Great list Phil. Here’s my top ten… 1. Moggs Motel - S/T 2.Voodoo Circle - Hail to the King 3.judas priest-invincible shield 4. The black crowes - happiness bastards 5. Fans of the dark - video 6. Black Country communion - v 7. Bruce Dickinson - the mandrake project 8. Gotus - S/T 9. Deep purple - =1 10. Stryper- when we were kings 👍🏽
Another superb video from your good self.I have recently had major surgery successful but long recovery afterwards,and your love of music has really helped and connected with me the last few weeks .I wish you a Happy Christmas and a wonderful 2025.❤
2024 has been a cracking year for prog. Thijs is as full of energy now as he was in yhe 1970's and great to talk to. List to follow, Merry Christmas, Phil
What an amazing list! Again, Phil, thanks for turning me on to Cats in Space. Your summary of their music hits the spot. I absolutely get a positive charge every time I hear their records. Thoughtful list. Powerful list! Thank you, sir. Cheers!
Great video as always Phil. Here are my favourites from this year and maybe not to everyone's taste. Happiness Bastards - The Black Crowes No Name - Jack White Luck and Strange - David Gilmour One Hand Clapping - Wings Wardour Street - Quireboys Lighthouse - Duff McKagan Forever - Bon Jovi Full Circle - Sweet Orgy of the Damned - Slash True - Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks Dark Matter - Pearl Jam V - Black Country Communion =1 - Deep Purple
As soon as you mentioned Bon Jovi I knew this would be a list worth checking out. Most people have written them off. Choosing them in your top albums of 2024 demonstrates your neutrality and objectivism. Nice one Phil
That Blood Incantation album is fascinating, because they blend everything so seamlessly and somehow it all works. It's as if the devil was screaming from inside of Mount Vesuvius when Pink Floyd played Pompeii. I've been reluctant to give that Bon Jovi album a shot, but you convinced me to check it out.
Wow, another huge eclectic mix, to go with the box set review Phil. Hats off to you - you must be working 24/7 to digest a mountain of music. My top albums of 2024: 1. Opeth LW&T 2. Beardfish SFBH 3. Neal Morse - No Hill for a Climber 4. Jon Anderson - Band Geeks 5. Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace 6. Delving (Nicholas DeSalvo) All Paths Diverge. 7) Mogg's Motel. 8) Nektar - Mission to Mars. A box sets I forgot to add to your adjacent video: Nektar - Recycled. Keep spinning Happy New Year. Martin
Thanks to your list I will discover some bands. This year I first listened to the Canadian band Mistery and I loved it. So back in prog but I also love metal and hard rock. Priest and Phill Mogg are excellent. My album of the year Witherfall Sounds of the Forgotten.
Great to hear your top 35 albums of 2024 and hearing what you like about them and how you have them ranked from 35 to 1. have a great Christmas and Thank You again Phil.🎶🎶📻🎶🎶
Thanks for the Cats in Space Recs. New to Me. Listening to Time Machine now and it’s right up my alley. Certainly a theatrical element (which might put some off), but keeps the right side of the line. Will certainly check out their live album and some of their back catalogue. Found you from Sea of Tranquility…just subbed.
Great top 35 Phil, I think I'll have many crossovers in my end of year chart, no surprise that CIS are there and to see Big Big Train and The Tangent among the top albums is great, Moggs Motel is a bit special and I've just got the Sweet album today so keep Rocking!
A great list, Phil. I need to hear many of these albums. So much music, so little time! Here is my top five for 2024: 1. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 2. Deep Purple - +1 3. Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation 4. Moggs Motel- Moggs Motel 5. Nocturnus A.D. - Unicursal Take care!
Great list, Phil! Merry Christmas to you, and your family! My top 10 1. V - Black Country Communion 2. =1 - Deep Purple 3. Happiness Bastards - The Black Crowes 4. Invincible Shield - Judas Priest 5. When We Were Kings - Stryper 6. True - Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks 7. Lucifer V 8. Luck and Strange - David Gilmour 9. The Art Of Letting Go - Myles Kennedy 10. Light Em Up - The Dead Daisies
Love your review, I saw Cats in Space totally based on your recommendation/reviews at Islington,it was a 'cracking gig Gromit! ' I also Highly recommend the album as well, I will be going to see them again. A request - can you do a review of Lone Star vastly underrated band or Paul 'Tonka' Chapman's work please, thank you
Phil, as ever a great list and my bank balance suffers again as I add a few more I missed during the year! Best wishes to you and Sue, compliments of the season to you both. Kind regards
...and the last two categories Rock & the grand daddy for this year Prog. Since there were SO many good albums of each type I applied some stricter rules around these two... Rock: Autumn's Child/Tellus Timeline Band Of The Underhand/A Cheap Ride To Heaven Bill Nelson/Powertron Black Country Communion/V Cactus/Temple Of Blues - Influences And Friends Cats In Space/Fire In The Night & Time Machine Cody Dickinson/Homemade The Cold Stares/The Southern The Commoners/Restless Goodbye June/Deep In The Trouble Grand Slam/Hit The Ground-Revisited Ian Moss/Live At The Enmore Lonerider/Down In The Dust Mojo Thunder/The Infinite Hope Moonstone Project/New Life Mr Big/Ten Nestor/Teenage Rebel Owen Stewart/Done And Dusted Phil Mogg/Moggs Hotel The Prisoners/Morning Star Revolution Saints/Against The Winds Richie Kotzen/Nomad Robert Jon & The Wreck/Red Moon Rising Scarlet Bandit/Lose Your Blues Silveroller/At Dawn Umphrey's McGee/Hall Of Fame: Class Of 2022 Warren Haynes/Million Voices Whisper Prog: Actionfredag/Lys Fremtid I Mørke & Turist I Eget Liv (even just for the instrumentals) Anthony Phillips/Private Parts & Pieces XII: The Golden Hour Argos/Halfway Between Heaven And Mirth The Aristocrats/Duck Big Big Train/A Flare On The Lens (Live) & The Likes Of Us Cosmograf/Live At The 1865 (The Official Bootleg) Darwin/Five Steps On The Sun Ellesmere/Stranger Skies Frost*/Life In The Wires Hasse Froberg & Musical Companion/Eternal Snapshots Herin/Hiding In Plain Sight Izz/Collapse The Wave Jadis/More Question Than Answers Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius/Impostor! Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks/True Kaipa/Sommargryningsljus Karfagen/Messages From Afar: Second Nature Kite Parade/Disparity Legacy Pilots/Thru The Lens The Madrigal Project/11th Hour Man Doki Soulmates/A Memory Of Our Future Meer/Wheels Within Wheels Motorpsycho/Neigh Neal Morse/Late Bloomer, The Restoration - Joseph Pt. 2 & No Hill For A Climber The Pineapple Thief/It Leads To This & Last To Run Royal Time Machine - s/t Six By Six/Beyond Shadowland Steve Hackett/The Circus And The Nightwhale The Tangent/To Follow Polaris Tony Patterson & Doug Melbourne/We've Been Expecting You... Transatlantic/Live At Morsefest 2022: The Absolute Whirlwind - Night 1 Weite/Oase Wizrd/Elements
Brilliant Phil - I'd have had '=1' at number one just because Deep Purple new releases don't happen that often and Magnum's 'Here Comes The Rain' at number two because it's the usual brilliant stuff we have come to expect from these guys and the last with the majestic Tony Clarkin - God rest you Tony.
