Top 5 Albums from Each Year: 1965-2000

Urban Hat€monger ? · 03-01-2013, 07:03 PM

I thought your lists were rather refreshing.
If people are going to bitch because some famous album that's already been showered in praise for decades isn't in it then fuck them, because they've clearly missed the point of this thread.

I look forward to seeing your next thread. And being pretentious isn't anywhere near as bad as being boring, which I would imagine most of these people's lists would be. As if The Beatles or Led Zeppelin need any more attention than they already get.

Key · 03-01-2013, 07:05 PM

Holy hell, thanks for bumping this! I've never seen this thread. Gonna take a good look at it.

**Janszoon** · 03-01-2013, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by streetwaves

Some of you people seem a little bit confused about the way music, opinions, art, and all that good **** works. This isn't the first time I've been called 'pretentious' in music-related discussions, despite the fact that if you knew me in real life, you'd know that that's pretty much exactly what I am not.

Many complaints seem to come from me not including very particular albums in my top 5 for year X or Y or Z. What's not considered is what my opinion is of the album in question. Do I flat out hate it because it doesn't fit into my snobby image? Nah. The case with most of the albums complained about for being missing here is that I do like them - perhaps even love them - but they just don't make the top 5. That usually isn't an insult to the albums missing from my list, it's a huge compliment to those included.

Now, I find it a bit odd that I'm accused of being pretentious despite including some fairly big "no-no's" for pretentious *******s. The Beatles, for instance. Now, I do personally find I'm in the mood for Pet Sounds a lot more, but I ain't gonna pretend I don't like me some Revolver just because I've since discovered The VU, Beefheart, and King Crimson. Revolver's good **** and I'll argue with anyone who disagrees with that.

As for Led Zeppelin, they actually were the band that started my interest in music. No ****. For that reason, I have a lot of sentimental value attached to the band, but I'm not going to lie either and pretend I still enjoy them as much as I do when I was in high school. I genuinely do consider the albums mentioned above Zep's albums to be superior.

For the record, though, let's define what I mean by "superior". Actually, it should be known that the way I make lists seems to change every post I make. Sometimes I'm more likely to include albums I "enjoy" more, and sometimes I'm more likely to post albums that I think more highly of. These are two different things. I may turn on some Led Zeppelin and "enjoy it more" 70% of the time than Captain Beefheart, depending on my mood of course. With that said, there's no question which music impresses me more. And for the record, there are times when I genuinely enjoy more avant-gard or "difficult" stuff more. There's a time for everything.

I won't even bother going back and reading what albums I chose, because it's likely not going to agree with what I'd pick today. I'll probably make another thread, and abandon it halfway through like I always do. Also, for you pricks saying "I'm a poseur" and "I'm not coming back because I failed", don't flatter yourselves. I lose interest quickly but I'll occasionally come back and would be glad to argue with you on any subject. Including your favorite hard rawk album versus whatever I say is better. Let's have that conversation, and maybe we can learn something from each other. But please, present a better argument than "I'm pretentious", or I'll only see the need to respond with "you're an idiot."

I remember loving this thread actually. It's nice to have you back! Whether I agreed with the things you posted or not, I always thought you had very interesting choices and that you were able to discuss them in an intelligent way.

streetwaves · 03-01-2013, 07:34 PM

Thanks guys. Sorry if I sounded overly defensive, but it was a little bit annoying to find my old thread overrun by idiots claiming I'm a poseur.

YorkeDaddy · 04-04-2014, 10:21 AM

Hi just reminding everybody that this is the best thread on MusicBanter and that it's a tragedy that it fell to the seventh page because this is a goldmine of some of the greatest music ever made.

**Goofle** · 04-04-2014, 10:25 AM

I'm gonna update mine pretty soon. And yes, this is a great thread.

