Although the received wisdom is that the Su Tissue-fronted songs are far superior to those sung by the other, male band members, there’s still plenty to enjoy no matter who is on vocal duties.
Formed by CalArts students William "Vex Billingsgate" Ranson and Sue "Su Tissue" McLane (from Minneapolis), Suburban Lawns enjoyed a brief moment of notoriety when the Jonathan Demme-directed music video for their 1979 debut single, 'Gidget Goes To Hell', aired on Saturday Night Live. Records in 1981, the sole album by Long Beach, California post-punkers, Suburban Lawns, has remained hard to find despite being periodically reissued. Ballots were taken from Robert Barry, Charlie Brigden, Jaša Bužinel, Patrick Clarke, John Doran, Christian Eede, Noel Gardner, Ella Kemp, Fergal Kinney, Sean Kitching, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Peter Margasak, David McKenna, JR Moores, Eoin Murray, Stephanie Phillips, Luke Turner, Kez Whelan and Daryl Worthington
This chart was compiled by John Doran and built by Patrick Clarke and Christian Eede. It has been, as ever, a joy to bring it to you. I do hope that at the very least, you find something that you love as much as we do in the chart below. If you sign up before Christmas, we're offering almost 40% off the top asking price too! There are playlists (including an eight-hour Albums Of The Year mega-playlist), long-form essays from the likes of David Keenan and Kat Lister, podcasts with guests including Shirley Collins, Nicky Wire and Colin Newman, and specially commissioned albums and singles from GNOD, Sleaford Mods, Alison Cotton and more that you can't hear anywhere else. In return, there are some unbelievable perks (60 a year!) that have been a joy to put together. So if you're in the financial position to do so, we would love for you to take out a subscription. The peril's not over yet though – as John Doran mentioned in his introduction to the main Albums Of The Year round-up, our ancient old site is crashing more than ever, and we live in fear of one day being unable to revive it. Not only have our subscribers removed that particular sword of Damocles – they've allowed us to increase the rates we pay our writers, and commission some of the boldest content in the site's history. It's no exaggeration to say that from my first day at tQ on work experience in 2016 until the launch of our Steady platform just over a year ago, almost every minute was spent in the fear that we were teetering on the edge of the closure suffered by so many of our contemporary independent culture sites. The nature of my job here at tQ means that during the year, I'm usually focussed on new music the reissues chart gives me a chance to immerse myself in a whole parallel universe of records that I was forced to put to one side until now.Īt this point, I should point out that for all these end of year treats, we'd be completely unable to bring them to you without our paying subscribers. I find a particular joy in the chart you're about to read, which rounds up our favourite reissues, mixes, live albums, compilations, OSTs, split cassettes and general miscellany. I'm just one of a number of people polled for the end of year charts, and there's always a host of stuff that slipped through the cracks for me entirely over the course of the last twelve months. That's because, as I paste those embeds, I'm ticking it off too. My favourite comments we get on social media once the charts are published, are from people ticking off how many they've actually heard – or sometimes heard of – out of the top 100. When they're all compiled and organised in a lovely neat list, however, it's like stepping onto the shore and looking back at a magnificent ocean, teeming and crashing with energy and life. Over the course of the year, all this brilliant and bizarre music comes so thick and fast that it feels like a constant, frantic rush for us to keep up, like deckhands bailing out a leaky boat. It's a slog to put together given our tiny part-time editorial team and the fact our website is by now so creaky that it's prone to catastrophic collapse at any moment, notwithstanding the constant procession of minor illnesses that seem to be repeatedly pounding our flimsy post-lockdown immune systems.Īt the same time though, there's no time of year I feel prouder to write for tQ than when I'm copy and pasting Bandcamp embeds through the fog of a mystery viral infection. End of year list season is always full-on here at tQ.
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