My Top Tunes For the Past Year
One and only one benefit of the past year’s slacking of the reading habit – I’ve had to scratch a lot harder for more new music. I seem to remember there being years where I had a hard time remembering the last new tune I’d purchased. This time around, I had to check to make sure these were all 2010 releases as a few that are still on heavy rotation are from 2009.
Anyways, as far as year-end lists go, here’s my list of tunes I’m happy to have discovered over the past year.
From the AOR/Melodic Rock catalog …
» Last Autumn’s Dream – Come Rain or Shine
» Salute – Feed Your Hunger
» Salute – I Will Be There
Both of these bands feature the same lead singer, Mickael Erlandsson. I happened to stumble onto a new tune by Salute on internet radio during work one day. Pretty good discovery.
From the catalog of “loud crunchy guitar-sounding stuff” …
» Volbeat – Thanks
» Bouncing Souls – I Think That the World …
» Bouncing Souls – Mental Bits
What can I say? … I like to hear loud things go crunch. And even still, this is a pretty tame three-pack for that.
From the CCM catalog …
» Lincoln Brewster – Best Days
» Sandra McCracken – Justice Will Roll Down
» Sandra McCracken – I Can’t Help Myself
For the past several years, I’ve enjoyed Derek Webb’s music while regretting that I couldn’t get into his wife’s work. Now she’s got two tracks that I can’t take off of heavy rotation and I’m skipping out on buying his latest. On a sidenote, “I Can’t Help Myself” goes down as the first tune to have heard at Ecclesia Church AFTER I had already been listening to the song for a good long while. It’s a very different world, musically, at Ecclesia, so that’s not an insignificant tidbit. Needless to say, I was floored when I heard it in church.
From the Guitar Hero catalog …
» Paul Gilbert – Olympic
Slim pickings for the guitar pluckers. But then again, I’ve been happily trying my own hand at making music along these lines. Not very well, mind you … just trying.