What 3-Year Span of Music is your Favorite? (3 Viewers)

[Colquhoun]

Even though I wasn't in high school until the early '80s, for me, the years 1976-1978 are unprecedented. My favorite groups were all producing my favorite albums.
To name a mere few:
Genesis: A Trick of the Tail, Wind & Wuthering
Steely Dan: The Royal Scam, Aja
Boston: Boston
Rush: 2112, A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres
Queen: A Night at the Opera (ok, late november 1975), A Day AT The Races
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
Aerosmith: Rocks, Draw the Line
Eagles: Hotel California
Pink Floyd: Animals, (and Wish You Were Here came in the 2nd half of 1975)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Damn the Torpedoes
The Cars: The Cars
Blondie: Blondie
David Bowie: Station to Station, Low
Peter Frampton: Frampton Comes Alive
Eric Clapton: Slowhand
ELO: Out of the Blue
Styx: The Grand Illusion
Foreigner: Foreigner, Double Vision

And so SO many other amazing albums in this short, 3 year span. It's like all those groups were firing on all cylinders...and so many new groups launched debut albums. 1975 was no slouch either.

The question also is, how many 3-year spans in the last 20 will be even remotely as memorable?

 

[TheYeti]

For me, someone who graduated HS in 1982, it would have to be 1991-1993. Big grunge and heavy metal fan.

Pearl Jam: Ten & VS.
Red Hot Chile Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Nirvana: Nevermind
R.E.M: Automatic for the People
Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream & Gish
Rage Against the Machine: Rage Against the Machine
Temple of the Dog: Temple of the Dog
U2 Achtung Baby
Blind Melon: Blind Melon
Metallica: The Black Album
Alice in Chains: Dirt
Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger
Tool: Undertow
Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion 1&2

And many more.

 

[dazoki]

91-93 for me as well - enjoyed all in the previous thread but would also add some of the post punk goodness like Fugazi and Bad Brains - Ministry and Nine inch Nails were around as well but they were a pre-91 start

…those years also gave me the tail end of the golden age of hip hop with

A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Gang Starr - Step into the Arena
De La Soul - De La Soul is Dead
Cypress Hill
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang
….too many more to list

..also got the second wave of Detroit Techno with the likes of Jeff Mills, Carl Craig, Robert Hood, Drexciya, Plastikman..

The UK gave me Shoegazers like - My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, Ride

…was an exciting time to be a concert goer in NYC.

 

[Saoliver]

1993 is the best year in music. Just go Google the albums that came out in 1993. Grunge. Pop. R&B. Rap. Amazing music. So any 3 years around there that include 1993 and I’m good.

 

[ekricket]

You can’t forget the 64-68 eras. Not just the Beatles and stones and whatnot but all the incredible country/western that came out then. Not the bubblegum pop country of today.

 

[Saoliver]

I am biased to these years, and I think many are, because it was my middle school/early teen years. And Columbia House and BMG were making cheap music accessible then. Lol

 

[buffalojim]

Wow, tough question. Probably 1969-1972 if I only get 3 years. I think 1969 has to be included, so many of my foundational bands debuted albums that year.