favorite album for the year of...

[greyjamie]

The A.V. Club posted something where the columnist picked a favorite album for every year he's been alive. He used this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_in_music to help facilitate the process. Here goes

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[joustsquad]

You're going to make fun of me for some of these:
1980 - Springsteen - The River
1981 - Minor Threat - First two 7"s on a 12"
1982 - Descendents - Milo Goes To College / Violent Femmes - SelfTitled
1983 - The Police - Synchronicity
1984 - Replacements - Let It Be
1985 - The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & The Lash
1986 - Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
1987 - Neil Diamond - Hot August Night 2
1988 - Pixies - Surfer Rosa
1989 - Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Devil's Night Out
1990 - Pixies - Bossanova / Sonic Youth - Goo
1991 - Nirvana - Nevermind
1992 - Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
1993 - Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
(1993 was the toughest year. Bosstones' Don't Know How to Party & Crash Test Dummies God Shuffled His Feet are a couple of my favorite all time albums.)
1994 - Blue
1995 - The Rentals - Return of the Rentals
1996 - Pinkerton
1997 - Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Lets Face it
1998 - Refused - The Shape of Punk To Come
1999 - The Rentals - Seven more Minutes
2000 - Elliott Smith - Figure 8
2001 - The Shins - Oh Inverted World
2002 - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2003 - Ted Leo - Hearts of Oak
2004 - Ted Leo - Shake the Sheets
2005 - The Ergs - Dork Rock Cork Rod
2006 - Fucked Up - Hidden World
2007 - Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3
2008 - So far Fucked Up's Chemistry of Common Life (after 2 listens)