1976 vs 1986 vs 1996 vs 2006

86 has Raising Hell, Ill Communication, Parade, Reign in Blood, Queen is Dead. I'd guess that wins followed by 76.

Gorelord's The Norwegian Chainsaw Massacre and Regurgitate's Sickening Bliss both came out in '06, so 2006 it is

1996 > 2006/1986 > 1976

A lot of the great music from 1996 completely passed me by at the time though.

Third Reich'n'Roll, The Modern Lovers, 'Final Solution', 'Radioactivity', Selda, Sowiesoso, 'Don't Leave Me This Way', 'Anarchy in the UK', África Brasil, Üdü Wüdü...

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Who sneers at these years?

1976 > 2006 > 1986 > 1996

2006: several stand-out albums, and a flurry of good Latin music singles. 1986 is kind of a blur but I don't remember being particularly into what was current then (and if I've since come to like much music from that year, I haven't noticed that it is from that year). 1996 was/is kind of a dead zone for me musically.

Top 40 radio was so diverse in '76: hard rock, soft rock, MOR, R&B, nascent disco, country, TV themes, novelties... one of the last years I really listened to it a lot.

All Eyez on Me > the rest of the time-space continuum

The best album of all time is from 2006, so that one.

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In 1986 I was a 17-year old metalhead.

So, 1986.

1996. I was alive and the music was awesome.

I'm thinking 96 too but I love all these years

96 was a black hole of shit plus that's the year Load came out and around the time the Big Four all lost their minds so.......I voted 86

One thing I'm not opposed to: turning this poll into a variation of that Fbook game where someone gives you a year and you have to list ten of yr favorite albums from that year (except for the fact that I'm a little embarrassed that I dont listen to much--or enough, really--hip hop)

Who sneers at these years?

― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Friday, February 14, 2014 12:28 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

2006: best music year of the 2000s

(^also check the vote spread)

1996: defend 1996

1976: Was 1975/76 musically as bad as legend makes out?

(not actually a sneer, still thx a million Herman)

as far as 1986 goes, I always see from other sources (John Peel, Scott Miller) (who incidentally did Interbabe Concern which is one of the reasons I'm voting 96) that 1985 was sort of the nadir of the "bad-80s" and in this view, 86 always comes off as 1985 pt. 2

I will say that if I knew just a little more about reggae I'd probably wouldve voted for 76 all the way

yeah not sneering but punk legend has it 76 was poor (apart from the punk that appeared that year)

85 was the year I went off chart music in a big way. Up until then I used to buy a ton of 7" 86-89 was slimp pickings (at the time) for me. Of course once I discovered indie/metal etc I realised there was a ton of great music i was just unaware of.

Victorialand, Please, Standing On The Beach, Control, True Blue... Yup 1986.

1976 is actually pretty awesome!

Ramones - Ramones
Rainbow - Rising
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Rush - 2112
Aerosmith - Rocks
Scorpions - In Trance
UFO - No Heavy Petting
Queen - A Day at the Races
Scorpions - Virgin Killer
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
KISS - Destroyer
Starz - Starz
Blue Öyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
Funkadelic - Hardcore Jollies
KISS - Rock and Roll Over
Angel - Helluva Band
The Runaways - The Runaways

My favorite albums by The Ramones, Priest, Rush and Aerosmith, not one but TWO great Scorpions albums... Not a bad year for a rockist at all.

^^^

this. was nonplussed by that other '76 yesterday. great year. in addition to the above, RYM lists lots of great reggae/dub, serge gainsbourg's l'homme de tete de chou, bernard herrmann's taxi driver soundtrack, songs in the key of life, kate & anna mcgarrigle's dubut, fela's kalakuta show, etc...

that other '76 thread is what i mean

(marvin gaye's i want you filed under "etc.")

1986

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
XTC - Skylarking
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
Big Black - Atomizer
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Peter Gabriel - So
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Metal Church - The Dark
Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
Tesla - Mechanical Resonance
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Sword - Metalized
King Diamond - Fatal Portrait
Flotsam and Jetsam - Doomsday for the Deceiver
The Feelies - The Good Earth
Destruction - Eternal Devastation
Queensrÿche - Rage for Order
Love and Rockets - Express
Omen - The Curse
Onslaught - The Force
Hüsker Dü - Candy Apple Grey
Cro-Mags - The Age of Quarrel
Motörhead - Orgasmatron
Cirith Ungol - One Foot in Hell
Samhain - November-Coming-Fire
Nuclear Assault - Game Over
Killing Joke - Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
Dag Nasty - Can I Say
The Cramps - A Date With Elvis
fIREHOSE - Ragin', Full-On
Laibach - Nova akropola
Bad Brains - I Against I
Hallows Eve - Death & Insanity
Public Image Ltd. - Album
Cinderella - Night Songs
Uniform Choice - Screaming for Change
Possessed - Beyond the Gates
Ludichrist - Immaculate Deception
Cryptic Slaughter - Convicted
Agnostic Front - Cause for Alarm
Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin
The Accüsed - The Return of... Martha Splatterhead
Sacrilege B.C. - Party With God
The Dead Milkmen - Eat Your Paisley!
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - Frenzy
Dead Kennedys - Bedtime for Democracy
Fishbone - In Your Face
Sepultura - Morbid Visions
Die Kreuzen - October File
Murphy's Law - Murphy's Law
Voivod - Rrröööaaarrr
Iggy Pop - Blah Blah Blah

A ton of great metal and stuff I was listening to on WHFS back in the day. Like I said, I was 17 then. The best music is always when you're 17.

