BAGeL Radio's Top Music of 2021

BAGeL Radio's Top Music of 2021

2021 Top 50 Songs

Artist - Song - Album

1. Wet Leg - Chaise Longue - Chaise Longue (single)

2. Amigo The Devil  - Murder at the Bingo Hall - Born Against

3. Parquet Courts - Walking At A Downtown Pace - Sympathy For Life

4. Glume - Get Low - The Internet

5. Dry Cleaning - Scratchcard Lanyard - New Long Leg

6. Sleaford Mods - Elocution - Spare Ribs

7. Goat Girl - Badibaba - On All Fours

8. Surfbort - Never Nude - Keep On Truckin'

9. Mandy, Indiana - Bottle Episode - …EP

10. Amyl and The Sniffers - Guided By Angels - Comfort To Me

11. Viagra Boys - Girls & Boys (Tedit) - Welfare Jazz

12. Liars   - Sekwar - The Apple Drop

13. Yard Act - The Overload - The Overload

14. Whispering Sons  - Satantango - Several Others

15. Bnny - Time Walk - Everything

16. Erica Nockalls - I Know (feat. Jah Wobble) - Dark Music From A Warm Place

17. Squid - G.S.K. - Bright Green Field

18. IDLES - Meds - Crawler

19. Dutch Tulips - Tell Me Your Codes - Double Visions

20. Holiday Ghosts   - Total Crisis - North Street Air

21. Juliana Hatfield - Nightmary - Blood

22. Ty Segall - Feel Good - Harmonizer

23. Dry Cleaning - Her Hippo - New Long Leg

24. Francis of Delirium - Red - Wading [EP]

25. Women Of The Night - Open All Night - Sub Rosa

26. Dinosaur Jr. - I Ran Away - Sweep It Into Space

27. Guided by Voices - Trust Them Now   - Earth Man Blues

28. The Irrational Library - We... Are Doomed - We...Are Doomed 

29. Iceage - Dear Saint Cecilia - Seek Shelter

30. CLAMM - Keystone Pols - Beseech Me

31. Art d'Ecco - Head Rush - In Standard Definition

32. The Goon Sax - In the Stone - Mirror II

33. Parquet Courts - Marathon Of Anger - Sympathy For Life

34. Gruff Rhys - Hiking In Lightning - Seeking New Gods

35. King Ropes - Big Man on the TV - Way Out West

36. The Murlocs - Francesca - Bittersweet Demons

37. LUMIERE - AMITIE DECHUE - A.M.I.E.S.A.M.O.U.R

38. Jose Gonzalez - Valle Local - Local Valley

39. Kiwi Jr. - Undecided Voters - Cooler Returns

40. Pip Blom - Keep It Together - Welcome Break

41. Tristen - Athena - Aquatic Flowers

42. Wet Leg - Wet Dream - Wet Dream (single)

43. Alaska Reid - Boys From Town - Big Bunny [EP]

44. Erica Nockalls - The King of Want - Dark Music From A Warm Place

45. Snail Mail - Ben Franklin - Valentine

46. Shannon And The Clams - Mary Don't Go - Year Of The Spider

47. Cheekface - We Need a Bigger Dumpster - We Need a Bigger Dumpster (single)

48. Guided By Voices - My (Limited) Engagement - It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!

49. Alex Rex - What's Shouted In The Dark (The Dark Shouts Back) - Paradise

