Let's add to the plethora of lists out there.

How about your favourite 10 albums of the year, with number 1 of course being your favourite or most listened to. No reissues, just new releases.

10. Daniel Avery - Song for Alpha
9. Night Shop - In the Break
8. Tim Hecker - Konoyo
7. Blood Orange - Negro Swan
6. Jon Hopkins - Singularity
5. Kali Uchis - Isolation
4. Beach House - 7
3. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
2. SOPHIE - Oil of Every Person's Un-Insides

1. Amen Dunes - Freedom

With respect to the kind of site you are on, and the various ages of many of its posters and readers, would you kindly care to describe the types and styles of music that some of your entries represent?

for me, by a long way, it is the Arctic Monkeys and 'Tranquillity Base Hotel and Casino'. A slow burning space rock opus, atmospheric and adventurous, I listened to this album every night (sometimes more than once) for several months in the sticky English summer.

It'd been a v e r y long time since an album had that effect on me.

Firepower by Judas Priest!

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Israel Nash - Lifted
Paul McCartney - Egypt Station
Daisy House - Bon Voyage
Alejandro Escovedo - The Crossing
Paul Weller - True Meanings
Magpie Salute - High Water 1
Phosphorescent - C'Est La Vie
Bruce Springsteen - Springsteen On Broadway
Calexico - The Thread That Keeps Us
Marianne Faithfull - Negative Capability
Julia Holter - Aviary
The Chills - Snowbound
Golden Dawn Arkestra - Children Of The Sun
Gruff Rhys - American Interior
Ry Cooder - The Prodigal Son
Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer

- Marianne Faithfull - Negative Capability
- Cat Power - Wanderer
- Bettye Lavette - Things Have Changed
- Buddy Guy - The Blues is Alive and Well
- Holly Golightly - Do the Get Along
- Mick Harvey - The Fall and Rise of Edgar Bourchier and the Horrors of War
- Marc Ribot - Songs of Resistance
- Bryan Ferry - Bitter-Sweet

Brazilian Girls - These guys, out of NYC, are so much fun; all albums by them are great. A muddier, spicier version of the Scissor Sisters.

Amen Dunes - 'Freedom' - great album; dude has charisma

Rolling Blackouts 'Hope Downs' - probably the best of year IMO

Spiritualized - 'And Nothing Hurt' - my favorite band

Low Cut Connie - 'Dirty Pictures Pt2" - Im actually surprised they've never been mentioned here because they fit in

Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper - like me love for Miley Cyrus, I;m a sucker for sappy stories and sagas

Primal Screams - "Give Out.." re-issue - I cant believe I forgot this one; Mr Echo reminded me

Interpol - 'Marauder'; like with Spiritualized's '18 album, Interpol doesn't really break new ground, but this album really grew on me. One thing that stuck out is that it goes up, rather than down. All albums today are front loaded, with hits up front, and then they tend to fizzle out. "Marauder' gets better as it goes in.

Betty Lavette - 'Things Have Changed'; only gets better

Marianne Faithfull - 'Negative Capability' ; Il;m glad she kind of is over the whole Kurt Weill thing; it was just too obvious.Good album, produced by Warren Ellis (Bad Seeds)

Starcrawler - 'Starcrawler'; young energetic; this is the opening salvo; the real stuff is still to come.

Willie Nelson - 'Last Man Standing'

Also "Simmering' by Shame, '13 Rivers' by Richard Thompson, 'Oxnard' by Anderson Paak, 'A Brief Inquiry...' by The 1975


I know I;ve forgotten some good ones. Also, now there are so many re-issues, or outtake albums, box set type things that are not new music but fantastic nevertheless. Bob Dylan's Bootleg series being one example.

One artist who I am starting to dislike is Bruce Springsteen. He talks about himself just a little too much.


yes - I went through some of the re-issued material that camer out in one form or the other: Beatles, Hendrix, Coltrane, the Band, Guns 'n Roses, Dylan, Lennon. This is about as A-List as can be. So newer acts are in heavy company



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I’ll go for a top 20

20. Kali Uchis - Isolation
19. Teyana Taylor - K.T.S.E.
18. Brothers Osborne - Port Saint Joe
17. Bryan Ferry - Bitter-Sweet
16. Mariah Carey - Caution
15. Mark Knopfler - Down the Road Wherever
14. Paul McCartney - Egypt Station
13. Willie Nelson - Last Man Standing
12. Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts
11. Mike and The Moonpies - Steak Night at the Prairie Rose
10. Neneh Cherry - Broken Politics
9. Pusha T - Daytona
8. Eric Church - Desperate Man
7. Blackberry Smoke - Find a Light
6. Pistol Annies - Insterstate Gospel
5. Lake Street Dive - Free Yourself Up
4. Judas Priest - Firepower
3. Jorja Smith - Lost & Found
2. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
1. Ashley Monroe - Sparrow

These are all great. Also good to very good were Robyn, Per Gessle, The Wandering Hearts, Ashley Campbell, Leon Bridges, SOPHIE, Paul Simon, Anderson .Paak, Kylie, the country tribute to Elton John, Black Panther OST, The Magpie Salute, Brandi Carlile, Christina Aguilera, Dierks Bentley, Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, The Prodigy, Ry Cooder, Rick Astley, Nas, Christine and the Queens... and others...



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In no particular order:

Magpie Salute - High Water part 1 (with Rich Robinson and Marc Ford)
Benjamin Herman - Project S (jazz, coolest Dutch musician around)
Eels - The Deconstruction (check out Be Hurt and the title track)
Kurt Vile - Bottle It In
Dr. Lonnie Smith - All in My Mind (check out 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover)
Dawn Brothers - Classic (Dutch band, americana)
The Wood Brothers - One Drop of Truth (saw them live some months ago: awesome)
Robert Finley - Goin' Platinum (ageing blues singer, produced by Dan Auerbach)
Reef - Revelation (with Jesse Wood on guitar)

Love these annual 'best of' threads in combination with Spotify. Lots of great albums to listen to tonight!

Ghost: Prequelle

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LOL!!! you beat me to it!! I bet it would have been good 'tho..guess we'll find out in 2023.

1. Firepower, Judas Priest
2. Living The Dream, Uriah Heep
3. A Paranormal Evening With Alice Cooper At The Olympia (do live albums count?)
4. Rainier Fog, Alice In Chains

Those four albums are the only ones I got this year, anyway

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Firepower by Judas Priest!

Great pick!
It led me to buying a 17 CD box with most of their old stuff

Alex Zhang Hungtai: Divine Weight
[alexzhanghungtai.bandcamp.com]
[boomkat.com]

Alex Zhang Hungtai, David Maranha, Gabriel Ferrandini: Eight Black Horses Crown Snake
[alexzhanghungtai.bandcamp.com]

Charlotte Gainsbourg: Take 2 (EP)
first video [www.youtube.com]

Reissues:

Ali Farka Touré – The Source (reissue of 1992 album)
long out of print and on vinyl for the first time now

Alan Vega – Deuce Avenue (1990), Power On To Zero Hour (1991), New Raceion (1993), Dujang Prang (1995), 2007 (1999), Station (2007)
all long out of print and most on vinyl for the first time now

Vault release:

Primal Scream: Give Out But Don't Give Up – The Original Memphis Recordings
original version of 1994 album