The 'Five Years Music Game' ILM Version

Like the facebook game where you post your favourite album from -
The year you were born,
Five years before,
Ten years before,
Fifteen years before,
and
Five years AFTER you were born,
Ten years after,
Fifteen years after,
Twenty years after,
(if you're under 25 you can do twenty years before you were born instead of 20 years after)

Mine is
Year I was Born 1973. Can - Future Days.
1968. The Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat
1963. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
1958. Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'

1978. Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove.
1983. Manilla Road - Crystal Logic.
1988. Jane's Addiction - Nothings Shocking
1993. Nirvana - In Utero.

And since its ILM we can fill out the years before or after as you please.

1998 - Massive Attack - Mezzanine
2003 - Sleep - Dopesmoker
2008 - Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
2013 - Carcass - Surgical Steel

Wikipedia or http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart is pretty hand to use.

I don't know when anything came out.

have a look at rym custom charts for the years might give you an idea. You can remove genres you're not interested in. Its not all radiohead and prog fans on there!

Though I realise wiki & rym arent that great for your taste in music.

I was born in 1983. R.E.M - Murmur

1978. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
1973. Roxy Music - Stranded
1968. The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

1988. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
1993. Pet Shop Boys - Very
1998. Earl Brutus - Tonight You are the Special One
2003. The Clientele - The Violet Hour

2008. Portishead - Third
2013. Goldfrapp - Tales of Us

that Portishead album was my other choice for that year!

That was a great year for albums but Third is easily the album I come back to the most. Can't believe it's already six years old.

I chose the Esoteric basically because the vinyl version finally got issued a month ago and it just sounds so great. Was hard to choose between them though. You;re talking about 2 of my fave bands ever there. Plus I got my metal stereotype to live up to ;)

1983: Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
1978: Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
1973: The Who - Quadrophenia
1968: The Beatles - White Album

1988: Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
1993: Carcass - Heartwork
1998: Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
2003: Sleep - Dopesmoker

nice birth year Kitchen Person, btw! ;)

hah we share two excellent choices!

Without too much thought...

1980: Lio - Lio

1975: ABBA - ABBA
1985: Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
1990: Kino - Chornii Album
1995: Mylene Farmer - Anamorphosee
2000: Faye Wong - Fable
2005: Tatu - Lyudi Invalidi / Mylene Farmer - Avant Que l'Ombre...

2010: Taylor Swift - Speak Now

1986: Prince - Parade
1981: Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches
1976: Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (between this, Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak, and Marvin's I Want You - what a year)
1971: Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (between this and T. Rex's Electric Warrior)

1991: Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
1996: Aaliyah - One in a Million
2001: Daft Punk - Discovery (another strong year, too many runner-ups to list)
2006: Lady Sovereign - Public Warni Beyonce - B'Day

No 1970? 1970 was an incredible year for releases.

xp

1971: Miles Davis, A Tribute to Jack Johnson
1966: John Coltrane, Ascension
1961: Dexter Gordon, Dexter Calling
1956: Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley

1976: AC/DC, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Australia)
1981: Van Halen, Fair Warning
1986: Slayer, Reign in Blood
1991: Sonny Sharrock, Ask the Ages

I gave up looking because so many favourites were released in 1969 or 1971 but maybe The Carpenters - Close To You.

Xp

1948 NOTHING
1953 Paul Bley - Introducing Paul Bley
1958 Miles Davis - L'Ascenseur pour l'échafaud

1968 The Beatles - White Album
1973 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
1978 Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance

you were born in 63 I assume? not got a pick for that year? You can take it all the way up to 2013 if you want to

you are right, i forgot my birth year. sorry, it must be the age...
1963 Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto

I was born in 1961 so this is going to be difficult.

1979: Rust Never Seeps, Neil Young & Crazy Horse

1974: Bob Dylan/The Band, Before The Flood
1969: The Rolling Stones, Let It Bleed
1964: The Beatles, A Hard Day's Night

1984: Husker Du, Zen Arcade
1989: The Mekons, Mekons Rock'n'Roll
1994: Guided By Voices, Bee Thousand
1999: LeTigre, LeTigre
2004: The Mountain Goats, We Shall All Be Healed
2009: pass

and the other years up to 2013:

1983 Meat Puppets - II
1988 Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
1993 Idaho - Year after Year
1998 Cat Power - Moon Pix
2003 Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun
2008 Portishead - Third
2013 My Bloody Valentine - mbv

lol at "Rust Never Seeps," my bad

Mark take it back as far as you can. On the plus side you've lived through some amazing era's of music ya jammy sod!
xps

1983 was a hard year to choose wasnt it?

