The OP is self explanatory. This poll is for old material reissued or newly released in 2023.
You can vote for a maximum of ten. Post your favourite at the top. Ten points for number one, one point for number ten. Artist to the left, title to the right. See my list as an example.
Mods, please pin to the top of the forum.
Closing date 31st December.
Thank you.
1. John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy – Evenings At The Village Gate
2. The Beatles – 1962-1966
3. Joni Mitchell – Archives Volume 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975)
4. Suede – Suede
5. Various Artists – Aquarius Rock
6. Pharoah Sanders – Pharoah
7. ABC – The Lexicon Of Love
8. Kirsty MacColl – See That Girl
9. Neil Young – Chrome Dreams
10. Prince & The New Power Generation – Diamonds & Pearls
Suede and ABC being the SDE blu-ray versions?
ABC yes. Suede is just the album itself. It sounds sooooo much better.
For the purposes of the poll, any edition will do.
A handful…
1. The Bill Evans Trio – Sunday At The Village Vanguard.
2. John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy- Evenings At The Village Gate.
3. Pharoah Sanders – Pharoah.
4. Herbie Hancock – Empeyrean Isles.
5. Hidden Waters: Strange & Sublime Sounds Of Rio De Janeiro.
6. The Ahmed Jamal Trio – The Awakening.
7. Andrew Hill – Dance With Death.
A very interesting handful. I don’t know the Herbie, Brazilian or Andrew Hill albums. I will have check them out.
Nothing major but all interesting and worthwhile.
Ah. Didn’t know about Bill Evans. One of my favourite ever albums. I’ll look it up.
A stone cold classic Alice Coltrane reissue this year too but I didn’t want to overload on the sublime. The Bill Evans Trio is on it’s own more than enough.
You can never have too much sublime. You have three free spaces. You may as well use them.
I’ll mull it over. As is usual there has been a slew of jazz reissues and archive stuff set loose.
Don’t know it but shall be remedying that omission forthwith. Thanks Pencil.
Hi Tigg could you place Hiroshi Yoshimura – Surround at the number four position please. Everything below that moves down a slot obviously. Many thanks.
Of course
Good man yerself. 🙏
Nice, I’ll have to give that a listen. I’m a big fan of his Music for Nine Postcards album. Especially since going rather deaf I find his sort of minimalist music much easier on my deranged ears than anything remotely loud.
It’s lovely. He recorded it at the same time he was making Green which is equally wonderful, I think that was reissued this year too but I’d have to check.
I listen to a lot of ambient/ambient techno/dub/neoclassical music and the places such music intersects with jazz and soundtrack music. Like your good self Gary I find it restful on my ears and mind. It feeds my painting too which is a further blessing.
The Awakening, if anybody doesn’t know it, is a tremendous album. Haven’t heard the new versh but nice to see it there.
Think I only bought 3 this year.
1. Teardrop Explodes – The Culture Bunker
2. The Who – Who’s Next (on its way hopefully, have heard some of it)
3. Prince – Diamonds and Pearls
Only bought the Prince one because it was half price on Amazon Canada, haven’t listened yet so you can discount it if you want.
Ooh and Fragments
Let’s move that into 3rd position
1. Teardrop Explodes – The Culture Bunker
2. The Who – Who’s Next (on its way hopefully, have heard some of it)
3. Bob Dylan – Fragments
4. Prince – D & P
I did exactly the same with the Prince box. I was sure they were going to be out of stock on the shipping date. They did take a lot of cajoling and complaining by me to actually send it.
For avoidance of doubt, Tiggs: VdGG Bath Forum concert cd. Recorded 2022, released 2023, music somewhat older. Would this fall under R, H &A? Thanks muchly.
I’d say that is not historical and belongs on the other poll. 😀
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1. Fleetwood Mac – Live Rumours
2. Joni Mitchell – Archives Volume 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975)
3. Various Artists – More Than a Whisper: Celebrating the Music of Nanci Griffith
4. Drive-By Truckers – The Complete Dirty South
5. Bob Dylan – Fragments
6. Jason Isbell – Southeastern 10 Year Anniversary Edition
7. Bryan Ferry – Mamouna / Horoscope
8. Neil Young – Chrome Dreams
1st one is head and shoulders above everything else I’ve heard this year.
