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That list is just about equally good. If not better.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
I was a sophomore in college so it def wasn't.
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― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
"Lightning Crashes" hit in '95
― judas, a scary ho (some dude), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
Every single one of these 1994 songs is in my '90s alt' iTunes playlist. Which gets some healthy rotation, lemmetellya.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
1994 was a horrible year personally and yet thanks to music my nostalgia for it knows no bounds
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
The Offspring "Self Esteem"
oh man, I love this song so much
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
Voting "Fall Down" because I heard it the other day and it was much better than I remember.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 21 May 2012 14:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
"God" is probably the song here that suffers most in comparison to the real biggest hit from its parent album, "Cornflake Girl," but it's still pretty fantastic, deserves more love itt
― judas, a scary ho (some dude), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
i think think five of my ten fave 90s albums dropped that year
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
When Scott Woods was running Top 5 lists on rockcritics.com, I named 1994 as one of my five favourite years for music ever--lots of great hip-hop and Top 40 R&B, too.
Ever do the relative-time thing? I do it all the time, and the older you get, the weirder it gets. I have a hard time getting my head around the idea that we're now farther from '94 than '94 was from the Sex Pistols.
― clemenza, Monday, 21 May 2012 14:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
between the stuff in this thread and the fact that '94 was also the year of "Gin And Juice" and "Cream" and "Regular" and "Flava In Ya Ear" i think yeah good candidate for best year of the '90s
― judas, a scary ho (some dude), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
Regular=Regulate
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
I have a hard time getting my head around the idea that we're now farther from '94 than '94 was from the Sex Pistols.
Scary...
― skip, Monday, 21 May 2012 14:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
Even this lame Counting Crows song has a good hook in the chorus.
a related thread: 'indie' modern rock radio hits of 1994
― judas, a scary ho (some dude), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
Beck, Beasties, Bedtime Stories, R.E.M., "Regulate," and Brit stuff like Suede kept me sane. The pop songs were okay but I have a hard time remembering anything from that summer beyond "I Swear" and Lisa Loeb.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
haha yeah this might be the only cc song i begrudgingly like
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
1994 is probably the all-time low point for capital p Pop music -- the only enduring song i can think of is "All I Want For Christmas Is You"
― some dude, Monday, 21 May 2012 14:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
Basket Case is still the catchiest shit ever. In retrospect it's not hard to see how a band that could put tracks like that together would still be around, but who would have foreseen five more top 10 albums and two #1's in the 2000s...
― skip, Monday, 21 May 2012 14:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
Compare the Modern Rock top ten with the pop one:
http://books.google.com/books?id=XQgEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
another good point, some dude... for children of the mid and late '90s pop music was Hanson, Spice Girls, boy bands and that's about it.
― skip, Monday, 21 May 2012 14:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, May 21, 2012 10:33 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Haha, YES, I heard it when I was getting my hair cut a couple weeks ago and it was like instant nostalgia.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
or children of the mid and late '90s pop music was Hanson, Spice Girls, boy bands and that's about it.
much better acts than the ones on '94's chart
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
There's a couple here that I really like: "Basket Case", "Come Out and Play", & "Einstein on the Beach". Voted for "Einstein on the Beach", which is my favorite Counting Crows song by a pretty good margin.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
"Regulate" is still awesome though.
― skip, Monday, 21 May 2012 14:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
At the time I thought Green Day was going to be another catchy pop-punk band that was going to flare up on the radar and then go away a la K's Choice. I do like them but in the back of my mind I still feel that way, so it's perpetually mind-boggling to me to see (for example) posters for the American Idiot touring show all over major marquees in town.
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
I looked up my Top 10 for '94, and I don't think there's anything I don't still like a lot:
1. "Fantastic Voyage," Coolio2. "Miss World," Hole3. "Cut Your Hair," Pavement4. "Gin and Juice," Snoop Doggy Dogg (later changed his name)5. "At Your Best (You Are Love)," Aaliyah6. "Self Esteem," Offspring7. "Do You Wanna Get Funky," C&C Music Factory (nostalgia for 1991)8. "Flashlight," Fuzzy9. "Worker Man," Patra10. "Pay No Mind," Beck
I was a little tired of "Loser" at that point, so--pursuant to something that came up on the Beastie Boys countdown--sometimes I do fall in love with songs all over again.
― clemenza, Monday, 21 May 2012 14:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
damn great list, you were cool in 94
― some dude, Monday, 21 May 2012 14:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
The Billboard to which I linked has the following horrors on the top ten:
Big Mountain - Baby I Love Your Way (from "Reality Bites")Jon Secada - If You GoElton John - Can You Feel The Love Tonight?All 4 One - I Swear
mixed with:
Beck - LoserAaliyah - Back and ForthJanet - Any Time, Any PlaceWarren G- RegulateJohn Mellencamp-Me'shell Mdegeocello - Wild Night
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
good list, clemenza. I often wonder whether that's my favorite Aaliyah song too.
