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Common Sense - Resurrection
Nas - fucking duh.
Biggie - Ready to Die
Saafir - Boxcar Sessions
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Portishead
Prodigy - The Jilted Generation
Pulp - His n' Hers
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
Pavement - Crooked Rain
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
Beck - Mellow Gold

and on and on

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm really looking for input here, since I'm still making my titanic, unstoppable 1994 mix, which will of course be better than any other 1994 mix yet made.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Killing Joke- Pandemonium

I think it's the only album I have from '94.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

tical came out in 1994.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

laika 'silver apples of the moon'
long fin killie 'houdini'
pram 'helium'

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

peter jefferies 'electricity'

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Tical did indeed... "Biscuits" is early in the mix.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

bailter space 'vortura'

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

1994

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

it WOULD be great if nas (or anyone else) actually had a record called fucking duh.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Weezer, "Weezer"
Hole, "Live Through This"
Green Day, "Dookie"
The Frampton Brothers, "Hate You"
R.E.M., "Monster"
Sugar, "File Under Easy Listening"
Pavement, "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain"
The Cynics, "Get Our Way"
Rancid, "Let's Go"
Oasis, "Definitely Maybe"

― John Fredland (jfredland), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

keith, you're awesome. And exactly right.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Soundgarden: Superunknown
Pavement: Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Hole: Live Through This
Guided By Voices: Bee Thousand

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Maxinquaye is 1995, innit?

― L (Leee), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

NIN, "downward spiral"
coolio, "gangsta's paradise"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

orbital, "snivilisation"
aphex twin, "selected ambient works, vol. 2"
autechre, "amber"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Maxinquaye is 1995, innit?

If ti was realeased in the UK, I consider it officially released. So, 1994.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Puts Massive Attack's "protection" in the same year as "Maxinquaye", which makes it such a very special year.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Tori Amos, "Under the Pink" was 1994..

― daria g (daria g), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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― L (Leee), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd700/d777/d77754acj83.jpg

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

That Autechre was an EP, n'est pas? You are violating the terms! I am very angry!

No seriously, I know I owned that at some point, but I have no memory of what's on it.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Chocolate and Cheese owns me.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

All music has "spanners" as 1995, sadly. It's so so great.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

And for reasons that I cannot fuuly explain, ever, I could never consider Plastikman "great."

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

[Maxinquaye - definately 1995 release in the UK]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, "albums."

xpoist Plastikman is great!

― L (Leee), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i.e. strike FSOL's Lifeforms too.

― L (Leee), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

No, don't. Lifeforms and ISDN are both 1994.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003RGL.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Drum and Bass Selection 1-3

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The Lifeforms that I like is the EP.

― L (Leee), Sunday, 29 May 2005 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Sugar, "File Under Easy Listening"

This came out in '94??

I'll ad this to my list of faves.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 29 May 2005 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

mmm. skyscraper.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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― corey c (shock of daylight), Sunday, 29 May 2005 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

mmm. skyscraper.

-- slightly more subdued

! I love you

― buck van morrison (Buck Van Smack), Sunday, 29 May 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(It was a very good year!)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f391/f39198wlktv.jpg

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 29 May 2005 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

best year for music there ever was.

Don't think anyone's mentioned Icky Mettle, Split or Snivilisation yet.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 29 May 2005 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

best year for music there ever was.

I'm hesitant to say anything like that, but it was a favorite year, for sure.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Ready To Die and His N Hers are big big favs of mine. I don't really know in which years albums were released.

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Sunday, 29 May 2005 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

WEEZER!

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Sunday, 29 May 2005 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view/list_id_is_16109

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 29 May 2005 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops. This would be the right one:
http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view/list_id_is_16094

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 29 May 2005 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Ill Communication, Dookie, I was going to say Pearl Jam's VS. but I think that was technically 1993. I wasn't so down with buying albums right when they came out back then, I guess.

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 29 May 2005 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.cdshakedown.com/1994_pictures/latinplayboys.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 29 May 2005 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i almost forgot -- gravediggaz, "6 feet deep" (or "nigga mortis" in the UK) -- i THINK that it came out in 1994.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 29 May 2005 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm shocked that DI Go Pop hasn't been mentioned yet.

