Your Favourite Year

[auslander]

For some reason our technocrat overlords have decided that each of us can only listen to music released in a single year (and all greatest hits albums are banned). You get one minute to choose and then that is it, all your cds and all your spotifies are only from albums released that year. What year do you choose (your favourite year of music)?

[whiplash1972]

1987 without hesitation...

releases from 2 of my 3 favorite bands (Dokken, Y&T) and some of the best music ever released IMO

1987

Bryan Adams - Into The Fire
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
Anthrax - Among the Living
Autograph - Loud and Clear
Black Sabbath - The Eternal Idol
Bonfire - Fireworks
Cher - S/T 
Alice Cooper - Raise Your Fist and Yell
The Cult - Electric
Cutting Crew - Broadcast
Dalton - The Race Is On
Deep Purple - House of Blue Light
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Dio - Dream Evil
Dokken - Back for the Attack
EZO - S/T
Farrenheit - Farrenheit
Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat
Tim Feehan - Tim Feehan
Fleetwood Mac -Tango In The Night
Foreigner   - Inside Information
Frehley's Comet - Frehley's Comet
Lou Gramm - Ready Or Not
Great White - Once Bitten
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Sammy Hagar - I Never Said Goodbye
Heart - Bad Animals
Helix - Wild in the Streets
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I
INXS - Kick
KISS - Crazy Nights
Keel - Keel
Kick Axe - Rock the World
Killer Dwarfs - Stand Tall
Lion - Dangerous Attraction
Lizzy Borden - Visual Lies
Loverboy - Wildside
Richard Marx - Richard Marx
Metal Church - The Dark
George Michael - Faith
Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls
Night Ranger - Big Life
Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute
Pretty Maids - Future World
Raven - Life's a Bitch
REO Speedwagon - Life as We Know It
Rock Candy - Sucker for a Pretty Face
Rush - Hold Your Fire
Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
Shy - Excess All Areas
Soundtracks - Trick or Treat
Starship - No Protection
TNT - Tell No Tales
Treat - Dreamhunter
Twisted Sister - Love Is for Suckers
UDO - Animal House
White Lion - Pride
Whitesnake - S/T
Y&T - Contagious

[auslander]

I bloody love 1987, but I reckon I'd opt for 1989...

Accept – Eat the Heat

Ace Frehley – Trouble Walkin’

