Best Year For Music

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Whats the best year for music that you have ever had though growing up right until today?? and why??

[porkshit]

definately this year. there had been a whole bunch of good stuff released and there is way more to come this year.

[chalice]

1988/89 was an excellent year for music.
The Stone Roses started kicking ass and that music suited that hot summer so well.

[N£MO]

Originally posted by chalice@17 June 2003 - 14:41
1988/89 was an excellent year for music.
The Stone Roses started kicking ass and that music suited that hot summer so well.

I was going to say 1988 too as thats when raving really kicked off in England and as you said The Stone Roses were well on the scene.

Oh it was a great year.

[Celerystalksme]

The Summer of '69 *lmao*

[Curley]

1993 when I became a Bon Jovi fan

[Twist3r]

this year when linkin park meteora was releaced

[packerfan3001]

like 88'-96 when sublime was still touring

[sparsely]

1999 was pretty damn good.

Wilco released Summerteeth
The Flaming Lips with The Soft Bulletin
Sparklehorse had Good Morning Spider
other stuff too, I think, but I can't recall now.

[mdb175]

My "old" favourite YEAR is:
1749 = Johann Sebastian Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge (Art of the Fugue), BWV 1080

...but all the most recent years have albums that I'm glad to remember...

1963 = Beatles' first album - Modern Rock begins, imho
1964 = Beatles' Meet the Beatles & Beatles for Sale
1965 = Beatles' Rubber Soul
1966 = Frank Zappa's Freak Out! - Beatles' Revolver - Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
1967 = Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced? & Axis: Bold as Love
1968 = Beatles' White Album - The Kinks' The Village Green Preservation Society - Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland - Frank Zappa's We're Only in It for the Money
1969 = King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King - Led Zeppelin's first & second albums - Frank Zappa's Uncle Meat
1970 = Soft Machine's Third - Led Zeppelin's III - David Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World
1971 = The Who's Who's Next - Led Zeppelin IV - David Bowie's Hunky Dory
1972 = David Bowie's The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust - Deep Purple's Made in Japan & Machine Head
1973 = Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy
1974 = Brian Eno's Here Come the Warm Jets - King Crismon's Red
1975 = Brian Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) & Another Green World - Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti
1976 = David Bowie's Station to Station
1977 = David Bowie's Low & Heroes - Brian Eno's Before and After Science
1978 = Police's first album - Van Halen's First album - Peter Gabriel's Second album
1979 = XTC's Drums & Wires - Joe Jackson's Look Sharp! - Police's Reggatta de Blanc - David Bowie's Lodger
1980 = Peter Gabriel's third album - Police's Zenyatta Mondatta -David Bowie's Scary Monsters
1981 = King Crimson's Discipline - Japan's Tin Drum - Frank Zappa's Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar
1982 = Joe Jackson's Night and Day- Duran Duran's Rio - Peter Gabriel's IV - Police's Synchronicity - Toto's IV - Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast
1983 = U2's War - David Bowie's Let's dance - Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood
1984 = Steve Morse's The Introduction - Chic's Believer - Van Halen's 1984 - U2's The Unforgettable Fire
1986 = Joe Jackson's Big World - David Lee Roth's Eat 'Em & Smile - Peter Gabriel's So
1987 = Joe Satriani's Surfing With the Alien - U2's The Joshua Tree
1988 = Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Frank Zappa's Guitar
1989 = Madonna's Like a Prayer - Stevie Ray Vaughan's In Step
1990 = Steve Vai's Passion and Warfare - Eric Johnson's Ah Via Musicom
1991 = Nirvana's Nevermind - U2's Achtung Baby
1992 = Dream Theater's Images & Words
1993 = Nirvana's In Utero
1994 = Dream Theater's Awake
1995 = Dream Theater's A Change of Seasons
1996 = Jason Becker's Perspective - Eric Johnson's Venus Isle - Deep Purple's Purpendicular - Take That disbanded !!
1997 = Robbie Williams' Life Thru a Lens ( fortunately Take That disbanded... )
1998 = Madonna's Ray of Light - Liquid Tension Experiment
1999 = Liquid Tension Experiment 2 - Eminem's The Slim Shady LP
2000 = Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory -Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP -Steve Morse's Major Impacts
2001 = Robbie Williams' Sing When You're Winning
2002 = Dream Theater's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - The Eminem Show
2003 = Linkin Park's Meteora

..I only considered Rock Music since it seems to be the favourite genre for this Forum's visitors.
I would stick with 1986...Take care you all !