ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 1994
compiled from the critics' choices in the following publications: Q, Select, Vox, Mojo, Melody Maker and the NME
1
Definitely Maybe
Oasis
2
Parklife
Blur
3
Unplugged In New York
Nirvana
4
Dog Man Star
Suede
5
Ill Communication
The Beastie Boys
6
The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers
7
Vauxhall and I
Morrissey
8
Sleeps With Angels
Neil Young
9
Live Through This
Hole
10
Dummy
Portishead
11
Snivilisation
Orbital
12
Grace
Jeff Buckley
13
Monster
REM
14
Let Love In
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
15
His 'n' Hers
Pulp
16
Protection
Massive Attack
17
American Recordings
Johnny Cash
18
Troublegum
Therapy?
19
Everyone's Got One
Echobelly
20
August And Everything After
Counting Crows
21
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pavement
22
Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy
23=
File Under Easy Listening
Sugar
23=
The Second Coming
The Stone Roses
25
Regulate
Warren G
26
Orange
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
27
Superunknown
Soundgarden
28
Dookie
Green Day
29
Bakesale
Sebadoh
30
Mellow Gold
Beck
NOTES:
A good year, as it happens - the artistic (if not the commercial) highpoint of Britpop. Sabres of Paradise just missed out with their brilliant Haunted Dancehall, nestling alongside Shane MacGowan, Primal Scream, Page and Plant, Underworld and Saint Etienne just underneath the top 30.
