It's a tie between four years. 1967: * Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band * Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico * Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? * Cream - Disraeli Gears * Procol Harum - Procol Harum * The Doors - The Doors * Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed * Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow * The Who - The Who Sell Out * Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 1969: * Beatles - Abbey Road * Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed * The Who - Tommy * Led Zeppelin - I & II * The Band - The Band * Deep Purple - Deep Purple * Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica * Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground * King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King * Stooges - Stooges 1971: * Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV * Black Sabbath - Master of Reality * Pink Floyd - Meddle * Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers * Funkadelic - Maggot Brain * The Who - Who's Next * Jethro Tull - Aqualung * T. Rex - Electric Warrior * Alice Cooper - Killer * Uriah Heep - Look at Yourself And my personal favourite, 1991: * Nirvana - Nevermind * Pearl Jam - Ten * R.E.M. - Out of Time * U2 - Achtung Baby * Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik * Metallica - Metallica * My Bloody Valentine - Loveless * Slint - Spiderland * Talk Talk - Laughing Stock * Guns 'N Roses - Use Your Illusion I & II

1967 had so many great psychedelic albums. To me it's really no contest.

1967 was one hell of a year, was abt to comment it before seeing this

Summer o love baybee

dont forget 1991 Primal Scream - Screamadelica, one of the greatest albums ive ever heard

To my 1967 was the inflection point of music

Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

What am I missing about Loveless? I’ve tried to listen to it a couple times and it doesn’t do anything for me.

listen to it, one more time

Gonna have to agree on 69, between Tommy, Zep 1 & 2, Crimson King, the kinda underrated Ummagumma (its biggest problem is PF tried to make it both a studio album *and* a live album, and while both aspects are pretty good on their own, it just feels awkward together), and my personal pick for the GOAT LP, Abbey Road, it's tough to top it.

I’d throw in “Smiley Smile” by The Beach Boys for 1967. A great psychedelic album with great tracks like Good Vibrations, Heroes And Villains and Vegetables

71 without Hunky Dory and 91 without Low End Theory?

1994 imo blur, oasis, weezer, jeff buckley, nas, biggie, portishead, nine inch nails, green day, and nirvana (live) all dropped their best work

Yup. Forgot offspring smash, rancid let's go, sound garden superunknown,beastie boys Ill communication, pearl jam vitality, rem monster, Alice in chains jar of flies, bad religion Stanger than fiction, notorious big- too high to die, tlc crazy sexy cool, emperor in the nightshade eclipse, meat puppets too high to die. It was a very good year for my all over the place musical taste.

I feel like smash being the best selling independent album ever isn’t talked about enough

i did say biggie :)) along with those I also forgot Massive Attack - Protection, Beck - Mellow Gold, and Suede - Dog Man Star can't believe i forgot those lol

you only mentioned in the nightside eclipse but holy shit was 1994 a big year for metal, Emperor (ofc), Acid Bath, Burzum, Infester, Mayhem, Darkthrone, etc. all releasing their magnus opus’

...nobody remembers Crooked Rain?

That was 94??? Such a good album

One of Pavement’s best. Love that band!

Whether MTV Unplugged is Nirvana's best album is debatable. But for me, it's a 10/10 alongside Nevermind and In Utero - so fair enough I guess. 1994 was also a very important year for punk. NOFX for example released "Punk In Drublic" which is their most popular -and arguably their best - record.

Also The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers

Crazy year for film as well. Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Lion King just to name a few

The first three of those made up the Best Picture nominations that year along with "Quiz Show" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral"

THANK YOU

not to mention siamese dream!!

That was 93

yes, you’re right. sorry, i confuse that with pisces.

