Old stuff you loved in 2013

Wilco – The Whole Love
Bruce Springsteen – The River/ Live 75-85/The Ghost of Tom Joad
Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life
American Gigolo soundtrack
Outkast – ATLiens
Joni Mitchell – The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Little Feat – s/t
Messiaen – Quartet to The End of Time
Sally Shapiro – Disco Romance
Wire – Chairs Missing
Lou Reed – Coney Island Baby/The Blue Mask
The Fall – Slates
William Onyeabor reissue
Patrick Cowley reissue

Slates is SO good.

My happiest old music discovery this year was Morton Feldman's music. Christ, that guy was great.

The Urinals "Negative Capability...Check it Out!" pretty much defined my year.

Novos Baianos early albums http://youtu.be/mqcq4wwjL8o
Paris Sisters singles produced by Spector http://youtu.be/oldBm5ELs1I
Neo Boys reissue http://youtu.be/uUXYtL4JD3M
those Tarkovsky/Artemyev OSTs! http://youtu.be/nUy-Mc2nY10
+ loads more

Tons of Art Blakey/Jazz Messengers.

as one - reflections

I heard Mercyful Fate for the first time this year and it was a big deal. I listened to lots of Cocteau Twins while the ILM poll was happening and got hugely into Blue Bell Knoll and Victorialand. Fields of the Nephilim, The Gathering, Nightwish, Judas Priest, Wire, Valerie Dore...

Co-sign on the Cowley and Onyeabor compilations.

Strut put out some of my favorite compilations this year: Change the Beat: The Celluloid Records Story 1980 – 1987 and Mutazione: Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980-1988. And then there's the second Metal Dance comp. I still need to get.

Last winter I fell very hard for Slowdive's Souvlaki.
Other older bands/albums I discovered and played a lot:
Darkthrone - F.O.A.D. (this band, there's so much more to look forward to too!)
Pharoah Sanders - Thembi
Charanjit Singh - Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat
Loop - Heaven's End
Tim Buckley - Starsailor (already knew this, but it finally being reissued was a joy)

fleetwood mac - mystery to me & future games
ten years after - cricklewood green
the hollies - distant light & romany
horace parlan - the complete blue note sessions
jackie mclean - swing swang swung
la dusseldorf - s/t & viva
klaus schulze - body love 1 & 2
giorgio moroder - from here to eternity & knights in white satin
roedelius - lustwandel & wenn de sudwind weht
agitation free - malesch
kano - "can't hold back"
stone - "time"
grover washington jr - "little black samba"
kashif - "i just gotta have you (lover turn me on)"
chocolate milk - "who's getting it now"
gayle adams - "love fever"
george benson - "give me the night"

Marcos Valle - Previsao do Tempo
Paul Simon - Hearts & Bones
The The - Soul Mining
The Fall - The Unutterable
Dylan - Blood on the tracks
Autechre - LP5
Tetsu Inoue - Organic Cloud
Move D - Solitaire
Brazil Classics 1 - Beleza Tropical

Conrad Schnitzler
Iancu Dumitrescu
John Jacob Niles
Bernard Szajner
Gunter Schikert
Sensations Fix
Finis Africae
Suzanne Ciani
Man Jumping
Alan Stivell
Wizz Jones
JJ Cale
Melanie
Iasos
Dio

the year i got back into jazz, mainly 60's and 70's era Miles Davis which I'd stayed away from, and Weather Report.

kpm music + various lounge/easy listening compilations.
bread
the byrds
KISS
10cc
and of course, the brilliant philadelphia international records 40th anniversary boxset

Generally trying to sooth myself after a work related shitty tech house meltdown with smoother/minimal jazz

Wally Badarou - Echoes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYinzp6CMEc

Went deep into The Necks too, Mosquito especially
Arve Henriksen-Cartography

oh and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj_d6zmh7JM

it's been all Popol Vuh all the time since I realized back in October that I was horribly wrong in thinking they "only" did Herzog soundtracks.

I bought a bunch of cool reissues this year but my favorite old stuff turned out to be the two Roger Eno albums I bought in the summer. Voices and Between Tides both clung to the turntable during the mornings and late nights.

