Here is the place to list your favorite album from each year that is important to you...

Here goes nothing:

1976- Blondie- Blondie
1977- David Bowie- Low
1978- Blondie- Parallel Lines
1979- Blondie- Eat to the Beat
1980- The Cure- Seventeen Seconds
1981- Prince- Controversy
1982- Prince- 1999
1983- Eurythmics- Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
1984- Eurythmics- 1984: For the Love of Big Brother
1985- The Cure- The Head on the Door
1986- Prince- Parade
1987- Prince- Sign o' the Times
1988- Prince- Lovesexy
1989- Janet Jackson- Rhythm Nation 1814
1990- Depeche Mode- Violator
1991- Prince- Diamonds and Pearls
1992- Prince- Symbol
1993- Bjork- Debut
1994- Madonna- Bedtime Stories
1995- Prince- The Gold Experience
1996- Aaliyah- One in a Million
1997- Bjork- Homogenic
1998- Madonna- Ray of Light
1999- Eurythmics- Peace
2000- The Cure- BloodFlowers
2001- Bjork- Vespertine
2002- David Bowie- Heathen

According to what I was listening to at the time and not what I know now, these are the stand-out albums though I listen to many things...

1975- Love Will Keep Us Together by Captain & Tennille
1976- Abba's Greatest Hits, Aerosmith's Rocks
1977- Boston's Boston, Foreigner's Foreigner
1978- Saturday Night Fever & Grease Soundtracks
1979- Cheap Trick's Budokan, Van Halen II, Cars' Candy-O
1980- AC/DC's Back in Black
1981- Joan Jett's I Love Rock N Roll
1982- Cougar's American Fool, Squier's Don't Say No
1983- Def Leppard's Pyro, Motley's Shout, and Prince's 1999
1984- Prince's Purple Rain & Sheila E's Glamorous Life
1985- Prince's ATWIAD, The Family, & Jesse Johnson's Revue
1986- Prince's Parade, Baker's Rapture, Janet's Control
1987- Prince's Sign, Def Leppard's Hysteria, TTD's Hardline
1988- Prince's Lovesexy, Tracy Chapman
1989- Janet's 1814, Madonna's Prayer, Aerosmith's Pump
1990- Prince's Graffiti Bridge, Sinead O'Connor, Ice Cube
1991- Diamonds&P, GunsNRoses, Lenny Kravitz, Motley Crue
1992- Prince's Symbol, Neneh Cherry's Homebrew
1993- Prince's Come, Lenny's My Way, Janet's janet, TTD
1994- Prince's Chaos & Disorder
1995- Prince's Gold, Alanis, Lenny's Circus, TTD's Vibrator
1996- Prince's Emancipation, No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom
1997- Prince's The Truth, Janet's Rope, Oasis' Be Here Now
1998- Madonna's Ray of Light, Lenny's 5
1999- Prince's Rave, TLC's Fanmail, Santana's Supernatural
2000-
2001- Prince's The Rainbow Children
2002- Prince's The Rainbow Children & One Night Alone
[This message was edited Sun Sep 8 2:51:32 PDT 2002 by Jasziah]

Same here, based on what I was listening to, not necessarily release date. I'm only listing the non-Prince-related releases cuz you can just assume that they occupied most frequent rotation status from the moment of their release. I tried to keep it down to 1 album, but in some cases couldn't narrow it down further.

1982: Michael Jackson's Thriller, Culture Club's Kissing to Be Clever
1983: Culture Club's Colour by Numbers
1984: Whodini's Escape, Tina Turner's Private Dancer
1986: Janet Jackson's Control
1987: Heavy D's Livin Large, Eric B & Rakim's Paid In Full
1988: Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Guy's Self-Titled
1989: Soul II Soul's Keep On Movin, Queen Latifah's All Hail the Queen
1990: Brand Nubian's One for All, Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet, En Vogue's Born to Sing
1991: Ice Cube's Death Certificate, Lenny Kravitz's Mama Said
1992: Arrested Development's 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of..., Dr. Dre's The Chronic, Brand New Heavies' Self-Titled, Mary J Blige's What's the 411?
1993: Ice Cube's Lethal Injection, Queen Latifah's Black Reign
1994: Brand New Heavies' Brother Sister, Mary J Blige's My Life
1995: D'Angelo's Brown Sugar, Goo Goo Dolls' A Boy Named Goo
1996: Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite, Outkast's ATLiens, Curtis Mayfield's New World Order, Aaliyah's One in a Million
1997: Erykah Badu's Baduizm, Curtis Mayfield's Superfly (25th Anniversary Deluxe Set)
1998: Lenny Kravitz's 5, N'Dea Davenport's Self-Titled, Outkast's Aquemini
2000: Erykah Badu's Mama's Gun, Jill Scott's Who Is Jill Scott?, Outkast's Stankonia, Coldplay's Parachutes

