Awesome 5 Year Periods in Music History!

Guybrush · 09-13-2009, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Alfred

I'm gonna have to say the last five years in music history in terms of albums.

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Originally Posted by toretorden

In this thread, tell us about a 5-year period you like in music history and let us know why you like it - something that happened for each of those five years. You don't have to write a lot, but add some historical facts of more or less personal importance.

Alfred · 09-13-2009, 07:29 PM

Okay, examples

Genghis Tron "Board Up The House" and "Dead Mountain Mouth"
The Dillinger Escape Plan "Ire Works"
Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster II & III
Matisyahu "Youth"
Thursday/Envy
Envy "Insomniac Doze"
He Is Legend "It Hates You"
Cancer Bats "Birthing The Giant"
The Mars Volta "The Bedlam In Goliath"
The Fall Of Troy "Doppelganger"
Between The Buried And Me "Colors"
The Wallflowers "Rebel, Sweetheart"
Opeth "Ghost Reveries" and "Watershed"

and of course I'm missing plenty

Certif1ed · 09-15-2009, 01:37 AM

1965-1973.

Sorry about the extra 3 years, but 1973 is probably the best year in rock music ever, while 1965 is the most innovative, and everything really exciting happened in between, and nowadays, it's all a rehash of what was done in that 8-year period.

And I was just too young to say "I was there". Meh.

1965. Bob Dylan pugged in at Newport, bringing serious music into the world of rock. The Beatles release "Rubber Soul", the Byrds release 8 Miles High, The Grateful Dead form as possibly the first ever psychedelic band at Kesey's Acid Tests. And that's only the start.

1966. Revolver and Pet Sounds. Jefferson Airplane and The Matrix. 1,000,000 volt sound and light rave, featuring Delia Derbyshire and the ONLY performance of Paul McCartney's sole electronic composition (IIRC - maybe that was next year)

1967. Where to begin? Legendary year. Pink Floyd's "Piper at the Gate of Dawn" and everything else that happened...

1968. Continuation of legendary year into Progressive. The Nice release the first Prog Rock album. The Blue Cheer's "Vincebus Eruptum" causes the first blast against "serious" music like Prog Rock. Although I didn't mention The Fugs earlier... there's just too much to mention it all

1969. Woodstock, Hyde Park and Altamont. King Crimson. Abbey Road.

1970. Black Sabbath and loads of other great music, especially in Germany. Great funk too from Funkadelic, jazz rock and all kinds of other treats.

1971. Queen and loads of other great music. "Trespass" by Genesis. Some great music coming out of Italy. Prog Rock really gaining traction among musicians everywhere except the US, it seems.

1972. Loads of great music. Hunky Dory, Nursery Cryme. Must be something else - my mind's gone temporarily blank... never mind.

1973 - Greatest year in rock. You can practically pick an album at random from this year, and it'll be a classic. Even debuts were great - check out Blue Oyster Cult's debut.

storymilo · 09-15-2009, 05:07 AM

Wasn't the whole point of "5 years" so you would have to restrict yourself and figure out the best ones? But ah whatever, nice list

Certif1ed · 09-15-2009, 05:09 AM

Would it be OK if I left out 1970-2?

Guybrush · 09-15-2009, 06:13 AM

The reason I made the thread was because I thought it would be a nice way to get to know eachother a bit more and what we like with the added bonus of potentially learning a thing or two .. or at least some new trivia. The 5 year format isn't crucial. I solved it by making two posts with successive 5 year periods so I'm up to ten.

By the way Certif1ed, you have 9 years up there, not 8.

**Janszoon** · 09-15-2009, 07:02 AM

Great thread idea Tore! Here's mine...

