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