CDs of 2012

**Lateralthinking1** · 26-12-12, 04:00

List 2 - Pop/Rock/Indie (50)

1. Paul Buchanan - Mid Air
2. Tracey Thorn - Tinsel and Lights
3. Dexys - One Day I'm Going to Soar
4. Chris Forsyth - Kenzo Deluxe
5. Lightships - Electric Cables
6. Damon Albarn - Dr Dee
7. Ren Harvieu - Through the Night
8. Sigur Ros - Valtari
9. Grizzly Bear - Shields
10. Ian Hunter - When I'm President

11. Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
12. Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg
13. Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
14. The Magnetic Fields - Love at the Bottom of the Sea
15. The Vaccines - Come of Age
16. Tame Impala - Lonerism
17. M Ward - A Wasteland Companion
18. Loscil - Sketches from New Brighton
19. Django Django - Django Django
20. Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge

21. Madness - Oui Oui, Si Si, Ja Ja, Da Da
22. Saint Etienne - Word and Music By Saint Etienne
23. Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls
24. The Walkmen - Heaven
25. Diiv - Oshin
26. Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos
27. Rosie Abbott - Rosie Abbott
28. Sinead O'Connor - How About I Be Me (And You Be You)
29. Beach House - Bloom
30. Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas

31. Loudon Wainwright III - Older Than My Old Man Now
32. Jack White - Blunderbuss
33. Paul Weller - Sonik Kicks
34. The Cranberries - Roses
35. Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
36. Dinosaur Jr - I Bet On Sky
37. Lee Ranaldo - Between the Times and the Tides
38. Here We Go Magic - A Different Ship
39. The Levellers - Static on the Airwaves
40. Tanita Tikaram - Dust On My Shoes

41. Howlin' Rain - The Russian Wilds
42. Josephine - Portrait
43. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
44. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
45. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
46. Advance Base - A Shut-In's Prayer
47. Plan B - Ill Manors
48. Mac Demarco - 2
49. The Pre-New - Music For People Who Hate Themselves
50. The Chromatics - Kill for Love

**Lateralthinking1** · 26-12-12, 04:22

List 3 - World (50)

1. Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze - Amanke Dionti
2. Yasmin Levy - Libertad
3. Sekouba Bambino - The Griot's Craft
4. Malick Pathe Sow and Bao Sissoko - Aduna
5. Arnaldo Antunes, Edgard Scandurra and Toumani Diabate - A Curva da Cintura
6. Habib Koite and Eric Bibb - Brothers in Bamako
7. Lucas Santtana - O Deus Que Devasta Mas Tambem Cura
8. Zani Diabate - Tientalaw : Last Recordings
9. Faiz Ali Faiz and Titi Robin - Jaadu : Magic
10. Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A - Area 52

11. Terakaft - Kel Tamasheq
12. Wilber Calver - Diaspora
13. Staff Benda Bilili - Bouger Le Monde
14. Ry Cooder - Election Special
15. Sidi Toure - Koima
16. Umoza - Tumbuka Voices
17. The Toure-Raichel Collective - The Tel Aviv Session
18. Ebo Taylor - Appia Kwa Bridge
19. Janka Nabay - En Yay Sah
20. Debo Band - Debo Band

21. Vusa Mkhaya - Vocalism
22. Amadou and Mariam - Folila
23. Malawi Mouse Boys - He is #1
24. Fanga and Maalem Abdallah Guinea - Fangnawa Experience
25. Chicha Libre - Canibalismo
26. Kardemimmit - Introducing Kardemimmit
27. Os Cempes - Tentemozo
28. Jagwa Music - Bongo Hotheads
29. Oratnitza - Oratnitza
30. Carla Morrison - Dejenme Llorar

31. Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars - Radio Salone
32. Egyptian Project - Ya Amar
33. Mariem Hassan - El Aaiun Egdat
34. Mokoomba - Rising Tide
35. Seven Sisters Project - Aeholian
36. Kristi Stassinopoulou and Stathis Kalyviotis - Greekadelia
37. Krar Collective - Ethiopia Super Krar
38. Warsaw Village Band - Nord
39. Wendo Kolosoy - Banaya Papa Wendo
40. Mama Rosin - Bye Bye Bayou

41. Cornershop - Urban Turban
42. Cambodian Space Project - Not Easy Rock and Roll
43. The Bombay Royale - You Me Bullets Love
44. Aziza Brahim and Gulili Mankoo - Mabruk
45. Lo'Jo - Cinema El Mundo
46. Ondatropica - Ondatropica
47. Municipale Balcanica - Offbeat
48. Cafe Aman Istanbul - Fasl-i Rembetiko
49. Krom - Songs from the Noir
50. Gal Costa - Recanto

