Best album of every year since....

1950 Hank Snow: "I'm Movin' On"
1951 The Larks: "My Reverie"
1952 The "5" Royales: "Laundromat Blues"
1953 The Crows: "Gee"
1954 Elvis Presley: "That's All Right (Mama)"/"Blue Moon of Kentucky"
1955 Chuck Berry: "Maybellene"
1956 James Brown: "Please Please Please"
1957 Jerry Lee Lewis: "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"
1958 Link Wray & His Ray Men: "Rumble"
1959 The Flamingos: "I Only Have Eyes for You"
1960 Jerry Butler: "He Will Break Your Heart"
1961 Ben E. King: "Stand By Me"
1962 Little Eva: "The Loco-Motion"
1963 The Beatles: "Please Please Me"
1964 Dionne Warwick: "Walk on By"
1965 Bob Dylan: "Like a Rolling Stone"
1966 ? & the Mysterians: "96 Tears"
1967 Smokey Robinson & the Miracles: "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage"
1968 Sly & the Family Stone: "Everyday People"
1969 The Rolling Stones: "Honky Tonk Women"/"You Can't Always Get What You Want"
1970 James Brown: "Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine Pt. 1 & 2"
1971 Temptations: “Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)”
1972 Stevie Wonder: “Superstition”
1973 Marvin Gaye: “Let’s Get It On”
1974 Gloria Gaynor: “Never Can Say Goodbye”
1975 Jacob Miller: “Baby I Love You So”/Augustus Pablo: “King Tubby’s Meets Rockers Uptown”
1976 The Sex Pistols: “Anarchy in the U.K.”
1977 The Sex Pistols: “God Save the Queen”
1978 The Clash: “(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais”
1979 Chic: “Good Times”
1980 Joy Division: “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
1981 Funky 4 + 1: “That’s the Joint”
1982 New Order: “Temptation”
1983 George Clinton: “Atomic Dog”
1984 Prince: “When Doves Cry”/“17 Days”
1985 Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force: “I Wonder If I Take You Home”
1986 Prince & the Revolution: “Kiss”
1987 Public Enemy: “Rebel without a Pause”
1988 Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock: “It Takes Two”
1989 Rythim is Rythim: “Strings Of Life”
1990 Beltram: “Energy Flash”
1991 Nirvana: “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
1992 Acen: “Trip II the Moon”
1993 Bikini Kill: “New Radio”/“Rebel Girl”/“Demirep”
1994 M People: “Excited”
1995 Everything But the Girl: “Missing (Todd Terry Club Mix)”
1996 Blackstreet: “No Diggity”
1997 Sneaker Pimps: “Spin Spin Sugar (Armand’s Dark Garage Mix)”
1998 Fatboy Slim: “The Rockafeller Skank”
1999 Powerhouse featuring Duane Harden: “What You Need”
2000 OutKast: "B.O.B."
2001 Missy Elliott: "Get Ur Freak On"
2002 Nas: "Made You Look"
2003 (so far): Electric Six: "Danger! High Voltage," but don't hold me to it

But I've had second thoughts about a few of these--Stevie Wonder has to have his no-seeing ass on the list. Replace Rundgren with Music of My Mind by Stevie Wonder, then, but although Songs in the Key of Life is probably a better record than Jailbreak, keep Lizzy on for fun.

Matos and I agree on four records, then; Hongro on one; JBR and I agree on none; Murphy on none; Blount on none.

http://tinyurl.com/6rr8

Yea, this guy is a compulsive troll. Notice in the second thread (which seems to be his grand entrance to USENET) how many newsgroups its crossposted to (seven) and how its essentially tailor made to incite anger in each. For instance, his claim that people are tiring of hip-hop back in 1996 and then the act of xposting it to alt.rap. Not to mention that in retrospect this looks hilarious.

He'd be ingenious if the methodology hadn't already been being used for many years by other far more successful internet whacks. So, if thee be smart, learn from the mistakes of others before you; don't feed the trolls.

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Alan

it only goes up to 97. [when is 98, 99, 00, 01, 02 going to be documented?]

