I asked notable Charlotte music fans, musicians, promoters, and other folks that work in arts and entertainment to submit their Top 10 albums of 2014. Each day this week I'll post a handful of these. Here's the third round with two longtime Charlotte rock musicians and a producer/engineer and music manager that's worked with Anthony Hamilton, Grown Up Avenger Stuff, and Matrimony.
Bruce Irvine, Grammy winning producer/recording
engineer
Queens of the Stone
Age "…Like Clockwork"
J Cole "Born Sinner"
Matrimony
"Montibello Drive"
Beyonce'
"Beyonce'"
Haim
"Days
Are Gone"
MS
MR "Secondhand
Rapture"
Listener
"Time Is A Machine"
Wallpaper
"Ricky Reed Is Real"
Daft
Punk "Random
Access
Memories"
Justin
Timberlake "The
20/20 Experience - The Complete Experience"
Bruce Hazel, singer Temperance League
Jim Jones Revue "The Savage Heart"
Bob
Dylan "The
Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait"
Jeff
Lynne "Longwave"
The
Loudermilks (self titled) (will be released officially in 2014)
David
Bowie "The Next Day"
Hugh
Cornwell "Totem & Taboo
David
Byrne and St. Vincent "Love This Giant"
Shoes
"Black Vinyl" (Reissue)
Joint
Damage "Strike Gently"
Elvis
Costello and The Roots "Wise Up Ghost"
C.R. Rollyson,
bassist, the Sammies
The longtime
Charlotte musician notes his No. 1 "feels like a note to
self."
Kurt
Vile "Wakin on a Pretty Daze"
Beach
Fossils "Clash The Truth"
Gene
Ween "Gener's Gone"
BRMC
"Specter At The Feast"
Black
Angels "Indigo Meadow"
Queens
of the Stone Age "...Like Clockwork"
Surfer
Blood "Pythons"
Franz
Ferdinand "Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action"
!!!
"Thr!!!er"
Sensual
Harassment "Escape From Alpha Draconis"