Podcast 126: Kicker’s Best of 2024

In his annual round up, our Kicker once again narrows it down to his favourite 24 tracks of the year, split across two podcasts for your bitesize enjoyment.

This year, Chorizo brings his own version of The Price Is Right to the pod to enliven things to fever pitch levels. He also fails to pick out Kicker in a picture (see after the physicality).

Just click on the link to find a link to stream or download each half of the show below:

PART ONE

PART TWO

Turn away now if you don’t want to know what was played. Otherwise, here’s the run down:

Part 1 is tracks 1-12, Part 2 is tracks 13-24. Obviously.

1. The Bevis Frond – Heat
2. My Best Unbeaten Brother – Slayer On A Sunny Day
3. Guided By Voices – Show Me The Castle
4. William Doyle – Now In Motion
5. Gruff Rhys – Cover Up The Cover Up
6. Derrero – This Is Not A Bitter Song
7. Scott Lavene – Custard
8. Billy Reeves – Steve
9. The Lovely Eggs – Nothing/Everything
10. Brother Of Monday – Sixto
11. Wussy – Inhaler
12. The Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus – Equinox
13. The The – Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave Of William Blake
14. epic45 – New Town Faded
15. Biz Turkey – Water Made Of Magic
16. The Eggmen Whoooooo! – Rwy’n Dy Garu Di
17. Amy Rigby – Dylan In Dubuque
18. Dunstan Bruce – Fucking Expensive
19. Hap A Damwain – Adeiladu
20. Lou Terry – Canyon
21. Spencer Segelov & Great Paintings – Disco In Your Heart
22. Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman – Be The Hammer (feat. Aidan Moffat)
23. Tapir! – Broken Ark
24. The Cure – I Can Never Say Goodbye

The physicality (where there was some):

Cold War Steve picture – where’s Kicker (not his willy)?

Playlist of favourite instrumentals

Here are three more instrumentals that aren’t on Spotify that I’d urge you to listen to:

Lo-Fi Lenin, Wildly, Spare Snare

As always, we urge you to support all the wonderful musicians involved in making our lives more tolerable by seeking them out on bandcamp (using the links above where available) or elsewhere, and BUYING their stuff.

Streaming is for wimps. Thanks.

Previous End of Year Podcasts:

• Podcast 125: Chorizo’s favourite songs 2023
• Podcast 124: Kicker’s favourite songs 2023
• Podcast 123: Chorizo’s favourite songs 2022
• Podcast 122: Kicker’s favourite songs 2022
• Podcast 120: Chorizo’s favourite songs 2021
• Podcast 119: Kicker’s favourite songs 2021
• Podcast 108: Chorizo’s favourite songs 2020
• Podcast 107: Kicker’s favourite songs 2020
• Podcast 90: Chorizo’s favourite songs 2019
• Podcast 89: Kicker’s favourite songs 2019
• Podcast 86: Chorizo’s favourite songs 2018
• Podcast 85: Kicker’s favourite songs 2018
• Podcast 83: Chorizo’s favourite songs 2017
• Podcast 82: Kicker’s favourite songs 2017
• Podcast 69: Chorizo’s favourite songs 2016
• Podcast 68: Kicker’s favourite songs 2016
• Podcast 70: Rebel’s favourite songs 2016
• Podcast 53: Chorizo’s favourite songs 2015
• Podcast 52: Kicker’s favourite songs 2015
• Podcast 54: Rebel’s favourite songs 2015
• Podcast 32: Chorizo’s favourite songs 2014
• Podcast 31: Kicker’s favourite songs 2014
• Podcast 33: Rebel’s favourite songs 2012
• Podcast 18: Chorizo’s favourite songs 2013
• Podcast 17: Kicker’s favourite songs 2013
• Podcast 19: Rebel’s favourite songs 2013
• Podcast 3: Chorizo’s favourite songs 2012
• Podcast 2: Kicker’s favourite songs 2012
• Podcast 4: Rebel’s favourite songs 2012