Hopper's On Top (Genius)-The Waterboys

1st excerpt from the upcoming album by Mike Scott's The Waterboys' Life, Death And Dennis Hopper. (out on April 4).

song of the day and til now song of the year ;)

love the lines, "Are you ready for the most creative generation in over 2000 years? "

also reminds me a lot of Tom Petty... 

 

Top albums 2024

& 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

*and what could be the 'anthem" of the year, the unreleased instrumental Edward & Eddie Van Halen song, Unfinished 

BLUES:

Slash -Orgy of the Dead

Rob Tognoni-Rebel

Luke Winslow-King -Flash-A-Magic

Walter Trout-Broken

LIFE, DEATH AND DENNIS HOPPER ;)

This sounds great !!! I hope it will be so ! 

Udpate, It's out NOW !!!

 Our new album: LIFE, DEATH AND DENNIS HOPPER. Out 4 April on Sun Records. Guests include Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, Fiona Apple and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes. It's the story of Dennis Hopper's life in songs - and the story of his and our times.
#TheWaterboys #RockAndRoll

https://www.facebook.com/WaterboysMusic

Top series 2024

fargo season 5 (waz in between years, wrote last year)

******

Ripley (though is not a series per se, more alike a 7 hours film!) 

the day of the jackal

Sugar

The Sympathizer

The Penguin

KAOS

&

The Landman -in between years, saw just five episodes, for Billy Bob whose career best it is (Ex aqueo with Goliath ;)