Here’s the weekly Top 20 College Radio Albums from the Radio 200 list published by CMJ (College Media Journal). The reputable rag surveys up to 600 college radio stations of a weekly basis to compute the list.
In addition, here’s my Spicy Six Albums of the week. These are the six albums that can’t find their way out of my six disc changer. The list consists of my Top 5 Albums of the week, and one Heritage Album that’s worth dusting off and giving a listen.
Here’s the lists:
The Black Keys must have marched down to Best Buy and bought every copy of the new Parquet Courts album “Sunbathing Animal” last week, how else does one explain Jack White dropping to #2 and the Brooklyn indie sensations returning back to #1 ? Just when you thought EMO week was over, the influential EMO act (who knew there was such a thing) Braid debuts at #20. Also new the countdown are Black Bananas, Old Crow Medicine Show, and one of Martin’s faves Tijuana Panthers. Yeah, you read that right, Black Bananas. Conor Oberst (pictured) has sure been in the news a lot lately. On a completely separate subject, what in the hell is the deal with Weird Al?
Radio 200 Top 20 College Radio Album for the week of July 15, 2014:
1. PARQUET COURTS Sunbathing Animal
2. JACK WHITE Lazaretto
3. WHITE LUNG Deep Fantasy
4. A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW Sea When Absent
5. THE ANTLERS Familiars
6. HOW TO DRESS WELL What Is This Heart?
7. THE BLACK KEYS Turn Blue
8. THE ORWELLS Disgraceland
9. LANA DEL REY Ultraviolence
10. BOB MOULD Beauty And Ruin
11. OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW Remedy
12. FIRST AID KIT Stay Gold
13. THE FRESH & ONLYS House Of Spirits
14. CONOR OBERST Upside Down Mountain
15. BLACK BANANAS Electric Brick Wall
16. SHARON VAN ETTEN Are We There
17. OWEN PALLET In Conflict
18. TIJUANA PANTHERS Wayne Interest
19. CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH Only Run
20. BRAID No Coast
The DJ DEEp Spicy Six:
1. THE ORWELLS Disgraceland
2. PARQUET COURTS Sunbathing Animal
3. CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH Only Run
4. THE WAR ON DRUGS Lost In The Dream
5. THE ANTLERS Familiars
Heritage Album Of The Week
6. R.E.M. Reckoning
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