I'm planning on providing links to quickie reviews of each of the top 20 albums, although right now only a handful of them are finished (click on album titles).

1. The Breakdowns - The Kids Don't Wanna Bop Anymore


2. The Booze - At Maximum Volume


3. The Biters - It's All Chewed Up, OK?


4. The Meows All You Can Eat


5. Yep - Once


6. Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams


7. Meyerman - Who Do You Think You Are


8. Oh Mercy - Great Barrier Grief


9. The Van Buren Boys Up All Night


10. Watts On The Dial


11. The Barreracudas - Nocturnal Missions


12. The Kills - Blood Pressures


13. Redondo Beat - Meet Redondo Beat


14. Marvelous Darlings Single Life


15. Apex Manor - The Year of Magical Drinking


16. Locksley - Locksley


17. Daniel Tashian - Arthur


18. The Weight - Nowhere Now


19. Ryan Allen & His Extra Arms Ryan Allen & His Extra Arms


20. The Postelles The Postelles


21. Butch Walker - The Spade
22. Black Rabbits - Hypno Switch
23. Warren Zanes - I Want To Move Out In The Daylight
24. Giuda - Racey Roller
25. The CRY! - The CRY!
26. Sun Wizard - Positively 4th Avenue
27. Bare Wires - Cheap Perfume
28. King Louie's Missing Monuments - Painted White
29. The ACBs - Stona Rosa
30. Tommy Keene - Behind the Parade

31. An American Underdog - Always on the Run
32. Dropkick - Time Cuts The Ties
33. The Far West - The Far West
34. Dirty Wings - 30th Avenue Heartache
35. The Rationales - The Distance In Between
36. Wiretree - Make Up
37. Skybombers - Black Carousel
38. Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
39. Cute Lepers - Adventure Time
40. The Feelies - Here Before

41. Ralph Covert & the Bad Examples - Smash Record
42. Miles Kane - Colour of the Trap
43. Cirrone - Uplands Park Road
44. The Dead Trees - Whatwave
45. Joe Henry - Reverie
46. Robbers on High Street - Hey There Golden Hair
47. Chewy - Bravado
48. Nick Lowe - That Old Magic
49. The Handcuffs - Waiting for the Robot
50. The Krayolas - Tipsy Topsy Turvy

51. Everybody Else - Wanderlust
52. Ponderosa - Moonlight Revival
53. Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming
54. The Sick Rose - No Need For Speed
55. The Greatest Liar - The Girl With The Chestnut Eyes
56. kd lang & the Siss Boom Bang - Sing It Loud
57. Dozen Dimes - Get Real Gone
58. Bad Sports - Kings of the Weekend
59. Eulogies - Tear the Fences Down
60. Tres Bien - The Weather On Milk Mountain

61. Tommy Stinson - One Man Mutiny
62. The Viatones - Introducing
63. Tom Waits - Bad As Me
64. Glenn Tilbrook w/ Nine Below Zero - The Cooperative
65. Bing Ji Ling - Shadow to Shine
66. The Riffing Cowboys - Hank 'n' Roll
67. The Fleshtones - Brooklyn Sound Solution
68. Nicole Atkins - Mondo Amore
69. Generationals - Actor Caster
70. Radio Days - C'est La Vie

71. The Dark Rags - The Dark Rags
72. Garland Jeffreys - King of In Between
73. The Love Me Nots - The Demon and the Devotee
74. The Diamond Dogs - The Grit and the Very Soul
75. Girls - Father Son Holy Ghost

EPs:

Reigning Sound Abdication
Gustav Nilsson Make-up On, Letdown Off
Boulevard Beat 8 Track Breakdown
The Adjusters Trouble 'n' Love
Kurt Baker Rockin' For a Living
Mother's Children Are You Tough Enough?
Sally Crewe & the Sudden Moves Transmit/Receive
Chixdiggit Safeways Here We Come

some prime selections here.


was this ever released on a physical format? i saw them in august and they didn't have anything and hadn't pressed it at the time.


this was one of my most anticipated records of the year and it did not disappoint at all.


is this just a compilation of their singles? or is there more on it? i've loved the few singles i got my hands on.

Released vinyl-only on December 6th. It's really just their last two EPs with 2 extra tracks though, so it's pretty available digitally.


It's 8 of their singles plus a handful of demos. 21 tracks in all. Totally fun.

mad props for Marvelous Darlings.

I've heard about 5 of those. that tashian is pretty good, agree. guess i need to check some out.

Rads lists are increasingly like Cornish, Pali, or Dalmation... Endangered language of raw rock and hand claps. Good for many hours of research with few samples to help out. The Elders only remember what it means.

anal major

I've only heard The Booze, Postelles and Anal Major (nice pull btw)

I've got some catching up to do - why don't you spread some holiday jeer by making me a mix of the best rack off each of these I can play at top volume while everyone tries to open presents?

I really like that Barracudas, the Dum Dum Girls and the Kills. A few other things I still need to get a listen to. Just don't spend as much time with the straight ahead garage rock sorta stuff as I used to so this list will be good for me to delve into.

There's 3 volumes of 'em here - but I'll also eventually be putting together a mix of the top 20 (or so).

i've barely heard any of these, and so would be interested in checking them out.

I did not like that Tashian at record at all. Open dislike. Also checked out the Dum Dum Girls a while back and it didn't really click either--probably worth another shot though.

PLENTY to chew on here though. Past performance tells me there's two or three (or maybe 20) records here that will make my fucking day/week/month. Hells to the yeah.

I got really excited about that Biters until I read it was just their last two EPs, which I've already heard and love. Need to check out those two extra songs, though.

Could anyone upload that Booze album? I've been searchin' with no luck.

Need to check out that Barreracudas definitely.

And lastly, not that I give a crap, but I think that Postelles was 2010. Really dig that album, had it pretty high on my list.

I pretty much had the same reaction on first listen to both of those albums. The Dum Dum Girls won me over on the strength of Dee Dee's voice, and Tashian on the strength of the melodies (once I got over the oily gloss of the mix).

http://ratb0y69.blogspot.com/2011/12/booze-at-maximum-volume.html



Just punch "barreracudas mediafire" into google.



I thought that too, but it turns out only the blogs had the album last year after the band's label dropped them. Official release is 2011.

The only thing I thought the Barreracudas had out was a poorly recorded cassette. Hopefully this sounds better.

thought this too...also think i remember seeing it on rads' list last year as well

Also, no Stinson? I'm not sure it will make the cut on my list, but I've given it a lot of spins (its just the sort of mindless Mong Rock i need to get me through the grind some days)

I should have also thrown in earlier that Anal Major and The Booze are shoe ins for my list. Great fucking records.

hey Rads did I ever recommend Gateway District to you? If not, check 'em out. Consider them to be like, #21 on my year end list. RIYL: Prissteens? Donnas before they got too wanky? Definitely has the multi-femme vox rock thing going on, the album as a whole is a bit more punk than playful though. Nate from Banner Pilot plays guitar for them.

Bad Sports is pretty solid--though Dirtnap put out better records this year.

I forgot about the Stinson album. There's something about it that just doesn't do it for me though. It's kinda like that Garland Jeffreys album - serviceable classic rock. It needed a song as good as "Hey You" from his last one.

Thanks for this, bort! Doubt they'd have cracked the top 20, but I definitely dig. I'll track 'em down.

I would argue that song is "All This Way For Nothing", but I get your point and agree with you on Garland Jeffrey's.

3 bands from ATL in a row...I'd tell you to move here, but I'd probably have to kill you.