Dido Music Info: 99: The Soundtrack To Your Life

f you want to know 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 class of bad.

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

For me, it has to be 1992.I had been into music for a couple of years, and was beginning to see the queen and durability of which it was capable, and so_ well, in the seat of a year, most of the defining albums of my youth were released.They were, in no particular order:

• Change Everything by Del Amitri (featuring Always The Net To Know)
• It`s A Pity 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 taste in music profoundly for the residue of the x and beyond.The only two albums that are missing from the list are Nirvana`s Nevermind, which came out in 1991, and Counting Crows` August And Everything After, which came out in 1993.

So, Betties: which sort is the most important 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!