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I never got the love of Lil Wayne or Kanye/Jay Z. Watch the Throne for a title sounds like they are rapping about the toilet. To each their own though.

My list in no order

Hank III- Guttertown/Ghost to a Ghost

Hank III- Cattle Callin

Tom Morello's Night Watchman- World Wide Rebel Songs

David Dondero- Pre-existing Condition

Nick13- S/T

John Ralston- Shadows of the Summertime

my favorite though was Drive-By Truckers- Go Go Boots

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I never got the love of Lil Wayne or Kanye/Jay Z. Watch the Throne for a title sounds like they are rapping about the toilet. To each their own though.

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my favorite though was Drive-By Truckers- Go Go Boots

your ears are clearly broken. go go boots was weak as fuck, and n****s in paris cant be stopped.

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Everyone's lists need more:

The Aquabats! - Hi-Five Soup!

(I maybe biased because they have been my favorite band since high school)

The rest of my top 4 will be:

The Wonder Years - Suburbia

La Dispute - Wildlife

The Horrible Crowes - Elsie

Other records I bought and enjoyed:

Pianos Become the Teeth - The Lack Long After

The World/Inferno Friendship Society - The Anarchy and the Ecstasy

Lemuria - Pebble

Eisley - The Valley

Touche Amore - Parting

Bomb - Vacation

My favorites from the past that received a repressing / first pressing this year:

Latterman - All 3!

RVIVR - The Joester Sessions '08-'11

Mixtapes - Maps and Companions

The Calm Blue Sea - st

Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary

Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon (Assuming I actually get it this year)

The Menzingers - Chamberlain Waits

Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates

Thursday - Full Collapse

Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade

Disappoints:

Set Your Goals - Should have been Top 5 but didn't deserve a purchase

Four Year Strong - Didn't listen yet but from the songs I've heard I am scared to

Taking Back Sunday - reuniting did not mean TAYF Pt. II

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I know I'm going to forget a lot of albums because my memory sucks but I'll edit at a later date accordingly:

(In no particular order:)

La Dispute - Wildlife

Balance & Composure - Separation

Portugal The Man - In The Mountain In the Clouds

Polar Bear Club - Clash Battle Guilt Pride (This album was a grower)

Touche Amore - PtSBBAM

Front Bottoms - Slow Dance To Soft Rock / Grip n Tie (Technically 2 EP's compiled but I don't care this deserves to be on the list)

Aficionado - S/T

Thrice - Major/Minor (I will say it's not a great live album. I like Call It In The Air but when they played it live I couldn't get into it)

Wonder Years - Suburbia

Doomtree - No Kings

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This is a list I made, I will try to pare it down to a top 10.

Dan Padilla - The Ox Plows

Bomb The Music Industry - Vacation

They Might Be Giants - Join Us

Wormrot - Dirge

Big Eyes - Hard Life

Tenement - Napalm Dream

Mind Spiders - S/T

Turkish Techno - Past Due

The Credentials - Goocher

Burning Sensation - S/T

Brainoil - Death of This Dry Season

Total Control - Henge Beat

New Lows - Harvest Of The Carcass

Lemuria - Pebble

Deep Sleep - Turn Me Off

Wiccans - Skullduggery

Lenguas Laragas - S/T

Sundials - Never Settle

Trap Them - Darker Handcraft

Let Me Crazy - Contraflow

Leather - Sterile 7"

The Men - Leave Home

Vacation - S/T

Banner Pilot - Heart Beats Pacific

Northless - Clandestine Abuse

P.S. Eliot - Sadie

Laura Stevenson and The Cans - Sit / Resist

Fucked Up - David's Town / David Comes To Life

Empire Builder - S/T Demo

School Jerks - Control and that other one I forget

Underground Railroad to Candyland - Know Your Sins

Stockpile - EP

Flashlights - I'm Not Alone

Amebix - Sonic Mass

Night Birds - The Other Side of Darkness

Crusades - The Sun is Down and The Night is Riding In

The Slow Death - Born Ugly Got Worse

Direct Hit! - Domesplitter

Thou - To The Chaos Wizard Youth

Night Fever - New Blood

All the Self Defense Family stuff

That Xiabalba video

Defect Defect / Daylight Robbery / Foreign Objects 3 Way Split

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I'll have to narrow it down a bit later, but just thinking about it while reading this thread,

here's a bunch of my favorites:

Teenage Cool Kids “Denton After Sunset” LP

Rot In Hell “As Pearls Before Swine” LP

Jeniferever “Silesia” EP

Bon Iver - s/t LP

Big Kids “Phone Home” LP

Vaccine “Crimes in Blood” 5”

Alpinist "Lichtlaerm" LP

Siamese Twins - demo

Coldplay “Mylo Xyloto” LP

Final Club “Blank Entertainment” LP

Explosions in the Sky “Take Care..” 2xLP

Wye Oak “Civilian” LP

Snowing “I Could Do Whatever..” LP

Landmine Marathon “Gallows” LP

Superhumanoids “Parasite Paradise” EP

Creem - s/t 7”

Black Kites/Convulsions - split LP

M83 “Hurry Up, We're Dreaming” LP

Algernon Cadwallader “Parrot Flies” LP

Tenement “Napalm Dream” LP

Full Sun “High Ceiling” demo

Big Eyes “Hard Life” LP

Deadverse “Caution To The Wind “ LP

Come On Die Young – s/t 7”

Video “Leather Leather” LP

Nuclear Spring - demo

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weird. i didn't see Big Kids until Protagonist posted it heh.

mostly what everyone else said:

Junius "Reports From The Threshold Of Death"

Tim Kasher "Bigamy: More Songs From The Monogamy Sessions"

East Of The Wall "The Apologist"

Touche Amore "Parting..."

