Includes favorite new releases, reissues and compilations

Reissues that make this list are usually of good pressing/mastering quality

Purchased LP or EP unless otherwise stated SACD, DVD-A, BD-A, or CD (*wishlist)

2014 List

Favorite New Releases

• AC/DC - Rock or Bust
• Alika Lyman Group - Leis of Jazz,Vol.2
• Beck - Morning Phase
• Billie Holiday - At Storyville (RSD BF LE release)
• Blackberry Smoke - Leave a Scar (Live in North Carolina) (Purple 3xLP)
• Bob Mould - Beauty and Ruin
• Bozzio Levin Stevens - Black Light Syndrome (RSD Red)
• Brant Bjork and the Low Desert Punk Band - Black Power Flower (Yellow LEx100)
• Cake - Vinyl Box Set (color 8xLP)
• Camel - In From the Cold (DVD Concert)
• Christian Loffler - Young Alaska
• Eric Johnson - Europe Live
• Fatso Jetson - Live at Maximum Festival (Translucent Green LP)
• Freeman - Freeman
• Fu Manchu - Gigantoid (Splatter Blue RE)
• Gary Clark, Jr. - Live
• Holly Cook - Twice (2018,LP)
• Insect Surfers - Infra Green
• Israel Nash - Rain Plains
• Jack White - Lazaretto
• John Garcia - John Garcia
• Johnny Cash - Out Among the Stars
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - I'm In Your Mind Fuzz
• Lone Justice - The Vaught Tapes, 1983
• Lucinda Williams - Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
• Maha Sohona - Maha Sohona
• Moe. - No Guts, No Glory
• Nick Waterhouse__ - Holly
• Phish - Fuego
• Real Estate - Atlas
• Rebelution - Count Me In
• Re-Stoned - Totems
• Robert Plant - Lullaby and...The Ceaseless Roar
• Screaming Trees - Last Words: The Final Recordings
• Slow Season - Mountains
• Space Elevator - Space Elevator
• Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
• Sun Kil Moon - Benji
• Tame Impala - Live Versions
• The Golden Grass - Self Titled
• The J.B.'s - These Are The J.B.'s (RSD LP)
• The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
• They Might Be Giants - First Album Live (free digital download)
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye
• Trans - Green
• Trigger Hippy - Trigger Hippy
• Ty Segall - Manipulator

Favorite Reissues

• Alan Parsons - On Air (MOV EU reissue)
• Bob Marley - Legend (30th Anniv.) (Tri-Color LP)
• Built to Spill - Keep it Like a Secret (1999,2014 MOV LP)
• Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country (1969,2014 Hoffman/Gray RM LP)
• Eden Ahbez - Eden's Island (1960, 2014 RE)
• Elvis Presley - Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis (1974, 2014 MOV 4xLP)
• Husker Du - Songs and Stories (RSD BF RE Color 2xLP)
• Iron Butterfly - Heavy (RSD Mono RE LP)
• Joey Ramone - Don't Worry About Me (White RE)
• Moths - Moths (1970, RE)
• Opeth - Pale Communion
• Senser - Stacked Up XX (1994,2014 RM LE LP)
• Slint - Spiderland (1991, RM Gatefold LP + DVD)
• The Beatles - The Beatles in Mono (14xLP box set)
• The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music (2xLP RE)
• The Jayhawks - Smile (2xLP RE)
• Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind (MOV RE)
• Trevor Jones / Randy Edelman - Last of the Mohicans OST (1992, 2014 RE)

2014 Best Album Pick

2014 Best Reissue Pick

Best Record Store Day Pick

Favorite Covers

• Flying Colors - Second Nature (2014)
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - I'm In Your Mind Fuzz (2014)
• Space Elevator - Space Elevator

Worst Covers

• Abba - The Studio Albums (2014 8xLP Box Set)

Packaging Standouts

Best Color Vinyl

Most of the above-referenced releases were purchased by Chuck in 2014. Undoubtedly there will be additional discoveries of other 2014 releases in the coming years.