1. Horslips – More than you can chew
2. Blue Rose Code – Curios 2009-2020
3. The Who – Who’s Next
4. Joe Gibbs and the Professionals – 1970s Dub Albums Collection
5.Grateful Dead – Dave’s Picks 45, 1&2/10/1977
6. Colin Meloy – Sings together
7. Grateful Dead – Dave’s Picks 46 – 9/9/1972
8. Grateful Dead – Dave’s Picks 48 – 20/11/1971
9. Grateful Dead – Dave’s Pick’s 47 – 9/12/1979
10. Neil Young – Somewhere under the Rainbow
Zappa Overnight Sensation
Robert Fripp mega box- This one contains hours and hours of unreleased Frippertronics live. It’s like having a dozen new albums like Fripp and Eno.
If that box is the 32 disc Exposures, it was released in 2022.
I never buy many from these categories, but the only one I bought this year got played obsessively, so it deserves all of the points!
1. Rupert Hine – Surface Tension (the studio works 1981 – 1983)
Three albums in a box, I don’t think they’ve been remastered, the bonus tracks are shite, BUT the two first albums (Immunity and Waving Not Drowning) are just as brilliant as they were then. The wave of memories from my teenage years that hit me from just reading the track titles…and I love the music as much now as I did then. I have my old records, of course, but never listen to LPs anymore so hadn’t heard them since…perhaps around 1985? I did/do have the LP of the third album as well, but I can’t have listened to it more than once back then, because I don’t recognise any of it. And I don’t like it at all, so I suspect I felt the same way back then and only gave it one chance. But the other two more than make up for it.
Waving not drowning is a terrific album
1.Bluebells/Sisters, expanded deluxe version
2.Blue Rose Code/Curios
3.The Legends of Tomorrow/The Weather at the Words End
4.Stone Foundation/Standing in the Light; 25 Years of Stone Foundation
5.Brinsley Schwarz/Thinking Back, the Anthology
Question: Jim Moray’s Beflean is all new versions of old songs? Which list? If this, number 1
Likewise Levellers Collective/Together All The Way. If this, number 3
Brinsley Schwarz? BRINSLEY SCHWARZ??
Oh, I say! I missed that one: might need to be a pre-Christmas treat!
New recordings of old songs to on the other poll (see Shadow Kingdom).
I reckon you’ve got five more Old Stuff lurking somewhere.
Eckshellent
Lots of lovely New/Old came out this year. Anything without an artist name is various artists.
1.Tucker Zimmerman-Over Here In Europe
2.Fuchsia-Fuchsia
3.Oliver-Standing Stone
4.The Beatles-1967-1970 (2023 Edition)
5.Walter Wegmuller-Tarot
6.B.E.F.-Music For Stowaways
7.The Teardrop Explodes – Culture Bunker
8.Autonomy-The Productions Of Martin Rushent
9.Coil-The Ape Of Naples
10.Bob Stanley Presents London A To Z
Bubbling Under:
What A Groovy Day(The British Sunshine Pop Sound (1967-1972)
Wind Of Change (Progressive Sounds Of 1973)
New Music – The Almost Complete Works
Too Much Sun Will Burn(The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1967 Vol 2)
Intrigue-Steven Wilson Presents
Musik Music Musique 3.0 (1988 Synth Pop On Air)
West-Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – A Door Inside Your Mind (The Complete Reprise. Recording 1966-1968)
Gary Crowley’s Punk And New Wave Vol 2
Round And Round (Progressive Sounds Of 1974)
We’re An American Band (A Journey Through The U.S.A. Hard Rock Scene 1967-1973
March Of The Flower Children(The American Sounds of 1967
Fun Boy Three – The Complete
Guerilla Girls( She Punks And Demons)
Winter Of Discontent
Richard Norris-Deep Listening (2019-2022)
Pacific Breeze 3 (Japanese City Pop, Aor, And Boogie 1975 -1987)
Studio One Space Dub
This Is Flying Dutchman
Jon Savage’s 1980-1982( The Art Of Things To Come)
Once Again We Are Children Of The Sun
Programme Music
Dollar Bill Y ‘all
Waves Of Distortion
Yo! Boombox
Arrangements Of John Cameron
28 Little Bangers From Richard Hawley’s Jukebox
The Endless Coloured Ways-The Songs Of Nick Drake
Landscape A Go-Go(The Story Of Landscape (1977-1983) – Landscape
The Other Side Of Dreamland
Lounge Psychedelic
One Mile From Heaven
In The Light Of Time(UK Post-Rock And Leftfield Pop 1992-1998)
1962-1966 (2023 Edition)-The Beatles
Substance( 2013 Edition)-New Order
Wig Out! Freak Out!
