Stolen from
grayjedi. Of course. His journal is the place where cool memes go to reproduce.
Pick a favorite album for each year you've been alive. You can pick a record based on what you like now, or what you would have picked that year assuming you were old enough to care.
1979 - ABBA, Greatest Hits Vol. 2
1980 - Queen, The Game
1981 - April Wine, The Nature of the Beast
1982 - Duran Duran, Rio
1983 - David Bowie, Let's Dance
1984 - Bon Jovi, Bon Jovi *
1985 - Bon Jovi, 7800 Fahrenheit
1986 - Queen, A Kind of Magic
1987 - Alice Cooper, Raise Your Fist and Yell
1988 - Iron Maiden, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
1989 - Alice Cooper, Trash
1990 - Pantera, Cowboys from Hell
1991 - Alice Cooper, Hey Stoopid
1992 - White Zombie, La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1
1993 - The Headstones, Picture of Health
1994 - Nine Inch Nails, The Downward Spiral
1995 - White Zombie, Astro Creep 2000
1996 - Tool, Aenema
1997 - Savage Garden, Savage Garden
1998 - Econoline Crush, The Devil You Know
1999 - The Tea Party, Triptych
2000 - Disturbed, The Sickness
2001 - Rammstein, Mutter
2002 - Matchbox 20, More Than You Think You Are
2003 - Dir en Grey, Vulgar
2004 - Nightwish, Once
2005 - Rob Thomas, Something to Be
2006 - My Chemical Romance, The Black Parade
2007 - Nightwish, Dark Passion Play
2008 - Disturbed, Indestructible
* It was a toss-up between this one and Metallica's Ride the Lightning, but my loving wife just reminded me that she was born in '84 and she's from Jersey, so it had to be Bon Jovi. Which is good enough logic for me. ;)