99: The Soundtrack To Your Life

99: The Soundtrack To Your Life

Postedby Alastair on Feb 28, 2011 in A Year and Change, Blog | 36 comments

It`s another Monday morning, dear Betties, and this one finds us facing the black reality of two-digit post numbers amidst terrible thunderstorms here in Southern Ohio.Lucy will return tomorrow, but I pointed out to her that since I now legally own 50% of the blog, it`s alright to let me picking up the slack from sentence to time.

f you wish to acknowledge why she`s so exhausted, check out Popcorn Dialogues later today: last night we watched The Big Hit, and it was an inventive, imaginative, aspirational new form of bad.

But forward to today`s topic.The AV Club - which is awesome, despite being wrong about Mr. Sunshine - recently began a new sport in which its music writers look backward at the single year which was the most influential, important or memorable to them.It is called, rather imaginatively, My Favorite Music Year.

For me, it has to be 1992.I had been into music for a pair of years, and was first to see the king and strength of which it was capable, and so_ well, in the place of a year, most of the defining albums of my youth were released.They were, in no specific order:

• Change Everything by Del Amitri (featuring Always The Net To Know)
• It`s A Shame About Ray by The Lemonheads (featuring Mrs. Robinson)
• Grave Dancer`s Union by Soul Asylum (featuring Runaway Train)
• Automatic For The People by REM (featuring Nightswimming)
• Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos (featuring Silent All These Years)
• Gordon by Barenaked Ladies (featuring What A Good Boy)

Quite a year, and one which influenced my preference in music profoundly for the balance of the x and beyond.The only two albums that are absent from the name are Nirvana`s Nevermind, which came out in 1991, and Counting Crows` August And Everything After, which came out in 1993.

So, Betties: which class is the most significant in your own musical history?Which albums changed your life? Which year, if all others were to be deleted from your CD shelf or iTunes account, would you save?

Have a big day, everyone, and FGBVs to all!