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Ten year snapshot album / song plotter
The amazing Fraser could probably turn this into an amazing pie chart or something equally amazing.
Pick one ten year span, and then an album or song per year that you can use to chart that period.
It is the one album or song that you nostalgically think of as the soundtrack to each particular year. It doesn't have to have come out that year, doesn't have to be cool, and you don't even have to like it. It could be an album or song that your mates all raved about all the time, or your sister played all the time, or your parents had on in the car or whatever......
For the purposes of clarity, I count music DVDs as albums.
Shall I go first?
I've picked 1990 - 2000
1990 - Workers Playtime (Billy Bragg)
1991 - Seamonsters (The Wedding Present)
1992 - Gladsome, Humour & Blue (Martin Stephenson & The Daintees)
1993 - Upwards At 45 Degrees (Julian Cope)
1994 - Vauxhall And I (Morrissey)
1995 - Dog Man Star (Suede)
1996 - Post (Bjork)
1997 - Drawn To The Deep End (Gene)
1998 - Static And Silence (The Sundays)
1999 - Central Reservation (Beth Orton)
It's harder than you might think, boiling one year down to one song or one album. 1996 was a total bitch... But 1994 was easy - I mean, what else was there?
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To be honest
A pie chart wouldn't be the most appropriate choice of visual for this selection of data.
That's absolutely true but...
... I'd love to see you give it a go.
I would rather see
one of Fraser's amazing pie's. Yummy.
Sorry Tippy
my memory is a dusty old file cabinet where everything is filed under M for miscellaneous and impossible to locate when I need it.
I can tell you that I associate 1982 with Senses working overtime, but that's about it...
The 90's ? I don't think I was here at the time. Must have been stuck in a time worm hole or something, because I couldn't tell you what happened in that decade if you beat me with a very big stick.
I sometimes take out an old diary from my youth and read in amazement. I have no memory whatsoever of most of the events described in it...and no, I didn't even use drugs!
At least there's no risk of me ever becoming blasé...!
I could just about put up with this lot and a Desert Island:
1971: "Tapestry"
1972: "The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust..."
1973: "Dark Side of the Moon"
1974: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
1975: "Wish You Were Here"
1976: "Hotel California"
1977: "Rumours"
1978: "Parallel Lines"
1979: "Unknown Pleasures"
1980: "Flesh + Blood"
Pedant alert
Wasn't Dog Man Star released in Sept 94?
Have another look....
"It is the one album or song that you nostalgically think of as the soundtrack to each particular year. It doesn't have to have come out that year."
How about this?
1961: "The Shadows"
1962: "Bob Dylan"
1963: "Please Please Me"
1964: "The Rolling Stones"
1965: "Bert Jansch"
1966: "Blues Breakers Featuring Eric Clapton (Beano Album)"
1967: "Are You Experienced"
1968: "The Beatles (White Album)"
1969: "Led Zeppelin II"
1970: "Hot Rats"
Re: Dog Man Star pedantry -
Re: Dog Man Star pedantry - Chimney, I believe Tippy's specified that it's not necessarily albums released in a specific year, more LPs that charts the year for them on a personal level.
Ahhh
I getcha. Sorry Tippy old bean
No worries...
No worries...
... and sorry for not getting to this post before I replied to the other one!
List alert!
These are what would probably have been floating my boat at the time, from '78-88, still my "golden age".
1978: Generation X "King Rocker"
1979: The Damned "Machine Gun Etiquette"
1980: Discharge "Decontrol"
1981: Black Flag "Damaged"
1982: Wall Of Voodoo "Call Of The West"
1983: Sisters Of Mercy "Reptile House EP"
1984: Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense"
1985: R.E.M "Fables Of The Reconstruction"
1986: The Godfathers "Hit By Hit"
1987: Screaming Blue Messiahs "Bikini Red"
1988: Pixies "Surfer Rosa"
What has 1994 ever done for us?
