The Best Rock Albums of 1995

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1995

 (Compiled by Mauro Bondoni based on my ratings)

    8.5/10
  1. Lightwave: Mundus Subterraneus (Hearts Of Space) (8.5)

    2. 8/10
  2. Lycia: The Burning Circle And Then Dust (Projekt) (8)
  3. Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill (Maverick) (8)
  4. Bardo Pond: Bufo Alvarius (Drunken Fish) (8)
  5. Fugazi: Red Medicine (Dischord) (8)
  6. Vampire Rodents: Clockseed (Re-Constriction) (8)
  7. Atari Teenage Riot: Delete Yourself (DHR) (8)
  8. Rake: The Art Ensemble Of Rake (VHF) (8)
  9. Don Caballero: 2 (Touch & Go) (8)
  10. Morphine: Yes (Rykodisc) (8)
  11. Fear Factory: Demanufacture (Roadrunner) (8)
  12. Gravitar (Charnel Music) (8)
  13. Skullflower: Argon (Freek) (8)

    14. 7.5/10
  14. Low: Long Division (Vernon Yard) (7.5)
  15. Jarboe: Sacrificial Cake (Alternative Tentacles) (7.5)
  16. Smog: Wild Love (Drag City) (7.5)
  17. U.S. Maple: Long Hair In Three Stages (Skin Graft) (7.5)
  18. Vocokesh: Smile And Point At The Mountain (Drag City) (7.5)
  19. Furry Things: The Big Saturday Illusion (Trance) (7.5)
  20. Six Finger Satellite: Severe Exposure (SubPop) (7.5)
  21. Scarce: Deadsexy (A&M) (7.5)
  22. Barry Black (Alias) (7.5)
  23. Spaceheads: Spaceheads (Dark Beloved Cloud) (7.5)
  24. Pelt: Brown Cyclopedia (Radioactive Rat) (7.5)
  25. Space Needle: Voyager (Zero Hour) (7.5)
  26. Mermen: A Glorious Lethal Euphoria (Toadophile) (7.5)
  27. Dead C: White House (Siltbreeze) (7.5)
  28. Witch Hazel: Landlocked (Flydaddy) (7.5)
  29. Brian Jonestown Massacre: Methodrone (Bomp) (7.5)
  30. Human Drama: Songs Of Betrayal (Projekt) (7.5)
  31. Pram: Sargasso Sea (Too Pure) (7.5)
  32. Charalambides: Market Square (Siltbreeze) (7.5)
  33. Foetus: Gash (Columbia) (7.5)
  34. Steve Roach & Vidna Obmana: Well Of Souls (Projekt) (7.5)
  35. Mouse On Mars: Iaora Tahiti (Too Pure) (7.5)
  36. Slowdive: Pygmalion (Creation) (7.5)
  37. Soul Whirling Somewhere (Projekt) (7.5)
  38. Spiritualized: Pure Phase (Dedicated) (7.5)
  39. Ikue Mori: Painted Desert (1995) 7.5
    7/10
  40. Roy Montgomery: Scenes From The South Island (Drunken Fish) (7)
  41. Windy & Carl: Portal (Ba Da Bing) (7)
  42. Red Aunts: #1 Chicken (Epitaph) (7)
  43. Bohren & der Club of Gore: Midnight Radio (1995) (7)
  44. Spectre: The Illness (1995) (7)
  45. Trance Mission: Meanwhile (City Of Tribes) (7)
  46. Cardinal: self-titled (Flydaddy) (7)
  47. King Black Acid: Womb Star Sessions (Cavity Search) (7)
