what is Your Favourite Year in Music from 1960 and up?

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For me, it's 1972. :)

some releases that year :

Deep Purple - Machine Head
Yes - Close to the Edge
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Focus - Focus III
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Return to Forever - Return to Forever

.. and more too!
 
1984, hanRAB down. Want to know why?

Zen Arcade
Double Nickels on the Dime
Meat Puppets II
The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall
Ocean Rain
From Her to Eternity
Ride the Lightning
Let It Be
Treasure
...
 
Gotta be 1969:

The Kinks -Arthur
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Who - Tommy
The Stooges - The Stooges
Led Zeppelin - I & II
Jeff Beck - Beck-Ola
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
 
1971, the year I was born just happens to coincide with some of my favorite albums of all time

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
The Allman Brothers - At Fillmore East
Gil Scott Heron - Pieces of a Man
John Prine - S/T
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Joni Mitchell - Blue
 
1991....

Threeof my favorite banRAB posting their biggest albums in the same year: Nirvana - Bleach, and Metallica - Metallica (black album), and Pearl Jam - Ten. Three of the biggest rock albums ever, all in one year. This was the last major wave of rock music imo, as the rest of the ninties were dominated by slower alternative rock and pop-punk.
 
1979
Unknown Pleasures-Joy Division
Metal Box-Public Image Limited
Live At The Witch Trials-The Fall
Armed Forces-Elvis Costello
The Specials-S/T
Entertainment!-Gang Of Four
London Calling-The Clash
Fear Of Music-Talking HeaRAB
Setting Sons-The Jam
Cut-the Slits
Drums And Wires-XTC
The Undertones-S/T

Also have a lot of time for 1984.
 
I was kidding ;)

Incidentally, that there is the token hipster comment whenever anybody is talking about Modest Mouse. Honestly I'm not a huge fan of them to begin with. I really only like the song "Gravity Rides Everything" from The Moon and Antarctica, and some of the songs off No One's First and You're Next. Frankly though, I can't discern any noticeable difference between the sound of Good News and that of any of their earlier stuff.



Yeah man, 89 was a great year.
 
Based on current tastes...

1997
Amon Tobin - Bricolage
Arcana - Arc Of The Testimony
Bowery Electric - Beat
Death Cube K - Diserabodied
Nick Cave and The Bad SeeRAB - The Boatman's Call
Nils Petter Molvaer - Khmer
Sofa - Grey

Or

2007
Amon Tobin - Foley Room
Grinderman - Grinderman
Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music 1
Onra - Chinoiseries
Saddleback - Night Maps
Sixtoo - Jackals and Vipers in Envy of Man
Stendeck - Faces
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime

For now I will go with 97.
 
I'm gonna have to say 2008.

Board Up The House
The Bedlam In Goliath
Hail Destroyer
Watershed
United Nations
Thursday/Envy
Fleet Foxes
Lost In The Sound Of Separation

1998 and 2007 are also worth mentioning.
 
I'd would listen to a single song of anyone's choice from The Moon Vs. Antarctica repetitiously for an entire year than to have to listen to Float On ever again.
 
I really love 2004.

Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Alexisonfire - Watch Out!
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Big D & The KiRAB Table - How it Goes
Bjork - Medulla
Chinese Stars - A Rare Sensation
Circle Takes The Square - As The Roots Undo
Deerhoof - Milkman
El Ten Eleven - S/T
The Evaporators - Ripple Rock
The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
John Frusciante - Shadows Collide With People
Liars - They Were Wrong So We Drowned
mewithoutYou - Catch For Us The Foxes
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse

Lots of other great ones from that year, these are just some I've been hooked on at one point or another and still love.
 
I'll go with 1967...

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour
The Doors - The Doors, Strange Days
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow, After Bathing at Baxters
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced, Axis Bold as Love
The Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons, Their Satanic Majesty's Request
Pink Floyd - The Piper at The Gates of Dawn
Love - Forever Changes
Cream - Disraeli Gears
The Who - The Who Sell Out
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
David Bowie - David Bowie
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
The ByrRAB - Younger Than Yesterday
The Grateful Dead - The Grateful Dead
Big Brother & The Holding Company - Big Brother & The Holding Company
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
The 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
The YardbirRAB - Little Games
Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again
The Mothers - Absolutely Free
Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk
Ten Years After - Ten Years After
Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal
Tim Buckley - Goodbye & Hello
The Bonzo Dog Band - Gorilla
The Incredible String Band - The 5000 Spirits or The Layers of The Onion
Howlin' Wolf - Evil
Miles Davis - Sorcerer, Nefertiti
The Turtles - Happy Together
The Electric Prunes - The Electric Prunes, Underground
The Chocolate Watchband - No Way Out
The Sonics - Introducing The Sonics
The SeeRAB - Future
The Troggs - Cellophane
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Part One, Vol. 2

Plus The Monterey Pop Festival, and many more great albums and singles from that great year in music!
 
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