Went for 2006, mostly based on Silent Shout and also me digging out Kompakt Total 7 last night.

1996

Tool - Ænima
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
Burzum - Filosofem
Type O Negative - October Rust
Social Distortion - White Light White Heat White Trash
Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics
Long Fin Killie - Valentino
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Harvey Milk - Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men
Descendents - Everything Sucks

Jesus, what a boring ass year that was.

1996 was ok

Aphex Twin - Richard D James ,
Bardo Pond - Amanita ,
Boris - Absolutego,
Burzum – Filosofem,
Eyehategod - Dopesick ,
FSOL - Dead Cities,
Fu Manchu – In Search Of…,
Ghost - Lami Rabi Rabi,
Harvey Milk - Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men ,
Labradford - Labradford,
Low - The Curtain Hits the Cast ,
Mainliner - Mellow Out ,
Neurosis – Through Silver In Blood ,
Orbital - In Sides ,
Rachel’s - Music For Egon Schiele ,
Screaming Trees - Dust ,
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup ,
The Afghan Whigs - Black Love ,
The American Analog Set - The Fun of Watching Fireworks
The Heads - Relaxing With... ,
Tool – Aenima ,
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die ,
Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants ,

1986
Big Black - Atomizer ,
Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse ,
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus ,
Cirith Ungol - One Foot in Hell ,
Coil - Horse Rotorvator,
Giant Sand - Ballad of a Thin Line Man
Head Of David - Head Of David,
Hüsker Dü - Candy Apple Grey ,
Manilla Road - The Deluge ,
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? ,
Metallica - Master of Puppets ,
Paul Chain - In the Darkness ,
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late ,
Slayer - Reign in Blood,
Sonic Youth - EVOL ,
Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion
Swans - Greed,
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring ,
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead ,

1976
Aerosmith - Rocks
Camel - Moonmadness ,
Cluster - Sowiesoso
David Bowie - Station to Station ,
Flaming Groovies - Shake Some Action
Jorge Ben - África Brasil ,
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny ,
Klaus Schulze - Moondawn ,
La Düsseldorf - La Düsseldorf
Lee Morgan - The Procrastinator
Ramones - Ramones , Rainbow - Rising,
Selda - Selda ,
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life ,
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear ,
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
The Upsetters - Super Ape ,
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak,
Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox
Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life

2006
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain ,
Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea ,
Asunder - Works Will Come Undone ,
Built to Spill - You in Reverse ,
Celtic Frost - Monotheist ,
Colour Haze - Tempel ,
Converge - No Heroes ,
Drudkh - Blood in Our Wells ,
Dysrythmia - Barriers and Passages ,
Envy - Insomniac Doze ,
Grails Black Tar Prophecies - Vols 1,2&3 ,
Hammers of Misfortune - The Locust Years ,
Harvey Milk - Special Wishes ,
Hjarnidaudi - Pain-Noise-March ,
Isis - In the Absence of Truth ,
Jack Rose - Jack Rose ,
James Blackshaw - O True Believers ,
Jesu - Silver
Kylesa - Time Will Fuse Its Worth,
Ludicra - Fex Urbis Lex Orbis ,
Major Stars Syntoptikon ,
Mastodon - Blood Mountain ,
Melvins - A Senile Animal ,
Mono - You Are There ,
Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay ,
Negura Bunget - OM ,
Om - Conference of the Birds ,
Orthodox - Gran Poder
Pagan Altar , Mythical & Magical ,
Scott Walker - The Drift ,
Solitude Aeturnus - Alone ,
The Angelic Process - Coma Waering ,
The Gates of Slumber - Suffer No Guilt .
The Goslings - Grandeur Of Hair ,
The Heads under the stress of a headlong dive ,
Tool 10,000 Days ,
Warning - Watching From a Distance ,
Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars ,

1996 was good for hip hop

DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
Dr Octagon – Dr Octagonecologyst
Ghostface Killah – Ironman
The Fugees – The Score
OutKast – ATLiens
Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal
Nas – It Was Written
Jeru The Damaja – Wrath Of The Math
Mobb Deep – Hell On Earth

2006

Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Negură Bunget - OM
Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
Drudkh - Blood in Our Wells
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
Tool - 10,000 Days
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Enslaved - Ruun
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars
Dog Fashion Disco - Adultery
Killing Joke - Hosannas From the Basements of Hell
Isis - In the Absence of Truth
Om - Conference of the Birds
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Harvey Milk - Special Wishes
Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
Keep of Kalessin - Armada
Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
Gaza - I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die
Kylesa - Time Will Fuse Its Worth
Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay
Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth
Asunder - Works Will Come Undone
Urgehal - Goatcraft Torment
Týr - Ragnarok
The Paper Chase - Now You Are One of Us
Korpiklaani - Tales Along This Road

Some stuff I still listen to. Still no better than the third best of the four years in this particular thread for me.

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