  48. Loop Guru: Amrita (North South) (7)
  49. Autechre: Amber (Warp) (7)
  50. Ruins: Hyderomastgroningem (Tzadik) (7)
  51. Crash Worship: Triplemania II (Charnel Music) (7)
  52. Red House Painters: Ocean Beach (4AD) (7)
  53. Future Sound Of London: Lifeforms (Astralwerks) (7)
  54. Mu-ziq: In Pine Effect (Virgin) (7)
  55. Earth: Phase 3 (SubPop) (7)
  56. Sparklehorse: Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (Capitol) (7)
  57. Magic Hour: Will They Turn You On (Twisted Village, 1995) (7)
  58. Flying Saucer Attack: Further (Drag City) (7)
  59. Geraldine Fibbers: Lost Somewhere (Virgin) (7)
  60. Edsel: Techniques Of Speed Hypnosis (Relativity) (7)
  61. Sixteen Deluxe: Backfeed Magnetbabe (Trance Syndicate) (7)
  62. Blacktop: I Got A Baaad Feeling (In The Red) (7)
  63. Rapoon: The Kirghiz Light (Staalplaat) (7)
  64. Techno Animal: Re-Entry (Virgin) (7)
  65. Love 666: American Revolution (Amphetamine Reptile) (7)
  66. Ui: Sidelong (Southern) (7)
  67. Meshuggah: Destroy Erase Improve (Nuclear Blast) (1)
  68. Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Virgin) (7)
  69. Giant Sand: Backyard Barbecue Broadcast (Koch) (7)
  70. Opeth: Orchid (Candlelight) (7)
  71. June Of 44: Engine Takes To The Water (Quarterstick) (7)
  72. Eat Static: Implant (Planet Dog) (7)
  73. TUU: All Our Ancestors (Waveform) (7)
  74. Lubricated Goat: Forces You Don't Understand (PCP) (7)
  75. Ron Sexsmith (Atlantic) (7)
  76. Ed Hall: La-La-Land (Trance Syndicate) (7)
  77. Electric Wizard: Electric Wizard (Rise Above, 1995) (7)
  78. Sonic Youth: Washing Machine (Geffen) (7)
  79. Reverb Sleep: Fish Dream (MMG) (7)
  80. Lida Husik: Joyride (Caroline) (7)
  81. Doldrums: Secret Life Of Machines (VHF) (7)
  82. Juliana Hatfield: Only Everything (Mammoth) (7)
  83. Eden: Fire And Rain (Projekt) (7)
  84. Denison-Kimball Trio: Soul Machine (1995)
  85. Aphex Twin: I Care Because You Do (Sire) (7)
  86. GusGus: Polydistortion (1995) (7)
  87. Natalie Merchant: Tigerlily (Elektra) (7)
  88. Garbage (Almo) (7)
  89. Black Grape: It's Great When You're Straight (Radioactive) (7)
  90. Primus: Tales From The Punchbowl (Interscope) (7)
  91. Labradford: A Stable Reference (Kranky) (7)
  92. Woob: 1194 (Instinct) (7)
  93. Helium: Dirt Of Luck (Matador) (7)
  94. Rachel's: Handwriting (Quarterstick) (7)
  95. Polara (Clean) (7)
  96. Bloodloss: Live My Way (Reprise) (7)
  97. Dance Hall Crashers: Lockjaw (510) (7)
  98. Scott Walker: Tilt (Fontana) (7)
