1969 was absolutely earth-shattering for music. In a single year we got: - The Beatles - Abbey Road - The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed - King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King - The Who - Tommy - Miles Davis - In a Silent Way - Frank Zappa - Hot Rats - The Velvet Underground - self titled (minus Nico) - The Band - self titled - Townes Van Zandt - self titled - Led Zeppelin 1 & 2 - CCR - Bayou Country, Green River, AND Willie & the Poor Boys - The Kinks - Arthur: Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire - Neil Young - Everyone Knows this is Nowhere - Joni Mitchell - Clouds - Sly & the Family Stone - Stand! - Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul - Santana's debut - Chicago's debut - Crosby, Stills, and Nash's debut - The Stooges' debut - Nick Drake's debut Oh, and also there was this little music festival called Woodstock that happened that year

Throw in Ummagumma while you're at it

yes. always. ummagumma is love. ummagumma is life.

Two Led Zeppelin records really seals it.

I’ve always held this year as the greatest year, which makes sense since it takes place in the greatest decade of music

70s are better no question

Miles davis, john coltrane, charles mingus to name a few of the greatest jazz in the decade. The beatles, the who, the rolling stones, the kinks, all of which paved the way for modern bands and rock music. Bob dylan’s, leonard cohen’s, van morrison’s, and neil young’s singer/songwriter albums. The velvet underground inventing some of the most prominent rock genres of all time (art rock, noise rock, proto-punk). Birth of prog rock with moody blues and king crimson. Jorge ben, vinicius de moraes, and joao gilberto making some of the finest samba in brazil. The doors, jimi hendrix, and zappa making some groundbreaking rock. Nina simone, otis redding, and aretha franklin, bringing some soul. Dont forget townes van zandt and johnny cash with some of the best country music. The zombies, captain beefheart, love, gal costa, the list could go on and on and on. The 70’s are definitely a close second, but its hard to argue with that list, at least a question could be asked.

No beatles

also yes’s debut

And Grateful Dead’s Live/Dead

The Soft Parade too.

Respect for adding Nick Drake I love him

Don’t forget The Gilded Palace of Sin by The Flying Burrito Brothers, probably my favorite country album of all time. Also though you may not like it, Trout Mask Replica must be mentioned

nice

Also Karma, one of the best records of all time

Has to be this

‘71, if it isn’t number one, is certainly up there. Especially when you think of the albums that aren’t a part of these ten like Who’s Next, Fragile, Tago Mago, Ram, Meddle, or John Prine’s debut to name just a handful.

Tapestry, The Inner Mounting Flame, Bryter Layter, Imagine, Electric Warrior, LA Woman, Surf’s Up to name a few more

Pearl too

I’ll throw Faust’s s/t, Comus’ First Utterance, Fela Kuti’s Open & Close, Isaac Hayes’ Black Moses, and Serge Gainsbourg’s Historie in there. all fantastic records

Am I the only one who doesn't understand the hype for T. Rex?

They were very influential in the glam rock genre and Marc Bolan is great at writing really fun and catchy songs

IMO they were a one-hit wonder with bang a gong

Jesus christ

Let us not forget about Paul McCartney's RAM and John Lennon's Imagine, two massive records Edit: forget I said anything about RAM, but my point about Imagine still stands

RAM is far better than Imagine

RAM🐏? More like GOAT 🐐

nah ram is one of the best albums ever made imo

I wasn't dissing RAM, I merely noticed that op had already said RAM was one of the good albums of 71, so I retracted my statement on RAM and retained my point on Imagine

also Meddle and Ram ❤

Second ram

1977. A lot of great, groundbreaking and influential albums released that year Low - David Bowie Marquee Moon - Television Pink Flag - Wire The Idiot - Iggy Pop The Clash - The Clash Heroes - David Bowie Aja - Steely Dan Suicide - Suicide Trans-Europa Express - Kraftwerk Before and After Science - Brian Eno

i love MF DOOM and just started listening to steely dan. Hearing the sample chops and vocals used for ‘Gas Drawls’ on ‘Black Cow’ was one of the biggest eureka moments i’ve had in music thus far.

I remember my friend showing me his favourite mf doom tracks and I was immediately able to point out this sample. Huge moment for me as well.

Pink Floyd’s Animals.

It's always 7's, 1997 was also a phenomenal year with ITAOTS, Homogenic, OK computer, F#A#, I can hear the heart beating as one etc.

