Top 10 Albums of 2024

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Here is my top 10 in no particular order, but I will say that I listened to the top 4 the most. There are several other albums that came out this year that I really loved, but these are my standouts:
- Shovels & Rope: Something's Working Above My Head
- Jack White: No Name
- Pearl Jam: Dark Matter
- Sturgill Simpson: Passage Du Desir
- IDLES: Tangk
- KGLW - Live in Houston
- The Smile: Wall of Eyes
- The Smile: Cutouts
- Liam FInn: Hyperverse
- Shawn Smith: Shield of Thorns
Here is my top 10 in no particular order, but I will say that I listened to the top 4 the most. There are several other albums that came out this year that I really loved, but these are my standouts:
- Shovels & Rope: Something's Working Above My Head
- Jack White: No Name
- Pearl Jam: Dark Matter
- Sturgill Simpson: Passage Du Desir
- IDLES: Tangk
- KGLW - Live in Houston
- The Smile: Wall of Eyes
- The Smile: Cutouts
- Liam FInn: Hyperverse
- Shawn Smith: Shield of Thorns
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2. Kendrick Lamar - GNX
3. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above US
4. Charli XCX - brat
5. Burial - Dreamfear EP
6. The Smile - Cutouts
7. The Smile - Wall of Eyes
8. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis - s/t
9. Four Tet - 3
10. Vince Staples - Dark Times
1. Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
2. American Aquarium - The Fear of Standing Still
3. JJ Grey & Mofro - Olustee
4. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
5. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
6. Jack White - No Name
7. The Avett Brothers - The Avett Brothers
8. Shovels & Rope - Something is Working Up Above My Head
9. Marc Broussard - Time is a Thief
10. Painted Shield - 3
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Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible
Johnny Blue Skies - Passage du Desir
Wand - Vertigo
Bonny Light Horseman - Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
Glass Beach - Plastic Death
MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
Frank Turner - Undefeated
The Pineapple Thief - It Leads To This
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
Jerry Cantrell - I Want Blood
The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
Collective Soul - Here to Eternity
Romance - Fontaines DC
Tangk - IDLES
No Name - Jack White
Son of a Broken Man - Fantastic Negrito
Lives Outgrawn - Beth Gibbons
Wall of Eyes - The Smile
Songs of a Lost World - The Cure
Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
Would add
Bando Stone - Childish Gambino
Invincible Shield - Judas Priest
JP makes top 4 for me, along with Dark Matter, Tangk, and GNX....crazy to think Priest is still putting out great records but it is bomb.
The War on Drugs - Live Drugs Again
Spectral Wound - Songs of Blood and Mire
The Gaslight Anthem - History Books
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
Future Islands - People Who Aren't There Anymore
Mother of Graves - The Periapt of Absence
Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition
Suki Waterhouse - Memoir of a Sparklemuffin
1992- Lollapalooza, Irvine, California
Nothing since then. I suck.2016- Fenway Park, Boston - Both glorious nights
2022- Oakland Night 2
2024 Sacramento, CA
Wilderado - Talker
Futurebirds - Easy Company
Dr. Dog - Dr. Dog
Woodland - Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Dead Man Winter and Trampled by Turtles - Always Here/Always Now EP
Valley of Abandoned Songs - Felice Brothers
Waxahatchee- Tigers Blood
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
Fontaines DC: Romance
Jack White: No Name
IDLES: Tangk
Kings of Leon: Can we please have fun
Kim Deal: Nobody loves you more
Sleater-Kinney: Little rope
St Vincent: All born screaming
Sprints: Letter to self
Amyl & the Sniffers: Cartoon Darkness
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Pearl Jam-Dark Matter
Jack White-No Name
Pixies-The Night the Zombies Came
MJ Lenderman-Manning Fireworks
Good Looks-Lived Here For Awhile
Opeth-The Last Will and Testament
Gatecreeper- Dark Superstition
The Cure- Songs in a Lost World
IDLES-TANGK
Japandroids- Fate and Alchohol
Los Campesinos!- All Hell
Medium Build- Country
Pearl Jam- Dark Matter
Donovan Woods- Things Were Never Good If They're Not Good Now
Bonny Light Horseman- Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free
Maggie Rogers- Don't Forget Me
Leif Vollebekk- Revelation
Godspeed You Black Emperor
Waxahatchee- Tigers Blood
Leon Bridges- Leon
Jason Isbell- Ryman Vol. 2
Fontaines DC- Romance
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet- The Way Out of Easy
The Smile- Cutouts
Need to find some time over the winter break to play the new IDLES and the new Brittany Howard albums more.
Soul Asylum - Slowly But Shirley
The Damnwells - Bad at Beautiful
Mark Knopfler - One Deep River\
David Gilmour - Luck and Strange
Wilco - Hot Sun Cool Shroud (EP)
Also out this year but I didn't listen more than a couple times:
Old 97s - American Primtiive
Richard Thompson - Ship to Shore
My list would look like this:
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum XX
The Folk Implosion - Walk Thru Me
Jack White - No Name
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Early Daze
The Black Keys - Ohio Players
Screaming Trees - Weird Things Happening
The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards
Jesse Malin - Silver Patron Saints
J Mascis - What Do We Do Now
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
I had a feeling something was missing from my list. J! How did I miss J?!
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
Guess that’ll have to go on the Honourable Mentions pile, along with John Butler, Iron & Wine, and all the other Neil Young releases this year.
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
Early Day Miners- Outside Lies Magic
Chelsea Wolfe- She Reaches Out…
NewDad- Madra
The Mysterines- Afraid of Tomorrows
Amyl and the Sniffers- cartoon Darkness
Fontaines DC- Romance
St Vincent- All Born Screaming
Chat Pile- Cool World
Godspeed- No Title As Of…
Painted Shield- 3
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
Fanning Dempsey - The Deluge
Jack White - No Name
The War on Drugs - Live Drugs Again
Jebediah - Oiks
to a lesser extent and need to revisit:
Painted Shield 3
Kings of Leon - Can We Please Have Fun
The Black Keys - Ohio Players
Melbourne #2 '03
Melbourne #3 '03
Melbourne #1 '06
Melbourne #3 '06
Melbourne '09
Melbourne '14
Great year for music!
Body Count - Merciless
Smashing Pumpkins - Aghori Mhori Mei
Avett Brothers - ST
Jerry Cantrell - I Want Blood
Jack White - No Name