Summer of 95
Posted by therealpopkiller@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 343 comments
Hey everyone! I have a 90s alt rock radio show and I’m doing a doing a Summer of 95 ep with music & other nostalgia - what do you remember happening that summer?
dyejob@reddit
No Doubt Tragic Kingdom vs. Garbage's self-titled -- which one you pick would define you as an alt girl in the years to come!
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
Garbage for sure. “Vow” made the playlist
0sqs@reddit
No Doubt did not release a single that summer. Just a girl debuted September 21, the album released 3 weeks later on October 10.
sleepy_unicorn40@reddit
Garbage!! Although I did love some No Doubt but I was living under a rock and didn't hear of this band until MTV's spring break concert.
orangepaperlantern@reddit
Garbage, 100%.
agentmkultra666@reddit
I picked both, haha
GeetarEnthusiast85@reddit
That was the summer my family moved to a new town and my parents finally let us watch MTV. I remember Michael and Janet Jackson's Scream, White Zombie's More Human Than Human, TLC's Waterfalls, Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise, The Presidents of the United States of America's Lump.
That's just off the top of my head.
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
Almost all of that made the cut in some form. I put the link above!
Ok-Potato-4774@reddit
I saw White Zombie and Toadies that November. They were huge that year. I went to Lollapalooza that year, too. That Elastica song "Connection" was huge that summer, but they never had another hit after that.
Euphoric_Evidence414@reddit
Toadies!
webweaver2@reddit
Loved The Toadies!
Pocusmaskrotus@reddit
I saw White Zombie, Pantera that summer. One of the opening acts was The Deftones. I wasn't a metal fan, but it was the most fun I ever had at a concert. Rocking khakis in the mosh pit.
Ok-Potato-4774@reddit
I actually saw The Deftones open for Anthrax in December of that year. Life of Agony was supporting also, and I wanted to see them. I didn't think much of Deftones at first. I thought they were just copying Korn. It was only after they released Around The Fur that I really liked them. I've seen them live a few times since.
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
Actually, "Stutter" was a hit for Elastica that summer, too. Top 10 on the Modern Rock charts
Ok-Potato-4774@reddit
Oh, that's true. I've just totally forgotten until I heard "Connection" on a '90s satellite radio channel.
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
Elastica is the band I wish I could’ve seen more than any, save for Nirvana. Dinner be damned!
BarleyBo@reddit
I feel like Coolios Ganstas Paradise brought some different groups of people together. I don’t know if I remember anyone not liking it.
Rough-Boot9086@reddit
Hated that song then, hate it now
djsynrgy@reddit
Solidarity from another kid who had to move that Summer.
Consistent_End7756@reddit
Cleveland Indians had a magical year in baseball I was truly obsessed with them at 12 years old. Every time they were losing you could never count them out and they had so many walk off home runs. One of the best starting lineups in baseball you’ll ever see. New ballpark (1994) and the atmosphere was electric.
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
Man that Cleveland team was STACKED. Baerga, Lofton, Belle, Alomars, Vizquel, Sorrento, ManRam… loved watching them
Weak_Radish966@reddit
Kiss From A Rose by Seal, from the Batman Forever soundtrack, on MTV and the radio nonstop all summer.
Freddys_glove@reddit
& Bone Thugs- Look into my Eyes was also on that.
Tiny-Reading5982@reddit
My sister and I played that cd to death and the ace of base cassette lol
No_Perception_4330@reddit
NONONONONO. AofB are fucking nazis.
Tiny-Reading5982@reddit
No theyre not. I heard things about the brother but not the group as a whole.
No_Perception_4330@reddit
Incorrect. “The sign” is a swastika. “All that she wants” is a trope about refugees crapping out kids to get a subsidy, which has never ever been the case, if you’ve ever met a woman.
anypositivechange@reddit
Okay wow, I knew all that she wants was a right wing trope but The Sign being a swastika !? lol
Ill-Description8517@reddit
According to Wikipedia, one of the members was in a skinhead gang when he was a teenager, but he says that was stupid teenager shit and he deeply regrets it now.
HMTMKMKM95@reddit
That whole soundtrack was all killer. Started with U2 (where I became a massive fan!) and ran all the way to the Flaming Lips. My soundtrack of the summer of 95.
Weak_Radish966@reddit
Oh yeah! That U2 song was all over the radio, too.
zt3777693@reddit
That song evokes that summer like nothing else for me. I was in 10th grade. And starting to come out of middle school esq geekdom into myself. The innocence and promise of that time ….
madsci@reddit
I worked as a dishwasher in a restaurant on Panama City Beach that summer and I can always tell when a song was in heavy rotation in mid-1995 because it makes me smell the dish room.
I've never been a big fan, but Soul Asylum's Misery was on the air constantly and definitely belongs on the list.
As for other nostalgia.. BBSes and Mechwarior II would do it for me.
n0rwaynomori@reddit
"Heat sinks activated.
All things nominal."
shayna16@reddit
Where at in PCB? I lived in Vernon for 20 years of my life and used to work at Coram’s in Laguna Beach.
madsci@reddit
Schooner's. "Last Local Beach Club". Still looks about the same, despite being clobbered by Hurricane Opal not long after I left.
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
I lived in Orlando at the same time and Misery was a huge part of my summer. My first concert!
schenkzoola@reddit
You can still join BBS’s! We mostly use Telnet now instead of dial-up. Here’s a good starting point: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
jonasgrimms@reddit
ACiD in the building. o7
pickledpeachesforall@reddit
Worked at the family restaurant about an hour north of PC and loved Soul Asylum. My Mom played Sunny 98.5 on the radio so all the adult contemporary stuff played on that station back then makes me smell bleach, dish soap and frying oil/hamburgers. BRANDY YOURE A FINE GIRL!.....Anything Genesis or Fleetwood Mac...etc
StandardAd239@reddit
The Super Bowl destroyed that song for me forever.
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
there will definitely be some Batman Forever in this episode
imjustpeachy2020@reddit
That my Homecoming song in October of ‘95.
bellestarxo@reddit
That was peak Friends obsession. The Rembrandts song was played relentlessly
HourFee7368@reddit
Summer of 95 is when I saw Garbage open for Smashing Pumpkins on their Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness tour, great show.
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
Where was that?
HourFee7368@reddit
According to this website the concert I’m thinking of was actually summer of ‘96. That’s as much as I feel comfortable sharing with a killer.
https://www.angelfire.com/bc/billycorgan17/mcta.html
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
Curses, foiled again! I was just asking bc I saw that same tour in November of 96, so thought it was a little early
Professional_Milk783@reddit
Not really Alt Rock but Natalie Merchant’s “Carnival” is burned into my brain from then.
Also the entire Empire Records soundtrack - especially Sponge!
rydertho@reddit
Merchant tiger lily album. Yeah, great one.
fromthedarqwaves@reddit
Tiger Lilly is one of those albums that I sort of forgot about for 25 years but every now and then I’ll start humming a melody from one of those songs.
chimchombimbom@reddit
For the 20th anniversary of Tiger Lily, she re-recorded the whole album with new arrangements. I stumbled on it a few months ago and have been loving it. Here’s a peeled down version of Carnival:
https://youtu.be/lFWa5PYtcrs?si=S-ddg48vcS8cE7eR
fromthedarqwaves@reddit
Thanks! I had no idea. I’ll check it out.
True_Dimension4344@reddit
You’ll hear it in the grocery store now. You may not even notice it but that’s probably why it finds its way back into your head.
Professional_Milk783@reddit
Oooooooo Jealousy..
Adrasteia-One@reddit
Sponge forever, hehehe. They were probably my favorite band that blew up that year.
SweatyPalmsSunday@reddit
Molly was played on at least one radio station at any given time summer 95
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
That Sponge song is in the movie, but for whatever reason isn't on the soundtrack
i_love_ankh_morpork@reddit
Loved the guitar in that song and spent many an hour trying to play it by ear. Poorly.
BritOnTheRocks@reddit
Man what don’t I remember about the Summer of 95? What a glorious time of my life. As a 16 year old in England I was finally done with school, exams were done by mid June and so began a long, wonderful summer (Americans take 3 month summer breaks for granted, it’s usually only 6 weeks in England).
It started when I snuck into a pub with some older looking friends the night after our final exam, I had friends bring me “diesels” which are a mix of lager, cider and blackcurrant juice. They were sweet so I knocked them back pretty quickly with some rather predictable consequences on the walk home.
It was a notably dry summer by English standards, and my group of friends spent many days meeting up to play football or cricket. We also listened to a lot of music as bands like Pulp, Supergrass, Blur, Oasis, Radiohead, Cast, Elastica, Verve, Black Grape, The Boo Radleys, The Charaltans and Paul Weller all released iconic albums that year. It piqued in August of course, as Oasis and Blur both released singles on the same day in a frantic race for the #1 spot. I still own Roll With It on cassette, vinyl and CD from that week, but alas it was Country House that won the infamous battle of Britpop.
I also got my first hourly job that Summer, working in the kitchen at Burger King. It was a terrible job, but it allowed me to earn some decent disposable income for the first time in my life. I spent it wisely on the aforementioned music offerings as well as frequent trips to the cinema with friends (Dumb and Dumber, Batman Forever, Braveheart, GoldenEye & Apollo 13 all came out that year) and the occasional night on the town.
Then in September it was time to time to bid the summer farewell and begin my life as a sixth former. New school, new town and new friends. I also quit my Burger King job and worked Saturdays as a store assistant at a health & beauty store. Honestly this time in my life absolutely KICKED ASS.
Euphoric_Evidence414@reddit
Song No. 2 > Oasis
BritOnTheRocks@reddit
I will not be drawn into such Lilliputian-like arguments, I’m just grateful for all the great music we had.
Euphoric_Evidence414@reddit
Movies too. Don’t forget Tommy Boy.
Deep-Ad4351@reddit
😍😍😍😍
BritOnTheRocks@reddit
I still remember the moment this came on ITV’s The Chart Show. I never felt so seen in my life (I was a 16 year old who lived on a council estate). I’ve loved Pulp ever since.
Deep-Ad4351@reddit
I was able to see Jarvis/Pulp on his birthday last year and we all sung happy birthday to him and it was amazing ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
BritOnTheRocks@reddit
I was gonna say I wish they’d come to the States, but holy shit they are! I’m going to have to figure out a way to go.
Deep-Ad4351@reddit
Yes! I saw them in LA last year and they’re touring with LCD Soundsystem this year!!!
Amy_Macadamia@reddit
Yes! Huge summer for Brit Pop!
ThunderBayOPP@reddit
OMG the music you and your friends were into 😍😍😍😍😍
TBeIRIE@reddit
Doll Parts by Hole
Fade Into You by Mazzy Star
Satellite by Dave Mathews
tmsaunders@reddit
My 18 yr old daughter loves Mazzy Star and I hear Fade Into You often
tmsaunders@reddit
Soul 4 Real - Every little thing..I remember finishing up the yearbook and us playing the radio nonstop. This was one of my favs. Adina Howard reminds me of band camp..I was on dance line and we loved this one. Naughty by Nature - Feel Me Flow ❤️
sweeptheleg77@reddit
“This Is How We Do It” was all over the radios during beach week.
GibberingSloth@reddit
Alternative Nation and Beavis & Butthead on MTV, great year for live music- saw the Smoking Popes and others, windows 95 and Duke Nukem played on our local LAN with my roommate.
Somethingisshadysir@reddit
I mostly remember that being the first summer I no longer had a living grandparent to go visit, as the last had died in the fall.
EnvironmentalRisk967@reddit
Primes was getting huge among the alt crowd. Tales from the punch bowl came out that year which is one of their best albums. Oh and the offspring has to be included I feel cause smash came out in 94.
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
Primus is definitely on the episode playlist. Offspring didn’t make the cut unfortunately
EnvironmentalRisk967@reddit
That makes sense we all know the offspring didn’t get huge huge until Americana
sundaycomicssection@reddit
The Pulp Fiction Sound Track was played at all the parties where I went to college in 1995.
workswithpipe@reddit
Saw nine inch nails with david Bowie that summer.
LeopardDue1112@reddit
I graduated from high school in May '95. I worked at McDonald's that summer and was so excited to start college in the fall.
I played the shit out of the Batman Forever soundtrack, MTV played the shit out of TLC's "Waterfalls" and Alanis Morrissette was about to rock my world. Good times.
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
I was about to go into my junior year in high school, and worked at McDonald’s that summer too. Still have my Batman Forever tumbler
Frankthabunny@reddit
You Are Not Alone-Michael Jackson.
MashedPotatoesDick@reddit
Who Shot Mr. Burns? dominated that summer. It seemed like everyone was invested in that episode, and who did it.
Bulky_Yak_8626@reddit
The Mortal Kombat movie was released. That soundtrack still rocks.
djsynrgy@reddit
I inadvertently got an absurd amount of friends into "techno" by way of the MK movie theme. 😆
xdevnullx@reddit
I think that soundtrack introduced me to electronic music. I still think of it whenever Halcyon & on & on by Orbital hits on shuffle.
Not really on topic, but I just got hit by nostalgia.
...but those were some other absolute bangers of soundtracks.
descendingagainredux@reddit
I remember my bf and his friends playing Dave Matthew's Band Remember Two Things all summer.
hyzerKite@reddit
Possum Kingdom by Toadies. That song embodies 90s rock for me. Back then making a song about killing someone was cool enough to be played every hour on the radio. But, the best rock of that year for me was Fugazi. “Red Medicine” album was long awaited and sounded absolutely amazing.
Hot-Back5725@reddit
This song defined my freshman year at college.
Maleficent_Finger642@reddit
Cypress Hill at Lollapalooza!
Hot-Back5725@reddit
YES! And the big Buddha dude!
TBeIRIE@reddit
The 20 foot bong lighting up on the stage at Shoreline Amphitheater was very impressive!
Hot-Back5725@reddit
Lollapalooza 95! Cyprus’s Hill and their big inflatable budda dude. Courtney Love having a meltdown on stage and ending her set after like 25 minutes. Touching Redmans leg when he was crowd surfing. Sonic Youth mesmerizing me at the end of the night.
