Sidewinder's Top 10 Albums from Every Year (1965-)

sidewinder · 11-14-2014, 05:16 PM

1988

This list is kind of funny because it's one that contains a lot of albums i really loved at the time (or within a couple years) and still do, but at the same time I haven't discovered many amazing albums in the last few decades to take the place of these (exceptions: Pixies, Sonic Youth). There are many things I still want to check out, and many other good albums from the year I already know, but these classics haven't been replaced. The Descendents were actually a 1992 discovery, and an album I would put on my "formative albums" list. A close friend at the time found the tape in our high school parking lot, and we stuck it in the tape deck of my mom's car that we used to drive around it. We instantly fell in love with the raw energy and fun of the tape. They've been a favorite since and it's all thanks to this live tape. I still like some of the live versions from here better than the studio ones.

1. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
2. Jane’s Addition - Nothing’s Shocking
3. Skinny Puppy - VIVIsect VI
4. Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
5. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
6. Descendents - Hallraker: Live!
7. Metallica - …And Justice for All
8. Danzig - Danzig
9. Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can’t Even Smile Today
10. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits

jackhammer · 11-14-2014, 08:46 PM

Great thread. Really enjoying it.

sidewinder · 11-17-2014, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

Great thread. Really enjoying it.

Thanks for reading!

sidewinder · 11-17-2014, 04:41 PM

1989
Everything on this list is fucking awesome. What a great year, probably one of the most solid, and almost definitely the strongest year for the 80s even though a lot of it is hinting at the 90s. They're just all classics of their respective genres.. FNM's "Epic" blew my mind when it appeared on MTV, and the album has been a favorite since. Though I can't think of a single album that is in need of a remaster more than this one. The only thing that's maybe a stretch for me here is The Cure's Disintegration, which is great and definitely their most highly-regarded album, but I personally enjoy some earlier material more.

1. Faith No More - The Real Thing
2. Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
3. Fugazi - 13 Songs
4. Pixies - Doolittle
5. Skinny Puppy - Rabies
6. Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
7. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
8. Meat Beat Manifesto - Storm the Studio
9. Nirvana - Bleach
10. The Cure - Disintegration

Moss · 11-17-2014, 10:44 PM

Man. Doolittle, Bleach and the real thing all in the same year. Crazy good. Nice list.

sidewinder · 11-19-2014, 02:14 PM

1990
Welcome to the 90s. I started high school in 1990, went to college and started my career at the end. By all accounts, this is my decade as far as music is concerned. So first let's ignore all the glam metal I was still listening to at the beginning of 1990. And because this isn't a list of the top albums I loved then, we'll also have to ignore great albums by the likes of Alice in Chains and The Black Crowes. I should mention that by 1992 I was listening to a lot of metal acts like Pantera, Prong, Judas Priest, Anthrax, Slayer, etc. that put out great albums in 1990, but again, I'm just not into most of that anymore. Some that made the top 10 are very nostalgic but have stood the test of time for me (Megadeth, Suicidal Tendencies), some I discovered only a little later (Skinny Puppy, Jane's Addiction, Meat Beat Manifesto, Primus) and some considerably later (Fugazi, Sonic Youth, Tribe, Pixies). There's going to be a mix of these categories from here on out in my lists, as these next few years helped to form my music tastes. Not that my tastes aren't still evolving, of course.

1. Fugazi - Repeater
2. Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
3. Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
4. Sonic Youth - Goo
5. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
6. A Tribe Called Quest - People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
7. Meat Beat Manifesto - Armed Audio Warfare
8. Suicidal Tendencies - Lights Camera Revolution
9. Pixies - Bossanova
10. Primus - Frizzle Fry

I realized after including Jane's Addiction's Ritual here that I mistakenly used that cover for 1988's Nothing's Shocking. So that's been updated now.

OccultHawk · 11-19-2014, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by sidewinder

Now without further delay...

