re: Favorite Album each year since you were born

1975: Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
1976: Stevie Wonder- Songs in the Key of Life
1977: Television - Marquee Moon
1978: Rolling Stones - Some Girls
1979: The Clash - London Calling
1980: Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
1981: Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches (it's only an EP though, so if it doesn't count, X - Wild Gift)
1982: Social Distortion: Mommy's Little Monster
1983: Violent Femmes - S/T
1984: The Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime (what an awesome year, though)
1985: The Replacements - Tim
1986: Metallica - Master of Puppets
1987: Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
1988: Pixies - Surfer Rosa
1989: Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff (EP again, if it doesn't count The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique)
1990: Operation Ivy - Energy
1991: Nirvana - Nevermind
1992: Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
1993: Cracker - Kerosene Hat
1994: Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
1995: Fugazi - Red Medicine
1996: Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Talk About
1997: The Dismemberment Plan - The Dismemberment Plan is Terrified
1998: Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1999: Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
2000: Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
2001: Fugazi - The Argument
2002: Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
2003: Cursive - The Ugly Organ
2004: Drive by Truckers - The Dirty South
2005: The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (though my wife is mad at me for not picking Emotionalism by the Avett Brothers, calling me a "son of a bitch" and pointing out that a good part of our relationship is based upon that album. Sorry, honey. It really is great... but Neko! And TNP played our wedding!)
2006: Man Man - Six Demon Bag
2007: The National - Boxer
2008: The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
2009: The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
2010: Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
2011: Middle Brother - S/T

Subject to change by the hour.

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1984: The Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime (what an awesome year, though)

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'85 was tough for me. So many greats but I also picked Tim.

New Day Rising
Love
Hell Awaits
Bonded by Blood
Seven Churches
Spreading the Disease
and laugh if you must but I love Crue's Theatre of Pain album

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1969 stones - let it bleed 
1970 dead - American beauty
1971 the who - who's next
1972 - stones - exile on main st
1973 - pink Floyd - dsotm
1974 - jimmy Buffett - living and dying in 3/4 time 
1975 - pink Floyd - wish you were here
1976 - Boston- Boston
1977- jimmy buffet - changes in latitudes changes in attitudes
1978- van halen - van halen
1979 the clash - London calling
1980 - pink Floyd - the wall
1981 journey - escape
1982 - Springsteen - Nebraska
1983 - rem - murmur
1984- Springsteen - born in the USA
1985 rem - fables of the reconstruction
1986 tie the smiths - the queen is dead and beastie boys - licensed to ill
1987 - U2 - the Joshua tree
1988- guns n roses - appetite for destruction
1989- pixies - Doolittle
1990- rage against the machine
1991- nirvana - nevermind
1992- pearl jam- ten
1993- dr dre - the chronic
1994 counting crows - August and everything after
1995- oasis - what's the story morning glory
1996- Dave Matthews band - crash
1997- Ben folds five - whatever and ever amen
1998- Dixie chicks - wide open spaces
1999- red hot chili peppers - californication
2000-warren zevon - life'll kill ya
2001- the strokes- is this it?
2002- Bruce Springsteen- the rising
2003- the white stripes- elephant
2004- arcade fire- funeral
2005-the hold steady- separation Sunday
2006- the decemberists- the crane wife
2007- the white stripes- icky thump
2008- Jamey johnson- lonesome song 
2009- Avett brothers- I and love and you
2010- arcade fire- the suburbs
2011-foo fighters- wasting light
2012- either Springsteen- wrecking ball or Alabama Shakes- boy and girls

That took forever.