The complet list of those who made the cut and those who nearly did.
The top 40
1 My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
2 U2: Achtung Baby
3 A House: I Am The Greatest TIE
3 The Radiators: Ghostown TIE
5 Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
6 Microdisney: The Clock comes down the Stairs
7 Rollerskate Skinny: Horsedrawn Wishes
8 The Pogues: Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
9 The Undertones: The Undertones
10 Whipping Boy: Heartworm
11 Ash: 1977
12 The Blades: Raytown Revisited
13 Thin Lizzy: Live and Dangerous
14 U2: The Joshua Tree
15 Therapy?: Troublegum
16 Planxty: Planxty
17 David Holmes: Lets Get Killed
18 Stars Of Heaven: Speak Slowly
19 Stiff Little Fingers: Inflammable Material
20 The Revenants: Horse of a Different Colour TIE
20 Stars of Heaven: Sacred Heart Hotel TIE
22 U2: Boy
23 The Blades: Last Man In Europe
24 My Bloody Valentine: Isn't Anything
25 Sinead O'Connor: I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got
26 Van Morrison: Moondance
27 Snow Patrol: Eyes Open
28 Divine Comedy: Promenade TIE
28 Rory Gallagher: Live In Europe TIE
30 Van Morrison: It's Too Late To Stop Now
31 BellX1: Music In Mouth TIE
31 The Cranberries: Everybody Else Is Doing It ... TIE
33 The Frames: For The Birds TIE
33 Something Happens: Stuck Together with God's Glue TIE
35 Martin Hayes & Denis Cahill: Live In Seattle TIE
35 High Llamas: Hawaii TIE
35 The Undertones: Hypnotised TIE
38 Damien Rice: O
39 The Pogues: If I Should Fall From Grace With God
40 Microdisney: Crooked Mile
The next 53
41 Ash: Free All Angels
42 That Petrol Emotion: Chemicrazy
43 Marc Carroll: World On A Wire
44 Horslips: Book of Invasions
45 Golden Horde: Golden Horde
46 The Frank And Walters:Grand Parade
47 The Divine Comedy: Casanova
48 The Boomtown Rats:In The Long Grass
49 Into Paradise: For No One
50 Taste: On the Boards
51 Fatima Mansions:Viva Dead Ponies
52 Rory Gallagher: Irish Tour 1974
53 The Four of Us: Classified Personal
54 Nick Kelly: Between Trapezes
55 Into Paradise: Churchtown
56 The Frank And Walters: Trains, Boats And Planes
57 Van Morrison: Avalon Sunset
58 Revelino: Revelino
59 Divine Comedy: Liberation
60 Fionn Regan: The End of History
61 U2: All That You Can't LeaveBehind
62 Power Of Dreams: Immigrants, Emigrants and Me
63 Gemma Hayes: Night on my Side
64 Van Morrison: Tupelo Honey
65 Horslips: The Tain
66 Cane 141: Garden Tiger Moth
67 Duke Special: Songs from the Deep Forest
68 U2: The Unforgettable Fire
69 The Virgin Prunes: If I Die, I Die
70 That Petrol Emotion: Manic Pop Thrill
71 Simple Kid: 1
72 Andy Irvine & Paul Brady:Andy Irvine & Paul Brady
73 Them: The Angry Young Them
74 Snow Patrol: Final Straw
75 Julie Feeney: 13 Songs
76 Rory Gallagher: Tattoo
77 David Kitt: The Big Romance
78 Van Morrison: Veedon Fleece
79 A House: I Want Too Much
80 Starjets: God Bless the Starjets
81 The Frames: Dance the Devil
82 Snow Patrol: It's All Fun and Games until Someone Loses an Eye
83 Van Morrison: St Dominic's Preview
84 The Stunning: Paradise In The Picturehouse
85 The Boomtown Rats: Tonic for the Troops
86 Sinead O'Connor: The Lion And The Cobra
87 Mary Coughlan: Under the Influence
88 Therapy?: Infernal Love
89 The Outcasts: Self Conscious Over You
90 The Immediate: Towers &Clouds
91 The Would Bes: Silly Songs for Cynical People
92 The Tycho Brahe: Love/Life
93 The Thrills: So Much for the City
