What a year for music 2016 has been. We've lost so many icons, but some of them have left behind amazing albums amongst a plethora of stellar releases from artists new and old, across every genre.
Tom Dunne has drawn up a list of his favourite albums from the year gone by. What do you think?
Way off the mark? Any glaring omissions? What were your favourite Irish albums of the year?
Get in contact. Email tom@newstalk.com, or text 53106 during the show at a cost of 30c to let us know what you think.
Tom Dunne's Albums of 2016
David Bowie - Blackstar
Suede - Night Thoughts
Kate Bush - Before the Dawn
Leonard Cohen - You Want it Darker
Christine and The Queens - Chaleur Humaine
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
ABC - The Lexicon of Love 2
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
New Order - Complete Music
The Avalanches - Wild Flower
Teenage Fanclub - Here
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got it From Here
Michael Kiwanuka - Love and Hate
Lambchop - Flotus
Pretenders - Alone
Martha Wainwright - Goodnight City
Steve Mason - Meet the Humans
The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You’ve Come to Expect
Mick Harvey - Delirium Tremens
The Lemon Twigs - Do Hollywood
Anderson Paak - Malibu
Nick Cave - Skeleton Tree
Karl Blau - Introducing
Viola Beach - Viola Beach
Agnes Obel - Citizen of Glass
Bon Iver - 22, A Million
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
The Monkees - Good Times!
PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
Owen - The King of Whys
Gregory Porter - Take Me to the Alley
M Ward - More Rain
Sweet Baboo - The Boombox Ballads
Grant-Lee Phillips - The Narrows
Weezer - Weezer
Travis - Everything at Once
Tindersticks - The Waiting Room
Teddy Thompson and Kelly Jones - Little Windows
Willie Nelson - For the Good Times
Drive-By Truckers - American Band
Deacon Blue - Believers
Regina Spektor - Remember Us to Life
Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
Green Day - Revolution Radio
Dr John Cooper Clarke & Hugh Cornwell - This Time it’s Personal
The Legal Matters - Conrad
The Wytches - All Your Happy Life
Moby and The Void Pacific Choir - These Systems are Failing
Nada Surf - You Know Who You Are
Nada Surf - Peaceful Ghosts
Band of Horses - Why Are You OK
Angel Olsen - My Woman
Damien Jurado - Visions of Us on the Land
Bob Dylan - Fallen Angels
Glass Animals - How to Be a Human Being
Dexys - Let the Record Show
Beyoncé - Lemonade
Turin Brakes - Lost Property
Emma Pollock - In Search of Harperfield
Fat White Family - Songs for Our Mothers
Ryley Walker - Golden Sings That Have Been Sung
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