Josef K · 04-04-2014, 12:06 PM

Here's mine:

1965:
The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man
The Sonics: Here are the Sonics
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
The Beatles: Rubber Soul
Bob Dylan: Bringing it All Back Home

1966:
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
The Beatles: Revolver
The Kinks: Face to Face
13th Floor Elevators: The Psychedelic Sounds of
Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde

1967:
The Kinks: Something Else
Moby Grape: Moby Grape
The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground and Nico
Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow
Love: Forever Changes

1968:
The Zombies: Odessey and Oracle
The Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat
The Kinks: The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society
The Band: Music from Big Pink
Otis Redding: The Dock of the Bay

1969:
King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
The Who: Tommy
The Beatles: Abbey Road
Fairport Convention: Liege and Lief
The Band: The Band

1970:
David Bowie: The Man Who Sold the World
The Band: Stage Fright
The Velvet Underground: Loaded
Van Morrison: Moondance
The Stooges: Fun House

1971:
The Who: Who’s Next
Jethro Tull: Aqualung
David Bowie: Hunky Dory
Serge Gainsbourg: Histoire de Melody Nelson
The Kinks: Muswell Hillbillies

1972:
Big Star: #1 Record
Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Neu: Neu
Lou Reed: Transformer

1973:
The Who: Quadrophenia
Bruce Springsteen: The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
Bruce Springsteen: Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
New York Dolls: New York Dolls
Genesis: Selling England by the Pound

1974:
Big Star: Radio City
Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain
Brian Eno: Here Come the Warm Jets
Sparks: Kimono My House
David Bowie: Diamond Dogs

1975:
Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run
Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks
Brian Eno: Another Green World
David Bowie: Young Americans
Patti Smith: Horses

1976:
David Bowie: Station to Station
The Modern Lovers: The Modern Lovers
Flamin’ Groovies: Shake Some Action
Ramones: Ramones

1977:
Elvis Costello: My Aim is True
David Bowie: Low
Television: Marquee Moon
Wire: Pink Flag
Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols

1978:
Bruce Springsteen: Darkness on the Edge of Town
Elvis Costello: This Year’s Model
Big Star: Third/Sister Lovers
The Jam: All Mod Cons
The Clash: Give ‘Em Enough Rope

1979:
Gang of Four: Entertainment!
The Jam: Setting Sons
Talking Heads: Fear of Music
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
The Clash: London Calling

1980:
X: Los Angeles
Elvis Costello: Get Happy!!
The Jam: Sound Affects
Bruce Springsteen: The River
XTC: Black Sea
The Feelies: Crazy Rhythms

1981:
The dB’s: Stands for Decibels
The Birthday Party: Prayers on Fire
Echo and the Bunnymen: Heaven Up Here
The Church: Of Skins and Hearts
The Clash: Sandinista!

1982:
Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska
XTC: English Settlement
The Dream Syndicate: The Days of Wine and Roses
Mission of Burma: Vs.
Bad Brains: Bad Brains

1983:
REM: Murmur
Aztec Camera: High Land, Hard Rain
Billy Bragg: Life’s a Riot with Spy Vs Spy
Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes
Tom Waits: Swordfishtrombones

1984:
The Replacements: Let it Be
REM: Reckoning
The Smiths: The Smiths
Echo and the Bunnymen: Ocean Rain
Nick Cave: From Her to Eternity
Billy Bragg: Brewing Up with Billy Bragg

1985:
Tom Waits: Rain Dogs
The Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy
The Pogues: Rum Sodomy & the Lash
The Smiths: Meat is Murder
Husker Du: New Day Rising

1986:
The Smiths: The Queen is Dead
REM: Lifes Rich Pageant
The Housemartins: London 0 Hull 4
Billy Bragg: Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
Nick Cave: Your Funeral… My Trial

1987:
The Smiths: Strangeways, Here We Come
Eric B. and Rakim: Paid in Full
The Connells: Boylan Heights
Pet Shop Boys: Actually
REM: Document

1988:
Galaxie 500: Today
The Pogues: If I Should Fall from Grace with God
Nick Cave: Tender Prey
Pixies: Surfer Rosa
Public Enemy: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
The Go-Betweens: 16 Lovers Lane

1989:
Pixies: Doolittle
The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses
New Order: Technique
Galaxie 500: On Fire
Fugazi: 13 Songs

1990:
The House of Love: The House of Love
Ride: Nowhere
Uncle Tupelo: No Depression
Public Enemy: Fear of a Black Planet
Midnight Oil: Blue Sky Mining

1991:
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
Talk Talk: Laughing Stock
Uncle Tupelo: Still Feel Gone
Teenage Fanclub: Bandwagonesque
Superchunk: No Pocky for Kitty

1992:
The Jayhawks: Hollywood Town Hall
Unrest: Imperial f.f.r.r.
Uncle Tupelo: March 16-20, 1992
Nick Cave: Henry’s Dream
Los Lobos: Kiko

1993:
Tindersticks: Tindersticks
Uncle Tupelo: Anodyne
Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville
Unrest: Perfect Teeth
Red House Painters: Red House Painters (I)

