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2004. ?
2003. White Stripes / Elephant.
2002. ?
2001. ?
2000. Primal Scream / XTRMNTR.
1999. Santana / Supernatural.
1998. ?
1997. Radiohead / OK Computer.
1996. ?
1995.Paul Weller / Stanley Rd.
1994. ?
1993. Paul Weller / Wild Wood.
1992. The Cure / Wish.
1991. Primal Scream / Screamadelica.
1990. Peter Murphy / Deep.
1989. The Stone Roses / The Stone Roses.
1988. Queensryche / Operation Mindcrime.
1987. The Cure / Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.
1986. The Smiths / The Queen Is Dead.
1985. The Fall / This Nations Saving Grace.
1984. Talking Heads / Stop Making Sense.
1983. Bauhaus / Burning From The Inside.
1982. The Cure / Pornography.
1981. Bauhaus / The Sky’s Gone Out.
1980. Talking Heads / Remain In Light.
1979. Talking Heads / Fear Of Music.
1978. The Jam / All Mod Cons.
1977. The Stranglers / Rattus Norvegicus.
1976. Rush / 2112.
1975. Crosby & Nash / Wind On The Water.
1974. David Bowie / Diamond Dogs.
1973. David Bowie / Aladdin Sane.
1972. David Bowie / Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust etc.
1971. Marvin Gaye / What’s Going On.
1970. Janis Joplin / Pearl.
1969. Rolling Stones / Let It Bleed.
1968. Aretha Franklin / Lady Soul.
1967. Jimi Hendrix / Are You Experienced?
1966. The Beach Boys / Pet Sounds.
1965. Booker T & The M.Gs / Soul Dressing.
1964. John Coltrane / A Love Supreme.
1963. Sam Cooke / Live At The Harlem sq. Club.
1962. Howlin’ Wolf / Howlin’ Wolf.

Nice Thread.

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cardboard adolescent

Wow. I wasted a lot of time on this.

2006. Stereolab - Fab Four Suture
2005. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
2004. Black Eyes - Cough
2003. APC - Thirteenth Step
2002. Helms - McCarthy / Isis - Oceanic
2001. Tool - Lateralus
2000. Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lmeons
1999. Sweep The Leg Johnny - Tomorrow We Will Run Faster
1998. System of a Down - S/T
1997. Marcy Playground - S/T
1996. Tool - Aenima
1995. Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
1994. Thinking Fellers Union Local #282 - Strangers From The Universe
1993. Nirvana - In Utero
1992. Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles
1991. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless / Slint - Spiderland
1990. Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics
1989. Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Faultline
1988. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1987. Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
1986. Dead Kennedys - Bedtime For Democracy
1985. Dinosaur Jr. - Dinosaur / Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
1984. Husker Du - Zen Arcade
1983. Meat Puppets - II
1982. Mission Of Burma - Vs.
1981. Agent Orange - Living In Darkness / This Heat - Deceit
1980. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
1979. Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
1978. NO NEW YORK
1977. Wire - Pink Flag / Television - Marquee Moon
1976. The Residents - Third Reich N' Roll
1975. Brian Eno - Another Green World
1974. John Cale - Fear
1973. The Stooges - Raw Power
1972. Lou Reed - Transformer / Sun Ra - Space is the Place
1971. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality / The Doors - LA Woman
1970. The Doors - Morrison Hotel / The Stooges - Fun House
1969. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats / Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica / The Stooges - S/T
1968. The Mothers - We're Only In it For the Money / The Red Krayola - God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
1967. The Doors - S/T
1966. The Mothers - Freak Out!
1965. John Coltrane - Ascension
1964. The Rolling Stones - 12 * 5
1963. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
1962. John Coltrane - Coltrane
1961. Sun Ra - The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
1960. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte
1959. Ornette Coleman - Shape of Jazz To Come
1958. Ornette Coleman - Something Else!!!
1957. John Coltrane - Giant Steps
1956. Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners

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hiu

That was tedious. I got to about 1985 and stopped. I got down to the mid 1940s however in albums.

cardboard adolescent

It's been about a year since I did this, so I figured I'd give it another go and see what's changed. It was a lot easier this time since I used rateyourmusic, which made me realize how many albums I have from the 80's... that kind of blew my mind.

I think I have three albums from 1974 on my Top 100.

