Top 10, 15 or 20 albums from your year of birth.

[AtomicBlonde]

Inspired by an epic pub conversation at my local the other night.

My year: 1979

1. Fear Of Music - Talking Heads
2. Broken English - Marianne Faithfull
3. Damn The Torpedoes - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
4. Prince - Prince
5. Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
6. Eat To The Beat - Blondie
7. I Am - Earth, Wind & Fire
8. The Boss - Diana Ross
9. Gloryhallastoopid - Parliament
10. Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
11. Highway To Hell - AC/DC
12. Bad Girls - Donna Summer
13. Breakfast In America - Supertramp
14. The Motels - The Motels
15. Overkill - Motorhead
16. The B-52's - The B-52's
17. Uncle Jam Wants You - Funkadelic
18. Dream Police - Cheap Trick
19. The Long Run - The Eagles
20. Quiet Life - Japan

 

[benji2]

Inspired by an epic pub conversation at my local the other night.

My year: 1979

1. Fear Of Music - Talking Heads
2. Broken English - Marianne Faithfull
3. Damn The Torpedoes - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
4. Prince - Prince
5. Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
6. Eat To The Beat - Blondie
7. I Am - Earth, Wind & Fire
8. The Boss - Diana Ross
9. Gloryhallastoopid - Parliament
10. Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
11. Highway To Hell - AC/DC
12. Bad Girls - Donna Summer
13. Breakfast In America - Supertramp
14. The Motels - The Motels
15. Overkill - Motorhead
16. The B-52's - The B-52's
17. Uncle Jam Wants You - Funkadelic
18. Dream Police - Cheap Trick
19. The Long Run - The Eagles
20. Quiet Life - Japan

Interesting idea, and an interesting list. Is that your opinion or from a list somewhere?

 

[He_Beast]

If I post it'll look like I only listen to thrash metal

 

[benji2]

Thrash metal hadn't been invented by my year of birth

 

[AtomicBlonde]

Interesting idea, and an interesting list. Is that your opinion or from a list somewhere?

Mine opinion, was a killer year in music so there would be heaps of honourable mentions but that's the best I could do.

 

[volcboy]

1973

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
2. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
3. Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
4. Quadrophenia - The Who
5. Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
6. Raw Power - The Stooges
7. Aladdin Sane - David Bowie
8. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath
9. Lets Get It On - Marvin Gaye
10. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John


Not a bad year for music. DSOTM was actually released the week I was born, and I grew up listening to it in all of its quadrophonic vinyl glory.

 

[benji2]

Ah, OK then:

1974
1. Diamond Dogs (David Bowie)
2. Natty Dread (Bob Marley)
3. Autobahn (Kraftwerk)
4. Sheer Heart Attack (Queen)
5. Bad Company (Bad Company)
6. Living in the 70s (Skyhooks)
7. Burn (Deep Purple)
8. Eldorado (ELO)
9. Kimono My House (Sparks)
10. Just a Boy (Leo Sayer)

 

[Eddie Dingle]

1. The White Album (Beatles)
2. Astral Weeks (Van Morrison)
3. Electric Ladyland (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
4. Odessey and Oracle (Zombies)
5. Beggars Banquet (Rolling Stones)
6. White Light/White Heat (Velvet Underground)
7. The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (Kinks)
8. Music From Big Pink (The Band)
9. At Folsom Prison (Johnny Cash)
10. Bookends (Simon and Garfunkel)

 

[JP Sauce]

Look at all these old bastards.

 

[Silent Alarm]

'94

The Blue Album - Weezer
Parklife - Blur
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
Unplugged in New York - Nirvana
The Main Ingredient - Pete Rock & CL Smooth
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik - Outkast
The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
Hard to Hearn - Gang Starr
Australian Melodrama - The Triffids
Dummy - Portishead
Grace - Jeff Buckley
Hold on It Hurts - Cornershop
Definitely Maybe - Oasis

Three of my all time favourites ever came out that year...

 

[Westerberg]

87

The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Sonic Youth - Sister
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
Big Black - Songs About *******
Prince - Sign O The Times
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust

 

[TheKanga]

1989

1. The Cure - Disintegration
2. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
3. Galaxie 500 - On Fire
4. The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better
5. Guided By Voices - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia
6. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - The Road to the Riches
7. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
8. Pixies - Doolittle
9. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
10. New Order - Technique

 

[AtomicBlonde]

1989

1. The Cure - Disintegration
2. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
3. Galaxie 500 - On Fire
4. The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better
5. Guided By Voices - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia
6. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - The Road to the Riches
7. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
8. Pixies - Doolittle
9. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
10. New Order - Technique

One of my all-time favourite albums and one of the great debut albums in Hip Hop history.

