Rockpile 2015

Bill’s Rockpile  2015   2008

Greetings!

This project started as a whim but has been fun to catalog my favorite tracks for the past several years. This is the 10^th year of doing so. Hopefully in another 10 years there will be a better (and legal) way to get the tracks beamed to your favorite listening device, but in the meantime please consume as works best. This compilation jelled late but I am really happy the way it travels from beginning to end. There is even a track from an album that briefly made #1 on Amazon (Jason Isbell) this year!

As in the past few years, these are available to stream on the widget below. The site url is https://www.mixcloud.com/underclaw/bills-rockpile-2015/. And I am sending out a few CD copies as well. Happy to send you one if you just drop me a note at wjcurran@gmail.com with your email address. Don't be shy. Thanks for listening!

Cheers,

Bill

Bill's Rockpile 2015 by Underclaw on Mixcloud

1.   “What They Need” Surf City

2.   “Longships” The Bevis Frond

3.   “Machinery“ Wet & Reckless

4.   “I’m a Mountain” Salad Boys

5.   “Pedestrian at Best” Courtney Barnett

6.   “Wouldn’t You Know” Royal Headache

7.   “Strangers” Car Seat Headrest

8.   “Let The Bombs Fall Off” Dogs On Acid

9.   “Pontiac 87” Protomartyr

10.  “The Art of Getting By (Song For Heaven’s Gate)” The Go! Team

11.  “Eyes” Love of Diagrams

12.  “Two Ships” Novella

13.  “Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas”  Beach Slang

14.  “A New Wave ”  Sleater-Kinney

15.  “Nowhere Bound” The Manhattan Love Suicides

16.  “When The Poor Can Reach The Moon” The Chills

17.  “Just Getting Older“ The Sharp Medicine

18.  “Covered In Shade” Helen

19.  “Break The Chain” Ultimate Painting

20.  “24 Frames” Jason Isbell

21.  “The Closing Door” LVL UP

Rockpile 2014

Bill’s Rockpile  2014
 

Hi,

Another year and an accounting of my favorite songs. The cutoff remains about 70 minutes worth of music, or what fits on a CD. As with last year, CDs will ship by request if you send one to underclaw@gmail.com. Or if you send me your own favorites. I felt like it was a pretty good list this year, and there were some I would have liked to include. Those honorable mentions are below. There were also many good reissues this year, and I was particularly fond of the Bedhead 1992-1998. Best show I saw this year was Carsick Cars at the Middle East Upstairs.

Thanks for visiting!

Cheers,

Bill

1.   “Seagulls by Submission” Eyelids

2.   “Memory” The Mantles

3.   “Magazine “ The Proper Ornaments

4.   “Champions of Red Wine” The New Pornographers

5.   “the Greater Good” the Leaf Library

6.   “MTLOV (Minor Keys)” A Sunny Day in Glasgow

7.   “ ‘Sad Love’ and Other Stories” Comet Gain

8.   “Every Morning” J Mascis

9.   “Geographic” Cheatahs

10.  “Mourning” The Pink Tiles

11.  “Be Free, Live Well” Mike Adams at His Honest Weight

12.  “Fall Apart” Withered Hand

13.  “Jane”  Ultimate Painting

14.  “Green Belly ”  Ty Segall

15.  “Offer” Together Pangea

16.  “The Bell“ First Aid Kit

17.  “Distant Drive” The Luxembourg Signal

18.  “There Goes My Love” PlusMinus

19.  “Archie, Marry Me” Alvvays

20.  “Everywhere” Ex Hex

21.  “Some Things You Don’t Get Back” David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights

Just Missed Cutoff:

“Encrypted Bounce” Thee Oh Sees, “Vertigo” Robert Scott, “Teenage Exorcists” Mogwai, “An Ocean Between the Waves” The War On Drugs, “Leaves Like Glass” Woods