Looking For Magic (American Power Pop In The Seventies)
Blank Generation (A Story Of Us/Canadian Punk & It’s Aftershocks)
Heavenly Remixes 7&8
Cosmic Jokers-Sci-Fi Party
OMD-Dazzle Ships
Nancy Sinatra+ Lee Hazelwood-Nancy & Lee Again
Ottilie Patterson-3000 Years With Ottille
Vivian Stanshall-“Rawlinson End”
Vivian Stanshall-Dog Howl In Tune
David Bowie-Ziggy Stardust& The Spiders From Mars Live
The Durutti Column-Time Was Gigantic…. When Were Kids
XTC-The Big Express(Surround Sound Series)
Jake Thackray-Jake Thackray And Songs
Mcdonald And Giles-Mcdonald And Giles
Mike Fiens-I Would Dream
Joe Meek-I Hear A New World(Sessions)
Charlotte Creig-Night Visiting Songs
Oliver-Stone Unturned
Reet Hendrikson-Reet
My goodness! You’ve been busy
If he’s managed 6 listens each of that lot I’m a Dutchman!
As I’ve been ill and in and out of hospital most of the year I’ve had plenty of spare time. So it’s mostly over six listens for the above.
Sorry to hear that. Then that is impressive listening! Erd goed
As always in no particular order, pls divvy up the 55 – let’s call it 54 – points as equally as possible
XTC Mummer
Still the gold standard for reissues in terms of contents, packaging and value
Bob Dylan Fragments
Props to Dai for sharing the great deal he got on Amazon at the start of the year
Richard Hawley Now and Then
So good I bought it twice
Beatles 62-66
Beatles 67-70
Given as an early Xmas present. Still can’t bring myself to listen to Now and Then though
New Order Substance 1987
Timely update of one of the first – and still one of the best – CDs I have ever bought.
Sure the packaging was shoddy and the two CDs or remixes and a live show were pretty
disposable, buf unbeatable value for twenty of your English pounds
No.
XTC are getting ten points, New Order five. Rules is rules. 😁
Vicious but fair
Can I also throw in Pink Floyd at the bottom of my list (4 points)
Is that the Dark Side Of The Moon blu-ray?
Yep
Yep
Apple, T, that Mummer should actually be Big Express
Message received and understood.
1. Larks’ Tongues in Aspic – King Crimson
2. Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
3. Tubular Bells – Mike Oldfield
4. Opus One – Mike Oldfield
A few 50th anniversary releases from me, the biggies. I don’t know if number 4 qualifies, as it’s really just another version of Tubular Bells (the original demos)? But it was a standalone release on Record Store Day so I think it counts.
Just 3 from me
1. Various Artists – Bob Stanley Presents London A To Z 1962-1973. Nostalgic journey around our capital city with some lovely but quite obscure songs from the period
2. Now Then – Richard Hawley. Near faultless best of collection from Sheffield’s finest
3. Joni Mitchell – The Asylum Albums (1972–1975)
* Thin Lizzy – Live & Dangerous Super Deluxe Edition. The definitive edition of (possibly) the definitive live album
* Carter USM – 30 Something. Do I need another copy? Yes …
* Kids On The Street – UK Power Pop And New Wave 1977-1981. Cherry Red extracting more cash from my wallet (and I’m sure they will keep doing it)
* Gary Crowley’s Punk & New Wave 2. May not be as “deep” as the the first volume with more big names rubbing shoulders wit the one-off releases, but possibly a better collection then Volume 1
* Helen Love – Yeah Yeah We’re Helen Love. May not be definitive or completely career covering, but goods to have in one place rather than various EPs and downloads
1: De La Soul-3 Feet High and Rising ( back in legal form at long last , though sad in the circumstances
2: Les Rallizes Denudes- Citta 93 ( late bloom of Japanese psychedelic legends)
3 V/A Winter of Discontent ( Bob Stanley UK art-punk compilation)
4 V/A In the Light of Time: UK Postrock and Leftfield Pop 1992-1998 ( valuable archive assortment)
Also enjoyed
Count Ossie & Mystic Revelation of Rastafari – Tale of Mozambique
John Cameron- Folk, Funk and Beyond
13 Floor Elevators – 13 of the Best ( familiar material but the best sounding remaster so far)
White Heaven- Strange Bedfellow ( Japanese 90s psych/guitar)
V/A Jon Savage 1980-1982 ( his engaging ongoing series)
V/A London A-Z ( Bob Stanley again)
V/A- Pacific Breeze 3 ( Japanese city pop)
A.R.Kane -69 ( couldn’t afford their box set but this online remaster is welcome)
V/A Too Much Sun Will Burn ( another 3 CD set from Cherry Red; this time 1967)
I’ll carry on awarding points to your others until London A-Z, if that’s okay.
Why is it just 10 selections Tiggs. I’m sure that many of us on here also buy lots of albums/box sets that qualify in this poll. I know that I do.
Last year it was just a ridiculous 3 selections, THREE!
