[MUSIC]Album of the Years Since You Have Been Alive

I cannot believe that you don't have "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" as the album of the year for 2002!

 

Those are some great lists by BMoney, jo mama, rimrocker, leroy, etc.

I'm off this Thursday so I think I might try what jo mama is doing and update my list but include 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and maybe even 5th place.

 

Three Absolutely Great Albums...Period.

 

Okay, taking a page out of jo mama's book, here are my top 10 albums per year, doing a top 20 for '77, '78, and '79 because those years were so badass with great music. I am only doing the '70s (starting with '73 which was my birth year) - the other decades will be done later (maybe tomorrow).

1973
1 - Can - Future Days
2 - Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
3 - Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
4 - Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
5 - David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
6 - The Who - Quadrophenia
7 - Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
8 - Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
9 - Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
10 - Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle

1974
1 - Kraftwerk - Autobahn
2 - Supertramp - Crime of the Century
3 - Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
4 - Roxy Music - Country Life
5 - Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
6 - Neil Young - On the Beach
7 - King Crimson - Red
8 - Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
9 - Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
10 - Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark

1975
1 - Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
2 - Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
3 - Brian Eno - Another Green World
4 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
5 - Queen - A Night at the Opera
6 - Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
7 - Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
8 - Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow
9 - Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
10 - Parliament - Mothership Connection

1976
1 - Lee "Scratch" Perry and The Upsetters - Super Ape
2 - Boston - Boston
3 - Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
4 - Bob Dylan - Desire
5 - David Bowie - Station to Station
6 - Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive!
7 - The Ramones - The Ramones
8 - The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
9 - Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
10 - Rainbow - Rainbow Rising

1977
1 - Pink Floyd - Animals
2 - Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
3 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
4 - Television - Marquee Moon
5 - David Bowie - Low
6 - Wire - Pink Flag
7 - Iggy Pop - The Idiot
8 - Suicide - Suicide (First Album)
9 - The Congos - Heart of the Congos
10 - Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
11 - Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
12 - The Clash - The Clash
13 - Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
14 - Steely Dan - Aja
15 - Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
16 - Eric Clapton - Slowhand
17 - Queen - News of the World
18 - Cheap Trick - In Color
19 - David Bowie - "Heroes"
20 - Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome

1978
1 - Pere Ubu -The Modern Dance
2 - The Cars - The Cars
3 - Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
4 - Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
5 - Magazine - Real Life
6 - Wire - Chairs Missing
7 - Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
8 - Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream
9 - The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
10 - Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear
11 - Blondie - Parallel Lines
12 - Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
13 - Boston - Don't Look Back
14 - Neil Young - Comes a Time
15 - The Who - Who Are You
16 - Ultravox - Systems of Romance
17 - Captain Beefheart - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
18 - Sun Ra - Lanquidity
19 - The Residents - Not Available
20 - Public Image Ltd - First Issue aka Public Image

1979
1 - Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box
2 - Gang of Four - Entertainment!
3 - Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
4 - Supertramp - Breakfast in America
5 - Van Morrison - Into the Music
6 - Pink Floyd - The Wall
7 - The Clash - London Calling
8 - Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
9 - Wire - 154
10 - Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
11 - Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
12 - Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
13 - The Cars - Candy-O
14 - XTC - Drums and Wires
15 - The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
16 - Blondie - Eat to the Beat
17 - Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
18 - Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
19 - AC/DC - Highway to Hell
20 - Talking Heads - Fear of Music

When I do the rest of these, I'll probably drop back down to 10 unless the year has a ridiculous amount of great albums like '79 for example.

 

Okay, finally able to post my top 20 per year for the '80s.

