On October 24th, 2022, I turned 30. I didn’t have any big plans for the momentous date which is convenient for me since I also came down with covid the day of. While marinating in a fever-addled haze, I thought it might be special to construct some kind of tribute to the music that has proliferated while I’ve been here on Earth. What I landed on is picking (or at least, attempting to pick) one ultimate album from each year I’ve been alive, from 1992 – 2022. I meant to get this out closer to the date of my birthday but man, writer’s block, my obsession with furthering the 80s project I’m working on and the effort put into my Best of 2022 lists put this to the wayside. Well, here it is now.
Going through the choices, I’m realizing I’m not blowing any minds or picking anything out of the canon of historically great releases, but it was nice to collect a little portfolio of what has been artistically accomplished over the last 30 years. It’s easy to collect and observe artistic output and achievement through decades, but how about a little snapshot, a rather tight one at that (limiting how many albums I can feature for each year).
Now there are two examples in this list where I couldn’t pick just one record. I know the whole point of this exercise was for me to pick ONE favorite per year. Well, it’s my blog, and sometimes the emotional distress of leaving something off was too much to bear. I know you’ll be able to understand. This only happens twice. I think we all can live with that.
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