I love lists and I love music. When I saw that some young whippersnapper, born in 1977, compiled a list of his favorite albums for every year that he lived, I thought, that’s for me! But damn it’s a lot of work. It’s also very difficult to pick just one album per year when in some years, there are just impossible picks to narrow to one. I struggled with Nirvana’s Nevermind and Massive Attack’s Blue Lines. 1967 & 1968 were near impossible, as so much great music came from that era. But it’s now done for your perusal and criticism.

How would you like to own all of these albums? Well, in this contest you can. I will bundle all 53 albums onto a thumb drive and send it the winner. Here’s what you need to do. If you link to this post and comment with your link and your 5 favorite albums, you will be entered 10 times. If you leave a comment with your top 5 favorite albums, you will be entered once. I will select a winner at random on Friday, Oct. 9, 2008. If this post gets more than 500 hits, I will select 2 winners, 1000 hits gets 4 winners. Easy right? Start your commenting and linking……..now.

1956    Brilliant Corners    Thelonious Monk
1957    The Chirpin’ Crickets    The Crickets
1958    Freedom Suite    Sonny Rollins
1959    Kind of Blue    Miles Davis
1960    Back at the Chicken Shack    Jimmy Smith
1961    Oh Yeah    Charles Mingus
1962    Green Onions    Booker T. & the MG’s
1963    Please, Please Me    The Beatles
1964    Hard Day’s Night    The Beatles
1965    Hollies    Hollies
1966    Revolver    The Beatles
1967    The Doors    The Doors
1968    The Beatles (White Album)    The Beatles
1969    Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)     The Kinks
1970    Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs    Derek & the Dominos
1971    What’s Going On    Marvin Gaye
1972    Exile on Main Street    The Rolling Stones
1973    Dark Side of the Moon    Pink Floyd
1974    Natty Dread    Bob Marley
1975    Pressure Drop    Robert Palmer
1976    Howlin’ Wind    Graham Parker
1977    The Clash    The Clash
1978    Jesus of Cool    Nick Lowe
1979    London Calling    The Clash
1980    Sound Affects    The Jam
1981    Coup de Grace    Mink DeVille
1982    Night and Day    Joe Jackson
1983    Texas Flood    Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
1984    Born in the U.S.A.    Bruce Springsteen
1985    This is the Sea    The Waterboys
1986    The Queen is Dead    The Smiths
1987    Joshua Tree    U2
1988    The Trinity Sessions    The Cowboy Junkies
1989    The Stone Roses    Stone Roses
1990    Pills ‘n’ Thrills & Bellyaches    The Happy Mondays
1991    Blue Lines    Massive Attack
1992    Hollywood Town Hall    The Jayhawks
1993    In Utero    Nirvana
1994    Definitely Maybe    Oasis
1995    (What’s the Story) Morning Glory    Oasis
1996    Odelay    Beck
1997    OK Computer    Radiohead
1998    Car Wheels on a Gravel Road    Lucinda Williams
1999    69 Love Songs: Volume 1    Magnetic Fields
2000    Stankonia    OutKast
2001    Gorillaz    Gorillaz
2002    Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots    The Flaming Lips
2003    Dear Catastrophe Waitress    Belle & Sebastian
2004    Franz Ferdinand    Franz Ferdinand
2005    Front Parlour Ballads    Richard Thompson
2006    Yell Fire!    Michael Franti & Spearhead
2007    Sky Blue Sky    Wilco
2008    22 Dreams    Paul Weller

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