1965
This is the first year I'm able to compile a list of 10 albums. Obviously this early on we've got a lot of the usual suspects - and deservedly so. Picking a favorite out of these top 4 is like splitting hairs, really, but I often consider Help! my favorite Beatles album. The addition of The Moody Blues' debut album was a bit of a stretch, not a bad album but not really exceptional either. I was just trying to fill the 10th slot. I'm also not a big Dylan fan but he's grown on me over the years and this is a solid album.

Special note: Most people have not heard of The Sorrows. I suggest you remedy that if you're one of those people. Now.

1. The Beatles - Help!
2. The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!
3. The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
4. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
5. The Sorrows - Take a Heart
6. The Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads
7. The Zombies - The Zombies
8. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
9. The Kinks - The Kink Kontroversy
10. The Moody Blues - The Magnificent Moodies

Great list. I would personally make room for

A Love Supreme
Bert Jansch
Maiden Voyage

sidewinder · 11-20-2014, 06:53 PM

1991

Another excellent year. As with 1990, a few favorites from back then have faded and made way for more recent favorites. RHCP and Primus would have been much higher on the list at the time - as Smashing Pumpkins, Mr. Bungle, and Dead Horse weren't discovered until the year after, with the rest coming in years later. It's kind of funny actually to even include RHCP - they went downhill so fast after this album, which to me was the peak of their career, and I don't find myself listening to this often if ever anymore. But I loved it that much at the time and still consider it a great album. There are lots of other great albums from 1991, I think I am letting nostalgia get the better of me with a few of these. Otherwise I might throw in later discoveries like Drive Like Jehu and...well honestly just about everything else I like from this year would be considered nostalgic. So there it is.

1. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
2. Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
4. Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle
5. Dead Horse - Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers
6. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
7. Pixies - Trompe le monde
8. Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
10. Slint - Spiderland

**Frownland** · 11-20-2014, 07:39 PM

Definitely agree on the RHCP statement. Blood Sugar Sex Magic is the only one I can really listen to these days, but to be fair the only release I've listened to from before that album is Mother's Milk so I may have to listen to the other ones.

sidewinder · 11-21-2014, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Definitely agree on the RHCP statement. Blood Sugar Sex Magic is the only one I can really listen to these days, but to be fair the only release I've listened to from before that album is Mother's Milk so I may have to listen to the other ones.

I like their albums pre-BSSM also, they're just not as solid/consistent. Still I prefer them to what came after BSSM.

11-14-2014, 05:16 PM	#51 (permalink)
sidewinder Engorged Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,536	1988 This list is kind of funny because it's one that contains a lot of albums i really loved at the time (or within a couple years) and still do, but at the same time I haven't discovered many amazing albums in the last few decades to take the place of these (exceptions: Pixies, Sonic Youth). There are many things I still want to check out, and many other good albums from the year I already know, but these classics haven't been replaced. The Descendents were actually a 1992 discovery, and an album I would put on my "formative albums" list. A close friend at the time found the tape in our high school parking lot, and we stuck it in the tape deck of my mom's car that we used to drive around it. We instantly fell in love with the raw energy and fun of the tape. They've been a favorite since and it's all thanks to this live tape. I still like some of the live versions from here better than the studio ones. 1. Pixies - Surfer Rosa 2. Jane’s Addition - Nothing’s Shocking 3. Skinny Puppy - VIVIsect VI 4. Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey 5. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation 6. Descendents - Hallraker: Live! 7. Metallica - …And Justice for All 8. Danzig - Danzig 9. Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can’t Even Smile Today 10. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits __________________ last.fm \| my collection on RYM \| vinyl instagram @allthatyouseeandhear I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures. Last edited by sidewinder; 11-19-2014 at 02:01 PM. Reason: I included the wrong artwork for Jane's Addiction.