Right, I see you must be too busy with ILM and other music forums, these days Geir?

Re: Embrace: Their songs simply aren't good enough.

[Correct.]

oh, i can't resist

geir what do you think of harmolodics?

1959: Buddy Holly: It Doesn't Matter Anymore
1960: The Shadows: Apache
1961: Del Shannon: Hats Off To Larry
1962: The Beatles: PS I Love You
1963: The Beatles: From Me To You
1964: The Beatles: I Should Have Known Better
1965: Beach Boys: California Girls
1966: Beach Boys: God Only Knows
1967: The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever
1968: The Zombies: A Rose For Emily
1969: The Turtles: You Showed Me
1970: Beach Boys: At My Window
1971: Beach Boys: Till I Die
1972: Genesis: Supper's Ready
1973: Genesis: Firth Of Fifth
1974: Supertramp: Hide In Your Shell
1975: Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
1976: Genesis: Mad Man Moon
1977: ELO: Wild West Hero
1978: Genesis: Burning Rope
1979: 20/20: Yellow Pills
1980: Japan: Gentlemen Take Polaroids
1981: Japan: Ghosts
1982: Spongetones: She Goes Out With Everybody
1983: Depeche Mode: The Landscape Is Changing
1984: Depeche Mode: Blasphemous Rumours
1985: Dire Straits: Your Latest Trick
1986: Depeche Mode: Black Celebration
1987: Dukes Of Stratosphear: Collideascope
1988: Crowded House: Better Be Home Soon
1989: Paul McCartney: My Brave Face
1990: Prefab Sprout: Jesse James
1991: Crowded House: Four Seasons In One Day
1992: The Cure: Friday I'm In Love
1993: Crowded House: Fingers Of Love
1994: Dodgy: Staying Out For The Summer
1995: Blur: Country House
1996: Ocean Colour Scene: The Day We Caught The Train
1997: Radiohead: Exit Music (For Films)
1998: Catatonia: Road Rage
1999: Cotton Mather: Camp Hill Rail Operator
2000: a-ha: Minor Earth Major Sky
2001: Electric Soft Parade: Silent To The Dark
2002: Doves: There Goes The Fear

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In "The Phare of Biarritz" heb ik deze akkoordengroep toegepast. In het volgende voorbeeld zijn de overmatige drieklanken uit de vierklanken geïsoleerd.

Een andere manier om tot vierklanken te komen is de stuurtonen te maken tot toongroepen. De stuurgroepen bestaan namelijk uit 4 tonen.
Een voorbeeld: Uur XI wordt gestuurd door uur VI. Als uur XI bestaat uit de akkoorden
E mineur Fis mineur Gis majeur Ais majeur
dan is de stuurgroep: E Fis Gis Ais. Neem je hiervan de eerste omkering, dan ontstaat er een Fis79 accoord zonder kwint. De hele groep van complementaire vierklanken, die weer af te leiden is van het zesde uur is:
De twaalfde uur variatie is te horen in de alt-solo en de bas-solo van "2soon2die"; de elfde uur variatie in de bas-solo van "Onweer", en de C-melody-saxsolo in dezelfde compositie is gebaseerd op de zesde uur variatie. Beide composities zijn te vinden op de CD "Ear Opener" van het Theo Hoogstins Octet.
Dit zijn slechts enkele voorbeelden van toepassingen van de toonklok. De mogelijkheden zijn vrijwel onbeperkt, denk maar aan transpositie van harmonieën, toepassingen in lintharmonisaties waarbij het mogelijk is twee linten die op verschillende uren zijn gebaseerd gezamenlijk te laten klinken. Ook als analysemodel is de toonklok al zeer waardevol gebleken, bijvoorbeeld in het artikel uit Entre’Act van Andre Douw. Concluderend kan worden gesteld dat de ordening van tonen, zoals weergegeven in de toonklok, kan leiden tot een andere kijk op zowel componeren als improviseren. Het is een allesomvattend systeem voor harmonie in de chromatische toonladder, dat een componist in staat stelt het hele scala van klankkleuren te overzien en op een consistente manier toe te passen. Het kost misschien enige tijd en studie om een dergelijke manier van werken onder de knie te krijgen, maar het is zeker de moeite waard voor musici die op zoek zijn naar nieuwe klankstructuren. Dat de beschreven klanken thuis horen in het jazzidioom blijkt wel uit de kop van de recensie van Frans van Leeuwen: "Hoogstins klinkt jazzy en vertrouwd" (NRC, 7/10/92).