Flat-While2521@reddit
Lost my virginity, bing bong
WickedTexan@reddit
You Oughta Know being played on basically every single station no matter what their genre was.
anonuemus@reddit
lol I just read that Xenia premiered in 95
LastCallKillIt@reddit
Hell if I know. Think that was the summer I got my Flintstones Movie t-shirt in the McDonalds drive-thru lol. I was in like the 5th grade.
pi_guy@reddit
I watched a lot of MTV around that time. Headbangers Ball had been cancelled but I remember Alternative Nation was on a lot. Some of my favorite songs from that year were Hum - Stars , The Toadies - Possum Kingdom, Self - Cannon and Ben Folds Five - Underground.
Rpd840@reddit
Black Hole Sun
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
That was the summer before, unfortunately
Rpd840@reddit
You’re right!
epapa27@reddit
I finally asked out a girl at 16. She was fun and funny, but had some family stuff so basically just wanted a summer fling with her friends. I was shy and nervous and caught feelings super fast, and pretty major. I kinda moved slow for a horny 16 year old boy, and she was more experienced. I wasn't good at talking about what I was looking for. We kissed to Mazzy Star Fade Into you the first time, and had a fun summer. But when I told her I loved her, she bailed... It was rough, but I got over it.
Alternative_Hall7158@reddit
Green Day - J.A.R. Live - Lightning Crashes Offspring - Self Esteem Batman Forever soundtrack Silverchair - Tomorrow Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
There is a very good chance that at least half of these are on the playlist for this episode
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
Ahhh
95 was a good year
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
Is that from Con Air? Bc that came out in 97
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
Yeah the movie, this is just the gif that puts out the vibes. I don’t know what happened to this gif where he flies through space
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
Ah gotcha. 95 was Nic Cage’s serious year with Leaving Las Vegas
FapNowPayLater@reddit
Jerry Garcia Dying.
BobbyGuano@reddit
I saw Sugar Ray and Korn with like only 60 other people there at the Metro in Chicago.
I think I saw Everclear at least 2 times that year as well.
pushdose@reddit
That was before or after Sugar Ray went soft?
BobbyGuano@reddit
Yeah they had only just released their first album which is a lot different and heavier from the poppy stuff they are known for.
pushdose@reddit
The first album was hard AF. Then that shit that hit to top 50 was maybe the biggest sellout in music history
tgbarbie@reddit
I saw the spin doctors and gin blossoms in concert.
prematurely_bald@reddit
So did I lol
jdw1977@reddit
Omg me too! It was my first concert.
Yourmomisnotshy@reddit
Wasn’t Cracker an opener on that tour too? I think I saw the 3 together. Get on this, get down in it!
Cook_New@reddit
Sounds right. Pretty sure I saw it too
ImprovementThat2403@reddit
This was my summer of love, so many parties, gigs and festivals - I peaked too soon 😂
i_love_ankh_morpork@reddit
Space Hog
pushdose@reddit
I still pop that album on every now and then. It’s a banger, front to back.
Striking-Access-236@reddit
I remember the Srebrenica massacre that summer and the Oklahoma City bombing…and of course the launch of Windows 95!
Epicardiectomist@reddit
I got the Mortal Kombat soundtrack that year. It's impact on my life cannot be understated. For me personally:
Fear Factory - Zero Signal
No_Perception_4330@reddit
Luna
Myfourcats1@reddit
That’s the summer I did my trip to France with the French club. There was a heatwave in France at the time. I remember the lack of AC.
Lcky22@reddit
I bleached my hair blonde
SRDILLEY6215@reddit
OJ’s trial and how some people went absolutely bonkers when he was acquitted
Who shot Mr. Burns
Waterworld - Movie
Species - Movie
What’s Going on - the non blondes (is that their names?)
No snow that year in NYC
MichaelJAwesome@reddit
The alternative radio station in San Diego 91X, still has their lists of the top 91 songs of each year. Here is the one from 1995
https://www.91x.com/top-91/top-91-1995/
Softer, Softest- Hole
Enough- Dance Hall Crashers
Good Intentions- Toad the Wet Sprocket
All Over You- Live
Young Livers- Rocket From the Crypt
Dancing Days- Stone Temple Pilots
Lair- Cranberries
Misery- Soul Asylum
She- Green Day
Just a Girl- No Doubt
Time Bomb- Rancid
Stars- Hum
I Got a Girl- Tripping Daisy
I Got ID- Pearl Jam
1979- Smashing Pumpkins
Tomorrow- Silverchair
theangryfrogqc@reddit
For us summer of '95 was all skate punk everywhere. After Dookie and Smash successes summer of '94, we spent the year discovering new music and our playlist looked something like this:
- No Use For A Name - Justified Black Eye
- Satanic Surfers - Head under water
- No Fun At All - Beat 'em down
- Blink 182 - M&M's
- Pennywise - Perfect People
- Rancid - Time Bomb
- Millencolin - Bullion
- Good Riddance - United Cigar
- ALL - Long Distance
- Less Than Jake - Johnny Quest
orangepaperlantern@reddit
Great taste!
theangryfrogqc@reddit
Thanks!
vexed_fuming@reddit
Beastie Boys w/Bad Brains and The Roots Kitsap County Fairgrounds Bremerton WA
sunchasinggirl@reddit
Hey I think I was actually there as well! I remember I randomly found a joint on the ground and was so happy haha
vexed_fuming@reddit
Legendary show in the PNW.
My now-wife was there - we wouldn’t meet for five more years.
Remember when the line of people on the street above the venue tore down the chain link fence and rushed down the hill into the crowd? Incredible.
I remember Mike D wore a suit and at one point busted the zipper on his pants and had to get some tape from the stage crew to fix it.
zt3777693@reddit
“Houston, we have a problem”
Mrsdeflor@reddit
Guided by Voices’ Alien Lanes was on heavy rotation, Sleater-Kinney released their first album, and the movie Kids was released, so Natural One by Folk Implosion was popular.
ReverendHambone@reddit
I was embarrassingly obsessed with that Bryan Adams song from the Don Juan Demarco soundtrack.
Searchlights@reddit
How about the song from the 3 Musketeers movie with Bryan Adams, Sting and Rod Stewart? "All for one"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofA3URC1wyk
ReverendHambone@reddit
90s soundtrack KING, baby
PhoneJazz@reddit
Bryan Adams was everywhere the Summer of ‘95, but also everywhere the Summer of ‘85 with ‘Summer of ‘69’
acespacegnome@reddit
Take my updoot you clever bastard
MetaPhalanges@reddit
That was clever. Nicely done.
Isame_mario@reddit
He peaked with Robin Hood
ReverendHambone@reddit
This is Three Musketeers erasure.
pimpmcnasty@reddit
Adrasteia-One@reddit
That song is peak 90s romance, and like you, I remember it very fondly!
stockvillain@reddit
You and my wife, both.
Allahn77@reddit
I still have that movie.
Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit
Yikes
ReverendHambone@reddit
I know.
MarkHofmannsGoodKnee@reddit
For Squirrels tour van flipped and killed half the band right before their album dropped.
Mighty K.C. was their big single. https://youtu.be/yBbl3RpgNN4?feature=shared
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
I searched YouTube up and down for any kind of news story about this that I could include audio from and couldn’t find anything. Which is a bummer because I really wanted to include it especially since I was also from Central Florida and this was a big deal there.