  99. Maeror Tri: Myein (ND) (7)
  100. Ultra Bide`: God Is God (Alternative Tentacles) (7)
  101. Keiji Haino: I Said, This Is The Son Of Nihilism (Table of the Elements, 1995) (7)
  102. Saturnine: Wreck At Pillar Point (Dirt) (7)
  103. Cornershop: Woman's Gotta Have It (Warner Bros) (7)
  104. Mike Watt: Ball-Hog Or Tugboat (Columbia) (7)
  105. Muffs: Blonder And Blonder (Reprise) (7)
  106. Crawlspace: The Exquisite Fucking Beauty (Majora) (7)
  107. Big Audio Dynamite: F-Punk (Radioactive) (7)
  108. Dead Voices On Air: New Words Machine (Hypnotic) (7)
  109. Raison D'Etre: Within The Depths Of Silence And Phormations (Cold Meat Industry) (7)
  110. 5ive Style: self-titled (SubPop) (7)
  111. Friends Of Dean Martinez: The Shadow Of Your Smile (Subpop) (7)
  112. Sleater-Kinney: Call The Doctor (Chainsaw) (7)
  113. Wagon Christ: Throbbing Pouch (Rising High) (7)
  114. Enya: The Memory Of Trees (Warner Bros) (7)
  115. Kate St John: Indescribable Night (Gyroscope) (7)
  116. Mountain Goats: Sweden (Shrimper) (7)
  117. Prolapse: Backsaturday (Lissy's) (7)
  118. John Cale & Bob Neuwirth: Last Day On Earth (1995)
  119. Model 500: Deep Space(R&S) (7)
  120. To Live and Shave in LA: Vedder Vedder Bedwetter (Fifth Colvmn) (7)
  121. Oxbow: Let Me Be A Woman (SST) (7)
  122. Ayreon: The Final Experiment (Transmission) (7)
  123. Throwing Muses: University (Sire) (7)
  124. Ved Buens Ende: Written In Waters (Misanthropy) (7)
  125. Dandy Warhols: Dandys Rule OK (Tim/Kerr) (7)
  126. ST37: Glare (Helter Skelter) (7)
  127. Divination: Akasha (1995)
  128. Red Red Meat: Bunny Gets Paid (Sub Pop) (7)
  129. Carl Craig: Landcruising (Planet E) (7)
  130. Chemical Brothers: Exit Planet Dust (Junior Boy's Own) (7)
  131. Sublime: 40 Oz To Freedom (MCA) (7)
  132. Randy Newman: Faust (Reprise) (7)
  133. KMFDM: Nihil (Wax Trax) (7)
  134. Archers Of Loaf: Vee Vee (Alias) (7)
  135. Pluto: Shoehorse Emerging (Rastacan) (7)
  136. Ordo Equilibrio: Reaping The Fallen (Cold Meat Industry) (7)
  137. Freaky Chakra: Lowdown Motivator (Astralwerks) (7)
  138. Grassy Knoll (Nettwerk) (7)
  139. Better Than Ezra: Deluxe (Swell) (7)
  140. Roots: Do You Want More (1995) (7)
  141. Ex: Instant (Ex) (7)
  142. Angel'In Heavy Syrup: III (Alchemy) (7)
  143. Three 6 Mafia: Mystic Stylez 7/10
  144. Heliogabale: Yolk (7)
  145. Skepticism: Stormcrowfleet (1995)
  146. Vic Chesnutt: Is The Actor Happy (Texas Hotel)
  147. Fila Brazillia: Maim That Tune (Pork)
  148. Rafael Toral: Wave Field (Moneyland)

