Best Ever Albums

Re: What was the best year for albums?

Bork — Thu, 9 Sep 2010 20:22:11 GMT

Author: Bork

Posted: 09/10/2010 00:22

an_outlaw wrote:

Bork, try Know Your Enemy for 2001 :wink:

GREAT album. But one album don't make a year.

Re: What was the best year for albums?

Anonymous — Thu, 9 Sep 2010 14:01:00 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/09/2010 18:01

Bork, try Know Your Enemy for 2001 😉

Re: What was the best year for albums?

Bork — Thu, 9 Sep 2010 11:36:25 GMT

Author: Bork

Posted: 09/09/2010 15:36

According to my own, pretty much faultless, rating system, these are the best years for albums with their top highlights:

1. 1973 (The Wild the Innocent..., Greetings from Asbury Park, Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd, Dark Side of the Moon, Brothers and Sisters)
2. 1971 (At Fillmore East, Santana III, Who's Next, Led Zeppelin IV, Tapestry)
3. 1970 (Kristofferson, Abraxas, Idlewild South, Led Zeppelin III, Paranoid)
4. 1969 (Led Zeppelin II, Abbey Road, Let It Bleed, Santana, Stand!)
5. 1975 (Born to Run, Fandango, Blood on the Tracks, Old No. 1, Red Headed Stranger)
6. 1976 (High Voltage, Dirty Deeds..., Texas Cookin', Destroyer, Rising)
7. 1977 (Never Mind the Bollocks..., Street Survivors, Love Gun, Lust for Life, Let There Be Rock)
8. 1984 (Powerslave, 1984, Born in the USA, Purple Rain, Private Dancer)
9. 1965 (Highway 61 Revisited, Live at the Regal, Rubber Soul, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Help!)
10. 1972 (Ziggy Stardust, Machine Head, Exile on Main Street, Eat a Peach, Honky Chateau)

And these are the worst years (post the birth of rock & roll):
1961, 2001, 2010, 1993 & 1999.

Re: What was the best year for albums?

thomas697 — Sun, 5 Sep 2010 10:51:19 GMT

Author: thomas697

Posted: 09/05/2010 14:51

As far as I was aware (and this isnt my opinion) 1967 was the best year for music in terms of quality and percentage of good albums, Not many if any bad albums came out that year. And the good albums that came out almost universally steal top 10 and 20 albums list anywhere

Re: What was the best year for albums?

pinkfloyd! — Sat, 4 Sep 2010 17:28:19 GMT

Author: pinkfloyd!

Posted: 09/04/2010 21:28

Either 1967 or 1971

67: Sgt. Pepper's, Magical Mystery Tour, Velvet Underground and Nico, Are You Experienced?, I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You, Surrealistic Pillow, Disraeli Gears, Forever Changes, The Doors, Piper at the Gates of Dawn

71: Led Zep 4, Who's Next, What's Going On, There's a Riot Going On, Sticky Fingers, Blue, Tapestry, Pearl, Love Power Peace, Pieces of a Man, At Filmore East, Abraxas, Every Picture Tells a Story, Maggot Brain, Madman Across The Water, Nillson Schmillson, etc.

Re: What was the best year for albums?

pimpmasta — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:07:46 GMT

Author: pimpmasta

Posted: 06/19/2010 18:07

My favourite year, 1984:

The Replacements- Let It Be
The Smiths - Hatful Of Hallow
The Smiths - The Smiths
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds- From Her to Eternity
The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
The Homosexuals - The Homosexuals' Record
REM - Reckoning
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Meat Puppets- Meat Puppets II
Lyres - On Fyre

Re: What was the best year for albums?

Don Corleone — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:46:03 GMT

Author: Don Corleone

Posted: 06/18/2010 20:46

1977
Television-Marquee Moon
Wire-Pink Flag
Iggy Pop-Lust For Life/ The Idiot
Bowie - Low/heroes
The Clash - st
Sex Pistols - Nevermind....
Krafwerk - Trans Europe Express

Re: What was the best year for albums?

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:23:36 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/17/2010 16:23

bad at math, ten years later.

Re: What was the best year for albums?

Applerill — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:42:14 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 06/17/2010 13:42

purple wrote:

chrisdread wrote:

Doesn't this tell us more about the age of site members than it does about the quality of music by individual years?

no, i picked 1979 and was born 20 years later

You were born in 1999? Then you must be ten years old 😜

Re: What was the best year for albums?

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:14:02 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/17/2010 13:14

[quote="chrisdread"]Doesn't this tell us more about the age of site members than it does about the quality of music by individual years?[/quote]

no, i picked 1979 and was born 20 years later

Re: What was the best year for albums?

