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  Ryan Radia

  11 months ago

  I fully agree with your selection of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots for 2002. It's an incredible album.
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  Ike Elliott

  11 months ago

  Very cool list, Adam. Now you've got me going, and I'll be up til 2 am some night in the near future completing my own list. Excellent choices, by the way, and a few I don't know so now I know what I missed and need to check out.
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  Andrew

  11 months ago

  Super list - especially the first 10 (well 8 of them) as I don't have any Pink Floyd in my top 10! Isn't Let It Bleed some CLASS set of songs!
  
  Great to see Pearl Jam mentioned and the White Stripes.
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  Johndolanvincent

  11 months ago

  er, i fear you're underestimating nirvana, but there's a lotta grunge, i'll admit. why no punk at all, except smash by the offspring? why isn't ignition there? a matter of tastes, i guess. imho, anyway, great collection. gonna keep the list and DL some.
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  Adam Thierer

  11 months ago

  John.. Like you say, it's a matter of taste. If the list was instead entitled "The Most Influential Albums of Each Year," then I would have had different picks on there, including some punk stuff (Ramones, Sex Pistols, Black Flag, etc) and Nirvana would have been #1 in 1991 instead of just a runner-up. And, from a different perspective, I am surprised no one has gotten on me for the lack of Dylan or Springsteen titles on the list. But, again, this little music meme thing--at least as I understand it--is suppose to be about the albums that had the most influence on *your* life when *you* were growing up. Thus, there is no Dylan or Springsteen on my list because, quite frankly, I was just never able to get into their work. Sure, that's sacrilegious to some, but again, it's a personal thing.
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  Mark Marich

  11 months ago

  Hmmm... no Blow Monkeys or a-ha? I'm not sure how truthful this list is for some of those mid-80s years. But in all seriousness, good list... and this is the kind of thing that will keep my mind twisting for a few days while I develop my own.
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  Ike Elliott

  11 months ago

  Adam, I've done it. Inspired by your list, I posted mine here: http://ikeelliott.typepad.com/telecosm/2008/07/...
  
  We overlap on Led Zeppelin, Dark Side of the Moon, Achtung Baby, and Urban Hymns. I was glad to see Miles Davis on your list in 1970, but that year I went with a different jazz favorite, Stanley Turrentine's Sugar. If I could go all the way back to 1959 I would definitely choos Davis' Kind of Blue for that year.
  
  I was very tempted by Stop Making Sense in 1984, but honestly I played REM's Reckoning a lot more often that year. I liked the Replacements back then, too, but not enough to top the list.
  
  I'm going to enjoy checking out some of your favorites that I haven't explored yet. Thanks for the list.
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  Adam Thierer

  11 months ago

  Solid list, Ike! I can't believe I forgot to put Joe Jackson's "Look Sharp" on my list. Huge oversight. Same goes for "Ghost in the Machine" by the Police. I completely spaced on that one. And I wish I could have found room for an XTC album on my list somewhere. They never got the credit they deserved and had a couple of solid albums.
  
  I'll have to check out Pinback and Saint Germain. Those are new ones for me.
  
  Glad to see some jazz picks on the list. I also though about adding Freddie Hubbard's "Red Clay" to my list as well as something from Weather Report. If I would have been alive from the late 50s onward, I probably would have had something from Miles Davis every other year with a lot of Coltrane in between. "Love Supreme" is probably my favorite jazz album of all time. (Oh God, I sense another list coming!)
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  Adam Thierer

  11 months ago

  ... And pay no attention to that Mark Marich guy in the comments above. He's pretending to be someone who knew me quite well during my high school days and trying to make the world believe that I owned some really crappy music by the likes of A-Ha and The Blow Monkeys. Never!
  
  [And even if it was true, I had a solid collection of heavy metal in regular rotation at the time to balance it out!]
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  11 months ago

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  Adam Thierer

  11 months ago

  The aforementioned Mark Marich character who is spreading vicious lies about my music tastes above, has posted a list of his own choices here. It's a pretty solid list, but I take him to task for a few choices.
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  Adam Thierer

  11 months ago

  Over at the 463 Blog, Sean Garrett has posted his list with some really solid choices.
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  Adam Thierer

  7 months ago

  Two late 2008 additions for my list... Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy and Metallica's "Death Magnetic." Both are solid albums by two old-timers. I'm particularly impressed by what Axl was able to pull off without his old mates.
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  Adam Thierer

  5 months ago

  Made edit to change my vote for best album of 2008. Vampire Weekend's debut album is just a masterpiece.
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