 

[timtamWB]

1993

Nirvana - In Utero
Rage Against The Machine - Self Titled
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang
Bjork - Debut
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
U2 - Zooropa (Very underrated album)
Tool - Undertow

Not that good, I'm not really a fan of hip hop so didn't include much, but can't go past Wu-Tang and Snoop. A couple of great albums with Nirvana and RATM but not much is inspiring for me personally there.

 

[DEVO]

I only own 1 album from the year I was born and that is MEDDLE by Pink Floyd.

The only other album I would like to own from 1971 is CHOICE CUTS by the Masters Apprentices. I'm not sure why I don't have it, I have all their others. A big oversight on my behalf.

 

[Rainfall]

1997.

1. Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt
2. Spice - Spice Girls
3. Wu-Tang Forever - Wu-Tang Clan
4. OK Computer - Radiohead
5. Urban Hymns - The Verve
6. Aquarium - Aqua

Couldn't find a proper list...
...but in my opinion there was only 18 decent songs that year.

1. Chumbawamba - Tubthumping (I Get Knocked Down)
2. Savage Garden - To The Moon & Back
3. The Wallflowers - One Headlight
4. White Town - Your Woman
5. Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
6. Blur - Song 2
7. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
8. No Mercy - Where Do You Go?
9. Semi Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
10. Robbie Williams - Angel
+
Cardigans - Lovefool
Aqua - Roses are Red
No Doubt - Don't Speak
Sheryl Crow - If It Makes You Happy
Meredith Brooks - Bitch
Sash - Ecuador
Dario G - Sunchyme
Hanson - Mmmbop

 

[skilts]

Oh dear. In my year of birth, albums were yet to be invented. Is this a major fail?

 

[Illinois Nazi]

I have 4 albums from my year of birth:

Chain - Toward The Blues
John Lennon - Imagine
Led Zeppelin IV
Pink Floyd - Meddle

Pretty decent little collection, actually.

 

[Rusty Brookes]

1973

1. Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny and Mutation
2. Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power
3. Black Sabbath - Sabbath, Bloody, Sabbath
4. Coloured Balls - Ball Power
5. Buffalo - Volcanic Rock
6. Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
7. Alice Cooper - Muscle of Love
8. The Who - Quadrophenia
9. Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
10. The Wicker Man - Soundtrack (may not have been released in 1973 but certainly recorded then)

 

[Running Dog]

Oh dear. In my year of birth, albums were yet to be invented. Is this a major fail?

Skilts, if you were born around the same time as me that's a rampaging success. There might not have been 'albums' in the Dark Side Of The Moon sense of the term back then, but it was a golden age. The top 10 albums of 1962 were:

1. Modern Sounds in Country and Western - Ray Charles
2. Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Wolf
3. Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
4. Night Train - Oscar Peterson
5. Green Onions - Booker T and the MGs
6. Ballads - John Coltrane Quartet
7. Ole - John Coltrane
8. Go! - Dexter Gordon
9. Tijuana Moods - Charles Mingus
10. Peter, Paul and Mary - Peter, Paul and Mary

As if that wasn't a year for the ages, waiting on the subs bench were Full House (Wes Montgomery), Jazz Samba (Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd), Ornette! (Ornette Coleman), Caravan (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers), Herbert Von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic (majestic recordings of Beethoven's symphonic cycle, Mozart's Requiem), Otto Klemperer/Philharmonia (German Requiem), Crying (Roy Orbison), Big Band Bossa Nova (Quincy Jones), Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, West Side Story, Lightnin' Hopkins etc etc. That's gonna take some beating!

 

[skilts]

The first LP recording (10 inches in diameter, not the later 12 inch) was released in June 1948. I was born in September 1948, so there wasn't really enough time for a top ten to be compiled.

 

[Twoslabs]

Okay IMHO from 1969

1. Kick out the Jams - MC5
2. The Stooges - The Stooges
3. Out here - Love
4. Bull of the woods - 13th Floor Elevators
5. Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones
6. Space Oddity - David Bowie
7. Willy & the poor boys - Creedence
8. Abbey Road - The Beatles
9. Led Zep II - Led Zep
10. Led Zep - Led Zep

 

[Prince St]

1992

In no particular order

Images and Words - Dream Theater
Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera
Dirt - Alice in Chains
Opiate - Tool
Dirty - Sonic Youth
RATM - RATM
Relentless - Bill Hicks
Anglagard - Hybris (Just came across this one, great proggy number)
Automatic for The People - REM
Core - Stone Temple Pilots

 

[Plugger35]

1986 what a year, I was named after this song.



Sledgehammer So Peter Gabriel Jones.

 

[Plugger35]

Could've been worse, I could've been named Pet Shop Boy or West End Girl.