Meme-ifying Me

I'm doing the meme of the best album of each year since my birth with only one album from each band allowed, which leads to some crazy things. Basically, I had some years that just had to have that album listed. And others were much more difficult. Also, I listed only albums that I have, not single songs or anything. This was actually a little hard for some of the years, especially 1990 and 1993, where there wasn't an album that stuck out as utterly awesome. Which led to less good ones getting the nod.

1980: Elvis Costello & the Attractions' Get Happy!!, with a special bit of love for The Feelies' Crazy Rhythms

1981: Mission of Burma's Signals, Calls, & Marches

1982: Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

1983: Talking Heads's Speaking in Tongues

1984: The Replacements' Let It Be, although The Smiths' eponymous and Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A. are both very good

1985: The Jesus & Mary Chain's Psychocandy, with The Replacements' Tim getting edged out

1986: The Smiths' The Queen Is Dead

1987: U2's Joshua Tree, although I'm sorely tempted to pick either Sonic Youth's Sister or Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel Of Love

1988: Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation, although My Bloody Valentine's Isn't Anything and Pixies's Surfer Rosa are both up there

1989: Pixies's Doolittle

1990: Fugazi's Repeater/Galaxie 500's This Is Our Music, with Yo La Tengo's Fakebook, Jawbreaker's Unfun, and Pixies' Bossanova being very good

1991: Pavement's Slanted & Enchanted, with Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend, Fugazi's Steady Diet of Nothing, Nirvana's Nevermind, Superchunk's No Pocky for Kitty, Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque, and U2's Achtung Baby

1992: My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, and then Superchunk's On the Mouth, Sonic Youth's Dirty, The Magnetic Fields' Wayward Bus, and Luna's Lunapark all had the definite unfortune of being released in the same year

1993: Velocity Girl's Copacetic/Björk's Debut, and then Archers of Loaf's Icky Mettle, Nirvana's In Utero, The Breeders' Last Splash, The Flaming Lips' Transmissions from the Satellite Heart, Pavement's Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, and Yo La Tengo's Painful

1994: Superchunk's Foolish/Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy, and then Built To Spill's There's Nothing Wrong with Love, Guided by Voice's Bee Thousand, Jeff Buckley's Grace, Luna's Bewitched, The Magnetic Field's Holiday & The Charm of the Highway Strip, Velocity Girl's Simpatico, Weezer's eponymous

1995: Radiohead's The Bends, and then Guided by Voices' Alien Lanes, Archers of Loaf's Vee Vee, Björk's Post, The Flaming Lips's Clouds Taste Metallic, Elliott Smith's eponymous, Jawbreaker's Dear You, Luna's Penthouse, The Magnetic Fields' Get Lost, Portastatic's Slow Note from a Sinking Ship, Superchunk's Here's Where the Strings Come In, and Yo La Tengo's Electr-O-Pura

1996: Weezer's Pinkerton, and then Belle & Sebastian's Tigermilk & If You're Feeling Sinister, Guided by Voice's Under the Bushes Under the Stars, Jawbox's eponymous, Modest Mouse's This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing To Think About, and Wilco's Being There

1997: Yo La Tengo's I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, and then Beth Orton's Trailer Park, Björk's Homogenic, Built To Spill's Perfect from Now On, Elliott Smith's Either/Or, Radiohead's OK Computer, Sleater-Kinney's Dig Me Out, and Superchunk's Indoor Living

1998: Jets To Brazil's Orange Rhyming Dictionary/Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane over the Sea, and then Air's Moon Safari, Belle & Sebastian's The Boy with the Arab Strap, and Spoon's Series of Sneaks

1999: The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs/The Faint's Blank-Wave Arcade, and then Wilco's Summerteeth, Beth Orton's Central Reservation, Built To Spill's Keep It like a Secret, The Dismemberment Plan's Emergency & I, The Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin, Sigur Rós's Ágætis Byrjun, Sorry about Dresden's The Mayor Will Abdicate, and Superchunk's Come Pick Me Up

2000: The New Pornographers' Mass Romantic/Crooked Fingers' eponymous, and then The Clientele's Suburban Light and Spoon's Girls Can Tell

2001: Ted Leo & the Pharmacists' The Tyranny of Distance, and then Crooked Fingers' Bring on the Snakes, Fugazi's The Argument, Superchunk's Here's to Shutting Up, New Order's Get Ready, and Quruli's Team Rock

2002: Spoon's Kill the Moonlight/Sleater-Kinney's One Beat, and then Beck's Sea Change, Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It in People, Consonant's eponymous, Crooked Fingers' Red Devil Dawn, Destroyer's This Night, Imperial Teen's On, Jets to Brazil's Perfecting Loneliness, The Postal Service's Give Up, and Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2003: Portastatic's Summer of the Shark/The Notwist's Neon Golden, and then Belle & Sebastian's Dear Catastrophe Waitress, Bishop Allen's Charm School, The Exploding Hearts' Guitar Romantic, The Ladybug Transistor's eponymous, Metric's Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, The New Pornographers' Electric Version, Radiohead's Hail to the Thief, The Rosebuds's TheRosebudsMakeOut, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists' Hearts of Oak, and The Wrens' The Meadowlands

2004: Arcade Fire's Funeral, and then A.C. Newman's The Slow Wonder, Air's Talkie Walkie, Charlotte Hatherley's Grey Will Fade, Franz Ferdinand's eponymous, Modest Mouse's Good News for People Who Love Bad News, Puffy AmiYumi's Nice, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists' Shake the Sheets, and Wilco's A Ghost Is Born

2005: The Rosebuds' Birds Make Good Neighbors/Robyn's eponymous, and then Crooked Fingers' Dignity & Shame, The Decemberists' Picaresque, Metric's Live It Out, The New Pornographer's Twin Cinema, Portastatic's Bright Ideas, Sigur Rós's Takk..., Sleater-Kinney's The Woods, and Spoon's Gimme Fiction

2006: Asobi Seksu's Citrus, and then Belle & Sebastian's The Life Pursuit, Camera Obscura's Let's Get out of This Country, The Decemberists' The Crane Wife, Destroyer's Rubies, The Essex Green's Cannibal Sea, The Long Blondes' Someone To Drive You Home, The Pipettes' We Are the Pipettes, Portastatic's Be Still Please, Snowden's Anti-Anti, and Yo La Tengo's I Am Not Afraid of You & I Will Beat Your Ass

2007: Stars' In Our Bedroom after the War/Jens Lekman's Night Falls over Kortedala, and then Radiohead, In Rainbows, Arcade Fire's Neon Bible, Bishop Allen's Bishop Allen & the Broken String, The Broken West's I Can't Go on, I'll Go On, The New Pornographers' Challengers, Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, The Polyphonic Spree's The Fragile Army, The Rosebuds' Night of the Furies, Shout out Louds' Our Ill Wills, and Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga