2023 Soundtrack

Here we are again, another year of yearning to find great new music to listen to, even though you could never come close to hearing all of the songs that already exist. Who are you to want new music? Are you too good to go dig up the great works of the past? You ever listen to that first Crosby Stills and Nash album? Are your poor little ears tired of listening to Sixteen Stone?

I gave up listening via Amazon Music this year because the bitrate is ass. I still don't pay for Spotify, but I can use that app on my basement TV/receiver. During work from home days it's just more comfy to sit on the living room couch and connect the laptop to bluetooth and use YouTube. I don't pay for YouTube either, so yes, my music is interrupted by the worst ads in the world every 3 songs or so. The audio quality is okay-ish, especially now that I've linked a bluetooth receiver to an amp to some pretty nice outdoor Bose speakers that had to be moved indoors because we don't have a back deck anymore because shit got fucked up.

If Stereogum or the Indieheads subreddit doesn't have me interested in something particular, I'll check out playlists that compile the most streamed songs of the moment.

Unfortunately, in general, my days are spotted with meetings and bullshit so I'm spending much less time listening to music during a workday than in years past.

You can listen to this 2023 Soundtrack via Spotify or YouTube.

1. Chris Farren - Cosmic Leash

I noticed comedy people on Twitter were talking about this new album and I had never heard of him before. Actually, let’s back up a sec. In 2023, Twitter became X, and we definitely all call it X now and support everything it’s become. OK? So then Farren was a guest on Hollywood Handbook, the finest podcast, and that was enough to get me to listen to his pretty good album. I feared since he was funny and collaborated with comedy people on the video it would be more of a funny album than a good album, but Cosmic Leash rips.

2. The Japanese House - Sunshine Baby

YouTube was pretty insistent that I watch this live performance of this song, even though I’d never watched or heard the studio version. The live version is so much prettier and I like it a lot! 

3. Boygenius - $20

The first time I listened to this album, I was glad it started with an upbeat song and this is the track I kept coming back to.

4. Blur - The Narcissist 

I was not expecting a late-career album by a band that’s never been among my favorites to be my top album of the year, but here we are lads! I have long followed the person who wrote NPR’s review of The Ballad of Darren on X - it all happens on X! - so I saw this when he re-X’d it:

It’s funny because it’s true! (The parts I comprehend anyway - I have no knowledge of that era of David Bowie). I love that St Charles Square opens with the line, “I fucked up. I’m not the first to do it.” Barbaric rules. It all rules. But don’t get me wrong, I’m still Team Oasis.

5. Mitski - Bug Like an Angel

I can’t believe how often the simple guitar opening of this song pops in my head. YouTube recommended a video of Mitski explaining the structure of this song and the lyrics, and I wonder how long it would have taken me to notice what the lyrics were or what they meant had I not watched.

6. Julia Jacklin - Love, Try Not to Let Go

July 26 10:30 pm message to the group thread: Just stepped out of the very warm Julia Jacklin concert in kc and the heat index outside is 104

July 27 message to the group thread: Drank two Negra Modelos between 7:30 and 10:00 last night, drank like 24 oz of water on the drive home after, still have a headache right now after multiple cups of coffee and a tylenol. I am dying!

This is Jacklin’s first appearance on a year-end soundtrack but I have been enjoying her since the pandemic. She opened with this song.

7. Grian Chatten - Fairlies

Didn’t noticed this song was titled “Fairlies” rather than “FairLILLIES” until I typed it. I’ve been digging Fontaines DC since their debut, I liked this and one other song on his solo album but I guess I never went back and gave any of the other songs another chance.

8. The Animals - Inside-Looking Out

I was scrolling through the posts on X and saw one talking about a Spotify user named Brad who had playlists for different kinds of keyboards, so I listened to a few of those. The Hammond B3 Organ playlist has this absolute banger. I was only 57 years late on this one. 

9. Samia - Honey

Samia’s album is my second-favorite album of the year! I did not know her prior to this year. What a journey from “Oh I like this song” to “She’s the daughter of Kathy Najimy and the guy who sings Total Eclipse of the Heart in Old School?!” to “Oh this album rules”.

10. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Easy Now

See, I told you I was still an Oasis man. Being a lad is what I’m about! 

11. Pool Kids - That’s Physics, Baby

This was on Stereogum’s best of 2022 list. 

12. Black Country, New Road - Up Song (Live at Bush Hall)

Another concert I attended this year - this was at The Granada. I was not a huge fan but I was interested to see what they were like live, especially since they had their lead singer leave after their breakout album. I didn’t anticipate a big crowd, but the show got moved from a smaller venue and I believe it was a sellout at the bigger place. When they opened with Up Song, the crowd shouted along when they sang “Look at what we’ve done together! BCNR, friends forever!” and Corinne and I kinda looked at each other like, “Oh, this band is beloved?” It was cool. They have two complete live sets up on YouTube, including this one with the new lineup and songs they played on this tour. (The new lineup of BCNR does not have any studio recordings, so this live version was the only option to put on the soundtrack.)

13. The Replacements - Can’t Hardly Wait

Between The Bear and their Let It Bleed reissue, I tried to brush up on The Replacements this year. I’m a mid-40s white male so yeah, I like the soundtrack to FX’s The Bear. I’ve always loved REM’s Strange Currencies so it was cool that it was a repeating theme of this season. And I listened to plenty of IRS-era REM this year. 

14. Gus Dapperton - Don’t Let Me Down

I know of this guy because he was featured on the Benee song Supalonely from my 2020 soundtrack, and here they are together again, making another fun song.

15. Alice Phoebe Lou - Lose My Head

16. Varsity - Done With Bits 

I am sorry, but we are getting to the point in the playlist where I don’t have a lot to say. Instead of saying over and over, “I read about this song or the algorithm suggested this song to me, and I like it,” I’ll write something else. You know what I was pretty into this year? Toast. Going to the sad little nook at the grocery store where they throw the bakery items that are getting old, finding an older but fancy loaf of sourdough or jalapeno cheddar, freezing it, and pulling out slices to toast in the morning. And with the price of cereal going to the fucking roof, that’s a deal! 

17. Tapes n’ Tapes - Just Drums 

I finished the project I started in 2021 of listening to all of my purchased CDs in order, from A to Z. This year I moved on to my burned CDs, so my wife and other car passengers had to wait for me to move a huge Caselogic binder of CDs before they could sit down in the Camry. One summer evening I was home alone, and decided to grab a Dairy Queen Blizzard for the first time in forever. I put the windows down and cranked Tapes ‘n Tapes Insistor album. I’m sure you remember the title track Insistor from the 2006 soundtrack? I took that Blizzard from the drive through and didn’t want it to melt on the way home, so I stopped in the nearby, empty rec center parking lot and ate it there. Summer nights, baby! 

18. Lunar Vacation - Only You

Yeah, another one where I don’t have much to say. You know what I played a lot of this year? Little browser grid games. You finish Wordle and your day isn’t done, you can think about some sports guys on Immaculate Grid and Crossover Grid, and at night when I am trying not to scroll through whatever trash (X isn’t trash, of course - It All Happens On X!!!) is online I challenge my brain with the Cine2nerdle movie game. I made my own grid game where my high school friends had to guess classmates that fit the categories, and I even made a music one starring the songs of Pearl Jam:

19. Superviolet - Angels on the Ground 

I investigated this based on Stereogum’s mid-year best-of list, and really liked this opening track. I listened to the album while walking around Salt Lake City in June and like it alright but could never turn the corner to truly dig it. 

20. Katie Von Schleicher - Montagnard People

I don’t know this was on some indie playlist and I put it into regular rotation. It reminds me of Ofelia K, an artist I liked but who hasn't put out any new music since 2016. Anyways, while I was in Salt Lake City I was craving falafel, and the restaurant I went to was playing a Regina Spektor album and that rolled right into Fiona Apple’s When the Pawn… I was loving it. I can’t remember a restaurant playing an album through since 715 did back before we were married.

 

21. Charly Bliss - You Don’t Even Know Me Anymore

22. Cherry Glazerr - Bad Habit

God, I have the hardest time keeping these bands apart because all women are the same. No wait - because they are female-fronted, two-word guitar bands that start with CH. I was looking forward to the Cherry Glazerr release more, and it let me down. I tested that album while watching Paul play on his first kid pitch team this summer. I’d get there early with him so he could warm up with the team, and then walk around the complex listening to podcasts. Should I have tried to make friends with the other parents instead? Maybe the mom who wore a shirt that said “One Gun Two Gun Red Gun Blue Gun”? 

23. Overcoats - Want You Back

Yeah, this is just another song that came along, I don’t have any big thing with it. That the end of the playlist and for the first time in its history, there was no song by The New Pornographers in a year where they released a new album. We went to their show and had another great time, and overall I think the album is fine but it sounds muddled to me. The words of the chorus of Pontius Pilate’s Home Movies don’t fit the music - it drives me crazy! If I had put a track on here it would have been Continue as a Guest.  

2022 Soundtrack

I do this every year. These songs are what I loved this year, or what reminds me of this year. I have always strived to sequence them in the best possible order, and I feel that this year's sequence is lackluster. Maybe you won't notice, or maybe you will only notice because I mentioned it right off the bat. Damn it!

