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Porridge Radio - yay!

I did my thing and created a Spotify playlist with 3 songs from each of these albums. I obviously included your pick(s) but rounded it out by either the AllMusic.com Editor's picks (only a few of them received reviews), comments on the album or, failing all of those, just the most played. A little less overwhelming than listening to 25 albums! I even included the hip hop one.

https://bit.ly/OldHeadsBest2024pt1

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This is great! Do you think you’ll do parts 2 and 3 also?

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Yes!

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Yo this Cowgirl though....downloading rn thank you thank you

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it's great, right? i don't remember how i stumbled on it now.

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Thanks for cowgirl, now a fan after first listen

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slurping this up, thank you. regardless of ranking the ingredients, you've curated a delicious smoothie. Girl Suit is so fun. Pink Palace too. mixing these in with other stragglers for end-of-year crunch time considerations (for my consiiiiiii-iiii-iiii-iiider-aaaaaation). a perfect soundtrack to accompany the buckets of rain smacking at the window while i get back to my other job: making sure all the genitals are blurred in a tv show. ☕️🎶🌧️

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a SMOOTHIE I love it!!!

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Hell yeah thanks for the list!

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Great list! Music is Life.

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Spot on blurbs. Love the format! Hell yeah.

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thanks so much

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I have so much listening to do based on this one post alone! Thanks, Gabbie!

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hooray!

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I haven’t even read recs yet but I love the system!

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that's awesome, thanks for the bit of validation -- I was nervous to roll it out!

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I love this system! I generally agree with the ranking of the albums here that I know, but I think Hone Counties is probably top 20. I love it. I haven’t really managed to get into the Bodega album but Adaptation of the Truth About Marie from the deluxe version is one of my favourite songs of the year.

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these albums are not ranked in any way!!

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Oh! I thought the implication was that they were being shared in tiers

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On that basis I would’ve put Home Counties in next weeks list. But maybe I misunderstood.

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I think I get what you mean, though -- home counties shouldn't be higher up on this specific list but just shared later on in the groupings

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oh they are in tiers yes! but this specific list you're reading now isn't in any particular order

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Have to agree with you on the top 50 ranking. I’ve been compiling a top 50 list for over a decade (and yes, living in the spreadsheets) but for quite a while I’ve stopped ranking anything below the top 20 instead just listing my honorable mentions alphabetically. Even within the top 20 on any given day one album could be five or ten slots above another just based on how I’m feeling and what I need to hear that day.

A lot of new ones on your list and a couple faves. I think you may have been the one that turned me on to Brigitte Calls Me Baby which is almost certainly a top 20 for me this year. Also really enjoying Been Stellar which’ll likely sit in the bottom 30 of the top 50 (aka the honorable mentions).

Really looking forward to seeing your upcoming lists!!

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thanks so much! I'm glad I turned you on to at least one record. I think I might have to do alphabetical on my next list so as not to confuse ppl (many thought my numbering was ranking despite the disclaimer!)

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Boo! We need more order and more decimals!

In all seriousness, there are some great selections here. Pleased to see some love for Good Looks and Cowgirl, and I'm particularly pleased you enjoyed Revival Season who I think are great fun. I approve of the dog on the Big Special cover, too.

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yes that was my favorite of the hip hop list you shared with me (that I hadn't heard of before anyhow)

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I liked how they didn’t seem to be following current trends at all - it’s a real fun throwback record

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Calling The Dare a satirization of LCD is 🤌🏽🤌🏽

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I calls them like I sees them

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As a massive Letters To Cleo fan, I love that Megan from Work track. Also hadn’t heard of The Dare so I’m loving that album recommendation!

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I was worried about including him because I thought he was oversaturated in the ether so I'm really glad I caught somebody he's new for!!

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For some reason, I had that image of that scene from Garden State where the guy asks the girl: "What are you listening to?" and the girl says: "Cumgirl8...you've heard of her?" 🤣

Love looking back on the year and seeing what I missed..will definitely check some of these out 😁

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lol there's a meme for this somewhere

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