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Albums and EPs released this year:
Beck - Colors
Bent Knee - Land Animal
Broken Social Scene - Hug Of Thunder
Dutch Uncles - Big Balloon
Stephen EvEns - Bonjour Poulet
Charlotte Hatherley - True Love
Little Dragon - Season High
MUMMY - 9 Million EP
MUMMY - Others EP
Bill Nelson - The Awakening Of Dr Dream
Bill Nelson - Kid Flip And The Golden Spacemen
Bill Nelson - Luxury Wonder Moments
Bill Nelson - Tripping The Light Fantastic
Bill Nelson - Songs For Ghosts (double album)
The Physics House Band - Mercury Fountain
Pixx - The Age Of Anxiety
St Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
The Scaramanga Six - Monstrosities Vol. 2 EP
The Scaramanga Six - Chronica (double album)*
The Scaramanga Six - Chronica Demos
Thumpermonkey - Electricity EP
Thundercat - "Drunk"
Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
Wire - Silver/Lead

*My album of the year.

Other albums or EPs:
Arch Garrison - I Will Be A Pilgrim (2014)
Keith Canisius - We Are The Dreamers (2016)
Cardiacs - Some Fairytales From The Rotten Shed (DVD recorded around 2004-08, released 2017)
Rob Crow - Lactose Adept (1996)
Rob Crow - Living Well (2007)
Rob Crow - He Thinks He's People (2011)
Rob Crow's Gloomy Place - You're Doomed. Be Nice. (2016)
The Display Team - Drones (2009)
The Display Team - Shifts (2016)
William D. Drake - Yew's Paw (2006)
Europeans - Vocabulary (1983)
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (2011)
A Formal Horse - Made In Chelsea mini album (2016)
Githead - Art Pop (2007)
Gong - Angels Egg (1973)
Gong - You (1974)
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Gazeuse (1976)
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Downwind (1979)
Heavy Vegetable - The Amazing Undersea Adventures Of Aqua Kitty And Friends (1994)
Heavy Vegetable - Frisbie (1995)
Howling Bells - Heartstrings (2014)
The Ladies - They Mean Us (2006)
Metronomy - Summer 08 (2016)
Moon King - Obsession (2012-13)
Moon King - Secret Life (2015)
MUMMY - I'm Not Here To Make Friends EP (2016)
Mumrah - Huzzah! (2004)
ni - ni (mini album, 2010)
ni - ni (mini album, 2012)
ni - Les insurgés de Romilly (2015)
North Sea Radio Orchestra - North Sea Radio Orchestra (2006)
North Sea Radio Orchestra - Birds (2008)
OK Go - 180/365 (live 2011)
Other Men - Wake Up Swimming (2007)
Pinback - Blue Screen Life (2001)
Pinback - Summer In Abaddon (2004)
Please Dance Hell Bear - MY NJBR BLIND EP (2012)
The Scaramanga Six - Monstrosities EP (2015)
Sleeping People - Growing (2007)
The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore (1998)
Sound Struggle - Sound Struggle (2014)
Sound Struggle - Rise (2015)
Speedy Ortiz - The Death Of Speedy Ortiz (2011)
Spiderbait - The Unfinished Spanish Galleon Of Finley Lake (1995)
Spiderbait - Ivy & The Big Apples (1996)
Spiderbait - Grand Slam (1999)
Spiderbait - The Flight Of Wally Funk (2001)
Spiderbait - Tonight Alright (2004)
Spiderbait - Spiderbait (2013)
Spiral Beach - Spiral Beach (2006)
The Stranglers IV - Rattus Norvegicus (1977)
Thingy - Songs About Angels, Evil, And Running Around On Fire (1997)
Thingy - To The Innocent (1999)
Thundercat - Apocalypse (2013)
Jane Weaver - The Silver Globe/The Amber Light (2015)
Wild Beasts - Boy King (2016)
Stomu Yamash'ta's East Band - Freedom Is Frightening (1973)
Stomu Yamash'ta - Raindog (1975)
Zag And The Coloured Beads - Loaf Of Legs (recorded 1984-85, released 1986)
Zag And The Coloured Beads - Sawtooth Gripmaster (1988)

Discovery of the year: Rob Crow (solo and in Thingy, Heavy Vegetable, Pinback, Other Men and The Ladies)

both 2017 albums i was inspired to buy were listed? on best of year thread, and i buyed all these,

