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🗓️ 16 December 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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For the first time in Sound Opinions history, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot round out their top 10 lists of the Best Albums of 2020 in this bonus, podcast-only exclusive.
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Bob Dylan, "False Prophet," Rough and Rowdy Ways, Columbia, 2020
Soccer Mommy, "crawling in my skin," color theory, Loma Vista, 2020
Jyoti, "Mama, You Can Bet!," Mama, You Can Bet!, EONE, 2020
Bob Mould, "Leather Dreams," Blue Hearts, Merge, 2020
Porridge Radio, "Born Confused," Every Bad, Secretly Canadian, 2020
Lydia Loveless, "September," Daughter, Honey You're Going To Be Late, 2020
IDLES, "War," Ultra Mono, Partisan, 2020
Margo Price, "That's How Rumors Get Started," That's How Rumors Get Started, Loma Vista, 2020
Coriky, "Too Many Husbands," Coriky, Dischord, 2020
Drive-By Truckers, "Thoughts and Prayers," The Unraveling, ATO, 2020
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0:00.0 | Welcome to this very special bonus episode of sound opinions. |
0:04.4 | Greg, as you know, on the last episode, the one that aired on radio as well as |
0:09.6 | podcast, we talked about our best albums of 2020. When we do this we can only do about five each |
0:17.0 | So we don't get to do our top ten in fact you and I both chart a top 20 you did a top 40 this year yeah I haven't done a top 40 |
0:25.3 | since I left the Sun times anyway we never get to talk about all the albums we |
0:29.7 | want to talk about so we are doing this bonus where I talked about my top five albums of |
0:36.8 | 2020. Actually I did the top six because you talked about Run the Jules. But my top six were Shamika Copeland, Uncivil War, Ganser, |
0:48.0 | just look at that sky, Angelica Garcia, Cha-Cha Palace, Jason, Reunions, I seated number five, run the jewels, |
0:56.4 | RTJ, 4 to you, and Lucinda Williams Good Souls Better Angels. |
1:00.8 | What were the top five or so that you talked about? Yes, Jim. I had |
1:03.8 | salt who had released two excellent albums in 2020, Untitled Black Is and |
1:10.0 | Untitled A Rise. They were my co-number one albums. |
1:13.4 | I did the same day compliment each other. |
1:15.1 | I snuck those in together at number 10. |
1:17.4 | I think they do work together as essentially a double album in the old departments. |
1:22.1 | Run the jewels, you mentioned R.T.J. |
1:24.0 | 4, number 2 for me, Milk Belli. |
1:26.0 | A great record called Pith, number 3. |
1:29.0 | You mentioned Angelica Garcia. |
1:31.0 | I put her in my top 5 as well she's number four with |
1:34.1 | Cha Cha Palace Fiona Apple fetch the bolt cutter's number five my number six |
1:38.1 | was Bartis Strange live forever and now I'm going to go into my second 10. I wanted to acknowledge Bob Dylan at number 13, his extraordinary, 39 studio album at age 79. |
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