Thread idea I have is a minor one but figured I would put it out there. Pick your favourite decade in music and pick a favourite album from each year of that decade. But also give info on why that album is a favourite of that year to try to inspire some discussion. Once done with your favourite you may like to cover another decade of music you love, that is cool too. I will put mine up soon when I have thought about it more.
Pick a Favourite Album From Each Year of Favourite Decade
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I can't tell you stuff about the time I first heard that albums and how much they were superior to everything else i have heard back then and how I have been hooked when they came out, because i wasn't quite born back then, but at the moment i guess my favourite decade might look like this, even though it changes from week to week
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1971
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1978
1979
I can't tell you stuff about the time I first heard that albums and how much they were superior to everything else i have heard back then and how I have been hooked when they came out, because i wasn't quite born back then, but at the moment i guess my favourite decade might look like this, even though it changes from week to week
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The 90s are my favorite decade even though my top 2 favorite categories of music is Classic Rock 60s/70s and Modern Pop 00s/10s. The 90s were just.... the perfect decade for every damn genre putting out some of their best material.
1990 -- Pod - The Breeders
Pod is one of those special, magic records that just transcends itself like a fever dream. Pure raw Albini production and such a stark, electric, spaced out sound from Kim & the girls. I also have very fond memories attached to the crazy summer I listened to this album basically every day.
1991 -- WELD - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Neil Young was astronomically prescient in his ability to latch onto the grunge wave before it even had broken into the mainstream. Here we have a 45 year old guy who was playing straight-laced R&B back in the early 60s and he's on the utter cutting edge of subversive modern music in 1991, even outdoing some of the scene's own innovators. Ragged Glory is furious, unhinged, noisy, and unprecedented.
1992 -- The Chronic - Dr. Dre
After becoming one of the most notable names in rap through various group efforts in the 1980s, Dr. Dre was ready to strike out on his own. In the 90s rap was all about groove and attitude. Beats oozed with a sauntering sense of self-assurance and the smoky haze of marijuana. None encapsulate this so much as Dr. Dre's solo debut, with Snoop Dogg at his side. It's slick, it's fun, it's hard, it's raw, it's everything good about the era.
1993 -- In Utero - Nirvana
Nirvana found themselves at the top of the world and under public scrutiny the likes of which they never imagined, and they were tasked with a proper follow up to the decade-defining Nevermind. With In Utero they struck the perfect balance between pushing the boundaries and giving the public what it expects, and as a result we have a much more mature, much stronger and heavier, far superior update on the formula from Nirvana's smash hit.
1994 -- Wildflowers - Tom Petty
Petty floundered a bit in the 80s with inconsistent tone and less than stellar material, but at the end of the decade he had a monstrous second wind that continued to the end of the 90s. On Wildflowers he strips down to the basics that made him great. Simple, unmolested guitars, a pounding drum, sensitive lyrics, it's a beautifully immaculate little piece of classic Petty Americana and it may well be his greatest record to date.
1995 -- Not a Pretty Girl - Ani Difranco
A hell of a lot of a bands did anti-conformist posturing in the 90s, especially out of the grunge camp. Most of it was laughable BS, but Ani was the real deal, starting her own label to avoid unseemly influence. In the mid-90s she did about 5 or 6 five-star, flawless records, but Not a Pretty Girl was what truly put her on the map with its unflinching honesty and genre-straddling folk/alternative/punk/pop amalgam. And then there's her awe-inspiring guitar playing, intricately woven and boisterous like Justin King gone indie.
1996 -- Filosofem - Burzum
Burzum remains a unique and unequaled band in the seedy realms of extreme metal. With deceptively soothing walls of fierce feedback and cosmically ceremonial repetition, Filosofem is a behemoth of craft and design, there is nothing like it. Varg was able to more or less invent Black Metal as we know it today, while still remaining distinct from the tropes of the genre.
1997 -- Year of the Horse - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Neil Young in the 90s had a string of flawless records, but what was most special of all, were the live albums. His penchant for noise really took on new dimensions as he empowered recent songs and reinvented old ones. Year of the Horse boasts the most heady, ethereal jams of Neil's career, with a calm, levelheaded complexity that transports the listener into a contented fuzz not unlike an unlawfully large dose of painkillers.
1998 -- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
At the start of the 90s, alternative rock took the main stage and drowned out all contenders. But as the decade progressed, the tone morphed from hard rocking alternative to a lighter, more introspective, much spacier form of indie rock. While indie wouldn't have its commercial day in the sun for another 10 years, Neutral Milk Hotel pretty much invalidated every indie rock album that would ever follow with this 40 minutes of pure, unadulterated, incomparable perfection. A true piece of art.
