Best Records by Year of Release, 1991-2006

Just for fun I wanted to post a list of my favorite CD each year, starting with 1991. 

1991

Pearl Jam: Ten

1992

Beastie Boys: Check Your Head

1993

The Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream

1994

Weezer: Weezer

Also of note: Pavement-Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

1995

Radiohead: The Bends

1996

Beck: Odelay

Also of note: Tool-Aenima

1997

Radiohead: OK Computer

Also of note: Built to Spill-Perfect From Now On (Easily the best record in any given year if it weren’t for the fact that OK Computer is one of the greatest records of all time)

1998

Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Also of note: Sunny Day Real Estate-How It Feels To Be Something On

1999

The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin

Also of note:

Dismemberment Plan-Emergency & I

 Built to Spill-Keep It Like A Secret

(both CD’s are amazing, but they also fall victim to another of the greatest CD’s ever released)

2000

Radiohead: Kid A

Also of note:

Sigur Ros-Agaetis Byrjun

Modest Mouse-The Moon and Antartica

(basically, if you release a CD the same year as Radiohead you are in trouble)

2001

Dismemberment Plan: Change

2002 (Tie)

Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Interpol: Turn On the Bright Lights

2003

Radiohead: Hail To the Thief

2004

Arcade Fire: Funeral

Also of note: Secret Machines-Now Here Is Nowhere

2005

Sigur Ros: Takk…

Also of Note: Boy Least Likely To-Best Party Ever

2006

Peter Bjorn and John: Writer’s Block