Best of 2015…So Far
It was an amazing year in music, though it sped by. Remember I do not post live albums, soundtracks, various artist compilations or reissues and e.p.s, because the list would be tripled in size.
Happy listening and feel free to post comments, missed hits, “are you kidding me’s” and remember listen to more music than you watch tv.
2016 is already off to a good start with new Bowie and DIIV.
*so worth it
*** listening to over and over and over
****mind-blowingly aweseom…just love it!
1976 - Goodbye The Kingdom Of You And I *
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Planting Weed Like It's Acid Life Is Loss *
Albert Hammond Jr. - Momentary Masters **
Alberta Cross - Alberta Cross **
Alex Bleeker And The Freaks - Country Agenda *
Amorphous Androgynous - Wizard Of Oz *
Andrew Bird - Echolocations Canyon **
Ash - Kablammo! ***
Asian Dub Foundation - More Signal More Noise *
Astronauts - Survivors *
Atlantic Thrills - Vices ****
Beirut - No No No **
Belle And Sebastian - Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance **
Best Coast - California Nights **
Bevis Frond - Example 22 ***
Bill Ryder-Jones - West Kirby County *
Bird And The Bee - Recreational Love *
Black Rivers - Black Rivers **
Blank Tapes - Sha-La-Love *
Blow Monkeys - If Not Now, When *
Blur - The Magic Whip **
Boy And Bear - Limit Of Love**
British Sea Power - Sea Of Brass **
Built To Spill - Untethered Moon *
Bully - Feels Like **
Calexico - Edge Of The Sun **
Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Style *
Carl Barat And The Jackals - Let It Reign **
Cass Mccombs - A Folk Set Apart *
Ceelo Green - Heart Blanche ***
Charlatans - Modern Nature ***
Cheatah - Mythologies *
Chills - Silver Bullets *
Circus Devils - Stomping Grounds **
Connection - Labor Of Love **
Cosmic Groove - Observations In Resonance And Vibration *
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit ***
Craig Finn - Faith In The Future**
Daniel Romano - If I've Only One Time Askin' *
Darren Hayman - Chants For Socialists *
Dave Gahan And Soulsavers - Angels And Ghosts ****
Death Cab For Cutie - Kintsugi *
Dewars - All Part Of The Show**
Dining Rooms - Do Hipsters Love Sun Ra ***
Districts - A Flourish And A Spoil ***
Django Django - Born Under Saturn ***
Dodos - Individ **
Dub Pistols - Return Of The Pistoleros **
Ducktails - St. Catherine **
Eagles Of Death Metal – Zipper Down***
East India Youth - Culture Of Volume *
Editors - In Dream 2015 **
El Vy - Return To The Moon ***
Elo - Alone In The Universe *
Eternal Summers - Gold And Stone ***
Faith No More - 2015 - Sol Invictus **
Fall - Sub-Lingual Tablet*
Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear **
Foals - What Went Down *
Fratellis - Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied **
Futurebirds - Hotel Parties **
Gaz Coombes – Matador**
Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger - Goastt Stories **
Ghostface Killah And Badbadnotgood - Sour Soul ***
Ghosts - Superstar *
Ginger - Going Through Arlanda **
Go! Team - The Scene Between *
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress **
Gospelbeach - Pacific Surf Line ****
Guy Garvey - Courting The Squall ***
Half Moon Run - Sun Leads Me On **
Hawksley Workman - Old Cheetah *
Hermit Crabs - In My Flat *
Howlin' Rain - Mansion Songs *
I'm From Barcelona - Growing Up Is For Trees *
Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia ***
Jamie T - Magnolia Melancholia **
Jeff The Brotherhood - Global Chakra Rhythms *
Jess And The Ancient Ones - The Second Psychedeilc Coming *
Joe Jackson - Fast Forward ***
John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure****
Jose Gonzalez - Vestiges And Claws **
Josh Ritter - Sermon On The Rocks*
Joss Stone - Water For Your Soul **
Kate Pierson - Guitars & Microphones*
Kelley Stoltz - In Triangle Time **
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly**
La Luz - Weirdo Shrine *
Lady Lamb The Beekeeper - After *
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon **
Laura Marling - Short Movie *
Le Futur Pompiste - Le Futur Pompiste ***
Libertines - Anthems For Doomed Youth ****
Lou Barlow - Brace The Wave **
Low - Ones And Sixes ***
Maccabees - Marks To Prove It **
Maple Bee - Over At Mine *
Marc Almond - The Velvet Trail *
Marietta - Basement Dreams Are The Bedroom Cream **
Mercury Rev - The Light In You **
Metric - Pagans In Vegas *
Michelle Mcadorey - Into Her Future ***
Mikal Cronin - Mciii **
Milky Wimpshake - Encore, Un Effort! ***
Motorama - Poverty *
Motorhead - Bad Magic*
Mountain Goats - Beat The Champ *
