Flatbasset Radio's 25 Most Played Albums: July '17

Well hello again, everybody. Welcome to another installment of Album Collage Monthly!

We're into the dog days of summer now, folks. I spent a good part of July either watching fireworks or sitting in the air conditioning listening to music. It was a solid month.

As always, huge thanks to everybody who stopped by and listened to the show this month. July always has a couple of my favorite shows so I certainly hoped you enjoyed listening to them as much as I enjoyed putting them together.

Alright, let's get to the thing.

(As always, one "play" equals one song. For example, that new Cheap Fantasy album has 5 songs on it, so each time I listen to it front to back it counts as five "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. Murder Shoes - Fall (70 plays)

02. StoLyette - Summer (63 plays)

03. Sloan - One Chord To Another (60 plays)

04. Brilliant Beast - Jelly (47 plays)

05. V/A - Unpop 150 (46 plays)

06. Cheap Fantasy - Life Of Glass (45 plays)

07. The Dandy Warhols - ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down (43 plays)

08. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (42 plays)

09. Dan Israel - Dan Israel (42 plays)

10. 7Seconds - Walk Together, Rock Together (42 plays)

11. Motion City Soundtrack (40 plays)

12. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (40 plays)

13. The Alarmists - The Ghost And The Hired Gun (39 plays)

14. Rooney - Calling The World (38 plays)

15. Interpol - Our Love To Admire (36 plays)

16. V/A - 2016: The Year All Bad Things Went Away And Everything Turned Out To Be Fine (34 plays)

17. Jamie xx - In Colour (33 plays)

18. Bad Religion - New Maps Of Hell (33 plays)

19. Banner Pilot - Pass The Poison (33 plays)

20. Sonic Youth - Dirty (32 plays)

21. Prince - Planet Earth (32 plays)

22. Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey (30 plays)

23. The Beta Band - Hot Shots II (30 plays)

24. Morrissey - Your Arsenal (30 plays)

25. Metz - Metz (30 plays)

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Flatbasset Radio: Episode #105

I could own her, that crazy loner...

Well hello again, everybody, and welcome back to your regularly scheduled program.

Before we get going here, big thanks to everybody who checked out the last couple of themed episodes. I love doing both the Canada Day show and the American Album Hall Of Fame show, so thank you for indulging me on those.

This week, however, it's back to work. Episode #105 is a show packed with jams. Some local bands, some national bands, a couple of throwbacks, some upcoming shows, some anniversaries, the Cover Of The Week and, of course, the Flatbasset Flatclassic.

Along the way we discuss the best place to meet middle-aged losers, listening to Prince without devolving into reverie, some reunited punk rockers, a knight and his all-American backing band, nostalgia strewn across St. Paul, art and its curious relationship with expectations, Ryan Adams catalogue, some damn fine music journalism, and one of the great Minnesota songs not written by a Minnesota artist.

As always, Flatbasset Radio is completely free. I've finally set up a decent downloading site, so if you'd like to download Flatbasset Radio: Episode #105 (with all the appropriate iTunes tagging), just click here.

If you don't have the time or desire to download the show, just click the Mixcloud player below and you're good to go.



Here's how Episode #105 plays out:

01. Ted Leo - You're Like Me

02. Prince - Future Baby Mama

03. Joey Joey Michaels - Love Hate

04. Social Distortion - Ring Of Fire

05. The Humpers - Mutate With Me

06. Ray Davies - Silent Movie
07. Ray Davies - Rock 'N' Roll Cowboys

08. Elle PF (fka Bae Tigre) - Why Pt. 2

09. Brilliant Beast - Scatter

10. Warehouse Eyes - Smoke

11. Rooney - When Did Your Heart Go Missing?

12. Ryan Adams - Rip Off

13. The Dandy Warhols - Minnesoter










There you have it, folks! Enjoy!

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Flatbasset Radio's 25 Most Played Albums - April '17

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)

13. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga (39 plays)

14. The Church - Gold Afternoon Fix (39 plays)

15. Angelic Upstarts - Reason Why? (39 plays)

16. Davenport - Davenport (38 plays)

17. Romantics - America (36 plays)

18. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (36 plays)

19. Millencolin - For Monkeys (36 plays)

20. No Age - Nouns (36 plays)

21. Jawbreaker - Unfun (36 plays)

22. Greg Grease - Astral Beat Theories Vol. 3 (35 plays)

23. Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate (35 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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Flatbasset Radio: Episode #94

Let me rant & let me ramble...

