Great list Phil. Here’s my top ten… 1. Moggs Motel - S/T 2.Voodoo Circle - Hail to the King 3.judas priest-invincible shield 4. The black crowes - happiness bastards 5. Fans of the dark - video 6. Black Country communion - v 7. Bruce Dickinson - the mandrake project 8. Gotus - S/T 9. Deep purple - =1 10. Stryper- when we were kings 👍🏽
Great to hear your top 35 albums of 2024 and hearing what you like about them and how you have them ranked from 35 to 1. have a great Christmas and Thank You again Phil.🎶🎶📻🎶🎶
Another superb video from your good self.I have recently had major surgery successful but long recovery afterwards,and your love of music has really helped and connected with me the last few weeks .I wish you a Happy Christmas and a wonderful 2025.❤
Your channel is one of the best out there. Thanks for the positivity all year round. My top albums 1. David Gilmour - Luck and strange 2. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 3. Big Big Train - The likes of us 4. Jon Anderson - True 5. Jupiter Fungus - Garden Electric 6. Blood Incantation- Absolutely elsewhere 7. Deep Purple - =1 8. Steve Hackett - The circus and the nightwhale 9. Evergrey - Theories of emptiness 10. Frost* - Life in the wires 11. Neal Morse - No hill for a climber 12. Stuckfish - IV 13. Acid Rooster - Hall of mirrors 14. The Tangent - To follow Polaris 15. Weather Systems - Oceans without a shore 16. Magnum- Here comes the rain 17. Elephant9 - The mythical river 18. Beardfish - Songs for beating hearts 19. The Samurai of Prog - Time machine 20. Innerwish - Ash of eternal flame 21. DGM - Endless 22. Pineapple Thief - It leads to this 23. Lee Abraham- Origin of the storm 24. Walter Trout - Broken 25. Blac Country communion - V 26. Barock Project - Time Voyager 27. Kite Parade - Disparity 28. FM - Old habits die hard 29. Viima- Vaisty Mielen Yo 30. Opeth - The last will and testament 31. Von Hertzen brothers - Inmurmuration 32. Leprous - Melodies of atonement 33. Moggs Motel - S/T 34. Walter Trout - Broken 35. Emerald City Council - Motion carries
A great list, Phil. I need to hear many of these albums. So much music, so little time! Here is my top five for 2024: 1. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 2. Deep Purple - +1 3. Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation 4. Moggs Motel- Moggs Motel 5. Nocturnus - Unocursal Take care!
Superb list, Phil. Without wishing to replicate, here are my top albums this year: Geordie Greep - The New Sound The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World Field Music - Limits Of Language Kiran Leonard - Real Home Julia Holter - Something In The Room She Moves A Certain Ratio - It All Comes Down To This Elephant9 with Terje Rypdal - Catching Fire Weite - Oase
...and the last two categories Rock & the grand daddy for this year Prog. Since there were SO many good albums of each type I applied some stricter rules around these two... Rock: Autumn's Child/Tellus Timeline Band Of The Underhand/A Cheap Ride To Heaven Bill Nelson/Powertron Black Country Communion/V Cactus/Temple Of Blues - Influences And Friends Cats In Space/Fire In The Night & Time Machine Cody Dickinson/Homemade The Cold Stares/The Southern The Commoners/Restless Goodbye June/Deep In The Trouble Grand Slam/Hit The Ground-Revisited Ian Moss/Live At The Enmore Lonerider/Down In The Dust Mojo Thunder/The Infinite Hope Moonstone Project/New Life Mr Big/Ten Nestor/Teenage Rebel Owen Stewart/Done And Dusted Phil Mogg/Moggs Hotel The Prisoners/Morning Star Revolution Saints/Against The Winds Richie Kotzen/Nomad Robert Jon & The Wreck/Red Moon Rising Scarlet Bandit/Lose Your Blues Silveroller/At Dawn Umphrey's McGee/Hall Of Fame: Class Of 2022 Warren Haynes/Million Voices Whisper Prog: Actionfredag/Lys Fremtid I Mørke & Turist I Eget Liv (even just for the instrumentals) Anthony Phillips/Private Parts & Pieces XII: The Golden Hour Argos/Halfway Between Heaven And Mirth The Aristocrats/Duck Big Big Train/A Flare On The Lens (Live) & The Likes Of Us Cosmograf/Live At The 1865 (The Official Bootleg) Darwin/Five Steps On The Sun Ellesmere/Stranger Skies Frost*/Life In The Wires Hasse Froberg & Musical Companion/Eternal Snapshots Herin/Hiding In Plain Sight Izz/Collapse The Wave Jadis/More Question Than Answers Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius/Impostor! Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks/True Kaipa/Sommargryningsljus Karfagen/Messages From Afar: Second Nature Kite Parade/Disparity Legacy Pilots/Thru The Lens The Madrigal Project/11th Hour Man Doki Soulmates/A Memory Of Our Future Meer/Wheels Within Wheels Motorpsycho/Neigh Neal Morse/Late Bloomer, The Restoration - Joseph Pt. 2 & No Hill For A Climber The Pineapple Thief/It Leads To This & Last To Run Royal Time Machine - s/t Six By Six/Beyond Shadowland Steve Hackett/The Circus And The Nightwhale The Tangent/To Follow Polaris Tony Patterson & Doug Melbourne/We've Been Expecting You... Transatlantic/Live At Morsefest 2022: The Absolute Whirlwind - Night 1 Weite/Oase Wizrd/Elements
Brilliant Phil - I'd have had '=1' at number one just because Deep Purple new releases don't happen that often and Magnum's 'Here Comes The Rain' at number two because it's the usual brilliant stuff we have come to expect from these guys and the last with the majestic Tony Clarkin - God rest you Tony.
