List some of your favorite records that turn 20 this year

The Bats never ever get old for me I'm with you on that one.

Of stuff already mentioned, I own:

Ropers - All The Time
Versus - Dead Leaves
Scott Walker - Tilt
Son Volt - Trace
Wilco - AM

And rate them all as well but probably didn't get them until after 1995. Of these I'd have to add "Tilt" to my all-time-1995 list.

Part of why I started this thread was because I was listening to Poole - Alaska Days again. Such a great record. So I just want to emphasize that one since it's one of the least talked about.

Method Man - Tical
Redman - Dare Iz A Darkside
Scarface - The Diary
Hard 2 Obtain - Ism & Blues
Mouse On Mars ‎– Iaora Tahiti
Palace Music - Viva Last Blues
Felix da Housecat - Metropolis Present Day? Thee Album!

these are the last group of albums I bought on vinyl

It's threads like these that make me want to go through my digital library and make sure the correct year is attached to each album. But, ugh, what a chore...

Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante

Not to mention Faith No More King For A Day...

Too $hort - Cocktails

great year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJaKr3qMaqc

oh shit its 95 now

i mean 2015

20 years for this miscreant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX7n7bJJw10

Tragic Kingdom by No Doubt

this thread is depressing

have there been any '20 years since Romo' pieces yet?

this thread is depressing

― they TRY to look like GOOD people (soref),

Next year is even worse, will be 20 years since the last Taylor Swift record

I listened to a track from Sidi Bou Said yesterday and can't understand my enthusiasm.

I ripped all my CDs over the last year or so and make randomised playlists for commuting/listening at work etc and some songs from that album came up recently and I had the opposite reaction - haven't listened to that album in years but I thought it held up pretty well (or at least the songs I listened to, maybe I just got lucky)

Its 20 years this year since the last socially conscious rappers walked the earth, nowadays they just take to twitter and drink fine wines

Neil Young & Pearl Jam - Mirror Ball

kornrulez I was thinking the same thing, that it seems like 1995 was the peak of the No Depression-era (which was the year the magazine launched as well). Certainly not the beginning of country rock, but I love how pop constantly recycles the canon.

Freakwater - Old Paint

Cardiacs - Sing to God
Echolyn - As the World..
The Orb - Orbus Terrarum
P-Model - Fune
The Sea and Cake - The Biz
Susumu Hirasawa - Sim City
Ruins - Hyderomastigronigem
Daler Mehndi - Bolo Ta Ra Ra
Autechre - Tri Repeatae
Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do...

LOTS OF GREAT STUFF THAT YEAR!

two Momus albums - The Philosophy Of Momus and Slender Sherbet

My retrospective 1995 EOY ballot would likely be:

Basic Channel - BCD
Cocteau Twins - Otherness ep
Coil - orship the Glitch
Vanessa Daou - Zipless
Arnold Dreyblatt - Animal Magnetism
Elastica - Elastica
Elysium - Glysten
FSOL - ISDN
Hallucinogen - Twisted
Higher Intelligence Agency - Freefloater
Shelly Hirsch - O Little Town of East New York
Alan Lamb - Archival Recordings: Primal Image / Beauty
Lech Jankowski - Intitute Benjamenta
Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow
Mouse on Mars - Iaora Tahiti
Robert Rich & Lustmord - Stalker
Tricky - Maxinequaye
Scott Walker - Tilt
Woob - Emit4495

Regarding Sidi Bou Said, Col. Poo said:
I ripped all my CDs over the last year or so and make randomised playlists for commuting/listening at work etc and some songs from that album came up recently and I had the opposite reaction - haven't listened to that album in years but I thought it held up pretty well (or at least the songs I listened to, maybe I just got lucky)

In 1995 I was deeply into Throwing Muses - it helped that I live in Boston and got to see Kristin with and without the band a number of times. Sidi Bou Said shared a similar sound and I went gaga for them at the time but haven't revisited them in yonks, I will rectify that shortly.

