January 27, 2018 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #371)

9:00 AM Stevie Wonder • I Love Every Little Thing About You• Music of My Mind • Tamla

9:04 AM Dolly Varden • 1000 Men Like Cigarettes • Forgiven Now • Undertow

9:07 AM Solid Space • Tenth Planet • Space Museum • Dark Entries

January 13, 2018 CHIRP Radio Playlist (Show #370)

9:00 AM The Monkees • You Bring the Summer • Good Times!• Rhino

9:03 AM Beach House • Used to Be • Teen Dream • Sub Pop

9:06 AM Hazel English • Other Lives • Just Give In/Never Going Home • Polyvinyl

January 6, 2018 CHIRP Radio Show playlist (Show #369)

Trainee Sarah did two swell sets during this show, as noted below.

9:00 AM Blur • The Universal • The Great Escape • Food

9:04 AM Curtis Mayfield • Oh So Beautiful • New World Order• Warner Bros.

9:08 AM Peter Oren • Burden of Prro • Anthro • Western Vinyl

December 30, 2017 CHIRP Radio Show Playlist (Show #368)

6:00 AM Bedouine • Summer Cold • Bedouine • Spacebomb

6:03 AM The Jacksons • Enjoy Yourself • The Jacksons • Epic

6:06 AM Paul Weller • Woo Se Mama • Kind Revolution • Warner Bros./Parlophone

December 23, 2017 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #367)

9:00 AM Brian Wilson • Love and Mercy • Brian Wilson • Warner Bros.

9:03 AM Andra Day (with Stevie Wonder) • Someday at Christmas • Merry Christmas from Andra Day • Warner Bros.

9:06 AM Two Sets of Eyes • For the Last Time • Two Sets of Eyes EP • Self-Released

My Top 40 albums of 2017

I listened to at least 150 albums full through this year, and these are the ones that stuck with me the most. As always, the usual caveats: 1) I only base the list on albums I own, so things I really dug but didn't purchase, like B Boys, didn't make it, 2) of course, there are many terrific albums I've never gotten around to, like Alvvays' latest, for example, and, 3) the rankings mean a bit less the further down the list this goes, the distinctions between 21 and 25, for example, are very small. I also had to figure out what to do with Run The Jewels, whose third album was offered for free in mid-December, but not physically out until 2017. I decided to exclude it. There are also a number of records that could have made the 40 during a different week. It's just a matter of when the wheel stops spinning.

December 16, 2017 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #366)

9:00 AM Wilco • Please Be Patient With Me • Sky Blue Sky • Nonesuch

9:03 AM Imagination • Just an Illusion • In the Heat of the Night • BR Music

9:07 AM ChanHays • Never Knew (featuring Supastition, Ambition & One Be Lo) • Here • Droppin' Science