Frank Kogan

MY 75 “FAVORITE” ALBUMS OF 2015, MORE OR LESS
TOP 15, w/ P&J POINTS AFFIXED WHERE APPLICABLE
1. Nena – Oldschool (The Laugh and Peas Company Deluxe Edition) 16
2. Maggotron – Bug Eyed Monsters (Debonaire) 14
3. Eric Church – Mr. Misunderstood (EMI Nashville) 14
4. Dev – Bittersweet July (Rica Lyfe) 12
5. Jack DeJohnette – Made In Chicago (ECM) 12
6. Membranes – Dark Matter/Dark Energy (Metropolis) 10
7. Android Asteroid – Íkaros (Indies Scope) 6
8. Bohannons – Black Cross, Black Shield (Tiam) 6
9. Defyance – Reincarnation (Minotauro) 5
10. X___X – Albert Ayler’s Ghosts Live At The Yellow Ghetto (Smog Veil EP) 5
11. Toby Keith – 35 MPH Town (Show Dog)
12. Charlie Wilson – Forever Charlie (RCA)
13. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly (Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath)
14. King Heavy – King Heavy (Cruz Del Sur)
15. Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra – Cuba: The Conversation Continues (Motéma)
60 MORE ALSO RANS IN ORDER OF ALPHABET NOT PREFERENCE (COULD GO WAY LONGER BUT I WON’T, BEING SELECTIVE AND ALL) THAT I GOT AROUND TO ACTUALLY LISTENING TO AND KINDA LIKED AND MIGHT GET AROUND TO LISTENING TO AGAIN SOMEDAY, BUT IN MOST CASES TO BE HONEST PROBABLY WON’T


Bryan Adams – Get Up (Ume)
Gabriel Amargant Quintet – And Now For Something Completely Different (Fresh Sound New Talent)
Ata Kak – Obaa Sima (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
Blackberry Smoke – Holding All The Roses (Concord)
Clint Black – On Purpose (Thirty Tigers/Black Top)
Black Space Riders -- Refugeeum (Cargo/BSR)
Black Star Riders – The Killer Instinct (Nuclear Blast)
Blind Idiot God – Before Ever After (Indivisible)
Cam -- Untamed (Arista Nashville)
Cave Of Swimmers – Reflection (Cave Of Swimmers)
Cold Chisel – The Perfect Crime (Cold Chisel)
Corsair – One Eyed Horse (Shadow Kingdom)
Crypt Sermon – Out Of The Garden (Dark Descent)
Dead Sara – Pleasure To Meet You (Pocket Kid)
Laura Denisse Con Banda – Sigo Enamorada (Fonovisa)
Brett Eldredge – Illinois (Atlantic)
Far East Movement – Ktown Riot (Cherrytree/Interscope EP ’14)
Galley Beggar – Silence & Tears (Rise Above)
Gentlemans Pistols – Hustler’s Row (Nuclear Attack)
Ghost B.C. – Meliora (Loma Vista)
Rhiannon Giddens – Tomorrow Is My Turn (Nonesuch)
Hammer King – Kingdom Of The Hammer King (Cruz Del Sur)
Heidevolk – Velua (Napalm)
Helrunar – Niederkunfft (Lupus Lounge)
Mike Hudson & the Pagans – Hollywood High (Ruin Discos ’14)
La Fin Absolute Du Monde – Clarity Amongst The Rubble (Wicked Wonderland Empire)
Brian Lisik and the Unfortunates – Curtisinterrupedus (Cherokee Queen)
Maddie & Tae – Start Here (Dot)
Magister Templi – Into Duat (Cruz Del Sur)
The Mavericks – Mono (Valory Music Co.)
Reba McEntire – Love Somebody (Starstruck)
Melechesh – Enki (Nuclear Blast)
Montgomery Gentry – Folks Like Us (Blaster)
Kacey Musgraves – Pageant Material (Mercury Nashville)
My Dying Bride – Feel The Misery (Peaceville)
Myrkur – M (Relapse)
Fabiano do Nascimento -- Dança Dos Tempos (Now-Again)
Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard - Django And Jimmie (Legacy)
Ne-Yo – Non-Fiction (Motown/Captiol)
Night Demon – Curse Of The Damned (Century Media)
Rae Sremmurd – SremmLife (Interscope)
Raven – ExtermiNation (Steamhammer)
The Rezillos – Zero (Metropolis)
Thomas Rhett – Tangled Up (Valory Music Co.)
Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee (Constellation)
Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen – Hold My Beer Vol. 1 (Lil’Buddy Toons)
Satan – Atom By Atom (Listenable)
Justine Skye – Emotionally Unavailable (Atlantic EP)
The Sonics – This Is The Sonics (Re: Vox)
Subterranean Masquerade – The Great Bazaar (Taklit)
Sumari – Sumari (Unseen Rain)
The Sword – High Country (Razor & Tie)
Pat Travers – Retro Rocket (Purple Pyramid)
Trixter – Human Era (Frontiers)
Venomous Maximus – Firewalker (Shadow Kingdom)
Vhöl – Deeper Than Sky (Profound Lore)
Visigoth – The Revenant King (Metal Blade)
Western Star – Fireball (Saustex)
:Wumpscut: -- Blut Spuker Tavern (Metropolis)
Zero Down – No Limit To The Evil (Minotauro ’14)