40footwolf — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:36:24 GMT

Author: 40footwolf

Posted: 06/17/2010 03:36

I'm not sure something like this can be quantified, but 1970 sure was a good Goddamn year for music. Funkadelic and Black Sabbath's self-titled debuts, Let It Be, Band of Gypsies, Idlewild South, Deep Purple In Rock, Genesis' Trespass, A Tribute To Jack Johnson and Bitches Brew, In The Wake of Poseidon, Led Zeppelin III, Loaded, Bryter Layter, Fun House, Moondance, Live at Leeds...that is a fucking incredible lineup.

Re: What was the best year for albums?

Cryptozoologist — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:38:39 GMT

Author: Cryptozoologist

Posted: 06/16/2010 17:38

'69, it had Abbey Road and Electric Ladyland

Re: What was the best year for albums?

SquishypuffDave — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:37:31 GMT

Author: SquishypuffDave

Posted: 06/16/2010 13:37

2005 is my personal favourite:
Deadwing
Illinois
The Runners Four
Frances the Mute
Demon Days
Takk
The Sound of White
Themata
Ghost Reveries

All of these are very dear to me, and three are in my top 10.

Re: What was the best year for albums?

chrisdread — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:40:31 GMT

Author: chrisdread

Posted: 06/16/2010 11:40

Doesn't this tell us more about the age of site members than it does about the quality of music by individual years?

Re: What was the best year for albums?

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:34:02 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/11/2010 14:34

joyofdivision wrote:

I would say 1994 - Grace, Dummy, The Holy Bible, Definitely Maybe, Dog Man Star, Selected Ambient Works Volume 2, Nirvana Unplugged In New York, Protection, Dubnobasswithmyheadman, Parklife, Music For The Jilted Generation, Lifeforms, Haunted Dancehall, Musik, The Charlatans, Snivilisation...

Holy Bible, Music for the jilted generation and Snivilization are all brilliant! 😁

Re: What was the best year for albums?

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:32:47 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/11/2010 14:32

Gooserocker wrote:

It's 1998 for me because of these records: NMC's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, Elliott Smith's XO, Air's Moon Safari, Massive Attack's Mezzanine, Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs, Belle & Sebastian's The Boy With The Arab Strap, The Beta Band's The Three EP's, Boards of Canada's Music Has The Right To Children, Beastie Boys' Hello Nasty, Gomez's Bring It On, Beck's Mutations, UNKLE's Psyence Fiction, Fatboy Slim's You've Come A Long Way Baby, and Plastikman's Consumed

Don't forget This is my truth tell me yours 😄 Some of the best manics songs are on that album like You Stole The Sun From My Heart, Tsunami, Ready for drowning, Nobody loved you and If you torrelate this

Re: What was the best year for albums?

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:15:58 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/11/2010 12:15

I would say 1994 - Grace, Dummy, The Holy Bible, Definitely Maybe, Dog Man Star, Selected Ambient Works Volume II, Ill Communication, Nirvana Unplugged In New York, Protection, Roman Candle, Dubnobasswithmyheadman, Parklife, Music For The Jilted Generation, Lifeforms, ISDN, Haunted Dancehall, Musik, The Charlatans, Snivilisation, Tiger Bay...

Re: What was the best year for albums?

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:34:01 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/10/2010 23:34

It's 1998 for me because of these records: NMC's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, Elliott Smith's XO, Air's Moon Safari, Massive Attack's Mezzanine, Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs, Belle & Sebastian's The Boy With The Arab Strap, The Beta Band's The Three EP's, Boards of Canada's Music Has The Right To Children, Beastie Boys' Hello Nasty, Gomez's Bring It On, Beck's Mutations, UNKLE's Psyence Fiction, Fatboy Slim's You've Come A Long Way Baby, and Plastikman's Consumed

Re: What was the best year for albums?

telefunker — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:10:28 GMT

Author: telefunker

Posted: 02/10/2010 23:10

haha.. if 2004 was the best year for music, 1985 was the best year for hair..

can you dig it?

Re: What was the best year for albums?

Applerill — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:30:12 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 02/10/2010 22:30

Okay, forget what I originally said; I did the stats on my top fifty, giving five points to years in the top ten, four points to each slot in 11-20, three points to 21-30, etc.

Here are the results:

1. 2004 (13 points; Under My Skin, Funeral, Deus Ex Machinae, Breakaway)
2. 1979 (11 points; The Wall, The Pleasure Principle, London Calling)
3. 1998 (11 points; From the Choirgirl Hotel, In the Aeroplane, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, Oceanborn)
4. 2003 (11 Points; Fallen, The Black Mages, Prototype)
5. 1971 (10 points; Master of Reality, Tarkus, Aqualung, Maggot Brain)

I know that this is a pretty biased conclusion, but hey, numbers can't lie, right? 😉