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To Nick -- eh? Keep in mind that over here in America there was sort of a quartet of Towering British Alt Bands that it seemed (I will emphasize *SEEMED* before people complain) that everybody who was vaguely alternative listened to and obsessed over in equal measure from 1984 to somewhere in the early nineties. And they would be: Depeche Mode, New Order, the Cure, the Smiths. Hell, I got into all them around the same time in 1988-89 because of that, enough people kept talking about them etc.

So no, far from being mutually exclusive, the Cure and the Smiths are actually pretty intertwined here in the States. I know Robert and Morrissey couldn't stand each other, but plenty of fans not only stand them both, but love 'em both. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Unfair. I was about 12 at the time, which is even uncooler than 14, and I the only things I remember noticing from that period were SWV and TLC ('cos a friend was in to R&B) and Ace Of Bace and later The Cranberries and Green Day. So it hardly counts. If I knew then what I know now however, I would have been into:

jungle; trip hop; first wave British post-rock; second wave Chicago house; Warp; g-funk.

― Tim, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Kate: No, you have me to back you up in the "Didn't really care about Cobain" sweepstakes. I just didn't much like Nirvana save for a handful of songs, and Cobain himself annoyed me, so it was with a big shrug that I heard the news he shot himself. It's sad but...not really something that I cared about at all.

The funny thing was, at school the next day all these girls, girls I *knew* and hung out with from time to time, kept running up to me, "Keep the faith, thanks for wearing black in mourning, Kurt Cobain forever" and going all hysterical.

The reason this is funny is BECAUSE I WAS A GOTH AND WORE BLACK EVERY BLOODY DAY. And these people KNEW me, and KNEW that I only wore black! Weirdos :)

― Ally, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Prefer not to remember 1994 if I can. What I do remember - re: Kurt - is sitting in the Select office after his Rome (?) overdose and having what now seems an unnecessarily sick conversation about who would get on the cover if they died, or under what circumstances they would have to die to get on the cover. Cobain, of course, did make it on the cover when he managed to kill himself...

― Mark Morris, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Hmm, 1994. I was deep into various techno/hardcore compilations such as the Best of Techno series and the Speed Limit 140+ BPM series. I was also blindly insisting that the second Massive Attack album was bad because the only track I'd heard was "Karmacoma", which got on my nerves. (Big about-face and "OOPS!" on that one.) I also discovered Portishead (like everyone else), Orbital (via the criminally underrated _Snivilization_ and their remix of MBM's "Mindstream"), NIN's _The Downward Spiral_, _Music For The Jilted Generation_, _To Bring You My Love_ (HEAVEN), and some random Cranes album. I was warming to commercial hip-hop but still hadn't really purchased any (I was too busy filling holes in my Severed Heads collection).

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Mainstream alt-rock, which was actually quite good at the time. STP were still producing good singles. The Pumpkins hit with 1979 and the "Tonight, Tonight" video both of which were timeless. Was that the year of the Geggy Tah song about driving in my car? Because that song was crap. Right before the good alternative station in town (KJEE) started to get a bit wack. 14 at the time as well. I got my first pavement album in '94. '94 was also the year of the good Lollapalooza with Sonic Youth headlining, eh? That was good. That album was good. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" -- yes 94 was the year of the Pumpkins. I got all into indie in the next few years, but now I'm back at pop, and all the better for it. The difference? Now Nine Inch Nails (that was '94, too, eh? Downward Spiral) and crew don't *speak* to me. '94 was also, I think, when I got the best of Lou Reed album.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

1994? So I was, er, um....15! Or 16, for a bit. You'd never think I did Maths at university. So what was I listening to? Oh, I think Oasis and Blur and The Boo Radleys and Nirvana and Supergrass and stuff, and still REM. I don't listen to some of it now. I still listen to some of it now. I am happier. How do I know if I'm cooler though?

― Ally C, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

You'll always be cool.