MarkHofmannsGoodKnee@reddit
Damn you're right. I can't find anything either. Sad!
Searchlights@reddit
Batman Forever Soundtrack and U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD7lxHpoyyA
sweetassassin@reddit
I saw Selena in concert in the first quarter of 1995. And then she was murdered. I was so pissed.
I was selling my feelings with Jewel on repeat.
I had my first real “scam” pretty much almost going all the way to home, but not letting it go all the way.
Madonna‘s bedtime stories was the soundtrack of my sexual awakening that year.
This was also the year that I got introduced to the Smiths.
And how can I forget no doubts, tragic kingdom was completely life shattering as a teen. I really do miss when Gwen Stefani was a little punk rock.
I don’t know if this was the same time 1995 but I do know that I had TLC creep and Mariah Carey‘s fantasy album also in heavy rotation.
zt3777693@reddit
Movies: Batman Forever, Clueless, Apollo 13
thatguyworks@reddit
In music news, Number 1 on the college charts this summer was Better than Ezra.
And at Number 2: Ezra.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Zyaf1Vg4S7I?feature=shared
ThaGoat1369@reddit
I graduated that year, and my #1 memory was the Boston Hardcore Punk music scene being insane. My band played 2-3 times a month, and there were shows everywhere all the time. Big crowds, big bands. Before the violence of the late 90's shut a lot of places down.
misplaced_gaijin@reddit
For me in the UK it was the peak of Britpop, both musically and culturally. The Oasis vs Blur rivalry, Common People by Pulp, overall a fantastic year for music. I was 9 at the time and completely swept up by it.
CheesyRomantic@reddit
I spent the summer with friends, going to cafes and arcades and staying out late talking and having fun.
Music playing all day… watching movies my friends and I would rent together.
Oh how I believed our little group would be friends forever.
anOvenofWitches@reddit
Elton John “Can You Feel The Love” remix. And Madonna’s “Human Nature”
Alternative_Hall7158@reddit
I watched that music video many many times
getdownmakelooove@reddit
The summer of 95 was the summer before my junior year in high school. The OKC bombing had just happened. I played a lot of piano and guitar. I got my driver license in August of that year, and the wait was agonizing! I worked all summer helping my dad remodel my hand me down 76 Mustang. My parents made me take their Motorola cell phone when I drove anywhere. It was a grey flip phone with an orange LED display and extendable antenna.
In that car, I listened to a lot of Bush, No Doubt, Marilyn Manson, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Alanis Morrisette, STP, Live, Madonna, TLC, and many more. The Batman Forever soundtrack was really good, too. The year before, Nine Inch Nails released The Downward Spiral, and it pretty much blew my mind (and still continues to do so), and that was in heavy rotation.
I had a strobe light in my room and posters that glowed in a black light. I listened to the radio and watched MTV a lot, and when I got a new CD (probably from Colombia House or BMG lol) I would read the lyrics as I listened to the entire album alone in my room. I read Sassy, YM, and Seventeen magazines. Sometimes, I got my hands on Spin or Details.
At some point that year, we got Windows 95 and dial-up internet. I remember discussing My So-Called Life and The X-Files on bulletin boards. I saw Clueless, Empire Records, Apollo 13, Waterworld, The Net, Hackers, 12 Monkeys, and Seven at movie theaters.
A few times I got to order clothes from the Deliah's catalog. I had a pair of dark green Docs. I shopped at Wet Seal, Gadzooks, and Journeys. I had a lot of Stussy t-shirts. Made out with a guy for the first time in the back of his giant 70s Pontiac. I occasionally smoked weed.
sigh Some exciting, happy, and carefree days.
Interesting_Bet2828@reddit
Was that the year of how bizarre?
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
No that was 97
Interesting_Bet2828@reddit
Damnit
instant_ramen_chef@reddit
I went to my first desert race the summer of 95. We listened to break beat, house, trance, techno. That summer sounded like nothing anyone had heard before.
svv1tch@reddit
Ok Simpson
poop-money@reddit
This is way too far down. OJ, OKC, and the end of the Bosnian War were the major news events.
Side note, u/therealpopkiller, I have the bumpers and the versions of the songs with commentary from the GTA San Andreas radio station "The X" as mp3s if you want them. I have an alt rock playlist I use for driving and those coming on on shuffle is pretty great.
ttw81@reddit
that summer my grandmother the trial instead of her stories ( whichi dutifully recorded for her,)
Chance-Glove1589@reddit
The Bad Boys soundtrack was awesome
Infamous-Thought-765@reddit
Going to see Clueless in the theater.
Thayes1413@reddit
I was really into Sonia Dada that year. They released their second album A DAT at the Beach in March.
weepinwilo@reddit
phish tour summer 95
red rocks and sugar bush were highlights 🤩
onagdbicycle@reddit
My first show was at the Mann Music Center in Philly that summer!
Autumn_Forest_Mist@reddit
I loved Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me by U2 and Kiss From A Rose by Seal from the Batman Forever soundtrack (RIP Val Kilmer)
I Believe by Blessed Union of Souls was pretty and sad
Hootie and the Blowfish was always on the radio too
Nayzo@reddit
I Believe! I forgot about that one.
Kitten_K_@reddit
Summer 95 in Australia I just finished high school and had some freedom before moving out of home and going to uni. Best times.
loglogy@reddit
Radiohead released The Bends. Changed the trajectory of alt rock forever!
Worried-Trade-6407@reddit
The acid was amazing that summer!
tallulahtaffy@reddit
Maggie Estep’s song “hey baby” and the Slam Poetry scene in general.
Acerbic_Wench@reddit
Hey baby, yo baby, hey baby, yo baby, yo yo yo baby, yo yo yo.
Inc-Roid@reddit
I took driver's education in the mornings, went home and lifted weights and watched a lot of Kiana Tom's Flex Appeal on ESPN.
Difficult_Pool_5608@reddit
Me, smoking weed for the first time
Cloud_Disconnected@reddit
That was the year that alternative music stopped feeling weird, dangerous, obscure and unique, and started feeling commercial, corporate, safe, and bland.
Don't whatabout me to death, I know there are exceptions, I'm just talking about what was on the radio and MTV, and the cover of SPIN.
Ok-Potato-4774@reddit
I totally agree. Started getting into old punk and metal a bit more that year. You know who released a great album? Radiohead, with "The Bends". I might as well have glued that tape into my deck, I played it so much.
Cloud_Disconnected@reddit
WHAT?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU, IT'S 1995 AND EVERY RADIO STATION HAS BEEN PLAYING "GOOD" BY BETTER THAN EZRA BACK TO BACK SINCE TUESDAY! DON'T WORRY THOUGH, 6TH AVENUE HEARTACHE COMES OUT IN ABOUT 7 MONTHS!
orangepaperlantern@reddit
Oh god I had 6th Avenue Heartache stuck in my head recently.
6of1HalfDozen@reddit
The summer of 95, I went to see Phunk Junkeez and Veruca Salt and ended up loving this punk band I had never heard of called No Use For A Name. I got one of their CDs and noticed they were on the same label as this other band I liked, NOFX. RIP Tony Sly, great songwriter.
orangepaperlantern@reddit
No Use For A Name!! ❤️
onedrrboy@reddit
Never forget. 🥹
SilentDrapeRunner11@reddit
Listening to the shit out of Björk - Post.
