To celebrate our 30th anniversary and all the great music that made the past three decades special, MAGNET contributors past and present chose their 30 favorite albums released between 1993 and 2022. The only rules were that each record has to be a full-length and that no artist could be represented more than once in the same incarnation. We’re posting these lists throughout the rest of the year.
Danni Sinisi, designer
1) Neutral Milk Hotel In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Merge), 1998
2) Screaming Females Rose Mountain (Don Giovanni), 2015
3) The Breeders Last Splash (4AD/Elektra), 1993
4) The Get Up Kids Something To Write Home About (Heroes & Villains/Vagrant), 1999
5) Belle And Sebastian If You’re Feeling Sinister (Jeepster/The Enclave), 1997
6) Ex Hex Rips (Merge), 2014
7) Dinosaur Jr. Where You Been (Blanco Y Negro/Sire/Warner Bros.), 1993
8) Oasis (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? (Epic), 1995
9) The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs (Merge), 1999
10) The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site (Epitaph), 2003
11) The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Warner Bros.), 2002
12) Death Cab For Cutie Transatlanticism (Barsuk), 2003
13) Nirvana In Utero (DGC), 1993
14) Weezer Pinkerton (DGC), 1996
15) Guided By Voices Bee Thousand (Scat), 1994
16) Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue (Warner Bros.), 2008
17) Father John Misty Fear Fun (Sub Pop), 2012
18) Teenage Fanclub Thirteen (DGC), 1993
19) The Shins Wincing The Night Away (Sub Pop), 2007
20) Wavves Afraid Of Heights (Rodeo/Mom + Pop/Warner Bros.), 2013
21) Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop), 2011
22) Deerhunter Monomania (4AD), 2013
23) Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West (Up), 1997
24) Run The Jewels Run The Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal), 2014
25) The Postal Service Give Up (Sub Pop), 2003
26) Tame Impala Lonerism (Modular), 2012
27) Best Coast Crazy For You (Mexican Summer), 2010
28) Tennis Cape Dory (Fat Possum), 2011
29) Queen Of Jeans If You’re Not Afraid, I’m Not Afraid (Topshelf), 2019
30) Okkervil River The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar), 2007
