Chemical Brothers - Desert Island track

jonattonyeah 1997 was a pretty exceptional year for albums. Dig Your Own Hole, Fat Of The Land, New Forms, Homework, Colours, Modus Operandi, Orblivion, ESCM…

And that’s not even getting into the likes of OK Computer, Bricolage, Life After Death, et cetera.

1995 was the best year in my lifetime for music:
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Radiohead - The Bends
Pulp - Different Class
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Goldie - Timeless
Rocket From The Crypt – Hot Charity
Pavement – Wowee Zowee
The Verve – A Northern Soul
The Charlatans – The Charlatans
Garbage – Garbage
The Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust
Spiritualized Electric Mainline – Pure Phase
Massive Attack V Mad Professor – No Protection
Money Mark – Mark’s Keyboard Repair
Wagon Christ – Throbbing Pouch
Leftfield – Leftism
Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Genius/GZA – Liquid Swords
Sonic Youth – Washing Machine
Stereolab – Music For The Amorphous Body Study Center
Bjork – Post
The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
Neil Young – Mirrorball
Bomb The Bass – Clear

Probably loads more too

For anyone in any doubt…

bosstrabs a lot a great albums there

Would add Aphex Twin …I care because you do

No Eternal - Power of a Woman in there.

A huge faux pas, sold over 2 million worldwide.

Smallman1 Heard Blocko play the Father’s of Sound remix of said track.

zackster

Smallmans empty head failed to realise that I said they were better than the chems.

Dan Heard Blocko play the Father’s of Sound remix of said track.

Yes SD!

alistair Can you name the track (no googling) which it samples?

bosstrabs The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

Bloated nonsense compared to the two brilliant albums before it.

bosstrabs Genius/GZA – Liquid Swords

Overrated.

bosstrabs Pulp - Different Class

Really?

bosstrabs Tricky - Maxinquaye

Underrated.

Amps Yeah, but I can’t somehow magically transport Siamese Dream to 1995 can I?

I still reckon it would be difficult to come up with a year that tops 1995 for music.

I haven’t even included What’s The Story Morning Glory and various others that many people rate but I think are dogshit.

Supporting my thesis of ’95 being a high point for music:
*NB, just to be clear, I don’t rate all these albums, but some people highly rate albums on this list.
University Throwing Muses
Me Against the World 2Pac
Orbus Terrarum The Orb
Ventolin Aphex Twin
King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime Faith No More
Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version Ol’ Dirty Bastard
Alien Lanes Guided by Voices
The Infamous Mobb Deep
Green Wheels Merzbow
Tilt Scott Walker
Tales from the Punchbowl Primus
Infernal Love Therapy?
Red Medicine Fugazi
Sleater-Kinney Sleater-Kinney
Brown Sugar D’Angelo Debut
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters
Guru’s Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality
Soup Blind Melon
Southpaw Grammar Morrissey
Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot Sparklehorse
Coast to Coast Motel G. Love & Special Sauce
On Echobelly
Paranoid and Sunburnt Skunk Anansie
Exit the Dragon Urge Overkill
Ima BT
Tragic Kingdom No Doubt
Fungus Amongus Incubus
Sunny Day Real Estate Sunny Day Real Estate
Labcabincalifornia The Pharcyde
Bif Naked Bif Naked
The Ghost of Tom Joad Bruce Springsteen
Mr. Smith LL Cool J

zackster that should be the official video for that track now

bosstrabs Supporting my thesis of ’95 being a high point for music:
*NB, just to be clear, I don’t rate all these albums, but some people highly rate albums on this list.
University Throwing Muses
Me Against the World 2Pac
Orbus Terrarum The Orb
Ventolin Aphex Twin
King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime Faith No More
Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version Ol’ Dirty Bastard
Alien Lanes Guided by Voices
The Infamous Mobb Deep
Green Wheels Merzbow
Tilt Scott Walker
Tales from the Punchbowl Primus
Infernal Love Therapy?
Red Medicine Fugazi
Sleater-Kinney Sleater-Kinney
Brown Sugar D’Angelo Debut
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters
Guru’s Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality
Soup Blind Melon
Southpaw Grammar Morrissey
Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot Sparklehorse
Coast to Coast Motel G. Love & Special Sauce
On Echobelly
Paranoid and Sunburnt Skunk Anansie
Exit the Dragon Urge Overkill
Ima BT
Tragic Kingdom No Doubt
Fungus Amongus Incubus
Sunny Day Real Estate Sunny Day Real Estate
Labcabincalifornia The Pharcyde
Bif Naked Bif Naked
The Ghost of Tom Joad Bruce Springsteen
Mr. Smith LL Cool J