1992 is 20 years old !!

Another vote for Faith No More - Angel Dust. A huge favorite of mine. Others include:

Inxs - Welcome to Wherever You Are (underated album)
Alannah Myles - Rockinghorse
Temple of The Dog
Bryan Adams - Waking Up The Neighbors

and a couple of decent singles:

Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer
Sir Mix A Lot - Baby Got Back

 

1992 for me was mostly about hip hop. Still in it's golden era, there were so many great releases starting with:

Dr. Dre- The Chronic
EPMD- Business Never Personal
Lord Finesse- Return Of the Funky Man
Ice Cube- The Predator
Beastie Boys- Check Your Head
Gang Starr- Daily Operation
Redman- Whut? Thee Album
Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth- Mecca and The Soul Brother
Das Efx- Dead Serious

Some really great stuff if you're into hip hop, IMO, the wheels started to fall off a couple years later on the whole genre and has never really recovered.

 

I would think 2002 was a better year for pop than 1992 based on this short list alone.

 

1992,raising a 3yr.old during the day working at night.I'm sure there was lots of good music i was just busy with other things.Sorry,back to the topic at hand.

 

Another personal favourite

But it came in 1991

 

Stuff I was rockin' in '92. What a great year!

Bikini Kill - The C.D. Version Of The First Two Records
Michael Brook - Cobalt Blue
The Cure - Wish
Curve - Doppelgänger
Danzig - Danzig III: How The Gods Kill
Earth - Earth 2
Eon - Void Dwellar
Flaming Lips - Hit To Death In The Future Head
Jawbreaker - Bivouac
Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
Lull - Dreamt About Dreaming
Luna - Lunapark
Lustmord - The Monstrous Soul
Melvins - Solo Albums
Nine Inch Nails - Broken
The Orb - UFOrb
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
Shudder To Think - Get Your Goat
Skinny Puppy - Last Rights
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Stereolab - Space Age Batchelor Pad Music
Steroid Maximus - Gondwanaland
Sugar - Copper Blue
Swans - White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity
Tom Verlaine - Warm And Cool
Ween - Pure Guava

 

The year I graduated high school! I wasn't nearly as much into music as I am now (although I was a huge marching band/drum corps nerd) but Pearl Jam's Ten ("Black" was a great first post-breakup song for me) and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik were on heavy rotation. Both of those were both released in 1991 but I didn't get them until 1992. I roomed with two of my high school friends that fall in college and we were just beginning to discover Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, as well. I only wish I had a friend like Synthfreek back then to turn me on to all the really good music being made at the time. It took another 10 years or so for me to discover the awesomeness of early 90s indie music thanks to my brother and his friends. I wish I could go back in time and tell my 1992 self, "OK dude, you NEED to see these bands when they come through town over the next 4 years: Jesus Lizard, Pavement, My Bloody Valentine, Polvo, Superchunk, Tortoise, June of 44...."

 

Let's not forget that 1992 was the year Madonna's Sex book came out, garnering much controversy and overshadowing her album "Erotica" which is, in my opinion, very underrated.

Whitney Houston was featured on the Bodyguard soundtrack and in the film. Madonna's career suffered for a bit, while Houston's star shone even brighter.

Bittersweet to think that 20 years later, Madonna remains a mega-star (headlining the Superbowl) and sadly, Houston is now gone.

Also the year of Sinead O'Connor's infamous appearance on Saturday Night Live where she ripped up a picture of the Pope.

 

Also released in 1992: Fully Completely by the Tragically Hip.

One of my all-time favorites, and, for what it's worth, ranked #5 after Harvest, Blue, After the Gold Rush, and Music From Big Pink, in Bob Marsereau's book The Top 100 Canadian Albums.

 

There are two albums from 1992 I might want to check out - any of the more knowledgeable hip-hop fans here heard of them?

Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

 

At the Ryman - Emmylou Harris
Ingénue - k.d. lang
Human Touch - Bruce Springsteen
Lucky Town - Bruce Springsteen
The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion - The Black Crowes
Kiko - Los Lobos
Change Everything - Del Amitri
Come On Come On - Mary Chapin Carpenter
New Miserable Experience - Gin Blossoms
Hollywood Town Hall - The Jayhawks
Automatic for the People - R.E.M.
Grave Dancers Union - Soul Asylum

 

First DCC releases ?

 

Good career move.

 

ponkine, if you don't mind saying, what was your age in 1992 ?

I find it interesting to know, when someone is looking back, what age they were, when they were listening to music.

Thanks !

 

Peter Gabriel --Us

 

Lindsey Buckinghams' "Out Of The Cradle"

 

I got married in 1992. Still very happy after two decades! We've slowed down a bit, tho....

 

I'll add Jude Cole's Start The Car - how "Tell The Truth" was not an across-the-board smash hit is beyond me.

 

Years fly by at 'light speed'.

 

From what I remember of that year, here are some of the new music albums that I bought:

Chic - Chic-ism
Def Leppard - Adrenalize
Nirvana - Nevermind
Susanna Hoffs - When You're A Boy
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Garth Brooks - Ropin' The Wind
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Mariah Carey - Emotions
En Vogue - Funky Divas
Prince & The N.P.G. - Diamonds And Pearls
Wynonna Judd - Wynonna
Amy Grant - Emotion In Motoion
Mariah Carey - MTV Unplugged
Paula Abdul - Spellbound
Vanessa Williams - The Comfort Zone
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
C+C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat
Van Halen - For Unlawful Common Knowledge
Bobby Brown - Bobby
Lisa Stansfield - Real Love
Walter & Scotty

 

Off the top of my head, some of my favorites from '92 were....

Stone Temple Pilots - Core
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Soul Asylum - Grave Dancers Union
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
Nirvana - Nevermind
Alice In Chains - Dirt
...these would all be still going strong in listening as well as airplay well into 1993, too. And of course, there were also...

Def Leppard - Adrenalize
INXS - Welcome To Wherever You Are
KISS - Revenge
Dada - Puzzle
Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
Material Issue - Destination Universe
The Sighs - What Goes On
Temple Of The Dog - s/t
Arc Angels - s/t
Del Amitri - Change Everything
Lindsey Buckinghams- Out Of The Cradle
Neil Young - Harvest Moon
The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
The Cure - Wish
Catherine Wheel - Ferment
Nine Inch Nails - Broken
Concrete Blonde -Walking in London
Morrissey - Your Arsenal
The Sundays - Blind
Gene Loves Jezebel - Heavenly Bodies
Big Car - Normal
Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over
Charlatans Uk - Between 10th And 11th
House Of Love - Babe Rainbow
Cracker - s/t
Sloan - Smeared
Stereo MC's - Connected
Riverside - One
Too Much Joy -Mutiny
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Gun - Gallas
Jeff Healey Band - Feel This
Tom Cochrane - Mad Mad World
Asia - Aqua

...and as others have posted, albums that came out in '91, but I really think of as more '92, as that is when they really hit and were more popular...

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fear
Spin Doctors - Pocket Full of Kryptonite

 

Jumping off topic for just a sec....Hey, I own what look's like exact the same guitar that's in your pic. Mine's a 1990 Fender American Standard Telecaster - Gun Steel Blue with a maple neck as well. What's yours?

 

That '90 '91 '92 window holds big sweet music memories for me, and many of the best albums have been mentioned already.

One that hasn't is My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless, another '91 recording (released November 4) that bled into 1992...

 

Here's a few in my 92 playlist:

Alice in Chains - Dirt
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
BNL - Gordon
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony...
Clapton - Unplugged
The Cure - Wish
Dream Theater - Images & Words
Peter Gabriel - Wish
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
Annie Lennox - Diva
Madonna - Erotica
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Primus - Miscellaneous Debris
REM - Automatic for the People
Satriani - The Extremist
STP - Core
Roger Water - Amused to Death (Arguably the best disc in this playlist)

 

My favorite 1992 album is Welcome To Wherever You Are by INXS.