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DJRadiohead Podcast Experience Episode 10: Best of 2005

Written by Josh Hathaway
Published January 24, 2006

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So it took a long fucking time. What are you going to do? Have you come to expect anything less?

Anyway, this is it. My best of 2005 podcast. With a fuck and a shit (or 12) I countdown the Top 10 Albums of 2005. Actually, this podcast is slightly less profane than previous podcast episodes on account of there being more music and less DJRadiohead. It's a shocking development but not a trend. I, along with the fucks, will return in Episode 11. Oh, and this podcast was recorded on Apple's brand new iLife '06. The production value of this show has like... quadrupled or something. There are bells. There are whistles. Big Boy Radio!

For the time being, Blogcritics will be the exclusive location of Episode 10 as I am revamping the home site (DJRadiohead.com). So download it and enjoy. Join me in flushing 2005 right down the shitter and listening to the best the year had to offer.

I played one song from each of the Top 10 Albums. In no particular order, here are the 10 songs that were played:

* "Jesus Was an Only Son" - Bruce Springsteen
* "Missing" - Beck
* "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)" - Otis Rush
* "Lyla" - Oasis
* "As Ugly As I Seem" - The White Stripes
* "Tymps (the sick in the head song)" - Fiona Apple
* "29" - Ryan Adams
* "Sweet Illusions" - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
* "Some Cities" - Doves
* "Run Baby Run" - Garbage

I guess that kind of gives a hint as to which albums made my list but then so do the Amazon ads. That order is jumbled so tune in and find out who slotted where.

Josh Hathaway is Assistant Music Editor for BC Magazine. He is formerly an award-winning journalist and broadcaster and publishes the BC Network site Confessions of a Fanboy .
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DJRadiohead Podcast Experience Episode 10: Best of 2005
Published: January 24, 2006
Type: Opinion
Section: Culture
Filed Under: Culture: Podcast, Music: Adult Alternative, Music: Alternative Rock, Music: Blues, Music: Rock
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#1 — January 24, 2006 @ 09:11AM — DJRadiohead [URL]

Good news (for a change). The links mostly seem to work (for a change)!

#2 — January 24, 2006 @ 10:14AM — Mark Saleski [URL]

just got to the Otis Rush bit...and want to say that the lack of back catalog on cd is one of the great reasons to own a turntable.

there are mountains of great records out there that'll never see the light of day again. at least in digital land.

#3 — January 24, 2006 @ 10:21AM — DJRadiohead [URL]

That's a good point, Mark. Of course, the Wife to Whom I am Married will not be overjoyed at the prospect of me finding another way to collect music.

Out of curiosity... how difficult do you think it would be to track down some vintage Otis vinyl?

#4 — January 24, 2006 @ 10:28AM — Mark Saleski [URL]

i haven't looked for that particular artist myself (and a quick ebay search gives only 9 hits) but i bet it's out there.

#5 — January 24, 2006 @ 10:34AM — Mark Saleski [URL]

dj, go to gemm.com and do a search there. yow.

#6 — January 24, 2006 @ 11:10AM — DJRadiohead [URL]

You can only imagine how much of the Otis on CD I have came from eBay. I had forgotten about gemm.

You need to get a hold of Right Place, Wrong Time. It is still in print on CD (so you don't have to scour eBay) or you can look for vinyl. It is, perhaps, my favorite electric blues CD ever. I listened to our favorite acoustic blues disc last night while uploading the podcast (Muddy Waters' Folk Singer).

#7 — January 24, 2006 @ 12:18PM — Mark Saleski [URL]

Sundazed has Mourning In The Morning on lp.

#8 — January 24, 2006 @ 12:24PM — DJRadiohead [URL]

Mark, that is a good album. Don't let the critics dissuade you on this point. There is one song on there I think is hamfisted ("My Old Lady" blows) but the rest of the album is magic.

His cover of BB King's "Gambler's Blues" is slap-somebody good. He also does an instrumental version of an old Aretha Franklin song. The album was recorded not far from me (Muscle Shoals) and Duane Allman sat in on rhythm guitar.

#9 — January 24, 2006 @ 12:25PM — Mark Saleski [URL]

too damned much good music out there. somebody's got to pay me to listen to it. i swear, i wouldn't call it 'work'.

#10 — January 24, 2006 @ 12:59PM — DJRadiohead [URL]

I get paid to listen to it, or rather I listen to it while I get paid. But I am with you, Brother Saleski. Getting paid to listen to music... that's not a job. It's Heaven.

Otis Rush has been one of my real pleasant surprises. I went into 'learning' the blues with having heard his name in passing. I have now become a full-fledged fan.

#11 — January 24, 2006 @ 16:12PM — M. Sahm [URL]

DJR: I'm supposed to be in a perfect hibernation of carbonite right now. But I decided to poke my head out just to say that my abbreviated listen of this episode sounded good... very well balanced between voice and music, dig the added effects, and I'm glad to see that the new GB is helping you produce quality material. Keep at it, man.

#12 — January 24, 2006 @ 16:17PM — DJRadiohead [URL]

Mr Sahm, thanks so much for coming out of hybernation for to listen to the podcast. I had fun with some of the new features in GB3. I'm still just a boy trying to become a man when it comes to sonics, though.

I still need to learn about that filter of which you spoke. I have some ideas floating around in my head for that.

#13 — January 25, 2006 @ 09:43AM — DJRadiohead [URL]

We didn't get to do a full rundown of my list on Subject2Discussion last night but we did hit a lot of them. It was a lot of fun.

#14 — January 25, 2006 @ 10:02AM — DJRadiohead [URL]

Thanks to Otis Rush, Saleski, and Sahm for helping me make this a Hot Topic on the front page of BC. Yep, I am a traffic whore and that's part of why I comment back on my own threads. Anyway, I just saw this was on the HT section up front.

Right now, with the recurring features not on the front page of BC it's a little tougher to find some of these recurring items.

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