FAVORITE ALBUMS BY YEAR
A list of favorite album releases from my collection for every year since my birth.
1959 An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
1960 Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation
1961 Ricky Nelson – Ricky is 21
1962 Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan
1963 James Brown — Live at the Apollo
1964 The Beatles – Second Album
1965 The Beatles – Rubber Soul (US)
1966 Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
1967 The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper
1968 The Beatles – The Beatles
1969 The Beatles – Abbey Road
1970 George Harrison – All Things Must Pass
1971 The Who – Who’s Next
1972 Big Star – #1 Record
1973 Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
1974 Big Star – Radio City
1975 Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
1976 Jackson Browne – The Pretender
1977 The Clash – The Clash
1978 Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town
1979 Neil Young – Rust Never Sleeps
1980 Pete Townshend – Empty Glass
1981 Rickie Lee Jones – Pirates
1982 Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
1983 Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
1984 Little Steven – Voice of America
1985 Tom Waits – Rain Dogs
1986 Paul McCartney – Press to Play
1987 Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel of Love
1988 Randy Newman – Land of Dreams
1989 Bob Dylan – Oh Mercy
1990 Roseanne Cash – Interiors
1991 Bob Dylan – Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3
1992 k.d. lang – Ingenue
1993 Aimie Mann – Whatever
1994 Alejandro Escovedo – Thirteen Years
1995 Pavement – Wowee Zowee
1996 Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Braver Newer World
1997 Bob Dylan – Time Out of Mind
1998 Michael Fracasso – World in a Drop of Water
1999 Tom Waits – Mule Variations
2000 Neil Young — Silver & Gold
2001 Ian Hunter – Rant
2002 Lonesome Bob – Things Change
2003 Richard Thompson – Old Kit Bag
2004 Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse
2005 Charlie Sexton – Cruel and Gentle Things
2006 Tom Waits — Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
2007 Paul McCartney – Memory Almost Full
2008 Alejandro Escovedo – Real Animal
2009 Madness – The Liberty of Norton Folgate
2010 John Grant – Queen of Denmark
2011 Fucked Up – David Comes to Life
2012 Bill Fay – Life is People
2013 Willie Nile – American Ride
2014 Roger Daltrey & Wilko Johnson – Going Back Home
2015 Rickie Lee Jones – The Other Side of Desire
2016 Michael Fracasso – Here Come the Savages
2017 Neil Young – Hitchhiker
2018 Fucked Up – Dose Your Dreams
2019 Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars
2020 Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways
2021 Deafheaven – 10 Years Gone/Infinite Granite
2022 John Mellencamp – Strictly a One-Eyed Jack
2023 John Mellencamp – Orpheus Descending