Best Year For Music... which is it?

[itamar101]

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

[Ian Price]

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.

[HTH AMPS]

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

[Telerocker]

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

[TheyCallMeVolume]

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.

[nfe]

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]

[Philly Q]

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

[Fourth Feline]

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 ! )

[Elliot]

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

[_tom_]

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.

[nfe]

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.

[Ian Price]

1975:  Pink Floyd : Wish You Where Here  /   Led Zeppelin : Physical Graphitti

Add Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic to that list.

[Afghan Dave]

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

[Philly Q]

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:

[Afghan Dave]

I'm always amazed when I find out I own an album nfe likes.  :lol:

Not as amazed as I am!  :o