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  • From: Music Director WXDU <music AT wxdu.org>
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  • Subject: WXDU Top 100 Albums & Top 25 Reissues/Collections of 2013
  • Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 19:45:10 -0500

Hey folks!

A little late but here it is, WXDU's Top 100 Albums and Top 25
Reissues/Collection of 2013. It was a great year for music and we greatly
appreciate all the help you've given us through the months. Thanks!

*WXDU Top 100 of 2013*

1. 67...D-Town Brass...Golden Belt...self-released
2. 61...Yo La Tengo...Fade...Matador
3. 60...Mount Moriah...Miracle Temple...Merge
4. 59...Polvo...Siberia...Merge
5. 59...Wooden Shjips...Back to Land...Thrill Jockey
6. 56...Mazzy Star...Seasons of Your Day...Rhymes of an Hour
7. 53...La Luz...It's Alive...Hardly Art
8. 52...The Kingsbury Manx...Bronze Age...Odessa
9. 52...Toddlers...Toddlers...self-released
10. 50...Various Artists...Six Pack Sound Series 2013...DiggUp Tapes
11. 49...Hiss Golden Messenger...Haw...Paradise of Bachelors
12. 48...Mountain Thrower...Mountain Thrower...self-released
13. 47...Daniel Bachman...Jesus I'm A Sinner...Tompkins Square
14. 47...Ty Segall...Sleeper...Drag City
15. 45...Schooner...Neighborhood Veins...Potluck
16. 46...Gross Ghost...Public Housing...Odessa
17. 46...Obits...Bed & Bugs...Sub Pop
18. 45...Whatever Brains...Whatever Brains (LP3)...Sorry State
19. 44...Superchunk...I Hate Music...Merge
20. 43...Magik Markers...Surrender to the Fantasy...Drag City
21. 42...Drug Yacht...Way Up Firm and High...self-released
22. 42...Drag Sounds...Feelin' It...Drugmoneytapes
23. 42...The Love Language...Ruby Red...Merge
24. 42...Yuck...Glow & Behold...Fat Possum
25. 41...Various Artists...Waste of Time: A Tribute to Paint
Fumes...self-released
26. 41...Bo White...Adornment...self-released
27. 41...Chuck Johnson...Crows in the Basilica...Three Lobed Recordings
28. 41...Glenn Jones...My Garden State...Thrill Jockey
29. 40...Heads on Sticks...Phantasm in Tutu...self-released
30. 40...Mikal Cronin...MCII...Merge
31. 40...The Bats...Free All the Monsters...Flying Nun
32. 40...The Growlers...Beach Goth...Burger
33. 39...Matthew E. White...Outer Face...Spacebomb / Domino
34. 38...Endless Boogie...Long Island...No Quarter
35. 38...The Lions...This Generation...Stones Throw
36. 38...Foxygen...We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace &
Magic...Jagjaguwar
37. 37...Jews and Catholics...Civilized...self-release
38. 37...Steve Gunn...Time Off...Paradise of Bachelors
39. 37...Omar Souleyman...Wenu Wenu...Ribbon Music
40. 37...Cass McCombs...Big Wheel and Others...Domino
41. 37...Bonnie Prince Billy...Bonnie Prince Billy...self-released
42. 36...Airstrip...Willing...Holidays for Quince
43. 36...The Dead Tongues...Desert...Fireant Music
44. 36...Gray Young...Bonfire...Onwalks Music
45. 36...William Tyler...Impossible Truth...Merge
46. 36...Thee Open Sex...Thee Open Sex...Magnetic South Recordings
47. 36...Maria Minerva...Bless EP...100% Silk
48. 36...Thee Oh Sees...Floating Coffin...Castle Face
49. 36...Lonnie Holley...Keep A Recording of It...Dust-to-Digital
50. 36...The Dirtbombs...Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-blooey!...In the Red
51. 36...The Fuzz...The Fuzz...Munster
52. 36...Cloud Control...Dream Cave...Infectious Music
53. 35...Cassis Orange...2 Covers...self-released
54. 35...The Toddlers...19...self-released
55. 35...Superchunk...Void/Faith 7"...Merge
56. 35...Wooden Wand...Blood Oaths of the New Blues...Fire
57. 35...Quasi...Mole City...Kill Rock Stars
58. 35...Richard Buckner...Surrounded...Merge
59. 35...J Boogie's Dubtronic Science...Undercover...Om
60. 35...Rainbow Arabia...F.M. Sushi...Time No Place
61. 34...Audobon Park...Crazy Crazy For Feeling...Potluck
62. 34...Sylvan Esso...Hey Mami 12"...Trekky
63. 34...Summer Set...2012 Demos...self-released
64. 34...Horseback...A Plague of Knowing...Relapse
65. 34...Desert Heat...Cat Mask at Huggie Temple...MIE Music
66. 34...Camera Obscura...Desire Lines...4AD
67. 34...Kurt Vile...Waking On A Pretty Daze...Matador
68. 34...Mavis Staples...One True Vine...Anti-
69. 33...Stems...STEMS...self-released
70. 33...Waxahatchee...Cerulean Salt...Don Giovanni
71. 33...Unknown Mortal Orchestra...II...Jagjaguwar
72. 33...Various Artists...Lunapark: the Sound of Russia
Today...Eastblok Music
73. 33...Darkside...Psychic...Other People
74. 33...Charles Bradley...Victim of Love...Dunham/Daptone
75. 33...Russian Circles...Memorial...Sargent House
76. 33...Deer Tick...Negativity...Partisan
77. 32...Midnight Plus One...Midnight Plus One...self-released
78. 32...Eros and the Eschaton...Home Address for Civil War...Bar/None
79. 32...Johnny Alright...Sings and Plays His Songs...self-released
80. 32...Various Artists...DIT GSO Mixtape #1...TYP Tapes
81. 32...Floating Action...Fake Blood...Harvest/Removador
82. 32...The Carvers..."In Person"...Doctor Gone
83. 32...Ron Morelli...Spit...Hospital Productions
84. 32...Wau y los Arrrghs!!!...Todo Roto...Slovenly
85. 32...The Black Twig Pickers...Rough Carpenters...Thrill Jockey
86. 32...Harry Taussig...Fate is Only Twice...Tompkins Square
87. 32...Pere Ubu...Lady from Shanghai...Fire
88. 32...The Men...New Moon...Sacred Bones
89. 32...Slow Magic...Triangle...LebenStrasse
90. 31...Felix Obelix...The Ringtone Album...Potluck
91. 31...Loamlands...Some Kind of Light...Trekky
92. 31...Rough Kids...The State I'm In...Sorry State
93. 31...Dreamsalon...Thirteen Nights...Captcha
94. 31...Bass Drum of Death...Bass Drum of Death...Innovative Leisure
95. 31...Run the Jewels...Run the Jewels...Fool's Gold
96. 31...Forest Swords...Engravings...Tri Angle
97. 31...Robbie Fulks...Gone Away Backward...Bloodshot
98. 31...Vieux Farka Toure...Mon Pays...Six Degrees
99. 31...Bombino...Nomad...Nonesuch
100. 31...Mmoss...Only Children...Trouble in Mind

