The Rocker - My Lists

Album Top10 lists 1965 to 2023

These are my favourite albums for each year. My knowledge of pop music before 1965 is too limited while singles sales then were still far more important than albums. And 1965 is the year when Dylan went electric, spurred on by The Beatles and The Stones. Since I'm always busy looking up the albums you really need to hear and music needs some time to grow on you, I keep a gap of one year.

2023

IST IST - Protagonists
The Smile - Wall Of Eyes
Queens Of The Stone Age - In Times New Roman
Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert
boygenius - the record
Blur - The Ballad of Darren
dEUS - How To Replace It
The Clockworks - Exit Strategy
The Beaches - Blame My Ex
Gaz Coombes - Turn The Car Around

2022

The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention
Wet Leg - Wet Leg
Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
Suede - Autofiction
Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band - Dear Scott
Paolo Nutini - Last Night In The Bittersweet
Horsegirl - Versions of Modern Performance
Band Of Horses - Things Are Great Leg
Sharon van Etten - We've Been Going About This All Wrong
Destroyer - Labyribthitis

2021

Field Music - Flat White Moon
Turnstile - Glow On
Idles - Crawler
Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
Curtis Harding - If Words Were Flowers
Blaudzun - Lonely City Exit Wounds
Parquet Courts - Sympathy For Life
John Grant - Boy From Michigan
Robert Plant & Alison Kauss - Raising Sand

2020

Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death
Born Ruffians - Squeeze
Idles - Ultra Mono
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Reunions
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
Chris Stapleton - Starting Over
Wire - Mind Hives
Motorpsycho - The All Is One
False Heads - It's All There But You're Dreaming
Nouveau Velo - Bogland

2019

Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
Aldous Harding - Designer
Robert Ellis - Texas Piano Man
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Sharon von Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
Vampire Weekend - Father Of The Bride
The Black Keys - Let's Rock
Blood Red Shoes - Get Tragic

2018

Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance.
Paul Weller - True Meanings
Editors - Violence
Damien Jurado - The Horizon Just Laughed
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
Shame - Songs Of Praise
Guided By Voices - Space Gun
Sloan - 12
Gaz Coombes - World's Strongest Man
Blossoms - Cool Like You

2017

Motorpsycho - The Tower
Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains
Idles - Brutalism
Robert Plant - Carry Home
Dan Auerbach - Waiting On A Song
Spoon - Hot Thoughts
Moss - Strike
Kasabian - For Crying Out Loud
Beck - Colors
Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins

2016

Suede - Night Thoughts
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Shearwater - Jet Plane and Oxbow
Motorpsycho - Here Be Monsters
David Crosby - Lighthouse
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
Bob Mould - Patch The Sky
Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial
Grant-Lee Phillips - The Narrows
a balladeer - A Wolf At The Door

2015

Destroyer - Poison Season
Blur - The Magic Whip
Tame Impala - Currents
Paul Weller - Saturns Pattern
Balthazar - Thin Walls
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
Wilco - Star Wars
Built To Spill - Untethered Moon

2014

Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
Spoon - They Want My Soul
Beck - Morning Phase
Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy
Joan As Police Woman - The Classic
alt-J - This Is All Yours
Jack White - Lazaretto
Chuck Prophet - Night Surfer
Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
Gaz Coombes - Matador

2013

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
Queens Of The Stone Age - Like Clockwork...
Gruff Rhys - American Interior
Mikal Cronin - MCII
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
Foxygen - We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic
Wire - Change Become Us
The Boxer Rebellion - Promises
Editors - The Weight Of Your Love

2012

Tame Impala - Lonerism
Torche - Harmonicraft
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Redd Kross - Researching The Blues
Bob Mould - Silver Age
Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
Chris Robinson Brotherhood - Big Moon Ritual
dEUS - Following Sea
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Carina Round - Tigermending

2011

The Black Keys - El Camino
Wilco - The Whole Love
Joan As Police Woman - The Deep Field
Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys!
Lindsey Buckingham - The Seeds We Sow
Brett Anderson - Black Rainbows
Kasabian - Velociraptor!
Buffalo Tom - Skins

2010

Robert Plant - Band Of Joy
Spoon - Transference
Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation
Josh Rouse - El Turista
Elvis Costello - National Ransom
Manic Street Preachers - Postcards From A Young Man
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
The Black Keys - Brothers
Lloyd Cole - Broken Record
Peter Wolf - Midnight Souvenirs

