For the latest Golden Retriever, Jim Auton and Bill Cummings discuss the year in music of 1995. They chat the best and worst of the charts. They talk Mcalmont and Butler and Radiohead. They touch on the chart battle between Blur and Oasis, and the sound of the brothers from Manchester. Also, trip hop and hip hop, plus the inspirational women in music in 1995 including Bjork, Louise Wener and Tracey Thorn, and the distasteful laddism of the period. They also discuss some underrated tracks and the worst of 1995, including a discussion about boy bands and Robson and Jerome, and how the latter’s success paved the way for the dominance of reality talent shows on the chart in the next decade.
Tracklist:
Mcalmont & Butler – Yes
Radiohead – Planet Telex
Bjork – Hyperballad
Oasis – Some Might Say
Massive Attack feat Tracey Thorn – Protection
Sleeper – Inbetweener
Whipping Boy – When we were Young
Gigolo Aunts – Where I Find My Heaven
Boyzone – Key to my life
Robson & Jerome – I Believe
Pulp – Common People
