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Following on from @Bearwood Ram’s great thread and nicking a recent idea from Absolute Radio, you’ve got to pick one album from each decade.  No top 3 / top 10 / caveats - just one album.

It’s so difficult but I’d go for:

60s The Beatles - Sgt Pepper

70s Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

80s Maiden - Number of the Beast

90s Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Blood Sugar

00s Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am

10s Biffy Clyro - Ellipsis

 

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Off the top of my head and subject to change...

60s - The Beatles - Revolver 

70s - Pink Floyd - Animals 

80s- Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell 

90s - Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish 

00s - Delta - Slippin Out

10s - A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant 

 

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1 hour ago, ketteringram said:

Errm.   Brothers in arms was a long way after 1980. 

Encroaching senility. Seemed older! Too lazy to check! Ok Correction 

60's Moody Blues  Days of future passed

70's War of the Worlds Jeff Wayne

80's Brothers in Arms 

OT but does anyone remember the multicoloured vinyl album I think by Lindisfarne? Wish I'd kept it and all my other vinyl stuff.

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My reaction to this thread title made me smile. I instantly thought that I should think about an album of the 50's, 60's 70's 80's and 90's.

I didn't think that someone has released decent albums on 21st century. Perhaps it tells more about me than the music of late. Perhaps.

 

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(nb - this is not including the albums I already have said I can't live without in the other thread!). 

60s The Doors - The Doors 

70s Never Mind the.. - Sex Pistols 

80s Master of Puppets - Metallica

90s Suede - Coming Up

00s Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Kill

10s probably something by Kasabian...

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60s Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen

70s The Specials - The Specials

80s First and Last and Always - Sisters of Mercy

90s Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers

00s Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys

10s Concrete and Gold - Foo Fighters

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I don't trust decades in music really. London Calling is the peak of, what I think as, 70s British Punk and it came out in 1980.

90s pre-Britpop Indie is maybe best illustrated by The Stone Roses debut, which came out in 89.

Possibly the 2 best records of the 80s had nothing to do with what is usually considered 80s music. 

Dylan's motorcycle accident and subsequent shift to the gentle sound of John Wesley Harding feels like an early 70s album, coming after the excesses of the swinging 60s and the death of the hippie dream. But it came out in 67 before most if that stuff had happened.

I think what I'm trying to say is that the sound you associate with a particular era doesn't actually have to come from that date.

 

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13 hours ago, TimRam said:

60s Led Zeppelin - First album (1969)

70's AC/DC - If You Want Blood...You've Got It (1978)

80's AC/DC - Back in Black (1980)

90's Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory (1995)

00's Iron Maiden - Brave New World (2000)

10's Slash - First solo album (2010)

Brave new world is an incredible album!

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26 minutes ago, ariotofmyown said:

I don't trust decades in music really. London Calling is the peak of, what I think as, 70s British Punk and it came out in 1980.

90s pre-Britpop Indie is maybe best illustrated by The Stone Roses debut, which came out in 89.

Possibly the 2 best records of the 80s had nothing to do with what is usually considered 80s music. 

Dylan's motorcycle accident and subsequent shift to the gentle sound of John Wesley Harding feels like an early 70s album, coming after the excesses of the swinging 60s and the death of the hippie dream. But it came out in 67 before most if that stuff had happened.

I think what I'm trying to say is that the sound you associate with a particular era doesn't actually have to come from that date.

 

This is right. Decades as a division of anything is going to be inaccurate. Point of order though: London calling just managed a 1979 release in the UK. Those poor feckers in the USA had to wait until January 1980 though. Still have my copy.

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50s Little Richard - Here's Little Richard

60s Ray Charles - Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music

70s Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

80s Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A.

90s Brooks & Dunn - Brand New Man

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