My favourite albums from 1996

1. 30

   No Code

   Pearl Jam

   

   

   Alternative rock | Art rock

   Tracks:

   1. Sometimes
   2. Hail, Hail
   3. Who You Are
   4. In My Tree
   5. Smile
   6. Off He Goes ●
   7. Habit
   8. Red Mosquito
   9. Lukin
   10. Present Tense
   11. Mankind
   12. I'm Open
   13. Around the Bend

2. 29

   Wiseblood

   Corrosion of Conformity

   

   

   Stoner rock | Southern metal

   Tracks:

   1. King of the Rotten
   2. Long Whip / Big America
   3. Wiseblood ●
   4. Goodbye Windows
   5. Born Again for the Last Time
   6. Drowning in a Daydream
   7. The Snake Has No Head
   8. The Door
   9. Man or Ash
   10. Redemption City
   11. Wishbone (Some Tomorrow)
   12. Fuel
   13. Bottom Feeder (el que como abajo)

3. 28

   The Gray Race

   Bad Religion

   

   

   Punk rock

   Tracks:

   1. The Gray Race
   2. Them and Us
   3. A Walk
   4. Parallel
   5. Punk Rock Song ●
   6. Empty Causes
   7. Nobody Listens
   8. Pity the Dead
   9. Spirit Shine
   10. The Streets of America
   11. Ten in 2010
   12. Victory
   13. Drunk Sincerity
   14. Come Join Us
   15. Cease

4. 27

   To the Faithful Departed

   The Cranberries

   

   

   Alternative rock

   Tracks:

   1. Hollywood ●
   2. Salvation
   3. When You're Gone
   4. Free to Decide
   5. War Child
   6. Forever Yellow Skies
   7. The Rebels
   8. Intermission
   9. I Just Shot John Lennon
   10. Electirc Blue
   11. I'm Still Remembering
   12. Will you Remember?
   13. Joe
   14. Cordell
   15. Bosnia

5. 26

   Velvet Darkness They Fear

   Theatre of Tragedy

   

   

   Gothic metal | Death-doom

   Tracks:

   1. Velvet Darkness They Fear
   2. Fair and 'Guiling Copesmate Death
   3. Bring Forth Ye Shadow
   4. Seraphic Deviltry
   5. And When He Falleth
   6. Der Tanz der Schatten ●
   7. Black as the Devil Painteth
   8. On Whom the Moon Doth Shine
   9. The Masquerader and Phoenix

6. 25

   Boys for Pele

   Tori Amos

   

   

   Baroque pop | Alternative rock

   Tracks:

   1. Beauty Queen / Horses
   2. Blood Roses
   3. Father Lucifer
   4. Professional Widow ●
   5. Mr. Zebra
   6. Marianne
   7. Caught a Lite Sneeze
   8. Muhammad My Friend
   9. Hey Jupiter
   10. Way Down
   11. Little Amsterdam
   12. Talula
   13. Nor the Red Baron
   14. Agent Orange
   15. Doughnut Song
   16. In the Springtime of His Voodoo
   17. Putting the Damage on
   18. Twinkle

7. 24

   Purpendicular

   Deep Purple

   

   

   Hard rock

   Tracks:

   1. Vavoom: Ted the Mehcanic ●
   2. Loosen My Strings
   3. Soon Forgotten
   4. Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
   5. Cascades: I'm Not Your Lover
   6. The Aviator
   7. Rosa's Cantina
   8. A Castle Full of Rascals
   9. A Touch Away
   10. Hey Cisco
   11. Somebody Stole My Guitar
   12. The Purpendicular Waltz

8. 23

   Revival

   Gillian Welch

   

   

   Bluegrass | Folk | Country

   Tracks:

   1. Orphan Girl
   2. Annabelle ●
   3. Pass You by
   4. Barroom Girls
   5. One More Dollar
   6. By the Mark
   7. Paper Wings
   8. Tear My Silhouette Down
   9. Acony Bell
   10. Only One and Only

9. 22

   Paegan Terrorism Tactics

   Acid Bath

   

   

   Sludge metal

   Tracks:

