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[Nowhere Man]

Borrowing from the Onion's AV Club

This makes things a lot more personal. 1967 might have been the best, but I was alive for:

1983

There was this new thing called music television, and the hits from that summer were off the hook.

On one hand, you had classic 80s like Duran Duran and Culture Club

On the other, there was Rock of Ages by Def Leppard (check how awesome that video is now)

The single was Safety Dance by Men Without Hats

and the album was Synchronicity by the Police

Every Breath You Take was new!

the Clash were Rockin the Casbah...

Beat It

Thriller


1983

[Underwaterbob]

Oi, one year?

I think I'd go with 1992.

Nirvana - Nevermind (well, late 91, but close enough)
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Lemonheads - It's a Shame about Ray
Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
Helmet - Meantime
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Rancid - Rancid
The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Tool - Opiate
Rage Against the Machine - self titled
Leonard Cohen - The Future

There are things from other years I prefer to pretty much everything on this list, but no one year has nearly as many awesome releases. I still listen to most of these occasionally.

[Who's Your Daddy?]

1987. I guess I'm older than many other posters though.

1. Guns N' Roses, Appetite for Destruction
2. U2, The Joshua Tree
3. Prince, Sign of the Times
4. Sonic Youth, Sister
5. Dinosaur Jr., You're Living All Over Me
6. Depeche Mode, Music for the Masses
7. The Jesus and Mary Chain, Darklands
8. The Smiths, Strangeways, Here We Come
9. INXS, Kick
10. R.E.M., Document
11. Fleetwood Mac, Tango in the Night
12. The Replacements, Pleased to Meet Me
13. John Mellencamp, The Lonesome Jubilee
14. Midnight Oil, Diesel and Dust
15. Echo and the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen
16. Sin�ad O'Connor, The Lion and the Cobra
17. Def Leppard, Hysteria
18. Bruce Springsteen, Tunnel of Love
19. The Cult, Electric
20. Terence Trent D'Arby, Introducing the Hardline
21. The Cure, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
22. 10,000 Maniacs, In My Tribe
23. George Michael, Faith
24. Aerosmith, Permanent Vacation
25. Sting, ...Nothing Like the Sun

[crisdean]

[Steelrails]

Trying to cross reference between Jazz, Blues, Motown, Soul, Funk, Classic Rock, Musicals, Soundtracks, and Country only made my head hurt. Suffice to say, '66-'75 was an amazing time for music.

Edit: The way this thread is going it should probably be renamed "The Greatest Year in Rock Music".

[Unposter]

Just my two cents:

It is pretty hard to fault 1967 - 1972 or 1973. But, I would put 1977, 1983 and 1992 on the list. Admittedly, they were all different types of music but I would say they were all pretty good years. After 1992 - 1993, it goes down hill fast. And actually the late 1970s and the late 1980s and the late 1990s were all kind of waste lands.

[bobbyhanlon]

I think 1991 was very, very good: nevermind (nirvana), screamadelica (primal scream), gish (smashing pumpkins), out of time (rem), blue lines (massive attack), leisure (blur), use your illusion (guns n roses), achtung baby (u2), low end theory (tribe called quest), blood sugar sex magik (red hot chili peppers), and loveless (my bloody valentine).

[Nowhere Man]

[brickabrack]

[re:cursive]

The Early 90's were pretty good for electronic music:
Aphex Twin, Autechre, Mike Paradinas, Bjork, Plastikman, Orbital, The Orb, Black Dog, Prodigy, Biosphere, Massive Attack, Portishead, Luke Vibert, Global Communication, Primal Scream, KLF, LFO, FSOL, Underground Resistance etc. were all putting out good and very original releases. A good time to have open ears.

[Joe Boxer]

[pedrotaves]

1965. from only two bands, there are 4 of the greatest albums ever made (in my opinion)

today!--beach boys
when i grow up to be a man, i'm so young, dance, dance, dance
summer days (and summer nights!!)--beach boys
has california girls. enough said.
help!--the beatles
you've got to hide your love away is among the best of the beatles' entire catalog.
rubber soul--the beatles
nowhere man, girl, in my life, i'm looking through you (my personal favorite)

[yodanole]

The best year for music is probably whatever year you were 18.

[Unposter]

Brickabrack,

Motown just got more mature, funkier and socially/politically edgy and Barry Gordy (I think) let loose the reigns. There was some great Motown in that period such as Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder - even Aretha Franklin got edgier and you had a great hit out of Roberta Flack. Even the Temptations started to get interesting.

For me that whole era - across the spectrum of music - 67 to 72 or 73 can't be beat.

But, I do like early 80s and early 90s music as well. And, I wasn't even 18 for any of them!

And, there is nothing wrong with '65 - even '64 and '66 (for music at least) - even beyond the Beatles and the Beach Boys - I'm very partial to British Invasion bands such as the Kinks, Stones, Hollies and the Animals but in 1967 musical creativity was taken up another notch.