Top 30 Albums of 2013.

[Omar]

The only list that matters!

LPs

1. Mike Krol - Trust Fund (Counter Counter Culture)
2. Monster Magnet – Last Patrol (Napalm Records)

The rest listed alphabetically:

Bettie Serveert – Oh, Mayhem! (Second Motion)
Black Sabbath – 13 (Vertigo/Universal)
Bottomless Pit – Shade Perennial (Comedy Minus One)
Carcass – Surgical Steel (Nuclear Blast)
Clutch - Earth Rocker (Weathermaker Music)
Connections – Body Language (Anyway Records)
Fuzz - Fuzz (In The Red)
Ghost (B.C.) – Infestissumam (Loma Vista Recordings)
Joanna Gruesome- Weird Sister (Slumberland)
Jucifer – За Волгой для нас земли нет [aka “The Russian Album"] (Nomadic Fortress Records/Mutants of the Monster)
Kvelertak – Meir (Roadrunner)
Kylesa – Ultraviolet (Seasons of Mist)
Marnie Stern – The Chronicles of Marnia (Kill Rock Stars)
Medicine – To the Happy Few (Captured Tracks)
Mikal Cronin – MCII (Merge)
OBNOX – Corrupt Free Enterprise (12XU)
Pissed Jeans – Honeys (Sub Pop)
Polvo – Siberia (Merge)
Potty Mouth – Hell Bent (Old Flame)
Radioactivity– Radioactivity (Dirtnap)
Russian Circles – Memorial (Sargent House)
Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed (Prosthetic)
Superchunk - I Hate Music (Merge)
The Julie Ruin– Run Fast (Dischord/TJR)
The Resonars - Crummy Desert Sound (Burger Records)
The Wrong Words - Everything Is Free (Trouble In Mind)
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (Castle Face)
Voivod – Target Earth (Century Media)

7”

1.  Walt Jr. & the Albuquerque Nazis – "Pump Malfunction Bullshit" b/w "Just Die (Die!)"

[mostlymeat]

You forgot one: The Wrong Words "Everything Is Free". And no I don't play bass in the Wrong Words. Oh wait yes I do!

The only list that matters!

LPs

1. Mike Krol - Trust Fund (Counter Counter Culture)
2. Monster Magnet – Last Patrol (Napalm Records)

The rest listed alphabetically:

Bettie Serveert – Oh, Mayhem! (Second Motion)
Black Sabbath – 13 (Vertigo/Universal)
Bottomless Pit – Shade Perennial (Comedy Minus One)
Carcass – Surgical Steel (Nuclear Blast)
Clutch - Earth Rocker (Weathermaker Music)
Connections – Body Language (Self-Released?)
Connections – Private Airplane (Anyway Records)
Fuzz - Fuzz (In The Red)
Ghost (B.C.) – Infestissumam (Loma Vista Recordings)
Joanna Gruesome- Weird Sister (Slumberland)
Jucifer – За Волгой для нас земли нет [aka “The Russian Album"] (Nomadic Fortress Records/Mutants of the Monster)
Kvelertak – Meir (Roadrunner)
Kylesa – Ultraviolet (Seasons of Mist)
Marnie Stern – The Chronicles of Marnia (Kill Rock Stars)
Medicine – To the Happy Few (Captured Tracks)
Mikal Cronin – MCII (Merge)
OBNOX – Corrupt Free Enterprise (12XU)
Pissed Jeans – Honeys (Sub Pop)
Polvo – Siberia (Merge)
Potty Mouth – Hell Bent (Old Flame)
Radioactivity– Radioactivity (Dirtnap)
Russian Circles – Memorial (Sargent House)
Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed (Prosthetic)
Superchunk - I Hate Music (Merge)
The Julie Ruin– Run Fast (Dischord/TJR)
The Resonars - Crummy Desert Sound (Burger Records)
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (Castle Face)
Voivod – Target Earth (Century Media)

7”

1.  Walt Jr. & the Albuquerque Nazis – "Pump Malfunction Bullshit" b/w "Just Die (Die!)"

[Omar]

You forgot one: The Wrong Words "Everything Is Free". And no I don't play bass in the Wrong Words. Oh wait yes I do!

I actually did forget that one. I enjoy your music group!  I purchased this album in the vinyl format from Trouble in Mind! In a bundle with The Resonars Greatest Songs Of ...! 

I will revise my list. I believe that Connections' Private Airplane technically came out in December 2012 so it has been disqualified.

