54 | Steamkings | BOOM! | Earthling |
| 55 | Stanford Prison Experiment | Super Monkey | World Domination |
| 56 | Poster Children | Just Like You | Sire/Reprise |
| 57 | various artists | Kiss My Ass | Mercury |
| 58 | Ballon Guy | "Drug Testing in the Workplace" 7" | Generator |
| 59 | Rollins Band | Weight | Imago |
| 60 | Nova Mob | Nova Mob | Restless |
| 61 | L7 | Hungry for Stink | Slash |
| 62 | King Crimson | VROOM | Discipline |
| 63 | Fauna | feral | Prospective |
| 64 | Willie Wisely Trio | Parlez-Vous Francais? | Pravda |
| 65 | Mountain Singers | Chicken EP | Generator |
| 66 | Jawbox | For Your Own Special Sweetheart | Atlantic |
| 67 | They Might be Giants | John Henry | Elektra |
| 68 | various artists | If I Were a Carpenter | A&M |
| 69 | Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | Orange | Matador |
| 70 | Eleventh Day Dream | Ursa Major | Atavistic |
| 71 | Digable Planets | Blowout Comb | Pendulum/EMI |
| 72 | Guided by Voices | Bee Thousand | Matador |
| 73 | Lucas | Lucacentric | Big Beat/Atlantic |
| 74 | Tori Amos | Under the Pink | Atlantic |
| 75 | SF Seals | Now Here | Matador |
| 76 | Spearhead | Home | Capitol |
| 77 | Lagwagon | Trashed | Fat Wreck Chords |
