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In this thread, list some decades, and type your favorite albums for each decade.

60's

1. Jimi - Electric Ladyland

2. Jimi - Axis: Bold As Love

3. Beatles - Revolver

4. Jimi - Are You Experienced?

5. Zappa - Hot Rats

6. King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King

7. Beatles - Rubber Soul

8. Pink Floyd - Saucerful of Secrets

9. Led Zeppelin - I

10. Sly - Stand!

70's

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

2. Queen - Queen II

3. Pink Floyd - Meddle

4. Black Sabbath - Vol. 4

5. Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds

6. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

7. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

8. Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove

9. Yes - Close To The Edge

10. The Chieftains - Live!

80's

1. Talking Heads - Remain In Light

2. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

3. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

4. Rush - Moving Pictures

5. AC/DC - Back in Black

6. Van Halen - 1984

7. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

8. Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God We Trust Inc.

9. Pixies - Surfer Rosa

10. Joy Division - Closer

90's

1. Nirvana - Nevermind

2. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible

3. Soundgarden - Badmoterfinger

4. Fu Manchu - The Action is Go

5. Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese

6. Nirvana - In Utero

7. Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire

8. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea

9. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God

10. Smashing Pumpkings - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

00's

1. The White Stripes - Elephant

2. Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies

3. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

4. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

5. Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

6. Flogging Molly - Swagger

7. The Darkness - Permission To Land

8. Flogging Molly - Within a Mile of Home

9. The White Stripes - De Stijl

10. Foo Fighters - One By One

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Good topic, Batman.

60's

All Beatles; mostly The White Album, Abbey Road and Revolver

Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Led Zeppelin I

Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society

Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme, Bookends

70's

Jethro Tull - Minstrel In The Gallery

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

CSN&Y - Deja Vu

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

Tom Waits - Closing Time, Small Change

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here

Queen - Queen II, A Night At The Opera

Stevie Wonder - Fulfullingness' First Finale, Songs In The Key Of Life

Rush – Hemispheres

Elton John – Goodbye YBR, Madman Across The Water

Neil Young – Decade

Steely Dan – Can’t Buy A Thrill, Countdown To Ecstasy

Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street

80's

Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair

Rush – Permanent Waves

Beastie Boys – Licensed To Ill

Living Colour – Vivid

Metallica – Master Of Puppets

The Police – Synchronicity

Run-DMC – Run-DMC and Raising Hell

90’s

Aimee Mann – Bachelor No. 2, Magnolia Soundtrack

Radiohead – The Bends, OK Computer

Jeff Buckley – Grace

Rufus Wainwright – self-title debut

Soundgarden – Superunknown, Badmotorfinger

Nirvana –Nevermind

Smashing Pumpkins – Gish, Siamese Dream

King’s X – Faith, Hope, Love and King’s X

Alice In Chains – Dirt

Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes, Under The Pink

Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual

Rage Against The Machine – RATM

Weezer – The Blue Album

Jellyfish – Spilt Milk

2000’s

Tom Waits – Alice, Blood Money

Death Cab For Cutie – We Have The Facts And We’re Voting Yes

Damien Rice – O

Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head

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The 60's

Everything from The Beatles

The Velvet Underground ~ Velvet Underground and Nico

Lou Reed ~ Rock and Roll Animal

The Doors ~ The Doors

Jimi Hendrix ~ Are YOu Experienced

The Band ~ The Band

Blind Faith ~ Blind Faith

Robert Johnson ~ King of the Delta Blues Singers

Cream ~ Disraeli Gears

Jefferson Airplane ~ Surrealistic Pillow

Traffic ~ Mr Fantasy

Janis/Big Brother ~ Cheap Thrills

Sly and the Family Stone ~ Stand

The 70's

Janis Joplin ~ Pearl

Elton John ~ Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John ~ Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player

Elton John ~ Madman Across The Water

Carole King ~ Tapesty

James Taylor ~ Sweet Baby James

Aretha Franklin ~ Young, Gifted, and Black

Funkadelic ~ Maggot Brain

Al Green ~ Let's Stay Together

Pink Floyd ~ Dark Side of the Moon

Bruce Springsteen ~ Born To Run

Heart ~ Dreamboat Annie

Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumors

Steely Dan ~ Aja

Earth, Wind, and Fire ~ Gratitude

The Stylistics ~ Greatest Hits

Mott The Hoople ~ All the Young Dudes

The 80's

Eric Clapton ~ Journeyman

John Mellencamp ~ Scarecrow

Melissa Etheridge ~ Brave and Crazy

The 00's

Bruce Springsteen ~ The Rising

John Mellencamp ~ Cuttin' Heads

Bruce Springsteen ~ Devils and Dust

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Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street, Beggars banquet, let it bleed, Goat´s head soup (Stones), Making Movies (Dire Straits), Parallel Lines (Blondie) In the court of the Crimson King (KC), Surrealistic Pillow (JA) Dragon Fly (J Airplane), Cheap Thrills (JJ & BB & the Holding Co) A Saucerfull of secrets, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, DSOTM (Pink Floyd) Candy O, Heartbeat City (Cars), Stop Making Sense (T Heads) Road to Ruin (Ramones) Fragile (Yes) I´m your man, songs of (Leonard Cohen) Harvest (Neil Young) Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde (Dylan) Horses (Patti Smith) Transformer, Coney island baby (Lou Reed) Mirror Moves (Psychedelic Furs) Night Moves (Bob Seger) Alive on arrival (Steve Forbert) Trafalgar (Bee Gees), Greatest Hits (ABBA) Greatest Hits (Neil Diamond)...

