Annual Lists
2019, 2018, 2017, 2005, 2004, 2003
2019
Yola, Walk Through Fire (Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch)
Karen O & Danger Mouse, Lux Prima (BMG)
Beck, Hyperspace (Capitol)
Lizzo, Cuz I Love You (Nice Life/Atlantic)
Kim Gordon, No Home Record (Matador)
Sharon Van Etten, Remind Me Tomorrow (Jagjaguwar)
Solange, When I Get Home (Saint/Columbia)
Mavis Staples, We Get By (Anti-)
Miranda Lambert, Wildcard (RCA Nashville)
Rachid Taha, Je Suis Africain (Naïve)
Jenny Lewis, On the Line (Warner Bros.)
Tropical Fuck Storm, Braindrops (Joyful Noise)
Deerhunter, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? (4AD)
Purple Mountains, Purple Mountains (Drag City)
Leonard Cohen, Thanks for the Dance (Columbia/Legacy)
Raphael Saadiq, Jimmy Lee (Columbia)
BUBBLING UNDER:
Ride, This Is Not a Safe Place (Wichita)
Brittany Howard, Jaime (ATO)
Madonna, MX (Interscope)
Sheryl Crow, Threads (Valory)
Jason Ringenberg, Stand Tall (Courageous Chicken)
The Highwomen, Highwomen (Low Country Sound/Elektra)
REISSUES
Jimi Hendrix, Songs for Groovy Children (Sony Legacy)
Replacements, Dead Man’s Pop (Rhino/Warner Bros.)
Fleetwood Mac, Before the Beginning (RED)
Beach Boys, Wake the World (Capitol)
Beach Boys, 1969 (Capitol)
Frank Zappa, Hot Rats (50th anniverary edition) (UMe)
Nazz, The Complete Nazz (Purple Pyramid)
Bruce Springsteen, The Live Series… (Columbia/Legacy)
Bob Dylan, Travelin’ Thru 1967 – 1969: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15 (Columbia/Legacy)
Bob Dylan, Rolling Thunder Revue: 1975 Live Recordings (Columbia/Legacy)
Jerry Garcia, Garcialive 1993 (ATO)
CLASSICAL
HieYon Chen, Beethoven Piano Sonatas (Universal) [nb Opus 109]
Quatuor Ebéne, Beethoven Around the World (Warner Classics)
Igor Levitt, Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas (Sony) [nb Opus 101]
John Eliot Gardiner, Schumann Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 (LSO Live)
Dudock Quartet, Haydn String Quartets Op. 20 (Resonus Classics)
Quatuor Hanson, Haydn String Quartets, All Shall Not Die (Aparté)
Dover Quartet, Schumann String Quartets Op. 44 (Azica)
John Nelson, Berlioz Requiem (Warner Classics)
Lars Vogt, Mozart Piano Sonatas (Ondine)
Janina Fialkowska, Les sons et les parfums (Atma Classique)
Isata Kenneh-Mason, Clara Schumann (Decca)
CONCERT
Nick Lowe, solo acoustic, Paramount Theatre Boston, November 2, 2019
2018
Kacey Musgraves, Golden Hour (MCA Nashville)
Pistol Annies, Interstate Gospel (RCA Nashville)
Sunny Sweeney, Big Machine Classics (Big Machine Label)
Soccer Mommy, Clean (Fat Possum)
Noname, Room 25 (self-released)
Lori McKenna, The Tree (CN Records)
Janelle Monae, Dirty Computer (Wondaland)
Mitski, Be the Cowboy (Dead Oceans)
Boy Genius, Boy Genius (Matador)
Courtney Barnett, Tell Me How You Really Feel (Milk!)