It’s a fact that reissues account for over 40% of physical sales.
Do you ever stop complaining? Most posters have listed less than 10 if you look above. I did suggest you do your own poll before @Tiggerlion stepped up. Am sure you can list 100 if you want and then cry that not all of them are counted
Bloody hell, get a life man.
You take everything as a personal attack.
Bet you’re great company in a social setting. 🤣
Oh and some don’t vote at all due to restrictions.
Right
Maybe you should “get a life” and give up your attitude of having a go at anybody who is good enough to run a poll. It takes time..
Insert “hilarious” emoticon of your choice here
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Why is it ten? I have to draw the line somewhere. I thought twenty would be a bit far for most people. You are one of exceptions who buys loads of old stuff newly released. Ten should still be enough for you to make an impact. You can always add a long bubbling under like ip33.
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1. Joni Mitchell – Archives Vol3 : The Asylum Years (1972–1975)
then Stockholm Syndrome kicks in
2. Camel – Air Born – The MCA & Decca Years 1973 – 1984
How do you lot get the time to listen to all these boxsets?
1) The Beatles 1962- 1966
2) Fragments ~ Bob Dylan
3) Chrome Dreams ~ Neil Young
4) Archives Volume 3 ~ Joni Mitchell
5) Black Unity ~ Pharaoh Sanders
6) The Broadsword And The Beast ~ Jethro Tull
7) Cunning Stunts ~ Caravan
8) Nude ~ Camel
9) Car Wheels On A Gravel Road ~ Lucinda Williams
10) Sailin’ Shoes ~ Little Feat
Bubbling Under
Now Then ~ Richard Hawley
Evenings At The Village Gate ~ John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy
Pharaoh ~ Pharaoh Sanders
Dixie Chicken ~ Little Feat
Little Feat!!!!!! I’d forgotten about them.
I’ll forgive you for putting artist to the right (apart from number one) for the reminder. 😎
I always struggle to remember all the reissues from the year – with the new releases I can search by date, but for reissues I tend to file with the original release date so that doesn’t work !
Anyway, here goes….
1. XTC – Big Express
2. Porcupine Tree – Deadwing
3. ABC – Lexicon Of Love
4. Little Feat – Sailin Shoes
5. The Who – Who’s Next
6. Beatles – 1962-66
7. Blue Rose Code – Curios
8. Camel – Air Born
9. Prince – Diamonds & Pearls
10. New Order – Substance
I’m sure there’s at least a couple that I have forgotten, so may change later…..
Keep a spreadsheet of purchases. I’ve been doing this for a few years, mainly so I don’t buy things twice!
I commend this idea, but it hasn’t prevented multiple purchases
(Charity shops with no WiFi/ phone signal being the usual cause)
“Keeping a spreadsheet so you can remember what record you bought” is the most Afterwordy t-shirt ever.
Remember how many copies of a record you already owned on different formats more like
I haven’t checked the terms and conditions of this poll, but I think it’s about your personal favourites. If you have to check a spreadsheet to remember a record, it may not really be a favourite after all…
To help with the songs poll, I would remind everyone that most of us have a graph showing each song, like the one at the front of the big book in Dead Poets Society. The X axis is number of plays, the Y axis is number of occasions the song has caused the listener to perform air guitar in the kitchen. In the top right hand corner you have things like Purple Haze, Another Girl Another Planet and Shaddap a Ya Face.
Tend to agree with Fatima here. If you have to consult spreadsheets to remind yourself what you’ve bought, it may not really have been all that important to you.
Some real favourites of mine have been mentioned so far in this poll, but the fact is that I’ve acquired no new reissues or archival wotnots at all, this year.
Thanks for your comments. And your faultless memories. Any tips how I can remember every single thing that has happened this year? I’ve had a shit year with illness most of the year so your belittling comments were most appreciated.
Merry Christmas.
GWS
Gaseous Waste System?
Begone, J Evans Pritchard, Phd. I don’t hear enough ripping.
No surprises from me
1. Frank Zappa – Overnite Sensation
2. Dr John – Dr John Plays Mac Rebennack
3. Frank Zappa – Funky Nothingness
4. Little Feat – Dixie Chicken
5. Little Feat – Sailin’ Shoes
6. Burt Bacharach – Dream Big! The First Decade Of Songs
7. Frank Zappa – Zappa ’80 Mudd Club/Munich
8. Dr John – Dr John The Montreux Years (Live)
9. James Booker – True (Live at Tipitina’s 04/25/78)
Yay – James Booker! The Cyril Neville-endorsed »Behind The Iron Curtain« 5-CD set is among my most-played in the last few months.
