The Big Takeover Show – Number 468– January 8, 2024 - Happy New Year! Rabid’s Annual Roundup “Best of 2023 Countdown Show,” Part TWO of Two; the Exciting Conclusion!

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DJ Jack Rabid
25 Golden Apples – Waiting For a Cloud (Bananasugarfire)
24 Teenage Fanclub – Foreign Land (Nothing Lasts Forever)
23 Bird Streets – Machine (Lagoon)
22 Guest Directors – From This Distance (Interference Patterns)
21 The New Pornographers – Angelcover (Continue as a Guest)
20 Salt Collective (vocal: Matthew Caws) – Asylum (LIFE)
19 Pia Fraus – Evening Colours (Evening Colours)
EP/Single 5: Lovejoy – Warsaw (Wake Up & It’s Over EP)
EP/Single 4: Chime School – Coming to Your Town (single)
Newly Released Old Recordings 5: The Replacements – Left of the Dial (Ed Stasium mix) (Tim; Let It Bleed Edition) recorded 1985, remixed now
DJ Jack Rabid
18 Ron Sexsmith – Outdated and Antiquated (Vivian Line)
17 The Clientele – Claire’s Not Real (I Am Not There Anymore)
16 The No Ones – Phil Ochs is Dead (My Best Evil Friend)
15 Crystal Canyon – Belt of Orion (Stars and Distant Light)
14 Flyying Colours – Do You Feel the Same? (You Never Know)
13 The Eyelids – I Can’t Be Told (Colossal Waste of Light)
EP/Single 3: Voxtrot – New World Romance (single)
Newly Released Old Recordings 4: The Chills – The Oncoming Day (remastered/remixed) (Brave Words Expanded and Remastered) recorded 1987, remastered/remixed now
Newly Released Old Recordings 3: No Alternative – Fucked Up (Live at Mabuhay Gardens: November 7, 1980) recorded 1980, released now
DJ Jack Rabid
12 Joel Stoker – My Own War (The Undertow)
11 Hurry – Didn’t Have to Try (Don’t Look Back)
10 The Tubs – Wretched Lie (Dead Meat)
9 Dennis Davison – Patterns (Voice Memorandum)
8 Plush Machine – Debbie (Everything) (Hit Me) (includes ex-Libertines U.S.)
7 Robert Forster – Tender Years (The Candle and the Flame)
EP/Single 2: The Feeders – Sara, You’re My Savior (single)
Newly Released Old Recordings 2: Nina Simone – Mississippi Goddam (live) (You’ve Got to Learn); Live at Newport Jazz Festival; recorded 1966, released now
DJ Jack Rabid
EP/Single 1: The Beatles – Now and Then (single)
6 Seablite – Hit the Wall (Lemon Light)
5 Colored Lights – Worst Game Ever (Colored Lights)
4 Soft Science – Grip (Lines)
3 The Black Watch – Off You Go Redux (Future Strangers)
2 Slowdive – Shanty (Everything is Alive)
Newly Released Old Recordings 1: The Weirdos – I’m Plastic (Live! At the Club Azteca 1978) recorded 1978, released now
1 The Damned – Beware of the Clown (Darkadelic)
DJ Jack Rabid
Billy Bragg – Rich Men Earning North of a Million (single)

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