My top five albums of 2018 + two runners-up

These are the records that wound their way into my musical heart during 2018. I do not intend this to be any kind of 'critics' list of Great Music. Just stuff I enjoyed for a variety of reasons.

Top Five

La Luz "Floating Features"
Bombino "Deran"
The Liminanas "Shadow People"
Death Valley Girls "Darkness Rains"
Richard Thompson "13 Rivers"

Honorable mention

Ron Gallo "Stardust Birthday Party"
Tomorrows Tulips "Harnessed To Flesh"

Playlist Dec. 26 2018 -- My Favorites of 2018

City Rock Showgram (Music)

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Wed Dec 26th 2018 6.00pm–9.00pm

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

Time zone: central

6:04pm

Amy Rigby “Playing Pittsburgh”
from The Old Guys CD Album (Southern Domestic Recordings 2018)

6:05pm

Angel Olson “sweet dreams”
from Phases (2017) —late 17

6:08pm

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks “Shiggy”
from Sparkle Hard CD Album (Matador 2018)

6:14pm

Tomorrows Tulips “Turn it down”
from Harnessed to Flesh CD (Burger Records 2018) N

6:16pm

Arthur Buck “If You Wake Up In Time”
from Arthur Buck (2018)

6:22pm

Parquet Courts “Almost Had to Start a Fight / In and Out of Patience”
from Wide Awake! CD (Rough Trade 2018)

6:26pm

Tune-Yards “free”
from I can feel you creep into my private life CD Album (4AD 2018)

6:30pm

Shannon & The Clams “I Leave Again”
from Onion CD Album (Easy Eye Sound 2018)

6:33pm

Dirty Sidewalks “2nd Song”
from Bring Down the House Lights CD Album (No-Count Records 2018)

6:37pm

Eleanor Friedberger “Are We Good?”
from Rebound CD Album (Frenchkiss Records 2018)

6:40pm

Harlan T. Bobo “spiders”
from A History of Violence CD Album (Goner 2018)

6:43pm

Richard Thompson “The Rattle Within”
from 13 rivers (2018)

6:48pm

Laura Carbone “lullaby”
from Empty Sea CD Album (Aporia 2018)

6:51pm

Sloan “Year Zero”
from 12 CD Album (Yep Roc Records 2018)

6:55pm

The Liminanas “Dimanche (feat. Betrand Belin)”
from Shadow People Album (Because Music 2018)

7:02pm

Gringo Star “Back to the City” CD (Nevado Records 2018)

7:05pm

Jonathan Richman “A Penchant For The Stagnant”
from SA CD Album (Blue Arrow 2018) N

7:08pm

Anna Calvi “swimming pool”
from Hunter CD Album (Domino 2018)

7:13pm

Hello Death “grey eyes”
from For Those With Many Hearts LP Album (self-released 2018) L

7:16pm

Femi Kuti “how many”
from One People One World (Knitting Factory 2018)

7:19pm

King Tuff “Birds of paradise”
from The Other CD Album (Sub Pop 2018)

7:25pm

Unknown Mortal Orchestra “American Guilt”
from Sex & Food CD (Jagjaguwar 2018)

7:30pm

Ron Gallo “It's All Gonna Be Ok”
from Stardust Birthday Party CD Album (New West Records 2018) N

7:32pm

The Beths “uptown girl”
from Future Me Hates Me CD Album (Carpark 2018)

7:36pm

Buffalo Sex Change “Searching Hands”
from Searching Hands-admirable traits CD (Admirable Traits 2018)

7:39pm

La Luz “cicada”
from Floating Features CD Album (Hardly Art 2018)

7:42pm

A Place to Bury Strangers “Frustrated Operator”
from Pinned LP Album (Dead Oceans 2018)

7:49pm

BOMBINO “Imajghane”
from Deran CD Album (PTKF 2018)

7:53pm

No Age “Soft Collar Fad”
from Snares Like a Haircut CD Album (Drag City 2018)

7:56pm

Xposed 4heads “Take Off (feat. Star Girls) - Single” CD Single (Internal Combustion 2018) N L

8:01pm

Ty Segall “When Mommy Kills You”
from Freedom's Goblin CD Album (Drag City 2018)

8:04pm

Black Moth Super Rainbow “Baby's in the Void”
from Panic Blooms CD Album (Rad Cult 2018)

8:07pm

The Breeders “Archangel's Thunderbird”
from All Nerve LP Album (4AD 2018)

8:13pm

Underworld & Iggy Pop “Bells & Circles”
from Teatime Dub Encounters CD (Caroline 2018)

8:20pm

Dilly Dally “Pretty Cold”
from heaven CD Album (Partisan 2018)

8:23pm

Indonesian Junk “I could die”
from Darkness Calling - EP CD EP (Rum Bar Records / Lost Cat Records 2018) L

8:28pm

Death Valley Girls “Disaster (Is What We're After)”
from Darkness Rains CD Album (Suicide Squeeze 2018)

8:32pm

Jon Spencer “Overload”
from Spencer Sings The Hits! CD Album (In the Red 2018) N

8:35pm

Mud Honey “please mr. gunman”
from Digital Garbage (2018)

8:40pm

John Grant “He's Got His Mother's Hips”
from Love is Magic (Bella Union 2018)

8:43pm

Wax Chattels “Nrg”
from Wax Chattels CD (Flying Nun Records 2018)

8:47pm

Oh Sees “Abysmal Urn”
from Smote Reverser CD Album (Castle Face 2018)

