Thursday, January 29, 2015

60 Albums 2014


2014 was a great year for music with lots of wonderful releases all year long. I thought it was an especially good year for women artists and for neo-psychedelic garage rock. I've made quite a few end of the year mixes highlighting my favorite music and several in my categories of Ladies Night mixes and Orgone Bliss mixes which focuses on psychedelic, krautrock, shoegaze and garage rock. Lots of great freak folk this year too. Here are 60 albums that I had on heavy rotation throughout the year.




Here is a collection of mixes using songs from the albums on this list.
  • Songs 2014 Vol. 1 - Night Tripper (Orgone Bliss) - List 
  • Songs 2014 Vol. 2 - Teenage Wasteland - List 
  • Songs 2014 Vol. 3 - Down On The Bottom - List 
  • Songs 2014 Vol. 4 - Waking Light - List 
  • Songs 2014 Vol. 5 - Always Going - List 
  • Songs 2014 Vol. 6 - Kaleidoscoped (Orgone Bliss) - List 
  • Songs 2014 Vol. 7 - How Am I Supposed To Let Go - List 
  • Songs 2014 Vol. 8 - Where Has My Easy Gone - List 
  • Songs 2014 Vol. 9 - I Never Wear White (Ladies Night) - List 
  • Songs 2014 Vol. 10 - Night Vision (Ladies Night) - List 
  • Songs 2014 Vol. 11 - Murmurs (Ladies Night) - List 

The list of albums...

  1. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
  2. The War On Drugs - Lost In A Dream
  3. Beck - Morning Phase
  4. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
  5. Ray LaMontagne - Supernova
  6. Lost On The River - The New Basement Tapes
  7. Alt-J - This Is All Yours
  8. Hozier - Hozier
  9. Spoon - They Want My Soul
  10. Trigger Hippy - Trigger Hippy
  11. Jolie Holland - Wine Dark Sea
  12. Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
  13. Elephant Stone - Three Poisons
  14. Temples - Sun Structures
  15. Alvvays - Alvvays
  16. Smoke Fairies - Smoke Faires
  17. Woods - With Light and With Love
  18. Damien Jurado - Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son
  19. Amen Dunes - Love
  20. Hiss Golden Messengers - Lateness Of Dancers
  21. Reigning Sound - Shattered
  22. Allah-Las - Worship The Sun
  23. Weyes Blood - The Outside Room
  24. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
  25. Wussy - Attica
  26. Empty Hearts - The Empty Hearts
  27. Tweedy - Sukierae
  28. J Mascis - Tied To A Star
  29. Interpol - El Pintor
  30. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
  31. Caribou - Our Love
  32. The Black Keys - Turn Blue
  33. Hollis Brown - Gets Loaded
  34. Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain
  35. Quilt - Held In Splendor
  36. Marissa Nadler - July
  37. Dum Dum Girls - Too True
  38. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
  39. Lykke Li - I Never Learn
  40. Winterpills - Echolalia
  41. Future Islands - Singles
  42. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Give The People What They Want
  43. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
  44. Eels - The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
  45. Jack White - Lazerotto
  46. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Revelation
  47. Sloan - Commonwealth
  48. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
  49. Wye Oak - Shriek
  50. Real Estate - Atlas
  51. You+Me - Rose Ave.
  52. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
  53. Broken Bells - After The Disco
  54. Mary Gauthier - Trouble and Love
  55. Foxygen - And The Star Power
  56. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
  57. Afghan Whigs - Do To The Beast
  58. Strand of Oaks - Heal
  59. The Raveonettes - Pe'ahi
  60. Lake Street Dive - Bad Self Portraits
OK, I couldn't stop at 60 so here are more albums I played a lot this year.

