Top 5 Albums (1950-Today)

[Octopus]

I have fun making lists. I don’t take it too seriously, but it’s enjoyable to have a nerdy obsessive hobby. Especially when it becomes a never ending process. Almost like a tool to keep going out of your way to learn and experience new things. Around a decade ago I had a running bit with my friends that I was making a Top Ten Films for 2010. The joke was that it was always still being worked on, due to wanting to see more. That continued with other years and eventually a friend of mine and myself both did a quick project doing 100 Greatest albums. That was probably in 2017. Well, that led to a year long project (off and on) of Top 5 from 1958-2018. We worked on our own versions while being bored at work and at home, messaging each other recommendations and finding excitement in diving into different genres and our new beloved musicians. My friend taught me country music and I opened him up to hip hop. He introduced me to Nick Cave and I showed him Leonard Cohen. It culminated in a very fun night of drinking we had at his place where we ate steak and spent most of the night finally going over our list. We went through the entire list and honestly we had so much to drink that we both only actually remember getting to around the late 70’s, the rest is blurred. So we took a break from it to focus on our Top 200 Films lists (I’m more of a movie nerd than a music one, but obviously love them both) and it wasn’t until this year that we jumped back into albums. This time it was pushed back to 1950. Going back further is tough to find reliable recordings and honestly I’m pretty ignorant of that time period outside of maybe a few fun facts. I’ve had fun diving into Jazz this time, which I skipped over last. I was a fan of random Sun Ra records but learning more and appreciating Thelonious Monk and charles Mingus has been an interesting ride. Now I have more of a base to add onto as opposed to starting from nothing.

I thought it would be fun to post this in its own thread instead of just random music discussion. Maybe if you guys like the idea it could become a fun project for anyone looking to dive into something. I like the idea of it being more of a personal voyage as opposed to a list by committee. Which those can be very fun, but I enjoy seeing someone’s taste. I used to work at a Barnes and Noble DVD department and I had my regulars during the Criterion sale and knowing the styles they were into, it would lead to engaging conversations and I enjoyed slipping them recommendations. Committee votes are good for crowning figurative champions and giving achievements, but a person list is more about the lister than what’s being listed.

One struggle is how to rank. Especially when something can be so mood depended, like music can be. Despite the subjective struggles, creating a personal way to sort through things is fun. There is no wrong way to do any of this, of course. As long as it is somewhat logically consistent. For this list I tended to favor listenability of the entire album as opposed to which has the best singles. If I’m skipping through tracks, then it’s not for this list. I’m a big fan of a lot of artists that I’ll put in their greatest hits as opposed to their albums in full.

The other emphasis is that it’s never fully set in stone. I like the idea of something being dynamic enough to be fluid. The 1 spot is pretty safe, but I’m always trying to discover more. Also, sometimes things don’t hit on the first listen. Things change over time. 

Here is mine. Anyone can post their own version, whatever year range or Top however many albums (3, 5, 10, 100, whatever!).

 

1950 

1. Woodie Guthrie - Talking Dust Bowl

2. Charlie Parker - With Strings

3. Jo Stanford - Autumn in New York

4. Les Paul - The New Sound

5. Pete Seeger - Darling Corey

 

1951

1. Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Sings Gershwin

2. Duke Ellington - Masterpieces 

3. Les Paul - New Sounds Vol 2

4. Lefty Frizzell - Songs of Jimmie Rodgers

5. Andrew Rowan Summers - The Unquiet Grave 

 

1952

1. Billie Holiday - Billie Holliday Sings

2. Jean Ritchie - Tradition Songs of Her Kentucky Family

3. Anita O’Day - The Lady is a Tramp

4. Les Paul & Mary Ford - Bye Bye Blues

5. Patti Page - Tennessee Waltz

 

1953

1. Lead Belly - Last Sessions 

2. Peggy Lee - Black Coffee

3. Thelonious Monk Trio

4. Billie Holiday - An Evening With

5. Fred Astaire- The Astaire Story

 