Regarding 1995 being the peak of No Depression, I'd argue 1998 was the peak when the Billy Bragg/Wilco collaboration came out - that's certainly what grabbed my attention and brought the scene significant notice.

Tomorrow the Green Grass, the Jayhawks
Trace, Son Volt
One Track Mind, Railroad Jerk
Faithless Street, Whiskeytown
Wreck Your Life, the Old 97's

Basically, 1995 was the year I discovered roots music.

The Infamous
Dah Shinin'
Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous

Belly - King
Roy Montgomery - Scenes from the South Island
ST37 - Glare
Gravitar - Gravitar
Polara - Polara
Boredoms - Super Roots 5
King Black Acid - Womb Star Sessions

Polara!

Source of Light is still one of my favorite pop songs.

A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology
Ani DiFranco - Not A Pretty Girl
Omni Trio - The Deepest Cut Vol. 1

Thought of another:

Lida Husik - Joyride

Maria - Jane Siberry

Had an old list ready and this is on it but pretty sure its missing a stuff i bought/liked that year.
Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do ,
Autechre - Tri repetae ,
Blonde Redhead - Blonde Redhead,
Blonde Redhead - La Mia Vita Violenta,
Don Caballero - Don Caballero 2 ,
Earth - Pentastar.
Faith No More - King For A Day ... Fool For A Lifetime ,
Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic,
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters ,
Front Line Assembly - Hard Wired,
Fugazi - Red Medicine
Goldie - Timeless
In the Woods... - HEart of the Ages ,
Kyuss - ...And the Circus Leaves Town ,
Laika - Silver Apples of the Moon,
Leftfield - Leftism,
Mercury Rev - See You on the Other Side,
Monster Magnet - Dopes To Infinity,
Mouse On Mars - Iahora Tahiti,
Neil Young - Mirrorball
Palace Music - Viva Last Blues,
Pavement- Wowee Zowee,
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love,
Radiohead - The Bends,
Rocket From The Crypt - Hot Charity,
Scott Walker - Tilt,
Shack - Waterpistol,
Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet ,
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
Smog - Wild Love,
Son Volt- Trace,
Spiritualized - Pure Phase ,
ST37 - Glare,
Supergrass - Supergrass
Swans - the great annihilator.,
Techno Animal - Re-Entry
The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust,
The Heads - Relaxing With... ?
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness ,
The Verve - A Northern Soul,
The Wildhearts - P.H.U.Q.
The Young Gods - Only Heaven ,
Tricky - Maxinquaye,
Ulver - Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler ,
Urge Overkill - Exit The Dragon.
Unsane - Scattered, Smothered and Covered ,
Unwound - The Future Of What,
Wagon Christ - Throbbing Punch,
Whiskeytown - Faithless Street.

Karp - Suplex
Teengenerate - Smash Hits!
Monoshock - Walk to the Fire
Roky Erickson - All That May Do My Rhyme
Rocket from the Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream! & Hot Charity
Lazy Cowgirls - Ragged Soul
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
Immortal - Battles in the North
Caspar Brotzmann Massaker - Home
Dirty Three - Dirty Three (s/t)
Bardo Pond - Bufo Alvarius, Amen 29:15
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
E-40 - In a Major Way
Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity
Death - Symbolic
Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulee
No Means No - The Worldhood of the World (As Such)
The Wildhearts - P.H.U.Q.
Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (s/t)
Chris Knox - Songs of You and Me
Flying Saucer Attack - Further
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
Oblivians - Soul Food [with one regret...]
DJ Quik - Safe + Sound
E. 1999 Eternal - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Vader - De Profundis
Suffocation - Pierced from Within
Absu - The Sun of Tiphareth
Chrome Cranks - Dead Cool
Cheater Slicks - Don't Like You
Helium - The Dirt of Luck
Magic Hour - Will They Turn You on or Will They Turn on You
Earth - Phase 3: Thrones & Dominions
The Mountain Goats - Sweden
Angel'in Heavy Syrup - III
Gravitar - Gravitaativarravitar
Masada - Hei & Vav
R.L. Burnside - Mississippi Hill Country Blues
Ulver - Bergtatt
Saint Vitus - Die Healing
Old - Formula
Spiritualized - Pure Phase
Palace Music - Viva Last Blues
Six Finger Satellite - Severe Exposure
CMX - Rautakantele
Red Red Meat - Bunny Gets Paid

