K I'm meant to be studying for exams so I of course thought it would be a great idea to instead spend my time going on a music acquisition spree...

I've got some Scars, M83, Matching Mole, Supergrass, late CAN, Iron & Wine, Buzzcocks, Smiths bootlegs, Sam Cooke, Chameleons, Tame Impala, Adam and the Ants, Alastair Galbraith, Eprom, Fairport Convention, In Gowan Ring, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Popol Vuh, Metric, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sleepy Sun, the Bitter Tears, early Marvin Gaye, the Glitch Mob, Tom Tom Club, Alien Sex Fiend, late John Martyn, New Model Army, the Kinks, Golden Dawn, the Damned, Jimmy Cliff, the Hollies, Verve, the Specials, Ash, new Arcade Fire, solo McCartney, Desert Sessions albums, the new Fall, Meursault, Gui Boratto, Acid Mothers Temple, Menomena, Mission of Burma, Dam-Funk, Acid Mothers Temple, Crass, Manic Street Preachers

And I've recently bought albums by And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Deftones, King Crimson, 10,000 Maniacs, Living Color, Massive Attack, Bjork, NIN, Badly Drawn Boy, Sepultura, Kyuss, Mr Bungle, FNM...

Well that sure is a lot of stuff, and some of it is great.

Such an awesome album, one of my favourite Cure ones.

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I had no intention of actually spending money today, but these were all in this little secondhand shop, so it was criminal to say no, really...

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Deicide - The Stench Of Redemption

Really loving the songs 'The Stench Of Redemption' and 'Not Of This Earth'. Other than that, nothing's really capturing me.

'Till Death Do Us Part' is my last requirement to complete my Deicide collection.

Year of No Light - Ausserwelt
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Fat Freddy's Drop - Dr. Boondigga & The Big BW
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Herbie Han**** - Head Hunters
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Baths - Cerulean
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The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
Listening now for the first time. It seems ok so far, nothing special, but hopefully a few more listens will do the trick. I loved Sink Or Swim and The '59 Sound so i'm hoping this will be just as good or even better.

^ Solid album by them I felt.

One that's a few years old and a fairly new one; downloaded and bought, respectively.

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The Devin Townsend Band (my favorite artist atm) - Synchestra

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The Agonist - Lullabies For The Dormant Mind

If you like Devin Townsend you should definitely check out Strapping Young Lad. It's a lot heavier and more cathartic, but still has the melody found in his solo material. You should also definitely check out some of his earlier solo material like Terria, Infinity, Biomech: Ocean Machine, Physicist, and the first Devin Townsend Band album Accelerated Evolution. As for SYL, I would normally suggest City as the first album but in this case I would recommend The New Black because it's their most accessible album and most similar to Devin's solo material.

Yep. I already know and love them. I own City, Alien, The New Black, and The Chaos Years. I also own most of his solo material. I'm eagerly awaiting the new DTP album in May 2011, Deconstruction, as it's suppsed to be very SYL-esque. Also I heard there is going to be a new Ziltoid album.

Just otu of curiosity, where in Ne-va-duh do you live?

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Giving Aphex Twin a shot. Supposedly he was only 14 years old during the time of some of the songs on the recording.
I downloaded this one because this is apparently his most lauded album.

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Aphex Twin- Richard D. James Album
I downloaded this one because I love the album art.

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My brother told me to get it. I was disappointed by it to be honest....

Nice! I love both. It's unfortunate though that the sound quality of Selected Ambient Works is so shitty, because the tunes are incredible. Even the remaster sounds bad.

Marvin ***e-Let's Get It On
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Marvin ***e-Here My Dear
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on a bit of a Gaye kick now

.....wait

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Sodom - Agent Orange

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Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunter

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Mgła - Presence

I just downloaded the entire Powerman 5000 discography. Before the gasps start, let me say that I have previously purchased all of them except True Force and Blood Splat Rating System, both of which have never seen a copy of.
Mega!! Kung Fu Radio
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Destroy What You Enjoy
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Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution (2006)

This debut from Devin Townsend's Band project merges his super colossal studio slickness with SYL's edgier moments into the beginnings of an awesome string of albums. Muy excellente!


