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 #112

Thanks for listening, thanks for understanding...

Well hello again, music fans. Welcome to Flatbasset Radio: Episode #112!

It's the last show of 2017, everybody and I, for one, couldn't be happier. 2017 was a trash can fire. Will 2018 be better? I don't know. What am I, Kreskin? I hope so, but I'm a practical man, so I'm sure not counting on it.

The one thing I can say with some certainty: This is an outstanding episode of Flatbasset Radio!

(Second thing I can say with some certainty: I am not great at segues.)

Anyway, continuing a theme from last week's episode, I'm making up for some lost time with this one. Over the course of 2017 I slept/worked/moped my way through too many weeks without putting together a show and, as such, I missed a bunch of classic anniversaries. I'm rectifying that here on Ep. #112. A semi-forgotten hip-hop classic, an old demo by a fallen power-pop god , TWO 50th anniversary classics, my favorite post-makeout-stroll album of 1997, the most perfect power-pop song ever written, some weirdo 70's instrumental stuff, one of the great forgotten punk bands of the 90's... all of these things make an appearance on this week's show (as well as a new one from the Twin Cities' favorite ex-pats). All that plus the Cover Of The Week & 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 #112 (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 #112 plays out:

01. The Hold Steady - Entitlement Crew

02. Lupe Fiasco - Hip-Hop Saved My Life

03. The Beatles - Flying

04. Nirvana - Son Of A Gun

05. Rivers Cuomo - Chess

06. David Bowie - Moss Garden

07. R.E.M. - Nightswimming

08. Buffalo Springfield - Rock & Roll Woman

09. Wretch Like Me - Hello Hollywood, This Is David

10. Green Day - Last Ride In

11. Sugar - If I Can't Change Your Mind

12. The Smiths - I Won't Share You









There you have it. See you in hell, 2017!

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

Rabbit rabbit, everybody. Welcome to another installment of Shit I Listened To On The Bus!

Autumn is upon us, everybody. Hockey season starts this week, the Vikings season is already coming off the rails, it's raining, the trees are drying... Good times all around.

As always, big thanks to everybody who checked out the shows this month. It's always appreciated.

Let's get to the thing.

(As always, one "play" equals one song. For example, that new Persian Leaps 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. The Awful Truth - Glisten (78 plays)

02. The Cribs - 24-7 Rock Star Shit (72 plays)

03. Strange Relations - Editorial You (71 plays)

04. The Go-Betweens - Send Me A Lullaby (48 plays)

05. V/A - The Darjeeling Limited (44 plays)

06. Chris Mars - Horseshoes And Hand Grenades (42 plays)

07. Better Than Ezra - How Does Your Garden Grow? (42 plays)

08. The Weirdos - Weird World, Vol. 1 (42 plays)

09. Kanye West - Graduations (40 plays)

10. V/A - Unpop 152 (40 plays)

11. The Kinks - Something Else By The Kinks (39 plays)

12. The Persian Leaps - Bicycle Face (38 plays)

13. V/A - A Record Label Sampler Vol. 3 (37 plays)

14. The Damned - Strawberries (37 plays)

15. The Multiple Cat - Elements Of... (36 plays)

16. The Cardinal Sin - Hurry Up And Wait (36 plays)

17. Bruce Springsteen - Magic (36 plays)

18. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala (36 plays)

19. Porno Wolves - Renegades (36 plays)

20. Oso Oso - The Yunahon Mixtape (34 plays)

21. Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild (33 plays)

22. The Victims - All Loud On The Western Front (32 plays)

23. The Stooges - Raw Power (32 plays)

24. Sugar - Copper Blue (30 plays)

25. The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall (30 plays)

There it is, folks. Thanks for stopping by!

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