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RateYourMusic has some really cool charts that allow you to find out what the best albums and films are of each year (you can also do it by decade, all-time and shorten down to certain genres).

So inspired by a transparent topic, I will be getting a list of the best albums and films of each year. Claim which year is yours (or if you know a lot of the stuff, which one is the best). The highest rated album/film will be in bold. I'll be doing 1990 and up:

For music

1990: Rust in Peace, Violator, Painkiller, Soundtrack from Twin Peaks, Seasons in the Abbys, Heaven or Las Vegas, Repeater, Goo, Fear of a Black Planet The Good Songs

1991: Loveless, Nevermind, Spiderland, The Low End Theory, Laughing Stock, Ten, Human, Unquestionable Presence, Complete Works Opp 1-31 (Pierre Boulez), White Light from the Mouth of Infinity

1992: Automatic for the People, Rage Against the Machine, Slanted and Enchanted, Bone Machine, Dirt, Selected Ambient Works 85-92, Angel Dust, Symphony No. 3 (London Sinfonietta/David Zinman; Dawn Upshaw), Down Colorful Hill, Blues for the Red Sun

1993: Enter the Wu-Tang Clan (36 Chambers), Siamese Dream, Souvlaki, Midnight Marauders, In Utero, Individual Thought Patterns, Red House Painters [Rollercoaster], Tindersticks, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ptiza

1994: Illmatic, Dummy, Grace, Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, Welcome to Sky Valley, The Downward Spiral, Ready to Die, Weezer (Blue Album), Let Love In, Bee Thousand

1995: The Bends, Liquid Swords, Symbolic, Different Class, The Infamous, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, To Bring You My Love, Storm of the Light's Bane, Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler

1996: Endtroucing..., If You're Feeling Sinsister, Ænima, Pinkerton, ATLiens, Through Silver in Blood, Soundtracks for the Blind, Crimson, Reasonable Doubt, Ridin' Dirty

1997: OK Computer, F♯A♯∞, Either/Or, Homegenic, Perfect from Now On, The Lonesome Crowded West, I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, Portishead

1998: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Mezzanine, Aquemini, XO, The Sound of Perseverance, Music Has the Right to Children, Moment of Truth, The Shape of Punk to Come, Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star, Music for 18 Musicians

1999: Ágætis byrjun, The Soft Bulletin, The Soft Bulletin, Still Life, 69 Love Songs, Black on Both Sides, I See a Darkness, At the Heart of Winter, Keep it Like a Secret, Chrono Cross: Original Soundtrack

2000: Kid A, Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antenas to Heaven, The Moon & Antarctica, Relationship of Command, Dopethrone, Deltron 3030, Close to a World Below, American III: Solitary Man, Perdition City, Since I Left You

2001: Blackwater Park, Lateralus, Amnesiac, Is This It, Jane Doe, Vespertine, Amélie, Leaves Turn Inside You, The Glow Pt. 2, No More Shall We Part

2002: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Turn On the Bright Lights, ( ), Songs for the Deaf, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, The Mantle, In Absentia, You Forgot It in People, American IV: The Man Comes Around, Geogaddi

2003: De-Loused in the Comatorium, Hail to the Thief, Elephant, Mitch All Together, Boris at Last -Feedbacker-, D***ation, The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place, Ghosts of the Great Highway, Kivenkantaja, Chutes Too Narrow

2004: Funeral, Madvillainy, Panopticon, Leviathan, The Eye of Every Storm, K.A (Kohntarkosz Anteria), The College Dropout, Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, Munly & The Lee Lewis Harlots, A Long Hot Summer

2005: Illinois, Alligator, Ghost Reveries, Rossz csillag alatt született, The Ape of Naples,  Takk..., Verisäkeet, A Piece of Strange, Deadwing, The Galilean Satellites

2006: Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & B******s, Donuts, Ashes Against the Grain, The Fountain, Ys, Harmony in Ultraviolet, Game Theory, OM, The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me, Blood in Our Wells

2007: In Rainbows, Boxer, Person Pitch, Untrue, Neon Bible, For Emma Forever Ago, To the Nameless Dead, Sound of Silver, Strawberry Jam, Werewolves and Lollipops

2008: Third, The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006, Fleet Foxes, Microcastle / Weird Era Continued, Deathconsciousness, Orchestral Works (Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI/Tito Ceccherini), The '59 Sound, La ley innata, Watershed, Masse Mensch Material

2009: Merriweather Post Pavilion, Crack the Skye, Black Future, Голос сталі, Veckatimest, Flowers From Exile, Axe to Fall, Isla, Addicted, Stone's Reach

2010: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, High Violet, The Suburbs, Have One on Me, Teen Dream, Halcyon Digest, The ArchAndroid, Whom the Moon a Nightsong Sings, Marrow of the Spirit, Cosmogramma

