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)

2016 List

Favorite New Releases

• Airbag - Disconnected (2016)
• Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid (2016)
• Bombino - Azel (2016)
• Brant Bjork - Tao of the Devil (2016)
• Cavern of Anti-Matter - Void Beats/Invocation Trex (2016)
• Chris Robinson Brotherhood - Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel (2016)
• David Bowie - ★ [Blackstar] (2016)
• Field Music - Commontime (2016)
• Fire Down Below - Viper Vixen Goddess Saint (2016, Translucent Red LP)
• Fleetwood Mac - The Alternate Tusk (2016)
• Fleetwood Mac - In Concert (2016)
• The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band - Live at the Belly Up (2016, Digital Download)
• Imarhan - Imarhan (2016)
• Isaac Hayes - Do Your Thing (1971, RSD 2016 Archival EP)
• John Brown's Body - Fireflies (2016)
• John Campbell - Howlin' Mercy (2016)
• Kansas - The Prelude Implicit (2016)
• Leonard Cohen - You Want it Darker (2016)
• Lucinda Williams - The Ghosts of Highway 20 (2016)
• The Monkees - Good Times! (2016)
• Mudcrutch - 2 (2016)
• Paul McCartney - Paul McCartney (2016 4xLP Box Set)
• Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger (2016)
• The Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness (2016)
• Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
• Ray LaMontagne - Ouroboros (2016)
• Santana - IV (2016)
• Shonen Knife - Adventure (2016)
• Steven Wilson - 4 1/2 (2016)
• Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth (2016)
• Thank You Scientist - Stranger Heads Prevail (2016)
• Vanessa Fernandez - When the Levee Breaks (2016)
• White Denim - Stiff (2016)
• Yawning Man - Historical Graffiti (2016,Opaque Orange LP)

Favorite Reissues

• Abba - Arrival (1976, 2016 ARS Half Speed 45rpm 2xLP)
• Alejandro Escovedo - Gravity (2xLP, RSD LEx1200)
• Bevis Frond - Inner Marshland (1987,2016 RSD LEx500 Purple LP)
• Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965,2016 MFSL Mono LP)
• Buck Owens - Buck Owens (1961,2016 LP)
• Dave Matthews Band - Crash (1996, 20th Anniversary LP)
• Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth (1993,2016 RM 2xLP)
• Fleetwood Mac - Mirage (1982, 2016 Deluxe Box 5.1)
• Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage Acts 1,II and III (1987, 2016 3xLP RE Grundman RM)
• The Handsome Family - Singing Bones (2003,2016 Sea Glass Green LP)
• Lee Hazlewood - Cowboy in Sweden (1970, 2016 RE)
• Hole - Live Through This (1994, 2016 RE)
• Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers (2002,2016 Lenticular Cover RE 2xLP)
• The Kinks - Best of the Kinks 1964-1970 (2016)
• Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959, 2016 RE)
• Mustafa Özkent - Gençlik İle Elele (1973,2016 Color LP)
• Ozric Tentacles - Live at The Pongmaster's Ball (2002, 2016 RE)
• Peter Green - In the Skies (1979, 2016 MOV RE LP)
• Pinback - Blue Screen Life (Splatter Blue/White 2xLP, RSD LEx2000)
• Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (Blue 2xLP, Kscope RE)
• Pink Floyd - Reissues 2016 (Bernie Grundman remasters)
• Riverside - Love, Fear & The Time Machine (2015, 2016 SE 5.1 DVD)
• The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street (Abbey Road Studios HSRM LP)
• The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World (1967, 2016 LITA RE)
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Complete Studio Albums Vol.1 (1976-1991) (9xLP Box)
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Complete Studio Albums Vol.2 (1994-2014) (7xLP Box)
• The Turtles - Golden Hits (1967, 2016 RSD Mono RE)
• Various - From Dusk Till Dawn OST (1996, 2016 RSD Splatter 2xLP)
• Various - Songs of the Beatles Reggae Style (2016 Compilation CD)
• XTC - Skylarking (CD/5.1 Blu-Ray mixed by Steven Wilson)

My Top 10 2016 New Releases

• 1. Bombino - Azel (2016)
• 2. Fleetwood Mac - The Alternate Tusk (2016)
• 3. The Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness (2016)
• 4. Thank You Scientist - Stranger Heads Prevail (2016)
• 5. Vanessa Fernandez - When the Levee Breaks (2016)
• 6. Imarhan - Imarhan (2016)
• 7. Brant Bjork - Tao of the Devil (2016)
• 8. Santana - IV (2016)
• 9. Kansas - The Prelude Implicit (2016)
• 10. David Bowie - ★ [Blackstar] (2016)

My Top 10 2016 Reissues

• 1. Pink Floyd - Reissues 2016 (Bernie Grundman remasters)
• 2. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Complete Studio Albums Vol.2 (1994-2014) (7xLP Box)
• 3. Pinback - Blue Screen Life (Splatter Blue/White 2xLP, RSD LEx2000)
• 4. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (Blue 2xLP, KScope RE)
• 5. Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage Acts 1,II and III (1987, 2016 3xLP RE Grundman RM)
• 6. Ozric Tentacles - Live at The Pongmaster's Ball (2002, 2016 RE)
• 7. Dave Matthews Band - Crash (1996, 20th Anniversary LP)
• 8. Peter Green - In the Skies (1979, 2016 MOV RE LP)
• 9. Mustafa Özkent - Gençlik İle Elele (1973,2016 Color LP)
• 10. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965,2016 MFSL Mono LP)

Best Record Store Day Pick

• Fleetwood Mac - The Alternate Tusk (2016)
• Pinback - Blue Screen Life (Splatter Blue/White 2xLP, RSD LEx2000) (close 2nd)

Favorite Covers

• Ages and Ages - Something to Ruin (2016)
• Bert Jansch - Avocet (1979,2016 RE)
• Gorilla vs. Grifter - Gorilla vs. Grifter (2016)
• Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959, 2016 RE)
• The Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness (2016)*
• White Denim - Stiff (2016)

Favorite Color Vinyl

• Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid (2016,Neon Green + Neon Purple Opaque 2xLP)
• Gorilla vs. Grifter - Gorilla vs. Grifter (2016,Yellow/Blue Split LP)
• The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World (1967,LITA 2016 Green/Pink/Red Swirl LP)

Packaging Standouts

• Bert Jansch - Avocet (1979,2016 RM LP Art Edition Die-cut Jacket LEx1000)
• Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage Acts 1,II and III (1987, 2016 3xLP RE Grundman RM)
• The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World (1967, 2016 LITA RE)
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Complete Studio Albums Vol.2 (1994-2014) (7xLP Box)
• White Denim - Stiff (2016, Embossed cactus on front cover)

Bad Pressings

• Jah9 - 9 (2016,LP) didn't buy based on vinyl quality reviews
• John Denver - Back Home Again (1974,2016 Night Fever Gold LP)

Most of the above-referenced releases were purchased by Chuck in 2016. Undoubtedly there will be additional discoveries of other 2016 releases in the coming years.

In Memorium 2016

• Billy Paul
• David Bowie
• George Martin
• Glen Frey (Eagles)
• Greg Lake (King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
• Keith Emerson (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
• Leonard Cohen
• Leon Russell
• Maurice White (Earth, Wind & Fire)
• Merle Haggard
• Prince
• Ralph Stanley
• Sharon Jones