60 Albums 1996

Overall not one of favorite years but still lots of good music. I did really like getting into the Brian Jonestown Massacre.

I'm sure I'll have some interesting mixes based on songs from this year when I get around to 1996.

1. Wilco - Being There
2. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request
3. Steve Earle - I Feel Alright
4. Los Lobos - Colossal Head
5. Greg Brown - Further In
6. Gillian Welch - Revival
7. Beck - Odelay
8. Social Distortion - White Light White Heat White Trash
9. R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
10. Jason Falkner - Presents Author Unknown
11. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Take It From The Man
12. Whiskeytown - Faithless Street
13. Golden Smog - Down By The Old Mainstream
14. Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs
15. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
16. Jason & The Scorchers - Clear Impetuous Morning
17. The Wallflowers - Bringing Down The Horse
18. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
19. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I Got Worry
20. Joe Henry - Trampoline
21. 16 Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n' Ashes
22. Donovan - Sutras
23. Elysian Fields - Bleed Your Cedar
24. The Walkabouts - Devil's Road
25. Eels - Beautiful Freak
26. Beth Orton - Trailer Park
27. Suede - Coming Up
28. Alejandro Escovedo - With These Hands
29. Richard Thompson - You? Me? Us?
30. Marshall Crenshaw - Miracle of Science
31. The Lemonheads - Car Button Cloth
32. The Afghan Whigs - Black Love
33. Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
34. Chris Isaak - Baja Sessions
35. Hoodoo Gurus - Blue Cave
36. Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals
37. Todd Snider - Step Right Up
38. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
39. Fiona Apple - Tidal
40. Supper Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
41. Joseph Arthur - Big City Secrets
42. Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
43. Over The Rhine - Good Dog Bad Dog
44. Lambchop - How I Quit Smoking
45. Daryl Hall - Can't Stop Dreaming
46. John Mellencamp - Mr Happy Go Lucky
47. Vic Chesnutt - About To Choke
48. Ani DiFranco - Dilate
49. Bardo Pond - Amanita
50. Swans - Soundtrack For The Blind
51. Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
52. Superdrag - Regretfully Yours
53. Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
54. Weezer - Pinkerton
55. Catherine Wheel - Like Cats and Dogs
56. Beastie Boys - The In Sound From Way Out
57. Lyle Lovett - The Road To Ensanada 
58. Kula Shaker - K
59. Scud Mountain Boys - Massachusetts
60. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album

 This was a good year for compilation albums... Here are some of my favorites.

1. The Beatles - Anthology 3
2. James Brown - Foundations of Funk: A Brand New Bag 1964-1969
3. James Brown - Funk Power: 1970: A Brand New Thang
4. James Brown - Make It Funky: The Big Payback 1971-1975
5. Various Artists - The Doo Wop Box II
6. Steve Earle - Ain't Ever Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection
7. Crowed House - Recurring Dream: The Best of Crowded House
8. Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Greatest Hits
9. Iggy Pop - Nude & Rude: The Best of Iggy Pop
10. Various Artists - Cowabunga: The Surf Box
11. Joan Armatrading - Greatest Hits
12. Hall & Oates - The Atlantic Collection
13. The Only Ones - Live at the BBC
14. John Cale - The Island Years
15. The Spencer Davis Group - Eight Gigs A Week: The Steve Winwood Years
16. Joan Baez - Greatest Hits
17. Joni Mitchell - Hits & Misses
18. Miles Davis & Gil Evans - The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings
19. Various Artists - Macro Dub Infection Volume 2
20. Eric Clapton - Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies

and so many more...

60 Albums 1992

Another good year for music in my house.

1. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
2. Los Lobos - Kiko
3. XTC - Nonsuch
4. Sugar - Copper Blue
5. Blue Rodeo - Lost Together
6. Sonic Youth - Dirty
7. Neil Young - Harvest Moon
8. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
9. Alejandro Escovedo - Gravity
10. Shawn Colvin - Fat City
11. The Church - Priest=Aura
12. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
13. Tom Waits - Bone Machine
14. Leonard Cohen - The Future
15. Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
16. Ride - Going Blank Again
17. Little Village - Little Village
18. John Cale - Fragments of a Rainy Season
19. The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall
20. Blind Melon - Blind Melon
21. Uncle Tupelo - March 16-20, 1992
22. Greg Brown - Dream Cafe
23. Joe Henry - Short Man's Room
24. The Cure - Wish
25. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream
26. Social Distortion - Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
27. Catherine Wheel - Ferment
28. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
29. Morphine - Good
30. Lucinda Williams - Same Old World
31. 10,000 Maniacs - Our Time In Eden
32. Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
33. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
34. Joe Ely - Love and Danger
35. Oysterband - Deserters
36. Lou Reed - Magic and Loss
37. Eric Clapton - Unplugged
38. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
39. Luka Bloom - The Acoustic Motorbike
40. Michelle Shocked - Arkansas Traveler
41. Iris DeMent - Infamous Angel
42. Luna - Lunapark
43. The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
44. Paul Weller - Paul Weller
45. Strunz & Farah - Americas
46. The Magnetic Fields - The Wayward Bus
47. The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
48. Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over
49. Freedy Johnston - Can You Fly
50. The Flaming Lips - Hit To Death In The Future Head
51. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
52. Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
53. Bob Dylan - Good As I Been To You
54. Willy DeVille - Backstreets of Desire
55. Coil - Stolen and Contaminated Songs
56. The Soup Dragons - Hotwired
57. Tripping Daisy - Bill
58. Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town
59. Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch
60. The Burnin Rain - Pictures of The Fire

