Your favourite musical year

[Zostrianos]

Any year (or years) you found especially appealing in terms of music?
For me, definitely 1996 and 1997 - most of my favourite albums (regardless of genre) came out in those years.

[Yuppie Grinder]

2012

[Prometeo liberado]

Year 1 on the Khmere Rouge calendar.

[Pirate Utopian]

2012. The year of California Boy. So #rare.

[#FF0000]

I never paid attention to years really.

But 2012 is seriously fucking good so far.

[Ele'ill]

Not 2012 probably some time in the early-mid 90's

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Def 90s...95 or 96 I think...that's when I first got exciting about music in general and got obesessed with certain bands

[Jimmie Higgins]

1965 (Highway 61, Rubber Soul), 1969 (soul, psych, etc), 1977 (punk), 1991 (punk in the US), 2008 (yet to be defined post-hipster rock)

Best year in movies: 1959 and 1999.

[roy]

by the end of the year death grips will have released two albums in one year and tyler, the creator will have released his third. assuming no love, deep web and wolf will be good, 2012 takes the cake. also, asap rocky.

[Comrades Unite!]

1967.
1955.
1936.

[#FF0000]

by the end of the year death grips will have released two albums in one year and tyler, the creator will have released his third. assuming no love, deep web and wolf will be good, 2012 takes the cake. also, asap rocky.

Wolf is supposed to be instrumental, right?

I was hype when I realized the second death grips was coming out in october. it was something I 'knew' but wasn't really 'aware' of, you know?

[Pirate Utopian]

I really liked Ex-Military a lot but I didnt like The Money Store half as much. It's not a bad album by any means but it just lacks the energy of songs like Guillotine or Beware. I hope Death Grips can regain that feeling with the new album.

I expect Wolf to be more like electronic spage age jazz of Jet Age of Tomorrow than Tyler's previous music. Which is cool, I like Jet Age.

[Yuppie Grinder]

the money store was dope as fuck
it's equal parts cabaret voltaire and waka flocka


1977 (punk), 1991 (punk in the US),
as an american punk rock musician, nothing pisses me off more than when people from the UK say this

[Yuppie Grinder]

not big on tyler the creator, generic fruity loops beats and rape jokes don't really tickle my fancy

[Comrades Unite!]

Oh god Tyler The Creator's music is fucking awful!
I got his album 'Goblin' and it bored me to tears.

[roy]

Wolf is supposed to be instrumental, right?

I was hype when I realized the second death grips was coming out in october. it was something I 'knew' but wasn't really 'aware' of, you know?

iirc it's going to have less rapping, but not be entirely instrumental. more excited for no love though. if it's anywhere near as energetic as the first two i'll bounce off the walls.

[#FF0000]

2012 best year all years because getgetgetgetgotgotgotgot

[Jimmie Higgins]

as an american punk rock musician, nothing pisses me off more than when people from the UK say thisI'm from California and yes I know there were underground scenes before then.

[Yuppie Grinder]

I am not a patriot by any means, but it is historical fact that punk rock is an American invention. The term was popularized by the band Suicide.

[Comrades Unite!]

I am not a patriot by any means, but it is historical fact that punk rock is an American invention. The term was popularized by the band Suicide.

I disagree.
Punk was not invented by anyone or anywhere.
Punk, like all other music genres, evolved from musical history as it existed hitherto and the social-economic positions of the musicians involved.

The timeline will keep pushing back, Punk Rock is Rock N Roll stripped down and louder, Rock n Roll emerged from the blues which emerged from gospel which emerged from ... you get the drift?

No musical genre is ever an invention.

[Thirsty Crow]

Being a dumb and narrowminded metalhead I am, 1986.


No musical genre is ever an invention. I don't quite agree because, first of all, it is possible to distinguish, let's say, a period of genre formation when it hasn't been established yet in its entirety, and that way it is possible to track musicians and bands which were pioneers in one way or another (and it goes without saying that what you write about the impact of the social-economic position of musicians is not opposed to this view).

And yes the timeline of influences (musical history that is) will keep pushing back, but that doesn't mean necessarily that it is not possible to observe genre formation and attribute it to musicians and/or bands.

[Yuppie Grinder]

I disagree.
Punk was not invented by anyone or anywhere.
Punk, like all other music genres, evolved from musical history as it existed hitherto and the social-economic positions of the musicians involved.

The timeline will keep pushing back, Punk Rock is Rock N Roll stripped down and louder, Rock n Roll emerged from the blues which emerged from gospel which emerged from ... you get the drift?

No musical genre is ever an invention.
OK but all of the first punk bands and the idea of punk itself come from the U.S.
Also there are definantly invented styles of music. Industrial? Based? Stochastic Music?

[Crux]

probably sometime late eighties, like 87-89.

[Pirate Utopian]

OK but all of the first punk bands and the idea of punk itself come from the U.S.
Also there are definantly invented styles of music. Industrial? Based? Stochastic Music?

Based is not a genre. Based is how you feel inside.

[newdayrising]

If I have to pick a single year, it would be 1966. It's when rock and r&b became more mature and creative but still not boring or too pretentious.
Also, anytime between 1977 and 1981. Just the UK though, not America.

[ed miliband]

I am not a patriot by any means, but it is historical fact that punk rock is an American invention. The term was popularized by the band Suicide.

even before that, 60s garage bands were using the term, then lenny kaye used the term "punk rock" in 1972 to describe said bands.

but yeah, it's definitely american.

[Ostrinski]

The late 60's and early 90's.