There was a blog post on The A.V. Club last week that I found intriguing. You pick your favorite album (or an album by some other criteria of your choice) for every year in which you've lived. Obviously I'm doing it now myself. It's interesting before me because half of the years I have to go with were before I was even aware of what kind of music was coming out at the time, and half of the half remaining would be completely different I had picked them during that year. Metallica would have made the 1995 list if you'd asked me then. They're not on it now.
COMMENCE NERDAGE:
1983 - Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
1984 - Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains
1985 - Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega
1986 - Paul Simon - Graceland
1987 - U2 - The Joshua Tree
1988 - Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
1989 - XTC - Oranges & Lemons
1990 - Depeche Mode - Violator
1991 - Slint - Spiderland
1992 - Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
1993 - The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
1994 - Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
1995 - Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2
1996 - Weezer - Pinkerton
1997 - Radiohead - Ok Computer
1998 - Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
1999 - The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
2000 - Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
2001 - Bjork - Vespertine
2002 - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2003 - Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
2004 - Brian Wilson - Smile
2005 - Animal Collective - Feels
2006 - Scott Walker - The Drift
2007 - Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer (that album still keeps growing on me)
2008 - Portishead - Third (so far)
Various things:
Years that make me want to choose more than one album (with alternates):
1986 - XTC - Skylarking
1991 - My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
1997 - Mogwai - Young Team, Stereolab - Dots and Loops, Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
2000 - Radiohead - Kid A
2004- The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Years for which I would rather pick a movie than an album:
1990 - Goodfellas
1 comment:
It seems as though they've unblocked blogger from work, so now I can comment on your blog!!!
I just wanted to point out the fact that I'm not even sure if I know any albums from several years of my life. Someone would definitely need to help me if I made a list like that! To that I say, KUDOS YOU SIR!
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