I bought an
extraordinary fifty-nine CDs in 2018. How many did i buy last year?
Maybe 35? But don't worry, i haven't all of a sudden embraced
contemporary pop music, which is even worse than ever now. Very few
of the albums were by current artists, they were mostly replacements
for old vinyl (which i can no longer play) or "best of"
collections by old favourites.
I've written
replacements for old vinyl in (and in a couple of cases, old
cassettes) in red. New albums by
contemporary artists are indicated with an octothorpe – or hashtag,
if you prefer. (#) File everything else here under “m” for
miscellaneous. “Best of” collections should be obvious.
I wrote (above) that i
certainly have not embraced contemporary pop music, however, there
was one album by an artist who might be considered “contempop”
-- Pink (although, really, i think she's a genre unto herself). I'd
always liked what i'd heard of her music, without being particularly
interested in exploring further, until i heard a story about her and,
isn't this awful, i forget the details. But! She did something
extraordinarily nice for someone and it showed to me that she's not
at all the tuff chick she comes across as, but is a truly sensitive
artist. So i bought an anthology and guess what? It's my CD Of The
Year!
I can't choose a “best
of” replacement for vinyl, though. It would be almost of them....
#Caro Emerald --
Metropole Orkest X Caro Emerald
Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra – The Brandenburg Concertos
Musicians
Of The Nile – From Luxor To Isna
Jack
Bruce – Songs For A Tailor
Dick
Gaughan – Gaughan
Dick Gaughan – The
Definitive Collection
"Guys
And Dolls" (Original Broadway Cast)
Jack
Bruce – Harmony Row
Donna Summer – The
Ultimate Collection
#Martin & Eliza
Carthy – Moral Of The Elephant
John
Kirkpatrick – Sheepskins
#Marillion – All One
Tonight
Alanis Morissette –
Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette –
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Davy
Spillane – Atlantic Bridge
Mott
The Hoople – Mott
Spirit
– Clear
Patti Smith – Outside
Society
Shirley
Collins And The Albion Band – No Roses
Planxty – One Night
In Bremen
Siouxsie
& The Banshees – A Kiss In The Dreamhouse
#Ray Davies – Our
Country: Americana act II
Runrig
– Heartland
Donna Summer – Live
And More
Barbra
Streisand – The Broadway Album
Davy
Spillane Band – Out Of The Air
The
Kinks – Misfits
#Florence + The Machine
– High As Hope
The
Kinks – Sleepwalker
Loggins & Messina –
Sittin' In Again
The
Kinks – Soap Opera
#Richard Thompson –
13 Rivers
The
Kinks -- Muswell Hillbillies
#Wolfscote – Turn The
Glass
#Laurie Anderson &
Kronos Quartet – Landfall
The
Kinks – Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround
#Runrig – The Ones
That Got Away
#Happy Rhodes –
Ectotrophia
Silly
Wizard – A Glint Of Silver
Emerson,
Lake & Powell – Emerson, Lake & Powell
The
Bothy Band – The Bothy Band
#Paul Simon – In The
Blue Light
Various Artists – Big
Blue Ball
#Colin James – Miles
To Go
Graham Nash David
Crosby – Graham Nash David Crosby
#Sharon Shannon –
Sacred Earth
Siouxsie & The
Banshees – Nocturne
Triona
Ni Dhomhnaill – Triona
The
Beat – I Just Can't Stop It
Renaissance
– Novella
Pink –Greatest Hits
... So Far!!!
#Dead Can Dance –
Dionysus
King
Crimson – Larks' Tongues In Aspic
Kenny Loggins – The
Essential Kenny Loggins
Renaissance
– A Song For All Seasons
#Afro Celt Sound System
– Flight
#The Albion Christmas
Band – Under The Christmas Tree
Atlanta Rhythm Section
– ARS: The Best Of Atlanta Rhythm Section
The
Who – Quadrophenia
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