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| ⇦ 1992 | 1994 ⇨ |
The Best Music of 1993
Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 1993. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.
For a list of the top artists who made their debut recording in 1993, check out this list.
| Albums (?) | Wikipedia | |
| 10,000 Maniacs | MTV Unplugged | ☆ |
| A Tribe Called Quest | Midnight Marauders | ☆ |
| Aerosmith | Get A Grip | ☆ |
| Aimee Mann | Whatever | ☆ |
| Belly | Star | ☆ |
| Bikini Kill | Pussy Whipped | ☆ |
| Billy Joel | River of Dreams | ☆ |
| Björk | Debut | ☆ |
| Blue Rodeo | Five Days In July | ☆ |
| Blur | Modern Life Is Rubbish | ☆ |
| Bobby Prince | Doom Original Soundtrack | ☆ |
| Brooks & Dunn | Hard Workin' Man | ☆ |
| Candlebox | Candlebox | ☆ |
| Cathedral | The Ethereal Mirror | ☆ |
| Catherine Wheel | Chrome | ☆ |
| Chris Isaak | San Francisco Days | ☆ |
| Cocteau Twins | Four-Calendar Café | ☆ |
| Counting Crows | August & Everything After | ☆ |
| Crash Test Dummies | God Shuffled His Feet | ☆ |
| Cypress Hill | Black Sunday | ☆ |
| Darkthrone | Under a Funeral Moon | ☆ |
| De La Soul | Buhloone Mindstate | ☆ |
| Dead Can Dance | Into the Labyrinth | ☆ |
| Depeche Mode | Songs of Faith and Devotion | ☆ |
| Dinosaur Jr. | Where You Been | ☆ |
| Duran Duran | Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) | ☆ |
| Dwight Yoakam | This Time | ☆ |
| Fugazi | In on the Kill Taker | ☆ |
| Garth Brooks | In Pieces | ☆ |
| Jamiroquai | Emergency on Planet Earth | ☆ |
| Janet Jackson | janet. | ☆ |
| Jean-Michel Jarre | Chronologie | ☆ |
| Jellyfish | Spilt Milk | ☆ |
| Lenny Kravitz | Are You Gonna Go My Way | ☆ |
| Liz Phair | Exile In Guyville | ☆ |
| Mariah Carey | Music Box | ☆ |
| Mazzy Star | So Tonight That I Might See | ☆ |
| Meat Loaf | Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell | ☆ |
| Melissa Etheridge | Yes I Am | ☆ |
| Midnight Oil | Earth and Sun and Moon | ☆ |
| New Order | Republic | ☆ |
| Nirvana | In Utero | ☆ |
| Orbital | Orbital 2 | ☆ |
| Paradise Lost | Icon | ☆ |
| Paul Weller | Wild Wood | ☆ |
| Pearl Jam | Vs. | ☆ |
| Pet Shop Boys | Very | ☆ |
| Phil Collins | Both Sides | ☆ |
| Phish | Rift | ☆ |
| PJ Harvey | Rid Of Me | ☆ |
| Primus | Pork Soda | ☆ |
| Queen Latifah | Black Reign | ☆ |
| Radiohead | Pablo Honey | ☆ |
| Robert Plant | Fate of Nations | ☆ |
| Rush | Counterparts | ☆ |
| Salt-N-Pepa | Very Necessary | ☆ |
| Sarah McLachlan | Fumbling Towards Ecstasy | ☆ |
| Sepultura | Chaos A.D. | ☆ |
| Sheryl Crow | Tuesday Night Music Club | ☆ |
| Slowdive | Souvlaki | ☆ |
| Smashing Pumpkins | Siamese Dream | ☆ |
| Snoop Doggy Dogg | Doggystyle | ☆ |
| Sting | Ten Summoner's Tales | ☆ |
| Suede | Suede | ☆ |
| The Afghan Whigs | Gentlemen | ☆ |
| The Boo Radleys | Giant Steps | ☆ |
| The Breeders | Last Splash | ☆ |
| The Cranberries | Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? | ☆ |
| The Flaming Lips | Transmissions from the Satellite Heart | ☆ |
