Fuck me, that was a good year for music

[andrewducker]

Like many people, I feel that the years I was at university were great ones for music.

I was therefore amused to find that someone else agreed with me about 1992. The year in which these albums either first appeared or went massive:
Beastie Boys -- Check Your Head
Pearl Jam -- Ten
Cypress Hill -- Cypress Hill
Soundgarden -- Badmotorfinger
Red Hot Chili Peppers -- Blood Sugar Sex Magick
Nirvana -- Nevermind
Faith No More -- Angel Dust
Rage Against the Machine -- Rage Against the Machine
The Lemonheads -- It's a Shame About Ray
White Zombie -- La Sexorcisto
Ice Cube -- The Predator
Ministry -- Psalm 69
Living Colour -- Time's Up
Tool -- Opiate
Alice in Chains -- Sap, Dirt
Pantera -- A Vulgar Display of Power
Dr. Dre -- The Chronic
A Tribe Called Quest -- The Low End Theory
U2 -- Achtung Baby
My Bloody Valentine -- Loveless
Death -- Human
REM -- Automatic for the People
Mudhoney -- Piece of Cake
Jesus Jones -- Doubt
Pixies -- Trompe le Monde
House of Pain -- House of Pain (Fine Malt Lyrics)
Nine Inch Nails -- Broken
Seal -- Seal
Ice T -- O.G. (Original Gangster)
Fugazi -- Steady Diet of Nothing
Smashing Pumpkins -- Gish
Stone Temple Pilots -- Core
Sepultura -- Arise
Toad the Wet Sprocket -- Fear
Matthew Sweet -- Girlfriend
Del tha Funkee Homosapien -- I Wish my Brother George was Here
Hole -- Pretty on the Inside
Guns N' Roses -- Use Your Illusion I & II
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy -- Television (The Drug of the Nation)

Which really is a lot of good albums (even if I don't know all of them - that period of time really feels like my musical taste, if you know what I mean)

There are still, of course, the odd album I love coming out.

But nothing quite like that.

Comments

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

We're very different.

[sterlingspider.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you for that list!

I had always figured that my musical tastes were pretty much set by what came out in the early 90s (my early adolescence) but looking at that and thinking on all the older albums I've vowed to add to my collection it seems that 92 was pretty much "the year" I've been looking for.

There are other genres/time periods I love and consider to be integral aspects of my musical taste (namely classic rock and early "goth" music aka post punk and new wave) but I think of a lot of early 90s alternative as my "comfortable" music, my musical home so to speak.

[vereybowring.livejournal.com]

Very good music times.
I liked the late eighties through to mid nineties.
You missed the fact The Prodigy were getting going 1991 to 1992 too.
I only mention since I really like them.

[eduard-green.livejournal.com]

Grunge was on the other side of a weird musical haze for me. I heard 'smells like teen spirit' on the radio and cara and I thought it was Bauhaus - we'd just seen 'the hunger'. Liked it, but it didn't quite reach our world. We were immersed in my bloody valentine, the cure, syd barrett and early david bowie, the cocteau twins. REM I heard and liked though, although i thought it rather poppy- much preferred adventures in hifi.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

A few additions:

Rollins Band - The End of Silence
Sugar - Copper Blue
Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses

I feel old...

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Awesome. Funny, I was just reminiscing about my clubbing days in Miami from this same era on another thread. Must be a night for nostalgia.

Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith & Devotion... wait, that was early 93, I think.

Ah, the good 'ol days.

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Other albums that spring to mind (since the list is very much a mix of 91 and 92):

Talk Talk: Laughing Stock
Mercury Rev: Yerself Is Steam
Catherine Wheel: Chrome
Manic Street Preachers: Generation Terrorists
Pavement: Slanted And Enchanted
Metallica: Black Album

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I missed grunge entirely. I was in precisely the right age bracket when it hit, and most of my friends listened to it but I just didn't "get" it.

That said, the music that means the most for me is what I started listening to when I was 19 through to 22. It was very, very different from what I listened to at 18 when I came to university.

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you for that list!

Same here. Now I have a checklist for the albums I don't have and haven't heard. The stuff I have heard are all music I do like.

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Grunge is awesome. Partly because for a while, my clothes were back in fashion.

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Pop Will Eat Itself - The Looks or The Lifestyle?

1992 is also when Garth Brooks started sucking. No need to buy more than his first three albums.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I only own three of those and one I am now really bored with (the REM - natch).I did love that Lemonheads album and the Nirvana, like natch. i was into the Pixies but never had an album of theirs I think.
The early 90s were Madchester for me, Happy Mondays et al. I'm sure some of them should be 92..
Seal?! Isn't that like admitting to liking Sade (which I did :)

[pusscat.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how many of those I had/have, either bought new or taped off friends.

But I am most happy that the list mentions Toad the Wet Sprocket and Matthew Sweet. I still listen to those albums regularly and haven't heard anyone else mention them for years...

[johanna-alice.livejournal.com]

Was writing vaguely on this topic the other day, and since I have either the album or bit thereof for sixteen or so of those, I'd have to agree. A very good year.

That said though, albums had a much longer shelf life back then, and singles would be released over a couple of years in some cases (Metallica's Black Album being a case in point.).

[andrewducker]

Violator was 1989. As was Pretty Hate Machine. Mmmm.

[andrewducker]

PWEIs "This...Is This" was more my thing. Which was 1989, along with Violator and Pretty Hate Machine.

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

I thought Violater was the very beginning of 90... I remember it was HUGE in Italy when I was there that spring, and my favourite album at the time.

Disintegration was also 89, right when I graduated from high school. Another excellent year!

[fannymagnate.livejournal.com]

You forgot:

"Stars" Simply Red
"Back To Front" Lionel Ritchie
"Tubular Bells II" Mike Oldfield
"Take That And Party" Take That
"Hormonally Yours" Shakespeare's Sister
"I'm Too Sexy" Right Said Fred

Classics, every last one of 'em. Never off my iPod.

[river-rain44.livejournal.com]

Omigosh! I was pointed this way via astartesyriaca and you are SO RIGHT ON. It was a good year...in so many ways. And damn, that was some great music.

[shizaru.livejournal.com]

and river_rain44 and astartesyriaca are friends of mine, so here i am. and i am astounded at this list. sad though, that pablo honey (radiohead) was 1993... so close!

[andrewducker]

Good Lord - I seem to be spreading!