Your Albums of 2014

Octahedron

There's always discussions, articles, posts everywhere at this time of year - your favourites of the year... I think it's time. Let's do one with a few twists!

Rules are as follows:

- You're allowed as few or as many as you want.

- They can be released BEFORE 2014. 

- They cannot be greatest hits compilations. 

- They can be live albums, re-issues or re-masters. 

- You don't have to specify an order i.e. a number 1,2,3 etc if you don't want to.

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin... 

- Crobot "Something Supernatural" 

- Ed Sheeran "Multiply"

- Alter Bridge "Fortress" 

- Slash "World on Fire"

- Joe Bonamassa "Different Shades of Blue"

- The Faces "Ooh La La"

- Guns n Roses "Use Your Illusion 1" 

- INXS "Elegantly Wasted"

- The Lazys "The Lazys"

- Aerosmith "Get a Grip" 

- AC/DC "Rock or Bust"

- Arctic Monkeys "AM" 

- Queen "A Night at the Opera" 

- The Darkness "Hot Cakes"

- Dream Theater "Dream Theater"

- Jethro Tull "Aqualung" 

- John Butler Trio "Flesh and Blood" 

- The Lazys "The Lazys" 

- Alice in Chains "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here"

- Ryan Adams "Ryan Adams" 

- Pinnick Gales Pridgen "PGP 2"

- KXM "KXM" 

- The Fray "Helios" 

- Royal Blood "Royal Blood" 

- AC/DC "Rock or Bust"

- Stevie Ray Vaughan... "In Step" 

- Eric Johnson "Venus Isle" 

- Whitesnake "Slide it In" 

- Def Leppard "Hysteria"

- The Dead Daisies "The Dead Daisies" 

- Deep Purple "Come Taste the Band" 

I'm done. 

stickyfiddle

Ok, I have to remember what I got this year. 

Springsteen - High Hopes (though it's no Wrecking Ball)

Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? (listening for the first time as I type)

Taylor Swift - 1989 (don't laugh, it's bloody good pop music)

Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams (there we are, back to credible MOR stuff...)

Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt (won't win them many new fans but it's really good)

Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways (not their best, but still their second best LP in over a decade)

Gary Clark Jr - Live (miles better than his studio album. Properly captures him at his best)

Philly_Q

I want to try to concentrate on things which actually were released this year, or late last year, but there aren't many I can think of:

Mount Salem - Endless (my favourite of the year by a very big margin)

John Garcia - self titled

Blues Pills - self titled

Siena Root - Pioneers

Coney Hatch - Four

Winger - Better Days Comin'

AC/DC - Rock or Bust

Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls

Wishbone Ash - Blue Horizon

I'm not even sure I like of all the above, but the list would be ridiculously brief otherwise.  Most of the "new" things I'm still listening to were released two or three years ago, as it turns out. 

Beyond those, I've bought lots of reissues, remasters and box sets from the likes of Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top, Judas Priest, Jimi Hendrix, Rory Gallagher and, again, Wishbone Ash (those guys - or their record labels - do love a reissue).

ICBM

I've bought far too much music this year to count anything older, so of albums actually released in 2014 (and not counting Now That's What I Call Music 87/88/89 ), I have…

King Creosote - From Scotland With Love

Marianne Faithfull - Give My Love To London

Paulo Nutini - Caustic Love

The Pretty Reckless - Going To Hell

Raye - Welcome To The Winter

Shakira - Shakira

U2 - Songs Of Innocence

Of which I would say probably the best is King Creosote, and the most fun is The Pretty Reckless . Paolo Nutini didn't quite click with me as much as I expected (I prefer Sunny Side Up), Marianne Faithfull is pretty good, and the most disappointing would be U2, although Shakira isn't great by her usual standards. I wouldn't have got Raye's EP at all if it hadn't been recommended on here, and I quite like it.

Lew

It's been a great year for new music

Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend

Fu Manchu - Gigantoid

Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden 

Conan - Blood Eagle

Electric Wizard - Time to Die

markblack

Jason Isbell - Southeastern

Jamie T - Carry on the grudge

Jenny Lewis - The voyageur

David Gray - Mutineers

Elvis Costello and the Roots - Wise up ghosts. 

BloodEagle

YAITW – When life comes to death

Trap Them – Blissfucker

YOB – Clearing the path to ascend

Indian – From all purity

Pig Destroyer – Weight and Volume EP

Godflesh – A world lit only by fire

Cretin – Stranger

Vallenfyre – Splinters

Scott Walker + Sunn o))) – Soused

ACxDC – Antichrist Demoncore

RocknRollDave

U2 - Songs of Innocence
Simple Minds - Big Music
Gov't Mule - Dark Side of the Mule
Marcus King Band - Soul Inside
and, not new but new to me this year, Chris Robinson - This Magnificent Distance..if I got it this year, which I think I did...

Jalapeno

By a long way - Paulo Nutini's Caustic Love

Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar - Robert Plant and the Sensational Shapeshifters
The Winery Dogs

Deijavoo

Retribution Gospel Choir - 1

Mogwai - Rave Tapes

Enablers - Blown Realms.... (thanks @Loobs)

Botch - We Are The Romans 

I'm sure there will be plenty others but this of the top of my noggin. 

mudslide73

Trigger Hippy - Trigger Hippy
Rich Robinson - The Ceasless Sight
Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie
Royal Blood - Royal Blood
Johnny Marr - Playland
Oliver - Mechanical
Zeppelin reissues
Beck - Morning phase
Steve Mason - Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time.
War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream.

EricTheWeary

I think the only thing ive bought in 2014 that was a new release was the Wilko Johnson one, so that.

Megii

Couple of weeks I went to see a gig by the charming Nicola Farnon with her trio, plus the excellent Alan Barnes on sax/clarinet. And was indeed charmed - bought a few albums, of which I particularly like "Hitting the Right Note" and "A Day at the Market". There really is some great talent on the British jazz scene at the moment.

http://www.nicolafarnonmusic.com/home/4584890396

dindude

I've bought a lot in 2014, most have something going for them, but the only ones that stick in my mine as truely good albums are St Vincent, Royal Blood, and Bombay Bicycle Club (which is blooming brilliant and gets my number 1 vote).

Phil_aka_Pip

John Mayall  - Jazz/Blues Fusion

Bebop Deluxe - Axe Victim

Sonny Rollins - Alfie

dindude

stickyfiddle said:

Ok, I have to remember what I got this year. 

Springsteen - High Hopes (though it's no Wrecking Ball)

Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? (listening for the first time as I type)

Taylor Swift - 1989 (don't laugh, it's bloody good pop music)

Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams (there we are, back to credible MOR stuff...)

Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt (won't win them many new fans but it's really good)

Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways (not their best, but still their second best LP in over a decade)

Gary Clark Jr - Live (miles better than his studio album. Properly captures him at his best)

I'm glad you said that about Taylor Swift, love the singles from the album so far and was thinking of buying the album, was just was a little concerned that I was turning into a 15 year old girl. I may give it a punt now though......

Grunfeld

So far I suspect that only @Deijavoo may be into this stuff but this year I got into the staggeringly beautiful “Shadowplay” by 36. That is a lovely album (although it came out 2013).

I thought “Blue” and “Green” by Solar Fields were great. They came out this year and I’ve played those a lot too.

But the absolute stand out has been “Awake” by Tycho. This is the album I would love to have written if only I could. It’s even got guitar on it

Deijavoo

New music found. Cheers @Grunfeld.

stickyfiddle

dindude said:

stickyfiddle said:

Ok, I have to remember what I got this year. 

Springsteen - High Hopes (though it's no Wrecking Ball)

Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? (listening for the first time as I type)

Taylor Swift - 1989 (don't laugh, it's bloody good pop music)

Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams (there we are, back to credible MOR stuff...)

Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt (won't win them many new fans but it's really good)

Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways (not their best, but still their second best LP in over a decade)

Gary Clark Jr - Live (miles better than his studio album. Properly captures him at his best)

I'm glad you said that about Taylor Swift, love the singles from the album so far and was thinking of buying the album, was just was a little concerned that I was turning into a 15 year old girl. I may give it a punt now though......

I only have it on my iPhone because i had to put it on her iPhone and was just testing my sync was working properly. Honest.

Also Lorde. Great album from Stan Marsh's Dad

dindude

stickyfiddle said:

dindude said:

stickyfiddle said:

Ok, I have to remember what I got this year. 

Springsteen - High Hopes (though it's no Wrecking Ball)

Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? (listening for the first time as I type)

Taylor Swift - 1989 (don't laugh, it's bloody good pop music)

Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams (there we are, back to credible MOR stuff...)

Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt (won't win them many new fans but it's really good)

Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways (not their best, but still their second best LP in over a decade)

Gary Clark Jr - Live (miles better than his studio album. Properly captures him at his best)

I'm glad you said that about Taylor Swift, love the singles from the album so far and was thinking of buying the album, was just was a little concerned that I was turning into a 15 year old girl. I may give it a punt now though......

I only have it on my iPhone because i had to put it on her iPhone and was just testing my sync was working properly. Honest.

Also Lorde. Great album from Stan Marsh's Dad

Like Lorde too, but it's a 2013 album man, keep up!

Octahedron

I forgot about Rival Sons. I would stick that in the list for sure. There's just too many. I bought way too much music. If I spent all the money I spend on music on guitars instead I would probably have an original 59 burst by now...