Category — grunge

Chez (recently canned from CNN) wrote about what a great year 1992 was for music.

I couldn’t agree more. 1991,92,93 was unbelievable. Maybe my brain is skewed because those were formative end-of-high-school beginning-of-college years for me. Either way … I love a ton of these records.

Here’s his list of “the albums that were either released or broke wide open in 1992″

Absolute Classics I Can Vouch For, The First Several Are Among My All-Time Favorites

• U2 - Achtung Baby
• My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
• REM - Automatic for the People
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magick
• Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
• The Lemonheads - It’s a Shame About Ray
• Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
• Nirvana - Nevermind (duh)
• Faith No More - Angel Dust (me says an underrated masterpiece)
• Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
• Dr. Dre - The Chronic (hells yeah)
• A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
• Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
• Ministry - Psalm 69
• Pixies - Trompe le Monde

Other Good Records I am familiar with

• Stone Temple Pilots - Core (me says, just OK)
• Nine Inch Nails - Broken (whoa)
• Alice in Chains - Dirt
• Pantera - A Vulgar Display of Power
• Singles - Original Soundtrack (kind of sums up this era)
• Living Colour - Time’s Up
• Tool - Opiate
• Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill (to be followed up with Black Sunday in 1993!)
• Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (to be followed up with Superunknown in 1994!)
• Pearl Jam - Ten (THE album in ‘92, I can vividly remember walking around campus and hearing it blasting out of EVERY fraternity … personally I’ve heard this record enough, I’m kind of done with it)
• Guns N’ Roses - Use Your Illusion I Use Your Illusion II
• Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fear
• Seal - Seal
• Jesus Jones - Doubt

Records from His List That I Am Not So Familiar With

• Del tha Funkee Homosapien - I Wish my Brother George was Here
• Hole - Pretty on the Inside
• Sepultura - Arise
• Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing
• House of Pain - House of Pain (Obviously I am aware of the fun anthem “Jump Around”, but I am not familiar wit the album)
• Ice T - O.G. (Original Gangster)
• Mudhoney - Piece of Cake
• Death - Human
• Ice Cube - The Predator
• White Zombie - La Sexorcisto

So go out and get any of these that you don’t have! (at least the ones from the first chunk!)