Well hello everybody! Welcome to Flatbasset Radio: Episode #94!

April has nearly passed, so I figured I should get my lazy ass back to work. This week's episode features the... not "triumphant"... adequate return of my hosting duties. That's right, I'm back on the mic. That's not the only reason to tune into this week's show. Hell, I'm just hoping that's not an actual deterrent from you checking out the show. This week's show if full of some excellent jams.

I've got some new local jams, some old local jams, some "in memoriam's," old stuff from great bands, old stuff from not so great bands, lost gems, the Cover Of The Week, and, as always, the Flatbasset Flatclassic. I also discuss overheating in the studio,  the reason I got back behind the microphone, Ben Folds' obituary, the time Kings Of Leon went for it and failed, spacing your coffee out so you peak at the right time (I did not to do this well), the moment Bad Religion started pulling apart their sound, the new direction of Lunch Duchess, the unrelenting consistency of Poliça, & respecting Jay Bennett on his own terms. It's really quite the show.

As always, Flatbasset Radio is completely free. I've finally set up a decent downloading site, so if you'd like to download Flatbasset Radio: Episode #94 (with all the appropriate iTunes tagging), just click here.

If you don't have the time or desire to download the show, just click the Mixcloud player below and you're good to go.



Here's how Flatbasset Radio: Ep. #94 plays out:

01. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Let Me Be

02. Greg Grease - Migraine

03. Antelope - Dead Eye

04. The Chills - Conversation Piece

05. The Chinchees - Pocano

06. Ben Folds Five - Smoke

07. Lunch Duchess - Intent

08. Kings Of Leon - Ragoo

09. Prince - Crazy You

10. Poliça - Lipstick Stains

11. Jay Bennett - Good As Gold

12. Bad Religion - Generator










There you have it, folks! Enjoy!

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Flatbasset Radio: Episode #81 (American Album Hall Of Fame Vol. 2)

If being afraid is a crime we'll hang side by side...

Well hello again, everybody! Welcome to the second annual installment of the Flatbasset Radio American Album Hall Of Fame!

That's right, folks, continuing the tradition we started during 4th Of July week last year, I'm back to induct six new albums to the Hall Of Fame. If you're new to the FRAAHOF (of "Fraaaahhoooffff..."), feel free to go back and check out the inaugural class from 2015 that made up the two parts of Flatbasset Radio: Episode #61.

This year I'm covering yet another wide-swath of American music. Before we get to the albums, though, here's a quick reminder of the FRAAHOF's crieria:

01. An album must be at least 10 years old to be inducted into the FRAAHOF

02. Only 6 albums per year may be inducted

03. Only 2 of those 6 albums may have been released over 30 years ago

04. No artist can appear in consecutive years 

So, with those criteria in mind, here's a look at this year's inductees:

Hell of a class, no? As per usual, I'll be playing three songs off each of the albums being inducted and talk for far too long about each of them. Sound good? Well, too bad, you get what you pay for.

So, now that you know, here's what the Flatbasset Radio American Album Hall Of Fame looks like as of today:

Pretty fuckin' sharp, eh? Alright, let's get to the show.

As always, Flatbasset Radio is completely free. I've finally set up a decent downloading site, so if you'd like to download Flatbasset Radio: Episode #81 (with all the appropriate iTunes tagging), click here for Part I & here for Part II

Now, let's get to it:

01. Arcarsenal
02. Enfilade
03. One-Armed Scissor

04. All Caps
05. America's Most Blunted
06. Money Folder

07. Bastards Of Young
08. Swingin' Party
09. Left Of The Dial








There's the first half. If you like it, have a listen to the second half.

01. I'm Always In Love
02. How To Fight Loneliness
03. Summer Teeth

04. Where It's At
05. Lord Only Knows
06. The New Pollution

07. Let's Go Crazy
08. When Doves Cry
09. Purple Rain








 There you have it, folks. Thanks for stopping by!



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Flatbasset Radio's 25 Most Played Albums: April '16

Well hello again, everybody! Welcome to yet another installment of Album Collage Monthly!

Yes, April and its showers are now behind us. It was a sad month (Prince is gone) and joyous month (Oh shit, the sun!). Most importantly, for our purposes anyway, it was a month that afforded me lots of time to listen to music.

As you can see from the picture below, I covered a lot of bases this month. Some indie rock, some electronic stuff, some compilations.... Hell, variety's the spice of life.