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The 60's

All of The Beatles, especially Beatles For Sale, Sgt. Pepper's and The White Album

The Rolling Stones - Aftermath, Between The Buttons, Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed

The Kinks - Kinkdom, Something Else

The Who - My Generation, Tommy

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River, Bayou Country

The Doors - The Doors, Strange Days

Led Zeppelin - I, II

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold As Love

The 70's

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust, Hunky Dory, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies, Love It To Death

The Ramones - Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket To Russia, Road To Ruin

Kiss - KISS, Rock & Roll Over, Love Gun, Dressed To Kill, Destroyer

T.Rex - Electric Warrior, The Slider

Led Zeppelin - III, IV, Physical Graffiti

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main St.

The Eagles - Desperado, One Of These Nights

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours, Tusk

The Doors - L.A. Woman

The Who - Quadrophenia, Who's Next

Queen - Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night At The Opera

ELO - A New World Record, Face The Music

Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality, Paranoid

Deep Purple - Machine Head

The Cars - The Cars

Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman

Neil Young - Harvest

Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive

Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?

Heart - Dreamboat Annie

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here

...I could go on!

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Great thread m8 :)

(in no particular order)

60's:

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

Frank Zappa - Freak Out

The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Doors - The Doors

Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica

Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat

Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

Red Crayola - Parable Of Arable Land

70's:

Faust - Faust

Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom

Pere Ubu - Modern Dance

Soft Machine - 3

Syd Barrett - Barrett

John Fahey - Fare Forward Voyagers

Television - Marquee Moon

Yes - Close To The Edge

Rush - 2112

Frank Zappa - Burnt Weeny Sandwich

Frank Zappa - Weasels Ripped My Flesh (yup, i love zappa in case you hadn't noticed :P)

80's:

The Butthole Surfers - Psychic Powerless

The Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse

Bruce Springsteen - The River

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

The Pixies - Surfer Rosa

Dead Can Dance - Spleen And Ideal

Flipper - Generic

Faith No More - Introduce Yourself

Metallica - Master Of Puppets

Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising

90's:

Fugazi - Repeater

Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Dream Theater - Images And Words

Jesus Lizard - Goat

Nirvana - Nevermind

Pearl Jam - Ten

Marc Ribot - Rootless Cosmopolitan

Morphine - Good

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

Bardo Pond - Bufo Alvarius

Nick Cave - The Good Son

00's:

The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium

System of a Down - Mesmerize

Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs

The Darkness - Permission To Land

Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)

Dream Theater - Octavarium

Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

Apologies go to many great artists whose albums weren't mentioned...

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60s

Beggars Banquet - Stones

Highway 61 Revisited - Dylan

I Never Loved A Man the Way I Love You - Aretha

Wheels of Fire - Cream

Blood, Sweat & Tears ('69)

Led Zep I

Electric Ladyland

The Band ('69)

Then Play On - Fleetwood Mac

Whipped Cream & Other Delights - Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass

70s

Searchin' for a Rainbow - Marshall Tucker

Allman Bros - Fillmore East

Live at Leeds - the Who

On the Border - Eagles

Sticky Fingers - Stones

American Beauty - Grateful Dead

Moondance - Van Morrison

Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder

We Came to Play - Persuasions

The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff

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60s

I'm sorry, I don't do the 60s

70s

Gang Of Four - Entertainment!

Blondie - Parallel Lines

Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks

The Undertones - The Undertones

Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box

Adam And The Ants - Dirk Wears White Sox

X-Ray Spex - Germ-Free Adolescents

The Specials - The Specials

Madness - One Step Beyond

XTC - Drums and Wires

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Ramones - Rocket To Russia

Penetration - Coming Up For Air

Rezillos - Can't Stand The...

Wire - Pink Flag

Ruts - The Crack

Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen

B 52s - Wild Planet

80s

The Jam - Setting Sons

Killing Joke - Killing Joke

Killing Joke - What's This For?

Adam And The Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier

The Clash - London Calling

The Church - The Blurred Crusade

The Mob - Let The Tribe Increase

The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro

The Human League - Dare

The Human League - Travelogue

Propoganda - A Secret Wish

Husker Du - Zen Arcade

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

Butthole Surfers - Hairway To Steven

The Cocteau Twins - Victorialand

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

Big Black - Atomiser

That Petrol Emotion - Manic Pop Thrill

The Mice - Scooter

The Psychedelic Furs - Talk!Talk!Talk!

The Shamen - In Gorbachev We Trust

90s

Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide

PJ Harvey - Dry

PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love

Pulp - Different Class

Beck - O Delay

Portishead - Dummy

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication

Elastica - Elastica

The Church - Priest=Aura

Slint - Spiderland

The Auteurs - New Wave

The Auteurs - Now I'm A Cowboy

The Auteurs - After Murder Park

Suede - Coming Up

Rudimentary Peni - Cacophany

Alice Donut - Mule

Chumbawamba - Slap!

Therapy? - Troublegum

Fun Lovin' Criminals - Come Find Yourself

Guided By Voices - Do The Collapse

Nerve Rack - Gnaw

Nerve Rack - Experiments With Facial Hair

00s

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Lyre of Orpheus / Abattoir Blues

Eels - Daisies Of The Galaxy

Eels - Souljacker!

MeltBanana - Cellscape

Gold Blade - Rebel Songs

Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

Kings Of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood

Gibby Haynes And His Problem - GHAHP

The Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart

The Kills - No Wow

Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R

QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf

McLusky - Do Dallas

Clinic - Walking With Thee

The Detroit Cobras - Baby

PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her

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