Vote For Your Top 3 albums OF 1992 HERE...

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I wish I could think of any.. Give me a few minutes.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

my theory 1992 = the worst year for albums of the past 3 decades [80s, 90s, 00s] in terms of quantity of quality, diversity and innovation.

evidence:
http://rateyourmusic.com/top_albums/year_is_1992

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

So that should make it more fun.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

Julian Cope- Jahovakill
Nick Cave-Henry’s Dream
Tom Waits- Bone Machine
or...
Kendra Smith-The Guild of Temporal Adventurers
Not to mention....
Spinal Tap-Break Like The Wind :-)

But I see what you mean, that was hard!

― Damien Youth, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

pj harvey - dry
dead c - harsh 70s reality
unrest - imperial

medicine, faith healers, and pavement put out good records too.

great year for comps with switched on stereolab and way of the vaselines.

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

Fatima Mansions "Valhalla Avenue"
PWEI "The Looks or the Lifestyle"
Catherine Wheel "Ferment"

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, finally...

Faith No More - Angel Dust
Ween - Pure Guava
The Cure - Wish

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

The Jesus Lizard's last good LP is there. Dre's Chronic, Aphex Twin's SAW too. The Boredoms and Helmet had a good year.

― blunt (blunt), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

Helmet: Meantime
Ministry: Psalm 69
NWW: Sugar Fish Drink

― rush, push, cash (FE7), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh come on...

SLANTED AND ENCHANTED
Automatic for the People
Sweet Old World

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

1992 being the first year i lived in a town with more than 8,000 and a record store, it will remain forever a fantastic year for music for me...
and looking at thatrateyourmusic top100 lists, there are at least 10 albums I LOVE...

― Arnault (arc73hk), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

Kitchens of Distinction: The Death of Cool
Kitchens of Distinction: The Death of Cool
Kitchens of Distinction: The Death of Cool

― Jimmy James Inc., Wednesday, 2 November 2005 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

Prince and the New Power Generation, o-+->w/e

Charles & Eddie, Duophonic

Curtis Stigers, s/t

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

That was a dire year for music, wasn't it? I was in a fucked mood anyway, so here were my top 3:

Steven Jesse Bernstein - Prison
Deicide - Legion
Tom Waits - Bone Machine

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

Moose - ...XYZ
Luna - Lunapark
The Boo Radleys - Everything's Alright Forever

― BeeOK (boo radley), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

Blueboy - If Wishes Were Horses
Pale Saints - In Ribbons
Moose - ...XYZ

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

"good album" & pavement = DOES NOT COMPUTE

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

Lemonheads - It's a Shame about Ray
New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Body Exit Mind
dc Basehead - Play with Toys

― naranjito (Koens), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

Tasmanian Archer - Sleep With Satellite
Charles Eddy - Duophonics
Rem - Automatic Peoples

― Comstock Carabineri (nostudium), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

then:

The Cure Wish
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

(honourable mentions to Your Arsenal, Dirty, It's A Shame About Ray, Copper Blue, Generation Terrorists, Slanted & Enchanted and U.F.Orb)

now:

Stereolab - Peng!
PJ Harvey - Dry
Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

At the time:
1. Automatic For The People
2. Back In Denim
3. Ingenue

The rest of my top ten for that year consisted of Erotica, Dry, Play With Toys, Psalm 69, Harvest Moon and Bone Machine, and I see no reason to change it.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ice Cube - The Predator
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
dc Basehead - Play With Toys

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

Kitchens of Distinction: The Death of Cool
Kitchens of Distinction: The Death of Cool
Kitchens of Distinction: The Death of Cool

-- Jimmy James Inc. (thewestexi...), November 2nd, 2005.

That would have been Laura's favourite. That and Peng! by Stereolab and Eva Luna by Moonshake.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

At the time:

1. Automatic For The People - REM
2. Ingenue - k.d. lang
3. Copper Blue - Sugar

Followed by Lyle Lovett, Jesus & Mary Chain, Stereo MC's, Lil Louis & The World, Deee-Lite, Leonard Cohen and Arrested Development.

However, the album I enjoyed most in 1992 was Ultramarine's Every Man And Woman Is A Star, released in 1991.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

...but the most mystifying omission has to be Harvest Moon, which I still play regularly to this day. Where did it go?

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: Moonshake! I saw them supporting the Throwing Muses, or maybe it was PJ Harvey, or Sugar...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

prodigy - experience
altern 8 - full on mask hysteria
shut up & dance - death is not the end

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

Altern 8 was at 12 in my list (11 was Check Your Head). Prodigy would have been top three if they'd included the single versions of the singles. SUAD and Nicolette's Now Is Early also in the 11-20 section of my list.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

I rather suspect I made the Disposable Heroes of wotsit my #1 LP back then. SUAD would have been in top 10, but perhaps not top 3.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

Can anyone admit to listening to the Disposable Heroes album after 1992?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

No, but Spearhead's Home was my #16 in 1994, and can anyone admit to listening to that after, ooh, 1995?

