Best of 2013

Top 10 albums of 2013

1.  Mikail Cronin - MCII

2. Waxahatchee – Cerulean Salt

3. Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold

4. Death Grips – Government Plates

5. Julie Ruin – Run Fast

6. Elvis Costello & The Roots – Wise Up Ghost

7. Shannon & The Clams – Dreams in the Rathouse

8. Superchunk – I Hate Music

9. Yo La Tengo - Fade

10. Quasi – Mole City

Honorable Mention/Comedy/Reissues

The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat (Reissue)

Nirvana – In Utero (Reissue)

The Clash –  Hits Back

The Breeders – LSXX

Dump – Superpowerless & I Can Hear Music (Reissues)

JJ Doom – Keys To The Kuffs (Butter Edition)

Kurt Braunohler – How Do I Land?

Bob Odenkirk & David Cross - Hollywood Said No! (Audio Book with Mr. Show Cast)

Louis C.K. – Oh My God!

Aziz Ansari – Buried Alive

Dana Gould – I Know It’s Wrong

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Best of 2012...

My Top 10 Albums of 2012

The best way to describe music in 2012 is "all over the map."  There were a couple good hip-hop albums, some good garage albums, good indie rock albums, one good jazz album, even some good hardcore albums.  Of the stuff that played on my stereo this year, these are the albums that were the most exciting and kept me listening all year long.

1. Aesop Rock, Skelethon

2. Ty Segall, Twins

3. OFF!, OFF!

4. Hospitality, Hospitality

5. White Lung, Sorry

6. Ty Segall Band, Slaughterhouse

7. Cloud Nothings, Attack on Memory

8. Neneh Cherry and the Thing, Cherry Thing

9. Polica, Give You The Ghost

10. Ceremony, Zoo

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1. Son of Sam - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2. Sign the Dotted Line - Jeff Mangum
3. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Slits
4. The Head - Guided by Voices
5. Repeating the Circle - Ceremony
6. What Chew Want - Quakers
7. On Again/Off Again - The Clean
8. Paid in Cigarettes - Hot Snakes
9. Laughing - R.E.M.
10. When You Stop Loving Me - Thee Headcoatees
11. Plastic Man - The Kinks
12. You Gotta Have Someone - Mikal Cronin
13. Don't Let The Sun Go Down on Your Grievance - Daniel Johnston
14. Take a Giant Step - Rising Sons
15. Great Cop - Fugazi
16. The Way I Walk - The Cramps
17. Stay Useless - Cloud Nothings
18. Stay Fresh - J-Rocc
19. The Right Profession - Hospitality
20. Brass Knuckles - Personal & The Pizzas
21. Melody - Madlib w/ DOOM
22. Bairaag Dance Music - Kalyanji Anadji
23. Crybaby - Ty Segall & White Fence
24. Firework Spraying Moon - Jontti
25. Waiting for the Day - Reigning Sound
26. Lazer Gunne Funke - J. Dilla
27. Wasted Away - Dum Dum Girls
28. Jesus - The Velvet Underground

Electricity & Gravity

Nobody did what they did and they did it better than anybody could.  It's heart-breaking to lose a band that was so damned beautiful, original, and progressive.  Here are some of my favorite tracks by the Beastie Boys.  There aren't many songs in common between this and the Mick Boogie mix.
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1. Jimmy James (O.G. Version)
2. A Year & A Day
3. The Blue Nun
4. Square Wave in Unison
5. The Update
6. 3-Minute Rule
7. B-Boys Makin' With the Freak Freak
8. Hey Fuck You
9. Heart Attack Man (Live)
10. Professor Booty
11. Freaky Hijiki
12. Resolution Time
13. Deal With It
14. The Move
15. The Scoop
16. OK
17. Car Thief
18. And Me
19. I Can't Think Straight
20. What Comes Around
21. The Cousin of Death
22. Lee Majors Come Again
23. Bodhisattva Vow
24. Super Disco Breakin'
25. The Vibes
26. Nervous Assistant
27. Say It
28. Instant Death

Wobbly Rail 4/2012 Kids With Replaceable Heads!

No there aren't really any boy bands. There is something unique about the music of the late 70's and early 80's. This music has an electric shock to it that is constantly surprising and interesting. From original punk of the Only Ones, X-Ray Spex, and the Saints, to ska, like the Specials, to hardcore, like Black Flag, to weirdos and the mentally ill, like Daniel Johnston, Roky Erickson, and Kevin Coyne & Dagmar Krause, it's inexplicably attached to a certain period. Thrown together and stitched up like Frankenstein and his bride, this playlist is the first one from this site that is from a time, rather than reaching across it. There's some weird, old mystery to this music that doesn't exist anymore and that's why it's special.

Kids with Replaceable Heads!
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1. Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
2. Let's Submerge - X-Ray Spex
3. Gangsters - The Specials
4. Is Ths Real? - Wipers
5. TV Set - The Cramps
6. Ghost on the Highway - Gun Club
7. The 15th - Wire
8. Love In A Void - Siouxsie & The Banshees
9. Rocket Ship - Daniel Johnston
10. Academy Fight Song - Mission of Burma
11. Tally Ho! - The Clean
12. Video Eyes - Exposure
13. Radio G String - Bow Wow Wow
14. Room 13 - Black Flag
15. Include Me Out - Young Marble Giants
16. Original Love - The Feelies
17. Ain't That Nothin' - Television
18. Fiery Jack - The Fall
19. Bloody Hammer - Roky Erickson & the Aliens
20. Stand Up - Kevin Coyne & Dagmar Krause
21. The Kid With The Replaceable Head - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
22. (I'm) Stranded - The Saints
23. Ghosts - The Jam

As You Wish! The Return of Boy Bands!

As You Wish!

Celebrate the Return of Boy Bands with this Mix that takes you from Boys 2 Men to B2K! From NKOTB to Big Time Rush!

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1. Incomplete by Backstreet Boys
2. Back For Good by Boys 2 Men
3. More Than That by More Than That
4. This I Promise by N'Synch
5. Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely by Backstreet Boys
6. Poison by Bel Biv DeVoe
7. I Swear by Boys 2 Men
8. I Drive Myself Crazy by N'Synch
9. Seasons in the Sun by Westlife
10. If I Let You Go by Westlife
11. Shape of My Heart by Backstreet Boys
12. I Want It That Way by Backstreet Boys
13. Season of Love by Boys 2 Men
14. Mmm Bop by Hanson
15. Summer Girls by LFO
16. Progress by Take That
17. Hubbub by Big Time Rush
18. You Got Served by B2K
19. Hangin' Tough by NKOTB