Media Favorite Albums By Year

[John Mellor]

Okay, this was a little exercise that I was doing earlier, and I'd like to see everyone else's lists.

Here, you should list your favorite album from each year 1965 and on (when the album really became a big deal). You can start later or earlier if you want. It's a fun little exercise. Include description if you want (I'll be editing my post later to do so), but you don't have to.

1965: Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

Believe it or not, this one is pretty tough. You have my the best album by Bob Dylan and the best album by The Beatles (Rubber Soul). Then to make things worse you have another great album by Bob Dylan (Bringing It All Back Home) and another great album by The Beatles (Help!). John Coltrane's A Love Supreme and Otis Redding's Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul aren't too shabby, either.

1966: Revolver - The Beatles

Revolver's a champ, but Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde is stiff competition. Oh, and friggin' The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds.

1967: The Who Sell Out - The Who

The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is absent, yes, but what I came closer to giving victory was The Velvet Underground And Nico.

1968: Electric Ladyland - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

A week year, but The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society along with the winner save it.

1969: The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

Did I just give this the win over The Beatles' Abbey Road? You bet I did. Other contenders were Miles Davis's In A Silent Way, The Kinks' Arthur or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire, and The Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed.

1970: Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek And The Dominos
1971: John Prine - John Prine
1972: Exile On Main St - The Rolling Stones
1973: Quadrophenia - The Who
1974: Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan
1975: Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
1976: Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder
1977: Marquee Moon - Television
1978: Jesus Of Cool - Nick Lowe
1979: London Calling - The Clash
1980: Remain In Light - Talking Heads
1981: Wild Gift - X
1982: Thriller - Michael Jackson
1983: Murmur - R.E.M.
1984: Let It Be - The Replacements
1985: Fear And Whiskey - Mekons
1986: The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
1987: Sign "O" The Times - Prince
1988: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
1989: Doolittle - Pixies
1990: Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J
1991: Nevermind - Nirvana
1992: Slanted And Enchanted - Pavement
1993: Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu-Tang Clan
1994: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
1995: Insomniac - Green Day
1996: Endtroducing... - DJ Shadow
1997: Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney
1998: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
1999: 69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields
2000: The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
2001: Satellite Rides - Old 97's
2002: You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene
2003: Decoration Day - Drive-By Truckers
2004: Funeral - Arcade Fire
2005: Late Registration - Kanye West
2006: Boys And Girls In America - The Hold Steady
2007: Sound Of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
2008: Dear Science - TV On The Radio
2009: Hospice - The Antlers
2010: The ArchAndroid (Suites II And III) - Janelle Monáe

 

[Morm]

I look in vain for Iron Maiden or Pat Benetar in the 80's. Clerical error, perhaps.

 

[doomvendingmachine]

Wow john, I really love a lot of your picks, and I think your taste in muisc might be somewhat similar to mine (though as Morm said lack of maiden in the 80s makes me sad). I don't think I have the time/ambition/extensive music knowledge to make one of my own, but I will probably be checking out the albums on that your list that I haven't listen to yet.

 

[TEA_DEMON]

