The Best Record Released Every Year Since 1959
1959 - Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
1960 - At Last! - Etta James
1961 - The Blues and the Abstract Truth - Oliver Nelson
1962 - Waltz for Debby - Bill Evans
1963 - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
1964 - Folk Singer - Muddy Waters
1965 - A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
1966 - Sinatra at the Sands - Frank Sinatra
1967 - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
1968 - Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
1969 - Abbey Road - The Beatles
1970 - Moondance - Van Morrison
1971 - Blue - Joni Mitchell
1972 - Exile on Main Street - Rolling Stones
1973 - Headhunters - Herbie Hancock
1974 - Standing on the Verge of Getting it On - Funkadelic
1975 - There’s No Place Like America Today - Curtis Mayfield
1976 - Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
1977 - Aja - Steely Dan
1978 - The Cars - The Cars
1979 - London Calling - The Clash
1980 - Remain in Light - Talking Heads
1981 - Street Songs - Rick James
1982 - Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen
1983 - Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
1984 - Purple Rain - Prince
1985 - Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
1986 - Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi
1987 - Sign O’ The Times - Prince
1988 - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
1989 - Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
1990 - Sex Packets - Digital Underground
1991 - The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
1992 - Blind Melon - Blind Melon
1993 - Enter the 36 Chambers - Wu-Tang Clan
1994 - Illmatic - Nas
1995 - Post - Bjork
1996 - Entroducing - DJ Shadow
1997 - Surfacing - Sarah Maclachlan
1998 - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
1999 - When the Pawn - Fiona Apple
2000 - Voodoo - D’Angelo
2001 - The Blueprint - Jay-Z
2002 - Kill the Moonlight - Spoon
2003 - Get Rich or Die Tryin’ - 50 Cent
2004 - Madvillainy - Madvillain
2005 - Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
2006 - Ani DiFranco - Reprieve
2007 - Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
2008 - Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
2009 - Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night