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Defining album from each decade?

Posted on 9/2/14 at 9:25 pm
Posted by WaltTeevens
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 9:25 pm
My mom recently passed away, and she had a giant wine box full of old vinyls. I dug through them and was putting good ones on the record player as I found them. As I was nearing the end of her collection, I found Michael Jackson "Thriller". I was inclined to play it, and as I'm currently listening to it, I decided it was the quintessential and encapsulating record of the 1980's.

Of course, music is one of the most subjective things out there, so I was wondering what the TD community thought was the most defining record of each decade.

Now, "best" and "defining" can be the same thing, but they might not be. That is for you to decide.

Here's the ones I'm nominating after minimal thought and multiple whiskeys:

60's- Jimi Hendrix "Electric Ladyland"

70's- having a tough time deciding...I was toying with the thought of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, but that seems a little too reductionary, even for this

80's- Michael Jackson "Thriller"

90's- Nirvana "Nevermind"....I'm just gonna say that my darkhorse for this decade would be some Garth Brooks album I don't know the name of, but the 90's will always spell grunge and teen angst to me.

2000's- This gets tough, as the scope of hindsight gets smaller. We had the nu-metal uprising, southern rap, and ever-present pop music. Maybe a Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, or the first Britney Spears album? Ugh.....I have to be forgetting some actual good music from this era, no?

Alright, my music people....whatchy'all think
Posted by Burt Reynolds
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 9:32 pm to
90s - Hoobastank
Posted by WaltTeevens
Santa Barbara, CA
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 9:34 pm to
I'm pretty sure hoobastank was still practicing those awesome jams in the 90's, Burt. Maybe you were into Hoobastank before they were cool, though.

If I'm wrong, whatever, I'm not a perfect person.
Posted by 337Guy
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 9:34 pm to
2010s
Posted by Spaulding Smails
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 9:36 pm to
quote:

90's- Nirvana "Nevermind".

pfftt...Pearl Jam "Ten" was always the better album from the better band
Posted by Burt Reynolds
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 9:38 pm to
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pfftt...Pearl Jam "Ten" was always the better album from the better band



Pearl Jam Ten >> Nirvana Nevermind

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Posted by WaltTeevens
Santa Barbara, CA
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 9:40 pm to
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pfftt...Pearl Jam "Ten" was always the better album from the better band


Yeah, your call. I enjoy hearing retarded goats singing vibrato from the pit of their stomachs as much as anyone, but I wasn't asking what band was best from each decade. I was asking which album represents each decade to you. If it's Mookie blaylock "Ten", then that's cool
Posted by HeadyBrosevelt
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 9:40 pm to
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70's-


Dark Side of the Moon
Posted by WaltTeevens
Santa Barbara, CA
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 9:41 pm to
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Dark Side of the Moon


Yeah...that pretty much wraps that one up for me.

Good call, Heady
Posted by Spaulding Smails
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 9:45 pm to
Yeah, since the groaning whine mumbles of a heroin junkie over the same 4 chords, are much better.

Dave Grohl was the most talented member of that band, and he hit his peak when he sat in for that Queens of the Stone Age album.
Posted by TFTC
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 9:52 pm to
quote:

Pearl Jam Ten >> Nirvana Nevermind


Posted by WaltTeevens
Santa Barbara, CA
Member since Dec 2013
10951 posts
Posted on 9/2/14 at 9:52 pm to
quote:

Yeah, since the groaning whine mumbles of a heroin junkie over the same 4 chords, are much better.

Dave Grohl was the most talented member of that band, and he hit his peak when he sat in for that Queens of the Stone Age album.


Eddie never had to restort to heroin. He found happiness singing over footage of some well-off college brat dying in Alaska.

I agree that Grohl was the most musically gifted of Nirvana. I dig his QOTSA sit ins. I really don't dig metal but I even admired him for that Probot thing. Dude is living the dream.
Posted by Brosef Stalin
Member since Dec 2011
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 9:53 pm to
Zeppelin IV
Posted by HeadyBrosevelt
the Verde River
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 9:57 pm to
Does it have to be Nirvana or Pearl Jam? What about hip hop? 36 Chambers, Illmatic, Ready to Die, and Aquemini all come to mind. Maybe even Stankonia for the 00's. Just some thoughts.
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 10:01 pm to
60s- I would argue Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band or Are You Experienced.
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 10:02 pm to
obviously ten was better, but never mind was definitely more "defining."
Posted by WaltTeevens
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Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 10:03 pm to
Hip-hop in the 90's you have The Chronic, Doggystyle, and All Eyez oOn Me. Everything else pales. Of course, I don't appreciate Biggie as much as I should, and I don't think groups like Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul had enough pull, unfortunately.


Posted by Colonel Forbin
Member since Jul 2014
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 10:05 pm to
When they were signed, A Tribe Called Quest was the highest paid hip hop artists in the business.

Edit: Oh and Biggie>2pac
This post was edited on 9/2/14 at 10:06 pm
Posted by HeadyBrosevelt
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Member since Jan 2013
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 10:14 pm to
quote:

Hip-hop in the 90's you have The Chronic, Doggystyle, and All Eyez oOn Me. Everything else pales


Of those the only one I see an argument for is The Chronic, which is most certainly a landmark album. Doggystyle was fun but basically a rehash of The Chronic. All Eyez on Me is ok but not on the same level as the others.

3 Feet High and Rising and The Low End Theory are both very great albums but cater to a more refined listener.

Paul's Boutique is one of (maybe even the) greatest hip hop albums but unfortunately doesn't beat out Thriller for that 80s spot.
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 10:17 pm to
I'd say The Chronic is the defining hip-hop album. I would also put Illmatic , Ready to Die,and36 Chambers ahead of the other two he listed.
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