1954 

1. Louis Armstrong - Plays WC Handy

2. Sarah Vaughan - Images

3. Ella Fitzgerald- Songs in a Mellow Mood

4. Frank Sinatra - Swing Easy

5. Dinah Washington - After Hours with Miss D

 

1955

1. Sarah Vaughan 

2. Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours

3. Dinah Washington - For Those in Love

4. Louis Armstrong - Satch Plays Fats

5. Thelonious  Monk - Plays Duke Ellington 

 

1956

1. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Ella & Louis 

2. Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues

3. Billie Holiday - Solitude 

4. Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus

5. Moondog

 

1957

1. Charles Mingus - The Clown

2. Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners

3. John Coltrane - Blue Train

4. BB King - The Blues

5. Thelonious Monk - Monk’s Music

 

1958

1. Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin

2. Buddy Holly

3. Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue

4. Chuck Berry - One Dozen Berrys

5. Frank Sinatra - Frank Only Sings For the Lonely 

 

1959

1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

2. Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

3. Howlin Wolf - Moanin at the Moonlight

4. Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette

5. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um

 

1960

1. Woodie Gunthrie - The Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti 

2. Etta James - At Last 

3. John Lee Hooker - That's My Story

4. John Lee Hooker - Travelin'

5. Frank Sinatra - Nice 'n' Easy

 

1961

1. Rev. Gary Davis - Harlem Street Singer

2. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things

3. John Lee Hooker - The Folklore of

4. Nina Simon - Forbidden Fruit

5. Ike & Tina Turner - The Soul of Ike & Tina

 

1962

1. Ray Charles - Modern Songs in Country and Western Music

2. Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightning Strikes

3. Booker T & The MG's - Green Onions

4. Woody Guthrie - Sings the Blues

5. Sam Cooke - Twistin' the Night Away

 

1963

1. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin Bob Dylan

2. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 

3. Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream

4. Dave Von Honk - Folksinger 

5. Mississippi John Hurt - Folk Songs and Blues

 

1964

1. Muddy Waters - Folker Singer

2. Otis Redding - Pain in My Heart

3. The Kinks

4. Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News

5. Nina Simone - Folksy Nina 

 

1965

1. Nina Simone - Pastel Blues 

2. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

3. Beatles - Rubber Soul

4. Otis Redding - Otis Blue

5. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

 

1966 

1. Beatles - Revolver

2. Sun Ra - The Nubians of Plutonia

3. Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence

4. The Animals - Animalism 

5. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

 

1967

1. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band

2. The Doors

3. Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser

4. The Velvet Underground and Nico

5. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?

 

1968

1. Beatles - The White Album

2. Thelonious Monk - Underground 

3. The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society

4. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison

5. Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends

 

1969

1. Pharaoh Sanders - Karma

2. Beatles - Abbey Road

3. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul

4. Townes Van Zandt

5. King Crimson- In the Court of The Crimson King

 

1970

1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

3. Kris Kristofferson - Kristofferson

4. BB King - Indianola Mississippi Seeds

5. Beatles - Let it Be

 

1971

1. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate

2. Bill Fay - The Last Persecution

3. Gil-Scott Heron - Pieces of a Man

4. Sly and the Family Stones - There's a Riot Goin On

5. Willie Nelson - Yesterday’s Wine

 

1972

1. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall

2. Stevie Wonder - The Talking Book

3. Lou Reed - Transformer

4. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly

5. Stevie Wonder - Music of My Mind

 

1973

1. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

2. Sun Ra - Space is the Place

3. Tom Waits - Closing Time

4. Toots & the Maytals - Funky Kingstons 

5. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

 

1974

1. Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different 

2. Gil-Scott Heron - Winter in America 

3. Pharaoh Sanders - Love In Us All

4. John Cale - Fear

5. Leonard Cohen - New Skin Old Ceremony 

 

