Best Albums of 1992

[jebus]

Heres the selections for 1992 lads. Nirvana - Nevermind whooped the 1991 poll's ass and joins the ever growing list to be found in the stickys

Tori Amos - China - Little Earthquakes

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Alice In Chains - Dirt - Dirt

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The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray - It's A Shame About Ray

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[jebus]

Neil Young - Harvest Moon - Harvest Moon

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REM - Drive - Automatic For The People

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DR Dre - Ain't Nothin' But A G Thang - The Chronic

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* I know the year comes up as 1993 on the Harvest Moon video, but thats due to the song being released in 1993, the album was 1992

[jebus]

Pavement - Here - Slanted and Enchanted

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Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Of - Rage Against The Machine

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Beastie Boys - Gratitude - Check Your Head

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[jebus]

Tough one for me this year as I love Little Earthquakes, Harvest Moon, It's A Shame and Slanted and Enchanted, and either of those albums would have won last year's poll for me. I've gone with the Lemonheads though as I'd probably have gone back to that album more than the others throughout the years.

[Wolfie]

Obviously have to base my opinion on albums I've actually heard which resulted in me going for Check your head.

That said - Pavement's "Slanted and Encanted" has been recommended to me by various people of over years. Just one of those records I never got around to hearing.

Dishonourable mention for one of the most disappointing albums ever to be released appeared in 1992 which was: Happy Monday's - Yes Please.

It was the end of Factory records and the Mondays :(

[Lionel Ritchie]

I'm going to go with another dead horse ...Let Me Come Over by Buffalo Tom - a record I actually can't bring myself to listen to now. Without going off on an too much of an "Our Tune" 1992 was a well dodgy year for young Lionel. It started well enough with him popping his cherry and very nearly ended with him popping his clogs. I sometimes think Leeds Uniteds pathetic attempt at defending a title and the desire to see them back on form is all that kept him out of a noose or the Lee back then.

Other LPs of note for me from the year are The Wedding Presents Hit Parade 1 (thought the quality tailed off quite a bit on HP2 ...might just've been me either), Pleasure Death by Therapy?, Casual Sex In the Cineplex by Sultans of Ping FC and The Frank & Walters Trains Boats and Planes.

[stann]

You made that poll very easy jebus, cheers!
Really should have had Lazer Guided Melodies in there too but it saved me hours of agonizing. :D

Wolfie, get hold of that Pavement LP soon as, you won't regret it. :)

Others for the consideration of others who want to vote 'other':
Babes In Toyland - Fontanelle
Curve - Doppelganger (used to have the serious hots for Toni Halliday :) )
Stereolab - Peng!
as well as Sonic Youth, Sugar, Manics and Jesus & Mary Chain already mentioned.

[noby]

Hmm. I'm torn between Honey's Dead and Your Arsenal.

[The Good Son]

Henry's Dream - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

[Pauro 76]

Has to be Rage Against The Machine for me. Soundtrack of my rebellion. ;)

[stann]

Is that the one where they say "f**k"?

[monzo]

Went for Sugar's Copper Blue.

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It's A Shame About Ray would be my second choice.

[superfrank]

Easy, The Chronic.

It started a whole new wave of hip hop music and its influence on hip hop in the 16 years since is easy to underestimate. One of the defining albums of hip hop.

[centre mid]

The Lemonheads Its A Shame About Ray for me but Automatic for the people as close second.

Honourable mentions for Manics Generation Terorists, Therapy's Nurse & Jesus & Mary Chain's Honey's Dead.

[GuisaSaigon]

Other- Ministry- Psalm 69: The way to succeed and the way to suck eggs.
The Chronic a very close second

[noby]

Other: Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead

Based on what I listened to most at the time.

[Wolfie]

Another notable release of '92: Stereo MC's - Connected

"Gonna get myself connected!!"

Gotta get yerself a fu**kin bath mate.

[endabob1]

Went for Sugar's Copper Blue. .


I'd go along with that but REM, Tori & Neil Young are all quality records and are still regulars on the endabob playlist.

[Macy]

Actually found this the toughest so far, as no real stand out for me but went with REM as that would've been the one I played the most then, and has endured (it got upgraded to CD from Tape somewhere along the line which some of the others didn't).

On Yes Please - yes it was bad that it was the end of Factory, but i think it's an underated record. Didn't deserve the press it got at the time anyway.

