Take cover for the exciting conclusion of my 2020 lookback with more of my favorite songs from the year! You can listen here, and I have also put together a Spotify playlist with songs from both week, as well as songs that I didn't get to.
Here's my top 25 for the year:
1. Tyler Keith - The Last Drag (Black & Wyatt)
2. The Electric Mess - The Electric Mess V (Soundflat)
3. The Fleshtones - Face of the Screaming Werewolf (Yep Roc)
4. The Fox Sisters - Bust Out! (Dive)
5. Foxycontin - This Time You're on Your Own (Sister Raygun)
6. Young Fresh Fellows - Toxic Youth (Yep Roc)
7 Dan Montgomery - Smoke & Mirrors (A Phonographic Memory) (Fantastic Yes)
8.Demolition Doll Rods - Into the Brave (In the Red)
9. Frontier Dan and the Hickoids -Six Miles From the Sun ... Studio (Saustex)
10. The Breadmakers - S/T (Soundflat)
11. Turnstyles - Cut You Off (Black & Wyatt)
12. Quintron & Miss Pussycat - Goblin Alert (Goner)
13. The Claudettes - High Times in the Dark (Forty Below)
14. Harmonica Lewinski - Human BBQ (Self)
15. The Sellwoods - Eight Great Shakers (Chaputa)
16. Kenny Roby - The Reservoir (Royal Potato Family)
17. Harvey McLaughlin - Rascality (Saustex)
18. Bloodshot Bill - Get Loose or Get Lost (Goner)
19. The Breakup Society - Before the Intervention Ruined Everything (Onus
20. MFC Chicken - Fast Food & Broken Hearts (Dirty Water)
21. Rachel Brooke - The Loneliness in Me (Self)
22. Scott the Hoople - Rock & Roll Party 66 (Self)
23. The Neptunas - Mermaid A Go Go (Altered State of Reverb)
24. Churchwood - Plenty Wrong to Go Awry (Saustex)
25. Gasoline Lollipops - All the Misery Money Can Buy (Self)
Top 5 Favorite Reissues/Compilations
Little Richard - King of Rock and Roll, The Rill Thing, Southern Child, The Second Coming and Lifetime Friend (Omnivore)
You Can't Sit Down: Cameo Parkway Dance Crazes 1958-1964 (Abkco)
415 Records: Still Disturbing the Peace (Liberation Hall)
The Krayolas - Savage Young Krayolas (Saustex)
Indonesian Junk - A Life of Crimes (Rum Bar)
Ramma Lamma / Zero Hour theme / Self
The On and Ons / Menacing Smile / Citadel Records
Scott the Hoople / Route 66 / Self-released
Dan Montgomery / Nervous Boy / Fantastic Yes Records
The Scaners / X - Ray Glasses: On / Spaghetty Town
Cursed Idols / Baby, I'm a Cannibal / Dive
Muck and the Mires / Six O'Clock Baby / Rum Bar Records
Cocktails / Buried Alive / Alien Snatch
The Neptunas / Mermaid a Go Go / Altered State of Reverb
Dynamite Platoon / S-W-I-M / Soundflat Records
The Sellwoods / Dizziness / Chaputa
Harmonica Lewinski / Panther Beat / Harmonica Lewinski
The Mings / Nightmare / Soundflat Records
Fuzzstainz / Sick! Sick! Sick! / Beluga Records
Bloodshot Bill / Cookout / Goner
The Monsters / I'm a Stranger to Me / Slovenly Recordings
THE BOBBY LEES / Redroom / Alive Naturalsound
Slander Tongue / Soozie Stooge / Slovenly Recordings
Bruce Humphries / Cold Cold Heart / Bruce Humphries
Trolley / Two Tickets to the Moon / Easter Records
Indonesian Junk / Pillbox / Rum Bar
Xposed 4heads / Watch Out / Internal Combustion
Harvey McLaughlin / Outhouse Crescent Moon / Saustex Records & Entertainment, LLC
Kenny Roby / Vampire Song (Whatcha Gonna Do?) / Royal Potato Family
Young Fresh Fellows / Never Had It Bad / Yep Roc Records
Librarians with Hickeys / Black Velvet Dress / Big Stir Records
Terry Anderson / Open the Door / Doublenaught
Big Al Staggs / Roadkill / Big Al Staggs
Jack Cornell / Light the Fuse / Doublenaught
Gasoline Lollipops / Get up! / Gasoline Lollipops
The Successful Failures / This Girl / Fdr Label Kool Kat Musik
HEAP / No Mas / Rave On Records
Rookie / Sunglasses / Bloodshot Records
The Hypnotics / Soul at Seven / New Values Records
Hoodoo Gurus / Hung Out To Dry / Big Time Phonograph Recording Co.
Hoodoo Gurus / Hung Out To Dry / Big Time Phonograph Recording Co.
Quintron & Miss Pussycat / Buc-ee's Got a Problem / Goner
Churchwood / Steal It Back / Saustex
The Prof. Fuzz 63 / Love Canal / Sister Raygun Records
The Idolizers / Stranded (Again) / Rum Bar Records
Lucy and the Rats / Real Thing / Dirty Water
Messer Chups / The Mummy / MuSick
Trevor Lake / Quaran-Teen / WOW BEAT!
Johnny Iguana / Shake Your Moneymaker / Delmark Records
Demolition Doll Rods / There's a Light / In The Red
The Yum Yums / Let's Go Crazy / Rum Bar
The William Loveday Intention / My Love For You / Damaged Goods Records
Bandemic / Fever / Saustex Records & Entertainment, LLC
The Treasures of Mexico / Heart Shaped Clock / Spinout Nuggets
Rachel Brooke / It Ain't over 'til You're Crying / Mal
Tyler Keith / Beat Temptation / Black & Wyatt Records, Inc