*WXDU Top 25 Reissues & Collection of 2013*

1. 64...Various Artists...Country Funk 1969-1975...Light in the Attic
2. 55...Various Artists...Pop Yeh Yeh: Psychedelic Rock from Singapore
and Malaysia: 1964-1970...Sublime Frequencies
3. 48...Laurie Spiegel...The Expanding Universe...Unseen Worlds
4. 47...William Onyeabor...World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is
William Onyeabor...Luaka Bop
5. 46...Rodion G.A....The Lost Tapes...Strut
6. 45...Doris Duke...I'm A Loser...Alive Naturalsound
7. 43...Various Artists...Eccentric Soul: Omnibus Vol. 1...Numero Group
8. 43...Various Artists...R&B Hipshakers Vol. 3: Just a Little Bit of
the Jumpin' Bean...Vampisoul
9. 43...Mehrpouya...Soul Raga...Pharaway Sounds
10. 43...Wolfmoon...Wolfmoon...Alive
11. 41...Sun City Girls...Eye Mohini: Singles Vol. 3...Abduction
12. 41...Swamp Dogg...Total Destruction to Your Mind...Alive
13. 39...Z.Z. Hill...The Brand New Z.Z. Hill...Alive Naturalsound
14. 37...Irma Thomas...In Between Tears...Alive
15. 37...The Source Family...The Source Family OST...Drag City
16. 37...Sandra Phillips...Too Many People in One Bed...Alive
17. 36...Iasos...Celestial Soul Portrait...Numero
18. 36...Michael Hurley...Hi-Fi Snock Uptown...Light in the Attic
19. 36...Abelardo Carbono...El Maravilloso Mundo de Abelardo Carbono:
Psychedelia, Afroroots & Champeta in 1980s Barranquilla...Vampi Soul
20. 35...Chance...In Search...Paradise of Bachelors
21. 35...Various Artists...Fac. Dance 02: Factory Records 12" Mixes and
Rarities 1980-1987...Strut
22. 35...Mark Fosson...Digging in the Dust: Home Recordings
1976...Tompkins Square
23. 34...Tony Carey...Explorer and Yellow Power...Medical
24. 34...The Dentists...Some People Are On the Pitch They Think It's
All Over It Is Now...Trouble in Mind
25. 33...Annette Peacock...I'm the One...Future Days

Thanks!
Dave Rodriguez
Music Director
WXDU 88.7 FM
Duke University
Box 90689
Durham, NC 27708
music AT wxdu.org
919-684-2957



  • WXDU Top 100 Albums & Top 25 Reissues/Collections of 2013, Music Director WXDU, 01/07/2014

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