1994:
Manic Street Preachers: The Holy Bible
The Divine Comedy: Promenade
Blur: Parklife
Nas: Illmatic
Suede: Dog Man Star

1995:
Superchunk: Here’s Where the Strings Come In
Pulp: Different Class
The Lucksmiths: The Green Bicycle Case
Tricky: Maxinquaye
The Jayhawks: Tomorrow the Green Grass

1996:
Stereolab: Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Brainiac: Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
Sleater-Kinney: Call the Doctor
Tortoise: Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Rachel’s: The Sea and the Bells

1997:
Radiohead: OK Computer
Spiritualized: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Modest Mouse: The Lonesome Crowded West
Old 97’s: Too Far to Care
Yo La Tengo: I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Built to Spill: Perfect from Now On

1998:
Massive Attack: Mezzanine
Pulp: This is Hardcore
Mercury Rev: Deserter’s Songs
Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
The Divine Comedy: Fin De Siecle

1999:
Wilco: Summerteeth
Blur: 13
Superchunk: Come Pick Me Up
Built to Spill: Keep it Like a Secret
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada

2000:
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Modest Mouse: The Moon and Antarctica
Radiohead: Kid A
Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker
Clinic: Internal Wrangler
The Weakerthans: Left and Leaving

2001:
Destroyer: Streethawk
Constantines: Constantines
The Lucksmiths: Why that Doesn’t Surprise Me
Nick Cave: No More Shall We Part
Liars: They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top

**Goofle** · 04-04-2014, 05:37 PM

1963

5. The Beatles - Please Please Me
4. The Beatles - With The Beatles
3. Thelonious Monk - Criss-Cross
2. The Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach - The Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach
1. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

1964

5. The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
4. The Beatles - Beatles for Sale
3. The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones
2. Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
1. Jacques Brel - Enregistrement public

1965

5. Grant Green - Idle Moments
4. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
3. Albert Ayler Quartet - Vibrations
2. Albert Ayler Trio - Spiritual Unity
1. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

1966

5. The Beatles - Revolver
4. John Coltrane & Don Cherry - The Avant-Garde
3. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
2. The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators
1. The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!

1967

5. Love - Forever Changes
4. The Doors - The Doors
3. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
2. The Peter Brötzmann Trio - For Adolphe Sax
1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced

1968

5. The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
4. C.A. Quintet - Trip Thru Hell
3. The Peter Brötzmann Octet - Machine Gun
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
1. Silver Apples - Contact

1969

5. Wolfgang Dauner Quintet - The Oimels
4. The Kinks - Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
3. Scott Walker - Scott 4
2. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
1. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica

1970

5. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
4. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
3. Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
2. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
1. Demon Fuzz - Afreaka!

1971

5. The Doors - L.A. Woman
4. Comus - First Utterance
3. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
2. Can - Tago Mago
1. Flower Travellin' Band - Satori

1972

5. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
4. Aphrodite's Child - 666
3. NEU! - NEU!
2. Can - Ege Bamyasi
1. Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond

1973

5. Premiata Forneria Marconi - Photos of Ghosts
4. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
3. The Mothers of Invention - Over-Nite Sensation
2. The Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock
1. Iggy and The Stooges - Raw Power

1974

5. Kraftwerk - Autobahn
4. Leonard Cohen - New Skin for the Old Ceremony
3. King Crimson - Red
2. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natty Dread
1. Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')

1975

5. Grand Funk Railroad - Caught in the Act
4. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
3. Oliver Nelson - Skull Session
2. NEU! - NEU! '75
1. Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention - One Size Fits All

1976

5. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
4. Max Romeo & The Upsetters - War ina Babylon
3. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
2. Charles Mingus - Mingus at Antibes
1. The Residents - The Third Reich 'n Roll

1977

5. Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77
4. Wire - Pink Flag
3. Pink Floyd - Animals
2. David Bowie - Low
1. Television - Marquee Moon

1978

5. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
4. Magazine - Real Life
3. Public Image Ltd. - Public Image - First Issue
2. Tom Waits - Blue Valentine
1. Wire - Chairs Missing

1979

5. PiL - Metal Box
4. Codona - Codona
3. Wire - 154
2. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
1. The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials

1980

5. Joy Division - Closer
4. The Sound - Jeopardy
3. Circle Jerks - Group Sex
2. Killing Joke - Killing Joke
1. Swell Maps - ...In "Jane From Occupied Europe"

