My discoveries per year

dihansse · 2016-04-10T12:28:28-04:00

Well! Here I would like to start with my own long term project taking advantage of the best BEA has to offer: overall charts from people who are as interested in music as I am. I already have year charts which are based on the albums I already own or know, but there are a lot of them which I haven't listened to yet and which might be worth discovering. I'd like to do this by going through the overall BEA top lists per year starting in 1963 which is both my year of birth and the year in which I personally think rock music started to become interesting. To keep it a bit varied I will skip through the years in five year periods, ie starting in 1963 then 1968 then 1973 all the way to 2013 and then back to 1964 and so on. Every year I will start with some stats of my personal chart in comparison to the overall year charts, both top 20 an top 50 and will start to listen to at least the top 20 albums I don't know and I'll hope to give some comments sometimes very short, sometimes a bit longer. I will also update my personal year charts accordingly. In principle I will use Apple Music to listen to the albums, which I suppose will cover most of the field. If a certain album isn't present in Apple Music, I'll have to skip it. I will try to listen to all the albums at least once and sometimes twice if I doubt, but I'll skip the really stupid ones (ex a Xmas compilation in 1963) and also other compilations, classical music, jazz and easy listening. This will be a long term project which means there might be times in which I will stop a bit of course because I don't want be stuck listining to albums of the same year all the time. However I suppose this will take at least a month per year. I will try to keep it up but please don't be mad if I give up (maybe already after the first year :lol: )

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Two albums of 1979:

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Three Imaginary Boys by The Cure
The debut album of The Cure contains one classic, a few good songs and some filler. The classic is of course 10:15 Saturday Night which remains one of their best songs. So not yet the Cure as they would grow to be but still a fairly good one which goes from the 45th to the 30th rank.

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God's Lonely Men by The Lurkers
A band I recently discovered and this album is again a good one. In some of the tracks they sound a bit as the English Ramones and also here the music is fairly basic but all the more effective. The album enters at the 29th rank of my year chart.

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And here is 1980:

With an album I already own/know:

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Scary Monsters by David Bowie
Ashes To Ashes and Fashion are the hits but also the finest songs on this album but even some of the weaker tracks here are spruced up by the interesting guitar work of Robert Fripp. So goes up from the 67th to the 42nd rank of the year.

And an album from my wishlist:

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Against The Wind by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Of course I've got the greatest hits album. But this album and so are a few of around these times proves that this band was more; and certainly more than the title track which is indeed one of the finest laid back songs ever. Apart from the fairly mediocre Good For Me the band shines the most with the slows like Fire Lake and You'll Accompany Me but although the rockers are maybe not the best composition wise, most of them shine via some good guitar work. So overall a great album for album lovers which goes to the 35th rank of 1980.

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Two albums of 1981 I listened to:

First an album I already own/know:

Faith by The Cure
A few posts ago I told you that Three Imaginary Boys is not the greatest album in the world. Well this one is more than a great album especially since not only the hits like Primary are wonderful but also the more regular album tracks like The Drowning Man. There is not a bad track here and the album climbs from the 11th to the 5th rank in my 1981 year chart.

And an album from my wishlist:

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MSG by Michael Schenker Group
Michael Schenker is one of the best guitarists in the world and with his own band he has made a few worthwile albums. There is some good soloing on most of the songs but I must admit in most of the tracks I don't really feel the vibe. The songs are mostly not great and the production is a bit too clean. Only Attack of The Mad Axeman and Looking Out For Love jump out a bit but for me that's not enough so I decided not to include this album in my year chart.

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Two albums of 1982 I listened to:

First an album I already know/own:

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Harvest Of Dreams by Bobb Trimble
This is an album I heard on Youtube because it wasn't available then on Apple Music but now it is. So this was the first time I relistened to it since 2018. And when I heard the first tracks I thought: why in hell did I like this. But then gradually I got back into it and started to appreciate this weird psychfolk a bit more. But it's a bit of a hard ride: the voice of Bobb Trimble is very shaky and frankly very weird and the songs just follow the same pattern, but there is something which draws you in anyway. Maybe a bit less appreciated than when I first heard it because it goes from the 46th to the 55th rank but it's still worth keeping it and maybe I'll enjoy it even more after a few more listening sessions.

And an album from my wishlist:

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Junkyard by The Birthday Party
I suppose this is an essential album if you want to where Nick Cave came from (where From Here To Eternity is a good intermediary). And I won't say this album is full of personal highlights: definitely not. But the way Nick Cave spits out his lyrics is at least unique and in many instances engaging: see ex the title track. So not very highly rank but good for an 50th rank on my 1982 year chart.

