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.
Matthew Fritch, senior editor
1) The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site (Epitaph), 2003
2) The National Alligator (Beggars Banquet), 2005
3) Belle And Sebastian If You’re Feeling Sinister (Jeepster/The Enclave), 1997
4) Neutral Milk Hotel In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Merge), 1998
5) Pulp Different Class (Island), 1995
6) The Long Winters When I Pretend To Fall (Barsuk), 2003
7) Queens Of The Stone Age Queens Of The Stone Age (Loosegroove), 1998
8) The Hold Steady Separation Sunday (Frenchkiss), 2005
9) Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex (Partisan), 2017
10) The Mendoza Line Lost In Revelry (Misra), 2002
11) Run The Jewels Run The Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal), 2014
12) Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch), 2002
13) Elliott Smith Either/Or (Kill Rock Stars), 1997
14) Hot Snakes Automatic Midnight (Swami), 2000
15) Mercury Rev Deserter’s Songs (V2), 1998
16) Comet Gain Réalistes (Kill Rock Stars), 2002
17) Aimee Mann Lost In Space (SuperEgo), 2002
18) Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 (75 Ark), 2000
19) You Am I Hourly, Daily (Warner Bros), 1996
20) Radiohead The Bends (Capitol), 1995
21) The Strokes Is This It (RCA), 2001
22) The Format Dog Problems (The Vanity Label), 2006
23) Wheat Medeiros (Sugar Free), 1997
24) Arctic Monkeys The Car (Domino), 2022
25) Against Me! New Wave (Sire), 2007
26) Fu Manchu King Of The Road (Mammoth), 1999
27) Waxahatchee Saint Cloud (Merge), 2020
28) The Mountain Goats Tallahassee (4AD), 2002
29) Phoenix Ti Amo (Glassnote/Atlantic), 2017
30) Fucked Up Hidden World (Jade Tree), 2006
