The Big Takeover Show – Number 416 – January 9, 2023 [Part 2 of 2, Jack Rabid’s Top 50 LPs of 2022! Plus: 10 Best Singles/EPs & 10 best Retrospective Releases!]

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DJ Jack Rabid
25 Elvis Costello & the Imposters – Mistook Me For a Friend (The Boy Named If)
24 Jack Skuller – Watercolor Rain (Draw the Lucky Card; also My Disappearing Act EP)
23 The Reds, Pinks and Purples – Let’s Pretend We’re Not In Love (Summer at Land’s End)
22 Belle & Sebastian – Unnecessary Drama (A Bit of Previous)
21 The Linda Lindas – Growing Up (Growing Up)
20 Jeanines – I Lie Awake (Don’t Wait For a Sign)
19 Beach House – Only You Know (Once Twice Melody)
EP/Single 7: The Nils – Elephant Trunk (Five Roses EP)
Newly Released Old Recordings 7: The Dils – Citizen (live, Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco 1978) (Live! reissue)
DJ Jack Rabid
18 TV Smith & the Bored Teenagers – Male Assault (Replay the Adverts)
17 Death Cab For Cutie – Asphalt Meadows (Asphalt Meadows)
16 Graham Nash – Military Madness (Graham Nash: Live); recorded 2019, released 2022
15 Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia (Skintyfia)
14 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – The Way It Shatters (Endless Rooms)
13 Healees – Jaguarundi (Healees)
EP/Single 5: Killing Joke – Lord of Chaos (Lord of Chaos EP)
Newly Released Old Recordings 6: Pointed Sticks – What Do You Want Me To Do (1978; Waiting For the Real Thing retrospective reissue)
Newly Released Old Recordings 5: Voxtrot – Kindergarten (Cut From the Stone: B-sides & Rarities) recorded 2008, released 2022
DJ Jack Rabid
12 Wet Leg – Wet Dream (Wet Leg)
11 Lauds – Somehow (Imitation Life)
10 The Sadies – No One’s Listening (Colder Streams)
9 I Was a King – Here at Last (Follow Me Home)
8 Cheap Star – In Your Head (Wish I Could See)
7 Don McGlashan & the Others – Go Back In (Bright November Morning)
EP/Single 3: The Black Watch – Precious Little (The Neverland of Spoken Things EP)
EP/Single 2: GospelbeacH – It’s Too Late (single)
Newly Released Old Recordings 3: Empire – All These Things (Expensive Sound reissue) 1981
DJ Jack Rabid
Newly Released Old Recordings 2: The Beatles – Got to Get You Into My Life (Second Version/Unnumbered Mix) (Revolver Super Deluxe (box) recorded 1966, released 2022
EP/Single 1: Finnogun’s Wake – Blue Skies (A Tale of Two Geezers single)
6 Martin Courtney – Outcome (Magic Sign)
5 Newtown Neurotics – Climate Emergency (Cognitive Dissidents)
4 Alvvays – Belinda Says (Blue Rev)
3 Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band – Pretty Child (Dear Scott)
2 The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field (Expert in a Dying Field)
1 Sloan – Nice Work if You Can Get It (Steady)
DJ Jack Rabid
Newly Released Old Recordings 1: Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood – Sundown, Sundown (Nancy & Lee reissue) 1968

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