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From | Bill <bholmes_fm@msn.com> |
Subject | Following up on Following up |
Date | Sun, 17 Jun 2018 17:38:29 +0000 |
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I am actually making a first half list for my own sanity, as the last
few years have found me scrambling between Thanksgiving and Christmas to
catch up on things I missed and give purchases enough spins to make a
"best of" meritorious. Despite my ridiculous level of purchases since
childhood, I always miss something the year of...sometimes as egregious
as Matthew Sweet's GIRLFRIEND (which I was a few months late on) or THE
SET UP by the Boss Martians, which is still the best Elvis Costello
record Declan never made. (Seriously - "Oh Angela" could have Pete
Thomas lamenting "why don't I remember that session?"). Both lists are
on my all time keeper lists.
So hopefully, prefaced by a "Stalled Post To Audities" reply, I'll have
that here by mid-July.
In the meantime, quick lists of favorite cuts and albums from 2017,
where my favorite single BY FAR was "Fuck You, Brain" by Ginger
Wildheart and Ryan Hamilton. (Both notoriously suffer from clinical
depression, and all funds raised by that single are directed to a
foundation to assist people with that issue. Noble, yet astounding ear
candy.) The video on YouTube is as entertaining as the song itself
(links below).
Listen/Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiZERq_gY4s
Listen/Purchase: https://roundrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fuck-you-brain
My list(s) are not simply power pop - in fact a strong dollop of
folk/country/Americana permeates it - but worthy stuff regardless.
Seriously - when Cheap Trick, Cotton Mather, Todd Rundgren, Richard X
Heyman, Matthew Sweet, The Darkness, Terry Anderson and Neil Young all
miss the cut, that's a good year for music.
Singles:
1Â Â Â Ryan Hamilton and Ginger Wildheart /Â Fuck You Brain
2   Will Hoge / Thoughts and Prayers
3Â Â Â Jesse Malin /Â Meet Me at the End of the World
4   The Dahlmans with Andy Shernoff / Forever My Baby
5   Samantha Fish / I'll Come Running Back
6   Todd Snider / Shattered
7   Mitch Ryder / A Little Too Heavy For Me
8   Bash & Pop / Never Wanted To Know
9   Liam Gallagher / Wall of Glass
10   Steve Conte / Gimme Gimme Rockaway
Albums:
1Â Â Â Shinyribs / Â I Got Your Medicine
2   Chuck Prophet / Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins
3   John Moreland / Big Bad Luv
4   Will Hoge / Anchors
5   Ray Davies / Americana
6   Little Steven   Soulfire
7   J Roddy Walston and the Business / Destroyers of the Soft Life
8Â Â Â The On and Ons / Â Welcome Aboard
9   Soraia / Dead Reckoning
10   CJ Ramone / American Beauty
11Â Â Â Aimee Mann / Â Mental Illness
12   Dan Baird and Homemade Sin / Rollercoaster
13   Low Cut Connie / Dirty Pictures, Volume 1
14   Role Models / Dance Moves
15Â Â Â Bash & Pop / Â Anything Can Happen
16   Honest John Plain / Acoustic Menopause
17   King Leg / Meet King Leg
18   Flamin' Groovies / Fantastic Plastic
19   Blitzen Trapper / Wild and Reckless
20   JD McPherson / Undivided Heart and Soul
21   Dan Baird  / So Low
22   Sharks / Rulers of the Deep
23   Stereophonics / Scream Above the Sounds
24   Whitney Rose / Rule 62
25   Justine and the Unclean / Get Unclean
cheers
b
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