65: Nothing
66: Nothing
67: Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
68: Jethro Tull - This Was
69: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
70: Jethro Tull - Benefit
71: King Crimson - Islands (eugh this was tough - up against Jethro Tull's Aqualung and Gentle Giant's Acquiring the Taste)
72: Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (hard to choose again, since Gentle Giant's Octopus is soooooooooo good)
73: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
74: Camel - Mirage
75: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
76: The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery & Imagination
77: Pink Floyd - Animals
78: The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid
79: Pink Floyd - The Wall
80: The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card
81: King Crimson - Discipline
82: The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
83: Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
84: King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair
85: The Alan Parsons Project - Vulture Culture
86: Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
87: Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
88: Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
89: Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
90: Queensrÿche - Empire (another difficult one - Alice in Chains's Facelift and Temple of the Dog's s/t go here too)
91: Camel - Dust and Dreams
92: Alice in Chains - Dirt
93: Cynic - Focus (this vs Sleep's Holy Mountain is a fucking toughie)
94: Live - Throwing Copper (eugh my god so fucking hard to choose between this and Soundgarden's Superunknown, with NIN's The Downward Spiral sitting there too even)
95: OOMPH! - Defekt
96: OOMPH! - Wunschkind (eugh this vs Soundgarden's Down on the Upside vs Tool's Ænima so hard)
97: Radiohead - OK Computer
98: Nightwish - Oceanborn
99: Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
00: Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
01: Tool - Lateralus (damn this vs Muse's Origin of Symmetry)
02: Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (this vs Megaherz's Herzwerk II)
03: Opeth - Damnation (oh my god this vs Muse's Absolution vs A Perfect Circle's Thirteenth Step vs Radiohead's Hail to the Thief vs Sleep's Dopesmoker is a fucking hard decision)
04: Nightwish - Once (this vs Mastodon's Leviathan vs OOMPH!'s Wahrheit oder Pflicht is pretty damn tricky)
05: Meshuggah - Catch 33
06: Mastodon - Blood Mountain (this vs Tool's 10,000 Days vs Muse's Black Holes & Revelations my fucking god D:)
07: Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
08: Cynic - Traced in Air
09: Merkabah - Merkabah (not an album I know but it's fucking amazing)
10: Eisbrecher - Eiszeit

This was pretty fun.

 

[doomvendingmachine]

@ above; someone likes their prog lol.

 

[hobby]

65: Begin Here - The Zombies
66: Takes Off - Jefferson Airplane
67: Disraeli Gears - Cream (that said, this year was insanely good for music, with Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane and The Doors s/t being here as well)
68: Crown Of Creation - Jefferson Airplane
69: Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
70: Paranoid - Black Sabbath
71: IV - Led Zeppelin
72: Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull
73: Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
74: Bridge Of Sighs - Robin Trower
75: Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
76: Tales Of Mystery And Imagination - The Alan Parsons Project
77: I Robot - The Alan Parsons Project (although Animals by Pink Floyd is equally as good)
78: Pyramid - The Alan Parsons Project
79: Breakfast In America - Supertramp
[The 80s are a bit barren in my playlist, so diversity sort of dies off]
80: The Turn Of A Friendly Card - The Alan Parsons Project
81: -
82: Eye In The Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
83: -
84: Ammonia Avenue - The Alan Parsons Project
85: Other Worlds - Screaming Trees
86: Clairvoyance - Screaming Trees
87: Medieval Kills! - Medieval
88: Invisible Lantern - Screaming Trees
89: Bleach - Nirvana
90: The Winding Sheet - Mark Lanegan
91: Nevermind - Nirvana
92: Sweet Oblivion - Screaming Trees (although Blues For The Red Sun by Kyuss is a very close second)
93: Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins (In Utero by Nirvana is equally as good)
94: Sky Valley - Kyuss
95: Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
96: Pinkerton - Weezer
97: Polythene - Feeder
98: The Shape Of Punk To Come - Refused
99: Showbiz - Muse
00: Rated R - Queens Of The Stone Age
01: Ego - OOMPH!
02: Songs For The Deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age
03: Ocean Avenue - Yellowcard
04: Peace Love Death Metal - Eagles Of Death Metal
05: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness - Coheed & Cambria
06: Billy Talent II - Billy Talent
07: One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours - Fightstar
08: Saturnalia - The Gutter Twins
09: Lungs - Florence + The Machine
10: Down The Way - Angus & Julia Stone

 

[MK Ultra]

I will attempt to get an album for every year, though my taste doesn't stretch that far back beyond the mid-70s.

