I have lost the desire to log every single release I listen to in a particular year. With the advent of streaming, I simply can too easily listen to several releases a day and to try and log each and everyone is a chore in itself. Instead, I am only logging records that I enjoyed enough to consider for end of the year lists, and such.....Others may log as they wish!

JANUARY
001. Fen || Dustwalker
002. Black Veil Brides || Wretched & Divine : The Story of the Wild Ones
003. Cult of Luna || Vertikal
004. Holy Grail || Ride the Void
005. Sons of Aeon || Sons of Aeon
006. Coheed & Cambria || Afterman : Descension
007. Bad Religion || True North
008. Eminem & Linkin Park || Collision Course 2
009. Mogwai || Les Revenants EP
010. Pillowfight || Pillowfight
FEBRUARY
011. Bullet For My Valentine || Temper Temper
012. Boduf Songs || Burnt Up On Re-Entry
013. Enforcer || Death By Fire
014. Venomous Maxiumus || Beg Upon the Light
015. Buckcherry || Confessions
MARCH
016. Incura || Incura
017. All Them Witches || Our Mother Electricity
018. Baptists || Bushcraft
019. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club || Specter At the Feast
020. Hardcore Superstar || C'mon & Take Me
021. October Falls || The Plague of a Coming Age
022. David Bowie || The Next Day
023. Soilwork || The Living Infinite
024. Sound City || Reel to Reel
025. The Besnard Lakes || Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO
026. The Black Angels || Indigo Meadow
027. Kvelertak || Meir
028. Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood || Black Pudding
029. Nero di Marte || Nero di Marte
030. Papa Roach || The Connection
031. Inexistence || Inexistence
032. Raine Maida || We All Get Lighter
033. Bring Me The Horizon || Sempiternal
034. Killswitch Engage || Disarm the Descent
APRIL
035. Hierophant || Great Mother, Holy Monster
036. Tyler, the Creator || Wolf
037. Altar of Plagues || Teethed Glory & Injury
038. Anciients || Heart of Oak
039. Death in June || Snow Bunker Tapes
040. Ghost BC || Infestissumam
041. Rob Zombie || Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
042. The Shining || One One One
043. The Ocean || Pelagial
044. Volbeat ||
045. Skago || Anarchic
046. Spacehog || As It Is On Earth
047. Sponge || Stop the Bleeding
048. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats || Mind Control
049. Year of No Light || Vampyr
050. Downfall of Gaia || Downfall of Gaia
051. Gama Bomb || The Terror Tapes
MAY
052. Man or Astro-Man || Defcon 5..4..3..2..1
053. Dangerous Boys Club || Pris
054. Lost in Kiev || Motions
055. Bleached || Ride Your Heart
056. HexVessel || Iron Marsh EP
057. Savages || Silence Yourself
058. Queens of the Stone Age || ...Like Clockwork
059. Deafheaven || Sunbather
060. 30 Seconds to Mars || Faith Love Hope & Dreams
061. Kylesa || Ultraviolet
062. The Pastels || Slow Summits
063. The Pigeon Detectives || We Met At Sea
064. Dark Tranquility || Construct
065. Alice in Chains || Devil Put the Dinosaurs Here
066. Filter || The Sun Comes Out Tonight
067. Church of Misery || Thy Kingdom Scum
068. ASG || Blood Drive
JUNE
069. Palms || Palms
070. Queensryche || Queensryche
071. August Burns Red || Rescue & Restore
072. Scorpion Child || Scorpion Child
073. Clutch || Earth Rocker
074. Orphaned Land || All Is One
075. Middle Class Rut || Pick Up Your Head
076. Traci Guns League of Gentlemen | The First Record
077. The Rodeo Idiot Engine | Consequences
078. Extol | Extol
079. Beach Day || Trip Trap Attack
JULY
80. Oathbreaker || Eros|Antersos
81. Jucifer || The Russian Album
82. We Came As Romans || Tracing Back Roots
83. Asking Alexandria || From Death to Destiny
84. Erlen Meyer || Erlen Meyer
85. Newsted || Heavy Metal Music
86. Powerwolf || Preachers of the Night
87. Steak Number Eight || The Hitch
88. Texas in July || Texas in July
89. Vista Chino || Vista Chino
AUGUST
90. Coheed & Cambria || Afterman LIVE
91. Crossfaith || Apocalyze
92. Earl Sweatshirt || Doris
93. Fleshgod Apocalypse || Labrynth
94. Grandfather || In Human Form
95. Amon Amarth || Deceiver of the Gods
96. Blazing Skies || Void of Chaos
97. letlive. || The Blackest Beautiful
98. Lingua Mortis Orchestra || LMO
99. Beware of Darkness || Orthodox
100. Walking Papers ||
101. Katatonia || Dethroned & Uncrowned
102. O'Brother || Disillussion
SEPTEMBER
103. A Storm of Light || Nations to Flames
104. Anathema || Universal
105. Best Coast || Fade Away EP
106. CHVRCHES || The Bones of What You Believe
107. Circle Takes the Square || Decompositions #1
108. Cult of Luna || Vertikal II
109. Cults || Static
110. Deaf Havana || Old Souls
111. Death Ray Vision || We Ain't Leavin till You're Bleedin
112. Deltron 3030 || Event II
113. Dog Party || Lost Control
114. Girls Against Boys || The Ghost List EP
115. Grails || Black Tar Prophecies 5,6,7
116. Insomnium || Ephemeral EP
117. Joana Gruesome || Weird Sister
118. Katatonia || Last Fair Day Gone Night
119. Kayo Dot || Hubardo
120. Monster Magnet || Last Patrol
121. Mrs. Magician ||
122. Protest the Hero || Volition
123. Russian Circles || Memorial
124. Sarah Where is my Tea || Love & Honor
125. Sleigh Bells || Bitter Rivals
126. Trivium || Vengenance Falls
127. Twilight of the Gods || Fire On The Mountain
128. Vulture Industries || The Tower
129. Wolves At The Gate || Back to School EP
130. 65DaysofStatic || Wild Lights
NOVEMBER
131. Year of No Light || Toscin
132. Sun & Sail Club || Mannequin
133. Aklash || Aklash
134. Bad Religion || Christmas Songs
135. Celeste || Animale(s)
136. Corrections House || Corrections House
137. Death Mercedes || Sana Eclat
138. Elizabeth || Insomnia
139. Eminem || Marshal Mathers LP 2
140. Light Bearer || Silver Tongue
141. So Hideous || Last Poem / First Light
142. Truste L'Hiver || Silver Strings
143. Windhand || Soma

