MCA Records releases an album of music from Cliff Eidelman‘s soundtrack from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. 
MCA Records releases an album of music from Cliff Eidelman‘s soundtrack from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
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.
Elektra Records releases an album of music from John Williams‘s soundtrack from the controversial Oliver Stone movie JFK.
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.
Silva Screen Records releases Doctor Who: Earthshock – Classic Music From the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Volume 1, the first reprint on CD of the now-out-of-print ’80s soundtrack album Doctor Who: The Music. The album includes compositions dating back to the 1960s and as recent as 1984 from BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Delia Derbyshire, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke, and Peter Howell. Material is added that was not present on the original vinyl release.
Silva Screen Records releases Doctor Who: The Five Doctors – Classic Music From the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Volume 2, the first reprint on CD of the now-out-of-print ’80s soundtrack album Doctor Who: The Music II. Music is featured from BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Jonathan Gibbs, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke, and Peter Howell.
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.
Warner Bros. Records releases Angelo Badalamenti‘s soundtrack from the movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
The dada album Puzzle is released, featuring the single “Dizz Knee Land”.
Silva Screen Records releases the soundtrack from the 1988 Doctor Who story The Greatest Show In The Galaxy, composed and performed by Mark Ayres.
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.)
GNP Crescendo releases a CD of music from the original Star Trek television series, presenting selections from the episodes The Naked Time by Alexander Courage and Shore Leave by Gerald Fried.
GNP Crescendo Records releases the third CD of Star Trek: The Next Generation soundtrack music, containing Dennis McCarthy’s music from the episodes Yesterday’s Enterprise, Unification, and Hollow Pursuits.
Narada Records releases a CD of Star Trek: The Next Generation composer Jay Chattaways’s music from the PBS documentary series Space Age. Though more percussive than his Star Trek scores, the documentary soundtrack bears strong similarities to his work on the hit science fiction series.
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”.
GNP Crescendo releases a CD of Dennis McCarthy’s from Emissary, the two-hour pilot episode of the syndicated science fiction series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The album includes both of the tracks included on the Theme From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine CD single released at the same time.
The Tim Finn solo album Before & After is released, featuring the singles “Protected” and “Persuasion”.
