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Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

tomsmith79 — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:19:53 GMT

Author: tomsmith79

Posted: 03/27/2017 16:19

1966: Revolver, Blonde On Blonde, Pet Sounds, Aftermath
1972: Exile on Main Street, Ziggy, Eat a Peach, Talking Book, #1 Record
1980: Remain In Light, London Calling (U.S. release), Closer
1997: OK Computer, Time Out of Mind, Homogenic
2002: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Turn on the Bright Lights, Sea Change, Yoshimi, Kill The Moonlight
2016: Schmilco, A Moon Shaped Pool

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

carpents — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 21:28:30 GMT

Author: carpents

Posted: 03/27/2017 01:28

In order of album preference....

1969: Led Zeppelin, From Elvis In Memphis, Led Zeppelin II, The Velvet Underground, Five Leaves Left, Tommy, Dusty In Memphis, Space Oddity

1970: The Man Who Sold The World, Led Zeppelin III, Paranoid, Bryter Layter, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Black Sabbath, Sex Machine

1989: The Cure/Disintegration, Pixies/Doolittle, Chris Isaak/Heart Shaped World, Nine Inch Nails/Pretty Hate Machine, Beastie Boys/Paul's Boutique, Camper Van Beethoven/Key Lime Pie, Slint/Tweez, Fugazi/13 Songs, Nirvana/Bleach

1993: (I'm surprised, I would have bet on 1994) Suede/Suede, PJ Harvey/Rid Of Me, Seam/The Problem With Me, Chokebore/Motionless, The Smashing Pumpkins/Siamese Dream, Steel Pole Bath Tub/The Miracle Of Sound In Motion, Cop Shoot Cop/Ask Questions Later, Cypress Hill/Black Sunday, Mazzy Star/So Tonight That I Might See, Afghan Whigs/Gentleman, Catherine Wheel/Chrome, Girls Against Boys/Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby, Liz Phair/Exile In Guyville, Frank Black/Frank Black, Matthew Sweet/Altered Beast, Cracker/Kerosene Hat, Built To Spill/Ultimate Alternative Wavers

2004: Sufjan Stevens/Seven Swans, Elliott Smith/From A Basement On The Hill, Feist/Let It Die, Danger Mouse/The Grey Album, The Black Keys/Rubber Factory, 22-20s/22-20s, The Polyphonic Spree/Together We're Heavy, Autolux/Future Perfect, The Beta Band/Heroes To Zeros, Pink Mountaintops/Pink Mountaintops

2014: (Tentatively) Ray Lamontagne/Supernova, Ty Segall/Manipulator, Pink Mountaintops/Get Back, Timber Timbre/Hot Dreams, The Travis Waltons/Your Neck Is Bleeding, Cracker/Berkeley to Bakersfield, Royal Blood/Royal Blood, Wolfmother/New Crown, Damien Rice/My Favourite Faded Fantasy, MONO/The Last Dawn, Shellac/Dude Incredible, Sharon Van Etten/Are We There

Favorite decades are probably 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s. But they all have more good albums than I have time to listen to.

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

Norman Bates — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 08:08:58 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 03/25/2017 12:08

1959 - The Shape of Jazz to Come, Mingus Ah Um, Looking Ahead!, Kind of Blue, Moanin', American Favorite Ballads Vol. 3, Moanin' in the Moonlight, Thelonious Himself

1969 - Five Leaves Left, Hot Buttered Soul, Scott 3, Moondog, Oar, It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You Best, The Stooges, Comme à la radio, Karma, Blasé, Trout Mask Replica, Ask Me No Questions, Green River, Liege & Lief, Our Mother the Mountain, Cloud Nine, Pat Kelley Sings, Atlantis, Eternal Rhythm, Liberation Music Orchestra, Illuminations, Songs of Experience, Joy of a Toy, Montage.

1970 - Fun House, Desertshore, The Madcap Laughs, After the Gold Rush, Curtis, Starsailor, Les stances à Sophie, Bill Fay, Just Another Diamond Day, Moondance, Small Talk at 125th & Lenox, The Last Poets, Version Galore, Third, For Alto, Cosmo's Factory.