1. Shooter Jennings - The Other Life
2. Daniel Romano - Come Cry with Me
3. My Bloody Valentine - mbv
4. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
5. Phosphorescent - Muchacho
6. Flaming Lips - The Terror
7. Iceage - You're Nothing
8. The Men - New Moon
9. William Tyler - Impossible Truth
10. Low - The Invisible Way
11. Dillon Hodges - Rumpsringa
12. The Lonely Wild - The Sun as it Comes
13. Purling Hiss - Water on Mars
14. Jim James - Regions of Light and Sound of God
15. Apparat - Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre)
16. Javelin - Hi Beams
17. Courtney Jaye - Love and Forgiveness

LIKE it
>>>>>>>>>

Silly me. I actually purchased every damn thing that I listed in those threads.

I got embarrassed I was buying so much shit I stopped posting. 2012 was a music buying frenzy for me.

2013 I will be instituting austerity measures.

Thanx for sharing this list.

The AV Club - Believe

Their self-titled debut made my top 10 back in '07 or so. FINALLY the new one has arrived. Here's my review, with a song at the end:

riyl: Dylan, Figgs, Lemonheads

http://gometric.typepad.com/

I don't buy enough to worry about which ones I log.
So, here's my purchased list:

JANUARY
Tom Zé - Tropicália Lixo Lógico*
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Shugo Tokumaru - In Focus?*

FEBRUARY
My Bloody Valentine - MBV*
Cleaners From Venus - The Late District*
Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap
The Pralines - A Beautiful View*