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

Madonna, Erotica
Madonna, Erotica
Madonna, Erotica

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm going to have to go with:

REM - Automatic...
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Ween - Pure Guava

I feel kind of weird for not picking Slanted & Enchanted, but it's definitely my least favorite Pavement album, and I honestly don't think I like it as much as the three albums I listed. It definitely says something about '92, though, that a Ween album made it into my top three.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

It definitely says something about '92, though, that a Ween album made it into my top three.

Is it your fault that every song on Pure Guava is amazing? I think not. You made the right decision.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

I finally picked up Slow Century a couple of days ago and have been listening and relistening to Slanted and Enchanted.
That would be pick #1.
Basehead would definitely be in the top three. I still listen to that album.
The final pick is a lot tougher, but I think Copper Blue might just sneak in.
Kind of boring choices really.

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

SUAD came out in 92, yes ! As well as J. Mills' "Waveform Transmission vol.1".

― blunt (blunt), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

I can't pick 3. I thought 1992 was a really good year for music.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

1. Lindsey Buckingham, "Out Of The Cradle"
2. Sugar, "Copper Blue"
3. Gin Blossoms, "New Miserable Experience"

― John Fredland (jfredland), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

Slanted & Enchanted
Cooper Blue
Check Your Head

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

But at the time Alice In Chains and Sugar were defintely my top 2. I couldnt choose between Pavement and Spiritualized for no 3.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, I need to put the Arrested Development in my top three. And Gin Blossoms was '92? I thought it came later -- but yeah, those two in, Chuck & Eddy and Stigers out.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 3 November 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

I actually remember very clearly my favorites from that year:

1. Ride - Going Blank Again
2. Belly - Star
3. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
4. Sugar - Copper Blue
5. Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over

Lemonheads' It's A Shame About Ray got a lot of play, too. But Ride and Buffalo Tom are the only ones I ever want to listen to anymore. (And Spiritualized, although I didn't catch on to them until later, after I saw them live on 120 minutes one night - a great example of being immediately grabbed by a song. Just wandered onto the channel randomly and found myself immediately transfixed and HAD to know what it was.)

― Mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

some (but not all) good albums from 1992 (in order):

1992
Kraftwerk – The Model: Retrospective 1975-1978 (Cleopatra reissue)
Midi Maxi & Efti – Midi Maxi & Efti (Columbia)
Caifanes – El Silencio (RCA/BMG International US Latin)
Hoosier Hot Shots – Rural Rhythm: 1935-1942 (Columbia/Legacy reissue)
Love/Hate – Wasted In America (Columbia)
Cerati/Melero – Colores Santos (Sony Discos)
Foghat – The Best Of (Rhino Special Edition reissue)
Loco Mia – Taiyo (Sony Discos)
(Various) – The Classical Collection: Second Edition, Vol. II (Musical Heritage Society reissue)
Colourhaus – Water To The Soul (Interscope)
Celtic Frost – 1984-1992: Parched With Thirst Am I And Dying (Noise reissue)
A.L.T. & The Lost Civilization – Another Latin Timebomb (Atlantic)
D.A.D, - Riskin’ It All (Warner Bros.)
Mariah Carey- MTV Unplugged EP (Columbia EP)
Duice – Dazzey Duks (Bellmark)
Sophie B. Hawkins – Tongues And Tails (Columbia)
Jordy – Pochette Surprise (Surprise Package) (Columbia France)
Faster Pussycat – Whipped! (Elektra)
Café Tacuba – Café Tacuba (WEA Latina)
Charles & Eddie – Duophonic (Capitol)
Garth Brooks – The Chase (Liberty)
Billy Ray Cyrus – Some Gave All (Mercury)
Lawnmower Death – Return Of The Fabulous Metal Bozo Clowns (Relativity)
The Daou – Head Music (Columbia)
Cordelia’s Dad – How Can I Sleep? (Okra)
Basehead – Play With Toys (Imago)
Lil Louis – Journey With The Lonely (Epic)

― xhuxk, Sunday, 29 April 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

BAN XHUKKX

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 29 April 2007 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

No year which saw the release of Angel Dust can be all bad.

― chap, Monday, 30 April 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

PJ Harvey - Dry
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray
The Sugarcubes - Stick Around for Joy

(what I was listening to at the time or nearabouts)

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Jeff Mills - Waveform Transmission Vol.1
Throwing Muses - Red Heaven
Suzanne Vega - 99.9 F°
Sheila Chandra - Weaving My Ancestor's Voices

(something like the order I like them in, all heard much later)

Ride - Going Blank Again
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Sugar - Copper Blue

(wonder what happened to my copies of these! wouldn't mind getting the first two back, could care less about Sugar though I liked it ok at the time...)

― fandango, Monday, 30 April 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

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