Jan 22, 2010

The Best Albums Of 1994

Top 50



  1. Live through this - HOLE
  2. Too high to die - MEAT PUPPETS
  3. Definitely maybe - OASIS
  4. At Action Park - SHELLAC
  5. Bakesale - SEBADOH
  6. Unplugged in New York - NIRVANA
  7. Let love in - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
  8. Middle class revolt - THE FALL
  9. Cruise yourself - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
  10. Hungry for stink - L7
  11. Full Isaac - LOTION
  12. File Under : Easy Listening - SUGAR
  13. Perpetual motion machine - 13 ENGINES
  14. San Francisco - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB
  15. Crooked rain, crooked rain - PAVEMENT
  16. Debut album - SAMMY
  17. Teenager of the year - FRANK BLACK
  18. Orange - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
  19. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 chambers) - WU-TANG CLAN
  20. Smash - OFFSPRING
  21. Weight - ROLLINS BAND
  22. Crunt - CRUNT
  23. Viva Zapata - 7 YEAR BITCH
  24. Strawberry stone - 360's
  25. Revolution on ice - GUMBALL
  26. Troublegum - THERAPY?
  27. Down - THE JESUS LIZARD
  28. Monster - R.E.M.
  29. Hips and makers - KRISTIN HERSH
  30. Natural ingredients - LUSCIOUS JACKSON
  31. Ill communication - BEASTIE BOYS
  32. Illmatic - NAS
  33. Experimental jet set, trash and no star - SONIC YOUTH
  34. Don't ask, don't tell - COME
  35. Release - COP SHOOT COP
  36. Setting the woods on fire - THE WALKABOUTS
  37. Character assassination - ED KUEPPER
  38. Milky juicy - TINY LIGHTS
  39. Whip smart - LIZ PHAIR
  40. American thighs - VERUCA SALT
  41. Second coming - THE STONE ROSES
  42. Park life - BLUR
  43. Howyoudoin? - RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE
  44. Dubnobasswithmyheadman - UNDERWOLD
  45. Dummy - PORTISHEAD
  46. Mars audiac quintet - STEREOLAB
  47. Whiskey for the Holy Ghost - MARK LANEGAN
  48. Yank crime - DRIVE LIKE JEHU
  49. Without a sound - DINOSAUR JR.
  50. Dookie - GREEN DAY
Also recommended:

