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What is your favorite album from the year you were born?
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Nevermind
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1. Pink Floyd - The Wall

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2. The Clash - London Calling
3. Blondie - Eat To The Beat
4. The Undertones - The Undertones
5. Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
6. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
7. The Ramones - It's Alive
8. The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
9. AC/DC - Highway To Hell
10. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

It was a real toss up between The Wall and London Calling - these two are interchangeable for me.
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The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Ennio Morricone - A Fistful Of Dollars - Soundtrack
Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan
The Beatles - Beatles For Sale
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
Charles Mingus - Right Now: Live At The Jazz Workshop
Nina Simone - Nina Simone In Concert
John Coltrane - Coltrane Live at Birdland
The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go
Charles Mingus - Town Hall Concert 1964, Vol. 1

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How about a top 10?

1. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
2. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
3. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
4. Tom Waits - Bone Machine
5. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
6. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
7. Bikini Kill - The CD Version of the First Two Records
8. The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
9. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Devotional Songs
10. Cesaria Evora - Miss Perfumado
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1 The Clash - London Calling
2 Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
3 Gang of Four - Entertainment!
4 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
5 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
6 Pink Floyd - The Wall
7 Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box/Second Edition
8 The Specials - Specials
9 Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Armed Forces
10 Talking Heads - Fear of Music
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If You're Feeling Sinister, but Mic City Sons is a close second.
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Crowded House - Together Alone or Nirvana - In Utero
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The Velvet Underground & Nico - same
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1. Lotte Lenya Singt Kurt Weill
2. Julie Is Her Name
3. Helen Merrill with Clifford Brown
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ArcadeFire wrote: Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:44 pm 1 The Clash - London Calling
2 Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
3 Gang of Four - Entertainment!
4 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
5 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
6 Pink Floyd - The Wall
7 Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box/Second Edition
8 The Specials - Specials
9 Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Armed Forces
10 Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Haha! Looks like you are born the same year as me :D Good picks by the way - I almost put Gang Of Four, The Specials and Talking Heads in my top 10 as well. I might have to go for a Top 15?
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The Dreaming by Kate Bush. 🤔 Always wondered how it ranked in that last 80s album poll we took. Hoping Hounds of Love made the top 3. Being that the 80s was so dismal I only voted for a handful of artists so I had to really stretch out my list at the recommendation of the administrator of the poll. But Kate was definitely one of the few reasons I voted. She’d be my Joe Biden I guess you can say ;)
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1. OTIS REDDING "Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul'"
2. THE BEATLES "Rubber Soul"
3. BOB DYLAN "Bringing It All Back Home"
4. JOHN COLTRANE "A Love Supreme"
5. BOB DYLAN "Highway 61 Revisited"
6. JACQUES BREL "Jacques Brel [Ces gens-là]"
7. NINA SIMONE "Pastel Blues"
8. THE BYRDS "Mr. Tambourine Man"
9. THE BEACH BOYS "Today!"
10. THE WHO "My Generation"
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David Bowie - Diamond Dogs

"In the year of the scavenger..."
But I was caught, like a fleeting thought,
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L'homme à tête de chou - Gainsbourg.

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Station to Station - Bowie
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In Utero. I should listen to more albums from the 90s cos I can't even do a top 10 from 1993.
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Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
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Mine's a three-way battle between Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden, Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and Queensrÿche's Operation: Mindcrime. 1988 was a weird year.
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Loveless.

Though Nevermind is a close second.
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Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads
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Red Hot Chili Peppers' Californiacation, I haven't listened to Moby's Play yet but from the songs I've heard it may overtake the number one spot. I also don't really like a lot of the music from 1999.
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US: Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3_mdy9VfCs

GB: The Beatles - The Beatles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXawa90YU2s

Guilty pleasure: Curt Boettcher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGGRyxyhY9U
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Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel (1974)

