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About This Site
Hello everyone, I am Dr. Nelson Winston. I write my stupid, useless opinions about music on this site. Most of my content relates to my year-end lists, for which I do three types. Every December and January, I get to work on my year-end lists for the year in rock and alternative music. I also…
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The Best Rock Song of 1992
RECAP Let’s recap the birthday presents I received before we move on to one more surprise gift… #10: L7 don’t have to “Pretend We’re Dead.” #9. When The Cure’s music hits the airwaves on “Friday, I’m In Love.” #8. The Charlatans’s biggest song in America was a “Weirdo” in the best way possible. #7. Guns…
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1992 Honorable Mentions
“Midlife Crisis” – Faith No More Modern Rock#1 peak (August 8, 1992)#20 year-end, 12 weeks on chart Mainstream Rock#32 peak (August 15, 1992), 5 weeks on chart UK#10 peak (June 6, 1992)#82 year-end, 5 weeks on chart The origins of my music criticism career began several years ago, when I created a massive 200 song…
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“Under The Bridge” by Red Hot Chili Peppers: The 2nd Best Rock Song of 1992
Didn’t I just go over a song that I had heard so many times that I didn’t know what to say about it, and ended up going through theories and hypotheses about why the song became so great? Well, 1992 was a banner year for this trope. “Under The Bridge” – Red Hot Chili Peppers…
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“One” by U2: The 3rd Best Rock Song of 1992
Before this project, I had never listened to a U2 album. Then I chose a year-end where U2 were represented so much that I already had 1/3 of their album listened to before I even heard the first track and I figured there was no point with putting off the inevitable. With their magnum opus…
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“Come As You Are” by Nirvana: The 4th Best Rock Song of 1992
And now to provide justice to the fact that “Smells Like Teen Spirit” wasn’t allowed to be on this list and how “Lithium” wasn’t eligible for this countdown, let’s just stop delaying the inevitable and get on with it… “Come As You Are” – Nirvana Pop#32 peak (May 2-9, 1992), 18 weeks on chart Modern…
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“Helpless” by Sugar: The 5th Best Rock Song of 1992
The last two picks on this list have been from bands that you recognize. While Guns N’ Roses and Pearl Jam may come from two different sides of the opposite coin – with Guns N’ Roses being arguably the most famous hair metal band and Pearl Jam being a cornerstone of grunge. But the point…
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“Even Flow” by Pearl Jam: The 6th Best Rock Song of 1992
1992 was the year grunge really took off. Granted, it was already a thing, but it became a phenomenon the moment “Smells Like Teen Spirit” crossed over into the mainstream, with Nevermind dethroning Michael Jackson’s Dangerous as the biggest album in America. But for all that has been said about Nirvana changing the world, it…
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Guns N’ Roses’s Cover of “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”: The 7th Best Rock Song of 1992
With every year, it seems, I make a controversial decision regarding who gets snubbed from the best list. For my first rock and alternative list for 2020, I completely bypassed Billie Eilish’s highly acclaimed “Everything I Wanted.” I rejected the most famous song in 1963, The Beach Boys’s “Surfin’ USA,” on grounds of it plagiarizing…
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“Weirdo” by The Charlatans: The 8th Best Rock Song of 1992
As a subgenre that paid tribute to previous genres of British music, among the biggest games music critics and fans played in the 1990s was comparing indie bands to other, more famous British bands. Oasis were The Beatles of Britpop. Blur was its version of The Kinks and The Jam. Suede were probably its David…
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