Top 10 albums 2015

These were my favorite albums of the year

Top six

Motörhead "Bad Magic"
Sleater-Kinney "No Cities to Love"
Say Hi "Bleeder's Digest"
The Dead Weather -- "Dodge and Burn"
Shilpa Ray -- "Last Year's Savage"
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba -- "Ba Power"

Next four or five....

Giant Sand "Heartbreak Pass"
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion "Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015"
Froth "Bleak"
Pow! -- "Fight Fire"
Wand "1000 Days"

Playlist Dec. 30 2015 -- My Favorites of the Year & Motorhead's last

City Rock Showgram (Music)

http://www.richmars.blogspot.com

With Rich Mars

rmars@tds.net

http://www.richmars.blogspot.com

Wed Dec 30th 2015 6.00pm–9.00pm

R=listener request. N=music new at the station. L=local music. 

Time zone: central

6:03pm

Voodoo Organist “Bombay Beach Bondage Boogaloo”
from Organ Voodoo (2015)

6:04pm

Trolley “She Has It All”
from Caught In The Darkness CD Single (Easter Records 2016) L

6:06pm

East India Youth “Beaming White”
from Culture of Volume CD Album (XL Recordings / Hostess 2015)

6:10pm

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper “Batter”
from After (Mom+Pop 2015)

6:13pm

The Mountain Goats “Foreign Object”
from Beat the Champ CD Album (Remote Control 2015)

6:16pm

Shannon And The Clams “I Will Miss the Jasmine”
from Gone by the Dawn CD Album (Hardly Art 2015)

6:22pm

Lou Barlow “wave”
from Brace the Wave CD (Joyful Noise 2015)

6:24pm

Courtney Barnett “Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go to the Party”
from Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit CD Album (Mom+Pop 2015) L

6:27pm

Say Hi “Pirates of the Cities, Pirates of the Suburbs”
from Bleeders Digest CD Album (Barsuk Records 2015)

6:33pm

Sasha Siem “So Polite”
from Most of the Boys (Blue Plum 2015)

6:36pm

Will Butler “anna”
from Policy CD Album (Merge Records 2015)

6:40pm

The Bohicas “xxx”
from The Making of CD (Domino Recording Co Ltd 2015)

6:44pm

Giant Sand “Hurtin' Habit”
from Heartbreak Pass CD Album (New West 2015)

6:47pm

Ratatat “Countach”
from Magnifique CD Album (XL Recordings 2015)

6:50pm

Dengue Fever “Rom Say Sok”
from The Deepest Lake CD Album (Tuk Tuk Records 2015)

6:55pm

DestroyER “Midnight Meet the Rain”
from Poison Season CD Album (Pod 2015)

6:59pm

The Sonics “Save the planet”
from This Is the Sonics CD Album (Re:Vox 2015)

7:04pm

Sleater-Kinney “No Anthems”
from No Cities to Love CD Other (Sub Pop 2015)

7:07pm

Telekinesis “Edgewood”
from Ad Infinitum CD Album (Merge Records 2015)

7:10pm

Phylums “Crummy Side of Town”
from Phylum Phyloid LP Album (Dirtnap Records 2015) L

7:15pm

Kurt Vile “Dust Bunnies”
from B'lieve I'm Goin Down… CD Album (Matador 2015)

7:19pm

Panda Bear “No man's land”
from crosswords ep (Domino 2015)

7:22pm

Pow! “Liquid Daydream”
from fight fire CD Album (Castle Face 2015)

7:27pm

Kelley Stoltz “Pyramid of Time”
from In Triangle Time (Castle Face 2015)

7:31pm

Shilpa Ray “Johnny Thunders Fantasy Space Camp”
from Last Year's Savage CD Album (Northern Spy 2015)

7:33pm

Froth “bleak”
from Bleak CD Album (Burger Records 2015)

7:41pm

Jim O'Rourke “That Weekend”
from Simple Songs CD Album (Drag City 2015)

