Duncan Clark Poop 2023
LANKUM, THE HU, YO LA TANGO, THE BASEBALL PROJECT, DROPKICK MURPHYS, MARGO PRICE, THE HIVES, PRETENDERS, LISA O’NEILL, ROLLING STONES
LANKUM, THE HU, YO LA TANGO, THE BASEBALL PROJECT, DROPKICK MURPHYS, MARGO PRICE, THE HIVES, PRETENDERS, LISA O’NEILL, ROLLING STONES
My POOP DISC-CLAIMER (disc-lamer?): I actually found a good amount of interesting music in 2023 and I didn’t have to pad my list with records that might have only marginally deserved my recognition. But as is the usual case, about half of my picks are rooted, in one way or another, in the past. RetroPOOP, if you will. To mangle the words of Sir Peter of Townshend, I look pretty old but my taste’s backdated, yeah. Buy New or Used via Amazon Rent via iTunes [?] 1. THE REPLACEMENTS – Tim (2023 re-mix, part of the Tim: Let It Bleed…
My POOP DISC-CLAIMER (disc-lamer?): As years go I’ll give 2022 a semi-meh. As usual a good chunk of my list is made up of albums that in one way or another look back in time. It’s apparent that much of the music that called out to me in my teens and twenties still seems to drive my car. Music in the rear view mirror remains closer than it appears. —
Dropkick Murphys, Freakons, Lou Reed, Corb Lund, The Beatles, Len Price 3, Angeline Morrison, Willie Nelson,
In this third year of the pandemic, I made a decision to slow down my record hunting activities and concentrate on exploring what’s already on my shelves (lots of shelves #fuckyeahphysicalmedia). But I found it a little difficult to go completely cold turkey so I still have enough new acquisitions to make a PooP List yet again. — Horace Andy, Pay It All Back Vol. 8, Dub No Frontiers, Jeb Loy Nichols, Spoon, Ghetto Priest x D.Foe, Mark Stewart, Holly Cook, Neneh Cherry, Karen Dalton, Dropkick Murphys, Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder
Sonically a great year for live gigs, but not so for new music recordings, if you ask me. And the greatest of all gigs was the two week performance by the 17-year cicadas. Talk about the latest buzz. Looking forward to the return gig in 2030. So, you may ask, if I wasn’t that excited about that many new releases this year, why do I POOP? Because I can POOP old stuff – reissues, archive recordings and so forth. After all, if the Grammy academy can give their biggest awards to collaboration between Chic and The Residents a/k/a Daft Punk,…