The Big Takeover Show - Number 259 – January 6, 2020 – Happy New Year! The Best of 2019 Lookback Countdown Show, Part 1!

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50th best LP, 2019: The Soft Cavalry – Bulletproof (The Soft Cavalry)
49: Jesse Malin (featuring Lucinda Williams) – Room 13 (Sunset Kids)
48: Foxhall Stacks – The Reckoning (The Coming Collapse)
47: Black Swan Lane – The Prisoner (Vita Eterna)
46: Bedroom Eyes – Without Body (Nerves)
45: Mythological Horses – Donnie Wiggins (YYYMF!)
44: Sleeper – Paradise Waiting (The Modern Age)
EP/single 10: The Eyelids (with Peter Buck) – Found at the Scene of a Rendezvous That Failed (coming 2020 LP The Accidental Falls)
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43: Gretchen’s Wheel – See These Bones (Moth to Lamplight: A Tribute to Nada Surf) Nada Surf cover
42: Tony Molina – Hard to Know (Songs From San Mateo County)
41: Danny & the Doorknobs – Ballad of Bobby Fuller (Jukebox in the L.A. River)
40: Willie Nelson – Ride Me Back Home (Ride Me Back Home)
39: Schizophonics – Battle Line (People In the Sky)
38: Duncan Lloyd – First, Monday (Outside Notion)
EP/single 9: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – In the Capital (single)
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37: The Specials – Blam Blam Fever (Encore) Valentines cover
36: Sleaford Mods – Flipside (Eton Alive)
35: Proper Ornaments – Please Release Me (6 Lenins)
34: Weyes Blood – Wild Time (Titanic Rising)
33: Idlewild – Same Things Twice (Interview Music)
32: Fontaines D.C. – Boys in the Better Land (Dogrel)
EP/single 8: Versus – Invisible Love (Ex-Nihilo EP)
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31: Persian Leaps – Catnip For Cupid (Electrical Living)
30: The Black Watch – Me and You and Me (Magic Johnson)
29: Successful Failures – No White Knight in Knoxville (Saratoga)
28: The New Pornographers – One Kind of Soloman (In the Morse Code of Brake Lights)
27: Guided By Voices – Your Lights Are Out (Zeppelin Over China)
26: Belle & Sebastian – Safety Valve (Days of the Bagnold Summer soundtrack)
EP/single 7: Wire – Cactused (coming 2020 LP: Mind Hive)
Newly Released Old Recordings 2: D.O.A. – No God, No War (1978 double 12”) (Sudden Death CAN) Recorded 1980, released 2019
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EP/single 6: Jet Black – Hunted (single) Pale Saints cover

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