@fatima-Xberg I bought that box set on your recommendation in another post. Quite apart from Booker’s remarkable playing, the whole story of a gay black junkie playing New Orleans piano concerts in that part of the world in 1978-79 is an extraordinary story. The package/booklet is really well researched and informative. Available from the Tax Dodgers
I must say that I’m really looking forward to your list, fatima.
Does the Sparklehorse record go here or in the new music poll?
Either way it’s my best of the year.
I’d say it’s historical or archival. The key part was recorded more than thirteen years ago, though additional parts were added much more recently.
1. Bob Dylan – Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions
2. The Beatles – 1962 to 1966
3. The Beatles -1967 to 1970
4. Laura Cantrell – Just Like a Rose: The Anniversary Sessions
5. Rory Gallagher – All Around Man: Live in London
6. The Who – Who’s Next/Life House
7. Muddy Waters – Hollywood Blues Summit 1971
8. Kirsty Maccoll – See That Girl 1979-2000
9. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros – Live at Acton Town Hall
10. Billy Bragg – The Roaring Forty 1983-2023
On reflection is the Laura Cantrell in the right list, or should it be regarded as a new album? If so can I add it to my entry there and substitute Neil Young Chrome Dreams (in at number 10)?
New album, I’d say (well, I included it on my 2023 list).
I agree.
Thanks – I’ll add it in there!
A few more, so nos. 7,8,9 and 10.
John McCusker/Best of…..
Kris Drever/Best of…….
Hawkwind/Space Ritual
Drive-by Truckers/Complete Dirty South
Wow! I thought for a moment this was a new vote but it’s just an additional one.
Of course.
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Booger, just remembered
Show of Hands/Roots II
Sorry, it’s the number 1, astonished I forgot, the slower version of Country Life making that point clearly obvious!!!
Okay.
(3) from the Emerald Isle, (3) from the USA, (3) from England & (1) from Canada
1) Camel – Air Born.
2) Horslips – More Than You Can Chew
3) Drive By Truckers – The Complete Dirty South.
4) Bob Dylan – Bootleg Series 17: Fragments.
5) The Beatles – 1962-1966/1967-1970
6) Neil Young – Chrome Dreams
7) Thin Lizzy – Live And Dangerous
8) XTC – The Big Express
9) Dr John – The Montreux Years
10) Thin Lizzy – Vagabonds Of The Western World
Excellent.
The only trouble is you have sneaked in two separate Beatles reissues into number 5. I’ll give the six points to 1962-66 but am willing to give them three points each if you prefer.
You can buy the »Red« and »Blue« albums together as a 4-CD or 6-LP box set from Universal. And no, it’s not titled »1962-1970«.
Or 1962-2023
Of course. I have much to ponder when it comes to collating the results.
Tut tut tut, Tigs you need to be with it if you are to run a poll.
The Baroness got me a Xmas pezzie it is a vinyl box set containing 6 LPs, The Beatles 1962-1966/1967-1970. They are not separate entities.
To help you out and not split The Fabs vote 3 ways your 3 point solution is acceptable.
So you must realise I’ve not ‘sneaked’ anything, ‘sneak’ is a trait I abhor commonly found in Tories.
Thank you.
The order doesn’t matter to me outside of the poll but I’ve done it anyway:
1. Pink Floyd – DSOM (Atmos Mix)
2. Zappa – Overnight Sensation
3. Kirsty MacColl – See That Girl
4. Little Feat – Dixie Chicken
5. Little Feat – Sailin’ Shoes
6. Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (Atmos Mix)
7. XTC – The Big Express
8. Beatles – 1962 – 66
Yo, Tiggs – I’ve mucked around long enough, I don’t think these are going to change now…
1 Graham Collier – British Conversations
2 Gentle Giant – Interview
3 Sparklehorse – Bird Machine
4 Barbara Thompson – First Light
5 Bryan Ferry – Mamouna/Horoscope
6 Jethro Tull – The Broadsword and the Beast
7 Joni Mitchell – Archives, Vol. 3
8 Hawkwind – Space Ritual
9 Thin Lizzy – Live & Dangerous SDE
10 Drive-By Truckers – The Complete Dirty South
@Tiggerlion
Can I beg a favour? One late change:
remove Drive-By Truckers at number 10;
replace with The Auteurs – People ‘Round Here Don’t Like to Talk About It – the complete EMI recordings
Thanks muchly.
Of course.
However, after discussing with Paul on the other poll, Sparklehorse is classified as new not historical 😐.
You may want to rethink your entire top ten! And even your top twenty new?
Yoiks! Better remove Sparklehorse then – but move everything else up one, and reinstate the Truckers at number 10, as before?
