Yep...shameful mid-nineties nostalgia, and while I love all the new stuff from Skepta, Little Mix and Coldplay, I've just been looking at the 1994 playlist they've put together - certainly some cracking stuff on there. It was the year of [i]Parklife[/i], [i]Grace[/i], [i]Music For The Jilted Generation[/i] and [i]Dummy[/i] amongst many others.
Where did you live?
What were you doing at the time?
What were [i]your[/i] albums of the year?
Would you have guessed then where you're at now?
I listened for an eternity to the pre 7am show and kept checking it wasn't the smashy and nicey show. Loads of inane waffle very little music.
Disappointed as I've been going through a britpop revival.
Are you listening to the same station? 😆
I wouldn't quite call Chris Hawkins a waffler.
Warren G 😀
5th/6th year at School, Annan.
Spent summer 1994 working in a fish factory being force fed Radio1, had a paper round.
Had loads of cash, fun, laughs, shocking eye-opening human interactions, lost my virginity, got drunk more often than a 16yr old should and generally grew up a lot.
Mostly good times, when I wasn't in school or listening to sh1te radio friendly house music. Everything but the girl on just now sums it up. Formulaic drivel.
Rage Against the Machine and Prodigy were my earworms. Nirvana Unplugged.
Years later discovered Paw. Who released one of my favourite records Dragline in 1994. Wish I had found it then.
Oh and Definitely Maybe came out in 1994. Awesome album.
I have to confess I'll be happily listening later .. 94 was quite lively.
Lived in Clapham.
I was doing anything I could get my hands on.
Albums of the year (for me) were The Aloof-Cover the Crime & Underworld Dubnobass & The Beastie Boys Ill Communication. (many more)
Justin Warfield- Bug Powder dust was the soundtrack to many a proper night out. 😀
1994, I was living at home with my parents, 14 years old and going through a rebellious phase.
I wore nothing but black grew my hair out and got my ear pierced (against my parents wishes, think that one earned me a weeks grounding). My personal playlist at the time was dominated by metallica, Nirvana, the wildhearts and therapy.
Spare time was filled with guitars, weed and bikes. I've still got the same guitar (it's hanging on the wall in my office right behind me as I type) I left the weed behind many years ago and the '93 Hahannah went in 1997/8 to make way for a specialised rockhopper.
I'm now sat here listening to 6 music trying to get some work done while contemplating if I would be a disappointment to my 14 year old self!
Ffs forgot about Second Coming, Ten, Superunknown... Jeez
1994 was awesome from what I remember.
I was a fresh faced 16 year old with long greasy hair messing about on bikes loads. Playlist was mostly metal (Metallica etc) & started discovering a bit of US punk (NOFX, Pennywise...). My folks had MTV so there were the same tunes on a constant loop on the TV when we weren't out riding. I think we went to the Malverns that year and drank way too much, also raced at Eatsridge for the 1st time.
Pretty sure the summer was pure sunshine but that may just be rose tinted specs.
No, as far as I can remember, 1994 was one of the sunny ones.
We were expecting 'the lad' and Ms Sandwich at 2 was playing Ace of Bass on a loop and singing really badly. (The type of singing that a Geneva Convention exits to combat).
I graduated in 1994. It's a bit hazy, but that's because I'm old and my memory is fading, not because I was on drugs or anything, I was a good lad me.
From 1994 I sitll listen to; Gravediggaz - Ni**amortis, Notorious B.I.G - Ready to Die.
The aggressive music of the disenfranchised african-american youth really resonated with white, middle class, Oxfordshire village life.... and still does.
Just heard Spin the Black Circle by Pearl Jam. Great way to start the day.
I bought my first house in 94 for £43k.
I was 26 and hadn't met Mrs Tenfoot. Never saw myself married with 2 kids. I wasn't against it, just thought it would never happen.
We were expecting 'the lad' and Ms Sandwich at 2 was playing Ace of Bass on a loop and singing really badly.
I was living in Egypt and Ace of Bass was on a continual loop at all the western clubs we used to go to...
[img] 
[/img]
[img] 
[/img]
pretty intense weekend at Reading
I don't remember paul oakenfold's 'legendary' mix having interjections between every song to tell us how legendary it was.
still good mind.
