{"id":1991320,"date":"2025-09-01T14:52:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T14:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1991320"},"modified":"2025-09-01T14:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T14:52:44","slug":"the-best-albums-of-1995-according-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-best-albums-of-1995-according-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Albums of 1995 (According to Us)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Smack dab in the middle of the final decade before the millennium\u2014when some truly believed the world would end\u2014chaos and catastrophe marked a year of strong attempts towards peace and world change.<\/p>\n
The O.J. Simpson murder trial began in January, 1995. The Oklahoma City Bombing took the lives of 168 people in April. The Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia (often referred to as the Srebrenica genocide) took the lives of over 8,000 men and boys, over the course of 11 days in July. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in November.<\/p>\n
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And Mexican singer Selena Quintanilla-P\u00e9rez was murdered in March by the founder of her fan club.<\/p>\n
President Bill Clinton\u2019s efforts to broker peace to Bosnia resulted in an official end to the war in December with the signing of the Dayton Peace Accord. It was a busy (and successful) year for Clinton\u2014a few months earlier, after years of attempting to forge a peace deal between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), he presided over the signing of the so-called Oslo II agreement, which affirmed Palestinian National Authority and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and the West bank. It was a time of great hope, which, as you know, has thirty years later to unfathomable despair and slaughter.<\/p>\n
Coolio, TLC, Seal, and Boyz II Men finished the year with the top singles; Hootie & the Blowfish had the top album, sales wise. And some pretty incredible women found their voice in the rise of the alternative space.<\/p>\n
When asking our editors and contributors to name the \u201cbest\u201d albums on any of these lists, they\u2019re encouraged to choose the one that first comes to mind, the one that meant the most to them. None of the albums listed below were chosen for their chart success, but rather their reflection of, or in spite of, 1995. And several of the biggest selling albums of the year\u2014in fact most of them\u2014didn\u2019t make the list.<\/p>\n