gB's Rather Arbitrary Top 5 Albums of Each Year

2008	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	The Indelicates Robyn Hitchcock Le Emu Tavern Tilly and the Wall Flight Of The Conchords	American Demo Shadow Cat ...And I Was Sore Afraid O Flight Of The Conchords
2007	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Robyn Hitchcock Abdoujaparov Jim Bob Art Brut Electric Six	While Thatcher Mauled Britain Cycle Riot History Gang A Humpty Dumpty Thing It's A Bit Complicated I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master
2006	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Decemberists Jim Bob Tilly and the Wall "Weird Al" Yankovic Robyn Hitchcock	The Crane Wife School Bottoms Of Barrels Straight Outta Lynwood Olé! Tarantula
2005	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Decemberists Robyn Hitchcock They Might Be Giants Bloc Party Nine Inch Nails	Picaresque Obliteration Pie Here Come the ABC's Silent Alarm [With_Teeth]
2004	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Jim Bob Tilly and the Wall Robyn Hitchcock Augie March The Features	Angelstrike! Wild Like Children Spooked Strange Bird Exhibit A
2003	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Steve Burns Jim Bob Decemberists Radiohead Kimya Dawson	Songs For Dustmites Goodnight Jim Bob Her Majesty Hail to the Thief My Cute Friend Sweet Princess
2002	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Decemberists Flaming Lips Kay Hanley Kimberly Trip Abdoujaparov	Castaways & Cutouts Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Cherry Marmalade Not Compatible With My System Air Odeon Disco Pub
2001	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	They Might Be Giants Flashing Lights Hedwig James Robert Morrison Moldy Peaches	Mink Car Sweet Release Hedwig and the Angry Inch (movie soundtrack) J.R. Moldy Peaches
2000	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Robyn Hitchcock Jim's Super Stereoworld Flashing Lights Augie March A3	A Star For Bram Jim's Super Stereoworld Where the Change Is Sunset Studies La Peste
1999	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Robyn Hitchcock The Body Has A Head "Weird Al" Yankovic Flaming Lips The Stereo	Jewels For Sophia The Body Has A Head Running With Scissors The Soft Bulletin Three Hundred
1998	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Robyn Hitchcock Neutral Milk Hotel Carter USM Smashing Pumpkins Mono Puff	Storefront Hitchcock In the Aeroplane Over the Sea I Blame the Government Adore It's Fun To Steal
1997	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Carter USM Radiohead Portishead Letters To Cleo Ween	A World Without Dave OK Computer Portishead Go! The Mollusk
1996	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Robyn Hitchcock Barry Adamson Mono Puff "Weird Al" Yankovic Heavenly	Moss Elixir Oedipus Schmoedipus Unsupervised Bad Hair Day Operation Heavenly
1995	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Radiohead Belly Smashing Pumpkins Rentals David Bowie	The Bends King Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Return of the Rentals 1. Outside
1994	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Carter USM They Might Be Giants Luna Portishead Stone Roses	Worry Bomb John Henry Bewitched Dummy Second Coming
1993	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Carter USM Smashing Pumpkins Belly Dramarama Rush	Post Historic Monsters Siamese Dream Star Hi-Fi Sci-Fi Counterparts
1992	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Carter USM The Cure Ride King Missile A House	1992: The Love Album Wish Going Blank Again Happy Hour I Am The Greatest
1991	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Smashing Pumpkins Carter USM Head Candy King Missile Violent Femmes	Gish 30 Something Starcaster The Way To Salvation Why Do Birds Sing?
1990	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Robyn Hitchcock They Might Be Giants King Missile Black Sabbath Primus	Eye Flood Mystical Shit Tyr Frizzle Fry
1989	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Carter USM Nine Inch Nails The Cure Pop Will Eat Itself Faith No More	101 Damnations Pretty Hate Machine Disintegration This is the Day... This is the Hour... This is This! The Real Thing
1988	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	They Might Be Giants Jane's Addiction Blue Öyster Cult DJ Jazzy Jef & the Fresh Prince Weird Al Yankovic	Lincoln Nothing's Shocking Imaginos He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper Even Worse
1987	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Guns N' Roses R.E.M. Cure Pop Will Eat Itself Aerosmith	Appetite For Destruction Dead Letter Office Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me Box Frenzy Permanent Vacation
1986	Band / Artist	Album Title
1 2 3 4 5	Various Artists Run DMC Robyn Hitchcock Beastie Boys Bon Jovi	The Transformers (movie soundtrack) Raising Hell Element of Light License To Ill Slippery When Wet

CD History:
The very first CD I ever owned was Starcaster by the band Head Candy. I won it on the radio and didn't own a CD at the time so I traded it to Autumn for (I think) his Twisted Sister - Come Out And Play tape. I also won my second CD on the radio. It was Just Say Anything - Volume V of the Just Say Yes series. I gave it to Laura for her birthday or Christmas or something. The third CD I ever owned was Carter USM's Sheriff Fatman single. I still didn't have a CD player, but I had to have it. I sold it to Derik and then made a copy for myself on cassette.

Then, in 1992, my high school graduation present was a new stereo including a 5 disc carousel CD player (which I still have). That night at Project: Graduation (which every senior went to except for Ness - which I guess means that only she'll get into Heaven) I received my fourth CD in a raffle. It was Going Blank Again by Ride. I had never heard of Ride. I played the CD the next morning and I really liked it. (Today, I own 9 Ride CDs.) The next day, I grew tired of listening to Ride constantly and I went to South Park (the mall, not the show) to buy four more CDs to put in my 5 disc changer. I purchased a bizarre assortment indeed:

Elvis Hitler - Supersadomasochisticexpialidocious
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole (11 track single)
Firehose - Live Totem Pole EP (featuring a BÖC cover)
The Fatima Mansions - Tima Mansio Dumps The Dead