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Tom’s Top 5’s: Most Anticipated Albums of 2015 (Addendum!)

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Tom Emanuel

Upon posting my Top 10 Most Anticipated Albums of 2015, friends questioned why I hadn’t included several other exciting new releases scheduled for the coming year. In my defense I can offer only ignorance: in most of these cases, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Aleksander Vinter, Astoria, blues rock, Dire Straits, dubstep, EDM, electronica, glitch hop, Here's to the Zeros, hip-hop, indie, Invasian, Josh Ramsay, Macklemore, Marianas Trench, Mark Knopfler, Neal Morse, pop, Pop 101, pop-rock, prog, progressive rock, Ryan Lewis, Savant, singer-songwriter, symphonic prog, The Grand Experiment, The Heist, Tracker | 2 Comments

Tom’s Top 10’s: Most Anticipated Albums of 2015

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Tom Emanuel

Any year that kicks off with Kanye West and Paul McCartney collaborating on a Stevie Wonder-esque ballad is going to be a year of surprises. A mere week into the new year, it’s tough to say what curve balls 2015 … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged 74 Is the New 24, Albums of 2015, avant-pop, Belle & Sebastian, Brian Wilson, chamber pop, Classic Rock, Colin Meloy, Daft Punk, EDM, electronic, Ellis Ludwig-Leone, Fokus, Georgio Moroder, Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, Hand. Cannot. Erase., Hollywood, indie, indie pop, Jens Lekman, Josh Ritter, Just a Dream, Liam Hayes, No Pier Pressure, Nobody's Empire, One Way Out, Parasites, Plush, power pop, prog, progressive rock, San Fermin, singer-songwriter, Slurrup, Steven Wilson, The Cat with the Cream, The Decemberists, The Party Line, Tobias Jesso Jr., True Love, What a Terrible World What a Beautiful World | 3 Comments

Album Review: Ian Anderson, “Homo Erraticus”

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

When they go on tour these days, most artists of Ian Anderson’s age might slot in a couple of new songs into their act, but mostly keep to a standard-issue “greatest hits” setlist. Anderson, clever fellow that he is, however, … Continue reading →

Posted in Album Reviews | Tagged Albums of 2014, Cold Dead Reckoning, Doggerland, Enter the Uninvited, Ernest T. Parritt, Gerald Bostock, Heavy Metals, Homo Erraticus, Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull, prog, progressive rock, Ryan O’Donnell, Thick as a Brick, Thick as a Brick 2, Tripudium Ad Bellum | 1 Comment

Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 2012

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

As Ralph Ellison once put it, “Eclecticism is the word.” So after several years of Belle & Sebastian/Camera Obscura/Divine Comedy indie pop consistency, my tastes throw me a curveball in 2012: hip-hop, glitch-hop, throwback prog, piano rock, and anthemic indie … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Alchemist, Aleksander Vinter, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, dubstep, EDM, fun., glitch hop, hip-hop, Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull, Macklemore, prog, progressive rock, Ryan Lewis, Savant, Some Nights, The Heist, The Sound of the Life of the Mind, Thick as a Brick, Thick as a Brick 2, Top 5 Albums of 2012 | Leave a comment

Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 2007

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

If you’ve been keeping track of these lists, you’ve probably ascertained I’m a big Paul McCartney fan – apart from dominating with the Beatles during the 60s, of course, he made a strong showing on my lists for 1973, 1982, … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Bruce Springsteen, chamber pop, Doomsday Afternoon, indie pop, indie rock, Jens Lekman, Josh Ritter, Magic, Night Falls Over Kortedala, Phideaux, prog, progressive rock, symphonic prog, The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter, the Shins, Top 5 Albums of 2007, Wincing the Night Away | 2 Comments

Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 2002

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

The fact that the following list is filled with older artists (or artists working in older idioms) doesn’t mean that I haven’t heard anything more “hip” or contemporary from 2002. Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is probably their best album; but … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Brian Wilson, Bruce Springsteen, Dire Straits, Down the Road, Mark Knopfler, Mind If We make Love to You, power pop, prog, progressive rock, Snow, Spock's Beard, symphonic prog, The Ragpicker's Dream, The Rising, Top 5 Albums of 2002, Van Morrison, Wondermints | Leave a comment

Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 2000

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

If you follow this blog, you’ve probably noticed that I have pretty eclectic tastes. Nowhere is that eclecticism more evident than here at the dawn of the twenty-first century. I have my favorites, of course, but I try to keep … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Children of Bodom, Follow the Reaper, Fortress, Mark Knopfler, melodic death metal, metal, prog, progressive rock, Sailing to Philadelphia, Sister Hazel, Spock's Beard, Steely Dan, Top 5 Albums of 2000, Two Against Nature, V | 3 Comments

Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 1999

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

And so we come to the close of the 1900s, a century of radical changes in all areas of life: political, economic, cultural, intellectual, musical, you name it. As we’ve gone through the last third or so of the century … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Air, Back on Top, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Camel, electronica, Fountains of Wayne, French electronica, power pop, Premiers Symptômes, prog, progressive rock, Rajaz, Top 5 Albums of 1999, Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, Van Morrison | Leave a comment

Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 1996

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

As the 90s progress, I notice that World Music constitutes a larger and larger proportion of my library. For the purposes of this exercise, I have chosen to limit myself to rock/pop/R&B. Most of the time, it’s not an issue … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Andy Latimer, Belle & Sebastian, Camel, Casanova, Divine Comedy, Golden Heart, Harbour of Tears, If You're Feeling Sinister, Mark Knopfler, Masquerade Overture, Neil Hannon, neo-prog, Pendragon, prog, progressive rock, Stuart Murdoch, Top 5 Albums of 1996, Vartinna, Värttinä | Leave a comment

Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 1995

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

After a solid decade of struggling to find full albums that I’d even listened to, 1995 marks, for me at least, the beginning of something of a rock & roll renaissance. Maybe it’s that bands were finally getting away from … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, Back in the World of Adventure, Ben Folds Five, Britpop, Dead Winter Dead, Flower Kings, Oasis, power metal, prog, progressive rock, Savatage, Spock's Beard, symphonic metal, The Light, Top 5 Albums of 1995, Trans-Siberian Orchestra | 2 Comments