Author Topic: Favourite year in music? (Read 5780 times)

IDontNotDoThings · « **on:** February 24, 2016, 10:02:37 PM »

Just something I'd been wondering the general consensus for for quite a while now: what's your favourite individual year for music as a whole. This includes what was popular, bands that formed, favourite albums, favourite trends, anything musically that happened in that year counts. What's your favourite?

EDIT: Forgot to mention, you can select 5.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #1 on:** February 24, 2016, 10:08:06 PM »

Cool idea for a thread. '71 and '87 come instantly to mind, but I'll have to put some more thought into it when I'm closer to my home library so I can figure out the final 3. Probably some of the most recent years, since this I've done a metric-shit-ton of musical discovery over the last 10 years.

Sacul · « **Reply #2 on:** February 24, 2016, 10:13:13 PM »

Taking into account album releases, I'm torn between 2002, 2007, and 2012. Some of my all-time favs where released on those years.

BlobVanDam · « **Reply #3 on:** February 24, 2016, 10:26:26 PM »

1991 or 1992 for individual years. If I were choosing a span of a few years it would be different, but for single years, those were great ones.

Heretic · « **Reply #4 on:** February 24, 2016, 10:42:10 PM »

2007, soooooooo many good albums.

Zantera · « **Reply #5 on:** February 25, 2016, 12:43:32 AM »

Quote from: Heretic on February 24, 2016, 10:42:10 PM

2007, soooooooo many good albums.

I think I'm leaning towards 2007 as well. There are several great years, but from the top of my head, 2007 had: Frames, Colors, Fear of a Blank Planet, And Their Refinement of the Decline, Boxer, Program Music I, Act II, Night, Given to the Rising, Shadows of the Sun, Untrue & Blackfield II. There's probably more.

Zydar · « **Reply #6 on:** February 25, 2016, 12:49:51 AM »

I love 1966 and 1973, so I voted those and 1967, 1969 and 1971 as well. That period 1966-1973 is magnificent.

BlobVanDam · « **Reply #7 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:33:55 AM »

I didn't realize we could vote for multiple. In that case, I went with 1978, 1987, 1990-1992. But I could find good reasons for most years. Every era has something.

Tomislav95 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 25, 2016, 03:08:05 AM »

I went with 2005. There are years with more albums I know but some of those from 2005 are absolute masterpieces IMO.

SebastianPratesi · « **Reply #9 on:** February 25, 2016, 05:15:19 AM »

I voted:

1975 (Queen, Pink Floyd)
1985 (Tears For Fears, The Smiths)
1999 (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Limp Bizkit)
2005 (The Mars Volta, System Of A Down)
2015 (Marina & The Diamonds, Death Cab For Cutie)

Fluffy Lothario · « **Reply #10 on:** February 25, 2016, 05:42:53 AM »

I'll have a proper think on this on the weekend. There's at least a chance one of my years is pre-66 though.

My gut instinct is either '69, '70 or '71.

TheCountOfNYC · « **Reply #11 on:** February 25, 2016, 10:13:21 AM »

1981: Moving Pictures released, Metallica formed

1984: Ride the Lightning and 1984 released

1999: Californication and Scenes From a Memory released

2005: Octavarium, City of Evil Ten Thousand Fists, and Mesmerize/Hypnotize released.

2008: Death Magnetic released, Rock Band 2 introduces me to Dream Theater

I would have picked 1986 as my clear number 1 with the formation of Dream Theater and the release of Master of Puppets but Cliff Burton's death negates all of that.

LordCost · « **Reply #12 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:03:55 PM »

I remember that when I did the list of favourite albums since the year I was born I realized how many great albums were from 2005. I voted Also 2001, 2011, 2013

Train of Naught · « **Reply #13 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:25:55 PM »

I'm not going to check off every album for every year that I like, but 2005 is the first year that comes to mind for me.

