Favourite albums for each year you've been alive?

[Damon_3388]

1988 - Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
1989 - The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
1990 - Depeche Mode - Violator
1991 - U2 - Achtung Baby
1992 - Alice in Chains - Dirt
1993 - Nirvana - In Utero
1994 - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
1995 - Morrissey - Southpaw Grammar
1996 - Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
1997 - The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
1998 - Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
1999 - Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight (my favourite album of all time)
2000 - Deftones - White Pony
2001 - The Strokes - Is This It?
2002 - Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
2003 - The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
2004 - Youth Group - Skeleton Jar
2005 - Maxïmo Park - A Certain Trigger
2006 - Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
2007 - Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
2008 - The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
2009 - Gallows - Grey Britain
2010 - The National - High Violet
2011 - Arctic Monkeys - Suck It & See

[Stanton]

Interesting to have a metal album that isn't Aenima for 1996 Damon. Not a Tool fan?

In hindsight, I'll replace Demanufacture with WTS(MG)? which I forgot about when I made my list.

[Damon_3388]

Interesting to have a metal album that isn't Aenima for 1996 Damon. Not a Tool fan?

Do like Tool, just prefer that particular album for that year.

I was a huge Pantera fan growing up, but looking back, I find TGSTK to be their best album (whereas most people consider it one of their poorer efforts), mainly because they went outside their usual territory both musically and lyrically. Really a very interesting album all round. Listening to Cowboys from Hell and Vulgar Display of Power now, I just find them a bit meathead and dated TBH. Reinventing the Steel is just Pantera-by-numbers, and Far Beyond Driven is just boring.

Surprisingly easy list to make really, in that I had plenty of ready choices for each year.

[Zarrix]

Interesting to have a metal album that isn't Aenima for 1996 Damon. Not a Tool fan?

Had a look back on 1996: Top Albums of 1996 - Rate Your Music , was an interesting year really, right between the two most awesome years for music since I was born, 1995 and 1997, it was a fairly dull year in comparison.

It was a very lacklustre year for non black metal metal albums on the whole besides Aenima and the three mentioned below , and the beginning of the death/ thrash rot.

Was a fairly good year for black metal though, . Not one Death or Thrash album of note in that 1000 album list except for the Black/Thrash Aura Noir.

Opeth - Morningrise
Amorphis - Elegy (Probably second best album of 96 for me, maybe only Swans Soundtracks for the Blind pips it)
Katatonia- Brave Murder Day.

Some Black Metal Awesomeness:
Burzum -Filosofem
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
Summing- Dol Gulthur
Ulver -Kveldssanger
Blut aus Nord -Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers of the Icy Age
Arcturus -Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Bathory -Blood on Ice
Aura Noir -Black Thrash Attack

[Stanton]

Brave Murder Day was my second choice for that year. My second favourite Katatonia album after Night is the New Day.

And fair call on Pantera Damon. I'm definitely with you on the "liking songs/albums from favourite bands which aren't popular" thing. Always a bit of a letdown when bands come out on tour and don't play <track 13 from a less popular album>

EDIT: Disagree on VDOP though. Every time I chuck it on after a long layoff, Mouth for the War blows my mind like it did the first time I heard it.

Zarrix, what do you think of Kvelertak? I've been listening to a bit of them lately because they're supporting Mastodon and Gojira (I still can't get over how fucking good that pairing is ) and as a non-black metal fan, really like them because they actually have distinguishable riffs to go with the general Scandinavian goodness of most black metal bands.

[Zarrix]

Stanton: They go all right. Do have that punk element to their music though with their black metal elements, the former isn't really my greatest liking, but they do have a fairly original and cool brand of music. So I'll definitely see them at soundwave if they don't clash with anything major.

It's this time of year I wish I lived in Melbourne. Some absolutely carchinderously brilliant sideshows this year. Mastodon and Gojira is such a mindblowingly awesome combo, I think I'd be creaming myself all night if I were to actually go to that. Paradise Lost and Cathedral is just as awesome, The best two Doom/ Goth Metal acts of the 90's in one venue? Dayum. And Devin and Meshuggah is worth a mention as well.

