Meme: An Album For Every Year of Your Life, Part 1

I stole this idea from my favorite website. Simple: pick your favorite album (or what would have been your favorite, had you been of age) from every year of your life. Since this will encompass some 39 albums, I'm breaking it up into two posts. Here goes:

1969: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country

1970: Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin III

1971: The Allman Brothers Band, At Fillmore East

1972: Big Star, #1 Record

1973: Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of The Moon

1974: Bob Marley and the Wailers, Natty Dread

1975: Queen, A Night at The Opera

1976: Boston, Boston

1977: TIE: Bob Marley and the Wailers, Exodus and John Williams conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, Star Wars: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (double album! With a free poster!)

1978: Steve Miller Band, Greatest Hits 1974 - 1978

1979: Pink Floyd, The Wall

1980: The Police, Zenyatta Mondatta (and here we start getting into the music that I actually listened to at the time...)

1981: Rush, Moving Pictures

1982: Asia, Asia

1983: The Police, Synchronicity

1984: Van Halen, 1984

1985: R.E.M., Fables of The Reconstruction

1986: Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill

1987: U2, The Joshua Tree

1988: Fishbone, Truth and Soul

1989: The Replacements, Don't Tell A Soul

1990: Soul Asylum, And The Horse They Rode In On

(Back tomorrow with the Nineties up to the present...feel free to play along on your own blogs, consider yourselves tagged if you read this.)