The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion

[Zeeba Neighba]

Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne (1993)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Bjork - Debut (1993)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Orbital - Orbital (1993)

Wrapping up 1993 today

 

[axolotl]

Wrapping up 1993 today

That is so like 30 years ago, Man!

 

[JazzyRandy]

LL Cool J - BAD: Bigger and Deffer (1987)

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Seeing this cover or hearing songs from the album always reminds me of this brother and sister in my childhood neighborhood. I was three years out of high school and developed a crush on a girl about a year or so younger than me whom I never really knew before. Her mother moved into a house (where ironically a 5-year old me nearly drowned in the only backyard pool in our neighborhood) during my senior year in HS and I never really properly met the kids. Later, when I saw the sister hanging out with girls I knew, I was smitten. We hung out a few times and went out three or four times, and a bought her a pair of earrings, but our relationship never really got going. I wasn't able to give her the time it took to woo her, and she was a great gal and didn't take any slack mess.

While I thought it still might become something, one early evening, I went to visit her and she wasn't there. Her younger brother thought I was "cool" and practically begged me to come in and wait for her, then insisted on wearing my ears off with his non-stop talking. I saw this cassette sitting around and asked him about it. I had fallen out of my LL Cool J phase and had moved on to PE and other rappers. The kid raved about it and pushed play. Every track, the brother would talk about how great "that" song was and I kept having to shush him so I could hear. After it played through, I realized I might have dismissed LL too soon. His sister called to say she wouldn't be home anytime soon. I left and went to the mall to buy this cassette.

I lost the girl, well never got the girl, but fell back in love with LL

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

That is so like 30 years ago, Man!

Lucky for me (and you) the book was published like 15-20 years ago..not as many years left

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Blur - Parklife (1994)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne (1993)

One of these days I have to revive that No Depression thread. this one would certainly be included.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Blur - Parklife (1994)

Blur Vs Oasis: The true story of the Battle Of Britpop

To be completely honest, I don’t like either one very much.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Blur Vs Oasis: The true story of the Battle Of Britpop

To be completely honest, I don’t like either one very much.

Interesting @Ojai Sam as both of them cite their influences to 60s British Invasion - granted I've always felt it was easier to see Blur's debt to The Kinks than Oasis' love of The Beatles. I really enjoy them both but also find the diversity of Britpop fascinating (do any of these bands sound similar, have similar styles?) - I do wonder where I would have fallen if I were a young music lover in the UK in the mid-1990s. Blur fans would disagree but I'm not sure Blur produced an album as killer as Morning Glory (or Definitely Maybe for that matter), but I find their albums as a whole more enjoyable/consistent compared to Oasis steady decline to mediocrity after their first two albums.

Happy the Mojo list has reached some Britpop - Pulp won't be far behind I imagine (not sure if the list will have any room for other enjoyable groups like Supergrass, Elastica, Ocean Colour Scene)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Just:
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible (1994)

Now:
Hole - Live Through This (1994)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Ted Hawkins - The Next Hundred Years (1994)

First listen. Had not really heard/knew about Hawkins, known locally in California as an outdoor blues/soul busker with some of his work known more overseas. Had some success with this album and some more recognition, then sadly he died months later

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Morrissey - Vauxhall and I (1994)

 

[axolotl]

Morrissey - Vauxhall and I (1994)

A wise man once proclaimed:

Well, at least you haven't gone full-Smiths.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder - Talking Timbuktu (1994)

 

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Offspring - Smash (1994)

 

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Portishead - Dummy (1994)

 

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Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Giant Sand - Glum (1994)

First listen