― buck van morrison (Buck Van Smack), Sunday, 29 May 2005 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

DI Go Pop!

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 29 May 2005 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Scarface - The Diary

― deej., Sunday, 29 May 2005 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

UGK - Supertight

― deej., Sunday, 29 May 2005 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

along with all the other excellent picks,

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I'm gonna say it - 1994 was the best year for music for me. there may have been earlier years that were better, but I was too young to have been aware then. I will say that imo there hasn't been a year since with so many amazing releases.

but I still dont think I've transitioned into the "naughties" so whatever... I know I'm behind.

― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Sunday, 29 May 2005 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

well thats embarrassing...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/novaeris/dms.jpg
???

― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Sunday, 29 May 2005 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Dog Man Star seconded.

― Deluxe (Damian), Sunday, 29 May 2005 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Well since I started a thread about it the other day, predictably I have to nominate....

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― Si Carter (Si Carter), Sunday, 29 May 2005 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm... Underworld is another UK 93/US 94 one then?

― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 29 May 2005 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Air Liquide: Nephology
Mouse on Mars: Vulvaland

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 29 May 2005 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Organized Konfusion: Stress - The Extinction Agenda

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 29 May 2005 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Alter Ego: Alter Ego
Banco de Gaia: Maya
4 Hero: Parallel Universe
Biosphere: Patashnik

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 29 May 2005 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

There are almost too many to cite from `94, honestly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 May 2005 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/rnnr/niggamortis.jpg

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Sunday, 29 May 2005 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

D.I. Go Pop is probably the only album I have from 1994. Wait, no, I've also got Autour de Lucie's debut and Kristin Hersh's Hips and Makers. Disco Inferno beats those by far.

― Ian Riese-Moraine's Plateau Rouge! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 29 May 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

did nobody mention Parklife yet?

Blur: Parklife
Stereolab: Mars Audiac Quintet
Beck: Mellow Gold
Weezer: Weezer
Pulp: His 'n' Hers
Ween: Chocolate and Cheese

― zeus, Sunday, 29 May 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Possibly my favorite year for music as well (that I was alive and musically conscious for). So many brilliant albums are listed here, and yet, none of them are as amazing as Dookie.

I did have a top ten '94 albums laying around somewhere.... Oh here it is.

01 Dookie - Green Day
02 Parklife - Blur
03 Weezer - Weezer
04 Unplugged In New York - Nirvana
05 Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu-Tang Clan
06 Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
07 Chocolate And Cheese - Ween
08 Mellow Gold - Beck
09 Superunknown - Soundgarden
10 Doggystyle - Snoop Doggy Dogg
11 Elastica - Elastica
12 Grace - Jeff Buckley
13 Dummy - Portishead
14 Southernplayalisticaldillacmusik - Outkast
15 The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
16 At Action Park - Shellac
17 Regulate...G-Funk Era - Warren G
18 Monster - R.E.M.
19 Definitely Maybe - Oasis
20 Jar Of Flies - Alice In Chains

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Sunday, 29 May 2005 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

This was my top ten as compiled in 1994:

1. Blur -- Parklife
2. Orbital -- Snivilisation
3. Pulp -- His N Hers
4. Suede -- Dog Man Star
5. Autechre -- Amber
6. Oasis -- Definitely Maybe
7. Stereolab -- Mars Audiac Quintet
8. American Music Club -- San Francisco
9. The Prodigy -- Music For the Jilted Generation
10. Underworld -- Dubnobasswithmyheadman

This no longer represents my favourites from that year, not so much because I changed my mind about the worth of any of these albums (well, except for "Parklife", I suppose), but because I now value many other great albums from that year that I didn't hear or didn't fully appreciate at the time.

By the end of the 90's, my top 30 of that decade contained eight albums from 1994: Blur, Orbital, Suede, Pulp, Ae, Stereolab, plus Woob:1194 and MSP -- "The Holy Bible".

Fortunately, on the ILM 90's poll, most of these albums were nominated so my top 30 ballot contained *ten* albums from 1994, including Saint Etienne -- "Tiger Bay", SAWII, and "Souvlaki" (if you go by the US release date).

