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Acclaimed Music Top Albums, Top Songs
Playlist Research Top Pop Hits, Top Albums
Tunecaster Top 100 Songs
Wikipedia 1996 in Music
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forty-seven albums
Tori Amos - Boys for Pele
The Archers of Loaf - All the Nations Airports
Bardo Pond - Amanita
Beck - Odelay
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Bowery Electric - Beat
Brainiac - Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
Chavez - Ride the Fader
Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman
Everything but the Girl - Walking Wounded
Gastr del Sol - Upgrade or Afterlife
His Name Is Alive - Stars on E.S.P.
Jessamine - The Long Arm of Coincidence
Korn - Life Is Peachy
Lilys - Better Can't Make Your Life Better
Man or Astro-Man? - Experiment Zero
Maxwell - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
New Radiant Storm King - Hurricane Necklace
The Olivia Tremor Control - Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle
Phish - Billy Breathes
Polvo - Exploded Drawing
Porcupine Tree - Signify
R. E. M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
The Scud Mountain Boys - Massachusetts
Sepultura - Roots
Silkworm - Firewater
Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor
Patti Smith - Gone Again
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Sun City Girls - 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond Rig Veda
Sun City Girls - Dante's Disneyland Inferno
Superconductor - Bastardsong
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
The Supreme Dicks - The Emotional Plague
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
The Swirlies - They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons
Texas Is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tullycraft - Old Traditions, New Standards
Unwound - Repetition
Versus - Secret Swingers
Weezer - Pinkerton
Wilco - Being There
five singles and deep cuts
Toni Braxton - 'Un-Break My Heart', Secrets
Sheryl Crow - 'If It Makes You Happy', Sheryl Crow
R. Kelly - 'I Believe I Can Fly', R; [Various artists] Space Jam: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture
The Olivia Tremor Control - The Giant Day: Prelude to Music From the Unrealized Film Script "Dusk at Cubist Castle" [E.P.]
Sublime - 'What I Got', Sublime
eighteen archival and compilation albums
Gene Autry - Back in the Saddle Again: 25 Cowboy Classics
Junior Byles - Beat Down Babylon: The Upsetter Years
The Carter Family - Sunshine in the Shadows: Their Complete Victor Recordings (1931-32)
The Dixie Hummingbirds - Complete Recorded Works 1939-1947 in Chronological Order
The Drifters - Definitive Drifters Anthology One: Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters
The Drifters - Definitive Drifters Anthology Two: Rockin' and Driftin'
The Drifters - Definitive Drifters Anthology Three: Save the Last Dance for Me
The Drifters - Definitive Drifters Anthology Four: Up on the Roof
The Drifters - Definitive Drifters Anthology Five: Under the Boardwalk
The Drifters - Definitive Drifters Anthology Six: The Good Life
The Drifters - Definitive Drifters Anthology Seven: I'll Take You Where the Music's Playing
Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings
Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Ballads, Banjo Tunes and Sacred Songs of Western North Carolina
Junior Parker - Backtracking: The Duke Recordings Vol. Two
The Stanley Brothers - The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers
Jesse Stone - Alias Charles "Chuck" Calhoun
Talulah Gosh - Backwash
Frank Zappa - Läther