So informative and with love presenting music...Phil try to listen, if you have time, a progressive death metal band from Italy (just amazing music mixing all styles that we love): Bedsore - album "Dreaming for the strife of love"...They may sneak into your best albums in 2024...For me this one and Blood Incantation
I'm probably forgetting a couple, but a number of my favorites. I have to check out some of the albums you mention, Phil. Thanks! Invincible Shield - Judas Priest Supercharged - The Offspring 10,000 Volts - Ace Frehley Happiness Bastards - The Black Crowes Change the Game - Cody Jinks The Hill - Aaron Lewis When We Were Kings - Stryper =1 - Deep Purple The Mandrake Project - Bruce Dickinson Full Tilt Overdrive - House of Lords
Your channel is one of the best out there. Thanks for the positivity all year round. My top albums 1. David Gilmour - Luck and strange 2. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 3. Big Big Train - The likes of us 4. Jon Anderson - True 5. Jupiter Fungus - Garden Electric 6. Blood Incantation- Absolutely elsewhere 7. Deep Purple - =1 8. Steve Hackett - The circus and the nightwhale 9. Evergrey - Theories of emptiness 10. Frost* - Life in the wires 11. Neal Morse - No hill for a climber 12. Stuckfish - IV 13. Acid Rooster - Hall of mirrors 14. The Tangent - To follow Polaris 15. Weather Systems - Oceans without a shore 16. Magnum- Here comes the rain 17. Elephant9 - The mythical river 18. Beardfish - Songs for beating hearts 19. The Samurai of Prog - Time machine 20. Innerwish - Ash of eternal flame 21. DGM - Endless 22. Pineapple Thief - It leads to this 23. Lee Abraham- Origin of the storm 24. Walter Trout - Broken 25. Blac Country communion - V 26. Barock Project - Time Voyager 27. Kite Parade - Disparity 28. FM - Old habits die hard 29. Viima- Vaisty Mielen Yo 30. Opeth - The last will and testament 31. Von Hertzen brothers - Inmurmuration 32. Leprous - Melodies of atonement 33. Moggs Motel - S/T 34. Walter Trout - Broken 35. Emerald City Council - Motion carries
Phil thanks for your top 35 albums this year. I was able to find all but one on Qobuz so I have a lot of new music on my new favorites list. Cats in Space will be first for my new listening. Looking forward to your box set/reissues list. I just got my Tull Fresh Snow at Christmas box set, just in time for Christmas, so I’ve got my holiday music. Hopefully it will make your list. The 1st CD is the original album and the mastering is great as with all the Tull sets. On to disc 2 with the new mix. Merry Christmas 🎄
I can't quite rank 'em (in order), so I'll just spit out a list of my fave new 2024 albums (no archival stuff), by genre. This was clearly the year of prog rock so I'll split that one & the 'Rock' category out separately. Be interesting to see how many also end up on Phil's list: Acoustic: Julian Lage/Speak To Me Mike Dawes/Galactic Acid Orobelo/The Chateau ALT: Eels/Eels Time Eve 6/Dream Fist Field Music/Limits Of Language Fleet Foxes/Live On Boston Harbor Goose/Live At The Capitol Theatre & The Red Tapes Hippo Campus/Flood Hockey Dad/Rebuild Repeat Jimmy Montague/ Tomorrow's Coffee Jxdn/When The Music Stops Lake Street Dive/Good Together Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats/South Of Here AOR: Counterline/Two FM/Old Habits Die Hard Honeymoon Suite/Alive Palace/Reckless Heart Remedy/Pleasure Beats The Pain Steve Plunkett/Straight Up Winding Road/Fill My Sails Blues/Blues rock: Bywater Call/Shepherd Chris Bergson Band/Comforts Of Home Colin James/Chasing The Sun Connolly Hayes/Remember Me Eric Clapton/Meanwhile Erwin Java & Sean Webster/Java Webster Joanne Shaw Taylor/Heavy Soul Jon Amor Trio/The Turnaround Little Albert/The Road Not Taken Philip Sayce/The Wolves Are Coming Quinn Sullivan/Salvation Ronnie Baker Brooks/Blues In My DNA Slash/Orgy Of The Damned Snowy White/Unfinished Business Taj Farrant/Chapter One Walter Trout/Broken Country/Folk rock: Ferris & Sylvester/Otherness Widespread Panic/Hailbound Queen Funk: Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge/Wine On Venus Fusion: Antoine Fafard & Gavin Harrison/Perpetual Mutations Aurora Clara/IV Benjamin Croft/We Are Here To Help Chester Thompson/Wake-Up Call Daniel Weiss/The Vortex Evgeny Pobozhiy Orchestra/Stream Guadalquivir/Ole Corea Jane Getter Premonition/Division World Mark Lettieri/Can I Tell You Something Mike Stern/Echoes And Other Songs Nataraja/Spirit At Play Silibrina/Sonambulando Tony Levin/Bringing It Down To The Bass Trifecta/The New Normal Glam: Billy Tibbals/Nightlife Stories Instrumental rock: Andy Wood/Charisma Jeff Kollman/2023 A.D. Marty Friedman/Drama Nick Johnston/Child Of Bliss Pop/Power pop: Brent Seavers/Exhibit 8 Classic Traffic/Turn It Up The Cyrkle/Revival The Half-Cubes/Pop Treasures Liquid Mike/Paul Bunyan's Slingshot Lunchbox/Pop And Circumstance The Mads/Time By Time The Reflectors/Going Out Of Fashion Ryan Allen & His Extra Arms/Radar Shed Seven/A Matter Of Time Sparkle*Jets U.K./Box Of Letters The Toms/Rock Paper Scissors Wesley Fuller/All Fuller No Filler Psyche: Howlin Rain/Lost At Sea: Rarities, Outtakes And Other Tales From The Deep King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard/Flight B741 Magick Brother & Mystic Sister/Tarot Pt 1 Nolan Potter/The Perils Of Being Trapped Inside A Head Phish/Evolve Rosalie Cunningham/To Shoot Another Day Punk: Gentlemen Rogues/Surface Noise Green Day/Saviors R&B: The Dip/ Love Direction Southern Rock: The Georgia Thunderbolts/Rise Above It All Sam Morrow/Medicine Man
Hi Trevor, that album has been on my radar for ages but for whatever reason I have not been able to get a reasonably priced copy. I’m sure it will eventually be featured here !
Hi Phil, 2024 has been another great year for new music. It was great seeing you on The Review crew again too. Here is my Top 20 1 Deep Purple = 1 2 The Cure Songs of A Lost World 3 Pearl Jam Dark Matter 4 David Gilmour Luck & Strange 5 Moggs Motel Moggs Motel 6 The Warning You Keep Me Fed 7 The Last Dinner Party Prelude to Ecstasy 8 Waxahatchee Tigers Blood 9 Mark Knopfler One Deep River 10 Blackberry Smoke Be Right Here 11 Slash Orgy of The Damned 12 Joanne Shaw Taylor Heavy Soul 13 Judas Priest Invincible Shield 14 Saxon Hell Fire & Damnation 15 Lucifer Lucifer V 16 Son Of Man Gaslight 17 DarWin Five Steps on The Sun 18 Jon Anders & The Band Geeks TRUE 19 Sweet Full Circle 20 Cats In Space Time Machine
Hi Phil. Thanks for all your videos of 2024, they have been a blessing and an inspiration many times. A great top 35, (36) list and I can honestly say not a dud among them. My top 5 would be; David Gilmour, Luck and Strange. Steve Hackett, The Circus and the Nightwhale. Ebony Buckle, Hearts Get Started. Eivør, Enn. Big Big Train, The Likes of Us. These can fluctuate on any given day and are the albums I keep going back to. Happy Christmas and a good New Year to you and yours. Rob
Superb list, Phil. Without wishing to replicate, here are my top albums this year: Geordie Greep - The New Sound The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World Field Music - Limits Of Language Kiran Leonard - Real Home Julia Holter - Something In The Room She Moves A Certain Ratio - It All Comes Down To This Elephant9 with Terje Rypdal - Catching Fire Weite - Oase
Wow...lots of bands that I've never heard of ? I agree with your comments about the fantastic Opeth album. I always thought that there was a very humorous side to the "monster" vocals, it does add a percussive musical element to the riffing. Some of my favorite tracks have the combination of clean and monster vocals. I am surprised that you did not include Bruce Dickenson's latest one, and Kerry King's album is a great continuation of the Slayer -type sound. I will have to check out the Blood Incantation disc...sounds interesting ?? Cheers
Hello Phil! I'm a fairly recent subscriber to your channel. I think I came onboard via your review of the latest Tangent album, which I think is amazing, and made my list of favourite releases of 2024. What an amazing musician that fellow is! Anyway, I watched the latest Review Crew video last night, where you all picked your favourite records of the past year, and I picked out a few that I was unaware of, but sound interesting, so I will be checking those out. That is my main reason for watching many of these types of videos. Now, unlike most of you on SoT and other TH-cam channels, I do not enjoy ranking records. I know it's something people like to see, but to me it's like comparing apples and oranges, and music is so subjective to start with, that most times I think it is unfair, so it is something I refuse to do on my own channel. So, in no particular order, here are my favourite albums of 2024 - Black Crowes - "Happiness Bastards," Jesse Malin - "Chasing The Light," Weather Systems - "Ocean Without A Shore," Evan Rotella - "Last Train Home" (Local young up-and-coming singer-songwriter), Jon Anderson - "True," David Gilmour - "Luck and Strange," Black Country Communion - "V," Judas Priest - "Invincible Shield," Grand Slam - "Wheel Of Fortune," Deep Purple - "= 1," Taylor Swift - "The Tortured Poet's Department," The Tangent - "To Follow Polaris," Adult Cinema - "365," Collective Soul - "Here To Eternity." The albums you guys mentioned that I would like to check out are Mogg's Motel, Cemetery Skyline, Big Big Train, and Camera Obscura.
Hi Phil - nice list there. Personally I would do a top 20 - yes it means leaving more out, but then it always does no matter what number you choose lol. I have a couple of Cats in Space CD's - but way out here in Australia, I dont think they are that well known - which is a shame. Hopefully them moving to a big name label will push them into the mainstream, and greater success. Cheers Doug
Kiwi here. Just heard of Cats in Space, man they are good. Always the last to know. Been going through these lists and giving these bands a listen, lots of good stuff except for the bands that growl. Cats are the most accessable for me. Saying that, Caligulas Horse would be in my top 5 albums of the year.
Just finished watching this video. I do not have a top any number (I have found, so far, almost 200 CDs I have liked from 2024). There are 7 of them were in your top 35. Tey include Caligula's Horse, Wheel, Pure Reason Revolution, Frost, Ian Hunter, Deep Purple and Judas Priest. I also like the new one by Jon Anderson. I will be checking out some of the one I haven't heard from your list so far.
Look forward to your interview with Terry Slesser, the Back Street Crawler band have played my local venue, Backstage at Kinross on a few occasions and would urge people to go and see them, great night. I am old enough to remember Kossoff and anyone who appreciated him will not be disappointed. Now being a Scot I simple don’t know why this venue if omitted from the tour guide both for future and past gigs, on the Slesser site, strange. Now can I just say that I noticed @Rhymesignatures, in his excellent choice of albums for 2024 included Sgaile (Tony Dunn) Traverse The Bealach, perhaps the most atmospheric albums of the year. Urge people to give it a listen and not be put off by the Gaelic name.
Top album of 2024 for me is Silhouettes by Giant Walker ( their second release ) ... Terrific band ! ... John Buckton who plays guitar for Back Street Crawler is a superb player .
My favorite 5 of 2024 5) Warren Haynes - Million Voices Whisper (A very well developed and cohesive group of songs. Warren is tilling in fertile soil on this one) 4) David Gilmour - Luck And Strange (David never disappoints. This man’s music is a gift…adding his daughter on vocals was a nice touch) 3) Black Country Communion (I think their most cohesive and mature outing - Fantastic) 2) =1 Deep Purple. (They still got it. Airy gets MVP on this one. The new guitarist is more than capable, the songs kick ass, but I miss the unique personality that Steve’s playing brought to Purple) 1) Invincible Shield. (Sweet Jesus what a masterpiece! Richie Faulkner is the “Warren Haynes” of Judas Priest - if ya know, ya know. Faulkner know’s the secret sauce of the Priest guitar machine and has the creative smarts to inject it into his songwriting - that’s not easy) A couple of new discoveries in 2024 1) Nektar - Remember the future. (Never heard of these cats before but this is an amazing album) 2) Ian Anderson - The Secret Language of Birds. (Didn’t even realize this guy has a solo career. This is a really nice album) Favorite Now Spinning Magazine podcast of 2024: I really enjoyed your insight into the 2024 re-release of UFO’s “Obsession” album. They way you talked about the bonus live CD was very thoughtful. Your excitement at this release was evident. Happy 2025!
My number one this year is Iotunn - Kinship. People with a taste like Phil should check it out. I'm suprised it doesn't show up on many top lists this year, it's really good.
@NowSpinningMagazine They're a Danish band with a singer from Faroer who also sings in a band called Hamferd. Their style is basically Melodic Death metal but with a significant focus on the epic, melodic singing that will remind you of US metal bands from the 80s. They're a bit more timeless though without being modern - and their songwriting is brilliant.
01. nile - the underworld awaits us 02. charles lloyd - the sky will still be tomorrow 03. kendrick lamar - gnx 04. opeth - the last will and testament 05. rjd2 - visions out of limelight 06. deep purple - =1 07. judas priest - invincible shield 08. kanonenfieber - die urkatastrophe 09. jon anderson - true 10. floating points - cascade
My Top 10 2024 releases: 1 - As I Lay Dying - Through Storms Ahead 2 - Demon Head - Through Holes Shine The Stars 3 - Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project 4 - Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 5 - Lucifer - Lucifer V 6 - Magick Potion - Magick Potion 7 - Magic Hour Blues - Studio Live Session 8 - Satan - Songs in Crimson 9 - Like Moths To Flames - The Cycles of Trying to Cope 10 - Blues Pills - Birthday
Great show and work on the channel this year. Cats in Space, everything they do is magic. Spot on during discussion. Here was my top 35: 1 Whom Gods Destroy Insanium 2 Judas Priest Invincible Shield 3 MEER Wheels Within Wheels 4 Black Country Communion V 5 Warren Haynes Million Voices Whisper 6 Jack White No Name 7 Heavy Temple Garden of Heathens 8 Bruce Dickinson The Mandrake Project 9 Deep Purple =1 10 Pearl Jam Dark Matter 11 Jerry Cantrell I Want Blood 12 Black Crowes Happiness Bastards 13 Robert Jon and the Wreck Red Moon Rising 14 Saxon Hell, Fire and Damnation 15 Lucifer Lucifer V 16 Hannah Wicklund The Prize 17 Weather Systems Ocean Without A Shore 18 Vanden Plas The Empyrean Equation of Long Lost Things 19 Monkey3 Welcome to the Machine 20 Danielle Nicole The Love You Bleed 21 Qilin Parasomnia 22 Tarot Glimpse of the Dawn 23 Slash Orgy of the Damned 24 Fu Manchu The Return of Tomorrow 25 Crypt Sermon The Stygian Rose 26 Stygian Crown Funeral For A King 27 Bobbie Dazzle Fandabidozi 28 Meatbodies Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom 29 David Gilmour Luck and Strange 30 Blackberry Smoke Be Right Here 31 Nektar Mission to Mars 32 Hail Darkness Death Divine 33 The Cold Stares The Southern 34 Magnum Here Comes the Rain 35 Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown Electrified
Alright Mate , These Year End Reviews are always divisive imho. There are lot of Albums I would have selected but it's your choice. However I will have to say the following , Black Country Communion was my No1 by a Country Mile. I love UFO but Phil Moggs voice went years ago , it does not even sound like him anymore, he sounds like a bear with a bloody thorn stuck in its foot and finally Cats In Space ? I do not get them sorry. Have a great xmas and I wish you and Yours a Happy and Peaceful New Year.
