Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin
Let It Be - The Beatles
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
Deja Vu - CSN&Y
Sex Machine - James Brown
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
After the Goldrush - Neil Young
Live AT Leeds - The Who
All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
New Morning - Bob Dylan

nyse said:

thanks!

Nirvana - Nevermind

Bree8016 said:

n-e-time

Fuck, I feel old now. Some of ya'll are posting lists up that only came out on CD. My music might as well have been released on wax cylinders.



Spell it right you old codger edit.
[Edited 1/7/10 15:41pm]

1983

David Bowie - Let's Dance

Culture Club - Colour By Numbers

Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual

New Order - Power, Corruption, & Lies

The Police - Synchronicity

Prince - 1999

U2 - War

ZZ Top - Eliminator

Purple Rain
Like a Virgin
Mister Heartbreak
The Smiths
Treasure
Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise?
Fragile
The Age of Consent
Sleep It Off
I Feel For You
The Glamorous Life
It's My Life

...

1965--and it depends -- if you look it the critic's top albums of that year, you'll see the Beatles, Dylan, Otis Redding, Coltrane, etc., at the top -- but if you're talking purely in terms of "Most albums sold that Year", it looks Very Different--"Mary Poppins" was the biggest selling album that year - I shit you not!, :


Critic's Top albums of 1965

1 Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited


2 The Beatles
Rubber Soul


3 Otis Redding
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul


4 Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home


5 John Coltrane
A Love Supreme


6 The Who
The Who Sings My Generation


7 B.B. King
Live at the Regal


8 The Byrds
Mr. Tambourine Man


9 Herbie Hancock
Maiden Voyage


10 The Rolling Stones
No. 2/The Rolling Stones Now!


11 The Rolling Stones
Out of Our Heads


12 The Beatles
Help!


13 The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys Today!


14 Them
(The Angry Young) Them/Here Comes the Night


15 John Coltrane
Ascension


16 Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band
Hoodoo Man Blues


17 Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
Going to a Go-Go


18 The Sonics
Here Are the Sonics!!!


19 Frank Sinatra
September of My Years


20 Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Paul Butterfield Blues Band


21 The Temptations
The Temptations Sing Smokey


22 Jerry Lee Lewis
Live at the Star Club


23 Archie Shepp
Fire Music


24 The Beach Boys
Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)


25 The Byrds
Turn! Turn! Turn!


26 Larry Young
Unity


27 The Impressions
People Get Ready


28 Sun Ra
Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 1


29 Skip James
Skip James Today!


30 Lee Morgan
Cornbread


31 Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Rip Rig & Panic


32 The Original Soundtrack
The Sound of Music


33 Miles Davis
E.S.P.


34 The Rolling Stones
December's Children (And Everybody's)


35 Sun Ra
Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 2


36 Sun Ra
The Magic City


37 Dionne Warwick
The Sensitive Sound of Dionne Warwick


38 Don Cherry
Complete Communion


39 Miles Davis
My Funny Valentine: Miles Davis in Concert


40 Fred Neil
Bleecker & MacDougal


41 Stan Getz and Bill Evans
Stan Getz and Bill Evans


42 Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch


43 The Lovin' Spoonful
Do You Believe in Magic


44 Otis Redding
The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads


45 John Fahey
The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death


46 The Four Tops
Second Album


47 The Fugs
Village Fugs/The Fugs' First Album


48 Wayne Shorter
The All Seeing Eye


49 The Kinks
The Kink Kontroversy


50 The Balfa Brothers
Play Traditional Cajun Music


51 Wynton Kelly & Wes Montgomery
Smokin' at the Half Note


52 Ramsey Lewis Trio
The In Crowd


53 The Temptations
Temptin' Temptations




"Most albums sold that Year" (Cashbox Magazine)

