Pointless Exercise Apparently Sweeping the Web

At least according to the Onion, anyway. Name an album for every year you've been alive. Doesn't necessarily have to be what you consider the best, just something to represent that year.

Here's mine:

1963 – Dylan - The Free Wheelin’ Bob Dylan
1964 - Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
1965 – Byrds - Turn Turn Turn
1966 – Beatles - Revolver
1967 – Velvet Underground and Nico
1968 – Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
1969 – Silver Apples - Contact
1970 – Yoko Ono - Plastic Ono Band
1971 – Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
1972 – Genesis - Foxtrot
1973 – Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
1974 – Sparks - Kimono My House
1975 - Ian Hunter - S/T
1976 – Ramones - S/T
1977 – Television - Marquee Moon
1978 – Elvis Costello - This Year’s Model
1979 – The Clash - London Calling
1980 – Captain Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station
1981 – OMD - Architecture & Morality
1982 – Kate Bush - The Dreaming
1983 – REM - Murmur
1984 – Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
1985 – Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
1986 – Peter Case - S/T
1987 – The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
1988 – Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
1989 – Pixies - Doolittle
1990 – Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
1991 – MBV - Loveless
1992 – Kitchens of Distinction - The Death of Cool
1993 – Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
1994 – Hole - Live Through This
1995 – The Mavericks - Music For All Occasions
1996 – Nick Cave - Murder Ballads
1997 – Radiohead - OK Computer
1998 – Mercury Rev - Deserter’s Songs
1999 – Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
2000 – Radiohead - Kid A
2001 – Danielson Famile - Fetch the Compass Kids
2002 - Neko Case - Blacklisted
2003 – The Sleepy Jackson - Lovers
2004 – William Shatner - Has Been
2005 – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - S/T
2006 - Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
2007 – Against Me - New Wave
2008 – M83 - Saturdays = Youth



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Breno, you're a year younger than me. I saw this on the Onion too. Here's my game attempt:

1962: Modern Sounds in Country and Western - Ray Charles ("I Can't Stop
Loving You" was #1 the week I came screaming into this world)
1963: With the Beatles - duh!
1964: The Manfred Mann Album-(Hi Erik!)
1965: Otis Blue- Otis Redding
1966: Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
1967: The Who Sell Out
1968: The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
1969: Five Leaves Left- Nick Drake
1970: Get Your Ya-Yas Out- Rolling Stones
1971: Electric Warrior-T. Rex
1972: #1 Record-Big Star
1973: For Your Pleasure-Roxy Music
1974: Kimomo Your House-Sparks
1975: Soap Opera-The Kinks
1976: Boston-1st Album
1977: Rocket to Russia-The Ramones
1978: This Year's Model-Elvis Costello
1979: Setting Sons-The Jam
1980: The Specials-1st Album
1981: East Side Story-Squeeze
1982: Combo Akimbo-Blotto (Hi again, Erik!)
1983: Let's Dance-David Bowie
1984: I Often Dream of Trains-Robyn Hitchcock
1985: Centerfield-John Fogerty
1986: They Might Be Giants-1st Album
1987: Bo-Day-Shus!-Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper
1988: The Mona Lisa's Sister-Graham Parker
1989: This One's For the Ladies-The Young Fresh Fellows
1990: Lizardland-The Brotherhood of Lizards
1991: Nevermind-Nirvana
1992: Apollo 18-TMBG
1993: The Greatest Living Englishman-Martin Newell
1994: Cliches-Alex Chilton
1995: Ron Sexsmith-1st Album
1996: Acid Bubblegum-Graham Parker
1997: Heavy Soul-Paul Weller
1998: The Boy With The Arab Strap-Belle and Sebastian
1999: 13-Blur
2000: Tunnel Into Summer-Kimberly Rew
2001: Her Mystery Not of High Heels and Eye Shadow-Jonathan Richman
2002: Cobblestone Runway-Ron Sexsmith
2003: Elephant-White Stripes
2004: SMiLE-Brian Wilson
2005: Destination Unknown-Sexsmith & Kerr
2006: Broken Boy Soliders-The Ranconteurs
2007: A Summer Tamarind-Martin Newell
2008: Accelerate-R.E.M.

