Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1992

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"Circa Now" is good but I preferred "paint as a fragrance" more.

"Peng" has some good tunes but it doesn't really hold up as an album. I might feel differently now. Its a long time since I listened to it. I used to have it on cassette.

. (Michael B), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link

Of the pollable albums, these are the ones I listened to a lot in '92:
Belly – star
Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall
Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
PJ Harvey - Dry
Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
Sonic Youth - Dirty

Belly, Pavement, and PJ Harvey I still revisit frequently.
Others I listened to a lot but hardly do so now: Freedy Johnston - Can You Fly, Tragically Hip - Fully Completely, Magnapop - Magnapop, David Byrne - Uh-oh, Charlatans - Between 10th and 11th, Gavin Friday - Adam & Eve

Off the top of my head, Bettie Serveert - Palomine, Lou Reed - Magic & Loss, Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend, Suzanne Vega - 99.9°F, Chills - Soft Bomb, Walkabouts - Scavenger, Kronos Quartet - Pieces of Africe, Stereolab - Peng are personal favorites I'm missing.

Popular hiphop back then that's not on the list: The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury, Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of.... Neneh Cherry - Homebrew

willem, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 13:48 (four years ago) link

my two favs from this year are the self-titled P-Model album and Suffocating the Bloom by Echolyn, why aren't THOSE on the list!??!??

?!

frogbs, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link

I look at the poll options and I'm reminded why 1992 was the year I dived headlong into rave/breakbeat; most of those albums either do nothing for me or actively irritate me (hi dere Psalm 69, you have always sucked and you will always suck)

brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link

Just bubbling under
The Pharcyde – Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

noooooo

mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link

the lyrics on the chronic haven't aged well, but the beats still bang, and it's such a monumental album in my life and in rap history that i can't vote for anything else.

mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link

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bendy, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link

ditto voodoo chili

Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link

Sugar cast a long shadow over my listening in 1992. Still love Bob's righteous anger.

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link

FNM vs Prodigy. I remember being excited by a lot of these albums as a young teenager.

chap, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link

this is between angel dust and saw 85-92 for me, though i also sorta feel like voting for copper blue. would've voted for love deluxe no question

a blaze in the northern sky is an important album but both under a funeral moon and transilvanian hunger are better

american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link

oh fuck, Check Your Head vs. Imperial ffrr, maybe I just won't vote

sleeve, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link

At the time it would have been S+E but now would be Bizarre Ride II or Le Jardin de Heavenly.

o. nate, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link

These lists are getting less interesting (for ME anyway!) by the year now. It’s The Chronic for me here, simply because I don’t see any other relevant options. On the bubbling under list at least there’s Love Deluxe and the Pharcyde debut, and I wish I could stan for Mary J Blige’s What’s The 411?, but alas.

breastcrawl, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link

Update:

Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother


Oh man, yes, if only...

breastcrawl, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link

imperial frrr, liar, and copper blue are my runners up

and bizarre ride and mecca too, damn

mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link

Pearl Jam - Ten

this came out in August 1991

flappy bird, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link

Nevertheless it's important it appear in this poll so that nobody can vote for it again.

Invisible (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link

Th’ Faith Healers – Lido
The Orb – UF Orb

when I saw these had missed the cut I was going to sulk and boycott this but hey, it's already hard enough to decide between Belly, Pavement, Aphex and Unrest

a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link

I thought Star came out in 1993?

pomenitul, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link

SAW 85-92 vs. Lazer Guided Melodies, impossible

brimstead, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link

This would usually be Automatic for the People vs Dirty for me but since you had the amazing good sense to include Moonshake, I will cast my vote in their direction

think the toledo mud hens but for twitter (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link

Pavement, probably

All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link

I look at the poll options and I'm reminded why 1992 was the year I dived headlong into rave/breakbeat; most of those albums either do nothing for me or actively irritate me (hi dere Psalm 69, you have always sucked and you will always suck)

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, July 10, 2019 9:11 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Replace "rave/breakbeat" with "New Orleans brass band" and this is me. There were a number of albums on the 1991 list that I acknowledge the importance of, even though I don't own or listen to them (ended up voting Nevermind,) but this one holds almost nothing for me. There are some cuts on the Meat Beat Manifesto I liked at the time.

confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link

I thought Star came out in 1993?

Good point.

