Best album of every year since....

whatever, Chuckles--you still haven't heard the Luomo record yet!

1969: Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band Trout Mask Replica
1970: The Stooges Funhouse
1971: Funkadelic Maggot Brain
1972: Curtis Mayfield Superfly
1973: The New York Dolls S/T
1974: Brian Eno Here Come The Warm Jets
1975: Robert Wyatt Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard
1976: Debris' Static Disposal
1977: Ramones Rocket TO Russia
1978: Pere Ubu The Modern Dance
1979: Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady
1980: Motorhead Ace of Spades
1981: P.I.L. The Flowers Of Romance
1982: Dream Syndicate Days Of Wine & Roses
1983: ESG: Come Away With ESG
1984: Half Japanese Our Solar System
1985: Great Plains Naked at the Buy, Trade & Sell
1986: Vertical Slit Underneath the Blood Red Lava Lamp
1987: Big Black Songs About Fucking
1988: Ultramagnetic MCs Critical Breakdown
1989: Dead C Eusa Kills
1990: Daniel Johnston 1990
1991: Love Child Okay?
1992: Pavement Slanted & Enchanted
1993: August Sons Plants, Planets and Insects
1994: Killdozer Uncompromising War on Art Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
1995: Mudhoney My Brother The Cow
1996: Souled American Notes Campfire
1997: Quasi R&B Transmogrification
1998: Six Finger Satellite Law Of Ruin
1999: New Waver The Defeated
2000: Boom Bip & Dose One Circle
2001: Dirtbombs Ultraglide In Black
2002: Don Howland Land Beyond The Mountains
2003: too early

*runs screaming* noooooooooooooooooooooo

1995

1. Bjork- Post
2. Aphex Twin- I Care Because You Do
3. PJ Harvey- To Bring You My Love

1996

1. Aphex Twin- The Richard D. James Album
2. Stereolab- Emperor Tomato Ketchup
3. Smog- The Doctor Came at Dawn

1997

1. Radiohead- OK Computer
2. Bjork- Homogenic
3. Labradford- Mi Media Naranja/ Edith Frost- Calling Over Time

1998

1. Squarepusher- Music is Rotted One Note
2. Gastr del Sol- Camoufleur
3. Autechre- LP5

1999

1. The Flaming Lips- The Soft Bulletin
2. Labradford- E Luxo So
3. Black Heart Procession- 2

2000

1. Radiohead- Kid A
2. Smog- Dongs of Sevotion
3. Gas- Pop

2001

1. The Microphones- The Glow Part 2
2. Jim O'Rourke- Insignifance
3. Mum- Yesterday Was Dramatic- Today is OK

2002

1. Xiu Xiu- Knife Play
2. Deerhoof- Reveille
3. Sonic Youth- Murray Street

2003 (so far)

1. Cat Power- You Are Free
2. Xiu Xiu- A Promise
3. The Microphones- Mt. Eerie

1955: Frank Sinatra - 'In The Wee Small Hours'
1956: Ella Fitzgerald - 'The Cole Porter Songbook'
1957: Charles Mingus - 'The Clown'
1958: Henry Mancini - 'Touch of Evil'
1959: Miles Davis - 'Kind of Blue'
1960: Ornette Coleman - 'Free Jazz'
1961: Charles Mingus - 'Oh Yeah'
1962: Stan Getz - 'Jazz Samba'
1963: Charles Mingus - 'The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady'
1964: The Beatles - 'A Hard Day's Night'
1965: The Beach Boys - 'Today'
1966: The Beach Boys - 'Pet Sounds'
1967: Pink Floyd - 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'
1968: Milton Nascimento - 'Courage'
1969: Scott Walker - 'Scott 3'
1970: The Beach Boys - 'Sunflower'
1971: Nilsson - 'Nilsson Schmilsson'
1972: The Bonzo Dog Band - 'Let's Make Up & Be Friendly'
1973: Slapp Happy - 'Casablanca Moon'
1974: Robert Wyatt - 'Rock Bottom'
1975: Big Star - 'Third/Sister Lovers'
1976: Bob Dylan - 'Desire'
1977: Brian Eno - 'Before and After Science'
1978: Chris Bell - 'I am the Cosmos'
1979: Public Image Ltd. - 'Metal Box'
1980: New Musik - 'From A to B'
1981: Viv Stanshall - 'Teddy Boys Don't Knit'
1982: Scritti Politti - 'Songs to Remember'
1983: Scott Walker - 'Climate of Hunter'
1984: The Replacements - 'Let It Be'
1985: Dexy's Midnight Runners - 'Don't Stand Me Down'
1986: XTC - 'Skylarking'
1987: The Smiths - 'Strangeways, Here We Come'
1988: Public Enemy - 'It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back'
1989: The Blue Nile - 'Hats'
1990: Robyn Hitchcock - 'Eye'
1991: Saint Etienne - 'Foxbase Alpha'
1992: Ultramarine - 'Every Man & Woman Is A Star'
1993: Saint Etienne - 'So Tough'
1994: Saint Etienne - 'Tiger Bay'
1995: Tricky - 'Maxinquaye'
1996: The Auteurs - 'After Murder Park'
1997: Aphex Twin - 'The Richard D. James Album'
1998: Black Box Recorder - 'England Made Me'
1999: Momus - 'Stars Forever'
2000: Lambchop - 'Nixon'
2001: The Avalanches - 'Since I Left You'
2002: Boards of Canada - 'Geogaddi'

