Favorite albums from the year you were born

[ChuckSteak]

Tom Waits - Big Time
Living Colour - Vivid
Soundgarden - Ultramega OK
Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
Deep Purple - Nobody's Perfect
Rush - A Show Of Hands
Joe Satriani - Dreaming #11
Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore (Sampler)
Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 1
Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 2
Frank Zappa - Broadway The Hard Way
Frank Zappa - Guitar
Death - Leprosy
Cardiacs - Live
Cardiacs - A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window
Fates Warning - No Exit
King's X - Out Of The Silent Planet
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

[bl5150]

Not much I gotta say


KISS : s/t, Hotter Than Hell
Deep Purple:  Burn

[The Walrus]

*checks Wikipedia, unable to check personal collection right now*

GnR - Use Your Illusion 1 & 2 
Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
Rush - Roll the Bones
Fates Warning - Parallels

Ozzy, Skid Row, Van Halen, etc. released some albums this year but they're all stinkers to me 

[Samsara]

Rush - 2112
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Kansas - Leftoverture
Billy Joel - Turnstiles
Aerosmith - Rocks
The Eagles - Hotel California

[Adami]

Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Metallica - Ride the Lightning

[Podaar]

Joan Baez vol. 2 

[Zydar]

Iron Maiden - Killers
Rush - Moving Pictures
Rush - Exit... Stage Left
Judas Priest - Point Of Entry
Van Halen - Fair Warning
Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman
Kiss - Music From The Elder

1981 was a pretty good year, with Rush as the highlight.

[New World Rushman]

Not much to choose from for this old fart;
The Beatles' Please Please Me, and With The Beatles; a few Beach Boys albums came out in '63.
Other than that, mostly Jazz and "Oldies" bands.

[Kwyjibo]

Led Zeppelin III
Deep Purple In Rock
Black Sabbath Paranoid

Fuck I'm old 

[Stadler]

Are you guys fucking kidding me?  Some of those choices... I was already banging cheerleaders. 

My problem is that some of my favorite bands released albums, but they aren't really my favorites compared to what came after.   The Stones released "Their Satanic Majesties Request", "Between The Buttons" and "Flowers".   None of which are "Aftermath" which came before, or "Let It Bleed" which came after.   The Monkees - who I like - released THREE albums, but they all kind of suck.  Floyd did "Piper..." which is okay, but I'm not the hugest Syd fan.   

I'll put:

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again (Broken Arrow!!)
Leonard Nimoy - Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Beach Boys - Smiley Smile (which sucks, but it does have Good Vibrations)

[deggs37]

Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
Guns 'N Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Honestly, meh - 1987 was a real shit year for music. Even most of my favorite artists released not so great albums that year. Glad I don't remember much of it.

[MirrorMask]

I'm tempted to make a thread about "Albums released close to your birthday", just to win hands down 'cause I was born ONE DAY BEFORE the release of The Wall 

1979 was a weird year - no Maiden yet, Dio had already left Rainbow but was still to join Black Sabbath... all in all I'd say that my favorite album of that year is Priest's Hell Bent for Leather.

It was the year of Overkill by Motorhead and Highway to Hell by AC/DC, and while I know and love songs off those records, I never followed closely those bands to say that I love these records front to back.

[Stadler]

I like that idea; I paid like $350 for the Pink Floyd Early Years box set in part because there is a live concert in the set that was recorded on my birthday.  Not "on the same date as the day I celebrate the day I was born" but LITERALLY on the day I was born.   My mom was smoking a cigarette* and pushing me out, and Syd was probably standing on stage playing one chord over and over in an LSD fog (not really; the tapes are pretty decent). 

* Because that's what they did back then.  There was probably scotch in the room, too!

[Grappler]

Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
Iron Maiden - s/t
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
Judas Priest - British Steel

[Nekov]

Metallica - Master of puppets
Van Halen - 5150
AC/DC - Who Made Who
Queen - A Kind of Magic
Bon Jovi - Slippery when wet
Toto - Fahrenheit
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Frank Zappa - Jazz from hell
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill

[El Barto]

Bridge Over Troubled Water
Black Sabbath
Live at Leeds
In Rock

I like that idea; I paid like $350 for the Pink Floyd Early Years box set in part because there is a live concert in the set that was recorded on my birthday.  Not "on the same date as the day I celebrate the day I was born" but LITERALLY on the day I was born.   My mom was smoking a cigarette* and pushing me out, and Syd was probably standing on stage playing one chord over and over in an LSD fog (not really; the tapes are pretty decent). 

* Because that's what they did back then.  There was probably scotch in the room, too!

I was coming in just as Jimi Hendrix was leaving. Not sure which happened first, though I suspect I beat him by an hour or so. His actual time of death isn't clear.

[Chris Hinton]

Are you guys fucking kidding me?  Some of those choices... I was already banging cheerleaders. 

Not many, but some good oldies for the oldies...

Jimi: Are you Experienced
Procol Harum: s/t
Pink Floyd: Piper at the Gates
Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's

[King Postwhore]

1968

Simon & Garfunkel -- Bookends
The Beatles -- Self Titled
Rolling Stones -- Beggars Banquet

[Evermind]

Savatage - Edge of Thorns

Yeah, I'm young.

[Imaginos]

Motorhead - Snake Bite Love
King's X - Tapehead
Blue Oyster Cult - Heaven Forbid

Not many great albums released in 1998 that I can think of. I suppose I could throw Buckethead - Colma in as well, but I'm not very familiar with it yet, I just know it's good.

[DragonAttack]

In the time of stone knives and bearskins......all I can do is post releases that I've heard some tracks from, and that were so influential to groups such as The Beates, Stones, Zeppelin, Queen, etc and inspired generations to follow.....

Buddy Holly
Miles Davis - Milestones
Elvis - Golden Records
Sinatra - Music For The Lonely, Come Fly With Me
Bo Diddley
Jerry Lee Lewis
Muddy Waters
Little Richard
The Everly Brothers
The Fabulous Johnny Cash

[King Postwhore]

In the time of stone knives and bearskins......all I can do is post releases that I've heard some tracks from, and that were so influential to groups such as The Beates, Stones, Zeppelin, Queen, etc and inspired generations to follow.....

Buddy Holly
Miles Davis - Milestones
Elvis - Golden Records
Sinatra - Music For The Lonely, Come Fly With Me
Bo Diddley
Jerry Lee Lewis
Muddy Waters
Little Richard
The Everly Brothers
The Fabulous Johnny Cash

You old bastard!

[Crow]

I don't think I own a single album from the year I was born 

[pg1067]

Hmmm...let's see...

Off the top of my head -- and confirmed by Wikipedia -- the only albums I own or ever have owned from 1967 are Beatles albums (Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour).  I actively hate the Doors and have never been a fan of Hendrix or the Stones, so that's about all I got.  There are a bunch of songs by other artists from 1967 that I like (e.g., Happy Together by the Turtles and Leaving on a Jet Plane by Peter, Paul & Mary), but that's harder to review thoroughly.

[LordCost]

I don't think I own a single album from the year I was born 

[romdrums]

From the year I was born:

Rush: A Farewell to Kings
Yes: Going for the One
Pink Floyd: Animals
ELP: Works Volume 1
Genesis: Seconds Out
David Bowie: Low
Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel

[jingle.boy]

Iron Maiden - Killers
Rush - Moving Pictures
Rush - Exit... Stage Left
Judas Priest - Point Of Entry
Van Halen - Fair Warning
Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman
Kiss - Music From The Elder

1981 was a pretty good year, with Rush as the highlight.

Your lack of Allied Forces is disturbing.

Zoso
Sticky Fingers
Who's Next
Aqualung
LA Woman
Master of Reality
The Yes Album
Fragile
Nursery Cryme
Tarkus
Imagine

The B-list is pretty good too.

[RoeDent]

These are the only two I have from my year, but they're both fabulous albums:

The Seeds of Love - Tears for Fears
Seasons End - Marillion

Great thread idea, btw! 

[Phoenix87x]

1987

In no particular order

1. The cure  - kiss me kiss me kiss me
2. Prince - Sign of the times
3. Faith no more - introduce yourself

I'm sure there's more. That's all I can think of at the moment

[jingle.boy]

1987

In no particular order

1. The cure  - kiss me kiss me kiss me
2. Prince - Sign of the times
3. Faith no more - introduce yourself

I'm sure there's more. That's all I can think of at the moment

Appetite for Destruction
Hold Your Fire
Momentary Lapse of Reason
Clutching at Straws
Hysteria

[Sacul]

Koji Kondo - Super Mario 64 OST
Dj Shadow - Endtroducing....
Hooverphonic - A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular
Fishmans - Long Season
Archive - Londinium
Porcupine Tree - Signify
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Tool - Aenima

Btw, I love your new avatar, jingle.boy

[TAC]

Shades Of Deep Purple


Yes, 1968 sucked.

[jingle.boy]

Shades Of Deep Purple


Yes, 1968 sucked.

White Album
Electric Ladyland
Dock of the Bay
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
 
And then all the self-titled (I assume mostly debuts)
Fleetwood Mac
CCR
Traffic
Spirit
Steppenwolf
Blood Sweat and Tears

You're right ... '68 did suck

[LudwigVan]

1963

With the Beatles - The Beatles 
Surfin' USA - The Beach Boys

[Samsara]

Shades Of Deep Purple


Yes, 1968 sucked.

50? I could have sworn you were 70.