| Author | Message | ||
     Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1970 Registered: 08-2006 |
Padraig did 2019 on a CD but I thought we needed something for full albums. Here's my top 10, for what it's worth. I agree with Mr. Collins: this was a great year for music and I could throw in 20 more. 1. The Paranoid Style: A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life 2. Lana Del Rey: Norman F**king Rockwell! 3. Billie Eilish: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 4. 75 Dollar Bill: I Was Real 5. Todd Snider: Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3 6. Rafael Saadiq: Jimmy Lee 7. Kim Gordon: No Home Record 8. Chuck Cleaver: Send Aid 9. Jeffery Lewis: Bad Wiring 10. Chance the Rapper: The Big Day | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9094 Registered: 05-2005 |
My incomplete list, given there are some albums from this year I've bought but not yet played. There are a couple on your list I've not even heard of, Rob. 1 Fontaines D.C. – Dogrel 2 Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen 3 The Murder Capital – When I Have Fears 4 Sturgill Simpson - Sound And Fury 5 Spielbergs - This Is Not The End 6 Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains 7 Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising 8 Michael Kiwanuka – Kiwanuka 9 Robert Forster – Inferno 10 The Raconteurs – Help Us Stranger 11 Peter Bruntnell – King Of Madrid 12 Ride – This Is Not A Safe Place 13 The Who – Who 14 Beck – Hyperspace 15 Young Guv – Guv 1 16 Bruce Springsteen– Western Stars 17 Sean O’Hagan – Radum Calls, Radum Calls 18 You Tell Me – You Tell Me 19 Ex Hex – It's Real 20 Lankum – The Livelong Day | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9095 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob, the name The Paranoid Style intrigued me (I'd never come across them before), so now I'm listening. And I'm liking it a lot. A Marked Man On A Marked Man Occasion is the first time I've ever heard an Irish rebel song done in a garage rock style. I love it! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1971 Registered: 08-2006 |
Padraig, the Paranoid Style is terrific. I booked them for my street festival a couple years back (along with Amy Rigby) and they were a joy. The new one I love. I'm just starting to listen to that Fontaines D.C. That might've made my list with more listens. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9097 Registered: 05-2005 |
Btw, for those interested in the origin of the band's name, as I was, it comes from this 1964 article, which is astonishingly relevant today https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the- paranoid-style-in-american-politics/ | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 111 Registered: 03-2015 |
Attached is a kind of mellow "best of" list with the great Earl Harvin on drums for two of the albums. Any album with a large dose of retro 80's synths was left off the list. 1. Robert Forster – Inferno 2. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Ghosteen 3. David Bridie – The Wisdom Line 4. Tindersticks – No Treasure but Hope 5. Mekons – Deserted 6. Joan Shelley – Like the River Loves the Sea 7 Edwyn Collins – Badbea 8. Iain Morrison – Sŕl 9. Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains 10. Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi – There is No Other |