⇦ 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	☆
Erasure	I Say I Say I Say	☆
Fugees	Blunted on Reality	☆
Global Communication	76:14	☆
Green Day	Dookie	☆
Guided by Voices	Bee Thousand	☆
Hole	Live Through This	☆
Hootie & the Blowfish	Cracked Rear View	☆
Iris DeMent	My Life	☆
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	☆
Lush	Split	☆
Luther Vandross	Songs	☆
Machine Head	Burn My Eyes	☆
Madonna	Bedtime Stories	☆
Manic Street Preachers	The Holy Bible	☆
Mariah Carey	Merry Christmas	☆
Mary Chapin Carpenter	Stones in the Road	☆
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	☆
Nick Lowe	The Impossible Bird	☆
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	☆
Patty Loveless	When Fallen Angels Fly	☆
Pavement	Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain	☆
Pearl Jam	Vitalogy	☆
Phish	Hoist	☆
Pink Floyd	The Division Bell	☆
Portishead	Dummy	☆
Pretenders	Last of the Independents	☆
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)	☆

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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	☆
Coolio	Fantastic Voyage	☆
Dave Matthews Band	Ants Marching	☆
Dave Matthews Band	What Would You Say?	☆
Dave Matthews Band	Satellite	☆
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	☆
Jeff Buckley	Mojo Pin	☆
Jeff Buckley	Lover, You Should've Come Over	☆
Jeff Buckley	Last Goodbye	☆
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	☆
Selena	Bidi Bidi Bom Bom	☆
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	☆
The Tragically Hip	Grace, Too	☆
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 ⇨