Five Favorite Albums Of Each Year

[TACdtf]

A little more catch up...

1976
UFO-No Heavy Petting
Rush-2112
Alice Cooper-Alice Cooper Goes To Hell
Thin Lizzy-Jailbreak
Boston-s/t


1977
AC/DC-Let There Be Rock
Thin Lizzy-Bad Reputation
UFO-Lights Out
Scorpions-Taken By Force
Pink Floyd-Animals


1978
Rush-Hemispheres
UFO-Obsession
AC/DC-Powerage
Ace Frehley-s/t
Paul Stanley-s/t



1979
Aerosmith-Night In The Ruts
Blondie-Eat To The Beat
AC/DC-Highway To Hell
Rainbow-Down To Earth
Thin Lizzy-Black Rose


1980
Black Sabbath-Heaven And Hell
AC/DC-Back In Black
Thin Lizzy-Chinatown
UFO-No Place To Run
Rush-Permanent Waves

 

[Magic]

It’s going to take me a while to catch up to you guys!

1966
This is the year my music collection begins to grow. Makes it harder to choose absolute favorites.
Cream ~ Fresh Cream
The Animals ~ Animalism
Beach Boys ~ Pet Sounds
Simon & Garfunkel ~ Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
John Mayall & Eric Clapton ~ Blues Breakers

1967
The Doors ~ The Doors
Traffic ~ Mr. Fantasy
Pink Floyd ~ Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Cream ~ Disraeli Gears
Moody Blues ~ Days of Future Passed

1968
Jimi Hendrix ~ Electric Ladyland
The Zombies ~ Odessey and Oracle
The Band ~ Music From Big Pink
Steppenwolf ~ Steppenwolf
Iron Butterfly ~ In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida


1969
Led Zeppelin ~ Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin ~ Led Zeppelin II
The Who ~ Tommy
Creedence Clearwater Revival ~ Green River & Bayou Country
Santana ~ Santana

My collection at this point has begun to get very large in size, making it really hard to choose just 5…..hence both CCR albums.

 

[TACdtf]

My collection at this point has begun to get very large in size, making it really hard to choose just 5…..

It hurts to leave some off.

 

[Magic]

It hurts to leave some off.

Yes it does. I tossed back and forth with Pink Floyd ~ Ummagumma or The Who ~ Tommy….after listening to both, I chose Tommy.


1970
Black Sabbath ~ Paranoid
Black Sabbath ~ Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin ~ Led Zeppelin III
Creedence Clearwater Revival ~ Cosmos Factory
James Taylor ~ Sweet Baby James

 

[Magic]

1971
Led Zeppelin ~ Led Zeppelin IV
The Who - Who’s Next
Traffic ~ Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
The Allman Brother’s ~ At Fillmore East
Janis Joplin ~ Pearl


Dang! This was a really hard year to pick just 5. I shuffled them up a bunch of times….decided to give a nod to Janis’s best, IMO.

 

[Magic]

1972
Black Sabbath ~ Volume 4
Uriah Heep ~ Demons & Wizards
Deep Purple ~ Machine Head
Blue Oyster Cult ~ Blue Oyster Cult
Doobie Brothers ~ Toulouse Street

 

[TACdtf]

1972
Black Sabbath ~ Volume 4

Deep Purple ~ Machine Head

On my list as well.

 

[TACdtf]

Banging out a couple more years before I can catch up to BeatleMatt. I posted 1981 already so..

1982
Iron Maiden-The Number Of The Beast
Judas Priest-Screaming For Vengeance
Gary Moore-Corridors Of Power
UFO-Mechanix
Michael Schenker Group-Assault Attack

1983
Dio-Holy Diver
Iron Maiden-Piece Of Mind
Metallica-Kill 'Em All
Y&T-Mean Streak
Blackfoot-Siogo

1984
Queensryche-The Warning
Dio-The Last In Line
Jack Starr-Out Of The Darkness
Iron Maiden-Powerslave
Hanoi Rocks-Two Steps From The Move



It was PAINFUL to leave so many great albums off of these lists!

 

[Magic]

It was PAINFUL to leave so many great albums off of these lists!

I’m only up to 1973, and choosing just 5 has been difficult. It’s gonna get harder once I get to the late 70’s through the mid ‘80’s….with NWOBHM bands.

1973
Pink Floyd ~ Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin. ~ Houses of the Holy
Lynyrd Skynyrd ~ Pronounced
Z Z Top ~ Tres Hombres
Aerosmith ~ Aerosmith

1974
Bachman-Turner Overdrive ~ Not Fragile
Deep Purple ~ Burn
Lynyrd Skynyrd ~ Second Helping
Bad Company ~ Bad Company
Aerosmith ~ Get Your Wings

(1974 was tough! Had to omit a Deep Purple, Supertramp, Eric Clapton, Queen, Steely Dan, Blue Oyster Cult, Robin Trower…..SMH)


1975
Ted Nugent ~ Ted Nugent
Led Zeppelin ~ Physical Graffiti
Aerosmith ~ Toys in the Attic
Black Sabbath ~ Sabotage
Rainbow ~ Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow

 

[TACdtf]

I’m only up to 1973, and choosing just 5 has been difficult. It’s gonna get harder once I get to the late 70’s through the mid ‘80’s….with NWOBHM bands.

1973
Led Zeppelin. ~ Houses of the Holy
Aerosmith ~ Aerosmith

1974
Deep Purple ~ Burn

1975
Led Zeppelin ~ Physical Graffiti
Black Sabbath ~ Sabotage
Rainbow ~ Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow

Same!

It was tough to leave Get Your Wings off of my '74 list. Toys was easy though. lol