I saw Fred Abong live this year (as in 2019, not 1992) and his work on Star and subsequent semi-disappearance made him one of the great "what ifs?" of music for my nostalgic-for-1993 self, along with... Fyfe Ewing of Therapy?.

Maybe he'd like to play live next in my not very exciting small city! Maybe I should throw "Nurse" my probably-oughtn't-vote-for-Star vote.

(prob not, prob Sugar if not one of the above, but hey, those ringing trebly snare fills on Fyfe-era Therapy?...)

a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link

oh damn I missed Honey's Dead in the also-ran list, that album is also incredible

It's not like I exclusively listened to vacuum cleaners during this time period but, as the honorable mention list shows, most of the stuff I held near and dear to my heart that wasn't directly affiliated with glowsticks felt like it wasn't held in as high esteem by wider non-pop culture as the stuff in the poll. Like, that PJ Harvey album is great but I never gelled with it the way everyone else did; I didn't jump full bore onto that train until To Bring You My Love. And then there are things I actively dislike, like the Ministry and Pavement albums.

brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link

Big drop off from 91, from the list between Lemonheads, REM and Spiritualized. Though if it was there would vote for Ingenue by kd Lang. Arrested Development is a big miss, listened tomit a few weeks ago and it’s dated much better and sounds fresher than I expected.

Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link

‘to it’

Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link

Well myself and Kerr did discuss splitting it into 2 polls but that felt a bit convoluted

. (Michael B), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link

Great year!

Either Kyuss, Trouble, Jayhawks, Black Crowes or Dark Throne, I think.

Would also consider voting for Tool, Sade, Pete Rock, Danzig, Red House Painters, W.A.S.P's The Crimson Idol, Solitude Aeturnus, Brutal Truth, Ice Cube and Helmet, if they'd been there. Also agree on RATM. Haters be damned.

Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link

We had to leave a lot out so the cut off for me was albums 19 yo me loved in one of my fave years for music ever.

skullflower for me and pantera for mike got cut for non-musical reasons. I could easily have done a top 100 for 1992.

Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link

I thought the 1st ratm was 1993.

Solitude Aeturnus didn't make the cut as i thought nobody would vote for them. Danzig the same as nobody voted for his 1st album when included.

Helmet are definitely there Chinaski

Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link

btw pearl jam was defo a 92 release in the UK

Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link

Oof, missed Helmet! I honestly don't know if I could listen to Solitude Aeturnus now but 1992 me bloody loved it. Also just seen Dream Theatre's Images and Words was released in '92. I LOVED that album. Saw them at the Astoria that year, mind, and they were piss awful.

Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link

Slanated and Enchanted. It would be my pick for favorite of decade.

kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link

mike i reckon we should do a poll each for 1993

Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link

Doesn't matter if we have some of the same albums either. I'll leave the hip hop to you though.

Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link

Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade was cut late on too btw

Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link

This is a very strong year. It's either Darkthrone, Dre or Dirt.

Siegbran, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 22:58 (four years ago) link

Warrior Soul now there's a name I havent heard for 25 years. Am I going to regret revisiting that?

Siegbran, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link

No! Great band. 1st 5 albums are classic. This one (3rd) might be their best. The 4th one was their arty album influenced by Joy Division.

Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link

Torn between Faith no More (would've been my vote back then) and Pavement.

Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link

-SAW II has always felt like too much to listen to in full but I’m still impressed by it today.
-Current 93’s Thunder Perfect Mind is an absolute classic
-I loved the music of Angelo Badalamenti’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me in the context of the film but haven’t listened to it by itself
-Joe Henderson’s Lush Life is one of his greatest albums among 4 decades of recordings

Dan S, Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link

sorry, was confusing SAW 85-92 with SAW II

Dan S, Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link

SY’s Dirty and The Prodigy’s Experience are probably the records I’ve listened to most

Blues for the Red Sun is the Kyuss album of theirs I love the most

Dan S, Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:11 (four years ago) link

for me Angel Dust is pretty easily #1. ranking them after that would be tough. Prodigy, Godflesh, Meat Beat, Jesus Lizard. This was the last year of the nineties I listened to a lot of rock before diving headfirst into electronic music and not coming back up until 2000 or so.

beard papa, Thursday, 11 July 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link

This would have been Pavement for me in 1992. My instant enthusiasm for them was bewildering to others and I had to repeatedly explain who they were, which I probably thought was pretty cool as a teenager!

