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One Album For Every Year You Are Alive
Cadeonehalf:
1990: Facelift- Alice in Chains
Some of Layne Staley's best vocal work is here, I say. Although runners up include Apple by Mother Love Bone and Ritual de lo Habitual by Jane's Addiction, basically cementing the early nineties as OH GOD SO MUCH GRUNGE ROCK HUAAAARGHS
1991: The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life- Frank Zappa
I always appreciate Zappa for what he tried to do, but his lyrics were so ASININE. Him doing covers=AMAZING.
1992: Rage Against the Machine- Rage Against the Machine
Their Best Album. Period. Not a single song I haven't memorized on guitar by now. Some of Tom Morello's best work.
1993: God Shuffled His Feet- Crash Test Dummies
Oh, Crash Test Dummies, singing about camping and retiring. My Dad basically played this all the time for nothing else but the guy's vocals. Plus, while I would probably have picked In Utero or Siamese Dream over it NOW, it is what I actually listened to THEN.
1994: Unplugged in New York- Nirvana
Truly Unconventional and Iconic in its own right.
1995: Slaughter of the Soul- At the Gates
Yay for Swedes tripping on Acid and playing Melodic Death Metal.
1996: Aenima- Tool
Love Maynard James Keenan's vocals in this album, if nothing else (which is a lie, the guitar is also amazing).
1997: Sehnsucht- Rammstein
Yeah, there wasn't a lot released in 1997 that I was obsessed with then that I can post now (think Nsync and Backstreet Boys. UGH. Glad I got over that.
1998: Whitey Ford Sings the Blues- Everlast
I love the combination of Everlast's vocals with acoustic rock here.
1999: Blue- Third Eye Blind
All the pseudo-punk instrumentation of the previous album, but with lyrics that just jumped enormously in insightfulness.
2000: The State- Nickelback
As much as I hate Chad Kroeger for wiping his dick all over a good thing with The Long Road, this album was amazing, and I really wish they'd continued in this direction.
2001: Believe in Nothing- Paradise Lost
I think these guys take the cake when it comes to Rock superstardom in Europe v. complete anonymity in the States. Seriously, this is amongst their best "softer albums", and my personal favorite.
2002: The Eminem Show-Eminem
Yeah yeah, Eminem. When he's not being all Slim-Shady and acting like a complete dumbfuck, he has a tendency to write these incredibly captivating lyrics...and this album has a lot more of that. It's also better than Encore since I'm a little upset with him quitting recording (just when he was getting good)
2003: Thickfreakness- The Black Keys
Mmmmm overdriven Blues Rock. These guys kick serious ass. Close runner up for 2003 is the Golden Age of Grotesque by Marilyn Manson.
2004: Absolution- Muse
My favorite album of theirs, a friend got it for my 15th birthday and I've since had to buy another copy because I PLAYED THE OLD ONE TOO MUCH.
2005: Hypnotize- System of a Down
Their best album. Hands down. A pinnacle (in my mind) of artistic maturity for this band. It's really a shame that the process of recording Mezmerize/Hypnotize made them hate each other so much to break up.
2006: Skin and Bones- Foo Fighters
Dave Grohl kinda only writes really good singles, IMO, so a live album filled with his best singles=amazing.
2007: Elect the Dead- Serj Tankian
I have never before, nor will I likely again, heard an album of this level of near-schizophrenic anger and sarcasm and even some twisted forms of love (dig deep). I cannot wait for him to go on tour round here and cannot wait for a follow up.
2008: Watershed- Opeth
This was actually my introduction to Opeth (which I've gathered is a sort of Blasphemy) but I'm now obsessed with this group and are mining their discography every day and having my FACE MELTED OFF.
Great album.
