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Collins, and especially Paul Cox for their valuable assistance in putting this set together. Thanks to Rob Sheffield, Eric Harvey, Dan Kois, Sean T. But while those Britpop bands had mostly existed for a while before this major cultural moment in 19, almost all of the alt-country acts released their debuts within months of each in this year. This is also the year alt-country became a thing, which is kinda interesting as an American parallel to Britpop. That stuff sounds kinda optimistic and utopian too, even the grimy prime era Wu-Tang music. I have a lot of sentimentality for this period because I was a teenager at the time, but I truly believe this was a unique moment – the optimistic, fun times just before the alt-rock bubble burst.ġ995 is also notable as a major boom time for rap and R&B, and lot of the very best of that is featured on the second disc. There was still a sense in the music industry that anything could be popular if marketed as “alternative rock,” and the definition of what could qualify as “rock music” was extremely broad in a way that opened up a lot of creativity. Everyone sounds so ambitious and energetic, and anyone playing rock music seemed to truly believe in the power of the genre. I usually make an effort to mix up the genres throughout the surveys, but it was important to me to take up the entire first “disc” of this set to highlight what I’ve come to call Alt-Utopia – the creative and commercial pinnacle of alt-rock, indie, and Britpop in this year. I realized pretty early on in this project that 1995 was very special to me, and that I needed to present it a bit differently than the other years. This is the sixth in the 1990s survey mix series, which will come out monthly in chronological order through this year.
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