The Best of 2024!!

The Rhythms Readers Poll returns!

Have your say in choosing the best albums, gigs, music books and films of the year. Democracy in action. We would love your contribution.

Below you will find lists of albums and box sets to choose from but you do not have to restrict yourself to these choices.

VOTING CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT ON SUNDAY DECEMBER 8, 2024

Results of the Readers Poll will be published in the January/February edition of Rhythms and online on January 1, 2024.

PLEASE NOTE: If your choices are not on the list below then you can add them in the text box at the end of the section.
Only votes that include a valid email address will be valid. One vote per person.

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* 1. Australian Album Of 2024 (Choose ONLY 5! Column 1 is your first choice, Column 2 is your second choice etc) The lists below are guides only feel free to add YOUR OWN choices!

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Geoff Achison - Don't Play Guitar Boy
Black Sorrows - The Way We Do Business
Bures Band - Fool Circle
Sarah Carroll - NQR&B
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God
Kasey Chambers - Backbone
Charm of Finches - Marlinchen In The Snow
Crowded House - Gravity Stairs
Charles Jenkins - Radio Sketches Vol.4
Dan Sultan - Dan Sultan
Emma Donovan - Til My Song Is Done
Peter Garrett - The True North
Charles Jenkins - Radio Sketches Vol.4
Dan Kelly - Goldfeels
Paul Kelly - Fever Longing Still
Jordie Lane - Tropical Depression
Jeff Lang - More Life
Mick Thomas' Roving Commission -
The Night Parrots - Songs Won
Opelousas - Opelousafried
Pepper Creek Revival - Pepper Creek Revival
Thelma Plum - I'm Sorry, Now Say It Back
Queenie - New Moult
Emma Russack - About The Girl
Claire Anne Taylor - Giving It All Away
Small Town Romance - Home Fires
Teskey Brothers -
Catherine Traicos - Swansongs
Henry Wagons - The Four Seasons
Van Walker - Healing Descent
Michael Waugh - Beauty & Truth
Emily Wurramara - Nara
Yearlings - Luck

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* 2.

International Album Of 2024 (Choose no more than 5)

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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland
Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Texicali
Laurie Anderson - Amelia
The Avett Brothers - The Avett Brothers
Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards
Black Keys - Ohio Players
Bonny Light Horseman - Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free
Leon Bridges - Leon
T Bone Burnett - The Other Side
John Cale - Poptical Illusion
Johnny Cash - Songwriter
Eric Clapton - Meanwhile
Gary Clark Jr - JPEG Raw
Shemekiah Copeland - Blame It On Eve
Charley Crockett - $10 Cowboy
The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again
Dion - Girl Friends
Sierra Ferrell - Trail of Flowers
Sue Foley - One Guitar Woman
Ani DiFranco - Unprecedented Shit
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Live At The Ryman
Joe Ely - Driven To Drive
Kurt Elling - Wild Flowers Vol.1 & 2
David Gilmour - Luck & Strange
Robyn Hitchcock - 1967: Vacations In The Past
Brittany Howard - What Now
Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive
Sarah Jarosz - Polaroid Lovers
Johnny Blue Skies - Passage Du Desir
Amethyst Kiah - Still + Bright
Mark Knopfler - One Deep River
Ray LaMontagne - Long Way Home
Christian Lee Hutson - Paradise Pop.10
Robert Earl Keen - Western Chill
MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future
Little Feat - Sam's Place
Lone Justice - Viva Lone Justice
Nick Lowe & Los Straightjackets - Indoor Safari
Laura Marling - Patterns In Repeat
The Mavericks - Moon & Stars
Mdou Moctar - Funeral For Justice
Ruth Moody - Wanderer
Van Morrison - New Arranbgements & Duets
Van Morrison - Live At Orangefield
Joy Oladokun -Observations From A Crowded Room
Chuck Prophet & Quinesave? - Wake The Dead
Pink Stones - You Know Who
Nathaniel Rateliffe & The Nightsweats - South Of Here
Jobi Riccio - Whiplash
John Smith - The Living Kind
Chris Smither - All About The Bones
Swamp Dogg - Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St
Julian Taylor - Pathways
Linda Thompson - Proxy Music
Richard Thompson - Ship To Shore
Willie Nelson - The Border
Willie Nelson - Last Leaf On The Tree
Kelsey Waldon - There's Always A Song
Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement
Faye Webster - Underdressed At The Symphony
Paul Weller - 66
Andy White - Good Luck, I Hope You Make It
Lucinda Williams - Abbey Road
Bill Wyman - Drive My Car
X - Smoke & Fiction
Dwight Yoakam - Brighter Days

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* 3. Compilations/Box Sets/Re-Issues/Tribute Albums (Choose up to 5)

 
Bob Dylan & The Band - The Live Recordings 1974
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival al 2023
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - Live at Fillmore East 1969
Faces - The BBC Sessions
Rory Gallagher - The BBC Collection
Grateful Dead - From The Mars Hotel
George Harrison - Living In The Material World 50th Anniversary
Joni Mitchell - Archives Vol.4
Laura Nyro - Hear My Song: The Collection 1966-1995 Deluxe
The Saints - I'm Stranded
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Archives Vol.3
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Fuckin' Up
Various - Can't Steal My Fire: The Songs of David Only
Various - Cardinals At The Window
Various Artists - Tonight I'll Go Down Swinging': A Tribute To Don Heffington
The Who - Odds & Sods
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe 50th Anniversary

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* 4. Best Gig/Concert/Festival Show of 2024 - Australian/International

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* 5. Best Music Festival - Australia

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* 6. Best Music Book of The Year (Australian or International)

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* 7. Best Music Documentary Film of The Year (Australian or International)

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* 8. Please enter your details here. For your vote to be eligible you must provide your name and a valid email address (which will remain confidential). 

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