**Lateralthinking1** · 26-12-12, 06:09

List 4 - Jazz (35)

1. Jacob Garchik - The Heavens : The Atheist Gospel Trombone Album
2. Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day III
3. Guillaume de Chassy - Silences
4. Samuel Yirga - Guzo
5. Zoe Rahman - Kindred Spirits
6. Kenny Wheeler - The Long Waiting
7. Yosvany Terry - Today's Opinion
8. Christian Scott - Christian aTunde Adjuah
9. Jack DeJohnette - Sound Travels
10. Harris Eisenstadt - Canada Day Octet

11. The San Francisco Latin Jazz Society - This
12. Roberto Fonseca - Yo
13. Brian Patneaude - All Around Us
14. Guillermo Klein - Carrera
15. John Moulder Quintet - The Eleventh Hour : Live at the Green Mill
16. Alexander Hawkins Ensemble - All There, Ever Out
17. Jonah Parzen-Johnson - Michiana
18. Pat Metheny - Unity Band
19. Joe Locke and the Geoffrey Keezer Group - Signing
20. Bobby Broom - Upper West Side Story

21. Vijay Iyer Trio - Accelerando
22. Jenny Scheinman - Mischief and Mayhem
23. Django Bates Beloved - Confirmation
24. Ahmad Jamal - Blue Moon
25. Fred Hersch Trio - Live at the Vanguard
26. The Bad Plus - Made Possible
27. Ravi Coltrane - Spirit Fiction
28. Ryan Francesconi and Mirabai Peart - Road to Palios
29. Angles 8 - By Way of Deception : Live in Ljubliana
30. Jimmy Owens - The Monk Project

31. Miguel Zenon and Laurent Coq - Rayuela
32. Brad Mehldau - Where Do You Start
33. Robert Glasper - Black Radio
34. Tom Wetmore - The Desired Effect
35. Neneh Cherry and the Thing - The Cherry Thing

**Lateralthinking1** · 26-12-12, 06:52

List 5 - Reggae/Ska/Dub (25)

1. Beres Hammond - One Love, One Life
2. Jimmy Cliff - Rebirth
3. The Original Wailers - Miracle
4. Clinton Fearon - Heart and Soul
5. U-Roy - Pray Fi Di People
6. Toots and the Maytals - Unplugged on Strawberry Hill
7. Dennis Bovell - Mek It Run
8. Ernest Ranglin - Avila
9. Sly and Robbie - Blackwood Dub
10. Pentateuch - The Genesis

11. Tommy Tornado - Cool Down
12. Black Roots - On The Ground
13. Zvuloon Dub System - Freedom Time
14. Wrongtom Meets Deemas J - In East London
15. The Skatalites - Walk With Me
16. The Breadwinners - Dubs Unlimited
17. Prince Fatty - Prince Fatty Versus The Drunken Gambler
18. Lee Scratch Perry - Humanicity
19. Marcia Griffiths - Marcia Griffiths and Friends
20. New Town Kings - M.O.J.O

21. Los Granadians del Espacio Exterior - Reggalactico
22. Western Standard Time - A Big Band Tribute to the Skatalites
23. Brina - Under One Sun
24. Courtney John - From Letters to Words
25. Sun Araw, M Geddes Gengras, The Congos - FRKWYS Vol 9

**johncorrigan** · 26-12-12, 10:14

Bloomin' eck Lat!, they're some lists - does the desert blues record in aid of Malian refugees not count as it's a comp? - the Bombino track on it is mighty awesome.

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**Lateralthinking1** · 27-12-12, 08:23

That looks excellent, JC, but I have excluded compilations.

**Lateralthinking1** · 27-12-12, 08:24

List 6 - Soul/Funk/Blues/Dance (25)

1. Lee Fields and the Expressions - Faithful Man
2. Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man in the Universe
3. Bettye Lavette - Thankful N' Thoughtful
4. Duffy Power - Tigers
5. Barbara Carr - Keep The Fire Burning
6. Sugarman 3 & Co. - What The World Needs Now
7. Mighty Sam McClain - Too Much Jesus, Not Enough Whiskey
8. Tedeschi Trucks Band - Everybody's Talkin'
9. The Souljazz Orchestra - Solidarity
10. Joe Louis Walker - Hellfire

11. Antibalas - Antibalas
12. Mayer Hawthorne - How Do You Do
13. The Funk Ark - High Noon
14. Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again
15. Ruthie Foster - Let It Burn
16. Gregory Porter - Be Good
17. Paul Carrack - Good Feeling
18. Heritage Blues Orchestra - And Still I Rise
19. Funkshone - 2
20. The Impellers - This is Not a Drill

