before Hennessey and Ianelli left the band, which was renamed to the Bloodhound Gang in 1992.
The Great Deceiver (1992)
Ash officially formed in 1992, reportedly having taken the name from the first word they liked in the dictionary. Prior to this, Wheeler and Hamilton were in an Iron Maiden cover band called Vietnam, which had formed in 1989. The new band created three demo tapes that year – Solar…
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Fugazi recorded its third album, In on the Kill Taker , in the fall of 1992 with Steve Albini in Chicago, but the results were deemed unsatisfactory and the band rerecorded the album with Niceley and Don Zientara . With the breakthrough of alternative rock in the early 1990s, In…
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The Reed–Cale–Morrison–Tucker lineup officially reunited without Yule (whose inclusion had been championed by Morrison) in 1992
Their next record, 1992’s Henry’s Dream , marked a change towards a harder rock sound.
After the release of Sailing the Seas of Cheese , in 1992, Primus released a cover song EP Miscellaneous Debris , with their version of XTC ‘s “Making Plans for Nigel” receiving enough airplay to reach No. 30 on Billboard ‘s Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Love filed a defamation lawsuit against Brian due to how he was presented in Brian’s 1992 memoir Wouldn’t It Be Nice: My Own Story . Its publisher HarperCollins settled the suit for $1.5 million. He later wrote that the suit allowed his lawyer “to gain access to the transcripts of…
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Its inclusion helped the song reach number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks in 1992
Their self-titled first album was originally released on a limited run as a double 7″ on the independent label Magnatone Records in 1992. It was soon after re-released on cassette and compact disc by Geffen . During this time, the band was good friends with, often played on records by,…
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