What Are Your Favorite Albums From 1996

Regarding hip-hop we were into this. Hip hop ended in '95 for me personally but this is still a jam:

 

I haven't even seen my top two listed yet:

1. Jason & the Scorchers - Clear Impetuous Morning
2. Hoodoo Gurus - In Blue Cave
3. Midnight Oil - Breathe
4. Steve Earle - I Feel Alright
5. R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi

 

No but I'll check it out.

ABoneDroneCrone was my second Sheila Chandra album after owning Monsoon for about 10 years at that point. I saw ABoneDroneCrone at a Borders and bought it unheard because I like Monsoon so much. Boy what a surprise, a pleasant one though.

 

I forgot to mention another that just missed the list that I bought back then, Afro Celt Sound System's first album.

 

Phish - Billy Breathes
Beck - Odelay
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hot

 

Porcupine Tree - Signify
Tool - Aenima
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Take It From The Man!
King's X - Ear Candy
Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle
Radio Massacre International - Republic
Finisterre - In Limine
Talitha Qumi - Despre Cuvinte
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Devil Doll - Dies Irae
Ghost - Lama Rabi Rabi
Holy River Family Band ‎– Haida Deities
Kula Shaker - K
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Miriodor - Elastic Juggling
Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving
Bondage Fruit - II

 

1996 must not have been a big year in music for me but I did find 10 albums I really enjoy, in alphabetical order:
1. The Afghan Whigs - Black Love
2. Beck - Odelay
3. Johnny Cash - Unchained
4. Steve Earle - I Feel Alright
5. Fountains Of Wayne - Fountains Of Wayne
6. GBV - Under The Bushes Under The Stars
7. Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
8. R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
9. Weezer - Pinkerton
10. Wilco - Being There

 

Beats, Rhymes, and Life - A Tribe Called Quest
Born on a Pirate Ship - Barenaked Ladies
Odelay - Beck
If You’re Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian
Telegram - Björk
About to Choke - Vic Chesnutt
Recovering the Satellites - Counting Crows
Stakes Is High - De La Soul
Beautiful Freak - the Eels
The Score - The Fugees
K - Kula Shaker
Car Button Cloth - The Lemonheads
Colossal Head - Los Lobos
No Doy - .moe
Who Can You Trust - Morcheeba
Moseley Shoals - Ocean Colour Scene
Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle - Olivia Tremor Control
No Code - Pearl Jam
Billy Breathes - Phish
Evil Empire - Rage Aginst the Machine
New Adventures in HiFi - REM
Harmacy - Sebadoh
One Chord to Another - Sloan
Becoming X - Sneaker Pimps
Fuzzy Logic - Super Furry Animals
Aenima - Tool
Second Toughest in the Infants - Underworld
Being There - Wilco
Pinkerton - Weezer
Broken Arrow - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

 

The 90s was a great decade for music. 1996 was the year some amazing ground breaking albums were released.

Sublime- Sublime
Korn- Life is Peachy
Tupac- All Eyez on Me
Johnny Cash- Unchained
Nirvana- Muddy Banks
Marilyn Manson- Anti-Christ Super Star
Cake- Fashion Nugget
STP- Tiny Music
Alice in Chains- Unplugged
Tool- Aenima

 

great year

1: belle and sebastian - if you're feeeling sinister
2: regurgitator - tu-plang
3: beck - odelay
4: tool - aenima
5: you am i - hourly, daily
6: dj shadow - endtroducing
7: magic dirt - friends in danger
8: bluebottle kiss - fear of girls
9: wilco - being there
10: gillian welch - revival
11: flaming lips - transmissions from the satellite heart
12: weezer - pinkerton
13: chemical brothers - surrender
14: spiderbait - ivy and the big apples
15: the fugees - the score
16: daft punk - homework
17: 2pac - all eyez on me
18: pearl jam - no code
19: rem - new adventures in hi-fi
20: super furry animals - fuzzy logic

 

Johnny Cash- Unchained

Lou Reed- Set the Twilight Reeling

Probably my least favorite Cash American album and the Lou album is pretty far from the top for his albums. I enjoyed it a lot more at the time than I do now. But I think these are the only two '96 albums I still own.