1981

5. Killing Joke - What's THIS For...!
4. Medium Medium - The Glitterhouse
3. This Heat - Deceit
2. X - Wild Gift
1. The Church - Of Skins and Heart

1982

5. Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
4. Crass - Christ: The Album
3. MDC - Millions of Dead Cops
2. Bad Brains - Bad Brains
1. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour

1983

5. King Kurt - Ooh Wallah Wallah
4. Circle Jerks - Golden Shower of Hits
3. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
2. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
1. The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge

1984

5. The Raincoats - Moving
4. The Replacements - Let It Be
3. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
2. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
1. The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall

1985

5. Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig
4. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
3. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
2. Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
1. The Replacements - Tim

1986

5. The Mission - Gods Own Medicine
4. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
3. Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen
2. The Chameleons - Strange Times
1. John Zorn - The Big Gundown

1987

5. Swans - Children of God
4. Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
3. Ronald Shannon Jackson - When Colors Play
2. Dinosaur - You're Living All Over Me
1. Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments

1988

5. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
4. Wire - A Bell Is a Cup Until It Is Struck
3. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
2. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
1. Luxuria - Unanswerable Lust

1989

5. Jesus Jones - Liquidizer
4. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
3. Pixies - Doolittle
2. Cardiacs - On Land and in the Sea
1. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

1990

5. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
4. Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
3. Wipers - The Best of Wipers and Greg Sage
2. Gang Starr - Step in the Arena
1. Pain Teens - Born in Blood

1991

5. Slowdive - Just for a Day
4. Rain Tree Crow - Rain Tree Crow
3. Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing
2. 光束夜 [Kousokuya] - 1st
1. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

1992

5. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
4. Gang Starr - Daily Operation
3. Ultra Vivid Scene - Rev
2. The Church - Priest = Aura
1. Catherine Wheel - Ferment

1993

5. Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles
4. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
3. Slowdive - Souvlaki
2. The Auteurs - New Wave
1. Catherine Wheel - Chrome

1994

5. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Strangers From the Universe
4. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
3. Groundwork - Today We Will Not Be Invisible Nor Silent
2. Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
1. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

1995

5. The Flying Luttenbachers - Destroy All Music
4. Radiohead - The Bends
3. Slowdive - Pygmalion
2. Aceyalone - All Balls Don't Bounce
1. GZA - Liquid Swords

1996

5. Beck - Odelay
4. Unwound - Repetition
3. Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
2. Ghostface Killah - Ironman
1. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....

1997

5. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
4. Latyrx - The Album
3. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F♯A♯∞ (1995-1997)
2. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
1. Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus

1998

5. Calexico - The Black Light
4. OutKast - Aquemini
3. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
1. John Zorn - The Circle Maker

1999

5. Deep Puddle Dynamics - The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel?
4. Blur - 13
3. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
2. DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Brainfreeze
1. Mos Def - Black on Both Sides

2000

5. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
4. OutKast - Stankonia
3. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
2. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
1. Boom Bip & Dose One - Circle

2001

5. Solex - Low Kick and Hard Bop
4. The Whitefield Brothers - In the Raw
3. Techno Animal - The Brotherhood of the Bomb
2. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
1. Aesop Rock - Labor Days

2002

5. Busdriver - Temporary Forever
4. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
3. The Roots - Phrenology
2. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
1. El-P - Fantastic Damage

2003

5. 椎名林檎 [Shiina Ringo] - 加爾基精液栗ノ花 (Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana)
4. Brother Ali - Shadows on the Sun
3. DJ Shadow - Diminishing Returns
2. Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
1. Mew - Frengers

2004

5. William Shatner - Has Been
4. Mastodon - Leviathan
3. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
2. The Gris Gris - The Gris Gris
1. Madvillain - Madvillainy

2005

5. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
4. Gorillaz - Demon Days
3. Kanye West - Late Registration
2. DANGERDOOM - The Mouse and the Mask
1. Dälek - Absence

2006

5. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
4. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
3. The Thing - Action Jazz
2. Milanese - Extend
1. J Dilla - Donuts

2007

5. Weasel Walter - Early Recordings 1988-1991
4. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
3. Dälek - Abandoned Language
2. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
1. El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead

2008

5. Why? - Alopecia
4. Jesu / Battle of Mice - Jesu / Battle of Mice
3. O'Death - Broken Hymns, Limbs & Skin
2. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
1. People Under the Stairs - Fun DMC