| The Lemonheads | Come On Feel the Lemonheads | ☆ |
| The Verve | A Storm in Heaven | ☆ |
| Toby Keith | Toby Keith | ☆ |
| Toni Braxton | Toni Braxton | ☆ |
| Tool | Undertow | ☆ |
| Type O Negative | Bloody Kisses | ☆ |
| U2 | Zooropa | ☆ |
| Various Artists | The Nightmare Before Christmas: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | ☆ |
| Weird Al Yankovic | Alapalooza | ☆ |
| Wu-Tang Clan | Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | ☆ |
| Wynonna Judd | Tell Me Why | ☆ |
| X Japan | Art of Life | ☆ |
| Yo La Tengo | Painful | ☆ |
| Songs (?) | Wikipedia | |
| 10,000 Maniacs | Because the Night | ☆ |
| 2Pac | Keep Ya Head Up | ☆ |
| 2Pac | I Get Around (featuring Digital Underground) | ☆ |
| A Tribe Called Quest | Electric Relaxation | ☆ |
| A Tribe Called Quest | Award Tour | ☆ |
| Ace of Base | The Sign | ☆ |
| Aerosmith | Cryin' | ☆ |
| Aerosmith | Livin' on the Edge | ☆ |
| Aerosmith | Crazy | ☆ |
| Aimee Mann | I Should've Known | ☆ |
| Angelfish | Suffocate Me | ☆ |
| Aphex Twin | On | ☆ |
| Beck | Loser | ☆ |
| Belly | Feed the Tree | ☆ |
| Better Than Ezra | Good | ☆ |
| Bikini Kill | Rebel Girl | ☆ |
| Billy Joel | The River of Dreams | ☆ |
| Björk | Human Behaviour | ☆ |
| BoDeans | Closer to Free | ☆ |
| Boyz II Men | End Of The Road | ☆ |
| Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting | All For Love | ☆ |
| Candlebox | Far Behind | ☆ |
| Candlebox | You | ☆ |
| Celine Dion | The Power of Love | ☆ |
| Corona | The Rhythm of The Night | ☆ |
| Counting Crows | Mr. Jones | ☆ |
| Counting Crows | Round Here | ☆ |
| Cracker | Low | ☆ |
| Crash Test Dummies | Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm | ☆ |
| Culture Beat | Mr. Vain | ☆ |
| Cypress Hill | Insane In The Brain | ☆ |
| De La Soul | Ego Trippin' (Part Two) | ☆ |
| Depeche Mode | Walking in My Shoes | ☆ |
| Depeche Mode | I Feel You | ☆ |
| Duran Duran | Ordinary World | ☆ |
| Duran Duran | Come Undone | ☆ |
| Eat | Tranquilliser | ☆ |
| Enigma | Return to Innocence | ☆ |
| Haddaway | What is Love | ☆ |
| James | Laid | ☆ |
| Jamiroquai | Emergency on Planet Earth | ☆ |
| Janet Jackson | That's The Way Love Goes | ☆ |
| Janet Jackson | Again | ☆ |
| Janet Jackson | If | ☆ |
| Jimmy Cliff | I Can See Clearly Now | ☆ |
| John Williams | Theme From Jurassic Park | ☆ |
| Lenny Kravitz | Are You Gonna Go My Way | ☆ |
| Liz Phair | F*ck and Run | ☆ |
| Liz Phair | Never Said | ☆ |
| Mötorhead | Born to Raise Hell | ☆ |
| Mariah Carey | Dreamlover | ☆ |
| Mariah Carey | Hero | ☆ |
| Mazzy Star | Fade Into You | ☆ |
| Mazzy Star | Into Dust | ☆ |
| Meat Loaf | I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) | ☆ |
| Meat Loaf | Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through | ☆ |
| Meat Loaf | Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back | ☆ |
| Meat Loaf | Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are | ☆ |
| Medicine | 5ive | ☆ |
| Melissa Etheridge | Come to My Window | ☆ |
