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1965: The Beatles - Rubber Soul
1967: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1969: The Beatles - Abbey Road
1970: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
1971: Led Zeppelin - IV
1973: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
1975: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1977: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
1979: Pink Floyd - The Wall
1980: AC/DC - Back in Black
1982: Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
1985: Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
1988: Metallica - ...And Justice for All
1989: Pixies - Doolittle
1991: Nirvana - Nevermind
1994: Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
1996: (TIE) Soundgarden - Down on the Upside // Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
1998: (TIE) Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill // System of a Down - System of a Down
2000: Radiohead - Kid A
2002: Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
2004: (TIE) Madvillain - Madvillainy // The Killers - Hot Fuss // Green Day - American Idiot
2007: Radiohead - In Rainbows
2010: The National - High Violet
2014: Behemoth - The Satanist
1999: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (13 votes)
2nd Place: Eminem - The Slim Shady LP (8 votes)
3rd Place: Blink 182 - Enema of the State (7 votes)
4th Place (TIE): Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight (6 WRITE-IN votes)
4th Place (TIE): Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles (6 votes)
A little bit surprised that RHCP took this, but they are one of the most beloved and celebrated rock bands of... what, the last 30 years? And most people look at this as their best or second-best album, so I suppose it makes sense. I tallied 6 write-in votes for MGB, so I included those in here - making it the first album to make it to the top-5 despite not being a polling option.
1966 is a year with three of the biggest and most important albums ever released... And not a ton else. At least, in my reckoning. I had difficulty putting together a list of 29 albums here. Maybe I need to dive a little deeper into the psych and jazz scenes that were at their zenith. Just remember that we don't do compilation albums, hence no Yesterday and Today
9/22: 2005
9/24: 1984
9/27: 2011
1967: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1969: The Beatles - Abbey Road
1970: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
1971: Led Zeppelin - IV
1973: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
1975: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1977: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
1979: Pink Floyd - The Wall
1980: AC/DC - Back in Black
1982: Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
1985: Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
1988: Metallica - ...And Justice for All
1989: Pixies - Doolittle
1991: Nirvana - Nevermind
1994: Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
1996: (TIE) Soundgarden - Down on the Upside // Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
1998: (TIE) Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill // System of a Down - System of a Down
2000: Radiohead - Kid A
2002: Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
2004: (TIE) Madvillain - Madvillainy // The Killers - Hot Fuss // Green Day - American Idiot
2007: Radiohead - In Rainbows
2010: The National - High Violet
2014: Behemoth - The Satanist
1999: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (13 votes)
2nd Place: Eminem - The Slim Shady LP (8 votes)
3rd Place: Blink 182 - Enema of the State (7 votes)
4th Place (TIE): Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight (6 WRITE-IN votes)
4th Place (TIE): Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles (6 votes)
A little bit surprised that RHCP took this, but they are one of the most beloved and celebrated rock bands of... what, the last 30 years? And most people look at this as their best or second-best album, so I suppose it makes sense. I tallied 6 write-in votes for MGB, so I included those in here - making it the first album to make it to the top-5 despite not being a polling option.
1966 is a year with three of the biggest and most important albums ever released... And not a ton else. At least, in my reckoning. I had difficulty putting together a list of 29 albums here. Maybe I need to dive a little deeper into the psych and jazz scenes that were at their zenith. Just remember that we don't do compilation albums, hence no Yesterday and Today
9/22: 2005
9/24: 1984
9/27: 2011