Great top 35 Phil, I think I'll have many crossovers in my end of year chart, no surprise that CIS are there and to see Big Big Train and The Tangent among the top albums is great, Moggs Motel is a bit special and I've just got the Sweet album today so keep Rocking!
I'm probably forgetting a couple, but a number of my favorites. I have to check out some of the albums you mention, Phil. Thanks! Invincible Shield - Judas Priest Supercharged - The Offspring 10,000 Volts - Ace Frehley Happiness Bastards - The Black Crowes Change the Game - Cody Jinks The Hill - Aaron Lewis When We Were Kings - Stryper =1 - Deep Purple The Mandrake Project - Bruce Dickinson Full Tilt Overdrive - House of Lords
Phil, as ever a great list and my bank balance suffers again as I add a few more I missed during the year! Best wishes to you and Sue, compliments of the season to you both. Kind regards
Hi Phil, 2024 has been another great year for new music. It was great seeing you on The Review crew again too. Here is my Top 20 1 Deep Purple = 1 2 The Cure Songs of A Lost World 3 Pearl Jam Dark Matter 4 David Gilmour Luck & Strange 5 Moggs Motel Moggs Motel 6 The Warning You Keep Me Fed 7 The Last Dinner Party Prelude to Ecstasy 8 Waxahatchee Tigers Blood 9 Mark Knopfler One Deep River 10 Blackberry Smoke Be Right Here 11 Slash Orgy of The Damned 12 Joanne Shaw Taylor Heavy Soul 13 Judas Priest Invincible Shield 14 Saxon Hell Fire & Damnation 15 Lucifer Lucifer V 16 Son Of Man Gaslight 17 DarWin Five Steps on The Sun 18 Jon Anders & The Band Geeks TRUE 19 Sweet Full Circle 20 Cats In Space Time Machine
I can't quite rank 'em (in order), so I'll just spit out a list of my fave new 2024 albums (no archival stuff), by genre. This was clearly the year of prog rock so I'll split that one & the 'Rock' category out separately. Be interesting to see how many also end up on Phil's list: Acoustic: Julian Lage/Speak To Me Mike Dawes/Galactic Acid Orobelo/The Chateau ALT: Eels/Eels Time Eve 6/Dream Fist Field Music/Limits Of Language Fleet Foxes/Live On Boston Harbor Goose/Live At The Capitol Theatre & The Red Tapes Hippo Campus/Flood Hockey Dad/Rebuild Repeat Jimmy Montague/ Tomorrow's Coffee Jxdn/When The Music Stops Lake Street Dive/Good Together Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats/South Of Here AOR: Counterline/Two FM/Old Habits Die Hard Honeymoon Suite/Alive Palace/Reckless Heart Remedy/Pleasure Beats The Pain Steve Plunkett/Straight Up Winding Road/Fill My Sails Blues/Blues rock: Bywater Call/Shepherd Chris Bergson Band/Comforts Of Home Colin James/Chasing The Sun Connolly Hayes/Remember Me Eric Clapton/Meanwhile Erwin Java & Sean Webster/Java Webster Joanne Shaw Taylor/Heavy Soul Jon Amor Trio/The Turnaround Little Albert/The Road Not Taken Philip Sayce/The Wolves Are Coming Quinn Sullivan/Salvation Ronnie Baker Brooks/Blues In My DNA Slash/Orgy Of The Damned Snowy White/Unfinished Business Taj Farrant/Chapter One Walter Trout/Broken Country/Folk rock: Ferris & Sylvester/Otherness Widespread Panic/Hailbound Queen Funk: Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge/Wine On Venus Fusion: Antoine Fafard & Gavin Harrison/Perpetual Mutations Aurora Clara/IV Benjamin Croft/We Are Here To Help Chester Thompson/Wake-Up Call Daniel Weiss/The Vortex Evgeny Pobozhiy Orchestra/Stream Guadalquivir/Ole Corea Jane Getter Premonition/Division World Mark Lettieri/Can I Tell You Something Mike Stern/Echoes And Other Songs Nataraja/Spirit At Play Silibrina/Sonambulando Tony Levin/Bringing It Down To The Bass Trifecta/The New Normal Glam: Billy Tibbals/Nightlife Stories Instrumental rock: Andy Wood/Charisma Jeff Kollman/2023 A.D. Marty Friedman/Drama Nick Johnston/Child Of Bliss Pop/Power pop: Brent Seavers/Exhibit 8 Classic Traffic/Turn