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July 9, 2008
HERES SOMETHING I SPENT MORE TIME THAN NECESSARY ON!
Since I'm done with my thesis (kind of), this is the kind of thing I should be wasting my time on - picking my favorite album for every year that I was alive. The AV Club did it, as did other blogs. Since I'm done with my thesis (kind of), I might do the same thing for movies. Won't you be lucky!
You can find the lists of albums from each year on the Wikipedia, if you are looking for such a glorious waste of time.
And yes, I like the Talking Heads that much.
1977 - MARQUEE MOON, Television
1978 - THIRD/SISTER LOVER, Big Star
1979 - FEAR OF MUSIC, Talking Heads
1980 - REMAIN IN LIGHT, Talking Heads
1981 - PRAYERS ON FIRE, The Birthday Party
1982 - NEBRASKA, Bruce Springsteen
1983 - SPEAKING IN TONGUES, Talking Heads
1984 - HATFUL OF HOLLOW, The Smiths
1985 - PSYCHOCANDY, The Jesus and Mary Chain
1986 - TRUE STORIES, Talking Heads
1987 - APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION, Guns n' Roses
1988 - GREEN, R.E.M.
1989 - MYSTERY GIRL, Roy Orbison
1990 - NO DEPRESSION, Uncle Tupelo
1991 - NEVERMIND, Nirvana
1992 - BLIND MELON, Blind Melon
1993 - VS, Pearl Jam
1994 - WEEZER, Weezer
1995 - GHOST OF TOM JOAD, Bruce Springsteen
1996 - BEING THERE, Wilco
1997 - OK COMPUTER, Radiohead
1998 - IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA, Neutral Milk Hotel
1999 - I SEE A DARKNESS, Bonnie Prince Billie*
2000 - Elliott Smith, FIGURE 8*
2001 - IS THIS IT?, The Strokes
2002 - YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS, The Flaming Lips*
2003 - THE DECLINE OF BRITISH SEA POWER, British Sea Power
2004 - FUNERAL, Arcade Fire
2005 - END OF LOVE, Clem Snide
2006 - DESTROYER'S RUBIES - Destroyer
2007 - SOME LOUD THUNDER - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
2008 - DIG! LAZARUS DIG! - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (so far)
· 1985 and 86 are pretty weak years for music, unless you like the Replacements, which I kind of do, but not more than the endlessly listenable TRUE STORIES (which works as both a soundtrack and an album).
· If there were an actual awards that people cared about, they would probably see me passing over Wilco's SUMMERTEETH to award BPB's indie classic. Maybe I did. I really don't think anyone is too worried about engaging in this debate.
· Technically, my favorite CD of the year was Aimee Mann's soundtrack for MAGNOLIA, but it doesn't really count (even though I listened to it constantly during my the last semester of my Senior Year in college), so YFM is a perfectly acceptable substitute for an excellent year in music: it also saw KID A, Clem Snide's YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC, and HEARTBREAKER.
· In the closest race of the bunch, YOSHIMI barely beats out YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT. Few albums ever have charmed me and broadened my horizons like this one of a kind curio, and the subjectively empowering line, "One more robots starts to be, something more than a machine." A close third: Beck's SEA CHANGE. Were there voters, it might have split the vote, that or Pedro the Lion's (underrated) CONTROL.
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