Leftfield leftism?

Its great when you’re straight is good

As is tricky

95 wasn’t that great, but hey, I was past it by then

I have not heard of most of the bands never mind the albums

Good year that…

Other cracking albums from 1995 included;
Faith No More – King for a Day
No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom
Rocket from the Crypt – Scream Dracula Scream
Slash’s Snakepit – Its Five o Clock somewhere
Pennywise – About Time
Everclear – Sparkle and Fade
Foo Fighters – S/T
NOFX – I Heard They Suck Live

And indeed THE GREATEST ALBUM OF ALL SODDING TIME!….

I was sixteen in 1995 and had the use of an older brother who would drive me to all these gigs. Annoyingly he was at Uni in South Wales and got to see Dub War in some tiny venues where they just bounced off walls and ceilings. Bristol, Newport, Cardiff etc had so many good venues pretty much every band big at the time passed through.

1994 stands up pretty good. I dont think its just looking back with rose tinted specs either as i was a bit young to fully appreciate most of this at the time.

Nas – Illmatic
Jeff Buckley – Grace
Manic Street Preachers – Holy Bible
Oasis – Definitely Maybe
Nirvana – MTV unplugged
Johnny Cash – American 1
Biggie – Ready to Die
Beastie Boys – Ill Communication
The Prodigy – Jilted Generation
Portishead – Dummy
Greenday – Dookie
Beck – Mellow Gold
Nine Inch Nails – Downward Spiral

Sod the miserable buggers up there ^ , but agree that ’94 stands out more in my memory.

+1 for CFH here – 1991-95 were my uni years and the time when I was most getting into music. I slavishly followed the NME and Melody Maker buying all the indie guitar band stuff and these days, I listen to very little of it – I think it was very parochial and hasn’t really stood the test of time…

Where was the era’s Beatles, Stones, Bowie etc?

I’m spending a lot more time these days listening to blues, and all the stuff from 60’s and 70’s which was a truly ground-breaking era for pop music.
I’ve got one of Brian Wilson’s solo albums on Spotify now (from 2008) and in the quality of the tunes and depth of lyrics it’s totally on another plane to mid-nineties…

Most of the 90’s stuff was looking back to 60s/70s era for its inspiration rather than progressing to anything really new.

IMO even though it wasn’t my thing, dance music in 90’s and noughties was more progressive than all the indie stuff – a genuinely new form of music.

Of those artists above, Radiohead are one of the few who really went on to produce anything really original… although there were some great tunes in the Pulp album and Leftfield was pretty ground-breaking for its time.

And let’s not forget that Liam Ghallagher can’t even sing in tune and somehow he’s one of the most-celebrated ‘artists’ of the era!

Quite a varied list. I would add
The Verve, A Northern Soul
Ol Dirty Bastard, Return to the 36 Chambers

+1, it is certainly not what it used to be.

This thread got me thinking about 1995 but i reckon 1996 was a much better year as far as my ears/mind were concerned…

Two albums from that year are still very much in my all-time list are –

Millions Now Living Will Never Die by Tortoise
Upgrade and Afterlife by Gastr Del Sol

that was the year I started uni, I had a lot of those albums! good times. no autotune in sight.