Jake Brennan (Host)

In 1994, I lived with a bunch of roommates.

We were all huge music fans.

Too many roommates to count.

And this shitty little...

literally rat infested basement apartment on Huntington Avenue in Boston.

While I was going to Northeastern, we were within walking distance to Newbury Street.

So Newbury Comics was there, Tower Records on the corner of Newbury and Mass Ave.

And I can attest that nearly every one of these records on CD, every one of these albums on CD at least, was either physically purchased by myself and

and or my roommates, or was in our radar.

You know what I mean?

We had access to all of this music in the year that it was released, 1994.

I didn't love all of it, obviously.

I wasn't buying TLC albums, but those singles were everywhere, for example.

And I didn't hate them.

You know what I mean?

I didn't hate on TLC.

Now I hear those singles and I'm blown away by how great they are.

And again, how I just dismissed it.

It's crazy to me.

And a lot of this stuff, you know, a lot of these artists that I just mentioned, some of the stuff, if I try playing it in that apartment I'm talking about, I'd get my ass torn out for listening to it because music was hotly debated.