Best albums of 2014: 19 to 10

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Best Albums of 2014: 19-10

AS 2014 draws to a close, it’s time to look back on the last 12 months in music and as tradition goes, this involves the unveiling of our 35 Best Albums Of The Year – as always, it has been a struggle, we have fought and bled and finally agreed on the 35 best records of 2014.  There will be three posts, the excitement will be unbearable and the top 10 will be revealed in a few of days..

What did we get wrong? What did we miss? Well, nothing of course, this is THE list.  No, just kidding, this is our view of the year in music, and as we have said many times before, we only write about the stuff we like and we can not reach everything.

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Enjoy! …and use the comments to voice your opinions!

 

Torgeir Waldemar

 

19. Torgeir Waldemar – Torgeir Waldemar

Two years after his EP, Take me home, Waldemar released his eponymous debut and it fulfills the sky-high hopes we’ve had for this album. Intense and bitter-sweet stories with good melodies. These are songs of longing and pain conveyed like only the best singer-songwriters. It may be sad but it is also warm.

Selected songs: Flowers (feat. Ida Jenshus), Streets, Across the river

Torgeir Waldemar (support Wovenhand) – Flowers (live Ampere Munich 2014-09-14):

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December 24: Lemmy is 69 – Happy Birthday Lemmy & Happy Christmas Everybody!

Lemmy2  “A jumbo jet taking off from LAX is like 30 smokers smoking 200 cigarettes a day for 30 fuckin’ years. And they want me to stop smoking THIS?! fuck off”
~Lemmy

 

We recorded his track in Los Angeles in maybe two takes about a year and a half ago. Until then I’d never met what I’d call a real rock ‘n’ roll hero before. Fuck Elvis and Keith Richards, Lemmy’s the king of rock ‘n’ roll – he told me he never considered Motörhead a metal band, he was quite adamant. Lemmy’s a living, breathing, drinking and snorting fucking legend. No one else comes close.
~Dave Grohl

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Bob Dylan: Live 1980 – 1989 (Video & audio)

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Well, performers feel that.., they don’t feel they’re adversaries, but they do feel that…
they feel a lot of times that their points are not taken the right way or they feel imposed
upon to answer questions that have really little to do with why they fill halls or sell
records.
~Bob Dylan (to Dave Herman, July 1981)

Well, every tour is different you know, and each show is different. It’s always, uh, they
change, from this year to last year. Probably two years ago, you would have seen a
different show.
~Bob Dylan (Verona press conference, May 1984)

I’ve always loved to travel and play my songs, meet new people and see different places. I
love to roll into town in the early morning and walk the deserted streets before anybody gets
up. Love to see the sun come up over the highway.
Then, of course, there’s playing on the stage in front of live people, feeling hearts and minds
moving. Everybody don’t get to do that. Touring to me has never been any kind of hardship.
It’s a privilege.
~Bob Dylan (to Edna Gundersen, July 1988)

Here is a collection of links to posts of Bob Dylan live performances from the 80’s published here @ Alldylan.com.

Enjoy..

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December 23: The late Chet Baker was born in 1929


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“People said I’d never make 35, then I’d never make 40, 45; now I’m almost 50, so Im beginning to think maybe they might be wrong.”
– Chet Baker

“An Evening with Chet Baker” (aka “Live at Le Dreher 1980”) Director: Leon Terjanian (43min video):

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