for me it's the car - back and forth from work and travelling on the weekends ..
which is why i'm trying to get a lot of the 70's stuff I love on CDs (i'll never get rid of the vinyl)

another band I bought a lot of is Strawbs .. and believe it or not - i'm listening to a lot of Supertramp again ..

always loved Supertramp

Crime of the Century is a great album.

the holy trinity is Crimes of the Century, Even in the Quietest Moments, and Crisis What Crisis.

no one has ever made music like them before or since.

funny what you take for granted, then rediscover at a later time in life and it blows you away

Yes! Three incredible albums. I wore out my parents' copy of Breakfast in America when I was a kid, and have loved them ever since.

Just bought a physical copy of another one of my favorite releases from this year (haha, again, Elvis, I think you should give them a listen if you haven't already): Perfect Pussy "I have lost all desire for feeling":

http://prrfectpussy.bandcamp.com/music

i hit my favourite thrift store yesterday and had my mind blown with all the amazing stuff someone dropped off..

Largely commercial (Kings of Leon, etc) but all stuff i missed out on and wanted to check out -

I bought 70 CDs ... luckily i had my frequent flyer card stamped full so i got everything at 50% off

there was a big pile of trance in there as well ...

and i dont care who knows it - i LOVE trance .. it's soundtrack music for the cinema of the mind. I find it very relaxing..

Cool will check this out when I get home... always appreciate recommendations. Big world of music out there so its good to get steered in different directions

where the hell do you put it all?

Went to see The Naked and Famous live a few weeks ago. Came away with this rather awesome souvenir - a picture-disc vinyl print of their 2010 album Passive Me, Aggressive You. Some great songs, especially awesome to drive to.

Favourite song of the album, without a doubt.

LP:
BURNING WITCH - Box Set
RYAN ADAMS - Gold

it's a problem ..

the shelves are overflowing

at the thrift store:

Say Your Prayers, Little One
(the string quartet tribute to metallica)

I'm a sucker for these symphonic tributes to rock bands

update:

this one wears thin really fast.

(just like Metallica)

7":
BUZZCOCKS - Promises
YO LA TENGO - Blue Green Arrow
LAMBCHOP - Nine/Moody Fucker
LAMBCHOP - My Cliche/Loretta Lung

LP:
JAH WOBBLE & OLLIE MARLAND - Neon Moon
JACKSON BROWNE - The Pretender
LOUIE BELLSON - Break Through!
ROTARY CONNECTION - Aladdin
COMMODORES - Hot On The Tracks
BELA BARTOK - String Quartets No.1 & 2 (Fine Arts Quartet)
ALBAN BERG - Symphonic Pieces from Lulu (London Symphony Orchestra)
ALBAN BERG - Lyric Suite for String Quartet/String Quartet, Op.3
YOKO ONO - Season Of Glass
SINEAD O'CONNOR - I Do Not What What I Haven't Got

Looking forward to spinning the classical LPs. Can't get enough of dark moody orchestra stuff.

7":
THE "YOU KNOW WHO" GROUP - My Love
TOOTS & THE MAYTALS - Take Me Home Country Roads
TYRANNOSAURUS REX - Ride A White Swan
SAM THE SHAM & THE PHARAOHS - Little Red Riding Hood
SHADOWS OF KNIGHT - Oh Yeah
IKE & TINA TURNER - Poor Fool (Sue Records)
JUNIOR WELLS - I Can't Stand No Signifying
THE SIMPLE IMAGE - The Grooviest Girl In The World
THE SHERATONS - Bony Maronie
THE FOURMYULA - Nature
JOHNNY DEVLIN - Johnny Sings Ballads
JOHNNY DEVLIN - Rock With The Devils
JOHNNY DEVLIN - 6.5 Hand Jive
FARON YOUNG - Hello Walls
JOHNNY TILLOTSON - Poetry In Motion

The National - Trouble Will Find Me.

Really enjoying this album,I've had it on repeat for the last few days and it's a belter.This band had somehow passed me by until now,I'm going to have to listen to some of their back catalogue.

