What was the best year for albums?

[pimpmasta]

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

[pinkfloyd!]

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.

[thomas697]

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
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[Bork]

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.

[Kiki]

Bork, try Know Your Enemy for 2001

[Bork]