I guess if the "Another Self Portrait" Dylan reissue counts, then that.

Gerard Grisey (thanks Milton Parker)
David Behrmann
Christoph Heemann
CRI Records

ooh what Heeman have you been listening to? I love those CDs he did for the Barooni label (I think), Days Of The Eclipse and Aftersolstice.

imagine two "n"s there, sorry Christoph

Can
Neu
Swans

I listened to these a lot, but they weren't necessarily all new to me:

Terry Riley

The Padova Concert (1992)

Gorgeous just intonation solo piano. This is what my acupuncturist should play instead of the European classical hits and chamber music pops she typically plays. (Why do people think any classical music = relaxing?) I hadn't known about this recording.

Descending Moonshine Dervishes
Persian Surgery Dervishes

I was always more of a Shri Camel man, but these are both good.

A Rainbow in Curved Air/Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band

Terry Riley/Stefano Scodanibbio - Diamond Fiddle Language

Contemporary chamber music with Riley on keyboard, informed by his eastern musical interests (blah blah blah). Very good!

John Fahey

Sea Changes & Coelcanths: A Young Person's Guide to John Fahey
God, Time & Causality

and lots of compilations with overlapping track selections.

Ricardo Gallo - Urdimbres y Maranas (2007)

This album continues to grow on me. Gallo's Latin jazz employs out of the ordinary Colombian rhythms, and his playing is open to dissonance. Sounds not so far removed from Sun Ra at times (of course I like it).

Puerto Rico All Stars - Tribute to the Messiah

The messiah in this case was apparently, blasphemously, Eddie Palmieri, as these are all EP covers. I complain about all the current "all stars" groups doing salsa tribute albums and only playing covers, but this was originally released in 1979 (when salsa was still going strong) and while it's not Eddie Palmieri's band playing, the lineup is genuinely topnotch. The arrangements occasional veer too far into Latin jazz bombast (which was going around in the late 70s), but they always recover. I wouldn't say any of these versions improve on the originals, but they are worth having. Includes a performance by a 15 year old Gilberto Santa Rosa! (Note: this is on Spotify, although I paid for a download to play in the car.)

Disco Discharge comps
Nillsson Schmilsson
Wham / The Final
early Everlys singles
Bee Gees / Children Of The World and Main Course
kd lang / ingenue
j dilla / donuts
the police / synchronicity

The Cars, s/t & Heartbeat City
Horace Silver, The United States of Mind
Sun Ra - Secrets of the Sun
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman
Shuggie Otis - Freedom Flight
Vainica Doble, s/t
George Benson, Give Me The Night
Earth, Wind & Fire, Raise!
Aurra, Live and Let Live
Sparks, Terminal Jive
Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity
Thomas Leer, Contradictions: The Cherry Red Collection
Tod Dockstader, Eight Electronic pieces
Ruth White, Flowers of Evil
Vangelis, Albedo 0.39
Ashra, New Age Of Earth
Harmonia, Live 1974
Kevin Ayers and the Whole World, Shooting at the Moon
The Left Banke, Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina
Question Mark & the Mysterians, 96 Tears & Action!
Pärson Sound, s/t
Otto Luening
Vladimir Ussachevsky
Dieterich Buxtehude
Korla Pandit
Iasos
Laraaji

there's so much good music! I barely paid attention to 2013 releases by comparison.

2013 was such a exciting year of discovering and rediscovering lounge, exotica, folkies and rockers
Hank Juray Quartet - A Happening at Cinelli's
Philip John Lewin - Diamond Love and Other Realities
Arthur Lyman - Everything
The Famous Casanovas - Psychedelic Sounds
Pott County Pork & Bean Band - Spreadin' It
Arica - Heaven
Michaelo - Michael O'Gara
Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo - Moon Gas
Lori Longmire & The Crown Of Creation - A Day In The Sun
Sonny Padilla Jr. - Whatever You Are
Richard Vale and the Gems - Where Am I Going
Kenny Knight - Crossroads
The Shangaans - Jungle Drums
Jimmy Carter & the Dallas County Green - Summer Brings the Sunshine
Stack Medeiros Band - Cold Chilly Morning
Eden Ahbez - Eden's Island
Will & James Ragar - S/T
Santo & Johnny - S/T
Michael Hurley - Hi Fi Snock Uptown
Dennis Soares - Surf Over the Reef
The J Ann C Trio - At Tan-Tar-A
Wilcox, Sullivan, Wilcox - An Album of Original Music

A lot of late 60s/early 70s psych/rock/folk, via the Psychedelicized webstation.