Glum - GIANT SAND, Pointless walks to dismal places - PROLAPSE, Nova Mob - NOVA MOB, Sky valley - KYUSS, Flamejob - THE CRAMPS, Vitalogy - PEARL JAM, Weezer - WEEZER, Muse sick'n'hour mess age - PUBLIC ENEMY, The diary - SCARFACE, Smack bunny baby - BRAINIAC, Time to make the donuts - ALCOHOL FUNNYCAR, Platinum jive - BIG CHIEF, King Missile - KING MISSILE, Living room - CELL, Mayday - X-TAL, 41 - SWELL, Split - LUSH, Dreamcake - JALE, Panic on - MADDER ROSE, Brutal youth - ELVIS COSTELLO, Stoned and dethroned - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, Devil hopping - INSPIRAL CARPETS, Magic happens - THE FAMILY CAT, Life model - THE BLUE AEROPLANES, Watusi - THE WEDDING PRESENT, John Austin Rutledge - DONE LYING DOWN, Business of punishment - CONSOLIDATED, Born dead - BODY COUNT, Speed is dreaming - ST. JOHNNY, Foolish - SUPERCHUNK, Hot boxing - MAGNAPOP, Comforter - COMPULSION, Autogeddon - JULIAN COPE, Carnival of light - RIDE, The music of your life - ZUZU'S PETALS, Fluorescent - STEVE WYNN, Red - SCARCE, Pirate prude - HELIUM, Simpatico - VELOCITY GIRL, If I don't six - MULE, Bee thousand - GUIDED BY VOICES, Ursa major - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY, Sangria - THRONEBERRY, Pony express record - SHUDDER TO THINK, Done - 18TH DYE, Fuzzy - FUZZY, Grace - JEFF BUCKLEY, There's nothing wrong with love - BUILT TO SPILL, God don't make no junk - THE HALO BENDERS, The stars are insane - VERSUS, Vauxhall and I - MORRISSEY, Silver apples of the moon - LAIKA, Protection - MASSIVE ATTACK, Ready to die - THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G., Hard to earn - GANG STARR, Blow out comb - DIGABLE PLANETS, Lost in the former west - THE FATIMA MANSIONS, His 'n' hers - PULP, Now I'm a cowboy - THE AUTEURS, Mobile safari - THE PASTELS, Starlite walker - SILVER JEWS, Days in the wake - PALACE BROTHERS, I could live in hope - LOW, The white birch - CODEINE, Tortoise - TORTOISE, Dirty Three - DIRTY THREE, Diary - SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE, Celebrate the new dark age - POLVO, Calculated - HEAVENS TO BETSY, Motionless - CHOKEBORE, Cop and speeder - HEATMISER, Roman candle - ELLIOTT SMITH, Horsebreaker star - GRANT McLENNAN, I had a New York girlfriend - ROBERT FORSTER, Mighty Joe Moon - GRANT LEE BUFFALO, Pale blonde hell - CHRIS CACAVAS AND JUNK YARD LOVE, Bewitched - LUNA, Sprawl - THE BEVIS FROND, Destroy all Astro-Men!! - MAN OR ASTRO-MAN?, Crack in the system - DEAD MOON, La mano cornuda - SUPERSUCKERS, Information highway revisited - NEW BOMB TURKS, 24 hour revenge therapy - JAWBREAKER, For your own special sweetheart - JAWBOX, Soda pop rip off - SLANT 6, Out of range - ANI DIFRANCO, Oyster - HEATHER NOVA, Pure - THE GOLDEN PALOMINOS, My field trip to Planet 9 - JUSTIN WARFIELD, 6 feet deep (Niggamortis) - GRAVEDIGGAZ, Guerrilla funk - PARIS, The main ingredient - PETE ROCK AND CL SMOOTH, Music for the jilted generation - PRODIGY, Snivilisation - ORBITAL, What a mangled web we live - SKATENIGS, Perfect sex - PINK TURNS BLUE, One last laugh in a place of dying - THE GOD MACHINE, Horsemountain - WHIPPED CREAM, Manilow - SMUDGE, Mellow gold / One foot in the grave - BECK, Hold on, it hurts - CORNERSHOP, Mary Queen of Scots - EUGENIUS, Trace - DIED PRETTY, Spaceman in a satin suit - CELIBATE RIFLES, Subliminal - THE LAST DRIVE, Ασύρματος κόσμος - ΣΤΕΡΕΟ ΝΟΒΑ, Rumble city, LaLa land - 22-PISTEPIRKKO, Worst case scenario - dEUS, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik - OUTKAST, The sun rises in the east - JERU THE DAMAJA, Stress: The extinction agenda - ORGANIZED KONFUSION, Word...life - O.C., Resurrection - COMMON SENSE, Selected ambient works volume II - APHEX TWIN, Lifeforms - THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON, Haunted dancehall - THE SABRES OF PARADISE, Amber - AUTECHRE, Vulvaland - MOUSE ON MARS, The downward spiral - NINE INCH NAILS, American recordings - JOHNNY CASH, Sleeps with angels - NEIL YOUNG, Superunknown - SOUNDGARDEN, Stoner witch - MELVINS, Betty - HELMET, Timothy's monster - MOTORPSYCHO, Twice removed - SLOAN, Forever again - ERIC'S TRIP, Jimmy wine majestic - RED RED MEAT, Crappin' you negative - THE GRIFTERS, Shimmer - SURGERY, Willpower - TODAY IS THE DAY, Total destruction - UNSANE, New plastic ideas - UNWOUND, Uncompromising war on art under the dictatorship of the proletariat - KILLDOZER, Speak squeak creak - MELT-BANANA, Vortura - BAILTER SPACE, 3 EPs - TALL DWARFS, Lamprey - BETTIE SERVEERT, Geek the girl - LISA GERMANO, Mute - CATCHERS, Homegrown - DODGY, Cowboys and aliens - KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION, New clear child - AR KANE, Retreat from Memphis - MEKONS, Yougli - LINUS, 8 Storey Window - 8 STOREY WINDOW, Giving birth to a stone - PEACH, Lately - IVY, Holiday / The charm of the highway strip - THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, The Holy Bible - MANIC STREET PREACHERS, Dog man star - SUEDE, Up to our hips - THE CHARLATANS, Gorgeous George - EDWYN COLLINS, Workshy - ANIMALS THAT SWIM, Teenage symphonies to God - VELVET CRUSH, Highs, lows and heavenly blows - SPECTRUM, The Sea And Cake - THE SEA AND CAKE, The sound your eyes can follow - MOONSHAKE, Stacked up - SENSER, Regulate... G Funk era - WARREN G, Give out but don't give up - PRIMAL SCREAM, Anarchy - CHUMBAWAMBA, Stranger than fiction - BAD RELIGION, Punk in drublic - NOFX, Change giver - SHED SEVEN, Everyone's got one - ECHOBELLY, The decline and fall of Heavenly - HEAVENLY, Striving for the lazy perfection - THE ORCHIDS, Withdrawal method - DIE MONSTER DIE, Cosmovalidator - PONY

2 comments:

DigMeOut said...

Listen to a podcast review of Comforter by Compulsion on Dig Me Out at digmeoutpodcast.com, a weekly podcast dedicated to revisiting lost and forgotten rock of the 90s.

Rúni said...

What a list, what a list. What happened to Music??!

But holy moly, Bee Thousand not in the top ranks is an incredibly bold move.