Good shout outs to Blotto and Manfred Mann, Joe!

Thanks Erik. You know, I should have put Veedon Fleece by Van Morrison for 1974.

I was running down my list in my head this morning, and I would have represented Van with either Fleece or Saint Doms (1972). I'm currently immersed in his 2000s stuff for purposes or writing...sure makes me miss that golden era. Though Keep It Simple gave him his *first* US top 10 this year, believe it or not. (Though, I consider those to be diluted numbers in a slumping record market.)

At any rate, having been born in 1969 (Stooges!) I wouldn't have to spend as much time as you and Brad on my list!



Post Edited (07-10-08 10:33)

Veedon Fleece is my favorite Van the Man album & an underrated one at that.
Also, I thought that one of his 90s albums made the US Top 10. Finally, I'm currently reading A Prospect of Wivenhoe by Martin Newell in which he tells the story on how Captain Sensible, Van & Paul Simon were all in Wivenhoe in a 36 hr. period all within a quarter mile of each other w/o any fuss (the good Captain was working w/Martin while Van & Paul were visiting old friends).

That sounds like an interesting premise for a book! As to the the Top 10, see below, from Billboard:

05 JUN 2008
VAN ARRIVES: He's been charting on The Billboard 200 for just over 40 years, with 40 different albums to his credit. He has been on the Billboard album chart for a total of 787 weeks, but only one of those weeks has been spent in the top 10: this week.

"If you had asked me last week which Van Morrison album had reached the highest position on The Billboard 200, I would have answered, Saint Dominic's Preview, which went to No. 15 in 1972. But we have a new champion, as Keep It Simple (Exile) enters the chart at No. 10. That also makes it Morrison's highest-debuting set, besting the No. 25 openings of Down the Road in 2002 and Magic Time in 2005.

The first solo Morrison album to chart was Blowin' Your Mind! That LP bowed the week of Oct. 7, 1967, which gives Morrison an album chart span of 40 years, six months and two weeks. But before recording on his own, Morrison was a member of the Belfast-based rock group Them ("Gloria," "Here Comes the Night"). Them first appeared on the album chart the week of July 24, 1965, with an eponymous release. That gives Morrison a career album chart span of 42 years, seven months and four weeks."

- Fred Bronson
Billboard magazine

Wasn't Blackfoot one of PDQ Bach's side projects? And talk about your side projects being better than the originals....

"?? You're not referring to the Southern-rock band, are you? That's the only "Blackfoot" I'm aware of, in music."

I was wondering the same thing, but thought Rhett might have been making a pretty bizarre but funny non-sequitur.

And actually, there was JD Blackfoot, who was always inexplicably huge in St. Louis but virtually unheard of everywhere else, due to the high regard he was held in by local station K-SHE, who have maintained their own quirky playlist for 40 years now. K-SHE has always loved them some JD Blackfoot.

Yeah, it was a joke, dudes. In the vein of what I assumed was Satch's tongue-in-cheek inclusion of them (and just about everybody else on his list) in the first place.

1963: Boots Randolph - Yakety Sax
1964: Dionne Warwick - Make Way For
1965: Sonny & Cher - Look at Us
1966: Peter, Paul & Mary - The Peter, Paul & Mary Album
1967: The Deviants - Ptooff!
1968: The Archies - s/t
1969: Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn
1970: The Ides of March - Vehicle
1971: Spike Jones - Spike Jones Is Murdering the Classics
1972: Liza Minnelli - Liza with a "Z"
1973: The Partridge Family - Crossword Puzzle
1974: Jim Stafford - s/t
1975: Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
1976: Wild Cherry - s/t
1977: Millie Jackson - Feelin' Bitchy
1978: Brand X - Masques
1979: Frank Sinatra - Trilogy
1980: Blackfoot - Tomcattin'
1981: Jim Steinman - Bad For Good
1982: Kajagoogoo - White Feathers
1983: Fastway - s/t
1984: The Lords of the New Church - The Method to Our Madness
1985: The Mentors - You Axed For It
1986: Virgin Prunes - The Moon Looked Down and Laughed
1987: Gaye Bykers on Acid - Drill Your Own Hole
1988: Tony! Toni! Tone! - Who?
1989: KMFDM - UAIOE
1990: Jane Wiedlin - Tangled
1991: DJ Quik - Quik Is The Name
1992: Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - 1992: The Love Album
1993: Shaquille O'Neal - Shaq Diesel
1994: Howard Stern - Unclean Beaver
1995: Ass Ponys - Mr. Superlove
1996: Quad City DJ's - Get on up and Dance
1997: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - The Art of War
1998: Lenny Kravitz - 5
1999: Mannheim Steamroller - Mannheim Steamroller Meets the Mouse
2000: Dee Dee Ramone - Hop Around
2001: The Donnas - Turn 21
2002: Napalm Death - Order of the Leech
2003: Dying Fetus - Stop at Nothing
2004: Michael McDonald - Motown Two
2005: Mouthus - Slow Globes
2006: Starship Cobra - While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets
2007: Paula Adbul - Greatest Hits: Straight Up!
2008: Nothing People - Anonymous

