Uncovering the Next Generation's Hall of Fame

| ⇦ 1994 | 1996 ⇨ |
The Best Music of 1995
Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 1995. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.
For a list of the top artists who made their debut recording in 1995, check out this list.
| Albums (?) | Wikipedia | |
| 2Pac | Me Against The World | ☆ |
| Alanis Morissette | Jagged Little Pill | ☆ |
| Alice In Chains | Alice In Chains | ☆ |
| Ani DiFranco | Not a Pretty Girl | ☆ |
| Annie Lennox | Medusa | ☆ |
| Bert Jansch | When the Circus Comes to Town | ☆ |
| Better Than Ezra | Deluxe | ☆ |
| Björk | Post | ☆ |
| Blind Guardian | Imaginations From the Other Side | ☆ |
| Blur | The Great Escape | ☆ |
| Brian Eno and Jah Wobble | Spinner | ☆ |
| Chris Isaak | Forever Blue | ☆ |
| Collective Soul | Collective Soul | ☆ |
| D'Angelo | Brown Sugar | ☆ |
| David Wise | Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest OST | ☆ |
| Deanna Carter | Did I Shave My Legs For This | ☆ |
| Death | Symbolic | ☆ |
| Elastica | Elastica | ☆ |
| Emmylou Harris | Wrecking Ball | ☆ |
| Faith Hill | It Matters to Me | ☆ |
| Fear Factory | Demanufacture | ☆ |
| Femi Kuti | Femi Kuti | ☆ |
| Foo Fighters | Foo Fighters | ☆ |
| Garbage | Garbage | ☆ |
| Genius/GZA | Liquid Swords | ☆ |
| Goo Goo Dolls | A Boy Named Goo | ☆ |
| Green Day | Insomniac | ☆ |
| Guided By Voices | Alien Lanes | ☆ |
| Jewel | Pieces of You | ☆ |
| John Michael Montgomery | John Michael Montgomery | ☆ |
| King Crimson | THRAK | ☆ |
| KMFDM | Nihil | ☆ |
| Leftfield | Leftism | ☆ |
| Mad Season | Above | ☆ |
| Maná | Cuando los Ángeles Lloran | ☆ |
| Mariah Carey | Daydream | ☆ |
| Michael Jackson | HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I | ☆ |
| Mobb Deep | The Infamous | ☆ |
| Moby | Everything Is Wrong | ☆ |
| Natalie Merchant | Tigerlily | ☆ |
| No Doubt | Tragic Kingdom | ☆ |
| Oasis | (What's The Story) Morning Glory? | ☆ |
| Pavement | Wowee Zowee | ☆ |
| PJ Harvey | To Bring You My Love | ☆ |
| Prince | The Gold Experience | ☆ |
| Pulp | Different Class | ☆ |
| Radiohead | The Bends | ☆ |
| Raekwon | Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | ☆ |
| Rancid | ...And Out Come The Wolves | ☆ |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | One Hot Minute | ☆ |
| Red House Painters | Ocean Beach | ☆ |
| Robyn | Robyn Is Here | ☆ |
| Scott Walker | Tilt | ☆ |
| Selena | Dreaming Of You | ☆ |
| Shania Twain | The Woman in Me | ☆ |
| Sleeper | Smart | ☆ |
| Smashing Pumpkins | Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness | ☆ |
| Son Volt | Trace | ☆ |
| Supergrass | I Should Coco | ☆ |
| The Chemical Brothers | Exit Planet Dust | ☆ |
| The Orb | Orbus Terrarum | ☆ |
| The Presidents of the United States of America | The Presidents of the United States of America | ☆ |
| The Verve | A Northern Soul | ☆ |
| Tricky | Maxinquaye | ☆ |
| Ulver | Bergtatt – Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | ☆ |
| Various Artists | Empire Records: The Soundtrack | ☆ |
| Various Artists | Waiting to Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album | ☆ |
| White Zombie | Astro-Creep: 2000 | ☆ |
| Wilco | A.M. | ☆ |
| Yo La Tengo | Electr-O-Pura | ☆ |
| Songs (?) | Wikipedia | |
| 2Pac | Dear Mama | ☆ |
| 2Pac | Me Against the World | ☆ |
| 311 | Down | ☆ |
| 311 | All Mixed Up | ☆ |
| Ace of Base | Beautiful Life | ☆ |
| Adina Howard | Freak Like Me | ☆ |
| Aimee Mann | You Could Make a Killing | ☆ |
| Alanis Morissette | You Oughta Know | ☆ |
| Alanis Morissette | Ironic | ☆ |
| Alanis Morissette | Hand in My Pocket | ☆ |
| Alanis Morissette | Head Over Feet | ☆ |
| Alice In Chains | Heaven Beside You | ☆ |
| Alice In Chains | Again | ☆ |
| Annie Lennox | No More "I Love Yous" | ☆ |
| Björk | Army Of Me | ☆ |
| Björk | It's Oh So Quiet | ☆ |
| Björk | Hyperballad | ☆ |
| Blind Guardian | Imaginations from the Other Side | ☆ |
| Blur | The Universal | ☆ |
| Chris Isaak | Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing | ☆ |
| Collective Soul | December | ☆ |
| Collective Soul | The World I Know | ☆ |
| Coolio feat. L.V. | Gangsta's Paradise | ☆ |
| D'Angelo | Brown Sugar | ☆ |
| D'Angelo | Lady | ☆ |
| Death | Crystal Mountain | ☆ |
