Got a minute?...
From the folks over at Idolator:
"...List the albums you like most from each year that you've been alive. It sounds simple, right?... (I'm usually loath to use Wikipedia as a source, but its lists of album releases were helpful to cross-reference with Amazon, as were the Pazz & Jop rundowns on Robert Christgau's site.)..."
Get the point? Good, let's dance.
Cassette tapes and vinyl records from around the house that would eventually go on to provide the soundtrack to my early years:
1984 - Purple Rain/Prince
1985 - Whitney Houston/Whitney Houston
1986 - Control/Janet Jackson
1987 - Sign O' the Times/Prince
1988 - Forerver Your Girl/Paula Abdul
1989 - Rhythm Nation 1814/Janet Jackson
1990 - The Immaculate Collection/Madonna
The beginning of my "what's with you and all this 'white people music'" period [save Mary J.'s album of course]:
1991 - Nevermind/Nirvana
1992 - What's the 411?/Mary J. Blige
1993 - In Utero/Nirvana
1994 - MTV: Unplugged in New York/Nirvana
Junior High School living with only the finest and/or best commercial/popular hip-hop and R&B:
1995 - CraxySexyCool/TLC
1996 - All Eyez on Me/2Pac
1997 - Supa Dupa Fly/Missy Elliot
The start of my ongoing teenage love affair with the musical output of Marilyn Manson and Trent Reznor.[Also known as the "dark years"]:
1998 - Mechanical Animals/Marilyn Manson
1999 - The Fragile/Nine Inch Nails
Older, wiser, the coming of college:
2000 - I Am Shelby Lynne/Shelby Lynne
2001 - The Blueprint/Jay-Z
"Look at me, I'm a college student. I work for my radio station. I know good music. I fancy myself a real music critic":
2002 - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot/Wilco
2003 - Elephant/The White Stripes
2004 - Good News for People Who Love Bad News/Modest Mouse
2005 - The Best Party Ever/The Boy Least Likely To
2006 - Rabbit Furcoat - Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
2007 - Hissing Fauana, Are you the Destroyer?/Of Montreal
2008 - [Dunno yet. But if I had to pick an album right now, it would probably be Miss Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Pt.1 : 4th World War
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