1996 in music

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Albums released

• Elegy - Amorphis
• Boys for Pele - Tori Amos
• Richard D. James Album - Aphex Twin
• 1977 - Ash
• Beats, Rhymes and Life - A Tribe Called Quest
• Actual Fantasy - Ayreon
• The Gray Race - Bad Religion
• The Beatles Anthology, volume 2 - The Beatles
• Odelay - Beck
• If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian
• Tigermilk - Belle & Sebastian
• Friction, Baby - Better Than Ezra
• Three Snakes & One Charm - The Black Crowes
• Nico - Blind Melon
• One Fierce Beer Coaster - The Bloodhound Gang
• The Great Escape - Blur
• Razorblade Suitcase - Bush
• Fashion Nugget - Cake
• Vile - Cannibal Corpse
• Swansong - Carcass
• First Band on the Moon - The Cardigans
• Milk & Kisses - Cocteau Twins
• Dance Into the Light - Phil Collins
• Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio
• Dusk and Her Embrace - Cradle of Filth
• None So Vile - Cryptopsy
• Wild Mood Swings - The Cure
• Homework - Daft Punk
• À ma manière - Dalida (remix album)
• Crash - Dave Matthews Band
• Slang - Def Leppard
• Skunkworks - Bruce Dickinson
• Endtroducing... - DJ Shadow
• Sutras - Donovan
• Crimson - Edge of Sanity
• Death Threatz - MC Eith
• Beat The Bastards - The Exploited
• Face to Face - Face to Face (punk band)
• Better Living Through Chemistry - Fatboy Slim.
• Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne
• Cat's Clause - The Germs
• Gravity Kills - Gravity Kills (debut)
• Frozen - Gridlock
• Afterlife - The Godfathers
• Teri Yakimoto - Guttermouth
• The Dark Saga - Iced Earth
• Jerky Boys 3 - Jerky Boys
• Paradise in Me - K's Choice
• Keith Sweat - Keith Sweat
• Life Is Peachy - Ko?n
• KRS-One - KRS-One
• Victor - Alex Lifeson
• As Good as Dead - Local H
• Fever In Fever Out - Luscious Jackson
• Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers
• Louder Than Hell - Manowar
• Load - Metallica
• Breathe - Midnight Oil
• Justus - The Monkees
• Irreligious - Moonspell
• High/Low - Nada Surf
• Nerf Herder - Nerf Herder (debut)
• Murder Ballads - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Curb - Nickelback
• Hesher - Nickelback
• Beacon Street Collection - No Doubt
• Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt
• Dynamite - Stina Nordenstam
• All We Got Iz Us - Onyx
• The Great Southern Trendkill - Pantera
• Good God's Urge - Porno for Pyros
• Rocket - Primitive Radio Gods
• Off Parole - Rappin' 4-Tay
• One Hot Minute - Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Republica - Republica
• Greatest Hits - Poison
• Evil Empire - Rage Against the Machine
• ...And Out Come the Wolves - Rancid
• Da Villain in Black - MC Ren
• Test for Echo - Rush
• Roots - Sepultura
• Pies Descalzos - Shakira
• Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
• Call the Doctor - Sleater-Kinney
• One Chord to Another - Sloan
• The Process - Skinny Puppy
• Becoming X - Sneaker Pimps (debut)
• Tha Doggfather - Snoop Dogg
• White Light, White Heat, White Trash - Social Distortion
• Irresistible Bliss - Soul Coughing
• Down on the Upside - Soundgarden (final album before disbanding)
• Resident Alien - Spacehog
• Wax Ecstatic - Sponge
• Emperor Tomato Ketchup - Stereolab
• Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop - Stone Temple Pilots
• Episode - Stratovarius
• Sublime - Sublime (final album, released in just 2 months after frontman Brad Nowell's death)
• Live Drug - Sun Dial
• Regretfully Yours - Superdrag
• Factory Showroom - They Might Be Giants
• 311 - 311
• Ænima - Tool
• All Eyez on Me - 2Pac
• Supercharged Straight to Hell - The Turbo AC's
• Garibaldi Guard! - US Bombs
• Best of, Volume 1 - Van Halen
• Running on Ice - Vertical Horizon
• A Northern Soul - The Verve
• Rock!!!!! - Violent Femmes
• Pinkerton - Weezer
• Imperial Drag (album) - Imperial Drag
• Bad Hair Day - "Weird Al" Yankovic
• Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson
• The Final Tic - Crucial Conflict
• Emancipation - Prince (3-disc box set)