Year by Year Favourite Albums

[Mike]

This should be fun. (And it might help me discover albums of years I'm not very knowledgeable about)

...-1964: Nothing here, maybe this thread will change that
1965: The Beatles - Rubber Soul
1966: The Beatles - Revolver
1967: The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
1968: The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
1969: The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
1970: Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
1971: Can - Tago Mago
1972: Nick Drake - Pink Moon
1973: Can - Future Days
1974: Neil Young - On The Beach
1975: Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
1976: Tom Waits - Small Change
1977: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
1978: Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
1979: Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
1980: Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
1981: ??? I think I listened to The Wipers and This Heat from this year
1982: Kate Bush - The Dreaming
1983: R.E.M. - Murmur
1984: The Replacements - Let It Be
1985: Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
1986: R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
1987: R.E.M. - Document
1988: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1989: Pixies - Doolittle
1990: Fugazi - Repeater
1991: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
1992: Tom Waits - Bone Machine
1993: Pearl Jam - Vs.
1994: Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
1995: Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
1996: Pearl Jam - No Code
1997: Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
1998: Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
1999: Wilco - Summerteeth
2000: Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica
2001: Radiohead - Amnesiac
2002: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2003: Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts Of The Great Highway
2004: Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
2005: Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
2006: Joanna Newsom - Ys
2007: Okkervil River - The Stage Names
2008: Fleet Foxex - Fleet Foxes
2009: Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
2010: Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (fuck me, that year was fantastic)
2011: Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
2012: Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
2013: The National - Trouble Will Find Me
2014: Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
2015 (So far): Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

Will edit with more years soon.

[Strat]

[LoathedVermin72]

[Mike]

Off to a good start

[BurtReynolds]

i'm bad with dates, but i'll add a few later.

[Strat]

Thanks Burt

[BurtReynolds]

If you guys are mean to Mike and he runs away, I'm gonna punch you in the vaginas.

[Strat]

Boys and Girls in America, Binaural, Lost in the Dream and some others.

[Mike]

The small amount of seventies music I know is embarrassing. Someone do their favorite seventies albums.

[Mike]

I'm starting your list for your LV:
2004: Kanye West - The College Dropout
2005: Kanye West - Late Registration
2007: Kanye West - Graduation
2008: Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
2010: Kanye West - MBDTF
2013: Kanye West - Yeezus
2015: (Prediction) Kanye West - Swish

[Kevin Davis]

We have a lot of the same picks, Mike. I will do a list later.

[Mike]

We have a lot of the same picks, Mike. I will do a list later.

Looking forward to that.

[LoathedVermin72]

I'm starting your list for your LV:
2004: Kanye West - The College Dropout
2005: Kanye West - Late Registration
2007: Kanye West - Graduation
2008: Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
2010: Kanye West - MBDTF
2013: Kanye West - Yeezus
2015: (Prediction) Kanye West - Swish

You're definitely right about 2013. Probably also 2010 and 2007. I'll make a list later.

[Mike]

If you're going with MBDTF for 2010 I want to know what your other contenders were for that year. I guessed MBDTF was a given for that year.

[BigRedLedbetter]

I actually have this in a notebook somewhere at home. I will look for it. Fun thread.

[Kevin Davis]

Going as far back as the OP:

2014: The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2013: William Tyler - Impossible Truth
2012: Beach House - Bloom
2011: Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs (sorry, honest answer)
2010: Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2009: Bob Dylan - Christmas in the Heart (another honest answer -- I almost put down Mos Def but that would be a lie)
2008: Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2007: Radiohead - In Rainbows
2006: Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
2005: The Clientele - Strange Geometry
2004: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
2003: The Decemberists - Her Majesty, the Decemberists
2002: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2001: Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
2000: Pearl Jam - Binaural
1999: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
1998: Pearl Jam - Yield
1997: Radiohead - OK Computer
1996: Pearl Jam - No Code
1995: Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
1994: Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
1993: Nirvana - In Utero
1992: John Cale - Fragments of a Rainy Season
1991: Nirvana - Nevermind
1990: Robin Holcomb - Robin Holcomb
1989: Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
1988: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1987: U2 - The Joshua Tree
1986: Paul Simon - Graceland
1985: REM - Fables of the Reconstruction
1984: REM - Reckoning
1983: Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
1982: Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
1981: Elvis Costello - Trust
1980: Elvis Costello - Get Happy
1979: Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
1978: Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
1977: Pink Floyd - Animals
1976: Tom Waits - Small Change
1975: Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
1974: Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
1973: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
1972: Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure
1971: Paul and Linda McCartney - Ram
1970: Grateful Dead - American Beauty
1969: Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
1968: Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
1967: The Who - The Who Sell Out
1966: Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
1965: Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas
1964: Thelonious Monk - Solo Monk

[@SkitchP]

Are we counting Animal and Cannibal as separate albums?

[epilogue]

I'll try to do some of this over the next few days. May have to try one decade at a time at first... but is there a reason we're starting with 1964? Can we go back further than that?

[Mike]

Of course you can go further back. I just stopped there because I don't have any favorite albums from before 1964. That's just due to not knowing any well enough.

[i got bugs]

I wanna switch it up n all, but my 70s are gonna alternate floyd n zeppelin