Ah damn, some overlap with cosmic slop there. Was trying to list only stuff not yet mentioned. Also, Drugs A. Money OTM abt that King Black Acid album. Be a keeper just for "Alone on Mars".

you managed to list a few I had forgot

pavement - wowee zowee
guided - alien lanes
fugazi - red medicine

thank you rateyourmusic

the RYM list is weird compared to most here http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/1990sndx.htm

Maria - Jane Siberry

― they TRY to look like GOOD people (soref), Monday, January 12, 2015 10:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh yeah! This is one of the albums that I listen to most but would probably never remember to think of as an outstanding album.

Apples in Stereo - Fun Trick Noisemaker - (discovered via Beck's "best of '95 list in Rolling Stone, iirc)
Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five - (their debut is great)
Blue Mountain - Dog Days - (more good roots rock)
Green Day - Insomniac - (I still think it's their last good record)
Jawbreaker - Dear You - (is it not cool to like this?)
The Muffs - Blonder and Blonder (probably my most-listened-to record of '95)
Noise Addict - Meet the Real You (this album rules)
Old 97's - Wreck Your Life - (more good roots rock)
Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves (never liked anything else of theirs)
The Sea & Cake - Nassau
Superdrag - The Fabulous 8-track Sounds of Superdrag
Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun (for "Sick of Myself" if nothing else)
That Dog. - Totally Crushed Out!
Zumpano - Look What the Rookie Did (for "The Party Rages On" if nothing else)

stuff already mentioned: Amps, GBV, Foos, Softies, Pavement, Red Red Meat, Teenage Fanclub, Elliott, SV/Wilco, Space Needle, Cuban Linx/Liquid Swords

To clarify, these are all records that are still favorites- right? Not just records enjoyed at the time

(question to everyone)

some are ones i discovered later but i still like the ones i listed that i liked at the time.

basically the black metal albums on my list I discovered later (early part of the 00s?)

Oh fucking hell, we're going to get a lot of pieces on (What's The Story) Morning Glory? this year, aren't we?

Mariah carey - daydream
Bjork - post
Smashing pumpkins - mellon collie and the infinite sadness
Mobb deep - the infamous
Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot

tbh, i was probably a little loose with my list, xxxxpost...i just kinda went with "records i like(d) from '95" not so much "still favorites," which would probably knock a half-dozen or so off the list.

Harry Partch - 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Tzadik)

Yeah I'm going for more "still favorites". It's interesting to see what stays a favorite after all this time for you OR stays fresh enough to become one later on, even 20 years later.

To clarify, these are all records that are still favorites- right? Not just records enjoyed at the time

(question to everyone)

― Evan, Monday, January 12, 2015 5:01 PM (3 hours ago)

The long and perhaps self-indulgent list I posted earlier is a combination of true favorites and albums I have at one time or another counted among them. The mid-90s were a furiously active period in the development of garage & noise rock, black & death metal, gangsta rap, indie rock and abstract psychedelia of every sort. Given that creative ferment, it shouldn't come as a surprise that each of those niches might kick up 5-10 amazing albums, most now largely forgotten (and perhaps of little interest outside fan circles). Not to mention mainstream pop, the experimental avant-garde and what we'd be calling "electronica" in a few years, genres with which I'm not as deeply engaged. A more ruthlessly restricted list would be somewhat shorter, but 30-40 would still make the cut. And I'm sure I'm leaving quite a bit out...