94
Living in Hove due to working on the A27 tunnel. Was a lovely summer down there. Picked up a chicken kebab nearly every night from some Kurdish joint in Portslade.
Was listening to mainly punk. Saw Culture Shock, Schwarzenegger, New Bomb Turks amongst others whilst down there.
Probably listening mainly to Sublime, NOFX etc. Bought Dookie that year I think too.
Played Madden NFL on the Megadrive most weekends with the lads...
Had no plans for my future...
That Sunday main stage lineup at Reading 😯
First CD I ever owned (having just upgraded from a tape deck) was Music for the Jilted Generation.
I thought every day was 1994 day on 6music 😉
In 1994 I was 30. In my physical prime, getting married in St. Lucia, watching The Word, seeing sutff like Oasis (they sounded so good back then), S*M*A*S*H, Elastica, Eddie Izzard & Compulsion live. About a year off going on my first mtb ride (in thick mud, wearing a Reservoir Dogs parody band t-shirt (can't remember who the band was..)).
Best album was probably Dummy, but I listened to Dookie more than anything else.
Little did I know what misery and shite life would hold.
Was living in Sydney. Remember the Big Day Out was a good day. Soundgarden headlined, but highlight was my favourite band (then and now) Teenage Fanclub rocked. After them a tab kicked in and it all went a bit vague! Oz was very much in the grip of grunge and that wasn't really my cuppa, so hearing Definitely Maybe made me very happy but very homesick.
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream.
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy.
Sound Garden - SuperUnknown.
Weezer - Weezer.
The Offspring - Smash.
Green Day - Dookie.
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple.
I think that 1994 might have been the most influential year of my musical education. I was 15 and at school in North Devon. Mountain Biking on Exmoor every weekend and listening to amazing music.
Seventeen, skateboarding, smoking weed, drinking and listening to Soundgarden and Beastie Boys on repeat. Gave up the deck and the drugs a long time ago. Still listening to those two bands though.
94 is a bit of a blur, to say the least. All I remember is I was living in Trinity in Salford, allegedly studying graphic design at Salford Uni, but mainly working at the Hacienda, going to Paradise Factory a lot, and generally trying not to get shot. It was insane! Happy days 😀
Lovin' the Tunes today!
Ahhh 1994
20, living with the parents in Wootton Bassett. Riding all over the Marlborough Downs area.
Driving a cream, lowered, morris minor with wide wheels. Bike rack permanently on the back with a bitg Scott USA sticker across the rear window.
Listening to Guns and Roses, Soundgarden and Nirvana.
Long hair in a ponytail. Pretty much always wore bike t-shirts.
Racing Xc and pretty sure that was the first year I did a downhill race.
Riding a Scott superlimited, diamond back response Elite and GT RTS.
And yes, pretty sure it was sun sun sun and dry trails that year.
Not listened to 6 music in ages, turned it on and straight into the beastie boys 😀
1994 was in my early teens, primaly listening to punk, Rancid's Lets go was my favourite.
Probably listening mainly to Sublime
Loved Sublime's self titled album, think that was later than '94 though? Remember hearing on of the songs on a ...Lost surf video and travelling for ages to get a copy of the cd when it was an 'American Import' and you had to pay extra for the priviledge!
I was at reading in 94. Knee of the best festival line ups ever. Lots of stories.
18, just finished a levels. Great summer. marred by the stuffies splitting up and death of Cobain.
Rode across the country with my dad, and set my 10 mile TT pb. Lots of MTB action in north Essex with pmj.
Pulp, therapy, chilis, senseless things, Wonder stuff, etc.
Started uni in Sheffield. Had a blast.
Rose tinted specs.
Was 13 so just really getting into my stride music-wise 😀
Lived in the Brecon Beacons, was still at High School, hadn't really 'discovered' girls yet and spent all my time on my bike with mates or listening to music - nothing's really changed there (apart from the 'discovering' girls bit...) 8)
Blur
Oasis
Prodigy
Prodigy
Rage Against the Machine
Nirvana Unplugged
Beastie Boys
Soundgarden
Smashing Pumpkins
Terrorvision
The Verve
Radiohead
Kerbdog
Pearl Jam
Weezer
The Offspring
Green Day
Jamiroquai
All got played constantly, no particular album stood out as there was enough music there to suit most occasions. I do remember that summer cost me (well, my dad) a small fortune in D batteries for my ghetto blaster from taking it down the river field pretty much every day and playing CD's constantly 😀
Didnt realise Portishead Dummy was 1994, didnt get into it till a couple of years later, still an amazing album!
