Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1995!! Part One

Not sure if I should be surprised that Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves didn’t get in.

considered it but it just bubbled under the bubbling under list!

wasn't expecting it to be on this list, but John Wall's sample-based Alterstill from 1995 is beautiful

Emmylou Harris’s Wrecking Ball is my 1995 fave. Voting Penthouse here. Good year for reverb.

love Penthouse

re: rachel's - i lived in louisville in the '90s so i have a soft spot for that scene.

frogbs - good call on Ruins - Hyderomastgroningem; one of my faves of theirs

I could happily vote for maybe 20 these and might have chosen Labradford, Luna or Slowdive at the time. But I'll opt for Labcabincalifornia. I've had that CD forever but still don't feel like I entirely grasp what's going on. Which is nice.

A Guy Called Gerald's Black Secret Technology sounds strange to me in the moment but also it is kind of amazing

am going to vote for Maxinquaye though, it's the album I love the most from 1995

A Guy Called Gerald's Black Secret Technology sounds strange to me in the moment but also it is kind of amazing

Really fancied listening to Black Secret Technology on my way home from work the other day but sadly it's not on Spotify.

This is the first of these lists where I actually heard several (i.e. more than two) of the albums during the year in question - at the time I would have voted for the Chemical Brothers (I got that and the Goldie album on CD for Xmas).

by the way out of the list i posted i want to specifically go out of my way to promote "black belt in boogie", wherein erstwhile Black Oak Arkansas imitators Raging Slab decided to go all-in on the Captain Beefheart sound. rick rubin refused to release it, and they released a revamped version (which is nearly as good) the next year. i cannot overstate how much i love this record; it's one of my most-listened to albums.

lots of great hip hop on this set, the Big L record is fantastic. Went Raekwon in the end.

Timeless!

wowee zowee

I wish I could vote for all my selections

Critics slagged off the jazzbo bits of "Timeless" but tracks like "Sea of Tears" are gorgeous imo. I hope the album gets a good few votes

cracking album, saw a bit of Goldie live at t in the park 96 playing this album

Wow, I must have been bored to tears or sleeping that year. Of that stuff, I think only the rap stuff would be stuff I would listen to now. I need to think...

Sea Of Tears is pretty great isn't it. Timeless was my first impulse here.

Is The Great Escape the most 'has aged terribly' record ever?

didn't people think that in 1996?

I remember a Melody Maker review declaring it a masterpiece

I remember Melody Maker giving Catatonia album of the year and liking Suede's Head Music. MM went downhill pretty fast

Look at all those good albums. What a good year.

Voting Black Grape just to be contrary.

I missed To Bring You My Love on my first readthrough, which was the first PJ Harvey album I outright loved

the black grape album deserves votes s its a really great album and the best album Shaun Ryder made imo

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SLOWDIVE

there's many albums I love in here but Souvlaki is the only one I'd play right now.

matter of fact, fuck it, I'll play it right now.

never a band ive loved tbh. i should try again

This is literally impossible.

listened to the ODB recently for 1st time in loooong time and man there's a lot of skippable tracks

TBYML, Maxinquaye, and Pure Phase are hard to pick from.

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Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1996 PART ONE

High five to the other Grand Prix voter.

That woulda been me.