Moving Panoramas – One **
Mr. Moods - On Board *
Ms. John Soda – Loom *
New Order - Music Complete ***
Noonday Underground - Body Parts For Modern Art ****
Orange Peels - Begin The Begone**
Orphan Boy - Coastal Tones **
Palma Violets - Danger In The Club **
Palms - Crazy Rack *
Paul Smith And The Intimations - Contradictions **
Paul Weller - Saturns Pattern ****
Phil Manzanera - The Sound Of Blue **
Pinkish Black - Bottom Of The Morning *
Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters *
Postal Blue - Of Love And Other Affections **
Public Image - What The World Needs Now.... **
Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space ***
Redman - Mudface *
Richard Hawley - Hollow Meadows ***
Rickolus - Coconut **
Ringo Deathstarr - Pure Mood **
Robert Pollard - Faulty Superheroes **
Saintseneca - Such Things**
Salad Boys - Metalmania ***
Sarah Cracknell - Red Kite**
Sea Of Bees - Build A Boat To The Sun *
Shannon And The Clams - Gone By The Dawn ***
Sleater Kinney - No Cities To Love**
Spectres – Dying*
Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer**
Spitfires - Response ***
Sports - All Of Something **
Squeeze - Cradle To The Grave**
Stereophonics - Keep The Village Alive **
Stornoway – Bonxie*
Strypes - Little Victories **
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie And Lowell ***
Surf City - Jekyll Island ***
Surfer Blood - 1000 Palms **
Sweet Baboo - The Boombox Ballads *
Swervedriver - I Wasn't Born To Lose You **
Sword - High Country**
Tame Impala – Currents*
Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last ***
Thunderbitch - Thunderbitch **
Tomas Pagan Motta - Tomas Pagan Motta **
Toro Y Moi - Samantha *
Tracey Thorn - Songs From The Falling***
Vaccines - English Graffiti **
Waterboys - Modern Blues **
Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp***
Weeknd -Beauty Behind The Madness **
Westkust - Last Forever ***
Whitehorse - Leave No Bridge Unburned ****
Wilco - Star Wars **
Wild Yaks - Rejoice! God Loves Wild Yaks**
Willow - Nocturnal House *
Wire - Wire ***
Wreckless Eric – America**
Yonatan Gat - Director ***
You Am I - Porridge And Hotsauce**
Young Guv - Ripe 4 Luv ***
Young Rival - Interior Light**
Younghusband - Dissolver *
Zion Train - Land Of The Blind*
It was an amazing year in music, though it sped by. Remember I do not post live albums, soundtracks, various artist compilations or reissues and e.p.s, because the list would be tripled in size.
Happy listening and feel free to post comments, missed hits, “are you kidding me’s” and remember listen to more music than you watch tv.
2016 is already off to a good start with new Bowie and DIIV.
*so worth it
*** listening to over and over and over
****mind-blowingly aweseom…just love it!
1976 - Goodbye The Kingdom Of You And I *
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Planting Weed Like It's Acid Life Is Loss *
Albert Hammond Jr. - Momentary Masters **
Alberta Cross - Alberta Cross **
Alex Bleeker And The Freaks - Country Agenda *
Amorphous Androgynous - Wizard Of Oz *
Andrew Bird - Echolocations Canyon **
Ash - Kablammo! ***
Asian Dub Foundation - More Signal More Noise *
Astronauts - Survivors *
Atlantic Thrills - Vices ****
Beirut - No No No **
Belle And Sebastian - Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance **
Best Coast - California Nights **
Bevis Frond - Example 22 ***
Bill Ryder-Jones - West Kirby County *
Bird And The Bee - Recreational Love *
Black Rivers - Black Rivers **
Blank Tapes - Sha-La-Love *
Blow Monkeys - If Not Now, When *
Blur - The Magic Whip **
Boy And Bear - Limit Of Love**
British Sea Power - Sea Of Brass **
Built To Spill - Untethered Moon *
Bully - Feels Like **
Calexico - Edge Of The Sun **
Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Style *
Carl Barat And The Jackals - Let It Reign **
Cass Mccombs - A Folk Set Apart *
Ceelo Green - Heart Blanche ***
Charlatans - Modern Nature ***
Cheatah - Mythologies *
Chills - Silver Bullets *
Circus Devils - Stomping Grounds **
Connection - Labor Of Love **
Cosmic Groove - Observations In Resonance And Vibration *
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit ***
Craig Finn - Faith In The Future**
Daniel Romano - If I've Only One Time Askin' *
Darren Hayman - Chants For Socialists *
Dave Gahan And Soulsavers - Angels And Ghosts ****
Death Cab For Cutie - Kintsugi *
Dewars - All Part Of The Show**
Dining Rooms - Do Hipsters Love Sun Ra ***
Districts - A Flourish And A Spoil ***
Django Django - Born Under Saturn ***
Dodos - Individ **
Dub Pistols - Return Of The Pistoleros **
Ducktails - St. Catherine **
Eagles Of Death Metal – Zipper Down***
East India Youth - Culture Of Volume *
Editors - In Dream 2015 **
El Vy - Return To The Moon ***
Elo - Alone In The Universe *
Eternal Summers - Gold And Stone ***
Faith No More - 2015 - Sol Invictus **
Fall - Sub-Lingual Tablet*
Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear **
Foals - What Went Down *
Fratellis - Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied **
Futurebirds - Hotel Parties **
Gaz Coombes – Matador**
Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger - Goastt Stories **
Ghostface Killah And Badbadnotgood - Sour Soul ***
Ghosts - Superstar *
Ginger - Going Through Arlanda **
Go! Team - The Scene Between *
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress **
Gospelbeach - Pacific Surf Line ****
Guy Garvey - Courting The Squall ***
Half Moon Run - Sun Leads Me On **
Hawksley Workman - Old Cheetah *
Hermit Crabs - In My Flat *
Howlin' Rain - Mansion Songs *
I'm From Barcelona - Growing Up Is For Trees *
Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia ***
Jamie T - Magnolia Melancholia **
Jeff The Brotherhood - Global Chakra Rhythms *
Jess And The Ancient Ones - The Second Psychedeilc Coming *
Joe Jackson - Fast Forward ***
John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure****
Jose Gonzalez - Vestiges And Claws **
Josh Ritter - Sermon On The Rocks*
Joss Stone - Water For Your Soul **
Kate Pierson - Guitars & Microphones*
Kelley Stoltz - In Triangle Time **
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly**
La Luz - Weirdo Shrine *
Lady Lamb The Beekeeper - After *
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon **
Laura Marling - Short Movie *
Le Futur Pompiste - Le Futur Pompiste ***
Libertines - Anthems For Doomed Youth ****
Lou Barlow - Brace The Wave **
Low - Ones And Sixes ***
Maccabees - Marks To Prove It **
Maple Bee - Over At Mine *
Marc Almond - The Velvet Trail *
Marietta - Basement Dreams Are The Bedroom Cream **
Mercury Rev - The Light In You **
Metric - Pagans In Vegas *
Michelle Mcadorey - Into Her Future ***
Mikal Cronin - Mciii **
Milky Wimpshake - Encore, Un Effort! ***
Motorama - Poverty *
Motorhead - Bad Magic*
Mountain Goats - Beat The Champ *
Moving Panoramas – One **
Mr. Moods - On Board *
Ms. John Soda – Loom *
New Order - Music Complete ***
Noonday Underground - Body Parts For Modern Art ****
Orange Peels - Begin The Begone**
Orphan Boy - Coastal Tones **
Palma Violets - Danger In The Club **
Palms - Crazy Rack *
Paul Smith And The Intimations - Contradictions **
Paul Weller - Saturns Pattern ****
Phil Manzanera - The Sound Of Blue **
Pinkish Black - Bottom Of The Morning *
Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters *
Postal Blue - Of Love And Other Affections **
Public Image - What The World Needs Now.... **
Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space ***
Redman - Mudface *
Richard Hawley - Hollow Meadows ***
Rickolus - Coconut **
Ringo Deathstarr - Pure Mood **
Robert Pollard - Faulty Superheroes **
Saintseneca - Such Things**
Salad Boys - Metalmania ***
Sarah Cracknell - Red Kite**
Sea Of Bees - Build A Boat To The Sun *
Shannon And The Clams - Gone By The Dawn ***
Sleater Kinney - No Cities To Love**
Spectres – Dying*
Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer**
Spitfires - Response ***
Sports - All Of Something **
Squeeze - Cradle To The Grave**
Stereophonics - Keep The Village Alive **
Stornoway – Bonxie*
Strypes - Little Victories **
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie And Lowell ***
Surf City - Jekyll Island ***
Surfer Blood - 1000 Palms **
Sweet Baboo - The Boombox Ballads *
Swervedriver - I Wasn't Born To Lose You **
Sword - High Country**
Tame Impala – Currents*
Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last ***
Thunderbitch - Thunderbitch **
Tomas Pagan Motta - Tomas Pagan Motta **
Toro Y Moi - Samantha *
Tracey Thorn - Songs From The Falling***
Vaccines - English Graffiti **
Waterboys - Modern Blues **
Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp***
Weeknd -Beauty Behind The Madness **
Westkust - Last Forever ***
Whitehorse - Leave No Bridge Unburned ****
Wilco - Star Wars **
Wild Yaks - Rejoice! God Loves Wild Yaks**
Willow - Nocturnal House *
Wire - Wire ***
Wreckless Eric – America**
Yonatan Gat - Director ***
You Am I - Porridge And Hotsauce**
Young Guv - Ripe 4 Luv ***
Young Rival - Interior Light**
Younghusband - Dissolver *
Zion Train - Land Of The Blind*
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