Top 100 Music Albums of 1995 by desh79

I turned 16 in 1995, so needless to say there are going to be lots of "formative" albums herein.

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Post 

 Björk

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Similarly to 1997's Homogenic, this feels like an amalgamation of virtually every interesting musical movement of the mid-90s. So good I can even overlook "It's Oh So Quiet", (which I personally find unlistenable, and I don't mean that in the Oh-look-at-what-they-did-there-let-us-stroke-our-chins-Metal Machine Music-type of unlistenable, just unlistenable as in awful). Hyperballad is probably one of the best songs of the entire decade. [First added to this chart: 01/02/2017]

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

767 charts

Rank Score:

6,802

Rank in 1995:

5

Rank in 1990s:

52

Overall Rank:

260

Average Rating:

 82 (1,052 votes)

Comments:

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Tri Repetae 

 Autechre

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This sounded at least five years ahead of its time, as Autechre releases are prone to. Back in 1995, it seemed like music from another planet. [First added to this chart: 01/02/2017]

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

149 charts

Rank Score:

875

Rank in 1995:

40

Rank in 1990s:

351

Overall Rank:

1,912

Average Rating:

 77 (189 votes)

Comments:

8

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Garbage 

 Garbage

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[First added to this chart: 01/02/2017]

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

326 charts

Rank Score:

2,238

Rank in 1995:

13

Rank in 1990s:

143

Overall Rank:

800

Average Rating:

 77 (420 votes)

Comments:

22

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Chrono Trigger: Original Sound Version 
Soundtrack

 光田康典 [Yasunori Mitsuda]

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I make no bones about the fact that I'm an absolute nerd when it comes to mid-90s JRPGs, and Chrono Trigger was one of the highlights. Legend has it that Mitsuda suffered from burn-out midway through composing this soundtrack, leaving it up to the one and only Nobuo Uematsu to come and save the day - which needless to say did the quality of the work here absolutely no harm. [First added to this chart: 01/02/2017]

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

15 charts

Rank Score:

128

Rank in 1995:

173

Rank in 1990s:

1,563

Overall Rank:

9,310

Average Rating:

 77 (18 votes)

Comments:

1

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Pieces Of You 

 Jewel

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There's something rather romantic about the Jewel story, a singer-songwriter who tours and tours the breadth and length of the United States for years and years before word finally gets around and she achieves the stardom she craved -- whether that story is genuine or just another piece of record company-manufactured bullshit is hard to tell, and possibly neither here nor there, since the emotions on display seem genuine enough. It's unfortunate that her subsequent output never matched this debut. [First added to this chart: 07/06/2017]

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

91 charts

Rank Score:

298

Rank in 1995:

92

Rank in 1990s:

812

Overall Rank:

4,647

Average Rating:

 68 (115 votes)

Comments:

7

16. (=)

Elastica 

 Elastica

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This album is not without its weak spots (Connection and Waking Up suffer from the familiar Britpop disease of copying classic riffs to the extent that they basically overstep the line between homage and plagiarism by several light years), but its strong points (namely Stutter, one of the best debut singles of the early 90s, and Line Up, a great great great opener) are a consolation price worth having.

Unfortunately the band fell victim to another Britpop disease, ie: hyped as utter immortal rock gods by the London music press for five minutes before fading into obscurity, never to be seen again. See also: Dodgy, Boo Radleys, Babybird, Catatonia, etc. That said, word has it that Justine Frischmann is doing well as an artist in California these days, so kudos to her. [First added to this chart: 01/02/2017]

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

197 charts

Rank Score:

967

Rank in 1995:

35

Rank in 1990s:

326

Overall Rank:

1,756

Average Rating:

 77 (210 votes)

Comments:

8

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Classics 
Compilation

 Aphex Twin

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No modesty in the album title, but the presence of Didgeridoo or Analogue Bubblebath actually justified it. [First added to this chart: 01/02/2017]

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

10 charts

Rank Score:

17

Rank in 1995:

667

Rank in 1990s:

6,516

Overall Rank:

40,814

Average Rating:

 74 (26 votes)

Comments:

0

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Foo Fighters 

 Foo Fighters

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I wish I had a time machine so I could travel back to, say, 1993 and tell kids "Guess what, the drummer from Nirvana? Yeah, him? He can write songs! And he can sing! And in the late 2010s they will call him music's Bill Murray!". The confused reaction on their faces would have absolutely been worth the meltdown in the time-space-continuum and consequential apocalypse I'd have caused. *shrugs*

Oh, musically? A very solid debut that none of its successors ever matched in my opinion (the universal love and acclaim for The Colour And The Shape be damned, soz guys). [First added to this chart: 01/02/2017]

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

368 charts

Rank Score:

2,339

Rank in 1995:

12

Rank in 1990s:

139

Overall Rank:

770

Average Rating:

 76 (593 votes)

Comments:

34

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Everything Is Wrong 

 Moby

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Even though Play is a great record and one of the musical highlights of the late 90s in general, I very much prefer the brooding, apocalyptic, sitting-in-his-room-and-pondering-the-state-of-the-world, straight edge Moby we see here, to the hedonistic, party-going, drug-taking, groupie-shagging hey-look-at-me-I'm-one-of-the-cool-kids-now Moby we saw a few years later. I'm not angry at you, Moby, I'm just a little disappointed. [First added to this chart: 01/02/2017]

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

70 charts

Rank Score:

236

Rank in 1995:

109

Rank in 1990s:

943

Overall Rank:

5,605

Average Rating:

 73 (104 votes)

Comments:

5

20. (=)

Olympian 

 Gene

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One of these bands that were seemingly omnipresent in the mid-90s (and on my stereo, albeit on the now-defunct music cassette format), the UK music press effectively stopped covering Gene once the Britpop bandwagon steamed out of view and over a cliff edge at some point in 1997-98 (which in turn does scant justice to the fact that 2001's Libertine is one of the most underrated albums out there, but that's a story for another BEA list).

On another note, lead singer Martin Rossiter is these days very much present on Twitter and generally seems like a good bloke. [First added to this chart: 07/06/2017]

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

46 charts

Rank Score:

330

Rank in 1995:

86

Rank in 1990s:

743

Overall Rank:

4,285

Average Rating:

 73 (47 votes)

Comments:

4

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Top 100 Music Albums of 1995 composition

Artist	Albums	%
Autechre	3	3%
Aphex Twin	3	3%
Goldie	1	1%
Sonic Youth	1	1%
Sleeper	1	1%
The Flaming Lips	1	1%
Mercury Rev	1	1%
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Country	Albums	%
	49	49%
	33	33%
	4	4%
	4	4%
	3	3%
	2	2%
	1	1%
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1995 chart changes

Biggest fallers
Down 2 from 50th to 52nd Liquid Swords by GZA/Genius
Down 1 from 52nd to 53rd 1. Outside by David Bowie
Down 1 from 53rd to 54th Spanners by The Black Dog

New entries
Waterpistol by Shack

Leavers
Ron Sexsmith by Ron Sexsmith

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100/100	08/27/2020 19:37	CharlieBarley	478	94/100
95/100	08/10/2020 01:26	zwiebel	188	85/100
100/100	03/19/2020 03:26	DJENNY	4,408	100/100
100/100	01/09/2019 18:30	Rhyner	1,382	99/100
90/100	01/09/2018 19:07	bobbyb5	728	90/100

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From CharlieBarley 08/27/2020 19:54

The memories, man!
I was in my first year at Uni the end of this year.
A lot of these albums are the soundtrack to my youth.

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From bobbyb5 01/09/2018 19:09

Wow. You got a lot in common with me. And they're all awesome albums.

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