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101 Best Songs of 1994 - #1 - Notorious BIG - Juicy (1 Viewer)
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scorchy
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#41 - Tom Petty - You Don't Know How It Feels
It says a ton about Tom Petty's catalog that I've always really liked this song yet it's not even among by top 15-20 for him. You Don't Know How It Feels was Petty's last Top 40 hit, reaching #13 on the Hot 100. It also provides another example of FM radio censoring a lyric that seems pretty innocuous even by 1994 standards.
You Don't Know How It Feels
It says a ton about Tom Petty's catalog that I've always really liked this song yet it's not even among by top 15-20 for him. You Don't Know How It Feels was Petty's last Top 40 hit, reaching #13 on the Hot 100. It also provides another example of FM radio censoring a lyric that seems pretty innocuous even by 1994 standards.
You Don't Know How It Feels
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DocHolliday
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simey
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I bet your son will really be into music by the time he reaches high school. Three of my nephews are very into music, but all four like it. The oldest graduated from college last year, the second oldest is a freshman in college, and the next one is a junior in high school, and then the youngest is a freshman in high school.
The youngest likes a variety of music. The other three are into the popular rap / hip hop stuff. They go to concerts and festivals that have those type of artists playing. The oldest originally liked a variety, and was big into Green Day in middle school. He liked the Beatles too, but not as much as I would have liked for him to.
He is naturally musically inclined. He played the guitar, saxophone, and piano in middle school and high school. He went to high school at a Performing Arts Academy. When he was there he started listening to metal type music. I just know it had a bunch of screaming in it. In college he started listening to the current rap / hip hop stuff, and he still does. I'm not a fan of that stuff, but the three oldest nephews love it. The second and third oldest are going to some festival in Miami at the end of July. I hope they stay safe. The leader of the two is book smart, but a dumb blonde as far as common sense goes. 
foxco
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Always liked Petty but feel like he's climbing the ranks as I get older. Think I listen to at least one Petty song every day. And You Don't Know How it Feels is outstanding.
Pip's Invitation
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Wildflowers is a great record and this song is one of Petty’s best.
As you might expect, my favorite song by a rock geezer from 1994 is this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=45qX1VYONds
Dan Lambskin
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Hes an all time great, but sometimes I get a little sick of him, but mostly due to my wife streaming it a lot on Amazon or on Sirius and it tends to get repetitive
also only time I saw him live got ruined a bit because I decided to toke up with the strangers in front of me while my wife went to bathroom and she doesn’t really care for that sort of thing. Plus she had been drinking so she was emotional and I spent like 2 songs walking around the concourse with her crying and it kind of ruined the vibe for the rest of the night. Ironically one of the songs I missed during all that was Last Dance With Mary Jane
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Uruk-Hai
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For Petty to have had the career he did, when he did, is remarkable. For almost 20 years, it seemed like he always had a new song on the radio - all through several pretty hefty seismic changes in the music world around him. All the while he just kept doing his own thing and released smash after smash.
It's really interesting to me, because he was mis-marketed from the start. Besides Springsteen, I don't think anyone paid more homage to his musical past than Petty..... yet he was lumped in with the New Wavers, many of whom only had the most tenuous connection to rock's past (as it was seen at the time; nowadays it's much easier to draw the lines). Yet, Petty's music didn't really sound like most of his contemporary AOR artists, either (in fact, I don't think his early stuff got any AOR play, at least not in my neck of the woods) - he didn't sound as sterile as some of the "corporate" rockers, nor was he as artsy as bands like Kansas & Styx. Even at his most stadium-rock-y ("Refugee", etc....), he always had both grit (& grits) and restraint that most of the others didn't.
And he just kept going and going and going. Every time I thought he was done (or I forgot about him), here he comes again with another batch of songs that got played in about 4,000 different radio formats. New Wave and Punk should have ended his career - they didn't. MTV should have wiped him out - he throve. Grunge DEFINITELY should have put the kibosh on him - nope.
