Albums of the Year
The Top 10 Albums of 1980
The dawn of a new decade saw punk rock fading away, or at least saving up to buy a synthesizer.
Albums of the Year
Albums of the Year
The Top 10 Albums of 1979
When every album came with a poster, disco was dying, and actors weren’t presidents.
Albums of the Year
The Top 10 Albums of 1978
Year-end album lists shouldn’t happen only once a year. Inaugurating a new series, Andrew Womack raids his music collection to rank his favorite albums from every year, year after year, starting with as far back as he can recollect.
Albums of the Year
The Top 10 Albums of 2006
The “record” industry is dead and 99-cent singles are now the rule, and yet terrific, cohesive rock LPs kept appearing every week.
Albums of the Year
The Top 10 Albums of 2005
After a year of music, thousands of hours of listening time, and one worn-out iPod, here are picks for the very best music this year.
Albums of the Year
The Top 10 Albums of 2004
There were thousands of albums released by thousands of artists in 2004, so it must be hard to determine which were the 10 greatest, right? No, not really.
Albums of the Year
The Top 10 Albums of 2003
The iPod got a lot of use this year. After hundreds of albums and thousands of hours of listening to music, here are 2003’s 10 best albums.