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