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Question posted ages ago but I cant help myself adding memories of 94
My memory is a bit hazy but for me I think it was the year for:
Sha la la la la... Mr Jones- Counting Crows (93 release)
Today- Smashing Pumpkins(93)
All the tunes from Dookie- Green Day
Lightning Crashes- Live or was that 95??
Radiohead
Supergrove, Exponents and Muttonbirds(NZ bands)
Mmmmm Mmmm Mmmmm Once there was a boy...- Crash Test Dummies
And of course Pearl Jam and Nirvana
Defintely not cooler but yeah I was a lot younger poorer dumber
drunker and happier!
― kiwi, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Bloody hell Tom, you used to work at MVE? Must admit I never went
down to the bargain basement in your day, but occasionally do so
now. Quality of stuff there seems OK now, actually (clientele pretty
much as upstairs) - very useful for filling gaps in one's collection
if you're not too fussed. Major recommendation - usually have most
of the Now That's What I Call Music series in stock (plus the CBS/WEA
parallel Hits series), so very useful for anyone wanting a snapshot
of pop from '83 onwards.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
mazzy, ministry, nin, cake, beasties(i think boutique had just come
out?) Us by p. gabriel, soundgarden, pearl jam, green day... rock was
starting its slide into irrelevancy but some good stuff in the
gloaming
― Phong Wiedermeier, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I didn't listen to music til i was 14 and i was 13 then. So ner. But
oh man, that Ajax team.
― Bob Zemko, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I was 19 and happy in spite of being very skint. i spent most of 1993
completely immersed in the music of Scott Walker so 1994 was a bit of
a rebirth for me as far as music goes.
Stuff i like around that period include girls against boys, the
breeders, pavement, jon spencer blues explosion, oasis (only for
supersonic, mind, jeff buckley (was dragged to see him at a tiny club
in Edinburgh by a friend)and Love
― Leigh, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
1994, my first yr in college. I listened to :
- Zumpano
- Lemonheads
- Kitchens
- Ride
- JAMC
- Smiths
- Moz
- Toad The Wet Sprocket
- Neds
- Satchel
- many more
― Poops McGee, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
like most others, nirvana, and other grunge rock stuff and also
wanted to paint my entire bedroom black - not because of kurt, just
because i wanted to!
i hope i'm a lot cooler now?
― Rach, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
In answer to Tom's original question, most played record that year
(and possibly the following year) was without question "Selected
Ambient Works Vol 2" by the Aphex Twin, an Oxford Tube favourite.
The rest of my list is wearily predictable, I'm afraid: Grace, Holy
Bible, His 'n' Hers, Dummy, Protection, 36 Chambers, Dog Man Star,
Tiger Bay, Silver Apples of the Moon, Downward Spiral, Ill
Communication, Bluff Limbo, Vitalogy, Parklife, Talking Timbuktu,
Patashnik, Aftermath, Wilmot, Lost and Found etc. Should be able to
think of some more leftfield ones, but off the top of my head I
can't - was that just because 1994 was the sort of year where the
decent stuff actually sold?
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
1994? College! Velocity Girl. _Copper Blue_. Soul Coughing. _The
Downward Spiral_. _Whip-Smart_. _Deep Six_. Archers of Loaf.
Gumball! _Superunknown_! Totally miserable. (It wasn't because of
the music.) (Or was it?) (Maybe because of Gumball.) (And "Like
Suicide." And "Fourth of July.")
The more things change, the more I become half-heartedly nostalgic.
― Daver, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I was seventeen. I greatly enjoyed Pavement. Also I seem to remember
spending loads of time listening to the Cocteaus and the Bunnymen,
the former in particular. And Ride and Catherine Wheel. And Velocity
Girl, Red House Painters, Kitchens of Distinction, and the Breeders.
Plus I spent a lot of that winter listening to the Beatles—the only
Beatles-listening period in my life, really—and I also recall having
a momentary obsession with the Candyskins. Other stuff I remember
buying that year: Elastica, first Psychedelic Furs record,
Dirty,
Isn’t Anything, and Men Without Hats. And Wally
Pleasant.
