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My favourite albums of 1959 are The Shape of Jazz to Come.


My favourite albums of 1965 are Jackson C Frank.


My favourite albums of 1967 are VU and Nico; Songs of Leonard Cohen.


My favourite albums of 1968 are Madcap Laughs.


My favourite albums of 1969 are Crisis (Live).


My favourite albums of 1970 are Loaded, Barrett.


My favourite albums of 1971 are Broken Shadows; Songs of Love and Hate; Bryter Layter; The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions; Neu!.


My favourite albums of 1972 are .


My favourite albums of 1973 are .


My favourite albums of 1974 are .


My favourite albums of 1975 are .


My favourite albums of 1976 are Ramones.


My favourite albums of 1977 are Dancing in Your Head; Hard Again; Pink Flag; Leave Home AND Rocket to Russia. .


My favourite albums of 1978 are Static Age; Chairs Missing; .


My favourite albums of 1979 are It's Alive.


My favourite albums of 1980 are Crazy Rhythms; Entertainment!; End of the Century; Fresh Fruit; I Just Can't Stop It; The River; Songs the Lord Taught Us; LA; .


My favourite albums of 1981 are Sorry Ma Forgot to Take Out the Trash; Sandinista!; Solid Gold; Trust; Damaged; My Life in the Bush; Fire of Love, Escape (by Quine and Harris); Talk Talk Talk.


My favourite albums of 1982 are Of Human Feelings; Walk Among Us; Computer Games; Um Banda Um; Rock for Light; The Record; VS; Violent Femmes; Junkyard; Milo Goes to College; Lexicon of Love; Hex Enduction Hour; Sax Maniac; The Dreaming; What Makes a Man Start Fires; Fear of Life; English Settlement; Under the Big Black Sun; Koyaanisqatsi.


My favourite albums of 1983 are Meat Puppets II; Swordfishtrombones; High Land, Hard Rain; Head Over Heels; Hootenanny; A Walk Across the Rooftops; Mommy's Little Monster; .


My favourite albums of 1984 are World Shut Your Mouth; Fried; Double Nickels; Various Positions


My favourite albums of 1985 are Rain Dogs; Up on the Sun; New Day Rising; Telephone Free Landslide Victory; Feudalist Tarts; Big Lizard in My Backyard.


My favourite albums of 1986 are The Good Earth; Skylarking; Licensed to Ill; Everybody's Entitled to Their Own Opinion; Ragin' Full On; Ballad of a Thin Line Man


My favourite albums of 1987 are In All Languages; Warehouse: Songs and Stories; Hate Your Friends; George Best; Back to Basics; You're Living All Over Me; Children of God; White-out Conditions; Paid In Full; Cacophony; Frank's Wild Years; Songs about Fucking; Pleased to Meet Me; Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll; Storm (Howe Gelb); Halfway to Sanity..


My favourite albums of 1988 are A Black and White Night; Lest we Forget (Buzzcocks); Field Day (Dag Nasty); Brave Words (Chills); I'm Your Man; Surfer Rosa; Isn't Anything; Tsvimbodzemoto; Soy Loco Por Ti America; It Takes a Nation of Millions; Suffer; Danzig; Cacophony (Peni).


My favourite albums of 1989 are Brain Drain; 3 Feet High and Rising; No Control; Doolittle; Paul's Boutique; It's the Talk of the Town and Other Sad Songs; Strange Angels.


My favourite albums of 1990 are Swerve (Gelb); and 1990 (Johnston).


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My favourite albums of 1992 are It's a Shame about Ray; This Leaden Pall; Bone Machine; Center of the universe; Live In Our Town - Live At The Freight & Salvage.


My favourite albums of 1993 are Black Sunday; All Systems Go .


My favourite albums of 1994 are My Life; Roman Candle; Dookie; I Could Live In Hope; Unplugged (Nirvana); Autogeddon; Zopilote Machine.


My favourite albums of 1995 are Sound of Mcalmont and Butler; Liquid Swords; Nine Black Poppies; Only Built 4 Cuban Linx; Elliott Smith .


My favourite albums of 1996 are Fossil Fuel; White Light, White Heat, White Trash; Roots; A Ass Pocket of Whiskey.


My favourite albums of 1997 are Voyage to the Bottom of the Road; Final Fantasy VII; Fallow; You Are Freaking Me Out; Either/Or; Full Force Galesburg; Slush (OP8); The Boatman's Call; Womblife. .


My favourite albums of 1998 are Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral; Teatro; XO.


My favourite albums of 1999 are 69 Love Songs, When the Pawn Hits, Come on Die Young, I See a Darkness, By Jingo It’s British Rubbish, American II, Alcatraz; Music from Windows; Trojan Lovers Box.


My favourite albums of 2000 are Trouble over Bridgwater, Finding Forrester; 100 Broken Windows, Since I Left You, A Secret History, Sophtware Slump, Stankonia, Bachelor No.2, and And For the Little Children, Sing; Figure 8.


My favourite albums of 2001 are American IV, Cold Vein, O Brother Where?, White Blood Cells, Vespertine, Blueprint, Labor Days, From Here to Infirmary, Motown Gold, This Machine Kills Fascists, Rock it to the Moon.


My favourite albums of 2002 are Song Islands; Lost in Space; All Hail West Texas, Tallahassee, Cammell Laird Social Club, Yoshimi Battles, Love’s Small Song, Process of Belief, 20 Years of Dischord; 28 Days Later.


My favourite albums of 2003 are Chutes too Narrow; Boy in da Corner, Life is Killing Me; Myths & Imaginary Musicians; ; The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place; Indestructible; Still Lookin' Good to Me; Rainy Day Music; As the Eternal Cowboy; Disintegration Loops; Okey Dokey; Mount Eerie, Total Entertainment; Still Lookin' Good to Me..


My favourite albums of 2004 are The Power Out, Yesterday Rules; I Was So Unpopular in School; Almost Killed Me; Songbird; Madvillainy; Leviathan; Van Lear Rose; The Late Great Daniel Johnston; Fabulous Muscles; Friday Night Lights; You are the Quarry, Soviet Kitsch; Funeral.


My favourite albums of 2005 are Achtung Bono; The World According to Pablo; Sunset Tree; Aerial; Robyn; I Am a Bird Now, Stubbs the Zombie, Illinois; A Certain Trigger; Lookaftering; I've Got My Own Hell To Raise..


My favourite albums of 2006 are Sound Grammar; Ys; We Love Katamari; Drop it 'Til it Pops; Burial, Whatever People Say I Am, He Poos Clouds; Crane Wife, Classics (Ratatat); Silent Shout; A Thirst for Romance; Ten Years of Tears; The Warning; Curses; Sno Angel (Gelb); Cuban Ballerina; His Hands; The Seeger Sessions. .


My favourite albums of 2007 are Future Future Perfect, People Who Can Eat People, Ma Fleur, Release the Stars, Panic Prevention, A Brighter Beat; The Distant Future; Trompettes de la Mort; Night Drive; Sing the Greys; Our Earthly Pleasures; Fourteen Autumns, The Stage Names; Cassadaga; All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone; Flying Club Cup and Life is Short.


My favourite albums of 2008 are CSI Ambleside; The Stand-ins; Instant Coffee Baby, JoCo Looks Back, Vampire Weekend, Dim Lit, For Emma, Little Death; Fleet Foxes; Untrue; Midnight Organ Fight; Made in the Dark, Dear Science, Ringleader of the Tormentors; Provisions (Gelb); Stainless Style.


My favourite albums of 2009 are Travels with Myself and Another; The Glare; II (Desire); If You Leave it Alone; Here’s the Tender Coming; Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know; I Told You I Was Freaky; Yeah So; Can't Maintain; Bitte Orca .


My favourite albums of 2010 are Have One on Me; Splazsh; Alegrías (Gelb); My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy; All Day; Larkin’s Jazz; Susan Rode the Cyclone; You Are Not Alone (Staples); The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton.


My favourite albums of 2011 are 90 Bisodol, Beer in the Breakers, Black Up, Diamond Mine, New History Warfare Vol.2, Celestial Lineage; Past Life Martyred Saints; The Party Ain't Over; We're New Here..


My favourite albums of 2012 are Paralytic Stalks; musicforprogramming(); Channel Orange; Fear Fun; Kill for Love; Kindred, In Our Heads, Out of the Game; Tucson (Gelb); Long Black Cars.


My favourite albums of 2013 are Pale Green Ghosts; Another Time, Another Day; The Invisible Way; How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident; Theory of Justice: the Musical; Loud City Song; Modern Vampires of the City; City Forgiveness; Fragments of Memories (TPR); Plucklings.


My favourite albums of 2014 are Black Messiah; To Live and Die in West Central Scotland; Ibeyi; Lese Majeste; Nikki Nack; The Wave Pictures Play Artistic Vice; .


My favourite albums of 2015 are Divers; Depression Cherry; Ones and Sixes; London Overgrown; So The Flies Don’t Come; Currents (Impala).


My favourite albums of 2016 will include Life of Pablo .


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