Aerosmith – Pump

Alannah Myles – S/T

Alice Cooper – Trash

Allies – Long Way from Paradise

Altar Boys – Forever Mercy

Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe – S/T

Angelica – S/T

Armageddon – The Money Mask

Axel Rudi Pell – Wild Obsession

Axxis – Kingdom of the Night

Babylon A.D. – S/T

Bad English – S/T

Badlands – S/T

Balaam & the Angel – Days of Madness

Bang Tango – Psycho Café

Banshee – Race Against Time

Barracuda – Open Fire

Barren Cross – State of Control

Beau Nasty – Dirty But Well Dressed

Believer – Extraction from Mortality

Black & White – Don’t Know Yet

Blue Murder – S/T

Bonham – The Disregard of Timekeeping

Britny Fox – Boys in Heat

The Call – Let the Day Begin

Cats In Boots – Kicked & Klawed

China – Sign in the Sky

The Choir – Wide-Eyed Wonder

Claytowne Troupe – Through the Veil

The Creek – Storm the Gate

Crisis Party – Rude Awakening

The Crucified – S/T

The Cult – Sonic Temple

The Cure – Disintegration

D.A.D. – No Fuel Left for the Pilgrims

Dalton – Injection

Dan Reed Network – Slam

Danger Danger – S/T

Dangerous Toys – S/T

Darling Cruel – Passion Crimes

David Mullen – Revival

David Zaffiro – The Other Side

De Mont – Body Language

DeGarmo & Key – The Pledge

Deliverance – S/T

Dirty Blonde – Passion

Dirty Looks – Turn of the Screw

Diving for Pearls – S/T

The Dogs D’Amour – Errol Flynn

Donnie Miller – One of the Boys

Drive She Said – S/T

Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ – Mystery Road

Enuff Z’Nuff – S/T

Extreme – S/T

EZO – Fire Fire

Faith No More – The Real Thing

Faster Pussycat – Wake Me When It’s Over

Fifth Angel – Time Will Tell

Fiona – Heart Like a Gun

Flame – Blaze

Flesh for Lulu – Plastic Fantastic

FM – Tough it Out

The Front – S/T

Giant – Last of the Runaways

Glorious Bankrobbers – Dynamite Sex Doze

Gorky Park – S/T

Great White – Twice Shy

Guardian – First Watch

Gun – Taking on the World

Heaven’s Edge – S/T

Heist – High Heel Heaven

The Holidays – Restless Heart

The Hummingbirds – LoveBuzz

Icon – Right Between the Eyes

Illustrator – S/T

Jesus Jones – Liquidizer

Jet Red – S/T

Jethro Tull – Rock Island

Johnny Diesel & the Injectors – S/T

Junkyard – S/T

Kate Bush – The Sensual World

King’s X – Gretchen Goes to Nebraska

Kingdom Come – In Your Face

The KLF – The White Room

L.A. Guns – Cocked & Loaded

Law & Order – Guilty of Innocence

Leatherwolf – Street Ready

Legacy – S/T

Lenny Kravitz – Let Love Rule

Leviticus – Knights of Heaven

Liaison – S/T

Lightforce – Mystical Thieves

Lillian Axe – Love + War

Lion – Trouble in Angel City

Lord Tracy – Deaf Gods of Babylon

Lou Gramm – Long Hard Look

Loudness – Soldier of Fortune

Love and Rockets – S/T

L.S. Underground – Wakin’ Up the Dead

Maria McKee – S/T

Masters of Reality – S/T

Max Q – S/T

McAuley Schenker Group – Save Yourself

Melidian – Lost in the Wild

Metal Church – Blessing in Disguise

Michael Monroe – Not Fakin’ It

Ministry – The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste

Motley Crue – Dr. Feelgood

Mr. Big – S/T

Mylon & Broken Heart – Big World

Nick Barker & the Reptiles – Goin’ to Pieces

Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine

Nirvana – Bleach

Nitro – O.F.R.

Peter Blakely – Harry’s Café De Wheels

Phantom Blue – S/T

Pink Cream 69 – S/T

Pixies – Doolittle

Pretty Boy Floyd – Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz

Princess Pang – S/T

Rage of Angels – S/T

Raging Slab – S/T

Red Flag – Naïve Art

Red Siren – All is Forgiven

Rez – Innocent Blood

Robin Beck – Trouble or Nothin’

Rosanna’s Raiders – Clothed in Fire

Rush – Presto

Sacred Warrior – Master’s Command

Saga – The Beginner’s Guide to Throwing Shapes

Saraya – S/T

Savatage – Gutter Ballet

Scarlet Red – Don’t Dance with Danger

Sea Hags – S/T

Shark Island – Law of the Order

Shotgun Messiah – S/T

Shout – In Your Face

Signal – Loud & Clear

Silent Rage – Don’t Touch Me There

Skid Row – S/T

Soundgarden – Louder than Love

Steve Jones – Fire and Gasoline

Steve Stevens – Atomic Playboys

The Stone Roses – S/T

Swedish Erotica – S/T

Tangier – Four Winds

Tattooed Love Boys – Bleeding Hearts and Needle Marks

Tesla – The Great Radio Controversy

The Thieves – Seduced by Money

Tin Machine – S/T

TinDrum – How Bout This?!

