Best Years in Music

[Byron The Bulb]

1997.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

im gonna need some youtube clips plz

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Fiona Apple - Criminal

The Notorious B.I.G. - "Mo Money Mo Problems"

Radiohead - Paranoid Android

Mariah Carey - Honey

Wu Tang-Triumph

Beck - The New Pollution

i could go on

 

[Byron The Bulb]

 

[Byron The Bulb]

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Hanson - MMMBop

Hanson - Where's The Love

 

[Byron The Bulb]

blink-182 - Dammit

 

[Byron The Bulb]

97 was the Clinton era's high water mark and, ergo, the last great year in American history.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

"Wannabe"-"Say You'll Be There"-"2 Become 1" is one of the greatest opening song trios in history.

 

[Gary]

I'm going with 93. That year, we got

-Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
-Sleep's Holy Mountain
-Siamese Dream
-Souvlaki
-Take as Needed for Pain
-Focus
-Rid of Me
-Individual Thought Patterns
-Doggystyle
-Heartwork
-Incunabula
-Turn Loose the Swans
-Songs of Faith and Devotion
-Orbital's Second Album
-Houdini
-Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version
-So Tonight That I Might See
-Gentlemen
-Debut

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

I've always thought 1992 and 1994 were pretty great.

 

[still fly]

1988 and 1994 were the greatest two years for hip hop so far.

As far as recent years that I can remember, 2006 was pretty decent for summer songs.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

1979:

Entertainment!
Unknown Pleasures
Live at the Witch Trials
Dragnet
Y
Cut
Fear of Music
Rust Never Sleeps
Reproduction
Armed Forces
Metal Box
Inflammable Material
Three Imaginary Boys
Off the Wall
154
Singles Going Steady

A bunch of other albums but I'm gonna stop there. Yeah, I'd say 1979.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

1894

Don't remember much but Fongus Bellbop's 32-minute opus that doubled as the Raw theme song puts it at the top for me.

 

[Star Ocean 2]

Close, but 1893 was better. You got Dvorak's final symphony, as well as Tchaikovsky's.

1910 is a tough one to beat, too. Debussy's first book of Preludes is started, and there's the Firebird Suite, Mahler's 9th, Vaughn Williams's 1st, and Scriabin had begun his mystic phase in starting the Piano Sonata No. 6.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

For metal, I don't think 1986 can really be topped.

Important bands formed:
Bolt Thrower, Grave, Immolation, Pestilence, Prong, Vader, Vio-Lence

Important releases:
Just check out this Wiki page. Somewhere in Time, Master of Puppets, Reign in Blood, Pleasure to Kill, Peace Sells, Morbid Visions, and the list goes on.

Also notable, on the hair bands side...
Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
Cinderella - Nobody's Fool
Stryper-Honestly

And these guys...

Spoiler

Europe - The Final Countdown

Also notable releases:
Falco with "Rock Me Amadeus"
Madonna with "Papa Don't Preach"
Berlin with "Take My Breath Away"
Robert Palmer with "Addicted to Love"
Peter Gabriel with "Big Time"
WANG. FUCKING. CHUNG.

And this little diddy that went on to be kinda important for the major trends 10 years later...

Spoiler

RUN-DMC - Walk This Way

 

[Baby Shoes]

That settles it. Who can top the formation of Prong?

 

[alkeiper]

Rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

get that `science`BULLSHIT outta here and give us some real examples.