Poll: Your favorite year for music

[mithrandir2001]

If you were stranded on a deserted island and could only have music from 1 calendar year, what year would you choose?

I'm going to say 1994. Some albums from that year:

Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
Throwing Copper - Live
Superunknown - Soundgarden
Unplugged in NY - Nirvana
Parklife - Blur
Definitely Maybe - Oasis
Grace - Jeff Buckley
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
Dookie - Green Day
Purple - STP
Live Through This - Hole
Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
Ill Communication - Beastie Boys
Under the Pink - Tori Amos
Bee Thousand - Guided By Voices
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
Bakesale - Sebadoh
Smash - Offspring

 

[mithrandir2001]

Bump

 

[bigrash]

1995

 

[j0lly]

1995. Good post

 

[SWScorch]

1984, the year Ride the Lightning was released, and, coincidentally, the year I was born.

 

[FelixDeCat]

most stuff today is pretty crappy.

 

[LaBang]

why is it "1987 or earlier" when every other choice is just one year?

"I think 1762 was the best year for music because W.A.Mozart had his first concert. I guess I vote for 1987"

 

[mithrandir2001]

I wanted to go back to 1977 and do a 1976 and earlier, but there is a limit to the # of poll choices.

 

[yellowperil]

1996 for me. Lot of great albums that year, and great music was still playing on the airwaves from '95. Not only that, MTV still played videos back then.

R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Radiohead - The Bends (1995)
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)
Beck - Odelay
Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness (1995)

IMO 1997 was the last great year in rock.