1965: My Generation - The Who
1966: Miles Smiles - Miles Davis
1967: The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd
1968: Beggars Banquet - The Rolling Stones
1969: Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
1970: Loaded - The Velvet Underground
1971: Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
1972: Machine Head - Deep Purple
1973: The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
1974: Rush - Rush
1975: Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
1976: 2112 - Rush
1977: Animals - Pink Floyd
1978: Hemispheres - Rush
1979: The Wall - Pink Floyd
1980: Back In Black - AC/DC
1981: Moving Pictures - Rush
1982: Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden
1983: Kill 'em All - Metallica
1984: Ride The Lightning - Metallica
1985: Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
1986: Master Of Puppets - Metallica
1987: Hold Your Fire - Rush
1988: ...And Justice For All - Metallica
1989: Presto - Rush
1990: No Prayer For The Dying - Iron Maiden
1991: The Black Album/Metallica - Metallica
1992: Automatic For The People - R.E.M.
1993: Counterparts - Rush
1994: Dookie - Green Day
1995: The X Factor - Iron Maiden
1996: Load - Metallica
1997: Reload - Metallica
1998: Virtual XI - Iron Maiden
1999: Showbiz - Muse
2000: The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
2001: Origin Of Symmetry - Muse
2002: The Eminem Show - Eminem
2003: Hail To The Thief - Radiohead
2004: Absolution - Muse
2005: Curtain Call (The Hits) - Eminem
2006: Black Holes & Revelations - Muse
2007: Snakes & Arrows - Rush
2008: Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2009: The Resistance - Muse
2010: Danger Days: True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys - My Chemical Romance

 

[Snorlaxe]

WELL there's no chance in hell that i can possibly go as far back as 1965. tbh i didn't like much of the music that was released up until the mid 80s (granted, i wasn't alive, but still). i'll just start with 1985, i suppose.

1985: radio - ll cool j
1986: a kind of magic - queen
1987: tango in the night - fleetwood mac
1988: new jersey - bon jovi
1989: like a prayer - madonna
1990: utd. state 90 - 808 state
1991: dangerous - michael jackson
1992: human touch - bruce springsteen
1993: 14 shots to the dome - ll cool j
1994: dookie - green day
1995: foo fighters - foo fighters
1996: reasonable doubt - jay-z
1997: don't speak - no doubt
1998: dizzy up the girl - goo goo dolls
1999: a song for xx - ayumi hamasaki
2000: tomorrow comes today - gorillaz
2001: j. lo - jennifer lopez
2002: i am... - ayumi hamasaki
2003: get rich or die tryin' - 50 cent
2004: elephunk - black eyed peas
2005: the emancipation of mimi - mariah carey
2006: (miss)understood - ayumi hamasaki
2007: back to black - amy winehouse
2008: crystal castles - crystal castles
2009: the e.n.d. - black eyed peas
2010: loud - rihanna

fuck that took a while to think about! i have no idea how anyone can possibly even remember their favorite album from 1965 lol, especially when i don't think anyone on this webstie was alive then? anyway, my music taste seems, for the most part, DRASTICALLY different than anyone else who has posted in this thread so far. someone on the website has to have the same musical taste as me -.-

 

[gene]

not counting compilations or classical recordings

2010: Loscil - Endless Falls
2009: The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
2008: Averse Sefira - Advent Parallax
2007: The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
2006: Soil & Pimp Sessions - Pimp of the Year
2005: Venetian Snares - Rossz csillag alatt szuletett
2004: Arcade Fire - Funeral
2003: Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
2002: Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
2001: Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
2000: Bohren & der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission
1999: Gas - Konigsforst
1998: Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
1997: Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
1996: Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun
1995: GZA - Liquid Swords
1994: Nas - Illmatic
1993: Slowdive - Souvlaki
1992: Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
1991: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
1990: Massacra - Final Holocaust
1989: Pixies - Doolittle
1988: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1987: Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
1986: The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
1985: Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
1984: Cocteau Twins - Treasure
1983: Wipers - Over the Edge
1982: The Cure - Pornography
1981: Wipers - Youth of America
1980: Talking Heads - Remain in Light
1979: Talking Heads - Fear of Music
1978: Klaus Schulze - X
1977: Television - Marquee Moon
1976: Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
1975: Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
1974: Dadawah - Peace and Love
1973: Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
1972: Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
1971: Comus - First Utterance
1970: Amon Duul II - Yeti
1969: Scott Walker - Scott 4
1968: Silver Apples - Silver Apples
1967: The Doors - The Doors
1966: John Coltrane - Ascension
1965: John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

i don't actively seek out non-canonical releases from the 60s or early 70s, so my collection really thins out by then.

