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“Judy and The Dream of Horses” by Belle & Sebastian from If You’re Feeling Sinister (1996).

If You're Feeling Sinister

1996: The year I really got into music.

REASONS WHY 1996 WAS ARGUABLY THE BEST YEAR IN MUSIC:

  • 2Pac’s All Eyez on Me
  • Aphex Twin’s Richard D. James Album
  • Beck’s Odelay
  • Belle & Sebastian’s If You’re Feeling Sinister & Tigermilk
  • Cake’s Fashion Nugget
  • DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing…..
  • eels’ Beautiful Freak
  • The Fugees’ The Score
  • Guided By Voices’ Under The Bushes Under The Stars
  • Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt
  • The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s Now I Got Worry
  • Lambchop’s How I Quit Smoking
  • The Olivia Tremor Control’s Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle
  • OutKast’s ATLiens
  • Rollerskate Skinny’s Horsedrawn Wishes (check it out)
  • Sebadoh’s Harmacy
  • Stereolab’s Emperor Tomato Ketchup
  • Tortoise’s Millions Now Living Will Never Die
  • Ween’s 12 Golden Country Greats
  • Weezer’s Pinkerton
  • Wilco’s Being There
  • Yo La Tengo’s Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo
  • The song “No Diggity” by Blackstreet

1996 ALBUMS THAT I LOVED AT THE TIME:

  • Barenaked Ladies’ Born on a Pirate Ship
  • Beck’s Odelay
  • Butthole Surfers’ Electriclarryland
  • Cake’s Fashion Nugget
  • Dave Matthews Bands’ Crash
  • eels’ Beautiful Freak
  • The Lemonheads’ Car Button Cloth
  • Less Than Jake’s Losing Streak
  • Local H’s As Good as Dead
  • Pearl Jam’s No Code (the only Pearl Jam album I ever got into)
  • Porno For Pyros’ Good God’s Urge (my grandparents bought this CD for me)
  • The Presidents of The United States of America’s II (so good)
  • R.E.M.’s New Adventures in Hi-Fi
  • Reel Big Fish’s Turn The Radio Off
  • Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks (highly recommended, btw)
  • Sebadoh’s Harmacy
  • Soul Coughing’s Irresisible Bliss
  • Soundgarden’s Down on The Upside
  • Squirrel Nut Zippers’ Hot (I think I need to revisit them…)
  • Stone Temple Pilots’ Tiny Music… Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop
  • Sublime’s Sublime
  • They Might Be Giants’ Factory Showroom
  • Weezer’s Pinkerton
  • Wilco’s Being There
  • “Weird Al” Yankovic’s Bad Hair Day

1996 ALBUMS THAT EVERYONE WAS LISTENING TO BUT ME:

  • Fiona Apple’s Tidal
  • The Bloodhound Gang’s One Fierce Beer Coaster
  • Counting Crows’ Recovering The Satellites
  • The Fugees’ The Score (well, at least I was right about all the others!)
  • Hanson’s MMMBop
  • Jamiroquai’s Travelling Without Moving
  • Korn’s Life is Peachy
  • Marilyn Manson’s Antichrist Superstar
  • Matchbox 20’s Yourself or Someone Like You
  • Metallica’s Load
  • Primitive Radio Gods’ Rocket (ruined for me by MTV)
  • Rage Against The Machine’s Evil Empire
  • The Spice Girl’s Spice
  • Tonic’s Lemon Parade
  • Tool’s Ænima
  • The Wallflowers’ Bringing Down The Horse (haha, what an album title!)

My Bar Mitzvah was in 1996.  It was a strange time.

Belle & Sebastian

Awesome post. This is about when I started paying attention to music too, but never really thought about why.

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    Awesome post. This is about when...started paying attention
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