ITT post your AOTY for every year from 1977 - 2017
Then rate/judge each other.
>77: Suicide - Suicide
>78: Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
>79: Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
>80: Talking Heads - Remain In Light
>81: Siouxsie & the Banshees - Juju
>82: Flipper - Album Generic Flipper
>83: Bauhaus - Burning from the Inside
>84: Swans - Filth
>85: Einsturzende Neubaten - Halber Mensch
>86: Coil - Horse Rotorvator
>87: Nitzer Ebb - That Total Age
>88: Nuno Canavarro - Plux Quba
>89: The Cure - Disintegration
>90: Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
>91: Slint - Spiderland
>92: Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
>93: Nirvana - In Utero
>94: Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
>95: Antioch Arrow - Gems of Masochism
>96: Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
>97: Bjork - Homogenic
>98: Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
>99: Botch - We Are the Romans
>00: Cursive - Domestica
>01: Thursday - Full Collapse
>02: Glassjaw - Worship & Tribute
>03: The Bled - Pass the Flask
>04: Fennesz - Venice
>05: Dalek - Absence
>06: Fear Before the March of Flames - The Always Open Mouth
>07: Stars of the Lid - ...And their Refinement of the Decline
>08: ROME - Masse Mensch Material
>09: Ben Frost - By the Throat
>10: Chuck Person - Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1
>11: Grouper - A.I.A. Alien Observer
>12: Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.a.a.d. City
>13: Death Grips - Government Plates
>14: Sun Kil Moon - Benji
>15: Clarence Clarity - No Now
>16: The Dear Hunter - Act V
>17 (so far): Gas - Narkopop
bump for interest
David Bowie - "Heroes"
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
Wire - 154
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
King Crimson - Discipline
Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land
Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Magnetic Flip
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Sonic Youth - Sister
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Pixies - Doolittle
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Moonshake - Eva Luna
Mercury Rev - Boces
Pram - Helium
Mouse on Mars - Iaora Tahiti
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Radiohead - OK Computer
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One
Radiohead - Kid A
Björk - Vespertine
The Books - Thought for Food
The Books - The Lemon of Pink
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Animal Collective - Feels
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Battles - Mirrored
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Battles - Gloss Drop
Mac DeMarco - 2
Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
Haven't heard a decent album from 2016 or 2017 yet
95% of my favorite music was made before 1977, so this was not easy. The only year for which I have no albums is 2013.
The albums with *s are the only ones that I'm actually really passionate about.
77 - Trans Europa Express ***
78 - Die Mensch Maschine ***
79 - Metal Box *********
80 - Closer *
81 - Deceit ***
82 - English Settlement
83 - Power Corruption & Lies **
84 - Meat Puppets II *
85 - Psychocandy
86 - Skylarking
87 - meh
88 - Spirit of Eden ***
89 - meh
90 - meh
91 - Laughing Stock ***
92 - meh
93 - Tibetan Buddhist Rites from the Monasteries of Bhutan
94 - Blowout Comb
95 - Tilt ***
96 - Soundtracks for the Blind
97 - Around the Fur *
98 - Mark Hollis **
99 - Black Foliage: Animation Music
00 - Kid A *
01 - The Cold Vein or Confield
02 - Geogaddi maybe? Meh?
03 - meh
04 - SMiLE *
05 - Black One
06 - Drum's Not Dead ***
07 - meh
08 - Uneasy Flowers *
09 - meh. Signal Morning maybe?
10 - meh
11 - Black Up
12 - Bisch Bosch
13 - meh
14 - The Cosmopolitan: Songs by Oswald von Wolkenstein ***
15 - meh
16 - meh
17 - meh
I've been listening to and rating an album from my collection every day since the new year, so I'm only including albums that I've rated so far.