1975

1. Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger

2. Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All these Years 

3. Parliament- Mothership Connection

4. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

5. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

 

1976

1. Dave Von Ronk - Sunday Street

2. Bootsy Collins - Stretchin Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band

3. Tom Waits - Small Change

4. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

5. Ramones

 

1977

1. Bootsy Collins - The Name is Bootsy

2. The Damned - Damned, Damned, Damned

3. Television - Marquee Moon

4. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bullock

5. David Bowie - Heroes

 

1978

1. Sun Ra - Lanquidity 

2. John Prine - Bruised Orange

3. Waylon & Willie

4. Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear

5. Bruce Springsteen- Darkness on the Edge of Town

 

1979

1. Sun Ra - Sleeping Beauty

2. The Slits - Cut

3. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

4. Michael Jackson - Off the Wall

5. The Clash - London Calling

 

1980

1. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables 

2. Talking Heads - Remain in Light

3. Joy Division - Closer

4. Motörhead - Ace of Spades

5. Bruce Springsteen - The River

 

1981

1. Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust, Inc

2. Agent Orange - Living in Darknesses 

3. Discharge - Why?

4. This Heat - Deceit 

5. Black Flag - Damaged

 

1982

1. Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disaster 

2. Ted Hawkins - Watch Your Step

3. Discharge- Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing

4. Michael Jackson - Thriller

5. The Birthday Party - Junkyard

 

1983

1. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones

2. Dio - Holy Diver

3. Sun Ra - Fireside Chat with Lucifer

4. Metallica - Kill Em All

5. Swans - Filth

 

1984

1. Prince - Purple Rain

2. The Smiths - The Smiths

3. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense 

4. Metallica - Ride the Lightning

5. Sade - Diamond Love

 

1985

1. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs 

2. Schoolly D

3. The Smiths - Meat is Murder

4. Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist

5. LL Cool J - Radio

 

1986

1. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

2. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

3. Slayer - Reign in Blood

4. Paul Simon - Graceland 

5. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill

 

1987

1. Napalm Death - Scum

2. Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded

3. Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full

4. Candlemass - Nightfall 

5. Kool Moe Dee - How Ya Like Me Now

 

1988

1. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

2. Bathory - Blood Fire Death

3. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey

4. Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown

5. Erik B & Rakim - Follow the Leader

 

1989

1. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising 

2. Lou Reed - New York

3. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique 

4. Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop

5. EPMD - Unfinished Business 

 

1990

1. Bathory - Hammerheart 

2. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss

3. Eric B & Rakim - Let the Rhythm Hit 'em

4. A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythms

5. Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption

 

1991

1. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

2. Nirvana - Nevermind

3. Cypress Hill 

4. Scarface - Mr Scarface is Back

5. Geto Boys - We Can't be Stopped

 

1992

1. Sleep - Holy Mountain 

2. Rage Against the Machine 

3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream

4. Dr Dre - The Chronic

5. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother 

 

1993

1. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chamber)

2. Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle

3. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders 

4. KRS One - Return of the Boom Bap

5. E-40 - Federal

 

1994

1. The Notorious BIG - Ready to Die

2. Redman - Dare iz a Darkside

3. Scarface - The Diary

4. Nas - Illmatic

5. TLC - Crazysexycool

 

1995

1. KRS One 

2. GZA - Liquid Swords

3. Brotha Lynch Hung - Season of da Siccness

4. Death - Symbolic

5. Raekwon (w/ Ghostface Killah) - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 

 

1996

1. Dr Octagon - Dr Octagonecologyst

2. Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire 

3. Weezer - Pinkerton

4. Fugees- The Score

5. Makevali (2Pac) - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory

 

1997

1. Radiohead - OKComputer

2. Eryka Badu - Baduizm

3. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call

4. The Psycho Realm

5. Missy Elliot - Supa Dupa Fly

 