2024 was again another year full of outstanding new releases. I bought over 70 new albums this year, most of them as CDs, some as digital downloads. Here is my top 50 followed by some honourable mentions: 1. The Tangent - To Follow Polaris 2. Frost* - Life in the Wires 3. Lost World Band - A Moment of Peace 4. Ovrfwrd - There are no Ordinary Moments 5. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 6. The Omnific The Law of Augmenting Returns 7. The Aristocrats - Duck 8. Trifecta - The New Normal 9. Semiramis - La fine non esiste 10. SiX BY SiX - Beyond Shadowland 11. Plantoid - Terrapath 12. The Twenty Committee - The Cycle Undone 13. Opeth - The Last Will and Testament 14. Neal Morse & the Resonance - No Hill for a Climber 15. Exocrine - Legend 16. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 17. IZZ - Collapse the Wave 18. Geordie Greep - The New Sound 19. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of the Last Human Being 20. Dog Unit - At Home 21. Kosmodome - Ad Undas 22. Amarok - Hope 23. Weather Systems - Ocean Without a Shore 24. Alex Carpani - The Good Man 25. Azure - Fym 26. Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace 27. Emerald City Council - Motion Carries 28. Beardfish - Songs For Beating Hearts 29. A Burial at Sea - Close To Home 30. Kyros - Mannequin 31. Ellesmere - Stranger Skies 32. The Smile - Wall of Eyes 33. OU - II: Frailty 34. Chris Joss - Classic Lineup 35. Legacy Pilots - Thru the Lens 36. Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks - True 37. Big Big Train - The Likes of Us 38. Tears for Fears - Songs for a Nervous Planet 39. Ritual - The Story of Mr. Bogd, part 1 40. Coogans Bluff - Balada 41. WIZRD - Elements 42. Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius - Impostor! 43. Sykofant - Sykofant 44. Pure Reason Revolution - Coming Up To Consciousness 45. Rosalie Cunningham - To Shoot Another Day 46. Aquaserge - Je suis Galaxie 47. Tony Levin - Bringing It Down to the Bass 48. Meer - Wheels Within Wheels 49. Yard Act - Where’s My Utopia? 50. Viima - Väistyy mielen yö Honourable mentions: Tim Bowness - Powder Dry Days Between Stations - Perpetual Motion Machines (Music for a film) The Bardic Depths - What We Really Like in Stories The Smile - Cutouts Monkey3 - Welcome to the Machine Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation Electric Orange - ada Lost World Band - The Dawn Ivory Tower - Heavy Rain Neal Morse - The Restoration - Joseph, Pt. Two Salomea - Good Life - Sweet Full Circle Steve Hackett - The Circus and the Nightwhale Kaipa - Sommargryningsljus Michael Schenker - My Years with UFO: 50th Anniversary Celebration 1972-1978 The Samurai of Prog featuring Marco Grieco - A Quiet Town Jordan Rudess - Permission To Fly Drifting Sun - Veil CATS in SPACE - Time Machine Wheel - Charismatic Leaders VOLA - Friend of a Phantom
Here’s my top albums list # 32 suicide angels- profane prayer #31 sidewinder- talons #30 rev theory- salvation nowhere #29 10 years- inner darkness #28 Devilskin- surfacing EP #27 Cassandra’s crossing- garden of earthly delight #26 stone horses- redemption chronicles #25 the warning- keep me fed # 24 the gems - phoenix # 23 return to dust- S/T #22 amberdown- shattered and bagged #21 Texas hippie coalition- gunsmoke #20 mick mars- the other side of mars #19 lift the curse- overtake #18 black smoke trigger- horizons #17 smash atoms- S/T #16 flat black- dark side of the brain #15 April art- rodeo #14 dust bolt- sound and fury # 13 beasto blanco- kinetica #12 Florence black- bed of nails #11 shallow side- reflections #10 cold stares- the southern #9 hearts and hand grenades- where I begin #8 tim Montana- savages #7 amongst liars- of design #6 Scott stapp- higher power #5 Marilyn Manson- one assassination #4 a killers confession- victim 1 #3 dead posey- are you in a cult #2 blooming discord- memories from the future #1 Budderside- white flame
I agree with you 💯% Judas Priest Invincible Shield and Moggs Motel are simply masterpieces. I disagree with you, on the Cats in space music. Check out the album by Whitecross "Fear no evil"
Happy Christmas Phil . U must be running out of storage small with all the records and cds . A few albums i will check out on your list . I do not consider death metal music its satanic in nature u ever think that those that growl are possessed or channeling the devil stay well away i defo would myself and i listen to lots of music .
Wait a second, Cats in Space and Moggs Motel above Priest and yet you have Invincible Shield as your number 1 Priest album of all time? Does this mean Cats in Space are better than Priest?? And a Phil Mogg side project is better than every single Priest album? I can't see that at all!
Prog rock should drop the prog, it's a style now, lost it's meaning and anything but progressive. It's stuck in 1977. Prog rock as Progressive rock is now dead. It's just repeating itself, such a shame. Personally, I can't be doing with the shit these bands are turning out. King Crimson is dead, sadly so is Prog rock. I repeat, nothing here is truly progressive, absolutely nothing.
Hi Stuart, merry Christmas 🎅 you raise a good point. A bit like the phrase ‘classic rock’ perhaps we need to just label things as rock music again. What is PROG is a subject for a future video but now it can mean anything that extends over 5 mins and deviates from 4/4 - Phil
I didn't like at all the new Judas Priest album. I couldn't connect, i couldn't listen to it. It didn't do anything for me, i believe it's quite boring and flat, not a damn click. I really don't know how this happened and i am a big fan of Judas Priest, and for me it's really strange. I was not attracted at all since the release, even now, I don't have feelings about it. I don't understand why this album was so wowwwww from many people. I really don't... Wasn't impressed, but really disappointed.
The thing is that is the mystery of music and why it affects us all so differently! Your frank and honest comment is just as valid as me saying it’s the best thing they have done! Phil :)
I really don't know Phil, i feel that the drums sound horrible like a drum machine to my ears, not organic at all, the riffs sound to me just meaningless and don't speak to me, the songs are not catchy, no atmosphere, just fast tempo songs, band plays like a damn new europower band something that i dislike a lot as a sound, no epic JP mid tempo songs and the whole album doesn't feel Judas Priest to me. Even if i am 70s lover sound with albums like Rocka Rolla, Sad Wings, Sin After Sin, Stained Class era albums etc, which is definitely my favourite period, speaking of their last five albums, after the reunion, I really love Angel of Retribution and especially Nostradamus (one of my faves and it's a hugely underestimated album by my opinion), i really liked Redeemer of Souls & Firepower, but this... god i wish it never happened. I think Shield is horrible and I'm not joking... I can't connect with it.
Amazing 🤩 I bought Sad Wings in 76 and saw the band on the Sin After Sin tour, one of my favourite albums by the band. I also agree that Nostradamus is a total classic, a masterpiece hiding in plain sight even. However, Invincible Shield just ticks every box for me. It’s a personal thing but I love it :)
My number one Jon Anderson: True
Great list Phil. Here’s my top ten…
1. Moggs Motel - S/T
2.Voodoo Circle - Hail to the King
3.judas priest-invincible shield
4. The black crowes - happiness bastards
5. Fans of the dark - video
6. Black Country communion - v
7. Bruce Dickinson - the mandrake project
8. Gotus - S/T
9. Deep purple - =1
10. Stryper- when we were kings
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Another superb video from your good self.I have recently had major surgery successful but long recovery afterwards,and your love of music has really helped and connected with me the last few weeks .I wish you a Happy Christmas and a wonderful 2025.❤
Hi Michael, thank you. I hope you continue to heal and you have a wonderful Christmas. Take care - Phil
Great list, totally agree on your Nr.1 what an album by the Cats. A lot of bands I need to listen to. Thanks for a great video, again.
2024 has been a cracking year for prog. Thijs is as full of energy now as he was in yhe 1970's and great to talk to. List to follow, Merry Christmas, Phil
Thank you
What an amazing list! Again, Phil, thanks for turning me on to Cats in Space. Your summary of their music hits the spot. I absolutely get a positive charge every time I hear their records. Thoughtful list. Powerful list! Thank you, sir. Cheers!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video as always Phil. Here are my favourites from this year and maybe not to everyone's taste.
Happiness Bastards - The Black Crowes
No Name - Jack White
Luck and Strange - David Gilmour
One Hand Clapping - Wings
Wardour Street - Quireboys
Lighthouse - Duff McKagan
Forever - Bon Jovi
Full Circle - Sweet
Orgy of the Damned - Slash
True - Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks
Dark Matter - Pearl Jam
V - Black Country Communion
=1 - Deep Purple
Sendelica are one of my favourite bands and this new album is mesmerising
Thanks Phil: great choices and introduces me to some different bands or reminds me to tap into some new releases by bands on my listening back burner.
Thank you - Phil
As soon as you mentioned Bon Jovi I knew this would be a list worth checking out. Most people have written them off. Choosing them in your top albums of 2024 demonstrates your neutrality and objectivism. Nice one Phil
Thank you - Phil
Hi Phil. What an absolutely cool video and highlights of 2024. Some of my favorites were on here as well. Keep doing what you do. Happy 2025. 🤘😎⭐🎶
That Blood Incantation album is fascinating, because they blend everything so seamlessly and somehow it all works. It's as if the devil was screaming from inside of Mount Vesuvius when Pink Floyd played Pompeii. I've been reluctant to give that Bon Jovi album a shot, but you convinced me to check it out.
Wow, another huge eclectic mix, to go with the box set review Phil. Hats off to you - you must be working 24/7 to digest a mountain of music. My top albums of 2024:
1. Opeth LW&T
2. Beardfish SFBH
3. Neal Morse - No Hill for a Climber
4. Jon Anderson - Band Geeks
5. Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace
6. Delving (Nicholas DeSalvo) All Paths Diverge.
7) Mogg's Motel.
8) Nektar - Mission to Mars.
A box sets I forgot to add to your adjacent video:
Nektar - Recycled.
Keep spinning Happy New Year.
Martin
Thanks to your list I will discover some bands. This year I first listened to the Canadian band Mistery and I loved it. So back in prog but I also love metal and hard rock. Priest and Phill Mogg are excellent. My album of the year Witherfall Sounds of the Forgotten.
Thankyou Phil & Now Spinning, Cats in Space! We’d love to gig with you guys! Sign us up!
