Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Top 100 Acquisitions of the Year 2013...

This isn't a list of the (in my opinion) 100 best albums released in 2013 (although there are twenty of those here)...

Rather, it's my (kind of) top 100 (split into 12 categories) of the 493 discs I acquired in 2013 - far too many I know but, as ever, it will be a New Year's resolution to try to cut down...

It's divided between:-
  • Rock & Pop (2013 Releases, Recent Releases, Reissues, Compilations, Live, Various Artists)
  • Jazz (Studio, Live, Various Artists)
  • Classical (Single Composer, Single Artist, Various Composers)
Rock & Pop

2013 Releases
David Bowie - The Next Day
Dream Theater - Dream Theater
Roy Harper - Man and Myth
Mogwai - Les Revenants
65daysofStatic - Wild Light
Sumner McKane - Select Visual History
Pet Shop Boys - Electric
Everything Everything - Arc
Dutch Uncles - Out of Touch in the Wild
The Physics House Band - Horizons-Rapture
Agnes Obel - Aventine
Black Sabbath - 13
Depeche Mode -  Delta Machine
Greg Haines - Where We Were
Jonathan Hopkins - Immunity
Karl Bartos - Off the Record
Lady Gaga - Artpop
Biffy Clyro - Opposites
Hans-Joachim Roedelius/Lloyd Cole - Selected Studies Vol 1
Tosca - Odeon

Recent Releases (2008-2012)
Laurie Anderson - Homeland
Dar Williams - In the Time Of Gods
Laura Pausini - Inedito 
Jason Lytle - Dept of Disappearance
Keith Emerson Band - Keith Emerson Band feat Marc Bonilla
Shawn Colvin - All Fall Down
Françoise Hardy - L'Amour Fou
Lucy Kaplansky - Reunion
Bersarin Quartett - II
The Unwinding Hours - Afterlives

Reissues
Yes - Close to the Edge (Definitive Edition)
Thomas Köner - Permafrost
Herman Van Veen - Elf Lieder
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#Infinity
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
DAF - Fur Immer
Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound on Sound
Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
Chicago - The Chicago Transit Authority
Sarah Slean - Night Bugs

Compilations
Pink Floyd - The Best of Pink Floyd : A Foot in the Door
Rush - Retrospective I : 1974-1980
Ultravox! - The Island Years
Black Sabbath - The Best of Black Sabbath
Lee Scratch Perry - The Black Ark Years - The Jamaican 7"s

Live
King Crimson - The Road to Red
Klaus Schulze - La Vie Electronique 4
Herman Van Veen - Heute Abend
The Velvet Underground - 1969
Kansas - Two For the Show

Various Artists
Various - Time Machine : A Vertigo Retrospective
Various - 20 Jahre Kompact : Kollektion 1
Various - Greasy Truckers Party
Various - Northern Soul : The Collection
Various - The Trojan Story

Jazz

Studio
Alex Machacek - 24 Tales
Gary Husband - Dirty and Beautiful Vol 1
Gary Husband - Dirty and Beautiful Vol 2
Dave King Trucking Company - Good Old Light
Shiver - Shiver #1
Dave King - I've Been Ringing You
Gary Husband - The Things I See
Lund Quartet - Lund Quartet
Pat Metheny - Orchestrion
Dave King - Indelicate

Live
Miles Davis - Agharta
Bill Frisell - East West
Miles Davis - Live in Europe 1969

Various Artists
Various - The Old New Thing
Various - Jazz Actuel


Classical

Single Composer
Maxwell Davies - Naxos Quartets 1-10
Ligeti - Etudes Books 1 and 2
Gubaidulina - Solo Piano Works/Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
Stockhausen - Piano Music
Tippett - String Quartets 1-4
Hindemith - Complete String Quartets
Rihm - Piano
Feldman - String Quartet (1979)
Holzmann - Wandelung
Einaudi - Islands: Essential Einaudi

Single Artist
Baroque Orchestra B'Rock - Vivaldi Cage : 8 Seasons
Arditti String Quartet - String Quartets by Rasmussen and Sorensen
Michel Oudar - Cahier pour Michel Oudar
Steffan Schleiermacher - Piano Music of the Darmstadt School Vol 1
Glenn Gould - Mozart Piano Sonatas
LaSalle Quartet - Lutoslawski/Cage/Penderecki/Mayuzumi String Quartets
Peter Lawson - American Piano Sonatas Vol 1 - Copland/Barber/Carter/Ives
Das Alban Berg Quartett - The Teldec Recordings
Corigliano Quartet - Corigliano/Friedman String Quartets
Anne-Sophie Mutter - Mutter Modern

Various Composer Collections
Various Composers - Edition Zeitgenossischen Musik 75
Various Composers - Lumieres : Music of the 18th Century
Various Composers - Musik in Alten Stadten und Residenzen
Various Composers - Music of Our Century
Various Composers - Music of Our Time
Various Composers - 50 Jahre Neue Musik in Darmstadt
Various Composers - Edition Zeitgenossischen Musik Vol 5
Various Composers - Edition Zeitgenossischen Musik Vol 3
Various Composers - Edition Zeitgenossischen Musik Vol 6
Various Composers - Music of the 20th Century : Avantgarde

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