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Carolyn’s Favorites of 2020

Posted on January 18, 2021

Good riddance to 2020. Here’s to 2021!

My Favorite Songs of 2020

Brandy – “(Wish You Was) Madball Baby” – The Gift Of Repetition (Total Punk Records)
ISS – “Too Punk For Heavy Metal” – 7” (Total Punk Records)
Dicklord – “Boring” – It’s Soooo Boring (Valve Records)
Moviestar – “Evel Knievel” – The Curse and The Currency of The Twenty-First Century (Bored Airline Music)
Illegal Visions – “Antifa” – South Bay Curse – The Lo-Fi Pandemic Sessions (S/R)
Cable Ties – “Tell Them Where To Go” – Far Enough (Merge Records)
Girl Friday – “Earthquake” – Androgynous Mary (Hardly Art)
MC16 – “Anti” (S/R)
Chemtrails – “Paranoiacs” – The Peculiar Smell Of The Inevitable (PNKSLM Recordings)
Powerslut – “Nostalgia” – Fun With Junk (S/R)

My Favorite Albums of 2020

Brandy – The Gift Of Repetition (Total Punk Records)
Kim Salmon and The Surrealists – Rantings From The Book Of Swamp (Kim Salmon)
Quintron and Miss Pussycat – Goblin Alert (Goner Records)
Flat Worms – Antartica (God?)
Mr. Wrong – Create A Place (Water Wing Records)
Gino and The Goons – Off The Rails (Big Neck Records)
Cool Greenhouse – Cool Greenhouse (Melodic Records)
Jackson Reid Briggs and The Heaters – Hammered (Grubby Publications)
All My Friends and Me – First Time (S/R)
Rubber Blanket – Our Album (Spacecase Records)

My favorite EPs of 2020

  • Dr. Sure’s Unusual Practice – While Aus Burns (S/R)
  • Noxeema – Noxeema EP (dotx3)
  • Kool and The Gang Bangers – Year Of The Kool Pt. 3 (S/R)
  • CB Radio Gorgeous – EP (Thrilling Living)
  • Buck Biloxi and The Fucks – Put You In The Gulag (Goodbye Boozy Records)
  • Gee Tee – Atomic (Goodbye Boozy Records)
  • Collective Hardcore/ Disco Junk – split (Goodbye Boozy Records)
  • Names – Et Tu & The Warning (Misanthropic Agenda)
  • Ray Gun – Lunkhead (It’s Trash!)
  • Civic – “Radiant Eye b/w Making Time” (Flightless Records)

My Favorite Cover Songs of 2020

  • Mattiel – “Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun” – Double Cover (ATO Records)
  • Munlet – “El Ser Que Quiero” – Ghost Highway Recordings (Music For Gloves)
  • Itchy Kitty – “Psycho Killer” – Under The Covers (Corporat Records)
  • G.T.R.R.C. – “Food Fight” – G.T.R.R.C. II (G.T.R.R.C.)
  • Tropical Fuck Storm featuring Amy Taylor – “This Perfect Day” – Suburbiopia 7” (Joyful Noise Recordings)
  • Billiam – “Agitated” (Billiams Fan Club)
  • Superchunk – “Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing” – Good Music To Avert The Collapse Of American Democracy (Good Music)
  • Big Clown – “DDDDC” – Big Clown Big Mad (S/R)
  • UK Gold – “Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot” – Be Gay, Do Crime! (Girlsville Records)
  • Kiss Boom Bah – “Out Of Our Tree” – 7” (Sweet Time)

