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new releases by legacy bands, reissues of classic albums by some of the genre's biggest names and, occasionally, records by more recent artists we think are worth hearing.</p><p>Below are highlights from more than two dozen albums reviewed by UCR during 2024, listed chronologically - from January's <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/green-day/" target="_blank">Green Day</a> release through the latest by <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/u2/" target="_blank">U2</a> from late November.</p><p>All of the albums are recommended by UCR's writers, whose brief thoughts on the records are excerpted below. To get more insight into what makes these albums among the year's biggest and best, links to the full reviews are provided. Check them out; they're well worth exploring.</p><div class="in-article-oop-container"><div class="tsm-ad tsm-ad-oop" aria-label="advertisement"><div id="tsm-ad-in-article-oop-1"></div></div><div class="tsm-ad tsm-ad-1x1 tsm-ad-oop" aria-label="advertisement"><div id="tsm-ad-in-article-pixel-1"></div></div></div><p><strong>Green Day, <em>Saviors</em></strong></p><p>Green Day's 14th album was produced by Rob Cavallo, who worked on <em><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/green-day-dookie/" target="_blank">Dookie</a> </em>and <em>American Idiot</em>. "Despite the occasional looking-back-at-life subject matter, <em>Saviors</em> is an old-school pop-punk record that's not quite grown up but not exactly springing with fresh life either."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/green-day-saviors-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Mick Mars, <em>The Other Side of Mars</em></strong></p><p>The debut solo album from former <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/motley-crue/" target="_blank">Motley Crue</a> guitarist <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/mick-mars/" target="_blank">Mick Mars</a> was years in the making. "The 10 songs mostly exist within the same scorched world as Motley Crue's riff-heavy music."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/the-other-side-of-mars-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Ace Frehley, <em>10,000 Volts</em></strong></p><p>The latest solo album by former <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/kiss/" target="_blank">Kiss</a> guitarist <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/ace-frehley/" target="_blank">Ace Frehley</a> checks in between his various <em>Origins</em> projects. "Despite its missteps, <em>10,000 Volts</em> is a victory for Frehley, if not an absolute knockout."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/ace-frehley-10000-volts-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Bruce Dickinson, <em>The Mandrake Project</em></strong></p><p>The seventh solo album by <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/iron-maiden/" target="_blank">Iron Maiden</a> singer <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/bruce-dickinson/" target="_blank">Bruce Dickinson</a> marks his first in almost 20 years. "[Dickinson] proves that after nearly a half-century, he's still hell-bent on pushing himself to new heights, regardless of who's backing him."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/bruce-dickinson-the-mandrake-project-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Judas Priest, <em>Invincible Shield</em></strong></p><p>The 19th album by metal heavyweights <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/judas-priest/" target="_blank">Judas Priest</a> is their first since being inducted into the <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/category/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame/" target="_blank">Rock & Roll Hall of Fame</a> in 2022. "This is Judas Priest operating at near hall-of-fame levels."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/judas-priest-invincible-shield-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>The Black Crowes, <em>Happiness Bastards</em></strong></p><p>The reunited Robinson brothers put aside their differences for the first <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/black-crowes/" target="_blank">Black Crowes</a> album of original material since 2009. "There's reassurance in their passion, which hasn't softened much over three and a half decades. It's good to have them back."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/black-crowes-happiness-bastards-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>The Black Keys, <em>Ohio Players </em></strong></p><p>The <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/black-keys/" target="_blank">Akron duo</a> gets help from <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/beck/" target="_blank">Beck</a> and <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/noel-gallagher/" target="_blank">Noel Gallagher</a> on their 12th album. "<em>Ohio Players</em> has a great start but loses some of its enthusiasm along the way."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/black-keys-ohio-players-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Blue Oyster Cult, <em>Ghost Stories</em></strong></p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/blue-oyster-cult/" target="_blank">Blue Oyster Cult</a> headed to their vault for a new album of songs that began life between 1978 and 1983. "By dusting off these lost tracks, <em>Ghost Stories</em> serves as a reminder that there are still pieces of history to be mined from rock's forgotten past."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/blue-oyster-cult-ghost-stories-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Mark Knopfler, <em>One Deep River</em></strong></p><p>Former <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/dire-straits/" target="_blank">Dire Straits</a> frontman <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/mark-knopfler/" target="_blank">Mark Knopfler'</a>s 10th solo album is his first since 2018's <em>Down the Road Wherever</em>. "Knopfler makes clear that he still finds solace in song. <em>One Deep River</em> simply confirms that those songs will arrive on their own more slow-moving currents."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/mark-knopfler-one-deep-river-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Pearl Jam, <em>Dark Matter</em></strong></p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/pearl-jam/" target="_blank">Pearl Jam</a>'s 12th album was produced by <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/andrew-watt/" target="_blank">Andrew Watt</a>, who also worked on <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/eddie-vedder/" target="_blank">Eddie Vedder</a>'s 2022 solo record. "Like <em><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/pearl-jam-gigaton-album-review/" target="_blank">Gigaton</a></em> four years earlier, [<em>Dark Matter</em>] finds Pearl Jam wrestling shared doubts about the future. More often than not, they claim a tentative victory."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/pearl-jam-dark-matter-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Melvins, <em>Tarantula Heart</em></strong></p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/melvins/" target="_blank">Melvins</a>' 27th album was recorded over two sessions in 2022 and 2023. "This many years on, Melvins are still finding new ways to display their venerable sludge."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/melvins-tarantula-heart-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Sebastian Bach, <em>Child Within the Man</em></strong></p><p>Onetime <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/skid-row/" target="_blank">Skid Row</a> singer <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/sebastian-bach/" target="_blank">Sebastian Bach</a> returned with his first album in a decade. "This is music with roots in the late-'80s Sunset Strip scene, caterwauling guitars linked hand-in-hand with larynx-shredding vocals and an air of forced doom hanging over almost every note."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/sebastian-bach-child-within-the-man-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Kings of Leon, <em>Can We Please Have Fun</em></strong></p><p>The ninth album by <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/kings-of-leon/" target="_blank">Kings of Leon</a> was produced by Kid Harpoon, who worked on Harry Styles' Grammy-winning <em>Harry's House</em>. "This is the most unrestricted they've sounded since 2010's <em>Come Around Sundown</em>."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/kings-of-leon-can-we-please-have-fun-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Little Feat, <em>Sam's Place</em></strong></p><p><em>Sam's Place</em> was billed as <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/little-feat/" target="_blank">Little Feat</a>'s first blues album. "The result is an inviting opportunity to more deeply explore one of the small, good things that always girded Little Feat. They're very much at home in <em>Sam's Place</em>."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/little-feat-sams-place-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>John Oates, <em>Reunion</em></strong></p><p>The latest solo album by <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/john-oates/" target="_blank">John Oates</a> arrived amid turmoil in <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/hall-oates/" target="_blank">Hall & Oates</a>' partnership. "<em>Reunion</em> feels authentically Oates' own, a statement of Americana purpose and individual vision that consolidates everything from the last decade and a half of solo explorations."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/john-oates-reunion-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Bon Jovi, <em>Forever</em></strong></p><p>The 16th album by New Jersey rockers <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/bon-jovi/" target="_blank">Bon Jovi </a>features two new official members, including longtime producer John Shanks. "Despite your best efforts, these songs will lodge themselves in your brain, because that's what this band does best."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/bon-jovi-forever-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review  </a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>John Lennon, <em>Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection</em></strong></p><p>A new box set dedicated to <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/john-lennon/" target="_blank">John Lennon</a>'s 1973 album <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/john-lennon-mind-games/" target="_blank"><em>Mind Games</em></a> includes multiple discs featuring alternate mixes of the LP. "We hear Lennon, so often a closed-off fighter, falling back on his heels. <em>Mind Games</em> is the sound of someone reaching out."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/john-lennon-mind-games-ultimate-collection-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Deep Purple, <em>=1</em></strong></p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/deep-purple/" target="_blank">Deep Purple</a>'s 23rd album is their first with guitarist Simon McBride, who replaced <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/steve-morse/" target="_blank">Steve Morse</a> in 2022. "Though <em>=1 </em>sags a bit in the back half and could be trimmed by a few songs, the album furthers a career renaissance for Deep Purple that shows few signs of waning."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/deep-purple-2024-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Jack White, <em>No Name</em></strong></p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/jack-white/" target="_blank">Jack White</a>'s latest album was a surprise release initially given to visitors at his Third Man Records' retail shops. "This is White firing full-throttle and giving us the kind of album that's made him arguably rock's greatest 21st-century hero."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/jack-white-no-name-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>David Gilmour, <em>Luck and Strange</em></strong></p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/pink-floyd/" target="_blank">Pink Floyd</a>'s <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/david-gilmour/" target="_blank">David Gilmour</a> made his fifth solo album with contributions from his wife, his children and the late <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/richard-wright/" target="_blank">Richard Wright</a>. "If <em>Luck and Strange</em> suggests Gilmour's future, it will be a bright one, even in the darkness."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/david-gilmour-luck-and-strange-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Neil Young, <em>Archives Vol. III (1976-1987)</em></strong></p><p>The third box set in <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/neil-young/" target="_blank">Neil Young</a>'s "Archives Series" contains 198 tracks on 17 CDs, documenting a period of change for the restless singer-songwriter. "They're a welcome addition to one of music's most fascinating and often complicated discographies."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/neil-young-archives-vol-iii-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Nick Lowe, <em>Indoor Safari</em></strong></p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/nick-lowe/" target="_blank">Nick Lowe</a>'s first album since a 2013 holiday set was made with Nashville surf/garage rockers Los Straitjackets. "Like Lowe's best work over the decades, <em>Indoor Safari</em> pulls from various stops, including new wave, pop, power pop, pub rock, Americana and traditional singer-songwriter music."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/nick-lowe-indoor-safari-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>The Smile, <em>Cutouts</em></strong></p><p>The second album in 2024 from <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/radiohead/" target="_blank">Radiohead</a> offshoot band <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/the-smile/" target="_blank">The Smile</a> was recorded at the same sessions as the earlier <em>Wall of Eyes</em>. "They still suggest a sharply tuned jazz combo working its way around formative melodies and provisional foundations until they arrive at a point of shared musical nirvana."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/the-smile-cutouts-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>MC5, <em>Heavy Lifting</em></strong></p><p>The first <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/mc5/" target="_blank">MC5</a> album in 53 years arrived between the deaths of the last two surviving members and the band's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction. "That five-decade gap is an enormous amount of time between albums to overcome. <em>Heavy Lifting </em>does an honorable job of bridging it even if it's not quite the MC5 of yesteryear."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/mc5-heavy-lifting-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Andrew Bird, Madison Cunningham, <em>Cunningham Bird</em></strong></p><p>Singer-songwriters Andrew Bird and Madison Cunningham remake, song by song, <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/lindsey-buckingham/" target="_blank">Lindsey Buckingham</a> and <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/stevie-nicks/" target="_blank">Stevie Nicks</a>' pre-<a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/fleetwood-mac/" target="_blank">Fleetwood Mac</a> LP from 1973. "There's a delicate loveliness to Bird and Cunningham's tribute lacking on the original LP, even when their reverence for the music often means the connect-the-dots approach doesn't leave much room for spontaneity or personality."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/cunningham-bird-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>Tears for Fears, <em>Songs for a Nervous Planet</em></strong></p><p>The first live album by <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/tears-for-fears/" target="_blank">Tears for Fears</a> includes four new tracks and concert versions of their '80s favorites and songs from their 2022 comeback record <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tears-for-fears-the-tipping-point-album-review/" target="_blank"><em>The Tipping Point</em></a>. "It's confirmation that Tears for Fears' art-minded synth-pop hasn't aged much in that time. These are great songs played by guys relishing their latest chapter."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tears-for-fears-songs-for-a-nervous-planet-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>The Cure, <em>Songs of a Lost World</em></strong></p><p>Recorded over the past several years, the 14th album by <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/the-cure/" target="_blank">the Cure</a> is their first since 2008's <em>4:13 Dream</em>. "It may be a stretch to call this a new beginning, but the Cure hasn't been this compelling on record in more than three decades."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/cure-songs-of-a-lost-world-album-review/" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><p> </p><p><strong>U2, <em>How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb</em></strong></p><p>To celebrate the 20th anniversary of 2004's <em><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/u2-how-to-dismantle-an-atomic-bomb/" target="_blank">How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb</a></em>, U2 went into their archives for 10 previously unreleased tracks from the sessions. "Often more disordered than the tracks on the released album, the newly recovered songs - all previously unreleased - prove the band wasn't quite ready to abandon their '90s risk-taking."</p><p><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/u2-how-to-re-assemble-an-atomic-bomb-album-review" target="_blank">Read the full review</a></p><div class="lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder oembed-lazyload-placeholder-youtube"></div><div class="photogallery-wrapper blog-photogallery "><h2 class="photogallery-title">Top 30 Rock Albums of 2023 </h2><div class="photogallery-description"><div>Big returns, genre moves and records reliable legends mark the year's best.</div></div><p class="photogallery-credit">Gallery Credit: Michael Gallucci</p></div><div id="ucr-store-mug"></div><p><script src="https://tsm-js.s3.amazonaws.com/shopify/ucr-store-mug.js" async></script></p></div></div><div class="content-footer"><div class="single-post-button cto-container align-center"><a class="next-post cto" 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