Cooler? I'm always *so* cool. Happier? Same amiable level.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― bnw, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― , Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I was less cool, but far far happier.
― David, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I was happier in that I was younger. I expect we were all younger, though I'm sure that doesn't mean we were all happier. I did think that Parklife was a very significant record then. I am still inclined to think that it was (is?) significant, but I don't *listen* to it now like I did then. I listened to it a *lot*. I had few other CDs (but lots of other things, of course). It seems odd, now, to have played that record so much - but no odder, perhaps, than whatever I listen to now will look in 2008. I shouldn't exaggerate the extent to which my taste (though I don't like the word 'taste', except as the title of that old, endlessly thrilling Ride song) has changed, though. It changes less than most people's.
I like early Ride records now more than I did then. I think I make more allowances for them now.
One extra thought: I think that perhaps I thought that lyrics were slightly more important then than I do now, and that I now think that melodies are slightly more important than I did then. I think I mean: I am more into lyrical simplicity now, and more into melodic perfection, or quality, or effort, or distinction. It's all 'songs', though, innit?
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
96 - 99 were my bad years - in '94 I was nearly as content as I am now.
BUT NEVER COOL
― Geordie Racer, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Definitely cooler now. Happier? That's too complicated to sort out, probably.
― Mark, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― dog latin, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
some favourites
The Aloof - Cover The Crime (east West) 1994 UK Bark Psychosis - Hex (Circa) 1994 UK Beaumont Hannant - Sculptured (GPR) 1994 UK Biosphere - Patashnik (Apollo) 1994 NOR Codeine - The White Birch (Sub Pop) 1994 US Flying Saucer Attack - Further (Domino) 1994 UK The God Machine - One Last Laugh in A Place of Dying (Fiction) 1994 US/CZ Killing Joke - Pandemonium (Butterfly) 1994 UK La Bradford - A Stable Reference (Kranky) 1994 US Laika - Silver Apples on the Moon (Too Pure) 1994 UK & US Robert Leiner - Visions of the Past (Apollo) 1994 SWE Machine Head - Burn My Eyes (Roadrunner) 1994 US Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (TVT/Island) 1994 US O’rang - Herd of Instinct (Echo) 1994 UK Portishead - Dummy (Go Beat) 1994 UK Scorn - Evanescence(Earache) 1994 UK Tiamat - Wildhoney (Century Media) 1994 SWE Underworld - Dub No Bass With My Head Man (Junior Boys) 1994 UK
For me 1994 was a pivotal change year for me, I started reading The Wire regularly, Peel was on form with post rock and jungle, Simon Reynolds was still writing interesting articles in the Maker and ofcourse more so in The Wire, Mixing it Radio 3 was on form.
I enjoyed jungle from Spring onwards - in 1994 the jungle albums i bought initially were compilation albums.
In rock two albums made a lasting impact Killing Joke were back with the brilliant - Pandemonium while Machine Head released the best thrash album since Master of Puppets. It was downhill from then onwards for Machine Head .
The God Machine - One Last Laugh in A Place of Dying - was an album that also stood out released after the sudden sad death of jimmy the guitarist.
Underworld's - debut was/is excellent, and the Melody Maker - suddenly discovered dance at the start of 1994 after ignoring it for most of 1993 ! (Progressive house was fading for me, both in the quality and quantity of tunes in 1994 - 1992/ 1993 were far better.)
La Bradford and Flying Saucer Attack were the key post rock artists for me.
and also that post rock compilation on virgin/ ambient series - was a deep listening experience.
Laika's debut - one of the most stunning and original albums of the decade.
O' rang and Bark Psychosis - both injected intoxicating sounds -
the way the guitars bleed on that O' rang album, mixed with Can and african rhythms. I challenge anyone to experience this album and not be moved both in mind and body.
Bark Psychosis - Hex - is acknowledged personal masterpiece of mine - the glacial guitar sounds and the space injected in to the music - this was important to 90s as Dif Juz, Lowlife, Talk Talk Arkane, Cocteau Twins - were to the 80s.
Scorn - Evanescence - was a revelation of deep beats, tribal beats and psychedelic guitars. -an overlooked album, that was deep and dark and dreamy.
Also NIN released their best album.
I first heard the sublime MBV alike Loveliescrushing on Peel in 1994.
Robert Leiner's album visions of the past - is one of the deepest albums i have ever experienced, the complex drones and ambient textures.
The Aloof - covering the crime was another favourite like New Order and Cabaret Voltaire updated for the 90s. So many influences, guitars, progressive, dub, techno, electronic.
By the end of 1994 saw the emergence of Tricky and Portishead and the trip hop scene.
I still have a number of Peel/ Mixing it 1994 tapes - and they are sublime.
I only later in the decade discovered the brilliant Tiamat - wildhoney - a music i was searching for in my head in 1994 but failed to find at the time, very epic, atmospheric, intense, spatial, textured and heavy.
Another discovery later on in the decade for me was Jeff Buckley's grace album - that seems to have influenced a wide range of bands including Sweden's Katatonia.
I was already liastening to alot of British techno/ IDM from back in autumn of 1992, so this was a continuation for me - however bought the Autechre album amber in the autumn of 1994, and was still listening to that Polygon Window bought in jan 1993- before the Aphex releases - a lot in 1994. Reload/ Global communications although earlier - also had a lasting impact.
For me 1994 was a reconnection of the possibilities of sound and as a 23/24 year old at the time - it was personal sound renewal for me - and one that completely divorced me from the main ethos of Melody Maker and NME for the rest of the decade.
(Why britpop and then dad rock was backed by the weeklies/Select/the public I will never now - the first time I heard Oasis I hated everything about them , their swagger, their reto-isms, the bloated pub rock - sing-a-long shite tunes it was Beatles Karoake - and before we knew we were flooded with twatty dull guitar bands - Shed 7 - being the lowest of the lo. - that Steve Lamacq and Chris Evans - were also two of the biggest peddlars of this filth!)
Happier/coolier? actually very similiar for me 2001 is becoming another pivotal year - a year of change and new possibilities, i am still following my own path, i am even more adrift from the NME than I was in 1994, and all the more better for it.
Happier - music wise from a personal point of view happier yes more than ever, more choice, more options, - the internet has opened up direct access to music that appeals to me - and getting a new computer back in early 2000 over a year ago was one of the best investments i made ever made. and in 2001 BT Internet anytime - flat fee monthly internet access with no added call charges is even better !
1994 one of the very finest years of music I have ever experienced I was privileged and am still grateful!
― DJ Martian, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Johnathan, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I listen to the same stuff nowadays though. My tastes never change. I'm much cooler now though then I was in 1994. I was 14, for christ's sake - how many 14 year olds are cool?
― Ally, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
i think i am always the same. years go by my mental condition does not become altered significantly.
― keith, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― DG, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Otis Wheeler, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ally, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Simon, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
1994
I intuitively knew it was dj Martian's. (Is that what having "a style" means? ;)
Less happy then, definitely, but cooler is pretty tough to judge. Is it ever cool to be an angst-ridden 14 year old, or for that matter a jaded 21 year old?
― Dave M., Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Omar, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Then something happened about halfway through the spring (It was probably drugs-related, as it was my "lost year") I suddenly stopped listening to modern music at all, and disappeared back up my own arse in a sea of '66 psychedelia. It started with getting out all my parents' old Beatles and Small Faces and Kinks and Creation records, but then started disappearing down the black hole of the 13th Floor Elevators, Shadows of Knight, The Seeds, the Sonics, and all that sort of thing.
The only modern music that permeated my little paisley partition of paradise until nearly 1996 was Blur, cause most of what they were doing at the time sounded just like the Itchycoo Park anyway.
Acid. I blame acid, completely. It was the year that NYC was flooded with that incredibly cheap, incredibly strong "ant acid" and we had a sheet in the freezer for most of the summer.
― kate the saint, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― james edmund L, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― fernando, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Geoff, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Sorry to revisit past battles, but isn't this a whopping great non sequitur of the highest order? I would have seen the Smiths as a way of getting out of the Cure, not into them.
Neither cooler or happier. Hmm..
― Nick, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
So no, far from being mutually exclusive, the Cure and the Smiths are actually pretty intertwined here in the States. I know Robert and Morrissey couldn't stand each other, but plenty of fans not only stand them both, but love 'em both. ;-)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
jungle; trip hop; first wave British post-rock; second wave Chicago house; Warp; g-funk.
― Tim, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
The funny thing was, at school the next day all these girls, girls I *knew* and hung out with from time to time, kept running up to me, "Keep the faith, thanks for wearing black in mourning, Kurt Cobain forever" and going all hysterical.