Songs
(Mostly selected by Austin Krentz, based on my album reviews)
( Click here to play them on Spotify (thank you Luke!))
  1. Atari Teenage Riot: Start the Riot
  2. Lycia: Where Has All The Time Gone
  3. Smog: Bathysphere
  4. Bardo Pond: No Time to Waste (Bufo Alvarius)
  5. Blonde Redhead: I Still Get Rocks Off (La mia vita violenta)
  6. Boards of Canada: Sixtyniner (Twoism)
  7. Alanis Morissette: Ironic
  8. Smashing Pumpkins: Bullet with Butterfly Wings
  9. Red Aunts: Willabell
  10. Fear Factory: New Breed
  11. U.S. Maple: The State is Bad
  12. Scarce: Sing Me Stella
  13. Ace Of Base: Beautiful Life (1995)
  14. Fugazi: Do You Like Me
  15. Low: Violence
  16. Smashing Pumpkins: Zero
  17. Mu-Siq: Mr Angry
  18. Air Liquide: This is Not a Mind Trip
  19. Ed Hall: Parallel Universe
  20. Jarboe: Spiral Staircase
  21. Dead C: Bitcher (The Whitehouse)
  22. Flying Luttenbachers: Fist Through Glass (Destroy All Music)
  23. KMFDM: Terror (Nihil)
  24. Red House Painters: Summer Dress (Ocean Beach)
  25. Geraldine Fibbers: Lilybelle
  26. Trance Mission: Chasing the Moon Rabbit
  27. Morphine: All Your Way
  28. Primus: Wynona's Big Brown Beaver
  29. Crash Worship: Pyru
  30. Rachel's: Full On Night (1995)
  31. Windy and Carl: Ode to Spaceman
  32. Vampire Rodents: Heliopause
  33. Mouse on Mars: Bib
  34. Don Caballero: Stupid Puma
  35. Meshuggah: Future Breed Machine
  36. Alanis Morissette: You Oughta Know
  37. Garbage: Only Happy When It Rains
  38. Bjork: Army of Me
  39. Flying Saucer Attack: Come and Close My Eyes
  40. Human Drama: All That Cuts Today
  41. Mermen: Pulpin' Line
  42. Chemical Brothers: Leave Home
  43. Juliana Hatfield: Fleur De Lys
  44. Witch Hazel: Secrets of the Spider World
  45. Natalie Merchant: I May Know the Word
  46. Sixteen Deluxe: Apron Strings
  47. Andrea Parker: Melodious Thunk
  48. Lida Husik: Dreamlake
  49. Spiritualized: Medication
  50. Pram: Serpentine
  51. Edsel: Parched
  52. Sleater-Kinney: I'm Not Waiting
  53. Ruins: Speedball
  54. Helium: Flower of the Apocalypse
  55. Three Six Mafia: Pimpin' and Robbin'
  56. Aphex Twin: Alberto Balsam
  57. Elliott Smith: Needle In The Hay
  58. Randy Newman: Feels Like Home
  59. Faithless: Insomnia
  60. 5ive Style: Accept the Rain
  61. Six Finger Satellite: Pulling a Train
  62. Ultra Bide: Saigon Whore
  63. Love 666: U.S.A.
  64. Radiohead: My Iron Lung
  65. Angels in Heavy Syrup: Water Mind
  66. Mountain Goats: Some Swedish Trees
  67. Ayreon: Computer Reign
  68. Home: Atomique
  69. Green Day: Brain Stew
  70. Spaceheads: Bones
  71. Ui: The Long Egg
  72. Soul Whirling Somewhere: Balanced In Perfect Amber
  73. Pere Ubu: My Friend is a Stooge for the Media Priests
  74. Towa Tei: Son Of Bambi
  75. Dandy Warhols: Ride
  76. Muffs: Ethyl My Love
  77. Sparklehorse: Tears on Fresh Fruit
  78. No Doubt: Spiderwebs
  79. Presidents of the USA: Peaches
  80. Raekwon: Rainy Dayz
  81. Ayreon: Sail Away
  82. Yann Tiersen: Comptine d'Ete' n 17
  83. Caustic Resin: Calling Off the Dogs
  84. Simon Joyner: Obituary
  85. Vic Chesnutt: Strange Language
  86. Boss Hog: Winn Coma (Boss Hog)
  87. Darkthrone: The Hordes of Nebulah (Panzerfaust)
  88. Fear: I Believe I ll Have Another Beer (Another Beer for Fear)
  89. Fu Manchu: Coyote Duster (Daredevil)
  90. Genius/GZA: Liquid Swords (Liquid Swords)
  91. Man or Astro-man?: Sferic Waves (Project Infinity)
  92. Oblivians: Big Black Hole (Soul Food)
