January 3, 2014 Playlist

THE BEST OF 2013
Featuring the
KOSMIK RADIATION TOP 25!

       
"13" by Black Sabbath (2013)
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Black Sabbath  "13"  2013 (UK)
It's time for the Kosmik Radiation Top 25 of 2013, and our #1 album of 2013 is this week's classic album!  Lots of old geezer artists from the 1970's are making new music these days, and some of them are doing it quite well (my #1 album from last year was by 70+ year old Dr. John).  But there are artists from yesteryear, and then there are iconic supergroups that blazed new trails in music, and Black Sabbath is the latter.  They didn't invent "heavy" music, but they perfected it and in the process invented the new style known as "heavy metal" in 1970.  More than 40 years later, and founding members Tony Iommi (Guitar Riffs & Solos), Terrence "Geezer" Butler (Bass & Lyrics) and John "Ozzy" Osbourne (Vocals & Eyeliner) are still masters of the style that they created (original drummer Bill Ward did not participate, but they got a guy with the same initials to replace him: Brad Wilk from Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave).  13 is the best Black Sabbath album since Sabotage in 1975, and the first heavy metal album I've really gotten into in the last dozen years or so.  Legendary producer Rick Rubin may not have gotten quite the perfect metal sound that their original producer Rodger Bain did, but he did get the old guys to write classic Black Sabbath songs and play them like they really mean it.
(N) = New Release
   

Artist Song Album Year (Label) Country
Eleanor FriedbergerI Am The Past
Personal Record (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #6 album of 2013)
2013 (Merge)USA
Chelsea Light Moving (Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth) Empires Of Time
Chelsea Light Moving (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #19 album of 2013)
2013 (Matador)USA
Meat Puppets Time And MoneyRat Farm (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #9 album of 2013)
2013 (Megaforce)USA
Kurt Vile Shame ChamberWakin On A Pretty Daze (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #7 album of 2013)
2013 (Matador)USA
Grant Hart Letting Me OutThe Argument (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #18 album of 2013)
2013 (Domino)USA
 
 
Fuzz (Ty Segall) What's In My Head?Fuzz (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #23 album of 2013)
2013 (In The Red)USA
Charles Bradley Confusion
Victim Of Love (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #17 album of 2013)
2013 (Dunham/Daptone)USA
Quasimoto (Madlib) Am I Confused?
Yessir, Whatever (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #15 album of 2013)
2013 (Stones Throw)USA
David Bowie I'd Rather Be HighThe Next Day (N)2013 (Columbia)UK
Camper Van Beethoven Too High For The Love-InLa Costa Perdida (N)2013 (429 Records)USA
Lee Ranaldo and The Dust (Lee & Steve Shelley from Sonic Youth) The Rising Tide
Last Night On Earth (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #8 album of 2013)
2013 (Matador)USA
   
 
LumeriansThe Bloom
The High Frontier (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #11 album of 2013)
2013 (Knitting Factory)
USA
Thee Oh Sees Toe Cutter/Thumb BusterFloating Coffin (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #16 album of 2013)
2013 (Castle Face)USA
The Black Angels Indigo Meadow
Indigo Meadow (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #25 album of 2013)
2013 (Blue Horizon)USA
White Fence Pink GorillaCyclops Reap (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #12 album of 2013)
2013 (Castle Face)USA
La Machine Sucks To Come Down
Phases And Repetition (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #24 album of 2013)
rec.2000 (2013 Castleface)USA
Chrome Looking For Your DoorHalf Machine From The Sun: The Lost Tapes 1979-80 (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #2 album of 2013)
2013 (Pledge Music)USA
 
 
The Stark Reality Cooking
Acting, Thinking, Feeling (N - reissue box set)
(Kosmik Radiation reissue of the year)
rec. 1970 (2013 Now Again)USA
Mystical Weapons Mechanical Mammoth
Mystical Weapons(N)
(Kosmik Radiation #5 album of 2013)
2013 (Chimera)USA
Cave ShikaakwaThreace (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #22 album of 2013)
2013 (Drag City)USA
Matmos Mental Radio
The Marriage Of True Minds (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #21 album of 2013)
2013 (Thrill Jockey)USA
Daphni Ye Ye
Jiaolong (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #13 album of 2013)
2013 (Merge)Canada
The StrangerSpiral Of Decline
Watching Dead Empires In Decay (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #10 album of 2013)
2013 (Modern Love)
UK
Wolf People
All ReturnsFain (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #4 album of 2013)
2013 (Jagjaguwar)UK
 
 
Black Sabbath End Of The Beginning
13 (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #1 album of 2013)

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
2013 (Vertigo/Universal)UK
Black Sabbath God Is Dead?
13 (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #1 album of 2013)

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
2013 (Vertigo/Universal)UK
William Shatner Ponder The Mystery
Ponder The Mystery (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #14 album of 2013)
2013 (Cleopatra)Canada (Quebec)
   
  
Earthling Society The Elevator Does Not Stop At This Floor
Zodiak (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #3 album of 2013)
2013 (Nasoni)UK
Nisennenmondai B-2N (N)
(Kosmik Radiation #20 album of 2013)
2013 (Bijin)Japan
      
Geezer - Ozzy - Tony
     
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