Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1995!! Part Two The Bubbling Under

Hmm… Basic Channel, on a bit of a whim.

Paul Chain over Goodie Mob just barely

Basic Channel or Tindersticks or GBV on this list

I feel like the right answer is probably GbV/Smog/Roy Montgomery or one of the electronic albums, but I might vote King anyway since I meant to vote for Belly's 1st album in the '92 list until it was pointed out that it was from '93 (at least, my copy agrees) and then it got 0 votes. Also, the 2nd album never got enough love, and even the 1st is I guess fading into obscurity a bit now.

(Though there is a lot of great electronic stuff here which it would be nice to see represented in the results, hmm...)

Basic Channel or my favourite GBV album

Voted for Alien Lanes

Oval might not appear in later years/polls, so I feel I should ensure he gets at least a little bit of love here.

Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom joad

I've tried so many times with this record, and I've never been able get into it. In The New Book Of Rock Lists, among the lists were "Musicians who should read more books" and "Musicians who should read fewer books." Springsteen was in the latter list: "Cut him off until his music catches up with his lyrics."

The research/lyrics/storytelling work fine for me, but the mumbling gets in the way of them. "Straight Time" is slept on, though.

Oval might not appear in later years/polls, so I feel I should ensure he gets at least a little bit of love here.

― Nag! Nag! Nag!,

Cant speak for mike but this one is the only one I own

Some of my favorites from this year (not already listed on either poll):

The Red Krayola, Amor and Language
Whale, We Care
Chavez, Gone Glimmering
Kissyfur, Frambuesa
Sentridoh, The Original Losing Losers (disqualified, as sort of an expanded re-release?)
Number One Cup, Possum Trot Plan
Run On, On/Off (EP)

symbolic

Alien Lanes from this list without a doubt although my nostalgia pick would be I Should Coco.

Another one:

Long Fin Killie, Houdini

That's on the other poll

94 diskont which ofc I assumed came out in 94

xp ah, apologies

For me it's 'Trace' by Son Volt.

Ghost of Tom Joad is Nebraska pt. 2 IMO

"Sinaloa Cowboys" is my favourite song on it

94 Diskont for me

Basic Channel.

haven’t heard a lot of the records on this list

Basic Channel would be the other one I would vote for besides Oval

Lots of good alt.country choices on this list.

look I love basic channel and brown sugar and move d and 94 diskont but I gotta be real and vote oasis here

I like the Tindersticks album, also Roy Montgomery

Another good Matador ‘95 release;

Railroad Jerk, One Track Mind

OK one more bubbling under from me, then I’ll stop (it’s too good a year):

Air Miami, Me. Me. Me

I still have Caspar Brotzmann Massaker, Oval, The Black Dog and Smog albums but think Oval is the only one of those i've listened to over the last decade.

look I love basic channel and brown sugar and move d and 94 diskont but I gotta be real and vote oasis here

― brimstead, Thursday, 1 August 2019 00:48 (seven hours ago) link

Sod it, I'm throwing one to the first Ben Folds Five. Hugely underrated album

It is! I adored it at the time. I feel bad now I didnt vote for it. "Philosophy" is a great tune.

Shit I forgot what I vote for

I know Bill Callahan has done other, much better work, but... I had in my car (and I think I still have in my car!) a CD-R of that Smog album, bookended by the EPs he released the year before* and the year after**, which I practically lived in during one particularly bleak period of my life.

*: The Burning Kingdom
**: Kicking A Couple Around

Voted for Oval

It feels like part of the beginning of something that is really important in the world that exists inside my head.

In 1995, I would have voted for Washing Machine/Psychic Hearts.

Electro-pura by a pretty wide margin.

Most of my favorites are on this list

Pacer just over Scenes from the South Isle and Ghost of Tom Joad

Jacob's Optical Stairway gets mine

Nice opportunity to vote for the most underrated Low album.

Oasis bro

Urge Overkill - Exit the Dragon is a highly underrated album

how did Menswear get in this list, Michael and Oor Neechy explain yourselves

Menswear = one of the best things in the list

An Oor Neechy pick not mine!

hah I'm joshing really, I only know the singles which were... not very good

the singles were a thousand times better than that soundgarden LP

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

think we have the 2 polls ready for 96. the bubbling under list that missed out on both is enough for a third poll but we are not doing 3 so dont ask, lol

This is a much weaker list than the first one, it’ll have to be Symbolic but it’s not even in my top 3 Death albums.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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

This is the 1st poll to go under 100 votes (98) since we started polling albums from 1969.

I didn't vote??? ;_;

95 is such a creeper year; I always forget how many albums from this year I out-and-out love

Pacer
Scenes from the South Island
ST 37 - Glare
Ghost of Tom Joad
Polara - s/t
Gravitar - Gravitaativarravitar
Electr-o-pura
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Kyuss - ...and the Circus Leaves Town
King Black Acid - Womb Star Sessions
Boredoms - Super Roots 5
Long Division
Psychic Hearts
King
The Bends
Elastica
Washing Machine

the st37 and gravitar are indeed great