The reason this is funny is BECAUSE I WAS A GOTH AND WORE BLACK EVERY BLOODY DAY. And these people KNEW me, and KNEW that I only wore black! Weirdos :)
― Mark Morris, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ally C, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― the pinefox, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― amy, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tim Baier, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
A longer post to follow on this sometime soon - I've been remiss in not answering my own question. It was *also* the year I bought a turntable and discovered old records for the first time, so a lot of time was spent in the cheaper sections of the Music And Video Exchange. Had I known at the time about the people who frequented those basements I wouldn't have been so eager.
― Tom, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
What do you mean by this?
― David, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tom, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
That's worrying. Are we talking thick coatings of dust or worse? And did you have to clean them up for resale?
One of the oddest (and best) things about those bargain basements were the 'lucky dip' sealed white plastic bags, each containing 100 12 inch records (a pound a bag ISTR).
― David, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Debbie, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― DeRayMi, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
1994 was the pivotal year of the decade. Agree with all the points DJ Martian made back in April on this thread.
― David Gunnip, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Brian MacDonald, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
That was SEVEN years ago. Damn.
― David Raposa, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two 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
Lush, Sloan, Belly, Pure, 54-40, Beastie Boys, Jeff Buckley, Hole, Liz Phair, Tori Amos, Blur, The Veldt, Public Enemy, the 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould soundtrack, the Trois Couleurs Bleu and Rouge soundtracks. One of my favourite albums from this year is by Stereolab but I had no idea who they were in '94, didn't get hip to them until '97 or so. Loved a lot of other stuff from this year, though Kurt's death means I have a very soft spot for Eugenius and felt that & Sloan's albums the closest to me as comforts (I'm just a month older than Kurt and it was very personal at the time...some in my social circle were far more affected than others, and things slowly started to change for me then).
― agincourtgirl, Friday, 17 January 2014 11:29 (ten years ago) link
LOL, it is so funny to read mine own posts from 2001, basically to see the self-censoring revision of the past in operation. And I understand why then-me was doing it, to justify her tastes and dislikes of that point in time. And how she was utterly and totally belied, as a few months ago, I found a box of cassettes in storage at my Mum's house, dating from that exact period. And though yes, it's true, I did listen to all the things I described myself loving in 1994, and the changes in my tastes I described *did* happen, it is not the whole story. I omitted all sorts of music that didn't fit with the narrative (industrial music taped off my Goth housemate, loads of techno from my Britishes boyfriend, other things I daren't even mention, oh dear, Bhangra and "ethno-beats" or whatevs it inspired that I wince at the cultural appropriation of, now) but was definitely in that box of cassettes from the mid-90s, and well worn with play.
Can I blame acid not just for changing my tastes, but also conveniently erasing my memory of the music that didn't fit the narrative of Who I Thought I Was at age 30? It wasn't acid that changed my tastes. It was ageing, and the cultural conservatism that "I'm a grown up now, honest" brings. 1994 is also the year I was kicked out of a mod band for liking "stuff that sounds like A Flock Of Seagulls" (default insult for anything with a drum machine.) Memories are unreliable, and always more about "who you believe yourself to have been" rather than "the person you were."
I dunno. 1992 was "my year" so 2012 was the year of "OMG, I can NOT believe this is 20 years old!!!!" so I guess I'm going to be used to the 20-year anniversaries that 2014 brings.
But LOL and RMDE and KMT and SMH and 30-year old me. God, you were such a snob. (and oh god, will 50 year old me kiss their teeth at now-me?)
― you're still in love with me and you don't know why (Branwell Bell), Friday, 17 January 2014 11:38 (ten years ago) link
I discovered Stereolab in 1993, because I remember a friend playing them at my leaving do (and posting me tapes of all their albums through 1994) but I seem to have conveniently forgotten that. I was obsessed - OBSESSED - with New Order during this period, because I'd had this whole series of delusions based around Bernard Sumner and "Barneywaves" controlling my thoughts when I was on the medication I was on, 92-94. I'm kind of astonished at my ability to forget these things. It's not like I abruptly stopped listening to Hole and Lush and stuff like that, either.
I'm really, really glad I found that box of cassettes last autumn. Because it's kind of a relief to call bullshit on the person I used to portray myself as being.