My yearly soundtrack used to fit on an 80-minute CD, which was burned and mailed to friends. I wonder, now that it exists as an internet link, if it has more or less staying power. Is it heard once and never again, as its listeners dive back into the content the algorithm provides? Or do my friends listen multiple times until they focus on the new music of the next year? Or do they exclusively listen to my soundtrack archives, foregoing new music year-round until I bless them with something new every December?

This playlist is on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Y2yQJNJjYFa5pOVrpB14i?si=197a493a93d34054. Keep reading and you'll also find a YouTube playlist version.  

Previous soundtracks can be found at Spotify here.

1. Porridge Radio - 7 Seconds
I was listening to a performance from their new album and they closed with this song, which was released between their first album and their new one. The new album is good but I love this single. And as I pulled up the YouTube link while writing this, I decided to make one big YouTube playlist for this entire soundtrack. In some instances it’s the exact video I watched one or multiple times this year, and in some cases I grabbed any live performance I could find that had decent video and audio quality. 

2. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Dive Deep

I woke up before dawn to drive to the airport, on my way to my conference in Louisville. At the kiosk to check my bag, it said I was too late. 2022, the first year I missed a flight. I drove all the way back home, went to Paul’s baseball game, and then drove back to the airport and successfully boarded a flight. When I was at O’Hare, looking at the framed displays of aerial photographs of O’Hare from its inception to current day, headphones on, waiting to board the Louisville flight, this song came on and gave me a boost of energy. This was my most listened to song of 2022. 

3. Wet Leg - Being in Love

Of course, you know Chaise Lounge from the 2021 Soundtrack, and yes it does feel great to have been on the cutting edge of taste by loving Wet Leg in 2021 before their breakout album was released in 2022. While I think Wet Dream is a better song, I chose Being in Love for 2022 because it’s the opening track, and I smashed that play button to listen to the album many times throughout the year. 

4. America - Sister Golden Hair

I am still often streaming movies that look like they will be an exact 5 out of 10. Hulu has a 2016 movie titled Miss Stephens that costars a pre-fame Timothee Chalamet? Sure, okay. Sister Golden Hair is prominently featured, the titular Miss Stephens and Timothee’s character sing along with it on a road trip. This was a #1 Billboard hit, you know. There’s a Stereogum.com column about #1s that I continued to read in 2022, and I went back and read the writeup on this one. Pretty crazy that America had two #1 hits and they are both impersonations of more famous artists’ sounds. And when your band’s sound is to steal other band’s sounds, people get confused. That’s why I had to correct a coworker at an autumn happy hour, after she said one of Simon & Garfunkel’s songs was A Horse With No Name.  

5. Yonaka - Seize the Power

The She Hulk series premiered on Disney+ this year. I would turn on the TV at night and think, “What day is this? Is this new She Hulk day?” because it was a funny show, and because every summer night feels the same. Remember before streaming, when you knew what night it was? Last night was Top Chef night, so tonight is Parks and Rec night? Yeah. So there was an episode featuring Megan Thee Stallion, and when this song came on during the closing credits I initially thought it must be one of her songs. Whoops, it’s by a weird English alternative rock band. Not even close, you out of touch dumbass.

6. Harry Styles - As It Was

Whoa, a Top 40 song on my soundtrack? One I heard for the first time on terrestrial radio while driving? Like how people used to hear songs for the first time? This was in my head for a few days while vacationing at Lake of the Ozarks, and that shit got real old real quick. Then I later read this tweet and thought, man, As It Was and The Weeknd’s songs kinda are just takes on Take On Me?

7. Cilla Black - You’re My World

I checked out a BLU RAY from the LIBRARY and placed the disc in my PLAYSTATION 4 and turned on my STEREO RECEIVER so I could experience Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho with the finest audio and video output available. It was great! This song is featured!

8. Alvvays - Pomeranian Spinster

Finally, a new Alvvays album! Worth the wait! It friggin rocks!

9. Black Country New Road - The Place Where He Inserted the Blade

I think I heard about this band from Stereogum. When I listened to the album it wasn’t what I expected, and I wasn’t excited to listen to it again, but I flagged this song and kept coming back to it during the year. 

10. Alice in Chains - Angry Chair

I heard this first thing one morning, right around 8 when I fired up the bluetooth speaker and turned on the Minneapolis’ The Current radio station app. A nice, hard, abrasive song - it got me pretty pumped up to stare at my laptop all day. While we’re on the subject, here’s how I was listening to music in 2022:

Working from home:

• The Current, via bluetooth speaker, in the living room. This was pretty routine until the app became unusably glitchy for an unknown reason. 
• Amazon Music, via bluetooth speaker, in the living room. We have an old phone we use for the kids’ to message/video call their friends, and we have Amazon Music on it too. But then the app updates made it unusable on that phone, so I had the idea to switch to
• Amazon Music, via Roku app, in the basement. So I play it through the TV, through the receiver, through the good speakers and subwoofer. Amazon’s streaming quality is actually not as good as  
• Spotify Music, via Roku app, in the basement, through the same TV/receiver setup. But I don’t pay for Spotify so I get ads, which is fine, except that they don’t normalize the volume so I hear Jill Scott singing about Nationwide Insurance at twice the volume of the music.

In the office:

• Bandcamp, via headphones. I’ll pick a album I want to check out, see if it’s on the Bandcamp app, and listen. I don’t listen much at work anymore.

In the car:

• I am almost finished with the task I started when I bought my car in early 2021 - listening to all of my non-burned CDs in alphabetical order. I’m up to U2! It’s taking a long time because I am listening to podcasts in the car unless I’m driving with the kids.

Other:

• If I don’t want to start another show or movie but I don’t want to go to bed, I might watch some YouTube-recommended music videos or live performances.

11. The Beths - Knees Deep

I love the production on this album and I wish every rock album sounded as crisp as this. 

12. Skid Row - 18 and Life

This popped up when I selected the Hair Metal station on Amazon Music. Paul and I were doing something together… probably putting together a robot hedgehog that had a million plastic pieces we had to snip off and assemble? It prompted me to listen to the first Skid Row album. It was fun but I didn’t listen to it twice.

13. Spoon - My Babe

I bought this CD on sale at my local record store. I still do that sometimes. If I like something a lot I buy it on Bandcamp, or sometimes it’s only like a buck more to go buy the CD if it’s on sale.

14. First Aid Kit - A Feeling that Never Came

There are multiple good songs on this album that I could have chosen, but I picked this one because the melody is so unique.

15. Metric - Comes Crashing Down

I do not have anything special to say about this. Remember when Brie Larson sang a Metric song in Scott Pilgrim? And then she won and Oscar and became a Marvel superhero but now the only time you see her is in commercials for Nissan?

16. Beach Bunny - Oxygen

I went to her concert early this year. I found it odd that neither her guitarist nor bassist had a microphone for backup vocals. She can really belt it out live, and I was surprised that I could discern that at The Granada, which must have upgraded its sound system during the Covid shutdown. Speaking of the pandemic, the band requested masks at the show, and maybe 5% of the audience wore one. That was the vibe of 2022.

17. Peaness - How I’m Feeling

I discovered this through Fluxblog’s spotify list.

18. The Joy Formidable - Whirring

This is several years old, but I had never heard this band before this song caught my attention while listening to The Current.

19. The Jayhawks - All the Right Reasons

Corinne convinced me to see The Jayhawks at Knuckleheads, thank god, because they played the fucking hits all night long. She gasped when this song started, and happily this was one song during the set that was not interrupted by the terrible metal-on-metal screeching braking trains on the track that borders the outdoor venue. 

20. Lisa Loeb - This 

Lizzy’s local eye doctor retired, and the new eye doctor called and said they could no longer see her as a patient because no one was certified to assist with her binocular vision. “Her what?” I asked, as her previous doctor had never told us this was her diagnosis. So I found a doctor for her in the KC area, and drove her over to her first appointment, Lisa Loeb’s Firecracker CD as the soundtrack. The sound production on the album is really good. Maybe it doesn’t come across as you will listen to it on a bluetooth stream, but man, trust me you can distinctly hear every instrument on that CD. I listened to the album on the way back to Lawrence, too, and that’s when we ate some ramen and Lizzy picked out her new glasses, sparkly cat-eye frames! Just like Lisa Loeb, but with another musical connection - the frames are Gwen Stefani’s brand. 

21. Arcade Fire - The Lightning I and II

Ah, well, in the beginning of 2022 we were enjoying a pretty decent new Arcade Fire album (and they did a fun cover of As It Was!). Then we learned that Win Butler went through… a… phase?... where he was a sex-crazed emotional abuser? You can’t be abusive at worst and problematic at best and write hopeful anthems. That ain’t gonna square up. If your songs had the lyrical content of, say, One Week by the Barenaked Ladies, maybe your audience could turn off their brain knowledge and enjoy your nonsense songs. Arcade Fire isn’t that. I don’t see a path forward. Oh well.

22. Jane Inc - 2120

Another song I liked on Fluxblog’s spotify playlist. I couldn’t find a good spot for it on my soundtrack so it’s at the bottom. Ah man, I should have made it track 22. That would have been so tight.

