Welcome to the inaugural How Good Was The Year thread!
This is a music board series, so the ask is to rate the music of the year out of ten, based on the albums, singles, gigs, whatever that stand out for you that year. I hope we can have nostalgia in the thread that goes beyond the music, but that’s beside the point of the poll.
Before the rating poll closes I’ll run an album and a single poll based on your nominations. Everyone can nominate one album and one song from the year for the poll - please make it clear when you post, e.g
Nominate Album: Artist - Title
Nominate Song: Artist - Title
I’ll play it by ear, might add a few big hitters if they don’t get nominated or nominations are low but if we get the numbers I’d prefer the poll to be your suggestions.
Otherwise feel free to just spam the thread with chat about as much music from the year as you like.
We’ll cover 1960 to the present, and I’ll try to change decades between each thread but otherwise it will be randomly decided.
Anyway, we begin 24 years ago in the year of my first gig - 1997.
1997 was the year we said goodbye to Princess Diana, Mother Teresa, The Notorious B.I.G., Jeff Buckley, and the members of the Heaven’s Gate cult, and said hello to Marcus Rashford, Kylie Jenner, Max Verstappen, Maisie Williams, The Teletubbies and Harry Potter.
Dolly the cloned sheep was revealed to the world, Tony Blair led the first (New) Labour government in the UK since 1979, Hong Kong was handed over from the UK to China and Mike Tyson bit off part of Evander Holyfield’s ear in the boxing ring.
But how good was the music?
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