Gimme Chocolate!!
Posted on 27th March 2021
So this week's poll year 2014. A lot of rock/metal and progressive rock albums this year, and a few folk entries too.
To date, BABYMETAL are now the last band I've seen live, back in February 2020, at my old haunt the Manchester Apollo. I discovered them around this time when I caught a feature of them on a music channel, possibly Kerrang!. I was both impressed with the songs, but also the ability for the Kawaii J-Pop sounds to mix seamlessly with the power metal of the Kami Band, forming the unique Kawaii Metal scene.
I've been a long time fan of KMFDM, and this album was instantly among my favourites on first listen. From the introduction by Miss Annabella, Lucia and Sasha's daughter, through to Make Your Stand, an electronic beat tour-de-force all the way. Respeckt!
I discovered 3TEETH a few years ago, and now wished I discovered them even earlier. This, their debut album, set the scene for what was to come, and from such an awesome beginning, it's been great to see them only grow.
With NMA I have been very fortunate, as I've known them since their very first record. A friend of mine was the boyfriend of Rob Heaton's younger sister, and when I went to visit him back in Holmes Chapel once, he persuaded me to buy the single Bittersweet from him (he was doing a good sales job with all his friends), but he knew it was my kind of music. He wasn't wrong, and I've been a fan ever since. This album was a solid companion to 2013's Between Dog And Wolf, offering both studio and live tracks.
Mogwai, I saw in the late 90s, but mistook them for another band, who I wasn't impressed with, and ever since had not really paid attention to them. Until 2019, when I happen to listen to one of the albums and realised my mistake. I have since gone back and listened to all their albums, and hang my head in shame that I missed out on this band for so many years. Their more recent albums, include Rave Tapes, are a pure delight.
And on to 2014's top 50...
| 1 | Babymetal | Babymetal |
| 2 | KMFDM | Our Time Will Come |
| 3 | 3TEETH | 3TEETH |
| 4 | New Model Army | Between Blood And Wine |
| 5 | Mogwai | Rave Tapes |
| 6 | Die So Fluid | The Opposites of Light |
| 7 | Among The Echoes | Fracture |
| 8 | Servers | Leave With Us |
| 9 | The Birthday Massacre | Superstition |
| 10 | Savlonic | Red |
| 11 | IQ | The Road Of Bones |
| 12 | Vice Squad | Cardboard Country |
| 13 | Arch Enemy | War Eternal |
| 14 | Within Temptation | Hydra |
| 17 | Amy Lee | Aftermath |
| 16 | Linkin Park | The Hunting Party |
| 15 | Live | The Turn |
| 18 | Seether | Isolate and Medicate |
| 19 | Pallas | itiswhatitis |
| 20 | Kate Rusby | Ghost |
| 21 | Suzanne Vega | Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles |
| 22 | Lacuna Coil | Broken Crown Halo |
| 23 | Epica | The Quantum Enigma |
| 25 | Prince & 3rdeyegirl | Plectrumelectrum |
| 24 | Steve Hackett | Genesis Revisited:Live at the Royal Albert Hall |
| 26 | Train | Bulletproof Picasso |
| 27 | Judas Priest | Redeemer of Souls |
| 31 | AC/DC | Rock or Bust |
| 32 | The Foo Fighters | Sonic Highways |
| 28 | Pallas | wearewhoweare |
| 29 | Steve Rothery | The Ghosts Of Pripyat |
| 30 | Melissa Etheridge | This Is M.E. |
| 33 | Gandalf's Fist | A Forest Of Fey |
| 34 | My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult | Spooky Tricks |
| 35 | Semblant | Lunar Manifesto |
| 36 | Bruce Springsteen | High Hopes |
| 38 | Prince | Art Offical Age |
| 37 | Yes | Heaven & Earth |
| 39 | Simple Minds | Big Music |
| 40 | Blondie | Ghosts Of Download |
| 41 | Natalie Merchant | Natalie Merchant |
| 42 | Pixies | Indie Cindy |
| 43 | The Twilight Sad | Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave |
| 44 | Transatlantic | Kaleidoscope |
| 45 | Stevie Nicks | 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault |
| 46 | Transatlantic | KaLIVEoscope |
| 48 | Johnny Marr | Playland |
| 49 | Mike Oldfield | Man On The Rocks |
| 47 | Buzzcocks | The Way |
| 50 | The Pretty Reckless | Going To Hell |
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