― you're still in love with me and you don't know why (Branwell Bell), Friday, 17 January 2014 11:44 (ten years ago) link
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― The Robotic Policeman II (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 11:54 (ten years ago) link
So this is often held up as a banner year for music. Is this true? It's the year I properly got into music outside of the chart countdown so my own ideas of what 1994 mean are probably highly embellished. Was it the "year that changed everything" as a recent NME headline says? Would your perspective be affected by age and geographical location? For 14-yo UK me, it did and still does feel kind of exceptional in terms of impactful albums. I'm sure many many ilxors disagree.
― The Robotic Policeman II (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 11:57 (ten years ago) link
Definitely Maybe came out, which for better or worse (okay worse) had a gigantic impact on British music. We're still feeling it today really.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 12:07 (ten years ago) link
Like I'm trying to remember if Britain had an insatiable appetite for laddish stodge-rock pre-1994 but it doesn't feel like it, it's more a case of a latent market being blown right open.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 12:10 (ten years ago) link
I made a list on fb for this year recently; I shd paste it here. It was v 'alt-rock'
This is one of my fave years for movies incidentally. ..
― Drugs A. Money, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 12:12 (ten years ago) link
xpost It's easy to sneer at that album, and Britpop in general, but I don't remember 'Britpop' as a term really gaining currency until '95 / '96. Until then it just felt like UK indie music was moving very quickly away from baggy/shoegaze/fraggle and going for... something else(?). Dance music and the way it was being appreciated was changing too. It wasn't being seen as this dangerous outlier thing for people in fields and warehouses - there were PROPER ALBUMS coming out and being featured on Jools Holland and dance tents at festivals and things. The sound seemed to be upgrading rapidly too - compare Prodigy's first two albums; the difference between rave/ardkore/jungle and drum'n'bass/triphop.
― The Robotic Policeman II (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 12:16 (ten years ago) link
1994 [Started by Tom in April 2001Coping with Nostalgia, A Beginner's Guide [Started by tissp! (the impossible shortest specia) in August 2005
^^^LOL
― these birches is awful (Branwell Bell), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 12:17 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9pP8amMgMk
― cog, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 12:18 (ten years ago) link
this was the year i changed my footwear from wine doc martens to adidas gazelles (or maybe that was 95)
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 13:21 (ten years ago) link
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I was 16 and this was a hugely transformative year for me in so many ways including musically. Thinking back the two groups I spent the most time listening to that year were Bikini Kill and Operation Ivy. Maybe the Pixies too. I really kind of can't believe this was 20 years ago. Shit.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 13:27 (ten years ago) link
x-post - Ha! I had both though my Docs were purple and I was super excited because my birthday that year was the first time my mom let me go into NYC with friends without parental supervision and the first thing I did was buy those damn shoes.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 13:30 (ten years ago) link
bands i was listening to - nirvana, pavement, beastie boys, oasis (hated blur and suede), soundgarden, sebadoh, sonic youth, manic street preachers, blues explosion, velvet underground, the posies, big star, teenage fanclub, buffalo tom. i remember buying "dummy" on cassette and being disappointed.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 13:42 (ten years ago) link
sudden urgent desire to go buy purple Docs cos I still never have
― (D1CK$) (sic), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 14:09 (ten years ago) link
:)
I haven't owned a pair since college tbh but I've been seriously rethinking that lately. I passed the DM store recently and was like, yeah, maybe it's time again.
Also, I just messaged my first boyfriend (who I met that year and with whom I am still friends) with "I JUST REALIZED THAT THE SUMMER WE MET WAS 20 YEARS AGO THIS YEAR." I just can't. Man.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
I remember buying cassettes of The Downward Spiral, Superunknown and, er, Troublegum on the same day in 1994. That was a good day.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 14:15 (ten years ago) link
looked at DMs last night by bizarre coincidence. fucked if i'm paying 100 quid for a pair.
― Squidward Ka-Spel (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 14:17 (ten years ago) link
Oh shit Dummy came out this year too! Something of a landmark for me, first non-rock album I ever loved.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 14:19 (ten years ago) link
Unattributed youtube was Jovonn - Love Destination (forgot to identify it)
― cog, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 14:26 (ten years ago) link
Someone just tweeted that Live Through This is 20 this year (and p much on my birthday, no less) and man, do I feel old now.
― these birches is awful (Branwell Bell), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
In 1994 I was 25 years old. I lived in Brooklyn until the end of the year. According to my Social Security report, I lived the entire year on $607. This actually isn't totally true - I was making it as a music critic. So thanks to the income I received that went unreported, I'm sure I at least doubled that.
