pick one album from the year 1996

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on a thread last spring (?), 1996 was generally regarded as the worst year for (popular) music in recent memory. so what was the best of the worst?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm always amazed by people who know what albums come out in what years.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, i don't, actually, so dj martian to thread plz

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/dre300/e349/e3491718kv3.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

see:

defend 1996

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

DJ Shadow Endtroducing . . .

― Lee G (Lee G), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Best Selling Albums of 1996

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

The Boo Radleys, C'mon Kids (not just their best album but also Oasis' best album too)

alsorans:
Busta Rhymes, The Coming
Super Furry Animals, Fuzzy Logic
Beck, Odelay

― Neudonym, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Dr. Octagon album
Runners-up
The Roots--"Illadelph Halflife"
DJ Shadow

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

also:

FYI: Colin Larkin's Virgin Top 1000s for 1996 and 2000?

The Aloof - Sinking (east West)
Anathema - Eternity (MFN/Peaceville)
C J Bolland - The Analogue Theatre (FFRR)
Disco Inferno - Technicolour (Rough Trade)
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (Island)
Empirion - Advanced Technology (XL)
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day (Avant Garde)
Loveliescrushing - Xuvetyn (Projekt)
My Dying Bride - Like Gods of the Sun (Peaceville/ MFN)
Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood (Iron City)
Orbital - Insides (Internal)
Stina Nordenstam - Dynamite (east West)
Puressence - Traffic Jam on Memory Lane/ Puressence (Island)
The Razor Skyline - Journal of Trauma (COP International)
Sepultura - Roots (Roadrunner)
The 3rd and the Mortal - Painting on Glass (Voice of Wonder)
Tool - Aenima (Zoo)
Type O Negative - October Rust (Roadrunner)
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants (Junior Boys)
Also others

Dave Clarke - Archive One
Dead Can Dance - Spirtchaser
Endemic Void - Equations
Einsturzende Neubaten - Ende Neu
Lamb - Lamb
Omni Trio - Haunted Science
Slam - Headstates
Spring Heel Jack - 68 million shades
Swans - Soundtracks For the Blind
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
-- DJ Martian (altmartinu...) (webmail), September 3rd, 2002. (djmartian)

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh man, "Odelay", definitely. It's like everything Beck's done since is an attempt to prove to me that that album wasn't very good.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably not popular as you're intending, but great nevertheless:

Bardo Pond - _Amanita_
Dirty Three - _Horse Stories_
Stars of the Lid - _The Ballasted Orchestra_

There's others, i'm sure, but this is what jumps to mind.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

stereolab ~ emperor tomato ketchup

suede ~ coming up

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't understate that, Gareth -- it's still their best album.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Tori Amos' best album, Boys for Pele

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Odelay Odelay Odelay

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Nominees:

Soul Couging - Irresistable Bliss
Nick Cave - Murder Ballads
New Rob Robbies - Wilson's Revenge
Scrawl - Travel On, Rider
John Cale - Walking on Locusts
Miracle Legion - Portrait of a Damaged Family

The Winner:
Even though you hated it and it's now in the cutout bin - John Cale. Go buy it back.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Ocean of Sound

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Easy....

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000009AX.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://jetsetrecords.com/images/bands/firewater/twa4_firewater.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:02 (twenty-three years ago)

DJ Shadow of course

plus

Faithless 'Insomnia' (yeh yeh)
Archive 'Londinium'

both of which i loved but not so keen on now i guess

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

The Cowboy Junkies Lay It Down was definitely my favourite of 1996. Wonderful tunes. Very intimate atmosphere. A beautiful winter album for the nights at the fireplace. Margo Timmins voice stroking my ears. Pure bliss.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Los Lobos-Colossal Head and Social Distortion-White Light, White Heat, White Trash come to mind, even if neither was the artist's best 90s work. It's shame about the music of '96 really, because I have so many wonderful personal memories of that year. (Best Summer...Ever!)

― Charles McCain, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)

OMC, *How Bizarre.

No fucking contest. Unless I forgot something.

― chuck, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:13 (twenty-three years ago)

chuck, you still like OMC that much? Remarkable. (Or is this you're way of saying how bad a year it was?)

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

no, he still like OMC that much (it has aged better than Odelay I'll grant).

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi *ducks*

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

that's probably my favourite rem, james. nice choice.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

belle and sebastian "if you're feeling sinister"
tortoise "Millions Now Living Will Never Die"
stereolab "emperor tomato ketchup"

i'm sure there were more...
m.

― msp, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

jay-z's "reasonable doubt" (judging from these mp3s, i can't find a physical copy!), mobb deep's "hell on earth", my "richard d. james album" says 1996 on it and i'll stick up for low's "curtain hits the cast" since josh is gone

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

"but he said only one" pedants can just suck a manic street preacher single...

