Saturday, January 20, 2018




    The 50 Best Songs of 2017      Harry Rag
 1      The Dream Syndicate                                      Glide                        How Did I Find Myself Here? (Anti)
 2      Eleni Mandell                                I Belong To Someone New                                         Single (Yep Roc)
 3      Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile            Over Everything                             Lotta Sea Lice (Matador)
 4      Robyn Hitchcock                            Mad Shelley’s Letterbox                      Robyn Hitchcock (Yep Roc)
 5      Juana Molina                                          Cara De Espejo                                         Halo (Crammed Discs)
 6      Marika Hackman                                         Boyfriend                                  I’m Not Your Man (Sub Pop)
 7      Miranda Lee Richards                    On The Side Of Heaven         Existential Beast (Invisible Hands)
 8      Chuck Prophet     Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins      Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins (Yep Roc)
 9      Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions    Antiquity                       Son Of A Lady (Tendril Tales)
10    Spoon                                               Whisper I’ll Listen To Hear It                    Hot Thoughts (Matador)
11    Kelley Stoltz                                          Looking For A Spark                                 Que Aura (Castle Face)
12    The Feelies                                               Gone Gone Gone                                    In Between (Bar/None)
13    Coco Hames                                                I Do Love You                                             Coco Hames (Merge)
14    Psychic Temple                                     Isabella Ocean Blue                                               IV (Joyful Noise)
15    The Sexual Objects                                      Sometimes                               Marshmallow (Triassic Tusk)
16    Kevin Morby                                                   Crybaby                                          City Music (Dead Oceans)
17    Aldous Harding                                             Horizon                                                                     Party (4AD)
18    Wire                                                         Sleep On The Wing                                     Silver/Lead (Pinkflag)
19    Ron Gallo                                       Young Lady, You’re Scaring Me                    Heavy Meta (New West)
20    Shout Out Louds                                        Ease My Mind                                        Ease My Mind (Merge)
21    Flamin’ Groovies                                   End Of The World                       Fantastic Plastic (Sonic Kicks)
22    Filthy Friends                                               Windmill                                       Invitation (Kill Rock Stars)
23    Woods                                                         Bleeding Blue                                       Love Is Love (Woodsist)
24    XX                                                                         Naïve                                               I See You (Young Turks)
25    The Chills                                                    Lost In Space                                                             Single (Fire)
26    Phoebe Bridgers                                      Smoke Signals               Stranger In The Alps (Dead Oceans)
27    Alvvays                                                         Not My Baby                                     Antisocialites (Polyvinyl)
28    The Bats                                                      Walking Man                                   The Deep Set (Flying Nun)
29    Real Numbers                                       Frank Infatuation                                     Single (Market Square)
30    Father John Misty                                   Real Love Baby                                                    Single (Sub Pop)
31    Foxygen                                                  Follow The Leader                                            Hang (Jagjaguwar)
32    Beck                                                            No Distractions                                                Colors (Fonograf)
33    The Dahlmanns                                     Forever My Baby                                      Single (Next Big Thing)
34    Girlpool                                                   It Gets More Blue                                                Powerplant (Anti)
35    Garbage                                                           No Horses                                                 Single (StunVolume)
36    Ty Segall                                                  Thank You Mr. K                                             Ty Segall (Drag City)
37    St. Vincent                                                           Pills                                          Masseduction (Loma Vista)
38    The Courtneys                                                 Frankie                                  The Courtneys II (Flying Nun)
39    Big Thief                                                       Shark Smile                                          Capacity (Saddle Creek)
40    The New Pornographers          We’ve Been Here Before    Whiteout Conditions (Collected Works)
41    Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker        I Heard Them Singing                     Spiderbeetlebee (Drag City)
42    Jens Lekman    What’s That Perfume That You Wear?  Life Will See You Now (Secretly Canadian)
43    Laura Marling                                          Don’t Pass Me By                  Semper Femina (More Alarming)
44    Dhani Harrison                                            Never Know                                 In///Parallel (Hot Records)
45    Jane Weaver                                                 Slow Motion                                     Modern Kosmology (Fire)
46    Paul Weller                                                        Nova                               A Kind Revolution (Warner Bros.)
47    L.A.Witch                                              Kill My Baby Tonight                         L.A.Witch (Suicide Squeeze)
48    Peter Perrett                                                     Troika                          How The West Was Won (Domino)
49    OCS                               Lift A Finger By The Garden Path     Memory Of A Cut Off Head (Castle Face)
50    Julie Byrne                                                 Natural Blue                        Not Even Happiness (Ba Da Bing)
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Saturday, January 13, 2018

Playlist January 12 2018

Yo Mike La Ira and Tengo John
 YLT 2017 Hanukkah show mixtapes 

Mike Watt - Minutemen Bassist 

 Wire “Dot Dash”  Single (1978)  Harvest
 Blue Öyster Cult “Hot Rails to Hell”  Tyranny and Mutation (1973)  Columbia
 
 John Coltrane “Countdown”  Giant Steps (1959)Columbia
 Richard Hell and The Voidoids “Walking on the Water”  Blank Generation (1977)  Sire — CCR cover
 The Pop Group “We Are Time” Y (1979) Radar
 
