Top albums 2024

.....work in progress...

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

new material released after Wayne Kramer and Dennis Thompson''s deaths, featuring Tom Morello, Slash, Vernon Reed.  First album of the band in 53 years !!! Again Bob Ezrin's in the cooking !!!

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mc5-new-album-heavy-lifting-1235034356/

                                                Wayne Kramer & Bob Ezrin in the studio

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

BLUES:

Slash -Orgy of the Dead

Rob Tognoni-Rebel

Luke Winslow-King -Flash-A-Magic

Walter Trout-Broken