Wow... Mr. Satch, that list was an awesome thing to behold. Wish I'd thought of it.

All I'm gonna say about my pointless list is: each of these albums is in my collection, and each of them does find its way onto my stereo, fairly regularly.

1962: Twist with The Ventures!
1963: The Beach Boys – Surfin' USA
1964: The Rolling Stones – 12 × 5
1965: The Beatles – Help!
1966: Roger Miller – Waterhole #3 (soundtrack)
1967: Love – Forever Changes
1968: The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet
1969: Captain Beefheart – Trout Mask Replica
1970: The Velvet Underground – Loaded
1971: The Who – Who's Next
1972: David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
1973: Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
1974: Sweet – Desolation Blvd.
1975: Kiss – Alive!
1976: Aerosmith – Rocks
1977: Roxy Music – Greatest Hits
1978: Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
1979: The B-52's
1980: Talking Heads – Remain in Light
1981: X – Wild Gift
1982: Prince – 1999
1983: Echo & the Bunnymen – Porcupine
1984: Prince – Purple Rain
1985: INXS – Listen Like Thieves
1986: The Fluid – Punch N Judy
1987: The Soul Merchants – Gates of Heaven
1988: Living Colour – Vivid
1989: Faith No More – The Real Thing
1990: The Auto-No – This is The Auto-No
1991: Pearl Jam – Ten
1992: The Cure – Wish
1993: Jellyfish – Spilt Milk
1994: Blur – Parklife
1995: Oasis – What's the Story, Morning Glory?
1996: The Refreshments – Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy
1997: Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape
1998: Hole – Celebrity Skin
1999: XTC – Apple Venus Vol. 1
2000: U2 – All That You Can't Leave Behind
2001: Weezer ("the Green Album")
2002: Elvis Costello – When I Was Cruel
2003: Fountains of Wayne – Welcome Interstate Managers
2004: The Futureheads
2005: Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
2006: Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
2007: The Hives – The Black & White Album
2008: The B-52's – Funplex

Good call on the Ventures!

Can't believe Satch doesn't have any PDQ Bach on his list.

> Good call on the Ventures!

Thanks. The Ventures is the first rock & roll I ever heard; my dad was big on them. I have my dad's Ventures albums on vinyl, along with his Beach Boys albums and the Roger Miller soundtrack.

I would love to have all of those on vinyl. I have all of the major '60s albums on CD and only "Ventures in Space" and "Ventures Play Telstar" on vinyl. I was a Ventures fan first (the gentile stuff), but then (through Eddie Angel) got more into Link Wray (the raunchy stuff). The Ventures played an outdoor show here last month for free.

erikalbany wrote:

> I was a Ventures fan first
> (the gentile stuff),

I never knew they converted.

(sorry for being such a chump, but I couldn't resist)

Hey, they are a bunch of genteel gentiles. As am I.

Fair enough?

My dad took my brother and me to a club where The Ventures were playing, right after I turned 18. It was free to anyone who showed up in a Ventures t-shirt. Since I worked at a screen-printing shop at the time, I made sure the three of us were decked out. It was a blast.

> Wasn't Blackfoot one of PDQ Bach's side projects?

??? You're not referring to the Southern-rock band, are you? That's the only "Blackfoot" I'm aware of, in music.