Urban75 Album of the Year 1994

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Weird random fact:

This year you all voted for 21 individual entries ending in "tion". Never seen so many protections, communications, fictions, generations and snivilisations.

 

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I'm closing the votes now.

 

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That means you can still vote, but it will irritate me.

 

[AverageJoe]

Doing mine now then

 

[AverageJoe]

Sent 25

 

[SpookyFrank]

I rushed my list a bit, hope that doesn't leave me filled with bitter regret like when I left Mercury Rev out of my 2001 votes.

 

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Well we have

16 voters
322 entries
189 individual albums

That's big. Nearly end of the year big.

Largely gen x forum plus a good, maybe even important year means everybody has an opinion.

 

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Funnel looks like this



So that's the bigger the bar the higher the score. And that doesn't say much other than that there's a fairly solid no.1 and a fairly solid no.2

Maybe a little more interesting is this pie chart.



So it's the two giants of ROCK and TECHNO dooking it out with a few scattered hip hop releases, a sliver of singer/songwriters and something called hiplife. What is hiplife??? Well!!! You will see!!!

 

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Can I just say, it really makes a difference when Fez909 votes. The electro brothers need you to help defeat alt jangle hell!

 

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I really shouldn't use the words "fairly solid no.2".

 

[danny la rouge]

Sorry I didn’t manage to get a vote in. It was a good year.

 

[belboid]

I really shouldn't use the words "fairly solid no.2".

Number 2 on the Bristol Stool Chart…

 

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39 - Blur - Parklife



I remember a few of these songs and I remember the Gallaghers being upset about it for some reason. Looking back, it's a good collection of bounciness and storytelling.

 

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38 - Method Man - Tical



Fresh out of the Wu Tang Clan and with a wodge of money to spend on production values. Seriously impressive sound on this.

 

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36= - Biosphere - Pateshnik



Deep/dark ambient I suppose? Not sure how to assess what it is. Assess what I think about it. Or assess anything. Or think about anything. I am on Jupiter now.

 

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36= - Tortoise - Tortoise



Post rock meets jazz and nicks a lot from Bitch Magnet in the process.

 

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35 - Dinosaur Jr. - Without a Sound



Slacker rock that doesn't slack on the production values. Sounds fantastic. I don't approve.

 

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34 - Jeff Mills - Waveform Transmission Vol 3

The type of techno that you could dance to if you maybe had six legs. Great for aphids.

 

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33 - Soundgarden - Superunknown



Half way between metal and grunge. Rock that sounds like rock.

 

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I'm going to have to leave it there for a bit. More tomorrow.

 

[stavros]

Tical was my second highest hip hop placing. I think it's as good if not better than any of the other first solo Wu albums, although Liquid Swords normally gets the critics' nod.

 

[Spandex]

The type of techno that you could dance to if you maybe had six legs pills.

cfy

 

[AverageJoe]

Amazed that Parklife is 39. I had it at 6.

That and Oasis were surely the albums everyone knew that year no matter who they were.

"PARKLIFE!" vs "Mayyybeeeeee" everywhere you went.

 

[The39thStep]

Amazed that Parklife is 39. I had it at 6.

That and Oasis were surely the albums everyone knew that year no matter who they were.

"PARKLIFE!" vs "Mayyybeeeeee" everywhere you went.

Two singles do not make a summer

 

[AverageJoe]

Two singles do not make a summer

Those two albums were packed with indie pop classic bangers,.

No cap.

 

[maomao]

Amazed that Parklife is 39. I had it at 6.

That and Oasis were surely the albums everyone knew that year no matter who they were.

"PARKLIFE!" vs "Mayyybeeeeee" everywhere you went.

The only reasonable answer to the Oasis Vs Blur question was 'fuck off'.

 

[AverageJoe]

Plus my bad, Wonder wall wasn't t on that album. It was on the second album.

 

[AverageJoe]

The only reasonable answer to the Oasis Vs Blur question was 'fuck off'.

Personally I always thought the answer back in 94 was "nine inch nails".

 

[hitmouse]

So it's the two giants of ROCK and TECHNO dooking it out with a few scattered hip hop releases, a sliver of singer/songwriters and something called hiplife. What is hiplife??? Well!!! You will see!!!

All the people, so many people, and they all go hand-in-hand, hand-in-hand through their hiplife?

 

[The39thStep]

Those two albums were packed with indie pop classic bangers,.

No cap.

Say it ain’t so Joe