2021 Soundtrack

I do this every year. You may have noticed that this weblog is pretty bare, and that my previous post was last year's soundtrack. You may have been here every day, wondering when I would drop more hot content. Perhaps you clicked the refresh button, thinking the problem belonged to your browser. Friends, it was my problem all along.

These songs are what I loved this year, or what reminds me of this year, and are arranged in an order that sounds good. You are not allowed to listen to this on shuffle until you have first listened to it sequentially every day for one month.

My yearly soundtrack used to fit on an 80-minute CD, which was burned and mailed to friends. I now post it to Spotify, a service I do not use or approve of.

This playlist is on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Pn91MHocuOYPicNtNToVE?si=8550949d76e342fb  

Previous soundtracks can be found at Spotify here.

1. Erasure - A Little Respect 

In January 2021, the 2005 Hyundai Elantra was broken, was fixed, and then immediately the catalytic converter broke. I bought the last new 2020 Toyota Camry the dealership had in stock, as they were currently selling the 2021 model. (I was fortunate to get this car just before the great global chip shortage made buying both used and new cars more expensive or impossible.) 

The 2020 Camry has a CD player; it's the final model where they included one. The Hyundai had a CD player as well, but the Camry has a fancier audio system. I decided I'd listen to every CD I own, excluding burned CDs, in order, without skipping any songs. I'm made it from Fiona Apple to The Jayhawks so far. 

I thought I would rediscover some hidden gems while listening to these compacts discs, but I have not. It turns out that back when you purchased CDs, you would listen to each one a lot, and accurately determine which songs you liked and which were duds. The great deep cuts I thought I'd find are not there. They were never there. 

But it has been fun! There haven't been revelations but there have been a few noticeable things. The 4th Foo Fighters album, One by One, is pretty solid. Latter day Neko Case is probably better than Fox Confessor. 

I would have gotten further through my CD collection were it not for the complimentary Sirius/XM subscription that came with the car purchase. The New Wave channel, 1st Wave, rules.

2. Dayglow - Can I Call You Tonight 

XMU is another good Sirius/XM channel. They played this song a lot, but not as much as they played the 2020 Fleet Foxes songs. 

3. Cherry Glazerr - Big Bang

My workplace officially adopted a hybrid schedule, where we would work from home some days and be in the office others, and all try to be in the office together on Wednesdays. It all fell apart during the Delta wave, but during one of those office days, the coworker who humors me by talking about what we're listening to mentioned some new Cherry Glazerr songs. Big Bang and Rabbit Hole are both pretty good!

4. Japanese Breakfast - Posing in Bondage

You remember Japanese Breakfast from the 2019 Soundtrack? I was the first person to discover them when I watched their live festival performance on YouTube. Their 2021 album was on many best-of lists. Their Liberty Hall concert was the first show I attended since Covid began. Great show. Lots of clapping after very mild guitar and saxophone solos though, which was odd, perhaps people were just happy to be in a live venue again. Posing in Bondage was my favorite performance at the show, it had a strobe light thing going for the second half of the song, pretty cool. So, with all my respect to this Paprika performance on Kimmel, I'm going with this song for my soundtrack.

 

5. Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking 

Man, that 1st Wave channel, so good. You get out of Paul's Tae Kwan Do tournament and press the engine start button and wait for the entertainment system to boot up and then you hear Simple Minds? So nice.

6. Chvrches - Lullabies

I liked this Chvrches album better than their last one.

7. Hospitality - Eighth Avenue

I listened to this burned CD on the way to a Kentucky Derby party. It felt so right that I listened to it again on the way home, and listened to their second album several times in the following days. I miss them.

8. Kiwi Jr - Cooler Returns 

XMU played this song a lot. Since it was released early in the year, this might be the song I listened to most in 2021.

9. Better Than Ezra - In the Blood 

The soundtrack to our long Fourth of July celebration (drinking beers to stay hydrated while the children played in an inflatable pool) was the radio. 90.9 The Bridge was playing the top 909 songs of the 90s, according to... a listener poll? I have no idea. It seemed more like a shuffle than a countdown. But it was better this way, getting to hear Better Than Ezra's fourth most popular song instead of the usual.

10. Wet Leg - Chaise Lounge

I think I heard this first from Stereogum? These ladies seem fun.

11. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight - Seven Year Ache (Roseanne Cash cover)

I bought his EP of country covers a few years back, and was listening to it when I was driving Paul to and from practice. I guess it was the first time I paid attention to the lyrics, and my mind punished me for my attempt to decipher them by repeating the song in my head for many days. Mike Adams' version isn't on Spotify, but the original is. Adams' version is available at Bandcamp:

12. Linda Ronstadt - Silver Threads and Golden Needles

I learned a lot from the really great Linda Ronstadt documentary that I watched this year for free on YouTube, check it out!

13. Halsey - I am not a woman, I’m a god

Nine Inch Nails producing Halsey? Uhh, I didn't have that on my 2021 bingo card!!!

14. The B-52's - Private Idaho 

If you listen to the 1st Wave channel on Sirius/XM for more than an hour without hearing a song by The Pretenders or the B-52's, brother, you aren't listening to the 1st Wave channel on Sirius/XM.

15. Silverbacks - Klub Silberrucken

When I read about a band on Stereogum or elsewhere, I'm checking if there's a dude singing and if it's more or less straightforward rock. I love the ladies, but it seems like I have no problem finding new bands that are fronted by females. And I like some synths or laid back vibes, but those are also plentiful. I tested out many dude rock bands this year, and nothing really stuck. Silverbacks were one of those bands. HOW IRONIC that I picked the one song of theirs where the female vocalist is featured. 

If you want to hear the dude sing, listen to their song Dunkirk 

16. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Nothing Ever Changes

Dudes singing straightforward rock, hell yeah, the Jetpacks are back!

17. Ratboys - Collected

Ratboys were on last year's soundtrack. This year they re-recorded songs from their first EP. I have liked all of their releases - I really like how she sings or the sound of her voice or both, but if you can't stand how she sings I would nod and say, "Yeah, I can see how it would irritate a person."

18. Julien Baker - Relative Fiction

I bought this when it came out. I thought her switch to a full band would be right up my alley. I’ve listened to it plenty of times, but I’m still not connecting with it as much as I hoped.

19. Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself

This song would pop into my head often this fall, and I don’t know why, but I’m not complaining. I picked up this CD many times on visits to Best Buy in 1995, but never did best buy it.

20. Torres - Thirstier

Let's check and see what I wrote about Torres the last time she appeared on a soundtrack, back in 2015. "I have nothing to say about this except that I like it." Okay, how about this time I'll say... "This rocks!" Should I have changed this selection to her song Don't Go Putting Wishes in my Head because it came on while I was at The Bourgeois Pig having TWO drinks with TWO friends? According to the old rules of this soundtrack, yes!

21. Clairo - Zinnias 

22. Lorde - Fallen Fruit 

I grouped these two together; they’re both decent songs on disappointing albums. They both write great uptempo songs, I didn’t want them to go Beck’s Sea Change on us. 

23. REO Speedwagon - Don’t Let Him Go

Carl Newman had a couple of tweets about REO Speedwagon one day this summer, and that was enough to get me to listen to a full album of theirs. This is a great opening track.

24. Snail Mail - Madonna

This album made a lot of year-end top ten lists. I like her stuff but she's one of those artists that I like hearing one song from instead of the whole album.

25. The Beatles - I’ve Got a Feeling (Naked version)

I watched Get Back on Disney Plus! I enjoyed it. I didn't not enjoy all 7.5 hours equally, but I enjoyed it. And I very much enjoyed seeing all the tweets afterward, and the goofing on the director who wanted The Beatles to play in an ancient amphitheater lit by torches with 200 Arabs cheering them on. I even enjoyed having multiple Let It Be songs in my head for two weeks afterward.

2020 Soundtrack

I do this every year. These songs are what I loved this year, or what reminds me of this year, and are arranged in an order that sounds good. Don't listen to this on shuffle. Don't listen to it on Random, if you are somehow listening on a stereo from the mid 90s that was sophisticated enough to have a feature where you could play songs out of order, but not sophisticated enough to remember what track has already been played.

My yearly soundtrack used to fit on an 80-minute CD, which was burned and mailed to friends. And as much as they would probably love to get that bad boy in the mail this year, that joy would fade as they tried to decide how they would play the music. This year's soundtrack is 23 songs, about an hour and a half.

This playlist is on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3A2VhFuce8H3jpEG9ijqPr 

Previous soundtracks can be found at https://tornadoslide.blogspot.com/2018/08/soundtracks-on-spotify.html. 

Perhaps of interest to anyone, I do not use Spotify. I use Amazon Music, but I share the account with my wife, and if she's using it I dive back into something I've downloaded or something on a hard drive.

This year, because of a virus that has killed hundreds of thousands of my fellow countrymen, I have spent many nights doomscrolling on my phone while watching live music performances on YouTube. That led me to some of these songs. More songs than the Amazon algorithm. Perhaps the video aspect engaged me more, or perhaps YouTube's robots understood my taste more. I don't know!

I do know that I used those services to find what I liked, and I used Bandcamp to purchase what I loved. 

And for those who have grown tired of the idea of owning a digital album, allow me this little story.

