December Playlist!

Do you remember the 90's? I do. I sure did love "rocking" out to some great tunes with my asshole friends and then trying to get girls to let me take their clothes off. 

Change of pace!

My music playlists have usually consisted of a new album and a "classic" album, but I've decided to switch it up. I'm sick of hating on new shit, so I ain't gonna bother anymore. 

I'm accepting the fact that I'm an old man, and this is what I like! 1990 was pretty fucking awesome and here's a list of the best shit from 25 years ago!

If I had to put together a Top 10 from 1990, I would have a tough time whittling thirty records down. In 2015, there are like two records I kind of liked... I think. 

So, I took a look at CMJ's (I used to work for those assholes.) Top 25 of 1990 and it's ALL RIGHT with me, so I'm gonna listen to that and I cherry picked some of the other great releases of the year that didn't make the cut. 

This is one of the best monthly playlists I've compiled since I started doing this and it's also the first time that some albums repeat. 

ENJOY!!!!

December 1

Gene Loves Jezebel Kiss Of Life (#25)

Aztec Camera Stray (#24)

December 2

Creatures Boomerang (#23)

Breeders Pod (#22)

December 3

Urban Dance Squad Mental Floss For The Globe (#21)

Black Crowes Shake Your Money Maker

December 4

Jesus Jones Liquidizer (#20)

King Missile Mystical Shit

December 7

Public Enemy Fear Of A Black Planet (#19)

Digital Underground Sex Packets

December 8

Soup Dragons Lovegod (#18)

Alice In Chains Facelift

December 9

Nitzer Ebb Showtime (#17)

Slayer Seasons In The Abyss

December 10

Sinead O’Connor I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got (#16)

Lou Reed & John Cale Songs For Drella

December 11

The Church Gold Afternoon Fix (#15)

Ride Smile

December 14

Jesus And Mary Chain Automatic (#14)

Mazzy Star She Hangs Brightly

December 15

Iggy Pop Brick By Brick (#13)

Living Colour Time’s Up

December 16

Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine (#12)

KMFDM Naïve

December 17

World Party Goodbye Jumbo (#11)

Jellyfish Bellybutton

December 18

Ultra Vivid Scene Joy 1967-1990 (#10)

Cocteau Twins Heaven Or Las Vegas

December 21

Concrete Blonde Bloodletting (#9)

Superchunk Superchunk

December 22

Midnight Oil Blue Sky Mining (#8)

Boogie Down Productions Edutainment

December 23

Lightning Seeds Cloudcuckooland (#7)

Trash Can Sinatras Cake

December 24

Sonic Youth Goo (#6)

Galaxie 500 This Is Our Music

December 25 – Jesus’ Birthday!

They Might Be Giants Flood (#5)

Ween God Ween Satan

December 28

Peter Murphy Deep (#4)

The Replacements All Shook Down

December 29

Sundays Reading, Writing And Arithmetic (#3)

Jane’s Addiction Ritual de lo Habitual

December 30

Social Distortion Social Distortion (#2)

Pixies Bossanova

December 31

Depeche Mode Violator (#1)

Happy Mondays Pill ‘N’ Thrills And Bellyaches

November Playlist!!!

I took this picture the day the Mets won the pennant.

Finally! A complete playlist for November! I haven't listened to the Violent Femmes before on one of my playlists. Can you believe that? 

Thanksgiving is comprised of two bands that I love with all my heart and remind me of "home." No matter where I am, they'll take me there. 

We'll close out the month with Darkness and Light. A new album from Danzig and an album from Pope Francis?! Yeah, it's da real Pope and not a couple of dickheads from L.A. or something. It is right to give thanks and praise, indeed! 