1 MARY POPPINS – Original Soundtrack (Buena Vista)
2 MY FAIR LADY – Original Soundtrack (Columbia)
3 FIDDLER ON THE ROOF – Original Cast (RCA Victor)
4 WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO – The Supremes (Motown)
5 GOLDFINGER – Original Soundtrack (United Artists)
6 PEOPLE – Barbra Streisand (Columbia)
7 THE SOUND OF MUSIC – Original Soundtrack (RCA Victor)
8 BEATLES ’65 – The Beatles (Capitol)
9 THE BEACH BOYS IN CONCERT (Capitol)
10 DEAR HEART – Andy Williams (Columbia)
11 THE BEACH BOYS TODAY (Capitol)
12 BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME – Bob Dylan (Columbia)
13 INTRODUCING HERMAN’S HERMITS (MGM)
14 BEST OF AL HIRT (RCA Victor)
15 THE ROLLING STONES NOW! (London)
16 THE RETURN OF ROGER MILLER (Smash)
17 A SONG WILL RISE – Peter, Paul & Mary (Warner Bros.)
18 MY NAME IS BARBRA – Barbra Streisand (Columbia)
19 BLUE MIDNIGHT – Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra (Decca)
20 HELLO, DOLLY! – Original Cast (RCA Victor)
21 WHIPPED CREAM & OTHER DELIGHTS – Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass (A&M)
22 ON TOUR – Herman’s Hermits (MGM)
23 THE KINGSMEN IN PERSON (Wand)
24 BEATLES VI – The Beatles (Capitol)
25 ROUSTABOUT – Original Soundtrack/Elvis Presley (RCA Victor)
26 #5 – Joan Baez (Vanguard)
27 GIRL HAPPY – Original Soundtrack/Elvis Presley (RCA Victor)
28 EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY – Dean Martin (Reprise)
29 BOBBY VINTON’S GREATEST HITS (Epic)
30 DEAR HEART AND OTHER SONGS ABOUT LOVE – Henry Mancini (RCA Victor)
31 YESTERDAY’S GONE – Chad & Jeremy (World Artists)
32 YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELIN’ – The Righteous Brothers (Philles)
33 JUST ONCE IN MY LIFE – The Righteous Brothers (Philles)
34 THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT – Original Cast (RCA Victor)
35 THE GENIUS OF JANKOWSKI – Horst Jankowski (Mercury)
36 12 X 5 – The Rolling Stones (London)
37 RAMBLIN’ ROSE – Nat King Cole (Capitol)
38 L-O-V-E – Nat King Cole (Capitol)
39 A HARD DAY’S NIGHT – Original Soundtrack/The Beatles (United Artists)
40 MARIANNE FAITHFULL (London)
41 PETER, PAUL & MARY IN CONCERT (Warner Bros.)
42 SUMMER DAYS & SUMMER NIGHTS – The Beach Boys (Capitol)
43 SUGAR LIPS – Al Hirt (RCA Victor)
44 ALL SUMMER LONG – The Beach Boys (Capitol)
45 YOUR CHEATING HEART – Original Soundtrack (MGM)
46 MY LOVE, FORGIVE ME – Robert Goulet (Columbia)
47 OUT OF OUR HEADS – The Rolling Stones (London)
48 MY FAIR LADY – Andy Williams (Columbia)
49 DOWNTOWN – Petula Clark (Warner Bros.)
50 THAT HONEY IN THE HORN SOUND – Al Hirt (RCA Victor)
51 KINKS-SIZE – The Kinks (Reprise)
52 GETZ AU GO GO – The New Stan Getz Quartet featuring Astrud Gilberto (Verve)
53 THE DOOR IS STILL OPEN TO MY HEART – Dean Martin (Reprise)
54 MR. TAMBOURINE MAN – The Byrds (Columbia)
55 THE SIDEWINDER – Lee Morgan (Blue Note)
56 ZORBA THE GREEK – Original Soundtrack (20th Century-Fox)
57 THE NANCY WILSON SHOW! (Capitol)
58 THE IN CROWD – The Ramsey Lewis Trio (Argo)
59 THE KINGSMEN, VOLUME 3 (Wand)
60 INTRODUCING THE BEAU BRUMMELS (Autumn)




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[Edited 1/8/10 9:56am]

1985 :

Prince - Around The World In A Day
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
Sade - Promise
Stevie Wonder - In Square Circle
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Grace Jones - Slave To The Rythm
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

... And these are the albums I actually own

Vanilla Ice- To the Extreme
MC Hammer- Please Hammer, Dont Hurt 'Em

minneapolisFunq said:

damn!! Looks like a cursed year to me

egyptkizzee said:

1999 was released in 1982

Bob Marley - Natty Dread
Neil Young - On The Beach
Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Aerosmith - Get Your Wings

1982




Just to name afew.....

Dewrede said:

...and so was thriller

^ i didn't know

1991

In no order;

Foxbase Alpha - Saint Etienne
Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos
Nirvana - Nevermind
Prince - Diamonds + Pearls

Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
Marvin Gaye -Let's Get It On
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
King Curtis - Jazz Grooves
The Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band -Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man
David Bowie- Pin Ups
The Who - Quadrophenia
Queen - Queen
Black Sabbath -Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells


wow, what a great year I was born in!!

Janet Jackson - Control
Prince - Parade
Anita Baker - Rapture
Run DMC - Raising Hell
Beasty Boys - Licensed To Ill

FrenchGuy said:

LMAO! That was shade!

Rhythm Nation 1814 - Janet Jackson

Dewrede said:

Sorry, the site I was looking at must be wrong

Give it a try... the year is 1988...


Lovesexy - P

Stronger Than Pride - Sade

U2 with Rattle & Hum

OMG almost all of my fav. artist didn't release crap in the year I was born

oh well, we won the European Football Championship that year!!!

paligap said:

when I put "your" in the subject lines, I meant your personal favorites

1968 Top 10:

The Beatles - White Album
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso
Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Small Faces - Ogden's Nutgone Flake
Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Scott Walker - Scott 2
Pretty Things - SF Sorrow
Johnny Cash - At Folsom
Laura Nyro - Eli & The 13th Confession

I was born in 1992, and so far, the only albums I actually like from that year are:

Wish - The Cure
It's A Shame About Ray - The Lemonheads
Last Rights - Skinny Puppy
Dirty - Sonic Youth
Broken - Nine Inch Nails

Bad
Baby Tonight
Sign O The Times
Make It Last Forever
ect, ect, ect.

vainandy said:

Cold M-F Sweat.

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Duh!