Best year for music

It's 1994

1994

Whatever year you were 14

1987. Crazy year. Appetite for Destruction and The Joshua Tree were the biggies, but there were a ton of amazing albums that year, from alternative icons like The Cure (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me), Depeche Mode (Music for the Masses), Sonic Youth (Sister), INXS (Kick), The Smiths (Strangeways Here We Come), pop icons Michael Jackson (Bad), Prince (Sign o' the Times), George Michael (Faith). There are tons more, too. Just a crazy year for music. Yeah, I was in high school and remember it pretty well.

Pretty sure it’s one of 1967-1970. This is when music got a lot cooler and experimental and when many of the most genius works of all time were recorded. 1967 saw the release of sgt peppers, Hendrix’s Are You Experienced and the Doors debut album. Pink Floyd released piper at the gates of dawn. Jefferson airplane released first album with Grace Slick (white rabbit), Rolling Stones released Satanic Majesties. Velvet Underground released that album with the banana on it. Music was never the same, maaaaan. 1967 is goated

2000, the year everyone discovered Napster, and threw off the shackles of physical media

1971 https://digitaldreamdoor.com/mobile/rock/year-albums/albums-1971.html

It’s subjective, of course, but 94’s tough to beat: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Hole, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Green Day, Offspring, Blur, Tori Amos, Weezer, Beastie Boys, Korn, Portishead, R.E.M., Dave Matthews Band and I’m sure a bunch of others I’m leaving out.

good music every year. depends on what floats your boat.... its art and its subjective as hell.

1993

I am partial to 1979, because that is the last year of classic rock and the transition from punk to new wave and alternative music + the rise of hip hop and rap. But that is assuming you count the Clash’s London Calling and Pink Floyd’s Wall as 1979 and not 1980 (both I think released in Dec 1979 in the UK and in the US in 1980).

Definitely 1993. My absolute favorite album came out in 1993! Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins along with so many other amazing alternative music that year! Nirvana (In Utero) Pearl Jam (VS) Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream) Tad (Inhaler) Candlebox ( Self-titled ) Mudhoney (Five Dollar Bob Mock Cooter Stew) Dinosaur Jr (Where Tool - Undertow Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses HUM - Electra 2000 Counting Crows - AAEA Primus - Pork Soda Bjork - Debut Breeders - Last Splash Melvins- Houdini Candlebox - Self Titled The Flaming Lips - TFTSH Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See The Cranberries – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

1977 is worth mentioning especially for punk and alternative. The Clash, Sex Pistols, Talking Heads debut albums Ramones- Rocket to Russia Television- Marquee Moon David Bowie- Heroes and Low Pink Floyd- Animal Fleetwood Mac- Rumors Steely Dan- Aja Pink Flag- Wire

1974 for me easily. Prog rock which is my favorite genre had its peak. King Crimson and Genesis which are my two favorite bands released their best albums on that year. And all in all basically every artist from that era I like seemed to put out strong material that year

1967, 1969, 1971, 1991, 2013, 2017

1978. I turned 9 that summer, so I’m not picking a year I was in high school.  If you delve into pop music history, aside from the triumph of all of the Brothers Gibb, 1978 is a major year.  Just for starters, “Peg” by Steely Dan was released that year, and Kate Bush released “Wuthering Heights”. 

It would be hard to pinpoint a year but for me I would say sometime during the early to mid 80s or early to mid 90s. The late 80s were terrible. Either way, whatever answer you give will tell approximately how old you are.

All of the years mentioned were great. I'm going to add 1991. There was a real shift in what was popular that year as alternative went mainstream. And grunge with it's punk roots was far more authentic than what it replaced, hair metal that had become so copycat and formulaic and a parody of itself. Of course, grunge eventually became a parody of itself copycat genre, but that's just how it goes.

1989. I was 17 and grew up with all the hair metal bands at the time Skid Row, Poison Guns and Roses, Bon Jovi, Cinderella Ratt. I absolutely loved that kind of stuff back then until grunge hit and took it away.

The year with best and most memorable experiences and memories. Typically we think of teenage years.

1977-81, pick one Otherwise, 1971 is pretty solid

1966 1967 1969 1971 1977 1979 1980 1988 1989 1991 1994 1995 1997 2003 2010 2016 2024 All great years imho

I gotta go with 1997. Foo Fighter’s Colour and the Shape Radiohead’s OK Computer Elliiott Smith’s Either/Or Daft Punk’s Homework The Prodigy's Fat of the Land Notorious B.I.G.’s Life After Death Ween’s The Mollusk Erykah Badu’s debut Missy Elliott’s debut Built to Spill's Perfect from Now On Depeche Mode’s Ultra Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope Third Eye Blind’s s/t debut Sarah McLachlan’s Surfacing Ben Folds Five’s Whatever and Ever Amen Sleater-Kinney’s Dig Me Out Modest Mouse’s Lonesome Crowded West Stereolab’s Dots and Loops Snapcase’s Progression Through Unlearning Veruca Salt’s Eight Arms to Hold You Blur’s s/t Buena Vista Social Club soundtrack The Verve’s Urban Hymns Bjork’s Homogenic Mogwai’s Young Team Get Up Kids’ Four Minute Mile Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space Yo La Tengo’s I can Hear the Heart Beating as One Mark Morrison’s debut I know I’m missing some stuff 😅

2026, I don't really feel nostalgia for music.

1976 / 1984

From a music album perspective, 1971.

1984

I admit, I don't think about it. Every time I pick a year, I find other years equally valid. I grew up out in the boonies, riding buses since I was in kindergarten, so I knew 60s songs, 70s, 80s, 90s decades. Kids got older, ate up my time, so I am not as familiar with music in the 2000s and newer. but I do love some of those bands, slipknot, gojira, interpol... still learning more music!

In my opinion definitely 60's, 70's Rolling Stones, Beatles, Led Zepplin, Clapton they changed music forever

Books have been written about how important 1959 was for jazz music. Hard to look past that if you're a jazz head

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1969. Can't beat this.

1999

Whatever year Jesus Built My Hotrod came out

If your eyes are circles, it’s 2016.

I’m with Homer Simpson. 1973.

1984 for pop, 1987 for new wave and alternative, 2013 for indie

I'm old. 1955.