It Up The Cyrkle/Revival The Half-Cubes/Pop Treasures Liquid Mike/Paul Bunyan's Slingshot Lunchbox/Pop And Circumstance The Mads/Time By Time The Reflectors/Going Out Of Fashion Ryan Allen & His Extra Arms/Radar Shed Seven/A Matter Of Time Sparkle*Jets U.K./Box Of Letters The Toms/Rock Paper Scissors Wesley Fuller/All Fuller No Filler Psyche: Howlin Rain/Lost At Sea: Rarities, Outtakes And Other Tales From The Deep King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard/Flight B741 Magick Brother & Mystic Sister/Tarot Pt 1 Nolan Potter/The Perils Of Being Trapped Inside A Head Phish/Evolve Rosalie Cunningham/To Shoot Another Day Punk: Gentlemen Rogues/Surface Noise Green Day/Saviors R&B: The Dip/ Love Direction Southern Rock: The Georgia Thunderbolts/Rise Above It All Sam Morrow/Medicine Man
Hello Phil! I'm a fairly recent subscriber to your channel. I think I came onboard via your review of the latest Tangent album, which I think is amazing, and made my list of favourite releases of 2024. What an amazing musician that fellow is! Anyway, I watched the latest Review Crew video last night, where you all picked your favourite records of the past year, and I picked out a few that I was unaware of, but sound interesting, so I will be checking those out. That is my main reason for watching many of these types of videos. Now, unlike most of you on SoT and other RUclips channels, I do not enjoy ranking records. I know it's something people like to see, but to me it's like comparing apples and oranges, and music is so subjective to start with, that most times I think it is unfair, so it is something I refuse to do on my own channel. So, in no particular order, here are my favourite albums of 2024 - Black Crowes - "Happiness Bastards," Jesse Malin - "Chasing The Light," Weather Systems - "Ocean Without A Shore," Evan Rotella - "Last Train Home" (Local young up-and-coming singer-songwriter), Jon Anderson - "True," David Gilmour - "Luck and Strange," Black Country Communion - "V," Judas Priest - "Invincible Shield," Grand Slam - "Wheel Of Fortune," Deep Purple - "= 1," Taylor Swift - "The Tortured Poet's Department," The Tangent - "To Follow Polaris," Adult Cinema - "365," Collective Soul - "Here To Eternity." The albums you guys mentioned that I would like to check out are Mogg's Motel, Cemetery Skyline, Big Big Train, and Camera Obscura.
Wow...lots of bands that I've never heard of ? I agree with your comments about the fantastic Opeth album. I always thought that there was a very humorous side to the "monster" vocals, it does add a percussive musical element to the riffing. Some of my favorite tracks have the combination of clean and monster vocals. I am surprised that you did not include Bruce Dickenson's latest one, and Kerry King's album is a great continuation of the Slayer -type sound. I will have to check out the Blood Incantation disc...sounds interesting ?? Cheers
Hi Trevor, that album has been on my radar for ages but for whatever reason I have not been able to get a reasonably priced copy. I’m sure it will eventually be featured here !
Top album of 2024 for me is Silhouettes by Giant Walker ( their second release ) ... Terrific band ! ... John Buckton who plays guitar for Back Street Crawler is a superb player .
Alright Mate , These Year End Reviews are always divisive imho. There are lot of Albums I would have selected but it's your choice. However I will have to say the following , Black Country Communion was my No1 by a Country Mile. I love UFO but Phil Moggs voice went years ago , it does not even sound like him anymore, he sounds like a bear with a bloody thorn stuck in its foot and finally Cats In Space ? I do not get them sorry. Have a great xmas and I wish you and Yours a Happy and Peaceful New Year.
