My discoveries per year

dihansse · 2016-04-10T12:28:28-04:00

Well! Here I would like to start with my own long term project taking advantage of the best BEA has to offer: overall charts from people who are as interested in music as I am. I already have year charts which are based on the albums I already own or know, but there are a lot of them which I haven't listened to yet and which might be worth discovering. I'd like to do this by going through the overall BEA top lists per year starting in 1963 which is both my year of birth and the year in which I personally think rock music started to become interesting. To keep it a bit varied I will skip through the years in five year periods, ie starting in 1963 then 1968 then 1973 all the way to 2013 and then back to 1964 and so on. Every year I will start with some stats of my personal chart in comparison to the overall year charts, both top 20 an top 50 and will start to listen to at least the top 20 albums I don't know and I'll hope to give some comments sometimes very short, sometimes a bit longer. I will also update my personal year charts accordingly. In principle I will use Apple Music to listen to the albums, which I suppose will cover most of the field. If a certain album isn't present in Apple Music, I'll have to skip it. I will try to listen to all the albums at least once and sometimes twice if I doubt, but I'll skip the really stupid ones (ex a Xmas compilation in 1963) and also other compilations, classical music, jazz and easy listening. This will be a long term project which means there might be times in which I will stop a bit of course because I don't want be stuck listining to albums of the same year all the time. However I suppose this will take at least a month per year. I will try to keep it up but please don't be mad if I give up (maybe already after the first year :lol: )

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These are the best new albums I heard this week:

The first is an EP from a young Australian band:

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A State Of Living In An Objective Reality by Eliza & The Delusionals
and already on the 3rd rank of the not yet very good year 2020.

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Oh Paradise by Mintzkov
A Belgian rock band of the nineties made a good rock album: 9th rank of the year

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I Am Not A Dog On A Chain by Morrissey
I decided not to take into account the man's stupid behavior nowadays and just to listen to the songs and I have to say there some really good ones to be found here with Jim Jim Falls, the title track and My Hurling Days Are Gone at the forefront but overall the quality of the album is a bit variable and it lands at nearly the lowest rank of the year.

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And there's again a fine album available for streaming freely on neilyoung archives (and how good it feels to hear music in high quality):

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Freedom by Neil Young
This is generally acclaimed to be one of the best albums of the man but to be honest this praise is mainly on the two versions of Rockin' In The Free World (that thundering intro is incomparable), one of the best songs Neil Young has brought into this world. Also Hangin' On A Limb and Wrecking Ball are very good and for the rest I mainly like the sudden outbursts on otherwise fairly calm tracks like Don't Cry and Eldorado. Indeed in general a fairly country tinged album but there is not a bad song to be found here and all the tracks have something special to keep them interesting so safely goes from the 9th to th 8th rank of the already very fine music year of 1989.

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I should ....investigate your diary: I only noticed now how elaborate it has become....

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These are my albums for 1988 and all Belgian.

But for the album in my collection I have to admit something:

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Struggle For Pleasure by Wim Mertens
But first something on the man: Wim Mertens is the Belgian's minimal music artist performing on piano with lots of influences from classical music. He used to be very prolific in releasing music but this is his best album BUT... in fact this (mini-)album was already released in 1983 but under a band moniker Soft Verdict and was re-released in 1988 under his own name. For the moment I'll leave the album as it is on BEA but maybe we should think about replacing this one by the older one.
In any case this is a very good one with a good mixture between more inward looking pieces and very Philippe Glassian outbursts. The title track was chosen as the ringtone by our major telecom provider so everyone knows it although few people know the rest of his music. And the best track on the album is Close Cover.
To be honest most of his albums are fairly boring but this one stands out and it increases from the 28th to 24th rank in my top chart.

And I had 4 other Belgian albums on my wishlist:

First two I chose not to include:

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Intiem by Raymond Van Het Groenewoud
Not his best

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Charlatan by Arno
I guess this is the best solo-album by the ex-singer of TC Matic and there's a lot of good sounding tunes on it (just listen to the drunken Bathroom Singer) but all in all I decided not to include it in my top charts.

and then the albums that did make it to my top chart:

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Skintight by The Scabs
A good rock album nothing more nothing less with the best known of their ballads: Crystal Eyes. 29th rank.

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Front By Front by Front 242
One of their best and most consistent albums with especially the very military sounding but very good Head Hunter (although their lyrics and style of music is a bit militaristic they don't take themselves too seriously). 28th rank.

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Now a quick one on 1989 because I want to move to the nineties.

