Tom’s Top Albums of 1996

2Pac - All Eyez On Me

A Tribe Called Quest - Beats, Rhymes and Life

Alan Jackson - Everything I Love

Alejandro Escovedo - With These Hands

Amy Rigby - Diary Of A Mod Housewife

Babyface - The Day

Beatles - Anthology 2

Beatles - Anthology 3

Beck - Odelay

Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilki

Blackstreet - Another Level

Bobbie Cryner - Girl Of Your Dreams 

Brooks & Dunn - Borderline 

Cardigans - First Band on the Moon

Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites

Curtis Mayfield - New World Order

Deana Carter -  Did I Shave My Legs For This? 

De La Soul - Stakes Is High

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing 

Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty

Fiona Apple - Tidal

Fountains of Wayne - s/t

Fugees - The Score

George Michael - Older

George Strait - Blue Clear Sky

Gillian Welch - Revival

Go-Betweens - Spring Hill Fair

Hootie & the Blowfish - Fairweather Johnson

Iris DeMent - The Way I Should

Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt

John Anderson - Paradise

John Mellencamp - Mr. Happy Go Lucky

Johnny Cash - Unchained

LeAnn Rimes  - Blue

Local H - As Good As It Gets 

Mandy Barnett - s/t

Maxwell - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Nas - It Was Written

Neil Diamond - Tennessee Moon

Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah

No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom

OMC - How Bizarre 

OutKast - Atliens 

Patti Smith - Gone Again

Patty Loveless - Trouble With the Truth

Paul Westerberg - Eventually

Pearl Jam - No Code

Pet Shop Boys - Bilingual 

Prince - Emancipation

Randy Travis - Full Circle

REM - New Adventures in Hi-Fi

Robbie Fulks - Country Love Songs

Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs

Sheryl Crow - s/t

Sleater Kinney - Call the Doctor 

Snoop Dogg - Doggfather

Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash

Soundgarden - Down on the Upside

Spice Girls - Spice

Steve Earle - I Feel Alright

Sting - Mercury Falling

Sublime - s/t

Toby Keith - Blue Moon 

Toni Braxton - Secrets

Tony Toni Tone - House of Music 

Tori Amos - Boys for Pele

Trainspotting Soundtrack - Various 

Trisha Yearwood - Everybody Knows

Vic Chesnutt - About to Choke

Weezer - Pinkerton 

Wilco - Being There

Willie Nelson - Spirit