Flatbasset Radio's 50 Most Played Albums: June '15

Well hello again, everybody.  Welcome to yet another installment of the least interesting thing on the internet (well, except for Tidal).  It's the beginning of a new month, which means it's time to recap my most played albums from the previous month with a vague collage and no real explanation!

Before I hash out the list I just want to mention that June was a pretty tough month here at Planet New Basset.  The blog and show's namesake & mascot Margo (aka Flatbasset) had a bit of a health scare this month that took up a lot of time, money, and energy.  I won't bore you with the specifics of it all, but she looks like she's getting through it.  She's a tough gal.  Send some positive thoughts her way.

Alright, let's get into it.  As always, one "play" = one song.  So an album with ten songs on it would be registered as ten "plays."  Larger pictures indicate more plays.

01. Clementine - Crooked Brain (51 plays)

02. Frankie Teardrop - Demos / B-Sides (42 plays)

03. Wild Ghosts - Joy Ranch Sessions (42 plays)

04. William Within - Lost In Writing (35 plays)

05. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment (33 plays)

06. BNLX - Good Light (33 plays)

07. Ramones - Mania (33 plays)

08. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted (28 plays)

09. The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good (24 plays)

10. Various Artists - Back In Business Vol. 3 (20 plays)

11. Gulfer - Split With Fago.Sepia (19 plays)

12. Steel Tipped Dove - Centuries Long Sigh (19 plays)

13. Steely Dan - The Royal Scam (18 plays)

14. Various Artists - Give 'Em The Boot Vol. 1 (18 plays)

15. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late (18 plays)

16. The Flagrants - The Flagrants (17 plays)

17. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (16 plays)

18. Roc Marciano - The Pimpire Strikes Back (16 plays)

19. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (16 plays)

20. Ian Kamau - Cocoon (15 plays)

21. The White Stripes - De Stijl (14 plays)

22. Various Artists - Father/Daughter Spring Sampler 2014 (14 plays)

23. Supergrass - I Should Coco (13 plays)

24. Pixies - Bossanova (13 plays)

25. Motion City Soundtrack - Even If It Kills Me (13 plays)

26. Superdrag - Last Call For Vitriol (13 plays)

27. Mike Swoop - New Love (13 plays)

28. Veronica Falls - Waiting For Something To Happen (13 plays)

29. Various Artists - Stroked: A Tribute To Is This It (13 plays)

30. Greetings From Tuskan - The Love From Afar (13 plays)

31. The Roots - Phrenology (12 plays)

32. Green Day - Kerplunk! (12 plays)

33. Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap (12 plays)

34. Superhopper - Does This Sound Exciting Yet? (12 plays)

35. The Good, The Bad, & The Queen - The Good, The Bad, & The Queen (12 plays)

36. Rebels To The Grain - Fine Wine (12 plays)

37. Edger - Rudiments (12 plays)

38. Blur - The Magic Whip (12 plays)

39. Ivy - Realistic (12 plays)

40. All - Allroy Saves (11 plays)

41. Alkaline Trio - Crimson (11 plays)

42. The Replacements - Tim (11 plays)

43. Kill Sadie - Experiments In Expectation (11 plays)

44. Lifter Puller -Half Dead And Dynamite (11 plays)

45. Portishead - Dummy (11 plays)

46. Haley Bonar - Big Star (11 plays)

47. Del The Funky Homosapien - Iller Than Most (11 plays)

48. Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams (11 plays)

49. Johnwayne - Cassette 3: Marion Morrison Mixtape

50. Radiohead - In Rainbows (10 plays)


There you have it, everybody.  Big thanks to everybody who read the blog & listened to the show last month. All episodes of the show are available to stream over on my Mixcloud page. If you dig it, stop by the Flatbasset Radio Facebook page & give it a "Like."


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Album Of The Week: Decemberr 23-29, 2013

My Album Of The Week for the week of December 23rd-29th, 2013:

Wild Ghosts - No Coast

A couple of weeks back I was writing about The Persian Leaps and mentioned how nice it was to hear a band that eschewed making a racket for front-and-center vocals.  Well, after spending that week with The Persian Leaps (and the subsequent two with Allan Kingdom & Homeless), I figured I'd spend a week with somebody who puts racket first.

I can't remember exactly how I found out about Wild Ghosts.  It was definitely a case of falling down a Last.fm or Bandcamp Recommendations wormhole.  Regardless, I somehow stumbled onto their Bandcamp page and decided to give No Coast a chance.

Wild Ghosts is a rough listen the first few times.  Coherent vocals are difficult to pick up until the fifth song and, once that ends, they're rarely heard from again.  The band works its way into grooves that are not readily apparent, which is why Wild Ghosts makes for such a perfect AOTW record.  I'm really hoping that, over the course of a week, the ideas buried somewhere in the reverb & organ & feedback are going to show themselves.