Best albums, 1966 – 2017: A Pop Life, 1 year anniversary

Introduction

Because my blog is operational for 1 year today, I didn’t want it to go by unnoticed.

See also the other article, that’s released today: A Pop Life: one year old; the best and most read stories!.

Blog

A Pop Life 1 jaar

Last year my blog was officially started with a beautiful story by mu 7 year old son Timur (since this blog is originally a Dutch blog, I am incapable of translating his story properly, leaving the child-like sentences and phrases intact; in short: no translation available). Since then I have written many stories. A lot of them are (still) to my satisfaction, some less so. The number of readers is on the rise, the number of comments (sadly) goes down.

There is a remarkable difference between the (original) Dutch and the (translated) English site. On the Dutch site the ‘top … best’ stories attract the most readers. On the English site the Prince stories attract the most readers (currently the Sign O’ The Times story has been read over 12,500 times).

I still enjoy the writing and seeing/reading the replies (which are largely supplied through Facebook and Google+). I hope this will remain for the time(s) to come.

I would like to take this opportunity to state to all readers, repliers, newsletter-members, Facebook followers, Google+ followers and Twitter followers: thank you all. I really do appreciate it immensely!

List

But, enough of that: in honor of the 1-year anniversary of A Pop Life: My life with music, today my best albums per year, beginning with the year of my birth. Have fun ;-).

List

1966 Frank Sinatra Sinatra At The Sands 1967 The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground & Nico 1968 Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland 1969 The Beatles Abbey Road 1970 Neil Young After The Goldrush 1971 Marvin Gaye What’s Going On 1972 Miles Davis On The Corner 1973 Sly & The Family Stone Fresh 1974 Genesis The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 1975 Bob Marley & The Wailers Live!

What’s Going On (1971)

1976 Parliament Mothership Connection 1977 David Bowie Low 1978 Van Halen Van Halen 1979 The Specials The Specials 1980 The Clash Sandinista! 1981 Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables 1982 Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing 1983 Japan Oil On Canvas 1984 Prince & The Revolution Purple Rain 1985 Prince & The Revolution Around The World In A Day

Low (1977)

1986 Prince & The Revolution Parade 1987 Prince Sign O’ The Times 1988 Prince Lovesexy 1989 Maria McKee Maria McKee 1990 Ice Cube AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted 1991 Public Enemy Apocalypse 91…The Enemy Strikes Black 1992 Sugar Copper Blue 1993 Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream 1994 The Prodigy Music For The Jilted Generation 1995 The Gold Experience

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black (1991)

1996 Maxwell Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite 1997 Pavement Brighten The Corners 1998 Lauryn Hill The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill 1999 Underworld Beaucoup Fish 2000 D’Angelo Voodoo 2001 Buddy Guy Sweet Tea 2002 Queens Of The Stone Age Songs For The Deaf 2003 Anthony Hamilton Comin’ From Where I’m From 2004 Arcade Fire Funeral 2005 Sufjan Stevens Illinoise

Brighten The Corners (1997)

2006 Amy Winehouse Back To Black 2007 LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver 2008 Plant Life Time Traveller 2009 Dâm-Funk Toeachizown 2010 Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 2011 The Waterboys An Appointment With Mr. Yeats 2012 Frank Ocean channel ORANGE 2013 Blood Orange Cupid Deluxe 2014 D’Angelo Black Messiah 2015 Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell

Black Messiah (2014)

2016 Anderson .Paak Malibu 2017 Thundercat Drunk

Drunk (2017)