Favourite album from the year you were born.

[Smartly Pretty]

Oh wow pujoljunkie, I didn't know you were born in two separate calender years :

ok apparently loveless came out two months before i was born SO WHAT

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

i've really rattled your pram m8 8)

 

[Kinetic]

More good singles than albums in'83. Most notably Lena's "99 Luftballoons."

Best album is Come Away With ESG.

 

[Mattdotcom]

I checked out Rolling Stones covers for July of 86. I just missed an awesome one with Jack Nicholson

 

[Edwin]

Probably this for me, too, which is a little silly since it's really only my third or fourth favorite Tom Waits album. Maybe Speaking in Tongues? '83 is really weak according to my tastes.

Murmur? Perverted by Language? Metal Magic?

Flying out of my mother's violently debased womb at escape velocity.

 

[Edwin]

And I do like Murmur, but, crushing my indie cred, I'm partial to late 80s/early 90s R.E.M. most of all. I dunno that I could ever call a Fall album quite my favorite of anything.

 

[Zetterberg is God]

Either Purple Rain or Ride the Lightning.

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

That orange panther did the C-section with that weird crookedass sword

 

[Incandenza]

Lots of good stuff in 1985, as far as I'm concerned—Rain Dogs, This Nation's Saving Grace, Flip Your Wig, New Day Rising, Tim, etc.—but none of it tops:

Bah, how could I forget Fegmania!? I'll throw in Brothers in Arms, too. 1985 killed it, for sure.

 

[DMann1979]

Not only the year, but the week I was born:

 

[Precious Roy]

Going by the wiki list

either

or

 

[Kinetic]

Man, '85 also has Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love. Every song on the A side (particularly "Running Up That Hill" and "Cloudbusting" and the title track) is a stone cold classic. If only my parents had waited a few years.

I don't know how comprehensive the Wikipedia lists are, but filtering by year on rateyourmusic gives you 1000 noteworthy albums from each year to choose from.

 

[The Amazing Rando]

I don't want to have to say Thriller but I will anyway.

 

[Youth N Asia]

81 was maybe the best year ever for horror movies. Not the strongest for me for music though

 

[CookieMueller]

...I also really like pop music and Colour By Numbers is a guilty pleasure. Madonna's self-titled came out 11 days after I was born and I do really like it, but some of the songs are extremely weak. Feel the same way about Whammy!

Man, '85 also has Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love. Every song on the A side (particularly "Running Up That Hill" and "Cloudbusting" and the title track) is a stone cold classic. If only my parents had waited a few years.

Honestly, that album is just phenomenal. I'll fall into a k-hole every so often where I listen to the A side like 40 times on end.

 

[Red Baron]

Celtic Frost: To Mega Therion

 

[Byron The Bulb]

1988 was a p. mediocre year for music I like. Lot of not that great albums by artists I really like. This one is great though!

Don't forget:

and

Actually, 1988 was pretty good, a few critically acclaimed albums, but I haven't listened to many of them other than these.

DAYDREAM NATION

 

[Kinetic]

'88 also has Surfer Rosa, Spirit of Eden, and Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart. Plus a bunch of other shit. We should expand this discussion to include noteworthy singles that were blowing up around the time that we were born, I think. There's a lot more to discuss that way.

 

[BurningPirateShipSex]

noteworthy singles that were blowing up around the time that we were born

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (1986)

 

[BUTT]

"We Are The World" was #1 on the day I was born. Shitty song, but I enjoy Steve Perry's soaring vocals in the second chorus.

 

[Precious Roy]

"Bette Davis Eyes" was apparently the #1 song of 1981. Decent song, but that's pretty strange

Blondie - Rapture
Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
Rick James - Super Freak
Hall & Oates - Private Eyes
AC/DC - Back in Black
Rush - Tom Sawyer

some good shit that year

 

[Incandenza]

Mine was "Le Freak" by Chic

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

"Physical"-Olivia Newton John

 

[still fly]

November 3 – 9 1985: Jan Hammer - Miami Vice Theme

I was born on November 4th. Interesting.

November 10 – 23 1985 Starship - We Built This City

UGH

 

[still fly]

Kind of realized that 1985 is the most 80's year of the 80's

Duran Duran, A-ha, Phil Collins and Tears for Fears all topped the charts.

 

[Precious Roy]

November 10 – 23 1985 Starship - We Built This City

UGH

Dipset - The Diplomats - Built This City

 

[The Amazing Rando]

Number one on my day of birth... UP WHERE WE BELONG. The 90s saw my birthday play host to two Mariah Carey and two Boyz II Men songs, as well as Candle In The Wind 97 (Sir Elton also had a number one on my birthday in the 70s. Oh shit, Gypsys Tramps and Thieves in 1971!

UK and Australia number ones were Eddy Grant and Dexy's Midnight Runners, respectively.

 

[still fly]

October 22 – November 4 1995: Coolio featuring LV - Gangsta's Paradise

FUCK YES

 

[CookieMueller]

#1 song in 1983 was "Every Breath You Take" by The Police. It was also #1 in the USA on the day I was born. "Baby Jane" by Rod Stewart was #1 in the UK on the day I was born. That song is horrible BUT my mother's name is Jane so...kind of neat.

The top 100 songs of 1983 is pretty good from my perspective. Elton John "I'm Still Standing" is my karaoke go-to and Frida "There's Something Going On" is my absolute guilty pleasure. A lot of Culture Club, Duran Duran and Michael Jackson, too. "Billie Jean" was the second biggest song that year.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

US #1 - Tony Orlando and Dawn - He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)

UK #1 - Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man