OK, we're slowly approaching the end of this year so maybe it would be cool to make a list of our favourite albums released this year. There are still some albums to come (AC/DC, Smashing Pumpkins) but I think that we can start forming our lists now. Maybe at the end of December we will count our votes to find the favorite IORR album of 2014 . So my selection is:

Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
Jack White - Lazaretto
Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes
Mastodon - Once More Round The Sun
The Black Keys - Turn Blue
Die Antwoord - Donker Mag

SUN KIL MOON: Benji!

Ryan Adams new self titled album is fantastic.

Best or favorite?

I'm going with George Harrison The Apple Years.

Ace Frehley = space invader

Hampton
LA

Royal blood - royal blood, Awsome
Blues pills - blues pills, Awsome
The new "pink floyd" has its hghlights,
Hozier - hozier also has some good songs.

-TomR

Beck: Morning Phase
Parquet Courts: Sunbathing Animal
Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings; Give the People What They Want
Spoon: They Want My Soul

Lucinda Williams - Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone
Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes Complete
Wilco - Alpha Mike Foxtrot
The Allman Brothers - Fillmore Box
Tweedy - Sukierae
Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams

Bruce Springsteen: High Hopes
Robert Plant: Lullaby & The Ceaseless Roar
Various: New Basement Tapes
Willie Nelson : Band of Brothers

Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings of Louis Armstrong and the All Stars
Jack White - Lazzaretto
AC/DC - Rock or Bust
Hampton 1981 and L.A. Live 1975
Lucinda Williams - Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone

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OK, we're slowly approaching the end of this year so maybe it would be cool to make a list of our favourite albums released this year. There are still some albums to come (AC/DC, Smashing Pumpkins) but I think that we can start forming our lists now. Maybe at the end of December we will count our votes to find the favorite IORR album of 2014 . So my selection is:

Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
Jack White - Lazaretto
Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes
Mastodon - Once More Round The Sun
The Black Keys - Turn Blue
Die Antwoord - Donker Mag

How different tastes can be.
After buying all and everything Mastodon did for many years and seeing them 5 times I was very disappointed with their latest effort. It lost its energy and its too much of a stoner rock thing now.
Black Keys, same story. I saw them 3 times. Brothers was their best effort. Unfortunately after that they stopped growing.

My vote for album of the year : Behemoth - The Satanist.

Tom Petty - Hypnotic Eye

"Take all the pain...It's yours anyway"

Winterstorm - Cathyron

Listen here to the title song

I go for Slash's World on Fire

DRY THE RIVER Alarms In The Heart

What...! Nobody has named U2's Songs of Innocence, the iTunes album of the year, as best? Of course, I delteted it a.s.a.p., from my phone, but...hey, they're a (or were a) popular group. I didn't know folks still bought albums anymore. Anyway, album(s) of the year for moi would have to be The Beatles in mono simply for the sonic revelations. I also dug Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers's Hypnotic Eye for being a real rock'n'roll album.

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OK, we're slowly approaching the end of this year so maybe it would be cool to make a list of our favourite albums released this year. There are still some albums to come (AC/DC, Smashing Pumpkins) but I think that we can start forming our lists now. Maybe at the end of December we will count our votes to find the favorite IORR album of 2014 . So my selection is:
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The Black Keys - Turn Blue
Die Antwoord - Donker Mag

How different tastes can be.
After buying all and everything Mastodon did for many years and seeing them 5 times I was very disappointed with their latest effort. It lost its energy and its too much of a stoner rock thing now.
Black Keys, same story. I saw them 3 times. Brothers was their best effort. Unfortunately after that they stopped growing.

My vote for album of the year : Behemoth - The Satanist.

Oh, man...The Satanist is INCREDIBLE. What a black/death metal masterpiece.

I dig the new Mastodon - I like the stoner vibe and more mellow vocals. It suits them well.