1986-1990
This is a great half decade that doesn't get nearly enough credit. It was the time when so-called "alternative" was still referred to as college rock and so much better than the grunge that would soon replace it and explode onto the charts. It was the era of the great final gasp of goth before the term was hijacked by aggro bands like Marilyn Manson. Hip-hop was coming into it's own, with people adding levels of musical and lyrical complexity as well as levels of popularity that hadn't been seen in the genre up to that point. Thrash was at its peak with a bunch of classic albums by the big three released at this time. Meanwhile, it's musical cousin hardcore was going strong throughout the northeastern US, with great grassroots scenes in cities like Boston, New York and D.C. And across the Atlantic in Manchester dance music and culture were being completely redefined. Last but not least—and most importantly to me—in Chicago, Wax Trax! Records was at it's peak, turning out dozens of fantastic albums by EBM and Electro-Industrial bands from both the city of Chicago itself and from abroad. Some highlights from each year:

1986
Love & Rockets—"Express"
Metallica—"Master of Puppets"
Ministry—"Twitch"
R.E.M.—"Life's Rich Pageant"
Siouxsie & the Banshees—"Tinderbox"
Skinny Puppy—"Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse"
Slayer—"Reign in Blood"
Run DMC—"Raising Hell"

1987
Eric B. & Rakim—"Paid in Full"
Big Black—"Songs About Fucking"
Boogie Down Productions—"Criminal Minded"
The Cure—"Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me"
Love & Rockets—"Earth, Sun, Moon"
Pixies—"Come on Pilgrim"
Red Hot Chili Peppers—"The Uplift Mofo Party Plan"
R.E.M.—"Document"
Sisters of Mercy—"Floodland"
Skinny Puppy—"Cleanse Fold and Manipulate"

1988
Alien Sex Fiend—"Another Planet"
Leonard Cohen—"I'm Your Man"
Front 242—"Front By Front"
Gorilla Biscuits—"Gorilla Biscuits"
Jane's Addiction—"Nothing's Shocking"
Ministry—"The Land of Rape and Honey"
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult—"I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits"
N.W.A.—"Straight Outta Compton"
Pixies—"Surfer Rosa"
Public Enemy—"It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back"
Siouxsie & the Banshees—"Peepshow"
Skinny Puppy—"VIVIsectVI"

1989
Alien Sex Fiend—"Too Much Acid?"
Big Daddy Kane—"It's a Big Daddy Thing"
The Cure—"Disintegration"
Love & Rockets—"Love & Rockets"
Bob Mould—"Workbook"
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones—"Devil's Night Out"
Ministry—"The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste"
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult—"Kooler Than Jesus"
Nine Inch Nails—"Pretty Hate Machine"
Pixies—"Doolittle"
Red Hot Chili Peppers—"Mother's Milk"
Skinny Puppy—"Rabies"

1990
Alien Sex Fiend—"Curse"
Anthrax—"Persistence of Time"
Depeche Mode—"Violator"
Happy Mondays—"Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches"
Jane's Addiction—"Ritual de lo Habitual"
Bob Mould—"Black Sheets of Rain"
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult—"Confessions of a Knife"
Pixies—"Bossanova"
Public Enemy—"Fear of a Black Planet"
Sisters of Mercy—"Vision Thing"
Skinny Puppy—"Too Dark Park"
Slayer—"Seasons in the Abyss"
A Tribe Called Quest—"People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm"

almauro · 09-15-2009, 08:41 AM

The late 80's early 90's were one of the most interesting periods for heavy metal, which saw the convergence of many genres including thrash, prog metal, grindcore, stoner, grunge, groove, black and death metal. Many of the genres had artists at or near their peak.

1989
Annihilator - Alice in Hell
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Coroner - No More Color
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Voivod - Nothingface

1990
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Trouble - Trouble
Kreator - Coma of Souls

1991
Death - Human
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious
Entombed - Clandestine
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten

1992
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Alice in Chains - Dirt
White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1
Monster Magnet - Spine of God

1993
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Sleep - Holy Mountain
Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity
Therion - Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas
Cynic - Focus

Guybrush · 09-15-2009, 08:59 AM

That's quite a lot of gothy mentions in there, Janszoon. I quite like some goth rock myself. I have all the Love & Rockets albums you mention for example, but I don't think I ever saw them mentioned on MB before.

almauro, looks like you should have a metallica album in there!

