Updated December 31, 2007

After the completion of the Decade series in 1992, I compiled an annual "Best Of The Year" tape/disc beginning in 1993. Each tape/disc contained approximately 20 tracks of my personal favorites of the past 12 months. Beginning in 1998, 24 top tracks of the year became the standard. Beginning in 2006, all entries were created on digital files. Listed below is a track listing of each entry in the "Year End" series.

1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
2005	2006	2007	-	-	-

1993 recorded March 20, 1994

Rank	Artist	Title	Album
1	Depeche Mode	I Feel You	Songs Of Faith And Devotion
2	Dead Can Dance	The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove	Into The Labyrinth
3	Clannad	Na Laethe Bhi	Banba
4	The Beloved	Sweet Harmony	Conscience
5	Bel Canto	Mornixuur	Shimmering Warm And Bright
6	Sting	Fields Of Gold	Ten Summoner's Tales
7	New Order	Regret	Republic
8	Duran Duran	Ordinary World	Duran Duran
9	Patrick O'Hearn	Down Hill Racer	The Private Music Of Patrick O'Hearn
10	Depeche Mode	Walking In My Shoes	Songs Of Faith And Devotion
11	New Order	Times Change	Republic
12	Cocteau Twins	Theft And Wandering Around Lost	Four Calendar Cafe
13	Duran Duran	Come Undone	Duran Duran
14	The Beloved	Dream On	Conscience
15	Bryan Ferry	All Tomorrow's Parties	Taxi
16	The Cranberries	Linger	Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
17	10,000 Maniacs	Noah's Dove	Our Time In Eden
18	A-ha	Locust	Memorial Beach
19	Xymox	Love Thrills	Headclouds
20	Phil Collins	We Fly So Close	Both Sides

1994 recorded February 6, 1995

Rank	Artist	Title	Album
1	Pink Floyd	High Hopes	The Division Bell
2	Deep Forest	Sweet Lullaby (Ambient Mix)	Deep Forest
3	Sarah McLachlan	Fumbling Towards Ecstasy	Fumbliing Towards Ecstasy
4	Sarah McLachlan	Possession (Acoustic)	Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
5	Dead Can Dance	Rakim	Toward The Within
6	Lightning Seeds	Perfect	Jollification
7	Crash Test Dummies	Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm	God Shuffled His Feet
8	Eden	Dreamwheel	Healingbow
9	Elektric Music	TV	Esperanto
10	Bruce Springsteen	The Streets Of Philadelphia	Philadelphia (Soundtrack)
11	Cocteau Twins	Know Who You Are At Every Age	Four Calendar Cafe
12	Elektric Music	Kissing The Machine	Esperanto
13	Bryan Ferry	The 39 Steps	Mamouna
14	Vangelis	Tears In Rain	Blade Runner (Soundtrack)
15	Bryan Ferry	Which Way To Turn	Mamouna
16	William Orbit	Into The Paradise	Strange Cargo III
17	Everything But The Girl	Missing	Amplified Heart
18	The Cranberries	Zombie	No Need To Argue
19	Morrissey & Siouxsie	Interlude (Instrumental Version)	CD single
20	Laurie Anderson	The Puppet Motel	Bright Red
21	Robbie Robertson	Ghost Dance	The Native Americans

1995 recorded December 30, 1995

Rank	Artist	Title	Album
1	Patrick O'Hearn	Liberty	Trust
2	Mike Oldfield	Only Time Will Tell	The Songs Of Distant Earth
3	Mike Oldfield	Let There Be Light	The Songs Of Distant Earth
4	Patrick O'Hearn	Two Continents	Trust
5	Peter Gabriel & Deep Forest	While The Earth Sleeps	Strange Days (Soundtrack)
6	Enya	Athair Ar Neamh	The Memory Of Trees
7	Cocteau Twins	Cherry Coloured Funk	Otherness
8	Camouflage	Crime	Bodega Bohemia
9	Camouflage	Close	Bodega Bohemia
10	Delerium	Metaphor	Semantic Spaces
11	Bill Nelson	Roses And Rocketships	Practically Wired
12	Vangelis	Monastery Of La Rabida	1492-Conquest Of Paradise (Soundtrack)
13	Enya	The Memory Of Trees	The Memory Of Trees
14	Cocteau Twins	Rilkean Heart	Twinlights
15	Mike Oldfield	Hibernaculum	The Songs Of Distant Earth
16	October Project	Return To Me	October Project
17	Tears For Fears	Sketches Of Pain	Raoul And The Kings Of Spain
18	Maire Brennan	Misty Eyed Adventures	Misty Eyed Adveentures
19	Human League	House Full Of Nothing	Octopus
20	Red Flag	Inner Sea	The Lighthouse
21	China Crisis	One Wish Too Many	Warped By Success
22	Tears For Fears	Los Reyes Catolicos (Reprise)	Raoul And The Kings Of Spain