Where did you live? - Ironbridge
What were you doing at the time? - Working hard and Roadie racing for a local Team
What were your albums of the year? - I was into Dance of that era, usually going to clubs to hear the latest Dance/Acid House stuff (Birmingham/Stafford/London)
Would you have guessed then where you're at now? - Yeah, always knew i'd end up on the coast, a very good job and places to play on the sea.
Loved Sublime's self titled album, think that was later than '94 though?
Came out after Bradley's death and he died in '96
What I Got was a big song from that album (first song you'd have heard on Dave Mirra BMX on PSOne)
What I Got
Yeah that was the song on one of the ...lost vids where I first heard them. Its a great album.
It was 95-98 when I was really into my stride as a teenager and a full on music head, listening to 1994 I remember a lot doesnt have the same resonance as later in the nineties.
living at home in Shrewsbury, 3rd year of secondary school.
Listening to a lot of Terrorvision and The Wildhearts.
I was doing a good 100 miles a week on one of these:
[img] 
[/img]
....which I rode to work this morning 😀
Has one of you been spoofing la la again? Someone just texted in saying just thinking about orbital's 94 Glasters set almost brings them to tears
In early 1994 I was 10 and discovered mountain biking was actually a 'thing' (as opposed to just ragging along paths and building jumps, which is what I'd been doing for the past few years).
My epiphany was brought about by a visit to my godmother's house in the Lakes, when her husband gave me a couple of issues of MBUK to read. One had a rider dangling from a hot-air balloon on the cover, and the other had a rider underwater in scuba gear. 😀
1994 - I was 18 and first year at uni. Blew a large chunk of my student loan on an imported mongoose iboc comp fitted out with parts specced from a merlin back-page mtb mag ad. Also started climbing in a trial and error fashion at Swanage as caving was fading for me. Prodigy and Orbital indeed.
In 1994, I had a purple-anodized Claud Butler with cream Panaracer smoke & dart, and a snowflake pattern front wheel. Which just goes to show that sixteen year old boys do not have very good taste.
It was a strange year for me. I'd just been to the funeral of a friend who killed himself when I heard of Kurt Cobain's death in the spring. I graduated from uni in the summer as a maturish student and promptly started work at On Your Bike at London Bridge and then got married.
Still have many happy memories of my time in the shop. Shame it's gone now, moved to make way for a revised railway station!
Whoop !
They played bug powder dust 🙂
Rise at the Leadmill in Sheffield
Hot To Trot in Mansfield
Music Factory in Sheffield
Sharing a house with my brother and a few mates, halycon days oh to be 22 again!
Bug powder dust is an all time classic! Best. Bassline. Ever! 🙂
Still living at home, working in a "restaurant" (their idea to call it that, it was far from true) and mooching after a girl who had dropped me slap bang in the friend zone
Music was good though:
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol 2
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
buffalo tom - big red letter day (ok, the year before)
Grant Lee Buffalo - Mighty Joe Moon
Listened to most of the day and noted that I don't seem to remember much of 1994.
I will have been living in a flat around here.
I might or might not have been working in the, almost, world famous Claverton's, but was definitely doing a lot os socialising there.
I started a degree course in the September (according to my cv).
In the early part of the year I started my endeavours into the world of sales in the motor trade.
About the only music I'm 100% sure of was Stiltskin as I have the single and Girls & Boys as I constantly put it on the jukebox.
Oasis were in there somewhere.
Can't remember if High Society was done in this period or whether it had closed, but we also rocked up at some Indie club in Manchester (not far from an Abduls on Oxford Rd iirc).
It must have rocked.
If anyone knows Jackie from Scotland, tell her to get in touch. 😈
Bug Powder Dust - Just brilliant. Nigh on perfection.
Cheers for the posts - some entertaining reading. 🙂
I was 25, living near Peterborough, working for an insurance company, spending my weekends lapping Rutland Water on a Scott Impulse.
Music wise, can't find anything actually from that year. But I was in my hair metal pomp at the time.... 😳
Re Bomb the Bass - Tim Simenon was also an early idol for me being of similar mixed race and British. Into the Dragon was massive for me back then. Happy days 🙂
it's been a brilliant day of music working from home today.
