What was the worst year for music and why is it pic related?

>>73428548
Why is it the worst?

>>73428563
Because he said so

>>73428548
Yeah why?

>>73428571
Oh ok, that explains it.

1982 had some great stuff tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHFFiX2nuSQ

>Peter Gabriel
>Tears for Fears
>King Crimson
>Duran Duran
>XTC
>Japan

>Bad

>>73428548
1981 was worse desu

>>73428672
>1981 had 'Time'

no

Thriller came out in 1982 idiet

The early 80s are like the awkward early aging stage of rock and the awkward puberty phase of rock inspired experimental and electronic music
Not a whole lot of good stuff

probably now

>>73428548
>Not 1999

>>73428834
bleep bloops, Soft Bulletin and 69 Love Songs tho. Pop was pretty bad around that time admittedly

Since everyone is just replying to OPs bait, imma add an actual answer. 1974 was trash. Name one good album from 1974 that isn't Autobahn or something

>>73429161
Rock Bottom or Red

>>73429184
Fair enough, but pick any other year of the 70s and you can name 10 albums just as good as those or better

>>73429161
kimono my house, taking tiger mountain

Wasn't 2013 pretty bad?

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>>73429161

>>73429161
74 and 76 were objectively the worst years of that decade
>>73429351
Not really

It's hard to drop lower than 1924... and don't get me started on 1811, 1346 and 708 *shudders*

The year 4 was pretty lame for music.

Anything before 1910 was the worse years because music didn't exist.

>>73428548
>Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
>Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
not a bad year for metal.

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>>73429673
>music didn't exist before 1910

Not sure if bait. Also if we're gonna pick worst year of the 80's, 88 or 89. It's the decade that got progressively worse every year and by the end, was just a massive dumpster fire of synth garbage.

>>73429351
yknow what...it was actually

>>73430282
>music was invented 5 years before relativity was discovered
COINCEDINCE?

synth is the new rock

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>ITT- people actually try to determine what single year in human history was the worst for music of all genres across the entire world

we all know all answers are going to involve some sort of cherry picking, and you can say any year is "the worst year for music" so whats the point

Easy. 2008

>>73429351
it was pretty good for shoegaze desu senpai

The correct answer is the year the Earth was created.
Try and prove me wrong.

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I disagree with 1982 because of reasons.

>>73429351
Both the best albums of the decade so far were released in 2013. You can guess which ones.

>>73430574
came here to post this

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>>73430605

Probably not what you meant but I agree.

>>73429320
FUCK YOU. Rock Bottom is a top 3 rock album period. You probably smoke weed and think Waters era Pink Floyd was good

>>73430605
Vessels and The Raven That Refused to Sing

>>73428672
>1981 had New Order
yeah, naw m8

>>73429566
The mid-70s was the awkward dead zone between the protest era and punk/New Wave, there wasn't a lot going on to sing about.

>>73429753
>Diver Down
>Creatures of the Night
A bad year for rock this was not.

>>73430780
My uncle bought the first two KISS albums when they came out and he quickly returned them to the store. He said they were just buttrock trash for 12 year olds and that the rock scene in mid-decade was very disappointing compared to five years earlier.

>>73430836

so what did he say when 'Alive!' came out & they exploded in popularity?

>>73429753
>>73430812
Between those four albums, Christgau only reviewed Diver Down and that got just a B- :^)

>>73431073
>caring what Cuckgau thinks

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1977 was the last good year.

>>73430304
The rock and pop scenes did get really weak in the second half of the 80s.

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>>73428548
bad years for me

1974
1977
1986
1990
1995
2006
2013
2015

>>73432151
>1974
Already covered
>1977
Great year for punk/alternative, bad for mainstream rock
>1986
Great year for metal, bad for mainstream rock
>1990
Alternative rock was starting to emerge from the cracks but hadn't blown up just yet. Pretty good year for metal.
>1995
Post-Cobain suicide slump
>2006
I don't remember this year being very interesting
>2013
Yeezus, but not much else going on.
>2015
Yeah it's shit.

>>73428642
>King Crimson in the same list as Tears for Fears among others
What are you doing?

Tears For Fears are shit though.

