The Top 50 of 1994

The Top 5 is horrible, but it gets better. Voted Prince (or "symbol") with what proved to be his last great moment for a long while.

Giddi-ya da da?

i swear most of these came out in 93??

I'm voting for K7 though - a massively underrated party-hop track. Could've been as big as Jump Around.

'regulate' duh

maxx's 'get-a-way' is v underrated as far as early 90s dance bobbins goes. love that toni braxton track too, and seem to still remember every line of the lisa loeb

why, Geit? why?

(voted Dawn Penn, btw.)

OH SHIT i didn't see 'she's got that vibe'!!!!!!!!!! fuck, that would've got my vote actually. VIIIIIIBE

any answers which are not 'she's got that vibe' or 'regulate' = pitiable and wrong

hzhz--*Geir, rather.

xp

It would be a bit weird if I had voted for rap. :)
"Regulate" is not at all bad though. Although it sank abit for me when I realized the catchy parts were originally from a Michael McDonald song.

lisa loeb, zero contest

"Regulate" for me too.

Bit of a let-down after 1993's list. On first reading, I thought I was going to have to vote for 'Come On You Reds'. 'Regulate' and 'Streets of Philadelphia' are both good, but it's 'Let Me Be Your Fantasy' by a mile

1. Reel 2 Real
2. Prodigy
3. G & Dogg
4. Dawn Penn
5. Corona

god, that list brings back so many horrible memories, only half of them musical.

sad that the best song in that list predates all of the others by 25 years. louis by a long, long shot.

runners up, lagging way behind: r. kelly, lisa loeb.

Voting for Louis is surely a hueg copout but on that logic you could say much the same re Dawn Penn I guess

I always thought of 1994 as a step in the right direction. The quality of albums in 1994 considered incredibly from what used to be before. But the singles list here isn't particularly impressive (not that the ones from 90-93 had impressed me either)

Grid Swamp Thing

I remember reading something about a TV-advertised ragga compilation that included this track but I've never been able to find proof :(

XXP The Dawn Penn one was a new and "modern" mix though, wasn't it?

it sure sounded new.

Regulate or Baby D.

jeans ad stiltskin for me, springsteen and louis close after

Heh, I remember that Stiltskin tune prompting much music press excitement when the ad appeared ("these could be the new smashing pumpkins!") - which faded quickly when they actually saw the guy

No Genesis-related love from Hongro tho?

1. Lisa Loeb - Stay

...

50. East 17 - Stay Another Day (worst song of this, possibly any other year)

I have such fond memories of 1994 that even the worst song on this list seems okay to me, except D:Ream which is just cringeworthy now but for 1997 reasons.

There's a pretty huge gulf between No Good/Regulate/Baby D and everything else though. Went for No Good in the end.

Grid Swamp Thing

I remember reading something about a TV-advertised ragga compilation that included this track but I've never been able to find proof :(

― The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 11:40 Bookmark

http://www.discogs.com/release/396557
http://i14.ebayimg.com/03/c/01/a3/22/ab_7.JPG

well it does have that little "well alright watch out" vocal snippet in caribbean accent plus another similar one (could never make out the words)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

No Genesis-related love from Hongro tho?

Stiltskin, you mean? :)

Well, the song is OK, and Ray Wilson's voice fits better for that style than it ever did as a Genesis singer. But best of these 50? Oh no! :)

GOLD: DOOP
SILVER: MMM MMM MMM MMM
BRONZE: THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER

For your consideration...DOOP

POOP MORE LIKE

Oh these are all cringe-inducing. I'm so glad I was too young for music those days (but then... 1999 was far worse)

wow every single one of these songs is unlistenable crap

its kind of a breathtaking mountain of shittiness

All 50 of them? Unless you only like really extreme avant garde stuff, noise or extreme metal, I cannot quite see how all 50 of these songs would be cringe-inducing

lolz remember when Nirvana changed everything?

I was in college at this point, listening almost exclusively to indie rock, hip hop, and various British stuff so yr analysis is (shockingly!) once again completely wrong

I mean I guess I gotta give it to Regulate, altho I certainly didn't like it at the time.

I also find that this is not the strongest list of songs there is (as my original comment also indicates), but there is always something good in the hitlists. At least in the British ones, which are usually more musically eclectic than the Billboard ones (all AOR in 1980, all R&B today)

oh is this a British list? that would explain a lot.

nice photo though.

Reel 2 Real featuring The Mad Stuntman I Like To Move It

anyone who doesnt vote this is a sucker

They just sound so.... dated. I know a huge number of chart hits never age particulary well, but this ones... There's too much ugly synth-work and rubbish production. Pretty sure that asides 'dawn penn' and 'louis armstrong' I would surely skip every single one of these after the 15 second mark... yet, those two sound completely out of place with the rest of the list... I wasn't even aware this were from 1994.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

oh fuck off

That's a damn good top 5!

Doop doop doobah doobah doo doo doo

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/715485.jpg

Sweden's answer to Modern Talking in getting more votes than ILM favourite Nate Dogg shocka. :)

shakey mo, official parade rainer onner.

I rank the top ten!

The video for the brian Adams/sting/rod 3 musketeers song is pretty funny

funnier than the song

Amazing how much better nearly all this stuff is compared to the ~90 percent garbage of 89-92. Even some of the no-votes stuff like Real McCoy, Maxx, Enigma and The Grid is great.

Indeed. I actually wouldn't mind hearing some of these again.

no way cantaloop is meh, alfred. otherwise solid.

Ace of Bass almost single-handedly drove me away from pop radio in '94.