More good neo-psychedelic, shoegaze, garage rock, etc.:
  • Sleepy Sun - Maui Tears
  • The Ghost Of A Sabre Tooth Tiger - Midnight Sun 
  • The Shivas - You Know What To Do
  • Syd Arthur - Sound Mirror
  • Magic Castles - Sky Sounds
  • Joy - Under The Spell Of Joy
  • Holy Wave - Relax
  • Goat - Commune
  • The Fresh & Onlys - House of Spirits
  • The Vaselines - V For Vaselines
  • Van der Vous - La Fuga
  • The Dark Horses - Hail Lucid State
  • Doug Tuttle - Doug Tuttle
  • Vaniish - Memory Work
  • The Vickers - Ghosts
  • The Orgone Box - Centaur
  • The Young Sinclairs - This Is The Young Sinclairs

Some more old friends:
  • Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes
  • Dave & Phil Alvin - Common Ground
  • Dr. John - Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch
  • Roseanne Cash - The River & The Thread
  • Lydia Lunch - A Fistful of Desert Blues
  • Robyn Hitchcock - The Man Uptairs
  • David Crosby - Croz
  • Bryan Ferry - Avonmore
  • Jackson Brown - Standing In The Breach
  • Marianne Faithful - Give My Love To London
  • Ani DiFranco - Allergic To Water
  • Neil Young - Storytone
  • U2 - Songs of Innocense
  • Yusuf - Tell 'Em I'm Gone
  • Neil Young - A Letter Home
  • Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye
  • Rodney Crowell - Tarpaper Sky
  • John Hiatt - Terms Of My Surrender
  • Eliza Gilkyson - The Nocturne Diaries
  • Eric Clapton & Friends - The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale
  • Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright In The End
  • Chuck Prophet - Night Surfer
And let's not forget...
  • Justin Townes Earle - Single Mothers
  • Nicole Atkins - Slow Phaser
  • Peggy Sue - Choir of Echoes
  • Black Prairie - Fortune
  • Old Crow Medicine Show - Remedy
  • James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical
  • Zola Jesus - Taiga
  • Passenger - Whispers
  • The Lions - This Generation in Dub
  • Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour
  • Parker Milsap - Parker Milsap
  • Miranda Lambert - Platinum
  • Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
  • Chad Vangaalen - Shrink Dust
  • Water Liars - Water Liars
  • Stars - No One Is Lost
  • The Autumn Defense - Fifth
  • We Are Catchers - We Are Catchers
  • Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
  • Dawn Golden - Still Life
  • Stars - No One Is Lost
  • The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt
  • The Swans - To Be Kind
  • Coldplay - Ghost Stories
  • The Soft Hills - Departure
  • Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy
  • 2:54 - The Other I
  • Spain - Sargent Place
  • Angus & Julia Stone - Angus & Julia Stone
  • Timbre Timbre - Hot Dreams
  • Peaking Lights - Cosmic Logic
  • Shakey Graves - And The War Came
  • Minnie Driver - Ask Me To Dance
  • Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear
  • Aphex Twin - Syro
  • The Both - The Both
  • Wake Owl - The Private World of Paradise
  • Shakey Knees - 7 Years
  • The Black Swans - Don't Blame The Stars
  • Hundred Waters - The Moon Rang Like A Bell
  • Iamamiwhoiam - Blue
  • AgesandAges - Diversionary
  • Orenda Fink - Blue Dream
  • Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
  • Stone Jack Jones - Ancestor
  • Jessie Ware - Tough Love
  • Simone Felice - Strangers
  • Allo Darlin - We Come From The Same Place
  • School of Language - Old Fears
  • Ought - More Than Any Other Day
  • Joseph Arthur - Lou
  • Nick Waterhouse - Holly
  • TV On The Radio - Seeds
  • Johnnyswim - Diamonds
  • Lack of Afro - Music For Adverts
  • Jeremy Jay - Ab
  • Ingrid Michaelson - Lights Out
  • Hurray For The Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes
  • Carla Bozulich - Boy
  • Ava Luna - Electric Balloon
Compilations, Reissues, Live
  • David Bowie - Nothing Has Changed: The Best of David Bowie
  • Wilco - What's Your 20: Essential Tracks 1994-2014
  • Sly Stone - It's Just Like You Say:Sly Stone's Flower 1969-1970
  • Michael Bloomfield - From His Head To His Heart To His Hands
  • Various Artists - Farewell Transmissions: The Music of Jason Molina
  • Songs Ohia - Journey On: The Collected Singles
  • Big Star - Live In Memphis
  • TV Eyes - TV Eyes
  • Scruffy The Cat - Time Never Forgets:The Anthology 1986-88
  • Various Artists - Beck Song Reader
  • LCD Soundsystem - The Long Goodbye


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