[Closed] One album from every decade, 60s to now.

80;s

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

90's

Nirvana Nevermind

2000's

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

This Decade? Hard to say, probably not the best but struck a chord (intended) with me

Bowie - Dark Star

Can't really go back much earlier as too young

Can't do it. Too many to choose from

[i]Can’t really go back much earlier as too young[/i]

You've heard no albums from the 60s and 70s?? There's a hell of a lot of good stuff you've missed then! Like, Hendrix, the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Can, Sex Pistols, Velvet Underground, Stooges, Iggy, Talking Heads...etc etc... I suggest you do some listening young man! 😀

I suggest you do some listening young man!

Buying, Shirley. <STW>You can't recommend anything you don't have.</STW>

Most of my 60s & 70s were nicked 😀

You’ve heard no albums from the 60s and 70s?? There’s a hell of a lot of good stuff you’ve missed then! Like, Hendrix, the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Can, Sex Pistols, Velvet Underground, Stooges, Iggy, Talking Heads…etc etc… I suggest you do some listening young man!

Listened to plenty but hard to judge as I wasn't there 😉 and my post did have pics in when I did it

60`s - Something by the Beatles (before I was born)

70`s - Dark Side Of The Moon

80`s - Joshua Tree

90`s - Definitely Maybe

00s - Bring It On (released in the 90s, but I didn't start listening to it until the 00s, cheating I know, but the 90s were crammed full of great albums)

Nothing of any note since then.

60's - Revolver - The Beatles

70's - Never mind the B******* Here's The Sex Pistols

80's Purple Rain - Prince

90's What's The Story - Oasis

00's Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not - Artic Monkeys

10's - England Keep My Bones - Frank Turner

60's Prophets, Seers & Sages - Tyrannosaurus Rex

70's The Wanderers - Soundtrack

80's Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys

90's 93 Till Infinity - Souls of Mischief

00's Countryman - Skitz

10's Cave Rave - Crystal Fighters

i'm sure that would change on any given day. or i'd happily swap for any of the Earthed soundtracks

60's - Velvet Underground and Nico

70's - Unknown Pleasures

80's - The Queen is Dead (I could so easily put George Best in here as it is such an essential part of my growing up, but as DLG says it isn't their best I'll bow to his greater knowledge)

90's - Different Class

00's - American Idiot

10's - Too soon to tell......

Think I'd struggle with this.

1960s - The Stooges debut LP (still the best rock album ever)

1970s - Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk

1980s - It Takes a Nation of Millions - P.E.

1990s - Loveless - MBV

2000s - Thunder Lightning Strike - The Go Team

2010s - dunno yet

60's - cream - Disraeli gears

70's - The doors - LA woman

80's - The smiths - the queen is dead

90's - Portishead - Dummy

00's - The white stripes - Elephant

10's - Daft Punk - Random access memmories

So far ...

60's Van Morrison "Astral Weeks"

70's Neil Young & Crazy Horse "Live Rust"

Can't do but I can say Van Morrison's 10 albums from 68-1978 are unparalleled in terms of sustained artistic achievement in pop music.

60s - Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited

70s - Talking Heads: Fear of Music

80s - Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy

90s - Yo la Tengo: I can hear the heart beating as one

00s - Burial: Untrue

10s - Chromatics: Kill for Love

Can’t do but I can say Van Morrison’s 10 albums from 68-1978 are unparalleled in terms of sustained artistic achievement in music.

Fixed and very much agree handybar.  Know he's very much an acquired taste but people don't realise what a terrific songwriter he is.

Edit: would also include Them in that category cos that's where it all started.

Seeing as I started this, I think I've got my list together. It's flipping hard though.

60s - are you experienced

70s - led zep IV

80s - hup

90s - his n hers

00s - funeral

10s - royal blood

first and last one most difficult. First because it's not a decade I've got many albums from. Last for the same reason.

My choices are based on what could always get put on the stereo and I still listen to.

60's - The White Album - The Beatles

70's - Machine Gun Etiquette - The Damned

80's - JuJu - Siouxsie and the Banshees

90's - Version 2.0 - Garbage

00's - Black Holes and Revelations - Muse

10's - 1,000 Forms of Fear - Sia

60's  Freewheeling Bob Dylan. Whoever said Highway 51 is deluded.

70's Mothership Connection

80's The Lion and the Cobra

90's The Second Coming

00's  18

10's  What the hammer! (but then I'm biased on this one....)

Bloody difficult to choose from later decades, some will be like sticking a pin in a list, but could change just as easily. So, here goes:

60’s   King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

70’s   Talking Heads - 77

80’s   Paul Simon - Hearts and Bones

90’s   Portishead - Dummy

20’s.  Arcade Fire - Funeral

A lot I cannot argue with there - here goes...