OMG can't believe I forgot:

The Black Dog - Spanners

Moloko - Do You Like My Tight Sweater?
Smith & Mighty - Bass Is Maternal
Macro Dub Infection, Vol. One
Pram - Sargasso Sea
Long Fin Killie - Houdini
Sufi - Life's Rising
Arto Lindsay - Aggregates 1-26
Tim Berne's Bloodcount - Lowlife
U.S. Maple - Long Hair in Three Stages
Antioch Arrow - Gems of Masochism
Stanford Prison Experiment - The Gato Hunch
S.F. Seals - Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows
Suddenly Tammy! - We Get There When We Do
Lizard Music - Fashionably Lame
Eric Matthews - It's Heavy in Here

I played it every day for a month on the way to college.

some other genre favorites

T.I. - Trap Muzik
Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Trying
Lil Kim - La Bella Mafia
Bonecrusher - Atten CHUN!
Britney Spears - In the Zone
Michigan - Sufjan Stevens

Adult - Anxiety Always
Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes For Cash
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Broadcast - Haha Sound
Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
Clearlake - Cedars
Dave Clarke - Devil's Advocate
Dizee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
Dopplereffect - Linear Accelerator
Fat Truckers - For Sale
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
HALCALI - Halcali Bacon
Hell - NY Muscle
LFO - Sheath
Melt-Banana - Cell-scape
OutKast - Speakerboxxx
Plaid - Dial P / Spokes
Raiden (mixed by) - Paranoia LP
Relaxed Muscle - A Heavy Nite With...
Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
The Locust - Plague Soundscapes
The Rapture - Echoes

I forgot to include Pluramon's Dreams Top Rock, which still sounds fantastic

Welcome to the club:

Last Exit
The Disintegration Loops
Seven Swans
Coming On Strong

Meanwhile, dubnobasswithmyheadman now thirty years old 😱

The Blue Notebooks
Body Language
Margerine Eclipse
Madvillainy
Milk Man
Mm...Food
The Tigers Have Spoken

Still adore, and listen to regularly

Casual Dots s/t
Reigning Sound - Too Much Guitar
The Real New Fall Album

Iron & Wine, Our Endless Numbered Days
The Blue Nile, High
Tom Waits, Real Gone
Ray LaMontagne, Trouble

154 - strike

boredoms - seadrum/house of sun
Black Leotard Front - "Casual Friday"

There are some good jazz/modern composition albums from 2004 that I still like to listen to:

Jenny Scheinman - Shalagaster
Mihaly Dresch Quartet - Egyenes Zene
Jewels and Binoculars (Michael Moore trio) - Floater

! I don't think I have heard Jewels and Binoculars, despite having named an actual human child after that song

154 - strike

― brimstead, Monday, 29 January 2024 22:14 (nineteen minutes ago) link

Great album

so great. hypnotic blurry ambient with a kick drum, like if the protagonist in the Gas albums went to outer space or an abandoned factory on the moon instead of the forest

Came here to say The Knife - Deep Cuts but that ship has actually sailed now!

Seem to remember 2004 being a good year for music. It's very hard to believe these are all coming up to 20 years old now:

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Brian Wilson - Smile
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
Converge - You Fail Me
Joanna Newsome - The Milk Eyed Mender
Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
Neurosis - Eye Of Every Storm
Boredoms - Seadrum / House Of Sun
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
Bjork - Medulla
Air - Talkie Walkie

add Blueberry Boat to the list

I feel like this was a banner year for me as a music fan. The year I started paying a lot more attention to current music and also having a lot more access to music due to broadband.

I'd been on ILM a couple of years, but this was the year it really started feeling like a community and I remember going to a few FAPs and meeting fun people in Cambridge and London.

Also it was the year Sick Mouthy let me write my first ever published music articles for Stylus, so that felt like a big deal to me.

Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind

This was also the year I got really into US noise, Amerindie and Freak Folk stuff. The excitement burned bright, albeit with diminishing returns after a while

2004 list I made at the time:
1. The Uncle Devil Show - A Terrible Beauty (Del Amitri incognito)
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus
3. Stan Ridgway - Snakebite
4. Tears For Fears - Everybody Loves A Happy Ending
5. Magnetic Fields - i
6. Hem - Eveningland
7. Interpol - Antics
8. Robyn Hitchcock - Spooked
9. Wonder Stuff - Escape From Rubbish Island
10. Nora O'Connor - Til The Dawn

Late Finds & Singles:
Boxer Rebellion - 3 singles
Killing Joke - Chaos For Breakfast (first 4 singles plus disc of demos)
Longwave - Life Of The Party EP
Lucero - That Much Further West (2003 release, found early in 2004)
Jesse Malin - The Fine Art Of Self-Destruction (2003 release, found early in 2004)

Best Compilation / Reissue / Live:
Tommy Keene - Drowning (rarities compilation)
Mekons - Punk Rock (all early material played live)
Andy Partridge - Fuzzy Warbles Vol 5+6
Weirdos - We Got The Neutron Bomb (Weird World Vol 2)
Wire - On The Box: 1979

Best CDRs:
A House - Rarities (all vinyl-only material)
Cud - Cudstock Naked
Gerard Langley - LIT Volume 2

Most Disappointing: Tanya Donelly - Whiskey Tango Ghosts
OR They Might Be Giants - The Spine

At the time, Arcade Fire's Funeral felt like an album for the ages. It's Pitchfork's number one for 2004. I haven't listened to it in years, and am not likely to now.

Max Richter – The Blue Notebooks
Sagor & Swing – Orgelplaneten
Stereolab – Margerine Eclipse
Peter Hammill – Incoherence
Hold Steady – Almost Killed Me
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
Marissa Nadler – Ballads of Living & Dying

i just looked at pitchfork's top 50 of 2004 and the only album on it that i love and own is blueberry boat. i think i was mostly listening to metal and old music back then. i did write monthly for a metal magazine at the time. i think. maybe i was just writing for the Voice. i know that ilx made me buy stuff that i never listened to back then. like junior boys.

for the record, i still listen to blueberry boat ALL the time. i'm kinda fixated on it. and their other stuff. but that one in a big way. some things just get ya.

just checked out that top 50 and there are vv few albums i still listen to or even own on there. Medulla, Madvillainy, The Blue Notebooks, Last Exit. I should probably own Blueberry Boat, that's a classic. There are some mystifying picks which probably don't make sense to anyone who wasn't there, though.

!!! - Louden Up Now
Asa-Chang & Junray - Tsu Gi Ne Pu
Electrelane - The Power Out
Halcali - Ongaku no Susume
Oneida - Secret Wars
Plumbline - Pin Points
Selfish Cunt - No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper
Stereolab - Margarine Eclipse
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - The Royal Society

Blueberry Boat is a masterpiece and only gets better with age.

Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
Languis - The Four Walls
The Dead Texan - s/t
Lali Puna - Faking The Books
Bardo Pond & Tom Carter - 4/23/03
Ana da Silva - The Lighthouse
The Muffs - Really Really Happy
Juana Molina - Tres Cosas
Jack Rose - Raag Manifestos
Fripp & Eno - The Equatorial Stars

2004 releases that I remember liking a lot back then:

David Darling and Wulu Bunun Tribe - mudanin kata
Brightblack - Ala.cali.tucky
Deathprod - morals and dogma
Joanna Newsom - the milk eyed mender
AnCo - Sung Tongs
Mylo - destroy rock n roll
Madvillainy
Fennesz - venice
Bjork - medulla
Junior boys - last exit
Arve Henriksen - chiaroscuro
Sachiko M / Toshimaru Nakamura / Otomo Yoshihide - Good Morning Good Night
Sufjan Stevens - seven swans
Susumu Yokota - symbol
Annie - anniemal
Xiu xiu - fabulous muscles
Blonde redhead - misery is a butterfly

Probably missing several others… espers, akira rabelais, max richter, deerhoof, tom waits, dungen, air, DFA1979… pretty good year

Listening to Blueberry Boat now... I know this is a total cliché, but if this album were released today, it would still sound totally "fresh" (IMO)