1994 A Great Year for Music

With this year shaping up to be a pretty shameful year for music I have been looking back to the past for comfort. I have found the year 1994 to be quite comforting and it has a bit of everything for a wide range of tastes. If you like collections there was an INXS greatest hits album, an Aerosmith “Best of” album called “Big Ones” or you can go with the “Pulp Fiction” or “Forrest Gump” soundtracks. For the R&B, Soul-slash-Girly music crowd there was a Boyz II Men, a Sarah McLachlan and I think a Mariah Carey album. Even the Mormon Tabernacle Choir got in on 1994 and put something out.

For the rock fan here is a list of material that may be enjoyable:

• Radiohead – My Iron Lung EP
• Soundgarden – Superunknown
• Tom Petty – Wildflowers
• The Verve – No Come Down
• Weezer – Weezer(Blue)
• Stone Temple Pilots – Purple
• R.E.M. – Monster
• Pantera – Far Beyond Driven
• Offspring – Smash
• Nirvana – Unplugged in New York
• Neil Young – Sleeps With Angels
• Live – Throwing Copper
• Pearl Jam – Vitalogy
• Pink Floyd – The Division Bell
• Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies
• Johnny Cash – American Recordings
• Jeff Buckley – Grace
• Green Day – Dookie
• Eagles – Hell Freezes Over
• Collective Soul – Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid
• Bush – Sixteen Stone
• Cake – Motorcade of Generosity
• Dave Matthews Band – Under the Table and Dreaming
• The Black Crowes – Amorica
• Ben Harper – Welcome to the Cruel World
• (Last but certainly not least) Hootie and the Blowfish – Cracked Rear View

Try finding another year with as many releases that are even slightly enjoyable.

You can have a listen and travel back in time.
If you know of anything else that is listenable that was released in 1994 let me know.