Favourite albums for each year of your life

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So I thought this might make for an interesting thread. What is your favourite album for each year you’ve been alive?? I’m 27 for example so I would start with 1985. No cheating either, just your top album for each year!

Mine:

1985- Slayer “Hell Awaits”
1986 – Vulcano “Bloody Vengeance”
1987 –Bathory “Under the Sign of the Black Mark”
1988 – Iron Maiden “Seventh Son of a Seventh Son”
1989 – Morbid Angel “Altars of Madness”
1990 – Nocturnus “The Key”
1991 – Sadistik Exekution “The Magus”
1992 – Burzum “self-titled”
1993 – Beherit “Drawing Down the Moon”
1994 – Burzum “Hvis Lyset Tar Oss”
1995 – Graveland “Thousand Swords”
1996 – Burzum “Filosofem”
1997 – Nokturnal Mortum “Goat Horns”
1998 – Frozen Shadows “Dans les Bras des Immortels”
1999 – Mutiilation “Remains of a Ruined, Dead, Cursed Soul”
2000 – Moonblood “Taste Our German Steel”
2001 – Grand Belial’s Key “Judeobeast Assasination”
2002 – Agalloch “The Mantle”
2003 – Type O Negative “Life Is Killing Me”
2004 – Drudkh “Autumn Aurora”
2005 – Grand Belial’s Key “Kosherat”
2006 – Peste Noire “La Sanie des Siecles…”
2007 – Nocturnal Graves “Satan’s Cross”
2008 – Darkspace “III”
2009 – Beherit “Engarm”
2010 – Nokturnal Mortum “The Voice of Steel”
2011 – Peste Noire “L'Ordure à l'état Pur”
2012 – Kreator “Phantom Antichrist”

I'm 28, so i'll start with 1984.

1984 - Mercyful Fate "Don't Break the Oath"
1985 - Exodus "Bonded by Blood"
1986 - Slayer "Reign in Blood"
1987 - King Diamond "Abigail"
1988 - Queensryche "Operation Mindcrime"
1989 - Morbid Angel "Altars of Madness"
1990 - Deicide "Deicide"
1991 - Death "Human"
1992 - Pantera "Vulgar Display of Power"
1993 - Paradise Lost "Icon"
1994 - Emperor "In the Nightside Eclipse"
1995 - Fear Factory "Demanufacture"
1996 - Type O Negative "October Rust"
1997 - Dimmu Borgir "Enthrone Darkness Triumphant"
1998 - Opeth "My Arms, Your Hearse"
1999 - Nevermore "Dreaming Neon Black"
2000 - Electric Wizard "Dopethrone"
2001 - Opeth "Blackwater Park"
2002 - Nile "In their Darkened Shrines"
2003 - Iron Maiden - "Dance of Death"
2004 - Mastodon "Leviathan"
2005 - Opeth "Ghost Reveries"
2006 - Amon Amarth "With Oden On Our Side"
2007 - Down - "Down III: Over the Under"
2008 - Testament - "The Formation of Damnation"
2009 - Heaven and Hell - "The Devil You Know"
2010 - Tryptykon - "Eparistera Daimones"
2011 - Mastodon - "The Hunter"
2012 - Wintersun - "Time I"

Pretty good list, “October Rust” is IMO Type O Negative’s best album and could be pretty interchangeable for me.
I’m a huge Emperor ITNE fan as well.
Deicide self-titled, Death “Human”, Slayer “Reign In Blood”, King Diamond “Abigail” and Dimmu Borgir “EDT” are all spectacular albums too.
If I was born in 1984 I would’ve either chosen Mercyful Fate ‘DBTO’ or Sodom’s “In the Sign of Evil”.
Again, very good list. Keep them coming guys!!

Yeah SITA by Slayer is a pretty great album indeed.
My runner up list, though this took me a while to do (memory's not what it used to be)

1985 – Carnivore “self-titled”
1986 – Slayer “Reign In Blood”
1987 – Sarcofago “INRI”
1988 – Napalm Death “From Enslavement to Obliteration”
1989 – Sepultura “Beneath the Remains”
1990 – Death “Spiritual Healing”
1991 – Atheist “Unquestionable Presence”
1992 - Burzum “self-titled”
1993 – Gorguts “The Erosion of Sanity”
1994 – Emperor “In the Nightside Eclipse”
1995 – Death In June “Rose Clouds of Holocaust”
1996 – Ildjarn “Forest Poetry”
1997 – Graveland “Following the Voice of Blood”
1998 – Graveland “Immortal Pride”
1999 – Nokturnal Mortum “NeChrist”
2000 – Mortuary Drape “Tolling 13 Knell”
2001 – Satanic Warmaster “Strength and Honor”
2002 – Peste Noire “Macabre Transcendence..” demo
2003 - Drudkh “Forgotten Legends”
2004 - Woods of Ypres “Pursuit of the Sun and Allure of the Earth”
2005 – Baptism “Morbid Wings Of Sathanas”
2006 – Darkthrone “The Cult Is Alive”
2007 – Goatmoon “Finnish Steel Storm”
2008 – Motorhead “Motorizer”
2009 – Nile “Those Whom the Gods Detest”
2010 – Temnozor “Haunted Dreamscapes”
2011 – Wolfnacht “Project Ordensburg”
2012 – Deftones “Koi No Yokan”

Pink Floyd's The Wall fits my high school years perfectly.

I don't know for my life, but for this year it's E.S.C.A.P.E.

http://tarbyrocks.bandcamp.com/album/e-s-c-a-p-e

My runner up list Namely the ones that missed out on the top spot of their respective years!