As always, a yuuuuggggeee thank you to anybody who stopped by the blog this month. Extra yuuuuuggggeee thanks to anybody who listened to the show. Not to belabor the point, but I put a lot of time into the Flatbasset Radio podcast. It means a lot to me that somebody out there is giving it a shot.

(Speaking of which, if you'd like to catch up on the show, my Mixcloud page has every episode free to stream. My Archive page has every episode free to download with complete iTunes tags and everything).

On that note, let's get to this month's albums. Friendly reminder: One song = one play. Devata Daun's new album has 10 tracks on it, so every time I listened to it it registers as 10 "plays." These stats are all pulled from my Last.fm page, which you should definitely follow if you're certain you've checked out absolutely everything else on the internet.

Here we go!

01. The Person & The People - Dark And Low (77 plays)

02. Devata Daun - Look (70 plays)

03. Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstasty (64 plays)

04. Prince - For You (54 plays)

05. The Specials - The Singles Collection (45 plays)

06. Various Artists - Future Perfect: Music For Listening (36 plays)

07. The Pooches - Heart Attack (32 plays)

08. The Smiths - Rank (28 plays)

09. Faux Jean - Kiss Life On The Lips (27 plays)

10. Pete Yorn - Day I Forgot (27 plays)

11. Various Artists - Korda Komp 3 (27 plays)

12. Superdrag - Regretfully Yours... (26 plays)

13. The Stooges - The Stooges (24 plays)

14. Sloan - Twice Removed (24 plays)

15. Big Cats - What If It Doesn't Get Better? (24 plays)

16. Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing (24 plays)

17. All - Live Plus One (22 plays)

18. Bon Iver - Bon Iver (20 plays)

19. A Tribe Called Quest - The Anthology (20 plays)

20. Sebadoh - Harmacy (19 plays)

21. Ela - Real Blood On Fake Trees (19 plays)

22. Ruth Ruth - The Little Death (18 plays)

23. Cecil Otter - Dear Echo (18 plays)

24. Doom - Born Like This (17 plays)

25. Modest Mouse - This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About (16 plays)

Image via Tap Music
Stats via my Last.fm page

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Flatbasset Radio's 25 Most Played Albums: March '16

Well hello again, everybody, and welcome to yet another installment of the most important running column on the internet: Flatbasset Radio's 25 Most Played Albums.

Thank God it's April. No joke. I won't bore you with the details, but March of every year is far & away my busiest month each year. I have a lot of work between my jobs and honestly, once I finish those my priorities are sleep, basset hound, food... and that's pretty much it. It's not just the blog/podcast that gets neglected, it's friends, family, personal appearance, nutrition, cleanliness... Pretty much everything.

That's a roundabout way of apologizing for the lack of posts over the last month. However, with March behind me, it's time to get back to work. What better way to ease my toes back into the cold, harsh waters of the internet than recapping which albums were getting the most play while I slogged through another brutal March? Let's get to some instant nostalgia!

As always, please remember that one song = one play. If I listen to, Blur's The Great Escape once all the way through, it counts as 15 plays. These stats are all pulled from my Last.fm page, which you should definitely follow if you're certain you've checked out absolutely everything else on the internet.

Here we go!

01. Poliça - United Crushers (84 plays)

02. Yeah Wings - It Feels Like Laughing With You (63 plays)

03. Tony Peachka - Hello Tony (44 plays)

04. The Kelley Deal 6000 - Go To The Sugar Altar (32 plays)

05. Big Cats - What If It Doesn't Get Better? (32 plays)

06. Blur - The Great Escape (31 plays)

07. DJ Shadow - Excessive Ephemera (30 plays)

08. Bad Religion - The Gray Race (30 plays)

09. Motion City Soundtrack - I Am The Movie (29 plays)

10. Son Volt - Wide Swing Tremolo (28 plays)

11. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger (26 plays)

12. Superdrag - Head Trip In Every Key (26 plays)

13. Poolboy - Poolboy (25 plays)

14. Prince - 3121 (24 plays)

15. Bill Withers - Just As I Am (24 plays)

16. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (24 plays)

17. The Stone Roses - Second Coming (24 plays)

18. Still Life Still - Girls Come Too (22 plays)

19. Rancid - Life Won't Wait (22 plays)

20. The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me (20 plays)

21. Down By Law - All Scratched Up! (18 plays)

22. Pale Spectre - Live On Radio K (2016) (18 plays)

23. CFCF - Do U Like Night Bus? (17 plays)

24. Tiny Deaths - Night Flowers (17 plays)

25. Sloan - Peppermint (16 plays)


Image via Tap Music
Stats via my Last.fm page

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