New Countdown: July 2019!

Matt Maeson

Well, if anything, we could say that July was pretty Sublime. Eh? Eh? But seriously, this is an excellent and fairly quick episode. It's chock full of excellent tunes. Some old, some new, and some new covers of old stuff. Enjoy!


Countdown #407

***Featuring***
AJR
Billie Eilish
Dominic Fike
Half Alive
The Head and the Heart
Lana Del Rey
Lumineers
Matt Maeson
Of Monsters and Men
Panic! At the Disco
Pearl Jam
SHAED
Sublime

New Countdown!: June 2019!

Billie Eilish

We're entering summer and the artist picture for this month could not be more appropriate, as you'll find out! Enjoy!


Countdown #406

***Featuring***
AJR
The Ataris
Billie Eilish
The Black Keys
Cage the Elephant
Catfish & the Bottlemen
Half Alive
The Head and the Heart
The Lumineers
Mumford & Sons
Of Monsters & Men
Oliver Tree
Panic! At the Disco
SHAED
twentyonepilots

link to countdown 406

New Countdown!: May 2019

SHAED

Hey hey hey! I haven't quite let NaNoWriMo defeat me yet! Sure, I'm very behind, but I'm still trucking along and I hope you're still along for the ride with me! This is a short one, but a very fun one :)



Countdown #405 (May 2019)

***Featuring***
AJR
Billie Eilish
The Black Keys
BLUE BIRD
Cage the Elephant
Catfish & the Bottlemen
Imagine Dragons
lovelytheband
The Lumineers
Oliver Hurt
Panic! At the Disco
SHAED
twentyonepilots

New Countdown!: April 2019

Taking Back Sunday

NaNoWriMo continues this weekend! Saturday's episode is all about the songs that were on the Top Ten in April of 2019 and an especially NON-Saturday Artist of the Month. It's a good episode with some new ones as well as some old favorites.


Countdown #404 (April 2019)

***Featuring***
Barns Courtney
Bastille & Marshmello
Billie Eilish
The Black Keys
Cage the Elephant
Catfish & the Bottlemen
Imagine Dragons
lovelytheband
Panic! At the Disco
SHAED
Taking Back Sunday
twentyonepilots
Vampire Weekend
Young the Giant

links to episode 404

Vampire Weekend, Imagine Dragons, Young the Giant, Barns Courtney,

New Countdown: March 2019!

Cage the Elephant

I'm now worried that I spent a lot of this episode referring to it as the February 2019 list. Hopefully not, because NaNoWriMo MARCHES on! (See what I did there?). It's really fun to have given myself a requirement to do these countdowns. I love them a lot. And I hope you do too!


Countdown #403 (March 2019)

***Featuring***
The 1975
Barns Courtney
Bastille & Marshmello
The Black Keys
Cage the Elephant
flora cash
Judah & the Lion
lovelytheband
Mountain Goats
Muse
Panic! At the Disco
SHAED
twentyonepilots
Vampire Weekend
Young the Giant

link to countdown 403

New Countdown!: February 2019

Jars of Clay

It's the beginning of NaNoWriMo and all my friends are busy working on their books, I've decided to publish at least one podcast every day of the month, which basically just amounts to starting to release episodes on the weekends. Which is a good, cool thing because if I keep it up, I'll be caught up by the end of the month!


Countdown #402 (February 2019)

***Featuring***
The 1975
Barns Courtney
Billie Eilish
Cage the Elephant
flora cash
Imagine Dragons
Jars of Clay
lovelytheband
Marshmello & Bastille
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Panic! At the Disco
SHAED
twentyonepilots
Weezer
Young the Giant

links to post on countdown 402

https://appetitefordistraction.blogspot.com/2019/11/new-countdown-february-2019.html

New Countdown!: January 2019

Imagine Dragons

Well here it is! The first month of 2019 covered! Haha I think I have things semi-sorted now and I'm hoping (i know i say this all the time, but whatever lol) to start getting these out with more of a quickness, so that we can wrap the year in a caught-up sort of place.

Enjoy!


Countdown #401

***Featuring***
Bastille x Marshmello
Billie Eilish
The Early November
flora cash
Imagine Dragons
lovelytheband
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Panic! At the Disco
twentyonepilots
Weezer

2018 Artists of the Year

Bob Dylan, 1965

ANOTHER ONE! That's right another podcast from this guy right here (me, not Bob). I am feeling absolutely on fire with podcasting right now and I'm hoping that it lasts!

This is the Artists of the Year Countdown for 2018 and there are some surprises in here, let me tell you. Of course if you look down at the "Featuring" section, some of it will be ruined, but I think you'll still enjoy it a lot!



2018 Artists of the Year

***Featuring***
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Barry Adamson
The Beatles
Blink-182
Bob Dylan
Dessa
Echo and the Bunnymen
Fall Out Boy
New Found Glory
NOFX
Rx Bandits
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2018 Year End Countdown!!

Portugal. The Man

It's a little late (only.......8 or so months late...) but here it is. The Year-End Countdown for 2018. It's fun to look back at the songs that were hitting the chart hard in 2018 and this was a lot of fun to do! Enjoy!


2018 Year End Countdown

***Featuring***
AJR
Bastille x Marshmello
Foo Fighters
Foster the People
Imagine Dragons
Kesha
lovelytheband
Panic! At the Disco
Portugal. The Man
The Struts
Walk the Moon
Weezer

New Countdown: Well, Not "New" In All the Ways, But Certainly in Some of the Ways

Muse

Hey. Here is a countdown of the songs that were on the Alternative Songs Top 10 in December 2018. Relevant? Probably not. But it's a batch of good, fun tunes and I think you might enjoy them a lot! Hit play and see if I'm right!


