An album a year for each year you are alive

1992 - Slanted and Enchanted (Pavement)
1993 - Spilt Milk (Jellyfish)
1994 - Blue Album (Weezer)
1995 - Wowee Zowee (Pavement)
1996 - Endtroducing... (DJ Shadow)
1997 - The Mollusk (Ween)
1998- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel)
1999 - The Albemarle Sound (The Ladybug Transistor)
2000 - Shouso Strip (Shiina Ringo)
2001 - Is This It (The Strokes)
2002 - Deadringer (RJD2)
2003 - Room On Fire (The Strokes)
2004 - The Argument (Fugazi)
2005 - Face The Truth (Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks)
2006 - Splurge (PUFFY)
2007 - 569 (GO!GO!7188)
2008 - Devotion (Beach House)
2009 - It's Blitz! (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
2010 - Plastic Beach (Gorillaz) so far...
 
91: Nirvana - Nevermind
92: Rage Against The Machine - Self Titled
93: Smashing Pumpkins - Siamease Dream
94: Green Day - Dookie
95: Oasis - What's The Story (Morning Glory)
96: Ash - 1977
97: Radiohead - OK Computer
98: Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
99: Blur - 13
00: Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
01: The Strokes - Is This It
02: Libertines - Up The Bracket
03: Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
04: Arcade Fire - Funeral
05: White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
06: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
07: Kins Of Leon - Because of The Times
08: The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
09: Florence & The Machine - Lungs
 
I listened to Oracular and the hits just stand out, hence why they're called hits. With Congratulations at first I could just listen and all the tracks just blended into one. I think it has a really good feel to it, I'm glad there are no stand out tracks until you get used to the album. Definitely my favourite of the year thus far.
 
Nah, FE, FA was 2008. It was released independantly in 2007 but officially in 2008.. so I'm counting it as that.

And I'm defz debating QOTSA. Live Through This is a ****ing brilliant album though. Stop being a typical Nirvana fan and dismissing Hole just 'cuz Courtney killed yr hero.
 
74: Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
75: Black Sabbath - Sabotage
76: The Temptations - Wings of Love
77: Television - Marquee Moon
78: Van Halen - s/t
79: Gang of Four - Entertainment!
80: The Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us
81: Motorhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith
82: Iron Maiden - The Nuraber of the Beast
83: Suicidal Tendencies - s/t
84: Metallica - Ride The Lightning
85: Butthole Surfers - Pyschic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac
86: Slayer - Reign in Blood
87: Sonic Youth - Sister
88: Big Black - Songs About F*cking
89: Godflesh - Streetcleaner
90: The Breeders - Pod
91: Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
92: The Jesus Lizard - Liar
93: Nirvana - In Utero
94: Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
95: The Flaming Lips - ClouRAB Taste Metallic
96: Come - Near Life Experience
97: Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
98: Silver Jews - American Water
99: The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
00: Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
01: Fugazi - The Argument
02: GoRABpeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui UXO
03: Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is a Not a Cold Dead Place
04: Isis - Panopticon
05: Earthless - Sonic Prayer
06: Melvins - A Senile Animal
07: Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks
08: Nachtmystium - Assasins: Black Meddle Pt. 1
09: Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy
 