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These are two albums of 1983 I listened to:

First an album I already own/know:

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The Photographer by Philip Glass
To me this is the best and most consistent album of Philip Glass (There are elements of Einstein on the Beach which are good but not the whole of that incredibly long albums). Especially the long closing track just keeps the attention for its whole duration. Therefore it remains at the 23rd rank of my year chart.

And an album from my wishlist:

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Treeless Plain by The Triffids
I already knew a few songs from this debut album of The Triffids of which the truly magnificent Red Pony and the also great Hell Of A Summer and I'm Lonesome Hobo. I can't say that I love the whole of the album (unlike their later ones). For this there is maybe too much of a C&W influence to some of the songs. But they already showed to what they were capable so this album just has to be in my 1983 year chart and enters at the 34th rank.

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Two albums of 1984 I listened to:

First an album I already know/own:

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Born In The U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen
A real classic and that counts for nearly all the tracks. Even Bobby Jean I didn't care much about before now sounds great after I've heard and seen it live last summer. I don't think I need to sum up highlights and it goes from the 14th to the 8th rank on my 1984 year chart.

And an album from my wishlist:

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Explosions In The Glass Palace by Rain Parade
Indeed most of all an EP with only five tracks but the album feels as a full album as it incorporates the Paisley Underground atmosphere perfectly on all the tracks on this wonderful album I just discovered. It lands at the 11th rank.

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Two albums of 1985 I listened to:

First and album I already own/know:

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Centerfield by John Fogerty
A latter album by a monument and he still shows his main forces: a very distinct and powerful coupled with the ability to write good songs. The main proof of that is The Old Man Down The Road which is as good as any of the old CCR tracks but also tracks like the title track, I Saw It In TV, Mr. Greed, Searchlight and Mr. Greed are very good. Only a few tracks can't uphold this high standard but the album goes from the 27th to the 23rd rank of my 1985 year chart.

And an album from my wishlist:

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The Lost Weekend by Danny & Dusty
I like both artists a lot and I also like their follow-up album but this one is really too boozy to be actually enjoyable: they certainly have had more fun to make this album than me as a listener. Of course not everything is bad here, it's still Dan Stuart and Steve Wynn, but not enough to make me want to put this album in year chart.

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Two albums of 1986 I listened to:

First an album I already know/own:

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Reign In Blood by Slayer
Slayer is just a bit below the major league of HM bands like Iron Maiden, Metallica or Motörhead but this album is a classic. It's angry, it's fast, it's loud, it has really great riffs and it's short so there isn't the slightest chance you could get bored. It decreases from the 15th to the 16th rank of the year.

And an album from my wishlist:

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Ballad Of A Thin Line Man by Giant Sand
There are two sides of the band here: the boozy C&W tracks I don't really like but there are not many of that here; and the harder hitting lightly psychedelic americana stuff which I like very much. the best examples of the latter are amongst other A Hard Man To Get To Know, Thin Line Man and not in the least the fantastic cover of All Along The Watchtower. A good album which immediately enters my year chart at the 44th rank (not very high because of the aforementioned tracks I really don't like).

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Two albums of 1987 I listened to:

First an album I already know/own:

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Sentimental Hygiene by Warren Zevon
Warren Zevon is one of my music heroes and he really shines in this album with the title track as the true highlight. I don't know what he would think of this world if he would still be alive but he sure was a fine critic of his times. The only lesser song is Leave My Monkey alone which sounds as one of the worse Peter Gabriel songs but the rest of the album just hits the spot. And it moves up from the 36th to the 31st rank of the year.

And an album from my wishlist:

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Blow Your Cool! by Hoodoo Gurus
This band and certainly also this album really reminds me of their compatriots Midnight Oil. They both play some kind of music meant for the stadions and the voices of both singers are very similar. I still think that Midnight Oil is better but this album nevertheless is very good. Sometimes they sound a bit too formulaic like on Come On or on On My Street but most of the times they really rock and their guitars shine like on the best track Where Nowhere Is. But I also very much liked the odd eastern tinged My Caravan. Just a pity that the great Heart Of Darkness isn't part of the original LP version because it's one of the better songs on my (Apple Music) version. So good that it enters my 1987 year chart at the 24th rank.

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Two albums of 1988 I listened to:

First an album I already own/know:

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Prairie School Freakout by Eleventh Dream Day
A must have for indie guitar fans. It's raw, it's inspired and it has lots of splendid guitars. And the album goes from the 3rd to the 4th rank of the year.

And an album from my wishlist:

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Thundersteel by Riot
I will never rank Riot as the best HM band ever but they are mostly good fun and that's the case as well on this album. Enters at the 41st rank.

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