What music did you discover and enjoy this year ?

[zebra03]

This way if you found an old album just recently , you can post it here . Or if you enjoyed something from this year , you can post it here .

This is an amazing album from Robert Berry with musical contributions from Keith Emerson .

 

[Blue Shadow]

Too many to count or pick one. Had about 900 new to me cds show up this year.

But I'll check back to see what others are finding sounds good.

 

[Harvestor]

Too many to count or pick one.

If I had to pick one..
Loreena McKennitt

 

[bobsvinyl]

I'd have to say The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio. I posted this cut before, but I like it so you'll have to put up with it again.

Runner-up would be Wulf Zendik. So far out there, when I put him on it was like getting hit in the head with a rock.

 

[Harley Fan]

If I had to pick one..
Loreena McKennitt

I think I have most all of MS McKennitt's catalog. Pretty good considering I'm an old metal and classic rock guy.

Right now, I can't get enough of these kids:



I'm hoping Santa will bring to me their latest release.

 

[crazy-in-az]

Argus by Wishbone Ash. I heard of them, but I didn't know anything by them until I heard "Time Was" on youtube.

 

[jdmccall]

Blues Traveler...I "discovered" them this year. I never picked up on them when they came up back in the what...early 90's?

Ry Cooder...I know he's been around for a long time and I did already have "Buena Vista Social Club" and "Mambo Sinuendo". But I started checking out his "solo" (more or less) albums this year and it's been a very rewarding undertaking, so far.

 

[Lavane]

A few I found. Leonard Lopez and Eric Gales.

 

[Justgotohm]

London Grammer

 

[zebra03]

Too many to count or pick one. Had about 900 new to me cds show up this year.

But I'll check back to see what others are finding sounds good.

No limits here . I am interested in what I may have missed . List as many as you want .

 

[thomo57]

https://www.ted.com/talks/rodrigo_y_gabriela_an_electrifying_acoustic_guitar_performance

 

[FONSguy]

Internet radio stream with practically no signal processing. BBC 3.

 

[Mystic]

Late this year, as in the least week or so I have, thanks to a recent thread started by @Delmarva, been discovering and, in some instances, rediscovering, a bunch of great bands and numbers associated with the so-called New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (i.e., NWOBHM), much of which I like A LOT more than I'd recalled the first time 'round, i.e., WAY BACK THERE in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Listening to the material that's being posted @ the NWOBHM thread has (re)kindled my energy and interest re: the pursuit of additional ROIO material for my "live" collection, which might be very deep in "things Motörhead and Judas Priest", but it's a bit light on Saxon and very light on several of the other great-sounding bands that are being name-checked, recorded material posted, etc., @ the thread. A deficit @ my collection I aim to correct during the next year, if not weeks.

 

[zebra03]

This one was a sleeper . Way better than it ought to be .

 

[7.62]

A lot of good stuff from our indie music forum here, kexp and Sirius were sources for discovering more of the same.

 

[Condorsat]

Been streaming lots of "new to me" music this year .. so it's easier to say what I discovered this month. Watched Front & Center on MTV live .. seen the band Train .. never heard a full album of theirs before. I have heard this song before which was part of the Front & Center episode.

Currently streaming their early recordings on Tidal. Thus far I like their "albums" & not just their hit songs.

 

[JoeESP9]

I'd have to say The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio. I posted this cut before, but I like it so you'll have to put up with it again.

Runner-up would be Wulf Zendik. So far out there, when I put him on it was like getting hit in the head with a rock.

Thanks for the tip about The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio. I've ordered Live at KEXP. OTOH, Wulf Zendik must be an acquired taste that I have not acquired.

 

[Blue Shadow]

OK Zebra. From first listen these got a good rating, the highest in my quick rating system.

All artists are listed with the only word in a name that is not first is The. The rest of the names are alphabetic except that The Waterboys & Mike Scott that showed up first.
Ignore the formatting. Ignore the spacing on a line, these were pulled from a word doc and the tabs don't play well. The date at the end of the line is the release date.
Ignore most of the * at the start of the title of the album this is an indication that the CD is in a jewel case. The rest are in a hanging file/foot locker that holds about 350 CDs in the space of 100.


Yes, I have heard a number of these before but you wanted the list and I didn't want to go through it and edit it, too much work for a quick post. I've been messing with these lists, the original doc is 19 pages for a number of months. Time to get away and just listen. Enjoyed Infected Mushroom the other night but the last song didn't play well. Cleaned the cd, it wasn't dirty, and it played fine the computer today.

Waterboys, The Mike Scott & The Whole of the Moon
Adele 19
Allison Krause and Union Station Lover Runs Both Ways
Amadou & Mariam Welcome to Mali
Athens Underworld vs. the Misterons 2009
Banco do Gaia Last Train to Lhasa (2 discs only)
Beatles Abbey Road
Beatles 1
Beck Odelay 1997
Beck Sea Change 2002
Ben Folds Rockin' the suburbs
Ben Harper Both Sides of the Gun 2006
Ben Harper Welcome to the Cruel World 1994
Berlin Pleasure Victim
Black Dub Black Dub
Bonobo Dial M for Monkey 2003
Bonobo The North Borders 2013
Book of Love Boy
BranVan3000 Discosis
BT ESCM 1997
BT These Helpful Machines (2 Black CDs) 2010
BT This Binary Universe 2006
Caia The Magic Dragon ch-AYE-ah dance comp 2003
Cat Stevens Greatest Hits 1975
Cat Stevens Tea for a Tillerman (Mobile Fidelity) 1970
Count Bassie At Newport
Counting Crows August and Everything After 1993
Crosby, Stills and Nash Crosby Stills and Nash
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Déjà Vu
Culture Live in Africa Reggae
Cure, The Disintegration
Dave Mathews Band Remember Two Things 1993
David Gray *White Ladder
DB* 10
Depeche Mode-Singles 12 Blasphemous Rumor (No Paper)
Depeche Mode-singles 8 Everything Counts
Dining Rooms, The Experiments in Ambient Soul 2005
Dining Rooms, The Numero Duex 2001
Dio Holy Diver Hard Rock
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms Remaster
Dire Straits Dire Straits Remaster
Dire Straits Love Over Gold Remaster
Dire Straits Making Movies Remaster
DJ Rap Learning Curve
Elton John Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player
Elton John Madman Across the Water
English Beat, The I just Can't Stop
English Beat, The Special Beat Service
Etherwood *Blue Leaves
Etherwood *Etherwood (Pine Trees Looking Up to them)
Everything But the Girl *The Deserts Miss the Rain
Everything but the Girl Amplified Heart
Fixx, The Reach the Beach
Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac
Fluke Progressive History X Ten Years of Fluke
Four Tet *Pause
Front Line Assembly & Friends The best of cryogenic studio disc 2
Frontline Assembly & Friends The Best of Cryogenic Studio
Frontline Assembly Artificial soldier Canadian electro-industrial
Future Sound of London, The Accelerator
Future Sound of London, The Papua, New Guinea
Herbie Hancock Headhunters
Imogene Heap Ellipse 2009
Imogene Heap Speak for Yourself 2005
Infected Mushroom *B.P. Empire Last Track Skips
INXS The Greatest Hits
Janis Joplin Pearl
Japanese Popstars, The Controlling Your Allegiance
Jason Dunne Sunrise Sessions Bumping Dance Music
Jean Grae The Evil Jeanius: Instrumentals
Jeff Beck Blow by Blow
John Digweed Transitions Vol 3
John Lennon Shaved Fish
John Lennon The Collection
Joni Mitchell *Court and Spark
Jónsi Go fronts Sigur Ros 2010
Joseph Arthur Come to Where I'm From
Karsh Kale Realize
Kate Bush The Dreaming 1982
King Crimson Discipline EG Virgin
k-os Atlantis Hymns for Disco
Kruder Dorfmeister The K&D Sessions (2CD)
Lamb Lamb
Lamb What Sound
Lara St. John re: Bach
LCD Soundsystem This is Happening
Led Zeppelin Early Days The Best of Vol 1
Led Zeppelin Latter Days The Best of Vol 2
Led Zeppelin Led Zepplin
Leonard Cohen 67 Songs of Leonard Cohen (First Album+2)
L-Konitz, B-Mehidau, C-Haden, P-Motian Live at Birdland Sax Jazz 2011
