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The Best of 2018

It’s January, so that means it’s time to look back at the year that was in music. So I played 3 hours of my favorite songs from 2018. The tunes that made the year barely tolerable:

SUPERORGANISM: Everybody Wants To Be Famous.mp3
Lake Street Dive – Dude.mp3
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – You Worry Me.mp3
AHI – We Want Enough.mp3
Kacey Musgraves – Space Cowboy.mp3
Bradley Cooper – Maybe It’s Time.mp3
Ray LaMontagne – Such A Simple Thing.mp3
Trampled By Turtles – Kelly’s Bar.mp3
Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra – Straighten Up And Fly Right (Live) (feat. Imelda May & Till Brönner).mp3
Ghost-Note – Milkshake.mp3
Frank Ocean – Moon River.mp3
Miles Davis – So What (Live from Olympia Theatre, Paris).mp3
Bruce Springsteen – Tougher Than the Rest (Springsteen on Broadway).mp3
 War and Treaty – Jeep Cherokee Laredo.mp3
Mitski – Nobody.mp3
St. Paul & The Broken Bones – Apollo.mp3
The Decemberists – Severed.mp3
The Hold Steady – The Stove & The Toaster.mp3
The Monkees – House Of Broken Gingerbread.mp3
Jade Bird – Lottery.mp3
Joywave – Blastoffff.mp3
Harmonica Lewinski – Gringo Grind.mp3
The Demos – If You Only Knew.mp3
Left-Handed 2nd Baseman – I Rode a Raft From Illinois.mp3
Matthew Sweet – I Belong to You.mp3
Hop Along – How Simple.mp3
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake.mp3
Kurt Vile – Loading Zones.mp3
Weird Al_ Yankovic – The Hamilton Polka.mp3
Weezer – Africa.mp3
Janelle Monáe – Don’t Judge Me.mp3
boygenius – Me & My Dog.mp3
Low Cut Connie – Beverly.mp3
Lucy Dacus – Night Shift.mp3
Snail Mail – Pristine.mp3
The 1975 – It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You).mp3
We Were Promised Jetpacks – In Light.mp3
The Beths – Little Death.mp3Su

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Dec. 3: Arctic Rogue Christmas

Rogue Wave – Let My Love Open the Door (Official Music Video).mp3
Regina Spektor – Fidelity.mp3
The National – Day I Die.mp3
Arctic Monkeys – Perhaps Vampires Is a Bit Strong But….mp3
Spacehog – In The Meantime.mp3
Spacetrucker – Miles Away.mp3
Oasis – Wonderwall (Remastered).mp3
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake.mp3
Beck – Up All Night.mp3
MGMT – Electric Feel.mp3
The Decemberists – Everything Is Awful.mp3
Oppenheimer – Look Up.mp3
Bob Dylan – Visions Of Johanna.mp3
Old Crow Medicine Show – Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Live).mp3
John Lennon – Stand By Me.mp3
Bruce Springsteen – I’m Goin’ Down.mp3
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – Coolin’ Out (feat. Lucius).mp3
Beth Ditto – Fire.mp3
Robert Earl Keen – Merry Christmas from the Family.mp3
Otis Redding – Merry Christmas, Baby.mp3
James Brown – Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto.mp3
Clarence Carter – Back Door Santa.mp3
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – Mr. Heatmiser.mp3
The Brian Setzer Orchestra – Angels We Have Heard On High.mp3
We Were Promised Jetpacks – In Light.mp3
Joywave – Blastoffff.mp3
Broken Bells – Your Head Is On Fire.mp3
The Coathangers – Trailer Park Boneyard.mp3
Jade Bird – Lottery.mp3
Kacey Musgraves – Good Ol’ Boys Club.mp3
St. Paul & The Broken Bones – Apollo.mp3
Lake Street Dive – Dude.mp3
Left-Handed 2nd Baseman – I Rode a Raft From Illinois.mp3
Talking Under Water – The Sun Sets.mp3
The War On Drugs – Pain.mp3
Suicide – Dream Baby Dream (Long Version).mp3
The Demos – Hardly Done.mp3
The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang.mp3
The Hold Steady – The Stove & The Toaster.mp3
The New Pornographers – All The Old Showstoppers.mp3
The Raveonettes – Dead Sound.mp3
U2 – All I Want Is You.mp3

