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Pick An Album For Every Year You've Been Alive
Basically, for every year you've been alive, pick an album released that year for your list. Maybe it's something you like now, maybe it was your favorite back then, your choice, as long as it is in the correct year.
I spent my procrastinating time doing this, using Wikipedia's helpful timeline of music history, although it's not exactly as thorough as it could be at spots. My list: 1987 - You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr. 1988 - Green - R.E.M. 1989 - Tweez - Slint 1990 - Changesbowie - David Bowie 1991 - Loveless - My Bloody Valentine 1992 - Wish - The Cure 1993 - Ultimate Alternative Wavers - Built to Spill 1994 - Dummy - Portishead 1995 - The Bends - Radiohead 1996 - Call the Doctor - Sleater-Kinney 1997 - Young Team - Mogwai 1998 - Black Star - Black Star 1999 - The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips 2000 - Parachutes - Coldplay 2001 - Discovery - Daft Punk 2002 - You Forgot It in People - Broken Social Scene 2003 - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place - Explosions in the Sky 2004 - College Dropout - Kanye West 2005 - Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene 2006 - Boys and Girls in America - The Hold Steady 2007 - From Here We Go Sublime - The Field 2008 (so far) - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust - Sigur Rós Things I Found: - I'm pretty sure the reason my brother has such horrid music taste is probably due to his being born in 1990, a.k.a. The Year Where Nothing Particularly Good Came Out. I wouldn't be surprised if others born into the 1990 sonic void have similar taste defects. - From about 2004 on I had to choose between about five different front runners for each year, which was almost as bad as having next to nothing to choose from. - It's weird to scroll down the list of releases and see names pop up much sooner than you were expecting, although it's even weirder when you realize they're apparently hanging around far longer than is probably necessary. - Watch for the shift in ratio between bands forming and bands disbanding. - Ah Wikipedia, your democratization of history is so evident when you see which events get marked down as important. |
1985- Brothers in Arms- Dire Straights
1986-It's a Kind of Magic- Queen 1987-Appetite for Destruction- Guns and Roses 1988-Temple of Low Men- Crowded House 1989- The Miracle- Queen 1990-Ringo Starr and His All Star Band- Ringo Starr 1991- Innuendo- Queen 1992-The One- Elton John 1993- Bat out of Hell 2- Meatloaf 1994-Defineatly Maybe- Oasis 1995- Made in Heaven- Queen 1996-This is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about- Mighty Mouse 1997-Let's Talk About Love- Celine Dion 1998-Try Whistling This- Neil Finn 1999-Running with Scissors- Wierd Al Yankovic 2000-Survival Sickness- International Noise Conspiracy 2001-Zoom- Electric Light Orchestra 2002-Come Away with Me- Norah Jones 2003-Valley of the Damned- Dragonforce 2004- Horsepower- Phoeniz Foundation 2005-Birds- Bic Runga 2006- Bat out of Hell 3- Meatloaf 2007-Because of the Times- Kings of Leons That was good fun. 1990 does suck. Though 2005 was terrible as well. Also it got far harder as years went on, mostly because I don't listen to a lot of new music. |
You guys are crazy, there were plenty of good albums in 1990 in all sorts of musical styles, Eric Johnson's Ah Via Musicom, Primus' Frizzle Fry, Social Distortion's ST, Bad Religion's Against the Grain, Ice Cube's Amerikkka's Most Wanted, Danzig II, N.W.A.'s 100 Miles and Runnin', Sonic Youth's Goo, Alice in Chain's Facelift, Megadeth's Rust in Peace and Jane's Addicition's Ritual De Lo Habital....anyhow, onward
1979 The Wall - Pink Floyd (Nearly went with London Calling - The Clash) 1980 Los Angeles - X 1981 Stray Cats - The Stray Cats 1982 Milo Goes to College - The Descendents 1983 Holy Diver - Dio 1984 Zen Arcade - Husker Du 1985 Rum, Sodomy & The Lash - The Pogues 1986 November-Coming-Fire - Samhain 1987 Surfing with the Alien - Joe Satriani 1988 Surfer Rosa - Pixies 1989 13 Songs - Fugazi 1990 Social Distortion - Social Distortion 1991 Sailing the Seas of Cheese - Primus 1992 Dirt - Alice in Chains 1993 Angst - KMFDM 1994 The Division Bell - Pink Floyd 1995 All Ages - Bad Religion 1996 Born Slippy.NUXX - Underworld 1997 Redemption 87 - Redemption 87 1998 Mermaid Avenue - Billy Bragg & Wilco 1999 Apocalypse Dudes - Turbonegro 2000 Rock Star God - The Makers 2001 Wish I was in Heaven Sittin Down - R.L. Burnside 2002 Minority Of One - Dag Nasty 2003 Hearts of Oak - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists 2004 Upsetting Ernesto's - The Slackers 2005 Golden Black - Guitar Wolf 2006 Orphans - Tom Waits 2007 The Dethalbum - Dethklok 2008 Mr Love & Justice - Billy Bragg |
1986- Master of Puppets, Metallica
1987- Scream Bloody Gore, Death 1988- South of Heaven, Slayer 1989- Practice What You Preach, Testament 1990- Rust in Peace, Megadeth 1991- Self-titled, Iced Earth 1992- Night of the Stormrider, Iced Earth 1993- Individual Thought Patterns, Death 1994- Divine Intervention, Slayer 1995- De Profoundus, Vader 1996- Undisputed Attitute, Slayer 1997- Warpath, Six Feet Under 1998- Amongst The Catacombs of Nephren-Ka, Nile 1999- The Gathering, Testament 2000- Graveyard Classics, Six Feet Under 2001- God Hates Us All, Slayer 2002- In Their Darkened Shrines, Nile 2003- Darker Than Black, Cage 2004- The Glorious Burden, Iced Earth 2005- 13, Six Feet Under 2006- Christ Illusion, Slayer 2007- Framing Armageddon, Iced Earth 2008- Overworld, Machinae Supremacy EDITED: Wrong band for 2005. |
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1991 - Metallica, The Black Album
1992 - Alice in Chains, Dirt (Though I was surprised to see Napalm Death and Deicide and Cannibal Corpse albums on the list for this year. Didn't know they were that old. Not that I particularly like either) 1993 - Denis Leary, No Cure for Cancer (I just love Asshole. And I couldn't find anything else) 1994 - Green Day, Dookie 1995 - Opeth, Orchid 1996 - Apocalyptica, Plays Metallica by Four Cellos 1997 - Sevendust, Self-Titled 1998 - System of a Down, Self-Titled 1999 - 3 Doors Down, The Better Life 2000 - Killswitch Engage, Self-Titled 2001 - Avenged Sevenfold, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (Though my iTunes shows this as 2002, I think, and I bought it from the iTunes store. But I'm going with the wiki. Interestingly enough, its show on two different dates in the wiki) 2002 - Killswitch Engage, Alive or Just Breathing 2003 - Avenged Sevenfold, Waking the Fallen 2004 - Atomship, The Crash of '47 2005 - Protest the Hero, Kezia 2006 - The Human Abstract, Nocturne 2007 - Bayside, The Walking Wounded 2008 - Protest the Hero, Fortress Subject to change as I notice things wrong. |
1993 was my toughest year, actually.
Actually the list was easier than I thought. |
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2005 was my easiest. I wanted to throw Funeral for a Friend's Hours in, but Kezia is lightyears ahead to me now. Though they match in playcount on my itunes at about 50-60ish. Nocturne has like 90-120. >.> |
2005 was like a dead zone for me. Too late for me to have heard of those who debuted that year and too early for stuff to still be floating around the radio and nobody I regularly listen to released an album that year. So I went with Birds cause it has a couple of nice songs on it.
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Ah, what the hell?
1982 - Combat Rock, The Clash 1983 - Speaking in Tongues, Talking Heads 1984 - The Flat Earth, Thomas Dolby 1985 - Loose Nut, Black Flag 1986 - So, Peter Gabriel 1987 - Document, R.E.M. 1988 - Straight Outta Compton, N.W.A. 1989 - Disintegration, The Cure 1990 - Flood, They Might Be Giants 1991 - Nevermind, Nirvana 1992 - Opiate, Tool 1993 - Blind Melon, Blind Melon 1994 - The Downward Spiral, Nine Inch Nails 1995 - Sparkle and Fade, Everclear 1996 - Evil Empire, Rage Against the Machine 1997 - The Colour and the Shape, Foo Fighters 1998 - Hello Nasty, The Beastie Boys 1999 - The Fragile, Nine Inch Nails 2000 - Mer de Noms, A Perfect Circle 2001 - Toxicity, System of a Down 2002 - Songs for the Deaf, Queens of the Stone Age 2003 - Fire, Electric Six 2004 - American Idiot, Green Day 2005 - You'll Rebel to Anything, Mindless Self Indulgence 2006 - Black Holes & Revelations, Muse 2007 - Cruel Melody, Black Light Burns 2008 - These Are the Good Times People, The Presidents of the United States of America PS: I hate the 21st Century's music. Goddamn. |
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