1994

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.

Faves at this moment probably "My Life" (Mary J Blige) and "My Life" (Iris DeMent).

At the time I was a grunge-addled child.

i was 2 and my parents listened to Siamese Dream a lot

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

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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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.

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.

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.

*says

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

The Wannadies were pretty good. I heard HIT for the first time in ages recently. Great tune.

Oddly it reminded me of The Strokes but rocks far harder