>77: n/a
>78: n/a
>79: n/a
>80: n/a
>81: n/a
>82: n/a
>83: n/a
>84: n/a
>85: n/a
>86: Run DMC - Raising Hell
>87: n/a
>88: Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
>89: De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
>90: NWA - 100 Miles and Runnin'
>91: Naughty by Nature - Naughty by Nature
>92: Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother
>93: Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
>94: Nas - Illmatic
>95: Mobb Deep - The Infamous
>96: Nas - It Was Written
>97: Twista - Adrenaline Rush
>98: Big Pun - Capital Punishment
>99: MF Doom - Operation: Doomsday
>00: KMD - Black Bastards
>01: Jay-Z - The Blueprint
>02: Nas - God's Son
>03: 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
>04: Madvillain - Madvillainy
>05: The Game - The Documentary
>06: n/a
>07: Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
>08: Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
>09: Tyler, The Creator - Bastard
>10: Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
>11: Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne
>12: Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, Pt. 1
>13: Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
>14: Mick Jenkins - The Water[s]
>15: The Game - The Documentary 2.5
>16: Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
>17: Migos - Culture
>>72395032
lmao
>>72394143
Television - Marquee Moon
Pere Ubu - Modern Dance
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Wipers - Is This Real
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Philip Glass - Glassworks
Swans - Filth
Swans - Cop
Swans - Greed
Coil - Horse Rotorvator
Swans - Children of God
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
I know I have no taste for the 70s and 80s
The KLF - Chill Out
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Disco Inferno - Summer's Last Sound
Hoedh - Hymnvs
Basic Channel - Quadrant Dub
Autechre - Garbage
Jeff Mills - Live at the Liquid Room
Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
Gas - Zauerberg
Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark
Gas - Pop
Aphex Twin - Drukqs
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
Four Tet - Rounds
Oren Ambarchi - Grapes From The Estate
Vladislav Delay - The Four Quarters
Ricardo Villalobos - Fizheuer Zieheuer
Deepchord Presents Echospace - The Coldest Season
DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
Burial/Four Tet - Moth/Wolf Club
Yellow Swans - Going Places
Grouper - Alien Observer
Voices from the Lake - Voices from the Lake
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Ichiko Aoba - 0%
Nicolas Jaar - Nymphs
Autechre - Elseq 1-5
Gas - Narkopop
>>72395032
Very pleased to see Laughing Stock winning out over Loveless and Spiiderland on so many lists
>>72395114
91 was pretty stacked
the real patrician choice is frankie knuckles though
>>72395114
I practically had to flip a coin to decide between Loveless and Laughing Stock
Spiderland is ok but doesn't really hold a candle to either
>>72395188
>Spiderland is ok
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>72395217
>muh spoken word lyrics about anxiety over spoopy 5/4 riffs
It's overrated get over it
77: David Bowie - "Heroes"
78: Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto
79: Gang of Four - Entertainment!
80: The Durutti Column - The Return of The Durutti Column
81: Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
82: Tatsuro Yamashita - For You
83: Piper - Gentle Breeze
84: Felt - The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories
85: The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
86: Big Black - Atomizer
87: Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
88: Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
89: Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
90: Depeche Mode - Violator
91: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
92: Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
93: Yo La Tengo - Painful
94: Bark Psychosis - Hex
95: Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
96: DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
97: Stereolab - Dots and Loops
98: Boredoms - Super æ
99: The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
01: Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
02: Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
03: Pram - Dark Island
04: Madvillain - Madvillainy
05: Capsule - L.D.K. Lounge Designers Killer
06: J Dilla - Donuts
07: Panda Bear - Person Pitch
08: Lamp - ランプ幻想 (Lamp Gensō)
09: Sweet Trip - You Will Never Know Why
10: Deepchord Presents Echospace - Liumin
11: Machinedrum - Room(s)
12: Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
13: The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
14: Death Grips - Niggas on the Moon
15: Clarence Clarity - No Now
16: The Avalanches - Wildflower
17: uiyoubi no Campanella - Superman
This took too long.
