Red Mosquito

Jesus Christ. Yeah, 94 was a monster year (no pun intended). That's just sick.

Any year sounds pretty good when you just list the musical highlights.



Let's use 2001, specifically because it doesn't immediately stand out as a particularly remarkable year...


Things We Lost in the Fire - Low


Girls Can Tell - Spoon


Standards - Tortoise


Acoustic Soul - India.Arie


musicforthemorningafter - Pete Yorn


No More Shall We Part - Nick Cave


Swimming Hour - Andrew Bird


Isolation Drills - Guided By Voices


Love and Theft - Bob Dylan


Gold - Ryan Adams


the Argument - Fugazi


Amnesia - Radiohead

(It was at this point that McParadigm got bored with the image hunt, and just listed the rest...)


Streethawk - Destroyer
Look Into the Eyeball - David Byrne
Invisible Band - Travis
Rings Around the World - Super Furry Animals
Time (the Revelator) - Gillian Welch
Vespertine - Bjork
Toxicity - System of a Down
The Coast is Never Clear - Beulah
All is Dream - Mercury Rev
Audio of Being - Mathew Good Band
Relative Ways - ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Vocal Studies - Prefuse 73
Reveal - REM
Is This It - The Strokes
Blue Boy - Ron Sexsmith
Wicked Grin - John Hammond
Scar - Joe Henry
White Blood Cells - White Stripes
Origin of Symmetry - Muse
The Blueprint - Jay-Z
Labor Days - Aesop Rock
Insignificance - Jim O'Rourke
Ancient Melodies of the Future - Built to Spill
What's Next to the Moon - Mark Koyouknowhisdamnname
Ten New Songs - Leonard Cohen
Rockin' the Suburbs - Ben Folds
Shangi-La-Dee-Da - STP
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - BRMC

You guys forgot the best band of the 90s.

McParadigm wrote:Any year sounds pretty good when you just list the musical highlights.

Fuck my balls, did Crooked Rain come out in 94 also?!

BurtReynolds wrote:

McParadigm wrote:Any year sounds pretty good when you just list the musical highlights.

Perhaps you misunderstand what it is that I am, friend...

And I see your point, McP.

But that list from 94 as well as the ones folks have added... yeah, that's the truth. All of those albums shaped me. That '01 list is great, but it doesn't compare to '94.

holy shit this was also 94



edit: oh what Letmesleep said.

durdencommatyler wrote:And I see your point, McP.

But that list from 94 as well as the ones folks have added... yeah, that's the truth. All of those albums shaped me. That '01 list is great, but it doesn't compare to '94.

That's because you were coming of age musically in 1994, not 2001.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:And I see your point, McP.

But that list from 94 as well as the ones folks have added... yeah, that's the truth. All of those albums shaped me. That '01 list is great, but it doesn't compare to '94.

That's because you were coming of age musically in 1994, not 2001.

what year did you come of age?

BurtReynolds wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:And I see your point, McP.

But that list from 94 as well as the ones folks have added... yeah, that's the truth. All of those albums shaped me. That '01 list is great, but it doesn't compare to '94.

That's because you were coming of age musically in 1994, not 2001.

what year did you come of age?

What are you trying to do here?

cutuphalfdead wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:And I see your point, McP.

But that list from 94 as well as the ones folks have added... yeah, that's the truth. All of those albums shaped me. That '01 list is great, but it doesn't compare to '94.

That's because you were coming of age musically in 1994, not 2001.

what year did you come of age?

What are you trying to do here?

I was just gonna play it by ear.

BurtReynolds wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:And I see your point, McP.

But that list from 94 as well as the ones folks have added... yeah, that's the truth. All of those albums shaped me. That '01 list is great, but it doesn't compare to '94.

That's because you were coming of age musically in 1994, not 2001.

what year did you come of age?

What are you trying to do here?

I was just gonna play it by ear.

I'm not falling for this, no way no how.

BurtReynolds wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:And I see your point, McP.

But that list from 94 as well as the ones folks have added... yeah, that's the truth. All of those albums shaped me. That '01 list is great, but it doesn't compare to '94.

That's because you were coming of age musically in 1994, not 2001.

what year did you come of age?

2009. And man, that Backspacer is a work of art. It really speaks to my childhood. When he....well, I wasn't going to say it, but okay:

When he says he's going to fight to get it back again, I cry, man. I cry.

McParadigm wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:And I see your point, McP.

But that list from 94 as well as the ones folks have added... yeah, that's the truth. All of those albums shaped me. That '01 list is great, but it doesn't compare to '94.

That's because you were coming of age musically in 1994, not 2001.

what year did you come of age?

2009. And man, that Backspacer is a work of art. It really speaks to my childhood. When he....well, I wasn't going to say it, but okay:

When he says he's going to fight to get it back again, I cry, man. I cry.

You never forget the first time you complete the cycle.

This is what happens when you play it by ear, Burt.

McParadigm wrote:This is what happens when you play it by ear, Burt.

AL

cutuphalfdead wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:And I see your point, McP.

But that list from 94 as well as the ones folks have added... yeah, that's the truth. All of those albums shaped me. That '01 list is great, but it doesn't compare to '94.

That's because you were coming of age musically in 1994, not 2001.

There's probably something to that, yeah. But it's kind of a chicken and the egg thing, no?

Guys, 1994 >>>>>>>> 2001.

On any level.

Here are some others from '94 that are part of the fabric of me:








and especially:


Goddamn, '94 was a brilliant year for music.