Superlatives from the '6s

Over at the Vintage blogs,  I casually roll through all the notable music from 10,20,30,40, 50,and 60 years ago.  After rummaging through those, I've narrowed a few choice selections for the top releases of each year.

Top 25  Albums of 2006

1. Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye

2. Burial - Burial

3. The Knife - Silent Shout

4. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury

5. J Dilla - Donuts

6. Mordant Music - Dead Air

7. Arpanet - Inertial Frame

8. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies

9. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale

10. Ben Frost - Theory of Machines

11. The Roots - Game Theory

12. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

13. Beyonce - B'Day

14. Khlyst - Chaos is My Name

15. Kerrier District - Kerrier District 2 / Amen Andrews vs Spac Hand Luke

16. Holden - The Idiots are Winning

17. Belong  - October Language

18. Andy Stott - Merciless

19. Franz Falckenhaus - Stories from My Cold War

20. Various - A Silence Broken

21. Cat Power - The Greatest

22. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist

23. The Field - Sun & Ice EP

24. Murs & 9th Wonder - Murray's Revenge

25. Justin Timberlake - Futuresex/Lovesounds

Top 50 single tracks of 2006

1. Digital Mystikz - "Anti-War Dub"

2. J Dilla - "Won't Do"

3. Junior Boys - "In the Morning"

4. Shackleton - "Tin Foil Sky"

5. The Knife - "We Share Our Mother's Health"

6. Burial - "Distant Lights"

7. Grizzly Bear - "Knife"

8. Clipse - "Trill"

9. Beyonce - "Get Me Bodied"

10. Donato Dozzy - "Gol"

11. Black Replica - "Black Feathers"

12. Rihanna - "S.O.S."

13. Asobi Seksu - "Thursday"

14. Ghostface Killah - "Be Easy"

15. Amen Andrews vs Spac Hand Luke - "Grime II Dark"

16. The Field - "Over the Ice"

17. Javiera Mena - "Al Siguiente Nivel"

18. Pinch - "Qawwali"

19. Acid Mothers Temple - "Pink Lady Lemonade (May I Drink You Again?)"

20. Boxcutter - "Grub"

21. Justin Timberlake - "My Love"

22. Guitar - "Sunday Afternoon at Tamagawa River"

23. Lily Allen - "Smile"

24. Monolake - "Alaska (Surgeon mix)"

25. Nathan Fake - "Charlie's House"

26. Stereolab - "Whisper Pitch"

27. Jay Haze - "Soul in a Bottle"

28. Scritti Politti - "The Boom Boom Bap"

29. Milanese vs Virus Syndicate - "Dead Man Walking"

30. Barbara Morgenstern - "The Operator"

31. Cat Power - "Lived in Bars"

32. e-40 - "Tell Me When to Go"

33. Polyphonic Spree - "Sonic Bloom"

34. Cassie - "Me & U"

35. Juana Molina - "La Verdad"

36. Holden - "10101"

37. Landing  - "Each Man for Himself"

38. Midlake - "Roscoe"

39. Massive Attack - "False Flags"

40. Morgan Geist - "Most of All"

41. John Maus - "Time to Die"

42. John Foxx & Louis Jordan - "From Trash"

43. Studio - "Life's  a Beach"

44. Chromatics - "Glass Slipper"

45. Killer Mike - "That's Life"

46. Kelis feat Too Short - "Bossy"

47. Simian Mobile Disco - "The Hustler"

48. SebastiAn - "Walkman"

49. Midnight Juggernauts - "Shadows"

50. Jay Reatard - "Nightmares"

Top 50 LPs of 1996 (couldn't resist doing twice as many. So many good releases this year)

1. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup

2. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James

3. Coil Presents Black Light District - A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room

4. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing…..