1980 - Crazy Rhythms, Colossal Youth, Seventeen Seconds, Half-Mute, Strange Boutique, Alan Vega, Fourth World vol.1, Remain in Light, Zapp, Hypnotised, Closer, Synthesist, Freedom of Choice, We Buy a Hammer for Daddy, Jah Wobble in 'Betrayal', Un peu de l'âme des bandits, Slapp Happy or Slapp Happy, Digital Stimulation

1994 - 41, And She Closed Her Eyes, Illmatic, I Could Live in Hope, Dummy, Geek the Girl, The Sun Rises in the East, Boxcar Sessions, Liital, Obaa Sima, Word... Life, Hips and Makers, Syrup Macrame

2003 - You Are Free, Little Eyes, Tiny Voices, Closer, Speakerboxx/The Love Below, Ghosts of the Great Highway, The Lemon of Pink, Boy in da Corner, Spacebox, I Trawl the Megahertz, The Sand and the Stars

2014 - Black Metal, Heartleap, Benji, One Quarter Descent, Soused, Opus 17, Slant of Light, Black Mill Tapes vol. 1-4, Salad Days, Rooms With Walls and Windows, E S T A R A, Three Love Songs, Where Shine New Lights, Kepler, Ypres

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

Komorebi-D — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 03:54:01 GMT

Author: Komorebi-D

Posted: 03/25/2017 07:54

1969: Abbey Road, The Velvet Underground, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, II and many more.

1970: Loaded, Bitches Brew, After The Gold Rush, American Beauty, III and many more.

1984: The Smiths, Reckoning, Purple Rain, Zen Arcade, Let It Be, Ride The Lighting and many more.

1997: OK Computer, The Lonesome Crowded West, Perfect From Now On, Homogenic and many more

2000: KID A, The Moon & Antarctica, Voodoo, L.Y.S.F.L.A.T.H., De Stijl and many more

2010: The Suburbs, M.B.D.T.F., High Violet, Teen Dream, Halcyon Digest, This Is Happening and many more.

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

Giant2015 — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 01:31:26 GMT

Author: Giant2015

Posted: 03/25/2017 05:31

The 1960s: 1969 (had Led Zeppelin II, In the Court of the Crimson King, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Tommy, Let It Bleed, Hot Rats, Led Zeppelin, Abbey Road)

The 1970s: 1973 (had Houses of the Holy, Dark Side of the Moon, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Band on the Run, Innervisions, Selling England By the Pound, Closing Time)

The 1980s: 1983 (had War; Murmur; Violent Femmes; Synchronicity; Power, Corruption, and Lies)

The 1990s: 1997 (had OK Computer, F#A# Infinity, Homogenic, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, Mogwai Young Team, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, Perfect From Now On)

The 2000s: 2007 (had For Emma, Forever Ago, The Con, Sound of Silver, In Rainbows, Graduation, Challengers, Boxer, The Flying Club Cup, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, Reunion Tour, Neon Bible, Oracular Spectacular, and Person Pitch)

The 2010s: 2012 (had Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, An Awesome Wave, Blunderbuss, Shields, Celebration Rock, Attack on Memory, Adventures In Your Own Backyard, Lonerism, Channel Orange, Valtari, and Voyageur)

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

dmercado — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 03:32:20 GMT

Author: dmercado

Posted: 03/22/2017 07:32

1957 - Monk, Coltrane, & Miles

1966 - Pet Sounds.

1977 - Fleetwood Mac, Television, David Bowie (x2), The Stranger, Bob Marley, Kraftwerk, Talking Heads, Saturday Night Fever, Eno, Sex Pistols, Clash, Costello, Giorgio, Pink Floyd

1984 - Replacements, Springsteen, U2, Smiths (x2), Prince, Minutemen, Talking Heads Live, Metallica, Violent Femmes, R.E.M., Zen Arcade

1991 - Nirvana, U2, Pearl Jam, RHCP, Primal Scream, A tribe called quest, Loveless, Crowded House, R.E.M.

