Album of The Year - Endgame

The N+G Top 20 Albums of 1988

  1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
  2. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
  3. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
  4. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
  5. R.E.M. - Green
  6. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
  7. Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman
  8. Metallica - ...And Justice for All
  9. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
  10. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything (tie 10)
  11. Leonard Cohen - I’m Your Man (tie 10)
  12. Dinosaur Jr-Bug
  13. Morrissey - Viva Hate
  14. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
  15. The Travelling Wilburys – The Travelling Wilburys, Vol. 1 (tie 15)
  16. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey (tied 15)
  17. Erik B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader (tied 17)
  18. Galaxie 500-Today (tied 17)
  19. Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session
  20. Talking Heads - Naked
 
An absolute mammoth of a year for music. We all know the one true answer though.

1975:
1. Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
2. Queen - A Night At The Opera
3. Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic
4. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
5. Journey - Journey
6. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
7. Jefferson Starship - Red Octopus
8. Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
9. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
10. Styx - Equinox
 
This should be fun! I’ve heard OF a lot of albums from that year, and I’m familiar with a handful of singles. But I haven’t heard many albums in their entirety. And because I wasn’t alive in 1975, I don’t have any nostalgia tied up in this one! For giggles, I think I’ll do a deep dive and actually listen to a bunch of albums from that year and pick the most “all killer, no filler” ones! Unless there’s a single that just can’t be denied....we’ll see! Yay!
 
Top 10 - 1975
  1. Brian Eno - Another Green World
  2. Patti Smith - Horses
  3. Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
  4. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
  5. Fleetwood Mac - S/T
  6. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
  7. Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit
  8. Neil Young - Tonight’s The Night
  9. Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
  10. Parliament - Mothership Connection
HMs:
Serge Gainsbourg - Rock Around The Bunker
Queen - A Night At The Opera
Roxy Music - Siren
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic
 
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i am VERY DISAPPOINTED in the go-betweens masterful final work didn't make our top 20

75 has my favourite record of all time on it, but i really do think of it as 'the last year before punk', even tho patti smith's horses will likely be in my top 5 favourite records for this year

in terms of antipoean releases, looking for representation for ac/dc (x2!) and skyhooks, plus split enz from across the ditch
 
I was born 18 years after this week's year, so there's a lot of digging for me to do here. If I were asked to create a favorites for 1975 back in high school, my list would look very similar to the one @Sanders made (great list, btw!) as I tended to favor classic rock back in my teens. RYM will be helpful here, and I am sure to find some relics that I would have otherwise forgotten.

I've added ~25 albums that I am unfamiliar with to the front of my backlog for this week...hoping to get through them all by the end of Friday. Hope to have my list finalized by Saturday!
 
You guys, red headed stranger came out that year! I’m seeing a distinct lack of Willie in your lists!! This is not cool!
 
1. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
2. David Bowie - Young Americans
3. Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
4. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
5. Patti Smith - Horses
6. Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
7. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
8. Fleetwood Mac
9.Neil Young - Tonight’s The Night
10. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Zuma
 
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