IMO, 1994 was a great year for albums, maybe the last one we've had. Especially for debuts. Here are my favorite albums released that year. All of these I've never stopped listening to:

1) Oasis: Definitely Maybe
2) Weezer: "Blue" album
3) Notorious BIG: Ready to Die
4) Beck: Mellow Gold
5) Nirvana: Unplugged
6) Green Day: Dookie
7) Blur: Parklife
8) Soundgarden: Superunknown
9) Outkast: Southernplaya ...
10) Nas: Illmatic

What are your favorites?

Unplgged was EPIC.

Superunknown was pretty solid, I'd have to look to see what else came out that year.

(05-24-2014 01:07 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  IMO, 1994 was a great year for albums, maybe the last one we've had. Especially for debuts. Here are my favorite albums released that year. All of these I've never stopped listening to:

1) Oasis: Definitely Maybe
2) Weezer: "Blue" album
3) Notorious BIG: Ready to Die
4) Beck: Mellow Gold
5) Nirvana: Unplugged
6) Green Day: Dookie
7) Blur: Parklife
8) Soundgarden: Superunknown
9) Outkast: Southernplaya ...
10) Nas: Illmatic

What are your favorites?

I's scratch off BIG and Outcast.

You left off STP-Purple, NIN-Downward Spiral, AIC-Jar of Flies, Blues Travelers-Four - to name a few.

I'll post more as I go through my collection.

(05-24-2014 01:07 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  IMO, 1994 was a great year for albums, maybe the last one we've had. Especially for debuts. Here are my favorite albums released that year. All of these I've never stopped listening to:

1) Oasis: Definitely Maybe
2) Weezer: "Blue" album
3) Notorious BIG: Ready to Die
4) Beck: Mellow Gold
5) Nirvana: Unplugged
6) Green Day: Dookie
7) Blur: Parklife
8) Soundgarden: Superunknown
9) Outkast: Southernplaya ...
10) Nas: Illmatic

What are your favorites?

In no particular order I agree with Weezer, Beck, Nirvana, Green Day and Soundgarden. I would add the following:

Amorica - The Black Crowes
Pisces Iscariot - The Smashing Pumpkins
Purple - Stone Temple Pilots
Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
Jar Of Flies - Alice In Chains
Under The Table And Dreaming - Dave Matthews Band
No Need To Argue - The Cranberries
Monster - R.E.M.
Four - Blues Traveler
Sixteen Stone - Bush
From The Cradle - Eric Clapton

What I had from 1994

Biohazard: State of the World Address
The Black Crowes: Amorica
Body Count: Born Dead
Green Day: Dookie
Helmet: Meantime
Korn: Korn
Nirvana: Unplugged
Offspring: Smash
P.O.D. : Snuff the Punk
Stone Temple Pilots: Purple
Suicidal Tendencies: Suicidal For Life
Beastie Boys: Ill Communication
House of Pain: Same as it Ever Was
Lords of the Underground: Keepers of the Funk
Outkast: Southeryplayalisticcadillacmuzik
The Roots: Do You Want More
Method Man: Tical
Boyz II Men: II
Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock AND Blues

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Beasties, STP, Nirvana, Biohazard, and JH Blues would be my tops...

My top 20 from that year (in order released) are:

Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Green day - Dookie
Beck - Mellow Gold
NIN -The Downward Spiral
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
The Offspring - Smash
Weezer - Weezer
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
STP - Purple
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Creepin on ah Come Up
Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family
Toadies - Rubberneck
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die
2Pac -Thug Life Volume 1
R.E.M. - Monster
Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
Korn - Korn
Nirvana - Unplugged
Bush - Sixteen Stone

*that is one hell of a year for music.

So many great albums from that year. Nas Illmatic is definitely my favorite.

(05-24-2014 02:59 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(05-24-2014 01:07 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  IMO, 1994 was a great year for albums, maybe the last one we've had. Especially for debuts. Here are my favorite albums released that year. All of these I've never stopped listening to:

1) Oasis: Definitely Maybe
2) Weezer: "Blue" album
3) Notorious BIG: Ready to Die
4) Beck: Mellow Gold
5) Nirvana: Unplugged
6) Green Day: Dookie
7) Blur: Parklife
8) Soundgarden: Superunknown
9) Outkast: Southernplaya ...
10) Nas: Illmatic

What are your favorites?

I's scratch off BIG and Outcast.

You left off STP-Purple, NIN-Downward Spiral, AIC-Jar of Flies, Blues Travelers-Four - to name a few.

I'll post more as I go through my collection.

Purple is a guilty pleasure of mine, it would be an honorable mention for me.

I was crazy for the Downward Spiral back then, had I made this list in say 1996 it would have been in the top 5, but for some reason it quickly became dated for me, hasn't stood the test of time.

