The Big Takeover Show – Number 467– January 1, 2024 - Happy New Year! It's Rabid’s Annual Roundup “Best of 2023 Countdown Show,” Part One of Two!

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DJ Jack Rabid
50 Jonathan Pushkar – I Gotta Move (various, Jem Records Celebrates Ray Davies) Kinks cover
49 Successful Failures – New City (Wrong Together)
48 J. Robbins – Got Hurt (Godspeed… A Tribute to Pierre Kezdy) Naked Raygun cover
47 Savage Republic – Mobilization (live) (Live in Wroclaw) 2023 recording
46 Kristin Hersh – Ms Haha (Clear Pond Road)
45 Bobby Sutliff – Come on Home (Bob Sings and Plays)
44 Furious Seasons – Every Morning At Five (Every Morning at Five)
EP/Single 10: Death Cab For Cutie – An Arrow in the Wall (single)
Newly Released Old Recordings 10: Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros – Get Down Moses (Live at Acton Town Hall) recorded 2002; released now
DJ Jack Rabid
43 The Wedding Present – Science Fiction (7” Version) (24 Songs)
42 The Small Square – Can’t Let Go (Oh, Tommy) (Ours & Others)
41 Reds, Pinks & Purples – The Town That Cursed Your Name (The Town That Cursed Your Name)
40 Turnsole – Thieves (Thieves)
39 Green Pajamas – Six Minutes in Heaven (Forever For a Little While)
38 Smug Brothers – Let Me Know When It’s Yes (In the Book of Bad Ideas)
EP/Single 9: Keyside – Paris to Marseille (single)
Newly Released Old Recordings 9: Falling Stairs – Daylight (Life is a Kick Trial: 1988-1993) recorded 1988; released now
DJ Jack Rabid
37 Treasures of Mexico – Beaming (Burn the Jets)
36 Black Swan Lane – Covenant (Dead Souls Collide)
35 Guided By Voices – Seedling (Welshpool Frillies)
34 The Baseball Project – The All or Nothings (Grand Salami Time)
33 Tombstones in Their Eyes – No One to Blame (Sea of Sorrow)
32 Gaz Coombes – Long Live the Strange (Turn the Car Around)
EP/Single 8: Jeanines – Each Day (single)
EP/Single 7: A.M. Nice – How Does It Feel (single)
Newly Released Old Recordings 8: Tobin Sprout – Atom Eyes (Piano Version) (Demos and Outtakes Vol 2) recorded circa 1996, released now
DJ Jack Rabid
31 Grian Chatten – Fairlies (Chaos For the Fly)
30 Shana Cleveland – A Ghost (Manzanita)
29 Skymender – Symbols (If and Only)
28 Emma Anderson – Bend the Round (Pearlies)
27 Cut Worms – Ballad of the Texas King (Cut Worms)
26 New Model Army & Sinfonia Zeipzig – Innocence (Orchestral Version) (live) (Sinfonia); recorded in concert in Germany, 2022
EP/Single 6: Affiliate Links – Grave Desecrator (Grave Desecrator EP)
Newly Released Old Recordings 7: Pernice Brothers – Dimmest Star (Earliest Sketch Demo) (Overcome By Happiness 25th Anniversary Edition bonus track) recorded 1998; released now
Newly Released Old Recordings 6: Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels (with Emmylou Harris) – Love Hurts (The Last Roundup: Live From the Bijou Café, March 16, 1973); recorded in Philadelphia 1973, released now
DJ Jack Rabid
Slade – Auld Lang Syne/You’ll Never Walk Alone (Crackers) 1985; Robert Burns/Rogers & Hammerstein cover

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