[Official] AOTY '65-'18
ripping off chuck and butcherboy, you guys both had swell lists. this is my official album of the year list with no controversy. everything until 1977 was hard as fuck for me to pick >.> |
1 |  | Art Blakey Free For All
1965 (recorded in '64 but released '65)
Hard Bop
Runners Up:
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Horace Silver Quintet - Song for my Father |
2 |  | Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil
1966 (recorded in '64 but released in '66)
Post Bop/Modal Jazz
Runners Up:
The Beatles - Revolver
The Kinks - Face to Face |
3 |  | Love Forever Changes
1967
Psychedelic Pop/Rock
Runners Up:
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
The Kinks - Something Else by The Kinks |
4 |  | The Beatles The Beatles
1968
Pop Rock
Runners Up:
Miles Davis - Nefertiti
Thelonious Monk - Underground |
5 |  | King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King
1969 (was hard for me to find one, not a lot I like this year. breaks my "all prog is bad" rule.)
Progressive Rock/Art Rock
Runners Up:
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Prince Lasha & Sonny Simmons - Firebirds |
6 |  | Van der Graaf Generator H to He, Who Am the Only One
1970 (another tough year for me, also prog :/ )
Progressive Rock
Runners Up:
The Stooges - Fun House
McCoy Tyner - Expansions |
7 |  | Faust Faust
1971
Krautrock/Experimental Rock
Runners Up:
Bill Evans -The Bill Evans Album
Wayne Shorter - Odyssey of Iska |
8 |  | Neu! Neu!
1972
Krautrock
Runners Up:
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Big Star - #1 Record |
9 |  | Roxy Music For Your Pleasure
1973
Glam Rock/Art Rock
Runners Up:
The Stooges - Raw Power
Neu! - Neu! 2 |
10 |  | Big Star Radio City
1974
Power Pop
Runners Up:
Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Kraftwerk - Autobahn |
11 |  | Brian Eno Another Green World
1975
Art Rock
Runners Up:
Kraftwerk - Radio-Aktivität
Neu! - Neu! 75 |
12 |  | Ryo Fukui Scenery
1976
Hard Bop/Post Bop/Modal Jazz
Runners Up:
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life |
13 |  | Wire Pink Flag
1977
Punk/Post Punk
Runners Up:
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict / What Ever Happened To?
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True |
14 |  | Elvis Costello This Year's Model
1978
New Wave/Pop Rock
Runners Up:
The Germs - Lexicon Devil / Circle One / No God
Kraftwerk - Die Mensch-Maschine |
15 |  | XTC Drums And Wires
1979
New Wave/Zolo
Runners Up:
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Crass - Stations of the Crass
XTC - Drums & Wires
James Chance and the Contortions - Buy
Germs - (GI) |
16 |  | Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
1980
Hardcore Punk
Runners Up:
Wipers - Is This Real?