1980
1 - Captain Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station
2 - David Bowie - Scary Monsters
3 - Joy Division - Closer
4 - Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3
5 - Motorhead - Ace of Spades
6 - Prince - Dirty Mind
7 - AC/DC - Back in Black
8 - Rush - Permanent Waves
9 - Queen - The Game
10 - Killing Joke - Killing Joke (first album)
11 - Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap
12 - The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
13 - Ozzy Osbourne - The Blizzard of Ozz
14 - Ultravox - Vienna
15 - Suicide - Suicide (second album)
16 - Bruce Springsteen - The River
17 - Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
18 - Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
19 - Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kaleidoscope
20 - Genesis - Duke

1981
1 - Gang of Four - Solid Gold
2 - Rush - Moving Pictures
3 - Japan - Tin Drum
4 - Brian Eno with David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
5 - The Cure - Faith
6 - Kraftwerk - Computer World
7 - Public Image Ltd. - The Flowers of Romance
8 - Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates
9 - The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
10 - King Crimson - Discipline
11 - The Police - Ghost in the Machine
12 - The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
13 - Echo & the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
14 - Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
15 - U2 - October
16 - Bauhaus - Mask
17 - This Heat - Deceit
18 - The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
19 - Genesis - Abacab
20 - The Church - Of Skins and Heart

1982
1 - Roxy Music - Avalon
2 - Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream for Crow
3 - XTC - English Settlement
4 - Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
5 - Michael Jackson - Thriller
6 - The Cure - p*rnography
7 - Prince - 1999
8 - Peter Gabriel - Security
9 - Joe Jackson - Night and Day
10 - Rush - Signals
11 - Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
12 - The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
13 - Van Morrison - Beautiful Vision
14 - Siouxsie and the Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
15 - Mission of Burma - Vs.
16 - King Crimson - Beat
17 - The Birthday Party - Junkyard
18 - Asia - Asia
19 - Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
20 - Flipper - Album Generic Flipper

1983
1 - Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
2 - R.E.M. - Murmur
3 - U2 - War
4 - New Order - Power Corruption & Lies
5 - Bob Dylan - Infidels
6 - Yes - 90125
7 - The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
8 - The Police - Synchronicity
9 - Genesis - Genesis (the shapes album or Mama album)
10 - Van Morrison - Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
11 - Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
12 - XTC - Mummer
13 - The Cocteau Twins - Head over Heels
14 - Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
15 - Echo & the Bunnymen - Porcupine
16 - David Bowie - Let's Dance
17 - Dio - Holy Diver
18 - The Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
19 - Metallica - Kill 'em All
20 - Big Country - The Crossing

1984
1 - Nick Cave - From Her to Eternity
2 - The Cocteau Twins - Treasure
3 - R.E.M. - Reckoning
4 - Prince - Purple Rain
5 - Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
6 - The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall
7 - Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hyaena
8 - Talk Talk - It's My Life
9 - The Smiths - The Smiths
10 - Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
11 - U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
12 - The Replacements - Let It Be
13 - Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
14 - The Cars - Heartbeat City
15 - Metallica - Ride the Lightning
16 - Husker Du - Zen Arcade
17 - Rush - Grace Under Pressure
18 - Ultravox - Lament
19 - Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand the Weather
20 - Rickie Lee Jones - The Magazine

1985
1 - The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
2 - Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
3 - Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
4 - The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
5 - The Cure - The Head on the Door
6 - New Order - Low-Life
7 - Phil Collins - No Jacket Is Required
8 - a-ha - Hunting High and Low
9 - R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
10 - The Replacements - Tim
11 - The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
12 - Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
13 - Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
14 - The Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean? Basically..
15 - The Cult - Love
16 - Slayer - Hell Awaits
17 - Run-D.M.C. - King of Rock
18 - Nick Cave - The Firstborn Is Dead
19 - Bryan Ferry - Boys and Girls
20 - Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles

1986
1 - The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
2 - XTC - Skylarking
3 - Peter Gabriel - So
4 - Slayer - Reign in Blood
5 - Metallica - Master of Puppets
6 - Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
7 - Crowded House - Crowded House
8 - The Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
9 - The Church - Heyday
10 - Sonic Youth - EVOL
11 - The Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
12 - Nick Cave - Your Funeral, My Trial
13 - Siouxsie and the Banshees - Tinderbox
14 - Steve Winwood - Back in the High Life
15 - R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant
16 - Big Black - Atomizer
17 - Janet Jackson - Control
18 - Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell
19 - Nick Cave - Kicking Against the Pricks
20 - Public Image Ltd. - Album aka Compact Disc

