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Music Best ever year for music
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
He's a comedian, so I don't think he was being entirely serious. And if you've not heard of him, watch his 4 part Netflix specials. I wasn't sold when I first saw him on TV, but it's honestly one of the best stand-up things I've ever seen.
1969
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Neil Young - Everybody knoes this is forever
CSN - Crosby Stills & Nash
Credence Clearwater Revival - Green River
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Who - Tommy
Miles Davis - In a silent way
The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
The Velvet Underground - ST
Led Zeppelin - ST
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
Sly and the Family Stone - Stand
Scott Walker - Scott 4
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Leonard Cohen - Songs from a Room
The Kinks - Arthur
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
No year can beat that.
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Neil Young - Everybody knoes this is forever
CSN - Crosby Stills & Nash
Credence Clearwater Revival - Green River
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Who - Tommy
Miles Davis - In a silent way
The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
The Velvet Underground - ST
Led Zeppelin - ST
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
Sly and the Family Stone - Stand
Scott Walker - Scott 4
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Leonard Cohen - Songs from a Room
The Kinks - Arthur
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
No year can beat that.
Velvet Underground, Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Nick Drake, CCR, Miles Davis... That's tough to top.
Damn. Didn't realise rock was the only genre allowed if a year wants to be considered the best ever.
There's just nothing greater than those hard yet gentle guitar riffs from Miles Davis.Damn. Didn't realise rock was the only genre allowed if a year wants to be considered the best ever.
18 albums there. 16 of them would be classed as either pop rock or experimental rock.
Songs from a Room is naff as well.
Trout Mask Replice is mostly Blues, I'd say. I don't really get the point you're trying to make.
That the list isn't that diverse. (I'd argue it's experimental/art rock but that's splitting hairs).
Yeah, but why does that even matter?
1994
Debut albums
Illmatic - Nas
Ready to die - Biggie
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik - Outkast
Regulate G Funk Era - Warren G
Also
Definitely Maybe- Oasis
Parklife - Blur
ill Comunication - Beastie Boys
Tical- Method Man
Debut albums
Illmatic - Nas
Ready to die - Biggie
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik - Outkast
Regulate G Funk Era - Warren G
Also
Definitely Maybe- Oasis
Parklife - Blur
ill Comunication - Beastie Boys
Tical- Method Man
To be fair, they missed off loads of other great albums in the same genre for 1969 such as MC5s Kick Out the Jams, The Stooges debut album, The Gilded Palace of Sin by Flying Burrito Brothers, Can's Monster Movie.
That year there were great folk albums by Bert Jansch (Birthday Blues), Fairport Convention (What We Did on Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking and Liege & Lief) and Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline.
Soul from The Temptations (Cloud Nine), Sly and the Family Stone (Stand!) and Isaac Hayes (Hot Buttered Soul).
Johnny Cash's Live at San Quentin came out, as did Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis.
1969 was a pretty decent year for lots of types of music.
For me 67 is up there. Debut albums by The Doors and Pink Floyd, Sgt Peppers by The Beatles, debut album of Janis Joplin's first band Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced. All pretty iconic stuff.
Don’t forget the free-swinging Nick Drake jams.
Blonde might be my favourite album ever and TLOP is great but IMO I would rank 2015 >2016. Lots of great stuff came out that year, TPAB, Summertime 06, Rodeo, I don't like shit i don't go outside, GO:ODAM, IYRTITL, Barter 6, The Documentary 2, King Push, DS2, B4DA$$, At Long Last ASAP etc. "
Maybe I just hold a special place for it because it was the first year I started getting into hip-hop/rap but yeah I think were more great releases in 15 than 16
It's definitely up there. Also released that year.
Nirvana - MTV unplugged
Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible
Greenday - Dookie
Prodigy - Music for the jilted generation
Jeff Buckley- Grace
Portishead - Dummy
Can something be the "best" if the sample size is so small?
