To have a good time our thirtieth anniversary and all the good music that made the previous three many years particular, MAGNET contributors previous and current selected their 30 favourite albums launched between 1993 and 2022. The one guidelines had been that every document needs to be a full-length and that no artist might be represented greater than as soon as in the identical incarnation. We’re posting these lists all through the remainder of the yr.

Eric Waggoner, contributing author
1) Lambchop Is A Lady (Merge), 2002
2) Bob Dylan Time Out Of Thoughts (Columbia), 1997
3) Liz Phair Exile In Guyville (Matador), 1993
4) John Zorn Kristallnacht (Tzadik), 1993
5) Beastie Boys Good day Nasty (Grand Royal/Capitol), 1998
6) Tom Waits Mule Variations (Anti-), 1999
7) The Flaming Lips The Delicate Bulletin (Warner Bros.), 1999
8) Ween Chocolate And Cheese (Elektra), 1994
9) Lauryn Hill The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse/Columbia), 1998
10) Lil Nas X Montero (Columbia), 2021
11) Cibo Matto Viva! La Lady (Warner Bros.), 1996
12) Pavement Wowee Zowee (Matador), 1995
13) Wilco Summerteeth (Reprise), 1999
14) Paul Westerberg/Grandpaboy Stereo/Mono (Vagrant), 2002
15) Elliott Smith Elliott Smith (Kill Rock Stars), 1995
16) Nick Cave & The Dangerous Seeds Skeleton Tree (Dangerous Seed), 2016
17) Kamasi Washington The Epic (Brainfeeder), 2015
18) Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly (High Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope), 2015
19) The Rolling Stones A Greater Bang (Rolling Stones/Virgin), 2005
20) Instrument Ænima (Zoo), 1996
21) Dinosaur Jr. The place You Been (Blanco Y Negro/Sire/Warner Bros.), 1993
22) Erykah Badu Mama’s Gun (Motown), 2000
23) Godspeed You! Black Emperor Raise Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (Constellation/Kranky), 2000
24) Beck Odelay (Bong Load/DGC), 1996
25) Numerous Artists Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs To Profit The West Memphis Three (2.13.61/Sanctuary), 2002
26) Songs: Ohia The Magnolia Electrical Co. (Secretly Canadian), 2003
27) Brian Wilson Brian Wilson Presents Smile (Nonesuch), 2004
28) The Mountain Goats The Sundown Tree (4AD), 2005
29) Loretta Lynn Van Lear Rose (Interscope), 2004
30) Amy Winehouse Again To Black (Common Republic), 2006