 

[jumpluff]

Starting with the year I was born, 1993, arbitrarily. This was very difficult and you'll notice I had to leave a lot of honourable mentions in the 2000s. I'm positive I'll be editing this later to add all the ones I missed :( I'm terrible at this, haha.

1993: Pet Shop Boys - Very, Porcupine Tree - Up the Downstair
1994: Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
1995: Radiohead - The Bends
1996: Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
1997: Radiohead - OK Computer and Daft Punk - Homework
1998: Air - Moon Safari and Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1999: The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin, Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
2000: Explosions in the Sky - How Strange Innocence and The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
2001: Daft Punk - Discovery, A Silver Mt. Zion - Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upwards, Metric - Static Anonymity (EP), Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
2002: The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People, Boards of Canada - Geogaddi, Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
2003: Metric - Old World Underground Where Are You Now?, Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell, Stars - Heart, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
2004: The Arcade Fire - Funeral, 65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math, Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch, cLOUDDEAD - Ten
2005: Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene, Ladytron - Witching Hour, God Is an Astronaut - All Is Violent All Is Bright, Gorillaz - Demon Days, Hrsta - Stem Stem in Electro, Red Sparowes - At the Soundless Dawn, Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
2006: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones, Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back, Girl Talk - Night Ripper, Stars - Set Yourself on Fire, Vienna Teng - Dreaming Through the Noise, 浜崎あゆみ - (miss)understood
2007: Radiohead - In Rainbows, capsule - Sugarless GiRL, Liars - Liars, Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future, New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom, Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet/Nil Recurring (EP), Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War, Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is (EP), 浜崎あゆみ - GUILTY
2008: Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles, Hot Chip - Made in the Dark,
2009: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!, Metric - Fantasies, Florence + the Machine - Lungs, Anamanaguchi - Dawn Metropolis, The xx - xx
2010: Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II), Sleigh Bells - Treats, Gorillaz - Plastic Beach, 65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway, Passion Pit - Manners, Robyn - Body Talk, The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

 

[SSBM roy]

56: Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
57: Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
58: Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
59: Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
60: Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
61: John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
62: Dexter Gordon - Go
64: Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch!
65: Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
66: Frank Zappa - Freak Out!
67: Love - Forever Changes
68: The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
69: Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
70: Soft Machine - Third
71: Joni Mitchell - Blue
72: Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
73: Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
74: Neil Young - On the Beach
75: Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
76: Joni Mitchell - Hejira
77: Television - Marquee Moon
78: Blondie - Parellel Lines
79: Gang of Four - Entertainment!
80: Joy Division - Closer
81: King Crimson - Discipline
82: Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
84: Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4
85: Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
86: The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
87: Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
89: Pixies - Doolittle
91: Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
92: Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
93: Orbital - Orbital II
94: Portishead - Dummy
95: GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
96: Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
97: Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
98: Tortoise - TNT
99: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
00: Dirty Three - Whatever You Love, You Are
01: Radiohead - Amnesiac
02: Spring Heel Jack - Amassed
03: Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana
04: Madvillain - Madvillainy
06: Joanna Newsom - Ys
07: Radiohead - In Rainbows

I couldn't make any decent choices for 63, 83, 88, 90 and 05 and quite a few picks were more by default than anything.

