The Year 1995 Albums Calendar and Rankings

1995 was a weird year for me. I discovered many artists that became the foundation of my taste.
May of 1995: Marillion and Dream Theater. And I want to say within a year, Fates Warning, King's X, Galactic Cowboys and some others.

It was among the time of neo-prog and 90's Prog Metal.

Good year. Kevin;'s album by default is #1, but to see Marillion right in there, maybe my favorite Spock's Beard album, The Tea Party and Echolyn says a lot for it.

I.e. many favorites put out among if not their best albums of their catalogs/careers in 1995. How it compares to other years in the 90's? it's pretty good. There possibly wasn't a better year that followed actually.

1. Kevin Gilbert - Thud
2. Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight
3. Spock's Beard - The Light
4. The Tea Party - The Edges of Twilight
5. Echolyn - As the World
6. Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons [EP]
7. Faith No More - King for a Day...Fool for a Lifetime
8. Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
9. Saigon Kick - Devil in the Details
10. Shadow Gallery - Carved in Stone
11. Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
12. Stanley Clarke, Al Di Meola and Jean-Luc Ponty - Rite of Strings
13. The Gathering - Mandylion
14. White Willow - Ignis Fatuus
15. Anekdoten - Nucleus
16. Jeff Buckley - Live from the Bataclan [EP]
17 sElf - Subliminal Plastic Motives
18. King Crimson - Thrak
19. Various Artists - Supper's Ready
20. Savatage - Japan Live '94
21. Metropolis - Behind Mysterious Walls
22. Van Halen - Balance
23. Various Artists - Tales from Yesterday
24. Michael Jackson - HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I
25. Screaming Headless Torsos - 1995
26. Opeth - Orchid
27. Without Warning - Believe
28. Pink Floyd - Pulse
29. The Flower Kings  - Back in the World of Adventures
30. Kevin Gilbert - Kashmir [EP]
31. Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad
32. Various Artists - The Moon Revisited
33. Manfred Hübler and Siegfried Schwab - Vampyros Lesbos: Sexadelic Dance Party
34. Seventh Sign - Perpetual Destiny
35. The Police - Live!
36. Alanis Morrissette - Jagged Little Pill
37. Various Artists - In from the Storm
38. Royal Hunt - Moving Target



Van Halen - Balance
rel January 24, 1995


Spock's Beard - The Light
rel January 1995


Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
rel February 1995


Ulver - Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler
rel February 1995


Echolyn - As the World
rel March 7, 1995


Radiohead - The Bends
rel March 13, 1995


Death - Symbolic
rel March 21, 1995


Kevin Gilbert - Thud
rel March 21, 1995


The Tea Party - The Edges of Twilight
rel March 21, 1995


Faith No More - King for a Day...Fool for a Lifetime
rel March 28, 1995


King Crimson - Thrak
rel April 3, 1995


Bela Fleck - Tales from the Acoustic Planet
rel April 11, 1995


Stratovarious - The Fourth Dimension
rel April 11, 1995


Seventh Sign - Perpetual Destiny
rel April 26, 1995


Opeth - Orchid
rel May 1, 1995


The Apples in Stereo - Fun Trick Noisemaker
rel May 2, 1995


Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
rel May 12, 1995


Chris Isaak - Forever Blue
rel May 23, 1995


Ron Thal - The Adventures of Bumblefoot
rel May 23, 1995


Without Warning - Believe
rel May 24, 1995


Pink Floyd - Pulse
rel May 29, 1995


The Police - Live!
rel May 29, 1995


Floater - Glyph
rel May 1995


The Wildhearts - P.H.U.Q.
rel May 1995


Bjork - Post
rel June 13, 1995


Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
rel June 13, 1995


Screaming Headless Torsos - 1995
rel June 13, 1995


Michael Jackson - HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I
rel June 18, 1995


Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight
rel June 24, 1995


Theatre of Tragedy - Theatre of Tragedy
rel July 4, 1995




Shadow Gallery - Carved in Stone
rel July 11, 1995


Stanley Clarke, Al Di Meola and Jean-Luc Ponty - Rite of Strings
rel July 17, 1995


Various Artists - The Moon Revisited
rel July 21, 1995


The Gathering - Mandylion
rel August 22, 1995


Various Artists - Supper's Ready
rel August 22, 1995


Various Artists - Tales from Yesterday
rel August 22, 1995


Jethro Tull - Roots to Branches
rel September 4, 1995


Switchblade Symphony - Serpentine Gallery
rel September 11, 1995


Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons [EP]
rel September 19, 1995


October Project - Falling Farther In
rel September 19, 1995


The Flower Kings  - Back in the World of Adventures
rel September 1995


Royal Hunt - Moving Target
rel September 1995


Savatage - Japan Live '94
rel October 9, 1995


Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
rel October 10, 1995


Tears for Fears - Raoul and the Kings of Spain
rel October 10, 1995


Saigon Kick - Devil in the Details
rel October 17, 1995


Anathema - The Silent Enigma
rel October 23, 1995


Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
rel October 23, 1995


Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
rel October 24, 1995


Jeff Buckley - Live from the Bataclan [EP]
rel October 25, 1995


Ayreon - The Final Experiment
rel October 27, 1995


sElf - Subliminal Plastic Motives
rel October 1995


Queen - Made in Heaven
rel November 6, 1995


Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
rel November 17, 1995


Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad
rel November 21, 1995


Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
rel November 27, 1995


The Wondermints - The Wondermints
rel December 1, 1995

 
Savatage - Ghost in the Ruins: A Tribute to Criss Oliva
rel December 15, 1995


Anekdoten - Nucleus
rel December 1995


Deus ex Machina - De republica
rel 1995


Kevin Gilbert - Kashmir [EP]
rel 1995


Manfred Hübler and Siegfried Schwab - Vampyros Lesbos: Sexadelic Dance Party
rel 1995


Ilúvatar  - Children
rel 1995


Malicious Mischief - Tell It Like It is
rel 1995


Metropolis - Behind Mysterious Walls
rel 1995


Various Artists - In from the Storm
rel 1995


White Willow - Ignis Fatuus
rel 1995