Best Rock Album - 1996?

YellowSnow

DerekJohnson

Crash - Dave Matthews Band

I remember the Sonics-Bulls series played at Climate Pledge Arena

GrundleStiltzkin

YellowSnow

Being There - Wilco

My favorite albums from this year were by Wilco and Brian Jonestown Massacre and I had no idea of them until some years later. Never heard them on Seattle radio, but I didn't know what KEXP was in 1996.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVD8VIuX0bA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45HPaTF0u7U

GrundleStiltzkin

My iTunes library is a wasteland for 1996. Favorite song from the year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJxFAoiWSY

YellowSnow

Being There - Wilco

GrundleStiltzkin said:

I thought it sucked at the Tim. Came around to it later in life. 1996 found me furiously buying all the classic rock CDs I could at Tower Records on the Ave. I had no idea of what was going on in contemporary music other that the big hits that got radio airplay.

theknowledge

Odelay - Beck

Wilco is amazing. I tabbed them first, but like you I never got into them until later when I heard A Ghost is Born, then I was hooked. Odelay was/is such a cool album. I partied a lot that one and have some fun memories. It was a toss up really.

Also, Wild Mood Swings by The Cure came out that year. That might be their last good album. I can argue that Bloodflowers in 2000 was decent as well but WMS was really a fun listen.

YellowSnow

Being There - Wilco

theknowledge said:

Wilco is amazing. I tabbed them first, but like you I never got into them until later when I heard A Ghost is Born, then I was hooked. Odelay was/is such a cool album. I partied a lot that one and have some fun memories. It was a toss up really.

Also, Wild Mood Swings by The Cure came out that year. That might be their last good album. I can argue that Bloodflowers in 2000 was decent as well but WMS was really a fun listen.

I had no idea of Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Son Volt until circa 2009. It just wasn't on our collective radar in the mid 90s.

I'm more into the earlier Wilco stuff vs Tweedy's later body of work through. And all the Uncle Tupelo album's are essential.

YellowSnow

Being There - Wilco

theknowledge said:

Wilco is amazing. I tabbed them first, but like you I never got into them until later when I heard A Ghost is Born, then I was hooked. Odelay was/is such a cool album. I partied a lot that one and have some fun memories. It was a toss up really.

Also, Wild Mood Swings by The Cure came out that year. That might be their last good album. I can argue that Bloodflowers in 2000 was decent as well but WMS was really a fun listen.

Beck definitely was on the radar and the guy is a Bowie level genius. Plus he wrote my theme song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl8mOT07T90

Fishpo31

Odelay - Beck

YellowSnow said:

My favorite albums from this year were by Wilco and Brian Jonestown Massacre and I had no idea of them until some years later. Never heard them on Seattle radio, but I didn't know what KEXP was in 1996.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVD8VIuX0bA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45HPaTF0u7U

My exact game during this time...hunkered down and started buying CDs of the classics...KEXP and KBCS has got me on to some really good stuff over the years, including Wilco...

YellowSnow

Being There - Wilco

Fishpo31 said:

YellowSnow said:

My favorite albums from this year were by Wilco and Brian Jonestown Massacre and I had no idea of them until some years later. Never heard them on Seattle radio, but I didn't know what KEXP was in 1996.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVD8VIuX0bA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45HPaTF0u7U

My exact game during this time...hunkered down and started buying CDs of the classics...KEXP and KBCS has got me on to some really good stuff over the years, including Wilco...

These millennial douche canoe whipper snappers don't realize how much more effort was involved in discovering music in the physical media era.

chuck

Enima - Tool

This is where I drifted off into my Neil Young rabbit hole and didnt really listen to anyone else for a few years. I've never heard most of these.

Doog_de_Jour

Sublime - Sublime

1996 was a “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times” year if ever there was one for me, but I’ll always have fond memories of driving down the street with my friends during summer vacation with “What I Got” blaring out of the speakers.

https://youtu.be/0Uc3ZrmhDN4

dnc

Sublime - Sublime

Extremely HH worthy album




I don't cry when my dog runs away
I don't get angry at the bills I have to pay
I don't get angry when my mom smokes pot
Hits the bottle and goes right to the rock
Fuckin' and fightin', it's all the same
Livin' with Louie dog's the only way to stay sane
Let the lovin', let the lovin' come back to me

RoadDawg55

Odelay - Beck

Beck Odelay is a staple in my world. Sublime is okay, but like Red Hot Chili Peppers, they seem kind of lame as I get older. The dorm geeks at my college kind of ruined both Sublime and RHCP with their posters and listening to the same 4 songs.

NoWarningJustDawg

Enima - Tool

Doog_de_Jour said:

1996 was a “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times” year if ever there was one for me, but I’ll always have fond memories of driving down the street with my friends during summer vacation with “What I Got” blaring out of the speakers.

I...I have to admit that sounds slightly more fun than my summer full of "Stinkfist" and "Hooker With A Penis"

Fuck, yet another of my many poor decisions in the 90's!



FML

LebamDawg

I abstain, but wanted to add that if possible I would do a negative vote for anything by Dave Mathews

no offense @Stalin

RoadDawg55

Odelay - Beck

LebamDawg said:

I abstain, but wanted to add that if possible I would do a negative vote for anything by Dave Mathews

no offense @Stalin

I pretty much hate Dave and all of his fans, but Crash is a great song. I’ve heard many other Dave songs, but couldn’t name one of them because they didn’t make an impression.

DerekJohnson

Crash - Dave Matthews Band

YellowSnow said:

Fishpo31 said:

YellowSnow said:

My favorite albums from this year were by Wilco and Brian Jonestown Massacre and I had no idea of them until some years later. Never heard them on Seattle radio, but I didn't know what KEXP was in 1996.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVD8VIuX0bA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45HPaTF0u7U

My exact game during this time...hunkered down and started buying CDs of the classics...KEXP and KBCS has got me on to some really good stuff over the years, including Wilco...

These millennial douche canoe whipper snappers don't realize how much more effort was involved in discovering music in the physical media era.

We would have to buy a whole CD just to get to one song

Swaye

Enima - Tool

NoWarningJustDawg said:

Doog_de_Jour said:

1996 was a “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times” year if ever there was one for me, but I’ll always have fond memories of driving down the street with my friends during summer vacation with “What I Got” blaring out of the speakers.

I...I have to admit that sounds slightly more fun than my summer full of "Stinkfist" and "Hooker With A Penis"

Fuck, yet another of my many poor decisions in the 90's!



FML

Stinkfist >>>>>>> Any other song mentioned in this thread and it isn't close

GrundleStiltzkin

Not just a one-hitter album, it's pretty good.