 

[spies]

2010: -
2009: Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
2008: Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
2007: Burial - Untrue
2006: Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
2005: World's End Girlfriend - The Lie Lay Land
2004: Arcade Fire - Funeral
2003: Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
2002: City of Caterpillar - City of Caterpillar
2001: Converge - Jane Doe
2000: Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
1999: Orchid - Chaos Is Me
1998: Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1997: Radiohead - OK Computer
1996: Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
1995: Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do...
1994: Portishead - Dummy
1993: Slowdive - Souvlaki
1992: Alice in Chains - Dirt
1991: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
1990: Héroes del Silencio - Senderos de Traición
1989: Pixies - Doolittle
1988: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1987: Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living all Over Me
1986: The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
1985: Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
1984: The Replacements - Let It Be
1983: Bauhaus - Burning From the Inside
1982: The Cure - Pornography
1981: Nurse with Wound - Homotopy to Marie
1980: Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
1979: Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
1978: Wire - Chairs Missing
1977: Television - Marquee Moon
1976: David Bowie - Station to Station
1975: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1974: -
1973: Pescado Rabioso - Artaud
1972: David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
1971: Chico Buarque - Construçao
1970: -
1969: The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
1968: Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes
1967: The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
1966: Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
1965: Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

 

[Somebody]

1965: -
1966: Revolver - The Beatles
1967: Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
1968: The Beatles - The Beatles
1969: Abbey Road - The Beatles
1970: Cosmo's Factory - Creedence Clearwater Revival
1971: IV - Led Zeppelin
1972: Obscured by Clouds - Pink Floyd
1973: Tres Hombres - ZZ Top
1974: Crime of the Century - Supertramp
1975: Fandango! - ZZ Top
1976: Hotel California - The Eagles
1977: Animals - Pink Floyd
1978: -
1979: The Wall - Pink Floyd
1980: Back in Black - ACDC
1981: 4 - Foreigner
1982: Thriller - Michael Jackson
1983: Eliminator - ZZ Top
1984: -
1985: -
1986: -
1987: -
1988: -
1989: -
1990: -
1991: -
1992: Unplugged - Eric Clapton
1993: -
1994: Music for the Jilted Generation - The Prodigy
1995: The Presidents of the United States of America - The Presidents of the United States of America
1996: Fashion Nugget - Cake
1997: The Fat of the Land - The Prodigy
1998: Cowboy Bebop - The Seatbelts
1999: The Gathering - Infected Mushroom
2000: Classical Mushroom - Infected Mushroom
2001: Discovery - Daft Punk
2002: -
2003: Converting Vegetarians - Infected Mushroom
2004: Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned - The Prodigy
2005: Balloonatic Part 1 - Eskimo
2006: Escape From Planet Monday - DJ Fresh
2007: Vicious Delicious - Infected Mushroom
2008: The Odd Couple - Gnarls Barkley
2009: Legend of the Black Shawarma - Infected Mushroom
2010: Kryptonite - DJ Fresh

 

[SgtWoodsy]

Anything slashed is an honourable mention.

1966: Revolver, The Beatles
1967: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
1969: Abbey Road, The Beatles / In the Court of the Crimson King, King Crimson / Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin
1971: Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin
1973: Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
1974: Sheer Heart Attack, Queen
1975: Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd & Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin
1982: The Number of the Beast, Iron Maiden
1988: South of Heaven, Slayer
1991: Nevermind, Nirvana
1992: Images and Words, Dream Theater
1994: The Downward Spiral, Nine Inch Nails
1997: OK Computer, Radiohead / Homework, Daft Punk / The Fat of the Land, The Prodigy
1999: Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, Dream Theater
2000: Rated R, Queens of the Stone Age
2001: Origin of Symmetry, Muse & Discovery, Daft Punk
2002: Songs for the Deaf, Queens of the Stone Age / In Absentia, Porcupine Tree
2003: Absolution, Muse / De-Loused in the Comatorium, The Mars Volta
2005: Hold Your Colour, Pendulum & Octavarium, Dream Theater / Deadwing, Porcupine Tree
2007: In Rainbows, Radiohead / Favourite Worst Nightmare, Arctic Monkeys
2009: Them Crooked Vultures, Them Crooked Vultures
2010: Plastic Beach, Gorillaz / Crystal Castles II, Crystal Castles

 

[JimBob]