My office moved from the basement to a floor with windows. While it was nice to have a window again, it was not nice to lose a wifi signal, because I only used wifi for my Amazon streaming. As a laugh, I grabbed my old Creative Zen mp3 player, which had some music on its 4 GB hard drive and even more music on its memory card. I hit shuffle, and man, it was pretty dope. It led to me texting two friends about old Okkervil River songs, which in turn led to us all listening to Okkervil River for several days and loving every minute of it. I remembered that this song exists, and this one. It was fun! Try it.


1. Angel Olsen - Waving, Smiling

This song played after I listened to Angel Olsen and Hand Habits' cover of Tom Petty's "Walls",  which you will certainly remember was the leadoff track to the 2017 Soundtrack. Once I listened to it enough times that I felt it needed to go on this playlist, I moved it to the top slot because it's so sparse it didn't feel right to put it anywhere else.

Pandemic vibes?

Yes

2. Radiohead - Lucky

As the pandemic set in, this song came into my head with alarming frequency. I can't say why. Like most Radiohead songs, I know some of the lyrics but not all. I mean, the only reason I know what they sing in "Creep" is because of karaoke subtitles. I listened to a cover of "Black Star" this year and learned that Thom's singings "beams me home" and not "brings me home".

Pandemic vibes?

Yes

3. Mitski - Nobody

I sampled some Mitski in my day, but it didn't hit until YouTube kept bringing me her videos this year. She makes good videos!

Pandemic vibes?

Yes

4. Destroyer - Crimson Tide

Perfectly dystopian. 

Pandemic vibes?

Yes

5. Tame Impala - It Might Be Time

This was my pal Floyd's anthem for packing up and leaving NYC, which was planned before the virus but occurred right when the city was shutting down. 

Pandemic vibes?

Yes

6. Beach Bunny - Cloud 9

Very early in the year I volunteered at my kids' school, then got sick a day later and hung out on my couch. Beach Bunny and Ratboys songs were recommended by my YouTube algorithm and both became a steady part of my listening diet. Beach Bunny was more infectious. Their songs took turns getting stuck in my head for days at a time. I love how this album is produced - I wish all my rock albums sounded as crisp as this one does.

Pandemic vibes?

No

7. Ratboys - MCMXIV

They had a new album this year which I liked - it rocked harder than the earlier stuff I've listened to, which has this jangly vibe.

Pandemic vibes?

No, but I had entertained the idea of going to their live show in spring, so yes, kinda

8. Bob Seger - Night Moves

Work split up into three shifts, and I worked the 3 pm to 11 pm shift. It was kind of nice? I couldn't really sleep in because kids, but I had a leisurely morning in the company of my family, and would head off to work well after lunch, where I could park anywhere I wanted and stroll in and then have a horrible time working at a breakneck pace until things would slow down around 9 or 10. I told my coworker, "Haha I'll play Night Moves really loud every night because we're working at night lol," and I followed up on that playful threat. No one enjoyed it much because work was not fun. Then I'd drive home, and I actually used my high beams in the first time in forever. I'd get home and try to relax into sleep mode while scrolling through deadly news on my phone.

Pandemic vibes?

Yes

9. Porridge Radio - Lilac

Good. I like some of their album. Pretty sure this was a Stereogum recommendation.

Pandemic vibes?

Yes

10. Car Seat Headrest - Weightlifters

Some of you might not like this song and find part or all of it to be bad. But consider my experience: It's Sunday. You've been up for hours, waiting for Leeway Franks to open so you can order the weekend-only Double Burrito Deal. Two breakfast burritos, two sides of tots, and an order of biscuits and gravy for just $25. 

It's finally time to go pick up your order. A leisurely drive to obtain your burritos, Weighlifters pumping on the stereo. Yes! You go home and eat a burrito and tots and B&G. You put the second one in the fridge and eat it for dinner. Yes!

Pandemic vibes?

No, breakfast burrito vibes

11. Benee - Supalonely

How many times did I turn on the Vevo channel on my Roku while I worked from home this year? Once! This song came on. It's great!

Pandemic vibes?

Yes

12. San Cisco - On the Line

I had never heard of this band. They had a few minor hits earlier in the decade that were not on my radar. YouTube suggested this song, the lead single from this year's album. I think it was in the algorithm because I have listened to a lot of music from Australia and New Zealand, and these guys are from Australia.

Their album, Between You and Me, is my #3 album of the year.

Pandemic vibes?

Yes, watch that video idiot

13. Clairo - 4EVER

When I followed the San Cisco rabbit hole, I heard them sing this Clairo song. I think I like this more than Clairo's original, but come on, we don't put two songs by the same band on these playlists.

I did go back and give Clairo's album a second chance. It didn't grab me the first time around but now I am hear for it. I misspelled "here" as "hear" but it's kinda funny because we're talking about audio. Tee hee!

Pandemic vibes?

Yes

14. Phoebe Bridgers - Kyoto

Obviously I am in love with Phoebe and her albums but I confess I have burned myself out on this song.

Phoebe Bridger's Punisher is my #2 album of the year.

Pandemic vibes?

No. See the album closer, "I Know the End" instead.

15. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Cars in Space

Another great album by these Aussies this year. Cars in Space got the nod but other strong songs on the album, like Falling Thunder and Cameo could have been substituted.

Pandemic vibes?

No

16. Til Tuesday - Coming Up Close

Sometimes I listen to a podcast called This Particular Album is Very, Very Important to Me. Paul F Tompkins was on to talk about the Til Tuesday album this appears on. Look at Aimee Mann in this video!

Pandemic vibes?

No

17. Waxahatchee - Fire

I heard this song. "Okay," I thought. Time passes. I hear another song from the album, Can't Do Much. Very good! Lilacs is heard. Also good! Let's go back to this first one. Hmm. Oh, okay, this is actually the best thing I've ever heard in my life. 

Please do not ask why I put this great song all the way down here at #17 instead of putting it higher. I can't help it. The playlist has a mind of its own. It belongs down here.

Waxahatchee's Saint Cloud is my #1 album of the year.

Pandemic vibes?

No

18. Fleet Foxes - A Long Way Past the Past

Welcome back, buds!

Pandemic vibes?

Yes

19. Violent Femmes - Prove My Love

David Wain and his friends were doing these remote, spliced together songs during the shutdown, and one of the songs was this one. I completely forgot it existed. Did my Violent Femmes greatest hits CD teach me nothing?

Pandemic vibes?

No

20. Haim - The Steps

We got a little/big inflatable pool and a slip and slide thingy this summer to entertain our children. This song was on when I tried out the slip and slide to moderate success. 

Pandemic vibes?

No

21. Frances Quinlan - Now That I'm Back 

This is the singer for Hop Along, who put out a solo album way back at the beginning of 2020. 

Pandemic vibes?

No

22. Fontaines DC - A Hero's Death 

Hulu's adaptation of Normal People wasn't the only Irish culture in my life this year. I was excited for Fontaine's follow-up album and it's mostly great. 

Pandemic vibes?

Yes

23. Sylvan Esso - Ferris Wheel

Again, yes, this slaps, this is a bop, yet it is the very last song on the list. This stuff just happens.

I got into this duo. I don't go for a lot of electronic music but this is good for me. I find them pretty charming - I watched their interesting documentary video about how they translated their two-person songs into a full-band concert. Good YouTubes from these two.

Pandemic vibes?

No

2019 Soundtrack

I do this every year. These songs are what I loved this year, or what reminds me of this year, and are arranged in an order that sounds good. If you listen to this on shuffle and don't like it, it's shuffle's fault.

My yearly soundtrack used to fit on an 80-minute CD, which was burned and mailed to friends. Very quaint! It's not even close to 80 minutes this year. It's 27 songs long because why not, death is coming for us, let's enjoy an extra 6 or 7 songs.

This playlist is on Spotify, until Spotify goes bankrupt or whatever, at:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3A2VhFuce8H3jpEG9ijqPr

Previous soundtracks can be found at https://tornadoslide.blogspot.com/2018/08/soundtracks-on-spotify.html.



1. Fontaines DC - Liberty Belle


This was my favorite album this year, and I heard about it through some online list of the best albums at the midpoint of 2019. Fontaines DC are from Dublin (DC stands for Dublin City), and my summer was quite Irish. I watched the second season of Derry Girls on Netflix, I took a podcast recommendation and read both Sally Rooney novels, and read Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. Then, I went back a bit further and watched a 3-part series, 1916: The Irish Rebellion on Amazon Prime, just to be sure I could be insufferably vocal every time someone mentions Ireland or Northern Ireland in the future.


2. The Beths - Less Than Thou
3. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Mainland

Both of these New Zealand bands were on best of 2018 lists, and I didn't hear them until 2019. These are two great albums and I could have picked several good songs from both of them. Gav moved to NZ this year, further decimating my local friend count.


4. Mannequin Pussy - Drunk II

The best song.


5. Buddy Holly - It Doesn’t Matter Anymore

I played a bit of Buddy Holly for the kids early this year, thinking it was good music for beginners because you can hear every instrument clearly. It didn't really grab them, but I had never heard of some of the songs before.


6. Japanese Breakfast - Diving Woman

Some nights I'll throw some live performance on YouTube to listen to while I waste my life scrolling on my phone, and that's how I first heard this song. They opened with it at the Austin City Limits festival, and it's a stone groove.



