Liam Sullivan's Ideas and Reflections
I celebrated my 50th year by watching and reviewing one movie from each year of my life. I got to watch a lot of movies I’d been meaning to see for a long time, some stone cold classics, as well as eight movies I’d seen before but not for a long time. I even got to watch Picnic at Hanging Rock, Grand Budapest Hotel, and All That Jazz on the big screen!
Here’s the complete list in chronological order.
Over the course of my 50th year, I listened to one album from each year of my life that I hadn’t reviewed before. About a third of the albums were ones I was familiar with from owning and listening to at the time they came out. But most of the albums were new to me. I tried branch out into as many genres as possible and I think you’ll see an interesting spread of popular music styles in the albums reviewed.
Here’s the complete list of albums in chronological order.
| 1973 | Gladys Knight and the Pips | Imagination |
| 1974 | Gram Parsons | Grievous Angel |
| 1975 | U Roy | Dread in a Babylon |
| 1976 | The Wild Tchoupitoulas | The Wild Tchoupitoulas |
| 1977 | Donna Summer | I Remember Yesterday |
| 1978 | The Police | Outlandos d’Amour |
| 1979 | Supertramp | Breakfast in America |
| 1980 | Frank Sinatra | Trilogy: Past Present Future |
| 1981 | Hall & Oates | Private Eyes |
| 1982 | Laurie Anderson | Big Science |
| 1983 | Huey Lewis and the News | Sports |
| 1984 | Tina Turner | Private Dancer |
| 1985 | John Fogerty | Centerfield |
| 1986 | Bad Brains | I Against I |
| 1987 | Sting | . . . Nothing Like the Sun |
| 1988 | Cowboy Junkies | The Trinity Session |
| 1989 | Cardiacs | On Land And In The Sea |
| 1990 | Hindu Love Gods | Hindu Love Gods |
| 1991 | Primus | Sailing the Seas of Cheese |
| 1992 | Arrested Development | 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of… |
| 1993 | The Cranberries | Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? |
| 1994 | Underworld | Dubnobasswithmyheadman |
| 1995 | Garbage | Garbage |
| 1996 | Luscious Jackson | Fever In Fever Out |
| 1997 | Cornershop | When I Was Born for the 7th Time |
| 1998 | Fatboy Slim | You’ve Come a Long Way Baby |
| 1999 | Built to Spill | Keep It Like a Secret |
| 2000 | Godspeed You Black Emperor! | Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven |
| 2001 | Dolly Parton | Little Sparrow |
| 2002 | Beck | Sea Change |
| 2003 | Four Tet | Rounds |
| 2004 | Nouvelle Vague | Nouvelle Vague |
| 2005 | Sufjan Stevens | Illinois |
| 2006 | Joanna Newsom | Ys. |
| 2007 | The National | Boxer |
| 2008 | TV on the Radio | Dear Science |
| 2009 | Dizee Rascal | Tongue n’ Cheek |
| 2010 | The Chieftains featuring Ry Cooder | San Patricio |
| 2011 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues |
| 2012 | Pink | The Truth About Love |
| 2013 | Kacey Musgraves | Same Trailer Different Park |
| 2014 | Against Me! | Transgender Disphoria Blues |
| 2015 | Father John Misty | I Love You, Honeybear |
| 2016 | Mitski | Puberty 2 |
| 2017 | Julien Baker | Turn Out the Lights |
| 2018 | David Byrne | American Utopia |
| 2019 | Ariana Grande | thank u, next |
| 2020 | Fontaines D.C. | A Hero’s Death |
| 2021 | Brandi Carlile | In These Silent Days |
| 2022 | Taylor Swift | Midnights |
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