Time to wrap up the year 1995 but first the last albums I listened to of that year:
- Exit Planet Dust by The Chemical Brothers (nr 54 on the overall BEA top chart of 1995): this is not a bad album when considering some of the tracks like Leave Home but overall not really my thing
- Pulse by Pink Floyd (nr 55): normally I don't include live albums which bring nothing new but I wanted to make an exception for this one just because I had never listened to it yet and I wanted to know how some of my favorite Pink Floyd songs sounded like without Roger Waters and I must say the album as a whole is a bit underwhelming and favorites like Shine On You Crazy Diamonds, Wish You Were Here and Breathe even sound a bit muzak like and less good than on the regular albums. The one exception is Comfortably Numb with a very extended and very good guitar solo which makes it even better sounding than the one on the Wall.
- Frogstomp by Silverchair (nr 56): It really sound like Pearl Jam (too) light.
- Disco Volante by Mr. Bungle (nr 57 and the last album with an overall BEA rank better than 2500): a bit too experimental and weird for my taste.
And this ends my journey of 1995 albums. I can't say I didn't discover any good albums (Tindersticks 2!) but overall this year dragged on a bit too long.
This is the final verdict with at the start the overall BEA rank and after that the BEA year rank and then my personal rank before and after this listening sessions.
BEA Rank Title By Band BEA YearRank - My Rank before To My Rank after
17 The Bends By Radiohead 1 - 1 To 1
28778 Besides By Sugar 595 - 4 To 2
611 Wowee Zowee By Pavement 10 - 2 To 3
8280 Psychic Hearts By Thurston Moore 187 - 3 To 4
1486 Washing Machine By Sonic Youth 30 - 5 To 5
25076 Weasel By Gutterball 524 - 6 To 6
16860 100% Fun By Matthew Sweet 374 - 7 To 7
41 (What's The Story) Morning Glory? By Oasis 2 - To listen To 8
1475 Grand Prix By Teenage Fanclub 29 - 8 To 9
36085 Lamprey By Bettie Serveert 729 - 9 To 10
846 Foo Fighters By Foo Fighters 13 - 10 To 11
6511 Pacer By The Amps 145 - 11 To 12
5366 Happy Days By Catherine Wheel 120 - 12 To 13
6288 Here's Where The Strings Come In By Superchunk 138 - 13 To 14
13826 Infernal Love By Therapy? 303 - 14 To 15
1018 Alien Lanes By Guided By Voices 19 - 15 To 16
49942 Deadsexy By Scarce 969 - 17 To 17
3995 Mirror Ball By Neil Young 96 - 16 To 18
1937 Tindersticks 2 By Tindersticks 45 - To listen To 19
22385 Sleepy Eyed By Buffalo Tom 480 - 18 To 20
1595 Insomniac By Green Day 36 - 19 To 21
23592 Example By For Squirrels 501 - 20 To 22
1826 Elastica By Elastica 42 - To listen To 23
166 Different Class By Pulp 4 - To listen To 24
54421 Vulture By 3 Lb. Thrill 1043 - 21 To 25
849 Clouds Taste Metallic By The Flaming Lips 14 - To listen To 26
3574 ...And the Circus Leaves Town By Kyuss 83 - 22 To 27
73 Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness By The Smashing Pumpkins 3 - 23 To 28
6301 King By Belly 139 - 24 To 29
39434 Deep Fried Fanclub By Teenage Fanclub 774 - 25 To 30
1514 Trace By Son Volt 33 - To listen To 31
59381 Dum-Dàda By Nemo (BE) 1117 - 26 To 32
4737 Vee Vee By Archers Of Loaf 107 - 27 To 33
23301 Fitzcarraldo By The Frames 494 - 28 To 34
61607 Popmusics By Nemo (BE) 1161 - 29 To 35
21278 Surgery For Zebra By Metal Molly 454 - 30 To 36
62893 The Practice of Joy Before Death By Pond 1184 - 31 To 37
35614 My Brother The Cow By Mudhoney 715 - 32 To 38
1065 ...And Out Come The Wolves By Rancid 20 - To listen To 39
1426 Stanley Road By Paul Weller 28 - To listen To 40
904 The Great Escape By Blur 16 - 33 To 41
3283 A.M. By Wilco 77 - 34 To 42
605 To Bring You My Love By P.J. Harvey 9 - Already listened To 43
1607 Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot By Sparklehorse 37 - 35 To 44
556 Elliott Smith By Elliott Smith 8 - 40 To 45
1288 King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime By Faith No More 25 - To listen To 46
1837 Tomorrow The Green Grass By The Jayhawks 43 - To listen To 47
11068 University By Throwing Muses 239 - 36 To 48
9695 Is The Actor Happy? By Vic Chesnutt 215 - 37 To 49
31947 King Shit And The Golden Boys By Guided By Voices 657 - 38 To 50
74075 Hormone Hotel By Bandit Queen 1400 - 39 To 51
1517 Outside By David Bowie 34 - To listen To 52
26020 Ball-Hog Or Tugboat? By Mike Watt 542 - 41 To 53
I will again skip 5 years so the next year I will listen to is the year 2000.
BEA Rank Title By Band BEA YearRank - My Rank before To My Rank after
17 The Bends By Radiohead 1 - 1 To 1
28778 Besides By Sugar 595 - 4 To 2
611 Wowee Zowee By Pavement 10 - 2 To 3
8280 Psychic Hearts By Thurston Moore 187 - 3 To 4
1486 Washing Machine By Sonic Youth 30 - 5 To 5
25076 Weasel By Gutterball 524 - 6 To 6
16860 100% Fun By Matthew Sweet 374 - 7 To 7
41 (What's The Story) Morning Glory? By Oasis 2 - To listen To 8
1475 Grand Prix By Teenage Fanclub 29 - 8 To 9
36085 Lamprey By Bettie Serveert 729 - 9 To 10
846 Foo Fighters By Foo Fighters 13 - 10 To 11
6511 Pacer By The Amps 145 - 11 To 12
5366 Happy Days By Catherine Wheel 120 - 12 To 13
6288 Here's Where The Strings Come In By Superchunk 138 - 13 To 14
13826 Infernal Love By Therapy? 303 - 14 To 15
1018 Alien Lanes By Guided By Voices 19 - 15 To 16
49942 Deadsexy By Scarce 969 - 17 To 17
3995 Mirror Ball By Neil Young 96 - 16 To 18
1937 Tindersticks 2 By Tindersticks 45 - To listen To 19
22385 Sleepy Eyed By Buffalo Tom 480 - 18 To 20
1595 Insomniac By Green Day 36 - 19 To 21
23592 Example By For Squirrels 501 - 20 To 22
1826 Elastica By Elastica 42 - To listen To 23
166 Different Class By Pulp 4 - To listen To 24
54421 Vulture By 3 Lb. Thrill 1043 - 21 To 25
849 Clouds Taste Metallic By The Flaming Lips 14 - To listen To 26
3574 ...And the Circus Leaves Town By Kyuss 83 - 22 To 27
73 Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness By The Smashing Pumpkins 3 - 23 To 28
6301 King By Belly 139 - 24 To 29
39434 Deep Fried Fanclub By Teenage Fanclub 774 - 25 To 30
1514 Trace By Son Volt 33 - To listen To 31
59381 Dum-Dàda By Nemo (BE) 1117 - 26 To 32
4737 Vee Vee By Archers Of Loaf 107 - 27 To 33
23301 Fitzcarraldo By The Frames 494 - 28 To 34
61607 Popmusics By Nemo (BE) 1161 - 29 To 35
21278 Surgery For Zebra By Metal Molly 454 - 30 To 36
62893 The Practice of Joy Before Death By Pond 1184 - 31 To 37
35614 My Brother The Cow By Mudhoney 715 - 32 To 38
1065 ...And Out Come The Wolves By Rancid 20 - To listen To 39
1426 Stanley Road By Paul Weller 28 - To listen To 40
904 The Great Escape By Blur 16 - 33 To 41
3283 A.M. By Wilco 77 - 34 To 42
605 To Bring You My Love By P.J. Harvey 9 - Already listened To 43
1607 Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot By Sparklehorse 37 - 35 To 44
556 Elliott Smith By Elliott Smith 8 - 40 To 45
1288 King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime By Faith No More 25 - To listen To 46
1837 Tomorrow The Green Grass By The Jayhawks 43 - To listen To 47
11068 University By Throwing Muses 239 - 36 To 48
9695 Is The Actor Happy? By Vic Chesnutt 215 - 37 To 49
31947 King Shit And The Golden Boys By Guided By Voices 657 - 38 To 50
74075 Hormone Hotel By Bandit Queen 1400 - 39 To 51
1517 Outside By David Bowie 34 - To listen To 52
26020 Ball-Hog Or Tugboat? By Mike Watt 542 - 41 To 53
I will again skip 5 years so the next year I will listen to is the year 2000.
What an incredible list! I'm especially impressed to see the albums in bold so high. Tons of great stuff though.
And here is my first contribution for the year 2000, if I see the album which is the first in my list (Sweet Bird of Youth by The Rock*A*Teens) can't really be a very good year.
