The 1992 Mainstream #1 Rock Tracks were the songs that were getting airplay on mainstream rock stations, regardless of format (singles, album cuts, etc.).
Remedy – the Black Crowes, eleven weeks at #1M, #48 pop
How About That – Bad Company, 6 weeks at #1 M, #38 pop
Hotel Illness – the Black Crowes, 6 weeks at #1 M; did not chart on the pop charts, but it was released as a single. Probably unrelated, Hotel illness family ‘too traumatised to holiday again.’
Thorn In My Pride – the Black Crowes 4 weeks at #1 M, #80 pop
Human Touch – Bruce Springsteen, 3 weeks at #1 M. #16 pop
Even Better Than The Real Thing – U2, 2 weeks at #1 M, #32 pop
Again Tonight – John Mellencamp, 2 weeks at #1
One – U2, 2 weeks at #1 M, #10 pop
Sting Me – the Black Crowes, 2 weeks at #1 M, did not chart pop
Rest In Peace – Extreme, two at #1 M #96 pop
The rest were #1 for 1 week, Mainstream
Let’s Get Rocked – Def Leppard, #15 pop
Digging In The Dirt – Peter Gabriel, #52 pop
Keep The Faith – Bon Jovi, #29 pop
The Robinson brothers
From Wikipedia: “The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion is the second studio album by American rock band the Black Crowes, released on May 12, 1992… The album’s name derives from the full name of the Southern Harmony, an influential 1835 hymnal compiled by William Walker…
“It was a record for an album to feature four album rock number-one hits (previously set by Tom Petty in 1989, with three). The album itself reached the top spot of the Billboard 200 album chart, propelled by the success of these singles.”
I never owned the album, though someone had given me their previous collection, Shake Your Money Maker. The only albums I own from the songs represented above were Us (Gabriel), Human Touch (Springsteen), and Achtung Baby (U2).
Incidentally, I’m fond of One by Johnny Cash from the 2000 album American III: Solitary Man.