Harmolodics? I doubt Geir has even heard of Ornette or anyone else who practices it.

Obv. you have a very limited range of music that you enjoy and a very limited definition of what music can be and what moods it can create. Can't you just own up to this (there's nothing wrong w/it, per se) rather than dismiss all music that doesn't fit your narrow expectations? This is I Love MUSIC, afterall, not I Love All That is Beatlesque.

1977 David Bowie, Low
1978 P.I.L., Public image
1979 Chic, Risque
1980 Prince, Dirty mind
1981 Human League, Dare (hehe, I love this now!)
1982 ABC, The lexicon of love
1983 Aztec Camera, High land hard rain
1984 The Smiths, Hatful of hollow
1985 Scritti Politti, Cupid and psyche 85
1986 Slayer, Reign in blood
1987 Sonic Youth, Sister
1988 AR Kane, 69
1989 New Order, Technique
1990 Ice Cube, Amerikkka's most wanted
1991 Nirvana, Nevermind
1992 Pavement, Slanted and enchanted
1993 Nirvana, In utero
1994 Notorious BIG, Ready to die
1995 Fatboy Slim, Better living through chemistry
1996 Tortoise-Millions now living will never die
1997 Chemical Brothers, Dig your own hole
1998 Mercury Rev, Deserters songs
1999 Wilco, Summerteeth
2000 Radiohead, Kid A
2001 Daft Punk, Discovery
2002 The Streets-Original pirate material\Sonic Youth-Murray Street

I am content to not follow where others lead.

The R.E.M albums are there by default, I don't listen to 80s music much.

Like all my lists, this is totally arbitrary, and if I re-created
it tommorow it would be completely different.

1976 Squeeze _How Dare You_

with

1976 10cc _How Dare You_

* which is also SQUIRREL's favorite 1979 album! (But not mine. Tossup between, I dunno, *Live at the Witch Trials, *Head Games, *Bad Girls, *A Tonic for the Troops, *Strange Spirits, *Cuba, *Cory and Me, *Get the Knack, *Off the Wall, and oh yeah, the American version of *The Clash if that counts......Best year EVER, maybe??? No argument here.)

Squirrel Police has pretty good taste in the mid-to-late '70s.

James Blount on the other hand, is a really smart EARLY '70s guy.

Neudonym was very courageous (and right as well) in not replacing Thin Lizzy in 1976 with Stevie Wonder.

Andy K's, Michael B's, Jody Beth Rosen's and Michaelangelo's album tastes all start out truly great, then go way downhill from there (with occasional obvious exceptions).

All of this probably says more about me than about any of them.

Not likely. Everything he does screams "I AM TROLL, HEAR ME ROAR". From the dismissal of entire genres (and the threads crossposted into the newsgroups following them) and declarations like "Long live real music played by real people," it comes down to the old "if it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, its probably a duck" adage.

Just that he's a troll, not a duck. You know. and stuff.

As for the website, its a "ready made" reference that he can point at to "prove" his point. Kinda like when a christian fundie references some Baptist site or what have you.

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Alan

Ooops! I meant 1960 and 1961, sorry. (In fact, anybody who doesn't believe that Geir loves black music should explain why the Roots are just now ripping off his favorite 1960 single in "Thought @ Work.") (Okay, ripping off the Incredible Bongo Band's and Sugarhill Gang's COVER versions of his favorite 1960 single. But you get the point.)

Also, who is the 1979 album "Cuba" by? I can't find it on AMG.

