I'm a bit tardy in posting my annual "condensed" adaption of a year's worth of uploads to this page, so I hope you'll forgive me. For better or worse 2024 has come and gone, and not counting Mystery Monday offerings, I only shared about 80-90 titles. That was largely on par with 2023 and could be the norm going forward. Not every piece of music emanating from this site is a sheer pearl or revelation, but I like to think that this pared down summation is pretty consistent, and as usual I've inserted a few random morsels exclusive to this playlist (denoted with an *)
Go Man Go's phenomenal "25 Years" is the clear runaway winner in terms of my finest retro score of the last 365 days and is placed at the head of the class. As for the remaining 21 cuts I have virtually no preference, though the
High Bees "Self Indulgence" comes within spitting distance. Oodles of power pop (and adjacent) is yours for the taking here, be it from
House of Pants,
Green Ice, or even the little known
Crowd who've never made an appearance here prior to this compilation. There's also succulent post punk entrails emitted from the likes of
Rifle Sport, Daddy-O and
Mettle. Plenty of great anomalies as well, but I won't give much else away, except for the last selection courtesy of the
Specs, a coed combo featuring a teen
Matthew Sweet, who were responsible for merely one original composition, "Look Out Girl (You Need a Direction)." They made it count. Enjoy.
02. The Cavedogs - La La La
03. His Boy Elroy - New England
04. House of Pants - Photographs
05. Voices - Out Tonight
06. Flaming Mussolinis - Swallow Glass
07. God's Eye - Back Again
08. High Bees - Self Indulgence
09. British Properties - Eight Days a Week
10. Jules Shear - She's in Love
11. July 14th - Only One
12. Rifle Sport - Bedroom Full of Ice
13. Mettle - Evening Ocean
14. Intro to Airlift - Ed Is On No Side
15. Daddy-O - Run to Hide
16. DCD - A Passage in Time*
17. Tanjent Image - Suranland
18. Windbreakers - So Much
19. Glass Torpedos - Someone Different
20. Crowd, The - Passwords*
21. Green Ice - Breakdown at Geneva
22. The Act - The Art of Deception
23. The Specs (Matthew Sweet) - Look Out Girl (You Need a Direction)*
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