My life in album form

This has been a little project that has taken me a while. I've been working a lot lately which is a nice change, its quite rewarding earning money and coming home at the end of the day knowing you've got somewhere. I'm not going to lie, it's hard but I'm feeling quite organised, responsible, grown up and I quite like it. So apologies if the blog has taken a back seat for a while, it doesn't help that I'm yet to get internet at the new flat so music digestion is down again, seem to be on some crazy rollercoaster in that department. I'm also moving away from electronic stuff a bit, think I overdid it a little but that's great because there are plenty of other avenues for me to explore and explore I will. So we'll see.

So, the idea is to pick your favourite album each year, starting from the year you were born. Initially, this was an easy project as I'm yet to digest as much as music pre-2000 as I have done since. It was around 2001 that I started hitting a wall in which albums to choose as so many of them were so important for so many different reasons and of course, I like some albums now that I didn't even know existed back then. So I've tried to pick my favourite releases from the years but some years were too difficult so I went for the album I know I will always return to as integral to my musical taste. Sounds complicated but give it a go. Try searching "1986 in music" in wikipedia (if you were an '86 child that is) and see what you come up with.

1986 Paul Simon - Graceland
1987 Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
1988 NWA - Straight Outta Compton
1989 The Offspring - The Offspring
1990 The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
1991 Pearl Jam - Ten
1992 Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
1993 Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
1994 The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
1995 Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
1996 Ash - 1977
1997 Radiohead - Ok Computer
1998 Garbage - Version 2.0
1999 Muse - Showbiz
2000 Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
2001 Daft Punk Discovery
2002 The Music - The Music
2003 The Postal Service - Give Up
2004 The Futureheads - The Futureheads
2005 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2006 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2007 Bloc Party - A Weelend In The City
2008 Foals - Antidotes (so far)


Now as I said, this list is by no means accurate, there are probably albums I've forgotten about and there are definately albums that I love that didn't make it onto the list becuase they were pipped by a better album unfortunately out in the same year.

Anyway, give it a go, even if just for the last 5 years, it's a lot harder then you think.