I'll go with (no particular order):

Exodus - Blood In Blood Out
AC/DC - Rock Or Bust
Opeth - Pale Communion
Tom Petty and the 'Breakers - Hypnotic Eye
Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls
Behemoth - The Satanist
Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun
Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain
Springsteen - High Hopes
Robert Plant - Lullaby and The Ceaseless Roar
Floyd - Endless River



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1. AC/DC - Rock Or Bust

2. Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans

3. Joe Bonamassa - Different Shades Of Blue

4. Kurt Baker - Brand New B-Sides

5. Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways

6. Ace Frehley - Space Invader

7. Flying Colors - Second Nature

8. Billy Idol - Kings & Queens Of The Underground



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Tom Petty "Hypnotic Eye"
Jack White "Lazaretto"
The Non-Filters "Bottles and Cans"

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Frankly it's been a fairly average year for new releases.

I LOVE Springsteen.....I had High Hopes for HH....it is patchy, not a best by a mile.

In the end I think I have to give the nod to either

Ryan Adams self titled new one - a bit louder than his norm, a bit grungier...a BIT...or

Lucinda Willams' Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone. Great southern rock

I loved Tom Petty's Hypnotic Eye when first released but the shine quickly wore off and I DO love about half of Paolo Nutini's Caustic Love record, but ONLY a half. The good half is simply great, but it's interspersed with a half a record's worth of dross. I don't know who produced this, but someone needed to have grabbed him when he was going off the rails and say "Hey Paolo, remember that track we did yesterday? THAT was great...THIS is not!" and keep him focused.

Biggest disappointment by the proverbial mile is Pink Floyd's new album, and U2's..and NOT having a new (NEW) album by the Stones

Drive-by Truckers - English Ocean
Mark Lanegan - Phantom Radio
Robert Ellis - Lights from the chemical plant
Rosanne Cash - The River and the Thread
Basement Tapes Complete
Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
Lana del Rey - Ultraviolence



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It's without any doubt Pixies with Indie Cindy...fantastic album with 12 Super-hits on it...



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Lucinda Williams - Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone (The best of the decade)
Motorpsycho - Behind The Sun
The Rolling Stones - From The Vault (Hampton)
The Rolling Stones - From The Vault (LA Forum)
The Allman Brothers - BEACON THEATRE, New York - The Final Show



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Lucinda Williams - Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone

The Allman Brothers At Fillmore East - Special Package Boxset (6CD), (which made me buy a brand new SACD Fillmore East with the original tracks in original running order without aditions .... )

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Lucinda Williams - Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone

Simple Minds - Big Music
Slash - World On Fire
Manic Street Preachers - Futurology

Robert Plant - Lullaby & The Ceaseless Roar
King Creosote - From Scotland With Love
Beck - Morning Phase
Toumani & Sidiki Diabate - Toumani & Sidiki
Lucinda Williams - Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone
Tom Petty - Hypnotic Eye
Caribou - Our Love
The Rails - Fair Warning
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
Peter Hammill - Other World

Glad to see all the comments on Lucinda Williams Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone. Truly top notch - arguably her best effort to date. Some very cool songs on that double disc - especially the first one.
I'm loving the new Bryan Ferry Avonmore - the title track in particular is killer.
The 'new' Pink Floyd was disappointing to these ears on the 1st couple of listens (I found the lack of vocals a real issue) - but wouldn't you know, it's growing on me!
And finally, the just released Bowie set Nothing Has Changed sounds amazing. If you say 'I have all this', guess again - you probably don't. Not in this quality anyway. I didn't think it possible to hear songs I've heard a million times before and still get excited, but it really is a great collection (go for the 3CDs - only like $20).
And while I wanted to love the new U2 - I just don't - and I've been a fan since the start. 3 or 4 solid songs - the rest sounds to me like they are trying to be Coldplay (rather than the other way around). People here have said it sounds better on disc than what came free in iTunes - sadly, I haven't been interested enough to bother.

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It's without any doubt Pixies with Indie Cindy...fantastic album with 12 Super-hits on it...

Really? I thought it was without a doubt, the worst thing The Pixies have ever done.