June 29, 2024Jun 29 Author Every member of BuzzJack is welcome to contribute to the project. At present, there are two ways that someone can contribute. Firstly, to work with one of our core team - awardinary, gooddelta and myself - to compile and sequence compilations (playlists on Spotify) based on a year, a genre or a theme. We have a set of guidelines which will be available to anyone who would like to contribute. Secondly, to produce artwork for each compilation - front cover and track listings for the back cover. At this point, I am taking care of this but anyone who has access to Adobe illustrator is very welcome to contribute. I'm going to update the opening post with this information.
July 3, 2024Jul 3 Author Coming soon... Guess the opening tracks of all 4 discs Dandy*, you're too good at this game - can you put your guesses in spoiler tags, please? :lol: Teeze Disc 1 8. Pet Shop Boys - Go West Disc 2 13. Arrested Development - Mr. Wendal Disc 3 11. Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Disc 4 7. M People - Moving On Up Edited July 3, 2024Jul 3 by Colm
July 4, 2024Jul 4 Meat Loaf (IDAFL), Ace Of Base (ATSW), Haddaway (What Is Love) would maybe be my guesses. I thought Whitney would open too, but IWALY was released 1992 so probably not. I Have Nothing and I’m Every Woman are both solid but seem more like closing tracks. Plus I would not be able to pick between them :lol: Those songs came to me immediately but even a 5 minute little research reminded me just how great that year was for music. Hoping for at least a run of 3-4 reggae classics since 1993 really was the year for it UB40 -> Sweat -> Oh Carolina -> Informer Also Israel Kamakawiwoʻole if SOTR/WAWW is eligible Edited July 4, 2024Jul 4 by Dexton
July 4, 2024Jul 4 Author I didn't really appreciate the variety of popular music in 1993 until compiling this set. Hip hop and alt-rock were making great strides. Edited July 4, 2024Jul 4 by Colm
July 4, 2024Jul 4 Author Meat Loaf (IDAFL), Ace Of Base (ATSW), Haddaway (What Is Love) would maybe be my guesses. I thought Whitney would open too, but IWALY was released 1992 so probably not. I Have Nothing and I’m Every Woman are both solid but seem more like closing tracks. Plus I would not be able to pick between them :lol: Those songs came to me immediately but even a 5 minute little research reminded me just how great that year was for music. Hoping for at least a run of 3-4 reggae classics since 1993 really was the year for it UB40 -> Sweat -> Oh Carolina -> Informer Also Israel Kamakawiwoʻole if SOTR/WAWW is eligible Two correct
July 4, 2024Jul 4 Author Hoping for at least a run of 3-4 reggae classics since 1993 really was the year for it UB40 -> Sweat -> Oh Carolina -> Informer Be careful what you wish for! :D
July 4, 2024Jul 4 No Limit by 2 Unlimited or we don't want it. No Limit as the last track on disc 3 would be ironic as there has to be a limit on tracks for this compilation! Edited July 4, 2024Jul 4 by TheSnake
July 5, 2024Jul 5 The River Of Dreams, Everybody Hurts? Also probably Mr Blobby just for being iconically awful / awfully iconic
July 5, 2024Jul 5 Author The much talked about BuzzJack presents... 1993 is here. I started this a few months ago as a reaction to the laughable Now Yearbook 1993 track listing release. In hindsight, the selection of songs on Now Yearbook 1993 was not terrible. They were just in a terrible order. These things matter to me and gooddelta (wardy doesn't lose much sleep over placing 4 Non Blondes just before Eternal ) What struck me the most, as we whittled down our long list to our slightly less long list, was that alt-rock had quite the year. As did hip-hop. As Dexton alluded to earlier a few posts ago, reggae was all over the place. It's well known that I detest commercial reggae but honour it, I must, I won't bore your with my thoughts but (cancelled or not) I've really enjoyed re-discovering Michal Jackson's Give in To Me. Living On My Own, however, has aged less well. I will let the music speak for itself. Let us know what you think and what classics we have left out!
July 6, 2024Jul 6 Love as always, can’t wait to dig in. There is a few songs here I hadn’t thought about although there’s also a couple omissions I would’ve picked too :o Counting Crows Mr Jones, Salt n Pepa Whatta-Man, Bon Jovi Bed Of Roses, The Cranberries Linger
July 6, 2024Jul 6 Author Mr Jones, Shoop and Linger weren't hits in the UK until 1994. Bed of Roses was on the long list. Edited July 6, 2024Jul 6 by Colm
July 6, 2024Jul 6 Well done Colm, this is a fantastic work. 1993 was I think a transitional year in the 90s where new (and recycled old) sounds started to become popular and the 80s started to drift further away. There were still a few songs that had an 80s feel - Bluebells - because it was from the decade, Sonia (not on here but just realising maybe that's why Now sequenced them back to back), and maybe the Kim Wilde/Go West/Paul Young songs that are also on Now but not on here. I think Colm's better represents what's remembered and loved these days. The variety of the year is shown by the big hits opening disc 1, which all sound very different, obviously the reggae explosion on disc 2, a fantastic rock/indie/grunge year on disc 3, and at least five or six dance classics on disc 4 that are still regularly heard today. I also love that Janet/Sade/Madonna/Mariah/Whitney superstar female run at the end. Quite intrigued to see how many we used but Now didn't will end up on their Extra album, I feel like they made quite a few choice calls that surely can't have all been due to licensing. Poor Mr Blobby (and sadly, Aftershock) are not on Spotify, hence them not featuring on ours here.
July 6, 2024Jul 6 Mr Jones, Shoop and Linger weren't hits in the UK until 1994. Bed of Roses was on the long list. Fair enough :lol: I was just going by release date haha. Bed Of Roses isn’t a massive loss tbf
July 6, 2024Jul 6 Author It was a year in transition, but in some ways it had a strong identity if its own. Reggae was everywhere. Going by the numbers it was very impressive. The genre held 49 top 5 places over the whole year compared to 1 in 1992 and zero in 1991.In 34 of the 52 weeks there was a reggae song in the top 5 up from once in 1992 and none at all in 1991. Dance music was still churning out classics, even if they weren't as startlingly original as they were in the previous two years. Alternative rock was very strong with American bands dominating the field. Automatic for the People was the second best selling album of the year, spending longer in the top 10 than any other albums - 37 weeks Britpop hadn't really been named at this stage and although Suede were media sensations, it was no indication of what was to come. There's only 2 Britop songs featured here. Little did we know there would be plenty in 1994 and enough to fill a whole disc in 1995 and 1996 (probably). A handful of bands from the 1980s had no trouble moving with the times. New Order, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys all up-dated their sound without sounding out of place. In my own music taste, 1993 was a big turning point. 1992 was all about Erasure and dance music for me. In early 1993 I got Automatic for the People and became a huge fan of REM. I became more interested in Depeche Mode and New Order too. Near the end of the year I discovered Kate Bush, and even though she didn't release any material in 1993, I got Tori Amos's debut album. American superstars were still running the show - Michael Jackson and Madonna were still pulling singles from albums that were a year or more old. Whitney was reigning supreme but Mariah was on her heals. And two boy bands were dividing teenage girls (and some teenage boys) into two rival factions up and down the country. Colm was firmly on the side of East 17. House of Love and It's Alright packed more punch than anything Take That were making. I have fond memories of the year in musical terms. It was fun if a little too heavy on commercial reggae. :D
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