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One Album For Every Year You Are Alive
Zingoleb:
The only problem is, I didn't know good music until about 12. Up till about the age of nine I listened to a ton of...you know. Pop. Boy bands...that shit.
pwhodges:
OK, here it is; there's no way for this to be small, so just get used to scrolling! If I did it again, half of it would be different, as some years had four or five to choose from. In the end I have managed to make them all either year of recording or year of original release - rather than compromising with year of purchase or first hearing as I had expected to do. You might have expected a higher ratio of classical recording, as my music collection is about 90% classical; but I often picked rock or jazz in preference to suit the interests of this forum. I am not a particular collector of "historic" recordings, so the earliest recordings reflect my special interest in the music of Béla Bartók (who takes up nearly 20% of my collection). In only 62 disks, I could not hope to be representative, so many things you might expect are missing - no Stravinsky or Shostakovich happened to fit, for instance.
1946 Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra (Reiner) [First recording]
1947 Bartok - Solo Violin Sonata (Menuhin) [First recording]
1948 Bach - Concerto for three pianos [My piano teacher, as a young man, is one of the pianists]
1949 Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv, 1900-2000 [I couldn't find a single recording for this year, so I've used a collection of historic recordings that covers it]
1950 Hartmann - Symphony 4 finale (Fricsay) [I prefer the 6th symphony recorded a few years later by the same conductor, but that didn't fit]
1951 Anna Russell [Anna Russell recorded her musical comedy routines over several years - highly recomended!]
1952 Prokofiev - Piano Concerto 1 (Richter) [This Russian disk names the conductor differently on the sleeve and the label, and a recent discography I've looked it up in gives a third name!]
1953 Bartok - String Quartets (Vegh) [The first records I ever bought - still great, though there are now many superb alternatives]
1954 Bach - Piano Concerto in D (Richter) [Same disk as the 1952 Prokofiev]
1955 Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours [One of the essentials, init]
1956 Bartok - Bluebeard's Castle (Ferencsik) [Another of my earliest purchases, and still one of the best (remember, I have all the recordings of this work ever released) - the original disk came with a Picasso print as the artwork]
1957 Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge [A present from my brother to widen my early interest in modern music beyond Bartók]
1958 Bartok - Sonata for Solo Violin (Menuhin) [One of my very earliest purchases - next after the string quartets, I think]
1959 Orff - Carmina Burana (Kegel) [Not a well-known recording, but I prefer it to the flashier modern ones]
1960 Brahms - Piano Concerto 2 (Richter, Leinsdorf) [just, WOW!]
1961 Bartok - Piano Concertos (Anda, Fricsay) [Still the one to beat]
1962 Hindemith - Symphony 'Mathis der Maler' (Karajan) [Bought for the Bartók on the other side, but a splendid introduction to Hindemith]
1963 Saint Saens - Piano Concerto 2 [This is a private recording of a school concert; my piano teacher is the soloist, and I am playing the orchestral clarinet solo]
1964 Marianne Faithfull - As Tears Go By [This single changed my cousin's world, and inevitably I saw a lot less of her subsequently]
1965 Mahler - Symphony 2 'Resurrection' (Klemperer)
1966 Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
1967 Wagner - Die Meistersinger (Kubelik) [live from Bayreuth. There is no need to be offended by the nationalism of the last section, any more than by the same in Rossini's Italian Girl in Algiers, or Rule Britannia in Arne's opera Alfred]
1968 Beatles - The Beatles (White Album) [I bought this on the day of release, and took it round to play to my friends Peter Craven and Michael Gerzon; brownie points if you've heard of Michael Gerzon!]
1969 Beatles - Let It Be [Also bought on the day of release - and I still have the big photo book that came with it]
1970 Tavener - Celtic Requiem [One of the Apple label's great moments]
1971 John Lennon - Imagine [Simply another essential]
1972 Menuhin & Grappelli [They recorded together over several years, so they usefully fit a gap here]
1973 Paul McCartney and Wings - Band on the Run [What's to say?]
1974 Alkan - Grande Sonate [My piano teacher, Ronald Smith, again. He was the leader in the rediscovery of this French piano composer who was a neighbour of both Liszt and Chopin, and looked up to by both. This is perhaps his greatest single work]
1975 Elgar - The Spirit of England (Gibson) [A little-known cantata written in memory of the fallen during the first world war]
1976 Jazz at the Pawnshop [One of the first consciously audiophile LPs (I have the CD release), but excellent jazz playing too]
1977 Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks [Not everything's nice]
1978 Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream [Michael Gerzon made me buy this]
1979 Geoffrey Burgon - Nunc Dimittis [Written as the theme music for the BBC's TV production of John Le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy]
1980 Wagner - Parsifal (Kubelik) [Only released a couple of years ago; they recorded a whole Wagner opera before realising that one of the soloists was contracted to a rival company and they couldn't get a release - oops!]
1981 Organ Music from Reading Town Hall (Ennis) [As a student I did some organ building, and for a time hoped to make it my career. I visited this superb "Father Willis" organ in my home town with a friend who did subsequently become an organ builder - I still have the receipt for "Hire of Town Hall: 2/6d" (UK funny money - about 50c at 1967 exchange rates)]
1982 Britten - War Requiem (Rattle) [My son is in the boys choir]
1983 Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms [My step-son used to play this to death, so I got to know and like it that way]
1984 Frankie goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
1985 Alan Parsons Project - Stereotomy
1986 Schubert - Die Winterreise (Schreier, Richter) [The greatest emo song-cycle]
1987 U2 - The Joshua Tree [I first listened through this standing on a railway station in Munich, overlooking fields around the airport; I was on my way to a programming contract at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry]
1988 Beethoven - Missa Solemnis (Kvam) [Terje Kvam was organist of Oslo Cathedral at the time this was recorded, and I spoke to him when I made a lovely informal recording of an anglican-style service there that he was directing]
1989 Francais - Concertino (Hobson) [I got this because I once played the solo piano part of this work in a concert at school]
1990 Handel - Joshua (King) [I sang this work in the 1970s under the conductor Rudolf Piernay. He is better known as a major London singing teacher, but before he became famous he gave me and my wife singing lessons. The conductor of this recording went to prison recently for inappropriate behaviour with young teenage boys. Having been involved on the periphery of a similar (but unrelated) case, I would have some doubts about the safety of this verdict - however, this is simply my personal uninformed opinion]
1991 Slint - Spiderland
1992 Keith Jarrett - The Vienna Concert [I also have some of his recordings of Bach and Handel]
1993 Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen (Barenboim) [live from Bayreuth. I could have chosen the Decca/London Solti/Culshaw studio recording, but that didn't fit - and I prefer the live one overall]
1994 Messiaen - Complete Organ Works (Weir) [Did you know that Messiaen heard sounds as colours, and used this to relate some of his music to stained glass? He also used a lot of transcribed birdsong in his post-war works]
1995 Verdi - Requiem (Hickox) [No special pleading here - just a great recording of a great work]
1996 Kronos Quartet - Howl [Do you know Kronos? You should]
1997 Mogwai - Young Team
1998 Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea [Especially Oh Comely; one of the great songs]
1999 Jacques Loussier - Take Bach (with the Pekinel Sisters) [This late recording by Jacques Loussier includes a pair of Turkish pianists to perform two- and three-piano concertos. As far as I can tell, it was only released in Turkey, where I bought it on holiday]
2000 Radiohead - Kid A
2001 Bill Hopkins - Études en Série [The first solo record made by my son; I recorded, edited and mastered it]
2002 Jamie Cullum - Pointless Nostalgic [Yeah, I'm soppy too. This still has the edge on his more commercial releases - but he's one to watch over the years]
2003 Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
2004 John Adams - Road Movies [My son played the piano pieces on this in a BBC concert in London, as a result of which Adams asked him to do this recording; my favourite piece here is American Berserk. It was back-stage at another Adams concert (in the Carnegie Hall) that he met his wife, who has also sung for Adams]
2005 Fiori Musicali [I was on holiday in Dubrovnic, and came across these buskers doing wonderful classical arrangements playing a violin, a flute and two guitars; I bought their CD. You can hear one track in my Summer Mix for Tommy]
2006 Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
2007 of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? [I prefer Aldhils Aboretum, but that didn't fit]
2008 Redgate & Clarke - Piano works [My son again. I recorded the same works in a preparatory concert, but this is a studio recording by the record company]
Paul
orangepeas:
1986-The Smiths-The Queen is Dead
1987-Substance-New Order
1988-Daydream Nation-Sonic Youth
1989-Doolittle-Pixies
1990-Goo-Sonic Youth
1991:Blues Traveler-Travelers and Thieves
(runners up include: The Low End Theory-A Tribe Called Quest,Nevermind-Nirvana,Screamadelica-Primal Scream,Out of Time-Rem,Dangerous-Michael Jackson) 1991 was a very good year in music,to bad I was too young to even realize it.
1992-Screaming Trees-Sweet Oblivion
(Kerplunk-Green Day, Little Earthquakes-Tori Amos,Blind Melon-Blind Melon)
1993-So Tonight That I Might See-Mazzy Star
(In Utero-Nirvana,Siamese Dream-Smashing Pumpkins,Candlebox-Candlebox,Pork Soda-Primus)
1994-This year was very tuff. Alot of favorite albums came from this year. I'm going to go with the Blue album by Weezer though because this was my first "real" album. It's rad! ( Dookie-Green Day,The Downward Spiral-Nine Inch Nails,The Division Bell-Pink Floyd,Live Through This-Hole,Throwing Copper-Live,Hungry for Stink-L7,Sixteen Stone-Bush and finally Grace-Jeff Buckley...not in that order obviously)
1995-Frogstomp-Silverchair
1996: Sublime-Sublime (Animal Rights-Moby,Pinkerton-Weezer,Ćnima-Tool,Endtroducing.....-Dj Shadow,The Score-The Fugees)
1997-Freakshow-Silverchair (Clumsy-Our Lady Peace,Middle of Nowhere-Hanson,The Color and the Shape-Foo Fighters,Urban Hymns-The Verve,Ok Computer-Radiohead)
1998-Mezzanine-Massive Attack
1999-Neon Ballroom-Silverchair...this is the album that changed my life. (I also really like Ágćtis byrjun by Sigur Ros)
2000-Tangents: The Tea Party Collection (Renegades by Rage Against the Machine is also in there somewhere. I also remember buying Infest by Papa Roach...yeah, interesting purchase.)
2001-Lateralus-Tool (How I Spent my Summer Vacation by the Bouncing Souls and Mediocre Generica by Leftover Crack are the runners up)
2002-Diorama-Silverchair (A Night at the Opera by Blind Guardian,The Beginning Stages of...by The Polyphonic Spree,Murray Street by Sonic Youth and The Coral by the Coral are all favorites to)
2003-Recreation Day-Evergrey
2004-2067-Rheostatics
2005-Ghost Reveries-Opeth
2006-Both Sides of the Gun-Ben Harper
2007-New Moon-Elliot Smith
2008-Nothing yet....
valley_parade:
--- Quote from: squawk on 01 Sep 2008, 12:02 ---Except at the time I was four and cared only about Power Rangers and Mario Kart.
--- End quote ---
You say that like it's a bad thing, Anna. I was 9 and Mario Kart was the only thing I remotely cared about.
1987 - Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me
1988 - My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything (Hi, I like this one more than Loveless)
1989 - Didn't Bad Religion have like 20 albums in '89? I'm going with the "80-85" comp.
1990 - Sonic Youth Goo
1991 - Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
1992 - ehh, skip
1993 - Earth 2
1994 - Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
1995 - Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2
1996 - Weezer - Pinkerton
1997 - Dropkick Murphys - Do or Die
1998 - Jurassic 5 EP
1999 - The Lawrence Arms Ghost Stories
2000 - SKIP
2001 - American Analog Set - Know By Heart
2002 - Mclusky Mclusky Do Dallas
2003 - Boris Akuma No Uta
2004 - Death From Above 1979 You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
2005 - Sigur Ros Takk...
2006 - The Falcon Unicornography
2007 - Frank Turner Sleep Is For The Week
2008 - Everybody Out! self-titled
Daft pun:
1985 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
1986 ehm
1987 err
1988 Pixies – Surfer Rosa
1989 Pixies - Doolittle
1990 so...
1991 My bloody Valentine - Loveless
1992 Aphex Twin – Selected ambient works 85-92
1993 Lucksmiths – First Tape
beats Yo La Tengo – Painful / Seefeel - Quique
1994 Disco Inferno – DI Go Pop
over Bark Psychosis - Hex
1995 Radiohead – The Bends
1996 DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
over Tortoise – Millions now living will never die
1997 Mogwai – Young Team
Daft Punk – Homework / Yo La Tengo – I can hear the heart beating as one
1998 Boards of Canada – Music has the right to children
Beta Band – The Three EP’s / Air – Moon safari
1999 Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
2000 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - BRMC
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command / Phoenix - United / Amon Tobin - Supermodified
2001 Daft Punk – Discovery
Elbow - Asleep in the back / Ted Leo - Tyranny of distance / Zoot Woman - Living in a magazine / Ash – Free all angels
2002 Interpol – Turn on the bright lights
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi / Flaming Lips - Yoshimi / Broken Social Scene - You forgot it in people / The Cooper Temple Clause
See this through and leave / Doves - The last broadcast / The Libertines - Up the bracket / Out Hud – S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D.
2003 The Cooper Temple Clause – Kick up the fire
British Sea Power – The decline of / Do Make Say Think – Winter hymn country hymn
2004 65dos – The fall of math
Autolux – Future perfect / DFA 1979 – You’re a woman, I’m a machine / Futureheads – Futureheads / The Legends – Up against
the legends
2005 Stars – Set yourself on fire
Bloc Party – Silent alarm / Decemberists – Picaresque / The Radio Dept. – Pulling our weight / Soulwax – Nite Versions /
Superpitcher – Today / Thee More Shallows – More deep cuts
2006 The Knife - Silent shout
Ellen Allien & Apparat – Orchestra of Bubbles / Jesu - Silver
2007 LCD soundsystem – Sound of silver
Battles – Mirrored / Gui Boratto – Chromophobia
2008 err, I'll say Cut Copy - In ghost colours for now
Holy shit that took ages. I'll try to add explanations and comments when I find the time for it.
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