Billboard #1 Albums from 1994

Monster - R.E.M.

then Snoop and Nirvana. Though oddly in 200fucking9 I've been digging Alice In Chains lately.

gotta be kenny g. for me.

all other votes are null and void.

That Eagles album makes me want to drink poison.

I'm gonna take educated guess that The Lion King and Boyz II Men had the longest stays at #1 this year.

Correct on Lion King (9 weeks), wrong on BIIM (4 weeks+1 in 1995, several others here matched that)

Looking that up makes me realize that CrazySexyCool never hit #1. What the fucking fuck? That's pretty much the definitive everyone-had-this album of the mid-90s to me.

I'm not sure which one I listened to more at the time, the Lion King OST or The Sign.

nirvana (sorry omar, you homosexual vigilante)

Ill C is great, but pales (slightly) next to Check yr Head. Ditto Doggystyle/The Chronic & Driven/VDOP. Monster sucks. Purple, Superunknown & Jar of Flies are all just fine, but can't quite top Nirvana at their best. 1994 = year of the rockist, even for hip hop.

it's a damn shame that 'from the cradle' is still like the best-selling blues album of all time or something.

Voting for "The Division Bell" seems a bit desperate, but the rest are worse.

You don't like Nirvana, Geir? That's a bit of a surprise, considering how well KC knew his way around a hook and all.

Voted Doggystyle.

you guys are forgetting that Unplugged is a boring live album that you have to be totally gaga over Nirvana to care about

competition comes down to Snoop and, surprisingly for me, Soundgarden here - I don't think I've listened to either album since '95 tho

I ran into Kim Thayil in the supermarket once [/suzy].

Wow. I went with my gut and picked the Sign, which is probably my favorite record from the 90s that's not a Nirvana record, but its definitely not "the best" album on here, but definitely my favorite. I think the best is probably Nirvana Unplugged.

That's the one that he did the Vaselines cover on. And the Meat Puppets came out. And that Leadbelly cover where he yowls like crazy. Yeah that record is beautiful front to back, and later, when I got the Vaselines record, it was immediate and beautiful right off the bat, because I knew some of the songs already thanks to Kurt. (Like I knew him... ha.)

Anyway, this list is from when I was 13, so it was pretty important. I was a freshman in high school and Black Hole Sun was on MTV warping my little mind. Superunknown was pretty good, but crap like Spoonman just doesn't hold up.

Doggystyle is fantastic, but not complete... I feel like some of it's a work in progress, but again, the singles are just wonderful. I can just smell the Cali air when I'm listening to them.

STP is brilliant too... And the Crow soundtrack! With that STP song. "Driving faster in my... Car!" Man, so good. Pantera! Baby's first metal album...and what a first metal album to have!

Vitalogy and Monster were both decent albums, but surely not their bands strongest...

I wasn't into country back then, but can respect those albums now...and it's strange, but somehow I never liked Ill Communication.

Unplugged In NY isn't boring.. theres 5 or 6 songs on there which are the definitive versions.

.. not to mention all those fanfuckingtastic covers.

Yes, I sometimes think that Unplugged Nirvana was curiously both the best Unplugged thingy and the best Nirvana thingy.

Sometimes... and then I put on In Utero and die.

What a lousy year.

I've never heard it, but here's the The Crow OST tracklist:
1. Burn - The Cure
2. Golgotha Tenement Blues - Machines Of Loving Grace
3. Big Empty - Stone Temple Pilots
4. Dead Souls - Nine Inch Nails
5. Darkness - Rage Against The Machine
6. Color Me Once - The Violent Femmes
7. Ghostrider - Rollins Band
8. Milktoast - Helmet
9. Badge, The - Pantera
10. Slip Slide Melting - For Love Not Lisa
11. After the Flesh - The Thrill Kill Kult/My Life With The Thrill...
12. Snakedriver - Jesus & Mary Chain
13. Time Baby III - Medicine
14. It Can't Rain All the Time - Jane Siberry

went for doggystyle over ill communication tho if im being honest i bang out 2 'get it together' more than any of the snoop joints

I've never heard it, but here's the The Crow OST tracklist:

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let me direct you to a classic thread: the crow ost is the worst record i have ever heard

also

You don't like Nirvana, Geir?

I dislike live albums. I believe the only live album I own is ELP's "Pictures At An Exhibition". Because it was never anything else but live (well, not until 20 years later anyway)

What an abysmal year. Was anyone having fun that year, other than Snoop Dogg?

Nope. But Pantera were having the best bad time of the bunch.

I can't believe Geir doesn't own this - it's great!

http://www.jpgr.co.uk/pcsp720_a.jpg

Bah 94 was a great year with a bunch of awful Bilboard nr 1 albums

struggled to find an album i liked in that list.
went with soundgarden in the end.

1994 fell on black days amirite

actualy, i just realised 94 was all about the golden era of FAX records for me.
a good year, but crap list.

Toni Braxton seems to be kinda forgotten theses days, but her debut album is great, so I'm gonna vote for that.

There are few other r'n'b hits of the nineties as great as "Another Sad Love Song".

I like the singles more than the album.

Well, there's "Unbreak My Heart", "You're Makin' Me High", "Breathe Again", and "You Mean The World To Me"...

I love "Breathe Again" too, but for some reason "Unbreak My Heart" always sounded kinda sour and irritating to me. Can't really explain why.

I remember when "Breathe Again" and "Another Sad Love Song" came out I really thought they were great, but I couldn't admit that to anyone, because back then 15-year old Finnish boys weren't supposed to like r'n'b.

...or at least not Toni Braxton. TLC at least had some hip-hop credibility.

Doggystyle, easily. if it weren't on the list i'd probably go with Ill Comm.

What was the big r'n'b hit of 1994, where three guys sang something like "I swear, by the moon and the stars in the sky...", and they were like Michael Jackson's nephews or something? I even liked that one.

... That song was called "I Swear".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_4_One

Oh yeah, by All-4-One! Wikipedia says nothing about them being Michael Jackson's cousins though... Am I mixing them up with some other group?

didn't some country dude cover it shortly after?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownstone_(band)

Country dude is John Michael Montgomery (listed above) and his version came first.

I'm almost certain there was an r'n'b group in the mid-nineties who were Michael Jackson's nephews or cousins, and their name had a number in it. Does anyone remember what it was?

Tuomas - 3T

Ah, thanks!

wau. AMC Theaters used to play "Anything" as part of their "pre-show."

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I can't believe Geir doesn't own this

I don't even own "Genesis Live" or "Seconds Out". The definitive versions are on the studio albums anyway, so what would I need alternative versions for?

ace of base.

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Why John Michael Montgomery ruled.

didn't like most of these