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

I imagine most people have this one on the tops of their heads. I was born in '74 and it's Radio City I guess. How exciting. You turn!

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so precocious

the replacements - pleased to meet me. runner up would be eric b. & rakim - paid in full

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I can't choose between My Generation and Otis Blue

Lust For Life is my legit answer, but also The Beach Boys' Love You for sentimental/nostalgic reasons.

Pearl Jam - Ten

Exile On Main St.

Tusk, probably

oh so you're my year. I would go with Entertainment! or Off The Wall.

Graceland or Throwing Muses' debut.

Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely.

L'Amour
Murmur
What Makes a Man Start Fires?

Compared to those a year younger though, my year is nothing (and seems to be filled with half decent albums of artists I like)

Easy - remain in light

Climate of Hunter, Don't Break the Oath, Powerslave

the sensual world

Sketches of Spain

On the Corner

Propaganda - A Secret Wish

White Album or Beggars Banquet...shocking, I know!

I don't know for sure, but this sounds right today:

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Black Sabbath s/t or Deep Purple In Rock.

The Low End Theory

Wow. Another Green World or Country Life or Born to Run or ... Jeez.

Zuma? Funky Kingston? Physical Graffiti?

Not sure I've got dates right...

Bowie - "low", Giorgio Moroder -"from here to eternity"

probably Revolver

Mars Audiac Quintet :-)

Sonic Youth - Sister

Chairs Missing

'78 was a weird year afaict

xtc - skylarking

R.E.M - Murmur

heaven or las vegas

metal box, probably.

Taking the thread title literally, I'll say Big Star's Third, though if recording year vs. release year screwiness disqualifies it, I'll happily substitute This Year's Model.

Pink Moon or Skies Of America, depending on the day

Piper at the Gates of Dawn, no hesitation

Contril

Immediate answer that popped into my head was Thriller. It came out 10 days after I was born! With all due respect to Computer Games (released 10 days before I was born - thanks Wikipedia), I'm sticking with that.

Can't decide between Freewheelin Bob Dylan and The Black Saint & the Sinner Lady

Control, even

Yes, I'm an old fart.
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i've tried to do this and imo it's literally impossible for 1987

a lot of my all time favorite thrash metal records came out in '87, maybe one of those

alternately

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fuck, i lied, it's faith

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:

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

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

lol, hold my beer

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spring chicken here:

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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

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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'

I want to claim 1972 too--I was reborn that year when I became immersed in Top 40 radio like never before.

Acsension over Aftermath and Da Capo bcuz side 1

Looks like Hejira, there aren't many albums from my birth year that I listen to

‘72 here as well. i’m looking at my birth month that year and am blessed with ege bamyasi and the world is a ghetto

Strictly Personal

I had Soundtracks, Let it Bleed and The Man Who Sold the World but I'll be honest and pick Plastic Ono Band (Lennon). I think.

The real answer is Slates but since that's clearly an EP, I'll go with the first self-titled Indoor Life album.

Runner-ups = Odyshape, Tin Drum, Return of the Giant Slits

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I'm sorry, I can't do this quickly.

Me neither. Lack of albums I like to that extent.

Not saying they were all bad albums in 1961, just..

There you go, it's "The Young Ones" soundtrack. Played that a few times back in the day.

The Velvet Underground says this ol' maing.

1979 has loads of brilliant albums but nothing I really think of as a personal favourite.

Taking Sides, 1961 edition: Jets and Sharks vs. Cliff and Shadows

Yeah, that one was in second place.

Sonic Youth 'Evol' or Prince 'Parade' at first glimpse. What a year.

Either Axis: Bold as Love
or Velvets/Nico