November 2

Nick Drake Bryter Layter

Nick Drake Pink Moon

November 3

Fountains Of Wayne Utopia Parkway
Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars

November 4

Phish Lawn Boy

Trey Anastasio Paper Wheels

November 5

Drive-By Truckers Gangstabilly

Drive-By Truckers It’s Great To Be Alive

November 6

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars

Edie Brickell/Steve Martin So Familiar

November 9

America Hearts

Deerhunter Fading Frontier

November 10

Emerson, Lake And Palmer Brain Salad Surgery 
(Greg Lake born 11.10.1948)

Grimes Art Angels

November 11

XTC White Music (Andy Partridge born 11.11.1953)

XTC Go 2

November 12

Stevie Wonder Talking Book

CeeLo Green Heart Blanche

November 13

Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever (Ol’ Dirty Bastard died 11.13.2004)
Tim McGraw Damn Country Music

November 16

Jay Z The Black Album (Released on 11.14.2003)

Seal 7

November 17

Crowded House Crowded House

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Paper Mache Dream Baloon

November 18

The Beatles Let It Be

The Beatles Let It Be… Naked (Released on 11.18.2003)

November 19

ELO Out Of The BLue

ELO Alone In The Universe

November 20

Sly And The Family Stone There’s A Riot Goin’ On 

(Released 11.20.1971)

Adele 25

November 23

Violent Femmes Violent Femmes (Brian Ritchie born 11.21.1960)

Mutemath Vitals

November 24

Squeeze East Side Story

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Days Of Abandon & Hell EP

November 25

The Smiths The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths Strangeways Here We Come

November 26 (Thanksgiving Day)

The Replacements Pleased To Meet Me

Dinosaur Jr Where You Been

November 27

The Pogues Red Roses For Me

Danzig Skeletons

November 30

David Bowie Hunky Dory
Pope Francis Wake Up! (Yes! That Pope Francis!)

"Rocktober" Playlist!

Rock Over The Blood Moon! 

Wow! I can't believe it's "Rocktober" already! As usual, I'm late on the playlist and there's even more bad news. (Humblebrag coming.) Because I'll be in Europe for a large chunk of the month, there won't be playlists for those days. I'm assuming I'll be listening to a lot of German Techno, or Dutch Metal, or French Ear Poop, or God knows what?! 

Minus the ten days, another great month of music! Enjoy! And if you can find me on Spotify, bradmaybe, I put the daily playlists together. 

October 1

New Order Low Life

New Order Music Complete

October 2

INXS Shabooh Shoobah

Silversun Pickups Better Nature

October 5

Bruce Springsteen Nebraska

Ryan Adams 1989

October 6

Matthew Sweet Blue Sky On Mars (Sweet born on 10.06.1964)

The Dead Weather Dodge And Burn

October 7

Thom Yorke The Eraser (Yorke born on 10.07.1968)

Radiohead In Rainbows

October 8

Devo Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!

The Eagles Of Death Metal Zipper Down

October 9

Mercury Rev Boces

Mercury Rev The Light In You

October 12

John Denver Rocky Mountain High (Denver died on 10.12.1997)

Wilco Star Wars

October 13

Sting …Nothing Like The Sun

The Libertines Anthems For Doomed Youth

October 14

Rick James Street Songs

Joe Jackson Fast Forward

October 15

Stereophonics Word Gets Around

Stereophonics Keep The Village Alive

October 16 I'M OUTTA THE COUNTRY!

October 19 I'M OUTTA THE COUNTRY!

October 20 I'M OUTTA THE COUNTRY!

October 21 I'M OUTTA THE COUNTRY!

October 22 I'M OUTTA THE COUNTRY!

October 23 I'M OUTTA THE COUNTRY!

October 26 I'M OUTTA THE COUNTRY!

October 27

Duran Duran Seven And The Ragged Tiger (Simon Le Bon born on 10.27.1958)

Electric Six Bitch, Don’t Let Me Die

October 28

Jesus And Mary Chain Automatic (William Reid born on 10.28.1958)

Born Ruffians Ruff

October 29

Meatloaf Bat Out Of Hell (Released on 10.29.1977)

Coheed And Cambria The Color Before The Sun

October 30

The Edgar Winter Group They Only Come Out At Night

Emily Kinney This Is War

There Will Be No September Playlist...