― Nitsuh, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I was 28 doing a lot of long distance commuting. My list is broadly
similar to Marcello's i.e Parklife, Dummy, SAW II. Also catching up
with a lot of stuff from the previous year of course, Bjork,
Wildwood, Lemonheads, Tindersticks. But what I listend to most was
Promenade by the Divine Comedy, I used to play it back to back on my
travels. How the mighty have fallen.
I actually bought
Talking Timbuktu a couple of weeks ago, is his orther stuff (Ali
Farke Toure ) worth searching out? I see that his project with Damon
Blur get's a rave in Mojo this week.
― Billy Dods, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Oh, and World of Leather too. How could i forget them?
― Billy Dods, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
eleven months pass...
I 1994, I hated anything recent, and usually bought older albums from the 70s and 60s.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
hell yes am I cooler. I thought REM's Monster was one of the best albums ever made at the time.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 6 March 2003 00:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
one year passes...
Maybe it was good for hiphop or dance. I don't know. I was a bit out of touch by then. For indie, it was rubbish. Not as bad as the following two years, but still.
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link
I had a flash of a theory yesterday that 1994 and 1997 were the best years of the nineties because they marked the beginning and end of a period where both dance/pop and rock/alternative were equally accepted. Pre-1994, dance and electronica was for druggies and weirdos and not considered "proper music". Post 1997, rock music was for boring old twats who hate fun.
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link
1994 was also my transition from listening to whatever was in the charts to listening to Nirvana, Blur, Offspring, Prodigy, Orbital etc.
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link
I get what you mean but it seems odd to think of the beginning and end being better than the middle. what kind of party goes like that?! ;)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link
I am trying to think, stevem. There must be one.
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:39 (nineteen years ago) link
I get what you mean but it seems odd to think of the beginning and end being better than the middle. what kind of party goes like that?! ;) the transition was more interesting. The middle was kind of all nice and settled and perhaps a little dull i.e. Britpop, Big Beat
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link
it's seen as a good year because of all the big stuff that happened in so many genres. kurt died and took much of the ethos of his music with him, green day and weezer laid the foundations for a decade of whiny emo punky/pop/rock/whatever, jungle lived, take that peaked, oasis entered, blur and suede on good form, manics meltdown, house and techno declined only to rise again next year, prodigy had a #1 album...i had a big hip hop re-awakening in '94 too thanks to seeing more of it on MTV Raps. all pretty seismic.
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Weird, I was just thinking about 1994 when I woke up today.
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Do we have any big beat threads? I fancy an argument.
― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link
In '94 I was listening to a lot of: Captain Beefheart, Pavement, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, John Zorn/Naked City, Sun Ra, Boredoms, Stereolab, Ween, and so on.
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link
x-post
anyway big beat doesn't fit Dog Latin's theory seeing as it peaked (commercially at least) in 1998 no?
when i moved to london some of the very few records that i left behind were my big beat ones. i think i have big beat guilt.
― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link
Basically, I was listening to a lot of alt-rock.
10 CDs I either bought or borrowed from friends in 1994:
Dambuilders, Encendedor
Green Day, Dookie
Morrissey, Vauxhall and I
Oasis, What's the Story (Morning Glory)
PJ Harvey, 4-Track Demos
R.E.M., Monster
Seal, Seal (1994)
Sonic Youth, Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
Soul Coughing, Ruby Vroom
Veruca Salt, American Thighs
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link
I like big beat.
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link
argh here we go with that fucking 'big beat = dull' sentiment again, wtf Hey look, it's not everyday that I'll say Britpop was dull but I did for the sake of argument. I'm just saying that 1994 was when a whole load of exciting stuff was happening because everyone was coming to terms with "hey dance isn't really so bad after all" but after that it got watered down with shit like Bentley Rhythm Ace and stuff.
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link
For some reason, when I heard Oasis in 1994, I became very interested in "British music," which I imagined was all glammy. I'm not sure that really lasted beyond liking a Manics song on a Sony compilation, though.
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Hey - I like that BRA one that goes 'la la, la la - I LIKE IT!'
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link