1994: The Greatest Year

[Mardur]

Vidya Games:

Final Fantasy 6
Warcraft
Rise of the Triad
Tekken
Super Metroid
Donkey Kong Country
System Shock
TIE Fighter
X-Com
Wing Commander III
Darkstalkers
etc!

Muzak:
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Weezer - Blue Album
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Blur - Parklife
Portishead - Dummy
Soundground - Superunknown
Beck - Mellow Gold
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
Suede - Dog Man Star
Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
Morrissey - Vauxhall and I
Nas - Illmatic
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese

Oasis, Nine Inch Nails, Pulp, Green Day, Seal, Tori Amos, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, the Cranberries, Tom Petty, Manic Street Preachers, Common, Johnny Cash, Outkast, Bark Psychosis, Gang Starr, Built to Spill, Drive Like Jehu, Aphex Twin, Beastie Boys, UGK, Sebadoh, etc. Way too much to list, 1994 was insane for music.

Movies:
Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Four Weddings & a Funeral, The Lion King, Clerks, Natural Born Killers, The Professional, LEGEND OF DRUNK MASTER!!! etc etc you get the point,


1994 killed it.

Crazy how so many of my favorite things all came from one year.

[Lazortag]

You forgot Earthbound.

[Mardur]

Yeah there's tons of shit I could have listed but didn't because 1994 produced > 500,000 amazing things.

The games I listed all became / were part of gigantic IPs for their respective studios tho.

[Naez 4.20]

Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley


stoner sludge metal!@#

[Mardur]

Album is so good and launched Queens of the Stone Age.

You know they're touring again sans Josh Homme right? Probably a shitshow.

[Doors]

Yeah 94 was a good year.

[Mardur]

Bill Clinton was elected in 1992.

Coincidence?

[Naez 4.20]

we had 20 years of bushes and clintons fucking everything up

[Awwalike]

Gang Starr, okay Mardur that was quality.

[Naez 4.20]

now Hillary's your secretary of state and Chelsea married into Goldman Sachs

lolol

[Torin_Stormchaser]

... but... chrono trigger was released here in 1995...

[Lulz Sect]

I WAS IN HS THAT YEAR OMG

[Tommy_Wiseau]

i was in preschool LoL~

[Supreme]

only thing that sucked abotu 1994 was Fallen Empires...

[Korisek]

I was born that year.

[Autotune]

I was born that year.

1994 just got a lot shittier

[Grahm]

Autotune changed his avatar.......TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN WUT

[Awwalike]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61aGM18XUrL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

[Hasbinbad]

You couldn't have 1994 without 1993. I could make similar post about 1993, and it might be better. '94 was good, but do not forget '93.

Also, 1996 was the polished crown of this era, before everything turned to shit. The music, the movies, the cars..

[Naez 4.20]

rip pac :(

[Recycled Children]

http://celebrity-autopsies.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cobain.jpg

Great year.

[Diggles]

picture not accurate, no sign of courtney love in room.

[Mardur]

I'm sorry but this 1994 album was great:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/Hole-album-livethroughthis.jpg

[Biffins]

Fuck yeah I love Soundground!

[Pico]

I WAS IN HS THAT YEAR OMG

you mean to tell me you're in your mid 30s and ur username is 'lulz sec' and u have a troll picture for an avatar?

[Tarathiel]

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l314/fatshizit/TheDownwardSpiral.jpg

[mimixownzall]

I graduated in 93

[Recycled Children]

picture not accurate, no sign of courtney love in room.

She's taking the picture.

[guineapig]

I decided to try this with another random year... Personally I think 1986 was more epic than 94:


Why 1986 tops 1994:

Aliens
Platoon
Big Trouble in Little China
Labrynth
Highlander
Blue Velvet
Class of Nuke'Em High
Transformers: The Movie

The Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Outrun (arcade)
Dragon Quest
Bubble Bobble
Sega Master System


Jello Biafra defeats the PMRC in court

Sonic Youth: Evol
Skinny Puppy: Mind the Perpetual Intercourse
Dead Kennedy's: Bedtime for Democracy
The Cramps: A Date with Elvis
Metallica: Master of Puppets



Bands formed in 86:
Boredoms
Cypress Hill
M.O.D.
Social Disorder
Sacred Reich
Frontline Assembly
The Pixies

(Making the list got boring once I realized it didn't matter what year I would have picked, particularly from the last millennium.)

