2018 so far: 3 questions...

1. Chris Dave and the Drumhedz - Chris Dave and the Drumhedz or SiR - November
2. No idea
3. Anderson .Paak's upcoming album or White Denim - Performance

 

Just like the idea of Van, ol' humorless Van, getting trumpet blasted right in his ears. All the filters and the title and especially his face, just a good combination of humor.

 

Yeah, I cheated a little bit, it came out digitally last year, but the vinyl wasn't released until early February this year. I went by that since I was waiting (and waiting, and waiting ) for it to arrive.

 

True! I forgot about the LP delay.

 

1: Kamaal Williams - The Return
2: David Axelrod - Song Of Innocence or Bowie - Welcome To The Blackout
3: Coltrane -Both Directions or Digable Planets - Reachin' (assuming they finally work out the pressing problems they've had).

 

Best: Guided By Voices-Space Gun
Archival: Zuider Zee-Zeenith
Anticipated Grateful Dead Pacific Northwest Box Ser

 

Maybe he has more of a sense of humour than people think...

 

The second half of 2018 is looking like it's gonna pretty expensive for this guy:

7/13: The National- Boxer Live
7/20: Public Image Limited- Public Image is Rotten box set
7/20: Soul Asylum- early album reissues
7/27: Little Bobby Zimmerman- Live 1962-1966
8/21: The Closer You Are (biography of Bob Pollard)
9/7: Eric Bachmann- No Recover
9/14: Blitzen Trapper- Furr deluxe edition
9/14: Paul Weller- Storytone volume 2 (just kidding; I know it's called True Meanings)
9/28: Mudhoney- Digital Garbage
11/?: Guided by Voices- Winecork Stonehenge EP
11/?: GbV- 100 Dougs EP

 

1) I think I don't have any album from 2018 yet.
2) The Roxy Performances, by Frank Zappa. A dream come true and one of the best archival releases ever, in fact.
3) Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings, by the Grateful Dead, but we're just in July, so...

 

1. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
2. Buffalo Springfield - What's That Sound? The Complete Albums Collection
3. The Beatles - The White Album 50th Anniversary Edition

 

My most anticipated archival release of 2016, 2017 and 2018 has to be the Dire Straits MoFi 45 RPM's.

 

Really tempted by #2... Is the sound good?

 

Excellent sound!

 

Thanks. I will investigate.

 

Let’s see...

New: Judas Priest - Firepower
Archival: The Who - Live at the Fillmore East 1968
Most anticipated: The potential onslaught of archival material rumored from The Beatles, Zeppelin, and the Stones

 

I'll go with your first two and for my third I'm really looking forward to this new Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 4cd set in September.

 

1. Rolling Blackouts CF or Parquet Courts
2. King Tubby - Concrete Jungle Dub
3. Hoping for more Mekons reissues on Superior Viaduct

 

1. Sleep — The Sciences
2. John Coltrane — Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album
3. Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance. Brutalism was one of my favorite LPs of the past few years, looking forward to the follow up.

 

1. Ray Davies - Americaca Act 2.
2. Neil Young - ROXY 1973.
3. The Kinks - Village Green box

 

#1-Chicane-The Place You Can't Remember, The Place You Can't Forget
#2-Peter Murphy (5 Albums)
#3-And One (Trilogie II)