1. Bjork Homogenic
2. Geneva Further
3. The Verve Urban Hymns
4. Erykah Badu Baduism
5. Gene Drawn To The Deep End
6. Spiritualized Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
7. Radiohead OK Computer
8. Portishead Portishead
9. Depeche Mode Ultra
10. Belle And Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister

Coming Close: Blur Blur, Catherine Wheel Adam & Eve, Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole, Erasure Cowboy, INXS Elegantly Wasted, Mansun Attack Of The Grey Lantern, Monaco Music For Pleasure, Primal Scream Vanishing Point, The Prodigy The Fat Of The Land, Suede Coming Up (US Release April 1997)

And the Flop Of The Year Award goes to .... U2 Pop.

Coming Close: (in alphabetical order) Belle And Sebastian The Stars Of Track And Field, Bjork Hunter and Unravel, Catherine Wheel Future Boy, The Chemical Brothers Block Rocking Beats, Depeche Mode Insight, Erasure In My Arms, Gene Long Sleeves For The Summer, Geneva Temporary Wings and Further, Hal featuring Gillian Anderson Extremis (Qattara Remix Edit), INXS Building Bridges and We Are Thrown Together, Nine Inch Nails The Perfect Drug, Orbital The Saint, Radiohead Paranoid Android, Roni Size/Reprazent Brown Paper Bag, Suede Saturday Night, Supergrass Cheapskate, The Verve The Drugs Don't Work, and White Town Your Woman