The 60 Best Albums of 2024, According to Some Guy in Chicago
The music that made the year at No Expectations, from 22º Halo to Youbet.
Here are my 60 favorite albums of 2024. At No Expectations, I recommended ~130 LPs from the last 12 months. I also loved a lot of new music that I didn’t write about. The very best are all here. Thanks for reading and supporting the newsletter this year. www.noexpectations.fyi/p/the-60-bes...
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Space News.....
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Hauntingly Familiar, ya.
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Absolutely, love them to the moon. The responses here make for great 5 song set-lists, perfect for freeform radio. Nice work and nice to meet you .
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Public Service Broadcasting - Spitfire
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Covers of the albums from which the top 4 songs in this Top 5 can be found.
The Iron Maiden song is on The Number of the Beast
Friday Top 5: Songs with spoken dialogue
1. Radio Waves - Roger Waters
2. Blaze Bailey Finnegan III - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3. Signal 30 - Public Service Broadcasting
4. Frontier Psychiatrist - The Avalanches
5. The Prisoner - Iron Maiden
#chopsfives #topfive reply or QT to share yours
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