Music Best ever year for music

[Dante]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49278814

James Acaster (yeah, me neither) reckons that 2016 was the greatest ever year for music.

According to the linked article 1966, 1971 and 1984 have all been touted by various publications.

What say you?

 

[DOTA]

The one where I was young and cool and thinking about it makes me feel young and cool again.

 

[RedTiger]

95-96 because I was young and cool.

 

[sullydnl]

I don't know what the best year was but it sure as shit wasn't 1984.

 

[esmufc07]

What year did Rebecca Black release 'Friday'?

 

[horsechoker]

1999 cause Prince released 1999 and 2001 cause Dr Dre released 2001.

Waits to be corrected by some know-it-all

 

[dumbo]

1711 is right up there.

 

[diarm]

What year did Rebecca Black release 'Friday'?

Jesus Christ what did I just watch?

 

[Solius]

2016 was good. Blonde is probably one of the albums of the decade. It had TLOP, Malibu and more too. I enjoyed 2017 S well. This year the major albums have mainly been misses for me apart from Tyler and a few others. I realise mine are mainly from a rap/hip-hop point of view.

 

[Florida Man]

In 1997, a band named Anal cnut released an album named I Like It When You Die.

It has to be 1997.

 

[JakeC]

Maybe not the best, but 2009 had some of my favourite albums of all time from very different artists.

Arctic Monkeys : Humbug
The XX: xx
Mumford and Sons: Sigh no More
Kasabian: West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Jamie T: Kings and Queens

 

[JakeC]

Looking back at the 20th Century, picking my five favorites from each year is really tough with some years being clearly better than others.

2000
Kid A -Radiohead
The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
Parachutes - Coldplay
Stankonia - Outkast
Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park

2001.
Is This It - The Strokes
The Gorrilaz - The Gorrilaz
White Blood Cells - The White Stripes
Asleep in the Back - Elbow
Just Enough Education to Perform - Stereophonics

2002
Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
The Eminem Show - Eminem
By the Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Original Pirate Material - The Streets
Up the Bracket - The Libertines

2003
Hail to the Thief - Radiohead
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - Outkast
Get Rich or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent
The Black Album - Jay Z
Room on Fire - The Strokes

2004
American Idiot - Greenday
A Grand Don't Come for Free - The Streets
Encore - Eminem
The College Dropout - Kanye West
Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leona

 

[dumbo]

But Rinaldo dropped in 1711.

 

[marukomu]

1977

 

[Stobzilla]

Whichever year 36 Chambers came out.

 

[Robbo's Shoulder]

1983 and 85 take some beating from a personal point of view.

83
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
The Fall - Perverted by Language
New Order - Power Corruption and Lies
Killing Joke - Firedances
Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
Echo and the Bunnymen - Porcupine
Lords of the New Church - Is Nothing Sacred
Bauhaus - Burning From the Inside
The Waterboys - The Waterboys
among some fantastic albums that year.

85
The Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean Basically
New Order - Low Life
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycho Candy
New Model Army - No Rest for the Wicked
Nick Cave - The Firstborn is Dead
Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
Killing Joke - Night Time
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
The Pogues - Rum Sodomy and the lash
The Fall - This Nations Saving Grace.

2 cracking years musically.

 

[Mrs Smoker]

James...

 

[Hephaestus]

Well Lover got released today so I'm gonna go for 2019...

 

[pocco]

Looking back at the 20th Century, picking my five favorites from each year is really tough with some years being clearly better than others.

2000
Kid A -Radiohead
The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
Parachutes - Coldplay
Stankonia - Outkast
Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park

2001.
Is This It - The Strokes
The Gorrilaz - The Gorrilaz
White Blood Cells - The White Stripes
Asleep in the Back - Elbow
Just Enough Education to Perform - Stereophonics

2002
Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age
The Eminem Show - Eminem
By the Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Original Pirate Material - The Streets
Up the Bracket - The Libertines

2003
Hail to the Thief - Radiohead
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - Outkast
Get Rich or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent
The Black Album - Jay Z
Room on Fire - The Strokes

2004
American Idiot - Greenday
A Grand Don't Come for Free - The Streets
Encore - Eminem
The College Dropout - Kanye West
Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leona

My first thought was 2000 because of Marshall Mathers LP. What a year for music. I miss Outkast.

 

[Classical Mechanic]

97 sticks out but like most people that pick a year it was because I was young and first starting going to gigs.

OK Computer - Radiohead
Urban Hymns - The Verve
Fat of the Land - The Prodigy
The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters

 

[Casanova85]

1967
1968
1970-78
1984
1987
1991

 

[Casanova85]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49278814

James Acaster (yeah, me neither) reckons that 2016 was the greatest ever /QUOTE]
.

What a silly sod.

 

[11101]

Using albums by Beyonce and Kanye West to justify that choice


Probably about 20 years of better music out there. Most of the 60s and 70s for a start.

 

[onemanarmy]

1977

Ramones - Rocket to Russia
Sex Pistols - Never mind the bollocks
Television - Marquee moon
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Wire - Pink Flag
David Bowie - Heroes
The Clash - ST
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
Dead Boys - Young Loud and snotty
The Jam - In the City
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear

And lots more.

 

[Globule]

1984 or 1986 for me, in terms of albums released. They were good years for heavy metal.

The question is quite open though. Is it just albums? What about tours/events? Accessibility to music? Or even the way performers are paid?

 

[Eckers99]

91 was great
Nevermind
Blue Lines
Loveless
Screamadelica
Out of Time
Foxbase Alpha
Bandwagonesque
Cypress Hill
De La Soul Is Dead
The Low End Theory
Spiderland
Laughing Stock
Trompe Le Monde

 

[Woodzy]

1999 when they released ‘The best of The Beatles’

 

[United58]

1977

Bat out of Hell

 

[KirkDuyt]

I like this last year the most.

- Absolutely no one in any year ever.

 

[Buster15]

Any year that Pink Floyd were producing and playing their music.

 

[stepic]

97 sticks out but like most people that pick a year it was because I was young and first starting going to gigs.

OK Computer - Radiohead
Urban Hymns - The Verve
Fat of the Land - The Prodigy
The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters

i was going to say 1997 too. to those 4 you can add a ton of other awesome stuff too:

homogenic - bjork
i can hear the heart beating as one - yo la tengo
homework - daft punk
the boatman's call - nick cave and the bad seeds
blur - blur
the lonesome crowded west - modest mouse
either/or - elliott smith
brighten the corners - pavement
deftones - around the fur
portishead - portishead
under the western freeway - grandaddy
ladies and gentlemen we’re floating in space - spiritualized

 

[Fridge chutney]

What year did Rebecca Black release 'Friday'?

This is a really good shout. 2011 I believe. Cody Simpson also released his seminal work iyiyi and JB was prolific then too.

 

[Mrs Smoker]

1980 was pretty awesome. 1992 too.

 

[Eckers99]

i was going to say 1997 too. to those 4 you can add a ton of other awesome stuff too:

homogenic - bjork
i can hear the heart beating as one - yo la tengo
homework - daft punk
the boatman's call - nick cave and the bad seeds
blur - blur
the lonesome crowded west - modest mouse
either/or - elliott smith
brighten the corners - pavement
deftones - around the fur
portishead - portishead
under the western freeway - grandaddy
ladies and gentlemen we’re floating in space - spiritualized

Some stone cold classics in 97.

 

[Dante]

97 sticks out but like most people that pick a year it was because I was young and first starting going to gigs.

OK Computer - Radiohead
Urban Hymns - The Verve
Fat of the Land - The Prodigy
The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters

i was going to say 1997 too. to those 4 you can add a ton of other awesome stuff too:

homogenic - bjork
i can hear the heart beating as one - yo la tengo
homework - daft punk
the boatman's call - nick cave and the bad seeds
blur - blur
the lonesome crowded west - modest mouse
either/or - elliott smith
brighten the corners - pavement
deftones - around the fur
portishead - portishead
under the western freeway - grandaddy
ladies and gentlemen we’re floating in space - spiritualized

I didn't properly start getting into music until the 2000s, so I'm not saying this for reasons of nostalgia. But if I look through this thread, this list of albums stands out most to me.

 

[vidic blood & sand]

1985

 

[Classical Mechanic]

1969

Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Who - Tommy
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Crazy Horse & Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Issac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

 

[Pexbo]

I’ve neither the motivation not the inclination to actually contribute to the content of this subjective thread but what I absolutely will say is that James Acaster is a national treasure and I won’t hear a bad word so watch your mouths.

 

[Wibble]

I don't know what the best year was but it sure as shit wasn't 1984.

There may have been some terrible commercial rubbish but the period 81-85 was a great period for music

 

[decorativeed]

97 sticks out but like most people that pick a year it was because I was young and first starting going to gigs.

OK Computer - Radiohead
Urban Hymns - The Verve
Fat of the Land - The Prodigy
The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters

1997 also had Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized, I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One by Yo La Tengo and Zaireeka by the Flaming Lips, Under The Western Freeway by Grandaddy, Being There by Wilco, Songs From Northern Britain by Teenage Fanclub, Young Team by Mogwai, Dig Me Out by Sleater Kinney, Either/Or by Elliott Smith and load of other stuff.