2009

5. Lonesome Wyatt and Rachel Brooke - A Bitter Harvest
4. Satan's Pilgrims - Psychsploitation
3. Antipop Consortium - Fluorescent Black
2. Mew - No More Stories / Are Told Today / I'm Sorry / They Washed Away // No More Stories / The World Is Grey / I'm Tired / Let's Wash Away
1. miRthkon - Vehicle

2010

5. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
4. Igorrr - Nostril
3. Beach House - Teen Dream
2. Solex vs. Cristina Martinez + Jon Spencer - Amsterdam Throwdown King Street Showdown!
1. Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat - Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water

2011

5. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
4. Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
3. CunninLynguists - Oneirology
2. O'Death - Outside
1. K Dot O Dot - Trap Jesus

2012

5. Himanshu - Nehru Jackets
4. El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
3. Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat - Weltuntergangsstimmung
2. Death Grips - The Money Store
1. Aesop Rock - Skelethon

2013

5. The Uncluded - Hokey Fright
4. The Builders and the Butchers - Western Medicine
3. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
2. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience
1. Coin Locker Kid - Traumnovelle

YorkeDaddy · 04-04-2014, 06:26 PM

I started with 1959 and only did my top faves:

1959: Miles Davis – Kind of Blue

1960: John Coltrane – Giant Steps

1961: John Coltrane – Africa/Brass

1962: Oscar Peterson Trio: Night Train

1963: Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

1964: Bob Dylan: The Times They Are A’Changin’

1965: John Coltrane: A Love Supreme

1966: The Beatles: Revolver

1967: The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico

1968: The Zombies: Odessey and Oracle

1969: King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King

1970: Neil Young: After the Gold Rush

1971: Can: Tago Mago

1972: David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

1973: Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon

1974: Brian Eno: Here Come the Warm Jets

1975: Brian Eno: Another Green World

1976: Steve Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life

1977: David Bowie: Low

1978: Kraftwerk: The Man-Machine

1979: Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures

1980: Talking Heads: Remain in Light

1981: Echo & the Bunnymen: Heaven Up Here

1982: The Cure: Pornography

1983: Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes

1984: Prince & the Revolution: Purple Rain

1985: The Jesus and Marychain: Psychocandy

1986: Paul Simon: Graceland

1987: The Cult: Electric

1988: Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation

1989: The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses

1990: Megadeth: Rust in Peace

1991: My Bloody Valentine: Loveless

1992: Pavement: Slanted & Enchanted

1993: Slowdive: Souvlaki

1994: Jeff Buckley: Grace

1995: The Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

1996: The Olivia Tremor Control: Music From the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle

1997: Radiohead: OK Computer

1998: Elliott Smith: XO

1999: The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin

2000: Radiohead: Kid A

2001: Daft Punk: Discovery

2002: William Basinski: The Disintegration Loops

2003: The Microphones: Mount Eerie

2004: Arcade Fire: Funeral

2005: Sufjan Stevens: Illinois

2006: Brand New: The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me

2007: The National: Boxer

2008: Deerhunter: Microcastle

2009: The Antlers: Hospice

2010: Arcade Fire: The Suburbs

2011: M83: Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

2012: Kendrick Lamar: good kid, m.A.A.d. City

2013: Chvrches: The Bones of What You Believe

indiebands · 04-19-2014, 05:16 PM

Revolver was a great album by the beatles

03-01-2013, 07:03 PM	#141 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	I thought your lists were rather refreshing. If people are going to bitch because some famous album that's already been showered in praise for decades isn't in it then fuck them, because they've clearly missed the point of this thread. I look forward to seeing your next thread. And being pretentious isn't anywhere near as bad as being boring, which I would imagine most of these people's lists would be. As if The Beatles or Led Zeppelin need any more attention than they already get. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

03-01-2013, 07:34 PM	#144 (permalink)
streetwaves Music Addict Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 267	Thanks guys. Sorry if I sounded overly defensive, but it was a little bit annoying to find my old thread overrun by idiots claiming I'm a poseur. __________________ rateyourmusic

04-19-2014, 05:16 PM	#150 (permalink)
indiebands Groupie Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Canada Posts: 4	Revolver was a great album by the beatles __________________ NO Advertising Please

03-01-2013, 07:05 PM	#142 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	Holy hell, thanks for bumping this! I've never seen this thread. Gonna take a good look at it.

04-04-2014, 12:06 PM	#147 (permalink)
Josef K A Jew on a motorbike! 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