Los Lobos - Acoustic en Vivo

This year was awesome...if u dont think so then you didnt look hard eneough. I thouroughly enjoyed, in no specific order:
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
My Morning Jacket - Z
Lightnight Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
M.I.A. - Arular
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - S/T
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Four Tet - Madvillain Remixes
Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
Why? - Elephant Eyelash
Venetian Snare - Rossz Csillag Allat Született and Meathole
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Xiu Xiu - La Foret
Kanye West - Late Registration
Wilderness - Wilderness
Edan - Beauty and the Beat
Sigur Ros - Takk
Sunno))) - Black One
m83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
Spoon - Gimme Friction
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
LCD Soundssystem - s/t
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

And i have yet to hear animal collective, devendra banhart, deerhoof, akron family and alot of other stuff...id say an amazing year for music.

Since there're so many newbies showing up....here is my list which I posted in another thread back when I was boycotting the purge.





Alternative/Metal/Rock/WTF?


Mars Volta - Francis the Mute
Corrupted - El Mundo Frio (as always with this group, WTF?)
Wilco - Kicking Telivision: Live in Chicago
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Fantômas - Suspended Animation
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Boris – Pink
Iron & Wine and Calexico - In the Reins
Sunn O))) - The Black One
Ephel Duath - Pain Necessary to Know
Spoon - Gimme Friction
Cryptopsy - Once Was Not (Deluxe Edition)
Khanate - Capture and Release
Jesu - s/t
Deerhoof - The Runners Four
Boredoms - Seadrum/House of Sun
Animal Collective - Feels
Pelican – The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
The Red Chord - Clients
Spektr - No Longer Human Senses (Et Fugit Interea)
Impaled Nazarene - Death Comes In 26 Carefully Selected Pieces
Immolation - Harnessing Ruin


Honorable Mention:


A Silver Mt. Zion - Horses in the Sky
Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
Earth - Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
The Books - Lost and Safe
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Behemoth - Demigod
Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
Kamelot - The Black Halo (bonus edition)
Naglfar - Pariah
Epoch of Unlight - The Continuum Hypothesis
Aborted - The Archaic Abattoir
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Om - Variations on a Theme
Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
Neil Young - Praire Wind
Z - My Morning Jacket
Beck - Guero
Trivium - Ascendancy
Meshuggah - Catch Thirty-Three



Reissues:


The Stooges - Fun House (Deluxe Edition) (Yes, I know it's oxymoranic to remaster a Stooges recording, but WTF!)
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (30th Anniversary)
Sonic Youth - Goo (Deluxe Edition)
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence (Deluxe Edition)
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon (30th Anniversary)
Patti Smith - Horses (Deluxe Edition)
Sam Cooke - Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963: One Night Stand (Sacd Hybrd)
The Stooges - s/t (Deluxe Edition)
Sepultura - Roots (10th Anniversary/Bonus edition)
Marvin Gaye - at the Copa
Sam Cooke - Night Beat (limited edition)
Egg - s/t
Converge - When Forever Comes Crashing (Bonus Edition)


Multiple Reissues from a group:


Can: (Sacd Hybrid)
Tago Mago
Ege Bamyasi
Future Days
Monster Movie
Soon over Babaluma
Landed


Van Der Graaf Generator:
H to He, Who Am The Only One
Pawn Hearts
Still Life
The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other


Amon Düül II:
Phallus Dei (Deluxe Edition)
Tanz Der Lemminge
Yeti


Gentle Giant: (35th Anniversary Edition)
Free Hand
In a Glass House


Funkadelic:
Maggot Brain
Free Your Mind...and Your Ass Will Follow
Cosmic Slop



Box Sets:


Brother Ray - Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959)
The Band - A Musical History
The Chocolate Watchband - Melts in Your Brain Not on Your Wrist: The Complete Recordings 1965 to 1967
The Fall - The Complete Peel Sessions 1978 - 2004
Little Richard - Complete Reprise Recordings



Vaults:


Grateful Dead - Filmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings w/bonus disc (limited edition)
Bob Dylan - Live at the Gaslight 1962
Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks Vol. 36
Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks Vol. 34
Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack
Grateful Dead - Dicks Picks Vol. 35

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