Sunday, July 13, 2008

Favorite albums - year by year

A challenge: listing a favorite album for each year of your life. Rather than select albums for the years when I was but a wee lad, I chose instead to list a favorite album (or albums in some cases where I just couldn't decide) for the years I actually purchased LPs or CDs. So here's a list for each year from 1980 on. Keep in mind these are favorites, albums I just kept (and keep) coming back to...

1980 - "Autoamerican" Blondie
1981 - "Time" E.L.O.
1982 - "The Golden Age of Wireless" Thomas Dolby
1983 - "Listen" A Flock of Seagulls
1984 - "Go Insane" Lindsey Buckingham
1984 - "Purple Rain" Prince
1985 - "Crush" O.M.D.
1986 - "Life's Rich Pageant" R.E.M.
1986 - "Revenge" Eurythmics
1987 - "Sign o' the Times" Prince
1988 - "Temple of Low Men" Crowded House
1988 - "Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart" Camper Van Beethoven
1989 - "March" Michael Penn
1989 - "Dolittle" the Pixies
1990 - "Flood" They Might Be Giants
1991 - "Woodface" Crowded House
1991 - "Out of Time" R.E.M.
1991 - "Fear" Toad the Wet Sprocket
1992 - "Automatic for the People" R.E.M.
1992 - "It's a Shame About Ray" the Lemonheads
1993 - "Zooropa" U2
1993 - "Star" Belly
1994 - "Martinis and Bikinis" Sam Phillips
1995 - "The Bends" Radiohead
1996 - "Fountains of Wayne" Fountains of Wayne
1996 - "Odelay" Beck
1997 - "OK Computer" Radiohead
1998 - "El Oso" Soul Coughing
1999 - "Magnolia" Soundtrack feat. Aimee Mann
1999 - "Summerteeth" Wilco
2000 - "The Man Who" Travis
2000 - "Discovery of a World Inside the Moon" Apples in Stereo
2001 - "Get Ready" New Order
2002 - "This Side" Nickel Creek
2003 - "Michigan" Sufjan Stevens
2003 - "Chutes Too Narrow" the Shins
2003 - "Long Gone Before Daylight" the Cardigans
2004 - "More Adventurous" Rilo Kiley
2005 - "Warnings/Promises" Idlewild
2006 - "The Dust of Retreat" Margo & the Nuclear So & So's
2006 - "The Trials of Van Occupanther" Midlake
2007 - "Twelve Stops and Home" the Feeling
2008 - "Fleet Foxes" Fleet Foxes
2008 - "Furr" Blitzen Trapper

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