"best. fucking. year. ever."
couldn't have put it any better.
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 3 September 2004 02:18 (twenty years ago) link
Also 1994 was the first time I heard Scooter...
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 3 September 2004 08:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 08:33 (twenty years ago) link
pre-1994: Italo House, Kiddie Rave, Stadium Techno, Ragga Junglepost-1994: Big Beat, D'n'B, Trance, Trip Hop
actually I think it was when it started getting serious that I went off dance music completely for a few years.
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 3 September 2004 08:36 (twenty years ago) link
May '93 to May '94 was my year off from dance music. I spent most of it listening to Pearl Jam, STP< Soundgarden and Senser. It didn't take much to get me into Jungle from Autumn '94 onwards but it wasn't until the following Summer that I started to like House and heard stuff like 'Acperience' and 'Higher State Of Consciousness' and even 'Strings Of Life' for the first time (shockah)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 3 September 2004 08:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 08:42 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 3 September 2004 08:47 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 3 September 2004 08:53 (twenty years ago) link
Wasn’t 94 also the start of the rise of handbag/glam house, the superstar dj and the return of dresscode elitism?
― Philter, Friday, 3 September 2004 09:00 (twenty years ago) link
I don't really remember Detroit Techno making that big of a commercial impact - it stayed underground. I guess Big Beat was a bit silly but it was featured in Q and Select and other supposedly "proper" music mags whereas Black Box wasn't. I'm just saying that suddenly dance was recognised as "proper" music as opposed to throwaway rubbish that was beneath song-based pop and rock.
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:03 (twenty years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:05 (twenty years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:05 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:06 (twenty years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:07 (twenty years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:07 (twenty years ago) link
I think two meanings of 'serious' are getting mixed up a bit here though. I would dispute that idea that dance music was not taken seriously by the music press until 1994.
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:09 (twenty years ago) link
― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:10 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:12 (twenty years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Philter, Friday, 3 September 2004 09:18 (twenty years ago) link
This was manifested with Melody Maker putting Underworld on the front cover and introducing an expanded dance section in early 1994. They had a big issue on electronic/ dance music.
Indeeed this proved so successful that a year later in Spring 1995, Muzik magazine was launched by IPC Media.
[In 1993, Melody Maker's dance music coverage was limited - and they were relatively slow on the uptaking of Brit Progressive House Scene which can be traced back to early Summer 1992 and Mixmag]
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:22 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:29 (twenty years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:30 (twenty years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:32 (twenty years ago) link
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:35 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 3 September 2004 10:06 (twenty years ago) link
95% percent of my purchases from 1994 were from 1994 because there was so much good stuff coming out, whereas in the previous years i was buying a lot of old hardcore, metal and rap i'd previously missed out on.
Favorites from 1994 :
Alloy-paper thin front.ep.
Born Against/Man Is Teh Bastard-split 8".
Kyuss-welcome to sky valley.lp.
Lady Of Rage-afro puffs.12".
Nas-illmatic.lp.
O.C-word..life.lp.
Drive Like Jehu-yank crime.lp.
Indian Summer-7".
Swing Kids-7".
Universal Order Of Armageddon-12".
Universal Order Of Armageddon- lp on Kill Rock Stars.
Craig Mack etc-flava in ya remix.12".
Craig Mack-get down.12".
Notorious BIG-ready to die.lp.
Unwound-m.k ultra/totality.7".
Unwound-new plastic ideas.lp.
Unwound- 7" on Troubleman Records.
Beatnuts-street level.lp.
Gang Starr-hard to earn.lp.
Organized Konfusion-stress..lp.
Method Man-tical.lp.
Gravediggaz-6 feet deep.lp.
Soundgarden-superunknown.lp.
Outkast-southernplayalisticadillacmuzik.lp.
― Ellis, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
I forget this stuff all came out in 1994. I didn't really start hearing Bad Boy stuff until 1997 or so.
― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ellis, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
That Bone Thugs and Harmony ep that i forget the name of that came out in 1994 was also great. "Foe da love of money" with that ridiculous Eazy E verse was a personal favorite.
― Ellis, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
That year seemed especially exciting and full of promise. Rockers were listening to techno and the fresh wave of dub reissues. Experimentation was catching on, metal, dub, hip-hop and global ethnic music were all bed swapping. Based on just one single I felt like Tricky would be the start of a new breed of pop stars. This was before he and Goldie were tussling in a love triangle over Björk, already dissolving from public consciousness, other than as great names for pocket puppies.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 18 September 2008 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Even stodgy The Wire magazine seemed to have a bit more whimsical spring in its step that year.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 18 September 2008 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Stuck in traffic on 35W going toward Edina to work in a Wal-Mart portrait studio - "All I Wanna Do" by Sheryl Crow
Getting in high in some dudes' two-story apartment, playing that race car game on Nintendo, Leineys staying cold on the stoop outside - "Black No. 1" by Type O Negative
Buying gas at that store with the big fiberglass trout, off 35 a few miles above Albert Lea, on my way back for a weekend visit to Mizzou - "Mannequin Shop" by Paul Westerberg
Pulling up into the parking lot of Perkins off Riverside - "Seether" by Veruca Salt
Driving back home from the Depot after eight miserable hours of scanning vodka and Pig's Eye - "Interstate Love Song" by Stone Temple Pilots
Hanging out in Macalester lesbians' apartment, deciding if I want to adopt their cat - "Leaving Las Vegas" by Sheryl Crow
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 18 September 2008 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember thinking at the time that 94 was a great year for music. Some albums I loved (and still enjoy to varied degrees) were The Downward Spiral, Music For the Jilted Generation, Senser's Stacked Up and Troublegum. It was the year I turned 16.
― chap, Thursday, 18 September 2008 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link
My 1994 in singles, alphabetically:
alex party - saturday night party (read my lips)artemisia - bits & piecesatlantic ocean - waterfallbeck - loserblue bamboo - a b c & dblur - end of a century / girls & boysbruce springsteen - streets of philadelphiacarleen anderson - nervous breakdowncounting crows - mr. jonescrystal waters - 100% pure love / ghetto daydj shadow - lost and founddoop - doopelastica - connectionelevator - shinnyelvis costello - sulky girlfruit - the queen of old compton streetthe grid - swamp thinghed boys - girls and boysjah wobble's invaders of the heart - the sun does risejx - son of a gunkristine w - feel what you wantkristin hersh - your ghostkylie minogue - confide in meleena conquest - boundariesloveland - let the music lift you upmary j. blige - be happym beat/general levy - incrediblemichelle gayle - sweetnessmorrissey - the more you ignore me, the closer i get / hold onto your friendsmotiv 8 - rockin' for myselfmoving melodies (ethics) - la luna (to the beat of the drum)m people - renaissancemr. roy - something about youneil young - philadelphianush - u girlsoasis - whatever / live forever / supersonicomar - outsidethe o.t. quartet - hold that sucker downpaul weller - hung uppizzaman - trippin' on sunshineportishead - sour times / numbthe pretenders - i'll stand by you / 977 / night in my veinsprimal scream - rocksprince - the most beautiful girl in the worldthe prodigy - no good (start the dance)r.e.m. - what's the frequency, kennethr.kelly - she's got that vibesister bliss - life's a bitch (can't get a man, can't get a job)sonic youth - superstarsuede - stay together / we are the pigs / the wild onest-empo - saturday night sunday morningtindersticks - kathleentransglobal underground - taal zaman / proteantricky - aftermathwarren g/nate dogg - regulatewhigfield - saturday nightyoussou n'dour/neneh cherry - 7 seconds
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 18 September 2008 14:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I forgot Dummy came out in 94! One of my favourite albums to this day.
― chap, Thursday, 18 September 2008 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
don't forget subliminal cuts mike ;)
― They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Thursday, 18 September 2008 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Didn't hear that one until late December, when Pete Tong played it on his year-end round-up.... good old Patrick Prins, whatever happened to him...
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 18 September 2008 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck me, 20 years ago.
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 17 January 2014 11:02 (ten years ago) link