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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