Roger's Year in Music for 2020. Without music in 2020, I'd have gone quite insane.

For one year at least, pending what I decide to do about the future of my self-expression, there'll be relative simplicity in the following listening lists for 2020.

There's also a documentary of note, highly recommended to those of you who were/are INXS fans like me.

 

 Here we go. 

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I LIKED THESE A LOT BUT THEY WEREN’T RELEASED IN 2020

Titus Andronicus … An Obelisk (2019)
White Reaper … You Deserve Love (2019)
Wussy … What Heaven Is Like (2018)
Haim … Days Are Gone (2013)
Eubie Blake … The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake (1969)

LISTENED MUCH TO THESE NEW ALBUMS BUT DID NOT BUY THE DISCS

Idles … Ultra Mono
Kansas … The Absence of Presence
Pearl Jam … Gigaton
Nubya Garcia … Source
Lang Lang … Bach: The Goldberg Variations

25 Sleaford Mods … All That Glue (compilation, not new music, but a constant companion)

24-11 COULD BE IN JUST ABOUT ANY ORDER

24 Blossoms … Foolish Loving Spaces
23 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever … Sideways to New Italy
22 Grouplove … Healer
21 Strokes … The New Abnormal

20 Sparks … A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip
19 Travis … 10 Songs
18 The Killers … Exploding the Mirage
17 Fontaines DC … A Hero’s Death
16 Ocean Alley … Lonely Diamond

15 Everything Everything … Re-Animator
14 James Dean Bradfield … Even in Exile
13 Spacey Jane … Sunshine
12 Wild Front … The Great Indoors (EP)
11 The Struts … Strange Days

10-6 ARE GREAT ALBUMS BY OLD FARTS

10 Bob Dylan … Rough and Rowdy Ways
9 AC/DC … Power Up
8 Bruce Springsteen … Letter to You
7 Bob Mould … Blue Hearts
6 Deep Purple … Whoosh!

TOP FIVE

5 Doves … The Universal Want
4 Courteeners … More. Again. Forever.
3 Haim … Women in Music Part III
2 Rookie … Rookie
1 The 1975 … Notes on a Conditional Form (as an album, from start to finish uninterrupted. It moves me tremendously in this fashion, less so when biting off smaller bits).