Lucy Dacus, Historian (Matador)
Ariana Grande, Sweetener (Republic)
Rosanne Cash, She Remembers Everything (Columbia)
Brandi Carlile, By the Way, I Forgive You (Low Country Sound/Elektra)
Amy Rigby, The Old Guys (Southern Domestic)
Eleanor Friedberger, Rebound (Frenchkiss)
Carrie Underwood, Cry Pretty (Capitol Nashville)
KT Tunstall, Wax (Virgin)
Toni Braxton, Sex & Cigarettes (Def Jam)
Macy Gray, Ruby (Mack Avenue)
BUBBLING UNDER:
Kylie Minogue, Golden (Darenote/BMG)
Loreena McKennitt, Lost Souls (Big Hit/iriver)
Kasey Chambers, Campfire (Warner Music/Australasia)
Lily Allen, No Shame (Parlophone/Regal)
Kate Nash, Yesterday Was Forever (Girl Gang)
Bettye LaVette, Things Have Changed (Verve)
The Mekons 77, It Is Twice Blessed (Slow Things)
Maria Muldaur, Don’t You Feel My Leg, The Naughty, Bawdy Blues of Blue Barker (The Last Music Company)
Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Downey to Lubbock (Yep Roc)
Unkown Mortal Orchestra, Sex & Food (Jagjaguwar)
Leon Bridges, Good Thing (Columbia)
Parquet Courts, Wide Awake! (Rough Trade)
Joe Ely, The Lubbock Tapes (Full Circle)
Kylie Minogue, Golden (Darenote/BMG)
Loreena McKennitt, Lost Souls (Big Hit/iriver)
Kasey Chambers, Campfire (Warner Music/Australasia)
Lily Allen, No Shame (Parlophone/Regal)
Kate Nash, Yesterday Was Forever (Girl Gang)
Bettye LaVette, Things Have Changed (Verve)
The Mekons 77, It Is Twice Blessed (Slow Things)
Maria Muldaur, Don’t You Feel My Leg, The Naughty, Bawdy Blues of Blue Barker (The Last Music Company)
Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Downey to Lubbock (Yep Roc)
Unkown Mortal Orchestra, Sex & Food (Jagjaguwar)
Leon Bridges, Good Thing (Columbia)
Parquet Courts, Wide Awake! (Rough Trade)
Joe Ely, The Lubbock Tapes (Full Circle)
CLASSICAL
Christian Tetzlaff, Bartok Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 (Ondine)
Nelsons with BSO, Shostakovich Symphonies Nos. 4 and 11 (DG)
Alice Ott, Nightfall: Debussy, Satie, Ravel (DG)
Shoshona Tellner, Bach Partitas (Centaur)
Yunie Eunyoung Song, Liebe Schumann (Sony)
David Kadouch, Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues (Transart)
Maxim Emelyanychev, Mozart Piano Sonatas (Aperté)
Nadia Reisenberg, The Renowned Haydn Recordings (Romeo Records)
Jerusalem Quartet, Debussy and Ravel String Quartets (Harmonia Mundi)
Chloe Hanslip, Danny Driver, Beethoven Violin Sonatas (Rubicon)
Lisa Batiashvili, Visions of Prokofiev (DG)
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Debussy Preludes (Paladino)
2017
Bob Dylan, Triplicate (Columbia)
Beck, Colors (Capitol/Virgin EMI)
Kendrick Lamar, Damn (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope)
Various, Afro Beats Hot Hits (Shanachie)
Arcade Fire, Everything Now (Columbia)
Saint Etienne, Home Counties (Heavenly)
Old Crow Medicine Show, 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde (Columbia/Sony Music)
Dan Auerbach, Waiting on a Song (Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch)
Mary J. Blige, The Strength of a Woman (Capitol)
Chuck Berry, Chuck (Dualtone) (NB, not a sentimental glitch)
Chuck Prophet, Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins (Yep Roc)
Sunny Sweeney, Trophy (Aunt Daddy)
Thundercat, Drunk (Brainfeeder)
The New Pornographers, Whiteout Conditions (Collected Works/Concord)
Angeleena Presley, Wrangled (Thirty Tigers)
CLASSICAL
Kenneth Slowick, Mahler, Symphony No. 4 (Dorian)
Thile, Ma, Meyer, Bach, Trios (Sony)
Quatour Ebene, Schubert Quintet and Lieder (Erato)
BSO, Andris Nelsons, Brahms: The Symphonies (BSO Classics)
Lars Vogt, Schubert: Impromptus, D 899; Moments Musicaux, D 780; Six German Dances, D 820 (Ondine)
