Music Gourmets Presents 60 Years of Great Music - 1995

[Zeeba Neighba]

Welcome to the next year in our "Great Music" series - 1995!

Here's the rules:

Each Friday (typically) we'll introduce a new year from 1957 through 2016. Each member selects an album released in that year with a few lines (or more) on why you picked it/enjoy it. Your selection does not have to be the most important release or the most admired release of that year (though it certainly can be), simply an album that grabs you and that you really love.

However, once an album is selected by a member, you must choose a different album.

Together we will compile quite the canon of "Great Music" and, who knows, maybe inspire each other to check out some new artists (or to revisit old forgotten classics).

This week - the albums of 1995

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Pulp - Different Class

Gonna learn my lesson from last week when several of my faves were picked early. It actually says something about 1994 that my top 4 were picked and I still was debating between three other choices. And hey! 1995 is a pretty damn good year too - especially if you're a Britpop fan. As much as I love Blur and early Oasis though (and whoa! Supergrass' debut is this year too), this is the best Britpop album evah. I could play "Common People" on repeat for an hour and never get bored. Tough to pass up Morning Glory because it's sooo good, but confident someone will pick it anyway
Take that LPFreak!

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Swans - The Great Annihilator

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

Son Volt - Trace



Very pleasant music.

 

[axolotl]

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/1995

 

[LeslieC]

Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

Full House lunchboxes, Beanie Babies and the last Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip ever published can be found here...

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/1995

 

[patrikc325]

Sonny Landreth - South of I-10

 

[axolotl]

Full House lunchboxes, Beanie Babies and the last Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip ever published can be found here...

1995 wasn't all sweetness and light.

Selena was murdered, Christopher Reeve was paralyzed, the OKC bombing occurred, and Hugh Grant was arrested for lewd conduct.

Oh, and the Grateful Dead played their last concert, so it wasn't all bad. Then again, like the rest of of their live noodlings, I think it was recorded....

 

[Mattafett]

Mad Season - Above

 

[lpfreak1170]

Pulp - Different Class

Gonna learn my lesson from last week when several of my faves were picked early. It actually says something about 1994 that my top 4 were picked and I still was debating between three other choices. And hey! 1995 is a pretty damn good year too - especially if you're a Britpop fan. As much as I love Blur and early Oasis though (and whoa! Supergrass' debut is this year too), this is the best Britpop album evah. I could play "Common People" on repeat for an hour and never get bored. Tough to pass up Morning Glory because it's sooo good, but confident someone will pick it anyway
Take that LPFreak!

I am NOT happy.

 

[lpfreak1170]

Everclear - Sparkle And Fade

 

[axolotl]

^ Now, are you happy?

 

[Postalboy]

The Jayhawks- Tomorrow the Green Grass

 

[axolotl]

^ I approve this selection.

 

[Worm]

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

 

[lpfreak1170]

^ Now, are you happy?

I'm happier...

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Any more 1995 picks? Get 'em in

 

[axolotl]

Red House Painters ~Ocean Beach

 

[Ojai Sam]

Whiskeytown - Faithless Street

This album is one of the two or three keys to understanding the whole alt county/No Depression movement. 20 year old Ryan Adams migrated from punk to country and in the process, made what I consider the best, most focused work of his career. AMG sez:

The music itself is often sparse and gritty, brutally honest, and quite beautiful, especially in the introspective "If He Can't Have You," "Desperate Ain't Lonely," and the achingly gorgeous "Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight." For all of the attention surrounding Adams' songwriting and Gram Parsons-like self-destructive bluster, one of the album's highlights comes from violinist and vocalist Caitlin Cary's "Matrimony," sung with a fierce independence that is a far cry from Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man," although with a similar heartfelt enthusiasm.

on the Sam-O-Meter.