What Are Your Favorite Albums From 1996

Must be. All released in 1986 I believe.

 

Johnny Cash - Unchained
Motörhead - Overnight Sensation
R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
Patti Smith - Gone Again

 

1. Lyle Lovett | The Road to Ensenada
2. Robert Earl Keen | No. 2 Live Dinner
3. Cowboy Junkies | Lay It Down
4. Phish | Billy Breathes
5. The Tragically Hip | Trouble At The Henhouse
6. Sublime
7. Squirrel Nut Zippers | Hot
8. The Afghan Whigs | Black Love
9. Johnny Cash | Unchained
10. Firewater | Get Off The Cross, We Need The Wood For The Fire

 

Wow, lots of great stuff from 1996! Here is my top ten favorites in order:

1. Weezer - Pinkerton
2. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
3. Suede - Coming Up
4. Trash Can Sinatras - A Happy Pocket
5. Pet Shop Boys - Bilingual
6. Lightning Seeds - Dizzy Heights
7. The Beloved - X
8. Ride - Tarantula
9. Belle & Sebastian - Tiger Milk
10. They Might Be Giants - Factory Showroom

 

Sorry, these old eyes read my lists wrong. Here's the correct list from a decade later:

Interstate City – Dave Alvin
Dead Man Walking: Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture
Colossal Head – Los Lobos
two letter words: live 1994 – Richard Thompson Band
You? Me? Us? – Richard Thompson
Revival – Gillian Welch

 

How could I forget DAFT PUNK's HOMEWORK?! What a great album, I still have my 1996 CD version, cranked it yesterday when the nephews asked to hear some music

 

Puffy's debut album - AmiYumi

"Asia no Junshin", their debut single from this album, sold over a million copies.

 

Cocteau Twins - Milk & Kisses
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Grant Lee Buffalo - Copperopolis
Porcupine Tree - Signify
Ghost - Lama Rabi Rabi
Orbital - Insides
Jorge Reyes - Mort Aux Vaches
Acid Mother's Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - st
Alio Die - Suspended Feathers
Arlo Guthrie - Mystic Journey

 

Dang! How'd I forget that one? Great live record.

 

Only 5:
ZZ Top - Rhytmeen
Brian Setzer Orchestra - Guitar Slinger
Beck - Odelay
Prince - Chaos & Disorder
Prince - Emancipation
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The Beatles - Anthology II
The Beatles - Anthology III

 

1) Vertigo - Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Joel McNeely, composer Bernard Herrmann
The greatest recording I've heard of the greatest film score of all time.
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Odelay - Beck
You? me? Us? - Richard Thompson
Doctor Came at Dawn - Smog
New Moon Daughter - Cassandra Wilson
Walking on Locusts - John Cale
The Monk and the Abbess - Meredith Monk and Hildegard von Bingen
Unchained - Johnny Cash
New Adventures in HiFi - REM
Being There - Wilco

 

Quadrophenia (Remix / Remaster) - The Who

Hearing this in such amazing clarity was just a revelation. Up to that point, I'd been using my dad's incredibly well-played Track original and a dub of a UK Track cassette. Chalk and cheese and became a gateway for me. I was struggling at University (in Brighton oddly enough) at the time and would spend hours on the beach listening to it on a clumsy portable CD Walkman.

 

My 10 favourites, chronologically:

Tori Amos - Boys For Pele
Nick Cave - Murder Ballads
Lush - Lovelife
Orbital - In Sides
Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
Placebo - Placebo
Pet Shop Boys - Bilingual
Suede - Coming Up
R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

 

I always liked this one....from 1996....currently playing

 

1. Bill Frisell - Nashville
2. Diana Krall - All For You
3. Ben Sidran - Mr. P’s Shuffle
4. Johnny Cash - Unchained
5. Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters - Grateful Heart
6. Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O’Connor - Appalachia Waltz
7. Jerry Garcia, David Grisman - Shady Grove
8. Junior Wells - Come On In This House

 

Wilco - Being There
Suede - Coming Up
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music...
That Thing You Do! (Soundtrack)
Jason Falkner - Presents Author Unknown

 

Wilco's Being There comes up a lot, and I totally agree, as with REM's New Adventures and Weezer's Pinkerton

Also: The Cranberries "To the Faithful Departed", Stereolab "Emperor Tomato Ketchup"

 

Another Top 10 of 1996 I forgot. My favorite Bill Frisell, too.

 

Great year in my music collection, many favorites still, the brilliant one in my long time avatar from OTC, my favorite Stereolab album, three (!) great records from Brian Jonestown Massacre, one of my favorite Sixteen Horsepower records, Steve Earle, Spoon's cool debut on Matador, the second amazing record from Tricky (and Martina), Wilco making the transition to a big-time band, Richard Davies best solo record, Bowery Electric with one of the definitive electro-dub-trip-hop records of the 90s, Gastr del Sol, Cul De Sac, DJ Shadow, Cibo Matto, brilliant modern krautrock from Kreidler, Silver Jews hitting their stride on the road to greatness, Rachel's with two stunning neo-classical releases, Failure, Girls Against Boys, Belle and Sebastian, the Auteurs recording their statement record with Steve Albini, Bardo Pond, the great debut from American Analog Set, Mazzy Star, Veda Hille (below), Screaming Trees, Jon Spencer, just goes on and on. 1995 and 1997 are better for me, but 1996 is still a pretty amazing year ...

 

The Beatles - Anthology 2
The Beatles - Anthology 3
Donovan - Sutras
The Rutles - Archaeology
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hot

 

Unremarkable year, IMHO.

But Dust by Screaming Trees is a great, great album

 

Most definitely the year of Kula Shaker's K

 

Scatman John - Everybody Jam

 

One of the best years ever for hip hop. Off the top of my head I would add

The Roots- Illadelph Halflife
Redman- Muddy Waters
Heltah Skeltah- Nocturnal
Nas- It Was Written
Juggaknots- The Juggaknots

 

Beck - Odelay