2004 - SMiLE, Hot Fuss, MCR, College Dropout, American Idiot, Arcade Fire

2012 - Kendrick, Grimes, Frank Ocean, Beach House, Mac DeMarco, Fiona Apple, Killer Mike, Tame Impala

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

revolver94 — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 12:17:11 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 03/20/2017 16:17

1967: The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground, Sgt. Peppers/Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles, Forever Changes - Love

1971: Blue - Joni Mitchell, Tago Mago - Can, Hunky Dory - David Bowie, Ram - Paul McCartney

1985: Kate Bush - Hounds of Love, Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain, Thursday Afternoon - Brian Eno

1995: Post - Björk, Alien Lanes - Guided by Voices, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins, Different Class - Pulp

2007: The Flying Club Cup - Beirut, Person Pitch - Panda Bear, In Rainbows - Radiohead, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon

2012: Born to Die - Lana Del Rey, The Idler Wheel... - Fiona Apple, Bloom - Beach House, Ekstasis - Julia Holter

The only one of these I particularly struggled picking was for the 2010's, almost went with 2015.

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

Fischman — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 11:53:43 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 03/20/2017 15:53

1960s -- 1967 (awesome year for rock, blues and jazz)
Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Pat Martino - El Hombre, Strings!
The Kinks - Something Else by the Kinks
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Albert Collins - Born Under a Bad Sigh
Buddy Guy - I Left My Blues in San Franscisco
Jimi Hendrix - Are You experienced, Axis: Bold as Love
Cream - Disraeli Gears
The Who - The Who Sell Out
The Doors - The Doors, Strange Days
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles, Sorcerer

1970s -- 1971 (A near impossible choice -- any year from '70 - '75 would be worthy)
The Who - Who's Next
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Moody Blues - Every Good By Deserves Favour
Yes - Fragile
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Freddie Hubbard - First Light, Straight Life
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Tarkus, Pictures at an Exhibition
Led Zeppelin - IV
Dust - Dust
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Doors - LA Woman
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Deep Purple - Fireball
Carole King - Tapestry
Argent - Ring of Hands
Electric Light Orchestra - Electric Light Orchestra

1980s - 1981 (just barely edges out 1980)
Rush - Moving Pictures
Moody Blues - Long Distance Voyager
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Shooting Star - Hang On For Your Life
Triumph - Allied Forces
Blackfoot - Marauder
Santana - Zebop!
Kinks - Give the People What They Want
Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
Tal Farlow - Chromatic Palette
Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin
The Who - Face Dances
Buddy Guy - Stone Crazy, Alone and Acoustic (with Junior Wells)
Ozzy Osborne - Diary of a Madman
Al DiMeola - Electric Rendezvous, Firday Night in San Francisco (with Paco DeLucia and John McLaughlin)
Atlanta Rhythm Section - Quinella
Jefferson Starship - Modern Times
Jethro Tull - The Broadsword and the Beast

1990s - 1991
Fates Warning - Parallels
Rush - Roll the bones
Buddy Guy - Damn Right I Got the Blues
Steve Morse Band - Southern Steel
Loreena McKennitt - The Visit
Steve Howe - Turbulence
Son Seals - Living in the Danger Zone
Bernd Steidl - Psycho Acoustic Overture
Mike Stern - Standards
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Acoustic Alchemy - Back on the Case
Albert Collins - Iceman
Danny Gatton - 88 Elmira Street
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
Connie Dover - Somebody
Peter Kater - Anthem
The Cult - Ceremony
Johnny Winter - Let Me In
John Pattitucci - Heart of the Bass
Metallica - Metallica
Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky is Crying

2000s - 1006 (a mostly down decade for me)
Lacuna Coil - Karmacode
Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau - Metheny/Mehldau
Medeski/Martin/Scofield/Wood - Out Louder
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - The Hidden Land
Tyr - Ragnarok
Joyce Cooling - Revolving Dore
John Pattitucci - Line by Line
Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse
Keith Jarrett - The Carnegie Hall Concert
Evanescence - The Open Door
Edenbridge - The Grand Design
Charlie Musselwhite - Delta Hardware
Dr. John - Mercenary
Sonny Rollins - Sonny, Please
Blackmore's Night - The Village Lanterne
Chick Corea - The Ultimate Adventure
Gary Moore - Old, New, Ballads, Blues

2010s - 2012 (a great decade so far! so much to choose from across all genres)
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Asia - XXX
Flying Colors - Flying Colors
Ian Anderson - Thick as a Brick 2
Spectrum Road - Spectrum Road
Brad Mehldau - Od, Where do You Start
Marcus Roberts and Bela Fleck - Across the Imaginary Divide
Joe Walsh - Analog Man
Walter Trout - Blues for the Modern Daze
Pat Metheny - Unity Band
Xandria - Neverworld's end
Vijay Iyer - Accelerando
Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline
The Cult - Choice of Weapon
Lionel Loueke - Heritage
Kevin Eubanks - The Messenger
Mark Knopfler - Privateering
Gary Clark, Jr - Blak and Blu
Epica - Requiem for the Indifferent
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Heart - Fanatic

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

CharlieBarley — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:47:55 GMT

Author: CharlieBarley

Posted: 03/17/2017 15:47

This was a tough one but a good challenge.

Here is my best shot:

1967

The Beatles - Sgt Pepper
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
The Doors - The Doors
Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties' Request
Monkees - More of The Monkees
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man...
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
David Bowie - David Bowie
Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr Spock's Music From Outer Space
The Kinks - Something Else
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe as Milk
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
Love - Forever Changes
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates of Dawn
The Who - Sell Out

1973

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
David Bowie - Pin Ups
Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power
Gram Parsons - GP
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Beatles - 1962-66
Beatles - 1967-70
The Who - Quadrophenia
Can - Future Days
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Queen - Queen
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Rolling Stones - Goat's Head Soup
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch A Fire
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Harry Nilsson - A Little Touch of Schmilsson In The Night
Bob Dylan - Dylan
Bob Dylan - Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
Paul McCartney - Band on the Run
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Bruce Springsteen - Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent & the E-Street Shuffle

1989

The Cure - Disintegration
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Pixies - Doolittle
Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead - Dylan and the Dead
Elvis Costello - Spike
De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising
Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw and The Cooked
Depeche Mode - 101
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Alison Krauss & Union Station - Two Highways
Alannah Myles - Alannah Myles
Soul ll Soul - Club Classics vol 1
Deacon Blue - When The World Knows Your Name
Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi
Simple Minds - Street Fighting Years
Simply Red - A New Flame
Nirvana - Bleach
Paul McCartney - Flowers In The Dirt
The The - Mind Bomb
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
Aerosmith - Pump
Neil Young - Freedom
Tin Machine - Tin Machine

1994

Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Green Day - Dookie
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Morrissey - Vauxhall & I
The Crow - Original Soundtrack
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Hole - Live Through This
Pulp - His 'n' Hers
Blur - Parklife
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year
The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
Portishead - Dummy
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Radiohead - My Iron Lung EP
Massive Attack - Protection
R.E.M. - Monster
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York
The Cranberries - No Need To Argue
Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
Jamiroquai - Return Of The Space Cowboy
Dead Can Dance - Toward The Within (Live)
David Bowie - Buddha of Suburbia Soundtrack
The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
Beatles - Live At the BBC
Nas - Illmatic
Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)

2004

The Cure - Join The Dots: B-Sides And Rarities
Green Day - American Idiot
Travis - Singles
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Muse - Absolution
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Keane - Hopes and Fears
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
The Cure - The Cure
The Libertines - The Libertines
Kasabian - Kasabian
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Killers - Hot Fuss
U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
k d lang - Hymns of the 49th Parallel
KT Tunstall - Eye To The Telescope
The Zutons - Who Killed The Zutons?
Brian Wilson - Smile
Usher - Confessions
Tom Waits - Real Gone

2010

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Eminem - Recovery
Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops and Hooligans
Rihanna - Loud
Manic Street Preachers - Postcards From a Young Man
Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
Ke$ha - Animal
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
Sade - Soldier of Love
Johnny Cash - American Vl - Ain't No Grave
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Foals - Total Life Forever
Weezer - Hurley
KT Tunstall - Tiger Suit
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday
Janelle Monae - Arch Android
Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown
Black Keys - Brothers

2016 was also a very good year with Blackstar and A Moon Shaped Pool among many others. It was a hard choice between 2010 and 2016.

So many good years overall, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. There are also a lot of good albums scattered throughout the 1980s but 1989 seemed like a particularly good year.
2004 is very nostalgic for me. I was volunteering as a DJ on a community radio station and there was so much good music out that year.

