After much thinking, drinking and puffing, I’ve finally decided on my 2019 retro list:
Reissues Of The Year
1 The Residents | The Mole Box (6 CDs)
2 King Crimson | Heaven & Earth (24 Discs)
3 Fats Domino | I’ve Been Around – The Complete Imperial & ABC Recordings (13 Discs)
4 Prince | 1999 Super Deluxe Edition (6 Discs)
5 Woodstock – Back To The Garden (10 CD Edition)
6 Michael Rother | Solo (5 CDs)
7 Frank Zappa | The Hot Rats Sessions (6 CDs)
8 The Fall | Bend Sinister – The Domesday Pay-Off Plus (2 CDs)
9 R.E.M. | Monster 25th Anniversary (6 Discs)
10 Ronnie Lane | Just For The Moment – Music 1973-1997 (6 CDs)
If you’re still interested you can view the complete list of 30 on th’ blog.
http://chickswithdisks.wordpress.com/2020/01/09/best-of-2019/
“Chicks With Disks” – I’m boggled!
It’s the least “scary” (white elder male response) of Fatima’s blogs….. 😉
No room for a short, sharp, one-disc hit of Rock ‘n’ Roll?
My favourite releases tend to be the shortest.
Short, sharp rock’n’roll? I have the 10-inch of the Johnny Burnette Trio. I don’t need any of the annual re-releases on 180g vinly, hi-res CD or whatnot.
A very good list. I would swap THe Residents and Michael Rother for Sutherland Brothers and the Bob Dylan bootleg series and maybe find a place for Kathryn William’s but aside from that good to go.
Prince would get my no.1 spot.
Marvellous! I’ve been tempted by Bend Sinister. I think you’ve tipped the balance.
A top ten containing 84 discs! Can anyone beat that?
I’ve added the 30 New Albums of 2019.
Did you buy all these?
What do you think – that I stole them? 😉
Maybe they were in your local library? And I think I buy too many box sets….
There were times when I spent more on cigarettes ‘n’ alcohol… 😉
(And I wish German libraries would have the budget to buy records…)
Surely no Oasis CD single costs that much?
Re: Fats.
Each to their own but the £5 Avid collection, with five original albums on it, is probably a better bet than the £160 box set and I suspect will get more plays.
Is any Fats necessary after about 1960/61?
The Fats Domino box set also includes an LP-sized 200-page book with a full up-to-date biography, hundreds of ads, posters and newspaper articles, plus brilliant pictures – including all the original album sleeves up to his last, self-released album.
Of course, if you’re not interested in the man’s life & work, any compilation will do (and a 5 bob, 5 album collection is most certainly illegal and crap-sounding).
You’re quite correct Fatima. All those cheapo multi-CD sets are bootlegs with no thought given to the mastering and often recorded from battered old LPs.
Being asked incredibly stupid questions about having bought that fabulous Fats Domino box must be aggravating.