Top Ten Best Years in Rock Music

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The Top Ten

1 1970

Black Sabbath, In Rock, Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs, Led Zeppelin III, Let it Be - somekindofaguy

2 1975

Physical Graffiti, Horses, Blood on the Tracks, A Night at the Opera, Wish You Were Here - somekindofaguy

3 1969

The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Who, Pink Floyd, and King Crimson.

Abbey Road, Led Zeppelin, Tommy, Trout Mask Replica, Kick Out the Jams - somekindofaguy

This year saw The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, the Who,
And the final week of 1969 saw the very first chart entry from the Jackson 5, plus the summer of 1969 featured a little concert event called Woodstock.

4 1967

Are You Experienced, The Doors, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Velvet Underground & Nico, Disraeli Gears - somekindofaguy

5 1976

Boston, Rocks, Jailbreak, 2112, Rising - somekindofaguy

6 1957

Chirping Crickets, Here's Little Richard, After School Session, Jailhouse Rock, Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps - somekindofaguy

7 1973

Raw Power, Band on the Run, Pronounced Leh Nerd Skeh Nerd, Dark Side of the Moon, Quadrophenia - somekindofaguy

8 1968

Beggars Banquet, The Beatles (or the white album), waiting for the sun

9 1986

Slippery When Wet, Master of Puppets, Reign in Blood, The Queen is Dead, Turbo - somekindofaguy

10 1965

My Generation, Out of Our Heads, Rubber Soul, Here Are The Sonics, Highway 61 Revisited - somekindofaguy

The Contenders

11 1999
12 1971

Really?
Led Zeppelin IV, Who's Next, Sticky Fingers, Meddle, Fragile, Concert for Bangladesh, Imagine, Hunky Dory, What's Going On, Harvest, Tapestry…
I say again…Really? Does any other year come close?
I must admit, though, it is difficult to pick a year in which the neither the Beatles nor Van Halen nor Rush nor Michael Jackson put out material. Oh well.

13 2003

Evanescence and Linkin Park released their albums "Fallen" (Evanescence) and "Meteora" (Linkin Park) only weeks apart. It was also the year Three Days Grace's self titled album was released.

14 2000
15 1991

The year Grunge became mainstream, Green Day's debut album, and new albums and hits from Nirvana, RHCP, and R.E.M.

16 1994
17 1983

Pyromania, Kill 'em All, Peace of Mind, Murmur, War - somekindofaguy

18 1955
19 2016 2016 (MMXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2016th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 16th year of the 3rd millennium, the 16th year of the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2010s decade.

Utterly without merit.

20 1959
21 1950
22 2012
23 2002
24 2010
25 1990
26 1978
27 2007
28 1979
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