Yeah the first year I was out of school for good and had a real job I probably bought 200 or more CD's just playing catch up from the real real broke years.

right after college I moved to San Francisco and lived about 10 blocks from Amoeba. spent way more money than I really had there to boost my collection from maybe 50 cds to 500 hundred.

Definitely more conventional, you should check it out at some point.

My most listened to album in '95 was probably What's the Story, Morning Glory? with maybe Different Class as a close second; Others would probably be Elastica, Sonic Youth's Washing Machine, Pavement Wowee Zowee plus that PJ and Mad Season album.

god i still listen to a ton of these

Man, I was dirt poor in 1995. I was 'working' in the recording studios at the time getting paid £98 a week. I was still buying mainly singles at that time and most albums I bought would have been second hand 'oldies' - such was my budget.

According to my list, which may be wrong, I only have 14 albums form 1995. Here follows a smattering of likes.

Teenage Fanclub - 'Grand Prix'. This is exactly the sort of albums I wish bands were putting out today, i.e., a band that wears its influences on its sleeve but surpasses them in song writing and execution. Whereas The Fannies build upon and bettered their predecessors it seems to me most music these days sounds like a limp copy. Not so here.

Suede - 'Dog Man Star'. Suede don't get much, possibly, any love on this haven of wrong-headed twerpitude but actually this is a great album. Scary, mad, violent, drugged up to the eyeballs and pornographic - the CD booklet features pornographic pictures of posing middle aged women with mutilated breasts, leather freaks and animals being slaughtered. It seems to me to be one of the last really 'out there albums' where a band purposely pushed themselves to the precipice of a drugs vortex in pursuit of musical art form. After this people got too damn smart to believe in nightmarishly uber bohemian lifestyles without attaching the dreaded badge of self awareness and irony to it. I blame the 'Just Say No' campaign.

Sonic Youth - 'Washing Machine'. Arguably SY's best album of the 90's. Avant-garde elements but more approachable than some of the stuff they put out after 'Dirty'. 'Becuz' is one of those songs that has a really strong specific memory attached to it for me and it also included 'The Diamond Sea' one of the groups great achievements.

Prodigy - 'Music for the Jilted Generation'. Noisy, aggressive and, quite fantastically, the bane of terrified tabloid newspaper editors, politicians and old people who got into a moral panic over rave culture. Again going back to booklet art, this album has a quite hilarious picture of someone cutting down a rope bridge crossing a chasm leaving the police, cities and pollution on one side and rainbows, pristine country side and of course ravers off their tits on E on the other. This album dithers between hippies (ideology) and punks (form) and I suppose that's something that people of my age (born '74) have never really worked out what side of the divide to fall on so I'd say this has more of the spirit of the age in it than most if you want to chart the evolving psychology of youth culture.

Ben Folds Five - 'Ben Folds Five'. I've not actually listened to this for ages but at the time I played it to death. Perhaps the most attractive feature was that it didn't take it's self too seriously and it certainly stood out from the self congratulatory Britpop and miserably second generation 'grunge' bands. Fluff but fun.

These also came out in '95



The second disc of Volume 3 has always been the one I play the most.

I shudder to think about how much money we wasted on everything ELSE in those years.

Chris Knox of Tall Dwarfs. Most consistent and best written set of songs from his solo output (that I've heard anyway). Just a great skewed pop album.

1995...my first and only lollapalooza...

mine was 94.

I love typography horrible cover a multitude of surprises. Some of the worst of all hip-hop, and that's saying something.

But yes, I'm on that record, and it's great. I have not heard for years, though.

would love to know where badguys4u is from. Africa? India?

91 here.

Mirrorball definitely benefits from the propulsiveness of the Pearl Jam sound in this era. Neil should quit all the bleating of recent years and just rock the fuck out.

Like he kinda did on Le Noise?

Kinda.

As much as I love Bob Pollard, every time I listen to him or any of his various incarnations (GBV, etc.), I always chuckle remembering how you referred to his "bleatings."

I'd like to hear this. Can you up it or have a link?

Saw the first four, did not go in '95.

I think '95 was the year we gave out almost 2000 of these inflatable "burger balls" from Wendy's (we got them from a buddy's dad who ran a distribution warehouse) before the Lakewood Phish show. As soon as they started playing, people started blowing them up and throwing them, eventually they covered most of the stage. Mission accomplished.

sure. give me a day or two though. don't have it ripped yet

I kinda quit bothering to care.

Their last truly great album. Adore was decent and everything after has sucked.

Wasn't thie released in 1996?

Killer fucking album.

Definitely 1995, though late in the year. Like maybe November.

EDIT: Wiki says 10/24/95.

Does Wiki point out that GAR was also wrong about it being a Killer fucking album?