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1965: The Beatles - Rubber Soul
1966: The Beatles - Revolver
1967: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1968: The Beatles - The White Album
1969: The Beatles - Abbey Road
1970: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
1971: Led Zeppelin - IV
1972: Neil Young - Harvest
1973: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
1974: Supertramp - Crime of the Century
1975: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1976: Eagles - Hotel California
1977: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
1978: (TIE) The Police - Outlandos d'Amour / The Cars - The Cars / Van Halen - Van Halen
1979: Pink Floyd - The Wall
1980: AC/DC - Back in Black
1981: Rush - Moving Pictures
1982: Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
1983: Metallica - Kill 'em All
1984: Metallica - Ride the Lightning
1985: Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
1986: Metallica - Master of Puppets
1987: Guns 'n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
1988: Metallica - ...And Justice for All
1989: Pixies - Doolittle
1990: Megadeth - Rust in Peace
1991: Nirvana - Nevermind
1992: Alice in Chains - Dirt
1993: Nirvana - In Utero
1995: Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
1996: (TIE) Soundgarden - Down on the Upside // Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
1997: (TIE) Radiohead - OK Computer // Foo Fighters - The Color and the Shape
1998: (TIE) Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill // System of a Down - System of a Down
1999: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
2000: Radiohead - Kid A
2001: The Strokes - Is This It
2002: Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
2003: The White Stripes - Elephant
2004: (TIE) Madvillain - Madvillainy // The Killers - Hot Fuss // Green Day - American Idiot
2005: Coldplay - X & Y
2006: Tool - 10,000 Days
2007: Radiohead - In Rainbows
2008: (TIE) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes // Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
2009: Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
2010: The National - High Violet
2011: No definitive winner
2012: (TIE) Kendrick Lamar - good kidd, M.A.A.D. city // Deftones - koi no yokan
2014: Behemoth - The Satanist
2015: Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2013: The National - Trouble Will Find Me (6 votes)
A good album, though certainly not my favourite by them. Much-loved band on HF, it would seem. Was expecting maybe a little more in the way of participation, but the 2010's years never seem to get much love.
With respect to my man Bogart, I've been waiting to re-do 1994 for a while now. This is one of the truly great years in music history, and with the... questionable poll-taking tactics of the original tally, alongside it's disappearance from the boards, it seemed reasonable to give it another go. If anything, it gives us an excuse to talk about some amazing, career-defining works from a variety of genres. I had a suuuuper tough time whittling it down to 29 poll options. And please remember that, to be eligible, an album must be a studio album or original material - hence, the absence of Nirvana's MTV Unplugged. We've withheld live records from the poll up to this point.
With this being the final individual year of the polling, a little heads up on what I'll be doing moving forward. I'll be holding the individual polls on 1900-1964 and 2016-now, which will run following this. After that, I will be bringing together the winners of each individual year into decade vote-offs. These will involve all winners from each decade (tied years means that both albums will be included in the poll), alongside one wild-card entry, which will be the album that received the most votes on the decade without winning. Should be a fun way for us to whittle it down to a final six. Or, at the very least, gives me an excuse to keep talking music with you guys for a little while longer. Enjoy, and Happy Holidays!
1966: The Beatles - Revolver
1967: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1968: The Beatles - The White Album
1969: The Beatles - Abbey Road
1970: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
1971: Led Zeppelin - IV
1972: Neil Young - Harvest
1973: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
1974: Supertramp - Crime of the Century
1975: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1976: Eagles - Hotel California
1977: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
1978: (TIE) The Police - Outlandos d'Amour / The Cars - The Cars / Van Halen - Van Halen
1979: Pink Floyd - The Wall
1980: AC/DC - Back in Black
1981: Rush - Moving Pictures
1982: Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
1983: Metallica - Kill 'em All
1984: Metallica - Ride the Lightning
1985: Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
1986: Metallica - Master of Puppets
1987: Guns 'n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
1988: Metallica - ...And Justice for All
1989: Pixies - Doolittle
1990: Megadeth - Rust in Peace
1991: Nirvana - Nevermind
1992: Alice in Chains - Dirt
1993: Nirvana - In Utero
1995: Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
1996: (TIE) Soundgarden - Down on the Upside // Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
1997: (TIE) Radiohead - OK Computer // Foo Fighters - The Color and the Shape
1998: (TIE) Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill // System of a Down - System of a Down
1999: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
2000: Radiohead - Kid A
2001: The Strokes - Is This It
2002: Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
2003: The White Stripes - Elephant
2004: (TIE) Madvillain - Madvillainy // The Killers - Hot Fuss // Green Day - American Idiot
2005: Coldplay - X & Y
2006: Tool - 10,000 Days
2007: Radiohead - In Rainbows
2008: (TIE) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes // Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
2009: Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
2010: The National - High Violet
2011: No definitive winner
2012: (TIE) Kendrick Lamar - good kidd, M.A.A.D. city // Deftones - koi no yokan
2014: Behemoth - The Satanist
2015: Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2013: The National - Trouble Will Find Me (6 votes)
A good album, though certainly not my favourite by them. Much-loved band on HF, it would seem. Was expecting maybe a little more in the way of participation, but the 2010's years never seem to get much love.
With respect to my man Bogart, I've been waiting to re-do 1994 for a while now. This is one of the truly great years in music history, and with the... questionable poll-taking tactics of the original tally, alongside it's disappearance from the boards, it seemed reasonable to give it another go. If anything, it gives us an excuse to talk about some amazing, career-defining works from a variety of genres. I had a suuuuper tough time whittling it down to 29 poll options. And please remember that, to be eligible, an album must be a studio album or original material - hence, the absence of Nirvana's MTV Unplugged. We've withheld live records from the poll up to this point.
With this being the final individual year of the polling, a little heads up on what I'll be doing moving forward. I'll be holding the individual polls on 1900-1964 and 2016-now, which will run following this. After that, I will be bringing together the winners of each individual year into decade vote-offs. These will involve all winners from each decade (tied years means that both albums will be included in the poll), alongside one wild-card entry, which will be the album that received the most votes on the decade without winning. Should be a fun way for us to whittle it down to a final six. Or, at the very least, gives me an excuse to keep talking music with you guys for a little while longer. Enjoy, and Happy Holidays!