[Vile]

Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley


stoner sludge metal!@#


Kyuss ftw

[Tommy_Wiseau]

I decided to try this with another random year... Personally I think 1986 was more epic than 94:


Why 1986 tops 1994:

Aliens
Platoon
Big Trouble in Little China
Labrynth
Highlander
Blue Velvet
Class of Nuke'Em High
Transformers: The Movie

The Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Outrun (arcade)
Dragon Quest
Bubble Bobble
Sega Master System


Jello Biafra defeats the PMRC in court

Sonic Youth: Evol
Skinny Puppy: Mind the Perpetual Intercourse
Dead Kennedy's: Bedtime for Democracy
The Cramps: A Date with Elvis
Metallica: Master of Puppets



Bands formed in 86:
Boredoms
Cypress Hill
M.O.D.
Social Disorder
Sacred Reich
Frontline Assembly
The Pixies

(Making the list got boring once I realized it didn't matter what year I would have picked, particularly from the last millennium.)

what a cringeworthy list, i submit to you 94 is superior

[Korisek]

I decided to try this with another random year... Personally I think 1986 was more epic than 94:

I was ALSO born that year

[purest]

Jello Biafra defeats the PMRC in court

you are the tipper gore of this forum and i am the jello

[Tommy_Wiseau]

can i be the zappa in this simulation

[Tommy_Wiseau]

May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face. -- Frank Zappa, to Mrs. Gore

[Aenor]

Jeff Buckley - Grace

A+ thread would read again.

[Naez 4.20]

you are the tipper gore of this forum and i am the jello

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[guineapig]

In this thread:

People who think that their opinions matter more than others.

Thinking that NIN is better than Skinny Puppy,
or that Super Metroid was a more important milestone than Metroid,
or that Four Weddings & a Funeral is a better movie than Big Trouble in Little China,
or that Oasis should be on any list that isn't discussing piece of shit bands,
this is all fine... I don't care what your opinion is on these things.

Shrugging off the importance of the Biafra win versus the PMRC shows either ignorance or just your age... especially considering all the music you have been posting on these forums lately.

[Tommy_Wiseau]

In this thread:

People who think that their opinions matter more than others.

Thinking that NIN is better than Skinny Puppy,
or that Super Metroid was a more important milestone than Metroid,
or that Four Weddings & a Funeral is a better movie than Big Trouble in Little China,
or that Oasis should be on any list that isn't discussing piece of shit bands,
this is all fine... I don't care what your opinion is on these things.

Shrugging off the importance of the Biafra win versus the PMRC shows either ignorance or just your age... especially considering all the music you have been posting on these forums lately.

Whoa now I know you're still dressed up like alice cooper ca. 1986 but there's no need to get defensive about the year itself

PS
May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face. -- Frank Zappa, to Mrs. Gore

[Hasbinbad]

In this thread:

People who think that their opinions matter more than others.

Thinking that NIN is better than Skinny Puppy,
or that Super Metroid was a more important milestone than Metroid,
or that Four Weddings & a Funeral is a better movie than Big Trouble in Little China,
or that Oasis should be on any list that isn't discussing piece of shit bands,
this is all fine... I don't care what your opinion is on these things.

Shrugging off the importance of the Biafra win versus the PMRC shows either ignorance or just your age... especially considering all the music you have been posting on these forums lately.
Honestly, Trent was mad genius. I really liked SP back in the day, but comparing SP to NIN is kind of disingenuous to the extent that apples aren't oranges. If your metric is "which is more thrash/industrial," then obv. SP wins, but if your metric is "which one person is the most competent producer of music spanning several genres," then Trent wins.

Just saying.

Carry on.

[guineapig]

I'm more of the mindset that Trent was highlty influenced by the first wave of Industrial music. And if we are talking production talent than you should be comparing Trent to Kevin Key's work since Skinny Puppy is but one of many projects he was responsible for. Trent has done some great stuff to be sure, but would he have done what he did if not for influences like SP, Cabaret Voltaire, Severd Heads, etc? Well that's another discussion all together. Trent is great at utilizing the latest technologies into his music but Kevin was doing shit that nobody had ever heard the likes of with extremely primitive equipment and techniques. This of course does not detract from your opinion in any way.


@Japan... I hate Alice Cooper and your statment shows your ignorance to musical genres in general.

[Tommy_Wiseau]

pretty sure i never ever mentioned music except to make fun of your appearance, so that seems like a bit of a stretch

[Hasbinbad]

I'm more of the mindset that Trent was highlty influenced by the first wave of Industrial music. And if we are talking production talent than you should be comparing Trent to Kevin Key's work since Skinny Puppy is but one of many projects he was responsible for. Trent has done some great stuff to be sure, but would he have done what he did if not for influences like SP, Cabaret Voltaire, Severd Heads, etc? Well that's another discussion all together. Trent is great at utilizing the latest technologies into his music but Kevin was doing shit that nobody had ever heard the likes of with extremely primitive equipment and techniques. This of course does not detract from your opinion in any way.
Every musician has influences..

http://i.imgur.com/Ec0tJ.jpg