1972 Annette Peacock - I'm the One
1973 Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
1974 Miles Davis - Get Up With It
1975 Milton Nascimento - Minas
1976 Marvin Gaye - I Want You
1977 Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
1978 Culture - Two Sevens Clash
1979 Johnny Dyani - Song For Biko
1980 Prince - Dirty Mind
1981 The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
1982 Scritti Politti - Songs to Remember
1983 Negative Approach - Tied Down
1984 Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
1985 Run DMC - King of Rock
1986 Prince - Parade
1987 Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show
1988 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1989 De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising
1990 KLF - Chill Out
1991 Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
1992 Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
1993 Henry Threadgill - Too Much Sugar for a Dime
1994 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 2
1995 Dead C - The Operation of the Sonne
1996 Paperclip People - The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich
1997 Royal Trux - Sweet Sixteen
1998 Gorguts - Obscura
1999 Richie Hawtin - Decks, EFX, & 909

That's it I give up because I can't do it anymore. All the new stuff is too recent and it always takes me at LEAST three years to catch up on stuff anyway. I don't get them free, unfortunately.

This one is 1954, I think.

http://rateyourmusic.com/

1993 Don Caballero, _For Respect_

I'm still drawing a big fat blank for '82, tho.

The 60s are pretty darn easy huh? *grin*
Who else was making albums like the beatles?
Almost nobody.

I like how highly Geir rated Sunflower and Surf's Up.
And if I'd made my list a couple of years ago I would have
loaded it with Genesis, as well

Amazing how many Talking Heads albums showed up on
this thread, too.

I'm glad Dylan has mostly been snubbed. His rock albums contain
like, two good songs each, and _Blonde On Blonde_, in
particular, has some of the most godawful singing ever
committed to major-label tape.

Mr. Diamond, thank you for mentioning _Chill Out_. Love that.

Yeah, 1979 and 1984 were the hardest.

Anyway, I'll finish mine off, since I was too tired to think about it anymore last night.

2000 Herbert - Letsallmakemistakes
2001 Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
2002 2 Many DJ's - As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt.2

Yeah I know the Boredoms thing came out in earlier in Japan but fuck it.

It's not Dirty Mind or Purple Rain or anything, and it's too long by half, but Emancipation is still probably his best '90s album.

I will ignore those Dylan comments.

so will I

*curious, rereads* Heh.

1963: Beatles, Please Please Me
1964: Beatles, A Hard Day's Night
1965: Beatles, Rubber Soul
1966: Kinks, Face To Face
1967: Velvet Underground, Velvet Underground & Nico
1968: Rolling Stones, Beggars Banquet
1969: Velvet Underground, Velvet Underground
1970: Stooges, Fun House
1971: Led Zeppelin, IV
1972: Rolling Stones, Exile On Main Street (phbbt, 3rd least happy about this one)
1973: New York Dolls, New York Dolls
1974: Brian Eno, Here Come The Warm Jets
1975: Bob Dylan, Blood On The Tracks
1976: Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers
1977: Wire, Pink Flag
1978: Elvis Costello, This Years Model
1979: Neil Young, Rust Never Sleeps
1980: Feelies, Crazy Rhythms
1981: Kix, Kix (for Chuck! For now! if only someone didn’t have my copy of Wild Gift…)
1982: Linda & Richard Thompson, Shoot Out The Lights
1983: REM, Murmur (aaaggghh!!! At this date, I am a SPUD! But even worse is coming…)
1984: Replacements, Let It Be
1985: Replacements, Tim
1986: Beastie Boys, Licenesed To Ill
1987: Prince, Sign ‘O’ The Times
1988: Public Enemy, It Takes A Nation Of Millions…
1989: B-52’s, Cosmic Thing
1990: Fugazi, Repeater
1991: Pixies, Trompe Le Monde
1992: Morrissey, Your Arsenal
1993: Urge Overkill, Saturation
1994: Pavement, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
1995: Pavement, Wowee Zowee
1996: Dr. Octagon, Dr. Octagonecolgyst
1997: Sleater-Kinney, Dig Me Out
1998: Sonic Youth, A Thousand Leaves (my god, it may well be…what a shit year)
1999: LeTigre, LeTigre
2000: Radiohead, Kid A
2001: Fugazi, The Argument
2002: Desaparecidos Read Music/Speak Spanish

