This seems time to take a pause and record the Top Albums for each year on the Best Ever Albums list and my own. From 1965, the year I was born, to 1999 when I turned 34. Hey, I'm a trainspotter, and not ashamed of that fact. Here are the Best Ever Albums chart toppers:
1965 - Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisted
1966 - The Beatles - Revolver
1967 - The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
1968 - The Beatles (White Album)
1969 - The Beatles - Abbey Road
1970 - Black Sabbath - Paranoid
1971 - Led Zeppelin - IV
1972 - David Bowie - The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars
1973 - Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
1974 - King Crimson - Red
1975 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1976 - Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
1977 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
1978 - Bruce Springsteen - Darkness At The Edge Of Town
1979 - The Clash - London Calling
1980 - Talking Heads - Remain In Light
1981 - Rush - Moving Pictures
1982 - Michael Jackson - Thriller
1983 - R.E.M. - Murmur
1984 - Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
1985 - Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
1986 - The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
1987 - U2 - The Joshua Tree
1988 - Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1989 - Pixies - Doolittle
1990 - Depeche Mode - Violator
1991 - Nirvana - Nevermind
1992 - R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
1993 - The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
1994 - Jeff Buckley - Grace
1995 - Radiohead - The Bends
1996 - Weezer - Pinkerton
1997 - Radiohead - OK Computer
1998 - Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
1999 - Sigur Rois - Agaetis Byrjun
and here are my own favourites. A handful coincide:
1965 - The Beatles - Rubber Soul
1966 - The Beatles - Revolver
1967 - Love - Forever Changes
1968 - Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
1969 - The Beatles - Abbey Road
1970 - Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
1971 - Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
1972 - David Bowie - The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars
1973 - Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
1974 - Gram Parsons - Return Of The Grevious Angel
1975 - Patti Smith - Horses
1976 - The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
1977 - Television - Marquee Moon
1978 - Blondie - Parallel Lines
1979 - Gang Of Four - Entertainment
1980 - Talking Heads - Remain In Light
1981 - Echo & The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
1982 - Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84)
1983 - R.E.M. - Murmur
1984 - Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
1985 - Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
1986 - The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional
1987 - Prince & The Revolution - Sign O' The Times
1988 - The Go Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
1989 - De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising
1990 - Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
1991 - Nirvana - Nevermind
1992 - R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
1993 - Tindersticks - The First Tindersticks Record
1994 - Portishead - Dummy
1995 - Radiohead - The Bends
1996 - DJ Shadow - Entroducing
1997 - Cornershop - When I Was Born For The Seventh Time
1998 - Elliott Smith - XO
1999 - Travis - The Man Who
And my favourite of all? This one? Not the best album of all time but the one that means most to me. It's all arbitrary isn't it.
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