CNQ36: Quick Year End Show.

30 minutes of what have you. Hope you had a merry Christmas.

The Nightcaps: “Wine, Wine, Wine” (Wine, Wine, Wine, Vandan, 1961)

The New Establishment: “Fire Version” (Dub Specialist - Studio One Presents Version Dread, 2017)

The Lindas: “Never Ending Nightmare” (8 by 9, ReFry Records, 2017)

Fernando & The Teenage Narcs: “F.G.A.T.T.”
(Last Dance With Mary Jane (Cuz I’m Bustin’ Dope Smokers), ReFry Records, 2017)

Lumpy and the Dumpers: “Hair On The Inside” (Those Pickled Fuckers, La Vida Es Un Mus/
Lumpy Records, 2017)

Susan Atkins Diet: “Bitch Slap” (Vagina Envy, 2015)

The Bourbon Street Bums: “Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me” (The Bums at Fagan’s, 1968)

R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders: “Fine Artiste Blues” (Number Two, Blue Goose Records,
1976)

Warren Zevon: “Carmelita (Alternate Version)” (Warren Zevon, Asylum Records/Rhino Records
2008 Re-Issue, original recording 1976)
Uncredited: “Untitled” (Unreleased, 2017)

CNQ 2015 Retrospective

I'll be coming up with faves from the year's posts here shortly. Meanwhile, I had a lot of favorite other things this year, and this 30 Rock clip sums them up.

Bully's Feels Like is my favorite album of the year.

I became openly reggae and got big into dub and rocksteady. Check out The Upsetters' "Super Ape." Totally rad.

I discovered 19th-early 20th century composer Erik Satie's Gymnopédies.

I loved Tom Holkenborg's Mad Max: Fury Road score. I listened to his Black Mass score the other night and it's also good. Music scores in general are a new thing for me. I have never had a taste for them until recently.

The new Faith No More, Sol Invictus, was really good.

I like the Leon Bridges album.

The Lil Bub album "Science and Magic" might be the last great album of 2015.

Protomartyr's The Agent Intellect is top notch.

I recently discovered these next few. Johnny Burnette is amazing o.g. rockabilly. Some really raw, rockin' songs. This one is a little more kitschy:

The Vibrators are amazing o.g. punk. Here's the complete Peel Sessions.

Bluesman Tommy Johnson. The band Canned Heat got their name from this song:

Hollywood session man/jazz guitarist Howard Roberts. This is a cut from his excellent 1959 album, Good Pickin's.