5. Belle and Sebastian - If You Are Feeling Sinister

6. Broadcast - The Book Lovers EP

7. Tricky - Pre-Millennium Tension

8. Tori Amos - Boys for Pele

9. Plug - Drum n Bass for Papa

10. Aaliyah - One in a Million

11. Dr Octagon - Dr. Octagynecologist

12. The Roots - Illadelph Halflife

13. Meat Beat Manifesto - Subliminal Sandwhich

14. Herbert - 100 lbs

15. The Fugees - The Score

16. Tribe Called Quest - Beats, Rhymes and Life

17. Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things

18. Gas - Gas

19. Tool  - Aenima

20. Photek - The Hidden Camera EP

21. Cibo Matto - Viva La Woman

22. Skinny Puppy - The Process

23. Porter Ricks - Biokinetics

24. Disjecta - Clean Pit and Lid

25. Trent Reznor - Quake OST

26. Boards of Canada - Hi Skores

27. Alec Empire - Les Etoilles des Filles Mortes

28. Third Eye Foundation - Semtex

29. Dopplereffekt - Infophysix

30. Bardo Pond - Amanita

31. Drexciya - The Return of Drexciya

32. De La Soul - Stakes is High

33. Orbital - In Sides

34. Windy and Carl - Drawing of Sound

35. Bowery Electric - Beat

36. Seefeel - Ch-Vox

37. The Cocteau Twins - Milk and Kisses

38. Smashing Pumpkins - The Aeroplane Flies High

39. LFO - Advance

40. Outkast - Atliens

41. Disco Inferno - Technicolour

42. Surgeon - Communications

43. Secret Chiefs 3 - First Grand Constitution and Bylaws

44. Beck - Odelay

45. The Black Dog - Music for Films and Adverts

46. Mazzy Star - Among My Swan

47. Ghostface Killah - Iron Man

48. Tortoise  - Millions Living Will Never Die

49. Ministry - Filth Pig

50. Sepultura - Roots Top 50 single tracks of 1996 1. Bush - "In A Lonely Place" 2. Aphex Twin - "Girl/Boy" 3. Bowery Electric - "Empty Words" 4. Broadcast - "The Book Lovers" 5. DJ Shadow - "Building Steam With a Grain of Salt" 6. Aaliyah - "One in a Million" 7. Stereolab - "Les Yper Sound" 8. Belle and Sebastian - "Seeing Other People" 9. Pulp - "Mile End" 10. The Cocteau Twins - "Alice" 11. Busta Rhymes - "Woo-Ha Got You All in Check" 12. Tori Amos - "Professional Widow" 13. Intense - "Natural Progression" 14. My Bloody Valentine - "Map Ref 41n 93w" 15. Tricky  - "Makes Me Wanna Die" 16. The Roots - "Episodes" 17. Drexciya - "You Don't Know" 18. Smokin Beats - "Dreams" 19. Moodymann - "Misled" 20. 3MG - "Sunsprayed" 21. Meat Beat Manifesto - "Phone Calls from the Dead" 22. Erykah Badu - "On & On" 23. Source Direct - "Stonekiller" 24. Radiohead - "Talk Show Host" 25. Ginuwine - "Pony" 26. Photek - "The Third Sequence" 27. Sneaker Pimps - "Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark Garage Mix)" 28. Orbital - "The Box" 29. Todd Edwards - "Fly Away" 30. Plug - "I Freak Techniques" 31. AC Acoustics - "Stunt Girl" 32. Pan Sonic - "Murto" 33. 2Pac - "No More Pain" 34. Skinny Puppy - "Candle" 35. Green Velvet - "The Stalker (I'm Losing My Mind)" 36. Everything But the Girl - "Before Today (Chicane Mix)" 37. Graham Lewis - "Fresh Life" 38. Shake - "Here, There and Nowhere" 39. Mazzy Star - "Roseblood" 40. Thomas Bangalter - "Spinal Scratch" 41. Imperial Teen - "You're One" 42. Jay-Z - "Feelin It" 43. Remarc - "Single Finga Killa" 44. Ghostface Killah - "Assassination Day" 45. Fusion Forum - "Vintage Keys" 46. Cibo Matto - "Know Your Chicken" 47. Geto Boys - "Still" 48. Mandalay - "Flowers Bloom (Foul Play Mix)" 49. Nicolette - "Judgement Day" 50. Red House Painters - "All Mixed Up"