Here we go:

Year Artist Album
1958 Ornette Coleman Something Else!!!!
1959 Ornette Coleman Shape of Jazz to Come
1960 Karlheinz Stockhausen Kontakte
1961 Ornette Coleman Free Jazz
1962 Ornette Coleman Ornette!
1963 Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
1964 Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity
1965 John Coltrane A Love Supreme
1966 Monks Black Monk Time
1967 Captain Beefheart Safe as Milk
1968 The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat
1969 Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica
1970 The Stooges Fun House
1971 The Doors L.A. Woman
1972 Nick Drake Pink Moon
1973 The Stooges Raw Power
1974 Faust Faust IV
1975 Parliament Mothership Connection
1976 Ramones Ramones
1977 Wire Pink Flag
1978 Pere Ubu Dub Housing
1979 Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
1980 Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
1981 Crass Penis Envy
1982 Talking Heads The Name of this Band is Talking Heads
1983 Meat Puppets Meat Puppets II
1984 Husker Du Zen Arcade
1985 Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur
1986 The Smiths The Queen is Dead
1987 Big Black The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape
1988 Thinking Fellers Union Local #282 Wormed, by Leonard
1989 NoMeansNo Wrong
1990 Sun City Girls Torch of the Mystics
1991 My Bloody Valentine Loveless
1992 Pavement Slanted & Enchanted
1993 Polvo Today's Active Lifestyles
1994 Thinking Fellers Union Local #282 Strangers from the Universe
1995 Mr. Bungle Disco Volante
1996 Tool Aenima
1997 Arab on Radar Queen Hygiene II
1998 Massive Attack Mezzanine
1999 Rachel's Selenography
2000 Blonde Redhead Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
2001 The Angels of Light How I Loved You
2002 Isis Oceanic
2003 Ui Answers
2004 Ataxia Automatic Writing
2005 No Neck Blues Band Qvaris
2006 The Roots Game Theory
2007 Grinderman Grinderman

That's copy-pasted from Excel, sorry.

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chumb

I couldn't stick to one per year. Well, here's the fruit of my labours:

1966 Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures
1966 Frank Zappa - Freak Out!
1966 The Sonics - Boom
1967 Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free
1967 The Velvet Underground - VU & Nico
1968 The Red Krayola - God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
1968 Frank Zappa - We're Only In It For the Money
1968 The United States of America - The United States of America
1969 Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
1969 The Stooges - The Stooges
1970 The Soft Machine - Third
1970 Amon Duul II - Yeti
1971 Flower Travellin' Band - Satori
1971 Can - Tago Mago
1971 Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
1972 Neu! - Neu!
1973 Sun Ra - Space is the Place
1974 Henry Cow - Unrest
1975 Brian Eno - Another Green World
1976 The Residents - Third Reich N' Roll
1977 Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
1977 The Clash - The Clash
1977 Throbbing Gristle - Second Annual Report
1978 Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
1978 Various Artists - No New York
1979 The Raincoats - The Raincoats
1979 The Clash - London Calling
1979 Mekons - The Quality of Mercy is Not Strnen
1979 The Pop Group - Y
1979 Buzz****s - Singles Going Steady
1979 Gang of Four - Entertainment!
1980 The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
1980 Young Marble Giants - Collosal Youth
1980 Joy Division - Closer
1980 PiL - Second Edition
1980 X - Los Angeles
1980 The Fall - Grotesque
1981 This Heat - Deceit
1981 Glenn Branca - The Ascension
1981 The Gun Club - Fire of Love
1981 Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
1982 Bad Religion - How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
1982 Univers Zero - Ceux du Dehors
1982 Mission of Burma - Vs.
1982 Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
1983 Bauhaus - Burning from the Inside
1983 Sonic Youth - Confusion is Sex
1984 Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
1985 Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
1985 Husker Du - New Day Rising
1985 Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
1985 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
1985 Echo and the Bunnymen - Songs to Learn and Sing
1986 Frank Zappa - Apostrophe / Overnight Sensation
1987 Swans - Children of God
1987 Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
1987 Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
1987 Birsongs of the Mesozoic - Sonic Geology
1987 Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
1988 My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
1989 Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - faultline
1989 Slint - Tweez
1989 Spacemen 3 - Playing with Fire
1989 Mekons - The Mekons Rock n' Roll
1989 Fugazi - 13 Songs
1990 Teenage Fanclub - A Catholic Education
1990 John Zorn - Naked City
1991 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1991 Cows - Cunning Stunts
1991 The Jesus Lizard - Goat
1991 Slint - Spiderland
1991 Talk Talk - Laughing Stalk
1991 A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
1992 The Dead C - Harsh 70's Reality
1992 Beat Happening - You Turn Me On
1992 Yo La Tengo - May I Sing With Me
1993 Earth - Earth 2
1993 Monster Magnet - Superjudge
1993 PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
1993 Mercury Rev - Boces
1993 Melvins - Houdini
1993 Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
1994 Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop
1994 Cherubs - Heroin Man
1994 Slowdive - Souvlaki
1994 Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
1994 Rodan - Rusty
1994 Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
1994 Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
1995 Tricky - Maxinquaye
1995 The Ex - Mudbird Shivers
1995 Blonde Redhead - La Mia Vita Violenta
1996 Beck - Odelay
1996 Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
1996 Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
1996 Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
1996 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I Got Worry
1997 Doctor Nerve - Every Screaming Ear
1997 Marcy Playground - Marcy Playground
1997 Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
1998 Boredoms - Super Roots, Vol 7
1998 June of 44 - Four Great Points
1998 Fugazi - End Hits
1998 Cows - Sorry in Pig Minor
1998 Black Star - Black Star
1999 Cul De Sac - Crashes to Light Minutes to Its Fall
1999 Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
2000 Shellac - 1000 Hurts
2001 Erase Errata - Other Animals
2001 Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
2001 Clinic - Internal Wrangler
2001 Fugazi - The Argument
2001 Merzbow - Aqua Necromancer
2002 Sunn O))) - 3: Flight of the Behemoth
2003 Melt Banana - Cell-Scape
2003 Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
2003 Dengue Fever - Dengue Fever
2003 TV on the Radio - Young Liars
2004 Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
2005 Low - The Great Destroyer
2005 Prefuse 73 / The Books - Prefuse 73 Reads the Books
2005 Black Lips - Let it Bloom
2005 Boris - Pink
2006 Psychic Ills - Dins
2006 Om - Conference of the Birds
2006 Jesu - Silver
2006 The Black Keys - Chulahoma
2006 Akron/Family - Meek Warrior
2006 A Hawk and a Hacksaw - The Way the Wind Blows
2006 Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar
2006 Joanna Newsom - Ys