Here’s my top albums list # 32 suicide angels- profane prayer #31 sidewinder- talons #30 rev theory- salvation nowhere #29 10 years- inner darkness #28 Devilskin- surfacing EP #27 Cassandra’s crossing- garden of earthly delight #26 stone horses- redemption chronicles #25 the warning- keep me fed # 24 the gems - phoenix # 23 return to dust- S/T #22 amberdown- shattered and bagged #21 Texas hippie coalition- gunsmoke #20 mick mars- the other side of mars #19 lift the curse- overtake #18 black smoke trigger- horizons #17 smash atoms- S/T #16 flat black- dark side of the brain #15 April art- rodeo #14 dust bolt- sound and fury # 13 beasto blanco- kinetica #12 Florence black- bed of nails #11 shallow side- reflections #10 cold stares- the southern #9 hearts and hand grenades- where I begin #8 tim Montana- savages #7 amongst liars- of design #6 Scott stapp- higher power #5 Marilyn Manson- one assassination #4 a killers confession- victim 1 #3 dead posey- are you in a cult #2 blooming discord- memories from the future #1 Budderside- white flame
I agree with you 💯% Judas Priest Invincible Shield and Moggs Motel are simply masterpieces. I disagree with you, on the Cats in space music. Check out the album by Whitecross "Fear no evil"
Prog rock should drop the prog, it's a style now, lost it's meaning and anything but progressive. It's stuck in 1977. Prog rock as Progressive rock is now dead. It's just repeating itself, such a shame. Personally, I can't be doing with the shit these bands are turning out. King Crimson is dead, sadly so is Prog rock. I repeat, nothing here is truly progressive, absolutely nothing.
Hi Stuart, merry Christmas 🎅 you raise a good point. A bit like the phrase ‘classic rock’ perhaps we need to just label things as rock music again. What is PROG is a subject for a future video but now it can mean anything that extends over 5 mins and deviates from 4/4 - Phil
I didn't like at all the new Judas Priest album. I couldn't connect, i couldn't listen to it. It didn't do anything for me, i believe it's quite boring and flat, not a damn click. I really don't know how this happened and i am a big fan of Judas Priest, and for me it's really strange. I was not attracted at all since the release, even know I don't have feelings about it. I don't understand why this album was so wowwwww from many people. I really don't... Wasn't impressed, but really disappointed.
The thing is that is the mystery of music and why it affects us all so differently! Your frank and honest comment is just as valid as me saying it’s the best thing they have done! Phil :)
I really don't know Phil, i feel that the drums sound horrible like a drum machine to my ears, not organic at all, the riffs sound to me just meaningless and don't speak to me, the songs are not catchy, no atmosphere, just fast tempo songs, band plays like a damn new europower band something that i dislike a lot as a sound, no epic JP mid tempo songs and the whole album doesn't feel Judas Priest to me. Even if i am 70s lover sound with albums like Rock Rolla, Sad Wings, Sins After Sin, Stained Class era albums etc, which is definitely my favourite period, speaking of their last five albums, after the reunion, I really love Angel of Retribution and especially Nostradamus (one of my faves and it's a hugely underestimated album by my opinion), i really liked Redeemer of Souls & Firepower, but this... god i wish it never happened. I think Shield is horrible and I'm not joking... I can't connect with it.
Amazing 🤩 I bought Sad Wings in 76 and saw the band on the Sin After Sin tour, one of my favourite albums by the band. I also agree that Nostradamus is a total classic, a masterpiece hiding in plain sight even. However, Invincible Shield just ticks every box for me. It’s a personal thing but I love it :)
Great list Phil. Here’s my top ten…
1. Moggs Motel - S/T
2.Voodoo Circle - Hail to the King
3.judas priest-invincible shield
4. The black crowes - happiness bastards
5. Fans of the dark - video
6. Black Country communion - v
7. Bruce Dickinson - the mandrake project
8. Gotus - S/T
9. Deep purple - =1
10. Stryper- when we were kings
👍🏽
My number one Jon Anderson: True
Great to hear your top 35 albums of 2024 and hearing what you like about
them and how you have them ranked from 35 to 1. have a great Christmas
and Thank You again Phil.🎶🎶📻🎶🎶
Another superb video from your good self.I have recently had major surgery successful but long recovery afterwards,and your love of music has really helped and connected with me the last few weeks .I wish you a Happy Christmas and a wonderful 2025.❤
Hi Michael, thank you. I hope you continue to heal and you have a wonderful Christmas. Take care - Phil
Your channel is one of the best out there. Thanks for the positivity all year round.
My top albums
1. David Gilmour - Luck and strange
2. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
3. Big Big Train - The likes of us
4. Jon Anderson - True
5. Jupiter Fungus - Garden Electric
6. Blood Incantation- Absolutely elsewhere
7. Deep Purple - =1
8. Steve Hackett - The circus and the nightwhale
9. Evergrey - Theories of emptiness
10. Frost* - Life in the wires
11. Neal Morse - No hill for a climber
12. Stuckfish - IV
13. Acid Rooster - Hall of mirrors
14. The Tangent - To follow Polaris
15. Weather Systems - Oceans without a shore
16. Magnum- Here comes the rain
17. Elephant9 - The mythical river
18. Beardfish - Songs for beating hearts
19. The Samurai of Prog - Time machine
20. Innerwish - Ash of eternal flame
21. DGM - Endless
22. Pineapple Thief - It leads to this
23. Lee Abraham- Origin of the storm
24. Walter Trout - Broken
25. Blac Country communion - V
26. Barock Project - Time Voyager
27. Kite Parade - Disparity
28. FM - Old habits die hard
29. Viima- Vaisty Mielen Yo
30. Opeth - The last will and testament
31. Von Hertzen brothers - Inmurmuration
32. Leprous - Melodies of atonement
33. Moggs Motel - S/T
34. Walter Trout - Broken
35. Emerald City Council - Motion carries
WOW - what a fabulous list ! Thank you for your kind words and support. Merry Christmas - Phil
A great list, Phil. I need to hear many of these albums. So much music, so little time! Here is my top five for 2024:
1. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
2. Deep Purple - +1
3. Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation
4. Moggs Motel- Moggs Motel
5. Nocturnus - Unocursal
Take care!
