My Favorite Music Year

  • My Favorite Music Year 1993 

    When it came to one writer’s favorite year, 1993 was the cha-cha-champion. 

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  • My Favorite Music Year 2001

    It was the year the world changed. But its soundtrack came from the moment before catastrophe struck.

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  • Joy Division

    My Favorite Music Year 1979 

    Disco started to die. Punk started to get ill-defined. Everything got dubbed New Wave. And a great year emerged from the confusion.

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  • My Favorite Music Year 2003

    A year when hits actually deserved to be hits.

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  • Notorious B.I.G.

    My Favorite Music Year 1994

    A year of discovery and discouragement.

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  • The Cure

    My Favorite Music Year 1989

    The number of another summer? Absolutely not.

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  • Rick James

    My Favorite Music Year 1981

    It was the year REO Speedwagon’s Hi Infidelity topped the charts. But don’t hold that against it.

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  • The Clash

    My Favorite Music Year 1977

    Punk’s year zero offered an abundance of great music.

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  • Radiohead

    My Favorite Music Year 1997

    The year that brought us OK Computer had a lot more to offer.

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  • Beach Boys

    My Favorite Music Year 1966

    New feature: What year in music means the most to you? Every other week an A.V. Club writer will answer that question. First up: Steven Hyden takes on 1966.

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