![]() ![]() Guitars are huge, low, and fuzzy, the bass thumps, and vocals are good. With all that said and hopefully in mind, here are, in descending order, my favorite 30 albums of the 101 I deemed worthy from the 539 I listened to throughout this glorious, monstrous year of 2015. The more great songs on an album, the greater the album. ![]() ![]() An album is considered exceptional on the strength of its individual songs. And what typically differentiates these 30 albums from all the rest released in 2015 are the songs. It leaves plenty of room for artistic license in melody and lyrics, but always delivers pulse pounding, sweat inducing, primal, tribal reverberations resonating through to the ancestral core of our pattern seeking genes. The overriding hallmark of all these albums, to me, is they represent the truest essence of rock and roll. What you will find here is a narrow mix of music that has at its core a powerful guitar and a guitar pedal amp supplying plenty of fuzz and glorious distortion, at worst passable vocals but at best vocals that match ability and intensity with the core guitar, and employing cleverly to adequately crafted melodies, all of which will be playing classical seventies rock, blues rock, psychedelic rock, stoner/desert/fuzz rock, or a mad mixture of any or all of those rock attitudes. Many vocals can be awe inspiring, as much or more than the sound of a gifted guitarist. Nor will you find any bands that affect a vocal sound, the most common being the growling vocals so common in today’s metal oblations. There won't be any instrumental albums on my list as I find most of them to be tedious. From the centenary list, plus one, of albums I flagged as worthy I settled on 30 favorites, of which I’ve listed here for your perusal and amusement. Thank you, and especially HeavyPlanet Radio on Facebook, thank you, and thank you Richard Jones of Sheltered Life PR from whom my introductions to all 539 albums came. This year I downloaded 539 albums from which I tagged 101 as 'worthy'. Following is a list of my favorite albums of 2015. ![]()
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