I think we had a thread where we ranked each year of the 90's. '94 and '93 ran 1-2 on my list, and nothing else is even close except for 1991.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 29 May 2005 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

bill, elastica was a 1995 album I think.

3 other albums I forgot:

Saint Etienne - Tiger Bay
Shane MacGowan and the Popes - The Snake
Morrissey - Vauxhall and I

― zeus, Sunday, 29 May 2005 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Johnny Cash - American Recordings

Man, this was a phenomenal year.

― buck van morrison (Buck Van Smack), Sunday, 29 May 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

and

The High Llamas - Gideon Gaye

― zeus, Sunday, 29 May 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Gold: Swell - 41
Silver: Nirvana - Unplugged
Bronze: Portishead - Dummy

Runner's up:
Laurie Anderson - Bright Red
Blumfeld - L'Etat et Moi
Diabologum - Le Goût du Jour
Flowerpornoes - red nicht von Straßen, nicht von Zügen
Luna - Bewitched
Alan Vega / Alex Chilton / Ben Vaughn - Cubist Blues
Weezer - s/t

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 29 May 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The Wedding Present - Watusi

― buck van morrison (Buck Van Smack), Sunday, 29 May 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Shellac - At Action Park

― buck van morrison (Buck Van Smack), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The Wedding Present - Watusi
-- buck van morrison
I think I forgot that was 94. thats still my favorite album of theirs.

also shame on me for forgetting jeff buckley - grace - good call.

I remember I had this like 10 cd changer that I got for my birthday the year before & a lot of these albums were in constant rotation for like the next several years. *sigh* nostalgia...

― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Sunday, 29 May 2005 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a lot of favourite albums this year, not that I can really remember them all in detail, but no-one's mentioned "Hex" by Bark Psychosis, which is particularly good.

Additionally, I'm not a huge fan of the band, but I did love "Carnival of Light" by Ride, for being an all out classic rock record smack in the middle of a load of 'intelligent techno' records.

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 29 May 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

36 Chambers was not 1994.

― deej., Sunday, 29 May 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I was waiting for this year: dEUS' Worst Case Scenario.

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Sunday, 29 May 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

mid nineties was my rap-only phase and i wasnt impressed with much that year, but..

jeru - sun rises in the east
gza - liquid swords (i think)
but the winner,
(and before they totally changed their style for the worse): blackalicious - melodica

― Robin Samples, Sunday, 29 May 2005 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, I missed "Regulate G Funk Era" by Warren G.

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 29 May 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

and i missed digable planets - blowout comb
melodica was technically an ep too sorry

― Robin Samples, Sunday, 29 May 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Aphex Twin - SAW Vol. 2
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
Shellac - At Action Park
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
Weezer - S/T
Green Day - Dookie
Plastikman - Musik
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese

― latebloomer: B Minus Time Traveler (latebloomer), Sunday, 29 May 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

My favourites, as compiled at the end of 1994:

1 blur - parklife
2 madonna - bedtime stories
3 suede - dog man star
4 massive attack - protection
5 portishead - dummy
6 oasis - definitely maybe
7 saint etienne - tiger bay
8 morrissey - vauxhall & i
9 neil young & crazy horse - sleeps with angels
10 ali farka toure with ry cooder - talking timbuktu
11 kylie minogue - kylie minogue
12 elvis costello - brutal youth
13 the pretenders - last of the independents
14 nick cave & the bad seeds - let love in
15 nirvana - mtv unplugged in new york
16 spearhead - home
17 orbital - snivilisation
18 jhelisa - galactica rush
19 prince - come
20 primal scream - give out but don't give up

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Sunday, 29 May 2005 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Liquid Swords is 1995.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 30 May 2005 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Dog Faced Hermans, Those Deep Buds
2. Shine Eye Gal: Brukdon from Belize
3. Helium, Pirate Prude
4. Raooul/Skinned Teen, Jail-Bait Core/Bazooka Smooth
5. The Mountain Goats, Zopilote Machine
6. God Is My Co-Pilot, How to Be
7. Flying Luttenbachers, Constructive Destruction
8. The Clean, Modern Rock
9. The Honkies, Who Eats?
10. Charles Brown Superstar, The Summertime EP

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 30 May 2005 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I have that Underworld album too, but I can't really say that I like it. I've always found their vocals kinda tedious. If, however, you'd like to hear a great vocalless Underworld track from 1994, I'd suggest searching for "Dirty (DMD Remix)". A wonderfully evocative ambient house type of track, that one.