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Wish I could make a more idiosyncratic pick, but I have to go with Abbey Road. With Let It Bleed a very close second. #3 would probably be Trout Mask Replica, but even that doesn't really qualify as a left-field choice by now.
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PlasticRam wrote: Sat Apr 18, 2020 8:38 am In Utero. I should listen to more albums from the 90s cos I can't even do a top 10 from 1993.
1993 twins! A bit of a weak year musically for me too.
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Well, I’d like to pick something else since it’s the obvious choice and there’s great competition that year but I’d be lying if I said any other album gives me more enjoyment than Nevermind...
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ordinaryperson wrote: Sat Apr 18, 2020 5:32 pm Red Hot Chili Peppers' Californiacation, I haven't listened to Moby's Play yet but from the songs I've heard it may overtake the number one spot. I also don't really like a lot of the music from 1999.
I have now listened to Play and can definitely say that I enjoyed it better than Californiacation. I've also noticed that I have a lot of guilty pleasure music from 1999: Creed's "Higher", Sugar Ray's "Every Morning" and "Someday", Eiffel 65's "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" and Len's "Steal My Sunshine".
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Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
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madzong wrote: Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:56 pm
ArcadeFire wrote: Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:44 pm 1 The Clash - London Calling
2 Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
3 Gang of Four - Entertainment!
4 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
5 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
6 Pink Floyd - The Wall
7 Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box/Second Edition
8 The Specials - Specials
9 Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Armed Forces
10 Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Haha! Looks like you are born the same year as me :D Good picks by the way - I almost put Gang Of Four, The Specials and Talking Heads in my top 10 as well. I might have to go for a Top 15?
Indeed, I made sure to wait for someone at least as old as me to post. Glad it was a fellow '79er :music-rockon:
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In no particular order:

Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album)
Portishead - Dummy
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Nas - Illmatic
Green Day - Dookie
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Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
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1. Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water
2. Van Morrison: Moondance
3. The Beach Boys : Sunflower
4. The Beatles: Let It Be
5. Joni Mitchell: Ladies of the Canyon
6. Van Morrison: His Band, and The Street Choir
7. Free: Fire and Water
8. Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Emerson, Lake and Palmer
9. Nick Drake: Bryter Later
10. George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
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Lou Reed/John Cale - Songs For Drella

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I have heard surprisingly little from 1987. I guess for now it is In My Tribe by 10,000 Maniacs, which is great.
Though I feel it is a missed opportunity somehow that I haven't yet heard Big Black's Songs About Fucking.
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The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

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Proud to be born in the year when The Beatles released "The White Album"!
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Gainsbourg - L'homme à tête de chou
Bowie - Station To Station
Stevie Wonder - Song In The Key Of Life
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Depending on what mood I'm in, I could go for Kraftwerk - RadioAktivität, Springsteen's Born to Run, Tom Waits' Nighthawks at the Diner, Bowie's Young Americans or Dylan's Blood on the Tracks, but for today it's Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
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They Might Be Giants' Flood, followed by Angelo Badalamenti's Soundtrack from Twin Peaks.
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Glad this thread came back, certainly an interesting topic!

Looking back at the options, Is This It by The Strokes is an easy choice. 2001 is probably the weakest year in music from 2000-2004, but it's hard to deny some great albums come from 2001:

No particular order, Is This It being my favorite by a pretty wide margin. Pretty basic list, but I agree with the critics pretty often

The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Daft Punk - Discovery
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Bjork - Vespertine
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
The Microphones - The Glow, Part 2
System of a Down - Toxicity

Some albums from 2001 that I don't love as much as critics (or people on this forum!)

Radiohead - Amnesiac (always shocked when this places above other, better Radiohead albums like In Rainbows, A Moon Shaped Pool, and Hail to the Thief)
Jay-Z - The Blueprint (much worse than some of Jay-Z's other projects like The Black Album and Watch the Throne)
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I am probably the youngest on this site! My favorites from the year I was born are...

Rufus Wainwright - Want One (86/100)
The White Stripes - Elephant (84/100)
The Rapture - Echoes (83/100)
Martin Gore - Counterfiet 2 (76/100)
Dave Gahan - Paper Monsters (74/100)

Oddly enough, despite Radiohead being my second favorite artist, Hail To The Thief is the only project of theirs that is just average to me.

I know I am a youngster but I have managed to listen to roughly 730 albums so I would like to think I am doing well.
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Don't worry Edre Peraza, the fact that you are chosen Rufus in 1 absolves you of all your youthful sins. :mrgreen: It's a fantastic album.
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