The year is drawing to an end and lots of interesting albums were released. What are your favourites? Wich are the albums you still will be listening to in, say, 5 years?

Here are my choices:

Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Black Crowes - Before The Frost...
Derek Trucks Band - Already Free
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
Monsters of Folk - MOnsters of Folk

The Dead Wheather, Eels, The Artic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand and Dan Auerback (Black Keys) all released good albums, but I wonder if they wil get a regular spin in a couple of months.

What are your choices? Did I overlook a great album?

Let's hear it!

Don't forget Green Day, Neil Young, Wilco and Kiss

Wilco yes, correct. That was a good album. Never understood the appeal of the 21 th century MTV version of Greenday though.

those not mentioned... more to come... x)

U2 - No Line On The Horizon
Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Bob Dylan - Christmas In The Heart

Mastodon - Crack the Skye

Booker T.- Potato Hole
Bob Dylan- Together Through Time
U2- No line on the Horizon
Clapton- Winwood- live

Saw 'Monsters of Folk' at a benefit concert last month- loved them. I'll have to buy that album- thanks for jogging the memory (usually that takes dynamite).

right now i'd say:
1 black crowes- before the frost
2 cheap trick- the latest
3 john fogert- blue ridge ranger rides again
4 queensryche- american soldier
5 chickenfoot- self titled
6 heaven and hell- the devil you know
7 megadeth- endgame
8 ace frehley- anamoly
9 stryper- murder by pride
10 alice in chains- black gives way to blue

honorable mention: living colour- chair in the doorway

best current live albums(the concert was recorded within the last 2 years):
winwood/clapton- live in madison square garden
stephen stills- live at shepherds bush

best archive live albums:
the doors- live in new york
grateful dead- to terrapin hartford '77

best compilation/rerelease/archive studio release:
graham nash- reflections
stephen stills- mannassas pieces
twisted sister- stay hungry 25th anniversary
lenny kravitz- let love rule 20th anniversary
crosby,stills and nash- demos
creedence clearwater revival- singles collection

this did not count the great beatles remasters


i think thats about right

Never listened to Clapton/Winwood, but will give it a listen!

There is so much else out there

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'The Ballad of John Henry' Joe Bonamassa.

'The Resistance' Muse.

"I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon."

Dead Weather-Horehound

POPULAR SONGS by Yo La Tengo

Have only bought very few new releases this year, but Allen Toussaint's The Bright Mississippi and Booker T's Potato Hole have both turned out to be keepers

As for archive releases/re-issues; Sly & The Family Stone's Woodstock set have been on heavy rotation since I got it
The release of early King Tubby dubs of Clancy Eccless material on Sound System International proved to be something very special
... have yet to pick up the latest installment of the Doors BMA series

THE ETERNAL by Sonic Youth is another contender. (Though I sense I don't share the "classic rock" tendency of some other posters.)

Well, the best one by miles this far 2009 is DINOSAUR JR - FARM.

Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk
Black Crowes- Before the Frost
Norah Jones - The Fall
Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up
Drive By Truckers - Live In Austin
Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band - Outer South

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Devon Sproule - Don't Hurry For Heaven!

Wilco - Wilco

Drive By Truckers - Live In Austin

Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band - Outer South

Bob Dylan - together Through Life

these have all been mentioned before, but I'm afraid at least the Crowes won't be featured too high on your MOJOs and Uncuts year end lists, so...











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Tom Petty Live boxset
The Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - When Sweet Sleep Returned (amazing psych rock band from San Fran)
School Of Seven Bells - Alpinism (dreamy indie electronic pop)

By the way, School Of Seven Bells has one of the foxiest girls singers out there right now. Her name is Alejandra Deheza. Pictured in front below.

Electric Arguments

Bowie Live Santa Monica

kiss sonic boom

"1372 Overton Park" by Lucero: good stuff !

Fleet Foxes is great, best album I have heard in a long time !

Stooges - You Want My Name box must be the most surprising and best reissue

Portugal The Man record is also not bad.

Also Dead Weather,Reigning Sound, The Heavy, there is lots of good music around it just seems to get harder to dig it up

"Born On Earth" - Rusty Anderson.
"The Long Fall Back To Earth" - Jars of Clay.

Sorry Stooges set is not a reissue, most of the material has never been released before, and yes the Dinosaur Jr album Farm is also great, they havent lost it at all.

Absolutely Sea of tears by Elien Jewell and others of course...
Wilco
Levon Helm
U2
and Dan Auerback

Carlitos
Tenerife