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

I mentioned doing this on another forum - each week we share our top 10 albums for a year and we started in 1965. I'm in 1995 right now but figured I would start a journal here in which I post my top 10s. Feel free to discuss or make recommendations based on my tastes, as I am of course always on the hunt to discover new and old music. Naturally I will be posting more than once a week as I catch up, since I already have these lists made (up to 1994 as of this writing), and then I'll resume to posting weekly. Sometimes I'll include write-ups, sometimes I won't. Since I'm playing catch-up with 30 years right now (1965-1995), I won't add anything I didn't already post in the other forum.

So here goes! Remember, feel free to discuss or make recommendations.

Cool. Cool cool cool.

These are my favorite kinds of lists!

Hell yeah...I try to do a top 25 but maybe that's too ambitious. And I've only got this decade down. I look forward to seeing your lists, maybe they can give me some ideas!

I have started to edit my RYM "Top 5" list to a "Top 10". I will probably start doing somewhat of a rundown for each year on my journal.

Looking forward to see how close they are to each others.

i uh kinda want to do this...

pretty excited to see how yours shakes up

I could easily do a top 25 for some years, sometimes it's very tough cramming everything I love into a top 10. Starting with 1965 because it was the first year I could list a complete set of 10.

I'm also using this exercise as a way to discover the things from each year that I never paid attention to. Not that I'm trying to listen to every highly-regarded album, just the ones that seem appealing to me as I browse RYM's top 200-300 and other people's lists here and there. As I start compiling my rough lists I typically end up with a dozen or more albums I'd like to listen to. I'm lucky if I get to 2 of them each week, but I'm archiving the lists as notes and in Spotify.

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

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Very nice. This is essentially the format I was thinking of going with. Pretty similar to my Top 10 for this year too.

Cool list, gotta keep this thread in mind.