QUICKLY what is your favorite album released in the year of your birth?

liquid swords

For some reason I thought we were the same age.

i have a real answer and a WELL, TECHNICALLY. . . answer.

my knee-jerk is bill evans you must believe in spring because while it was recorded in 1977, it was not officially released until 81.

real answer is the sound from the lion's mouth.

yep.

Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth

Born in the USA

For some reason I thought we were the same age.

― pomenitul, Tuesday, June 16, 2020 9:15 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

So did I!

I mean if you were 13/15 in 2000 and your musical taste didn’t deviate much from pop and rock I can really see how Kid A would seem incredibly weird. I was 15 and it also seemed weird to me, and I have to note I was into Aphex Twin at that point in my life so that smoothened the first impression a lot. Even some adult critics writing for big publications dismissed it when it first came out because it wasn’t OKC2.

OKC also felt very insular and certainly weird when compared to the rest of the mainstream “alternative” scene of the mid to late 90’s.

Weird or depressive are the two main descriptions I’ve heard from people when they explain why they don’t listen to Radiohead.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, May 27, 2020 11:26 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

My experience exactly, down to my age when Kid A came out.

Also: great revive.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, May 27, 2020 11:33 PM (two weeks ago)

(I was also 15 when Kid A came out)

Ah, thanks, that's exactly the exchange I had in mind but couldn't put my finger on.

Unknown Pleasures over Einstein on the Beach

xp Wait, it came out in late 00? For some reason I thougt it was a year earlier. I was 16.

Off the Wall, almost assuredly.

Another Side of Bob Dylan or Getz/Gilberto

man i wish i could say some really kickass dylan album, but nope, shot of love is what i get. lame.

Tricky's Maxinquaye. I've realized there's not a lot of 90s babies on ILX!

Too many to choose.
I think the Doors s/t came out the actual month though. & I still like that quite a lot, though still may not be my fav of theirs.

This could either be Francis Bebey's Akwaaba or Van Halen's 1984, depends how much I've had to drink. Way better year for singles than albums tho.
I tried listening to Born in the USA last summer and couldn't make it all the way through.

Listening to Akwaaba now and I'm def gonna go with Akwaaba.

NEU! '75. Fuck, I'm old.

Total Q magazine answer but Marquee Moon

Totally forgotten that I'd already chosen upthread but nice to know that my choice remained the same. Weird to think that Highway 61 Revisited is my SECOND choice (Sorry, Austin!)

Purple Rain, I guess

(Strong contenders in BITUSA and Mats’ Let It Be

Somehow had it in my mind that Paid in Full was from the year before, I'll go with that.

Ramones

Tricky's Maxinquaye. I've realized there's not a lot of 90s babies on ILX!

Holy shit, lol. (I was in college and shook Tricky’s hand when he came someplace to promote it)

Anyway, here’s mine:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Red_Krayola_-_Corrected_Slogans.jpg

More Songs about Buildings and Food is the no-thought answer.

NEU! '75. Fuck, I'm old.

lol, hold my beer

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/814TAGAjY3L._SL1300_.jpg

spring chicken here:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1a/38/2d/1a382d3ea9723559273400b74618b602.jpg

https://pure-music.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Ramones-album-cover.jpg

https://s3.amazonaws.com/quietus_production/images/articles/16153/zenarcade_1409743873_crop_550x554.jpg

but thats just for starters. 1984 was a crazy year. INSANE YEAR. so many of my faves of all time...

Let It Be / Purple Rain / Meat Puppets II / Treasure / Spring Hill Fair / Ride The Lightning / Reckoning / Born In The USA / A Walk Across the Rooftops / Ocean Rain / Powerslave / Swoon / Double Nickels On The Dime / Diamond Life / Brilliant Trees / My War / It'll End In Tears / Dead Can Dance / Climate Of Hunter

Nice to see some other '76ers here (re: Ramones)

1970
Black Sabbath s/t
or maybe Funhouse

The Slider

The Saints, (I'm) Stranded

I didn't check past My Favorite Things, but I can't see that anything would eclipse that.

Innervisions

Probably Beggars Banquet

Or Fool on the Hill by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

Love Child by Diana Ross & the Supremes a contender also

George Best

Five-way tie between Aretha’s Amazing Grace, Talking Book, Exile On Main St, On The Corner, and Pete Townshend’s Who Came First.

Please Please Me

Approximately Infinite Universe

Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Ecpress

kate bush - the dreaming

Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations

Boring answer but probably London Calling

http://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1355304862_10.jpg

Stands for Decibels

Five-way tie between Aretha’s Amazing Grace, Talking Book, Exile On Main St, On The Corner, and Pete Townshend’s Who Came First.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, June 17, 2020 6:03 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

'72 Baby! Exile and On the Corner (along with Europe '72) were my other choices. Though I think '71 and '73 might have better choices.

xtc - skylarking

― ciderpress, Monday, December 1, 2014 6:21 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

updating to david sylvian - gone to earth, though this was a good pick too

’72 Baby! Exile and On the Corner (along with Europe '72) were my other choices. Though I think '71 and '73 might have better choices.

Four way tie - Cosmo's Factory/Fun house/After the Gold Rush/Paranoid - but gun to the head, 'Cosmo's'