2019 Bon Iver - i,i
2018 Anja Garbarek - The Road Is Just a Surface
2017 Neil Cicierega - Mouth Moods
2016 Bon Iver - 22, A Million
2015 Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
2014 Allo Darlin' - We Come from the Same Place
2013 Jason Isbell - Southeastern
2012 Allo Darlin' - Europe
2011 The Antlers - Burst Apart
2010 Allo Darlin' - Allo Darlin'
2009 Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
2008 Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us
2007 Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
2006 The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
2005 Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
2004 Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
2003 The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
2002 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2001 Jeff Mangum - Live at Jittery Joe's
2000 Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
1999 Mr. Bungle - California
1998 Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1997 Radiohead - OK Computer
1996 Beck - Odelay
1995 Radiohead - The Bends
1994 Stina Nordenstam - And She Closed Her Eyes
1993 Slowdive - Souvlaki
1992 R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
1991 Nirvana - Nevermind
1990 Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
1989 Pixies - Doolittle
1988 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1987 U2 - The Joshua Tree
1986 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
1985 Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
1984 Cocteau Twins - Treasure
1983 Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
1982 Kate Bush - The Dreaming
1981 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
1980 Talking Heads - Remain in Light
1979 Pink Floyd - The Wall
1978 Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
1977 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
1976 Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
1975 Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
1974 Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
1973 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
1972 Nick Drake - Pink Moon
1971 Joni Mitchell - Blue
1970 John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
1969 Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
1968 The Band - Music from Big Pink
1967 Love - Forever Changes
1966 The Beatles - Revolver
1965 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
1964 Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan
1963 Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
1962 Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Wolf
1961 John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
1960 Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
1959 Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
1958 Buddy Holly - That'll Be the Day
1957 Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
1956 Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
1955 Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
1954 Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings
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baystateoftheartNeil Young as a butternut squashProfile Massachusetts
I've been going through different people's AOTY lists in the canon game recently. Currently on Purplepash's. If you start playing, maybe I'll do yours sometime soon 😄 _________________ Join us in the canon game :) / Add me on RYM
DommeDamianImperfect, sensitive Aspie with a melody addictionProfile Spire City
1964: A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
1966: The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground
Both albums were released a year later tho.
Those are the dates of recording, when the work was completed as you hear it, a more notable date than when the label decided to release/sell it. Albums by less popular, less lucrative artists tend to be more prone to wider discrepancies between the dates. _________________ Best Classical Best Films Best Paintings
1964: A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
1966: The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground
Both albums were released a year later tho.
Those are the dates of recording, when the work was completed as you hear it, a more notable date than when the label decided to release/sell it. Albums by less popular, less lucrative artists tend to be more prone to wider discrepancies between the dates.
I agree with this so much, particularly for live albums recorded in a single set that get released decades later. However this gets a little dicey and difficult to determine "when the work was completed as you hear it" especially in this day-and-age when an album like Life of Pablo actually got edited POST-release. Release date is more standardized. That said, to each their own. I like the way BEA does it but I occasionally get annoyed when there are decades between when the work was completed and released. _________________ 51 Washington, D.C. albums!
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Interestingly enough Spotify lists this album as 1933 (kinda rightfully so, even if it's actually over a decade period of time). Even if anywhere else it has a million different releases from 2001 until 2011ish. What's funny is Spotify doesn't really have a search feature for year of release as far as I know, so interesting they decided to adjust for "reality". Also interestingly enough the other Josh White Album has a 2020 release because someone cleaned up the recording (I think it sounds like crap and prefer the original, even with the scratches, etc.)
When it's like a year off... idk, I guess that's important to indicate that an artist did something first, but other than that I don't see the benefit.
But yeah, it gets my chaff when I can't list out a 1950s list of recordings in a comp or something as a 1950s release because it was released in 2010. It totally doesn't belong in a 2010 list, yet the recordings are incredibly important to 1950s or 30s or 40s and not everyone released good albums or one at all for that matter.
I mean some artists have been cooking up/writing/recording concepts for 20-30 years before they are released.
But yeah, it gets my chaff when I can't list out a 1950s list of recordings in a comp or something as a 1950s release because it was released in 2010. It totally doesn't belong in a 2010 list, yet the recordings are incredibly important to 1950s or 30s or 40s and not everyone released good albums or one at all for that matter.
I mean some artists have been cooking up/writing/recording concepts for 20-30 years before they are released.
Those are the dates of recording, when the work was completed as you hear it, a more notable date than when the label decided to release/sell it
Debatable! The release date is like a birth to the world. The world is important, and music is meant to be heard. Not to mention the importance of labels in the process of this birth, and sometimes even in the creation of music.
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