Music – Comparing my 1990 & 2000 Top 5 albums and songs with my 2010 list (originally posted April 2011)

I’ve been comparing my 1990 & 2000 top 5 albums and songs with 2010’s… interesting… I’m quite consistent..

Obviously they have changed a little in between the decades… but these are the 5 that if I was stranded on a desert island and could only listen to 5 albums/songs for the rest of my life.. these would be it:

2010

Top Albums (no order)

  • – Joy Division “Permanent”
  • – New Order “Substance”
  • – Queens of the Stone Age “Songs for the Deaf”
  • – Simon and Garfunkel “Old Friends”
  • – Underworld “Dubnobasswithmyheadman”

Top Songs

  1. ?- Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
  2. ?- New Order “Vanishing Point”
  3. ?- Samuel Barber “Adagio for Strings”
  4. ?- Simon and Garfunkel “Only Living Boy in New York”
  5. ?- Paul Kalkbrenner “Sky and Sand”

2000

Top Albums (no order)

  • – Joy Division “Permanent”
  • – New Order “Substance”
  • – Pearl Jam “Ten”
  • – Simon and Garfunkel “Old Friends”
  • – Underworld “Dubnobasswithmyheadman”

Top Songs

  1. ?- Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
  2. ?- New Order “Vanishing Point”
  3. ?- Pearl Jam “Jeremy”
  4. ?- Simon and Garfunkel “Only Living Boy in New York”
  5. ?- Underworld “Born Slippy”

 

1990

Top Albums (no order)

  • ?- Joy Division “Permanent”
  • – New Order “Substance”
  • – Simon and Garfunkel “Old Friends”
  • – Stone Roses “Stone Roses”
  • – Violent Femmes “Hallowed Ground”

Top Songs

1 – Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart”

2 – New Order “Vanishing Point”
3 – Simon and Garfunkel “Only Living Boy in New York”
4 – Stone Roses “I am the Resurection”
5 – Erasure “Sometimes”

1980

No idea really… but I know I loved The Police, Blondie, Two Tone, Punk and even then Simon & Garfunkel (which is totally from my mother’s collection)

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