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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: itamar101 on October 27, 2012, 11:04:14 PM
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So,
What was you favourite single year for music and why?
No "2012 because we have all the music from the past and the current stuff" sorta comments are aloud.
In which year would you say we got some of the best music - simple. ;)
For me, it was 1991.
I'm a big alt rock and grunge fan and I've always loved metal and hard rock too and 1991 was perfect.
Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Best RHCP album ever, imo, and my favourite album of all time. Those riffs... dat funk... dat bass...
Nevermind - Doesn't really need explaining does it?
Use You Illusion I & II - Easily as good as appetite and had some of the greatest rock ballads ever in it.
Ten - Pearl jam are probably my favourite grunge band and ten is there best and most influential album, imo
Badmotorfinger - More grunge :D Chris Cornell is my favourite vocalist and this album is why. It may not be there best-selling album but with songs like Outshined, Rusty Cage and Jesus Christ Pose it's definately my favourite.
This makes me come of a massive die-hard grunge fan but i'm honestly not. It's just that all the best grunge came out in this year... and it was amazing... and there was so much of it along with stuff like RHCP and G'n'R... So yeah...
Your turn :D
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Not sure I agree on BSSM being the best RHCP album. It is great though and the album that got me into them. By The Way and Uplift Mofo Party Plan are my favourites.
I totally disagree that Use Your Illusion I & II are easily as good as Appetite. Songs like My World, Perfect Crime, Get In The Ring and Live and Let Die all reek of filler material to me. There was zero filler on Appetite, at least in my opinion that is.
I do own all of those albums you quote and can't disagree 1991 was a good year. Out of those you have listed my opinion is that only Badmotorfinger and BSSM weren't massively overproduced.
1991 was probably one of the most influential years for me musically. I was 16 and into loud guitars. Was Dirt out that year too? Now that was a huge album for me. I still listen to it regularly.
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1966 is a tough one to beat...
* Rolling Stones - Aftermath
* Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
* John Mayall - Bluesbreakers
* Beatles - Revolver
* Cream - Fresh Cream
But so is 1986 in a different way...
* Metallica - Master Of Puppets
* Van Halen - 5150
* The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
* Elvis Costello - Blood & Chocolate
* Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
* Slayer - Reign In Blood
* Megadeth - Peace Sells
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1978 isn't bad either:
Van Halen - Van Halen
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Rush- Hemispheres
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
The Cars - The Cars
Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Talking Heads - More songs about buildings and food
The Police - Outlandos d'Amour
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
The Who - Who are You
Patti Smith Group - Easter
Boston - Don't Look Back
Toto - Toto
Rainbow - LongLive Rock'n'Roll
Gerry Rafferty - City to City
Billy Joel - 52nd Street
Tom Waits - Blue Valentine
Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes
Foghat - Stone Blue
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I like 87, has some of my favorites like Joshua Tree, And Justice For All, Appetite For Destruction, Hysteria, Permanent Vacation.
Just to name a few.
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I like 87, has some of my favorites like Joshua Tree, And Justice For All, Appetite For Destruction, Hysteria, Permanent Vacation.
Just to name a few.
1988. [/pedant]
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Without thinking about it too much, 1969 springs to mind:
Led Zeppelin - I & II
Leslie West - Mountain
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Santana - 1st Album
The Who - Tommy
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
Johnny Winter - Johnny Winter & Second Winter
And many other classics by bands I'm not necessarily such a big fan of like Crosby, Stills & Nash, Neil Young, Creedence, Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground....
Then most of the early '70s would be good too. :D
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A difficult one to narrow down ! :)
I'll say 1976 ( * Edit, now thought to be 1975 * ) - as being the year when a few of my favourite artists really started to hit their stride.
Thin Lizzy : Jailbreak
Robin Trower : Live !
Tom Waits: Small Change
Be-Bop Deluxe : Sunburst Finish
Eagles : Hotel California
Clouding the issue was the fact that either side of that, these and other notable favourites had recorded landmark albums :
1973
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band : Next / Pink Floyd : Dark Side Of The Moon
1974
Robin Trower : Bridge Of Sighs / Supertramp : Crime Of The Century
Deep Purple : Stormbringer / J.J. Cale : Okie
1975: Pink Floyd : Wish You Where Here / Led Zeppelin : Physical Graphitti
1977
Meatloaf / Steinman : Bat Out Of Hell / Be-Bop Deluxe : Live In The Air Age
1978: Van Halen (debut album) / Dire Straits ( debut album )
1979 Pink Floyd : The Wall / UFO : Strangers In The Night
:)
( Thanks to Telerocker for the 1978 Dire Straits reminder ! )
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1967 baby :gayflag:
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers - Hard Road
Fairport Convention - first album
The Kinks - Something Else
Bert Jansch - Jack Orion
Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties' Request
Cream - Disreali Gears
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
The Doors
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Dunno about one year (I don't know the year that any of my favourite albums were recorded!) but I reckon the 90s is my favourite decade. So much good stuff.
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2007 was immense for me. Don't think i can think of a year that produced so many albums I think are fantastic - though it didn't provide any of my all-time favourites it's got a whole ton of belters.
Alcest - Souvenirs, Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today, High on Fire - Death Is Communion, Neurosis - Given To The Rising, Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun, Jesu - Conqueror, Witchcraft - Alchemist, Deathspell Omega - Fas…, Primordial - To The Nameless Dead, Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao, Reverend Bizarre - So Long Suckers, Rotting Christ - Theogonia, Sigh - Hangmans Hymn, Cobalt - Eater Of Birds, Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty, Watain - Sworn To The Dark, Clutch - From Beale Street To Oblivion, Akerc--ke - Antichrist, Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks, Gallhammer - Ill Innocence, Shining - Halmstad (Osmose)
And a pile I'll be forgetting.
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1975: Pink Floyd : Wish You Where Here / Led Zeppelin : Physical Graphitti
Add Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic to that list.
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2007 was immense for me. Don't think i can think of a year that produced so many albums I think are fantastic - though it didn't provide any of my all-time favourites it's got a whole ton of belters.
Alcest - Souvenirs, Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today, High on Fire - Death Is Communion, Neurosis - Given To The Rising, Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun, Jesu - Conqueror, Witchcraft - Alchemist, Deathspell Omega - Fas…, Primordial - To The Nameless Dead, Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao, Reverend Bizarre - So Long Suckers, Rotting Christ - Theogonia, Sigh - Hangmans Hymn, Cobalt - Eater Of Birds, Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty, Watain - Sworn To The Dark, Clutch - From Beale Street To Oblivion, Akerc--ke - Antichrist, Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks, Gallhammer - Ill Innocence, Shining - Halmstad (Osmose)
And a pile I'll be forgetting.
Ah, all the classics... :?
Seems you forgot Graduation by Kanye West.. :P
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2007 was immense for me. Don't think i can think of a year that produced so many albums I think are fantastic - though it didn't provide any of my all-time favourites it's got a whole ton of belters.
Alcest - Souvenirs, Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today, High on Fire - Death Is Communion, Neurosis - Given To The Rising, Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun, Jesu - Conqueror, Witchcraft - Alchemist, Deathspell Omega - Fas…, Primordial - To The Nameless Dead, Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao, Reverend Bizarre - So Long Suckers, Rotting Christ - Theogonia, Sigh - Hangmans Hymn, Cobalt - Eater Of Birds, Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty, Watain - Sworn To The Dark, Clutch - From Beale Street To Oblivion, Akerc--ke - Antichrist, Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks, Gallhammer - Ill Innocence, Shining - Halmstad (Osmose)
And a pile I'll be forgetting.
I'm always amazed when I find out I own an album nfe likes. :lol:
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I'm always amazed when I find out I own an album nfe likes. :lol:
Not as amazed as I am! :o
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Ah, all the classics... :?
Seems you forgot Graduation by Kanye West.. :P
:lol:
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I like 87, has some of my favorites like Joshua Tree, And Justice For All, Appetite For Destruction, Hysteria, Permanent Vacation.
Just to name a few.
1988. [/pedant]
Good catch! Might have to change my favorite year then...
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As a small /somewhat random side issue, I notice that in many cases , the official year of release seems to be a year later than actual release ; namely that many of the the albums I had cited from 1976 were in reality, already being played to death in the car cassette player during the summer of '75 e.t.c
I therefore propose 1975 as 'The best year for music' - in my case. :)
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As a small /somewhat random side issue, I notice that in many cases , the official year of release seems to be a year later than actual release ; namely that the albums I have cited from 1976 were in reality, already been played to death in the car cassette player during the summer of 75 e.t.c
I therefore propose 1975 as 'The best year for music' - in my case. :)
Yeah, Robin Trower Live! was '75.... at least it was definitely recorded in '75. :D
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As a small /somewhat random side issue, I notice that in many cases , the official year of release seems to be a year later than actual release ; namely that the albums I have cited from 1976 were in reality, already been played to death in the car cassette player during the summer of 75 e.t.c
I therefore propose 1975 as 'The best year for music' - in my case. :)
Yeah, Robin Trower Live! was '75.... at least it was definitely recorded in '75. :D
Thanks for the confirmation Philly : :)
I especially like how we use 'Robin Trower Live ! ' as the definitive benchmark ; thereby splitting 20th Century music into 'Before Robin Trower Live ' and 'After Robin Trower Live' categories. A serious contender to replace the Gregorian Calender with, especially for populations that wear denim , tie-dye shirts and Patchouli oil. 8)
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:lol: You're right, but I would throw in Wishbone Ash's Argus (1972), which complicates the calendar a bit...
Maybe they were the John the Baptist to Robin Trower Live!
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:lol: You're right, but I would throw in Wishbone Ash's Argus (1972), which complicates the calendar a bit...
Maybe they were the John the Baptist to Robin Trower Live!
" As a Prog. Rock outfit, shouting in the wilderness" .
Yes, I can buy into that. :)
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As a small /somewhat random side issue, I notice that in many cases , the official year of release seems to be a year later than actual release ; namely that the albums I have cited from 1976 were in reality, already been played to death in the car cassette player during the summer of 75 e.t.c
I therefore propose 1975 as 'The best year for music' - in my case. :)
since i was born in that year, i can only say you must be right :)
add Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic and Alice Cooper's Welcome to my Nightmare, and it was a pretty decent year
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As a small /somewhat random side issue, I notice that in many cases , the official year of release seems to be a year later than actual release ; namely that the albums I have cited from 1976 were in reality, already been played to death in the car cassette player during the summer of 75 e.t.c
I therefore propose 1975 as 'The best year for music' - in my case. :)
since i was born in that year, i can only say you must be right :)
add Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic and Alice Cooper's Welcome to my Nightmare, and it was a pretty decent year
And Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, that was '75 too.
I still have my denim jacket with this cover picture embroidered on the back :oops: :
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3526/3462430455_b4275872a7_z.jpg)
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1975 is winning for me at the moment. It is also the year I was born.
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Nice to see some '75 love from the younger ( and undoubtedly virile ) chaps on here. :)
As Alan Freeman would have said on his excellent and educational 1970's 'Saturday Rock Show' -
" Not Arf ! " . 8)
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Nice to see some '75 love from the younger ( and undoubtedly virile ) chaps on here. :)
As Alan Freeman would have said on his excellent and educational 1970's 'Saturday Rock Show' -
" Not Arf ! " . 8)
My two most vivid radio memories of being a youngster at home whilst with my family were listening to shows by Alan Freeman and, sigh, Jimmy Savile.
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Nice to see some '75 love from the younger ( and undoubtedly virile ) chaps on here. :)
As Alan Freeman would have said on his excellent and educational 1970's 'Saturday Rock Show' -
" Not Arf ! " . 8)
My two most vivid radio memories of being a youngster at home whilst with my family were listening to shows by Alan Freeman and, sigh, Jimmy Savile.
Nice to know that it was only Alan Freeman that touched you in that special way ...
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Indeed. Luckily the bit I can remember most is the music being faded, 'Fluff' saying his famous 'Not Arf!' and then the music being faded back in. I think it was in the Top 40 countdown he did it the most.
Classic Radio and sadly something that is probably gone forever - certainly generalist stuff anyway. I know the Jamie Cullum show has a good following and a pretty good reputation. I've not listened to it myself much though.
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Thinking back in time a bit, 1971 was a smasher. In Search of Space, Faust, 10001 Centigrades, Acquiring the Taste, Inner Mounting Flame, In The Land of Grey and Pink, Aqualung, The Yes Album and Fragile, Nursery Cryme and so on.
Any year fro the 80's has a bunch of cracking thrash records, too.
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1967!!!!
Beatles 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club'!
Love 'Forever Changes'
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention 'Absolutely Free'
Hendrix 'Are You Experienced'
The Doors 'Strange Days'
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 'Safe as Milk'
Tangerine Dream 'Tangerine Dream'
Pink Floyd 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn'
Tim Buckley 'Goodbye and Hello'
Miles Davis 'Miles Smiles'
Thelonious Monk 'Straight, No Chaser'
James Brown 'Cold Sweat'
a lot of the best albums ever made all in one year, that's just my opinion though.
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1975 also had Queen's A Night at the Opera - a rather good album!
Sometimes I'm torn between the year of an albums release and a year I enjoyed music the most
So 1982 had MSG's 2nd album and Live at Budokan
Scorpions Blackout
Motley Crue's debut: Too Fast For Love (the Leathur Records version - not the awful Elektra remix from 1983) and Kiss' Creatures of The Night
I loved 1986 but I think I was just in my element going to see loads of bands live
Release wise
Accept - Russian Roulette,
Dokken Under Lock and Key ,
Motley - Theatre of Pain,
Shy - Excess all areas.
Wasp - inside the elctric circus.
Ratt - Dancing Undercover.
Terraplane - Black and White.
Great WHite Shot in the Dark.
Alice Cooper - Raise your fist and yell....or was it Constrictor?
King Kobra - Ready to strike
Kiss Asylum
Aerosmith-Done with mirrors
Bon Jovi - Slippery when wet
Vinnie Vincent Invasion
Dave Lee Roth - Eat em and smile
Van Halen -5150
Tesla - mechanical resonance
Ozzy - ultimate sin
Dio - Sacred Heart
Cinderella - Night Songs
Europe - Final Countdown
EDIT - some of these albums may have been 1985 but the bands didn't tour till '86
But 85-87 was a pretty good time music wise
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Sometimes I'm torn between the year of an albums release and a year I enjoyed music the most
I loved 1986 but I think I was just in my element going to see loads of bands live
Yeah, that's an interesting point.
I love '70s music best, increasingly so as I get older. But my most active "participation" in music, in terms of buying albums and going to lots of gigs, was during the '80s (in fact from '79 to '91). So I've never actually seen many of my favourite artists live, but I did see most of the '80s bands I was listening to.
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....1937.....
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....1937.....
The publication of 'Funny Valentine ' is a notable for me ; the rest will need more Google... :)
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It's got the first recording of minor swing and a lot of my faverote QHCF recordings,some fantastic stuff from Benny Goodman and his orchestra some sublime recordings of Artie Shaw and Sidney Bechet...I love this year in particular because it provides a good snapshot of how swing music was developing...catch me on a diffrent day and I'd say sometime in the early or late 40's (it's a really tough question after all) but I've really being immersing myself in clarinet recordings recently and the late 30's were pretty damn good for that.
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It's got the first recording of minor swing and a lot of my faverote QHCF recordings,some fantastic stuff from Benny Goodman and his orchestra some sublime recordings of Artie Shaw and Sidney Bechet...I love this year in particular because it provides a good snapshot of how swing music was developing...catch me on a diffrent day and I'd say sometime in the early or late 40's (it's a really tough question after all) but I've really being immersing myself in clarinet recordings recently and the late 30's were pretty damn good for that.
Wow, that was a resonant note/ evocation ( in the form of Sidney Bechet ) there ! I know a lady, who in her formative years , decked out her student room in the Art Deco style - and Sydney Bechet / upbeat 20's / 30's swing were the sonic backdrop to all that . It introduced me to the whole Art Deco movement - and planted the seed that would one day become my musical 'home base'.
I look forward to exploring your other pointers at leisure ( You chiselin' hound ! 8) ).
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It's got the first recording of minor swing and a lot of my faverote QHCF recordings,some fantastic stuff from Benny Goodman and his orchestra some sublime recordings of Artie Shaw and Sidney Bechet...I love this year in particular because it provides a good snapshot of how swing music was developing...catch me on a diffrent day and I'd say sometime in the early or late 40's (it's a really tough question after all) but I've really being immersing myself in clarinet recordings recently and the late 30's were pretty damn good for that.
Wow, that was a resonant note/ evocation ( in the form of Sidney Bechet ) there ! I know a lady, who in her formative years , decked out her student room in the Art Deco style - and Sydney Bechet / upbeat 20's / 30's swing were the sonic backdrop to all that . It introduced me to the whole Art Deco movement - and planted the seed that would one day become my musical 'home base'.
I look forward to exploring your other pointers at leisure ( You chiselin' hound ! 8) ).
Here's a photo of Louise Brooks with a koala, to enjoy as you listen...
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e87/moxovision/th_LouiseBrooksKoala.jpg) (http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e87/moxovision/?action=view¤t=LouiseBrooksKoala.jpg)
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I love Louise Brooks! :D
I have a picture of her as the wallpaper on my PC, have done for years.
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She's magic!
I've been looking through the production shots for "Now we're in the air" today. Very disappointed to find out after an hour of searching that it's a lost film.
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I've only seen Diary of a Lost Girl and (of course) Pandora's Box. When you watch those old silent films there's a very mannered, stagey quality to the acting but at times Brooks seems much more "real", almost like a modern-day person who's somehow been transported through time into the world of the movie.
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1975 is winning for me at the moment. It is also the year I was born.
SNAP!!! - we'll say '75 as us two musical geniuses were introduced into the mix :D
and we're both called Ian too.
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70's was pretty good. There were many gems even in the charting 'pop music' of the day.
Mott the Hoople roll away the stone http://youtu.be/6Sih9OVokuQ
Sweet ballroom blitz http://youtu.be/iCQvqYbdeKg
Focus hocus pocus the most talented,funniest greatest ever bit of off the wall musicianship i've ever seen.
http://youtu.be/g4ouPGGLI6Q
the 70's is where it was at.
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I totally disagree that Use Your Illusion I & II are easily as good as Appetite. Songs like My World, Perfect Crime, Get In The Ring and Live and Let Die are reek of filler material to me. There was zero filler on Appetite, at least in my opinion that is.
Agreed. I&II have great moments. Could make one great single album from them. Axl sounds like a parody of himself for the most part.