― the pinefox, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

geez, 1994...that was the year music broke for me. i was 13, then 14, going from 8th to 9th grade, going from middle school to high school...at the beginning of the year all i listened to was the Who and my dad's woodstock album. i mean, thats ALL i listened to. i was really a late bloomer when it came to music, before that all i listened to was musical theater (dork, dork, dork) and in 7th grade i rented "Tommy" from the video store and fell in love with the Who. then that summer, at camp...a whole new world opened up for me. nine inch nails (which quickly became my favorite band, i was obsessed until 11th grade), green day, violent femmes, they might be giants... my best friend at the time also was going through an awakening, when high school started we used to tape 120 minutes every sunday night and watch it monday after school. every band we liked we'd go out and buy the next weekend. she got really into liz phair, juliana hatfield, belly...i got into other "industrial" bands, operation ivy, the cure, more classic rock, blur, porno for pyros and jane's addiction, i think i started listening to g.love and special sauce around then...basically, anything we could get our hands on. it helped that i started dating this guy who had the largest cd collection id seen at the time (about 300, kinda paltry when i think about it now). i thought i was the coolest, but in retrospect, i was pretty lame. i was just so excited about finding new music to love...its interesting that i saw this post now (i lurk, dont post at all really) because im kinda going through the same thing now...i "discovered" the smiths and morrissey about 4 or so years ago and until this fall listened to nothing else. at all. seriously. okay, maybe a little pulp, and a little manics. but mostly i was in a smiths induced musical coma. then someone handed me a modest mouse cd (interstate 8) this fall and made me listen to it... and i totally fell in love and kinda "woke up"...now im listening to all this new music to me that everyone else has been listening to for years (case in point: i just a month ago started listening to the magnetic fields. im pretty behind.) but im loving it! ill give anything anyone recommends a chance. so thats my story, sad to tell. yay 1994, and yay 2001, for me anyways.

― amy, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I think I pretty much listened to Polvo's "Today's Active Lifestyles" and "Celebrate the New Dark Age" exclusively throughout 1994. Maybe Swervedriver's "Mezcal Head".

― Tim Baier, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

1994 was the year I started writing about music. It was also the year before I started using the Internet. I think these two things have a bit to do with the cooler/happier thing and to do with the music I listened to then and now.

A longer post to follow on this sometime soon - I've been remiss in not answering my own question. It was *also* the year I bought a turntable and discovered old records for the first time, so a lot of time was spent in the cheaper sections of the Music And Video Exchange. Had I known at the time about the people who frequented those basements I wouldn't have been so eager.

― Tom, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

so a lot of time was spent in the cheaper sections of the Music And Video Exchange. Had I known at the time about the people who frequented those basements I wouldn't have been so eager. (Tom)

What do you mean by this?

― David, Friday, 20 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I listened to little of significance. Utterly uncool, happy at the start of the year, anything but by the end.

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 21 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

David - worked at MVE for 3 years. A majority of visitors to the basement (& to the shops in general) are occasional bargain hunters. A minority are staggeringly unpleasant / have unspeakable personal hygiene / are borderline nazis / etc. Several of these are regular visitors. Combine that with the knowledge of the horrible state most of the goods that go down there arrive in and it's a wonder epidemics haven't started on Pembridge Road. Certainly the biggest of the bargain basements I've considered to be a no-go area since a customer walked in there and took a shit on the floor. Hope that answers your question!

― Tom, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Combine that with the knowledge of the horrible state most of the goods that go down there arrive in and it's a wonder epidemics haven't started on Pembridge Road. (Tom)

That's worrying. Are we talking thick coatings of dust or worse? And did you have to clean them up for resale?

One of the oddest (and best) things about those bargain basements were the 'lucky dip' sealed white plastic bags, each containing 100 12 inch records (a pound a bag ISTR).

― David, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Damp was generally the enemy, both pre-being sold in and in the basement. All very unhealthy.

― Tom, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Mariah Carey..I was listening to her for a long time from the early 90's to even now...I can't remember what i was listening to anhing else!

― Debbie, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

six months pass...
I was very uninterested in most of what I knew of that was going on at the time. I was absorbed in listening to Arabic music: "New Sound" (a genre of formulaic Egyptian dance music that, for the most part, sucks--I got over it), George Wassouf (a Syrian pop snger who is not particularly well-respected by Arabic music snobs, but who I like at times), too much Warda, late Oum Kalthoum (which isn't really her best material--the best is from the late 30's until the very early 60's), "psychedelic" Abdel Halim Hafez, Samira Tewfic, Milhem Barakat, etc. No matter what I listen to most dominantly, there are always other things thrown in, so I'm sure there was some music from closer to home, but I don't remember specifically. One of my friends would stop by to play me various forms of electronica (actually a fairly narrow range of it), and I would almost always say, "I don't like it."

― DeRayMi, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Nobody's mentioned DI Go Pop. "Footprints In Snow", the most nostalgic sounding song of the 90's.

1994 was the pivotal year of the decade. Agree with all the points DJ Martian made back in April on this thread.

― David Gunnip, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That was the year I visited Glasgow. "nuff said" - snapshot of 1994: I buy "Transient Random Noisebursts with Announcements" on vinyl and my glue-sniffer friends all assume it's techno.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Trumans Water

― Brian MacDonald, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Velocity Girl, Sugar, Gumball, Soul Coughing, Pearl Jam, Liz Phair, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Archers of Loaf, and loads of other poop. My cool & happy quotients were @ an all-time low, though.