Top 25 LPs of 1986

1. Arthur Russell - World of Echo

2. Big Black - Atomizer

3. Wire various projects (tie) - Snakedrill (Wire), Commercial Suicide (Colin Newman), Hail (He Said), The Shivering Man (Bruce Gilbert)

4. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

5. Ministry - Twitch

6. Janet Jackson - Control

7. Virgo - Free Yourself EP

8. Cocteau Twins - Victorialand

9. African Head Charge - Off the Beaten Track

10. Marc Almond - Violent Silence

11. Sonic Youth - EVOL

12. Cowboy Junkies - Whites Off Earth Now

13. Head of David - LP

14. Slayer - Reign in Blood

15. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration

16. Prince - Parade

17. Various - The Indestructible Beat of Soweto

18. SPK - Zami Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine Flowers

19. Sudden Sway - Spacemate

20. XTC - Skylarking

21. Stetsasonic - On Fire

22. Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey

23. Peter Gabriel - So…

24. Momus - Circus Maximumus

25. Shub Niggurath - Les Morts Vont Vite

Top 50 single tracks of 1986

1. New Order - "Bizarre Love Triangle/Shep Pettibone mix"

2. Sleezy D - "I've Lost Control"

3. The Smiths - "There is a Light That Never Goes Out"

4. Marshall Jefferson - "Move Your Body (The House Music Anthem)"

5. Prince - "Kiss"

6. Bruce Gilbert - "Eline Court II"

7. A.R. Kane - "When You're Sad"

8. Big Black - "Passing Complexion"

9. Ultramagnetic DJs - "Ego Trippin'"

10. Arthur Russell - "Let's Go Swimming"

11. Janet Jackson - "Nasty"

12. Kreem - "Triangle of Love"

13. Koji Kondu - "The Legend of Zelda theme"

14. Skinny Puppy - "Dig It"

15. Master C &J - "Dub love"

16. Slayer - "Raining Blood"

17. Bam Bam - "You've Been Messing Around (Steve Silk Hurley mix)"

18. Mr Fingers - "Beyond the Clouds"

19. Husker Du - "Don't Want to Know if You Are Lonely"

20. Virgo - "Free Yourself"

21. Colourbox - "Baby I Love You So"

22. Depeche Mode - "But Not Tonight"

23. Modern Mechanical Music - "Persia (Dub)"

24. Crowded House - "Don't Dream it's Over"

25. Cowboy Junkies  - "State Trooper"

26. Duran Duran - "Notorious"

27. Ministry - "We Believe"

28. Stetsasonic - "Just Say Stet"

29. The Weather Prophets - "Like Frankie Lymon"

30. Sigue Sigue Sputnik - "Love Missle F1-11"

31. Egyptian Lover - "Freak-A-Holic"

32. Man Friday - "Love Honey Heartache (Larry Levan mix)"

33. Company B - "Fascinated"

34. Peter Gabriel - "Big Time"

35. Adonis - "No Way Back"

36. Yello - "Bostisch (Remix)"

37. They Might Be Giants - "Don't Let's Start"

38. The Showboys - "Drag Rap"

39. Pete Shelley - "Designer Lamps"

40. Megadeth - "Peace Sells"

41. John Zorn - "Godard"

42. Nitro Deluxe - "Let's Get Brutal"

43. Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Party's Fall"