50. IDLES - Crawl! - Crawler. 

2021 Top 50 Albums

Artist - Album

1. Squid - Bright Green Field

2. Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz

3. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

4. Goat Girl - On All Fours

5. Surfbort - Keep on Truckin'

6. Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space

7. Art d'Ecco - In Standard Definition

8. Juliana Hatfield - Blood

9. Parquet Courts - Sympathy For Life

10. Amyl and The Sniffers - Comfort To Me

11. Holiday Ghosts - North Street Air

12. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs

13. Mush - Lines Redacted

14. Cheekface - Emphatically No.

15. Kiwi Jr. - Cooler Returns

16. Gruff Rhys - Seeking New Gods

17. Ty Segall - Harmonizer

18. The Babe Rainbow - Changing Colours

19. The Irrational Library - We...Are Doomed

20. TV Priest - Uppers

21. Paul Jacobs - Pink Dogs on the Green Grass

22. Shannon And The Clams - Year Of The Spider

23. Women Of The Night - Sub Rosa

24. The Shivas - Feels So Good // Feels So Bad

25. The Goon Sax - Mirror II

26. Alaska Reid - Big Bunny [EP]

27. King Ropes - Way Out West

28. Iceage   - Seek Shelter

29. Yellow Pills - MachinesThat Go Beep

30. LUMIERE - A.M.I.E.S.A.M.O.U.R

31. Los Psychosis - Rock and Roll Dreams

32. Fernet Underground - Kaikki Sarola

33. Ottoman Turks - Ottoman Turks II

34. Whispering Sons - Several Others

35. Guided by Voices - Earth Man Blues

36. Lucas Aaron - Domino

37. The Bats - Foothills

38. The Notwist - Vertigo Days

39. Eternal Drag - Hovering

40. CLAMM - Beseech Me

41. Waste Man - One Day It'll All Be You

42. N0V3L - Non-fiction

43. Fishboy - Waitsgiving

44. The Lounge Society - Silk For The Starving [EP]

45. Glume - The Internet

46. Django Django - Glowing in the Dark

47. Yellow Pills - Space Age Inferno

48. Xiu Xiu - OH NO

49. Grave Flowers Bongo Band - Strength of Spring

50. Amigo The Devil - Born Against

2021 Top Cover Versions

Artist - Song - Album - (original artist/author)

1. Viagra Boys - In Spite Of Ourselves - Welfare Jazz - (John Prine)

2. The Clydes - Science Fiction Double Feature / Over At The Frankenstein Place - At The Movies II  - (Richard O'Brien)

3. Grave Flowers Bongo Band - Down Man - Strength of Spring - (Brainbox)

4. Xiu Xiu - One Hundred Years (feat. Chelsea Wolfe) - OH NO - (The Cure)

5. Harry Stafford and Marco Butcher - Arnold Layne - Bone Architecture - (Pink Floyd)

6. Swiims - Call Me - At The Movies II  - (Blondie)

7. Kurt Vile And The Violators - Run Run Run (Radio Edit) - I'll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground And Nico - (The Velvet Underground)