| Deep Blue Something | Breakfast at Tiffany's | ☆ |
| Del Amitri | Roll to Me | ☆ |
| Elastica | Connection | ☆ |
| Everclear | Santa Monica | ☆ |
| Filter | Hey Man, Nice Shot | ☆ |
| Foo Fighters | This is a Call | ☆ |
| Foo Fighters | I'll Stick Around | ☆ |
| Foo Fighters | Big Me | ☆ |
| Garbage | Only Happy When It Rains | ☆ |
| Garbage | Stupid Girl | ☆ |
| Garbage | Queer | ☆ |
| Gin Blossoms | Til I Hear It from You | ☆ |
| Goo Goo Dolls | Name | ☆ |
| Green Day | Brain Stew | ☆ |
| Green Day | Jaded | ☆ |
| Groove Theory | Tell Me | ☆ |
| James Taylor Quartet | Free Your Mind | ☆ |
| Jars of Clay | Flood | ☆ |
| Jewel | Who Will Save Your Soul | ☆ |
| Jewel | You Were Meant for Me | ☆ |
| Joan Osbourne | One of Us | ☆ |
| Judy Kuhn | Colors of the Wind | ☆ |
| Juliana Hatfield | Universal Heart-Beat | ☆ |
| KMFDM | Juke Joint Jezebel | ☆ |
| La Bouche | Be My Lover | ☆ |
| Le Click | Tonight Is The Night | ☆ |
| LL Cool J featuring LeShaun | Doin' It | ☆ |
| Los Del Rio | Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix) | ☆ |
| Loud Lucy | Ticking | ☆ |
| Luniz feat. Michael Marshall | I Got 5 On It | ☆ |
| Mariah Carey | Always Be My Baby | ☆ |
| Mariah Carey | Fantasy | ☆ |
| Mariah Carey/Boyz II Men | One Sweet Day | ☆ |
| Marilyn Manson | Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) | ☆ |
| Mary J. Blige | Not Gon' Cry | ☆ |
| Matthew Sweet | Sick Of Myself | ☆ |
| Melissa Etheridge | I Want to Come Over | ☆ |
| Method Man & Mary J. Blige | I'll Be There For You/You're All I Need to Get By | ☆ |
| Michael Jackson | You Are Not Alone | ☆ |
| Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson | Scream | ☆ |
| Moby | God Moving Over the Face of the Waters | ☆ |
| Montell Jordan | This Is How We Do It | ☆ |
| Natalie Merchant | Carnival | ☆ |
| Natalie Merchant | Wonder | ☆ |
| Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds [feat. Kylie Minogue] | Where the Wild Roses Grow | ☆ |
| Nicki French | Total Eclipse of the Heart | ☆ |
| No Doubt | Don't Speak | ☆ |
| No Doubt | Just A Girl | ☆ |
| No Doubt | Spiderwebs | ☆ |
| No Doubt | Sunday Morning | ☆ |
| Oasis | Champagne Supernova | ☆ |
| Oasis | Wonderwall | ☆ |
| Oasis | Don't Look Back In Anger | ☆ |
| Oasis | Roll With It | ☆ |
| Oasis | Some Might Say | ☆ |
| Oasis | Morning Glory | ☆ |
| Ol' Dirty Bastard | Shimmy Shimmy Ya | ☆ |
| Paul Varney | Open the Door to Your Heart | ☆ |
| PJ Harvey | Down By The Water | ☆ |
| Presidents of the U.S.A. | Lump | ☆ |
| Primus | Wynona's Big Brown Beaver | ☆ |
| Pulp | Common People | ☆ |
| Pulp | Disco 2000 | ☆ |
| Radiohead | Fake Plastic Trees | ☆ |
| Radiohead | High And Dry | ☆ |
| Radiohead | Just | ☆ |
| Radiohead | Street Spirit (Fade Out) | ☆ |
| Railroad Jerk | Bang the Drum | ☆ |
| Rancid | Time Bomb | ☆ |
| Rancid | Ruby Soho | ☆ |
| Randy Newman | You've Got A Friend In Me | ☆ |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | My Friends | ☆ |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | Aeroplane | ☆ |
| Scatman John | Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop) | ☆ |
| Seal | Kiss From A Rose | ☆ |
| Selena | I Could Fall in Love | ☆ |
| Selena | Dreaming of You | ☆ |
| Seven Mary Three | Cumbersome | ☆ |
| Shaggy | Boombastic | ☆ |
| Shania Twain | Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under? | ☆ |
| Skee-Lo | I Wish | ☆ |
| Sleeper | Bedhead | ☆ |
| Smashing Pumpkins | 1979 | ☆ |
| Smashing Pumpkins | Bullet With Butterfly Wings | ☆ |
| Smashing Pumpkins | Tonight, Tonight | ☆ |
| Smashing Pumpkins | Zero | ☆ |
| Sophie B. Hawkins | As I Lay Me Down | ☆ |
| Soul Asylum | Misery | ☆ |
| Spacehog | In the Meantime | ☆ |
| Stereolab | French Disko | ☆ |
| Supergrass | Alright | ☆ |
| Take That | Back for Good | ☆ |
| Take That | Back for Good | ☆ |
| The Beatles | Free as a Bird | ☆ |
| The Muffs | Sad Tomorrow | ☆ |
| The Presidents of the U.S.A. | Peaches | ☆ |
| The Rembrandts | I'll Be There for You | ☆ |
| Tracy Chapman | Give Me One Reason | ☆ |
| U2 | Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me | ☆ |
| Vanessa Williams | Colors of the Wind | ☆ |
| White Zombie | More Human Than Human | ☆ |
| Whitney Houston | Exhale (Shoop Shoop) | ☆ |
| Wilco | Box Full of Letters | ☆ |
| ⇦ 1994 | 1996 ⇨ |