Old stuff you loved in 2013

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.