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

Well hello again, album collage fans. Thanks for stopping by.

Like I always do at this time (this time being the beginning of a new month), it's time to take a quick look back at what's been getting the most spins here at Planet New Basset.

Why would you be interested in this?  I have no idea.  Honestly, these posts exist pretty much so I have an excuse to look at these cool ass collages.

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. Buck 65 - Neverlove (105 plays)

02. Mike Mictlan - Hella Frreal (71 plays)

03. Mrs. - City (53 plays)

04. BNLX - Good Light (45 plays)

05. Homeless & Big Cats! - The Polar Bear Rug (35 plays)

06. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (30 plays)

07. Joey Bada$$ - B4.DA.$$ (30 plays)

08. Nadastrom - The Life And Times Of Raphael De La Ghettó (30 plays)

09. Greetings From Tuskan - The Love From Afar (24 plays)

10. All - Allroy Saves (22 plays)

11. Morrissey - Your Arsenal (21 plays)

12. Aesop Rock - Labor Days (20 plays)

13. Clementine - Crooked Brain (20 plays)

14. Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters (19 plays)

15. Various Artists - A Record Label Sampler Volume 4 (19 plays)

16. A Tribe Called Quest - The Anthology (18 plays)

17. Bruce Springsteen - Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. (18 plays)

18. Billy Joel - 52nd Street (18 plays)

19. X - The Houston Museum Of Natural Science (18 plays)

20. P. Morris - Daydream (18 plays)

21. Various Artists - Ghostly Swim (17 plays)

22. Whiskeytown - Pneumonia (16 plays)

23. Felt - Felt 2: A Tribute To Lisa Bonet (16 plays)

24. Iggy Pop - New Values (15 plays)

25. Babyshambles - Down In Albion (15 plays)

26. De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate (15 plays)

27. Big Quarters - Cost Of Living (Instrumentals) (15 plays)

28. Bad Religion - Recipe For Hate (14 plays)

29. The Potatomen - Now (14 plays)

30. Erykah Badu - Baduizm (13 plays)

31. Millencolin - For Monkeys (13 plays)

32. Ruth Ruth - Laughing Gallery (13 plays)

33. Dillinger Four - Situationist Comedy (13 plays)

34. Pulp - Different Class (12 plays)

35. The Libertines - Up The Bracket (12 plays)

36. Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue (12 plays)

37. Why? - Elephant Eyelash (12 plays)

38. Paul Westerberg - Eventually (12 plays)

39. Warpaint - Warpaint (12 plays)

40. Blur - The Magic Whip (12 plays)

41. Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (11 plays)

42. Art Brut - It's A Bit Complicated (11 plays)

43. The Stand4rd - The Stand4rd (11 plays)

44. Human Kindness - Not Apathetic (11 plays)

45. Wilco - Star Wars (11 plays)

46. Rupert AngelEyes - Young Sunset (10 plays)

47. Various Artists - Adult Swim Singles Program 2015 (10 plays)

48. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding (10 plays)

49. William Within - Lost In Writing (10 plays)

50. Suede - Coming Up (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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Photo via Don't Drink And Root

Newest Industry Presents - Flatbasset Radio: Episode #25

(THIS POST ORIGINALLY APPEARS ON THE TWIN CITIES BLOG NEWEST INDUSTRY)

Me & Garrison Keillor on the four-wheeler sippin' tequila...

Hello again, free music fans! Welcome to Flatbasset Radio: Episode #25!
 
For those of you who are unaware of the Flatbasset Radio format, here's what you're looking at: TCDroogsma is our resident MP3 junkie. As you've probably noticed in his Songs Of The Week column, he's not always the most positive music fan. In an effort to prove that he is, in fact, a fan of music, we give him an hour each week to play the songs he's digging and talk a little bit about them. Once he's recorded his podcast we put it right here on the website for free to stream!

In this week's episode Droogsy eschews Christmas songs for "secular music," uses the term "dream-poppy-prog-rocky...," celebrates a young rapper who passed too soon, concedes that he's let his laser noise game lapse, ranks Santa's reindeer in this week's Power Rankings, indulges his love of dopey love songs, and, at least for this week, puts down his axe in his fight against an indie rock icon.

You can download the podcast for free by clicking the episode's title or stream the episode by clicking on the Mixcloud player below.

Flatbasset Radio: Episode #25

Flatbasset Radio: Episode #25 by Tcdroogsma on Mixcloud

01. Atmosphere (w/Dem Atlas, Joe Horton, & Toki Wright) - Color In The Snow
02. King Tuff - Bad Thing
03. Homeless & The Van Gobots - Math Automatic
04. The Henry Clay People - Clean Sheets
05. Capital Steez - Cab Fare
06. Jamie XX - Untitled
07. Run The Jewels (w/DJ Q-Bert) - Pew Pew Pew
08. Mason Jennings - Raindrops On The Kitchen Floor
09. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Some Trees
10. FINS - Transatlantic Tryst
11. Tom Waits - Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis

There you have it, music fans! Enjoy!

For more TCDroogsma be sure to give him a follow on Twitter (@TCDroogsma).  Previous episodes of Flatbasset Radio are archived on his Mixcloud page.  Stop by Flatbasset Radio's Facebook Page & give it a "Like" if you have the time.

For more Newest Industry be sure to give us a follow on Twitter (@NewestIndustry1) to stay up on the work being done by all of our contributors.  More importantly, we have a Facebook page here.  Trivial as it seems, stopping by and giving us a "Like" is a free & legitimate way to support the blog.

Album Of The Week: December 16-22, 2013

My Album Of The Week for the week of December 16th-22nd, 2013:

Homeless & The Van Gobots - Twenty-Dirt

It's hip-hop for the second week in a row here on the Flatbasset AOTW.  The similarity between Allan Kingdom's Talk To Strangers and this week's Twenty-Dirt is limited strictly to genre defenition.

Homeless (@HomelessRyanK) first came to my attention in August of 2012, when his single "Get Gone" (a collaboration with K.Raydio) turned up on The Current's Song Of The Day podcast (which MinneSarah & I reviewed way back in the second edition of Songs Of The Week.  We were so young & naive).

Anyway, that track had Big Cats! on the beat and cast Homeless as an angry, frustrated, but ultimately hopeful young man.  Twenty-Dirt takes those same character traits, but stretches them a bit.  Homeless is still frustrated, but some of that anger has been replaced with the good humor to recognize which fights are worth fighting.  Obviously it's not totally fair to compare a whole album to a lone single, but the lighter moments on Twenty-Dirt certainly give the album a nice balance, letting the listener know that, despite all the problems that surround him, Homeless is still able to enjoy the simple things in life.

In place of a producer on Twenty-Dirt, Homeless collaborated with The Van Gobots (@TheVanGobots).  I'd be lying if I said I was super-familiar with their work prior to Twenty-Dirt, but that may be for the best in this instance.  The band works up a nice post-punk racket for Homeless' rhymes.  Because I'm not familiar with their other work, it's possible for me to listen to these songs without wondering what they would have become without the restraint of the tracks being a canvas rather than the stand-alone art.  It's certainly enough to make me want to check out more of their work.

If you're interested in checking it out for yourself Twenty-Dirt is available as a name-your-price download on Bandcamp.  They'll be playing an album release show on December 21st at Cause.