This was my krautrock year - the two Soul Jazz compilations and lots of Can, Neu!, Harmonia, La Dusseldorf, Faust and Kraftwerk. Yum!

The Associates - Sulk

schkip, schkip, schkipping!

The Urinals "Negative Capability...Check it Out!" pretty much defined my year.

Got into these guys and Bongwater this year, who don't share much beyond both covering "Why Are We Sleeping?"

Best recent discovery has to be Vintage Violence, courtesy the VU poll - one of those albums you hear and immediately feel like you've made a new friend.

Biggest ongoing musical mind-opening has to be having a local station flip into an urban oldies format and discovering a ton of late-70s to mid-80s R&B that I had completely missed.

This was also the year I discovered Argus by Wishbone Ash.

Holy shit that Wally Badarou--never heard of it, exactly what I'm looking for

finally got into jazz and realised i love it.

Also, Dave Van Ronk Folksinger. Great bluesy folk.

I almost just started a thread about this song (not new to me or anything, but I just started laughing about how great it is):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ6frXvcLDA

The whole flute vs. trombone/horns in general thing was a good sound.

When George Jones died, I found my way to Billy Sherrill and soaked up a lot of his 70s productions over the course of a few month. My favorite thing to emerge from that time spent was a love for Tanya Tucker's first three albums.

I had no idea Billy Sherrill produced Tanya Tucker! What are some other artists under his belt I should seek out?

Mostly stuff you guys introduced or reintroduced me to through various polls and threads (what happened to the FUNK/SOUL/etc listening club anyway?!):

Big Star - 3rd
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
INXS - Kick
Funkadelic - Let's Take It To The Stage
George Michael - Faith
Townes Van Zandt - High, Low and In Between and The Late, Great Townes Van Zandt
The Waitresses - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful
Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself

Only the Funkadelic, Townes, and Wright were actually completely new to me, but a lot of these had just been off of my radar for years.

He chiefly worked with George and Tammy (and George & Tammy!) from the late 60s all the way into the 80s, but the Charlie Rich albums are very good too. xp

oh, forgot:

Fugazi - 13 Songs

Another one that an ILM poll finally got me to listen to.

Oh, and some early Barbara Mandrell stuff as well. xp

ZZ Top - Warner's box set w/original album mixes
Pink Floyd - remaster box set
The Beatles - remaster box set
Genesis - 1970-75 box set
Hawkwind - 77 (2 cd live set), Parallel Universe
Trouble- Psalm 9, Run to the Light & The Skull
The Obsessed- Incarnate, Lunar Womb & The Church Within
The Groundhogs- box set
David Bowie- Live in Santa Monica 72

Assuming old=pre 2013:

Shrag
Lovely Eggs
The Janitors

Lilys and Silkworm are two bands I listened to a lot this year. I'd been familiar with them both for a while but they only really clicked this year. Lifestyle and Better Can't Make Your Life Better are the two I like best.

I tried to like Silkworm this year but it hasn't clicked yet

kenny larkin
john barry - walkabout ost
shinichi atobe - ship-scope 12"
untold
rhythm and sound - rounds
popol vuh
kraftwerk

Darkthrone - all of their 90s records
Miles Davis - European live bootleg 1969
Mayhem - Live in Leipzig
Franz Liszt - late piano pieces
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
Robert Schumann- Davidsbündler
ELO - Zoom!
Black Sabbath - entire discography

David Bowie - 'David Live' AKA 'David Live at The Tower, Philidelphia' AKA 'That live album that DB doesn't recall making because he was so out of it on coke'
Suede - the first two albums

Orange Juice - Rip It Up
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
My Morning Jacket - Okonokos

And Pulp's entire discography

The archival songs that make up the Dead C. side of their split 12" with Rangda released by Ba Da Bing! also had a huge impact on me and kicked off a major Dead C. obsession.