LP:
ELTON JOHN - s/t (1970)
BILLY TAYLOR - Right Here, Right Now!
JELLO BIAFRA - No More Cocoons
KEN HENSLEY - Eager To Please
STRAY - Mudanzas

7":
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY - Black Dissimulation
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY - One With The Birds
RISING SHOTGUN/WILL OLDHAM - Spotlight/In My Mind
DAVID BOWIE - Scary Monsters (Pic Cover)

7":
MOTHERLODE - When I Die

LP:
THE WILD BUNCH - Soundtrack
MAC & KATIE KISSOON - s/t
FREDDIE & THE DREAMERS - Best Of
THE VOLCANOS - Into The Psyche
THE SPITS - s/t
COWBOY - Why Quit When You're Losing
COWBOY - Boyer & Talton
ELVIS PRESLEY - The Legend Lives On (Boxset)
BOB DYLAN - Love & Theft
BREWER & SHIPLEY - Tarkio

thrift store:

- cool yule (3 cd set of famous singers doing xmas songs)
- feist - let it die
- wild strawberries - heroine
- propellerheads - decksanddrumsandrockandroll
- chris rock - roll with the new
- men with brooms - soundtrack
- the trews - house of ill fame
- the trews - den of thieves

Aerosmith - Live! Bootleg
Beach Boys - Smile 2cd box
Brian Setzer - Rockabilly Riot! Volume One. A Tribute To Sun Records
Brian Wilson - Brian Wilson
Ted Nugent - Sweden Rocks/Motor City Mayhem

Jonsi Go Live cd/dvd

Love The National-I highly recommend you listen to "High Violet" and "Boxer" great stuff.

I'm loving these boxsets ..

unfortunately this one doesn't include the first 3 albums with John Foxx,
but it is a 9 disc set ..

Great White - Once Bitten...
Great White - ...Twice Shy

Deicide "In the Minds of Evil"

Nice choice that's one of my all time favorite albums.

Easily my favorite record from his solo work. I actually prefer it to some of his stuff with The 13th Floor Elevators. The CD reissue comes with this really fascinating booklet. There's also a really interesting documentary about him you might want to check out (if you haven't already) called You're Gonna Miss Me named after the The 13th Floor Elevators song.

Yeah it's the most consistently good album out of his solo stuff. I love the Elevators but listen to the Evil One more. Will have to check out the new Light in the Attic reissues. I've got the LP Sympathy For The Record Industry put out a few years back. Enjoyed that documentary although it's quite sad seeing how he deteriorated.

Finally picked up The Soft Boys' Underwater Moonlight on vinyl!

Iron Horse's bluegrass tribute to Modest Mouse. Freakin great.

The Black Spiders - Volume
The Black Spiders - KISS Tried To Kill Me
The Black Spiders - Sons Of The North

LIVE AT HULL 1970-The Who. Recorded the night after the fantastic LIVE AT LEEDS. Really liking it, but will need a few spins to appreciate the subtle differances. However, found live Who from TOMMY-mid 70's usually about as good as you could get.

Boston - Don't Look Back
Zeke - Dirty Sanchez

Paul McCartney - New

Simon & Garfunkel- Sound of Silence

Panda Bear - Person Pitch

S.H.O.U.T - Monsterious

Back to Black - Amy Winehouse

Fresh batch:

-Beach Boys: Beach Boys' Party/Stack O' Tracks
-Brian Wilson: Smile
-Buckcherry: Buckcherry, cd/dvd special edition
-Happy Mondays: Bummed, 2cd collectors edition
-Happy Mondays: Pills, Thrills And Bellyaches, cd/dvd collectors edition
-Happy Mondays: Uncle Dysfunctional
-Junkyard: Junkyard
-Riot: Rock City
-Riot: Riot Live
-Toilet Boys: Sex Music

Alt-J ∆ - An Awesome Wave

Natalie Merchant-Natalie Merchant
Neil Finn-Dizzy Heights
London Grammar-If You Wait
Goldfrapp-Tales Of Us
Four Tet-Beautiful Rewind
Lamb-5
The Cranberries-Roses
Tori Amos-Unrepetant Geraldines
Suzanne Vega-Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles