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1965: The Beatles - Rubber Soul
1966: The Beatles - Revolver
1967: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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
1979: Pink Floyd - The Wall
1980: AC/DC - Back in Black
1981: Rush - Moving Pictures
1982: Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
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
1991: Nirvana - Nevermind
1992: Alice in Chains - Dirt
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
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
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
1968: The Beatles - The White Album (14 votes)
2nd Place (TIE): The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (9 votes)
2nd Place (TIE): Velvet Underground - White Light, White Heat
4th Place (TIE) 4 albums with 7 votes
Not even remotely surprising, and the Beatles make if 5 out of 5 for polls in the 60's. I'll be running a cumulative 1900-1964 poll at some point, and I anticipate they'll take that down, too. Only Paranoid was able to stop the beast, when it beat Let it Be.
2015 is an excellent year for music, and features one of the greatest albums ever recorded - an album which has, in fewer than 5 years, shot up collective critical rankings to become a darling of top-10 lists. We'll see if HF shares that consensus. It's the latest year we'll be polling (with the exception of the 2016-2020 cumulative poll). But we're getting there, folks. We're on the home stretch now.
11/12: 1993
11/14: 1978
11/16: 2003
1966: The Beatles - Revolver
1967: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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
1979: Pink Floyd - The Wall
1980: AC/DC - Back in Black
1981: Rush - Moving Pictures
1982: Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
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
1991: Nirvana - Nevermind
1992: Alice in Chains - Dirt
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
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
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
1968: The Beatles - The White Album (14 votes)
2nd Place (TIE): The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (9 votes)
2nd Place (TIE): Velvet Underground - White Light, White Heat
4th Place (TIE) 4 albums with 7 votes
Not even remotely surprising, and the Beatles make if 5 out of 5 for polls in the 60's. I'll be running a cumulative 1900-1964 poll at some point, and I anticipate they'll take that down, too. Only Paranoid was able to stop the beast, when it beat Let it Be.
2015 is an excellent year for music, and features one of the greatest albums ever recorded - an album which has, in fewer than 5 years, shot up collective critical rankings to become a darling of top-10 lists. We'll see if HF shares that consensus. It's the latest year we'll be polling (with the exception of the 2016-2020 cumulative poll). But we're getting there, folks. We're on the home stretch now.
11/12: 1993
11/14: 1978
11/16: 2003
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