1966: Rolling Stones - Aftermath
1961: Edgard Varese - Columbia symphony Orchestra dir. Robert Craft
1956: Clifford Brown & Max Roach - At Basin Street

1971: Joni Mitchell - Blue (over Who's Next)
1976: Eno - Another Green World
1981: Human Switchboard - Who's Landing in My Hangar?
1986: Indestructible Beat of Soweto

xp
yes, 1983 was pretty hard. but i think i found an album which stood the test of time quite well.

yes I think you did :)

Born in 1981: The Human League - Dare

1966: The Beatles - Revolver
1971: Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
1976: David Bowie - Station to Station

1986: Sonic Youth - EVOL
1991: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
1996: The Afghan Whigs - Black Love
2001: Bjork - Vespertine
2006: Scott Walker - The Drift
2011: Diddy-Dirty Money - Last Train to Paris

1976: Modern Lovers
1971: Gong - Camembert Electrique
1966: Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock & Sunny Murray - New York Eye and Ear Control
1961: Judy Garland - Judy at Carnegie Hall

1981: Eno/Byrne - My Life In The Bush of Ghosts
1986: Janet Jackson - Control
1991: Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
1996: Jason Falkner - Presents Author Unknown

okay i'm changing my 1991 to

1991: Sonny Sharrock, Ask the Ages

Whaaaaat, I must've missed Control when I was looking over the list of albums released in '86. Replace Parade with Control on my list (as if anyone cares).

1972 - Miles Davis - On The Corner

1967 - The Who Sell Out
1962 - Archie Shepp/Bill Dixon Quartet
1957 - Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners

1977 - Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane - Rough Mix
1982 - Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Imperial Bedroom
1987 - Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush The Show

1967 - Scott Walker, Scott 1

1962 - Bobby Pickett, Monster Mash (no album pick this year)
1957 - Ken Nordine, Word Jazz
1952 - Hank Williams, I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive (no album pick for this year)

1972 - Big Star, #1 Record
1977 - Wire, Pink Flag
1982 - XTC, English Settlement
1987 - The Replacements, Pleases To Meet Me
1992 - Sugar, Copper Blue
1997 - Whiskeytown, Strangers Almanac
2002 - Neko Case, Blacklisted
2007 - Grinderman, Grinderman
2012 - Toy, Toy

1966: Monks - Black Monk Time
1971: Can - Tago Mago
1976: La Düsseldorf - La Düsseldorf
1981: Art Bears - The World as It Is Today
1986: Arthur Russell - World of Echo
1991: Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
1996: Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
2001: DAT Politics - Sous Hit
2006: Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
2011: ILx Presents LULU

I have a terrible memory for dates so had to rely on RYM a fair amount, which means I may have overlooked something important. Also found this pretty hard for other reasons, including the fact that only picking one favourite from each year makes it hard to cover a wider range of musics... mine certainly looks much more homogeneous than it could do... also it's uncomfortably white.

that is a GREAT list.

1972. Slade - Slade Alive!

1957. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Collossus
1962. John Coltrane - "Live" at the Village Vanguard
1967. Albert Ayler - Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village

1977. Pink Floyd - Animals
1982. The Time - What Time Is It?
1987. Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
1992. Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth
1997. Pizzicato Five - Happy End of the World
2002. The Notwist - Neon Golden
2007. Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde
2012. Pinkish Black - Pinkish Black

OK -- this took a bit of effort relying on "others" best-of lists to find prospective candidates. I negated any archival material excepting for the inclusion of the Wailers, which is just far too sublime to ignore.

1968 - Caetano Veloso -- Caetano Veloso (Tropicália) -- TIE -- Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money

1963 - Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue; Getz/Gilberto, Really! -- wait; The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan ??? tuff call
1958 - Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else -- TIE -- Kingston Trio - s/t
1953 - Django Reinhardt et Ses Rythmes

1973 - Wailers - Record Plant KSAN Bootleg
1978 - Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear
1982 - Bad Brains
1987 - U2 - Joshua Tree
1992 - PJ Harvey - Dry
1997 - Buena Vista Social Club
2002 - El-P - Fantastic Damage -- TIE -- The Streets - Original Pirate Material
2007 - PJ Harvey - White Chalk -- TIE -- Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band EP
2012 - Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel... -- TIE -- Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (one of the few times Pitchfork actually got it right); and an Honorable Mention for Bill Fay - Life Is People

alex in mainhattan is older than me (and most, HA!) and gets MONSTER props for the Miles album (L'Ascenseur pour l'échafaud); it is a superb album and could possibly be the Ambient prototype.

born in 89

1989: Galaxie 500 - On Fire
1984: The Smiths - no idea. The Smiths self titled?
1974: Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy

1994: Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
1999: The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
2004: Wilco - A Ghost is Born
2009: Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2014: ?????

It's amazing how many more albums I like were released in 1974 than in 1979 (birth year).

Like 1979 is a pretty easy call: either Off the Wall or Entertainment!

1974 I probably have 10-15 I could choose from:

1981: Kraftwerk - Computer World
1976: Led Zeppelin - Presence (surprisingly awful year, can barely find anything on RYM)
1971: Led Zeppelin IV
1966: Beatles - Revolver

1986: R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
1991: Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
1996: B&S - Sinister
2001: The Strokes - Is This It

punk legend has it 75/76 was the worst but theres plenty of good stuff those years

hmm not too many peeps with the 0 and 5 years so far, time to represent
1985 - hüsker dü - new day rising

1970 - amon düül II - yeti
1975 - neu! - neu! 75 (i sense a theme here ha)
1980 - young marble giants - colossal youth

1990 - badalamenti - twin peaks soundtrack
1995 - (wow this year was a waste land of nothing) i'll go for swans - the great annihilator
2000 - the avalanches - since i left you
2005 - electrelane - axes
2010 - titus andronicus - the monitor (tricky to compare to another fav from this year, håkan hellström)
2015 - the-dream - 5play

wow ha, 5 umlauts used in that post

alex in mainhattan is older than me (and most, HA!) and gets MONSTER props for the Miles album (L'Ascenseur pour l'échafaud); it is a superb album and could possibly be the Ambient prototype.

Seconding this - I'd never heard it until last year (I think it was the Miles poll that persuaded me to give it a go).

Great film too.

1982: John Cougar - American Fool

1967: Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
1972: Paul Simon - Paul Simon
1977: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
1987: Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
1992: The Magnetic Fields - The Wayward Bus
1997: that dog - Retreat from the Sun
2002: The Magnetic Fields - Tallahassee
2007: Aly & AJ - Insomniatic
2012: Jessie Ware - Devotion

2002 is Tallhassee by the Mountain Goats, obviously, shouldn't type so early in the morning.

nice choice with aly & aj
tbh i've only really paid attention to the first half of that album - will give the second half a little time today

who?

1983 Chameleons – Scripts of the Bridge

1978 Wire – Chairs Missing
1973 Can – Future Days
1968 beatles – White Album

1988 Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden
1993 Nirvana – In Utero
1998 Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children
2003 Magnolia Electric Co. – Magnolia Electric Co.

2008 Deerhunter - Microcastle
2013 Deafheaven - Sunbather

2003 was a particularly hard one to choose from. Great year for music.

1982: Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

1977: Television - Marquee Moon
1972: Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes
1967: Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love

1987: Prince - Sign O' The Times
1992: Dr. Dre - The Chronic
1997: Skeleton Key - Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon
2002: Sonic Youth - Murray Street
2007: Wye Oak - If Children
2012: Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream

1980 Status Quo - Just Supposin'
1975 Status Quo - On The Level
1970 Status Quo - Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon
1965 no good music released
1985 no good music released
1990 Status Quo - Rocking All Over The Years
1995 Status Quo - When You Walk In The Room copied repeatedly onto a C90
2000 Status Quo - Famous In The Last Century

hilarious..

1975 Miles Davis - Agharta slight edge over Neu! and Harmonia
1970 Stooges - Fun House
1965 The Who - Sings My Generation
1960 Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
1980 Joy Division - Closer
1985 Celtic Frost – To Mega Therion
1990 Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet
1995 Drum and Bass Selection 4 mixed by DJ Hype

1969: Scott Walker - Scott 3

1964: Dusty Springfield - Dusty
1959: Louvin Brothers - Satan Is Real
1954: Frank Sinatra - Songs For Young Lovers

1974: Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
1979: Public Image Limited - Metal Box (by a hair from Half Machine Lip Moves and 20 Jazz Funk Greats, three of my very favourite albums there)
1984: SWANS - Cop (vs HOLE vs Morbid Tales)
1989: Godflesh - Streetcleaner
1994: Lustmord - The Place Where the Black Stars Hang
1999: Caspar Brotzmann - Mute Massaker
2004: Velvet Cacoon - Genevieve
2009: Jodis - Secret House