7. The Rentals - The Love I’m Searching For

One of my all time favorite songs is the acoustic version of The Love I'm Searching For, which I found in the Napster era by searching "live acoustic". (Yes, I would spend a lot of time doing that.)



Since 1999 or whatever, I have loved that version of the song. But earlier this year I was ashamed to realize I may not have ever heard the album version of the song, so I streamed it and yeah, very good.


8. The Cars - Let’s Go

When Rik Ocasek died, this was the song that got stuck in my head, despite liking the following Cars songs better: You're All I've Got Tonight, Just What I Needed, My Best Friend's Girl.


9. Mike Adams at his Honest Weight - Pressing Mesh

This songs was in my head for 5 consecutive days and I sent him a tweet about that and he said thanks. I can't find his reply in any rapid fashion because Twitter is just the worst.

Hi @micdadam, Pressing Mesh has been in my head for consecutive 5 days now and I'm wondering if this will be permanent? https://t.co/z6ICLTNGbp

— Chester Reboulet (@chiliboots) June 22, 2019

 One other thing you should know and love about this song:

SINCERE POST ALERT:

Whenever I sing “corridors and gauntlets” in Pressing Mesh, I’m thinking about The Gauntlet™️ from American Gladiators®️

(not kidding)

— Mike Adams (@micdadam) November 17, 2019

10. Ben Kweller - I Miss You

Like much of this world's citizens in 2019, I found myself asking, "Hey, what's happening with Ben Kweller?" It turns out he and his family almost died of carbon monoxide poisoning, and he was supposed to release a new album this year but didn't. I relistened to his whole catalogue and I've gotta say, this guy hasn't written a bad song. Not all are great, but none are bad. This is one that I was previously unaware of that I really love.


11. Telekinesis - Set a Course

I have all of this guy's albums. Can't go wrong with this guy.


12. Stephen Malkmus - Ocean of Revenge

I follow a guy on Twitter who was into this album/song, and when Malkmus appeared on Hollywood Handbook later in the year, that secured his status on the soundtrack.


13. Beach House - Space Song

I heard this song while having a meal with a friend when I was in Raleigh for a conference, and it was one of those things where you know how the song goes but you don't know what the song is or who sings it? Some people use a popular application named "Shazam" to navigate their way out of such a puzzle, but I don't have that installed so I probably Googled "fall back into place song" and that worked just as good. I think I might have heard it twice on that trip? Does that make it a better story?


14. Blondie - Dreaming

This played on an Amazon Music station that was supposed to shuffle stuff similar to Roxy Music. I am more familiar with a cover version of this song, which Smashing Pumpkins did during the Mellon Collie era. They slowed it down and made it, uh, melancholy, and I thought that was fine until I listened to this original again this year. Honestly, that cover version should be shot into space. Not in the way we put that golden album full of the sounds of humanity onto the Voyager craft -- like, I mean, get that cover version outta here I don't like it! Taking the energy out of this jam is bad. This song slaps. ("Slaps" is something we started saying in 2019.)


15. Vampire Weekend - This Life

Harmless fun!


16. Bleached - Shitty Ballet

Slaps!


17. Karen O and Danger Mouse - Nox Lumina

Spooky!


18. Maggie Rogers - On + Off

This is a good album, but I find the songs blend together when I listen to the whole thing in one setting. The version of this song I like best is from her NPR Tiny Desk Concert:





19. Big Thief - Not

I heard this first via Colbert, and I love how the drummer looks like Brett Gelman. Big 2019 for the real Brett Gelman, with Stranger Things 3 and Fleabag 2 both being good television shows.




20. Urge Overkill - The Valiant

I don't know if it was the wedding or the honeymoon or the cancer, but I was not aware that in 2011 my former favorite band reunited and released and album, the hilariously titled Rock & Roll Submarine, and it turns out it had this good song on it!


21. Mikal Cronin - Lost a Year

Mikal was also a Hollywood Handbook guest this year. A returning guest, actually. I guess what I'm trying to say with this soundtrack is: listen to these songs, but actually listen to the Hollywood Handbook podcast every week.


22. Japanese House - You Seemed so Happy

Streaming is supposed to use algorithms to lead you to things you would like but you haven't heard yet. This happened for me three times this year. This is one.


23. New Pornographers - Falling Down the Stairs of Your Smile

My brother and I feel this is the only song on the album where you can properly hear the bass -- I think the levels on the last two albums have been weird, truthfully. In other New Pornographers news, My son (and to a lesser extent, my daughter) were all about Sing Me Spanish Techno and The Jessica Numbers this year.


24. Juliana Hatfield - Hungry For You (J’aurai Toujours Faim de Toi)

She is a delight, and this album of Police covers is a delight.


25. The Decemberists - Severed

At the office we were all saying who our favorite band was when we were in high school and our intern said she only listened to The Decemberists. Wild. This is the second streaming algorithm song.


26. Charly Bliss - Chatroom

This is the third streaming algorithm song.


27. Sleater-Kinney - I Can Go On

Sleater-Kinney's drummer, Janet Weiss, left the group this year over some kind of internal band struggle, and when I think of that badass drummer I think of this performance on Letterman years back:

March Madness Fantasy 2019 - Championship Game Results

A championship game! An overtime championship game! A lot of fun, for sure, for sports fans. And fans of controversy, and fans of officiating that is not really good.

So, if we are to remember a play from the game that was not a missed call or a dumb overturned out-of-bounds call, I guess it will be The Andre Hunter's corner 3. You expected Jerome to score a quick 2 and then foul, but he found Hunter instead for the tie.

ONIONS!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/x0ErtvP6Mx

— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) April 9, 2019

SEVEN OWNED PLAYERS WHO PLAYED IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME:

	OWNER	ROUND	SELECTION	PLAYER	TEAM	SEED	GAME6_SCORE
1	Dan	2	15	De'Andre Hunter	Virginia Cavaliers	1	34
2	Bob	2	18	Ty Jerome	Virginia Cavaliers	1	30
3	Stu	2	13	Jarrett Culver	Texas Tech Red Raiders	3	29
4	Dan	3	26	Kyle Guy	Virginia Cavaliers	1	27
5	Bob	8	78	Braxton Key	Virginia Cavaliers	1	18
6	Stu	4	33	Matt Mooney	Texas Tech Red Raiders	3	15
7	Stu	8	73	Tariq Owens	Texas Tech Red Raiders	3	8

Now THAT'S The Andre Hunter I thought would show up in this tournament! I drafted him before Bob drafted Ty Jerome, and was not rewarded, as Jerome totaled 33 more fantasy points than Hunter did.

Culver had 29 for Stu, giving him a total of 179 for the tourney, the most of any player, drafted or undrafted. 13 points higher than Ty Jerome.

Stu's other two Red Raiders had bad nights, and what better way to illustrate that than to see Braxton Key, guy who occasionally comes off the Virginia bench to rebound, best them both in fantasy scoring.

Hmm, I'm betting this means that Stu did not win.




 

Indeed, Stu did not win! Jake won by 36 points! Look at those charts. What a perfect staircase from lowest to highest. 

Let's think about some woulda coulda situations. If PJ Washington played the opening two rounds for Kentucky, and manages a measly 18 points per game, Stu wins. Done deal. If Iowa loses their close first-round game against Cinci, or Purdue loses in overtime to Tennessee, Jake loses to Alison or Stu.

But hats off to Jake, the person last in the draft order, now a champ thanks to his very good players.

SCATTERPLOT OF OWNED PLAYERS BY TOTAL SCORE AND TEAM SEED




SCATTERPLOT OF ALL PLAYERS IN THE SPREADSHEET


Here are some boxplots that show every player in the spreadsheet, drafted and undrafted, except for the 14, 15, and 16 team seeds. What do they mean? Well, seeds 4 through 8 were bad choices this year, and the median score from 1.5x bonus teams was slightly lower than non-bonus, top-seeded schools.



 


 LATE ROUND DRAFT DANDIES

	OWNER	ROUND	SELECTION	PLAYER	TEAM	TOTAL_SCORE	TOTAL_GAMES	SCORE_PER_GAME
1	Stu	8	73	Tariq Owens	Texas Tech Red Raiders	98.0	6	16.3
2	Chris	8	76	Amir Coffey	Minnesota Golden Gophers	90.5	2	45.2
3	Dan	8	75	Terance Mann	Florida State Seminoles	79.0	3	26.3
4	Bob	8	78	Braxton Key	Virginia Cavaliers	53.0	6	8.8
5	Alison	7	67	Louis King	Oregon Ducks	88.5	3	29.5
6	Jake	7	70	Christian James	Oklahoma Sooners	69.5	2	34.8
7	Bob	7	63	Charles Matthews	Michigan Wolverines	65.0	3	21.7
8	Stu	7	68	Jaylen Nowell	Washington Huskies	65.0	2	32.5
9	Gavin	7	61	Nassir Little	North Carolina Tar Heels	51.0	3	17.0
10	Alison	6	54	Corey Davis Jr.	Houston Cougars	89.0	3	29.7

No players, owned or not owned, set any scoring records this year. Here's the record book:

239.5 Julius Randle Kentucky 2014 (1.5x bonus)
193.5 Jarnell Stokes Tennessee 2014 (1.5x bonus)
196 Frank Kaminsky Wisconsin 2015
196 Kemba Walker, Connecticut 2011
194 Anthony Davis, Kentucky 2012
190 Cleanthony Early, Wichita St 2013 (1.5x bonus)


For posterity, here is the score for every player in the spreadsheet. We drafted all but 6 of the top 25 players! Bob and James drafted 3 of the worst players each - only they and Shawn's Yale guy were ranked 200 or lower.

