Favourite album from each year since you were born

[mikemangioy]

1999 - Dream Theater, Metropolis Pt. 2
2000 - Nevermore, Dead Heart In A Dead World
2001 - System Of A Down, Toxicity
2002 - Dream Theater, Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
2003 - Caparezza, Verità Supposte
2004 - Ayreon, The Human Equation
2005 - Porcupine Tree, Deadwing
2006 - Muse, Black Holes & Revelations
2007 - Porcupine Tree, Fear Of A Blank Planet
2008 - Sabaton, The Art Of War
2009 - Devin Townsend Project, Addicted
2010 - I have no fucking clue
2011 - Devin Townsend Project, Deconstruction
2012 - Devin Townsend Project, Epicloud
2013 - Haken, The Mountain
2014 - Devin Townsend, Z2

Wow, Devy just makes album of the year after album of the year 

[ariich]

It's funny, but the lists that I like the most are Marc's and Jackie's, both of whom are almost exactly the same age as me.

And D'AWWWWWW to all the younglings in this thread!

1984: Iron Maiden - Powerslave
1985: Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
1986: Metallica - Master of Puppets
1987: Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
1988: Metallica - ...And Justice for All
1989: Faith No More - The Real Thing

1990: Queensrÿche - Empire
1991: Queen - Innuendo
1992: Dream Theater - Images & Words
1993: Tower of Power - T.O.P.
1994: Jeff Buckley - Grace
1995: Queen - Made in Heaven
1996: Metallica - Load
1997: The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
1998: Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1999: Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream

2000: Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I
2001: Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
2002: Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
2003: Muse - Absolution
2004: Pain of Salvation - Be
2005: Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
2006: BT - This Binary Universe
2007: The Cat Empire - So Many Nights
2008: Thrice - The Alchemy Index
2009: The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life and Death

2010: The River Empires - The River Empires (Epilogue)
2011: Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
2012: Anathema - Weather Systems
2013: Haken - The Mountain
2014: Anathema - Distant Satellites
2015 (SO FAR): Infected Mushroom - Friends on Mushrooms (Deluxe Edition)

[Calvin6s]

Hopefully, I didn't screw up any of the years.

This was both painful and fun.  So fun, I tried to go as many years before my birth year before it became too much work.  So painful, some years I had around five albums and basically flipped a coin while the coin pointed a gun to my head, and some years where I just felt like I missed something due to missing meta data.  Some great albums didn't make it just because of a competitive year, while others made it even though I don't consider them a top 100 album.

The most to gain from this thread is checking out the lists of others to spot holes.  To help with that, I listed a few of my favorite songs from the album because some albums have 1-2 amazing songs together with a bunch of mediocre songs.  I'm more of a song person than an album person.

1966 - The Beatles:     The Revolver     (Tomorrow Never Knows)
1967 - The Beatles:     Sgt. Pepper's     (A Day in the Life)
1968 - Jimi Hendrix:     Electric Ladyland     (All Along the Watchtower)
1969 - The Beatles:     Abbey Road     (Something)

1970 - Curtis Mayfield:     Curtis     (Move On Up)
1971 - John Lennon:     Imagine     (Jealous Guy)
1972 - Curtis Mayfield:     Super Fly     (Pusherman)
1973 - Elton John:     Goodbye Yellow Brick Road     (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)
1974 - Supertramp:     Crime of the Century     (Dreamer)
1975 - Queen:     A Night at the Opera     (Bohemian Rhapsody)
1976 - Genesis:     Trick of the Tail     (Dance on a Volcano)
1977 - Rocky:     Soundtrack     (Gonna Fly Now)
1978 - Foreigner:     Double Vision     (Blue Morning, Blue Day)
1979 - Supertramp:     Breakfast in America     (The Logical Song)

1980 - Peter Gabriel:     Peter Gabriel 3     (Games Without Frontiers)
1981 - Phil Collins:     Face Value     (In the Air Tonight)
1982 - Toto:     Toto IV     (Africa)
1983 - Police:     Synchronicity     (King of Pain)
1984 - Van Halen:     1984     (Too many favorites)
1985 - Tears for Fears:     Songs from the Big Chair     (Shout)
1986 - Metallica:     Master of Puppets     (Battery)
1987 - Dokken:     Back for the Attack     (Mr. Scary)
1988 - Jason Becker:     Perpetual Burn     (Too many favorites)
1989 - King's X:     Gretchen Goes to Nebraska     (Out of the Silent Planet)

