Top 98 Music Albums of 1994
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1994 – GO! BEAT
Produced BY PORTISHEAD
1. Mysterons
2. Sour Times
3. Strangers
4. It Could Be Sweet
5. Wandering Star
6. It’s A Fire
7. Numb
8. Roads
9. Pedestal
10. Biscuit
11. Glory Box
If you’re not familiar with trip hop, you should be. If you want to really love trip hop, you should start with Dummy by Portishead. The debut album from this British combo is one of the finest examples of the genre, and in 1994 this was pretty much new musical territory for us all. Mixing drizzling lounge music, electronica, spacey atmospheres and the sweet, overpoweringly sad voice of Beth Gibbons, Dummy has been described as Gothic hip hop…a label that actually works. There is a deep sadness in the tracks of Dummy, matching Gibbons’ voice with deep and layered, yet never overdone beats and atmospheres. This is, for lack of a better term, a blues album. Slow yet not sleepy beats and tracks filled with sadness and longing and the feeling of being in a basement level poorly lit smoke filled half empty lounge. Or something like that.
Dummy created a buzz in the States well before Portishead ever toured here, and for good reason. Three singles, “Sour Times”, “Numb”, and “Glory Box” gave a great indication of what Dummy was all about. And ultimately, it’s an almost masterpiece of an album. It truly is a beautiful work, filled with songs that are smart, deeply moving and even catchy. Portishead has been sporadic in the years since Dummy, releasing only two other studio albums since 1994. And while Portishead from 1997 and Third from 2008 are fine works, the balance of what makes this group work the best is here on Dummy. The only possible negative about this is that it may be too dark and sad of an album for a lot of people, but if you are in that kind of mood, you’ll never do better than to listen to this. Save it for a rainy day…you’ll be glad you did. [First added to this chart: 10/17/2012]
Produced BY PORTISHEAD
1. Mysterons
2. Sour Times
3. Strangers
4. It Could Be Sweet
5. Wandering Star
6. It’s A Fire
7. Numb
8. Roads
9. Pedestal
10. Biscuit
11. Glory Box
If you’re not familiar with trip hop, you should be. If you want to really love trip hop, you should start with Dummy by Portishead. The debut album from this British combo is one of the finest examples of the genre, and in 1994 this was pretty much new musical territory for us all. Mixing drizzling lounge music, electronica, spacey atmospheres and the sweet, overpoweringly sad voice of Beth Gibbons, Dummy has been described as Gothic hip hop…a label that actually works. There is a deep sadness in the tracks of Dummy, matching Gibbons’ voice with deep and layered, yet never overdone beats and atmospheres. This is, for lack of a better term, a blues album. Slow yet not sleepy beats and tracks filled with sadness and longing and the feeling of being in a basement level poorly lit smoke filled half empty lounge. Or something like that.
Dummy created a buzz in the States well before Portishead ever toured here, and for good reason. Three singles, “Sour Times”, “Numb”, and “Glory Box” gave a great indication of what Dummy was all about. And ultimately, it’s an almost masterpiece of an album. It truly is a beautiful work, filled with songs that are smart, deeply moving and even catchy. Portishead has been sporadic in the years since Dummy, releasing only two other studio albums since 1994. And while Portishead from 1997 and Third from 2008 are fine works, the balance of what makes this group work the best is here on Dummy. The only possible negative about this is that it may be too dark and sad of an album for a lot of people, but if you are in that kind of mood, you’ll never do better than to listen to this. Save it for a rainy day…you’ll be glad you did. [First added to this chart: 10/17/2012]
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1994
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16,541
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Produced by Jimmy Page & Robert Plant. The two guys at the front of Led Zeppelin make a comeback, but not without controversy. Despite the snubbing of John-Paul Jones, this live collection of mostly Zeppelin songs works very well, giving new interpretations to classics like "Kashmir", "Thank You", and "The Battle Of Evermore". Being UnLEDded meant unplugged, so you get a lot of acoustic here, and the music (and Page and Plant) sounds refreshed. This is, after so many years, surprisingly good.