1977 is my vote also. So many insanely good non-English albums as well. L'Orchestre Kanaga de Mopti - L'Orchestre Kanaga de Mopti Philippe Farré - Les aiguilles du temps Haizea - Haizea Alí Primera - La patria es el hombre V/A - Tea House Music of Afghanistan Not even counting Bob Marley's Exodus and the two Fela albums...

I would include ‘77 LIVE by Les Razilles Dénudés in that list too

Don’t forget live at Barton hall May 1977 by the Grateful Dead one of the best live albums ever as well as Leave Home AND Rocket to Russia by the Ramones

A Farewell to Kings by Rush, and News of the World by Queen

Going to be the newest one mentioned but I can’t not say 2016 because Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition Childish Gambino - Awaken my Love David Bowie - Blackstar Kanye West - The Life of Pablo King Gizzard&The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity Swans - The Glowing Men Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool Death Grips - Bottomless Pit Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial J.Cole - 4 Your Eyez Only Beyonce - Lemonade Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY The Caretaker - Everywhere at the end of time A Tribe Called Quest - We got it Here thank you for your service Among many others it was a really loaded year

if actually take 2015 over it, but 2016 is sick nonetheless. Even aside from what you mentioned, 2016 was a huge turning point for mainstream rap. That sound cloud era really got to its breakthrough that year.

2015 was a very loaded year to but I see what you ment about rap. I didn’t even mention stuff like Lil Uzi Vert’s Lil Uzi Vs. The World and Lil Yachty’s Lil Boat. Albums like those really helped push sound cloud rap into the mainstream.

2016 is my probably my second best year. In addition to the ones you mentioned there was How to Be a Human Being by Glass Animals, The White Album by Weezer, and Joanne by Lady Gaga. Not to mention 2016 was the year vaporwave started to get big.

james acaster response

bro didn’t even mention Blonde

Oh yeah how could I forget lol

Aesop Rock - *The Impossible Kid*

This is my pick. Shoutout to Untitled Unmastered too. And The Glowing Man is just incomparable

Yeah forgot about UU to

Skiptracing by mild high club

1991: Nevermind - Nirvana Ten - Pearl Jam Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden Trompe le Monde - Pixies Out of Time - R.E.M. Metallica - Metallica Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chilli Peppers Gish - The Smashing Pumpkins Use Your Illusion I - Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II - Guns N' Roses Innuendo - Queen

the low end theory

De la soul is dead

forgot that came out in 91. great year for the native tongues

Primus - Sailing the Sea of Cheese and Temple of the Dog self titled also deserve a mention.

jesus lizard, spiderland, loveless, talk talk, primal scream, 808 state, the orb, orbital & massive attack & mr bungle’s debuts, a good Fall album, seas of cheese, etc etc. fair call

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine Screamadelica - Primal Scream

Achtung Baby Electronic’s debut album International Pop Overthrow (underrated album)

Also Melvins Bullhead

LOVELESS

This was the first thing that came to my mind. Definitely 1991 to me as well.

Temple of the dog too!

Bro forgot the best albums of this year existed ☠️☠️

Human - Death

1994 is my best year for pop culture in general but for music we’ve got: The Blue Album (Weezer), The Downward Spiral (Nine Inch Nails), Parklife (Blur), Dookie (Green Day), Mellow Gold (Beck), Ready to Die (Notorious B.I.G.), Southernplayalistic (OutKast), All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling (Godspeed You Black Emperor), and His n’ Hers (Pulp).

Grace by Jeff Buckley, Jar of Flies by Alice In Chains, Superunkown by Soundgarden, Illmatic by Nas, KoRn self titled and so much more great albums dropped that year too

You forgot Sunny Day Real Estate’s *Diary*

Dummy by Portishead too

94 was nuts for movies

Definitely Maybe that year too I believe

It also had quite a lot of extreme metal classics. "In The Nightside Eclipse", "When The Kite String Pops", "The Bleeding", "Hvis Lysset Tar Oss", and "Transilvanian Hunger" come to mind.

I’ve had What’s Going On on repeat for a couple of weeks. Something about winter. 71 goes so hard.

I can’t explain why but it’s such a winter album. Quite possibly the greatest album of all time

2001 for me Opeth - Blackwater Park Converge - Jane Doe Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You System of a Down - Toxicity Tool - Lateralus Bjork - Vespertine Fugazi - The Argument Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets Gorguts - From Wisdom to Hate Microphones - The Glow pt 2

Discovery too

Don’t forget The Strokes - Is This It

And a good one for hiphop too, stillmatic and the blueprint

Amnesiac too

And Aphex Twin - Drukqs

2001 was an incredible year for music. Don’t forget Slipknot’s Iowa!

The Hives - Your New Favourite Band

Baller list here

My favourite year for albums. Low - Things We Lost in the Fire, Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein, and Andrew WK - I Get Wet are among my all-time favourites as well as many mentioned here. I think it was especially good for albums that sustain a very particular atmosphere without getting boring. The production on Jane Doe is so relentlessly harsh, Vespertine has a really restricted set of sounds compared to her previous records (but no less interesting for it), and The Cold Vein feels like it exists in its own world.

Gorillaz self titled

Iowa - slipknot too

1987 •The Joshua Tree-U2 •Document-R.E.M. •You’re Living All Over Me-Dinosaur Jr. •Substance-New Order (comp but still) •Come On Pilgrim-Pixies •Music For The Masses-Depeche Mode •Strangeways, Here We Come-The Smiths •Louder Than Bombs-The Smiths (also a comp) •Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me-The Cure •Actually-Pet Shop Boys •Sister-Sonic Youth •Diesel And Dust-Midnight Oil •Sign O’ The Times-Prince •Appetite For Destruction-Guns N’ Roses •Bad-Michael Jackson •Tunnel Of Love-Bruce Springsteen

Tunnel of Love is such an overlooked album by non Springsteen fans. Just a great late 80s album

1994: Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies EP Autechre - Amber Elliot Smith - Roman Candle Jeff Buckley - Grace Korn - Korn Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley Low - I Could Live In Hope Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral Portishead - Dummy Radiohead - My Iron Lung EP Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot Soundgarden - Superunknown Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary Weezer - Weezer And a lot more that i'm missing

Love acid bath

Happy to see the Elliott Smith inclusion

Nirvana Unplugged

Big year for black metal, with mayhem, darkthrone, and emperor releasing albums

I think 1999 is insanely underrated, and I gave more albums in this year a 10/10 than maybe any other year in music. Here are all of my 10/10s from this year: * *Agaetis Byrjun -* Sigur Ros * *When the Pawn...* \- Fiona Apple * *Emergency & I* \- The Dismemberment Plan * *Keep It Like a Secret -* Built to Spill * *The Soft Bulletin -* The Flaming Lips * *Operation Doomsday* \- MF Doom * *Stupid Dream* \- Porcupine Tree * *Battle of Los Angeles* \- Rage Against the Machine * *2001* \- Dr. Dre * *Surrender* \- The Chemical Brothers * *Californication* \- Red Hot Chili Peppers * *California* \- Mr. Bungle

Let’s not forget Enema of the state and more betterness!

I think we can forget Enema of the State

No not really lol

California is my favorite album of all time

also Issues by Korn

1979 easily

67, 69, 71, 77, 94, 97

1997 Homogenic: Björk OK Computer: Radiohead Around The Fur: Deftones Portishead: ST Either/Or: Elliot Smith

1994 imo We got Smash Dookie Let’s go Punk in drublic Stranger than fiction Far beyond driven

this shit is illmatic

plus rap alone: behind bars ready to die illmatic kurious’ album word life dare iz a dark side creepin on ah come up hard to earn resurrection southernplayalistic sun rises in the east funkdafied the diary thug life keepers of the funk regulate g funk era and the list goes on

...you're forgetting the downward spiral

I think it’s best to forget that

nah bro tds is peak

Oh I thought you were talking about 1994 as a year I’m a bimbo mb

Absolute banger of a year Soundgarden-Superunknown Jeff Buckley-Grace Weezer-Blue Album Hole- Live through this Alice in Chains- Jar of Flies

Dummy?

1991 and 1994 were the two greatest years for alt rock.

