According to my decade charts, the weakest year for me (after the mid-60s) is 1990, with 5 entries. However, I did a quick scan of my 1990 chart and found lots of good stuff that could have made the cut. I think if you explore enough, you can find some stuff to love from any year in recent history.
(loving these picks so far. Especially Golden Palominos! I had no idea they actually had a No wave, art funk stage only knowing their more pop oriented stuff which is also awesome.)
Better than Tim! This is the album where The Replacements found their sound. Their second best after Let It Be, which is simply one of the best albums of all time easy peasy.
This is actually a good thread to highlight some hidden gems we can find in every year, and I don't think there is such a thing as a "bad" year in music. Some, though, just seem to be lacking in depth or perhaps those really galvanizing releases that become future classics. For the most part though how "strong" or "weak" a year depends on each person's individual opinions about the albums that were released.
From a personal viewpoint, 1976 and 1986 (unfortunately) were rather lacking, despite some great top albums from the latter, and 2001 despite having some of my favorite albums of all time (It's a Wonderful Life, Things We Lost in the Fire- a great year for slowcore if not much else) was one of the weaker years of the new century in terms of overall depth. 2009 too for similar reasons, especially since having listened to so many releases cuz for some reason I chose to do that in the year tournament. In some cases I think like 1999 may be weak in terms of breadth of strong full-length albums released (although the best from that year were killer) but there was so much great music overall being released it was actually a very strong year.
Sp4cetiger wrote:
According to my decade charts, the weakest year for me (after the mid-60s) is 1990, with 5 entries. However, I did a quick scan of my 1990 chart and found lots of good stuff that could have made the cut. I think if you explore enough, you can find some stuff to love from any year in recent history.
Yeah that's an intriguing experiment, for each decade it appears 2011, 2001, 1997, 1983, 1976 and 1962 have the fewest albums on each chart, though all my decade charts are due for an overhaul.
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