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Fiddlehead - Deaf Waiter.
Steel pole bathtub - Some cocktail

Both recorded by Albini San

numberthirty wrote: Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:15 pm
The Crow OST - Everything from "The Badge" on out is a keeper. Just the version of "Time Baby" that is essentially a Cocteau Twins tune...

I particularly liked 'Slip Slide Melting'.

Although I don't think I discovered any of it until the following year, Skin Graft had a banner year in 1994. These records all meant a lot to me

Mount Shasta-Who's the Hottie?
Dazzling Killmen-Face of Collapse
Brice-Glace-When in Vanitas

Of course, a lot of what I think about when I think about 1994 in music was the months of reverberations brought on by FM Steve's letter to the Chicago Reader. I think the letter was published in January and I remember reading some response to it or response to the response to or response etc until I moved away from Chicago in late August.

also a career high for this guy, released the same day as superunknown and the downward spiral:

OrthodoxEaster wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:16 am But I was also getting the impression that independent rock was fraying into far less appealing (to me, anyway) commercial and/or niche (electronic, so-called post-rock, free noise) directions.

Dinosaur Jr.'s Without a Sound is an example of the ossification going on with some of the established bands.

Also worth noting is that the Pulp Fiction soundtrack came out that year, and I would say that was a pretty significant touchstone for the surf revival, and oldies in general before Wes Anderson ruined cinema and music, for everyone, for all time, a few years later.

I think a lot of the established indie bands were trying to give their sounds the Butch Vig treatment.

My #1 album of 1994: Those Deep Buds by Dog Faced Hermans. Unfortunately they broke up right after this.

losthighway wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:49 am ^ Incredible list. The last few years of the 90's don't hold a candle!

A quick look at 1984 (which might be a joke here but just in case):

The Smiths- S/T
Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
REM- Reckoning
Metallica -Ride the Lightning
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
The Replacements -Let It Be
Minutemen- Double Nickels
The Fat Boys - Fat Boys

1904 had some jams as well https://archive.org/details/78rpm?tab=c ... %221904%22

Scanning the thread and seeing no mention of Hex by Bark Psychosis and Disco Inferno's DI Go Pop so far.

Has that strand of early-period UK post-rock fallen a little out of favour nowadays?

the letter o wrote: Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:04 am Scanning the thread and seeing no mention of Hex by Bark Psychosis and Disco Inferno's DI Go Pop so far.

Has that strand of early-period UK post-rock fallen a little out of favour nowadays?

An odd one for me as those are records I didn't drift towards until the turn of the millennium, so I don't know if they were much in favour on release to begin with.