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1994 NME Albums

Oasis


1. Definitely Maybe - Oasis
2. Parklife - Blur
3. Ill Communication - Beastie Boys
4. Unplugged In New York - Nirvana
5. The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
6. Dummy - Portishead
7. Snivilisation - Orbital
8. Dog Man Star - Suede
9. Music For A Jilted Generation - The Prodigy
10. Let Love In - Nick Cave
11. Sleeps With Angels - Neil Young
12. Live Through This - Hole
13. Protection - Massive Attack
14. Monster - Rem
15. Workshy - Animals That Swim
16. Orange - Jon Spencer Blues
17. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
18. Dookie - Green Day
19. His 'N' Hers - Pulp
20. Muse Sick 'N' Hour Mess Age - Public Enemy
21. Grace - Jeff Buckley
22. Niggamortis - Gravediggaz
23. American Recordings - Johnny Cash
24. File Under: Easy Listening - Sugar
25. Regulate..G Funk Era - Warren G
26. Vauxhall And I - Morrissey
27. Bakesale - Sebadoh
28. S*M*A*S*H - S*M*A*S*H
29. Change Giver - Shed Seven
30. Bedtime Stories - Madonna
31. Mellow Gold - Beck
32. Give Out But Don't Give Up - Primal Scream
33. Illmatic - Nas
34. Hips And Makers - Kristin Hersh
35. Bluff Limbo - U-Ziq
36. Worst Case Scenario - Deus
37. Lifeforms - Future Sound Of London
38. Second Coming - The Stone Roses
39. Everybody's Got One - Echobelly
40. Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
41. (Come On Join) The High Society - These Animal Men
42. Carnival Of Light - Ride
43. San Francisco - American Music Club
44. The Plot Thickens - Galliano
45. I Love Everybody - Lyle Lovett
46. Stacked Up - Senser
47. Haunted Dancehall - Sabres Of Paradise
48. The Snake - Shane Macgowan And The Popes
49. Troublegum - Therapy?
50. Homegrown - Dodgy

NME Singles 1994

1. Blur: Girls & Boys
2. Oasis: Cigarettes & Alcohol
3. Oasis: Live Forever
4. Elastica: Connection
5. Sabres Of Paradise: The Theme
6. Beck: Loser
7. Supergrass: Caught By The Fuzz
8. Public Enemy: Give It Up
9. Oasis: Whatever
10. Beastie Boys: Sabotage
11. Goldie Presents Metalheads: Inner City Life
12. Blur: To The End
13. Oasis: Supersonic
14. Gene: Sleep Well Tonight
15. Whigfield: Saturday Night
16. Elastica: Line Up
17. The Stone Roses: Love Spreads
18. Blur: Parklife
19. Veruca Salt. Seether
20. Manic Street Preachers: Faster/Pcp
21. Tricky. Ponderosa
22. Wabren G: Regulate
23. Shampoo: Trouble
24. Dawn Penn: You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)
25. S*M*A*S*H: Lady Love Your Cunt
26. Suede: Stay Together
27. Dj Shadow'
28. Primal Scream: Jailbird
29. Urge Overkill: Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon
30. Madonna: Secret
31. S*M*A*S*H: Kill Somebody
32. Portishead: Sour Times
33. Bomb T H He Bass: Bug Powder Dust
34. Salt 'N' Pepa Featuring En Vogue: Whatta Man
35. Nick Cave: Do You Love Me?
36. Manic Street Preachers: She Is Suffering
37. Soundgarden: Black Hole Sun
38. Suede: The Wild Ones
39. Orbital: Impact Usa
40. Youssou N'dour And Neneh Cherry: 7 Seconds
41. The Grid: Swamp Thing
42. Renegade Soundd Wave: Renegade Sound Wave
43. Portishead: Dumb
44. Hole: Miss World
45. Rem: What's The Frequency, Kenneth
46. Tricky! Aftermath
47. Jah Wobble & The Invaders Of The Heart: Becoming Moe Like God
48. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Merched
49. Gene: Be My Light, Be My Guide
50. Green Day: Welcome To Paradise




Readers Poll 1994
(NME 04/02/95)

Many Thanks to Colin Hamilton For Supplying Pop Poll Results.


Best Band

1 Blur
2 Oasis
3 Suede
4 Manic Street Preachers
5 REM
6 The Stone Roses
7 Pulp
8 The Beastie Boys
9 Nirvana
10 Orbital

Best Album

1 Parklife - Blur
2 Definitely Maybe - Oasis
3 Dog Man Star - Suede
4 The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
5 Unplugged In New York - Nirvana
6 His 'N' Hers - Pulp
7 Second Coming - The Stone Roses
=8 Dummy - Portishead
=8 Ill Communication - The Beastie Boys
10 Monster - REM

Best Single

1 Live Forever - Oasis
2 Love Spreads - The Stone Roses
3 Supersonic - Oasis
4 Girls And Boys - Blur
5 Connection - Elastica
6 Seether - Veruca Salt
7 Parklife - Blur
8 The Wild Ones - Suede
9 Faster/PCP - Manic Street Preachers
10 Cigarettes And Alcohol - Oasis

Best New Band

1 Oasis
2 Gene
3 Portishead
4 Shed Seven
5 Green Day