Favorite Album from Each Year You've Been Alive

[OffYourFace]

Well, here’s mine.

I love how you picked a Yo Yo Ma record for 1983, the year many HUGE records came out.

I really like that record and listen to it way more than anything else from that year.

He re-recorded the same material later and the playing is more mature and less showy, but there’s something about the cockiness of these performances that I like.

Don't get me wrong, it's an amazing record. Kudos for an interesting pick from that year.

[beauzooka]

#marqueemoon @marqueemoon inspired me to contribute.
That new feeble little horse album is really good!

One of the few perks of being old is that I get to vote for Beatles albums on this thread!

66 Beatles Revolver
67 Love Forever Changes
68 Beatles The White Album
69 Nick Drake Five Leaves Left
70 Neil Young After the Gold Rush
71 David Bowie Hunky Dory
72 Yes Close to the Edge
73 Eno Here Come the Warm Jets
74 Genesis Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
75 Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
76 Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life
77 Steely Dan Aja
78 The Cars The Cars
79 Gang of Four Entertainment
80 Talking Heads Remain in Light
81 King Crimson Discipline
82 XTC English Settlement
83 The Chameleons Script of the Bridge
84 The Smiths Hatful of Hollow
85 Kate Bush Hounds of Love
86 Throwing Muses Throwing Muses
87 Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me
88 Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
89 Nomeansno Wrong
90 Fugazi Repeater
91 Slint Spiderland
92 The Jesus Lizard Liar
93 American Music Club Mercury
94 Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime
95 Geraldine Fibbers Lost Somewhere Between...
96 Heatmiser Mic City Sons
97 Stereolab Dots and Loops
98 Sparklehorse Good Morning Spider
99 Dismemberment Plan Emergency and I
00 Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump
01 Unwound Leaves Turn Inside of You
02 Interpol Turn On the Bright Lights
03 New Pornographers Electric Version
04 Autolux Future Perfect
05 Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary
06 Grandaddy Just Like the Fambly Cat
07 Radiohead In Rainbows
08 Deerhunter Microcastle
09 Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
10 Beach House Teen Dream
11 Wye Oak Civilian
12 Father John Misty Fear Fun
13 Savages Silence Yourself
14 Notwist Close to the Glass
15 Protomartyr The Agent Intellect
16 Autolux Pussy's Dead
17 Protomartyr Relatives in Descent
18 Failure In the Future Your Body Will Be...
19 nothing
20 Joshua Burnside Into the Depths of Hell
21 Teke::Teke Shirushi
22 The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention
23 Feeble Little Horse Girl With Fish

[rhythmjones]

LOVE Teke::Teke

[beauzooka]

LOVE Teke::Teke

Yes! I just saw them live last week. They killed it of course!

[August]

There are some years I can't commit to one (sorry), and a few where I can't pick one,

1978 Adventure (Television)
1879 Inflammable Material (Stiff Little Fingers)
1980 Crocodiles (Echo & The Bunnymen)
1981 Tattoo You (Stones)
1982 Combat Rock (The Clash)
1983 Violent Femmes (The Violent Femmes)
1984 Let It Be (The Replacements)
1985 Rain Dogs (Tom Waits)
1986 Graceland (Paul Simon)
1987 Sister (Sonic Youth)
1988 I'm Your Man (Leonard Cohen)
1989 Disintegration (The Cure)
1990 Ragged Glory (Neil Young)
1991 Wish (The Cure)
1992 Us (Peter Gabriel), Bone Machine (Tom Waits)
1993 For The Beauty Of Wynona (Daniel Lanois)
1994 The Charm Of The Highway Strip (Magnetic Fields), I (Magnetic Fields)
1995 Wrecking Ball (Emmylou Harris)
1996 Nico (Blind Melon), Fashion Nugget (CAKE), Wild Mood Swings (The Cure)
1997 The Lonesome Crowded West (Modest Mouse)
1998 XO (Elliott Smith), Mermaid Ave Vol. 1 (Billy Bragg & Wilco), Teatro (Willie Nelson)
1999 Mule Variations (Tom Waits)
2000 Kid A (Radiohead), And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (Yo la Tengo)
2001 Coke Machine Glow (Gord Downie), Skyscraper National Park (Hayden)
2002 You Forgot It In People (Broken Social Scene)
2003 Neon Golden (The Notwist), Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State (Sufjan Stevens)
2004 Real Gone (Tom Waits)
2005 Illinoise (Sufjan Stevens)
2006 Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (Neko Case), At War With The Mystics (Flaming Lips)
2007 A Sea Of Tiny Lights (Nathan Lawr)
2008 Love Is Overtaking Me (Arthur Russel)
2009 Floating Action (Floating Action)
2010 Break Mirrors (Blake Mills)
2011 The English Riviera (Metronomy)
2012 The Clearing (Bowerbirds)
2013 Big Wheel And Others (Cass McCombs)
2014 Heigh Ho (Blake Mills)
2015 Talent Night At The Ashram (Sonny & The Sunsets)
2016 Arts & Leisure (Walter Martin)
2017
2018 Reminisce Bar & Grill (Walter Martin), Designer (Aldous Harding)
2019
2020 Mutable Set (Blake Mills)
2021 3 (Mapache)
2022 Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (Big Thief)
2023 More Photographs (Kevin Morby)

