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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Two albums of 2022 I listened to:

First an album I already own/know:

Fall In Love Not In Line by Kids On A Crime Spree
This album really has a big sixties sound and sounds like one of these 60's girls bands but a bit prepped up. When I first heard the album I thought it had two positive outliers but now I just think that all tracks are equally good and it goes from the 40th to the 65th rank.

And an album from my wishlist:

Down River In The Distance by The Drin
I already knew their most recent album from 2024, Elude The Torch, and fairly liked it. So I wanted to discover their first one as well. The best term you can describe this album with is bleak, a bit in the sense of The Birthday Party. But apart from a few tracks, this album didn't really appeal to me so I decided not to include it in my year chart of 2022.

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Two albums of 2023 I listened to:

First an album I already own/know:

Strays by Margo Price
Where Margo goes psychedelic and she's not doing bad at that. The album goes from the 59th to the 76th rank.

And an album from my wishlist:

Last Rays Of A Dying Sun by Rain Parade
This newer album of the Rain Parade is not bad at all and immediately enters my year chart at the 65th rank.

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This is already the 18th round where I go from year to year and listen to two albums of that year. Maybe a bit boring but it does permit me to both listen to an album I already know/own and have a long time not listened to; and an album from my wishlist. Since the first years in rock music are not really years where artists focused on albums I take the years to 1964 in one time and only an album I already own (none for the moment on my wishlist):

And again a fairly obvious one from the Beatles:

Beatles For Sale by The Beatles
Maybe still an album where they focused a bit too much on covers (although Rock 'n Roll Music is pretty awesome; Kansas City not so much) and where not all the songs were of the highest quality (Honey Don't is really not good). But even the tracks that feel rather innocent like No Reply, I Don't Want To Spoil The Party and many others. The obvious hit is of course Eight Days A Week and of course also very good. So maybe not the classical album which most of the other Beatles albums are but still far beyond their peers at the time and the album remains at the second rank of 1964 (their other album of that year A Hard Day's Night is better).

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For 1965 also only an album I already own/know:

Mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds
This is the Byrds as I like them with many of their greatest tracks on this album like the title track, I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better, The Bells Of Rhymney, All I Reallt Want To Do and Chimes Of Freedom. The album moves up from the 5th to the 3rd rank of 1965.

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Again an album I already own/know:

Face To Face by The Kinks
This is the first real album by the Kinks and also a loose concept album about all kinds of Britishness Ray Davis is so good at describing and he is certainly a very good storyteller. And in my opinion that sometimes gets in the way of a real good song. Don't misunderstand me: all the tracks on this album are good but the real standouts are still the hits Sunny Afternoon, one of their best, and Dandy. And this album moves up from the 16th to the 8th rank of 1966.

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And one album of 1967 I already own/know:

Are You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Electric Ladyland is much better than this album in part because it's less focused not in the least because of the very psychedelic or should we say druggy atmosphere. This is certainly part of the charm of the album but doesn't necessary lead to classic songs although there are certainly some good ones like Foxy Lady, Manic Depression, Can You See Me and Fire. But of course a good album from the man and the album goes up from the 17th to the 10th rank of the year.

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And also an album from 1968 I already own/know:

Silver Apples by Silver Apples
This is a very psychedelic one but one ahead of its time with hints of Krautrock and even triphop because of the way they know how to create a groove. Not fantastic but OK and the album moves from the 21st to the 20th rank.

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And also for 1969 only an album I already own/know:

Willy And The Poor Boys by Creedence Clearwater Revival
At first view one of their least good album but that is only at first view. Of course there is a bit of filler here but if you have Down On The Corner, Fortunate Son an The Midnight Special all on one album that means something. And the I nearly forget Effigy, a track I only knew by Uncle Tupelo's version on that great No Alternative compilation until I learnt that it was written by John Fogerty and has become one of my favorite and at the same time least typical CCT tracks and that means something. So all in all a great album which moves up from the 32nd to the 15th rank of 1969 (and for the moment jumps over Bayou Country, another one of the three albums CCR made in this year.

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After a few weeks here I'm back with two albums of 1970 I listened to:

First an album I already own/know:

Morrison Hotel (1970) by The Doors

This is definitely not their best album. Of course I can't deny that Roadhouse Blues, Waiting For The Sun and some others are top songs but the fact remains that certainly closer to the end of the album there is a lot of filler which would maybe still be ok for another band but not for the Doors. Still a good album but nothing like their real classics but still moves up from the 29th to the 13th rank of 1970.

And an album from my wishlist:

Closer To Home (1970) by Grand Funk Railroad

This is not a bad album and they know how to write a good hard song but they don't really have a lot of excellent hard songs. Comes out at the 33rd rank.

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And also 1971 with two albums:

First an album I already own/know:

Tapestry (1971) by Carole King

This is a classic but somehow I don't have this album near the top of my charts. There are many good tracks but to me they are just good craftmanship without really touching me. So good to go from the 40th to 28th rank, not the top but coming closer.

And an album from my wishlist:

Time Of The Last Persecution (1971) by Bill Fay

Although intertwined with religious lyrics, there is a lot of emotional depth to this album and the man is not afraid to let his songs derail a bit. I could only listen to this album via Youtube but it's good so deserves to be in my 1971 year chart at the 24th rank.

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