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I just got these three tunes. Because the band is awesome. You should check them out and support them.

The Byrds - Ballad of Easy Rider and (Untitled)

Chickencoopscope, Closed attractions and Rise of the blue lotus, all by Buckethead.

My Barnes & Noble membership expires tomorrow, so today I went and bought a bunch of their discount CDs:

• Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (bought it partly so I could have a token Classical CD in my collection)
• Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
• The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
• Santana - Caravanserai
• Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
• Neil Young - Zuma
• Dire Straits - Dire Straits
• Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
• Cheap Trick - Dream Police
• Dio - Dream Evil

edited 26th Aug '15 7:13:48 PM by djbj

Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set, Trash, And No Star ^note I already owned and subsequently lost this. One kind of cool thing I forgot about the packaging is that the instead of a booklet, it just comes with a bunch of loose, unattached pages, so that you can choose which which one you want to be the cover image
Ladytron - Witching Hour
Various - π: Music For The Motion Picture
Various - Mojo: Beyond Punk! ^note A Post-Punk compilation that originally came with a copy of the music magazine Mojo. I was interested because it had some stuff I haven't heard on it, though I'm slightly wary because they get a Mission of Burma song title wrong twice the same way in the packaging - "Fight Academy Songs" instead of "Academy Fight Song".

I was trying to track down a copy of Alice In Chains' The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here lately after I started getting into them with some of their old stuff and Black Gives Way to Blue, and I ended up finding some Primus goodness to my surprise at Best Buy: The Brown Album and Primus and the Chocolate Factory. Along with the Pork Soda CD I found back at home, I've gained a newfound taste for the Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly...funk that Primus has.

...and that bass guitar.

edited 3rd Sep '15 9:58:08 PM by StarvingGecko

• Contaigeon - Emperor Worm
• Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
• Immolation - Harnessing Ruin
• Bolt Thrower - War Master
• Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
• Cruciamentum - Charnel Passages

Because for some reason I can never buy just one album anymore.

edited 4th Sep '15 3:36:23 AM by MasterInferno

• Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
• Chvrches - The Bones Of What You Believe

edited 6th Sep '15 12:42:01 PM by artfulscruff

• Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2

Big Country - Steeltown. Specifically the deluxe edition. Great bit of Scottish 80s rock.

edited 9th Oct '15 11:29:22 PM by Maxiboy136

• Futurebirds - "Hotel Parties"
• Deafheaven - "New Bermuda"

edited 9th Oct '15 10:27:20 PM by MrMatt

Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy

I've been digging more heavily into their catalogue since I'm seeing them in concert on Wednesday, especially since I found out none of the songs from my first album of theirs The New Mythology Suite are in the setlist.

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

FFS - FFS. Amazon download, because I had a couple gift card dollars I could take off the price. FFS are a Supergroup consisting of Franz Ferdinand and Sparks.

"Oh Hey, There's Actual New Music At My Local Library" mini-splurge:

Various - Last Of The Garage Punk Unknowns
Laura Marling - Short Movie
Halestorm - Into The Wild Life

"Garage Punk" is pretty much another term for Garage Rock - I was kind of amused that the compilation credits one song to "Unknown Group"; It's not a clever band name, according the booklet, the song was found on an unlabeled test pressing, so the band is literally "unknown" in this case. Also, I've heard of Laura Marling but never heard any of her music, and I'm coming to Halestorm as a fan of 1) Lindsey Stirling and 2) hard rock covers of pop hits.

Talking Heads - Remain In Light

I've been looking for a copy on vinyl for about a year. Finally found it last Thursday.

• Skullflower, Strange Keys to Untune Gods' Firmament
• Swans, Filth (3-CD deluxe edition)

I feel good about these.

Pentatonix: Pentatonix, Deluxe Edition. I always have a hard time listening to a brand new album by any artist because I don't know if I'm going to love it like I did their past work. So far it doesn't disappoint.

OJ Law - Introverts.

The last album Sad Lovers & Giants album released on Midnight Music label, and the soundtrack to Tail Concerto.

edited 24th Oct '15 11:59:00 AM by KlarkKentThe3rd

All of these songs. You should definitely give these guys (and girl) a try, as they've got some great, if a bit odd, music, and aren't really well-known anywhere. (They do have some songs in Japanese, such as Space Colony, but most of them are either English or instrumental.)

I stopped in the library and it turned out they had some new indie-rock-ish stuff:

Modest Mouse - Strangers To Ourselves
alt-J - This Is All Yours
Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
Will Butler - Policy

• X - Los Angeles
• X - Wild Gift
• Carly Rae Jepsen - E-Mo-Tion
• Queen - Queen 40 (first and second box)

edited 8th Nov '15 6:42:23 PM by MrMatt

Marilyn Manson- The Pale Emperor. Disturbed-Immortalized

Wray - s/t

It's like surf meets shoegaze. Kinda derivative of the work of others, but it's a promising debut album. I love it already, and I'm eagerly awaiting their second album. If you like surf and/or shoegaze, I definitely recommend it.

• Spock's Beard: The Oblivion Particle
• Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
• Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris: Grievous Angel

edited 20th Nov '15 8:30:14 AM by Jhimmibhob