ObviousPopCast Episode 45

Great music is in the air! ....or in the podcast? Either way, Episode 45 of the ObviousPopCast is here with new music from Vampire Weekend, White Lies, Willie Wisely, Starflyer 59, Cayucas and more. This is an eclectic music mix, give it a listen! Please leave a comment here or on Facebook and let us know what you think. Thank you for listening.

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EPISODE 45 TRACK LISTING

Song – Album – Artist (this list is in the order played)

Don't Go - Look Alive - Guster

Harmony Hall - Father of the Bride - Vampire Weekend

Hey, Are You Listening? - Young In My Head - Starflyer 59

Tokyo - FIVE - White Lies

Something New - 1929, Pt. 1 - KONGOS

WDMCF - 1000 Hands - Jon Anderson

Jessica WJ - Real Life - Cayucas

Blood and Rockets: Movement I - South of Reality - The Claypool Lennon Delirium

Map the Channels - Songs for Birds and Bats EP - doubleVee

Video Killed the Radio Star - Single - Walk Off the Earth & Sarah Silverman

She Talks Too Much - Day Trip to Narnia - Cats in Space

Fall Inside Your Eyes - Face The Sun - Willie Wisely

Erika - The Art of Pretending - Glove Compartment

Top 12 Songs of 2018

In this episode of the ObviousPopCast we countdown our picks for the top 12 songs of the year! 2018 was a great year and you can definitely hear that here. This one is not to be missed, with artists from Bleu (not a typo!) to Paul McCartney to Jukebox The Ghost and more! Please leave a comment here or on Facebook and let us know what you think and thank you for listening.

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ObviousPopCast Episode 44 - Summer of 2018

This is the sound of summer! Episode 44 of the ObviousPopCast is here with new music from Cheap Trick, Paul McCartney, Electric Light Orchestra, Derri Daugherty, Jukebox The Ghost and more! This one should set you free! I know there is a lot of stuff out there demanding your attention, but please leave a comment here or on Facebook and let us know what you think and thank you for listening.

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EPISODE 44 TRACK LISTING

Song – Album – Artist (this list is in the order played)

Intro: Oh Well/ OPC Theme

Bed Music: March Of The Swivelheads - B.P.M. - The Beat

Make America Great Again - Be More Kind - Frank Turner

Jumpstarted - Off To The Races - Jukebox The Ghost

Come On To Me - Egypt Station - Paul McCartney

Bed Music: Travels - The Grape Prophet - L.S.U.

Summer of '76 - Astral Drive - Astral Drive

The Summer Looks Good On You - (Single) - Cheap Trick

Still Summer - Still Summer - Matt Pond PA

Bed Music: Cecilia Ann - Bossanova - Pixies

Vivid Colours - While You Were Away - We Came From Space

Chemistry - Passages - Jesus Jones

Unhypnotized - The Color Of Dreams - Derri Daugherty

Bed Music: Theme For An Ultimate… - No Room For Humans - Servotron

So Long, & Thanks For All the Fish - Eat the Elephant - A Perfect Circle

Round the Houses - Pants - Chris Difford

Endless Lies (2018) - Secret Messages - Electric Light Orchestra

Bed Music: To Be Listed (Speech Pattern…) - Spare Parts - Servotron 

Outro Bonus: Electric Light Orchestra - Epilogue (with A Day In The Life Ending)

ObviousPopCast Episode 43

Just when you thought it was safe to wade back into the waters of the web...We're back! It's 2018, so that means I need to get a new podcast out, right?! Episode 43 of the ObviousPopCast is full of fantastic new music. Thank you for your patience and I hope you enjoy this one. The first set has three of my favorite songs and in my opinion is the best set of three songs in a row we've played. Its' personal preference of course, so please let us know what you think.

New stuff from Sparks, The Candle Thieves, Jeremy Messersmith, Daniel Amos, Beck and more! Listen and enjoy! As always, let us know what you think! You can stream or download it right now as a high quality MP3, it's free and easy, just the way you like it!

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EPISODE 43 TRACK LISTING

Song – Album – Artist (this list is in the order played)

1. Me and the Androids - Chemicals of the Imagination - The Candle Thieves
2. Stay the Night - Stay the Night (Single) - Jukebox the Ghost
3. So Tell Me Mrs. Lincoln Aside from That How Was The Play? - Hippopotamus - Sparks
4. Purple Hearts - Late Stage Capitalism - Jeremy Messersmith
5. Terror - Terror (Single) - Starflyer 59
6. Octavius - Moog Maximus - The Bongolian
7. Fairy Tale - Other Marvelous Mysteries (H.D. Reissue) - Daniel Amos
8. Down - Recording in Progress EP - Matthew Bryson
9. In the Moment - In the Moment (Single) - The Weeklings
10. Your Love Is My Favourite Band - Combat Sports - The Vaccines
11. Dear Life - Colors - Beck
12. Miracle Man - Here Come the Runts - Awolnation
13. Isotype - The Punishment of Luxury - Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark
14. Sky Show - The Reflection Wave One Soundtrack - Trevor Horn
15. Count It Up - Open Here - Field Music
16. The Last Refugee - Is This the Life We Really Want? - Roger Waters

ObviousPop Top Albums of 2017

Oh Yes! It's that time of the year again... Here is the ObviousPop Top Albums of the Year list. Carefully hand selected, delectable vinyl and digital discs...the best music of the year...IMHO. It was a good year for music...some of my favorite artists released new music this year, Sparks, Cheap Trick, Roger Waters, along with some great new bands as well.

Top 20 Albums

1. Jonathan Coulton - Solid State
2. Future Islands - The Far Field
3. Public Service Broadcasting - Every Valley
4. Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want?
5. Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark - The Punishment of Luxury
6. The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions
7. Sparks - Hippopotamus
8. Planetarium (Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister)
9. Wolf Parade - Cry Cry Cry
10. BNQT - Volume 1
11. The Lees of Memory - The Blinding White of Nothing at All
12. Pugwash - Silverlake
13. The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
14. Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder
15. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Who Built The Moon
16. Cheap Trick - We’re All Alright!
17. Spoon - Hot Thoughts
18. Beck - Dear Life
19. Everything Everything - A Fever Dream
20. Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile To The Surface

EP’s

The Dear Hunter - All Is As All Should Be

Blank Books - EP1

Live Albums

Jeff Lynne’s ELO - Wembley or Bust

Frank Zappa - Halloween 77

Dweezil Zappa - Live In the Moment II

 

ObviousPopCast Episode 42 - New Music!

We're back! It has been a LONG time coming, but the first new popcast of 2017 is finally here! Episode 42 of the ObviousPopCast is full of fantastic new music! We have been laying low for the past year but this one was worth the wait.

New stuff from Jonathan Coulton, Bleachers, Dan Auerbach, BNQT and more! Please enjoy and as always, let us know what you think! You can stream or download it right now as a high quality MP3, it's free and easy, just the way you like it!

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EPISODE 42 TRACK LISTING

Song – Album – Artist (This list is in order and includes music beds and liners)

1. Episode 42 Intro - Barnes & Barnes/Ian Tanner
2. Media Bowie - American Gods Soundtrack - Brian Reitzell
3. All This Time - Solid State - Jonathan Coulton
4. Don't Take the Money - Gone Now - Bleachers
5. I Put This On A Tape For You - The World's End Soundtrack - Simon Pegg & Paddy Considine
6. Way We Won't - Last Place - Grandaddy
7. Neo-Tokyo (Dance With The Dead Remix) - Dreams of Neo-Tokyo (instrumental) - Scandroid
8. Lollygagged - Curse My Lucky Stars - Gleeson
9. Ran - The Far Field - Future Islands
10. The Magician - The Party - Andy Shauf
11. Kuiper Belt - Planetarium - Planetarium
12. Shine on Me - Waiting on a Song - Dan Auerbach
13. Practice - Adam and Tony
14. Molly B Good - The Wave - Los Colognes
15. Unlikely Force - Volume 1 - BNQT
16. Spacehopper - Six String Super Apparatus - Bill Nelson
17. Stranger than Strange - Songs for Blake - Embracing Autism - sElf
18. High Ticket Attractions - Whiteout Conditions - The New Pornographers
19. Smells Like Danger - The Tick (from the animated series)
20. Flower Drum - Punchbuzz - Husky
21. Occam’s Razor (live) - One Shot Deal - Frank Zappa
22. Blackberry Way - We're All Alright! - Cheap Trick
23. Photograph: A New Beginning - New Northern Dream - Bill Nelson

Dr. Tony Shore’s Top 20 Albums of 2016

It's that time of year again! Take a look at my year in music...

Top 20 Albums of 2016

1. Gleeson - Curse My Lucky Stars
2. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
3. Field Music - Commontime
4. Anderson/Stolt - Invention of Knowledge
5. Starflyer 59 - Slow
6. The Nines - Alejandro’s Visions
7. Bear Hands - You’ll Pay For This
8. Shearwater - Jet Plane and Oxbow
9. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
10. The Lemon Twigs - Do Hollywood
11. The 1975 - I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
12. Esperanza Spalding - Emily’s D+Evolution
13. The Dear Hunter - Act V: Hymns With The Devil In Confessional
14. Mike Doughty - The Heart Watches While The Brain Burns
15. St. Lucia - Matter
16. White Lies - Friends
17. Paper Route - Real Emotion
18. Slimey Things - Goodbye Earth
19. The Twilight Hours - Black Beauty
20. The Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness

 

The Best Albums of 2015

It's that time of year again! I love doing the year end list...going over all the new music from the past year and trying to rank and rate them, it's fun. But it can be tough, picking which deserve to be in the coveted Top Ten and then even harder to rank them from one to ten. I always feel it is even more fun to read other lists to see what I may have missed. This year was an interesting one. Not a whole lot blew me away, but there were a few. Jeff Lynne's ELO album was definitely my fave, it's a welcome return and quite a comeback from a legendary artist. An album that just blew me away this year is "The Race For Space" by Public Service Broadcasting. It's an amazing concept record about mans first attempts space travel and exploration. It utilizes actual broadcast samples to tell the history of the space race all with the most amazing mix of electronica, rock and prog.

I always say that on any give day it could be different, but here is this years list...

The ObviousPop Top Ten Albums of 2015

1. Alone In The Universe - Jeff Lynne’s ELO
2. The Race For Space - Public Service Broadcasting
3. Via Zammata - Dweezil Zappa
4. Positive Songs For Negative People - Frank Turner
5. FFS - FFS
6. Get To Heaven - Everything Everything
7. The Music Of Armikrog - Terry Scott Taylor
8. Time Machine - D.A. Wallach
9. Play This Intimately (As If Among Friends) - Pugwash
10. Blurryface - Twenty One Pilots

The rest…

Currents - Tame Impala

Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise - Dear Hunter

Better Late Than Never - Anderson Ponty Band

Hand. Cannot. Erase. - Steven Wilson

The Epic - Kamasi Washington

Crush - Lettuce

Dancing At The Blue Lagoon - Cayucas

Glean - They Might Be Giants

The Grand Experiment - The Neal Morse Band

Best reissues:

Suburban Lawns (S/T) - Suburban Lawns

Amused To Death - Roger Waters

Episode 41 of the ObviousPopCast - The best new music now!

What's this? A new episode of the OPC so soon? YES! Episode 41 of the ObviousPopCast is here and it is one of the best yet! I've been curating some amazing gems because there are so many great new songs out there right now! New stuff from Squeeze, Django Django, Self, FFS and more! Give it a listen and please let us know what you think! You can stream or download it right now as a high quality MP3, it's free and easy, just the way you like it!

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EPISODE 41 TRACK LISTING

Song – Album – Artist

What Does It Take to Walk Away? - Last Laugh - Michael Collins

To The Blade - Get To Heaven - Everything Everything

Back of the Car (feat. Nate Henricks) - Back of the Car Single – RAC

Collaborations Don't Work – FFS - FFS

Electric Love – Candy EP – BØRNS  

This – See What You Started By Continuing – Collective Soul 

Bang Your Drum – Bang Your Drum Single – Dead Man Fall

Nail on the Head - Look Out Machines! - Duke Special

Monogamy - Monogamy Single – sElf

Moony Eyed Walrus - Dancing at the Blue Lagoon - Cayucas

Shake And Tremble - Born Under Saturn - Django Django

Happy Days – Cradle To The Grave – Squeeze

ObviousPopCast Episode 40 - NEW MUSIC!

Episode 40 of the ObviousPopCast is here and it is packed with wonderful new music and artists! Don't miss this one! We've got amazing new songs from They Might Be Giants, Secret Powers, twenty one pilots and more! Give it a listen and please let us know what you think! You can stream or download it right now as a high quality MP3, and it's free!

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EPISODE 40 TRACK LISTING

Song – Album – Artist

My Type - My Type EP - Saint Motel

Tear In My Heart - Blurryface - twenty one pilots

Erase - Glean - They Might Be Giants

The Sun Is Mine - Bleak Strategies - The Dowling Poole

The Great Unknown - Jukebox the Ghost - Jukebox the Ghost

Bitter Sun - Secret Powers 6 - Secret Powers

I Bet My Life - Smoke + Mirrors - Imagine Dragons

Come With Me Now – Lunatic - KONGOS

Shakin' All Over - Savage Night - The Blue Hawaiians

Spell with a Shell - Guns - Cardiacs

Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf) - Run - AWOLNATION

Cecilia and the Satellite - Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Andrew McMahon