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dave clarkson
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Best of Music 2014 ?....
Dec 14, 2014, 17:27
Here's mine....

Album Releases of the year:

AphexTwin - Syro
Scott Walker & Sunn 0))) - Soused
Swans - To Be Kind
Chris Whitehead - Habitats for Metal Plants
Pharrell Williams - GIRL
Durutti Column - Chronicle XL
Longstone - Risaikuru
Deeply Vale festival box set


Single Releases of the year:

The Phrogs - Baby I'm Gone
Suzi Chunk and Groovy Uncle - Barefoot in the Car park
The Rhubarb Triangle - Wakefield City Blues
The Change - Where Were U


Reissues of the year:

Miles Davis - at the Fillmore 1970
Jon Hassell & Eno - Fourth World Vol 1
A Certain Ratio - Sextet
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground box set
Orange Juice - You can't hide your love forever


Gigs of the year:

Swans - Brighton Concorde
Wire - Brighton Uni
Young Marble Giants - Dancehouse theatre, Manchester
Factory night (Crispies, Section 25, Minny Pops) - Ruby Lounge, Manchester
The Stranglers - Manchester Academy
Eric Random/ Wrangler - Manchester BOTW
Afro Cuban Experience - London Ronnie Scotts


8)
Maldoror
Maldoror
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Edited Dec 14, 2014, 19:35
Re: Best of Music 2014 ?....
Dec 14, 2014, 19:34
Omen Ex Simulacra - Ævangelist

Astrorgasm from Inner Space - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.

Time to Die - Electric Wizard

Stoner Rock - Bong

To be Kind - Swans

A World Lit Only by Fire - Godflesh
IanB
IanB
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Edited Dec 16, 2014, 09:38
Re: Best of Music 2014 ?....
Dec 14, 2014, 20:04
Kate Bush - Hammersmith
Ruth Theodore - Green Note, Camden
Anais Mitchell - Union Chapel
Barbara Hannigan/CBSO (Abrahamsen: Let Me Tell You) - Birmingham Symphony Hall
ENO - John Adams: The Gospel According To The Other Mary
The Pop Group - Assembly Hall, Islington
Erin McKeown - Slaughtered Lamb
Marillion - Forum
Steve Hackett - Royal Albert Hall
Rufus Wainwright - Royal Albert Hall
Yes - Royal Albert Hall
Simon Rattle & Berlin Philharmonic (Stravinsky: Firebird) - Royal Albert Hall
Hugo Shephard - Servant Jazz Quarters
Fierce & The Dead / Knifeworld - Barfly, Camden
Roddy Frame - Barbican
Fitter Stoke
Fitter Stoke
2612 posts

Edited Dec 14, 2014, 20:21
Re: Best of Music 2014 ?....
Dec 14, 2014, 20:19
Albums:

Neil Young 'Storytone' (my album of the year)
Gruff Rhys 'American Interior'
David Sylvian 'There's A Light That Enters Houses With No Other House In Sight'
Patsy Matheson 'Domino Girls'
Roger Daltrey & Wilko Johnson 'Going Back Home'

45s:

David Bowie: 'Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)' - quite the best thing the man has done in 35 years;
Sleaford Mods 'Jobseeker' EP

Reissues:

Rory Gallagher 'Irish Tour '74 - Deluxe Edition'
Bob Dylan 'The Basement Tapes Raw'
Fripp & Eno 'The Equatorial Stars' 200g vinyl
Thin Lizzy 'Thin Lizzy' 180g vinyl
earthlingfred93
1115 posts

Re: Best of Music 2014 ?....
Dec 14, 2014, 21:15
The soul of the hour.....Gallon drunk....
garerama
garerama
1115 posts

Re: Best of Music 2014 ?....
Dec 14, 2014, 21:19
Not as much new as would like - still catching up on lots of old, but there was:

1. Vashti Bunyan - Heartleap
2. Jane Weaver - Silver Globe
3. The Furrow Collective - At Our Next Meeting
4. Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - Enter the Slasher House


Re-issues
1. XTC - Skylarking [Corrected Polarity Edition]
2. The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night US OST
3. The Beatles - Help! US OST
4. The Doors - Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine
Monganaut
Monganaut
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Edited Dec 15, 2014, 05:26
Re: Best of Music 2014 ?....
Dec 15, 2014, 04:41
Think it's been a great year for tunes and albums. Bought more this year than just about any time since I was a teen. In no particular order...

CD/Vinyl
The Amazing Snakeheads - S/T
The Cult Of Dom Kellor - The Second Bardo
Camera - Remember I Was Carbon Dioxide
Fat White Family - Champagne Holocaust
Plaid - Reachy Prints
TV Ghost - Disconnect
Liars - Mess
Liminanas - Costa Blanca
Monster Magnet - Milking The Stars: A Re-Imagining Of Last Patrol
Grumbling Fr - Preternaturals
Tarwater - Adrift
The Datsuns - Deep Sleep
Ty Segull - Manipulator
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Revalation
Shellac - Dude Incredible
Matt Berry Music For Insomniacs
Soundcarriers - Entropicalia
Ziguri - Ziguri
La Hell Gang - Thru Me Again
Pixies - Indy Cindy
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - I'm In Your Mind Fuzz
The Ravonettes - Pe'ahi
Soft Walls - No Time
Gulp - Seasons Sun
Versuvio - Cope Etal
Neon Sardinia
Goat - Commune
Lumerians - Telos III
Esben And The Witch - A New Nature
Leatitia Sadier - Something Shines
Salems Pot - Sweeden