I know I took him for granted. I didn't realize how many Petty songs I loved until the thread here when he passed away. "Oh yeah, love that one. That one, too!".
This particular song isn't one of my faves, but it's still pretty damned good. To have this be a hit in 1994 blows my mind.
scorchy
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#40 - Radiohead - My Iron Lung
I wasn't sure what to do with this one. Radiohead released the My Iron Lung EP six months ahead (September '94) of The Bends and it didn't really catch on. The single itself barely got played and the band didn't make a video. Apparently, neither the record company nor college radio DJs knew what to do with the very non-Creep sound.
My Iron Lung made much more sense once The Bends was released in early '95 and we got a chance to hear the evolution (or revolution?) in Radiohead's sound. Still, as much as I like the song, it does suffer a tad in comparison to many of the other amazing tracks on the forthcoming album. So I'm dumping it here, at the very back of the top 40, but could be convinced that it should be 20 spots in either direction.
My Iron Lung
I wasn't sure what to do with this one. Radiohead released the My Iron Lung EP six months ahead (September '94) of The Bends and it didn't really catch on. The single itself barely got played and the band didn't make a video. Apparently, neither the record company nor college radio DJs knew what to do with the very non-Creep sound.
My Iron Lung made much more sense once The Bends was released in early '95 and we got a chance to hear the evolution (or revolution?) in Radiohead's sound. Still, as much as I like the song, it does suffer a tad in comparison to many of the other amazing tracks on the forthcoming album. So I'm dumping it here, at the very back of the top 40, but could be convinced that it should be 20 spots in either direction.
My Iron Lung
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El Floppo
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oh ####
this tune was my slam dunk favorite Radiohead tune for a LONG time. didn't remember when The Bends even came out. Its since moved down for me... maybe because I listened to it too much, or maybe because I aged into more of the electronic weirdness/awesomeness they started doing later.
but I still loooooove this tune. I have no doubt most of the rest of the top 40 will be behind this one for me.
eta: listening to it now- so clear they took the Creep blue-print of quiet to crunch, but the way they build this one... and they way they crunch it... the guitar work especially... yum.
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Yeah, just didn't want people being all up in here screaming "WHERE THE #### IS FAKE PLASTIC TREES!"
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My two least favorite songs on The Bends are the “hits,” this and Fake Plastic Trees. There’s nothing wrong with them; that’s just a testament to how good the rest of the record is.
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#39 - Massive Attack - Protection
Massive Attack is one of the first 2 or 3 bands you think of when you hear the words Trip Hop. Their debut album had come out in 1991 but the name for the genre with which they're most associated didn't appear in print until 3 years later. Trip hop had its moment in the spotlight, particularly in the UK, but like most 90s genres, labels started signing crappier and crappier bands to cash in and the whole thing went down in flames.
Protection, the first single off of the album of the same name, feature Everything But the Girl's Tracy Thorn on vocals. Chill way to end the weekend...
Protection
Massive Attack is one of the first 2 or 3 bands you think of when you hear the words Trip Hop. Their debut album had come out in 1991 but the name for the genre with which they're most associated didn't appear in print until 3 years later. Trip hop had its moment in the spotlight, particularly in the UK, but like most 90s genres, labels started signing crappier and crappier bands to cash in and the whole thing went down in flames.
Protection, the first single off of the album of the same name, feature Everything But the Girl's Tracy Thorn on vocals. Chill way to end the weekend...
Protection
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El Floppo
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I had a remix CD of this that became my go-to version of it.
But I was a big EBTG fan (bought their first album solely off the cover) and a big Massive Attack fan (Blue Lines was the soundtrack to a 2 month crosscountry road trip I took with a buddy). Loved the two getting together here.
scorchy
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#38 - REM - What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
REM released Monster in September ‘94 and it immediately topped the Billboard album charts. The record rocked a lot harder than either of their previous two releases, spawning two #1 Modern Rock singles and two more that went top 20. I like What’s The Frequency Kenneth the best of the bunch. Peter Buck’s guitar packs a serious punch and it doesn’t seem to matter that, like a lot of REM songs, I can’t decipher 90 percent of what Michael Stipe’s is trying to say. The title refers to an incident in New York City in 1986 when Dan Rather was attacked by dudes who kept repeating said line.
