120 Months Podcast

July 1992 is a month packed with new album releases. On this episode we talk about Sonic Youth's monumental Dirty; Megadeth's crossover classic Countdown to Extinction; Morrissey's harder sound on Your Arsenal; and Gordon, the debut album from Canada's hardest rocking nerds, Barenaked Ladies.



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Summer of 1992 heats up with some classic album releases: Sublime's dynamic debut, 40 Oz to Freedom; The Lemonheads jangly alt rock on It's a Shame About Ray; Mike Patton unleashed on Faith No More's batshit Angel Dust; immaculate stoner rock riffs on Kyuss's Blues for the Red Sun; and Helmet's deeply influential alt metal masterpiece Meantime.



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May 1992 was another legendary month of album releases, with Radiohead's first EP, Drill; Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds with the haunting and chaotic Henry's Dream; Gang Starr's 3rd hip hop masterpiece Daily Operation; Euro art rockers Stereolab with their debut album Peng!; Iron Maiden's dense and heavy Fear of the Dark; and the Indigo Girls continuing their run of '90s classics with Rites of Passage.
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April 1992 saw album releases from some of the biggest performers of the decade: Beastie Boys with a huge sonic leap forward on Check Your Head; Pavement's indie rock masterpiece Slanted and Enchanted: The Cure's poppier sound on Wish; Annie Lennox's haunting, impressive solo debut, Diva; L7's angry, hilarious alt rock on the Butch Vig-produced Bricks Are Heavy; The Breeders with solid EP, Safari; and Tom Waits' heavy, beautiful soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch's film Night On Earth.
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Our survey of albums released in March 1992 continues with the haunting Ingenue from k.d. lang; They Might Be Giants' darker-themed Apollo 18; Body Count's mystifyingly horrible debut Body Count; Gwar's hilarious America Must Be Destroyed; White Zombie's third album, La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1; PJ Harvey's incredible debut, Dry; and the Jesus and Mary Chain's snotty departure, Honey's Dead.
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