Images and Words by Dream Theatre
Buy Images and Words Images and Words is the second studio album by Dream Theater, released in the summer of 1992. It is the first to feature vocalist James LaBrie and is considered […]
2012
New Miserable Experience by Gin Blossoms
Buy New Miserable Experience Released during the heyday of the grunge music movement, New Miserable Experience was the peak of Gin Blossoms‘s short-lived fame in the early 1990s. It consists of lean and […]
The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion
by The Black Crowes
Buy The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion With the follow-up to their blockbuster 1990 debut, The Black Crowes took a more rootsy and soulful approach with The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion. That […]
Amused to Death by Roger Waters
Buy Amused to Death For what turned out to be his final solo studio album (to date, 20 years and counting), Roger Waters composed a complex (and often confused) concept album called Amused […]
Automatic For the People by R.E.M.
Buy Automatic For the People Automatic For the People is the eighth album by R.E.M., released in 1992 following their breakthrough Out of Time. Since the band did not tour to support that album, […]
Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos
Buy Little Earthquakes Little Earthquakes is the debut solo album of singer/songwriter Tori Amos. It followed the dissolution of her 1980s synth-pop band called “Y Kant Tori Read”, with a batch of a […]
Core by Stone Temple Pilots
Buy Core Around 1990, a hard rock band from San Diego, CA called Mighty Joe Young recorded a demo featuring some unorthodox musical styles, such as funk and yodeling and soon began to […]
Business As Usual by Men At Work
Buy Business As Usual One would not be out of line to suggest that this is a rather “unusual” (pun intended) selection for our 1982 album of the year. In fact, Business As […]
Asia
Buy Asia Asia was a short-lived “supergroup” which existed primarily in the early 1980s. Their debut eponymous album was wildly successful commercially, reaching #1 in the US on the Billboard album charts and […]
American Fool by John Cougar
Buy American Fool American Fool may mark the midway point of the artist’s evolution from the stage name “Johnny Cougar” back to his given name John Mellencamp. The differing names (of which there […]