GNMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1996

[Serjeant Grumbles]

1 9 9 6


Obviously make sure to hit up RYM yourself and search your favourite genres.

The deadline is 26th of September 2020.

The rules:
- submit at least 5 releases.
- first place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.

GNMD = General Non-Metal Discussion, so NO UNAMBIGUOUSLY METAL ALBUMS are to be included in anybody's list.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Does Rage Against the Machine count? I consider them metal, but they’re not on Metal Archives. Also, what about Tool?

 

[Bloopy]

We've already done the metal polls for the given years, so I think what's eligible here should be anything you excluded from your considerations for not being metal enough there. I guess if you just overlooked them unknowingly then it could be a bit of a grey area.

 

[CiG]

Did a quick search, doesn't seem like anybody listed Tool in the 1996 metal thread but @zabu of nΩd listed R.A.T.M. so at least that can be excluded here.

 

[Slammed]

1. Zakk Wylde - Book of Shadows
2. Hoodoo Gurus – Blue Cave
3. Frenzal Rhomb – Not So Tough Now
4. Neil Diamond - Tennessee Moon
5. Chris Isaak - Baja Sessions
6. Alan Jackson – Everything I Love
7. Randy Travis – Full Circle
8. Midnight Oil – Breathe
9. Deep Purple – Purpendicular
10. Cake - Fashion Nugget

 

[crimsonfloyd]

1. Fiona Apple- Tidal
2. Swans- Soundtracks for the Blind
3. Ulver- Kveldssanger
4. Mazzy Star- Among My Swan
5. Black Tape for a Blue Girl- Remnants of a Deeper Purity
6. Makaveli (2Pac)- The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
7. Ani DiFranco- Dilate
8. Tori Amos- Boys for Pele
9. Dirty Three- Horse Stories
10. Faith and the Muse- Annwyn, Beneath the Waves

Rage Against the Machine- Evil Empire would be 5 if it qualified

Honorable Mentions:
Ghostface Killah- Ironman
2Pac- All Eyez on Me
Tool- Aenima
Sheryl Crow- S/T
Gillian Welch- Revival

Might go back and re-listen to these if I have the time.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

1. The 3rd and the Mortal - Painting on Glass
2. Johnny Cash - Unchained
3. Mazzy Star - Among My Swan
4. Cowboy Junkies - Lay it Down
5. Elysian Fields - Bleed Your Cedar
6. This Empty Flow - Magenta Skycode
7. Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Remnants of a Deeper Purity
8. Cocteau Twins - Milk and Kisses
9. Phil Collins - Dance into the Light
10. Lush - Lovelife

Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged
Love Spirals Downwards - Ever
Red House Painters - Songs for a Blue Guitar
Bad Religion - The Gray Race
David Allan Coe - Living on the Edge
George Jones - I Lived to Tell it All
Merle Haggard - 1996
Dale Watson - Blessed or Damned
Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats
Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne

 

[challenge_everything]

1. Elend - Les Tenebres du Dehors
2. Bad Religion - The Gray Race
3. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
4. Turbonegro - Ass Cobra
5. Ulver - Kveldssanger
6. Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n' Ashes
7. Social Distortion - White Light White Heat White Trash
8. Weezer - Pinkerton
9. Anathema - Eternity
10. Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged

 

[Burkhard]

1. The 3rd and the Mortal - Painting on Glass
2. Mari Boine - eallin
3. Garmarna - Guds Spelemän
4. Tori Amos - Boys for Pele
5. The Bulgarian Voices "Angelite" feat. Huun-Huur-Tu & Sergey Starostin - Fly, Fly My Sadness
6. Dead Can Dance - Spiritchaser
7. Sarband - Sepharad

 

[CiG]

1. Kingpin Skinny Pimp - King of da Playaz Ball
2. Makaveli - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
3. Tommy Wright III - On the Run
4. Descendents - Everything Sucks
5. Three 6 Mafia - The End
6. Turbonegro - Ass Cobra
7. Ghostface Killah - Ironman
8. Placebo - Placebo
9. Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
10. Avail - 4 AM Friday

