2024 Afterword Archival, Historical, Compilation And Remixes Results
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The results are in.
You can view the polling via the link
Thirty-seven Afterworders voted for a total of 149 releases.
Six attracted just one point, the lowest possible score. Eighteen Afterworders made full use of their compliment of nominations.
Glen Campbell – Sings Jimmy Webb
Johnny Cash – Songwriter
Paul Carrack – How Long 50th Anniversary
Various Artists – Groove Machine: The Earl Young Sessions
Various Artists – Moving Away From The Pulse Beat: Post Punk Britain 1977-1981
Wishbone Ash – No Easy Road: Live In The Seventies
Fifteen were voted for just once but for a maximum of ten points:
Bill Fay – Tomorrow Tomorrow And Tomorrow
Creation Rebel – High Above Harlesden
Fleet Foxes – Live on Boston Harbor
Jerry Burns 2024 reissue
Juan Pablo Torres – Algo Nuevo
Kite – VII
Magazine – Give Me Everything box set
Matt Elliott – Drinking Songs Live 20 Years On
Pat Hare – I’m Gonna Murder My Baby: Pat Hare In Session 1952-1960
Richard Thompson Band – Historic Concert series: Live at Nottingham Rock City 1986
Tracey Thorn – A Distant Shore
Various Artists – Congo Funk! Sound Madness From The Shores Of The Mighty Congo River (Kinshasa/Brazzaville 1969-1982) (Analog Africa No 38)
Various Artists – New Guitars In Town: Power Pop 1978-82
Various Artists – That’ll Flat… Git It! Vol. 47: Rockabilly and Rock ‘n’ Roll from the Vaults of Starday Records (Bear Family)
Vince Mendoza – Epiphany
In the event of a tie, the number of nominations are taken into account. For example, if two releases score the same points, the one with most Afterworders voting for it is placed higher.
There were thirty three releases attracting more than ten points. In reverse order:
33. Neil Young – Ragged Glory Smell The Horse
31= Aphrodite’s Child – 666 (The Apocalypse of John 13/18)
31= Nico – The Marble Index/Desrtshore
29= Dorothy Ashby – Afro Harping
29= Neil Young – Dume
28 Can – Live In Paris 1973
27 Stornaway – Best Of Unplucked
26 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Long After Dark (Deluxe Edition)
25 Thin Lizzy – 1976
22= Frank Zappa – Apostrophe
22= The Lilac Time – Astronauts
22= Nusratt Fateh Ali Khan – Chain Of Light
20= Broadcast – Spell Blanket
20= Jason Isbell – Live From The Ryman Volume 2
19 Van Morrison – Live At Orangefield
18 George Harrison – Living In The Material World
16= Bob Dylan – The 1974 Live Recordings
16= Jackie Leven – Live Or Die: Live In Bremen 1999 & 2004
15 Mark Lanegan – Bubblegum XX
14 Waterboys – 1985
13 Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Paul Motion – The Old Country (Live At The Deer Head Inn)
11= Alice Coltrane – The Carnegie Hall Concert
11= Elvis Costello – King Of America And Other Realms
A pedant asks: why are the Nico reissues always referred to as one release (»The Marble Index/Desertshore«)? Each one was issued as a separate CD or LP.
BTW: they were released in November 2023, the 2024 Domino versions are just the result of a new licensing deal (They were both labelled »The 2023 Version« in Domino’s press releases). Ahem.
Thanks, Fatima. That sneaked past our fact checkers (and my spellchecker by the looks of things). Consider Nico deleted from the list. Ragged Glory moves up one place to number thirty-one.
My initial reaction to Fatima’s post was “no problem: split them and they’d BOTH appear in my top 10!”
Then I read the second paragraph…curses! Thwarted again!
On to the top ten:
10 John Cale – Paris 1919
9 Bryan Ferry – Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023
8 Rory Gallagher – The Best Of Rory Gallagher At The BBC
7 Talking Heads – Talking Heads 77
6 Little Feat – Feats Don’t Fail Me Now
5 Neil Young – Archives Volume III (1976-1987)
4 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Live At Filmore East 1969
3 Faces – At The BBC: Complete BBC Concert And Session Recordings
2 Paul McCartney & Wings – One Hand Clapping
There is a clear, decisive winner, scoring three times as many points as number two:
1 Joni Mitchell – Archives Volume 4: The Asylum Years 1976-1980
Well deserved. I can live without the Shadows And Light concert but, otherwise, its six discs are packed with treasures.
Huge thanks to @salwarpe who did all the hard work, skilfully putting together the spreadsheet.
Goodness me – I had 4 of those in my list.
As a postscript, there were five favoured by two Afterworders but scoring less than ten points:
King Crimson – Red (50th Anniversary Edition)
Neil Young – Early Daze
John Barry – Something’s Up! (film, TV & Studio Work 1964-1967)
Sun Ra – Inside The Light World
Various Artists – Thom Bell: Didn’t I Blow Your Mind? The Sound Of Philadelphia Soul 1969 – 1983
Top work – thanks! Glad to see Joni where she belongs.
As it happens, I got the Joni for Christmas and it is very good.
You should all absolutely seek out the Congo Funk! compilation though.
Mine is on order (Congo Funk – already have Joni)
Previous winners:
2020 Prince – Sign O The Times SDE
2021 Can – Live in Stuttgart &
Jackie Leven – Straight Outta Caledonia
2022 The Beatles – Revolver SDE
2023 Bob Dylan – Fragments: Time Out Of Mind Sessions 1996-7
2024 Joni Mitchell – Archives Volume 4: The Asylum Years 1976-1980