Also some great box sets and collections from this year:

• Bob Marley - Songs of Freedom
• Various Artists - Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles
• Aretha Franklin - Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings
• Tallking Heads - Popular Favorites
• Otis Redding - The Very Best of Otis Redding
• Donovan - Troubadour: The Definitive Collection
• The Rascals - Anthology
• Elvis Presley - The King of Rock 'n' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters
• Lou Reed - Between Thought and Expression; The Lou Reed Anthology
• Earth, Wind & Fire - The Eternal Dance
• The Ronettes - The Best of the Ronettes
• Traffic - Smiling Phases
• Wilson Pickett - A Man and a Half
• Average White Band - Pickin' Up The Pieces: Anthology
• Julian Cope - Floored Genius
• Rod Stewart - The Mercury Anthology

60 Albums 1991

This was a tough year to put my favorite albums from my collection in any kind of order. I loved so many of them. I was having a harder time building my collection during this period with young children and going to grad school taking up so much time and money.

I was able to fill in a lot of gaps over the years to come up with this fine collection.

1. Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
2. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
3. R.E.M. - Out of Time
4. Richard Thompson - Rumor and Sigh
5. Chris Whitley - Living With The Law
6. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
7. U2 - Achtung Baby
8. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
9. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Weld
10. Nirvana - Nevermind
11. Crowded House - Woodface
12. Blur - Leisure
13. Slowdive - Just For A Day
14. Dead Can Dance - A Passage In Time
15. The Tragically Hip - Road Apples
16. Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
17. Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind
18. Sarah McLachlan - Solace
19. This Mortal Coil - Blood
20. The Blasters - The Blasters Collection
21. Roger McGuinn - Back From Rio
22. Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said
23. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
24. Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
25. Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
26. Uncle Tupelo - Still Feel Gone
27. Robyn Hitchcock - Perspex Island
28. Freakwater - Dancing Under Water
29. Sam Phillips - Cruel Inventions
30. John Prine - The Missing Years
31. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
32. The Spongetones - Oh Yeah
33. Vic Chesnutt - West Of Rome
34. Pearl Jam - Ten
35. Kraftwerk - The Mix
36. Robbie Robertson - Storyville
37. Robert Wyatt - Dondestan
38. The Magnetic Fields - Distant Plastic Trees
39. BoDeans - Black and White
40. Enya - Shepherd Moons
41. Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty
42. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
43. Bongwater - The Power of Pussy
44. John Mellencamp - Whatever We Wanted
45. Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
46. James Chance & The Contortions - Soul Exorcism
47. America Music Club - Everclear
48. Fishbone - The Reality of My Surroundings
49. Nanci Griffith - Late Night Grande Hotel
50. His Name Is Alive - Home Is In Your Head
51. Sebadoh - III
52. Coil - Love's Secret Domain
53. Slint - Spiderland
54. John Wesley Harding - The Name Above The Title
55. Swans - White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity
56. The Young Fresh Fellows - Electric Bird Digest
57. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
58. Beat Happening - Dreamy
59. Jesus Jones - Doubt
60. Spin Doctors - Pocket Full of Kryptonite

And let's not forgot some box sets other great collections released this year:

• James Brown - Star Time
• Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3
• The Clash - Clash On Broadway
• Crosby, Stills & Nash - CSN
• Jeff Beck - Beckology
• Patsy Cline - The Patsy Cline Collection
• R.E.M. - Singles Collection
• Allen Toussaint - The Allen Toussaint Collection
• Gene Clark - Echoes
• The Pogues - Essential Pogues
• King Crimson - Frame By Frame
• Can - Cannibalism II
• Brende Lee - Anthology

60 Albums 1993

A lot of good music released in 1993. The Mazzy Star is one of my all time favorites.

1. Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
2. Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
3. Matthew Sweet - Altered Beast
4. John Hiatt - Perfectly Good Guitar
5. Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Other Rooms
6. Blue Rodeo - Five Days In July
7. Slowdive - Souvlaki
8. Dead Can Dance - Into The Labyrinth
9. Morphine - Cure For Pain
10. Counting Crows - August and Everything After
11. Crowded House - Together Alone
12. Bjork - Debut
13. Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
14. Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
15. Mercury Rev - Boces
16. Cracker - Kerosene Hat
17. Aimee Mann - Whatever
18. The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
19. The Band - Jericho
20. U2 - Zooropa
21. Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
22. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
23. Radiohead - Pablo Honey
24. Yo La Tengo - Painful
25. The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can't We?
26. Robyn Hitchcock - Respect
27. Verve - A Storm In Heaven
28. Teenage Fanclub - Thirteen
29. Black 47 - Fire of Freedom
30. The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
31. The Fall - The Infotainment Scan
32. Vic Chesnutt - Drunk
33. John Mellencamp - Human Wheels
34. Buffalo Tom - Big Red Letter Day
35. The Posies - Frosting On The Beater
36. Suede - Suede
37. Bob Dylan - World Gone Wrong
38. Paul Westerberg - 14 Songs
39. Sun Dial - Return Journey
40. Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been
41. Daryl Hall - Soul Alone
42. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Extra Width
43. The Loud Family - Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things
44. Pearl Jam - Vs.
45. Chris Smither - Happier Blue
46. Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
47. Red House Painters - Red House Painters
48. Catherine Wheel - Chrome
49. Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle
50. Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy
51. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
52. Superchunk - On The Mouth
53. The Walkabouts - Satisfied Mind
54. Rosanne Cash - The Wheel
55. The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
56. Auteche - Incunabula
57. David Bowie - Black Tie White Noise
58. James - Laid
59. Sky Cries Mary - A Return To The Inner Experience
60. Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements
61. New Order - Republic
62. P.J. Harvey - Rid Of Me
63. The Lemonheads - Come On Feel The Lemonheads
64. Paul Weller - Wild Wood
65. Frank Black - Frank Black
66. Belly - Star
67. The Breeders - Last Splash
68. Dwight Yoakam - This Time
69. Nirvana - In Utereo
70. Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith and Devotion
71. Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
72. Tom Waits - The Black Rider
73. Lisa Germano - Happiness
74. His Name Is Alive - Mouth By Mouth
75. Smog - Julius Caesar

Sun Is Shining In The Sky - Songs 1977

This is the fourth set of songs from some of my favorite albums in my collection from 1977. This one leans heavy on punk after a set of rock and then goes on back to some what would now be considered classic rock.

1. Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky (Out Of The Blue)
2. David Bowie - Heroes (Heroes)
3. Peter Gabriel - Solisbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)
4. Television - See No Evil (Marquee Moon)
5. Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation (Blank Generation)
6. The Jam - The Modern World (In The City)
7. Buzzcocks - Boredom (Spiral Scratch)
8. The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes (Single)
9. Eddie & The Hot Rods - Do Anything You Wanna Do (Teenage Depression)
10. Generation X - Your Generation (Single)
11. Stranglers - (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) (Rattus Norvegicus IV)
12. Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World (Single)
13. Elvis Costello - (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (My Aim Is True)
14. Mink DeVille - Spanish Stroll (Cabretta)
15. T. Rex - I Love To Boogie (Dandy In The Underworld)
16. Little Feat - Times Love A Hero (Times Love A Hero)
17. Neil Young - Like A Hurricane (American Stars 'n Bars)
18. Jackson Browne - Running On Empty (Running On Empty)

60 Albums 1988

Some great albums but overall not a great year. Actually this list has changed over the years as do most of these favorite lists. There were some bands I missed during the year and immediately afterward but picked up on later. Two high on this list that come to mind are the Go-Betweens and Galaxie 500 which I didn't hear until several years later but have gone on to be two of my all time favorite albums.

1. The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
2. The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
3. John Hiatt - Slow Turning
4. R.E.M. - Green
5. Galaxie 500 - Today
6. The Smithereens - Green Thoughts
7. Steve Earle - Copperhead Road
8. The Church - Starfish
9. Gipsy Kings - Gipsy Kings
10. Nanci Griffith - One Fair Summer Evening
11. Robyn Hitchcock - Globe of Frogs
12. Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
13. Patti Smith - Dream of Life
14. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
15. Crowded House - Temple of Low Men
16. Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
17. Talking Heads - Naked
18. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
19. Richard Thompson - Amnesia
20. Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
21. Enya - Watermark
22. Siouxsie and The Banshees - Peepshow
23. Sam Phillips - The Incredible Wow
24. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
25. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
26. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
27. Joan Armatrading - The Shouting Stage
28. The Fall - The Frenz Experiment
29. Rodney Crowell - Diamonds & Dirt
30. Let's Active - Every Dog Has His Day
31. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
32. Lyle Lovett - Pontiac
33. Fishbone - Truth and Soul
34. The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good
35. Little Feat - Let It Roll
36. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
37. The Plimsouls - One Night In America
38. Bob Dylan - Down In The Groove
39. k.d. Lang - Shadowland
40. Bongwater - Double Bummer
41. U2 - Rattle and Hum
42. Semi-Twang- Salty Tears
43. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
44. The O'Kanes - Tired of the Running
45. Joe Ely - Dig All Night
46. Los Lobos - La Pistola y El Corazon
47. Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Fair and Square
48. K.T. Oslin - This Woman
49. James - Strip-mine
50. Foster & Lloyd - Faster & Llouder
51. Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers - Conscious Party
52. Happy Mondays - Bummed
53. Joni Mitchell - Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm
54. The Bevis Frond - Triptych
55. That Petro Emotion - End of the Millennium Psychosis Blues
56. The Wonder Stuff - The Eight Legged Groove Machine
57. Bootsy Collins - What's Bootsy Doin'?
58. Living Colour - Vivid
59. Take 6 - Take 6
60. Beat Happening - Jamboree

