Favorite Album Through The Decades

[Nowhere Man]

Just list your favorite albums starting from the 60s

60s: Sgt. Pepper's
70s: Dark Side of the Moon
80s: The Joshua Tree
90s: Nevermind
00s: Funeral

[bluesdogblues]

60s The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
70s Queen - A Night At The Opera
80s The Police - Synchronicity
90s Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
or
Sting - Ten Summoner Tales
00s Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

[James Judson]

60's Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing at Baxters

[faulknersj]

I'm just gonna list my favorite album of all time.

U2- 'The Unforgettable Fire'

Mad props to Brian Eno and the band on this one.

Decades later...I still hear something new everytime I listen to this masterpiece.

[UncleDomino]

70s: Boston - Boston
80s: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
90s: 311 - Grassroots
00s: Zebrahead - Phoenix

I don't actually listen to anything from the 60s now that I think about it.

[champbassist]

Originally Posted by faulknersj

I'm just gonna list my favorite album of all time.

U2- 'The Unforgettable Fire'

Mad props to Brian Eno and the band on this one.

Decades later...I still hear something new everytime I listen to this masterpiece.

One of my all-time faves too. A mention of this album is especially appropriate today, as I'm from India and tomorrow is this year's summer solstice ('Indian Summer Sky')

Edit: I wonder if that song's actually about India

[ShredderMaximus]

60's: Led Zeppelin I- Any Hendrix- My Generation- Sgt. Peppers/Magical Mystery Tour- Bayou Country-The Doors

70's: Master Of Reality- A Night At The Opera- Sad Wings Of Destiny- Machine Head- Toys In The Attic- Jailbreak

80's: Iron Maiden- Kill Em' All- Show No Mercy- Earth A.D./Wolfsblood- The Legacy- Melissa- Wow, could go on for days and days and days and days...

90's: Individual Thought Patterns- Once Upon The Cross- The Bleeding- Storm Of The Lights Bane- The Fragile Art Of Existence- Painkiller- Yeah, days and days...

00's: Reinkaos- Process Of A New Decline- Enemy Of God- Hatebreeder- Kill/Evisceration Plague- Epitaph- Cosmogenesis- seriously, weeks/months/years

I suck at narrowing down my favorites...

[Rockmusician]

60s: Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's

70s: Queen: A Night at the Opera
J. Geils Band: Blow Your Face Out

80s: U2: The Joshua Tree

Unfortunately, there hasn't been an album that has come out since the 80's that I have found even remotely interesting.

[faulknersj]

Champbassist - very interesting! That album continuously reveals new mysteries and your post highlights this fact once again! Peace and Love!

[Jeff K]

Abbey Road
Dark Side of the Moon
Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman
Delbert McClinton - One Of The Fortunate Few
Clapton - From The Cradle
Harry Chapin - Greatest Stories Live

And so many more...

[poorbassist15]

60s Yes-Yes
70s The Great Deceiver-King Crimson(alright, it was released in 1992. But, it was from recordings made in the 70s)
alternatively
Lark's Tongues in Aspic-King Crimson
80s Moving Pictures-Rush
90s-hmm, Sailing The Seas of Cheese-Primus
00s Octavarium-Dream Theater

[Buster Mudd]

Originally Posted by Rockmusician

Unfortunately, there hasn't been an album that has come out since the 80's that I have found even remotely interesting.

It's tempted to agree...though I think that says more about how music fits into my life now (and has since the 1980s) versus the way it did in the 60s and 70s. I would say that once we reach a certain age it's impossible to be as "innocent" or as "impressionable" as we once were, and so it becomes very difficult to experience music as this overwhelmingly WONDERFUL thing like we once could. After your mind's been blown once or twice or a dozen times it gets progressively harder and harder to blow it again; so that even if someone did make an album in the 1990s that was as good as (say) Sgt Pepper, it would actually have to be better than Sgt. Pepper in order to have the same impact.

[kawika5150]

70's: Van Halen - Van Halen
80's: Rush - Moving Pictures
90's: Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom

[zachoff]

60s - Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
70s - Black Sabbath
80s - Appetite for Desctruction
90s - Nevermind
00s - Death is this Communion

[FromTheBassMent]

Favorites is impossible, there are too many. But it was interesting to think about which ones are in heaviest rotation in my cd satchel in my car:

60's: Santana (self-titled), The Byrds 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo'
70's: Neil Young & Crazy Horse 'Live Rust,' Joni Mitchell 'Hejira,' Genesis 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway'
80's: Kate Bush 'Hounds of Love,' Public Image Ltd. 'Album,' David Bowie 'Lodger'
90's: Crowded House 'Woodface,' Heidi Berry 'Love,' Dead Can Dance 'Into The Labyrinth,' Peter Gabriel 'Us'
00's: Can't do it! There's too much... Steve Earle, Cat Power, Alison Krauss, Wilco, Drive By Truckers, My Morning Jacket, Gillian Welsh & Dave Rawlings, Hayes Carll (gotta stop now)....

[Jake]

this is impossible, there are so many great albums.

[DenisKrestsov]

'60s - White Album - The Beatles
'70s - The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
'80s - The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
'90s - Use Your Illusions I and II - Guns N' Roses / Urban Hymns - The Verve (Tied for this place)
'00s - Only By the Night - Kings of Leon

Such a random mix

[diehard70]

'70s Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
'80s Rush - Moving Pictures; Robert Plant- Principle of Moments/Shaken n' Stirred
'90s Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom (Roscoe Beck and Kyle Brock are awesome on it)
'00 ....Hmmm...thats a tough one for me.

[agreatheight]

Interesting...

60s: The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's
70s: Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
80s: Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
90s: Jeff Buckley - Grace
00s: Death Cab for Cutie - Plans

[agreatheight]

Originally Posted by diehard70

'70s Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
'80s Rush - Moving Pictures; Robert Plant- Principle of Moments/Shaken n' Stirred
'90s Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom (Roscoe Beck and Kyle Brock are awesome on it)
'00 ....Hmmm...thats a tough one for me.

Nice! Moving Pictures is in my top 5 for the 80s and Ah Via Musicom is in my Top 10 for the 90s!