crypto's favourite albums of 1992

The Arrested Development album took some mild flack in the recent Pazz & Jop thread, so I'm tempted to vote for it. I feel similarly defensive of the 10,000 Maniacs album. But in the end, I think this has to be Erotica.

Manic Street Preachers seem weirdly out of place here.

Dug it at the time--or at least at whichever point in the mid90s I discovered it--and was surprised to find that I still enjoyed it when playing it recently. I like them as sloppy punks; I don't suspect they'll be making (m)any more appearances on my lists.

Just realized I left Harvest Moon off the list. My first Neil album!

I woulda voted for that! went with AD honestly

Only listened to four of these; though I like the Tori Amos and Michael Penn albums about equally, I'll take advantage of this rare opportunity to vote for his record.
This list set me off to find what would have been my record of that year at the time; a lot of my favourite artists didn't release anything in 1992, and I didn't yet have a CD player. Best guesses I can come up with is uh-oh by David Byrne and Need For Not by Levitation.

In 1992 I was mainly into "alternative" which I often found out about from reading SPIN magazine reviews, since I didn't know many people who were into that kind of music. #1 album of the year for me would have been Pavement "Slanted and Enchanted". Some other '92 albums I listed to a lot in '92: Sebadoh "Smash You Head on the Punk Rock" EP, Mudhoney "Piece of Cake", Superchunk "Tossing Seeds (Singles 89-91)" The Orb "U.F.Orb", Overwhelming Colorfast, Sugar "Copper Blue", Ween "Pure Guava", Morrissey "Your Arsenal".

gotta be that tori album.

every time i catch myself daydreaming about tucson, like "tucson must be a cool place to live," a gin blossoms song plays in my head. n.b. i've never been to tucson.

GBs were from Tempe (ASU).

Tuscon (UofA) had Giant Sand, Calexico, Green on Red, Machines of Loving Grace, Friends of Dean Martinez, Doo Rag, Neko Case (briefly)...

voted Free-For-All

Waves to crypto from the eons-ago "epinions" days.

Love that you included Carpenter's album, a highlight from an era of country music that feels so far removed from today's mainstream market.

Still voted for Amos, though.

voted for buffalo tom

shout out buffalo tom

Hi, Jon! I'm pretty certain, based on the evidence here, I know who this is.

Carpenter was always something of an outlier in mainstream country, no?

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Ooh! Who voted for Boomerang?

If crypto actually had a favorite album from 1992 it would probably be a A Vulgar Display of Power.