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Carolyn’s Best Of 2018

Posted on January 6, 2019

My favorite albums of 2018

  • Fatty Cakes And The Puff Pastries – S/T (Emotional Response)
  • Rik and the Pigs – A Child’s Gator (Total Punk)
  • Ricky Hell & The Voidboys – S/T (Quality Time Records)
  • Shark Toys – Labyrinths (In The Red)
  • Mark Sultan – Let Me Out (Modern Sky USA)
  • Liquids – Hot Liqs Revenge (Neck Chop Records)
  • Little Ugly Girls – S/T (Chapter Music)
  • France Has The Bomb – …But We Must Cultivate Our Garden (Diminished Arc)
  • Kitten Forever –  Semi-Permanent (Rat Queen)
  • BB Eye – Headcheese Heartthrob (Fish)
  • Alice Bag – Blueprint (Don Giovanni)
  • The Cavemen – Nuke Earth (Slovenly)
  • Gino And The Goons – Rip It Up (Sunwray)
  • Archie and the Bunkers – Songs From The Lodge (Dirty Water)
  • David Nance – Doug Sahm and Band (Tall Texan)

My favorite EPs of 2018

  • Teeange Cavegirl – “They’re Gonna Get You” (S/R)
  • Alien Nosejob – Death Of The Vinyl Boom (S/R)
  • Wonder Bread – Complete Solid Gold Hits (Digital Regress)
  • The Proletariat – “Death Of Alton Sterling” (Bridge Nine)
  • Amyl and The Sniffers – “Some Mutts (Can’t Be Muzzled)” (Flightless)
  • Ruler – “Tiger” (Secret Mission)
  • Kid Chrome – “I’ve Had It” (Neck Chop)
  • PMS – “Cocaine Cunt” (Danger Records)
  • Heavy Metal – Too OZ 4 I.T. (Total Punk)
  • Erik Nervous/ Neo Neos – split (Goodbye Boozy)
  • Gallery Night – “Watching Black And White” (Dusty Medical)
  • Dark Blue – “Fight To Love” (12XU)
  • ISS – “I Wanna Be Dated” (Sorry State)
  • Counter Intuits – “Vietnamese Lighter” (Total Punk)
  • Puppy and The Hand Jobs – “I Eat Abortions” (Slovenly)
  • Smokers – Falling Backwards (Mouth Magazine)

My favorite reissues of 2018

  • Plastic EP and The Records – “Well You Want To Make A Record” and Best Of (Xerox Music)
  • F.U.K. – “Road Kill” (Hozac Archival)
  • Vendetta – “Modern Rockers” (Supreme Echo)
  • Friction – “Death Cult 911” (Blank Recording Co)
  • V/A – The Sore Losers – Original Soundtrack (Goner Records)
  • Trash Monkeys – “Trash Monkey Universe” (Almost Ready)
  • Vector Command – S/T (Hozac)
  • Chandra – Transportation EPs (Telephone Explosion)
  • Real Kids – The Kids 1974 Demos/ 1977-78 Demos/Live (Crypt)
  • Bad Times – Streets Of Iron (Goner)
  • Firestarter – First Album and Livin On The Heat (Secret Mission)
  • Teenage Depression – Skank Or Die (ReRun)
  • Great Plains – The Mark, Don & Mel EP + Four (ReRun)
  • V/A – I’ve Got the Bible Belt Around My Throat: A One-Sided History of Punk Rock and Hardcore From Alabama 1981–2003 (Foreign Legion)

My favorite films of 2018

  • Here To Be Heard: The Story of The Slits
  • Dead On Arrival: The Punk Documentary That Almost Never Was
  • Sorry To Bother You
  • The Outhouse The Film 1985-1997
  • Descent Into The Maelstrom
  • The Public Image Is Rotten
  • They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead
  • Juliette, Naked
  • Ex-Libris: The New York Public Library
  • Icepick To The Moon

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