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June 11 Things Happen to your Kid Fears When You’re Stuck Between Stations

Dawes – Things Happen.mp3
June11\The Mountain Goats – This Year.mp3
Sheryl Crow – Leaving Las Vegas.mp3
The Beatles – You Won’t See Me.mp3
Indigo Girls – Kid Fears.mp3
The Avett Brothers – Shame.mp3
Grateful Dead – Uncle John’s Band.mp3
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – You Worry Me.mp3
The Black Crowes – Thorn In My Pride.mp3
Drive-By Truckers – The Perilous Night.mp3
Billy Joel – Allentown.mp3
Bruce Springsteen With The Sessions Band – American Land.mp3
The War On Drugs – Holding On.mp3
Barenaked Ladies – You + Me Vs The World.mp3
Guster – Fa Fa.mp3
R.E.M. – Accelerate.mp3
June11\Steel Train – Bullet.mp3
Eux Autres – Other Girls.mp3
Calypso – Casually Sad Mercedes.mp3
Transviolet – New Bohemia.mp3
Joywave – Doubt.mp3
KOPPS – Hott (feat. Joywave).mp3
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – I Hate Myself for Loving You.mp3
Dum Dum Girls – Bhang, Bhang, I’m a Burnout.mp3
Garbage – Special.mp3
The Hold Steady – Stuck Between Stations.mp3
The Bouncing Souls – Dubs Says True.mp3
Sex Pistols – Pretty Vacant.mp3
The Whigs – Kill Me Carolyne.mp3
Julian Moon – Good Girl.mp3
Kate Earl – Melody.mp3
Kate Nash – Kiss That Grrrl.mp3
Strawberry Whiplash – Stop, Look and Listen.mp3
Talking Under Water – The Sun Sets.mp3
The Crooked North – Till I Hit Water.mp3
Trampled By Turtles – Right Back Where We Started.mp3
Loretta Lynn – Portland, Oregon.mp3
Wanda Jackson – Memphis, Tennessee.mp3
The Decemberists – Severed.mp3
Maggie Rogers – Alaska.mp3
The Love Language – Sparxxx.mp3
Nick Lowe – Cruel To Be Kind.mp3
Nooky Jones – Hello.mp3
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – Longer and Stronger.mp3


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June 4: Music for Just Being There

Eric Johnson\Ah Via Musicom\02. Cliffs Of Dover.mp3
Cracker – Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now).mp3
Blues Traveler – Optimistic Thoughts.mp3
Spin Doctors – Someday All This Will Be Road.mp3
Gin Blossoms – Hey Jealousy.mp3
Weezer – Africa.mp3
Guster – Do You Love Me.mp3
Ryan Adams – When The Stars Go Blue.mp3
Ray LaMontagne – Such A Simple Thing.mp3
Dan Auerbach – Stand by My Girl.mp3
The Black Keys – Lonely Boy.mp3
Bruce Springsteen With The Sessions Band – Erie Canal.mp3
The Avett Brothers – Satan Pulls The Strings.mp3
The Decemberists – We All Die Young.mp3
Alabama Shakes – Shoegaze.mp3
Art Brut – The Replacements.mp3
The White Stripes – You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told).mp3
Råttanson – Wandering black hole_1.mp3
The Chesterfield Kings – Running Through My Nightmare.mp3
The Electric Prunes – I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night).mp3
Pearl Jam – Life Wasted.mp3
Beth Ditto – Fire.mp3
The War On Drugs – Pain.mp3
Frightened Rabbit – Nothing Like You.mp3
We Were Promised Jetpacks – Quiet Little Voices.mp3
Florence + The Machine – Dog Days Are Over.mp3
U2 – Love And Peace Or Else.mp3
Little Steven – Soulfire.mp3
Led Zeppelin – Dazed And Confused.mp3
The Outlaws – Green Grass & High Tides (Remastered).mp3
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – I’ll Be Damned.mp3
Lake Street Dive – Dude.mp3
D’Angelo and The Vanguard – The Door.mp3
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – I’m Still Here.mp3
Craig Finn – God in Chicago.mp3
Joywave – Doubt.mp3
The Faint – The Geeks Were Right.mp3
KOPPS – Hott (feat. Joywave).mp3
The District Attorneys – Madison Row.mp3
Vijay Iyer Trio – Hood.mp3
Yo-Yo Ma;Bobby McFerrin – Flight Of The Bumblebee From The Legend of Tsar Saltan (exce.mp3