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1994 – ATLANTIC
Produced By CLIVE LANGER, ALAN WINSTANLEY & BUSH
1. Everything Zen
2. Swim
3. Bomb
4. Little Things
5. Comedown
6. Body
7. Machinehead
8. Testosterone
9. Monkey
10. Glycerine
11. Alien
12. X-Girlfriend
When Bush released their debut album in 1994, they had strikes against them already. “Everything Zen” pegged them as Nirvana copyists, Gavin Rossdale’s British accent was a “joke”, and they were “pretty”. The band barely made a wave in their home country, but in the US, listeners jumped all over this bandwagon. And for pretty good reason: in the beginning at least, Bush was a band loaded with catchy songs. And yeah, maybe “Everything Zen” sounded a bit like a band from Seattle, and oh, all of those one word titles (see Pearl Jam), but an excursion into Sixteen Stone will reveal that this was not just a bunch of Brits who wished they were from the Pacific Northwest. Bush could rock, and Bush had enough up their sleeve to try different styles all over the album. There are things that don’t work particularly well, but there is also enough that does work to make this album very worthwhile.
“Little Things”, “Comedown” and “Machinehead” are all worthy hits, and show off the band’s skills nicely. The biggest one is “Glycerine”, which bounces back and forth between strings and heavy guitar and features Rossdale’s moody voice in the best way. Bush would go on to release their best song, “Swallowed”, on their next album, but they lost their way by trying to shake off the Seattle tag, trying too hard to change their sound. The result was that the songs dried up, and their last album, 2001’s Golden State, went almost completely unnoticed. They have, or course, reformed, but to no avail. Bush had a good thing going in their early days, best heard on this album and on “Swallowed”. You can pretty much skip the rest of their catalog, but this album was a big part of what music was during the 90’s. Forget the grunge tag that they wore like a curse…this was a good album. [First added to this chart: 12/11/2012]
Produced By CLIVE LANGER, ALAN WINSTANLEY & BUSH
1. Everything Zen
2. Swim
3. Bomb
4. Little Things
5. Comedown
6. Body
7. Machinehead
8. Testosterone
9. Monkey
10. Glycerine
11. Alien
12. X-Girlfriend
When Bush released their debut album in 1994, they had strikes against them already. “Everything Zen” pegged them as Nirvana copyists, Gavin Rossdale’s British accent was a “joke”, and they were “pretty”. The band barely made a wave in their home country, but in the US, listeners jumped all over this bandwagon. And for pretty good reason: in the beginning at least, Bush was a band loaded with catchy songs. And yeah, maybe “Everything Zen” sounded a bit like a band from Seattle, and oh, all of those one word titles (see Pearl Jam), but an excursion into Sixteen Stone will reveal that this was not just a bunch of Brits who wished they were from the Pacific Northwest. Bush could rock, and Bush had enough up their sleeve to try different styles all over the album. There are things that don’t work particularly well, but there is also enough that does work to make this album very worthwhile.
“Little Things”, “Comedown” and “Machinehead” are all worthy hits, and show off the band’s skills nicely. The biggest one is “Glycerine”, which bounces back and forth between strings and heavy guitar and features Rossdale’s moody voice in the best way. Bush would go on to release their best song, “Swallowed”, on their next album, but they lost their way by trying to shake off the Seattle tag, trying too hard to change their sound. The result was that the songs dried up, and their last album, 2001’s Golden State, went almost completely unnoticed. They have, or course, reformed, but to no avail. Bush had a good thing going in their early days, best heard on this album and on “Swallowed”. You can pretty much skip the rest of their catalog, but this album was a big part of what music was during the 90’s. Forget the grunge tag that they wore like a curse…this was a good album. [First added to this chart: 12/11/2012]
Year of Release:
1994
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Rank Score:
1,004
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[First added to this chart: 10/31/2012]
Year of Release:
1994
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2,942
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1994-CREATION
Produced By OASIS & MARK COYLE
1. Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
2. Shakermaker
3. Live Forever
4. Up In The Sky
5. Columbia
6. Supersonic
7. Bring It On Down
8. Cigarettes & Alcohol
9. Digsy’s Diner
10. Slide Away
11. Married With Children
Hard to believe that it’s been 20 years since Oasis became the biggest band in Britain, and one of the biggest bands in the world. On the strength of three advance singles, “Supersonic”, “Shakermaker” and “Live Forever”, their debut album Definitely Maybe was released to the largest hoopla in England since the Beatles, coming straight out of the gates at number one. It’s not thet Oasis was really THAT great, but that they came along at a time when the British music scene needed a shot in the arm…and Oasis (along with bands like Blur) delivered. The ride for Oasis was incredible, short, and very rocky, but over their first two albums, they were at the top of their craft. Guitarist Noel Gallagher wrote the songs, which were sung and sneered by his brother Liam, and the formula created a storm of hits.
