Best Albums/Songs of Year 5

I started the 1001albumsin10years project on December 1^st, 2011.

Back on November 30, 2016 (last year, apparently!), I hit the exact midpoint, the 500.5/1001 album mark.

Which means this fiscal-year-in-review post is over a month late: does that still qualify as fashionably unpunctual?

Here’s the ‘best-of’ from the 1001 albums book, by decade, from my 5th year of blogging.

Enjoy!

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The progress thus far:

# of albums	Completed so far	Completed %
23	18	78.3%
151	67	44.4%
279	118	42.3%
210	94	44.8%
239	140	58.6%
99	64	64.6%
1001	500.5	50.0%

As was the case for my first, second, third, and fourth year-in-review posts, the annual summary of my favourites from the past year.

The Top Songs & Albums of Year 5:

1950s (I only reviewed 1 album, so it’s a clean sweep for Marty!):
Album – Marty Robbins, Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs (1959)
Song – Marty Robbins, Big Iron (1959)

1960s:
Album – Leonard Cohen, Songs of Leonard Cohen (1968)
Song – The Byrds, My Back Pages (1967)

1970s:
Album – Elton John, Madman Across the Water (1971)
Song – Rush, 2112 (1976)

1980s:
Album – Iron Maiden, Iron Maiden (1980)
Song – Abba, Slipping Through My Fingers (1981)

1990s:
Album – Aimee Mann, Whatever (1993)
Song – Liz Phair, Fuck and Run (1993)

2000s:
Album – Björk, Medúlla (2004)
Song – Bebel Gilberto, Samba e Amor (2000)

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My vision for the new year?

A new weekly series, “Artist of the Week.”

The goal is to explore 50 artists over the next 50 weeks, spending a week with each artist, with plenty of Top 5s/Polls/Quizzes along the way.

And of course, each post will feature an “Artist of the Week” logo by Sarca (*Spoiler Alert* – it’s another gem!),

Thank you all for being a part of this journey!

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Verbalize the Positive

I enjoy that Geoff @ The Hackskeptic’s View has heaps of great series on the go, including being up to #220 on his 500 Greatest Songs Countdown. It’s also been a pleasure meeting a fellow 1001 albums reviewer named Geoff!