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May 21: It’s all just music, man.

Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me).mp3
The Outfield – Your Love.mp3
Lenny Kravitz – Let Love Rule.mp3
The Record Company – Off The Ground.mp3
Leonard Cohen – Dance Me to the End of Love.mp3
John Lennon – Stand By Me.mp3
Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You Can’t See Land.mp3
Alejandro Escovedo – I Don’t Want To Play Guitar Anymore.mp3
Barenaked Ladies – You + Me Vs The World.mp3
Del Amitri – Always the Last to Know (Single Mix).mp3
Råttanson – Wandering black hole.mp3
Old 97’s – Rollerskate Skinny.mp3
Japandroids – No Known Drink Or Drug.mp3
The Mountain Goats – Rain in Soho.mp3
Kopecky – Quarterback.mp3
Guided By Voices – When We All Hold Hands at the End of The World.mp3
Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam – A 1000 Times.mp3
My Morning Jacket – Compound Fracture.mp3
Danielle Ponder & the Tomorrow People – Blow out the Sun (feat. Quinn Lawrence).mp3
Ray LaMontagne – Such A Simple Thing.mp3
St. Paul & The Broken Bones – Burning Rome.mp3
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – Babe I Know (feat. Lucius).mp3
Lake Street Dive – Good Kisser.mp3
Eilen Jewell – Shakin’ All Over.mp3
Trailer Bride – All Thine.mp3
The Decemberists – Everything Is Awful.mp3
Trampled By Turtles – Kelly’s Bar.mp3
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – Life Is Beautiful.mp3
The Rolling Stones – Tumbling Dice.mp3
Muddy Magnolias – Devil’s Teeth.mp3
Bruce Springsteen – Rosalita (Come Out Tonight).mp3
Bob Dylan – Chimes Of Freedom.mp3
Drive-By Truckers – What It Means.mp3
Beck – Up All Night.mp3
Joywave – Little Lies You’re Told.mp3
The National – The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness.mp3
The Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right.mp3
Phish – Mustang Sally.mp3
Ted Leo – The Little Smug Supper Club.mp3
The Beach Boys – California Girls (Stereo).mp3


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May 7: Giants and Dives and Sweats

