Top 77 Albums of 1996

  ARTIST ALBUM LABEL
1  The Cardigans  Life  Minty Fresh Records
2  Beck  Odelay  DGC
3  Cibo Matto  Viva! La Woman  Warner Brothers
4  Semisonic  Great Divide  MCA
5  Stereolab  Emperor Tomato Ketchup  Elektra
6  Komeda  The Genius of Komeda  Minty Fresh/North of No South
7  Bikini Kill  Reject All American  Kill Rock Stars
8  Ani DiFranco  Dilate  Righteous Babe Records
9  Sleater-Kinney  Call the Doctor  Chainsaw Records
10  The Cardigans  First Band on the Moon  Mercury/Trampolene/Stockholm
11  The Descendents  Everything Sucks  Epitaph
12  Soul Coughing  Irresitible Bliss  Slash/Warner Brothers
13  Tullycraft  Old Traditions, New Standards  Harriet Records
14  Lush  Lovelife  4AD/Warner Brothers
15  12 Rods  Gay?  12 Rods Enterprises, Ltd.
16  Golden Smog  Down By the Old Mainstream  Rykodisc
17  Pulp  Different Class  Island Records
18  Ruby  Salt Peter  Creation/Work Records
19  David Gray  Sell, Sell, Sell  EMI Records
20  Dylan Hicks  Won  No Alternative/TRG Records
21  Land of the Loops  Bundle of Joy  Up
22  Unun  Super Shiny Dreams  Bad Taste USA
23  Cloudberry Jam  Providing the Atomosphere  North of No SOuth
24  various  The Trip Hop Test, Part 3  Grand Royal
25  Luscious Jackson  Fever In, Fever Out  Grand Royal
26  Low  The Curtain Hits the Cast  Vernon Yard
27  Guided By Voices  Under the Bushes, Under the Stars  Matador
28  February  Even the Night Can't Tell You From the Stars  self-release
29  Robyn Hitchcock  Moss Elixir  Warner Brothers
30  Olivia Tremor Control  Music from the Unrealized Film  Flydaddy
31  Cub  Box of Hair  Lookout!
32  De La Soul  Stakes is High  Tommy Boy
33  Dub Narcotic Sound System  Boot Party  K
34  Ash 1977  Reprise
35  Brainiac  Hissing Prigs in Static Couture  Touch and Go
36  Mad Dog Loose  Material Sunset  Bang! Records
37  16 Horsepower  Sackcloth 'n' Ashes  A&M Records
38  Sebadoh  Harmacy  SubPop
39  The Honeydogs  Everything, I Bet You  TRG/October
40  Cows  Whorn  Amphetamine Reptile
41  Walt Mink  El Producto  Atlantic Records
42  DJ Shadow  Endtroducing...DJ Shadow  Mo Wax
43  Balloon Guy  The West Coast Shakes  Generator/Warner Brothers
44  Firewater  Get Off the Cross...We Need the Wood for Fire  Jetset
45  Greazy Meal  Visualize World Greaze  self-release
46  His Name is Alive  Stars on E.S.P.  4AD
47  Space  Spiders  Gut Records
48  The Beatifics  How I Learned to Stop Worrying  No Alternative/TRG
49  Strawdogs  John Perkins, John Perkins  SMA Records
50  Wilco  Being There  Reprise
51  A Tribe Called Quest  Beats and Rhymes and Life  Jive
52  Squirrel Nut Zippers  Hot  Mammoth
53  Elvis Costello and the Attractions  All This Useless Beauty  Warner Brothers
54  Palace Music  Arise Therefore  Drag City
55  Butter 08  Butter  Grand Royal
56  Stuart Davis  Nomen Est Numen  Triad Entertainment
57  DoublePlusGood  "The Winding Song"  Sire/Warner Brothers
58  Fitz of Depression  Swing  K
59  Chimera  Earth Loop  Grass
60  Arcwelder  Entropy  Touch and Go
61  The Peechees  Do the Math  Kill Rock Stars
62  The Fugees  The Score  Ruffhouse/Columbia
63  The Promise Ring  30 Degrees Everywhere  Jade Tree
64  Saucer  Saucer  TRG/Spanish Fly
65  Willie Wisely  She  October/TRG
66  Me'shell Ndegeo'cello  Peace Beyond Passion  Maverick/Sire/Reprise
67  Guv'nor  The Hunt  Merge
68  Los Lobos  Colossal Head  Warner Brothers
69  Chisel  8 AM All Day  Gern Blandsten
70  The Chemical Brothers  "Setting Sun" CD5  Astralwerks
71  Sukpatch  "Carving Counties" 7"  Slabco
72  Ween  12 Golden Country Greats  Elektra
73  Punchdrunk  A Message From the Cockpit  Veto Records
74  Fastbacks  New Mansions in Sound  SubPop
75  Man or Astro-Man?  Experiment Zero  Touch and Go
76  Orange 9mm  Tragic  Atlantic
77  The Brian Setzer Orchestra  Guitar Slinger  Interscope