+ The Blue Album, The Downward Spiral, Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, Selected Ambient Works II, Bee Thousand, Stress: The Extinction Agenda, The Holy Bible, The Main Ingredient, Blowout Comb, 6 Feet Deep, Resurrection, His n Hers, Diary... Man, 1994 just keeps going.
1988 for Hip-Hop is hard to beat.
The drum solo at the end of Leonard Cohen’s The Partisan is rock history.
Yes. Because those lists are subjective bullshit. And the year was 1969, what music would you expect?
The sample size is always going to be relatively small. No year is going to have the best in a diverse range of genres, simple because the most influential releases in a specific genre are often bunched together and a product of their times.
Yep. I agree. There is no best year.
Yes and yet the Monkees sold most albums that year
Yes there is. 1969. I just told you that.
It was a very good year for small town girls and soft summer nights.
But I prefer others.
But I prefer others.
I like 91 - i was into grunge and heavy metal as a kid, 69 is pretty impossible to beat though.
Nirvana - Nevermind
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Metallica - Their black album
Guns N' Roses - Use your Illusion 1 and 2
Pearl Jam - Ten
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Pixies, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, REM, Blur, Smashing Pumpkins all released good stuff that year too
It was good music to grow up with but harder to enjoy as an adult. And the range of music that was available in 69 isn't really there, or not to the same extent
Nirvana - Nevermind
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Metallica - Their black album
Guns N' Roses - Use your Illusion 1 and 2
Pearl Jam - Ten
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Pixies, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, REM, Blur, Smashing Pumpkins all released good stuff that year too
It was good music to grow up with but harder to enjoy as an adult. And the range of music that was available in 69 isn't really there, or not to the same extent
I'm guessing everyone on here is just googling websites that show years with album releases 
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Il put forward 1992, some quality and genre defining albums.
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine. Probably my favourite album of all time and made a young 12 yo me think about the world.
REM - Automatic for the People. Not everyone's cup of tea but a very talented group.
Dr Dre - The Chornic. First time I ever heard quality Hip Hop, got me hocked.
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambiet Works 85-92. Mind blowing.
Plenty of others like Eric Clapton, Pantera and the Beastie boys.
. Il put forward 1992, some quality and genre defining albums.
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine. Probably my favourite album of all time and made a young 12 yo me think about the world.
REM - Automatic for the People. Not everyone's cup of tea but a very talented group.
Dr Dre - The Chornic. First time I ever heard quality Hip Hop, got me hocked.
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambiet Works 85-92. Mind blowing.
Plenty of others like Eric Clapton, Pantera and the Beastie boys.
Chris Cornell
.98 also had some classics. 90s was a hell of a decade for music, really.
xo - elliott smith
in the aeroplane over the sea - neutral milk hotel
the miseducation of lauryn hill - lauryn hill
moon pix - cat power
aquemini - outkast
mezzanine - massive attack
moon safari - air
is this desire? - pj harvey
this is hardcore - pulp
hello nasty - beastie boys
celebrity skin - hole
you've come a long way, baby - fatboy slim
follow the leader - korn
xo - elliott smith
in the aeroplane over the sea - neutral milk hotel
the miseducation of lauryn hill - lauryn hill
moon pix - cat power
aquemini - outkast
mezzanine - massive attack
moon safari - air
is this desire? - pj harvey
this is hardcore - pulp
hello nasty - beastie boys
celebrity skin - hole
you've come a long way, baby - fatboy slim
follow the leader - korn
Has to be 2008 since Coldplay released 'Viva la Vida' that year.
Can't seem to find the thread about songs. But can anyone recommend me some good rap songs about life. As long as it's not about money,women, drugs blah blah blah.
Common is a decent place to start. His albums Be and One Day are probably his two best.
Resurrection is my favourite by him. Possibly my favourite rap album ever, actually. That, Illmatic and Liquid Swords are tough to separate for me.