60's Disraeli Gears (Cream)

70's Lamb lies down on Broadway (Genesis)

80's Script of the Bridge (Chameleons)

90's Ladies and Gentleman we are floating in Space (Spiritualized)

2010s Happy Songs for Happy People (Mogwai)

2020'2 Trouble will find me (the National)

Ask again tomorrow and they'll have changed!

60s: no idea

70s: Land Speed Record (actually an 80s album but they formed in 79 and it’s my list so my rules!)

80s: Stone Roses

90s: Cooper Blue, no! The Charltans, no! Screamadelica, no! Hmm...this could go on and on. 90s were too good to me.

00s: Hot Fuss (the rest of their stuff is shit though)

10s: Silver Age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Prize

Even though I chose I went back to this list and now I have no idea!!

60s: Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

70s: Queen - A Night At The Opera

80s: Peter Gabriel - So

90s: Gomez - Bring It On

00s: Kino - Picture

10s: Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing

It would be different next week, but every decade was a tough choice.

60s Strange Days by The Doors

70s Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division

80s George Best by TWP

90s Violator by Depeche Mode

00s Music of the Spheres by Ian Brown

10s La Petit Mort by James

Let it Bleed - the Stones

After the Goldrush - Neil Young

Doolittle - The Pixies

Southern Harmony - The Black Crowes

White Blood Cells - The White Stripes

Sometimes I sit and think - Courtney Barnett.

But at least four of those could change daily.

ah it's not a fair one is it, i'll change my mind in half an hour, but

60's Songs of Leonard Cohen

70's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath

80's Eat 'Em and Smile - David Lee Roth

90's Mr Funny Face - Sprung Monkey

2000's - Angles - Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip

2010's Teatime Dub Encounters - Underworld and Iggy Pop  ( only because i've mostly been obsessed by it this last couple of weeks)

ask again next week and we'll all give different albums I suspect.

60s Astral Weeks by Van Morrison

70s What's Going On by Marvin Gaye

80s Critical Beatdown by Ultramagnetic MC's

90s Different Class by Pulp

00s Original Pirate Material by The Streets

10s Positive Songs for Negative People by Frank Turner

Blimey, 2 votes for Astral Weeks.

50s (It's too important to miss out) A Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

60s Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake

70s Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder (how on earth I'm meant to choose 1 soul album from the 70s I've no idea)

80s Sign o' the Times - Prince

90s Blue Lines - Massive Attack

00s OK Computer - Radiohead (Yes, I've moved it forward, but it fits better here)

10s Too early

This is going to take some thinking about, but already some brilliant 60s and 70s choices up there.

OK, here's a list. If I wuz gunna play an album NOW from each decade.. so among my favourites..

60s - Stooges

70s - Gang Of Four - Entertainment

80s - Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles (a Bunnymen tribute band was on Later, so would listen to the real thing)

90s - Underworld - Beaucoup Fish

00s - Subtle - A New White

10s - milo - who told you to think??!!?!?!?!

As has been said, it's an impossible task so have added rules to help me pare it down.

1.  Must be albums I've played (and continue to play)  to death yet seem to refuse to die.

2.  Artists must all begin with a random letter.  So the letter 'M'

60s MC5 -Kick Out The Jams
70s Miles Davis - Dark Magus Live at Carnegie Hall
80s Matt Johnson - Burning Blue Soul
90s Make-Up - In Mass Mind
2ks Magma - Trilogie au Trianon
210s Moses Gun Collective - Mercy Mountain

Well having thought about it, my rule is albums which knocked my socks off when they came out and which I continue to play (some more than others).

60s Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
70s Yes - Yes Album
80s Frank Zappa - Them or Us
90s Richard Thompson - Mirror Blue
00s Grinderman - Grinderman
10s New Noise - Frozen River Flows

Though it's hard not to mention The Beatles or Led Zeppelin or listing Zappa's entire output.

60s: MC5 - Kick Out The Jams

70s: Lou Reed - Transformer

80s: Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier

90s: Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual

00s: The Black Keys - Thickfreakness

10s: Twenty One Pilots - Blurryface

Innit amazing how some lists can contain things you love and things you absolutely hate. Just goes to show eh? (What? I dunno.)

60s Freewheelin - Dylan

70s Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust

80s Boys don't cry

90s Screamadelica

00s Sound of silver - LCD

10s Our love -  Caribou

60's ..King Crimson " In The Court Of The Crimson King "

70's ( this was the hard decade for me !) ..

Free...The Free Story ..yeah I know it's a g.hits but works so well as a standalone ..

80's ..( my least favourite decade ) ..

Aerosmith .."Pump."

90's

Smashing Pumpkins .." Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness"

00's

Gazpacho..." Night "

Teens ..

