Well hello again, everybody. Welcome to Flatbasset Radio: Episode #99!
Another Friday, another batch of jams. This week's episode is stuffed full of... ummm... audio goodness? Sure, let's go with that.
I've got twelve songs lined up on this week's show. A few anniversaries, some new local stuff, a show or two to look into, a mysterious local group, the latest from one of Minnesota's most famous ex-pats, the latest from a couple of Minnesota beatmakers, Glasgow's #1 dog-themed indie-pop group, some throwback funk, a Cover Of The Week courtesy of an English blog, an absolute gem of an early 90's classic, and one of the most "important" Flatbasset Flatclassics of all-time.
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Here's how Episode #99 plays out:
01. Real Numbers - Frank Infatuation
02. MMYYKK - Square One
03. The Pooches - Postcard From A Provo Winter
04. Dennis Brown - Wichita Lineman
05. Frances Gumm - I Will Not Be Destroyed
06. Little Shalimar - Bounce 3
07. Elvis Depressedly - Bruises (Amethyst)
08. The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
09. Craig Finn - Jester & June
10. Lazerbeak And Bionik - High Dive
11. Dinosaur Jr - Been There All The Time
12. The Beatles - A Day In The Life
There you have it, folks! Enjoy!
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Well, hello again everybody. Welcome to another edition of Album Collage Monthly!
That's right, folks, it's the first of May already and guess what? It fucking snowed today. I love you, Minnesota, but does it have to be like this? It's May! Come on!
Anyway, it's time for a little bit of instant nostalgia. Before I get to it though, just a quick thanks to everybody who checked out the last couple of shows. If you didn't notice, I got back behind the microphone for Ep. #94 and, while it probably did not improve the show for you, it felt great to add what little personality I have back to the show. Thanks for sticking with it.
Alright, let's get to it. I listened to a tremendous amount of music this month. Here are the 25 albums that got the most spins around Planet New Basset.
(As always, one "play" equals one song. For example, that new Chinchees album
has 11 songs on it, so each time I listen to it front to
back it counts as eleven "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. The Chinchees - The Chinchees (79 plays)
02. Craig Finn - We All Want The Same Things (70 plays)
03. Prince - Prince (63 plays)
04. Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77 (55 plays)
05. Various Artists - Unpop 146 (53 plays)
06. Big Quarters - Cost Of Living (42 plays)
07. Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock (42 plays)
08. Fountains Of Wayne - Traffic And Weather (42 plays)
09. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head (40 plays)
10. T.D. Mischke - The Best Of The Mischke Broadcast (40 plays)
11. The Early Americans - Aha! Airmen Secretly (39 plays)
12. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81 (39 plays)
24. Richard Ashcroft - Alone With Everybody (34 plays)
25. Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets (30 plays)
Thanks for stopping by! Lots more stuff to come in May!
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There's no way to forget it all...
Well hello again, music fans!
Welcome back to Flatbasset Radio!
December is list making time and
we're no exception. This week's podcast is a special one as
TCDroogsma counts down his 15 favorite tracks given away by The
Current via their Song Of The Day podcast!
As well as running ten minutes
longer than he was allowed, TCDroogsma struggles to title his own
podcast, loses all credibility with the youth of the Twin Cities,
bases his top choice on his own unique life situation, and explains
exactly why it is that he's obsessed with the Song Of The Day podcast
even though he kind of hates it.
Click the embedded player above to
listen to the podcast. Click the title below to download it for your
very own.
07. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti -
Only In My Dreams
06. Bobby Womack - Please Forgive My
Heart
05. Dark Dark Dark - Tell Me
04. Bloc Party - Octopus
03. Aesop Rock - ZZZ Top
02. The Cribs - Come On, Be A No-One
01. Communist Daughter - Speed Of
Sound (EP Remix)
There you have it, everybody!
Episode #7 and a snapshot of 2012 through the eyes of TCDroogsma.
If you somehow want even more
TCDroogsma he can be found on Twitter (@TCDroogsma) or rambling on
and on over at Flatbasset, his personal blog. We're currently taking
bets as to how deeply into 2013 he can make it without shaving.
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just giving us a hot sandwich. Though it is cold, and we haven't had
a hot sandwich in a minute...
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We are seriously taking the city...
Hello again, Twin Cities hip-hop
fans!
It's been a great year for Twin
Cities hip-hop. Brother Ali, MaLLy, I Self Devine, Big Quarters,
Mike Mictlan... So much good music came out of the cities that it's
almost unfair.
Today, though, we're here to
celebrate the impending release of P.O.S.'s We Don't Even Live
Here, which will hit the
streets this coming Monday.This
will be P.O.S.'s fourth solo album and, we're betting, will be high
on the “Best Of” lists at the end of the year.
More to the
point, to celebrate the release we asked our resident hip-hop junkie
TCDroogsma to put together a little something for us. He came back
with an hour long Flatbasset mix packed with P.O.S. jams.
As you can see,
click the download tab below to download the free mix. Of course we'd like to take a
moment to point out that, obviously, we do not own any of the music
contained in the mix. We asked TCDroogsma to put it together as a
celebration and that's just what he did. So please
don't sue us. We don't have any money anyway.
TCDroogsma, any
thoughts?
Y'know, I've been a Doomtree fans for a minute now and I thought it
would be fun to put together a nice run of tracks that P.O.S. has
been featured on rather than a typical “best of” type of thing.
If
you remember, back when Never
Better came out Fifth
Element released a couple of bonus albums called Meat
Tape and Meat
Tape 2 that featured a
bunch of harder to find stuff and stuff that, evidently, P.O.S. was
digging at the time. That was kind of my plan with this mix. Think
of it as Meat Tape 3 or P.O.S. & Friends Rappity Rap Party or I Already Know All These Songs.
It should be noted, of course, that I am not a DJ. If the fades and
blends and such aren't up to par, that's why. Don't think of this
mix as some chopped up, bangin' DJ mix (though, if someone did that
with a bunch of P.O.S. guest spots I'm sure it would kill), think of
this more like the best hour of radio that would never get played on
the radio.
Obviously all of the tracks contain some sort of P.O.S. contribution.
My apologies if I'm not giving full credit to everybody involved.
Be sure to
check out P.O.S.'s new album We Don't Even Live Here, on the
streets October 22nd. He's also playing a record release
show at First Avenue on the 26th. Best believe we're
gonna be there.
Also, if you haven't heard, P.O.S. has had some health issues come to light over the last couple days. Turns out dude needs a kidney. Tough times. To help out financially, hit up the Paypal account at stefneedsanewkidney@gmail.com.
Thanks to
TCDroogsma for putting the mix together for us. For more of
TCDroogsma be sure to follow him on Twitter and/or Instagram or you
can check out his own blog Flatbasset. He's still counting down
Morrissey songs despite our best efforts. He's got problems, though.
Problems.
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