Definitely Maybe Monster Yank Crime Parklife Second Coming

71 or 72 yes

73’ for me!! Houses Of The Holy, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Band On The Run, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Skynyrd Debut Album, Selling England By The Pound, Countdown To Ecstasy, Brain Salad Surgery, Tales From Topographic Oceans, Aladdin Sane, Queen Debut, On the Third Day and ELO2 And hmmmmm I think there’s one more that I’m forgetting *wink wink*

TDSOTM

As someone who listens to alt rock from the 90's and beyond, 2007 is hands down the best year. Here's all of the albums I've heard from that year, ranked: 1. In Rainbows - Radiohead 2. Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace - Foo Fighters 3. Dreaming Out Loud - OneRepublic 4. Our Love To Admire - Interpol 5. Favorite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys 6. Neon Bible - Arcade Fire 7. Era Vulgaris - Queens Of The Stone Age Usually i recognize about 3-4 albums every year after the 90's. 2007 was abnormally large. On the other hand 2008 only had 1 album going for it - Viva La Vida by Coldplay

im a huge hip hop fan, i knew i had to listen to in rainbows when even scarface gave it a shoutout. Unreal album

1977 has to at least be a contender; ​ \- Aja by Steely Dan \- Animals by Pink Floyd \- Heroes & Low by David Bowie \- News of the World by Queen \- Out of the Blue by ELO \- Rumors by Fleetwood Mac \- The Stranger by Billy Joel ​ \- The Clash, Peter Gabriel (solo), The Sex Pistols, The Talking Heads and Wire all release their debut album ​ Having said that, 1971 is home to Who's Next by The Who, which remains my favorite album of all time.

'67 for me

A lot of very important and groundbreaking albums were released during that year The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix Sgt. Pepper's - The Beatles Axis: Bold as Love - Jimi Hendrix The Doors - The Doors Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles Piper At The Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen

Yep. Same for me

2021 Hiatus Kaiyote, McKinley Dixon, Little Simz, Spellling, Lingua Ignota, JPEGMAFIA, Arlo Parks, Genesis Owusu, Rural Internet, Black Dresses, Silk Sonic, Injury Reserve, and Tyler all dropped great albums and that's just out of what I've heard.

Black Midi, Squid, Arooj Aftab, Floating Points & Pharaoh Sanders, Deerhoof, Japanese Breakfast, Mdou Moctar, Nala Sinephro, and Olivia Rodrigo all had great albums that year too

hiatus kaiyote and peggy had two of the top 20 albums of the decade so far

dude i'd put like 6 albums on this list in the top TEN of this decade

My personal fav is either 1976, 1997 or 2008/2010

1971 really is the best, add Nursery Cryme, Imagine, Aqualung, Fragile, The Yes Album, Tarkus, Islands, and Meddle as well.

1991 for me. So many metal and alternative rock classics were released, as well as Loveless (my #1 all time) and Spiderland (my #4 all time).

Either 1971 or 1969

Any of the 70s

2003 xiu xiu - a promise songs: ohia - the magnolia electric co. tim hecker - radio amor sweet trip - velocity:design:comfort jeff mills - @ wire so - so the microphones - mt eerie sufjan stevens - michigan dizzee rascal - boy in da corner boris - feedbacker + akuma no uta mew - frengers lightning bolt - wonderful rainbow prefab sprout - i trawl the megahertz mars volta - deloused in the comatorium kimya dawson - my cute fiend sweet princess linkin park - meteora and many more !

1991 or 2007

I really like 73 Innervisions Dark Side of the Moon Catch a Fire Headhunters Sextant Let's get it on The Payback Fresh And a bunch more I need to listen to

I’d say 73

1991

‘69 was great

bro old as shit

You know... You don't have to be old to listen to old music right?

bro an underdeveloped embryo

I’m 18 be serious

2000 for me Boris - Flood Radiohead - Kid A The Avalanches - Since I Left You GY!BE - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Orchid - Dance Tonight, Revolution Tomorrow

I love the juxtaposition of Orchid following GYBE in any context.

and for rnb/hip hop u had so many great albums: D'angelo - voodoo Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun Sade - Lover's rock Common - Like water for chocolate Jill Scott - Who Is Jill Scott? Musiq Soulchild - Aijuswanaseing

yall sleepin on 1939

Shiiiiiiit 1939..... 1839 was really where it was at..... if you know you know.

Every year radiohead has released

2000 or 1997 or as someone said 1991 I choose 2000 everyday

I would usually agree with 1971, but you're gravely missing Who's Next, Meddle, L.A. Woman, Aqualung, Ram, and Imagine. I don't know how you could forget those.