Great to hear your top 35 albums of 2024 and hearing what you like about
them and how you have them ranked from 35 to 1. have a great Christmas
and Thank You again Phil.🎶🎶📻🎶🎶
Thank you
Thanks for the Cats in Space Recs. New to Me. Listening to Time Machine now and it’s right up my alley. Certainly a theatrical element (which might put some off), but keeps the right side of the line. Will certainly check out their live album and some of their back catalogue.
Found you from Sea of Tranquility…just subbed.
Thank you 🙏
Great top 35 Phil, I think I'll have many crossovers in my end of year chart, no surprise that CIS are there and to see Big Big Train and The Tangent among the top albums is great, Moggs Motel is a bit special and I've just got the Sweet album today so keep Rocking!
A great list, Phil. I need to hear many of these albums. So much music, so little time! Here is my top five for 2024:
1. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
2. Deep Purple - +1
3. Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation
4. Moggs Motel- Moggs Motel
5. Nocturnus A.D. - Unicursal
Take care!
Thank you for sharing - great choices
Priest are unbelievable. Still amazing after 50 years!
Great session Phil, some surprises for me to enjoy 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Great list, Phil! Merry Christmas to you, and your family!
My top 10
1. V - Black Country Communion
2. =1 - Deep Purple
3. Happiness Bastards - The Black Crowes
4. Invincible Shield - Judas Priest
5. When We Were Kings - Stryper
6. True - Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks
7. Lucifer V
8. Luck and Strange - David Gilmour
9. The Art Of Letting Go - Myles Kennedy
10. Light Em Up - The Dead Daisies
Thank you for sharing
Hi Phil! Your research and taste in music is invaluable. Merry Christmas to you and thank you for sharing your list with us. ❤
Thank you 🙏 wishing you a fabulous 2025
Love your review, I saw Cats in Space totally based on your recommendation/reviews at Islington,it was a 'cracking gig Gromit! ' I also Highly recommend the album as well, I will be going to see them again.
A request - can you do a review of Lone Star vastly underrated band or Paul 'Tonka' Chapman's work please, thank you
Yes 👍
Enjoyed it, should have done a review of the reissue albums of 2024
Phil, as ever a great list and my bank balance suffers again as I add a few more I missed during the year! Best wishes to you and Sue, compliments of the season to you both. Kind regards
Hi Julian, thank you 🙏 all the best and Merry Christmas- Phil
...and the last two categories Rock & the grand daddy for this year Prog. Since there were SO many good albums of each type I applied some stricter rules around these two...
Rock:
Autumn's Child/Tellus Timeline
Band Of The Underhand/A Cheap Ride To Heaven
Bill Nelson/Powertron
Black Country Communion/V
Cactus/Temple Of Blues - Influences And Friends
Cats In Space/Fire In The Night & Time Machine
Cody Dickinson/Homemade
The Cold Stares/The Southern
The Commoners/Restless
Goodbye June/Deep In The Trouble
Grand Slam/Hit The Ground-Revisited
Ian Moss/Live At The Enmore
Lonerider/Down In The Dust
Mojo Thunder/The Infinite Hope
Moonstone Project/New Life
Mr Big/Ten
Nestor/Teenage Rebel
Owen Stewart/Done And Dusted
Phil Mogg/Moggs Hotel
The Prisoners/Morning Star
Revolution Saints/Against The Winds
Richie Kotzen/Nomad
Robert Jon & The Wreck/Red Moon Rising
Scarlet Bandit/Lose Your Blues
Silveroller/At Dawn
Umphrey's McGee/Hall Of Fame: Class Of 2022
Warren Haynes/Million Voices Whisper
Prog:
Actionfredag/Lys Fremtid I Mørke & Turist I Eget Liv (even just for the instrumentals)
Anthony Phillips/Private Parts & Pieces XII: The Golden Hour
Argos/Halfway Between Heaven And Mirth
The Aristocrats/Duck
Big Big Train/A Flare On The Lens (Live) & The Likes Of Us
Cosmograf/Live At The 1865 (The Official Bootleg)
Darwin/Five Steps On The Sun
Ellesmere/Stranger Skies
Frost*/Life In The Wires
Hasse Froberg & Musical Companion/Eternal Snapshots
Herin/Hiding In Plain Sight
Izz/Collapse The Wave
Jadis/More Question Than Answers
Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius/Impostor!
Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks/True
Kaipa/Sommargryningsljus
Karfagen/Messages From Afar: Second Nature
Kite Parade/Disparity
Legacy Pilots/Thru The Lens
The Madrigal Project/11th Hour
Man Doki Soulmates/A Memory Of Our Future
Meer/Wheels Within Wheels
Motorpsycho/Neigh
Neal Morse/Late Bloomer, The Restoration - Joseph Pt. 2 & No Hill For A Climber
The Pineapple Thief/It Leads To This & Last To Run
Royal Time Machine - s/t
Six By Six/Beyond Shadowland
Steve Hackett/The Circus And The Nightwhale
The Tangent/To Follow Polaris
Tony Patterson & Doug Melbourne/We've Been Expecting You...
Transatlantic/Live At Morsefest 2022: The Absolute Whirlwind - Night 1
Weite/Oase
Wizrd/Elements
Totally amazing - thank you for taking the time to compile this - Phil
Brilliant Phil - I'd have had '=1' at number one just because Deep Purple new releases don't happen that often and Magnum's 'Here Comes The Rain' at number two because it's the usual brilliant stuff we have come to expect from these guys and the last with the majestic Tony Clarkin - God rest you Tony.
Great video, Phil. Merry Xmas and UTFV!
Thanks, you too!
Phil, thank you so much for the list!
Thank you
CiS - tremendous album and a worthy No.1. Great list, Phil!
Thank you
Glass of port Phil cheers 🍷
Thank you Phil. A most enlightening annual review and so comprehensive.
A fasinating seletion Phil and I can understand why your top 35/36 could be so fluid.
Thank you 🙏 Merry Christmas
Wishing you and your family, Merry Christmas 🎄🎄🎄🎁🎁🎁
Same to you! Thank you for all of your support- Phil
Great selection, thank you very much
Thanks for listening
So informative and with love presenting music...Phil try to listen, if you have time, a progressive death metal band from Italy (just amazing music mixing all styles that we love): Bedsore - album "Dreaming for the strife of love"...They may sneak into your best albums in 2024...For me this one and Blood Incantation
I'm probably forgetting a couple, but a number of my favorites. I have to check out some of the albums you mention, Phil. Thanks!
Invincible Shield - Judas Priest
Supercharged - The Offspring
10,000 Volts - Ace Frehley
Happiness Bastards - The Black Crowes
Change the Game - Cody Jinks
The Hill - Aaron Lewis
When We Were Kings - Stryper
=1 - Deep Purple
The Mandrake Project - Bruce Dickinson
Full Tilt Overdrive - House of Lords
Great list Phil - a few more added to my ever increasing backlog in 2025 😂
There are still a lot I missed myself!
Your channel is one of the best out there. Thanks for the positivity all year round.
My top albums
1. David Gilmour - Luck and strange
2. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
3. Big Big Train - The likes of us
4. Jon Anderson - True
5. Jupiter Fungus - Garden Electric
6. Blood Incantation- Absolutely elsewhere
7. Deep Purple - =1
8. Steve Hackett - The circus and the nightwhale
9. Evergrey - Theories of emptiness
10. Frost* - Life in the wires
11. Neal Morse - No hill for a climber
12. Stuckfish - IV
13. Acid Rooster - Hall of mirrors
14. The Tangent - To follow Polaris
15. Weather Systems - Oceans without a shore
16. Magnum- Here comes the rain
17. Elephant9 - The mythical river
18. Beardfish - Songs for beating hearts
19. The Samurai of Prog - Time machine
20. Innerwish - Ash of eternal flame
21. DGM - Endless
22. Pineapple Thief - It leads to this
23. Lee Abraham- Origin of the storm
24. Walter Trout - Broken
25. Blac Country communion - V
26. Barock Project - Time Voyager
27. Kite Parade - Disparity
28. FM - Old habits die hard
29. Viima- Vaisty Mielen Yo
30. Opeth - The last will and testament
31. Von Hertzen brothers - Inmurmuration
32. Leprous - Melodies of atonement
33. Moggs Motel - S/T
34. Walter Trout - Broken
35. Emerald City Council - Motion carries
WOW - what a fabulous list ! Thank you for your kind words and support. Merry Christmas - Phil
Walter Trout on there twice
Thank you for Cats in Space Phil
Phil thanks for your top 35 albums this year. I was able to find all but one on Qobuz so I have a lot of new music on my new favorites list. Cats in Space will be first for my new listening. Looking forward to your box set/reissues list. I just got my Tull Fresh Snow at Christmas box set, just in time for Christmas, so I’ve got my holiday music. Hopefully it will make your list. The 1st CD is the original album and the mastering is great as with all the Tull sets. On to disc 2 with the new mix. Merry Christmas 🎄
Great video Phil.
