1994

[Malak]

I'm listening to nothing but music from 1994. The really odd thing is, it isn't planned. I'm downloading music at random and listening to it, and it's all from albums from 1994. It's freaky.

Black Hole Sun, Glycerin, Lightning Crashes, Voodoo, Can You Feel the Love Tonight, and a very close Tonight, Tonight which is actually 1995.

 

[EMPshockwave82]

Q101 in Chicago does the top 100 songs of each year from around 1991 to now each year around new years and then they have people vote on which year had the best music. 1994 has won the past 5 or 6 years straight.

Best song : Nine Inch Nails - Closer

 

[SandEagle]

1994 was the best year of my life.

 

[Gibson486]

1994...Blur released the follow up to Modern Life is Rubbish. Oasis wooed England with Definitely Maybe. Weezer rocked out to Buddy Holly. It was a fantastic time for music.

 

[Scarpozzi]

The top album for that year was from Live "Throwing Copper". Edit: I may be wrong on this, but heard it somewhere about 10 years ago on a radio show...the Internet seems to have a lot of 'opinions'.

I think the top album of the 90s was Pearl Jam "Ten". There was a lot of really good bands on the rise when the whole rock movement kicked in thanks to Nirvana and Pearl Jam taking over the spotlight from the hair bands. I really there were still bands writing like that. The problem is that the younger generation hasn't had crap to listen to for inspiration the past decade.

 

[trmiv]

The year I graduated high school! Seems like yesterday, but it was 16 freaking years ago! Ugh.

 

[rivan]

'94 was an excellent year for me.

 

[Arcadio]

In 1994 I was listening to a lot of eurodance music: Ace of Base, Corona, DJ Bobo, Dr. Alban, Ice MC, Twenty 4 Seven, Whigfield, etc. The eurodance scene was big in South America. Too bad you Americans missed it.

 

[trmiv]

Some good albums that year

Stuff I know I bought:

Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Green Day - Dookie
Beck - Mellow Gold
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Weezer - Blue Album
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era
Rancid - Let's Go
Blues Traveler -four
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
Jamiroquai - The Return of the Space Cowboy
The Black Crowes - Amorica
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy

I'm sure there were more that I don't remember.

That was also the year The Fillmore in San Francisco re-opened. I saw so many good shows there.

 

[Gibson486]

In 1994 I was listening to a lot of eurodance music: Ace of Base, Corona, DJ Bobo, Dr. Alban, Ice MC, Twenty 4 Seven, Whigfield, etc. The eurodance scene was big in South America. Too bad you Americans missed it.

What are you talking about? Lots of those groups hit it big in the US, especially Ace of Base. The only reason why people do not talk about them anymore is because they rarely ended up being pop musical foot notes in the end.

 

[Arcadio]

What are you talking about? Lots of those groups hit it big in the US, especially Ace of Base. The only reason why people do not talk about them anymore is because they rarely ended up being pop musical foot notes in the end.

I guess I meant that the eurodance scene was much bigger in Europe (obviously) and Latin America than in the US. I mean, that's ALL we used to listen to.

 

[ScoobMaster]

I prefer 1984 to 1994

But then again I am an old fart now

 

[InflatableBuddha]

No love for:
Hootie & the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View
Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
??

94 was definitely a good year, but I could make a good case for 1992:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_in_music#Albums_released

Just a few:

Tool - Opiate
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Rage Against the Machine - self-titled
Prodigy - Experience
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
Nine Inch Nails - Broken
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Dr. Dre - Chronic
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head

 

[Malak]

I prefer 1984 to 1994

But then again I am an old fart now

I got some Chicago and Prince thrown in the mix too :thumbsup:

 

[meltdown75]

94 was epic... from what i recall

 

[LittleNemoNES]

94 was epic... from what i recall

Illmatic !

 

[palswim]

And the best of the bunch:
The Offspring - Smash

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

I prefer 1984 to 1994

But then again I am an old fart now

This man speaks of the truth.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Some good albums that year

Stuff I know I bought:

Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Green Day - Dookie
Beck - Mellow Gold
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Weezer - Blue Album
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era
Rancid - Let's Go
Blues Traveler -four
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
Jamiroquai - The Return of the Space Cowboy
The Black Crowes - Amorica
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy

I'm sure there were more that I don't remember.

That was also the year The Fillmore in San Francisco re-opened. I saw so many good shows there.

The list of the absolute shit that passed for music around that time can be made much longer, i don't think there is one song that shold ever be remembered or replayed, EVER, from that fuckup of a decade.

 

[Malak]

The list of the absolute shit that passed for music around that time can be made much longer, i don't think there is one song that shold ever be remembered or replayed, EVER, from that fuckup of a decade.

I don't understand how anyone can think an entire decade is lacking in music. Music has been around for thousands of years and I doubt a single decade was lacking. I love music.

 

[Ns1]

NIN - Downward Spiral also 1994

 

[Gibson486]

I don't understand how anyone can think an entire decade is lacking in music. Music has been around for thousands of years and I doubt a single decade was lacking. I love music.

well, this last decade has been pretty close too it:ninja:

 

[Malak]

well, this last decade has been pretty close too it:ninja:

Expand your horizons. All my favorite rap music is from the last decade.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

I don't understand how anyone can think an entire decade is lacking in music. Music has been around for thousands of years and I doubt a single decade was lacking. I love music.

I kinda agree, not one single decade but the 1990's.

Well, maybe a remake of some song in a fairly good version but other than that... no.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

well, this last decade has been pretty close too it:ninja:

Close but not like the 90's, this decade there are old artists making new songs, the 90's must have been some kind of experimentation period for bands that were rubbish and knew it.