I had already listened to the first three tracks and stopped because I didn't really find it original so maybe I should listen to the full album...
I much more liked this album in the same genre:
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Anywhere But Here by Habibi
It's the same kind of rock but has some kind of good middle eastern atmosphere, especially on the last track.
And for the rest I mainly seem to be into hardrock/metal this year because they already take up a lot of my list (but this is purely coincidence) and the latest Sepultura isn't even on it yet. These are the three metal albums I added this weekend:
Splid by Kvelertak
A Norwegian black metal band with punk influences and some good melodies so something to find out more about.
And my most important hidden pleasure in hardrock: Anvil (I very much recommend the rockumentary The Story of Anvil):
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Legal At Last by Anvil
I admit their lyrics are sometimes ludicrous but they rock as hell and they are currently at the first rank of the year (with still no real highlights) mainly because of the standout track Food For The Vulture.
And there was also this good EP by one of my favorite contemporary bands:
Anywhere But Here by Habibi
It's the same kind of rock but has some kind of good middle eastern atmosphere, especially on the last track.
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Nice! Really fun updated surf/garage rock with strong ties to the Go-Gos. It does have some cool Middle eastern guitar tones. I think it's pretty different than Beach Bunny who remind me more of a (Best Coast > Julia jacklin) sort of thing whereas this is more retro with a cool mainstreamed Mary Timony/Helium influence. Really dig it!
Next up will be that Anvil release. I LOVE that documentary as well as...
Talk Tight by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
I mostly know this fantastic band from their more recent album and especially EP's. This is their first EP and it's clear that they haven't reached their top here. I even lowered my scores and the album goes from the 8th to the 30th rank.
An album on my wishlist:
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Still Life Of Citrus And Slime by CFM
I liked the 2019 album of this band and wanted to find about this first of them as well and it's good with an original take on psychedelic garage rock, which is no surprise if you know that the singer has links with Ty Segall and Mikal Kronin. It ends up at the 37th rank of 2016.
From 2017 on I have really started to delve into new albums released that year (also because Apple Music was widely available so I didn't have to actually buy the music I wanted to discover) so I'll stop this first round here with the following conclusions:
I started in 1964 which covers 53 years in which I listened to 52 albums I already owned of every year one (except for the first year 1964). I upped the scores of most of these albums. From these same years I also listened to 53 albums on my wishlist of which 38 ended up in my year charts which is not a bad score I think.
Like I said I also will chose a theme for every round: this year it was Al Stewart so I listened to most of his albums most of which (except two) I had not listened to before so now I have 10 Al Stewart albums in my charts.
The next theme for my second round won't come as a surprise: Belgian albums: I will try to listen to both an album in my collection as an album on my wishlist and if not to a non Belgian album but this time I will only start in 1969 (before that year Jacques Brel would be the obvious choice but I already covered him). I hope that I can tempt some of you to have a listen to some of the Belgian albums I'll choose.
So this is the start of my second round where I go from year to year and each pick an album I already own and an album on my wishlist which keeps on growing. In each round I'll try to pick a team and this time it's Belgian albums.
Except for Jacques Brel who I already covered there isn't really much in the sixties (for the rest there's only Soeur Sourire (Try to look for Dominique Dominique if you want to have a laugh) and other not really rock albums I would recommend.
So I start in 1969 but also in this year no Belgian album in my collection. So I decided that in that case I would pick neighboring countries or in any case non Anglo-Saxon countries. For 1969 there are only three non US/UK/CA albums in my current top chart, the one hereunder and Santana.
So for the album I own for 1969 I chose for Germany and Can:
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Monster Movie by Can
This is the first album of this legendary German band who even invented their own very experimental genre Kraut rock. I must admit I like this album much more than their more known latter albums. The four tracks on this album have that droning Velvet Undergroundy sound but foremost on the last more than 20 minutes track Yoo Doo Right. This album really deserves its 9th rank of 1969.
And just to introduce the Belgian album on my wishlist: in the late sixties Belgium had two major and excellent psychedelic hit singles some of you might know: Seven Horses In The Sky by The Pebbles and Daydream by The Wallace Collection. Both released an album in 1969 but I chose to take Wallace Collection also because the hit single is on it and it's still available on Apple Music:
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Laughing Cavalier by Wallace Collection
Interesting album title because The Laughing Cavalier is a famous painting by the Dutch painter Frans Hals which is still hanging in the Wallace Collection in London near the EMI building, which at that time was their record label: listen to the title song if you dare it's very short so it won't take a lot of your time. Daydream is the only song I know of the band but it's a very good song with a Hey Jude like communal singing part. But I have to admit the rest of the album is less than nothing and in some instances a bit childish and derivative. Not in the least bit a candidate for my 1969 top chart.
This is fantastic and really the way they also come across in the rockumentary: the part with the vibrator is hilarious.
At the same time it's of course a bit sad to have to do (or think you have to do) a self promotion video on Youtube like that.
But the thing remains, you forgive them for that because they really do rock (both on the former album for which this video has been shot as on their newest one) in the greatest way possible and the video is a testimony of that.
An album I own (not really European let alone Belgian but the furthest away from Anglo-Saxon I could get):
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Abraxas by Santana
And why would I be sorry to listen to this album: it's one of the grooviest ever with that incredible latin percussion flavored with some of the best guitar playing you can find and with Oye Come Va and Samba-Pa-Thi still the highlights after all these years. And this album rises from the 12th to the 8th rank on my 1970 year chart.
An album on my wishlist:
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Mad Curry by Mad Curry
This Belgian album is on my wishlist but totally unknown to me. It's a fairly nice jazzy prog album with an intriguing female voice but it misses same grinta so not really my thing.
An album I own:
F it I don't have anything Belgian or even European for this year so I chose:
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Meddle by Pink Floyd
What a fantastic album this remains with of course the two highlights One Of These Days and the very long but never boring Echoes. The other tracks are really slow but they do all have something very special and especially Fearless remains a true gem. Absolutely deserves the second rank of 1971.
A Belgian album on my wishlist:
Irish Coffee by Irish Coffee
Although nobody knows it this Belgian hard rock album is seen by many people as a Belgian masterpiece and their semi hit single Masterpiece is not even on it. They can easily be dismissed as a rip off of Deep Purple (why would you listen to this when there was the real thing), voice (although much worse than Ian Gillan), organ and guitar included. But this album has its charm and especially When Winter Comes, A Day Like Today and I'm Lost are fairly good with good guitar solos. So just enough to enter my 1971 top chart at rank 23.
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