(VERY DELAYED) Best of 2021 100-1
Hey champ. Sorry I haven’t been around too much lately. Things have just been real crazy for me, but I know that isn’t an excuse. I promised you a lot of things, and I’ve let you down. I’m not going to promise anything new, but I hope I can make it up to you.
I know no one wants to read a best of list almost two months after the year has finished, but I felt like I should post it anyway.
Quite a few of these we wound up talking about on the Best of 2021 extravaganza on the podcast.
First I wanted to talk about the folks to graced our show in 2021 on this list. Jon and Garrett of Calyx came by to talk to us a few months before the vinyl copies of Stay Gone started shipping out. It’s still one of the absolute best albums of the year and stayed near the top pretty much since I heard it.
Oliva of Cowboy Boy joined us to talk about her album Good Girl, which half was written while she lived in Boston, and the second half was recorded after she moved to LA. It’s an unbelievably catchy record with the best hooks of the year.
Both Laura and Betsy of Bat Fangs came on to talk to us about the Bangles and their album, Queen of My World. The record is a blast of 70’s and 80’s style rock and roll. Huge riffs and big party vibes.
The Groupie masterminds, Ashley and Johanna released Ephemeral very early on in 2021 and managed to snag a lot of attention at the year end round ups from big publications. I couldn’t be happy for them because the record is amazing.
We had a fun time talking with Zach and Chris of Demons about Pissed Jeans. Their album Privation was a hard hitting album existed outside the typical fields of hardcore and metal.
Favorite Son by Gully Boys was one of my most highly anticipated albums that came out in 2021, and we were very grateful for Kathy to come on the show.
Our friends in BEDTIMEMAGIC didn’t come on our show this year, but they did put out a new album called Between the Sheets. It’s a brilliant noise rock record and I think we need to have those fellas back on the show.
We had a blast talking with Jon of Timeshares about Social Distortion, and the band X’s tour van rules. They released a final in a trilogy of EPs called In the Ground last year, and announced that they will be releasing a new album in 2022 which I’m looking forward to.
G. Leonardo from Suzie True, released her first solo record under the name Little Fighter. It’s a brilliant accomplishment of an album.
We had our highest amount of people on a single recording when we talked to the band Pulses about their album Speak Less.
I think that is everyone and I hope I didn’t miss anyone.
Without any further adieu, here is my much delayed top 100 albums of 2021.
Sincere Engineer - Bless My Psyche
Calyx - Stay Gone
Cowboy Boy - Good Girl
Starflyer 59 - Vanity
Canal Irreal - Canal Irreal
Move - Freedom Dreams
Bat Fangs - Queen of My World
Sedai - Orangelime
Regret - Regret
The Muslims - Fuck These Fuckin Fascists
Jalang - Santau
Slant - 1집
Groupie - Ephemeral
Bruce Lee Band - Division in the Heartland
High Cost - What’s Worth Living?
Fixtures - Life in Retreat
Demons - Privation
Teenage Fanclub - Endless Arcade
Pinkshift - Saccharine
Ship Thieves - Irruption
Wire Lines - Harvest Verses
Oxygen Tank - Demo 2021
Drinking Boys and Girls Choir - Marriage License
Lovebites - Glory, Glory, To the World
Thirdface - Do It With a Smile
Remember Sports - Like a Stone
Needles//Pins - Needles//Pins
Meet Me @ The Alter - Model Citizen
Cold Steel - Will of Spiritual Cleansing
It Thing - Syrup
Subsonic Eye - Nature of Things
Posy - bongga ka dai
Superbloom - Pollen
Harker - Axiom
Gully Boys - Favorite Son
Makthaverskan - För Allting
One Step Closer - This Place You Know
Flying Racoon Suit - Afterglow
PONY - TV Baby
Chimes of Bayonets - Indexer
The Boys With the Perpetual Nervousness - Songs From Another Life
BEDTIMEMAGIC - Between the Sheets
Timeshares - In the Ground
Naked Raygun - Over the Overlords
V/A - Bridge
Cerce - Cowboy Music
Little Fighter - Fall Again
Wish - Adapt or Die
Turnstile - Glow On
Rosie Tucker - Sucker Supreme
Beach Bunny - Blame Game
Noun - In the Shade
Pronoun - OMG I MADE IT
Joystick! - I Can’t Take It Anymore
Buried Lights - Buried Lights
Pulses. - Speak Less
Five Iron Frenzy - Until This Shakes Apart
Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
Days Spent - Tourist
Adult Magic - Leftovers
Masada - II
Pip Blom - Welcome Break
V/A - Sunday, Someday
Unsane - Improvised Munitions & Demo
The Chisel - Retaliation
Fotocrime - Heart of Crime
En Garde - Debtors
Either - Midnight Summer Moon
Fake Fruit - Fake Fruit
...and no one knew - Debris
Crazy Arm - Dark Hands, Thunderbolts
Catbite - Nice One
Closer - Within One Stem
Scowl - How Flowers Growl
Amends - Tales of Love, Loss, and Outlaws
Fortitude Valley - Fortitude Valley
Succumb - XXI
Merry Christmas - Don’t Die Trying
King Woman - Celestial Blues
The Sonder Bombs - Clothbound
The Silver - Ward of Roses
Every Time I Die - Radical
Frauds - Long Spoons
Lucero - When You Found Me
John Sharkey III - Shoot Out the Cameras
Justin Courtney Pierre - Ghost World
The Give & Take - Great Pause
Zao - The Crimson Corridor
Karloff - Karloff
Hollow Suns - Process of Losing
Abrakadabdra - Make Yourself at Home
An Autumn For Crippled Children - As the Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes
Adieuluna - Remembering How We Forget
Biitchseat - I’ll become kind.
Big Vic - Girl, Buried
Desenterradas - Danzando En El Caos
Dare - Against All Odds
Dan Sartain - Arise, Dan Sartain, Arise
Descendents - 9th & Walnut
Carcass - Torn Arteries