Interesting times, @Tiggerlion – late decision by the umpires?
I know.
Took a while to see Billy Bragg on the list
1) Richard Hawley – 28 little bangers from Richard Harley’s Juke box.
2). Billy Bragg the roaring 40
3) Teardrop Explodes – Culture Bunjer
4) Joni Mitchell -Archives volume 3
5) Kirsty MacColl – see that girl
6) Pharoah Sanders – Pharoah
7) Dr John Montreux years
8) Horslips – More than you can Chew
9) Frank Zappa Funky nothingness
10) Sparklehorse – bird machine
Theee is also a French collection of 60’s psychedelia/exotica that would figure higher up my list but can’t remember what it is called.
After discussing with Paul on the other poll, @SteveT, Sparklehorse is classified as new not historical 😐
You may want to vote for something else.
Not many reissues this year for me-
1. Boo Radleys- Giant Steps 30th anniversary edition
2. Pernice Brothers- Overcome by happiness
3. De La Soul- 3 feet high and rising
4. Beatles- 1962-1966
A quick look at my record shelves tells.me I have bought a look of records this year, but they’re mainly second hand ones from yesteryear rather than reissues.
Bryan Ferry – Mamouna/Horoscope
Just one re-issue purchased, after an excellent Tigger review. I’m a big Bryan admirer but I always found Mamouna & Bete Noir too dense & never really got into them. Tiggerlion’s review made me buy it and re-assess my cloth eared opinion. All 3 discs are great & presented in a lovely box at a reasonable price.
Funnily enough, I bought my copy after reading the Tigger review…he’s a very persuasive advocate (although it is an excellent set).
Bob of course
Frank
Joni
Richard Hawley
Prince
Not interested enough to make a choice?
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Did they have multiple releases this year? If yes , I will annotate more precisely.
Well. A few of Frank’s Capitol recordings have been reissued, but I’ll assume you mean Platinum as it includes some new old.
Being a sharp-eyed Bob watcher, the 50th Anniversary Collection of Pat Garrett outtakes would have been in your Christmas stocking.
He’d would have had to be very fast to get those Pat Garrett outtakes. Although they are hardly essential and I doubt Sony will change their minds and put the set on general release.
Based on the European 50 year copyright expiry, Before The Flood and Planet Waves stuff should see the light of day next.
Bob who? 😉
Bob Dylan had more than one
Four reissue/compilation projects from Bob Dylan (plus several LP reissues), 6 Joni Mitchell items, five from Frank Sinatra, three from Frank Zappa (wasn’t there a Frank Carducci box, too?), and at least four Prince releases. And I’ve not checked the Record Store Day lists…
I stand before thee chastened.
Bob Dylan – Fragments
Frank Zappa – Funky Nothingness
Joni Mitchell – the Asylum Years
Richard Hawley Now then
Prince – Diamonds and Pearls
@Tiggerlion yes the Pat Garrett set interests of course. Not sure how different it will be to the Pecos Blues bootleg.
Thank you
“Bob who?”
Bob Vylan, perhaps?
1 – Moody Blues/To Our Children’s Children’s Children
2 – Neil Young/Official Release Series Discs 22, 23+, 24 & 25
3 – Camel/Air Born
4 – XTC/Big Express
5 – Bob Dylan/Fragments
6 – Richard Hawley/Now Then
7 – Gal Costa/India
8 – Drive By Truckers/The Complete Dirty South
9 – Neil Young/Chrome Dreams
10 – Talking Heads/Stop Making Sense
Here are my ten, as detailed on a separate thread:
1. Joni Mitchell – Archives, Volume 3
2. Michael Smith – Mi Cyaan Believe It
3. Various Artists – As-Shams Archives Vol. 1: South African Jazz, Funk & Soul 1975-1982
4. John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy – Evenings at the Village Gate
5. The Guiding Star Orchestra – Natural Heights
6. Herman Chin-Loy – Musicism Dub
7. Ali Farka Touré – Voyageur
8. Allen Kwela – Black Beauty
9. Grateful Dead – RFK Stadium, Washington D.C., 10 June 1973
10. Glen Brown meets King Tubby – Big Dub
1. Joni Michell – Archives Vol 3
2. Bob Dylan – Fragments
3. Drive By Truckers – The Complete Dirty South
4. The Beatles – 1962-66
5. Billy Bragg – The Roaring Forty
6. John Coltrane – Evenings at the Village Gate
7. Little Feat – Sailin’ Shoes
8. Lindisfarne – Radio Times
9. Richard Hawley – Now and Then
10. Joe Strummer – Live at Acton Town Hall
UPDATE
There is a clear top three but a few votes could make a huge difference.
please keep your nominations rolling in.