[beauzooka]

You didn’t commit to one album most years!
It would help if you included the artist name please.

[rhythmjones]

Well, OP did both of those things.

[August]

You didn’t commit to one album most years!
It would help if you included the artist name please.

OK, fixed the artist names. Still need to think hard on committing haha.

[beauzooka]

Thank you!

[beauzooka]

Well, OP did both of those things.

I missed the thread when it started; otherwise I would have whipped the OP into shape!

[panoramic]

oh shit, i typed out a response to this and it took me so long i got logged out and now it's lost to the winds of time......

[rhythmjones]

Aw, bummer!

[seenoevil II]

1989: Doolittle (The Pixies)
1990: Flood (They Might Be Giants)
1991: Loveless (My Bloody Valentine)
1992: Slanted and Enchanted (Pavement)
1993: Transmissions from the Satellite Heart (Flaming Lips)
1994: Crooked Rain Crooked Rain (Pavement)
1995: Clouds Taste Metallic (The Flaming Lips)
1996: If You’re Feeling Sinister (Belle & Sebastian)
1997: Brighten the Corners (Pavement)
1998: Featuring “Birds” (Quasi)
1999: Field Studies (Quasi), The Soft Bulletin (Flaming Lips), 69 Love Songs (Magnetic Fields)
2000: Kid A (Radiohead)
2001: Tyranny of Distance (Ted Leo & The Pharmacists)
2002: You Forgot It in the People (Broken Social Scene)
2003: Pig Lib (Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks), Hearts of Oak (Ted Leo & The Pharmacists), Chutes Too Narrow (The Shins)
2004: i (Magnetic Fields)
2005: The Woods (Sleater Kinney)
2006: Magic Potion (The Black Keys)
2007: Friend Opportunity (Deerhoof)
2008: Offend Maggie (Deerhoof)
2009: Embryonic* (Flaming Lips)
2010: The Brutalist Bricks (Ted Leo & The Pharmacists)
2011: Metals (Feist), Underneath the Pines (Toro y Moi), Mirror Traffic (Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks)
2012: Something (Chairlift)
2013: Anything In Return (Toro y Moi)
2014: Wig Out at Jagbags (Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks)
2015: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Courtney Barnett)
2016: Crab Day *(Cate le Bon)
2017: Pleasure (Feist)
2018: Sparkle Hard (Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks)
2019: Purple Mountains (Purple Mountains)
2020:
2021: Actually, You Can (Deerhoof)
2022:
2023: Multitudes (Feist)

* years with only one album to choose from.


Doing this was a ton of fun and offered me some real insights. First, certain years are absolutely PACKED with an insane amount of great music. The Y2K era was thick with great tunes. Second insight, I didn't trust my contemporaries to make good music in the 2000's 2010's and it shows. I pulled up a bunch of wikipedia lists of "blank year in music" and I see so many artists freshman or sophomore records who would go on to huge careers, and I was was just totally not interested. Most of the music I really love comes from well before I was even born.

Sadly a couple years, I have nothing at all.

[rhythmjones]

Good list, love all those Lips and Pavement records.

[Shadoweclipse13]

Doing this was a ton of fun and offered me some real insights. First, certain years are absolutely PACKED with an insane amount of great music. The Y2K era was thick with great tunes. Second insight, I didn't trust my contemporaries to make good music in the 2000's 2010's and it shows. I pulled up a bunch of wikipedia lists of "blank year in music" and I see so many artists freshman or sophomore records who would go on to huge careers, and I was was just totally not interested. Most of the music I really love comes from well before I was even born.

Sadly a couple years, I have nothing at all.

I feel the same way. I'm still working on my list; there are some years with nothing, but a few years with ALL my favorite albums. Tough to pick favorites