0/26! unsurprisingly. My top 5, for what it's worth, and a one word review... 1 Hinako Omori - Stillness, Softnes... (gorgeous) 2 Blackcarburning - Watching Sleepers (eclectic) 3 Brutalist Architecture in the Sun - Loneliness Kills (electric) 4 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Bauhaus Staircase (finale?) 5 Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan - The Nation's Most Central Location (scenic). 🎹🖤🎹🖤🎹
1. The Kills - God Games 2. Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds 3. The Heavy - Amen 4. Cold War Kids - CWK 5. Low Cut Connie - Art Dealers 6. Little Hurricane - Life is but a dream 7. Kovacs - Child of sin 8. Peter Gabriel - i/o 9. Metallica - 72 Seasons 10. DeWolff - Love, Death & in Between
Hey Barry, me and my friend Dunf are listening to the Aqualung box set in 5.1 - thanks for all the reviews and the sterling work you do. One thing is amiss, event the simplest 5.1 setup … once you hear it you can not unhear it. It will make you want to buy a bigger house. If you can’t afford it you’re welcome to a 5.1 session in my house in Ireland. We will gently tease you in to the elites of 5.1 with DSOTM on SACD, followed by King Crimson’s Islands and wrapping up with Nektar’s Remember the Future to start off with but there is so much more… does it tinkle your curiosity? Again, if money is an issue lay off them t-shirts for a while. Starter pack will cost you roughly £300-400 second hand . It's like hearing your favourite music for the first time again.
1. Because we are here by Foo Fighters 2. I/O by Peter Gabriel 3. Rivers Run Dry by Ian Moss 4. Wrong Side of Paradise by Black Star riders 5. Harmony Codex by Steven Wilson
A fabulous eclectic presentation of artists I love and others to which I am unfamiliar! As has become tradition in my home, I take your programs as a guide for what to check out next. However, I'll probably skip the PJ Harvey. I couldn't agree more with your assessment of the 50th Anniversary of DSOTM. A huge let down by one of my Top 3 bands of all time. It's the only box of theirs I did not purchase. Nonetheless, as always, a great program that I've watched twice already, and probably will again!! Thanks, Barry!!
Always love your reviews because they're so clever, funny and descriptive, even in short form. These are my top five: Xiu Xiu: Ignore Grief Mandy, Indiana: I've Seen A Way PJ Harvey: I Inside The Old Year Dying Jaimie Branch: Fly Or Die Fly Or Die Fly Or Die ANTOHNI: My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross Looking forward to your videos in 2024.
Thanks for the Top 20 review! I did purchase and really enjoy LIGHT UP by Solstice and HARMONY CODEX by Steven Wilson. I did grab iTunes tracks from a few of the others such as the new Rolling Stones album. I found Roger Water's DARK SIDE OF THE MOON REDUX interesting. I appreciate some of his re-workings of certain songs but I personally found that constant speaking voice a bit of a detraction from the music over repeated listening. Favourite songs in 2023: "Bulbul Tarang" by Solstice and "Impossible Tightrope" by Steven Wilson. One album that I think deserves consideration is Christone "Kingfish" Ingram's LIVE IN LONDON - a celebration of the blues.
Glad you snuck Blur in there somewhere. I think it's better than a few ahead of it on your list and maybe Slowdive deserved a mention but I'm not complaining, I will stay subscribed.
Thank you Barry for some great videos and insights this year. I value your content and attempt (badly) to be as professional as your good self. A special thank you for inviting me onto your zoom chat - a real privilege. HNY to you and yours and hope that your 2024 brings you all you wish for. All the best Dave✅✅
Have you listened to The Future Never Waits by Hawkwind? Never been a big Hawkwind fan but I found this album to be a very interesting and enjoyable listen, especially on the more experimental songs.
