While I'm certain there's someone who graduated from high school in the mid-'90s that claims 1995 as the greatest year ever in music, I'm inclined to go to the other end of the continuum. A Hootie album was the #1 seller that year ferchrissakes.
However, as indicated by the wonderful scans above, 1995 was a prime year for CD releases of older music: catalog albums, greatest hits, other compilations. In fact, greatest hits albums by Garth Brooks, Springsteen, and Michael Jackson held the #1 spot on the Billboard album charts for a combined 12 weeks and the Beatles' first anthology compilation was on top for another 3. I didn't have much spending money in '95 but, if memory serves, I spent what little CD money I had on catalog albums.
That web address for ICE Online was certainly cutting edge at the time. In '95, I was paying per minute on dial-up AOL. But it's the tilde that really brought back the memories as those were ubiquitous in URLs back then.
While I'm certain there's someone who graduated from high school in the mid-'90s that claims 1995 as the greatest year ever in music, I'm inclined to go to the other end of the continuum. A Hootie album was the #1 seller that year ferchrissakes.
ReplyDeleteHowever, as indicated by the wonderful scans above, 1995 was a prime year for CD releases of older music: catalog albums, greatest hits, other compilations. In fact, greatest hits albums by Garth Brooks, Springsteen, and Michael Jackson held the #1 spot on the Billboard album charts for a combined 12 weeks and the Beatles' first anthology compilation was on top for another 3. I didn't have much spending money in '95 but, if memory serves, I spent what little CD money I had on catalog albums.
That web address for ICE Online was certainly cutting edge at the time. In '95, I was paying per minute on dial-up AOL. But it's the tilde that really brought back the memories as those were ubiquitous in URLs back then.