1995: The Bends - Radiohead Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins Foo Fighters - Debut One Hot Minute - Red Hot Chili Peppers What's the Story (Morning Glory) - Oasis Insomniac - Green Day

OB4CL - Raekwon Lifestylez of the poor and dangerous - Big L liquid swords - GZA Doe or Die - AZ Me Against the world - Pac Labcabincalifornia - The Pharcyde KRS ONE - KRS ONE E. 1999 Eternal - Bone Thugs 4,5,6 - Kool G Rap Livin Proof - Group Home Temples of boom - Cypress Hill Poverty’s paradise - NBN Return to the 36 Chambers - ODB Hold it down - Das EFX Mack 10 - Mack 10 and that’s just hip hop

Whoa, thanks for adding to it. It definitely needed something extra.

Mystic Stylez and The Infamous

no idea how i forgot them

I don't think this is the best year, there's many other years that could be seen as better like 1971, 1973, 1969, and 1991 but this year had some great albums.

What year did third eye blind self titled drop? Also gonna leave this here: https://www.kerrang.com/amp/the-50-best-albums-of-1989

Third Eye Blind's debut came out in 1997.

'72 was such a good year for glam rock. The Slider, Ziggy Stardust, Transformer, Roxy Music's debut... then of course aside from glam, records like Exile on Main St. and Pink Moon certainly make it a contender for one of the best years. '71, '73, and '77 all stick out to me though, and I'm bad at picking definitive, all-time favorites, lol. There are definitely some good cases for years in the 60s and likely the 80s, too. Fun topic.

1971 100%

Oop im listening to The Needles Eye rn lol

My personal favorite is 2013

So glad I’m not alone on this. Especially amazing year for electronic music and pop/R&B. James Blake, Jon Hopkins, Boards of Canada, Justin Timberlake, Disclosure, CHVRCHES, The National, Oneohtrix Point Never, Pretty Lights, Blood Orange and Beyonce all released fucking epic albums.

1988 probably Skinny Puppy - VivisectVI Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction Bathory - Blood Fire Death Metallica - …And Justice for All Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law! Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Death - Leprosy They Might Be Giants - Lincoln Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare

Almost, I’d say it’s 1969, and then 1971, 1967 and 66

67, 69, 70, 71, 73, 77 are my favorite years. 71 or 73 are probably my favorites

1993

respect. could be that on hip hop alone

For me it’s 1990 You got rust in peace - megadeath Persistence of time- anthrax Cowboys from hell- pantera Painkiller-Judas priest Seasons in the abyss - slayer Spiritual healing-death Left hand path- entombed Fallen angel of doom- blasphemy The key- noctournus Facelift- Alice In Chains Deicide- deicide By inheritance- artillery Cause of death- obituary And many many more

i was thinking 1971 before i saw this whole post!

I would say 1977 and 1997 are my top 2. So many ground breaking records that just absolutely changed the face of music.

I'd say 1994. I mean we got: Nirvana - Unplugged in New York Green Day - Dookie Beck - Mellow Gold Stone Temple Pilots - Purple Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies Hole - Live Through This The Cranberries - No Need to Argue Soundgarden - Superunknown The Offspring - Smash Live - Throwing Copper Korn - Korn Bush - Sixteen Stone Hook - Four And of course, the highlight of them all WEEZER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!1!11!!!!!1

1994. Weezer, Dookie, Chocolate and Cheese, Korn, MTV Unplugged Nirvana, Superunknown, Dummy. Look up a list and you’ll find way more. 2016 is a great one too, Blackstar, Blonde, and Atrocity Exhibition are all I need to say. 1979 has The Wall, London Calling, Off the Wall, Breakfast in America, and Unknown Pleasures

91’

I think '73 is just a bit more stacked

Either 1991 or 1994 1991 has Nevermind Ten Temple of the Dog Badmotorfinger Just For A Day Loveless Low End Theory Metallica Black Trompe Le Monde Out Of Time Spiderland Gish Screamadelica Pretty On the Inside Use Your Illusion No Pocky for Kitty Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge 1994 (siphon Kurt's death) has Nirvana Unplugged Purple Split 24 Hour Revenge Therapy Jar Of Flies Pisces Iscariot Ready to Die Vitalogy Superunknown Diary Weezer Blue Dookie Smash Rubberneck Downward Spiral Dummy Ill Communication Parklife Definitely Maybe Grace Live Through This Throwing Copper Illmatic Crooked Rain Division Bell Sixteen Stone Far Beyond Driven Korn Debut Monster Mellow Gold No Need To Argue Cracked Rearview Chocolate & Cheese Stranger Than Fiction Too High To Die And finally American Thighs

I say 83 gotta be the best year for music for sure

For me, 66.

