Best year for music

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Chrille
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Best year for music

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In your opinion, what is/was the best year for music?

Motivate your choice by picking five albums released that year.
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Post by Chrille »

Favourite year: 1980

Why?

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EC's Get Happy!!

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Bowie's Scary Monsters

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Gabriel's 3rd (Melt)

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Talkin Heads' Remain In Light

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Springsteen's The River

Edit: Stole your idea, Mike ;)
Edit 2: And in case the links don't work, I've put the text back in again.
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1977. I can do more than five...

The Clash - The Clash
Talking Heads - '77
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
David Bowie - Heroes, Low
Ian Dury - New Boots And Panties!
Ramones - Leave Home
The Jam - In The City

The list could go on and on. Those are just the ones that spring immediately to mind.
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I'm gonna go with 1969:

The Beatles - Abbey Road
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
The Velvet Underground
The Who - Tommy
The Kinks - Arthur
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
The Band - The Band
Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace Of Sin
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Post by Jackson Monk »

Got to be 1979 for me:

The Clash- London Calling
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
The Jam - Setting Sons
Nick Lowe - Labour of Lust
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp
Graham Parker - Squeezing out Sparks
Marianne Faithful - Broken English
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Gang of Four - Entertainment
Joy Division - Unlnown Pleasures
Squeeze - Cool for Cats
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Post by LittleFoole »

Who Shot Sam? wrote:1977. I can do more than five...

The Clash - The Clash
Talking Heads - '77
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
David Bowie - Heroes, Low
Ian Dury - New Boots And Panties!
Ramones - Leave Home
The Jam - In The City

The list could go on and on. Those are just the ones that spring immediately to mind.
Dang...it ain't like I'm WSS's parrot, or nothing...but I ditto the year .... but will pare it down to 5 choices....
T Heads : '77
The Clash : The Clash
Ramones : Leave Home
EC : MAIT
Ian Dury : NBAP!

God, it seems like forever since them good ol' days 8) :wink:
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1972

because
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echos myron like a siren
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
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Post by invisible Pole »

Haven't given ti too much thought but 1986 looks like a great year for music :
EC - King Of America
EC - Blood And Chocolate
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
XTC - Skylarking
Paul Simon - Graceland
Peter Gabriel - So
Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4
Billy Bragg - Talking With The Taxman About Poetry
Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill
Crowded House - Crowded House
New Order - Brotherhood

Not bad, huh ?
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Post by Bob And Charlotte »

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Frank Zappa and the Mothers - Freak Out
Cannonball Adderley - Mercy! Mercy! Mercy!
The Beatles - Revolver



1966 by far.... with 1965 as a second close with Dylan´s 'Bringing it all back home' and 'Highway 61 Revisited', The Beatles arguably best album 'Rubber Soul', Otis Blue, Coltrane´s 'A Love Supreme' (record on december of 1964 and released in january 1965), The Byrds stupendous debut record and many others.
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Post by Otis Westinghouse »

'79 is very special, but 1980 is the one for me:

T Heads - Remain In Light
EC - GH!!
Joy Div - Closer
Bowie - Scary Monsters
Jam - Sound Affects
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Post by Richard »

Great lists Otis, Jackson & Who Shot!

I think 1979 is good enough to get another five!

Public Image Ltd - Metal box
Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
The Specials - The Specials
Wire - 154
The Fall - Dragnet

Ok, maybe 1980 deserves more too;

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
Capt Beefheart - Shiny Beast
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms

Has anybody done 1978?

Pere Ubu - The Modern dance
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents
The Saints - Eternally Yours

Well I guess they are my three favorite years. Sorry for getting so carried away.
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