| | Artist | Song | Album | Company |
| 1 | Lene Lovich | It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz) (Version) | It's You, Only You EP | Stiff Records |
| 2 | Virginia Astley | So Like Dorian | Hope in a Darkened Heart | Geffen Records |
| 3 | The Bongos | The Bulrushes | Drums along the Hudson | Jem Records |
| 4 | Bailter Space | At Five We Drive | Wammo | Matador Records |
| 5 | Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 | Hornet's Heart | Mother of All Saints | Matador Records |
| 6 | The Wolfgang Press | See My Wife | Bird Wood Cage | Rough Trade Records |
| 7 | Coil | The Anal Staircase | The Anal Staircase EP | Relativity |
| 8 | Abecedarians | Press Escape | Resin | Caroline Records |
| 9 | The Woodentops | Stop This Car | Wooden Foot Cops on the Highway | Rough Trade |
| 10 | Chris and Cosey The Creative Technology Institute | Re-Education Through Labour | Trance | Rough Trade Records |
| 11 | Fourwaycross | Moment of Pain | Home | Motiv Communications |
| 12 | Fun Boy Three | The Pressure of Life (Takes the Weight Off the Body) | Waiting | Chrysalis |
| 13 | Billy Bragg | Levi Stubbs' Tears | Talking with the Taxman about Poetry | Elektra |
| 14 | X-Teens | Penny | X-Teens | Dolphin Records |
| 15 | Diamanda Galás | This Is the Law of the Plague | The Divine Punishment | Mute Records |
| 16 | The Hair and Skin Trading Company | Kak | JO in Nine G Hell | Situation Two/Beggars Banquet Records Ltd. |
| 17 | The Magnetic Fields | The Desperate Things You Make Me Do | Get Lost | Merge Records |
| 18 | Velocity Girl | The All-Consumer | ¡Simpatico! | Sub Pop |
| 19 | Tom Waits | Earth Died Screaming | Beautiful Maladies | Island Records |
| 20 | Swans | Breathing Water | World of Skin | Young God Records |
| 21 | Sebadoh | Careful | Bakesale | Subpop |
| 22 | Scrawl | See | Velvet Hammer | Simple Machines |
| 23 | Mission of Burma | Tremelo | The Horrible Truth About Burma | Ace of Hearts Records / Ryko |
| 24 | Opium Den | Renaissance | Diary of a Drunken Sun | Hearafter Records |
| 25 | Shudder to Think | Love Catastrophe | Get Your Goat | Dischord |
| 26 | The Legendary Pink Dots | The Grain Kings | Canta Mien Tras Puedas | Play It AGain Sam Records |
| 27 | Kraftwerk | Sex Objekt (Razormaid Mix) | Düsseldorf Philipshalle | Capitol |
| 28 | Mecca Normal | Excalibur | Who Shot Elvis? | Matador Records |
| 29 | Miranda Warning | Hair Like a Waterfall | Twelve Speed Pop | Presto! Records |