Except:
The Auteurs - Now I'm A Cowboy
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
The Beautiful South - Miaow (the one where they got it right, IMO)
Blur - Parklife
The Divine Comedy - Promenade
Dodgy - Homegrown
Edwyn Collins - Gorgeous George
Jeff Buckely - Grace
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Massive Attack - Protection
Nick Cave - Let Love In
Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Portishead - Dummy
The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
Pulp - His 'n' Hers
Sabres Of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall
Suede - Dog Man Star
Therapy? - Troublegum
Also, hanging over from '93 were:
Bjork - Debut
Orbital - II
Pet Shop Boys - Very
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Bill Hicks - Rant In E Minor
Plus earlier albums from folks in the first list:
The Auteurs - New Wave
Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish (better than Parklife, IMO)
The Divine Comedy - Liberation
Suede - Suede
Nirvana - In Utero
Sorry to go off at a tangent, but I happen to think that 93-95 was a pretty good time for music. I may be somewhat biased by it coinciding with my mid-teens, but that's a pretty good list up there.
1994
Pretty much all I played for the entire summer: Johnny Cash's American Recordings and Neil Young's Sleeps With Angels.
I'd take issue with
Miaow. I thought TBS got it right on their debut and then steadily declined from there onwards.
0il give it foive.
1971 - Led Zeppelin IV.
1972 - Close to the Edge.
1973 - Raw Power.
1974 - Rock Bottom.
1975 - Blood on the Tracks.
1976 - Hejira.
1977 - Pink Flag.
1978 - More Songs About Buildings and Food.
1979 - Unknown Pleasures.
1980 - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels.
All the above are the albums that have stuck with me the most from their year of release.There are of course many,many others.
My 70's
1970: 5th Dimension - Wedding Bell Blues
1971: George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
1972: Fortunes - Storm In A Teacup
1973: Wizzard - See My Baby Jive
1974: Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us
1975: Kraftwerk - Autobahn
1976: Abba - Dancing Queen
1977: Donna Summer - I Feel Love
1978: Talking Heads - Take Me To The River
1979: Tubeway Army - Are "Friends" Electric?
Caveats: they're all singles, and all what I happen to have on iTunes, so easy to look up the years... Nothing outrageous or obscure here, but it tells the story of my formative years, and each song has a huge proustain rush associated with it, a fun little task for a Tuesday afternoon...
Dog Man Star
In 1994, a copy of Dog Man Star was all you really needed. Threw all my other CDs away. Same could be said of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix last year.
Recent
2001: The Beatles- 'One'
2002: The Coral- 'The Coral'
2003: Bob Dylan- 'Blonde on Blonde'
2004: Pink Floyd- 'The Dark Side of The Moon'
2005: KT Tunstall- 'Eye To The Telescope'
2006: The Decemberists- 'Picaresque'
2007: Manic Street Preachers- 'The Holy Bible'
2008: British Sea Power- 'Do You Like Rock Music'
2009: The Decemberists- 'The Hazards of Love'
2010: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds- 'Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus'
I'm going to do the 1980s...
to remind myself that I do like some music from that decade.
1980 - Pete Townshend - Empty Glass
1981 - Rush - Moving Pictures
1982 - Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
1983 - Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
1984 - Van Halen - 1984
1985 - The Cure - The Head on the Door
1986 - The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
1987 - R.E.M. - Document
1988 - Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1989 - De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
and what of this dire decade....?
10 from the noughties
2000 - Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain (or Rated R - QOTSA, or Sigur Ros)
2001 - Radiohead - Kid A
2002 - Outkast - Loveboxx
2003 - Beyonce - Dangerously in Love
2004 - Green Day - American Idiot
2005 - The Killers - Hot Fuss
2006 - Arcade Fire - Funereal
2007 - Arctic Monkeys
2008 - Radiohead - In Rainbows
2009 - Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
They sum up the whole year in one song
1977 I Feel Love/Donna Summer
1978 Substitute/Clout
1979 Pop Muzik/M
1980 Funky Town/Lipps Inc
1981 Love Action/Human League
1982 Fame/Irene Cara
1983 Lovecats/The Cure
1984 So. Central Rain/R.E.M.
1985 She Sells Sanctuary/The Cult
1986 Don't Leave Me This Way/Communards
1987 When Smokey Sings/ABC