MARCH
Various Artists - Lemonlime 1
The Replacements - Songs For Slim*
The Coctails - Early Hi-Ball Years
The Replacements - Don't Sell or Buy, It's Crap
Los Lobos - The Neighborhood
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Ave., Vol. 2
The Amps - Pacer
Del Amitri - Twisted
Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars

APRIL
David Bowie - The Next Day*
Bombino - Nomad*
Johnny Marr - The Messenger*
Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic*
Rod Stewart - Never a Dull Moment
Tom Zé - Tribunal do Feicebuqui (EP)*
Wire - Change Becomes Us*
Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté
Bombino - Agadez

MAY
Tonio K. - Olé
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away*
The Bamboo Kids - Safe City Blues*
Sloan - Navy Blues
Graham Nash - Songs for Beginners
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Youssou N'Dour - Wommat
Belleville - Collection Box*

JUNE
Ian Rubbish & The Bizarros - The Best of Ian Rubbish*

JULY
Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience*
Mavis Staples - One True Vine*
Vintage Trouble - The Bomb Shelter Sessions
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Hate Rock n' Roll
Crooked Fingers - Red Devil Dawn
No Age - Nouns

AUGUST
Stereolab - Peng
Caetano Veloso - Circulado
Tim Maia - Racional, Vol. 1

SEPTEMBER
Nico - Chelsea Girl
Slow - Against the Glass (EP)
Slow - I Broke the Circle (single)
Slovenly - Thinking of Empire
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Jason Isbell - Southeatstern*
Neko Case - The Worse Things Get...*
Meat Puppets - Rat Farm*
Patterson Hood - Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance
Little Hurricane - Homewrecker

OCTOBER
Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience: The Complete Experience*
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Sun Ra - The Nubians of Plutonia
Sun Ra - Somewhere Else
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Luke Haines - Rock n' Roll Animals*
Michael Nesmith & The First National Band - Magnetic South/Loose Salute
Lee Renaldo & The Dust - Last Night On Earth*
Brian Eno + The Winkies - A Year With A Collapsed Lung

NOVEMBER
Cate Le Bon - Mug Museum*
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady*
David Byrne & St. Vincent - Brass Tactics EP*
Grant Hart - The Argument*
Randy Newman - Sail Away (remaster)
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories*
Pylon - Chomp
Yo La Tengo - Fade Deluxe*
Etran Finatawa - The Sahara Sessions*
Vic Mensa - Innanetape*

DECEMBER
The Wonder Stuff - Oh No! It's The Wonder Stuff!*
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
Fun. - Before Shane Went to Bangkok: Live in the USA*
Wilco - AM
Wilco - Summerteeth
Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
Nick Lowe - The Impossible Bird
Guided By Voices - Under the Bushes, Under the Stars

*2013 release

Favourites thus far:

Nightlands
Brokeback
Yo La Tengo
Low

Favorites so far...

Tomahawk
Yo La Tengo

Hmm, guess I need to listen to that Yo la Tengo. And Low, still!

Here's my top 5 so far:

Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams
Rose Melberg - September
Kingbury Manx - Bronze Age
AV Club - Believe
Lovely Bad Things - The Late Great Whatever

Also kinda like Bad Religion, Two Hours Traffic.

Kate Nash isn't as good as her previous one. David Bowie's album is ok.

So far...

Phosphorescent
Daniel Romano
Suede
Iron & Wine
Beastwars

Oooooh. Me too. Huh.

2013:

01. Mike Doughty - The Flip is Another Honey
02. Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
03. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience
04. Jim James - Regions of Light and Sound of God
05. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Specter At the Feast
06. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Animal X 7" single
07. Brendan Benson - Diamond 7" single
08. The Lonely Island - YOLO 7" single
09. Phosphorescent - Aw Come Aw Wry (vinyl)
10. Phosphorescent - Muchacho
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
12. Jack White - Sixteen Saltines/Love is Blindness 12" single
13. Josh Ritter - The Beast In Its Tracks
14. Jake Bugg - s/t
15. Dawes - Stories Don't End
16. Mayer Hawthorne - KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic (vinyl)
17. Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic (vinyl)
18. Daniel Johnston - Fun (vinyl)
19. The Band - The Last Waltz (RSD 3LP edition)
20. Frank Turner - Tape Deck Heart
21. Numbers And Letters - Guns Under Water (vinyl)
22. Paul McCartney - New
23. Mike Doughty - Circles...
24. Dr. Dog - B Room
25. Blitzed Trapper - VII

Well, I'll still use this as a purchase thread...