1999 -- Unplugged - Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette skyrocketed to pop stardom with Jagged Little Pill, but her subsequent albums were full of angry, thoughtful gems every bit as good as those that had made her famous. It all comes to a head on Unplugged, where she picks all of her best, smartest, most intimate songs and gives them the simple, honest, Unplugged treatment; thus bringing out the utter depths of their vulnerability in poetically haunting ways.
1990 -- Pod - The Breeders
Pod is one of those special, magic records that just transcends itself like a fever dream. Pure raw Albini production and such a stark, electric, spaced out sound from Kim & the girls. I also have very fond memories attached to the crazy summer I listened to this album basically every day.
1991 -- WELD - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Neil Young was astronomically prescient in his ability to latch onto the grunge wave before it even had broken into the mainstream. Here we have a 45 year old guy who was playing straight-laced R&B back in the early 60s and he's on the utter cutting edge of subversive modern music in 1991, even outdoing some of the scene's own innovators. Ragged Glory is furious, unhinged, noisy, and unprecedented.
1992 -- The Chronic - Dr. Dre
After becoming one of the most notable names in rap through various group efforts in the 1980s, Dr. Dre was ready to strike out on his own. In the 90s rap was all about groove and attitude. Beats oozed with a sauntering sense of self-assurance and the smoky haze of marijuana. None encapsulate this so much as Dr. Dre's solo debut, with Snoop Dogg at his side. It's slick, it's fun, it's hard, it's raw, it's everything good about the era.
1993 -- In Utero - Nirvana
Nirvana found themselves at the top of the world and under public scrutiny the likes of which they never imagined, and they were tasked with a proper follow up to the decade-defining Nevermind. With In Utero they struck the perfect balance between pushing the boundaries and giving the public what it expects, and as a result we have a much more mature, much stronger and heavier, far superior update on the formula from Nirvana's smash hit.
1994 -- Wildflowers - Tom Petty
Petty floundered a bit in the 80s with inconsistent tone and less than stellar material, but at the end of the decade he had a monstrous second wind that continued to the end of the 90s. On Wildflowers he strips down to the basics that made him great. Simple, unmolested guitars, a pounding drum, sensitive lyrics, it's a beautifully immaculate little piece of classic Petty Americana and it may well be his greatest record to date.
1995 -- Not a Pretty Girl - Ani Difranco
A hell of a lot of a bands did anti-conformist posturing in the 90s, especially out of the grunge camp. Most of it was laughable BS, but Ani was the real deal, starting her own label to avoid unseemly influence. In the mid-90s she did about 5 or 6 five-star, flawless records, but Not a Pretty Girl was what truly put her on the map with its unflinching honesty and genre-straddling folk/alternative/punk/pop amalgam. And then there's her awe-inspiring guitar playing, intricately woven and boisterous like Justin King gone indie.
1996 -- Filosofem - Burzum
Burzum remains a unique and unequaled band in the seedy realms of extreme metal. With deceptively soothing walls of fierce feedback and cosmically ceremonial repetition, Filosofem is a behemoth of craft and design, there is nothing like it. Varg was able to more or less invent Black Metal as we know it today, while still remaining distinct from the tropes of the genre.
1997 -- Year of the Horse - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Neil Young in the 90s had a string of flawless records, but what was most special of all, were the live albums. His penchant for noise really took on new dimensions as he empowered recent songs and reinvented old ones. Year of the Horse boasts the most heady, ethereal jams of Neil's career, with a calm, levelheaded complexity that transports the listener into a contented fuzz not unlike an unlawfully large dose of painkillers.
1998 -- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
At the start of the 90s, alternative rock took the main stage and drowned out all contenders. But as the decade progressed, the tone morphed from hard rocking alternative to a lighter, more introspective, much spacier form of indie rock. While indie wouldn't have its commercial day in the sun for another 10 years, Neutral Milk Hotel pretty much invalidated every indie rock album that would ever follow with this 40 minutes of pure, unadulterated, incomparable perfection. A true piece of art.
1999 -- Unplugged - Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette skyrocketed to pop stardom with Jagged Little Pill, but her subsequent albums were full of angry, thoughtful gems every bit as good as those that had made her famous. It all comes to a head on Unplugged, where she picks all of her best, smartest, most intimate songs and gives them the simple, honest, Unplugged treatment; thus bringing out the utter depths of their vulnerability in poetically haunting ways.
