Make a list of the most important albums, 1964-2013. One album each year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws1HYz7ojr0

Such a jam

this album doesnt sound like la dusseldorf exactly but apart from the obvious new wave references it has some of the slightly hyper, propulsively optimistic ambience of 'viva'

Yeah, spot on. I remember listening to La Dusseldorf for the first time and thinking they'd definitely been an influence on Kliché. The whole stick was surpremely Kraftwerkian, with matching uniforms and songs about modern inventions like supertankers. But much more tongue in cheek in a very slippery danish way. The lyrics are amazing and hilarious, and the delivery is much more impassioned.

it's a pain to do this sort of list because there are years when 10 incredibly good albums come out and there are years where I can't find myself truly enjoying more than 3 albums.

I'll give it a shot. It's incomplete but I'll work 2014 backwards... they are my favorite albums of each year but if I made a top 10 for the decade they wouldn't figure there.

1964: The Ronettes - s/t
1965: The Sonics - Here are the Sonics
1966: Beach boys - Pet Sounds
1967: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Safe as Milk
1968: The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
1969: Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
1970: Velvet Underground - Loaded
1971: T. Rex - Electric Warrior
1972: Can - Ege Bamyasi
1973: The Stooges - Raw Power
1974: Elis Regina & Antônio Carlos Jobim - Elis & Tom
1975: Eno - Another Green World
1976: Debris' - Static Disposal
1977: The Congos - Heart of the Congos
1978: Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
1979: Gang of Four - Entertainment!
1980: Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
1981: Kraftwerk - Computerwelt
1982: The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
1983: Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
1984: Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa
1985: Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
1986: Arthur Russell - World of Echo
1987: David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
1988: Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown
1989: The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
1990: A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
1991: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
1992: Stereolab - Peng!
1993: Jin Hi Kim - KomunGuitar
1994: Disco Inferno - D. I. Go Pop
1995: Tricky - Maxinquaye
1996: Ground-Zero - Revolutionary Pekinese Opera Ver.1.28
1997: Iva Bittová & Vladimír Václavek - Bílé Inferno
1998: Massive Attack - Mezzanine
1999: Gas - Königsforst
2000: Radiohead - Kid A
2001: Fridge - Happiness
2002: Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
2003: Four Tet - Rounds
2004: Madvillain - Madvillainy
2005: The Books - Lost and Safe
2006: Ellen Allien and Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles
2007: Panda Bear - Person Pitch
2008: Shed - Shedding the Past
2009: Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
2010: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
2011: EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints
2012: Chromatics - Kill for Love

There's only three years on which the three of us agree on so far:

1966 Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
1985 Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
2000 Radiohead – Kid A