Uncovering the Next Generation's Hall of Fame

| ⇦ 1993 | 1995 ⇨ |
The Best Music of 1994
Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 1994. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.
For a list of the top artists who made their debut recording in 1994, check out this list.
| Albums (?) | Wikipedia | |
| Aaliyah | Age Ain't Nothing but a Number | ☆ |
| Alice In Chains | Jar of Flies | ☆ |
| Anita Baker | Rhythm of Love | ☆ |
| Aphex Twin | Selected Ambient Works Vol. II | ☆ |
| Bad Religion | Stranger than Fiction | ☆ |
| Bark Pyschosis | Hex | ☆ |
| Beastie Boys | Ill Communication | ☆ |
| Beck | Mellow Gold | ☆ |
| Blur | Parklife | ☆ |
| Boyz II Men | II | ☆ |
| Brandy | Brandy | ☆ |
| Brooks & Dunn | Waitin' On Sundown | ☆ |
| Bush | Sixteen Stone | ☆ |
| Dave Matthews Band | Under The Table And Dreaming | ☆ |
| Dinosaur Jr. | Without A Sound | ☆ |
| Emperor | In the Nightside Eclipse | ☆ |
| Global Communication | 76:14 | ☆ |
| Green Day | Dookie | ☆ |
| Guided by Voices | Bee Thousand | ☆ |
| Hole | Live Through This | ☆ |
| Hootie & the Blowfish | Cracked Rear View | ☆ |
| Jeff Buckley | Grace | ☆ |
| Johnny Cash | American Recordings | ☆ |
| King's X | Dogman | ☆ |
| Korn | Korn | ☆ |
| Kyuss | Welcome to Sky Valley | ☆ |
| Live | Throwing Copper | ☆ |
| Liz Phair | Whip-Smart | ☆ |
| Low | I Could Live in Hope | ☆ |
| Machine Head | Burn My Eyes | ☆ |
| Madonna | Bedtime Stories | ☆ |
| Manic Street Preachers | The Holy Bible | ☆ |
| Mariah Carey | Merry Christmas | ☆ |
| Mary J. Blige | My Life | ☆ |
| Massive Attack | Protection | ☆ |
| Mayhem | De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | ☆ |
| Meat Puppets | Too High to Die | ☆ |
| Morrissey | Vauxhall and I | ☆ |
| Nas | Illmatic | ☆ |
| Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | Let Love In | ☆ |
| Nine Inch Nails | The Downward Spiral | ☆ |
| Nirvana | MTV Unplugged In New York | ☆ |
| Nobuo Uematsu | Final Fantasy VI | ☆ |
| NOFX | Punk in Drublic | ☆ |
| Notorious B.I.G. | Ready To Die | ☆ |
| Oasis | Definitely Maybe | ☆ |
| Orbital | Snivilisation | ☆ |
| OutKast | Southern-playalisticadillac-muzik | ☆ |
| Pantera | Far Beyond Driven | ☆ |
| Pavement | Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | ☆ |
| Pearl Jam | Vitalogy | ☆ |
| Phish | Hoist | ☆ |
| Pink Floyd | The Division Bell | ☆ |
| Portishead | Dummy | ☆ |
| Pulp | His 'n' Hers | ☆ |
| R.E.M. | Monster | ☆ |
| Reba McEntire | Read My Mind | ☆ |
| Seal | Seal II | ☆ |
| Selena | Amor Prohibido | ☆ |
| Sinead O'Connor | Universal Mother | ☆ |
| Sonic Youth | Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star | ☆ |
| Soundgarden | Superunknown | ☆ |
| Stone Temple Pilots | Purple | ☆ |
| Suede | Dog Man Star | ☆ |
| Sunny Day Real Estate | Diary | ☆ |
| The Black Crowes | Amorica | ☆ |
| The Cranberries | No Need to Argue | ☆ |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain | Stoned And Dethroned | ☆ |
| The Offspring | Smash | ☆ |
| The Prodigy | Music for the Jilted Generation | ☆ |
| The Stone Roses | Second Coming | ☆ |
