A former student, Chuck, just posted his favorite albums from 2001. I must admit, of his list, I only knew one of the albums, Dave Matthews Band’s EVERYDAY. Inspired by Chuck, though, I decided to look back over the years from this year. Here’s what I found. Let me know what I’m missing.

Best Albums, 2021–Five Years Ago

Frost, Day and Age

Transatlantic, The Absolute Universe

Big Big Train, Common Ground

Steve Hackett, Surrender of Silence

Best Albums, 2016–Ten Years Ago

Pineapple Thief, Your Wilderness

Steven Wilson, 4 ½

Iamthemorning, Lighthouse

Marillion, FEAR

Kansas, The Prelude Implicit

Riverside, Eye of the Soundscape

Frost, Falling Satellites

Best Albums, 2011–Fifteen Years Ago

Steven Wilson, Grace for Drowning

Yes, Fly From Here

Airbag, All Rights Removed

Porcupine Tree, Anesthetize

Wobbler, Rites at Dawn

Riverside, Memories in My Head

Cosmograf, When Age has done Its Duty

Neal Morse, Testimony Two

Best Albums, 2006–Twenty Years Ago

David Gilmour, On an Island

Frost, Milliontown

Pure Reason Revolution, The Dark Third

Porcupine Tree, Arriving Somewhere

The Tangent, A Place in the Queue

Tool, 10,000 Days

Best Albums 2001–Twenty-five Years Ago

Tool, Lateralus

Muse, Origin of Symmetry

Dave Matthews Band, Everyday

Yes, Magnification

Radiohead, Amnesiac

Transatlantic, Bridge Across Forever

Marillion, Anoraknophobia

Best Albums, 1996–Thirty Years Ago

Flower Kings, Retropolis

Rush, Test for Echo

Porcupine Tree, Signify

Yes, Keys to Ascension

Spock’s Beard, Beware of Darkness

Stone Temple Pilots, Tiny Music

Dave Matthews Band, Crash

Best Albums, 1991–Thirty-five Years Ago

Talk Talk, Laughing Stock

Marillion, Holidays in Eden

Live, Mental Jewelry

My Bloody Valentine, Loveless

Pearl Jam, 10

Matthew Sweet, Girlfriend

U2, Actung Baby

Best Albums, 1986–Forty Years Ago

XTC, Skylarking

Talk Talk, The Colour of Spring

Peter Gabriel, So

The Smiths, The Queen is Dead