We've almost reached the end of 2016, so let's do this. List your favourite music of the past year, as many or as few as you like, categorised however you want.

Some of my most-played "2016 music" actually came out in previous years, so I'll just list my top choices that actually apply to this year.

Album: The Galileo 7 "Live-O-Graphic"
Single: The Galileo 7 "Cruel Bird"
Vault: Big Star "Complete Third"
Video: The Beach Boys "Classic Albums: Pet Sounds"
Artist: The Moot

album - crosby - lighthouse - how does he still sing like that?

vault - beatles - hollywood bowl - even though it should have come out years ago

covers album - the stones - blue & lonesome - i am really liking this record

Album — Jeff Beck - Loud Hailer
Blues — Tinsley Ellis - Red Clay Soul (longtime fan; I find this very relaxing)
Potential — Ana Popovic - Trilogy (need to spend more time with this 3cd album)
Documentary — PBS Soundbreaking (and I haven't even made it all the way through yet)
Best Timing — David Bowie - Blackstar
Jazz Discovery — Hiromi (jazz piano is not even close to my first go-to jazz choice, but this lady is deserving of more exploration)
Live Concert — Dala (this marvelous Canadian duo beat out the Avett Bros.)
Late to the Party — Opeth - Pale Communion (2014) (Recently found this group and album, and I can't stop listening to this particular album, whether it is representative of the group or not)
Infatuation — Qello Concerts channel

I'm going to respond to this as soon as i find 2-3 hours to review what was released this year!

As with last year I am going to wait and review Lawrence's home work first.

Rick A.

Reissue of the year gotta be the Pink Floyd Box

I also love the reissue of Yes -Tales From Toppographic Oceans & The Chicago BluRay Quad box

I concur! It's been a great year for remixes, remasters and special boxes. Add XTC's Skylarking, the new King Crimson box and the new Stones album.

Album: Monkees - Good Times
Single: "HandClap"--Fitz & the Tantrums
Reissue: Ramones debut album
Archive release: Rolling Stones - Totally Stripped
Documentary film: Eight Days a Week
Movie about music: Sing Street
Soundtrack (original songs): Sing Street
Soundtrack (compilation): Everybody Wants Some
Concert: Weird Al Yankovic, Radio City Music Hall

Best concert-going buddy of all time: JohnG

I spent way too much time this year listening to reissues and deluxe editions.
But I am extremely fond of Bun E. Carlos' Greetings from Bunezuela! and would rank it highly on any list I'd make of new releases for 2016.

I used the usual ICE + Wikipedia. I can't find a hi-res site that lists by year of release; I went to the "big 3" & keyed in "2016" & got a few hits; but it's very incomplete. For hi-res, I also glanced through my collection & checked file dates; + looked at posts I had made here & on another forum. I found quite a bit, but please don't assume I'm endorsing sound quality other then on the excellent sound quality section. I did intentionally leave out any hi res album that had really awful sound even if I loved the music. Conversely, there were a few with less then stellar sound (ELP, BOC, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Nicks,) that I included because I love the music. I'm assuming I missed a ton of hi-rez that I own & really like.

This is a lot of work! I've been saying for years I need to add dates to my collection spreadsheet.......

I can't believe there was this little CD New or Vault that I liked, as I know I spent way more then this.......

My Album of the year: Stevie Nicks - 1982 concert on the Bella Donna DE

CD

New Releases

David Bromberg - The Blues, The Whole Blues & Nothing But The Blues
Elle King - Love Stuff (there is also an hr edition of this great album, but it's terribly brickwalled as is the cd, so save your $'s & buy the cd!)
Tom Petty - Mudcrutch 2
Lucinda Williams The Ghosts of Highway 20

Vault

Ani DiFranco - Glenside November 11, 2012
Grateful Dead - Various Dave's Picks
Ian Matthews - Live At Rockpalast
Santana 4 - LIVE
Wishbone Ash - Tracks 3
Frank Zappa - Chicago 1978

