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.
Comments
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Trap Them – Blissfucker
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
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...
Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar - Robert Plant and the Sensational Shapeshifters
The Winery Dogs
Feedback
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.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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