I'm not sure that Korn would even be in my top 15-20 and that's nothing to do with the quality of that record because I love it. It's just 1994.
Also, don't mind me - I'm just gonna be the guy in these threads for the next several years stanning for 311.
It’s insane to me that I was 7 when Ben Harper wrote “Forever”, “Walk Away”, and “Don’t Take That Attitude to Your Grave”. They seem so timeless to me
Too much good this year. You could just do rap from this year and it would be LONG 1) biggie 2) nas (these are my two favorite rap albums of all time) 3) weezer honorable mention Morrissey
1. Nas - Illmatic 2. Biggie - Ready To Die 3. Warren G - Regulate... G Funk Era Mariah Carey - Merry Christmas Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Main Ingredient UGK - Super Tight Beastie Boys - Ill Communication Green Day - Dookie Scarface - The Diariy Method Man - Tical Common - Resurrection Boyz II Men - II Brandy - Brandy Mary J. Blige - My Life TLC - CrazySexyCool Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction Tony Bennett - MTV Unplugged Jamie Foxx - Peep This Gang Starr - Hard To Earn Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik All-4-One - All-4-One Selena - Amor Prohibido The Offspring - Smash Hole - Live Through This
This song still goes so hard. Actually the whole album is pretty solid front to back. Would call them a one-hit wonder, but Sponge definitely had 3-ish pretty successful rock radio hits.
haven't had any new votes in nearly a week so it seems safe to call it. Weezer's self-titled debut (The Blue Album) wins with 33 points. Nas' Illmatic and The Notorious B.I.G.'s Ready to Die rounded out the top 3, with 31 and 24, respectively. 1995 will go up before lunch, hopefully, tomorrow
i agree. i mean, it's probably a top 25 or so album for me, so I'm not mad, but there are more interesting choices from this year
I did listen to Illmatic for the first time last week, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I can completely see why it is considered a masterpiece of the genre!
As someone who was JUST starting to become conscious of alt-rock in late 93, 94 was really the first time I was truly engaged (though at a highly mainstream level as I listened to the Top 40/modern rock hybrid Z100 in NYC at the time). My favorite albums from 1994: 01) GREEN DAY - Dookie 02) NIRVANA - MTV Unplugged In New York 03) PEARL JAM - Vitalogy 04) NINE INCH NAILS - The Downward Spiral 05) WEEZER - Weezer 06) SMASHING PUMPKINS - Pisces Iscariot 07) STONE TEMPLE PILOTS - Purple 08) SOUNDGARDEN - Superunknown 09) THE OFFSPRING - Smash 10) OASIS - Definitely Maybe 11) BUSH - Sixteen Stone 12) LIVE - Throwing Copper 13) BAD RELIGION - Stranger Than Fiction 14) 311 - Grassroots 15) KORN - Korn 16) HOLE - Live Through This 17) OUR LADY PEACE - Naveed 18) SPONGE - Rotting Pinata 19) PORTISHEAD - Dummy 20) TORI AMOS - Under The Pink Honorable mentions go out to Toadies, Dave Matthews Band, Collective Soul, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Blur, R.E.M, Rancid and Failure. A lot of these I didn't really engage with until 1995 (such as Sixteen Stone) or later in life (311, Our Lady Peace, Portishead) but, overall, this is what I was listening to as a 10-year old in 1994.