2017

>>73428672
1981 was possibly the best year of the decade, at least second best after 1988

>>73429161
Musik von Harmonia
Zuckerzeit
Phaedra
Starless and Bible Black
Red
Meet the Residents
Unrest
Hergest Ridge

I can't think of many good albums from either 1976, 1987 or 1990

>>73428733
You might've gotten dubs but you're an IDIOT!

Thriller came out in 1983!

>>73429161
Pretzel Logic by Steely Dan
Burn by Deep Purple
First two KISS albums. (FUCK THE HATERS!)
Piss Factory b/w Hey Joe by Patti Smith 45

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I'm not afraid to say it

2013 by far, what a boring year.

>>73428548
Neil Young released Trans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oMTwfq_jI8

>>73433238
>Thriller came out in 1983!
>release date: November 30, 1982

>>73433120
1988 was ok for metal, otherwise quite weak. Also I think 1980 was better than 81.

>>73433432
is that nils fuckin' lofgren?

kek

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>>73428548
I think not.

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>>73428548
Nuh-uh

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WRONG

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1992 is pretty bad. Best we got was pic related.

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>>73433595
>1992
>Bad
>Had red house painters, pavement, ride, spiritualized, the pharcyde, sonic youth to name a few
>Picks worst album as best of 1992

>>73430304
Bleach came out in '89

>>73433744
>Down Colorful Hill instead of s/t
>Going Blank Again instead of Nowhere
S&E is the best Pavement album, but it's not really amazing. Lazer Guided Melodies is great, but it's not Ladies and Gentlemen. Pharcyde is ok. 90s Sonic Youth is pure trash.

A handful of pretty good records in a sea of utter shit that was 1992.

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>>73433595
are you drunk or what

>>73433344
I know. Aside from Yeezus, name one notable 2013 release.

>>73433898
>plebs who think a Kanye album was the most notable release that year
Jesus fucking christ

QotSA album
RtJ
Sunbather
Sigur Ros album
mbv
R Plus Seven
Shaking the Habitual
Old
RAM
MVotC

All better than Yeezus

>>73433898
Random Access Memories? Nevertheless I see your point but think 2017 will shape up to be worse in the long run unless the second half of this year is great.

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>>73433898
also immunity, modern vampires fo the city, not to mention whenever, if ever.

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>>73428548
yes 1982 was pretty bad

Worst years were the ones before 1910, because music hadn't started by then
>>73432351
Yeah, Tears for Fears are much better

>>73433898
see here>>73430735

Other than Swans 2014 was literally shit tier

1996 was the worst year. We still had some good albums (Beck's Odelay being the best example I can think of) but:
>Rock
All the big rock scenes were getting trashier. Grunge was becoming unbearable to a point we had Christian Grunge bands. Britpop had become so utterly disgusting that even the bands associated with that scene were abandoning the boat. Californian Pop Punk bands had proved themselves to be "one trick pony" bands and progressively got worse as the decade went on. There wasn't anything happening in the underground scene either, garage revival bands wouldn't come out for another 2-3 years.
>Rap
Rap was definitely selling out by that point. God all that try hard gangsta shit was so bad. It was better than rock, however not by much. The underground was maybe a little better, since good artist like Kanye West were starting their careers by then.
>Pop
Oh god pop music was terrible. There wasn't a direction in pop music, each week a different artist would come out with a different bland and uninspiring song. The mid 90's was the era of the "one hit wonders" artists.
>Eletronica
It was gradually raising towards mainstream and was starting to blend with pop music, but the underground stuff was still good.

Don't anything about the jazz and classical music scene at that time, but since the general public doesn't care about those I decided to not even research about it

>>73433507
This

>>73434231
bait

>>73428548
>hex enduction hour
>vs
>generic flipper
>glassworks
>the message
>chronic town

try 2009

>>73434231
That's late 90s in the general

1996 had more great albums than the previous or next year.

Soundtracks for the Blind
ATLiens
Filosofem
Long Season
Reasonable Doubt
On Avery Island
Pinkerton

>>73429161
Here Come the Warm Jets

>>73434042
>>73434392
These are both correct answers

I can't name a single really good album from 2009 and 2014 was weak as fuck

>>73429161
John Cale's Fear
Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge

>>73433898
Jason Isbell - Southeastern

It was a weird era in music.
An overlapping of the older rock groups, post disco burnout, hair bands, synth pop and new wave. It was weird, hard to define musically era.
Mind you, Thriller, #1 selling album of all time. So there's that for what it's worth....