Lush Lovelife
Melanie Fiona The Bridge
Mighty Diamonds When the Right Time Come (I Need a Roof ) Reggae 1976
Missing Everything but the Girl The Remix EP
Mission U.K., The The First Chapter
Moby The Very Best of (2CD, No Paper) 2006
Moderat *III
Neil Young *After the Gold Rush
Neil Young Harvest
Neil Young Live at Massey Hall
Norah Jones The Fall 2009
Orb, The Metallic Spheres
Orchestal Manœuvres in the Dark History of Modern
Orchestal Manœuvres in the Dark Organisation
Peter Gabriel Blood of Eden w/ Sinead O'Connor 1993
Peter Gabriel Scratch My Back 2010
Peter Malik Group w/Norah Jones New York City
Peter Malik Group w/Norah Jones The Chill Album
Peter Tosh The Best of 1978--1987
Phil Collins 2 Song EP
Photek Solaris
Pink Floyd The Division Bell
Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts
Pogues, The Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
Pogues, The Waiting for Herb
Police, The The Police (2CD)
Postal Service, The Give Up
Q-Bruns Abstract Message Oeuvre Compilation 1998
Q-Burns Abstract Message Re-Routed invisible airline remix Compilation 2002
Q-Burns Abstract Message Future Past Tense Remixes Compilation 2004
Quantic Soul Orchestra, The Pushin On 2005
Quantic Apricot Morning 2002
Quantic The 5th Exotic 2001
Quantic The Best of Quantic (2CD) 2011
Queen --------Greatest Hits---------
Radio Dept., The Clinging to a Scheme 2010
Ralph Towner / Peter Erskine Open Letter
Ralph Towner/Paolo Fresu Chiaroscuro
Sade Diamond Life
Sade Best of Sade
Sade Lovers Rock
Santana Abraxas
Santana Multi-Dimensional Warrior
Santana Santana
Sarah McLachlan Afterglow Live 2004
Sarah McLachlan Afterglow 2003
Sarah McLachlan Solace 1991
Sarah Vaughn The Definitive Sarah Vaughn
Silversun Pickups Carnavas
Simon & Garfunkel *Sounds of Silence
Smashing Pumpkins, The Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness 1995
Snow Patrol A Hundred Million Suns
St. Germain Tourist
Steel Pulse Rastafari Centennial Live in Paris
Steely Dan Aja
Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill
Steely Dan Gaucho
Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble *Texas Flood
Sting *Mercury Falling
Sting Fields of Gols
Sting Dream of the Blue Turtles
Subterranean Homesick Band Derek's Band
Tchaikovsky 1812
The Lords of the New Church Killer Lords
The Lumineers The Lumineers
The The Mind Bomb 1989
The The Soul Mining 1983
The Touré-Raichel Collective The Tel Aviv Session
Thelonious Monk Genius of Modern Music Vol 1 1947
Thomas Strønen / Iain Ballamy : Food‎ Quiet Inlet
Toby Lightman Bird on a Wire
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Greatest Hits
Tori Amos Boys for Pele
Tori Amos God
Toumani Diabaté's Symmetric Orchestra ‎ Boulevard De L'Independance
Tracy Chapman Crossroads
U2 The Joshua Tree
Ulrich Schnauss Far Away Trains Passing By
Underworld Back to Mine 2003
Underworld ‎ Second Toughest In The Infants 1996
Underworld Born Slippy 1995
Unkle Psyence Fiction 1998
Unkle Where did the Night Fall 2010
Violent Femmes Permanent Record (The Best of)
Vivaldi - Piazzolla The Four Seasons
Wallflowers, The Bringing Down the Horse
War on Drugs, The Lost in the Dream
Warren Zevon The Best of
Waterboys, The Fisherman's Blues
Waterboys,The A Pagan Place
Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil
Who, The My Generation

 

[FauxHall]

Really got into Frank Sinatra on new vinyl.

 

[bobsvinyl]

Thanks for the tip about The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio. I've ordered Live at KEXP. OTOH, Wulf Zendik must be an acquired taste that I have not acquired.

You're welcome. I like some doses of way out there stuff and Zendik fits that bill.