December's finally here and I think it's safe to say there won't be any more great albums released before year end.

So, what's been your favourites this year? I thought it was a better year than most - for both new albums and for reissues.

Here's my list.

1. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi.
2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3. Wilco - The Whole Love
4. Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit
5. Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
6. REM - Collapse Into Now
7. Radiohead - King Of Limbs
8. Adele - 21
9. Gregg Allman - Low Country Blues
10. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead

Bubbling under:
Kasabian - Velociraptor
Emmylou Harris - Hard Bargain
Lucinda Williams - Blessed
The Horrors - Skying
Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest
Joan As Policewoman - The Deep Field
Josh T. Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen
My Morning Jacket - Circuital

Best reissues:
1. The Rolling Stones -Some Girls
2. The Who - Quadrophenia deluxe box set
3. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
4. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
5. The Kinks - Something Else
6. Paul McCartney - McCartney
7. Jim Ford - The Sounds Of Our Time
8. The Beach Boys - Smile



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Lucinda Williams - Blessed...

2 1 2 0

Some Girls Bonus songs

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Come On
Lucinda Williams - Blessed...

Jesus - completely forgot about that one. Thanks for reminding me.

Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What
Feist - Metals
Peter Gabriel & new blood orchestra live
Buddy Holly tribute album
Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials
Cee Lo Green - Lady Killer
Def Leppard's live record
I'm From Barcelona - Forever Today
Adele -21

@#$%& hell, I know nothing of music.

You got the Sun, You got the Moon,
and you've got
The Rolling Stones

In no particular order...

1. Jayhawks - Mockingbird Time
2. Wilco - The Whole Love
3. Thundercat - Golden Age of The Apocolypse
4. Bowie - Toys
5. The London Souls
6. 'Floyd - Wish You Were Here (the bonus disc is a proper "lost album")
7, Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams
8. Pendragon - Passion
9. Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
10 Chickenfoot III

Bubbling just under; The Horrors, Anna Calvi, Opeth - Heritage and The Cars - Drive Like This. The SG bonus disc is ALMOST a marvelous lost album except for the jarring differences between Jagger's vocals now and then and Jagger's harp in the same body of work with Sugar Blue. It is what is but it's just a tiny bit disconcerting.

Tom Waits - Bad As Me
Adele - 21
The Who - Quadrophenia boxset
Rolling Stones - Live In Texas
Rolling Stones - Some Girls deluxe
Thin Lizzy - Live At BBC
Rory Gallagher - Notes from San Francisco

Predictably...

New ones by Wilco, Lucinda Williams, Warren Haynes, Tedeschi-Trucks Band, Paul Simon, Lindsey Buckingham, Robbie Robertson, Brian Wilson (yeah, the Disney Album, I'm a hopeless fan!), Ryan Adams, Gary Clark, Jr, Gregg Allman, Tom Waits, Rich Robinson.

New Oldies: Stones (Brussels, Live In Texas, Some Girls disc.2), Beach Boys - Smile Sessions, Quadrophenia, Alligator Records 40th Anniversary,

Off the top of my head, I'm sure I'm fogetting something. Not a bad year, actually!

Ross

Social Distortion -Hard Times and Nursery Ryhmes

Decemberists - The King Is Dead
Israel Nash Gripka - Barn Doors & Concrete Floors
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part 2
Warren Haynes - Man In Motion
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Elevator
Jayhawks - Mokkingbird Time
New Cool Collective - 18
Rich Robinson - Through A Crooked Sun

And really looking forward to 'El Camino' by the Black Keys (to be released this week).

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Ross
Predictably...

New ones by Wilco, Lucinda Williams, Warren Haynes, Tedeschi-Trucks Band, Paul Simon, Lindsey Buckingham, Robbie Robertson, Brian Wilson (yeah, the Disney Album, I'm a hopeless fan!), Ryan Adams, Gary Clark, Jr, Gregg Allman, Tom Waits, Rich Robinson.

Ross

You should really check out the Barn Doors & Concrete Floors album by Israel Nash Gripka. Judging by your choices, you'll love that one.

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Ross
Predictably...

New ones by Wilco, Lucinda Williams, Warren Haynes, Tedeschi-Trucks Band, Paul Simon, Lindsey Buckingham, Robbie Robertson, Brian Wilson (yeah, the Disney Album, I'm a hopeless fan!), Ryan Adams, Gary Clark, Jr, Gregg Allman, Tom Waits, Rich Robinson.

New Oldies: Stones (Brussels, Live In Texas, Some Girls disc.2), Beach Boys - Smile Sessions, Quadrophenia, Alligator Records 40th Anniversary,

Off the top of my head, I'm sure I'm fogetting something. Not a bad year, actually!


Ya got a good ear, Ross.

Ross

"No Anchovies, Please"

PJ Harvey and Adele

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mr edward
Decemberists - The King Is Dead
Israel Nash Gripka - Barn Doors & Concrete Floors
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part 2
Warren Haynes - Man In Motion
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Elevator
Jayhawks - Mokkingbird Time
New Cool Collective - 18
Rich Robinson - Through A Crooked Sun

And really looking forward to 'El Camino' by the Black Keys (to be released this week).

The warren Haynes album is good.

Beth Hart - Joe Bonamassa - Don't explain

Tedeschi Trucks Band - Elevator

Warren Haynes - Man In Motion

Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

Silver Dagger,

I honestly can't argue with your #1, Anna Calvi. Terrific record!

A few others I enjoyed: Wild Flag, Bon Iver, St. Vincent, Atlas Sound, Thurston Moore, Ry Cooder, The Horrors, Fleet Foxes, Steve Earle, Girls, and Gillian Welch.

LB

Reissue: Throbbing Gristle



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The Jim Jones Revue - Burning Your House Down !!!!!!!