	OWNER	ROUND	SELECTION	PLAYER	TEAM	SEED	TOTAL_GAMES	TOTAL_SCORE
1	Stu	2	13	Jarrett Culver	Texas Tech Red Raiders	3	6	179.0
2	Bob	2	18	Ty Jerome	Virginia Cavaliers	1	6	166.0
3	Jake	3	30	Carsen Edwards	Purdue Boilermakers	3	4	157.0
4	Gavin	1	1	Zion Williamson	Duke Blue Devils	1	4	147.0
5	James	1	2	Brandon Clarke	Gonzaga Bulldogs	1	4	140.0
6	Dan	2	15	De'Andre Hunter	Virginia Cavaliers	1	6	133.0
7	Jake	1	10	Cassius Winston	Michigan State Spartans	2	5	127.0
8	None	0	0	Mamadi Diakite	Virginia Cavaliers	1	6	127.0
9	Bob	1	3	RJ Barrett	Duke Blue Devils	1	4	126.0
10	Dan	3	26	Kyle Guy	Virginia Cavaliers	1	6	123.0
11	Alison	5	47	Xavier Tillman	Michigan State Spartans	2	5	122.0
12	Luke	4	37	Payton Pritchard	Oregon Ducks	12	3	119.0
13	Jake	2	11	Ja Morant	Murray State Racers	12	3	117.0
14	None	0	0	Bryce Brown	Auburn Tigers	5	5	114.0
15	Stu	4	33	Matt Mooney	Texas Tech Red Raiders	3	6	112.0
16	None	0	0	Jared Harper	Auburn Tigers	5	5	108.0
17	Gavin	2	20	Dylan Windler	Belmont Bruins	11	2	106.5
18	Stu	8	73	Tariq Owens	Texas Tech Red Raiders	3	6	98.0
19	None	0	0	Aubrey Dawkins	UCF Knights	9	2	93.5
20	None	0	0	Zylan Cheatham	Arizona State Sun Devils	11	2	91.0
21	Chris	8	76	Amir Coffey	Minnesota Golden Gophers	10	2	90.5
22	None	0	0	Davide Moretti	Texas Tech Red Raiders	3	6	90.0
23	Chris	3	25	Kenny Goins	Michigan State Spartans	2	5	89.0
24	Jake	5	50	Kerry Blackshear Jr.	Virginia Tech Hokies	4	3	89.0
25	Alison	6	54	Corey Davis Jr.	Houston Cougars	3	3	89.0
26	None	0	0	Kevin McClain	Belmont Bruins	11	2	89.0
27	Alison	7	67	Louis King	Oregon Ducks	12	3	88.5
28	Alison	3	27	Keldon Johnson	Kentucky Wildcats	2	5	88.0
29	None	0	0	Tacko Fall	UCF Knights	9	2	88.0
30	Alison	1	7	Rui Hachimura	Gonzaga Bulldogs	1	4	87.0
31	None	0	0	Kaleb Wesson	Ohio State Buckeyes	11	2	85.5
32	None	0	0	Kristian Doolittle	Oklahoma Sooners	9	2	85.0
33	Shawn	1	9	Grant Williams	Tennessee Volunteers	2	3	84.0
34	Luke	6	57	Reid Travis	Kentucky Wildcats	2	4	82.0
35	None	0	0	Makai Mason	Baylor Bears	9	2	82.0
36	None	0	0	Paul White	Oregon Ducks	12	3	82.0
37	Luke	5	44	Ryan Cline	Purdue Boilermakers	3	4	81.0
38	None	0	0	Chuma Okeke	Auburn Tigers	5	3	80.0
39	Alison	2	14	Admiral Schofield	Tennessee Volunteers	2	3	79.0
40	Shawn	3	29	Mfiondu Kabengele	Florida State Seminoles	4	4	79.0
41	Shawn	4	32	Tyler Herro	Kentucky Wildcats	2	4	79.0
42	Dan	8	75	Terance Mann	Florida State Seminoles	4	3	79.0
43	None	0	0	Noah Dickerson	Washington Huskies	9	2	78.5
44	None	0	0	Caleb Homesley	Liberty Flames	12	2	78.0
45	Luke	1	4	Luke Maye	North Carolina Tar Heels	1	3	77.0
46	Chris	1	5	Cameron Johnson	North Carolina Tar Heels	1	3	77.0
47	Shawn	2	12	Tre Jones	Duke Blue Devils	1	4	77.0
48	None	0	0	Matt Haarms	Purdue Boilermakers	3	4	77.0
49	None	0	0	Darnell Edge	Fairleigh Dickinson Knights	16	2	77.0
50	None	0	0	Kihei Clark	Virginia Cavaliers	1	6	76.0
51	Gavin	3	21	Zach Norvell Jr.	Gonzaga Bulldogs	1	4	74.0
52	Dan	4	35	Josh Perkins	Gonzaga Bulldogs	1	4	74.0
53	Stu	3	28	Dedric Lawson	Kansas Jayhawks	4	2	73.0
54	Jake	7	70	Christian James	Oklahoma Sooners	9	2	69.5
55	None	0	0	B.J. Taylor	UCF Knights	9	2	69.0
56	None	0	0	Joe Wieskamp	Iowa Hawkeyes	10	2	69.0
57	None	0	0	Jordan Bohannon	Iowa Hawkeyes	10	2	69.0
58	Jake	6	51	Nick Muszynski	Belmont Bruins	11	2	68.5
59	None	0	0	Lamonte Turner	Tennessee Volunteers	2	3	68.0
60	Dan	1	6	Coby White	North Carolina Tar Heels	1	3	67.0
61	None	0	0	Luka Garza	Iowa Hawkeyes	10	2	67.0
62	James	3	22	Tremont Waters	LSU Tigers	3	4	66.0
63	None	0	0	Evan Leonard	UC Irvine Anteaters	13	2	66.0
64	Bob	7	63	Charles Matthews	Michigan Wolverines	2	3	65.0
65	Stu	7	68	Jaylen Nowell	Washington Huskies	9	2	65.0
66	None	0	0	Jaylen Nowell	Washington Huskies	9	2	65.0
67	None	0	0	Luguentz Dort	Arizona State Sun Devils	11	2	64.0
68	None	0	0	Keyshawn Woods	Ohio State Buckeyes	11	2	62.5
69	Gavin	5	41	Nickeil Alexander-Walker	Virginia Tech Hokies	4	3	61.0
70	None	0	0	Mark Vital	Baylor Bears	9	2	61.0
71	None	0	0	Darnell Cowart	Murray State Racers	12	2	61.0
72	None	0	0	Lovell Cabbil Jr.	Liberty Flames	12	2	60.5
73	None	0	0	Brady Manek	Oklahoma Sooners	9	2	60.0
74	None	0	0	Tyson Ward	North Dakota State Bison	16	2	60.0
75	None	0	0	Shaq Buchanan	Murray State Racers	12	2	59.5
76	Luke	3	24	Ignas Brazdeikis	Michigan Wolverines	2	4	59.0
77	None	0	0	Jalen Smith	Maryland Terrapins	6	3	59.0
78	None	0	0	Jahlil Jenkins	Fairleigh Dickinson Knights	16	2	59.0
79	Chris	4	36	Jordan Bone	Tennessee Volunteers	2	3	58.0
80	None	0	0	Skylar Mays	LSU Tigers	3	3	58.0
81	None	0	0	Samir Doughty	Auburn Tigers	5	5	58.0
82	None	0	0	Vinnie Shahid	North Dakota State Bison	16	2	58.0
83	None	0	0	Keyontae Johnson	Florida Gators	10	1	57.5
84	None	0	0	Raasean Davis	North Carolina Central Eagles	16	1	57.5
85	Stu	1	8	PJ Washington	Kentucky Wildcats	2	2	57.0
86	None	0	0	Matt McQuaid	Michigan State Spartans	2	5	57.0
87	None	0	0	Trent Forrest	Florida State Seminoles	4	3	57.0
88	None	0	0	Kevarrius Hayes	Florida Gators	10	1	57.0
89	None	0	0	Andrew Nembhard	Florida Gators	10	1	57.0
90	None	0	0	Mike Holloway Jr.	Fairleigh Dickinson Knights	16	2	56.5
91	Stu	6	53	Bruno Fernando	Maryland Terrapins	6	2	56.0
92	None	0	0	Naz Reid	LSU Tigers	3	3	56.0
93	None	0	0	Bruno Fernando	Maryland Terrapins	6	2	56.0
94	Bob	3	23	Nick Ward	Michigan State Spartans	2	5	55.0
95	None	0	0	Jordan Bowden	Tennessee Volunteers	2	3	55.0
96	Luke	2	17	Cam Reddish	Duke Blue Devils	1	3	53.0
97	James	2	19	Armoni Brooks	Houston Cougars	3	3	53.0
98	Dan	5	46	Jon Teske	Michigan Wolverines	2	3	53.0
99	Bob	8	78	Braxton Key	Virginia Cavaliers	1	6	53.0
100	None	0	0	Corey Kispert	Gonzaga Bulldogs	1	4	53.0
101	None	0	0	Nick Perkins	Buffalo Bulls	6	2	53.0
102	None	0	0	Tevin Brown	Murray State Racers	12	2	52.5
103	None	0	0	Justin Robinson	Virginia Tech Hokies	4	3	52.0