My BIG 5 1. Radical Romantics by Fever Ray 2. O Monolith by Squid 3. Slugs of Love by Little Dragon 4. Formal Growth in the Dessert by Protomartyr 5. Harmony Codex by Steven Wilson ✌🏼🎧
My top 13 albums of 2023: 1. The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds 2a. Metallica - 72 Seasons (tied) 2b. Overkill - Scorched (tied) 4. KK's Priest - The Sinner Rides Again 5. Vintage Trouble - Heavy Hymnal 6. Pretenders - Relentless 7. Chris Boltendahl's Steelhammer - Reborn In Flames 8. Tempt - S/T 9. Dokken - Heaven Comes Down 10. Jag Panzer - The Hallowed 11. Primal Fear - Code Red 12. Mammoth WVH - Mammoth II 13. Alice Cooper - Road Seven more honorable mentions, in no particular order: John Mellencamp - Orpheus Descending Brian Setzer - The Devil Always Collects Greta Van Fleet - Starcatcher Ann Wilson & Tripsitter - Another Door Last In Line - Jericho Dolly Parton - Rockstar U.D.O. - Touchdown
I was taken back by the release of a new album of original material from The Rolling Stones, considering that both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have hit 80 and Charlie Watts had passed away (not that he contributed much to their material, Mick and Keef were basically responsible for that). But at least the Stones have lived up to their name all this time as they kept rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' on through a more than half a century.
Top 20 #1 Raising ravens- leaving with the halflight #2 Any given sin- war within #3 Gideon- more power more pain #4 Motive black- auburn #5 Cold stares- voices #6 Pop evil- skeletons 7 Phil Campbell- kings of the asylum #8 Saul- this is it.. the end of everything #9 Buckcherry- 10 #10 Tyler Bryant- dirty work #11 Red- rated R #12 Lift the curse- suffer and survive #13 Another day dawns- finding peace through all the noise #14 Throw the fight- strange world #15 Blak29 #16 Trashy Annie- sticks and stones #17 When rivers meet- aces are high #18 Post profit- self defeaterEP #19 War curse- confession #20 Texas hippie coalition- The name lives on
Hi Barry & I enjoyed the Steven Wilson & Noel Gallagher albums & I have to admit The Rolling Stones album for the most part turned the clock back many many years & was brilliant but alas my biggest disappointment was Peter Gabriel's effort which as I said at the time is just PG by numbers & you know what you are getting beforehand & after a few plays it's been buried in along with his other stuff possibly never to be played again!! Have a happy new year when it comes.
The album starts off very interesting, and I was enjoying it, but the 2nd half quickly turns to bilge with the Rick James and overly dancy caa-caa. The last track is the best on the album. Was impressed with their very interesting take on The Stones' "Paint It Black".
Interesting run down but I am baffled by the comment about Steven Wilson's album. Lord knows I'm as much of a Tangs fan as the next man, but when did they ever make an album even remotely like The Harmony Codex, a song cycle covering jazz, prog rock, cinematic ambience, dreamy acoustic ballads, IDM, and industrial hip hop? There's only the title track where the reference might just apply, but even that one moves through 24 key changes in 10 minutes, which is 23 more than any TD sequencer workout you care to mention. For me it was the best of a pretty strong year for new music.
You completely missed one from USA! Radio Transient by Chris Church. Vital powerpop that surpasses most of your choices! Take a listen and become a fan.
Love the one sentence format!! My favourite is Roger Waters - “A perfect example of why etc etc…” it’s a slight put down while still recognising the greatness of this wonderful album. Can we have the Rolling Stone Top 500 done in exactly the same way please. I guarantee our friends from across the water will miss the point of your wordy imagery weavings. Skull Fu**ery at its best. If music be the food of love, then slap it on the turntable!!!
