Popular Post Seat68 Posted December 1, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 1, 2021 Time to glance retrospectively over the musical year in long form. For me I had a couple of albums by some of my favourite artists and a few surprises. Have a glance, ignore them, someone will post something that is decidedly less country soon enough. 5. Toby Keith returns with his first album in years with Peso in my Pocket. Light on any jokey songs, which to be frank is a **** blessing. 4. Fearless Taylor's Version by Taylor Swift. Loved it in its original form, rerecorded and with additional tracks made it even better. If it was a wholly new album it probably would be my favourite of the year. Just out of the 5 is Red Taylor's Version. 3. The Ballad of Dood and Juanita by Sturgill Simpson. Aconcept album in a similar vein as Willie Nelsons Red Headed Stranger. A very good listen. 2. Alan Jackson returns after a long break with the fantastic Where Have You Gone. Really should be number one but have played a different album almost constantly since I bought it. 1. Carly Pearce with 29: Written In Stone. Exceptional from start to finish. Absolutely love it. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 1, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 1, 2021 Joni Mitchell: Archives Vol 1 Joni Mitchell: Archives Vol 2 Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series Vol 16: Springtime in New York (1980-1985) No 'new' releases spring to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Designer1 Posted December 1, 2021 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted December 1, 2021 By far my favourite of the year: Also very much enjoyed: Viagra Boys - Welfare JazzSlowthai - TYRONBob Vylan - We Live HereNick Cave and Warren Ellis - CARNAGEGary Numan - IntruderKing Buffalo - Burden of RestlessnessArabrot - Norwegian GothicExodus - Persona Non GrataMinistry - Moral HygieneCarcass - Torn ArteriesMonolord - Your Time to ShineAmyl and the Sniffers - Comfort to MeDoctor Smoke - Dreamers and the DeadSun Kil Moon - Lunch in the ParkKanga - You and I Will Never DieMatt Berry - The Blue ElephantRob Zombie - The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse ConspiracySquid - Bright Green FieldClark - Playground in a Lake Another good year tbh. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshVilla Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 I think the one I've enjoyed the most would be Every Time I Die - Radical. Whole album is relentless from start to finish and somehow they just keep getting better. Others to add to the list: Between the Buried and Me - Colors II Mastodon - Hushed and Grim Prince - Welcome 2 America Silk Sonic - An Evening with Silk Sonic Gojira - Fortitude Steven Wilson - The Future Bites There's still a few releases from months ago that I've not gotten round to yet. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted December 1, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 1, 2021 (edited) Always one of my favourite threads of the year, this one. I'm so out of touch with new music these days that I get to blitz through all the recommendations in here and pick up a whole years' worth of listening. I'm not up-to-date with current music but thanks to this thread, I'm generally only 12 months behind Edited December 1, 2021 by choffer typoze 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend for me The coral coral Island was good, so was silk sonic Seems to be another year with more disappointments, Kings of Leon, Ashcroft, slowthai, DMAs (EP) DMAs live at Brixton was probably the album I listened to the most Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 4 hours ago, Seat68 said: Time to glance retrospectively over the musical year in long form. For me I had a couple of albums by some of my favourite artists and a few surprises. Have a glance, ignore them, someone will post something that is decidedly less country soon enough. 5. Toby Keith returns with his first album in years with Peso in my Pocket. Light on any jokey songs, which to be frank is a **** blessing. 4. Fearless Taylor's Version by Taylor Swift. Loved it in its original form, rerecorded and with additional tracks made it even better. If it was a wholly new album it probably would be my favourite of the year. Just out of the 5 is Red Taylor's Version. 3. The Ballad of Dood and Juanita by Sturgill Simpson. Aconcept album in a similar vein as Willie Nelsons Red Headed Stranger. A very good listen. 2. Alan Jackson returns after a long break with the fantastic Where Have You Gone. Really should be number one but have played a different album almost constantly since I bought it. 1. Carly Pearce with 29: Written In Stone. Exceptional from start to finish. Absolutely love it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 1, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 1, 2021 5 minutes ago, rjw63 said: Oh, I was fine with @Seat68's list. I'd even played one of 'em (the Sturgill Simpson). @Designer1's selection, on the other hand, mostly looked like a random word generator. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 Quick list of the ‘new’ stuff for 2021. “New’ had to be a release in 2021 or so late in 2020 it didn’t make last year’s list, it also had to have at least something ‘new’ on there, hence Beach Boys make the list but SFA didn’t. One thing it does show is the stagger between ‘release’ and ‘vinyl release’ which is getting more noticeable. Stuff out in the last couple of months with vinyl promised for February or March of next year. Also, ‘20’ is still being quoted as the magic number. Play a record 20 times and the vinyl is less environmentally harmful than streaming. There are probably 3 or 4 on the list below where I’ve already passed the magic 20 in the first year. El Goodo - Zombie (weird staggered 2020 / 2021 release date and only this year considered for music prizes, so it’s in) Neil Young - The Times (vinyl release 2021) Khruangbin - Mordechai Remixes Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18 & BBC Wales Philharmonic - Yn Rio Primal Scream - Demodelica Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort To Me Gillespie & Beth - Utopian Ashes Trees Speak - Post Human Gruf Rhys - Seeking New Gods Sarah Neufeld - Detritus Richard Norris - Hypnotic Response Richard Norris - Elements (late 2020 staggered release) Israel Nash - Topaz Amorphous Androgynous - We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal Lee Scratch Perry - Black Art From The Black Ark Beach Boys - Feel Flows Something for everyone in there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted December 1, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 1, 2021 I think I've only bought 13 Albums released this year, this year. So picking out 10 is easy (in no order) Sarah Neufeld - Detritus Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings Lightning Bug - A Color of the Sky Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! Lucy Dacus - Home Video Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg Anna B Savage - A Common Turn Low - Hey What Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time Take Time The other 3 were St Etienne - I've been trying to tell you, Opium Moon - Night + Day and Flock of Dimes - Head of Roses. An OK year, but not great. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 Well I’ve got a bit of Venn overlap going on with Designer & Blandy and I suspect I have with Mooney too when he remembers Israel Nash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 1, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 1, 2021 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: Israel Nash - Topaz Oops, forgot that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrusr Posted December 1, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 1, 2021 Possibly one of my favourite threads every year. Not been able to post much recently (work getting in the way) but reading a lot. I will do a proper response over the next few days but I have to say up until recently not much had really stuck in mind this year, until a few recent releases have been very good 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 Hardly bought any new stuff this year. Only three I can think of can therefore be my top three 1.The Beach Boys - Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surfs Up boxset. Yes, coloured vinyl and CD version. 2. Lindsey Buckingham self titled. 3. Biffy Clyro - The Myth of the Happily Ever After 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 1, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 1, 2021 8 minutes ago, rjw63 said: Hardly bought any new stuff this year. Only three I can think of can therefore be my top three 1.The Beach Boys - Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surfs Up boxset. Yes, coloured vinyl and CD version. 2. Lindsey Buckingham self titled. 3. Biffy Clyro - The Myth of the Happily Ever After And even then you don't go past B in the alphabet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 21 minutes ago, bickster said: And even then you don't go past B in the alphabet haha, never even noticed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 28 minutes ago, rjw63 said: 1.The Beach Boys - Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surfs Up boxset. Yes, coloured vinyl and CD version. Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to fly him over and do a quick set in your living room? I got the black vinyl box set without CD and that was way out there as the dearest thing I bought all year, by a factor of three, I reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 2 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to fly him over and do a quick set in your living room? I got the black vinyl box set without CD and that was way out there as the dearest thing I bought all year, by a factor of three, I reckon. Collectas gonna collect Just picked up a test pressing of the 2008 Dennis Wilson reissue, been watching it for the best part of a year, going unsold because of the daft price. managed to get a bit knocked off so all good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted December 1, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 1, 2021 Honestly struggling to think of good albums from this year other than Nick Cave's Carnage and IDLES' Crawler. Been a pretty rubbish year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 11 minutes ago, PieFacE said: Honestly struggling to think of good albums from this year other than Nick Cave's Carnage and IDLES' Crawler. Been a pretty rubbish year. I really don’t think it has - there’s been some great stuff! I’ll be posting mine a little later and knowing your music tastes from previous posts, reckon there’ll be stuff on there you’d like too! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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