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

[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. ;)