The More You Live, The More You Love

Again it seems that this year musically is very strong. Surprisingly strong albums of old timers Pallas and Yes, a coming back album of the neoproggers Comedy Of Errors, a first solo album of the former singer of Big Big Train, Sean Filkins, the nice album Of Mirrors, a farewell live album of A-Ha and many more. Five months before the end of this year it brings me to the following top 10: 01. Comedy Of Errors - Disobey 02. Sean Filkins - War And Peace & Othere Stories 03. Yes - Fly From Here 04. Pallas - XXV 05. Kate Bush - Director's Cut 06. Mirrors - Lights And Offerings 07. Memories Of Machines - Warm Winter 08. Ultravox - Moments From Eden 09. A-Ha - Ending On A High Note - The Final Concert 10. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Liverpool

01. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - History Of Modern 02. Propaganda - A Secret Wish: Deluxe Edition 03. Customs - Enter The Character 04. Marina & The Diamond - The Family Jewels 05. Hurts - Happiness 06. Lostboy! A.K.A. Jim Kerr - Lostboy! 07. Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back 08. The Scipt - Science And Faith 09. Villa Nah - Origin 10. Ultravox - Return To Eden 11. Brandon Flowers - Flamingo 12. A-Ha - 25 13. Everything Everything - Man Alive 14. Run The Red Light - Run The Red Light 15. Keane - Night Train

A-Ha live at the HMH, Amsterdam on 10-10-2010. The support Jimmy Gnecco, and his band Ours which helped him to perform his first released solo-material, had just flown in the other day, maybe in the same plane as the one where Solomon Burke died in just before landing. They were given a change to start up the crowd with a performance of fourty minutes. As said they played material from Jimmy's first solo album The Heart, which sounded very promising for a first listen. At nine o'clock the lights went out and a classical intro was played, after that a keyboard tune followed with Morton singing short phrases over it as if he was practising his voice. Then the band came on and opened with The Sun Always Shines On T.V. It took them three songs, in which Morton wore his sunglasses, to get into the mood. With Scoundrel Days the voice was warm and the band relaxed as if to say the professional photographers are gone it is time to start the party. What followed was a show with a lot of...

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. (--)...