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One Album For Every Year You Are Alive
pwhodges:
8-)
I'm here, but you'll have to wait a bit for a list because of the rest of my life - and what's more I'll tweak the rules to suit myself.
(EDIT) The first 40 were easy; now it takes a bit longer to fill the gaps
(EDIT) Scroll down - you can't miss it!
mat_mantra:
Good christ, someone please post who was born in/before the early eighties like me. And this might take days of research, so bump for future goodness
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Thank you, Paul, for making me feel youthful again
Barrabas:
1988 - N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
1989 - De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
1990 - Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
1991 - R.E.M. - Out of Time
1992 - Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
1993 - Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
1994 - Weezer - Blue Album
1995 - Scott Walker - Tilt
1996 - DJ Shadow - Entroducing
1997 - Earthling - David Bowie
1998 - Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
1999 - The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
2000 - Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy
2001 - Radiohead - Amnesiac
2002 - Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine - Rampton
2003 - Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
2004 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
2005 - Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2006 - Sunn O))) + Boris - Altar
2007 - 65 Days of Static - Destruction of Small Ideas
2008 - Radiohead - In Rainbows
sean:
Okay so here goes mine.
1991 - Slint - Spiderland
This one feels completely obvious to me. With post-rock being my favorite genre, I obvioulsy owe these guys a lot. While of course they didn't single handedly come up with the genre, they did a big thing I think for it with this album and have earned their spot here.
1992 - Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Man, I should listen to more music from 1992. I really didn't know what to pick for this one, and even Pavement is a stretch for me (I don't listen to much Pavement). Oh well, I guess you can't have an obvious choice for every year.
1993 - Sunny Day Real Estate- Thief, Steal Me a Peach 7"
To some of you, this may seem like I need to listen to more music from '93 as well. However, this two song EP is insane. It's practically the perfect blend of the hardcore based emo of the late 80's and the indie emo movement that these guys would start a year later.
1994 - Low - I Could Live In Hope
My god, Low is amazing. This record could earn this spot based on the track of Lullaby, but goddamn this a solid record all around.
1995 - Hum - You'd Prefer an Astronaut
Hum is so great. As Jeph has said a bajillion times, these guys are fucking heavy. And incredible.
1996 - Dirty Three - Horse Stories
1996 was a pretty boss year for music. (almost as rad as '97). Low's The Curtain Hits the Cast and Silkwom's Firewater, two amazing albums, were released. However, for me this has to go to Horse Stories. This album is one of my favorites, ever. The beautiful and violent violin playing is just jaw dropping.
1997 - Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F# A# Infinity
Holy shit '97 was an absolutely deadly year. Young Team, OK Computer, Perfect From Now On, Homework, etc. Man, why couldn't I have been born ten years earlier. Anyway, this album is outstanding. I owe so much to these guys in terms of my music, and a bunch of other stuff too. While they have better albums, I feel its best to acknowledge them where they started.
1998 - Catch 22 - Keasby Nights
This one is pretty much all sentimental. My god, when I was younger I loved this record. While I hardly spin it nowadays, this record still holds a special place in my heart and deserves every right to be in this spot.
1999 - The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
This is I guess what you could call my first "indie rock" record. After starting to read QC, I say this album mentioned a whole bunch and thought, oh man this must be good. So I went and bought it not knowing what to expect. While I was a bit confused at first its pure blissfulness pulled me in. So, I guess its this album that introduced me to the whole independent music thing. Bravo Flaming Lips.
2000 - Faraquet - The View From this Tower
This one was possibly the hardest one for me, since A Silver Mt. Zion put out He Has Left Us Alone... in 2000 too but since they have a spot later on Faraquet is awarded this spot. And the spot is not undeserved. Absolutely brilliant math rock tunes fill this album, making it one of my favorite releases.
2001 - Saetia - A Retrospective
To be fair, these songs were all released before 2001 so this is sort of cheating. However, this discography is filled with some of the best scremo tracks out there. Long live Saetia!
2002 - Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet
Man, Do Make Say Think are great, and this is such an amazing album. Its filled with beautiful subtle bliss till you hit Reitschule, which is when all that building subtle bliss blows up in your face.