[masterofsparks]

You forgot one: The Wrong Words "Everything Is Free". And no I don't play bass in the Wrong Words. Oh wait yes I do!

I actually did forget that one. I enjoy your music group!  I purchased this album in the vinyl format from Trouble in Mind! In a bundle with The Resonars Greatest Songs Of ...! 

I will revise my list. I believe that Connections' Private Airplane technically came out in December 2012 so it has been disqualified.

Connections Body Language was also released on Anyway.

There's no way I could put together a list of 30 albums, but these are 2013 albums I enjoyed:

Monster Magnet - Last Patrol
Kurt Vile - Wakin' On a Pretty Daze
Clutch - Earth Rocker
The Liminanas - Costa Blanca
Blut Aus Nord - What Once Was...Liber III
Wooden Shjips - Back To Land
Reigning Monarchs - Black Sweater Massacre
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
My Bloody Valentine - mbv
Mark Lanegan - Imitations
Five Horse Johnson - The Taking of Blackheart
Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty
Fuzz - s/t
Russian Circles - Memorial

And three comedy entries:

Dana Gould - I Know It's Wrong
Dave Anthony - Shame Chamber
Joe DeRosa - You Will Die

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Thanks, Omar, I love these lists.  And mostlymeat, I didn't know you were in The Wrong Words!  You guys are great.

[gravy boat]

Omar--thanks too. I always use your annual list to check stuff out. That Mikal Cronin has been my favorite of the year.  One quibble about an omission, not be a total homer but what about Yo La Tengo's Ohm?

[Omar]

Omar--thanks too. I always use your annual list to check stuff out. That Mikal Cronin has been my favorite of the year.  One quibble about an omission, not be a total homer but what about Yo La Tengo's Ohm?

I assume you are referring to YLT's Fade, which contains the song "Ohm"? I thought the album was okay and haven't listened to it since the week of its release in mid-January.  Probably worth revisiting.

[dave from knoxville]

I want to play. In no particular order, I liked these records this year.

Airbag - The Greatest Show on Earth
Alameda 3 - Póz'ne królestwo
Anathema - Universal
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Avantasia - The Mystery of Time
Ayreon - The Theory of Everything
Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus
Big Big Train - English Electric (Part Two)
Birds and Buildings - Multipurpose Trap
Caligula's Horse - The Tide, the Thief & River's End
Causa Sui - Euporie Tide
Clutch - Earth Rocker
David Bowie - The Next Day
Earthless - From the Ages
Fright Pig - Out of the Barnyard
Gov't Mule - Shout!
Haken - The Mountain
Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare
Kadavar - Abra Kadavar
Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Monster Magnet - Last Patrol
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
Prefab Sprout - Crimson/Red
Premiata Forneria Marconi - PFM in Classic - Da Mozart a Celebration
Purson - The Circle & the Blue Door
Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
Richard Thompson - Electric
Riverside - Shrine of New Generation Slaves
Sigur Rós - Kveikur
Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
The Aristocrats - Culture Clash
The Flower Kings - Desolation Rose
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
The Winery Dogs - The Winery Dogs
Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
W.E.T. - Rise Up
Wisdom of Crowds - Wisdom of Crowds
Yo La Tengo - Fade

[B_Buster]

No love for Vampire Weekend?

[industrialmagic]

is that supposed to be funy mike?

ya fukin dick

[CSW]

Any reason y'all are excluding anything that will be released in December from your lists?

[Omar]

Any reason y'all are excluding anything that will be released in December from your lists?

Is anything coming in December that might be listworthy?  The only one I know of is the new Robert Pollard solo album, Blazing Gentlemen, which comes out on 12/10.

[CSW]

I can't say for sure but I've been burned by not waiting til after Jan 1st before, notably last year.

I've also not received and/or had chance to listen to records purchased in November yet.

I should say your list is solid Omar. The Mike Krol LP is tops for sure. I feel like a tremendous hipster for being proud I got it back in June.

[Josh]

Jacuzzi Boys - s/t (Hardly Art)
Parquet Courts - Tally All the Things You Broke EP (What's Your Rupture?)
Big Star - Nothing Can Hurt Me (Omnivore)
Don Muro - It's Time [reissue] (Flannelgraph)

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Is anything coming in December that might be listworthy?

Cheap Time - Exit Smiles (In the Red) and Jeffrey Novak - Lemon Kid (Trouble in Mind) both on 12/10

[dave from knoxville]

Any reason y'all are excluding anything that will be released in December from your lists?

I can't predict the future.