Join me if you fancy, and list your favorite albums from every year you've been alive.
Any of you that know me know that I associate things with years, and sometimes more specific dates or seasons. It's only right that I'd offer my best memories to you now. I haven't thought of most of these pre-2003, so they could be flawed. In fact, 1987 seemed devoid of any music I've listened to extensively. I mean there's George Harrison, Sonic Youth, The Smiths, Dinosaur Jr., R.E.M. and others in '87, but I just didn't know so I threw out one. In my musical domination, how did I forget about ol' '87? Plus, some years I listed a band or two or three afterwards in brackets as close calls/runners-up. The band I list first, however, is probably my favorite of the year. It became harder as I neared the end of the 90's and 2000's; I'm assuming this is because I listened to more music then as opposed to when I was tiny with tiny ears. Maybe I'll try this again in a year.
1985 Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
1986 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (Paul Simon - Graceland)
1987 Big Black - Songs About Fucking
1988 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (Beat Happening - Jamboree / Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back)
1989 Pixies - Doolittle
1990 Sonic Youth - Goo
1991 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
1992 Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted (Tom Waits - Bone Machine)
1993 Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville (The Magnetic Fields - Holiday)
1994 Jeff Buckley - Grace (Blur - Parklife / Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)
1995 Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
1996 Beck - Odelay (Weezer - Pinkerton / 12 Rods - gay?)
1997 Radiohead - OK Computer (Built to Spill- Perfect from Now On / Björk - Homogenic / The Verve - Urban Hymns / Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
1998 Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Silver Jews - American Water / The Beta Band - The Three EPs / Elliott Smith - XO)
1999 The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (Blur - 13 / Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness / The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I / The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin / Tom Waits - Mule Variations)
2000 Radiohead - Kid A (The Avalanches - Since I Left You / Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica / Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP)
2001 The Strokes - Is This It (Fennesz - Endless Summer / Jay-Z - The Blueprint / Rufus Wainwright - Poses / The White Stripes - White Blood Cells)
2002 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Spoon - Kill the Moonlight / The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas / Okkervil River - Don't Fall in Love With Everyone You See)
2003 The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (Blur - Think Tank / The Wrens - Meadowlands / The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?)
2004 Arcade Fire - Funeral (Shugo Tokumaru - Night Piece / The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free)
2005 Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (The Fiery Furnaces - EP / Kanye West - Late Registration / My Morning Jacket - Z / Sufjan Stevens - Illinois)
2006 TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (Grizzly Bear - Yellow House / Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye / The Knife - Silent Shout / Tom Waits - Orphans)
2007 Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam / of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?)
2008 (so far) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Artists that garnered the most consideration throughout my years (whether it was written down or not): Tom Waits, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Pavement, Blur & Radiohead.
Finally, if I had to select a few favorite years for music, they'd be: 1994, 1997-2001, 2005-2007. Haha. That was so frivolous.
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