An Album for Each Year

The exercise has been going on for a few weeks in the blogosphere. See Albums Going Steady or My Favorite Album. I was born in 1972, so it wasn't until sometime in the mid 1980s that I had favorite albums that were actually released that year.

• 2007 Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
• 2006 Ben Kweller Ben Kweller
• 2005 Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine
• 2004 Modest Mouse Good News for People who Love Bad News
• 2003 Joe Strummer Streetcore
• 2002 The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
• 2001 Björk, Vespertine
• 2000 The Delgados Great Eastern
• 1999 Fiona Apple When the Pawn
• 1998 Billy Bragg & Wilco Mermaid Avenue
• 1997 Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out
• 1996 Tommy Flanagan Sea Changes
• 1995 Bjork Post
  
• 1994 Hole Live Through This
• 1993 Liz Phair Exile in Guyville
• 1992 k.d. lang Ingenue
• 1991 U2 Achtung Baby
• 1990 Replacements (Paul Westerberg) All Shook Down
• 1989 Pixies Doolittle
• 1988 Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
• 1987 U2 Joshua Tree
• 1986 R.E.M. Life's Rich Pageant
• 1985 The Smiths Meat is Murder
  
• 1984 Replacements Let It Be
• 1983 R.E.M. Murmur
• 1982 Violent Femmes Violent Femmes
• 1981 Bauhaus Mask
• 1980 Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
• 1979 The Clash London Calling
• 1978 Elvis Costello This Year's Model
• 1977 Talking Heads Talking Heads 77
  
• 1976 Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
• 1975
  
• 1974
• 1973
• 1972 Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street

There's a bit of skew caused by which albums I own. And I don't have a great sense for what I listen to from the early 1970s. If I had to pick some runners up, they would be Hüsker Dü Zen Arcade (1984) , Cowboy Junkies Trinity Session (1988), the Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime (also 1984), and Matthew Sweet Girlfriend (1991).