MAGNET’s Hobart Rowland 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.

Hobart Rowland, contributing editor
1) Radiohead The Bends (Capitol), 1995
2) Wilco Summerteeth (Reprise), 1999
3) Lauryn Hill The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse/Columbia), 1998
4) Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream (Virgin), 1993
5) Liz Phair Exile In Guyville (Matador), 1993
6) Elliott Smith XO (DreamWorks), 1998
7) Guided By Voices Bee Thousand (Scat), 1994
8) Spoon Girls Can Tell (Merge), 2001
9) Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Mercury), 1998
10) Soundgarden Superunknown (A&M), 1994
11) The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin (Warner Bros.), 1999
12) Steve Earle El Corazón (Warner Bros.), 1997
13) The Hold Steady Separation Sunday (Frenchkiss), 2005
14) Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump (V2), 2000
15) Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (Anti-), 2006
16) Son Volt Trace (Warner Bros.), 1995
17) Sheryl Crow Sheryl Crow (A&M), 1996
18) Dwight Yoakam This Time (Reprise), 1993
19) The Jayhawks Tomorrow The Green Grass (American), 1994
20) Band Of Horses Infinite Arms (Brown/Fat Possum/Columbia), 2010
21) The Breeders Last Splash (4AD/Elektra), 1993
22) Nada Surf Let Go (Barsuk), 2003
23) Jellyfish Spilt Milk (Charisma), 1993
24) Pete Yorn musicforthemorningafter (Columbia), 2001
25) Drive-By Truckers American Band (ATO), 2016
26) Uncle Tupelo Anodyne (Sire/Reprise), 1993
27) Old 97’s Too Far To Care (Elektra), 1997
28) Maria McKee You Gotta Sin To Get Saved (Geffen), 1993
29) Belly Star (Reprise/Sire), 1993
30) The Posies Frosting On The Beater (DGC), 1993