| The Tragically Hip | Day For Night | ☆ |
| Tim McGraw | Not a Moment Too Soon | ☆ |
| TLC | CrazySexyCool | ☆ |
| Toad the Wet Sprocket | Dulcinea | ☆ |
| Toadies | Rubberneck | ☆ |
| Tom Petty | Wildflowers | ☆ |
| Tori Amos | Under The Pink | ☆ |
| Underworld | dub no bass with my head man | ☆ |
| Various Artists | The Crow Soundtrack | ☆ |
| Various Artists | The Lion King Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | ☆ |
| Various Artists | Donkey Kong Country OST | ☆ |
| Veruca Salt | American Thighs | ☆ |
| Vince Gill | When Love Finds You | ☆ |
| Ween | Chocolate and Cheese | ☆ |
| Ween | Chocolate and Cheese | ☆ |
| Weezer | Weezer (Blue Album) | ☆ |
| Songs (?) | Wikipedia | |
| Ace of Base | Don't Turn Around | ☆ |
| Aimee Mann | That's Just What You Are | ☆ |
| Alice In Chains | No Excuses | ☆ |
| Alice In Chains | I Stay Away | ☆ |
| Alice in Chains | Nutshell | ☆ |
| All-4-One | I Swear | ☆ |
| Bad Religion | Infected | ☆ |
| Beastie Boys | Sabotage | ☆ |
| Beastie Boys | Sure Shot | ☆ |
| Blues Traveler | Run-Around | ☆ |
| Blues Traveler | Hook | ☆ |
| Blur | Girls And Boys | ☆ |
| Blur | Parklife | ☆ |
| Bon Jovi | Always | ☆ |
| Bonnie Raitt | Love Sneakin' Up On You | ☆ |
| Boyz II Men | I'll Make Love to You | ☆ |
| Boyz II Men | It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday | ☆ |
| Boyz II Men | On Bended Knee | ☆ |
| Brandy | I Wanna Be Down | ☆ |
| Bruce Springsteen | Streets Of Philadelphia | ☆ |
| Bryan Adams | Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? | ☆ |
| Bush | Comedown | ☆ |
| Bush | Glycerine | ☆ |
| Bush | Everything Zen | ☆ |
| Bush | Machinehead | ☆ |
| Collective Soul | Shine | ☆ |
| Coolio | Fantastic Voyage | ☆ |
| Dave Matthews Band | Ants Marching | ☆ |
| Dave Matthews Band | What Would You Say? | ☆ |
| Dead Can Dance | American Dreaming | ☆ |
| Des'ree | You Gotta Be | ☆ |
| Digable Planets | Dial 7 (Axioms of Creamy Spies) | ☆ |
| Dinosaur Jr. | Feel the Pain | ☆ |
| Dionne Farris | I Know | ☆ |
| Edwyn Collins | A Girl Like You | ☆ |
| Elton John | Can You Feel the Love Tonight? | ☆ |
| Elton John | Circle of Life | ☆ |
| Erasure | Always | ☆ |
| Everything But the Girl | Missing | ☆ |
| Flinch | Faking | ☆ |
| Frank Black | Headache | ☆ |
| Gang Starr | Mass Appeal | ☆ |
| Gloria Estefan | Turn the Beat Around | ☆ |
| Green Day | Basket Case | ☆ |
| Green Day | When I Come Around | ☆ |
| Green Day | Longview | ☆ |
| Green Day | Welcome to Paradise | ☆ |
| Groove Collective | Drunken Master | ☆ |
| Guided By Voices | I Am A Scientist | ☆ |
| Hole | Doll Parts | ☆ |
| Hole | Violet | ☆ |
| Hole | Miss World | ☆ |
| Hootie & The Blowfish | Only Wanna Be With You | ☆ |
| Hootie And The Blowfish | Hold My Hand | ☆ |
| Hootie and the Blowfish | Let Her Cry | ☆ |
| Hootie And the Blowfish | Time | ☆ |
| Ini Kamoze | Here Comes the Hotstepper | ☆ |
| Jeff Buckley | Hallelujah | ☆ |
| Jeff Buckley | Grace | ☆ |
| Korn | Blind | ☆ |
| Kylie Minogue | Confide in Me | ☆ |
| La Bouche | Sweet Dreams (Ola Ola E) | ☆ |
| Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories | Stay (I Missed You) | ☆ |