(xpost) Thanks (he says as he ponders the deeper implications of that statement...)
― clemenza, Monday, 21 May 2012 14:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
P&J top 5 of that year:1. Hole: Live Through This (DGC) 1552 (121) 2. Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador) 859 (77) 3. R.E.M.: Monster (Warner Bros.) 634 (66) 4. Nirvana: MTV Unplugged in New York (DGC) 552 (50) 5. Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Sleeps With Angels (Reprise) 520 (49)
one album by Cobain, one by his widow, and two albums with songs inspired by his suicide
― some dude, Monday, 21 May 2012 14:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
and at least one more, Vitalogy, down at #25
^^ maybe the only recent P&J top five whose albums I still love
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
Was Cannonball 93?
― Mark Ruffalo! is gonna tell us! about empathy! (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
yep
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
those Last Splash singles got plenty of blanket airplay on college radio through '94 though
Other notable '94 alt songs:
Archers of Loaf - "Web In Front"Frank Black - "Headache"Blur - "Girls & Boys"Jeff Buckley's Grace singlesCandlebox - "Far Behind" and "You"Collective Soul - "Shine"all those other Counting Crows songsDeadeye Dick - "New Age Girl"Flaming Lips - "She Don't Use Jelly"Frente! - "Labour Of Love" and "Bizarre Love Triangle"Grant Lee Buffalo - "Lone Star Song" and "Mockingbirds"a bunch more Green Day stuffJesus & Mary Chain - "Sometimes Always"L7 - "Andres"a billion other Live songsLove Spit Love - "Am I Wrong?"Lucas - "Lucas With The Lid Off"Luscious Jackson - "Citysong" and "Here"Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You"Morphine - "Thursday"Murmurs - "You Suck"all kinds of NIN stuff from The Downward SpiralOasis - "Supersonic" and "Live Forever"more Offspring songsmore Pearl Jam songsLiz Phair - "Supernova"Possum Dixon - "Watch That Girl Destroy Me"more REM stuff from MonsterRollins Band - "Disconnect" and "Liar"Sebadoh's Bakesale (to the extent that those songs got MTV/radio play)Shudder To Think - "X-French Tee Shirt"Smashing Pumpkins - "Landslide"Sonic Youth - "Bull In The Heather"the singles attendant to Soundgarden's SuperunknownSugar - "Your Favorite Thing" and "Believe What You're Saying"Toad The Wet Sprocket - "Something's Always Wrong"Tori Amos - "Cornflake Girl"Urge Overkill - "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon"US3 - "Cantaloop"Veruca Salt - "Seether"Ween's Chocolate and Cheese "singles"Whale - "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe"
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
Soundgarden, NIN, Sugar, "Seether," "Landslide," "Cantaloop," and those Frente! singles def part of the fabric of my '94.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
fuck you alfred, "i swear" is a classic
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:31 (11 months ago) Permalink
a classic example of a terrible song
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
i can't hate on the soundtrack to me getting run over by people 5 times my size at the skate deck
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
ugh i swear
was boyz ii men/mariah 94 too? that song was a fucking plague.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
who skateboards to all 4 one??
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
They skated by the light of the moon, the stars, and the sun.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
I am dying over here
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
rollerskates not skateboards!
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
All the cool kids had roller BLADES
― skip, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah but i was not one of the cool kids
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:40 (11 months ago) Permalink
wait NOBODY likes philip glass?
― da croupier, Saturday, 30 June 2012 00:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
well in theory everybody does, i think
― fauxmarc, Sunday, 1 July 2012 16:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
y'know "All Apologies" is maybe the one Nirvana song i wouldn't mind never hearing again
― goonrise zingdom (some dude), Sunday, 1 July 2012 23:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
it's kind of awesome imo; I'm like the dude that things the chorus of "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" is a turd in a punchbowl, so the "in the sun" part of AA should really piss me off, it has no real right to work, and it works magnificently
like I see how lots of it (the q&a verses, that overinvoluted endchant) can come across as horrifically trite upon overexposure, but I think it sounds even more original than it did back then
― heaven needed someone who rhymed with 'poop' (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 2 July 2012 03:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
i just don't really fuck with slow/midtempo Nirvana i think, am almost as weary of "Come As You Are" and "Dumb" and "Pennyroyal Tea"
― goonrise zingdom (some dude), Monday, 2 July 2012 03:55 (10 months ago) Permalink