Your favourite album, year by year

[pinkmaggit]

What is your single favourite album for each year, going back as far as you like?
I've gone back as far as 1983 - here's mine:

2011 - Crosses - The Stem
2010 - Deftones - Diamond Eyes
2009 - Chevelle - Sci Fi Crimes
2008 - Meshuggah - Obzen
2007 - Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
2006 - Deftones - Saturday NIght Wrist
2005 - The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
2004 - Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
2003 - Deftones - Deftones
2002 - Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
2001 - System of a Down - Toxicity
2000 - Deftones - White Pony
1999 - Korn - Issues
1998 - Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
1997 - Deftones - Around The Fur
1996 - Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
1995 - Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
1994 - Soundgarden - Superunknown
1993 - Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
1992 - R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
1991 - Nirvana - Nevermind
1990 - Depeche Mode - Violator
1989 - The Pixies - Doolittle
1988 - The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
1987 - R.E.M. - Document
1986 - R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant
1985 - R.E.M. - Fables of The Reconstruction
1984 - R.E.M. - Reckoning
1983 - R.E.M. - Murmur
(As you can see I'm a fan of early R.E.M.)

[bright lights, big city]

Hey pal, how come Adrenaline wasn't your fave album of '95?!

[black coffee]

For a couple years I've been doing retrospectives where I include my favorite albums of each year... but lets try this, its not like I have to work today or anything:

2011 So far probably Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors
2010 Kvelertak - Self-Titled
2009 Animals As Leaders - Self-titled
2008 Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom and Meshuggah - ObZen. It's gotta be both.
2007 And now its getting difficult. Aereogramme - My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go, The Chronicles Of Israfel - Starborn, Tome I, Maserati - Inventions For The New Season and Rush - Snakes & Arrows HAVE to be in it. All these albums mean and meant a lot to me.
2006 Pretty much the same as 2007, way too much good music... Amplifier - Insider, Tool - 10000 Days, Saturday Night Wrist, Mogwai - Mr Beast... and a couple more to be honest

OK this is impossible for me to do, I'm gonna quit here.

[theis]

Uhm...

2011: Graveyard - Hisingen Blues
2010: Mike Patton - Mondo Cane
2009: Baroness - Blue Record
2008: Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
2007: Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
2006: Mastodon - Blood Mountain
2005: Thrice - Vheissu
2004: Isis - Panopticon
2003: Tomahawk - Mit Gas
2002: Dredg - El Cielo
2001: Opeth - Blackwater Park
2000: Cave In - Jupiter
1999: Mr. Bungle - California
1998: Death - The Sound of Perseverance
1996: Pearl Jam - No Code
1995: Down - Nola
1994: Jeff Buckley - Grace
1993: Melvins - Houdini
1992: Faith No More - Angel Dust
1991: Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
1990: Alice in Chains - Facelift
1989: Pixies - Doolittle
1985: Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
1981: Rush - Moving Pictures
1975: Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
1974: King Crimson - Red
1973: The Who - Quadrophenia
1971: Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

I think I'll stop here. My head's already exploding thinking about all the great albums that I'm leaving out. Ahhhh!