Favorite Album Through The Decades

[steamthief]

60's - The Beatles - Rubber Soul
70's - The Cars
80's - Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy
90's - RHCP - Californication
00's - System of a Down - Toxicity
10's - Lydia Loveless - Indestructible Machine

 

[SurferJoe46]

A single album for a year or a decade is kinda a tough call. These are all formative to me in my youth and in my musical styles to date. although there isn't a lot of Motown here, it is one of my favorite genres.

'60s -
The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
The Beatles - The White Album
Chicago Transit Authority - 'CTA'
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow.
The Beach Boys - Surfin' USA
The Doors - The Doors
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?

'70s -
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (Dec '69 Eoro-release, Feb '70 US release)
CSNY - Déjà Vu
Van Morrison - Moondance
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
The Eagles - Hotel California
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

'80s -
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Texas Flood
ZZ Top - Eliminator
Ry Cooder and Steve Vai - Crossroads, movie soundtrack

'90s -
Santana - Supernatural
The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
Tom Waits - Mule Variations
Jonny Lang - Lie To Me
SRV - The Sky Is Crying
Bugs Henderson - Daredevils Of The Red Guitar

'00s -
Kinda skimpy here -

'10s -
I got nothing here either. I think I'll go CW.

 

[Jeff K]

Nice job, Surfer Joe!

 

[mogpipe]

Revolver 60's
Band on the Run 70's
Kick (inxs) 80's
Dosage (Collective Soul) 90's

 

[davidgoldman]

1960's Freash Cream
1970's Quadrophenia
After that - the music died.

 

[Roscoe East]

00's: Can't do it! There's too much...

Guess I need to get out more; I was gonna write "00's: Can't do it! There's nothing"

 

[GregC]

This thread is funny. You can tell when folks' ears closed up.

 

[hrbassji]

60s: Abbey Road-Beatles
70s: Born to Run-Bruce Springsteen
80s: Licensed to Ill-Beastie Boys or Moving Pictures-Rush
90s: The Colour and The Shape-Foo Fighters
00s: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness-Coheed and Cambria

 

[Duke21]

70's
Genesis Foxtrot
Yes Close to the Edge
King Crimson Red

80's
Rush Moving Pictures
Marillion Misplaced childhood
Genesis Duke
Yes Drama

90's
Spock's Beard kindness of a stranger
Genesis No son of mine

00's
Transatlantic bridge across forever
Transatlantic The Whirlwind

10's
Yes Fly from here

And so many more!

 

[grinx]

60's - Rubber Soul (beatles)
70's - Exile on Main Street (rolling stones
80's - The Number of the Beast (iron maiden)
90's - Saturation (urge overkill)
00's - Toxicity - (system of a down)

 

[RaniBrandt]

Okay, I'm really going to try to stick to one per decade:

60s: Please. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds. 'Nuff said.
70s: I wanna go prog, but I've gotta say Clash - London Calling.
80s: Tough, but Pixies - Doolittle probably gets more regular play from me than anything other 80s album.
90s: Easy. Maybe obscure to some, but Red House Painters I (AKA Rollercoaster) is probably my favorite album of all time (most of the time, anyway).
00s: Going electronic here... Boards of Canada - Geogaddi. If not for this album, I would still be shunning electronic music, and I would be missing out on a lot of amazing stuff (take note, geezers!)

 

[lowendfriend]

If not for this album, I would still be shunning electronic music, and I would be missing out on a lot of amazing stuff (take note, geezers!)

That's like with mellotrons and stuff, right, sonny?

 

[stratovani]

1960s - Rubber Soul - The Beatles
1970s - Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull
1980s - To Our Childrens Childrens Children - The Moody Blues
1990s - no favorites, too busy raising a family
2000s - Hemispheres - Rush
2010s - Live At Leeds 25th Anniversary Edition - The Who

 

[fep]

'90s Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom (Roscoe Beck and Kyle Brock are awesome on it)

Yeah, and Eric Johnson isn't too shabby on that album either

 

[fep]

'80s Brother in Arms - Dire Straits

 

[ksandvik]

1960s Beatles - Revolver
1970s Todd Rundgren - Todd
1980s Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
1990s King's X - Faith, Hope, Love
2000s Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
2010s Caribou - Swim

I should have sneaked in a couple of Radiohead albums in there, too... Anyway, just on a whim.

 

[Unrepresented]

60's - The Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle.
70's - Queen - A Night at the Opera
80's - Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
90's - Guns n' Roses - Use Your Illusion I
00's - M.O.P. - Warriorz

Btw this feels horrible to appear to completely ignore a full decade of other awesome releases. We really should be able to list a dozen or more.