I remember LOADS of these fondly. In the year 2043 will kids remember albums from this year as fondly?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_in_music#January%E2%80%93February

Dookie- Green Day
Mellow Gold - Beck
Hard to Earn - Gang Starr
Vauxhall and I - Morrissey
Illmatic - Nas
Boingo - Oingo Boingo
Ill Communication - Beastie Boys
David Byrne - David Byrne
The Sun Rises in the East - Jeru the Damaja
Chocolate Synthesizer - Boredoms
6 Feet Deep - Gravediggaz
Jerky Boys 2 - Jerky Boys
Stress: The Extinction Agenda - Organized Konfusion
Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age - Public Enemy
Dos Dedos Mis Amigos - Pop Will Eat Itself
Project: Funk da World - Craig Mack
Monster - R.E.M.
Ruby Vroom - Soul Coughing
The Return of the Space Cowboy - Jamiroquai
The Diary - Scarface
The Main Ingredient - Pete Rock & CL Smooth
CrazySexyCool - TLC
Tical - Method Man
Bootlegs & B-Sides - Ice Cube
Dare Iz a Darkside - Redman

to albums of all-time. Perfection.

Biggie - Ready to Die
Outkast - Southernplayalistic...
Scarface - The Diary
Beatnuts - Street Level
Casual - Fear Itself
Common - Resurrection
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
OC - Word... Life
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Main Ingredient

Blowout Comb
Genocide and Juice
Fear Itself
Boxcar Sessions

Maybe an MC Eiht album too? The one where he had the same shoutouts at the beginning of every song

Everything is Everything by Brand Nubian dropped in 94 didn’t it?

Did anyone mention Word...Life by OC?

I forgot a lot of others.

Edit: Tical. Kicking myself for forgetting Tical smh

I can’t remember if All Balls Dont Bounce was 94 or 95. I feel like the Project Blowed compilation dropped in 94.

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
http://wutangbook.com

You could include '96 as well, if you want.

The genre was still new enough that artists still had plenty of new ground musically and lyrically to cover. And also the culture of music making had progressed to the point that much of the musical innovations of the late '80s (sampling, multi's, detailed subject matter) had been perfected at this time.

It's hard to parse out if the music of this time was actually better or that because my (our generation's) tastes were cured at this time that this music sounds better to my (our) ears.

If the latter were true than kids of this newer generation are experiencing dope music even though it doesn't borrow much from the first Golden Age. Which means that kids nowadays are going what we went through back then.

But much of the hip-hop that I play too much comes from The Golden Age.

Also, this means that I am old as Hell.

Thank you God! /s /jk

94 did give us the debuts of three future greats, Nas, Kast and Biggie.

Nothing wrong with third in this case.

I know people are tied to certain years based on nostalgia but I have a hard time believing 91 had as many great albums.

88 I get but I’m still putting 94 over it.

94-95-96 is where it’s at imo.

'91:

De La Soul is Dead
Low End Theory
Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
Cypress Hill
Death Certificate
Mr. Scarface is Back
We Can't Be Stopped
Breaking Atoms
Business As Usual
Step in the Arena
Mr. Hood
Naughty By Nature
I Wish My Brother George Was Here
Quik Is the Name
A Future Without a Past
All Souled Out
Peaceful Journey
Life Of a Kid in the Ghetto
Efil4zaggin
The One
Derelicts of Dialect
To Whom it May Concern
Straight Checkin' 'Em
Both Ain't a Damn Thing Changed albums
Bitch Betta Have My Money
2Pacalypse Now
Fruits of Nature
Pure Povetry
Penicilin on Wax


And the '94-'96 nostalgia is very mich nostalgia driven by the cats on this site who came of age during that era.

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>And the '94-'96 nostalgia is very mich nostalgia driven by the
>cats on this site who came of age during that era.

This is true for every year...

94

Illmatic
Southernplayaisticadillacmuzik
Ready To Die
The Main Ingredient
Hard To Earn
The Sun Rises In The East
Word...Life
Stress...The Extinction Agenda
Resurrection
Tical
Dare Iz A Darkside
The Diary
Regulate...The G Funk Era
Everything Is Everything
Between A Rock And A Hard Place
Ill Comunication
Roxybury...02119
Fear Itself
To The Death
Outside Looking In
Rugged Child
Boxcar Sessions
Street Level
Somethin’ Serious
We Come Strapped
6 Feet Deep
Riders of the Storm
Super Tight
Guerilla Funk
Blowout Comb
Murder Was The Case
Criminal
Behind Bars
Non-Fiction

the sound was transitioning from James Brown samples to P-Funk samples and jazz samples. Gangsta Rap hadn't completly taken over yet so de la soul could coexist with NWA, PE, DJ Quik, Main Source, Chi Ali, etc...

The list Anonymous posted of '94 is good too. Maybe, maybe, the top 3 outshine the best of '91 but overall '91 is a deeper crop.

Greatness came from all over the country in 94. A real banner year IMO. 91 was good in this respect, but other regions poured it on by 94.

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
http://wutangbook.com

The heavy hitters are undeniable

PE - It Takes A Nation...
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
EPMD - Strictly Business
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures Of
BDK - Long Live The Kane
J Beez - Straight Out The Jungle
Ultra MC's - Critical Beatdown
BDP - By All Means Necessary
Lyte - Lyte As A Rock
Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader
Biz Markie - Going Off
King T - Act A Fool
Ice-T - Power
Marley Marl - In Control Vol. 1

..like, it took some people time to take in the birth of the "complete hip hop" albums of the later 80s ...it was such a new thing, but it definitely caught on by 89 and by the 90s, lots full rap albums of quality is pretty common, even though shops like sam goody still buried these LPs in R&B section!

Redman, Common Sense, Gravediggaz, Eiht, UGK, Thug Life, Spice 1, Organized Konfusion, OC, Artifacts, Warren G, Beastie Boys and Digable Planets are the anniversaries I'm most excited about.

Some slept on joints from 94: M.O.P, Lil ½ Dead, Kokane, Above the Law, Volume 10, Saafir, The Coup, Kurious, Casual, Extra Prolific, Boogiemonsters