List some of your favorite records that turn 20 this year

Buju Banton - Til Shiloh

Alien Lanes, Pollard's true(st) masterpiece

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I have got 99 items in the database, the faves of this great year are:

Air Miami - Me, Me, Me
BMX Bandits - Gettin' Dirty
Bruce Springteen - The Ghost of tom Joad
Chris Whitley - Din of Ecstasy (RIP)
Elastica - s/t
Giant Sand - Goods and Services
Goran Bregovic - Underground
Hole - Live through this
Ivan Kral - Nostalgia
Laurie Anderson - The Ugly One with the Jewels (more storytelling than music)
Lloyd Cole - Love Story
Luna - Penthouse
Madredeus - Ainda
Mick Harvey - Intoxicated Man
Miossec - Boire
Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow
Murat - Live
Oregon - Beyond Words
Palace Music - Viva Last Blues
Passengers - Original Soundtracks Vol. 1
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Poe - Hello
Rainer Ptacek - Nocturnes (RIP)
Red House Painters - Ocean Beach
Mike Scott - Bring 'em all in
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie...
Spain - The Blue Moods of Spain
Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (RIP, my fave of 1995)
Teenage Fan Club - Grand Prix
Throwing Muses - University
Tindersticks - 2
Various - Help
Vic Chesnutt - Is the Actor Happy? (RIP)
Yo La Tengo - Electropura (my fave album of my ex-fave band but only #2 in 1995)
Young Gods - TV Sky

There are more on the ipod, eg Pavement - Wowee Zowee

Yo La Tengo - Electropura (my fave album of my ex-fave band but only #2 in 1995)

Huh, forgot this came out in '95, for some reason. HUGE record for me.

yeah, total classic

Less interesting list this year for me:

Tobin Sprout - Carnival Boy
Lilys - Better Can't Make Your Life Better
Swirlies - They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons
Bedhead - Transaction De Novo
Polvo - Exploded Drawing
Guided By Voices - Under The Bushes Under The Stars
burger/ink ‎– [Las Vegas]
East River Pipe ‎– Mel
Red House Painters ‎– Songs For A Blue Guitar

Stina Nordenstam - Dynamite
Tuscadero - The Pink Album
Mazzy Star - Among My Swan

Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Patty Griffin - Living w/ Ghosts
Wrens - Secaucus

Just realized- how did I forget Lida Husik last year? :(

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Tortoise - Millions Now Living
De La Soul - Stakes is High
Silver Jews - Natural Bridge
Neil Young - Dead Man stk

Bedhead - Transaction De Novo

Another oops, that was supposed to be Beheaded. Got mixed up.

Cocteau Twins - Milk & Kisses
Lovesliescrushing - Xuvetyn
Windy & Carl - Drawing of Sound
Roy Montgomery - Temple IV
Orbital - In Sides
Tori Amos - Boys for Pele
Long Fin Killie - Valentino
Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle
Screaming Trees - Dust
Velocity Girl - Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts
Walkabouts - Devil's Road

FSOL - Dead Cities
EBTG - Walking Wounded

katherine's display name following my list...

Swirlies being the semi-exception!

This thread is making me feel all sorts of old and uncool

I get the old part, but why uncool?

same diff?

All this music is "cool" again

I know the aforementioned Tindersticks, Luna, Oval, Slowdive, Pulp and Wu-Tang releases sound pretty good these days (because I have actually heard them recently) but I'm realising there are huge number of other things I've been resisting revisiting at all, fairly or not! (Despite them sitting on a shelf, just metres away, in many instances.)

Top 5:

Sing to God
Second Toughest in the Infants
Factory Showroom
Richard D James Album
Irresistible Bliss

Jack Frost - Snow Job
Martin Newell - The Off White Album
Sleeper - The It Girl
Animals That Swim - I Was The King...
Whipping Boy - Heartburn
Able Tasmans - Store In A Cool Place
A House - No More Apologies
Strangelove - Love & Other Demons
Superette - Tiger
Puressence - Puressence
Gene - To See The Lights

Of these, I haven't listened to Whipping Boy, Puressence, Gene, Sleeper and Superette in over a decade but I'd still enjoy those albums.