1990 - Pantera:     Cowboys from Hell     (Cemetery Gates)
1991 - Enuff Z Nuff:     Strength     (Strength)
1992 - Dream Theater:     Images and Words     (Learning to Live)
1993 - Fishbone:     Give a Monkey a Brain     (Black Flowers)
1994 - Dream Theater:     Awake     (Voices / Scarred)
1995 - Magellan:     Impending Ascension     (Estadium Nacional)
1996 - Stabbing Westward:     Wither Blister Burn & Peel     (What Do I Have to Do)
1997 - Devin Townsend:     Ocean Machine: Biomech     (Too many favorites)
1998 - The Cardigans:     Gran Turismo     (Paralyzed)
1999 - Chroma Key:     Dead Air for Radios     (Colorblind / On the Page)

2000 - Linkin Park:     Hybrid Theory     (Too many favorites)
2001 - Eric Gales:     That's What I Am     (So Good If You Could)
2002 - Lacuna Coil:     Comalies     (Heaven's a Lie)
2003 - Soilwork:     Figure Number Five     (Overload)
2004 - Chevelle:     This Type of Thinking     (Vitamin R)
2005 - Mudvayne:     Lost and Found     (Happy?)
2006 - OSI:     Free     (Too many favorites)
2007 - Pain of Salvation:     Scarsick     (Too many favorites)
2008 - Cynic:     Traced in Air     (The Space for This / Evolutionary Sleeper)
2009 - Mastodon:     Crack the Skye     (Oblivion / Crack the Skye)

2010 - Skrillex:     Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites     (Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites)
2011 - Foo Fighters:     Wasting Light     (Too many favorites)
2012 - Muse:     The Second Law     (The Second Law)
2013 - Bring Me the Horizon:     Sempiternal     (Can You Feel My Heart / Sleepwalking)
2014 - Nothing More:     Nothing More     (Ocean Floor / Ballast)

[BRGM]

1993. Porcupine Tree -Up the Downstair
1994. Dream Theater - Awake
1995. Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
1996. Porcupine Tree - Signify
1997. The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
1998. Liquid Tension Experiment
1999. Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory

2000. The Flower Kings - Space Revolver
2001. Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
2002. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
2003. Dream Theater - Train of Thought
2004. Neal Morse - One
2005. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
2006. The Flower Kings - Paradox Hotel
2007. Porcupine Tree - Fear of A Blank Planet
2008. Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
2009. Transatlantic - The Whirlwind

2010. Haken - Aquarius
2011. Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
2012. Steve Vai -The Story of Light
2013. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing
2014. Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope

Damn I'm boring, gonna have to check out some of the albums in your lists.

[Podaar]

2012   Maps of Non-Existent Places   -   Thank You Scientist

 

Yeah, I have you to thank for that Doll!  It's absolutely true, though. Every time I hear that album, or a song comes on rotation, I get the same thrill I had when I first heard it. That's a rare treat for me these days.

[Podaar]

This was both painful and fun.  So fun, I tried to go as many years before my birth year before it became too much work.  So painful, some years I had around five albums and basically flipped a coin while the coin pointed a gun to my head, and some years where I just felt like I missed something due to missing meta data.  Some great albums didn't make it just because of a competitive year, while others made it even though I don't consider them a top 100 album.

I found 1971 and 1976 to be particularly problematic. By following the rule of one per year, I probably left more favorites off the list than I put on it!

I will say, if I were to redo my list based on what my favorite was during that year, it would look completely different. My tastes have changed a lot over the years.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

Jeez..

1982 Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989

1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999

2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009

2010
2011
2012
2013
2014

To be continued...

[bout to crash]

It's funny, but the lists that I like the most are Marc's and Jackie's, both of whom are almost exactly the same age as me.

And D'AWWWWWW to all the younglings in this thread!

I know, right?! Anyway, you have quite a few that I almost listed. I TRIED to stick to one per year, but some of those years were just impossible.

2012   Maps of Non-Existent Places   -   Thank You Scientist

 

Yeah, I have you to thank for that Doll!  It's absolutely true, though. Every time I hear that album, or a song comes on rotation, I get the same thrill I had when I first heard it. That's a rare treat for me these days.

So awesome! I got to hang with them when they came to town with Coheed in the fall, and they're coming back in a couple weeks but playing with three bands that I'm not crazy about, so we'll see. It's only $17, so I could just see them and bail.

