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.