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12/30/2011

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NEW YEARS EVE HOURS
If you are downtown for New Years Eve for Opening Night or The Flaming Lips/Yoko ONO show, or whatever other salacious activities you might engage in, come by the Guestroom Bricktown location (25 S. Oklahoma, Suite 101).  We’ll be open all night and into the early morning. Start the new year with a new album.
The OKC (Western) and Norman locations will be closing early New Years Eve to allow the rest of us to join the revelry.  All three locations will be open normal hours on the 1st. Stop in an get something to nurse the left overs from the day before!

LIST OF LISTS
First, big congratulations to locals, Broncho, for making it on the Top5 Garage Releases from NPR!!
Every year we give you our employees’ list of favorite releases in that tradition, we bring you the following mess:
Travis
3.  Tune-Yards - Whokill
5.  UV Race - Homo
1.  Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
2.  St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
4.  Other Lives - Tamer Animals
6.  Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
8. War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
14. Black Keys - El Camino
12.  Ebo Taylor - Life Stories (reissue)
7.  Shitty/Awesome - S/T
10.  Real Estate - Days
9.  Spits - S/T 5
13. Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
11. Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dream

Justin
Here goes, in no particular order:

White Fence - Is Growing Faith
Woods - Sun & Shade
Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread
Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dreamer
Oh Sees - Castlemania
Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams
True Widow - As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
Thou - Archer And The Owls
Other Lives - Tamer Animals
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
War On Drugs - Slave Ambient

Reissues:
Neutral Milk Hotel Vinyl Box Set
Titan: It's All Pop! 4xLP Box Set
Apple - An Apple A Day LP
Queens Of The Stone Age - s/t
Olivia Tremor Control LPs
Nirvana - Nevermind 4xLP
MF Doom - Operation: Doomsday 4xLP Metal Box set
Bitch Magnet - Anthology 3xLP

Will
In no order:
tune-yards – whokill
dum dum girls - only in dreams
bright eyes - the people's key
youth lagoon - year of hibernation
wu lyf - go to fire to the mountain
washed out - within & without
the oh sees - carrion crawler/the dream ep + castlemania
other lives - tamer animals
thao + mirah - thao + mirah
veronica falls - veronica falls

remaster/repackage/reissue/revive
the smiths - complete box set
tegan + sara - get along
gorillaz - singles collection
smashing pumpkins - gish
ty segall - singles
various artists - pressed at boddie's
neutral milk hotel box

honorable mentions go to handsome furs, wanda jackson, boris, depeche mode (reissue style), and seapony who all received heavy rotation, but just didn't make the cut.

Tom
Alphabetical Order:

13&God – Own Your Ghost
Akron/Family – S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT
Bon Iver – Bon Iver
Chad VanGaalen – Diaper Island
Clams Casino – Rainforest EP
Deaf Center – Owl Splinters
Derek Rogers – Populist Context
Dozens – Ultrasematic
Golden Retriever – Light Cones
Grouper – A|A LP and Water People single
Grouper & Ilyas Ahmed – Visiter EP
Higuma – Pacific Fog Dreams
James Blake – S/T
James Ferraro – Far Side Virtual
Josephine – You Are Perfect Today
Kawabata Makoto – The Tales of the Dream Planet
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
Lee Noble – Horrorism
Mountains – Air Museum
Owen – Ghost Town
Pulse Emitter – Forest, Mountain, Valley
Real Estate – Days
Sean McCann – The Capital
Shitty/Awesome – S/T
Six Organs of Admittance – Asleep on the Floodplain
Stephan Mathieu – A Static Place
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972

Joey

Fucked Up - "David Comes To Life"
Ty Segall - "Goodbye Bread"
Thee Oh Sees - "Carrion Crawler/The Dream EP"
Thee Oh Sees - "Castlemania"
The Spits - "V"
Hunx and his Punx - "Too Young To Be In Love"
Red Fang - "Murder The Mountains"
Neon Indian - "Era Extraña"
YOB - "Atma"
UV Race - "Homo"
Stuff that got reissued or just barely didn't make it:
Ty Segall - "Singles 2007-2010"
The Reatards - "Teenage Hate"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Siamese Dream"/"Gish"
JD McPherson - "Signs and Signifiers"
tUnE-yArDs - "w h o k i l l"
Black Lips - "Arabia Mountain"
White Hills - "H-p1"
King Blood - "Eyewash Silver"
Broncho - "Can't Get Past The Lips"
Shitty/Awesome - "S/T" (Yeah, I put that shit on here...what? WHAT? DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.)

