Top 10 of 2010

This is far from a definitive list. I haven't listened to all the new CDs released this year and I don't want to. This is really more a list of my favorites and stuff I thought was super cool.

In no particular order....

Bobby Bare Jr. -- A Storm - A Tree - My Mother's Head. Bobby's most consistent and rewarding album in a while. Backed by My Morning Jacket. Funny and deep and not serious and good.

Drive By Truckers -- The Big To-Do. If this world was right, this would have been a smash hit. A classic album with a variety of styles and great lyrics all in the general arena of DBT's gothic southern rock.

Black Angels -- Phosphene Dream. Best psychedelia from Texas since Roky Erickson. Loud and proud.

The Goodnight Loving -- Supper Club. These guys grow on me more all the time. Jangly and homespun. Their most consistent effort to date.

Galactic -- Yakamay. Live the funk. Feel the funk. Organic and modern all at once with variety of guest vocalists.

The Fall -- Your Future Our Clutter. Who woulda thought Mark E. Smith had this in him -- the brains to work with a kick-ass band that rocks its arse off while he warbles about ex-pats and other stuff.

Neil Young -- Le Noise. You either love Neil or you don't get him. If you love Neil, this features some might fine gee-tarr chords and nifty songs. New approach thanks to producer Daniel Lanois.

Deerhunter -- Halcyon Digest. Every tune I've heard on this is expertly crafted and delivered. Bradfod Cox rox.

Jaill -- That's How We Burn. I'm looking like a homer here with two Milwaukee bands on my list, but the first three tracks on this release were one of the best starts to any CD I heard this year. A few other gems on here, too. Straight ahead alt rock.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Beat the Devil's Tattoo. This one doesn't jump out at you like some of their previous works, but after numerous listens, it's got some great material.

Honorable mentions: Gil Scott-Heron, Clinic, Walkmen, Sleigh Bells, Black Keys, Dum Dum Girls

Diggin the music Wednesday night 12-8

If I didn't dig it, I wouldn't play it. That's all I'm sayin.
Here are this week's new tunes and the '80s at 8:30 Flipper/ Gun Club-fest.

6 pm hour

Margot and the Nuclear So and So's -- New York City
Warpaint -- Bees
Neil Young -- Sign of Love
Swans -- Reeling the Liars
Pomegranates -- Skull Cakin
The Extra Lens -- Adultry
Testa Rosa -- The Black Saltwater Sea
LCD Sound System -- Get Innocuous (live)

Recurrent track (4-12 months old)

Gil Scott-Heron -- Me and the Devil

7 pm hour

Brian Eno -- Flint March
Small Black -- Photojournalist
Bobby Bare Jr. -- Your Goat is on Fire
Deerhunter -- Revival
Darker My Love -- Dear Author
Crocodiles -- Stoned to Death
Dandy Warhols -- Boys Better (new best of)
Clinic -- Milk & Honey
Mararet Cho -- I'm Sorry
Girls -- Alright

Recurrent
Black Angels -- Phosphene Dream

8 pm hour

John Wesley Coleman -- Fields of Love
Cloud Cult -- Today We Give Ourselves to the Fire

Recurrent
Gogol Bordello -- We Comin Rougher (Immigraniada)

The 80s at 8:30

Flipper -- Ever
Gun Club -- Eternally Is Here
Flipper -- Way of the World
Gun Club -- Give Up the Sun
Flipper -- Life
Flipper -- Sex Bomb (alt. version)

Thanksgiving eve tune-age

While your turkey was basting, I was keeping the WMSE transmitter warm Thanksgiving eve. Here are new trax plus 80s at 8:30 featuring the dBs.