1998

1. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over The Sea

3. System of a Down

4. Blackstar

5. Silver Jews - American Water

 

1999

1. Tom Waits - Mule Variation 

2. Pharaohe Monch - Internal Affairs 

3. Jay Z - Vol 3. Life and Times of S. Carter

4. Of Montreal - The Gay Parade

5. Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles

 

2000

1. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone 

2. Eryka Badu - Mama's Gun

3. Jill Scott - Who is Jill Scott: Words and Sounds Vol. 1

4. D'Angelo - Voodoo

5. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele 

 

2001

1. Jay Z - The Blueprint 

2. Bjork - Vespertine 

3. Tech N9ne - Anghellic

4. Smog - Rain on Lense

5. Bob Dylan - Love & Theft 

 

2002

1. Buckethead - Electric Tears

2. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

3. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

4. Scarface - The Fix

5. System of a Down - Steal This Album

 

2003 

1. Sleep - Dopesmoker

2. Jay Z - The Black Album

3. Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol 2

4. MF Doom - Vaudeville Villain 

5. Radiohead- Hail to the Thief 

 

2004 

1. Madvillain - Madvillainy

2. Mastodon - Leviathan

3. Kanye West - The College Dropout

4. Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic

5. Jill Scott - Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds vol 2

 

2005

1. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine

2. Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust 

3. Buck 65 - Secret House Against the World

4. Deli Creeps - Dawn of the Deli Creeps

5. Smog - A River Ain't Too Much In Love

 

2006

1. Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea

2. CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange

3. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale 

4. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards

5. Mr Nogatco - Nogatco Rd

 

2007

1. Radiohead - In Rainbows 

2. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

3. The National - The Boxer

4. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

5. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass

 

2008

1. B Dolan - The Failure 

2. Fleet Foxes 

3. Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Graves

4. Whitey Morgan & the 78s - Honky Tonks & Cheap Motels  

5. Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons; You Paint That Shit Gold

 

2009

1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 

2. Les Claypool - Of Fungai and Foe

3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillon 

4. Death - ...For the Whole World to See

5. Freddie Gibbs - Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik

 

2010

1. Tallest Man on Earth - Wild Hunt 

2. Rick Ross - Teflon Don

3. Gil-Scott Heron - I'm New Here

4. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid

5. King Dude - Tonight's Special Death

 

2011

1. Death Grips - Exmilitary 

2. Adele - 21

3. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Blood Lust

4. Bill Callahan- Apocalypse 

5. Tom Waits - Bad As Me

 

2012

1. Fiona Apple - Idler Wheel

2. Death Grips - The Money Store

3. The Avett Brothers - The Carpenter

4. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, MAAD City

5. Todd Snider - Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables

 

2013 

1. Beyonce 

2. Sarah Shook & the Devil - Seven

3. The Milk Carton Kids - The Ash & Clay

4. Lorde - Pure Heroine

5. Pusha T - My Name Is My Name

 

2014

1. PHOX

2. D'Angelo - Black Messiah

3. Swans - To Be Kind

4. Madlib & Freddie Gibbs - Piñata 

5. Bongripper - Miserable 

 

2015

1. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly 

2. Kool Keith & L'Orange - Time, Astonishing 

3. The Milk Carton Kids - Montreal

4. Napalm Death - Apex Predator: Easy Meat

5. Whitey Morgan & the 78s - Sonic Ranch

 

2016

1. Nick Cave - Skeleton Key

2. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

3. Solange - A Seat at the Table

4. Death Grips - Bottomless Pit

5. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got it From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service

 

2017

1. Colter Wall 

2. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me

3. SZA - Ctrl

4. Willie Watson - Folksinger Vol 2

5. Kendrick Lamar - Damn

 

2018

1. Sleep - The Sciences

2. John Prine - The Tree of Forgiveness 

3. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter V

4. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer 

5. Colter Wall - Songs of the Plains

 

2019 

1. Pixel Grip - Heavy Handed

2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghostteen

3. Lizzo

4. Madlib & Freddie Gibbs - Bandana

5. Billie Eilish

 

2020 (so far) 

1. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Transferring all that over from notes was a mess. Hopefully there isn’t too many typos. I’ll edit as I go through. 