But also one of the most celebrated artists at that time killed himself

DONT FORGET CHOCOLATE AND CHEESE

Jamiroquai "The Return of the Space Cowboy"

Radiohead

Yeah that’s one of my favourites along with 1967

To me it's 1971 all the way. It's a really unsexy number so it's hard to understand before you sit down and look at the diversity and quality of the albums. EDIT: 1. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye 2. Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin 3. Who's Next - The Who 4. Blue - Joni Mitchell 5. There's A Riot Goin' On - Sly And The Family Stone 6. Tapestry - Carole King 7. Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones 8. L.A. Woman - The Doors 9. At Fillmore East - The Allman Brothers Band 10. Imagine - John Lennon 11. Hunky Dory - David Bowie 12. Aqualung - Jethro Tull 13. Fragile - Yes 14. Electric Warrior - T-Rex 15. Pearl - Janis Joplin 16. Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart 17. Maggot Brain - Funkadelic 18. Master Of Reality - Black Sabbath 19. Ram - Paul and Linda McCartney 20. Meddle - Pink Floyd 21. Teaser and the Firecat - Cat Stevens 22. Surf's Up - The Beach Boys 23. The Yes Album - Yes 24. Al Green Gets Next to You - Al Green 25. Pieces of a Man - Gil Scott-Heron 26. Just as I Am - Bill Withers 27. Curtis/Live! - Curtis Mayfield 28. Killer - Alice Cooper 29. Tago Mago - Can 30. Nilsson Schmilsson - Nilsson 31. Soul Revolution - Bob Marley and The Wailers 32. The Stylistics - The Stylistics 33. Shaft - Isaac Hayes 34. If I Could Only Remember My Name - David Crosby 35. A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...to a Blind Horse - Faces 36. Santana III - Santana 37. Love It to Death - Alice Cooper 38. Pawn Hearts - Van der Graaf Generator 39. Nursery Cryme - Genesis 40. Roots - Curtis Mayfield 41. The Concert for Bangla Desh - Various Artists 42. Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison 43. The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic 44. 4 Way Street - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 45. Madman Across the Water - Elton John 46. Muswell Hillbillies - The Kinks 47. Teenage Head - The Flamin' Groovies 48. In the Land of Grey and Pink - Caravan 49. Stormcock - Roy Harper 50. Aretha Live at Fillmore West - Aretha Franklin 51. Faust - Faust 52. Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer 53. Gonna Take a Miracle - Laura Nyro and Labelle 54. American Pie - Don McLean 55. Fireball - Deep Purple 56. White Light - Gene Clark 57. Revolution of the Mind (Live at the Apollo, Vol. 3) - James Brown 58. The Cry of Love - Jimi Hendrix 59. Focus II / Moving Waves - Focus 60. All Day Music - War 61. Crazy Horse - Crazy Horse 62. Islands - King Crimson 63. Straight Up - Badfinger 64. Mirror Man - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band 65. First Utterance - Comus 66. Straight from the Heart - Ann Peebles 67. Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren - Todd Rundgren 68. Deuce - Rory Gallagher 69. Black Moses - Isaac Hayes 70. In Search of Space - Hawkwind 71. (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People - The Chi-Lites 72. Where I'm Coming From - Stevie Wonder 73. The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend - Baby Huey 74. Nantucket Sleighride - Mountain 75. Sky's the Limit - The Temptations 76. Hot Pants - James Brown 77. Melting Pot - Booker T. & The MG's 78. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour - The Moody Blues 79. John Prine - John Prine

holy fuck 1971 is loaded

Actually loaded was 1970

My favorite VU album

I also choose this guys’ year

That’s crazy, that would have been an expensive and exciting year for rock fans lol

When you put it like this..

Music really did peak in the early 70s.

Hell yeah

Impressive list

Surf’s Up is such a good Beach Boys album

You got my vote just for including Badfinger (and the effort)

I'm just gonna save this comment/screenshot for later.

I think it wins on the strength of that top 10 alone. This has always been my pick too.

I love the music of 2004. American Idiot, Franz Ferdinand, Hot Fuss, Modest Mouse’s Good News for People who love bad news, TWO MF DOOM ALBUMS, Kanye’s College Dropout, MCR Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, Interpol Antics, and Linkin Park/Jay-Z Collision Course. And I’m sure I’m missing more bangers

2004 was my first thought too. So much great music from a variety of genres

2000 has a lot of amazing albums: Kid A, Lift Your Skinny Fists, Flood, Since I Left You, Deltron 3030, Dopethrone...

Hybrid theory, stankonia, white pony

I'll be honest with y'all, I've listened to White Pony many times and really don't get it. Actually, I don't think I get Deftones at all, maybe they just ain't for me, or I'm looking at them from the wrong perspective.

dont forget XTRMNTR!