Ellery Eskelin - The Sun Died
UGK - Ridin' Dirty

Such a huuuuge year for me. Lots of the stuff already mentioned (Polvo, Mazzy Star, DJ Shadow, Tortoise, Cocteau Twins, Orbital, Tori Amos, Olivia Tremor Control, Future Sound Of London, Aphex Twin, Underworld, Wu Tang Clan), plus:

Bardo Pond - Amanita
Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman
Dirty Three - Horse Stories
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
Gastr Del Sol - Upgrade & Afterlife
Lisa Germano - Excerpts From A Love Circus
Go Sailor - S/T
High Llamas - Hawaii
Illyah Kuryahkin - Count No Count
Luscious Jackson - Fever In Fever Out
Microstoria - SND
Takako Minekawa - Roomic Cube
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island (the album I prefer)
Ninety Nine - S/T
Rachel's - The Sea and Bells
The Raincoats - Looking In The Shadows
REM - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
Retsin - Egg Fusion
Rome - S/T
Royal Trux - Sweet Sixteen
Sammy - Tales Of Great Neck Glory
Sebadoh - Harmacy
The Sonora Pine - S/T
Spinanes - Strand
Sugar Plant - Cage Of The Sun and After After Hours
Superdrag - Regretfully Yours
Tricky - Pre-Millennium Tension and Nearly God
Veruca Salt - Blow It Out Your Ass, It's Veruca Salt

And the Trainspotting soundtrack was a huge deal then, as well, despite being a comp of mostly older material. And those are just the ones I reeeeally liked.

I never miss an opportunity to mention

Possum Dixon - Star Maps

How did I forget Chavez both this year and last? Well anyway, Chavez.

I never checked out Retsin, any recommendation beyond the album you listed?

Yes, I would recommend any Retsin album you can track down. I guess Cabin In The Woods, if I had to narrow it down to one? But if you like Tara Jane O'Neil's other work, you won't be disappointed (see also: Sonora Pine from my list above). And if you aren't familiar with Tara Jane O'Neil, it's worth familiarizing yourself.

oh wow, I forgot about In Sides...sorry!!

Agreed on GBV, Afghan Whigs, DJ Shadow, Jay-Z, OTC, Underworld, Aphex, REM, Tori Amos, Orbital, Silver Jews... Would also add:

Tool - Aenima
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Texas Is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?
OutKast - ATLiens

And including comps:

LTJ Bukem - Logical Progression
Metalheadz - Platinum Breakz

Thanks for the Retsin rec!

Also, that Spinanes album has always been tough for me. I love the one before and the one after, but that one just floats out the window every time I try.

Ah, and that's my favorite Lisa Germano record basically due to the song Bruises alone. Sometimes her albums as a whole really bring me down, and I thrive on melancholy music so it's significant. Perhaps it'd be fresh again for me now, though.

xpost Yeah, my Spinanes feelings pretty much sync up with yours (with added love for solo Rebecca and EXTRA love for Imp Years). Strand is my least favorite but it's still Spinanes.

Yes, Imp Years is fantastic!

LFO - Advance
Jedi Knights - New School Science
Motorbass - Pansoul
John Beltran - Ten Days Of Blue
Boards Of Canada - Boc Maxima
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup

Lots of great stuff that year, but the ones I couldn't live without:

Too Much Joy - ...finally
The Loud Family - Interbabe Concern
Dar Williams - Mortal City
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

Orbital - Insides
Gas - Gas

Ah, 96, the year I got my first paying job. I basically listened to just three new albums that year, besides shit I already owned from years past:

2Pac - All Eyez on Me
Mazzy Star - Among My Swan
Outkast - ATLiens

I spent most of the 90s just checking out whatever was playing on the radio.

That this is 20 years ago is faintly petrifying.

this is a better year than i thought

Good records have no age because they existed since the beginning of time it was just a question of when someone got round to recording and releasing them

Glenn had a good year that year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZcbdEElEVs

they dont belong in the past though, belong in the present along with the sycamores and the oaks

Though she died 4 years ago, I am still haunted by her music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwHM3jHUpjI

Good lord, I never heard that she died.

earl brutus - your majesty .. we are here.
compulsion - the future is medium.
2 badcard - hustling ability.

My top ten for 1997:

1. Adrian Borland - 5:00 am
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. Bike - Take In The Sun
4. Gene - Drawn To The Deep End
5. China Drum - Self Made Maniac
6. Frank & Walters - The Grand Parade
7. Love Spit Love - Trysome Eatone
8. Prolapse - The Italian Flag
9. Luna - Pup Tent
10. Hugh Cornwell - Guilty

That was a really good year, I love all those albums still, though the Radiohead is a bit played out for me.

There is an internet rumour a teenage Zlatan played on this before signing for Malmo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uo6qMnIFTQ

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