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Favorite Album Every Year Since 1963

2026: Kacey Musgrave: Middle of Nowhere 

2025: Clipse: Let God Sort Em Out  

2024: Waxahachie: Tiger's Blood  

2023: boygenius: The Record 

2022: Miranda Lambert: Palomino 

2021: Sierra Ferrell: Long Time Coming 

2020: The Chicks: Gaslighter

2019: Miranda Lambert: Wildcard          

2018: Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour / First Aid Kit: Ruins (can't choose between these two)   

2017: Pink: Beautiful Trauma 

2016: Miranda Lambert: The Weight of These Wings  

2015: Kacey Musgrave: Pageant Material 

2014: Miranda Lambert: Platinum 

2013: Kacey Musgrave: Same Trailer Different Park 

2012: First Aid Kit: The Lion's Roar 

2011: Miranda Lambert: Four the Record  

2010: Gorillaz: Plastic Beach

2009: Lily Allen: It's Not Me, It's You 

2008: Tift Merritt: Another Country  

2007: Suzanne Vega: Beauty and Crime 

2006: Lily Allen: Alright, Still  

2005: Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning  

2004: Tift Merritt: Tambourine 

2003: Weird Al Yankovic: Poodle Hat 

2002: Kelly Willis: Easy 

2001: Suzanne Vega: Songs in Red and Gray

2000: Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP 

1999: Kelly Willis: What I Deserve  

1998: Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road 

1997: Wu-Tang Forever  

1996: Cowboy Junkies: Lay it Down 

1995: GZA: Liquid Swords 

1994: Nanci Griffith: Flyer 

1993: De La Soul: Buhloone Mindstate

1992: Sade: Love Deluxe

1991: Cypress Hill 

1990: Cowboy Junkies: The Caution Horses 

1989: Beastie Boys: Paul's Boutique 

1988: Lucinda Williams 

1987: Prince: Sign of the Times 

1986: Nanci Griffith: Last of the True Believers 

1985: Suzanne Vega 

1984: Prince: Purple Rain

1983: U2: War  

1982: Nanci Griffith: Poet in My Window

1981: Iron Maiden: Killers 

1980: Iron Maiden 

1979: The B-52s 

1978: Nanci Griffith: There's a Light Beyond These Woods

1977: The Ramones: Rocket to Russia

1976: The Modern Lovers

1975: Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks 

1974: Neil Young: On the Beach

1973: Waylon Jennings: Honky Tonk Heroes  

1972: David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars  

1971: Joni Mitchell: Blue 

1970: Grateful Dead: American Beauty 

1969: The Beatles: Abbey Road

1968: Van Morrison: Astral Weeks   

1967: The Velvet Underground and Nico  

1966: Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde 

1965: Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited 

1964: The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night

1963: The Beatles: Please, Please Me 



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