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