That was SEVEN years ago. Damn.

― David Raposa, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three weeks pass...
Tricky, Aphex Twin, Plastikman, Spiritualized, Orbital's snivilization, Medicine, Verve, Underworld, Flying Saucer Attack, Laika, Portishead, Kristen Hersh, Seefeel, Jungle eg 'Spiritual Aura'.

― stevo, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

wow...1994...

::fires up the way back machine of the mind...::

ameri-indie rock, which i had been introduced to (like everyone around my age it seems) via nevermind. big hits at the harvell household in 94: bee thousand, foolish, yank crime, and whatever nation of ulysses album came out that year. hiphop and pop-alternative via the radio, but i don't think i bought any of either. plenty of OLD stuff: old punk and hardcore and proto- indie, esp. - sst records, sonic yoof, the pixies. of course, by the end of 94, i would be taken to a RAVE (do you know where your children are right now?) and given a tape of JUNGLE, and then it was all over.

― jess, Saturday, 1 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Not sure - definitely not Nirvana or Pearl Jam. Already was on a retro kick and played very little actually from that time I think - except maybe John Wesley Harding? It was probably one of my least music obsessed years ever.

― Kim, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I spent the winter 1993/94 with a friend listening to the first Tindersticks album in my kitchen in a cloud of smoke.
I spent the summer of 1994 with the same friend on my balcony in another cloud of smoke listening to Swell's 41. Up the Stairs, In the keys, Music, Phone ringing, Music, Down the Stairs, Into the streets.
Obviously I was much cooler then and happier as well I guess. Yes definitely happier as it was easier to choose what to listen to as I had much less records. ;-)

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hmm, to do this I had to think of what girl I was going out with that year and then think of what albums I associate with her (which is always the easiest method for me)
So. Tindersticks, Gallon Drunk, Portishead, Jeff Buckley, Boo Radleys... Strangelove...
I think I first got into Nick Cave this year as well.

― DavidM, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three months pass...
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 :
  1. Zumpano
  2. Lemonheads
  3. Kitchens
  4. Ride
  5. JAMC
  6. Smiths
  7. Moz
  8. Toad The Wet Sprocket
  9. Neds
  10. Satchel
  11. 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...
best. fucking. year. ever.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 2 September 2004 11:08 (nineteen years ago) link

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

a heady mix of grunge-lite, britpop and BLURRRDDDDCLARRRRTTT JUNGLE TEKNAAAA

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 2 September 2004 11:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I was 11.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 September 2004 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link

getting your 'Positive Education' under 'Narcotic Influence'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 2 September 2004 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link

narcotic influence was 1996

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 2 September 2004 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link

compilations released in '95 feature it but whatever eh

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:01 (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

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A pretty good year in retrospect. My fave was that Swell album. Such a trip.

Laurie Anderson - Bright Red
Blumfeld - L'Etat et Moi
Diabologum - Le Goût du Jour
Flowerpornoes - red nicht von Straßen, nicht von Zügen
Luna - Bewitched
Luscious Jackson - Natural Ingredients
Massive Attack - Protection
Nirvana - Unplugged
Portishead - Dummy
Swell - 41
Alan Vega / Alex Chilton / Ben Vaughn - Cubist Blues
Weezer - 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 Oss
Deus - Worst Case Scenario ,
Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop,
Esoteric - Epistemological Despondency ,
Flying Saucer Attack - Further
Front 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 Road
Paula Cole - Harbinger
Elvis Costello – Brutal Youth
The Grays – Ro Sham Bo
Guided by Voices – Bee Thousand
Heavenly – The Decline and Fall of Heavenly
The Loud Family – The Tape of Only Linda
Massive Attack - Protection
The Mountain Goats – Zopilote Machine
Nas - Illmatic
Liz Phair – Whip-Smart
The Pretenders – Last of the Independents
Prince - Come
Rheostatics – Introducing Happiness
Veruca 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 - Grace
Manic 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

!

― 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

― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Autechre - Amber
Blur - Parklife
Erasure - I Say I Say I Say
Gary Numan - Sacrifice
Global Communication - 76:14
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Tatay
Green Day - Dookie
Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
Hole - Live Through This
Korn - Korn
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Madonna - Bedtime Stories
Massive Attack - Protection
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Orbital - Snivilisation
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Portishead - Dummy
Prince - Come
Pulp - His'n'Hers
R.E.M. - Monster
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
Suede - Dog Man Star
Terrorvision - How to Make Friends and Influence People
The Cranberries - No Need to Argue
The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
The Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
The Stone Roses - Second Coming
The Wannadies - Be a Girl
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Weezer - 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


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