21. Dojo Cuts - Take From Me
22. Shemekia Copeland - 33 and a Third
23. The Bamboos - Medicine Man
24. Lionel Richie - Tuskegee
25. Elton John vs Pnau - Good Morning to the Night

**Lateralthinking1** · 27-12-12, 09:33

List 7 - Electronica/Ambient/Experimental (15)

1. Three Trapped Tigers - Numbers: 1-13
2. Olafur Arnalds - Another Happy Day
3. Kettel and Secede - When Can
4. Ulrich Schnauss and Mark Peters - Underrated Silence
5. Orbital - Wonky
6. Windy and Carl - We Will Always Be
7. John Talabot and Pineal - Fin
8. Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales
9. The Orb and Lee Scratch Perry - Presents the Orbserver in the Star House
10. Yosi Horikawa - Wandering

11. Mouse on Mars - Parastrophics
12. John Maus - A Collection of Rarities
13. The Music Tapes - Mary's Voice
14. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
15. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy

**cloughie** · 27-12-12, 14:35

Another for your folk list - Kate Rusby: 20, and for your Pop/rock etc Jeff Lynne: Long Wave and Rumer:Boys don't cry and Cheryl Bentyne:Let's Misbehave

**Lateralthinking1** · 27-12-12, 17:21

Originally posted by cloughie View Post

Another for your folk list - Kate Rusby: 20, and for your Pop/rock etc Jeff Lynne: Long Wave and Rumer:Boys don't cry and Cheryl Bentyne:Let's Misbehave

Thank you for your suggestions cloughie. The lists are intended to indicate a vague order of preference while also giving forum members a bit of structure to what has actually been released in 2012. The process has been informative to me too. I have tried to listen to as much as I can from each - there is only so much that can be done when 250 are to be selected - and then there have been reviews from a wide range of websites, any knowledge I have gained this year, and also a bit of instinct.

Definitely open to the idea of amending lists on the basis of other peoples' suggestions. However, I have only changed one thing so far. I brought in Plan B rather late for the pop etc list, mainly on the basis of a conversation we had on the jazz boards. While that has merit from a British perspective, I ducked out of a hip-hop list as I just don't take to most of it. I did see De La Soul live in 1989 and always enjoyed Stetsasonic, Dream Warriors and PM Dawn but there isn't a lot now that is of the "daisy age".

Kate Rusby is a noticeable exclusion so I will go back to her although the CD is a "different" collaborative affair. I admit I hadn't listened to Jeff Lynne. Nor indeed Rumer. I am not wholly opposed to semi-pastiche as long as it done very well. Anyone who can be a Karen Carpenter is more than ok in my book. I liked the debut record. As for the Cheryl Bentyne CD, it wasn't on my list of things to listen to although I would certainly defend Manhattan Transfer as they were in the earlier Laurel Masse era.

So, yes, I will listen to them all on the basis of your recommendations and do invite further suggestions in the coming days.

**cloughie** · 27-12-12, 17:56

Rumer is often compared to Karen Carpenter but I think that is something of Dusty Springfield there also. I agree with you on the hip-hop list - there are some quite unpleasant sounds in that area - I wonder if some of HMV's demise is down to a percentage of the music-loving population dont wish to set foot in there because of the sounds therein. Anyway enough of the GOM in me - well done putting what you have together - as someone whose purchases mostly come from back catalogue there are some newbies to explore.

**Lateralthinking1** · 27-12-12, 18:36

Originally posted by cloughie View Post

Rumer is often compared to Karen Carpenter but I think that is something of Dusty Springfield there also. I agree with you on the hip-hop list - there are some quite unpleasant sounds in that area - I wonder if some of HMV's demise is down to a percentage of the music-loving population dont wish to set foot in there because of the sounds therein. Anyway enough of the GOM in me - well done putting what you have together - as someone whose purchases mostly come from back catalogue there are some newbies to explore.

Many appear to be hearing Dusty Springfield in "this year's Rumer" but I am hearing Mama Cass:

Ren Harvieu - Through The Night

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**Globaltruth** · 27-12-12, 20:06

Free Music Archive - 404 Page not found - Free Music Archive

http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Best_of_2012_La_Gramola

Here's a list to investigate - all free too.

I'm hoping to see a meta-list, or maybe a cata-list...

**Lateralthinking1** · 27-12-12, 22:02

Originally posted by Globaltruth View Post

http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/...012_La_Gramola

Here's a list to investigate - all free too.

I'm hoping to see a meta-list, or maybe a cata-list...

Music for a Festive 50 perhaps? Plaistow - Lacromosa (22.56) is affecting. If you like this, you might also like these:

Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory (74.36)

Bull of Heaven - The Chosen Priest and Apostle of Infinite Space (2 months)

Longplayer - Untitled (12 years 361 days - due to end in 2999) - http://longplayer.org/

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