[bobbyb5]

Which year was the best year for great albums? Here's my picks.

1971
1977
1979
1996
1997
1998
2001
1980

[AAL2014]

A couple of my personal favorites that I would add to your list would be


1967- Pepper, Hendrix, Doors, Days of Future Passed, VU&N, Songs of Leonard Cohen, ....

1973- Innervisions, Selling England, Yellow Brick Road, DSoTM, Head Hunters, Sabbath Bloody Fucking Sabbath, Over-Nite Sensation, Quadrophenia...

1991- Nevermind, Ten, Badmotorfinger, Black Album, Achtung Baby, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Temple of the Dog...
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[Luigii]

Bruh I have to agree with 2002. Honestly the only years that I could think of for some jaw dropping albums with my personal ears would be 2015 and maybe 1995. Plus I do need to expand my listening endeavors to get this list going. Also this is a cool Forum.

[nitomano]

For me:
1971
1970
2003
1968
1969
1973

[F1Aaron]

Personal favorites

1969- Abbey Road, Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin II, Let It Bleed, and Velvet Underground

1977- Rumours, Marquee Moon, The Clash, Never Mind the Bollocks, Low, and The Stranger

1988- Daydream Nation, Spirit of Eden, ...And Justice for All, It Takes a Nation of Millions..., Straight Outta Compton

1991- Loveless, Nevermind, The Low End Theory, Achtung Baby, Laughing Stock, Blue Lines, and Spiderland

2007- In Rainbows, Sound of Silver, Favourite Worst Nightmare, Boxer, and Neon Bible

2016- Blackstar, A Moon Shaped Pool, Atrocity Exhibition, Blonde, and We Got It From Here...

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1976 - Wind & Wuthering, A Trick Of The Tail, Boston, 2112, Station To Station, Fly Like An Eagle, Turnstiles, Wings At The Speed Of Sound

1977 - The Stranger, Going For The One, Slowhand, A Farewell To Kings, Animals, Rumours

1980 - Duke, Peter Gabriel III, Glass Houses, Drama, Back In Black, Permanent Waves

2005 - Phantoms, Sometimes, Never Take Friendship Personal, How To Save A Life, The Question, In Motion, In Your Honor

2008 - Illuminate, You Are My Sunshine, Over And Underneath, Bring Me Your Love, Only By The Night, Fleet Foxes

[RoundTheBend]

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Someone did this (I wish I remember which user). It's BEA version of what year did best.

[Infinity183]

In no particular order...

1967 - This was when classic albums started to really hoard in. There was Sgt. Pepper's, there was The Velvet Underground and Nico, there was Are You Experienced, there was The Doors' first two albums, there was Surrealistic Pillow, there was just such a huge number of records that really pushed the boundaries of music and stand on their own, even half a century later. There's a good reason this year has the highest score of any year in history on this site.

1971 - Oh boy, the sheer quality of some of this year's landmark LP's just pushes it into a league of its own. Who's Next? Masterpiece. Led Zeppelin IV? Masterpiece. What's Going On? Masterpiece. Add to that albums like Blue, Sticky Fingers, Pearl, Songs of Love and Hate, Tapestry, and even some more obscure classics like Nursery Crime and Santana III, and you get a year that really epitomizes the age of AOR.

1973 - A year full of fantastic albums basically across the board. Of course, you have common top picks such as Dark Side of the Moon and Houses of the Holy, but there were some other pretty great albums like Billy Joel's Piano Man, Aerosmith's debut, and Bruce Springsteen's first two albums. Ironically, this is easily one of the worst years for pop hits in the UK; it was much better in the United States, which forwent the over saturation of uninspired glam rock kitsch for more soulful, complex, rootsy, and sophisticated hit singles.

1978 - Not exactly my favorite time for popular music, but definitely a personal favorite when it comes to full albums. Strong turnouts from Blondie, The Cars, Bruce Springsteen, Toto, Kate Bush, Talking Heads, Heart, and many other non-disco acts make this one of the most glorious times for LP's ever.

1983 - Few people would regard this as a year packed with classics, but as far as my personal tastes go, 1983 was an absolutely triumphant time for music. All of the futuristic, cutting edge, synth-produced influences that are a personal favorite of mine were heavily established here, but unlike the harder, more over-the-top sound that dominated the second half of the 1980s, 1983 albums balanced all of the cutting edge qualities of music at the time with grand, nuanced, and harmonious productions. There was a perfect mixture of artistic gems in the new wave genre like Synchronicity and Soul Food, beautifully sung and excellent composed post-disco like Branigan 2 and the Flashdance Soundtrack, hard rockers like Metallica's debut and Def Leppard's Pyromania, arena-scaled marvels like Survivor's Caught in the Game and Bonnie Tyler's Faster Than the Speed of Night, and even some more miscellaneous treats like "Weird Al" Yankovic's debut and Billy Joel's An Innocent Man.