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1996

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Acclaimed Music Top Albums, Top Songs

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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