6-Pack (1992)

cortez the killer · Post by **cortez the killer** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:00 pm

Mix & match and put your favorite six-pack together. It's 1992...

Iowan · Post by **Iowan** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:27 pm

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:35 pm

goin by my pc library:

Dashboard Saviors - Kitty
Vic Chesnutt - West of Rome
Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old Word
REM - Automatic for the People
Neil Young - Harvest Moon
Kris Kristofferson - Live at the Philharmonic

Zip City · Post by **Zip City** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:41 pm

bovine knievel · Post by **bovine knievel** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:42 pm

Zip City · Post by **Zip City** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:44 pm

What's a good website for checking year-by-year album releases? Wikipedia is awful (no Neil Young or Uncle Tupelo on their 1992 Album Release page)

Post by **Tequila Cowboy** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:54 pm

Kudzu Guillotine · Post by **Kudzu Guillotine** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:57 pm

Zip City wrote:What's a good website for checking year-by-year album releases? Wikipedia is awful (no Neil Young or Uncle Tupelo on their 1992 Album Release page)

I'm looking here, which does include Harvest Moon and March 16-20, 1992. Lots of pages to sift through though.

vacant · Post by **vacant** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:20 pm

Alice In Chains: Dirt
Black Crowes: Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
Kyuss: Blues For The Red Sun
Los Lobos: Kiko
Mother Hips: Back To The Grotto
Screaming Trees: Sweet Oblivion

Back-up 6-pack:

Black Sabbath: Dehumanizer
Cracker: Cracker
Faith No More: Angel Dust
Monster Magnet: Spine of God
Social Distortion: Somewhere Between Heaven And Hell
Neil Young: Harvest Moon

Kudzu Guillotine · Post by **Kudzu Guillotine** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:26 pm

That was a tough one. I tried to keep it down to albums I was actually listening to back then rather than ones I discovered later such as the Uncle Tupelo, Los Lobos' Kiko and many others, I'm sure.

Bubbling under:

beantownbubba · Post by **beantownbubba** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:02 pm

Wow, i could swear i posted on this thread earlier :shock:

Anyway, here's my top 11 from '92. I assume i did it in order but i don't really remember.

Dr. Dre – The Chronic
REM – Automatic for the People
Lucinda Williams – Sweet Old World
Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted
The Black Crowes – The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
The Beastie Boys – Check Your Head
The Gin Blossoms – New Miserable Experience
Sugar – Copper Blue
Freedy Johnston – Can You Fly
Chris Bell – I am the Cosmos
The Chills – Soft Bomb

Can't figure out why I don't have at least Kiko on there among several that others have mentioned. OTOH, i'm surprised by the very few mentions of Dr. Dre & REM.

Kudzu Guillotine · Post by **Kudzu Guillotine** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:15 pm

It's hard to put myself back there but from what I can remember, Automatic For the People and Our Time In Eden were in near constant rotation in my CD player back in '92. It was kind of a tough time as an R.E.M. fan because at that point they hadn't toured since '89 and wouldn't hit the road again until '95 in support of Monster.

cortez the killer · Post by **cortez the killer** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:31 pm

Zip City wrote:

Inexcusable omission on my part.

cortez the killer · Post by **cortez the killer** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:33 pm

Kudzu Guillotine wrote:I tried to keep it down to albums I was actually listening to back then.

Other than the Tupelo record, I was listening to all those albums in '92. For the record, I did not have that criteria in mind when I started this thread. All I need now is for Bill in CT to claim one of my selected albums wasn't from '92 (or wasn't intended for a '92 release) and the thread is an official 3DD entry.

Kudzu Guillotine · Post by **Kudzu Guillotine** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:45 pm

cortez the killer wrote:
Kudzu Guillotine wrote:I tried to keep it down to albums I was actually listening to back then.

Other than the Tupelo record, I was listening to all those albums in '92. For the record, I did not have that criteria in mind when I started this thread.