Great call on the DSOTM box set. No new music and crazy expensive. The Who showed the way with an awesome box for less money. One of the problems with Floyd is they don’t have much live music from the 70s to add. They were so concerned with bootlegs that they didn’t record their shows and they didn’t do a lot of tours and shows relatively speaking. Ironic that one of the wealthiest bands was concerned with bootlegs and it messed them up when it came time to develop future projects which they charge top dollar for. The Dead did it right. Recorded everything and let the fans too. We Get Dave’s picks every year with 4+ concerts a year. Love both bands. Interesting the completely opposite ways they operated. Hoping the 50th anniversary of Wish You Were Here is better than the Immersion set and this year’s effort.
I love your work Barry, but I would have been even more impressed if you had summed up all 20 albums with one single sentence. Might have made the video a bit too short though
Well, if you didn't care for "Darkfighter"... 1. Rival Sons - Darkfighter 2. Antioch VI: Molten Rainbow 3. Green Lung - This Heathen Land 4. Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade 5. Leathurbitch - Shattered Vanity 6. Danava - Nothing but Nothing 7. Kerrigan - Bloodmoon 8. Rival Sons - Lightbringer 9. Fire Down Below - Low Desert Surf Club 10. KK's Priest - The Sinner Rides Again 11. Overkill - Scorched 12. Metal Church - Congregation of Annihilation 13. Roadwolf - Midnight Lightning 14. Tower Hill - Deathstalker 15. Night Demon - Outsider 16. Thelemite - Survival of the Fittest 17. Icon of Sin - Legends 18. Iron Void - IV 19. Tygers of Pan Tang - Bloodlines 20. Alcatrazz - Take No Prisoners 21. Green King - Hidden Beyond Time 22. Jared James Nichols 23. Witchskull - The Serpent Tide 24. Raven - All Hell's Breaking Loose 25. Enforcer - Nostalgia 26. Icarus Witch - No Devil Lived On
Fair list: Although you're a bit harsh on poor old Roger Waters who I thought released a clever and creative redux of DSOTM. Full of surprises and reinvention is our Roger is he not? His live shows are magical and never repetitive or derivative, even if there is a common thematic thread holding his concerts together
Agree his live shows are great but his new version put me to sleep. The beauty of streaming allows you to listen once and buy if you want instead of dropping money on something you try and don’t like.
@@BobbyBass-x6i ....fair enough. I tend to gravitate to musicians who continue to re-invent themselves and try different approaches and techniques. He is not my favourite guitarist but I always try to go to Jeff Beck's concerts when he tours. Unique guitarist that expresses himself through the sonic asylum. Actually Beck played on Roger Waters's "AMused to Death" all those years ago - a superb piece of music which I thought most of the public (and that includes Pink Floyd fans) were not ready to receive....that's the beauty and power of artistic forms. A but thin these days. At least in the mainstream anyway. We need to search far and wide to find gems.
Not familiar with every album, couldn’t disagree more with Roger Waters’ sludge session. Mind numbing and worse than water boarding. I’ll check out some of your choices I’m unfamiliar with. Cheers!
0/26! unsurprisingly.
My top 5, for what it's worth, and a one word review...
1 Hinako Omori - Stillness, Softnes... (gorgeous)
2 Blackcarburning - Watching Sleepers (eclectic)
3 Brutalist Architecture in the Sun - Loneliness Kills (electric)
4 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Bauhaus Staircase (finale?)
5 Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan - The Nation's Most Central Location (scenic).
🎹🖤🎹🖤🎹
We’re blown away by this! Love this eclectic list and thrilled to be included. Thank you! 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it! Happy New Year
1. The Kills - God Games
2. Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds
3. The Heavy - Amen
4. Cold War Kids - CWK
5. Low Cut Connie - Art Dealers
6. Little Hurricane - Life is but a dream
7. Kovacs - Child of sin
8. Peter Gabriel - i/o
9. Metallica - 72 Seasons
10. DeWolff - Love, Death & in Between
Hey Barry, me and my friend Dunf are listening to the Aqualung box set in 5.1 - thanks for all the reviews and the sterling work you do. One thing is amiss, event the simplest 5.1 setup … once you hear it you can not unhear it. It will make you want to buy a bigger house. If you can’t afford it you’re welcome to a 5.1 session in my house in Ireland. We will gently tease you in to the elites of 5.1 with DSOTM on SACD, followed by King Crimson’s Islands and wrapping up with Nektar’s Remember the Future to start off with but there is so much more… does it tinkle your curiosity? Again, if money is an issue lay off them t-shirts for a while. Starter pack will cost you roughly £300-400 second hand . It's like hearing your favourite music for the first time again.
