Choosing the best albums and legacy releases of 2024.
Redd Kross “Redd Kross” 2024 In The Red Records – Celebrating 40 years of delivering non-stop, pop-rockin’ nuggets with a documentary, a biography written by Dan Epstein, and their first double album, also known as “The Red Album” due to its cover’s homage to The Beatles’ “White Album.” Serious ear worms abound.
Top 30 Rock & Pop Albums 2024
1. Redd Kross “Redd Kross” (In the Red)
2. Billie Eilish “Hit Me Hard and Soft” (Darkroom/Interscope)
3. MJ Lenderman “Manning Fireworks” (ANTI)
4. Amyl & The Sniffers “Cartoon Darkness” (Virgin)
5. The Lemon Twigs “A Dream Is All We Know” (Captured Tracks)
6. Sleater Kinney “Little Rope” (Loma Vista)
7. Andrew Gabbard “Ramble and Rave On!” (Karma Chief)
8. Faye Webster “Underdressed at The Symphony” (Secretly Canadian)
9. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Wild God” (Play It Again Sam)
10. Kacey Musgraves “Deeper Well” (MCA Nashville/Interscope)
11. Kim Deal “Nobody Loves You More” (4AD)
12. Billy Strings “Highway Prayers” (Warner)
13. The Coward Brothers (New West)
14. Jack White “No Name” (Third Man)
15. Wilco “Hot Sun Cool Shroud” (dBpm)
16. Cedric Burnside “Hill Country Love” (Provogue)
17. Mdou Moctar “Funeral For Justice” (Matador)
18. Beyonce “Cowboy Carter” (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
19. Nick Lowe “Indoor Safari” (Yep Roc)
20. Linda Thompson “Proxy Music” (Story Sound)
21. Father John Misty “Mahashmashana” (Sub Pop)
22. Richard Thompson “Ship To Shore” (New West)
23. X “Smoke and Fiction” (Fat Possum)
24. Liam Gallagher/John Squire (Warner)
25. Fontaines D.C. “Romance” (XL)
26. Hurray For the Riff Raff “The Past Is Still Alive” (Nonesuch)
27. The Mavericks “Moon & Stars” (Mondo Mundo)
28. Orgone “Chimera” (3 Palms)
29. Laurie Anderson “Amelia” (Nonesuch)
30. Dehd “Poetry” (Fat Possum)
The rest of the best albums (Alphabetically)
1. The Bevis Frond “Focus on Nature” (Fire)
2. Bill Callahan “Resuscitate” (Drag City)
3. Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs “Vagabonds” (BMG)
4. Joachim Cooder “Dreamer’s Motel” (Temple of Leaves)
5. The Cure “Songs From A Lost World” (Polydor/Fiction/Capitol)
6. EELS “Time” (eWorks/Play It Again Sam)
7. Ben Folds “Sleigher” (New West)
8. Aaron Frazier “Into The Blue” (Dead Oceans)
9. The Hard Quartet (Matador)
10. Brittany Howard “What Now” (Island)
11. Killer Mike “Michael & The Mighty Midnight Revival” (Loma Vista)
12. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard “Flight b741” (P(doom))
13. Kendrick Lamar “GNX”
14. Mk.gee “Two Star & The Dream Police” (R+R)
15. Willie Nelson “The Border” (SONY)
16. Orville Peck “Stampede” (Warner)
17. The Smile “Cut Outs”/”Wall Of Eyes” (XL)
18. St. Vincent “All Born Screaming” (Loma Vista)
19. Yard Act “Where’s My Utopia” (Island)
20. Dwight Yoakam “Brighter Days” (Via/Thirty Tigers)
Bob Dylan and The Band “The 1974 Live Recordings” 2024 Columbia/Legacy – You can’t argue with what’s here. 27 CDs of pristine recordings from the tour. His backing band is no slouch, and the anticipation surrounding this tour was unprecedented. I’m currently going through this box a second time, and it’s a total gas tracing the band’s performances and progress through time. Dylan is at his most rocking and animated here.
Best Legacy album releases and reissues 2024
1. Bob Dylan & The Band “The 1974 Live Recordings/Bootleg Series Vol. (Sony/Legacy)
2. Joni Mitchell “Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years 1976-1980” (JMA/Rhino)
3. Lou Reed “Archive Series 3: Why Don’t You Smile Now/Lou Reed At Pickwick Records” (LITA)
4. Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention “Whiskey A Go-Go 1968”/”Apostrophe 50th Anniversary” (UMe/Zappa)
5. You Can Walk Across It on The Grass: Boutique Sounds of Swingin’ London (Grapefruit)
6. Talking Heads “Live At WCOZ 1977”/”Talking Heads ’77 Super Deluxe” (Rhino)
7. Elvis Costello “King Of America And Other Realms” (UMe)
8. Neil Young “Archives IV”/”Early Daze” (NYA/Reprise)
9. Paul McCartney & Wings “One Hand Clapping” (MPL/Capitol)
10. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Live At Fillmore East 1969” (Rhino)
11. Johnny Cash “Songwriter” (UMe/Mercury)
12. Faces “The Complete BBC Recordings” (Rhino)
13. Holland-Dozier-Holland “Detroit 1969-1977” (Demon)
14. Joe Bataan “Riot!” (Craft/Fania)
15. Chicago “Kennedy Center, Washington DC 9-16-71” (Rhino)
16. Yes “Fragile Outtakes”/”Yale Bowl 1971” (Rhino)
17. Joe Cuba “Vagabundcando! (Hanging Out!)” (Craft/Tico)
18. Johnny Pachecho “Canonazo” (Craft/Fania)
19. WEEN “Chocolate and Cheese Deluxe” (Rhino)
20. Willie Colon “Wanted” (Craft/Fania)
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