Favorite Albums Per Year Since Birth

So apparently a popular thing these days is to make a list of your favorite album of every year since your birth. Well, at least Matt Rosoff is doing it, and he is more popular than me, so from my vantage point it is a popular thing to do.

Anyway, I thought I'd give it a shot. The rules are:

• Only one album per year.
• You can only use an album from any artist one time.
• Use the year of original release (not re-release years).
• "Best-Of" collections are discouraged but ok.
  

It ended up being a lot harder than I thought. I found that some years have a lot of really awesome stuff to choose from, and some years just basically suck. I also found that I am not nearly the connoisseur of music that I thought I was. I couldn't start with the year I was born, or even for several years afterwards. And I got nothing from the past couple of years, not yet.
I'm trying to remedy this. But here's the list so far, subject to change:

• 1978 - Van Halen: Van Halen


• 1979 - Pink Floyd: The Wall


• 1980 - AC/DC: Back In Black


• 1981 - Journey: Escape


• 1982 - RATT: RATT EP


• 1983 - Def Leppard: Pyromania


• 1984 - Y & T: In Rock We Trust


• 1985 - Mötley Crüe: Theater of Pain


• 1986 - Metallica: Master of Puppets


• 1987 - U2: The Joshua Tree


• 1988 - Queensrÿche: Operation: Mindcrime


• 1989 - Enya: Watermark


• 1990 - Scorpions: Crazy World


• 1991 - Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion


• 1992 - Stone Temple Pilots: Core


• 1993 - Nirvana: In Utero


• 1994 - Alice In Chains: Jar of Flies


• 1995 - Collective Soul: Collective Soul


• 1996 - Men At Work: Contraband


• 1997 - Creed: My Own Prison


• 1998 - Goo Goo Dolls: Dizzy Up the Girl


• 1999 - Dream Theater: Scenes from a Memory


• 2000 - The Beatles: 1


• 2001 - Tool: Lateralus


• 2002 - New Order: International


• 2003 - Joe Satriani: Electric Joe Satriani


• 2004 - Judas Priest: Metalogy


• 2005 - Nickelback: All the Right Reasons


• 2006 - The Killers: Sam's Town

Like I said, some surprises (Enya? Really??) and some compilations when pickings get slim. I really haven't gotten much into recent stuff. I'll try harder.