I didn’t realize how many good releases there were this year until I started planning this show. Given more time I would have also included Kinski, The Red Dons, Shellac, Wooden Shjips, Descolada, Dungen and others.
As for my song of the day, most of these have already been a song of the day at some point this year. I’ll go with Les Savy Fav, because as far as I can tell I’m the only person who’s played that song, and I think it’s the best on the album.
Rank | Artist | Song | Release | Label | Year
30 | Trans Am | Conspiracy of the Gods | Sex Change | Thrill Jockey | CD 07
29 | Tempo No Tempo | Narrowed Scopes and Sharpened Knives | Repetition EP | Double Negative | CD 07
28 | Enon | Paperweights | Grass Geysers… Carbon Clouds | Touch and Go | CD 07
27 | Sleeping in the Aviary | Pop Song | Oh, This Old Thing? | Science of Sleep | CD 07
26 | Bleach 03 | Samurai Jungle | The Head That…Slobbers Even Today | Australian Cattle God | CD 07
25 | A Passing Feeling | George Washington Bridge | We Might Not Sleep at All This Year | 75 or Less | CD 07
24 | Up the Empire | Stars at Noon | Light Rides the Super Major | Cougar | CD 07
23 | The New Pornographers | All the Things That Go to Make Heaven and Earth | Challengers | Matador | CD 07
22 | Maritime | Hand Over Hannover | Heresy and the Hotel Choir | Flameshovel | CD 07
– | Apache | Crystal Clear | Boys Life/Crystal Clear | Douchemaster | 7″ 07 [Chris’s sotd]
21 | J Church | Flirting With the Bourgeois Dream | The Horror of Life | No Idea | CD 07
20 | Sinking Spells | Cursed in Colinwood | The Devil at my Side | x | CD 07
19 | Radon | Minneapolis | Metric Buttloads of Rock | No Idea | CD 07
18 | Ted Leo and the Pharmacists | The Sons of Cain | Living With the Living | Touch and Go | CD 07
17 | Bottom of the Hudson | Suffering Time | Fantastic Hawk | Absolutely Kosher | CD 07
16 | Blonde Redhead | Spring and by Summer Fall | 23 | 4AD | CD 07
15 | The Octagon | Macaca | Nothing But Change | Serious Business | CD 07
14 | Mystery of Two | Quick | Arrows Are All You Know | Exit Stencil | CD 07
– | Earl Greyhound | All Better Now | Soft Targets | Some | CD 06 [request]
13 | Titan | Obelisk Orbit Overdrive | A Raining Sun of Light and Love… | Tee Pee | CD 07
12 | Busy Signals | So Pointless | s/t | Dirtnap | CD 07
11 | Miss Alex White and the Red Orchestra | Space and Time | Space and Time | In the Red | CD 07
10 | Native Tongue | When the Walls Close In | Boston Underground 1979-1982 | Moulty | CD 81/07
9 | Lame Drivers | Hangman’s Code | Captain Amazing EP | 75 or Less | CD 06
8 | Varsity Drag | Summertime | For Crying Out Loud | Boss Tuneage | CD 07
7 | Bald Eagle | Rodents of Unusual Size | Hot Shoulders | Emergency Umbrella | CD 07
6 | We Are Wolves | Vietnam | Total Magique | Dare to Care | CD 07
5 | Les Savy Fav | The Lowest Bitter | Let’s Stay Friends | Frenchkiss | CD 07
4 | Signal to Trust | Brasilou Offensive | Golden Armour | Modern Radio | CD 07
3 | Pelican | City of Echoes | City of Echoes | Hydrahead | CD 07
2 | Deerhunter | Wash Off | Fluorescent Grey EP | Kranky | CD 07
1 | Dinosaur Jr. | This is All I Came to Do | Beyond | Fat Possum | CD 07