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She took my gun and shot my leg instead

coffeeshop

2007- Dinosaur Jr- Beyond
2006- Silversun Pickups- Carnavas
2005- LCD Soundsystem- LCD Soundsystem
2004- The Go! Team- Thunder, Lightning, Strike
2003- The Coral- Magic and Medicine
2002- Boards of Canada- Geogaddi
2001- Daft Punk- Discovery
2000- Primal Scream- XTRMNTR
1999- The Flaming Lips- The Soft Bulletin
1998- Massive Attack- Mezzanine
1997- The Chemical Brothers- Dig Your Own Hole
1996- DJ Shadow- Endtroducing...
1995- The Prodigy- Music for the Jilted Generation
1994- Manic Street Preachers- The Holy Bible
1993- Blur- Modern Life is Rubbish
1992- Alice in Chains- Dirt
1991- Primal Scream- Screamadelica
1990- Jane's Addiction- Ritual de lo Habitual
1989- The Stones Roses- S/T
1988- Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
1987- Dinosaur jr- You're Living All Over Me
1986- Sonic Youth- EVOL
1985- The Fall- This Nation's Saving Grace
1984- Husker Du- Zen Arcade
1983- U2- War
1982- The Cure- Pornography
1981- Iron Maiden- Killers
1980- Joy Division- Closer
1979- The Clash- London Calling
1978- The Jam- All Mod Cons
1977- David Bowie- Heroes
1976- Blue Öyster Cult- Agents of Fortune
1975- Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
1974- ???
1973- Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
1972- David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
1971- The Who- Who's Next
1970- Nick Drake- Bryter Layter
1969- Led Zeppelin I
1968- Jimi Hendrix- Electric Ladyland
1967- The Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground & Nico

I'm mainly 80's and 90's as you can see.

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chumb

John Cale's Fear, Henry Cow's Unrest, and Faust's Faust IV are all absolutely amazing records released in 1974.

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She took my gun and shot my leg instead

GravitySlips

I made one of these about a year and a half ago, and posted it on abother forum. A lot has changed since then, but wait and I'll go and find it.

ps - great list, chumb, but Daydream Nation was 88 not 91.

Nice to see Sun City Girls on yr lists as well, Cardboard Adolescent.

GravitySlips

here we are

this was my favouite albums per year. I made this at the end of 2005. Forgive the format, it's a copy/paste job.

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1964)
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited(1965)
Frank Zappa - Freak Out (1966)
Velvet Underground - VU&N (1967)
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison (1968)
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica (1969)
The Stooges - Fun House (1970)
Can - Tago Mago (1971)
Nick Drake - Pink Moon (1972)
New York Dolls - s/t (1973)
Kraftwerk - Autobahn (1974)
Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
The Residents - Third Reich Rock 'n Roll (1976)
Wire - Pink Flag (1977)
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance (1978)
The Pop Group - Y (1979)
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables(1980)
Black Flag - Damaged (1981)
Bad Brains - s/t (1982)
Minutemen - What Makes a Man Start Fires? (1983)
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime (1984)
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (1985)
Big Black - Atomizer (1986)
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All over Me (1987)
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (1988)
NoMeansNo - Wrong (1989)
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (1990)
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (1991)
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted (1992)
Boredoms - Pop Tatari (1993)
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime (1994)
Fugazi - Red Medicine (1995)
Unwound - Repetition (1996)
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (1997)
Refused - Shape of Punk to Come (1998)
Aesop Rock - Float (1999)
Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons (2000)
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside of You (2001)
Mclusky - Do Dallas (2002)
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow (2003)
Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral (2004)
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain (2005)

there would be MANY changes to that now, I suspect. I'm relatively pleased with this list, I had great taste even back at the start of '06. If I do say so myself.

chumb

Oh yeah in retrospect that seems kind of obvious, I was just copying everything over from RYM and I had probably cataloged a re-release.

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She took my gun and shot my leg instead