I would add Stewart's Hot Dog or any decent West Virginia dog: creamy slaw, chopped onion, yellow mustard, all meat chili (God help you if you have beans in your hot dog chili), steamed bun, all beef frank. Absolutely no ketchup.

I had friends that worked at LJS in high school. I had the mad crunchies hook up.

Great article, though I wouldn't lump in 311 with those other bands. They were already around for a while and were definitely not "nu-metal", more white boy dance-hall/reggae/punk.

It's missing two of my favorite (then) releases from '95 though. Were No Doubt and 311 not "alternative" enough?

Other great '95 Hip Hop Albums:

Here's my complete 1995 playlist featuring all genres. Might be some 94 or 96 in there too. 7th Grade for me. Had my first kiss to "Always Be My Baby" by Mariah Carey while watching TRL. *barf*

What, no "No Doubt"? I was embarrassingly obsessed with them. Tragic Kingdom came out in '95.

Bulletproof Hangover Cure:

Charles Thompson once gave me gas money and 3 bottles of Stella beer. True story.

My only theatre cry: Macaulay Culkin's bee induced death in My Girl.

Back in my day, Pizza Hut was a nice place to have a sit down family meal.

They peaked with Gish.

So, a random thought…the phrase "party-hearty" is used in this article. I always thought this was spelled out as "party-hardy". The spelling seems to change the exact meaning of the phrase to me. Anyone else notice this? Which one do you use?

Wasn't there a talking cat in that Stephen Dorff movie? I think it was called "Entropy"? I think Bono was in it as well.

I liked Blink 182, Green Day, and NOFX when I was a teen. I still like NOFX. That has to tell you something.

My state of West "by God" Virginia has always embraced the obvious John Denver standard, "Take Me Home Country Roads", as the region's title track. I, however, believe there are much better representations of our state through song. Most of the geography that Denver refers to in his lyrics (Blue Ridge Mountains,…

Beans and cornbread…

Beans and cornbread…

I recommend Moorcock's science fiction/religious speculative fiction stand-alone novel "Behold The Man." Its pretty crazy.

I recommend Moorcock's science fiction/religious speculative fiction stand-alone novel "Behold The Man." Its pretty crazy.