Top Albums of 1996





Rank All Time Rank Artist Album Genres
1
50
Beck Odelay Alternative Rock
2
79
DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... Experimental Hip Hop, Instrumental Hip Hop, Plunderphonics
3
201
Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister Chamber Pop, Twee Pop
4
272
Fugees The Score Conscious Hip Hop
5
416
Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die Experimental Rock, Post-Rock
6
524
Weezer Pinkerton Alternative Rock, Power Pop
7
582
Wilco Being There Alt-Country, Country Rock, Roots Rock
8
590
Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt Boom Bap
9
641
Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup Art Pop, Experimental Rock
10
694
Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go Britpop
11
763
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album IDM
12
770
Sepultura Roots Groove Metal, Nu Metal
13
830
2Pac All Eyez on Me Gangsta Rap
14
840
Fiona Apple Tidal Piano Rock, Singer/Songwriter
15
867
Tool Aenima Alternative Metal
16
884
Belle and Sebastian Tigermilk Chamber Pop, Twee Pop
17
1079
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads Alternative Rock, Singer/Songwriter
18
1110
Eels Beautiful Freak Alternative Rock, Indie Pop
19
1159
Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar Industrial Metal, Industrial Rock
20
1364
R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi Alternative Rock
21
1393
Sublime Sublime Alternative Rock, Ska Punk
22
1430
Ash 1977 Britpop, Pop Punk
23
1517
Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst Abstract Hip Hop
24
1551
Underworld Second Toughest in the Infants Techno
25
1647
Maxwell Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Contemporary R&B, Neo-Soul
26
1657
Sleater-Kinney Call the Doctor Indie Rock, Riot Grrrl
27
1690
Ani DiFranco Dilate Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Folk Rock
28
1824
Orbital In Sides Ambient Techno
29
1831
OutKast ATLiens Hip Hop
30
1858
Suede Coming Up Britpop, Glam Rock
31
1927
Patti Smith Gone Again Rock, Singer/Songwriter
32
1960
Pearl Jam No Code Alternative Rock
33
1985
Everything But the Girl Walking Wounded Trip Hop
34
2058
Screaming Trees Dust Grunge
35
2112
Super Furry Animals Fuzzy Logic Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Power Pop
36
2187
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Now I Got Worry Alternative Rock, Garage Punk, Punk Blues
37
2230
The Olivia Tremor Control Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle Neo-Psychedelia, Psychedelic Pop
38
2279
The Divine Comedy Casanova Chamber Pop
39
2307
Spice Girls Spice Dance-Pop
40
2388
Social Distortion White Light, White Heat, White Trash Punk Rock
41
2435
Sloan One Chord to Another Alternative Rock, Power Pop
42
2439
Sheryl Crow Sheryl Crow Pop Rock, Roots Rock
43
2493
Beth Orton Trailer Park Folk Pop, Singer/Songwriter
44
2500
Lambchop How I Quit Smoking Alt-Country, Americana, Chamber Pop
45
2581
Tricky Pre-Millennium Tension Experimental Hip Hop, Trip Hop
46
2607
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood Atmospheric Sludge Metal
47
2634
LTJ Bukem Logical Progression Atmospheric Drum and Bass
48
2657
Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire Rap Metal
49
2701
Gillian Welch Revival Americana, Contemporary Folk
50
2830
Dirty Three Horse Stories Post-Rock
51
2921
Squarepusher Feed Me Weird Things Drill and Bass, Drum and Bass

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock
dEUS In a Bar, Under the Sea Alternative Rock, Art Rock
Tricky Nearly God Experimental Hip Hop, Trip Hop
Placebo Placebo Alternative Rock
Kula Shaker K Britpop, Neo-Psychedelia
The Cardigans First Band on the Moon Indie Pop, Pop Rock
Fatboy Slim Better Living Through Chemistry Big Beat
Nirvana From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah Grunge
Chico Science & Nacao Zumbi Afrociberdelia Mangue Beat
Ghostface Killah Ironman Boom Bap, Hardcore Hip Hop
Steve Earle I Feel Alright Alt-Country, Americana, Country Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Cibo Matto Viva! La Woman Art Pop, Shibuya-kei
Lamb Lamb Trip Hop
Lil' Kim Hard Core Hip Hop
Brainiac Hissing Prigs in Static Couture Art Punk, Experimental Rock, Noise Rock
Jeff Mills Live at the Liquid Room, Tokyo Detroit Techno
Labradford Labradford Post-Rock
Johnny Cash Unchained Americana
Fountains of Wayne Fountains of Wayne Power Pop
The Roots Illadelph Halflife Boom Bap, Hardcore Hip Hop
Jamiroquai Travelling Without Moving Acid Jazz, Funk
R.L. Burnside A Ass Pocket of Whiskey Blues Rock, Electric Blues
Cheikh Lo Ne La Thiass Mbalax
Nicolette Let No One Live Rent Free in Your Head Trip Hop
Gastr del Sol Upgrade & Afterlife Experimental Rock, Post-Rock
Oumou Sangare Worotan Wassoulou
Ocean Colour Scene Moseley Shoals Britpop
16 Horsepower Sackcloth 'n' Ashes Gothic Country
Ali Akbar Khan Legacy Hindustani Classical Music
Pet Shop Boys Bilingual Synthpop
Girls Against Boys House of GVSB Indie Rock, Post-Hardcore
Sebadoh Harmacy Indie Rock
Arto Lindsay Mundo Civilizado Art Pop, Brazilian Music
Fun Lovin' Criminals Come Find Yourself Alternative Rock
Los Lobos Colossal Head Rock
Black Tape for a Blue Girl Remnants of a Deeper Purity Neoclassical Darkwave
Nas It Was Written Boom Bap, Gangsta Rap
Swans Soundtracks for the Blind Experimental Rock, Post-Rock
The Who Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 Hard Rock
bob hund Omslag: Martin Kann Indie Rock
BabyBird Ugly Beautiful Indie Pop
The Lemonheads Car Button Cloth Alternative Rock, Power Pop
The Boo Radleys C'mon Kids Indie Rock
Cat Power What Would the Community Think Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter