Best Year For Music?

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What year was the best year for music? Why?
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I liked both 2003 and 2006 for pretty similar reasons. Very poppy, melodic, throwback albums and singles. Most catchy singalong, hooky,records came out these years as well. I remember not LOVING or even liking many of the critics pics for those years especially 03 so it was like you had to go out and find what you thought was the best and now even critics had changes of heart. I think the Darkness at one time made the top 5 albums for that year. 03 still looks really weak if you only go by the critics recommendations. I’d take Her Space Holiday any day over the Postal Service and like I said in the other post Fountains of Wayne over the Shins. Muse made a much better record after this soso effort and had a better one before this one. Again the Darkness were as cheesy as it got so if you just base your opinion off what’s listed it’s looks pretty dismal. Even Elephant was hit or miss imo. We wanted more from the Strokes and they didn’t come through and Rolling Stones 5 star review for Elephant was liked as rushed as it got. They wanted to be the first to capitalize and roll that rave review out so it was all really beneficial to them as opposed to the Stripes themselves since they were already being brushed off for their half hearted, half assed 3.5 star reviews. Great years if you’re into indie, twee, post britpop and girl group wall of sound throwback material which not everyone appreciates but for me it was perfected in both years.
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For me it was 1996. That was because of the 'Triple J Hottest 100 vol. 4' had come out in 1997 with the hits from 1996. I was in my mid to late teens and had all summer to listen to that album in cars while hanging out with my friends. Not all the tracks stood the test of time (I still like Pepper by the Butthole Surfers though) but that coupled with another series called 'The Trip' was my jump off point for getting into music in a big way.

I remember buying Prodigy's 'Fat Of The Land', Beck's 'Odelay', Chemical Brothers' 'Dig Your Own Hole', Garbages' self titled album, Smashing Pumpkins' 'Melon Collie', Foo Fighters' 'Colour And The Shape', and Tool's 'Aenima' and blasting that in any stereo I could find...Good memories and Good times!
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My favorite year is 1994, I was in my midteens, starting to read music magazines and listen to more out there music.
But even in retrospection its still my favorite year in german indie rock (Blumfeld, Die Sterne, Mutter, Flowerpornoes). It had the great debuts of Low, Portishead, dEUS and Outkast, great 90ies Hip Hop by Nas, Beastie Boys and a few Wu tang members, great records by Blur, Hole, Pavement, therapy?, The Cardigans, Tiamat (my only foray into metal that did stick) and a whole bunch of great experimental rock records from the like of Stereolab, Disco Inferno, Bark Psychosis ...
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