20 Albums We Can’t Believe Are 20 Years Old

Yesterday, Slanted and Enchanted, the debut album from alt-rock legends Pavement, turned 20 years old. Wait, we can hear you saying to your computer screen, already? Yep, it came out in 1992. Now, we don’t know about you, but the realization that one of our favorite albums of all-time officially has two decades under its belt makes us feel super old. Not that this is the first time something like this has happened — last year, we freaked out over a handful of films that we told ourselves couldn’t possibly be ten years old already, and we’ve only just gotten over that shock. But time marches on irrepressibly, so if you’re in the mood to realize just how long it’s been since you first heard of Dr. Dre, click through to read our list of 20 albums we really can’t believe are 20 years old already.

Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted

Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine

Dr. Dre – The Chronic

Sublime – 40 Oz. To Freedom

The Wallflowers — The Wallflowers

Beastie Boys – Check Your Head

Sonic Youth – Dirty

No Doubt — No Doubt

Sir Mix-a-Lot — Mack Daddy (“Baby Got Back” is 20 years old, you guys)

“Weird Al” Yankovic — Off the Deep End

House of Pain — House of Pain

PJ Harvey — Dry

Barenaked Ladies — Gordon

Kylie Minogue — Greatest Hits

The Bodyguard Soundtrack (featuring Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You”)

They Might Be Giants — Apollo 18

R.E.M — Automatic for the People

Tori Amos — Little Earthquakes

Stone Temple Pilots — Core

Green Day — Kerplunk

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Kinda funny reading a bunch of 14-20 year old commenters claiming that '92 sucked. I guess that you all miss the glory days of listening to Blink-182 during your bus ride to third grade.

None of which I have ever owned.

To make others feel old, most of these probably came out in the months leading up to my birth in mid-November 1992. Baby Got Back was the #1 single when I was born, which probably explains so much in so many disturbing ways.

Thank you, stussyboy99. Can we just head off 1992 nostalgia right now?

You forgot "Dirt" by Alice In Chains. One of the landmark records of the 90's. Also, Megadeth's "Countdown To Extinction". Yes, that's right, it was 20 years ago Dave Mustaine first uttered, "Hello me. Meet the real me". Also, Daryl Jones played for Miles Davis. Not Miles David.

Thanks for the list. 1992 will certainly not go down in the annals as a great year for music.