Capitol Records releases the third Crowded House album, Woodface, featuring the singles “Chocolate Cake” and “Weather With You”, and adding Neil Finn’s brother (and fellow Split Enz alumnus) Tim Finn to the lineup. 
Capitol Records releases the third Crowded House album, Woodface, featuring the singles “Chocolate Cake” and “Weather With You”, and adding Neil Finn’s brother (and fellow Split Enz alumnus) Tim Finn to the lineup.
EMI Records releases the Electric Light Orchestra 2-disc set Early ELO: 1971-1973, gathering the band’s early material as well as alternate mixes and an unreleased song.
Chrysalis Records releases The Best Of Spandau Ballet, a career retrospective of the band’s heyday.
Mushroom Records releases the Split Enz 2-disc live album The Living Enz, chronicling the band’s farewell tour.
The Move compilation album The Best Of The Move is released, gathering highlights largely from the ’60s psychedelic band’s early albums and singles, with little representation of later material.
China Records releases the Art Of Noise remix collection The FON Mixes, featuring existing Art Of Noise songs remixed by an all-star lineup of producers and remixers.
Polygram Records releases the Left Banke compilation There’s Gonna Be A Storm: The Complete Recordings, 1966-1969, gathering all of the material recorded by the the cult favorite ’60s group known to exist at the time of release.
Tori Amos‘ first album, Little Earthquakes, is released, featuring the singles “Silent All These Years” and “Crucify”.
Fontana Records releases the Tears For Fears compilation album Tears Roll Down: Greatest Hits, 1982-92, gathering highlights from the band’s first three albums.
Lindsey Buckingham‘s solo album Out Of The Cradle is released, featuring the single “Don’t Look Down”.
ELO offshoot band Electric Light Orchestra Part II releases its second album, Live With The Moscow Symphony Orchestra. The live album is released at the behest of the group’s management, despite some flaws in the recorded performances by both the band members and the guest orchestra.
The dada album Puzzle is released, featuring the single “Dizz Knee Land”.
Peter Gabriel releases the solo album Us through his own RealWorld label, including the singles “Digging In The Dirt” and “Steam”. The album reflects Gabriel’s past experiences with primal scream therapy.
Virgin Records releases the Simple Minds compilation album Glittering Prize 81/92, a career retrospective covering from the band’s label debut (1980’s Empires and Dance) through their 1991 album (Real Life).
Warner Bros. Records releases R.E.M.‘s eighth album, Automatic for the People, featuring the singles “Drive”, “Everybody Hurts”, and “Man On The Moon”.
The posthumous Roy Orbison album King Of Hearts is released, featuring a variety of singles, soundtrack songs, and collaborations with other artists not previously collected as an album. The single “I Drove All Night” is also released. (Orbison died in 1989.)
The Raymond Scott album Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights, a collection of remastered archive recordings of Scott and his 1950s jazz combo, is released.
Crowded House releases Together Alone, the final studio album featuring its original lineup (though no one is aware of this at the time), in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Europe. Produced by Neil Finn and Youth (a departure from the group’s “producer in residence” Mitchell Froom, who oversaw the first three albums), the album has a unique sound in the band’s catalogue. Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Mark Hart formally joins the group’s studio lineup, having toured with them since 1989. In America, the album is ensnared by a change of label management and remains unissued for almost a full year as a result.
The Ralf Illenberger album Soleil is released, featuring the single “You And I”.
Power pop supergroup Jellyfish releases its debut album Spilt Milk through Charisma Records. Though generally considered to be an even stronger album than Bellybutton, Spilt Milk marks the end of Jellyfish’s studio career; the band splinters after it is released.
Nonesuch Records releases the Kronos Quartet album Short Stories.
Sting releases the solo album Ten Summoners’ Tales, featuring the singles “If I Ever Lose My Faith In You” and “Fields Of Gold”.
Reprise Records releases the Julianna Raye’s debut album Something Peculiar, produced by Jeff Lynne of ELO fame.
The Donald Fagen solo album Kamakiriad is released, featuring the single “Tomorrow’s Girls”.
The Tim Finn solo album Before & After is released, featuring the singles “Protected” and “Persuasion”.
Elektra Records releases The Best of Howard Jones, a career retrospective covering through Jones’ 1992 album, featuring a cover of Donald Fagen’s “I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)” as a new single.
Atlantic Records releases the Yes compilation album Highlights – The Very Best of Yes, gathering the better-known singles from across the band’s history (and across the many genres they’ve inhabited).
Windham Hill releases new age musician Ray Lynch‘s fourth and final album, Nothing Above My Shoulders But The Evening.
EMI Records releases the novelty single Tongue Tied by “The Cat”, a.k.a. Red Dwarf cast member Danny John-Jules. The song, which was written by Howard Goodall and featured prominently in the last episode of Red Dwarf’s second season, is re-recorded for this single (as well as provided in a variety of remixed forms).