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Ross
Predictably...

New ones by Wilco, Lucinda Williams, Warren Haynes, Tedeschi-Trucks Band, Paul Simon, Lindsey Buckingham, Robbie Robertson, Brian Wilson (yeah, the Disney Album, I'm a hopeless fan!), Ryan Adams, Gary Clark, Jr, Gregg Allman, Tom Waits, Rich Robinson.

Ross

You should really check out the Barn Doors & Concrete Floors album by Israel Nash Gripka. Judging by your choices, you'll love that one.

I will check that out! That is what I like about these "best-of" threads, I almost always find something new I like based on others suggestions. Thanks!

And thanks for the compliment, Elmo.

Ross

Smith & Western "Dye It Blonde"
Cut Copy "Zonoscope"
Tom waits "Bad As Me"
Neon Indian "Ex Estrana"
Strokes "Angles"
Horrors "Skying"
M83s "Hurry Up We're Dreaming"
Girls "Father, Son, Holy Ghost"

I forgot: Black Keys "El Camino" and I just heard Amy's last album.
And then the revitalized Stones



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<<Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi.>>

Good pick, Silver Dagger. Got into her music after she played at Roskilde
Festival this summer. Have had her album in heavy rotation since

Apart from that I think this year belongs to the Bear Family label with them re-issuing
Bo Diddley's Beach Party, them collecting Sonny Burns' Starday recordings which
resulted in a very fine comp of Texas honky-tonk, and finally topping it of with
the tremendous Bristol Sessions box set

Brussels, Live in Texas, Some Girls Deluxe, and although I prefer to not end up a punching bag, I'll say superheavy.

I had a busy year so I didn't buy a lot of new releases.

The Robert Plant album from last year 'Band of Joy' that I only bought this year because I was going to his concert, was sublime.

Just getting into the Black Keys, Brothers, Mumford and Sons (also 2010 release...or maybe 2009?) and am waiting with baited breath for Miles "Kind of Blue" and the Kinks "The Ultimate Collection" from Amazon.co.uk.

Jeez, it's getting pretty sad. My download of the new Brussels Affair is the first album I've acquired this year. I'll probably get the Some Girls Deluxe and maybe the Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here for Christmas. I haven't been impressed by anybody new. Rihanna is a guilty pleasure.

I'm in one of those places where I'm going back and finding older songs. Two of the Reggae cuts Mick Jagger mentioned in Rolling Stone recently, 'You Don't Love Me' - Dawn Penn, & 'Ring The Alarm' - Tenor Saw are killer.









Mostly it's just cuts I'm finding recently, like Nils Lofgrens 'Cry Just A Little' from the Bridges CD (which isn't on YouTube). Here's a new one if you want to test your subwoofer:

lots of stuff i still haven't hear yet so can't really say right now. i like the new stuff by lenny kravitz, robbie robertson, mr big, chickenfoot, whitesnake, king kobra and sebastian bach. i need to hear the new albums by nazareth, beady eye, noel gallaghers high flying birds and michael monroe

>Smith & Western "Dye It Blonde"

Good call & I second that emotion, but the name of the band is Smith Westerns.

Smith Westerns - DYE IT BLONDE

Wire - RED BARKED TREE





New York Dolls - DANCING BACKWARDS IN HIGH HEELS





Gang Of Four - CONTENT





Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - MIRROR TRAFFIC (the video is a must for all Jack Black afficionados):





The Baseball Project - VOL. 2: HIGH AND INSIDE





Eleventh Dream Day - RIOT NOW





R.E.M. - COLLAPSE INTO NOW
My Morning Jacket - CIRCUITAL
Wilco - THE WHOLE LOVE
Lucinda Williams - BLESSED

Heavy Cream (some young upstarts from Nashville) - DANNY:





John Cale - E.P. (EXTRA PLAYFUL)

I somehow forgot one of my favorites:

Meat Puppets - LOLLIPOP











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ten favorite albums from some of you! in one year!

not even in 1968 or 1969, when all we did was smoke rope and listen to music,
did we have ten favorite albums from one year...

ten songs, definitely, but ten albums????

how many times can you possibly listen to these albums?

anyway, grammies say bruno mars, adele, gaga, foo fighters, and rihanna...

havent heard anything from the foo fighters album that we recall at the moment,
so can't say one way or the other.

only know the gaga album from the singles, and dislike every one.

adele's a fine singer, haven't hated any of the songs we've heard, but do
not at all understand all the fuss.

actually have bruno mars album, only listened to it two or three times,
some very good tracks, the radio ones mostly. sorta billy joel meet bill withers
or something like that. possible "song of the year" for "the lazy song".
finally an anthem for the rest of us.

rihanna's "loud", have listened to 40 or 50 times. great great great even if
it does veer off dangerously close to katy perry territory a few times, but each
time saved by that reggae/dancehall backbeat, which dominates on many of
the tracks. we like every track, and love at least half.

otherwise, the only other album of 2011 we listened to a lot was superheavy,
30 or 40 times, but we pulled the plug on it the instant jagger did, and
havent heard it once since. really liked or loved about 10 of the 14 tracks
when we were listening to it, but we've got a serious mental block against
it at the moment. kinda even dislike it now, which is weird.

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Decemberists - The King Is Dead
Israel Nash Gripka - Barn Doors & Concrete Floors
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part 2
Warren Haynes - Man In Motion
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Elevator
Jayhawks - Mokkingbird Time
New Cool Collective - 18
Rich Robinson - Through A Crooked Sun

And really looking forward to 'El Camino' by the Black Keys (to be released this week).

Thanks for reminding me about Israel Nash Gripka. I got the album last night and it's brilliant. Some of the best alt-country I've heard in ages. Reminds me of early Wilco with a bit of Jayhawks thrown in.