2003 - Envy - A Dead Sinking Story
SDLJFSDLKFJ KLJ oh my god this album is incredible. This album is the perfect example of how to blend hardcore and post-rock. In that regard, it's pretty much flawless. Envy fucking nailed it with this album.
2004 - 65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math
God I love this record. Just straight up rocking the fuck out the entire time. So great.
2005 - Broken Social Scene - s/t
If The Soft Bulletin started me off on interdependent music, this album roped me in and never let me look back ever again. After hearing this I could never look back and nothing could be better.
2006 - Mono - You Are There
Hey, are you in a post-rock band? Do you like post-rock? Then here this album. It may as well be a guide on how to do it right. This here is pretty much crescendo based post-rock perfection.
2007 - Efterklang - Parades
This album is so pretty and wonderful and happy. I love it.
2008 - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra La La Band - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
This is my current album of the year, and I really doubt much will change that. For some reason, I connect with this album in ways I can't even dream of connecting with most other albums to (to be fair, a few other album on this list do a similar thing though i did not mention it). This is just a fucking brilliant piece of music as far as I am concerned.
My god this took so long.
Thrillho:
1988 - NWA - Straight Outta Compton - The album that changed my view on gangsta rap for the better.
1989 - Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy - Bob rediscovers his mojo and creates his only classic album in a whole decade. I'd say eight of then songs on this album break my heart.
1990 - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Good Son - An album by my favourite artist containing some of my favourite songs, like 'The Ship Song.'
1991 - Primal Scream - Screamadelica - Baggy meets prog. An album that's rarely failed to make me feel good, or at least make me do the Bez dance to 'Slip Inside This House.'
1992 - R.E.M. - Automatic For The People - A warm, healing album that washes over you rather than you listening to it. An album I've not had for long but already one that I know I can use in emotional moments.
1993 - Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish - The album that started Britpop. What a run it was. Parklife's the better album, but it all began here.
1994 - Weezer - Weezer - My favourite album ever.
1995 - Faith No More - King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime - Angel Dust is the better album, but this has aged better as far as both the production and the music. It's darker, too - and it's certainly my favourite by a band that's only really entered my top ten in the last year.
1996 - Tupac - All Eyez On Me - Certainly Tupac's, and possibly gangsta rap's defining album. The first disc alone is probably the best rap album I've ever heard, even without the great stuff on the second.
1997 - Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death - Biggie's own double. One of few rappers to come near Tupac in stature and skill, if he could freestyle he'd be better. This album is imperfect, but it's sprawling, varied, as commercial as it is dark.
1998 - Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come - To call this punk is almost insulting. A jaw-dropping masterpiece that's almost parallel with my political leanings.
1999 - blink-182 - Enema Of The State - Puerile, but so often affecting. By turns hilarious and emotional for me, an album that defines my youth.
2000 - Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory - An album I don't listen to much any more, but what pretty much kicked off my independent thought as far as music fandom.
2001 - Ryan Adams - Gold - Recorded before 9/11, but an album that for me helped the healing process after it, because 'New York, New York' had nothing to do with New York, really.
2002 - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - The album Warners paid for twice; the album I'd pay for ten times. In here for 'I Am Trying To Break Your Heart' alone.
2003 - SikTh - The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out, Wait For Something Wild - A band I sorely miss - an album unlike virtually any other I've heard. Amazing musicality, brutality and beauty co-existing.
2004 - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus - The album I discovered Nick Cave via, and for my money still his best.
2005 - BRMC - Howl - Strip away the noise, discover roots rock. Make your masterpiece.
2006 - Twilight Singers - Powder Burns - My album of the year for 2006. A modern classic.
2007 - Gallows - Orchestra Of Wolves - A reissue, sort of, re-released on Warners with new artwork and two new songs that are as good as anything else on the album. One of music's great modern hopes in my estimation.
2008 - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! - Almost as good as its predecessor, better than half his catalogue. The old buzzard's still got it.
I should note that there's 10 or 12 albums I could've picked for 1994, that's my favourite year for music.
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