Favorite albums by year

[sans culottes]

What are your favorite albums by year? Start at whatever year you see fit. I'm going to start at 1965, because I only have about fifteen albums made before '65.

[spoiler]65: Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
66: The Beatles - Revolver
67: Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico
68: Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
69: MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
70: Derek & The Dominos - Layla
71: The Who - Who's Next
72: The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
73: Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
74: Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
75: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
76: ELO - A New World Record
77: Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
78: The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
79: The Clash - London Calling
80: The Clash - Sandanista!
81: Black Flag - Damaged
82: Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
83: Stevie Ray Vaughan - Stevie Ray Vaughan
84: Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
85: Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
86: Megadeth - Peace Sells
87: Green River - Dry as a Bone
88: Danzig - Danzig
89: Faith No More - The Real Thing
90: Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles
91: Pearl Jam - Ten
92: L7 - Bricks are Heavy
93: Nirvana - In Utero
94: Soundgarden - Superunknown
95: Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
96: Sublime - Sublime
97: Brian Jonestown Massacre - Give it Back!
98: Brian Jonestown Massacre - Strung Out in Heaven
99: Rage Against The Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
00: Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
01: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C.
02: Audioslave - Audioslave
03: Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
04: Velvet Revolver - Contraband
05: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
06: John Mayer - Continuum
07: MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
08: Black Crowes Warpaint[/spoiler]

For some years, I had trouble picking because a lot of great albums came close to eachother. And for some years, I only had a couple albums, so I made reluctant choices.

[Dullahan]

1990: Cowboys From Hell by Pantera
1991: Ten by Pearl Jam
1992: The Chronic by Dr. Dre
1993: Black Sunday by Cypress Hill
1994: Dookie by Green Day
1995: Mellon Collie of the Infinite Sadness by Smashing Pumpkins
1996: All Eyez On Me by 2pac
1997: Homework by Daft Punk
1998: Dizzy Up the Girl by Goo Goo Dolls
1999: Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers
2000: Stankonia by Outkast
2001: Rooty by Basement Jaxx
2002: The Eminem Show by Eminem
2003: Absolution by Muse
2004: Half These Songs Are About You by Nizlopi
2005: Mesmerize by System of a Down
2006: Two Lights by Five For Fighting
2007: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace by Foo Fighters
2008: Theater of the Mind by Ludacris
2009: Asleep in the Bread Aisle by Asher Roth

I'll have to edit this later. So far I've covered the '90s and '00s. I'll do the '70s and '80s after. Not sure if I want to do the '60s, though...