44. The Junkyard Band - "The Word"

45. Book of Love - "Mogidliani (Requiem Mass)"

46. XTC - "1000 Umbrellas"

47. Original Concept - "Bite'n My Stylee"

48. Alien Sex Fiend - "I Walk the Line"

49. Model 500 - "Bang the Beat"

50. Jesus and Mary Chain - "Hit"

Top 25 LPs from 1976

1. David Bowie - Station to Station

2. Cluster - Sowiesoso

3. MX-80 - Big Hits Hard Pop from the Hoosiers

4. Harmonia & Eno - Tracks and Traces

5. Fela Kuti - Zombie

6. Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach

7. Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia

8. David Pritchard - Nocturnal Earthworm Stew

9. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

10. Tom Waits - Small Change

11. The Ramones - The Ramones

12. Joni Mitchell - Hejira

13. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak

14. Debris - Debris

15. Prince Far I - Under Heavy Manners

16. Boston - Boston

17. Donna Summer - Four Seasons of Love

18. The Bar-Kays - Too Hot to Stop

19. Tom Ze - Estudando O Samba

20. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers

21. Lee Scratch Perry - Super Ape

22. Aerosmith - Rocks

23. La Dusseldorf - La Dusseldorf

24. ABBA - Arrival

25. Bob Dylan - Desire

Top 50 single tracks of 1976

1. Stevie Wonder - "AS"

2. David Bowie - "Station to Station"

3. Marvin Gaye - "I Want You"

4. The Sex Pistols - "Anarchy in the UK"

5. Ashra - "Deep Distance"

6. The Modern Lovers - "Roadrunner"

7. ABBA - "Dancing Queen"

8. Boston  - "More Than a Feeling"

9. Death - "Politicians in My Eye"

10. Carl McKnight - "The Devil's Out Tonight"

11. Peter Baumann  - "Phase by Phase"

12. Tom Ze - "Ma"

13. Suicide - "Rocket U.S.A."

14. Diana Ross - "Love Hangover"

15. Ecstasy Passion & Pain - "Touch and Go"

16. Max Romeo - "Chase the Devil"

17. Fela Kuti - "Zombie"

18. Richard Hell - "Blank Generation"

19. Heatwave - "Boogie Nights"

20. Thin Lizzy - "The Boys Are Back in Town"

21. Junior Murvin - "Police & Thieves"

22. Amanda Lear - "Blood & Honey"

23. The Runaways - "Cherry Bomb"

24. Blue Oyster Cult - "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"

25. Jakki - "You Are the Star"

26. Steve Miller Band - "Fly Like an Eagle"

27. Curtis Mayfield - "P.S. I Love You"

28. The Flamin' Groovies - "Shake Some Action"

29. The Bee Gees - "You Should Be Dancing"

30. Lou Rawls  - "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine"

31. The Damned - "New Rose"

32. Thelma Houston - "Don't Leave Me This Way"

33. Magma - "Udu Wudu"

34. The Ramones - "Judy is a Punk"

35. Andrea True Connection - "Party Line"

36. Metro  - "Criminal World"

37. Giorgio Moroder - "Knights in White Satin"

38. Joan Armatrading - "Love and Affection"

39. JJ Cale - "Cherry"

40. Alice Cooper - "You Gotta Dance"

41. Bob Dylan - "Mozambique"

42. Nick Lowe - "So It Goes"

43. John Carpenter - "Assault on Precinct 13 Theme"

44. The Hollies - "Draggin My Heels"

45. Billy Preston  - "Bells"

46. The Muppets - "Mahna Mahna"

47. Tom Petty  - "American Girl"

48. Starbuck - "Moonlight Feels Right"

49. Roy Ayers Ubiquity - "Everybody Loves the Sunshine"

50. Double Exposure - "Ten Percent"

Top 25 LPs of 1966

1. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

2. The Beatles - Revolver

3. The Monks - Black Monk Time

4. Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind

5. Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid

6. Perrey-Kingsley - The In Sound from Way Out

7. John Coltrane - Ascension

8. Emil Richards - Sound Element Stones

9. The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelics Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

10. The Temptations - Getting Ready

11. Ennio Morricone - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

12. Lee Hazlewood - The Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood

13. Esquivel! - Actual

14. Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 - Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66