I was 16. Went to my first gig in London (Smashing Pumpkins at the Astoria). Spent every friday night drinking snakebite and black at the Hatfield forum. And gave myself a blood clot on the brain cycling home a little merry. I was not allowed to go and see Neds Atomic Dustbin (they havent been played today) the week I got out of hospital.
Good times.
Dundee University studying Environmental Science. We had a flat of 11 of us 😯
Blur - Parklife, REM - Monster, The Cranberries, Crash Test Dummies, Oasis - Definitely Maybe etc.
I've ended up in Edinburgh as an environmental consultant...so not a huge leap, but it's all been fun!
25 here too, second year of teaching and first proper MTB, from Biketreks - Orange C16.
Pavement, Grant Lee Buffalo, Teenage Fanclub etc. Jeff Buckley's Grace was a huge album.
Mark n Lard on R1 while I marked books in the evenings. Rock Climbing dominated my efforts.
Mum died in September so I saved, jacked work and beggared off to Canada and US for 6 months - completely missed 'Definitely Maybe'. Realised my GF was 'the one', just in time.
A very important year for me, with a soundtrack that still sounds great.
I was 14, but really starting to get into music. I've loved today. Grace was a big album for me too - still is, in fact. Was The Bends really 94!? They've just played the first track from the Ride album too - Midnight Medicine or something. Superb. I think my physics teacher knew someone in Gene and managed to get my Olympian album signed. Winner.
Gene
Olympian
Move in with me now! 😀
Have you got wood?
I was 18, first year at uni, first time I'd really left Norfolk. Lost my virginity (finally) got in to indie and dance after teenage years only listening to Queen and GnR. I may have taken some drugs.
Still revert to that music now more than anything in the 20 years after. Still love an indie disco.
Have you got wood?
😆
Didn't get to listen too much to the radio today, mainly because of having a gurt big compressor running.
Nice hearing Paul Hartnoll though.
In 1994 I was fresh out of college and doing a mixture of freelance art-tech stuff, part time work in a prison and running an art gallery. I got asked to work with an artist at the Triplex Festival in Amsterdam - a big mix of art, performance, high-tech wizardry and a night of electronic music curated by HIA who happened to have their recording studio next door to my sculpture studio (luckily their 'recording' didn't involve microphones)
There wasn't really enough funds to pay for me to go over and work for the artist in question but a bit of wheeling and dealing saw me hired (along with my old ex-council transit) by HIA to drive all the various band's equipment over for the gig, effectively working my passage so that I could then work of the rest of the festival doing art stuff. So Orbital's, Autechre's, Hextactic's and various other people's gear was rammed into the back of my van and I followed their mini bus to the Harwich ferry.
Overnight on the ferry I ended up sitting with the Hartnoll brothers being entertained by the ferry's house band who were playing various MOR pop covers.
Paul started making requests - asking them to play the theme tune from Brazil. They politely refused, saying they don't really do requests and really they only do instrumental stuff latter in the night.
As he walked back to the table.... the band went into a superb, lengthy, prog improv cover of Brazil. We went nuts - Paul was making ornate paper doilies and draping them over the keyboards and mic stands to show his adoration.
Really interesting and lovely guys though. Heads well screwed on for people who were suddenly getting pretty big. They were in my transit on thursday night, they were going to be on concord on saturday afternoon.
Talking of getting things signed , in 94 I met snoop dogg& he signed my copy of doggystyle. At the time he was being described as a notorious ,dangerous person.
In fact he was THE most polite ,charming & respectful to ladies gangster rapper I have ever met. 🙂
What a great day of music! I was 19 living in Fulham with my best friend. We had a job which gave us a flat and a generous expenses budget. We made a go at eating at a different place every night, then head out. Lots of music, clubs and fun with ladies...and gents....Stand out gig was Primal Scream/parliament/funkadelic all nighter at Brixton academy. I think I danced for 12 solid hours! Loaded? Yes. Good time? Definitely.
Don't really remember to be honest. 94 would be the year I finished a toolmaking apprenticeship and spent a few months on the dole, did a couple of fessies and a few weeks playing gigs in Europe with my shit punk band (not going to call it something as grand as a tour). I was a hunt saboteur, doing foxhunts from Carlisle to Manchester. As you do.