>77: Robert Ashley - Private Parts
>78: The Urinals - Dead Flowers
>79: Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - Evita (Original Broadway Cast)
>80: UJ3RK5 - UJ3RK5
>81: Glenn Branca - The Ascension
>82: Ratata - Ögon av is / Liv utan spänning
>83: Variété - Location at Hollywood
>84: Kauffman & Caboor - Songs From Suicide Bridge
>85: Rat at Rat R - Amer$ide - Rock & Roll Is Dead Long Live - Rat at Rat R
>86: The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
>87: Drunks With Guns - Alter Human Industrial Fetishisms
>88: Mark Mothersbaugh - Muzik for Insomniaks, Vol. 1
>89: 不失者 [Fushitsusha] - 1st
>90: Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives
>91: Slint - Spiderland
>92: Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Mother of All Saints
>93: Unwound - Fake Train
>94: Current 93 - Lucifer Over London
>95: Karlheinz Stockhausen - Oktophonie
>96: Fishmans - Long Season
>97: Godspeed You Black Emperor! - FA∞
>98: Royal Trux - Accelerator
>99: The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume 1
>00: Radiohead - Kid A
>01: Radiohead - Amnesiac
>02: Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma
>03: Natalie Rose LeBrecht - Warraw
>04: Arcade Fire - Funeral
>05: Mount Eerie - Singers
>06: Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
>07: Les Rallizes dénudés - Double Heads: Legendary Live Yaneura Shibuya, Tokyo 1980-1981
>08: Isengrind / TwinSisterMoon / Natural Snow Buildings - The Snowbringer Cult
>09: El Jesus de Magico - Scalping the Guru
>10: Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
>11: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
>12: of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
>13: 青葉市子 [Ichiko Aoba] - 0
>14: Pile - Special Snowflakes / Mama's Lipstick
>15: Shofar - Gold of Małkinia
>16: The Savage Young Taterbug - Shadow of Marlboro Man
>17: Will Guthrie - People Pleaser
some eps in here fuck it
Wire - Pink Flag
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
The Clash - London Calling
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Wipers - Youth of America
idk
idk
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
idk
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
The Cure - Disintegration
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock, barely over Loveless
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Nas - Illmatic, barely over Grace and The Holy Bible
DJ Jeffee - Jungle Spliff (only one I can think of)
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Radiohead - OK Computer
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
Gas - Pop
The Microphones - The Glow Pt 2
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Burial - Untrue
Portishead - Third
Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
Kanye West - MBDTF
Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
Burial - Kindred EP
Candy Claws - Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time
Swans - To Be Kind
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
>>72395170
ministry of sound is the shiiiiiiiit
>>72395032
here's your 1987
>77: Television - Marquee Moon
>78: Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
>79: Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
>80: Talking Heads - Remain in Light
>81: Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
>82: Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
>83: R.E.M. - Murmur
>84: The Replacements - Let It Be
>85: The Replacements - Tim
>86: XTC - Skylarking
>87: U2 - The Joshua Tree
>88: Pixies - Surfer Rosa
>89: The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
>90: Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
>91: Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
>92: Ride - Going Blank Again
>93: Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements
>94: Bark Psychosis - Hex
>95: Slowdive - Pygmalion
>96: Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
>97: Steve Earle - El Corazón
>98: Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
>99: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
>00: Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
>01: Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
>02: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
>03: Magnolia Electric Co. - The Magnolia Electric Co.
>04: Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
>05: Smog - A River Ain't Too Much to Love
>06: Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
>07: Magnolia Electric Co. - Sojourner
>08: Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
>09: Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
>10: Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
>11: Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
>12: Father John Misty: Fear Fun
>13: Jason Isbell - Southeastern
>14: The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
>15: Hop Along - Painted Shut
>16: Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
>17: Not sure yet
77: Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express
78: Robbie Basho - Visions of the Country
79: Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
80: Bruce Springsteen - The River
81: The Gun Club - Fire of Love
82: Oppenheimer Analysis - New Mexico
83: Swans - Filth
84: Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains
85: Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
86: John Zorn - The Big Gundown
87: The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
88: The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
89: Neil Young - Freedom
90: Radical Dance Faction - Borderline Cases
91: Slint - Spiderland
92: Cracker - Cracker
93: Melvins - Houdini
94: Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop
95: Tocotronic - Digital ist besser
96: DJ Shadow - Endtroducing....
97: Elliot Smith - Either/Or
98: Duster - Stratosphere
99: Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
00: A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms...
01: The Strokes - Is This It
02: Sparks - Lil' Beethoven
03: The Microphones - Mount Eerie
04: Pickering Pick - On Rocket Rapture
05: David Thomas Broughton - The Complete Guide to Insufficiency
06: The Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia...
07: Magnolia Electric Co. - Sojourner
08: Portishead - Third
09: The xx - xx
10: LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
11: That Handsome Devil - The Heart Goes to Heaven, The Head Goes to Hell
12: Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
13: Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
14: Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
15: Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
16: Cass McCombs - Mangy Love
17: Avec le Soleil sortant de sa bouche - Pas Pire Pop (I Love You So Much)
>Unknown Pleasures
>OK Computer
>Man on the Moon II
only 3 albums i really care for out of those 40 years.
>>72396267
>>72394143
real patricians play the 60 year edition of this game