GangstaFam said:

I totally meant to put Unknown Pleasures there instead. I guess I was just feeling dead on a slab.

Moonbeam said:

I had that issue a few times - I've occasionally seen The Feelies' Crazy Rhythms listed as a 79 release, in which case it wouldn't make my top three for that year - yet it's my top album for 1980. One interesting thing that happened quite often while I was putting my list together - I'd find one year bursting with quality albums (1998 for example), then discover that I could barely find anything I enjoyed the next year. Just the usual deviations from the mean in quality, I suppose.

As for wl/wh - I was positive that it was released in 68, but I see that it's given a 67 release date on the allmusic site. They're not the final authority on this, but I'm not as confident as I was...
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hi moonbeam....will give this thread a proper reply once i have had time to think about it.....i think we two are ambassadors for the great website that is http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/ and i will need to use it to give a reply to this
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...ps...glad to see you loved the arcade fire album as well, we will need to disagree on the franz ferdinand album though.

blackboab said:

I'm not moonbeam, but that's a really cool site.

blackboab said:

Best site on the internet! And Franz deserves it's number 1 status there.

65...beatles.....rubber soul
66...beach boys.....pet sounds
67...love.....forever changes
68...beatles.....white album
69...beatles.....abbey road
70...beach boys.....sunflower
71...marvin gaye.....what's goin on
72...david bowie.....ziggy stardust
73...stevie wonder.....innervisions
74...stevie wonder.....fulfillingness first finale
75...led zeppelin.....physical graffiti
76...stevie wonder.....songs in the key of life
77...david bowie.....low
78...billy joel.....52nd street
79...the clash.....london calling
80...prince.....dirty mind
81...human league.....dare
82...billy joel.....the nylon curtain
83...billy joel.....an innocent man
84...prince.....purple rain
85...prefab sprout.....steve mcqueen/two wheels good
86...prince.....parade
87...prince.....sign o the times
88...prince.....lovesexy
89...the cure.....disintegration
90...prefab sprout.....jordan:the comeback
91...tori amos.....little earthquakes
92...rem.....automatic for the people
93...bjork.....debut
94...beatles.....live at the bbc
95...prince.....the gold experience
96...beck.....odelay
97...radiohead.....ok computer
98...air.....moon safari
99...beck.....midnite vultures
00...pj harvey.....Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
01...strokes.....is this it?
02...prince.....one nite alone...live
03...outkast.....speakerboxxx/the love below
04...arcade fire.....funeral
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...there you go...very difficult to do, some years nothing really stood out but i managed it.

blackboab said:

Good effort. I can't be arsed, it'd hurt my head. Hang on! Prefab Sprout!



nah, STILL a good list. I have more than a few of those.
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well i think myself and moonbeam agree on the best album of the year on nine occasions.....not bad.....one nit to pick with you ,moonbeam, how can you go from the velvet underground to kylie minogue(nice ass but come on)????? explain please

blackboab said:

I like all sorts of music, including pop. In my opinion, Kylie has led the way for pop music this decade.

Moonbeam said:

I love You.....Nico Rules

You had waaaaay too much time on your hands.

lilgish said:

She does. The only other album I have by her is Desertshore and it is hard to crack. What else would you recommend?

Scorpion said:

I am a dork.

blackboab said:

I love those a lot too.

Moonbeam said:

Well, I've done some digging and the consensus seems to be that White Light/White Heat was released in November 67.

Well, fuck it - I can't be arsed to revise my list. I'm just going to stick my head in the sand and pretend it came out in 68.

I'm happy with most of my list, though I'm a little uncomfortable with my 81-83 choices. I'm sure that if I went on a serious dig through my vinyl I could find something I liked more than P. Furs' Talk Talk Talk and Marshall Crenshaw's debut.

damosuzuki said:

Maybe 1999?

Moonbeam said:

Well I'm afraid the truth is that I barely listen to Prince anymore. Other than SOTT and Come (go figure), his music barely registers on my radar these days.

Having said that, I certainly could make room for 1999, as I still love that album, even if I barely listen to it these days. I could drop the Fall album - I've got more than enough dreary indie-rock on my list as it stands.
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Marrk said:

No shame in having Prefab Sprout on that list as far as I'm concerned - they were my runners-up in 85 and 90, and the Sunday and Fall albums that I chose over Prefab are two of my top albums of all time.

damosuzuki said:

1999

Moonbeam said:

I'm supposing from the Transformer avatar that you have Velvet Underground and Nico album. I suggest next you get the compilation album Nico: Classic Years then move onto live stuff.

Then there's Marble Index.....you'll love it or hate it. Everything after Chelsea is kinda hard to crack.