281. MY FAVORITE RECORDS OF 2024
Coming up with my top five records of the year was not a difficult task this year as I already had somewhat of an idea that such and such album would land there pretty much as soon as I heard it. But deciding what was my #1 favorite record of the year was a much harder thing to do. Do I pick a band that has been around for almost 50 years that just happened to release one of their best records of their career? Or someone who finally got back to his bluesy rock and roll roots after wandering off the beaten path? Or a band that literally came out of left field, took me by surprise, dug its hooks in me and wouldn't let go for weeks? Or what about the two women from Spain who just happened to put out one of the funnest records of the year? Or the Americana singer-songwriter who somehow topped her previous outstanding record with an even better one?
As I came up with this list, I looked back at what I listened to the most over the past 12 months (or over the time since the record was released) and then drilled down even further - did I listen to the whole album over and over again, or was it just the tracks I recommended in Daily Records or was it just a single song I obsessed over again and again? I guess what I'm saying is ignore everything I said at the beginning of this post - this was not an easy task after all.