104	None	0	0	Ahmed Hill	Virginia Tech Hokies	4	3	52.0
105	None	0	0	Daniel Oturu	Minnesota Golden Gophers	10	2	52.0
106	Gavin	7	61	Nassir Little	North Carolina Tar Heels	1	3	51.0
107	None	0	0	Kavell Bigby-Williams	LSU Tigers	3	3	51.0
108	None	0	0	Jeremy Harris	Buffalo Bulls	6	2	51.0
109	Jake	4	31	Shamorie Ponds	St. John's Red Storm	11	1	50.0
110	None	0	0	Gary Blackston	Prairie View A&M Panthers	16	1	50.0
111	None	0	0	Matisse Thybulle	Washington Huskies	9	2	49.5
112	None	0	0	Jordan Burns	Colgate Raiders	15	1	49.5
113	None	0	0	Jordan Poole	Michigan Wolverines	2	3	49.0
114	None	0	0	Galen Robinson Jr.	Houston Cougars	3	3	49.0
115	None	0	0	Elijah Hughes	Syracuse Orange	8	1	49.0
116	None	0	0	C.J. Jackson	Ohio State Buckeyes	11	2	48.5
117	Chris	5	45	Myles Powell	Seton Hall Pirates	10	1	48.0
118	None	0	0	Ashton Hagans	Kentucky Wildcats	2	4	48.0
119	None	0	0	Grady Eifert	Purdue Boilermakers	3	4	48.0
120	None	0	0	Rickey McGill	Iona Gaels	16	1	48.0
121	Chris	6	56	CJ Massinburg	Buffalo Bulls	6	2	47.0
122	Alison	8	74	Cameron Jackson	Wofford Terriers	7	2	47.0
123	None	0	0	Rob Edwards	Arizona State Sun Devils	11	2	47.0
124	None	0	0	Max Hazzard	UC Irvine Anteaters	13	2	46.5
125	Chris	7	65	Phil Booth	Villanova Wildcats	6	2	46.0
126	Luke	8	77	Devon Dotson	Kansas Jayhawks	4	3	46.0
127	None	0	0	Nojel Eastern	Purdue Boilermakers	3	4	46.0
128	None	0	0	Kyle Alexander	Tennessee Volunteers	2	3	45.0
129	None	0	0	Alex Copeland	Yale Bulldogs	14	1	45.0
130	None	0	0	LJ Figueroa	St. John's Red Storm	11	1	44.5
131	Gavin	8	80	Garrison Brooks	North Carolina Tar Heels	1	3	44.0
132	None	0	0	Garrison Brooks	North Carolina Tar Heels	1	3	44.0
133	None	0	0	Nate Pierre-Louis	Temple Owls	11	1	43.5
134	Alison	4	34	Zavier Simpson	Michigan Wolverines	2	3	43.0
135	None	0	0	Grayson Murphy	Belmont Bruins	11	2	43.0
136	None	0	0	Jonathan Galloway	UC Irvine Anteaters	13	2	43.0
137	None	0	0	KeVaughn Allen	Florida Gators	10	1	42.5
138	None	0	0	Jordan Bruner	Yale Bulldogs	14	1	42.5
139	None	0	0	Elijah Childs	Bradley Braves	15	1	42.5
140	James	5	42	Eric Paschall	Villanova Wildcats	6	2	42.0
141	Stu	5	48	Shizz Alston Jr.	Temple Owls	11	1	41.5
142	James	7	62	Anthony Lamb	Vermont Catamounts	13	1	41.5
143	None	0	0	Mario Kegler	Baylor Bears	9	2	41.5
144	Dan	6	55	Kenny Williams	North Carolina Tar Heels	1	3	41.0
145	None	0	0	Nathan Hoover	Wofford Terriers	7	2	41.0
146	Gavin	4	40	Terence Davis	Ole Miss Rebels	8	1	40.5
147	None	0	0	Javon Bess	Saint Louis Billikens	13	1	40.5
148	None	0	0	Ty Outlaw	Virginia Tech Hokies	4	3	40.0
149	None	0	0	Anthony Cowan Jr.	Maryland Terrapins	6	2	40.0
150	None	0	0	Ahmad Caver	Old Dominion Monarchs	14	1	40.0
151	Jake	8	71	Tyler Cook	Iowa Hawkeyes	10	2	39.5
152	None	0	0	Andre Wesson	Ohio State Buckeyes	11	2	39.5
153	None	0	0	Darryl Morsell	Maryland Terrapins	6	2	39.0
154	None	0	0	Jaren Lewis	Abilene Christian Wildcats	15	1	39.0
155	None	0	0	Zacarry Douglas	North Carolina Central Eagles	16	1	39.0
156	None	0	0	Terrell Allen	UCF Knights	9	2	38.5
157	Dan	7	66	Jordan Murphy	Minnesota Golden Gophers	10	2	38.0
158	None	0	0	Rocky Kreuser	North Dakota State Bison	16	2	38.0
159	None	0	0	Tyler Sharpe	Northern Kentucky Norse	14	1	37.5
160	None	0	0	Jose Perez	Gardner-Webb Bulldogs	16	1	37.0
161	None	0	0	Devonte Patterson	Prairie View A&M Panthers	16	1	37.0
162	None	0	0	B.J. Stith	Old Dominion Monarchs	14	1	36.5
163	None	0	0	Darrell Brown	Bradley Braves	15	1	35.5
164	None	0	0	Dejon Jarreau	Houston Cougars	3	3	35.0
165	None	0	0	Bolden Brace	Northeastern Huskies	13	1	34.5
166	None	0	0	D'Marcus Simonds	Georgia State Panthers	14	1	34.5
167	None	0	0	Quinndary Weatherspoon	Mississippi State Bulldogs	5	1	34.0
168	None	0	0	Dwayne Lautier-Ogunleye	Bradley Braves	15	1	34.0
169	None	0	0	Emmitt Williams	LSU Tigers	3	4	33.0
170	None	0	0	Storm Murphy	Wofford Terriers	7	2	33.0
171	None	0	0	Keve Aluma	Wofford Terriers	7	2	33.0
172	None	0	0	Fletcher Magee	Wofford Terriers	7	2	33.0
173	None	0	0	Justin Simon	St. John's Red Storm	11	1	33.0
174	None	0	0	Javonte Smart	LSU Tigers	3	3	32.0
175	Shawn	7	69	Neemias Queta	Utah State Aggies	8	1	31.5
176	None	0	0	Oshae Brissett	Syracuse Orange	8	1	31.5
177	None	0	0	Jamal Bieniemy	Oklahoma Sooners	9	2	30.5
178	None	0	0	Ahmaad Rorie	Montana Grizzlies	15	1	30.5
179	None	0	0	Isaiah Livers	Michigan Wolverines	2	3	30.0
180	None	0	0	Eric Ayala	Maryland Terrapins	6	2	30.0
181	None	0	0	Scottie James	Liberty Flames	12	2	30.0
182	None	0	0	Malik Fitts	Saint Mary's Gaels	11	1	29.5
183	None	0	0	Stef Smith	Vermont Catamounts	13	1	29.5
184	None	0	0	Sayeed Pridgett	Montana Grizzlies	15	1	29.5
185	Shawn	5	49	Marial Shayok	Iowa State Cyclones	6	1	29.0
186	Shawn	6	52	Tyus Battle	Syracuse Orange	8	1	29.0
187	None	0	0	Sam Hauser	Marquette Golden Eagles	5	1	29.0
188	None	0	0	Cody Martin	Nevada Wolf Pack	7	1	29.0
189	Chris	2	16	Markus Howard	Marquette Golden Eagles	5	1	28.0
190	None	0	0	Quincy McKnight	Seton Hall Pirates	10	1	28.0
191	Gavin	6	60	Jordan Ford	Saint Mary's Gaels	11	1	27.5
192	None	0	0	Devontae Shuler	Ole Miss Rebels	8	1	27.5
193	None	0	0	David Crisp	Washington Huskies	9	2	27.5
194	None	0	0	Remy Martin	Arizona State Sun Devils	11	2	27.5
195	None	0	0	Christen Cunningham	Louisville Cardinals	7	1	27.0
196	None	0	0	Hasahn French	Saint Louis Billikens	13	1	27.0
197	None	0	0	Dantez Walton	Northern Kentucky Norse	14	1	27.0
198	None	0	0	Issac Vann	VCU Rams	8	1	26.5
199	Luke	7	64	Caleb Martin	Nevada Wolf Pack	7	1	26.0
200	None	0	0	M.J. Walker	Florida State Seminoles	4	3	26.0
201	None	0	0	Kamau Stokes	Kansas State Wildcats	4	1	26.0
202	None	0	0	Blake Hinson	Ole Miss Rebels	8	1	26.0
203	None	0	0	Gerard Andrus	Prairie View A&M Panthers	16	1	26.0
204	None	0	0	Brock Miller	Utah State Aggies	8	1	25.5
