Ben Johnson’s Top Lists:
Top Regular Things I Liked:
Purling Hiss – Water on Mars
Brotman & Short
Exhaustion – Future Eaters
Human Eye
Spray Paint – s/t
Cuntz – Aloha
Life Stinks – s/t
Things I Actually Loved But Not As Much As Previous Things By The Artist, So It’s Like They’re A Dud Even Though They’re Totally Not:
Ty Segall – Sleeper
Thee Oh Sees – Floating Coffin
Fuzz (the band)
Things I Listened To Again At The End Of The Year And It Turns Out I Enjoyed Them More Than I Thought I Did:
The Holydrug Couple
Jacco Gardner
Top Last-Minute Late December Things That Would Skew People’s Lists With A Recency Bias If Anybody Was Still Paying Attention:
Angkor Wrack LP
Lovely Legs 7"
Top Regular Reissues:
The Clean – Vehicle
Loop
Snapper
Martin Rev
King Tuff – Less Than $75 To Hear "Sun Medallion" On Vinyl Whenever I Want
Top "not gonna pretend I knew about or was into this the first time around" Reissues:
Epicycle
Urinals
Dentists
Afflicted Man
Death Trip
Top Things I Did Not Get A Chance To Listen To Because I Am Not Made of Money But Would Probably Love If I Did:
Gap Dream
Mikal Cronin
Devo Hardcore Demos
An Embarrassing, Exhaustive and Disorganized List of Records That I Bought During 2013 (Some Which Might’ve Actually Come Out Before This Year) by Henry Owings
Basic Cable–I’m Good To Drive (Permanent)
Billy Bao–Buildings from Bilbao (Burka for Everybody)
Black Bug–Reflecting the Light (HoZac)
Blind Shake–Key To a False Door (Castleface)
Bowl Ethereal–Five Minutes (self released)
Brainbombs–Disposal of a Dead Body (Skrammel)
Buck Biloxi/Legendary Wings-Split (Pelican Pow Wow!)
Cave–Threace (Drag City)
Cellular Chaos–s/t (UGExplode)
Counter Intuits–s/t (Pyramid Scheme)
Cuntz–Solid Mates (Homeless)
Dasher–Yeah I Know (self released demo)
Destruction Unit-Void (Jolly Dream) & Deep Trip (Sacred Bones)
Diät–Everyday 7" (Iron Lung)
Disappears – Era (Kranky)
Double Dagger–333 (Thrill Jockey)
Endless Boogie–Long Island (No Quarter)
Endless Bummer-7" (In The Red)
Enjoy The Experience: Homemade Records 1958-1992 (Sinecure)
Ex-Cult–Mister Fantasy 7" (Goner)
Fuzz–s/t (In The Red)
Goat–Stonegoat/Dreambuilding 7" (Sub Pop)
His Electro Blue Voice–Ruthless Sperm (Sub Pop)
Hoax–LP (self released)
Holly Hunt–Year One (Roofless/Other Electricities)
Kitten Forever–Pressure (Guilt Ridden Pop)
Liberez–Sane Men Surround (Self released)
Manatees–Cat Food 7" (Pelican Pow Wow!)
Mikal Cronin–MCII (Merge)
Mugstar–Centralia (Self released)
Obits–Beds & Bugs (Sub Pop)
Obnox–Corrupt Free Enterprise (12XU)
Old Baby–Love Hangover (Karate Body)
Pontiak–Innocence (Thrill Jockey)
Raspberry Bulbs–Deformed Worship (Blackest Ever Black)
Running–Vaguely Ethnic (Castle Face)
Satanic Rockers–Fu Kung (Alberts Basement)
Spray Paint–s/t (S-S)
Survival Knife-both 7"s (Kill Rock Stars & Sub Pop)
The Mantles–Long Enough to Leave (Slumberland)
The Pampers–s/t (In The Red)
The Readymades–I’m a Man, I’m a Flower (Mt. St. Mtn.)
The Ukiah Drag–Jazz Mama Is Cryin’
Tony Molina–Dissed and Dismissed (Melters)
True Sons of Thunder–Stop and Smell Your Face (Goner)
Whores–Clean (Brutal Panda)
Women’s Work–6 (self released)
Recommended Reissues from 2013 by Henry Owings:
Cosmic Psychos-Goner/Aarght! reissues
Scorched Earth Policy–Going Through a Hole in the Back of Your Head (Siltbreeze)
The Hugh Beaumont Experience–The Cone Johnson EP (Cheap Rewards)
Teengenerate–Get More Action (Crypt)
New Bomb Turks–Destroy Oh Boy and the 10" (Crypt)
Primitive Calculators–s/t/The World Is F*cked (Chapter Music)
Rodan–Fifteen Quiet Years (Quarterstick)
Anything on Superior Viaduct