Saturday, March 10, 2012

60 Albums 1994

60 favorite albums from my collection for 1994. This was a little more difficult list. It really wasn't a great year for music in my opinion. I think that most of the top ten are interchangeable. Nothing really stood out. Many of these albums I came to like more over the years but there wasn't a whole lot here I ran out and got when they were released.

I was working at the downtown public library and had daily access to their fabulous CD collection. I was constantly bringing home new music. I was also making lots of mixes during this time. I was filling in my collection of albums I'd missed over the years as many of the albums on this list were I actually added in subsequent years.

This was also the time when I started learning more about music on the Internet for the first time. Of course the world wide web wasn't really happening yet but I was on the music discussion boards that were popping up around the net and in particular on the Buffalo Free-Net.



  1. Sugar - File Under: Easy Listening
  2. Tom Petty - Wildflowers
  3. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
  4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In
  5. The Cranberries - No Need To Argue
  6. Blur - Parklife
  7. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
  8. Various Artists - Beat The Retreat: Songs of Richard Thompson
  9. Jeff Buckley - Grace
  10. Portishead - Dummy
  11. R.E.M. - Monster
  12. Johnny Cash - American Recordings
  13. Ramones - Acid Eaters
  14. Jimi Hendrixs - Blues
  15. Beck - Mellow Gold
  16. Live - Throwing Coppers
  17. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
  18. Page & Plant - No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded
  19. Nanci Griffth - Flyer
  20. Alejandro Escovedo - Thirteen Years
  21. Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth
  22. Richard Thompson - Mirror Blue
  23. John Mellencamp - Dance Naked
  24. Lyres - Some Lyres
  25. Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels
  26. Richard Buckner - Bloomed
  27. Shawn Colvin - Cover Girl
  28. Luna - Bewitched
  29. The Spongetones - Beat & Torn
  30. Sam Philips - Martinis & Bikinis
  31. Versus - The Stars Are Insane
  32. Pulp - His 'n' Hers
  33. Ride - Carnival of Light
  34. Soundgarden - Superunknown
  35. Love Spit Love - Love Spit Love
  36. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
  37. Suede - Dog Man Star
  38. The Charlatans - Up To Our Hips
  39. Green Day - Dookie
  40. Superchunk - Foolish
  41. Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
  42. Iris DeMent - My Life
  43. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
  44. The Black Crowes - Amorica
  45. Kristin Hersh - Hips and Makers
  46. Tadpoles - He Fell Into The Sky
  47. Rusted Root - When I Woke
  48. Todd Snider - Songs For The Daily Planet
  49. Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year
  50. Beck - One Foot In The Grave
  51. Nico - Heroine
  52. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
  53. James Blood Ulmer - Blues Preacher
  54. Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)
  55. Seal - Seal
  56. Saint Etienne - Tiger Bay
  57. The Magnetic Fields - Holiday
  58. Sebadoh - Bakesale
  59. Bush - Sixteen Stone
  60. Freedy Johnson - This Perfect World

Here are some compilations from my collection released in 1994 that weren't included in the list above.

  1. Various Artists - The Doo Wop Box
  2. Various Artists - Woodstock 25th Anniversary Box Set
  3. Otis Redding - The Very Best of Otis Redding
  4. Aretha Franklin - The Very Best of Aretha Franklin: The 60s
  5. Aretha Franklin - The Very Best of Aretha Franklin: The 70s
  6. Loretta Lynn - Honky Tonk Girl: The Loretta Lynn Collection
  7. Willie Nelson - The Early Years: The Complete Liberty Recordings Plus More
  8. New Order - Best of New Order
  9. Bill Withers - Lean On Me: The Best of Bill Withers
  10. Various Artists - Rock Instrumental Classics: Volume 3 - The Seventies
  11. King Tubby - Dub Gone Crazy: The Evolution of Dub at King Tubby's 1975-1979
  12. The Lovin' Spoonful - The Best of the Lovin' Spoonful

    No comments: