favourite albums of the year, by year.

[newslang]

I can't pick just one for any of the years. Especially this year. This year has been full of great new albums.

2007
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Bishi - Nights at the Circus
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
CocoRosie - The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position [maybe - mostly on here because of the happy memories it has created]
2006
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Muse - Black Holes and Revenlations
2005
Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires [best best best - of all time, ever]
CocoRosie - Noah's Ark
2004
Muse - Absolution
Keane - Hopes and Fears
Sarah Slean - Day One
2003
Pilate - Caught By the Window
The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart
Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy
Rufus Wainwright - Want One
2002
The White Stripes - The White Stripes
Audioslave - Audioslave
2001
Coldplay - Parachutes
The Strokes - Is This It?
2000
Hanson - This Time Around
1999
Travis - The Man Who
1998
Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright

Before this my list would likely consist of a lot of BritPop and boy bands.

[Jet]

2007: El-p - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
2006: Boris - Pink
2005: Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires
2004: Arcade Fire - Funeral
2003: Non-Prophets - Hope
2002: Sage Francis - Personal Journals
2001: Fugazi - The Argument
2000: At the Drive-in - Relationship of Command

[Xteenuh]

stationtostation said:

2003 Patrick Wolf- Lycanthorpy

norwegianbluebell said:

2003 - patrick wolf - lycantrophy

Ya'll'd better hope you don't get stuck with that one in a spelling bee.

Um yeah anyway let's see what I can do with this:


2007
The Magic Position - Patty
The Else - They Might Be Giants
The Flying Club Cup - Beirut
2006
Dog Problems - The Format
2005
Erm... Patty. Definately the best.
Picaresque - The Decemberists (I love that I first heard in it Hot Topic. THANK YOU 35 YEAR OLD HIPSTER EMPLOYEE MAN, I WILL REMEMBER YOU FOR AS LONG AS I LIVE.)
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn - Bright Eyes
2004
Soviet Kitsch - Regina Spektor
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
2003
L-Y-C-A-N-T-H-R-O-P-Y. Heh...
Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls
2002
The Young and the Hopeless - Good Charlotte (HEY, AT THE TIME IT WAS GRAND.)
2001
Um... I have no idea.
2000
Fevers and Mirrors I guess. It's like the only good thing I own of that year...

Wow, do you see how lame I am with this whole musical albums business?

[allison]

my musical knowledge is far too patchy to do this.
i don't know anything about years.

but it seems such a neat idea... maybe i'll try when i get home. (hmmm....i wonder how far back i could start..... woody gunthrie?? dust bowls was like 1940 or something......)

[stationtostation]

gypsyqueen said:

Wow, do you see how lame I am with this whole musical albums business?

Are you better on spoken word and albums of stock sound effects?

[admin]

gypsyqueen said:

Patty

P-A-T-R-I-C-K. Patrick. Patrick!

Cheerio, Michael. xxx

[Ingvild]

gypsyqueen said:

stationtostation said:

2003 Patrick Wolf- Lycanthorpy

norwegianbluebell said:

2003 - patrick wolf - lycantrophy

Ya'll'd better hope you don't get stuck with that one in a spelling bee.

L-Y-C-A-N-T-H-R-O-P-Y. Heh...

I've been misplacing that damn h since always. whoopsie.

[Xteenuh]

admin said:

gypsyqueen said:

Patty

P-A-T-R-I-C-K. Patrick. Patrick!

HIS NAME IS PATTY GODDAMMIT.

*Sigh.* Nobody understands...

[hark]

I am reviving this thread, because it's quite fun if you're geeky and bored on a summer's night.

i already did one, but i've managed to make mine even longer and there's been a few changes since the first time.

so far, 2008 is shaping up as a brilliant year. 1998, 2004 and 2006 were disgustingly good too.

2008 Johnny Foreigner - Arcs Across The City
Why? - Alopecia
Xiu Xiu - Women As Lovers
2007 Times New Viking - Present The Paisley Reich
2006 Joanna Newsom - Ys
Parenthetical Girls - Safe As Houses
2005 Final Fantasy - Has A Good Home
Ninja High School - Young Adults Against Suicide
2004 Mae Shi - Terrorbird
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
2003 Arab Strap - Monday At The Hug And Pint
Xiu Xiu - A Promise
2002 mclusky - Do Dallas
Xiu Xiu - Knife Play
2001 Hefner - Dead Media
2000 Bjork - Selmasongs
1999 Ten In The Swear Jar - My Very Private Map
1998 Hefner - Breaking God's Heart
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
1997 Kenickie - At The Club
1996 Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
1995 Pavement - Wowee Zowee
1994 Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
1993 Huggy Bear - Taking The Rough With The Smooth
1992 Heavenly - Le Jardin De Heavenly
1991 The Jesus Lizard - Goat
The Nation Of Ulysses - 13-Point Plan To Destroy America!
1990 Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
1989 Pixies - Doolittle
1988 Beat Happening - Jamboree
Pixies - Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim
1987 Big Black - Songs About Fucking
1986 The Clean - Anthology
1985 Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
1984 Minutemen - Double Nickles On The Dime
1983 Black Flag - The First Four Years
Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex/Kill Yr Idols
1982 Kate Bush - The Dreaming
1981 Black Flag - Damaged

YOUR TURN.

[stationtostation]

Oh I fucking love this thread so much.

Please note, I have replaced The Pixies with the Field Mice and Stevie Wonder with the much better soul album (that coincidentally came out in the same year..) Curtis Mayfield's Superfly. Oh and much as I love Raw Power, tis out and Eno's Here Come The Warm Jets is IN.

I struggled with 1989 and 1972 the first time around, NOT ANYMORE.

ps, I'm still winning.

For the record my favourite of 2008 thus far is close between Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanagan's Sunday At Devil Dirt and The Magnetic Field's Distortion.

My music taste is actually pretty dull and predictable really.. My 80's choices especially are very "standard"

[deathmethany]

Jul 13, 2008 23:57:43 GMT hark said:

2002 mclusky - Do Dallas

AWESOME CHOICE FROM JARVIS.

[hark]

Knife Play is better, to be honest, but i could never leave out that classic.

ALL YOUR FRIENDS ARE CUNTS!
YOUR MOTHER IS A BALL POINT THIEF!
NOTORIETY FOLLOWS YOU!
LIKE BEATINGS FOLLOW RAIN!

Sibz, have you done one? you should do one.

[tombland]

08 Silver Mt. Zion - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
07 Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
06 TV On The Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
05 Animal Collective - Feels
04 Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
03 The Books - The Lemon Of Pink
02 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - Univers Zen ou de zéro à zéro
01 Josh T. Pearson with Lift To Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads/A Silver Mt Zion - Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upwards
00 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
99 Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
98 Ruins - Symphonica
97 David Devant & His Spirit Wife - Work, Lovelife, Miscellaneous
96 The Tear Garden - To Be An Angel Blind, The Crippled Soul Divide
95 Death In June - Rose Clouds of Holocaust
94 To Live and Shave in L.A - Vedder Vedder Bedwetter
93 Nurse With Wound (with David Tibet) - Thunder Perfect Mind
92 Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
91 Sebadoh - Sebadoh III
90 They Might Be Giants - Flood
89 Hanatarash - 3
88 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
87 Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
86 Paul Simon - Graceland
85 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
84 Glenn Branca - The Ascension
83 Big Country - The Crossing
82 Nurse With Wound - Homotopy to Marie
81 Merzbow - Metal Acoustic Music
80 AC/DC - Back In Black
79 The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
78 Can - Out Of Reach
77 Talking Heads -77
76 Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius/Led Zeppelin - Presence
75 Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
74 King Crimson - Red
73 Ash Ra Tempel - Join Inn
72 Grateful Dead - Europe 72
71 Faust - Faust
70 Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation
69 King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
68 The Beatles - White Album
67 The Velvet Undergound and Nico - The Velvet Underground
66 Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
65 The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics
64 Chuck Berry & Bo Diddley - Two Great Guitars
63 James Brown - Live At The Apollo

Is 63 what we're going up to? I can't be arsed to go further right now. There's probably only about 10 or 12 to go...

Jesus fucking christ. What an odd list...
I get the feeling I'm missing things... ho hum...

It's solid from about 69 through to 90-something. I've got a load of untagged albums, though. Urgh

[deathmethany]

Jul 15, 2008 1:04:22 GMT hark said:

Knife Play is better, to be honest, but i could never leave out that classic.

ALL YOUR FRIENDS ARE female reproductive organsS!
YOUR MOTHER IS A BALL POINT THIEF!
NOTORIETY FOLLOWS YOU!
LIKE BEATINGS FOLLOW RAIN!

Sibz, have you done one? you should do one.

I haven't yet. I'll do it though, it's just hard.