**Janszoon** · 09-15-2009, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by toretorden

That's quite a lot of gothy mentions in there, Janszoon. I quite like some goth rock myself. I have all the Love & Rockets albums you mention for example, but I don't think I ever saw them mentioned on MB before.

Yeah I dig a lot of goth stuff, at least from that era and earlier. I'm a huge Bauhaus and Love & Rockets fan.

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Alfred one big soul Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 5,096	Okay, examples Genghis Tron "Board Up The House" and "Dead Mountain Mouth" The Dillinger Escape Plan "Ire Works" Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster II & III Matisyahu "Youth" Thursday/Envy Envy "Insomniac Doze" He Is Legend "It Hates You" Cancer Bats "Birthing The Giant" The Mars Volta "The Bedlam In Goliath" The Fall Of Troy "Doppelganger" Between The Buried And Me "Colors" The Wallflowers "Rebel, Sweetheart" Opeth "Ghost Reveries" and "Watershed" and of course I'm missing plenty __________________ LAST.FM / VINYL COLLECTION / RYM

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Certif1ed Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 194	1965-1973. Sorry about the extra 3 years, but 1973 is probably the best year in rock music ever, while 1965 is the most innovative, and everything really exciting happened in between, and nowadays, it's all a rehash of what was done in that 8-year period. And I was just too young to say "I was there". Meh. 1965. Bob Dylan pugged in at Newport, bringing serious music into the world of rock. The Beatles release "Rubber Soul", the Byrds release 8 Miles High, The Grateful Dead form as possibly the first ever psychedelic band at Kesey's Acid Tests. And that's only the start. 1966. Revolver and Pet Sounds. Jefferson Airplane and The Matrix. 1,000,000 volt sound and light rave, featuring Delia Derbyshire and the ONLY performance of Paul McCartney's sole electronic composition (IIRC - maybe that was next year) 1967. Where to begin? Legendary year. Pink Floyd's "Piper at the Gate of Dawn" and everything else that happened... 1968. Continuation of legendary year into Progressive. The Nice release the first Prog Rock album. The Blue Cheer's "Vincebus Eruptum" causes the first blast against "serious" music like Prog Rock. Although I didn't mention The Fugs earlier... there's just too much to mention it all 1969. Woodstock, Hyde Park and Altamont. King Crimson. Abbey Road. 1970. Black Sabbath and loads of other great music, especially in Germany. Great funk too from Funkadelic, jazz rock and all kinds of other treats. 1971. Queen and loads of other great music. "Trespass" by Genesis. Some great music coming out of Italy. Prog Rock really gaining traction among musicians everywhere except the US, it seems. 1972. Loads of great music. Hunky Dory, Nursery Cryme. Must be something else - my mind's gone temporarily blank... never mind. 1973 - Greatest year in rock. You can practically pick an album at random from this year, and it'll be a classic. Even debuts were great - check out Blue Oyster Cult's debut. Last edited by Certif1ed; 09-15-2009 at 01:52 AM.

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Guybrush Juicious Maximus III Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Scabb Island Posts: 6,525	The reason I made the thread was because I thought it would be a nice way to get to know eachother a bit more and what we like with the added bonus of potentially learning a thing or two .. or at least some new trivia. The 5 year format isn't crucial. I solved it by making two posts with successive 5 year periods so I'm up to ten. By the way Certif1ed, you have 9 years up there, not 8. __________________ Something Completely Different