6 pm hour

Deerhunter -- Coronado
Clinic -- Lion Tamer
Girls -- Alright
Margaret Cho -- I'm Sorry
Southern Culture on the Skids -- Come As You Are/ Lucifer Sam
Black Mountain -- Hair Song

Recurrent (4-12 months old)

Jaill -- She's My Baby

7 pm hour

Limes -- Rusty Old Clock
Bobby Bare Jr. -- The Sky is the Ground
Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3 -- On the Mend
John Wesley Coleman -- Get High Babe
Matt Freeman's Devil's Brigade -- Gentlemen of the Road
Matthew Dear -- Soil to Seed
Crocodiles -- Sleep Forever

8 pm hour

Posies -- Notion 99
LCD Sound System -- Daft Punk
Grinderman -- Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man

Recurrent

The Slew -- 100 %

The 80s at 8:30

This week's feature was on the dBs, a power-pop/ jangle pop band from N.C.

Bad Reputation
Neverland
A Spy in the House of Love
Say It Again
Rendezvous
Change with the Changing Times
Amplifier
Black and White

Pledge drive showgram Nov. 10!

Hey all, please give a call tonight from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. during the City Rock Showgram and support WMSE in our fall pledge drive. Any amount counts. Take a short pause for a worthy cause. Do it at 414-799-1917 or wmse.org. Thanks in advance.

Hallowed musical ground 10-27

Thanks to Bunnyman for helping ring in the scary spirit that I would otherwise ignore. The '80s at 8:30 Halloween music was fun. And, of course, the regular showgram was a blast not from the past.

New tracks

6 pm hour

Clinic -- Lion Tamer
Hot Panda -- Shoot Your Horse
!!! -- Hollow
Chilly Gonzales -- Never Stop
Posies -- Plastic Paberbacks
Sufjan Stevens -- Get Real Get Right

Recurrent (4-12 months old)

Drive By Truckers -- Drag the Lake Charlie
Goodnight Loving -- Ain't It Wierd

7 pm hour

this hour's lineup looks like some kind of new music Wednesday but every stinkin day is that at MSE.....

Matthew Dear -- You Put a Smell on Me
Swans -- Reeling the Liars
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's -- Let's Paint Our Teeth Green
Bobby Bare Jr. -- Rock & Roll Halloween
Eels -- Looking Up
Black Angels -- Entrance Song
Black Angels -- Bad Vibrations
Devils Brigade -- Gentlemen of the Road
Neil Young -- Walk with Me
Crocodiles -- Billy Speed

8 pm hour

Billy Nayer Show -- Fredward
Morcheeba -- Cut to the Bass
Cloud Cult -- Today We Give Ourselves the Fire

The 80s at 8:30 (Halloween edition)

The Cramps -- Rockin Bones
Plasticland -- A Brief Commentary on Wax Museums
Fuzztones -- She's Wicked
The Cure -- Funeral Party
Siouxsie and the Banshees -- Halloween
The Meteors -- My Daddy is a Vampire
Bauhaus (request) -- Bela Legosi's Dead

X (the band not the rating) and new stuff 10/13

6 pm hour new stuff

Salteens -- Last Train from London
Margot and the Nuclear So & So's -- New York City Hotel Blues
Deehunter -- Coronado
Versus -- Invincible Hero
Matthew Dear -- Monkey
Clinic -- Saffire

7 pm hour

Walkmen -- Angela Surf City
Bobby Bare Jr. -- The Sky is the Ground
Black Angels -- Sunday Afternoon
Grinderman -- Evil
Hot Panda -- Shoot Your Horse
James -- It's Hot
Blonde Redhead -- Oslo
Posies -- Notion 99
Limes -- Rusty Old Clock

8 pm hour

!!! -- Hollow
Neil Young -- Walk with Me
Crocodiles -- Sleep Forever
Devil's Brigade -- Gentlemen of the Road

Recurrent (4-12 months old)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- River Styx

The '80s at 8:30

Featured artist X

Sex and Dying in High Society
The Once Over Twice
Johnny Hit and Run Pauline
White Girl
Because I Do
We're Having Much More Fun
Riding with Mary
Love Shack
Heater

X is featured artist on 80's at 8:30 Oct. 13

Yep, the cats and freaky catette from LA. Any ideas/ requests, call 'em in during my showgram Wednesday night, 414-799-1917.
Thanks
Rich