2020 - How Was It For You?

[GubGub (Al)]

I thought I would nominate my 10 favourite records of 2020 and see if anyone else fancies doing the same thing.

1. AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T Rex - Various Artists
2. No Place Like Tomorrow - Virginia Kettle
3. Fiddle Back - Chris Leslie
4. Licht - Nena
5. Wreckless Abandon - The Dirty Knobs
6. Emergency Lullabies - Merry Hell
7. No Time For Love Songs - The Mastersons
8. Rough & Rowdy Ways - Bob Dylan
9. Fake Tan - Iain Matthews & The Salmon Smokers
10. Luna Park - Tankus The Henge

Special mention for Strange News by Trad Arrr but it is too early to know where it sits in the list.

[Col D]

Here's mine, not a bad year overall in the circumstances.

1 The Left Outsides - Are You Sure I Was There?
2 The Hanging Stars - A New Kind of Sky
3 Smoke Fairies - Darkness Brings the Wonders Home
4 The Dream Syndicate - The Universe Inside
5 Chuck Prophet - The Land That Time Forgot
6 Alison Cotton - Only Darkness Now
7 Levellers - Peace
8 The Asteroid No 4 - Northern Songs
9 Green Seagull - Cloud Cover
10 Andy Bell - The View From Halfway Down

[Jules Gray]

1= Guided by Voices - Surrender Your Poppy Field
1= Guided by Voices - Mirrored Aztec
1= Guided by Voices - Styles We Paid For

Jules

[wayne stote]

Still waiting for the new albums from Tradarrr and Firefall to arrive so things might change but currently my top ten looks something like:

1. The Outlaws - Dixie Highway
2. Fairport Convention - Shuffle & Go
3. The Burrito Brothers - The Notorious....
4. Dennis de Young - 26  East Vol 1
5. Chris Leslie - Fiddleback
6. ChimpanA - The Empathy Machine
7. Pride Of Lions - Lionheart
8. Dyble Longdon - Between A Breath & A Breath
9. Grumblewood - Stories Of Strangers
10. Ye Banished Privateers - Hostis Humani Generis

Early days yet, obviously.  

[wayne stote]

I thought I would nominate my 10 favourite records of 2020 and see if anyone else fancies doing the same thing.

1. AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T Rex - Various Artists
2. No Place Like Tomorrow - Virginia Kettle
3. Fiddle Back - Chris Leslie
4. Licht - Nena
5. Wreckless Abandon - The Dirty Knobs
6. Emergency Lullabies - Merry Hell
7. No Time For Love Songs - The Mastersons
8. Rough & Rowdy Ways - Bob Dylan
9. Fake Tan - Iain Matthews & The Salmon Smokers
10. Luna Park - Tankus The Henge

Special mention for Strange News by Trad Arrr but it is too early to know where it sits in the list.

I haven't picked up that Iain Matthews album yet. Looking forward to it.

[davidmjs]

Here's mine, not a bad year overall in the circumstances.

1 The Left Outsides - Are You Sure I Was There?
2 The Hanging Stars - A New Kind of Sky
3 Smoke Fairies - Darkness Brings the Wonders Home
4 The Dream Syndicate - The Universe Inside
5 Chuck Prophet - The Land That Time Forgot
6 Alison Cotton - Only Darkness Now
7 Levellers - Peace
8 The Asteroid No 4 - Northern Songs
9 Green Seagull - Cloud Cover
10 Andy Bell - The View From Halfway Down

Nice list.  About half of these would be on mine (with Alison at the pinnacle) if I could be bothered to play ball (I never can).

Which reminds me, I really must listen to TVFHD.  It sounds great but I'm sceptical (although a great Ride fan).

[Shankly (Peter)]

1. Nightwish - Human II Human
2. Bob Dylan - Rough and rowdy ways
3. Dark Forest - Oak, ash and thorn
4. Seven Spires - Emerald seas
5. Liliac - Queen of hearts
6. Unleash the Archers - Abyss
7. Portread - Decayeon
8. Dyble Longdon - Between a breath and a breath
9. Drive By Truckers - The unravelling
10. The Pretty Things - Bare as bone, bright as blood

[Will S]

I hate trying to put these things in order, so I shall just list the 10 best albums for me (in no particular order):

Dyble Longdon Between A Breath And A Breath
Dawes Good Luck With Whatever
Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets Live At the Roundhouse
Iona The Book of Iona
Sam Sweeney Unearth Repeat
Big Big Train Empire
The Unthanks Diversions vol.5 - Live and Unaccompanied
Jackie Oates and John Spiers Needle Pin, Needle Pin
Steve Hackett Selling England by the Pound and Spectral Mornings Live
Seth Lakeman The Pilgrim's Tale

and plaudits also to
Alden Patterson Dashwood Waterbound and
Tanya Brittain Hireth

[ColinB]

A slightly different top 10 to the one I posted on my blog -

The Boomtown Rats - Citizens of Boomtown
Kris Drever - Where The World Is Thin
Kim Edgar - Held
Fairport Convention - Shuffle and Go
Chris Flegg - Twenty's Plenty
Fabian Holland - Under the Red Island Bakery
Sarah Jarosz - World on the Ground
The Levellers - Peace
Kate Rusby - Hand Me Down
Malcolm Strachan - About Time

[Dan O.]

In no particular order :

Dyble Longdon : Between A Breath & A Breath
Bob Mould - Blue Hearts
Bonemachine - Mountains
Disheveled Cuss - Disheveled Cuss
Jackie Venson - Vintage Machine
John Paul White - The Hurting Kind (strictly 2019 but bought 2020)
Jeffrey Foucault - Blood Brothers
Jason O'Driscoll - Everything Fall Away
Marley Blandford - Ephemeral Adventures
Richard & Linda Thompson - Hard Luck Stories (if sublime reissue boxsets count)

Thank goodness for the interweb - thanks to a certain pandemic situation, I bought almost no physical music this year. All of the above were purchased online and downloaded, even the RT & LT boxset.

[Col D]

Nice list.  About half of these would be on mine (with Alison at the pinnacle) if I could be bothered to play ball (I never can).

Which reminds me, I really must listen to TVFHD.  It sounds great but I'm sceptical (although a great Ride fan).

Definitely worth a listen, I'd put it on par with the two post-reunion Ride albums, which I both rate highly.