I figured you didn't but for whatever reason, I wanted to stay true to what I was actually listening to back then. I'm venturing a guess that I wasn't even aware of Uncle Tupelo at that point other than maybe reading their name in a magazine somewhere. I'm pretty sure the first "alt.country" band I really sat up and took notice of in those days was the Bottle Rockets when "Radar Gun" went into rotation at the radio station I was working at in '94. I liked the Jayhawks but not enough to seek out a lot of their stuff. I think I had an EP with "Martin's Song" on it that I got from the station but that was pretty much it for me then. Circa the early to mid-90's I was immersed in stuff like Vs., Siamese Dream and that first Counting Crows record. That's not to say some Spin Doctors, 4 Non Blondes and Brother Kane weren't mixed in there too.

cortez the killer · Post by **cortez the killer** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:52 pm

Kudzu Guillotine wrote:
cortez the killer wrote:
Kudzu Guillotine wrote:I tried to keep it down to albums I was actually listening to back then.

Other than the Tupelo record, I was listening to all those albums in '92. For the record, I did not have that criteria in mind when I started this thread.

I figured you didn't but for whatever reason, I wanted to stay true to what I was actually listening to back then. I'm venturing a guess that I wasn't even aware of Uncle Tupelo at that point other than maybe reading their name in a magazine somewhere. I'm pretty sure the first "alt.country" band I really sat up and took notice of in those days was the Bottle Rockets when "Radar Gun" went into rotation at the radio station I was working at in '94. I liked the Jayhawks but not enough to seek out a lot of their stuff. I think I had an EP with "Martin's Song" on it that I got from the station but that was pretty much it for me then. Circa the early to mid-90's I was pretty much immersed in stuff like Vs., Siamese Dream and that first Counting Crows record. That's not to say some Spin Doctors, 4 Non Blondes and Brother Kane wasn't mixed in there too.

You are far more invested in alt.country and its roots than I am. I don't know why I was listening to The Jayhawks in '92, but I was, and it sounded like nothing else (other than Ragged Glory) that was out there at the time. I had a radio show at the time (sophomore year in college). There were three of us that did the show. We played the shit out of that album. The first year our time slot was Sunday from 1 am - 3 am. By our senior year we had the 4pm - 6pm slot on Fridays and people were taping our shows. Funny shit. It was me, a dude who was from Fairfield, CT and is now a a higher-up @ Yahoo, and the son of the former Secretary of the Treasury's son. Diversity at its finest!

Zip City · Post by **Zip City** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:08 am

cortez the killer wrote:
Kudzu Guillotine wrote:I tried to keep it down to albums I was actually listening to back then.

Other than the Tupelo record, I was listening to all those albums in '92.

Same

Kudzu Guillotine · Post by **Kudzu Guillotine** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:12 am

Even though I loved Prine, Waylon, Willie, DAC, etc. in the 70s and Lone Justice, Jason & the Scorchers, etc. in the 80's I was actually pretty clueless that that sort of music was experiencing a rebirth in the latter part of the 80's and the early 90's via bands like Uncle Tupelo, the Gourds, the Jayhawks, etc. I was reading about it but hardly anyone else I knew paid as much attention to music as I did so it took stuff like "Radar Gun", Webb Wilder's "Tough It Out" and later, "Drown" falling into my lap for me to finally sit up and take notice. A friend of mine at the radio station I worked at in the early 90's had a program called The Sunday Night Alternative (which would soon be a dime a dozen across the dial) that he got to program own his own. It was mostly made up of his jam band favorites like Phish and Widespread (and edgy-ier stuff like P.J. Harvey) but he also mixed in some Southern Culture On the Skids and Uncle Tupelo. Other than SCOTS (who were notorious for their live shows in the area), I still wasn't paying real close attention. When I first heard "Drown" a few years later and couldn't get it out of my head (resulting in a late night trip to Record Bar/Tracks), that's when it finally started to take hold. It was pretty much downhill for me from there...

RolanK · Post by **RolanK** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:34 am

dogstar · Post by **dogstar** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:16 am

My taste appears to have mellowed a bit since then, but I know I listened to all these at the time.

I know I also had the following because I can remember seeing the tours: 69 Psalms by Ministry, Sweet Oblivion by Screaming Trees, Southern Harmony... by Black Crowes, Magic & Loss by Lou Reed, Henry's Dream by Nick Cave, Seven by James and U.F.Orb by The Orb. I also had Automatic for the People and both the Bruce albums.

Duke Silver · Post by **Duke Silver** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:20 am

Just tried to do this but realized '92 was about one year before I got into music. All the albums I remember from that time came out in '93. :oops:

Flying Rabbit · Post by **Flying Rabbit** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:47 am

So many from this year. It was hard to put a favorites together, because to be honest many of the ones already listed could very well be on it as well. But these are the ones I still go to *a lot*. I'm way into the Jayhawks and Uncle Tupelo albums, but wasn't in 92.

Iowan · Post by **Iowan** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:55 am

Duke Silver wrote:Just tried to do this but realized '92 was about one year before I got into music. All the albums I remember from that time came out in '93.

I was 7 years old in 1992. I just listed my current favorite albums that came out that year. At that time, I was just listening to whatever my dad was listening to (which included Hollywood Town Hall and Dirt).

rlipps · Post by **rlipps** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:38 am

I limited this to albums I was actually listening to in 1992.

Duke Silver · Post by **Duke Silver** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:08 pm

oops, wrong thread

joelle · Post by **joelle** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:09 pm

in my way back machine, for 1992, i am just married.
i know these albums may or may not have been released in 1992, but this is what i was playing over and over. probably on cassette. word.

john hiatt: his bring the family and slow turning were the soundtrack to my years on the road after high school. "finding myself"
but it was stolen moments that i played through the early 1990's and in 1992, i was just married. his growth and change in song lyrics were reflecting my own maturation.

i love john hiatt

lyle lovett: joshua judges ruth ( i adore his dry wit as seen here in this witty take on 3 OT books)while this is not my favorite lovett album, i was a huge fan and thought he could do no wrong. there are a few songs on here that really resonated with me; family reserve in particular. lovett, like hiatt is a master wordsmith. and through both their works there is that little bit of gospel, soul, blues influence steaming just under their (mild? alt?) country.

the cowboy junkies: margo timmins voice= an angel. similar story to the other two. i am consistent in my fanhood. black eyed man was not the (underground?) critical/ somewhat commercial success that the trinity sessions and caution horses were, but i loved so much of it.

and it is where i heard of townes van zandt. to live it to fly became somewhat of a silent mantra for me.

come on. 1952 Vincent Black Lightning kept this in constant rotation long into 1992. and it made me want to buy a motorcycle soo badly.

maybe i am iconoclastic? but i think not so much.

as for these wiki thoughts...
cannot say i completely agree, yet i am hard pressed to completely disagree...
"Upon release the album received mixed to positive reviews. Rolling Stone gave the album a positive review (a combined review with its companion album, Human Touch), but thought that the aims of the two albums "would have been better realized by a single, more carefully shaped collection." In a mostly positive review, Allmusic said of the album: "While Human Touch was a disappointing album of second-rate material, Lucky Town is an ambitious collection addressing many of Springsteen's major concerns and moving them forward.""

not my (usual) taste, but it was my husband's favorite ( everything: singer, album, rock chick)...so i heard a lot of it. PJ is a dude. girl can wail. learned and came to appreciate and adore her myself.

Kudzu Guillotine · Post by **Kudzu Guillotine** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:41 pm

I totally overlooked that Keith album. Probably wouldn't have made my top six but it still got plenty of spins nonetheless. I also love the Lyle Lovett. Believe it or not, it was getting a lot of airplay at our radio station at the time (which was a rock n' roll format). I already had a copy on CD but my Program Director gave me an extra copy on cassette to give to my brother with the words, "here's one for your brother for the boat. Put this on and you won't want to come back". I also enjoy "Family Preserve" a great deal along with "Church", which is great dinnertime music.

Bill in CT · Post by **Bill in CT** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:46 pm

cortez the killer wrote:All I need now is for Bill in CT to claim one of my selected albums wasn't from '92 (or wasn't intended for a '92 release) and the thread is an official 3DD entry.

Nope...all your entries came out in 1992. It's a great 6-pack too...I also own all 6 of those.

Cubfan06 · Post by **Cubfan06** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 5:12 pm

A great year for music. I whole heartedly wanted to put New Miserable Experience, Slanted and Enchanted and Sweet Oblivion into my six pack. Three outstanding albums.
But:

1) Beastie Boys- Check Your Head (One of my favorite albums of all time)
2) Rage Against the Machine- Self Titled
3) Sublime- 40 OZ to Freedom
4) The Cure-Wish
5) Pantera- Vulgar Display of Power

Bill in CT · Post by **Bill in CT** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 5:28 pm

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