I assume Interview is bubbling under?
9 points so far! 😀
Huzzah!
Oh, wait…
Here is my list
1. Little Feat-Sailin’ Shoes (Deluxe Edition)
2. Little Feat-Dixie Chicken (Deluxe Edition)
3. Bob Dylan-Fragments-Time Out Of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol. 17
4. Bryan Ferry-Mamouna (Deluxe Edition)
5. Joni Mitchell-Archives Vol. 3, The Asylum Years (1972-1975)
6. Van Morrison-Beyond Words: Instrumental
7. Marshall Crenshaw-Marshall Crenshaw (40th Anniversary Edition)
8. Nick Lowe-Dig My Mood (25th Anniversary Edition)
9. Neil Young-Chrome Dreams
10. Joe Cocker-Stingray (hi-res reissue)
11. Jason Isbell-Southeastern (10 Year Anniversary Edition)
12. Various Artists-Bobby Gillespie Presents I Still Can’t Believe You’re Gone
13. Bob Marley & The Wailers-Catch A Fire 50th Anniversary
14. Pharoah Sanders-Pharoah
15. The Beatles-The Beatles 1962-1966 (2023 Edition)
16. The Beatles-The Beatles 1967-1970 (2023 Edition)
17. Bob Dylan-The Bootleg Series Vol. 18-The Complete Budokan 1978 (Live)
18. Various Artists-Tell Everybody! (21st Century Juke Joint Blues From Easy Eye Sound)
19. Various Artists-I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100
20. John Lee Hooker-Burnin’ (Expanded Edition)
That Doc Watson tribute is really great.
And shouldn’t it be on the new releases? I had forgotten about it, until now, despite it being amongst the favourite of those I got to review last year.
Yes it should. Fortunately, being ranked below number ten, it attracts nil points.
When are you lodging your list @fatima-Xberg ?
Little Feat at the top of the list! Would have been on mine but pipped by Frank Zappa
And Pharaoh is wonderful too, only discovered that in the last few days
You still have one place free, @Mousey. Would you like Pharoah to be tacked on to the end of your lis?
@Tiggerlion Yes! Thanks
Great list.
A very short list:
1 Richard Hawley Now and then
2 Various Artists Stoned Cold Country
Not sure if 2 counts, it’s slightly out of date description on Amazon is “ In celebration of The Rolling Stones’ 60th anniversary, some of Country’s biggest stars have come together for Stoned Cold Country, a forthcoming tribute album filled to the brim with reimagined versions of the legendary Rock band’s catalogue, to be released in 2023 on BMG.
You can replace ‘reimagined’ with ‘straight copy’ for a lot of the tracks but I’ve enjoyed it.
I’m sorry but that classifies as new. New recordings of old songs. It’s a new covers album!
🙂
Harsh but fair as people used to say.
It’s also shite. (Sorry to appear so rude, @bryand , but facts is facts. OK, nearly all shite:
https://www.covermesongs.com/2023/04/review-stoned-cold-country.html
Short list here as haven’t bought much old though I’ve bought a lot of reissued vinyl which I guess doesn’t count.
1. Jethro Tull – Broadsword and the beast
2. Little Feat – Dixie Chicken
I have a recent repress of Sailin’ Shoes and have all the live stuff so passed on the CD. Number 3 if the vinyl counts.
I’m happy to accept Sailin’ Shoes at number three.
Only two from me:
Kirsty MacColl – See That Girl
The Teardrop Explodes – Culture Bunker
Alice Cooper – Schools Out
Alice Cooper – Killer
Sparklehorse – Bird Machine*
Yan Tiersen – Kerber Complete
New Order – Substance
* I’d already included this in the ‘new’ music poll, then saw you comment it should/could be here in the oldies, so if in the unlikely event that my vote could effect the standings feel free to either count it or ignore it.
That puts Sparklehorse into the top thirty.
After discussing with Paul on the other poll, Sparklehorse is classified as new not historical 😐
Good stuff, ta.
Those Alice albums are classic. “Love it to death” too. Really atmospheric. I can smell the Party 7 and Brut at teenage parties when I play them.
@Twang Schools Out was the album that changed everything for me, all the Cooper Group albums have stood the test of time and yet they have been criminally ignored in the re-issue, re-package, re-package era.
How could an entire generation have such a poor sense of smell that Brut became the ‘pong’ of choice.
I read somewhere that Brut has finally been discontinued!
Agree on the Alice albums. Killer and Schools Out are especially ambitious musically. No one else did anything like that.
