Favorite Year For Releases?

[cicero2]

not sure if this topic has already been discussed here, but what years featured the release of many of your favorite records? for me: 1967, 71, 77, 97 (what is it with all these 7s?)

[Sandy G]

I can find something good in almost any year-at least until cRap & hip/hop took over.Prolly the best for me would be 1969-89, though.

[slow_jazz]

Probably 1980-1985 was the best for me. MTV was just starting and great bands were everywhere.

[tentoze]

Every year.

[CarlV]

Pretty much leave out the 1980's and it's all good. :music:



Carl

[onepixel]

Every year for me too. But in the more recent years it's been getting harder. I must be getting old.

[Drybasement]

Oh, I don't know. Primarily the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s.

[mhardy6647]

1971 was pretty good as I recall.

[dmax99]

Seems like I like alot of stuff that was released in 1970,twas a very good year for music....

[Filmboydoug]

IIRC, The Wall and AJA both came out in 1979. That would be it for me.

[theWB]

Pretty much leave out the 1980's and it's all good. :music:



Carl
Agreed!!!

[opt80]

I can find some goodies every year

[arrow 68]

Late 60's, through the 70's.

[Victor]

So many great years to choose from but I have to pick 1967 as my favorite.

Beatles-Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Doors-The Doors
Jimi Hendrix Experience-Are You Experienced
Moody Blues-Days Of Future Passed
The Velvet Underground & Nico

A year that changed music :yes: 1967.

Victor

[Buzzer]

So many great years to choose from but I have to pick 1967.

Beatles-Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Doors-The Doors
Jimi Hendrix Experience-Are You Experienced
Moody Blues-Days Of Future Passed
The Velvet Underground & Nico

The year that changed music :yes: 1967.

Victor
Victor you just beat me to it.
1967 just stands out, especially guitar wise IMO. :smoke:

Grateful Dead
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Stones - Between the Buttons
Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign
Magical Mystery Tour

[Art K.]

Pretty much leave out the 1980's and it's all good. :music:



Carl

Agreed, and even the "80's had REM.

[Yamaha Nutz]

69 - 79 minus the Disco

[e2e4c7c5]

1971 was pretty good as I recall.

Yes, it was!! :music:

Doors - LA Woman
The Who - Who's Next
Led Zeppelin - IV

Actually every year from 1965 to 1979 was really pretty great!!

[Dusty Chalk]

I have a hard time deciding on a favourite release from 1989.

I also remember 1973 having some good ones.

But I'm with tentoze -- there's lots of good stuff in every year.

[pmsummer]

Pretty much leave out the 1980's and it's all good. :music:

Carl

Cool! If we leave out the '80s, I haven't turned 50 yet! :thmbsp:

[ekmanning5]

1971 was pretty good as I recall.
I agree, whether it was because the music was great or because I was an impressionable 15 year old who couldn't get enough music is hard to say.

[Mystic]

Pretty much leave out the 1980's and it's all good. Carl


But Carl, if we skip the 80s we miss these Bathory gems:

Bathory (1984)
The Return (1985)
Under the Sign of the Black Mark (1987)
Blood, Fire, Death (1988)


It also happens that my favorite private press LPs, both by Bobb Trimble, were released in 1980 and 1982. (But I think Bathory makes a stronger case for including the 1980s)

[CarlV]

But Carl, if we skip the 80s we miss these Bathory gems:

Bathory (1984)
The Return (1985)
Under the Sign of the Black Mark (1987)
Blood, Fire, Death (1988)


It also happens that my favorite private press LPs, both by Bobb Trimble, were released in 1980 and 1982. (But I think Bathory makes a stronger case for including the 1980s)
Agreed! :)
There is the pretty much part. I think about 2 years worth of quality releases in the decade. I also appreciated Dio's firsttime with the Sab's. I saw the Mob Rules show at the sh**hole Cow Palace and it was so cool I drove to UC Davis to see it again. My homeboys Metallica, some other real gems but kinda sad overall.

Carl

[cicero2]

CarlV - my dad saw sabbath's first us tour. since they played the songs in the order on the album, he thought they weren't actually playing. not that i was there, or even conceived, but i thought maybe they played them in album order because they go tegether perfectly that way

[CarlV]

I missed the first US tour, my first Black Sabbath show was the Master Of Reality 1971
at Winterland.



Carl

[andy]

Most people seem to favor the music that was popular when they were teenagers. I've always been out of step with music. I like almost everything except what my friends liked when I was a teen.

Most of my favorites are from the 80's and 2000's. I also agree that there was a lot of good music in the 60s and 70s, but I can't think of much from the 90's that I really like.

[cicero2]

check out the band (smog), a nineties band. for some reason, they sound great even thru tubes.

[Duane]

'67

[Texas42]

Don't recall which specific year had the most, but the best 3 year span for me was from 76-78 when you had tons of great albums and artists coming out. Frampton comes alive, Heart (Dreamboat Annie, Little Queen) Journey (Infinity), Boston, Kansas (Leftoverture, Point of Know Return); Fleetwood Mac (Fleetwood Mac, Rumours); Steve Miller (Fly Like an Eagle); Styx, Yes (Going for the One); Eagles; Bob Seger (Night Moves) etc...Seems like almost every album during this period ended up being a classic and I know I'm forgetting tons more.

[eljr]

Victor you just beat me to it.
1967 just stands out, especially guitar wise IMO. :smoke:

Grateful Dead
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Stones - Between the Buttons
Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign
Magical Mystery Tour


The answer is clearly 67.

[Tubejunke]

Carl V said something along the lines of all the rock years to be good, just leave out the 80's

Agreed!!!

Ditto!!:yes:

[cicero2]

gotta say that there were great releases in the 80's

big black - the atomizer
the fall - this nation's saving grace
the cure - faith (friend of mine who hates thin 80's produciton says of this rec. 'it works so well for faith'
lots of others

[eljr]

Carl V said something along the lines of all the rock years to be good, just leave out the 80's



Ditto!!:yes:

I just googled top albums of the 80's and found several top 100 lists and I have to say, not much going on in the 80's.

[Danger Boy]

for me it would have to be 1971 (Carole King Tapestry released),
1976 (Frampton Comes Alive released),
1976 (Hotel Calif the Eagles released),
1977 (Fleetwood Mac Rumors released).
1979 (Led Zep - IN thru the out door released)
1982 (Led Zep - Coda released)

plus I like alot of the 80's music.. to much to list.

[markb]

The '60's Folk ,Jazz ,and Rock were all great.