1992 - The Prodigy - Experience
1993 - the Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
1994 - Blur - Parklife
1995 - Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do
1996 - Boo Radleys - Come On Kids
1997 - Radiohead - OK Computer
1998 - Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
1999 - Plaid - Restproof Clockwork
2000 - Two Lone Swordsmen - Tiny Reminders (very tough one that!)
2001 - Air - 10,000hz the Legend
2002 - Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

is that fair enough?

1965: Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited; The Beatles, "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
1966: The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds; Sam & Dave, "Hold On, I'm Comin'"
1967: The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced; Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, "Electricity"
1968: The Zombies, Odessey & Oracle; Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing"
1969: Sly and the Family Stone, "Stand!"; The Isley Brothers, "It's Your Thing"
1970: The Stooges, Fun House; James Brown, "Super Bad Pts 1 and 2"
1971: Funkadelic, Maggot Brain; The Rolling Stones, "Dead Flowers"
1972: Curtis Mayfield, Superfly; Steely Dan, "Do It Again"
1973: Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon; Jimmy Cliff, "Many Rivers to Cross"*
1974: The Sweet, Desolation Boulevard; Stevie Wonder, "Livin' For the City"
1975: The Patti Smith Group, Horses; Bruce Springsteen, "Born To Run"
1976: Ramones; The Bee Gees, "You Should Be Dancing"
1977: Television, Marquee Moon; The Adverts, "Gary Gilmore's Eyes"
1978: Kraftwerk, The Man-Machine; Radio Birdman. "Non-Stop Girls"
1979: The Clash, London Calling; Van Halen, "Dance the Night Away"
1980: X, Los Angeles; The Soft Boys, "I Wanna Destroy You"
1981: The Police, Ghost in the Machine; The Specials, Ghost Town**
1982: Michael Jackson, Thriller; Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force, "Planet Rock"
1983: The Replacements, Hootenanny; ESG, "Moody (Spaced Out)"
1984: Prince, Purple Rain; Husker Du, "Standing By the Sea"
1985: Tom Waits, Rain Dogs; LL Cool J, "Rock the Bells"
1986: RUN-D.M.C., Raising Hell; Pet Shop Boys, "West End Girls"
1987: Boogie Down Productions, Criminal Minded; Meat Beat Manifesto, "Cutman"
1988: Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back; Eric B & Rakim, "Follow the Leader"
1989: The Beastie Boys, Paul's Boutique; Jungle Brothers, "What 'U' Waitin' 4?"
1990: Mudhoney, Superfuzz Bigmuff/Early Singles***; Main Source, "Looking At the Front Door"
1991: De La Soul is Dead; Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
1992: Sonic Youth, Dirty; The Pharcyde, "Passin' Me By"
1993: Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers; Souls of Mischief, "'93 'Til Infinity"
1994: Beck, Mellow Gold; Bikini Kill, "Rebel Girl"****
1995: Elastica; Garbage, "Stupid Girl"
1996: DJ Shadow, Entroducing; Ghostface Killah, "Daytona 500"
1997: Chemical Brothers, Dig Your Own Hole; Busta Rhymes, "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See"
1998: Massive Attack, Mezzanine; The Coup, "Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night"
1999: Prodigy Present the Dirtchamber Sessions Vol. 1*****; Eminem, "Any Man"
2000: Outkast, Stankonia; Broadcast, "Come On Let's Go"
2001: The Avalanches, Since I Left You; El-P, "Stepfather Factory"
2002: Clinic, Walking With Thee; The Rapture, "House of Jealous Lovers"

*I'm not sure if this is '72 or '73. Please don't make me choose between this song and Steely Dan's finest moment, OK?
**I swear this is a coincidence.
***Yes, this is a reissue of stuff from the late '80s. I don't care. I CHEAT TO WIN
****Wasn't this released every single year in the mid '90s?
*****Yes, a mix CD. It's my list, sucka.

And if it's any consolation to Chuck, Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" almost made it for '81.

No, Alan. No. Trust me. He's no troll. He's just Geir.

Geir as weekly columnist for the Village Voice = quite possibly the most insane (therefore fantastic) move that could happen. Sign him up, Mr. Eddy. :-)