I was writing for heavy metal and rock publications back then, and thanks to being a huge Promosexual (and always being in the Creem / Livewire offices) I was able to secure most of the music that came out new and not all of it was metal. So I am pretty sure that the following releases from that year were high on my list, even though I cannot find any end of year lists I might have officially put together at the time.
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger Beastie Boys - Ill Communication Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory Lisa Germano - Geek the Girl Therapy? - Troublegum Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops Killing Joke - Pandemonium The Obsessed - The Church Within King's X - Dogman Grief - Come to Grief Pantera - Far Beyond Driven Prong - Cleansing Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction Rollins Band - Weight Paramæcium - Exhumed of the Earth Mother Tongue - Mother Tongue Cop Shoot Cop - Release Sick of It All - Scratch the Surface Killdozer - Uncompromising War on Art Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat Nailbomb - Point Blank The Veldt - Afrodisiac L7 - Hungry for Stink Cows - Orphan's Tragedy Front Line Assembly - Millennium Biohazard - State of the World Address Slayer - Divine Intervention Pop Will Eat Itself - Dos Dedos Mis Amigos Veruca Salt - American Thighs Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - The Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies Wool - Box Set Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family Wicked Maraya - Cycles Course of Empire - Initiation Helios Creed - Busting Through the Van Allan Belt Luscious Jackson - Natural Ingredients Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked RainHole - Live Through This
I went through Rate Your Music to make sure of the year. Some of them I only remember listening to a lot because I did stories on them at the time.
To this day, I adore the Therapy?, Cop Shoot Cop and Mother Tongue albums quite a bit. Some of these I have not listened to in ages.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 18:13 (ten years ago) link
A pretty good year in retrospect. My fave was that Swell album. Such a trip.
Laurie Anderson - Bright RedBlumfeld - L'Etat et MoiDiabologum - Le Goût du JourFlowerpornoes - red nicht von Straßen, nicht von ZügenLuna - BewitchedLuscious Jackson - Natural IngredientsMassive Attack - ProtectionNirvana - UnpluggedPortishead - DummySwell - 41Alan Vega / Alex Chilton / Ben Vaughn - Cubist BluesWeezer - s/t
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 16 October 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
1994 is famous for being a banner year for a lot of people.
The difference between 1994 and 2001 seems so much greater than the difference between 2010 and 2017 for some reason.
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 16 October 2017 14:58 (six years ago) link
I love that Swell album as well! And Blumfeld!
― Evan, Monday, 16 October 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
Dog Latin may remember I did a top 50 albums of 94 list once that absolutely nobody was interested in. American Music Club - San Francisco Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II , Bark Psychosis - Hex, Black Crowes - Amorica Blur - Parklife Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar OssDeus - Worst Case Scenario , Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop, Esoteric - Epistemological Despondency , Flying Saucer Attack - FurtherFront Line Assembly - Millennium , FSOL - Lifeforms, Global Communication - 76:14 , Godflesh - Selfless, Grief - Come To Grief, Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand , Hole - Live Through This Jeff Buckley - Grace, Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley , Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible , Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost , Massive Attack - Protection Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral Nirvana - Unplugged Oasis - Definitely Maybe Orbital - Snivilisation, Palace Brothers - Palace Brothers Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, Pearl Jam - Vitalogy , Portishead - Dummy, Prodigy - Music for a Jilted Generation Prong - Cleansing Pulp - His N Hers Rodan - Rusty, Sabres Of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall Sebadoh - Bakesale, Senser - Stacked Up Sick Of It All - Scratch The Surface Soundgarden - Superunknown Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet Stone Roses - Second Coming Suede - Dog Man Star The God Machine - One Last Laugh in a Place of Dying , Therapy? - Troublegum Thergothon - Stream From the Heavens , Three Mile Pilot - The Chief Assassin to the Sinister , Today Is the Day - Willpower , Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman, Warrior Soul - Space Age Playboys
I owned all but 2 of these at the time
― starving street dogs of punk rock (Odysseus), Monday, 16 October 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
I haven't listened to most of them in a long while, but albums I still own from that year:
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Stones in the RoadPaula Cole - HarbingerElvis Costello – Brutal YouthThe Grays – Ro Sham BoGuided by Voices – Bee ThousandHeavenly – The Decline and Fall of HeavenlyThe Loud Family – The Tape of Only LindaMassive Attack - ProtectionThe Mountain Goats – Zopilote MachineNas - IllmaticLiz Phair – Whip-Smart The Pretenders – Last of the Independents Prince - ComeRheostatics – Introducing HappinessVeruca Salt – American Thighs
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Monday, 16 October 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
oh I had that veruca salt album. I sold it to a mate about 15/16 years ago who was desperate to own it. Wish I'd kept it
― starving street dogs of punk rock (Odysseus), Monday, 16 October 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
Stray melodies from the Sleeps With Angels album still pop into my head now and then.