1. The Divine Fits - A Thing Called The Divine Fits - 1/1
2. Purity Ring - Shrines - 1/1
3. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes - 1/2

4. Yo La Tengo - Fade - 2/23
5. alt-J - An Awesome Wave - 2/24
6. Mount Moriah - Miracle Temple - 2/26

7. Hum - You'd Prefer An Astronaut LP - 3/19

8. Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic - 4/6

9. Youth Lagoon - Wondrous Bughouse - 5/16

I'ma continue the confusion and post a 2013 favorites list:

1. Bamboo Kids - Safe City Blues
2. Zachary James & the All Seeing Eyes - Space Case
3. Night Marchers - Allez Allez
4. The Yum Yums - Play Good Music
5. Grapes of Wrath - High Road
6. Warm Soda - Someone For You
7. Attic Lights - Super De Luxe
8. Silver Seas - Alaska
9. The Computers - Love Triangles, Hate Squares
10. The Cliks - Black Tie Elevator
11. Junip - Junip
12. Dirty Fences - Too High to Kross
13. The Postelles - ...And It Shook Me
14. Red Jacket Mine - Someone Else's Cake
15. Jungle - Pacific Oblivion
16. The Virgins - Strike Gently
17. The Fleeting Ends - Our Eyes Are Peeled
18. Primitive Hearts - High and Tight
19. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
20. The Connection - Let It Rock


Also like:

Shouting Matches - Grown Ass Man
Free Energy - Love Sign
Two Hours Traffic - Foolish Blood
Radio Days - Get Some Action
Slam Dunk - Welcome to Miami
Bed Wettin' Bad Boys - Ready for Boredom
Jesse Dee - In My Heart, On My Mind
Matt Costa - Matt Costa
The ABCs - Little Leaves
Tribes - Wish to Scream
Propeller - Don't Be Sorry Again
Har Mar Superstar - Bye Bye 17
Deadstring Brothers - Cannery Row
EPS:

Replacements - Songs for Slim
Biters - Last of a Dying Breed
Pat Todd & the Rankoutsiders - 14th & Nowhere

Not sure where to put the Belleville compilation, but should mention I'm really liking it.

I need to hear this....


All three are in my Top 10.


ACB's and Deadstring Bros have yet to click.
Did you ever DL 'The Mergers' from Secret Saturday? Has a Locksley/early Beatles/Yardbirds thing going on


what a bummer


Thanking you

...as well as >>>
son volt - honky tonk
the resonars - crummy desert sound
daniel romano - come cry with me
mikal cronin - mcII

...and to a lesser extent >>>
unknown mortal orchestra - II
jacco gardner - cabinet of curiosities
guided by voices - english little league
eels - wonderful glorious

Nabbed the Mergers and liked it enough to keep, but other than the initial listen I've given it zero attention at this point.

I'm trying hard with the ACBs, but pretty sure it'll fall off the top 20 as the year goes on. It feels something like Spoon's Kill The Moonlight, in that they've stripped everything down to the foundations. The difference might be that Spoon found a solid base, and the ACBs found sand. Or maybe it's a step towards something else.

Deadstring Bros likewise might not stick around. It's a bit of comfort food. And this time out at least there's no screeching bar squaw doing Joplin in a lumbering Bob Seger cover band (aka Silver Mountain), although there's also no standout track that I want to put on a mix (so far).

Looking at my Top 20, it's pretty clear to me that #s 13-20 are all fairly tenuous. If the last half of the year doesn't bring along a stack of albums to knock them out of position then it'll have been a thin year.




I think I like it because, hey, it's Free Energy, although I've already deleted some of the songs and burned the remainder to CDR as bonus tracks to the debut.