8. Dean Wareham - Under Skys - I Have Nothing to Say To The Mayor of L.A.  - (Lazy Smoke)

9. Papercuts - End Times Daily - Tangled Heart [EP] - (Galaxie 500)

10. Dry Cleaning - Oblivion - Bills & Aches & Blues 3 [EP]  - (Grimes)

11. Ex Norwegian And Friends - That's Right That's Me (ft. DC Cardwell) - Sing Jimmy Campbell - (Jimmy Campbell)

12. The Prefab Messiahs - Buddy - Music for Concerned Citizens  - (Snapper)

BAGeL Radio's Top Music of 2020

 BAGeL Radio's Top Music of 2020

2020 Top 50 Songs

1. A Hero's Death (Radio Mix) - Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death

2. Clean Kill - Coriky - Coriky

3. Mr. Motivator - IDLES - Mr. Motivator (single)

4. The Truth - I LIKE TRAINS - KOMPROMAT

5. Dressing America - Torres - Silver Tongue

6. People Keep Dying (And No One Can Stop It) - Hallelujah The Hills - I'm You

7. Martin - Car Seat Headrest - Making A Door Less Open

8. Starstruck - Sorry - 925

9. People Don't Protest Enough - Catholic Action - Celebrated By Strangers

10. Goodbye Year, Goodbye - X - Alphabetland

11. Televised Mind - Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death

12. Here's the Thing - Sports Team - Deep Down Happy

13. Quit Fucking Around - Francis of Delirium - All Change

14. Not A Runner - Momma - Two Of Me

15. I Think You're Great - Alex the Astronaut - The Theory of Absolutely Nothing

16. Something I Should Do - Nada Surf - Never Not Together

17. Haircut Sphinx - Guided By Voices - Mirrored Aztec

18. No Puedo Pensar - Melenas - Dias Raros

19. Sliver - Kim Gordon - The Turning Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

20. Revising My Fee - Mush - 3D Routine

21. Dig In - I LIKE TRAINS - KOMPROMAT

22. Alexandra - RVG - Feral

23. Forgot My Horse's Name - Tenci - My Heart Is An Open Field

24. All My Friends - The No. 44 - Reflexive // Repeater

25. Clutter & Mess - Green Buzzard - Amidst the Clutter & Mess

26. In / Out - En Attendant Ana - Juillet

27. Monkey Crazy - The Coffin Daggers - Eleki Album

28. Running Hot With Fate - Hallelujah The Hills - I'm You

29. Inauguration Day - Coriky - Coriky

30. Sludge (radio edit) - Squid - Sludge (single)

31. Fixer Upper - Yard Act - Fixer Upper (single)

32. White Noise White Heat - Elbow - Giants of All Sizes

33. Future Peg - Man Man - Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between

34. Born Confused - Porridge Radio - Every Bad

35. Polyaneurism - of Montreal - UR FUN

36. Turned To String - No Age - Goons Be Gone

37. Lemon Tea - Galore - Galore

38. Pantomima - Greg Dulli - Random Desire

39. I Was Not Born - Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death

40. Waves - Hum - Inlet

41. No Scene - Dope Body - Home Body

42. Roll With Me - Bell Towers - Junior Mix

43. (Don't Break My) Devotion - Jade Hairpins - Harmony Avenue

44. Existential Dread - Mush - 3D Routine

45. Hot Slick - PINS - Hot Slick

46. Stations of the Cross - Sports Team - Deep Down Happy

47. Where to Start - Bully - SUGAREGG

48. Dream Cleaver - Death Valley Girls - Under The Spell Of Joy

49. Nothing At All - Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire, Immediately

50. Home (Radio Edit) - Caribou - Suddenly

2020 Top 50 Albums

1. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death

2. X -   Alphabetland

3. I LIKE TRAINS -  KOMPROMAT

4. Car Seat Headrest -   Making A Door Less Open

5. Coriky - Coriky

6. Bully -  SUGAREGG

7. Momma -  Two Of Me

8. RVG - Feral

9. Elbow -  Giants of All Sizes

10. Melenas - Dias Raros

11. Sports Team -  Deep Down Happy

12. IDLES -  Ultra Mono

13. Hallelujah The Hills - I'm You (2019)

14. Soccer Mommy - Color Theory

15. Mush - 3D Routine

16. Throwing Muses - Sun Racket

17. Alex the Astronaut - The Theory of Absolutely Nothing

18. The Vacant Lots - Interzone

19. Sorry - 925

20. DEHD - Flower Of Devotion

21. Man Man - Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between

22. The Beths -   Jump Rope Gazers

23. of Montreal -  UR FUN

24. Dead Ghosts -  Automatic Changer

25. Galore - Galore

26. The Archaeas - Archaeas

27. Rey Pila - Velox Veritas

28. Catholic Action - Celebrated By Strangers

29. Drakulas - Terminal Amusements

30. Chemtrails -  The Peculiar Smell of the Inevitable

31. Torres - Silver Tongue

32. Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire, Immediately

33. The Orange Kyte - Carousel

34. The High Water Marks - Ecstasy Rhymes

35. The Coffin Daggers -  Eleki Album

36. Flat Worms -  Antarctica

37. PINS - Hot Slick

38. The Gonks -   Five Things You Didn't Know About

39. L.A. Witch -  Play With Fire

40. Psychedelic Furs - Made of Rain

41. Protomartyr -  Ultimate Success Today

42. Old 97's - Twelfth

43. Ezra Furman -  Sex Education Original Soundtrack

44. Ratboys - Printer's Devil

45 -  Death Valley Girls Under The Spell Of Joy

46. Guided By Voices - Mirrored Aztec

47. Shopping - All Or Nothing

48. BOAT - Tread Lightly

49. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down -  Temple

50. CLIFFFS - Panic Attack

2020 Top Covers

1. Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun - Mattiel - Double Cover  (Beastie Boys)