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
John Foxx - Metamatic |
17 |  | Discharge Why
1981
D-Beat/Hardcore Punk
Runners Up:
Rudimentary Peni - Rudimentary Peni
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Minor Threat - Minor Threat |
18 |  | Flipper Album – Generic Flipper
1982
Noise Rock/Punk
Runners Up:
Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain
Descendents - Milo Goes to College
Bad Brains - Bad Brains |
19 |  | Rudimentary Peni Death Church
1983
Post Punk
Runners Up:
Anti-Cimex - Raped Ass
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
The Comes - No Side |
20 |  | No Trend Too Many Humans
1984
Noise Rock/Punk
Runners Up:
Die Kreuzen - Die Kreuzen
Prince - Purple Rain
Anorexic Dread - Tracey's Burning
Gai - Extermination |
21 |  | Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair
1985
New Wave/Synth Pop
Runners Up:
The Cure - The Head on the Door
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
Sacrilege - Behind the Realms of Madness |
22 |  | Depeche Mode Black Celebration
1986
Synth Pop
Runners Up:
XTC - Skylarking
They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants
Big Black - Atomizer
Cro-Mags - The Age of Quarrel |
23 |  | Ramleh Hole in the Heart
1987
Death Industrial
Runners Up:
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
Prince - Sign o' the Times
Pure - Fetor
Big Black - Songs About Fucking |
24 |  | They Might Be Giants Lincoln
1988
Indie Pop/Alternative Rock
Runners Up:
Bad Religion - Suffer
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Sadus - Illusions |
25 |  | NoMeansNo Wrong
1989
Post-Hardcore/Hardcore Punk
Runners Up:
Pixies - Doolittle
The Cure - Disintegration
Bad Religion - No Control
Skullflower - Form Destroyer |
26 |  | Controlled Bleeding Phlegm Bag Spattered
1990
Power Electronics
Runners Up:
Bad Religion - Against the Grain
Depeche Mode - Violator
Naked City - Naked City
They Might Be Giants - Flood |
27 |  | Autopsy Mental Funeral
1991
OSDM
Runners Up:
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
Slint - Spiderland
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence |
28 |  | Jawbreaker Bivouac
1992
Emo/Pop Punk
Runners Up:
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
The Jesus Lizard - Liar
Dr. Dre - The Chronic |
29 |  | Quicksand Slip
1993
Post Hardcore
Runners Up:
Shorty - Thumb Days
Unwound - Fake Train
Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion
Fugazi - In on the Kill Taker |
30 |  | Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
1994
Emo/Pop Punk
Runners Up:
Today Is the Day - Willpower
Scarface - The Diary
Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda
Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep
Unwound - New Plastic Ideas
Cherubs - Heroin Man
Failure - Magnified |
31 |  | Suffocation Pierced from Within
1995
Death Metal
Runners Up:
Brotha Lynch Hung - Season of da Siccness
Jawbreaker - Dear You
Ten Wanted Men - Wanted: Dead or Alive
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Three 6 Mafia - Mystic Styelz
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Brainbombs - Obey
Björk - Post |
32 |  | Harvey Milk Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men
1996
Sludge/Experimental
Runners Up:
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Kingpin Skinny Pimp - King of da Playaz Ball
Mo・Te - Life in a Peaceful New World
N.O.D. - Niggaz of Destruction
Brainiac - Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
Unwound - Repetition
Tool - Ænima |
33 |  | Lowercase Kill The Lights
1997
Post Hardcore/Noise Rock
Runners Up:
Björk - Homogenic
Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
Today Is the Day - Temple of the Morning Star
His Hero Is Gone - Monuments to Thieves |
34 |  | Gorguts Obscura
1998
Technical Death Metal
Runners Up:
Alkaline Trio - Goddamnit
Autechre - LP5
Jets to Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary |
35 |  | Poison the Well The Opposite of December
1999
Metalcore
Runners Up:
Koopsta Knicca - Da Devil's Playground
Worship - Last Tape Before Doomsday
Botch - We Are the Romans
Deep Puddle Dynamics - The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel?
Dr. Dooom - First Come, First Served
Les Savy Fav - The Cat and the Cobra
Brainbombs - Urge to Kill
Three 6 Mafia - Underground Vol. 1 |
36 |  | Q and Not U No Kill No Beep Beep
2000
Post Hardcore/Dance Punk
Runners Up:
Alkaline Trio - Alkaline Trio
Filth of Mankind - The Final Chapter
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
Deftones - White Pony
Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone |
37 |  | Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You
2001
Post Hardcore/Indie Rock
Runners Up:
Crowbar - Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form
Björk - Vespertine
cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
maudlin of the Well - Bath
Aphex Twin - drukqs
Converge - Jane Doe
Gorguts - From Wisdom to Hate
Keelhaul - Keelhaul II
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
Tool - Lateralus |
38 |  | The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas
2002
Lo-Fi Indie/Singer Songwriter
Runners Up:
Botch - An Anthology of Dead Ends
Framtid - Under the Ashes
mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
Ekkaia - Manos que estrechan planes de muerte y sometimiento
Today Is the Day - Sadness Will Prevail
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf |
39 |  | Nasum Helvete
2003
Grindcore
Runners Up:
Poison the Well - You Come Before You
Hot Cross - Cryonics
Off Minor - The Heat Death of the Universe
Black Eyes - Black Eyes
Deftones - Deftones |
40 |  | Pan Sonic Kesto (234:48:4)
2004
Drone/Power Noise
Runners Up:
Converge - You Fail Me
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
Nasum - Shift
Deathspell Omega - Si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice |
41 |  | Cursed II
2005
Hardcore Punk/Crust Punk
Runners Up:
Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World
Crow - Bloody Tear
Deathspell Omega - Kénôse
Rotten Sound - Exit
Edan - Beauty and the Beat |
42 |  | Daughters Hell Songs
2006
Noise Rock/Mathcore
Runners Up:
Gucci Mane - Chicken Talk
Fear Before the March of Flames - The Always Open Mouth
Pedestrian Deposit - Fatale
Warning - Watching From a Distance
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
Rx Bandits - ...And the Battle Begun
Meshuggah - Nothing |
43 |  | Kidcrash Jokes
2007
Screamo/Post Hardcore
Runners Up:
Gris - Il était une forêt...
Burial - Untrue
Insect Warfare - World Extermination
Worship - Dooom
Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks |
44 |  | Cop on Fire Discography
2008
Crust Punk
Runners Up:
Meshuggah - obZen
Drunkdriver - Born Pregnant
Deathspell Omega - Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum
Strict - Kiss
The Dopamines - The Dopamines |
45 |  | Gucci Mane The Burrprint: The Movie 3-D
2009
Trap Rap
Runners Up:
Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire
maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
Wormrot - Abuse
Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another |
46 |  | Waka Flocka Flame Flockaveli
2010
Trap Rap
Runners Up:
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
The Chariot - Long Live
Daughters - Daughters
Kriegshög - Kriegshög
Aspects of War - In Order to Satisfy Their Mania for Conquest Punks Are Squandered |
47 |  | Glassjaw Coloring Book
2011
Post-Hardcore
Runners Up:
Danny Brown - XXX
40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room
Shoppers - Silver Year
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up |
48 |  | Longmont Potion Castle 9
2012
Prank Calls/Thrash Metal
Runners Up:
Lil B - God's Father
Chief Keef - Back From the Dead
Lil Ugly Mane - Mista Thug Isolation
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind |
49 |  | Beastmilk Climax
2013
Post-Punk/Death Rock
Runners Up:
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Chief Keef - Almighty So
Framtid - Defeat of Civilization
Kayo Dot - Hubardo
Young Thug - 1017 Thug |
50 |  | Hedge Wizard More True Than Time Thought
2014
Dungeon Synth
Runners Up:
Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise
Chief Keef - Nobody
'68 - In Humor and Sadness
IDYLLS - Prayer for Terrene
Yung Gleesh - Cleansides Finest 3 |
51 |  | Young Thug Barter 6
2015
Trap Rap
Runners Up:
Lil Ugly Mane - Third Side of Tape
Chief Keef - Sorry 4 the Weight
Lil B - Thugged Out Pissed Off
ABRA - Rose
Bosse-de-Nage - All Fours |
52 |  | 21 Savage Savage Mode
2016
Trap Rap
Runners Up:
Bladee - Eversince
Jeff Rosenstock - Worry
Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone
Ştiu Nu Ştiu - Fake End
Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis
Gucci Mane - Everybody Looking |
53 |  | Horns and Hooves Morbid Lust
2017
Black Metal
Runners Up:
Glassjaw - Material Control
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
KirbLaGoop - Goop World
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors of Unbeing |
54 |  | Daughters You Won't Get What You Want
2018
Noise Rock
Runners Up:
Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury
Infernal Coil - Within a World Forgotten
Jesus Piece - Only Self
Father - Awful Swim |
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