Best Album of Each Year I’ve Been Alive

The only rule is the album has to be the original release – no remasters, no compilations.

1986:
The Smiths – The Queen is Dead

1987:
Sonic Youth – Sister

1988:
Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation

1989:
Pixies – Doolittle

1990:
Iggy Pop – Lust for Life

1991:
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless

1992:
Jim O’Rourke – I’m Happy, and I’m Singing, and a 1 2 3 4

1993:
Flaming Lips – Transmissions from the Satellite Heart

1994:
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

1995:
Neutral Milk Hotel – On Avery Island

1996:
Daft Punk – Homework

1997:
Radiohead – OK Computer

1998:
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

1999:
Olivia Tremor Control – Black Foliage

2000:
Modest Mouse – The Moon and Antarctica

2001:
The Microphones – The Glow Pt. 2

2002:
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2003:
Jaga Jazzist – The Stix

2004:
Animal Collective – Sung Tongs

2005:
Sleater-Kinney – The Woods

2006:
Califone – Roots & Crowns

2007:
Panda Bear – Person Pitch

2008 so far:
A Silver Mt. Zion – Thirteen Blues for Thirteen Moons

[Really Close Runners-Up]

1991:
Talk Talk – Laughing Stock

1994:
Brainiac – Bonsai Superstar

1997:
Modest Mouse – Lonesome Crowded West

1998:
Apocalypse Hoboken – House of the Rising Son of a Bitch

1999:
Flaiming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
Wilco – Summerteeth

2000:
Radiohead – Kid A

2001:
Owls – S/T

2002:
Microphones – Mount Eerie EP
Sleater-Kinney – One Beat
Ugly Cassanova – Sharpen Your Teeth
Blackalicious – Blazing Arrow
Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights

2004:
Califone – Heron King Blues
Arcade Fire – Funeral
The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone

2005:
Broken Social Scene – S/T
Akron/Family – S/T

2007:
Do Make Say Think – You, You’re A History In Rust

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