f611s Tagebuch - My Top Ten Albums From Each Year

Sonntag, 24. Jun 2012, 3:41

This list is completely subjective and will change frequently.

Please comment if you have any recommendations for similar albums / artists.

Criteria:
Studio albums only.
I have scrobbled / listened to the whole album at least once.
Top Ten from each year only.

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1956:
1. Thelonious Monk - The Unique
2. Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
3. The Modern Jazz Quartet - Fontessa
4. Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
5. Sonny Rollins - Plus 4
6. Elvis Presley - Elvis

1957:
1. Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar!
2. The Modern Jazz Quartet - The Modern Jazz Quartet
3. Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins - Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins
4. Charles Mingus - The Clown
5. Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
6. Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music
7. Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight
8. Miles Davis - Miles Ahead
9. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
10. Buddy Holly - The "Chirping" Crickets

1958:
1. Johnny Cash - Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous
2. Duke Ellington - The Cosmic Scene
3. Miles Davis - Milestones
4. Miles Davis - 1958 Miles

1959:
1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
2. Art Blakey - Moanin'
3. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
4. The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
5. Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
6. Miles Davis - Porgy and Bess

1960:
1. John Coltrane - Giant Steps
2. Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots
3. Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
4. Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century
5. Duke Ellington - The Nutcracker Suite
6. Johnny Cash - Now, There Was a Song! Memories From the Past

1961:
1. John Coltrane - Olé Coltrane
2. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
3. Milt Jackson & John Coltrane - Bags & Trane
4. John Coltrane - Coltrane Jazz
5. Paul Desmond - Desmond Blue

1962:
1. Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah
2. Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods
3. Chet Baker - Chet is Back!
4. Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
5. Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
6. Aretha Franklin - The Electrifying Aretha Franklin

1963:
1. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
2. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
3. Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
4. The Beatles - Please Please Me
5. The Beatles - With The Beates

1964:
1. Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
2. Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch!
3. Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer
4. Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
5. Bob Dylan - Another Side Of Bob Dylan
6. Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
7. Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning, 3 AM
8. The Beatles - Beatles For Sale
9. The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

1965:
1. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
2. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
3. Bob Dylan - Highway 61
4. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
5. Miles Davis - E.S.P.
6. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
7. The Beatles - Help!

1966:
1. Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
2. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
3. The Beatles - Revolver
4. Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
5. Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
6. Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple
7. Frank Zappa - Freak Out!
8. George Benson - It's Uptown

1967:
1. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
2. Love - Forever Changes
3. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4. Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
5. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
6. The Doors - Strange Days
7. The Doors - The Doors
8. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
9. Sly and the Family Stone - A Whole New Thing
10. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

1968:
1. The Beatles - The White Album
2. The Band - Music From Big Pink
3. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
4. Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
5. The United States of America - The United States of America
6. The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
7. Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
8. Miles Davis - Nefertiti
9. Townes Van Zandt - For the Sake of the Song
10. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

1969:
1. The Band - The Band
2. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
3. Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
4. Scott Walker - Scott 4
5. The Beatles - Abbey Road
6. Sly and the Family Stone - Stand!
7. Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt
8. Scott Walker - Scott 3
9. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
10 Jethro Tull - Stand Up

1970:
1. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
2. Bob Dylan - New Morning
3. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
4. The Beatles - Let It Be
5. Grateful Dead - American Beauty
6. Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant
7. King Crimson - Lizard
8. Genesis - Trespass
9. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
10. Funkadelic - Funkadelic

1971:
1. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
2. Genesis - Nursery Cryme
3. Yes - Fragile
4. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
5. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
6. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
7. Joni Mitchell - Blue
8. Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
9. Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
10. Comus - First Utterance

1972:
1. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
2. Genesis - Foxtrot
3. Neil Young - Harvest
4. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
5. Yes - Close To The Edge
6. Stevie Wonder - Music Of My Mind
7. Elton John - Honky Chateau
8. Fela Kuti - Roforofo Fight
9. Gentle Giant - Octopus
10. Gentle Giant - Three Friends

1973:
1. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
2. Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
3. David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
4. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
5. John Martyn - Solid Air
6. Frank Zappa - Over-Nite Sensation
7. Fela Kuti - Gentleman
8. Bob Dylan - Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
9. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
10. Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh

1974:
1. King Crimson - Red
2. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
3. Neil Young - On The Beach
4. Bob Dylan - Planet Waves
5. Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale
6. Funkadelic - Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
7. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
8. Biglietto per l'Inferno - Biglietto per l'Inferno
9. Magma - Köhntarkösz
10. King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black

