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The point is, you've been asking for my Best Of list! (OK, so ONE person asked for my best of list, but that's one more than the last two years).
Just a reminder of how this works:
Albums - because I am a child of the 70s, sandwiched between the singles era of the 50s and the download era, and I am biased into thinking the album is the highest musical art form. I am right on this. Don't argue.
Best Of - meaning what I would like to hear again and again. I don't care how ground-breakingly sonically forward an album is - if I don't like it, it ain't on here. If I don't want to hear it again, it ain't on here.
That said, I have some fairly wide tastes. The top 10 alone has the Grammy award winning Contemporary AND Traditional Blues albums, Americana, EDM, reworked Classical and straight-up Prog. There's a few here you're not likely to find on other Best Of compilations as evidenced by the fact that five of these don't even have Wikipedia entries.
As per usual, we'll count down from 10 . . .
10. Night Thoughts - Suede
Probably the poppiest album on the list, the atmosphere and singer Brett Anderson's voice reminds me of a favorite album of mine, Icehouse, by the band of the same name.
9. Everything Sacred - Yorkston, Thorne, Khan
I'm not sure where to start on this one. World Music is kind of a catch-all. Instruments on this cut are Nyckelharpa, Sarangi, and Double Bass. It's trance-y, it's humorous, it stands the test of repeated listens - for me, something World Music doesn't always do. Not for everyone, but I dug it so here it is.
8. Porcupine Meat - Bobby Rush
What can you say? The man is 83-years old and still putting out great albums. Nothing fancy here, just another great Bobby Rush album that nabbed a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues. I can hear Fatha Thimes sayin' "Back it up . . .". Here's the title cut:
That does it for today. Part two tomorrow for albums 5 - 7.
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