Thank you for sharing - great choices
Superb list, Phil. Without wishing to replicate, here are my top albums this year:
Geordie Greep - The New Sound
The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World
Field Music - Limits Of Language
Kiran Leonard - Real Home
Julia Holter - Something In The Room She Moves
A Certain Ratio - It All Comes Down To This
Elephant9 with Terje Rypdal - Catching Fire
Weite - Oase
...and the last two categories Rock & the grand daddy for this year Prog. Since there were SO many good albums of each type I applied some stricter rules around these two...
Rock:
Autumn's Child/Tellus Timeline
Band Of The Underhand/A Cheap Ride To Heaven
Bill Nelson/Powertron
Black Country Communion/V
Cactus/Temple Of Blues - Influences And Friends
Cats In Space/Fire In The Night & Time Machine
Cody Dickinson/Homemade
The Cold Stares/The Southern
The Commoners/Restless
Goodbye June/Deep In The Trouble
Grand Slam/Hit The Ground-Revisited
Ian Moss/Live At The Enmore
Lonerider/Down In The Dust
Mojo Thunder/The Infinite Hope
Moonstone Project/New Life
Mr Big/Ten
Nestor/Teenage Rebel
Owen Stewart/Done And Dusted
Phil Mogg/Moggs Hotel
The Prisoners/Morning Star
Revolution Saints/Against The Winds
Richie Kotzen/Nomad
Robert Jon & The Wreck/Red Moon Rising
Scarlet Bandit/Lose Your Blues
Silveroller/At Dawn
Umphrey's McGee/Hall Of Fame: Class Of 2022
Warren Haynes/Million Voices Whisper
Prog:
Actionfredag/Lys Fremtid I Mørke & Turist I Eget Liv (even just for the instrumentals)
Anthony Phillips/Private Parts & Pieces XII: The Golden Hour
Argos/Halfway Between Heaven And Mirth
The Aristocrats/Duck
Big Big Train/A Flare On The Lens (Live) & The Likes Of Us
Cosmograf/Live At The 1865 (The Official Bootleg)
Darwin/Five Steps On The Sun
Ellesmere/Stranger Skies
Frost*/Life In The Wires
Hasse Froberg & Musical Companion/Eternal Snapshots
Herin/Hiding In Plain Sight
Izz/Collapse The Wave
Jadis/More Question Than Answers
Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius/Impostor!
Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks/True
Kaipa/Sommargryningsljus
Karfagen/Messages From Afar: Second Nature
Kite Parade/Disparity
Legacy Pilots/Thru The Lens
The Madrigal Project/11th Hour
Man Doki Soulmates/A Memory Of Our Future
Meer/Wheels Within Wheels
Motorpsycho/Neigh
Neal Morse/Late Bloomer, The Restoration - Joseph Pt. 2 & No Hill For A Climber
The Pineapple Thief/It Leads To This & Last To Run
Royal Time Machine - s/t
Six By Six/Beyond Shadowland
Steve Hackett/The Circus And The Nightwhale
The Tangent/To Follow Polaris
Tony Patterson & Doug Melbourne/We've Been Expecting You...
Transatlantic/Live At Morsefest 2022: The Absolute Whirlwind - Night 1
Weite/Oase
Wizrd/Elements
Wishing you and your family, Merry Christmas 🎄🎄🎄🎁🎁🎁
Same to you! Thank you for all of your support- Phil
Brilliant Phil - I'd have had '=1' at number one just because Deep Purple new releases don't happen that often and Magnum's 'Here Comes The Rain' at number two because it's the usual brilliant stuff we have come to expect from these guys and the last with the majestic Tony Clarkin - God rest you Tony.
A fasinating seletion Phil and I can understand why your top 35/36 could be so fluid.
Thank you 🙏 Merry Christmas
Thankyou Phil & Now Spinning, Cats in Space! We’d love to gig with you guys! Sign us up!
Great top 35 Phil, I think I'll have many crossovers in my end of year chart, no surprise that CIS are there and to see Big Big Train and The Tangent among the top albums is great, Moggs Motel is a bit special and I've just got the Sweet album today so keep Rocking!