 Black Flag “Clocked In”  Everything Went Black (1982) SST Records
 Meat Puppets “Buckethead” Up On the Sun (1984)  SST
 Husker Du “Sorry Somehow”  Candy Apple Grey (1986)  Warner Brothers
 Sonic Youth “Pch”  Sisters (1987) SST Records — Pacific Coast Highway

 The Wipers “What Is”  Over The Edge (1983)  Brain Eater
The Last Poets “It's a Trip”  Delights of the Garden (1977)  Douglas — feat. Bernard Purdie
 Lemon Kittens “P.V.S.”  We Buy A Hammer For Daddy (1980) United Dairies
 Roky Erickson “I Have Always Been Here Before” Two Headed Dog EP (1977)  Sponge

Ira Kaplan - Yo La Tengo Guitarist and Vocals 
 
The Afro Blues Quintet “There Is A Mountain” Next Album (1968) Mira — feat. Rene Bloch - Donovan Cover
 Benny Spellman “I Feel Good”  Single (1965)  Atlantic
 Antietam “Birdwatching”  Intimations of Immortality (2017)  Motorific Sounds
 Ray Bryant “Pata Pata”  Single (1968)  Cadet
 

Lloyd Charmers “Let's Get It On”  Single (1974)  Harry J — Marvin Gaye cover
 Floyd Brown “What I Want”  Single (1961)  Montel — Swamp Pop!
 Dee Dee Sharp “Deep Dark Secret”  Single (1963)  cameo
 Redd Kross “Choose to Play” Researching the Blues (2012) Merge Records
 The Special Pillow “The Land That Time Forgot”  At the Earth's Core (2016) Zofko
 Marianne Faithfull “Rosie Rosie”  Love in a Mist (1988) London — rec 1966 - Kinks Cover- Rosie, Won't You Please Come Home

 Tom Ardolino “"Get Smart" Theme”  Unknown Brain (2009)  Mystra — NRBQ solo effort
Cliff "King" Solomon “But, Officier”  Okeh Rhythm and Blues Story (1993) Epic — Rec 1950
 Dan Penn “Everytime”  The Fame Recordings (2013) Ace — Rec 1964-66
 Guitar Slim “Certainly All”  Single (1952)  J-B Records
 
 Mongo Santamaria “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction” Hey! Let's Party (1966)  Columbia — Rolling Stones cover
 Thee Impalas “Come On Up”  Single (1967)  Whittier — Rascals cover
 Oscar Peterson Trio “Oop Bop Sh-Bam”  This Is Oscar Peterson (1952)  Bluebird
 Willie Bobo and The Bo Gents “Shut Up and Pay Attention”  Do What You Want to Do (1971)  Sussex
 Unknown “I'm In Orbit”  Boppin' By The Bayou (2013) Ace — Louisiana Rockabilly
 Third Ear Band “Druid One”  Alchemy (1969)  Harvest

John McEntire - Tortoise Percussionist 
 
Franco Battiato “Areknames”  Pollution (1972)  Artis
Basil Kirchin “Viva Tamla Motown”  Abstractions Of The Industrial North (2005)  Trunk — Stock Film music Rec 1966 with Jimmy Page
 Hal Blaine “Love-In (December)” Psychedelic Percussion (1967) Dunhill — Wrecking Crew drummer
 Keith “98.6” Single (1967)  Mercury
 Brenton Wood “Gimme Little Sign”  single (1965) Double Shot
 
 Carol Leigh and Hank Midlin “Inquire Within”  Enjoy The Experience- Homemade Records 1958-2001 (2013)  Now Again Records — From honolulu rec 1969
 The Sylvers “Only One Can Win”  The Sylvers (1972)  Pride Records
 Alan Moorhouse “That's Nice” Kpm 1000 Series: The Big Beat - Volume 2 (2007)  KPM 1000 LP Series — Stock Film music rec 1970
 Os Mutantes “Panis Et Circenses”  Os Mutantes (1968) Polydor
 Broadcast. “Microtronics 07”  Stereo recorded Music For Links and Bridges (2003)  Warp — 3" CD EP Ha Ha tour only

Cluster “Heisse Lippen”  Zuckerzeit (1974) Brain.
 Michael Rother “Karussell”  Flammende Herzen (1977)Sky
 The Space Lady “Humdinger”  Space Lady By Amazing Thingz (1990) Night School
Pere Ubu “Heaven”  Single (1977)  Hearpen
 
The Upsetters “Popcorn”  I Am The Upsetter: The Rare Sevens Box Set (2005) Trojan.
 Andrea True Connection “More! More! More!”  More More More (1976)  Buddah
The Breakaways “That's How It Goes”  Single (1964) Pye
Michel Colombier “L'Etrange Voyage de M. Brendwood” Capot Pointu (1969) La Compagnie
 
 Lifetones “Good Side” For a Reason (1983) Tone Of Life
 Moodymann “Don't You Want My Love”  Forevernevermore (2000)  Peace Frog