& here are my Top albums of last year (2023)
The The -Ensoulment (could easily be the album of the year for me, lyricswise it's brilliant, poetry and elegy / eulogy
Bruce Dickinson -The Mandrake Project (and a cancelled concert :((()
Elbow-Audio Vertigo
Judas Priest -Invisible Shield
Deep Purple =1
Another masterful Bob Ezrin production with DP, his fifth with the band (starting with Now What ?! " in 2013), an elegant classy album of a bans that had nothing more to prove a long time ago, and now it's just having fun !
The Black Crowes-Happiness Bastards
-great comeback, Rock'nRolla ! their first album since 2009 !
Mark Knopfler-One Deep River -just good old MK !
Ian Hunter - Defiance Part 2 Fiction (part 1, in 2023's top)
Bill Wyman-Drive My Car -Wyman is 87 !
MC5- Heavy Lifting
Like the Nick Cave (Wild God), liked The Cure, but they ain't my bands.
A mention to the new David Gilmour -Luck and Strange, but can't say the album satisfied me.
Liked more the Body Count version of "Confortably Numb" , featuring David Gilmour.
Discovered a new great band, punk garage rockin' Australian:
Amyl and the Sniffers -Cartoon Darkness
found out Kasabian reunited: Happenings
COMPILATION:
Various Artists: The Power of the Heart- A Tribute to Lou Reed
-featuring Keith Richards' Waiting for the Man !
ARCHIVE:
The Michael Schenker Group - Is It Loud Enough (Michael Schenker Group 1980-1983) 6 discs
*and what could be the 'anthem" of the year, the unreleased instrumental Edward & Eddie Van Halen song, Unfinished
BLUES:
Slash -Orgy of the Dead
Luke Winslow-King -Flash-A-Magic
Walter Trout-Broken
