⇦ 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	☆
2Pac	Strictly For My N.*.*.*.A.Z.	☆
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	☆
Death	Individual Thought Patterns	☆
Depeche Mode	Songs of Faith and Devotion	☆
Dinosaur Jr.	Where You Been	☆
Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette	Honky Tonk Angels	☆
Duran Duran	Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)	☆
Dwight Yoakam	This Time	☆
Fugazi	In on the Kill Taker	☆
Garth Brooks	In Pieces	☆
Ice Cube	Lethal Injection	☆
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	☆
Overkill	I Hear Black	☆
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	☆
Saigon Kick	Water	☆
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	☆

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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	☆
Aerosmith	Amazing	☆
Aimee Mann	I Should've Known	☆
Angelfish	Suffocate Me	☆
Aphex Twin	On	☆
Bad Religion	American Jesus	☆
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	☆
Buddy Guy	Feels Like Rain	☆
Candlebox	Far Behind	☆
Candlebox	You	☆
Celine Dion	The Power of Love	☆
Collective Soul	Shine	☆
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	☆
Depeche Mode	In Your Room	☆
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	☆
MC Lyte	Ruffneck	☆
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	☆
Midnight Oil	My Country	☆
Mother Earth	Jesse	☆
Murray Attaway	Allegory	☆
New Order	Regret	☆
Nirvana	All Apologies	☆
Nirvana	Heart Shaped Box	☆
Nirvana	Rape Me	☆
Nirvana	Dumb	☆
Nirvana	Pennyroyal Tea	☆
Nirvana	Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle	☆
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.	☆
Queen Latifah	Just Another Day…	☆
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	☆
Sting	Shape of My Heart	☆
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	☆
Toni Braxton	You Mean the World to Me	☆
Tony! Toni! Toné!	If I Had No Loot	☆
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	☆
Wu-Tang Clan	Da Mystery of Chessboxin'	☆
X Japan	Art of Life	☆
Zhané	Hey Mr. D.J.	☆

⇦ 1992

1994 ⇨