There's a meme going around in which you name your favorite album from each year you've been alive. As a musician this is irresistible for me. The older albums I name are those that I either remember from my parents' massive LP collection, or that I heard later on. I must also add that these are "popular" albums and not Classical. That would be another list altogether.
WARNING: This may get pretty long by simple virtue of the fact that I'm older than dirt...
1951 - "Porgy & Bess" by George Gershwin
1952 - "I'm In the Mood For Love" by Eddie Fisher
1953 - "Calamity Jane" (from the Doris Day movie)
1954 - "White Christmas" by Irving Berlin
1955 - "In The Land Of Hi-Fi" by Sarah Vaughn
1956 - "Songs I Wish I Had Sung The First Time Around" by Bing Crosby
1957 - "Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Count Basie Songbook"
1958 - "Elvis' Golden Records" by Elvis Presley
1959 - "Spike Jones In Stereo"
1960 - "Joan Baez"
1961 - "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck
1962 - "Richard Chamberlain Sings" (yeah, I know...)
1963 - "Getz-Gilberto"
1964 - "Meet The Beatles"
1965 - "Rubber Soul" by the Beatles
1966 - "Blonde On Blonde" by Bob Dylan
1967 - "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by the Beatles
1968 - "Donovan In Concert"
1969 - "Abbey Road" by the Beatles
1970 - "Déjà Vu" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
1971 - "Pearl" by Janis Joplin
1972 - "The Ballad Of Calico" by Kenny Rogers & the First Edition
1973 - "Band On The Run" by Paul McCartney & Wings
1974 - "Photographs And Memories" by Jim Croce
1975 - "Blood On The Tracks" by Bob Dylan
1976 - "Boston"
1977 - "Out Of The Blue" by ELO and "The Stranger" by Billy Joel (sorry, had to name both)
1978 - "The Rutles"
1979 - "Candy-O" by the Cars
1980 - "Me Myself I" by Joan Armatrading
1981 - "Tattoo You" by the Rolling Stones
1982 - "Built For Speed" by the Stray Cats
1983 - "An Innocent Man" by Billy Joel
1984 - "Learning To Crawl" by the Pretenders
1985 - "Knee-Deep In The Hoopla" by Jefferson Starship
1986 - "Back In The High Life" by Stevie Winwood
1987 - "Cloud Nine" by George Harrison
1988 - "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin
1989 - "The Seeds Of Love" by Tears for Fears
1990 - "Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1"
I'm going to end it here, because from this point on, I really wasn't paying attention to popular music, and I didn't really care.
Told you I was old.
I think I might have to do this.
ReplyDeleteBobby McFerrin?
Really?
Goodness, I can't even remember what songs or other music were playing last year, much less when I was in high school or similar!
ReplyDeleteB.E.E: Considering that all I listened to for about a 10-year period was classical, I couldn't find another LP that I liked for that year. I didn't own it or anything... Really!!!
ReplyDeleteMm-boopa-mm-boop,
Mm-boopa-mm-boop...
Mat: It was easy for me until the mid-80s, because up until that time I was a working pop/rock/folk musician.