Spoiler

 

[Krow]

shit year on a whole but some cool albums. Not bothering to listen to any more albums so I don’t forget to post a list


1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
2. Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth n Ashes
3. Turbo Negro - Ass Cobra
4. Swans - Soundtrack for the Blind
5. OutKast - ATLiens
6. Current 93 - all the Pretty Little Horses

 

[challenge_everything]

shit year on a whole but some cool albums. Not bothering to listen to any more albums so I don’t forget to post a list


1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
2. Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth n Ashes
3. Turbo Negro - Ass Cobra
4. Swans - Soundtrack for the Blind
5. OutKast - ATLiens
6. Current 93 - all the Pretty Little Horses

Damn I forgot about Murder Ballads, have to go amend my list now.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1. Blind Melon - Nico
2. Cardiacs - Sing to God
3. Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n' Ashes
4. Akihito Ohkawa, Hideyuki Shimono - Zero Divide Soundtrack
5. Depressive Age - Electric Scum
6. Orbital - In Sides
7. Jun Chikuma - DoReMi Fantasy Soundtrack
8. King's X - Ear Candy
9. Korn - Life Is Peachy
10. あぶらだこ [Aburadako] - Aburadako (aka Tsuri-ban)
Placebo - Placebo

Not a super inspiring year tbh, don't even see much worthy of a to-check-out/honorary-mentions list. Skimmed the RYM top 500 to see what I had neglected to rate and only came upon Placebo. Should probably give the relevant Weezer, Belle and Sebastian, Beck, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Sleater-Kinney albums all another shot just so I can fairly give them really shit ratings.

 

[CiG]

@HamburgerBoy I have a few recs for you:

Avail - 4 AM Friday
The Flying Luttenbachers - Revenge
Shotmaker - Mouse Ear
June of 44 - Tropics and Meridians

Also damn how did I forget about Placebo... might have to squeeze something out for it.

 

[Bloopy]

1. Bloodhound Gang - One Fierce Beer Coaster
2. Vaccine - Drowned
3. Regurgitator - Tu-Plang
4. The Conscious Daughters - Gamers
5. Einstürzende Neubauten - Ende Neu
6. In Slaughter Natives - Purgate My Stain
7. The Residents - Have a Bad Day
8. The Turbo A.C.'s - Damnation Overdrive
9. Turbonegro - Ass Cobra
10. Strawpeople - Vicarious

HM:
Nurse With Wound - Who Can I Turn to Stereo
Jawload - Seedy

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

1. Pearl Jam - No Code
2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
3. Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n' Ashes
4. Elend - Les Ténèbres du Dehors
5. Tori Amos - Boys for Pele
6. Bush - Razorblade Suitcase
7. Sublime - Sublime
8. Soundgarden - Down on the Upside
9. Dave Matthews Band - Crash
10. David Arnold - Independence Day

 

[Einherjar86]

1. Tool, Aenima (yeah I like Tool, big whoop, wanna fight about it?)
2. 2pac, All Eyez on Me
3. Sixteen Horsepower, Sackcloth n' Ashes
4. Current 93, All the Pretty Little Horses
5. Elend, Les Ténèbres du Dehors
6. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Murder Ballads
7. RATM, Evil Empire

I guess that's it, meh.

 

[Slayed Necros]

1. Gillian Welch - Revival
2. Autumn - The Hating Tree
3. Three Hanks - Men With Broken Hearts
4. James Hand - Shadows Where the Magic Was
5. Lycia - Cold
6. Tool - Ænima
7. Soundgarden - Down on the Upside
8. Dale Watson - Blessed or Damned
9. Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n' Ashes
10. Johnny Cash - Unchained

 

[challenge_everything]

Really fail to see why Tool is not metal.

 

[CiG]

shit year on a whole but some cool albums.

Fuck no.

I could understand if you weren't into hip hop but you listed OutKast. Not into any other '96 rap besides that album?