by KCRW Social Media Manager Betsy Moyer
Yesterday KCRW Music Librarian, Eric J. Lawrence and I talked our way through electronic music over a burger. We paused for a moment on techno, where I joked about how I used to refer to Roni Size as Roni Schmoni with my uber raver friends back long ago. He kind of chuckled to himself and said that Roni Size was a huge deal at KCRW. After that lunch, he brought me a printed out copy of THE LIST of KCRW’s top albums by number of plays on the air – to prove that Roni Size was close to the top. He’s not quite Top 50, but Wow!! What a fun list to look at!
Naturally, I posed the trivia question on Facebook immediately…. Guess which album held the number one spot. It was great fun (and congrats to our winner Patti). To the bidding of our dear facebook friends, here is the list in its entirety!
- Massive Attack: Protection
- Dj Shadow: Endtroducing – Deluxe Edition
- Massive Attack: Blue Lines
- Atlantic R&B 1970-1975: Golden Age of Black Music
- Radiohead: OK Computer
- AIR: Moon Safari
- Portishead: Dummy
- Zero 7: Simple Things
- Massive Attack: Mezzanine
- St Germain: Touris
- Groove Armada: Goodbye Country Hello Nightclub
- Groove Armada: Vertigo
- Moby: Play
- PJ Harvey: to Bring You My Love
- Charles Webster: Born on the 24th of July
- Beck: Odelay
- Weekend Players: Pursuit of Happiness
- Nightmares on Wax: Smokers Delight
- Radiohead: In Rainbows
- Meshell Ndegeocello: Peace Beyond Compassion
- Underworld: Hundred Days Off
- Tricky: Maxinquaye
- Radiohead: Kid A
- Sebadoh: Harmcy
- Jazznova: In etween
- Finley Quaye: Maverick A Strike
- Grovve Armada: Lovebox
- Bjork: Post
- Black Keys: Brothers
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: ustt Mustt
- Little Dragon: Little Dragon
- Theivery Corporation: Cosmic Game
- Zero 7: When It Falls
- Beck: Sea Change
- AIRE: talkie Walkie
- Nuyorican Soul: Nuyorican Soul
- DJ Shadow: Private Press
- Ulrich Schnauss: Strangely Isolated Place
- PJ Harvey: Is This Desire
- Jill Scott: Who is Jill Scott
- Thievery Corporation: Mirror Conspiracy
- Ian Pooley: Since Then
- Beck: Guero
- Gotan Project: Lunatico
- Koop: Waltz for Koop
- Bent: Everlasting Blink
- William Orbit: Hello Waveforms
- High Llamas: Lollo Rosso – Remixes
- Craig Armstrong: Space Between Us
- Thievery Corporation: Richest Man in Babylon