Still, there are some years that I have no albums of note (see Eminem) and then others with like 20. For example, Coheed and Cambria never even made it on my list despite being my favorite still existing band. (I really wish I hadn't missed the late sixties, Hendrix was awesome)
EDIT: Need to learn my Scandanavian countries better :oops:
David_Dovey:
I thought At the Gates were Swedish?
Spluff:
They are definitely Swedish, because they were part of the whole Gothenburg thing.
Red Peril:
1986 Sonic Youth-Evol
1987 Big Black-Songs About Fucking
1988 The Pixies-Surfer Rosa
1989 Fugazi-13 Songs
1990 Sonic Youth-Goo
1991 Slint-Spiderland
1992 Polly Harvey-Rid of Me
1993 Earth-Earth 2 (Hard to turn down In On the Kill Taker, though)
1994 Portishead-Dummy (Didn't like this year, really)
1995 Polly Harvey-To Bring You My Love
1996 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds-Murder Ballads
1997 Godspeed You! Black Emperor-F#A#Infinity
1998 Refused-The Shape Of Punk To Come
1999 The Boredoms-Vision Creation Newsun
2000 At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
2001 Gillian Welch-Time (The Revelator)
2002 The Cooper Temple Clause-See This Through and Leave (Or this one, its popularity baffles me)
2003 Mogwai-Happy Songs for Happy People
2004 Joanna Newsom-The Milk Eyed Mender
2005 Lightning Bolt-Hypermagic Mountain
2006 Joanna Newsom-Ys
2007 Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam
2008- A year so musically derelict I haven't brought a single album, I hope it rots in hell.
mberan42:
Man, this was a great way to burn about 2.5 hours this afternoon. I tried this before, but I started on the year I was born and went towards today. It was incredibly difficult 'cause there aren't too many albums-as-a-whole I feel any connection to from the 80s and early 90s. Anyway, here we go:
1980 - AC/DC - Back in Black
1981 - Foreigner - 4
1982 - Michael Jackson - Thriller
...i guess. Was never a huge Jacko fan, but this is a great album
1983 - Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Recorded in '73, but not released until '83.
1984 - Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Oh man, best live recording ever.
1985 - Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
"Everybody wants to rule the wooooorld" Also, gotta put a-ha's Hunting High and Low at #2: "Taaaaake oooon meeeee! (take on me!)"
1986 - Beastie Boys - Licence to Ill
Meh. Not much came out in '86.
1987 - Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
I was so tempted to Rickroll this year...
1988 - U2 - Rattle and Hum
1989 - Neil Young - Freedom
1990 - Depeche Mode - Violator
Wtf, music of 1990?! I only put this down 'cause it has Personal Jesus on it...
1991 - FUCK YOU SPIDERLAND
Man, I just Do Not Get Slint. Yeah, this is a great album, I just don't get the fanboi obsession with it... I should, 'cause a lot of my later choices are derived from/influenced by Slint.
1992 - Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Jesus, is this album 16 years old?!
1993 - Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
1994 - Jeff Buckley - Grace
1995 - Oasis - (what's the story) Morning Glory
1996 - Tool - Ćnima
Whoa there wasn't that great of music this year; Want me to go with Meat Loaf - Live Around the World?
1997 - Mogwai - Young Team
Oh man '97 was a much better year. Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On; Godspeed You! Black Emperor - f#a#∞; Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space all come a close 2nd.
1998 - Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Probably #1 on my Deserted Island Top-Five Must-Have Albums list.
1999 - Sigur Rós - Ágćtis Byrjun
Probably #2 on that same list.
2000 - The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
2001 - Incubus - Morning View
Seriously, I couldn't think of anything this year that I felt any connection, no matter how remote, to. Maybe the Tenacious D album?
2002 - The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
Broken Social Scene - You Forget It In People is a very close 2nd
2003 - Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place
The Wrens - Meadowlands is a very close 2nd
2004 - TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
2005 - Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
2006 - The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
2007 - The National - Boxer
2008 - Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
Man I cannot stop listening to this album.
That was fun!
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