Okay, here goes.
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Top 5 Albums < purchased in > 1995
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- Outside _The Rough and the Smooth_
- Kruder & Dorfmeister _G-Stoned_
- Skylab #1
- Massive Attack _Protection/No Protection_
- Wagon Christ _Throbbing Pouch_
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Top 5 Singles/Songs of 1995
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- "better way" - fumi
- "City Lights, Part 2" - Patrick Pulsinger
- "What Does Your Soul Look Like - DJ Shadow
- "The Lower We Fly" - Outside <-- really, I could've picked any track.
- "Vibe Checkin'" - Q-Burn's Abstract Message
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Top 5 Artists/Groups of 1995
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- Michael Franti/Spearhead
- Matt Cooper/Outside
- Massive Attack (thank god I didn't get to see the shows, though:
from all that was said, I'd've had a hard time continuing to like
them after they ripped people off with lame excuses for a show,
costing folks $35+... ah well, but they know their market...
- Kruder & Dorfmeister
- Q-Burn's Abstract Message
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Best Vocal Song of 1995
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- "The Changingman" - Paul Weller
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Best Instrumental< /Driving > Song of 1995
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- Shantel "Super Mandarine" (from The Future Sound of Jazz, comp on Compost)
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"Easy Like Sunday Morning" < Album > of 1995
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- _Home_ Spearhead (really makes me happy for what I have, where I am,
and fills me with the desire to help others and just be positive and stuff)
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"Four On The Floor" Song of 1995
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- "These Sounds Fall Into My Mind" The Bucketheads
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"Thick Morass of Hazy Chronic Smoke" Song of 1995
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- "The Paranormal in 4 Forms" 4-Hero
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Best Compilation of 1995
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- Universal Sounds of America (I hope with all my heart Soul Jazz Records
continues this series.)
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Best Label(s) of 1995
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- Straight No Chaser, Ubiquity, Dorado, Luv 'N Haight, Blue Note,
Eighth Dimension, et al. (RIP Planet Earth)
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Best Magazine of 1995
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- The Wire
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Best Album Cover of 1995
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- _No Sound Is Too Taboo_ United Future Organization
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Project "I'm Most Undecided About" of 1995 (was "Most Overrated")
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- _Maxinquaye_ Tricky (something about it...)
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Underrated Project of 1995
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- Big Noise compilation
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And here's a category of my own:
Best Reissue of 1995
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- Charlie Parker with Strings
The Master Takes
Peace, pete.
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