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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Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness 

 The Smashing Pumpkins

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An album encompassing some of the biggest musical highlights of the decade. Corgan and the Pumpkins were at their zenith here, mixing the brutal hard rock of songs like Jellybelly with more restrained pieces like Cupid de Locke. There are the classics, of course (Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Zero, 1979, Tonight Tonight - the latter two of which I heart, and then some) but also unfairly lesser-known gems like By Starlight, We Only Come Out At Night, or the widely underrated title track that starts off this positively demented magnum opus. The kind of album that made being a teenager in the mid-90s a rather awesome business. [First added to this chart: 07/06/2017]

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

1,449 charts

Rank Score:

15,968

Rank in 1995:

3

Rank in 1990s:

16

Overall Rank:

85

Average Rating:

 83 (1,809 votes)

Comments:

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Clouds Taste Metallic 

 The Flaming Lips

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Sometime in late 1995 I had my first part-time job, aged 16, at a fast food outlet which shant be named here. What did I do with my first earnings? Why, I spent all of it on records, of course. This one I bought solely because I liked the cover, having absolutely no idea what to expect musically (that was obviously in the days before Wayne Coyne became the avantgarde rock maestro any halfway self-respecting music fan knows him as nowadays), a decision I did not regret one tiny bit. [First added to this chart: 01/02/2017]

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

299 charts

Rank Score:

1,793

Rank in 1995:

16

Rank in 1990s:

194

Overall Rank:

1,002

Average Rating:

 78 (416 votes)

Comments:

24

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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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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

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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

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Me Against The World 

 2Pac

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

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

229 charts

Rank Score:

1,156

Rank in 1995:

25

Rank in 1990s:

276

Overall Rank:

1,500

Average Rating:

 79 (296 votes)

Comments:

18

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...And Out Come The Wolves 

 Rancid

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

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

181 charts

Rank Score:

1,108

Rank in 1995:

28

Rank in 1990s:

290

Overall Rank:

1,558

Average Rating:

 77 (235 votes)

Comments:

10

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See You On The Other Side 

 Mercury Rev

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[First added to this chart: 07/06/2017]

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

38 charts

Rank Score:

96

Rank in 1995:

225

Rank in 1990s:

2,013

Overall Rank:

11,945

Average Rating:

 73 (41 votes)

Comments:

3

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Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot 

 Sparklehorse

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

Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

145 charts

Rank Score:

1,161

Rank in 1995:

24

Rank in 1990s:

274

Overall Rank:

1,496

Average Rating:

 77 (161 votes)

Comments:

11

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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

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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

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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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