Old stuff you loved in 2014

Flynt is da bomb!

yeah I grabbed a load of his stuff in an ubuweb binge a couple of years ago but slept on it, downloaded a flac this year and actually paid attention & loved it

that Mamman Sani album is lovely. cheers mordy!

Biggest discovery: wow, I really like Robin Trower

Old stuff I've reconnected with for whatever reason, or finally "got":

Kinks' Muswell Hillbillies (mostly due to CD reissue with bonus DVD)
Gene Clark records that aren't No Other or White Light
James Brown - The Payback
King Crimson - Discipline
David Blue in general
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Joe Jackson - Beat Crazy
Ike and Tina deep cuts
the "bad" John Martyn albums (which are p much the very opposite of 'bad' imo)

Do reissues and comps count? Because I adore that Native North America comp on LITA.

Lastly, my wife's been binging on Eno most of this year, so I've been hearing a lot of latter-day Eno I wasn't familiar with.

Biggest discovery: wow, I really like Robin Trower

His '73-'76 albums are great.

I've been listening to a lot of Free this year. Also, I just started getting really into Earth, Wind & Fire's actual albums, having previously only owned a 2CD best-of. There's a ton of great, weird shit on their albums—they're a lot jazzier than the singles.

Some 80s new age reissues and an obsessive search for a piece of Japanese music used in a PBS commercial for an Asian art exhibit (which I never found) led me to some good stuff this year.

Jon Hassell's Aka / Darbari / Java
the Vangelis Katsoulis reissues - especially Minimal Suite / Double Image and The Slipping Beauty

Steve Roach's Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces
DJ Spencer D's Fairlights, Mallets and Bamboo mixes
Skyramps's Days of Thunder
various Eno, Moebius, Roedelius tracks - possibly from the same album, some Cluster, some Moebius (a lot of this maybe triggered by the Eno/Hyde releases)
Michael Stearns' Planetary Unfolding

I think this is the year I really dug deep with Spotify and it lead me down some weird nostalgic paths...

Cinematic Orchestra's Motion
Funki Porcini various songs
Neotropic
Flanger's Outer Space / Inner Space
Jimpster's back catalog
Journeyman/Woob/Paul Franklin

other random things...

World Standard - Country Gazette
Various - London is the Place for Me 3
Mark McGuire - Various albums
Motorpsycho - Various
Yoshida Brothers - Ibuki
Haruomi Hosono - Fossil Of Flame
伝統音楽デジタルライブラリー　箏演奏 「讃歌」 and a bunch of other performances by the same artist

DJ Spencer D's Fairlights, Mallets and Bamboo mixes
Michael Stearns' Planetary Unfolding

yessssss to these

Joe Farrell - Quartet w/John McLaughlin
Joe Farrell - Penny Arcade
Joe Farrell - Upon This Rock
Joe Farrell - Canned Funk
Joe Farrell - Benson & Farrell w/George Benson

middle 3 feature guitarist Joe (not Jeff Beck) just about the funkiest CTI releases

Joe Beck - misplaced parens

I guess "old" is relative. These were records I discovered this year:

Alice Cooper - Love it To Death
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Kvelertak - Kvelertak

Oh, forgot perhaps my favorite of the bunch:

Celtic Frost - Monotheist

Don't know how that slipped past me originally, but getting into Triptykon led me to it.

Joe Farrell - Quartet w/John McLaughlin
Joe Farrell - Penny Arcade
Joe Farrell - Upon This Rock
Joe Farrell - Canned Funk
Joe Farrell - Benson & Farrell w/George Benson

middle 3 feature guitarist Joe (not Jeff Beck) just about the funkiest CTI releases

― Pontius Pilates (m coleman), Monday, December 22, 2014 8:23 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Bought Quartet and Penny Arcade on your recommendation, and loved them both! I generally dig CTI and rank two Freddie Hubbard albums from this period (Red Clay and Straight Life) as two of my all time faves, so this was no real push. Sorta can't believe I never listened to these before. I see Canned Funk everywhere - how does it stack up to these two?

Black Oak Arkansas
Blue Oyster Cult
Focus
Jethro Tull
Nektar
Caravan
Parliament/Funkadelic
The Pretty Things
Savoy Brown
UFO
Uriah Heep

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Canned Funk is a bit slicker than Quartet, pretty much along the lines of Penny Arcade though w/o Herbie Hancock. go for it!

Bert Jansch and Jackson C. Frank, spearheading a major mid-1960s folk phase - and I caught up with a lot of Jackie Leven's stuff.

xp cool, thanks! Penny Arcade is my favorite of the two, so this definitely sounds worth seven bucks

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