| Live | Lighting Crashes | ☆ |
| Live | I Alone | ☆ |
| Live | Selling The Drama | ☆ |
| Live | All Over You | ☆ |
| Liz Phair | Supernova | ☆ |
| Liz Phair | Whip-Smart | ☆ |
| Low | Lullaby | ☆ |
| Madonna | Take a Bow | ☆ |
| Mariah Carey | All I Want for Christmas Is You | ☆ |
| Martina McBride | Independence Day | ☆ |
| Meat Puppets | Backwater | ☆ |
| Mighty Mighty Bosstones | Pictures to Prove It | ☆ |
| Mike Post | Law & Order | ☆ |
| Nas | N.Y. State Of Mind | ☆ |
| Nas | It Ain't Hard to Tell | ☆ |
| Nas (feat. AZ) | Life's a Bitch | ☆ |
| Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | Red Right Hand | ☆ |
| Nine Inch Nails | Closer | ☆ |
| Nine Inch Nails | Hurt | ☆ |
| Nine Inch Nails | March of the Pigs | ☆ |
| Nirvana | The Man Who Sold the World | ☆ |
| Nirvana | Where Did You Sleep Last Night | ☆ |
| Notorious B.I.G. | Juicy | ☆ |
| Notorious B.I.G. | Big Poppa | ☆ |
| Oasis | Live Forever | ☆ |
| Oasis | Supersonic | ☆ |
| Oasis | Cigarettes and Alcohol | ☆ |
| Oasis | Rock 'n' Roll Star | ☆ |
| Pavement | Cut Your Hair | ☆ |
| Pavement | Gold Soundz | ☆ |
| Pearl Jam | Corduroy | ☆ |
| Pearl Jam | Better Man | ☆ |
| Phish | Down with Disease | ☆ |
| Phish | Sample in a Jar | ☆ |
| Pink Floyd | High Hopes | ☆ |
| Portishead | Sour Times | ☆ |
| Portishead | Glory Box | ☆ |
| Pulp | Do You Remember the First Time? | ☆ |
| R.E.M. | What's The Frequency, Kenneth? | ☆ |
| R.E.M. | Bang And Blame | ☆ |
| Radiohead | My Iron Lung | ☆ |
| Real McCoy | Another Night | ☆ |
| Real McCoy | Run Away | ☆ |
| Reel 2 Real | I Like to Move It | ☆ |
| Rusted Root | Send Me on My Way | ☆ |
| Silverchair | Tomorrow | ☆ |
| Sonic Youth | Bull in the Heather | ☆ |
| Soundgarden | Black Hole Sun | ☆ |
| Soundgarden | Spoonman | ☆ |
| Soundgarden | Fell on Black Days | ☆ |
| Soundgarden | The Day I Tried to Live | ☆ |
| Sparks | When Do I Get to Sing "My Way" | ☆ |
| Starflyer 59 | Sled | ☆ |
| Stone Temple Pilots | Interstate Love Song | ☆ |
| Stone Temple Pilots | Vasoline | ☆ |
| Stone Temple Pilots | Big Empty | ☆ |
| Suede | We Are the Pigs | ☆ |
| The Brand New Heavies | Dream On Dreamer | ☆ |
| The Cranberries | Zombie | ☆ |
| The Cranberries | Ode to My Family | ☆ |
| The Offspring | Self Esteem | ☆ |
| The Offspring | Come Out And Play | ☆ |
| The Offspring | Gotta Get Away | ☆ |
| The Pretenders | I'll Stand By You | ☆ |
| The Rollins Band | Liar | ☆ |
| The Stone Roses | Love Spreads | ☆ |
| Tim McGraw | Indian Outlaw | ☆ |
| TLC | Waterfalls | ☆ |
| TLC | Creep | ☆ |
| TLC | Red Light Special | ☆ |
| Toad the Wet Sprocket | Fall Down | ☆ |
| Toadies | Possum Kingdom | ☆ |
| Tom Petty | You Don't Know How It Feels | ☆ |
| Tom Petty | Wildflowers | ☆ |
| Tom Petty | You Wreck Me | ☆ |
| Tori Amos | God | ☆ |
| Tori Amos | Cornflake Girl | ☆ |
| Underworld | Cowgirl | ☆ |
| Veruca Salt | Seether | ☆ |
| Warren G. (feat. Nate Dogg) | Regulate | ☆ |
| Weezer | Buddy Holly | ☆ |
| Weezer | Say It Ain't So | ☆ |
| Weezer | Undone (The Sweater Song) | ☆ |
| Weezer | My Name Is Jonas | ☆ |
| ⇦ 1993 | 1995 ⇨ |