Favorite Years in Music?
 

1967, 1977, 1987, 2013, 1976, 2015, and 1991.

2017

1999, great summer, lots of classic anthems.

Are we all just listing numbers with no particular explanation? If so: 1907

1643

Back when REAL music was around.

Then I'll explain mine. 1967 was the Summer of Love, the key year in one of my favorite genres: psychedelia.
1977 houses 3 of my favorite albums: Rumours, Bat Out of Hell (my top fave), and The Stranger, as well as many great punk albums.
2013 and 2015 are fir the same reason. The modern era hasn't impressed me very much, but these two years really stood out for me.
1987 had the opuses of Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, U2, GNR, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, as well as Dinosaur Jr. It also had Bad, the second best Michael Jackson album. Forgive me for not mentioning Sister, but I can't get into noise rock.
1991 was the year of grunge, when it really started getting popular. Nevermind, Ten, Badmotorfinger, and more. Plus, Loveless.
1976 was the first year I really ever started exploring.

I'll listen to all of the music of recorded history and get back to you.

1966 - best year by far for soul and pop. Not that bad for rock either.

1974 had:

King Crimson: Red, Starless and Bible Black

Neil Young: On the Beach

Eno: Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom

Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Camel: Mirage

Miles Davis: Get Up With It, Big Fun

Van Morrison: Veedon Fleece

Supertramp: Crime of the Century

Frank Zappa: Apostrophe (')

Yes: Relayer

Sparks: Kimono My House, Propaganda

Leonard Cohen: New Skin for the Old Ceremony

Kraftwerk: Autobahn

Roxy Music: Country Life

Tangerine Dream: Phaedra

Gong: You

John Cale: Fear

John Coltrane: Interstellar Space

Steve Reich & Musicians: Drumming; Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ; Six Pianos

Tom Waits: The Heart of Saturday Night

Gentle Giant: The Power and the Glory

Herbie Hancock: Thrust, Death Wish

Pharoah Sanders: Elevation, Love in Us All

The Residents: Meet The Residents

Bowie: Diamond Dogs

Henry Cow: Unrest

James Brown: Hell

Nico: The End...

Can: Soon Over Babaluma

Buddy Rich: The Roar of '74

Joe Pass: Virtuoso

Philip Glass: Music in Twelve Parts - Parts 1 & 2

John Lennon: Walls and Bridges

The Who: Odds & Sods

Bob Dylan: Planet Waves

Bennie Maupin: The Jewel in the Lotus

Chet Baker: She Was Too Good to Me

Kool & The Gang: Light of Worlds

Ray Manzarek: The Golden Scarab

Sun Ra: Space Probe

+A ton more amazing Funk and Jazz stuff

1994 because that's the year I graduated high school and it's hard to deny the feelings you have for music at that stage in life.
And I mean, just look at this:

Änglagård - Epilog
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Autechre - Amber
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Failure - Magnified
Green Day - Dookie
Helmet - Betty
Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family
Melvins - Stoner Witch
Nailbomb - Point Blank
Nas - Illmatic
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
NOFX - Punk in Drublic
Orbital - Snivilisation
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - The Main Ingredient
Pigface - Notes From Thee Underground
Polvo - Celebrate the New Dark Age
Psychic TV - Electric Newspaper Issue One
Refused - This Just Might Be... The Truth
Rodan - Rusty
Sebadoh - Bakesale
Shellac - At Action Park
The Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Three Mile Pilot - The Chief Assassin to the Sinister
UGK - Super Tight...
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Unwound - New Plastic Ideas
Veruca Salt - American Thighs
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
Weezer - Blue Album

And I've left out a lot that others probably consider great/essential. Even a given year in the 60s or 70s wouldn't have as many in the list.

^Änglagard are getting mentioned far too seldom on MB.
Amazing band. :beer:

Usually if you have a set of numbers you list them in numerical order from lowest to highest, that's if you have no particular preference.* I'm guessing like 1977 more than 1976 cause it shows up after 2013, more than four decades later. You can enumerate them no problem with the "Ordered list" function and show which year more than the other.** You don't give much information as to why you like any of those years. There are no bands, albums, nor mile-stones in music history for why you picked those particular years. How do you ranked them? ... and why?

*exhibit a:

• 1967
• 1976
• 1977
• 1987
• 1991
• 2013
• 2015

**exhibit b:

1. 1967
2. 1977
3. 1987
4. 2013
5. 1976
6. 2015
7. 1991

1971-1972

Anything between 65 and 81

2013 easily. Major Lazer, Justin Timberlake, Studio Killers, Colette Carr, Ellie Goulding, Icona Pop, Selena Gomez, Lorde, Arcade Fire, M.I.A, and Lady Gaga did it for me. Awesome year in pop/electronic.

Was also a great year for K-Pop and Eurovision. So much nostalgia for 2013.

Hi MPT :)


1991-1992

57-67

Blue Train to Meditations.

1997 had a lot of fantastic releases

Daft Punk - Homework
Deftones - Around the Fur
Devin Townsend (Ocean Machine) - Biomech
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Erykah Badu - Baduizm
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
Portishead - s/t
Radiohead - OK Computer
Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen
Strapping Young Lad - City
Ween - The Mollusk


2000 takes the cake though

At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Deftones - White Pony
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Godspeed You! - Lift Yr Skinny Fists
In Flames - Clayman
Isis - Celestial
Outkast - Stankonia
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Radiohead - Kid A
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Weakling - Dead as Dreams

Oh fuck yes. I will see your








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I guess my favourite year would be 1979. Turned 14 that year and the music scene was so varied. In a typical top 40 chart you would see pop, punk, new-wave, disco, country, prog rock, metal, classical, reggae and everything else under the sun.

I was just about to post some 1979

My favourite year is quite close, as 2014 was just over-the-top-amazing for me!
Just a lot of great new albums from several of my favourite artists. The streak continued pretty good in 2015, and 2011 was a similarly good year.
Back before 2000 I don't have enough of an overview over exactly what albums were published each year, so I don't know.
I guess 1992 was pretty good: Debut album from Tori Amos, Faith No More's Gold Dust, a good Prince album and Megadeth's Countdown to Extinction plus a great sophomore album from Waltari.
Can't mention a single great year earlier than 1973 for sure, even if I go research my collection.

1989-1994 were the best years for me, I like the oldskool Italian and British House jams from that era

Gold Dust?

Dude you need to keep up with the latest fashion drugs.

1976-83 the best creative music years

Oops, mixed it up with another album title. Angel Dust. I know, I know, whatever...

Really ?

The winner by quantity according to my iTunes is 2009 at 332. It's a close victory though with years in the early to mid 2000s around the 250-310 range.

Makes sense, 16 at the time and had listened to some highly influential music at the time.

You forgot...
Grace by Jeff Buckley
Parklife by Blur
Dog Man Star by Suede
Definitely Maybe by Oasis
Superunknown by Soundgarden
Dummy by Portishead
I Could Live in Hope by Low

Cool that you put Purple by STP there.

Hard to pick particular years, but my favorite decade is definitely the 70s.

It was going from best to worst. They're all my favorites, but 1991 is the last of my favorites.

1976 was my first favorite year, but eventually I grew more into 1977 because of Rumours and Bat Out of Hell. Now it's the year of the Summer of Love. I didscovered most of the psychedelic I've heard from bands who partook in the whole Summer of Love deal. It's probably the most hippie thing about me.

Blur and Soundgarden aside (they're both more mediocre than bad), that list disgusts me.

I've given Blur multiple chances. Just can't get into them.

Dog Man Star disgusts you?
Dummy disgusts you?


Wow.

Also missing Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible, Tori Amos - Under the Pink, The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation, The Cranberries - No Need to Argue, Pink Floyd - Division Bell.

1994 is my favourite year for music.

2000-2002

Ah you see, there's your mistake. You're using American English.


Serious question. What is so disgusting about Dummy or Dog Man Star?