I'm probably forgetting a couple, but a number of my favorites. I have to check out some of the albums you mention, Phil. Thanks!
Invincible Shield - Judas Priest
Supercharged - The Offspring
10,000 Volts - Ace Frehley
Happiness Bastards - The Black Crowes
Change the Game - Cody Jinks
The Hill - Aaron Lewis
When We Were Kings - Stryper
=1 - Deep Purple
The Mandrake Project - Bruce Dickinson
Full Tilt Overdrive - House of Lords
Phil, as ever a great list and my bank balance suffers again as I add a few more I missed during the year! Best wishes to you and Sue, compliments of the season to you both. Kind regards
Hi Julian, thank you 🙏 all the best and Merry Christmas- Phil
Thank you Phil. A most enlightening annual review and so comprehensive.
Great video, Phil. Merry Xmas and UTFV!
Thanks, you too!
Great selection, thank you very much
Thanks for listening
Hi Phil, 2024 has been another great year for new music. It was great seeing you on The Review crew again too. Here is my Top 20
1 Deep Purple = 1
2 The Cure Songs of A Lost World
3 Pearl Jam Dark Matter
4 David Gilmour Luck & Strange
5 Moggs Motel Moggs Motel
6 The Warning You Keep Me Fed
7 The Last Dinner Party Prelude to Ecstasy
8 Waxahatchee Tigers Blood
9 Mark Knopfler One Deep River
10 Blackberry Smoke Be Right Here
11 Slash Orgy of The Damned
12 Joanne Shaw Taylor Heavy Soul
13 Judas Priest Invincible Shield
14 Saxon Hell Fire & Damnation
15 Lucifer Lucifer V
16 Son Of Man Gaslight
17 DarWin Five Steps on The Sun
18 Jon Anders & The Band Geeks TRUE
19 Sweet Full Circle
20 Cats In Space Time Machine
I can't quite rank 'em (in order), so I'll just spit out a list of my fave new 2024 albums (no archival stuff), by genre. This was clearly the year of prog rock so I'll split that one & the 'Rock' category out separately. Be interesting to see how many also end up on Phil's list:
Acoustic:
Julian Lage/Speak To Me
Mike Dawes/Galactic Acid
Orobelo/The Chateau
ALT:
Eels/Eels Time
Eve 6/Dream Fist
Field Music/Limits Of Language
Fleet Foxes/Live On Boston Harbor
Goose/Live At The Capitol Theatre & The Red Tapes
Hippo Campus/Flood
Hockey Dad/Rebuild Repeat
Jimmy Montague/ Tomorrow's Coffee
Jxdn/When The Music Stops
Lake Street Dive/Good Together
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats/South Of Here
AOR:
Counterline/Two
FM/Old Habits Die Hard
Honeymoon Suite/Alive
Palace/Reckless Heart
Remedy/Pleasure Beats The Pain
Steve Plunkett/Straight Up
Winding Road/Fill My Sails
Blues/Blues rock:
Bywater Call/Shepherd
Chris Bergson Band/Comforts Of Home
Colin James/Chasing The Sun
Connolly Hayes/Remember Me
Eric Clapton/Meanwhile
Erwin Java & Sean Webster/Java Webster
Joanne Shaw Taylor/Heavy Soul
Jon Amor Trio/The Turnaround
Little Albert/The Road Not Taken
Philip Sayce/The Wolves Are Coming
Quinn Sullivan/Salvation
Ronnie Baker Brooks/Blues In My DNA
Slash/Orgy Of The Damned
Snowy White/Unfinished Business
Taj Farrant/Chapter One
Walter Trout/Broken
Country/Folk rock:
Ferris & Sylvester/Otherness
Widespread Panic/Hailbound Queen
Funk:
Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge/Wine On Venus
Fusion:
Antoine Fafard & Gavin Harrison/Perpetual Mutations
Aurora Clara/IV
Benjamin Croft/We Are Here To Help
Chester Thompson/Wake-Up Call
Daniel Weiss/The Vortex
Evgeny Pobozhiy Orchestra/Stream
Guadalquivir/Ole Corea
Jane Getter Premonition/Division World
Mark Lettieri/Can I Tell You Something
Mike Stern/Echoes And Other Songs
Nataraja/Spirit At Play
Silibrina/Sonambulando
Tony Levin/Bringing It Down To The Bass
Trifecta/The New Normal
Glam:
Billy Tibbals/Nightlife Stories
Instrumental rock:
Andy Wood/Charisma
Jeff Kollman/2023 A.D.