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:28 (twenty-three years ago)

sparklehorse - vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
beck - odelay
manic street preachers - everything must go
Low - the curtain hits the cast
Another aye for "New Adventures in Hi-fi"

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

what was on the rest of the los del rio album?

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

can just suck a manic street preacher single...

Pick one.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

if you're feeling sinister was from 1996? i thought it was from 1997. that's a tough one then.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Tool - Aenima

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)

album that immediately came to mind: Beck's "Odelay" THE album of '96 culturally.

I actually did a top ten albums of 1996 for the teen page of the local newspaper that year. My first! Lemme see if I can remember it.

1)Afghan Whigs, "Black Love"
2)Beck, "Odelay"
3)Bob Mould, "Bob Mould"
4)Girls Against Boys, "House Of GVSB"
ummm...crap. I can't remember. I'd probably rank the GVSB album the highest of all those now. Though I still LIKE all of them. "Boys For Pele" was on that list because I needed a girl to be on it. To be fair. I haven't heard it in ages but the dance remix of "Hey Jupiter" sounds okay in my head. The Fugees were my token rap group.

I'm fuzzy on what came out that year. The Mozz's Southpaw Grammar? or was that 1995? I like that one a lot. I thought Scream, Dracula, Scream was 1995 as well, and that kicks ass too.

OMC's "How Bizarre" is probably the single of that year. Album I can't swear by (my sister has our collective copy). Maybe. I dunno. fuck. this year is harder than 1991.

Didn't Weezer's Pinkerton come out in '96. If so, then that's my album of the year now. I think Now I Got Worry may be my fave JSBX album now, but I thought that came out in '97.

Ok, so PINKERTON, HOUSE OF GVSB, CALL THE DOCTOR, NOW I GOT WORRY, DR. OCTAGON, SOUTHPAW GRAMMAR would like all make my top ten list for that year. ODELAY too, if I'm in the right mood.

My Pick one: PINKERTON.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yes pinkerton!!

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Big up to those who remembered the Soul Coughing and Afghan Whigs records. I'm also going to vote for the REM single "E-bow the Letter" -- one of the finest things they ever did, even if the rest of the album is largely crap.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:43 (twenty-three years ago)

pinkerton is a good choice, but no
we are urusei yatsura... no
wilco - being there... no
john cale - the island years... not allowed

so...

16 horsepower - sackcloth 'n' ashes that really was something else...

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

the 1st 16hp. that's another very good choice, willem. i have got the impression our tastes are quite similar...

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah alex, i just saw you pick lucky jim ánd the tindersticks in the 1993-thread as well!

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

nothing here has redeemed the utter crapitude of this year yet!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

you're forgetting tool jess

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 23:55 (twenty-three years ago)

the Low one

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 23:56 (twenty-three years ago)

was that tool the one with the "meat through pipes" brothers quay vid?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 23:59 (twenty-three years ago)

The High Llamas' Hawaii. The Richard D. James Album.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 00:04 (twenty-three years ago)

isn't that every tool video?

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

some of them have meat through walls too

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 00:07 (twenty-three years ago)

there was 'tales from the darkside' episode like that once. I think Harry Anderson was in it.

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 00:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Another great year. My highlights (or at least, the ones I own):

Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Beck - Odelay
Anathema - Eternity
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
My Dying Bride - Like Gods of the Sun
Tool - Aenima
Type O Negative - October Rust
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
Swans - Soundtracks For the Blind
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Suede - Coming Up
Tori Amos - Boys for Pele
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I Got Worry
Faithless - Insomnia
Manic street preachers - everything must go
REM - New Adventures in Hi-fi
belle and sebastian - If you're feeling sinister
Girls Against Boys - House Of GVSB
Weezer - Pinkerton

My pick: Aenima (the meaty clip was "Stinkfist")

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

was he a magician?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 00:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I think so! ; I remember that when he moved in he was told he couldn't hang any pictures up with nails and that it turned out the apartment building was actually a monster and the garbage chute was it's mouth.

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Fred Frith Guitar Quartet - Ayaya Moses

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 00:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I still stand by Nels Cline's Chest.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 00:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Spiritual Vibes - Kotoba No Mae

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 01:19 (twenty-three years ago)

long fin killie 'valentino'

― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 01:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Sting "Mercury Falling"

― meg, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 01:40 (twenty-three years ago)

"Mundo Civilizado" by Arto Lindsay.

― frank p. jones (frank p. jones), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 02:27 (twenty-three years ago)

"Call the Doctor" Sleater-Kinney

I'd put all 104 seconds of "Little Mouth" by itself up against anything else that came out that year.

― Jesse Fox, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 07:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought that Arto Lindsay album came out in 97?