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Third Eye Blind - S/T (1997)

Amidst a rather meh discography shines this something of a one-hit-wonder record that I picked up in its 14-track entirety today, and all things considered its ideal late 90's pop-rock with a certain grunginess to it in the right places rather than the wrong ones that pervaded bands of TEB's ilk. Sure, 'Semi-Charmed Life' gets the frump played out of it even now on radio and advertisements, but the sheer irony of even that track is such that it still kicks arse regardless. :)

CAKE- Fashion Nugget
Belle and Sebastian- If You're Feeling Sinister
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Nas- Illmatic

Great album, and one of the must-haves of the 90s. Semi-Charmed Life, Jumper, The Background, Motorcycle Drive By, God of Wine, quite a collection.

I kind of went a little crazy with the new music this weekend...I have a nice week ahead of me:

Rocketship - A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
Bally Sagoo - Rising from the East
Boris - Pink
Digable Planets - Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant
Ghost Mice - Debt of the Dead
Iron and Wine - The Shephard's Dog
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Malory - The Third Face
Pulp - Different Class
Roxy Music - Avalon
Violet Indiana - Casino
Tegan and Sara - So Jealous

Man am I glad I can listen to so much music at work.

Eyehategod-Confederacy of Ruined Lives
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Eyehategod-Dopesick
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The Doors - L.A Woman
The Doors - The Doors

(Thanks to booboo's list in the That album > This album thread, it reminded me I needed to get these 2 albums since I listened on Spotify ages ago and I enjoyed them.)

I also got:

The National - Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
Eels - Hombre Lobo
Eels - End Times

Those are 5 awesome albums right there! Good choices!

My last album I downloaded was...

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actually I just downloaded Help by Thee Oh Sees, if I like it, I'll get more. I've been feeling pretty garage-y lately.

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Baths - Cerulean

^ Sweet album cover. What kind of music is it? Any good?

I haven't heard it yet but some sites are labeling it Glitch-Hop.

R.E.M.-Up
Found it cheap, pretty good so far.

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Stars - The Five Ghosts

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Devo - Something For Everyone

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Future Islands - In Evening Air

How's the Devo album sounding?

first Devo album I've ever listened to actually.

It's pretty cool, really digging the song Don't Shoot (I'm A Man)

Cool I'll need to get it at some point.
Love Devo.

What do you think of the new Stars album? Is it worth a buy or download?

I just got two albums by Hop Along.
Freshman Year and Is Something Wrong?

Thanks to wolverinewolfweiselpigeon!

James Taylor-Sweet Baby James
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and

Matisyahu-Light
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Tift Merrit - See You On the Moon
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Another new release I somehow heard about lately. I don't exactly expect anything earth-shakingly spectacular, but it'll kill some time.

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Because A Book Like This was so good, I expect great things from this one.

Autechre - Move of Ten

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Just released digitally this morning, CD/Vinyl in a month.

Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero

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^ that album cover has always weirded me out

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Blue Öyster Cult - Agents of Fortune

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Blue Öyster Cult - Fire Of Unknown Origin

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Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

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Spirit - Spirit

Basically in the mood for a song from each of these so I thought I'd just get the whole albums. I can't get enough of 'Veteran of the Psychic Wars' from Fire of Unknown Origin.

^ This is pretty obvious coming from me, but you really can't go wrong with any of the BOC's output. :)

As for me-

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The Pineapple Thief - Someone Here Is Missing (2010)

Although quite Radiohead-esque in places (in a good way), Steve Wilson's production coupled with some rather punchy songwriting makes this one of 2010's more exhilarating releases for me so far, and is without a doubt the most interesting/distinctive release in this oft-ignored group's discography.


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Jethro Tull - Crest of a Knave (1987)

Being the album that bested both Metallica and Jane's Addiction at the Grammys back in '89 in the Hard Rock/Metal category, one can't help but be curious, which led to me buying it yesterday during a bookstore browsing session. Rest assured though, I am still baffled even after a couple of spins: this is fantastic stuff and rather underrated in the Tull's discography, but Best Hard Rock Performance? Strange!