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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The category to your left is probably a bit presumptuous. My thought was if you are sitting there reading a blog, you might want to be aware of the water cooler conversation piece. And I am sure you would return the favor and turn me on to the don’t miss piece. If I started this, say, last week, Marvin Gaye singing a capella would have been the first “DON’T MISS THIS.” If Marvin Gaye was last week, this week’s entry would be much, much better.
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