Best Albums of 1996

This list was created by and in the opinion of Stephen H Koontz

Created January 1997
Updated December 2023


HONORABLE MENTIONS

Make Your Mama Proud; Fastball
Everything Must Go; The Manic Street Preachers
Nine Objects of Desire; Suzanne Vega
AEnima; Tool
Ironman; Ghostface Killa
Bad Hair Day; Weird Al Yankovic
Myra Lee; Cat Power
Electriclarryland; The Butthole Surfers
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite; Maxwell
Dilate; Ani DiFranco
High/Low; Nada Surf
At the Speed of Light; Xzibit
Baja Sessions; Chris Isaac
Come Find Yourself; Fun Lovin' Criminals
If You're Feeling Sinister; Belle & Sebastian
Silent Steeples; Dispatch
Different Class; Pulp
Beavis and Butthead Do America; Various Artists
Looking East; Jackson Browne
Murder Ballads; Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Golden Hearts; Mark Knopfler
Schoolhouse Rocks ROCKS!; Various Artists
Sell Sell Sell; David Gray
This Is a Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About; Modest Mouse
Broken Arrow; Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Evita Soundtrack; Andrew Lloyd Webber, Madonna, Antonio Banderas
American Album - Anne Akiko Meyers
Telegram; Bjork
One in a Million; Aaliyah
Telephoto; Spoon
William Bloke; Billy Bragg
Muddy Waters; Redman
New Adventures in Hi-Fi; REM

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