Best year for music in every decade from the sixites on?

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I know this is as easy as a simple look up on every year and the points the albums released that year have, but that removes most subgectivity, which would make for a short conversation. I'm interested to hear what people have to think about the best year in every decade in terms of the music released in those years. I don't think that using charts is a good reflection in terms of how good the music in a year was as it would be possible for a year with one masterpiece of an album to have more points than a year that had five good albums come out. So in a way this conversation is somewhat less about quality, and a bit more about quantity in terms of good albums released. Feel free to be as subjective as you'd like, as one year being better than another is already a subjective observation. I hope this breeds some good discussion!


I have been thinking about something like this myself and it will be interesting to see if results differ from the official BEA stats. I had been thinking along the lines that members put forward as many of their top tens for any given year as they wish that for them are exceptionally strong (please note not just good but exceptional...be strict with yourself). Each entry would get 1 point for that given year which after some time could be tallied up to give us a result. Could it be something that could be kept track of automatically when an entry is posted? Some drop down box to chose the year that you're voting for before posting a top 10?

It will probably end up mirroring the official BEA stats but you never know. I would be hopeful that members individual tastes and love of certain genre's would have a much better chance of showing up rather than just the usual best sellers for each year.
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So ran some statistical analysis on my lists. More precisely, i counted all albums by year present in my top 1100, which basically represents all albums i've rated as a 70-or-better on BEA. Results:

Year #albums
1957 1
1958 0
1959 0
1960 0
1961 0
1962 0
1963 0
1964 4
1965 6
1966 7
1967 6
1968 5
1969 8
1970 18
1971 17
1972 16
1973 15
1974 17
1975 17
1976 25
1977 22
1978 31
1979 23
1980 26
1981 27
1982 22
1983 30
1984 23
1985 34
1986 35
1987 32
1988 33
1989 19
1990 22
1991 19
1992 16
1993 21
1994 25
1995 20
1996 19
1997 22
1998 12
1999 12
2000 12
2001 10
2002 15
2003 23
2004 18
2005 27
2006 23
2007 27
2008 19
2009 27
2010 22
2011 27
2012 21
2013 40
2014 25
2015 32
2016 25

So according to this, my favorite year of each decade:

1950s: 1957
1960s: 1969
1970s: 1978
1980s: 1986
1990s: 1994
2000s: 2007
2010s: 2013 (so far)

There were a few things in here that surprised me. I was surprised at the low turnout of the 1990s, a decade where i had an ever-increasing music budget (that swelled over $100/month at one point). I was also surprised at recent years of 2013 and 2015, especially that 2013 has the most entries (40) in my top 1100.
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These are based off of my own personal decades list, whichever year had the highest amount of albums selected.

10's- 2013: Interestingly enough, even though I dislike most of the top 10 in 2013, I have a ton of albums in my top 100 of the decade from it. Melt Yourself Down, Honeys by Pissed Jeans, Better off Dead by Flatbush Zombies, Wakin on a Pretty Daze, and a lot more.

00's- 2000: Coincidentally as with 1997, a Radiohead album and a Modest Mouse album are involved. Along with other favorites like, Lift Yr. Skinny Fists, Rated R, and Deltron 3030.

90's- 1997: the top rated album OK Computer plus many other classics; Ladies and Gentleman We are Floating in Space, Either/Or, Lonesome Crowded West, Boatman's Call etc.

80's- 1982: This was kind of a surprise. Milo Goes to College, Glassworks, 1999, Bad Brains, and some more universal albums like Combat Rock and Thriller.

70's- 1979: I had a feeling this would be my favorite.The Wall, London Calling, Fear of Music, Unknown Pleasures, and some more oddball stuff like Y by The Pop Group and 20 Jazz Funk Greats by Throbbing Gristle.