1984 - Iron Maiden "Powerslave"
1985 - Celtic Frost "To Mega Therion"
1986 - Kreator "Pleasure to Kill"
1987 - Anthrax "Among the Living"
1988 - Bathory "Blood Fire Death"
1989 - Sepultura "Beneath the Remains"
1990 - Slayer "Seasons in the Abyss"
1991 - Morbid Angel "Blessed are the Sick"
1992 - Dream Theater "Images and Words"
1993 - Sepultura "Chaos A.D."
1994 - Machine Head "Burn My Eyes"
1995 - Dissection - "Storm of the Light's Bane"
1996 - Satyricon - "Nemesis Divina"
1997 - Strapping Young Lad "City"
1998 - Blind Guardian "Nightfall in Middle Earth"
1999 - Opeth "Still Life"
2000 - Hammerfall "Renegade"
2001 - Rammstein "Mutter"
2002 - Agalloch "The Mantle"
2003 - Akercocke "Choronzon"
2004 - Exodus "Tempo of the Damned"
2005 - Meshuggah "Catch Thirty Three"
2006 - Cannibal Corpse "Kill"
2007 - Primordial "To the Nameless Dead"
2008 - Enslaved - "Vertebrae"
2009 - Mastodon - "Crack the Skye"
2010 - Watain - "Lawless Darkness"
2011 - Devin Townsend Project "Deconstruction"
2012 - Testament "Dark Roots of Earth"

Another good list. Lots of classics up there (Maiden, Slayer, Kreator, Bathory, Sepultura, Morbid Angel, Dissection etc.)

I just realized I forgot about Primordial “To the Nameless Dead”, lol. “The Gathering Wilderness” would be close to making my lists as well.

I just turned 27 this past weekend.

1985 - Meat Is Murder - The Smiths
1986 - Master of Puppets - Metallica
1987 - The Joshua Tree - U2
1988 - Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction
1989 - Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
1990 - Violator - Depeche Mode
1991 - Ten - Pearl Jam
1992 - Core - Stone Temple Pilots
1993 - Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
1994 - Superunknown - Soundgarden
1995 - The Sky Moves Sideways - Porcupine Tree
1996 - Ænima - Tool
1997 - OK Computer - Radiohead
1998 - Darkest Days - Stabbing Westward
1999 - The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails
2000 - Kid A - Radiohead
2001 - Lateralus - Tool
2002 - In Absentia - Porcupine Tree
2003 - De-loused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta
2004 - Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
2005 - Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
2006 - Silent Shout - The Knife
2007 - Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree
2008 - Tightly Unwound - The Pineapple Thief
2009 - Anno Domini High Definition - Riverside
2010 - We're Here Because We're Here - Anathema
2011 - Grace For Drowning - Steven Wilson
2012 - Noctourniquet - The Mars Volta

Ugh, took a lot of time and it's too likely I've forgotten some key albums

1988 - Fields of the Nephilim - The Nephilim
1989 - The Cure - Disintegration
1990 - U Totem - s/t
1991 - Death - Human
1992 - Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind
1993 - Cynic - Focus
1994 - Portishead - Dummy
1995 - Cesária Évora - Cesaria
1996 - Edge of Sanity - Crimson
1997 - In the Woods... - Omnio
1998 - Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes
1999 - Dan Swanö - Moontower
2000 - Radiohead - Kid A
2001 - Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
2002 - Paatos - Timeloss
2003 - Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
2004 - Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
2005 - Coil - The Ape of Naples
2006 - Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third
2007 - Shining - V - Halmstad
2008 - ColdWorld - Melancholie²
2009 - Nokturnal Mortum - Голос сталі
2010 - Alcest - Écailles de lune
2011 - Hexvessel - Dawnbearer
2012 - Alcest - Les voyages de l'âme

I'm might be tempted to do a separate thread with the top 3 albums of the respective years listed. Going to be a tough one!

Born in 1995

1995: Opeth - Orchid
1996: Opeth - Morningrise closely followed by Rush - Test for Echo
1997: Sevendust - self-titled
1998: Nonpoint - Struggle
1999: Confined - Silence
2000: Mudvayne - LD 50, but favorite track is Pantera - Avoid the Light
2001: Opeth - Blackwater Park (yes I'm an Opeth fan)
2002: Audioslave - self-titled
2003: Endo: Songs for the Restless or In Mourning: Need (demo)
2004: Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
2005: Dark Tranquillity - Character (got me into death metal)
2006: Ankla - Steep Trails, Opeth - Ghost Reveries, Threat Signal - Under Reprisal or Shadows Fall - Threads of Life
2007: Alejandro Silva - Orden & Caos
2008: Trivium - Shogun
2009: Dirge Within - Force Fed Lies, Divine Heresy - Bringer of Plagues, Xerath - I or Karnivool - SOund Awake
2010: Alter Bridge III, Soilwork - The Panic Broadcast, Solipsist - The Human Equation, Dark tranquillity - We Are the Void, Ill Nino - Dead New World or Returning We Hear the Larks - Ypres
2011: Absent Distance 2010-2011, Blue Stahli - self-titled, Evile, Five Serpent's Teeth, Grorr - Pravda, machine Head - Unto the Locust, or Times of Grace - Hymn of a Broken Man
2012: Allegaeon - Formshifter, Heart of a Coward - Hope and Hindrance, Rush - Clockwork Angels, Shadows Fall - Fire From the Sky, Opeth - heritage or Soen - Cognitive

I swear I'm not a hipster.