Paradox One

This is a list of the best tracks of the year, for further information, please visit the Recommended Releases page.

TRACKS OF MY YEAR

BIG LOG (and more!)- ROBERT PLANT from 'Sixty-Six to Timbuktu'
ALL THE LOVE WE CAN STAND- OMAR AND THE HOWLERS from 'Boogie Man
'
FAIRPORT CONVENTION- Who Knows Where The Time Goes?'- priceless
THE FLAMING LIPS- Assassination of the Sun' from 'Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell'
FRAN GRAY- In Your Room (One of many on a wonderful album)
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD- I Can't Make it Alone' from 'Dusty in Memphis'
'Glory' from Somebody's Famous: A Chip Off the Old Block' (Stone Premonitions)
TONY HILL- INEXACTNESS on Woronzow Records has to go in as an album of the year (Maybe this as this is the first time I've heard it- maybe the record co are right not to specify years!
'Point Me at the Sky' and 'Big Store' from MANDRA GORA LIGHTSHOW SOCIETY's 'Lucille's Grotesque Diary of Psychotic Love Throughout the Galaxy'.
I know the following are not 2003 releases but I heard a Bevis Frond album for the first time this year (OK call me a slow starter but I've had a lot to take in!) so it's new to me. 'Good Enough For You' and the title track from THE BEVIS FROND 'WHAT DID FOR THE DINOSAURS'- actually the whole damned lot! Superb from start to finish! Available on Woronzow Records www.woronzow.co.uk '
High on a Downer', 'Can't Feel It', 'Old School Rock' etc. from THE BEVIS FROND 'VALEDICTORY SONGS' (Woronzow) 'Hole Song #2' and all the rest on THE BEVIS FROND:LIVE AT THE GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, SF (Woronzow)
'Up on Silence' by Ron Noyes from 'Mosaic:
'Rope Ladder to the Moon' by Jack Bruce from 'Songs for the Tailor'
'You Burned My Tables' by Jack Bruce from 'Harmony Row'
'Your Root 2' by In Cahoots from 'All That'
'Waterfall- the Unknown Light' from Waterfall (1971 album issued this year by www.blackrills.ch)
'Hard World' by The Rabbit's Hat from 'Lapsit Exillis'
'Necros' by Lope from 'Necros'
'My Coat' by When's the Future from 'Now'
'Losers' by Dave Dill from 'Heaven'
'Halcyon Days' by Eric Anders from 'Not at One' - Review
'Look Around' by Flight 09 from 'Forbidden Lullabies' (Neurosis Records)
'Motorvation' by Peter Lacey from 'Anderida
'Ode to Central Park' by Robert Urban from 'Rock Widow
'Superhero' by Carptree from 'Superhero
'Shallow Man' by Root Deco from 'Dragon Rings a Bell'
'Hold On' by Steve Wilson and the Innocent Bystanders from 'Steppin It Up a Notch'
'Rock 'n' Roll Song' by Church of Hed
'Lithium Statement' by Tim Mungenast from 'The Unstable Boy'
'Out of the Mists of Obscurity'- title track by The Rick Ray Band
'With What I?' by The Suicide of Miss Melancholy from 'Integrity is Plastique
'Sunlight Through Autumn Leaves' by Census of Hallunications from 'The Eighth Dwarf'
'Soldier' by The Groundhogs from 'Thank Christ for the Bomb' 'In My Own Time', 'Wheels' (and all the rest) from the Mystic Family reissues
'Run for Cover' by Roger Chapman from the 'Family & Friends' box set
'As the Sun' by Tripod from 'Tripod
'Inner Visions' by Soniq Theater from 'The Third Eye'
'HeiZEN' by Trigon from 'Burg Herzberg Live 2003'

 

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