25 Years Ago {1995}

[ldj]

AIC self titled,  Storm of the Lights Bane,  The Angel and the Dark River and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness came out in 95, all I would rate highly.

[Carnage]

AIC self titled,  Storm of the Lights Bane,  The Angel and the Dark River and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness came out in 95, all I would rate highly.

Each of those is vastly superior to most of the ones on that list.

[Kurt Cocaine]

I only listened to Ugly about a month ago and thoroughly enjoyed it

Same here. It was out in the back garden on a glorious sunny afternoon and it sounded great.

[astfgyl]

I only listened to Ugly about a month ago and thoroughly enjoyed it

Same here. It was out in the back garden on a glorious sunny afternoon and it sounded great.

Definitely can't say the same for Soul Searching Sun though.

[Eoin McLove]

I loved SSS at the time. I could happily listen to it now.  Weeds is a banger!

[astfgyl]

I used to love it at the time, but I tried it out a while back and it gave me bad vibes. The video for Weeds is atrocious now I think of it as well. I like River Runs Red and Ugly a lot and I have great time for the 1989-1999 compilation but I'm not mad on the rest of it despite sort of wanting to like it. I remember buying Caputo's solo album back in the day as well and it was rough enough

[Eoin McLove]

Caputo's album was brilliant. Essentially just pop rock with some, admittedly, cringey lyrics in places,  but insanely catchy.

[Paul keohane]

Didnt realise he is a she now!

[mugz]

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[astfgyl]

Caputo's album was brilliant. Essentially just pop rock with some, admittedly, cringey lyrics in places,  but insanely catchy.

It has a few good tunes to be fair to it, but I wouldn't love it. I have no problem with the fact it is pure pop at all, just didn't think it was a strong album overall.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Okay, here's a list of albums from 1990. I had all of them, it was a great year for Metal albums....

https://www.loudersound.com/features/top-10-best-albums-of-1990

[Juggz]

Now we're talking 

Just looked at the wiki "Metal albums released in 1990" page and there are also these...

Death Angel – Act III
Annihilator – Never, Neverland
Anthrax – Persistence of Time
Celtic Frost – Vanity/Nemesis
Danzig – Danzig II: Lucifuge
Forbidden – Twisted into Form
Flotsam and Jetsam – When the Storm Comes Down
Exodus – Impact Is Imminent
Extreme – Pornograffitti
Exhorder – Slaughter in the Vatican
King's X – Faith Hope Love
Kreator – Coma of Souls
Living Colour – Time's Up
Love/Hate – Blackout in the Red Room
Lynch Mob – Wicked Sensation
King Diamond – The Eye
Napalm Death – Harmony Corruption
Nocturnus – The Key
Obituary – Cause of Death
Primus – Frizzle Fry
Prong – Beg to Differ
Psychotic Waltz – A Social Grace
Queensrÿche – Empire
Realm – Suiciety
Sacred Reich – The American Way
Quicksand – Quicksand (EP)
Sadus – Swallowed in Black
Saint Vitus - V
Sanctuary – Into the Mirror Black
Spread Eagle – Spread Eagle
Tankard – The Meaning of Life
Testament – Souls of Black
Trouble – Trouble
Vicious Rumors – Vicious Rumors
Vio-lence – Oppressing the Masses
Warrior Soul – Last Decade Dead Century
Xentrix – For Whose Advantage?

[StoutAndAle]

I owned "King For A Day..." (and a copy of lead single "Digging The Grave") and "Dopes To Infinity". Some of the rest were copies. And others I never bothered with.

As previously mentioned - there were albums released in 1995 that were better than what's on that list. Rancid's "And Out Come The Wolves..." "Dear You" by Jawbreaker and Fugazi's "Red Medicine" come to mind.

Had a bit of a flashback there.

The mid-90s was when my love of music really took hold. I had my first after-school job with that few quid in my pocket Friday afternoons in Comet Records, the Virgin Megastore and HMV became the highlight of my week. Buying what I could afford and hiding other albums until the next week. I remember putting Cypress Hill's "Temples Of Boom"(another good record from '95) into the classical section of Virgin until the next week when I had the money to buy it. 

Outside of metal, 1995 was a year that produced some LPs that I still reach for every few weeks and know back to front. "Different Class" by Pulp (one of my all-time favourite albums), "The Bends" by Radiohead, "Insomniac" by "Green Day, "Ghost of Tom Joad" by Bruce Springsteen, "I Should Coco" by Supergrass, Foo Fighters debut, Sleater-Kinney's first record, Pavement's "Wowee Zowee", "Above" by Mad Season.

I used to get very depressed in my teens and think everything was shit in the mid-90s. Turns out that it was quite possibly the best (or at least consistently good) period of music that I'll ever live through. As someone said in a different thread - if I'd known even a small percentage of what I know now...

Then again, nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

[astfgyl]

The mid-90s was when my love of music really took hold. I had my first after-school job with that few quid in my pocket Friday afternoons in Comet Records, the Virgin Megastore and HMV became the highlight of my week. Buying what I could afford and hiding other albums until the next week. I remember putting Cypress Hill's "Temples Of Boom"(another good record from '95) into the classical section of Virgin until the next week when I had the money to buy it. 

I used to do that in HMV as well, and I'd be looking for what I thought would be the least likely section for anything to be bought from. Sometimes they wouldn't be there when I went back either.

[The Heretic]

Dopes To Infinity is still a go to album for me!!