And for whatever reason, I never got into the Dave Mathews/Blues Traveler thing (I always lump them together, LOL). Ditto for the "women's music" of the time (Sara Mclaughlin, Tori Amos, Sheryl Crow, etc.).

(05-24-2014 03:23 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  In no particular order I agree with Weezer, Beck, Nirvana, Green Day and Soundgarden. I would add the following:

(snip)

Pisces Iscariot - The Smashing Pumpkins
Vitalogy - Pearl Jam

I focus on these two because the funny thing is, I remember I spent much of early-mid 1994 listening to those band's previous releases, Vs and Siamese Dream, and still enjoy both today, but never dug either of these.

(05-24-2014 04:48 PM)SouthEastAlaska Wrote:  Pantera - Far Beyond Driven

Thanks for reminding me of this one. I remember buying it on vinyl in early 1995 and enjoying it. Would be an honorable mention for me.

(05-25-2014 10:10 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(05-24-2014 03:23 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  In no particular order I agree with Weezer, Beck, Nirvana, Green Day and Soundgarden. I would add the following:

(snip)

Pisces Iscariot - The Smashing Pumpkins
Vitalogy - Pearl Jam

I focus on these two because the funny thing is, I remember I spent much of early-mid 1994 listening to those band's previous releases, Vs and Siamese Dream, and still enjoy both today, but never dug either of these.

Still one of my favorite chill songs of all time.

(05-25-2014 10:10 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(05-24-2014 03:23 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  In no particular order I agree with Weezer, Beck, Nirvana, Green Day and Soundgarden. I would add the following:

(snip)

Pisces Iscariot - The Smashing Pumpkins
Vitalogy - Pearl Jam

I focus on these two because the funny thing is, I remember I spent much of early-mid 1994 listening to those band's previous releases, Vs and Siamese Dream, and still enjoy both today, but never dug either of these.

I can understand your point as Vs and Siamese Dream are great albums. However, I think their follow-ups are great too and I actually listened to them more than the previous releases mainly because many of those songs got played to death (both on FM radio and among friends). Frail and Bedazzled still rocks...

That is such and epic jam. That is also my favorite Smashing Pumpkins album.

However, I think both of you are overlooking the greatness of Gish

and that song, gentlemen is another example of why Gen X is still the best generation for music.

Smashing Pumpkins is so damn underrated man. I appreciate them more today than I did back then. Tool was another band that I appreciate more now than I did back then. Music from 91 till bout 97 was about the best music of my lifetime. Every genre produced hit after hit during that 6 year span. Sh*t went down hill once rap went to the bling bling bs and Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit appeared. After that, country went pop and sucked since. Haven't seen anything remotely close to grimy and raw music from any genre since.

(05-25-2014 10:15 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(05-24-2014 04:48 PM)SouthEastAlaska Wrote:  Pantera - Far Beyond Driven

Thanks for reminding me of this one. I remember buying it on vinyl in early 1995 and enjoying it. Would be an honorable mention for me.

I believe I had it but I sold it off.... I couldn't get into them at the time. I liked them more now and re-bought that cd

(05-25-2014 06:18 PM)ClairtonPanther Wrote:  Smashing Pumpkins is so damn underrated man. I appreciate them more today than I did back then. Tool was another band that I appreciate more now than I did back then. Music from 91 till bout 97 was about the best music of my lifetime. Every genre produced hit after hit during that 6 year span. Sh*t went down hill once rap went to the bling bling bs and Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit appeared. After that, country went pop and sucked since. Haven't seen anything remotely close to grimy and raw music from any genre since.

Hey now, I liked Kid Rock and LB...but agree that almost post 2000 nearly every genre has gone down hill overall.... I put the blame on mp3s making everyone try to put out hit singles instead of great complete albums.

(05-25-2014 06:18 PM)ClairtonPanther Wrote:  Smashing Pumpkins is so damn underrated man. I appreciate them more today than I did back then. Tool was another band that I appreciate more now than I did back then. Music from 91 till bout 97 was about the best music of my lifetime. Every genre produced hit after hit during that 6 year span. Sh*t went down hill once rap went to the bling bling bs and Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit appeared. After that, country went pop and sucked since. Haven't seen anything remotely close to grimy and raw music from any genre since.

It was "the time" man. We didn't know how good we had it. A time like that may never come again. It was a special era.

I like KR and LB as well.

I also think everything is overly produced taking away from a bands unique sound. At first I thought that YouTube was a great outlet for underground acts to cross over to mainstream. Hopsin crossed over some, but I can't see him being a star to carry the rap game for the next 10 years like I thought 2-3 years ago. Another issue is that it just feels like record labels aren't giving artist enough creative control. "East 1999/Eternal" had at least 5-6 songs that would've been MP3 hits. The early 90's was a perfect storm with Gangsta and Lyrical/Battle Rap and Grundge hitting the scene. It went down hill when labels overly produced bands like Creed and Nickleback and made their sound appear to be more or a rip off than anything.