   1. Paegan Love Song
   2. Bleed Me an Ocean
   3. Graveflower ●
   4. Diäb Soulé
   5. Locust Spawning
   6. Old Skin
   7. New Death Sensation
   8. Venus Blue
   9. 13 Fingers
   10. New Corpse
   11. Dead Girl

10. 21

    Brave Murder Day

    Katatonia

    

    

    Death-doom | Gothic metal

    Tracks:

    1. Brave
    2. Murder
    3. Day ●
    4. Rainroom
    5. 12
    6. Endtime

11. 20

    Mi Kubbesi

    Nekropsi

    

    

    Jazz-fusion | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Crying Game ●
    2. Fok
    3. Efsane
    4. Çarşı
    5. 94 Kor
    6. Derinlik
    7. Dımlı Mı
    8. Lim
    9. Hindu
    10. Çarklar
    11. Ateis
    12. Göç
    13. Kubbealtı
    14. Yollar
    15. Son
    16. 41

12. 19

    Evil Empire

    Rage Against the Machine

    

    

    Rap metal | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. People of the Sun
    2. Bulls on Parade ●
    3. Vietnow
    4. Snakecharmer
    5. Tire Me
    6. Down Rodeo
    7. Without a Face
    8. Wind Below
    9. Roll Right
    10. Year of the Boomerang

13. 18

    Gone Again

    Patti Smith

    

    

    Art rock | Art punk

    Tracks:

    1. Gone Again
    2. Beneath the Southern Cross
    3. About a Boy
    4. My Madrigal
    5. Summer Cannibals
    6. Dead to the World
    7. Wing
    8. Ravens
    9. Wicked MEssenger
    10. Fireflies ●
    11. Farewell Reel

14. 17

    Crimson

    Edge of Sanity

    

    

    Progressive death metal | Death death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Crimson ●

15. 16

    Elegy

    Amorphis

    

    

    Progressive metal | Folk metal

    Tracks:

    1. Better Unborn
    2. Against Windows
    3. The Orphan
    4. On Rich and Poor
    5. My Kantele
    6. Cares
    7. Song of the Troubled One
    8. Weeper on the Shore
    9. Elegy
    10. Relief
    11. My Kantele (Acoustic Reprise) ●

16. 15

    The Jester Race

    In Flames

    

    

    Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Moonshield ●
    2. The Jester's Dance
    3. Artifacts of the Black Rain
    4. Graveland
    5. Lord Hypnos
    6. Dead Eternity
    7. The Jester Race
    8. December Flower
    9. Watfaerer
    10. Dead God in Me

17. 14

    Sackcloth 'n' Ashes

    16 Horsepower

    

    

    Gothic Americana

    Tracks:

    1. I Seen What I Saw
    2. Black Soul Choir ●
    3. Haw
    4. Scrawled in Sap
    5. Horse Head
    6. Ruthie Lingle
    7. Harm's Way
    8. Black Bush
    9. Heel on the Shovel
    10. American Wheeze
    11. Red Neck Reel
    12. Prison Shoe Romp
    13. Neck on the New Blade
    14. Storng Man

18. 13

    Through Silver and Blood

    Neurosis

    

    

    Post-metal | Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Through Silver and Blood
    2. Rehumanize
    3. Eye
    4. Purify
    5. Locust Star ●
    6. Strength of Fates
    7. Become the Ocean
    8. Aeon
    9. Enclosure in Flame

19. 12

    None So Wile

    Cryptopsy

    

    

    Technical death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Crown of Horns
    2. Slit Your Guts
    3. Graves of the Fathers
    4. Dead and Dripping
    5. Benedictine Convulsions
    6. Phobophile ●
    7. Lichmistress
    8. Orgisatic Disembowelment

20. 11

    Louder Than Hell

    Manowar

    

    

    Heavy metal | power metal

    Tracks:

    1. Return of the Warlord
    2. Brothers of Metal Pt. 1 ●
    3. The Gods Made Heavy Metal
    4. Courage
    5. Number 1
    6. Outlaw
    7. King
    8. Today Is a Good Day to Die
    9. My Spirit Lives on
    10. Power

21. 10

    Pinkerton

    Weezer

    

    

    Alternative rock | Power pop

    Tracks:

    1. Tired of Sex
    2. Getchoo
    3. No Other One
    4. Why Bother?
    5. Across the Sea
    6. The Good Life
    7. El Scorcho ●
    8. Pink Triangle
    9. Falling for You
    10. Butterfly

22. 9

    Down on the Upside

    Soundgarden

    

    

    Alternative metal | alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Pretty Noose
    2. Rhinosaur
    3. Zero Chance
    4. Ty Cobb ●
    5. Blow up the Outside World
    6. Burden in My Hand
    7. Never Named
    8. Applebite
    9. Never the Machine Forever
    10. Tighter & Tighter
    11. No Attention
    12. Switch Opens
    13. Overfloater
    14. An Unkind
    15. Boot Camp

23. 8

    Morningrise

    Opeth

    

    

    Progressive death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Advent
    2. The Night ad the Silent Water
    3. Nectar
    4. Black Rose Immortal
    5. To Bid You Farewell ●

24. 7

    Episode

    Stratovarius

    

    

    Power metal

    Tracks:

    1. Father Time
    2. Will the Sun Rise?
    3. Eternity
    4. Episode
    5. Speed of Light
    6. Uncertainty
    7. Season of Change
    8. Stratosphere
    9. Babylon
    10. Tomorrow
    11. Night Time Eclipse
    12. Forever ●

25. 6

    Sublime

    Sublime

    

    

    Reggae rock | alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Garden Grove
    2. What I Got
    3. Wrong Way
    4. Same in the End ●
    5. April 29, 1992 (Miami)
    6. Santeria
    7. Seed
    8. Jailhouse
    9. Pawn Shop
    10. Paddle out
    11. The Battle of Johnny Butt
    12. Burritos
    13. Under My Voodoo
    14. Get Ready
    15. Caress Me down
    16. What I Got (Reprise)
    17. Doin' Time

26. 5

    New Adventures in Hi-Fi

    R.E.M.

    

    

    Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. How the West Was Wn and Where It Got Us
    2. The Wake-up Bomb
    3. New Test Leper
    4. Undertow
    5. E-Bow the Letter ●
    6. Leave
    7. Departure
    8. Bittersweet Me
    9. Be Mine
    10. Binky the Doormat
    11. Zither
    12. So Fast, So Numb
    13. Low Desert
    14. Electrolite

27. 4

    Load

    Metallica

    

    

    Heavy metal | hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Ain't My Bitch
    2. 2 X 4
    3. The House Jack Built
    4. Until It Sleeps
    5. King Nothing
    6. Hero of the Day
    7. Bleeding Me ●
    8. Cure
    9. Poor Twisted Me
    10. Wasting My Hate
    11. Mama Said
    12. Thorn Within
    13. Ronnie
    14. The Outlaw Torn

28. 3

    Murder Ballads

    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

    

    

    Gothic rock | alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Song of Joy
    2. Stagger Lee
    3. Henry Lee ●
    4. Lovely Creature
    5. Where the Wild Roses Grow
    6. The Curse of Millhaven
    7. The Kindness of Strangers
    8. Crow Jane
    9. O'Malley's Bar
    10. Death Is Not the End

29. 2

    Roots

    Sepultura

    

    

    Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. Roots Bloody Roots
    2. Attitude
    3. Cut-Throat
    4. Ratamahatta ●
    5. Breed Apart
    6. Straighthate
    7. Spit
    8. Lookaway
    9. Dusted
    10. Born Stubborn
    11. Jasco
    12. Itsári
    13. Ambush
    14. Endangered Species
    15. Dictatorshit
    16. Canyon Jam

30. 1

    Ænima

    Tool

    

    

    Alternative metal | progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Stinkfist
    2. Eulogy
    3. H.
    4. Useful Idiot
    5. Forty Six & 2 ●
    6. Message to Harry Manback
    7. Hooker with a Penis
    8. Intermission
    9. jimmy
    10. Die Eier von Satan
    11. Pushit
    12. Cesaro Summability
    13. Ænema
    14. (-) Ions
    15. Third Eye