1966: Cream - Fresh Cream (my only album from this year, so it doesn't mean much. I do like this album though)
1967: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
1968: Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (title track is great, the rest of the album is too)
1969: The Who - Tommy
1970: Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (best band)
1971: Andrew Lloyd Webber - Jesus Christ Superstar (great singing, great arrangement, great instrumentation, and the plot creates a lot of tension so the music isn't the only part of this album that's exciting)

1972: Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
1973: Aerosmith - Aerosmith (perfect rock 'n roll)
1974: Kansas - Kansas (Apercu / Death of Mother Nature? I just came)
1975: Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
1976: Rush - 2112 (mostly on the strength of the title track)
1977: Pink Floyd - Animals
1978: The Who - Who Are You
1979: Motorhead - Overkill (title track that never ends. guitar solos forever!!)
1980: Dire Straits - Making Movies
1981: AC/DC - For Those About to Rock We Salute You (rocks pretty hard)
1982: Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
1983: Dio - Holy Diver
1984: Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus (best album of the 80s)
1985: Metal Church - Metal Church
1986: Metallica - Master of Puppets (mixed really well. songs are really great)
1987: Guns 'N Roses - Appetite for Destruction (nothing to see here... '87 is boring)
1988: Living Colour - Vivid (a little funk, a little rock, a little metal, a little punk, all good)
1989: Bad Religion - No Control (big words hehe)
1990: Blues Traveler - Blues Traveler
1991: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (best album)
1992: Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
1993: Nirvana - In Utero (starts out really accessible and descends into noise)
1994: Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley (i wish there were 24 hours and 50 minutes in a day, and you were required to listen to this album every day in the extra 50 minutes)

1995: Green Day - Insomniac
1996: Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics (Monolithic is the word)
1997: Blues Traveler - Straight on Till Morning
1998: Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment (how do they write such interesting music?)
1999: The Atomic Bitchwax - Atomic Bitchwax (stoner rock at the height of perfection)
2000: The Atomic Bitchwax - Atomic Bitchwax II (oh snap! even higher perfection!)
2001: Karma to Burn - Almost Heathen (instrumental forever)
2002: Down - Down II
2003: Sleep - Dopesmoker (listening to this is almost a religious experience)
2004: Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture
2005: Blues Traveler - Bastardos!
2006: Widespread Panic - Earth to America
2007: Ungdomskulen - Cry-Baby (these guys rock hard)
2008: Ancestors - Neptune With Fire (just two songs, but really, how much more do you need?)
2009: Pelican - What We All Come to Need
2010: The Division - Embrace (local band that I love)



Three Blues Traveler Albums. Those guys are great.

 

[John Mellor]

Someone just agreed with my 1995 pick? Whoa.

I'll be updating my honorable mentions over time for the heck of it. List I'm diggin' on the most is SSBM roy's.

On top of this, my 1999 shouldn't be The Soft Bulletin. I forgot all about 69 Love Songs.

 

[Not Scicky]

Heh. I made a thread like this on another forum but it was only of the last decade...

And that's all I'm going to do because I only really started loving music like 2 years ago so I'm not exactly well versed in older stuff, I really don't know much from the 80's that I like beyond the fact that it's kind of funny, and anything before that would probably just be stuff like the Beatles and Bob Marley and the Wailers. Then the 90's come along and it's all Pop-punk and then Neutral Milk Hotel. :/

Anyway

2000: At the Drive-in / Relationship of Command
2001: Blink-182 / Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
2002: Tegan and Sara / If it Was You
2003: Cursive / The Ugly Organ
2004: Say Anything / ...is a Real Boy
2005: Architecture in Helsinki / In Case We Die (or) HORSE the Band / The Mechanical Hand
2006: Motion City Soundtrack / Commit this to Memory
2007: Enter Shikari / Take to the Skies
2008: The Age of Rockets / Hannah
2009: HORSE the Band / Desperate Living

and though technically the start of another decade...

