I looked up the top 100 billboard songs of 1994 and Here they are. Now, of the top 100 I can recall:
#9 All that she wants by Ace of Base;
#18 Can you feel the love tonight by Elton John;
#21 Baby I love your way by Big Mountain;
#38 I would do anything thing for love by Meatloaf:
#40 Because the Night by 10000 Maniacs;
#43 Come to my Window by Melissa Etheridge:
#49 Linger by The Cranberries:
#50 Loser by Beck;
#54 “Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen
#68 Crazy by Aerosmith;
#77 Mary Jane’s Last Dance by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers;
#89 “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) by The Four Seasons:
and finally
#91 I’m the Only One by Melissa Etheridge.
And of all these, the only ones I would go out of my way to listen to would be the one by Meatloaf, the two by Melissa Etheridge and maybe the Tom Petty one so my list is sooooo much longer than three (around 9 or 10).
A total of 13 out of 100 songs. All in all I would say that musically, 1994 sucked worst than the hair bands of the 80’s.