INXS – Beautiful Girl.mp3
Lake Street Dive – You Are Free.mp3
Mayer Hawthorne – You Called Me.mp3
Lucinda Williams – Righteously.mp3
Ra Ra Riot – Shadowcasting.mp3
Phoenix – 1901.mp3
Yo La Tengo – Mr. Tough.mp3
Joe Brucato – Thank You Soldier (Radio Edit).mp3
Weird Al Yankovic – Bob.mp3
Young the Giant – Guns Out.mp3
Blue Giant – Blue Sunshine.mp3
Beck – Up All Night.mp3
Joywave – Doubt.mp3
HAIM – Want You Back.mp3
Band Of Horses – In A Drawer.mp3
Barenaked Ladies – You + Me Vs The World.mp3
Queens of the Stone Age – The Way You Used To Do.mp3
Ted Leo – Can’t Go Back.mp3
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – If We Were Vampires.mp3
Iron & Wine – Call It Dreaming.mp3
Damien Rice – The Blower’s Daughter.mp3
The Bottle Rockets – Indianapolis.mp3
Guided By Voices – The Birthday Democrats.mp3
The National – Day I Die.mp3
The Record Company – Off The Ground.mp3
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – Coolin’ Out (feat. Lucius).mp3
The Decemberists – Severed.mp3
May7\Patti Smith – Space Monkey.mp3
The Tragically Hip – Now The Struggle Has A Name.mp3
The Mountain Goats – Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds.mp3
Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel Of Love.mp3
Billy Joel – Captain Jack.mp3
Gary Clark Jr. – Bright Lights (Live).mp3
Brad Goodall – Casa De Mel.mp3
Charlie Winston – In Your Hands.mp3
Old 97’s – Irish Whiskey Pretty Girls.mp3
The Demos – Another Day.mp3
Bon Iver – 33 “GOD”.mp3
Julia Nunes – Happy Medium.mp3
Kopps – Lose Control.mp3
So Much Light – Idiot Soul.mp3
Grateful Dead – Alabama Getaway.mp3


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March 5: Randomly Random

_Weird Al_ Yankovic – The Hamilton Polka.mp3
Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor.mp3
BlakRoc – Ain’t Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo) [feat. Jim Jones & Mos Def].mp3
Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel Of Love.mp3
Courtney Barnett – Debbie Downer.mp3
Craig Finn – God in Chicago.mp3
Depeche Mode – Where’s the Revolution.mp3
Drive-By Truckers – The Perilous Night.mp3
Fountains Of Wayne – Traffic And Weather.mp3
Frank Turner – If Ever I Stray.mp3
Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You Can’t See Land.mp3
Guided By Voices – The Birthday Democrats.mp3
John Hiatt – Cry Love.mp3
Joss Stone – Put Your Hands On Me.mp3
Julia Nunes – All the Same.mp3
King Tuff – Eyes Of The Muse.mp3
Kopecky – Quarterback.mp3
L.A. Salami – Science + Buddhism = A Reality You Can Know.mp3
Lake Street Dive – Can’t Stop.mp3
Led Zeppelin – Ten Years Gone.mp3
Little Steven – I Am A Patriot (And The River Opens For The Righteous).mp3
Michael Kiwanuka – One More Night.mp3
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – You Worry Me.mp3
Neil Young – Harvest Moon.mp3
Oppenheimer – Look Up.mp3
Peter Gabriel – Shaking The Tree.mp3
Queen – Crazy Little Thing Called Love.mp3
Spacehog – Cruel To Be Kind.mp3
Stevie Wonder – Superstition.mp3
Talking Under Water – The Sun Sets.mp3
Tart Vandelay – High Life.mp3
Ted Leo – Can’t Go Back.mp3
The Brand New Heavies – Never Stop.mp3
The Cars – Magic.mp3
The Coal Porters – Idiot Wind.mp3
The Crooked North – Till I Hit Water.mp3
The Libertines – Narcissist.mp3
The Stone Roses – Love Spreads.mp3
Trampled by Turtles – Wait So Long.mp3
Uncle Tupelo – Gun.mp3
XTC – Dear God.mp3


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Feb. 26: Pocket Full of The Concept and the Bottle Makes Tenderness

