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| Fave 1994 Albums
Some good shoegaze and good rusty album covers this year | | 10 |  | Merzbow
Venereology
This one gets on for being the only harsh noise album that i’ve ever ‘got’. Pounding, mind-erasing, beats you to a pulp. There is nothing but feedback. You are nothing but noise. | | 9 |  | Weezer
Weezer
I had a cousin who I played rock band with a whole lot. We always joked that the jonas in question worked at Walmart and the second line of the song should be “Welcome To Wal-Mart”.
One of the earliest amateur radio broadcast groups in the US became the alternative radio station that I stumbled upon when I was 15. That’s the first time I heard this band - and the singles on this album - regularly.
My burnout uncle gave me this and Make Believe on CD before he got kicked out of his deceased parents house. I lost the blue album but i still have Make Believe.
Too many instant classics to not throw this up here somewhere. What’s with these homies dissin’ my girl? The sea is foamin’ like a bottle of beer. Somebody’s Heinie crowdin’ my icebox. If you want to destroy my sweater… | | 8 |  | Global Communication
76:14
Spacey ambient and downtempo. Alternates between the two. Reminds me of a soundtrack you’d hear on a PS1 game. No bad tracks. 7:39 is particularly groovy. 8:07 + 5:23 feel like hacker music. Last two tracks are incredibly relaxing. | | 7 |  | Bizarre (EST)
Beautica
Male/female vocals over a combination of my favorite shoegaze tropes. Sounds like a mix of Lush and Slowdive. Some of these tracks are so reverb heavy and muddled they sound like they’re out of reach…and I think I like that. | | 6 |  | Lush
Split
This band is so good at melding the dream-pop and shoegaze genres together. I’ve never heard a shoegaze band so singable. Shorter tracks have more punk sensibilities, longer ones go hard on the dreamy side of things. Lovelife into Desire Lines, those two are the fixtures here. | | 5 |  | Everything But the Girl
Amplified Heart
EBTG don the most guitar-driven pop getup they’ve got in their catalogue for Amplified Heart. They flirt with it on earlier albums (Idlewild in particular - not one of my favorites), but it’s in peak form here, and the quality is found from start to finish. The highlight is the middle section - Walking to you to We Walk The Same Line (hah). There are hints of the percussive rhythms that would define their next two albums found on tracks like Missing and Get Me, We Walk the Same Line is a really sweet love song, Two Star feels like a callback to the symphonies of the underrated Baby The Stars Shine Bright, and Walking To You is probably my favorite Ben-sung tune from this band. An absolute joy overall. | | 4 |  | Nailbomb
Point Blank
Crushing, punishing, occasional deep aggressive grooves. Heavy industrial metal from two talented folks in the scene. Effective messaging. Hate is reality. Don’t you know God hates? Check 24 Hour Bullshit, World of Shit, Religious Cancer, Wasting Away | | 3 |  | Madonna
Bedtime Stories
Coming down from the magnificent Erotica, Bedtime Stories is a more laidback affair that delivers with some really really good hip hop + r&b influences. Sensual, somber, serious and on one track seriously pissed off, this one’s just a whole lot of fun. Bridges the gap between the seedy house and trip-hop of Erotica and the upbeat ethereal trance-y vibes of Ray of Light. | | 2 |  | Nine Inch Nails
The Downward Spiral
Effectively the best album about a minds descent into suicide there is | | 1 |  | Aphex Twin
Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Ethereal beauty. I think the Aphex Twin project peaks here. It’s come close a few times, sure, but this two and a half hour monolithic soundscape is so easy to drift away into. At times dark and foreboding (rusted warehouses, damp alleyways) and at others soothing and light (safe in bed, floating underwater). Listening to this, it comes as no surprise that Aphex Twins work has shown up in dozens of films and television shows. | |
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10.28.25 | Birth Year! NIN, Weezer and Aphex Twin are bangers. Havnt heard any of the others on the list. | bigweinerdon
10.28.25 | Can't believe you left out Alan Jackson - Who I am | Drifter
10.28.25 | Da Bush Babees Ambushed
Redman Dare Iz A Darkside
Method Man Tical
Artifacts Between A Rock and A Hard Place
Havoc and Prodeje Kickin Game
Fu-Schnickens Nervous Breakdown
Murder Was The Case Soundtrack
Celly Cel Heat 4 Yo Azz
Thug Life Thug Life
Craig Mack Project: Funk da World
Rappin' 4-Tay Don't Fight The Feelin'
UGK Super Tight...
Tweedy Bird LoC No Holds Barred
Organized Konfusion Stress: The Extinction Agenda
Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep
Ill Al Skratch Creep wit' Me
MC Eiht We Come Strapped
Above The Law Uncle Sam's Curse
Marvaless Ghetto Blues
Big Mike Somethin' Serious
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Creepin On Ah Come Up
Big Mello Wegonefunkwichamind
The Beatnuts The Beatnuts: Street Level
Freaky Fred Game Check
E-40 The Mail Man
Warren G Regulate...G Funk Era
8Ball and MJG On the Outside Looking In
DJ Krush Krush
South Central Cartel 'N Gatz We Truss
Chunk Break 'em Off a Chunk
OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Nas Illmatic
Kokane Funk Upon a Rhyme
Dred Scott Breakin' Combs
Master P The Ghettos Tryin to Kill Me!
The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die
Casual Fear Itself
Kurious A Constipated Monkey
Ahmad Ahmad
2 Black Basstuds Born A Basstud
Saafir Boxcar Sessions
Scientifik Criminal
Roots From The Underground Roots From The Underground
Anotha Level On Anotha Level
Ice Cube Bootlegs & B-Sides
Spice 1 AmeriKKKa's Nightmare
Blac Monks Secrets of the Hidden Temple
Paris Guerrilla Funk
Blachman Meets Al Agami and Remee The Style And Invention Album
Fugees Blunted On Reality
D-Moe Tha Youngsta Do You Feel Me?
Lil' 1/2 Dead The Dead Has Arisen
Mad Flava From Tha Ground Unda
Mr. Knightowl The Knightowl
Pistol Hittin' Like A Bullet
Bloods and Crips Bangin On Wax 2... The Saga Continues
Lez Mone Talkin' Shit
Jezreel Sick And Tired Of Be'en Broke
StreeThugs Not to Be Fucked With Hard 2 Obtain Ism and Blues
The Legion (USA-NY) Theme + Echo = Krill
Shadz of Lingo A View To A Kill
Bushwackass How Real Israel?
Nefertiti L.I.F.E. - (Living In Fear Of Extinction)
Chris Perkins A Shot In The Dark
Yaggfu Front Action Packed Adventure | Feather
10.28.25 | Green Day - Dookie
Sound Garden - Superunknown
Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Bush - Sixsteen Stone | gryndstone
10.28.25 | ok yeah i could stand for more hip hop lol. i recognize some of those names, ill check em out first | Drifter
10.28.25 | might have gotten a little carried away :3 | Drifter
10.28.25 | btw i need to check some of these. namely 5-8. seems like a great mix of stuff | LelandAB
10.28.25 | Dream Theater - Awake | lz41
10.28.25 | One of the great years. | gabba
10.28.25 | One of the best years ever. 7 looks interesting, will check!
An ad hoc top 15:
1. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Let Love In
2. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
3. Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within
4. Suede - Dog Man Star
5. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
6. Low - I Could Live in Hope
7. Portishead - Dummy
8. Shellac - At Action Park
9. dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
10. Pulp - His 'n' Hers
11. Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
12. Unwound - New Plastic Ideas
13. Autechre - Amber
14. Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
15. Cranes - Loved |
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