Could add the Walkabout soundtrack to my list as I loved the score both times that I watched the movie this year, but I never did manage to find a copy of the soundtrack online.

Patrick Cowley - School Daze
Change - The Glow of Love / Miracles
Miles Davis - Get Up With It
Alexander O'Neal - Hearsay
ZTT 12 inch mixes comp
Black Uhuru - Red
Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves
Say Anything - Is A Real Boy
Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Laraaji - Flow Goes The Universe
Maxwell - Embrya
New Kingdom - Paradise Don't Come Cheap
Virgo - S/T
Rob Gordon Projects - S/T
AFX - Hangable Auto Bulb
Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night

I don't care if Bill Cosby made them dad reggae, I still love a lot of Black Uhuru's music.

Lots o'Jon Hassell, Harold Budd and Michael Rother.

Jim Capaldi, of all people!

Warren Zevon
Late 70s Neil
Mozart
Basic Channel/Maurizio (nostalgia rather than discovery)

João Gilberto
Blossom Dearie
Patrick Cowley - School Daze
Sonic Youth - Sister/Evol/self-titled EP
A bunch of Kiwi funk/disco/etc interzone stuff - late Quincy Conserve, Pacific Eardrum, RedEye, Golden Harvest, etc

The best of the old records I've heard in 2013:

The Impressions - This Is My Country
Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear
Hugh Mundell - Africa Must Be Free by 1983
David Kilgour - Here Come the Cars
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Grachan Moncur III - Evolution
Make Up - Sound Verite
Jonathan Richman - I, Jonathan
The Dictators - Manifest Destiny
Mac Dre - Al Boo Boo
T2 - It'll All Work Out in Boomland
Stray - Stray
The Jacka, AP.9 & Husalah - Mob Trial
The Jacka - Tear Gas
J Stalin - Gas Nation
The Beau Brummels - Bradley's Barn
Thomas Fehlmann - Visions of Blah

Also enjoyed a few albums each by Sun Araw, Nina Simone and Bobby Hutcherson.

Re-acquainting myself with Coroner lately, especially their 1993 album Grin, which is underrated by pretty much everybody.

Geto Boys - Till Death Do Us Part(1993)
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream (1963)
UGK - Ridin' Dirty (1996)
UGK - Underground Kingz (2007)
Porter Ricks - Biokinetics (1996)
Skip James - Today (1966)
15-60-75 - Jimmy Bell's Still In Town (1976)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - b-2 Unit (1980)
Haruomi Hosono & The Yellow Magic Band - Paraiso (1978)
Haruomi Hosono - N.D.E. (1995)
Hamilton Bohannon - Bohannon (1975)

FU if you want to argue with any of that shit.

Judee Sill, never heard of her until I read Hoskyns' Hotel California--amazing!

These are all albums I heard for the first time in 2013 that I ended up loving.

Fleetwood Mac - All the albums from their 75-87 period
Philip Glass - Glassworks
John Cooper Clarke - Snap, Crackle and Bop
Bill Withers - Justments
The Clientele - They became one of my favourite bands this year.
Electrelane - The Power Out, No Shouts to Calls
Sebadoh - Bakesale
Todd Rundgren - Todd
Ween - White Pepper
David Ruffin - David (The Lost Album)
Hot Chocolate - Various albums and compilations
Julie Cruise - The Voice of Love
Wendy & Bonnie - Genesis
Margo Guryan - Take a Picture
Alex Moulton - Exodus
Les Rita Mitsouko - First couple of albums
20/20 - Look Out! and the debut
Daryl Hall - Sacred Songs
Public Image - Flowers of Romance
Penetration - Moving Targets
Shack - Waterpistol
Mike James Kirkland - Hang on in There
Dusty Springfield - Cameo

The Clientele - They became one of my favourite bands this year.

yeah in '08, i really got into these guys and listened to all their stuff that year.