Spin Doctors – Jimmy Olsen’s Blues.mp3
Rusted Root – Ecstasy.mp3
Pearl Jam – Given To Fly.mp3
The Wallflowers – 6th Avenue Heartache.mp3
Midnight Oil – Beds Are Burning (Remastered).mp3
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies – Zoot Suit Riot.mp3
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – You And Me And The Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby).mp3
Teenage Fanclub – The Concept.mp3
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – You Worry Me.mp3
Muddy Magnolias – Devil’s Teeth.mp3
The Avett Brothers – Head Full Of Doubt_Road Full Of Promise.mp3
Alabama Shakes – Killer Diller Blues (Music from The American Epic Sessions).mp3
The Cult – Revolution.mp3
Mike Doughty – 27 Jennifers (2007).mp3
Sam Roberts Band – Kid Icarus.mp3
The National – The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness.mp3
Queens of the Stone Age – The Way You Used To Do.mp3
Polar Bear Club – For Show.mp3
Otis Redding – Try A Little Tenderness.mp3
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On.mp3
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – I Learned the Hard Way.mp3
Xavier Rudd – Better People.mp3
Willis Earl Beal – Don’t You (Forget About Me).mp3
Sharon Van Etten – The End of the World.mp3
The 1975 – She’s American.mp3
Warpaint – New Song.mp3
Alice Merton – No Roots.mp3
Joywave – Doubt.mp3
The Demos – Another Day.mp3
Japandroids – No Known Drink Or Drug.mp3
Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam – A 1000 Times.mp3
The Mountain Goats – Rain in Soho.mp3
The Tragically Hip – In Sarnia.mp3
Lucinda Williams – Convince Me.mp3
Alejandro Escovedo – I Don’t Want To Play Guitar Anymore.mp3
Billy Joel – Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song).mp3
Justin Townes Earle – Champagne Corolla.mp3
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Born On The Bayou.mp3
Jonathan Coulton – Don’t Feed the Trolls.mp3
Danielle Ponder & the Tomorrow People – Blow out the Sun (feat. Quinn Lawrence).mp3
Harmonica Lewinski – Double Down.mp3
Iron & Wine – Call It Dreaming.mp3

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Feb. 12: Say My Name

Every song had a name in the title on this night.
Counting Crows – Anna Begins.mp3
Lloyd Price – Stagger Lee (Bandstand Version).mp3
The Beatles. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.mp3
Simon & Garfunkel – Cecilia.mp3
Manfred Mann – The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo).mp3
Grateful Dead – Uncle John’s Band.mp3
Elvis Costello – Alison.mp3
Mike Doughty – 27 Jennifers (2007).mp3
Kaiser Chiefs – Ruby.mp3
Barenaked Ladies – Enid.mp3
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean.mp3
Wilson Pickett – Mustang Sally.mp3
Lake Street Dive – Bobby Tanqueray.mp3
Rick Springfield – Jessie’s Girl.mp3
Squeeze – Annie Get Your Gun.mp3
Boston\Third Stage\11 Amanda 1.mp3
The Allman Brothers Band – Melissa.mp3
Pure Prairie League – Amie.mp3
Old Crow Medicine Show – Visions of Johanna (Live).mp3
James Taylor – Sweet Baby James.mp3
Bruce Springsteen – Frankie.mp3
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Proud Mary.mp3
Jimi Hendrix – Hey Joe.mp3
Drive-By Truckers – Danko_Manuel.mp3
Johnny Cash – A Boy Named Sue.mp3
Old 97’s – Victoria (Live).mp3
The Avett Brothers – Paul Newman vs. The Demons.mp3
Chuck Berry – Maybellene.mp3
The Beastie Boys – Paul Revere.mp3
Weird Al Yankovic – Ricky.mp3
Weezer – Buddy Holly.mp3
Buddy Holly – Peggy Sue.mp3
The Hold Steady – Stevie Nix.mp3
Black 47 – Maria’s Wedding.mp3
The Kinks – Lola.mp3
The Rolling Stones – Angie.mp3
Ben Folds – Fred Jones, Part 2.mp3
Blues Traveler – Gina.mp3
Bob Dylan – Blind Willie McTell.mp3
Kiss – Beth.mp3
Cream – Tales Of Brave Ulysses.mp3
Eric Clapton- LAY DOWN SALLY.MP3
Dion – Runaround Sue.mp3

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