Balance And Composure "Separation"

Big Kids "Phone Home"

Russian Circles "Empros"

Low "C'mon"

Animals As leaders "Weightless"

Bridge & Tunnel "Rebuilding Year"

Small Brown Bike "Fell & Found"

Deafheaven "Roads To Judah" even if the LP doesn't match up to how it sounds live :-/

The Slow Death "Born Ugly Got Worse"

The Rural Alberta Advantage "Departing"

St. Vincent "Strange Mercy"

Panda Bear "Tomboy"

La Dispute "Wildlife" good but not completely blowing me away. i need to see this stuff live.

Grails "Deep Politics"

Rival Schools "Pedals" forgot all about this coming out. how about that "United By Fate" repress now?

Owen "Ghost Town"

Psychic Babble "My Brother's Ears/ My Sister's Eyes"

some others:

Des Ark "Don't Rock The Boat, Sink The Fucker"

Pygmy Lush "Old Friends"

City Of Ships "Minor World"

Ampere "Like Shadows"

Nicole Atkins "Mondo Amore"

Haley Bonar "Golder"

The Marshmallow Ghosts "S/T"

The Nighty Nite "Dimples" EP

Red Fang "Murder The Mountains"

Caroline "Verdugo Hills"

The Drift "Blue Hour"

Canon Blue "Rumspringa"

Eksi Ekso "Brown Shark, Red Lion"

Beware Of Safety "Leaves/Scars"

Dreamers Of The Ghetto "Enemy/Lover" LP

Maria Taylor "Overlook"

††† (Crosses) "†" EP

Asobi Seksu "Fluorescence"

Deerhoof "Vs. Evil"

31Knots "Trump Harm"

Giants/Beware Of Safety split 7"

Silversun Pickups "Seasick" 10"

Doomtree "No Kings"

Sims "Bad Time Zoo"

some vinyl pressings from 2011:

Circa Survive "Appendage" 12" EP (RSD 2011)

Deadhorse "We Can Create Our Own World" (2011 vinyl release)

Actors&Actresses "We Love Our Enemy" 12" EP

bummers:

Dredg "Chuckles & Mr. Squeezy" no....no.

The Get Up Kids "There Are Rules" smh

Radiohead "The King Of Limbs" mostly because i paid $50 for a 2x10" but i expected it to be exactly how it is.

Mastodon "The Hunter" i've only listened to the album via stream and i didn't really get into it. still would like to buy the vinyl for collections sake.

Young Widows "In And Out Of Youth And Lightness" love the songs live but the record doesn't move me when i listen to it.

Will Haven "Voir Dire" i love that Grady is back but the vocals are kinda killing it for me. i need to listen to this more, i'm not jumping to drop $30 on the vinyl either and that bums me out.

This Will Destroy You "Tunnel Blanket" literally puts me to sleep. super ambient. i know the days of Young Mountain are done and all but sheesh.

Explosions In The Sky "Take Care" liked the album, saw them live and didn't care much for the songs live. especially as an elaborate album design, it fell a little short.

Cave In "White Silence" blah. just blah. bored me to tears at FFF.

haven't played yet:

Battles "Gloss Drop"

Hella "Tripper"

Shores "To Volstead"

Shores/Charles The Osprey "Ritual"

Japanther "Beets, Limes And Rice" no clue this existed until right now

Mariachi el Bronx "II"

Rob Crow "He Thinks He's People"

Coliseum "Parasites" EP

Pianos Become The Teeth

PJ Harvey "Let England Shake"

Feist "Metals"

Bjork

David Dondero "Pre-Existing Condition" didn't even know he had a new one out!

and pretty much every release on Denovali this year since i've been buying too much stateside. dammit!

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Fireworks - Gospel

Iselia - Life From Dead Limbs

Basement - I Wish I Could Stay Here

Crucial Dudes - 61 Penn

Joyce Manor - Joyce Manor

Red City Radio - The Dangers of Standing Still

Transit - Listen and Forgive

Algernon Cadwallader - Parrot Flies

Ghost Thrower - 10 Songs

I Am the Avalanche - Avalanche United

Counterparts - The Current Will Carry Us

Pianos Become the Teeth - The Lack Long After

The Wonder Years - Suburbia

there are some more I enjoyed but those ones really stood out for me.

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im going to give this a better shot:

destroyer - kaputt

jay z / kanye - watch the throne

drake - take care

toro y moi - underneath the pine

yuck - yuck

kevin devine - between the concrete and the clouds

craft spells - idle labor

wu lyf - go tell fire to the mountain

the weeknd - house of balloons

memory tapes - player piano

modern skirts - gramahawk

cloud nothings - cloud nothings

erick serna and the killing floor - the grip

kurt vile - smoke ring for my halo

bon iver - bon iver

dom - family of love ep

washed out - life of leisure

wild nothing - golden haze ep

cults - cults

beach fossils - what a pleasure ep

starfucker - reptilians

real estate - days

the antlers - burst apart

m83 - hurry up were dreaming

ema - past life martyred saints

lonely island - turtleneck and chain

and im just going to give an overall shoutout to curren$y, because that dude put out too much awesome music to keep track of all year long.

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