Great to see lists . I miss them. I love doing mine, but it takes me forever. Some of the selections I get for Christmas and a January birthday. At least I am getting something I want. Perhaps a first half would get me started. Already heard some awfully good stuff. Thanks Bill ________________________________ From: audities-owner@smoe.org on behalf of Bill Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2018 5:38 PM To: Auditeers Subject: Following up on Following up 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: 1 Ryan Hamilton and Ginger Wildheart / Fuck You Brain 2 Will Hoge / Thoughts and Prayers 3 Jesse Malin / 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: 1 Shinyribs / 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 8 The On and Ons / Welcome Aboard 9 Soraia / Dead Reckoning 10 CJ Ramone / American Beauty 11 Aimee Mann / Mental Illness 12 Dan Baird and Homemade Sin / Rollercoaster 13 Low Cut Connie / Dirty Pictures, Volume 1 14 Role Models / Dance Moves 15 Bash & Pop / 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