That's what I wanted to get on my left wrist. I've said it before and I'll say it again: not getting those tattoos is the only thing in my life I've never regretted not doing.

I still love this album, too. I'm also still really glad that 15-year-old me decided not to get that NIN logo tattooed on his right forearm.

Excellent comment/avatar synergy.

Blow it out your hair-do 'cuz you really work at Hardees

Well, that came From Out Of Nowhere! No need to Be Aggressive, now.

Two of the best albums of 1995 - not a bad way to get into music. Good taste for an 11-year-old, too; when I was that age I was listening to stuff like Paula Abdul and Bobby Brown. About the only thing I liked back then that I still enjoy now is some of the rap music from the era (though at that time I only had the…

Got 3 out of 6. It wasn't hard to pick out the lowest quality samples, but I honestly couldn't tell the difference between the 320kbps mp3 and the "superior" uncompressed wav.

I think if a "clean" version was available, that was usually the version they stocked. I was pretty embarrassed when the "clean" version of Black Sunday by Cypress Hill showed up in the mailbox: "when the ship goes down, you better be ready", ugh! Also, my CD copy of Dirty by Sonic Youth didn't have the "dirty"…

I just got my first car with a CD player late last year, a 2005. My 1997 Mazda had a tape deck which I rocked to the very end (via a plastic bag of mix tapes and taped-off albums, with some of the tapes dating back to high school and university), so the novelty of being able to listen to CDs in the car has yet to wear…

Imagine being able to be magically whisked away to…Delaware!

I remember that Tony Sheridan CD. Luckily I didn't get tricked into buying it but a friend did - pretty disappointing for anyone just getting into The Beatles and trying to build a collection. I did get a couple of Smiths CDs from Columbia House, though it was the Best…I & II compilations that WEA/Sire threw together…

Great article. Anybody else remember their first 8 CDs? Mine were Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Nevermind, Pretty Hate Machine, Psalm 69, The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste, Dirty, Dirt and Grave Dancers Union - a wildly eclectic selection of albums that in no way dates me at all. Not hard to remember as I only had 2…

I still have that Flipper album on cassette, though it got played nowhere near much as Generic once I finally tracked down a copy. And laugh if you will, but I still have a soft spot for the Circle Jerks' cover of "I Wanna Destroy You" (with Debbie Gibson on backing vocals, presumably shaking her love the whole time).

Lucky you! That opening 1-2-3-4 punch of Middle/Born in '69/On a Rope/Young Livers is still one of my all-time favorite album openers.

How could anyone forget The Day It Rained Pigeon Shit?

*reads GlendaK_Marry's comment*

No man with a good car needs to be justified

And they dance the charleston, and they do the limbo

Not as impressive as 1994, but I'd say 1995 was still a damn good year for music:

Yeah, not a bad album but I think it's the first time I've heard anyone matter-of-factly call The Great Escape their "best".