And even if this is an albums list, I have to say that the two best house tracks from 1994 are probably Love Inc.'s "R.E.S.P.E.C.T." and Paperclip People's "Throw".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 30 May 2005 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom

― guajolote (turkey), Monday, 30 May 2005 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Dirty (DMD Remix)

Is this not strictly under the name Lemon Interrupt? If memory serves it was on an NME tape in '94; not that I still have it. Maybe it's not the remix I'm thinking of though. Can you tell me more? Where does it come from?

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 30 May 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

oh what a year it was! awesome....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 30 May 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no idea, I just have it on a 1994 trance compilation ("Trancesylvania 4"); the title is just "Dirty (DMD Remix)", nothing about lemons. I remember seeing other "DMD remixes" around that time, but I have no idea who's behind the moniker. Anyway, the track has some of the same elements as "Dirty Epic" (mainly the keyboard loop) off Dubnobasswithmyheadman, so I take it it's a remix of that track, or some earlier version of it. The track itself is rather slow and athmospheric, not danceable. It has this eerie loop that sounds like an filtered trumpet, and during the final couple of minutes it samples the nightmare toy animals from Akira (the Japanese animation). It's sorta like vocalless Underworld mixed with ambient house and early trance.

(x-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 30 May 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Tiger Bay!

http://www.saint.etienne.net/ec/Tiger_Bay.jpg

or if you prefer:

http://www.saint.etienne.net/ec/Tiger_Bay.US.jpg

(I don't)

or even:

http://www.saint.etienne.net/ec/Tiger_Bay.96.jpg

Whichever cover you go for, crikey it's a lovely thing.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 30 May 2005 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Tuomas, thanks.

I like the sound of "Trancesylvania".

While we're at instrumental Underworld tracks from 1994, Dirty Guitar is amazing. This is still pretty easy to get on the Cowgirl/Dirty Epic 'Maxi single' thing, which has about 8 tracks on it. Dirty Guitar is amazing though.

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 30 May 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm, a quick googling seems to imply that the DMD remix doesn't appear anywhere else than that one compilation. I think it might've actually been remixed by the Trancesylvania compiler himself, who, if memory serves me right, was a trance producer of some stature back in the day. Anyway, it's a great track, if you're able to find it through this filesharing thing, I'd suggest downloading it. (I wish I could help, but I have no idea how to share tracks - does it require some special software?).

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 30 May 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh that's OK... Thanks for the thought anyway. I'll have a look through some shops. Cheers.

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 30 May 2005 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom

Upon relistening/distance, also Toadies - Rubberneck

Many of the above as well.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Monday, 30 May 2005 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Omoide Hatoba- Mantako

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

My top 40 for '94 as published in a long-defunct Oxford fanzine:

1. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol 2
2. Jeff Buckley - Grace
3. Portishead - Dummy
4. Saint Etienne - Tiger Bay
5. Bark Psychosis - Hex
6. Pulp - His 'N' Hers
7. Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
8. Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
9. Orbital - Snivilisation
10. mu-Ziq - Bluff Limbo
11. Ali Farka Toure/Ry Cooder - Talking Timbuktu
12. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
13. Suede - Dog Man Star
14. Jeru The Damaja - The Sun Rises In The East
15. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (we Brits didn't get it until '94)
16. Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
17. High Llamas - Gideon Gaye
18. Nas - Illmatic
19. Biosphere - Patashnik
20. Johnny Cash - American Recordings
21. Blur - Parklife
22. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
23. Massive Attack - Protection
24. Various - Drum 'N' Bass Selection Vol 1 (Surburban Base)
25. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
26. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
27. dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
28. Fun-Da-Mental - Seize The Time
29. Trent Reznor/Various - Natural Born Killers OST
30. Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall
31. Sebadoh - Bakesale
32. Depth Charge - Seven Deadly Venoms
33. Morrissey - Vauxhall And I
34. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
35. Digweed/Sasha - Renaissance: The Mix Collection
36. O'Rang - Herd Of Instinct
37. Brotzmann/Kondo/Parker/Drake - Die Like A Dog
38. Baaba Maal - Firin' In Fouta
39. John Oswald - Greyfolded
40. Bally Sagoo - Bollywood Flashback

