Are there many albums that came out around 10 years ago that you still listen to regularly?

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They may still be great albums, but which do you actually listen to any more?

List them.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 13 March 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Lots of hip-hop from then...but at the time, i was listening to it as singles, taped off the radio etc., so i suppose that doesn't count.

― deej., Sunday, 13 March 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Playing right now, "Strictly Business" by EPMD. Which is more like 17 years old, but whatever.

― Austin (Austin), Sunday, 13 March 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

In Utero
Six Finger Satellite Sever Exposure
Bardo Pond Lapsed
Landed Everything's Happening
Pavement Wowee Zowee

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 13 March 2005 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

If it's more than 15 years then it doesn't count because that's when stuff comes back into fashion.

The reason I asked is because I've recently rediscovered Mark's Keyboard Repair by Money Mark and I err.. remarked that it came out in 1995 but still sounded fresh, possibly even better than when it came out..
Now, I love a lot of albums from around that year and place them high on my list of faves, but I know if I were to listen to them again they'd sound dated and maybe a bit embarassing. It's the whole 10-year rule. Stuff that's 10 years old is old-fashioned but stuff that's 20-years or more is great. I can't really listen to "I Care Because You Do" by Aphex Twin anymore. At the time it was the most incredible thing ever but for now it's too harsh and purposefully obtruse. It'll bounce back one day soon I'm sure though.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Siamese Dream
Stop Making Sense (2o+ years, so doesn't really count, but it's in my player right now)

― miss chievous grin (miss chevious grin), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Tricky - PMT & Maxinquaye
Prince - Gold Experience
Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology (but semi unfair as I wasn't listening to this at the time)

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Radiohead - The Bends

― miss chievous grin (miss chevious grin), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

guided by voices' alien lanes sounds just as good now as it did in 95.

― tylerw, Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't really listen to anything regularly.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I still listen Weezer's Blue album. See also: "Gentlemen", The Afghan Whigs.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

In the 9-12 y.o. range there's still plenty.

Aceyalone - All Balls Don't Bounce
KRS1 - I Got Next (selected tracks only)
Bill Frisell - This Land
Praxis - Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis), Sarcifist, Metatron
Henry Threadgill's albums from 95...a lot of stuff, really.

― Austin (Austin), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

here are five that I listen to regularly
Plumb
Ten Summoner's Tales
Protection
Undertow
The First Day

― bahtology, Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Any (all?) early-90's Dischord bands. Those old Jawbox, Lungfish, and Trusty records still sound amazing.

A lot of hip-hop, obviously - 1993-1994 was a golden age!

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

1995: Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic; Swervedriver - Ejector Seat Reservation; Mercury Rev - See You on the Other Side; Luna - Penthouse; Tindersticks - st; Red House Painters - Ocean Beach; Spiritualized - Pure Phase; Slowdive - Pygmalion; Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do; Laika - Silver Apples of the Moon

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Pulp's Different Class

― buck van smack (Buck Van Smack), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Based on a quick iTunes check...

1994 - Weezer
1995 - Ben Folds Five, Elastica, Garbage, 100% Fun, Exit The Dragon
1996 - Pinkerton, Being There, Fountains of Wayne

― John Fredland (jfredland), Sunday, 13 March 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

R.E.M. - Monster.

― Justin, Sunday, 13 March 2005 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Radiohead - The Bends
Ben Folds Five
Matthew Sweet - %100 Fun
Weezer
The Slackers - Better Late Than Never
The Pietasters - Strapped Live!

DAMMIT THERE WAS SOME GOOD SKA MUSIC.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Sunday, 13 March 2005 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I still listen to Illmatic, most of the Wu-related albums, Protection, Pure Phase Johnny Cash - American Recoding, Entroducing, The Verve - A storm in Heaven, Elliot Smith, Tribe Called quest - Midnight Marauders

― Seuss, Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The only albums I have from 1995 are Rosewater Elizabeth's Le Petit Morte and Belly's King. I listen to them both infrequently.

― Quit glaring at Ian Riese-Moraine! He's mentally fraught! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I still somewhat regularly listen to the old 80's and early 90's shit from Metallica, Slayer, Sepultura, Nuclear Assault, etc etc.. Lots of hip hop too - all the early Wu, Gravediggaz, Illmatic, EPMD/Def Squad, De La, A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, Jeru The Damaja, Mobb Deep, Outkast, etc etc.. Swervedriver's Raise probably comes out more than any other "old" album cause just about ANY highway travel calls for it. I still love all the Seam albums. Oh and Loveless of course.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Monday, 14 March 2005 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 14 March 2005 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Siamese Dream and Pisces Iscariot (I didn't hear them till 2002!)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 14 March 2005 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

and SAWII, obv.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 14 March 2005 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Big Science
#1 Record/Radio City
Low
Duty Now For the Future
The first 3 Soft Machine albums and the BBC Sessions release
Last Tango in Paris soundtrack
Tusk
The Band That Would Be King
Topography of the Lungs
lots of early Zappa

too much else to list.