[hideandseek]

1977- The Clash- Self titled
1978- X-Ray Spex- Germ Free Adolescents
1979- The Clash- London Calling
1980- Teardrop Explodes- Kilimanjaro
1981- The Undertones- Positive Touch
1982- A Flock of Seagulls- Self titled
1983- Billy Bragg- Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy
1984- The Smiths- Self titled
1985- The Smiths- Meat is Murder
1986- The Smiths- The Queen is Dead
1987- The Smiths- Strangeways, Here We Come
1988- Pixies- Surfer Rosa
1989- Pixies- Doolittle
1990– They Might Be Giants- Flood
1991– Nirvana- Nevermind
1992– Rage Against the Machine- Self Titled/ Gin Blossoms- New Miserable Experience
1993– Bjork- Self Titled/ Blur- Modern Life is Rubbish
1994– Manic Street Preachers- The Holy Bible
1995– Supergrass- I Should Coco
1996– Matchbox Twenty- Yourself or Someone Like You
1997– Elliott Smith- Either/Or
1998– Goo Goo Dolls- Dizzy Up the Girl
1999- Beck- Midnite Vultures
2000– Elliott Smith- Figure 8/ Bright Eyes- Fevers and Mirrors
2001– The Strokes- Is This it?/ Rufus Wainwright- Poses/ Regina Spektor- 11:11
2002– The Libertines- Up the Bracket/ The Streets- Original Pirate Material/ Brendan Benson- Lapalco
2003– Patrick Wolf- Lycanthropy/ Dizzee Rascal- Boy in Da Corner/ The Shins- Chutes Too Narrow/ Dresden Dolls- Self titled
2004– Interpol- Antics/ The Libertines- Self titled
2005– Adam Green- Gemstones/ Gogol Bordello- Gypsy Punks/ M.I.A.- Arular/ We Are Scientists- With Love and Squalor
2006– Larrikin Love- The Freedom Spark/ Amy Winehouse- Back to Black/ Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People say I am, That’s What I’m Not
2007– Arctic Monkeys- Favourite Worst Nightmare/ M.I.A.- Kala/ Gogol Bordello- Super Taranta


I am aware at the end this gets a bit ridiculous, but I'm really indecisive.

[tombland]

Oooh, Teardrop Explodes. I might have to give that a place instead of AC/DC, although they do bring the ROCK in shedloads.

[obeseguy]

I don't know this much music. I don't have space on my computer or on my CD rack.

[tombland]

Meh. External HDDs are the way forward. I've got albums back to 51, but only 1 of them is really good enough to call an "album of the year"

[obeseguy]

Ergh but they're hassle. My ex had one and it was all like "What do you want to listen to? Pick anything!" so I'd pick something, and then he'd have to get the external hard drive out and plug it in and connect it and wait for it to turn itself on and then fiddle about with something and by then I didn't really want to listen to whatever it was anymore.

[deathmethany]

2008- If - Mindless Self Indulgence
2007- Strawberry Jam - Animal Collective
2006- The Last Romance - Arab Strap
2005- Two Shoes - The Cat Empire
2004- Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge - My Chemical Romance
2003- Lycanthropy - Patrick Wolf
2002- Original Pirate Material - The Streets
2001- 11:11 - Regina Spektor
2000- Stankonia - Outkast
1999- Le Tigre - Le Tigre
1998- F♯A♯∞- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
1997- Fat Of The Land - Prodigy
1996- Placebo - Placebo
1995- Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
1994- Grace - Jeff Buckley
1993- Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
1991- Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
1989- Disintegration - The Cure
1988- Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction
1987- Strangeways, Here We Come - The Smiths
1986- The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
1985- The Head On The Door - The Cure
1984- Purple Rain - Prince
1983- Touch - Eurythmics
1982- Thriller - Michael Jackson
1981- Juju - Siouxsie and the Banshees
1980- 9-5 And Odd Jobs - Dolly Parton
1979- Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
1978- Easter - Patti Smith
1977- Lust For Life - Iggy Pop
1976- Dreamboat Annie - Heart
1975- Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
1974- Court And Spark - Joni Mitchell
1973- Cameo - Dusty Springfield
1972- Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones
1971- Electric Warrior - T.Rex
1970- The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett
1969- Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
1968- The Beatles - White Album
1967- The Velvet Undergound and Nico - The Velvet Underground
1966- Revolver - The Beatles
1965- Highway 66 Revisited - Bob Dylan
1964- Where Did Our Love Go/I Hear a Symphony - Supremes
1963- The Freewheeling Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
1962- Joan Baez In Concert - Joan Baez