Well hello again, folks. Welcome to another edition of Album Collage Monthly!
That's right, we're doing another year of this. 2018 has been an exhausting year and we're only a month into it. Deep freeze, snow storm, deep freeze, Super Bowl... What a time to be a Minneapolitan!
In between curling up with my own basset hound for warmth and navigating the National Guardsmen protecting downtown Minneapolis from Eagles fans I managed to listen to a ton of new music this month.
Before we get to the list, big thank you to everybody who checked out the Countdown shows this month as well as Episode #115. Extra big thanks to anybody who took the time to make a donation to Secondhand Hounds and scooped up a copy of Second-Hand Mix #1. I've never tried anything like that before and it warms my heart to see it having a little success. Those hounds are in a tough spot and every little bit helps.
Alright, let's get to the list.
(As always, one "play" equals one song. For example, the new Happy Children album has 7 songs on it, so each time I listen to it front to back it counts as seven "plays." As usual, all stats come from my Last.FM page. Give it a follow if you really want to stay up on what's getting the most plays.)
01. Wet Eyes - Life As Foreign Currency (52 plays)
02. Double Grave - Daydream Demos (49 plays)
03. The Happy Children - Self Help Book (49 plays)
04. Sebadoh - The Sebadoh (46 plays)
05. Various Artists - Unpop 156 (44 plays)
06. Jeremy Ylvisaker - Malibu Hymnal (43 plays)
07. Paul McCartney - McCartney (41 plays)
08. R.E.M. - Reckoning (40 plays)
09. The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (39 plays)
10. Goat - Requiem (39 plays)
11. The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can't We (37 plays)
12. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath (37 plays)
13. Fits - All Belief Is Paradise (36 plays)
14. Various Artists - A Very Radical Small Albums Comp (34 plays)
15. Male Bonding - Endless Now (33 plays)
16. The Killers - Wonderful Wonderful (32 plays)
17. Tangletown - Ordinary Freaks (31 plays)
18. Air - Moon Safari (30 plays)
19. Various Artists - Trainspotting #2 (30 plays)
20. Usonia - Usonia (30 plays)
21. Porcupine - Porcupine Live At The Warehouse (30 plays)
22. The Broken Bicycles - Restlessness Of Youth (30 plays)
23. Lushlife - My Idols Are Dead And My Enemies Are In Power (27 plays)
24. Jeff Rosenstock - POST- (27 plays)
25. Fastball - Little White Lies (25 plays)
There you have it, folks. Stick around for more shows in February!
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