Friday, February 2, 2018

Flatbasset Radio's 25 Most Played Albums: January '18


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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