Year by Year Favourite Albums

[Norah]

DSOTM was the one I was missing.

And no, I haven't. :/

[LetMeSleep]

Nothing lost. It hasn't made this thread once.

[Mike]

Nowadays I'd much rather listen to Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand than Vitalogy but Vitalogy has been with me so long and meant so much to me that I can't put Bee Thousand on there.
I think that might be the case for a few more years, that I not necessarily chose albums that my current self likes the most. Some albums are just ingrained in my brain as my favorites even when that might not be true anymore.

[bada]

1980 Queen - The Game
1981 Def Leppard - High & Dry
1982 Michael Jackson - Thriller
1983 Def Leppard - Pyromania
1984 Van Halen - 1984
1985 Iron Maiden - Live After Death
1986 Metallica - Master Of Puppets
1987 Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
1988 Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking
1989 Faith No More - The Real Thing
1990 Living Colour - Time's Up

1991 Nirvana - Nevermind
1992 Black Crowes - Southern Harmony & Musical Companion
1993 Alice In Chain - Jar Of Flies
1994 Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
1995 Down - Nola
1996 Soundgarden - Down On The Upside
1997 Verve - Urban Hymnes
1998 Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age
1999 A Tribe Called Quest - Anthology
2000 Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
2001 Incubus - Morning View
2002 Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
2003 Darkness - Permission To Land
2004 Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
2005 White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
2006 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2007 Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same (Reissue)
2008 Black Crowes - Warpaint
2009 Mastodon - Crack The Skye

[Brett]

There's now way I can do this with the same depth that the rest of you guys have. Outside of the years that I have been an active music listener, I just don't have enough knowledge and experience to make those kinds of decisions.

I remember attempting something like this on Last.fm once; favorite album for every year since you were born (thus 1984-present for me). I had a hard time with the mid '90s and back at that point, too. I either never finished it or deleted it, because I can't find it now.

2015 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'
2014 Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything
2013 Land of Kush - The Big Mango
2012 Shalabi Effect - Feign to Delight Gaiety of Gods
2011 Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
2010 Oceansize - Self-Preserved While the Bodies Float Up
2009 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2008 Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
2007 Oceansize - Frames
2006 Tortoise - A Lazarus Taxon
2005 Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
2004 Fly Pan Am - N'écoutez pas
2003 Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
2002 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
2001 Broken Social Scene - Feel Good Lost
2000 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
1999 Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
1998 Tortoise - TNT
1997 Do Make Say Think - Do Make Say Think
1996 Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die

[bada]

1960 Johnny Cash - Now There Was A Song
1961 Patsy Cline - Patsy Cline Showcase
1962 Ray Charles - Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music
1963 Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
1964 Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
1965 Beach Boys - Beach Boys' Party!
1966 Beatles - Revolver
1967 Doors - Doors
1968 Beatles - Beatles (The White Album)
1969 Beatles - Abbey Road
1970 Black Sabbath - Paranoid
1971 Who - Who's Next
1972 David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
1973 Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
1974 Santana - Greatest Hits
1975 Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
1976 Terry Reid - Seed Of Memory
1977 Neil Young - Decade
1978 Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous
1979 Tom Petty - Damn The Torpedoes

1980 Queen - The Game
1981 Def Leppard - High & Dry
1982 Michael Jackson - Thriller
1983 Def Leppard - Pyromania
1984 Van Halen - 1984
1985 Iron Maiden - Live After Death
1986 Metallica - Master Of Puppets
1987 Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
1988 Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking
1989 Faith No More - The Real Thing
1990 Living Colour - Time's Up

1991 Nirvana - Nevermind
1992 Black Crowes - Southern Harmony & Musical Companion
1993 Alice In Chain - Jar Of Flies
1994 Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
1995 Down - Nola
1996 Soundgarden - Down On The Upside
1997 Verve - Urban Hymnes
1998 Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age
1999 A Tribe Called Quest - Anthology
2000 Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
2001 Incubus - Morning View
2002 Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
2003 Darkness - Permission To Land
2004 Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
2005 White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
2006 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2007 Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same (Reissue)
2008 Black Crowes - Warpaint
2009 Mastodon - Crack The Skye

2010 ACDC - Iron Man 2
2011 Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See
2012 Soundgarden - King Animal
2013 Arctic Monkeys - AM
2014 Queen - Live At The Rainbow '74
2015 Darkness - Last Of Our Kind

[E.H. Ruddock]

I want to do this but this seems like a lot of work.

[bada]

I just searched my music folder based on year and picked my favorite. I guess the ease of doing that depends on your filing system.

[BurtReynolds]

I want to do this but this seems like a lot of work.

It is

[Kevin Davis]

I want to do this but this seems like a lot of work.

I'll do it for you for $20. I take Paypal.

[epilogue]

I want to do this but this seems like a lot of work.

I'll do it for you for $20. I take Paypal.

[Strat]

I have a hard time remembering which albums were released each year

[E.H. Ruddock]

I want to do this but this seems like a lot of work.

I'll do it for you for $20. I take Paypal.

Haven't you taken enough of my money?

Spoiler: show

[epilogue]

I want to do this but this seems like a lot of work.

I'll do it for you for $20. I take Paypal.

Haven't you taken enough of my money?

Spoiler: show

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn!

[Kevin Davis]

So what you mean to say is you'll offer me $15?

[E.H. Ruddock]

So what you mean to say is you'll offer me $15?

If I can be your tour manager when you hit it big, then yes.

Just make sure to include whatever album "Words" was on by Missing Persons in 1981.

[William Bloke]

I'm sure you will all be happy to hear that I am in the process of doing this thing.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Has Kevin Davis finished mine yet?

[LetMeSleep]

It's currently pissing him off.

[BurtReynolds]

Has Kevin Davis finished mine yet?

I added Missing Persons to mine. Fuck a Michael Jackson.