MAGNET’s Corey duBrowa Picks His 30 Favorite LPs Of The Past 30 Years

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.

Corey duBrowa, contributing writer
1) Radiohead Kid A (Capitol), 2000
2) Elliott Smith Either/Or (Kill Rock Stars), 1997
3) Frank Ocean Blonde (Boys Don’t Cry), 2016
4) Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador), 1994
5) Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch), 2002
6) Liz Phair Exile In Guyville (Matador), 1993
7) PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (Island), 2000
8) Kendrick Lamar Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope), 2012
9) Neutral Milk Hotel In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Merge), 1998
10) Nas Illmatic (Columbia), 1994
11) Björk Debut (Elektra), 1993
12) Portishead Dummy (Go! Beat/London), 1994
13) Deerhunter Halcyon Digest (4AD), 2010
14) Wu-Tang Clan Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (Loud/RCA), 1993
15) Jeff Buckley Grace (Columbia), 1994
16) Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell (Polydor/Interscope), 2019
17) Massive Attack Mezzanine (Virgin), 1998
18) Interpol Turn On The Bright Lights (Matador), 2002
19) Beth Orton Trailer Park (Heavenly/Dedicated), 1996
20) Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West (Up), 1997
21) Amy Winehouse Back To Black (Island), 2006
22) Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge), 2007
23) A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders (Jive), 1993
24) OutKast Stankonia (LaFace/Arista), 2000
25) Blur Parklife (Food/EMI), 1994
26) The Libertines Up The Bracket (Rough Trade), 2002
27) The Spinanes Manos (Sub Pop), 1993
28) The Avalanches Since I Left You (Modular), 2000
29) Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (Anti-), 2006
30) Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain (Sound-Ink), 2003