I really don't have time 4 this.


@ moonbeam with his long lists all the time...

I'm wondering how hard it is to find a good album from 2001 and 2002 for most of you? I can't think of one, and I noticed that NuPwrSoul didn't list any either. I mean, I listen to A LOT of different styles of music, but no one album that really stands out above the rest as being the best.

I don't even know where to begin. I have a hard time with this kind of stuff. It's impossible for me to pick a favorite from any year. My favorite songs, albums, artists change a lot as I grow and hear new things.

Jasziah said:

My previous post in this thread aside,

2000 -- Madonna, "Music"
2001 -- Mercury Rev, "All Is Dream"
2002 -- David Bowie, "Heathen"
[This message was edited Mon Sep 9 7:39:48 PDT 2002 by Aaron]

id do this but i dunno if i remember all the years...95-98 are kinda hazy eheh...

Jasziah said:

There are plenty of great albums from 2001 and 2002! 2001 particularly was a good year for me.

2001:

Bjork- Vespertine
Janet Jackson- All for You
Prince- The Rainbow Children
Kylie Minogue- Fever
Aaliyah- Aaliyah
Missy Elliott- Miss E...So Addictive
Busta Rhymes- Genesis
No Doubt- Rock Steady
Strokes- Is This It?
NERD- In Search Of...
Mary J. Blige- No More Drama
New Order- Get Ready

2002:

David Bowie- Heathen
Prince- One Nite Alone

I'll bite. But I'm going with the perspective of my tastes as of now, because I wasn't around in 1976. I'm gonna start in '75 tho...

1975- Queen's "A Night at the Opera"
1976- Elton John's "Blue Moves"/ Stevie "Songs in the Key of Life"
1977- Billy Joel's "The Stranger"
1978- Steely Dan's "Aja"
1979- Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall"
1980- Billy Joel's "Glass Houses"/Queen's "The Game"
1981- Prince's "Controversy"/ Quincy Jones "The Dude"
1982- Michael Jackson's "Thriller"
1983- Billy Joel's "An Innocent Man"
1984- Prince "Purple Rain"
1985- Prince "Around the World..."
1986- Prince "Parade"/ Billy Joel "The Bridge"
1987- Prince "Sign of the Times"
1988- Madonna "Like a Prayer"
1989- Janet Jackson "Rhythm Nation"/ Aerosmith "Pump"
1990- Mariah Carey self-titled
1991- Paula Abdul "Spellbound"
1992- Prince "Symbol"/ Michael Jackson "Dangerous"
1993- Janet Jackson "Janet"/ Billy Joel "River of Dreams"
1994- Madonna "Bedtime Stories"/ Dave Matthews Band "Crash"
1995- Prince "Gold Experience"/ Spacehog "Resident Alien"/Lenny Kravitz "Circus"/ TTD "Vibrator"
1996- Prince "Emancipation"/ No Doubt "Tragic Kingdom"
1997- Janet Jackson "Velvet Rope"/ Ben Folds Five "Whatever and Ever Amen"/ Barenaked Ladies "Stunt"
1998- Spacehog "The Chinese Album"
2000- Boyz 2 Men "NathanMichaelShawnWanya"/ Steely Dan "2 Against Nature"
2001- Prince "RainbowChildren"/ Ben Folds "Rockin the Suburbs"
2002- Prince "One Nite Alone"/ James Taylor "October Road"/ Musiq Soulchild "Juslisen"/ Remy Shand "The Way I Feel"