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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