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The Best of 2020 (Part 2): Flashlite #622

Best of 2020

Today we continue the list of my favorite albums in 2020. The complete top 30 list is below!


1. A Burning Bus
2. Sylvia Rose Novak - Bad Luck
3. The Whiffs - Another Whiff
4. Petrified Max - Charlie Drove North
5. Cocktails - Catastrophic Entertainment
6. David Nance - Staunch Honey
7. 2nd Grade - Hit To Hit
8. The Reflectors - First Impression
9. Low Cut Connie - Private Lives
10. Swampmeat Family Band - Muck
11. Ghost Funk Orchestra  - Song For Paul
12. Trotsky Icepick - I Haunted Myself
13. Little Albert - Swamp King
14. Emma Swift - Blonde on the Tracks
15. Aubrie Sellers - Far From Home
16. Bipolariod - Paint it Blacker
17. Honey Radar - Ruby Puff Of Dust
18. The Berries - Berryland
19. Natural Child - California Hotel
20. Saba Lou - Novum Ovum
21. Nicole Atkins - Italian Ice
22. Fred and Rose - Estado Alpha
23. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
24. Sonic Dawn - Enter the Mirage
25. Levitation Room - Headspace
26. The Third Mind
27. All Them Witches - Nothing as the Ideal
28. x - Alphabetland
29. Fuzz - III
30. Datura4 - West Coast Highway Cosmic

Aubrie Sellers – Troublemaker;
Emma Swift – Queen Jane Approximately;
Little Albert – Swamp King;
Trotsky Icepick – Oxygen The Destroyer;
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Modern Scene;
Swampmeat Family Band – Over Your Head;
Low Cut Connie – Let It All Hang Out Tonite;
The Reflectors – U Should Be My Girl;
2nd Grade – Boys in Heat;
David Nance – My Love, The Dark and I;
Cocktails – Oversaturated;
Petrified Max – Length of Rope;
The Whiffs – Please Come Home;
Sylvia Rose Novak – Flowers For The Fortunate;
A Burning Bus – Watch You Go;
A Burning Bus – Burnt Bridges;
A Burning Bus – I’m Coming Down;
A Burning Bus – Faith healer.

Flashlite #591

Phil May of Pretty Things

Don Howland (ex Bassholes and Gibson Brothers) is back with a spectacular new project and album A Burning Bus. We also check out the new music from Mark Lanegan (who also has a book out), Faux Killas, A Place to Bury Strangers and Magnetic Fields. On a new tribute to the Cramps, we discover a Southern California band Retox. From Spain, we have a new name Pablo Solo. Today’s show is dedicated to Phil May, the frontman of Pretty Things who passed away on May 15th, following complications from hip surgery.

Pretty Things – Walking Through My Dreams;
Night Beats – Bad Love;
A Burning Bus – Faith Healer;
Bassholes – Bowling Ball;
The Cramps – Garbageman;
Retox – Garbageman;
Pablo Solo – Gus, you Dog;
Serge Gainsbourg – En Melody;
Mark Lanegan Band – Hit The City (Live in CLE);
Mark Lanegan – Ballad of A Dying Rover;
A Place To Bury Strangers – Hit The Ground;
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Like A Comet;
Swans – (She’s A) Universal Emptiness;
Magnetic Fields – Love Gone Wrong;
Faux Killas – Pick You Up;
Ty Segall – 5 Feet Tall;
Pretty Things – Old Man Going.