This week: we draft our favourite albums of 1994, which is thirty years ago, allegedly. No we don't just pick Triple J's Hottest 100 Volume 2 ten times.

Also mentioned in dispatches: admin, prequels, charts, soundtracks, JJJ going national, second-hand CDs, the Sanity at Toowong Village, busted Telstars, Fat Pizza, pretending you had a better taste in music than you did, BOGOF deals, chunky guitars, disavowed classics, fantasy booking the Alley, desperately attempting to appear interesting to women, milquetoast track sevens, supernatural John Wick, preemo, do albums have a ringpiece, Doc’s ‘Possibly Getting Beeso’d’ Big Board, opening your mind to darkness, the 4CCC no-play list, music that happened to other people, highly specific Spotify subscriptions, jukebox favourites, androgyny, analogue algorithms, bandname dyslexia, the Kiwi Silverchair, emotion sickness, wombling over your own legacy, unsuccessful snipers, securing the bag, Beeso’s stage debut, off the bingo card, gateway drugs, albums you are sure you owned at one point, realising you are kind of a big deal, one-man revival tours, having your Gen X card pulled, the Soderbergh cut, grunting in the direction of the problem, day 1 in the Britpop wars, strategic gold reserves, Protracker guitar samples, and a cast of thousands too numerous to mention at this particular juncture.

Next week: we kick off 2024 with Ty Segall | SPRINTS | The Smile
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 archive | 2023 mixtape | Tracks from this episode (spoilers obvs)
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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