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

autechre - Chiastic Slide, Tri Repetae
Labradford - Mi Media Naranja
Lamb - Lamb
Mogwai - Ten Rapid
Portishead - Portishead
Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor, Dig Me Out
Amon Tobin - Bricolage

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and Double Nickels on the Dime above all.

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you misread the subject line, dude.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh... never mind.

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Monday, 14 March 2005 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Listening to "Screw Up" by Super Junky Monkey right now.

― shieldforyoureyes, Monday, 14 March 2005 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

1994 - Seal, S/T
1994 (I think) - Jellyfish, Spilt Milk
1995 - Gin Blossoms, New Miserable Experience

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 14 March 2005 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

blur - the great escape (1995)

― marc h., Monday, 14 March 2005 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

No.

― Cranberry Pantsuit, Monday, 14 March 2005 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

These Are Not Fall Colors by Lync still gets played regularly around my house. I'm sure there are lots of other things as well, but that's the first one that comes to mind.

― Ryan WS (fffv), Monday, 14 March 2005 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Add R.E.M.'s Monster (1994), the Frampton Brothers' Hate You (1994) and Ruth Ruth's Laughing Gallery (1996) to my list.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Monday, 14 March 2005 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Dodgy: Homegrown
Blur: Parklife
Blur: The Great Escape
Elvis Costello: Brutal Youth

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 14 March 2005 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

TLC, Crazysexycool
Spice Girls, Spice
Madonna, Erotica
Björk, Post
Massive Attack, Protection

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 14 March 2005 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, The Merrymakers' "No Sleep Till Famous"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 14 March 2005 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you still listen to the Great Escape without ever thinking that, well it's a little bit naff really. I am not, repeat NOT dissing the album at all. It's a good album but I can't listen to it in the same way because it just sounds dated and too much of it's time for me to appreciate in the same way as before, other than for nostalgic reasons. Songs about the National Lottery and prozac just don't seem relevant to today but maybe in another ten years time it'll fit back into context.

Is this being very very fashion-oriented of me?

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 March 2005 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

as an american teenager at the time i first heard the album, i guess they were never particularly relevant to me. but they still sound gorgeous. nostalgia certainly could be a factor, of course.

― marc h., Monday, 14 March 2005 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

LPs from '95 that I still particularly enjoy:

The Tea Party, The Edges Of Twilight
Chemical Brothers, Exit Planet Dust
Nomeansno, The Worldhood Of The World (As Such)
Kyuss, And The Circus Leaves Town

And I'm currently trying earnestly to get into Mellon Collie, hoping it will transform itself into a masterpiece. (Too bad I'm still hampered, as usual, by my usual Pumpkins problem: I hate Corgan's singing.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Britpop sounded old-fashioned already at the time, which was the point about Britpop. Britpop was a rebellion about modern popular music, and, by its very nature, derivative.

I choose to consider it timeless rather than dated though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Btw. "Exit Planet Dust" is clearly the Chemicals album that holds up the best today. I still don't see what's all the fuss about "Dig Your Own Hole", which is my least favourite album by them.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

some music is simply timeless. britpop is not. but then there is music that got banded with brit pop wrongly. chemical brothers being a prime example.

albums like the bends and ten rapid will never grow old.

― Matthew Dicks (honesttoafault), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoever said "Maxinquaye" was right. "To Bring You My Love," um, Bjork's "Post," Sugar's "F.U.E.L" (although it's a little over 10 years ago).

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"Tilt" was released in 1995. I still listen to that.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

mothereffing Pony Express Record!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Going by what Winamp tells me, At work I still listen to:
1994 (Halifax Pop Explosion at it's finest)
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Tragically Shit - Day For Night
Sloan - Twice Removed
Rheostatics - Introducing Happiness
Eric's Trip - Forever Again
Lush - Split
1995
Spookey Ruben - Modes of Transportation
Dandy Warhols - Dandys Rule OK? [holy jesus fuck!]
Brian Jonestown Masscara - Methodrone

And a bunch of Rhino's Just Can't Get Enough series.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe I forgot this in my initial post:

Codeine 'The White Birch"
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― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Son Volt - Trace
Luna - Bewitched

uhhh....there's more?

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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