1975:
1. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
2. Brian Eno - Another Green World
3. Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit
4. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
5. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
6. Rush - Caress Of Steel
7. Fela Kuti - Confusion
8. Neil Young - Zuma
9. Elton John - Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
10. Grateful Dead - Blues for Allah

1976:
1. Bob Dylan - Desire
2. Rush - 2112
3. Magma - Üdü Ẁüdü
4. Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
5. David Bowie - Station To Station
6. Marvin Gaye - I Want You
7. Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia
8. Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
9. Stanley Clarke - School Days
10. Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior

1977:
1. David Bowie - Low
2. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Exodus
3. Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood
4. Rush - A Farewell To Kings
5. Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express
6. David Bowie - "Heroes"
7. Brian Eno - Before and After Science
8. Pink Floyd - Animals
9. Wire - Pink Flag
10. Weather Report - Heavy Weather

1978:
1. Bob Dylan - Street Legal
2. Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
3. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
4. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
5. The Residents - Duck Stab
6. Magma - Attahk
7. Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
8. Rush - Hemispheres
9. Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
10. The Residents - Not Available

1979:
1. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
2. Prince - Prince
3. David Bowie - Lodger
4. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
5. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
6. Sun Ra - Sleeping Beauty
7. Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming
8. Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
9. Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
10. Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage: Acts I, II & III

1980:
1. Rush - Permanent Waves
2. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
3. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
4. Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
5. Prince - Dirty Mind
6. Joy Division - Closer
7. Kate Bush - Never for Ever
8. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
9. U2 - Boy
10. Bob Dylan - Saved

1981:
1. Rush - Moving Pictures
2. King Crimson - Discipline
3. The Cure - Faith
4. Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
5. Bob Dylan - Shot Of Love
6. Prince - Controversy
7. Black Flag - Damaged
8. Iron Maiden - Killers

1982:
1. Rush - Signals
2. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
3. The Cure - Pornography
4. Prince - 1999
5. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
6. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
7. Michael Jackson - Thriller
8. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
9. Jethro Tull - The Broadsword and the Beast

1983:
1. R.E.M. - Murmur
2. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
3. Bob Dylan - Infidels
4. Echo and the Bunnymen - Porcupine
5. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
6. David Bowie - Let's Dance
7. Marillion - Script For A Jester's Tear
8. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
9. Metallica - Kill 'Em All

1984:
1. Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
2. Rush - Grace Under Pressure
3. R.E.M. - Reckoning
4. Prince - Purple Rain
5. The Smiths - The Smiths
6. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
7. Marillion - Fugazi
8. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
9. Black Flag - My War
10. Bruce Cockburn - Stealing Fire

1985:
1. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
2. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
3. The Cure - The Head on the Door
4. R.E.M. - Fables Of The Reconstruction
5. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
6. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
7. Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
8. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
9. Megadeth - Killing Is My Business ... And Business Is Good!
10. Rush - Power Windows

1986:
1. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
2. Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
3. Paul Simon - Graceland
4. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
5. R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
6. Sonic Youth - EVOL
7. Slayer - Reign in Blood
8. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
9. Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
10. Prince - Parade

1987:
1. The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
2. R.E.M. - Document
3. Sonic Youth - Sister
4. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
5. Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
6. Big Black - Songs About Fucking
7. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
8. Michael Jackson - Bad
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Uplift Mofo Part Plan
10. Prince - Sign O' the Times

1988:
1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
3. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
4. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
5. Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
6. R.E.M. - Green
7. Slayer - South Of Heaven
8. Death - Leprosy
9. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
10. Prince - Lovesexy

1989:
1. The Cure - Disintegration
2. Pixies - Doolittle
3. Faith No More - The Real Thing
4. Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
5. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
6. NoMeansNo - Wrong
7. Rush - Presto
8. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
9. Slint - Tweez
10. Neil Young - Freedom

1990:
1. Depeche Mode - Violator
2. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
3. Sonic Youth - Goo
4. Ride - Nowhere
5. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
6. The Jesus Lizard - Head
7. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
8. Death - Spiritual Healing
9. Alice In Chains - Facelift
10. Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual

1991:
1. Slint - Spiderland
2. The Jesus Lizard - Goat
3. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
4. Nirvana - Nevermind
5. Death - Human
6. Marillion - Holidays In Eden
7. Pearl Jam - Ten
8. R.E.M. - Out Of Time
9. Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
10. Rush - Roll The Bones

1992:
1. Faith No More - Angel Dust
2. Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
3. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
4. The Jesus Lizard - Liar
5. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
6. Sugar - Copper Blue
7. Sonic Youth - Dirty
8. Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
9. Alice In Chains - Dirt
10. The Cure - Wish