15. The Byrds - Fifth Dimension

16. Skip James - Today!

17. Love - De Capo

18. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

19. Nancy Sinatra - Boots

20. The Troggs - From Nowhere

21. Robert Basho - The Grail and the Lotus

22. Donovan - Sunshine Superman

23. The Who - A Quick One

24. The Walker Brothers - Portrait

25. The Kinks - Face to Face

Top 50 single tracks of 1966

1. The Beatles - "Tomorrow Never Knows"

2. The Velvet Underground - "All Tomorrow's Parties"

3. Nina Simone - "Wild is the Wind"

4. Ike & Tina Tuner - "River Deep Mountain High"

5. The Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations"

6. Gyorgy Ligeti - "Lux Aeterna"

7. The Temptations - "Ain't Too Proud to Beg"

8. The Walker Brothers - "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"

9. The 13th Floor Elevators - "Rollercoaster"

10. Al Stewart - "Turn into Earth"

11. The Byrds - "I Come and Stand at Every Door"

12. Delia Derbyshire - "Ziwzih-Ziwzih-OO-OO-OO"

13. Karlheinz Stockhausen - "Hymnen"

14. The Supremes - "You Keep me Hangin On"

15. Them - "It's All over Now Baby Blue"

16. The Creation - "Making Time"

17. Astrud Gilberto - "Maria Quiet"

18. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Hey Joe"

19. The Rolling Stones - "Paint it Black"

20. The Kinks - "Sunny Afternoon"

21. Steve Reich - "It's Gonna Rain"

22. The Four Tops - "Shake Me Wake Me (When It's Over)"

23. Delia Reese - "It Was A Very Good Year"

24. The Outsiders - "Time Won't Let Me"

25. Love - "Que Vida"

26. Buffalo Springfield - "For What It's Worth"

27. Nancy Sinatra - "These Boots are Made for Walkin"

28. The Monkees - "I'm Not our Stepping Stone"

29. The Left Banke - "Walk Away Renee"

30. Oxford Circle - "Mind Destruction"

31. The Easybeats - "Friday On My Mind"

32. The Charles Lloyd Quartet - "Sombrero Sam"

33. Donovan - "Season of the Witch"

34. Luv'd Ones - "Up Down Sue"

35. Jim Croce - "Until It's Time for Me to Go"

36. The Who - "A Quick One While He's Away"

37. Lovin Spoonful - "Daydream"

38. James Brown  - "It's a Man's World"

39. Davy Graham - "No Preacher Blues"

40. Aretha Franklin - "Sweet Bitter Love"

41. Stevie Wonder - "Hey love"

42. Phil Ochs - "Cops of the World"

43. Simon and Garfunkel - "Scarsborough Fair"

44. The Association - "Cherish"

45. The Count Five - "Psychotic Reaction"

46. ? And the Mysterians - "96 Tears"

47. The Troggs - "With a  Girl Like You"

48. The Isley Brothers - "This Old Heart of Mine"

49. The Turtles  - "Down in Suburbia"

50. Paul Revere and the Raiders - "Out of Sight"

15 Noteworthy Artifacts from 1956

1. Miles Davis - The Birth of the Cool

2. Louis and Bebe Barron - Forbidden Planet Score

3. Screamin Jay Williams - "I Put a Spell On You"

4. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gsesang Der Junglinge

5. The Coasters - "Down in Mexico"

6. Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley

7. Chuck Berry - 1956 singles

8. Shirley Bassey - "Burn My Candle"

9. James Brown - "Please Please Please"

10. Bo Diddley - "Who Do You Love"

11. Charlie Feathers  - "Can't Hardly Stand It"

12. Johnny Burnette Trio - "Train Kept A-Rollin/Honey Hush" single

13. Johnny Cash - "I Walk the Line"

14. Howlin Wolf - "Smokestack Lightnin"

15. Aretha Franklin - Songs of Faith