TNT – Intuition

Tom Petty – Full Moon Fever

Tora Tora – Surprise Attack

Treat – Organised Crime

Under Neath What – What Is It

Underworld – Change the Weather

Vain – No Respect

Vector – Simple Experience

Veil of Ashes – Pain

The Violet Burning – Chosen

Warrant – Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich

Watchmen – Generation

White Heart – Freedom

White Lion – Big Game

Whitesnake – Slip of the Tongue

The Wonder Stuff – Hup

Work Force – S/T

World Theatre – S/T

World Trade – S/T

Wrathchild – Delirium

X-Sinner – Get It

Xalt – Dark War

XYZ – S/T

Zion – Thunder from the Mountain

24-7 Spyz – Harder Than You

[Doggy]

[Glen]

1989

[Geoff]

Yeah, without a deep dive I think it'd be 1989 too. 

[lettard]

1987 was a great year...some of my favourite albums released that year including my favourite ever...but after looking at auslanders list...for me its 1989 simply because there were so many more great releases and outstanding debuts from groups that I love..its close though.

Edited September 1, 2022 by lettard

[auslander]

21 minutes ago, lettard said:

1987 was a great year...some of my favourite albums released that year including my favourite ever...but after looking at auslanders list...for me its 1989 simply because they were so many more great releases and outstanding debuts from groups that I love..its close though.

Bloody close. Sheer numbers win 1989 for me but 1987 has some of the best albums of all time. That list above is just the cds I personally own from 1989. 

[Geoff]

Yeah, I think the whole thing is close. I think you could probably mount a pretty valid case for any year from 1986-1992? Love 1984 and 1985, with some good last stabs in 1993 too... but 86-92 I feel could all be validly argued. 

Edited September 1, 2022 by Geoff

[CureTheSane]

Always been 87 for me.

[Dead Planet]

Probably somewhere between 87-91.....it would take forever to narrow it much further for me.....although I will admit that my first thought was 89 but there were so many great releases in those 5 years that I had to reconsider....

[lettard]

5 hours ago, auslander said:

Bloody close. Sheer numbers win 1989 for me but 1987 has some of the best albums of all time. That list above is just the cds I personally own from 1989. 

Plenty of great releases indeed...off my head from my '89 stuff i'd stick Bonfire - Point Blank , Strangeways - Walk In The Fire & Vengeance - Arabia in too  

Edited September 1, 2022 by lettard

[Thomas/Coastline]

1982 is great but 1983 is a jizzingly good classic AOR year. Arc Angel, Charlie, I-Ten, Preview, Survivor etc.

[Glen]

10 hours ago, Thomas/Coastline said:

1982 is great but 1983 is a jizzingly good classic AOR year. Arc Angel, Charlie, I-Ten, Preview, Survivor etc.

79-83 are all great years with many classic albums but it's the sheer volume of great releases in 1989 and prob 1990 too which make them special. 

[All Nights Reserved]

I just can't decide. Somewhere between 1968 and 2022. 

[SunsetHoliday]

Like most have said, I could pick any year from 1988-1992 at random and be mostly satisfied, although I would definitely miss some of my favorites.  Damn you fictional technocrat overlords for imposing such a cruel future

[Thomas/Coastline]

1985 had some great releases too: Magnum, Van Zant, Fortune, Shooting Star, Michael "Mr. Cheese" Bolton etc.

[zacharyamelie]

Funny how the majority say 1987 or 1989…what happened in 1988 🤣

[Darkstone]

On 9/1/2022 at 10:25 PM, Geoff said:

Yeah, I think the whole thing is close. I think you could probably mount a pretty valid case for any year from 1986-1992? Love 1984 and 1985, with some good last stabs in 1993 too... but 86-92 I feel could all be validly argued. 

I'd narrow it down a little to '89-'92.

Those were the "sweet spot" years for me. 

[auslander]

6 hours ago, zacharyamelie said:

Funny how the majority say 1987 or 1989…what happened in 1988 🤣

It was a really good year, but bookended by Great years!