This has been an
extraordinarily good year for rock and roll music. If, indeed, the dudes who wrote the Mayan
Calendar are correct, and that the world is going to come to a sticky end in
just over a month, then at least my particularly favourite art form will have
gone out with a bang.
Even before
starting up the Gonzo Daily back in
March, I wrote intermittently about rock
music on various other blogs, and each year I produced my top ten albums
of the previous twelve months, usually posted on Christmas Day. Some years I had great difficulty finding ten
albums that I actually liked, and I have to admit that I scraped the barrel to
such an extent that some of the ones I chose for the last few years I haven’t
listened to since. This year has been an
amazing change. Even discounting all the
fantastic music that I have heard through my connections with Gonzo Multimedia,
I have discovered a whole wealth of excellent albums released in 2012.
At the moment –
not including anything from Gonzo Multimedia – there are something like 26
records on the list, and it is really going to be difficult to choose my
favourites, although you won’t be surprised to hear that Bob Dylan’s Tempest and Damon Albarn’s Dr. Dee will certainly be there, and I
haven’t even heard the new Scott Walker album yet ….
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