[RoeDent]

I've got all but three years down. 1998, 2003 and 2008. And I'm really struggling to think of what even came out those years. Forget it. I'm just gonna post the albums now and leave out those years. If I think of something, I'll come back.

1989 - Tears for Fears - The Seeds of Love
1990 - Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee
1991 - Crowded House - Woodface
1992 - Dream Theater - Images and Words
1993 - Crowded House - Together Alone
1994 - Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
1995 - Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
1996 - Porcupine Tree - Signify
1997 - The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
1998 -
1999 - Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
2000 - Doves - Lost Souls
2001 - Pendragon - Not of this World
2002 - Spock's Beard - Snow
2003 -
2004 - Keane - Hopes and Fears
2005 - Dream Theater -Octavarium
2006 - Guillemots - Through the Windowpane
2007 - Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
2008 -
2009 - Porcupine Tree - The Incident
2010 - Spock's Beard - X
2011 - Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events
2012 - Flying Colors - Flying Colors
2013 - Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes & Dreamless Sleep
2014 - Enchant - The Great Divide

[hefdaddy42]

On the face of it, this seems ridiculously hard to me.

I'll think about it.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

1991 - Enuff Z Nuff:     Strength     (Strength)

Whoa.  Somebody else on DTF has made mention of Enuff Z'Nuff besides me.  Awesome. 

[ariich]

It's funny, but the lists that I like the most are Marc's and Jackie's, both of whom are almost exactly the same age as me.

And D'AWWWWWW to all the younglings in this thread!

I know, right?! Anyway, you have quite a few that I almost listed. I TRIED to stick to one per year, but some of those years were just impossible.

Yeah I forced myself to do just one per year, which was tough. Thank You Scientist really should appear on that list, but Weather Systems came out the same year and is my favourite EVER album. Sad times.

[Podaar]

It's funny, but the lists that I like the most are Marc's and Jackie's, both of whom are almost exactly the same age as me.

And D'AWWWWWW to all the younglings in this thread!

I know, right?! Anyway, you have quite a few that I almost listed. I TRIED to stick to one per year, but some of those years were just impossible.

Yeah I forced myself to do just one per year, which was tough. Thank You Scientist really should appear on that list, but Weather Systems came out the same year and is my favourite EVER album. Sad times.

Well, Thank You Scientist is remastering and re-releasing MoN-EP this year so maybe it'll make it to your 2015 spot. 

[The Letter M]

It's funny, but the lists that I like the most are Marc's and Jackie's, both of whom are almost exactly the same age as me.

 

Yeah, it was REALLY hard for me to pick JUST ONE for a lot of the years after 1994. The first decade was fairly easy, though, since I don't really listen to a lot of music from that span of 84-94, unless it's any of the aforementioned prog bands. From 95 onward, though, between SB/Morse, TFK/Stolt, PT/Wilson, and DT, it was hard to pick any single album. If my life was at stake...maybe. Otherwise, nope.

-Marc.

[Sacul]

But Weather Systems came out the same year and is my favourite EVER album. Sad times.

Yeah that album is glorious.

[TAC]

...Really long list

That is one varied and eclectic list, even for DTF. Didn't realize you were such a Fogey either.

I found 1971 and 1976 to be particularly problematic.

Those were two of the easiest years for me.

[ariich]

It's funny, but the lists that I like the most are Marc's and Jackie's, both of whom are almost exactly the same age as me.

And D'AWWWWWW to all the younglings in this thread!

I know, right?! Anyway, you have quite a few that I almost listed. I TRIED to stick to one per year, but some of those years were just impossible.

Yeah I forced myself to do just one per year, which was tough. Thank You Scientist really should appear on that list, but Weather Systems came out the same year and is my favourite EVER album. Sad times.

Well, Thank You Scientist is remastering and re-releasing MoN-EP this year so maybe it'll make it to your 2015 spot. 

I'm fairly sure that already came out towards the latter part of 2014, in fact. But that's only a re-release, so can't count.

[bout to crash]

Yeah, I believe it came out around the time of the tour with Coheed.

[King Postwhore]

Damn, this was hard!!