205	None	0	0	Donnell Gresham Jr.	Northeastern Huskies	13	1	25.5
206	Shawn	8	72	Miye Oni	Yale Bulldogs	14	1	25.0
207	None	0	0	Nate Hinton	Houston Cougars	3	3	25.0
208	None	0	0	Sandro Mamukelashvili	Seton Hall Pirates	10	1	25.0
209	None	0	0	Jayvon Graves	Buffalo Bulls	6	2	24.0
210	None	0	0	Aaron Wiggins	Maryland Terrapins	6	2	24.0
211	None	0	0	Abel Porter	Utah State Aggies	8	1	24.0
212	None	0	0	Ernie Duncan	Vermont Catamounts	13	1	24.0
213	None	0	0	Quinton Rose	Temple Owls	11	1	23.5
214	None	0	0	Tucker Richardson	Colgate Raiders	15	1	23.5
215	None	0	0	Marques Bolden	Duke Blue Devils	1	4	23.0
216	None	0	0	David McCormack	Kansas Jayhawks	4	2	23.0
217	None	0	0	Quentin Grimes	Kansas Jayhawks	4	2	23.0
218	None	0	0	Lamar Peters	Mississippi State Bulldogs	5	1	23.0
219	None	0	0	Davonta Jordan	Buffalo Bulls	6	2	23.0
220	None	0	0	Noah Locke	Florida Gators	10	1	22.5
221	None	0	0	Jordan Roland	Northeastern Huskies	13	1	22.5
222	None	0	0	Jordan Goodwin	Saint Louis Billikens	13	1	22.5
223	None	0	0	Jalen Tate	Northern Kentucky Norse	14	1	22.5
224	None	0	0	Xavier Green	Old Dominion Monarchs	14	1	22.5
225	None	0	0	Makol Mawien	Kansas State Wildcats	4	1	22.0
226	None	0	0	Jarron Cumberland	Cincinnati Bearcats	7	1	22.0
227	None	0	0	Jaylen Franklin	Abilene Christian Wildcats	15	1	21.5
228	None	0	0	Collin Gillespie	Villanova Wildcats	6	2	21.0
229	None	0	0	Steven Enoch	Louisville Cardinals	7	1	21.0
230	None	0	0	Jordan Nwora	Louisville Cardinals	7	1	21.0
231	None	0	0	Nate Johnson	Gardner-Webb Bulldogs	16	1	21.0
232	None	0	0	Will Rayman	Colgate Raiders	15	1	20.5
233	None	0	0	Tajuan Agee	Iona Gaels	16	1	20.5
234	None	0	0	Quinn Taylor	Utah State Aggies	8	1	20.0
235	None	0	0	E.J. Crawford	Iona Gaels	16	1	20.0
236	None	0	0	Marcus Evans	VCU Rams	8	1	19.5
237	None	0	0	DJ Laster	Gardner-Webb Bulldogs	16	1	19.5
238	None	0	0	Deng Geu	North Dakota State Bison	16	2	19.5
239	None	0	0	Ochai Agbaji	Kansas Jayhawks	4	2	19.0
240	None	0	0	Marcus Garrett	Kansas Jayhawks	4	2	19.0
241	None	0	0	Reggie Perry	Mississippi State Bulldogs	5	1	19.0
242	None	0	0	De'Riante Jenkins	VCU Rams	8	1	19.0
243	None	0	0	Bruce Stevens	Ole Miss Rebels	8	1	18.5
244	None	0	0	David Efianayi	Gardner-Webb Bulldogs	16	1	18.5
245	Bob	4	38	Sam Merrill	Utah State Aggies	8	1	18.0
246	None	0	0	Khalil Iverson	Wisconsin Badgers	5	1	18.0
247	None	0	0	Tre Scott	Cincinnati Bearcats	7	1	18.0
248	None	0	0	Paschal Chukwu	Syracuse Orange	8	1	18.0
249	None	0	0	Marcus Santos-Silva	VCU Rams	8	1	18.0
250	None	0	0	Tramaine Isabell Jr.	Saint Louis Billikens	13	1	17.5
251	James	8	79	Vasa Pusica	Northeastern Huskies	13	1	17.0
252	None	0	0	Nysier Brooks	Cincinnati Bearcats	7	1	17.0
253	None	0	0	Tre'Shawn Thurman	Nevada Wolf Pack	7	1	17.0
254	None	0	0	Jordan Hunter	Saint Mary's Gaels	11	1	17.0
255	None	0	0	Eli Chuha	New Mexico State Aggies	12	1	16.5
256	Bob	5	43	Ethan Happ	Wisconsin Badgers	5	1	16.0
257	Bob	6	58	Breein Tyree	Ole Miss Rebels	8	1	16.0
258	None	0	0	Jack Salt	Virginia Cavaliers	1	6	16.0
259	None	0	0	D'Mitrik Trice	Wisconsin Badgers	5	1	16.0
260	James	6	59	Xavier Sneed	Kansas State Wildcats	4	1	15.0
261	None	0	0	Mitch Lightfoot	Kansas Jayhawks	4	3	15.0
262	None	0	0	Lindell Wigginton	Iowa State Cyclones	6	1	15.0
263	None	0	0	Jordan Caroline	Nevada Wolf Pack	7	1	15.0
264	None	0	0	Malik Benlevi	Georgia State Panthers	14	1	15.0
265	None	0	0	Drew McDonald	Northern Kentucky Norse	14	1	14.5
266	None	0	0	Nate Reuvers	Wisconsin Badgers	5	1	14.0
267	None	0	0	Marek Dolezaj	Syracuse Orange	8	1	13.5
268	None	0	0	Nate Kennell	Bradley Braves	15	1	13.0
269	None	0	0	Myles Cale	Seton Hall Pirates	10	1	12.5
270	None	0	0	Aric Holman	Mississippi State Bulldogs	5	1	12.0
271	None	0	0	Saddiq Bey	Villanova Wildcats	6	2	12.0
272	None	0	0	Joey Hauser	Marquette Golden Eagles	5	1	11.0
273	None	0	0	Keith Williams	Cincinnati Bearcats	7	1	11.0
274	None	0	0	Michael Nzei	Seton Hall Pirates	10	1	11.0
275	None	0	0	A.J. Harris	New Mexico State Aggies	12	1	11.0
276	None	0	0	Michael Oguine	Montana Grizzlies	15	1	11.0
277	None	0	0	Jeff Thomas	Georgia State Panthers	14	1	10.5
278	James	4	39	Barry Brown Jr.	Kansas State Wildcats	4	1	10.0
279	None	0	0	Mike McGuirl	Kansas State Wildcats	4	1	10.0
280	None	0	0	Cartier Diarra	Kansas State Wildcats	4	1	10.0
281	None	0	0	Brad Davison	Wisconsin Badgers	5	1	10.0
282	None	0	0	Malik Williams	Louisville Cardinals	7	1	9.0
283	None	0	0	Diogo Brito	Utah State Aggies	8	1	9.0
284	None	0	0	Charlie Moore	Kansas Jayhawks	4	2	8.0
285	None	0	0	Michael Jacobson	Iowa State Cyclones	6	1	8.0
286	None	0	0	Tyrese Haliburton	Iowa State Cyclones	6	1	8.0
287	None	0	0	Tyson Carter	Mississippi State Bulldogs	5	1	7.0
288	None	0	0	Dwayne Sutton	Louisville Cardinals	7	1	7.0
289	None	0	0	KJ Buffen	Ole Miss Rebels	8	1	7.0
290	None	0	0	Jazz Johnson	Nevada Wolf Pack	7	1	6.0
291	None	0	0	Kane Williams	Georgia State Panthers	14	1	5.0
292	None	0	0	Jibri Blount	North Carolina Central Eagles	16	1	4.5
293	None	0	0	Rapolas Ivanauskas	Colgate Raiders	15	1	4.0
294	None	0	0	Sacar Anim	Marquette Golden Eagles	5	1	2.0
295	None	0	0	Talen Horton-Tucker	Iowa State Cyclones	6	1	1.0
296	None	0	0	Phil Cofer	Florida State Seminoles	4	0	0.0
297	None	0	0	Dean Wade	Kansas State Wildcats	4	0	0.0
298	None	0	0	Nick Weatherspoon	Mississippi State Bulldogs	5	0	0.0
299	None	0	0	Nick Babb	Iowa State Cyclones	6	0	0.0
300	None	0	0	Frank Howard	Syracuse Orange	8	0	0.0
301	None	0	0	John Knight III	Utah State Aggies	8	0	0.0
302	None	0	0	Terrell Brown	New Mexico State Aggies	12	0	0.0
303	None	0	0	Jalone Friday	Abilene Christian Wildcats	15	0	0.0
304	None	0	0	Jamar Akoh	Montana Grizzlies	15	0	0.0
305	None	0	0	Xzavier Malone-Key	Fairleigh Dickinson Knights	16	0	0.0
306	None	0	0	Jack White	Duke Blue Devils	1	2	-1.0