1996 recorded January 4, 1997

Rank	Artist	Title	Album
1	In The Nursery	Woman	Deco
2	Strange Cargo	Million Town	Hinterland
3	Lori Carson & Graeme Revell	Fall In The Light	Strange Days (Soundtrack)
4	Strange Cargo	The Name Of The Wave	Hinterland
5	Single Gun Theory	Motherland	Flow, River Of My Soul
6	Torch Song	Field Of View	Toward The Unknown Region
7	Patrick O'Hearn	Faith And Endurance	Metaphor
8	Caroline Lavelle	Turning Ground	Spirit
9	Vangelis	Ask The Mountains	Voices
10	Vangelis	P.S.	Voices
11	Bobby McFerrin	Common Threads	Medicine Music
12	Erasure	Rock Me Gently	Erasure
13	Enya	Anywhere Is	The Memory Of Trees
14	Channel Light Vessel	Footsteps	Excellent Spirits
15	Vangelis	Prelude	Voices
16	Patrick O'Hearn	Crossing The Divide	Metaphor
17	Everything But The Girl	Mirrorball	Walking Wounded
18	Clannad	Croi Croga	Lore
19	Tangerine Dream	Sad Merlin's Sunday	Goblin's Club

1997 recorded January 4, 1998

Rank	Artist	Title	Album
1	Tangerine Dream	Vanishing Blue	The Dream Roots Collecton
2	Delerium	Silence	Karma
3	Yello	Magnetic	Pocket Universe
4	Jean-Michel Jarre	Oxygene 13	Oxygene 7 - 13
5	Yello	Celsius	Pocket Universe
6	Tangerine Dream	Valley Of The Sun (Edit)	The Dream Roots Collection
7	Delerium	Heaven's Earth	Karma
8	Justin Hayward	Broken Dream	View From The Hill
9	Clan Of Xymox	This World	Hidden Faces
10	Loreena McKennitt	Dante's Prayer	The Book Of Secrets
11	Clan Of Xymox	It's All A Lie	Hidden Faces
12	Lightning Seeds	Imaginary Friends	Dizzy Heights
13	Depeche Mode	Barrel Of A Gun	Ultra
14	Delerium	Duende	Karma
15	Jean-Michel Jarre	Oxygene 8	Oxygeme 7 - 13
16	Clan Of Xymox	November	Hidden Faces
17	Enya	Only If...	Paint The Sky With Stars
18	Genesis	Uncertain Weather	Calling All Stations
19	Depeche Mode	Useless	Ultra

1998 recorded January 2, 1999

Rank	Artist	Title	Album
1	Madonna	Frozen	Ray Of Light
2	In The Nursery	Poema	Lingua
3	Craig Armstrong	This Love	The Space Between
4	Madonna	Has To Be	CD single
5	In The Nursery	The Living Tongue	Lingua
6	Madonna	Drowned World/Substitute For Love	Ray Of Light
7	Massive Attack	Teardrop	Mezzanine
8	Tangerine Dream	Fairfax	The Hollywood Years Vol. 1
9	Peter Gabriel	I Grieve	City Of Angels (Soundtrack)
10	Madonna	Ray Of Light	Ray Of Light
11	Madonna	The Power Of Goodbye	Ray Of Light
12	David Helpling	End Of An Era	Between Green And Blue
13	Clannad	Let Me See	Landmarks
14	Depeche Mode	Only When I Lose Myself	The Singles '86 - '98
15	Craig Armstrong	Rise	The Space Between
16	David Helpling	Worlds	Between Green And Blue
17	The Cure	More Than This	The X Files: The Music
18	Massive Attack	Risingson	Mezzanine
19	In The Nursery	Sobriety I	Asphalt
20	David Helpling	Plateau	Between Green And Blue
21	Craig Armstrong	Glasgow	The Space Between
22	Clannad	Of This Land	Landmarks
23	Mike Oldfield	Man In The Rain	Tubular Bells III
24	Disciples Of Astaroth	The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove	The Carnival Within-A Tribute To Dead Can Dance