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>>73433203
1976...

>>73433203
1976 has stratosfear and station to station
1987 has realm of a dying sun
1990 has the good son and heaven and las vegas
but i do agree with you

>>73434904
>heaven and las vegas

that album is so overrated.

>>73434932
it is, but i had to pick either that or violator or nowhere or twin peaks which are even more overrated imo. also cherry coloured funk makes me cum

2000

1975

>>73434981
>GSYBE
>yo la tengo
>BOC
>kid a
>gas - pop
>clientele - suburnal lights
>arovane -tides
>animal collective's debut
>modest mouse
>tosca - suzuki
>vladislav delay
>countless others

easily one of the best years ever

>>73435017
>mothership connection
>tonight's the night
>another green world
>rubycon
>wish you were here
there's something for everyone

>>73433843
1992 was definitely a letdown after the glories of 1991. Also why are you surprised that 90s Sonic Youth sucked?

>80s band goes to pot once the 80s are over

>>73435076
92 had Vulgar Display, Automatic For The People, and Dirt. It wasn't _that_ awful.

>>73435017
>1975
Had Toys in the Attic, Alive!, WYWH, Sabotage, the two Elton John albums. All good stuff. The Who By Numbers was trash though.

>>73435076
Thurston and Kim had a kid at that time, so that made them chill and mature a bit.

>>73430304
Pixies and Sonic Youth tho

1988, the year of my birth.

>And Justice For All
Either the last classic Metallica album or the beginning of Nu Metallica depending on how you look at it.
>So Far So Good So What
Weakest classic Megadeth album.
>Rattle and Hum
Weakest classic U2 album
>Straight Outta Compton
Can't forget that.
>South of Heaven
Let's play at 70 bpm for epic lulz.
>Daydream Nation
Sure, why not?

>>73435279
Why are you listening entry level normie trash?

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>>73429351
>>73430605

>>73432151
>1977
Talking Heads-77
The Clash-S/T
Elvis Costello-My Aim Is True
Television-Marquee Moon
Richard Hell and the Voidoids-Blank Generation
Iggy Pop-the Idiot AND Lust For Life
David Bowie-Low AND Heroes
Wire-Pink Flag
Ramones-Rocket to Russia
Sex Pistols-Nevermind the Bollocks
The Damned-DAMNED DAMNED DAMNED

1977 was literally one of the best years for music

>>73429351
>Run The Jewels- S/T
>Deafheaven- Sunbather
>Mogwai- Rave Tapes
>Tycho- Awake
>Daft Punk- RAM
It was a pretty good year desu.

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Looks like a pretty fucking good year to me.

I think it's fairly obvious that 1967 was the worst year for music. Name me one (1) good album released that year aside from The Doors' debut

>>73435371
>RTJ
>Sunbather
>Daft Punk

all shit

>>73435391
Obvious bait.

>>73435391
huey lewis and the baits - safe as milk

>>73435391
>Pink Floyd- Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
>The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
>Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica
>Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced?
>The Velvet Underground- TVU & Nico

>>73435338
77 was a very good year for alternative rock, the mainstream stuff was pretty bad.

>Draw The Line
Hey, let's do drugs, everyone!
>Love Gun
Eh...
>Sin After Sin
Priest early in their career, still trying to "find" themselves.
>Love You Live
Piece of shit Rolling Stones live album.
>Styx, Yes, Rush, etc albums
Bleh.
>Animals
This was acceptable.

>>73435462
You forgot Can, and also Trout Mask Replica was 1969. Safe As Milk was 1967.

2013 was arguably the last good year for music. Name one good post-2013 album.

I love lists of 70s albums because there's no hip-hop on them.

>>73435471
In the UK punk WAS the mainstream. The Sex Pistols debuted at #1, and The Clash, The Jam, Sham 69, and Blondie were all hitmakers.

>>73434231
>Oh god pop music was terrible. There wasn't a direction in pop music, each week a different artist would come out with a different bland and uninspiring song. The mid 90's was the era of the "one hit wonders" artists.
Mariah Carey was the closest thing to a proper pop star we had in the mid-90s and she was pretty fucking bland.

>>73433979
>Worst years were the ones before 1910, because music hadn't started by then
Nigga, get the fuck out of here before I drop a piano on your head.