2. Sick Day - Nada Surf - Saving For A Custom Van (Fountains of Wayne)

3. You Gotta Lose - The Fuzztones - NYC (Richard Hell & The Voidoids)

4. Guitar Komori Uta - The Coffin Daggers - Eleki Album (?)

5. Gotta Get Up - Ty Segall - Segall Smeagol [EP] (Harry Nilsson)

6. Devil Or Angel - Ezra Furman - Sex Education Original Soundtrack (The Clovers -  Blanche Carter)

7. Shirley - Lambchop - TRIP (The Mirrors)

8. Good Morning You - Built to Spill - Plays The Songs Of Daniel Johnston

9. Here Comes Your Man - Tanya Donelly - Here Comes Your Man (Pixies)

10. I Know What Boys Like - Black Needle Noise - These Mortal Covers (The Waitresses)

11. I’ve Got A Feeling - Potty Mouth - Saving For A Custom Van (Ivy)

12. lucy - Jay Som - Soccer Mommy & Friends, Vol I (Soccer Mommy)

13. Ringo Murakara - The Coffin Daggers - Eleki Album (?)

14. Transmaniacon MC - The Fuzztones - NYC (Blue Oyster Cult)

15. On The Street Loose - Les Deuxluxes - Lighter Fluid (The Stooges)

"480 Minutes" - BAGeL Radio Top Music of 2019

I hope that everyone is enjoying their holiday season despite the extremely miserable political climate and the frighteningly extreme actual climate.

Tomorrow night marks the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and Sunday marks Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere: happy (almost) winter and (almost) summer, respectively.

Today is the day we go all in on 2019 -- tune in to BAGeL Radio today to hear our top ~200 songs of 2019 -- today's playlist will be all 2019 music all day (with a couple of stragglers released too late in 2018 to be included in our last year-end show).

Erroneously advertised all week as beginning at 10 a.m., the top songs of the year countdown will begin with song #50 at 11 a.m. Eastern U.S. Time. We should reach the top 10 at around 1:30 p.m. and finish up around 2:00 p.m. The rest of the show will consist of our 150 or so other favorite songs of the year including our favorite cover versions, favorite songs not sung in English, and our top political songs of the year sprinkled throughout.

For the year-end best-of edition of 480 Minutes the show is extended to a 12-hour run-time. That means that the rebroadcasts will begin 2 hours later than usual and start up again every 12 hours over the weekend (9 p.m., 9 a.m., 9 p.m., and so on, and so on, and so on...). The program schedule can be found at http://bagelradio2.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html.

Catch up on 2019 in one day! The show is full of holiday gift ideas (hint: music!) so keep a list and check it twice (that's what reruns are for!).

The show is live-hosted from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Eastern U.S. Time, followed by 4 hours of uninterrupted music to accommodate as many fantastic 2019 songs as we can.

Lists of our top songs and top albums will be published to our site and to our Facebook page after the show.  Feel free to leave your lists in the comments, or e-mail them to ted(at)somafm.com. If you are interested, our past top music lists can be viewed at https://bagelradio2.blogspot.com/p/top-music-by-year.html.

Please consider donating to SomaFM and or purchasing SomaFM exclusives to help keep BAGeL Radio and the other 30+ SomaFM stations on the air and commercial free -- your generous support enables us to continue doing what we (and apparently a whole lot of you!) love!

Get in touch during the live-hosted show hours:
e-mail: ted(at)somafm.com
Twitter: @bagelradio
facebook.com/bagelradio/ (post comments, not FB Messenger, thank you)
chat with other listeners: https://internet-radio-slack.herokuapp.com

The show will be rebroadcast tonight (Friday) starting at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, twice on Saturday 12/21 (9 a.m. and 9 p.m.) and twice on Sunday 12/22 (9 a.m. and 9p.m.).

The past couple of weeks were spent listening to the hundreds of new songs we added to rotation this year and arranging them and the albums they came from into lists. As usual not everything expected to make their respective top 50 lists did, and the chances that a deserving song/album/artist was inadvertently and unfairly overlooked in the process is near 100%, so apologies in advance for that.

For help with remembering when the live-hosted shows and re-runs air, check out the program schedule (which you can import into your favorite calendar program!) embedded here:

http://bagelradio2.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

Tune in at somafm.com/bagel, plus SomaFM channels are available on many set top boxes and home audio systems as well as by voice command on many NSA snooping devices smart speakers.  Also, iOS users can also take advantage of the Shortcuts app to create a home screen button that will launch BAGeL Radio via a single touch or a simple Siri voice command. Open Shortcuts; search for SomaFM; select BAGeL Radio; unselect the "show when run" toggle to avoid the extra dialog box; give the shortcut a name; bingo!