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Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	Great thread idea Tore! Here's mine... 1986-1990 This is a great half decade that doesn't get nearly enough credit. It was the time when so-called "alternative" was still referred to as college rock and so much better than the grunge that would soon replace it and explode onto the charts. It was the era of the great final gasp of goth before the term was hijacked by aggro bands like Marilyn Manson. Hip-hop was coming into it's own, with people adding levels of musical and lyrical complexity as well as levels of popularity that hadn't been seen in the genre up to that point. Thrash was at its peak with a bunch of classic albums by the big three released at this time. Meanwhile, it's musical cousin hardcore was going strong throughout the northeastern US, with great grassroots scenes in cities like Boston, New York and D.C. And across the Atlantic in Manchester dance music and culture were being completely redefined. Last but not least—and most importantly to me—in Chicago, Wax Trax! Records was at it's peak, turning out dozens of fantastic albums by EBM and Electro-Industrial bands from both the city of Chicago itself and from abroad. Some highlights from each year: 1986 Love & Rockets—"Express" Metallica—"Master of Puppets" Ministry—"Twitch" R.E.M.—"Life's Rich Pageant" Siouxsie & the Banshees—"Tinderbox" Skinny Puppy—"Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse" Slayer—"Reign in Blood" Run DMC—"Raising Hell" 1987 Eric B. & Rakim—"Paid in Full" Big Black—"Songs About Fucking" Boogie Down Productions—"Criminal Minded" The Cure—"Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" Love & Rockets—"Earth, Sun, Moon" Pixies—"Come on Pilgrim" Red Hot Chili Peppers—"The Uplift Mofo Party Plan" R.E.M.—"Document" Sisters of Mercy—"Floodland" Skinny Puppy—"Cleanse Fold and Manipulate" 1988 Alien Sex Fiend—"Another Planet" Leonard Cohen—"I'm Your Man" Front 242—"Front By Front" Gorilla Biscuits—"Gorilla Biscuits" Jane's Addiction—"Nothing's Shocking" Ministry—"The Land of Rape and Honey" My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult—"I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits" N.W.A.—"Straight Outta Compton" Pixies—"Surfer Rosa" Public Enemy—"It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" Siouxsie & the Banshees—"Peepshow" Skinny Puppy—"VIVIsectVI" 1989 Alien Sex Fiend—"Too Much Acid?" Big Daddy Kane—"It's a Big Daddy Thing" The Cure—"Disintegration" Love & Rockets—"Love & Rockets" Bob Mould—"Workbook" The Mighty Mighty Bosstones—"Devil's Night Out" Ministry—"The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste" My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult—"Kooler Than Jesus" Nine Inch Nails—"Pretty Hate Machine" Pixies—"Doolittle" Red Hot Chili Peppers—"Mother's Milk" Skinny Puppy—"Rabies" 1990 Alien Sex Fiend—"Curse" Anthrax—"Persistence of Time" Depeche Mode—"Violator" Happy Mondays—"Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches" Jane's Addiction—"Ritual de lo Habitual" Bob Mould—"Black Sheets of Rain" My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult—"Confessions of a Knife" Pixies—"Bossanova" Public Enemy—"Fear of a Black Planet" Sisters of Mercy—"Vision Thing" Skinny Puppy—"Too Dark Park" Slayer—"Seasons in the Abyss" A Tribe Called Quest—"People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm" __________________ A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man Time & Place 25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die last.fm

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almauro Way Out There Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 850	The late 80's early 90's were one of the most interesting periods for heavy metal, which saw the convergence of many genres including thrash, prog metal, grindcore, stoner, grunge, groove, black and death metal. Many of the genres had artists at or near their peak. 1989 Annihilator - Alice in Hell Sepultura - Beneath the Remains Coroner - No More Color Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness Voivod - Nothingface 1990 Pantera - Cowboys From Hell Megadeth - Rust in Peace Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss Trouble - Trouble Kreator - Coma of Souls 1991 Death - Human Atheist - Unquestionable Presence Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious Entombed - Clandestine Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten 1992 Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky Alice in Chains - Dirt White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 Monster Magnet - Spine of God 1993 Immortal - Pure Holocaust Sleep - Holy Mountain Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity Therion - Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas Cynic - Focus __________________ rock n music blog

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storymilo Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,845	Wasn't the whole point of "5 years" so you would have to restrict yourself and figure out the best ones? But ah whatever, nice list

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Certif1ed Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 194	Would it be OK if I left out 1970-2?

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Guybrush Juicious Maximus III Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Scabb Island Posts: 6,525	That's quite a lot of gothy mentions in there, Janszoon. I quite like some goth rock myself. I have all the Love & Rockets albums you mention for example, but I don't think I ever saw them mentioned on MB before. almauro, looks like you should have a metallica album in there! __________________ Something Completely Different