Each week I post the Top 20 College Radio Albums courtesy of CMJ (College Media Journal). Below are also 5 discs that I have in heavy rotation and an album that amazingly turns 10 years old in 2015, I call it my Spicy 6.
Parkay Quarts’ time at the top of the College Radio Album Chart was short-lived as Panda Bear (pictured) jumps from #7 to #1. There are six albums new to the Top 20 this week, including the self-titled 7-song debut from the Calgary indie buzzband Viet Cong, which leaps 166 spots to #4. It’s not surprising that Ty Segall released another album that was well-received by College Radio. Mr Segall’s latest is the EP Mr. Face, which debuts in the Top 200 at #6, that gives him two albums in the Top 20 this week. Other newbies include the latest from Sleater-Kinney, Marianne Faithfull, and some band that calls themselves Smashing Pumpkins, really College Radio, Smashing Pumpkins? Who the hell is still spinning Smashing Pumpkins? The last time Sleater-Kinney released an album was back in 2005, their album The Woods turns 10 years old in May, here’s the tune “Jumpers” for your listening pleasure. I’m diggin’ that new Panda album and can’t wait to check him out at the Coachella Music Festival.
Radio 200 Top 20 College Radio Album for the week of January 20, 2015:
1. PANDA BEAR Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper
2. TV ON THE RADIO Seeds
3. PARKAY QUARTS Content Nausea
4. VIET CONG Viet Cong
5. ARIEL PINK Pom Pom
6. TY SEGALL Mr. Face (EP)
7. THE NEW BASEMENT TAPES Lost On The River
8. GIRLPOOL Girlpool
9. LES SINS Michael
10. AQUADOLLS Stoked On You
11. DEERHOOF La Isla Bonita
12. CARIBOU Our Love
13. THE PREATURES Blue Planet Eyes
14. SHE AND HIM Classics
15. SLEATER-KINNEY No Cities To Love
16. RUN THE JEWELS Run The Jewels 2
17. FLAKE MUSIC When You Land Here, It’s Time To Return
18. TY SEGALL $ingle$ 2
19. MARIANNE FAITHFULL Give My Love To London
20. SMASHING PUMPKINS Monuments To An Elegy
The DJ DEEp Spicy Six:
1. PANDA BEAR Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper
2. THE DECEMBERISTS What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
3. TV ON THE RADIO Seeds
4. 2:54 The Other I
5. PARKAY QUARTS Content Nausea
Dust this one off, it turns 10 in 2015!
6. SLEATER-KINNEY The Woods
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