What do you think is relatively the worst year in rock music ever (from the sixties till present)?

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could it be 1985?
http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/1985

i mean,there were some good records there, but relatively, other years are much more fruitful..
if not,pick YOUR worst year..

― Zeno, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link

1989. A nadir for pretty much every genre except rap.

― Joseph McCombs, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:30 (seventeen years ago) link

was Spirit Of Eden '88 or '89?

― unfished business, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link

you know what? you might be right.
ive checked the 1989 list on rateyourmusic and it is aven worse than 1986.

― Zeno, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link

For me, last year, or sometime in the early 90s.

― peepee, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link

1989 was a great year for music. if you love rap and metal. and even other stuff too. great for pop! and r&b!

i swear there are some years in the 90's that i don't remember at all. but that wasn't really the music's fault. but i vote for, um, 1995, just for the hell of it.

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link

and dance music in 1989! oh lots of stuff. it has to be some mid 90's thing.

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link

"if you love rap and metal"
might be.but for rock it was bad.

― Zeno, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link

what kind of rock?

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I say '85 wins

― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 March 2007 03:05 (seventeen years ago) link

guitars/bass/drums/songs with chorus and verse.

― Zeno, Friday, 2 March 2007 03:06 (seventeen years ago) link

pixies and the cure had good 1989 albums. so did madonna and janet jackson. and the beastie boys. and neil young. and new order. heck, i even liked that stone roses album.

― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2007 03:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Which, as we all know, is the only music that matters.

― The Reverend, Friday, 2 March 2007 03:09 (seventeen years ago) link

an xpost, that was

Soul II Soul, to add to Scott's list.

― The Reverend, Friday, 2 March 2007 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link

"Which, as we all know, is the only music that matters"
yeah,but my question was about rock music,not all music.

"pixies and the cure had good 1989 albums. so did madonna and janet jackson. and the beastie boys. and neil young. and new order. heck, i even liked that stone roses album."

i didnt say there were no good albums at all, just relatively,compared to pther years.

― Zeno, Friday, 2 March 2007 03:12 (seventeen years ago) link

"yeah,but my question was about rock music,not all music."

Godd point, that. I need readin' skillz, obv.

― The Reverend, Friday, 2 March 2007 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link

good point, rather

― The Reverend, Friday, 2 March 2007 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually '81 might be my least favorite - in fact if you offered me $20 to never listen to anything in the RYM top 200 again I'd probably take it - excepting maybe This Heat - Deceit.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 March 2007 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok maybe also Men at Work and AC/DC

― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 March 2007 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link

1981 saw the release of the first 2 Minor Thread 7"s and Black Flag's Damaged. There is no WAY it could possibly go down as a bad year for rock.

― libcrypt, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Er, Minor THREAT.

― libcrypt, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, DOA's Hardcore 81. Good god, but this was a fucking AMAZING year, 1981.

― libcrypt, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

All in all, the 80s were the best decade for rock ever. Pretty much any year from the 80s is better than any 90s year.

― libcrypt, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd put any 70s year against any 80s year though.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link

'61 wasn't much of a year for rock music.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:26 (seventeen years ago) link

it should be from 1963 and so on,thats where rock was realy starting to kick ad become so popular probably (somewhere near the 1st beatles album)

― Zeno, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Obv.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:35 (seventeen years ago) link

80s > 60s > 50s > 70s > 90s

― libcrypt, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:35 (seventeen years ago) link

66 is the first year on RYM that a rock album has the #1 spot.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:36 (seventeen years ago) link

A proper appreciation of Chuck Berry is fundamental to any criticism of rock music.

― libcrypt, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:37 (seventeen years ago) link

ILM will never cure me of my conviction that the 70s were the best decade

― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, there are years in the 80s that could beat 76-78.

Really the whole conceit of excluding non-rock music is irritating me though - a lot of the best albums of the mid to late 80s were hip-hop. It was hip-hop's time.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:46 (seventeen years ago) link

The pink elephant in the closet, of course, is the 00s: There's a lot of great music from the 00s, but none of it is rock music. At least there were a few profoundly amazing Unsane and Royal Trux albums in the 90s. 00 killed the rock.

(I'd probably weasel outta any objections to this thesis by claiming that anything thought to be good 00s rock is really good pop. Which I'm allowed to say now, you filthy poptimists, 'cause the Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, and Franz Ferdinand have been officially declared POP. Not that I'm saying these folks are exemplars of the form, but it's the principle of the matter. Anyways.)

― libcrypt, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:55 (seventeen years ago) link

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