Here is the list I will listen to (or already have) with at the start the overall BEA rank (all lower ranked than 2500) an then the BEA year rank and then my personal rank before this listening session:
BEA Rank Title By Band BEA YearRank - My Rank before
6 Kid A By Radiohead 1 - 18
104 The Moon & Antarctica By Modest Mouse 2 - To listen
114 Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven By Godspeed You! Black Emperor 3 - 45
152 Parachutes By Coldplay 4 - 19
175 The Marshall Mathers LP By Eminem 5 - To listen
204 Since I Left You By The Avalanches 6 - To listen
315 Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea By P.J. Harvey 7 - Already listened
328 Stankonia By OutKast 8 - To listen
404 Rated R By Queens Of The Stone Age 9 - 16
405 Relationship Of Command By At The Drive-In 10 - To listen
486 All That You Can't Leave Behind By U2 11 - 25
493 Hybrid Theory By Linkin Park 12 - To listen
528 White Pony By Deftones 13 - To listen
545 Heartbreaker By Ryan Adams 14 - To listen
595 De Stijl By The White Stripes 15 - To listen
623 Figure 8 By Elliott Smith 16 - 12
669 Voodoo By D'Angelo 17 - To listen
809 The Sophtware Slump By Grandaddy 18 - 9
847 Deltron 3030 By Deltron 3030 19 - To listen
917 XTRMNTR By Primal Scream 20 - To listen
1077 Dopethrone By Electric Wizard 21 - To listen
1101 Felt Mountain By Goldfrapp 22 - To listen
1124 Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished By Avey Tare & Panda Bear 23 - To listen
1134 Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia By The Dandy Warhols 24 - 39
1140 And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out By Yo La Tengo 25 - 20
1173 Lost Souls By Doves 26 - 42
1184 1 By The Beatles 27 - Greatest Hits Excluded
1232 Daisies Of The Galaxy By Eels 28 - 13
1352 Supreme Clientele By Ghostface Killah 29 - To listen
1456 Building Nothing Out Of Something By Modest Mouse 30 - To listen
1482 Mer De Noms By A Perfect Circle 31 - To listen
1496 The Hour Of Bewilderbeast By Badly Drawn Boy 32 - 32
1531 Lightbulb Sun By Porcupine Tree 33 - To listen
1558 Fevers And Mirrors By Bright Eyes 34 - 10
1570 Black Market Music By Placebo 35 - 28
1589 American III: Solitary Man By Johnny Cash 36 - 34
1619 Machina/The Machines Of God By The Smashing Pumpkins 37 - Already listened
1668 Brave New World By Iron Maiden 38 - 3
1771 Music By Madonna 39 - To listen
1788 Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water By Limp Bizkit 40 - To listen
1813 Warning By Green Day 41 - 23
1869 Mass Romantic By The New Pornographers 42 - To listen
1891 Mama's Gun By Erykah Badu 43 - To listen
1898 He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms... By A Silver Mt. Zion 44 - To listen
1960 Quality Control By Jurassic 5 45 - To listen
2004 Veni Vidi Vicious By The Hives 46 - To listen
2164 Internal Wrangler By Clinic 47 - To listen
2166 Bloodflowers By The Cure 48 - Already listened
2185 Greatest Hits I, II & III - The Platinum Collection By Queen 49 - Greatest Hits Excluded
2218 Odyssey Number Five By Powderfinger 50 - To listen
2231 Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants By Oasis 51 - 4
2305 100 Broken Windows By Idlewild 52 - To listen
2365 We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes By Death Cab For Cutie 53 - To listen
2424 Binaural By Pearl Jam 54 - 38
2447 Pop By Gas 55 - To listen
2464 Flood By Boris 56 - To listen
And I have already listened to some of these albums:
- Kid A by Radiohead (nr 1 on the overall BEA top chart of 2000): although of course I know and own this album I feel I couldn't start this year without listening to this album again which is ranked the 6th on the overall BEA site and which in my opinion was totally overrated. So I listened to it again and although there are at least five tracks which are at least good I honestly can't see this album as a masterpiece and in any case nowhere near the same league as The Bends or OK Computer. I did increase the score of some of the tracks I really rated low below but my general opinion about it hasn't changed.
- The Moon & Antarctica by Modest Mouse (nr 2): The only reason I didn't listen to this album before is because it isn't available on Itunes but I listened to it via Youtube. To me this isn't the best Modest Mouse album because they haven't yet reached the interesting weirdness of some of the following albums but overall I will nevertheless include it in my personal top chart of the year.
- the next three album are just albums I really don't like at all so I'll quote them together: The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem (nr 5) then Since I Left You by The Avalanches (nr 6) and then Stankonia by OutKast (nr 8 ).
