Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year, 2023 On the positive side, I did play a lot of guitar.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year, 2022 2023 did, in fact, suck. Maybe one day I’ll talk about that. But not now.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year, 2018 We appear to be smack-gob in the middle of another golden age of music, at least for the music I like.
Music 2011 AotY Retcon Small point of order – I have retroactively changed Clive’s Album of the Year 2011.
Albums of the Years What now? So yeah, observant listeners may have realised that I have now completed my task of picking an Album of the Year (plus runners-up where applicable) for every year from 2017 right back to the year of my birth, 1974.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year, 2017 People have been banging on about how terrible 2017 was… and they're not wrong… but hey, did everyone forget about 2016?
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year, 1974-1976 The end, or I suppose, the beginning. Back to 1974, the year of my birth.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year, 1977-1980 On we go, come on come on, keep up, I haven't got all day, you know.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year, 1981-1985 Right, I hadn't developed a real taste in music this far back, and a lot of what I've gotten into from these years is the back catalogues of a handful of bands...
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year, 1986 1986 was designated the International Year of Peace by the UN. Good-oh.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year, 2016 Unnnnnngh. Whoo. Ummm… yeah. 2016. OK. Damn. Right. Let’s do this.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year, 1987 I was at school with spotty hair and short curly skin, choosing my subjects for GCSE, and in a deeply committed relationship with my ZX Spectrum.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year, 1988 1988 was the year in the 20th century that had the most digits when written as Roman numerals: MCMLXXXVIII. So there's that.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year, 1989 In 1989 I was fifteen, and for my birthday I got my first guitar and a year's worth of guitar lessons. Thank you eternally, Mum and Dad, RIP.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year, 1990 So, 1990. What happened in 1990? Um… I finished school, I suppose.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year, 1991 In 1991 I lost my virginity and got a 49cc moped. And the first Gulf War began. So, you know. A mixed bag there.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 1992 Right. This is going to be a long one, so strap in. Get a coffee, or a beer, or a whiskey, or a cigar. Or all of them if you think it'll help.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 2015 It was both the International Year of Light, and of Soils. Something for everyone there, then.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 2014 2014 was the International Year of Crystallography, of Family Farming, of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, and of Small Island Developing States.
Albums of the Years Albums of the Year, 1993-2013 recap So when I launched this blog, 3 years ago this month, it was mainly because I had discovered the wonder of the Raspberry Pi and wanted an excuse to buy one (that wasn't bitcoin mining) so a blog server seemed like a good idea.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 1993 1993 was the last year of my teens. I'd been playing guitar long enough to think I was pretty good, although that was wrong.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 1994 For rock music, The Dark Times were upon us, and all around was grunge. Nonetheless, a few dim gems sparkled in the muck...
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 1995 It's another tie for 1995. I just couldn't separate what are for me still to this day two perfect albums that have barely dated in two decades.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 1996 1996 was a leap year, and was designated as the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. So that went well, then.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 1997 1997 was the year I first got a modem and discovered the Internet, a move that ended up providing me with a career but started with a £10/month Demon account...
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 1998 1998 marked the end of a few chapters for me, and the beginning of actually having a proper job and getting on with things.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 2013 2013 was the last year of my 30s, and was a pretty OK year for me all round.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 1999 On millennium night I played a covers gig in Hastings, where for the first half we partied like it was 1999, because it was. And then it wasn't. But we carried on anyway.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 2000 Let's all meet up in the year 2000, won't it be strange when we're all fully grown?
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 2001 2001 was of course released in 1968, and what's up with that monolith? Amirite?
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 2002 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 2004 2004 was a leap year starting on a Thursday, and soon after that I turned 30. It was also the International Year of Rice.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 2005 Unfortunately, even though The Dark Times had ended by 2005, this was not a great year for music.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 2006 In 2006 a man named Mathias hired me for the second time, I moved from Leyton E10 to South Woodford E18, I turned 32 and my band Little Monkeys released a live album on 6th June (6/6/6).
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 2009 In 2009 we lost Michael Jackson and Patrick Swayze, Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel prize for peace, there was a coup d'état in Madagascar and swine flu broke out in Mexico.
Albums of the Years Clive’s Album of the Year 2010 2010 was the year in which I got married, the Burj Khalifa opened, Ronnie James Dio and Leslie Nielsen died, and Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon went on The Trip.