[Damon_3388]

Had a look back on 1996: Top Albums of 1996 - Rate Your Music , was an interesting year really, right between the two most awesome years for music since I was born, 1995 and 1997, it was a fairly dull year in comparison.

RYM, such a good site

[Zarrix]

RYM, such a good site

I did use the yearly lists to assist in the creation of my album list. Helped me remember a few albums that I'd either forgotten the release year , or forgotten about at the time. Those lists are the best way to find new music. Feel like going through each year and listening to some albums that catch my attention.

[Stanton]

Stanton: They go all right. Do have that punk element to their music though with their black metal elements, the former isn't really my greatest liking, but they do have a fairly original and cool brand of music. So I'll definitely see them at soundwave if they don't clash with anything major.

It's this time of year I wish I lived in Melbourne. Some absolutely carchinderously brilliant sideshows this year. Mastodon and Gojira is such a mindblowingly awesome combo, I think I'd be creaming myself all night if I were to actually go to that. Paradise Lost and Cathedral is just as awesome, The best two Doom/ Goth Metal acts of the 90's in one venue? Dayum. And Devin and Meshuggah is worth a mention as well.

They clash with Lamb of God for me, so no chance of seeing them at the festival, but will definitely have a look before Gojira.

I keep forgetting how amazing this lineup is. I get excited for a handful of bands, then I listen to another band who's playing.

I reckon there might be 10 minutes where I'm filling in time, probably between Slipknot and Machine Head.

[Zarrix]

Only time I'm really struggling to fill is between Mastodon and Watain (about two hours), would have been a perfect time for Devin, who I'll unfortunately miss . Got a choice between Manson, Staind, a couple of random shit pop punk bands and iirc a fairly average act on the metal stage.


But best festival lineup Australia has seen for some time I'd say.

[Corrosion]

1987: Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
1988: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1989: Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
1990: Alice In Chains - Facelift
1991: Pearl Jam - Ten (Metallica - Metallica)
1992: The Offspring - Ignition (Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine)
1993: Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
1994: Soundgarden - Superunknown (Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies)
1995: No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
1996: Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island (Weezer - Pinkerton)
1997: Foo Fighters - The Colour and The Shape (The Verve - Urban Hymns)
1998: Pearl Jam - Yield
1999: RHCP - Californication
2000: Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage (Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R)
2001: System of a Down - Toxicity
2002: Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
2003: OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (White Stripes - Elephants)
2004: The Killers - Hot Fuss
2005: Karnivool - Themata
2006: Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2007: Velvet Revolver - Libertad
2008: TV On the Radio - Dear Science
2009: Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures (Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue)
2010: Jimmy Eat World - Invented
2011: The Black Keys - El Camino

Harder than I thought it would be.

[Big Sledge]

1989 - The Cure - Disintergration
1990
1991
1992 - The Cure - Wish
1993
1994
1995
1996 - Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
1997
1998 - The Offspring - Americana
1999
2000
2001 - Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
2002 - Eminem - The Eminem Show
2003 - Muse - Absolution
2004 - The Killers - Hot Fuss
2005 - Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2006 - My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
2007 - Kanye West - Graduation
2008 - Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
2009 - White Lies - To Lose My Life
2010 - Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2011 - Kanye West & Jay Z - Watch The Throne

Bolded are new additions.

2012 - Is out of albums by Cloud Nothings, Frank Ocean, Japandroids & The Killers so far.

[Corrosion]

Alot of good albums were released in 1995

1994 was by far my hardest year to pick.

Quality albums such as the following missed my list:

Jeff Buckley - Grace
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
The Offspring - Smash
Blur - Parklife
Live - Throwing Copper
The Cranberries - No Need to Argue
Green Day - Dookie
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
Weezer - Weezer (The Blue album)
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
Oasis - Definantly Maybe

Damn good year for music that one. I'm not even a rap fan, but I'm guessing there would've been classic albums released by rap artists that year as well.

[Shuttlesworth]

2011 - Blu & Exile - give me flowers while i can smell them

Looks like this'll be #1 two years in a row.

1994 was by far my hardest year to pick.

Damn good year for music that one. I'm not even a rap fan, but I'm guessing there would've been classic albums released by rap artists that year as well.

Only the best album of all time

[Corrosion]

Looks like this'll be #1 two years in a row.



Only the best album of all time

Nas - Illmatic