Sir GuitarCozmo · « **Reply #14 on:** February 25, 2016, 02:34:09 PM »

'85-'89

Tom Bombadil · « **Reply #15 on:** February 25, 2016, 02:45:19 PM »

This was really hard, but I went with 1972. It's hard to beat the threesome of Foxtrot, Ziggy Stardust, and Close to the Edge.

ThatOneGuy2112 · « **Reply #16 on:** February 25, 2016, 09:37:38 PM »

Quote from: Tom Bombadil on February 25, 2016, 02:45:19 PM

This was really hard, but I went with 1972. It's hard to beat the threesome of Foxtrot, Ziggy Stardust, and Close to the Edge.

'72 came to mind immediately as well, for those albums plus:

666 by Aphrodite's Child,
Pink Moon by Nick Drake,
Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull,
The Grand Wazoo by The Mothers of Invention, and
Octopus by Gentle Giant

KevShmev · « **Reply #17 on:** February 25, 2016, 09:38:44 PM »

1976.

Sacul · « **Reply #18 on:** February 25, 2016, 09:48:56 PM »

Went with 1994, 1998, 2002, 2007, and 2012. Fantastic releases on each one

DragonAttack · « **Reply #19 on:** February 25, 2016, 10:06:39 PM »

First of two comments:
1967: if just for Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour EP/LP
1968: Lady Madonna/The Inner Light, Hey Jude/Revolution and The White Album

2016 should be listed. After all, it has been pretty astonishing so far.

PuffyPat · « **Reply #20 on:** February 25, 2016, 10:36:14 PM »

10/15

Zantera · « **Reply #21 on:** February 26, 2016, 03:59:10 AM »

I made a post initially just bringing up 2007, but out of boredom I decided to actually go for the 5 and post the standouts under each one (so might be wall of text): (in chronological order)

1996
Cardiacs - Sing to God
Swans - Soundtracks For the Blind
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
Converge - Petitioning the Empty Sky
Porcupine Tree - Signify
Red House Painters - Songs For a Blue Guitar
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Tool - Aenima
Tori Amos - Boys For Pele
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Opeth - Morningrise
Boris - Absolutego
Anathema - Eternity
Nick Cave and the Dirty Seeds - Murder Ballads
Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album
Unwound - Repetition

2000
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Boris - Flood
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Deftones - White Pony
Radiohead - Kid A
Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission
Ulver - Perdition City
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The Cure - Bloodflowers

2001
Converge - Jane Doe
Stars of the Lid - Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
maudlin of the Well - Bath
maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
Tool - Lateralus
Björk - Vespertine
The Microphones - The Glow pt.2
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Devin Townsend - Terria
Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do it Again
Anathema - A Fine Day to Exit

2002
Sigur Rós - ( )
Isis - Oceanic
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Agalloch - The Mantle
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Opeth - Deliverance
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui UXO
dredg - El Cielo
Boris - Heavy Rocks
Thrice - The Illusion of Safety
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

2007
Oceansize - Frames
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
The Dear Hunter - Act II
Neurosis - Given to the Rising
Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
The Pineapple Thief - What We Have Sown
Gazpacho - Night
Ulver - Shadows of the Sun
Thrice - The Alchemy Index
The National - Boxer
Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I
Blackfield - Blackfield II
Burial - Untrue

(There are some good candidates in the last 5 years, but I need some distance before I can look back at it with a more neutral PoV)

Fluffy Lothario · « **Reply #22 on:** February 26, 2016, 07:16:26 AM »

In order, 1970, 2005, 1969, 2002, 1971. The years that didn't miss out by much are 1995, 2014, and 2001.

From 1970:

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead, American Beauty
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Paranoid
Stooges - Fun House
Tim Buckley - Lorca
Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South
Led Zeppelin - III
Santana - Abraxas
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon, Lizard
Emerson Lake and Palmer - ELP
Van Morrison - Moondance
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Les stances a Sophie
Nick Drake - Bryter Lauter
Cream - Live Cream
Doors - Morrison Hotel

And I'm yet to get around to checking out (some I've sampled though):

Deep Purple - In Rock
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Deja Vu
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
Van der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am the Only One, The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other
Velvet Underground - Loaded
Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the El Dauod
Traffic - John Barleycom Must Die
Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower

RoeDent · « **Reply #23 on:** February 26, 2016, 07:29:49 AM »

This thread has made me wonder what year I have most albums from. Once I've worked it out, I'll get back.

I'm not voting yet, but I will definitely be choosing 2011 (ADTOE, Visions, Grace for Drowning) and 2013 (The Raven..., Brief Nocturnes...) among my years.

dparrott · « **Reply #24 on:** February 26, 2016, 08:04:32 AM »

1988 will always be special to me. It was my first full year of listening to rap music, and me and my friends were making homemade rap tapes. Lots of good albums dropped that year also.

1994-1995 was the height of the Britpop era, I was along for the ride and loved it. The mid 90s was also the height of "format madness" when bands released lots of b-sides! Sadly those days are gone.

This year looks to be good as well.

Zantera · « **Reply #25 on:** February 26, 2016, 08:10:05 AM »

I went mostly on a combination of quality and quantity. For example 2003 had 3 albums I would rate 10/10 (something I would only rate maybe 40-50 albums), but apart from those the year didn't have much else, so I didn't pick it.

Nekov · « **Reply #26 on:** February 26, 2016, 08:25:42 AM »

1969 hands down

Led Zeppelin 1 & 2
Tommy
Green River
Abbey Road - Yellow Submarine
ITCOTCK
Ummagumma
Space Oddity

bosk1 · « **Reply #27 on:** February 26, 2016, 08:50:25 AM »

I'm not going to case any votes until I can give it some more thought and come up with 5. But here are a couple that spring to mind right off the bat as being huge for me personally, given my interests and how the albums shaped my musical interests:

1987:
Exposé - Exposure (yeah, I know...)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Through the Looking Glass
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads - Tribute (not exactly my cuppa', but still MUST be acknowledged by any self-respecting rocker)
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show
Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls
Heart - Bad Animals
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Michael Jackson - Bad
Y&T - Contagious
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
Ice-T - Rhyme Pays
Less Than Zero (soundtrack)
N.W.A. - N.W.A and the Posse
Warlock - Triumph and Agony

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1989:
Skid Row - Skid Row
Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy
Doro - Force Majeure
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Depeche Mode - 101
Mother Love Bone - Shine
Blue Murder - Blue Murder
Badlands - Badlands
Stevie Nicks - The Other Side of the Mirror
The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better
Prince - Batman
Faith No More - The Real Thing
King's X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
Testament - Practice What You Preach
Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814
Tears for Fears - The Seeds of Love
Whitesnake - Slip of the Tongue
Scorpions - Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads

Some other huge releases that year that did not fit my personal music tastes, but were definitely influential by Madonna, Alannah Myles, Garth Brooks, Mr. Big, The Cult, Beastie Boys, Aerosmith. This was also the year I discovered Operation: Mindcrime, despite that it had been released years earlier. All in all, this year was just a BEAST in terms of the sheer number of albums that were huge for me. And this was a time, perhaps more than any other, where my music player (i.e., Walkman) was indeed my private paradise where I would often retreat and enjoy solitude. This year definitely makes my list, and might just be my #1.

SebastianPratesi · « **Reply #28 on:** February 26, 2016, 10:02:14 AM »

Quote from: Sacul on February 25, 2016, 09:48:56 PM

Went with 1994, 1998, 2002, 2007, and 2012. Fantastic releases on each one

I didn't vote for 2012, but I agree that there were fantastic releases that year. I'm curious as to which are the ones you consider?
Mine would be The Mars Volta, El Cuarteto De Nos, The Offspring, Anathema, The Gathering.

Kotowboy · « **Reply #29 on:** February 26, 2016, 10:08:26 AM »

1994

Pearl Jam : Vitalogy

REM : Monster

Oasis : Definitely Maybe

Green Day : Dookie

Therapy? Troublegum

Manic St. Preachers - The Holy Bible

Offspring : Smash.

