The Best Albums Of 1996

Top 50

1. House of GVSB - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
2. White light white heat white trash - SOCIAL DISTORTION
3. In the long still night - GALLON DRUNK
4. Black love - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
5. Dust - SCREAMING TREES
6. New adventures in hi-fi - R.E.M.
7. Tales of Great Neck glory - SAMMY
8. Limbo - THROWING MUSES
9. The light user syndrome - THE FALL
10. Electriclarryland - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
11. Murder ballads - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
12. Interpreter - JULIAN COPE
13. C'mon kids - THE BOO RADLEYS
14. All eyez on me - 2PAC
15. Second toughest in the infants - UNDERWORLD
16. Now I got worry - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
17. Conquistador - 13 ENGINES
18. It was written - NAS
19. Pre-millennium tension - TRICKY
20. Fever in fever out - LUSCIOUS JACKSON
21. Rubbing doesn't help - MAGNAPOP
22. Reject all American - BIKINI KILL
23. So wound - JALE
24. Sackcloth 'n' ashes - 16 HORSEPOWER
25. Harmacy - SEBADOH
26. Placebo - PLACEBO
27. Odelay - BECK
28. Ironman - GHOSTFACE KILLAH
29. Autobiography of Mistachuck - CHUCK D
30. Endtroducing - DJ SHADOW
31. Secret swingers - VERSUS
32. We are puppets - TIGER
33. Blastronaut - THE LEE HARVEY OSWALD BAND
34. Melting in the dark - STEVE WYNN
35. Good god's urge - PORNO FOR PYROS
36. Dance hall at Louse point - J. PARISH & P.J. HARVEY
37. Emperor tomato ketchup - STEREOLAB
38. Lovelife - LUSH
39. Snow job - JACK FROST
40. Amazing disgrace - THE POSIES
41. Shot - THE JESUS LIZARD
42. Call the doctor - SLEATER-KINNEY
43. Now we're even - SMART WENT CRAZY
44. Karate - KARATE
45. I am beautiful - JUNE
46. Devil's road - THE WALKABOUTS
47. Frontierland - ED KUEPPER
48. In a bar, under the sea - DEUS
49. Darling's out of cocktail - MR. GLORIA'S HEAD
50. Infliction - SCHEER

Also recommended:

