Meme: Album recs for 10, 20, and 30 years ago.

[usernamenumber]

My friend Andrew came up with a meme that ate my morning, so I might as well share/inflict.

Looking for new ways to design playlists on spotify, he started asking friends for album recs from 10, 20, and 30 years ago (2003, 1993, and 1983... think about that for a moment).

Here's what I came up with. It's kind of fascinating-- I can practically watch myself aging.

In other news, I apologize for nothing.

1983

• The Day The Country Died - SubHumAns


• Kill 'Em 'All - Metallica (more for being the first major Metallica release than for being... good)


• Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies (back when all America wanted was for mom to get us a Pepsi)


• Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden (with bonus satanic backmasking! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_of_Mind#Hidden_message)


• Holy Diver - Dio (bonus: video has RJD swordfighting with barbarians)


• The Cars - The Cars (wow, me from '93 is so embarrassed that me from '13 has this on his '83 list)

1993

• Pablo Honey - Radiohead


• Everybody Else is Doing it, So Why Can't We - The Cranberries (there, I said it)


• Live and Loud - Ozzy Osbourne (Ozzy live > Ozzy studio)


• Anthrax - The Sound of White Noise (never have songs about "why aren't you my friiiiiend any more?" been so METAL)


• The Honesty Room - Dar Williams


• Split 7" - Indian Summer / Current (*this* is what emo was http://thefirsttrack.blogspot.com/2011/02/current-indian-summer-split-7.html)


• Playcell - Tilt


• In On The Kill Taker - Fugazi

2003

• Youngblood Brass Band - Center : Level : Roar (seriously, this is worth checking out-- hip hop marching band)


• Such Great Heights - The Postal Service


• Reconstruction Site - The Weakerthans


• The Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls


• Electric Six - Fire


• Himsa - Courting Tragedy and Disaster (proof that I'm still at least a little METAL as I grow old)


• Tuxicity - Richard Cheese


• Sabbatum - Rondelus (because I can't not include an album of medieval-style covers of Black Sabbath songs translated into Latin)

Your turn.

Comments

[juldea.livejournal.com]

So, is this specifically for albums that came out that year, or was it what you would have recommended that year?

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

The former. There are actually relatively few, especially the further back you go, that I would have been listening to in the years they were released.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Now that I've fought both last.fm and Google Music and neither give me an option to sort albums by year (because the best place to start is the stuff I'm still listening to, you know?), I'm asking here how you performed this task. I definitely want to do it, it just seems overwhelmingly difficult to do.

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia has an "...in music" page for any recent year, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_in_music#Albums_released

I also searched around for "$genre albums $year" for genres I like/liked.

But the most helpful thing for me was, as you say, sorting my music collection by year, which is proving a really cool way to make playlists all by its self.

I know you're probably married to winamp, but if you're curious to try something else, IMO Clementine is the best thing ever. http://www.clementine-player.org/ (in the search bar, go to Wrench->Group By->Advanced Grouping)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Oh, if I were home with Winamp I could sort by year quite easily. Alas, at work I use cloud-based services for my music--Last.fm and Google Play, as I said above--and they don't let me. So the worst case here is not me being unable to meme, it's me having to wait to meme. ;)

[laurion]

Oh yay, someone else who has the joys of Sabbatum in their ears! The opening lines of Verres Militares....

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

If memory serves, you even get credit for turning me on to them. :)

[laurion]

If memory serves... the secret ingredient is.... Polyphony!

[sandrylene.livejournal.com]

Heh, so for all that we're in the same band, I don't think most of our taste overlaps, particularly when we're talking about 80s and 90s, but what the heck. I will keep it a short list.
1983:
The very bizarre With Sympathy by Ministry. Basically this album is so different from everything else ever released that I initially thought the name was a coincidence and this was a different band. I have a totally ridiculous nostalgic love of Revenge.
Speaking in Tongues by Talking Heads. This has my favourite song of theirs, This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Construction Time Again by Depeche Mode. The overall album is nowhere near their strongest, but Everything Counts remains one of my favourites of theirs, and that's from this album. Also it's just fun to listen to this album for that ridiculous 80s flavour.

1993:
Moxy Fruvous' Bargainville.. Heck yes, this album. :D
My sister tried to convince me after I got home from camp (which is isolated and gets no news) the summer of this year, that she had purchased an album entitled "Purple" which was by a group Cow Town, and that it was the latest big thing in music. In fact that album was Zooropa by U2. Definitely not their best album, but I really enjoy The Wanderer.
I would definitely recommend Bjork's Debut. I have positive memories of first getting exposure to her and really enjoying her novelty with fresh eyes.
Great Big Sea's self-titled album would also be a good choice, though some of their later things are better.
Laid by James. Again not my favourite album by the artist, but it's still a good album.
October Project's self-titled album. Much fun to sing along to.

2003:
Ethernaut by The Crüxshadows. They do verge on too pretentious for me to deal with, but I love gothy dance music, so I can't help myself.
The self-titled album by Masterplan. I enjoy a bunch of this album as high energy music that *isn't* electronic for once.
Nothing and Nowhere by The Birthday Massacre. Agh, again not my favourite album by this artist, but still good.
Avalanche by Thea Gilmore. She's one of my all-time favourite musicians, and while this still isn't her absolute best album, I would happily listen and sing along to all of it.