1. Last Blade 2
2. Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of the Superheroes
3. Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
4. Armored Warriors
5. NBA Jam TE
6. TMNT: Turtles in Time
7. The Punisher
8. Street Fighter Alpha 3
9. Samurai Shodown 5
10. Final Fight

Acquisitions of 2013, for my own records:

Jan
A/V Club - Believe

March
XTC - Mummer LP
XTC - White Noise LP

April
Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It...
Bobby Mcferrin & Chick Corea - Play Blue Note
Butchies - 3
Live - Mental Jewelry
Moby - Rare, The Collected B-sides (double disc)
Nine Inch Nails - Broken
PJ Harvey - To Bring To You My Love
Supernova - Ages 3 And Up

May
Green Day - Bullet In A Bible
Nick Drake - Pink Moon

June
NOFX - Wolves In Wolves Clothing
Gateway District - Old Wild Hearts LP
Mean Jeans/Underground Railroad To Candyland Split 7"
Lipstick Homicide/Turkletons Split 7"
The 20 Belows - Late Nights
Capitalist Kids - Lessons On Love, Sharing, and Hygiene LP
Cap. Kids/Tight Bros. split 7"
Cap Kids/Ex-Boyfriends split 7"
Night Birds - Born To Die In Suburbia LP
Hospital Job - Downer Downer Downer
Dog Party - Lose Control

July
Dead Mechanical - OK Night

September
Autechre - Chiastic Slide
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
James Brown - 20 Greatest Hits
Crass - The Feeding of The 5000
Vangelis - Blade Runner Soundtrack
Life Aquatic Soundtrack
V/A Verve Jazz Masters Collection

October
Devo - Are We Not Men? LP
Ducks Deluxe - S/T LP
Dick Hyman - Mirrors LP
The Wonder Stuff - Eight Legged Groove Machine LP
XTC - Drums And Wires LP
XTC - English Settlement
Moby - Play B-Sides
Moby - 18 B-sides
Blur - Parklife

November
Beach Boys - That's Why God Made The Radio

1. The Divine Fits - A Thing Called The Divine Fits - 1/1
2. Purity Ring - Shrines - 1/1
3. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes - 1/2

4. Yo La Tengo - Fade - 2/23
5. alt-J - An Awesome Wave - 2/24
6. Mount Moriah - Miracle Temple - 2/26

7. Hum - You'd Prefer An Astronaut LP - 3/19

8. Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic - 4/6

9. Youth Lagoon - Wondrous Bughouse - 5/16
10. The National - Trouble Will Find Me LP - 5/21

11. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker LP - 9/13
12. Fugazi - In On the Kill Taker LP (used) - 9/13
13. Shellac - At Action Park LP (used) - 9/13
14. Stars of the Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra LP (used) - 9/13
15. Mono - You Are There LP (used) - 9/13
16. Phosphorescent - Muchacho LP - 9/15
17. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada EP - 9/15

Good to ask this kind of question.I will be having private messages once i deal with anyone in here.

Thanks to share good info.....

1. The Divine Fits - A Thing Called The Divine Fits - 1/1
2. Purity Ring - Shrines - 1/1
3. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes - 1/2

4. Yo La Tengo - Fade - 2/23
5. alt-J - An Awesome Wave - 2/24
6. Mount Moriah - Miracle Temple - 2/26

7. Hum - You'd Prefer An Astronaut LP - 3/19

8. Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic* - 4/6

9. Youth Lagoon - Wondrous Bughouse* - 5/16
10. The National - Trouble Will Find Me LP - 5/21

11. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker LP - 9/13
12. Fugazi - In On the Kill Taker LP (used) - 9/13
13. Shellac - At Action Park LP (used) - 9/13
14. Stars of the Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra LP (used) - 9/13
15. Mono - You Are There LP (used) - 9/13
16. Phosphorescent - Muchacho LP - 9/15
17. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada EP - 9/15

18. Flagship - Flagship LP - 10/4
19. Hum - You'd Prefer An Astronaut LP (green vinyl) - 10/6
20. Dismemberment Plan - Uncanney Valley LP - 10/15

21. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place 2xLP - 11/4

I really appreciate the kind of topics you post here.