'on-u trifecta' - singers and players
'flesh of my skin' - keith hudson
'understanding' - the gayladds
'psalms for i' - prince far i
'king david's melody' - augustus pablo
'man from wareika/wareika dub' - rico
'throbbing gristle's greatest hits' - throbbing gristle
'roy cousins presents kings and queens of dub'
'heathen earth' - throbbing gristle
'bring you 20 jazz funk greats' - throbbing gristle
'murder' - (ranking) toyan/tipper lee and johnny slaughter
'the second annual report of throbbing gristle' - throbbing gristle
'heart of the congos' - the congos
'5 classic albums' - scott walker
'return of the giant slits' - the slits
'12" rulers" - linval thompson
'africa must be free by 1983/africa dub' - hugh mundell/augustus pablo
'dubb everlating/dub expression' - errol brown
'orthodox dub' - errol brown
'good vibes' - horace andy
'd.o.a. the third and final report of throbbing gristle' - throbbing gristle.

in roughly that order!

discovery of the year - 2017, what the f***'s going on! :)

Fishy_Jim wrote: "Albums and EPs released this year:
Beck - Colors
Bent Knee - Land Animal
Broken Social Scene - Hug Of Thunder
Dutch Uncles - Big Balloon
Stephen EvEns - Bonjour Poulet
Charlotte Hatherley - True Lo..."

congrats on acquiring the Pierre Moerlen Gong albums - Gazeuze is a sublime masterpiece

This Year's releases

Björk - Utopia
David Bowie - Cracked Actor
Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger In The Alps
Suzanne Ciani - Fish Music (RSD 7")
Richard Dawson - Peasant *
Fall - Singles 1978-2016 (Box Set)
Faust/Ulan Bator - 12" split e.p. for RSD
Grateful Dead - Get Shown The Light (Box Set)
Hodge & Randomer - If I Could Stop/Slipping (12")
Kiasmos - Blurred e.p.
Lula Pena - Archivo Pittoresco
Edward Penfold - Denny Isle Drive
Pere Ubu - 20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo
Pharmakon - Contact
Phew - Light Sleep
Residents - The Ghost Of Hope
Rolling Stones - On Air
Saicobab - Sab Se Purani Bab
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
Mordecai Smyth - The Mayor Of Toytown Is Dead
This Is The Kit - Moonshine Freeze
Trembling Bells - The Auld Triangle (RSD 12")
Graeme Truslove - Intuited Architecture

* my album of the year

Older stuff is too numerous to list all, so just some standouts

Marc Almond & Michael Cashmore - Gabriel & The Lunatic Lover
Álvaro - Drinkin' My Own Sperm
Max Ananyev - Communication
Androids Of Mu - Blood Robots
Asher & Tremble - Humble Yourself (7" single)
Brigitte Bardot - Brigitte Bardot Show
Don Bradshaw-Leather - Distance Between Us
William S. Burroughs & Kurt Cobain - The Priest They Called Him
C.A. Quintet - Trip Thru Hell
Iko Cherie - Dreaming On
Congos - Heart Of The Congos
Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky
Ivor Cutler - Dandruff
Richard Dawson - The Magic Bridge
Delia Derbyshire - Electrosonic
Flaming Lips - Zaireeka
Brigitte Fontaine - Comme À La Radio
France Gall - 1968
Harmonic 313 - When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence
Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood (40th Anniversary Edition)
Lewis - L'Amour
Long Chris - Chansons Bizarres Pour Gens Étranges
Loop - Wolf Flow (RSD vinyl issue of this old CD set)
Lucifer - Big Gun
Lydia Lunch & Roland S. Howard - Shotgun Wedding
Mean Machine - Cream
Nurse With Wound - Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table...
Nurse With Wound - Soliloquy For Lilith
Omoide Hatoba - Kinsei
OOIOO - Feather Float
Annette Peacock - I'm The One
Pere Ubu - Lady From Shanghai
Lee Perry - The Complete UK Upsetter Singles Collection Vol. 4
Plone - For Beginner Piano
Residents - Fingerprince/Babyfinger
Residents - Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
Ravi Shankar - In London
Squarepusher - Music For Robots
Midori Takada - Through The Looking Glass
Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth
X-TG - Desertshore/The Final Report
Jean-Claude Vannier - Roses Rouge Sang
Scott Walker - Scott
Scott Walker - Scott 2
Scott Walker - Scott 3
Scott Walker - Tilt
Scott Walker - The Drift
Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused
Zombies - Odessey And Oracle
Evolution Of Dub Vol. 3

And, seeing as this is a book site

Viv Albertine - Clothes Clothes Clothes, Music Music Music, Boys Boys Boys
William Eggleston - Election Eve
Lee Friedlander - The American Monument
David Keenan - England's Hidden Reverse
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