2016 Hi-Res

New Releases
"*" = Excellent Sound

Heart - Beautiful Broken 96/24
Keren Ann - You're Gonna Get Love *
Marillion - FEAR 96/24
Madeline Peyroux - Secular Hymns
Steve Rothery - Live At The band On The Wall 96/24
Steven Wilson - Transience 96/24 *
Steven Wilson - 4 1/2 96/24 *

2016 HR - Fav Vault Reissues with excellent sound

Buffalo Springfield - Again 96/24 *
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs 192/24 *
David Bowie David Live 2005 Expanded/Remastered 96/24 *
CSN - Pono Couch Album 192/24 *
CSNY - Deja Vu 192/24 *
Duke Ellington - Blues In Orbit APO 176.24 & DSF *
Duke Ellington - Jazz Party DSD & 176/24 *
Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington - Piano In The Foreground - DSD & 172.24 *
Grateful Dead - Fare Thee Well 96/24 *
Grateful Dead - July 1978 192/24 *
Jethro Tull - Stand Up *
King Crimson - Radical Action Blu-Ray *
Sarah McLachlan - Solace APO SACD *


2016 hi-res vault favs Adequate - Mediocre Sound (all of these are MUCH better then the equivalent CD)

Eric Andersen - Be True To You 96/24
Blue Oyster Cult - On Your Feet 96/24 (just for being on high res; it's a bit brickwalled)
Blue Oyster Cult - ETI Live 96/24
Blue Oyster Cult - AF Secret Treaties SACD
Cars - Debut MFSL SACD
Chicago - CTA blu-ray
Chicago - 2 blu-ray
Chicago - 3 blu ray
ELP - Welcome Back My Friends 96/24 (good to finally have in high res, but sonically a bit disappointing)
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers MFSL SACD
Led Zeppelin - Complete BBC 96/24
Stevie Nicks - Belladona DE (The 1982 Concert portion)

2016 Disappointments -
Music: Shawn Colvin, Dan Reed, Adele.
Brickwalled Hi Rez: BOC catalog, & Bush 16 Stone
Brickwalled HR & CD Box - Lou Reed Complete
Not included in hi-rez box: Bowie - Nassau

Will make my list after I get the new Neil Young release.

I really know I am old as I only can come up with 3 new releases and a whole bunch of vault releases. And all 3 new releases are from dinosaurs.
New releases -
1. The Blues, the Whole Blues and Nothing But the Blues - David Bromberg - nothing better then a great musician with a sense of humor. My only regret is all those years he was semi-retired.
2.Blue & Lonesome - IMO the best Stones release since Some Girls - highly unexpected.
3.Live - ZZ Top - Since this was listed here under new releases on this site - that's where I stuck it.

Vault
1.) Light Meat - Uncle Meat is easily one of Zappa's top 6 releases. Here we have the original mix on cd for the first time - an alternate sequencing of the titles with some extras and different edits and nearly a half of cd with alternate mixes and out takes.
2.) Little Dot - the second live set from 72's Petite Wazoo. This band was so under-rated. Again this release was set up by FZ in the mid 70's/early 80's then shelved. Sound is a little raw but the music makes up for that.
3.) Road Tapes Venue 3 7/5/70 - The Flo & Eddie band before they became the groupie obsessed band - with George Duke and a lot of great solos. Again raw but the music makes up for it.
4.) The Crux of the Biscuit - This is FZ's alternate Apostrophe with a lot more music. Jack Bruce jams highlight this along with a stellar version of Uncle Remus with George Duke.
5.) Otis Redding Live at the Whiskey A Go Go 1966 - A great package - even though there is much redundancy - one could never tire of listening to this.
6.) Everybody's in Show Biz - Kinks - at last the expanded, cleaned up sound of this Kinks Klassic.
7.) Chicago 78 - Zappa - Starts out with rarely played Twentyone - drifts into a sort of boring greatest hits - disc 2 is a killer - many solo's - I think FZ is playing the Hendrix strat.
8.) Future Blues - Canned Heat - expanded - sounding better than ever. Allan Wilson's last outing with the band. One of my favorite lp's of all time. How I miss Wilson and Hite.
9.) Love Peace and Happiness - Chambers Brothers - a straight re-issue. This was out once before for about 1 1/2 hours. The sound is cleaned up. After this these guys sort of fell off the earth.
10.) Machine Gun - Hendrix. To be honest I purchased this on the issue date and it took me a month to listen to it - wasn't expecting much. I was shocked at how much better this is than any of the other BOG releases.
11.) Little Richard Reprise Collection - The Rill Thing/King of R&R/Second Coming - IMO his last great period. This could have been GREAT if they added all the unreleased tunes he recorded during this period,