Flashlightmenship.

OK! With football season looming, the Mets making a playoff run and just a general end of summer malaise, I have decided NOT to do a September playlist.

However, I will bounce back strong and round out the rest of the year with three playlists for October and the rest.

Until then, LET GO METS! LETS GO BUFF-A-LO! And your favorite teams can go pee up a rope for all I care.

Good day.

August Playlis!!!

Running On Empty.

Finally! Here is the playlist for August! I was griping about bands I knew not putting out records, but I see that Public Enemy, Veruca Salt, Failure, Beach House and Atlas Genius all have new offerings. Plus, we'll listen to some bands I've neglected on the playlists; Yes, Squeeze, The Grateful Dead, Bauhaus and Tears For Fears. And for no reason towards the end of August we'll listen to early solo John Lennon and Paul McCartney stuff! 

Here you go!!!!!!

August Playlist

August 3

Metallica …And Justice For All (James Hetfield born 8.3.1963)

Cradle Of Filth Hammer Of The Witches

August 4

The Strokes Room On Fire

Albert Hammond Jr. Momentary Masters 

August 5

Jackson Browne Running On Empty

Tame Impala Currents 

August 6

Yes 90125

The Smoking Trees TST

August 7

The Grateful Dead American Beauty (Jerry Garcia passed on 8.9.1995)

Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy

August 10

Bauhaus Mask

Sleaford Mods Key Markets

August 11

Kiss Love Gun

Deaf Wish Pain

August 12

Genesis Genesis

Matt Pond PA The State Of Gold

August 13

Radiohead Hail To The Thief

Four Tet Morning/Evening

August 14

The Replacements Tim (Slim Dunlap, who didn’t play on this record, born 8.14.1951)

Veruca Salt Ghost Notes

August 17

Public Enemy Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy Man Plans God Laughs

August 18

Tool Lateralus

Failure The Heart Is A Monster

August 19

The Police Ghost In The Machine

Aphex Twin Syro

August 20

Thin Lizzy Black Rose: A Rock Legend (Phil Lynott born 8.20.1949)

Teenage Time Killers Greatest Hits, Vol. 1

August 21

Tears For Fears Songs From The Big Chair (Roland Orzabal born 8.22.1961)

Negative Scanner Negative Scanner

August 24

John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

Paul McCartney Ram

August 25

Bruce Springsteen Born To Run (Released on 8.25.75)

Wolf Alice My Love Is Cool

August 26

ELO A New World Record

White Reaper White Reaper Does It Again

August 27

Rush Moving Pictures (Alex Lifeson born 8.27.1953)

The Chemical Brothers Born In The Echoes

August 28

Rolling Stones Tattoo You (Released on 8.28.1981)

Beach House Depression Cherry

August 31

Squeeze Argybargy (Glen Tilbrook born 8.31.1957) 
Atlas Genius Inanimate Objects 

Happy Independence Day!!!!

Happy 4th Of July!

In honor of our great nation, there will be no playlist for July. Thank YOU, America!

A fresh new playlist will return for August!

June Playlist!

I look great from the back.

The whole month of May I was planning on doing the June Playlist early. I kept emailing myself suggestions, so that when it came time to put together the list, it would be a breeze. And here we are on June 2nd and I'm just finalizing it. As I was putting the list together I listened to the new one from The Darkness... it's kind of a turd. 

At any rate, here's June! Same as always, one new album and one "classic" album a day. This month finds the youngest album I'm passing off as a classic, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds released in 2011. 

There are also a lot of broads this month, Florence And The Machine, Heart, Blondie, Janis Joplin, Melody Gardot, and Imogen Heap... it just kind of worked out that way. 

New stuff is mainly freshly released albums, with a few records from last year that I wanna "catch up" on. (Broken Bells, Hold Steady, Imogen Heap, Mac DeMarco)

Oh! Since doing the Year Of Music in 2013 and this year, I have listened to over 700 albums! And not one of them was from Joy Division! What a crime! So, I threw Unknown Pleasures at the end of the month. 

