Saturday 27 December 2014

Half a century of music

50 years of tunes.

A list sort of thing.

We all love lists.

And here is mine.  My 50 albums, one per year, for the past half century.

It'll be good to see what the next 50 years bring... 


1965
John Coltrane
A Love Supreme
1966
Bob Dylan
Blonde on Blonde
1967
John Coltrane
Expression
1968
Bob Dylan
John Wesley Harding
1969
Captain Beefheart
Trout Mask Replica
1970
Van der Graaf Generator
H to He, Who Am The Only One
1971
Miles Davis
Jack Johnson
1972
Stevie Wonder
Talking Book
1973
Bruce Springsteen
Greetings From Asbury Park NJ
1974
Randy Newman
Good Old Boys
1975
Bruce Springsteen
Born to Run
1976
Stevie Wonder
Songs in the Key of Life
1977
Wire
Pink Flag
1978
Captain Beefheart
Shiny Beast
1979
Michael Jackson
Off the Wall
1980
Young Marble Giants
Colossal Youth
1981
The Fall
Slates
1982
The Fall
Hex Enduction Hour
1983
The Fall
Perverted by Language
1984
The Minutemen
Double Nickels on the Dime
1985
New Order
Low Life
1986
New Order
Brotherhood
1987
Big Black
Songs About Fucking
1988
Sonic Youth
Daydream Nation
1989
De La Soul
3ft High & Rising
1990
The Sundays
Reading Writing & Arithmetic
1991
My Bloody Valentine
Loveless
1992
Neil Young
Harvest Moon
1993
American Music Club
Mercury
1994
Portishead
Dummy
1995
Muslimgauze
Salaam Alekum, Bastard
1996
The Blue Nile
Peace at Last
1997
Spiritualized
Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating  In Space
1998
Madonna
Ray of Light
1999
The Flaming Lips
The Soft Bulletin
2000
Laura Cantrell
Not the Tremblin Kind
2001
Sparklehorse
It's A Wonderful Life
2002
Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2003
Paddy McAloon
I Trawl the Megahertz
2004
Wilco
A Ghost Is Born
2005
Camille
Le Fil
2006
Bob Dylan
Modern Times
2007
Shellac
Excellent Italian Greyhound
2008
Coldplay
Viva La Vida
2009
Bob Dylan
Christmas In the Heart
2010
The National
High Violet
2011
Nils Frahm
Felt
2012
Nils Frahm
Screws
2013
Courtney Barnett
A Sea of Split Peas
2014
John Luther Adams
Become Ocean

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