Afghan Whigs .." In Spades "

Maybe I've forgotten something but these would be pretty close to the top of any list ..

Ah Free. Most underrated band of their day. "Free Live" is the one for me.

Yeah ..I would agree with you there slowoldman..I've got" live " and it's another good one ..

Talking of underrated ..I wanted to get Wishbone Ash in there too ..the original line up ..Argus is another great album ..😎😉

There was me expecting dez’s list to be all cliff Richard. 😉 he’s right though, too many.... so off the top of my head when I should be doing housework....

60s - Otis reading -Otis blue

70s - Blondie. - parallel lines

80s - the Cult - Dreamtime

90s - underworld  dubnobass....

2000 -beck -the information

2010’s Tame impala -currents

Get on with your housework.

..and I'm wired for sound... 😀

Jeez... didn't even know [url= https://www.discogs.com/Beck-The-Information/master/45504 ]this [/url]existed  😳

Ah Wishbone Ash. Live Dates is brilliant. Reminds of seeing them at the Kursaal in Southend. Oh and at the Buxton Pop Festival on High Edge which was a tad colder.

Parallel Lines up there too. Good call. Or how about The Pretenders?

Another slightly off the wall choice for me would be The Groundhogs - Split.

Must be albums I’ve played (and continue to play) to death yet seem to refuse to die.

My basic criteria, I chose only albums that I’d listened to and actually owned and continue to play on a regular basis. King Crimson I borrowed from a mate at school, it made a huge impression on me, changed my entire musical outlook forever. It was a while before I bought a copy, however, I just didn’t have the money to buy albums at that time.

Lots of great selections, many took me a while to come to appreciate, though.

S.OM...I see we have similar musical tastes ..I only ever saw Wishbone Ash in the Laurie Wisefield era ..around about " There's the Rub " ..Newcastle City Hall ..too many years ago ..

Another Wishbone Ash fan here, saw them live a few times.

60's Hot Rocks- Rolling Stones ( cheating a tad here)

70's Number 1 record- Big Star

80's Strangeways here we come- The Smiths

90's Grand Prix - Teenage Fanclub (trickiest decade)

00's Final Straw- Snow Patrol (unfortunately by now my music is fed via mtv etc, not the most enlightened period)

10's Lost in the dream- The War on Drugs (due to downloading and Spotify, even though I'm listening to more music than ever I rarely listen to albums)

Quite hard to do as others have said but these all still get a burly.

Mrs Slow put on Elvis Costello Armed Forces earlier.

Noticeable by its absence from my list was something from this decade. I’ve yet to find something that’s really compelling that I can’t stop playing. Still doing research.

60s.Beach Boys Pet Sounds

70s Joy Division Unknown Pleasures

80s Talk Talk Spirit of Eden

90s Tricky Maxinquaye

00s Arcade Fire Funeral

10s LCD Soundsystem The long goodbye

1960s

The Velvet Underground and Nico

1970s

LA Woman - The Doors

1980s

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth

1990s

The Boatman's Call - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

2000s

Up the Bracket - The Libertines

2010s

??

@ stainypants ..that surprised me ..The Spirit of Eden ahead of  The Colour of Spring ...

Noticeable by its absence from my list was something from this decade.

It ain't the fault of the music.. there is shitloads of fantastic new stuff and a whole Internet world to find it on. We've never had it so good.

Maybe it's: [url= https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/when-too-much-choice-is-no-choice-at-all--the-unexpected-drag-of-too-many-options-20170807-gxr74i.html ]too much choice[/url]...

1950,s     Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis

1960’s      Tommy - The Who

1970’s      Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan

1980’s      The Dreaming - Kate Bush

1990’s      Maxinquaye - Tricky

2000’s      Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - OutKast

2010’s     Let England Shake - PJ Harvey

60s - Highway 61 Bob Dylan

70s - London Calling The Clash

80s - Remain in Light Talking Heads

90s - Mezzanine Massive Attack

00s - thickfreakness The Black Keys

60s - Pet Sounds

70's - What's goin on (or songs in the key of life, or innervisions...)

80's - 1984 by Van Halen - or Sign of the Times by Prince

90's - gah, Endtroducing by DJ Shadow and Midnight Vultures by Beck are both 90's

00s - either Songs for the Deaf QOTSA or 7 days of falling by EST

50s - Kind of blue, Miles Davis
60s - Let it bleed, Rolling Stones
70s - Dark side of the Moon, Pink Floyd (What's going on, Marvin Gaye as a close 2nd!)
80s - bit of a black hole for me music-wise, maybe The Stone Roses?
90s - Can't pick between Endtroducing (DJ Shadow) and Mezzanine (Massive Attack)
00s - Can't pick between Funeral (Arcade Fire) and Antics (Interpol)
10s - The Suburbs (Arcade Fire)

I know it’s a little early to call for the 10’s, but if you like electronica, I think either of the Bon Moses albums will be showing up on people’s favourites... both albums are proper listen from start to finish..