Enjoy!

June 1

The Police Zenyatta Mondatta

The Vaccines English Graffiti

June 2

The Darkness Permission To Land

The Darkness Last Of Our Kind

June 3

Heart Dreamboat Annie

Florence And The Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

June 4

Willie Nelson The Troublemaker

Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson Django And Jimmie

June 5

The Jam Sound Affects

Paul Weller Saturn’s Pattern

June 8

The Rolling Stones Exile On Main St.

Dawes All Your Favorite Bands

June 9

Muse Showbiz

Muse Drones

June 10

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds

Algiers Algiers

June 11

Blondie Eat To The Beat

DuBlonde Welcome Back To Milk

June 12

Sloan One Chord To Another (Released on 6.12.1996)

The Oh Sees Mutilator Defeated At Last

June 15

The Cars Candy-O (Released 6.13.1979)

Of Monsters And Men Beneath The Skin

June 16

Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind

Third Eye Blind Dopamine

June 17

Janis Joplin I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama!

Melody Gardot Currency Of Man

June 18

Graham Parker And The Rumor Howlin’ Wind

Graham Parker And The Rumor Mystery Glue

June 19

Lou Reed Transformer

Mac DeMarco Salad Days

June 22

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones More Noise And Other Disturbances (Dicky Barrett born 6.22.1964)

Walk Off The Earth Sing It All Away

June 23

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Hard Promises

Broken Bells After The Disco

June 24

Bruce Springsteen The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle

Slaves Are You Satisfied?

June 25

The Trash Can Sinatras Cake (Released on 6.25.1990)

Chris Connelly Decibels From Heart

June 26

Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself

Imogen Heap Sparks

June 29

Men At Work Business As Usual (Colin Hay born 6.29.1953)

The Hold Steady Teeth Dreams

June 30

Joy Division Unknown Pleasures

Refused Freedom

05.01.15

On May 1st I listened to The Tragically Hip Fully Completely and Everclear Has-Been Is The New Has-Been.

Canada has a lot of pride. They’re proud of their country. They’re proud of Wayne Gretzky. They’re proud of being nice. They’re proud of their health care. They’re proud of poutine. They’re proud of the way they tolerate the French. They’re proud of Rush and The Tragically Hip. And why not? I’d be screaming from the rooftops if my country gave the world French fries & gravy and “The Spirit Of Radio.”

The Tragically Hip have a long and storied history, but let me try and give you the CliffNotes. Cool guys only call them The Hip. In the early 90’s when everything was Grunge and Alt Rock, they were simply a blue collar Rock band. They produced albums filled with “grace” and haunting thoughtful narratives. They achieved legendary status in the land of Canucks and nobody gave a shit about them here in the States. (Unless you lived in a border town.) Then Canada pooped out Nickelback. Chad Kroeger and the boys sold millions of records in the U.S. with half the talent, none of the song writing ability and the moment The Hip should have enjoyed... passed. The world is a cruel and unfair bitch.

Back in the 90’s I hated when The Tragically Hip were referred to as the R.E.M. of Canada. It’s a lazy comparison and came about mostly because of their frontmen. Gord Downie and Michael Stipe are definitely cut from the same cloth, but dipped in completely different dyes and sewn into very different shirts. Where R.E.M. looked out at a modern world from old southern eyes, The Tragically Hip saw a continent and claimed it in the name of Rock ‘n’ Roll! “At The Hundredth Meridian” literally divides America down the middle.

Fully Completely is, to me, a love letter to North America. Not like Florida and R.E.M.’s south, but also not just Canada. This is an album for people who have lived through a few brutal winters. It’s the smell of spring on the first warm day in March and the promise of a short beautiful summer. This album should have been The Hip’s coming out party to the world – A gritty and sometimes fucked-up romp through the hidden recesses of a forgotten frontier away from the garbage bag trees… and yes, there’s a song about Hockey too.

