Songs, year by year

[Kieran McConville]

This albums year-by-year business is too damn hard for me. Think I'll try songs instead. Consider it a mix of sentimental (and thus quite predictable) favourites and treatises nailed to church doors.

Still with gaping holes because, well, that's how it goes.

1977 - Marquee Moon - Television
1978 -
1979 - Transmission - Joy Division
1980 -
1981 - Golden Brown - The Stranglers
1982 -
1983 -
1984 - The Unforgettable Fire - U2
1985 - Cloudbusting - Kate Bush
1986 - I Know It's Over - The Smiths
1987 - The Dead Heart - Midnight Oil
1988 - Under the Milky Way - The Church
1989 - Fascination Street - The Cure
1990 - Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
1991 - Country Feedback - REM
1992 - Until the End of the World - U2 (hey, massaging release dates up the wahzoo here)
1993 - Lemon - U2
1994 - Dirty Epic - Underworld
1995 - History - The Verve or Slug - Passengers
1996 - Give In To My Love - Paul Kelly
1997 - Karma Police - Radiohead
1998 - Metal Heart - Cat Power
1999 - Get Up - Sleater-Kinney
2000 - We Float - PJ Harvey
2001 - Revelator - Gillian Welch
2002 -
2003 -
2004 - O Children - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2005 - Don't Get Lost In Heaven/Demon Days - Gorillaz
2006 - Star Witness - Neko Case
2007 - Fake Empire - The National
2008 - Sempiternal/Amaranth - School of Seven Bells
2009 - Quick Canal - Atlas Sound
2010 - Lemonworld - The National
2011 - One Sunday Morning - Wilco
2012 - Racehorse - Wild Flag
2013 - Jubilee Street - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2014 -

 

[No spoken words]

2011 - One Sunday Morning - Wilco

There are other songs on your list that I certainly like or even love, but, I cannot name a song put out in the last 5 years or more that I enjoy more than this one. It's so sublime.

 

[Zoomerang96]

not bad... not bad.

i'll have to summon some energy to compile a list of mine.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

three posts by Kieran, NSW and Zoomerang in a row... I'm having 2006 flash-backs

 

[Zoomerang96]

three posts by Kieran, NSW and Zoomerang in a row... I'm having 2006 flash-backs

well we can only hope you meant that in the worst possible way

 

[Kieran McConville]

I'm having Vietnam flashbacks... and I wasn't even in Vietnam.

 

[No spoken words]

Hey look it just happened again ELFA.

 

[Kieran McConville]

As an aside, I came very close to putting 'Amazing' by Alex Lloyd under 2001... in that way that you sometimes stand near a cliff edge at some tourist spot and picture just throwing your wallet and then yourself right off into the abyss. Not even in a suicidal way, just in a, wow, what if I did that? way.

 

[corianderstem]

How are you guys looking at songs or albums from each year? Are you using what you have in iTunes, or just using Google and looking through the oodles and oodles of albums/songs that came out that year?

Because I'd like to do this, but jesus, it sounds exhausting.

 

[Kieran McConville]

How are you guys looking at songs or albums from each year? Are you using what you have in iTunes, or just using Google and looking through the oodles and oodles of albums/songs that came out that year?

Because I'd like to do this, but jesus, it sounds exhausting.

It is fucking exhausting, but speaking personally, I don't even have itunes, or anything like it. I just sit here and try to think of all the stuff that really has stuck with me, and then, if I can't remember offhand, look up what year it was released in.

 

[corianderstem]

Oof, that sounds even worse. I'd hook up my iPod and see what I could come up with, but my iTunes is hosed right now. Oh well.

 

[cobl04]

As an aside, I came very close to putting 'Amazing' by Alex Lloyd under 2001... in that way that you sometimes stand near a cliff edge at some tourist spot and picture just throwing your wallet and then yourself right off into the abyss. Not even in a suicidal way, just in a, wow, what if I did that? way.

How are you guys looking at songs or albums from each year? Are you using what you have in iTunes, or just using Google and looking through the oodles and oodles of albums/songs that came out that year?

Because I'd like to do this, but jesus, it sounds exhausting.

Same. I could do it for the last few years but not up til I was born.

 

[LemonMelon]

I won't even attempt to do this, but I do agree that Marquee Moon is hands down the best song of 1977. It runs laps around everything else.

 

[Kieran McConville]

Then again... "Heroes" (that was 1977, wasn't it?)...

 

[LemonMelon]

I'd still take Marquee Moon, if I'm being honest. One is top 10 all-time, the other is more like top 20.

1977 was a great music year. Lots of good transitional music being released and genres being birthed.

 

[Axver]

1987: U2 - One Tree Hill
1988: Crowded House - When You Come
1989: The Bats - Time to Get Ready
1990: Chapterhouse - Something More (Sunburst EP version)
1991: Headless Chickens - Cruise Control
1992: OH GOD no I won't split them: Medicine - One More / Ride - Leave Them All Behind
1993: Crowded House - Kare Kare (or can I count the live version of The Verve - Gravity Grave from Voyager 1?)
1994: Bailter Space - Projects
1995: Whipping Boy - Users
1996: Porcupine Tree - Waiting Phase One
1997: The Verve - Space and Time
1998: Anathema - Fragile Dreams
1999: Porcupine Tree - Piano Lessons
2000: Porcupine Tree - The Rest Will Flow
2001: Ladytron - Playgirl
2002: Agalloch - In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion
2003: Pinback - Grey Machine
2004: Jimmy Eat World - 23
2005: Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
2006: Pure Reason Revolution - The Twyncyn / Trembling Willows
2007: Alcest - Printemps emeraude
2008: Russian Circles - Verses
2009: Pure Reason Revolution - Deus Ex Machina
2010: Alcest - Percées de lumière
2011: The Bats - Long Halls
2012: Caspian - Fire Made Flesh
2013: The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am Not Afraid to Die - Getting Sodas
2014: A Sunny Day in Glasgow - MTLOV (Minor Keys)