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Biggest albums for me in '93 (I was 14) were:



(existing stuff): Angel Dust, Master of Puppets, Countdown to Extinction, Urban Discipline, Nevermind, Vulgar Display, RATM, Blood Sugar, The Real Thing, Decade of Aggression (Slayer double disc live album)



(new stuff): Heartwork, In Utero, Chaos AD, Earth vs The Wildhearts, Vs, Get a Grip (Aerosmith were huge at my school, not sure why), Siamese Dream, Black Sunday (not sure why Cypress Hill were the main hip hop crossover band for me but that's how it went)



1994 was a huge year and I started broadening taste a bit including within metal, definitely where I also listened to more extreme stuff like Deicide, Entombed and Napalm Death but generally still mostly rock and metal but within that I tried most stuff, would have got into Nine Inch nNails and Ministry that year...guess only things I didn't like within rock and metal maybe was the tail end of glam like some kids still were into, and I wasn't into Maiden which was quite a big one not to be into. Nu metal hadn't happened yet. Was into the Beastie Boys and also fluffy stuff like Green Day and The Offspring, bit of Bad Religion too



I was very against brit pop - Oasis and Blur I had no time for and were effectively the enemy.



End of 1993/start of 1994 was when I moved to CD's so quite easy to remember the first albums I got on CD.



1995 was when I first started liking some electronic music after being very against it before.

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Zak great list. Compilations were big at the time. I remember having the Demon Knight soundtrack and that one with FNM and boo-yaa tribe. How big was vitalogy also - huge.

Doof I was also 14 in ‘93 ha. This is so similar to me. I only started cds in 94. I bought dirt on cassette and youthanasia was probably by last tape. I was also obsessed with Metallica’s live shit binge and purge and first heard Sepultura in 93. 94 and got more into older metal classics and also far beyond driven, burn my eyes etc. I remember 95 being a big expansion into other stuff like fear factory and a lot of local metal

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'Vitalogy' was my favourite Pearl Jam yeah, still rate it their best



'Dirt' would have been on high rotation in '93 too, Nirvana's 'Incesticide' was a strangely big release for me as well, keep remembering more...



Zak definitely had a wider taste than me in '94 that's for sure, one thing that did happen around then was my mum would drive me to Milton Keynes main library and I'd loan out four CDs at a time (that was the maximum allowed) which was massive and they'd have some more modern stuff (remember Suicidal Tendencies and Fugazi they had somehow) but also all the classics (Dark Side of the Moon, Court of the Crimson King, etc). That was a fun time, a decent selection but not unlimited choice like now, quite a good middle ground.

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'Said it before many times on this site but this is an essential gym/lifting album'



I still use this album down the gym a lot

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‘FNM and boo-yaa tribe’



Haha. Yes muzz. Judgement Night.



I had it as well.

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Fuck the gym but yeah I still listen to this.



I still regularly listen to a lot of the stuff I had back then. It’s timeless.

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Everyone had Judgement Night - an essential!

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Never listen to that though. ‘Fallin’ was an absolute tune

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I'll listen today, you're right I haven't played it back to back since the '90s

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One that has popped into my head from 1993 that I absolutely loved back then.



Carter USM!!!!

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So far the album is better than I remember - Fallin' and Me, Myself & My Microphone really brought the instant nostalgia running into each other



Carter USM I'd heard of but only tried out last year - not sure I totally got it, will revisit

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UPDATE: The Sonic Youth and Mudhoney songs are pretty average for them, definitely where the album falls away from being a classic...The Dino Jr and Del collab is quality though, and the PJ and Cypress Hill one isn't too bad either



The Therapy? and Fatal track sounds like it was recorded in a toilet....more it sounds like it should have stayed in a toilet, and I love Therapy?



Have it on a 4.0 but surprisingly it's closer to being bumped to a 4.5 than docked to a 3.5

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>I got crucified for suggesting darkthrone were pioneering in black metal in 1992 and blaze was the first real bm album

as you should be

your argument is essentially if it wasnt mainstream enough to hear in your particular area its not relevant

venom releasing albums since 81, bathory since 84, a kid growing up in the uk or sweden during those times would be laughing at you even harder than i am



imagine having the same take toward black sabbath or iron maiden

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his argument may be more 'it wasn't relevant to most listeners at the time (in 1992)'



I just get the feeling this is one of those arguments where two people are basically correct but asserting two slightly different things



maybe

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in that case im going to erase sabbath from history bc i heard maiden first

iron maiden st was the first metal album ever fite me

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Sabbath might be a good example because in the '70s they would have been defined differently than now. They were aligned with hard rockers like Zep and Deep Purple in the 'Unholy Trinity'. I don't regard that as three 'metal' bands, as we know it now, really.



Maiden (or someone earlier) might still be more what a lot of people consider 'heavy metal' (all the tropes) than Sabbath in the '70s who were at least 50% hard rock, prob more. What blurs it is Sabbath continued their career and became more obviously 'heavy metal' (as we all know it now) as they continued - so it helped redefine their early material later on and people love there to be an evolutionary 'official beginning' of anything and everything.

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Doof. I recall the Therapy one being weak and Pearl Jam effort being complete shite.

Haven’t listened to it in years although the FNM one and Fallin do get an odd spin.

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compared to what was called rock back then they were definitely metal, but sabbath was still the first to write real metal on st even by todays standard, though then immediately abandoning that sound for near total hard rock

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Zak - the PJ one doesn't really have any feel of the band in it is the worst thing, it's pretty average yeah



Smok - I still consider early Black Sabbath hard rock anyway because I am mean, they were the biggest influence on starting metal though I will concede. By the time they're hiring Dio then to me they are very 'heavy metal tropes' at that stage

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even then you have to throw out priest and motorhead as well