Nirvana’s From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah hit #1 on the US album charts on October 19th of 1996.
It was a live album including Nirvana performances from 1989 through 1994. It was the second live album released after Kurt Cobain’s death (in April of 1994.) The first was the acoustic MTV unplugged album […]

The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle
Not only one of my favorite albums of 1996 (if not my very favorite) also one of my favorite albums of the decade. It’s a truly epic psychedelic masterpiece that is not known by nearly enough people. I feel like the pied piper for The Olivia Tremor […]

Aphex Twin - “To Cure a Weakling Child”
Richard D. James Album
(fan made video)

Classics, Aphex Twin, New
US $8.31

End Date: Sunday Mar-21-2010 16:16:15 PDT

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Music from the Unrealized Film Scrip, Dusk at Cubist Castle was released in 1996 by The Olivia Tremor Control. It was their debut album and is quite probably my favorite album released in ‘96 and possibly my favorite debut album ever.
It’s an epic 27 track psychedelic rock masterpiece with tracks as short as 24 […]

Every now and again a record comes along that changes your haircut for roughly two minutes, and for me, that record is no doubt Stereolab’s rather tasty “Emperor Tomato Ketchup,” I believe that this album title is based upon an experimental film, is it not? And if it is experimental it basically means that it […]