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Your best year ever for music
For me it has to be 1972. Glam had broken through to the mainstream, Bowie was at his creative peak, Deep Purple produced their finest album, American soul had matured with Diana Ross producing her finest music and lady singer/songwriters like Lynsey de Paul and Melanie saw their careers take off.
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1979
1986
1996
2005
Each of those years stood out as being a real mixed bag of chart tune genres.If I had to pick a favourite from those four it would be 1979.
1979 is an excellent choice, you had 2 Tone breaking through to the mainstream, the mod revival, post punk, NWOBHM, and the start of synthesiser music.
1986, hmmmm, a few good tunes, but a bit bland, 1985 was a much better year.
Hey, excellent choice, and this was the best year of the eighties musically. Could a spoken word, minimalist track like O Superman get into the top ten these days?
Also worthy of a mention is 2002, as this is when rock/metal re emerged as a massive force after nearly ten years in the doldrums.
God bless you and him always!!!
Holly
Of the dud years I'd nominate 1961, rock and roll was dead and it was bland pop and weak takes on pure rock and roll, 1992, rave and more damned rave, 1999, nothing seemed to be happening, 1988, British music was committing suicide with the Hit Factory, and 1993, ditto 1992 with a bit of second rate indie and boring grunge.
well at least we agree on something! lol.
i did an excercise a few years ago, voting for every hit in every year from 1960 - 2007.
my top ten years
1 1966 = 224
2 1967 = 223
3 1968 = 220
4 1965 = 203
5 1981 = 163
6 1970 = 156
7 2003 = 150
8 1980 = 144
9 1986 = 144
10 1969 = 138
yeah i love the 60's the best, but i was surprised by 2003 being so good.
my least fave years
38 1974 = 55
39 2007 = 52
40 1992 = 51
41 1993 = 51
42 1976 = 49
43 2006 = 47
44 1962 = 45
45 1989 = 45
46 1960 = 42
47 1975 = 41
48 1990 = 32
note three mid 70's in there glen...lol.
2007 was brilliant
The Beatles: Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper, The White Album, Abbey Road including singles Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane, Hey Jude/Revolution, Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out, Let It Be etc.
Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 51 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde, John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline etc
The Beach Boys: Today, Pet Sounds, Wild Honey, Friends, 20/20 including singles Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, California Girls, Heroes and Villains etc.
Plus you have great music from the musicians of every era and those just starting out including:
The Rolling Stones
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Jimi Hendrix
Simon and Garfunkel
Cream
The Who
The Kinks
The Byrds
The Supremes
Johnny Cash
Frank Sinatra
Aretha Franklin
Otis Redding
Four Tops
Sly and The Family Stone
Smokey Robinson
The Jackson Five
Elvis Presley
Harry Nilsson
Leonard Cohen
Dusty Springfield
Marvin Gaye
Small Faces
Frank Zappa
Miles Davis etc...........
All these made the Top 3
Joe Dolce - Shaddap you face
Tweets - Birdie Song
Starsound - Stars on 45 medleys
Bucks Fizz - Making your mind up
Ennio Morricone - Chi mai
Shakin Stevens - Green Door & This ole house
Bad Manners - Can Can
Brabra Gaskin & Dave Stewart - It's my party
Aneka - Japanese Boy
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Hooked on classics
I challenge ANY chartfan to counteract this list with ten Top 3 classic belters from 1981..to prove me wrong !
But my favourite years personally have been 2003 followed by 2007 and 2006. Those were times where I could turn on the radio, and I'd love almost every song I heard. It's quite the opposite at the moment.
2006 and 2007 were extremely chaotic years for pop music imo, which is something I like. Always so much going on. You find you get those stale periods in pop music, but you didn't get those at all in 2006 and 2007.
2003 was my favourite at all, because it was the year that my music tastes really changed, and it was a year dominated by 50 Cent, Sean Paul and the Black Eyed Peas.
I'm basing this off chart music obviously. 2011, for example, was an awful year for the charts, but for music in general it was quite good.
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
Kim Wilde - Kids In America
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
Roxy Music - Jealous Guy
The Specials - Ghost Town
Ultravox - Vienna
The Vapors - Turning Japanese
Adam And The Ants - Prince Charming
Smokey Robinson - Being With You
I can't claim that all of these are the best top 3 singles from 1981 but these are the songs I instantly recognised just from seeing there names written down and that I personally like.
My personal favourite years for music are 1984, 1986 & 1990.
enjoy this amazing video of the top 100 Billboard hot 100 song of 1989
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XevWPzDAV5E
Measured against just my favourite song of the year, my top 10 years would be
10. 1978
9. 1972
8. 1981
7. 2004
6. 1986
5. 1992
4. 1997
3. 1964
2. 1974
1. 1968
heres 20 ..... my fav top tracks of 81. (ok not all made the top 3, but so what!)
1. The Human League – The sound of the crowd
2. Wah Heat – Better scream
3. Visage – Fade to grey
4. Adam and the Ants – Kings of the wild frontier
5. Teardrop Explodes – Reward
6. Public Image LTD – The flowers of romance
7. Tenpole Tudor – Swords of a thousand men
8. Landscape – Einstein a go – go
9. Department S – Is vic there?
10. Siouxsie and the Banshees – Spellbound
11. Jam – Funeral pyre
12. Kid Creole and the Coco nuts – Me no pop I
13. Adam and the Ants – Stand and deliver
14. Enio Morricone – Cha mai (the life and times of david Lloyd george)
15. Duran Duran – Planet earth
16. Ultravox – Vienna
17. Kate Bush – Sat in your lap
18. Siouxsie and the Banshees – Arabian nights
19. Creatures – Mad eyed screamer
20. Bad Manners – Walking in the sunshine
.... and 'cha mai' is a beautiful piece of music. :cool: