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MAGNET’s Matt Hickey 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 […]
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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.
Matt Hickey, contributing editor
1) Guided By Voices Bee Thousand (Scat), 1994
2) Superdrag In The Valley Of Dying Stars (Arena Rock), 2000
3) Nada Surf Let Go (Barsuk), 2003
4) Tommy Keene Crashing The Ether (Eleven Thirty), 2006
5) Keene Brothers Blues And Boogie Shoes (Fading Captain), 2006
6) Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador), 1994
7) Superchunk On The Mouth (Matador), 1993
8) Portastatic Slow Note From A Sinking Ship (Merge), 1995
9) Sloan Between The Bridges (Murder), 1999
10) Idlewild The Remote Part (Capitol), 2002
11) Small Factory For If You Cannot Fly (Vernon Yard), 1994
12) The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen (Elektra), 1993
13) Robert Pollard From A Compound Eye (Merge), 2006
14) Finn’s Motel Escape Velocity (Scat), 2006
15) Boston Spaceships Zero To 99 (Guided By Voices Inc.), 2009
16) Eleventh Dream Day El Moodio (Atlantic), 1993
17) Ted Leo And The Pharmacists Shake The Sheets (Lookout!), 2004
18) The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site (Epitaph), 2003
19) Uncle Tupelo Anodyne (Sire/Reprise), 1993
20) Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch), 2001
21) Bob Mould Silver Age (Merge), 2012
22) Paul Westerberg/Grandpaboy Stereo/Mono (Vagrant), 2002
23) Matthew Sweet 100% Fun (Zoo), 1995
24) Silkworm Firewater (Matador), 1996
25) The Hold Steady Separation Sunday (Frenchkiss), 2005
26) Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments Bait And Switch (Onion/American), 1995
27) The Bats Silverbeet (Flying Nun/Mammoth), 1993
28) Martin Phillipps & The Chills Sunburnt (Flying Nun), 1996
29) The Lees Of Memory Unnecessary Evil (self-released), 2016
30) The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy Waiting For The Love Bus (Creation/TriStar), 1993