What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
REM released Monster in September ‘94 and it immediately topped the Billboard album charts. The record rocked a lot harder than either of their previous two releases, spawning two #1 Modern Rock singles and two more that went top 20. I like What’s The Frequency Kenneth the best of the bunch. Peter Buck’s guitar packs a serious punch and it doesn’t seem to matter that, like a lot of REM songs, I can’t decipher 90 percent of what Michael Stipe’s is trying to say. The title refers to an incident in New York City in 1986 when Dan Rather was attacked by dudes who kept repeating said line.
What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
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The last listenable album of theirs for me. I can see where a lot of their old fans would hate the Monster album.
simey
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I think Monster is a good album. I like the song you posted, and my favorite is "Crush With Eyeliner." I love the tremolo pedal Buck uses on both songs.
scorchy
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Yeah, Buck's guitar sounds great on both songs. Courtney Love insists that Crush With Eyeliner is about her, but then again, she kind of thinks everything is about her.
simey
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I can see where the lyrics "she's three miles of bad road" could possibly pertain to her.
scorchy
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Some guy on discogs keeps PMing me and offering $300 for The Shaggs LP. I must have mis-entered that I have the original vinyl instead of a reissue. I've told him that several times (and changed it on the the site) but he may be really fried.
plinko
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Don't know who can listen to that stuff.. it felt forced into the movie, I mean have the kid listen to Nick Drake or something if you wanna be old school cool, but who am I to judge
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scorchy
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#37 - The Cranberries - Zombie
I'm just not sure what to do with the next two songs. They were gigantic and scream mid-90s. I liked both at the time and still do, but probably don't feel the need to hear either one very often given how much they were/are overplayed. It's a conundrum.
No Need to Argue presented a pretty big shift for The Cranberries. Their prior album (1993's Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can't We) was dreamy and jangly. The follow up was darker, both musically and lyrically - it still went 7x platinum. Lead single Zombie hit #1 on the US Modern Rock charts as well as in several other countries. I love so much about it - the bassline, the pounding drums, and the way Dolores O'Riordan's accent sounds when she sings "guns" or growls "zombie." After a zillion listens, I could probably do without the yodeling. Even with that, I don't feel compelled to change the station when Zombie comes on the radio, unlike that other famous Irish protest song about The Troubles. Heresy I know, and those feelings didn't stop me from placing it appropriately in my U2 poll submission.
Zombie
I'm just not sure what to do with the next two songs. They were gigantic and scream mid-90s. I liked both at the time and still do, but probably don't feel the need to hear either one very often given how much they were/are overplayed. It's a conundrum.
No Need to Argue presented a pretty big shift for The Cranberries. Their prior album (1993's Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can't We) was dreamy and jangly. The follow up was darker, both musically and lyrically - it still went 7x platinum. Lead single Zombie hit #1 on the US Modern Rock charts as well as in several other countries. I love so much about it - the bassline, the pounding drums, and the way Dolores O'Riordan's accent sounds when she sings "guns" or growls "zombie." After a zillion listens, I could probably do without the yodeling. Even with that, I don't feel compelled to change the station when Zombie comes on the radio, unlike that other famous Irish protest song about The Troubles. Heresy I know, and those feelings didn't stop me from placing it appropriately in my U2 poll submission.
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DocHolliday
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As a guitar guy, Monster is one of my favorite REM albums. The guitar is really out front but sometimes the guitar effects are a little much or used too much for me. In any case, love this entry to the list!
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Zombie was the first song that my girlfriend successfully stole via Napster, after many failed attempts to keep her dial-up connection alive long enough to get a whole song. We're married now, and it still has a special place in her heart. I'm not sure if it's because she likes the song, or because it allows her to relive her moment of triumph.