Music-wise, the new wave of San Francisco / Berkeley punk and catching up on the old stuff.
Wasn't riding bikes that year but I did have an Suzuki RG500 on the never-never.
Pretty sure I wouldn't have envisioned myself dossing around on the Cantabrian coast at 42 but hopefully my 1994 self would not have been too disappointed.
And just when you thought it couldn't get any better - Tom Ravenscroft is on now!
I've been listening on/off all day, brought back a lot of happy memories for me.
'94 was a real high point for me, 16/17 and ripping around on a Raleigh Max and later a GT Timberline during my first period of MTB, shamefully I sold the GT for the price of a night on the piss by the end of the year and didn't get another one till 2005.
Anyway, first part-time job, taking home £300 a month, no bills, no responsibilities back when £2 a pint was an outrageous club price. First shag, first lads weekend away, first lads holiday, unlimited energy, 6th form collage when most of my mates were still in school made me think I was waaay more mature, end of Cold War.
I feel sorry for 16 year olds today, back then no adult wanted to work In a supermarket of an evening - they basically handed over the place to the 6th form of my school and we treated it like a youth club, they fed us and paid us £10 an hour to work 6 hours on a Sunday which was enough to go to the pub in style - nowadays the supermarkets seem to be staffed by middle aged people trying to make ends meet and they're paid £7.50 an hour and told to work Sundays. I'd be amazed if many school kids find part-time jobs these days, and if they do every pub wants to see ID for anyone who looks less than 90, like real ID, not a shady student union card from a 6th form college.
Great times.
95 was okay, but the cracks were starting to show in the relationship with my parents and I was unhappy a lot of the time by 96 thing took a serious turn to the shit, I've had periods of my life that were as happy and carefree as '94 - but they were short and usually based on denial.
In fact he was THE most polite ,charming & respectful to ladies gangster rapper I have ever met.
He's been with the same partner for many years.
I've always liked Snoop Dog, the story of him inviting a Welsh Giant Vegtable Grower backstage to discuss 'growing crops' always makes me laugh.
I only caught a bit of Lauren and Katy, but didn't hear Dubnobassformyheadman mentioned in this thread. Got to say, when I returned from Oz at the end of 94 it absolutely blew my head off. Still think it's one of the greatest albums ever, especially for a Romford boy.
1994 will always stick out as I was 14/15 and had just got into Nirvana before Kurt Cobains death 🙁 Also it was the year Ayrton Senna died so that was 2 of my heroes gone in the same year 😥
Liked Blur & Oasis, Prodigy, and other chart rubbish! Some that stick out are Chaka Demus & Pliers Twist & shout, Rednex cotton eye Joe, Aswad shine (due to a girl in my class with a really shiney forehead 😆 ) Was more into fishing back then but had a Raleigh Lizard that I rode everywhere on, i wanted a Kona but my paper round didn't pay enough.
Oh, I think I had a dedication from a mate played out on Mark and Lard's late night show that year too. No idea what it was though.
Where did you live? : same quiet rural Galloway town as I live now
What were you doing at the time? : Age 22, attending college wasting my life doing HND mech/electronic engineering 3-4 days a week and working 40hrs+ a week running THE only decent bar/pub in the town, putting on gigs/djs 3 nights of the week whilst supplementing my meagre income by providing a menu ordering system on thursday nights quiz night for all my loyal customers weekends "medicinal" needs whether that be acid/weed/quality hash/pink champagne/ecstasy and finally blue 10s for a Sunday afternoon comedown where I ran a "you bring it-we'll play it" session. Genuinely some of (if not the best) times of my life so far and we had a ****ing ball.
What were your albums of the year? : Christ knows without looking through my collection.....although it would include a fair deal of obscure techno amongst whatever else went plinky-plonk.
Would you have guessed then where you're at now? : I really didn't have any vision as to what was going to transpire week to week never mind to years in the future, nothing's changed 😉
I'd left a well paid but hateful job to start my own business and suddenly was poor. Was definately more oasis than blur & remember listen constantly to definately maybe whilst arranging funeral wreaths. Happy days
Now playing are doing JUNGLE
Fabio and Grooverider are having a chat
Just so you know
I was studying Ecology in Norwich. The rest is a blur.