8:52pm

Hot Snakes “Death Camp Fantasy”
from Jericho Sirens CD Album (Sub Pop 2018)

8:54pm

Dusted “Outline of a Wolf”
from Blackout Summer (Polyvinyl Records 2018)

Playlist Dec. 19, 2018. 80s at 8:30 on Pete Shelley solo

City Rock Showgram (Music)

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With Rich Mars

rmars@tds.net

http://www.richmars.blogspot.com

Wed Dec 19th 2018 6.00pm–9.00pm

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

Time zone: central

6:04pm

Broncho “Big City Boys”
from Bad Behavior CD Album (Park the Van 2018) N

6:05pm

The Moaners “Something Funny in Santa's Lap”
from Oh Santa! (2007)

6:08pm

Let's Active “Every Word Means No”
from Afoot LP EP (I.R.S. 1983)

6:11pm

Tess Parks and Anton Newcombe “wehmut”
from I Declare Nothing (2015)

6:14pm

The Jack Moves “Lookin for an Ice Girl”
from Free Money CD (Everloving Records 2018) N

6:17pm

Jonathan Richman “Oh Mind Let Me Go Home”
from SA CD Album (Blue Arrow 2018) N

6:22pm

Kelley Stoltz “No Pepper For the Dustman”
from Que Aura CD Album (Castle Face 2017)

6:25pm

Richard Thompson “the rattle within”
from 13 rivers (2018) N

6:28pm

Jesse Jo Stark “Wish I Was Dead”
from Wish I Was Dead - Single (Sugar Jones Music 2018) N

6:33pm

Tomorrows Tulips “Certain Frantic Quality”
from Harnessed to Flesh CD (Burger Records 2018) N

6:35pm

Fleshtones “high on drugs”
from Laboratory of Sound (1995)

6:39pm

Alex Chilton “jesus christ”
from Bach's Bottom (1975)

6:44pm

Lala Lala “Water over Sex”
from The Lamb CD Album (Hardly Art 2018) N

6:47pm

Marianne Faithfull “They Come at Night”
from Negative Capability (BMG Rights Mgmt France SARL 2018) N

6:50pm

Pontiak “It's the Greatest”
from Innocence CD Album (Thrill Jockey www.thrilljockey.com 2014)

6:55pm

Floyd Smith “the Bump”
from Southern Goove (Hotlanta, Aware, Clintone 1974)

6:58pm

Social Distortion “It Coulda Been Me”
from Social Distortion CD Album (Epic 1990)

7:03pm

The Section Quartet “heartbreaker”
from Fuzzbox (Universal Music Classics 2007)

7:08pm

Death Valley Girls “Wear black”
from Darkness Rains LP Album (Suicide Squeeze 2018) N

7:11pm

Art d'Ecco “Dark Days (Revisited)”
from Trespasser (Paper Bag Records 2018) N

7:17pm

Kurt Vile “Cold Was the Wind”
from Bottle It In CD Album (Matador 2018) N

7:22pm

Bob Marley & The Wailers “400 Years”
from Catch a Fire (Tuff Gong 4228482432 1973)

7:24pm

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

7:30pm

LOW “Poor Sucker”
from Double Negative CD Album (Sub Pop 2018) N

7:33pm

Super Drag “Filthy and Afraid”
from Industry Giants (2009)

7:37pm

RINGO DEATHSTARR “Heavy Metal Suicide”
from Pure Mood MP3 Album (Club AC30 2016)

7:46pm

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

7:49pm

Beak “Rsi”
from beak (2018) N

7:53pm

Ron Gallo “It's All Gonna Be Ok”
from Stardust Birthday Party CD Album (New West Records 2018) N

7:55pm

The dBs “dynamite”
from Stands for Decibels MP3 Album (1981)

8:01pm

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “The Mercy Seat (Live in Copenhagen)”
from Distant Sky (Live in Copenhagen) - EP (Bad Seed Ltd 2018) N

8:08pm

F***ed Up “Raise Your Voice Joyce”
from Dose Your Dreams LP Album (Arts & Crafts Productions Inc. 2018) N

8:09pm

The Balboas “Axed”
from Meet You in Hell - EP CD EP (Burn and Surf 2018) N

8:15pm

Shannon Wright “Surely, They'll Tear It Down”
from In Film Sound (Vicious Circle 2013)

8:18pm

Jon Spencer “Alien Humidity”
from Spencer Sings The Hits! CD Album (In the Red 2018) N

8:22pm

Ty Segall “low Rider”
from Fudge Sandwich LP Album (In the Red 2018) N

8:25pm

Cherubs “Carjack Fairy”
from Short of Popular CD Album (Trance Syndicate 2018) N  —orig 1996. this is reissue

The 80s at 8:30
In honor of Pete Shelley's passing, I presented his early 1980s solo work.

8:33pm

Pete Shelley “I don't know what love is”
from Homosapien (Arista discogs.com/label/362-Arista 1981)

8:36pm

Pete Shelley “Just One Of Those Affairs”
from Homosapien (Arista discogs.com/label/362-Arista 1981)

8:39pm

Pete Shelley “Witness the Change”
from Homosapien (Arista discogs.com/label/362-Arista 1981)

8:46pm

Pete Shelley “Telephone Operator”
from XL1 LP Album (Arista discogs.com/label/362-Arista 1983)

8:49pm

Pete Shelley “Many a Time”
from XL1 LP Album (Arista discogs.com/label/362-Arista 1983)

8:55pm

Pete Shelley “Homosapien” (Arista discogs.com/label/362-Arista 1981)