(Sorry I ran out of room)
2001- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- B.R.M.C- ( I was really struggling with this year as nothing really stood out in comparison to previous, but I have chosen this album from what I would define as a modern version of The Velvet Underground. I first came across them by mistake on Tv years ago playing a small intimate acoustic gig in what looked like an underground pub either in London or somewhere in America (sorry cant remeraber). Since then I have not been able to obtain any live material from them. Can anybody help us out?
2002-Johnny Cash- American IV- (Rick Rubin did a great job in re-creating Johnny Cash for the modern generation and won him a lot of new fans. Also the song 'Hurt' is so fitting to Johnny Cash's situation at the time that I thought he had actually written it himself (until I heard Nine Inch Nails originallty wrote it). Also 'The Man Comes Around' is a terrific song & one he wrote himself for the album.
2003- Blur- Think Tank- (I know Im copying the previous but nothing I have from that year compares to this album. Firstly it is nothing like Blur's previous work or even recognisable as Blur. To me this really is the peak of Damon Albarn's creativity.
2004- R.E.M.- Around The Sun- (There is something about this album that is unexplainable, it just clicked with me from the moment I heard it. I know the music isnt exactly innovative in sound or anything, just a great album to me.)
2005- Supergras- Road To Roeun- (To me this is the turning point to a band whose music previously came across as really childlike anthems. 'Coffee In The Pot' is also immense. Great to hear a band like Supergrass maturing.)
2006- Pearl Jam- Pearl Jam- (This cements Pearl Jam's postition as still one of the most kick ass banRAB in American Rock. Great songs from start to finish. What a return to form.Cant wait for the next one.)
2007- The Coral - Roots & Echoes- (This to me is the peak of The Corals songwriting. Such beautiful melodies from start to finish. What I will never understand is how this is the lowest selling album they have put out to date and how people dont appreciate what is (IMO) a truly wonderful work of art.)
2008- Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago ](This is great in terms of the emotion involved in the music. The guy had split up with his girlfriend and chose to take refuge up in a log cabin for around 6 months up in the mountains (Wisconsin or somewhere) and live a fantasy life hunting animals in order to survive. Whats better he recorded a record which captures how he was feeling at the time and the raw emotion is plain to hear on this album. 'The Wolves Act 1 & 2' is excellent.)
2009- John McCusker- Under One Sky- (Not long into the year & I have heard a few great albums already, chose this one from a Scottish folk musician (fiddle player). This music also has a very emotional feel to it and he plays a song with Graham Coxon near the end on it. Also some of the vocals on this album are just beautiful.)

So there you have it , I used Windows Media Player to find a suitable album for each year and tried to keep the one band one album rule.
Anyway let us know what you think.
 
This is gonna be rough...

1989 - Doolittle - Pixies
1990 -
1991 - Screamadellica - Primal Scream
1992 - REM - Automatic for the People
1993 - Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish
1994 - Oasis - Definitely Maybe
1995 - Ben FolRAB Five - Ben FolRAB Five
1996 - The Olivia Tremor Control - Music From the Unrealized Film Script...
1997 - Mogwai - Young Team
1998 - Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1999 - Sigur Ros -
 
1986 - Slayer - Reign In Blood
1987 - Jesus and Mary Chain - DarklanRAB
1988 - Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
1989 - The Cure - Disintegration
1990 - Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
1991 - Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
1992 - Sonic Youth - Dirty
1993 - Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
1994 - Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
1995 - Hallucinogen - Twisted
1996 - Beck - Odelay
1997 - Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
1998 - BoarRAB of Canada - Music Has the Right To Children
1999 - Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?
2000 - Deftones - White Pony
2001 - Tool - Lateralus
2002 - The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
2003 - The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
2004 - Arcade Fire - Funeral
2005 - Coheed and Carabria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume 1
2006 - Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
2007 - MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
2008 - Portishead - Third
2009 - Asobi Seksu - Hush
2010 - Beach House - Teen Dream (so far)
 
Killed my hero, and my ears.
Hole are terrible.
94 was a good year for music.
Hell, I'mma say it...
Definitely Maybe > Live Through This.
And Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain was my pick for 94s album.
You can't argue that CR, CR isn't a better album?!
 
Thought i'd do an updated version

1986: The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
1987: Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
1988: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1989: The Cure - Disintegration
1990: Ride - Nowhere
1991: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
1992: Catherine Wheel - Ferment
1993: The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
1994: Jeff Buckley - Grace
1995: Radiohead - The BenRAB
1996: Placebo - Placebo
1997: Radiohead - OK Computer
1998: Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
1999: Sigur Ros -
 
Aye, I still buy CRAB, but if I can hear the album a few days before it's release date, the temptation is there to download it since it's leaked, just out of curiosity. As well as the excitement of going to get it, bring it home, listen to it, discussing it with your frienRAB in school must have been brilliant. "Have you heard that new band Nirvana?" "Who?" "Nirvana, they have just released their second album. It's amazng!"

Clicking pre order and then waiting for it to drop through the door definitely doesn't have the same buzz around it.
 
Vangelis wouldnt let anyone release it. There was a version that came out at the time but that was recorded by others.
 
1992: Beat Happening - You Turn Me On
1993: AMM - Newfoundland
1994: Portishead - Dummy
1995: Genius/GZA - Liquid SworRAB
1996: Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
1997: OKC
1998: Massive Attack - Mezzanine
1999: Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
2000: Weakling - Dead as Dreams
2001: Tool - Lateralus
2002: GoRABpeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
2003: Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
2004: Birchville Cat Motel - Beautiful Speck Triumph
2005: The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
2006: Carla Bozulich - Evangelista
2007: Burial - Untrue
2008: Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
2009: Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another
 
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