{"id":47861,"date":"2018-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/features\/2018-petes-best-of\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T07:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:31:33","slug":"2018-petes-best-of","status":"publish","type":"feature","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/features\/2018-petes-best-of\/","title":{"rendered":"2018: Pete’s Best Of"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year was interesting. Not only did I undergo many personal challenges, I found a lack of great and amazing music that really blew my mind. Maybe it\u2019s the lack of anything new and exciting and because rock and roll is no longer what it used to be. Whatever the reason, what follows is an unranked list of the best of what\u2019s around from this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Mudhoney \u2013 Digital Garbage<\/i><\/p>\n

This was the best album of the year regardless of what others say. The grunge stalwarts came back after five years off the racks and went political, and guess what? They made one of the best records of their career. It\u2019s heavy, it\u2019s pissed off, and I\u2019ts full of attitude and songs that really make a person think about their environment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Burn The Priest (Lamb Of God) \u2013 Legion XX<\/i><\/p>\n

Lamb Of God, in the midst of seemingly never-ending touring, went and made a quick collection of punk and hardcore covers under their original name that really set my ears afire. Bands like Bad Brains, The Accused, and others get the LOG treatment, which made for quite some good tracks this year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Alkaline Trio \u2013 Is This Thing Cursed?<\/i><\/p>\n

Another band that\u2019s been missing for five years, came back and made one of the best records of their career. Doomy and sunny at the same time, this release shows that the band has staying power and can stake their claim as one of the more consistently great punk bands of the last 20 years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Paul Simon \u2013 In The Blue Light<\/i><\/p>\n

Definitely one of the more eye-opening records I\u2019ve heard all year. Supposedly the last studio recording of his career, Simon decided to go ahead and re-record several songs from his back catalogue that weren\u2019t hits and redo them in a different style. And you know what? It oddly works and several songs were very endearing and really hit me where I live, so to say. I wasn\u2019t expecting this sort of emotion but was very pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Pennywise \u2013 Never Gonna Die<\/i><\/p>\n

I\u2019m happy to see these guys back, and they made their strongest record since the early 2000s. It\u2019s nice to have great old school punk coming around again. We always need something like Pennywise to erase the emo stain of Panic At The Disco from our music consciousness. This is some of the best and most furious punk I\u2019ve heard in a few years.<\/p>\n

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Snow Patrol \u2013 Wildness<\/i><\/p>\n

Their first since 2011, and they\u2019ve ditched the electronic elements that marked their last couple of discs to make a really good release. The record was a complete flop and gave the band no radio hits, but it was great to have a good pop record out in the midst of whatever the hell currently passes for pop music on the radio.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Jeff Tweedy \u2013 Warm<\/i><\/p>\n

Literally a record I discovered while I was writing this. A more laidback solo recording featuring his son on drums, Tweedy cut some of the more electric edges and made a more folksy kind of record that really worked with how I\u2019ve been feeling about music and life lately. A great way to wrap up the year: with a really downbeat lowkey record.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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Best Songs Of The Year<\/b><\/p>\n

Alkaline Trio \u2013 \u201cBlackbird\u201d
Beanpole \u2013 \u201cCousins”
Blues Traveler \u2013 \u201cOde From The Aspect\u201d
Cake \u2013 \u201cSinking Ship\u201d
Childish Gambino \u2013 \u201cFeels Like Summer\u201d
The Damned \u2013 \u201cStanding On The Edge Of Tomorrow\u201d
Death Cab for Cutie \u2013 \u201cNorthern Lights\u201d
Burn The Priest (Lamb Of God) \u2013 \u201cInherit The Earth\u201d
Mudhoney \u2013 \u201cKill Yourself Live\/21st<\/sup> Century Pharisees\/Messiah\u2019s Lament\u201d
Mumford & Sons \u2013 \u201cGuiding Light\u201d
Paul Simon \u2013 \u201cLove\u201d
Pennywise \u2013 \u201cLive While You Can\u201d
Slipknot \u2013 \u201cAll Out Life\u201d
Snow Patrol \u2013 \u201cWhat If This is All The Love You Ever Get?\u201d
Young The Giant \u2013 \u201cSuperposition\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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