1970-"Let It Be"-The Beatles
1971-"Sticky Fingers"-The Rolling Stones
1972-"Machine Head"-Deep Purple
1973-"Dark Side Of The Moon"-Pink Floyd
1974-"KISS"-KISS
1975-"Toys In The Attic"-Aerosmith
1976-"Destroyer"-KISS
1977-"Alive II"-KISS
1978-"Live Bootleg"-Aerosmith
1979-"The Wall"-Pink Floyd
1971-"Sticky Fingers"-The Rolling Stones
1972-"Machine Head"-Deep Purple
1973-"Dark Side Of The Moon"-Pink Floyd
1974-"KISS"-KISS
1975-"Toys In The Attic"-Aerosmith
1976-"Destroyer"-KISS
1977-"Alive II"-KISS
1978-"Live Bootleg"-Aerosmith
1979-"The Wall"-Pink Floyd
I like the 60s
1960: Muddy waters - at newport
highlights: hoochie coochie man, got my mojo working, baby please dont go
1961: Shadows - shadows
highlights: shadoogie, baby my heart, stand up and say that
1962: Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - high flying
highlights: come on home, farmer's market
1963: Beatles - with the beatles
highlights: all my loving, till there was you, hold me tight
1964: beatles - A hard day's night
highlights: a hard day's night, i should have known better, things we said today, you can't do that
1965: Sonics - here are
highlights- the witch, dirty robber, have love will travel, strychnine, santa claus (bonustrack)
1966: Beach boys - pet sounds
highlights: wouldnt it be nice, thats not me, here today, i just wasnt made for this times
1967: Pink floyd - The piper at the gates of dawn
highlights: astronomy domine, matilda mother, take up thy stethoscope and walk, interestelar overdrive, bike
1968: Beatles - white album
highlights: back in the ussr, dear prudence, glass onion, while my guitar gently weeps, blackbird, don't pass me by, birthday, helter skelter, ob la di-ob la da
1969: Stooges - stooges
highlights: no fun, i wanna be your dog, real cool time
1960: Muddy waters - at newport
highlights: hoochie coochie man, got my mojo working, baby please dont go
1961: Shadows - shadows
highlights: shadoogie, baby my heart, stand up and say that
1962: Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - high flying
highlights: come on home, farmer's market
1963: Beatles - with the beatles
highlights: all my loving, till there was you, hold me tight
1964: beatles - A hard day's night
highlights: a hard day's night, i should have known better, things we said today, you can't do that
1965: Sonics - here are
highlights- the witch, dirty robber, have love will travel, strychnine, santa claus (bonustrack)
1966: Beach boys - pet sounds
highlights: wouldnt it be nice, thats not me, here today, i just wasnt made for this times
1967: Pink floyd - The piper at the gates of dawn
highlights: astronomy domine, matilda mother, take up thy stethoscope and walk, interestelar overdrive, bike
1968: Beatles - white album
highlights: back in the ussr, dear prudence, glass onion, while my guitar gently weeps, blackbird, don't pass me by, birthday, helter skelter, ob la di-ob la da
1969: Stooges - stooges
highlights: no fun, i wanna be your dog, real cool time
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Nololob
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1970 - Wishbone Ash - Wishbone Ash
1971 - Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself
1972 - Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards
1973 - Nazareth - Loud 'n' Proud
1974 - Barclay James Harvest - Everyone Is Everybody Else
1975 - Nazareth - Hair of the Dog
1976 - Rainbow - Rising
1977 - Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
1978 - Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
1979 - Rory Gallagher - Top Priority
1971 - Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself
1972 - Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards
1973 - Nazareth - Loud 'n' Proud
1974 - Barclay James Harvest - Everyone Is Everybody Else
1975 - Nazareth - Hair of the Dog
1976 - Rainbow - Rising
1977 - Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
1978 - Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
1979 - Rory Gallagher - Top Priority
lpjunkie93
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1970 - Bryter Layter - Nick Drake
1971 - Electric Warrior - T.Rex
1972 - Close to the Edge - Yes
1973 - Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra
1974 - Bad Company - Bad Company
1975 - Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
1976 - 2112 - Rush
1977 - Low - David Bowie
1978 - Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
1979 - London Calling - The Clash
The 1970's is the only decade I fully love when it comes to rock and roll. I love other rock music from other decades, but the 1970's is my fix
1971 - Electric Warrior - T.Rex
1972 - Close to the Edge - Yes
1973 - Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra
1974 - Bad Company - Bad Company
1975 - Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
1976 - 2112 - Rush
1977 - Low - David Bowie
1978 - Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
1979 - London Calling - The Clash
The 1970's is the only decade I fully love when it comes to rock and roll. I love other rock music from other decades, but the 1970's is my fix
