Sure, Chuck D got it wrong and the US reelected Obama, but otherwise Most Of My Heroes Still Don't Appear On No Stamps is write on. I wil write up my best albums by musicians over 50 in 2012 one of these days, till then here is a list rock's backpages suggested I crib from to make my choice and it should come as no shocker to anybody who reads rock nyc that Public Enemy will be number one in that chart.
Here is the list, you decide!
Guided by Voices, Let's Go Eat the Factory.
Dion, Tank Full of Blues.
Stew & the Negro Problem, Making It.
Leonard Cohen, Old Ideas.
Roberta Flack, Let It Be.
Garland Green, I Should Have Been the One.
Paul McCartney, Kisses on the Bottom.
Van Halen, A Different Kind of Truth.
Barry Adamson, I Will Set You Free.
Mitch Ryder, The Promise.
Chieftains, Voice of Ages.
Lambchop, Mr. M.
Lyle Lovett, Release Me.
Chip Taylor, Fuck All the Perfect People.
Bruce Springsteen, Wrecking Ball.
Strawberry Alarm Clock, Wake Up Where You Are.
Meat Loaf, Hell in a Handbasket.
VCMG.
Robert Pollard, Mouseman Cloud.
Lee Ranaldo, Between the Times and the Tides.
Cowboy Junkies, Wilderness.
Paul Weller, Sonic Kicks.
Dr. John, Locked Down.
Amadou & Mariam, Folila.
Bonnie Raitt, Slipstream.
Loudon Wainwright, Older Than My Old Man Now.
Public Image Ltd., This Is PIL.
Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, Nashville Vol. 1: Tear the Woodpile Down.
Pat Boone, Sings a Tribute to the Ink Spots with Take 6.
Dee Snider, Dee Does Broadway.
Willie Nelson, Heroes.
NRBQ, We Travel the Spaceways.
Santana, Shape Shifter.
Andre Williams & the Sadies, Night & Day.
Tom Jones, Spirit in the Room.
Michael Stanley, The Hang.
Joan Armatrading, Starlight.
Ian Tyson, Raven Singer.
Ultravox, Brilliant.
Beach Boys, That's Why God Made the Radio.
Shawn Colvin, All Fall Down.
Rodney Crowell, Kin: The Songs of Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell.
Alejandro Escovedo, Big Station.
Bela Fleck & The Marcus Roberts Trio, Across the Imaginary Divide.
Patti Smith, Banga.
Joe Walsh, Analog Man
Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Americana.
Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Psychedelic Pill
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Ashes and Roses.
The dB's, Falling Off the Sky.
Guided by Voices, Class Clown Spots a UFO.
Giant Giant Sand, Tucson.
Rush, Clockwork Angels.
Bobby Womack, The Bravest Man in the Universe.
Petula Clark, Petula (French album).
Joe Jackson, The Duke.
Cassandra Wilson, Another Country.
Mission of Burma, Unsound.
Jimmy Cliff, Rebirth.
Jon Dee Graham, Garage Sale.
Michael Des Barres Band, Carnaby Street.
Nona Hendryx, Mutatis Mutandis.
Lenny Williams, Still in the Game.
Graham Gouldman, Love and Work.
Shoes, Ignition.
Steve Vai, The Story of Light.
Ry Cooder, Election Special.
Bill Fay, Life Is People.
Robert Cray Band, Nothin' But Love.
Alvin Lee, Still on the Road to Freedom.
Ian Hunter & Rant Band, When I'm President.
Mark Knopfler, Privateering.
Bob Mould, Silver Age.
Dave Stewart, The Ringmaster General.
David Byrne and St.Vincent, Love This Giant.
Bob Dylan, Tempest.
Steve Forbert, Over With You.
Lee Scratch Perry, Master Piece.
Tom Tom Club, Downtown Rockers.
ZZ Top, La Futura.
The Blues Broads.
The Coal Porters, Find the One.
Catherine Irwin, Little Heater.
Aimee Mann, Charmer.
Mighty Sam McLain, Too Much Jesus (Not Enough Whiskey).
Robert Pollard, Jack Sells the Cow.
Dwight Yoakam, 3 Pears.
Larry Graham & Graham Central Station, Raise Up.
John Hiatt, Mystic Pinball.
Bettye LaVette, Thankful 'N Thoughtful.
Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, YOKOKIMTHURSTON.
Pete Seeger & Lorre Wyatt, A More Perfect Union.
Iris DeMent, Sing the Delta.
Mark Eitzel, Don't Be a Stranger.
Heart, Fanatic.
Bob Lind, Finding You Again.
Van Morrison, Born to Sing: No Plan B.
Andre Williams, Life.
John Cale, Shifty Adventures in Nooky Wood.
Wanda Jackson, Unfinished Business.
Kiss, Monster.
Rick Springfield, Songs for the End of the World.
Donald Fagen, Sunken Condos.
Sweethearts of the Rodeo, Restless.
Peter Buck.
Aerosmith, Music From Another Dimension.
Focus, X.
Paul Kelly, Spring and Fall.
Public Enemy, The Evil Empire of Everything.
Bobby Bare, Darker than Light.
Brian Eno, LUX.
Guided by Voices, Bears for Lunch.
Jim Jarmusch & Jozef van Wissem, The Mystery of Heaven.
Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale, Buddy & Jim.
Jah Wobble & Keith Levene, Yin & Yang.
Bad Brains, Into the Future.
Graham Parker & the Rumour, Three Chords Good.
Harold Budd, Bandits of Stature.
Scott Walker, Bish Bosch.
Paul Buchanan, Mid-Air.
Dexy's, One Day I'm Going To Soar.
Rickie Lee Jones, The Devil You Know.
Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends.
Don Williams, And So It Goes.
Madonna, MDNA.
John Foxx and the Maths, The Shape of Things.