1. Because we are here by Foo Fighters
2. I/O by Peter Gabriel
3. Rivers Run Dry by Ian Moss
4. Wrong Side of Paradise by Black Star riders
5. Harmony Codex by Steven Wilson
Great video love the Steven Wilson comment. I love his new album PG's i/o possibly the best of 2023. Have a safe and happy new year.
A fabulous eclectic presentation of artists I love and others to which I am unfamiliar! As has become tradition in my home, I take your programs as a guide for what to check out next. However, I'll probably skip the PJ Harvey. I couldn't agree more with your assessment of the 50th Anniversary of DSOTM. A huge let down by one of my Top 3 bands of all time. It's the only box of theirs I did not purchase. Nonetheless, as always, a great program that I've watched twice already, and probably will again!! Thanks, Barry!!
Love your one sentence reviews on your 20 best. I really enjoy your channel! Happy New Year.
Always love your reviews because they're so clever, funny and descriptive, even in short form.
These are my top five:
Xiu Xiu: Ignore Grief
Mandy, Indiana: I've Seen A Way
PJ Harvey: I Inside The Old Year Dying
Jaimie Branch: Fly Or Die Fly Or Die Fly Or Die
ANTOHNI: My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross
Looking forward to your videos in 2024.
Thanks for the Top 20 review! I did purchase and really enjoy LIGHT UP by Solstice and HARMONY CODEX by Steven Wilson. I did grab iTunes tracks from a few of the others such as the new Rolling Stones album. I found Roger Water's DARK SIDE OF THE MOON REDUX interesting. I appreciate some of his re-workings of certain songs but I personally found that constant speaking voice a bit of a detraction from the music over repeated listening. Favourite songs in 2023: "Bulbul Tarang" by Solstice and "Impossible Tightrope" by Steven Wilson. One album that I think deserves consideration is Christone "Kingfish" Ingram's LIVE IN LONDON - a celebration of the blues.
You are the best!!!! 👍👍👍
Wow, thanks!
Glad you snuck Blur in there somewhere. I think it's better than a few ahead of it on your list and maybe Slowdive deserved a mention but I'm not complaining, I will stay subscribed.
happy New Year to you hope your channel goes from strength to strength
Thank you Barry for some great videos and insights this year. I value your content and attempt (badly) to be as professional as your good self. A special thank you for inviting me onto your zoom chat - a real privilege. HNY to you and yours and hope that your 2024 brings you all you wish for. All the best Dave✅✅
Have you listened to The Future Never Waits by Hawkwind? Never been a big Hawkwind fan but I found this album to be a very interesting and enjoyable listen, especially on the more experimental songs.
I got the “Just Can’t Get Enough” Depeche Mode reference 😊
My BIG 5
1. Radical Romantics by Fever Ray
2. O Monolith by Squid
3. Slugs of Love by Little Dragon
4. Formal Growth in the Dessert by Protomartyr
5. Harmony Codex by Steven Wilson
✌🏼🎧
Interesting list, a few of my favourite albums this year were by Myrkur, Steven Wilson & Host, also liked Roger Waters redux.