60 Albums 1987

Back in 1987 I was still working at the art store, raising a daughter and enjoying music. The John Hiatt album sounded clean and simple and probably got the most play of any record on this list. I enjoyed the new Springsteen record that sounded more quietly focused after the production excess of his previous one. Discovered Blue Rodeo and the Long Ryders. R.E.M, Los Lobos, X, The Cure, Steve Earle, Marshall Crenshaw and so many others were continuing to put out wonderful albums.

1. John Hiatt - Bring The Family
2. Prince - Sign Of The Times
3. Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years
4. Blue Rodeo - Outskirts
5. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
6. Los Lobos - By The Light Of The Moon
7. R.E.M. - Document
8. The Connells - Boylan Heights
9. The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
10. X - See How We Are
11. Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby
12. The Dukes of Stratosphear - Psonic Psunspot
13. Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
14. Steve Earle - Exit 0
15. Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
16. Rosanne Cash - King's Record Shop
17. The Long Ryders - Two Fisted Tales
18. R.E.M. - Dead Letter Office
19. Echo & The Bunnymen - Echo & The Bunnymen
20. U2 - The Joshua Tree
21. Meat Puppets - Huevos
22. The Go-Betweens - Tallulah
23. George Harrison - Cloud Nine
24. Husker Du - Warehouse: Songs and Stories
25. Joe Ely - Lord Of The Highway
26. Billy Bragg - Back To Basics
27. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)
28. Elvis Costello - Out Of Our Idiot
29. 10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe
30. The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me
31. Dave Alvin- Every Night About This Time
32. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
33. Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson
34. John Cougar Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
35. Hoodoo Gurus - Blow Your Cool
36. Marianne Faithful - Strange Weather
37. Marshall Crenshall - Mary Jean & 9 Others
38. Julian Cope - Saint Julian
39. Thin White Rope - Moonhead
40. BoDeans - Outside Looking In
41. Wire - The Ideal Copy
42. The Grapes of Wrath - Treehouse
43. Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and The Cobra
44. The Green Pajamas - Book of Hours
45. Foster & Lloyd - Foster & Lloyd
46. Nanci Griffith - Lone Star State Of Mind
47. Omar & The Howlers - Hard Times In The Land Of Plenty
48. The Gun Club - Mother Juno
49. Guadalcanal Diary - 2x4
50. Yo La Tengo - New Wave Hot Dogs
51. Sonic Youth - Sister
52. The Silencers - A Letter From St. Paul
53. The Flaming Lips - Oh My Gawd!... The Flaming Lips
54. Love and Rockets - Earth Sun Moon
55. Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - Bo-Day-Shus!!
56. Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby
57. The Rainmakers - Tornado
58. Squeeze - Babylon and On
59. Richie Havens - Sings Beatles and Dylan
60. David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
61. The Church - Heyday
62. Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs of Leonard Cohen

Tomorrow It's Only Yesterday - Songs 2007

More songs from albums that were among my favorites released in 2007. A little less Indie Rock and








All albums released in 2007.

1. The Aliens - Tomorrow (Astronomy For Dogs)
2. Cary Brothers - Who Are You (Who Are You)
3. The Dreadful Yawns - Due South (Rest)
4. The Felice Brothers - Roll On Arte (Tonight At The Arizona)
5. A.A. Bondy - Rapture (American Hearts)
6. Willy Mason - We Can Be Strong (If The Ocean Gets Rough)
7. Winterpills - Hide Me (The Light Divides)
8. Mark Olson - Look Into The Night (The Salvation Blues)
9. Son Volt - Highways And Cigarettes (Search)
10. Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles - Come Back To Me (Diamonds In The Dark)
11. Richard Thompson - Take Care The Road You Choose (Sweet Warrior)
12. Bruce Springsteen - You'll Be Comin' Down (Magic)
13. Laura Veirs - Wandering Kind (Saltbreakers)
14. Wilco - Walkin' (Sky Blue Sky)
15. Birdie Busch - Hold Ya (Penny Arcade)
16. The Clientele - Bookshop Casanova (God Save The Clientele)
17. Brandi Carlile - The Story (The Story)
18. The National - Brainy (Boxer)
19. Travis - Eyes Wide Open (The Boy With No Name)
20. Editors - The Weight Of The World (An End Has A Start)

Sea of the Edge - Songs 2015

My first collection of songs from some of my favorite albums in my collection released in 2015. We still have a long way to go but it looks like this is going to be another good year for music.

Mostly neo-psychedelic, garage and indie rock.






All albums released in early 2015

1. The Bright Light Social Hour - Sea of the Edge (Space Is Still The Place)
2. Lord Huron - Meet Me In The Woods (Strange Trails)
3. Belle and Sebastian - Play For Today (Girls In Peactime Want To Dance)
4. Death Cab For Cutie - Little Wanderer (Kintsugi)
5. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - While The Song Remains The Same (Chasing Yesterday)
6. H. Hawkline - Moons In My Mirror (In The Pink Condition)
7. Panda Bear - Boys Latin (Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper)
8. Au.Ra - Morning (Jane's Lament)
9. Of Montreal - Apollyon Of Blue Moon (Aureate Gloom)
10. Waxahatchee - Under A Rock (Ivy Tripp)
11. Scott Weiland & The Wildabouts - Way She Moves (Blaster)
12. Gateway Drugs - Friday's Are For Suckers (Magick Spells)
13. John Andrews & The Yawns - Don't Spook The Horses (Bit By The Fang)
14. Nadine Shah - Fool (Fast Food)
15. Ava Luna - Roses and Cherries (Infinite House)
16. Twerps - I Don't Mind (Range Anxiety)

Start To Dreaming - Songs 2007

Songs 2007

Psychedelic and Indie Rock from 2007.

1. Wooden Shjips - Start To Dreaming (Loose Lips)
2. The Aliens - I Am The Unknown (Astronmy For Dogs)
3. Life On Earth - Sell Your Soul To Me (Look! There Is Life On Earth)
4. The Pillbugs - Make Like Arthur Lee (Monoclovia)
5. Ideal Free Distribution - Apples and Oranges (Ideal Free Distribution)
6. The Apples In Stereo - Energy (New Magnetic Wonder)
7. Black Moth Super Rainbow - The Afternoon Turns Pink (Dandelion Gum)
8. A Band Of Bees - Got To Let Go (Octopus)
9. Spoon - Don't You Evah (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
10. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - 666 Conducer (Baby 81)
11. Arcade Fire - Black Mirror (Neon Bible)
12. Radiohead - Bodysnatchers (In Rainbows)
13. The Cave Singers - Dancing On Our Graves (Invitation Songs)
14. Yeasayer - Waiting For The Summer (All Hour Cymbals)
15. Cloud Cult - Chain Reaction (The Meaning Of 8)
16. Grizzly Bear & Atlas Sound - Knife (Friend)
17. The Three4Tens - I Am The King (Down The Way)
18. VietNam - Summer In The City (Vietnam)
19. Warm In The Wake - Pawn Shop Heart (American Prehistoric)
20. Wintersleep - Oblivion (Welcome To The Night Sky)

In The Dark - Songs 2007

A spin through some quirky songs released in 2007 from some of my favorite albums in my collection from that year. It was fun to go back and take another listen to see what holds up.

1. Nurse & Soldier - In The Dark (Marginalia)
2. The Pillbugs - 4 Sec Nightmare In A 5 Sec Dream (Monclovia)
3. Au Revoir Simone - I Couldn't Sleep (The Bird Of Music)
4. Panda Bear - Take Pills (Person Pitch)
5. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Jump Into My Mouth and Breathe (Dandelion Gum)
6. PJ Harvey - When Under Ether (White Chalk)
7. Akron/Family - Phenomena (Love Is Simple)
8. Lightning Dust - Breathe (Lightning Dust)
9. Radiohead - All I Need (In Rainbows)
10. Arcade Fire - Intervention (Neon Bible)
11. Pinback - How We Breathe (Autumn Of The Seraphs)
12. Menomena - Wet and Rusting (Friend and Foe)
13. Battles - Atlas (Mirrored)
14. Animal Collective - Derek (Strawberry Jam)
15. Low - Always Fade (Drums and Guns)
16. Maps - It Will Find You (We Can Create)
17. Air - Once Upon A Time (Pocket Symphony)
18. Sigur Ros - Hljomalind (Hvarf/Heim)

60 Albums 2005

It is very unusual for me to have three live albums listed within the top 10 of  an annual list of 60 albums. While there are a lot of good albums on this list that got a lot of play from me I have to admit that it was not one of the better years.

Looking back on this list I think I may need to rearrange the rankings as from today's perspective there are some albums in the lower level that I've probably played more in recent years.