― dinnerboat, Monday, 16 October 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
I remember liking it when it was new-ish, but when I went to listen to it a few years back I found the performances to be kind of lazy and plodding. It got sold in the Great Collection Purge of '15.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Monday, 16 October 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
Yeah 1994 seems like a banner year, it was the high point of a lot of styles I feel a very strong connection with (black metal, doom, drum & bass, handbag house, ambient, hip-hop, acid trance) or maybe I was drawn to these genres precisely because they peaked at the stage in my life where I was particularly susceptible (and went out a lot more than at any other point in my life).
Btw the dumbest thing I did in 1994 was to miss Wu-Tang Clan on one of their first gigs abroad just after 36 Chambers came out, a friend of mine urged me to come and said they would be awesome but I hadn’t heard the album yet and passed.
― Siegbran, Monday, 16 October 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
Faves at this moment probably "My Life" (Mary J Blige) and "My Life" (Iris DeMent).
At the time I was a grunge-addled child.
― geoffreyess, Monday, 16 October 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
i was 2 and my parents listened to Siamese Dream a lot
― flappy bird, Monday, 16 October 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
Jeff Buckley - GraceManic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels Stone Roses - Second Coming Thergothon - Stream From the Heavens
1994 was a big year for Christian rock, huh
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 00:27 (six years ago) link
i was 2 and my parents listened to Siamese Dream a lot― flappy bird, Tuesday, October 17, 2017 12:52 AM (thirteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 13:07 (six years ago) link
I'd been listening to the charts since 1990 but '94 was the year I became a proper teenager and aware of culture outside of daytime TV and commercial radio. I got a CD player and Blur's Parklife (a 'proper' album by a 'proper' band as opposed to Now Dance comps, I felt so grown up). My friends and I all loved 'How To Make Friends and Influence People' by Terrorvision; they had a real cult following among teens in my area. We would play video games and listen to Cypress Hill and the Prodigy, knowing our parents would be appalled if they heard them. We didn't have a lot of money so we'd buy singles from the cut-out bin at the local indie - a lucky dip really. Most were terrible, but some (dEUS) were fantastic.That Christmas my grandparents came over from the States with a copy of Green Day's 'Dookie'. I was the coolest person ever thanks to that.
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 13:15 (six years ago) link
1994 is the second best year of that decade for me, with 1997 being the best. Such a huge quantity of great records were released both years.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link
My friends and I all loved 'How To Make Friends and Influence People' by Terrorvision
Still a great record, IMO - I don't care what anyone days. Leagues ahead of their debut, and the best they ever got.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
*says
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume IIAutechre - AmberBlur - ParklifeErasure - I Say I Say I SayGary Numan - SacrificeGlobal Communication - 76:14Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - TatayGreen Day - DookieGuided by Voices - Bee ThousandHole - Live Through ThisKorn - KornKyuss - Welcome to Sky ValleyMadonna - Bedtime StoriesMassive Attack - ProtectionNine Inch Nails - The Downward SpiralNirvana - MTV Unplugged in New YorkOasis - Definitely MaybeOrbital - SnivilisationPavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked RainPortishead - DummyPrince - ComePulp - His'n'HersR.E.M. - MonsterSoundgarden - SuperunknownStereolab - Mars Audiac QuintetSuede - Dog Man StarTerrorvision - How to Make Friends and Influence PeopleThe Cranberries - No Need to ArgueThe Future Sound of London - LifeformsThe Prodigy - Music for the Jilted GenerationThe Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces IscariotThe Stone Roses - Second ComingThe Wannadies - Be a GirlUnderworld - DubnobasswithmyheadmanWeezer - Weezer
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
The Wannadies were pretty good. I heard HIT for the first time in ages recently. Great tune.
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
Oddly it reminded me of The Strokes but rocks far harder
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link