got the idea from another board.
pick an album for every year you've been alive.
you can pick what you like now
or pick what you think you would have liked at the time.

1983-suicidal tendencies-suicidal tendencies

1984-out of step-minor threat / hatful of hollow-the smiths (i can't choose between these two, and you can't make me)

1985-live after death-iron maiden

1986-the queen is dead-the smiths

1987-suffer-bad religion

1988-...and justice for all-metallica

1989-start today-gorilla biscuits

1990-bona drag-morrissey

1991-parallels-fates warning

1992-images and words-dream theater

1993-siamese dreams-smashing pumpkins

1994-blue album-weezer

1995-scream, dracula, scream!-rocket from the crypt

1996-experiment zero-man or astro-man?

1997-static age-misfits (originally recorded in 1978 but not released until 1997)

1998-eyes of the oracle-power of omens

1999-something to write home about-the get up kids

2000-white pony-deftones

2001-relationship of command-at the drive-in

2002-the hall of olden dreams-dark moor

2003-de-loused in the comatorium-the mars volta

2004-war all the time-thursday

2005-zona de silencio-agora

2006-age of winters-the sword

2007-phantom punch-sondre lerche

2008-dark deceiver-zero hour

2009-autumnal-dark moor

2010-ancestral romance-dark moor

That's gonna be a long list for people like Kirkland...

gonna be tough to choose between ooga's "call of the sabretooth" and bababoo's "neanderthal blues"