Favorite Albums of 1996?
An off year somewhat, which allows for my indie favorities to really shine through.
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Introducing.... Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island Cibo Matto - Viva La Women Belle And Sebastian - Tigermilk/If You're Feeling Sinister (who can choose?) Guided By Voices - Under the Bush, Under the Stars Cat Power - What Would the Community Think? Nick Cave - Murder Ballads Maxwell - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Low - The Curtain Hits the Cast Outkast - ATLiens Trans Am - s/t Beck - Odelay Gastr del Sol - Upgrade and Afterlife Dirty Three - Horse Stories Bjork - Telegram Smog - The Doctor Came At Dawn Ghost - Lama Rabi Rabi Kool Keith - Dr. Octogonecologist DJ Shadow - Endtroducing Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats Fiona Apple - Tidal Digital Underground - Future Rhythm Me'shell Ndegeocello - Peace Beyond Passion Built to Spill - The Normal Years The Lilys - Better Can't Make Your Life Better De La Soul - Stakes Are High The Melvins - Stag Neil Young - Dead Man (st) |
What I listened to in high school:
Amorphis - Elegy Future Sound of London - Dead Cities Orbital - In Sides Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants Discoveries I made as an adult: Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I dEUS - In a Bar, Under the Sea Einsturzende Neubauten - Ende Neu Porcupine Tree - Signify Type O Negative - October Rust |
Definitely my least favorite year of the 90s. Awful. It can be deceiving when you see so many great albums on my list, but only a half dozen of them sold much. I chose 1996 originally because I thought it'd be a pretty simple year to compile considering that it's stuck in a weird crack between eras. The period between 1987-1994 is a monster project to undertake, given the massive amount of stellar groundbreaking music there, marking the golden age of both what was called alternative rock (or indie, college, underground, etc) and hip-hop, the mingling of "happy rap" and conscious rap which evolved that genre into a major format. After 1996, neo-soul emerged to fill the conscious gap that gangster rap abandoned, and more abstract stuff like post-rock and electronica superceded the tepid gristle of what they were telling us was "modern rock". 1996 is the year that Lollapalooza finally became irrelevant. Ticketmaster and Clear Channel won. The rest of us had to shelter in place with our nascent noises still coming up from the underground, waiting out the Matchboxes and Bushes of the humorless, imagination-bereft fleets flying overhead.
I swear, if it wasn't for CMJ and the at-that-time still-running college radio station, I may have lost all hope. But obviously I love the music I listed, and I wish more people were listening to it. Actually I may have chosen 1996 because some of these artists (Gorky's, B&S, NHM) have a habit of coming to mind on rainy autumn afternoons. There is one other silver lining, which I should probably mention before Stu shows up. If you grind up Nu Metal CDs into a fine enough powder, they make pretty good ruffage for liberty caps. |
Originally Posted by Torgo (Post 2245999)
dEUS - In a Bar, Under the Sea
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Originally Posted by Jinnistan (Post 2246023)
That's one on my stand-by list. Very cool and interesting band. "Theme From Turnpike" is the ****e.
I struggled a bit with this year, but I feel like I'd struggle even more with '97 and '98. Thanks, Fred Durst and Lou Pearlman. |
Originally Posted by Torgo (Post 2246029)
I struggled a bit with this year, but I feel like I'd struggle even more with '97 and '98. Thanks, Fred Durst and Lou Pearlman.
Actually, I may dislike 1995 even more, come to think about it. It was all a pretty dry period for awhile. At least it gave me a chance to shore up my jazz collection. In my old RT jazz thread, I mentioned how Tortoise was the only logical heir of the jazz tradition in the 90s. And kosmische as well. No wonder they topped my list. |
seemed like an off year but then I look at my list and there is a lot of hell yes for me. still have about half of them on vinyl
1 Neurosis -Through Silver In Blood 2 Unwound - Repetition 3 Harvey Milk - Courtesy and Good Will 4 Country Teasers - Satan Is Real Again 5 Oblivians - Popular Favorites 6 Arcwelder - Entropy 7 Nick Cave-Murder ballads 8 Brainbombs-Obey 9 Fishbone - Chim Chim's Bad Ass Revenge-completely underrated and awesome 10 Godflesh - Songs Of Love And Hate 11 peter jefferies-Elevator Madness 12 Girls Against Boys – **House Of GVSB 13 Avail-4am friday 14 Bloodthirsty Butchers-s/t 15 godheadSilo - Skyward In Triumph 16 The Showcase Showdown - Appetite Of Kings 17. 16-dropout 18 Six Finger Satellite - Paranormalized 19 Belle And Sebastian – If You're Feeling Sinister |
Originally Posted by Sprague Dawley (Post 2246035)
9 Fishbone - Chim Chim's Bad Ass Revenge-completely underrated and awesome
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Man, I missed a whole bunch of post-rock stuff because I just don't have my music organized in any kind of chronological sense. These are well worth considering...
Cul De Sac - China Gate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJkLdDNcGA0 Quickspace - s/t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seNjMwOhiCg Rasputina - Thanks For the Ether https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjSncJwKf6M Magnog - s/t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axs3xDzYNkA Flying Saucer Attack - In Search of Spaces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqmosqVr5QA Bowery Electric - Beat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgVa_O4JdHo Critters Buggin - Host https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK1IfOi3tqA |
Re: Favorite Albums of 1996?
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
Tragically Hip - Trouble at the Henhouse Soundgarden - Down on the Upside Porno For Pyros - Good God's Urge Sloan - One Chord To Another Beck - Odelay Screaming Trees - Dust REM - New Adventures in HiFi Weezer - Pinkerton Lemonheads - Car Button Cloth Wilco - Being There Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister Smashing Pumpkins - The Aeroplane Flies High Not a great year. |
Originally Posted by crumbsroom (Post 2246421)
Tragically Hip - Trouble at the Henhouse
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If any of you like podcasts, you should check out The Album Years. Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness pick a year and geek out over their favorite albums from it.
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I'm not ashamed to admit my love for First Band on the Moon by The Cardigans
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Originally Posted by Jinnistan (Post 2246433)
Don't, man. Not like this.
Not one of their best, but you know, it's The Hip, man. And 1996 sucks. |
Originally Posted by Captain Terror (Post 2246450)
I'm not ashamed to admit my love for First Band on the Moon by The Cardigans
Originally Posted by crumbsroom (Post 2246451)
And 1996 sucks.
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Originally Posted by Jinnistan (Post 2246573)
"Lovefool" is very cute, nice Blondie pastiche.
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