Completely Conspicuous 393: Reeling in the Years, 1994 (Part 2)

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1994.

Show notes:

- Recorded via Skype

- Brian:  Enjoyed albums from Tom Petty, Rancid, Sea and Cake

- Beasties were all over the place on Ill Communication--in a good way

- Sunny Day Real Estate's epic album

- Halo Benders teamed Doug Martsch and Calvin Johnson

- The Toadies break through

- Jay: Sebadoh's Bakesale was a good combo of punk and melodic songs

- Jeff Buckley went from hard rock to cabaret on Grace

- Sugar's 2nd full-length was punchy and fun...for Bob Mould

- Green Day's Dookie was a monster hit that nobody needs to hear anymore

- Jay: Foolish was my intro to Superchunk

- Brian's #5

- Nirvana's best album was Unplugged in New York

- Jay saw Nirvana in Springfield, Mass., about a week before the Unplugged show

- Jay's #5

- Bee Thousand is probably the perfect distillation of Guided By Voices

- Brian's #4

- Alice in Chains' Jar of Flies was the first EP to top the album charts

- Jay: "No Excuses" got me through a tough time

- Brian: Jerry Cantrell looks like an uncle now

- To be continued

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