Atlantic Records releases Tori Amos‘ third album, Boys For Pele, featuring the singles “In The Springtime Of His Voodoo” and “Caught A Lite Sneeze”. 
Atlantic Records releases Tori Amos‘ third album, Boys For Pele, featuring the singles “In The Springtime Of His Voodoo” and “Caught A Lite Sneeze”.
Legacy Records releases the album Contraband: The Best of Men At Work, gathering highlights of the 1980s Australian band’s career.
Capitol Records releases the 2-CD set The Beatles Anthology, Volume 2, gathering rarities, outtakes, and live cuts from the Beatles’ mid-1960s heydey. The new single “Real Love”, built around a John Lennon home demo recording, leads off this collection.
Atlantic Records releases Schoolhouse Rock Rocks!, an all-star cover album updating songs from the classic Schoolhouse Rocks animated shorts that punctuated the ABC Saturday morning TV lineup in the ’70s and ’80s.
EMI Records releases the career-spanning compilation Back To The Story, collecting Idle Race‘s complete recorded output, along with material from Mike Sheridan & The Nightriders (before a change of personnel resulted in a change to the name of the band).
EMI Records releases Common Ground: The Voices of Modern Irish Music, an all-star album of Irish-themed music largely (but not exclusively) performed by Irish artists.
Having announced the band’s breakup, Crowded House releases Recurring Dream, a final album – priamrily a greatest hits collection – with the band’s original lineup. Despite having left the band months before, drummer Paul Hester rejoins Neil Finn and Nick Seymour to record three new songs for the album.
RealWorld Records releases the debut Afro-Celt Sound System album, Volume 1 – Sound Magic.
Former Jellyfish guitarist Jason Falkner releases his first solo album, Jason Falkner presents Author Unknown.
Warner Bros. releases R.E.M.‘s tenth album, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, featuring the singles “Bittersweet Me” and “E‐Bow the Letter”.
Alan Parsons releases a solo album, On Air, themed around the history of flight.
Atlantic Records releases the Simply Red compilation album Greatest Hits, gathering highlights from the group’s first five albums.
Capitol Records releases the 2-CD set The Beatles Anthology, Volume 3, gathering rarities, outtakes, and live cuts from the Beatles’ final albums (1967-70). Unlike the previous two Anthologies, there is no “new” single.
Epic Records Australia releases ENZSO, an album of orchestral covers of classic Split Enz songs with guest vocalists (including Enz alumni Tim and Neil Finn). The project, which also includes live concerts, is masterminded by ex-Enz keyboardist Eddie Rayner.
Mercury Records releases the 10cc compilation album The Very Best Of 10cc.
Epic Records releases Ben Folds Five’s second album, Whatever And Ever Amen, featuring the single “Brick”.
CMC International Records releases the Electric Light Orchestra Part II live album One Night: Live In Australia as a single-CD release for the North American market (the album was previously given a two-disc release in Europe). The master recordings of this album change hands, cheaply, many times over many years, resulting in a great many reissues under different titles.
Capitol Records releases the Paul McCartney solo album Flaming Pie, featuring the singles “The World Tonight” and “Beautiful Night”.
EMI Records released Econoline Crush‘s second album, The Devil You Know.
Renaissance Records releases Joined Like Notes, an album by Bill Mumy (Lost In Space, Babylon 5), including a song chronicling the further adventures of Mumy’s Lost In Space character.
Rhino releases The Very Best of Todd Rundgren, a collection of highlights from Rundgren’s solo career and from Utopia.
Fat Wreck Chords releases all-star punk band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes‘ debut album, Have A Ball.
Essential Records releases the second Jars Of Clay album, Much Afraid.
Columbia Records releases the Midnight Oil compilation album 20,000 Watt R.S.L., gathering highlights from the band’s 20th century albums.
Parlophone Records releases the John Lennon compilation album Lennon Legend: The Very Best Of John Lennon, the first career retrospective to take in music that appeared on the posthumous 1984 album Milk & Honey.
Fly Records releases the second and final Home Cookin’ album Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, featuring the single “X-Rated Superstar”.
Squint releases Sixpence None The Richer‘s self-titled third album, featuring the singles “Kiss Me” and “There She Goes”.
Caroline Records releases the Ben Folds Five compilation album Naked Baby Photos, gathering many of the band’s early singles, live cuts and rarities from its time signed to Caroline.
Merge Records releases the Neutral Milk Hotel album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.
BMG Music releases Who’s Serious: The Symphonic Music of the Who, an album of orchestral covers of the Who’s greatest hits.