my fave album(s) from each year of my life

nicked this idea from idolator.

1982 The Jam - The Gift
1983 Paul Young - No Parlez
1984 Prince - Purple Rain (this was a super-tough one - Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Cyndi Lauper all released their seminal albums)
1985 Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
1986 Queen - A Kind Of Magic
1987 Echo & the Bunnymen - Echo & the Bunnymen
1988 The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
1989 Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (and suddenly, everything in England changed...)
1990 Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
1991 Massive Attack - Blue Lines (a bit of a "meh" year for me, what with me not being into grunge like, ever)
1992 Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
1993 Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish (another tough year - James, Suede, Jamiroquai had ridiculously awesome debuts too. yay british music!)
1994 my head is going to splode. it's between Blur - Parklife and Oasis - Definitely Maybe, but, i mean - Barenaked Ladies' Maybe You Should Drive, Jeff Buckley's Grace, Jamiroquai's Return of the Space Cowboy, Portishead's Dummy... what a good year to be alive.
1995 the year britpop was at its peak. while Oasis' (What's The Story) Morning Glory? and Blur's The Great Escape hold a tie for my number one, there are some pretty strong runner-ups with Radiohead's The Bends, Paul Weller's Stanley Street, Pulp's Different Class, and, one more rung down, Supergrass' I Should Coco. Pretty much my (and most british kids my age) fave year of music of my life. it all sounded too good to be true. and the next year showed that it was, as britpop imploded on itself.
1996 Barenaked Ladies - Born on a Pirate Ship (have to mention Space's Spiders, Manic Street Preachers' Everything Must Go, Sleeper's It Girl and Ash's 1977. britpop obviously took a turn for the darker. and then the Spice Girls came along)
1997 a very odd tie between Ben Folds Five's Whatever and Ever Amen and The Spice Girls' Spiceworld
1998 Barenaked Ladies - Stunt (the record that got me into my fave band. bought all the previous shortly after)
1999 The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
2000 Coldplay - Parachutes (Badly Drawn Boy's Hour of the Bewilderbeast, Robbie Williams' Sing When You're Winning and Flogging Molly's Swagger also brilliant, but Coldplay was far and beyond my fave)
2001 Gorillaz - Gorillaz (followed closely by The Strokes' Is This It)
2002 Badly Drawn Boy - About a Boy (close follow-ups are Doves' Last Broadcast, The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and The Streets' Original Pirate Material)
2003 The Coral - Magic and Medicine (OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below maybe should be my fave instead, but consistently i loved the coral)
2004 The Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour. another meh kind of a year, though this album was glorious
2005 Goldfrapp - Supernature
2006 Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (tied with Arctic Monkeys' Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not)
2007 Janelle Monáe - Metropolis Suite I of IV
2008 well, not sure yet...

so there you have it - if you made it this far. not really sure if this is 100% accurate, but if it's not then blame wikipedia. i'm also kinda messing around with the release dates, cos some records came out in the uk at different times.

anyone else out there got enough free time and is enough of a music geek to want to do this too? your best option is, unless you have a way better memory, is to use wikiperdia's year in music articles, which have a pretty good list of the records released etc. if i can me arsed, i'll actually get to putting up some links here.