This week is the last with so many albums released this year, 2 following weeks will see only a few releases and next are Christmas and the New Year, so I think it's high time to write about our favorites.

Mine are (in no particular order - love 'em all):

Ryan Adams - 1989
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Failure - The Heart Is A Monster
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Sun Kil Moon - Universal Themes
Neil Young - The Monsanto Years
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Public Image Ltd - What the World Needs Now...
Riverside - Love, Fear And The Time Machine
Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart (obviously!)
and honorouable mention to The Dumplings - Sea You Later

Can't wait to read your lists, I always find something interesting

Blur - The Magic Whip

DEF LEPPARD - DEF LEPPARD

ERIC CLAPTON - SLOWHAND AT 70

DAN BAIRD & HOMEMADE SIN - GET LOUD

BILLY GIBBONS - PERFECTAMUNDO

(right now, off the top of my head)



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Mike Zito & The Wheel - Keep Coming Back
Adele 25
Rolling Stones - Live In Tokyo 1990
Rolling Stones - Live In Leeds 1982
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers Super Deluxe Edition (Live In Leeds 1971 & Live In London 1971)

Top 10, no archive or live releases:

10. Mark Knopfler - Tracker
9. Iron Maiden - Book of Souls
8. Dr. Dre - Compton
7. Ashley Monroe - The Blade
6. David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock
5. Dwight Yoakam - Second Hand Heart
4. Chris Stapleton - Traveller
3. Janet Jackson - Unbreakable
2. Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart
1. Blackberry Smoke - Holding All the Roses

Overall not the best year.

Worst album of the year: Rod Stewart.

It's been a very conservative year but also there's been a lot going on this year. I managed to buy TWO 2015 LPs this year so by default, ha ha, the best albums of 2015 for me are...

Keith Richards CROSSEYED HEART (got the Best Buy bonus track edition)
Jason Isbell SOMETHING MORE THAN FREE

The one to come immediately to my head is Laura Marling - Short Movie.
Beautifully melancholic melodies and lyrics.

Others:

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think...
The Cribs - For All My Sisters
The Libertines - Anthems for Doomed Youth
Paul Weller - Saturns Pattern
Tame Impala - Currents

Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart
Ex-Hex - Ex-Hex
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Songhoy Blues - Music In Exile
Laura Marling - Short Movie
King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard - Paper Mache Dream Balloon
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Tame Impala - Currents
Blur - Mr Whip
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Just Sit And Think
Charlatans - Modern Nature
Gaz Coombes - Matador
The Pretty Things - The Sweet Pretty Things Are in Bed Now Of Course



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Vinyls:

Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart
Motörhead - Bad Magic
Public Image Ltd - What the World Needs Now
Till Lindemann - Skills in Pills

Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart
The Charlatans (UK) - Modern Nature
Blur - The Magic Whip

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

10 off the top of my head in no particular order...

Keith - Crosseyed Heart
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers Live
Father John Misty - I love you, Honeybear
Mark Knopfler - Tracker
Brian Wilson - No Pier Pressure
Wilco - Star Wars
Bob Dylan - Shadows In The Night
Gary Clark Jr. - The Story Of Sonny Boy Slim
Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
Gregg Allman - Back To Macon


Archive:
Bob Dylan - The Cutting Edge
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers Super Deluxe
Miles Davis - Newport

Keith and P.I.L.

2 1 2 0

Laura Marling Short Movies very intense, liked the Faith No More one and The Jam live box set.

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Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart
The Charlatans (UK) - Modern Nature
Blur - The Magic Whip

AGREED!!!

One album that comes to mind:

Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too.

.....

Olly.

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Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart
The Charlatans (UK) - Modern Nature
Blur - The Magic Whip

AGREED!!!

Totally agree re The charlatans album.
The Tim Burgess book is well worth a read.



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Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats. Great!

want to get the Jason Isbell album soon.


Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris' album too, think that was this year..

Ashes And Dust, by Warren Haynes and Railroad Earth.. excellent.

Wilco- Star Wars, one of their best!

Bowie- Black Star, have heard only snippets, but I already know it'll be a fav

The Stones- Sticky Fingers live. LOVE IT!

Richard Thompson 'Still"

Keith "Crosseyed Heart"

Brian Wilson "No Pier Pressure"

Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives 'Saturday Night / Sunday Morning"

Re-issues & expanded sets:

Beach Boys 'Party (Unplugged )"

Beatles "1" ( w/ music videos)

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Hairball
Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart
The Charlatans (UK) - Modern Nature
Blur - The Magic Whip

AGREED!!!

Totally agree re The charlatans album.
The Tim Burgess book is well worth a read.

YES YES YES!!!!!

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geordiestone

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Hairball
Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart
The Charlatans (UK) - Modern Nature
Blur - The Magic Whip

AGREED!!!

Totally agree re The charlatans album.
The Tim Burgess book is well worth a read.

YES YES YES!!!!!

Saw them at The Fonda Theater front/center in Hollywood a couple weeks ago - best I've seen them in years. Great new album could have something to do with that. New drummer holds his own, playing flawlessly. ( RIP Jon Brookes)

Trivia - In case you were wondering why I added the UK...
Here in the States they were forced to add UK after their name so as not to be confused with the original Charlatans - a '60s psychedelic San Francisco band.

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

Blur – Magic Whip
Chris Stapleton – Traveller
Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers Live
Paul Weller – Saturns Pattern
Jason Isbell – Something more than free
Lana del Rey – Honeymoon
Awolnation – Run
Warren Haynes – Ashes & Dust
Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color

Samantha Fish - Wild Heart
Backberry Smoke - Holding All The Roses
Warren Haynes – Ashes & Dust
Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers Live

Everybody is just listing what they bought? Or am I wrong?

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Everybody is just listing what they bought? Or am I wrong?

Of course! ;-)

1) Mark Knopfler - Tracker
2) Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart
3) Billy Gibbons - Perfectamundo

favourite album of 2015:-

"Nothing But The Silence" - Striking Matches

honourable mentions to Jason Isbell, Ryan Adams, Father John Misty, The Shires, The Pretty Things.

I love Bjork's album, Vulnicura.

Wilco's Star Wars is brilliant

Alabama Shakes' Sound and Color album is pretty excellent as well.

Heartless Bastards' latest album, Restless Ones is another great one.

Keith's Crosseyed Heart was among my favorite listens, of course!

I think those are my top 5. 2015 was a good year for new studio releases. Of course there were some nice live recordings from the Stones, and I like the latest Bootleg Series release from Dylan. Disappointments: I was really looking forward to My Morning Jacket's album, but it did not do much for me. Also Dan Auerbach's Arcs project was not as exciting as I wanted it to be. But I haven't completely given up on either of those just yet. Maybe I'll come around.

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Whale
Everybody is just listing what they bought? Or am I wrong?

Not at all.

I guess it means I'm middle aged and set in my ways, but I really don't listen to much current music anymore. I did take a look at Rolling Stones best fifty list and have to confess...I'm not familiar with most of the albums on the list. My pop culture daughter is crazy for all things Adele and my teen son, the budding white suburban hip hop artist, is thrilled that the brillance of Kendrick Lamar has been recognized. So if they're happy, I'm happy...I can say that I've heard that new Keith Richards album and I like it very much.