1999 recorded January 7, 2000

Rank	Artist	Title	Album
1	Maire Brennan	Peacemaker	Whisper To The Wild Water
2	Yes	Homeworld (The Ladder)	The Ladder
3	Genesis	The Carpet Crawlers 1999	CD single
4	David Helpling	All Things End	Sleeping On The Edge Of The World
5	Maire Brennan	Rinne Tu	Whisper To The Wild Water
6	David Sylvian	Darkest Dreaming	Dead Bees On A Cake
7	Hybrid	Sinequanon	Wide Angle
8	Peter Ulrich	Nocturne	Pathways And Dawns
9	Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke	Meltdown	The Insider (Soundtrack)
10	Brendan Perry	Voyage Of Bran	Eye Of The Hunter
11	Electronic	Make It Happen	Twisted Tenderness
12	Peter Ulrich	Time And A Word	Pathways And Dawns
13	David Sylvian	Remembering Julia	CD single
14	Vangelis	Movement X (Epilogue)	El Greco
15	Hybrid	If I Survive	Wide Angle
16	Soma	The Olmec Enigma	Stygian Vistas
17	David Sylvian	I Surrender	Dead Bees On A Cake
18	Chicane	Saltwater (Original Mix)	CD single
19	Yello	Squeeze Please	Motion Picture
20	Russell Mills / Undark	Canyon: Split Asunder	Pearl + Umbra
21	Garbage	The Trick Is To Keep Breathing	Version 2.0
22	Hybrid	Beachcoma	Wide Angle
23	In The Nursery	Camera Lucida	The Man With A Movie Camera
24	Jocelyn Montgomery w/ David Lynch	Virdissima	Lux Vivens

2000 recorded December 31, 2000

Rank	Artist	Title	Album
1	Recoil	Black Box (Complete)	CD single
2	William Orbit	Piece In The Old Style 3	Pieces In A Modern Style
3	A-ha	Minor Earth Major Sky	Minor Earth Major Sky
4	Enya	Only Time	A Day WIthout Rain
5	Moby	Porcelain	Play
6	Recoil	Vertigen	Liquid
7	William Orbit	Ogive Number 1	Pieces In A Modern Style
8	Lightning Seeds	Cigarettes & Lies	Tilt
9	A-ha	I Wish I Cared	Minor Earth Major Sky
10	Madonna	Gone	Music
11	Recoil	Breath Control	Liquid
12	Hybrid	Kill City	Live Angle: Sydney
13	Jean-Michel Jarre	Love Love Love	Metamorphosis
14	William Orbit	In A Landscape	Pieces In A Modern Style
15	Madonna	Amazing	Music
16	Moby	When It's Cold I'd Like To Die	Moby Songs 1993-1998
17	Kraftwerk	Expo 2000 (Kling Klang Mix 2000)	CD single
18	R.E.M.	The Great Beyond	CD single
19	Sarah Brightman	Eden	Eden
20	Lightning Seeds	If Only	Tilt
21	Moby	Living	Moby Songs 1993-1998
22	Jean-Michel Jarre	Rendez-Vous A Paris	Metamorphosis
23	Recoil	Jezebel	Liquid
24	The Cure	The Loudest Sound	Bloodflowers

2001 recorded December 30, 2001

Rank	Artist	Title	Album
1	The Chameleons	Miracles And Wonders	Why Call It Anything
2	Patrick O'Hearn	So Flows The Current	So Flows The Current
3	Delerium	Myth	Poem
4	Euphoria	The Road	Euphoria
5	Delerium	Inner Sanctum	Poem
6	Tangerine Dream	The Spirit Of The Czar	Dream Mixes III
7	The Chameleons	Lutfhansa	Why Call It Anything
8	New Order	Vicious Streak	Get Ready
9	Euphoria	Beautiful My Child	Beautiful My Child
10	Tangerine Dream	The Comfort Zone	Dream Mixes III
11	Delerium	Aria	Poem
12	The Chameleons	Anyone Alive?	Why Call It Anything
13	Faithless	One Step Too Far	Outrospective
14	Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm	Like Pictures-Pt. 2	Drawn From Life
15	New Order	Crystal	Get Ready
16	Tangerine Dream	Diamonds And Dust	Dream Mixes III
17	David Sylvian	Cover Me With Flowers	Everything And Nothing
18	Leftfield	21st Century Poem	Leftism
19	A-ha	The Company Man	Minor Earth Major Sky
20	Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard	Now We Are Free	Gladiator (Soundtrack)
21	Roland Orzabal	Low Life	Tomcats Screaming Outside
22	Euphoria	Wait For You	Euphoria
23	Ivy	Edge Of The Ocean	Long Distance
24	Tangerine Dream	Blue Spears	Dream Mixes III