The next album I will listen to is Relationship of Command by At The Drive-In.
Now I'm entering a puddle of mud (haha I'm laughing out loud with my own stupid joke): a number of nu-metal records that I absolutely didn't like for a bit:
- Relationship Of Command by At The Drive-In (nr 10 in the overall BEA top chart of 2000): I suppose many people technically would call this nu-metal but to me it certainly has the same feel at least when I look at the (lack of) quality of the songwriting and the horrid screaming of the singer.
- Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park (nr 12): supposed to be one of the better albums by this band: if this is the case I don't want to listen to the rest of their albums.
- White Pony by Deftones (nr 13): also this album is supposed to have some artistic qualities that their other albums don't seem to have but I didn't find them. And to think that Limp Bizkit follow later 😢
The next album to listen to is completely different: Heartbreaker by Ryan Adams.
Some more albums of the year 2000 I listened to:
- Heartbreaker by Ryan Adams (nr 14 on the overall BEA top chart of 2000): I really liked AMY a lot but the rest of the album is a bit too country-ish for me to really appreciate it although the songwriting in some of the first songs of the album is great. Nevertheless I will not include it in my personal top chart.
- De Stijl by The White Stripes (nr 15): I'm not the biggest fan of the White Stripes because they suffer a bit of the same problem as most of the two-person bands: lack of variety, and on this album this is even more so than on some of their others. To me only Let's Build A Home is very good, the rest is average so not enough for my personal top chart of the year.
- Voodoo by D'Angelo (nr 17): I just don't like that general feeling of uttermost smoothness on his albums
- Deltron 3030 by Deltron 3030 (nr 19): just another hiphop album
- XTRMNTR by Primal Scream (nr 20): This is an album I thought, before I listened to it, that I would never in the world would put in my personal chart. But I'm having second thoughts. First it's very energetic with its overall driving sound on tracks like Blood Money which also has a very jazzy feeling to it. Although there are some weaker tracks the final verdict is: I will include it in my personal top chart.
The next album to listen to is Dopethrone by Electric Wizard.
Some more albums of 2000 I listened to:
- Dopethrone by Electric Wizard (nr 21 on the overall BEA top chart of 2000): this is a monster of an album and a bit of a shame I don't know this album already because it's a classic in it's genre and even goes a step further than where Black Sabbath has ever been: very mighty riffing especially on the first two and last two tracks of the album. This should have been already on my top chart.
- Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished by Avey Tare & Panda Bear (nr 22): Chocolate Girls is very good and Alvin Row has it's good parts although this track is a bit too long but the rest of the album couldn't really convince me because a bit too bleepy.
- Felt Mountain by Goldfrapp (nr 23): not really my thing.
- Supreme Clientele by Ghostface Killah (nr 29): really not my thing
- Building Nothing Out Of Something by Modest Mouse (nr 30): although this album is marked as a compilation I've decided to include this one here because it's mainly a series of B-sides and outtakes not appearing on other regular albums and it is certainly not of a lesser quality than the regular albums. Not the greatest album in the world but certainly good enough for my personal top chart of the year.
- Mer De Noms by A Perfect Circle (nr 32): I don't like the singer and I don't like the songs of this album.
The next album to listen to is Lightbulb Song by Porcupine Tree, a band I'm starting to appreciate more and more so I'm looking forward to discover it.
- Building Nothing Out Of Something by Modest Mouse (nr 30): although this album is marked as a compilation I've decided to include this one here because it's mainly a series of B-sides and outtakes not appearing on other regular albums and it is certainly not of a lesser quality than the regular albums. Not the greatest album in the world but certainly good enough for my personal top chart of the year.
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Totally. I LOVE this album, and pretty much consider it essential Modest Mouse.
And yeah, that Dopethrone album is just sick. I've had a lot parties with my boys to that album!
And more:
- Lightbulb Sun by Porcupine Tree (nr 33 on the overall BEA top chart of 2000): I didn't find it on Apple Music and first listened to Youtube but then decided to buy it because it's really that good and immediately jumps towards the top of my personal top chart of 2000. The album has a very Pink Floydian look and feel: vast soundscapes with very good layered guitar work and good epic songs. Highlights are Shesmovedon, Russia On Ice and Feel So Low.
- Music by Madonna (nr 40): after the highlight in her career (Ray Of Light) this one is a bit downer because fairly bland popmusic. Only I Deserve It is not bad but that's not good enough to make this a worthwhile album for me.
- Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water by Limp Bizkit (nr 41): There is a forum post on this band as an example of bad music and it is: nu-metal is already not my favorite genre and this album is one of the worst of the genre.
The next album to listen to is Mass Romantic by The New Pornographers.
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