60s - The Doors, The Doors

70s - The Clash, London Calling

80s - New Model Army [s]Chunder & Constipation [/s] Thunder & Consolation

90s - Nirvana, Nevermind

00s - a struggle here but I think i’ll go with QOTSA, Songs For The Deaf

10s - even harder. Back to New Model Army, Winter. Dog & Wolf was a bit too mellow, Blood & Wine a bit too short

60’s Led Zeppelin I

70’s Yes - Going For The One

80’s U2 - The Joshua Tree

90’s Radiohead - The Bends

00’s Neil Young - Living With War

10’s Frootful - Colours

60s Hot Rats
70s Blows Against The Empire.
80s Guitar Shop
90s B'Boom: Live in Argentina
00s Songs for the deaf
10s What we saw from the cheap seats

And everyone of those could change in five seconds. No Floyd, no Soft Machine, no Hendrix? etc etc etc

60s White album

70s Hunky Dory

80s Appetite for Destruction

90s Siamese Dream

00s Kid A

10s Lost in the dream

Love this but all lists should start

60s tangerine dream - electronic meditation

After that any combination of the above. Love seeing so many Zappa records suggested (but not Joes Garage? )

all lists should start...

How boring would that be.

Tangerine Dream never released an album in the 60s.

Electronic Meditation was released in June 1970.

And Can were a better band anyway.

Too difficult. And some great suggestions so far that I might have put down myself. In an attempt to not copy and paste I'll go for...

60s Has already been mentioned, but I can't see past The Beach Boys. Pet Sounds.

70s The Rolling Stones. Sticky Fingers.

80s The Sisters of Mercy. Floodland.

90s Manic Street Preachers. The Holy Bible. Narrowly edging out Ride. Nowhere.

00s Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip. Angles.

10s The XX. I See You.

Choices may be subject to sudden change...

Abbey Road

Pink Moon

Reflections

OK Computer - actually the correct answer is probably Urban Hymns, unless it isn't, which it probably is

American Idiot

Let England Shake - as things stand...

This is the dawning of the rest of our lives...

On HOLIDAY!

Wait, what, 80's Graceland

It was Paul Simon's birthday a few days ago

This game is beyond impossible

60s - The Allman Brothers Band

70s - Black Sabbath: Master of Reality

80s: Metallica: Ride the Lightning (or Iron Maiden: Number of the Beast).

90s: Alice in Chains: Dirt (or Neurosis: Through Silver in Blood)

00s: Down II

10s: Mastodon: Crack the Skye

Possibly........

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1. Love. Forever changes

2 .The clash. London calling

3.the smiths. The Queen is dead

4.spiritualized. ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space

5. Primal scream. Xtrmntr

6. Deerhunter. Halcyon digest

Physical Graffiti was just edged out for seventies' album and same for Real life/magazine. Struggled to narrow it down for 60s-90s. Struggled to think of one for last two decades

Ah that’s interesting.. at last, a list that I don’t own any of! 😊 metal mikey from a parallel musical universe (almost... I do have a Sabbath album)

It ain’t the fault of the music.. there is shitloads of fantastic new stuff and a whole Internet world to find it on. We’ve never had it so good.

That’s the thing, there’s been loads, but it’s all very recent, it hasn’t had that length of time to enable the music to build a sense of being essential. The two that will probably stand the test of time will be Bowie’s Black Star, and Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker. Let’s face it, neither artist will ever do anything better. ☹️

I could easily replace my 80’s choice with Talk Talk, either It’s My Life or The Colour of Spring, both of which have been essential listening since they were released. In fact all of Talk Talk’s discography has been played regularly since I saw them on a tv programme called ‘David Essex’ Showcase’. Phenomenal band.

I could put King Crimson’s Discipline in my 80’s selection, but that wouldn’t really be the truth, although I bought the album then, it’s taken until fairly recently to really come to appreciate just how good it is.

What delights  me as an old bloke is just how many choices there are. I scrolled through my iTunes library today, looked at my most played list thingy (even for just the last 4 minths as I rebuilt the os) and so many if the songs I listen to aren't on the list. So much great music out there. And Billy F Gibbons has just added another. 😎

Im enjoying a lot of the new breed of " classic " rock bands ..Black Coffee , Co-op ( Alice Coopers son's band )..Greta Van Fleet..the lead singer of which has got to be Percy's love child !😁

80s appetite for destruction - guns n roses

90s music for the jilted generation - prodigy

Really struggling outside of this, especially before the 80s. Nothing major stands out for me at the moment.