>>73435415
Nope, all these so called "masterpieces" like TVU and Sgt pepper's are overhyped trash

>>73435564
Mariah Carey was very safe, canned, corporate music product, nothing like Madonna or whatever.

>>73435621
That's what I said. She was the only pop star who was a consistent hit generator back then and she was really boring and uninspired.

>>73433979
>Yeah, Tears for Fears are much better
Have a free (You) on me.

>>73433898
Slow Focus
Loud City Song
Immunity
The Inheritors
Shaking the Habitual

>>73430721
Animals and The Wall are good, The final Cut is shit

>>73435675
>The final Cut is shit
Pleb spotted.

>>73435595
Let me guess. Its your first week on /mu/ so you decided to look up an essentials chart. You listened to a few classic albums, and didn't understand them. You put on TVU, and went "wtf this isn't kanye" and turned it off halfway through the second track? Grow up.

>>73434231
1996...yeah, it was that transitional period between grunge and the Britney/nu metal/pop punk era, so there wasn't anything good coming out.

>>73435715
Antichrist Superstar and Follow The Leader seemed great when I was 14, I listen to them now and it's like my ears melt into a puddle on the floor. Dear God, what the fuck was I thinking?

>>73434231
Endtroducing.... though.

>>73434434
1989 was the only good album out in '14.

>>73434231
>>73435715

What are you on about? You had the Chicago underground scene, with bands like Tortoise, Gastr del Sol, Red Krayola, and Cheer Accident. Swans released their magnum opus, hip hop had Paradise Don't Come Cheap, Dr. Octoganecologyst, and Entroducing, and there was an incredible indie rock scene going on in Japan at the time.

>>73428834
Emergency and I?

>>73435705
I listened to TVU for the first time nearly a decade ago in high school. It's objectively garbage dude, it's just autistic screeching for the sake of being different and Lou Reed doing a gay voice. your taste is trash kiddo

>>73436055
>Not liking TVU and then trying to someone else they have trash music taste

>>73432151
2013 had some good stuff Swain's Howl or yeezus

>>73436055
>objectively garbage
>using /pol/tard twitter memes
so you are underage? ok

>>73436055
i'd hate to know what you think of white light / white heat

2017 if it keeps up like this.

>>73435471
who the fuck cares about whether or not these albums were mainstream, they are all fantastic and influential

>>73435388
Generic alone makes this year amazing

>>73433266
What did he mean by this?

>>73428834
agreed

>>73429351
RAM by Daft Punk came out in 2013, saving the year

>>73433489
good taste anon

bumping cause I want OP to be proved even more wrong

>>73430574
This on its own brings 1982 far away from the worst year

>solid space - space museum
>oppenheimer analysis - new mexico
>monoton - monotonprodukt 07

2013, 2016 and 2017 are the worst by far

>>73440636
2016 was a great year tho

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But THIS album makes up for all of it.

>>73441186
why did he write a book

>>73428548
The early 80's are fine. When new wave went underground, R&B added tons of cheesy synths, metal reigned supreme in rock, and rap emerged and has done nothing of note since was a much crappier time for music. I'd say 1986-89 matches what I described. The only reason 1982 is a little weaker is that a couple of the big New Wave bands didn't release new material. Most notably the Police, the Cars, and Talking Heads.

>>73428834
Jim O'Rourke

>>73435338
Also Suicide - s/t is noteworthy

>>73441894
yea I forgot a bunch, these were just off the top of my head.

>>73440708
name me one good 2016 album then

ITT: People jokingly call the most legendary years in music (67, 77, 82, etc.) The worst, other respond to them seriously

>>73442093
If no Blackstar, then We Got It From Here, or Post Pop Depression, or a Sailors Guide to Earth, or Skeleton Tree, or Hope Six Demolition Project.

>>73442093
I liked untitled unmastered
2016 was pretty bad considering all the hype for Kanye, Swans, Radiohead, etc

2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018-2020 are probably the worse years for music, art and culture.

>>73442445

The Glowing Man and A Moon Shaped Pool have gone on to be favorites of mine from both bands.

>Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
>Motorhead - Iron Fist
>Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
>Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
>Kate Bush - The Dreaming
>Venom - Black Metal
Not a bad year at all.

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>there are specimens that think that 92 was a bad year

>>73428672
black flag

>>73442893
Van Halen-Diver Down. Don't forget that too.

That Tears For Fears record came out in 83 btw