Albums Year by Year
05 Aug 2026
The first LP I bought was Bob Dylan's Freewheelin' album from 1963. I suddenly had the idea to listen to one album in my collection from each year since then in chronological order. I don't have anything beyond 2022 and the only year missing before that is 1964. I've more or less picked one album at random so they're not necessarily my favourites of every year, but every one is an album I would happily still listen to today. I will mark them with an x as I isten to them.
| x | 1963 | Bob Dylan | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan |
| x | 1965 | Bob Dylan | Bringing it all Back Home |
| x | 1966 | Beach Boys | Pet Sounds |
| x | 1967 | Jefferson Airplane | After Bathing at Baxters |
| x | 1968 | Procol Harum | Shine on Brightly |
| x | 1969 | Caravan | Caravan |
| x | 1970 | Jethro Tull | Benefit |
| x | 1971 | Egg | The Polite Force |
| x | 1972 | Wishbone Ash | Argus |
| x | 1973 | Yes | Tales from Topographic Oceans |
| x | 1974 | King Crimson | Red |
| x | 1975 | Mike Oldfield | Ommadawn |
| x | 1976 | Jon Anderson | Olias of Sunhillow |
| x | 1977 | Pink Floyd | Animals |
| x | 1978 | National Health | Of Queues And Cures |
| x | 1979 | UK | Danger Money |
| x | 1980 | Terje Rypdal | Descendre |
| x | 1981 | Steve Hackett | Cured |
| x | 1982 | Gerry Rafferty | Sleepwalking |
| x | 1983 | Asia | Alpha |
| x | 1984 | Rush | Grace Under Pressure |
| x | 1985 | Kate Bush | Hounds of Love |
| 1986 | Peter Gabriel | So |
| 1987 | David Torn | Cloud About Mercury |
| 1988 | All About Eve | All About Eve |
| 1989 | Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe | Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe |
| 1990 | Midnight Oil | Blue Sky Mining |
| 1991 | Simple Minds | Real Life |
| 1992 | Sugar | Copper Blue |
| 1993 | Eberhard Weber | Pendulum |
| 1994 | Laurie Anderson | Bright Red |
| 1995 | Ian Anderson | Divinities |
| 1996 | Jackson Browne | Looking East |
| 1997 | Pat Metheny | Imaginary Day |
| 1998 | Jan Garbarek | Rites |
| 1999 | Gordian Knot | Gordian Knot |
| 2000 | Radiohead | Kid A |
| 2001 | Creeper Lagoon | Take Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday |
| 2002 | Sigur Ros | () |
| 2003 | Dandy Warhols | Welcome to the Monkey House |
| 2004 | Bugge Wesseltoft | Film Ing |
| 2005 | Tori Amos | The Beekeeper |
| 2006 | The Mars Volta | Amputechture |
| 2007 | Fields | Everything Last Winter |
| 2008 | Cynic | Traced in Air |
| 2009 | White Lies | To Lose My Life |
| 2010 | Berrogüetto | Kosmogonias |
| 2011 | Son Lux | We Are Rising |
| 2012 | Greg Haines | Digressions |
| 2013 | The National | Trouble Will Find Me |
| 2014 | Brian Eno & Karl Hyde | Someday World |
| 2015 | Sufjan Stevens | Carrie & Lowell |
| 2016 | Nils Petter Molvær | Buoyancy |
| 2017 | Valgeir Sigurðsson | Dissonance |
| 2018 | Kristjan Randalu | Absence |
| 2019 | Liam Byrne | Concrete |
| 2020 | Sufjan Stevens & Lowell Brams | Aporia |
| 2021 | The Ishmael Ensemble | Visions of Light |
| 2022 | The Comet Is Coming | Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam |
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