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

souplipton — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 01:28:01 GMT

Author: souplipton

Posted: 03/16/2017 05:28

1959 - Kind of Blue, Mingus Ah Um, Time Out
1969 - Abbey Road, In the Court of the Crimson King, Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin, Hot Rats, In a Silent Way
1977 - Low, Animals, The Idiot, Marquee Moon, "Heroes", Talking Heads: 77, Trans-Europe Express, Never Mind the Bullocks Here's the Sex Pistols, Pink Flag, Rumors
1989 - Doolittle, Pretty Hate Machine, Disintegration, Technique, The Stone Roses
1994 - The Downward Spiral, Illmatic, Weezer (The Blue Album), Dookie, The Division Bell
2007 - In Rainbows, Neon Bible, Year Zero, Sound of Silver, Graduation
2013 - Reflektor, ...Like Clockwork, Hesitation Marks, Random Access Memories, Acid Rap, AM, Immunity, Yeezus

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

Ben4 — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 00:36:36 GMT

Author: Ben4

Posted: 03/16/2017 04:36

60's- 1969 Abbey Road, Let it Bleed, Tommy, Santana, Led Zeppelin I & II
70's- 1971 Sticky Fingers, Who's Next, What's Going On, Master of Reality, Zeppelin IV
80's- 1986 The Queen is Dead, Life's Rich Pageant, Master of Puppets, Reign in Blood, Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
90's- 1994 Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Illmatic, Ready to Die, Superunknown, Welcome to Sky Valley (1991 was very close)
00's- 2000 Rated R, Relationship of Command, Kid A, Stankonia
10's- I don't know, don't listen to a lot of modern music, but if I had to chose, I'd say 2015 because of To Pimp a Butterfly

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

Tha1ChiefRocka — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 23:40:41 GMT

Author: Tha1ChiefRocka

Posted: 03/16/2017 03:40

These are based off of my own personal decades list, whichever year had the highest amount of albums selected.

10's- 2013: Interestingly enough, even though I dislike most of the top 10 in 2013, I have a ton of albums in my top 100 of the decade from it. Melt Yourself Down, Honeys by Pissed Jeans, Better off Dead by Flatbush Zombies, Wakin on a Pretty Daze, and a lot more.

00's- 2000: Coincidentally as with 1997, a Radiohead album and a Modest Mouse album are involved. Along with other favorites like, Lift Yr. Skinny Fists, Rated R, and Deltron 3030.

90's- 1997: the top rated album OK Computer plus many other classics; Ladies and Gentleman We are Floating in Space, Either/Or, Lonesome Crowded West, Boatman's Call etc.

80's- 1982: This was kind of a surprise. Milo Goes to College, Glassworks, 1999, Bad Brains, and some more universal albums like Combat Rock and Thriller.

70's- 1979: I had a feeling this would be my favorite.The Wall, London Calling, Fear of Music, Unknown Pleasures, and some more oddball stuff like Y by The Pop Group and 20 Jazz Funk Greats by Throbbing Gristle.

60's- 1967 is probably the best year in music due to its influence. Period. However, I have more albums in my top 100 from 1969. Some highlights include ; Led Zeppelin, Hot Buttered Soul, In the Court of The Crimson King, Hot Rats, Uncle Meat, The Velvet Underground, EVerybody Knows This is Nowhere.

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

paladisiac — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:44:03 GMT

Author: paladisiac

Posted: 03/15/2017 21:44

So ran some statistical analysis on my lists. More precisely, i counted all albums by year present in my top 1100, which basically represents all albums i've rated as a 70-or-better on BEA. Results:

Year #albums
1957 1
1958 0
1959 0
1960 0
1961 0
1962 0
1963 0
1964 4
1965 6
1966 7
1967 6
1968 5
1969 8
1970 18
1971 17
1972 16
1973 15
1974 17
1975 17
1976 25
1977 22
1978 31
1979 23
1980 26
1981 27
1982 22
1983 30
1984 23
1985 34
1986 35
1987 32
1988 33
1989 19
1990 22
1991 19
1992 16
1993 21
1994 25
1995 20
1996 19
1997 22
1998 12
1999 12
2000 12
2001 10
2002 15
2003 23
2004 18
2005 27
2006 23
2007 27
2008 19
2009 27
2010 22
2011 27
2012 21
2013 40
2014 25
2015 32
2016 25

So according to this, my favorite year of each decade:

1950s: 1957
1960s: 1969
1970s: 1978
1980s: 1986
1990s: 1994
2000s: 2007
2010s: 2013 (so far)

There were a few things in here that surprised me. I was surprised at the low turnout of the 1990s, a decade where i had an ever-increasing music budget (that swelled over $100/month at one point). I was also surprised at recent years of 2013 and 2015, especially that 2013 has the most entries (40) in my top 1100.

