The More You Live, The More You Love

Volume 15 The last volume of the year. 01. Blue Nile - I Love This Life 02. Human Sexual Response - Land Of The Glass Pinecones 03. League Of Nations - Fade 04. CCCP - American - Soviets 05. Howard Jones - Angels & Lovers (single mix) 06. Gleaming Spires - A Christian Girl's Problem 07. Profil - Berühren 08. Kim Wilde - Shane 09. Other Ones - All The Love 10. Flue - Fancy Free 11. New Math - They Walk Among You 12. Immaculate Fools - Immaculate Fools 13. Cook Da Book - Your Eyes 14. Simon LeBon - Grey Lady Of The Sea 15. Neon - The Same ritual 16. The Listening Pool - Where Do We Go From Here 17. Jon Astley - Jane's Getting Serious 18. Lax - Ronnie's Song 19. Den Harrow - Future Brain 20. Esquire - To The Rescue

The last day of the year brings me to the final list of the best albums for me over the year 2009. I have to say it was a good year. I discovered some nice new bands which turned out to become live favourites soon afterwards. Also this final list contains a nice mixture of new releases and re-releases. Because 2009 turned out to be a great year of re-releases. 01. (01) Editors - In This Light And On This Evening (2009) 02. (02) White Lies - To Lose My Life... (2009) 03. (--) No-Man - Mixtaped (2009) 04. (09) Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age Of Wireless (collector's edition) (2009) 05. (03) Muse - The Resistance (2009) 06. (--) Keane - Hopes And Fears (deluxe edition) (2009) 07. (10) Florence And The Machine - Lungs (2009) 08. (05) H2O - Faith (remastered) (2009) 09. (11) Ultravox - Lament (remastered definitive edition)(2009) 10. (--) A-Ha - Foot Of The Mountain (2009) 11. (04) Depeche Mode - Tour Of The Universe (Werchter) (2009) 12. (07) Porcupine Tree - The Incident (2009) 13. (--)...

Volume 14 01. Two People - Mouth Of An Angel 02. The Wild Swans - Bible Dreams 03. Rhythm Of Life - Soon 04. 39 Lyon Street - Kites 05. Robert Lloyd - Nothing Matters 06. Fiat Lux - Solitary Lovers 07. Pookah Makes 3 - Lucky Lucky Lucky 08. The Dolphin Brothers - Shining 09. Academy - Stand Up! 10. Our Daughters Wedding - Automusic 11. Boom Boom Room - Take Your Time 12. Win - Shampoo Tears 13. Alan Rankine - The Sandman 14. Private Lives - Break The Chains 15. English Evenings - Touch 16. Nik Kershaw - When I Grow Up 17. Buzzcocks - I Believe 18. Psychic TV - Godstar 19. Bill Pritchard - Tommy & Co 20. Camouflage - Love Is A Shield (extended) 21. The Big Dish - Faith Healer

Simple Minds & Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Heineken Music Hall, 26 November 2009 An evening of music of two bands I follow since the early eigthies. I became interested in the Simple Minds with the release of New Gold Dream in 1982, and already knew Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark with their great album Architectury And Morality, which are both albums that I count in my list of top albums if the eigthies. So it wasn't hard for me to get some tickets, when I learned during the Lokeren Festival, where Simple Minds performed with Ultravox, another great eigthies band, that Simple Minds would return to mainland Europe with OMD as their secial guests. At half past seven OMD took of with a setlist mainly filled with singles. It was nice to see the band again after a two hiatus, at least for me. They are working hard on a new album for a release in late 2010, but meanwhile it was a nice surprise to see them on stage again although only for an hour. At nine Simple Minds took of...

Volume 13 01. Academy One - Forever And Ever 02. Shack - Ali's Vacation 03. Random Hold - Walking On The Edge 04. Robert Lloyd - Funeral Stomp 05. The Light - Pride Of Winning 06. The Swinging Laurels - Peace Of Mind 07. Martin Gore - In A Manner Of Speaking 08. Pookah Makes 3 - Take It Back 09. Paul Haig - Something Good 10. Way Of The West - Drum 11. 21 Strangers - More Cain Than Abel 12. Martin Ansell - Shine 13. Shock - Angel Face 14. De Film - Here We Are 15. Alan Rankine - Last Bullet 16. Andy Pawlak - Mermaids 17. The Big Supreme - Let's Turn Our Love Around 18. Boys From The East - Brilliant 19. Black - Everything's Coming Up Roses 20. Boom Boom Room - Here Comes The Man 21. Empire - Talk Free 22. Men Without Hats - Living In China 23. Bourgie Bourgie - Careless