I don't have a Belgian album in my collection from this year so why not pick Freedom of Neil Young I already discussed just a few posts away from this one which is from 1989.

And a Belgian album on my wishlist:

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Blood & Thunder by The Neon Judgement
On this album they make much more use of real instruments which doesn't do the album any bad because it's again a fairly good but with no real standouts: it however nestles itself at the 25th rank of the year.

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Another Neil Young album on Neil Young Archives I listened to in high quality audio:

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Trans by Neil Young
This was an album I was looking forward to listen to because as a fan I thought all those people who dislike this album must be wrong. But they aren't. I already dislike distorted voices (autotune is hell) but what ny does here with some cheap electronic device is pure horror whatever the good intentions behind the album. But I have to admit one of the most electronic and long tracks on the album, Sample And Hold, is also one of the best: a fine mixture between Kraftwerk and New Order. But the price for the best track still goes to the most classic Neil Young track: Like An Inca.
But overall not an album I will include in my 1982 top chart.

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Up to the nineties and here are my Belgian album choices for 1990:

In fact three albums I own but the first two are:

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Hier En Nu by De Kreuners
On their first albums De Kreuners (the moaners) sounded young and fresh and on this album they have matured a lot which is a good thing. Plus this is their best known album in Flandres. The hits are numerous on this album and although they're sung in Flemish I think they can be enjoyed by a non-Flemish audience with great stompers like Ik Will Je (I Want You), Zo Jong (So Young; I told you Flemish isn't difficult), Verliefd op Chris Lomme (In love with Chris Lomme, a flemish actress) and Toch Ga Ik Weg (And still I go). And some beautiful ballads like Wachten Op Even Trein (I'm not even gonna translate that) and Maak Me Wakker (Wake Me Up (Before You Go Go). A Classic Flemish album and it moves from the 20th to the 13th rank. After this album they would become a bit of a parody of themselves with the singer appearing in all kinds of TV shows and the drummer as a quizmaster who presents a Tetris show every day. But they're still performing (not now of course and the singer even has Corona now).

And then an album nobody knows but is some favorite of mine although it seems to be recorded in a living room:

Naked And Still Hungry by Rudolf Hecke
The references here are Kurt Weil and the Velvet Underground although the songs are a bit more vitriolic and where harder songs like Holy Room and Bring Him Down go together with ballads like A Loss. Maybe not for everybody but a good album who wants to be surprised. It remains at the 22nd rank.

And then an album I'll consider as a wishlist album although I own it. It's the best known album of the Scabs but I always though it to be too poppy to belong in my top chart:

Royalty In Exile by The Scabs
But after listening to it again it has its charms and maybe especially because of the ballads which are in fact very good with the uberballad Hard Times as the best example. I have allowed it at the 45th rank of 1990.

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I discovered three great albums released last Friday:

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Far Enough by Cable Ties
I didn't discover any masterpieces this year so that's why this great Australian punk album launched itself to the first rank of this year for that it's mainly thanks to the great and long and mesmerizing Lani. For a punk band these guys write really long songs but they're worth your attention. The female singer has a timbre I normally don't really like but in some way she turns that into an asset like you can hear on the second best song on the album: Pillow

and another Australian punk album:

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High Risk Behaviour by The Chats
just quick and point punk with many references to the great British punk bands.

and a collaboration between Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey and two Norwegian musicians:

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The Great Lost No Ones Album by The No Ones
Which is in fact just good power rock in the best tradition of the Posies. The best song also has the funniest title: (Going Back To) Stockholm syndrome.

And finally one OK album of which I had expected maybe a bit more but is finally not as bad as many say it is:

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Gigaton by Pearl Jam
In fact they still rock real find which is mainly exemplified by the first three tracks. But their ballads, mainly the ones at the end, suck a bit. So in short a fairly uneven album which could have been a great EP.

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Here are my choices of Belgian albums and really a great choice so I'll have to do some cherry picking:

An album I own:

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Kustom Kar Kompetition by La Muerte
I suppose you can compare La Muerte with The Young Gods, but maybe a bit more heavy as is best exemplified by the title track but especially on the mighty But My Brain Don't Get Higher. Increases from the 46th to 43rd rank.

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Marianne by Poésie Noire
One of those electobands in the style of Anne Clark; a bit amateuristic production but some good tracks and increases from the 76th to 64th rank

From my wishlist although I own the album but had not included it in my top chart:

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Tyranny >For You< by Front 242
In fact the first album I owned by them and to one of the quintessential albums of the band on which they have perfectioned their sound with especially the title song and the relentless Neurobashing. It enters at the 60th rank of the year.

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