(Most, if not all, of the album covers were found on Discogs.)
Year-end list! Music I enjoyed! Hope you like it too! The show is now at the Self Help Radio website. Two hours, two parts, what's in the parts (spoiler alert) is below:
(part one)
"Hitchhiker" Neil Young _Hitchhiker_
"Gone Gone Gone" The Feelies _In Between_
"The Sleep Of Reason" Billy Bragg _Bridges Not Walls_
"Something Falls" Last Leaves _Other Towns Than Ours_
"Let Down" Gingerlys _Gingerlys_
"Mirror" The Drums _Abysmal Thoughts_
"Plimsoll Punks" Alvvays _Antisocialites_
"Buy Me Dinner" Miss World _Waist Management EP_
"Ow Ow Ow" Spud Cannon _Next Time Read The Fine Print_
"In My Dreams" Makthaverskan _III_
"Dead Tree! Dead Tree!" The Blue Aeroplanes _Welcome, Stranger!_
"Rain In Soho" The Mountain Goats _Goths_
(part two)
"Have You Seen It In The Snow?" The Magnetic Fields _50 Song Memoir_
"Moonraking" The Cleaners From Venus _Martin Newell's Jumble Sale_
"There's Nothing More Beautiful Than A Well-Made Machine" The Luxembourg Signal _Blue Field_
"What's That Perfume That You Wear?" Jens Lekman _Life Will See You Now_
"Judy" Momus _Pillycock_
"Two Motorbikes" ShitKid _Fish_
"Virginia Woolf" Robyn Hitchcock _Robyn Hitchcock_
"Mississippi Swells" Nana Grizol _Ursa Minor_
"Buyer Beware" The Granite Shore _Suspended Second_
"Trouble" Girl Ray _Earl Grey_
"End Times" Roya _Roya_
"Me & You" Parekh & Singh _Ocean_
"Forever" BMX Bandits _BMX Bandits Forever_
Now, like this is a Marvel movie, here's a bonus section of this blog post: the top forty records of 2017 as voted on my the folks who participate at Rate Your Music, & my brief comments on them:
1) Angelo Badalamenti, Twin Peaks: Limited Event Series Soundtrack
While I mostly enjoyed the return to Twin Peaks, I felt like the ending was a betrayal to the fans & the series, & I also didn't notice much new music from Badalamenti. The soundtrack appears to have music that was performed on the show, most of which I was pretty unimpressed with. So I never bothered to give this a listen.
2) Kendrick Lamar, DAMN.
It is surely one of my many failings, but my experience with commercial hip hop has been so disappointing I don't really seek it out to listen to. So I never heard this.
3) Mount Eerie, A Crow Looked At Me
I have always liked Phil Elverum's work & I appreciated this record for what it is, but even though I've lost a dear loved one to cancer, there was some kind of block between this record & me, some barrier to translate its empathy to mine. That's obviously my problem.
4) Tyler, the Creator, Flower Boy
See my comment to # 2 above.
5) Brockhamptoon, Saturation II
See my comment to # 2 above.
6) Converge, The Dusk in Us
I don't listen to any kind of metal, so its possible greatness would be utterly lost on me.
7) Big K.R.I.T., 4eva Is A Mighty Long Time
See my comment to # 2 above.
8) Slowdive, Slowdive
Oh I have friends who swear up & down this is a great record, & I enjoyed it, but it wasn't something I felt the need to return to much.
9) Fleet Foxes, Crack-Up
This band - I've tried to listen - they bore me silly.
10) Brand New, Science Fiction
Strange, I've never heard of these guys before. Do you like them?
11) John Carpenter, Anthology (Movie Themes 1974-1998)
Carpenter's stuff is fun & diverting, but it's hard to separate them from the movies they're in, & when they're not in the movies, they seem to me to lose some of their magic.
12) Kristofer Maddigan, Cuphead
The info here is that this is video game music. I don't play video games & so whatever is charming about this in regards to the games would be lost on me.
13) LCD Soundsystem, American Dream
Another record that several folks I know really loved. It didn't do much for me, except make me go back & listen to earlier LCD Soundsystem, & realize I didn't like it as much as I thought. Oops.
14) Keiichi Okabe & Keigo Hoashi, NieR:Automata
See my comment to # 12 above.
15) The Ruins of Beverast, Exuvia
See my comment to # 6 above.
16) Richard Dawson, Peasant
This is a remarkable record, & a hell of a listen, but for some reason I haven't returned to it since the first week I got it. I remember being very impressed by it, but it wasn't something I listened to all year, which is kinda criterium number one for me.
17) Vince Staples, Big Fish Theory
See my comment to # 2 above.
18) Elder, Reflections Of A Floating World
See my comment to # 6 above.
19) Shoji Meguro, Persona 5 Original Soundtrack
See my comment to # 12 above.
By gum, one of the records I loved this year made it onto the list!
To sum up, of the twenty most loved records currently on the Rate Your Music top 1000, I listened to seven of them this year (seven & a half, if you count the repeats on the Twin Peaks record), & only one made my favorites list.
How did the others stack up on the Rate Your Music list? The ones that made the list (they don't say after 1000) went like this:
20) Always, Antisocialites
136) Magnetic Fields, 50 Song Memoir
214) Mountain Goats, Goths
218) Makthaverskan, III
283) Jens Lekman, Life Will See You Now
408) Robyn Hitchcock, Robyn Hitchcock
595) Nana Grozol, Ursa Minor
766) Feelies, In Between
797) Billy Bragg, Bridges Not Walls
Less than half of what I played. Well.
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