Album Rating: 5.0
The 90s were the golden age of music as far as I’m concerned.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Good man.
On my AOTY account I've put up top 100s for every year of the 90s but you can also list releases by decade.
My list for 1994 is about the same quality in terms of my assigned ratings as my list for the following decade in its entirety. It's unbelievable.
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Album Rating: 5.0
I mean, we got this and Superunknown on the same DAY, for god sake.
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Album Rating: 5.0
There'd probably be another ten similar examples over the mid nineties - classic piling atop classic in the latest release section of the record store
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Album Rating: 5.0
Not a bad idea for a list actually - best 'release date twins' albums, could have a vote...
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Album Rating: 5.0
“I remember picking up 'Troublegum', 'Far Beyond Driven', the Terrorvision album lol”
I had these as well mate. Terrorvision and Driven were taped copies, troublegum on CD was my brothers.
Troublegum was essential listening back then.
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Album Rating: 5.0
My brother had the 'more cool' taste - he had 'Dummy', 'Jilted Generation', 'Ill Communication'...
I had some very suspect stuff like 'Dookie', 'Offspring' and 'Throwing Copper'. It would be a while before I'd get laid.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I wish I'd had more time in the 90s :[
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Album Rating: 5.0
At the time.
Ill Communication on CD
Dummy original on tape
Jilted Generation original on tape
Dookie on CD
Smash original on tape
In my neck of the woods the one everybody had was Prodigy.
Also out that year was Weezer blue which would’ve been my aoty
Parklife was the real life-changer though. Everything changed once I took to that but it wouldn’t have been till late ‘94 possibly early ‘95 that I really got involved.
Also for completeness.
Parklife original on tape.
Weezer Blue CD
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Album Rating: 5.0
My top 25 (in order) for 1994 BACK THEN would have been something like:
- Manics 'Holy Bible'
- Therapy? 'Troublegum'
- Stone Temple Pilots 'Purple'
- Kyuss 'Sky Valley'
- NIN 'Downward Spiral'
- Terrorvision 'How to Make Friends'
- Alice in Chains 'Jar of Flies/Sap'
- Soundgarden 'Superunknown'
- Nirvana 'Unplugged'
- Pearl Jam 'Vitalogy'
- Live 'Throwing Copper'
- Pantera 'Far Beyond Driven'
- Senser 'Stacked Up'
- Portishead 'Dummy'
- Machine Head 'Burn My Eyes'
- Prodigy 'Jilted'
- Beastie Boys 'Ill Communication'
- Green Day 'Dookie'
- Bad Religion 'Stranger than Fiction'
- Pride and Glory 'Pride and Glory'
- Headswim 'Soup'
- Offspring 'Smash'
- Smashing Pumpkins 'Pisces'
- Bush 'Sixsteen Stone'
- Danzig '4'
I was still mostly a Kerrang kid, a 'rock and metal' - thing I love about 94 is I've now found albums released that year I'd never heard then that I consider better than most of that list.
Low, Jeff Buckley, Pavement, Lambchop, Dirty Three, Nick Cave, Sebadoh, Silver Jews, Underworld.
I still don't much rate the Britpop and the start of emo/pop punk like Weezer.
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Album Rating: 5.0
As it currently stands I would say my fave from that year is dubnobasswithmyheadman. I didn’t hear that until late 90s.
‘94 was when the scene changed massively for me. Grunge out. Britpop in. Cobains death really did change the schematics for me. Of the albums you’ve listed there Doof they were all on the radar except Kyuss. Bush and Live have always been turd for me. Total Product even as a 14yr old it was see-through as fuck.
1995 would’ve been when I got into The Who, Small Faces, Beatles and all the rest.
Amazing days.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I still don't much rate the Britpop and the start of emo/pop punk like Weezer.
Yeah, I never got the love for Britpop/pop punk. Two of the dullest subgenres in my book.
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Album Rating: 5.0
We were swamped with American Rock which was obviously fucking amazing but Oasis, Blur, Supergrass, Pulp, were such a breath of fresh air and were ours. Common People was the song of the 90s.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Kyuss was a massive album at school again, the Underworld was probably being played by some kids there tbh but I wasn't quite at the right stage to get it yet. I was a bit scared by the kids who'd bring in those carry cases full of cassettes of electronic 'rave music'. I wasn't sure if they were the enemy, I was already miffed with people deserting rock and metal for Blur, Oasis and Suede.
In 95 I would have got into Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack and Tricky so another tentative step towards electronic stuff. Also Bowie, didn't really listen to Bowie before 95/96 - 'Outside' was the first of his I tried, which seems a bit ridiculous.
Christmas '95 I'd give the band who had the 'Creep' song I hated another try when I heard 'Street Spirit' played through my brother's bedroom walls...
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Album Rating: 4.5
One of the Chemical Brothers actually went to my college!
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Album Rating: 5.0
Not in your year though? How old are you PZ?
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Album Rating: 4.5
I'm almost 29.
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Album Rating: 4.5
been jamming this for like a week straight, growing on me hard
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Album Rating: 4.0
I can't play this for more than half a day
too exhausting
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Album Rating: 5.0
Exit Planet Dust was fucking ground shaking/breaking.
Lot more ravers into their jungle and what have you back then then there were other youth cultures other than ‘teeny boppers’ maybe. Was never big into metal at all back then but Sepultura definitely offered that little bit more the others couldn’t conjure up.
Would’ve been around 95 when I first managed to sneak into clubs underage and all manner of stuff was played. Lot of metal which left me scratching my head until NIN or Sep played. Suffocation and stuff like that blaring out was incomprehensible and sent me scurrying back to Dodgy - Homegrown
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