Albums: Year By Year

[liamcool]

It baffles me how even the people who only have a cursory awareness of the music discussed in here still make that mistake. Unless you're totally doing crash car driver drive-by unrelated YouTube video posts, I would have thought it to be pretty obvious that with the exception of me (and I'll make exceptions to that for Saul Williams or Atmosphere) everyone here loves hip hop.

Noooooope. *raises hand*

Also Pyramid Song is just mediocre, because it's a Radiohead song not called Weird Fishes. Sorry.

 

[cobl04]

I couldn't because of Aquemini, but yeah, Mezzanine is a fucking masterpiece.

 

[cobl04]

Noooooope. *raises hand*

Also Pyramid Song is just mediocre, because it's a Radiohead song not called Weird Fishes. Sorry.

You suck, but Weird Fishes is in the top 0.000001% of music ever released.

 

[Kieran McConville]

I don't make a habit of ragging on hip hop, but I too would be lying if I said it's really something I listen to much.

 

[cobl04]

No one would have an issue with that. It's when people shit on it without knowing anything about it that shits me. There's a reason I never talk about metal.

 

[Kieran McConville]

No one would have an issue with that. It's when people shit on it without knowing anything about it that shits me. There's a reason I never talk about metal.

Oh for sure; it's a bit like how I can't talk about jazz.

 

[lazarus]

Shit, cat. That didn't stop Ryan Schreiber.

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Oh for sure; it's a bit like how I can't talk about jazz.

Jazz

 

[RaisedByWolves]

It's very good, arguably more consistent than Gaucho. And it has two legit classics in I.G.Y. and New Frontier, maybe a third. But I think I prefer Kamakiriad, which may be partially due to it having an actual Becker/Fagen song which means it's the only Steely Dan track of the 90s.

I never thought of it that way. I guess it would be the only Steely Dan track of the 90's.

 

[No spoken words]

It baffles me how even the people who only have a cursory awareness of the music discussed in here still make that mistake. Unless you're totally doing crash car driver drive-by unrelated YouTube video posts, I would have thought it to be pretty obvious that with the exception of me (and I'll make exceptions to that for Saul Williams or Atmosphere) everyone here loves hip hop.

I'm not exactly a gigantic hip-hop fan. I like some stuff from the 80's, possibly more due to nostalgia than anything else…and I love A Tribe Called Quest and always will…but since then….for me, meh. Everyone here loves Kanye so much and so I finally gave a few of his albums a shot and I maybe liked one song from each, so, that's where I'm at with that genre.

 

[Joey788]

I'll give this a shot.

1988: U2 - Rattle and Hum
1989: Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
1990: Depeche Mode - Violator
1991: U2 - Achtung Baby
1992: Rage Against the Machine - Self-titled
1993: Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion
1994: Blur - Parklife
1995: Pulp - Different Class
1996: Beck - Odelay
1997: Radiohead - OK Computer
1998: Garbage - Version 2.0
1999: Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
2000: Radiohead - Kid A
2001: Muse - Origin of Symmetry
2002: Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
2003: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
2004: Arcade Fire - Funeral
2005: Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
2006: TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
2007: Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
2008: Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now, Youngster...
2009: St. Vincent - Actor
2010: Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2011: Astronautalis - This Is Our Science
2012: Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
2013: David Bowie - The Next Day
2014: U2 - Songs of Innocence
2015 (so far): Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

 

[nielsgov]

Fun thread.

1994: dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
1995: Oasis - What's the Story (Morning Glory)
1996: dEUS - In a Bar Under the Sea
1997: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#∞
1998: Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
1999: Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
2000: Radiohead - Kid A
2001: The Strokes - Is This It
2002: Sigur Ros - ()
2003: Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People
2004: Arcade Fire - Funeral
2005: Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2006: Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not
2007: Radiohead - In Rainbows
2008: Deerhunter - Microcastle
2009: The Antlers - Hospice
2010: Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2011: Destroyer - Kaputt
2012: Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
2013: Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
2014: Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were

I almost forgot what my favorite of 2014 was. I had difficulty with a few years, especially some in the 90's. 1995 being the prime example. 1997 and 2005 were the most impressive.

 

[LemonMelon]

I listened to In a Bar, Under the Sea today. Those first few dEUS records

 

[nielsgov]

They are. In A Bar especially. It sounds like a few guys having fun together and making some music in the process. Sometimes melancholic, sometimes crazy.

 

[RaisedByWolves]

I'll give this a shot.

1988: U2 - Rattle and Hum
1989: Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
1990: Depeche Mode - Violator
1991: U2 - Achtung Baby
1992: Rage Against the Machine - Self-titled
1993: Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion
1994: Blur - Parklife
1995: Pulp - Different Class
1996: Beck - Odelay
1997: Radiohead - OK Computer
1998: Garbage - Version 2.0
1999: Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
2000: Radiohead - Kid A
2001: Muse - Origin of Symmetry
2002: Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
2003: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
2004: Arcade Fire - Funeral
2005: Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
2006: TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
2007: Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
2008: Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now, Youngster...
2009: St. Vincent - Actor
2010: Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2011: Astronautalis - This Is Our Science
2012: Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
2013: David Bowie - The Next Day
2014: U2 - Songs of Innocence
2015 (so far): Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

I your list Joey788.