I listened for an eternity to the pre 7am show and kept checking it wasn’t the smashy and nicey show. Loads of inane waffle very little music.

Disappointed as I’ve been going through a britpop revival.

Oh and Definitely Maybe came out in 1994. Awesome album.

1994, I was living at home with my parents, 14 years old and going through a rebellious phase.

I wore nothing but black grew my hair out and got my ear pierced (against my parents wishes, think that one earned me a weeks grounding). My personal playlist at the time was dominated by metallica, Nirvana, the wildhearts and therapy.

Spare time was filled with guitars, weed and bikes. I’ve still got the same guitar (it’s hanging on the wall in my office right behind me as I type) I left the weed behind many years ago and the ’93 Hahannah went in 1997/8 to make way for a specialised rockhopper.

I’m now sat here listening to 6 music trying to get some work done while contemplating if I would be a disappointment to my 14 year old self!

1994 was awesome from what I remember.

I was a fresh faced 16 year old with long greasy hair messing about on bikes loads. Playlist was mostly metal (Metallica etc) & started discovering a bit of US punk (NOFX, Pennywise…). My folks had MTV so there were the same tunes on a constant loop on the TV when we weren’t out riding. I think we went to the Malverns that year and drank way too much, also raced at Eatsridge for the 1st time.

Pretty sure the summer was pure sunshine but that may just be rose tinted specs.

We were expecting ‘the lad’ and Ms Sandwich at 2 was playing Ace of Bass on a loop and singing really badly. (The type of singing that a Geneva Convention exits to combat).

From 1994 I sitll listen to; Gravediggaz – Ni**amortis, Notorious B.I.G – Ready to Die.

The aggressive music of the disenfranchised african-american youth really resonated with white, middle class, Oxfordshire village life…. and still does.

I was living in Egypt and Ace of Bass was on a continual loop at all the western clubs we used to go to…

I don’t remember paul oakenfold’s ‘legendary’ mix having interjections between every song to tell us how legendary it was.

still good mind.

That Sunday main stage lineup at Reading 😯

First CD I ever owned (having just upgraded from a tape deck) was Music for the Jilted Generation.

Was living in Sydney. Remember the Big Day Out was a good day. Soundgarden headlined, but highlight was my favourite band (then and now) Teenage Fanclub rocked. After them a tab kicked in and it all went a bit vague! Oz was very much in the grip of grunge and that wasn’t really my cuppa, so hearing Definitely Maybe made me very happy but very homesick.

Seventeen, skateboarding, smoking weed, drinking and listening to Soundgarden and Beastie Boys on repeat. Gave up the deck and the drugs a long time ago. Still listening to those two bands though.

Ahhh 1994

20, living with the parents in Wootton Bassett. Riding all over the Marlborough Downs area.

Driving a cream, lowered, morris minor with wide wheels. Bike rack permanently on the back with a bitg Scott USA sticker across the rear window.

Listening to Guns and Roses, Soundgarden and Nirvana.

Long hair in a ponytail. Pretty much always wore bike t-shirts.

Racing Xc and pretty sure that was the first year I did a downhill race.

Riding a Scott superlimited, diamond back response Elite and GT RTS.

And yes, pretty sure it was sun sun sun and dry trails that year.

I was at reading in 94. Knee of the best festival line ups ever. Lots of stories.

18, just finished a levels. Great summer. marred by the stuffies splitting up and death of Cobain.

Rode across the country with my dad, and set my 10 mile TT pb. Lots of MTB action in north Essex with pmj.

Pulp, therapy, chilis, senseless things, Wonder stuff, etc.

Started uni in Sheffield. Had a blast.

Rose tinted specs.

Was 13 so just really getting into my stride music-wise 😀

Lived in the Brecon Beacons, was still at High School, hadn’t really ‘discovered’ girls yet and spent all my time on my bike with mates or listening to music – nothing’s really changed there (apart from the ‘discovering’ girls bit…) 8)

Blur
Oasis
Prodigy
Prodigy
Rage Against the Machine
Nirvana Unplugged
Beastie Boys
Soundgarden
Smashing Pumpkins
Terrorvision
The Verve
Radiohead
Kerbdog
Pearl Jam
Weezer
The Offspring
Green Day
Jamiroquai

All got played constantly, no particular album stood out as there was enough music there to suit most occasions. I do remember that summer cost me (well, my dad) a small fortune in D batteries for my ghetto blaster from taking it down the river field pretty much every day and playing CD’s constantly 😀

Where did you live? – Ironbridge
What were you doing at the time? – Working hard and Roadie racing for a local Team
What were your albums of the year? – I was into Dance of that era, usually going to clubs to hear the latest Dance/Acid House stuff (Birmingham/Stafford/London)
Would you have guessed then where you’re at now? – Yeah, always knew i’d end up on the coast, a very good job and places to play on the sea.

Yeah that was the song on one of the …lost vids where I first heard them. Its a great album.

It was 95-98 when I was really into my stride as a teenager and a full on music head, listening to 1994 I remember a lot doesnt have the same resonance as later in the nineties.

Has one of you been spoofing la la again? Someone just texted in saying just thinking about orbital’s 94 Glasters set almost brings them to tears

1994 – I was 18 and first year at uni. Blew a large chunk of my student loan on an imported mongoose iboc comp fitted out with parts specced from a merlin back-page mtb mag ad. Also started climbing in a trial and error fashion at Swanage as caving was fading for me. Prodigy and Orbital indeed.

It was a strange year for me. I’d just been to the funeral of a friend who killed himself when I heard of Kurt Cobain’s death in the spring. I graduated from uni in the summer as a maturish student and promptly started work at On Your Bike at London Bridge and then got married.
Still have many happy memories of my time in the shop. Shame it’s gone now, moved to make way for a revised railway station!