My top 50 albums, 1996

  1. Steely Dan: "The royal scam''
  2. Dreams So Real: "Rough night in Jericho''
  3. The Waterboys: "A pagan place''
  4. The Sisters of Mercy: "First and last and always''
  5. China Crisis: "What price paradise''
  6. New Order: "Low-life''
  7. The Waterboys: "This is the sea''
  8. China Crisis: "Working with fire and steel''
  9. Electribe 101: "Electribal memories''
  10. Live: "Throwing copper''

  11. Popsicle: "Abstinence''
  12. Candlemass: "Tales of creation''
  13. The Waterboys: "Same''
  14. Sparks: "Propaganda''
  15. Rage against the machine: "Same''
  16. The Sisters of Mercy: "Floodland''
  17. New Order: "Technique''
  18. Black Sabbath: "Sabotage''
  19. Prefab Sprout: "Jordan: The comeback''
  20. Big Country: "The buffalo skinners''

  21. Electronic: "Same''
  22. Prefab Sprout: "Steve McQueen''
  23. Jakob Hellman: "...och stora havet''
  24. Big Country: "The Crossing''
  25. Candlemass: "Nightfall''
  26. Gangway: "Happy ever after''
  27. Neil Young: "Rust never sleeps''
  28. Paradise Lost: "Shades of God''
  29. Fra Lippo Lippi: "Songs''
  30. Lloyd Cole & the Commotions: "Rattlesnakes''

  31. Trouble: "Manic frustration''
  32. Danny Wilson: "Bebop Moptop''
  33. Kate Bush: "The Dreaming''
  34. China Crisis: "Difficult shapes and passive rhythms''
  35. Black Sabbath: "Master of reality''
  36. The Comsat Angels: "7 day weekend''
  37. Kate Bush: "Hounds of love''
  38. Depeche Mode: "Construction time again''
  39. Talk Talk: "The colour of spring''
  40. The Waterboys: "Fisherman's blues''

  41. China Crisis: "Flaunt the imperfection''
  42. The Blow Monkeys: "She was only a grocer's daughter''
  43. The Comsat Angels: "Land''
  44. The Blow Monkeys: "Animal magic''
  45. The Triffids: "Calenture''
  46. The Smiths: "The Queen is dead''
  47. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions: "Easy pieces''
  48. Danzig: "Danzig II: Lucifuge''
  49. Black Sabbath: "Paranoid''
  50. The The: "Dusk''