What music would you play to most depress someone living in 1994 about the future?

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Kosheen.

Puddle of Mudd.

Robbie Williams. All the hard targets.

Someone mentioned on the similarly-titled thread about 1994 being an especially pivotal year of innovation (which you hear quite a bit, with good reason), so it just makes me wonder if we can add a lot to that with the benefit of hindsight... or if technology is making people get ahead of themselves. That makes me sound like a fucking analogue loyalist or something, when I'm the opposite if anything, but... well, suggest some stuff

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

the "Boot in Your Ass" song by Toby Keith

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Nirvana 'You Know You're Right', heh

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I think if anyone had come back with practically anything when I was 14 I'd've been pretty nonplssed.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

dog latin otm

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Beck, "Guess I'm Doin' Fine".

"Hey, you like 'Loser'? How about 'Motherfuker'? Great! You ever wondered what that dude is gonna turn out like in ten years? Well, he's Gordon Lightfoot now."

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

haha Beck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd just show them publicity stills from "Starsky and Hutch".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

that movie had some great moments! I'd be happy to see Ben Stiller was still getting work!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

show them a Carrot Top 1-800-CALL-ATT ad.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hey, you know that Dave Matthews Band act that you listened to because you got a promo copy of Under The Table or whatever it was called? He didn't go away."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I think my REM fanship was so rabid in 1994 that I probably wouldn't have been depressed by Reveal. I'd just look at it as a challenge.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

also: any rap song that refers to Notorious BIG as being dead

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Beastie Boys, "Ch-check It Out"

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Courtney Love, _America's Sweetheart_.

― mike a, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Scooter

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

That was cheap, Ned.

― Allison (Allison), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Especially because the obvious Beastie Boys track to play is "In A World Gone Mad."

― mike a, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Those Kevin Shields snippets from Lost in Translation.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, yeah -- the Beastie Boys rapping unusually poorly is one thing, but the Beastie Boys rapping unusually poorly about a second war in Iraq is probably significantly more depressing. "Wait, we're back to Bush again? And he's still fucking with Saddam? What the shit?"

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

(along those lines: Sage Francis, "Makeshift Patriot")

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Anything that references 9/11. In 1994, the Y2K bug was an obscure rumor. Would you really want to know about the *real* calamity?

― mike a, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I would say 1994 was a big shift year, in that "Indy" died off and the one thousand fragmented experimental movements took off.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

1994 was when I FOUND indie!!! *sniffles*

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't really think it reached its apex until the SY-run Lollapalooza or What's Up Matador? dependin'.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Britney Spears, "Toxic."

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Oasis' last album.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

great thread!! hahaha

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Various Artists, What's Going On: All-Star Tribute

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

If I heard "Toxic" in '94, I'd think, "hey, finally a Portishead song I can get with...but who's that singer?"

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

That Jet song that sells iPods.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

that William Hung album or whatever

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I see your all-star tribute and your william hung album and raise you the Ruben Studdard tribute album.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Pavement's Brighten the Corners. Then, I'd be sure to say in a spooky voice "And this - is only - FIVE YEARS AWAY !!!"

Then I'd play 'em Limp Bizkit doing "Behind Blue Eyes" and tell 'em, "This is what Nirvana begat us."

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"Pavement's Brighten the Corners. Then, I'd be sure to say in a spooky voice "And this - is only - FIVE YEARS AWAY !!!"

then i'd play a random selection of gray, tuneless nu-indie

― jake in portland (cerybut), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd play that "Behind Blue Eyes" cover and then tell myself in a spooky voice "in ten years YOU'LL LIKE THIS GUY!!!!!!!!!"

The 14-year-old me would probabyl jump out a window. Poor sap.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

If the person was me, probably stuff like what are they called again, oh yeah LCD Soundsystem or the Rapture or something like that.

Though, why I'd go back to 1994 and try make myself more depressed than I was is beyond me.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Anything on Catskills Records or Boca 45, probably.

"This is what happened when suburban and European white wannabe b-boys got together to decide what was good about old-school hip hop and could only conceive of a way to erode any fondness for it."

And Tru Thoughts: "OK if you're a suburban white wannabe b-boy stoner. Or a hardcore narcoleptic."

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

'Hey Ya'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i think if hey ya was played to someone in 1994 it would cause some huge space-time paradox

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i think playing "hey ya" to andre and big boi in 1994 would be priceless.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, just play it to big boi so he can get all the credit

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

And the hate/responsibility for a generation of depression.

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

let's face it people..."hey ya" would have easily fit on any of those soundtracks listed on the crow thread.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Radiohead.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 13 May 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Liz Phair - "Hot White Cum"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 13 May 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"I would say 1994 was a big shift year, in that "Indy" died off and the one thousand fragmented experimental movements took off."

in a world gone tortoise

― duke chicago, Thursday, 13 May 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Goldie, "Mother"

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 13 May 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

followed by the most recent Dieselboy mix

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 13 May 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

in a world gone tortoise

THE DEMONS THE HORROR THE PIGSKIN THE VOMIT (the hell?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 May 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

NEW FOUND GLORY!

Who would WANT to live to hear them?

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 13 May 2004 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The Ministry Of Sound Annual 2004.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The final Emperor album.

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

And as if by magic, up pops dog latin to defend once again the last Emperor album.

1. It was better than Equilibrium XI
2. It had "In The Wordless Chamber" with those wicked horns that sound like something out of Knightmare
3. There is no three.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 13 May 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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