Ahh, the autumn of 1991. In the span of just a few months the world beheld the releases of Pearl Jam's Ten, Nirvana's Nevermind, and Metallica's Metallica (aka The Black Album). By early 1992, these bands along with brethren like Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Jane's Addiction ushered in a gigantic shift in mainstream rock radio: now all of the stuff they had been playing, the Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple and Styx and AC/DC and Boston and etc. suddenly became "classic rock" (c.f. "oldies" of the late 1950s and 1960s). Most mainstream rock stations now played or mostly played this "new" stuff (even though Metallica, Soundgarden, etc. had been around for about a decade by then).
So what happened to newer, up-and-coming bands who rose to the surface in late 1991 or early 1992? In other words, does anybody remember straight-up rock and roll that came out at that time? If you are having trouble remembering the non-grunge, non-alternative rock sound of late '91-early '92, check out this album by Nepal's Albatross, Ma Ra Malai. Even though this album came out in 2014 and has plenty of post-1992 sounds to it (especially on "Aadhar"), to my ears it really brings me back to that weird time right before popular rock went through one of the biggest changes ever.
https://albatrossnepal.bandcamp.com/album/ma-ra-malai
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