60's- 1967 is probably the best year in music due to its influence. Period. However, I have more albums in my top 100 from 1969. Some highlights include ; Led Zeppelin, Hot Buttered Soul, In the Court of The Crimson King, Hot Rats, Uncle Meat, The Velvet Underground, EVerybody Knows This is Nowhere.
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60's- 1969 Abbey Road, Let it Bleed, Tommy, Santana, Led Zeppelin I & II
70's- 1971 Sticky Fingers, Who's Next, What's Going On, Master of Reality, Zeppelin IV
80's- 1986 The Queen is Dead, Life's Rich Pageant, Master of Puppets, Reign in Blood, Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
90's- 1994 Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Illmatic, Ready to Die, Superunknown, Welcome to Sky Valley (1991 was very close)
00's- 2000 Rated R, Relationship of Command, Kid A, Stankonia
10's- I don't know, don't listen to a lot of modern music, but if I had to chose, I'd say 2015 because of To Pimp a Butterfly
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1959 - Kind of Blue, Mingus Ah Um, Time Out
1969 - Abbey Road, In the Court of the Crimson King, Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin, Hot Rats, In a Silent Way
1977 - Low, Animals, The Idiot, Marquee Moon, "Heroes", Talking Heads: 77, Trans-Europe Express, Never Mind the Bullocks Here's the Sex Pistols, Pink Flag, Rumors
1989 - Doolittle, Pretty Hate Machine, Disintegration, Technique, The Stone Roses
1994 - The Downward Spiral, Illmatic, Weezer (The Blue Album), Dookie, The Division Bell
2007 - In Rainbows, Neon Bible, Year Zero, Sound of Silver, Graduation
2013 - Reflektor, ...Like Clockwork, Hesitation Marks, Random Access Memories, Acid Rap, AM, Immunity, Yeezus
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This was a tough one but a good challenge.

Here is my best shot:

1967

The Beatles - Sgt Pepper
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
The Doors - The Doors
Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties' Request
Monkees - More of The Monkees
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man...
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
David Bowie - David Bowie
Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr Spock's Music From Outer Space
The Kinks - Something Else
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe as Milk
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
Love - Forever Changes
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates of Dawn
The Who - Sell Out


1973

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
David Bowie - Pin Ups
Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power
Gram Parsons - GP
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Beatles - 1962-66
Beatles - 1967-70
The Who - Quadrophenia
Can - Future Days
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Queen - Queen
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Rolling Stones - Goat's Head Soup
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch A Fire
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Harry Nilsson - A Little Touch of Schmilsson In The Night
Bob Dylan - Dylan
Bob Dylan - Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
Paul McCartney - Band on the Run
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Bruce Springsteen - Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent & the E-Street Shuffle

1989

The Cure - Disintegration
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Pixies - Doolittle
Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead - Dylan and the Dead
Elvis Costello - Spike
De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising
Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw and The Cooked
Depeche Mode - 101
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Alison Krauss & Union Station - Two Highways
Alannah Myles - Alannah Myles
Soul ll Soul - Club Classics vol 1
Deacon Blue - When The World Knows Your Name
Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi
Simple Minds - Street Fighting Years
Simply Red - A New Flame
Nirvana - Bleach
Paul McCartney - Flowers In The Dirt
The The - Mind Bomb
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
Aerosmith - Pump
Neil Young - Freedom
Tin Machine - Tin Machine


1994

Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Green Day - Dookie
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Morrissey - Vauxhall & I
The Crow - Original Soundtrack
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Hole - Live Through This
Pulp - His 'n' Hers
Blur - Parklife
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year
The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
Portishead - Dummy
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Radiohead - My Iron Lung EP
Massive Attack - Protection
R.E.M. - Monster
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York
The Cranberries - No Need To Argue
Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
Jamiroquai - Return Of The Space Cowboy
Dead Can Dance - Toward The Within (Live)
David Bowie - Buddha of Suburbia Soundtrack
The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
Beatles - Live At the BBC
Nas - Illmatic
Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)


