Favourite Albums from Your Birth Year?

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I really wish I had thought this thread through beforehand. lol
 

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My year 1987

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - The Cure
Darklands - The Jesus & Mary Chain
If I Should Fall From Grace With God - The Pogues
Strangways Here I Come - The Smiths
Solitude Standing - Suzanne Vega
Electric - The Cult
The Black Album - Prince
The Uplift Mofo Party Plan - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Kick - Inxs
 

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For those who can't come up with many from their birth year, feel free to pick your favourite decade. :)
 

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Dirt - Alice In Chains
40 Oz. To Freedom - Sublime
Incesticide - Nirvana
Fully Completely - Tragically Hip
Bricks Are Heavy - L7
Psalm 69 - Ministry
Cracker - Cracker
Core - Stone Temple Pilots
Blind Melon - Blind Melon

I'm definitely a 90's kid, too bad I never got to experience it as a teen.
 

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1958 Top albums, in America, include:
o Calypso by Harry Belafonte is the first album to sell a million copies.
o The Fabulous Johnny Cash, the second album by Johnny Cash is released.
o Johnny Cash Sings the Songs that Made Him Famous, the third album by Johnny Cash is released.
o The Yes Indeed album by Ray Charles is released.
o Miles Davis and Gil Evans record their Porgy and Bess album.
o Gigi Soundtrack is released.
o Sing Along with Mitch by Mitch Miller is released.
o A Guy in Love album by Guy Mitchell, which includes the ballad Allegheny Moon, is released.
o The Music Man Original Cast album is released.
o Only the Lonely album by Frank Sinatra is released on Capitol.
o South Pacific Soundtrack album is released.
o Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 album by Van Cliburn is released
 

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Popular singles of the year, in America, include:
o You Can Make It if You Try by Gene Allison climbs into the US top 40 singles chart. The Rolling Stones include a note-for-note cover of the song on their first album.
o Dede Dinah by Frankie Avalon is released.
o Johnny B. Goode, written and performed by Chuck Berry, sells a million copies.
o Ballad of a Teenage Queen is a hit single for Johnny Cash in America.
o Maybe by the Chantels is released.
o Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu/ Flip Top Box the second single by Dickey Doo and the Don’ts (Gerry Granahan) is released on Swan.
o Oh Carolina by the Folks Brothers, is the first Jamaican hit record.
o Do You Wanna Dance? by Bobby Freeman is released.
o Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms is released.
o Oh Boy and Maybe Baby by Buddy Holly and the Crickets.
o Tears on My Pillow by Little Anthony and the Imperials is the group’s biggest hit. Their real names are: Anthony Gourdine, Sammy Strain, Ernest Wright and Clarence Collins.
o Book of Love by the Monotones is released.
o Lonesome Town by Ricky Nelson is released.
o Ed Townsend offers one of his songs, For Your Love, to Capitol Records with a view to their placing it with one of their artists. The label likes the baritone voice of his demo so much that he is asked to record it himself. The ballad makes the American Top 20.
o La Bamba by Ritchie Valens is released.
 

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Anyone else here born in 1958?

In the UK, the Manchester United football team was destroyed in the Munich air crash. 23 people died, including 8 members of the football team. In the US, Elvis Presley was drafted into the United States Army for a two-year stint of national service. Pvt. #53310761 Presley with the 3rd (Spearhead) Armored Division in West Germany, served to March 1960.
 

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You are a year ahead of me Big Ears...;)
 

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OK Computer - Radiohead
The Colour And The Shape - Foo Fighters
Life After Death - Notorious B.I.G.
Be Here Now - Oasis
Time Out Of Mind - Bob Dylan
BBC Sessions - Led Zeppelin

this list sucks compared to all the other ones in the thread LOL. :(
 

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