I can barely find the words to describe what this album does in forty-six minutes. It is in complete communion with the entire country of Canada, I assume, and a huge chunk of the U.S. I guess what I’m trying to say is that Fully Completely is a Folk album, but I don’t want to say that.

First of all.. Black Is The New Black? UGH! Douche chills! It's like asking the number for 911 or making a joke about how men don't ask for directions. C'mon Art! Get your head out of you ass! Second, every song on this album could just be an album track from old Everclear records and nobody would notice.

Let me try and find the silver lining in the chunks of this puked up record. If you’re going to stroll down memory lane and see Everclear on tour this summer, and I would never fault you for that because I love a lot of their heyday songs, this album will serve two purposes. Obviously, anytime they play something from Hairy Balls Is The New Hairy Balls during a show, you can grab a beer and take a piss. If you're teetotaling you’ll be able to play a fun game; what song did they rip off from their back catalog to produce this new forgettable jam?

"I'll take a picture with you only if you don't bad mouth my music in a blog post ten years from now!" said Art Alexakis. 

I don’t want to sound like a fickle bitch because I've given bands that have done the “comeback” record shit for not sounding anything like the band used to, and now I’m giving shit to a band that’s just tried too hard to do that. It’s like Alexakis dug up the ol’ handwritten Everclear songwriting recipe and fired up the stove. This record definitely sounds like Everclear. Douche Is the New Douche is in the same ballpark, but it's like they wheeled out an old-timer who is too old to throw out the first pitch so he just cruises around the bases in a golf cart waving. I dunno, maybe? 

Having said all that... I do love Everclear. I always thought this song should have been a hit!

Tomorrow I listen to Unwritten Law Elva and Metz II. 

May Playlist!

I'm everywhere.

Finally! The May playlist is done! Here's what we'll be listening to this month. Same format as before; two albums a day with the weekends off. I use the weekends to give a second listen to some stuff from that week. 

I keep forgetting to mention that I'm on that royalty raping music streaming service all the musicians I love hate... Spotify. I'm making all the playlists there, so there's that. (That link should take you right to my thing, but probably wont, cause nothing works for me.)

May 1

The Tragically Hip Fully Completely

Everclear Black Is The New Black

May 4

Unwritten Law Elva

Metz II

May 5

Led Zeppelin In Through The Out Door

Mumford & Sons I Can’t Imagine

May 6

(Chris Shiflett was born on 5.6.1971)

Me First And The Gimme Gimmes Have A Ball 

Foo Fighters Sonic Highways

May 7

Talking Heads Fear Of Music (Chris Frantz was born on 5.8.1951)

They Might Be Giants Glean

May 8

Depeche Mode Some Great Reward (Dave Gahan born on 5.9.1962)

Best Coast California Nights 

May 11

Bob Marley Soul Revolution

Tyler, The Creator Cherry Bomb

May 12

Matthew Sweet 100% Fun

Surfer Blood 1000 Palms

May 13

Steely Dan Can’t Buy A Thrill

My Morning Jacket The Waterfall

May 14

Neds Atomic Dustbin God Fodder

Django Django Born Under Saturn

May 15

Wire 154

Wire Wire

May 18

Elvis Costello This Year’s Model

Elvis Costello When I Was Cruel

May 19

Faith No More Introduce Yourself

Faith No More Sol Invictus

May 20

Hüsker Dü New Day Rising

Hot Chip Why Makes Sense?

May 21

Iron Maiden Piece Of Mind

The Helio Sequence The Helio Sequence

May 22

Dead Milkmen Eat Your Paisley!

Rancid Honor Is All We Know

May 25

Metallica Ride The Lightning

Perfume Genius Too Bright

May 26

Sloan Navy Blues

Cloud Nothings Here And Nowhere Else

May 27

Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

Anti-Flag American Spring

May 28

Pearl Jam No Code

The Fireworks Switch Me On

May 29

Jane’s Addiction Strays

Unknown Mortal Orchestra Multi-Love