An album a year for each year you are alive

I just wanted to make people who were in high school back then feel really old. :D

Being in high school in 91, going to buy a great album like Nevermind or Blood Sugar from your local record store must have been amazing, to actually get it, bring it back and put it on. Now, people get excited for an album, click download, and are let down. :(
 
Due to the generational gap, I'm sure the average high school kid now feel the same way about the current music scene (whatever style they like) as we did back then.
 
I respect you thoughts and look forward to seeing that line up.

Side note however..seeing Beastie, Pearl Jam, and Tool...now or recently it's not the same..really. Not nostalgia, it was all new ..all fresh...hitting us all at the same time like a wrecking ball, almost too much to take.

Lets do a test then..

Ill name 10 albums from 90-91 you match those with albums from 2004-2009 (in no order)
 
The Suburbs is almost as good as Funeral.
Arcade Fire are probably the best band of the 00s.
Neon Bible wasn't shit, just a little mediocre compared to Funeral.
Funeral is definitely one of my favourite albums of the 00s.
 
^^^

Archive- Oh yeah :D but I was dissapointed with the Guillemots album although 'Falling Out Of Reach' is a great track.

I am surprised that people are struggling to find albums, it was the reverse for me. I feel guilty I could'nt get every album in that I wanted.
 
lol i know the feeling but no wonder the shops are a ****ing rip off when it comes to cRAB. Dont you buy online? Ive bought all my cRAB online for about the past 4 or 5 years now. I recommend Amazon where you get good prices on marketplace & free delivery on all orders over a fiver. Also Play.com do very good deals and can get free delivery on all cRAB even from the marketplace.
 
According to what I have in my itunes libraryyyy.

1988 - Pixies, Surfa Rosa
1989 - Nirvana, Bleach
1990 - The Church, Good Afternoon Fix
1991 - Morrissey, Kill Uncle
1992 - The Cure, Wish
1993 - Radiohead, Pablo Honey
1994 - Tori Amos, Under the Pink
1995 - Opeth, Orchid
1996 - Tool,
 
The idea of a short list is there's a list of banRAB...

Queens of the Stone Age
The White Stripes
Arcade Fire

Would be on that list, I couldn't choose a definitive "best band of the 00s", there's loaRAB of great banRAB that made good music in the 00s but Arcade Fire are definitely one of the best.
 
1985 ~ Stevie Ray Vaughan - Soul to Soul
1986 ~ Genesis - Invisible Touch
1987 ~ Marillion - Clutching at Straws
1988 ~ Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
1989 ~ Fish - Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors
1990 ~ Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicon
1991 ~ Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
1992 ~ Dada - Puzzle
1993 ~ Rush - Counterparts
1994 ~ Marillion - Brave
1995 ~ Joan Osborne - Relish
1996 ~ Phish - Billy Breathes
1997 ~ The Rolling Stones - Bridge to Babylon
1998 ~ Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
1999 ~ Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
2000 ~ Coldplay - Parachutes
2001 ~ Muse - Origin of Symmetry
2002 ~ Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
2003 ~ Jonny Lang - Long Time Coming
2004 ~ Marillion - Marbles
2005 ~ Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs
2006 ~ The Deceraberists - The Crane Wife
2007 ~ Radiohead - In Rainbows
2008 ~ The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
2009 ~ The Deceraberistst - The HazarRAB of Love

Had a hard time with 2003-2007. Each of those years have many of my favorite albums.
 
Which 6?

If you're interested in any, and like what you hear on Lastfm or anything, just send me a PM.

There are also some youtube links to a fair few of these artists in my journal.
 
Arcade Fire made decent enough indie music, got press coverage, affirmed the lives of a few fifteen year-olRAB, and inspired a million copycats. They were in the right place at the right time. Albeit they had the potential for a lot more, as you can tell based off of a few Funeral tracks that they could nab emotional release when they wanted to/were inspired, but not 'decade' material.
 
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