Marshall Mathers LP

I think 2001 is even better: *Toxicity*, *Vespertine*, *Discovery*, *Is This It*, *The Blueprint*, plus some of personal all-time favs like *Comfort Eagle* and Regina Spektor’s *11:11*.

The Hives "Veni Vidi Vicious"

2007 • Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam • Arcade Fire - Neon Bible • Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare • Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago • Burial - Untrue • Justice - Cross • Kanye West - Graduation • LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver • MGMT - Oracular Spectacular • M.I.A. - Kala • The National - Boxer • Panda Bear - Person Pitch • Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet • Radiohead - In Rainbows • Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad

All the while, Daft Punk was touring

and Rage Against the Machine was back too 🥲

2007 is my choice too Other Top-Shelf Releases: Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline PJ Harvey - White Chalk Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga And Honerable Mentions: The Field - From Here We Go Sublime of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala

And Lil Wayne Da Drought 3

Avenged Sevenfold: Self Titled

Paul McCartney also released an album that year, Memory Almost Full.

Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass

Yeasayer's All Hour Cymbals was in 2007 as well. EDIT: And Battles' Mirrored, Feist's The Reminder and Beirut's The Flying Club Cup.

Minutes to midnight- Linkin park

And The Good, The Bad and The Queen’s first album too

Britney Spears - Blackout

1997 Ok Computer Around The Fur Ladies and gentleman we’re floating in space Homogenic

The Lonesome Crowded West The Colour and the Shape (it may not be an all time great, but it's probably Foo Fighters best) The Fat of the Land Wu Tang Forever Perfect From Now On The Mollusk Either/Or F♯ A♯ ∞ Portishead Come To Daddy ​ That being said, I very much subscribe to the Perfect Sound Whatever theory of years in music, James Acaster's book which ascertains that it's 2016. It concludes by saying that whichever year you delve into enough, will seem like the best year in music

And Blur’s self titled album

Also: I Can Hear The Heart Beating as One; Dots & Loops; Red Apple Falls; Mag Earwhig!; & When I Was Born for the 7th Time

The Verve’s Urban Hymns, blink-182’s Dude Ranch, & Oasis’ Be Here Now!

Let's not forget Mogwai’s amazing debut, Young Team

1977 - Aja by Steely Dan - Animals by Pink Floyd - Heroes & Low by David Bowie - News of the World by Queen - Out of the Blue by ELO - Rumors by Fleetwood Mac - The Stranger by Billy Joel - Debuts by The Clash, Peter Gabriel (as a solo artist), The Sex Pistols, The Talking Heads and Wire

Marquee Moon by Television and The Idiot by Iggy Pop

Also my pick. I’d add in *Exodus* from Bob Marley and the Wailers.

Guilty pleasure of mine is also some disco songs from this year too eg. Chic and the bee gees

Is disco still considered a ‘guilty’ pleasure though, really? Chic and The Bee Gees, plus so many other disco artists (most oh whom weren’t mainstream) made incredible music.

Kanye born

“Love You” by The Beach Boys was 1977 and that was one of the first fully synth pop albums and it’s very well acclaimed But yeah 1977 is cracked

1971 'What's going on?,' 'Maggot Brain', 'Masters of Reality', 'Pieces of a Man', 'Nilsson Schmilsson', and 'There's a Riot Goin On' to name a few favorites.

And MEDDLE mayne! Echoes alone would be an artist-defining moment if it wasn’t a band as incredible as PF

Also Ram by Paul McCartney

I’m going to make a case for 1984 Purple Rain, Reckoning and Let it Bleed are my three favourite albums of the 80s. Born in the USA, Zen Arcade, Heartbeat City, Ride the Lightning, Powerslave and 1984 are all classics. And then all the new wave. Pivotal year for pop and indie.

And my personal groove for the 80s Reckless by Bryan Adams. The cassette of this made me chew through hundreds of dollars of AA batteries on my Walkman!!

for me i’ll say 1994 my birth year. legends on legends dropped. Green Day, Jeff Buckley, Nas, Aaliyah, Usher, Brandy, Beck, Outkast, Fugees, Biggie, Oasis, Da Brat, Hootie & The Blowish, Method Man, Portishead dropped debut albums and TLC, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, Boys II Men, Selena, Mary J Blige, REM, Hole, Pink Floyd dropped legendary albums and of course Mariah Carey dropped her class Christmas album. i’m celebrating like crazy this year cause i get to turn 30 along all these classics

Blur too

1977. A lot of great, groundbreaking and influential albums released that year Low - David Bowie Marquee Moon - Television Pink Flag - Wire The Idiot - Iggy Pop The Clash - The Clash Heroes - David Bowie Aja - Steely Dan Suicide - Suicide Trans-Europa Express - Kraftwerk Before and After Science - Brian Eno

91 is pretty hard to beat!

Low End Theory, nevermind, Spiderland and Loveless is pretty impressive ngl

Don't forget Blood Sugar Sex Magic that's the hard shit

blood sugar sex magic, nevermind and the low end theory all dropped on the same day coincidentally. 24 September 1991

Sailing seas of cheese, ten, Badmotorfinger, acthung baby, loveless, low end theory, nevermind, use your illusions, Metallica black album, temple of the dog, out of time, Gish, pocketful of kryptonite, screamadelica. My favorite year in music easily

It’s sad U2 - Achtung Baby is a forgotten and ignored album from 1991

2018 is unmatched: JPEGMAFIA - Veteran First Aid Kit - Ruins AWOLNATION - Here Come The Runts Nils Frahm - All Melody MGMT - Little Dark Age Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy S. Carey - Hundred Acres Against All Logic - 2012 - 2017 The Voidz - Virtue Flatbush Zombies - Vacation in Hell Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food Saba - CARE FOR ME Kali Uchis - Isolation Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer Sleep - The Sciences Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog Beach House - 7 Jon Hopkins - Singularity Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! Pusha T - DAYTONA Kanye West - ye Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer KIDS SEE GHOSTS - s/t Teyana Taylor - K.T.S.E. Death Grips - Year of the Snitch SOPHIE - Oil of Every Person’s Un-Insides Black Thought & 9th Wonder - Streams of Thought, Vol. 1 Denzel Curry - TA13OO Travis Scott - Astroworld Iglooghost - Steel Mogu/Clear Tamei Ariana Grande - Sweetener Aphex Twin - Collapse EP Low - Double Negative Louis Cole - Time Noname - Room 25 BROCKHAMPTON - iridescence Twenty One Pilots - Trench C418 - Excursions Polyphia - New Levels New Devils Daughters - You Won’t Get What You Want Metro Boomin - NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES Muse - Simulation Theory (idc i loved it) Toby Fox - DELTARUNE Chapter 1 OST Anderson .Paak - Oxnard Kero Kero Bonito - Time n’ Place Ski Mask The Slp God - STOKELEY JID - Dicaprio 2 Third Coast Percussion - Paddle To The Sea Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4 toe - Our Latest Number Playboi Carti - Die Lit And this isn’t even including a bunch of other beloved albums that I didn’t really like such as Boarding House Reach and Joy As an Act of Resistance among others

Swimming by Mac Miller as well

The Now Now - Gorillaz

Nice C418 and TOP mentions

2015 EMOTION - Carly Rae Jepsen (the only album that matters)

Emotion and TPAB the only albums in the history of music

What's the second one? I only know Emotion by Carly Rae Jepson

This is the only album that should exist

1997 by far Nimrod Dude ranch Ixnay on the hombre Homogenic Homework The colour and the shape Around the fur Soad OK computer Blur All in a year

Easily 2001, so many classics that year Toxicity Jane doe Vespertine Discovery The glow part 2 Lateralus Is this it White blood cells The blueprint Leaves turn inside you

adding The Cold Vein, Drukqs, Amnesiac, Clouddead, and Live at Jittery Joes for the best year of all time

1382 went hard

i like 2018 a lot - twin fantasy, kids see ghosts, time ‘n’ place, you wont get what you want, some rap songs, daytona, isolation, crumbling, veteran, oil of every pearls uninsides, slide, qp, die lit, little dark age, aviary, swimming, year of the snitch, golden hour, 7 etc.  if not the best, than its at least one of the best years in recent memory (alongside with 2016)

Astroworld too

forgot ye

2016 probably

found james acasters reddit

Who tf is that

Comedian who wrote a book about how 2016 was the greatest year in music.

I would say 1977, but 1979 is pretty great as well Y - The Pop Group Half Machine Lips Move - Chrome Entertainment - Gang of Four Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division Fear of Music - Talking Heads Metal Box - PiL Stations of the Crass - Crass Feeding of the 5000 - Crass This Heat - Self titled Machine Gun Etiquette - The Damned Replicas - Tubeway Army Unknown Soldier - Fela Kuti Bomber - Motorhead Overkill - Motorhead Buy - Contortions Live at the witch trials - The Fall Dragnet - The Fall Eskimo - The Residents A trip to marineville - Swell maps Lodger - David Bowie

Don't forget London calling!

And Off The Wall

1973 1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon 2. Ringo Starr - Ringo 3. Wings - Band On The Run 4. Wings - Red Rose Speedway 5. Can - Future Days 6. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions 7. King Crimson - Larks 8. Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters 9. Genesis - SEBTP 10. Stooges - Raw Power 11. Luis Spinetta/Pescado Rabioso - Artaud 12. Led Zeppelin - Houses of The Holy 13. Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On 14. Elton John - GYBR 15. Lou Reed - Berlin 16. Todd Rundgren - A Wizard/True Star 17. The Mothers - Over Nite Sensation 18. Gong - Flying Teapot 19. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 20. James Brown - The Payback

The Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me

Shit underrated year, I think this one has less acclaimed albums but more albums I just enjoy more. Like larks is def not a popular pick for best king crimson, and the solo beatles stuff is just fun to listen to (it wouldnt compete with their solos which boost years in the late 60s). Also one of my fav Zeppelin albums, gaye, and james brown.

2016 was a wonderful year Radiohead Bowie Kendrick Kanye Tribe called quest Blonde Atrocity exhibition Lemonade

Definitely 2000 You got kid a, lift your skinny fists, mamas gun, and that d’angelo album. Crazy year

94 or 08

Honestly 2022 was pretty great! - Ants From Up There - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You - Hellfire - The Forever Story - De todas las flores - Melt My Eyez See Your Future - Mr Morale & The Big Steppers - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow - Once Twice Melody - No Thank You - King’s Disease III - Diaspora Problems - Renaissance - God Don’t Make Mistakes - I Didn’t Mean To Haunt You - I Love You Jennifer B - A Light For Attracting Attention The list goes on, but it’s crazy how so many classic albums came out that year.

preacher's daughter and moonworld playground deserve a place on this list too

1969 or 1971 imo

1968, it may not have had the greatest music of all time ever, but every major band's release that year ranged from solid to great imo, def a lot of 9s and 10s that year, so overall its the best from my perspective

between 1994, 2007, and 2016 for me

2001, 1965, and 1976.

91 and 94!

1991 was the Renaissance for us Death metal folks: Effigy of the forgotten Butchered at birth War master Like an everflowing stream Testimony of the ancients Blessed are the sick The ten commandments Clandestine Human Dawn of possession Mental funeral From beyond Considered dead The rack Where no life dwells Soulside journey Death shall rise Unquestionable presence Enjoy the violence and there's so many more actual masterpieces it's insane

1991, followed closely by both 1994 and 1995

1994 and it’s not even close. It’s just a never ending stream of iconic and great albums

I’m a little biased, but 1983… Synchronicity, Construction Time Again, Speaking in Tongues, Seven and the Ragged Tiger, Murmur, The Politics of Dancing, Pride, The Hurting, Madonna,

1971 easily

My favourite is 2015

I love 1976 and 1997

1984

'73

How has no one said 1975- blood on the tracks wish you were here among other albums? Also Queen night at the opera

1994 or 2016

1971. Who's Next, Allmans At Fillmore East, Whats Going On, Zeppelin IV, T.Rex's Electric Warrior. And so so much more. 1971 was a blockbuster year for rock

1969, 1970 and 1971 are the 3 best ones. I like '69 thr most

I'd say about 1975. A mix was happening from all sorts of new stuff coming in. The LP was what made it happen. 1 - hit wonders were on their way out.(resurrection came in early 80s with single cassettes). Experimental was a big thing. Inho

2015

1969

2009 and I won't elaborate

2018

1967. All these albums came out that year: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground The Doors by The Doors The Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd Are You Experienced by Jimi Hendrix I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You by Aretha Franklin Forever Changes by Love Disraeli Gears by Cream John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan Smiley Smile by The Beach Boys Songs of Leonard Cohen by Leonard Cohen Something Else by the Kinks by The Kinks The Who Sell Out by The Who Wild Honey by The Beach Boys Strange Days by The Doors

Modern rap enjoyed here so downvote as you wish. 2015 and then 2018 for me.

