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One Album For Every Year You Are Alive
windinthewires:
1992
1993
1994 (can't think of anything better...)
1995
1996
#2
1997
1998
#2
1999
2000
2001
2002
#2
2003
2004
#2 #3
2005
#2 #3
2006
2007
TheFuriousWombat:
Oh man, 'YS' is a pretty good choice. The more I think about it, the more I think 2000 and 2002 are pretty much impossible years to pick a favorite.
IronOxide:
1990 - Goo - Sonic Youth
Glad I was barely alive for this year, not too great so I may as well throw Sonic Youth on the list. They've earned it though other releases.
1991 - Love's Secret Domain - Coil
A masterpiece of the industrial genre, my favorite release by Coil, and probably my favorite "experimental" album.
1992 - Smeared - Sloan
Sloan pretend to be Sonic youth. Adorable.
1993 - Where You Been? - Dinosaur Jr.
Another mediocre year to be shared with 1990 and Sonic Youth. I liked "Out There" enough, though. The rest is a pretty good alternative album.
1994 - The Sea and Cake - The Sea and Cake
It's always a shame when a band gets it so right the first time, any evolution of the band can only be a step back. I cannot think of a bad thing to say about this album.
1995 - Post - Bjork
Bjork's best, kind of a mix of rock and electronica, shows what was right with the incorporation of electronic sounds in pop music in the 1990s.
1996 - Tigermilk - Belle and Sebastian
While this was released the same year as the also stellar (and perhaps more important) If You're Feeling Sinister, I think this early release did a better job at capturing what Belle and Sebastian were about in the earlier days.
1997 - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One - Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo's best work, honorable mention to Daft Punk for Homework
1998 - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
What more do I have to say? Jeff Magnum's Magnum Opus (no pun intended), perfectly assembled from front to back.
1999 - Ágćtis Byrjun - Sigur Rós
I just sort of like this album, nothing really special about it other than I think it is Sigur Ros at their best.
2000 - Mass Romantic - The New Pornographers
The New Pornographers are a good band. This is a great pop album, full of good songs.
2001 - Things We Lost in the Fire - Low
The top of the "Old Low" saga, beautiful sounds.
2002 - Italian Platnum - Silkworm
I should star the albums that I listened to on recommendation from Tommy, as there is nothing to be said about them that he has not. I actually like this SKWM release more than a lot of the other stuff, it feels more honest or whatever. Maybe it's just how "LR72" seems to be written for Mike three years before his death, but it's a good record to which you all should pay a listen.
2003 - Reconstruction Site - The Weakerthans
Well assembled, witty and sad at the same time.
2004 - Together We're Heavy - The Polyphonic Spree
This was the soundtrack to my life for about a year. It is the album that made me feel good to be alive, sort of a celebration of life, Tim DeLaughter at his happiest, which lends itself very well to the group.
2005 - Woman King - Iron and Wine
The first album I ever bought with my own money (on recommendation of the forum). Sort of a personal significance thing largely, but a solid EP containing my favorite Iron and Wine tracks.
2006 - He Poos Clouds - Final Fantasy
Owen Pallett is sort of the anti-Tim DeLaughter. At his best when sad, this album is positively mopetastic.
2007 - This Fool Can Die Now - Scout Niblett
Las year was a hard choice for me, but I think that this is the album that I listen to the most going to today, it balances Scout Niblett's minimal songwriting and fleshes out her style so well. Not to mention that the two tracks that she does with Will Oldham are just spectacular.
2008 - Lie Down in the Light - Bonnie "Prince" Billy (so far)
There's still more to be had this year *crosses fingers for the quality of Heartland*, but I'd call it his best since I See A Darkness.
godinpants:
1987 - Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
Only album I own from that year listed on wikipedia.
1988 - Danzig - Danzig
MOTHEEEER
1989 - Bob Dylan/Grateful Dead - Dylan and the Dead
I got this album for $2 in a used cd shop. Was worth it.
1990 - Primus - Frizzle Fry
This one was hard, I was choosing between this, Phish's Lawnboy and "Simpsons sing the blues"
1991 - Primus - Sailing the Sea's of Cheese
Primus were a really huge part of my life, they lead me out of punk.
1992 - Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Another album which assisted in my leaving punk. And also the album I used to play along to on bass.
1993 - The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
It was this or more primus
1994 - Blink 182 - Chesire Cat
I don't own this, but I had a friend who only ever played blink.
1995 - Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
These guys were the best.
1996 - Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
I only really got into them last year. But i love them.
1997 - Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever, Amen.
This was such a good year. gy!be, mogwai, phish, primus, all had great albums. But i listen to this one the most.
Also my favourite ben folds album.
1998 Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Left of Cool
The band and album that convinced me to pick up the banjo(im not very good)
1999 - Mogwai - Come On Die Young
I only own three Mogwai albums. This is one of them. cody is one of my favourite songs.
2000 - gy!be - lift your skinny fists like antennas to the heaven
This album is great. The first time I heard this band, was in a lecture at uni where the lecturer completely darkened the room and all you could see was this video of silhouettes against some kind of projected background and this intense and moving music over top.
Some contenders for this year: Bomfunk mcs - in stereo, Flecktones - Outbound, Phish - Farmhouse
2001 - The Colonel Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade - Live Frogs set 1 & 2
I assume these were recorded on the same night, from both the names, and that at the end of 1 you hear claypool say "we will return, with more pink floyd than any human should withstand" or soemthing like that. This album introduced me to the guitar genius of Eenor.
2002 - Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
ALL THE DUCKS ARE SWIMMING IN THE WATER FAL-DO-RAL-DO-RAL-DO FAL-DO-RAL-DO-RAL-DO
2003 - Primus - Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People
Sure it was mostly a dvd, but the cd which had the old drummer back was good. Kind of strange for a Primus album though, it was like they'd discovered delay pedals. Had some great stuff like Rapscallion.
2004 - Sarah Blasko - The Overture and Underscore
It hurts my brain to try comprehend how much I love her.
*at this point i got distracted for about an hour discussing my love of sarah blasko with a friend whilst listening*
2005 - Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
mmm more banjo.
2006 - Sarah Blasko - What the Sea Wants, the Sea will Have
I'm serious, I have written love songs for this woman.
2007 - Whitley - The Submarine
If I was female, i would probably love this guy as much as i love ms blasko.
2008 - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes.
Enough said.
DarkAvenger:
1992:"Slanted and Enchanted" by Pavement - Too many people use this one
1993: "Icky Mettle" by Archers of Loaf
1994: "Weezer (the Blue Album)" Weezer
1995: "You'd Prefer An Astronaut" by Hum
1996: "Firewater" by Silkworm - Other choices include both Belle & Sebastian releases, but Silkworm won, easily
1997: "Perfect From Now On" by Built to Spill
1998: "In The Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel
1999: "Soft Bulletin" by The Flaming Lips
2000: "The Moon and Antarctica" by Modest Mouse
2001: "Discovery" by Daft Punk
2002: "You Forgot it in People" by Broken Social Scene
2003: "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone" by The Unicorns
2004: "The Funeral" by Arcade Fire
2005: "Apologies to the Queen Mary" by Wolf Parade
2006: "Ashes Against the Grain" by Agalloch
2007: "Hammer of Gods" by Bottomless Pit
2008: "The Stand-Ins" by Okkervil River
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