Countdown #400 (Oh also it's the 400th episode! Hahaha)

***Featuring***
AJR
Billie Eilish
flora cash
Imagine Dragons
The Interrupters
lovelytheband
Marshmello & Bastille
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Panic! At the Disco
The Revivalists
twentyonepilots
Wugazi

Top Ten Tuesday: Taylor Swift featuring Brendan Urie (of Panic! At the Disco) - ME!

It's always nice when I don't even have to watch the video for this post because I've seen it several times already. I watched it once on my own, watched it twice with my kids, probably watched it again on my own, saw a making-of video. This has been a big deal and the fact that Old Town Road is holding this one from #1 speaks volumes. I love this song and I'm excited for the album

Top Ten Wednesday Double Feature: Sam Smith & Normani "Dancing With a Stranger" and Khalid "Talk"

This week we have a couple of interesting songs (because I sat with the first one open on my computer and never ended up posting about it...) that are linked, it turns out. The first is a collaboration between Sam Smith and Normani.

It's a very classic sounding song where, as usual, the word "dancing" means something else entirely

And then we have a solo track from Khalid (who I have previously done a Top Ten Tuesday on his collaboration with Normani! Connections!) that is also very enjoyable. Very colorful. I'm excited about this guy!

Top Ten Tuesday: Khalid "Better"

This song is very enjoyable and to vocoder part at the end is awesome. I really want to know if those were real cars or realistic looking CGI, because that driving was amazing.

Top Ten Twosday: Jonas Brothers "Sucker" and Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus "Old Town Road"

Hey hey everyone! So I've got two songs for you this week. The first is the first single from the Jonas Brothers in 6 years and it was so anticipated and so ravenously received that it became the 34th single to debut at #1 (the last one was Ariana Grande's "7 Rings" which was part of the last Top Ten Tuesday. I apparently can't handle #1 debuts lol). This song is good, but I wonder if people mostly hear it as a Nick Jonas/DNCE collaboration. I don't know what the Jonas Brothers sounded like, really, so that's what it sounds like to me, which isn't all bad actually!

And then this song I guess is part of a Red Dead Redemption meme? And then Billy Ray Cyrus jumped on a collaboration with the original rapper and then the song jumped from #15 straight up to #1!

New Countdown (November 2018): Quote Unquote

lovelytheband

We're doing some more catch up this episode and this time it's November 2018! Good songs, an artist of the month I know very little about and hopefully the establishment of a momentum to keep these things coming!


Countdown #399 (November 2018)

***Featuring***
AJR
Bastille & Marshmello
Cap'n Jazz
Flora Cash
Imagine Dragons
The Interrupters
lovelytheband
Mumford & Sons
Panic! At the Disco
The Revivalists
twentyonepilots

New Countdown (October 2018): Eyes on the Prize

twentyonepilots. I just realized how appropriate this is for October

Hey. So the last time you heard me on this show, I was talking about switching up the format a little bit to catch up. Well this is the first episode of that and I think it went fairly well. I'm hoping to get these out with a fair amount of regularity, then get back to doing week-by-week. But holding this format in my back pocket if I might need it. Enjoy!


Countdown #398: October 2018

***Featuring***
AJR
Bastille & Marshmello
Dennis Lloyd
Imagine Dragons
The Interrupters
lovelytheband
Mike Mictlan
Mumford & Sons
Panic! At the Disco
The Revivalists
twentyonepilots
Walk the Moon
Weezer

Cardi B & Bruno Mars "Please Me"

This song debuted at #5 this week. The video isn't available yet, so here's the audio!

I just listened to a podcast about their previous collaboration: The New Jack Swing throwback song "Finesse (Remix)" and it's interesting how this is also a90's Throwback feeling song!

Top Ten Tuesday: Ariana Grande "Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored"

I'm going to do two separate posts because this should have gone up last week during a monumental week for the Hot 100. For the first time since 1964, the top 3 songs were all by one performer: Ariana Grande. I've featured the two other songs (7 Rings and Thank U Next) before, so here's the third

This song is pretty good. I'd put it behind thank u next but ahead of 7 rings.

Top Ten Twosday: Ariana Grande "7 Rings"and J. Cole "Middle Child"

So it looks like I haven't posted on here in almost a month which is wild, but don't worry. There are posts coming. Oh you better believe it. Keep watching this space. I missed TTT last week, so here's a twofer.

First, the Ariana Grande song that debuted at #1 last week. It's good. It feels a little like a sketch more than a complete song, but I only listened to it once, so I'm happy to be proven wrong on that take.

And then a J. Cole song that moves up 22 positions this week. No music video yet, but it's a pretty good song!

New Countdown: Two Different Armstrongs!

Imagine Dragons

And so we reach the end of September 2018. But fear not, we're going to be switching things up for the next couple of episodes and I'm very excited about it. Here's a fun thing, I didn't come up with this new plan until a couple of days before I recorded the intro for lovelytheband, so when you listen to me before that on the show, you know something that I don't. And then stay tuned to the last intro to hear what the plan actually is.


 Countdown #397

***Featuring***
AJR
Death Cab for Cutie
Dennis Lloyd
Foster the People
Imagine Dragons
The Interrupters
lovelytheband
Louis Armstrong
Panic! At the Disco
Rancid
Walk the Moon
Weezer

Top Ten Wednesday: Burl Ives "Holly Jolly Christmas"

Happy New Year!! We've got some more Christmas classics hitting the Top 10 this week. Here's a song from 1964!