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Some good albums were out this year as well. This is a great overview of what happen that year:

http://acclaimedmusic.net/1994a.htm

― BeeOK (boo radley), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

My top ten in no order:

Blumfeld - L'Etat et Moi
Diabologum - Le Goût du Jour
Alan Vega, Alex Chilton, Ben Vaughn - Cubist Blues
Portishead - Dummy
Weezer - s/t
Luna - Bewitched
Flowerpornoes - red nich von Straßen, nicht von Zügen
Nirvana - Unplugged
Laurie Anderson - Bright Red
Swell - 41

Runners-up:

Giant Sand - Glum
Ry Cooder & Ali Farka Toure - Talking Timbuktu
Madredeus - O Espírito da Paz
Pat Metheny - Zero Tolerance for Silence
Various - Clerks (Soundtrack)

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 12 August 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, i knew i had posted here before...

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 12 August 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I miss this year. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 12 August 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

This thread needs more noizers.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 12 August 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Crap year.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 12 August 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Venereology should be on one of those.

― Ivan Gallardo (Ivan), Saturday, 12 August 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

CrazySexyCool hasn't been mentioned. ILM sucks.

― The future of Rodney got a -- (R. J. Greene), Saturday, 12 August 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

=w=

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Saturday, 12 August 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'M COMING! I'M COMING! (the latter)

Not my favourite but rather unfairly passed-over thus far (except by Geir's linked list). Breaking Into Heaven is a choooooon and a half.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Saturday, 12 August 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Blur - Parklife, Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol 2, Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet, Portishead - Dummy, The Prodigy - Music For The Gilted Generation, Funki Porcini - Hed Phone Sex.

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Saturday, 12 August 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Bedhead - What Fun Life Was
Failure - Magnified
Low - I Could Live in Hope
Massive Attack - Protection
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Palace Brothers - Days in the Wake
Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Saturday, 12 August 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
Codeine - The White Birch
Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost

. . . so there's my top ten for 1994.

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Saturday, 12 August 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Dodgy: Homegrown
Animal Farm: Animal Farm
Blur: Parklife
Tre Små Kinesere: Hjertemedisin
The Grays: Ro Sham Bo
Elvis Costello: Brutal Youth
Brainpool: Soda
The Lightning Seeds: Jollification

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 12 August 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

Superchunk - Foolish
The 3Ds - The Venus Trail

― askance johnson (sdownes), Sunday, 13 August 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

Crap year.

You are kidding, right?

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Sunday, 13 August 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

At the time, I definitely considered 1994 a crap (I mean "crappy" -- I'm not British!) year. Not sure if I agree with that now or not. Once upon a time, this was my top 15; I'm sure I'd change it now, but I lack the energy at the moment to figure out precisely how:

(alphabetical order):

Ace of Base - The Sign
Aterciopelados - Con el Corazon en la Mano
Beck - Loser EP
Garth Brooks - The Hits
Gillette - On the Attack
Green Day - Dookie
Hole - Live Through This
Kix - $how Bu$ine$$
La Derecha - La Derecha
Peter Laughner and Friends - Take the Guitar Player for a Ride
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - Vasos Vacios
Mano Negra - Casa Babylon
Rancid - Let's Go
Santa Sabina - Simbolos
Um Pah Pah - Bordell

― xhxuk (xheddy), Sunday, 13 August 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

The 3Ds - The Venus Trail

fuck yes

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Sunday, 13 August 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not kidding. There's a lot here that I haven't heard, but I had already gotten sick of hip-hop (at least partly due to the gangsta rap direction a lot of it took), the rock that came out, with rare exceptions, doesn't do anything for me, and the electronic music I heard (and have gone back to hear) mostly seems really dead. Tricky and Portishead: everything I've heard has been a big yawn.

But keep in mind, I was 29 in 1994. Also, it may be the single year I was most isolated from the outside world, because I was recovering from physical and emotional collapse.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 13 August 2006 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

I was recovering from physical and emotional collapse.