My top 13 albums of 2023:
1. The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds
2a. Metallica - 72 Seasons (tied)
2b. Overkill - Scorched (tied)
4. KK's Priest - The Sinner Rides Again
5. Vintage Trouble - Heavy Hymnal
6. Pretenders - Relentless
7. Chris Boltendahl's Steelhammer - Reborn In Flames
8. Tempt - S/T
9. Dokken - Heaven Comes Down
10. Jag Panzer - The Hallowed
11. Primal Fear - Code Red
12. Mammoth WVH - Mammoth II
13. Alice Cooper - Road
Seven more honorable mentions, in no particular order:
John Mellencamp - Orpheus Descending
Brian Setzer - The Devil Always Collects
Greta Van Fleet - Starcatcher
Ann Wilson & Tripsitter - Another Door
Last In Line - Jericho
Dolly Parton - Rockstar
U.D.O. - Touchdown
I was taken back by the release of a new album of original material from The Rolling Stones, considering that both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have hit 80 and Charlie Watts had passed away (not that he contributed much to their material, Mick and Keef were basically responsible for that). But at least the Stones have lived up to their name all this time as they kept rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' on through a more than half a century.
Top 20
#1 Raising ravens- leaving with the halflight
#2 Any given sin- war within
#3 Gideon- more power more pain
#4 Motive black- auburn
#5 Cold stares- voices
#6 Pop evil- skeletons
7 Phil Campbell- kings of the asylum
#8 Saul- this is it.. the end of everything
#9 Buckcherry- 10
#10 Tyler Bryant- dirty work
#11 Red- rated R
#12 Lift the curse- suffer and survive
#13 Another day dawns- finding peace through all the noise
#14 Throw the fight- strange world
#15 Blak29
#16 Trashy Annie- sticks and stones
#17 When rivers meet- aces are high
#18 Post profit- self defeaterEP
#19 War curse- confession
#20 Texas hippie coalition- The name lives on
Hi Barry & I enjoyed the Steven Wilson & Noel Gallagher albums & I have to admit The Rolling Stones album for the most part turned the clock back many many years & was brilliant but alas my biggest disappointment was Peter Gabriel's effort which as I said at the time is just PG by numbers & you know what you are getting beforehand & after a few plays it's been buried in along with his other stuff possibly never to be played again!! Have a happy new year when it comes.
And yet I still found Duran Duran's Danse Macabre the album I've enjoyed and played the most recently, but hey what do I know!
The album starts off very interesting, and I was enjoying it, but the 2nd half quickly turns to bilge with the Rick James and overly dancy caa-caa. The last track is the best on the album. Was impressed with their very interesting take on The Stones' "Paint It Black".
Interesting run down but I am baffled by the comment about Steven Wilson's album. Lord knows I'm as much of a Tangs fan as the next man, but when did they ever make an album even remotely like The Harmony Codex, a song cycle covering jazz, prog rock, cinematic ambience, dreamy acoustic ballads, IDM, and industrial hip hop? There's only the title track where the reference might just apply, but even that one moves through 24 key changes in 10 minutes, which is 23 more than any TD sequencer workout you care to mention. For me it was the best of a pretty strong year for new music.
It would have been great to see a box set for the 50th ziggy stardust album in the same vein and quality of the hunky dory box set.
Finally someone giving some love to Peter Gabriel! That album is incredible!
Fantastic list!
Glad you think so!
My top five were.
1. Steven Wilson
2. The Fierce And The Dead.
3. Helmet
4.Prong
5. High Flying Birds.
Wilson's was mine as well.
The hypnogogue from the church deserves to be in the list.
Man, I completely forgot about The National. That was a pretty good record.
Circus Devils - Squeeze The Needle. IMO best of the year.
I respect your taste in Rock. BC would have made my top. Surprised you don’t mention Slash and Miles more often. Also thoughts on Dead Daisies?
You completely missed one from USA! Radio Transient by Chris Church. Vital powerpop that surpasses most of your choices! Take a listen and become a fan.
Love the one sentence format!!
My favourite is Roger Waters - “A perfect example of why etc etc…” it’s a slight put down while still recognising the greatness of this wonderful album.
Can we have the Rolling Stone Top 500 done in exactly the same way please. I guarantee our friends from across the water will miss the point of your wordy imagery weavings. Skull Fu**ery at its best. If music be the food of love, then slap it on the turntable!!!