2009

Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
The Horrors - Primary Colors
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
The Black Crowes - Before The Frost... (Until The Freeze)
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
Moss - Never Be Scared / Don't Be A Hero
Editors - In This Light And On This Morning
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures

2008

Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
The Black Crowes - Warpaint
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of Understatement
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
R.E.M. - Accelerate
Pete and The Pirates - Little Death
dEUS - Vantage Point
Joan As Police Woman - To Survive
The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely

2007

Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus!
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Ian Hunter - Shrunken Heads
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City

2006

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Paul Simon - Surprise
Lindsey Buckingham - Under The Skin
Joan As Police Woman - Real Life
Donald Fagen - Morph The Cat
Cheap Trick - Rockford
Tool - 10.000 Days

2005

Editors - The Back Room
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyse
Paul McCartney - Chaos And Creation In The Backyard
Josh Rouse - Nashville
Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth
Supergrass - Road To Rouen
dEUS - Pocket Revolution
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor

2004

Green Day - American Idiot
Beulah - Yoko
Brian Wilson - Smile
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
The Bigger Lovers - This Affair Never Happened
Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum
Soulwax - Any Minute Now
The Finn Brothers - Everyone Is Here
Interpol - Antics
Morrissey - You Are The Quarry

2003

Cave In - Antenna
Damien Rice - O
John Cale - Hobosapiens
Josh Ritter - Hello Starling
The Gathering - Souvenirs
Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
Sloan - Action Pact
Counting Crows - Hard Candy
Tim Christensen - Honeyburst

2002

Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Supergrass - Life On Other Planets
The Libertines - Up The Bracket
Cave In - Tides Of Tomorrow
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Pearl Jam - Riot Act
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
Daryll-Ann - Trailer Tales

2001

Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
Cotton Mather - The Big Picture
Tool - Lateralus
R.E.M. - Reveal
Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life
Ryan Adams - Gold
Masters Of Reality - Deep In The Hole
The Bigger Lovers - How I Learned To Stop Worrying
Travis - Invisible Band
Sense Field - Tonight And Forever

2000

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
Radiohead - Kid A
Cave In - Jupiter
Elliot Smith - Figure 8
The Gathering - if_then_else
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
The Webb Brothers - Maroon
John Brion - Meaningless
Steely Dan - Two Against Nature

1999

XTC - Apple Venus Volume 1
Wilco - Summerteeth
Kashmir - The Good Life
Shack - H.M.S. Fable
Travis - The Man Who
Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
dEUS - The Ideal Crash
Blur - 13
Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions
Jason Falkner - Can You Still Feel?

1998

Elliot Smith - XO
Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Myracle Brah - Life On Planet Earthshop
Sloan - Navy Blues
Jeff Buckley - Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - Walking Into Clarksdale
Josh Rouse - Dressed Up Like Nebraska
Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age
Soul Asylum - Grave Dancer's Union
Soulwax - Muchagainsteveryone'sadvice

1997

Radiohead - OK Computer
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
Blur - Blur
Supergrass - In It For The Money
Super Furry Animals - Radiator
Suede - Sci-Fi Lullabies
Elliot Smith - Either/Or
Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie
13 - 13 Featuring Lester Butler

1996

Weezer - Pinkerton
Tool - Aenima
Sloan - One Chord To Another
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
Patti Smith - Gone Again
The Auteurs - After Murder Park
Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
Johnny Cash - Unchained
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music..Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop

1995

Radiohead - The Bends
Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Supergrass - I Should Coco
Blur - The Great Escape
The Presidents Of The United States Of America - Same
Built To Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
The Jayhawks - Tomorrow The Green Grass
Scott Walker - Tilt
Flamingoes - Plastic Jewels
Wayne Kramer - The Hard Stuff

1994

Jeff Buckley - Grace
Johnny Cash - American Recordings
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Blur - Parklife
Suede - Dog Man Star
Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Therapy? - Troublegum
Morrissey - Vauxhall And I

1993

David Baerwald - Triage
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Nirvana - In Utero
Suede - Suede
Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
The Posies - Frosting On The Beater
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
Björk - Debut
Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy
Pearl Jam - Vs.