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

LittleM1971 — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 04:37:29 GMT

Author: LittleM1971

Posted: 03/15/2017 08:37

HiImViibes wrote:

I know this is as easy as a simple look up on every year and the points the albums released that year have, but that removes most subgectivity, which would make for a short conversation. I'm interested to hear what people have to think about the best year in every decade in terms of the music released in those years. I don't think that using charts is a good reflection in terms of how good the music in a year was as it would be possible for a year with one masterpiece of an album to have more points than a year that had five good albums come out. So in a way this conversation is somewhat less about quality, and a bit more about quantity in terms of good albums released. Feel free to be as subjective as you'd like, as one year being better than another is already a subjective observation. I hope this breeds some good discussion!

I have been thinking about something like this myself and it will be interesting to see if results differ from the official BEA stats. I had been thinking along the lines that members put forward as many of their top tens for any given year as they wish that for them are exceptionally strong (please note not just good but exceptional...be strict with yourself). Each entry would get 1 point for that given year which after some time could be tallied up to give us a result. Could it be something that could be kept track of automatically when an entry is posted? Some drop down box to chose the year that you're voting for before posting a top 10?

It will probably end up mirroring the official BEA stats but you never know. I would be hopeful that members individual tastes and love of certain genre's would have a much better chance of showing up rather than just the usual best sellers for each year.

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

RoundTheBend — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 02:39:12 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/15/2017 06:39

Because I geek.

In order of awesomeness:

1959
Chuck Berry Is On Top Chuck Berry
What'd I Say Ray Charles
50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong: Elvis' Gold Records - Volume 2 Elvis Presley
Moanin' In The Moonlight Howlin' Wolf
Kind Of Blue Miles Davis
Mingus Ah Um Charles Mingus
Come Dance With Me! Frank Sinatra
Songs of Our Soil Johnny Cash
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic
Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Flamingo Serenade The Flamingos
Mr. Blue The Fleetwoods
Go Bo Diddley Bo Diddley
Lonely Teardrops Jackie Wilson
Please Please Please James Brown
The Shape Of Jazz To Come Ornette Coleman Trio
The Genius Of Ray Charles Ray Charles
Ritchie Valens Ritchie Valens
Hit Kit Sam Cooke

1969
Abbey Road The Beatles
Donovan's Greatest Hits Donovan
Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin
6- And 12-String Guitar Leo Kottke
Stand! Sly and the Family Stone
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin
Santana Santana
The Allman Brothers Band The Allman Brothers Band
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground
Willy And The Poor Boys Creedence Clearwater Revival
Green River Creedence Clearwater Revival
Bayou Country Creedence Clearwater Revival
At San Quentin Johnny Cash
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young And Crazy Horse
Five Leaves Left Nick Drake
First Take Roberta Flack
Brave New World Steve Miller Band
Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones
The Chicago Transit Authority Chicago Transit Authority
Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash
Live/Dead Grateful Dead
In The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson
Kick Out The Jams MC5
In A Silent Way Miles Davis
Your Saving Grace Steve Miller Band
The Meters The Meters
The Stooges The Stooges
Let The Sunshine In Diana Ross & The Supremes
Liege And Lief Fairport Convention
Aoxomoxoa Grateful Dead
Hot Buttered Soul Isaac Hayes
With A Little Help From My Friends Joe Cocker
Clouds Joni Mitchell
Love Man Otis Redding
The Soft Parade The Doors
Canned Wheat The Guess Who
Crimson And Clover Tommy James And The Shondells

1970
Greatest Hits Sly and the Family Stone
Deja Vu Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon And Garfunkel
Moondance Van Morrison
Paranoid Black Sabbath
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band John Lennon
Let It Be The Beatles
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath
Abraxas Santana
Cosmo's Factory Creedence Clearwater Revival
Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin
Atom Heart Mother Pink Floyd
Loaded The Velvet Underground
The Man Who Sold The World David Bowie
American Woman The Guess Who
Morrison Hotel The Doors
McCartney Paul McCartney
Hooker 'N Heat Canned Heat
Workingman's Dead Grateful Dead
Fun House The Stooges
After The Gold Rush Neil Young
ABC The Jackson 5
Sex Machine James Brown
All Things Must Pass George Harrison
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & The Dominos
American Beauty Grateful Dead
Band Of Gypsys Band Of Gypsys
Chicago Chicago
Bitches Brew Miles Davis
Tea For The Tillerman Cat Stevens
Third Soft Machine
Live At Leeds The Who

