Thursday, May 12, 2005
1995 THE YEAR IN MUSIC
The year 1995 is near and dear to the majority of Seattle sports fans' hearts.
Here at Sports and Bremertonians, instead of giving you statues without bats, we're going to give you a post on the music of 1995. We know that some of you may have gone to college during the mid-1990s, so this may be a way to remember those good times. This could be a post for the readers in their early 20s who were in junior high in 1995. Or quite frankly, this could be a post that diehard music fans just love to eat up.
Out of my current album collection, I own 11 albums from 1995 (7 on CD, 4 on tape):
Alice In Chains "Alice In Chains"
---Favorite songs: "Head Creeps", "Over Now", "God Am"
Deftones "Adrenaline"
---Favorite songs: "7 Words", "Bored", "Nosebleed"
Everclear "Sparkle and Fade"
---Favorite songs: "Heartspark Dollarsign", "Strawberry", "Electra Made Me Blind"
Filter "Short Bus"
---Favorite songs: "Hey Man, Nice Shot", "Dose"
Foo Fighters "Foo Fighters"
---Favorite songs: "Alone + Easy Target", "I'll Stick Around", "Big Me", "This Is A Call"
Green Day "Insomniac"
---Favorite songs: "Walking Contradiction", "Brain Stew/Jaded", "Geek Stink Breath", "Stuck With Me"
Silverchair "Frogstomp"
---Favorite songs: "Israel's Son", "Shade", "Findaway"
Smashing Pumpkins "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"
---Favorite songs: "Muzzle", "Zero", "Bullet With Butterfly Wings", "Here Is No Why"
Sugar Ray "Lemonade & Brownies"
---Favorite song: "Mean Machine" (I'm a bigger fan of the cover than I am of the album)
Van Halen "Balance"
---Favorite songs: "Seventh Seal", "Amsterdam", "Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)"
There were plenty of songs from 1995 that I loved, but do not currently own on their respective albums:
U2 "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me"
Spacehog "In The Meantime"
Sweetwater "Superstar"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "My Friends"
Collective Soul "December"
Gin Blossoms "Til I Hear It From You"
Soul Asylum "Misery"
Green Day "J.A.R."
Toad The Wet Sprocket "Good Intentions"
Presidents of the United States of America "Lump"
Adam Ant "Wonderful"
Dr. Dre "Keep Their Heads Ringin'"
Adam Sandler "The Chanukah Song"
My criteria for music lists like these: Do not include a song from the previous year. For example, do not include Live "Lightning Crashes" on a 1995 list. It was released in 1994 on the "Throwing Copper" album. Yes, it was a big hit in the early part of 1995. But it was still a song from 1994.
Now it's your turn to look back at the year in music of 1995. Don't worry, we're not going to produce a 30-minute infomercial on the music of 1995 and put it on late-night TV. We figured we might as well do it here, on a much cheaper budget. Besides, Skee-Lo is not available to host the show.
I understand that I left some obvious choices out of this post. But there's a reason for that. The music that I listed were songs/albums that I appreciated from 1995. I don't appreciate Alanis Morissette "You Oughta Know" as much as someone else does, okay?
The music of 1995. It just continues. My Oh My!
THIS OFF-DAY POST BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE MUSIC OF THE 1995 SEATTLE MARINERS THEMSELVES.
Here at Sports and Bremertonians, instead of giving you statues without bats, we're going to give you a post on the music of 1995. We know that some of you may have gone to college during the mid-1990s, so this may be a way to remember those good times. This could be a post for the readers in their early 20s who were in junior high in 1995. Or quite frankly, this could be a post that diehard music fans just love to eat up.
Out of my current album collection, I own 11 albums from 1995 (7 on CD, 4 on tape):
Alice In Chains "Alice In Chains"
---Favorite songs: "Head Creeps", "Over Now", "God Am"
Deftones "Adrenaline"
---Favorite songs: "7 Words", "Bored", "Nosebleed"
Everclear "Sparkle and Fade"
---Favorite songs: "Heartspark Dollarsign", "Strawberry", "Electra Made Me Blind"
Filter "Short Bus"
---Favorite songs: "Hey Man, Nice Shot", "Dose"
Foo Fighters "Foo Fighters"
---Favorite songs: "Alone + Easy Target", "I'll Stick Around", "Big Me", "This Is A Call"
Green Day "Insomniac"
---Favorite songs: "Walking Contradiction", "Brain Stew/Jaded", "Geek Stink Breath", "Stuck With Me"
Silverchair "Frogstomp"
---Favorite songs: "Israel's Son", "Shade", "Findaway"
Smashing Pumpkins "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"
---Favorite songs: "Muzzle", "Zero", "Bullet With Butterfly Wings", "Here Is No Why"
Sugar Ray "Lemonade & Brownies"
---Favorite song: "Mean Machine" (I'm a bigger fan of the cover than I am of the album)
Van Halen "Balance"
---Favorite songs: "Seventh Seal", "Amsterdam", "Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)"
There were plenty of songs from 1995 that I loved, but do not currently own on their respective albums:
U2 "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me"
Spacehog "In The Meantime"
Sweetwater "Superstar"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "My Friends"
Collective Soul "December"
Gin Blossoms "Til I Hear It From You"
Soul Asylum "Misery"
Green Day "J.A.R."
Toad The Wet Sprocket "Good Intentions"
Presidents of the United States of America "Lump"
Adam Ant "Wonderful"
Dr. Dre "Keep Their Heads Ringin'"
Adam Sandler "The Chanukah Song"
My criteria for music lists like these: Do not include a song from the previous year. For example, do not include Live "Lightning Crashes" on a 1995 list. It was released in 1994 on the "Throwing Copper" album. Yes, it was a big hit in the early part of 1995. But it was still a song from 1994.
Now it's your turn to look back at the year in music of 1995. Don't worry, we're not going to produce a 30-minute infomercial on the music of 1995 and put it on late-night TV. We figured we might as well do it here, on a much cheaper budget. Besides, Skee-Lo is not available to host the show.
I understand that I left some obvious choices out of this post. But there's a reason for that. The music that I listed were songs/albums that I appreciated from 1995. I don't appreciate Alanis Morissette "You Oughta Know" as much as someone else does, okay?
The music of 1995. It just continues. My Oh My!
THIS OFF-DAY POST BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE MUSIC OF THE 1995 SEATTLE MARINERS THEMSELVES.
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