Everything is still a work in progress. Plan on adding over time.

Feel free to post your versions of Top Albums by year.

[Curt McGirt]

Going by year is way too hard for me, but I gotta say, you are probably the only person to have ever thought to put Brotha Lynch Hung and Death side by side (their similar lyrical predilections notwithstanding). You also just about hit the bullseye on every single year of the '80s. Kudos! 

[Execproducer]

Yeah, I'm not going to try to do every year either but I'll throw a couple out there. And I'll do a top 10 because 5 is too much of a struggle.

1969

1. The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed.
2.  Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis.
3.  Johnny Cash- At San Quentin.
4.  Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry.
5.  The Temptations - Cloud Nine.
6.  The Stooges - The Stooges
7.  The Beatles - Abbey Road.
8.  The Delfonics - Sound of Sexy Soul.
9.  The Band - The Band
10.  Booker T. & the M.G.'s - The Booker T. Set

1982

1. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
2. Prince - 1999
3. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay
4. The Clash - Combat Rock
5. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message
6. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
7. Bad Brains - Bad Brains
8. Gang of Four - Songs of the Free
9. Merle Haggard - Go Where the Lonely Go
10. Scorpions - Blackout

1994

1. Hole - Live Through This
2. Johnny Cash - American Recordings
3. Townes Van Zandt - No Deeper Blue
4. The Offspring - Smash
5. Soundgarden - Superunknown
6. Prince - The Black Album
7. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
8. The Go-Go's - Return to the Valley of the Go-Go's
9. L7 - Hungry for Stink
10. Portishead - Dummy

 

 

 

 

 

[Chaos]

Kudos, sir! I've fallen badly out of album listening habits recently (been somewhat replaced by playlist and live Dead/Umphrey's sets).

I probably should find a 1,000 albums before you die list and work through that throughout a couple of years.

Also, seeing it listed made me turn on Veckatimest for the first time in years, and that album is still fantastic.

[Octopus]

21 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

Going by year is way too hard for me, but I gotta say, you are probably the only person to have ever thought to put Brotha Lynch Hung and Death side by side (their similar lyrical predilections notwithstanding). You also just about hit the bullseye on every single year of the '80s. Kudos! 

Going by years was tough. Especially when one years has like 10 favorites and another has like 3. You’ll get an album that you’d put at 6 that if it came out the next or the year before would have been 1 or 2. The 90’s are a good example. So many albums I love and have nostalgic feelings for, but for a brief period there was just so many of my favorite hip hop albums. From around 87-96 my 5’s are majority hip hop, and very little great alt-Rock bands that were killing it around then. Personal preference, but I could see if someone else did those years it turning out wildly different and still being an accurate depiction of good taste of the time.

Also, going through and listening to different artists, it’s a fun ride to watch when different music movements and styles take place. I’m sure if the list was more massive it would be better visually represented, but looking at when Jazz and Folk is slowly replaced by pop rock. Or when Hip Hop shows up.

That Brotha Lynch Hung album is so good. It flows so nicely, how he raps with the west coast sound behind him makes it a great experience. Then you add on the horrorcore lyrics and it’s a match made in heaven. Some of his albums can be hit and miss but that one is spot on from beginning to end. Death is a group I’d like to check out more. I tend to gravitate more towards Sludge/ Doom Metal, but a buddy of mine that is more of a Metal Head recommended me a few albums and that one stuck out. Death Metal is a genre I have to be in the mood for. Moreso than Thrash, which I can enjoy is multiple moods. Both Kynch and Death albums struggle with being in the same year as 2 of my personal favorites. Liquid Swords is phenomenal and a Top 10-15 GOAT for me and KRS-ONE’s self titled album is in my Top 3 GOAT. 