1. Wilco - Kicking Television: Live in Chicago
2. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
3. M. Ward - Transistor Radio
4. Ry Cooder - Chavez Ravine
5. My Morning Jacket - Z
6. Cream - Royal Albert Hall: London 2005
7. The Kills - No Wow
8. Lucinda Williams - Live at the Fillmore
9. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
10. The Raveonettes - Pretty In Black
11. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Naturally
12. Chris Whitley - Soft Dangerous Shores
13. Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - Exploration
14. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
15. Black Mountain - Black Mountain
16. The Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart
17. Eels - Bright Lights and Other Revelations
18. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
19. The National - Alligator
20. Great Lake Swimmers - Bodies and Minds
21. Jim Noir - Tower of Love
22. Akron/Family - Akron/Family
23. Bettye Lavette - I've Got My Own Hell To Raise
24. Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust
25. Kate Bush - Aerial
26. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
27. Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche a Bamako
28. Espers - The Weed Tree
29. Frank Black - Honeycomb
30. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
31. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
32. The Kingsbury Manx - The Fast Rise and Fall of the South
33. Sigur Ros - Takk...
34. John Hiatt - Master of Disaster
35. Doves - Some Cities
36. Tunng - Mother's Daughter and Other Songs
37. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
38. Neil Young - Prairie Wind
39. Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
40. Kathleen Edwards - Back To Me
41. Richard Thompson - Front Parlour Ballads
42. Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower
43. The Decemberists - Picaresque
44. Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration
45. The Warlocks - Surgery
46. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
47. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
48. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Delirium Tremolos
49. Crooked Fingers - Dignity and Shame
50. Wussy - Funeral Dress
51. Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now
52. Cloud Cult - Advice From The Happy Hippopotamus
53. Gang of Four - Return The Gift
54. Animal Collective - Feels
55. Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift
56. The Black Watch - The Hypnotizing Sea
57. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
58. Seu Jorge - The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
59. Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
60. Amos Lee - Amos Lee

60 Albums 1985

This was not one of the better years for music. I was still working as a barroom DJ and there was plenty of new things to play but it certainly wasn't like it had been in the early 80's. There are lots of good albums but not a lot of great ones. IMHO.

1. R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
2. The Blasters - Hard Line
3. Prince - Around The World In A Day
4. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
5. Bob Dylan - Biograph
6. Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun
7. Bryan Ferry - Boys and Girls
8. Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair
9. Richard Thompson - Across A Crowded Room
10. The Replacements - Tim
11. Marshall Crenshaw - Downtown
12. The Cure - The Head On The Door
13. Robyn Hitchcock - Fegmania!
14. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
15. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
16. U2 - Wide Awake In America
17. John Mellencamp - Scarecrow
18. John Fogerty - Centerfield
19. The Long Ryders - State Of Our Union
20. 10,000 Maniacs - The Wishing Chair
21. Robyn Hitchcock - Gotta Let This Hen Out
22. Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85
23. Hoodoo Gurus - Mars Needs Guitars!
24. New Order - Low-Life
25. The Knitters - Poor Little Critter On The Road
26. Talking Heads - Little Creatures
27. Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
28. Jason & The Scorchers - Lost & Found
29. Green On Red - Gas Food Lodging
30. Husker Du - New Day Rising
31. Yello - Stella
32. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
33. Danny & Dusty - The Lost Weekend
34. Neil Young - Old Ways
35. Squeeze - Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti
36. The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
37. Bob Dylan - Empire Burlesque
38. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down
39. Nanci Griffith - Once In A Very Blue Moon
40. The Waterboys - This Is The Sea
41. Fine Young Cannibals - Fine Young Cannibals
42. Lone Justice - Lone Justice
43. 'Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
44. The Style Council - Our Favourite Shop
45. Robert Wyatt - Old Rottenhat
46. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Firstborn Is Dead
47. Sade - Promise
48. The Cult - Love
49. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
50. Black Flag - In My Head
51. Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
52. Husker Du - Flip Your Wig
53. Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
54. The Golden Palominos - Visions of Excess
55. Beat Happening - Beat Happening
56. The Highwaymen - Highwayman
57. Paul Young - The Secret Of Association
58. INXS - Listen Like Thieves
59. Michael McDonald - No Lookin' Back
60. A-Ha - Hunting High and Low

60 Albums 1984

Another good year for music but there is a significant drop-off in the quality of albums on the list. Not so many great albums but lots of good ones. I also just didn't have another album that stood out above the rest as in so many other years.

I would usually put a live album in a different list but this Talking Heads album was so very special. I also saw them performing these songs on this tour.

1. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
2. R.E.M. - Reckoning 
3. Los Lobos - How Will The Wolf Survive?
4. Prince - Purple Rain
5. Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
6. Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream Of Trains
7. Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
8. Bruce Cockburn - Stealing Fire
9. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
10. Lou Reed - New Sensations
11. The Pretenders - Learning To Crawl
12. The Cure - The Top
13. This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears
14. Siouxsie and The Banshees - Hyaena
15. The Replacements - Let It Be
16. Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA
17. The Green Pajamas - Summer Of Lust
18. Let's Active - Cypress
19. The Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Moves
20. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand The Weather
21. Elvis Costello - Goodbye Cruel World
22. The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story
23. Lyres - On Fyre
24. Van Morrison - Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast
25. Husker Du - Zen Arcade
26. Greg Brown - The Iowa Waltz
27. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
28. XTC - The Big Express
29. Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
30. The Art of Noise - Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise
31. David Bowie - Tonight
32. Guadalcanal Diary - Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man
33. Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeos
34. Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground
35. The Dream Syndicate - Medicine Show
36. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity
37. Tones On Tail - Pop
38. Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance
39. General Public - All The Rage
40. The Long Ryders - Native Sons
41. Beat Rodeo - Staying Out Late With The Beat Rodeo
42. Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
43. Laurie Anderson - Mister Heartbreak
44. The Cure - The Head On The Door
45. Rainy Day - Rainy Day
46. The Stranglers - Aural Sculpture
47. Shriekback - The Infinite
48. Japan - Exorcising Ghosts
49. The Long Ryders - Native Sons
50. Joe Ely - Hi-Res
51. Van Morrison - Live At The Grand Opera House Belfast
52. Chris Hillman - Desert Rose
53. Sade - Diamond Life
54. Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth
55. The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
56. The Everly Brothers - EB 84
57. Sheila E. - The Glamorous Life
58. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasure Dome
59. Thompson Twins - Into The Gap
60. Spinal Tap - This Is Spinal Tap

60 Albums 1983

The great run of albums that began in 1977 continued through 1983. This list goes very deep with albums that defined the time.

Many of these albums I still go back to regularly.

Discovered R.E.M.,The The, Rain Parade, The Replacements, T-Bone Burnette, The Plimsouls, The Call and so many more.

More favorites from old favorites Talking Heads, X, XTC, Richard Thompson, U2, The Blasters, Elvis Costello, UB40, Tom Waits, etc.

1. R.E.M. - Murmur
2. Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues
3. The The - Soul Mining
4. X - More Fun In The New World
5. Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
6. XTC - Mummer
7. U2 - War
8. Richard Thompson - Hand Of Kindness
9. The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood
10. Echo & The Bunnymen - Porcupine
11. The Blasters - Non Fiction
12. Elvis Costello - Punch The Clock
13. Los Lobos - And A Time To Dance
14. The Replacements - Hootenanny
15. ESG - Come Away With ESG
16. UB40 - Labour Of Love
17. Marshall Crenshaw - Field Day
18. T-Bone Burnette - Proof Through The Night
19. The Jam - Snap!
20. The Plimsouls - Everywhere At Once
21. 10,000 Maniacs - Secrets Of The I Ching
22. Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
23. Big Country - The Crossing
24. Hunters & Collectors - Hunters & Collectors
25. The Three O'Clock - Sixteen Tambourines
26. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
27. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
28. Bob Dylan - Infidels
29. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
30. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
31. Shriekback - Care
32. Pete Shelley - XL1
33. The Police - Synchronicity
34. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
35. David Bowie - Let's Dance
36. Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
37. Eric Clapton - Money and Cigarettes
38. The Chruch - Seance
39. Green On Red - Gravity Talks
40. Pylon - Chomp
41. Ramones - Subterranean Jungle
42. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Confrontation
43. Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap
44. John Hiatt - Riding With The King
45. The Fleshtones - Hexbreaker
46. The Call - Modern Romans
47. Peter Tosh - Mama Africa
48. Mark Knopfler - Local Hero
49. The Cramps - Off The Bone
50. King Sunny Ade - Synchro System
51. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Album
52. Cabaret Voltaire - The Crackdown
53. The Rolling Stones - Under Cover
54. Mad Professor - Dub Me Crazy Pt. 3: The African Connection
55. OMD - Dazzle Ships
56. Men At Work - Cargo
57. Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
58. Eurythmics - Touch
59. Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
60. Laid Back - Keep Smiling
61. The Three O'Clock - Sixteen Tambourines 

60 Albums 2001

One of my favorite years for music. A great list top to bottom. Picking a album to lead this list was kind of easy with that Strokes album leading the pack. I picked it as my favorite back in 2001 and the decision stands. Lots of great music on this list.