[Neish]

Has to be Rage against the Machine, great music and great lyrics

[holidaysong]

REM for me. I still enjoy every piece of that album.. I used to love RATM but you do tend to grow out of all the anger.

[noby]

Ooh, a two horse race. This could be interesting.

[Lionel Ritchie]

Just read on wiki that REM lifted no less than six singles from that album. I must admit I find that a little ...repugnant.
Though I also have to admit I was not a fan in that era. I only like the last two songs on it -Find the River and Nightswimming.

Other! Other! Other! :D

[Bluebeard]

Tempted to go with Little Earthquakes (staggeringly good album), but Other because Another Day Another Riot by Toasted Heretic is the best album of the decade.

As you all already know...

[KevB76]

I'd go with REM out of the selction above, but my actual favourite album at the time was The Prodigy - Experience :)

[Wolfie]

On Yes Please - yes it was bad that it was the end of Factory, but i think it's an underated record. Didn't deserve the press it got at the time anyway.

I think there was such a weight of expectation it got panned as a result when it didn't live up to it. A bit like the Roses "Second Coming".

Sunshine and Love is a cracking tune.

That said - nothing could salvage the dirge "Monkey in the Family" on that album.

Apparently, Shaun Ryder was so wasted all the time - the production team had to resort to the "Cut up" method of lyric writing that was pioneered by Bowie and Eno in the 70's for more lofty means.

Not for "Art" this time - just sheer desperation!! :D

[endabob1]

Some great stories from the recording of yes please, Bez writing off hired jeeps, selling furniture from the studio to local dealers for crack (although Shaun claimed the couches were meant as a gift to brighten the dealers crack den up a little!!), Shaun & Bez using the sunbeds from around the pool to build their own poolside crack den!!
Pi$$ poor record in comparrison to the 2 that went before it unfortunately and effectively the end of the Mondays as a creative force.

[Macy]

effectively the end of the Mondays as a creative force.
For the Mondays, but then Ryder came back with Black Grape and It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah. Actually, Radiator by Big Arm (Paul Ryder) was also pretty good.

[TonyD]

Just read on wiki that REM lifted no less than six singles from that album. I must admit I find that a little ...repugnant.
Though I also have to admit I was not a fan in that era. I only like the last two songs on it -Find the River and Nightswimming.

Other! Other! Other! :D

I'll agree it's not up to the incredible standard of their first five albums, but it's their last decent album. I went with it, just edging Shame About Ray. Was also a fan of Copper Blue at the time, but I haven't heard that in ages. Nothing else comes to mind for me from that year.

[Supreme feet]

I know I'm in the minority here, but 'Dirt' by Alice in Chains gets my vote. I'm a big grunge fan, and while Nirvana seem to get all the acclaim from that era, AIC, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, Mark Lanegan, Stone Temple Pilots and especially Soundgarden seem to be overlooked. Rage were great, but then so were Tool, Kyuss, Pumpkins, Primus, Mudhoney, etc, at the same time. Looking back, the period 1989-1996 was fantastic for heavy rock.

It's disappointing that modern rock music hasn't taken anything from any of the above bands, given that they were themselves influenced by Led Zep, Black Sabbath and other pioneers of heavy rock. I'm sick of British art-school indie bands!

[Lionel Ritchie]

I acknowledge your frustration SF but some of those acts you list there aged and dated very quickly. I remember Stone Temple Pilots particularly playing a very, very, cynical, corporate grunge. Saw them in Holland too in 1993 and I recall thinking if the gig had been taking place just three or four years earlier they'd all have had poodle perms and would've sounded like Poison. It seemed that contrived.

[Pauro 76]

Interesting tie situation. Will there be a casting vote from someone?

[jebus]

Interesting tie situation. Will there be a casting vote from someone?

I'd hazard a guess that there will be and it will be me :)

[Lionel Ritchie]

I'd hazard a guess that there will be and it will be me :)
You're not to give it to Richard Marx are you!?!?!

[Magicme]

Voted for REM for a number of reasons but one of them was how great the video of the album was as a babysitter for my lil sister. She was almost a year old when it came out. Anytime she was whingy and not able to settle down I would put the video on and she would be alseep by the time Shiny Happy People came on (the only song of REM's that I despise btw). It soothed her soul. She has never been a fan of theirs but she watched them with me at Oxegen and really enjoyed them.

Another honourable mention should go to Utah Saints. Only sayin that coz am having a somewhat of a re-aquaintance with them lately and they were stunning live.

[jebus]

And REM nick it at the finish line! :)