The BAGeL Concert Finder gig calendar is tailored to the outstanding taste of BAGeL Radio listeners. Give it a try, it's really quite handy! http://bagelconcertfinder.com/

Contact the DJ during the live-hosted show hours:
e-mail: ted(at)somafm.com
Twitter: @bagelradio
facebook.com/bagelradio/ (comments only, no FB messenger, sorry)
chat with other listeners: https://internet-radio-slack.herokuapp.com

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480 Minutes - Best-Of Rerun Weekend

For this final weekend of 2018  we are proud to present our year-end top music shows from 2011-2018. All times listed are Eastern U.S. time.


Friday 9 a.m. - top music of 2011 (11-hour show)

Friday 8 p.m. - top music of 2012

Saturday 8 a.m. - top music of 2013 (13-hour show)

Saturday 9 p.m. - top music of 2014

Sunday 9 a.m. - top music of 2015

Sunday 9 p.m. - top music of 2016

Last year we stopped there, but this year we are going to extend the rerun madness into Monday with the two most recent year-end top music shows because, you know, WTF:

Monday 9 a.m. - top music of 2017

Monday 9 p.m. - top music of 2018 show (originally aired 12/21/18)


Enjoy the shows, and the weekend.

Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2019 to you and yours.

Ted

"480 Minutes" - BAGeL Radio Top Music of 2018

Today is the first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and the first day of summer in the Southern Hemisphere: happy winter and summer, respectively.

Today is also the day we go all in on 2018 -- tune in to BAGeL Radio today to hear our top ~200 songs of 2018 -- today's playlist will be all 2018 music all day (with a couple of stragglers released too late in 2017 to be included in our last year-end show).

Last year we tried out new timing for the first time and it was a hit, so we're going with it again: our Top Songs of the year countdown will begin with song #50 at 11 a.m. ET instead of 10 a.m.  We should reach the top 10 around 1:30-1:45 p.m. and finish up between 2:00-2:30 p.m. The rest of the show will consist of our 150 or so other favorite songs of the year including two sets of our favorite cover versions of 2018.

The year-end best-of edition of 480 Minutes is extended to a 12-hour run-time so the rebroadcasts will begin 2 hours later than usual and start up again every 12 hours over the weekend.

Catch up on 2018 in one day! The show is full of holiday gift ideas so keep a list and check it twice (that's what reruns are for!).

The show is live-hosted from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Eastern U.S. Time, then the un-hosted portion stretches to 4 hours (from the regular 2) in order to accommodate the massive playlist of fantastic 2018 releases. To be honest we're not going to get to all of our favorites, there were just too many this year.

Lists of our top songs and top albums will be published to our site and to our Facebook page after the show.  Feel free to leave your lists in the comments. To view our past lists, visit this page.

Please consider donating to SomaFM and or purchasing SomaFM exclusives to help keep BAGeL Radio and the other 30+ SomaFM stations on the air and commercial free -- your generous support is what allows us to keep doing this!

Get in touch during the live-hosted show hours:
e-mail: ted(at)somafm.com
Twitter: @bagelradio
facebook.com/bagelradio/ (post comments, not FB Messenger, thank you)
chat with other listeners: https://internet-radio-slack.herokuapp.com

The show  will be rebroadcast tonight (Friday) starting at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, twice on Saturday 12/22 (9 a.m. and 9 p.m.), once on Sunday 12/23 (9 a.m.), and that will be followed by two year-end/best-of editions of 480 Minutes from previous years which will take us through 9 p.m. Christmas Eve.

We've spent the past couple of weeks listening to all 845 new songs that were added to rotation this year and arranging them and the albums they came from into lists. Several songs and albums I was certain would make their respective top 50 lists did not, shockingly, and while it's likely we missed something, I think we came up with some strong, representative lists.

As usual we hope that the show reminds you about and/or introduces you to 2018 artists and albums you'll want to further explore.  Tune in at somafm.com/bagel or if you'd prefer to use a media player, check out this handy guide covering many devices.

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