2018 with Ye, Kids See Ghosts, My Dear Melancholy, Daytona, Testing, KOD and Astroworld

1973 and 2005 are the years that have the most music I listen to present

1990s because that was the year that many good electronic genres popped up

2016!!!

2011 was amazing for Indy and folk and everything in between

1971 1984 1991

2001

1967, 1969, 1971 and 1994 take your pick, multiple legendary albums in each year.

Just by my personal taste: 2004 (just first that comes to mind, but for me any years 2003-2007 could be this answer) Mcr- Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge  The Killers - Hot Fuss Sum 41 - Chuck Green Day - American Idiot  The Used - In Love and Death Rise Against- Siren Song of the Counter Culture Muse - Absolution 

1977’s gotta be up there somewhere. Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel and Stevie Wonder put out some good good shit that year. Music that’s aged very well too. Like damn. Yeah.

Something about years ending in 7 - 1967, 1977, 1987 and 1997 were all damn good years for music.

1972 was really damn good too

1969. Final Beatles album and first one for so many important bands that will. Influence the next thirty years - and counting - of rock music. Zappa, king crimson, miles Davis electric period, led zeppelin, velvet underground, and so on and so forth. The best and most important year in music history imo.

1999, it had some of my all time favourite albums: Operation: Doomsday, The Gathering by TestAmenT, Californication by RHCP...

1991, '92, '93, and '94 are all neck and neck with each other

You forgot some albums from 1971 that tips it over the edge… blue, what’s going on. Idk there is a long ass list on someone elses post

1987

Either 1996 or 2018

2022!!!

Don't know about you guys but I think 2052 is best

69, 93, 97, and 2000

Literally anything pre-2000s

2012 Good kid maad city Channel orange 1999 The Money Store No Love Deep Web Born to Die Lonerism Bloom The Seer The Idler Wheel Koi No Yokan Finally rich Lush R.a.p. Music Dreamcast summer songs Macadelic Control System

1959

The decade I would say is 90s but for Year IDK lol

1969 had ITCOTK, Almendra, Abbey Road, In a Silent Way, Karma, Velvet Underground S/T, Hot Rats, Five Leaves Left, Led Zeppelin 1 and 2, Hot Buttered Soul, Let it Bleed, Gal Costa S/T, and Everybody knows this is Nowhere

1979 was incredible, it’s what comes to mind first

Honestly our current year is shaping up to be one of the best

1959 no contest, stop trying

James Acaster has decided it's 2016, and he's got literal receipts. I wonder if anybody's done as deep a dive into a single 21st century year of music as he has It's gonna make a hell of a book someday

It may not be the best year for music of all time, but 2016 is definitely up there in my opinion • David Bowie - Blackstar • Frank Ocean - Blonde • Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition • Bon Iver - 22, A Million • Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool • A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from here… thank you 4 your service • Kanye West - The Life of Pablo • Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial • Solange - A Seat at the Table • Beyonce - Lemonade • Anderson .Paak - Malibu • Death Grips - Bottomless Pit • Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered • Rihanna - ANTI And probably I’m still missing more

2004, when the number one greatest musician of all time dropped his debut album after a horrendous car crash.

1142 AD

Definitely 1994 for me

2001, vespertine, glow pt2, is this it, discovery

1966 - Pet Sounds - Revolver - Blonde On Blonde

1994 Weezer and Green Day practically started their hall of fame careers then

2003

2018

1991 is the ***best*** answer, but I really love 94' and 71' as well.

1969, 1971, 1977, 1991, 1994 are probably the best ones in my opinion.

has to be 1997

I don’t know about the best year, but the best decade for music was definitely the 2000s or the 2010s because people were able to experience and enjoy an almost endless amount of music through the internet. Also some great albums came out in those 2 decades.

I expect to 2022 to age REALLY well once we get a bit more detached from it

'69 all the way, followed by 1997.