Top 38 Music Albums of 1994
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Onater 
I think this is the official year of "music to drive to at night," what with Grace, Dummy, MTV Unplugged, Roman Candle, I Could Live In Hope, and Selected Ambient Works Volume II.
My Top 10 songs of 1994:
10. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me (Part 2) (Let Love In)
9. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Lay Me Low (Let Love In)
8. Nine Inch Nails - Closer (The Downward Spiral)
7. Digable Planets - Black Ego (Blowout Comb)
6. Pavement - Range Life (Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)
5. Built To Spill - Car (There's Nothing Wrong With Love )
4. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand (Let Love In)
3. Pavement - Gold Soundz (Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)
2. The Tragically Hip - Grace, Too (Day For Night)
1. The Tragically Hip - Nautical Disaster (Day For Night)
- Chart updated: 11/17/2019 09:45
- (Created: 01/09/2017 02:59).
- Chart size: 38 albums.
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"Our love lines grew hopelessly tangled, and the bells in the chapel went jingle... jangle..."
I have a theory that this is secretly a concept album, with the theme being of a protagonist searching for love from various sources, and never truly finding it. Starting out with Do You Love Me, Cave tells the story of falling in love with a girl though he knew from the start it wouldn't work out. Nobody's Baby Now is about his pain after the breakup, and him turning to religion in search of acceptance there. Loverman seems to be a deranged attempt at seducing and possibly raping a woman. Jangling Jack seems detached from the rest of the album, but note the similarity between the title and the "jingle jangle" line from both versions of Do You Love Me. God only knows what Red Right Hand is actually about, whether the "tall handsome man" is a drug dealer, the media, the government, a priest, god himself, or just some abstract force of temptation. What matters is that the song ends with an obsession, even love for this figure, as "you'll see him in your nightmares, you'll see him in your dreams," even though they were in control the whole time: "You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan, designed and directed by his red right hand." The title track is perhaps the most obvious example of the theme in the album, as Cave tells of the pains he has went through in all his experiences with love. Thirsty Dog is Cave trying to find forgiveness his sins, maybe in an attempt to reacquire a lost love. It Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore is the realization that he is alone, and will never truly be able to find the love he seeks in his lifetime... and so, in Lay Me Low, he completely snaps and commits suicide, convincing himself that people will only appreciate him for who he was when he is gone: "They'll bang a big old gong, the motorcade will be ten miles long, the world will join together for a farewell song, when they put me down below." The finale, a dark reprise of the opening track, begins with what seems to be Cave entering the afterlife: "I'm grazing with the dinosaurs and the dear old horses." Eventually, the focus shifts to a memory of Cave's childhood, putting a sinister twist on the album: when he was raped in a theatre as a boy. As he repeats the question he has asked throughout the album, "do you love me, like I love you," you hear the voice of who is presumably his rapist answering "I love you, handsome." The only time that he ever finds the love he seeks on the album is here, in this horrible memory, which was probably the cause of all of the self-doubt and need for acceptance that is behind the lyrics of this whole thing. So it's pretty much a masterpiece and one of the greatest albums ever.
Favourite Tracks: Red Right Hand, Law Me Low, Do You Love Me? (Part 2), Do You Love Me?, Loverman [First added to this chart: 06/10/2017]
I have a theory that this is secretly a concept album, with the theme being of a protagonist searching for love from various sources, and never truly finding it. Starting out with Do You Love Me, Cave tells the story of falling in love with a girl though he knew from the start it wouldn't work out. Nobody's Baby Now is about his pain after the breakup, and him turning to religion in search of acceptance there. Loverman seems to be a deranged attempt at seducing and possibly raping a woman. Jangling Jack seems detached from the rest of the album, but note the similarity between the title and the "jingle jangle" line from both versions of Do You Love Me. God only knows what Red Right Hand is actually about, whether the "tall handsome man" is a drug dealer, the media, the government, a priest, god himself, or just some abstract force of temptation. What matters is that the song ends with an obsession, even love for this figure, as "you'll see him in your nightmares, you'll see him in your dreams," even though they were in control the whole time: "You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan, designed and directed by his red right hand." The title track is perhaps the most obvious example of the theme in the album, as Cave tells of the pains he has went through in all his experiences with love. Thirsty Dog is Cave trying to find forgiveness his sins, maybe in an attempt to reacquire a lost love. It Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore is the realization that he is alone, and will never truly be able to find the love he seeks in his lifetime... and so, in Lay Me Low, he completely snaps and commits suicide, convincing himself that people will only appreciate him for who he was when he is gone: "They'll bang a big old gong, the motorcade will be ten miles long, the world will join together for a farewell song, when they put me down below." The finale, a dark reprise of the opening track, begins with what seems to be Cave entering the afterlife: "I'm grazing with the dinosaurs and the dear old horses." Eventually, the focus shifts to a memory of Cave's childhood, putting a sinister twist on the album: when he was raped in a theatre as a boy. As he repeats the question he has asked throughout the album, "do you love me, like I love you," you hear the voice of who is presumably his rapist answering "I love you, handsome." The only time that he ever finds the love he seeks on the album is here, in this horrible memory, which was probably the cause of all of the self-doubt and need for acceptance that is behind the lyrics of this whole thing. So it's pretty much a masterpiece and one of the greatest albums ever.
