The continuing adventures of an extended delay

Future updates: c/o More Cream Please
In honor of my cat Chloe face-planting on the loveseat and for the purpose of writing about music (about anything, really, following a six-month period of exile), here are my favorite albums of each year from 1964 to two weeks ago. I figure 1964 is as good a year as any to mark the beginning of the modern music age. Think of this as a warm-up for my best-of-2009 list, which I promise to consider finishing sooner or later.

For your consideration: the Biffys^®. You're welcome.

1964	Beatles – A Hard Day's Night
1965	John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
1966	Monks – Black Monk Time
1967	The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced
1968	Pretty Things – SF Sorrow
1969	Led Zeppelin
1970	Stooges – Fun House
1971	Groundhogs – Split
1972	Curtis Mayfield – Superfly
1973	Hawkwind – Space Ritual
1974	Kiss – Hotter Than Hell
1975	George Brigman – Jungle Rot
1976	Ramones
1977	The Damned – Damned Damned Damned
1978	AC/DC – Powerage
1979	Chrome – Half Machine Lip Moves
1980	Motörhead – Ace of Spades
1981	Black Flag – Damaged
1982	The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour
1983	Bad Brains – Rock for Light
1984	Metallica – Ride the Lightning
1985	Mission of Burma – The Horrible Truth About Burma
1986	Dead Kennedys – Bedtime for Democracy
1987	Big Black – Songs About Fucking
1988	Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
1989	Mudhoney
1990	Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet
1991	Black Sheep – A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
1992	The Jesus Lizard – Liar
1993	Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
1994	The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Orange
1995	Six Finger Satellite – Severe Exposure
1996	DJ Shadow – Endtroducing.....
1997	Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
1998	Six Finger Satellite – Law of Ruins
1999	Make-Up – Save Yourself
2000	Deltron 3030
2001	Fugazi – The Argument
2002	Mr. Lif – I Phantom
2003	White Stripes – Elephant
2004	Comets on Fire – Blue Cathedral
2005	Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
2006	Jay Reatard – Blood Visions
2007	Dungen – Tio Bitar
2008	Black Mountain – In the Future
2009	Flaming Lips – Embryonic

My favorite album from a young 2010 is Fuck You, First Alert, Maker of the Combination Smoke/Carbon Monoxide Alarm Outside My Bedroom That Boasts an Indecipherable Voice Feature and Enjoys Going Off in the Middle of the Night for No Reason at All, Even After I've Replaced the Goddamn Batteries Twice. It's a concept album about violence.

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Edit: Let's keep this going into a grungy new decade. Biffys^® forever! Apologies for duplicate band appearances but I've deemed it artificial to disqualify excellence because of familiar excellence. It's also become impossible to avoid with my disdain for/ignorance of Modern Music—look for a revolving door in the vicinity of Ty Segall and friends in the coming years. This writer shall not be held responsible for busted retcons elsewhere in his archives.

2010	Dead Meadow – Three Kings
2011	Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler/The Dream
2012	Off!
2013	Ty Segall – Sleeper
2014	Shellac – Dude Incredible
2015	Fuzz – Fuzz II
2016	Ty Segall – Emotional Mugger
2017	Thee Oh Sees – Orc
2018	Thee Oh Sees – Smote Reverser
2019	Ty Segall – First Taste