11-14-2014, 08:46 PM	#52 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Great thread. Really enjoying it. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

11-17-2014, 04:41 PM	#54 (permalink)
sidewinder Engorged Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,536	1989 Everything on this list is fucking awesome. What a great year, probably one of the most solid, and almost definitely the strongest year for the 80s even though a lot of it is hinting at the 90s. They're just all classics of their respective genres.. FNM's "Epic" blew my mind when it appeared on MTV, and the album has been a favorite since. Though I can't think of a single album that is in need of a remaster more than this one. The only thing that's maybe a stretch for me here is The Cure's Disintegration, which is great and definitely their most highly-regarded album, but I personally enjoy some earlier material more. 1. Faith No More - The Real Thing 2. Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique 3. Fugazi - 13 Songs 4. Pixies - Doolittle 5. Skinny Puppy - Rabies 6. Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste 7. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine 8. Meat Beat Manifesto - Storm the Studio 9. Nirvana - Bleach 10. The Cure - Disintegration __________________ last.fm \| my collection on RYM \| vinyl instagram @allthatyouseeandhear I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures.

11-19-2014, 02:14 PM	#56 (permalink)
sidewinder Engorged Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,536	1990 Welcome to the 90s. I started high school in 1990, went to college and started my career at the end. By all accounts, this is my decade as far as music is concerned. So first let's ignore all the glam metal I was still listening to at the beginning of 1990. And because this isn't a list of the top albums I loved then, we'll also have to ignore great albums by the likes of Alice in Chains and The Black Crowes. I should mention that by 1992 I was listening to a lot of metal acts like Pantera, Prong, Judas Priest, Anthrax, Slayer, etc. that put out great albums in 1990, but again, I'm just not into most of that anymore. Some that made the top 10 are very nostalgic but have stood the test of time for me (Megadeth, Suicidal Tendencies), some I discovered only a little later (Skinny Puppy, Jane's Addiction, Meat Beat Manifesto, Primus) and some considerably later (Fugazi, Sonic Youth, Tribe, Pixies). There's going to be a mix of these categories from here on out in my lists, as these next few years helped to form my music tastes. Not that my tastes aren't still evolving, of course. 1. Fugazi - Repeater 2. Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park 3. Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual 4. Sonic Youth - Goo 5. Megadeth - Rust in Peace 6. A Tribe Called Quest - People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm 7. Meat Beat Manifesto - Armed Audio Warfare 8. Suicidal Tendencies - Lights Camera Revolution 9. Pixies - Bossanova 10. Primus - Frizzle Fry I realized after including Jane's Addiction's Ritual here that I mistakenly used that cover for 1988's Nothing's Shocking. So that's been updated now. __________________ last.fm \| my collection on RYM \| vinyl instagram @allthatyouseeandhear I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures.

11-20-2014, 06:53 PM	#58 (permalink)
sidewinder Engorged Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,536	1991 Another excellent year. As with 1990, a few favorites from back then have faded and made way for more recent favorites. RHCP and Primus would have been much higher on the list at the time - as Smashing Pumpkins, Mr. Bungle, and Dead Horse weren't discovered until the year after, with the rest coming in years later. It's kind of funny actually to even include RHCP - they went downhill so fast after this album, which to me was the peak of their career, and I don't find myself listening to this often if ever anymore. But I loved it that much at the time and still consider it a great album. There are lots of other great albums from 1991, I think I am letting nostalgia get the better of me with a few of these. Otherwise I might throw in later discoveries like Drive Like Jehu and...well honestly just about everything else I like from this year would be considered nostalgic. So there it is. 1. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish 2. Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing 3. Nirvana - Nevermind 4. Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle 5. Dead Horse - Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers 6. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory 7. Pixies - Trompe le monde 8. Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese 9. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik 10. Slint - Spiderland __________________ last.fm \| my collection on RYM \| vinyl instagram @allthatyouseeandhear I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures.

11-17-2014, 10:44 PM	#55 (permalink)
Moss Scuttle Buttin' Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Boulder Colorado Posts: 972	Man. Doolittle, Bleach and the real thing all in the same year. Crazy good. Nice list.

11-20-2014, 07:39 PM	#59 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Definitely agree on the RHCP statement. Blood Sugar Sex Magic is the only one I can really listen to these days, but to be fair the only release I've listened to from before that album is Mother's Milk so I may have to listen to the other ones. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x