- Beautiful Freak – eels
- Monstertje – Gorki
- Peace At Last – The Blue Nile
- Sing To God – Cardiacs
- No Code – Pearl Jam
- Surrender To Jonathan ! – Jonathan Richman
- In A Bar Under The Sea – dEUS
- Harmacy – Sebadoh
- Arena – The Scene
- Black Love – The Afghan Whigs
- Trouble At The Henhouse – The Tragically Hip
- Spiritchaser – Dead Can Dance
- On Avery Island – Neutral Milk Hotel
- Love and Other Demons – Strange Love
- Sackcloth ‘N’ Ashes – 16 Horsepower
- This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About – Modest Mouse
- Signify – Porcupine Tree
- Morningrise – Opeth
- The Golden Age – Cracker
- Good God’s Urge – Porno For Pyros
- C’mon Kids – The Boo Radleys
- Copperopolis – Grant Lee Buffalo
- 1977 – Ash
- Dust – Screaming Trees
- Coming Up – Suede
- All This Useless Beauty – Elvis Costello
- K – The Kula Shaker
- Everything Must Go – Manic Street Preachers
- Aenima – Tool
- Fashion Nugget – Cake
- New Adventures in hifi – REM
- Odelay – Beck
- Unchained – Johnny Cash
- Murder ballads – Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
- Planet Ultra – Urban Dance Squad
- Krang – Andre Manuel
- The Batlle Of Hastings – Caravan
- Cool Water – Caravan
- Come Find Yourself – Fun Lovin’ Criminals
- After Murder Park – The Auteurs
- Fargo/ Barton Fink – Carter Burwell
- Dead Man – Neil Young
- Highball With The Holy Mackerel – Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerel
- Wild Mood Swings – The Cure
- Three Snakes and One Charm – The Black Crowes
- Alle The Pretty Horses – Current 93
- The Natural Bridge – Silver Jews
- Arise Therefore – Palace Music
- Indian Summer – Landberk
- The Doctor Came at Dawn – Smog
- Don’t Tell me Now – The Halo Benders
- Excerpts From a Love Circus – Lisa Germano
- Millions Now Living Will Never Die – Tortoise
- Evil Empire – Rage Against the Machine
- Skik – Skik
- Life Is Peachy – Korn
- Soundtrack For the Blind – Swans
- Labradford – Labradford
- October Rust – Type O Negative
- Tigermilk – Belle and Sebastian
- Placebo – Placebo
- Johan – Johan
- Trampoline – Joe Henry
- Way Beyond Blue – Catatonia
- If You ŕe Feeling Sinister – Belle and Sebastian
- Under The Bushes Under the Stars – Guided By Voices
- 1996 – Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Pinkerton – Weezer
- Load – Metallica
- Fifi – De Heideroosjes
- Et Maintenant … Le Rock – Scram C Baby
- Car Button Cloth – The Lemon Heads
- AmazingDisgrace – The Posies
- Purpendicular – Deep Purple
- Down the Upside – Soundgarden
- Fixed Water – Sophia
- Verspilde Tranen – Trio Bier
- Interpreter – Julian Cope
- Mistaken Identity – Vurnon Reid
- Expecting to Fly – The Bluetones
- Tiny Music… Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop – Stone Temple Pilots
- Moseley Shoals Ocean Colour Scene
- Take it From the Man! – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Their Stanic Majesties, Second Request – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Thank God For Mental Illness – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Puressence – Puressence
- Daryll-Ann Weeps – Daryll-Ann
- Jesus Christ Superstars – Laibach
- Near Life Experience – Come
- 16 Lovers Lane – Acoustic Demo’s – The Go-Betweens
- The Curtains Hits the Cast – Low
- Eternity – Anathema
- Merseybeast – Ian McNabb
- The Burdens of Being Opright – Tracey Bonham
- Genesis Revisited – Steve Hackett
- Pentastar: In The Style of Demons – Earth
- Colossal Head – Los lobos
- Ik Ben God Niet – Raymond Van Het Groenewoud
- Saturnalia – The Wedding Present
- Magician Among the Spirits – The Church
- Songs for a Blue Guitar – Red House Painters
- The Masquerade Overture – Pendragon
- Boys For Pele – Tori Amos
- Kveldssanger – Ulver
- Popular Favorites – Oblivians
- Wild Opera – No-Man
- Whore – DalBello
- Guitar Slinger – The Brian Setzer Orchestra
- Bpb Mould – Bob Mould
- Retropolis – The Flower Kings
- Beware of Darkness – Spock’s Beard
- Londinum – Archive
- Trip Reset – Psychic TV
- Hear!See!Feel!Taste! – Cords
- Blissard – Motorpsycho
- 12 Golden Country Greats – Ween
- Harbour Of Tears – Camel
- Milk and Kisses – Cocteau Twins
- The Road to Ensenada – Lyle Lovett
- Life Is Sweet – Maria McKee
- The Family – Satchel
- Factory Showroom – They Might Be Giants
- Goosefair – China Drum
- Roots – Sepultura
- Denim on Ice – Denim
- Holy Land – Angra
- Among My Swan – Mazzy Star
- Horse Stories – Dirty Tree
- Strike – Les Thugs
- Nico – Blind Melon
- Clean – Caesar
- I Am An Elastic Firecracker – Tripping Daisy
- Free Peace Sweet – Dodgy
- Lovelife – Lush
- Hasheeda – The Treblespankers
Plaat van het Jaar 1996