Terrorvision : How to Make Friends and Influence People

Blur : Parklife

Weezer : The Blue Album

Erasure : I Say, I Say, I Say ( easily one of their best albums )

The Prodigy : Music For The Jilted Generation

SUGAR : File Under Easy Listening

Dream Theater : Awake ( even though I'm not that fond of it - worthy mention )

Nirvana : MTV Unplugged.

What a year !

SebastianPratesi · « **Reply #30 on:** February 26, 2016, 10:09:00 AM »

Quote from: dparrott on February 26, 2016, 08:04:32 AM

1988 will always be special to me. It was my first full year of listening to rap music, and me and my friends were making homemade rap tapes. Lots of good albums dropped that year also.

Would you care to recommend some rap music? From 1988 and/or recent.
I haven't listened to much rap. I obviously watched a lot of Eminem videos on MTV as I grew up in the early 2000s, but other than that it would be the first Beasties Boys album and some guest rapping in other artist's records (Jay-Z with Coldplay, Bootie Brown & De La Soul with Gorillaz, many others with Travis Barker).

SebastianPratesi · « **Reply #31 on:** February 26, 2016, 10:13:11 AM »

Quote from: Zantera on February 26, 2016, 08:10:05 AM

I went mostly on a combination of quality and quantity. For example 2003 had 3 albums I would rate 10/10 (something I would only rate maybe 40-50 albums), but apart from those the year didn't have much else, so I didn't pick it.

I'm curious: which would those be?
I think The Mars Volta, AFI and Blink-182 released excellent records that year (I also recently listened to Deftones' self-titled and I liked it very much - so cool!).

SebastianPratesi · « **Reply #32 on:** February 26, 2016, 10:25:35 AM »

Quote from: bosk1 on February 26, 2016, 08:50:25 AM

Some other huge releases that year that did not fit my personal music tastes, but were definitely influential by Madonna, Alannah Myles, Garth Brooks, Mr. Big, The Cult, Beastie Boys, Aerosmith. This was also the year I discovered Operation: Mindcrime, despite that it had been released years earlier. All in all, this year was just a BEAST in terms of the sheer number of albums that were huge for me. And this was a time, perhaps more than any other, where my music player (i.e., Walkman) was indeed my private paradise where I would often retreat and enjoy solitude. This year definitely makes my list, and might just be my #1.

You mean Pump, right? Such a good record to me. There's so much going on in that album.

From 1987, you mentioned Guns N' Roses (which were influenced by and influenced Aerosmith at that time), so I'm curious to know why you don't think it fits your personal tastes. The lyrics, maybe?

home · « **Reply #33 on:** February 26, 2016, 11:44:35 AM »

1967: The Piper At The Gates of Dawn and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Two most amazing classics

2002: In Absentia, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance

2005: Themata, Octavarium and All is Violent All is Bright

2013: Asymmetry, The Mountain and The Raven That Refused to Sing

dparrott · « **Reply #34 on:** February 26, 2016, 04:24:12 PM »

Quote from: SebastianPratesi on February 26, 2016, 10:09:00 AM

Quote from: dparrott on February 26, 2016, 08:04:32 AM
1988 will always be special to me. It was my first full year of listening to rap music, and me and my friends were making homemade rap tapes. Lots of good albums dropped that year also.

Would you care to recommend some rap music? From 1988 and/or recent.
I haven't listened to much rap. I obviously watched a lot of Eminem videos on MTV as I grew up in the early 2000s, but other than that it would be the first Beasties Boys album and some guest rapping in other artist's records (Jay-Z with Coldplay, Bootie Brown & De La Soul with Gorillaz, many others with Travis Barker).

1988: Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince, JJ FAD, NWA, Run DMC, Public Enemy, Eric B and Rakim, all classics. Don't listen to very much recent stuff.

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