The three advance singles are excellent, particularly “Live Forever”. “Cigarettes & Alcohol” and “Rock ‘N’ Roll Star” are also great singles, but the album as a whole is very good. The only drawback is that the band didn’t really have much in the way of original ideas…you can hear bits of many popular songs on the album. But they knew how to make the recycled riffs work, and work very well. Definitely Maybe could be seen as a near perfect storm (the follow up, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory is somehow even better), a band on the verge of total greatness before the excesses of rock & roll took over and ruined them. But in the mid 90’s, there was no one like Oasis, and their first two albums are among the most exciting works of the decade. Definitely a moment to not be missed from the 90’s. [First added to this chart: 03/15/2013]
Produced By OASIS & MARK COYLE
1. Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
2. Shakermaker
3. Live Forever
4. Up In The Sky
5. Columbia
6. Supersonic
7. Bring It On Down
8. Cigarettes & Alcohol
9. Digsy’s Diner
10. Slide Away
11. Married With Children
Hard to believe that it’s been 20 years since Oasis became the biggest band in Britain, and one of the biggest bands in the world. On the strength of three advance singles, “Supersonic”, “Shakermaker” and “Live Forever”, their debut album Definitely Maybe was released to the largest hoopla in England since the Beatles, coming straight out of the gates at number one. It’s not thet Oasis was really THAT great, but that they came along at a time when the British music scene needed a shot in the arm…and Oasis (along with bands like Blur) delivered. The ride for Oasis was incredible, short, and very rocky, but over their first two albums, they were at the top of their craft. Guitarist Noel Gallagher wrote the songs, which were sung and sneered by his brother Liam, and the formula created a storm of hits.
The three advance singles are excellent, particularly “Live Forever”. “Cigarettes & Alcohol” and “Rock ‘N’ Roll Star” are also great singles, but the album as a whole is very good. The only drawback is that the band didn’t really have much in the way of original ideas…you can hear bits of many popular songs on the album. But they knew how to make the recycled riffs work, and work very well. Definitely Maybe could be seen as a near perfect storm (the follow up, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory is somehow even better), a band on the verge of total greatness before the excesses of rock & roll took over and ruined them. But in the mid 90’s, there was no one like Oasis, and their first two albums are among the most exciting works of the decade. Definitely a moment to not be missed from the 90’s. [First added to this chart: 03/15/2013]
Year of Release:
1994
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11,270
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[First added to this chart: 09/08/2013]
Year of Release:
1994
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Rank Score:
3,628
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[First added to this chart: 08/05/2018]
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[First added to this chart: 05/11/2016]
Year of Release:
1994
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7,592
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Top 98 Music Albums of 1994 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Soundgarden | 1 | 1% | |
| Hootie & The Blowfish | 1 | 1% | |
| Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band | 1 | 1% | |
| Bad Religion | 1 | 1% | |
| Live | 1 | 1% | |
| Sophie B. Hawkins | 1 | 1% | |
| Nirvana | 1 | 1% | |
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From guigs13 01/05/2013 23:15 | #60264
Nice '94 chart!
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From davidhuret 12/11/2012 15:38 | #57537
You seem to be a big Tom Petty fan. Nothing wrong with that, he's one of the great.
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