The greatest year of music

Whiney · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:32 am

ghosted Wrote:

1967.
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

1991.

Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque

I say 1991 barely edges out 1967 as the greatest year of music.

I say you're tripping balls.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

everyone knows rock achieved perfection in 1974

and wouldn't you have to outweigh all teh crappy releases from these years? The Pat Boones and Jesus Joneses? Would you account for just the ten best and worst for each year, or just a flat median? Also, would one take into account how many people actually heard the VU record in '67? lots of variables, and this is the nerdiest post i've ever made, simpsons line to boot.

alive · **Joined:** Mon Nov 29, 2004 1:00 am **Posts:** 352

Quote:

I say you're tripping balls.

OK, replace Teenage Fanclub with Pixies. Throwing Muses is more than good enough to be there though.

Spiderland, Laughing Stock, Loveless, Goat, and Yerself is Steam are still the best (or the only) of their kind.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

the best year in music is when you are 17 and 3 years before you were born.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

the first four years of the 70's by way of James Brown

1970
Ain't It Funky
Soul on Top
It's a New Day - Let a Man Come In
Sex Machine
Hey America

1971
Super Bad
Sho Is Funky Down Here
Revolution of the Mind

1972
Soul Classics
There
Get on the Good Foot

1973
Black Caesar
Slaughter's Big Rip-off
Soul Classics, Volume 2

1974
The Payback
Hell

Sketch · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:04 am

Arguments for...

'66 - Revolver, Pet Sounds, Blonde On Blonde

'71 - What's Going On, Zeppelin IV, Blue, Sticky Fingers, Who's Next, There's a Riot Goin' On, Hunky Dory

'87 - Sign O the Times, The Joshua Tree, Appetite For Destruction

'91 is a given.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2005 11:23 am

Despite the groans this will almost certainly elicit: The Doors debut in '67.

Whiney · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2005 11:39 am

DumpJack Wrote:

Despite the groans this will almost certainly elicit: The Doors debut in '67.

Don't forget the first record by Lady Janis and Big Brother, Hendrix's Are You Experienced, and Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pilla.

How could anyone hold the wonky meanderings of Slint to these powerhouses?

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

i don't think anything could top the groans for the throwing muses.

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

1977 for the impact

1979 for the refinement

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

93

wu tang - enter the wu tang 36 chambers
tribe - midnight marauders
snoop - doggy style
black moon - enta da stage

94

biggie - ready to die
nas - illmatic
outkast - southernplayalistccadalcmuzik
gangstarr - hard to earn

DumpJack · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:15 pm

WhineyCMJ Wrote:

DumpJack Wrote:

Despite the groans this will almost certainly elicit: The Doors debut in '67.

Don't forget the first record by Lady Janis and Big Brother, Hendrix's Are You Experienced, and Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pilla.

How could anyone hold the wonky meanderings of Slint to these powerhouses?

Hendrix's debut trumps almost all. I can't believe I forgot that one....

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:32 pm

WhineyCMJ Wrote:

Don't forget the first record by Lady Janis and Big Brother, Hendrix's Are You Experienced, and Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pilla.

How could anyone hold the wonky meanderings of Slint to these powerhouses?

Actually I'd take the wonky meanderings over all three of those particular ones (close call with Hendrix), but I'd still go with '67 as the better year (Kinks, Love, Dylan, Beatles, VU mainly).

My favorites are probably '79 (year I was born) and '97.

two guns holla · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:37 pm

Don't forget Loveless in 1991.

Balls Mahoney · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:49 pm

I'm going to say:
1979 (Buzzcocks- Singles Going Steady, Gang of Four Entertainment, Raincoats debut, PIL- Second Edition, Wire- 154, The Clash- London Calling)

1972- (Stones- Exile on Main St, Modern Lovers debut, Curtis Mayfield- Superfly, Bowie- Ziggy Stardust, Captain Beefheart- Clear Spot, Nick Drake- Pink Moon, Al Green- I'm Still in Love with you, Fela Kuti- Roforofo Fight)

1969- Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica, Kinks- Arthur, Jimmy Cliff- Wonderful World, Beautiful People, Velvet Underground- S/t, Beatles- Abbey Road

'77 and '80 are being vastly overlooked too (Congos- heart of the Congo, Tlelvision- Marquee Moon, Junior Murvin- Police & Thieves, Iggy Pop- Lust for Life, Talking Heads- remain in Light, Captian Beefheart- Doc at the radar station, Feelies- Crazy Rhythms, joy Division- closer)

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:18 pm

DumpJack Wrote:

Despite the groans this will almost certainly elicit: The Doors debut in '67.

That's the first thing I thought of after going through his '67 list. No Doors?

So they're not popular around here? I didn't realize that. They're my favorite band of all-time. I've been into them since I was 5.

puma · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2005 5:37 pm

Jimmy Stripe Wrote:

I'm going to say:
1979 (Buzzcocks- Singles Going Steady, Gang of Four Entertainment, Raincoats debut, PIL- Second Edition, Wire- 154, The Clash- London Calling)

Ooooh good call. I pick this one.

'91 second.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

if we're goin' the hip-hop road, shouldn't '88 be the absolute winner?

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