Geeky list time: Pick an album for every year you've been alive | The A.V. Club
"Here’s something I saw recently on Idolator that’s apparently been making the blog rounds lately: You’re supposed to pick a favorite album for each year you’ve been alive. You can pick a record based on what you like now, or what you would have picked that year assuming you were old enough to care."
Posted 59 days ago
amanda
Responses to this thread:
smckenzie23:
donkeykonguk:
1972 Can - Ege Bamyasi1973 Can - Tago Mago
1974 David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
1975 Can - Landed
1976 Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
1977 David Bowie - Low
1978 Cabaret Voltaire - Mix-Up
1979 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
1980 The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
1981 Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust, Inc.
1982 The Clash - Combat Rock
1983 Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger
1984 Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
1985 Run D.M.C. - King of Rock
1986 The Cure - Standing on a Beach
1987 The Smiths - Louder than Bombs
1988 Joy Division - Substance
1989 De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising
1990 The Go-Betweens - 1978 to 1990
1991 A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
1992 The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
1993 A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
1994 Portishead - Dummy
1995 Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman
1996 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
1997 V.A. - Deep Concentration Vol. 1
1998 Air - Moon Safari
1999 Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
2000 Outkast - Stankonia
2001 Jay-Z - The Blueprint
2002 2 Many DJ's: As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
2003 King Geedorah - Take Me To Your Leader
2004 Franz Ferdinand
2005 Edan - Beauty and the Beat
2006 CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
2007 Flight of the Conchords - First Season songs
David S.:
i am solving a constraint program to minimize the number of compilation albums needed to cover with no overlap the years in question. still running.
Jim Cowie:
1969 # Abbey Road - The Beatles1970 # All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
1971 # John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon
1972 # The Concert For Bangla Desh - George Harrison
1973 # The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
1974 # Dark Horse - George Harrison
1975 # Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
1976 # Wings at the Speed of Sound - Paul McCartney & Wings
1977 # Aja - Steely Dan
1978 # More Songs About Buildings and Food - Talking Heads
1979 # The Wall - Pink Floyd
1980 # Paradise Theater - Styx
1981 # Jumpin Jive - Joe Jackson
1982 # Rio - Duran Duran
1983 # 90125 - Yes
1984 # Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise? - Art of Noise
1985 # Little Creatures - Talking Heads
1986 # Graceland - Paul Simon
1987 # Music for the Masses - Depeche Mode
1988 # Watermark - Enya
1989 # Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ - Peter Gabriel
1990 # Chronicles - Rush
1991 # The Carl Stalling Project: Music from Warner Bros. Cartoons
1992 # Live in Japan - George Harrison
1993 # Songs of Faith and Devotion - Depeche Mode
1994 # Mellow Gold - Beck
1995 # The Beatles Anthology, Volume 1 - The Beatles
1996 # Emperor Tomato Ketchup - Stereolab
1997 # Chants of India - Ravi Shankar
1998 # Mutations - Beck
1999 # Midnite Vultures - Beck
2000 # Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81 - Pink Floyd
2001 # Simple Things - Zero 7
2002 # 10,000 Hertz Legend - Air
2003 # Let It Be: Naked - The Beatles
2004 # Grown Backwards - David Byrne
2005 # Guero - Beck
2006 # The Information - Beck
2007 # Pocket Symphony - Air
Jim Cowie:
It's interesting how different the lists are. Presumably after 2008 it will get harder to do this exercise, as the internet kills the whole concept of "albums."
jhota:
different, yes. but some of the albums on other folks' lists were ones i considered and discarded. Cosmic Thing, Yes I am, Never Mind The Bollocks, Combat Rock, Rio, Graceland, Watermark: i thought about all of them. so it's not that the same music doesn't affect people, it's that it doesn't affect people the same. "Combat Rock" was the beginning of the end for The Clash. it's a great album. but it doesn't have as much resonance for me as Mellencamp's "American Fool." (though i owned a copy of "Combat Rock" long before i had one of "American Fool")
amanda:
I forgot about 2004: Give - The Bad Plus. I too had some trouble in certain years and had to decide between albums that I enjoyed a lot then versus ones that have meaning and enjoyment for me now. I also chose some albums for particular songs when I might not have heard the rest of it.