2010: Snowing / I Could Do Whatever I Wanted if I Wanted

and honorable mentions because I neglected some albums I really, really didn't want to

2003: Gob / Foot in Mouth Disease
2004: Thursday / War All the Time
2005: Protest the Hero / Kezia
2006: Billy Talent / Billy Talent II
2007: Stars / In Our Bedroom After the War (or) MGMT / Oracular Spectacular
2008: Now, Now Every Children / Cars
2009: Say Anything / Say Anything

Even though the ones I actually picked for AOTY blow most of these out of the water. ;)

And for 2003 I'm kind of working on 'As the Roots Undo' by Circle Takes the Square, and I could see it becoming a favorite in time, same with 'Mongrel' from The Number 12 Looks Like You... but that's 2007 I think.

Also, for Greenday's Insomniac... I think that's the only Greenday album I don't remember any songs off of... *shame*

 

[JimBob]

Also, for Greenday's Insomniac... I think that's the only Greenday album I don't remember any songs off of... *shame*

er... Brain Stew?

 

[Not Scicky]

...

I was a decidedly sheltered child.

 

[John Mellor]

It's weird that Insomniac shows up and not my favorite of theirs, which is Warning:. Of course, 2000 was a decidedly stronger year than 1995, which is among the weakest I've ever seen.

1976 is a real stinker, though.

 

[Flounder]

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1967 - The Doors - The Doors
1968 - Giles, Giles, and Fripp - The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp
1969 - King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

Starting at 1967 because it's the first year I have a release I really enjoy from. Nothing from '65, and only Freak Out! from '66 makes '67 my best starting point. '60's albums are few and far between for me, unfortunately.

1970 - King Crimson - Lizard
1971 - Comus - First Utterance
1972 - Yes - Close to the Edge, Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
1973 - Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
1974 - King Crimson - Red

The early 70's show my preference for prog. Dark Side for '73 feels so generic, but it's miles ahead of Camel's debut and Tubular Bells, though both are stellar.

1975 - Fripp & Eno - Evening Star
1976 - Rush - 2112
1977 - Pink Floyd - Animals
1979 - The Clash - London Calling

And the late 70's aren't my favorite. '78 ommitted for lack of anything interesting in my library from that year.

1980 - Rush - Permanent Waves
1981 - King Crimson - Discipline
1982 - King Crimson - Beat
1983 - Bacamarte - Depois do Fim
1984 - Rush - Grace Under Pressure
1985 - Jeff Wayne - Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds amd Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground
1987 - Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
1988 - Pixies - Surfer Rosa
1989 - Nirvana - Bleach

fuck the 80's. I'm going to look back on this text file in a few months and shudder at the inclusion of Jeff Wayne and Beat. Worst decade.

1990 - Pixies - Bossanova (the best Pixies album)
1991 - Slint - Spiderland
1992 - Morphine - Good
1993 - Morphine - Cure For Pain
1994 - Massive Attack - Protection
1995 - Radiohead - The Bends
1996 - Cake - Fashion Nugget and Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
1997 - Morphine - Like Swimming, Daft Punk - Homework, and µ-Ziq - Lunatic Harness
1998 - Massive Attack - Mezzanine
1999 - Sigur Ros - Ágætis Byrjun

Music got its shit together for the 90's. '97 was interesting, and Morphine is tied with Cake for my favorite band of the 90's.

2000 - Morphine - The Night and At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
2001 - Cake - Comfort Eagle and The Faint - Danse Macabre
2002 - Aphex Twin - drukQs
2003 - The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium and God is an Astronaut - All is Violent, All is Bright
2004 - Arcade Fire - Funeral
2005 - MGMT - Clibming to New Lows

The first part of the last decade was pretty awesome.

2006 - Squarepusher - Hello Everything
2007 - Justice - †
2008 - Ben Folds - Way to Normal
2009 - Say Anything - Say Anything
2010 - LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening and Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

and the last 5 years were decent.

1976 was a great year, what're you talking about

 

[Not Scicky]

Ahah, Climbing to New Lows is fantastic, it really showcases a lot of MGMT's better (in my opinion) aspects, despite being a tad amateur. Didn't expect to see it on anyone's lists though.

