40+ Years of Favorites

40+ Years of Favorites

1977 was the year my taste in music changed when my cool uncle let me have his stack of albums while he went to college.    This is a running list of favorite albums from every year since then.   The Spotify playlist is over two days of tunes from this list. Hit Random and enjoy!

1977
Television - Marquee Moon
Ramones - Rocket To Russia
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
The Clash - The Clash
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - My Aim Is True

 

 

1978
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Year's Model
The Cars - The Cars
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men?  A: We Are Devo
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside

1979
The Clash - London Calling
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Joe Jackson - I'm The Man
The B-52's - The B-52's 

1980
The Pretenders - The Pretenders
The Clash - Sandinista!
Devo - Freedom Of Choice
U2 - Boy
English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It






1981
Prince - Controversy
Go-Go's - Beauty & The Beat
The Pretenders - The Pretenders II
Squeeze - East Side Story
New Order - Movement

1982
Prince - 1999
The Clash - Combat Rock
Joe Jackson - Night And Day
The Jam - The Gift
Marshall Crenshaw - Marshall Crenshaw

1983
The The - Soul Mining
R.E.M. - Murmur
David Bowie - Let's Dance
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
U2 - War

1984
1. Prince - Purple Rain
2. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

3. Pretenders - Learning To Crawl

4. R.E.M. - Reckoning

5. Smiths - The Smiths 

1985
1. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
2. Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
3. Smiths - Meat Is Murder
4. Replacements - Tim
5. Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & The Lash

1986
1. XTC - Skylarking
2. Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
3. Crowded House - Crowded House
4. Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey
5. R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant 

1987
1. Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me

2. Prince - Sign Of The Times
3. U2 - The Joshua Tree
4. R.E.M. - Document
5. Smiths - Louder Than Bombs

1988
1. Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
2. Morrissey - Viva Hate
3. R.E.M. - Green

4. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
5. Crowded House - Temple Of Low Men

1989
1. Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
2. Pixies - Doolittle
3. XTC - Oranges & Lemons
4. Stone Roses - Stone Roses

5. Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule

1990
1. Happy Mondays - Pills N Thrills & Bellyaches
2. Prefab Sprout - Jordan:The Comeback
3. Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
4. Charlatans - Some Friendly
5. World Party - Goodbye Jumbo

1991
1. U2 - Achtung Baby

2. Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend

3. Nirvana - Nevermind
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic

5. Pearl Jam - Ten

1992
1. Sugar - Copper Blue
2. Suzanne Vega - 99.9 F

3. Beautiful South - 0898

4. Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray

5. XTC - Nonsuch

1993

1. World Party - Bang
2. Morphine - Cure For Pain

3. Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville

4. Pearl Jam - Vs.

5. Posies - Frosting On The Beater

1994
1. Portishead - Dummy
2. Jeff Buckley - Grace
3. Sebadoh - Bakesale
4. Sloan - Twice Removed 

5. Hole - Live Through This

1995

1. Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
2. Radiohead - The Bends

3. Gene - Olympian

4. P.J. Harvey - To Bring You My Love

5. Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix

1996
1. Soul Coughing - Irresistible Bliss
2. Sublime - Sublime
3. Wilco - Being There

4. Beck - Odelay

5. Kostars - Klassics With A K

1997
1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
3. Verve - Urban Hymns
4. Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
5. Ben Folds Five - Whatever And Ever Amen

1998
1. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
2. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

3. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue

4. UNKLE - Psyence Fiction

5. Soul Coughing - El Oso

1999
1. Fountains Of Wayne - Utopia Parkway
2. Sigur Ros - Agaetis byrgum

3. Beck - Midnite Vulutres

4. Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner

5. Moby - Play

2000
1. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
2. Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
3. Radiohead - Kid A
4. Flogging Molly - Swagger

5. American Analog Set - Know By Heart

2001

1. Ash - Free All Angels
2. Death Cab For Cutie - Photo Album
3. Kings Of Convenience - Quiet Is The New Loud

4. Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs

5. Ryan Adams - Gold

2002
1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2. Bruce Springsteen - The Rising

3. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
4. Eels - Souljacker

5. Doves - Last Broadcast

2003
1. White Stripes - Elephant
2. Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine & Ours

3. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Hearts Of Oak

4. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism

5. Postal Service - Give Up

2004

1. Air - Talkie Walkie
2. Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
3. U2- How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

4. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

5. Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch

2005

1. Beck - Guero
2. Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift
3. Aimee Mann -The Forgotten Arm
4. Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic
5. Eels - Blinking Lights

2006

1. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
2. Gomez - How We Operate

3. Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae
4. Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
5. Decemberists - The Crane Wife

2007
1. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

2. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Living With The Living

3. Various Artists - Going Home - A Tribute To Fats Domino

4. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
5. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

2008
1. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue

2. The Clash - Live At Shea Stadium

3. Kooks - Konk

4. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
5. Flogging Molly - Float

2009
1. Regina Spektor - Far

2. Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew
3. Ash - A To Z Series (singles series)

4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz

5. Swell Season - Strict Joy

2010
1. Vampire Weekend - Contra

2. Belle & Sebastian - Write About Love

3. Jenny & Johnny - I'm Having Fun Now
4. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

5. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks

2011

1. Black Keys - El Camino
2. The Head & The Heart - The Head & The Heart

3. Decemberists - The King Is Dead

4. Tally Hall - Good & Evil

5. Peter, Bjorn & John - Gimme Some

2012
1. Jack White - Blunderbuss
2. Cat Power - Sun
3. Bob Mould - Silver Age
4. Mumford & Sons - Babel
5. Gary Clark Jr. - Blak And Blu

2013
1. Arctic Monkeys - AM
2. Primal Scream - More Light
3. Johnny Marr - The Messenger
4. David Bowie - The Next Day
5. Little Green Cars - Absolute Zero

2014
1. Sloan - Commonwealth
2. Spoon - They Want My Soul
3. Temples - Sun Structures
4. Jack White - Lazaretto
5. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager

2015
1. FFS - FFS
2. Charlatans - Modern Nature
3. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday
4. Built To Spill - Untethered Moon
5. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit

2016
1. Parquet Courts - Human Performance
2. Savages - Adore Life
3. Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
4. Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come To Expect
5. Little Green Cars - Ephemera 

2017
1. The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
2. Slowdive - Slowdive
3. Noel Gallagher - Who Built The Moon?
4. St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
5. Liam Gallagher - As You Were

2018
1. Snail Mail - Lush
2. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
3. Parquet Courts - Wide Awaaaaake!
4. Johnny Marr - Call The Comet
5. Couortney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

2019
1. Liam Gallagher - Why Me, Why Not
2. Karen O & Danger Mouse - Lux Prima
3. Bob Mould - Sunshine Rock
4. Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel
5. New Pornographers - In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights

 

2020

1. Doves - The Universal Want

2. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters

3. A Girl Called Eddy - Been Around

4. X - Alphabetland

5. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death

 

2021

1. Goat Girl - On All Fours

2. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams

3. Zolas - Come Back To Life

4. Parquet Courts - Sympathy For Life

5. Kings Of Convenience - Peace Or Love

2022

1. Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia

2. Wet Leg - Wet Leg 

3. Sloan - Steady

4. Belle and Sebastian - A Bit Of Previous

5. Alvvays - Blue Rev

2023

1. Slowdive - Everything Is Alive

2. Wednesday - Rat Saw God

3. The GOA Express - The GOA Express

4.  boygenius - The Record

5.  Everything But The Girl - Fuse