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 07:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't pick one, so I'm just going to paste this from a massive list i did of all the years in the 90s a while back, even though I have yet to hear X amount of these:

Maxwell, Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Tool, Aenima
Original Soundtrack: Trainspotting
Wilco, Being There
DJ Shadow, Entroducing...
The Fugees, The Score
Ocean Colour Scene, Moseley Shoals
Cake, Fashion Nugget
The Roots, Illadelph Halflife
Everything But the Girl, Walking Wounded
Sheryl Crow, Sheryl Crow
Aaliyah, One in a Million
Tortoise, Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Sleater-Kinney, Call the Doctor
Underworld, Second Toughest in the World of Infants
Mobb Deep, Hell on Earth
Tricky, Pre-millenium Tension/Nearly God
Lil' Kim, Hardcore
Marilyn Manson, Antichrist Superstar
Ani DiFranco, Dilate
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Now I Got Worry
Orbital, In Sides
Busta Rhymes, The Coming
Joe Henry, Trampoline
Dave Matthews Band, Crash
Weezer, Pinkerton
Super Furry Animals, Fuzzy Logic
Placebo, Placebo
Stereolab, Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Cibo Matto, Viva! La Woman
Me'Shell NdegéOcello, Peace Beyond Passion
Dr. Octagon, Dr. Octagonecologyst
Steve Earl, I Feel Alright
Beck, Odelay
Manic Street Preachers, Everything Must Go
Sebadoh, Harmacy
Jay-Z, Reasonable Doubt
Fiona Apple, Tidal
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Murder Ballads
The Promise Ring, 30 Degreees Everywhere
Ginuwine, Ginuwine...The Bachelor
Imperial Teen, Seasick
Tupac Shakur, All Eyez on Me
Blackstreet, Another Level
Olivia Tremor Control, Dusk at Cubist Castle
Sublime, Sublime
Girls Against Boys, House of GVSB
Future Sound of London, Dead Cities
Screaming Trees, Dust

― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 07:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I've killed this thread, obviously =)

― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 07:38 (twenty-three years ago)

henry's dress - bust 'em green /
rocketship - a certain smile, a certain sadness /
lush - lovelife

prob. rocketship.

― rayas blancas, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 10:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Orbital. Endtroducing. Screaming Trees. Richard D James. Good year. Man, isn't every year a good year really?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 10:03 (twenty-three years ago)

There are a lot more records I like from 1996 than 1999. For instance:

REM - New adventures in hi-fi
Nick Cave - Murder Ballads
Everything but the girl - Walking Wounded
Wilco - Being there
Blue Nile - Peace at last
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Sparklehorse - Vivadixie...

but my favourite by a mile is:

Lewis Taylor - s/t

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 10:45 (twenty-three years ago)

It's InSides, clearly.

I have a soft spot for that first Sparklehorse album as well.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 11:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Suede - Coming Up (was this 99?)
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

it was a pretty shoddy year for albums, though. Probably best of the lot was the Reactivate compilation that React Records gave us.....

― russ t, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Archers of Loaf - All the Nations Airports

― andy, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 12:35 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

we forgot cat power's what would the community think here. maybe still her best album. nude as the news definitely is still her best song in any case. 1996 was a pretty good year for music. i really don't understand what jess is talking about.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 7 August 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony: "E. 1999 Eternal"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 7 August 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Suzanne Vega -- 9 Objects of Desire. One of the most underrated records of teh decade.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 7 August 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

If had to pick one it would be Belle & Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister, but Daft Punk's Homework isn't too shoddy either.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 7 August 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/reviews/fullsize/1118.jpg

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 7 August 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

1998 makes 1996 sound like 1966.

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 7 August 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
UGK - Ridin Dirty

― scg, Saturday, 7 August 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

love that bone thugs one as well.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 7 August 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Unfortunately, Neil Young's Broken Arrow came out that summer. And Dre's Aftermath comp came out that fall.

― Chris O., Saturday, 7 August 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

2004 makes 1996 sound like 'God: The Year.'

― billstevejim, Sunday, 8 August 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

absolutely no doubt about it-
Outkast: ATLiens

― Will (will), Sunday, 8 August 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Dodgy: "Free Peace Sweet". In a league of its own.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 8 August 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

crikey.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 8 August 2004 07:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003RHD.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 8 August 2004 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Good choice, Gear!:-)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 8 August 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

1996 was the year I started High School. I'd say I prolly wouldn't have made it through that very very stressful year without Tool's Aenima (and NIN's the Downward Spiral, but that's a '94 release).

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 8 August 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

nick cave - murder ballads
alec bathgate - gold lame
beck - odelay
squirm - spastic sarcastic
dr octagon - octagynacolygist
snapper - adm
stereolab - emporer tomato ketchup
tricky - pre-millinium tension
space dust - no kissing in public
dj shadow - endtroducing
superette - tiger
jsbx - now i got worry

― chris andrews (fraew), Sunday, 8 August 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the best albums (not only form 1996):

Moose - "Live a little, love a lot"

― daavid (daavid), Sunday, 8 August 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Where's the recent 1996 poll thread?

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 15 June 2007 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

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