I'm rather surprised you didn't include Hawkwind's The Future Never Waits & Madness C'est La vie, two magnificent albums.
Great call on the DSOTM box set. No new music and crazy expensive. The Who showed the way with an awesome box for less money. One of the problems with Floyd is they don’t have much live music from the 70s to add. They were so concerned with bootlegs that they didn’t record their shows and they didn’t do a lot of tours and shows relatively speaking. Ironic that one of the wealthiest bands was concerned with bootlegs and it messed them up when it came time to develop future projects which they charge top dollar for. The Dead did it right. Recorded everything and let the fans too. We Get Dave’s picks every year with 4+ concerts a year. Love both bands. Interesting the completely opposite ways they operated. Hoping the 50th anniversary of Wish You Were Here is better than the Immersion set and this year’s effort.
I love your work Barry, but I would have been even more impressed if you had summed up all 20 albums with one single sentence.
Might have made the video a bit too short though
Hi.
Cat Power SIngs Bob Dylan In The Royal Albert Hall
I really liked Darkadelic by the Damned. But it doesn't seem to be in any top 20 lists. It is one of their best albums.
Fantastic album that caught me completely by surprise! I couldn't agree with you more! Greatly overlooked album!!!
Uriah Heep is still going... Who knew?
Rökflöte by Jethro Tull came out in April 23 and isn`t even mentioned, but Lana del Rey, LOL!
Well, if you didn't care for "Darkfighter"...
1. Rival Sons - Darkfighter
2. Antioch VI: Molten Rainbow
3. Green Lung - This Heathen Land
4. Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade
5. Leathurbitch - Shattered Vanity
6. Danava - Nothing but Nothing
7. Kerrigan - Bloodmoon
8. Rival Sons - Lightbringer
9. Fire Down Below - Low Desert Surf Club
10. KK's Priest - The Sinner Rides Again
11. Overkill - Scorched
12. Metal Church - Congregation of Annihilation
13. Roadwolf - Midnight Lightning
14. Tower Hill - Deathstalker
15. Night Demon - Outsider
16. Thelemite - Survival of the Fittest
17. Icon of Sin - Legends
18. Iron Void - IV
19. Tygers of Pan Tang - Bloodlines
20. Alcatrazz - Take No Prisoners
21. Green King - Hidden Beyond Time
22. Jared James Nichols
23. Witchskull - The Serpent Tide
24. Raven - All Hell's Breaking Loose
25. Enforcer - Nostalgia
26. Icarus Witch - No Devil Lived On
Fair list:
Although you're a bit harsh on poor old Roger Waters who I thought released a clever and creative redux of DSOTM.
Full of surprises and reinvention is our Roger is he not?
His live shows are magical and never repetitive or derivative, even if there is a common thematic thread holding his concerts together
Agree his live shows are great but his new version put me to sleep. The beauty of streaming allows you to listen once and buy if you want instead of dropping money on something you try and don’t like.
@@BobbyBass-x6i ....fair enough.
I tend to gravitate to musicians who continue to re-invent themselves and try different approaches and techniques.
He is not my favourite guitarist but I always try to go to Jeff Beck's concerts when he tours. Unique guitarist that expresses himself through the sonic asylum. Actually Beck played on Roger Waters's "AMused to Death" all those years ago - a superb piece of music which I thought most of the public (and that includes Pink Floyd fans) were not ready to receive....that's the beauty and power of artistic forms. A but thin these days. At least in the mainstream anyway. We need to search far and wide to find gems.
I used to like Government Mule but they have been flogging that same mule for too long.
I see what you did there...
There is not a bad track "Council Shies." It is "Pure Pop For Now People."
Good album
Ten best jazz albums???
Not familiar with every album, couldn’t disagree more with Roger Waters’ sludge session. Mind numbing and worse than water boarding. I’ll check out some of your choices I’m unfamiliar with. Cheers!