  93. Orange 9mm: Thickest Glass (Driver)
  94. Palace: Viva Ultra (Viva Las Vegas)
  95. Quicksand: Brown Gargantuan (Manic Compression)
  96. Rocket from the Crypt: Born in 69 (Scream Dracula Scream)
  97. Stanford Prison Experiment: Swoon (The Gato Hunch)
  98. Ulver: Capitel I: I troldskog faren vild (Bergtatt)
  99. Ved Buens Ende: You That May Whiter (Written in Waters)
  100. White Zombie: More Human than Human (Astro Creep 2000)
  101. Yona Kit: Skeleton King (Yona Kit)
  102. Pharcyde: Runnin'
 Extended tracks
(Mostly selected by Austin Krentz, based on my album reviews)
  1. Skullflower: Argon
  2. Bardo Pond: Amen
  3. Lightwave: Towards the Abyss
  4. Roy Montgomery: Twilight Conversation
  5. Gravitar: Why Is It So Hard?
  6. Dream Theater: A Change Of Seasons
  7. Air Liquide: Robot Wars Symphony
  8. Rake: Helio-Moog
  9. Techno Animal: Demodex Invasion
  10. Wallmen: Optional
  11. Giant Sand: BBQ Suite
  12. Foetus: Slung
  13. Goldie: Timeless 21:30
  14. Don Caballero: Repeat Defender
  15. Pelt: Absolution
  16. Zeni Geva: Ground Zero 10:58
  17. Oval: Do While 24:05
  18. My Dying Bride: The Cry of Mankind 12:13
  19. Iceburn: Poetry of Fire
  20. Ikue Mori, Robert Quine, Marc Ribot: Mojave
  21. King Black Acid: Alone on Mars
  22. Opeth: Forest of October
  23. Vocokesh: Untitled (3)
  24. Mermen: Between I and Thou
  25. Brian Jonestown Massacre: Hyperventilation
  26. Flying Saucer Attack: To The Shore
  27. Furry Things: Nothing From Zero
  28. Rafael Toral: Wave Field 5
  29. Darkthrone: Quintessence
  30. Prolapse: Flex
  31. Earth: Thrones and Dominions
  32. Autechre: Furthur
  33. Scott Walker: Bouncer See Bouncer
  34. Keiji Haino: I Said, This Is The Son Of Nihilism
  35. Sonic Youth: The Diamond Sea
  36. Dandy Warhols: Fast-Drive Rave Up
  37. Magic Hour: Passing Word
  38. Pelt: Absolution
  39. Iceburn: Poetry Of Fire
  40. Opeth: Forest of October
  41. Slowdive: Rutti
  42. Mermen: Between I and Thou
  43. Brian Jonestown Massacre: Hyperventilation
  44. Flying Saucer Attack: To The Shore
  45. Prolapse: Flex
  46. Earth: Thrones And Dominions
  47. Autechre: Furthur
  48. Scott Walker: Bouncer See Bouncer
  49. Dandy Warhols: Fast-Driving Rave Up
  50. Paul Sauvanet: Earth And Dust
  51. Opeth: The Twilight Is My Robe
  52. Oxbow: The Stabbing Hand
  53. ST 37: Fishbowl Dream
  54. Electric Wizard: Electric Wizards
  55. Gastr del Sol: The Harp Factory On Lake Street
  56. David Toop: I Hear Voices
  57. Maeror Tri: Myein
  58. Blut Aus Nord: The Plain Of Ida
  59. Bohren & der Club of Gore: 3
  60. Merzbow: Pantometrum Erotica - Sphinx Mystagoga
  61. Raison d'Etre: Fall of the Damned
  62. Fila Brazillia: Slacker

Songwriters
  1. Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill (Maverick)
  2. Jarboe: Sacrificial Cake (Alternative Tentacles)
  3. Smog: Wild Love (Drag City)

Industrial
  1. Wumpscut: Bunkertor 7 (Beton Kopf Media)

Electronica

Gothic

Heavy rock

Psychedelia
  1. King Black Acid: Womb Star Sessions (Cavity Search)

Instrumental
  1. Don Caballero: 2 (Touch & Go)
  2. Rachel's: Handwriting (Quarterstick)
  3. Mermen: A Glorious Lethal Euphoria (Toadophile)

Progressive
  1. Rake: The Art Ensemble Of Rake (VHF)

Britain

Germany

Japan

France & Belgium

Australia

Canada

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1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
Best of the 1960's Best of the 1970's Best of the 1980's Best of the 1990's Best of the 2000's