2011: Let England Shake, Bad As Me, Outer Isolation, Oneirology, Grace for Drowning, Helplessness Blues, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Blood Lust, Bon Iver Bon Iver, ravedeath 1972

2012: The Seer, good kid m.A.A.d city, Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin/André de Ridder; Daniel Hope), 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!, Shields, All We Love We Leave Behind, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do, Lonerism, Bloom, ...And Death Said Live

For film

1990: GoodFellas, Decalogue VI, Decalogue V, Close-Up, Miller's Crossing, Decalogue IV, Trust, Step Across the Border, Edward Scissorhands, Jacob's Ladder

1991: The Silence of the Lambs, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, A Brighter Summer day, Barton Fink, Raise the Red Lantern, The Beautiful Troublemaker, The Double Life of Veronique, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, Night on Earth, Only Yesterday

1992: Reservoir Dogs, Unforgiven, The Second Heimat, Glengarry Glen Ross, Baraka, Lessons of Darkness, Dead Alive, Hard Boiled, Man Bites Dog, Porco Russo

1993: Naked, Schindler's List, The Wrong Trousers, Three Colors: Blue, Groundhog Day, Short Cuts, La classe américaine, Blue, Abraham's Valley, Carlito's Way

1994: Pulp Fiction, Satan's Tango, The Shawshank Redemption, Hoop Dreams, Three Colours: Red, The Kingdom, Crumb, Chungking Express, Ed Wood, Leon: The Professional

1995: Se7en, The Beatles Anthology, Underground, Dead Man, Before Sunrise, Toy Story, Hate, Casino, 12 Monkeys, Heat

1996: Fargo, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Trainspotting, Secrets & Lies, Breaking the Waves, Sling Blade, When We Were Kings, Few of Us, A Moment of Innocence, Drifting Clouds

1997: Princess Mononoke, Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion, Lost Highway, Fireworks, Boogie Nights, L.A. Confidential, The Kingdom II, Mother and Son, Cure, Taste of Cherry

1998: The Big Lebowski, Histoire(s) du cinéma, The Celebration, The Thing Red Line, The Truman Show, Rushmore, Happiness, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, American History X, Buffalo '66

1999: Fight Club, American Beauty, The Matrix, Magnolia, Being John Malkovich, American Movie, Ruroni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal, Rosetta, The Straight Story, Peppermint Candy

2000: Werckmeister Harmonies, As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpes of Beauty, Memento, Eureka, Yi Yi: A One and a Two, In the Mood for Love, FLCL, Love's a B****, Snatch, Requiem for a Dream

2001: Spirited Away, Mulholland Drive, Band of Brothers, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Amelie, The Royal Tenebaums, Donnie Darko, The Man Who Wasn't There, Cat Soup, Millenium Actress

2002: City of God, Day of the Wacko, The Pianist, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Charcoal Fathers Federation, The Century of Self, Adaptation., Talk to Her, Oasis, Blissfully Yours

2003: Oldboy, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Lost in Translation, Dogville, Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks, Memories of Murder, Kill Bill Vol. 1, The Best of Youth, The Return, Mystic River

2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Before Sunset, Paranoia Agent, Mind Game, Tropical Malady, Downfall, 3-Iron, Nobody Knows, Shaun of the Dead, Howl's Moving Castle

2005: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, We Jam Econo: The Story of Minutemen, Grizzly Man, The Flaming Lips: The Fearless Freaks, Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Towness Van Zandt, Hidden, Sin City, Adam's Apples, The Proposition

2006: The Lives of Others, The Departed, Pan's Labyrinth, The Prestige, Syndromes and a Century, Children of Men, Lake of Fire, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, This is England

2007: There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Heima, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Encounters at the End of the World, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Hot Fuzz, Into the Wild, Persepolis

2008: The Dark Knight, WALL-E, Love Exposure, Let the Right One In, Generation Kill, The Wrestler, John Adams, Gran Torino, Waltz With Bashir, In Bruges

2009: Inglorious B******s, Mary and Max, Up, The White Ribbon, Fantastic Mr. Fox, A Prophet, Monty Python: Almost the Truth-- The Lawyer's Cut, Moon, In the Loop, Life

2010: Toy Story 3, Ayrton Senna: Beyond the Speed of Sound, Inception, The Tatami Galaxy, Black Swan, Exit Through the Gift Shop, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Mysteries of Libson, Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage

2011: A Separation, Drive, The Turin Horse, Black Mirror, Samsara, Olso August 31st, The Tree of Life, Rose, The Artist, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

2012: Django Unchained, The Master, Moonrise Kingdom, Love, Holy Motors, Tabu, Wreck-It Ralph, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Dark Knight Rises

Last edited by sanddude (2013-01-06 10:23:30)