To borrow a phrase from the writer James Wolcott, it's Christmas Nocturne - that pleasantly odd week between Christmas and New Years where a significant number of people aren't working and presumably have lots of time to listen to best of the year compilations. As usual, I tried to exclude any artist who had been on any of the best of compilations from the previous two years, but I couldn't resist including Father John's Misty Pure Comedy as the closing cut. I've also re-upped all my previous best of compilations (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016). Hope everyone has a great 2018!
Disc One
| Pleasure | Feist |
| Dancing Down the Hall | Frankie Rose |
| Goodnight Rhonda Lee | Nicole Atkins |
| Rolling Along | The Mavericks |
| Lonely Girl | Chelsea Williams |
| Long Lonely Road | Valerie June |
| Taste | Rhye |
| Humility | Kamasi Washington |
| Evolution | Kelly Lee Owens |
| Systole | Grizzly Bear |
| Into My Arms | Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer |
| Just a Drink Away | Charley Crockett |
| Only Trouble Is | Ron Sexsmith |
| In Between | The Feelies |
| Sinking Down | Son Volt |
| God Bless the Infidels | The Sadies |
| Downhearted | Molly Burch |
| If You Need To, Keep Time On Me | Fleet Foxes |
| Sparks Fly | Waxahatchee |
| Who's Lovin' You | Kelis |
| Disc Two | |
| You Never Loved Me | Aimee Mann |
| Long Time Coming | Coco Hames |
| Last of My Kind | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit |
| Kanimba | Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet |
| Big Fish | Vince Staples |
| Star Roving | Slowdive |
| Shake and Pop | Los Straitjackets |
| I Don't Wanna Die in This Town | Old 97's |
| I Pray When I'm Drunk | Robyn Hitchcock |
| The Singer (For Jason Molina) | Mark Eitzel |
| Til the Goin' Gets Gone | Lindi Ortega |
| Mexican Dust | Mosquitos |
| Road Head | Japanese Breakfast |
| Beautiful | Lera Lynn |
| Morning Dove | Julie Byrne |
| The Silverback | The Heliocentrics |
| The World Is Falling Down | Jim James |
| Plastic | Moses Sumney |
| Wrangled | Angaleena Presley |
| Pure Comedy | Father John Misty |
8 comments:
Good to see The Feelies in your mix. One of the best indie rock bands in America.
It is pretty great that they're still around and making excellent music.
Please take a moment to review "Emily's Virtual Rocket". (emilysvirtualrocket.blogspot.com) This has reviews of transgender life, plus a critical view of Donald Trump. Thanks.
Sincerely,
Emily Shorette
Plating a bit of catch-up here, but thanks so much for your efforts here. Awesome stuff.
JD,
Quite welcome! I think 2017 was a very good year, musically speaking.
Ish
Thanks for all the Christmas music, but this 2-parter doesn't seem to have good links. Any chance of a re-up?
And if you're looking for older Christmas music, click on over to my blog and see if there's anything that interests you.
ernienotbert.blogspot.com
Oh, this one isn't Christmas... I got in too much of a download Frenzy. Nevermind...
@anonymous,
No problem - I reupped it anyway. And your blog is great - everyone should check out http://ernienotbert.blogspot.com/.
best,
Ish
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