Wednesday, July 30, 2008

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).