List vmic

i like internet alan's list

1978: Big Star, Third/Sister Lovers

1973: Elton John, Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player
1968: Rolling Stones, Beggars Banquet
1963: Phil Spector, A Christmas Gift to You

1983: Cyndi Lauper, She's So Unusual
1988: 'Til Tuesday, Everything's Different Now
1993: The Loud Family, Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things
1998: Neutral Milk Hotel, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

1985 - Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

1980 - The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
1975 - Parliament - Mothership Connection
1970 - Curtis Mayfield - Curtis

1990 - Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
1995 - The Presidents of the United States of America - The Presidents of the United States of America
2000 - The Avalanches - Since I Left You
2005 - Junior Senior - Hey Hey My My Yo Yo
2010 - Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid

That is a great list. Still love that Junior Senior album.

So far the most albums on a list I own is 3, led unsurprisingly by Kitchen Person. Internet Alan gets props for The Chameleons and Wire - I'm going to check out his 21st century picks because of that!

1948: lol
1953: not familiar with any of them
1958: Jimmy Giuffre - Free Fall
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1963: Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
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1968: The Mothers of Invention: We're Only In It For the Money (barely ahead of Hendrix and Brotzmann)
1973: King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic (runners-up: Lawrence of Newark, Conference of the Birds, the American Graffiti soundtrack)
1978: Eno - Music for Airports (runners-up: The Rutles, Dub Housing, Music for 18 Musicians, This Year's Model, More Songs About Buildings and Food)
1983: Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
1988: Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, vol. 2 (The Helsinki Concert)

1976 Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

1971 Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
1966 The Beatles - Revolver
1961 Ornette Coleman Double Quartet - Free Jazz
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1981 Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
1986 Slayer - Reign in Blood
1991 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
1996 Weezer - Pinkerton]

I was born in 1975: Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention - One Size Fits All

1970: Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
1965: Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
1960: Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century

1980: Steely Dan - Gaucho
1985: Rush - Power Windows
1990: Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
1995: Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...

Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, vol. 2 (The Helsinki Concert)

so good

Year of birth: 1983

1983: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Dazzle Ships
1978: Ultravox - Systems Of Romance
1973: Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
1968: The Beatles - The Beatles
1963: The Beatles - Please Please Me

1988: Pixies - Surfer Rosa
1993: Pet Shop Boys - Very
1998: Pulp - This Is Hardcore
2003: Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
2008: Neon Neon - Stainless Style
2013: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - English Electric

1942: N/A
1947: N/A
1952: Charlie Parker - South of the Border (hey! I own a (reissue) LP of this)

1957: Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Collossus

1962: Ray Charles - Modern Sounds In Country & Western Music
1967: The Velvet Underground & Nico (impossible year)
1972: Aretha Franklin - Young Gifted & Black
1977: Cheap Trick - S/T (another set of tough choices i.e Bowie-Low & K-werk's TEE)

1982 The Dreaming

1977 Marquee Moon
1972 Pink Moon or Roxy Music (don't make me choose)
1967 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

1987 Secrets of the Beehive
1992 Down Colorful Hill
1997 Perfect from now on
2002 Mclusky do Dallas
2007 Weighing Souls with Sand
2012 The Seer

just went with my gut on all of these.

1983 tom waits - swordfishtrombones

1978 david bowie - low
1973 stevie wonder - innervisions
1968 the velvet underground - white light/white heat
1963 charles mingus - the black saint and the sinner lady
1958 miles davis - ascenseur pour l'echafaud
1953 charlie parker et al. - jazz at massey hall

1988 talk talk - spirit of eden
1993 nirvana - in utero
1998 neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
2003 the mountain goats - tallahassee
2008 the silver jews - lookout mountain, lookout sea
2013 beyoncé - beyoncé

damn, low was 1977

1977 Shoes - Black Vinyl Shoes
1982 Tommy Keene - Strange Alliance
1987 The Bats - Daddy's Highway
1992 The Lilys - In The Presence of Nothing
1997 Space Needle - The Moray Eels Eat The Space Needle
2002 The Notwist - Neon Golden
2007 The Clientele - God Save the Clientele
2012 Sun Kil Moon - Among The Leaves

Too many to choose from 87 - 97.

1978 big star - 3rd/sister lovers

and tallahassee was 2002
so: 2003 cat power - you are free

so good

― Spaghetti Sauce Shampoo (Moodles), Monday, February 17, 2014 11:45 AM

A little bit of a cheat on my part since it's a 1974 recording, but not much else from that year jumped out at me except Public Enemy.

