Top 100 Music Albums of 1994
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desh79 
The year I moved from Germany to England with my parents (Spoiler: I have returned since) and I discovered the NME, Melody Maker and all the other British music publications. Plus 1994 was generally a great year for music - it seemed like there was at least one good album coming out every week. A lot of albums outside of the top 10 easily would have made it most other years.
- Chart updated: 06/04/2025 09:15
- (Created: 12/30/2016 18:05).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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IDM before the term was invented, perhaps even one of the reasons IDM came into being in the first place. A revelation, especially compared to a lot of the garbage that passed for techno music in the early 90s.
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1994
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Girls and Boys entered the UK top 10 the week we moved to England. The whole album "accompanied" me during that period of adjusting to life in a different country, so it's impossible to listen to this with any sense of objectivity. But then again, isn't that the case for most of the music we listened to in our formative years?
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1994
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The Oasis hype in the British music press was a bit ridiculous at times, and in retrospect the whole Britpop "movement" was really little more than a bunch of 90s kids like myself desperately trying to rekindle the spirit of the 1960s, but at least it led to me being exposed to a whole swathe of decent- to good- to genuinely great British indie bands, and Definitely Maybe was undoubtedly one of the highlights of that particular era.
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1994
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Unbelievably depressing at times, but I guess that's the point. There's something added when listening to it on a cold British November evening, as I did at the first time of hearing it.
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1994
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595
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An album that is best played at full volume. On vinyl, of course.
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1994
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2,648
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Plenty has been said about the band Nirvana could have been had Cobain kept it together, but it bears repeating here. Cobain, aware as anyone of rock history and his own band's potential standing within it, famously spoke of wanting Nirvana to make a similar transition the Beatles made from I Wanna Hold Your Hand to Sgt. Pepper. This was a step in the right direction. Alas, alas, alas.
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1994
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One of the greatest soundtracks ever, and I will never understand why it took 12 years for it to finally find an official release. Some rights issue, supposedly.
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1994
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The political message is a bit plump at times, but there's still a degree of genius in sampling a plastic surgery ad alongside a freak show introduction. I wish I had duck feet indeed.
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Another rave act that tried to be political in the mid-90s, though at least Orbital had some content whereas this is just The Prodigy saying "Let's get political! F*** the system! Big middle finger, yeah! What else? Er, dunno.", but musically this is still a huge leap forward from the straightforward two step rave of Experience and their earlier singles.
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Again, best heard on a dark and rainy British winter evening.
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1994
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1994 composition
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| Various Artists | 3 | 3% | |
| Nick Cave | 1 | 1% | |
| Sven Väth | 1 | 1% | |
| Laurent Garnier | 1 | 1% | |
| The Charlatans (UK) | 1 | 1% | |
| The Auteurs | 1 | 1% | |
| Stiltskin | 1 | 1% | |
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48 | 48% | |
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36 | 36% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1994 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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Up 54 from 94th to 40th |
Up 23 from 82nd to 59th |
Up 12 from 91st to 79th |
| Biggest fallers |
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Down 44 from 46th to 90th |
Down 42 from 45th to 87th |
Down 14 from 43rd to 57th |
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