Best Alternative Rock Albums of 1996


01
Tool
Ænima

4.44
6522 votes
02
Weezer
Pinkerton

4.35
7408 votes
03
Lullaby for the Working Class
Blanket Warm

4.35
13 votes
04
Failure
Fantastic Planet

4.34
1456 votes
05
hide (JPN)
Psyence

4.3
27 votes
06
Robert Pollard
Not In My Airforce

4.27
44 votes
07
In Flames
The Jester Race

4.27
2812 votes
08
Smog
Kicking a Couple Around

4.25
36 votes
09
Fishmans
Long Season

4.24
446 votes
10
Apoptygma Berzerk
7

4.23
15 votes
11
Stereolab
Fluorescences

4.23
28 votes
12
Belle and Sebastian
If You're Feeling Sinister

4.23
2559 votes
13
Low
Transmission

4.21
21 votes
Bob Hund
Omslag: Martin Kann

4.2
15 votes
15
Team Dresch
Captain My Captain

4.18
25 votes
16
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Take It From The Man!

4.18
306 votes
17
You Am I
Hourly, Daily

4.18
17 votes
18
Luna Sea
Style

4.15
33 votes
19
Guided by Voices
Under the Bushes Under the Stars

4.14
322 votes
20
Silver Jews
The Natural Bridge

4.14
131 votes
21
The Afghan Whigs
Honky's Ladder

4.13
16 votes
22
Modest Mouse
This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About

4.12
4980 votes
23
Rex
C

4.12
13 votes
24
The Afghan Whigs
Black Love

4.11
344 votes
25
Beck
Odelay

4.11
1361 votes
26
Fabrizio De Andre
Anime salve

4.09
16 votes
27
Cerberus Shoal
...and Farewell to Hightide

4.09
16 votes
28
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request

4.08
330 votes
29
Girls Against Boys
House of GVSB

4.08
74 votes
30
Texas Is The Reason
Do You Know Who You Are?

4.07
487 votes
31
Kingpin Skinny Pimp
King Of Da Playaz Ball

4.07
69 votes
32
Stereolab
Cybele's Reverie

4.06
16 votes
33
Radiohead
Street Spirit (Fade Out)

4.06
125 votes
34
dEUS
In a Bar, Under the Sea

4.06
89 votes
35
Rachel's
Music for Egon Schiele

4.06
81 votes
36
Manic Street Preachers
Everything Must Go

4.05
410 votes
37
The Olivia Tremor Control
Music From The Unrealized Film Script

4.05
656 votes
38
Belle and Sebastian
Tigermilk

4.04
1254 votes
39
Noir Desir
666.667 Club

4.04
42 votes
40
The Living End
It's for Your Own Good

4.03
16 votes
41
N.O.D.
Niggaz of Destruction

4.03
67 votes
42
The Refreshments
Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy

4.02
44 votes
43
Tori Amos
Boys for Pele

4.02
277 votes
44
Stereolab
Emperor Tomato Ketchup

4.01
315 votes
45
Cracker
The Golden Age

4
26 votes
46
The Violet Burning
The Violet Burning

4
18 votes
47
Long Fin Killie
Valentino

4
18 votes
48
Lambchop
How I Quit Smoking

4
17 votes
49
Rachel's
The Sea and the Bells

3.99
102 votes
50
Tortoise
Millions Now Living Will Never Die

3.99
497 votes
51
Brainiac
Hissing Prigs in Static Couture

3.98
99 votes
52
I Mother Earth
Scenery & Fish

3.98
124 votes
53
Dirty Three
Horse Stories

3.98
155 votes
54
bloodthirsty butchers
kocorono

3.97
70 votes
55
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Thank God For Mental Illness

3.97
178 votes
56
Rollerskate Skinny
Horsedrawn Wishes

3.95
33 votes
57
Sloan
One Chord to Another

3.95
86 votes
58
Local H
As Good as Dead

3.95
519 votes
59
Wilco
Being There

3.94
433 votes
60
Eels
Beautiful Freak

3.94
876 votes
61
Bedhead
Beheaded

3.94
144 votes
62
Whiskeytown
Faithless Street

3.93
22 votes
63
Lovesliescrushing
Xuvetyn

3.93
64 votes
64
The Sonora Pine
I

3.93
14 votes
65
Screaming Trees
Dust

3.93
296 votes
66
Cafe Tacuba
Avalancha de Exitos

3.93
20 votes
67
Fiona Apple
Tidal

3.92
540 votes
68
Swirlies
They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons

3.9
206 votes
69
Modest Mouse
Interstate 8

3.9
774 votes
70
Fishmans
Kuuchuu Camp

3.89
132 votes
71
Low
The Curtain Hits the Cast

3.89
489 votes
72
Sleater-Kinney
Call the Doctor

3.89
163 votes
73
Ks Choice
Paradise in Me

3.89
36 votes
74
No Knife
Drunk on the Moon

3.89
27 votes
75
The Wrens
Secaucus

3.89
118 votes
76
June of 44
Tropics and Meridians

3.88
65 votes
77
Judas Iscariot
Thy Dying Light

3.88
61 votes
78
Ani DiFranco
Dilate

3.88
120 votes
79
The Van Pelt
Stealing From Our Favorite Thieves

3.88
24 votes
80
Chavez
Ride The Fader

3.87
47 votes
81
Labradford
Labradford

3.87
72 votes
82
Tommy Wright III
On The Run

3.86
48 votes
83
Dave Matthews Band
Crash

3.86
378 votes
84
The Boo Radleys
C'mon Kids

3.86
22 votes
85
Guided by Voices
Sunfish Holy Breakfast

3.86
36 votes
86
Bells on Trike
Bells on Trike

3.86
18 votes
87
Silkworm
Firewater

3.86
64 votes
88
Red House Painters
Songs for a Blue Guitar

3.86
458 votes
89
Karate
Karate

3.85
51 votes
90
L'arc-en-Ciel
True

3.85
27 votes
91
The Olivia Tremor Control
The Giant Day

3.85
20 votes
92
Spiderbait
Ivy and the Big Apples

3.84
32 votes
93
Gorgoroth
Antichrist

3.84
418 votes
94
Braid
The Age of Octeen

3.84
126 votes
95
The Posies
Amazing disgrace

3.83
36 votes
96
Bowery Electric
Beat

3.83
132 votes
97
Archive
Londinium

3.83
84 votes
98
Cat Power
What Would the Community Think

3.82
270 votes
99
Anathema
Eternity

3.81
548 votes
100
Green Day
Bowling Bowling Bowling Parking Parking

3.81
26 votes
101
The Frames
Fitzcarraldo

3.8
46 votes
102
Suede
Coming Up

3.8
203 votes
103
Die Toten Hosen
Opium fuers Volk

3.8
30 votes
104
Morella's Forest
Super Deluxe

3.8
15 votes
105
Boys Life
Departures & Landfalls

3.8
62 votes
106
Cake
Fashion Nugget

3.8
494 votes
107
Smog
The Doctor Came at Dawn

3.79
168 votes
108
Idaho
Three Sheets to the Wind

3.79
24 votes
109
R.E.M.
New Adventures in Hi-Fi

3.79
936 votes
110
Powderfinger
Double Allergic

3.79
94 votes
111
The Promise Ring
30 Degrees Everywhere

3.79
134 votes
112
Kingpin Skinny Pimp
Skinny but Dangerous

3.79
14 votes
113
Heatmiser
Mic City Sons

3.79
274 votes
114
Regurgitator
Tu Plang

3.78
36 votes
115
Archers of Loaf
All the Nation's Airports

3.77
50 votes
116
Superdrag
Regretfully Yours

3.77
26 votes
117
Jawbox
Jawbox

3.77
92 votes
118
The Mountain Goats
Nothing for Juice

3.76
186 votes
119
Thinking Fellers Local 282
I Hope It Lands

3.75
20 votes
120
Lisa Germano
Excerpts From A Love Circus

3.75
14 votes
121
Rocketship
A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness

3.74
94 votes
122
London After Midnight
Psycho Magnet

3.74
17 votes
123
The High Llamas
Hawaii

3.73
26 votes
124
Counting Crows
Recovering The Satellites

3.72
202 votes
125
The Wallflowers
Bringing Down the Horse

3.72
162 votes
126
The Auteurs
After Murder Park

3.71
28 votes
127
Limblifter
Limblifter

3.71
21 votes
128
Ida
I Know About You

3.71
14 votes
129
PJ Harvey and John Parish
Dance Hall at Louse Point

3.71
64 votes
130
All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors
All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors

3.71
34 votes
131
Far
Tin Cans with Strings to You

3.7
98 votes
132
Soundgarden
Down on the Upside

3.7
2848 votes
133
Jeremy Enigk
Return of the Frog Queen

3.7
30 votes
134
Ash
1977

3.7
114 votes
135
Vic Chesnutt
About to Choke

3.69
13 votes
136
Paul Westerberg
Eventually

3.69
13 votes
137
Soul Coughing
Irresistible Bliss

3.68
62 votes
138
The Beautiful South
Blue Is The Colour

3.68
20 votes
139
Earth
Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons

3.67
208 votes
140
Sebadoh
Harmacy

3.66
291 votes
141
Velour 100
Fall Sounds

3.66
38 votes
142
Incubus (USA-CA)
Enjoy Incubus

3.66
307 votes
143
Barry Adamson
Oedipus Schmoedipus

3.66
16 votes
144
The Blue Nile
Peace at Last

3.66
58 votes
145
The American Analog Set
The Fun of Watching Fireworks

3.65
60 votes
146
The Cardigans
First Band on the Moon

3.65
224 votes
147
Pearl Jam
No Code

3.65
1978 votes
148
Thought Industry
Outer Space Is Just a Martini Away

3.65
34 votes
149
Duster
Christmas Dust

3.64
54 votes
150
Ocean Colour Scene
Moseley Shoals

3.64
51 votes
151
The Tragically Hip
Trouble At The Henhouse

3.64
51 votes
152
Bob Mould
Bob Mould

3.64
22 votes
153
The Smashing Pumpkins
Zero

3.64
354 votes
154
Kashmir
Cruzential

3.63
38 votes
155
Stone Temple Pilots
Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican...

3.63
1506 votes
156
Semisonic
Great Divide

3.63
70 votes
157
Ween
12 Golden Country Greats

3.63
248 votes
158
Feeder
Swim

3.63
48 votes
159
blink-182
They Came to Conquer... Uranus

3.62
79 votes
160
Eric's Trip
Purple Blue

3.62
34 votes
161
Elysian Fields
Bleed Your Cedar

3.62
17 votes
162
King's X
Ear Candy

3.61
92 votes
163
Chevelle
The Basement Tapes

3.61
18 votes
164
The Smashing Pumpkins
1979

3.6
15 votes
165
Jimmy Eat World
Static Prevails

3.59
538 votes
166
Porno For Pyros
Good God's Urge

3.59
73 votes
167
Kent
Verkligen

3.59
41 votes
168
Fountains of Wayne
Fountains Of Wayne

3.58
106 votes
169
Fun Lovin' Criminals
Come Find Yourself

3.58
51 votes
170
Gastr del Sol
Upgrade & Afterlife

3.58
45 votes
171
Skunk Anansie
Stoosh

3.57
81 votes
172
Stabbing Westward
Wither Blister Burn & Peel

3.57
131 votes
173
Cul De Sac
China Gate

3.56
16 votes
174
Neutral Milk Hotel
On Avery Island

3.55
3606 votes
175
Disco Inferno
Technicolour

3.55
22 votes
176
Matchbox Twenty
Yourself or Someone Like You

3.55
431 votes
177
The Blacktop Cadence
Chemistry For Changing Times

3.54
14 votes
178
Tocotronic
Wir Kommen Um Uns Zu Beschweren

3.53
45 votes
179
Pavement
Pacific Trim

3.53
54 votes
180
Bloodhound Gang
One Fierce Beer Coaster

3.52
199 votes
181
Arab Strap
The Week Never Starts Round Here

3.52
62 votes
182
Cat Power
Myra Lee

3.51
165 votes
183
Chokebore
A Taste For Bitters

3.5
46 votes
184
Throwing Muses
Limbo

3.5
36 votes
185
Calm (US)
Calm

3.5
32 votes
186
Bethany Curve
Skies a Crossed Sky

3.5
26 votes
187
Broken Hearts Are Blue
The Truth About Love

3.5
23 votes
188
Shihad
Shihad

3.48
28 votes
189
No-Man
Wild Opera

3.48
45 votes
190
Bikini Kill
Reject All American

3.47
69 votes
191
The Cranberries
To the Faithful Departed

3.47
175 votes
192
Judas Iscariot
The Cold Earth Slept Below

3.46
71 votes
193
Frank Black
The Cult of Ray

3.46
70 votes
194
The Halo Benders
Don't Tell Me Now

3.45
30 votes
195
They Might Be Giants
Factory Showroom

3.44
72 votes
196
Ugly Kid Joe
Menace To Sobriety

3.43
37 votes
197
Luscious Jackson
Fever In Fever Out

3.43
28 votes
198
A Minor Forest
Flemish Altruism (Constituent Parts 1993-1996)

3.43
20 votes
199
Tracy Bonham
The Burdens Of Being Upright

3.42
38 votes
200
The Verve Pipe
Villains

3.42
100 votes



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