1989
Welcome To The Beautiful South The Beautiful South
Bleach Nirvana
Mother's Milk Red Hot Chili Peppers
Cosmic Thing The B-52's
Full Moon Fever Tom Petty
Disintegration The Cure
Doolittle Pixies
Pretty Hate Machine Nine Inch Nails
Energy Operation Ivy
3 Feet High And Rising De La Soul
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys
Let Love Rule Lenny Kravitz
Junta Phish
13 Songs Fugazi
Complete Discography Minor Threat
Freedom Neil Young
The Real Thing Faith No More
Indigo Girls Indigo Girls
New York Lou Reed
No Control Bad Religion
Bizarro The Wedding Present
Mystery Girl Roy Orbison
Journeyman Eric Clapton
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses

1994

MTV Unplugged In New York Nirvana
Weezer (The Blue Album) Weezer
Pisces Iscariot The Smashing Pumpkins
Monster R.E.M.
Grace Jeff Buckley
Dummy Portishead
Illmatic Nas
The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails
Dookie Green Day
Vitalogy Pearl Jam
Smash The Offspring
Mellow Gold Beck
No Need To Argue The Cranberries
Regulate...G Funk Era Warren G
Diary Sunny Day Real Estate
Ill Communication Beastie Boys
Toward The Within Dead Can Dance
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.
Purple Stone Temple Pilots
The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers
Superunknown Soundgarden
Sixteen Stone Bush
Cracked Rear View Hootie & The Blowfish
Live Through This Hole
American Recordings Johnny Cash
The Division Bell Pink Floyd
Wildflowers Tom Petty

2006
Stadium Arcadium Red Hot Chili Peppers
Black Holes And Revelations Muse
Time Without Consequence Alexi Murdoch
The Information Beck
The Eraser Thom Yorke
Surprise Paul Simon
As Tall As Lions by As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions by As Tall As Lions
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys
Back To Black Amy Winehouse
10,000 Days Tool
FutureSex/LoveSounds Justin Timberlake
Carnavas Silversun Pickups
Ys Joanna Newsom
Magic Potion The Black Keys
The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me Brand New
American V: A Hundred Highways Johnny Cash
Impeccable Blahs Say Hi To Your Mom
The Very Best Of Aerosmith Aerosmith
Death By Sexy Eagles Of Death Metal
Mr Beast Mogwai
Pearl Jam Pearl Jam
The Crane Wife The Decemberists
Broken Boy Soldiers The Raconteurs

Yeah... this 2011 list isn't what I'd expect it to be... just not sure about it...

Wasting Light Foo Fighters
The King Of Limbs Radiohead
The Smile Sessions The Beach Boys
Collapse Into Now R.E.M.
Major/Minor Thrice
I'm With You Red Hot Chili Peppers
Build A Rocket Boys! Elbow
Neighborhoods Blink-182
So Beautiful Or So What Paul Simon
21 Adele
El Camino The Black Keys
Bangarang Skrillex
Mylo Xyloto Coldplay
Suck It And See Arctic Monkeys
Bon Iver, Bon Iver Bon Iver
Never Trust A Happy Song Grouplove
Section.80 Kendrick Lamar
Gimme Some Peter Bjorn And John
w h o k i l l tUnE-YaRdS
Odd Soul Mutemath
Twin Fantasy Car Seat Headrest
Burst Apart The Antlers
The King is Dead The Decemberists
Angles The Strokes
Megalithic Symphony Awolnation
Torches Foster The People
Lulu Lou Reed & Metallica
The Hunter Mastodon
+ Ed Sheeran
Ceremonials Florence And The Machine
David Comes To Life Fucked Up
Father, Son, Holy Ghost Girls
Making Mirrors Gotye
Watch The Throne Jay-Z and Kanye West
Dust Bowl Joe Bonamassa
Simple Math Manchester Orchestra
My Head Is An Animal Of Monsters And Men
Let England Shake P.J. Harvey
Strange Mercy St. Vincent
The Color Spectrum The Dear Hunter
Goblin Tyler, The Creator
The Year of Hibernation Youth Lagoon
Yuck Yuck

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

RoundTheBend — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 02:22:05 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/15/2017 06:22

Skinny wrote:

Every year in the last 60 (at least) has loads of great records.