1993:
1. The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
2. The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
3. Pearl Jam - Vs.
4. Slowdive - Souvlaki
5. Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion
6. Melvins - Houdini
7. Nirvana - In Utero
8. Cynic - Focus
9. Death - Individual Thought Patterns
10. PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me

1994:
1. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
2. Barenaked Ladies - Maybe You Should Drive
3. R.E.M. - Monster
4. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
5. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
6. Marillion - Brave
7. Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
8. Nas - Illmatic
9. Portishead - Dummy
10. Unwound - New Plastic Ideas

1995:
1. The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
2. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
3. Faith No More - King For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime
4. GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
5. Marillion - Afraid Of Sunlight
6. Radiohead - The Bends
7. Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
8. Incubus - Fungus Amongus
9. Pulp - Different Class
10. Opeth - Orchid

1996:
1. Barenaked Ladies - Born On A Pirate Ship
2. Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
3. Porcupine Tree - Signify
4. Pearl Jam - No Code
5. Tool - Ænima
6. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
7. Outkast - ATLiens
8. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
9. Edge of Sanity - Crimson
10. Rush - Test For Echo

1997:
1. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#oo
5. Björk - Homogenic
6. Ween - The Mollusk
7. Arcturus - La masquerade infernale
8. Mogwai - Young Team
9. Faith No More - Album Of The Year
10. Ulver - The Mardrigal Of Night

1998:
1. Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
3. Elliott Smith - XO
4. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
5. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
6. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
7. Pearl Jam - Yield
8. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
9. Death - The Sound of Perseverance
10. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs

1999:
1. Opeth - Still Life
2. Mr. Bungle - California
3. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
4. Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
5. Sigur Rós Ágætis byrjun
6. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
7. Incubus - Make Yourself
8. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
9. Marillion - Marillion.com
10. Botch - We Are The Romans

2000:
1. At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
2. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
3. Deftones - White Pony
4. PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
5. Barenaked Ladies - Maroon
6. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
7. Pearl Jam - Binaural
8. Elliott Smith - Figure 8
9. Outkast - Stankonia
10. Ulver - Perdition City

2001:
1. Tool - Lateralus
2. Opeth - Blackwater Park
3. Converge - Jane Doe
4. Tomahawk - Tomahawk
5. Marillion - Anoraknophobia
6. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
7. The Dismemberment Plan - Change
8. Fantômas - The Director's Cut
9. Maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
10. Muse - Origin of Symmetry

2002:
1. Coheed And Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade
2. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
3. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
4. Opeth - Deliverance
5. Pearl Jam - Riot Act
6. Sonic Youth - Murray Street
7. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
8. Rush - Vapor Trails
9. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
10. Isis - Oceanic

2003:
1. Coheed And Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3
2. The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
3. Opeth - Damnation
4. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
5. King Crimson - The Power To Believe
6. Tomahawk - Mit Gas
7. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
8. Brand New - Deja Entendu
9. Barenaked Ladies - Everything To Everyone
10. The White Stripes - Elephant

2004:
1. Marillion - Marbles
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. Madvillain - Madvillainy
4. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
5. Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
6. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
7. Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
8. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
9. Kanye West - The College Dropout
10. Converge - You Fail Me

2005:
1. Coheed And Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness
2. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
3. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
4. Meshuggah - Catch ThirtyThree
5. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
6. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
7. Ulver - Blood Inside
8. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
9. Kanye West - Late Registration
10. Boris - Pink

2006:
1. Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked Ladies Are Me
2. The Mars Volta - Amputechture
3. Tool - 10,000 Days
4. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
5. Converge - No Heroes
6. Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom
7. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
8. Isis - In the Absence of Truth
9. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
10. Bob Dylan - Modern Times

2007:
1. Coheed And Cambria - No World For Tommorow
2. Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked Ladies Are Men
3. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
4. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
5. Neurosis - Given To The Rising
6. Marillion - Somewhere Else
7. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
8. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
9. Radiohead - In Rainbows
10. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde

2008:
1. Meshuggah - obZen
2. Opeth - Watershed
3. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
4. Portishead - Third
5. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
6. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
7. Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
8. Cynic - Traced in Air
9. R.E.M. - Accelerate
10. Marillion - Happiness is the Road, Volume 1: Essence and Happiness is the Road, Volume 2: The Hard Shoulder

2009:
1. Converge - Axe To Fall
2. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. The Mars Volta - Octahedron
4. The Antlers - Hospice
5. Isis - Wavering Radiant
6. Porcupine Tree - The Incident
7. Pearl Jam - Backspacer
8. Omar A. Rodriguez Lopez - Solar Gambling
9. Brand New - Daisy
10. Mastodon - Crack The Skye