| | Artist | Song | Album | Company |
| 1 | Magnetic Fields | Swinging London | Holiday | Feel Good All Over |
| 2 | Go Betweens | Was There Anything I Could Do? | Bellavista Terrace (Best of) | Beggars Banquet |
| 3 | Game Theory | I Turned Her Away | Real Nighttime | Rational Records |
| 4 | The Chills | Night of Chill Blue | Brave Words | Flying Nun |
| 5 | The Field Mice | Holland St. | The Glass Arcade LP | Sarah Records |
| 6 | Another Sunny Day | Rio | The Glass Arcade LP | Sarah Records |
| 7 | Eternal | Sleep | The Glass Arcade LP | Sarah Records |
| 8 | The Sweetest Ache | Tell Me How It Feels | The Glass Arcade LP | Sarah Records |
| 9 | Beat Happening | Christmas | The Glass Arcade LP | Sarah Records |
| 10 | Boyracer | Buffalo | In Full Color | Zero Hour |
| 11 | Mighty Lemon Drops | Happy Head | NME c86 | Rough Trade |
| 12 | The Soup Dragons | Pleasantly Surprised | NME c86 | Rough Trade |
| 13 | Bodenes | Therese | NME c86 | Rough Trade |
| 14 | A Witness | Sharpened Sticks | NME c86 | Rough Trade |
| 15 | The Pastels | Breaking Lines | NME c86 | Rough Trade |
| 16 | Primal Scream | Velocity Girl | NME c86 | Rough Trade |
| 17 | Shop Assistants | It's Up to You | NME c86 | Rough Trade |
| 18 | The Close Lobsters | Firestation Towers | NME c86 | Rough Trade |
| 19 | Big Flame | New Way (Quick Wash and a Brush Up with Liberation Theology) | NME c86 | Rough Trade |
| 20 | We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It | Console | NME c86 | Rough Trade |
| 21 | McCarthy | Celestial City | NME c86 | Rough Trade |
| 22 | Alien Sex Fiend | Breakdown and Cry (Lay Down and Die - Goodbye) | Acid Bath | Epitaph |
| 23 | Bassholes | I Can Tell By the Way You Smell | Blue Roots | In the Red Records |
| 24 | The Cassandra Complex | Beyond Belief | Hello America | Rouska Records |
| 25 | Dumptruck | Something's Burning | D Is for Dumpdruck | Big Time Records (America) |
| 26 | Eton Crop | Chessplayers Are Good Blokes | Yes Please Bob | Ediesta Records |
| 27 | Flux of Pink Indians | Very Funny | The Fucking Dicks Treat Us Like Cunts | |
| 28 | Guadalcanal Diary | Michael Rockefeller | Jamboree | Elektra/Asylum Records |
| 29 | Holly Beth Vincent | Honalu | Holly and the Italians | Virgin |
| 30 | In the Nursery | To the Faithful | L'esprit | Wax Trax! |
| 31 | Joy Division | Decades | Closer | Factory Communications Ltd. |
| 32 | King Loser | Shadow on My Trail | Sonic Super Free Hi-Fi | Turbulence Records |
| 33 | Loop | Torched | Fade Out | Rough Trade |
| 34 | The Micronotz | I Want Your Soul | 40 Fingers | Homestead Records (LSR Records) |
| 35 | The Neon Judgement | Chinese Black | A Man Ain't No Man When A Man Ain't Got No Horse, Man. | Casablanca Record and Filmworks (Play It Again Sam Records) |
| 36 | Obituaries | Living at Home | Obituaries | Highgate Records |
| 37 | The Ropers | You Have a Light | All the Time | Slumberland Records |