My Favorite Reissues of 2020

  • El Pifco – “Meltdown b/w Bananas” – 7” (Metallic Rainforest)
  • 14 th Wish – “I Gotta Get Rid Of You b/w 14th Wish” – 7” (Hozac Records)
  • Ted Cassidy – “The Lurch/ Wesley” – 7” (Jackpot Records)
  • The Generics – Cost Cutter EP (Feel It Records)
  • The Prissteens – The Hound (Girlsville Rceords)
  • Os Tartaros – The First Portuguese Surf​-​Garage Group 1964​-​1967 (Groovie Records)
  • Whirlywirld – The Complete Studio Works 1978-80 (Hozac Records)
  • The Zits – Back In Blackhead EP (Feel It Records)
  • The Protagonists – 1983-1985 (Alona’s Dream Records)

My favorite Archival Realeases of 2020

  • The Pathetx – 1981 LP (Third Man Records)
  • Rebel Truce – The Lost Tapes EP (Green Recordings)
  • Snot Puppies – TV Tantrum EP (No Matrix Records)
  • Skinned Teen – Nancy Drew EP (Vague Absolutes)
  • The Only Ones – Live In Chicago 1979 (Alona’s Dream Records)
  • An Uneasy Peace – Speaking In Tongues EP (Dirt Cult Records)
  • Red Lights – Red Lights 12” (In The Red Records)
  • V/A – Brazilian Nuggets​: Back From The Jungle Vol 4 (Groovie Records)
  • V/A – Days Of A Quiet Sun (Feel It Records)

My Favorite Compilation Albums of 2020

  • V/A – There’s Gotta Be Hope, Right? (Billiam)
  • V/A – G.T.T.R.C. II (G.T.T.R.C.)
  • V/A – Be Gay, Do Crime! (Girlsville Records)
  • V/A – Typical Girls Volume 5 (Emotional Response Records)
  • V/A – Black Lives Matter (Yeah Right!)
  • V/A – Killed By Boredom – 27 Songs By Lock-Down Survivors (One Chord Wonder)
  • V/A – Quarantine Age Wasteland: A Benefit for Boston's Small Venues (Quarantine Age Wasteland)
  • V/A – No Gigs Does Not Have To Mean No Music (Desert Highways)
  • V/A – Protest & Survive (Protest & Survive)

My Favorite Live and Virtually Live Shows of 2020

  • Kim Salmon and The Surrealists – live at Rolling Stock, June 13 & 14, 2020
  • Gonerfest 17 – Memphis, TN and beyond, September 24-27, 2020
  • Shimane Jett Fest – Japan, September 26, 2020
  • Los Dug Dugs – Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, CA, January 30, 2020
  • Steve Nieve and friends – live from his house in France, March through present, 2020
  • Chemtrails record release – June 21, 2020
  • The Archaeas – record release live from Goner Records, Memphis, TN, August 14, 2020
  • Memorial Day Meltdown – various locations, May 24, 2020
  • Doug and Jamin – live from The Rite Spot, San Francisco, multiple days 2020
  • Lydia Lunch’s Retrovirus – The Knockout, San Francisco, CA, February 21, 2020

MY FAVORITE SONGS TO CELEBRATE TRUMP’S LAST YEAR

  • The Owen Guns – “The Ballad of Cheeto Hitler” – Violating Community Standards (Riot Records)
  • Amy Rigby and Wreckless Eric – “Vote That Fucker Out” (S/R)
  • Hobocop – “I’m A Troll” – Hungry Freaks In The Data Mine (S/R)
  • Xylitol – “(There’s Something In Your) Void” – I’m Pretty Sure I Would Know If Reality Were Fundamentally Different Than I Perceived It To Be EP (Thrilling Living Records)
  • Paris – “Baby Man Hands” – Safe Space Invader (Guerrilla Funk Recordings)
  • Idles – “Grounds” – Ultra Mono (Partisan Records)
  • Public Enemy – “State Of The Union (STFU)” – What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? (Enemy Records)
  • Research Reactor Corp – “Big Baby” – The Collected Findings Of The Research Reactor Corporation (Erste Theke Tontraeger)
  • Dick Move – “Ladies Night” – Chop! (Holiday Records)
  • Psychedelic Furs – “Tiny Hands” – Made Of Rain (Cooking Vinyl)

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