| Melissa Etheridge | I'm the Only One | ☆ |
| Mother Earth | Jesse | ☆ |
| Murray Attaway | Allegory | ☆ |
| New Order | Regret | ☆ |
| Nirvana | All Apologies | ☆ |
| Nirvana | Heart Shaped Box | ☆ |
| Nirvana | Rape Me | ☆ |
| Nirvana | Dumb | ☆ |
| Nirvana | Pennyroyal Tea | ☆ |
| Orbital | Halcyon + On + On | ☆ |
| Outkast | Player's Ball | ☆ |
| Pearl Jam | Daughter | ☆ |
| Pearl Jam | Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town | ☆ |
| Pearl Jam | Dissident | ☆ |
| Pearl Jam | Rearviewmirror | ☆ |
| Pearl Jam | Animal | ☆ |
| Pearl Jam | W.M.A. | ☆ |
| Pearl Jam | Go | ☆ |
| Pet Shop Boys | Go West | ☆ |
| Primus | My Name is Mud | ☆ |
| Queen Latifah | U.N.I.T.Y. | ☆ |
| Radiohead | Anyone Can Play Guitar | ☆ |
| Restless Heart with Warren Hill | Tell Me What You Dream | ☆ |
| Robin S. | Show Me Love | ☆ |
| Salt N Pepa | Shoop | ☆ |
| Salt N Pepa | None of Your Business | ☆ |
| Salt N Pepa & En Vogue | Whatta Man | ☆ |
| Sarah McLachlan | Possession | ☆ |
| Sheryl Crow | All I Wanna Do | ☆ |
| Sheryl Crow | Strong Enough | ☆ |
| Sheryl Crow | Leaving Las Vegas | ☆ |
| Sheryl Crow | Run Baby Run | ☆ |
| Shonen Knife | Tomato Head | ☆ |
| Smashing Pumpkins | Cherub Rock | ☆ |
| Smashing Pumpkins | Disarm | ☆ |
| Smashing Pumpkins | Today | ☆ |
| Smashing Pumpkins | Mayonaise | ☆ |
| Snoop Doggy Dogg | Gin And Juice | ☆ |
| Snoop Doggy Dogg | Who Am I? (What's My Name?) | ☆ |
| Snow | Informer | ☆ |
| Sting | If I Ever Lose My Faith In You | ☆ |
| Sting | Fields of Gold | ☆ |
| Suede | Animal Nitrate | ☆ |
| SWV | Weak | ☆ |
| SWV | Right Here (Human Nature Remix) | ☆ |
| Tag Team | Whoomp! (There It Is) | ☆ |
| Tears For Fears | Break It Down Again | ☆ |
| The Afghan Whigs | Debonair | ☆ |
| The Breeders | Cannonball | ☆ |
| The Connells | '74-75' | ☆ |
| The Cranberries | Linger | ☆ |
| The Flaming Lips | She Don't Use Jelly | ☆ |
| The Immortals | Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat) | ☆ |
| The Juliana Hatfield Three | My Sister | ☆ |
| The Lemonheads | Into Your Arms | ☆ |
| The Lemonheads | It's About Time | ☆ |
| The Mavericks | What a Crying Shame | ☆ |
| The Melvins | Lizzy | ☆ |
| The Verve | Slide Away | ☆ |
| Tina Turner | I Don't Wanna Fight | ☆ |
| Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | Mary Jane's Last Dance | ☆ |
| Toni Braxton | Breathe Again | ☆ |
| Toni Braxton | Another Sad Love Song | ☆ |
| Tool | Sober | ☆ |
| Tool | Prison Sex | ☆ |
| Tool (feat. Henry Rollins) | Bottom | ☆ |
| UB40 | (I Can't Help) Falling in Love with You | ☆ |
| Us3 | Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) | ☆ |
| Us3 | Tukka Yoot's Riddim | ☆ |
| Wu-Tang Clan | Protect Ya Neck | ☆ |
| Wu-Tang Clan | C.R.E.A.M. | ☆ |
| Wu-Tang Clan | Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta F*** Wit | ☆ |
| Wu-Tang Clan | Can It All be So Simple | ☆ |
| Wu-Tang Clan | Method Man | ☆ |
| X Japan | Art of Life | ☆ |
| Zhané | Hey Mr. D.J. | ☆ |
| ⇦ 1992 | 1994 ⇨ |