Marty Friedman/Drama
Nick Johnston/Child Of Bliss
Pop/Power pop:
Brent Seavers/Exhibit 8
Classic Traffic/Turn It Up
The Cyrkle/Revival
The Half-Cubes/Pop Treasures
Liquid Mike/Paul Bunyan's Slingshot
Lunchbox/Pop And Circumstance
The Mads/Time By Time
The Reflectors/Going Out Of Fashion
Ryan Allen & His Extra Arms/Radar
Shed Seven/A Matter Of Time
Sparkle*Jets U.K./Box Of Letters
The Toms/Rock Paper Scissors
Wesley Fuller/All Fuller No Filler
Psyche:
Howlin Rain/Lost At Sea: Rarities, Outtakes And Other Tales From The Deep
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard/Flight B741
Magick Brother & Mystic Sister/Tarot Pt 1
Nolan Potter/The Perils Of Being Trapped Inside A Head
Phish/Evolve
Rosalie Cunningham/To Shoot Another Day
Punk:
Gentlemen Rogues/Surface Noise
Green Day/Saviors
R&B:
The Dip/ Love Direction
Southern Rock:
The Georgia Thunderbolts/Rise Above It All
Sam Morrow/Medicine Man
My top 4 favourites this year
1 Epic Narratives - Band Maid
2 Evolve - Nemophila
3 Luck And Strange - David Gilmour
4 Keep Me Fed - The Warning
Fellow Maidiac says YES!
Great video Phil.
Thank you 🙏
Hello Phil! I'm a fairly recent subscriber to your channel. I think I came onboard via your review of the latest Tangent album, which I think is amazing, and made my list of favourite releases of 2024. What an amazing musician that fellow is! Anyway, I watched the latest Review Crew video last night, where you all picked your favourite records of the past year, and I picked out a few that I was unaware of, but sound interesting, so I will be checking those out. That is my main reason for watching many of these types of videos.
Now, unlike most of you on SoT and other RUclips channels, I do not enjoy ranking records. I know it's something people like to see, but to me it's like comparing apples and oranges, and music is so subjective to start with, that most times I think it is unfair, so it is something I refuse to do on my own channel. So, in no particular order, here are my favourite albums of 2024 - Black Crowes - "Happiness Bastards," Jesse Malin - "Chasing The Light," Weather Systems - "Ocean Without A Shore," Evan Rotella - "Last Train Home" (Local young up-and-coming singer-songwriter), Jon Anderson - "True," David Gilmour - "Luck and Strange," Black Country Communion - "V," Judas Priest - "Invincible Shield," Grand Slam - "Wheel Of Fortune," Deep Purple - "= 1," Taylor Swift - "The Tortured Poet's Department," The Tangent - "To Follow Polaris," Adult Cinema - "365," Collective Soul - "Here To Eternity."
The albums you guys mentioned that I would like to check out are Mogg's Motel, Cemetery Skyline, Big Big Train, and Camera Obscura.
Thank you for sharing - some great choices and some new stuff for me to check out as well - merry Christmas 🤶
Great list Phil - a few more added to my ever increasing backlog in 2025 😂
There are still a lot I missed myself!
My favourite album this year was Darkfighter by Rival Sons, an unbelievable vocalist in Jay Buchanan
Sendelica are one of my favourite bands and this new album is mesmerising
Wow...lots of bands that I've never heard of ? I agree with your comments about the fantastic Opeth album. I always thought that there was a very humorous side to the "monster" vocals, it does add a percussive musical element to the riffing. Some of my favorite tracks have the combination of clean and monster vocals. I am surprised that you did not include Bruce Dickenson's latest one, and Kerry King's album is a great continuation of the Slayer -type sound. I will have to check out the Blood Incantation disc...sounds interesting ?? Cheers
Hi Stan, there are lots I could have included! Thank you for the suggestions
I vote for TRUE by Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks...still hoping for a review Phil! A Happy Christmas to you 👉🙂
Hi Trevor, that album has been on my radar for ages but for whatever reason I have not been able to get a reasonably priced copy. I’m sure it will eventually be featured here !
Yesterwynde by Nightwish, Time II by Wintersun, One of the Many by Rick Miller, Invincible Shield by Judas Priest, =1 Deep Purple.
My go-to when I need a lift is the second half of Day a trip to Narnia
If anyone is into alternative rock, I think Scream from New York by the band Been Stellar is one of the best of the year.
lol your 34 and 35 are both in my top 5. Wheel may very well be my number 1 but I am still undecided between that album and Invincible Shield.
These lists are very fluid and comments from others do make me go back and listen again. I’m going to play Wheel again tomorrow. Phil
Glass of port Phil cheers 🍷
Top album of 2024 for me is Silhouettes by Giant Walker ( their second release ) ... Terrific band ! ... John Buckton who plays guitar for Back Street Crawler is a superb player .
Hi Kevin, thank you for the suggestion
@@NowSpinningMagazine No worries Phil ! .. They have RUclips channel / Bandcamp / website etc ... Hope you enjoy !
Kalandra's new album A frame of mind is a clear top ten IMO.
Norwegian Folk Prog.