1987
1 - Van Morrison - Poetic Champions Compose
2 - The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
3 - Sonic Youth - Sister
4 - Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
5 - Big Black - Songs About ****ing
6 - The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
7 - Prince - Sign o' The Times
8 - Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full
9 - Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
10 - U2 - The Joshua Tree
11 - Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
12 - R.E.M. - Document
13 - The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
14 - The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
15 - Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years
16 - Michael Jackson - Bad
17 - Guns 'n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
18 - Sting - ..Nothing Like the Sun
19 - Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
20 - The Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician

1988
1 - Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2 - Van Morrison with the Chieftains - Irish Heartbeat
3 - My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
4 - The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
5 - Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
6 - Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
7 - Nick Cave - Tender Prey
8 - Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
9 - Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader
10 - The Church - Starfish
11 - Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions..
12 - Morrissey - Viva Hate
13 - Slayer - South of Heaven
14 - Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peepshow
15 - Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
16 - Everything but the Girl - Idlewild
17 - NWA - Straight Outta Compton
18 - Danzig - Danzig
19 - Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
20 - The Happy Mondays - Bummed

1989
1 - The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
2 - The Cure - Disintegration
3 - Nomeansno - Wrong
4 - The Pixies - Doolittle
5 - The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
6 - Galaxie 500 - On Fire
7 - Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
8 - Neil Young - Freedom
9 - Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
10 - New Order - Technique
11 - Rickie Lee Jones - Flying Cowboys
12 - Peter Gabriel - Passion
13 - Faith No More - The Real Thing
14 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
15 - Lou Reed - New York
16 - Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
17 - Kate Bush - The Sensual World
18 - Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
19 - XTC - Oranges and Lemons
20 - The Cult - Sonic Temple


I am halfway through the '90s but I am noticing the place I am using isn't listing all the possible albums so I will have to go somewhere else.

 

And now the '90s with 20 per year

1990
1 - Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory
2 - The Pixies - Bossanova
3 - Ride - Nowhere
4 - The Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
5 - Depeche Mode - Violator
6 - Sonic Youth - Goo
7 - The Sundays - Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic
8 - The Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
9 - Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music
10 - Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
11 - The KLF - Chill Out
12 - A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels & the Paths of Rhythm
13 - Alice in Chains - Facelift
14 - Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
15 - The Charlatans UK - Some Friendly
16 - Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
17 - AC/DC - The Razor's Edge
18 - Enigma - MCMXC A.D.
19 - The Flaming Lips - In a Priest Driven Ambulance
20 - The Church - Gold Afternoon Fix

1991
1 - Primal Scream - Screamadelica
2 - My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
3 - Nirvana - Nevermind
4 - Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
5 - Slint - Spiderland
6 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
7 - Pearl Jam - Ten
8 - Massive Attack - Blue Lines
9 - A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
10 - Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
11 - U2 - Achtung Baby
12 - The Pixies - Trompe le Monde
13 - Teenage Fan Club - Bandwagonesque
14 - Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
15 - The KLF - The White Room
16 - Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind
17 - The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
18 - Crowded House - Woodface
19 - Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages
20 - Slowdive - Just for a Day

1992
1 - Faith No More - Angel Dust
2 - Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
3 - The Church - Priest = Aura
4 - R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
5 - Tom Waits - Bone Machine
6 - Stone Temple Pilots - Core
7 - Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
8 - Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
9 - PJ Harvey - Dry
10 - Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
11 - Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
12 - Leonard Cohen - The Future
13 - Morrissey - Your Arsenal
14 - Dr. Dre - The Chronic
15 - Sonic Youth - Dirty
16 - The Cure - Wish
17 - The Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
18 - Lush - Spooky
19 - The Sundays - Blind
20 - Curve - Doppleganger