Sedona83@reddit
Going to the drive in with my mom to repeatedly watch Pocahontas and belt out "Colors of the Wind" by Vanessa Williams
Wooden-Bookkeeper473@reddit
In the UK, Oasis were kings....Wonderwall was everything and everywhere..
wBeeze@reddit
Lump, lightning crashes and bullet with butterfly wings
ImOnlyHereForTheCoC@reddit
Superchunk continued to crush it with a hilarious video featuring David Cross and Janeane Garofalo, does it get any more 90s?!
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
Have you heard the new stuff? Digging it more than the last record
ImOnlyHereForTheCoC@reddit
I’m waiting for all of Songs in the Key of Yikes to drop before i check it out, but as far as the other recent stuff goes I Wild Loneliness was just ok, I liked What a Time to Be Alive a lot more
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
Well, so far so good. Gonna try to finally catch them when they’re here in October. Can’t believe I’ve never seen them live
ImOnlyHereForTheCoC@reddit
Last time I saw em was ‘18, but man, they still brought it! I hope you make it out!
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
For sure! I’m a little bummed Wurster isn’t in, but better without him than not at all.
re: Jawbreaker - got to see them a few years ago when they were doing a Dear You tour, but would gladly go again. The closest show to hear though is best friends forever and I don’t know that I’m up for a three day festival anymore. But “Fireman” is definitely on the playlist for this episode
ImOnlyHereForTheCoC@reddit
Whaaaaaaaat??
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
Yeah, he quit touring last year or the year before
Tiny-Cup7029@reddit
"All Over You" by Live. I am not really a live fan and there are definitely better shouts in this thread but I may or may not have seen my first girlfriend naked while that song was playing and here we are.
Kiss by a Rose is solid too.
MsBean18@reddit
I also would not actively choose to listen to Live, but I spent a lot of time banging to Throwing Copper.
Tiny-Cup7029@reddit
The real answer is "Just" by Radiohead, but that's because I was a dork.
WaitUntilTheHighway@reddit
Summer of 95 had that butthole surfers song that played allll the time.
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
"Pepper"? that was summer of 96
WaitUntilTheHighway@reddit
Ahhh you’re right
BoboliBurt@reddit
Jerry Garcia died August, Deercreek Dead Riot 30 years ago today, Phish at Deercreek first time, Lollapalooza was sputtering out and dead in 2 years. Pearl Jam ticketmaster feud.
But they did play at Soldier Field 2 days after last Grateful Dead concert. Morrissey and Bowie feud after brief collaboration and tour
Thats your midwest rundown. Wasnt this the summer of that really terrible Metallic album?
j_dick@reddit
My parents separated……
the_D1CKENS@reddit
Biggie and 2Pac were huge. Shaggy. Smashing Pumpkins. Radiohead.
I feel like Candlebox and Collective Soul were huge, too, but that whole era had great music so it blends together
Blackbird136@reddit
Alanis, IIRC. Check me.
kalamity_katie@reddit
I sang every song on that cd like it was coming from my very own lovesick, heartbroken, rage filled fourteen year old soul.
0sqs@reddit
You Oughta Know was re-released in the US on July 10. The album had been released June 13, but KROQ was basically responsible for the early success of the single. You Learn (September) and Hand in My Pocket (October) followed in 1995.
Cook_New@reddit
Yeah, first album that came to my mind from that summer.
Godiverson3@reddit
Return of the Mack
blewdleflewdle@reddit
95 was when I remember Girls and Boys (Blur) being on heavy rotation on the radio.
Elastica's Connection was also a big one that summer.
Radiohead had The Bends.
Oasis was playing a lot.
Lots of potent, visceral memories from just those between our alt rock radio station and mix tapes
LovingComrade@reddit
The first Foo Fighters album. The self titled one that Dave Grohl played all the parts on was released June 26, 1995. I remember there being an excitement around it.
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
Spoiler: "This Is a Call" kicks off the setlist..
Euphoric_Evidence414@reddit
Sooo good
acespacegnome@reddit
Fuck yeah. I bought that album on cassette at the local grocery store. It wasn't even for sale at HMV at that point, and i had already absorbed that whole album before they started playing it on much music.
Still a banger of an album, and pivotal to my youth.
Aretha@reddit
blind melon - galaxie - and the passing of shannon hoon in october ❤️
PinkFloydDeadhead@reddit
Pink Floyd was on their last ever tour, PULSE.
Jerry Garcia died 8/9/95.
honeypot17@reddit
Adina Howard’s Freak Like Me
True_Dimension4344@reddit
Euphoric_Evidence414@reddit
Boom boom!
honeypot17@reddit
Let me lay it on the line…
esomers80@reddit
Yes!! Great song!!
From the "bad boys" soundtrack
NicoToscani@reddit
I listened to this just this week, a playlist I made, of Top 40 Modern Rock tracks from June of 95. I get the warm Fuzzies listening to all this stuff. Except Hootie, that shit was always lame.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7CFeDhayXj0VGBmSe1XH9s?si=-yrFOlbCSACQUZxVnqvD1w&pi=X6mWfsWDTu2mQ
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
There’s at least half a dozen of these that made the episode, wish I could play more. Saved for part 2!
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
Clueless was super huge and talk about it all over TV for months it seemed. The last teen film that felt fully 80s in vibe but at the same time also the first to have new music, styles, slang, etc. to show it was no longer the 80s.
Sadly the year that volumized, styled hair, 80s hair, disappeared, basically still there in some regions to late 1994 but just gone in 1995 hah (and yeah from this you can tell I'm a bit pre-Xennial Gen X'er). And been 30 straight years of flat, no style hair since.... longest such period in the modern age. Bright color and some wild and different clothing styles still around for 1995 though but it was nearing the last gap of that before it went 100% dingy and basic for the late 90s through early 00s and some of the high school kids and younger already seemed all given up on that already and gone 100% grunge inspired or hardcore rap style and got first appearances of the whole pants off the ass stuff (not a universal thing at all, only some crowds in some places ever actually did that much, at least in my greater region, I guess some younger kids already started that by '94).
Recall hearing stuff like TLC - Waterfalls, Madonna - Take A Bow, Sophie B. Hawkins - As I Lay Me Down, Collective Soul - December, Blues Traveler - Run-Around, Dionne Farris - I Know, Hootie And The Blowfish - Hold My Hand, Nicki French - Total Eclipse Of The Heart remake, a lot. And pretty huge Alanis Morisette release Jagged Little Pill.
I wasn't wild about it but Gangsta's Paradise and Kiss From Rose and Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman (and You Gotta Be and This Is How We Do It) seemed to get played non-stop everywhere, especially the first two.
Other movies Pulp Fiction set off a big stir and John Travolta had a mega comeback to stardom, Jumaniji, The Net, Babe, Species (Henstridge hotness), Braveheart was really big, Outbreak freaked people out and made us all low key background worried and waiting (unfortunately finally happened decade and a half later), Waterworld was crazy talk about the mega budget and flop and so on (although still did decent box office if you ignore the cost of it), Goldeneye brought us James Bond once again after a really long 6 year break, Crimson Tide cool Cold War sub movie, Die Hard still going, Apollo 13 was super huge and quite a phenomenon, Batman Forever came out, Vanessa Williams with a huge comeback singing for Pocahontas after the 80s controversy nonsense, To Die For, Billy Madison, etc.
