Here is my 2024 Top Un-Ten. Why is mine different? Because it’s damn hard to be successful at music, or any type of art, and people should be recognized for that, and because it's hard to rank my favorites. This is what I listened to this past year. Some I liked better than others, but it’s all good. All of it. My list is mostly albums, with a favorite song or two listed for each. A few songs are just singles.
Enjoy! I look forward to what 2025 has in store musically, as well.
#1
The Armoires - Octoberland - Every song on it. Album of the year.
The Cynz - Little Miss Lost - Every song on it. It’s that good. One of the best albums of the year.
The Plus 4/SUPER 8 - EP #1 - “She’s In My Head”
The Weeklings - Raspberry Park - “All The Cash In The World”
Jim Basnight - Summertime Peculiar - “Elma” - “Riding Rainbows”
The Jack Rubies - Clocks Are Out Of Time - “I’ll Give You More”
SUPER 8 “Keep Doing It” (Single)
The Cynz - “Crow Haired Boys” - (Single)
Day Dreems - Day Dreems - “The Bad Old Days” “Lady Beetle”
The Cyrkle - Revival - “We Were There” “Red Rubber Ball”
2nd Grade - Scheduled Explosions - “I Wanna Be On Your Mind”
MJ Lenderman - Morning Fireworks - “She’s Leaving You”
Mary Timony - Untame The Tiger - “Dominos”
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter - “Wreckage”
Pylon Reenactment - Society Magnet Factory - “3x3”
Rome 56 - Paradise Is Free - “Hustle Of The Crowd”
Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us - “Classical”
Cunningham/Bird - Cunningham/Bird - “Crying In The Night”
Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood - “Bored”
Paul Collins - Stand Back And Take A Good Look - “Another World” “You Can’t Go Back.”
Various Artists - Generation Blue - Nerf Herder - “We Opened For Weezer,” Cockeyed Ghost - “Keep the Sun (Demo)”
Rich Arithmetic - Pushbutton Romance - “Bend The Arc” “You Are Always Right”
The Speed Of Sound - A Cornucopia: Minerva - “Clickbait” “So Faux”
Various Artists - JEM Records Celebrates Jagger & Richards - The High Frequencies “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” The Cynz - “Star Star (Starfucker)”
Hungrytown - Circus For Sale - “Green Grow The Laurels”
SUPER 8 - Retro Metro - “Just A Song”
sparkle*jets u.k. - Box Of Letters - “Box Of Letters” “Little Circles” “This Will Be Our Year”
The Suncharms - Things Lost - “Red Wine Kisses” “Daylight is Here” “Satanic Rites” “Demonic Eyes”
Mark Bacino - Top of the World - “Top of the World” “Kaylee Hughes” “Why Does This Woman Love Me? “Flop of the World” “He Never Saw It Coming (Accidental Death Of A Clown”
Blake Jones & The Trike Shop - and still… - “Used Record Stores” “Mock Stoner Voices” “Fascist Bumblebee Winter Formal” “Shake Your Dress”
The Armoires/Ray Crank - “Snake Island Thirteen/Don’t Kill The World I’m Living In” (Single)
The Half-Cubes - Pop Treasures - “I Live” “She’s So Young” “Not Where It’s At”
Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men - Up and Out of It - “Bottle It” “Rejection Letter”
The Weeklings - Christmas - “Dreidel” “Another Year”
Orbis Max - Tilt-A-Whirl - “The Light From Other Windows” “We Will Rise Again” “Learning To Love”
Rich Arithmetic - Sleep In A Wigwam 30th Anniversary Edition (with Bonus Tracks) - “Thirteen Brides” “Postmortem For Winston”
#2
The Incurables - Inside Out And Backwards - “When I Grow Up” “Soda Pop”
Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope - “Say it Like You Mean It”
Fontaines D.C. - Romance - “Here’s The Thing”
Librarians With Hickeys - How To Make Friends By Telephone - “Hello Operator” “Everything Will Be All Right”