Favourite Tracks: Red Right Hand, Law Me Low, Do You Love Me? (Part 2), Do You Love Me?, Loverman [First added to this chart: 06/10/2017]
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1994
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"For this is the beginning of forever and ever."
Favourite Tracks: Glory Box, Sour Times, Mysterons, Roads [First added to this chart: 01/31/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Glory Box, Sour Times, Mysterons, Roads [First added to this chart: 01/31/2017]
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1994
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"Spider, spider, crawl up my leg, guilty and poison-free. I wish that I could be like you."
Favourite Tracks: Cry Wolf, Trouble, Geek The Girl, ...a Psychopath, My Secret Reason, Cancer of Everything [First added to this chart: 03/12/2019]
Favourite Tracks: Cry Wolf, Trouble, Geek The Girl, ...a Psychopath, My Secret Reason, Cancer of Everything [First added to this chart: 03/12/2019]
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1994
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1,421
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"You're the kind of girl I like, because you're empty, and I'm empty, and you can never quarantine the past."
Favourite Tracks: Gold Soundz, Range Life, Filmore Jive, Elevate Me Later [First added to this chart: 06/16/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Gold Soundz, Range Life, Filmore Jive, Elevate Me Later [First added to this chart: 06/16/2017]
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1994
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Favourite Tracks: Lichen, Rhubarb, Stone In Focus, Radiator, Cliff
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1994
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2,058
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"Hurry now, the sun is descending. The shadows wait to play."
Favourite Tracks: The Cloud Of Unknowing, Dormition And Dominion, The Shining Shining World, Moonlight You Will Say [First added to this chart: 12/27/2018]
Favourite Tracks: The Cloud Of Unknowing, Dormition And Dominion, The Shining Shining World, Moonlight You Will Say [First added to this chart: 12/27/2018]
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"Slip out quiet, nobody's looking, leave alone, you don't belong here."
Favourite Tracks: No Name #1, Last Call, Roman Candle, Condor Ave, No Name #3 [First added to this chart: 11/19/2017]
Favourite Tracks: No Name #1, Last Call, Roman Candle, Condor Ave, No Name #3 [First added to this chart: 11/19/2017]
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1994
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968
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"I never sleep, ‘cause sleep is the cousin of death."
Favourite Tracks: N.Y. State Of Mind, It Ain't Hard To Tell, Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park), Life's A Bitch [First added to this chart: 01/31/2017]
Favourite Tracks: N.Y. State Of Mind, It Ain't Hard To Tell, Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park), Life's A Bitch [First added to this chart: 01/31/2017]
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1994
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16,337
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"I got Harlem on my mind, devil on my back, Brooklyn in my blood, and butter's on the track."
Favourite Tracks: Black Ego, Slowes' Comb / The May 4th Movement Starring Doodlebug, The Art of Easing [First added to this chart: 03/12/2019]
Favourite Tracks: Black Ego, Slowes' Comb / The May 4th Movement Starring Doodlebug, The Art of Easing [First added to this chart: 03/12/2019]
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1994
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"And in these plagued streets of pity you can buy anything, for 200 anyone can conceive a God on video."
Faourite Tracks: IfwhiteAmericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart, Yes, She Is Suffering, Faster, 4st Lb [First added to this chart: 03/29/2018]
Faourite Tracks: IfwhiteAmericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart, Yes, She Is Suffering, Faster, 4st Lb [First added to this chart: 03/29/2018]
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Top 38 Music Albums of 1994 composition
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| Current 93 | 2 | 5% | |
| Weezer | 1 | 3% | |
| Oasis | 1 | 3% | |
| The Tragically Hip | 1 | 3% | |
| Suede | 1 | 3% | |
| Elliott Smith | 1 | 3% | |
| Burzum | 1 | 3% | |
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Top 38 Music Albums of 1994 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 18 from 27th to 9th Blowout Comb by Digable Planets |
| Up 1 from 11th to 10th The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers |
| Up 1 from 4th to 3rd Geek The Girl by Lisa Germano |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 3 from 9th to 12th The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails |
| Down 3 from 10th to 13th Beauty Reaps The Blood Of Solitude by Nature And Organisation |
| Down 2 from 12th to 14th Bee Thousand by Guided By Voices |
| New entries |
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| There's Nothing Wrong With Love by Built To Spill |
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From DJENNY 11/02/2017 04:33 | #200440
Great list! I agree that Let Love In is the best deranged twisted breakup albums of all time!
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