Christian Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt, Brahms Violin Sonatas (Ondine)
Jerusalem Quartet, Bartok String Quartet No. 6 (Harmonia Mundi)
Best of 2005, 2004, 2004 CLASSICAL, 2004 LIST LINKS, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1990s, Cover Albums, etc
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2005
Neko Case, Tiger Has Spoken (Anti-)
Petra Haden, The Who Sell Out (Bar-None)
Ivy, In the Clear (Nettwerk)
Beck, Guero (Interscope)
Gorillaz, Demon Days (Virgin)
REISSUES
Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet, Complete Mercury Recordings (Hip-O Select)
Toots and the Maytals, Toots in Memphis (Hip-O Select)
Various Artists, Complete Motown Singles (Hip-O Select)
2004
1. Rocket From The Tombs, Rocket Redux (Smog Veil)
2. Danger Mouse, Grey Album (download)
3. Reigning Sound, Too Much Guitar (In the Red)
4. Sam Phillips, A Boot and a Shoe (Nonesuch)
5. Bottle Rockets, Brand New Year (New West)
6. Los Lobos, The Ride (Hollywood)
7. Courtney Love, America’s Sweetheart (Virgin)
8. Alison Kraus, Lonely Runs Both Ways (Rounder)
9. Aveo, Battery (Barsuk)
10. Eliza Gilkyson, Land of Milk and Honey (Red House)
11. Nick Drake, Made to Love Magic (Island Chronicles)
12. Mission of Burma, Onoffon (Matador)
13. Sloan, Action Pact (Koch)
14. Fiery Furnaces, Blueberry Boat (Rough Trade)
15. Youssou N’Dour, Egypt (Nonesuch)
16. Downtown, Downtown (Coup De Grace)
17. Dan Zanes, Parades and Panoramas (Festival Five)
18. Velvet Crush, Stereo Blues (Action Musik)
19. Rokia Traore, Bownboi (Nonesuch)
20. Sun Kil Moon, Ghosts of the Great Highway (Jetset)
CLASSICAL
Leon Fleisher, Two Hands (Vanguard Classics)
Miklos Perenyi, Andras Schiff, Beethoven Cello Sonatas (ECM)
Leif Ove Andsnes, Mozart Concertos 9 & 18 (EMI)
Till Fellner Bach, Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (ECM)
Christian Tetzlaff, Brahms Violin Sonatas (EMI)
Christian Tetzlaff, Bartok Violin Sonatas (Virgin)
LIST LINKS
Rock List.net
Fast’n’Bulbous
Rate Your Music
Modern Rock Lists
List of Bests
Complicated Fun (lotsa rock links)
Largehearted Boy
Fimocoluous
Acclaimed Music
donewaiting
2003
New Pornographers, Electric Version (Matador)
Rosanne Cash, Rules of Travel (Capitol)
Ride, Waves (The First Time Records)
White Stripes, Elephant (V2)
Dave Holland Quintet, Extended: Live at Birdland (ECM)
Chris Smither, Train Home (Hightone)*
Neil Young, Greendale (Reprise)
Amy Rigby, Till the Wheels Fall Off (Signature Sounds)
Nada Surf, Let Go (Barsuk)
Dwight Yoakam, Population Me (Reprise)
Willie Nelson Crazy: The Demo Sessions (Sugar Hill)
Jon Langford** and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, The Executioner’s Songs Vol. 2-3 (Bloodshot)
The Strokes, Room on Fire (RCA)
The Flaming Sideburns, Save Rock’n’Roll (Jetset)
Sahara Hotnights, Jennie Bomb (Jetset)
Mike Ireland & Holler, Try Again (Ashmont)
Thea Gilmore, Avalanche (Compass)
Soundtrack, American Splendor (New Line)
Warren Zevon, The Wind (Artemis)
Warren Zanes, Memory Girl (Dualtone)*
Fountains of Wayne, Welcome Interstate Managers (S-Curve)
Liz Phair, Liz Phair (Capitol)
Shania Twain, Up! (Only Half Facetious)
Johnny Cash, Unearthed (American)
REISSUES
The Allman Brothers, Atlanta Pop Festival 1970 (Sony Legacy)
The Byrds, Sweethearts of the Rodeo (Sony Legacy)
Bloomfield, Stills, and Kooper, Supersession (Sony Legacy)
Bob Dylan, [Catalog] (Sony SACD)
Neil Young On the Beach (Reprise)
The Beatles, Let It Be…Naked (EMI/Capitol)
Television, Marquee Moon, Adventure, Live (Rhino)
BOOTS
Nick Lowe, Radio Daze (Five Dolar Records)
Buddy Holly, Apartment Tapes (private)
*sent to me by the artist, on friendly terms
**workaholic