Calvin And Hobbes ends :(
Freaky tragic stuff like Oklahoma City bombing and Selena murder were huge stories too.
The Bosnian War was a big thing.
49'ers win the Super Bowl
The arrest of hacker Kevin Mitnick.
Christopher Reeve has a terrible horseback riding accident.
Seinfeld and FRIENDS going super strong on TV and The Simpsons still (although now we see The Simpsons was still just in it's very early days hah). Xena, Star Trek Voyager, SNL and MadTV, Hecules, JAG,
But OJ kinda dominated TV. The trial just totally took over TV and everything 100%. I mean it dominated like I think I've ever seen a story dominate. Every channel was about like 10 hours of OJ talk every single day for something like 9 straight months! It was THE talk. Nobody who was not around then can even fathom how it just utterly took over all of TV and discussion. If the glove does not fit, you must acquit and all that. It's hard to overemphasize how insanely huge the story was and how utterly it took over TV.
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
Oh and it was.... HOT!
Although the year ended with a double mega-blizzard that carried into '96 that was pure insanity.
Acrobatic_Show8919@reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/s/QXuLuuohGN
bgva@reddit
Mike Tyson’s comeback fight that lasted all of 90 seconds. My granddad bought the fight on PPV and was pissed.
On TV, I watched a lotta Singled Out, Beavis and Butthead, and a shit-ton of talk shows like Ricki Lake, Richard Bey, Jerry Springer, and Gordon Elliott.
Oh and “Who Shot Mr. Burns” on The Simpsons, which in retrospect felt like a letdown.
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
Oh shit haha yeah I forgot the infamous half second long, like $1000 pay per view Tyson fight.
mdsnbelle@reddit
OJ.
It was all OJ all the time that summer.
BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit
Wow how is this only getting mentioned like 10 pages down? THIS dominated all of TV like nothing I've ever seen before or since. Like every single channel like 10 hours a day for like 9 straight months or something!
ApprehensiveAnswer5@reddit
It was in the spring, but it is music related- Selena’s murder hit hard that year.
I lived in Texas then, and near the end of the school day, there was an important announcement we all had to listen to, and it was the announcement that Selena had been killed.
And I remember we all kind of stood around stunned for a few minutes.
And a teacher turned on the radio, and found our local tejano station and they were talking about it on air, and we listened to that.
And then some people cried and the teacher left the radio on because they were playing her catalog.
I don’t think we did anything else for the rest of the day.
bhdrums@reddit
“This is a Call” was showing up on local radio all the time, some new band called Foo Fighters. “You Oughta Know” was on MTV regularly. My best friend and I exchanged Christmas gifts; I got her Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, she got me the same. Kennedy on Alternative Nation. Silverchair released Frogstomp when they were all teens, and had the insane humanoid pig in the video for “Tomorrow.” I think the NIN “Hurt” live version was also huge on radio and MTV in 95.
OkBiscotti1140@reddit
Definitely Goo Goo Dolls for me. They were just making it big and I got to see them perform in new world records in buffalo before they went on tour. Also where can we listen to your show?
Euphoric_Evidence414@reddit
My first acid trip. My first real love. Better Than Ezra, They Might Be Giants, The Foo Fighters, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Alanis, Bush, Reznor, The Toadies, Ween. Sneaking out, nighttime air. Fireworks, drinking, the “gates of hell,” graffiti. Someone riding in the trunk. My friend parking on the tracks in neutral, waiting, and us feeling the “ghost” push us off the tracks. Drinking coffee in 24-hour restaurants. Taking pictures, scrawling in notebooks, desperate for the future. Putting in for gas. Emotionally vulnerable.
meli_padme@reddit
Clueless came out, I liked the soundtrack. Collective Soul and Marilyn Manson.
Rolandersec@reddit
This might help: https://www.thecurrent.org/episode/2023/09/09/1995
EcstaticTraffic7@reddit
I went to my first concert in Pinellas Park, Florida: the 98 Rock BBQ. The lineup included Toadies, Brother Cane, Monster Magnet, Southern Culture of the Skids, Sugar Ray (touring for their first album pre fame), Goo Goo Dolls, The Nixons (who I remember lit a fire on stage.)
StandardAd239@reddit
ah-mazia@reddit
The tv show Singled Out premiered on MTV and Jenny McCarthy skyrocketed to fame. Also the summer Road Rules premiered, iirc.
DisastrousBeautyyy@reddit
I got a copy of the yearbook I edited, graduated high school, got engaged, turned 18, got married, got our first apartment. 95 was the best year of my life!!!
hardlurker123@reddit
I went to my first concert in the summer of 95. Lollapalooza 95 when I was 15 years old. Remember mighty mighty bosstones, pavement, hole, beck, sonic youth off the top of my head. Good times.
ae_bennett@reddit
My mix tape from that summer 🤣
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5noteN16UxjJ4aLqaIVKgl?si=cnAmwoI8S8-3OZY9SnBMTg&pi=jNSz-XibQ7yLE
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
my show is pretty alt-rock centric, but these are all great songs
ae_bennett@reddit
Totally get that - this tape was a combo of taping off the radio and my friends’ CDs - it’s a fun trip!
cmajka8@reddit
Wow that brings back all the memories. Amazing 🙌🏼
ae_bennett@reddit
I have one for 1994 too
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ynuVu5PngoxWWq9SSzwvH?si=kd84QHZjQiWUGsIGCLNZDA&pi=odiIowFFQfCSk
Pretty sure I have my tapes from 96, 97 & 98 too - not sure about 99 - and then I went off to undergrad and discovered Napster and started burning CDs on my own computer haha
cmajka8@reddit
Oh damn! I graduated 96. If you have that one - would love to see it too
huskmyskinwagon@reddit
The Bends by Radiohead, was my first break up album, jammed it all summer long
Tiny-Cup7029@reddit
The bends changed the trajectory of my life. I didn't fully appreciate it at the time but I do now.
Wocken_flocken@reddit
You Oughta Know being played on repeat!!
PoliPino1977@reddit
Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie album came out that year.
So did No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom and Bush if I remember right. Maybe Silverchair"s Frogstomp as well.
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
Yeah, Mellon Collie in October. Silverchair are on the playlist for sure. 16 Stone came out in 94, but "Comedown" got Bush a ton of airplay that summer. Nearly made the cut, but there's too much for one episode.
Hey-buuuddy@reddit
So many great movies that spring/summer- Toy Story, Tommy Boy, Braveheart, Batman Forever, Die Hard sequel.
Music wise, grunge was past-peak but grunge bands still making albums and making millions. I worked at a record store that summer and it was definitely the late 90s rolling in if that makes sense- including the impending doom for all records stores. Most would be gone in 10 years or less.
TV wise: Friends TV show premiered, OJ Simpson trial was a circus, and remember Road Rules on MTV? It was a spin-off of The Real World.
wyc1inc@reddit
I'm a sports guy, so the only thing I really remember from that summer (early summer I guess) is the Houston Rockets improbably winning a back-to-back NBA title.
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
As a die-hard Orlando Magic fan, I remember that very, very clearly. Too clearly.