The track( I am )got the number one video for 2024🤘😊
Wire magazine did a great review of the Blood Incantion album. On my wants list.
My album of the year is Massive Wagons - Earth to Grace
Dave Gilmour , priest and massive wagons my top 3
I need to listen to Massive Wagons more ! Thank you
Alright Mate ,
These Year End Reviews are always divisive imho.
There are lot of Albums I would have selected but it's your choice. However I will have to say the following , Black Country Communion was my No1 by a Country Mile.
I love UFO but Phil Moggs voice went years ago , it does not even sound like him anymore, he sounds like a bear with a bloody thorn stuck in its foot and finally Cats In Space ? I do not get them sorry.
Have a great xmas and I wish you and Yours a Happy and Peaceful New Year.
Merry Christmas to you and yours. These sort of lists are always personal and very subjective. I respect your viewpoint - Phil
Phil! Where can we buy the deccan traps album? Regards thor from sweden
Love UFO , but just can' t get into Mogg's Motel. 😢 I have been trying and trying, but to no avail ....
Here’s my top albums list
# 32 suicide angels- profane prayer
#31 sidewinder- talons
#30 rev theory- salvation nowhere
#29 10 years- inner darkness
#28 Devilskin- surfacing EP
#27 Cassandra’s crossing- garden of earthly delight
#26 stone horses- redemption chronicles
#25 the warning- keep me fed
# 24 the gems - phoenix
# 23 return to dust- S/T
#22 amberdown- shattered and bagged
#21 Texas hippie coalition- gunsmoke
#20 mick mars- the other side of mars
#19 lift the curse- overtake
#18 black smoke trigger- horizons
#17 smash atoms- S/T
#16 flat black- dark side of the brain
#15 April art- rodeo
#14 dust bolt- sound and fury
# 13 beasto blanco- kinetica
#12 Florence black- bed of nails
#11 shallow side- reflections
#10 cold stares- the southern
#9 hearts and hand grenades- where I begin
#8 tim Montana- savages
#7 amongst liars- of design
#6 Scott stapp- higher power
#5 Marilyn Manson- one assassination
#4 a killers confession- victim 1
#3 dead posey- are you in a cult
#2 blooming discord- memories from the future
#1 Budderside- white flame
Just goes to show how much great music there is out there. Thank you for sharing
I agree with you 💯% Judas Priest Invincible Shield and Moggs Motel are simply masterpieces. I disagree with you, on the Cats in space music. Check out the album by Whitecross "Fear no evil"
Will do - thank you 🙏
Kim Gordon.
The collective.
😃👍
Prog rock should drop the prog, it's a style now, lost it's meaning and anything but progressive. It's stuck in 1977. Prog rock as Progressive rock is now dead. It's just repeating itself, such a shame. Personally, I can't be doing with the shit these bands are turning out.
King Crimson is dead, sadly so is Prog rock.
I repeat, nothing here is truly progressive, absolutely nothing.
Hi Stuart, merry Christmas 🎅 you raise a good point. A bit like the phrase ‘classic rock’ perhaps we need to just label things as rock music again. What is PROG is a subject for a future video but now it can mean anything that extends over 5 mins and deviates from 4/4 - Phil
I didn't like at all the new Judas Priest album. I couldn't connect, i couldn't listen to it. It didn't do anything for me, i believe it's quite boring and flat, not a damn click. I really don't know how this happened and i am a big fan of Judas Priest, and for me it's really strange. I was not attracted at all since the release, even know I don't have feelings about it. I don't understand why this album was so wowwwww from many people. I really don't... Wasn't impressed, but really disappointed.
The thing is that is the mystery of music and why it affects us all so differently! Your frank and honest comment is just as valid as me saying it’s the best thing they have done! Phil :)
I really don't know Phil, i feel that the drums sound horrible like a drum machine to my ears, not organic at all, the riffs sound to me just meaningless and don't speak to me, the songs are not catchy, no atmosphere, just fast tempo songs, band plays like a damn new europower band something that i dislike a lot as a sound, no epic JP mid tempo songs and the whole album doesn't feel Judas Priest to me. Even if i am 70s lover sound with albums like Rock Rolla, Sad Wings, Sins After Sin, Stained Class era albums etc, which is definitely my favourite period, speaking of their last five albums, after the reunion, I really love Angel of Retribution and especially Nostradamus (one of my faves and it's a hugely underestimated album by my opinion), i really liked Redeemer of Souls & Firepower, but this... god i wish it never happened. I think Shield is horrible and I'm not joking... I can't connect with it.
There are rumours that they used ai to write it and I wouldn't be surprised by listening to it.
Amazing 🤩 I bought Sad Wings in 76 and saw the band on the Sin After Sin tour, one of my favourite albums by the band. I also agree that Nostradamus is a total classic, a masterpiece hiding in plain sight even. However, Invincible Shield just ticks every box for me. It’s a personal thing but I love it :)