2002 recorded December 25, 2002

Rank	Artist	Title	Album
1	Angelo Badalamenti	Mulholland Drive	Mulholland Dr. (Soundtrack)
2	Hans Zimmer	Gortoz A Ran-J'Attends	Black Hawk Down (Soundtrack)
3	Enya	May It Be	Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (Soundtrack)
4	Telepopmusik	Breathe	Genetic World
5	New Order	Player In The League	CD single
6	Conjure One	Sleep	Conjure One
7	U2	Electrical Storm (Orbit Mix)	CD single
8	Moby	Harbour	18
9	Moby	Whispering Wind	Play: The B Sides
10	Faithless	Crazy English Summer	Outrospective
11	Dirty Vegas	Days Go By	Dirty Vegas
12	Conjure One	Tears From The Moon	Conjure One
13	Beth Orton	Yesterday's Gone	SuperPinkyMandy
14	Conjure One	Make A Wish	Conjure One
15	A-ha	Lifelines	Lifelines
16	Mike Oldfield	Tres Lunas	Tres Lunas
17	Conjure One	Center Of The Sun	Conjure One
18	St Germain	Pont Des Arts	Tourist
19	Faithless	Flowerstand Man (Remix)	CD single
20	Bedrock	Beautiful Strange (Bedrock's Ambient Beats)	CD single
21	Craig Armstrong	Inhaler	As If To Nothing
22	Peter Gabriel	No Way Out	Up
23	Delerium	Innocente (Mr. Sam's The Space Between Us Mix)	Odyssey: The Remix Collection
24	In The Nursery	Cathedral Of Thoughts	Engel

2003 recorded December 24, 2003

Rank	Artist	Title	Album
1	Hybrid	True To Form	Morning Sci-Fi
2	Finley Quaye	Dice	CD single
3	Howard Shore	Evenstar	The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (Soundtrack)
4	Camouflage	Perfect	Sensor
5	Massive Attack	Everywhen	100th Window
6	Hybrid	Marrakech	Morning Sci-Fi
7	Hybrid	Gravastar	Morning Sci-Fi
8	Camouflage	You Turn	Sensor
9	Clan Of Xymox	One More Time	Farewell
10	Hybrid	Visible Noise	Morning Sci-Fi
11	Diane Arkenstone	Adrift	Jewel In The Sun
12	Beth Orton	Roll The Dice	SuperPinkyMandy
13	Hybrid	Blackout	Morning Sci-Fi
14	Patrick O'Hearn	Approaching Summit	Beautiful World
15	Madonna	Love Profusion	American Life
16	Dave Gahan	I Need You	Paper Monsters
17	Johnny Cash	Hurt	The Man Comes Around
18	Hybrid	We Are In Control	Morning Sci-Fi
19	Steve Hackett	Strutton Ground	To Watch The Storms
20	Kraftwerk	La Forme	Tour De France Soundtracks
21	The Orb	The Land Of Green Ginger	Bicycles & Tricycles
22	Tangerine Dream	Royal Way Of Privacy	Mota Atma
23	Clan Of Xymox	There's No Tomorrow (Fading Colours Mix)	CD single
24	Diane Arkenstone	Skin 2 Skin	Jewel In The Sun

2004 recorded December 26, 2004

Rank	Artist	Title	Album
1	Blank & Jones	The Hardest Heart (Ambient Mix)	Relax
2	Air	Run	Talkie Walkie
3	The Gathering	In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated	The Lotus Eaters: Tribute To Dead Can Dance
4	Blank & Jones	Counting Clouds	Relax
5	Orbital	One Perfect Sunrise	Blue Album
6	Zero 7	When It Falls	When It Falls
7	Air	Biological	Talkie Walkie
8	Jean-Michel Jarre	Aerozone	Aero
9	Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy	I Asked For Love	Immortal Memory
10	Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy	Abwoon (Our Father)	Immortal Memory
11	Moya Brennan	Bright Star	Two Horizons
12	Craig Armstrong	Childhood 2	Piano Works
13	Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules	Mad World	Donny Darko (Soundtrack)
14	Yello	Tiger Dust	The Eye
15	Jean-Michel Jarre	Equinoxe 4	Aero
16	Blank & Jones	Unknown Treasure	Relax
17	Amethystium	Tinuviel	Odonata
18	Shawn McDonald	Gravity	Simply Nothing
19	Blank & Jones	Perfect Silence	Monument
20	Tears For Fears	Call Me Mellow	Everybody Loves A Happy Ending
21	Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy	Sailing To Byzantium	Immortal Memory
22	Patrick O'Hearn	Adagio From Fantasy For A Gentleman	Adagio: A Windham Hill Collection
23	Onetwo	Signals	Item
24	Air	Universal Traveller	Talkie Walkie

 

2005 recorded December 27, 2005

Rank	Artist	Title	Album
1	Coldplay	Speed Of Sound	X & Y
2	Sia	Breathe Me	Colour The Small One
3	Brian Eno	Under	Another Day On Earth
4	Kate Bush	King Of The Mountain	Aerial
5	Home Video	We	Citizen (EP)
6	Conjure One	Pilgrimage	Extraordinary Ways
7	Kate Bush	An Architect's Dream	Aerial
8	Depeche Mode	Precious	Playing The Angel
9	Coldplay	Talk	X & Y
10	New Order	Jetstream	Singles
11	Ulrich Schnauss	Passing By	Far Away Trains Passing By
12	Blank & Jones	Closer To Me	Relax Edition Two
13	Conjure One	Extraordinary Ways	Extraordinary Ways
14