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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
1973: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
1975: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1977: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
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
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
2004: (TIE) Madvillain - Madvillainy // The Killers - Hot Fuss // Green Day - American Idiot
2007: Radiohead - In Rainbows
2010: The National - High Violet
2002: Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (9 votes)
2nd Place: Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights (7 votes)
3rd Place (TIE): The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (6 votes)
3rd Place (TIE): Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
5th Place: 3 albums tied with 5 votes
A worthy album takes 2002, and an album that it appears still has a lot of love. Picked it up on vinyl this weekend to give it another listen - and it definitely holds up. Overall, just a really good year for music.
I'm not sure that 1989 is nearly as deep. The top end, though, is absolutely amazing, and with two absolute landmark works of alternative rock, I would be surprised if something else takes it home. A great and extremely deep and diverse year for heavy metal, though. Could do a top-10 on metal albums alone.
Should also note that, for scope, I've decided to make the modern cut-off at 2015 (with the polling starting at 1965). That gives us a full, even, nicely-rounded 50 years of best albums. I think 5 years separation to the 2015 mix is enough space to make reasonable assessment. At the end of the 50 polls (not for some time), I'll also likely do a cumulative vote for best album of each 5 year increment (ie. 1965-69), and then take the winners of each of those, and do a grand finale vote-off. Think we seem to be having a lot of fun with these, and I've been getting a metric shit-ton of fantastic recommendations. So thank you for participating and making these fun, folks.
9/9: 1979
9/11: 1971
9/13: 2014
1967: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1969: The Beatles - Abbey Road
1970: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
1973: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
1975: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1977: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
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
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
2004: (TIE) Madvillain - Madvillainy // The Killers - Hot Fuss // Green Day - American Idiot
2007: Radiohead - In Rainbows
2010: The National - High Violet
2002: Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (9 votes)
2nd Place: Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights (7 votes)
3rd Place (TIE): The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (6 votes)
3rd Place (TIE): Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
5th Place: 3 albums tied with 5 votes
A worthy album takes 2002, and an album that it appears still has a lot of love. Picked it up on vinyl this weekend to give it another listen - and it definitely holds up. Overall, just a really good year for music.
I'm not sure that 1989 is nearly as deep. The top end, though, is absolutely amazing, and with two absolute landmark works of alternative rock, I would be surprised if something else takes it home. A great and extremely deep and diverse year for heavy metal, though. Could do a top-10 on metal albums alone.
Should also note that, for scope, I've decided to make the modern cut-off at 2015 (with the polling starting at 1965). That gives us a full, even, nicely-rounded 50 years of best albums. I think 5 years separation to the 2015 mix is enough space to make reasonable assessment. At the end of the 50 polls (not for some time), I'll also likely do a cumulative vote for best album of each 5 year increment (ie. 1965-69), and then take the winners of each of those, and do a grand finale vote-off. Think we seem to be having a lot of fun with these, and I've been getting a metric shit-ton of fantastic recommendations. So thank you for participating and making these fun, folks.
9/9: 1979
9/11: 1971
9/13: 2014