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You never forget the first time you stuck it to the man.FatMax said:
rockaction
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That's unreal. I had a guy who was so fried write me a glowing review and told everybody that the one negative I'd gotten (a non-payment to Germany when I told the guy I mistakenly ordered it and didn't want it right away) was bull#### and that if could put up with his (the fried guy's) lateness, I sure was a good customer, darn it.scorchy said:
I think of that every time I put on the T. Rex Electric Warrior album I got from him. New. Sealed. Nice tasty vinyl.
rockaction
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Whoever thought that song was about him and had it actually be about him is sort of just right in the end, isn't he? Not vain, just correct.Pip's Invitation said:
scorchy
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scorchy said:
#36 - Lisa Loeb - Stay (I Missed You)
What to say about this... Stay came completely out of left field in May 1994 and made Lisa Loeb the only unsigned artist in history to score a #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. The story goes that Lisa was Ethan Hawkes' neighbor in NYC. He heard her play the song at a show, got a copy of a recording, and gave it to Ben Stiller to use in Reality Bites (the sell-out of Gen X movies). The rest, as they say, is history.
Were there any alternative, artsy, or dorky guys that didn't have a thing for Lisa Loeb in 1994? The glasses, the voice, the literature degree from Brown... Alas, she ended up dating Dweezil Zappa for 6 years instead.* If you check out her Wiki, she's had quite the varied career in music, movies, tv, and books. plus her own line of eyeglasses and fair-trade coffee. I'm not sure she's aged a day in 28 years.
Stay (I Missed You)
* The partnership with Dweezil did give us a great Ozzy cover: Goodbye to Romance
SFBayDuck
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scorchy said:
Now we're in my wheelhouse, a genre my lady calls "whiny chick rock". Guilty. From the first time I heard Linger and Dreams in college, I was hooked.
I saw them at the Warfield in San Francisco in (I think) 2000. Went by myself because none of my friends would go with me, even my then-wife wouldn't go. Worked my way up to the front of the crowd and was right at the stage. From the dreamy early stuff to belting out Salvation and Zombie, man that little pixie could sing. Great show.
Spent a good three-four hours listening to their music the day Dolores died in 2018. I had to go pick up my daughter from high school that afternoon, and when she got in the car she took one look at me and asked "Dad, are you ok?"
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foxco
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fatguyinalittlecoat
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Bands on the list so far that I’ve seen in concert:
Live
Guided By Voices
Rancid
Weezer
Aerosmith
James
Hole
Cranberries
Lisa Loeb
Live
Guided By Voices
Rancid
Weezer
Aerosmith
James
Hole
Cranberries
Lisa Loeb
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It can be two things! You can be correct on this matter and vain on other matters!
(In any case, Simon has said the subject of the song is a composite based on several men, so all of the subjects of speculation may be correct.)
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rockaction
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Not to ####kick on this, but was Aimee Mann mousy? I dunno about that. She looked very Swedish in 'Til Tuesday.
rockaction
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When I think of mousy, I think of shoulder-length brown hair and that librarian look. Maybe I'm just hung up on the librarian aspect of it. Aimee Mann could very well be mousy for all I know. It's a bit of a vague description.
Actually, I just looked it up. "Mousy," according to M-W can mean several things that are not incongruous with Aimee Mann. Shortish, grayish-brown hair, the third definition, though, is what I think of when I think of mousy.
Actually, I just looked it up. "Mousy," according to M-W can mean several things that are not incongruous with Aimee Mann. Shortish, grayish-brown hair, the third definition, though, is what I think of when I think of mousy.
rockaction
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And now you see how no internet good deed (like Pip agreeing and using an example of a mousy girl that aged well) goes unpunished.
Pip's Invitation
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Not then, but maybe a little in the 90s — which matched the kind of music she was making at the time.
rockaction
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Sure thing. I don't want to throw the mousy thing out with the strict definitional bathwater, so I'll definitely leave Aimee Mann as open for mouse house business.
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