i don’t normally fill these out…
so wikipedia has every (prolly not every but quite the catalog) album released sorted by year. start with the year you were born and select your favorite album from each year up until the present. it’s definitely not as easy as i thought…and i definitely cheated on a few years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_in_music
1978 : Van Halen - Van Halen
1979: Pink Floyd - The Wall
1980: U2 - Boy
1981: Cocteau Twins - Garland
1982: U2 - War
1983: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity
1984: Metallica - Ride The Lightning
1985: The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
1986: Run DMC - Raising Hell
1987: Michael Jackson - Bad
1988: Pixies - Surfer Rosa
1989: The Cure - Disintigration
1990: The Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
1991: Metallica - The Black Album
1992: Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
1993: The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
1994: Beck - Mellow Gold/Weezer - Weezer/NIN - Downward Spiral/NOFX - Punk In Drublic/Portishead - Dummy/Korn - Korn/Toadies - Rubberneck/Jeff Buckley - Grace/Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary…i cheated on this year…so what.
1995: Radiohead - The Bends
1996: Deftones - Adrenaline/The Fugees - The Score/Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire/Modest Mouse- This Is A Long Drive…/Weezer - Pinkerton/Portishead - Portishead/The Cure - Galore/Deaftones - Around The Fur/Mogwai - Young Team/The Get Up Kids - 4 Minute Mile/Soulfly - Soufly/At The Drive-In… cheating
1997: Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
1998: Zao - Where Blood And Fire Bring Rest
1999: Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
2000: Dr. Dre - 2001
2001: Baboon - A Bum Note And A Bead Of Sweat
2002: Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
2003: The Postal Service - Give Up
2004: Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
2005: Minus The Bear - Menos El Oso
2006: Dredg - Catch Without Arms
2007: Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight
