Best Year For Music... which is it?

[JJretroTONEGOD]

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.

[FELINEGUITARS]

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

[Philly Q]

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.

[Lezard]

....1937.....

[Fourth Feline]

....1937.....

The publication of 'Funny Valentine ' is a notable for me ;  the rest will need more Google... :)

[Lezard]

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.

[Fourth Feline]

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) ).

[Lezard]

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...

[Philly Q]

^

I love Louise Brooks!  :D

I have a picture of her as the wallpaper on my PC, have done for years.

[Lezard]

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.

[Philly Q]

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.

[HTH AMPS]

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.

[gordiji]

 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.

[Hammerheart]

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.