Customer Reviews

Woodstock 94

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

The CD set here is not meant to represent the concerts themselves but the event as a whole. the songs (and announcements) reflect the moods, styles, genres, humor and talents of the artists as a snapshot. This means that some bands may not have their best or most popular songs on these CD's. Both Cd's have a mix of:

Popular bands playing hits ( Melissa Ethridge, Cranberries, Collective Soul),

Popular bands playing lesser known songs ( Blues Traveler, Live, Candlebox, Cypress Hill),

And classic bands playing from their catalog ( CSN, Peter Gabriel, Joe Cocker).

Leading the second disc, Metallica dominated the set with an energy no one else seems to bring. (As I said some of these songs dont represent the bands' overall performance very well)Another review stated that this song, "For whom the Bell Tolls" was the definitive live recording of the band and I totally agree. The recording of this song is required for any metallica fan. The clarity beats any bootleg and the intensity beats the few live recordings the band is willing to sell.

Other standouts include: Cypress Hill, NIN, Blues Traveler, Aerosmith, Dylan, Chili Peppers, Primus and the Neville Bros.

Some may be dissapointed by Jackyl, Green Day, Blind Mellon, Salt N Pepa's song Shoop has dated very poorly, and the stage announcements can get repetitive. I personally found "Come Together" to be a little gratuitous as a reference to the original music of Woodstock. As a side note, I believe that Slash from GNR plays on "The Hunter" with Paul Rodgers though i could be mistaken.

It is possible to refute one complaint I have seen about the set (and the event). The sampling of the discs makes it clear that the bands selected are for the most part not platinum sellers, and those few that were, normally didn't have the "hit" song selected for the cd. The commercialism of the event itself may be an entirely other matter. Still I believe that at least 17 of the 27 bands have never seen platinum or achieved mainstream success. Bands like "Rollins Band" are talented but are so niche they are never likely to do so.

All in all I love the set. I believe it is worth the purchase if only for the Metallica song. However, this does not represent even a fraction of the music at the event and a true box set should be made available.

In my opinion this is one of the best "90's" albums in my collection.(by the way this isn't a box set... lol) all it is is a 2 cd set. Anyways, as you read in the title, i think that soup by blind melon and dreams by the cranberries are the two best songs on this album. Most of the songs like the ones by the violent femmes, the rollins band, and of course who could forget...nine inch nails.
Those are all the music of the 90s. If you don't like any of the bands., then don't buy it. But if you grew up in the 90s like me, and you like these artists, than i suggest you buy this album. (By the way... don't buy woodstock 99, its a s*** fest! if you buy any woodstock stuff make it either woodstock 1969 or woodstock 1994) :D

This is a great collection of songs to remember the early 90's. If you grew up in that time frame this is a good live CD. Green Day was just starting out and a lot of now famous acts were just laying down roots.

Decent compilation of some popular highlights from the event, though little deviation from studio versions makes this purchase largely dependent on the individual tracks here. They do a nice job covering old and new territories for tourists, but for a double-live disc attempting to capture what was supposed to be a huge event, this is as cookie-cutter it gets.

cd is ok. good condition. The international shipping was very good. Reliable selller.

I was at woodstock 94 and whenever i want 2 think back at the great experence i had i just pop this in and WOW im there my favs are Metallica,Joe Cocker,Candlebox,Cypress Hill and Primus

5 stars for Blind Melons Performance of 'Soup'... Worth the price and more. That and Nine Inch Nails 'Happiness in Slavery'. I've had this since it came out, haven't really listened to it since, cept' the pre mentioned songs. But it's worth all of it just for those 2 songs.

u have bands like the ever talented green day the rockin' band aerosmith metallica and more it was a blast and if u didn't go u should get this cd it's just a little piece of woodstock94 4 all of us

i thought EVERYBODY had this...at least everybody that grew up in the 90s.

i admit it, i got this because it was 75 cents at half.com and because i had it back in the day and listened to it way too much. so this was a nostalgia purchase, and a good one, it turns out. despite the cheese factor of this whole shindig, and the datedness of the bands included, this compilation is actually really well put together. transitions are smooth, the stage announcements really make you feel like you're there, and some of the performances (though not all), like blind melon playing "soup," red hot chili peppers with "blood sugar sex magic," metallica with "for whom the bell tolls," peter gabriel with "biko," and especially, the best of all, primus with "those damn blue collar tweekers" (including a beautifully done, seamlessly inserted rendition of jimi hendrix's legendary "star spangled banner"), are jaw-droppingly good. not bad for under a buck.

You can usually tell something about an album by how many people are trying to sell it, and for how cheaply. There's a reason you can pick up this set for nearly nothing from a whole bunch of sellers.

I don't know much about the '90s bands represented here. I picked this up just to get the version of "Pearly Queen" that Traffic (of whom I'm a fan) contributed to it. Besides that, I couldn't listen all the way through even one song. (In some cases, just the spoken intro was enough to convince me I didn't want to hear more.) Even from a more objective standpoint, Traffic was one of the few bands that sounded at all good, especially vocally.

Judging from this, I think the 1990s will be remembered in the future as rock music's worst decade. Has there been any other time when artists supposedly celebrating "peace & music" would be angrily throwing the F-bomb all over the place?

To be fair, though, I suspect that most of these performances don't do justice to the artists that made them; these bands couldn't have gotten to be popular if they ALWAYS sounded like this. Even the more "classic" (or otherwise familiar, to me) artists - CS&N, Peter Gabriel, Cranberries - sound terrible here.

Don't bother spending even just a few cents (plus shipping) on this, unless you're a rabid fan of '90s music, or (like me) you're a completist who wants everything available by one of the artists (not that many of them are worth such attention).