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Looking Closer's Annual Favorite Albums Lists

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Overstreet's Favorite Recordings: 2012

I'd invite you all to a New Year's Eve Listening Party, but there are just too many of you. So allow me to deliver this party to your doorstep. Here is some music from my favorite recordings of 2012.

Overstreet's Favorite Albums: 2001 (10 years later)

Listening to music is, for me, a treasure hunt. The whole journey is worthwhile, with highs and lows, unforgettable discoveries and a whole lot of unremarkable scenery. What I love most is an album that just keeps opening up, like a house full of secret doors, so that ten years

Overstreet's Favorite Recordings: 2011

I didn't hear any records this year that filled me with a zeal to shout from the rooftops. (Last year's The Long Surrender by Over the Rhine did that, and it remains my favorite record of the last several years.) Nevertheless, 2011 was still a year

Overstreet's Favorite Recordings: 2010

1. Over the Rhine - The Long Surrender They've been my favorite band for several years, and I love all of the albums they've released in a 21-year career. But they get better every year, and this is, in my opinion, the finest album they'

Overstreet's Favorite Recordings: 2009

Here's a video that runs through my favorite albums of 2009. Before I made that video, I sketched out a rough list in order to encourage people to pick up good albums as Christmas gifts. The order was different then, but here's a glimpse of that

Overstreet's Favorite Recordings: 2005

I'll admit it. I did not keep up with the world of music the way I have in the past. On average, I listened to a new album every week, but the time I'd planned to spend writing about them was swallowed by film-writing assignments and

Overstreet's Favorite Recordings: 2006

About this list: Once again, I find myself looking forward to hearing a long list of albums that have come highly recommended... but I haven't had the time to give them proper attention. (That's what a full-time job, weekly review-and-column deadlines, and three book deadlines will

Overstreet's Favorite Recordings: 2007

1. I'm Not There - Original SoundtrackWhat a marvel: a two-disc marathon of Bob Dylan songs covered by excellent artists, and almost every single attempt is a knockout. There have been a lot of bad covers of Dylan songs. Too many. But in a year when Dylan was

Overstreet’s Favorite Recordings: 2004

Overstreet’s Favorite Recordings: 2004

The wall has come down. By my lights, anyway, it appears that this was the year that brought it crumbling to the ground. When I was a teenager, I lived in a world where Christian music existed in a carefully protected city with high walls, where we whispered about the

Overstreet's Favorite Recordings: 2003

Looking Closer's Annual Favorite Albums Lists

Overstreet's Favorite Recordings: 2003

1. Over the Rhine.....Ohio Over the Rhine celebrate their tenth album by making it a double. What we get is one of the most powerful discs they've ever recorded — Volume One — the soulful gospel/folk/rock that they do best. That disc is followed by another, more

Overstreet’s Favorite Recordings: 2002

Looking Closer's Annual Favorite Albums Lists

Overstreet’s Favorite Recordings: 2002

1. Wilco.....Yankee Hotel Foxtrot It’s like the sound of experienced explorers setting foot on a new musical continent. Wilco's restlessness has found them territory all their own. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the bravest and most creative record of the year. (You can learn all about how