The album "Live Through This," by Hole came out 30 years ago today.
I know every note on that record. I can play many of the songs on guitar and/or bass and for 36 months it was one on HEAVY rotation in my musical soundscape. 1994 was a good year for my record collection, besides the Hole record others were:
Bakesale, Sebadoh
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Pavement
Mellow Gold, Beck
There's Nothing Wrong with Love, Built to Spill
Grace, Jeff Buckley
Weezer S/T (Blue Record)
Strangers from the Universe, Thinking Feelers Union 282
Foolish, Superchunk
Ill Communication, Beastie Boys
The Coup, Genocide and Juice
The Crow soundtrack
Ruby Vroom, Soul Coughing
American Thighs, Veruca Salt
and of course Dookie by Green Day.
These are of course the bigger artists. 1994 was filled with small club musical experiences of all kinds of genres and that could be a separate blog post. San Francisco 1994 was filled with music of all sonic shapes and sizes.
"Live Through This" is probably first for me. I don't listen to it much, but when I do it instantly brings me back to a time and place emotionally. Living in SF, playing music with one of my musical heartbeats, and becoming an adult.
A friend of mine from a thousand years ago came back into my life recently- thanks Instagram. And they asked me the other day if there are songs that I lose myself in and I have to say that "Violet," gets me every time. I understood the lyrics, I felt the lyrics. They were very similar to what I was writing in my journals at that time. Uncertain confidence. Naive and reckless. Scared and fierce. Goldfish memories. Slow motion reality. Friends. Romance. Laughs. Tears. Lots of drugs and alcohol. That is how I remember 1994.
Happy Anniversary to all the music of 1994.
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