So many dudes with guitars here... might just opt for the trusty Beat Happening today. I should first dig out Moonshake to refresh my memory.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 11 July 2019 05:54 (four years ago) link

Any enthusiasm I had for Pavement at the time is bewildering to me now ;-)

Invisible (Noel Emits), Thursday, 11 July 2019 05:58 (four years ago) link

A lot of great albums on that list but it's not even close: Copper Blue.

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 11 July 2019 06:12 (four years ago) link

even moreso than Big & Rich?

Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 12 July 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link

Soul Asylum forgotten too

Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 12 July 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link

Oooohhh I could go for some Sloan and Bettie Serveert

think the toledo mud hens but for twitter (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 12 July 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link

I'd say prob my biggest sadface omission is probably Dadamah's This is Not a Dream, which always sounds to me like Roy Montgomery trying to do his own, more goth-drenched, version of The Clean

(but that's prob a little libellous tbh; Roy himself said the model was Red Krayola, which I can kinda hear also)

think the toledo mud hens but for twitter (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 12 July 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link

Tune-Yards is still good

quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 12 July 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link

hadn't heard the Dadamah - This is Not a Dream album before. it sounds great

Dan S, Saturday, 13 July 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link

Some really, really good records on that list. Voted for Spiritualized, just ahead of Aphex, Godflesh, the Young Gods and REM.

A pity Valhalla Avenue didn't make the list. It's maybe the best Irish album ever made.

does it look like i'm here (jon123), Sunday, 14 July 2019 11:18 (four years ago) link

looking over those contemporaneous lists, Arrested Development was a mass delusion the likes of which were unseen until Tune-yards. I bought it! And dropped it back off a few months later.

I bought it too. And you're right, it was painfully earnest. Kulkarni in Melody Maker called it rap for white people.

I did like the way they wilfully sabotaged their own career on the next album by giving it a completely incomprehensible title and having no tunes on it.

does it look like i'm here (jon123), Sunday, 14 July 2019 11:20 (four years ago) link

Darkthrone won out in the end.

pomenitul, Sunday, 14 July 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link

I have enjoyed this series of polls. Honourable mentions for Aphex and Prodigy but Pharcyde all the way for me in this one.

the article don, Sunday, 14 July 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link

Oops I see that’s only on the bubbling under list so voted Prodigy

the article don, Sunday, 14 July 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link

Cows

Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 08:20 (four years ago) link

Voted for FNM in the absence of the seminal 'Totally Krossed Out' by Kriss Kross

help yourself to another slice of apple ... crumble (Willl), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 10:15 (four years ago) link

their music may have lived on in all of our hearts but thankfully their penchant for wearing baggy jeans backwards never caught on

. (Michael B), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 11:14 (four years ago) link

honestly haven’t heard much of this list

pavement

k3vin k., Tuesday, 16 July 2019 11:30 (four years ago) link

last chance to make sure albums you like dont get zero votes

Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link

come on

brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 00:04 (four years ago) link

it wasn't in my list

Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 00:29 (four years ago) link

Had no trouble voting, but “Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock” should have been an option too.

stan by me (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 06:22 (four years ago) link

no compilations allowed iirc

Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 07:08 (four years ago) link

I love Automatic so yay

think the toledo mud hens but for twitter (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link

Surprised that Godflesh didn't get a single vote. That's an incredible album.

does it look like i'm here (jon123), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 11:51 (four years ago) link

Because I was transitioning fully into rave music at the time, I don't think I ever actually heard the entirety of that Godflesh album.

brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 12:29 (four years ago) link

Damn just now realizing Kiko and The Lavender Moon was snubbed

mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 13:03 (four years ago) link

You can't snub an album you've never heard of!

. (Michael B), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link

Because I was transitioning fully into rave music at the time, I don't think I ever actually heard the entirety of that Godflesh album.

It's amazingly single-minded in its whole sound. I love records that just zero in murderously on one thing and execute it to perfection.

does it look like i'm here (jon123), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link

Amen to the other Kyuss voter. I feel I should have chucked a vote to Trouble though.

I really like that whole period of Def America: Masters of Reality, Danzig, Jayhawks, Trouble, Black Crowes, Slayer, Red Devils, Flipper, Raging Slab. Can probably pass over Andrew Dice Clay.

Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link


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