Thank you 🙏
I can't quite rank 'em (in order), so I'll just spit out a list of my fave new 2024 albums (no archival stuff), by genre. This was clearly the year of prog rock so I'll split that one & the 'Rock' category out separately. Be interesting to see how many also end up on Phil's list:
Acoustic:
Julian Lage/Speak To Me
Mike Dawes/Galactic Acid
Orobelo/The Chateau
ALT:
Eels/Eels Time
Eve 6/Dream Fist
Field Music/Limits Of Language
Fleet Foxes/Live On Boston Harbor
Goose/Live At The Capitol Theatre & The Red Tapes
Hippo Campus/Flood
Hockey Dad/Rebuild Repeat
Jimmy Montague/ Tomorrow's Coffee
Jxdn/When The Music Stops
Lake Street Dive/Good Together
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats/South Of Here
AOR:
Counterline/Two
FM/Old Habits Die Hard
Honeymoon Suite/Alive
Palace/Reckless Heart
Remedy/Pleasure Beats The Pain
Steve Plunkett/Straight Up
Winding Road/Fill My Sails
Blues/Blues rock:
Bywater Call/Shepherd
Chris Bergson Band/Comforts Of Home
Colin James/Chasing The Sun
Connolly Hayes/Remember Me
Eric Clapton/Meanwhile
Erwin Java & Sean Webster/Java Webster
Joanne Shaw Taylor/Heavy Soul
Jon Amor Trio/The Turnaround
Little Albert/The Road Not Taken
Philip Sayce/The Wolves Are Coming
Quinn Sullivan/Salvation
Ronnie Baker Brooks/Blues In My DNA
Slash/Orgy Of The Damned
Snowy White/Unfinished Business
Taj Farrant/Chapter One
Walter Trout/Broken
Country/Folk rock:
Ferris & Sylvester/Otherness
Widespread Panic/Hailbound Queen
Funk:
Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge/Wine On Venus
Fusion:
Antoine Fafard & Gavin Harrison/Perpetual Mutations
Aurora Clara/IV
Benjamin Croft/We Are Here To Help
Chester Thompson/Wake-Up Call
Daniel Weiss/The Vortex
Evgeny Pobozhiy Orchestra/Stream
Guadalquivir/Ole Corea
Jane Getter Premonition/Division World
Mark Lettieri/Can I Tell You Something
Mike Stern/Echoes And Other Songs
Nataraja/Spirit At Play
Silibrina/Sonambulando
Tony Levin/Bringing It Down To The Bass
Trifecta/The New Normal
Glam:
Billy Tibbals/Nightlife Stories
Instrumental rock:
Andy Wood/Charisma
Jeff Kollman/2023 A.D.
Marty Friedman/Drama
Nick Johnston/Child Of Bliss
Pop/Power pop:
Brent Seavers/Exhibit 8
Classic Traffic/Turn It Up
The Cyrkle/Revival
The Half-Cubes/Pop Treasures
Liquid Mike/Paul Bunyan's Slingshot
Lunchbox/Pop And Circumstance
The Mads/Time By Time
The Reflectors/Going Out Of Fashion
Ryan Allen & His Extra Arms/Radar
Shed Seven/A Matter Of Time
Sparkle*Jets U.K./Box Of Letters
The Toms/Rock Paper Scissors
Wesley Fuller/All Fuller No Filler
Psyche:
Howlin Rain/Lost At Sea: Rarities, Outtakes And Other Tales From The Deep
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard/Flight B741
Magick Brother & Mystic Sister/Tarot Pt 1
Nolan Potter/The Perils Of Being Trapped Inside A Head
Phish/Evolve
Rosalie Cunningham/To Shoot Another Day
Punk:
Gentlemen Rogues/Surface Noise
Green Day/Saviors
R&B:
The Dip/ Love Direction
Southern Rock:
The Georgia Thunderbolts/Rise Above It All
Sam Morrow/Medicine Man
Well Wolf, that is amazing! Totally ...thank you for sharing. Lots for me to explore there
I vote for TRUE by Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks...still hoping for a review Phil! A Happy Christmas to you 👉🙂
Hi Trevor, that album has been on my radar for ages but for whatever reason I have not been able to get a reasonably priced copy. I’m sure it will eventually be featured here !
Hi Phil, 2024 has been another great year for new music. It was great seeing you on The Review crew again too. Here is my Top 20
1 Deep Purple = 1
2 The Cure Songs of A Lost World
3 Pearl Jam Dark Matter
4 David Gilmour Luck & Strange
5 Moggs Motel Moggs Motel
6 The Warning You Keep Me Fed
7 The Last Dinner Party Prelude to Ecstasy
8 Waxahatchee Tigers Blood
9 Mark Knopfler One Deep River
10 Blackberry Smoke Be Right Here
11 Slash Orgy of The Damned
12 Joanne Shaw Taylor Heavy Soul
13 Judas Priest Invincible Shield
14 Saxon Hell Fire & Damnation
15 Lucifer Lucifer V
16 Son Of Man Gaslight
17 DarWin Five Steps on The Sun
18 Jon Anders & The Band Geeks TRUE
19 Sweet Full Circle
20 Cats In Space Time Machine
Fantastic choices and selections
Hi Phil. Thanks for all your videos of 2024, they have been a blessing and an inspiration many times. A great top 35, (36) list and I can honestly say not a dud among them.
My top 5 would be; David Gilmour, Luck and Strange. Steve Hackett, The Circus and the Nightwhale. Ebony Buckle, Hearts Get Started. Eivør, Enn. Big Big Train, The Likes of Us. These can fluctuate on any given day and are the albums I keep going back to.
Happy Christmas and a good New Year to you and yours. Rob
Thank you for sharing your choices - Merry Christmas - Phil
My top 4 favourites this year
1 Epic Narratives - Band Maid
2 Evolve - Nemophila
3 Luck And Strange - David Gilmour
4 Keep Me Fed - The Warning
Fellow Maidiac says YES!
Wire magazine did a great review of the Blood Incantion album. On my wants list.
My favourite album this year was Darkfighter by Rival Sons, an unbelievable vocalist in Jay Buchanan
Superb list, Phil. Without wishing to replicate, here are my top albums this year:
Geordie Greep - The New Sound
The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World
Field Music - Limits Of Language
Kiran Leonard - Real Home
Julia Holter - Something In The Room She Moves
A Certain Ratio - It All Comes Down To This
Elephant9 with Terje Rypdal - Catching Fire
Weite - Oase
Brilliant - thank you for sharing
@@NowSpinningMagazine Hopefully you'll find something of interest in there :)
lol your 34 and 35 are both in my top 5. Wheel may very well be my number 1 but I am still undecided between that album and Invincible Shield.
These lists are very fluid and comments from others do make me go back and listen again. I’m going to play Wheel again tomorrow. Phil
Prog , Prog and even more Prog.
55 years of Prog for me!
Beardfish.... great!
Wow...lots of bands that I've never heard of ? I agree with your comments about the fantastic Opeth album. I always thought that there was a very humorous side to the "monster" vocals, it does add a percussive musical element to the riffing. Some of my favorite tracks have the combination of clean and monster vocals. I am surprised that you did not include Bruce Dickenson's latest one, and Kerry King's album is a great continuation of the Slayer -type sound. I will have to check out the Blood Incantation disc...sounds interesting ?? Cheers
Hi Stan, there are lots I could have included! Thank you for the suggestions
Hello Phil! I'm a fairly recent subscriber to your channel. I think I came onboard via your review of the latest Tangent album, which I think is amazing, and made my list of favourite releases of 2024. What an amazing musician that fellow is! Anyway, I watched the latest Review Crew video last night, where you all picked your favourite records of the past year, and I picked out a few that I was unaware of, but sound interesting, so I will be checking those out. That is my main reason for watching many of these types of videos.
