Tag: Albums of the Year
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2020 May You Rot And Burn In Hell! A Year In Review
Plus: The ERTAS 2020 Albums of the Year In case you hadn’t noticed, 2020 was a terrible, terrible year for pretty much everyone and everything. Even Coronavirus, which had a better 2020 than most, received bad news in the shape of vaccines that threaten to eliminate it. That’s how bad 2020 was – even a…
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2019’s Albums and Songs of the Year
While mixtapes generally went out of fashion with Blind Date, the launch of Channel 4 and, well, the cassette, (does this mean mixtapes will come back into fashion soon? A lot of the albums below were released on cassette), the idea of circulating either CDs or playlists of your favourite tunes of the year is…
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The Every Record Tells A Story Albums Of 2018
In April 2018 we learned that revenues for streaming services surpassed income from CDs and vinyl (and, for that matter, cassettes) for the first time. So it feels rather quaint to have “Albums of the Year”, yet, like filling our houses with sparkly tat at Christmas, or steadfastly maintaining to our children that a fat…
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The Every Record Tells A Story Albums of 2015
It’s nearly Christmas, so what better time to take a look back at all the great albums released in the year? (Rhetorical question). Christmas may bring with it traditions such as hangovers, bad office parties and over-priced Christmas menus in restaurants, but it also brings the tradition of end-of-year album lists for us all to…
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The Every Record Tells A Story Best Albums of 2013
The votes are in *, the jury has sat **, and the die is cast ***. The Every Record Tells A Story Albums of the Year 2013 have been decided upon. And what a year it has been. Thanks to Spotify, I have been able to give insufficient thought, time and consideration to so many…
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Albums of the Year! From 25 Years Ago! What Were They Thinking?!
Did you used to look forward to magazine end of year best-of lists? The magazine I bought every week when I was a teenager was Kerrang! magazine – and (true to form for someone of the highest geekery such as myself) I read every issue from cover to cover. And I would look forward to the…
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