Best Alternative Rock Albums of 1996


01
Tool
Ænima

4.44
6494 votes
02
Weezer
Pinkerton

4.35
7370 votes
03
Lullaby for the Working Class
Blanket Warm

4.33
15 votes
04
Failure
Fantastic Planet

4.33
1422 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
2790 votes
08
Apoptygma Berzerk
7

4.25
14 votes
09
Fishmans
Long Season

4.25
430 votes
10
The Divine Comedy
Casanova

4.24
39 votes
11
Belle and Sebastian
If You're Feeling Sinister

4.23
2544 votes
12
You Am I
Hourly, Daily

4.22
16 votes
13
Low
Transmission

4.21
21 votes
14
Smog
Kicking a Couple Around

4.19
39 votes
15
Stereolab
Fluorescences

4.17
26 votes
16
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Take It From The Man!

4.17
296 votes
17
Luna Sea
Style

4.16
32 votes
18
Silver Jews
The Natural Bridge

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

4.15
316 votes
20
Modest Mouse
This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About

4.13
4959 votes
21
The Afghan Whigs
Honky's Ladder

4.13
24 votes
22
Team Dresch
Captain My Captain

4.12
19 votes
23
Beck
Odelay

4.11
1353 votes
24
The Afghan Whigs
Black Love

4.1
504 votes
25
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request

4.09
318 votes
26
Stereolab
Cybele's Reverie

4.08
13 votes
27
Rachel's
Music for Egon Schiele

4.07
78 votes
28
Fabrizio De Andre
Anime salve

4.07
15 votes
29
Cerberus Shoal
...and Farewell to Hightide

4.06
18 votes
30
Manic Street Preachers
Everything Must Go

4.05
401 votes
31
Texas Is the Reason
Do You Know Who You Are?

4.05
480 votes
32
Radiohead
Street Spirit (Fade Out)

4.05
122 votes
33
The Olivia Tremor Control
Music From The Unrealized Film Script

4.05
652 votes
34
dEUS
In a Bar, Under the Sea

4.04
88 votes
35
Noir Desir
666.667 Club

4.04
40 votes
36
Belle and Sebastian
Tigermilk

4.03
1248 votes
37
Girls Against Boys
House of GVSB

4.03
66 votes
38
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Thank God For Mental Illness

4.01
166 votes
39
Lycia
Cold

4.01
45 votes
40
Tori Amos
Boys for Pele

4
265 votes
41
bloodthirsty butchers
kocorono

4
68 votes
42
Cracker
The Golden Age

4
26 votes
43
Stereolab
Emperor Tomato Ketchup

3.99
295 votes
44
Tortoise
Millions Now Living Will Never Die

3.99
490 votes
45
Rachel's
The Sea and the Bells

3.99
102 votes
46
I Mother Earth
Scenery & Fish

3.98
122 votes
47
The Refreshments
Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy

3.98
44 votes
48
Local H
As Good as Dead

3.96
492 votes
49
Brainiac
Hissing Prigs in Static Couture

3.95
97 votes
50
Dirty Three
Horse Stories

3.95
151 votes
51
Wilco
Being There

3.95
427 votes
52
The Violet Burning
The Violet Burning

3.94
18 votes
53
Eels
Beautiful Freak

3.94
858 votes
54
Sloan
One Chord to Another

3.94
84 votes
55
Bedhead
Beheaded

3.94
147 votes
56
Judas Iscariot
Thy Dying Light

3.94
55 votes
57
Screaming Trees
Dust

3.94
288 votes
58
Long Fin Killie
Valentino

3.93
38 votes
59
The Sonora Pine
I

3.93
14 votes
60
Cafe Tacuba
Avalancha de Exitos

3.93
20 votes
61
Lambchop
How I Quit Smoking

3.92
19 votes
62
Fiona Apple
Tidal

3.91
529 votes
63
Ani DiFranco
Dilate

3.91
118 votes
64
Swirlies
They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons

3.9
194 votes
65
Lovesliescrushing
Xuvetyn

3.9
66 votes
66
Fishmans
Kuuchuu Camp

3.9
129 votes
67
Modest Mouse
Interstate 8

3.9
780 votes
68
No Knife
Drunk on the Moon

3.9
24 votes
69
Silkworm
Firewater

3.89
66 votes
70
The Wrens
Secaucus

3.89
118 votes
71
Low
The Curtain Hits the Cast

3.89
489 votes
72
Ks Choice
Paradise in Me

3.89
36 votes
73
Labradford
Labradford

3.89
71 votes
74
June of 44
Tropics and Meridians

3.88
63 votes
75
The Boo Radleys
C'mon Kids

3.88
21 votes
76
The Van Pelt
Stealing From Our Favorite Thieves

3.88
50 votes
77
Sleater-Kinney
Call the Doctor

3.88
159 votes
78
Chavez
Ride The Fader

3.87
43 votes
79
Karate
Karate

3.87
46 votes
80
Guided by Voices
Sunfish Holy Breakfast

3.87
38 votes
81
Rollerskate Skinny
Horsedrawn Wishes

3.86
33 votes
82
Whiskeytown
Faithless Street

3.86
22 votes
83
Bells on Trike
Bells on Trike

3.86
18 votes
84
Dave Matthews Band
Crash

3.85
373 votes
85
L'arc-en-Ciel
True

3.85
27 votes
86
The Olivia Tremor Control
The Giant Day

3.85
20 votes
87
Braid
The Age of Octeen

3.85
126 votes
88
Roy Montgomery
Temple IV

3.85
33 votes
89
Red House Painters
Songs for a Blue Guitar

3.84
458 votes
90
The Posies
Amazing disgrace

3.83
36 votes
91
Bowery Electric
Beat

3.83
244 votes
92
Archive
Londinium

3.82
82 votes
93
Cat Power
What Would the Community Think

3.82
270 votes
94
Die Toten Hosen
Opium fuers Volk

3.81
29 votes
95
Green Day
Bowling Bowling Bowling Parking Parking

3.81
26 votes
96
Powderfinger
Double Allergic

3.81
92 votes
97
The Frames
Fitzcarraldo

3.8
46 votes
98
Spiderbait
Ivy and the Big Apples

3.8
15 votes
99
Cake
Fashion Nugget

3.8
489 votes
100
Heatmiser
Mic City Sons

3.8
278 votes
101
Smog
The Doctor Came at Dawn

3.79
168 votes
102
Idaho
Three Sheets to the Wind

3.79
24 votes
103
The High Llamas
Hawaii

3.79
24 votes
104
R.E.M.
New Adventures in Hi-Fi

3.79
916 votes
105
Suede
Coming Up

3.79
199 votes
106
The Promise Ring
30 Degrees Everywhere

3.78
135 votes
107
Regurgitator
Tu Plang

3.78
36 votes
108
The Auteurs
After Murder Park

3.77
26 votes
109
The Mountain Goats
Nothing for Juice

3.77
180 votes
110
Jawbox
Jawbox

3.77
90 votes
111
Archers of Loaf
All the Nation's Airports

3.77
47 votes
112
Boys Life
Departures & Landfalls

3.75
58 votes
113
Thinking Fellers Local 282
I Hope It Lands

3.75
20 votes
114
Lisa Germano
Excerpts From A Love Circus

3.75
16 votes
115
Superdrag
Regretfully Yours

3.74
25 votes
116
Rocketship
A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness

3.74
92 votes
117
All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors
All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors

3.72
36 votes
118
The Beautiful South
Blue Is The Colour

3.72
18 votes
119
Counting Crows
Recovering The Satellites

3.72
195 votes
120
London After Midnight
Psycho Magnet

3.72
16 votes
121
The Wallflowers
Bringing Down the Horse

3.72
158 votes
122
Limblifter
Limblifter

3.71
21 votes
123
Ida
I Know About You

3.71
21 votes
124
Soundgarden
Down on the Upside

3.7
2820 votes
125
Far
Tin Cans with Strings to You

3.69
92 votes
126
Duster
Christmas Dust

3.69
54 votes
127
Jeremy Enigk
Return of the Frog Queen

3.69
31 votes
128
Vic Chesnutt
About to Choke

3.69
13 votes
129
Ash
1977

3.69
107 votes
130
The Tragically Hip
Trouble At The Henhouse

3.68
49 votes
131
PJ Harvey and John Parish
Dance Hall at Louse Point

3.68
58 votes
132
Soul Coughing
Irresistible Bliss

3.68
57 votes
133
Eric's Trip
Purple Blue

3.67
36 votes
134
Barry Adamson
Oedipus Schmoedipus

3.67
15 votes
135
Incubus (USA-CA)
Enjoy Incubus

3.66
299 votes
136
Earth
Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons

3.66
205 votes
137
The Blue Nile
Peace at Last

3.66
58 votes
138
Pearl Jam
No Code

3.65
1962 votes
139
Sebadoh
Harmacy

3.65
285 votes
140
The Smashing Pumpkins
Zero

3.64
345 votes
141
Stone Temple Pilots
Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop

3.64
1478 votes
142
Thought Industry
Outer Space Is Just a Martini Away

3.64
33 votes
143
Semisonic
Great Divide

3.63
68 votes
144
Kashmir
Cruzential

3.63
38 votes
145
Velour 100
Fall Sounds

3.63
38 votes
146
The American Analog Set
The Fun of Watching Fireworks

3.63
48 votes
147
Cul De Sac
China Gate

3.63
16 votes
148
blink-182
They Came to Conquer... Uranus

3.62
77 votes
149
Chokebore
A Taste For Bitters

3.61
44 votes
150
Ocean Colour Scene
Moseley Shoals

3.61
49 votes
151
Chevelle
The Basement Tapes

3.61
18 votes
152
Feeder
Swim

3.61
42 votes
153
The Cardigans
First Band on the Moon

3.61
202 votes
154
Ween
12 Golden Country Greats

3.61
236 votes
155
The Blacktop Cadence
Chemistry For Changing Times

3.6
15 votes
156
Fun Lovin' Criminals
Come Find Yourself

3.6
47 votes
157
King's X
Ear Candy

3.59
90 votes
158
Porno For Pyros
Good God's Urge

3.59
70 votes
159
Jimmy Eat World
Static Prevails

3.59
529 votes
160
Kent
Verkligen

3.58
40 votes
161
Gastr del Sol
Upgrade & Afterlife

3.56
41 votes
162
Stabbing Westward
Wither Blister Burn & Peel

3.56
128 votes
163
Fountains of Wayne
Fountains Of Wayne

3.56
104 votes
164
Elysian Fields
Bleed Your Cedar

3.56
18 votes
165
Neutral Milk Hotel
On Avery Island

3.54
3600 votes
166
Matchbox Twenty
Yourself or Someone Like You

3.54
426 votes
167
Bethany Curve
Skies a Crossed Sky

3.54
13 votes
168
Calm (US)
Calm

3.54
28 votes
169
Tocotronic
Wir Kommen Um Uns Zu Beschweren

3.53
45 votes
170
Pavement
Pacific Trim

3.53
54 votes
171
Bloodhound Gang
One Fierce Beer Coaster

3.52
194 votes
172
Arab Strap
The Week Never Starts Round Here

3.52
87 votes
173
Disco Inferno
Technicolour

3.51
21 votes
174
Cat Power
Myra Lee

3.51
165 votes
175
Judas Iscariot
The Cold Earth Slept Below

3.5
66 votes
176
Throwing Muses
Limbo

3.5
36 votes
177
Broken Hearts Are Blue
The Truth About Love

3.5
23 votes
178
Morella's Forest
Super Deluxe

3.5
15 votes
179
Shihad
Shihad

3.48
28 votes
180
No-Man
Wild Opera

3.48
44 votes
181
Bikini Kill
Reject All American

3.46
66 votes
182
The Cranberries
To the Faithful Departed

3.46
169 votes
183
Luscious Jackson
Fever In Fever Out

3.45
20 votes
184
The Halo Benders
Don't Tell Me Now

3.44
27 votes
185
Longpigs
The Sun Is Often Out

3.44
18 votes
186
They Might Be Giants
Factory Showroom

3.44
70 votes
187
Tracy Bonham
The Burdens Of Being Upright

3.44
34 votes
188
Frank Black
The Cult of Ray

3.44
34 votes
189
The For Carnation
Marshmallows

3.43
22 votes
190
A Minor Forest
Flemish Altruism (Constituent Parts 1993-1996)

3.43
20 votes
191
Third Day
Third Day

3.42
18 votes
192
311
Enlarged to Show Detail

3.41
23 votes
193
Nada Surf
High/Low

3.4
333 votes
194
Gin Blossoms
Congratulations... I'm Sorry

3.39
48 votes
195
The Verve Pipe
Villains

3.38
92 votes
196
Butter 08
Butter 08

3.36
14 votes
197
The Lemonheads
Car Button Cloth

3.35
46 votes
198
Solstafir
Til Valhallar

3.35
13 votes
199
Sponge
Wax Ecstatic

3.34
70 votes
200
The Presidents of the United States of America
II

3.33
126 votes



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