Finally, movies and telly

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)
Vampyr (1932)
King Kong (1933 - HMV exclusive Blu-ray)
Roberto Rosselini: The War Trilogy (1945, 1946, 1948)
Ladri di Biciclette (Bicycle Thieves) (1948)
The Time Machine (1960 - HMV exclusive Blu-ray)
Branded To Kill (1967)
Fukasaku Kinji: New Battles Without Honour And Humanity (1974, 1975, 1976)
Suzuki Seijun: The Taisho Trilogy (1980, 1981, 1991)
Logan (2017)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Spider Man: Homecoming (2017)
The Outer Limits Season 1 & 2 (1963-65)

good point! as it's a book site,

https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_i...

best 2017 book - 2023: a trilogy

best book read in 2017 - The Illuminatus! Trilogy

best t.v. - 'twin peaks - series 3', 'ash v evil dead - series 2' and probably 'the league of gentlemen - anniversary series'

best movie - didn't watch a single one!

With you on Ash v Evil Dead, Tech. A great show if you're not squeemish. The morgue scene is outrageous and inspired.

yeah, it's slashtastic! series 3 due in 2018! oh yeah!

I'd be here till next Christmas, if I try to post everything I've bought this year!

theDuke wrote: "I'd be here till next Christmas, if I try to post everything I've bought this year!"

Same problem here Duke, quite honestly I have no idea what I have bought this year. Random CDs just seem to appear in my collection sometimes, quite sure I haven't bought them but, knowing me, I wouldn't write it off.

Do the rest of you keep a record of everything you have bought, and when, or do you just have extraordinary memories?

I don’t remember at all, I just check my orders for the year with all the places I’ve bought from. Usually only eBay, Amazon, Bandcamp, Discogs and occasionally an artist’s website.

i have the perfect method - i only remember to buy the good ones! :)

i used to be able to pick up a record, know where i bought it, how much it cost, and very often (i did work in a record shop) also know the catalogue number, but then i obtained an existence (got a life), and took the cure! :)

I keep a list of every album or EP I bought each year, but I don't go as far as recording what date I bought them.

Lez wrote: "I don’t remember at all, I just check my orders for the year with all the places I’ve bought from. Usually only eBay, Amazon, Bandcamp, Discogs and occasionally an artist’s website."

Same here

I have all mine on an Access database which allows me to do a report per year. It's mainly for insurance purposes but I don't go as far as what date, price or purchased from (used to but can"t be @rsed now).

Spacepig wrote: "theDuke wrote: "I'd be here till next Christmas, if I try to post everything I've bought this year!"

Same problem here Duke, quite honestly I have no idea what I have bought this year. Random CDs ..."

I keep a written record of what, where, how much & when...but must confess I've slacked a bit since Polygondwanaland dropped in November...there's just too many variants of it now. Curse my completest bent!

I keep a record in MS Word of everything I buy with PayPal (which covers eBay, Bandcamp, local record store, and most artists' websites). I do index all my CDs on CD-Trustee (fore-runner of Collectorz.com) which includes date of purchase, source and price, however, even with over 2500 albums indexed to date, I am still way behind - maybe another 500+ to go. Yes, I'm a nerd, but once a librarian, always a librarian.

Oh man, you people are so organised! What do you do with all that info?

I couldn't even begin to list what I acquired last year, but so far this year: 1 used CD from Amazon in the post, 2 from my local (OK, Irish) classified ads site (it's brilliant, people have no idea what they are selling, got loads from there), and 1 from Bandcamp getting posted today.
In addition to this, 5 Bandcamp downloads, and confirmation from one of my underground bands that I will be getting a free CD from them just as soon as it's ready to go.

Could be a busy year coming up :-)

All this cataloguing and remembering - you're missing out on the thrill of the slow dawning that you've already got what's just arrived ..... more than twice in some cases.

Brass Neck wrote: "All this cataloguing and remembering - you're missing out on the thrill of the slow dawning that you've already got what's just arrived ..... more than twice in some cases."

Pfft! Been there! ;-)

Tim wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "All this cataloguing and remembering - you're missing out on the thrill of the slow dawning that you've already got what's just arrived ..... more than twice in some cases."

Pff..."

Yep, I'm waiting for this to happen to me. I keep no record at all of what I have and my memory is not good! I just order stuff and it arrives, I have no idea what I bought this year without looking at order history on Amazon etc.

dumbasses! :)

I have an eidetic memory, which means i'm fully aware of purchasing practically needless replicas!

which is probably worse.

helen, I know it looks bad, but my accusations of dumbassery were not aimed in your direction - just the other dumbasses! :)

Tech wrote: "helen, I know it looks bad, but my accusations of dumbassery were not aimed in your direction - just the other dumbasses! :)"

;-)
I'm the exception am I?

nah yer a dumbass tae! x

Val wrote: "I keep a record in MS Word of everything I buy with PayPal (which covers eBay, Bandcamp, local record store, and most artists' websites). I do index all my CDs on CD-Trustee (fore-runner of Collect..."

