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I started a project for my 33 birthday documenting all my favorite records since the year I was born. Ideally I wanted to dj a set by picking one song from each year, but the task proved to be impossible. You can see I am still working on the list and I plan to make it a lifelong project. It is a fun project to do. You should give it a try.
1975
Another Green World – Brian Eno
Deluxe – Harmonia
Neu! ’75 – Neu!
Landed – Can
Young Americans – David Bowie
1976
Modern Lovers – Modern Lovers
The Ramones – The Ramones
1977
Heroes – David Bowie
Talking Heads: 77 – Talking Heads
Trans Europe Express – Kraftwerk
1978
The Cars – The Cars
Germ Free Adolescents – X-Ray Spex
The Man Machine – Kraftwerk
Parallel Lines – Blondie
Some Girls – The Rolling Stones
This Heat – This Heat
1979
The B-52s – The B-52s
Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an
Umbrella – Nurse With Wound
Entertainment! – Gang Of Four
Fear of Music – Talking Heads
The Pleasure Principle – Gary Numan
The Raincoats – The Raincoats
Unknown Pleasures – Joy Division
Eat to the Beat – Blondie
1980
Freedom of Choice – Devo
Double Fantasy – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Sandinista! – The Clash
Kings of the Wild Frontier – Adam and the Ants
Autoamerican – Blondie
1981
The Beauty and the Beat – The Go-Go’s
Computer World – Kraftwerk
Deceit – This Heat
Duran Duran – Duran Duran
Freeze Frame – J. Geils Band
Non-stop Erotic Cabaret – Soft Cell
1982
Thriller – Michael Jackson
Avalon – Roxy Music
Complete Madness – Madness (greatest hits)
Rio – Duran Duran
1999 – Prince
Vacation – The Go Gos
Dexys Midnight Runners Come On Eileen
1983
Let’s Dance – David Bowie
War – U2
1984
Heartbeat City – The Cars
She’s So Unusual – Cyndi Lauper
Like a Virgin – Madonna
Stop Making Sense – Talking Heads
1985
Hounds of Love – Kate Bush
Hunting High and Low – a-ha
Psychocandy – The Jesus and Mary Chain
This Is Big Audio Dynamite – Big Audio Dynamite
1986
Atomizer – Big Black
Control – Janet Jackson
Licensed to Ill – The Beastie Boys
1987
Locust Abortion Technician – Butthole Surfers
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me – The Cure
Kick – INXS
Bad – Michael Jackson
Jane’s Addiction – Jane’s Addiction
Escape From Noise – Negativland
Substance – New Order
Come On Pilgrim – Pixies
The Young Gods – The Young Gods
The Joshua Tree – U2
1988
Across the Universe – Laibach
Daydream Nation – Sonic Youth
Surfer Rosa – Pixies
The Lion and the Cobra – Sinéad O’Connor
The Land of Rape and Honey – Ministry
Kylie – Kylie
Nothing’s Shocking – Jane’s Addiction
101 – Depeche Mode
1989
Cosmic Thing – The B-52’s
Disintegration – The Cure
Technique – New Order
Like a Prayer – Madonna
Pretty Hate Machine – Nine Inch Nails
Bleach – Nirvana
Energy – Operation Ivy
Full Moon Fever – Tom Petty
Doolittle – Pixies
Mother’s Milk – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tweez – Slint
The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
Mind Bomb – The The
1990
Violator – Depeche Mode
Repeater – Fugazi
This Is Our Music – Galaxie 500
Confessions Of A Knife – My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got – Sinéad O’Connor
Nowhere – Ride
Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To – Spacemen 3
Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic – The Sundays
Pod – The Breeders
1991
White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity – Swans
The Real Ramona        Throwing Muses
Spiderland     Slint
Gish   The Smashing Pumpkins
Whirlpool – Chapterhouse
Steady Diet of Nothing Fugazi
To Mother      Babes in Toyland
Blood Sugar Sex Magik  Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nevermind      Nirvana
Screamadelica  Primal Scream
Love’s Secret Domain – Coil
Unsane – Unsane
Goat – Jesus Lizard
1992
Swans – Love of Life
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 – Aphex Twin
Little Earthquakes -Â Tori Amos
Doppelgänger   Curve
Honey’s Dead   The Jesus and Mary Chain
Slanted and Enchanted  Pavement
Dry    PJ Harvey
Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs  Ministry
Broken (EP)Â Â Â Â Nine Inch Nails
Fixed (EP)     Nine Inch Nails        Remix EP
1993
Tabula Rasa  - Einstürzende Neubauten
Extra Width – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements – Stereolab
1994
Fracture / Tied (10) – Seefeel
Exile in Guyville   –    Liz Phair
Debut –  Björk
In Utero – Nirvana
So Tonight That I Might See – Mazzy Star
Angst – KMFDM
4-Track Demos – PJ Harvey
Muslimgauze (too many to mention)
Rid of Me – PJ Harvey
There Is No-One What Will Take Care Of You – Palace Brothers
1994
Selected Ambient Works Volume II – Aphex Twin
Live Through This – Hole
Evanescence – Scorn
1995
The Great Annihilator – Swans
Truth Is Born Of Arguments – Locust
To Bring You My Love – PJ Harvey
Further Down the Spiral – Nine Inch Nails
Post РBj̦rk
Disco Volante – Mr. Bungle
1996
Soundtracks for the Blind – Swans
Ende Neu – Einstürzende Neubauten
Richard D. James – Aphex Twin
Endtroducing….. – DJ Shadow
1997
Telegram – Bjork
Dig Your Own Hole – Chemical Brothers
Ultra - Depeche Mode
Halim -  Natacha Atlas
Symbols - KMFDM
Come to Daddy  - Aphex Twin
All Music Has Come to and End – Cristian Vogel
1998
Mezzanine – Massive Attack
Is this Desire? – PJ Harvey
1999
To Venus and Back -Â Tori Amos
2000
Silence Is Sexy – Einstürzende Neubauten
2001
Ayeshteni – Natacha Atlas
2002
2003
100th Window – Massive Attack
2004
The Greater Wrong of the Right – Skinny Puppy
Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters
Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned- The Prodigy
I Com – Miss Kittin
R̻ves M̩caniques РThe Hacker
Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
Wet From Birth – The Faint
Flora & Fauna – Dominik Eulberg
76/77 – Cobra Killer
Plays Love Songs – Burnt Friedman
Casting Shadows – Wolfsheim
2005
Shadows and Dust – Lene Lovich
Supernature – Goldfrapp
Spirituals – Flanger
Odyssey – Fischerspooner
New World Observer – Deadbeat
Push the Button – The Chemical Brothers
Silent Alarm – Bloc Party
Nouvelle Vague – Nouvelle Vague
2006
Someone To Drive You Home – The Long Blondes
Colleen Et Les Boîtes À Musique – Colleen
2007
And Their Refinement Of The Decline – Stars of the Lid
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