 

[TEA_DEMON]

1976 is a real stinker, though.

The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery & Imagination
Camel - Moonmadness
Gentle Giant - Interview
Jethro Tull - Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!
Queen - A Day at the Races

What the fuck?

 

[Giga Punch]

1964: Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch!
1965: John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
1966: Frank Zappa - Freak Out!
1967: Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
1968: The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
1969: Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
1970: Magma - Magma [Kobaïa]
1971: Can - Tago Mago
1972: Embryo - Steig Aus
1973: Gong - Flying Teapot
1974: King Crimson - Red
1975: Henry Cow - In Praise of Learning
1976: Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
1977: Television - Marquee Moon
1978: Klaus Schulze - X
1979: Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
1980: Talking Heads - Remain in Light
1981: Wipers - Youth of America
1982: Univers Zéro - Ceux du Dehors
1983: Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
1984: Steve Roach - Structures from Silence
1985: Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
1986: The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
1987: Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me
1988: My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
1989: Pixies - Doolittle
1990: A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
1991: Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
1992: Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
1993: Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
1994: Bark Psychosis - Hex
1995: Big L - Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous
1996: DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
1997: Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
1998: Tortoise - TNT
1999: Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
2000: Morphine - The Night
2001: Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
2002: Bohren & der Club of Gore - Black Earth
2003: Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
2004: Madvillain - Madvillainy
2005: The National - Alligator
2006: J Dilla - Donuts
2007: Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I
2008: Beat Konducta - Vol. 5: Dil Cosby Suite
2009: Do Make Say Think - Other Truths
2010: Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid

 

[pookar]

65 John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
66 Frank Zappa - Freak Out!
67 The Doors - The Doors
68 Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly
69 King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (Honorable mention to Hot Rats. Looking at rym theres a huge amount of good albums this year)
70 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
71 Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
72 Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (Yes - Close to the Edge #2)
73 Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
74 King Crimson - Red
75 Pink Floyd - Wish you Were Here (Parliament #2)
76 Rush - 2112
77 Pink Floyd - Animals
78 Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove (Rush #2)
79 Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
80 Iron Maiden - s/t
81 Rush - Moving Pictures
82 Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
83 Dio - Holy Diver
84 Iron Maiden - Powerslave
85 Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
86 Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
87 King Diamond - Abigail
88 Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime (#2 Bathory)
89 Pixies - Doolittle
90 Megadeth - Rust in Peace (Bathory #2)
91 Atheist - Unquestionable Presence (Loveless #2, Death #3)
92 Dream Theater - Images and Words (#2 Dr Dre, #3 Therion, #4 FNM)
93 Death - Individual Thought Patterns (#2 Cynic, #3 Wu-Tang)
94 Dream Theater - Awake (#2 B.i.g.)
95 Big L - Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous
96 Opeth - Morningrise (#2 Dr. Octagon, #3 ATLiens)
97 Radiohead - OK Computer
98 Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth (#2 Death, #3 itaots, #4 aquemeni, #5 gybe)
99 Opeth - Still Life (#2 DT, #3 SSLP, #4 Alive in Athens)
00 Transatlantic - SMPTe (#2 MMLP #3 Nevermore)
01 Opeth - Blackwater Park (#2 Transatlantic)
02 Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane (#2 Agalloch, #3 PT)
03 Opeth - Damnation (#2 Madlib #3 TMV)
04 Madvillain - Madvillainy (#2 DFA1979, #3 MM.Food? #4 Mastodon)
05 Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (#2 Ayreon)
06 Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
07 Between the Buried and Me - Colors (#2 Kanye)
08 Girl Talk - Feed the Animals (#2 Cynic, #3 Beardfish)
09 BTBAM - The Great Misdirect (#2 Transatlantic)
10 Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (#2 Big Boi, #3 OFWGKTA -Radical)
11 The Jet Age of Tomorrow - The Journey to the 5th Echelon

Anything in quotes are honorable mentions for the year, in order