1992

R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Sugar - Copper Blue
The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
The Young Gods - T.V. Sky
The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall
Lou Reed - Magic And Loss

1991

Nirvana - Nevermind
Pearl Jam - Ten
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
U2 - Achtung Baby
Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said
My Bloody valentine - Loveless
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Weld

1990

The Chills - Submarine Bells
Lou Reed & John Cale - Songs For Drella
The La's - The La's
Neil Young - Ragged Glory
Pixies - Bossanova
Fugazi - Repeater
Bad Religion - Against The Grain
Prefab Sprout - Jordan: The Comeback
Iggy Pop - Brick By Brick
The Breeders - Pod

1989

Lou Reed - New York
Pixies - Doolittle
XTC - Oranges And Lemons
Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule
Neil Young - Freedom
New Order - Technique
Urban Dance Squad - Mental Floss For The Globe
The Neville Brothers - Yellow Moon
Bad Religion - No Control
Bob Mould - Workbook

1988

Pixies - Surfer Rosa
The House Of Love - The House Of Love
Morrissey - Viva Hate
Crowded House - Temple Of Low Men
American Music Club - California
Bad Religion - Suffer
R.E.M. - Green
Masters Of Reality - Masters Of Reality
The Bevis Frond - Triptych
John Hiatt - Slow Turning

1987

John Hiatt - Bring The Family
U2 - The Joshua Tree
R.E.M. - Document no.5
The Triffids - Calenture
John Cougar Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
The Replacements - Pleased To Meet me
Midnight Oil - Diesel And Dust
Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands
Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs And Stories

1986

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
XTC - Skylarking
Peter Gabriel - So
Elvis Costello - King Of America
R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant
Hüsker Dü - Candy Apple Grey
Van Morrison - No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
Joe Jackson - Big World
David & David - Boomtown
The Triffids - In The Pines

1985

Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
The Replacements - Tim
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
John Fogerty - Centerfield
John Cougar Mellencamp - Scarecrow
R.E.M. - Fables Of The Reconstruction
The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder

1984

Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
The Replacements - Let It Be
The Smiths - The Smiths
R.E.M. - Reckoning
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
Van Halen - 1984
The Gun Club - The Las Vegas story
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
Scott Walker - Climate Of Hunter
Julian Cope - Fried

1983

R.E.M. - Murmur
Wipers - Over The Edge
The Police - Synchronicity
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Texas Flood
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
Yes - 90125
Elvis Costello - Punch The Clock
The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood

1982

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Imperial Bedroom
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Joe Jackson - Night And Day
XTC - English Settlement
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 4
The Gun Club - Miami
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
Midnight Oil - 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
The Comsat Angels - Fiction
King Crimson - Beat

1981

The Comsat Angels - Sleep No More
Echo & The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
The Sound - From The Lion's Mouth
King Crimson - Discipline
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Trust
Squeeze - Eastside Story
Wipers - Youth Of America
The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
The Gun Club - Fire Of Love
X - Wild Gift

1980

Joy Division - Closer
The Comsat Angels - Waiting For A Miracle
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
The Jam - Sound Affects
AC/DC - Back In Black
XTC - The Black Sea
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Squeeze - Argy Bargy
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3

1979

The Clash - London Calling
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Wire - 154
Cheap Trick - At Budokan
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Armed Forces
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes
AC/DC - Highway To Hell
XTC - Drums And Wires
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
The Jam - Setting Sounds

1978

Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
Elvis Costello & The Attractions- This Year's Model
Wire - Chairs Missing
Big Star - The Third Album/Sister Lovers
The Jam - All Mod Cons
Van Halen - Van Halen
The Only Ones - The Only Ones
Bob Dylan - Street Legal
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
The Adverts - Crossing The Red Sea With

1977

Television - Marquee Moon
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
The Clash - The Clash
Wire - Pink Flag
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
David Bowie - Low
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick

1976

Ramones - Ramones
Bob Dylan - Desire
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Graham Parker - Howlin' Wind
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive!
Dwight Twilley Band - Sincerely
The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Jackson Browne - The Pretender
Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail

1975

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
Patti Smith Group - Horses
Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Queen - A Night At The Opera
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Van Der Graaf Generator - Godbluff
Neu! - Neu! 75

1974

Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
Big Star - Radio City
Neil Young - On The Beach
Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Roxy Music - Country Life
Gene Clark - No Other
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74

1973

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Lou Reed - Berlin
Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run
The Who - Quadrophenia
John Cale - Paris 1919
Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstasy
The Stooges - Raw Power
Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard/A True Star

These are my favourite albums from 1973 as selected for the Dutch magazine for recordcollectors 'Platenblad'. The early 70's weren't as dull, musically, as a lot of experts have stated. This list is pretty impressive, especially considering I had to leave off great albums by The Beach Boys, Jackson Browne, Andy Pratt, Stealers Wheel, Genesis, Roy Wood, Procol Harum, Rory Gallagher and others.