Auscultate - SALT, Please kill yourself so I can rock - LOVE 666, Animal's rights - MOBY, Reasonable doubt - JAY-Z, VI : Return of the real - ICE T, Scared straight - NEW BOMB TURKS, The cult of Ray - FRANK BLACK, Car button cloth - THE LEMONHEADS, Start packing - RUN ON, Store in a cool place - ABLE TASMANS, Among my swan - MAZZY STAR, Myra Lee - CAT POWER, This is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about - MODEST MOUSE, Telephono - SPOON, Under the bushes under the stars - GUIDED BY VOICES, Welcome to the infant freebase - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, Looking in the shadows - THE RAINCOATS, Black eye - FLUFFY, Year of the rat - NY LOOSE, This world and body - MARION, Tha Doggfather - SNOOP DOGGY DOGG, Filth pig - MINISTRY, Gato negro - 7 YEAR BITCH, Near life experience - COME, Sunburnt - MARTIN PHILLIPPS AND THE CHILLS, 60 watt silver lining - MARK EITZEL, The conqueror worm - X-TAL, 1977 - ASH, All the nations airports - ARCHERS OF LOAF, An instinct for detection - LIONROCK, Dead cities - THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON, Hissing prigs in static couture - BRAINIAC, Party store - 10 HIGH, Bob Mould - BOB MOULD, English and French - HOPPER, Gilded stars and zealous hearts - VELOCITY GIRL, Pinkerton - WEEZER, Electric juices - FUZZY, Don't tell me now - THE HALO BENDERS, The natural bridge - SILVER JEWS, Massachusetts - SCUD MOUNTAIN BOYS, On Avery Island - NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL, Dusk at cubist castle - THE OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL, Quickspace - QUICKSPACE, We are Urusei Yatsura - URUSEI YATSURA, Destination love: Live! At Cold Rice - MAKE UP, Paris in April - APRIL MARCH, Crash landing in teen heaven - SlNCOLA, If you're feeling sinister / Tigermilk - BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, The week never starts round here - ARAB STRAP, Arise therefore - PALACE MUSIC, The doctor came at dawn - SMOG, How I quit smoking - LAMBCHOP, The curtain hits the cast - LOW, Being there - WILCO, The golden age - CRACKER, Get off the cross...We need the wood for the fire - FIREWATER, Not in my airforce - ROBERT POLLARD, Take it from the man! / Their satanic majesties' second request - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, They spent their wild youthful days in the glittering world of the salons - SWIRLIES, Exploded drawing - POLVO, Jawbox - JAWBOX, Firewater - SILKWORM, Dilate - ANI DIFRANCO, ATLiens - OUTKAST, Richard D. James - APHEX TWIN, Feed me weird things - SQUAREPUSHER, Prince Blimey - RED SNAPPER, Trans Am - TRANS AM, Horse stories - DIRTY THREE, Beautiful freak - EELS, Radar Bros. - RADAR BROS., Soundtracks for the blind - SWANS, Amanita - BARDO POND, Hang to dry - A SUBTLE PLAGUE, Floored - PUSHERMAN, Seasick - IMPERIAL TEEN, Flash - RED FIVE, No room for humans - SERVOTRON, Experiment zero - MAN OR ASTRO-MAN?, I was the king, I really was the king - ANIMALS THAT SWIM, Between the 1 and the 9 - PATTY ROTHBERG, The burdens of being upright - TRACY BONHAM, Jitter juice - 12 ROUNDS, Keen - SOUNDS FROM THE GROUND, Voices from the new music - TELSTAR PONIES, Off speed and in there - DRAIN, Blue one - MAKE BELIEVE, Burn mother burn - SUICIDAL FLOWERS, Wrath of the math - JERU THE DAMAJA, The Don Killuminati: The 7 day theory - MAKAVELI, Illadelph halflife - THE ROOTS, In sides - ORBITAL, Londinium - ARCHIVE, Gravity kills - GRAVITY KILLS, Load - METALLICA, Down on the upside - SOUNDGARDEN, Tiny music - STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, Aenima - TOOL, No code - PEARL JAM, The gray race - BAD RELIGION, Sublime - SUBLIME, Oedipus scmoedipus - BARRY ADAMSON, Star maps - POSSUM DIXON, Everything I long for - HAYDEN, Scars from falling down - STEEL POLE BATH TUB, Millions now living will never die - TORTOISE, Scaramanga - HEAVE, Strand - THE SPINANES, Ain't my lookout - THE GRIFTERS, Naughty little doggie - IGGY POP, Gone again - PATTI SMITH, The love show - AN MAGNUSON, The score - FUGEES, Evil empire - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, Valentino - LONG FIN KILLIE, Kontrapunkt - DONE LYING DOWN, Fuzzy logic - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, Your world against fire - TORCHER, Copperopolis - GRANT LEE BUFFALO, Defenders of the universe - DIG, Pioneer soundtracks - JACK, Go to the sugar altar - THE KELLEY DEAL 6000, Free peace sweet - DODGY, Stakes is high - DE LA SOUL, Beats, rhymes and life - A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, Trip 66 - TRIP 66, Weasels - ALCOHOL FUNNYCAR, Saturnalia - THE WEDDING PRESENT, Everything must go - MANIC STREET PREACHERS, Coming up - SUEDE, Tarantula - RIDE, So far - ALEX REECE, Hell on earth - MOBB DEEP, High/low - NADA SURF, A taste for bitters - CHOKEBORE, Better can't make your life better - LILYS, Bender - CRAZY ALICE, Expecting to fly - THE BLUETONES, Ugly/Beautiful - BABY BIRD, Paradise don't come cheap - NEW KINGDOM, Way beyond blue - CATATONIA, Nightclub - THE YUMMY FUR, Casanova - THE DIVINE COMEDY, Night of the wolverine - DAVE GRANEY & THE CORAL SNAKES, Music for Egon Schiele - RACHEL'S, ADM - SNAPPER, In search of... - FU MANCHU, Stag - MELVINS, Destruction by definition - THE SUICIDE MACHINES, One chord to another - SLOAN, Mic city sons - HEATMISER, After murder park - THE AUTEURS, Songs for a blue guitar - RED HOUSE PAINTERS, Return of the frog queen - JEREMY ENIGK, Beheaded - BEDHEAD, Who can you trust? - MORCHEEBA, Trailer park - BETH ORTON, About to choke - VIC CHESNUTT, Son of Walter - THE BEVIS FROND, Hourly, daily - YOU AM I, Backyard barbecue broadcast - GIANT SAND, The herd - WIPERS, From the muddy banks of the Wishkah - NIRVANA, Sinister waltz - THE FALL