Yeah does take ages i'm at 4500 ish and doesn't include copies done for me or the 400gb on my hard drive (no idea whats on there). Luckily I've not bought same album twice unless intended (cue for me now to buy 1).

Helen The Melon wrote: "Tim wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "All this cataloguing and remembering - you're missing out on the thrill of the slow dawning that you've already got what's just arrived ..... more than twice in some ..."

At least zon flag up when you've previously bought an album/item; the problem is that HMV, ebay and the rest don't and of course zon can't tell you if you bought it elsewhere. Emails can be checked .......... until the hard disc gets fried and you do have to clear them once in a decade or so ......

Back in the Zon days there was a thread on the US groups "What Were The Last Five Albums You Bought" and the UK groups had a "What Were The Last Three Albums You Bought". I contributed to both and when we also had a search facility (remember that???), it was useful to be able to look back on what you had bought and when.

Brass Neck wrote: "All this cataloguing and remembering - you're missing out on the thrill of the slow dawning that you've already got what's just arrived ..... more than twice in some cases."

Many of my purchases throughout 2017 were pre orders, so needed to keep a record of what I bought, so to check that I got it, in the end! Some of the pre orders didn't get sent out months later after putting in an order.

I frequently look through my CD collection and see albums I have no recollection of buying.

David wrote: "I frequently look through my CD collection and see albums I have no recollection of buying."

Glad it’s not just me! It’s made worse when you don’t remember why. 🤔

It's worse when you look through and can't find something you know you bought, know you haven't sold and know you haven't lent to anybody.

I've been trying to locate at least two discs for a few years now! 😱 they're not in your racks by any chance, David?

Recently came across this oddity which has grown on me:
The Subtle Movements Of The Entropy Engine ~ The Trinity Project. Its a few years since it was originally released but suitably quirky for my taste.

An album i'm looking forward to getting soon, is The Fire Tapes - Phantoms. This debut album was released in 2013, but the band broke up for good shortly afterwards. Very dreamy, this was only ever released in tiny numbers..about 100 copies all told. The one manned label that produced it Warhen Records...managed to source me a copy from the bass player, who now plays in a band called BIG AIR, fortunately had a couple left knocking about. Best of all..only cost me $10 shipped from Virginia! There is one other copy remaining on the site, thanks to me! Check it out, cos it'll never be reissued.

https://warhenrecords.bandcamp.com/al...

From the same label, I also picked up a Zack Mexico album, kinda low key psyche album, country rockers Dexateens - Teenage Hallelujah LP (check out the title track!), and a couple of singles from local artists performing in Charlottesville Virginia.

Very much a small potatoes operation....but non-the-less, has some good stuff on there, for reasonable prices.

So far in 2018 I've only bought (pre-ordered) two albums.

Josh Hedley's Mr. Jukebox (released April 19)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mr-Jukebox-J...

and Marlon Williams' Make Way for Love (out Feb 15)
https://marlonwilliams.bandcamp.com/a...

Back in December I bought the download of Tammy Haider's album The One because there was no hard copy. However, lovely lass that she is, she sent me an email last week saying CDs were now available and if I wanted one, she'd send one for free. Arrived yesterday. Thanks Tammy!

Nice of her! :)

theDuke wrote: "Nice of her! :)"

She is a sweetie and while synth pop may not be everyone's cuppa, I should give her a plug:

https://tammyhaider.bandcamp.com/

I'm always willing to be pleasantly surprised by artists I wouldn't have known.....i'll give her album a spin! :)

Kossoff - Blue Soul

Paul Kossoff with a selection of songs recorded with various artists, some well known and some rare delights. Free's live version of Crossroads puts Cream's version well in the shade. As white blue players go they didn't come any better than this dude.
I've also been exploring female blues players, Deborah Coleman, Ana Popovic and most recently Sue Foley who reminds me of Stevie Ray Vaughn.

Tim wrote: "It's worse when you look through and can't find something you know you bought, know you haven't sold and know you haven't lent to anybody.

I've been trying to locate at least two discs for a few ..."

Probably Tim, just let me know what they are and I'll send them back (sorry for delay in replying)

David wrote: "Tim wrote: "It's worse when you look through and can't find something you know you bought, know you haven't sold and know you haven't lent to anybody.

I've been trying to locate at least two disc..."

;-) for the record though; they're the first Orbital album, and compilation Dubnology: Journeys Into Outer Bass. Oh, and CD copy of DJ Shadow 'Endtroducing'.