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

Well hello again, everybody! Welcome to another compelling episode of Album Collage Monthly!

Folks, another month is in the books. May was a steamy one here in Minneapolis, but I don't have any complaints.

As always, huge thank you to everybody who checked out the show this month. I managed to crank out four episodes in May, making it one of the few months over the life of the show that I actually stayed on schedule. It feels good.

Another big thanks to anybody who took a time to share the show via social media or in real life. As the show brings in zero dollars I have no promotional budget or team or anything of that nature. It's strictly for the love of creating the show and sharing it with folks, so any time people pass it along is greatly appreciated.

All that being said, let's get to the thing.

As always, one "play" equals one song. For example, the new Billy Sunday album has 9 songs on it, so each time I listen to it front to back it counts as nine "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. Extraterrestrials - Try Again (68 plays)

02. France Has The Bomb - ...But We Must Cultivate Our Garden (65 plays)

03. Dismantlists - Here At The End (65 plays)

04. Billy Sunday - Wooden Teeth (65 plays)

05. snaer. - doze (62 plays)

06. V/A - Midwest Mixtapes Vol. I (See You Never Records) (60 plays)

07. Bad Religion - No Substance (50 plays)

08. All - Mass Nerder (49 plays)

09. V/A - Unpop 160 (48 plays)

10. Snuff - Tweet Tweet My Lovely (43 plays)

11. Kidz In The Hall - The In Crowd (42 plays)

12. The Bilinda Butchers - Heaven (41 plays)

13. Bill Withers - +Justments (40 plays)

14. Rancid - Let The Dominoes Fall (39 plays)

15. Lawn - Blood On The Tracks (38 plays)

16. No Age - Nouns (38 plays)

17. Local H - Twelve Angry Months (38 plays)

18. Andy Shauf - The Bearer Of Bad News (35 plays)

19. Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast (35 plays)

20. The Beatles - Let It Be... Naked (33 plays)

21. GRAMMA - GRAMMA (32 plays)

22. Jeff Buckley - Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk (32 plays)

23. Sugar - File Under: Easy Listening (30 plays)

24. The Muffs - Blonder And Blonder (28 plays)

25. Double Grave - Empty Hands (28 plays)


There you have it, folks. Stay tuned for more shows in June.

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Flatbasset Radio: Episode #126

There's God in the arc when the ball leaves the park...

Well hello again, everybody! Welcome to Flatbasset Radio: Episode #126!

Folks, it's a second consecutive Monday episode. I'm not completely certain how it happened since Monday is pretty much the worst possible day to release a show like mine... and yet, here we are. Somehow I'm getting worse at this as the years go by.

If the glass if half full, though, it's a new episode! Lots of great stuff on this one. We check in on the latest release from Forged Artifacts (the finest cassette label in Minneapolis), embrace a little clarinet, continue our exploration of the Disposable America catalog, listen to one of the greatest American indie rock bands cover another of the greatest American indie rock bands, enjoy a mid-show instrumental break, check in on the man behind my favorite Twin Cities band of the last 10 years, revisit some 3rd wave ska, bask in Mason Jennings blanket-like voice, and find the saddest point where man meets machine to stare down death. All that plus the Cover Of The Week, a deep dive into Nate's Archives, the trip in The Minnesota Way-Back Machine, and the Flatbasset Flatclassic.

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 #126 (with all the appropriate iTunes tagging), just click here.



Here's how Episode #126 plays out:

01. Lawn - My Boy

02. Andy Shauf - Lick Your Wounds

03. Maura - My Shoes Fit

04. Superchunk - Brand New Love

05. The Boys - I Don't Care

06. The Bilinda Butchers - Old Style Amami

07. Billy Sunday - Shelby At The Bat

08. The Nadas - Love Divided

09. The Suicide Machines - Give

10. Mason Jennings - Crown

11. Extraterrestrials - Bizarre Economy

12. Portishead - The Rip









Beats by Phatnumber
Flatbasset Radio Artwork by Ross Auger

Thanks for listening!

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