What's the best year in music?

>1977:
David Bowie- Low
Sex Pistols- Nevermind the Bollocks
Kraftwerk- Trans Europe Express
David Bowie- Heroes
Wire- Pink Flag
Talking Heads- Talking Heads: 77
Pink Floyd- Animals
Iggy Pop- The Idiot
Suicide- Suicide
Brian Eno- Before and After Sciences
Billy Joel- The Stranger
Meatloaf- Bat Out of Hell
etc...

A third of these artists had better albums the year after:
>1978
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
Wire - Chairs Missing
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
Brian Eno - Music for Airports

plus
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men
Captain Beefheart - Shiny Beast
X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
The Residents - Not Available
V/A - No New York
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives
Throbbing Gristle - D.O.A.

1963
1966
1967
1969
1973
1977
1978
1980
1985
1986
1991
1992
1997
2000
2001
2004
2008
2011
2016

all the best years for music post-1960

Pere Ubu released both The Modern Dance and Dub Housing in 78 as well.

97-98 was the best two year span.

1979, 1989, and 1994 are missing

1967
>doors - s/t
>velvet underground and nico
>pink floyd - piper at the gates of dawn
>jimi hendrix - are you experienced and axis: bold as love
>beatles - sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band and MMT
>cream - disraeli gears and forever changes
>captain beefheart - safe as milk
>frank zappa - absolutely free
>nico - chelsea girl

1973 is objectively the best year in music

>Low
oh user, that's my soft spot

91
>Spiderland
>loveless
>laughing stock
>nevermind
>screamadelica
>Goat
>Yerself Is Steam
>blue lines
>just for a day
>WLFTMOI

Who cares dude its just music

>More Songs is better than TH:77
kek

2000 and 2001 were the best years for music

>forgetting the best album of that year

Y my dude?

>cream - disraeli gears and forever changes
snuck it in there my guy

Sorry my friend

67-71, take your pick

2008 over 2007?
Overall though this is accurate

1997

Lots of good ones in this thread- the most common ones I see are 1967, 1977, 1991, and 2001.

1973 is the golden year of prog though:
>Pink Floyd - DSOTM
>Can - Future Days
>Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
>King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
>Faust - Faust IV
>Yes - Yessongs
>Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
>Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

1983-1993
at least metal-wise, that's when most of the influential albums were released

This

1971
>Surf's Up
>Tago Mago
>Mirror Man
>Let My Children Hear Music
>Cluster 71
>The Polite Force
>Faust
>Acquiring the Taste
>Aqualung
>Islands
>Led Zeppelin IV
>Journey to the Centre of the Eye
>Meddle
>In Den Garten Pharaos
>Alpha Centauri
>Fragile