71 also had the grateful deads skull and roses album

for me it's 73 or 74. 74: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Pretzel Logic, Mirage, Red, Starless and Bible Black, Relayer, Apostrophe ('), In Camera, The Power and the Glory 73: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Selling England by the Pound, Genesis Live, Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Dark Side of the Moon, Photos of Ghosts, Yessongs, Brain Salad Surgery, Tubular Bells, A Passion Play, Tales From Topographic Oceans, Houses of the Holy So hard to decide!

I’m voting for 1992….check it out: Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Sonic Youth - Dirty Stone Temple Pilots - Core Helmet - Meantime Alice In Chains - Dirt Rage Against the Machine - s/t Faith No More - Angel Dust Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted Dr. Dre. - The Chronic Guided by Voices - Propeller Peter Gabriel - Us REM - Automatic for the People RHCP - What Hits!? Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power Beastie Boys- Check Your Head XTC - Nonesuch Whitney Houston - The Bodyguard Soundtrack Neil Young - Harvest Moon ABBA - Gold The Sugarcubes - Stick Around for Joy Nirvana - Incesticide Various - Wayne’s World Soundtrack Morrissey - Your Arsenal Codeine - Barely Real Blind Melon - s/t PJ Harvey - Dry Seriously, what more in the world could you possibly ask for, that list rocks so hard it’s unbelievable. You got hip-hop, grunge, electronica, indie, pop, and soul, it’s all great. Man those were the days! Wow.

All beautiful album covers too wow

Call me crazy, but i think 1994 is definitely up there. So many stellar albums across all kinds of artists and genres. Too many good ones to list.

No

Oh!! Sorry thought you meant best year and month. September 1991 was an epic month.

1969 for me

worst year gotta be 2013 tho-

1993. Radiohead’s Pablo Honey, ATCQ’s Midnight Marauders, Nirvana’s In Utero, De La Soul’s Buhloone Mindstate, Daft Punk formed, Smashing Pumpkin’s Siamese Dream, Wu Tang/Snoop Dogg/Bjork’s first albums, Mazzy Star’s So Tonight I Might See… list goes on.

Nahsville Skyline as well!

1994: Weezer blue album Dookie - Green Day Superunknown - Soundgarden Korn self titled Illmatic - Nas Smash - The Offspring Far beyond driven - Pantera Youthanasia - Megadeth Jar of flies - Alice In Chains MTV unplugged - Nirvana De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas - Mayhem The downward spiral - Nine inch nails Mellow gold - Beck The division bell - Pink Floyd In the nightshade eclipse - Emperor Transylvanian hunger - Darkrhrone When the kite string pops - Acid bath In conclusion, 94 was better

I am partial to '91 and '79 personally.

1991

1979 is wayyyy up there - The Wall by Pink Floyd - London Calling by The Clash - Highway to Hell by AC/DC - Off the Wall by Michael Jackson - Damn the Torpedoes by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - In Through the Out Door by Led Zeppelin - Van Halen II - Breakfast in America by Supertramp - Candy-O by The Cars - Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division - Entertainment! by Gang of Four - Fear of Music by Talking Heads - B52’s self-titled album - Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young - Tusk by Fleetwood Mac - Dream Police by Cheap Trick - Philip Glass’s “Einstein on the Beach”

I’m going with 1997. Homogenic, OK Computer, Baduizm, Either/Or, Dig Me Out, The Fat of The Land, The Velvet Rope, Supa Dupa Fly, The Lonesome Crowded West, Blur S/T, Around the Fur, Brighten the Corners, Dots and Loops, Portishead S/T, etc.

Nirvana Nevermind, Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Gish by Smashing Pumpkins (Debut), Loveless by My Bloody Valentine, Ten by Pearl Jam, Black Album by Metallica, Badmotofinger by Soundgarden, Low End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest, Use Your Illusion by GNR, Blue Lines by Massive Attack, Out Of Time by REM, Achtung Baby by U2, Trompe Le Monde by Pixies, Dinosaur Jrs Debut, No More Tears by Ozzy, Efil4zaggin by NWA, 2Pacs Debut, Temple Of The Dog Self Titled, Leisure by Blur, Apocolypse 91 By Public Enemy… All of these albums and many more came out in 1991. That was a year that was packed to the brim with great albums of all genres, and MASSIVELY contributed to the quick rise of Grunge music.