12 CDs a year (for the last ten years) (what are they?)

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I got a "proper" copy of the new Electrelane yesterday and it struck me that the packaging was great, and that Id really love just touching it and looking at it if only I didn't buy so many bloody CDs that spending time looking at and touching the sleeve of just one seems stupid.

Which got me thinking... if I had all the knowledge and scope and taste-developments that my excessive music consumption has given me over the last... ten years, say... but I'd only bought 12 a year for each of those years, which twelve would be best, each year?

Picking twelve for each year all at once would be mental all in one post, so just pick a year since 1997, and post the twelve albums you'd choose to take with you from that year if you werent allowed any more.

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

Let's start with 1997 in alphabetical order:

Chris Cacavas - Anonymous
The Dandy Warhols - The Dandy Warhols Come Down
Depeche Mode - Ultra
Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
Mark Eitzel - West
Grandaddy - Under the Western Freeway
Rickie Lee Jones - Ghostyhead
OP8 - Slush
Primal Scream - Echo Dek
Swell - Too Many Days Without Thinking
Robert Wyatt - Shleep
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One

― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

i thought this was a "how to cheat at columbia house" tutorial. if it was i had some vv good advice.

― félix pié, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

2003

Rhythm & Sound - W/ The Artists
Jacob Kirkegaard - 01.02
Coil - Live One
Phill Niblock - Touch Food
Cabaret Voltaire - Methodology '74/'78 - The Attic Tapes
Tangerine Dream - The Bootleg Box Set Vol. 1
Deftones - Deftones
Archigram - Crydamoure Presents Waves II
Michael Mayer - Fabric 13
André Galluzzi - Im Garten
James Holden - Balance 005
DJ Tonio - Dancefloorkillers.com

― ☪, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

Bump for the UK morning people who might like this idea.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 07:05 (eighteen years ago)

2001 in alphabetical order (from a shortlist of approximately 2001 CDs):
Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Avalanches - Since I Left You
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Boredoms - Visioncreationnewsun
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Daft Punk - Discovery
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
N.E.R.D. - In Search Of...
Pulp - We Love Life
Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me
Slipknot - Iowa
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)

If I were only allowed the one, it would have to be our Gillian.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 3 May 2007 07:29 (eighteen years ago)

Weird the Gillian Welch is the only album which is in my 2001 faves. Which was a good year in music, methinks. If I had to pick one it would be Amnesiac.

A Silver Mt Zion - Born into trouble as the Sparks Fly upward
American Analog Set - Know by Heart
Jeff Beck - You Had It Coming
Calexico - Aerocalexico
Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs
Fink - Fink
Howe Gelb - Confluence
Kings of Convenience - Quiet Is the New Loud
New Order - Get Ready
Radiohead - Amnesiac
REM - Reveal
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)

― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 3 May 2007 08:50 (eighteen years ago)

These are all great as well. Don't know about EOY lists, but if CoM had been going in 2001 I could have done a Top 100 easily and still struggled with what to leave in or leave out.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 3 May 2007 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

ten months pass...

Bump. I still like this idea.

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 21:46 (seventeen years ago)

If I were only allowed the one, it would have to be our Gillian.

-- Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 3 May 2007 08:29

2001 was quite a good year, I reckon. Went to a new years eve party to usher it in (31 dec 2000) and the DJ dropped "Also sprach Zarathustra" but nobody got the joke.

― Bodrick III, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 21:52 (seventeen years ago)

Slipknot - Iowa

I'm sorry, but you have *got* to be fucking kidding me.

― stephen, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 22:28 (seventeen years ago)

Well, I never listened to that... heh heh.

No idea who Gillian Welch is either.

― Bodrick III, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 22:40 (seventeen years ago)

I don't get it either, but I've seen a couple people recently extolling the virtues of that particular Slipknot album.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 22:48 (seventeen years ago)

Just some shitty band that millions of 13 year olds like so proper growed-up critics feel like they have to comment.

― Bodrick III, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

See also: Every successful emo band ever.

― Bodrick III, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 23:14 (seventeen years ago)

lol britishes

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 23:15 (seventeen years ago)

Although I wasn't as aware of it at the time as I might have been, 2000 certainly was an interesting year

[It (Is) It] Critical Band - 90 Day Men
XTRMNTR - Primal Scream
Figure 8 - Elliott Smith
Lift Your Skinny Fingers . . . - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
De Stijl - White Stripes
1000 Hurts - Shellac
Lounge Against The Machine - Richard Cheese
Ghost Tropic - Songs: Ohia
From The Vapor Of Gasoline - The Mercury Program
O Brother Where Art Thou - Soundtrack
Ink
Oxes

Not as good as 1986, but then again, what is?

― SecondBassman, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 20:04 (seventeen years ago)

and I thought this was going to be a Columbia House thread.

― zaxxon25, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:49 (seventeen years ago)

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