Box sets -
1.)The Last of the Teen Age Idols - Alex Harvey. At last he's gotten a box set that covers his entire career. Even includes the pulled back tune No Complaints Department about the death of his brother live on stage and the air crash...I guess the song was too personal. Anyways my only complaint is there is some missing materials - the alternate release of the Impossible Dream - the BBC sessions, the Live cds and some of the later solo cuts from his lps. Even includes all the single b-sides that cost me mega bucks. If they put all the tracks on here what would folks like us do?
2.) The Turtles box set and the singles cd set - these guys were funny before FZ. Includes everything I can thing of.
3.) Dylan Live 1966 - Love to hear how tours progress and things change. Sound is very raw at times but as a tape trader that is A-OK.
4.) Album Collection - Elvis Presley - This is where I got interested in music. Even though I have more Elvis releases than anyone but Zappa and maybe Johnny cash - I had to go for this. A few releases never before on cd.

Well onto 2017
The Fresh Cream box
more Kinks release
whatever Dylan puts out
The rest of Zappa's vault - or whatever portion they see fit to release.

I am just amazed how quickly the time has gone by this year - and certainly has not been one of those "time flies while your having fun" that is for sure.
I don't know why I was taken aback by seeing this post - but I have to get to reviewing my purchases here in a bit.

It'll be a miracle if I get my list done in December as I still got a big pile of new releases I haven't heard even once. Where do these artists get off releasing so much good music with so little time to hear them all?

I agree Lawrence, what is a avid listener to do?

Rick A.

Edit your post has you hear new omg cd's?

Geff spends so much time with his pets he's starting to talk like LOLcats.

Love this thread.

Albums Of The Year:

New:
White Denim— Stiff
The Honeydogs— Love & Cannibalism
Bob Mould— Patch The Sky
Mudcrutch— 2
White Lung— Paradise

Vault:
Bob Dylan— The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert!
The Allman Brothers Band— Live From A&R Studios
Wilco— Roadcase 060: LA 9-15-16
Pearl Jam— Greenville 4-16-16 (The Vs. Show)
Bruce Springsteen— The Christic Shows: Shrine Auditorium LA 11-17-90

Critics lists:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/best-2016-mu ... 00538.html

Now that I came up from air from prepping and completing a tech certification exam...I had a chance to toss together mine...

In no particular order - though Weir's release has been my number one favorite (if not the best): the following stood out for me...and I know I could swap out with others say tomorrow - I just wanted to keep it to "10" - despite the Zappa Cheat below...could not pick

New Releases
Bob Weir Blue Mountain
Black Mountain IV
David Bowie Black Star
Cheap Trick Bang Zoom Crazy...Hello
Young The Giant Home of the Strange
The Claypool Lennon Delirium Monolith of Phobos
The Chris Robinson Brotherhood Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel
Drive-By Truckers American Band
Wilco Schmilco
GroupLove Big Mess



Archive/Live
Grateful Dead 2016 Subscription
Grateful Dead July 1978 - The Complete Recordings
Pink Floyd The Early Years 1965-72
Various Artists Psych Box
Various Artists Space Rock - Interstellar Traveler's Guide
Getz and Gilberto Getz/Gilberto '76
Neil Young Earth
Eric Clapton Live In San Diego (with Special Guest JJ Cale)
King Crimson Radical Action To Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind
Frank Zappa Road Tapes, Vol 2 | Chicago '78 | Little Dots
The Rolling Stones Totally Stripped

Favorite "Grey Area":
Bob Dylan Woodstock 1994
The Allman Brother's Band Live From A&R Studios, New York

I think I forgot to add the U.K. box set. Now that's one that came out of nowhere.