Top 26 Music Albums of 1996
by Onater

My Top 10 songs of 1996:
10. The Tragically Hip - Gift Shop (Trouble At The Henhouse)
9. Weezer - The Good Life (Pinkerton)
8. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee (Murder Ballads)
7. The Wallflowers - One Headlight (Bringing Down The Horse)
6. R.E.M. - Electrolite (New Adventures In Hi-Fi)
5. 16 Horsepower - Black Soul Choir (Sackcloth 'n' Ashes)
4. R.E.M. - How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us (New Adventures In Hi-Fi)
3. R.E.M. - E-Bow The Letter (New Adventures In Hi-Fi)
2. Belle And Sebastion - Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying (If You're Feeling Sinister)
1. The Tragically Hip - Ahead By A Century (Trouble At The Henhouse)
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"Why can't we all just walk away."

I'm considering this as the entire Inmost Light trilogy cause you just can't separate them from each other.

Favourite Tracks: The Blood Bells Chime, Calling For Vanished Faces II, The Frolic, The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home, Patripassian
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1996
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450
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Buy album United States
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"You have to listen to him groan and say disgusting things, but, I suppose those things are only disgusting if that's the way you're looking at it."

Favourite Tracks: Helpless Child, The Sound, I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull, The Final Sacrifice, Animus
[First added to this chart: 05/07/2017]
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1996
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3,821
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"She was into S&M and Bible studies, not everyone's cup of tea she would admit to me."

Favourite Tracks: Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying, The Stars Of Track And Field, Like Dylan In The Movies, Me And The Major, Seeing Other People, If You're Feeling Sinister
[First added to this chart: 10/15/2017]
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1996
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10,288
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Buy album United States
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"Put your hands on the Holy Bible and scream wank."

Favourite Tracks: Dog-Like Sparky, Fiery Gun Hand, Eat It Up Worms Hero, Manhoo, Dirty Boy
[First added to this chart: 03/03/2019]
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1996
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648
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"When night falls, she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness."

Favourite Tracks: Dunkelheit, Jesus' Tod, Erblicket Die Töchter Des Firm
[First added to this chart: 12/31/2017]
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1996
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479
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Buy album United States
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"They ask me if I feel remorse and I answer, why of course! There's so much more I could have done if they'd let me!"

Favourite Tracks: Stagger Lee, Song Of Joy, The Curse Of Millhaven, Death Is Not The End, O'Malley's Bar
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1996
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2,109
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Buy album United States
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"My feet, my arms and my ears, and your beat."

Favourite Tracks: 4, Girl/Boy Song, Fingerbib
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1996
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2,135
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8. (7) Down 1
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"We were good as married in my mind, but married in my mind's no good."

Beats Soundtracks For The Blind and Filosofem as the creepiest album of 1996.

Favourite Tracks: The Good Life, El Scorcho, Pink Triangle, Butterfly, Falling For You
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1996
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10,047
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Buy album United States
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"I will forgive your wrongs, I am able, for my own I feel great shame. I will offer up a brick to the back of your head, boy, if I was Cain."

Favourite Tracks: Black Soul Choir, Scrawled In Sap, I Seen What I Saw, Strong Man, American Wheeze
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1995*
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691
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"Your eyes are burning holes through me. I'm not scared. I'm outta here."

Favourite Tracks: E-Bow The Letter, How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us, Electrolite, Leave
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1996
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Top 26 Music Albums of 1996 composition

Country Albums %


United States 12 46%
United Kingdom 6 23%
Canada 3 12%
Japan 2 8%
Sweden 1 4%
Australia 1 4%
Norway 1 4%

Top 26 Music Albums of 1996 chart changes

Biggest climbers
Climber Up 6 from 13th to 7th
Richard D. James Album
by Aphex Twin
Biggest fallers
Faller Down 1 from 7th to 8th
Pinkerton
by Weezer
Faller Down 1 from 8th to 9th
Sackcloth 'N' Ashes
by 16 Horsepower
Faller Down 1 from 9th to 10th
New Adventures In Hi-Fi
by R.E.M.

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