Favorite Album from Each Year You've Been Alive

[frank grimez]

Heh, this was fun. Some years definitely more difficult than others. Admittedly, I'm not as on top of new music as I used to be.

81 Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches
82 Kate Bush - The Dreaming
83 New Order - Power, Corruption, & Lies
84 Husker Du - Zen Arcade
85 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
86 The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
87 New Order - Substance
88 Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
89 The Cure - Disintegration
90 Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
91 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
92 Henryk Gorecki - Symphony #3 (Dawn Upshaw recording)
93 Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
94 Nas - Illmatic
95 Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do
96 Aphex Twin - Richard D James
97 Bjork - Homogenic
98 Autechre - LP5
99 Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
00 PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
01 Bjork - Vespertine
02 Neko Case - Blacklisted
03 Four tet - Rounds
04 Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
05 The National - Alligator
06 Tim Hecker - Harmonies in Ultraviolet
07 Radiohead - In Rainbows
08 Portishead - Third
09 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
10 Beach House - Teen Dream
11 Grouper - A|A Dream Loss / Alien Observer
12 Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
13 Jon Hopkins - Immunity
14 Taylor Swift - 1989
15 Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
16 Blood Orange - Freetown sound
17 Slowdive - S/T
18 Kurt Vile - Bottle It In
19 Fennesz - Agora
20 Haim - Women in Music Part III
21 Floating Points, London Symphony Orchestra, and Pharoah Sanders - Promises
22 Alvvays - Blue Rev
23 Sofia Kourtesis - Madres

[sciuri]

Wow, thank you, OSG. This was a fun read and brought back a lot of memories of the 90s and 2000s for me, nostalgic and inspiring to go back and discover music I missed along the way, pre-internet. I especially appreciate the nods to Dischord and post-punk. Music exposure for me has been really spotty the last 10 years, and this thread is really energizing to get back into discovering new music.

As an aside, I’ve always been a full-album listener/collector, but my hoarding mentality has kind of collapsed in on itself. I haven’t listened to >50% of my mp3 collection, and it’s been that way for 10+ years. Though the current era of streaming any song ever has diminished the art of the album, I think I may just have to embrace it as the easiest way to find new music.

As for my list, I really couldn’t decide so I totally cheated for half this list, sorry. And it really drops off towards the end…

1978 Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are Devo
1979 The Slits - Cut
1980 Joy Division - Closer
1981 Kraftwerk - Computer World
1982 Sonic Youth - S/T
1983 ESG - Come Away with ESG
1984 Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
1985 The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
1986 Sonic Youth - Evol
1987 New Order - Substance
1988 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1989 The Cure - Disintegration / Pixies - Doolittle / Fugazi - 13 Songs
1990 Sonic Youth - Goo / The Breeders - Pod
1991 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless / Slint - Spiderland
1992 Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
1993 Nirvana - In Utero
1994 Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
1995 Fugazi - Red Medicine / Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
1996 Belle & Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister / Low - The Curtain Hits the Cast
1997 Blonde Redhead - Fake Can Be Just as Good / Mogwai - Ten Rapid
1998 Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children / Blonde Redhead - In an Expression of the Inexpressible
1999 Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin / Le Tigre - S/T
2000 Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out / Modest Mouse - Moon and Antarctica
2001 Fugazi - The Argument / Erase Errata - Other Animals
2002 Deerhoof - Reveille
2003 Black Eyes - S/T / Bonnie Prince Billy - Master and Everyone
2004 The Fall - Real New Fall LP
2005 Broadcast - Tender Buttons / Animal Collective - Feels
2006 Liars - Drum’s Not Dead
2007 No Age - Weirdo Rippers / Chromatics - Night Drive
2008 Beach House - Devotion

2009 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2010 No Age - Everything In Between
2011 White Fence - Is Growing Faith
2012 Black Marble - A Different Arrangement
2013 *
2014 Ex Hex - Rips
2015 Beach House - Depression Cherry
2016 Black Marble - It’s Immaterial
2017 Slowdive - S/T
2018 The Breeders - All Nerve
2019 *
2020 *
2021 Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
2022 Wet Leg - S/T

[rhythmjones]

Love that Wet Leg album. Saw them live last year.

[Maggieo]

I gotta pick out sixty fucking albums?!?!

I'm going to crib a few from the lists already posted....

[Maggieo]

1964: A Hard Day's Night- The Beatles
1965: My Generation- The Who
1966: Pet Sounds
1967: Absolutely Free The Mothers Of Invention
1968: The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society- The Kinks
1969: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere- Neil Young
1970: Live At Leeds- The Who
1971: Hunky Dory- David Bowie
1972: #1 Record- Big Star
1973: Here Come the Warm Jets- Brian Eno
1974: Heart Like A Wheel - Linda Ronstadt
1975: A Night At The Opera - Queen
1976: Station To Station - David Bowie
1977: Marquee Moon - Television
1978: Parallel Lines - Blondie
1979: In Through The Out Door - Led Zeppelin
1980: Black Sea - XTC
1981: Discipline - King Crimson
1982: The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads - Talking Heads
1983: Hand Of Kindness - Richard Thompson
1984: Body And Soul - Joe Jackson
1985: Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
1986: Graceland - Paul Simon
1987: Franks Wild Years - Tom Waits
1988: Surfer Rosa - Pixies
1989: Oranges And Lemons - XTC
1990:Bellybutton - Jellyfish
1991: Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
1992: Hollywood Town Hall - Jayhawks
1993: Cure for Pain - Morphine
1994: There's Nothing Wrong With Love - Built to Spill
1995: The Bends - Radiohead
1996: Revival - Gillian Welch
1997: OK Computer - Radiohead
1998: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
1999: 69 Love Songs - Magnetic Fields
2000: Kid A - Radiohead
2001: Amnesiac - Radiohead
2002: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
2003: It Still Moves - My Morning Jacket
2004: A Ghost Is Born - Wilco
2005: Gimme Fiction - Spoon
2006: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood - Neko Case
2007: Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
2008: Dear Science - TV on the Radio
2009: Orange- Jim Campilongo
2010: This is Happening - LCD Soundsystem
2011: Bad as Me - Tom Waits
2012: Boys & Girls - Alabama Shakes
2013: Pure Heroine - Lorde (I dunno)
2014: They Want My Soul - Spoon
2015: Sound and Color - Alabama Shakes
2016: Blackstar - David Bowie
2017: American Dream - LCD Soundsystem
2018: Tell Me How You Really Feel - Courtney Barnett
2019: Zero Fucks Were Given- Maggie Osterberg
2020: Wings Over America- Wings (so sue me)
2021: They still make music?
2022: Pick something from above at random
2023: Some Shit By Steely Dan and XTC

[rhythmjones]

Hard to believe Blackstar was only 7 years ago. Feels like forever

[Maggieo]

Hard to believe Blackstar was only 7 years ago. Feels like forever

I know, right?

[budda12ax7]

Interestingly from the og post....I only know like 5 things they listed.

[Shadoweclipse13]

Finally got my list together. A few years I couldn't pick one album, but it's really almost a perfect representation of my musical tastes Also, born in 1986, don't have favorites for a few years at all, but I deleted the lines with nothing in them, to try to make the list physically smaller.