Compilations/ Reissues
Six Strings That Drew Blood - Roland S Howard
Mind Expansion Digital Comp - Fuxa
VA - Reverb Conspiracy I+II
Mind Expansion Digital Copm 2 - Fuxa
Death And Vanilla EP (Re)
The Black Dog - Liber Collected
The Black Anges - Clear Lake Forest EP
Pye Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes 1-4
Punk 45 - Vol: 2+3
VA - A Psych Tribute To The Doors
VA - Brain Damage

Single/EP/ Digital
Gulp - I Want To Dance
Black Dog - Sound Of Sheffield Vols: 1/2/3/4
Black Dog - Werk + Play EP
Spion Cop - Das Boot
Dead Sea apes - Thermionic Emissions vol. 2
Pye Corner Audio - The black Mist EP
Godflesh - Decline and Fall

DVD
Autoluminescence

Gigs
The Amazing Snakeheads - Hare and Hounds Bham
The Phantom Band/ Gulp - Hare and Hounds Bham
Wooden Shjips/ Cult of Dom Kellor - Bham Academy

Disapointments
Caribou - Our Love
Mark Lanagan Band - Phantom Radio
Aphex Twin - Syro
Peaking Lights - Cosmic Logic
Temples - Sun Structures
Bo Ningen/Savages mini LP/EP
DFA 1979 - The physical World
Holy Sons - Fact Facer
anthonyqkiernan
anthonyqkiernan
7087 posts

Re: Best of Music 2014 ?....
Dec 15, 2014, 12:27
Monganaut wrote:
The Amazing Snakeheads - S/T

Amphetamine Ballads?
Hunter T Wolfe
Hunter T Wolfe
1709 posts

Re: Best of Music 2014 ?....
Dec 15, 2014, 13:06
There's a couple of things still on my want list (most prominently the Richard Dawson and Soundcarriers albums), but right now the LP list looks a bit like this:

Scott Walker & Sunn O)))- Soused
Sleaford Mods- Divide and Exit
Black Bombaim- Far Out
King Champion Sounds- Songs From A Golden Hour
Hookworms- The Hum
Ex Hex- Rips
Bo Ningen- III
Guardian Alien- Spiritual Emergency
Monkey Puzzle Trio- The Pattern Familiar
Goat- Commune
Hospitality- Trouble
Martha- Courting Strong
The Ghost of a Sabre-toothed Tiger- Midnight Sun
Morgan Delt- S/T
Blank Realm- Grassed Inn
The Horrors- Luminous
Heat Leisure- III & IV
Ziguri- S/T
Swans- To Be Kind
Chain and the Gang- Minimum Rock n’ Roll
Heat- Labyrinth
Vesuvio- S/T
Doug Tuttle- S/T
Lay Llamas- Ostro
Eternal Tapestry- Guru Overload
Sterling Roswell- The Call of the Cosmos
Coconut Grove- How To Build A Maze
Arch Garrison- I Will Be A Pilgrim
VANNISH- Memory Works
Black Bananas- Electric Brick Wall
The Saints- King of the Sun
Eat Lights Become Lights- Into Forever
ZOFFF- 1
Howlin’ Rain- Live Rain
Orval Carlos Sibelius- Super Forma
The S's- Exploded View of Love
Sammal- No.2
The Lowland Hundred- S/T
The Proper Ornaments- Wooden Head
Bill Pritchard- A Trip to the Coast
Hallock Hill- Kosloff Mansion
Lola Colt- Away from the Water
Prescott- One Did
Rhyton- Kykeon
The Vacant Lots- Departure
Jennifer Castle- Pink City
Stars in Battledress- In Droplet Form
Virginia Wing- Measures of Joy
School of Language- Old Fears
Balduin- Is It A Dream
The Allah-Lahs- Worship The Sun
Hamilton Yarns- The Orchard
Plurals- Bugenes Melissae
Irmler/Leibzeit- Flut
Martin Carr- The Breaks
Junkboy- Sovereign Sky
Matthew Edwards and the Unfortunates- The Fates
Mirel Wagner- When The Cellar Children See The Light Of Day
John Sinclair- Mohawk
Githead- Waiting for a Sign
Jam Money- Blowing Stones
Lorelle Meets the Obsolete- Chambers
Meatbodies- S/T
Chris Stroffolino- Griffith Park
Silver Servants- S/T
Ava Luna- Electric Balloon
Aldous Harding- The self-titled debut album
Moebius Story Leidecker- Snow Ghostpieces
Kreidler- ABC
Automat- S/T
Fujiya and Miyagi- Artificial Sweeteners
Crock Oss- The Least Likely Can Be The Most Dangerous
Two Wings- A Wake
Oliver Cherer- Sir Ollife Leigh and other Ghosts
The Asteroid no.4- S/T
Dean Wareham- S/T
Peter Escott- The Long O
Keel Her- S/T
Paus- Clarao
Linda Perhacs- The Soul of All Natural Things
Fair Maiden- S/T
Gulp- Season Sun
Savaging Spires- We Could Be Dead Together
John Mouse- The Death of John Mouse
Dum Dum Girls- Too True
Martyr Privates- S/T
Nightingales- For Fuck’s Sake
September Girls- Cursing the Sea
Squid Tempest
Squid Tempest
8763 posts

Re: Best of Music 2014 ?....
Dec 15, 2014, 13:38
Pretty comprehensive list there Hunter!
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