What are your favorite albums from these years? #2

[K.C.]

Name your favorite album from each of the following years. It's for CHARITY.

1975
1981
1988
1997
2011
2013

 

[K.C.]

I will be screenshotting all of @straightorbroken 's posts for increased transparency.

 

[funky]

Not official cos I just used Google to show me some lists of big albums from that year, there might be others.

1975
Earth Wind & Fire - That's The Way Of The World
1981
Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
1988
Tracy Chapman - Tracey Chapman
1997
Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
2011
Ben Howard - Every Kingdom
2013
Haim - Days Are Gone

 

[Shoat]

Is there some kind of enigma code behind these years? Is this illumnati?

1975: Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run (mostly for lack of knowing many others)
1981: The Human League - Dare (Lord I think I know about three albums from this year)
1988: Erasure - The Innocents
1997: The Corrs - Talk On Corners (and NO I'm not even slightly embarrassed)
2011: M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
2013: Haim - Days Are Gone (yes I know, have an original idea)

 

[K.C.]

Dying to know what the Illuminati would want from Moopy.

 

[Joseph]

1975 Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
1981 The Go-Go’s - Beauty And The Beat
1988 Metallica - …And Justice For All
1997 Mariah - Butterfly
2011 Britney - Femme Fatale
2013 Lady Gaga - Artpop

 

[octophone]

1975 - Brian Eno - Another Green World
1981 - Jandek - Six And Six
1988 - Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden (easy one, what with that being the best album ever)
1997 - Radiohead - OK Computer (very hard one, 1997 was quite the year)
2011 - Jenny Hval - Viscera
2013 - Autechre - Exai

 

[funky]

2013: Haim - Days Are Gone (yes I know, have an original idea)

Why be original when you can just be correct

 

[K.C.]

1975 Fleetwood Mac - "Fleetwood Mac"
1981 Chaka Khan - "What Cha' Gonna Do for Me"
1988 Keith Sweat - "Make It Last Forever"
1997 Mariah Carey - "Butterfly"
2011 Adele - "21"
2013 Daft Punk - "Random Access Memories"

 

[funky]

1975 Fleetwood Mac - "Fleetwood Mac"
1981 Chaka Khan - "What Cha' Gonna Do for Me"
1988 Keith Sweat - "Make It Last Forever"
1997 Mariah Carey - "Butterfly"
2011 Adele - "21"
2013 Daft Punk - "Random Access Memories"

3 of those were my runner ups!

 

[rhythmbandit]

1975 ABBA - ABBA
1981 Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven up Here
1988 DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince - He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper
1997 Radiohead - OK Computer
2011 Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
2013 Goldfrapp - Tales of Us

 

[lolly]

1975 Horizon - Carpenters
1981 The Visitors - Abba
1988 The Innocents - Erasure
1997 Portishead - Portishead
2011 Born This Way - Lady Gaga
2013 the minutes - Alison Moyet

 

[straightorbroken]

1975: Stars - CHER
1981: The Visitors - ABBA
1988: Peepshow - Siouxsie & the Banshees
1997: Spiceworld - Spice Girls
2011: Revelation Road - Shelby Lynne
2013: Closer to the Truth - CHER