Now, unlike most of you on SoT and other TH-cam channels, I do not enjoy ranking records. I know it's something people like to see, but to me it's like comparing apples and oranges, and music is so subjective to start with, that most times I think it is unfair, so it is something I refuse to do on my own channel. So, in no particular order, here are my favourite albums of 2024 - Black Crowes - "Happiness Bastards," Jesse Malin - "Chasing The Light," Weather Systems - "Ocean Without A Shore," Evan Rotella - "Last Train Home" (Local young up-and-coming singer-songwriter), Jon Anderson - "True," David Gilmour - "Luck and Strange," Black Country Communion - "V," Judas Priest - "Invincible Shield," Grand Slam - "Wheel Of Fortune," Deep Purple - "= 1," Taylor Swift - "The Tortured Poet's Department," The Tangent - "To Follow Polaris," Adult Cinema - "365," Collective Soul - "Here To Eternity."
The albums you guys mentioned that I would like to check out are Mogg's Motel, Cemetery Skyline, Big Big Train, and Camera Obscura.
Thank you for sharing - some great choices and some new stuff for me to check out as well - merry Christmas 🤶
If anyone is into alternative rock, I think Scream from New York by the band Been Stellar is one of the best of the year.
Hi Phil - nice list there. Personally I would do a top 20 - yes it means leaving more out, but then it always does no matter what number you choose lol. I have a couple of Cats in Space CD's - but way out here in Australia, I dont think they are that well known - which is a shame. Hopefully them moving to a big name label will push them into the mainstream, and greater success. Cheers Doug
Kiwi here. Just heard of Cats in Space, man they are good. Always the last to know.
Been going through these lists and giving these bands a listen, lots of good stuff except for the bands that growl. Cats are the most accessable for me. Saying that, Caligulas Horse would be in my top 5 albums of the year.
Just finished watching this video. I do not have a top any number (I have found, so far, almost 200 CDs I have liked from 2024). There are 7 of them were in your top 35. Tey include Caligula's Horse, Wheel, Pure Reason Revolution, Frost, Ian Hunter, Deep Purple and Judas Priest. I also like the new one by Jon Anderson. I will be checking out some of the one I haven't heard from your list so far.
Yesterwynde by Nightwish, Time II by Wintersun, One of the Many by Rick Miller, Invincible Shield by Judas Priest, =1 Deep Purple.
Look forward to your interview with Terry Slesser, the Back Street Crawler band have played my
local venue, Backstage at Kinross on a few occasions and would urge people to go and see
them, great night. I am old enough to remember Kossoff and anyone who appreciated him will
not be disappointed. Now being a Scot I simple don’t know why this venue if omitted from the
tour guide both for future and past gigs, on the Slesser site, strange. Now can I just
say that I noticed @Rhymesignatures, in his excellent choice of albums for 2024 included
Sgaile (Tony Dunn) Traverse The Bealach, perhaps the most atmospheric albums of the
year. Urge people to give it a listen and not be put off by the Gaelic name.
Kalandra's new album A frame of mind is a clear top ten IMO.
Norwegian Folk Prog.
The track( I am )got the number one video for 2024🤘😊
Top album of 2024 for me is Silhouettes by Giant Walker ( their second release ) ... Terrific band ! ... John Buckton who plays guitar for Back Street Crawler is a superb player .
Hi Kevin, thank you for the suggestion
@@NowSpinningMagazine No worries Phil ! .. They have TH-cam channel / Bandcamp / website etc ... Hope you enjoy !
I’ve now got a list of at least half a dozen albums (probably more), which I never got around to during 2024.
I might be busy for a while……
My go-to when I need a lift is the second half of Day a trip to Narnia
Love UFO , but just can' t get into Mogg's Motel. 😢 I have been trying and trying, but to no avail ....
My favorite 5 of 2024
5) Warren Haynes - Million Voices Whisper (A very well developed and cohesive group of songs. Warren is tilling in fertile soil on this one)
4) David Gilmour - Luck And Strange (David never disappoints. This man’s music is a gift…adding his daughter on vocals was a nice touch)
3) Black Country Communion (I think their most cohesive and mature outing - Fantastic)
2) =1 Deep Purple. (They still got it. Airy gets MVP on this one. The new guitarist is more than capable, the songs kick ass, but I miss the unique personality that Steve’s playing brought to Purple)
1) Invincible Shield. (Sweet Jesus what a masterpiece! Richie Faulkner is the “Warren Haynes” of Judas Priest - if ya know, ya know. Faulkner know’s the secret sauce of the Priest guitar machine and has the creative smarts to inject it into his songwriting - that’s not easy)
A couple of new discoveries in 2024
1) Nektar - Remember the future. (Never heard of these cats before but this is an amazing album)
2) Ian Anderson - The Secret Language of Birds. (Didn’t even realize this guy has a solo career. This is a really nice album)
Favorite Now Spinning Magazine podcast of 2024:
I really enjoyed your insight into the 2024 re-release of UFO’s “Obsession” album. They way you talked about the bonus live CD was very thoughtful. Your excitement at this release was evident.
Happy 2025!
My number one this year is Iotunn - Kinship. People with a taste like Phil should check it out. I'm suprised it doesn't show up on many top lists this year, it's really good.
Hi, it is not a band I am aware of. I will have to check them out - Phil
@NowSpinningMagazine They're a Danish band with a singer from Faroer who also sings in a band called Hamferd. Their style is basically Melodic Death metal but with a significant focus on the epic, melodic singing that will remind you of US metal bands from the 80s. They're a bit more timeless though without being modern - and their songwriting is brilliant.
My album of the year is Massive Wagons - Earth to Grace
Dave Gilmour , priest and massive wagons my top 3
I need to listen to Massive Wagons more ! Thank you
01. nile - the underworld awaits us
02. charles lloyd - the sky will still be tomorrow
03. kendrick lamar - gnx
04. opeth - the last will and testament
05. rjd2 - visions out of limelight
06. deep purple - =1
07. judas priest - invincible shield
08. kanonenfieber - die urkatastrophe
09. jon anderson - true
10. floating points - cascade
My Top 10 2024 releases:
1 - As I Lay Dying - Through Storms Ahead
2 - Demon Head - Through Holes Shine The Stars
3 - Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project
4 - Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
5 - Lucifer - Lucifer V
6 - Magick Potion - Magick Potion
7 - Magic Hour Blues - Studio Live Session
8 - Satan - Songs in Crimson
9 - Like Moths To Flames - The Cycles of Trying to Cope
10 - Blues Pills - Birthday
Great choices - thank you
I'm suprised Saxon is not in the top ten a fantastic album
Great show and work on the channel this year.
Cats in Space, everything they do is magic. Spot on during discussion.
Here was my top 35:
1 Whom Gods Destroy Insanium
2 Judas Priest Invincible Shield
3 MEER Wheels Within Wheels
4 Black Country Communion V
5 Warren Haynes Million Voices Whisper
6 Jack White No Name
7 Heavy Temple Garden of Heathens
8 Bruce Dickinson The Mandrake Project
9 Deep Purple =1
10 Pearl Jam Dark Matter
11 Jerry Cantrell I Want Blood
12 Black Crowes Happiness Bastards
13 Robert Jon and the Wreck Red Moon Rising
14 Saxon Hell, Fire and Damnation
15 Lucifer Lucifer V
16 Hannah Wicklund The Prize
17 Weather Systems Ocean Without A Shore
18 Vanden Plas The Empyrean Equation of Long Lost Things
19 Monkey3 Welcome to the Machine
20 Danielle Nicole The Love You Bleed
21 Qilin Parasomnia
22 Tarot Glimpse of the Dawn
23 Slash Orgy of the Damned
24 Fu Manchu The Return of Tomorrow
25 Crypt Sermon The Stygian Rose
26 Stygian Crown Funeral For A King
27 Bobbie Dazzle Fandabidozi
28 Meatbodies Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom
29 David Gilmour Luck and Strange
30 Blackberry Smoke Be Right Here
31 Nektar Mission to Mars
32 Hail Darkness Death Divine
33 The Cold Stares The Southern
34 Magnum Here Comes the Rain
35 Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown Electrified
Wow! amazing list and lots for me to check out
Alright Mate ,
These Year End Reviews are always divisive imho.
There are lot of Albums I would have selected but it's your choice. However I will have to say the following , Black Country Communion was my No1 by a Country Mile.
I love UFO but Phil Moggs voice went years ago , it does not even sound like him anymore, he sounds like a bear with a bloody thorn stuck in its foot and finally Cats In Space ? I do not get them sorry.
Have a great xmas and I wish you and Yours a Happy and Peaceful New Year.
Merry Christmas to you and yours. These sort of lists are always personal and very subjective. I respect your viewpoint - Phil
2024 was again another year full of outstanding new releases. I bought over 70 new albums this year, most of them as CDs, some as digital downloads.
