(My favorite album for each year I’ve been alive)
1988 – Metallica – “… And Justice For All”
1989 – Mighty Mighty Bosstones – “Devil’s Night Out”
1990 – Midnight Oil – “Blue Sky Mining”
1991 – R.E.M. – “Out of Time”
1992 – Green Day – “Kerplunk”
1993 – Crash Test Dummies – “God Shuffled His Feet”
1994 – R.E.M. – “Monster”
1995 – Smashing Pumpkins – “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness”
1996 – Modest Mouse – “This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About”
1997 – Harvey Danger – “Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?”
1998 – Voltaire – “The Devil’s Bris”
1999 – Carbon Leaf – “Ether~Electrified Porch Music”
2000 – Deftones – “White Pony”
2001 – Muse – “Origin of Symmetry”
2002 – Nightwish – “Century Child”
2003 – Streetlight Manifesto – “Everything Goes Numb”
2004 – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – “Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus”
2005 – Bruce Springsteen – “Devils & Dust”
2006 – The Decemberists – “The Crane Wife”
2007 – Explosions in the Sky – “All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone”
2008 – Flogging Molly – “Float”
2009 – Mastodon – “Crack the Skye”
2010 – The Hold Steady – “Heaven Is Whenever”
2011 – Frank Turner – “England Keep My Bones”
