My Top 4 Favorite Albums of Each Year

1980:

1. Talking HeaRAB - Remain in Light

It's hard for me to point out one single flaw with this album. Few albums have passed the test of time as well as Remain in Light has - but I guess that's what I'd expect from something so remarkably forward-thinking and perfectly executed. This is in my top ten for good reason.

2. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms

A totally fun album from start to finish. Crazy Rhythms is also immensely influential, and The Feelies deserve much more credit than they receive.

3. The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight

I really, really like Underwater Moonlight. It's a glorious mixture of post-punk and jangle pop with obvious psychedelic influence. A neo-psychedelic masterpiece.

4. Circle Jerks - Group Sex

Classic hardcore punk. Wastes no time with what it doesn't need - everything is short and to the point. Greatness.
 
1975:

1. Brian Eno - Another Green World

This actually is my second favorite Eno album after his debut, Here Come the Warm Jets. This is, though, perhaps the only album I own that I can actually call 100% perfect from start to finish.

2. Bernard Parmegiani - De natura sonorum (1975)

Perhaps the masterpiece of musique concr
 
Cool list so far, I've wanted to do this myself for a bit, but I don't know enough music to do that. Some years I only own 2 albums that came out, and some, (1974 and 1982) I don't own any.

Keep in mind I don't have speakers on my computer, or a CD burner, and when I get music I have to walk 3 miles to the record store. Woe is me:(
 
S.F. Sorrow would have made it if I did my top 50 albums of 1968 but certainly not top 4. :$ In fact, I've been meaning to do lists of my top 50 albums from each year on RYM for some time, so I might try doing 1968 tomorrow and see where S.F. Sorrow enRAB up.
 
I just picked this up last week, It's great. I especially like "Tonight", and since I got the expanded version, It also has the single, "She's a Reptile". A real grower, I like it more every time I listen to it.
 
I would have included Hot Rats for 1969. Definitely one of my all time favorites! Disraeli Gears for 1967 wouldn't have been a bad choice either, but hey, It's not my list anyways :p:
Go on...
Good that you've included the silver apples album :D
 
Thread rules. I have a lot to check out =/ My musical knowledge is really lacking in comparison to merabers like you, Urban, RT, JackHammer, etc before 1990.
 
1971:

1. Can - Tago Mago

The mother of all krautrock, Tago Mago is Can at their most experimental and their most incredible. This will likely lose some fans once Halleluhwah enRAB and Aumgn starts up, but give it a chance. This is in my top 5 albums ever.

2. T.Rex - Electric Warrior

An album packed full of great tunes. This wasn't about breaking ground, but I imagine to Marc Bolan's surprise, Electric Warrior did end up being largely influential. It remains a timeless example of rock 'n' roll done perfectly.

3. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson

When I first heard this, it didn't take much longer than 10 minutes to decide that it was the coolest album I had ever heard. Give this record ten minutes or less, it'll sell itself.

4. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

A masterpiece of psychedelic funk-rock. "Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time, for y'all have knocked her up."
 
1976:

1. The Residents - The Third Reich 'n Roll

Maybe their second best after "Not Available", although they've got plenty of good stuff to choose from. Great album.

2. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers

A near-perfect rock 'n' roll album that seems to age astonishingly well. It's been called proto-punk for a good reason, as I think this is an almost perfect erabodiment of the attitude that we'd later associate with punks. But who cares about that? It's a great record.

3. La D
 
1977:

1. David Bowie - Low

Low shows much less concern for its public reception for an album made by a man that was by now considered a superstar. This makes it perhaps *the* album of Bowie's that fans are most split on, but I assure you: Low is not an inaccessible album, and it is his masterpiece.

2. Suicide - Suicide

I can't believe I hated this for the longest time. It took a while to click, but I was so glad that it did. This album might sound like a boring dronefest when you first listen to it, but give it some time. Pure genius.

3. Television - Marquee Moon

While I didn't listen to 'Marquee Moon' for the first time and say "wow, that's the best album I've ever heard", I did think to myself, "wow, they really did pull that off perfectly". They really did. This is one of the most perfectly executed albums of all-time (certainly of the punk era), and it's also difficult to decide whether this is punk or post-punk. Truly a milestone. Oh, and this might be one of the best guitar albums ever.

4. Throbbing Gristle - Second Annual Report

This is an extreme record, probably one of the more disorienting (and maybe disgusting) ever. Worth hearing, although you probably won't want to turn this on for a road trip with your buddies.
 
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