My teenage years were Insignia rather than Brut (not that it smelled any better), but Killer, Schools Out and Billion Dolar Babies is a 3 album run of some renown
Anyone remember Jovan Musk?
Blue Stratos!
Denim for me
Mrs F and I have spent New Year’s Day having having a cupboard clearout (mainly Offsprings’ shoes and coats which no longer fit, etc). I found an unopened bottle of Denim which I bought in a duty free shop in the Italian Alps when on a skiing holiday in 1993. It smelled nice up a mountain, nearly 31 years ago.
Did you open it??
No, but when we were up the mountain, she took a jar of Candarel sugar substitute to have with her coffee and broke the bulging foil under the screw-on lid. It flew upwards, like mushroom-cloud, and rained artificial sweetener all over the apartment.
Of all the excuses!
“There’s a huge amount of strange white powder in your hotel room”
“For the last time, our jar of Candarel exploded!”
It had one good side-effect: she gave up taking sweetener in her coffee, because it was too cold to walk to the shop to buy another jar.
Similarly I gave up sugar in my tea part-way through my first term at university, when the bag of Silver Spoon ran out. I couldn’t be arsed to go to the shop for replacement and have been White No Sugar ever since.
Famously at a dinner after a rugby test match in the amateur era bottles of aftershave were left at every seat as gifts. Some of the forwards drank them …
1. La Clave – La Clave
2. V/A – Hit The Bongo! (The Latin Soul of Tico Records)
3. V/A – Tribal Rites Of The New Saturday Night
4. V/A – SJR Presents Studio One Scorcher Instrumentals
5. V/A – SJR Presents Studio One Roots 2
6. Waltel Branco – Meu Balanco
7. V/A – Luke Une Presents E Soul Cultura vol. 2
8. Juju – A Message From Mozambique
9. V/A – This Is Flying Dutchman 1969 – 1975
10. Sun Ra and his Solar-Myth Arkestra – The Solar Myth Approach Vol 1 & 2
1. Neil Young – Chrome Dreams
2. Neil Young – Odeon Budekon (standalone release)
3. Bob Dylan – Fragments
4. Trashcan Sinatras – Cake
5. Neil Young – Somewhere Over The Rainbow
6. The Ducks – High Flyin
7. Primal Scream – Reverberations
8. New Order – Substance
9. Johnny Marr – Spirit Power
10. Eels – Eels So Good
So you’ve yet to be be converted to Shakey’s output Kid?
1 Roy Hargrove – The Love Suite: In Mahogany
Previously unreleased – remarkable joyous live concert of the then 23-year-old jazz trumpet star’s self-penned suite
2 Pharoah Sanders – Live at Fabrik Hamburg 1980
Storming concert performance – happy memories of seeing the same line-up at Sheffield Crucible Theatre around the same time
3 V/A – Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night
Pre-disco disco – great Philly-flavoured soul music compilation from the mid-70s
4 V/A – Wattstax 72: The Complete Concert
Huge treasure trove of several hours of unreleased treasures
5 Webster Lewis – Give Me Some Emotion – The Epic Anthology 1976-81
Best of the late classy soulful jazz funk arranger/producer/singer
6 V/A – Folk, Funk and Beyond: The Arrangements of John Cameron
Ace compilation of the great arranger – from Donovan, through CCS, Hot Chocolate to Tony Christie and his own much-sampled blissful “Half Forgotten Daydreams”
7 V/A – Soul Prescription
If only for the first vinyl release of Gladys Knight’s “More, More, More” and Aretha’s “The Wind”
8 Blossom Dearie – Discover Who I Am (The Fontana Years London 1966-70)
The singer/pianist on fine form – plenty of unreleased material to enjoy
9 Dusty Springfield – Cameo
Forgotten early 70s album – the track “Mama’s Little Girl” an all-time favourite
Also bought some newly reissued 7” singles – from a record shop – for the first time in living memory:
Norman Hutchins – I Really Love You (the now classic “hands in the air” gospel swayer – ideal first record after the bongs at midnight!)
Connie Stevens – Tick Tock
Odyssey – Our Lives are Shaped by What We Know/Battened Ships
Some 12s as well:
Asha Puthli – Space Talk (Dimitri from Paris remix)
Breakwater – No Limit (Mike Maurro remix)
Marvin Gaye – I Wanna Be Where You Are – first time on vinyl for the extended mix
I’m impressed you saw Pharoah Sanders back in 1980.
It’s neck and neck at the top. A very exciting finish!
Would a crisp fiver help to tip the balance in favour of ver Giant? Or would that be payola?
No.
Fair enough…
Richard Hawley tying with Pharoah Sanders?
I couldn’t possibly say at this point in time.
I hope you checked everyone’s voter ID.
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