What were your top musical discoveries of 2024?
Looking for music that was new to you and your collection that lit you and your system up last year.
Here’s my list:
Vinyl -
UHQR version of Steely Dan “Asia”
Original Master Recording of Grateful Dead’s “Workingman’s Dead”
Digital files -
Mac Miller “Circles”
Iron & Wine “The Shepherds Dog”
Jacob Collier “Djesse Vol.2”
Mokave “Afrique”
Skrillex “Quest for Fire”
Beyonce “Cowboy Carter”
CD -
Sinead O’Conner “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got”
This is at least what is top of mind.
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NEW discoveries: GRAHAM NASH: "Live - Songs for Beginners/ Wild Tales" J.D. SOUTHER - "Natural History" RE-Discoveries: ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION - "The Polydor Years" (8 CD retrospective. Found it new for only $40) JACKSON BROWNE - "For Everyman" (2024 Remaster) DIXIE DREGS - "Freefall - What If - Night of the Living Dregs" (2024 Remaster) BOO HEWERDINE & DARDEN SMITH - "Evidence" (1996 Remaster)
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Devin, I looked back in my conversation history and I can't find the thread I was looking for, but there was a thread about "Jazz Music", and I suggested the OP listen to Bohren & der Club of Gore and another member contacted me raving about how much they enjoyed Bohren. Was that you? If so, I'm elated that they made such an impact on you that you listed them in this thread about favorite music discoveries of 2024. I feel like I did a good deed if it is you I spoke with earlier.
If you, what was your favorite album? Did you look up any of their live performances on YouTube? As far as full albums go, my favorites are 1997's "Midnight Radio" and 2000's "Sunset Mission". I was blown away when I first heard their cover of "Catch My Heart" with vocals by Mike Patton (lead singer of Faith No More) on the 2011 EP "Beileid" (it's also on 2016's "Bohren For Beginners". The first time I heard it, I did a quick head snap, because I couldn't believe I was hearing a remake of the 1985 song by the German Heavy Metal band, Warlock. Warlock was fronted by one of the earliest female smoke show vocalist, Doro Pesch, and were quite popular in Europe during the 1980's and early 1990's, touring with bands such as Dio, W.A.S.P., Megadeth, Judas Priest, and Scorpions.
On this song, Mike Patton shows why he is one of the most talented and versatile voices in rock and roll today. He does just an amazing job. While this Bohren project was being recorded, Patton learned Italian and released "Mondo Cane", an album of Italian Pop Songs backed by a forty-member orchestra and fifteen-piece backing band. People that only know him through Faith No More are missing A LOT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxbwSCbSAsc
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