1. The Stokes - Is This It
2. My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
3. Lucinda Williams - Essence
4. Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter 
5. Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
6. The Detroit Cobras - Life, Love and Leaving
7. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C.
8. Radiohead - Amnesiac
9. Chris Whitley - Rocket House
10. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
11. Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
12. M. Ward - End of Amnesia
13. Ryan Adams - Gold
14. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Bravery, Repetition & Noise
15. Built To Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future
16. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Global A Go-Go
17. R.E.M. - Reveal
18. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
19. The Dirtbombs - Ultraglide In Black
20. Joe Henry - Scar
21. Alejandro Escovedo - A Man Under The Influence
22. Mercury Rev - All Is Dream
23. Spiritualized - Let It Come Down
24. Carlos Santana - Divine Light (Reconstructions & Mix Translation by Bill Laswell)
25. Shawn Colvin - Whole New You
26. Kevin Tihista's Red Terror - Don't Breathe A Word
27. Sam Phillips - Fan Dance
28. John Hiatt - The Tiki Bar Is Open
29. The Angels of Light - How I Loved You
30. The Kingsbury Manx - Let You Down
31. Travis - The Invisible Band
32. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
33. Ed Harcourt - Here Be Monsters
34. Del McCoury - Del and the Boys
35. Buddy Guy - Sweet Tea
36. Pinback - Blue Screen Life
37. Jim White - No Such Life
38. Guided By Voices - Isolation Drills
39. The Walkabouts - Ended Up A Stranger
40. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ease Down The Road
41. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Bavarian Fruit Bread
42. Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
43. Clem Snide - The Ghost of Fashion
44. Tara Jane O'Neil - In The Sun Lines
45. Nice Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
46. Circulatory System - Circulatory System
47. Tindersticks - Can Our Love
48. Pernice Brothers - The World Won't End
49. Bjork - Vespertine
50. Gorillaz - Gorillaz
51. Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs
52. Baby Lemonade - High Life Suite
53. The Warlocks - Rise and Fall
54. Hem - Rabbit Songs
55. Spoon - Girls Can Tell
56. Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
57. Pulp - We Love Life
58. The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Behind the Music
59. Old 97's - Satellite Rides
60. Low - Things We Lost In The Fire

Some more 

• Azure Ray - Azure Ray
• Frank Black & The Catholics - Dog In The Sand
• Duncan Sheik - Phantom Moon
• Kings of Convenience - Quiet Is The New Loud
• The Divine Comedy - Regeneration
• The Green Pajamas - In A Glass Darkly
• Andrew Bird - The Swimming Hour
• Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction
• Mark Lanegan - Field Songs
• David Byrne - Look Into The Eyeball
• Depeche Mode - Exciter
• The Beta Band - Hot Shots II
• Travis - The Invisible Band
• James - Pleased To Meet You
• The Faint - Dance Macabre
• Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life
• Nick Lowe - The Convincer
• Eels - Souljacker
• John Mellencamp - Cuttin' Heads
• Sloan - Pretty Together
• Kings of Convenience - Versus
• Holly Golightly - The Main Attraction
• Weezer - Weezer (Green Album)
• Ray Wylie Hubbard - Eternal and Lowdown
• Ida - The Braille Night
• Ian Hunter - Rant
• Richard Hawley - Late Night Final
• Bardo Pond - Dilate
• Mirah - Advisory Committee

Here are some mixes spotlighting songs from some of these albums...

• Songs 2001 Vol. 1 - Last Night - List 
• Songs 2001 Vol. 2 - Yesterday's World - List 
• Songs 2001 Vol. 3 - Timestretched - List 

60 Albums 2009

Looking back on my favorite albums released in 2009. The first three are great examples of a fantastic year for indie rock. The next couple showcase the extradinary number of good folk influenced albums that year.

Overall a great year.

1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
2. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
4. Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
5. A.A. Bondy - When The Devil's Loose
6. Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy
7. St. Vincent - Actor
8. Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood - Live From Madison Square Garden
9. The XX - XX
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
11. John Doe & The Sadies - Country Club
12. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
13. Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
14. The Swell Season - Strict Joy
15. Will Hoge - The Wreckage
16. The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
17. Conor Oberst - Outer South
18. Dawes - North Hills
19. Todd Snider - The Excitement Plan
20. Jason Isbell - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
21. Yusuf Islam - Roadsinger
22. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
23. Yim Yames - Tribute To
24. Joe Henry - Blood From Stars
25. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
26. Ryan Bingham - Roadhouse Sun
27. Fiction Family - Fiction Family
28. Steve Earle - Townes
29. Cass McCombs - Catacombs
30. Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
31. Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
32. Islands - Vapours
33. Eels - Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire
34. Robyn Hitchcock - Goodnight Oslo
35. Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
36. Dead Man's Bones - Dead Man's Bones
37. Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
38. Marshall Crenshaw - Jaggedland
39. Eleni Mandell - Artificial Fire
40. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
41. Girls - Album
42. Neil Young - Fork In The Road
43. Florence & The Machine - Lungs
44. Wussy - Wussy
45. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
46. Buddy & Julie Miller - Written In Chalk
47. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
48. Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Under the Covers, Vol. 2
49. Atlas Sound - Logos
50. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Through The Devil Softly
51. Marissa Nadler - Little Hells
52. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
53. The Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock
54. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below
55. Richard Swift - The Atlantic Ocean
56. Sleepy Sun - Embrace
57. The Dodos - Time To Die
58. Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts
59. Great Northern - Remind Me Where The Light Is
60. Ty Segall - Lemons

Easter Dinner

Becky's multicolored carrots reading to be roasted and brought over to Dave and Donna's for Easter dinner tonight. She baked some cookies for dessert too.

Looking forward to some of Donna's Polish pierogis.