Yup... here's my running total of those I've rated on this site above a 75 (looks like a few years are sparse and probably just need to realize I forgot that one and this one). And to answer the question (and now I have to go find out which albums cause this data kind of shocked me but not really... mostly that I see a trend). Also I think I rated A LOT of albums in 2011 at a 75 more out of leniency (I loosened up my rating I think, but maybe not).

As to StreetSpirits comment... looks like for me the 68 through 70 spread and the 2005-2006 and the 94-97 spread are my favorite times in music. Also this kind of confirms my claimed musical identity to be the birth of rock n' roll/motown, hippie music, independent/alternative rock.

1959 had 19 albums of a rating 75 or higher
1969 had 37 albums of a rating 75 or higher
1970 had 29 albums of a rating 75 or higher
1989 had 21 albums of a rating 75 or higher
1994 had 27 albums of a rating 75 or higher
2006 had 23 albums of a rating 75 or higher
2011 had 43 albums of a rating 75 or higher

1952 3
1954 4
1955 2
1956 11
1957 12
1958 12
1959 19 X
1960 2
1961 2
1962 2
1963 4
1964 7
1965 9
1966 11
1967 14
1968 25
1969 37 X
1970 29 X
1971 19
1972 16
1973 11
1974 8
1975 12
1976 7
1977 13
1978 11
1979 11
1980 19
1981 12
1982 20
1983 13
1984 17
1985 13
1986 14
1987 20
1988 20
1989 21 X
1990 9
1991 16
1992 15
1993 15
1994 27 X
1995 13
1996 16
1997 25
1998 18
1999 16
2000 17
2001 19
2002 21
2003 20
2004 16
2005 22
2006 23 X
2007 18
2008 15
2009 19
2010 41
2011 43 X
2012 31
2013 30
2014 34
2015 17
2016 12
2017 1

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

CA Dreamin — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 01:23:39 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 03/15/2017 05:23

HiImViibes wrote:

So in a way this conversation is somewhat less about quality, and a bit more about quantity in terms of good albums released. Feel free to be as subjective as you'd like, as one year being better than another is already a subjective observation. I hope this breeds some good discussion!

Of course. It's impossible to not be subjective here. I couldn't possibly choose one year as my favorite from the '90s because it would be a draw between '94 and '95. I see those two years as a convergence of several musical movements that I love all going on at the same time...grunge, post-grunge, industrial rock, power pop, britpop, etc. More music from '94 and '95 suits my musical taste and personality than any other years. I could not possibly pick one year better than the other. For me, those two years are the best, not just of the '90s but of all time.

Perhaps other BEAers have a similar connection to a certain window of time. If so, please share.

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

CA Dreamin — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 01:00:25 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 03/15/2017 05:00

1966 - Pet Sounds, two great albums from Simon and Garfunkel, Revolver, If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears, Aftermath, and Blonde on Blonde. That's hard to beat. Blonde on Blonde and Pet Sounds were released the same day.

Close call between 1971 and '78 but I'm going with 1978. Debuts from The Cars, Van Halen, and The Police. Plus good stuff from Elvis Costello, Billy Joel, and The Who.

Ooh, easily comes down to 1983 and '84. Those years truly stood out. I'll go with 1983. A great farewell album from The Police. Great debut albums from Violent Femmes, Tears for Fears, Metallica, and R.E.M. Other highlights include Seven and the Ragged Tiger, Innocent Man, Genesis self-titled, and of course Sports by Huey Lewis

I hate choosing one year from the 90s because it's by far my favorite decade. So I'm not going to. More to come.

2001 - musicforthemorningafter, Toxicity, Is This It, Bleed American, Morning View, Origin of Symmetry, and White Blood Cells, and Amnesiac.

2010s? Lol, rme, smh. Fuck this decade.

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

Skinny — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:55:22 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 03/14/2017 21:55

Every year in the last 60 (at least) has loads of great records.

Re: Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

Hayden — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:46:29 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 03/14/2017 21:46

I'll raise you one and add the 50's.

'57
'69
'70
'81
'94
'07 ('06 is uber close though)
'10