Even more than usual.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 13 August 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

I definitely wound up liking the Underworld and Prodigy albums mentioned on this thread, probably enough that, if I re-did my top 15, they'd be on there. I think I wound up liking Therapy?'s Troublegum enough to keep it too, but if so, it's in storage somewhere; only Therapy? album still on my shelf is a 1990-2000 comp called So Much For the Ten-Year Plan; Coolio's shelf-space is down to a best-of now, too. Weezer's debut is in storage now too; didn't get into them until Pinkerton, which is way better, but their debut's fine. And the other mu-ziq and Laika albums I've heard make me think I might link the ones by them listed above if I ever hear them, and I'm a dork for still only owning the Loser EP instead of Mellow Gold (easily Beck's best album). And no doubt I've gotten ahold of other 1994 albums I like in the past few years that aren't anywhere to be found upthread; I just can't figure out what they are without sifting through thousands of other CDs. I'm still leaning toward thinking it wasn't a very good time for indie rock or metal; mainstream alt rock and techno and hip-hop and country (and pop? I dunno; what was there, besides Ace of Base, who nobody else here seems to like?) were probably better than I figured at the time. GREAT year for rock in romance languages, though; way better than now. Really, in the mid '90s, rock en espanol was pretty much all I cared about.

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 13 August 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

pop? I dunno; what was there

Just found one! Shampoo, We Are Shampoo. That deserves to be Top 15 for sure.

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 13 August 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

three more unmentioned above:

Babylon Dance Band Four On One
Cinderella Still Climbing
Hawkwind 25 Years On

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 13 August 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Six Feet Deep would most likely be my number 1 record of 1994, it's my favourite rap LP of all time. As for the stuff I was actually listening to in 1994, I think Music for the Jilted Generation was the top record of that year.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 13 August 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

1994 was a crap year. So much so that I don't really remember anything about it. From looking at the lists here, of course Aphex Twin's SAW II was notable, and Parklife pretty much shits all over everything else here, but even some of the best releases from '94 were things I didn't get into until a year or two later (Nick Cave "Let Love In", Jeff Buckley "Grace") Even Orbital's Snivilisation is still their poorest album. Plus I was pretty unhappy in 1994, so yeah, '94 sucks.

― Kiss My Grits! (Bimble...), Sunday, 13 August 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Let's not forget these two German rave classics with genuine, state-of-the-art 1994 covers:

http://www.adambamedien.de/images/big/raveland.jpg http://www.danceartistinfo.com/pictures/westbam-bambambam12.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 13 August 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

1994 was the formation year of Britpop as a major craze. Which was good. Most of the best Britpop albums were released in 1995 though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

Weezer's debut is in storage now too; didn't get into them until Pinkerton, which is way better, but their debut's fine.

Pinkerton is a fine album, but the blue album is superior. We can settle this in single combat if you like.

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000000CNP/ref=dp_image_0/103-4514015-3784610?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

Bedhead - What Fun Life Was
Failure - Magnified
Low - I Could Live in Hope
Massive Attack - Protection
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Palace Brothers - Days in the Wake
Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
― (Stephen B.), Saturday, August 12, 2006 6:03 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
Codeine - The White Birch
Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost
. . . so there's my top ten for 1994.
― (Stephen B.), Saturday, August 12, 2006 6:11 PM (4 years ago)

hmmmmm let's re-do this

tori amos - under the pink
nick cave - let love in
cranes - loved
disco inferno - di go pop
low - i could live in hope
nas - illmatic
pete rock & cl smooth - the main ingredient
saint etienne - tiger bay
slowdive - souvlaki
underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman

― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Sunday, 31 July 2011 04:23 (fourteen years ago)

i'm not gonna do this full fledged, but 3 albums I just discovered, all of them excellent:

Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesizer
Boredoms - Super Roots 3
Gravitar - Chinga su Corazon

― monogalomaniacal (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 31 July 2011 04:26 (fourteen years ago)

noted, i haven't heard the third...

― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Sunday, 31 July 2011 05:11 (fourteen years ago)

that's a good list, ilxor. a lot i haven't heard yet :)

― monogalomaniacal (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 31 July 2011 05:19 (fourteen years ago)

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