1993
1 - Slowdive - Souvlaki
2 - The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
3 - PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
4 - Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
5 - Verve - A Storm in Heaven
6 - The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
7 - Suede - Suede
8 - Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell II: Back Into Hell
9 - Nirvana - In Utero
10 - Tool - Undertow
11 - Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
12 - A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
13 - Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been
14 - Pearl Jam - Vs.
15 - Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
16 - Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
17 - Bjork - Debut
18 - Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
19 - James - Laid
20 - Crowded House - Together Alone

1994
1 - Portishead - Dummy
2 - Nick Cave - Let Love In
3 - Lush - Split
4 - Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
5 - Shellac - At Action Park
6 - Oasis - Definitely Maybe
7 - Bark Psychosis - Hex
8 - Blur - Parklife
9 - The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
10 - Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
11 - Morrissey - Vauxhall and I
12 - Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
13 - Massive Attack - Protection
14 - Beck - Mellow Gold
15 - The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
16 - Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
17 - Killing Joke - Pandemonium
18 - Suede - Dog Man Star
19 - Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
20 - Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet

1995
1 - Tricky - Maxinquaye
2 - Radiohead - The Bends
3 - Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
4 - Slowdive - Pygmalion
5 - PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
6 - Pulp - Different Class
7 - Scott Walker - Tilt
8 - The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
9 - Low - Long Division
10 - KMFDM - Nihil
11 - The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
12 - Moby - Everything Is Wrong
13 - The Verve - A Northern Soul
14 - The Charlatans UK - The Charlatans UK
15 - Gang of Four - Shrinkwrapped
16 - Blur - The Great Escape
17 - Pavement - Wowee Zowee
18 - Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
19 - Spiritualized - Pure Phase
20 - The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust

1996
1 - DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
2 - Beck - Odelay!
3 - Wilco - Being There
4 - Tool - Aenima
5 - Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
6 - Sepultura - Roots
7 - 2Pac - All Eyez On Me
8 - Everything but the Girl - Walking Wounded
9 - Lush - Lovelife
10 - Nick Cave - Murder Ballads
11 - Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
12 - Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants
13 - Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
14 - Metallica - Load
15 - Hooverphonic - A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular
16 - Tricky - Nearly God
17 - Phish - Billy Breathes
18 - Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
19 - Mazzy Star - Among My Swan
20 - Dirty Three - Horse Stories

1997
1 - Radiohead - OK Computer
2 - Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating Into Space
3 - The Verve - Urban Hymns
4 - Primal Scream - Vanishing Point
5 - Nick Cave - The Boatman's Call
6 - The Charlatans UK - Tellin' Stories
7 - The Sundays - Static and Silence
8 - The Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
9 - Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
10 - The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
11 - The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
12 - Blur - Blur
13 - Faith No More - Album of the Year
14 - Mogwai - Young Team
15 - Rammstein - Sehnsucht
16 - Portishead - Portishead
17 - Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
18 - The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
19 - Everclear - So Much For the Afterglow
20 - Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West

1998
1 - Massive Attack - Mezzanine
2 - Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
3 - Beck - Mutations
4 - Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
5 - PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
6 - The Church - Hologram of Baal
7 - Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
8 - Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
9 - Faithless - Sunday 8 PM
10 - Pulp - This Is Hardcore
11 - VNV Nation - Praise the Fallen
12 - The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
13 - Hooverphonic - Blue Wonder Power Milk
14 - Pere Ubu - Pennsylvania
15 - Joni Mitchell - Taming the Tiger
16 - Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
17 - Elliott Smith - XO
18 - Cat Power - Moon Pix
19 - Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview
20 - Madonna - Ray of Light

1999
1 - Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
2 - The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
3 - Wilco - Summerteeth
4 - The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
5 - Tom Waits - Mule Variations
6 - Moby - Play
7 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
8 - Travis - The Man Who
9 - Dido - No Angel
10 - Mr. Bungle - California
11 - Blur - 13
12 - The Faint - Blank-Wave Arcade
13 - Everything but the Girl - Temperamental
14 - The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
15 - Beck - Midnite Vultures
16 - Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
17 - Sting - Brand New Day
18 - Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4
19 - Mogwai - Come On Die Young
20 - The White Stripes - The White Stripes