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
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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