2004

The Cure - Join The Dots: B-Sides And Rarities
Green Day - American Idiot
Travis - Singles
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Muse - Absolution
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Keane - Hopes and Fears
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
The Cure - The Cure
The Libertines - The Libertines
Kasabian - Kasabian
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Killers - Hot Fuss
U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
k d lang - Hymns of the 49th Parallel
KT Tunstall - Eye To The Telescope
The Zutons - Who Killed The Zutons?
Brian Wilson - Smile
Usher - Confessions
Tom Waits - Real Gone


2010

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Eminem - Recovery
Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops and Hooligans
Rihanna - Loud
Manic Street Preachers - Postcards From a Young Man
Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
Ke$ha - Animal
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
Sade - Soldier of Love
Johnny Cash - American Vl - Ain't No Grave
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Foals - Total Life Forever
Weezer - Hurley
KT Tunstall - Tiger Suit
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday
Janelle Monae - Arch Android
Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown
Black Keys - Brothers

2016 was also a very good year with Blackstar and A Moon Shaped Pool among many others. It was a hard choice between 2010 and 2016.

So many good years overall, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. There are also a lot of good albums scattered throughout the 1980s but 1989 seemed like a particularly good year.
2004 is very nostalgic for me. I was volunteering as a DJ on a community radio station and there was so much good music out that year.


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1960s -- 1967 (awesome year for rock, blues and jazz)
Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Pat Martino - El Hombre, Strings!
The Kinks - Something Else by the Kinks
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Albert Collins - Born Under a Bad Sigh
Buddy Guy - I Left My Blues in San Franscisco
Jimi Hendrix - Are You experienced, Axis: Bold as Love
Cream - Disraeli Gears
The Who - The Who Sell Out
The Doors - The Doors, Strange Days
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles, Sorcerer

1970s -- 1971 (A near impossible choice -- any year from '70 - '75 would be worthy)
The Who - Who's Next
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Moody Blues - Every Good By Deserves Favour
Yes - Fragile
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Freddie Hubbard - First Light, Straight Life
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Tarkus, Pictures at an Exhibition
Led Zeppelin - IV
Dust - Dust
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Doors - LA Woman
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Deep Purple - Fireball
Carole King - Tapestry
Argent - Ring of Hands
Electric Light Orchestra - Electric Light Orchestra

1980s - 1981 (just barely edges out 1980)
Rush - Moving Pictures
Moody Blues - Long Distance Voyager
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Shooting Star - Hang On For Your Life
Triumph - Allied Forces
Blackfoot - Marauder
Santana - Zebop!
Kinks - Give the People What They Want
Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
Tal Farlow - Chromatic Palette
Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin
The Who - Face Dances
Buddy Guy - Stone Crazy, Alone and Acoustic (with Junior Wells)
Ozzy Osborne - Diary of a Madman
Al DiMeola - Electric Rendezvous, Firday Night in San Francisco (with Paco DeLucia and John McLaughlin)
Atlanta Rhythm Section - Quinella
Jefferson Starship - Modern Times
Jethro Tull - The Broadsword and the Beast

1990s - 1991
Fates Warning - Parallels
Rush - Roll the bones
Buddy Guy - Damn Right I Got the Blues
Steve Morse Band - Southern Steel
Loreena McKennitt - The Visit
Steve Howe - Turbulence
Son Seals - Living in the Danger Zone
Bernd Steidl - Psycho Acoustic Overture
Mike Stern - Standards
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Acoustic Alchemy - Back on the Case
Albert Collins - Iceman
Danny Gatton - 88 Elmira Street
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
Connie Dover - Somebody
Peter Kater - Anthem
The Cult - Ceremony
Johnny Winter - Let Me In
John Pattitucci - Heart of the Bass
Metallica - Metallica
Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky is Crying

2000s - 1006 (a mostly down decade for me)
Lacuna Coil - Karmacode
Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau - Metheny/Mehldau
Medeski/Martin/Scofield/Wood - Out Louder
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - The Hidden Land
Tyr - Ragnarok
Joyce Cooling - Revolving Dore
John Pattitucci - Line by Line
Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse
Keith Jarrett - The Carnegie Hall Concert
Evanescence - The Open Door
Edenbridge - The Grand Design
Charlie Musselwhite - Delta Hardware
Dr. John - Mercenary
Sonny Rollins - Sonny, Please
Blackmore's Night - The Village Lanterne
Chick Corea - The Ultimate Adventure
Gary Moore - Old, New, Ballads, Blues

2010s - 2012 (a great decade so far! so much to choose from across all genres)
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Asia - XXX
Flying Colors - Flying Colors
Ian Anderson - Thick as a Brick 2
Spectrum Road - Spectrum Road
Brad Mehldau - Od, Where do You Start
Marcus Roberts and Bela Fleck - Across the Imaginary Divide
Joe Walsh - Analog Man
Walter Trout - Blues for the Modern Daze
Pat Metheny - Unity Band
Xandria - Neverworld's end
Vijay Iyer - Accelerando
Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline
The Cult - Choice of Weapon
Lionel Loueke - Heritage
Kevin Eubanks - The Messenger
Mark Knopfler - Privateering
Gary Clark, Jr - Blak and Blu
Epica - Requiem for the Indifferent
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Heart - Fanatic
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1967: The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground, Sgt. Peppers/Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles, Forever Changes - Love

1971: Blue - Joni Mitchell, Tago Mago - Can, Hunky Dory - David Bowie, Ram - Paul McCartney

1985: Kate Bush - Hounds of Love, Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain, Thursday Afternoon - Brian Eno

1995: Post - Björk, Alien Lanes - Guided by Voices, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins, Different Class - Pulp

2007: The Flying Club Cup - Beirut, Person Pitch - Panda Bear, In Rainbows - Radiohead, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon

2012: Born to Die - Lana Del Rey, The Idler Wheel... - Fiona Apple, Bloom - Beach House, Ekstasis - Julia Holter


The only one of these I particularly struggled picking was for the 2010's, almost went with 2015.
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1957 - Monk, Coltrane, & Miles

1966 - Pet Sounds.

1977 - Fleetwood Mac, Television, David Bowie (x2), The Stranger, Bob Marley, Kraftwerk, Talking Heads, Saturday Night Fever, Eno, Sex Pistols, Clash, Costello, Giorgio, Pink Floyd

1984 - Replacements, Springsteen, U2, Smiths (x2), Prince, Minutemen, Talking Heads Live, Metallica, Violent Femmes, R.E.M., Zen Arcade

1991 - Nirvana, U2, Pearl Jam, RHCP, Primal Scream, A tribe called quest, Loveless, Crowded House, R.E.M.

2004 - SMiLE, Hot Fuss, MCR, College Dropout, American Idiot, Arcade Fire

2012 - Kendrick, Grimes, Frank Ocean, Beach House, Mac DeMarco, Fiona Apple, Killer Mike, Tame Impala
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The 1960s: 1969 (had Led Zeppelin II, In the Court of the Crimson King, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Tommy, Let It Bleed, Hot Rats, Led Zeppelin, Abbey Road)

The 1970s: 1973 (had Houses of the Holy, Dark Side of the Moon, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Band on the Run, Innervisions, Selling England By the Pound, Closing Time)

The 1980s: 1983 (had War; Murmur; Violent Femmes; Synchronicity; Power, Corruption, and Lies)

The 1990s: 1997 (had OK Computer, F#A# Infinity, Homogenic, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, Mogwai Young Team, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, Perfect From Now On)

The 2000s: 2007 (had For Emma, Forever Ago, The Con, Sound of Silver, In Rainbows, Graduation, Challengers, Boxer, The Flying Club Cup, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, Reunion Tour, Neon Bible, Oracular Spectacular, and Person Pitch)

The 2010s: 2012 (had Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, An Awesome Wave, Blunderbuss, Shields, Celebration Rock, Attack on Memory, Adventures In Your Own Backyard, Lonerism, Channel Orange, Valtari, and Voyageur)
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