Here is my top 50 followed by some honourable mentions:
1. The Tangent - To Follow Polaris
2. Frost* - Life in the Wires
3. Lost World Band - A Moment of Peace
4. Ovrfwrd - There are no Ordinary Moments
5. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
6. The Omnific The Law of Augmenting Returns
7. The Aristocrats - Duck
8. Trifecta - The New Normal
9. Semiramis - La fine non esiste
10. SiX BY SiX - Beyond Shadowland
11. Plantoid - Terrapath
12. The Twenty Committee - The Cycle Undone
13. Opeth - The Last Will and Testament
14. Neal Morse & the Resonance - No Hill for a Climber
15. Exocrine - Legend
16. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
17. IZZ - Collapse the Wave
18. Geordie Greep - The New Sound
19. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of the Last Human Being
20. Dog Unit - At Home
21. Kosmodome - Ad Undas
22. Amarok - Hope
23. Weather Systems - Ocean Without a Shore
24. Alex Carpani - The Good Man
25. Azure - Fym
26. Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace
27. Emerald City Council - Motion Carries
28. Beardfish - Songs For Beating Hearts
29. A Burial at Sea - Close To Home
30. Kyros - Mannequin
31. Ellesmere - Stranger Skies
32. The Smile - Wall of Eyes
33. OU - II: Frailty
34. Chris Joss - Classic Lineup
35. Legacy Pilots - Thru the Lens
36. Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks - True
37. Big Big Train - The Likes of Us
38. Tears for Fears - Songs for a Nervous Planet
39. Ritual - The Story of Mr. Bogd, part 1
40. Coogans Bluff - Balada
41. WIZRD - Elements
42. Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius - Impostor!
43. Sykofant - Sykofant
44. Pure Reason Revolution - Coming Up To Consciousness
45. Rosalie Cunningham - To Shoot Another Day
46. Aquaserge - Je suis Galaxie
47. Tony Levin - Bringing It Down to the Bass
48. Meer - Wheels Within Wheels
49. Yard Act - Where’s My Utopia?
50. Viima - Väistyy mielen yö
Honourable mentions:
Tim Bowness - Powder Dry
Days Between Stations - Perpetual Motion Machines (Music for a film)
The Bardic Depths - What We Really Like in Stories
The Smile - Cutouts
Monkey3 - Welcome to the Machine
Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation
Electric Orange - ada
Lost World Band - The Dawn
Ivory Tower - Heavy Rain
Neal Morse - The Restoration - Joseph, Pt. Two
Salomea - Good Life - Sweet Full Circle
Steve Hackett - The Circus and the Nightwhale
Kaipa - Sommargryningsljus
Michael Schenker - My Years with UFO: 50th Anniversary Celebration 1972-1978
The Samurai of Prog featuring Marco Grieco - A Quiet Town
Jordan Rudess - Permission To Fly
Drifting Sun - Veil
CATS in SPACE - Time Machine
Wheel - Charismatic Leaders
VOLA - Friend of a Phantom
Wow, another great list - thank you for sharing. 2024 was a bumper year
@@NowSpinningMagazine Thank you, Phil! I've learnt a lot of new music through your channel. You're right. 2024 really was a prog year.
Phil! Where can we buy the deccan traps album? Regards thor from sweden
Phil….come on where do i find this album deccan traps
Here’s my top albums list
# 32 suicide angels- profane prayer
#31 sidewinder- talons
#30 rev theory- salvation nowhere
#29 10 years- inner darkness
#28 Devilskin- surfacing EP
#27 Cassandra’s crossing- garden of earthly delight
#26 stone horses- redemption chronicles
#25 the warning- keep me fed
# 24 the gems - phoenix
# 23 return to dust- S/T
#22 amberdown- shattered and bagged
#21 Texas hippie coalition- gunsmoke
#20 mick mars- the other side of mars
#19 lift the curse- overtake
#18 black smoke trigger- horizons
#17 smash atoms- S/T
#16 flat black- dark side of the brain
#15 April art- rodeo
#14 dust bolt- sound and fury
# 13 beasto blanco- kinetica
#12 Florence black- bed of nails
#11 shallow side- reflections
#10 cold stares- the southern
#9 hearts and hand grenades- where I begin
#8 tim Montana- savages
#7 amongst liars- of design
#6 Scott stapp- higher power
#5 Marilyn Manson- one assassination
#4 a killers confession- victim 1
#3 dead posey- are you in a cult
#2 blooming discord- memories from the future
#1 Budderside- white flame
Just goes to show how much great music there is out there. Thank you for sharing
"...someone vacuuming upstairs."
This happens when you don’t script your videos!
@@NowSpinningMagazine It's a good description of "cookie monster" 'vocals'.
I agree with you 💯% Judas Priest Invincible Shield and Moggs Motel are simply masterpieces. I disagree with you, on the Cats in space music. Check out the album by Whitecross "Fear no evil"
Will do - thank you 🙏
Happy Christmas Phil . U must be running out of storage small with all the records and cds . A few albums i will check out on your list . I do not consider death metal music its satanic in nature u ever think that those that growl are possessed or channeling the devil stay well away i defo would myself and i listen to lots of music .
Happy Christmas to you.
No Jon Anderson's "True"?
I'm really surprised.
I only discovered it just before doing the list. I might well feature it in the new year. Phil
Peter Gabriel? Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks?
Peter Gabriel was 2023.
@@eldorado852 I stand corrected... Close though.
Continuo achando que os melhores discos de todos os anos são todos do PF, DP, LZ, Yes, BS, UH, entre outros...
Hi Phil, what is your opinion about new prog disk Bring Me The Horizon?
I am not familiar with that title?
Wait a second, Cats in Space and Moggs Motel above Priest and yet you have Invincible Shield as your number 1 Priest album of all time? Does this mean Cats in Space are better than Priest?? And a Phil Mogg side project is better than every single Priest album? I can't see that at all!
Kim Gordon.
The collective.
too much name dropping -steve hackett is a great record
Sorry, could not help it - it has been an amazing year and i have been very lucky to talk to these musicians. Phil
😃👍
WOW....No Jon Anderson & the Band of geeks - TRUTH????
I just didn't get a copy in time!
Prog rock should drop the prog, it's a style now, lost it's meaning and anything but progressive. It's stuck in 1977. Prog rock as Progressive rock is now dead. It's just repeating itself, such a shame. Personally, I can't be doing with the shit these bands are turning out.
King Crimson is dead, sadly so is Prog rock.
I repeat, nothing here is truly progressive, absolutely nothing.
Hi Stuart, merry Christmas 🎅 you raise a good point. A bit like the phrase ‘classic rock’ perhaps we need to just label things as rock music again. What is PROG is a subject for a future video but now it can mean anything that extends over 5 mins and deviates from 4/4 - Phil
Not much Doom Metal or Stoner Rock.
Maybe this year!
I didn't like at all the new Judas Priest album. I couldn't connect, i couldn't listen to it. It didn't do anything for me, i believe it's quite boring and flat, not a damn click. I really don't know how this happened and i am a big fan of Judas Priest, and for me it's really strange. I was not attracted at all since the release, even now, I don't have feelings about it. I don't understand why this album was so wowwwww from many people. I really don't... Wasn't impressed, but really disappointed.
The thing is that is the mystery of music and why it affects us all so differently! Your frank and honest comment is just as valid as me saying it’s the best thing they have done! Phil :)
I really don't know Phil, i feel that the drums sound horrible like a drum machine to my ears, not organic at all, the riffs sound to me just meaningless and don't speak to me, the songs are not catchy, no atmosphere, just fast tempo songs, band plays like a damn new europower band something that i dislike a lot as a sound, no epic JP mid tempo songs and the whole album doesn't feel Judas Priest to me. Even if i am 70s lover sound with albums like Rocka Rolla, Sad Wings, Sin After Sin, Stained Class era albums etc, which is definitely my favourite period, speaking of their last five albums, after the reunion, I really love Angel of Retribution and especially Nostradamus (one of my faves and it's a hugely underestimated album by my opinion), i really liked Redeemer of Souls & Firepower, but this... god i wish it never happened. I think Shield is horrible and I'm not joking... I can't connect with it.
There are rumours that they used ai to write it and I wouldn't be surprised by listening to it.
Amazing 🤩 I bought Sad Wings in 76 and saw the band on the Sin After Sin tour, one of my favourite albums by the band. I also agree that Nostradamus is a total classic, a masterpiece hiding in plain sight even. However, Invincible Shield just ticks every box for me. It’s a personal thing but I love it :)
For me it's one of their best, I love it more with every listen. Right up there with Painkiller, Stained Class and Defenders Of The Faith!