1968 - Beggars Banquet - The Rolling Stones
1969 - Abbey Road    - The Beatles
1970 - Chicago II - Chicago
1971 - The Yes Album - Yes
1972 - Close to the Edge - Yes
1973 - The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
1974 - Secret Treaties - Blue Öyster Cult
1975 - A Night at the Opera - Queen
1976 - Boston    - Boston (Self titled)  ------This was a bitch to pick.  What a great year.
1977 - Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
1978 - The Cars -- The Cars (Self titled)
1979 - Hydra - Toto
1980 - Permanent Waves - Rush
1981 - Moving Pictures - Rush
1982 - Asia - Asia (Self titled)
1983 - Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden
1984 - Vital Signs - Survivor (Triumph - Thunder 7 could be neck n neck)
1985 - Power Windows - Rush 
1986 - So - Peter Gabriel
1987 - Bangin'    - The Outfield (I still play this album weekly)
1988 - The Seventh One    - Toto  (Mindcrime was right there as well!)
1989 - The Great Radio Controversy - Tesla  (Playing tackle football with my buds cranking this every time we played)
1990 - Empire -Queensrÿche
1991 - 10 - Pearl Jam
1992 - Dream Theater -  Images and Words   
1993 - Ten Summoner's Tales -Sting (Midnight Oil's Earth & Sun $ Moon and Rush - Counterparts)
1994 - Throwing Copper - Live (King's X - Dogman)
1995 - Pet Your Friends - Dishwalla
1996 - Dada - El Subliminoso
1997 - Whatever and Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five (Jars Of Clay - Much Afraid as well)
1998 - Sunburn - Fuel (What a suck year for music)
1999 - World Trade - (Self Titled)
2000 - Lightbulb Sun - Porcupine Tree
2001 - Morning View - Incubus
2002 - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - Dream Theater (Going through Lymphoma, this album got me through it)
2003 - Love - The Juliana Theory
2004 - So-Called Chaos    - Alanis Morissette
2005 - Deadwing - Porcupine Tree
2006 - The Flower Kings - Paradox Hotel
2007 - Paramount - Sieges Even
2008 - Who's The Boss In The Factory? - Karmakanic
2009 - Sound Awake - Karnivool
2010 - X - Spock's Beard
2011 - A Dramatic Turn Of Events - Dream Theater
2012 - echolyn - Echolyn (Rush Clockwork Angels neck n neck)
2013 - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories) - Steven Wilson
2014 - Hitchhiking to Byzantium - Anubis ( A close second was Circus Pandemonium - A.C.T

[TAC]

Interesting King. I haven't heard half of those albums! How did Clockwork Angels not win its year?

[King Postwhore]

It was very close.  It was right next to the Echolyn album.

[Calvin6s]

That is one varied and eclectic list, even for DTF.

It is one of the main reasons I go to DT forums.  To find new (to me) music.  The albums themselves are all relatively mainstream, mainly because I asked myself if the more obscure albums were the best of that year and I almost always told myself "nope."  Obscure artists tend to have great highs, but really low lows.

Didn't realize you were such a Fogey either.

Definitely one of the older posters, but I cheated a bit and did a little less than a decade before my birth year because I had to get the Beatles and Curtis Mayfield in there.  The funny thing is my musical collection really thinned out dramatically before my birth year.  And some great artists I only have "Greatest Hits" albums, so they didn't show up in a specific year search and were probably overlooked.

Some artists I thought for sure would make the list but didn't:
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Duran Duran - Wedding Album
Fates Warning
Grassy Knoll
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Nine Inch Nails
Queensryche - Empire & OM
Ra
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
Red Square Black - Square
Sevendust
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Symphony X
T-Ride
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses / October Rust

Soundtracks for:
Romeo & Juliet
The Crow

It would be kind of cool to start a thread (one thread a year going reverse) that was Top 10 Songs of the Year.  So many great songs that weren't on great albums.

[King Postwhore]

That would be fun!!

[Podaar]

King, I love the choice of Ten Summoner's Tales for 1993. I ultimately picked Undertow as my favorite from that year, but to be honest I probably listen to TST more. The song Sober won it for Tool but just barely.

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

1995 - dc Talk - Jesus Freak
1996 - Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding
1997 - Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
1998 - Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle
1999 - Dan Swano - Moontower
2000 - Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
2001 - Zero Hour - The Towers Of Avarice
2002 - Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane
2003 - Thousand Foot Krutch - Phenomenon
2004 - Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
2005 - Dredg - Catch Without Arms
2006 - Frost* - Milliontown
2007 - Avantasia - The Scarecrow
2008 - Opeth - Watershed
2009 - Devin Townsend - Ki
2010 - Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
2011 - Cynic - Carbon Based Anatomy
2012 - Now, Now - Threads
2013 - The Ocean - Pelagial
2014 - Killer Be Killed - S/T (also the only album from 2014 I own )

Also note this is only based on albums I own, so some might change if I thought about it a little more.