Plus, I'm learning a lot about what people like. Turns out, it's not such a walk for Sly Stone in 1971 as I thought. But everyone loves some Brian Eno!

and Sterling is a fool if he thinks I spent more than ten minutes on my lists

(here it becomes too tedious to continue...)

Beatles Revolver 1966
Monkees Headquarters 1967
Hendrix, Jimi Are You Experienced 1968
Blind Faith Blind Faith 1969
Stooges Funhouse 1970
Bowie, David Hunky Dory 1971
Reed, Lou Transformer 1972
Roxy Music For Your Pleasure 1973
Steely Dan Pretzel Logic 1974
Queen Night at the Opera 1975
15-60-75 Jimmy Bell's Still In Town 1976
Pop, Iggy The Idiot 1977
Pere Ubu Modern Dance 1978
Gang Of Four Entertainment! 1979
Pretenders Pretenders 1980
Stranglers La Folie 1981
Captain Beefheart Ice Cream For Crow 1982
Big Boys Lullabyes Help The Brain Grow 1983
Minutemen Double Nickles On The Dime 1984
Fall This Nation's Saving Grace 1985
Go Betweens Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express 1986
Dumptruck For The Country 1987
Firehose If'n 1988
My Dad is Dead Taller You Are, The Shorter You Get 1989
Blue Aeroplanes Swagger 1990
Jazz Butcher Condition Blue 1991
Reed, Lou Magic And Loss 1992
Morphine Cure for Pain 1993
Cole, Lloyd Bad Vibes 1994
Yo La Tengo ELECTR-O-PURA 1995
Scrawl Travel on, Rider 1996
Jonathan Fire Eater Wolf Songs For Lambs 1997
New Rob Robbies Pure Whore 1998
Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs 1999
Go-Betweens Friends of Rachel Worth 2000
Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out 2000

Oh yeah, ummm, here:
1967 - David Bowie s/t [Deram]

"Don't forget about the immortal classics "Tin Machine" and "Tin Machine 2" either then. :-)"

I didn't they're there.

1979; The Clash – London Calling
1980; Talking Heads – Remain in Light
1981;
1982;
1083;
1984; Cocteau Twins - Treasure
1985; Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
1986; Talk Talk – The Colour of Spring
1987; Prince – Sign ‘O’ the Times
1988; Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden / Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions…
1989; The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses / De La Soul – 3ft High and Rising
1990; Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet / Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
1991; Massive Attack – Blue Lines / Talk Talk – Laughing Stock / My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
1992; Spiritualized – Laser Guided Melodies
1993; Orbital – Orbital (Brown) / The Boo Radleys – Giant Steps
1994; Blur – Parklife / Jeff Buckley – Grace / Bark Psychosis - Hex
1995; Tricky – Maxinquaye / The Verve – A Northern Soul
1996; Wilco – Being There / Orbital – In Sides / DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
1997; The Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole / Spiritualized / Ladies and Gentlemen…
1998; Godspeed You Black Emperor! – F#A# [Infinity]
1999; Dismemberment Plan – Emergency & I
2000; Lambchop - Nixon
2001; Four Tet - Pause
2002; Lambchop – Is a Woman

Well, if you are into Talking Heads, I see no need stopping at "Remain In Light". "Speaking In Tongues", from one of your "empty" years, is a great album

Not going to start recommending all the great synthpop/new romantic stuff released in 81-83 (the stuff I grew up with!), as it seems that may not be your cup of tea anyway. :-)