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And here are our top picks for the best albums of 1995, the top halves of our top tens. Which means we get to talk about some absolute classics by the likes of Monster Magnet, GZA, Tricky, Radiohead and Faith No More. What a proper buffet of treats. Interspersed along the way are some contributions from top comedians Rich Wilson and Sean McLoughlin and tip-top podcaster & journalist Stephen Hill from Trve.Cvlt.Pop - massive thanks to all of them for taking the time to sent us their thoughts. If you'd like to hear our playlist of the songs we chose from all of our albums of 1995 then here you go, enjoy. We shall return soon enough to start taking on the albums of 1996!

Here we are with our 1995 end-of-year-recap! In this episode, the first of two, we are running through the bottom halfs of both our Top Ten album lists of the year. And it was a tough one whittling it down to a mere 10 records this year - as we discuss there were in the region of around 250 albums that came out that are worth considering which is frankly insane. But we managed to do it and here we get into the likes of Clutch, Low, Leftfield and Rancid among others. We also hear from some of Dave's stand-up comedian buddies letting us know what their favourites are as well so big thanks to Phil Nichol, Tal Davies and Jason Patterson for allowing Dave to bully them into recording something for us at a show. The next episode will finish off our Top Tens and reveal what our absolute favourite albums of the year are so stay tuned...

And so we come to the last proper album of 1995 that we're looking at, and it's the last "proper" album by Queen. Released four years after Freddie Mercury died this is compiled from unreleased vocal recordings, old solo songs and B-sides so it's a strange old mix of stuff. We also have about a million other albums and singles to chat about that were released in the same time period, acts such as Gza, The Pharcyde and Michael Barrymore. Wait, what? As mentioned on this episode, the next thing we're going to be recording will be our round-up of the best albums from 1995 so we would love to get your top 5, top 10, whatever you'd like to send us. You can email [email protected] or hit us up on any of the social media. As always please do give us a follow on our social media platforms and why not go and give us a nice rating or comment over on Spotify now that you're able to while you're checking out this episode's companion playlist (which contains ALL of the songs we talk about on this one) and our ongoing and sprawling playlist of songs from each album that we do an episode on. And if you want to donate to our PayPal account for the price of a pint or a cup of coffee that is always appreciated as well obviously. Cheers!

Another very very big album from 1995 to talk about here - one that was massive in the Britpop boom but also crossed over into the mainstream in the UK at least. Pulp's Different Class' has their biggest singles on it but is also full of songs about dead end lives and seedy smut so there's something for everyone in here. And as well as chatting about Pulp we discuss the likes of Cypress Hill, Sunny Day Real Estate and Tricky. And East 17 obviously. As always please do give us a follow on our social media platforms and why not go and give us a nice rating or comment over on Spotify now that you're able to while you're checking out this episode's companion playlist (which contains ALL of the songs we talk about on this one) and our ongoing and sprawling playlist of songs from each album that we do an episode on. And if you want to donate to our PayPal account for the price of a pint or a cup of coffee that is always appreciated as well obviously. Cheers!

Well well well, Mr Hucknall, we meet again. Simply Red's 1995 album 'Life' was a big seller and had a massive number one single on it but kind of feels like it doesn't get remembered much when people look back. We certainly didn't know anything much about it going into this episode and to be honest we kind of wish it had stayed that way. But we do have probably the biggest albums and singles sections that we've ever done, loads of bands that we get to talk about like Smashing Pumpkins, Incubus, Anthrax and obviously Cliff Richard. Plus we get to add a song to our "much-loved" Give Me Some Reggae! playlist where we add terrible reggae songs from albums we're covering that are in no way reggae albums which is always the sign of a good episode. As always please do give us a follow on our social media platforms and why not go and give us a nice rating or comment over on Spotify now that you're able to while you're checking out this episode's companion playlist (which contains ALL of the songs we talk about on this one) and our ongoing and sprawling playlist of songs from each album that we do an episode on. And if you want to donate to our PayPal account for the price of a pint or a cup of coffee that is always appreciated as well obviously. Cheers!