[PuffyPat]

1993: Sepultura – Chaos A.D.
1994: Weezer – Weezer
1995: THE WORST YEAR IN MUSIC IN THE LAST 22 YEARS
1996: Karate - Karate
1997: Karate – In Place of Real Insight
1998: Karate – The Bed is in the Ocean
1999: Radiohead – OK Computer
2000: Karate - Unsolved
2001: At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
2002: Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
2003: Brand New – Deja Entendu
2004: Say Anything - …Is a Real Boy
2005: Motion City Soundtrack – Commit This to Memory
2006: The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
2007: Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
2008: The Mars Volta – The Bedlam in Goliath
2009: Brand New - Daisy
2010: Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
2011: Portugal. The Man – In the Mountain in the Cloud
2012: Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
2013: Queens of the Stone Age - …Like Clockwork
2014: Bear Hands - Distraction


I don't know if you can tell, but Karate is my favorite band...

[senecadawg2]

94: David Gray- Flesh
95: Anathema- Silent Enigma
96: Opeth- Morningrise
97: Dream Theater- Falling Into Infinity
98: David Gray- White Ladder
99: Agalloch- Pale Folklore
00: Porcupine Tree- Lightbulb Sun
01: Tool- Lateralus
02: Sigur Ros- ( )
03: Pain of Salvation- Remedy Lane
04: Sarah Fimm- Nexus
05: David Gray- Life in Slow Motion
06: Agalloch- Ashes Against the Grain
07: Ulver- Shadows of the Sun
08: Seventh Wonder- Mercy Falls
09: Dredg- The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
10: Anathema- We're Here Because We're Here
11: Steven Wilson- Grace for Drowning
12: Anathema- Weather Systems
13: James LaBrie- Impermanent Resonance
14: Anathema- Distant Satellites

Lot of Anathema these past 5 years, and a few other repeating artists as well. Maybe I should try to diversify

[King Postwhore]

King, I love the choice of Ten Summoner's Tales for 1993. I ultimately picked Undertow as my favorite from that year, but to be honest I probably listen to TST more. The song Sober won it for Tool but just barely.

I love that album and what a tour as well.

Shadow Ninja, Jesus Freak is a great album.

[Calvin6s]

I don't know if you can tell, but Karate is my favorite band...

I don't know if you can tell, but I have no idea who Karate is.  Can you recommend 1 to 3 of their best songs to check out on YouTube?

[PuffyPat]

I don't know if you can tell, but Karate is my favorite band...

I don't know if you can tell, but I have no idea who Karate is.  Can you recommend 1 to 3 of their best songs to check out on YouTube?

I'm not surprised you don't know who they are. They were an indie rock band with a pretty heavy jazz influence from Boston that had a pretty big underground following, but never really got too big. Anyways, for song recommendations, uh, I would say Diazapam, Tow Truck, and Sever for their "heavier" stuff, and then Small Fires, This Day Next Year, and Sing for their jazzier stuff.

[Big Hath]

Shadow Ninja, Jesus Freak is a great album.

ditto that.  Love that album.

[King Postwhore]

Shadow Ninja, Jesus Freak is a great album.

ditto that.  Love that album.

Also, big love for T.O.P Big Hath.  Check out my list.

[Big Hath]

I hate to break it to ya, but T.O.P. was '93 instead of '03.  They released Oakland Zone in '03.

I would have loved to put Tower on my list somewhere, but my favorite albums of theirs came out before I was born.  T.O.P. is spectacular, but I couldn't quite place it above Counterparts.

[ThatOneGuy2112]

1995: THE WORST YEAR IN MUSIC IN THE LAST 22 YEARS

Agreed. There are some great releases in that year, but it's really odd how it just doesn't stack up to the years that surround it.

I'm refraining from posting my list since some of it might spoil my top 50 albums list, but I think Slowdive's Pygmalion really saves the day here.

[King Postwhore]

I hate to break it to ya, but T.O.P. was '93 instead of '03.  They released Oakland Zone in '03.

I would have loved to put Tower on my list somewhere, but my favorite albums of theirs came out before I was born.  T.O.P. is spectacular, but I couldn't quite place it above Counterparts.

Crap!  I'll fix that.  Dammit!