Best Album Of 1995

Here's the picks for 1995, usual drill if you pick other

Radiohead - Street Spirit - The Bends



Pavement - Rattled By The Rush - Wowee Zowee



Pulp - Common People - Different Class

Oasis - Champagne Supernova - (What's The Story) Morning Glory



Elastica - Connection - Elastica



Teenage Fanclub - Sparky's Dream - Sparky's Dream

Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight - Mellon Collie



Chemical Brothers - Too Many Mornings - Exit Planet Dust



Elliott Smith - Needle In The Hay - Elliott Smith

I'll go for Oasis.

I loved that album at the time, though I've grown out of them nowadays.

Radiohead - The Bends for me. Still absolutely love that album, and 'Fake Plastic Trees' still give me goosebumps 13 years on. A true classic. A close second for Mellon Collie. Some dud tracks fair enough, but rage, love, anger and every single emotion you can think of, all captured on a double album. Very hard to choose between Pulp and Chemical Brothers in there too. Oasis? Nowhere near the running.

I'm an Oasis fan, but I honestly think that (What's The Story) is the second worst album on that list. For me the choice was between Pulp and Teenage Fanclub, with Pulp just edging

Went with Oasis, can still remember when I bought it. Think I still have the original cassette as well.

Other albums that year
Leftism - Leftfield
It's Five O'Clock Somewhere - Slash's Snakepit
A Boy Named Goo - Goo Goo Dolls
Smart - Sleeper
Frogstomp - Silverchair
I Should Coco - Supergrass
Sparkle And Fade - Everclear
Draconian Times - Paradise Lost
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
Boombastic - Shaggy
Garbage - Garbage
The Great Escape - Blur
One Hot Minute - Red Hot Chili Peppers
It's Great When You're Straight.. Yeah - Black Grape
The Beatles Anthology, Volume 1 - The Beatles

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

Went with Oasis, can still remember when I bought it. Think I still have the original cassette as well.

Other albums that year
Leftism - Leftfield
It's Five O'Clock Somewhere - Slash's Snakepit
A Boy Named Goo - Goo Goo Dolls
Smart - Sleeper
Frogstomp - Silverchair
I Should Coco - Supergrass
Sparkle And Fade - Everclear
Draconian Times - Paradise Lost
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
Boombastic - Shaggy
Garbage - Garbage
The Great Escape - Blur
One Hot Minute - Red Hot Chili Peppers
It's Great When You're Straight.. Yeah - Black Grape
The Beatles Anthology, Volume 1 - The Beatles

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Some great ones in there. Still reckon the Foo Fighters debut is their best. All Dave Grohl's work too. Paradise Lost? That was a great album, cant remember the last time I heard that one.

It's the Fanclub for me. Still one of my favourite albums. A strong contender for the overall prize in my view. Radiohead and Pulp weren't half bad either.

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Originally Posted by TonyD

It's the Fanclub for me. Still one of my favourite albums. A strong contender for the overall prize in my view. Radiohead and Pulp weren't half bad either.

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Sadly it looks like Oasis will be eliminating all three albums from the final rounds :(

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Originally Posted by jebus

Sadly it looks like Oasis will be eliminating all three albums from the final rounds :(

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At least we know that'll be the last of Oasis in this poll. Unless 'Be Here Now' makes the shortlist for 97. Somehow i dont think it will.

Other Leftfield - Leftism. What an album!

Only open two days and an almost inassailable lead. And far from their best (their first). How manically depressing:(

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Originally Posted by Bluebeard

Only open two days and an almost inassailable lead. And far from their best (their first). How manically depressing:(

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Not for the want of trying. Even after dropping subtle hints, the public failed to listen. So much for democracy. :o

I went for Pulp. Not that it matters.
Other favourites that year include:
Whipping Boy - Heartworm
Paul Weller Stanley Road
Dubstar - Disgraceful
Tindersticks - Tindersticks II

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Originally Posted by Bluebeard

Only open two days and an almost inassailable lead. And far from their best (their first). How manically depressing:(

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Originally Posted by Pauro 76

Not for the want of trying. Even after dropping subtle hints, the public failed to listen. So much for democracy. :o

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Despite the fact that in that selection alone there are four albums I'd instinctively vote for ahead of it, I voted for Radioheads the Bends and would encourage other non-Oasis voters to band together and do likewise as it may still be possible to nick it and The Bends has the shortest distance to make up.

Starting to get a bit like U2 fans who want All Time Top 50 Irish Album polls to include ALL U2s albums.

Other commendations for 1995 go out to....

Some Call It Godcore - Half Man Half Biscuit
Presidents of the United States of America -Presidents of the United States of America
Raped, Killed and Left for the Buzzards -Rumble

went for WTSMG.

Northern Soul by the Verve would be a very very close second. The bends coming in third.

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Originally Posted by noby

I went for Pulp. Not that it matters.
Other favourites that year include:
Whipping Boy - Heartworm
Paul Weller Stanley Road
Tindersticks - Tindersticks II

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I'd have put Weller as my #1, best album he's made since his heyday with the Jam.

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Originally Posted by Bluebeard

Only open two days and an almost inassailable lead. And far from their best (their first). How manically depressing:(

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I think it is every bit as good as their debut , I am a big Oasis fan and I know I'm in the minority for having that opinion

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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

Despite the fact that in that selection alone there are four albums I'd instinctively vote for ahead of it, I voted for Radioheads the Bends and would encourage other non-Oasis voters to band together and do likewise as it may still be possible to nick it and The Bends has the shortest distance to make up.

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Or maybe they could you know , vote for the album they actually like the best