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@Execproducer, a few you listed I need to still check out. Next go around I do this I’ll check a few of those out. 

Townes Van Zandt is legit. Doing this he was one of my big discoveries. 

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2 hours ago, Chaos said:

Kudos, sir! I've fallen badly out of album listening habits recently (been somewhat replaced by playlist and live Dead/Umphrey's sets).

I probably should find a 1,000 albums before you die list and work through that throughout a couple of years.

Also, seeing it listed made me turn on Veckatimest for the first time in years, and that album is still fantastic.

Yeah, that was one of the reasons my friend and I started doing these. Today singles and playlists are such a convenient and fun way to listen to music. With all this COVID stuff going on, my wife and I had a lot of fun turning on different Spotify playlists and hanging out. 

My resources were websites like RYM, best ever albums, and decades lists from sites like Pitchfork. I can roll my eyes at some of the charts but it’s nice having a big list in front of you to scroll through and pick out. Just googling a specific year and typing album brings up a lot of results too.

Veckatimest is legit. Great driving music. Always fun to revisit. That album and a few in the years around it were right after I graduated high school and was branching out to new things. A few tough things in life started popping up and it was nice that the music coming out around that time had such a chill, relaxed meandering style. Very needed in life to slow things down when things get hectic.

[OSJ]

On 5/11/2020 at 12:47 PM, Curt McGirt said:

Going by year is way too hard for me, but I gotta say, you are probably the only person to have ever thought to put Brotha Lynch Hung and Death side by side (their similar lyrical predilections notwithstanding). You also just about hit the bullseye on every single year of the '80s. Kudos! 

Excellent list, though you're even more of a Monk fan than I am and that's saying something. My one quibble would be how you and apparently everyone else sleeps on the fact that Prine's Diamonds in the Rough was a totally kick-ass brilliant album (it was my intro to Prine, if you were to pin me down I'd have to say that "Ziggy Stardust" and "Diamonds" were the two albums that really changed my life.) Granted, the stage had been set for my weirdness with "Free Your Mind", but that's neither here nor there...

[OSJ]

Scorpions - Blackout

"Speedy's Coming"" was the best Scorpions album, but I can count the people that I know who have heard it on the fingers of one hand.

[ohtani's jacket]

Do you mean Fly to the Rainbow?

[Octopus]

On 6/25/2020 at 8:30 PM, OSJ said:

Excellent list, though you're even more of a Monk fan than I am and that's saying something. My one quibble would be how you and apparently everyone else sleeps on the fact that Prine's Diamonds in the Rough was a totally kick-ass brilliant album (it was my intro to Prine, if you were to pin me down I'd have to say that "Ziggy Stardust" and "Diamonds" were the two albums that really changed my life.) Granted, the stage had been set for my weirdness with "Free Your Mind", but that's neither here nor there...

Love me some Monk. Him, Mingus, and Sun Ra have been my go-to’s as ive been diving into Jazz music.

I have to listen to more Prine. Outside of the few I listed, which do you recommend?

[OSJ]

On 7/5/2020 at 11:42 AM, OctopusCinema said:

Love me some Monk. Him, Mingus, and Sun Ra have been my go-to’s as ive been diving into Jazz music.

I have to listen to more Prine. Outside of the few I listed, which do you recommend?

Check out some of his stuff on youtube.

[OSJ]

On 6/26/2020 at 6:42 AM, ohtani's jacket said:

Do you mean Fly to the Rainbow?

Yes, it's been fucking years and I am old and forgetful.

[ohtani's jacket]

No worries. I thought it might have been a release I didn't know about. 

[OSJ]

Thinking about 1990s releases, I shall mention my dark horse candidate, (if y'all don't know this band go to youtube and search for band name and "Lodi" and you will be a believer too. The album is "White Dirt" by the Chickasaw Mudd Puppies!)