7:44pm

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba “Waati”
from Ba Power (Glitterbeat Records 2015)

7:48pm

Eagles of Death Metal “Oh Girl”
from Zipper down LP Album (Eagles of Death Metal (T-Boy Records) PS 2015)

7:53pm

LOW “The Innocents”
from Ones and Sixes CD Album (Sub Pop 2015)

7:58pm

Heartless Bastards “into the light”
from Restless Ones CD Album (Partisan 2015)

8:03pm

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion “Do the Get Down”
from Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015 CD Album (Mom + Pop 2015)

8:07pm

The Dead Weather “Buzzkill(er)”
from Dodge and Burn LP Album (Third Man Records TMR-284 2015)

8:09pm

Wand “Lower Order”
from 1000 Days CD Album (Drag City 2015)

8:15pm

La Luz “I Wanna Be Alone (With You)”
from Weirdo Shrine LP Album (Hardly Art 2015)

8:18pm

The Pukes “Untitled, #7”
from The Pukes - EP CD EP (self-released 2015) L

8:20pm

FUZZ “Pollinate”
from ii LP Album (In the Red 2015) N

8:25pm

Jamie xx “girl”
from In Colour LP Album (Young Turks Recordings Ltd 2015)

8:29pm

Grimes “Scream (feat. Aristophanes)”
from Art Angels CD Album (4AD 2015) N

8:31pm

Tenement “Garden of Secrecy”
from Predatory Headlights CD Album (Don Giovanni Records 2015) L

8:36pm

Björk “quicksand”
from Vulnicura (One Little Indian 2015)

8:40pm

Screaming Females “Burning Car”
from Rose Mountain CD Album (Don Giovanni Records 2015)

8:43pm

Viet Cong “Pointless Experience”
from Viet Cong CD Album (Jagjaguwar 2015)

8:46pm

Thee Oh Sees “Lupine Ossuary”
from Mutilator Defeated At Last CD Album (Castle Face 2015)

I ended with a heap of Motorhead from Bad Magic released this summer. Last release before Lemmy's death this week. :(

8:52pm

Motorhead “Shout Out All of Your Lights”
from Bad Magic (UDR 2015)

8:57pm

Motorhead “Electricity”
from Bad Magic (UDR 2015)

8:59pm

Motorhead “The Devil”
from Bad Magic (UDR 2015)

9:03pm

Motorhead “Evil Eye”
from Bad Magic (UDR 2015)

New music vid from Shadow in the Cracks

I played a different track from their recent debut album but this is a cool video. Shadow in the Cracks "Timeless"

Playlist Dec. 16, 2015/ 80s guest Bunnyman!

City Rock Showgram (Music)

http://www.richmars.blogspot.com

With Rich Mars

rmars@tds.net

http://www.richmars.blogspot.com

Wed Dec 16th 2015 6.00pm–9.00pm

R=listener request. N=music new at the station. L=local music. 

Time zone: central

6:05pm

Toots & The Maytals “Funky Kingston (Live)”
from Toots Live (1980)

6:08pm

Morphine “Mary Won't You Call My Name?”
from Cure for Pain CD Album (Ryko/Rhino 1993)

6:10pm

Beat Happening “Nancy Sin”
from Look Around CD Other (Domino 2015) N

6:14pm

The Mike Benign Compulsion “Professional Jealousy / Saw Your Post”
from Here's How It Works CD Album (self-released 2014) L

6:17pm

The White Bats “Black Kettles”
from The White Bats CD (2015) N

6:22pm

The Fiery Furnaces “Duplexes of the Dead”
from Widow City (Thrill Jockey www.thrilljockey.com 2007)

6:26pm

Grimes “Scream (feat. Aristophanes)”
from Art Angels CD Album (4AD 2015) N

6:28pm

GANG OF FOUR “I Party All the Time”
from CONTENT (Groenland Records 2011)

6:32pm

Eagles of Death Metal “Oh Girl”
from Zipper down LP Album (Eagles of Death Metal (T-Boy Records) PS 2015)

6:40pm

Amy Rigby “That Tone Of Voice”
from Diary Of A Mod Housewife CD Album (Koch 1996)

6:42pm

The Dresden Dolls “Necessary Evil”
from Yes, Virginia CD Other (Roadrunner Records 2006)

6:45pm

Chet Baker And the Lighthouse All-Stars “winter wonderland”
from Witch Doctor (1985) —1953 Hermosa Beach

6:50pm

Trolley “She Has It All”
from Caught In The Darkness CD Album (Easter Records 2015) N L

6:54pm

Patti Smith “Persuasion”
from Gung Ho CD Album (Arista www.discogs.com/label/362-Arista 2000)

6:57pm

Small Black “Checkpoints”
from Best Blues CD Album (Jagjaguwar 2015) N

7:03pm

The Rolling Stones “2000 Light Years from home”
from Their Satanic Majesties Request LP Album (London 1967)

7:09pm

Sonic Youth “Sleepin' Around”
from Rather Ripped CD Album (Geffen 2006)

7:12pm

FUZZ “rat race”
from ii CD Album (In the Red 2015) N

7:17pm

Blessed Feathers “Song from Henry's Yard”
from There Will Be No Sad Tomorrow (Blessed Feathers 2015) N L

7:20pm

Los Lobos “Life is good”
from Colossal Head (Warner Bros. 1998)

7:24pm

El Vez “Feliz navidad”
from Merry MeX-mas CD Album (Sympathy For The Record Industry 1994)

7:28pm

The Pack A.D. “rocket”
from Do Not Engage CD Album (Nettwerk Records 2014)

7:32pm

Pleasure Club “One Hand Washes the Other (live)”
from Out Of The Pulpit (Purified 2003)

7:36pm

Drive By Truckers “Three Dimes Down”
from It's Great To Be Alive! (2015) N

7:43pm

Oneohtrix Point Never “I Bite Through It”
from Garden of Delete (Warp Records warp.net 2015) N

7:46pm

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Albert Goes West”
from Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (Mute Records 2008)

7:50pm

Phylums “Crummy Side of Town”
from Phylum Phyloid LP Album (Dirtnap Records 2015) L

7:55pm

Fishbone “Slick You Devil You”
from It's A Wonderful Life (1989)

7:59pm

Coke Weed “New Jive”
from Mary Weaver (Beyond Beyond is Beyond Records 2015)

8:04pm

The Fuzztones “Highway 69”
from Lysergic Emanations LP Album (ABC 1986)

8:06pm

Shadow in the Cracks “800 Meters”
from Shadow in the Cracks CD Album (Goner 2015) N

8:09pm

50 Foot Wave “Pretty ugly”
from Free Music (ThrowingMusic 2006)

8:16pm

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club “not listed”
from Live (2009)

8:20pm

The Shocking Pinks “Lovehate”
from Dance the Dance Electric (2015) N

8:23pm

Mark Lanegan Band “head”
from Bubblegum (2004)

8:26pm

Go Go Slow “Carpet Bomb”
from Go Go Slow (2015) N L

The 80s at 8:30. Very special guest Bunnyman brought some of his favorites.

8:33pm

Suicidal Tendencies “Institutionalized” (1983)

8:36pm

Hüsker Dü “Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely”
from Candy Apple Grey LP Album (Warner Bros. 1986)

8:42pm

Ministry “Stigmata” Single (1988)

8:48pm

Basement 5 “Last white christmas”
from 1965-1980 LP Album (Universal-Island Records Ltd. 1980)

8:53pm

Hoodoo Gurus “I want you back”
from Stoneage Romeos CD Album (A&M 1984)

8:56pm

Wall Of Voodoo “Back in Flesh”
from Dark Continent LP (I.R.S. 1981)