Oh, I finally did get to spend some quality time with AE_LIVE.
It's excellent. Absolutely excellent. Really.
However, my personal Album of the Year lists are usually studio albums only. Maybe that's a stupid rule... I tend not to include EP's or mixtapes either.
That's mainly because of archival records like Smart Bar - Chicago 1985. Or more recently, the Complete Mateix Tapes by VU. Those records contain music against which very little stands a chance, and it would hurt my brain to place those records on a list but beneath newer stuff.
Though AE_LIVE is not that kind of Live album. So I may reconsider.
Still a few days left before the year officially ends.
(Note: no Prefuse 73 also = no cred; no Hundson Mohawke = insanity; no Viet Cong = no balls... and so on
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