Typeintomygoodear@reddit
Honestly, I know it’s debatable and we can split hairs, but 1995 was one of the most iconic years in regard to 90s music (and movies) as a whole.
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
100% agree. it was my favorite summer of the 90s and i'm super excited to do this episode
miss-miami@reddit
Matthew Sweet Sick of Myself was popular then and never again.
BarleyBo@reddit
I feel like people think the Rock and Roll hall of Fame has been around forever. But it opened in Cleveland in 1995
therealpopkiller@reddit (OP)
that's definitely gonna make the episode
PersonOfInterest85@reddit
The museum opened to the public that year, but the institution was founded in 1983 and first inducted members in 1986.
BarleyBo@reddit
Yeah but I’m saying for music in 95 like OP was asking about, it fits the criteria asked
Iced-Americano-16@reddit
I was deep in country music and this was the height of line dancing, two stepping, and swinging. So many memories! George Straight Check Yes or No Tim McGraw I like, I love it David Lee Murphy Check Yes or No Cotton eyed Joe
Terry Clark Wynonna Trisha Yearwood
I could go on - so many memories of dancing at rodeos, clubs, and concerts. Bonfires and blue jeans.
Iced-Americano-16@reddit
I can love you like that - a ballad! Do they even do slow songs anymore?!!
PhoneJazz@reddit
Clueless
0sqs@reddit
Were the kids in America
Exciting_Attitude240@reddit
"Rollin wit tha homies"
PhoneJazz@reddit
Poison_Ivy_Rorschach@reddit
By the summer of 95 a huge amount of people I knew had gotten their drivers license AND some kind of car. I think of windows down, cruising around to the usual spots, looking for other friends, certain guys, and dropping in on buddies at work (usually scoring free French fries or a frosty). Albums I remember being played on those drives: Radiohead “The Bends”, Faith No More “King for a day Fool for a lifetime”, PJ Harvey “To bring you my love”, and right when I was heading back to school, a lot of mornings getting ready to “One Hot Minute” by RHCP. I also remember listening to Frogstomp by Silverchair in the parking lot at my high school. So not summer, but it was homecoming so super close to the start of the year. My best friend at the time was super into Rancid and I think they had a new album either in spring or summer, because her room was a Rancid shrine. Also the Ramones released Adios Amigos. It seemed like Alanis was everywhere.
A lot of great metal releases, but I don’t think that’s what you’re asking for. White Zombie kind of straddles the line so Astro Creep for sure.
Almost forgot, I think Hey man nice shot by Filter was on a ton and people were like “that’s about Kurt” which I don’t think is true, but that’s what a lot of people thought. I should look that up.
Cheers to your cool show.
Oaken_beard@reddit
That was the summer that I noticed the shift from grunge and alternative rock starting to really happen. It was still there, but there seemed to be a LOT more rap & R&B hitting the charts, and what would be classified as rock or alternative was more polished and mainstream radio friendly, (Hootie and the Blowfish, Blues Traveler, Deep Blue Something). I’m not saying it was a bad thing, but the tonal shift to music more produced and polished was very noticeable for someone who was 12 and starting to really get into music in 1992.
One-Particular63@reddit
I was in year 7 that year and the songs that soundtracked this were Wonderwall, Longview/anything from Dookie, and anything Soundgarden. As an Aussie, I was listening heavily to You Am I, Silverchair and Powderfinger
Adrasteia-One@reddit
Clueless was released, Alanis Morrisette made her debut, KROQ Weenie Roast had a killer line up (Bush, Garbage, Sponge, Better Than Ezra, and Soul Asylum are the acts I remember that played), and I Wish by Skee Lo was huge.
burnbeforeyoumellow@reddit
Garbage and No Doubt did weenie roast 96. But gwen performed with Sublime weenie roast 95
Glass-Marionberry321@reddit
Monster Magnet - Negasonic Teenage Warhead
IncredibleBulk2@reddit
Was that the year of the Pepsi lid giveaway? I got a duffle bag. It fucking ruled.
pug_fugly_moe@reddit
My foot almost got amputated that summer.
Anyway, the Van Halen Balance tour.
AverageSoul-@reddit
A deep cut Beck track, for sure.
i_am_randy@reddit
Lollapaloozq ‘95
kishbish@reddit
I didn’t know wtf a pog was but I knew I needed some.
AverageSoul-@reddit
Tricky's Maxinquaye albem dropped that year. I would sneak in a track for nostalgia. Definitely would cross into the alt-world back then, & now.
Trixxstrr@reddit
Started grade 9. Great time for alt rock. Radiohead, Oasis, Foo Fighters, Garbage, Weezer. And being in Canada we had some great alt up here too. Hayden, Odds, Tragically Hip, Our Lady Peace
Papacreole@reddit
I just graduated high school and was working for the summer before college at Safeway. I had tickets to see the Grateful Dead but had to give my tickets away due to working. My friends had a blast apparently. Jerry Garcia died later that year.
djsynrgy@reddit
Several seminal movie soundtracks: Hackers, Mortal Kombat, Clueless, Empire Records, Batman Forever, Johnny Mnemonic, Angus, and – for the score minded – Braveheart.
And with hindsight, I think that's where many of us subliminally caught the 'rave' bug that exploded around the turn of the century. I know Hackers made me run out and buy Prodigy's Jilted Generation for 'Voodoo People', and while I never bought the album, I have a super soft spot for Stereo MC's Connected. Not to mention the MK theme.
That Summer gave us The Usual Suspects, Pixar dropped the first Toy Story, Harmony Korrine released KIDS, and John Candy appeared on our screens for the final time in Canadian Bacon (he died during production,) and we got To Wong Foo, Desperado, and Dangerous Minds (Gangster's Paradise was everywhere.)
Radiohead's The Bends had come out that Spring; Fake Plastic Trees was still in heavy rotation. Offspring's Smash was blowing up from Come Out And Play at roughly the same time Daft Punk permanently planted Around The World into our collective consciousness. Bjork's Post came charging in with Army of Me, and Alanis came out swinging with You Oughta Know. Not to mention Kiss From A Rose and Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me having a stranglehold on the airwaves.
We were collectively introduced to The Jerky Boys. BT and Tori Amos collaborated on a killer tune called Blue Skies. Bone Thugs' hit us with First Of The Month. Sophie B Hawkins arrived with As I Lay Me Down and disappeared immediately thereafter, while Dave Matthews' Ants Marching turned a chunk of our generation into festival lifers.
I had a huge crush on a girl, and didn't get a chance to come clean about it until the end of the Summer – at my going away party. 2 weeks before sophomore year, we packed up and moved states. Was a character changing Summer.
Isame_mario@reddit
Big Empty- Stone Temple Pilots
Dogrel@reddit
I remember the Oklahoma City Bombing happening during my spring break. The OJ Simpson trial sucked up the whole news cycle for nearly the whole year too.
polygonalopportunist@reddit
I worked as a bus boy/dishwasher at a 50s diner place. So listened to a lot of that. But I remember Foo Fighters pretty much blowing me away on my discman.
ocitystop@reddit
Cotton eye joe..
Legal_Scientist5509@reddit
Not a a memory- way too smoky
PersonOfInterest85@reddit
The most talked about cultural product was a computer operating system.
azazel-13@reddit
The Downward fucking Spiral blew my teen mind wide open! It's the 30th anniversary of this singular album and I'm massively waxing nostalgic by attending a NIN tour date this fall!
HermioneMarch@reddit
I worked in a movie theater. Clueless, APpolo 13, braveheart!
Dranem78@reddit
Driving to the mall on a summer night and having Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness blasting through my face off cassette player in my 1990 Geo Prism!
qtjedigrl@reddit
I Saw the Sign
BuggerPie81@reddit
Phish!
shinobi-dragonninja@reddit
At the end of 1995 I remember seeing the Macarena on TV. The following year it blew up and you would see these 40yr olds trying to be cool and doing the dance at every celebration
antisocialnetwork77@reddit
David Bowie “I’m Afraid of Americans.” Shudder to think how afraid he’d be NOW.
Dramatic-Dark-4046@reddit
Summer of 95 was Mighty Morphing Power Rangers !
BarleyBo@reddit
I remember it more for Toy Story
shankthedog@reddit
Jerry died. Jane’s Addiction & RHCP @ Lollapalooza
BeautifulHuman928@reddit
Ramps were skated, machines were raged against, virginities were lost... man, what a year
barberjo@reddit
I graduated from high school!
abjorge13@reddit
This was my summer before going off to college. I went to Lollapalooza in Chicago and saw the Sonic Youth. I was mostly obsessed with The Doors though. By some strange coincidence the RA at my dorm was named Jim Morrison.
CreamyHampers@reddit
Honestly, I would love a commercial free hour of Bombastic by Shaggy and Scatman by Scarman John.
Ahshitbackagain@reddit
Gangsta's Paradise and Waterfalls by TLC! Damn, the 90's were the best.
Take me back.
kvoyhacer@reddit
Jerry Garcia passed away. The hippie/granola crowd in Colorado was very sad.
That fall, I saw George Clinton and the P-Fink All Stars do a show in a barn in the Gunnison Valley of Colorado.
newhappyrainbow@reddit
I didn’t see the show but I started at Western State in the Fall of 95!
fromthedarqwaves@reddit
I saw George Clinton and co. around that same time play at a relatively small venue in Oklahoma. They must have just picked random places to perform.
moarlo@reddit
Moved from a small town to a big city in Arizona
djsynrgy@reddit
I did similar; opposite direction (urban DC to rural DE.) Solidarity.
Sufficient-Rooster44@reddit
Oasis, Radiohead, blur, Smashing Pumpkins and…Bone Thugs N Harmony. Heavy rotation during the mid 90’s.
Pandoras_Rox@reddit
Opening Windows 95 to 'surf the net' with Netscape Navigator.
Astrazigniferi@reddit
That was the summer between 7th and 8th grade. My best friends and I went to different schools and we made up for it by spending all summer together at each others’ houses. We rode our bikes in endless loops around the neighborhood, went exploring in the creek behind the park, played gin rummy and war while listening to Nirvana Unplugged and Greenday’s Dookie on cassette, and scared ourselves silly by all reading Stephen King’s IT at the same time. Banger of a summer, really.
tallulahtaffy@reddit
swing dancing! It was gaining popularity as a fad, a year before the movie Swingers came out
tallulahtaffy@reddit
I was into Liz Phair, Tori Amos and Ani DiFranco. And for some reason, King Missile.
tallulahtaffy@reddit
And swing dancing! It was gaining popularity as a fad, a year before the movie Swingers came out
tallulahtaffy@reddit
I also remember Maggie Estep’s song “hey baby” and the slam poetry scene in general
the_kid1234@reddit
I remember Oasis, White Zombie, Alanis, Bush and a lot of pop punk.
patient_brilliance@reddit
I graduated year 12, our summer being at the end of the year. In our tiny rural South Australian towns, we were listening to Oasis, Green Day, Alanis Morrisette, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, the Presidents of the United States of America, No Doubt, Everclear and had a huge Beatles resurgence on the back of the Anthology documentary. We were watching Rage religiously and eagerly awaiting the arrival of FM radio as the local station played "the best of the 60s, 70s, 80s and today".
I moved into a feral sharehouse aged 17. We watched Gladiators, as someone from our state won the series (who, in a bizarre turn of events, went on to hook up with the very friend I watched the show with and father her first child). We lived on chips and gravy "booked up" at the local deli or the pub.
Melbourne stole the Grand Prix from Adelaide, leading to a rise in anti-Victorian sentiment within the state.
Natasha Stott-Despoja became the youngest woman to serve in Parliament at 26, and wore Doc Martens into Parliament House.
We watched Michael Bevan hit a 4 off the last ball for Australia to win the ODI cricket match against the West Indies on New Year's Day 1996 (technically still that summer).
We were wearing baggy jeans and cropped kids' tees with cartoon characters on them or oversized tees from surf and street brands like Billabong, Rip Curl, Mambo, Rusty, Stussy and Mossimo. I had round John Lennon glasses with purple lenses and a black porkpie hat. Nike Airs were prized and a Sportsgirl logo shirt was top tier.
We rang up the radio station to find out what the new songs were called and to request songs and shout-outs to our mates in neighbouring towns. Once we got our probationary licences we could drive to meet each other and be pressed into designated driver service of overly-powered V8 cars.
43life@reddit
Jerry Garcia died.
idlehand79@reddit
I graduated high school and bought tickets the next day for Lollapalooza. Had to stand in line at a Strawberries Records. Was a good summer before college.
fromthedarqwaves@reddit
A Goofy Movie! It came out in April or May but I saw it in the summer with my first girlfriend. There was no one else in the theatre which meant a lot of awkward making out.
Echterspieler@reddit
I went to a church camp thing. Didn't want to go but I ended up loving it.
bajamazda@reddit
OJ Simpson trial
bgva@reddit
Mike Tyson’s comeback fight that lasted all of 90 seconds. My granddad bought the fight on PPV and was pissed.
_ShesARainbow_@reddit
Kiss from a Rose is literally the only thing I remember from that summer
custerdome81@reddit
Nonstop OJ on TV. You really can’t imagine how prevalent it was. OJ trying on the gloves that didn’t fit was the big moment of the trial that summer.
TLC, Spin Doctors, Green Day, and Phish were all big in music where I lived, plus Jerry Garcia’s death made major headlines.
At the box office, 1995 was a little less impressive in terms of summer blockbusters vs. ‘93-‘94 but we did have Apollo 13, Batman Forever, Crimson Tide, and Braveheart among others.
halflife-crisis@reddit
I went to Woodstock 95 with my mom, saw a ton of cool bands, spent the night, and left the next morning because we had tickets to see the stones play in NYC. Then I turned 15.
Far_Cut_@reddit
My Dad lef in the middle of the night, I didn't see him for over 10 years. Clueless came out that summer, which was a nice distraction lol
AgeNo9436@reddit
Tony Bennett opened for the Ramones at the HFStival.
PlagueDrWily@reddit
Playing the brand-new Sega Saturn and getting hyped for the September release of the Playstation
FredOaks15@reddit
The New Jersey devils won their first Stanley cup
Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit
It was hot.
HailSavage64436@reddit
Graduated high school on my to college and my maternal grandfather died. Listened to Elvis on the way home from hospital