Top 30 Music Albums of 1993
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My favourite albums of 1993.
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Drop by the Souvlaki space station here. It's a wonderfully dreamy place to escape from your worries.

Favourite tracks: "Machine Gun" & "When the Sun Hits"
[First added to this chart: 09/22/2013]
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1993
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10,933
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Siamese dream of shoegaze-like guitars, dream pop atmospheres, grungy elements, melancholia, essentially everything that's beautiful and depressing! Remember watching the music video of "Disarm" tons of times. The finest Pumpkins songs as well as a lack of any real lows.

Favourite tracks: "Today", "Disarm" & "Mayonaise"
[First added to this chart: 02/13/2014]
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1993
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17,850
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Top rated album (85/100 - 1952 votes)  85 (1,952 votes)
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All I've ever wanted is a glittery music box like this! Mariah Carey provides quite a few hits including the beautiful "Hero" and the just as beautiful cover version of "Without You" with one of my favourite female vocal performances ever. Pop music has never sounded this magical before!

Favourite tracks: "Hero" & "Without You"
[First added to this chart: 11/12/2013]
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1993
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315
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Nobody else were doing it quite the same way as The Cranberries, starting from the debut album here. The guitars chime dreamingly, while Dolores O'Riordan's powerful vocals alternate between the seductive and the soul-wrenching intense. The biggest singles, "Dreams" and "Linger", are perhaps less catchy than the follow-up's "Zombie" and "Ode to My Family", but are just as dreamy and atmospheric, if not more!

Favourite tracks: "Dreams" & "Linger"
[First added to this chart: 10/04/2017]
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1993
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1,327
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Less pure techno and more towards... space, actually. In many ways more out than there than their first album (also titled "Orbital"). Groovy and explorative to a great extent. However, if you're like me, the thing that will stick in your mind the most is the flute-like sound in the incredibly ecstatic "Halcyon + On + On".

Favourite tracks: "Lush 3-1" & "Halcyon + On + On"
[First added to this chart: 07/13/2017]
Year of Release:
1993
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446
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Far more pleasant than a sabre through the ears, trust me. However, it is also quite trippy, both the euphoric kind and the unnerving kind. More interesting than your average 90s electronica album with quite a few moments that... stick out.

Favourite tracks: "Clock Factory" & "Smokebelch II (Beatless Mix)"
[First added to this chart: 02/06/2020]
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1993
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53
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Dream pop exactly as autumnal as the album cover! Her melancholic voice is like leaves drifting aimlessly through the air refusing to ever hit the ground.

Favourite tracks: "Miranda" & "Straw Donkeys"
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1993
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22
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A storm in heaven, pretty self-explanatory! Just earbleedingly heavenly shoegaze with close to zero signs of the band's later britpop-influenced style. A blasting star sail of a debut!

Favourite tracks: "Star Sail" & "The Sun, The Sea"
[First added to this chart: 02/09/2014]
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1993
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684
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9. (8) Down 1
Ireland U2
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Music for the wanderer, a travelling friend for anyone with no concrete destination. U2 don't deliver a collection of songs, but a sound experience. With lots of help from Brian Eno, this is as euphoric and abstract as no U2 album ever before or after!

Favourite tracks: "Babyface" & "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)"
[First added to this chart: 12/02/2013]
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1993
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1,549
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Modern life may be rubbish, but this album sure isn't! Besides awesome hooks and comedic badass attitude, it has interesting critique of the drones of modern society.

Favourite tracks: "Colin Zeal" & "Oily Water"
[First added to this chart: 05/31/2014]
Year of Release:
1993
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2,168
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Top 30 Music Albums of 1993 composition

Artist Albums %


Counting Crows 1 3%
U2 1 3%
Rick Astley 1 3%
Blur 1 3%
Sort Sol 1 3%
Björk 1 3%
Plastikman 1 3%
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Country Albums %


United Kingdom 12 40%
United States 11 37%
Ireland 2 7%
Germany 1 3%
Iceland 1 3%
Denmark 1 3%
Canada 1 3%
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Top 30 Music Albums of 1993 chart changes

Biggest fallers
Faller Down 1 from 7th to 8th
A Storm In Heaven
by The Verve
Faller Down 1 from 8th to 9th
Zooropa
by U2
Faller Down 1 from 9th to 10th
Modern Life Is Rubbish
by Blur

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