Nuthin' But a G Thang
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg
1992 · From The Chronic
Dre built G-funk on a Leon Haywood sample, handed Snoop the mic, and gangsta rap reached number two.
★ 8.9
Browse by time · year
1992
Showing 46 songs from 1992
They Reminisce Over YouPete Rock
They Reminisce Over You
1992
Pete Rock looped a Tom Scott saxophone line, and CL Smooth's eulogy for a lost friend still aches.
★ 8.3
I Will Always Love You
1992 · From The Bodyguard (soundtrack)
Parton wrote it to leave Porter Wagoner; Houston opened a cappella and held the Hot 100 for fourteen weeks.
★ 8.1
Creep (Radiohead)
1992 · From Pablo Honey
Greenwood meant those three dead notes before the chorus to wreck the song, and they are what makes it work.
★ 7.7
Man on the Moon
1992
Berry's chords, Buck's arrangement, and lyrics Stipe wrote at the last minute about Andy Kaufman, Elvis impression included.
★ 7.3
Only Shallow
1992 · From Loveless
Four snare hits, then two amps facing each other with tremolos fighting, sampled and reversed into shoegaze's founding roar.
★ 7.3
NightswimmingR.E.M.
Nightswimming
1992 · From Automatic for the People
Mills cut the piano at Criteria on the instrument heard on "Layla," and John Paul Jones arranged the strings.
★ 7.2
November Rain
1992 · From Use Your Illusion I
Slash's solo grew from an improvisation, Rose had chased the song since 1986, and nine minutes went top three.
★ 7.2
Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
1992
Butler built it from an Art Blakey bassline in his father's jazz records, three voices making cool sound effortless.
★ 7.1
Everybody HurtsR.E.M.
Everybody Hurts
1992 · From Automatic for the People
Berry wrote most of it over a drum machine, John Paul Jones scored the strings, and the words target teenagers.
★ 6.9
Would
1992 · From Dirt
Cantrell wrote it for the Singles soundtrack while grieving Andrew Wood; Starr's bass line and two voices doing the mourning.
★ 6.9
Jeremy
1992 · From Ten
A twelve-string bass figure from Ament, a Texas newspaper item in Vedder's hands, and four VMAs in 1993.
★ 6.8
Harvest Moon
1992 · From Harvest Moon
Tinnitus from the Ragged Glory tour pushed Young back to acoustic guitars, and Ronstadt shadows him line for line.
★ 6.8
Friday I'm In LoveThe Cure
Friday I'm In Love
1992 · From Wish
Smith left the vari-speed engaged at mixdown, so the released version sits a quarter-tone sharp and grins anyway.
★ 6.7
Let Me Ride
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg
1992 · From The Chronic
A Mothership Connection sample, RBX writing Dre's verses, and the Grammy win that turned it into a hit.
★ 6.7
Real Love
1992 · From What's the 411?
Prince Markie Dee and Cory Rooney sped up Audio Two's "Top Billin'", and hip hop soul had its template.
★ 6.7
Jump AroundHouse of Pain
Jump Around
1992
Cypress Hill could not write to Muggs's beat and Ice Cube passed on it; it reached number three anyway.
★ 6.6
Show Me Love
1992
One Korg M1 preset, stripped to vocal and kick, and Beyonce was still borrowing that organ in 2022.
★ 6.4
Plush
1992
The riff arrived in the back of a U-Haul, and DeLeo's ragtime chords carried grunge to a Grammy.
★ 6.3
End of the Road
1992
Thirteen weeks at number one, a record until Whitney broke it in early 1993, on Babyface's Boomerang ballad.
★ 6.3
So What'cha Want
1992 · From Check Your Head
Vocals barked through a karaoke microphone, Money Mark's organ underneath, the Beasties back on their own instruments at G-Son.
★ 6.3
Halcyon and On and On
1992
Named for the tranquilizer the Hartnolls' mother took, with Kirsty Hawkshaw's vocal reversed and stretched across nine minutes.
★ 6.2
My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)
1992
Foster and McElroy looped a guitar figure from James Brown's "The Payback," and four voices turn refusal into swagger.
★ 6.1
Rooster
1992 · From Dirt
Cantrell's song for his father, a Vietnam veteran nicknamed Rooster who appears in Pellington's video; number seven on Mainstream Rock.
★ 6.1
Don't Sweat the Technique
1992 · From Don't Sweat the Technique
Cut at the Hit Factory for their final album together, Eric B.'s jazz loops under Rakim's most unhurried flow.
★ 6.0
They Want EFXDas EFX
They Want EFX
1992
EPMD signed them off a talent show they lost, and the iggedy style swallowed hip hop for two years.
★ 5.8
Drive (REM)R.E.M.
Drive (REM)
1992 · From Automatic for the People
John Paul Jones scored the strings, Scott Litt named Queen as the model, and the lyric hands kids the wheel.
★ 5.7
I Have Nothing
1992 · From The Bodyguard (soundtrack)
Cut at Encore Studios in 1991, a year before the film, Houston riding a modulation most singers would refuse.
★ 5.5
Right Here
1992
Brian Alexander Morgan wrote it; the remix laid it over Michael Jackson's Human Nature, and the group initially disliked it.
★ 5.4
Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta
1992
Drums lifted from a 1973 Ripple record, a closing verse in a president's voice, and Office Space did the rest.
★ 5.3
Baby-Baby-Baby
1992 · From Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip
Six weeks at number two, blocked by End of the Road, which Babyface's team also wrote, T-Boz leading throughout.
★ 4.8
Baby Got Back
1992
Channel One's 1986 techno track supplies the hook, and Mix-a-Lot's answer to magazine beauty standards held number one five weeks.
★ 4.7
Walking On Broken Glass
1992
Spiccato strings, a skipping piano, and a breakup lyric; Malkovich and Hugh Laurie costar in the period video.
★ 4.6
Moonshiner
1992
An old moonshiner's lament cut acoustic in Athens, Peter Buck producing, the band staying at his house to save money.
★ 4.5
Rump Shaker
1992
Teddy Riley's beat rides a Lafayette Afro Rock Band sax loop, and a nineteen-year-old Pharrell wrote Riley's verse.
★ 4.4
Creep (Stone Temple Pilots)Stone Temple Pilots
Creep (Stone Temple Pilots)
1992
Weiland called it the gap between kid and young man, and Brendan O'Brien's production leaves the voice bare.
★ 4.4
Save the Best for Last
1992
Waldman heard the demo's bitter premise and steered the lyric hopeful; five weeks at number one followed.
★ 3.6
I Still Believe in You
1992
Gill and John Barlow Jarvis turned an apology for neglect into a ballad, and Gill's first country number one.
★ 3.5
Run to You (Whitney Houston)
1992 · From The Bodyguard (soundtrack)
Written first as a breakup ballad until director Mick Jackson asked for a love song, keeping only the title.
★ 3.5