Best Year For Music... which is it?

[_tom_]

Ah, all the classics...  :?

Seems you forgot Graduation by Kanye West..  :P

:lol:

[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.

1988. [/pedant]

Good catch! Might have to change my favorite year then...

[Fourth Feline]

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.  :)

[Philly Q]

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

[Fourth Feline]

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)

[Philly Q]

^

 :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!

[Fourth Feline]

^

 :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.  :)

[blue]

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

[Philly Q]

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: :

[Ian Price]

1975 is winning for me at the moment. It is also the year I was born.

[Fourth Feline]

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)

[Ian Price]

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.

[Fourth Feline]

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 ...

[Ian Price]

 :D

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.

[nfe]

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.