1962: Charles Mingus, Oh Yeah
1967: Tommy James & The Shondells, I Think We're Alone Now
1972: John Denver, Rocky Mountain High
1977 (born): John Williams, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
1982: Flipper, Generic Flipper
1987: Prince, Sign ☮ the Times
1992: Ice Cube, The Predator
1997: The Conet Project, Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations
2002: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, House Arrest + Lover Boy
2007: Pig Destroyer, Phantom Limb
2012: Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d city

1965 France Gall - Poupée de cire, poupée de son

1960 Terry Snyder And The All Stars - Persuasive Percussion Volume 2
1955 Peggy Lee And Ella Fitzgerald ‎– Songs From Pete Kelly's Blues
1950 The Complete Works of Edgard Varèse, Vol. 1

1970 The Free Design ‎– Stars / Time / Bubbles / Love
1975 Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
1980 Yes - Drama
1985 Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche '85
1990 Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet <--unoriginal, but what else was there?
1995 f*ck knows, blimey the mid 90s were rubbish weren't they? (Wu Tang records aside)
2000 Señor Coconut y su conjunto - El Baile Alemán
2005 Kate Bush - Aerial
2010 Gemma Ray — It's a Shame About Gemma Ray

1974 Neil Young - On the Beach

1959 Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
1964 The Ronettes - Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes
1969 Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis

1979 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
1984 Prince - Purple Rain
1989 New Order - Technique
1994 Portishead - Dummy
1999 Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
2004 Kanye West - The College Dropout
2009 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

1992 Nirvana - Incesticide

1987 Prince - Sign O' the Times
1982 Missing Persons - Spring Session M
1977 Steely Dan - Aja
1972 Van Dyke Parks - Discover America

1997 Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
2002 Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
2007 Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
2012 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes

1971 pink floyd - meddle

1946 duke ellington - black, brown & beige
1956 sonny rollins - saxophone colossus
1961 john coltrane - my favorite things
1966 cannonball adderley - mercy, mercy, mercy

1976 david bowie - station to station
1981 rush - moving pictures
1986 rem - lifes rich pageant
1991 superchunk - no pocky for kitty
1996 afghan whigs - black love
2001 fugazi - the argument
2006 the hold steady - boys and girls in america
2011 wye oak - civilian

i went as far forward as i could and then i had to go back symmetrically ugh

1962 howlin' wolf - howlin' wolf
1967 the jimi hendrix experience - are you experienced?
1972 randy newman - sail away
1977 talking heads - talking heads: 77
1982 laurie anderson - big science
1987 bruce springsteen - tunnel of love
1992 madonna - erotica
1997 modest mouse - the lonesome crowded west
2002 the mountain goats - tallahassee
2007 britney spears - blackout
2012 my dick - my dick's double full-length release

1978 Talking Heads - More Songs about Buildings and Food

1973 Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
1968 Nara Leão - Nara Leão
1963 Jorge Ben - Samba Esquema Nova
1958 Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette

1983 The Fall - Perverted by Language
1988 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1993 Pet Shop Boys - Very
1998 Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
2003 Coachwhips - Bangers vs. Fuckers
2008 The Kills - Midnight Boom
2013 Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

I'm terrible at knowing the exact years things came out (or indeed happened), so this will have to rely on itunes (and I'll have to hope that I haven't forgotten to rip any really important albums);

1983 Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels (a really, really tough choice; Bauhaus' Burning from the Inside, Scott Walker's Climate of Hunter, and Yello's Claro Que Si almost made it)
1978 Wire - Chairs Missing
1973 Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
1968 Serge Gainsbourg - Initials BB
1988 Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
1993 Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
1998 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
2003 Broadcast - Haha Sound
2008 The Tough Alliance - A New Chance
2013 The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

^never heard of The Tough Alliance but those are great picks otherwise

I just realised I do have a 1995 candidate to add to my list upthread, Charles Long & Stereolab's Music For The Amorphous Body Study Center.

1990 They Might Be Giants - Flood

1985 The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash (this was the hardest choice, beating Tim, Rain Dogs, Low-Life and This Nation's Saving Grace)
1980 Talking Heads - Remain in Light
1975 Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
1970 The Stooges - Fun House
1965 The Beatles - Rubber Soul

1995 Pulp - Different Class
2000 Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
2005 The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
2010 Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

1964 Dixie Cups - Chapel of Love

1949 ??
1954 Theolonious Monk - Piano Solo
1959 John Lee Hooker - I'm John Lee Hooker

1969 The Velvet Underground - s/t
1974 Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
1979 The Clash - London Calling
1984 REM - Reckoning
1989 The Stone Roses - s/t