Dustin
Favorites From 2011 (in no order):
Wye Oak - Civilian
Peaking Lights - 936
Wooden Shjips - West
Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
People's Temple - Sons of Stone
Grouper - A I A; Dream Loss/Alien Observer
Hunx & His Punx - Too Young To Be In Love
Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dream
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Pure X - Pleasure
Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts

Best Reissues 2011:
Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle/Black Foliage
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock/Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
Ty Segall - Singles 07-10
Neutral Milk Hotel - Box Set
Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle

Staley
In typical disorderly fashion:

Tune-Yards-WhoKill
Wu Lyf- Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
Oh Sees-Castlemania
Youth Lagoon-Year of Hibernation
Kendrick Lamar- section.80
Shitty/Awesome- S/T
Shabazz Palaces- Black Up
Girls- Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Shannon and the Clams- Sleep Talk
Mikal Cronin- Trouble in Mind

Mixtapes:
The Weeknd-House of Balloons
A$AP Rocky- LiveLoveA$AP
Mr. Mothafuckin eXquire- Lost in Translation

Honorable Mentions: Peaking Lights, Washed Out, Clams Casino, Kurt Vile, Other Lives, Drake (unapologetically, yessir).
 
Jon
jon's picks:
charalambides - exile
grouper - a i a
sean mccann - the capital
mv & ee - country stash
lee noble - no becoming
thee oh sees - carrion crawler/the dream
jakob olausson - morning & sunrise
sic alps - napa asylum
wooden shjips - west
wooden wand – briarwood

honorable mention:
marisa anderson, moon duo, peaking lights, the people's temple, shitty/awesome

reissues:
the bachs - out of the bachs
king blood - eyewash silver
fred mcdowell - the alan lomax recordings
terrors - lagan qord
twinsistermoon - when stars glide through solid
for the bored and curious:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA41B63260779C19D

Aaron
Alphabetical Order:

Dirty Beaches – Badlands
King Blood – Eyewash Silver (Hey, it was re-issued in 2011! That counts?)
Moon Duo – Mazes
Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania
Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler / The Dream EP
Other Lives – Tamer Animals
The People’s Temple – Sons of Stone
Ty Segall – Goodbye Bread
Ty Segall – Spiders 7”
Ty Segall – Singles 2007-2010
Shitty/Awesome – Shitty/Awesome
True Widow – As High as the Heavens... (See Justin’s picks for full title)
Weekend – Red
Weyes Blood And the Dark Juices – The Outside Room

Matt
here are some in no order really.

fucked up - david comes to life
thee oh sees - carrion crawler/the dream
ty segall - goodbye bread
liturgy - aesthethica
trash talk - awake
main attrakionz - 808s and dark grapes ii
wolves in the throne room - celestial lineage
tim hecker - ravedeath, 1972
lil b - i'm gay (i'm happy)
iceage - new brigade
real estate - days
kurt vile - smoke ring for my halo
james blake - s/t
wooden shjips – west

SPECIAL THINGS TO SEE/HEAR
Saturday, December 31
Flaming Lips, Plastic ONO Band, Neon Indian, Phantogram @ Coca-Cola Events Center
Blackwatch New Years Eve Bazzaar w/ Chrome Pony, Josh Jones, Jacob Abello++++ @ McNellie’s Norman
Pretty Black Chains & Student Film @ VZDs

Until next time,
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo,
J,T,J,J,T,W,M,D,A,S,W Guestroom
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