I stole this idea from my favorite website. Simple: pick your favorite album (or what would have been your favorite, had you been of age) from every year of your life. Since this will encompass some 39 albums, I'm breaking it up into two posts. Here goes:
1969: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country
1970: Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin III
1971: The Allman Brothers Band, At Fillmore East
1972: Big Star, #1 Record
1973: Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of The Moon
1974: Bob Marley and the Wailers, Natty Dread
1975: Queen, A Night at The Opera
1976: Boston, Boston
1977: TIE: Bob Marley and the Wailers, Exodus and John Williams conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, Star Wars: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (double album! With a free poster!)
1978: Steve Miller Band, Greatest Hits 1974 - 1978
1979: Pink Floyd, The Wall
1980: The Police, Zenyatta Mondatta (and here we start getting into the music that I actually listened to at the time...)
1981: Rush, Moving Pictures
1982: Asia, Asia
1983: The Police, Synchronicity
1984: Van Halen, 1984
1985: R.E.M., Fables of The Reconstruction
1986: Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill
1987: U2, The Joshua Tree
1988: Fishbone, Truth and Soul
1989: The Replacements, Don't Tell A Soul
1990: Soul Asylum, And The Horse They Rode In On
(Back tomorrow with the Nineties up to the present...feel free to play along on your own blogs, consider yourselves tagged if you read this.)
